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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-13
q SERIAL STORY.
oAASNEo LASU Wv BY HENRY BELLANAkN

THE STORY: Schoolmates in
smalltown Kings Row are Paris
Mitchell, who adores his French
grandmother, Madame Won Elm;
pretty Renee, daughter of Won
Elm estate overseer; "all boy"
Drake Ntzhugh,; tomboy Randy
Monaghan; beautiful Cassandra
Tower, who plans party. Other
characters; prodigy Vera Lichin-
sky - she and Paris study music
with Herr Berdorff; Anna Ma
danes devoted maid.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23
THE TRICK IS KNOWN

The conjurer, it is sold, gets no
credit once he hos shown how he does
the trick.
So with the propaganda. Once it
is shown what's behind it and how it
works, it is ineffective.
The japanese are working the al
reody-threodbore trick of announcing
over their short-wove rodio the names,
q few at q time, of American prisoners.
The ideo, Of course, is to ottroet Amer
ieon listeners, and then propoeondze
them.
The trick hos been pretty thor
ouehly exposed by now Its effective
ness depends on the euIIibiity and re-
ceptiveness Of the listeners. American
listeners ore quite copobIe Of hearing
the names and saying "Thonks for the
information; phooie for the propo-
eondo"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23
. MCKINNEY ON BRIDGE

pass. North likewise, might
have opened, but he too. had a
border-line hand. With Mrs.
Sobel it was different. No doubt
in her mind that she should
open! Her hand was close to a
laid-down game in itself. So she
bid one diamond.
South naturally overcalled
with one heart, because his
strong suit would at least stop an
adverse game in no trump. I'm
agine his feelings when North
came out with little jump to
six hearts!
That bid is understandable on
the cards. North saw that IL
South held as little as five hearts
to the ace and the king of clubs,
there was q play for six hearts.
Since North was willing to 60 to
six hearts over five spades, he
decided to make q "two-way"
slam bid ut once-the slam
might be made. or ii might be
necessary rs q save.
After the diamond lead, de-
clarer made contract by giving
up q trick to the king Of clubs.
50 ~ to discard two Of his spades
on dummy's suit.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23
, HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

occurring. The company was
jittery and Mayo was wild.
Finally everything seemed to
be Strengthened out for another
try. Ida Lupino and Jean Cabin
took their places. But as the
scene began, Mayo spotted the
approaching specks of a particu-
larly big covey of Army planes.
Cut" he screamed. Here
come some more Army bomb
ers-"
But even as he yelled it,
Mayo's expression changed and
his rage subsidized in shrug. He
grinned and added:
&c. :. thank God"
Getting back to war financing,
there's speculation here about
whether the government will
squelch the epidemic of chain
letters which promise a defense
bond as the reward for keeping
each chain (really geometrical-
ly growing metz unbroken. Some
of the schemes may have been
started with honest and patriotic
motives, but nobody doubts that
swindlers will be moving in.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23
STORIES .
. IN STAMPS
Turkey Guords VitoI
Black SEQ Cotewoy

A NARROW lake 10 miles long
IA and a mile wide seems destined
to play Q large part In World War
II, Just as it did . quarter CEN
fury ago when Turkish belliger-
ency in the first World War closed
the Bosporus to Russian trafhc ana
bottled up the Czarist navy.
- Pictured on the. stamp above, is
sued in 1913. the Bosporus has
been a source of Turkish strength
for 500 years and IN object OF
Russian ambition equally as long.
Also shown on the stamp Is Rumeli
Hissar, Mohammed's European
Castle" which in the 18th CEN
fury kept Black Sea grain from
reaching besieged Constantinople.
The Bosporus Is threatened BY
German occupation Of Rumania.
only a few hundred miles from
the Marmora- Dardanelles water
way. II is the northern connect
ing link between the Black Sea
and the Mediterranean. The
southern door TO the Black Sea Il
the 35-mile-long winding water
way OF the Dardanelles. Between
the Bosporus and the Dardanelles
is the Sea Of Marmora, an area Of
water about half the size Of Lake
Erie.
Only through these two narrow
straits, at no point more than four
miles wide and strongly defended,
can world shipping reach the oil
and lumber ports Of Rumania, the
grain ports Of the Ukraine, the
oil ports of the Caucasus, and the
trade ports es IstanbW (ceostaa.
AiAoplnl
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23

pestered moviemakers for years
by spelling sound tracks with
the roar of motors. The war, of
course, quadrupled the trouble
because of military activity and
an almost constant drone OF test
flights from the factories.
Never has a director encoun-
tered more bad luck than Archie
Mayo met the other afternoon on
some outdoor scenes at GOTH
Fox for "Moontide." When a
squadron of planes wasn't
scorching the clouds, an actor
was blowing up in his lines or
some freak technical failure was
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23

subjected to regulation and control by
oovrnment.
Nothing is more clearly true than
that power and responsibility are Sio-
mese twins. Any effort to exercise
either without the other is not only
doomed to failure but to amendment
by the indignant public which is in
evitobIy the victim.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23
POWER AND RESPONSIBILITY

