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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-11
HighIiehts from
the Latest Books
BY JAMES f. HILBERT

BY JAMES +. HELbEHT
A land of great woods, a few
great cities, likable half
French, half English people, an
abundance of game and fish, a
wealth of adventure-that's The
Unknown Country" Coward
McC Cam: $3.50, an engaging
portrait of Canada by B C e
Hutchinson.
This is not the Canada of the
travelogs or the geography
books. Mr.. Hutchinson presents
the country not as a pink Sec
ton of the map, but as a living
entity. His book portrays a
.colorful national character, one
which he understands and ad-
mires, but yet is able to criticize
thoughtfully while interpreting
it.
There is the Canada of his
tory-the virgin land explored
by Champlain and Frontenac;
the soil the Iroquois fought for
in bloody wars; the great plains
where pioneers fought for a live
lihood, planted their grain and
founded inland cities; the bays
and streams and forests where
trappers and traders fathered an
industry; the wooden, and later
marble buildings w ere the
country's leaders fought for and
won an independent system OF
government.
There is also the Canada OF
today. a wartime nation still
growing and continually adding
to a proud heritage. 1.-THE I'm
known Country" makes il
known from the fishing banks
along the Atlantic, past the
French English cities and pro-
vinces, to the promised land OF
British Columbia and the Pa
cific, on up the Cariboo Road
to that northern region of gold
and rich adventure.
This is a native view Of Cam
ada, in whose very name he
finds music, "wondrous and
sweet, like a boys shout In
springtime, like the clamor OF
geese going north and the roar
of melting rivers and the muir
muir of early winds" 1t was
not titled "Our Northern Neigh
Dor" because il was not United
States citizen writing his i'm.
pressions of the land. but rath'
er a loyal son presenting a tri'
butte to the land dear and a.
miliar to him.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-11
AGAIN

American bomber squodrons with
drew from Java, lost Of the then uncon-
quered Dutch Eost Indies, because they
lacked "odequote" fighter plane pro-
lection. It's the same old story Of too
lote with too little. When do we really
start fighting?
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-11

tories, he was
able to accum-
ulate 127 Mas
ter Points dur
ing the yea r,
six more than
the n u m b C r
won by Mrs.
Young.
I would rate
Silodor as the
greatest find in
bridge dur j n &
the past year.
Whom he wOn
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-11
PLAN ANTI-JAP FILMS

A writer called in by Ernst
Lubitsch to work on a screen
play says the original story
sounds like the funniest war
yarn ever headed for the screen;
it's a satire on japanese espion-
age :. In another war picture,
for Hal Roach, George E. Stone
will play the prize heavy of the
year-the Emperor of japan 80.
Hollywood has donated $50 gal
Ions of blood to the Red Cross
bank.
Studio paid 26 ungrateful ex-
tras $1,000 each for posing for
still pictures. These portraits
now decorate Don Ameche's Of
flee in THE Magnificent Jerk
as examples of successful grad
yates of the school which he's
supposed to operate :. .Lupe
Velez has refused role at RkO,
but no suspension will follow.
She's going on a bond-selling
personal appearance tour -.
Nations movie theatres turned
in more than $1,000,000 for the
March of Dimes drive.
The tire shortage will mean
bonanza for neighborhood the
aters all over the country when
people begin going afoot to find
entertainment In Hollywood
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-11
BY WILLIAM e. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

