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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-14
WAR DAMAGE INSURANCE

When the forms come from the
printer, Uncle Sam will sell US war DAM
ooe insurance ct 10 cents for each
500, SO for as dwelling and household
contents are concerned.
Because Of constitutional obstruc-
tions, this insurance cannot be made
universally mandatory. All the govern
ment can do is make it available and
hope that we ore smart enough to buy
it from the private insurance agencies
which will oct as representatives for
Washington
One can, if he chooses. decline to
pay this moderate charge Then, if his
home is destroyed, he con ask for ohor-
ity.
Conoedine that we oren't going to
be bombed or shelIed like the British,
it still would seem the port Of discre-
ton to toke slice Of this insurance.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-14
Q HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

the latter are true celebrities.
l saw one participant Of the Mid
way battle surrounded by
Paramount players, director
and a studio official or two
while production came to a
dead stop. This happened on
three sound stages. At lunch, he
said wistfully I'D kinda like to
see how they make movies.
FLYERS FANCY
At Universal, Nigel Bruce
was guiding four r. c. A. F. in
structors, all veterans of active
service, on tour of the lot. With
a short leave from remote field
in Canada, they had driven
down to see some glamor. And
they'd found it mostly on the
set of Arabian Nights" where
six Bagdad beauties in costumes
grudgingly akayed by the Hays
Office reclined in a harem.
1t was a long scene to light
for the color camera, but the
flyers were anxious TO meet the
girls. They'd stand and stare a
while, go to meet some real
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-14
FLYING TIGERS

Certainly no group Of men has ever
earned better the privilege of coming
home from q fighting front to visit
their families, than General Chem
nouIt's Flying Tigers.
Going os volunteers TO O most un-
pleasant situotion, with inadequate
equipment, outnumbered, they did one
Of the outstanding oerioI combat jobs
in history Now few have joined our
official Dir forces, while others have
come home.
We do not believe thot such men
will long be content with the plocid
tenor Of civilian life over here We shall
be omozed if most Of them ore not
back shooting down Jops before long,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-14
. BARBS

On sunshiny days wide brim
on a hat is Just shade better
than narrow one.
F. D. r.. is finding il just as
easy to separate the gasoline and
tire problems as it would be to
separate ham and eggs
In this "all-out" war life be-
comes very trying for those who
are not trying their best
Gasoline and tires are going
TO make the favorite summer
resort this year the old front
porch.
About the only drawback to
living at home is you can't toss
cigaret ashes on the floor of the
lobby.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-14
. MIND YOUR
MANNERS
Test YOUR knowledge of cor

Test your knowledge of cor
rect social usage by answering
the following questions, then
checking against the authorl-
tative answers below:
|. If a knife is not needed
with luncheon menu is IT cor
rect to omit the knife when set
ting the table?
2. When no knife is to be used
should the fork be placed on the
left or right?
3. In setting a table where is
the water glass placed?
4. If you are used to having a
maid but are now getting along
without a servant is it wise to
try and entertain as formally as
you did when you had maid?
S. If you have no maid, neeo
you apologize for the fact wher
you entertain guests who have
servants in their home?
What would you do if
You can either serve a skinny
meal made up of expensive dish
es or serve bountiful meal Of
less expensive food
ca Serve the simple meal anc
have plenty of what yoI
serve?
(b) Serve small portions o.
the more expensive foods
Answers
!. Yes.
2. On the right.
3. At the tip of the knife.
4. No. You should simplify
your entertaining as much a.
possible.
5. No.
Better "What Would You Do
solution-(a).
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-14
GASOLINE WITHOUT TIRES

1855 President Roosevelt SOyS Tie wOH'S
like to separate the tire problem from
the oosoIne problem. So would lots or
US for instance, the man with on
x cord but with boots in two tires or
the man with new tires but no tobs lett
on his A cord.
seems to be human nature that 1t
tires are not actually smooth most OF
us will keep on doing q good deal OF
driving so long as we can get gasoline.
For that reason it is difficult to accom-
pIish much rubber conservation in the
ports of the United Stotes thot have
plenty Of motor fuel or to eliminate &C.
tuoIIy all non-essentio driving even in
the Eost where eos rotionine exists.
Yet the rubber situation must be
recognized as acute. 1t calls for the
most rigid economy. There will be
mixed reactions to the Presidents COM
ment that the Government may have to
reouisition all tires to be used as q
national resource, but the need to make
utmost use Of every ounce Of rubber is
necessity, not q bureaucratic whim.
Short Of drastic tire requIsltlon, it
Is difficult to see better solution than
nationwide gasoline rotioning. Mr..
Roosevelt suggests that coupling the
gasoline and tire situations is like try
ing to odd apples and tomatoes. But
more opt smile might be oppIes and
pie-crust. No matter how much crust
you have, you can't make apple pies
without opples Or if you think to get
along on oppIes without the crust you'll
be feeding yourself oppIesouce.-From
Christion Science Monitor.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-14
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTONe

