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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
Q McKENNY ON BRIDGE

bles the declarer went for 100
points.
The West player got the lion
by the tail and couldn't let go.
Then to make matters worse
he misplaced the hand and
won only three tricks.
North opened the spade king
and continued, South fineSsing
against dummy. South laid down
the king Of hearts 10 show his
quick re-entry, then led top
spade.
West should have discarded
a heart, but instead he tried
ruffing with the four of clubs,
and North over ruffed. Back
came the queen and another
heart, and South was IN to lead
the fourth spade
This time West discarded
diamond, and so did North.
South led a diamond, dcclarer
finessed, and the king won.
North exited with lis other dia-
mond and West won his first
trick.
But when he tried TO cash
the third diamond North ruffed.
North then had TO lead into the
major trump tenace, but he
won the last trick.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTONs

White House spokesman and
authority; lc), the informo-
ton cont possibly be Of any
aid or comfort to the enemy.
Major Roosevelt came back
from Africa in q flying boat
that was travelling exceedingly
Iight-just O few other possen-
gers. The route wos - well,
maybe the route is military in
formation. But il was O route)
not ordinarily flown and it is
believed the flight broke all
records for speed in Possoee
between Africa and the United
Stotes. A flying boat Of the
type used on this trons-o ceonic
service was observed in WASH
ineton waters on the day be-
fore and the doy Mrs. Roose-
Welt announced the majors re-
turn, though Washington is
not q regular port Of call for
this type Of ship.
Mrs. RooseveIt's column
ended with q settlement to the
effect she was ofroid Elliott
would have to spend some time
in q hospital, for he had pick
ed up some kind Of q germ.
If you will put together the
pieces Of this story, you can
make out Of it whatever you
con make out Of it. Maj. Elliott
Roosevelt was taken sick in
Africu-but not too sick to fly
5000 miles, or so. He was rush.
ed home by special flight,
flown under emergency orders,
necessary because Of the vori-
alton from the courses usually
followed by the Ferrying Conn.,
mond.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13

oIine became scorcer, he kept the cor in
the garage most Of the time. Now he
has returned to norroIcy.
We asked him why He said that
judging from all the talk in Washing
ton, his tires and possibly even his ou-
tomobiIes would be confiscoted soon
He proposes to get all the fun he can
out of the car before he loses it.
So by q lot Of loose talk this man
has been induced to wear out tires, use
up gasoline, and generally to defeat
the administrations desire to promote
conservation.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
% HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

new spy movie, and it never has
been solved to everybody's sat
isfaction.
The scene involved the exit
from a room of His Imperial
HighneSs Prince Inouye. The
question was: Should other Japs
in the room arise and bow the
prince out, avert their eyes as he
left, or follow him to the door?
Humphrey Bogart made this
popular suggestion: You can
avoid this trouble by not letting
the prince leave the room at all.
Just have somebody-maybe Bo-
gart-rush in and demolish him
on the spot!'
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
BY PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service Staff Correspondent


HOLLYWOOD, May 13-The
picture opens with Diana Bar
rymore on the stage playing an
82-year-old Queen Victoria
Presently, as a gal of 81, she S
seen visiting her wealthy, wild
owed mother Kay Francis) who
has misrepresented her own age
to further her romance with
John Boles.
Miss Barrymore masqueradcs
as a brat of II so that Boles
won't guess her mothers age.
Meanwhile she rehearses for a
role as a tough, strident-voiced
Sadie Thompson. When Robert
Cummings finally follows her to
New York, with matrimonial in
tent, he finds her playing a 49,
year-old Joan Of Arc.
All this is called Love and
Kisses, Caroline and is hap
pcning at Universal. Currently
Miss Barrymore is appearing in
her l2-year-old disguise Of short
skirt, MILDLY blouse, pigtails and
an ingenious expression. 1t
would give you quite start to
see her strolling around the set
with a cigaret in one hand and
a yo-yo top in the other.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13

Laws are strict regarding chill
dren in show business, and I'm
tod that Dickie Monahan, who
plays George Jessel as a boy in
the stage show, High Kickers,"
couldn't be taken on tour. The
youngster was replaced by a
midget two years older than Jes-
sci himself.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
SAVE AND 'sAivAeE

