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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-23
Graz e would only join the
WAACS"

Cradle would only join the
WAACS.'
Someone asked Major Sam
Triffy, Army technical expert,
to explain dead reckoning be-
tween scenes of Air Force"
Well" welled the M o r,
cts like this. You reckon where
you're headed, and then if you
don't make it you're dead"
Looks like Deanna Dur
bins new picture, Forever
Yours" is appropriately titled.
1t went into production June Is
and they're still shooting :.
Lou Lusty, for many years an
RKO producer, has Joined the
Marine Corps as a private.
BOLES WILL SING
John Boles, who won his ini-
tial screen triumphs as sing
err, will sing again on the screen
for the first time in several
years in M-G-M's Private Miss
Jones" He'll duet "Daybreak"
with Kathryn Grayson.
Movietown neWsreel: Virginia
Gilmore taking off her shoes be-
fore doing a radio broadcast.
1T gives me bettef grip on
the floor" she explains {.
Ann Sheridan looking at a fan
magazine and pausing to study
a photograph of her estranged
hubby, George Brent Lou
Costello proving he has serious
side - counting heads at his
Hollywood night club.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-23
WIDE OPEN
PHILADELPHIA SPACES

PHILADELPHIA - The meat
situation being what it is the
city of Philadelphia may 60 in
to the ranchin' business.
The city director of supplies
asked city council to appropriate
$4,000 to buy $50 head of Texas
cattle.
They could roam the ranges
on the city's model farm, direc-
tor Charles Grakelow said, and
be slaughtered during any meat
shortage emergencies at munich
pal institutions.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-23
MULTIPLE ASSISTANCE

LOS ANGELES-EVeryone in
the family got an assist on the
triple play which landed Edward
Buckley Trimble. Jr.. in the
Navy.
His mother, Helen, took over
his job on the assembly line at
the Vultee aircraft plant.
Pa Trimble, a disabled veter-
an of the First World War, held
up his hand when the question
was asked: Who'll do the house.
work."
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-23
ALL STEAMED UP

MILWAUKEE,. w. MCGEE
muttered that it's q fine thing
when man can't take an inno-
cent ride without being followed
by fire trucks.
laundering along in a 1924
Stanley Steamer, MCGEE was
halted by a fire truck summoned
by q startled householder. Then
he continued. but had to stop to
stoke up the boiler.
Before he got under way, two
engine companies. two trucks.
and q district chief had been
summoned.
MCGEE went home.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-23
. MIND YOUR
MANNERS
Test your knowledge Of
correct social usage by an
swering the following ques-
tons, then checking against
the authoritative answers


tons, then checking against
the authoritative answers
below:
/ If you are invited to be a
weekend guest, should you take
a dog along?
2. If you and your husband
are invited to dinner, should
you assume the invitation in
cludes your children?
3. If your hostess tells you to
come to breakfast in your dress
ing gown. is it all right to do so?
4. II her hostess Is dressed,
should woman house guest sit
around in a house coat?
5. If her hostess always wears
a dress when she goes in town,
should a woman house guest
sit around in a house coat?
5. II her hostess always wears
a dress when she goes in town.
should a woman house guest
wear Stacks or shorts when she
goes with her?
What would you do if
You are a girl entertaining a
date, and the front door bell
rings
(a) Ask your date to answer
the door?
bO Call to your mother that
there is someone at the
door?
(c) Ask the young man to ex-
cuse you and go to the
door yourself?
Answers
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-23
WYMAN FOR BENNETT

Jane w y m n will replace
Constance Bennett in the femi-
nine lead of Forty Whacks. y
Miss Bennett walked out of the
role because she said it didn' t
suit her talents.
Gertrude Niesen is e iv i n g
singing lessons to Eddie Can
tors youngest daughter, Janet
Arthur Murray picked up
a soldier the other day and
they got to talking about Clark
Cables enlistment. Now said
the soldier wistfully, "If Betty
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-23
UNTIRING FRIENDSHIP

ALBUQUERQUE, N. M
Mrs. William j. Mayo, widow of
the founder of the Mayo clinic at
Rochester, Mimi, put friend
ship to q test.
She was on her way to her
winter home in Tucson, Ariz.,
when q tire blew out.
DR.. w. r. Lovelace, an old
friend of the Mayos, gave her his
spare so that she could continue.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-23