two years, in the foce Of restor.
otion of the Dutch Eost Indies
and MoIoyon supply at the
end of the year, no one but q
sop would be interested in tok-
ing this gamble.
William La Vorre, chief OF
the American Republics div:
ision Of the Department OF
Commerce, goes so for as to
soy that, IF every Boy Scout
in the United Stotes could be
set to exploring the olley
iuneIes in this country and COL
'eet 40 pounds Of sorop rubber
apiece between now ond
Christmas. it would produce
more rubber than can be i'm
ported from all lotin Amer
ico."
Charles T. Wilson, president
Of the u. S.-Mexicon Cham.
Der Of Commerce and q former
buyer for Rubber Reserve, now
privately eneoeed in develop.
ing motive euoyule and costil.
loo rubber sources in Mexico, is
equally pessimistic on the out
look there. At best, Mexico
can produce only enough for
its own consumption in the
next year.
SUGAR AND SPICE
Rural areas ore being urged
to cut the winters supply Of
firewood early and lay in q re.
serve where coal deliveries may
be interrupted by tronsporto.
ton Shortages. - Treasury
procurement now buys all
typewriters for the govern
ment and rotions them out.
a" Farmers who board SEQ.
sonoI hired hands will get ex-
tro sugar allowances. "
Three million copies Of ODT's
booklet on truck maintenance
and conservation will be dis.
tributed free to operators Of
the nations five million
trucks. - Army will sched-
ute bulk Of its conferences for
cities other than Washington
to relieve capital congestion.
Liberty ships launched
on Labor Day will be named
otter labor Ieoders such as
Samuel Gompers ard Peter }.
Mcclure, fother Of Labor Doy.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-14
BY PAUL HARRISON


HOLLYWOOD. July 14-All
over the lot: Six young Brit
ish navy officers got an odd
greeting on the set of MY Sis
ter Eileen" In the story are
six Brazilian navy officers who
can't speak a word of English
and who follow Rosalind Rus
sell to the apartment she shares
with Janet Blair. The gals have
an awful time getting rid of
them.
The casting office had been
looking for the proper types,
and when the genuine officers
came into the sound stage the
assistant director told Director
Alexander Hall these were the
actors sent over for his APP
prevail.
Hall walked up to the aston
ished Britishers, who were
mostly blends. They're not
right" barked, II want LatinS.
Get these guys outa here
At this point Miss Russell
introduced them.
Incidentally, when the actors
arrived they included Cuban.
Mexican, two Spaniards, lad
from Wisconsin and one Brazil
ian. A Brazilian vice consul told
me the North American was the
one typical Brazilian of the lot.
SIGN OF TINES
With slanted eyes and other
makeup. Abner Biberman plays
a Japanese agent in "Subma-
rine Alert" The disguise re-
quires about half an hour to APP
ply, so he can't remove it before
going to lunch. He lunches at a
boulevard drive-in, and during
his first day on the picture he
was made uncomfortable by
hostile stares. Unpleasantries
are avoided now by windshield
sticker reading "AmericanBorn
Chinese" People still stare, but
they smile now.
Men in uniform are welcomed
by the studios these days. Stars
are equally gracious TO recruits
and to bemedaled veterans. But
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-14
. Literary
Guidepost .
BY JOHN SELBY

