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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-15
BY PETER EDISON

Maybe it's about time to drag
out in the open this subject of
the u. S. Army wanting to take
over and run things.
The charges are that some of
the Army brass hats, now in the
saddle with practically unlimit-
ed money to spend, have sud-
denly grown conscious of their
power and weary of the way
politicians have run things since
the last war, and are ambitious
to achieve a military dictator
ship which would lead to fas-
cism. Specifically, it is charged
that:
l. The Army wants to run
industry by obtaining control of
civilian war production, now
vested in the War Production
Board.
2. The Army wanted to run
manpower by having the Man
power Commission placed under
the Selective Service system.
3. The Army wants to run the
civilian economy, even to the
extent of taking over determi-
nation of what items of civilian
supply should be cut and how
much, including control over
rationing.
4. The Army has set up
school to train military govern
ors for occupied countries, and
these military governors will be
switched to governing the Unit
ed States when the right time
comes.
5. Army censorship is threat
to American freedom of speech
6. The Army is taking over
and subsidMing all the big col
leges and universities, destroy
ing the American system of free
education.
7. Army insistence on suSpen-
sion of the Sherman antitrust
law in certain war production
industries makes possible a re-
turn of big business monopoly.
8. Army's system of concen-
trating such a large percentage
of it's contracts with big bust
ness is a trend toward elimina-
ton of small business from the
American scene.
8. Army insistence on exemp-
ton from price ceilings for GER
tain items of food and equip
ment endangers the entire ma
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-15
BIG GALS NEEDED

No. 2 headache was rounding
up a group of 6-foot show girls.
Despite all the big talk by Cali
fornia chambers of commerce,
they don't grow EN- all that big
out here. Stromberg finally
rounded up six of them, headed
by Elinor Troy, the gal who
once almost became Mrs. Tom
my Manville.
Strombergs aversion to type
casting gives a young Irishman,
Edie O'Shea, the break of his
life as Miss Stanwyck's leading
man. There's a swell story be-
hind this, too. On opening
night of Eve of st. Mark" on
Broadway a few weeks ago,
Stromberg was in the audience.
O'Shea was in the cast, playing
Private Mulveroy, an American
artilleryman on Bataan.
At the end of the first act,
Stromberg wrote O'Shea a note
asking his interest in pictures.
At the end of the second act he
was backstage to meet the actor
and after the performance he
wrote out temporary contract
on the back of postcard.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-15
BY ERSKINE JOHNSON
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

NEA Service staff Correspondent
Hollywood's Ball of Fire
is still rollin'.
We mean Barbara Stanwyck,
of course, and today she's put
ting even more fire into bur-
lesque entertainer named Gypsy
pardon me, Dixie-in the film
version of Gypsy Rose Lees RI
bald book, THE G-String Muir
ders." Gypsy-pardon me, Dixie
was a strip teaser in the book
but in the movie she's singer.
Censorship, you know.
It starts with a typical bur-
lesque production number. A
line of "a chorus girls. A parade
of 6-foot show girls in filmy CO.'S
tunes.
And then Barbara steps into
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-15
COOPERATION

After reporters Wayne Barr
and Dick Larsh of the Philadel-
phia Record received notices to
report for Army induction, a
sheet of copy paper bearing two
typewriter notes went up on
the Records bulletin board. The
notes said
anyone wishing to contrib
ute to going-away fund for
Dick Larsh, please see me
Wayne Barr"
Anyone wishing to contrib
ute to going-away fund for
Wayne Barr, please see me -
Dick Larsh."
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-15
. SO THEY SAY

Our operations in North Afri-
ca should enable us to bring the
weight of the war home to the
fascist state in a manner not
hitherto dreamed of by its guilty
leaders.
Winston Churchill.
We have now reached the
time when victory can be taken
from us only by misunderstand-
ing and quarreling among our
selves. - Vice President Henry
Wallace.
The day will surely come
when we shall reach that broad
err and brighter light which.
when once it has shone. will
never be quenched. - Winston
Churchill.
America is discovering the
Bible again. 1t isn't just flare
up causer by war. but is the re-
suit of a real spiritual renais-
sance which has been coming on
for some time but has been
quickened by the war. - DR..
Robert Taylor of the American
Bible Society.
The report that Mussolini is
seriously i'll may merely mean
that he is just sick Of it all.
Man has a right to be nervous
when he proposes. Proposing is
the cause of marriages.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-15
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

