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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23
GnefStricken Gable Turns
TO Intensified Work Schedule

He has left II only twice since
he brought Miss Lombard's body
home Wednesday morning-to
attend funeral services for her
and her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth
X. Peters, that afternoon, and
services for his friend and pub
licity man, Otto Winkler, yes
terday.
He was waiting at the nearby
Burbank airport to greet Carole
Friday night when he received
word of the crash which killed
her, Mrs. Peters, Winkler and 10
other persons near Las Vegas.
New. He flew to Las Vegas, was
dissuaded from joining in the
search for the bodies-then went
into seclusion.
Friends argued that he should
plunge into work.
you've got to find something
to occupy your time; something
to do with your mind besides
BROOD" they told him.
Gable agreed to 60 ahead with
the picture on which he had
done one days work -" Some
where I'll Find YOU" He didn't
set the date and the studio didn't
asks him to.
1--WE will wait until Gable
feels that he is mentally and
physically able" a spokesman
said. HE has gone through q
horrible ordeal"
There's not q parallel case OF
any star losing an equally fam
Gus wife or husband 50 tragical-
ly and soon going back to the
lots.
Norma Shearer went into se-
clusion for q year after her pro-
Queer husband, Irving Thalberg,
died. She had threatened to re-
tire.
Mary Astor was out of pictures
several months after her hus-
band, director Kenneth Hawks,
was killed in an airplane crash
over the Pacific while filming
a picture.
William Powell interrupted
a picture to seek solace on q
yacht cruise after his fiance,
Jean Harlow, died in 1895. Five
weeks later, he collapsed on the
set. A physician said he was ex-
hausted and overwrought from
grief. Powell and the platinum
blonde had been inseparable.
So had Gable and Miss Lom-
bard.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 23-(P
Clark Gable, turned from a
swash-buckling, carefree prank
ster into a depressed, grief
stricken recluse by the tragic
death of Carole Lombard, will
seek solace in work.
The fun-loving screen star was
so anguished by loss of his beau
tiful blonde wife that he wanted
only to be alone. Shielded by
studio executives, Gable has
been so alone that friends be-
came alarmed at his depressed
brooding.
Gable hasn't yet CONT to his En-
cino ranch where he and Carole
lived so fully and joyous1y. He's
inseclusion at q friends home.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23
laps Predict
Collapse of
Malay Defense

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 23-
up - Total collapse" Of the
British defense system in Johore
State, in Malaga, sis impend-
ing" the Tokyo radio broadcast
last night, claiming the naval
base at Singapore is doomed"
The CHS listening post here
picked up the japanese assertion
of sweeping japanese advances
on the Malaga battlefront.
Radio Tokyo said:
1.-THE total collapse of the en-
envy defense system in Johore
State now is impending before
the terrific pressure caused by
the rapid advance of the Japa-
rese army units from two sides
towards Singapore.
Japanese columns, In hot
pursuit of the enemy forces over
the central highway leading to
the doomed British naval base of
Singapore, reached q point eight
kilometers south of Labs AT
1890 o'clock Thursday morning.
Meanwhile O t h er Japanese
units pushing southwark along
the western shore of the Malay
Peninsula Thursday afternoon
closed in on Yangping, a road
junction of the highway to Sim
gapore. Japanese columns which
occupied Endau are driving to-
wards Singapore along the east
ern coast of the Peninsula.
Labs is about 80 miles north
of Singapore. The Japa n e
claim that their columns have
advanced eight kilometers south
of Labs would place the advance
within 70 miles from the Brit
ish base. Endau also is approx
mately 80 miles northeast OF
Singapore on the east coast.
(The Japanese report agrees
as to the location of the present
fighting zone with Associated
Press dispatches from Singapore,
based on British military COM
muniques.)
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23
Ample Supply Of Auto
Paris IS Assured

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23-(&,
Don't worry If the family car
is in need of few parts-there'.
II be plenty to 60 around.
Realizing the importance Of
keeping cars in running order
now that new car production
has been banned, the war pro-
duction board has cleared the
way for immediate production
of huge stock pile Of spare
parts.
Producers intend to make
three times the number Of re-
placement parts sold during the
entire year Of l941 to meet de-
mands anticipated this year and
next. trt
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23
Plan Relief
for Defense
Shift .JObless