0OAAAN WILD
"A NEW RUSSIAN GRAM
MAR" and "A FIRST RUSSIAN
READER" by Anna H. Semeon-
off (Dutton; each $3.50; col
LOQUIAL JAPANESE" by Will
liam Montgomery McGovern;
(Dutton: $3.50.
Bismarck is said to have
sneered one day that talent for
languages is head walters
talent. Whether because of that
strange remark comparable to
history is bunk" in the sublim-
ity of it's ignorance) or because
of laziness, many people believe
Americans are the worst lin.
gusts in the world. Perhaps we
are.
1t may be a little late for us
to take up either Russian or
Japanese, but if we wont Ia try,
the means are at hand. Three
books of value have been re-is-
sued in the light of Pearl Har-
Dor.
Two are Russian books-Anna
H. Semeonoffs "A New Rus
sian Grammar" and the same
teachers "A First Russian
Reader" The last is not really
a reissue. My review copy is
from the first American edition
and it was published in 1886.
The grammar is the fourth edi-
ton published in this country.
The third book is William
Montgomery McGovern's Col
loquial Japanese" and it is SUBJ
titled "a quick, easy way to
learn Japanese" This grammar
begins by insisting that japanese
is not really very hard-that, in
deed, a fair student can get
through the book and emerge
with a workable command of
japanese in six months. Both
grammars are designed for in
dependent study as well as class,
room work, and q brief survey
indicates that this is not merely
wishful thinking. Bot one days
experience is not enough for me
to be sure!
For the amateur, the odd
characters of both Russian and
japanese are forbiding In Jap
anese there is gool deal of
reason for fright, too, because
actually there are number of
japanese languages. The COLO
quail style of japanese is the or
binary medium of exchange. The
epistolary style is used for letters
and post cards. There is a lit
erary style for books and peri
odicals (about two-thirds Chin
csc and one-third Japanese). And
finally there is the classical style
which is actually Chinese, based
on the Confucian Canon. In ad-
dition, japanese may be written
in either the Geographic or the
phonetic way, and there are
three ways of writing phonetic
ally.
Russian has its peculiar alpha.
bet and distinctive photography,
but 1t at least stays put. Per-
haps il would be better to start
on Russian
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-14
. SO THEY SAY

Even during the troubles of
the war we have not put aside
the tokens of breeding and char
acter - courtesy and polished
manners.
German Propaganda Minister
Paul Joseph Goebbels.
We shall emerge from this
war with new skills, with new
strength, with new unity-may
say, in all reverence, with
new national soul.
ID o d Nelson, chairman
WPB.
II is a fatal mistake to be-
lieve that the State is the highest
expression of divinity.
Count Konrad Won Preysing,
Catholic bishop of Berlin.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-14
. FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .
IS YEARS AGO TODAY

1887
The Western Union has cut
rates and promises TO meet COM
petition.
Master Frank and Miss Julia
Kendrick are visiting at Toledo.
so YEARS AGO TODAY
1882
Cihcuit Court Commissioner
Stone gets his account for ex-
penses in the mayoralty remov-
cd by the vote of the mayor.
Two saloons in this city are
yet running without license.
How long will the officials SUBJ
NIT to this imposition.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-14

on the tiehtness of the roof above 1t.
But in the United Stotes, the keeping
of an economic roof over eveYbodys
head depends on preventing prices from
pushing up through the ceilings that
have been Ioid.
The pressure in that direction is cri-
tico. The next few weeks in Congress
will be nomentous. Cracks already ore
beginning to appear in the ceilings. The
OPA acknowledgment that prices OF
conned goods would have to be 5 per
cent higher this foil was one Of them.
The Bonkheod bill for Government
loans or form products OF 100 per cent
Of parity, just passed by the Senate,
would punch O yownine hole into the
ottic.
In foct, the issue Of pority loans
supersedes in practical importance the
fioht over authorization which the Ad-
ministroton seeks in order to sell feed
oroins from the aforementioned
surpluses at less than parity. That step
would enable other types Of farmers to
keep down their costs and relieve the
pressure for higher prices on milk, eggs.
poultry, and meat.
But before formers and their sPokes-
men give up insistence on fovors tor
agriculture, they want to be sure that
labor is not going to be allowed to push
war wages UP through ceiling, roof, and
all, to the detriment Of everyone except
those employed in few wel-oreonized
urban industries. President Roosevelt
at length hos expressed an opinion
against the S -o-doy woge increase for
the steel workers, which is pending be-
fore the National War Labor Boord.
This case is cIeorl y the crux Of the wage
Sterilization" which President Roose-
Welt as long ago as April sold was inn.
Perotive.
At that time the Chief Executive de-
described the over-oll nature Of the an
t-infIotion problem 1t is as if the CELL
ings must be kept on number Of diff
ferent rooms. If the roof goes off any
one Of these, the winds Of initiation
sweep through the whole house with
disastrous consequences
If the NWLB will adopt the Presi-
dents position against the steel wage
increase it will help forestoIl success
sion Of wage increase demands in other
industries and remove the excuse for
some farm price demands in Congress.
Congress on its part ought to support
the Administration efforts to keep farm
prices within bounds and ought olso to
give the Office Of Price Administration
sufficient appropriations to enable it to
police effectively its price ceilings.
There's further factor in this po-
Icing Of price ceilings, however, and it
is the taxing Of new income or the OBJ
sorption Of it in war savings SO that the
flood Of money necessarily being paid
out for war production will not bid up
the prices for scarce civilian goods
To take the courses necessary for
preventing initiation requires forttude
ond forbeoronce. Every group and in
dividuo must be wiling to renounce
advantage and oct for the common
good. No one can have the protection
of price ceilings on other peoples pro-
ducts unless he is willing to observe
them himself Thot is the way to keep
q roof over the heads Of all Of US. -
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-14

