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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-09-03
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! M A@ DREW PEARSON
Washington, d. C..
IMPROVED NAVAL POSITION

Behind the Solomon islands battle
are some optimistic naval facts, en-
tirely aside from the announcement
of victory. These facts had to be
very carefully considered even be-
fore U. S. naval chiefs started to
invade the Solomons.
One of these naval facts is that
the Japs have suffered very severe
losses in cruisers. Although it has
escaped public notice, U. S. forces
have been humping off this fast, i'm
portant type of warship with deadly
regularity, so that Jap cruiser
strength is now cut at least in half,
perhaps more.
Another known naval fact is that
the Japs have lost approximately
half of their airplane carriers. And
with air power what it is today, this
is the type of vessel they can least
afford to lose.
On the American side of the pic
ture is the fact that U. S. repairs
of ships sunk or damaged at Pearl
Harbor have been miraculously
swift.
All this obviously was taken into
consideration before the United
States started a major engagement
and the offensive in the South Pa
cific. For Admiral King had to cal
culate the risk of the Jap admirals
rushing large force to the Solomon
islands.
simultaneously he also had to fig
ure the risk of Jap attack on vari-
Gus other vital points-Midway
Alaska, Hawaii, even the co:ltinen-
tai United States.
Top admirals these days do not
take chances. Not when the fate
of a nation depends on them. There
fore, it requires only mathemati-
clan to figure that the scale of Amer
lean strength in the Pacific has
turned. 1t reached it's low ebb just
after Pearl Harbor, when the navy
was unable to do anything about the
Philippines, Singapore, or Java.
But now the Battle of Midway has
shown that Hawaii and the West
coast can be defended by land-based
planes. No Jap ship dares come
near land-based planes without COM
hitting suicide.
This leaves reinforced fleet to
operate in the Pacific. Top naval
men are not doing any Growing yet.
But at least the naval picture seems
to counterbalance some of the bad
news from Russia-which is going
to get lot worse.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-09-03
Birth of a Bombardier

Would personally like to bomb Berlin and Tokyo? From
cities FARMS factories and colleges thousands of American
youths answering Eyes and swarning into the worlds arg
bobarder college Midland Texas to learn the technique
Scientifically selected the secret deadly u S. bomb
sight bobarder trained II weeks to be the ost
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-09-03

THE bureau of public relations of
L the U. S. navy doesn't specially
need peacemaker, but it has one.
Capt. Leland P. Lovette, succeeding
Adm. Arthur j. Hepburn as director
of the bureau, is a skilled specialist
in allaying friction. and getting on
with everybody. While in command
of the U. S. Gunboat Pampagna
in the Canton (China) region in
1928, he was caught in a civil war,
between the forces of DR.. Sun Vat
Sen and the Kwangsi province in
vaders. He did brilliant job of
mediation, fixing everything nicely.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-09-03
Complications

What causes all the commotion
in your neighborhood?"
"You see it is this way. We are
keeping our radio going late at night
so the people next door will be too
sleepy to NOW the lawn so early
and they keep moving the lawn
early so we won't feel like staying
up late to play the radio"
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-09-03

NEW YORK.-In 1924, a hand
y some young English society
girl, daughter of an admiral, living
in the suburbs of London turned
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-09-03
BURIED SILVER

