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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-18
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

Solution to many of the
problems of keeping the eors
rolling will of course come
through retreodine, which is
now under price control and
which must be rotioned just
as strineentIy as new tires. A
new tire takes IA pounds of
raw rubber, q "comeIbock." or
retreod fobrio, 5, making q
good saving when you con-
slider that q retreoded tire
gives 80 per cent additional
mileoee at holf new tire cost.
Before the war, tire makers
naturally discouraged retreod-
ing though truck and bus own
ers retreoded extensively, and
in l94l an estimated seven
million tires we're retreoded.
Ten million tires might be re-
treoded this year in the 1000
shops equipped with retreoding
molds, and q maximum Of 80
million retreods q year might
be achieved in time. There is
on industry scrap on, however,
between manufacturers and
Independent retreodine shops
as to how comeback shall be
equitobIy rotioned. EquoIly it
will have to be rotioned and
so will the moIds and the Gus
TONERS privileged to have q
retreod. Policing all this ro-
tionine is still another problem.
From this brief outline, any
cor owner can see what he is
up cgoinst in keeping his old
bus in service during the war.
TO soy that this rubber situo-
ton is confused puts it mildly,
without going into the whirli-
gig Of where raw rubber sup
plies ore to come from if the
Dutch Eost Indies ore cut off
and how much can be had from
L otin America, synthetic
plants and euoyuIe.
To clear up the confusion
and let the motorists know
where they ride, AAA hos osk-
ed Senator Trumon's Defense
Investigating Committee to ex-
pIore the whole subject in open
hearings.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-18
, HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

uncompleted pictures, and the
State of California takes a con-
siderable bite of the money re-
presented by that film. So the
studios plan very closely to
empty their vaults and clear
their sound stages just before
payroll day. On March 3, pro-
duction will start with a rush.
John Barrymore is beating
back to financial independence,
but he isn't there yet. Other
day he met a former acquaint-
ance who mentioned proudly
that he is living in a house once
owned by movie star. Il too, "
said Barrymore, lam living in
a house once owned by movie
star"
What starr" asked the friend.
John Barrymore" said the
Great Profile.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-18
CONTRAST

With the Japanese botterine at the
gates Of the city, cars drew up to Sineo-
pores famous RoffIes Hotel to dis
charge teo-donce guests, reporters soy.
With the japanese thousands Of
miles away, and the scars Of the Pearl
Horbor attack largely healed, the fom-
Gus Royal Hawaiian Hotel at Honolulu
has been turned over to the Navy as q
recreation center for sailors, Marines
and soldiers
This is not said critically. Britain
hos paid and will pay soreIy for her
"Ione week-enH mind. An end is being
made to all that in the Empire, as it has
been ended in the British Isles them
selves.
We must end it here, and there ore
signs that we ore ending it, before the
price grows even higher than the high
price we have oIreody paid.
italian and German economies are to be con-
sidered one unit.
DIR. Walther Funk, German economics minister
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-18
STORIES .
. IN STAMPS
boIivio's Tin Is VitoI
To Defense Of Americas

BOLIVIA, nation twice as
- large as Texas and supporting
only SIS per cent as many people, is
becoming increasingly important
in the defense of the u. S. and
all the Americas.
The only South American nation
without direct access to the sea,
Bolivia produces one of the
strategic metals highest on the
United States want list-tin. Be-
fore the current war Bolivia was
the third ranking tin-producing
country of the world, outdis-
tanced only by British Malaga and
the Dutch East Indies.
Since the japanese invasion OF
both those areas has closed tin
mines, the New World looks to
Bolivia for the metal so necessary
in bronze, babbitt, and food con-
timers.
The stamp above, issued in l94l,
bears a design of a monument
erected to Pedro Domingo Murillo,
Bolivian patriot who led the ma
tons fight for freedom against
Spain. 49,,
In Bolivia the "tin standard
substitutes for the gold standard.
II constitutes from two-thirds to
nine-tenths of the country's ex-
ports, and export duties in this
land OF impoverished agriculture
and limited industry are the chief
sources of government income.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-18
WHY FOOL THE PEOPLE

