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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-08
A Machine That
MiIks Mice

A LTHOUGH il sounds like
IA a gag. there really are
machines for milking mice.
Similar to automatic mixers for
cows, these tiny instruments are
used to pump mice udders dry.
And who would want to milk
a mouse? Scientists. With mice
milk, doctors believe they can
study how cancer Is transmitted
from one generation to another.
1t is In milk that they hope to
find the nature Of the agent in
citing the tumor.
At the National Cancer In
stitute of the United States Pub
lie Health Service at Bethesda.
Maryland, white mice are being
MIXED with the same regularity
that farmers milk dairy cows.
1t would take plenty of milking
and plenty Of time to fill pail
for one mouse yields only seven
tenths of a centimeter of milk
daily which is equal in volume TO
approximately the tip of a wo-
mans little finger.
A mouse normally has five
pairs of teats and takes 20 min
utes to milk by machine. Liter
ally hours are needed to do the
same job by hand-although it
can be done.
The mice-milking machine is
the invention Of DR.. Herbert
Kahler. senior biophysicist of the
Cancer Institute. 1t is electri-
cally operated, has minute glass
tubes and functions like a small
mercury pump.
AS the milk-forming period of
a mouse is short from 10 to 20
days the scientists have TO ex-
tract as much during that time
as possible. So they separate
the mother mice from their off
spring in the evening or late
afternoon and put them through
the milking machine the next
morning.
Before milking, the breasts are
moistened with warm water and
teat cups are affixed, that are so
small that each one has to be
made to order from common
serum bottle caps.
To have a steady supply of
mouse milk on hand, the scien-
lists at the institute keep hun
drcds Of white mice mothers.
There is no similarity between
human and mouse milk. but the
doctors are thoroughly investi-
eating the milk of the animals TO
find out just what part. If any.
milk does play in passing on
cancer from one generation to
the next.
Already the medical men have
determined the presence Of
strains of cancer i'm these tiny
creatures II the scientists can
find out the nature of the agent
that is melting the tumor. il is
possible that they can then learn
more about cancer in the human
body,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-08

A BOUT a year ago today
~ anybody would have been
laughed down who had
the nerve 20 suggest that women
teach hard-boiled United States
Army filters how 10 handle
machine-guns.
Or that mere slips of girls take
over in the changing foundries of
Navy yards. Or ferry warplanes..
Or fly the treacherous North At
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-08

cent announcement that members
of the weaker sex have been put
TO work as mechanics in the
Brooklyn Navy Yard for the first
time in its 141-year history.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-08

MAAM, we know you want more ,nds for your wash.
Couldn't help but know cause we've talked washing
problems with many women couldn't begin
EN-. They all wanted Mds thicker snds onger-iating
SHdS So worked and improved determined give you
the kind of suds you've always wanted NoW pepe gofH
suder Super Studs gives floods suds for dishes and
duds We don't ask take word Just prove your
self with the easy milk bottle sudS test
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-08

They are being employed not
TO operate typewriters but to do
heavy work in the shipfitters'
shop, the ordnance and paint
shops, and in the foundry. Every
replacement enables another man
to carry a gun in the battle
against the Axis.
Indicative of women's interest
in this type of work was the
recent tremendous response to
the United States Civil Service
Commissions appeal for me-
chanic learners. Thousands of
women were among the appli-
cants.
AS the matter now stands,
there are mighty few, If any. war
industries in which you can't find
whether it be handling
a tractor on a flying field, as
shown in one of the photographs.
or the dangerous job of tighten
ing nose plugs on 500-pound
aerial bombs, as the pretty war
worker is doing in another pic
ture.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-08
Women WHOAREHELPING WIMl6RlNNB>

Canadian
Women DO
Their Bit
at Air
Training
Schools
So That
the Men
Can Devote
Their Time
10 the
Serious
Business
Of Flying.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-08

"Made me real mad to think I'd been
putin up with my old stingy-sudsin' soap
after saw how much more suds Super Studs
gave in the 'milk-bottle suds test" SAYS
Mrs. Irene Blessing Of West Philadelphia.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-08