In my article yesterday about
Gin Rummy, ! explained that
any player may 60 down, that is,
expose his hand and end the
play, if his odd cards total 10 or
less.
In totaling the odd cards, face
cards are counted at 10 each, the
ace counts as /, all other cards
count their pip value.
When a player goes down with
an incomplete hand, his oppon-
ent plays any odd cards he can
on the exposed sets, then totals
the remaining odd cards. II the
player who went down still has
the lower total, he wins the diff
ference of the totals.
But if the opponent of the
down player shows an equal or
lower total of odd cards, he
wins the difference of the totals
plus a bonus of 10 points.
If a player lays down COM
plete hand, with no odd cards,
this is gin and the opponent may
not play any of his odd cards on
the sets. The winner Is credited
with the full total of the adj
verse odd cards, plus bonus OF
20 points.
It is usual to play for a game
of 100 points. A running total 10
kept of the scores Of each play
err. The game ends after the
hand in which one player Cor
both players) reaches total Of
100 or more points. Then the diff
ference of the totals is credited
to the winner, plus a bonus Of
100 points for game.
The rules also provide that in
settling up a game each player
is credited with rs points for
each down he has scored. That
does not mean that the bonus
goes to the player who first laid
his hand down, but to the play
err who scored the points after .
down. AS we have seen, the OPP
ponent of the player who goes
down sometimes beats him.
There is some difference OF
practise as to this bonus for
downs. In some circles it Is
omitted, and in others different
amounts are given. In my opin-
ion a bonus of at least 10 points
is necessary, in order to make 1t
worthwhile to 60 down. The
very object of this form of Rum
my is to make the downs more
frequent and the whole game
faster than straight Rummy.
If there is no bonus for going
down, many players will try to
gin" every hand and Of course
without q bonus, "saEd-bagging"
must be resorted to as 1t is often
the only safe course. Sand
bagging" is failure to 60 down
when able-waiting for the OPP
ponent to 60 down and then trap
him with a lower hand.
When the stock is pretty well
exhausted, you must try either
to 60 "gin" or II you do go down
il must be with a very low
count--otherwise your opponent
might trap you and not only
gain the down but the bonus Of
10 points.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-11
GRIPS CONES BACK

He looks like an assistant cashier
who hos given up all hope of becoming
coshier, or perhaps an undistineuish-
ed associate professor in an undistin-
ouished midwestern college. He is
portIy bald. His teeth ore partly bad.
At his best, he might remind you OF
Woodrow Wilson.
He is no Churchill as an orator.
His manner of speaking is oustere and
he does not bother to leoven the bad
news with good glib eenerolites.
Yet Sir Stafford Cripps today has
totally captured the Imagination Of the
English masses. In his opening speech
as war cabinet member and new lead
er of the House of Commons he told
the English that all extrovoeonces -
including popular omusements -
would have to go, naming specifically
such peoples fovortes as racing and
boxing. They loved it.
He is q political misfit His fother,
the first Baron Pormoor. was q prom
inent lawyer. Sir Stafford is q lawyer
and good one, good enough that he
has earned $4,000 year. In 1927
he was appointed kings counsellor, in
1880 solicitor general.
But he is radical" too. For years
oeo the British Socialists expelled
him. He was consortne with left wing
ers, sold they, and pushing too strong
~ for popular front with Russia. He
insisted then that q combination be-
tween democratic England and COM
munistic Russia was q natural alliance
to stop the dynamic political oeeres-
sions Of Hitler and his threatened mill
tory conquests.
He is still q msfit politically But
he is fitting neatly into the fighting
mad Britain of today, the Britain that
is demanding an end to the long series
Of Dunkirks, the Britain that is de-
mondine positive offensive action to
help the Russia that Cripps has been
so right about.
Sir Stofford's one-tme detroctors
are jumping in bed with him. Many
Britons - high and low - believe he
may replace the coIorfuI Churchill.
The Colonel BIimps who called
Singapore impreenobIe said Russia
would fold up under the Nozi ormy's
first pressure. Sir Stafford didn't think
so. He was in Russia as ambassador to
the Kremin when Hitler invaded. He
stoyed in Moscow when the Germans
we're almost within artillery range. He
returned to England otter the Red
Army had hurled back the invader. He
came back as prophet With honor.
He is the man Of today in England
And somehow to the British people -
and to other peopIes-his homeIy foce
is shining symbol Of better days to
come.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-11
MCKINNEY ON BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

The No. 3 position on my ALI
American team for 1912 goes to
Sidney Silodor of Philadelphia.
While he and Mrs. r. c. Young
won exactly the same major VIC
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-11
Gin Rummy
How It's Played

(This is one of a series of ar
ticles on Gin Rummy, the card
craze now sweeping the United
States) "
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-11

young executive who asked for
specialduty. He's such a hypo-
chondriac that, after being draft
ed, he applied for assignment to
a pill box.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-11
HOLDS UP HOLDUP

HOLDS UP HOLDUP
CHICAGO - Miss Anna Row.
alski, Is, reports success at
thwarting robbers by merely
snubbing them. III
when a gunman entered a
cleaning shop where she clerks,
she turned on her heel scorn-
fully and walked to the rear OF
the store. Thinking he had left,
she came out, found him still
there and gave him the same
treatment. Finally, he left.
From a rear door she watched
him enter a car and jotted down
the license number.
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. - A
call went out today for 200 wo-
men volunteers to care for a
four acre victory garden.
1--WE want women who aren't
afraid of work." grimly adver-
tised the sponsors.
One (lD man will be hired to
plow and plant.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-11
Q FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES o
so YEARS AGO TODAY

1897
Frederick A. Keith died Sat-
urday morning, after a sickness
that begun last fall.
o. X. BARLEY becomes secre-
tary and treasurer of the Sheal
Water Construction Co.
Jack Dempsey will spar in
Detroit on the 18th.
A second furnace is being put
into the first ward school. One
was not sufficient.
IS YEARS AGO TODAY
1887
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-11
SHH-H-H-H!

