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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-14
. SO THEY SAY

There have been two-fisted
males in this office and stikes
were never prevented.-Sec-
rotary of Labor Frances Per-
kinS.
crawled off q railroad box
car without dollar in my pock-
ct to enter this long and hon
orable career that has lasted 30
years.-Senator James M. Mead,
New York, defending pensions
for Congress.
Dunkirk opened the battle of
Britain and Singapore has OPEN
the battle for Australia.-Prime
Minister John Curtin Of Aus
tralia.
Our 8 per cent columnists car
~ on their business-as-usual
policy of clipping coupons while
better men are out slipping the
Japs.-Col. r. G. Patterson,
ststs chairman, New York der
Iuno oDNfDD - =. = ..-a
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-14
. HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

fascinating masculine magne-
tiSm.
FOUR-YEAR STYMIE
Bob went on to cite his own
case as an example. In spite of
a variety of dashing, virile but
loveless roles during his first
four years in Hollywood he
made little progress. AS soon as
he began getting the girls, his
fortunes zoomed.
There's no argument about
Cummings eligibility as sigh
multiplication specialist. But
this obvious destiny was delay
ed by the manner of his start in
Hollywood: The young man
from Joplin, Mo-, crashed
Broadway and the movies un-
der an elaborate masquerade as
a brilliant British stage prodigy.
Even after his bluff was drop
ped the idea persisted he was
especially suited to heavy
drama. AS a result, he became
typed as hero's sidekick who
usually gave up his life for his
friend, and who always gave up
the girl. Once in a while he was
permitted TO fade out of a pic
ture hand-in- hand with some
minor-role cutie. but such
events were nothing to super
charge anybody's blood pres
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-14


The time came when Cum
mings decided to play romantic
parts or none at all.
SONIA DID 1T
The turning point came when
he went out to 20th-Fox in 1899
and wooed, won and clinched
with Sonia Henie in Everything
Happens at Night" At Univer-
sal, there wasn't much clinch-
ing in the adolescent Durbin
pictures, but the sentiment was
there and that's what counted.
Subsequently the actor consis-
tently carried out romantic
conquests, and in "Saboteur"
he is enviably accompanied by
Priscilla Lane on long villain
chase.
So here's the proof. Cum
mings now is just about the
busiest leading actor in town.
He's getting top billing, and he
also is getting many, many let
tiers from feminine fans. AS fol-
lows: Dear Bob-I am IS years
old and in high school and con-
sidered quite attractive by GER
tain fellows, only / don't care
much what they think. ! think
you are q wonderful actor and
I see all your pictures and I
would like to know if you like
red hair and hazel eyes which
is what I've got. Please send me
YOUR photo"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-14

WITT and Sam ROSSant OF New
York.
Won Zedtwitz Is perhaps the
worlds outstanding player since
the days of auction. He was rat
cd as one of the outstanding auc-
ton players, and now in con-
tract is still a consistent winner.
In 194l he won the worlds
championship Masters team-of-
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-14
FLASHES
OF
LIFE

COLUMBUS-A fire alarm
sent two pump companies, a
hook -and-ladder truck and an
assistant chief dashing to a west
side home.
They found a pan of scorched
prunes!
II you think the housewife
was embarras ID, consider fire.
man Ralph Lombard, who ar
rived on one pumper.
It was his house.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-14

League a | | o w
each I e a m to
have five men,
bers. 1t was diff
ficult this year
to select the five
members of my
A | l. American
[ G n m. and /
could not make
the sci e C ton
without giving
honorable men,
ton to Waldo
mar Won Zedt-
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-14
HiehIights from
the Latest Books