All reoize that hi9 her taxes are an
unavoidable necessity. But no existing
tox should be increased, and no new
tax would be imposed, without the most
corefuI analysis Of its justice, and ITS
effect upon the producers and workers
Of the country.
At this time, there is considerable
ooitotion for heavy increases in Social
Security taxes as q means OF helping
finance defense In the opinion OF many
an economist and public Official, that
would be extremely dangerous. AS
Senator Vondenberg said, THE pro-
posol to raid Social Security Poy-roll
toxes for the benefit Of the general
Treasury is>unsound, unwise and q Po-
tentioI breach Of trust 1t would be an
unethico departure from sound proc
tise. When we leave sound tiscoI
around in this emergency, we are orr
into the 'no-mon's land Of disaster"
The wise course would be the imPo-
sition Of straight war and defense taxes
which involve no subterfuee and no
deception. The Social Security taxes
were never designed to produce revenue
for all purposes. They ore, instead. spe-
eioI taxes, levied against employer and
empIoye, to give measure Of unem-
pIoyment aid and oId-oee security to
workers. In other words. they are form
Of insurance.
The American people ore fully
aware Of the need for higher taxes. But
they don't want comoufIoeed levies.
Congress duty now is two-foId-first,
the moximum possible reduction in
non-defense spending in all fields, no
motter whose toes ore stepped on; sec
ond, war tax bill which will raise d.
rectIy and without deception the oddi-
tionoI revenue the Treasury must have.
A sound fiscal policy is as much port
OF war as greet ornies and movies.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-18
. SO THEY SAY

We have never suffered de-
feat in a war since we won our
independence in 1776, but we
are nearer to it now than at any
time in our entire history.
Rev. Edmund A. Walsh, vice..
president, Georgetown Uni
versity.
The strategy of axis-short-
wave propaganda remains the
same to attempt to divide coun-
try from country, race from race,
religion from religion.
Archibald MacLeish, Direct
or of the Office Of Facts
and Figures.
I notice with approval that
the aviation. companies, strain
ing all their resources to meet
the demands of q single custom
er, are still advertising. They
are farsighted.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-18
High|ights from
the Latest Books

II you're an exhibitiOniStic
soul who mistakes conform
ity for individuality, and have
long yearned to lick your fin
gers after every course, pass up
Manners for Moderns" (Dut-
ton: $1.75). This vest-pocket
volume by Marjorie Ellis Nc
Grady and Blanche Wheeler
goes no further toward tin-can-
ming tried and true social tenets
than does Emily Post.
But if you are questing for
streamlined, undated treatment
of social usage, and some war
timely tips on when to call q
Commander Admiral" and who
stands behind which potted
palm in an Army reception re-
ceiving line, then here's your
200-page ticket to a Vanderbilt
blowout, and spare the arched
little finger.
Kitty Career will find plenty
in chapter on Office Behavior
to start cerebration along the
lines of how much she can give
to her job, instead of to what
downtrodden extent she is be-
ing exploited. Cautionary COM
ments to "be prompt" and do
not noticeably chew gum" are
so obvious that there's healthy
reiteration in being reminded Of
them all over again. And the
lady executive is welcome to
the slow burn in her cheeks
she'll get from a suggestion that
she answer her own telephone
once in awhile, and stop throw
ing her superior weight around.
Tourists, even more than job
driven nomads who live off
hotel napery and out of suit
cases, will take tenderly to sensi-
BILE talk about whom, when and
how much to tip. The 10 per cent
rule is variable, they'll learn.
And tipping is expected by GER
tain workers, not because they're
greedy, but because their sal
aries wouldn't keep a dainty frog
in flies.
You can take il with YOU
Manners for Moderns"-with-
out small trailer. Which Is
more than can be said for most
of the Post tones.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-18
. McKENNEY ON BRIDGE