Put two teaspoons of your present
wash-day soap and a glass of water
in milk-bottle. Do the same with
new Sudsier Super SudS in another
milk-bottle. Hard or cold water
will do. Then shake EN- up. See IL
there aren't lots more suds in the
Super Suds bottle and just see how
long they last.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-09

Dec. 7, more than 100, 900 young Am
ericons have enlisted in the Navy. and
enIistine goes on at the same pace. In
1910, lost peocetime year. the whole
naval establishment numbered only
about ! 10 900 men. which gives good
measure Of what it means for lOO, 900
men to volunteer in less than two
months.
The authorized strength Of the Navy
is now around 500, 1000. At the present
rote of enlistment there seems no
doubt at all that as many men as can
be handled will step forward until the
goal is reached. This byproduot was,
perhaps. not strictly q part Of the Jop-
onese plan that led the raiders to Pearl
Horbor
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-09
. MCKINNEY ON BRIDGE

made into many colorful articles
such as the last he published, on
King Plays and Queen
Plays.
Today's hand was played in a
Boston tournament and Wyman
happened to be an opponent of
the declarer. He noticed fine
play that would escape the or
binary observer, praised the de-
clarer highly and showed the
hand to many of his friends as an
instance of foresight.
On the opening lead the ace
of spades won the jacl. and dunn
my was put in with a high dia-
mond to lead a club for the fin
esse of the ten. West won and
led a heart, putting East in with
the ace for return of spades.
The third spade was won in
dummy with the king, second
club was led and the queen won.
But the ace of clubs failed to
drop the king. South thereupon
cashed the queen of diamonds,
led the third diamond and fin
essed the seven-spot. Then the
last top diamond was cashed
and squeeze developed. East
could not hold both the king of
clubs and his heart stopper. De-
clarer actually won ten tricks.
How was it possible for the
declarer to take a finesse in dia-
monds after cashing the ace and
queen? Because when he first
led a diamond to the ace. he led
the eight-spot, not the three. This
play loses nothing, and remotely
might be necessary to unlock
for a finessc-but the average
player does not think Of this pre-
caution.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-09
Hieh|iehts from
the Latest Books
BY JAMES E. HILBERT

Titles don't make books but
they have considerable to do
with the disposal of them, and
that includes whether they light
the fires of desire in the eyes of
your I'll return-it-in-three-
days-dear" acquaintance.
Two new novels with better
than average handles turn out to
be a couple of the best offerings
of the winter, and are interest
ing enough to silence, during the
reading at least, a loud-mouthed
armchair admiral, on which
there are no priorities. The
books are 1.-THE Quick Brown
Fox" (Knopf: $3.50, by w. r.
Burnett, and 1.-THE Widening
Stain (Knopf: $2), by a So
called w. Bolingbroke johnson.
The latter, no doubt, will
cause a clatter among literary
hacks, for the publisher assures
us that w. Bolingbroke johnson
really is a distinguished person
trying his or her or their hands
at fiction. 1T involves two muir.
ders in and around a library, ard
the wonder is there are so few
homicides around such precincts.
Despite the losses of life, this
is a highly amusing story EN-.
ploying probably for the first
time limericks to promote the
plot. The limericks approach
the classical of that type of verse,
but let's have no stampede by
writer's to use this device.
Gangsters are old stuff in the
American scene since the De-
partment of Justice found the in
ternal revenue laws useful for
more things than collecting in
come taxes, but If anyone can
write convincingly of mobsters
it is w. r. Burnett. And he does
in THE Quick Brown Fox as
we'll if not better than in Little
Caesar"
This time three mugs posing
as heroes of Dunkirk bam-
boozle and later victimize the
better" element Of q city, rub
expense accounts and sucker
lists with politicians until
things get in the well-known
mess complacent Americans Of
ten let their municipal affairs
wallow. The successful news
paper fight made on these thugs
is reminiscent of the real thing in
Louisiana and Missouri. Besides
that, it makes exciting reading.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-09
WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?