The japanese succeeded in landing troop REIN
agreements and supplies on GuodoIeonol Island not.
Withstondne the heroic efforts Of "a little band Of
ssven Wildcat fighters which went UP oeonst the
BIG enemy force" Of 80 japanese fighters, and de-
5troyed nine Of them.
The quotation is from q press association story
&ossd on Navy Department eornmunique issued in
Washington
We know little Of higher mtory strategy, to be
III ,Hs do think that this news account tells q
otcueots story than do the polIyonnoish stote.
showing percentages Of increase in produc.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-23
ON HOLLYWOOD

cessive villain roles, Hollywood
finally is reforming John Mil
jan in 'Bombardier. He'll play
an army chaplain in the RKO
picture.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-23
McKE1NY ON
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM z. MCKINNEY
America Card Authority

At the Chenango Valley Tour
nament at Norwich, N. Y, the
committee started their cam
paign for the fall session of the
national championships, to be
held at Syracuse the week be-
ginning Nov. 80.
The winners of the team of
four event at Norwich were
Harold Keller, Maurice Ireland
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-23
SIMPLIFIED HUNTING

WHEELER, o r E. - Silly
goose" Is right!
Franklin Knight was fishing
in a rowboat when a wild goose
flew directly at him. He grab
bed IL barehanded.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-23

Two enthusiastic New York youngsters
threw almost new bicycles into the sorop collection
pile. This perfect example Of what Uncle Sam
does not want.
To beat Hitler we need every pound Of meta,
rubber ETC., which is not usobe. But we cannon If
ford to throw away seNoeobIe items wh.-o re-.
pIoce would require the use Of factory capacity and
monpower
Naturally, such things shouldn't be left lying
around if we cont them ourselves But don't put
them with the scrop If you do not know anybody who
needs them, and who would have to buy them other
wise. how about one Of the many charitable agencies
thot would gladly see that they are used to odvont-
ooe?
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-23
NOBODY PLUGGED FOR JOBS

No nominations are made in
the Tolan report for any of these
top jobs. 1t might mean that
someone like Justice Byrnes
would be the logical man for the
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-23
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

of Wasingtons great machinery to end
giant machinery has just been
proposed by the select committee nves-
tqatina national migration and the proposal worth
couple of passing thoughts
Prefang with the blunt warning the war can be lost IN
the committee headed by Congressman John H.
Toan Of Oakland right town in citing the made
Of existing telling should be done
correct them.
The simplest explanation of what the Tolan committee pro-
noses can be given in form of a typed diagram:
Office of Army
Mobilization Navy
Office Office Of
otW., Economic Office of War
Supply Sterilization Manpower
Now this being of the simplest reorganiza
on Washington where the favorite in
administration OF
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-23
PSYCHOLOGY OF VICTORY

PSYCHOLOGY OF VICTORY
Mr. Eric A. Johnston, who is president Of the
Chamber of Commerce Of the United Stotes and also
q member Of the Economic Sterilization Board. OBJ
iects to assertions that we are losing the war.
He wants us~to forget all that and spreod the
~psychoIooy of victory" He thinks thot recent stote-
nnents by notonol leaders show negative attitude
which tends poison the hopes Of workers and Of the
general public.
We think Mr.. Johnston is dangerously wrong.
We connot comprehend how any mar, Of Mr. john
stons intelligence in his preferred position to know
the focts could deliberately stick his head into the
sand and bssfuIIy ignore all that is going on around
him.
Assistant Navy Secretary Ralph A. Bard told q
Labor convention recently:
I'VE are losing the war, period We damn we'll
mean it, period"
Mr. Bard is right - correct in his focts and
sound in his approach to public psychology Mr.
Johnston is wrong on both counts.
The attitude urging by Mr.. Johnston is prn-
cpoI reason why I'VE are losing the war, perod."
For years we potted ourselves on the backs, as
Mr. Johnston wants US to keep on doing, because
I'VE the ereoest industrial nation earth, pos
sessing more Of the resources the technical skill and
thon all our enemies combined We ore the people
who brought this oge Of mechanics to its present high
pitch, and mechanical war is dish."
9 Sure, we're great nation. We admit it,
But German and Japan possessed the Tanks, the
pones, the guns the trained soldiers, the bIueprns
for nodernized warfare, while we still we're pipe
dreaming about how smart we we're and how we
could get those things il we should need them.
We couldn't fight l94l AZ war with the weop-
ons we believe we con produce by l943 or l944 so
had to let Japan toke most Of the Pacific from US,
and even plant her forces in the Aleutions.
We we're so over confident that weren't
reody Therefore we are losing this war, PERIOD And
we damn we'll mean it, period.
We can win, if that is what Mr.. Johnston has
in mind. We can win if we recognize we are losing,
and if we will to win than we will to retain our
creature comforts. social eons Gloss hotreds,
our political Postons-our individual lives, even.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-19

