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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-24
o HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD
HOLT STILL STARS

After 26 years as a star, So
year-old Jack Holt has hit a
new peak as the result of his
work in "Thunderbirds." Now
2Oth-Fox wants to keep him, and
four other studios are offering
top roles in super westerns or
pioneer epics. -. Joan Crawford
is serious about becoming a
part-time producer. Metro is
willing, and she'll boss her first
picture late this year.
Funniest anti-Nazi comedy
ever made is THE Wife Takes a
Flyer" The locale is Holland,
with a Dutch family hiding the
identity of a british aviator
(Franchot Tone) by claiming he
is the soon-to- be-divorced hus-
band of the beautiful daughter
Joan BennetD. Aliyr JoSlyn,
as a Gestapo major who wants
the girl, steals the picture ..
Another war story is The Chi
cago Method, IT, prepared for
Clark Gable. In France he IN
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-24
CLEAR THE ROAD

If there really hos been some ques-
ton as to the scope Of General MocAr-
thurs authority, we hope that it has
been completely and finally cleared
up.
1t is important that nothing be per-
mitted to hamper the hero Of Botoon
unnecessarily First, Of course, in order
that he may hoross the JuPs nerci-
lessIy. But Of equal importance, per-
hops, because he has come to person
ify accomplishment Of the impossible.
There is q limit to what even he can
achieve The longer the time before
thot limit con be measured, the greater
the spiritual urge his exomp'e will
give the United Nations toward uIti-
mate victory.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-24
High|ights from
the Latest Books

Americas war with j a p a n
has been in the making for 30
years - ever since our present
enemy revealed her high ambi-
tons in Asia by attacking Ko-
rea in 1910. George f. Taylor,
professor and former Far East
ern correspondent, presents this
thesis in America in the New
Pacific" Macmillan: $1.75), a
fresh analytical look at the U.
S. position in the war in Asia.
Taylor traces the history of
American expansion in Asia as
contrasted with that of Great
Britain or Japan. American
expansion in the Pacific was
conscious, but unintegrated and
implanted" he writes. "Japa-
nese expansion has been con-
scious, integrated and planned. !"
How Americas rise to a Pa
cific power now influences her
position amidst her allieS-Chi-
ma, India, Australia and other
Far East lands - is herein pre-
sented in a political rather than
a military light that we may
better understand the events of
today and tomorrow in this vast
war theater.
Japan attacked America be-
cause she wants to shut out the
West, to close the minds of
Asiatic peoples forever TO the
currents of world thought" be-
gins Taylor. He concludes that
America today has the great
est need and the most tremend-
Gus opportunity in her history
to liberate and modernize the
populations of Asia
Japan's ideas of conquest go
much farther back h a n 30
years according TO II. j. limp
erley, an Australian newspaper
man now an adviser TO the gov
eminent of China In his ia
pan: A World Problem John
Day: sl.75). he goes back to
the beginnings Of this strange
land TO find the root Of the pres
ent evil.
The Japs were eXpansionists
long before Perry opened their
door 10 the western world.
History demonstrates that
megalomaniacal ideas have been
working in the blood of the
japanese, not merely for gen.
erations, but for centuries"
writes Timperley. Obviously
there can be no durable peace
in the Far East. or for that mat
ter in the world at large. until
the power Of the military dig
archy that now runs Japan has
been finally broken"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-24
PATRIOTIC SWALLOW

KOKOMO, Ind jefferson
school is buzzing with the story
of the boy who gulped to help
in the war.
War savings stamps were on
sac and he hadn't the money
to buy any.
Three other boys dared him
to swallow a fishing worm. He
said he would if they'd pay him
a quarter, and they agreed
The happy ending to the story
is that he got a stamp.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-24
BY WILLIAM T.. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

One of the interesting aspects
of tournament bridge is the
postmortem after each session.
when the players null over the
hands and decide how they
should have been bid and play
ed. | was interested in the dis
CuSSion of today's hand, which
turned up in the Goldman Pairs
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-24
mate victory.

