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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-05
, HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

be seen working out at various
sports on the beach Fairgrounds.
She's Best known, though, as q
weight litter, and in the three
standard events she can hoist
lis, 125 and l40 pounds.
All such strenuous pastimes
are the result of a logged cam
paign of exercise to rescue her.
self from the crippling effects
of her early motorcycle accident.
Movie stunting is the first job
that ever paid her very well.
II learned riveting and worked
at an airplane factory, but
couldn't stand the clatter and
monotony," she said. II tried
being waitress at a drive-in
stand, but they found out ! was
Mt IL and fired me; thought I
couldn't take care of myself,
apparently"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-05
. MCKINNEY ON BRIDGE

two-bid inaugurates the show
ing of controls for slam pur-
poses, and 50 does the Jump
take-out of a one-bid.
Today's hand IL cited by
Weiss as an example under his
system. North's bid Of two
hearts says. Partner, respond
just as you would If ! had open
ed the auction with two hearts
provided of course that you
have not made q psychic bid"
South's bid of two spades
guarantees the ace. North now
bids three diamonds to give
South q chance to show the dia-
mond king, il he has 1t, by q
raise to four. Lacking any kings.
South would bid three no trump,
but he Is able to bid three spades
to show that king. North bids
four clubs to find out about the
queen. w
South's five hearts now says
several things. First, ! don't
have the diamond king you ask
ed about. / do have the heart
support. I do have the club
queen, or would not have
jumped.
North knows that South had
the club ace for his opening
bid, since he did not have the
diamond king. He can see that
he can discard his losing dia-
mond on the king Of spades. So
he bids the grand slam. In
duplicate South goes to seven
no trump.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-05
: BEHIND THE SCENES
M WASHING one

previous engagement and rs
q hoymoksr. II Ieoves the COLI
or with the impression no has
been invited to lunch BY this
greet man, congressman or 3D.
ninistrotor, and he Ieovss In
a glow.
"contoet Mr.. X over In
PDQ," is the most frequently
heard cliehe in Washington.
Only the name and the mi.
tioIs of the agency are changed
to fit the situotion. You never
"coII" Mr.. x, or go to see"
PDQ. You must "contoct."
A man in Washington Is
known by the contacts he
keeps.
GOES ON FoREvES
In contact, then, with the
man who knows just what to
do about your situation, you
stote the case again. whereup-
on you will meet up with these
additional cliches:
This isn't exactly In our de-
portment, but let mo put you
in contact with y"
I'VE used to handle this,
but that activity hos now been
transferred to QRS."
"The law creating this
agency doesn't give Us outhor-
ity to oct In this case"
From this you can see that
Washington cliehes have hid
den meanings. Here are q
few free transactions:
LET US Toxic this under od-
visement"-We don't know
the answer, but. we'll try to
find someone who does.
LET me coll you back on
this, loter"-This is the tenn
porory brush-off. The answer
is going to be MOI but its
eosier to soy that over the
telephone than to your face.
And as you leave, you'll in.
voriobIy get this cIoser-"lts
been q pleasure to be Of serv-
ice to you, pIeose call on me
again"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-05
FLASHES
OF
LIFE
sUPERsTTTIOUS

LOUISVILLE, KY.-Harold
e. Hileman, ID. believes justice
may wear q double blindfold on
the 18th Of the month. i
United States Commissioner
Ray H. Kirchdorfer set tho
youths hearing % ehatges' Of
Stealing Is automobiles for Feb.
Is. Then the commissioner
changed the date to Feb. II
when Hileman pointed out the
two 13s involved and said he
was superstitious.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-05
~ AsllA "A THREAT
10 WHoMS

The test of whether the United
sSkctes has come to an appreciation Of
HE Job before it may lie in what is go
ino on in Alosko
Just what is going on there, we
don't know. and thot's as it should be.
But Il is cIeor that there can be two
approaches to what is going on.
Are we still thinking in terms Of
ti,e defense Of Alaska" as we thought
of HE defense Of the Philippines" and
the defense of Howoii"? Or are we
thinking in terms Of Alaska as q
Jumping off place" for an ottock on
the heart OF japan?
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-05
STRONG CONSTITUTION

STRONG CONSTITUTION
MILWAUKEE, -WalkinK
across q trestle, 9-year-old Ruth
Miller was picked up on the cow
catcher of q street car and car.
ried rs feet. When the car stop
ped suddenly she fell ~ feet to
the ground, with three wires
breaking her fall.
Although she suffered q scalp
laceration, she trudged up =
steep embankment to q nearby
house. At q hospital, where slae
was given a blood TRANSMISSION
and put to bed, attendants said
her condition was fair.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-05
" pgTgR gDsok
Deity Meaites WeshlWeten
GAseoaoanAnnA