Ask Aid
Of Church

a joint forum on liquor prob
lens by church and tavern rep
resentatives was proposed today
by John Getynia. Woodward ave-
iue bar owner and indirectly a
target of religious leaders attack
on the spread of drinking estab-
liShments.
Lashing out at what he termed
the marrow minded attitudes" OF
church leaders, Getyina, who owns
and operates the Euclid Cocktail
Lounge, 1861 Woodward avenue,
said:
'The sale OF intoxicating bev-
erages Is legal In this country.
II the church groups think il Is
an evil then they should do all
in their power to regulate ii.
But they don't want TO do this.
They refuse to discuss anything
but prohibition. Such an attitude
Is unfair to the thousands of
good and outstanding citizens of
this country who are I'm the
liquor business"
BLASTS COMMISSION
The Rev. Herbert Beecher Hud.
nut of the Woodward Avenue
Presbyterian Church has blasted
the liquor commission for granting
a license to Getyina, whose estab,
lishment is exactly 408 feet from
the church. The city ordinance re.
quires that such places be at leas'
300 feet away from school OF
church.
MIR. Hudnut has called this a
place of evil" said Getyina. at
certainty Is not. Why some of
the members of Mr.. Hudnut's
church patronize my place, and
! am sure they don't consider it
a place of evil"
Getyina pointed out that az
though the state law permits tn,
opening of bars at II noon on Sun
day that he never opens his door,
until p. m. or later in Difference
to churchgoers who might objec
TO passing the open doors of bal
while on their way from services
PROTESTS TIME ELEMENT
Getyina said that he had mott
flied the Rev. Mr.. Hudnut OF
March 8 that he intended to oper
the establishment.
He claimed that it was not unit
April IS, when all arrangement
for occupying the place had beel
completed, that the church grou]
had protested.
The Rev. Mr.. Hudnut endorse
Getyina's suggestion for a meetin
of church groups and bar owner
land declared that he thought
Inherited consideration.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-19
M'Kdy Jury
TO Get
Case on Friday
Defense Pictures
Client as U. S. Victim
Pinned With Crime

Defense Attorney William Henry
Gallagher, who charged that the
government singled out Frank d.
Mckay and then found a crime.
today planned 10 continue his con-
GLIDING arguments in the liquor
graft conspiracy trial of Mckay
and seven other defendants.
Gallagher depicted his client
Mckay, as a victim upon whom
the government pinned the charge
of using the mails to defraud. He
ATTEMPTED TO show that the indict-
ments were handed down on a
political basis after Mckay haC
supported Frank Fitzgerald, who
defeated Frank Murphy for gov.
Iernor.
The indictments were not signed
Gallagher declared, by District
Attorney John c. Lehr. but by
lawyers in Chicago and Washing
ton who were sent here to gel
Mckay"
Gallagher quoted II. F. Plaxico
F'BI agent. as testifying that he
was sent to Detroit to investigate
the Michigan liquor situation.
"ViOlatiOn of state liquor law
Is not a federal Offense," the
lawyer asserted. THE charge of
using the mails to defraud was
trumped up to further the In
dictment."
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-19
Big Jap Plane Attack i.
On MOresby RepuIsed
BY DON CASWELL
United Press stan Correspondent

MELBOURNE, May 19,-Allied
bombing planes have hit and prob
ably sunk two japanese troop
transports at Koepang Timor
Island. $50 miles northwest of
Australia, and have beaten the
biggest japanese plane force ever
to attack Port Moresby, Allied
base in New Guinea, General Mac
Arthur announced today.
Attacking enemy shipping in
Koepang harbor. the American
and Australian plane crews scored
direct hits on both transports.
A total of 81 enemy planes. at
tackled the Port Moresby area
yesterday. seeking to relieve pres
sure of Allied plane attacks on
Japanese bases and possibly to
soften the zone for direct attack.
Thirty-four heavy b o m b er S,
escorted by Is Zero fighters. tried
TO attack the Port Moresby air
Idrome.
Cannon-fring American fighter
planes went up against them and
shot down one heavy bomber and
damaged three. Three Zero fight
ers also were damaged. One
Allied plane is missing.
Only a few enemy planes got
through the fighter screen and
they did negligible damage 10 the
airdrome runways.
A United Press dispatch from
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-19