The Coost Guard took over q
Brooklyn beach at q cost Of S., OOO,-
600. 1t is understood thot there has
also been some enhancement in the
value Of Manhattan real estate since
the island changed hands for the
equivalent Of S30.-From the Chris
tion Science Monitor.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-24
FROM MANY PRODUCTS

any way you look or II, m
dustrioI alcohol is an ogriCuf-
turoI product. The normal
source is from bIockstrop mo-
losses, which Is what's left Of
cane or corn syrup otter the
sugar is taken out. But the al
cohoI can be made from other
farm products such as Pota-
toes, corn and wheat.
These last two particularly
interest the farm stote seno-
tors because Of the tremen-
dous SURPRISES - 336 million
bushels Of corn and 44O mil
lion bushels Of wheot-corried
over from crops dating clear
back TO 1887. These SURPRISES
ore owned or held as security
for loans advanced TO formers
by the governments Commod-
ity Credit Corporation. Unless
the demand for these grains
goes up, the government can
stand to lose nearly q billion
dollars. 1t hardly seems prof
itobIe, though the individual
deals have unquestionobIy SOW
ed thousands Of formers from
bankruptcy in these post lean
years.
When the increased demand
for alcohol first became oppor-
emit, it was natural TO look for
the supply at the usual and
cheapest sourceS-the rectiti-
ers, or distiIIeries which made
the stuff from bIockstrop mo-
losses. When it became doubt
full that the sugar mills could
supply enough bIockstrop, it
wos proposed that some Of the
sugar itself be reconverted
back TO moIosses, thereby fur
ther cutting the available sup
ply Of sugar available to con-
sumers. At the beginning Of
the year, it was believed that
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-24
TWO STRIKES

KANSAS CITY, Kas. --Borty
striking packing house employ
es walked out today and started
swinging a club-in a baseball
game.
The members of the packing
house workers (CIO) skipped
the usual picketing procedure,
and started lively ball game
across the street in a vacant lot,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-24
TELL-TALE APPLES

CHCAGO-Studying records
of d series Of eight robberics,
police noted the leader of the
gang in each case was an apple
munching Negro.
Watching fruit and grocery
stores in the neighborhood, they
learned Harvey Furlong, %,
bought at least three apples
each day When arrested he
confessed the robberies, Police
Detective Fred Riley said.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-24
hR. LEWIS BRANCHES OUT

unions often ore long ana nlOutn-rllI-
ina compositions - such as, for in
stance, the AmoIeonoted lnternoton-
al Fraternity Of Cookie Cutters,
Douehnut Punchers, and Pretze !
Twisters Of America, if there we're such
an organization. Heretofore the oc-
equations thus associated usually have
possessed some characteristics in COM
mon.
But that was before the carving
out of District so for the United Mine
Workers by John L. Lewis, y. M. w.
president and one-tine leader Of the
Congress Of Industrial Organizations.
Since his retirement from the Presi-
dency of the c. |. O., Mr.. Lewis and
his family apparently have been look
ing around for new worlds to organize.
District SO included theoretically
all the unorgonized labor in industries
which use the by-Products Of coal min
ing or even come into competition
with by-products Of coal. EorIy in its
activities it formed unions Of workers
engaged in the manufacture Of roof
ing, floor wax, tooth paste, disinfect-
ants, corn cures, and cosmetics.
But the Jurisdiction given to Dis
trict SO holds fascinating possibilities.
For example, certain coal and coke
derivatives ore used in the monutoC-
ture Of plastic buttons. Likewise, O de-
sNQtive eFl;r2vo okiTT7roedr rDsDk cb!lGo
cosein is used for the manufacture Of
these and other plostics. Ergo, by the
reasoning Of Mr.. Lewis's organizers,
milk producers are being included in
q branch Of the mine workers union.
A certain inconPotibility appears
in the foct thot here the union is en-
rolling not principally farm employees
but dairy farm owners and operators.
The Dairy Farmers Union, which was
taken over as the nucleus Of orgoniza-
ton in New York Stote, sponsored
three milk strikes within six years.
Possibly certain labor organizers toke
this as establishing bond Of under
standing; but existing farm orgonizo-
tons - and they ore extensive view
the situation as threatening extension
Of methods which have been alien to
agriculture.
Some observers believe that Mr..
Lewis, having helped to split organic
ed labor and then having lost out in
the c. |. O., desires to build O third
realm Of economic and political infIu-
ence. If the u. M. w., under his tute-
Ioge, wishes to pubicize its full con-
stituency in its name, it soon will have
to coll itself something like the Unit
ed Mine, Farm, Chemical, and Cos
metc Workers Of America. Persons
who have tried to link farm and labor
organizations will question whether
even Mr.. Lewis can hold together such
diverse interests.-From the Christian
Science Monitor.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-24
LONG MIGRATION

