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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-22
PEANUTS?

The familiar, cheerful call Of the
peanut vendor may be heard less fire.
quentIy this season in the ball parks.
It has been discovered that the hum
Bile COOLERS ore q valuable source Of
glycerine for explosives, and the Gov
eminent has asked planters to in
crease their acreage 255 per cent.
At the recent meeting Of the
American Association for the Advance
ment Of Science, the convention was
told peanuts will show the largest in
crease Of any form crop producing oil.
For ten years Argentine fIox and Bro
ziIion castor beans have been the
chief import sources Of this type Of
oil. There will be q great increase in
soybeon acreage this yeor. Cotton
seed, American flax, and sunfIower
seeds will help But they ore not
enough.
The foct is thot shipping is an OBJ
stocle in securing the oils from South
America. When you stand for that
seventh inning stretch and look around
tor the peanut man, it will be COM
pensoton for no peanuts if you re-
member they have gone into powder
for Uncle Sons needs.
From the Christon Science Monitor
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-22
BY PAUL HARRISON
SEA Service Staff Correspondent
HnI VNUnnD Nov % CT


HOLLYWOOD, May 22-Stu-
dio fan mail departments and
individual stars have been send
ing out an estimated weekly to-
tai of 90 900 autographed photos.
But it's all over now, except for
the small surplus stocks Of pic
lures already printed.
Some of the studios have tried
for years to discourage the col
lectors of autographed por-
traits, since there was no profit
involved or any real benefit to
the movie business. In most
cases, players have been forced
to take care of their own fan
mail and photo requests, often
hiring a couple of secretaries and
even renting an office. The cX-
pcnses always far exceeded the
25-cent fees asked to cover cost
and mailing of pictures.
The war has solved the prob
lem without embarrassment to
anyone. The scarcity and prob
able rationing of Photographic
paper and chemicals will make
it impossible to continue.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-22

Jean Hersholt has a new war
job-a series of shortwave
broadcasts in Danish addressed
to the people of conquered Den
mark. And Actor Philip Dorm
has been short-waved TO Hol-
landers and Dutch Colonials. 8.
Two of Movietown's most dis
tinguished directors, William
Wyler and Major Frank Capra,
are working on a short docu-
mentary film dealing with Ne
groeS in the Army.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-22
Q HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

lands-Call Out the Marines.
g.. Signs about town: On a BIZ
cycle at Paramount-"Police
Dept, Please Do Not Take" On
telephone in the music depart
ment at RKO-''Nobody allow
ed to use this phone" On the
doormat at the 2Oth-Fox hos
pital-"Welcome." On a power
conduit at Metro-"20,000 Volts,
Please Do Not Touch"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-22
FUTILITY

The pressure that Hitler put upon
Marshal Petoin, to force Pierre Laval
back upon "unoccuped" France, may
be Judged from the quotation ottribu-
ted to the oeed chief Of stote by an
American correspondent to the London
Daily Telegraph: 81 couldn't bear the
man laval Physically, even,
he was rePuIsive He was selling
France bit by BIT"
THE French people are behind me
and never will let the Germans make
me take Laval back into the govern
nent. NeverW That is how Petoin is
sold to have felt Lost January. But Hit
Ter held the whip hand and Laval came
back. ~
To what avail? Ask Hitler today, as
he hestotes whether to kick Laval out
and install some more effective quisl-
ing-os he wonders whether any traitor
could force France to coIIoborote.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-22
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTONs

form your job Quicker for Vic
tory" Red Cross has sent
a million hypodermic needles to
Soviet Russia. CasheW nut
oil from India can no longer be
used in brake Innings except for
armed services. Stoppage
on manufacture of blackhead
squeezers saves 10000 pounds
of steel. The steel which
used to go into manufacture of
barber shop and beauty shoppe
furniture will make 600 light
tanks. ." Hereafter pencils
the outsides, not the leads-can
be finished only in black, white,
domestic earth colors and blue.
No more yellows.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-22
GARFIELD As GERSHWIN

John Garfield has been chosen
for the George GerShWin role in
the musical built on the life of
the late composer. Another non
musical actor player a musician
is Cesar Romero. He's repre-
scntcd as the pianist in Glenn
Millcr's band in Orchestra
Wife" and before that he banged
the worries in Happy Landing
and in Wife, Husband and
Friend"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-22