SHH- -H-H!
SALT LAKE CITY - There'll
be no more library dates at the
University of Utah.
The boys and girls are too
noisy when they study (?) to-
gether, observed Librarian l.. H.
Kirkpatrick, assigning men to
the west end, women to the east
wing of the building.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-11
GABLE BACK ON JOB

Clark Gable has resumed
work in Somewhere I'll Find
YOU" which was suspended at
the time of Carole Lombard S
death. Movie rights to Pearl
Bucks Dragon Seed brought
her $105,000 from Metro -
Towns snickering about an
actress who was found huddled
in the basement of an apart
ment house after a recent black
out. She was wearing three
dresses and two fur coats, and
was clutching ten 500 bills and
her jewelry.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-11
. HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

there still seems to be general
notion that a supply of rubber
will pop up miraculously. Traf-
fic is as heavy as ever, and auth
critics are having trouble en-
forcing the Armys edict against
more than 5000 persons as
sembling in this area.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-26
100000 Sought
BY Air Force
Map by Detroit Times staff Artis'

The United States Army air
force Saturday issued a call for
1oo, 900 men aged Is 10 26, inclu-
sive, to apply for training for Off
GERS commissions in fight OF
ground crew service.
Under the new simplified re-
quirements, the air force will
accept applications from married
and single men whether they have
had formal schooling or not. Ac
cepted applicants will receive ST.
per month during training, with
nearly all living expenses paid BY
the government.
In the last year so per cent OF
all aviation cadets received COM
missions as second lieutenants.
Detroiters may apply at 631 OF
1854 Federal Building. Outstate
applicants may report to army re-
Icruiting stations in Bay City
Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Mus
kegon, Flint, Jackson, Lansing
Port Huron, Saginaw and Ira
verse City in Michigan and II
Toledo. O.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-26
Dye u Chutist
Ex-AthIete at Worthwhile
Wins Army Certificate

Pvt. Rex L. Dye, former North
Vile High School football player
and boxer, has just received his
certificate as a qualified PARACHUTE
list at Fort Benning, Ga.
Rex left school last July, wher
he was IS, and enlisted in the
army at Fort Custer. He was
attached to a unit training draft
ees, but finally volunteered fol
training as a parachute trooper
because, as he wrote his father
Rex Dye. Detroit advertising man
things were too dull"
"This II more like It," he
wrote home later. Its fine.
Exciting and interesting"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-26
Mann 10 Head
Michigan VFW'

Joseph w. Mann OF 4327 Outer
drive will become state COM
mander of the Veterans Of Foreign
Wars on May 8 when Alvin c.
IBritton of Battle Creek, present
commander, enters active service
as a major in the infantry.
Main. an employee of the county
auditors, has been senior vice
commander of the state VFW ano
was scheduled TO become com
Imander in June. He is a former
aerial gunner who saw service
overseas during World War ].
Major Britton will report for
active duty in Boston. He saw
service as a corporal in four ma.
ljor engagements in France and
since 1895 has held a reserve
corps commission. He was both
wounded and gased in battle.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-26
Model Wdrship
To Be Launched

The Y. s. S. McKeever. 64-foot
scale model of a destroyer. will be
launched" Wednesday In Campus
Martius, where 1t will serve as q
naval recruiting office and as
headquarters for the $500. 900 Navy
Relief Society drive.
Mrs. William McKeever will
christen the ship. Her son. Will
liam James McKeever Jr., died in
the torpedoing OF the Reuben
James.
The Fire Department Band,
naval officers and city officials
will participate in the launching"
The model will be presented TO
Capt. r. T. Brodhead, armory
commanding officer. by Bruce
Tappan, president Of the Detroit
Boat Club.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-26
Held Dead Body
For 7 Months
Times stan Correspondent