Cliff swallows fly 1000 miles
out of their way on their mi
grafton flight. They follow the
western shore of the Caribbean
sea in flying from Nova Scotia
to South America.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-24
FLASHES
OF
LIFE
BY the Associated Press
OLE to IklM TIE AXIS

SMETHPORT, Pa. - Albert
Marasco closed his barber shop
and hung this sign in the win
dow:
CLOSED until after the Hitler
funeral"
He listed himself and. five 9TH
er local men as "pallbearers"
The six left today for induction
into the Army.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-24
BELATED REWARD

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, Mo.
Barber Benjamin Unger has
been awared the Purple Heart
decoration for a wound suffered
on the battlefield.
The government notification
left Unger puzzled.
Twenty-fC ur years have pass
ed since he was wounded.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-24
FAIR WARNING

LONG BEACH, Caif.-When
the tires are gone and you're
rumbling along on the rims, re-
member this:
No person. warns the Cali
fornia vehicle code, shall OPP
crate upon highway any We
hicie equipped with any metal
tire in contact with the surface
CT the highway at a speed in
excess of six miles an hour.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-24

PRODUCES gangster tactics in OPP
posing the Germans.
NEW SWEATER BAN
The War Production Board
also doesn't want any new
sweater fads started by the
movies, now that wool is need
ed for other purposes. Para
mount wi retitle the semi
musical, Sweater Girl, made a
year ago but not yet released.
And individual sweater girls
such as Lana Turner will have
to find some other Contour-de-
filming material.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-24
By PETER EDSOk
Monitor-leoder Washington
Covyespondent

WASHINGTON, April "a
You may be hearing more
about another senatorial in
vestigotion Of war; defense and
related activities, with Porticu-
lar emphasis on how they Of
feet formers. The noise viii
come from q subcommittee or
agriculture and forestry.
It's chairman is Guy M, Gil
Iette Of Cherokee, lo., and its
other members, who can make
plenty Of trouble if they have
q mind TO include Senators
Charles L. McNoy Of Salem
Ore, Burton K. Wheeler OF
Butte, Mont, George w. Nor.
ris of McCook, Neb., ond e.
mer Thomas Of Medicine Park.
Okla. For counsel, the commit
tee hos just taken on Paul Had
lick, who hos been battling
special interests in Washing.
ton for years, and knows al.
the tricks.
In q way, this Gillette COM
mittee Investigation might be
considered q slight infringe.
ment on the work Of the Tru-
man committee investigating
national defense. But the Tru-
man committee is concerned
primarily with industrial pro-
duction ond war contracts
while the Gillette committee
is interested solely in looking
otter the interests Of the form
er.
First problem the committee
has tackled is industrial oIco-
hoI, Of which some ITS mil
lion gallons will be needed this
yeor and 365 million gallons
will be needed next year. os
Compared win nEmoI, peace
time consumption Of 100 mil.
lion gallons. This alcohol
known Voriously as grain oIco-
hoI, ethyl alcohol or denoturec
alcoholics needed primarily
for explosives, but it also is
needed for hundreds Of indus
trial uses and in addition has
Iong-ronge PotentioIities as c
motor fuel and as q source OF
synthetic RI b b er. This lost
makes it particularly interest
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-24
BY PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service staff Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD, April "a
The War Department spoke
sharply to movie studios, song
publishers and other companies
which have tried to exploit the
names, pictures or stories of
current war heroes such as Gen.
Douglas Macarthur or Capt.
Colin p. Kelly, Jr.
No doubt a lot of people feel
that such figures already belong
to history and to the democratic
world. And SO they do in news
and faCtual magazine articles
and neWsreels, but you can't use
a hero'S fame to try to sell some
thing. A music publisher may
not p aster Macarthur picture
on the cover of a song. Neither
could Monogram Pictures use
the title, The Little MaCAr-
thurs on movie featuring the
Dead End Kids.
Any such exploitation, warns
the War Department, not only
Is undignified, but is an infringe
ment on the rights of the heroes
or their heirs.
Costume designers in the
studios were quick to feel the
pinch of the WPP S clnthing re-
StriCtions. With thousands of
gowns and dresses mad up, they
could have gone on for years
with any styles they wanted
without wasting new materials.
But since screen costumes great
ly influence fashions, the movies
must set a good example in econ
omy. Wardrobe seamstresses are
shortening skirts, and removing
y eats.
In the forthcoming Thumbs
Up, Paulette Goddard, Dorothy
Lamour and Veronica Lake have
a comedy song called The
Sweater, the Sarong and the
Peek-a-Boo Bang
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-24
SIS YEARS AGO TODAY

