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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-05
Bennett Wins
FDR Support
President Books
Demo Condidote

NEW YORK, Oct. 5.-(P-
The New York political picture
was in sharper focus today fol-
lowing President ROosevelt's
announcement he would sup
port Attorney John j. Bennett,
Jr., Democratic candidate for
governor.
The president, who had
backed the candidacy of u. S.
Senator James M. Mead (D.-N.
~ for the governorship, said
in a statement issued at the
White House yesterday that he
would vote for Bennett because
he considered him the best
qualified" of the three major
candidates.
"Of the three men in the race
for the governorship of New
York, I shall cast my ballot for
John Bennett because I believe
he is the best qualified" the
president said.
II trust that very voter, not
only in New York but through
out the country, regardless of
party affiliations, will register
and on Nov. 3 exercise the right
of the ballot. This is one of the
essential privileges and duties
of our way of life for which we
are now fighting"
The presidents statement was
warmly received by Bennett
and State Democratic Chairman
James A. Farley, who supported
Bennett against reported White
House opposition.
Farley said the presidents
message "gratifies me and am
sure is pleasing to all interested
in the continuation of good gov
eminent at Albany"
On the eve of departure for
an upstate extemporaneous
speaking tour Bennett said last
night the presidents action
'pleases me greatly, and l deep
ly appreciate his friendly en-
dorsement."
Herbert Brownell, Jr., cam
paign manager for the Repub-
lican candidate, Thomas E..
Dewey, called the presidential
endorsement something to be
expected.
Reviewing the presidents pre-
vious opposition to Bennett and
asserting that the president once
said the attorney general could
not win, Brownell said:
obviously he was right, and
! am sure that the voters will
confirm his judgment by elect
ing Mr.. Dewey governor"
Leaders of the American Labor
party, whose candidate is Dean
Alfange, said they were with
holding comment on the en-
dorsement until later.
Watch Your speedi
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-05
Former Mount Clemens
Visitor Dies in Canada

Word was received today of
the death of Mrs. James Sam
pie of Blenheim, Ont, yester-
day. Mrs. Sample is a sister of
the late William Quackenbush
and was we'll known in this city,
being a frequent visitor here.
Watch Your Speed!
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-05
Will Il Help VIM
Desertion Pleo Wins
Worren Man a Divorce

Charging desertion, Robert
Bowling, of Warren township,
won an uncontested divorce
today from his wife, Barbara,
by decree of Circuit Judge
James E. Spier.
A child, aged five, is living
with Dowling's mother. The cou-
pie married in July of 1897 and
separated last February.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-05

Ellery Queens beautiful, blum
dering secretary is once again
portrayed by Margaret Lindsay
in Columbia's newest Queen
mystery. The film, Enemy
Agents Meet Ellery Queen"
which opens tonight at the Ma
comb Theatre for a four-day en-
gagement, also brings back Will
liam Gargan in the title role,
plus Charley Grapewin and
James Burke. On the same bill
is "Syncopation," all American
dance bands on parade.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-05
WROTE OWN EPTTAPH

Thomas Jefferson wrote his
own epitaph. It reads: Here lies
Thomas Jefferson, author of the
Declaration of Independence, of
the statue for religious freedom
in Virginia, and founder of the
University of Virginia."
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-05

ROBERT STACK and Diana
Barrymore in one of the air raid
sequences of Universal's Eagle
Squadron" a smash hit picture
now showing at the Jewel
Theatre. Others in the large
cast are Jon Hall, Eddie Albert,
Nigel Bruce, Evelyn Ankers
and Left Erickson. Arthur Lubin
directed the Walter Wanger pro-
duction.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-05

Watch Your SPEED!
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-05

Will Il Help Win7
Evening star., 1942-07-12
SlDE1,lNES

HERO. Twenty-Five years ago, young
Tennesseean was collecting Sl.6o day
for swinging pick on a new highway in
his state. Then the road worker was draft
ed by the Army of II.
The road is finished now - and it is
named after the 81 .65-a-day pick-swlnger;
the Alvin c. York Highway. But the man
whom Pershing called the greatest indi-
vidual hero of the World War has other
monuments of which he's much prouder
One is the Agricultural Institute named
after him. Troubled by his own lack of
education. he went to the Tennessee legis-
lature. He was listened to and, in 1928,
the Institute - built on the York High
way - opened its doors. Then came the
realization of York's greatest ambition:
his Bible school.
For years he had turned down offers to
capitalize on his fame. He always had one
answer: Uncle Sans uniform - it's not
for sale" But. two years ago, Warner Bros.
Evening star., 1942-07-12