WASHINGTON, Feb. S.
The copitoI Of your United
States is reoIly something to
marvel at. The bio things II
GETS done-the woy II does
them. It's the .'how" that
coils for the omozement.
Things haven't yet been re-
dueed to the simplicity OF q
bunch Of robots ormed with
rubber stomps-put a paper in
front Of them, they scan ii, it
OK, the right hond comes
down with q freshly linked
"APPROVED," IL NC. the left
hand comes down gently with
a "RECEIVED AND CON-
TENTS NOTED" stomp and q
voice from q loud speaker in
the oeored but outless interior
Of the robot cIeors its throat
and soys, "PIeose leave this
with me for Investigation"
Thot stooe hosn't been
reached yet. but the condition
once removed from It has been
achieved. For lack Of q bet
ter term it might be called,
"Government by CIlches. II
Is really remarkable how cosy
II Is to run q government with
a few weII-chosen. stereotyped
phrases.
Just glance at q Few Of them:
The first cIiche that q visit
or to Washington encounters
is. nm sorry, but we have no.
thing ovoilobIe until Thurs
doy." This Is spoken by oil
the hotel clerks in reply to re-
quests for q room. The only
way to get around this is to
make your reservation in 3D.
vance and get it confirmed.
If q stronger goes to see his
congressman, he runs into
Congressional Cliche No. re.
served for constituents and
voters-"How con be Of help
20 you while you're In Wash
inoton?" The fIowerier oro-
tors and smoothies will add.
"Proy command me-" or ~
am, you know, but a servant
of the people," The net eff
feet Of these cIiehes is usually
to stortIe the visitor 50 that
he ends up by opoIoeizine for
the intrusion and walking out
with nothing more than q
hondshoke. The way to call
this congressional bluff is to
demand q hotel room.
NUMBER 3 4 PASS
When q visitor does get his
problem told to-someone in the
government, he will encounter
CIiche No. 81 know just
the man to toke core Of your
cose." This is what might be
known in football as q line
Shift. It has the effect Of
throwing your guards and
tackles off balance and yot
pull in your ends. Watch fol
q pass. You ore about to be
passed on to someone else. A:
you ieove, you will have din.
ned into your ear these add.
tionoI cIiches, with voriou:
notifications:
~ fully sympothize witt
your problem"
"i'II see that this intoleroble
situation is corrected"
Next time you're in WASH
inoton, let's have lunch to-
eether."
This last one is usually de.
livered while the speaker
elonces at his watch with ar
apology for not being oble te
buy lunch that day because Of
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-05

HIGH POINT, N. C.-"Boy,
it's chilly In here" commented
clerk Of court I. S. Ingram as he
closed q courtroom window.
Then he discovered that on the
jury were John Breeze and H.
B. Blizzard. The court stenogra-
pher was Miss Ida Snow.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-05
. FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY

ONE YEAR AGO TODAY
19ll
Daily Monitor Market Basket
Contest is won by Mrs. George
DeLaRue.
The Gay Nineties plans were
progressing rapidly.
FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY
1887
The Mount Clemens basket
ball team was preparing for their
tilt with Monroe, and st. Mary's
drilled for q game with Ferndale.
Survey shows that Mount
Clemens businesses experience
slight decline over previous year.
50 YEARS AGO TODAY
1892
Next Spring Mount Clemens
will have q great, big street
sweeper that will clean the pave
ment more quickly than Is men.
Pupils In the public schools
get through with their examin-
atoms only to be assailed by
mumps.
IS WARS AGO TO-DAY
1857
The OddfellowS masquerade
last night was q huge affair.
Reuben Ullrich has secured
the agency Of the Palace Queen
heating ftsrnsce, for Macomb and
g. Clair county. and PROPOSES
- make things wake UP.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-05
JUMPING Up AND DOWN
DOESN'T HELP