WASHINGTON. Jan. 23-(R
Workers in Michigan made
idle by the war program would
be cared for under a program
outlined in brief yesterday by
Howard O. Hunter, Federal
Works Project commissioner.
Hunter. estimating that 200,-
900 workers would be affected
by conversion of u o m o bile
plants to war production, said
his plan was under study by the
Social S ecurity Board and
would be operating by Feb. l.
Unemployment compensation
or the WPA will provide for all
jobless persons, Hunter said.
Persons ineligible for adequate
compensation, he said, will be
certified to the WPA for work
emphasizing training for defense
jobs.
Automobile workers, Hunter
said, equire a minimum of
training for such activities and
will need help only until plants
are retooled.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23

Come h and - ~ Wen exam}ne
your tires AesoughlYs estimate thsir
probable He, md thsa shew you
how with Yew eo-epssudea thal
lie eem b e-x.l-e-n-d-e-d IL &eu-
sands Of milsa perhaps even ies m
ad&tional Yems service.
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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23
Vuit Sailing
is Plea Of
Small Nations

0x JUN Il MCAN1Onx
RIO DE JANEIRO. Jan. 23-
R)-Irked over repeated delays,
q group of small nations-Hon-
duras, Cuba, the Dominican Re-
public and Uruguay-talked to-
day of drafting a quit sailing"
ultimatum to force action on the
anti-Axis resolution which has
tied up the conference Of Pan
American foreign ministers.
The little fellows Of the con-
ference were openly critical Of
yesterdays proceedings which
left them cooling their heels In
committee rooms while the dele
gates of Argentina. Brazil. Chile,
Mexico and the United States
wrangled behind closed doors
over the exact wording Of the
resolution calling for q diplo-
matte break with the Axis.
Some conference circles fore
cast that Mexico. Colombia and
Venezuela - the three nations
which introduced the original
anti-Axis resolution last week
might lead a bloc of smaller
countries In an attempt to force
the fight onto the floor Of the
full political committee meeting
tentatively set for 10 am. e am.
E.S.T.) today.
We've had enough Of hotel
room tactics" one delegate said,
pointing out that conferees took
it upon themselves to re-draft
the resolution before Il was ever
discussed by the subcommittee
Of the political COMMITTEES.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23

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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23
JAW. with
Murray i'm
Squabble

NEW YORK. Jan. 23-tR-
The executive board of the
United Automobile Workers
(CIO) yesterday pledged its
solid support to CIO President
Philip Murray in any move for
labor peace and rebuked John
L. Lewis for the manner in
which he made a peace proposal
decently.
A resolution adopted by the
board charged that the proposal
by Lewis. head of the United
Mine Workers (CIO) and former
CLIO president, was "a cross vio-
lation Of the democratic prin-
ciples which have always been
accepted and cherished by the
members of CLIO unions for the
administration Of their affairs. !"
Murray has agreed to submit
Lewis proposal to the CLIO exc
cutive board meeting here Sat-
urday although having written
him that any CLIO peace move
should come through the CLIO
presidents office.
The auto workers group also
adopted q resolution to be sent
Donald M. Nelson, war produc-
ton chief, and to automobile in
dustry management.
I'VE are prepared" the resolu-
ton said, Ito enter into negotia-
tons to work out an industry
wide, upgrading program on the
basis of full protection Of the
seniority status and wage STAN
dards Of the skilled workers"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23
Tremendous Patrol Action
Occupies Large FIotiIIos
kevy's Duty is Two-FoId in
Fov-Reochine Lanes Of Bottle

the Atlantic, with Japan In the
Pacific, with Italy in the Medi-
terranean. At the same tine, ii
must police with Britain the
sea lanes from Iceland to the
bulge of South America and,
with the British, Dutch. and
Australian navies, the vast Pa
cific as far as Singapore.
Fighting ships which might
otherwise be used to attack the
Japanese navy must serve as two
great mobile arcs of steel guard
ing all our continental coast
line.
They must see that German
ships do not menace the routes
to and from the eastern ports
of South and central America.
They must keep japanese ships
clear of the Western Hemisphere
from the Straits of Magellan to
the Northern Boring Sea. This
is a naval problem without
parallel in history"
The report went on to say,
however, that long before Pearl
Harbor the Nays ability to
give and take severe blows had
been shown in the waters be-
tween America and Europe, in
the months when it was obeying
the Presidents command to
shoot first"
And, it declared, both the
Navy and Marine Corps entered
the war with an unprecedented
peacetime strength"
"Their compliments OF fight
ing forces are being increased
with a speed that can be matched
by no other nation on earth Ut
this time"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23
Detroit Seeks
More WardenS
for Air Raids

