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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-28
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Name some of the least likely
places you would choose as the
locale for dashing off your men,
oirs, and eventually you will
come up with a conveyed ship
in the choppy North Atlantic,
where, among other things, very
unfriendly submarines 60 about
Der Fuehrer's business.
Yet this is the place where
Quentin Reynolds wrote most of
Convoy" (Random House: $2),
the autobiography of this famous
reporter who has seen so much
war and quieter forms of excite
ment that probably convoy was
just the place for him.
Reynolds, by the way, takes
much of the steam out of the
charge made by literary dudes
that reporters can't write. Reyn-
Odds knows a story, he can write
it and proves he can write 1t in
Convoy"
Naturally the book contains
many re-told stories Reynolds
has reported, but they are re-told
so we'll most readers will enjoy
them, and age does improve
some stories. In addition, he
picks up bright threads of color
full life to weave through the old
er grays.
Among the stories he tells
with dramatic intensity are the
ones of Black Gold winning the
Kentucky Derby on a broken
leg. London's ordeal by bomb
and fire, and sentimental piece
about a man he knew in Vienna
"a doctor of philosophy who
swept the streets for a living al
though his books were used
throughout Europe.
Reynolds covers most Of the
world in Convoy" but America
is the big story as far as he Is
concerned. His accounts of vsri-
Gus citizens he has known--gam-
blers, doctors, lawyers, buns,
prizefighters, peanut vendors.
peanut politicians and prudet
make his book laboratory man.
ual for sociologists and q thing
of pleasure for Mr. and Mrs.
Average Fellow.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-28
BY PETER EDSoN
Dolly Monitor Washington

Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Feb. %
It's q pleasure to report that
some Of the trode bottle of this
war ore being won by our side.
According to one political
theory, you know, all wars ore
supposed to be fought over
nothing more than interno-
tionol trode rivolries. The coun-
tries concerned merely toke up
arms when commercial compe-
tition reaches such q point the
globe-trottine travelling soles-
men cont dispose of their no.
tons surplus production or
can't buy enough of the other
countries m ere h q n disc by
peaceful means and have to
foil back on the shotgun meth
Cd. A good case con be mode
for thot theory in the present
browI if you soy Hitler went to
war simply to give Germany
control Of western world trade,
and Japan ditto to get control
Of Oriental trode.
Whether you ogree with
that over-simpIified analysis or
not, if ever there was q war
thot was fought with CONNER
ciol bottles as we'll as miIitory
and naval bottles, this is it..
The textbook name for these
conflicts is economic warfare
and in this field of strotegy
it is now being revealed thot
the Nozis don't know all the
tricks.
Consider, for instance, some
Of the recent developments on
the South American front
alone. 1t is here thot United
Stotes eumshoe forces have
contacted the enemy in q big
way. Most spectacular Of the
bottles fought in this sector
have been with the so-coIIed
"block list" os the principal
weapon. This list Of certain
blocked nationals hos desig-
mated those firms with axis
control and sympothies and
has prohibited trode with them.
First reports Of casualties in
tIicted by this weapon ore be-
ginning to triokIe back and
they read we'll.
WORKS WELL IN MEXICO
In Mexico, some 200 black
listed firms with assets Of more
than Is million pesos have
been forced into bankruptcy.
Thot Leaves the way open for
Mexican business houses to
pick UP the business and so
strengthen Mexico's internal
position. Axis firms which have
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-28
. BARBS

1t doesn't make much differ
ence whether the little woman
wears a uniform or not-she's
still the top sergeaat.
Life Is what you make it-not
Just what you make!
Mems coats will be made with
out pockets. Then We can throw
all the odds and ends and stuff
away in the first place.
Having a beautiful complex
ion really doesn't leave much
time for washing dishes.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-28
BY WILLIAM e. MCKINNEY
America's Gard Authority

Yesterday / said that one of
the points to be considered in
deciding what suit to open is
the advisability Of holding back
aces and kings when possible.
One of the uses of these high
cards is to give re-entry to the
defense for continued attack
against any weakness in the de-
clarer's cards.
A curious working OF this
principle is shown in today's
hand. West has a choice of two
five-card suits for his opening
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-28
our ODYSSEY

