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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-15

This is the one about dreams.
The suave actor will be seen as
a circus aerialiSt. He dreams
about falling and eventually
does. Additional fearsome ele-
ments are introduced because
Miss Stanwyck is a murderess
who's always being bounded oy
the police.
That's about all l know re-
garding Flesh and Fantasy" ex-
cept that an imposing staff of
writer's has taken care of the
fantasy situation, and that much
of the flesh hasn't been selected
10 date. Anna Lee and Miss
Stanwyck are the only glamor-
lists thus far; two more, plus a
couple of male stars, still are to
be chosen, and Boyer says he d
give his shirt to get Jimmy
Stewart out of uniform long
enough to make the fourth and
still-secret episode.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-15

$4,000 civilian personnel
Two of the Virgin Islands,
which have plenty of sugar,
have a shortage of flour, which
is therefore being rationed
:. u. S. Employment Serv-
ice filled three million city and
100000 farm jobs in the first
half of 1912 Machine tool
production is now rs per cent
a bove the 1941 rate
Cheese, dried beans, peas and
lentils are the recommended
substitutes when you can't get
meat Nearly a million
German, Jap and Italian aliens
in the U. S. now carry identifi-
cation certificates Cher
ish your hatred for the enemy"
says a Soviet handout.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-15
BY PETER EDISON
MonitOr-Leader Washington
D>r.ae-DrA ant

A full scale modern war-the
Battle of Midway - has at last
been filmed in Technicolor. II
took a Hollywood ace to do it
John Ford, the man who direct
ed Grapes of Wrath" THE In
former" and other prize pic
lures. He is Lieut.. Com. John
Ford now, having given up his
several thousand dollars a
week salary for the Navy pay
OF several Thousand dollars
year and the right to wear a uni
form with gold braid on it. But
he has shown that actual battle
can be recorded as a moving
picture, and this Battle of Mid
way film will probably be rat
ed as one of his greatest. Dive
bombers race toward the earth
and drop their loads or are hit
by the anti aircraft guns and
crash in flames. Naval vessels
get hit, shells explode, men are
wounded, killed. 1t is real war
for civilian consumption.
Commander Ford is working
out at the Department of Agri-
culture film laboratory, editing
his film, waiting for the Navy
brass hats to make up their
minds as to how it shall be re-
leased. The Navy both does and
does not want to sponsor 1T. III
the Navy doesn't sponsor It,
maybe Office of War Informa-
ton or somebody else Wi l.
While the bureaucrats wrangle
the public is being kept from
what is probably good propa-
ganda medicine for domestic
and foreign consumption.
QUITE A CONCESSION
The way Ford got this pic
ture makes an interesting story
The idea of puttine Ford into
the Navy with Hollywood
camera crew was Ford's, but
when he couldn't sell it to the
Navy, he sold it to Col. William
j. Donovan's old outfit, the Of
flee of the Co-ordinator of In
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-15

and South discarded his last
spade. But that gave West the
king of clubs for the second
trick, and West had two good
trumps. The contract was de-
feated.
At another table of the same
duplicate game, with the same
contract and same lead, the de-
clarer made the contract. He
took the queen with the king of
diamonds. Now he made the
strategically correct play, the
singleton club.
The principle is to establish
the cross ruff before beginning
it, so that you don't have to lose
the lead after it gets started.
Then the defense is less likely
to lead trumps, and if they do,
the conservation of entries may
enable you to develop other re-
sources.
West held up the club king.
and East took the jack with the
ace. Back came trump and
South ducked West taking the
king. On a second trump dunn
my put up the queen.
South ruffed club, cashed
the ace of spades, and led a
spade for North to ruff. Anoth-
err club ruff dropped the king,
the ace of trumps took out
Vests ten, and the ace of dia-
monds gave entry t. two good
clubs.
If at trick three East had led
diamonds instead of trumps, de-
clarer would have made the
contract by a cross-ruff.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-15
BY PAUL HARRISON