tional structure of maximum
price regulation.
10. Army now has the largest
appropriation of any department
OF the government and because
of that fact it is taking over
many of the programs which
other departments of the gov
eminent would like to operate if
they had the Army's manpower
and money.
IL. Army doesn't need rs to
10 million men and its insist
ence on so large a force is the
main cause of the present man.
power shortage.
~. When this war Is over and
the 10 million men come home,
they will form such a powerful
minority group that they will
dominate the country. Anything
which would foster the crea-
ton of the military clique to-
day would therefore be danger
Gus as il might lead to a mill
tary coup d'etat after the war is
over.
BALONEY!
This list could probably be ex-
tended, but it's long enough as
it is 1t is also a lot of hogwash.
Where do charges such as
these come from? When you run
most of them down you will find
that they originate with other
bureaus of the federal govern
ment in Washington. All of
these bureaus have something to
lose if the Army should usurp
some of their prerogatives.
1t is noticeable that thus far
only the anti-Army side of the
story has been told. Other gov
eminent agencies with well or
ganized publicity setups n d
with civilian officials willing if
not eager to talk have presented
their point of view forcefully
and often. That side has been
getting all the play.
The War Department, though
it has Washington public rela-
tions staff of over 100 commits
stoned officers, still has a lot of
generals who won't talk and in
many cases cannot even be ap-
preached. War Department pub
lie relations policy can best be
expressed by the sentence, IF
we don't do anything about this,
it will soon all blow over"
But the buildup which the
civilian agencies of the govern
ment are obtaining for their side
of the argument, through such
incidents as the recent WPB-
Army, scrap over who should be
boss of plane production, may
in the long run be of lasting
hurt to the military effort. 1t
has been alarmed General Mar
shall, who mentioned it in a re-
cent New York speech before
the National Association of Man
ufacturers.
ON THE OTHER HAND
There rs PROFESSIONALLY an
Army side to this argument. 1t
might be summarized something
like this:
The Army has its hands full
fighting the war and it has
neither the time nor the ambi-
ton to run the civilian economy.
All but a few hundred thou
sand of the 10 million men who
make up the armed services will
come from civilian life and will
return TO civilian life after the
war is over. They can never be
organized or voted as a military
party.
The few hundred profession
al soldier officers who might be
assumed to form the nucleus for
military clique do not have
the power or the ability to put
over any wartime dictatorship
even if they wanted to.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-15
PERMs OF STOREKEEPING

SWEETSBURG, Que. : All
Frank Archambault did was
move some fountain pens from
one side of his store to the other,
but now he must answer to a
charge of smuggling.
It seems that one half the
store is in Vermont and the
other half in Quebec and when
Archambault moved the pens
the Royal Canadian mounted po-
lice said he violated customs
regulations.
They seized the pens.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-15

for the screen of Gypsy Rose
Lees story of backstage bur-
lesque life and the mysterious
murders of two runway queens.
A discreet screen play, minus
strip teasing, by James Gum
readily was approved by the
censors. The cast was the big
headache.
Stromberg had an idea, and as
result there's only one big
name La Stanwyck - in the
cast. The producers idea was
to avoid Hollywood type casting
and. brother, he certainly dood
it.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-15
. FLASHES
OF
LIFE .
YIJLETIDE TECHNIQUE

EVANSVILLE, Ind. - Maybe
the idea occurred to him because
it's getting so close to Christmas
but a burglar borrowed Santa
Claus technique to get into a
barbecue establishments here.
The man climbed down the
chimney.
He got away by the same
route, taking with him Sl8, two
shoulders of meat and 25 pounds
of ribs.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-15
NOT so SIMPLE

OAKLAND, Calif.-A simple
trick to fix the washing ma
chine, thought Hilmber Mel
burg, as he stuck his finger
down the clogged drain.
But he couldn't get the finger
out.
Washing machine, Melburg,
finger and all were taken to a
fire station in an ambulance,
and after an hour and a half's
work with a hacksaw Melburg
was freed.
But the washing machine is
a wreck.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-15
BITTER LESSON

