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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-09
HENBANE,S NEST EGG

BIG TIMBER, M ont. - A
brown-leafed mountain plant in
terested George A. Campbell.
He took it to a chemist who
identified it as henbane, used
as a drug.
Campbell went back to the
woods. gathered 10000 pounds.
A pharmaceuti c a l company
took il all at $1.25 pound.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-09

Mr. Roosevelt found three bad spots in our war
effort-Congress, the Press and the Rodio and GER
tain minor members of his own encourage who, he
soys, have been talking too much.
Congress- he soys, is bad because Congress insists
upon investigating the conduct Of the war; 1t should
1T, he thinks, because congressman don't know
enough They should mind their own business.
1 Whot is Congress business? The Constitution soys
il is to eeisIote. How Congress leesIote inte-
gently unless it inquiries into those notters requiring
legislation?
The people, and we, have been and are severely
critical Of Congress- But not on the ground that it
seeks to educate itself. Quite the contrary.
The press and the radio, too, write and talk Of
things Of which they know nothing, says Mr. Roose-
Welt To which reply tho the press at Ieost, spores
no effort to get all the foets-othoueh often, by re-
quest Of censorship, much that knows is not printed
Undoubtedly congressman, reporters, coIunnnsts
and administrators do talk out Of turn, at times So
does the President whose words by virtue Of his posi-.
ton, CORY the most weight Of all.
The public hos been ahead Of Congress, and much
Of the time ahead Of the White House, The press and
the radio have reported that foct regularly.
We hope there will be greet progress in tougher
ina up, nov thot Mr.. Roosevelt knows that he need
not woit for public sentiment to coteh up.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-09
CASTING AsPERsIoks

After two-week, 8754-miIe biecircle tour OF
the United States, President Roosevelt informed q
pressconference that the people Of the country are
oheod Of Washington in their understanding OF war
needs and in their willingness to respond.
The President has confirmed what we, and other
newspaper writer's, have been insisting for months
There hos not been the slightest doubt in our mind
since few days otter Pearl Horbor that the people
were oheod Of Washington and we're gaining tost.
Newspapers have been certain Of this, among
other reasons because in the aggregate they have
spent millions Of dollars to send skilled observers
ground the country and to exchange the results OF
their research They have gone to gross-roots for their
information, seven days week and "a hours doy.
Thot is why Mr.. RooseveIt's accompanying re-
mark, that the newspapers doing harm by print
ma whot they do not know-ond that he knows bet
Ter because he has been around the country and the
reporters have not-wos nconsiderote and, Presunn-
obIy, urconsidered.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-09

age IS. This l per cent deduc-
ton is applied to only the first
$4,000 of the wages. In other
words, it costs you a maximum
of $50 a year.
This present law calls for this
rate to be doubled automatically,
Jan. /, 1943. In other words, it
would cost you up to $50 a year
and cost your boss the same
amount. The Senate Finance
Committee has recommended
that this increase be suspended
for a year, however, SO the
amount you pay next year is
still to be decided.
But now comes the Eliot bill
which proposes among other
things that these payments on
people now covered be raised to
S per cent for both you and your
employer for 1943-1945, then 60
to 5 1-2 per cent for 1946-1948
and end up at 6 per cent thereaf-
ter. If this bill became law, 1T
would cost you up to $3.50 next
year, and it would cost your
boss up to $3.50 year for each
employee.
The Eliot bill would further
BROADEN the Social Security
structure by taking in some 80
million citizens not now covered.
Included would be lis million
agricultural workers, "a million
domestic workers, 6.5 million
employees of public government
and non-profit agencies, SIS mil
lion self-employed workers like
insurance statesmen and store
keepers and from 2 million to 4
million people on relief work
projects. These 80 million peo-
pie would not all pay the per
cent to 6 per cent rate, but vary
ing rates of from 2 per cent to 8
per cent.
Not only that, but the Eliot
bill would also extend Social
Security benefits to the million
to 10 million men in. Army ano
Navy-men (and women) who
may have left jobs in which they
were piling up Social Security
benefits in civilian life-without
them or the Army or Navy hav-
ing to make any payments.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-02
FUEL OIL STAMPS
 EXPECTED SHORTLY