DETROIT, Jan. 23-R-
Mayor Edward j. Jeffries, COM
menting 1--WE are not taking this
seriously enough" asked a bet
ter response from Detroiters to-
day to the recruiting of afraid
Wardens.
The city has set a goal of TO-
900 wardens but up to last night
only 1868 persons had volun-
teered.
Here, in the key production
center of the country, lets be
ready" Mayor Jeffries said.
otherwise, we may pay very
dearly for our indifference"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23
Here's Answer to Query Concerning Naval A.
Party Planned

RICHMOND - Plans for .
gala Millionaires Party to Be
held Tuesday at 8 pm. at the
]. c. Ernst Ford Garage here
were being completed today,
according to General Chairman
Ray Stecker.
The chance to be Million
aire for q Day" il expected to
attract q huge crowd, Stecker
said. Prizes will be awarded
during the evening.
Proceeds will 60 to the
KNIGHTS of Columbus.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23
Pa MET-TREMENDOUS

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23-(R
Those who have wondered
why the American Navy has not
taken a broad offensive action
against Japan in the Pacific
found an answer today in the
official report to the nation"
by the governments newly
created office of facts and fig
ures.
The Nays task, the report
declared, is "two-fold-it has
the greatest battle of its life on
hand, and it also has a tire
mendous defensive paholling
job to carry out"
THE Navy, like the rest of
us, is at war with Germany in
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23

CENTERVILLE, Ia. - Tires
are being rationed but still this
happened:
A motorist reported to Sher-
if Jack Bailey q thief stole a
wheel from his automobile but
left the tire behind.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-23

CHICAGO - During the Sec
ond act Of "Hansel and Gretel"
one of the angels tripped and
fell. Above the low means of
pity of the audience, the high
pitched voice of q small boy
shrieked:
Keep 'em flying!"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-20
Wearing Apparel

MEMS new shoes; buy now; nationally
advertised; Si3. so value. S5.e3, S765;
others. S3.95. $3.50; all sizes. Open TO Q,
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TUXEDO, size ~; Atwood suits, over
coats: shirts, sizes 16h-17 Private.
Trenton O6o9.
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Electric Refrigerators

ELECTRIC refrigerator. excellent running
condition. looks like new. very reason
able. 5000 MAybury Grand.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-20
Musical Instruments

ACCORDION, new. 17o base, $3.50, SAYS;
As base, SIS; beautiful large size, $3.50.
Open daily. Sundays. terms. Castiglione,
$3.50 Gratiot.
IPIANO-Upright, used; 5000. CITY
MUSIC. 74i2 MACK. Open ewes.
UNIVERSAL accordion, i2o base. like new;
reasonable price. 6e44 Aiddlepoint,
Dearborn.
WAETED-Baby walker, good condition;
-H!!I--Pay- sSed-PE.sss--v IssUood- 2-zsiz--
Monday.
WANTED-Piano, In good condition; viii
pay cash. Drexei 03O9.
WE BUY estates, fine arts, antiques for
cash. Mr.. Wigle, CL. 3232.
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ings in the big Sunday Tines Want Al
Sectionl
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-20
XMAS GIFT SUGGESTIONS
For Her

INFANTS and children's wear. Unusual
Toys Peter Pan. incorporated. Madison
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SeWing Machines