All of war isn't fought in the
front-line trenches with bomb
ers, tanks and machine guns.
Quietly, most of the time without
much recognition, the intelIi-
gence service works behind the
lines to ferret out essential in
formation that leads to victories
on land and sea.
Capt. John A. Gade, U. S. N.
r., in his Gall My Born Days"
(Scribners: $500, tells a reveal
ing tale Of the work of intelli.
gence officers during World War
I. Gade, a native Norwegian,
adopted the United States in
early life and become one of our
most trusted agents in Norway,
Sweden and Denmark during
that period.
The book outlines the typical
life Of a Norwegian boy, and
follows the career of the writer
through an education that in
volved studies in France, Ger
many. and Harvard In the Unit
ed States. Gade's knowledge Of
languages resulted in his ac-
ceptance in the naval intelli-
gence, and appointment to the
post as naval attache. at Copen:]
hagen.
The intricacies of the allied
spy system during the first
world conflagration are wildly
brought out in the assignment
the officer received to obtain
copies of all official German
wires clearing out of neutral
Copenhagen. The German in
charge of intelligence in Copen-
hagen was, Gade found, beyond
reproach-he didn't drink, lived
quiet life, and his conduct was
beyond question, but he did like
women.
Gade managed to get a pretty
American nurse into the German
offices in Copenhagen and she.
after months of maneuvering
worked herself so into the graccs
Of the colonel in charge that she
was able to deliver to Gade
copies of all German kilograms
clearing Copenhagen.
Gade, also due to his Nor
wegian ancestry, was able to OBJ
tain from Danish maritime Of
ficials, data on German submar-
inc operations that resulted in
the silepcing o. many a U-boat.
Touching is Gade's account of
his part in helping transport
British troops from German con-
centration camps to England at
ter the war. Here's an excerpt:
"As a blind major was being
led ashore, I heard woman's
piercing cry, and then saw q
sweet-looking girl rush forward,
and clasping him in her arms,
give each hollow socket the ten .
derest of kisses. A splendid
young fellow followed, unscar-
red and UNNAMED. He scanned
the crowd of women up and
down. Suddenly dear, little old
lady fluttered toward him.
'Mumsie' I heard, and then he
too, forgetful of the others, knelt
down in front of her and kissed
each one of her hands before
taking her gray head and kiss
ing it,"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-14
. FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES Q
50 YEARS AGO TODAY

50 YEARS AGO TODAY
1892
The cemetery road is q dis
grace to the city of MI. Clemens
and the township of Clinton.
Chas. Lonsby and Fred Brett
meyer have purchased the Van
Landeghcm property near the
chicory mill.
IS YEARS AGO TO-DAY
1887
The Mount Clemens City band
has engaged the rink for an
Easter Monday masquerade. II
will be given in aid Of the uni
form fund.
The new bridge 1t Yrererick b
now pomohba 4 Il 4
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-14

BIHMINCHAM, AIa.-A COZ
lege professor, who writes stor-
les, has had many of them come
back but none quite as fast as
the latest.
He sent it off to New York,
confident il would sell. The next
day he found the story in his
mail oox. He had enclosed the
manuscript in an envelope in
tended for use in returning it, in
case il didn't click.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-14
Americas Card Authority

While it is true that only four
players may participate on a
team of -four, the rules of the
A mer can Contract Bridge
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-14
~ eETER EDsok
Daily Menites Washington