High Border country, by
Eric Thane (Duell, Sloan g.
Pearce: So.
Although nothing so far pub
lished has succeeded in giving
the flavor and the fact of the
various states as we'll as the
American Guide Series, books
like Eric Thames High Border
Country" have their definite
place. This is true in spite Of
the fact that books created to
mine our American folkWayS
must necessarily be based in
large part on legend and here
say.
Mr.. Thames book is about
Montana and parts of the Dor
dering states, even Canada. This
is the land of the upper Missouri
River, a district still thinly pop
ulated by eastern standards, and
certainly land of great spaces.
It's legends are therefore west
crn" legends, and its flavor is
horsey, with more than a dash
of the Red man, the miner, and
the roaring, old-time railroader y
in the days before the stream
liner made hotels out of CT
trains.
The author calls the Missouri
River the wild Miz-zou-rye"
sometimes, and tina. seems as
unlikely pronunciation as did
Cal for-nye-a" in Eugene
O'Neills Desire Under the
Elms." But the legends of steam
boat days on the upper Missouri
are no less fabulous for all that.
The traders were just as bold
and just as tricky, too, the pros
pectors just as reckless and i'm
providcnt, the res ervation
agents as venal, the cattle men
as autocratic and the immi-
grants as pitiful.
One of the strange things
about the High Border Country
the way in which its brisk.
past has been carried forward
into the present. Clusters I'M
lucky boldness is translated into
the fool-hardy conduct of the
wheat men in the l920s-those
men who took High Border soil
and worked enormous crops of
81 wheat out of it for a few
years, and then rubbed their
eyes for two reasons: one that
there were no more crops, and
second because Of the dust in
them.
Mr.. Thames Indian stories are
much like Indian stories from
any other corner of the land.
But the railroad yarns have
slightly different flavor, and
steamboating on the Missouri
was always different from the
same job on the Mississippi and
the Ohio. The first named river
has reputation for quick chan
mel changes: the Missouri did
this so fast it was almost like a
long blacksnake whip in ac-
ton.
Mr.. Thane writes neatly, and
has good eye for a good story.
His book is therefore good read
ing.
Every housewife has calling.
That's what gets the kids into
the house at supper time.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-22
. MIND YOUR
MANNERS

Test your knowledge OF cor
rect social usage by answering
the following questions, then
checking against the authori-
tative answers below:
l. If the names of two hos
tcSSeS appear on an invitation,
and you know only one of them,
do you need to reply TO both?
2. Should a dinner invitation
be repaid with a dinner invita-
ton?
3. Is it good manners to an
sWcr a formal invitation inform
ally?
4. May a formal invitation be
given over the telephone?
5. May an invitation to lunch
be given over the telephone?
What would you do if
You are United for a weekend
at a friends home, and cannot
accept
(a) Refuse the invitation,
without giving any reason?
OBJ Give a reason for your
refusal?
Answers
/ No. Only to the hostess you
know.
2. Yes.
3. No.
4. No. If it is given over the
telephone it is an informal invi-
tation.
5. Certainly.
Better What Would You Do"
solution-(b).
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-22
Q FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .
30 YEARS AGO TODAY

Kieffer & Macarthur have pur-
chased a handsome hotel coach.
1t will be run i'm connection with
the hotel and bath house.
The ninth musical Of Miss
Skinner came off last Friday,
and notwithstanding the in
clemency Of the weather, a good
company assembled.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-22
FLASHES
OF
LIFE
FINE FEATHERED FRIEND

KANSAS CITY - Watching
a robin hop around his yard, w.
F. Ditch wondered what the OBJ
ject on its tail could be.
He shared the bird. The OBJ
ject turned out to be an un-
used two-cent stamp.
He released the bird and used
the stamp to mail his gas bill
payment.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-22
SIS YEARS AGO TODAY
1887

Traugott PoSner is building a
one story brick addition TO his
saloon on Front street. 1t will
be used as a kind of bowery.
New Haven veterans have
named their Grand Army post
after the late Col. John Stock
on. An honor well deserved.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-22
BY WILLIAM L. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

Today's hand points out the
ACCESSIBILITY Of giving every
hand careful consideration. Har-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-22
SHORT-LIVED LUCK