an Allied base said Is assorted
japanese bombers. prob a b ly
escorted by eight to 10 fighters
had been driven back over another
Port Moresby area.
1t was the fifty-second and most
determined enemy raid on Port
Moresby.
The number of planes engaged
evidently confirmed belief that the
Japanese had received strong rein
forcements at their Lac and
Rabaul bases In the northeastern
invasion area.
The planes used at least zoe
Daisy Cutter acknowledgements
ton bombs intended TO kill ground
personnel-but nearly all fell in
the jungle.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-19
.CoughIin Quiz
On Tax Put0ff
Photo by Times STAFF Photograph,

A hearing set for tomorrow to
determine whether FIR. Charles E.
Coughlin's Radio League of the
Little Flower must pay unemploy-
ment pay roll tax from the year
1896 has been indefinitely post
poned, it was announced today by
Henry Glicman, referee for the
Michigan Unemployment Compen'
sation Commission.
Glicman said he was awaiting
results of a case before the fed
eral internal revenue bureau tc
determine if the league is liable to
federal unemployment compensa-
ton taxes. A decision in the fed.
eral case would have a bearing on
the state case, he said
The league has paid the $3,-
161.03 demanded by the state
commission, pending continuation
of the appeal.
Attorneys for the league had
sought TO withdraw an appeal oil
the order demanding they pay the
tax. but the petition was denied
by Glicman last week.
The league contends that as q
charitable organization" il should
not be assessed.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-19
u. s. Ahead
Producing More Planes
Than Nazis. Italy

WASHINGTON, May 10 (UP).
A War Production Board spokes-
man said today that. for several
American aircraft faeto-
ries have turned out more airplanes
than the highest estimates of Ger
man and Italian production made
by newspaper correspondents re-
turning from Axis countries.
United Press staff correspon-
dents Frederick Oechsner and
Reynolds Packard in Lisbon,
Portugal, estimated the German
Italian monthly plane production
now is more than 100 and less
than $500.
WPB officials warned, however,
that this was no time for over
confidence. They pointed out that
the greater the flow of materials
to the battlefields now the sooner
the war will be over.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-19
Late Suit Costs
Detroit $4,000

The Supreme Court ruled today
that the city of Detroit cannot
recover approximately $50, 900
from the defunct Central West
Casualty Company because the
city's suit was not started tn
time.
The Casualty company had guar
anteed the city's deposits of $500.
600 in the Union Guardian Bank,
which failed. An agreement was
made between the city and the de-
funct company to start all suits
to recover within a three-year
period. The period elapsed before
the city filed its suit and the
Wayne circuit court ruled that
the agreement was valid. The
ruling was upheld today.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-19

1.-THE Wishing weIl' has q
message In cipher for you. Daily
and Sunday Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-19
Men on Batddn Used
GirdIe SIinqshots

SAN FRANCISCO. May 19 tUP).
Hungry soldiers fighting for their
lives on Bataan amused themselves
during idle moments by making
from girdles obtained
from a grounded boat, Stewart
Carson, %, said today. Carson
escaped from Bataan on a tugboat
and returned 10 the United States
by way of Australia.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-19
Hawaii Horrors
Told by Women

Two housewives are back in De-
troit today telling about the hor-
rors of war they experienced in
Hawaii.
They are Mrs. Walter A.
O'Rourke. wife OF a warrant OFF,
Ger In the coast guard. and Mrs.
Russell 4. Carroll, whose husband
is lieutenant in the coast guard
Both were living In Manoa
Valley. near Honolulu, at the time
OF the surprise Jap raid on Pearl
Harbor on December z.
ONLY DAMAGE THEY DID
oddly enough." said Mrs.
Carroll. "the only damage they
did near us was the burning of
n Japanese settlement two miles
away"
They agreed that the most in.
teresting experience was the way
the rigid price control, applied Z
few days after the raid. haC
helped the lot of the housewife.
AT first the prices OF every
thing room d." said Mrs.
O'Rourke. Chicken cost 81 a
pound, lettuce IS cents a head
and eggs SO cents a dozen. But
IL didn't take long for prices to
get back TO normal after the
price control went into effect"
Because of shipping difficulties,
they could get no meat for 10
days after the raid. they said. and
everything was Acknowledgements,
food - except one thing,
sugar.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-19
Canada Cheeks
Union Report Of
Idle Machines
Supply Head Howe
Talks in Windsor:
Investigation Due