VtSOOSttOvI OOOsO y tOt W kSSO
pie in Washington, including
some Of his closest ossociotes.
have been wondering If he is
tough enough" Nelson is
such q nice, pleasant fellow
and some Of the kibitzino ex-
perts felt whot wos needed was
q two-fisted, hell raising,
triple : tonoued cusser like
Charlie Dawes.
Nelson hos told one subor-
dinote thot he, the man Nell
son, thought he could be plen-
ty tough. { by being tough
was meant stotine his princi-
piles and then sticking to them.
In recent weeks Nelson hos
dored tell congressman where
to head in, has dared tell them
they we're wrong. and to specify
wherein.
II you don't think thot's
something. you should oppreci-
ote thot under tn. unwritten
Washington code, no odminis-
trotive officer ever dores to
soss q congressman for the
simple reason thot Congress
posses the appropriation bills
which give the administrative
agencies their breed, butter
and billions.
Even the President is polite
when he writes notes to Con-
eress. Hence the omozement
and delight thot Boss Nelson
sPeoks up to the capitol hill
billies and gets owoy with it.
In Nelson's first testing Of
congressional blood, his victim
wos none other than the Hon.
Robert A. Toto senator, no
less. from Cincinnati, O. It
happened before the senatorial
committee investigating small
business and q subcommittee
on banking and currency con-
siderine q proposal to set up q
new agency in the War Pro-
duction Boord to help small
business.
TAFT TOLD
Nelson didn't like the bill.
He didn't want Congress set
ting up branches Of the WPB-
branches which would have
to report to Congress and be
responsible to Congress insteod
Of to the chairman Of WPB. In
presenting his arguments, Mel
son wos his usual smooth,
even-tempered, polite. logical,
persuasive self. But when loft
popped off thot the new WPB
had no interest in small bust
ness since the old OPM Con-
troct Distribution Division had
been abolished and its work put
in another division, Nelson
took him oport.
II am in charge Of the War
Production Board, SIR" Nelson
told him in conclusion, "ond !
know what goes Oh.
loft Quieted down.
Nelson's next congressional
victim was Albert }. EneeI Of
Muskeeon, Mich, who is pIen-
ty tough himself and gained
his reputation by becoming q
seIf-oppointed one-mon sub
committee Of the House Mill
tory Affairs Committee to ex-
pose mistakes Of the first con-
Torment construction projects.
EnoeI mode some rather stortl-
ing charges thot Nelson and
Sidney HiIImon had entered
into an agreement not to Place
any Army clothing orders with
the manufacturers of women's
clothes.
Nelson took core Of that one
in q letter in which, among
other things, he sold, IT seems
to me extremely dangerous in
such critical times for q man
holding q position Of public
trust to confuse and misIeod
the public which oIoced that
trust in him You mode an
unworronted accusation :.
without giving me any oppor-
tunity to tell you the focts,
which ! could have laid before
you in five minutes time had |
been asked. And son on.
n cDOkA
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-14
GIANTS CLASH ON BATAAN

SINGAPORE, new yellow hope on Bottom
peninsula.
He is the prototype Of the efficient
Joponese soldier, which means he is
plenty good. He is hard. He is tested
under fire. He learns quickly ana
we'll.
He fought the Chinese guer''os,
learned their tricks and applied them
in the MoIoyon juneles. He went to
Germany and watched the Nozi air
force in action. He returned to reor-
oonize the Japanese dir force along
German lines But in some things, no
toby the use of torpedo bonbers, he
improved on the German model.
He is ST. He has an Adolf Hitler
rustoche. He loves and reveres all
things Prussion. He possionoteIy hates
the United Stotes. He hopes and plans
to destroy US.
He is a tough man in fight.
(. 80
!. In this corner, which is OUR corner:
General Douglas A. Macarthur, de-
fender Of the Philippines and hero Of
Botoon.
Already he has been coIIed the
outstanding soldier Of this war. He too
is tough. He too is tested under fire,
plenty Of it. Obviously he too has learn
ed quickly and we'll.
He fought under Pershing. But he
is not fighting this war like another
World War !.
He sold the Philippines could be
defended. He was called on to make
good before he had time to get ready
But the japanese would testify that he
hos done q job.
He is g. He is hard and hand
some. He is as American as pretty girls
ond corn breed and ice cream. He
wears nobIy the mantle Of Washing
ton, Jackson. Grant, Lee and Pershing.
He is the living proof that some day
and somehow we will win this war.
It goes without soyne that he is
tough man in fight.
So now these two clash on little
piece Of land smaller than any Of our
stotes, q peninsula Of iuneIes and
mountains.
Yomoshito hos perhaps two hum
dred thousand seasoned jap troops.
plenty Of everything, and he can bring
in more.
Macarthur hos probably no more
than thirty thousand Americans and
filipinos. As long as the Jops hold
their surrounding conquests, MocAr-
thur connot receive help. He must de-
pend on his own genius and the cour-
ooe Of the fighting heroes who stand
behind him.
All the odds ore against MocAr-
thur
Yomoshito should win.
BIT wouldn't il be greet to see the
M peet in even battle?
psuy that some doy, some
notion will see to it thot
plos A. Macarthur gets
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-14
THE REASON

THE REASON
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.
IT. M. Whitledge was just me-
dunn mad when he saw q flat
tire on his automobile.
\ But you should have heard
him when he felt inside the cas-
ING for the inner tube. II was
gone.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-14
CENSORED