No situation is more trying to the
soul Of man than to be helpless to pre-
vent the destruction Of something one
loves; to watch catastrophe as one
sometimes does in dreams when one
cannot lift q finger to overt it.
This sort Of situation requires
courage and steodfostness. We have
to show it now.
General MocArthur's men in the
Philippines ore showing q courage
and skill seldom equoled in military
annals. Against heavy odds they have
injected so much hope into hopeless
situation that it seems that help
might even bring them victory. Every
instinct cries "Get them that help,
somehow" For those not charged with
military responsibility, it is easy to
cry out, WHY isn't something done?"
Thot is jumping up and down.
Thot is hond-wringine 1t does pre-
ciseIy no good. and it may do q greet
deal Of harm.
One u. S. senator cries out thot if
the expedition sent to ireland had
only been sent "ocross the Poetic" it
would have been much BETTER Does he
imply thot the sending of q few thou
sand troops to ireland actually pre-
vented the War Department from
sending as many troops to the Pacific
as shipping facilities, conveys, and
japanese blockade permit?
The question answers itself. There
are plenty Of troops in the country.
The number that can be sent to the
Poetic is limited, not by the number
sent to ireland, but by foetors Of trons-
port. convoy, and the naval situation
in the Poetic.
Another senator cries, ." am sim
eereIy hopeful that someone is think
ing Of getting assistance to the forces
fighting in the Far Eost."
Thot is really below the belt Would
the senator soy outright what he inn
plies, namely, that nobody is thinking
about it? He knows better. He knows
very we'll that the War Department is
thinking furiously about it. One won
ders if this senator would like to as
sumo personal responsibility for send
ing transports into Manila Boy
through the japanese naval screen
that hangs like chain from Wake,
Guam and the japanese mondoted
islands past New Guinea, Borneo,
Sorowok and Indo-Chino to Hong
Kong. ProboP ply he would not. Yet in
implying that Army and Navy outhor-
tiles have not even considered the
prospects, he suggests that they should.
The country has right to- expect
that the War and Navy Departments
will toke every possible step to relieve
Macarthur and the whole situation in
the Far Eost that offers better than q
$3.50 chance Of gaining more than it
loses. Should it ever develop that less
than this was done, somebody will
sweat for it. But merely to jump up
and down shouting why doesn't sone-
body % somethne!" is Of no help.
All this is better understood by s.
per cent Of the American people than
by certain members of the Senote
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-05

the heart Of japan?
Alosko was never any menace to
Tokyo in the days before the war. and
there is no excuse for any Pretense
that il wos. Up to 1899, Alaska was
totally undefended. The lonely few
hundreds Of infontymen who eorri-
soned that vast land were no threot to
anybody. Tokyo can never claim that
tho United Stotes bod done in Alaska
what Nippon had been doing for 20
yenrs in the inundated islands in the
South Poetic.
Jopon has chosen war. Sudden and
uhdecIored war without shadow of
oseouss. Very we'll. Nov Alaska is
sQn,ething else oeoin.
Alosko can be q threat to North
America. Should the Jops succeed in
tho South Poetic, they might we'll turn
70 the North Pacific, and Try to secure
this foothold on North America within
reody bombing distance Of the United
Stotes west eoost. Against this we are
preparing to defend Alaska and our
selves. Thot may be assumed.
Hos not the whole course Of the
war thus far proved that we must do
much better than that? This long series
lot desperate reor-euord actions be-
ginning in Poland in the autumn Of
1899 lis there to be no end Of them?
m We Of the free notions perpetuoIIy
e wait for attack and fight those long,
heurt-breokino reor-euord actions?
Not forever. Alaska can also be
mode q threot to Japan. Dutch Horbor
IS actually closer to San Francisco
than IS Hawaii, and it is closer to Jo-
pan, too. The Iond-bosed oirpIone
strength that will keep japanese naval
force away from Alaska; the bomber
strenoth that will at length make Jo-
pon feel at home what she has visited
! On 9 hnIf-dozen peoples-these may be
bosd on Alosko. industrial Japan is
Erct nov within bombing range Of the
Ab6sl<on bases. But new planes, new
bopes, new developments may we'll put
+ In range q little later.
Defend Alaska? Certainly. But
~ = not enough. We may hope thot
eeent proportions going on in
n kn ore oimed at carrying the war
jepon; which is the way it will be
\ n he end
nm lo, thseot to whom? The way
~ 0ssewsr That question may
- wlsethsr w have before
- Mr. thrsotsnIno our Own
~ y a 4 soIottvsk short one
~ ovos Joponsss terri
f.<*k ~ ~, .<s&i NJ W 81,
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-07-21
RED CROSS CANTEEN,
NUTRITION CLASSES
TO START ON FRIDAY