welt ana COrdell Hull held a series
OF discussions with the foreign min
listers of Europe in preparation for
the London Economic conference, at
which one of the chief proposals of
the United States was world use of
silver.
AT these conferences, the late Sem
ator Key Pittman, of the great sill
yer state of Nevada, droned through
a regular IS minute lecture on sill
yer which American experts knew
almost by heart and which put HAL
mar Schacht, German finance min
lister, to sleep. After Pittman had
finished, the German minister woke
up with start, hastily brushed
aside silver.
eve accept silver. Now this is
what we want in return"
The London Economic conference
was dismal failure. But the Unit
ed States had committed itself so
completely to silver in these pre-
liminary talks, that it undertook a
silver program, which actually
meant that the world sold it's silver
to us at an artificial price and we
buried it in the ground at West Point,
N. Y. 1t was fine thing for Mex
leo, China and Canada and a great
victory for Senator Pittman and the
Rocky Mountain states. Also it re-
suited in the U. S. treasury accu-
mulating two and a half billion
ounces of silver-other than coin.
Today, however, there is short
age of industrial silver. And yet
the treasury will not open up the
giant hoard of silver gathering mold
at West Point.
Shortage Amid Plenty.
What has happened is this. About
100000 ounces of silver monthly is
being mined in the United States,
which is ample to care for war
needs, but not enough. for ordinary
commercial needs, especially for the
silver industry of New England.
The silver industry, which makes
knives, forks, and household ware,
formerly used alloys and critical
materials-all of which have now
been dispensed with. However, sill
yer is not critical material. There
is plenty mined for the war effort
but not enough to supply the 100000
900 ounces needed annually for the
silver industry.
So New England silversmiths now
ask that they be permitted to buy a
mere 100000 ounces out of the
two and half billion ounces which
the treasury has buried.
MERRY-GO-ROUND
q Though the U. S. navy gave the
royal run-around to the Sea Otter.
Germany is now reported building
exactly this type of shallow-draft,
acknowledgement boat for use on
the Danube, the Black and Caspian
seas-against Russia.
q When the WPB made a survey of
Junk dealers it found 100000
pounds of "scrap" silk stockings on
hand. This is ''gold mine" for
making silk bags to hold gunpowder
for the navy.
Buy War Bonds
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
. McKENNY ON BRIDGE

championship was won by Mr..
and Mrs. Ben Fain of San An
tonic, Tex.
DcClarcr won the first trick
with the queen of spades. He
ed the jack Of diamonds and
lost the fincsSc to the queen.
West led a spade, and Mrs. Fam,
sitting East, took her ace and
forced out the king. Declarcr
led another diamond and Mrs.
Fain was i'm with the ace.
At this point Mrs. Fain count
cd the dec arer's tricks He was
sure of two diamonds, two spades
already won, and probably two
tricks in each other suit, as he
should have the ace of hearts
and king Of clubs for his bid.
AS she herself held no stopper
in hearts or clubs, she saw that
her partner was in danger Of be-
ing squeezed by the diamonds.
SO instead Of caShing the long
spade, she switched at once to a
heart lead, and defeated the con-
tract.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
BREWSTER CRACkDOWk

There would seem to be something
very mysterious about the circum-
stances under which the Navy has
taken over four plants Of the Brewster
AeronouticoI Corporation.
There was no labor trouble. Union
spokesman praised the comPony's ot-
titude toward employees. Both the
Nays new manager and the union
representatives denied that there is
enemy alien trouble in the plant.
The Navy soys the plants we're not
producing finished planes. The union
soys the failure appears to be due to in
obiIity to get necessary ports from sub
contractors All agree thot one reason
planes have not been produced is thot
the plant has been switched to O new
type of aircraft.
Perhaps there is some further inn
portont foct which oil parties con-
cerned ore conspiring to keep from the
public. IF not, the Nays action would
seem to be unusually drostic-ond per-
hops misdirected. If subcontroctors do
not deliver, why not take over their
plants, if onybodYs?
We want war production to the
limit. But we don't want q lot Of crock
ing down just to prove how tough some
big boy is.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
MATCH

Next Sunday, if clear, there
will be a hog-ca.ling contest
and barbecue at Bob Burns
place in the San Fernando Val
ley. A new entry this year will
be Oliver Hardy, who just
bought six pigs off Joel McCrea.
McCrea a SO sold a cow to Don
Ameche.
Building plans of quite a few
people here were stopped by the
government order on materia S.
Cne of the last houses complet-
ed belongs to Merrill BloSSer,
the artist who draws "FreCkles
and His Friends for this news
paper. Blosser has a real farm
home on his new place east of
town, and he Wou d like it
known that he is busy with his
spring planting and doesn't want
to be bothered with lightning
rod sa. esmen.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
CLEAN GRAFT