Somebody in the Stote Department
ought to give simple, clear, public
explanation of how these two news
items happened to be capable Of OPP
peorine almost at the same time:
/. A shipIood Of American supplies
left for Vichy, France, during the lost
week Of January.
2. British broadcast reports thot
Vice Premier" DorIon of France hos
agreed to send two shiploods Of sup
plies weekly to Nozi General RommeI's
forces in North Africa.
Unless q fairly clear definition is
made as to just what is American policy
toward France since we entered the
war land bear in mind that General
Romme is now fighting US and our
policy can scarcely be what it was be-
fore Dec. y people are going to begin
to wonder what's going on here.
Maybe it's all boby-food that is go
ing to France; maybe it's something
that cannot even be used to substitute
for what is being sent to RomneI. Moy-
be there is good answer Ouehtn't the
American people to know what it is?
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-09
SIGNIFICANT FOR THE FUTURE

The first fighter and the first train
er plane ever to be built by the Hin
duston Aircraft Factory have just been
completed in Delhi
There, in an inconspicuous little
paragraph, lies news that may have
great meaning in the future
All the balances Of world power ore
shifting. Vast areas and huge populo-
tons which have in the post been
reservoirs of raw material and oooie
labor are being industrioIized When
the Chinese have won the war they
will never again be the Chino our
fothers knew. ndio's countless mil
lions ore steering for freedom, plus
industriolizotion.
Here ore forces in motion that
dwarf the tiny conscious plans Of men,
and make 18th century politics look
like q village store checker game.
Whether we cab make it the brave new
world it can be, remains to be seen.
Thot it will be vastly different world
is more apparent every day.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-09
|, HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

it's just that he has been read
ing some antagonistic fan mail.
Nobody m i d e d particularly
when Rowland played his first
heavy in Chad Hanna" so he
thought nothing of it when he
was cast as the killer of Gene
Tierney in Belle Starr" And
that, he says, was a mistake
a mistake, incidentally, which
indicates the level of glamordom
to which Miss Tierney has been
elevated.
Il told Zanuck that he's got
to fix it so l can kill couple
of Japs pretty soon, to square
myself" says Howard.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-09
THREE GOOD RULES

Think first, then write, advises the
director Of communications and control
in Hawaii, letters from which place ore
necessarily censored.
Here ore three questions which this
office suggests should be asked by
every person who takes pen in hand,
and while they ore aimed at people iv-
ing in Hawaii, it wouldn't do any harm
for all the rest of us to give them q
thought:
!. Do know whot ! am writ
ins3 Is II foet or is il something
picked up on the street3
z. Does the person to whom
am writing hove any business
knowing this3
8. Would the Joponese en-
peror. Hitler, or Mussolini give
their right arm to hove this infor-
motion2
Think it over before you write, even
before you toIk Even il its true. it may
be better left unsoid. II it isn't. you
may be RELYING vicious runor octu-
ally planted by enemy oeents.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-09
STORIES .
. IN STAMPS
Wssvvv VvvSOss
Jovonese Natives Help
Dutch Fight invaders

IMPORTANT factors in Dutch
u successes over Jap invaders in
the Netherlands East Indies are
the small, sturdy natives who have
put away tribal dress and donned
battle garments in defense Of their
homes and peaceful way Of life.
The stamp above, issued in 1941,
pictures q Javanese dancer. Java
is one of the larger islands Of the
Malay archipelago known as the
Sundra islands.
Capital of Java and the Dutch
East Indies Is Batavia, a city heav-
lily Dutch in flavor but where ma
tives still come to the houses TO
sell vegetables and other wares.
Javanese - before bombs and
shells volcanically disrupted them
led smooth, unrufled lives. Cen
tie. happy, they have much the
same character and attitude to-
ward life rs their more publcized
neighbors, the Balinese.
The butcher. baker. millkman
and flower boy-traveling market
people who brought their goods
from the country to the house
wife's door in the city-are now
leading Dutch troops through -
land thicketa
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-09
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .
lotions won't be so cosy.