Crockett McElroy, of Marine
City, favors government owner
ship of railroads and telegraph
and telephone lines. That is a
growing idea in this glorious
country.
The April crop report refers to
the great lack Of rain all over
the state, but doesn't think
wheat has been seriously injur-
ed thus far.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-24
HEY FELLOWS

PHOENIX - Mayor Reed
Shupe could use one of those
keys to the city he has been Civ
ing away.
A special session Of the City
Commission politely waited for
the chief executive to appear
Thirty minutes later the
phone rang.
Send someone down to let
me in" pleaded the Mayor,
locked out of his own City Hall.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-24
NO PINK ELEPHANTS BUT

CHICAGO For the fourth
time, Leo Brett went to the cir
Gus at the Chicago Stadium,
bought a Is cent whip, cracked
it before a lion cage and shout
ed "Sit up Leo, sit up!" Police
nina James Hickey, told the
judge.
Said Brett in way of explana-
tion," / was drinking. / ways
want TO tame lions and tigers
when | drink"
The jurist fined him S25 for
disorderly conduct.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-24
WHY WE FACE INITIATION

Unless we get hord-DOi'eu Ne'Y
soon, this nation con hardly escape q
spectacular and eventually disastrous
wave Of price imitation.
In the obstroct, that stark stote-
nent will create little argument 6ut
concretely, the issue has been ooscureo
by so many big words that the man IN
the street is confused.
There can be no better time than
now to try to clarity the danger IN
words of few sylIobles, and in figures
thot do not lie.
.g se,n.. order to- ppduce shigs, guns,
tanks, planes, munitions and other
nnoterieI of war we ore having to elImI-
note the manufacture Of many articles
Of civilian use, SO that men, machinery
and raw materials can be used against
the Axis.
To sotisfy President RooseVeIts
war production program, we must d.
vert so much capacity to military Pur-
poses that the remaining plant and
materials will not be able to make more
than S56 billions worth Of civilian sup
plies.
But in the coming fiscal year, CT
viIions will have at leost SllO billions
with which to buy such goods.
Therefore we stort with the picture
of civilians at an auction, all anxious
to buy the commodities offered for
sole, and each with more money than
he con spend
If you've ever been at an auction
where everybody had relatively plenty
of money, and was enthusiastic about
the items offered, you don't need to be
told what will happen.
Unless the setup is modified by
some type Of controls, prices will 81 KY
rocket as each Of us tries to outbid the
others for the commodities on sole.
This tendency will be exaggerated
by the foct that much Of the new
money is in the hands Of men and won1-
en- who haven't been prosperous for SO
long that they have no ideas Of saving.
The quantity Of civilian goods
available will be just about that Of
1893, at the depth Of the depression
The quantity Of money, seeking to pay
for such goods, will be about double
what was available in 1888.
This unbalanced economy hasn't
yet reached its elimination, both be-
couse employment and poyrolIs have
not attained their peaks and because
the shutoff Of most civIion DISPENSE
bles has not become established.
Nevertheless, price initiation OIL
ready has made strides. The cost Of
living generally has risen close to ! 5
per cent since the war began. The cost
Of food has gone up almost 20 per cent
in year. Numerous individual table
items-importont ones, too - have
risen from IS to os much as 65 per cent
in year.
These things ore pretty elemen-
toY. They ore neither mysterious or
complicated. Perhaps they're trite.
But sometimes, when we get oil
tied UP in words and side issues and
whsrefores and whereoses, it is worth
while to strip on important issue Of
sverythin9 except the fundamentals
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-24
. FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .
so YEARS AGO TODAY

The public schools began
work Monday with an attend
ance crowding 700.
At the election held at Grace
church Easter Monday, Messrs.
F. II. Bentley, John Armand, f..
J. Shoemaker, F. II. Vannater
and George Fulton were elect
ed Vestrymen.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-24
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON

