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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-10

Students are offered course
in mountain climbing at Color
ado University, Boulder, Colo.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-10
EASEMENTS CLOGCED

Declaring that his own base
ment and those OF others are
becoming stuffed with saved
/ but not collected wastepaper
and boxes. Nickel asked Justice
Donald Parent, county Boy
Scout official TO please state
where citizens may con a I
Scouts To get their paper col.
lected Dan Schneider. county
Boy Scout executive to whom
the latter was referred gave the
/ list published in the box in this
story and warned that house
/ holders must not expect the
| Scouts 10 get there within the
hour as they are attending
school and do most Of their
pickup work on Saturdays
when the city trucks are avail
able. HouSeholders should not
delay calling in anticipation OF
Lick the Axis week. They'll
have plenty Of time 10 accumu-
late more waStcpapcr and boxes
by that time, he pointed out.
SCRAP DRIVE
The American Legion pro-
iect OF having scrap iron deliv-
cred TO designated oil stations
for pick up by a Smelter will
be Coordinated into the general
program for Lick the Axis
week, along with any other or
CARNATIONS that are already
working on plans TO salvage
war materials. Nickel declared.
The group which laid the
plans for the week last night
consisted Of Nickel. a. d. Brew
er, secretary Of the Board of
Commerce. Justice Parent,
s on Executive Schneider.
Commissioner Bruncel and Mrs
Herbert Irish, Girl Scout ex-
ecutive.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-10

India exported 100000 snake
skins in 1882, for use in women $
accessories.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-10
Salvage Drive

A PAPER and scrap metal
drive will be held on Tuesday,
April Ia by Oddfellow and Re
bekah Lodges. Carl Glefke is in
charge Of arrangel lerts.
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Fate
Continued from Page I

enemy ships. But it was found
necessary TO withdraw most of
the fleet to Java.
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GOT SOME PAPER?

Commenting on the need for
Evening star., 1942-06-27
Gable Leaves Costly Story
Idle in Studios Vaults
100000 Sun Is My Undoing' Set
To Wait Stars Return From War;
Villains Want Hero Parts Now
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN.
HOLLYWOOD.
The celluloid parade: ::


this space last January
officials
Evening star., 1942-06-27
Air Force Hero
Aide on Picture
HOLLYWOOD,

dOliL1 WOOO.
Capt. Hewitt T. Wheless, heroic
Flying Fortress pilot who was highly
commended by President Roosevelt
for extraordinary heroism in an
aerial engagement with the Japa-
nese. is in Hollywood to assist in the
filming Of a motion picture that will
tell what the American Air Force
is doing In World War II.
Capt. Wheless has been assigned
by the Government to work at War
ner Bros in association with Capt.
Sam Triffy, technical adviser on the
Aim, entitled "Air Force" which will
be produced by Hal B. Wallis and
directed by Howard Hawks.
1t was last December in the Philip
pines that Capt Wheless per-
formed the feat that brought COM
mendation from the President In a
recent Nation wide radio address. On
bombing mission, his Flying Fort
ress was attacked by 18 Jap planes,
one Of his crew was killed, another
wounded and the plane itself badly
battered, but he bombed his objec-
tive and brought the big ship back
to its base.
The 27-year-old bomber pilot will
remain at the Warner studios until
given his next active service assign
ment,
Evening star., 1942-06-27
ADJUSTMENTS.

uIEYR RYTUYCnA 687O Wis. Ave.
0ASAss " AAASO7 Bethesda. Md.
Wis 4St8. Brad. 01O5 Air Conditioned.
. Features JOE E. BROWN in
"SHUT MY BIG MOUTH"
LUPE VELEz and LEON Enrol In
Mexican Spitfire at Sea-"
COMING SUNDAY,
2 GAY COMEDIES,
REX HARRISON in
SCHOOL FOR HUSBANDS"
and DANIELLE DARRIEUX
in MILE. MA MERE"
Evening star., 1942-06-27
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