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. Is -
Charles Boyer, who used to pro-
duce pictures in France, and who
knows a lot more about the
movie business than the mere
making of restrained mugs into
the camera, long has figured
that a wealth of untapped screen
material lay in short stories.
He also believes that only two
kinds of entertainment pictures
should be made today: For in
teresting realism, only the war
or something bearing on the war
is worth consideration. The al
tentative, he believes, is un-
reality-something far removed
from our lives and problems.
Out of such ideas is coming
Flesh and Fantasy" which is
certain to be one of the most
interesting experiments in movie
history. One indefinite thing
about it right now is its title,
which likely will be changed.
MYSTERY STUFF
Anyway, it's collection of
four short stories. Unlike Tales
of Manhattan which is a
chapter-picture dealing with the
varied adventures of a dress
coat, this new episode produc-
tons seems to be linked only by
the esoteric. spooky quality of
its material.
Julien Duvivier and Boyer,
who were associates in France,
are the co-producers besides be-
ing, respectively, the director
and one of stars. They're tell
ing little about three of the cpl
sodes and nothing about the
fourth. This much I've learned,
though: One deals with palms.
try, another with dreams; the
third is vaguely identified as
showing how forces of nature
protect the weak. The first is
an adoption of Oscar Wilde
Lord Arthur Seville's Crime
In it, Thomas Mitchell is a for
tune-teller who makes series of
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-15
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON

formation. With Donovan back
ing, Ford was permitted to let
his crew be enlisted in the Nav
al Reserve. That was supposed
to be quite a concession, for
many of the detail didn't know
an anchor ( ON a marlinspike,
and TO give such people the rat
ing of a chief petty officer was
against all tfe rules, and sup
posedly quite disrupting to Ma
Wy morale. Also, the Navy was
against having people who were
just supposed to take pictures
and do nothing else. What the
Navy wanted was people who
could also stand watch or man
a gun or maybe even swab a
deck.
Finally all these objections
were overcome and the Ford
crew was mustered into serv-
ice. Playing a pure hunch, Com
mander Ford and his men got
permission to 60 to Midway.
When the Japs came over in
their big effort early in June,
there were the cameramen on
the job to grind away.
In the three day battle the
fancy sailors from Hollywood
stood around and took it. They
were put on land when the Jap
bombers came over, they rode in
American planes on bombing
missions, they worked on the
landing decks of the airplane
carriers and they "shot" scenes
from cruisers and battleWagons.
A couple of the cameras actual
ly were shot out of the hands
of the men operating them.
Commander Ford was wounded
hit in the shoulder by fly
ing fragment Of concrete from
an emplacement struck by Jap
she'll.
The picture is stark realism
of war, but it is not without its
Hollywood touches of pathos,
whimsy and sob stuff. When
Ford and his men got back to
the United States, they dubbed
in sound track with a staff of
announcers to heighten the dra-
matte effects.
HOKUM-BUT GOOD
When a number of men are
wounded aboard one of the
ships, the announcer comes in
with comment that the men will
be rushed to the hospital bay.
But there is no hospital bay!
Follows closeup, showing the
roof shot off of the hospital bay,
and the doctors and orderlies
working away, practically un-
protected.
A closeup is shown of a young
pilot, just back from a mission.
The announcer dubs in COM
llltlll W LliC cllSCb tlidt tiiiS
looks like so and SOS boy, back
in Ohio. Sure. 1t is so and SOS
boy, and his papp. is railroad
engineer. Know. the whole fam
lily well! Ford sent camera
man for a closeup of pappy pull
ing his train into the station,
and another of his mother and
sisters.
Yeh, they're touches of Hol-
lywood corn, all right, but they
put over the idea that this is
everybody's war. VIII, Ford has
shown it can be done Maybe
they'll let him do it again. Any
way, watch for this picture. End
plug.
WASHINGTON PEGS
Shoe soles pegged with fiber
are being tried out to give long
er wear Armys motor
transport corps, transferred
from Quartermaster to Ord
nance, has 10000 soldier and
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-15
EXPANSIVE