Next thing on the program
will be national conpoigns on
sowing and soIvoging rubber
and saving gasoline.
In spite Of all the extra ou-
thority granted TO the Presi-
dent under the emergency war
powers oCts, there is one type
Of law he cannot set oside-
any law posed by one Of the
48 states.
There is, ar present, only
one way in which state laws in
terfering with the war produc-
ton effort can be circumvent-
ed. Thot is through the Army
which, in an emergency, can
declare on area as q zone Of
military operations. Military
regulations then toke over and
whatever the commanding gen.
eroI Of the area soys, goes.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
DIM-OUT ECONOMY WAVE

NEW YORK-Out Of a Welter
Of figures concerning certain eff
fects Of the army-ordered nightly
dim-out for the east coast, COM
missioner Patrick GUILTY of the
city department of water sup
ply, gas and electricity emerged
today-grinning.
The city, he declared, stands
to save 100000 annually.
Even a a 10-minute blackout
would save the city $500 on
street, fire-alarm box and one
way arrow lights, GUILTY said.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
. Manhattan
BY GEORGE TUCKER

NEW YORk-DJu know:
That Barry Wood, singing
star of the Hit Parade, and Os-
car Levant, music expert of In
formation Please, were brothers
in-laW? E. They're married to
two of the four GAZE sisters.
That Ernest Hemingway, who
is secluded in his Cuban home
working on a novel, was COM
PEELED to break his own rcsOlu-
ton not TO write TO anybody in
the states until the novel was
Completed?. His dermatiCian,
Gloria Bristol, has a letter from
him asking for a bottle Of Spe-
cial hair tonic. ... to prevent
falling hair.
That writing for the eye is one
thing, and writing for the ear
is quite another. -. Star re-
porters of a metropolitan news
paper found this out recently
when they were assigned by
their editors to prepare script
for a news broadcast. After
reading their initial scripts, the
editor hurriedly arranged a lit
tie course in ear writing for
his scribes.
That the most discussed non
fiction book to come out of the
war this year is Defense Will
Not Win The War; by Lt-Col.
w. F. Herman?
That the Tamiris dancers at
the Rainbow room do ballet and
interpretative dancing to Negro
SpiritualS-beCauSc they are the
purest essence Of native AmCri-
can music?
That John Hoysradt, the actor
and mimic is an cx.sChool teach
cr whose students included the
sons Of the President of the
United States?
That General Douglas Mac
Arthur's first statement TO the
press upon his arrival in Aus
tralia has been recorded and
presented to newSpapcrmen by
the recording department of Sta
ton WOR?
That Johnny Green, the band
leader and composer, is a cap
tain in the New York Guard,
and that Jack Dempsey is a 1St
lieutenant in the same outfit?
The guy who cut the Gordian
knot has nothing on Lucky
Millinder when it comes to
brushing aside obstacles.
This band leader was discussing
the idea Of a touring show fash
toned after the old Chautauqua
idea Of a generation ago, TO be
played in the stadiums and open
air arenas throughout the coun-
try
But what about the wealth
err" someone wanted TO know.
Don't give II thought
cried Lucky, well play in the
towns where it doesn't rain
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
A FAyORITE HIDING PLACE

KENNETH, MO.-Wells Logan
forgot the money he had hidden
under the rug during a recent
stay at Poplar Bluff, Mo, no.
tel. ..
AnxiousIy he tclephoned the
hotel.
Il doubt if the money is still
there" he said, but if it is,
please send it to me"
Yesterday Logan received
three five dollar bills in the
mail. He'd only put two under
the rug.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
BY WILLIAM r. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

One would expect almost
perfect bridge in the world
championship Masters lndivi-
dual tournament, because the
players who participate are Sc
lccted as the ranking players
Of the country. On today's hand,
however, at two Of the nine ia
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
JUDICIAL MEMORY

KANSAS CITY-Ray Hill, 10,
was fined S. for a traffic viola
ton by Judge Earle w. Frost of
the municipal court.
Say" siad Frost, recalling
the defendant to the bench,
weren't you here once before,
and promised to bring the fine
when you got it?'
yes. l forgot" answered
Hill.
! didn't" said the judge.
Your fine now is SIS"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
SECRET, MAYBE