E. Charges, made by Boston City
Councillor, Of police Ioxity in enforcing
laws relating to illegal gambling opera
tons have aroused considerable inter-
est If it is true that some Boston police
allow "bookies" to make bets in police
stations, public buildings, and defense
plants, it would behoove the Police
Commissioner to follow the odmoni-
ton in the Councillors resolution ITO
clean up crime in Boston" and obViote
any possible necessity for q cleanup Of
police such as is taking place in Brook
Ign.
In Brooklyn, the charge against
the forty-nine police officers involved
is not alone Ioxity, but eMortion or &C.
ceptoce Of brides in exchange for de-
liberote failure to enforce the low
The comments Of the Kings County
Grand Jury on the subject are worthy
Of note by officers and citizens in every
city.
Declaring that the evidence pre-
sented had shown O widely prevailing
feeling among police officers that
there is distinction between the So
called "cleon dollar" accepted from
vioIotors Of gambling and other laws
unpopular with port Of the public and
dirty dollars" proffered by perpetro-
tors Of more serious crimes, the Grand
Jury continued:
The very existence Of such an eu-
phemstc distinction is, Of course,
significant Of the attitude Of many
members Of the Police Department
toward enforcement Of the gambling
laws. These officers ore either iqnor-
ant or choose to overlook the rocke-
teering which is behind, and O large
part Of these illegal enterprises.
They ignore or overlook the extent to
which such conduct leods to con-
tempt for oil law and order among
large sections Of the popuIoce.
Theirs is O philosophy and O
practise which cannot too scothin9Iy
be rebuked
And so for as the public accepts
that philosophy it also needs an owok-
enine rebuke-From the Christian Sci
ence Monitor.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTONs

OF Economics. He wasn't exoct-
Iy in the original Brain Trust,
but he's there now. Thot is, he
writes letters there now. Like
the Sweet Young Thing Who
Came to Dinner, The Professor
of Economics feeds his lines TO
the boss for the comeback.
The Professor, for instance,
writes in 10 the White House
soying thot federal non-wor
expenses should be cut. Econ
omy is silly thing to write q
letter about, but it gives the
boss his cue. He comes back
with O "Where?" that simply
leave everyone dumbfounded.
The sowing grace of the Am
erIcon people is thot they have
q sense Of humor. rs worth
fighting for, and freedom TO
'0u9h should be odded TO the
other four freedoms. Contribu-
ting to that enjoyment, this
department would like TO suq-
eest thot as O curtain roiser
for the next fireside chat there
be O Round TobIe Of the Air
discussion Of the war at which
the characters would be The'
While House Spokesman, the
Young Lody Who Came to
Dinner That Business Man
and The Professor Of Econ
omics.
1t might be q little difficult
TO tell the voices apart, or dis
tinguish n m from The
Voice, but q couple Of lessons
in VentriIoqUism would fix that.
And just as on "lnfornotion,
PIeose!" there could be quest
stors. For instance, Harold
Ickes.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
IT DID HAPPEN HERE

At this time, more than four
months since PeorI Horbor, it is almost
inconceiVobIe that importont defense
plants ore not prepared to black out
without closing down. The experience
Of northern New jersey where on
otherwise successful experiment was
morred by bIozing lights in the very
factories which would be enemy roid-
ers' prime targets, suggests gross negIi-
eence on somebody's port.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
. MIND YOUR
MANNERS

Test your knowledge of cor
rect social usage by answering
the following questions, then
checking against the authori-
tative answers below:
/. Should you make fun of
women's clubs when you don t
know whether or not the wom-
an to whom YOU are talking is
a clubWoman?
2. Should you feel you must
join a club just because someone
whose feelings lou do not want
to hurt asks you to?
3. If you meet someone who
has written novel should you
say, Il haven't read your book
4. houl you feel is all right
to be late 10 defense class since
you are attending it on a volun-
tary basis?
5. When one man calls anoth-
err man he Goes not know on a
social matter IS h III ! d he say,
This is John Brown or This
is Mr.. Brown?
What would you do if
You introduce yourself to a
visitor that your mother knew
at one time
(a) Say, Il think perhaps you
knew my mother?
lb) Say, Il have heard my
mother speak Of you?
Answers
l. No.
>. No. But be gracious in re-
fuSIng.
3. No
4 No Be punctual
). This is John Brown
Better What Would You d.
solution-(b).
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
High|ights from
the Latest Books