Probably you have heard Of District SO Of the
United Mine Workers Of America set up as the "0os,
By.Product Coke and Chemical Workers" district
Of John Lewis union. As such, it is not difficult to
cirque that District SO bears some relationship to
mining.
1t is interesting to note how brood q field Mr..
Lewis conceives gas, coke and chemicals to cover.
Under its charter the district is attempting to organ
ize public utilities, Matches paints and vornshes,
dairy farms, okoIis, explosives, ootvoted aluminium,
limestone, cosmetics, perfumes and sea fowl drop
pings
In the midst Of all the silence he can command,
Mr.. Lewis is busy organizing those fields and per-
hops other When next his voice boonos out there ore
some who think he may have the mokines Of q third
national union setup-os if the C.I.O-AF Of l. war;
fore were not enough.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-15
, HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

astonishing predictions which, as
they are borne out, begin to up
set the mind of the determinedly
skeptical Edward G.. Robinson.
The latter is a nice, gentle guy
who hates nobody, but when
Mitchell predicts he will commit
a murder, Robinson decides he
may as we'll go ahead and get it
over with. After being trust
rated in his plans to do away
with some old parties who were
about to die anyway, he fulfills
the prophecy by killing the
palmist.
SET IN CIRCUS
The second episode is Mr.
Boyer's vehicle, with Barbara
Stanwyck appearing with him.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-15
MAN BITES DOG

The National Maritime Union, whose members
operate our merchant marine, have bven unqualified
opprovoI-throueh their National CounciI-to the
koiser proposal for q fleet of giant cargo pIones
This unsefish willingness to give up even the
means Of livelihood for the national welfare is as
proiseworthy as it is unusuoI 1t marks distinct
change Of ottitude since the NMU prior to the Red
oxi breok wos homperine effort to get noteriel
70 Europe for use oooinst Hitler.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-15
McKENNY ON
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM Z. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

In today's hand, declarer won
the opening lead with the king
of diamonds, took his ace of
spades and ruffed a spade in
dummy. On a low club lead East
hoped up with the ace and led
a trump. South put up the ace
of trumps and then ruffed a
spade with the queen.
Dummy led the queen of clubs
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-15
LET'S NOT FIGHT EACH OTHER

Out of Washington come disturbing reports con-
cernnq the mobility Of our war administrators 10
work tooether 1t would appear that too many in the
notions copitol ore not looking up, occasionally, at
the oovernment-prepored poster that suggests:
Lets fight Hitler, not each other"
In general, it would seem that the civilian side OF
the war effort, represented by Donald Nelson, and
the iIitory side, represented by Lieut. Gen. Brehon
SomerveH and Vice Admiral Samuel Robinson, are
at Ioeeerheods
As described by one veteran observer, the con-
troversy rests upon fundamental disagreement in
philosophy The civilian attitude is sold to be thot the
armed services can have all that is LETT otter lmPor-
tont non.mitoy needs have been met. Inc Army
and the Navy, on the contrary, contend thot they
should have first call upon everything and then, IT
there should be surplus, that can go to civilians.
If one had to choose between two such extreme
viewpoints, in times like these he probably would
side with General Somerve and Admiral Robinson
Unless the Army and Navy get what they need,
there won't be anything at all for oivions-not even
the fundamentals Of liberty
Fortunately it is not necessary to go to either ex-
trenoe. Both Nelson and SomeveII-ond Robinson,
by repute-ore too decent, too sensible too tolerant
to let stiff necks interfere long with the cooperation
without which our effort must suffer.
Unquestionobly the Army and Navy must have
everything they need with which to fight, even
though that forces civilians to go without every lux
ury and most comforts. Donald Nelson would be the
first to concede thot.
On the other hand, General Sonnervell and Ad-
nroI Robinson would not question that there are
certoin essentials without which the civlion produc-
ton system cannot continue to Junction.
We at home can and must give up much that we
have reto,ed thus far in the war. The Army and the
Navy must toss tradition out Of the window and &C.
cept substitutes in laundry equipment, cots, broom
bindings, utility hardware, oil cans and other non
critical items.
Thot such compromises be worked out is
evidenced in the discovery that cartridge cases,
highly critical military item, be made from steel
Just as we'll as from bross.
The good will Of big men will not permit silly dis
putes to go on.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-15

ask the same persons to shower
after shower = when almost ev-
eryone is saving to buy war
bonds and stamps.
5. Certainly.
Better What Would You Do
solution-(a.
/. How might you accept
spoken invitation to a bridge
party?
2. Does the hostess at bridge
party shake hands with her
guests when they arrive?
3. When cutting for bridge
partners, do the two highest play
together and the two lowest?
4. Is it rude for guest to ig-
more all other guests to concen-
trate on the most important per-
son in the gathering?
5. When a maid makes a mis-
take in serving should the hos
tess correct her in loud enough
voice to be heard by all the
guests?
What would you do if
A person who makes his liv-
ing as a musician is dinner
guest at your house
(a) Expect him to entertain
the guests after dinner?
CD Don't ask him to perform?
Answers
|. Thank you. Id like very
much TO come.
.. Yes.
3. Yes.
4. Yes.
S. No.
Better What Would You Do"
solution - (b).
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-15
. FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .
SIS YEARS AGO TODAY