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BARGAIN sale on sewing machines. sing
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SIC 95 up. Electrics, S34. 95 up. Guaranteed.
SEWING MACHINE SALES CO.
1879 Broadway, at Grand River CA. 3ieJ
$3.50 Grand River az Trumbuli TIE. 1-1o3o
Free estimates on repairs.
WHITE, Singer. etc, used; we repair all
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Evening star., 1942-06-05
The Great Game of Politics
Full Facts Concerning the Rubber Shortage

the people to minimize 1t by cheer
full statements.
They are entitled to the undiluted
truth and they have not had it.
The politicians do not and will not
give 1t to them. Yet, those in charge
perfectly well know that more dras-
tic steps have got to be taken be-
fore this year is out.
For example, before 1913 the RFC
is expected to be buying boarded
and extra tires and two-car families
are to be asked to give up one car.
The Government will buy; there will
be no confiscation, but the two-car
owners are not going to be allowed
to remain two-car owners. Further
curtailment OF business users of
gasoline will be ordered, and every
effort made further to reduce ordi-
nary pleasure driving-by voluntary
cooperation if possible; by Govern
ment orders If necessary. 1t Is also
proposed to encourage the share
car" idea and to discourage the
holding Of large public gatherings
which wear out rubber, such as fairs,
conventions and big football games.
These and other methods to save
rubber are being discussed in WASH
ington and are in prospect for the
country. All of them may not ma
terialize but most are inevitable and
that ought to be understood. The
great bulk of automobile owners
not only are not going to get new
tires for long time but they are
not going to get retreads or sub
stitutes. This Is going to make q
change In the lives of a good many
people who do not appreciate it yet.
TOO Big" for Him.
1t Is a mistake not to acquaint
them early and fully with the facts
so they can adjust to the necessary
sacrifices. That is not being done.
Instead. the Presidents cheerful
ness over the outlook created an
incorrect idea Of the situation and
none of his subordinates who are
informed as to the facts had the
courage to say so. They not only
lack the courage to point out a
presidential mistake publicly, which
is natural and. perhaps, proper, but
they lack the courage to point it
out privately.
Illustrating this Is the story re-
Gently told by a man who sat in on
a White House conference. The
President had made a suggestion.
One Of his chief aides said: mo,
Mr.. President, I am afraid I do not
agree with you. I think you are
wrong" Then he caught q look
from the President and quickly
said. "One minute, Mr. President,
one minute. I see 1t now-it was
Just too big for me"
(Copyrtght, 1p42)
Evening star., 1942-06-05

reasonable, and humane speech,
foreseeing the entrance Of the
United States into a position of
world responsibility after the war,
not in the form of new impe-
rialism, but as co-operator in
the reorganization Of a world
based upon reason, realism, and
law. 1t was a deeply civilized
speech. And, like Mr.. Wallace's
historic utterance recently before
the Free World Association, it
was in a move in the direction
of clarifying war aims and
implementing the much too vague
Atlantic Charter.
Mr.. Raymond Clapper and Mr..
William Philip Simms supported
the speech. Mr.. Pegler, however,
without indulging in open attack,
wrote q column which was a
straight torpedoing of every war
aim the administration, or any
other leadership in foreign affairs,
has yet articulated.
And Mr.. Pegler's argument was
heated and instinctual. He made
no appeal whatsoever to reason.
He registered a violent reaction
of 100 per cent Americanism."
All who think of any sort of
international order, universal or
limited, are political hopheads
walking around in a dream
immigration Question.
Mr.. Pegler went all out for the
exclusion of Asiatics from Amer
ican immigration, and, indeed,
from allowing white immigrants
citizenship! And, 80 the
United States are at war for the
sole purpose of defending this
country from a combination of
enemies And this is going to
be a white mans country
excepting for the Negroes already
here.
Now, If we are to think in
international terms, we must pre-
sumo that Asiatics prefer to live
in Asia and that assistance in
the development OF Asia, along
such lines as will raise the stand
ard Of living Of the peoples there,
must be postwar aim of the
western world, which until this
century has regarded Asia too
largely as territory for exploita-
ton.
did not gather from Mr..
Welles' speech that he was advo-
eating unrestricted immigration
into this country. One of the
problems of politics, science, en-
gineering and economics is to
open and develop huge empty
places on this globe, where hu-
man beings can live in decency.
Evening star., 1942-06-05