PORTLAND, ORE.-"Can you
tell me where Mcleod Field isl"
the city desk of a local news
paper was asked by telephone.
We're not certain. Why don't
you try the local air base?
They'll know" was the reply.
This is the Portland air base
calling the city desk was in
formed.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
WOOD FOR PAPER MAKING

In the United States, about
100000 cords of wood are
ground every year in the manu-
facture Of pulp for paper and
for other purposes, in normal
times. Mostly spruce and hem
lock are used.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
MIDGET WORK

When it comes to age disCrep-
ancies, the Metro Mickey Room
ey picture, "A Yank at Elton"
easily wins the gin-fiiled nurs-
ing bottle. One of the first things
a visitor spots on that set is what
appears to be a stocky little girl
who strolls around putting on
cigar. It's a middle-aged male
midget doubling for a child in
fight scene.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
MADAGASCAR

As in Syria, Great Britain again
has beaten the Axis to q strategic Po-
sition. The landing on Madagascar is
encouraging as an indication that the
United Nations can take the initiative
in situation where reported infiItrd-
ton Of q Japanese military mission
forecast q repetition Of French Indo-
China.
Even yet it is we'll not to be too SAN
euine about the operation. Under en-
photic orders Of the Petoin-Darlon
Government, the French forces at the
base Of Diego Suorez are resisting the
advance of the British commands
from Courier Boy. Inhabitants Of the
island are believed sympathetic to the
Free French movement but have taken
orders from Vichy
History gives FrenChn0en q Prece-
dent for believing that the presence
Of Englishnen will not jeopordize their
interests. After British troops had &C.
cupied Tomotove in 1910 during the
NopoIeonic Wars, the Treaty Of Paris
gave them the French settlements in
Madagascar" but succeeding British
Governments did not press the claim
and otter an era approaching native
sef-ruIe, they supported the French
reossertion Of q protectorote over the
island toward the end Of the century,
This time the announcement from
London gives the immediate pledge
that the territory will remain French
and will continue to be part Of the
French Empire"
Considering the part American
forces ore playing and must increos-
ingIy play in the defense Of Burma,
India, and Australia to halt the Jopo-
nese, one may wonder why the United
States did not participate directly with
the British and make q Joint occupu-
ton Of Madagascar. The explanation
may lie in the foct that the British
have no longer any diplomatic reIo-
tons to be broken by such q move,
whereas the form at least persists be-
tween Washington and Vichy.
Nevertheless, the importance to
America Of having this island under
United Nations control is enormous.
Lying off the Eost African Coast in
the Indian Ocean, it can either guard
or menace the lines Of seo-borne trons-
Portotion from the American Atlantic
seoboord to Australia, India, or the
new base in Eritreo. The possibility Of
retaining contact with China against
japanese eHponsionism is grotifyingIy
enhanced by the apparent foct that
United Nations forces for once have
been in time in their Madagascar
coup.
From the Christian Science Monitor
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
FLASHES
OF
LIFE
EMERGENCY OPERATION

NORWICH, CONN.-Firemen
Stanley Osik and Howard Lud-
low, responding to an emer-
gency call, proved they were
good mechanics by dismantling
and reassembiing Mrs. William
c. Thorp's washing machine in
jig time.
They had to do it to free Mrs.
ThOrp'S angOra cat which had
caught its tail in the machines
gears.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
EVERY BIT WILL HELP