~NcE coming America years have felt
that particular job to be pro-Britlsh because
~ have usually found Americans proBrtish enough with
any urging Indeed they have sometimes far this
direction that have felt like saying Hey, wait minute
your country isn't 50 bad, either
But today and let's be frank about it - the British aren't
the zenith of their popularity There for this
Making mistakes honest made popular
And British Empire has proved ony tragcaly) that
it constructed for the purposes of But let the
historians deal with all that the verdict believe
London only take but London will probably make it.
For there point which the British and Americans are
absolutely alike being their hardest critics.
In the meantime what should an English writer to Amerl
about England the of 1912: Not much assure
you This time for eoquence for sentiment either Our
two countries this together and shall clear up
together whether get each others nerves But
might well each others And would be
avoid this if both realized few simple things
To begin with don't often each other. This may
first thought astonishing but 1t really mathematical
The boaoad of Americans who used England before
the generally confined themselves to London and few
spots They SratodonAvon and Stoke Poges
and Windsor Castle and the roopng of the Coors They
had wonderful time and brought back to America an deazed
picture historic cathedras arocrac pop
On the other hand the much smaller number OF English
who visited America usually stopped at New York. or
greatly daring Hollywood They too had wonder
full time and brought back to England thrilling memories of the
Empire State Building Radio City, the best drinks the best
hotels in the world, and the Hollywood studios
HE plain truth afraid, less sensational about both
countries which why ask you let be unsensaona
and unromantic about England for
The United Kingdom forty millions of people
of whom work for living and always have
The majority of the English live unhorc places that
the majority of English and Americans alike have heard Of
The average Engan has only his twoweeks annual holiday
for visiting caheda and the chances he prefers the seaside
where few cahedrals happen be- The average Enghman
incidentally n purchasing about the the
average American little less.
The average Engshran has home that very
Evening star., 1942-07-12

for reasons that have nothing with pcturesquenes
may possibly have bathroom but almost certainly hasnt
got refrigerator His wife does the houseWork doesn't even
hope to have servants
The average Engshan doesn't know and has met
lord and thinks the whole title business rather nobbsh but
he has loyal affection for the royal family symbol of some
thing other he wouldn't be able explain For somewhat
similar he rather likes cricket though he thinks it's
awfully slow game.
lHE average Engishman wouldn't call himself religious and
doesn't attend church regularly but he's against anybody
who's religion and he has odd of looking at
life which, told him spiritual attitude would make
him exceedingly embarrassed
The average Engisman sends his children to
elementary school because he can't afford anything else but he'd
like the Mr. Chips kind of school democratzed and
what's he's going to watch that these schools denoc
ratized when the wars
The average Engshnan doesn't speak Herbert Marshall
Perhaps he wishes he did but he also laughs what he calls the
Oxford which stranger him by now than the
standard American he hears from most of his film heroes
The average Engish1an puts his voting paper
you drag him the polls but he's pretty cynical about poll
and has faith good than good politician;
democracy just eleconeerng he wouldn't put up
much of fight for it. But he knows by Though he slow
guess that democracs than eleconeeng and
than politics. and than In fact he's beginning
his bones that whether this that place the map
belongs England isn't important whether his of
freedom going belong his of world in the
The average Engshman oathes and didn't dislike the
Germans years ago. Till the very last he refused
believe that coming partly from Wlshul thinking,
but chiefly because he didn't have conception of the of
world domination the otaitaran countries aiming
And the average Engshman today nothing than
finish the whole business that won't lay another
curse the worlds children.
Of you can't go England discover this kind
of fellow, but then needn't far England
You'll find good many millions between the Atlantic and the
Pacific that ninety per cent like him.
And the other per cent?
Forget it. In world like this you've got to forget anyway
And 50 has he
Evening star., 1942-07-12