tiotions won't be so cosy.
In the first pIoce, as this de-
portmen mt hos consistently
pointed out, organized labor is
out to put over the closed shop
principle in this war and moke
it stick otter the war is over.
Thot is q fundomentol dim Of
the labor chieftoins and they
can be counted on to fight to
the lost ditch to win it. Thot
being the case, these Little
Steel negotiations have ire
mendous importance on the
whole war program steel being
the number one industry.
Whether or not Little Steel
grants any or all Of these de-
monds, the same demands will
be mode on the big U. S. Steel
Corporation - now working
under an agreement W h | c h
either side can cancel on 10
days notice-ond all the other
steel companies which have S.
w. Q. {. contracts. Only two
major companies do not have
controcts-Notionol Steel and
American Rolling Mill. Mo-
tionoI Steel (E. T. Weir) set
the pooe for the wages in
creoses lost April by volunteer.
lily granting q lO-cent on hour
wage increase, but in these ne
9otiotions, Weir has not so
for shown his hand.
Steel companies estimote
that the wage demands NOW
being made on Little Steel, il
applied to the $40. 900 men in
the entire steel industry, would
come to about $3.50 million q
year.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-09

suitable bonus above their
weekly salaries. Fields men
toned $4,000 as his figure for
four or five days work and
stuck to it. The producers
finally gave in. There was no
body else so perfectly insult
able for the role of pompous
temperance lecturer.
GALS GRAB CABIN
On the "Moontide' set, there's
no chance of getting a word with
Jean Cabin; too many gals
around him. l finally drift
over to where the special eff
fects expert, Jesse Wolfe, is sit
ting and ask whether tie rubber
shortage is restricting his spin
ming of cobwebs.
"A year or so ago." chuckles
Wolfe, II had to make miles of
cobwebs for an old-mill set for
a mystery picture, and while /
was spinning them with my
blower everybody got to kid
ding me about how l was Offend
ing all the spiders which would
see the picture. Well, the next
morning there were two little
spiders on my rubber webs.
Everybody saw 'em, and we
showed 'em to the publicity
man. He said he was sorry,
but he didn't dare write any
thing about those spiders be-
cause nobody would believe it."
FANS PROTEST
DIN Rowland looks glum-
mer than usual as he sits around
waiting for a scene to begin in
Million Dollar Ghost" 1t isn't
his role as a police chief in this
picture that's bothering him;
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-09
BY WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

Modern bridge owes much of
its popularity to few pioneers
of the game. These men studied
all possible methods of playing
and bidding. Many of the plays
and rules they developed are
still in use today.
One of the most colorful of
these pioneers was Walter Wy
man of Boston, a whist and auc-
ton bridge player. He wrote
many articles about the game,
and elaborated with Milton c.
Work in the development Of
bidding tactics.
Probably no player ever had a
greater eye for color in bridge
than Walter Wyman. He would
record every hand he played or
saw or heard of, in which any
thing interesting or unusual hap
pened, and these records were
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-09
BY PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service staff Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD - They
nearing the end of the multi
starred "Tales of Manhattan"
and for this episode w. c. Fields
is buying the old formal tailcoat
about which the whole story re-
wolves. The scene is second
hand clothing store and Phil
Silvers and jerry Bergen are the
tricky proprietors.
They are so tricky they have
a magic mirror aiding in the
Misrepresentation of their mer-
chandise. When Fields looks at
himself he sees a perfectly tail
ored image complete to top hat
instead of an honest reflection
of the ill-fitting suit and soft
felt which he really is wearing.
The illusion is obtained by put
ting a translucent screen in the
mirror frame and projecting
from behind it previously
made film of the comedian in
elegant formal attire.
Only trouble is that nobody
can think of any good lines to
point up this gag. Fields him
self is no help because he does
Mt like it. He believes it's a
mistake to introduce an abvious
technical trick into a picture
which otherwise is realistic
drama.
Fields can afford to be toler-
ant, though. He's the most high
ly paid actor of the huge cast.
Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth,
Ginger Rogers, Henry Fonda,
Charles Laughton, Thomas Nit
chell and others apDear for
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-09
~ PETER EDISON
Dolly Monitor Washington
Covvesnondenf