l l.
Capitol-"This Gun for Hire,
with a brand new gangster. Alan
Ladd: II am. 1:20, $40, 6, 8:45 and
1l:20 pm. Stage shows: 1925, 2:45,
$40, 7:50 and 1925 pm.
Columbia-"My Gal Sal" music
and dancing. with Rita Hayworth:
IL am. 1:10. 1928, $40, 7:55 and
1910 pm.
Earle-"My Favorite Blonde" with
Bob Hope at last winning the girl. in
this case Madeleine Carroll: $50
HAS am, 2:05, 4:25. Gas, 9:05 and
11:2o pm Stage shows: 10:55 m,
lis, 3:35, 5:55, $40 and 1920 PIN.
Keith's-"My Favorite Spy" the
Kyser Kollege goes spy hunting
11:15 am, 1:02, 2:49, 4:36, 6:23
$40 and 9:57 pm.
Little-"Farewell to Arms" after
Hemingway, with Gary Cooper and
Helen Hayes: II am, 1880, 2:35,
4:20, 6:05, 7::50 and $40 pm.
Metropolitan-"In This Our Life v
opening a third week downtown
with Bette Davis: 11:30 am, 1:30
3::35, $40, 7:45, $50 pm.
Palace-"Tortilla Flat after
Steinbeck, with Frank Morgan
Spencer Tracy ct al: II 40 am, 2:l0,
4:40, ITO, 9:35 pm.
Pix-"The Bashful Bachelor" 2
4:05, sos, $40 and 1920 pm.
Evening star., 1942-06-27

(Hope) shall be pursued by a wicked
looking band of murderers who have
a lust for a secret message carried
by the blond. 1t seems an old
fashioned method for sending mes
sageS, considering the improvement
In communications since blondS.
but that's part of the joke OF the
whole thing Miss Carroll is a very
pretty farceur. too. which helps
when your interest has a tendency
to droop at the elusiveness Of the
story.
A clear intimation of the casual
ness of My Favorite Blond" is the
sudden appearance of Bing Crosby
in it. AS jest one day during the
shooting OF the picture. Crosby. clad
in overalls, crept into the eye of the
camera. was picked up by it in the
act Of lending match to Hope. 1t
was polished up a bit with a line
or two of dialogue and left there to
become one Of the best laughs OF
the farce.
Apart from that, the most re-
freshing notes In the careening
course of My Favorite Blond" are
those deriving from the presence OF
Percy, the penguin. Percy turns out
Evening star., 1942-06-27
Miss Carroll and Hope Hit
Merry Pace in Earle Farce
My Favorite Blond Is Wacky Tale
OF Spies and Talented Penguin
With Natural Comedy Skill
BY JAY CARMODY.

That Bob Hope; named
Carroll pool their comedy skill
Favoite Blond which opened at the Earle yesterday
incomparaby silly 1t
have
opening indicated
Evening star., 1942-06-27
Garfield Cast
In Air Picture
HOLLYWOOD

I1ObL WoOO.
John Garfield has been cast by
Warner Bros as one of the stars OF
Air Force" the film that will show
what American flying men are doing
in World War II. This will be Gar
fields first picture for Warmers since
dangerously They Live In the
meantime he starred for MGM in
"Tortilla Flat" and devoted more
than two months to War bond SELL
ing tours.
Also chosen for leading roles in
"Air Force" are Gig Young, who be-
came an important Warner player
as the result of his performance in
the soon-to-be- be-released The Gay
Sisters" and George Tobias. whose
work in the current "Juke Girl" and
Wings for the Eagle" to be released
soon. established him as the TOP
character actor on the Warner
roster.
The production, to be directed by
Howard Hawks, is scheduled to &c
before the camera June Is.
Evening star., 1942-06-27

since Gone With the Wind" Like
the latter. its hero is a made-to-
order Gable assignment. 1t is doubt
full if any other male star in Holly
wood can be substituted. Film rights
to The Sun Is My Undoing" cost
close to 100000 The investment
doubtless will be tabled until the
wars end. Including costly material
purchased for Gable. Tyrone Power
Victor Mature. Cary Grant and
others who have gone into service
or are about to. Hollywood has more
than a million story dollars tied up
Exhibitors from California and
Arizona points. numbering more
than 1000, attended convention in
Los Angeles this week. Subject:
How to dispose of the double-bi
problem Answer. as shouted from
the floor by a Long Beach Snowman
Lets take all the B's and turn them
over to the Army for conversion
into gunpowder" He won To-
minute ovation from his colleagues
Carole Lands complains that
since the false report of her engage
ment to Gene Markey her phone
rings at all-too-long intervals. I'm
completely out of circulation she
SAYS, "and I'm not the one to call
my gentlemen friends with ex-
planations'
Carmen Miranda will be Brazil
ian-IriSh girl in "Springtime in the
Rockies" Her name: Murphy.
Since the departure of so many
handsome male leads for Uncle
Sans sound stages more than a
dozen well-knoWn villains have been
begging for assignments to SYM
pathetic hero roles. It's an idea,
at least, and studio heads are pom
dering. No actress in town is
closer to her work than Adele Mara,
pretty Detroit dancer under con-
tract to Columbia. Adele lives in
an apartment next door to the
studio. The wall of her living room
adjoins the wall of Columbia's stage
IA, in which she is working with
Rita Heyworth and Fred Astaire in
The Gay Senorita,' Sonia
Henie has Streamlined herself
down to lot pounds from I'D and
looks better than ever. After ice
land" Sonia will go south a few
miles to do a film with a Quebec
setting. Joan BENEFITS burned
ankle, which necessitated her wear
ing a bandage during early scenes
in Girl Trouble" is well now, but
she must continue to wear the
bandage. To avoid delay the acci-
dent was written into the script.
Linda Darnell's mother, who
buried a pet rooster a year ago with
pomp and ceremony and who turned
up at 20th-Fox recently with a pet
gopher snake around her neck, has
just purchased buggy. She is now
shopping for horses.
TIE actor with the most provoca =
tive name is also the most sensitive
about it. Emmett Evan Hef1in, jr.,
would like it known that he is no
Garbo. that Emmett was dropped
when he was a boy. and that COM
panions shorted Evan to Van-hence
Van Hefin. PLEASE print that,
said Van, because people are for
ever saying to me: But. Mr.. Heflin,
what's your first name?'"
Hollywood press agents turn out
their share of stories about film
stars and sun baths and sunburn
and players being asked to get tans
or remove them-but the one about
Evening star., 1942-06-27