Although rationing stamps are not yet available in this city, fuel oil is now a rationed commodity Anyone purchasing fuel oil at the present time must give the dealer an T. o. D." for the ration stamps, and turn the stamps in later when they are distributed.
 Fuel dealers must take an i1aven- tory of their oil supply as of Oct. 1. If the dealer purchases any oil before the stamps are issued, he must also give an I. O. U. for the amount.
 Even with the beginning of ra- tioning in this city, fuel oil con- sumers are flooding the dealers with orders. It s expected that the ra- tion stamps will be issued on Oct. IS.
Evening star., 1942-06-28

q MOVIE producer. an amiable, substan-
tial citizen of middle age, sat in his
. Hollywood Office a few years ago
awaiting the appearance of young lady who
had just arrived from New York.
She came in. He looked up over his spec
tacles, smiled and rose from his chair. Hello,
darling" he said, advancing benignly to greet
her.
The young lady picked up telephone from
the desk and fired it at him with all her might
The cord stopped the main part of the instru-
ment in mid-fight, but the receiver went on
to the mark striking the producer on the
noggin.
''Don't you call me 'darling'!'' she
painted. 81 know all about Hollywood!''
She ran out of the office.
What the matter?" asked the producers
secretary, whose startled face appeared at
the door.
The producer was dazed. Il don't know
Evening star., 1942-06-28

as a spitfire on wheels. Hollywood was right
- she was, and it was a good thing. She was
going to need every bit of the spirit thus indi-
Gated
Miss Goddard got into show business
through pull. That is, Florenz Ziegfeld was a
friend of her uncle, Charles Goddard, and
she was given job simply because she pes
tered Mr. Ziegfeld until he gave in. She was
Ia at the time. Mr.. Ziegfeld not only prom
ised her part in his "Rio Rita" but put her
name on the advance program. That was ex-
Evening star., 1942-06-28

darling" he said. Il said, Hello, darling
and she - conked mt"
'Oh, that's too bad, darling" the secretary
said. Maybe she doesn't know that we use
darling instead of semioolons out here. Shall
warn the other producers?"
Eyes, darling" the producer said.
That was the end of Paulette Coddard's
les. And the hex lasted two years. not because
anybody was angry with the youngster, but
because they were scared. She was catalogued
Evening star., 1942-06-28

This frightened the little lady, who realized
that she didn't know very much about the
business She had studied dramatics in school,
but that was all. Further, Mr.. Ziegfeld
wouldn't tell her what her act was to be. 1t is
understandable that as time for her perform
ance drew near. on opening night, Paulette
nearly went nuts. Just as the overture struck
up and just as her reason was tottering -
Mr.. Ziegfeld took her by the hand and led
her to an illuminated cut-out, half-moon
surrounded by imitation clouds, and told her
to sit down in the moon. She did, and he left
her.
The curtain went up and one young man
after another strolled past and sang to her. :
That was ALL But she stuck to the job. and
finally got into the chorus, then was given a
speciality to do, and she made quite hit by
the time the show had finished its run.
Two Yoaxs - . Wait
k1ER next stop was Hollywood. as we have
seen. But the Hello, darling" jinx lasted
until one day two years later. Charlie Chaplin
was looking for girl to play opposite him in
Modern Times" She wouldn't have to do
much acting, but must look lean and hungry
and waif-like Miss Goddard was just right.
and got the part, and Hollywood prophesied
big things for her. But Chaplin works slowly,
and the picture was two years in preparation.
When it finally came out. nobody remembered
anything about her and she had to start all
over again.
She got unimportant roles in two pic
lures, then went after the part of Scar
lett O'Hara in ''Cone With the Wind"
She fought tooth and nail for it - and,
what's more, she got it.
But the start of the picture was postponed
too often, and when more immediate roles
became available she bowed out. There still
is school of thought in Hollywood which
thinks that one of Miss Vivien Leigh's quail
fications for the part was her resemblance to
Miss Goddard
At any rate Paulette now entered a very
confusing stage Of her career. After she had
played modest part in The Women" and
opposite Bob Hope in The Ghost Breakers"
she was scheduled for stardom by Paramount.
1t didn't take. right away. First she was given
the lead in Cecil B. DeMille's Northwest
Mounted Police" an important picture, but
after she had learned the part it was shifted
to Madeleine Carroll Miss Goddard was
offered the supporting position. that Of half
breed girl, and she accepted it and stole the
picture.
She Arrives
NExr. she was cast in the sympathetic role
opposite Charles Boyer in Hold Back the
Dawn" For some reason her. studio borrowed
Olivia de Havilland for this, and once more
Paulette switched parts and did it cheerfully
- which is more than many Hollywood
lady would do.
Il backed all the way into this business"
she told me once, "and may have to back
some more But I'm getting there"
She got there all right. She went into Reap
the Wild Wind" as the female lead and she
made it stick. Before that picture was finished.
Evening star., 1942-04-28
Intelligent MuiIbox