Miss Perkins. whose cobinet career
hos come In for considerable criticism,
my OF moy not be the oreotest Secre-
tony Of lobor since William NuckIes
Duok. But in her annual report to Con-
goress she said q mouthfuI.
Now that organized labor hos be-
Gems "on established American insti-
sl1tjon, sbe wornsd, II must look about
1t ths other established American
ptlcN yhtch become powerful
~ potionoI welfare, used
1onslbly. lost the con-
eecpls, and were then
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23
from
the Latest Books

Katherine Garrison Chaplin,
one of the very best of our con-
temporary poets, presents in her
new book, "Plain Chant for
Americans" (Harper: $2), q
series of distinguished lyrics
and ballads which are integrally
American, which are luminous
with spirit and intelligence.
Most readers will be especially
interested TO read "And They
Lynched Him On q Tree" so
stirringly presented with music
by William Grant Still a year or
two ago, and the title poem
which, with music by Still, the
New York Philharmonic present.
ed. Among the lyrics, the
groups Poems for America
and II" and New Mexican
Landscape" are especially fine.
Included in this volume is the
authors remarkable essay, 1.-THE
Quality of Poetry" which Is not
only a superb poets credo, but
q revelatory utterance on the
nature of poetry for all lovers
of the medium, all appreciators
of its flexibility and fitness In
contemporary life.
It has been the special genius
of John Masefield in recent years
that he has attained the status OF
Poet Laureate of England with
out becoming q reverend dodo in
the process.
Perhaps the example Of Rob-
ert Bridges, his predecessor,
haunted his poetic utterance. In
any case his most recent work,
"Gautama the Enlightened"
Macmillan: $3.50, has distinc-
ton and wisdom worthy of his
fine reputation. In the present.
alton of old legends in poetic
form Mr.. Masefield Is always
brilliant and the title poem here
with its companion "Mahdama's
Quest" retain that sureness.
Good also is Shopping in Ok
ford" though the fourth poem
included, IAN Art Worker" Il
disappointing. Recommended
for poetic conservatives.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23
BY PAUL HARRISON


HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 23-Ev-
erywhere in Movietown people
are extracting money from other
people for defense bonds. The
processes seem to be quite pain
less-a sort of game to see who
can devise new ways of selling
or using bonds or stamps.
Even mattresses, cab drivers
and shoeshine boys are being
tipped with defense stamps. The
gin rummy fiends now carry
sheafs of stamps and pay their
gambling debts with them. One
man who grumbled about it and
demanded a premium has been
practically ostracized by the
movie crowd.
The completion Of picture
no longer is a time when make
up experts, hairdressers, script
girls and the chief technicians
expect to get from the stars the
same gift wrist watches, desk
sets, luggage and liquor they've
received for years. Defense
bonds are given now, invariably.
Most impressive donation came
from Tommy Dorsey. Every
member of the big supporting
cast and crew, down to the last
chorus gal and carpenter, got a
SIS bond, and $50 bonds went to
featured players, director and
cameraman.
CLIPPED FROM CHECKS
At entrances to studio cafes
are desks where young actresses
sign up players and other en-
ployes in a plan by which the
movie companies deduct regu-
lar amounts from the pay checks
and buy defense bonds.
On the set of the Eleanor Pow
ell musical, defense bonds are
continuously being ratified off
and rapidly. Chorus girls sell
tickets on boards marked off for
seventy-five ascent chances.
BOMBER TROUBLE
l.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23
BY PETER EDSoN
Dolly Menits' Washington