CENSORED
ADA, Okla.-Sheriff Clyde
Kaiser wishes the newspapers
wouldn't publish the names Of
boottlcggers arrested in liquor
raids i'm dry Pontotoc county.
1T gives them too much ad-
vertising," he complained.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29

and thus protect valuable equipment that
would be burned out or even explode under
such vast electrical currents.
And if you do not believe that too much
current can make wires blow up, look at the
picture on this page of such an explosion
Two electric cables were placed side by
side and nailed up in a wooden frame and
then all tied up with half-inch rope. When
the vast current of a short circuit was passed
through these cables they literally and loudly
exploded.
In the recent demonstration, too, Westing-
house engineers showed their frigid cold room
where they test all kind of electrical equip
ment in temperatures down TO 20 below zero
Hooded engineers, looking like members
of Admiral Byrds Antarctic expedition work
in this super cold to see what happens when
sleet storms freeze and coat insulators with
ice as in the picture on this page
Short circuits under these conditions pro-
duce fire ice" and flashes and sheets of
flame which glow over the icy blue-white
surface. 1t is pretty spectacle but danger
Gus one for power lines. The engineers find
out what happens and why. And then they
think up ways to prevent or correct it.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29

that make generator plants unuscable, sleet
storms that coat wires and insulators in q
frgid layer Of ice and score of other natur-
al enemies have ever plagued the transmits
sion of power
Cleverly and ingeniously and well have the
power supplies of the nation been guarded
against such disasters. Now that war has
come all the safeguards against natural ca
tastrophies can be used TO guard against the
unseen menace of war.
No bombing raid over the Ohio Valley could
lever blackout that area from electrical power
as effectively as the great floods of the Ohio
River back IN 1886 and 1887 Even then
electrical genius was able quickly TO sur
mount the power stoppages of the rising
waters Today five and six years later
still newer inventions add TO this safety.
The ability to trade electric power be-
tween great areas and To prevent disastrous
short circuits in power lines and detect and
spot brcakdowns u the wires of underground
cables or isolated overhead circuits are all
vital things in the nations war effort
1t is this same electrical skill which has
kept England going despite the intensive
bombing raids which IT has suffered.
British experience is that after a heavy
air raid the gas mains and the water pipes
are the things which arc knocked out, and
stay out for some time The bombs may de-
struy power lines, too but they are more cas-
lily replaced Emergency wires can even be
laid on the ground or anywhere If needed
Great feasibility is possible in distribution.
Electricity is the utility that gets through
most quickly after q disaster
And so il viii be in the United States If
air raids or sabotage do strike.
Only in a bombed city like London can
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29
BY ROBERT ID. POTTER,
Science Editor, The American Weekly

u EAST electrical hands that can switch
" and trade power between distant areas
of the nation are the country's safe
guard TO the menace of bombing raids or of
sabotage which might seek to cripple defense
plants and the life of Americas great cities.
If New York, or Boston or San Francisco
or Los Angeles Were 20 suffer an air raid that
would destroy their electric light and power
lines vast inter-couueetng network across
country would bring in the vital power from
regions yet unframed
Everyone hopes that air raids Of the kind
which struck London and Coventry do not
come 10 this country but If they DO the genn
of electrical power viii get through and keep
things going. The same thing would be true
if some super-sabotage plot were somehow
10 cripple AL the electrical generating plants
in a city simultaneously
Such catastrophe may seem inconcciv-
able but after Pearl Harbor who can say.
Nevertheless, even If the enemy struck crlp-
pling blow at Americas electric power II
you'd cause only sEht.-and momrntary
stoppaRe to the nations war effort
From a hundred sources power would
flow into the stricken area and life and the
war would 90 on.
This IS most fortunate for the United
States The nation has found itself 10 be- app
pallingly unpfepafed in many things but it is
not unprepared in plans and working patterns
TO move electric power about the nation as
fasily as a chess player moves pawns over
a chess board.
Z The electric power industry has been fight
ing natural enemies for many years. Light
hing bolts hurting from the skies rising foods
{. IL
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29