II million tons Of sugar would
have to 90 into alcohol. This
has Just been cut down by the
War Production Boord, which
now figures that only some
100000 tons Of sugar will be
needed for alcohol.
UNCOVERED FACTS
This situation simply didn't
make sense to the Senate AZ
ricuIturoI Committee, Portlcu-
IorIy in view Of the foct that
there was all this grain sur
plus from the last five years.
The senators started digging
about q month ago, and they
have uncovered several strange
situations.
Various private interests
and state agricultural college
research stoffs had the idea
that the surplus grain should
be converted to alcohol in
small alcohol plants in the
midwest. Poland and Germany,
which have no petroleum re-
sources Of their own, have de-
veIoped this alcohol trom-Po-
totoes industry to q high de-
gree. About two and u half eoI-
Ions Of alcohol can be produc-
ed from q busheI Of grain, and
about two pounds Of synthetic
rubber can be obtained per
gallon Of synthetic ocohoI.
Unfortunately, oil such pro-
posoIs have had to be turned
down by the War Production
Board, which maintains there
is not enough copper and 9TH
er metals available to build the
alcohol plants. Further, soy
the WPB experts, by using
" h isky distiIIeries, there is
enough rectifier capacity to
make all the alcohol the war
will need
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-04
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT

The three men again Al Hull'S
hotel apartment on November 10.
ON the twentieth the Japanese
brought what must have been
their take II or leave II offer:
I Japan and the United States
would agree not 20 advance
mlltarily i'm any regions Of the
southern Pacific except as Japa-
nese troops might be deployed
in FranCh lndo-Chlna
2 Japan would wit n d aw
troops from lndo-Chlna upon
establishment of peace between
China and Japan
2 The United States and Japan
would cooperate IN obtaining
raw materials fro mthe East
Indies.
4 Commercial relations would
be restored 10 their status prior
10 the freezing orders
3 The United States would
cease 10 aid China
Huh spoke Of the tri-partite
pact and SAID the American people
believed Japan to be chained TO
Adolf Hitler
we can not abrogate the
treaty" kuruSu replied.
ON November - at another
m Getting al Hull's apartment,
kurusu said immediate relief on
trade and oil was necessary
III "A patient needs $1,000 10
effect cure, an offer Of $500
would do him no good" he
added
III the japanese government
Is a. weak aS all that" Hull
Countcred, nothing Is likely 10
save H."
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-04
RECEIVED BY HULL

kmu>u told friends after Pearl
llsrhor that ne was used as the
goat by JapanS millarists He
insisted that ne had no advance
knowledge of the exact plans
which the mlitari>tS had dcvcl-
opcd than he did not know of The
time and place chosen for the
attack
liull received Kuru>u and No
n'Wa ON tho day after KuruSu' :
arrival Hull expressed hope that
Japan and the United States could
pursue policies of wise and far
sighted craftsmanship and CON
tribute 10 a world move toward
peace
KuuI,u said there was feeling
in Japan. since The freezing order.
that f Japan had 10 fight us she
should do u while she stu could.
Hall said Japanese extremists
seemed to be looking for trouble
and that the japanese government
ought TO take the situation by
the collar"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-04
REPLY BY HULL

Regarding Japan'S determine
tjon 10 keep troops in lndo-C China
HUI said
III is pity that Japan can
not do Just few small. peace
full things TO help tide over the
situation"
ON the evening OF November %.
Hull considered the idea of offer
ing the Japanese a q0-day truce
or breathing spell during which
fresh efforts toward peace could
be made.
on tho following day. the his.
toric tWcntN->iNth Hull changed
that plan after consultation viii
President Roosevelt and handed
the japanese a document outlining
a broad bat simple settlement Of
Pacific problems which could b,
worked out during our further
conversations
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-04
low Wa. I'm Pacific Was Forced OEn is by Japan

asked for an appointment with
Hull az p. m Then they asked
a i5-minutc poStponement. The
three actually met at 2:20 p. m.
Japanese bombs were falling on
Pearl Harbor. The attack had
started an hour before. Neither
KuruSu nor Nomura mentioned
the outbreak of hoStilitieS. They
handed Hull a lengthy document,
declaring Japan'S belief that III
is impossible 10 reach an agree
ment through further negotia-
tons"
Hull read the communication in
growing disgust Then he spoke
in words which have become a
part of American history:
'In all my 80 years of public
service I have never seen a dOcu-