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Evening star., 1942-06-21

fuel oil to operate the electrical
plant.
The commission said no street
lights would be lighted after today
and that there was a possibility
traffic lights would have to be cut
of Monday.
The commission said surplus fuel
oil would operate the plant only
seven more days and that the Stand
ard Oil Co. at Port Tampa. which
normally supplies the oil, had sent
Evening star., 1942-06-21
Judge fought Card Game

When Justice Cassels intimated in
the London High Court that he did
not know how to play chemin- de- fer
an attorney drew a pack of cards
from his pocket, showed how it was
done, and the trial of two Greeks
charged with fighting at a card party
proceeded.
Evening star., 1942-06-21
Oil Shortage Threatens
Power Supply in Florida
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ORLANDO, Fla, June 20.-The
Orlando Utilities Commission de-
clared after a special meeting today
that an electrical power emergency
exists here because of a shortage of
Evening star., 1942-06-21
Thomas Circle NV, $50 pm. TO-
day.

Church service and dinner at Met
ropolitan Baptist Church, 1890 am.
today; sightseeing tour Of city, 8
pm. today; games. swimming. 7
pm. today; meet at the YMCA,
1916 Twelfth street NV, for 1ll ac-
tivities.
Dancing. refreshments. Leisure
Lodge for Servicemen, 1889 U street
NV. 7 pm. today.
Evening star., 1942-06-21

word its supply was exhausted and
future deliveries problematical.
H. r. Cluj, vice president and gen.
eral manager Of the Florida Public
Service Co., described the fuel oil
situation as acute with us and with
every power company in the State"
Evening star., 1942-06-21

War bonds are the premiums on
the insurance of national liberty.
Don't let the policy lapse.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-19
BY VILLAIN Z. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

From the table of standard
blind opening leads from 26
possible holdings, as given in
my previous articles, the reader
will see that, with two cXcep-
tions, the lead of an honor. al
ways guarantees that the leader
holds at least the next lower
honor as well.
The first exception is that the
ace-lead usually denies posses
sion of the king. The second ex-
ception is that the king-lead may
show the ace rather than the
queen-but it does not deny the
possibility of the queen or both
the ace and queen.
This sequence principle is car
ried down to the ten. But in
connection with the ten, we once
more meet divergence In the
lead against no trump and
against a suit contract.
In yesterdays article / said
that il used to be q rule to lead
from the top of suit against a
suit contract with a sequence Of
K-Q-3-2, Q-J-3-2, J-10-3-2 or
1882. Present practise in
clines to a low lead from Q-J-3-2
and J-10-3-2, while retaining the
honor lead from the other two
holdings.
But at no trump, the fourth
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-19
High|ights from
the Latest Books

If it's escape literature you
seek, two new novels by foreign
women should fill the bill for a
few nights at least and help most
readers to forget everything ex-
cept the fact that we must AK the
axis.
Daphne Du Maurier comes
through with a thriller in
"Frenchman's Creek" Double
day, Doran: $2.50), with enough
adventure, intrigue and triple
dealing to keep five movie seem
ario writer's scribbling for many
weeks. This English lady's lat
est offering, however, in few II
any instances reaches the heights
she established with "Rebecca."
"Frenchman's Creek" is the
story of a lords lady who ups
and traipses off with a dashing
adventurer-pirate to most OF
us-for a brief whirl at romance
and adventure. This is scarcely
a new situation but always q
popular one for those who read
about it.
Why Lady Dona should flee
from the security Of her lords
house for the insecurity of life
with a freebooter Is the ques-
ton. She was always doing
things on the spur of the mo-
ment and besides she was good
and tired of the loud and inces-
SAINT yapping of the dogs in
King Charles court, and the
highly perfumed dandies who
surrounded him. Which should
be reason enough to 5oin pirNe
crew.
Trina Skariatina's "Tamara"
(Bobbs- Merrill: $2.50) has the
ring of absolute authenticity
whatever its stylistic faults may
be, and reads more like fiction
lied autobiography than a novel.
Full of color and life, heavy
with the pomp of imperial Rus
STA, "Tamara' is study OF man.
ners and a vanished way OF life
rather than the character OF Ia
mara, the princess whose girl
hood and marriage are the emo
tional events around which the
story revolves. Tamara Is more
a symbol of something gone for
ever than she is q woman, but
she is an effective symbol.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-19
/, HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