Job, which is to parry the major
Japanese moves, in order to pur-
sue the small task force which
must be operating in Northern
Pacific waters.
OF course, it is too early for
observers to formulate a definite
opinion regarding the enemy's
next moves in a huge war theater
like the Pacific. But in weighing
the consequences Of limited op-
erations, such as the Japs can
undertake in the Alaskan terri
tory, and those they might un-
dertake in a more profitable
area, which controls our sea
lanes to Australia, the proba-
bilities appear to be that the
Japanese high command will not
bother with anything more than
a demonstration In northern
waters. Their principal attack
Is likely to develop some distance
to the south.
Evening star., 1942-06-05
AUS TRALIA

have devised new plans. 1t Is
realized in Toxic now that
Australia, while not impregnable,
Is much better defended than
was at first realized.
An an-out attack on the
down under" continent Is no
longer a cinch. A Japanese at
tempt to assault the Australian
bastion with a large force Of
warships and transports may
give negative results-if not
worse.
To the surprise Of Japanese
military and naval commanders
who were relying on our trans
portation difficulties to hamper
our reinforcements, we have
succeeded In shipping great
quantities Of war materials and
other essentials to Australia.
Lesson Of Coral Sea-
Hence, unless the Japanese
cut the lines Of communication
between the United States and
territories under the control OF
Gen. Douglas Macarthur, their
chances of removing the thorn
from their Western Pacific flank
are remote. This is the lesson
the battle of the Coral Sea
taught the Toxic strategists.
Ever since the end of that
battle there has been progress
sive concentration of naval
forces and transports IN the
eastern bases Of Japan. The
destination of these forces is
more than anything elsa
matter of intelligent guessing.
In some quarters the theory
was advanced that the Japs
might attempt a landing in
Alaska. The value Of such an
operation is relatively slight in
the eyes of military men. No one
denies, however, the effect 1t
Evening star., 1942-06-05
Miss Thompson DepIores PeeIer's Reaction
To WeIIes' Speech on Americas Postwar Aims

Unrestricted and laissez-faire
immigration is not at all likely to
be result of this war. What is
needed is intelligent development
and expansion In connection with
planned immigration to new
areas, taking account of the fac
tors of climate, race and cultures.
But Mr.. Pegler, speaking i'm
moderately, out Of intense feel
ing, brands in his editorial every
thing non-American as un-Amer-
ican and poisonous. We have
become. he says, infected with
the very poisons which produced
the present condition of Europe"
If Mr.. Pegler had stopped to
think historically, he would have
realized that the creation Of
America was q work Of Eli
ropeans. and that not q single
altogether unique idea has been
born on American soil.
The United States started as a
British colony, fought for inde-
pendence. and established a new
nation. The Declaration Of In
dependence, the Constitution, the
system of law, and the mores of
society, all have their roots in the
culture Of Europe.
Child Of Revolution.
America is the child of the
Cromwellian British revolution
and Of the French revolution.
Our law is based on the British
common law; OUR spirit has i'm
bibed the spirit Of the French
revolution: our school and uni
versity system are direct de-
scendants Of British and conti-
mental systems. Without the
three main props Of western
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ration
atty and organized law-there
would be no America, as we
know it.
Mr.. Pegler is correct in saying
that all the ''poisons" OF Europe
have invaded us-both the poi
sons and the antidotes. And the
process has worked both ways.
Europe in the last generation,
especially technologically, but
even culturally, too, has become
enormously Americanized.
But European poison" which
is the prime contributing cause
of this war, is imbibed by Mr..
Pegler himself; in fact, he has
become political hophead" on
this extremely intoxicating and
poisonous brew. That is the
strong poison of nationahsm.
What does Mr.. Pegler think
Naziism really is? 1t Is One
Hundred Per Cent Germanism.
1t Is the thesis that everything
not German be it Christianity,
Roman Law, Greek and French
Rationalism-the very founda-
tions Of western civilization-is
poison" 1t is the elevation Of
the nation into q sublime and
all-embracing mystique, outside
of which there is no assimil-
able truth, and no possibility Of
other loyalties.
I do not join with those who
are hitting out blindly at Mr..
Pegler. I wish to plead with
Mr.. Pegler. I wish to beg him to
think more carefully. For if he
does not, he will find himself
one Of these days landing plop in
the camp Of the totalitarian
nation states where he, of all
people, least desires to be.