ENEkt oil WILL '~S
II is sofe to soy that Henry Morgen-
thou could not win q popularity contest
with the lower income levels as jury,
since he has proposed to cut income
tax exemptions to drag another seven
millions under the umbrella.
Nevertheless, his recommendation
has much merit There are at least two
major reasons why we should extend
universal service to the tax field as for
as possible.
First, there is no better way to i'm
press upon every man and his wife that
this really is their country and their
government.
Most taxes are hidden in the retail
prices Of commodities we buy. We
don't notice them. Nobody mentions
how much cheaper each item would be
if it weren't taxed.
As q nation we have thought Of
the financing Of government as q
Iooves-ond-fishes miracle. N d y
paid, we supposed, except few rich
and near rich.
Therefore we feIt-ond many still
feel-thot economy in government is
fetish Of putocrots. Why should we
try to buy ships, tanks and planes
cheopIy, just to relieve some million
ore Of little tox burden? Let him pay.
Suppose higher pay scales, with
stiff overtime provisions, make war
equipment cost rore2 Isn't it merely
transferring so much from corporation
stockholders, who don't need the
money, to worknen who do?
Why worry because the federal
government alone Poys almost ! ,7OO,-
600 employees, at the rote Of more
than q quarter Of q billion dollars q
month, exclusive Of soldiers, sailors,
WPA, MA, CCC.
The answer comes when the New
Deal secretary Of the treasury asks to
hove income taxes brought down to
every unmarried person who earns
S. go q week, every family which re-
ceives $500 q week.
Second, and this is what Secretary
Morgenthou had in mind, there is the
"infotionoy gap" estimated OF some
20 billion dollars for next year which,
if not absorbed, will cause high prices
in spite Of our ceiling program.
Most Of this 20 billions will come
from increased war production. A sixth
will be made available by the foct we
can not buy everything we want, for
which we have money.
The best available studies indicate
that our lowest income classes - the
people who never have had money
enough to buy more than subsistence
the $1,000 and under fomiIies-ore
going to find, when they 90 to the
stores, that they will have two billion
dollars in 1912 they can't spend.
The tax collector won't get much
from these newcomers, but every little
will he p to finance the war, to make
everybody tax conscious, and to reduce
the margin Of idle dollars available to
promote infIotion.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
NEVER PITCH BLACK

Winter night in the polar re-
gions is not pitch black. Even
when the sun is at its greatest
distance below the horizon, the
night is a somber gray
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
WATER WITCH

HAYS, KAS. = Don Pratt,
manager of the Hays airport,
made - unsuccessful attempts
to drill a we'll under the landing
field.
Then Sam Croft, retired
farmer, came forward with a
forked stick. After a brief bit
Of walking, the stick began jump
ing in his hands.
Specifically, Pratt drilled at
the spot. He found an ample
supply Of water.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
WAR CASUALTY

MINNEAPOLIS - Four-year-
old Johnny Fadell's father had
taught him to play Stars and
Stripes Forever" on tin flute
whenever he was given a de-
tense stamp.
One afternoon when father
brought home a stamp, Johnny
got his flute and started out on
the tune, marching about the
room. He tripped on a footstool
and the flute pierced his soft
palate.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
STEEL TERMS

In the steel industry, the man
who runs the furnace is the
keeper, the hole through
which molten Stag drains is the
monkey, and the cinders that
sometimes form in the furnace
are the bears"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
PRODUCE ELECTRICITY

Charges Of static electricity
amounting to 10000 volts or
more are built up by automo-
biles travelling dry roads.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
LOOSE TALK

We know mon-perhops you do,
too, who hos begun using his outomo-
bile quite freely Of Iote. For time otter
the sole OF tires wos prohibited on Cos
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
GREEN YED

Oleg Cassini visited the
"Thunderbirds" set just in time
to find his wife, Gene Tierney,
and John Sutton beginning a
sizzling love scene. The set was
a Red Cross station, and the prin-
cipalS were a volunteer nurse
and a limping r. A. F. pilot
Afterward, Sutton noticed the
visitor and asked a little breath
lessly, How was I?'
"Okay," said Cassini, That
is, it was all right as long as you
were getting paid for it."
A problem in Imperial Japa-
neSc etiquet halted action on
Across the Pacific Warner S
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
HOW MUCH?