You thought Japan was d
thirdrate power which might
rattle the sword but never
would attack a nation such as
the United States. You probable
also thought Japan'S military
strength was exhausted in the
war with China.
Don't feel too bad about think
ing that because lou were right
in step with most OF us Amcrl-
cans. Why most Of us held such
fallacious ideas right up to the
time of Pearl HarbOr is pretty
we'll explained in John Guenih-
er's revision Of his famous In
side Asia (Harper: $3.50, and
by Joseph Newman in "Goodby
japan" FISCHER: 2.5O).
Guenther completely rcWrotc
his book and made 5000 revls
ions before il went TO the print
or in February, 1912, thus max
ing it one Of the most COMPLETE
and up-to- the-minute works on
modern Asia and why Pearl
Harbor happened. G u enther
makes Dec. 7 seem logical in
view Of our two-faced attitude
saying "naughty-naughty' at
the rape of China and at the
same time shipping Nippon
more than a billion dollars worth
of war material.
Newman, a Tokyo correspond
ent for years, does no second
guessing when he says Pearl
Harbor should have been no sur
prise. Many of his dispatches
support his contention, but
America. lulled by Jap propa-
ganda and the "it-can't happen
to-uS" school at home, was in no
mood to accept the truth about
the Nipponese and their centur-
les old dreams OF world conquest.
,"Goodby Japan pictures the
Jap war lords as no fools of Ber-
lin but rather as Germany's inn
placable foes. They are convinc-
cd they can deal with the Nazis
when the day arrives. This book
should have been published be-
fore Pearl Harbor, but it proba
bly, would have been scoffed off
the shelves. Today it can serve
a. an Informative and interesting
text on a foe Of whom we know
very little.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
THE FARM, 1912 A. ID.

CLAY CENTER, KAS.-Har-
Ian Perrill, aggravated because
his chickens wouldn't go to bed
at a decent hour, took up the
French horn.
H learned TO produce a rea-
sonable facsimile OF the locomo-
tive whistle which always fright
ened the flock into the henhouse.
They may not retire in mood
for sleeping-but a b, asst of the
horn puts the chicks up for the
night noW-any time.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
ALL OUT EFFORT

LEAVENWORTH, X A S. -
Warden Robert Hudspeth mod
estly points out that his boys at
the Federal penitentiary are CO.
operating in the war effort.
Inmates have purchased S43,-
600 worth of war bonds, donated
Se07.24 to Red Cross war relief,
Sl67 to the Salvation Army war
fund, STAG. " to the Navy Relief
and Sl2405 TO the y. S. O.
And they've given l don't
know how much blood for the
blood bank" Hudspelh said.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
THIS is A TREE

KANSAS CITY-Swope park
caretakers don't want visiting
nature lovers to miss a thing.
They've started pinning metal
Identification tags to all the trees
explaining just what kind they
are. Three hundred have been
labeled so far.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
MAKES FRIENDS

extraordinarily prompt
cd putting aside the usual antag-
onistic relations of the cat and
dog IN favor of bit of coopera-
ton.
Clipper, a cat, found her ma
ternal duties toward her three
weeks old kittens left her little
time for mice hunting. Mrs. John
Brett, who owns the cat, said
during Clippers neighborhood
travels, China, puppyless fe-.
ma dog, watches her kittens.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
BY WILLIAM r. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

The 18th annual southeastern
sectional championships recent
~ held at Coral Gables, Fla,
brought players from California
and New York. The mixed pair
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
PRESSING DUTIES

CHICAGO-A sign in Henry
Schurosky's tailor shop reads:
Attention soldiers and sail
ors-suits pressed free"
Explained Schurosky: Il was a
Russian prisoner of the Japs for
six months during the war of
1905. / didn't like if. I'd like to
get at them again but I'm too
Cd. So. My son, Edward, in
training at Great Lakes, will re-
present our family"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
EARTHWORNS
ARE BLESSINGS