Lonsby g. Son are putting up
a good sized building on the
northeast corner of their prem
Uses.
Suspicious characters fitting
around in the cleaning in the
vicinity of several residences
has resulted in all the old shot
guns being freshly loaded.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-15
60 YEARS AGO TODAY

The NJ. E. church at Utica
was re-opened yesterday after
remaining closed several months
TO undergo repairs.
We receive a copy of De-
troit's new one cent evening pa
per, the Telegram. There is
room for another evening paper
in Detroit. but the Telegram
doesn't fill the bill at all.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-15

The Army has 5000 person
mel officers to assign soldiers to
the proper tasks. You'd think
they'd find something else for
them to do but peel potatoes.
Vegetable production is up 8
per cent. That amt hay!
Laugh and grow fat is fine
until you succeed. Then it's no
laughing matter.
This is the time Of year when
a man is boss in his home. The
family is away on vacation.
Once upon a time there was
tourist who could fold map
correctly.
Fall styles are now being
shown - and the more change
in women's clothes, the less in
mems.
Count no day wasted during
which you have made the boss
think he is exceedingly clever.
The subject of second front
seems TO inspire our best sec
ond gueSsers.
Any victim of hay fever will
tell you it's nothing to be sneez-
eo at.
War games make soldiers fast
thinkers, says a military writ
er. Especially those pay day con-
tests with the speckled cubes.
Newspapers have been print
ing pictures Of combat tactics.
This is naturally to be resented
by umpires who visit Brooklyn.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-15
so THEY SAY

SO THEY SAY -. -. REn
I've been training soldiers for
25 years and l have a thorough
knowledge of what they can do.
This parade is way and beyond
what anyone could anticipate
Col Don c. Faith, after review
Ing WAACS.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-15

A headline says Serb guerril-
las killed 1000 Nazis and Ital-
ians in the mountain. You'll
have to agree it Serbs them
right.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-15
. MIND YOUR
MANNERS

correct social usage by an
swering the following ques-
tions, then checking against
the authoritative answers
below:
/. Is it good taste for an en-
gagged man to pay great deal
of attention to any girl other
than his fiancee?
2. II couple are engaged is
it all right for them to 60 on a
trip together that lasts over
night?
3. hould relatives of the
bride-to-be give showers in her
honor?
4. During wartime is it good
idea for brides friends to
give a number of showers for
her?
S. When an engagement is
broken off, must the girl return
her engagement ring?
What would you do if
You are bride who decides
to have a small house wedding
(a) In addition to the invita-
tions you give, send out
announcements to all OF
your friends and n e
groom's friends who were
not invited to the we'd
ding?
(b) Don't send out any an
nouncements only the
invitations to the we'd
ding?
Answers
l. No.
2. No.
3. No.
a. No. It Is an imposition to
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-15

If that's true about drafting
heads of families, guess dad will
have to learn how to cook and
keep house.
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. BARBS

Columbus sailed from Europe
$50 years ago. Smart fellow.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-22

gallon barrels Of the rich matter
Each captain knew spot where ne could
find whales But II not until they we're
discovered thick as COWS IN the Ross Sea and
off the coast Of Western Australia that their
hunting paid in the face OF mineral oil
Norwcgians invented great steam mother
ships. each with a fleet Of little killers that
followed the mighty blue whales and hump
backs into Tho icy Antarctic shot them with
great bomb harpoous blew them up with
pressure hoses and lowed them INTO some
quiet bay TO cut in" and try out
The Japanese watched this trade with
great interest
Then came the floating factories; ships
that through "a port in bow or stern could
drag whale bodily on deck and flcnsc it,
rcraer the OIL and extract every scrap Of
valuable matter While Streaming al sea
he Eosuos. mighty scandinavian whale
ia, pIy carried into port 1884 forty gallon
res of whale oil in a -FOUR MONTHS
{ USE.
Ihat was enough for the Japanese.
!hcy purchased vessel called the Antarc-
ila ftom Norway had II converted into a
o's nip stated 1t with Norwegian gun
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-22