SPOKANE - Sixteen-month-
old James Bro has learned that
Mondays are washdays and for
the rest of his life he'd prefer
to skip 'em.
While Mrs. Bro was washing
young James too an unwit-
messed but hearty pull at a bot
tie of bleaching fluid.
His stomach was given a thor
ough washing at the emergency
hospital.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-15
BLITZKREIG

SAN FRANCISCO - S o m e
goats are masters of the frontal
assault and aren't confined to
attacks from the rear. PATROL
man Lawrence O'Conneil says
so.
He was sent to aid IL defense
workers who complained that
every time they tried to get on
a street car Mrs. George Der
names goat would bow his neck
and charge. BY the time they'd
get up, the street car would be
gone. .-
O'Connell took charge -
strobe firmly toward the animal.
It knocked him down twice be-
fore Mrs. Dermanes came along
and got her goat.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-15
McKENNY ON
BRIDGE =
BY WILLIAM e. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

This Is the second of a series
of hands given to me by Harry
j. Fishbein, who is associated
with the Mayfair Bridge Club in
New York. / think they are six
of the outstanding rubber bridge
hands of the year. Today's hand
is worthy of being selected as q
World Bridge Olympic hand.
OF course East's bid of one
heart was a psychic, and was
shown up when North doubled
two hearts and South bid three
hearts. The opening lead of the
jack of clubs was pretty clearly
marked as a singleton. Declarer
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-15
FOOD SHORTAGE

FOOD SHORTAGE
The better the war goes for the United Nations
during the coming year, the harder it will be TOR
American housewives to feed their families as we have
become accustomed to being fed.
Resignation Of Herbert Lehman as governor OF
New York to set up machinery for administering tor
elan relief helps to bring home the imnonence Of
crisis in food supply.
Already we are rotioned on certain imported items
which we cannot spare shipping to transport, and we
foce restrictions on the Of meats and dairy pro-
ducts, of which until recently there we're troublesome
SURPRISES.
The moment we begin Iiberotine areas now occu-
pied by the oxis we shall provide their residents with
food Thot is one difference between the Nozis who
boast that every conquered person will stove to death
before the first German does, and human beings who
share what there is SO long as it losts
The subjugoted peoples Of Europe have been lit
orally starving for long time now. The majority
still existing undernourshed that in order to avert
the depopuIotion Of the continent we shall have to
dig deep into depicting lorder.
Therefore we civilians must reconcile ourselves
to the focts that there is relief in sight from pres
emit Shortages that new ones will be added from time
to time and thot the more victorious our ormes, the
heavier will be our food shortages.
To relieve this burden-indeed, to make it bear
able at oll--t is necessary for American farmers,
stockroisers and doiymen to produce the ottoinobe
maximum Of all foodstuffs from now on.
Decmoted by enlistment, the droft and the lure
Of hiehwoge industry, unable to obtain labor
saving machinery, the food producers must step up
their programs beyond even the 1912 record-smosh-
ing peaks.
The new farm problem is not the farmers head
ache. The farmer could ease along, doing quite we'll
for himself with prices as they are.
He could, but he won't. He will work all out to
provide the food needed by his country, its allies and
the furnished peoples Of occupied nations.
In this gigantic tosk he is entitled to all possible
assistance from the government and from each in
dividuoI.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-15
SLOW BUT SURE

SIDELL, Ill. - Gas rationing
doesn't prevent Mrs. Fannie
Parker, II, from making her
usual trips around town.
She rides in cart pulled by
her nephew's team of goats.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-15
INSIDE TRACK

TOPEKA, Kas. - David F.
Hale figures he got a good start
into the Army
His notice of induction was
written and mailed to him by his
mother, Mrs. Myrtle Hale. His
wife is secretary TO 1t. Col. r. F.
Montgomery, assistant state Sc
lective service director.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-15
. IN HOLLYWOOD

blue spotlight. But instead OF
peeling off what little clothes
she's wearing, she goes into a
sort of vocal strip tease:
Come and give me heat,
cause l like my music sweet.
al want to feel my impulse
beat.
Take it off the E-string and
play it on the G-string."
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-15
RATIoNING HEADACHE