Fewer people will take vaca-
tons this summer - so they
ought 10 be rested up from last
years by next year.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-14
BY VIM. f.. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

One OF the incest events of
the Southern Appalachian Tour
nament. which will be held at
Asheville, N. c., Aug. %, %
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-14

stars, then return to eye the
Caliph's cuties.
Nigel Bruce was patient and
understanding. He said, When
| was a Tommy, back in 1914,
we had to walk six miles and
back for beer. And they weren't
any beautiful ladies to talk to or
look at"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-14

We must face the fact desper'
ate as that may seem, that Am
erica is not immune to bombs.
- Charles Poletti. lieutenant
governor of New York.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-14
A LOSING GAMBLE

In the foce Of this situation,
the pressure from some gov
eminent sources on Uncle
Jesse Jones and his Rubber
Reserve Corporation, to fin
once O lot Of rubber pIonto.
tions in lotin America, is sold
TO be terrific. 1t takes eight
years to get production from q
newly planted rubber plonto-
ton. In the foce Of certain U.
s. synthetic production within
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-06

;,s IApect' I. Sensational Pin Poirt" ill.,.
INV u;r,o 20 SPECIAL ngredlent) gers after m,n
'en' De missed entirely by less eoien, d =. %nef
mo' az eye haenirg Taste Thrill thar s,t, non.
'"sins leaves feeling resher. cleaner svee ,ur'
g. :. economy baf Yo3 Can Me4su,e !, go,1 I'll
,o,L .ol yourself how little of this new .n.,o.I
'oo' paste prescription is needed 70 o., ,.snI,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-06

NOW NOV 70 use It: N least tuie, q dawn.
p4s'e as you would any tooth paste ''' '"'' Cream
brush we'll, with ouick ,o,,,.4
movement OF the bristles sgains, ,be down
More 'hon ~ Ingredient,
pouoJeS T III, L,s'erlne tooth paste prescription
ents more than ID carefully selected ord,
and eesosny give you maximum poIsb,os
qualities without danger to the enamel
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-05

gifts. And the results Of their generosity was
something the Smithsonian Institution might
have done we'll To put on exhibition as eX-
ample Of n pre-war glamour girls native
habitat.
Most of the hooks were loaded with about
100 dolls. of all types stuffed, furred, china
French, pierrot, painted and plastic, gathered
Unfortunately from neighboring night clubs
In the lvin~ room an open-mouthed white
polar bear pet sprawled on the hearth. In
coming guests invariably tripped over this
bear, which was named Sam. The furniture
done IN blond mahogany. was. in some pieces.
topped by gold-tnted mirrors.
canvas and Silt travel trunk-one of
five which Lois had picked up for a short trip
10 Miami served as base for enough phono-
graph records to stock a store, There were
six telephones and specially constructed fur
closet holding the eight coats, ranging from
mink to ermine. which gentlemen friends had
showered on Lois in the short space of one
week.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-05