a holding topped by the ace, the
correct lead is the ace, il the
king is lacking, or the king from
both honors. The general rule
is, do not underlead an ace
against a suit bid" While ex-
perienced players sometimes de-
part from this rule, the exception
is justifiable only in certain very
special bidding situations.
The lead of a king against
any contract shows that the lead
or also holds the ace or queen or
both.
Against no trump, as a rule,
an honor is led only from hold
ing of at least three honors,
with at least two of them in Sc
quence. The lead from holding
No. Is is founded on the standard
king lead from king-queen-ten.
This holding is like king-queen-
ten, stepped down" in rank.
Against a suit, an honor may
be led (not always) from a Sc
quence of only two. Note es-
pecially holding No. 10.
1t used to be standard prac-
tise to lead an honor from any
sequence of two against a suit
contract, that is, the king from
king-queen-deuce, the queen
from holding No. 26. But modern
practise inclines to the low
card lead in the latter case.
With no sequence a. I'll at the
top of a suit, the normal correct
lead is the fourth highest.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-18
BY PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 18-All
over the lot: Not since the self
regulation of the movies began
when tough mugs began calling
each other you scoundrel," and
gangsters exclaimed &c o o d
gracious!"-has anybody used
the word "louse" on the screen
either as a descriptive noun or
an chronological term.
But in the screen play OF
Eagle Squadron" is scene
which may give the censors a
headache. When Jon Hall raps
Nigel Bruce with a. scrambled
literary allusion, the elder actor
says, And since ye're takin'
liberties wi Robbie Burns, don't
forget the one he wrote about
an ancestor o yours -. Ode to
a Louise
Then follows a writer's note
in the script: Although the Hays
Office objects to the word
'louse,' it must be pointed out
that the above poem is among
Burns best known, and it should
be allowed to stand"
ROUGH PAY-OFF
A few months ago the girl
who sold flowers among the
tables in a local night club was
a striking brunei named Mary
Scott. And among her customers
was Gene Tierney, who some
how was quicker than any OF
the male patrons to notice that
Miss Scott had a quality the
movies might want. So the star
spoke to the right people and
the flower girl got an interview,
a test, and a role in Rings on
Her Fingers.
The newcomer was especially
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-18
UNIFIED COMMAND

s. Il would be an ineffective kind Of
footboIl team that had two quarter
ofks ceiling signals at the same time.
b sid Of the line might be making
~ Ne bockfisld- TO 90 through,
Z i,olfbock were hunting q
4 ,tlshis bIoekers thought
sno thsm around end. the
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-18
BY WIN. E. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

Yesterdays article on the
opening lead listed seven OF the
strongest possible s, it holdings
and the correct lead from each.
Now l will continue with more
possible holdings. Remember
that the correct card to lead
depends on whether the contract
is no trump or a suit.
In conjunction with yester-
days article, we see that In open
ing against a suit contract from
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-18
TAX BEATERS

TAX BEATEkS
The studios seemed very quiet
lately to anyone just strolling
around the lots. No new pictures
have been started, and those in
production have been winding
up at a rapid rate. Actually,
though, the cutting rooms, labor
atories, special effects depart
ments and m u i c-recording
stages have been buster than
ever, and even a few of the casts
have been working double time.
The reason is taxes. Once a
year-this time on March q
the movie companies have to
take inventory of all the film
on hand that is part of new and
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-18
SECOND LARGEST

The construction industry of
the United States is the second
largest in the country. 1t once
was capitalized at $4,000, 900, 900
and employed 100000 persons.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-18

JtC~N yS'S0SS VSS -
position.
The Roberts Commission report on
Peor Horbor will have wholesome ef-
feet if it brings home to American Of
ficioIdom and the public the point that
unified command in national defense
is at least as essential as it is in foot
ball team. The lack Of cooperation
shown between the sea and land COM
monders in Hawaii before December I
is incomprehensibIe.
Logically, unificotion Of command
should begin from the very top, with
the War and Navy Departments plus
an air command all merged into sim
ale Department of Defense. This is not
the sort Of reorganization to be at
tempted in the midst Of war. however.
Furthermore, the evidence Of Army
Navy cooperation in Washington is
on the favorable side, and the impor-
tonce of air power in the Pacific theoter
has been recognized in the assignment
of Lieut. Gen. DeIos c. Enmons, an Air
Force officer, to command the Hawai-
ian Department Of the Army.
Nevertheless, the same division Of
authority apparently still exists which
was source Of weakness before, for
Rear Admiral Chester V. Nimtz, who
succeeded Admiral Husband E. Kim
mel, was designated only as Command
er-in-Chief of the United Stotes Fleet
in the Pacific. Some commanding Of
ficer on the spot should have authority
to WELD as single fighting weapon the
combined, seq, land, and air forces Of
the area.
This is the tie h n c eventually
adopted by the United Nations in the
defense of Singapore and the Eost In
dies under General Sir Archibald Wov-
ell with Admiral Thomas G. Hart Of the
United Stotes Navy in command Of SEQ
forces and Maj. Gen. George n. Brett
Of the American Air Force as deputy
commander. This is an adaptation Of
the German policy Of linking land, air,
and seq forces by designating COM
monder for q theoter Of operations from
the service which is to have the major
assignment there.
This sort Of unified command can
be set up by areas even while Army and
Navy are headed by their separate de-
portments.in Washington. A joint state
ment by the Army and Navy in New
York declares that q thoroughly CO.
ordinoted defense has been inougu-
rated on the Atlantic seoboord Of the
United Stotes under commanders rep
resenting land, SEQ, and air forces. The
method is carried step farther in the
joint boards announced by Washington
and London to administer the pooled
resources Of Britain and America in ma
teriols, ornaments, and shipping for
the benefit Of the United Nations.
RegionoIIy unified commands must
be used on on ever-enIorene scale. The
growing might Of the United Nations
on land, air, and seq must be welded
into single combat teom-o team
that eventually will be able to win it's
scheduled contests on the home grounds
at Tokyo and Berlin-from The Chris
tion Science Monitor.
c0NTRAST
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-18
BY PETER EDSok
Dolly Monitor Washington