Carmen Miranda, the Brazilian gilt
terbug. appears to be grade A. Mi
randa. who has just started Spring
time in the Rockies" loves the sun
and. unknown to her employers.
basked in the rays on the sun deck
of her home until she was six shades
darker than a coffee bean. The
comeraman gasped when he saw her
and considered what it would do
to his technicolor composition So
Carmen was hustled home, told to
swab her sun tan with lemon Juice
and other bleaching liquids and for
Petes sake to stay indoors and away
from sun lamps or even bright read
ing lamps.
(Reieased by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, 1ncD
Evening star., 1942-06-27

into it. 1t has the further virtue
that the sheer quantity of its wise
cracking dialogue and general
wackery produces much that is
comic in line and situation. In
other words, it is impossible to try
that hard to be funny without
achieving it upon occasion.
The license of farce writing is
utilized to the limit by the authors
of My Favorite Blond" Their gen.
eral idea is that beautiful blond
agent and her unwilling assistant
Evening star., 1942-06-27

Blond" which is
IN reaching WASH
Evening star., 1942-06-27
Bin9's Son in Movies

HOLLYWOOD (P,.-Bing Crosby's
eldest son, 9-year-old Gary, sang
part of song before the cameras
ratified off a dialog about his dad
and was kissed by Betty Hutton.
He liked it all except the kissing.
Evening star., 1942-06-27
Hero Gets Film Role

HOLLYWOOD R.-Capt. Hewitt
T. Wheless, a hero OF the Philip
pines, is going to take a fling at act
ing. Capt. Wheless, singled out for
praise by President Roosevelt in a
recent fireside chat, will play him.
self In an Army Air Force film Be
yond the Line Of Duty" to be pro-
duced by Warrfer Bros.
Evening star., 1942-06-27


ington consid-
ering it was re-
leased in March,
Is another of
the spy cycle
pictures W i t h
W hich Holly
wood is obsesSed
these days. 1t
has the advan-
tage over many
of { he others
that it never
has a solemn
m o m e n I no
m a er no W
many implausi-
bile ones Green
Evening star., 1942-06-27

to be a penguin with perceptible
personality, a bird who can steal q
scene from Hope by the mere trick
of out-bowing him, who can give
the occupants of Pullman car the
notion that they are living through
terrible dreams and who makes
generally comic companion for the
stars on their transcontinental
flight with a military secret.
Otherwise when the picture goes
all out to be fun 1t twists into
such familiar shapes as the meeting
between the hero and the foreign
agents, the flight OF the pair in a
stolen airplane, their arrest on the
charge of stealing watermelons by
a sheriff who does not know they
are wanted on a trumped-up but
serious looking charge of murder.
Miss Carroll and Hope play their
respective roles with fetching
lack of restraint, each becomingly
aware that the faster they move the
less chance the audience will have
to brood upon the flimsy structure
Of the plot.
The supporting cast of MY Fav-
orite Blond" is composed of some
rather staturesque players utilized
almost altogether for atmosphere
There is Gale Sondergaard, for in
stance, very capable actress, who
merely has to look sinister: George
Zucco. Lionel Royce and Walter
Kingsford. who uphold the male
phase Of the same assignment. They
do it well. but it is surprising to find
them doing it at all when less ex-
pensive players might have been
used.
The silly thing was directed by
Sidney Lanfield.
The influence of the picture has
inspired Harry Anger to set off the
houses Roxyettes in blond wigs and
let them do a little number which
cutely insists they are Washington
favorite blonds. Beyond that the
stage show includes the acrobatic
comedy dancing Of Buster West and
Lucille Page. the singing of Gene
Marvey and the roller-skating act
of the four Macks.
Marvey, Of the radio, Is given a
free hand with George NJ. Cohan's S
music. revived in Yankee Doodle
Dandy" the picture of Cohan's life,
and it turns out to be a very fine
thing for both him and the screen
play, which will be along some day
soon.
Evening star., 1942-06-27