A coin-operated mailbox that
automatically stamps, postmarks
and mails letters is in service in
Chicago.
Evening star., 1942-04-28
Workers Demonstration
Against Idle Plant Hi
3. the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
DETROIT. April "a Chrysler
Corp. spokesman yesterday accused
the United Automobile Workers
&C. I. o. of interfering with war
production by staging q demonstra-
ton at the gates of the Dodge truck
plant that kept approximately $50
employees from their jobs.
Some 400 workers, the spokesman
said, had been summoned to pre-
pare for assembly operations on a
new model under Army contract.
He said the demonstrators car
ried sign declaring This plant
operating for Hitler today" but
Morris Field, co-director of the
unions Chrysler department, said
placard reading This plant ia
working one day q week for Hitler
had been hung on a fence because
some of the men were mad because
the plant was to be idle one day
this week"
Mr.. Field denied workers were
prevented from entering the plant.
The corporation spokesman termed
the demonstration "one of those
finger pointing things to make the
company look bad. The reason we
were idle was because of q shortage
of materials"
Evening star., 1942-04-28
BY the Associated Press.

The Capital today awaited an
nouncement Of blanket price cell
ing on virtually all consumer goods.
A vertical regulation, preventing
prices from rising above the highest
levels charged by each dealer In the
month Of March, was expected to
be disclosed ut . press conference
scheduled for today by Price Admin
istrator Leon Henderson.
Advices accumulating for the last
month indicated the ceiling would
apply to retail, wholesale and manu-
facturers' levels.
President Roosevelt's Anti-infla-
ton message to Congress yesterday
gave q clear hint that rent controls
In wartime boom areas also would
be linked with the lid on prices.
"To keep the cost Of living from
spiraling upward, we must NIX cell
ings on the prices which consur1-
ers, retailers, wholesalers and manu-
facturers pay for the things they
buy, and ceilings on rents for dwell
ings in all areas affected by war
industries" Mr.. Roosevelt said.
Ofiicial sources had indicated
previously that announcement Of
the sweeping o. p. A. action was
waiting only on the Presidents
presentation to Congress Of an
omnibus anti-infiation program.
The o. p. A. plan Is expected to
follow the Canadian pattern of per-
mitting each store to set its own
ceiling, using the highest price 1t
charged in March as the maximum.
Thus, one store could continue to
charge more than another for the
same article, an arrangement per-
mitting quality" shops to continue
adding into their prices the cost of
higher operating expenses, delivery
service and other extras"
New legislation would not be
necessary for a blanket price order
or an extension of rent controls.
Mr.. Henderson has authority under
the Emergency Price Control Act to
abandon the "piecemeal" technique
so far used and to take blanket
action.
Rent controls can be set up in any
community merely by designating
it as a defense rental area. A score
Of communities were so designated
March II.
Rent Reductions Ordered.
In this connection, Mr.. Henderson
gave notice last night that o. p. A.
would take stern steps to enforce
rent reductions In these 20 areas as
prescribed by o. p. A. The COM
munities are given so days to reduce
rents by local action, and after that
time the Government may move In
If necessary to compel compliance.
The price chief said the 20 COM
munitfes would be surveyed imme-
diately, and that Federal regulation
would start with June rents II any
have failed to comply.
The expected price order, because
Evening star., 1942-04-28
Ducken Sees Need
OF New Government
In Prince Georges
Towns and Toxine Areas
Hove OutIived Usefulness
Civic Leader Declares