c. D. Howe, Canadian minister
of munitions and supplies, talked
in Windsor today.
But he didn't talk about the sub
ject in connection with which De-
troit knows him best-his opposi-
ton TO Detroit-New York truck
crossing Canada in bond,
subject of several months feuding
between him and Harvey j. Camp
bell, head of the Detroit Board OF
Commerce.
In Windsor to confer with Go
and other labor leaders on produc-
ton charges, Howe promised he
would send investigators to check
union charges that many machines
are idle in Windsor plants.
DELIVERS PLEDGE
Howe promised:
"Any valuable machine tool
not used 16 hours q day will be
taken over to some plant where
IL can be used more fully"
The gasoline shortage Is one
thing Campbell has asserted would
be relieved il Detroit industries
were permitted to ship goods by
truck across Canada, cutting off
many miles around the lakes.
Campbell also contends that the
shorter route would make a vast
savings in time on shipments OF
war materials of value both to
Canada and the United States.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-19
Parade, Street Dance
To Aid War Bond Sale

The Strathmoor Business Asso-
citation had the permission of COM
mon council 10 conduct a parade
and street dance June IL TO pro-
mote the sales of defense bonds
and stamps.
The parade will be held on
Grand River avenue between Le-
sure and St Marys avenues.
Schoolcraft highway between Free
land and Ardmore avenues will be
roped off for the street dance.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-19
HIT TEST BLACKoUT

Both had some criticism for the
test blackout they witnessed in a
west coast city. where they landed
from an evacuee ship.
'Why, in Hawaii, the lights
are shot out II they're left burn
ing. You can't take eight min
utes to get BACKED out there
because you just don't have that
much Time" said Mrs. O'Rourke.
Both say they want TO return
TO Hawaii and be with their hus-
bands as soon as the navy will
give permission.
Mrs. O'Rourke Is staying with
her sister. Mrs. Carl Young 1879
Terry avenue, while Mrs. Carroll
will continue to her home in
Sault Ste Marie.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-19
Price Officials
Fight Confusion
In Retail Stores
shopkeepers Ask Help
In Interpreting Rules
Of Ceiling Order

OPA officials today were work.
ing 10 dispel confusion resulting
from the inability of many be-
wildered Detroit shopkeepers to
interpret correctly the order fix
ing a ceiling on retail prices.
Many of the questions, OPA Of
ficials admit, are new TO them and
must be settled by administration
rulings on the price ceiling order
which went into effect yesterday.
Under the order. retailers may
charge no more for any one article
or act of service than the highest
price received for the same thing
in March.
CONSUMERS APATHETIC
A constant stream of visitors
and phone calls to the -6PA Of
fees in the Penobscot Building
sought answers TO such problems
as: How can fix price ceiling
when / did not handle the line in
March? ?" or Il kept no records Of
my March sales" or How do i
post my price list -
Meanwhile, consumers remained
apathetic either because they have
not had opportunity TO study the
effects of the order or were I'M
impressed because they found little
difference between the highest
March price and the price as OF
last week.
The Detroit OPA office said il
received but one complaint from a
consumer yesterday, that from a
woman who charged a dress had
been marked up ST. The Retail
Merchants Association at the same
time was urging patience on the
part OF the buying public.
SEE LITTLE DIFFICULTY
Federal government officials
said they fail 10 foresee' any wide
spread failures among the smallest
Shopkeepers because of the order.
One added that he thought the i'm
pending curtailment of transporta-
ton would help the small neigh
borhood retailer.
OPA attorneys said they antici-
pated little serious difficulties in
having the wholesaler and man.
ufacturer absorb share Of the
"loss" occasioned by the mark
down TO the ceiling. One outstate
retailer was quoted as saying he
had already received rebates in
three instances.
Evening star., 1942-11-28
Points for Parents

BY EDYTH THOMAS WALLACE.
When beforehand planning Uill
Save sensitive ddolescent en-
barrdssment, 1Dhy not tru it?