Earthworms aerate the SOIL
and allow the water TO soak IN,
and the leaves dragged into the
holes by the worms as food To-
themselves soon uecompose into
food for growing crops.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
% HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD
D ace. Drive out Route 3 from

D ace. Drive out Route 3 from
Encino or phone 70 ring ADV.
Lone, Barrymore Is missed
by the boys around SchWab S
Drug Store these nights. Mr.. B..
is staying home because he says
with weather forecaSting a mill
tary secret he don't dare talk to
anybody about his rheumatism.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
WOULD UTTER THE JAPS

Just think Of the possIbIi-
ties Of throwing confusion into
the Japanese general stoff ~
so doing. Suppose they pick up
this line about the secret base
on Shongri-Lo. You can Just
see bespectocIed, toothy, hu-
morIess Jop scholars searching
every otIos in the imperial IL
broy to locate Shongri-Lo.
This would be psychological
warfare BETTING q supreme
command.
But the Sweet Young Thing
Who Came TO Dinner isn't the
only member Of the White
n ouse Spokesmon's Office.
There's Thot Business Man.
Remember him2 That Business
Man hosn't been heard from
lately, but he's the fellow who
used 70 coll at the White
House during depression dogs
and tell the President, who
would then tell his press con-
ference, thot the country could
easily stoud q national debt
Of SIS billion. Oh boy! But
isn't that funny today! It hos
taken about eight years and O
war and Sl2O billion debt for
that one 10 sink in and be full
~ appreciated
REMEMBER THE PROF?
Then there is The Professor
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
BY PAUL HARRISON
NkA Service Stall correspondent
WOOD, April 81

HOLLYWOOD, April q -
Hollywood news and persona S,
exclusive to this paper:
Bing Crosby is figuring on
new business venture. He wants
TO bring his race horses from his
Del Mar pace and start livery
stable here.
Adolphe Menjou, who lives
east of town, drove in Monday
and bought a new suit of clothes
without cuffs on the pants and
went to the picture show.
Ida Luplno is still. on the ailing
list, but her many friends will
be glad TO know she is getting
better right along. Her job at
the Warner Brothers film cam
ming factory is being held for
her.
The Hollywood Thursday Eve
ming Young Peoples 4 bow
Bending and Literary Society
met at Lana Turner's house. The
guest of honor was Robert
BenChley, who gave a stereopti-
con show and lecture an Cecil
B. DeMi.le and His Place in the
Modern Bathtub." Tasty re-
lreshments we're served.
Alfalfa, oats, dairy feed and
Matching eggs for sale. Also kit
tens to give away Phone rs
ring 2, or call at the Harry
Warner placc.-Adv.
HANK IMPROVES
His many friends wi be glad
TO hear that the splint has been
taken off Henry FondaS finger
which was mangled in the tan
belt Of his tractor. Doc Branch
says he was afraid for while
that Henry would lose the fin
ger. Bob TayrOr has been help
ing with the chores at the Fonda
place.
Jane Wyman gave Ronnie
Reagan a surprise party before
he left for the Army. Jack Ben
ny, Bob Taylor, ZeppO Marx and
their wives we're guests, Games
were played and nice refresh
ments were served.
Sheep dogs, antiques, rose
cuttings, live bait, carpenter
work, tourists accommodated at
the Edward Everett Horton
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27

OF
LIFE
THE Mccoy!
BY the Associated Press


NEW YORK - Digging into
ancient records to get hundreds
of noW-use ess indictments dis
missed, clerks in the Kings coun-
ty district attorneys office found
five documents accusing one
John Doe of assorted burglar
les and assaults back in 1897.
The only thing unusual about
their find was that there were
no quotation marks thanking the
name and the bills specified that
the man sought actually was
John Doe.
He never was caught. ,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-27
SIS YEARS AGO TODAY

Misses Emma and Carrie
Goetz reached home Wednes-
day night, after a long stay in
Canada.
T. w. Shook and family are
ENJOYING a visit from two of his
rieces, from California, the Miss
es Shook.