GENEVA, III. Leonard
Jaeger and Arnold Grade had
good fishing luck, but
No sooner had they pulled in
a two and a half pound bass
from the Fox river when po-
liceman Harry Nelson arrested
them for fishing bass out of sea-
son.
Jaeger and Grade, however,
believe the fishing was almost
worth the SIS fine they had to
pay.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-22
THE ROOTS OF INITIATION

little WOrt appeared OF "'e S'oS " wv
fourth finger on our right hand. Since
it was not painful or particularly OBJ
trusive, the wort was neglected. 0rodu'-
Iy it grew.
In time, tiny warts began to appear
on other fingers which came into con-
tact with the original excrescenoe. Dis
turbed, at lost, we ottocked the newer
qrowths and kept them under CONTROL.
But the original turor-the seed wort
-thrived on, and bred new offspring.
Eventually we we're shaken out OF
the nonono attitude, obtained some
ocetc ocid and killed off the seed wort
Thenceforword we had no more trouble.
All of which comes to mind When
ever we stop to think about the way
Washington is trying to control that in
fIotion which New Deal and Old Deal
both dread and say that we must stop
at any cost
BY imposing q ceiling upon prices
which retailers can charge legally for
most commodities, we ore trying to
stop the Jacks beonstoik climb Of the
price level.
The prices which competitive retoiI
outlets normally charge are fixed gen.
eroIIy by the costs Of the goods they
sell. Those costs ore governed largely by
raw material and labor charges.
But the cost Of labor and the price
of farm Products-two major elements
which go to make up the cost of those
things still flowing to retailers shelves
ARE not to be fixed
The retailer in March was selling
commodities which he purchased before
March, ct prices lower than those for
which he could repIensh his stock in
March.
When Leon Henderson fixed retail
prices at March level, he sentenced the
retailer to very substantial cut in the
morkup from which his expenses and
profit have to come.
Neither retailer nor wholesaler hos
any reason to expect that even this re-
duced morkup margin can be main
toined, for Washington insists upon per-
hitting establishments in wages, which
enter into the cost Of goods.
Mr.. Henderson has sold he is not
going to stand for price rises to correct
such iniustces, which if not eliminated
may sound the death kneII Of American
merchandising except in the case of the
biggest, most efficiently operated
stores.
Instead, the administration would
prefer to subsidize those who otherwise
would be ruined by politicians refusal
to offend Labor" by fixing wage
levels.
AS the sItuotion now stands, we ore
going to permit the seed warts OF inflo-
ton to flourish, but by proclamation
forbid them to be communicable. As
new tunors defy Mr.. Henderson and do
oppeor, we shoI cover them with bits
OF cohesive tope in the form of subsidies
and deny they exist.
~ Con Q tunor be poIIyonnoed owoyo
Our Wort couldn't.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-22
FOR MEN ONLY

CHICAGO - The United
5 TIA ties Savings and Loan
Leagues committee on war pol
icieS and activities recommends
staging leave-your-w wheat
home national convention this
fall to tighten the burden on
heavily taxed transportation ia
cilities.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-22
ROUGH ROMANCE

When Maureen O'Hara first
was cast opposite Tyrone Power
in The Black Swan she con-
fided happily that he always had
been her faVorite romantic act
or. Their scenes in the produc-
ton, though, are somtching less
than amorous. In the first reel
she's knocked down by her fav-
orite romantic actor. In the
second, he picks her up and drops
her on the floor. In the third
reel she kisses him, but he bites
her on the cheek, and in the
fifth he kicks her-hard. In the
sixth reel, which hasn't been
filmed yet, she throws a rock
at him. At home evenings, Miss
O'Hara is practising throwing
rocks.
Jerry Bergen says heaven
must be a place where, when
an actor talks about himself, 9TH
er actors listen. Topical dou-
blc-billing: Song of the Is
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-22
. LITERARY
GU|DEPOST .
BY JOHN SELBY

High Border Country" by
Eric Thane (Duell, Sloan &
Pearce: So.
Evening star., 1942-03-01

Every day group of expert flavor detectives"
work in the Royal kitchen. testing every
single batch of Royal Gelatin. preparing it as
you'd prepare it at home And these experts are
even more critical than your family! So keen is
their taste that even the slightest lerdown in
favor can never get by! Nor can any rubbery or
heavy" texture These Kitchen Tests guarantee
that Royal Gelatin will be shimmery tender as
well as delectable in taste when you serve it.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-11
Chinese Take
Grim Toll Of
Jap Invaders