Declaring the governmental func-
tions of towns and taxing areas In
Prince Georges County have outlived
their usefulness and result In un-
necessary Implications. T. Howard
Duckett. attorney, banker and civic
leader, said last night that q new
system OF county government soon
will be necessary.
Speaking before the April meet
ing Of the Prince Georges Chamber
of Commerce in the Hyattsville Ele-
mentary School, Mr.. Duckett de-
scribed the taxing areas as make
shifts.
He said the present governmental
units were giving good service but
believed the county's rapid growth
would necessitate . change.
Mr.. Duckett referred to the heavy
demands now being made on the
services of the washington Sub
urban Sanitary Commission and the
Maryland National Capital Park
and Planning Commission. He is
q former member Of both bodies.
Co-Relation Is Lacking.
There Is no real correlation Of
effort between these commissions
and the various county agencies. he
said. He stressed, however, that all
these agencies are giving the best
cooperation they can under the
present forms Of government.
Robert NJ Watkins, member of the
Park and Planning Commission. told
the chamber that as far as he has
been able to learn, no provisions for
schools has been made in connection
with the housing program planned
near Calvert Hills by the Alley
Dwelling Authority.
He said the Authority has given
assurances the houses will be re-
moved after the emergency.
Committee Is Named.
Leland H. Cheek, president of the
chamber, named q committee to
keep In touch with the A. d. A. on
this matter. Members are Mr. Wat
kins, DR.. Harry j. Patterson, Mr..
Duckett and Paul H. Kea.
j. Robert Sherwood, director OF
the Prince Georges County Civilian
Defense Council, described the
efforts Of his organization and urged
the public to cooperate in every
way possible.
He said there are 5,400 volunteer
workers now enrolled in the county
defense organization, but there
should be $1,000 on the basis of the
countys 100000 population.
c. D. Anderson, chamber secre-
tary, spoke Of the intention of the
chamber to push the fight before
the Maryland Public Service Com
mission for better bus and trolly
service In the Metropolitan Area.
Fred w. Cast. Walter r. Mulligan
and T. Raymond Burch were named
to q Bus Service Committee.
Evening star., 1942-04-28
Suspect in 100 Attacks
Is Held in New York
Ey the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 28.-Eugene
Levine, 31-year -old auto wrecker
who authorities say has admitted
attacking more than 100 women, was
held in $500, 900 bail yesterday after
Kings County grand jury handed
down five indictments against him.
Shabbily dressed and unshaven,
Levine collapsed as the indictments
were being read Attendants sup
ported him until the reading was
completed.
Levine, 6-foot, 200-pound owner
of an auto wrecking business, was
arraigned before County Judge Sam:
uel S. Leibowitz.
Assistant District Attorney Ed
ward j. Heffernan said that Levine,
arrested Thursday and identified by
a number of women who said they
had been his victims, had admitted
attacking or robbing-or both-more
than 100 women. from Is to SIS, over
an l8-month period.
Evening star., 1942-04-28
"A. V. G. Being Disbonded; Pilots
May Join Army or Return to U.S..
ChennouIt's Recall
First Step Toward
Groups Dissolution
BY DANIEL DE LUCE,

WITH THE AMERICAN VOL
UNTEER GROUP IN BURMA,
April 20 CDelayed) The rough
and-ready members of the Amer
ican Volunteer Group, the
scourge of the skies for japanese
flyers in the battle of Burma,
apparently are going to step out
of their patched and battle
SCARED planes soon and disband.
Claire l.. Chennault, leathery old
United States flying instructor who
commanded the group and trained
1t into perhaps the greatest collec-
ton of war aces in the Far East,
has been recalled to active service
in the United States Army and
named brigadier general. 1t was
the first direct action toward dis
solution of the independent unit
which is credited with destroying
more than 200 Japanese aircraft
for the loss of less than 10 flyers in
combat.
(War Department sources In
Washington said no official &C
tion has been taken, but that
transfer of the A. v. G. to the
Army air forces had been under
consideration ever since the
United States became a belliger-
ent.
CA dispatch received from New
Delhi yesterday credited the A,
v. G. with downing 400 Japanese
planes.)
The pilots and technicians, many
of whom served in the United States
Army, Navy or Marines before they
resigned in 1910 to fight for China,
were given the choice of entering
the United States Army or returning
to the United States on or before
the expiration of their one-year
contracts in Chungking, it was un-
derstood. Many, 1t is believed, will
return.
Gen. Chennault streamlined his
volt nteer organization so it could
operate from almost any corner of
Asia. The ground crews and
mechanics could patch up a dam
aged plane with an almost miracu-
lous disregard of common practice,
Although part Of the Chinese
Air Force, the A w. G. depends
on the United States Army Air
Corps for replacement of planes.
Mechanics have received salaries of
$3.50 monthly and pilots $500 with
a bonus of $500 for every enemy
plane confirmed as destroyed.
Evening star., 1942-04-28
Hitler Talk Forerunner
To Peace Bid, Benes Soys