W|\ST1I\SION, req. o.
This o9e you lived in before
the war fell on you hos at va
rious times been referred to as
the electrical oee. the oee Of
pIosties, the gasoline oee, the
alloy oge and so on. But it hos
token the war with its econ
omic Shortages and scores to
show just whot commodities
you ore dependent upon for
dolly existence. And right up
near the top Of the list. if not
at the actual head, is the stuff
called rubber. The whole
problem of automobile trons-
port for the next few years is
dependent on this rubber situo-
ton.
Of the IT'S million cars on
the rood today, soys the Amer
icon Automobile Association,
rs million we're new cors ploc-
ed in operation in l94O Al
and therefore with tires good
for another year. In this some
period, there we're replacement
soIes of 80 million tires,
enough for the other 20 mil
lion cors. This sole Of 80 mil
lion replacement tires was,
however, exceedingly heovy-
more than twice the normal
sole of IS million replacement
tires per year. This can mean
only thot q lot Of cor owners
have rubber in reserve. No one
knows who or how many or
where.
The only known foctor is
that at the time rotioning went
into effect, there we're between
seven and eight million tires
in the hands Of dealers and it
is this visible though frozen
supply which must keep the
armed services and the essen
tioI civilian services going
while the shortage Iosts. Ad-
ding up these foetors, consider
what can happen.
DETERIORATION A
FACTOR
If all these replacement tires
held by private owners ore
boarded for their own use, the
country may ride longer than
most Of the stotisticions fig
ured. That is, if the tires held
in reserve so long the rubber
deteriorotes, which improperly
stored rubber will! do.
II this boarded rubber finds
its way into the hands Of boot
leg tire dealers, wotch out for
all the evils Of prohibition days
including hijockine, tire speok-
eosies, bribery, eonesterism-
anything and everything to
beat Legitimate tire rotioning.
Some tire bootlegeing is ol-
ready going on. In q few
metropolitan oenters the COM
petition between bootleg deal
ers is so keen the price hos &C.
tuoIIy been driven down. Cos
ines thot normally sold for
$l8 are going for SIS.
The potentioIities for q
petty crime wave in this situo-
ton are foirIy obvious. Police
reports indicate on increase in
tire thievery and the hot tire
market is booming. Then, the
foct that Legitimate tire ro-
tionine is to function through
5000 local tire rotioning
boards gives on indication Of
how much pressure the II mil
lion cor owners will try to exert
in order to get q permit to buy
new rubber for their particular
cor and never mind about the
cor owner next door. or the Ar
nv, or lease lend or lotin
America.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-18
Q FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .
One Year Ago Today

One Year Ago Tooay
1941
Anthony Nadile continues on
trial for his life in connection
with the Staying Of a Syracuse
contractor. :.
The Mount Clemens school
board makes plans to attend an
annual convention in Atlantic
City.
S YEARS AGO TODAY
1897
CITY officials announced that
no Primary election would be
held in the spring.
The Board of Education men,
bers leave for New Orleans to at
tend the national convention OF
school boards.
50 YEARS AGO TODAY
1892
Miss Emma Goethe has return
ed from Berlin, Ont.
Mrs. Fred Keith receives
notice of the sudden death Of her
mother, Mrs. Smith, at Corunna.
IS YEARS AGO TODAY
1887
Measles have got so bad that
the first ward school has been
closed.
Nine of the ten teachers in
Wyandotte are graduates Of the
High school. tb
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-18