WASHINGTON, Feb. o.
The new War Lobor Boord
seems destined to get its first
major test cose out of the Lit
tie Steel" iobor negotiations.
Only on unexpected bookdown
or lost-minute compromise con
heed off this next headache
for the reshuffled board and
if and when it comes. the coun-
try will be in for another Of
those wroneIes like ooptive
cool mines, keorny shipyords,
North American eviction.
As q test cose, this Little
Steel showdown may determ-
inc how good is Iobor's mo
strike" agreement, given to
the President SO ossurinely just
before Christmas as q euoron-
tee of labor peoce for the dur
otion of the war production eff
fort.
Little Steel is, os you know.
four major producers not in the
u. S. Steel Corporation. Since
mid Jonuory these companies
have been carrying on four
sets of negotiations with S. w.
O. c., the Steel Workers Or
eonizine Committee headed
by c. |. 0. President Phil MUIR
roy. They are Bethlehem and
Republic steel companies at
New York, Inland Steel at In
diana Horbor Ind, and
Youngstown Sheet and Tube
at Youngstown, o.
The four sets Of negotiations
might as we'll be one, for the
demands ore the some and the
answers ore the same.
In the two weeks and more
of negotiations, all issues have
been oereed upon except
three:
!. Wage increases Of S. q
day, or l2R cents on hour.
Z. Closed shop for the S. w.
o. c.
3. Checkoff of union dues
from wages.
The four companies, which
granted q wage increase Of 10
cents on hour in April, 1884,.
have indicated that they would
grant wage increases here and
there for certoin classes OF
employees. But they have flotly
refused general wage increases
and they have insisted they
cannot recognize the closed
shop principle or the checkoff.
insisting that these ore not is
sues that can be orbitroted.
Murray, impatient, has COLL
ed for q showdown, which
means simply that pressure will
be brought on the government
to have the cose certified tc
the War Labor Boord for set
Element by peaceful means.
II and when that happens, the
War Labor Board hos another
closed shop fight on its hands,
ISSUE IS DYNAMITE
So far, the War Labor Board
and its predecessor, the Ma,
tiono Labor Relations Boord
have been obIe to duck al
these closed shop decisions. II
was the closed shop issue ir
the captive coal mine cose
which really wrecked the ole
NDMB, forced settlement into
arbitration and coused the
President to coll his Iobor-in.
dustry peace conference which
finally set up the War Labor
Board.
Duckine the closed shop is
sue in the Little Steel nego.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-09
RETURN PASSAGE

NE ONN IhOOAOE
SALT LAKE CITY-Burnell
Bybee quit his job as a carpenter
on Wake Island and left on the
next to last ship that sailed be-
fore the Japanese invasion.
He's started on the way back
he hopes. He enlisted in the
Navy.
81 don't know why I left" he
commented. II tried to talk N.Y.
self into staying, but I couldn't
see it then"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-09
| A!Agaic ANSWER

ny Jhs United Stotes Navy was struck
oocl,sruus and disastrous blow at
4 javbos on Dse.7, 1871. II was
q TIE hsort ofsti,e American
y si,ot hsort rsspond7 Since
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-09
s YEARS AGO TODAY
1927

The sheriff's department to-
day ordered an investigation in
to mystery surrounding the de-
lay in the receipt of drivers IL
censes. A number of motorists
have said they paid for, but did
not receive their permits.
Donald r. Westendorf, Dom
aid j. Parent and Thomas G.
Longstaff have filed for reelec-
ton to the offices of Mayor, JUS
tice of the peace and commits
sioner of public safety, respec-
lively.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-09
FLASHES
OF
LIFE
BY the Associated Press
IT.


DOGGONE 1T!
NEW YORK - These things
happened at the Madison Square
Boys Clubs annual pet show,
The ribbon for "the dog with
the most loving eyes" had to be
recalled when the winner turned
out to be a borrowed dog.
The demonstration to be given
by Lana, defense-trained shep-
herd, was cut Snort when a cat
spat in Lana's face.
The prize for the shortest
tailed dog had to be split six
ways when as many tail-less
pups competed.