Bs the Associated Press
LONDON, April %. President
Eduard Benes of the Czech govern
ment In exile predicted today that
Adolph Hitler's Reichstag speech
Sunday would prove the forerunner
OF q Nazi attempt to obtain q stale
mated peace"
DR.. Benes, last president of free
Czechoslovakia, told a meeting of
the Foreign Press Association that
Hitler knows only too well that
the German people will not stand
up to a second winter of war in
Russia"
Evening star., 1942-04-28

trained them SO well that his first
pupils shot down AZ Jap bombers
at a cost of only 8 fighters. When
the A. v. G. was recruited and
arrived In China, he took COM
mand and taught the pilots the
tricks which enabled them to take
a heavy toll of Japs with insignifl-
cant losses to themselves despite
terrific odds. In 10 months of con-
tinuous air fighting, only pilot
in every 10 has been lost.
Tanned heavily by the Eastern
sun, Gen. Chennault is as erect
and dignffled as an American In
dian chief. He quickly won the
confidence and affection of the
tough adventurers who had come to
help "the little chap" The squad
rons of the group never had more
than half the pilots and one quar-
ter of the ground staff of a stand
ard United States Army Air Corps
squadron.
MY job was to organize stream
lined squadrons and I did it," Gen.
Chennault told me.
The A. v. c. pilots-all former
American Army and Navy pilots
who were permitted to volunteer
for service in China without for
feiting their United States citizen
ship-have shot down several hun
dred Japs over Burma alone since
the campaign here started.
They are good boys" Gen.
Chennault said, every one of them
an ace pilot. I guess that's why
the United States wants them back. "
But many of the pilots have told
me they planned to return to the
United States before they do any
more flying against the Japs.
I'VE think we have earned a rest
and we want to see our folks" they
said.
Evening star., 1942-04-28
A. V. G. Flyers Feel
They Have Earned Rest
By w. S. MUNDy

ny W. .. IuS uSIND1,
Foreign CORRESPONDENT of The Star and
North American Newspaper Alliance.
WITH THE AMERICAN VOLUN-
TEER GROUP ON THE SINO-
BURMA BORDER, April % de-
layeO The Flying Tigers of the
A. v. G. feel they have earned rest
and should be granted furloughs to
visit the United States before they
are transferred to another Pacific
war front.
Brig Gen. Claire L, Chennault,
who has been recalled to active duty
in the United States Army, told me
the United States Government has
not replied to his suggestion that he
be permitted to take the A. v. G. to
Australia. He said he expected to
remain in China for the present at
least.
Il fought the Japs for years with
out the aid of the British and the
United States" he said II can go
on fighting them alone"
Gen. Chennault came to China five
years ago to train Chinese pilots. He
Evening star., 1942-04-28
British Attack RepelIed
By Artillery, Italy Says
~ ths Associated Press.

~ the Associated Prsss.
ROME (From Italian Bruadcasts),
April 2s.--The high command said
today Axis artillery had repelled
attacks by British armored cars on
the Eastern Libya battle front.
italian torpedo planes hit me-
dium sized steamer In an attack
on a British convoy escorted by
aircraft and surface warships IN
the Eastern MediteTanean. the
high command also said. The ex-
tent Of the damage was not stated.
There was intense reconnais-
sance activity by the air force"
the communique added.
The long German-Italian aerial
onslaught against Malta was re-
ported maintained. with both mill
tary and port installations under
attack.
Patrol Activity In Libya.
CAIRO, April 20 R.-British
general headquarters said today
there was considerable patrol ac-
tivity yesterday on both sides" In
IAbya and Axis columns In the
south withdrew from contact with
British light forces.
Evening star., 1942-04-28
Hotohet Stoff to Receive
College News Writers

The staff of George Washington
University's weekly publication, the
Hatchet, will be hosts Friday and
Saturday to the intercollegiate
Newspaper Association of the Mid
die Atlantic States.
Bruce Skaggs, former managing
editor Of the Hatchet, is vice presi-
dent of the association and chair
man of the Host Committee Ap-
proximately so delegates from New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Delaware. Maryland and the Dis
trict are expected to attend.
Evening star., 1942-04-28

There Ii no rationing of War
Bonds. The more yor get, the bet
ter. t
Evening star., 1942-04-28

think, though. that regardless OF
what is done we are going to have
imitation as commodities get scarce
But this Is a good curb"
Albert w. Hawkes. of New York
president of the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States, said at
the organizations annual meeting
In Chicago:
MY first reaction TO a $4,000
maximum income is that it would
cause dislocations that would be
most unfortunate. But I would pre-
fer 10 analyze the situation care
fully before I could make a well
considered and definite statement.