NROADWAY. the former Great White Way
x is as dark at night nowadays as Main
- Street in Gopher Prairie.
Some say it's because Of the possibility
Of air raids.
Others insist it's because Betty Allen
dazzling musical comedy headliner has re-
tired from circulation.
She's Joined her eX-roommate and boon
companion, Lois Andrews Jessel, in the limbo
Of matrimony.
Betty and Lois used to be known as the
"Oomph' girs-in fact, that's how they were
publicized in the 1910 edition Of George
Whites Scandals"
But oomph is a luxury and Injuries today
all subject to priorites.
Farsighted George Jessel perennial COM
edian slapped a priority on Lois's oomph long
before the time of Mr. Hendcrson's promi-
hence. and now, after playing Genie meer1e
meinie mo with the playboy market for 10,
these many years Betty has made Harold
Kircheimer, Chicago executive, sole custodian
Of hers
The news of her marriage has come a
surprise
Nobody thought she'd do it. Once married,
twice shy" her friends used to say of her,
recalling that she had already been married
once, badly.
That was back in 1887, when she was
shared by Gus Bivona, a clarinet player, while
both were on their way TO Boston in a bus.
Three years later, in winning annul-
ment of their ten-day marriage Betty test-
fled that Gus had turned the trick by filling
her ears with sweet nothings about the lucra-
tive chain Of meat stores his father owned.
Besides promising her the gravy that was
regularly drawn from the business. she said
he'd also painted alluring picture OF
gala church wedding and Westchester home,
smothered. not in onions but in rambler roses.
The reality, she told the judge, was far
different. On closer inspection. the patenal
meat stores had dwindled to single modest
butcher shop in Stamford Conn. where in
intervals between footing, Gus worked as the
butchers boy
Moreover, said Betty. whose suit was not
contested since her husband had to stay at
work. slicing bologna, neither the big church
wedding They'd been wed by simple Justice
Of the Peace nor the rose-decked love-nest
had ever materialized
So, all in all, she'd decided that her ia
vorite song was not, "Oh, Mama, the
Butchers Boy For Me"
Following this establishment Betty took
up what seemed II lie a permanent position
the matrimon / sidelincs. Successfully
her name was linl: ID with Mack Grey George
Rats sde-kick Benny Baker. the comedian
Horace Schmidlapp producer, and Hank
Greenberg, who, before he joined the army
was voted the most valuable player in the
American League g.. but not in my league"
said Betty after they parted.
Such was the uncertain state of affairs
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-05

Scandals which was good beginning
Then one chilly Fail night, Mr.. White
dropped into night club and what should
he but his protege and the faithful Betty
disporting themselves in the company of a
rival producer, George Hale. There followed
a tete-a-tete with Lois from which the Scan
dals impresario allegedly emerged with
mouse, shanty, decorating one optic
After a week of comparative quiet there
was another encounter at night club rather
similar to the first except that this time Lois
and Betty were with an actor named Dave
Shelly, while in Mr.. Whites corner was a
Patricia Thompson.
The geography Of the place required the
Misses Andrews and Allen to pass the White
table on their way to the powder room. When
they passed, Miss Thompson rose and fol-
lowed. Certain critical remarks and dusty
answers were exchanged in the powder room
and all parties spent the rest of the evening
nursing their grievances
BY this time an explosion was inevitable.
1t occurred the following night in Loiss dress
ing room.
Il just sitting there, making up she
said later, with my back to the door on that
crummy little chair when Thompson came in.
| said Hello Thompson l didn't even look
around. l had no suspicion Of what was going
to happen.
"All of a sudden 1 found myself on the
floor with Thompson beating my brains out
She breathed deeply at the recollection
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-05

For music there was a piano of ultra
modern design, radios of various makes.
monographs, sheet music and home record
ing machine into which the girls occasionally
sang or decanted their nobler thoughts
The bedroom ran to pairs: twin beds. twin
vanity tables, twin upholstered back supports
complete with pockets On the vanities stood
innumerable bottles of perfume, some quart
size. And one Of the bathroom fixtures was
covered with ermine
1t was from this luxurious retreat that
Lois, abetted by Betty carried on her his
toric feud with George White. The feud con-
sisted of dregs left after the wine of romance
had been drunk
Impressionabe Mr. White was so struck
by her beauty, according to Lois, that he
practically shanghaied her out Of an Earl
Carroll West Coast chorus lin4 Astrologers
put her age at ID at the time.
In New York the producer installed her
along with Betty, her best friend in one Of the
three star dressing rooms back-stage of the