Red Cross Canteen and Nutrition
Glasses are scheduled to begin in
Juneau on Friday, July "a, it was
announced today by Mrs. Florine
Housed, Canteen and Nutrition
Chairman. This will be the only
opportunity for such a course and
those interested should sign up i'm
mediately and get in at the be-
ginning
The courses will be offered sep
arately and each will require a
minimum of 20 hours attendance
in order to qualify for Red Cross
certificates which will be issued
upon completion. The cant en-
course will be given on Monday,
wednesday and Friday from 10 a.
m. until noon and will be limited
to 30 women.
Nutrition classes will be held the
same days from l to 3 pm. Both
classes will be given in the parlors
of the Northern Light Presbyterian
Church.
Miss Virginia Shattuck, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Allen Shattuck, will
teach the classes. She received her
Bachelor of Science Degree from
oregon State College and is now
supervisor of Home Economics fol-
the Public Schools in Everett, Wash.
Prior to holding this position, Miss
Shattuck was associated with the
Prudence Penny Department of the
Seattle POST Intelligencer in demon
stration work During the last few
months she has been teaching Red
Cross Canteen and Nutrition Glasses
in Everett.
Women interested in canteen work
should telephone Mrs. Housed, az
488, Immediately, as it will be i'm
possible to handle group larger
than 80. Those wishing to take the
nutrition course may sign up at the
church on Friday.
All persons are requested to have
a pencil and permanent notebook
with them.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-07-21
Phone Girls Were
From The Blue Book

SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA,
July 1.-Two attractive Australian
women nave been working as re-
ceptionists in a building housing a
large department of the United
States Army.
Not until the women started in
viting the American soldiers to Sun
day tea at their homes did the
yanks discover that the "phore
GIRL" were Australian socialites -
Mrs. Elaine BesSemer- Clark, daugh-
ter of former world tennis singles
champian Sir Norma Brooke, and
Mrs Thelma Patterson, sister-in
law of Lady Kingsford- Smith, wild
ow of Austraiia's most famous flier.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-07-21
Wide World Features

NEW YORK Gloria.
they call her, the golden haired
ballerina on wheels = Sonia Henie
without ice.
She's the cutie who is making
roller skating click at the box office.
Gloria Nord-her real name is
Nordskog-is 10 and almost a nov
ice, comparatively, at roller skating.
She won only one amateur tourna-
ment, the 1941 Southern California
waltz championship, before she was
selected to star in the croSs-coun-
try tour of Roller Skating Vanities
of 1912"
But she's fine skater, has poise
and glamour, looks and figure, and
the customers like her.
Noting the quick success in re-
cent years of the ice skating ex-
travaganzas and remembering that
a large chunk of Americans skate
regularly at some 1000 Kinks, pro-
meters decided to launch a show
on roller skates.
1t caught on and will be re-
peated next year. The show has
dancers, spinners, jumpers, COM
les, ballerinas and even jugglers on
wheels.
Gloria is five feet three, weighs
liz and has blue eyes. Ehe was
reared in Hollywood, naturally with
an eye to the movies. And she did
act in several kid roles and later
as dancer in shorts. Her dancing
lessons were good background when
she became interested in roller
skating and with comparatively
little experience reached stardom.
It's a theatrical show but the
ousands of youngsters, and
grownups, who skate, still regard it
as sport.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-07-21

Sugar is the purest form of energy
known.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-07-21
f. ]. MINER IS HERE
ON HIS WAY SOUTH

E. j. Miner arrived in Juneau
last evening with Woodley Always
on his way to his headquarters IN
Seattle.
Mr.. Miner is auditor for the In
dependence Gold Mine and has
been in Alaska for the last month
on his annual inspection of that
mine.
Independence is located in the
Anchorage vicinity and employs 100
men for twelve month season. Mr..
Miner says that conditions are be-
coming better and better for the
mine.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-07-21
BUY DEFENSE STAMPS
Nor1cE IS HEREBY GIVEN

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN:
That on July IA, 1912, in the Com
miSsioner's Court for Juneau Pre-
cinct, at Juneau, Alaska, Walter B.
Heisel of Juneau, Alaska, was ap-
pointed executor of the estate OF
Chester K. Trip, deceased.
All persons having claims against
said estate are required to present
them, with verified vouchers as re-
quired by law, to said executor at
the office of his attorney Howard
D. Stabler, Shattuck Building, Jul
neau, Alaska, within six months
from the date of the first pubhca-
ton of this notice.
WALTER B. HEISEL,
Executor.
July 14-21-28 Aug. 4.
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EYES EXAMINED

and BROKEN LENSES replaced in
our own shop. DR.. Rae Lillian
Carlson. Blomgien Bldg. Phone $50
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81 YEAR old !,
MARRIAGE OF
MAE west OVER
Film Actress, Vaudeville
Dancer Divorced in
California