Huge circuit breakers often II feet tall
and weighing tons are the silent robot giants
who guard the nations war industries
If trouble starts and short circuits come
with their binding flash. these circuit break
ers act just like the little fuses in your own
home They localize or quarantine" the
trouble that otherwise would destroy all the
machinery Of a whole plant in a few seconds.
Ordinary fuses of no value for this
kind Of disaster. A flaming Of electricity
simply jumps between the two terminals and
the current continues to flow
The recent Westinghouse demonstration
showed just what happens when such arcs
of electricity are created.
Two great 500-ton generators working in
tandem crept up to speed until they were pro-
ducng 100000 kilowatts of power When
this tremendous power Intentionally
placed across an arc gap there was binding
flash, terrific report like a bomb explosion,
and then came waving flaming laundering
arc as bright as the midday sun and hot
enough to melt the hardest steel
Army and Navy experts and electrical pro-
fessors who came to see the test could only
peer at it from a distance through special
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29

blue glasses TO shield their
eyes.
After the circuit had been
shut off the same test was re-
peated with the same amount
OF power passing through
great oil circuit breakers. In
anti-climaX the G lie c r c a
guardian robot gave mechan-
ical kind of grunt and
tanned the flood of power in a
brief fraction of a second.
When this circuit breaker
goes to work in a big plant
il may well be some new mu-
nitions factory--it can repeat
this job again and again and
confine any breakdowns to
only a part of the plant while
the machines in the rest of
the building continue to turn
out the weapons of war that
will win victory.
America hopes and prays
and will do its utmost to see
that great bombing raids do
not strike our shores.
But if that dreaded day
comes you can be sure that
America is electrically pre-
pared. and that il will carry
on its task Of arming the en-
tire world against Hitler and
his japanese hordes.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29

anyone appreciate what electricity means 1t
is used for cooking if the gas mains fail. 1t
is used for heating. 1t is used for light and
for running machines. Just about the only
job it cannot do is to supply drinking water
and food.
Even if no great air raids strike America
the vast networks of inter-connecting power
systems which blanket the nation have an
enormous value to wartime production.
1t is no idle statement to say that the vast
goals of Amerca-those 125,000 planes year,
the $4,000 tanks and so on-wOuld not be pos
sible if the ability to trade electric power was
not already available.
New plants for munitions, for airplanes
or tanks, for the 10000 instruments of war
are sprnging up all over the land. Each
plant obtains its power from electric lines.
Often the growing industrial demands of a
given area nearly exceed the ability to pro-
duce more electricity in that region
Electric power is about like great nation
wide bank. If some depositor has an excess
balance the bank can loan out his money to
some person who wants to borrow it, The
way electric companies trade or loan power
is quite like the way that banks loan each
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29

other money to stop a run on
one bank in an emergency.
But along with its bank
ing system for power, the
electrical industry has devised
elaborate and Ingenious meth
DDS TO safeguard all electrical
equipment on power lines and
in plants and in homes.
Special high voltage testing
laboratories have now been
developed which can hurl man
m d e lightning strokes at
power lines and equipment
that equal $4,000 ordinary
lightning bolts Of nature.
At the Westinghouse Elec-
trio Manufacturing Company
in East Pittsburgh is a testing
lab where 1000, 900 kilowatts
of power can be hurled at cir
cult breakers, transformers
and all other electric appara-
tus TO see how well they stand
up. This is twice the power
which Niagara Falls can de-
vclop. 1t is enough electricity
TO light 2,000,00O.O00 electric
lights of the bright 100 watt
variety.
New and gigantic circuit
breakers have been developed
which will harmlessly handle
this kind of sup r-Jovian
thunderbolt without a falter
Evening star., 1942-05-11
First U.S S. Camp in East
Opens for Migratory Labor

For the first time" Mr.. Wood
said, migratory workers will be
housed in decent. sanitary, comfort
able quarters-a contrast to the
'jungles,' henhouses and abandoned
shacks in which they previously
lived"
Seventeen similar camps are being
completed in New York, New Jersey,
Maryland and Connecticut and ARE
expected to attract migrant man
power" the director added.
Mr.. Wood said earlier that New
Jerseys labor shortage may be an
indication of what lies ahead for
other agricultural areas dependent
on migratory workers Tons of as
paragus-first major crop to be
harvested in the East-have spoiled
in the fields in this region for want
of harvest help.
The migratory camps, mobile, will
move up and down the Eastern sea-
board" as various crops reach har-
vest stage, the F. s. A. said They
were designed to aid the Nation s
food for victory" program by mini
mixing crop losses. A much milder
labor shortage" the F. S. A. added
cost the East more than 10 per
cent of its 1941 crops"