roman Maru, Tonan Maru H. Tonan Mar1I
III, Nisshn Maru Nisshin Maru II and Taiyo
Maru Quite possibly another, Hakuyo Marl
IS also at sea.
1T IS not known if there are others-There
probably are. But these are listed in I.loyd's
Register of Shipping
Inc Germans are already considering COM
plnation aircraft and motor launch carriers
for raid and run tactics
The large, unobstructed deck space of
WhaIe factories would be ample for the storage
Of many scout planes
throughout the thousands of small islands
IN the Pacific, still good whaling grounds, the
factories could cruise without arousinp
SUSPICION launch their broods of submarines
FOR scouting or sabotage and pick them up
latcr at arranged meeting place
There have been surprise invasions in Ma
laya and the Dutch East Indies.
y Is entirely possible that the whale
factories We're used for such invasions There
would be ample room for troops in the vast
OH holds Guns and troops could be loaded
INTO INVASION barges within the shelter of
steel walls Then the barges could be launched
safely through the great eighteen foot stern
ports and be covered by guns aboard the
mother ships while they raced for the IN
pi-lalLeli shores ef those tFeFie islands,
With such methods one carrier could cover
many landings In quick time
Since the decline Of the wooden whaIers at
the end Of the nineteenth century. the United
states has shown little interest in the in
dustrv until 1881 when ii was revived bv tho
American Whaling co.
I'm 1879 that company operated two fac
t''fl.-- Orange and the Ulysses The oil
Was used r the manufacture OF soaps
The Food ard Drug Acts forbid the use Of
whale ol for edible purposes
Tins n spite of the fact that whale oil ia
the one edible fat that viii not deteriorate in
storage.
Lobbyists for ~" producers Of garbage
grease and .ued.oIc tallows fearful that whale
oil. Invaluable tor Insecticides and agricultural
sprays would Interfere in their great farm
market caused 90 be introduced as amend
meut TO the Revenue Act an unreasonable
high excise import tax on whale oil produced
by the company
THIS has made It impracticable for the
company to operate their two ships
Tho Ulysses IS now being operated as a
tanker
The FRANCO vas sold last February.
TO the japanese,
1t is not impossible that the FRANCO was
used TO launch those deadly weapons of de-
struction against US.
How many more such purchases have tho
Japanese made?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-22

Nations for the Regulation Of Whaling it was
prohibited TO Kill right whales (Which owing to
careless hunting were almost extnct Whalcrs
were not allowed TO take calves or sucking
whales immature whales or female whales
accompanied by calves.
The Japanese were asked to join the con-
ference ami come under those laws. They
refused
Our whaling industry is far too young"
they said -
But they chased all over the Ross Sea
and outside The three mile limits of Australia
and New Zealand blasting at every whale
that showed It's back above water
BY 1889. the Japanese whaling industry
owned SIX whale factories and forty-cight
killer ships the largest and most modern in
by American W.sk1y Inc, Great Er'an H,eh's r.,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-22

man holding bomb harpoon such
as is used nowadays 10 kill whales.
He is wearing the uniform cap of
an officer of the Japanese Imperial
Navy.
That picture was made in SYDNEY
Harbor in 1885.
The whale factories are az much
as % 900 tons. They carry crews of
300 men. They have unobstructed
deck space of upwards of a quarter
acre. And mighty ports and slipways
that will enable them to HAUL A
100 FOOT WHALE BODILY ON
DECK.
How much easier to launch a forty
one foot submarine.
With slight machinery changes and
such man power those whale facto-
RES might well be submarine fac
tories. They could carry the parts of
fifty such subs, assemble them at sea.
launch them, and rendezvous ready
to take them aboard at the end Of
their 200 mile cruise limit.
1t is known that the Japanese have
six or seven such vessels. They
threatened, in 1888 to build six more.