BEULAH, April 25.-Anna Oh
son, So, spinster, could give only
vague reasons Saturday when
police asked her why she preserved
and carefully tended in their Bar
rien County home the body Of her
father, James Olson, SO. who died
two months ago.
"You wouldn't understand"
was her first reply but later she
added: 81 am a spiritualist and
i had to keep my father for six
months and then have the body
cremated."
An autopsy revealed no evidence
of foul play and Coroner Frank j,
Larue of Frankfort said Olson
probably died of senility, cold and
hunger. Outwardly the body was
well preserved.
The situation was discovered
when county investigators sought
to determine why old-age pension
checks mailed 10 Olson had no
been cashed for three months
County officials planned to ask foi
an examination Of the woman's
mental condition.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-26
Equipment Lost

The battle-weary British troops
under Gen. Harold Alexander, hav'
ing lost much of their equipment
and forced to fight night and day
without reinforcement OF men OF
supplies. were said to be battling
Japanese forces which are being
strengthened constantly.
The Allied retreat back on Man
dalay was believed to be accom-.
panied by Chinese efforts to hold
strategic road running north
ward from the Allied eastern flank
to the Mandalay-Lashio Railroad
II the Japanese thrust forward
along this road and cut the vita
railway line, however, the bulk Of
the British and Chinese forces
might be hopelessly entrapped.
Military experts in London be-
lieved the Chinese retreat from
the eastern Liokaw sector Il
Taunggyi, 100 miles southeast o.
Mandalay, was compelled because
of the Allies inability to supply
the Chinese forces north of Lilo
kaw. However. the swiftness OF thu
Japanese pursuit apparently sur
prised the Allied leaders.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-26
DetrOiter Held in Colorado
As Bogus Army Officer

Police Chief I. B. Bruce OF Colo
RADIO Springs said Aitchison would
wear an army cap and blouse when
he left home and discard them
before going to work at a con-
tractors office, where he wore his
officers trousers with sweater.
Aitchison was married preW'
ously and last summer lived with
his wife and two children at 1885
Kipling avenue. Police said ne
had been convicted several years
ago for transporting a stolen cal
from one state to another.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-26
STANLEY III. ROOTS"
Matter of Principal

Gilbert said II Is not a case o
the money involved but one o
principal. and added:
81 deeply resent the impiica-
ton that tho Deisel-Wemmer-
Gilbert Corporation, Of which j
am president, should have In
any way tried TO nle . return
other than the type which has
been used In previous years by
instructions from the city asses
sor's office.
"If the Board Of Review saw
At to change methods of taxa
ton, that Ii perfectly all right
with me, but the implication
left TO the public II that the
entire blame rests on the shout
ders OF our corporation"
A hearing before the Board o
Review has been set for mex
Thursday.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-26

A 29-year-old former Detroit
engineer Saturday was held In the
Colorado Springs, Colo, Jail on a
federal warrant charging imper-
sonation of an army officer and
illegal wearing Of a uniform.
The man is Roy T. Aitchison, q
graduate of the University OF
Michigan, who police say appar-
emily wore the army uniform TO
deceive his bride, who married
him at Cheyenne, Wyo., last De-
cember, believing he was an army
officer.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-26
lSpooks
Mayor Foils Every
Attempt to Learn
New Police Head

That old msanie. Mayor Jeffries,
won't play mental telepathy
games with Joseph Dunninger 20
that the famed mind reader can
find out who is going to b De-
troit's next police commissioners.
'Why should he tell mo who
n going 20 be tho police COM
missioner ?" the mayor asked.
81 already know"
Like a Spook
Like q spook from the ruins OF
the old Temple theater, Dunninger
crept softly into the commissioners
ship picture Saturday to challenge
Mayor Jeffries' statement that he
Is the only man alive who knows
the identity OF the successor to
Police Commissioner Frank ID.
Eaman.
Dunninger, who has been going
around for decades ostensibly
reading other peoples minds.
claimed that il Jeffries would but
he would announce
the name of the new police head.
No Cooperation
Resorting to telegraph instead
CT telepathy TO transmit messages.
the magician wired from New
York:
eff the mayor will cooperate
by concentrating on the name
over the telephone 1 could tele-
pathically name the commits
sioner and announce IL In New
York"
Harassed by such problems as
Sojourner Truth. bus transporta-
ton TO Willow Run and the
budget. Mayor Jeffries might find
a difficult task.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-26
Quake in Helena