AS rotionine spreods, one of the most difficult
phases will be control restaurant eating and bor
drinking.
Inevitably there will be in the u S as in the United
Kingdom and in Canada, an argument that it is un-
foir to roton foods for home consumption and then
permit those who Oxford it to get portions
by eotno out.
England learned in World War ! that if tickets
we're defponded for restaurant meals, the housewife
could not psapore boonced meals for the family out
ofswhot wos left; and oso thot foods prepored in
quantities used efficiently Therefore Britain now
ohcourooes eotin9 in restouronts-"of the ration.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-15
UNAPPREcIATED SEX

Monpower Commissioner Paul McNutt calls wo-
men the "unopprecoted SEX" He is speaking, need
less to say Of industrys reluctance to hire for
plant work. The British, says MoNutt have demon
stroted that ore capable Of doing four out Of
five war Jobs, some better than men,
In two years American industry hos octupled its
use of womonpower from less than half million
to about four million. McNutt predicts thot before
the end Of next year the figure will reach six million.
Was the small number of women working in fac
tories evidence thot they the "unopPrecioted
SEX? Or did it suggest that American men oppreci-
ate their womenfoIk SO much, they like, when they
can, to keep them at homer
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-15
THERE'S A STORY

Words and music by ace tune
smith Harry Akst, composer OF
"Dinah" and "Am l Blue" and
Sammy Calm. And all in the
best of taste, of course, under
the production guidance of Hunt
Stromberg.
There's quite a story behind
Producer Strombergs purchase
Evening star., 1942-08-16

to the provisions of the Act.
liimony Jail. Army life has its own hazards with
ont allowing divorced woman the weapon OF
.'an1onv Jail" If the poor beleaguered private can't
keep up his generous civilian payments IT'S Just too
bad for the divorce he left behind.
4 Mans Castle However, the doughboys wife
gets special consideration If she can't meet the rent
the landlord had better not try to put her out rght
awav He probably won't, because there IS penalty
attached if he knowingly evicts her, or any others
denendent on a soldier, from house or apartment
renting at $50 or less without getting court PERMISSION
Even he does go to court the judge probably won't
make her move out for three months
While the boys fighting tor US back nome the
law guards them against many possible mlsortures
and solves many of their problems - even TO the
extent of having court appoint an attorney to pro-
tect their interests and property.
Ernest Mortenson
Y.
Evening star., 1942-08-16

FIXTURES the part of boys IN the service 1t puts up
some strong barriers for mortgages who want to take
advantage of the fellows by forecosng, and for tax
authorities who grab the real estate for taxes
in arrears: If tax mortgage proceedings are begun
the boy in uniform (or friend acting for HIM can
apply to the court to hold things up until he has far
chance to be heard Where the Relief Act gives them
authority judges are inclined to glvethefeows break
Notes. Co-Signers. Even though you are just
civilian. if you are "co-naker' or endorser Of a
Evening star., 1942-08-16
DEcIsIoN:

InstaIln,ent Contracts. Regardless OF what the
contract was between them, Spcer must now sue
Jarvis and the result Of the judgment of the court
will probably be: If SplCer wants his trombone back
he must either wait until Jarvis is out OF the Army or
refund the money Jarvis has already paid him. The
same applies whether Jarvis enlisted or was drafted.
One variation of this provision of the Soldiers and
Sailors Relief Act which gives the boys square deal
on their time payment purchases, relates to their
autos and tractors On these, 30't or more OF the
price must have been paid the seller can grab the
Evening star., 1942-08-16

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can have any legal action delayed until
your pal comes marching home again.
Hhen the Boys Come Home. They
must remember to check up on their legal
affairs as soon as they return. because they
are allowed just 90 days after termination
of service to have proceedings started for
setting aside. judgments entered contrary
Evening star., 1942-08-16

ministraton, which will take care OF their insurance
problems during their period of service 1t doesn't
matter what type of life insurance IS involved except
that the Veterans Administration cannot hep Oh
policies which add up to more than >ooSO' or nave
premiums more than year overdue When tle ooSs
'join up: or have been borrowed on too heaVlly
Neither can they help in the case OF group insuf-
ance" or on policies which are VOID or voldabe oy
reason of military service. The Administration gives
the boys year after termination OF service 10 repay
the premiums that have been advanced
Income Tax. Even Uncle Sam deers to the oouen-
boy, If he caht pay his federal or state income TAX
even though it fell due before he nducted - pay
will be postponed until months after ne TAXES
off his uniform What's no interest or penalty
will be added
Mortgages and Taxes Real Estate. Rsht III
line with the governments policy to prevent tor
Evening star., 1942-08-16