LONDON, June II :, (P) -
japanese losses in China up to
the end of 1871 exceeded 2,OOO.-
600 killed and wounded, K. c.
George Yeh, director of the Chi
nese ministry of information in
London, declared today.
Yeh said he was unable TO dis
close Chinese casualties, but ad-
ded grimly:
Il would be lying if | we're to
say we have suffered smaller
losses than our enemy"
He said the Chinese were i'm
mobilizing more than 100000
Japanese troops, including the
forces in both China and Man
churia.
China, Yeh declared, has more
than 300 divisions under arps,
with 100000 soldiers in the
field and 100000 more men
behind the lines.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-11
John Gieizen
Passes Away
Long Illness
Proves fotol

Mr.. John A. Gietzen of 11151
Eleven mile road, Center Line,
passed away at the University
Hospital, Ann Arbor, on We'd
nesday, June 10, 1912, at the
age Of So years. Although he
had been i'll for more than a
month and confined to the hos
pital for the past 10 days, death
came Unexpectedly.
Mr.. Gietzen was born in Ham
tramck Township, the son Of the
late Mr.. and Mrs. Ferdinand
GietZen.
He is survived by his wife,
Mary De Four Gietzen; five
daughters, Mrs. Marie Kutchey,
Margaret, Sylvia, Geraldine and
Agnes; two sons, Robert and
John Jr. Also surviving are
three sisters, Miss Mary Gietzen,
Mrs. Catherine Hoste and Mrs.
Rose Van Overbeke; six broth
ers, Nicholas, Anthony, Joseph,
Michael, Aloysius and Law
renee. Services will be conduct
ed from the family home on
Saturday, June l3 at $50 and
1000 o'clock at st. Clements
Church, Center Line. Reverend
Mayer officiating. Burial will
be at the Mt. Olivet Cemetery
where Mr.. Gietzen had been en-
ployed for the past 16 years.
He was a veteran of the First
World War. E. A. SchWarzkoff,
funeral director, of Utica, is in
charge Of arrangements.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-11
New Haven

Ninety-five guests were in at
tendance at the annual Alumni
banquet Saturday evening at ST.
Johns Lutheran church. Off
GERS Of the Alumni Association
elected for the coming year are
president, John Foss; vice presi-
dent, Bert T. Will; secretary and
treasurer, Mrs. Edward FAX and
publicity chairman, Marvin Dun
can.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Gillett
spent last week with friends at
Battle Creek and Kalamazoo.
Sunday guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ralph Harm were Mr.. and Mrs.
Erwin Seifferlein and Marvin
Harm of East Detroit.
Supper and overnight guests
recently of Mrs. Clyde Jones
were the Misses Victoria Frank,
Helen Grant, Dorothy Verman-
der and Bertha Moser of Mount
Clemens.
Buddy KendriCk, who is
stationed at Fort Custer, spent
Wednesday with relatives here.
Charles Kaltenbach and
Lewis Broughton attended an
FBI meeting in Detroit Friday
afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Bull of
Deckerville spent the week end
with Mr.. and Mrs. w. c. Bull.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Kuchen-
meister, Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert
Schulz and Mr.. and Mrs. Nor
man Johnson attended the silver
wedding anniversary of Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Miller in Mount Glenn
ems. Saturday evening.
Mrs. Frank Morris will leave
Friday for a visit with relatives
in Kentucky.
Callers Sunday at the home
of Earl K. Hoster were Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward Clark of Detroit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Kisner
were entertained Sunday at the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Ull-
rich at Armada.
Sunday callers at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. +. Barck were
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Farris and
family of Detroit.
Saturday evening dinner
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. John l..
Tesch were Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Hennig of Detroit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Jones
and daughter of Detroit were
Saturday visitors at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. r. j. Jones.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Harm
were Mount Clemens business
callers Monday.
Miss Gloria Bublitz was host
esses at a miscellaneous shower
Wednesday evening at her home
on Clark street, complimenting
Mrs. Harold De Grow, recent
bride. Fifty-fifty bunco furnish
cd the evenings diversion with
prizes awarded to Miss Marion
Babe, Mrs. Albert Barck and
Mrs. William Kendrick. Mrs.
William Will received the trav-
cling prize.
The annual Children's Day
program and Baptism of child
rem will be held Sunday morning
at the Congregational church at
10 O clock.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-11
Gallant Marines Prove Heroes i'm Fighting at Midwa
Unbelievable Devotion
to Duty is an Example
Army Filters Salute Marines for
Couroge, Toushness ond Goodness