InfIotjon made me cost OF
the last war SIS billion higher
than it would have been With
out initiation, but thus far in
this war it is impossible TO tell
what the extro infIotionoY
cost has been or will be, soys
Budget Director Harold D.
Smith. One reason is that costs
Of war production have to be
constantly rec q | cuIoted. AS
manufacturers perfect their
processes for doing things they
never did before, their con-
trocts ore being renegototed
downward, thus reducing the
cost Of the war.
James n. r. Cromwell, ex-
husband Of Doris Duke, ex-U.
s. minister 10 Canada, who
has been hanging ground
Washington all winter oPpor-
emily looking for just the right
job, has taken on q spore-time
octiVity in sponsoring Korean
independence. He is president
Of the Koreon-A American Coun-
Gil now, and writes letters TO
the State Department about it.
"a
The versatile and omozine
Ivy Litvinoff, wife Of the So
Wet ambassador to Woshing-
ton, has taken up sketching
and is going to art school. In
the evening, for practise, she
sits and sketches the onbosso-
dor as the ambassador sits and
reads.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13

Wisconsin's population was s.
1881 in 1910, as compared to
1889, 006 in 1880.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
. FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .
so YEARS AGO TODAY
1892

Ransom NJ. Rowley, the vet
eran union soldier, and Macomb
county pioneer, has returned
from the East.
There was a fine wedding at
the residence of Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Gutschow when their only
daughter, Miss Augusta, was
married TO Mr.. Lin Delvin, a
leading tobaCConist Of Hunting
ton, Ind.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-13
55 YEARS AGO TODAY
1887

Mrs. John WeStendorf was
somewhat burned about the face
yesterday by the taking fire Of
a dish of alcohol and beeS-wax
that a painter had set on the
stove.
Rev. Mr.. Perrin. of the Meth
odist church, will exchange pull
pits with Rev. /. E. Springer,
of Ypsilanu, next Sunday.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-06

1 the cruisers rapid maneuverinE, coupled with trouble from search lights and heavy fire from it's pom- joms--that ack ack was coming up almost between the engines-made 1t tough for us to get into the right position.
 q circled to make another pass and that proved a break for us, for few minutes later we spotted a battleship which was the biggest thing I've ever seen in my life"
 The battleship took refugee be- twsen two small islands, and thus hemmed herself so that she could not dodge the fortress bombs.
 "On our first pass. we dropped four 5c0-pounders which hit about 300 feet beyond the battlewagon. This like to have killed Langjahr because the night before he'd also missed warship in the same area.
 T turned and came right back over the battleship, expecting ter rife ack ack, but surprisingly, the Ja,s didn't fire.
 'Langjahr dropped four .more bombs and next thing I knew, the bottom turret gunner yelled ever the planes radio, i've blew the rear end of that big babyP Then the rail gunner shouted, Holy he'll She just blew up
 "Langjahr, with four quarter-ton bombs, had made two direct hits and two near misses which prac- tically grazed the sides of the ship. He must have hit the powder maga-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-06
Famous English Artist Sketches Life In A.E.F.
By NRA Service

" aN@&AA GNANf&&
 London, Nov e-Three afternoons each week, in the garden of a small, vine-covered house near here, the celebrated David Low-sald to be the hlghest-paid newspaper artist In the world--hoes turnips,
 That's his usual routine, anyway. Recently, though, it was interrupted when Low offered to tour some of the camps, fields and training sta- tions of U. s. military forces in England to sketch, for American newspapers, various phases of lie in the A. E, F, Overseas rights to his drawings were vested in the Min lstry of Information, which in turn assigned the North American rights to NEA Service for its hundreds of client newspapers aS @ contribution to British American good will. First of these will appear in The Demo- crat Monday.
 Now 5l, the distinguished cari- oaturist and political cartoonist says that turnips, golf and the movies are his only recreationS. Before the present war began, his larger house in Golders Green was as crowded "as a railroad station"-- but crowded with prominent writers, actors and people of distinction in the international scene. Rationing and the enforced austerity of war halted his activity as . London host, Being a night-time fire warden is my line now,"low said.
 Low works hard, and always has. Born in New Zealand, and 30 years ago q struggling young newspaper artist in Australia, he walked 800 miles to reach a new job in Sydney. Shifting to London in 1919, he trav- eled via the United States and still describes America as "breath-tak- ing"
 The inflexible standards which he sets for himself still occasionally make the artist the despair of the Evening Standards editor. After completing a drawing which the editor approves, he may discard it and begin another when taken by an idea which he considers a little better.
 He has been with Lord Beaver brooks Evening Standard since 1927 and has attained most of his inter- national prominence in that time. About 20 books of Lows collected works have been published.