in a textile plant. AS soon rs
he accumulated little jingling
money, he hot-footed it for
Broadway.
He appeared for a year in
"Babes in Arms" was featur-
ed dancer in "Stars in Your
Eyes," and became the juvenile
lead in a road production of Il
Married an Angel" In all his
experience, though, Daley had
only one encounter with the
drama: he was accepted as an
actor for a Federal Theater
show which already had been
in rehearsal IA months. And
he quit before it opened.
In the audience when II Mar
ried an Angel opened here was
the discerning Billy Grady,
Metros top talent tracker.
Grady went backstage, squinted
at the blue-eyed, smiling hoof-
err, and offered him a role in
Mortal Storm" That didn't
sound like a musical, but Daley
practised a few routines and
showed UP for a test at the
studio. He was put into a
Storm Trooper uniform and
sonp ,,,ov ,,,orkipo IL, tho picfIrA
as fanatic young Nazi.
The trainer and technical ad-
wiser for most fight movies is
an ex-pug named Johnny Indris-
ammo, who also sometimes takes
the role of a fighter who gets
moved down by the hero.
Mostly, though, as he is fond OF
explaining, he teaches "tha
actors to fight an tina fighters
to act"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-19
. MCKINNEY ON BRIDGE

highest is the correct lead from
anything less than three honors
Cor equivalents) at the top of a
holding. Hence the divergence
with holding No. 80.
The lead of the ten itself is
most likely to show an interior
sequence, such as A-l0-9-2
against no trump, K-l0-9-2,
Q-l0-9-2, even A-Q-l0-9 against
no trump. 1t can also be led
from 10-9-8-2.
Note holdings 33 and "a. The
nine or lower card is not led
from an interior sequence. In
each case lead the fourth high
est card. Likewise lead the
fourth-highest from such COM
binations as K-9-8-2, 1882 or
1892. The lead of a nine-spot,
or of any lower card which is
too high to be a fourth-best, is
reserved to show holding Of
less than four cards.
In the table of leads as given
SO far, it was assumed that the
holding was of at least four
cards in length. Before we con-
tinue the table as to short hold
ings, a word of warning is adj
viSable.
The reason for opening from
short holding rather than a
long one may be that the short
suit is a powerful sequence. But
more often the reason is that the
players only long suit has been
bid by an opponent.
The standard leads from short
suits are fixed on the principle
of deceiving the partner as lit
tie as possible. But the expert
enced player sometimes departs
from the table, selecting a card
calculated to deceive the declar-
or in a situation where such de-
ception Is likely TO be worth the
risk of confusing the other de-
fender.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-19
DON'T GAMBLE WITH
NATIONAL HEALTH

Any extensive effort to increase
the number of physicions graduated
each year, as has been proposed IN
some ouorters, will mean q lowering OF
professional standards, and the ult'-
mate effect will be serious both on the
ornv medical service and on service
to the people, the American Medical
Association worms.
In this country, under our system
of private medicine. the people have
been. given q quality of health service
uneouoIed elsewhere Standards for
odnittonce to proctice have been high
and have been steodiIy roised. lhot
is why this country has become the
world center Of medical research and
education - and it is also the reason
for the tremendous improvement in
the general average Of public health
which has taken place in the last few
decodes
Various specific suggestions which
have been made for speeding UP the
production Of doctors seem imProc-
tcoI no less than unwise. 1t hos been
suggested, for instance, that summer
vocotions be eliminated SO that STU
dents could give all Of the year to
study. But thot would mean that the
high proportion Of students who must
finance themselves in whole or part,
would have to give up their work or
find finance elsewhere. 1t has also
been suggested that the tempo Of
troinine be upped - but that would
require slow and difficult reodust-
ments in our medical schools. along
with greet expansion Of teaching and
technical stoffs.
We can't toke chances with this
notions health. "Super-speed" medical
training looks like one of those super
ficioIIy ottroctive ideas which won't
stand analysis.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-19
BY PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service Staff Correspondent


HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 19-1n
the Metro gym, Dan Daley, Jr.,
lay on a rubbing table and re-
Taxed happily under the strenu-
Gus proddings of trainer. He
wore a fragment of bath towel,
q smile and a slightly purple
splotch under his right eye. Bill
Lundigan had given him the
mouse during their morning S
sparring for a picture called
Sunday Punch"
They've been fighting for
days in Metros reproduction of
Madison Square Garden. 1t
takes a lot of fist-slinging to
get 10 minutes of prize fight
film, but the long, blond Mr.
Daley likes it. At lea st he
would rather sock Mr.. Lundigan
than Lana Turner, which is
what he had to do in "Ziefeld
Girl; or Anne Gwynne, whom
he hit in washington Melo-
drama; or Donna Reed, whom
he slugged in Getaway"
RIGHT PUNCHER
Il win the fight, but lose the
girl this time" he said. (Which
makes the picture a draw for
Bill and me. He bats me all
over the ring for about IL
rounds until l finally unlimber
this terrific right I'm supposed
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-19
come, was very distinctly not the type.
Il is reossurine to feel that somebody
in the FBl knew it.
ABOVE ALL ELSE

james TrusIow Adams, historian
and pubIcist in discussing the place OF
the small community bank in the war
effort, hos this to soy: u believe that
the small banks have oreoter part to
pIoy, if possible, than the big ones in
this war;" Offhond, that may not
sound like very important or dro-
matte statement to the ship yord
worker, weIder, merchant, or to the
countless Ioynen who have their own
problems to worry about. Who cares
what happens to the banker - big or
little - in this war! Whether we
reoIze it or not, we all should core q
lot. In the view Of Mr. Adams and mil
lions of others who appreciate what
we are fighting for. the small bank is
one Of the keynotes to maintenance OF
what most Of US like to coll our way Of
life.
As Mr.. Adams expresses it, it is up
to big industry, great manufacturing
plants, the greet financial institutions,
ond other big-scoIe business to win
the miIitory war. 1t is largely UP to the
small bank, the custodian Of privote
savings and the counselor to the own
ers of those savings, millions Of privote
citizens and small enterprises through
out the land, to save in the peoce Of the
future our "Americon dream of op-
Portunity for all"
If all the little guys" in this land
can understand the meaning Of oppor-
tunity for all in terms Of free private
enterprise, we need have no fear for
the future. If they can see that above
oil else they must maintain the right
of q man to manage his own business
in order that other men can get Jobs if
they wish in that business without poy-
ing enforced tribute to big government
or labor rocketeers, then they may rest
assured that their right to vote as free
American citizens will not be impaired.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-19

to have. He's fast, with lotta
flashy footwork, and I'm a sort
of cautious croucher-"
That's funny" l interrupted.
you're really a dancer"
Daley snorted. "Why don't
you remind the studio I'm a
dancer. I've been in more than
20 pictures, and l haven't danced
yet. They put me in musicals
full of dancing, and I'm the
romantic lead who sits around
with his feet in his pocket. Or
else I'm a mean lug who socks
people, but l don't even get to
kick en-
He certainly doesn't look like
a mean lug, or a dancer either.
For that matter, he doesn't
even look like an actor, especial
ly now tina t the studios are
casting leading men for virility
and naturalness instead Of
mere good looks.
WELL EDUCATED
But Dan Daley was a hoofer
in vaudeville, night clubs and
finally musical comedy. Between
engagements, his educated legs
carried him through the motions
of caddying and waiting on Ia
bles. Once he sold shoes
in a big department store in
New York, another time he shut
fled off to Georgia for a career
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-19
. BEHIND THE SCENES
m WASHINGTON .

closes from 1880 to 1897 moy
be wondering what happened
to the five Siomese Who Of
tended the military oeodsmy
in those yeors, by speelol oct Of
Congress. Learning all they
could of our military lore, these
five codets, Prodishdh, Sudos-
no, Probond, kombhu and Su-
riyo, returned to their motive
Siom, now Thoilond, and pre-.
sumobIy entered the Siomese
army.
West Point records have
post-oroduotion information
on Prodishdh alone who, when
Lost heard from, was q second
lieutenant in the Royal SIAM
csc Engineers. With the Jops
now occupying ThoiIond and
the Thoi army fighting the
British on the Burma frontier,
the interesting puzzle is wheth-
er these foreign West Pointers
have taken up arms with or
against the United Stotes' en-
emies.
Impetus for the movement
to have the moving picture in
dustry declared an essential
industry SO as to exempt some
movie personnel from selective
service came from the belief
that people like Jimmy Stewort
and Frank Copro we're q darn
sight more useful to the Amer
icon people if they stoyed in
Hollywood and did their stuff
there, than they would be by
jumping into q uniform and
playing soldier or soilor.
The names Of Stewart and
Copro we're not mentioned in
Brig. Gen Lewis B. Hershey's
orders declaring the movies on
essential industry, but their
coses personoIize the whole is
sue. Jimmy Stewart is now q
lieutenant, doing nothing, oP-
PorentIy, thot any other Iieute-
nont couldn't do. Copro want
ed to be q major to have q
hand in production Of Army
training films. These Army
training films ore important,
but the idea Of Government
Film Co-ordinotor Lowell Mel
lett is that people like Stewort
and Copro have q still more
important job to do in keeping
UP the morale of the American
people by providing good en-
tertoinment.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-19
OIL FOR ALL