Cosrospondent
WASHINGTON, Jan. D.
Every noble eouse develops its
rocket, but so far government
officiols oeree that the country
has been pretty honorable
about the war. Droft dodgers
on the first seIective service
registration numbered IS. 900
out Of two million, but in view
of Pearl Horbor, it is not onti-
cipoted thot the number Of
evoders on future registrations
will be so high.
There hos been bootleeoino
Of stroteeic moteriols to an un-
known degree because the pri-
critics division Of OPM hosn't
hod the nonpower to take in
ventory Of warehouses; and in
vestieote ruIe-breokine. Vio-
Lotions of price schedules have
been few, with public citotion
Of profiteerine heels number
ing only four.
In the line Of petty rockets,
the country hos behaved even
better. Philadelphia developed
q cose Of trying to sell rotten
rubber Cos masks left over
from the other war to the gull
Iible infirm and ooed. New
York experienced q little boot
logging Of Official civilian de-
Tense arm bands, the phony
oir-roid wordens thus equipped
using their forged insignia to
gain illegal entry or to sell
such questionable merchandise
as bomb proof sond. There
hove been q few phony war
charities. BY and large. the
American public hos b e e n
pretty we'll behaved through
out the emergency, and that
speoks we'll for the national
morale.
The big test is yet to come.
when rotionine Of automobiles
and tires and sugar and such
stuff creotes greater demand
and consequent ereoter oppor-
tunities for bootleeeine and
"bIock market" buying and
selling.
BUSINESS BooBY TRAPS
War or no war, the Federal
Trode Commission goes on
protecting the consuming pub
lie from the INSCRIPTIONS, just
as ETC has done since it wos
first created in 1914. Some Of
its recent charges, "oeose and
desist" orders and consent de-
crees, which don't get the pub
Iioity they deserve, would sur
prise you:
A New York publishing
house oereed TO quit odvertis-
ing q volume as the equal Of q
complete four-yeor high school
education.
A New York mail order
house wos charged with mis-
representation in offers Of new
silk dresses for 10 cents. 1t
developed that the merchon-
disc wos secondhand and only
part royon.
A Chicago "Secret Service
System" represented that its
detective school wos the equal
to years Of octuol experience
and qualified its students as
competent detectives.
A Chicago advertiser for q
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23
BOMBER TROUBLE
BY WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

The most talked Of hand OF
l941 will be that at Richmond on
which Mrs. A. NJ. Sobel opened
the bidding fourth hand, only to
have her opponents bid and
make a small slam.
South might have opened the
bidding, but chose a conservative
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23

We must divide the economic
pie fairly enough to make all
people and groups producing the
ingredients for the pie continue
in their effort of production
Albert w. Hawkes., president,
u. S. Chamber of Commerce.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23

We have to be tough in our
business. The mems hair is
turning a little bit curly with
all this attention from the wo-
men.-Sgt. Donald l.. Truesdale,
It's time to chuck the habit of
Marine at the Quantico station.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23
. SO THEY SAY

National security, the preser-
walton of a representative dem
ocracy, with free enterprise as
an fundamentally of national
progress-that is what we are
fighting for.-Alfred P. Sloan,
Jr., chairman, General Motors.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23
. BEHIND THE SCENES
m WASHINGTON

dog food maker cloimed its
product would prevent skin
troubles in dogs.
Potent medicine makers
claiming their proportions
will cure hoy fever, osthmo,
and everything from colds to
cancer ore constantly exposed.
A Minnesota school teacher
wos ordered to Geese and desist
selling courses on "Troinino
the Eyes to See Correctly"
which he claimed would eIimi-
note headaches and correct
neor-siohtedness and ostiomo-
tism without CLOSES.
Prize Of recent ETC inves-
tiootions, however, was the
cose Of q New York greeting
cord dispenser who Fastened
pieces Of ordinary limestone
on cords and sold them as "a
piece Of guaranteed genuine
stone from the original BIorney
Castle in Dublin. Ireland"
MCLEAN ESTATE
WASHINGTON sot up and
rubbed its eyes when it's No. !
hostess. Mrs. EvoIyn Walsh
Mclean, sold her 75-ocre es-
tote in the heart Of Woshine-
tons best residential district
for S million, the US. govern
ment buying the site for q
community housing project for
government workers. While
the sole price looks terrific, on
examination Of this deol shows
what erozy times these ore,
onywoy, and should dissuode
all ambitious people from ever
wanting to own q million dol
lars worth of reol estote.
On the District of Columbia
tax books, this property was
appraised at 81 ,32l,736 for
the land and SIS, 800 for the
house. totoI Of 81 .375,536.
District of Columbia real es-
tote taxes amounted to $l3,-
57l.9O per yeor. Since the
property now posses to federal
ownership it is tax free and
this sum is now lost to the Dis
trict revenues.
In determining the price,
reoI estote brokers ignored the
value Of the house and other
improvements assessed at
$50. 300. 1t wos simply q greet
big white elephant Of q place,
no good to anybody except as
on institution. The only value
Wos IN the land. Lots 81 X 10
feet in Washington sell for
from $500 to $1,000. Thot's
almost exoctIy q fifth Of on
ocre, so the price Of undevel-
oped real estote in the District
is from $l2.5OO to SIS 1000 on
ocre. Divide the 81 million sole
price by IS, the number Of
ocres in the Mclean estote,
and you get $l3, 333 per acre.
As Iowa form land, the es-
tote wouldn't bring possibly
Sl3O on ocre. But for the gov
eminent, it was q good deol at
q foir price.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23
AND II We FIGHT FOR FREEDoM-i