My Favorite Blond" Paramount pro-
duction starring Madeleine Carroll and
Bob Hope, directed by Sidney Lanfield
screenplay by Don Hartman and Frank
Butler. At the Earle.
The Cast
Evening star., 1942-06-27

ever Delng missed
My Favorite
somewhat tardy ]
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-01-18

rider refined up at San Francisco The westbound
rider and his horse pretty fresh, because they
climbed on a river boat at Sacramento and rode
the last lap in style.
After that first trip Sacramento was the west
ern end of the line.
But San Francisco claimed the honor of watch
ing the start and finish of the first trip of the
PONY Express and celebrated it with plenty of red
likker and bombing cannons
st. Joe gave the eastbound rider just as hot
a welcome.
Yes. the boys who threw leg over the saddle
for the first lap Of that ride got the cheers all
right but the echoes soon died. The fellows in be-
tween who pounded leather over the perilous miles
between the Missouri River and the Pacific Ocean
were the ones who won the fame with feats of
daring and daily set-tos with death
MEN in those days just like the times,
wi hard and desperate They had to be- And
some of the toughest hombres of the lot were
strung out along the Pony Express Trail.
There was Joe Slade. Like lot of fellows
l knew he wasn't all bad, but he sure wasn't all
good He was extra bad when he got skinful of
red-eye Folks west of Fort Kearney are more
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-01-18

ginning of time that saw fearless men and stout
hearted women throw a lasso on the wild yong
empire that stretched from the windswept plans
of Kansas and Texas to the distant mountains Of
California
l heard the tales Of the Pony Express rides
around the embers Of our campfres along the al
Texas Trail, or the Jones and Plummer Trail as
some called it, that led north to Dodge City.
That was the town they said God forgot From
what | knew of 1t reckon the Devil, too, figured
the boys were going little too far once in while
was riding then for Mason and Lowell, pard-
ners who were driving north with herd of two
thousand Texas longhorns. Lowell had worked for
the Pony Express
He used to loosen up to tune Of bawling cat
tie and the night hOwls Of skulking coyotes, when
the cowboys stretched out in their blankets with
their heads pilloWed on their saddles
For long time after the California gold dis
covery the only reliable mail service the Forty
miners had was by boat via the vessels that sailed
to Panama and transferred their cargoes across the
Isthnrls to other ships on the Pacific.
Thirty days about the best time ever
made by boat from New York to San Francisco
In the late fifties, John Butterfield one of the
real western trail blazers, started stage line from
st. Louis to San Francisco but the route was too
long. 1t ran from st. Louis down through Arkan
sas, then west across Texas, New Mexico and Ar-
iona into California
The Overland route that followed the old Ore
gon Trail TO Fort Bridger and then turned off to
Salt Lake to lead west across Nevada and the
hundred miles shorter than the Butterfield route.
The best time made on the Butterfield
line from st Louis to San Francisco was twenty
one days. Usually it took twenty-three to twenty
seven days for the stage to get through, not much
faster than the boat
Boosters for the Overland route ranted about
the Indian dangers on the southern line There was
that old ditty that went
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust
'f the Comanches don't get you the
Apaches must
IF the Comanches don't get EN- in Texas the
Apaches in Arizona sure will" they said
They were about right. The redskins did get
a lot of scalps the Butterfeld line but the
Cheyennes and the Putes on the Overland were
Just as handy with scalpin knife as their south
ern brothers.
THE biggest stage and freighting outfit in the
West was Russell, aiors and Waddell At
one time they were running more than six thou
sand Conestoga wagons and Concord coaches with
a string of about $4,000 head of oxen, horses and
mules.
The Job Of getting the mail to the grumbling
gold miners was put up TO them. They had the
money, the men and the stock. They already were
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-01-18
CHAPTER l.