l. In l94l Jarvis bought a magnificent trom-
bone from Spicer. He paid 500 down, the
balance to be paid in two installments of
500 each in ~ and '43.
Evening star., 1942-08-16

thing - tires and all - Just as his contract
says
However. if a creditor takes advantage
OF someone in the service by eXaCtlng for
felture to which he IS not entitled, he may
find himself in legal mess when the lad
comes home
Life Insurance, Policies need not lapse.
The bows can aDDIv to the Veterans Ad
Evening star., 1942-08-16

3. He went to .Jar,is's mother and demanded
that she return the trombone. Under the
Law. must she hand over the most priced
possession of her Army boy!
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-11-26
Sturgeon Beach

Mrs. Carl Olson and her mother,
Mrs. Chas. Jahnke, left recently for
their homes in st. Paul after spend
ing few days at the Clarence Bur-
mayer home. Mrs. Burmayer is a
daughter of Mrs. Jahnke.
Harold Josephson of st. Paul, came
Wednesday of last week to spend a
few days at the Clarence Burmayer
home. He left again Friday and Chas
Jahnke returned to his home in ST.
Paul with him.
The Mesdames Herman and Clar-
ence Burmayer called at the Whiting
home Tuesday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leo Waletzko and
Junior called at the Whiting home
Sunday.
The Mesdames Clarence and Her
man Burmayer accompanied Harold
Josephson to Moose Lake on business
last Thursday.
Mrs. L. A. Fellows spent a few
days in st. Paul last week.
Ellis Whiting spent the weekend
with his family here. He returned
to Aitkin Sunday.
The Mesdames Herman and Clar-
ence Burmayer visited at the M. j..
Close home Friday.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-11-26

two letters from boys in Uncle Sans
army.
One is V-Mail from Pfc. Ernest
Smiglewski who is in Australia. He
writes that the weather is grand and
enjoyable and that letters, long de-
layed, are finally reaching him.. He
is glad, as he is expecting many let
tiers to find him in Australia, which
were previously addressed to Cali
fornia. He adds that "some of the
boys are most anxiously awaiting
letters from home and from their
friends" He is assigned to a field
hospital.
A second letter was received from
Pvt. Daniel Hoffman, at present in
Camp White, Medford, Ore. He is
attached to mess hall and expects to
be first or second cook by Christ
mas. Pvt. Hoffman enclosed a SIS
bill with this statement: Enclosed
is SIS for anything that is needed in
the parish" This contribution will
open fund for set of new statuettes
for Christmas crib in st. Mary's
church.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-11-26
Ellison

Chas. Quaas of Maple Plain, spent
three days at the Jesse Fenstermaker
home hunting.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Johnson re-
turned to Rosemount Sunday after
spending a week at the Arthur Pince
home hunting.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Speed and
daughter Verna of Scanlon, visited
Sunday at the Asa Fenstermaker
home.
Mrs. Alfred Johnson returned home
Saturday after spending week in
Minneapolis visiting her daughter,
Mrs. Arthur Worcester, and friends
Mr.. and Mrs. Nathan Fenstermaker
of Cloquet, visited Sunday at the Asa
Fenstermaker and Jesse Fenster-
maker homes.
Miss Ethel Fenstermaker spent last
Thursday and Friday visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Fen
stermaker.
Marilyn Pince spent Saturday with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Pince.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nathan FenSter-
maker of Aitkin, spent Sunday at the
Asa Fenstermaker home.
Sidney Strand and three friends of
New London, called Tuesday at the
Jesse Fenstermaker home and also
did some hunting.
Mr. and Mrs. Asa Fenstermaker
made business trip to Willow River
Monday.
Jesse Fenstermaker made a bust
ness trip to Willow River Wednesday
of last week.
Clarence johnson and Donald and
Jean Pince called at the Jesse Fem
stermaker home Tuesday.
Mrs. Jesse Fenstermaker and Wv
ian visited at the Arthur Pince home
Sunday.