off as nothing compared to the
deeds of the United States Ma
rines.
The unbelievable devotion Of
the marine, both on the ground
and In the air to their duty was
an example to us ALL" said Col.
Walter c. Sweeney, Jr., COM
mander of the flying fortress
squadron. The marines are
even better than their press re-
leases. America should be
proud of them"
PRAISE MARINES
Every army flier who saw
the Marines at Midway had
similar praise for their GOODNESS,
toughness, courage and willing,
ness to sacrifice their own
lives. Only a portion of the
story of what the Marines did
can yet be told.
One army pilot who led
loW-level attack on a japanese
carrier through devastating anti
aircraft fire and fighter oppoSi-
ton said:
Il can't get over those young
marine pilots, many of them
kids just out of flying school.
"One marine pilot couldn't get
his wheels retracted after the
takeoff, so he was unable TO
fight. Instead of flying away
from the battle area he stayed
at 48 feet above the water. He
let zero fighter get on his tail,
then led it over our anti-aircraft
which shot it down. Then he
did the Same stunt with another
Jap.
WERE ROASTING
Before the fight started we
were Boosting with marine dive
bomber pilots-it was just beer
talk-over what we would do
to the Japs. They told us: wen
cripple every one of their car
rierS and you sink them AS
it turned out we hit the Japs
first. But when those marine
pilots came back they told us
they had kept their word and
hit every single carrier they had
sighted
Another army pilot said:
when we landed after bomb
ing the Jap fleet the morning of
June 4 we found Midway had
been attacked. Many of the
marines were dead but the sur
vivors were the coolest and most
determined bunch Of men | ever
saw.
"Gunners were sitting around
patting their guns, picking their
teeth, glazing skyWard annd say
ing to one another: i wish those
would come back soon
I'VE expected them back at
any moment and were hurrying
to get off again. We knew if We
made it we would be okay. But
those marines weren't going any
where. 1t was their job to stick
and fight, if necessary to the
death. There's never been any,
thing the like"
Army men also we're deeply
impressed by the bravery of
navy tliers in small patrol
craft. Flying far to the sea, the
patrol planes located enemy
ships and stayed over them for
many hours transmitting posi-
tional reports to their bases.
Some of those patrol planes did
Mt get home.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-11
BY CLARK LEE

GENERAL EMMONS HEAD
QUARTERS, TERRITORY OF
HAWAII, June l1-(P1-Army
aviators performed uncounted
feats Of gallantry and bravery in
the battle of Midway but the
boys who did them shrug them
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-15
Congress TO Get
Proposal Asking
.GasRationDe|ay
so-Bsy PosipohsmeRf
Sought BY Wlekef,ham
10 Establish Needs

WASHINGTON, Nov. IA tUP).
Rep. Victor Wickersharr I'D OF
Oklahoma said today that he will
Introduce a Joint resolution in Con-
cress calling for a 90-day post
p6hetient Of gasoline rationifg,
schedulef 10 Become nationwide
December ! In states where sup
plies are. adequate for the pres
eht and future
Wiekefsham said he believed a
90-day postpoheneft in such areas
would establish clearly that gaSo-
iifie rationing was not needed
there and should not be instituted
lat al.
He said he would introduce The
postponeineht resolution on Mon
day and was considering whether
or not TO Introduce another, at the
same time, calling for abandon
fnefit of ratiofiitig plans altogether
In OIL states. This resolution Is al
ready drawn, he said.
Enforced gasoline rationing IN
stich areas. lie added, will deter
the war effort
Rep. August II. Andersen ri
of Minnesota proposed in a letter
to War Production Chief Donald
p. Nelson that gasoline rationing
in the Middle West be postponed
until after the holidays.
He told Nelson that the farm
states no longer possess driving
horses and buggies TO carry on in
lieu OF automobiles and therefore
could not revert at once to- an
earlier kind OF transportation 10
travel the long distances involved
in business transactions in that
,,.,t ~ tnn S1,,,ets,,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-15
Principles Practiced

Thus, years before the principles
OF the Atlantic Charter were
enuneiated. America was already
applying those principles IN actual
practice and was proving that the
Filipinos, or any other people,
given a fair chance, can success
fully arrive at democratic self
government.
If the japanese had not sub
jected the Philippines to ordeal by
fire In 1911 and 1912. the seventh
anniversary of the Philippine com
inonwealth on November IS would
be no more than a patriotic OBJ
servance OF interest chiefly to the
people Of my country.
But with the coming Of this
global war. In which the Filipinos
have undergone the terrible trial
OF battle, death. invasion and occu-
patton by the enemy, this ami
versary becomes an occasion of
Significance. not only to Fillpinos
but also to fredericksburg men
everywhere throughout the world.