Don't get excitd about runnors of
impending oil shortooes.
The focts are these: This country's
oil producing capacity is virtually linn
itIess. Its refining capacity is greater
than all the rest of the world combined
We have, as result, oil for our
Allies and plenty for the civilian popu-
lotion as we'll.
Only one thing can couse short
age Of oil products for civilian con-
sumption-the loss or transfer of oil
tonkers. Thot may make it necessary
to ration oil temporarily in some oreos
But, If that happens, remember that
lock Of oil is not the cause. This coun-
try's oil industry is one Of the most inn
portont and most certain Allies the
United Motions have.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-19
CHALK UP ONE FOR THE FBI

There seems to be some difference
OF opinion about whether the FBI meas
ures up to it's press-notice reputation in
octuol performance.
But foith in the organization begins
70 be restored when one reads Louro In
coils testimony that on three occasions
the offered the FBI her services as q
eounfs r-espionooe oeent, and that
- ~ Fel turned her down.
~ lnooiIs, on onnoteur flyer who
X ~ IN rokino quite pub
D p herself Is an odmirer Of
(tjI; 1tUm before war
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-19
oVERWoRKED BUSINESS BUcABoo

The right Of the chain stores to
operate os any other free enterprise is
q basic issue that cannot be hidden
even by the shadows of war; The war
is being fought to preserve freedom.
The right to own and run your own
business is port Of that freedom. Any
challenge to thot right is of immediate
concern to all of US. The foct thot it
may be the other fellows business
which is being ottoeked, excuses no
one from the obligation Of all citizens
to sustain foir play.
As long as the chain store industry
as whole does not destroy individual
opportunity and undermine other free
enterprise, it hos the right to exist, the
same as any business Poorly managed
chain or Independent stores which lose
personal touch with the community,
will not and should not survive the ut-
mate competitive struggle. Efforts to
destroy the chains through punitive
Gloss toxotion or other means, amounts
to burning the barn to kill few rots.
The chain store industry at the present
time is one of our strongest buIworks
against price nfIotion And there is no
need to worry about the chains put
ting the Independents out of business,
for the simple reason that experience
has shown thot cont happen. There ore
more independents today than there
ever we're before, and their numerical
growth is ereoter than the chains.
1t is time to forget the old folIocy
that as on industry becomes large, it
should automatically be subjected to
ever-ncreosine Legislative attempts to
cripple or destroy it. We need big in
dustry because we ore big notion.
One hundred thirty-miIIion people
connot be fed, clothed and housed
without it. The only alternative to large
free enterprise, as we'll os small free
enterprise, would b government oper-
otion of socioIized enterprise-on al
tentative thot is as obhorrent to those
Of US who believe in free enterprise as
it would be fotol to the entire American
system.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-19
. BARBS

We're asked to curb war Cos
sip that might help the enemy.
To keep 'em rolling and keep
'em flying 1t will help to keep
quiet.
Manager Durocher has forbid
den the Brooklyn Dodgers to
play golf. In that world series
with the Yankees, IL did look rs
II some Of the Dodgers were
practising putting.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-19
STORIES .
. IN STAMPS
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Toll, BIoodshed Mark Z
Soviet Development

soviet OeveIOPment
GROWTH Of the modern Soviet
" Union to q position Of power
among the quarreling family OF
nations, has taken more than ~
years Of toll. defeat. and blood
shed.
The stamp above, issued in 1880,
commentaries the first revolution
in 1905 which solidifed revolu-
tionary elements dissatisfied with
the hopelessly inadequate rule OF
Car Nicholas II and the unpopu-
lar Russo-Japanese War. in which
the unprepared Russians were de-
feated.
Liberal groups banded together
and worked out . petition asking
for "inviolability Of person. free
dom Of conscience, Of speech, OF
press, of association, and equal
rights" The czar, however, made
vague promises-later unkept-to
summon the "worthiest persons"
to aid In the shaping and discuss.
ing Of laws.
On Sunday. Jan. Q, 1905, thou
sands Of workmen. led by a priest,
marched with ikons to the cars
winter palace to speak with their
car" Nicholas was absent and
his picked palace troops fired on
the crowd, killing about . thou
sand.
Later the army ruthlessly dis
pelled other revolutionary move
ments and open re6euioR>Yn
checked until Ol7>
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-19
~ PETER BOSOM
Dolly Monitor Washington