finally persuaded him to let them film
Sergeant York" He struck a hard bar
gain, signed an unusually lucrative con-
tract. 1t wasn't for himself, though. Ser
geant York" is building a big modern
Bible school on the top of Tennessee hill.
Whatever else is left over from his share
in the movie is going into War Bonds
SLACK-HAPPY. Here's wartime fash
ion note from Contributor Francis Hatch.
Up on the hill and down by the tracks.
Ladies from breakfast to bedtime
wear slacks,
Lack-a-day. slack "a day. skirts are set
back day,
Fashion gives women the right to relax.
NAVY NAIL. If you've been wondering
whether that sailor you know has been
getting his mail while on active duty, you
can stop worrying:
Your sailor can't tell you where he's
going but he can tell you to address him to
his ship, care of the Postmaster at either
New York or San Francisco. They know
where every Navy ship is going and at
what port mail will reach it. So they segre-
gate the mail, ship it out on merchant
vessels sometimes Navy boats carry mail
to various ports. Your sailors ship, arriv-
ing at its destination, will have its mail
delivered in sacks
Mail from home reaches US. sailors in
every part of the world 1t may take time
but it gets there. NJ.
Evening star., 1942-02-15

American naval action In the Southwest
Pacific, the smashing Of Jap bases in
the Gilbert and Marshall Islands.
Swift-striking American squadrons,
using the same surprise tactics as those
which cost them dearly at Pearl Harbor,
counted this toll against the enemy:
Four military air bases destroyed, an cir
craft carrier, cruiser and IA other war
ships sunk, and Al Jap planes smashed.
BY this feat, plus the arrival of new
American naval forces at New Zealand
and the stationing Of patrol
Poetic units at various other
Victov points, it was asserted con-
fidently that the commune
cations and transport lines Of the United
Nations between tie Western Hemi-
sphere and Australia had been safely es-
tablished. Over this line, presumably.
already is flowing an increasing tide Of
men and materiel for the day when
counteroffensive measures may be in
itiated in that theater.
Until then, there is still hope that the
'indomitable Dutch" outnumbered and
short Of equipment but yielding to none
in the courage and effectiveness Of their
fighting, will be able to hold portion
of their Indies-perhaps Java, perhaps
Sumatra.
Believed likely to contribute to the
effectiveness of the limited naval re-
sources now available to the United Ma
tions in that area was the designation
last week of Vice Admiral c. E. L. Helf-
rich of the Royal Netherlands Navy.
grizzled veteran of the Indies service, to
the post of commander of the combined
naval forces in the Southwest Pacific.
Admiral Thomas C. Hart, U. S. N, re-
linquished this command at his own re-
quest.
Evening star., 1942-02-15
AMERICAS PRE-WAR MISTAKES ANALYZED
One Irony War Is ops Use Of U s. Materials Fight Us

In doing so, Toxic did not find us
much better prepared than in 1910. Avia-
ton manufacture has improved material
ly, of course, but demands on us from
Russia and Britain increased 50 greatly
that we paid little attention to our own
needs in order to lease or lend planes
to the British and Russians.
Civilian policy trainers in Washington
decided to send large numbers Of planes
and light tanks to Libya at q time when
American Navy officers were grumbling
that we needed them in the Philippines
and all the rest of our outposts between
Hawaii and Singapore. But the opinion
of soldiers and sailors carried little
weight before December 7, 1941. It was
generally dismissed with the statement
that Army and Navy appetites are In
satiable and that they want everything
for themselves.
MacArthur's Appeals.
Gen. Douglas MacArthurs frantic ap-
peals for planes and light tanks were
not completely ignored, but they could
not be fully met during the summer and
fall of 1941 because we were bending
all our energies to supplying Russia, the
Near East and North Africa with the
products of our factories. The equally
frantic appeals of the Governor of the
Netherlands Indies for planes, tanks and
light naval craft-for all of which he
was willing to pay cash-were treated in
the same manner. Orders were accepted
but only 25 per cent of the material
ordered ever was delivered.
It is realized now with some sadness
that if we had spared an additional 1000
or $500 Of all types for the Netherlands
Indies-to say nothing of the Philip
pines-the entire course of events in the
Far East might have been entirely diff
ferent. Instead of discussing eventual
recapture Of the Philippines, Guam,
Wake, Malaga and Singapore, We might
now still be holding them and the deadly
threat to Java, Sumatra and Australia
might be far less real.
The great difference Of strategic con-
ceptions between our civilian authorities
and our military and naval officers has
had an important effect on strategy. The
former thought-and still think-in
terms Of grand strategy covering the
whole world; the latter were looking to
the home front, in which they include
the entire Pacific area.
The military to a certain extent in
dorse the worldwide view Of strategy
provided we have sufficient industrial
facilities to provide Russia, Britain and
al the other nations fighting on the
other side of the Atlantic with war para
phernalia. But until our production Is
accelerated to the point where we can
supply all our Allies they urge that we
think In terms Of Americas own needs
Dispensing our war effort will not help
our Allies - much as 1t viii harm u
Evening star., 1942-02-15
Russian Front