Tough Joe" Slade and the Pony Express.
c 1872 by American Weekly
T SEEMS like must have been born in a saddle.
It's hard for me TO remember when wasn't rid
ing horse or swinging rope with a siX-shoot-
er on my hip. And you didn't ride until you were
man enough to show wild bronco YOU were Just
a little tougher than he was.
started out in Texas, Just kid in my teens.
l was born in the Lone Star State, down in Frio
County, eghty-four years ago.
Before pulled my saddle off for the last time
la put L. more Tn IL MI century roaming over
the Old West cowboy, Indian scout freghter
and buffalo hunter
Yes sir, saw the Wild West being tanned
rode the Chisholm Trail and the old Texas Trail.
After moving into the bad lands of Dakota | made
two trips over the Oregon Trail on cattle drives
You couldn't put in lifetime in the COW and
mining camps without getting TO know lot Of
the famous figures who blazcd their way to fame
and death. Yes, and l had few pretty close
scrapes myself.
But i've lived to tell the tale. as the fellow
says. and that's what I'm about to do for the read
ers Of The American Weekly.
It's fitting to start II with the little verse at
the head of this chapter which was written in the
early days by an old friend of mine Jack Craw-
ford, Indian scout IIknew we'll Fifty years ago
he was known all over the West as the Poet
Scout
on April 3, 1860 two riders touched spurs to
~ the quvering fanks of their prancing ponies.
Crowds yelled and whooped The excited horses
laid back their ears and lunged into a jack-knife
gallop
One rider headed east out of San Francisco
The other galoped west out Of St Joseph Mis-
souri,, the western end Of the line, or the jumping
off place, as the old-tmers called il.
Between them lay two thousand miles of wild
and woody West Bad Indians. Cutthroat out
laws. Howling mountain blizzards. Raging streams
Waterless desert
There was danger, and plenty of IT, I'll tell you
at every bend Of the trail. Death always had one
foot in the stirrup
That was the start Of the Ponv Express
But 1t was more than that !, Wds the be-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-01-18

Just pile on some more O. them pine knots,
a nd squat yourSeI'S down on this skin,
An, Seouy, Iet up on yer growIin'-
The boys are all tired o yer chin.
Allegheny. jist pass round the bottle,
An give the lads all a square drink,
An soon as yer settled III tell ye
A yarn ash please We, think.
Captain Jack Crawford,
the Poet Scout.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-01-18

of
Il and n
wild woody its
vast he o and
frontier the on n fope
troner
OF
andno God esto Fort Smith,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-01-18

running stage line from ST Joe to Salt Lake City.
The idea was Matched in the Winter of 1889.
BY early Spring men were on the trail building re-
lay stations They cut out their best and toughest
horses for the Eighty of the bravest men to
be found in the West were hired for riders.
They had TO be young. Most Of them weighed
less than 80 pounds to cut down the weight the
ponys back. They had to travel light. pistol
their only weapon. A rifle too heavy.
Special light saddles were made for the job
The mail, wrapped in oiled silk to keep out
water when the riders were swimming a stream,
was carried in four pouches, sewed to a mochila,
sort Of leather blanket with openings cut to fit
the horn and cantlc Of a saddle
1t not fastened. When a rider galloped
up-to relay point all he had to do was jump off
his horse, throw his moChlla across the saddle Of
the waiting horse stick foot IN the stirrup and be
off again.
The only other equipment the riders carried
was horn. They were supposed to toot on their
horn about half mile from the relay station to
warn the attendant to lead out a fresh horse.
The horn wasn't needed very much The at
tendant usually could hear the clop of the APP
preaching horses hooves on the hard trail or the
crunch in the frozen snow before the horn sounded.
That is if the Indians hadn't made a call When
that happened the rider took quick look at the
remains socked the spurs into his tired pony and
took the only chance he had-to get to the next
relay point ahead Of the redskins.
The riders who started, one east and one west,
that historic April day got the cheers but that
was about all Big crowds gathered at each end
of the line to see the start. Spectators pulled
pretty ali the hair out of the horses tails for
souvenirs before The signal fell to send them on
the way.
Zen days later q rcd pony loped down off the
bluff into st. Joe. About The same time another
Evening star., 1942-01-30

guage until the war was ended.
It provoked the explanation from
the Foreign ONCE. which didn't see
the humor Of 1t at all, that the
Nazis would use the medium Of the
enemy whenever 1t served their
needs" When Matsuoka signed q
non-aggression pact with Russia on
his way home, it surprised and en-
ragged the Germans, whose plans
for their Soviet venture already
were far along.
In Rome Matsuoka ostentatiously
telephoned an American diplomat
while the Germans and Italians
fumed and tried desperately to keep
their tempers. There is at least
ground for suspicion now that the
literal-minded Japanese, urged by