S0BSOUp
WASHINGTON, Feb. le.-
Il was at an offoir offended
by only the highest Officials
in Washington. The highest
United Stotes official present
convsrsed long and earnestly
with Soviet Ambassador Mox-
i'm litvinov. Afterwards, the
A mericon reported, "You
know, ! toksd to him for over
an hour about God, but at the
end he was still uneonvinced."
An explosion which may hit
Office of Civilian Defense
harder than onythine yet may
be an expose on the way local
interests have tried to seize
control Of local defense coun-
ellis and divert the local civil
ion defense effort to selfish
interests. Reports ore Begin
ming to trickle into Woshing-
ton Of strong Couehlinite, Ku
klux Khan, and similar drives
to toke over locoI civilian de-
Tense councils in areas where
these groups have octive or
9onizotions. In other oreos,
the dominant political mo-
chimes freeze out oil opposition
porty members from holding
office as warden and so on.
This is q situotion over
which the Washington OCD
headquarters hos no jurisdic-
ton, authority or control. CT
vilion defense in any commune
ty is ultimately O local prob
lem. National headquarters
Of OCD will. however, probably
get blamed for the dirty work
in any community where q
shirt organization can get con-
troll.
lands MAY SWEEP
CLEAN
1t is going to be q tough job.
but Dean Jones IA. Lands
may in the long run be able
to clean house at OCD heod-
quarters and get rid Of all the
fancy dancing. The technique
by which the foce Of the civil
ion defense effort may be
saved is to transfer all the
boondoeeline activities to on
outfit known in Washington as
ODHWS, which is Paul Nc
Nuts Office Of Defense
Health and Welfare Services.
ODHWS now has programs oP-
erotine under q nutrition diW-
sion, q recreation section, q
family security committee, a
committee Of community or
eonizoton, q health and medi-
cal committee and q Social
Protection section which is
known as the sin section and
deols with controlling COM
mercioIized vice.
As you can see, on existing
organization with programs os
broad as these could readily
obsorb O few more plain and
fancy activities, including even
some of the strange things
that have gone on in OCD. II
omoloomoted in ODHWS, all
the ortificioI morale building
stimuli would be under one
tent, and it would be q circus
to put the ereotest show on
earth out Of business.
sIAMEsE WEST POINTERS
All West Pointers in the
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-19
5 YEARS AGO TODAY

) YEARS AGO TODAf
1887
The Merry Maker Ministries
plan second annual show to be
held in Mount Clemens.
The Monitor Cooking School
was scheduled to begin on March
is.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-19
. FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .
One Year Ago Today
4 nlN

The annual Fathers and Sons
Banquet is held at Richmond.
The St. Mary's High school
cage team is defeated by st.
James, 80 to 10.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-19
so YEARS AGO TODAY


1892
Mrs. Isabel Donaldson, widow
of James Donaldson, died Sun.
day, aged 70 years. She had
lived in the house where she
died As years.
Miss Rose Groesbeck is mar
ried to Mr.. Harry M. Hamilton
at an elegant wedding.
IS YEARS AGO TODAY
1887
The high water drove out the
muskrats and the lake shore
habitant has reaped q rich har.
vest.
The Port Huron Tribune has
put i'm a big new press. The Tri-
bune deserves the good things
Of this life.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-19

sIAMEsE WEST POINTERS
All West Pointers in the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-24
Yu|e Fetes Open
For SerVi(ennen
Times stan Correspondent

BAY'CITY, Dec PA round Of
Christmas entertainment for serv-
icemen spending the holidays here
got under way las night with a
yUle party At the tS6- Club.
Women of the Memorial PreSby-
terrain Church served refreshments
for the gathering 10 which was in
vited all accredited USO hostcsSes.
Coast guardsmcn put on special
acts of their own.
Tomorrow Will sec entertain
meHt at coast guard barracks on
SalZburg avenue. where a special
Christmas dinner Of Michigan tur-
key, cranberry sauce. sage dressing
and pumpkin pie will be served at
noon.
Parents and friends Of the mon
viii be guests at the dinner and
entertained during the afternoon
and evening in the lounge, where a
huge tree-gift of the Rotary Club
has been trimmed.
Numerous entertainments have
been arranged for the Servicemen
tomorrow and during the week
end.