Worried, too, is the Russian govern
ment-thus far boasting equal rights
with China to pride in its fighting
achievements.
For should the potential Axis break
through proceed to q point where both
Germany and Japan can replenish their
supplies of oil end rubber and other es-
sential foodstuffs of war, then the Soviet
will find a refreshed and toughened
enemy facing Red territory both IN Eu-
rope and in Asia.
With the winter that has stood them
in such good stead already beginning 10
fade, hard hitting Russ troops
Soviet intensified their offensive ac-
c,;n. tivities during this past week.
On Friday they were reported
knitting their way westward to the old
Polish frontier, presumably by-passing
Smolensk on both the north and south.
In Crimea, new massing Of Red army
and navy units indicated that another
effort to wipe out Nazi forces on the
peninsula was imminent.
And In, the Arctic, the Northern Red
Fleet reported sinking i've German
transports, . tanker and trawler. Bat
Evening star., 1942-02-15
Far Eastern Front

Singapore was about to fall as this
week ended, despite courage and willing
ness of fighting men. because there was
shortsightedness and complacency among
the politicians and the commanders-
both Of Britain and America.
It should not require much more than
this to destroy any complacency that may
exist among the British and American
people.
But there is more, and in this same
theater of the war.
For nearly five years, a sprawling un-
organized China has fought a bitter de-
fensive conflict against these same Japa-
nese. Producing little in the way OF mill
tary equipment, Generalissimo Chang
Kai-shek's armies have subsisted on IN
termittent trickles Of supplies from
American, Russian or British sources
plus an ingenious application OF theI
courage and their resources.
It was only weeks ago that organization
of the Burma road lifeline reached a
point where quantity deliv-
Burmo's cries were being guaranteed.
p.,I This, coupled with the diver
sion of Jap troops for their
expanded aggression, turned the Chinese
fortunes upward. One qualified observer,
Evening star., 1942-02-15
Fleet Of Singapore Island Contribute Gloomy Week

As this Government intensified its ef.
forts to float the greatest Navy in world
history and to provide major share
Of the needed cargo tonnage, President
Roosevelt on Monday signed record
$26, 600 900 900 Navy appropriation bill
and set up War Shipping Administra-
ton under control Of Chairman Land.
United States Maritime Commission.
Coincidentally, more tragic failure
descended upon the United cause, how
ever, as by carelessneSs or
Novmondie by sabotage the giant
Disaster French liner Norrnandie
burned her insides out be-
fore rolling ANONYMOUSLY over on her
side in the Hudson River mud. Re-
named the Lafayette, the great ship was
under reconstruction as naval auxiliary.
II salvaged, 1t will still be many months
before her picture-sharp PROV will be
pointed out to sea service.
And in Washington there were these
other developments connected with the
war effort
Admiral william II. Standley, former
chief Of naval operations and member
of the Roberts Commission which fixed
responsibility for the Pearl Harbor dis
aster, was named Ambassador to Soviet
Russia.
The entire Nation moved It's clocks
ahead to war time, to save electric power.
The War Production Board ordered
rationing of tire retreading, sharp cur
| tailment in use of tin for food canning
| and complete conversion Of the radio in
| dustry to war work.
President Roosevelt ordered survey
Of Federal jobholding with view to
transferring much agency personnel to
| war work.
Evening star., 1942-02-15
Bv Constantine Brown