ANO " WE fJ0nu fOk fNEeOVM-1
In conspicuous, hiding like shy
violet in the crowdine news columns. is
brief story that Britoin and Ethiopia
have completed new agreement pro-
viding restoration Of full sovereignty
for that country under Halle SeIossie.
This is more important than the shy
little news item indicates. Have we for
gotten 1895, when MussoIin invaded
the helpless little country? How the
League Of Nations, Of which Ethiopia
was member protested, backed and
filled, proposed sanctions, and how all
the great powers Including ourseIves)
booked down on reoIIy putting pressure
on itoIy to stop? How the bloody and
unequal struggle went on, with reIuct-
ont young Neopolitons driven to victory
over the toterdemoIion forces of the
Neeus?
This. 1895, was when the policy Of
naked oppression, begun four years be-
fore by Japan in Asia, reached Europe.
Six years later, six years during which
the world has known no peace, Ethiopia
again becomes Independent. 1t joins
Free Syrio, given lost September the in
dependence which the Loeue promised
it otter World War |.
The independence Of these two
countries is more or less nominal today
and must be SO while the war goes on,
for neither can defend its new-won free
dom under conditions of world war.
Nevertheless, it is start, q sign.
Whot the allies must do is to mag
nifty, multiply, and give living reality to
these small portents.
The best way to rolIy the world to q
fight for freedom is to demonstrate, not
merely with words, but with deeds thot
those Of US who already fight, fight
really for freedom.
1t is fortunate, in sense, that the
japanese have drawn the line they
drew at Pearl Horbor. The Ione-dreod-
ed war OF the Eost oeoinst the West, the
brown-ond-yeIIow peoples Of the world
against the white, is not to be- Instead,
the Japanese have chosen q war Of free
peoples against miltoristio oeeressors,
and lined up the greatest Of yellow
peoples. the Chinese, and the greatest
Of brown peoples, the indians, on the
side Of freedom, while Germany and
Itoly have similarly divided the white
by lining up with the yellow japanese
on the side Of aggression. The line is
not color or roee line; it is line thot
divides freedom-seekine men from ro-
bots.
One deed in actually extending
freedom to peoples not yet free is worth
ten million words.
No better propaganda, no ereoter
force in uniting the free world, could
be unIsosed than octuoI deeds in max
ing freedom an increasing reoIity
onono oil peoples touched by the
power Of the United Motions.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23
GIVE TO THE AMERICAN RED
CROSS WAR FUND!

II takes money to heI p in wartime.
The American Red Cross needs that
money, and there is no time to waste.
The War Fund must be roised; not next
year, not next month, but NOW.
All Of you can give. You can give
your money just as others ore giving
their life blood. BY SO doing you toke up
your stotion with the Red Cross on the
front lines Of mercy. The goal won't be
reached until you have done your part.
Your part?
GIVE to the RED CROSS WAR FUND!
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23

feeling sorry for ourselves. even
though many of us enjoy it.
Sumner Slichter, Harvard
economist.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23
. FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY
1941


1941
Top-ranking officers of the
Army and Navy will testify in
secret session on probable ef-
feet of Lend-lease Oh American
armed strength. Large bloc in
Congress wants public airing.
Bloody program in Rumania
against Jews revealed as news
papermen escape across border.
Michigan's highest journals &C
award, a silver plaque indicating
top honors for general excellence
in the States non.metropolitan
daily newspaper field, is award
ed to Tie Daily Monitor
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23

When the modern girl bushes
you have to take her word for it.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23

When q speeder goes into .
ditch, chances are some pedeo-
tiAn y lucky.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23
YOUR PART