LOS ANGELES, July 21-Blonde
Mae West and vaudeville dancer
Frank Wallace came to the end Of
marriage started in 1911 and
which they managed to keep secret
for "a years TODAY.
Wallace, gray haired and slight,
came to court and withdrew a suit
for monthly separate maintenance
against The former film actress.
Then Miss West was asked to re-
ceive the divorce decree under her
cross complaint.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-07-21
N0ELE(TI0N
FOR ENGLAND

LONDON, July 21-British Prime
Minister Winston Churchill declined
today in the House of Commons
to commit himself on calling of a
general Parliamentary election be-
fore the end of this year.
Some demands have been made in
various quarters that an election
would show the reflection of pub
lie sentiment.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-07-21
AIeuiian Filters Are
Showing Greatest OF
Bravery Against Odds

Continued from Page one)
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BLITZED DOGS GO WILD

LONDCN-Packs of dogs took
possession of blitzed areas of East
London in the days of heavy raid
ing, said the National Animals AS
ISOLATION report, and many of them
became wild and dangerous.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-07-21
CENTENARIAN

CALHOUN CITY, Miss.-Mrs.
Martha Jane Stewart, who cele-
brated her Tooth birthday June IL,
has six children, 40 grandchildren,
118 great grandchildren and 80
great great grandchildren.
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Continued from Page One)
have made prudent use OF their
lives and planes, but that every day
new planes arrive to replace the
fallen.
Many Are Dying
They may as we'll prepare to make
posthumous awards. AS might be
expected, the losses are heavy.
Heavier than the censor would care
to let me say.
Everybody who knows anything
about it now knows that the Gaia
nnas have tough going against the
anti aircraft fire of the Jap and
their fighting planes.
The Catalina, the Nays ply, Is
a huge magnificently durable, lar
ranging airplane, ideal for long
patrols and rough landings in these
uneasy waters. But you can't have
everything.
They are big and slow. Too big
and slow. They are planes whlch
make nice targets for the opposl-
ton. Catalinas began to catch 1t on
their first flight.
Got One Early
When Jap bombers dropped over
Dutch Harbor, one Catalina was
taking off when the bombers came
in but it never got free OF the
water. A marauding Zero cut him
up and with machine gun fire killed
two men, wounded a third and set
the plane afire as it ran aground.
During the first day, another
Catalina was forced down at sea and
abandoned Is miles from shore. The
next day another was shot down in
flames off UnalaSka, her crew dead
at their stations. Still another went
hunting for Jap carriers hiding IN
the mists and didn't come home.
Two days later, a patrol boat found
pieces Of wreckage and the pilots
floating body off Scotch Cap OF
Unimak Island He got away as a
machine gun burst but not much
was left of him.
Use Rubber Rats
In the first 48 hours OF the in
vasion, the Catalina landed only
when it was too tattered to fly any
longer or ran out of fuel.
Many flew out and never came
back. One was disabled at sea and
when the crew landed and launched
a rubber crash boat, Zeros machine
gunned the American filters in the
water.
On the third day, as the battle
moved westward, the Catalinas
drummed through the murky sky
hour after hour, seeking to reestab-
lish contact with the Jap carriers,
then hanging out somewhere in a
snowstorm in the face of a cold
front below Seguam Island.
That day they began to carry tor
pedoes aboard planes not even de-
signed for the relatively easy job
of toting bombs. One Cat was dis
abled trying to bomb a carrier from
17O0 feet AS might have been ex-
pected, the ack ack got him and
carried away most of one engine
installation
Stick to Enemy
Another ran into a formation OF
Zeros near Egg Island and went
down in flames.
1t had sleuthed back and forth
through patches and fingers OF fog
until he found one carrier, and
thereafter he stuck to the enemy
like a process server despite the
Fostering zeros, staying until the
ack ack shot away rudder. Later
he crashed into the sea.
Snow and rain compounded the
felonious fogs drifting in these cold
waters and the crews landed to
stoke up with coffee and sand
wiches, load their tottering, battle
worn crates with fresh bombs and
gas, and take off again in the murk.
One Cat maintained contact with
the Jap main body for 16 hours be-
fore the Zeros drove him off.
On the fourth day, the Task Force
Commander voiced his admiration
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PRINCE RUPERT
HALIBUT PRICES

PRINCE RUPET, B. c., July I'll
One hundred and sixty three thou
sand pounds of halibut were sold
here yesterday at II to 1850 and
IA cents a pound.