gasoline. The mechanized forces OF the
Axis were useless without fuel and Ber-
Inns attempts to send supplies to Marshal
Rommel by way of Tripoli or the Gulf OF
Sirte were effciently frustrated by the
British Navy. which sank at least SO
per cent of the transports.
Nazis Make New Move.
Then the Germans played another
card. According to official British re-
ports, agreement was reached with Ad-
miral Jean Darlan, Vice Premier at
Vichy, to permit the Germans to utilize
the facilities of the Tunisian ports Of
Sfax and Bizerte as debarkation points
for reinforcements of men and materials
going to Marshal Rommel But, accord
ing to the same British reports, much OF
the oil and gasoline they destroyed in
their latest offensive had been with
drawn, under the same agreement be-
tween Berlin and Vichy, from the stores
of American fuel, which, according to
the State Department. was intended for
municipal services in Morocco
Some may consider it unfair to criti-
cize too sharply the officials of the
State Department who agreed to grant
licenses for shipment of modern wars
most essential material to French pro-
tectorate like Morocco. Until the war
engulfed America the State Department
might we'll have been named the Peace
Department." All its efforts were exerted
toward maintaining peace or gaining
time until the United States was better
prepared militarily.
In striving to achieve their purpose.
high officials of the Peace Department"
missed no bets and at one time, before
Gen. Weygand was relegated to his villa
in Southern France, these officials be-
heved they would find in the former
French proconsul an eventual supporter
of American policies. The British OBJ
jected to these shipments and at one
time refused to issue the navicerts with
out which the ships could not reach their
destinations. But the State Department
pressed London and the navicerts were
reluctantly issued.
Diplomacy Failed.
IN Cne IlgnC Ol WHdL HES Ildppc1ieo
it is obvious that our diplomats mis-
stepped. For several years they opposed
a complete embargo on exports of scrap
iron, steel and especially gasoline and
oil to Japan, arguing that such measures
would bring us into immediate conflict
with Nippon and that neither the United
States Navy nor air forces was ready
for such test. 1t is true that we were
ill-prepared to fight the japanese two
years ago, but in this interval we did
relatively little to make ready for the
inevitable conflict. Meanwhile, the Japs
took splendid advantage of the hun
dreds Of thousands Of tons Of all kinds
Of raw materials they were buying In the
United States, and when they felt their
preparations complete they bit Us.
Evening star., 1942-02-15
INDIA FEARS JAP ONSLAUGHT
Lies in Path Of Gigantic Axis Pincers
By Blair BoHes.

The grand strategy of the United Ma
tions-whose main decisions are reached
in washington-is undergoing the re-
vision made necessary by the prospect OF
an Indian Ocean war. That is the con-
sequence of the extraordinary sequence
of successes registered by the Japanese
in the Far East, where the war at its
start was regarded by us and our Allies
as Pacific war.
Sir Girja Shankar Bajpai, the Agent
General of India in the United States,
expressed concern when he heard the
news during the week that the japanese
had landed at last on the island OF
Singapore, that an early japanese objec-
tive would be what he calls the "conti-
nent" of India, across which the Axis
partner in Asia might seek to establish
a contact with the Axis partners in Eu-
rope, the Germans and Italians now
fighting in the Middle East.
In other words, the Japanese now
fighting in the forests Of Burma, with
their invading forces already to the west
of the Salween River, and the Nazis
fighting in Libya are partners in the
greatest pincers drive in the worlds his
Evening star., 1942-02-15

The mythical quality of such optimism,
or complacency, has faded quickly; dur
ing the past week it van-
Optimism ished completely IN 'he
Shottered realization of other ap-
parent British failures
those of having no organized defense
plan for the Malay Peninsula, of in
sufficient numbers Of fighting men, OF
almost no fighting planes, of reported
neglect to destroy resources or facilities
or to evacuate Chinese and Malayan
friends as they retreated southwark, and
finally of their alleged failure even to
do a good job of destroying the single
causeway between Singapore Island and
the Malayan mainland.
There was not lack OF courage and
willingness to die on the part OF British
troops-Highlanders, Anzacs, Indians and
Cockneys-any more than there has been
such lack in Americans and Filipinos on
Bataan, or in the treacherously sur
prised Americans at Pearl Harbor.