YOUR PART
A hondfu of Marines for doys held
Wake island against impossible odds.
They didn't have q chonce, and they
knew they didn't have q chance. But
there was thing called tradition to live
up to. They did their port.
Copton Colin P. Kelly, Jr, didn't
have chance either, and he knew it.
But there was job to be done-he too,
pIoyed his port.
In the Philippines, in Hawaii, in
China, on the high secs. American
fighting men ore doing their port, writ
ina into the record new chapters in
heroism and socrifice.
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
The American Red Cross has an
answer. When japanese bombs fell on
PeorI Horbor and Monilo, the Red
Cross was ready and in oction without
delay. You've seen the picturesque
lures Of terrified little children and
frantic mothers, the wounded and dead,
innocent victims Of warfare which no
longer recognizes civilians as non-com-
botonts.
In the pictures you saw other peo-
pie, men and women with Red Crosses
on their arms. who we're on the job
scarcely before the bombers we're out
Of sight.
Those Red Cross men and women
had but one thought in mind mercy.
They we're doing their part. They we're
relieving suffering where that relief
was most neededHot the scene.
Under their ministrotons thous-
onds Of human beings, some Of them
your former neiehbors-perhops the
man and his wife and the cute little girl
who soiled off to Manila year oeo-
are being helped.
In Army camps and defense out
posts, naval stations, oirdromes, any
spot where u. S. man is standing
guard over the future of America, there
the Red Cross fIoe woves. Those men
appreciate the Red Cross. To them it is
q breath Of home and the sympathetic
help they associate with home.
So. you want to know how you con
help2
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23
FIVE YEARS AGO
rOYS

FIVE YEARS AGO
1887
Mr.. and Mrs. John Mulligan
of Detroit wert the guests last
Sunday of Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence
Wondero.
Don Mullholland, Center Line
attorney and former Circuit
Court Commissioner, is serious
ly i'll with pneumonia.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23
50 YEARS AGO TODAY
1892

On Sunday last the Detroit
churches declared by a rising
vote in favor of enforcing the
liquor law.
Albert DeSteiger and wife
were in town Wednesday, hav-
ing Just returned from a visit to
Ohio.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23
60 YEARS AGO TODAY
1882

Jos. Lonsby's sales OF lumber
last year foot up $2l ,075.
Several thousand more baths
were given at the springs in 1881
than in 1880. At present from
40 to IS baths a day are given,
while the outlook for the year u
better than before. :.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-22
BY MARGARET RUSSELL

Here's the news that all the
roller skaters have been waiting
for. Announcement was made yes
tcrday by Fred Martin, secretary.
treasurer of the Roller Skating
Rink Operators Association OF
America that the state speed
dance and figure championship,
VIII be held March 81, April !,
and 3 at Arena Gardens and Ar
cadIa
Dates for each competition are
not definite rs yet SbeCauSe all
udCc, have not been selected. Ac-
cordIng 10 the sanction OF the
X. :. r O A., under whose aus
pJcc> all championships must he
held, Judges for these tournaments
must como from the state IN which
they are held
However, 1t is definite that the
speed and dance competitions Will
bo hold az Arcadia, with figures al
Arena Gardens
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-22
Five More Gel Bids
To Miami Coli Meet

MIAMI Fla. Foh ~ INSl .
Tho iDld lor the nineteenth annual
international iour-hall golf toH00-
u.r' Wa- completed tonOgi.t "l.H
invitation, extended - ivr rhf,
yat.,.. Tho 81 600 meet wI D.,
u sod over the Mlam -Btwuo
Country club course March S'oil
Invitations today We're som 80
John. Reyolta Of Evanston. H.
former winner Of the contest
Tony rcra Dayton O Jack
GroIN Pffston pa Henry Ran
some Philadelphia and Herman
KaIScI u Akron. O.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-22
Auto Club Five
Plays Fl. Wayne

The Auto Club basketball team,
which has received an invitation
TO participate in the worlds pro-
lfeSsional championship tournament
at Chicago, will get taste of the
kind of competition TO expect when
liz meets the Fl Wayne Pistons
ISunday night at Holy Redeemer
Gym.
Led by Herman Schaeffer. play
ling coach and captain from In
diana who played with the
Collegiate All-StarS against OSh-
Ikosh last fall the Pistons are one
of the top teams in the country
land currently are resting in second
place in the National Professional
League.
The meeting between these two
clubs will top off second round
IplayoffS in the Greater Detroit
Basketball Association. The four
Iundefeated leaders will meet in
IgameS Immediately preceding the
Feature clash. West Side Sports
taking on Cadillac at Z p m and
kadiSh meeting Saxon at s p. m.
The schedule:
4 80 p. m .-BrGes vs. Gem
80 ?. m, Trojans vs. Arthurs
90 p. nj. West Side Sports VS. Cadillac.