thrilled about it because her
benefactress has the lead in the
picture. And then, for her first
scene, Mary Scott had to slap
Gene Tierney.
What with all the spy pictures
going on these days, many with
feminine secret agents, there's
sinister business afoot in the
Hollywoods. Not only afoot,
but aback, since Paulette God
dard and Margaret Hayes had
those torpedo plans drawn on
their shoulder blades in invisible
ink.
AS for the foot part, Eleanor
Powell started it in the how're
vamped Ship Alloy by tap
dancing a dot-and-dash warn
ing to American sailors that
axis agents were about to sabo-
tage a battleship. And now, in
Shadows on the Snow" in
which she plays an Icelander,
Sonia Henie will deliver SIM
liar warning by writing out a
message on ice during a skating
number.
Evening star., 1942-10-07
Three Rezoning Petitions
Approved, One Rejected

The Prince Georges County (Mdo
commissioners yesterday approved
three rezoning petitions and denied
one at their weekly meeting in the
Upper Marlboro courthouse.
Those approved were: Mount
Vernon Mortgage Corp, for the re-
classification from residential A to C
Of lots 327, 1923 and 329, block l, sec
tipn 3, Hyattsville Hills.
B. O. L. Wells and Arthur Carr.
trustees, for the rezoning from resi-
Dental A to commercial D of lots
1922, inclusive, block 10, addition to
Berwyn.
haywood Gardens, Inc. for the
reclassif1cation of an apartment in
the building from residential C to
commercial D.
A petition by Peter and Rose M.
Palazzo, owners of lots and 4, block
A. and lots l, 2. and Is, block r,
Oaklyn subdivision, for their recon-
ing from residential A to CONNER
cial D was denied.
The commissioners also approved
a request by residents of Villa
Heights and Woodley Hills subdi-
visions for construction of streets,
cutters and sidewalks and estab-
lishment of street lighting facili-
ties and garbage and trash removal.
Evening star., 1942-10-07
Utility Proposal O.K.'d

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 7 (P.-The
Securities and Exchange Commits
sion has approved proposals by the
Electric Power & Light Corp. and
its subsidiary, Dallas (Tex) Rail-
way & Terminal Co., to partially
recapitalize Dallas and dissolve the
Northern Texas Co., also an Elec-
trio subsidiary. The companies are
units of the Electric Bond A Share.
Evening star., 1942-10-07
Henry c. Butler, II,
Colorado Editor, Dies
the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DENVER, Oct. Henry C.
Butler, long time editor and owner
of the Leadville (ColoD Herald
Democrat, died of heart attack
yesterday while he and his wife were
en- route to a dinner celebrating his
77th birthday
He sold his newspaper three years
ago.
Evening star., 1942-10-07
z Sect Members Sentenced
To Prison as Draft Evoders

BIG STONE GAP, Va, Oct. 7 (P.-
Kent Stallard and Charles Adding
ton. both members of Jehovah S
Witnesses and who claimed defer
ment for that reason, were found
guilty in United States District
Court here yesterday on charges OF
violating the Selective Service Act.
Each was sentenced to a term of
three and one-half years.
Both Stallard and Addington con-
Quoted their own cases.
They were charged with failing
to answer the Norton (Va) Draft
Boards call for induction.
Evening star., 1942-10-07
u. 5. Court Enjoins
West Virginia From
Requiring Flag Salute
Injunction Is Granted
On Appeal by Members
Of Jehovuh's Witnesses
e. the Associated Press.

e, the Associated Press.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, Oct. T.
The West Virginia Board of Educa-
tion was ordered yesterday by
three judge Federal Court to cease
requiring a flag salute by students
who are members of Jehovah's Wit
nesses or any others who have re-
ligious scruples against such salutes.
The injunction was handed down
in test case brought by three
Kanawha County residents on be-
half OF themselves and other men,
bers OF the religious sect. They
charged that the salute regulation
violated the rights of religious lib
erty guaranteed by the First and
Fourteenth Amendments to the
Constitution.
The three-judg court comment
ed that unless restrained, the board
could expel the plaintiffs children
from school, but said that courts
have nothing to do with determining
the reasonableness" of the sect mem
bers' views.
The decision was directly opposed
to United States Supreme Court
ruling in the case of the Miners
vile Pa) school district against
Walter Gobitis.
The Supreme Court reversed lower
court decisions holding valid a
regulation permitting the school dis
trict to expel Mr.. Gobitis' children
Tor failure to salute the flag.