HELENA, Mont. April 25
(INS). Helena, the earthquake
capital of the United States" to-
day felt four tremors within a
two-hour period but escaped with
out damage. The city has had
I2,670 earthquakes since 1895.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-26
British, Chinese
Fight Jap Trap
Near MdnddIdy
invaders Of Burma
Now Within IS Miles
of Strategic Metropolis
BY EDWARD w. BEATTIE JR
un,t.a Press staff Correspondent

LONDON. April 25.-British and
Chinese forces on the Burma front
were reported fighting desperate
rear-guard battles less than "a
miles from Mandalay tonight, fore
ing the Japanese 10 pay a heavy
price for their gains and strug'
Cling to escape being trapped:
Falling back steadily. the Brit
ish and Chinese defenders strug'
eled to maintain contact as they
retreated toward Mandalay. mill
tary dispatches disclosed.
An early decision in the fate OF
Burma and its rich oil fields was
expected but no one In authority
in London would speculate whether
Burma's fall will come in days OF
weeks
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-26
NY. Theater Cleaners Strike

NEW YORK, April Is (UP).-
Cleaners and porters in all % legi-
innate theaters In midtown Man.
haitian went on strike today for
wage increases.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-26

"The Wishing WeIl' has a
message In cipher for you. Daily
and SUNDAY Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-26
Made No Effort
IoEseape Tax,
Gilbert Says. I
Declares Cigar Firm
Followed Instructions OF
Assessor in Returns

Samuel T. Gilbert. DSR presi-
dent and president of the DIESEL
Wemmer-G Gilbert Corporation. CT
gar manufacturers. Saturday said
his disputed personal property tax
return had been made in accord.
ance with instructions of city as
SCISSORS and Indignantly denied
implications" that his firm hac
made false tax returns.
The issue was raised before
Common Council. sitting as q
board Of tax review. City Assessor
Kenneth j. McCarren said his de-
partment had uncovered unlisted
tobacco in the hands of the com
pany in sufficient quantities tc
raise the cigar factory's assess
Iment from S167. 400 to $549,690.
Releases Telegram
Reaching Stanley II. Roots, sec
rotary of the firm who filed the
return, on a fishing trip in north
ern Michigan, Gilbert released
telegram from Roots replying e
McCarren's assertion.
nineteen hundred and forty
one city personal property tax
returns were flled tho Same N
previous years as per instruc-
tons from city assessors office,
namely, that tobacco In original
cases or bales In warehouses
would not be considered taxable.
IL there would have been any
question about tobacco In bales
or cases In warehouses being
taxable, the tobacco would have
been left In tho hands Of the
vendors.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-26

I was engaged 10 tutor him. and
for q year and n half 1 pounded
algebra and geometry into his
head" said Smith.
"He was the most democratic
youngster living. He was In
terested I'm every one, and when
he organized q baseball team
down there he had only two or
three sons of officers on his
team. The rest were sons OF
privates and noncOms."
Served With Father
Smith is the eighth generation
of his line TO serve In the army
At Fort Sam Houston he enliste'
as a private and after Genera
went TO West Poin
they were separated until the
met again in the Philippines i
1903. "Tubby" then was a secon
"He was just the same then ;
friendly, democratic and terribly
I'm earnest" observed Smith.
After serving in the Philippine
and in China. Smith was sen
home in 1910 with six bulle
wounds, two shrapnel wounds,
bayonet wound, two bolo cuts an
a touch of malaria. During tn
World War. Smith served as a
instructor with rank of capital
adjutant.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-26
S. Chart

pstroi, and vicinity: Continued warm
Nm gentle winds.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-26
Maj Defenses
Gut on ; Fronts,
Soviet Claims
Counter-Aftseks Led
by Flame Throwers
\ Reported Repulsed
BY HENRY SHAPIRO
rns.es Press stat Correspoaden,

.KUIBYSHEV, Russia, April %
The Red army reported tonight
that German defenses on the north
central and Leningrad fronts had
been penetrated in severe fighting
and that enemy counter-attacks
with flame-throwers had been re-
pulsed on the central front
More than 1000 enemy soldiers
were listed as killed in the scat
tered battles in addition TO heavy
losses" suffered by the Germans
when Soviet artillery and infantry
lam a shed repeated counter-at-
tacks" led by Nazi airplanes and
uame-throwers.
The destruction OF as 10 SC
enemy airplanes was reported.