Ooy by doy the Official commune.
cues from distont fronts ollude to
clcces OF which we may never have
sd before. The some names recur-
Qd 0ooin We hear Of them -
\ III end thsy seam likely to stoy
49, famous piece names Of
brrient Aehoson had ever
~ river Zonthus till it was
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-28

1.-THE axis crashed IN q oeiu9e OF
pop bottle tops, chicken bones, rusty
Den points and out-ot-the-heels socks.
You will never read that in headline
or history text. but fieurotiveIy speok-
ina it can and may happen.
With most Of us in this country just
beginning to stir our stumPs tor VIC
tory, we con learn q very profitable les
son in the big importance OF little
things in winning q war. Best OF oil
here is something everybody con do and
it is going to toke every man jack and
all his sisters, brothers, cousins and
children to do the job.
Every British home now hos four
cans for four types Of waste needed to
dull the axis blade. One can is for paper
and rags, another for bones, the third
for metal and the fourth for garbage.
Not much Of the horror Of war
there, or the eIomor Of bottle, if there
Is any elomor left in war. It's much
more exciting to wave flag, march in
parade or speI|bind the neiehbors
with windy speech on what Wovell
or Macarthur or Nimitz should have
done. But If every American home had
four such cons and filled them as
quickly as possible we should make
much better showing in that regard
than Britoin and here is what Britain
showed:
The salvage Of waste Paper alone
saved $4,000 tons Of shipping space
which could be used for more vital
materials. The London Passenger
Transport Boord reduced the thickness
of tickets by only .O04 Of on inch,
thereby saving 48O tons Of paper an
nuoIIy, and that Paper is needed for
cortridge wods.
Most important, enough scrap
metol-oId skiIIets, sordine tins, razor
blades, toothposte tubes-rolled from
those cans, junk heoPs and city dumps
to build 10 destroyers, 10000 tonks
and 10000 onti-oircroft guns.
Thot is only port Of the British
soIvoee system. but obviously it is
more than worth while. 1t could pos
sibIy spell the difference between de-
feot and victory, therefor it becomes
q necessity.
Americans must join the junk
drive. All communities by now should
have organizations and resources to
handle this job. Boy Scouts, schools,
Sunday School classes and clubs ore
collecting refuse, but they can't collect
it if you do not save it for them. RE-
member PeorI Horbor" and "Mosh 'em
Macarthur" may bring you up with
your fists cinched tighter than
"Woste No Waste" but the latter
pocks a potential woIIop.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-28
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON

survived the blacklist have
been those with exceptionally
strong reserves, but the word
is now that even these COM
ponies will be forced to the
wall within six months or so.
Similar reports come back
from Cuba. There, out Of Some
IS principal oxis firms black
listed, Is have been forced out
of business and the trade Of rs
has been completely porolyz-
ed. Other business houses Of
fected have survived only by
q change Of ownership or re-
organization in which Cuban
copitoI has taken over.
In Guatemala, one Of the
principal Germo, businesses
effected hos been in the in
suronce field. Government de-
cree her simply put all German
insurance companies, which
had the bulk of the business,
under q government trustee
ship. Books, files, funds and
all assets we're taken over.
Trode balances of nearly all
the South American countries
have scared in the post year,
increased war production pur->
ohoses Of raw materials by the
United Stotes being entirely
responsible.
BroziI's favorable trade bol-
once, for instance, jumped
from Sl2 million in 1910 to
more than $65 million in lo4l.
No wonder BroziI leans this
way.
BOLIVIA BUILDS SURPLUS
BoIivio's financial position
hos so improved that the coun-
try hos been reported to have
q SIS million surplus on de-
post in New York. Some OF
this surplus has been used to
buy quietly Bolivian bonds at
the current, greatly reduced
market value. Bolivia, in other
words, is retiring her national
debt at considerable sowing to
the public treasury. Another
indication Of Bolivian offlu-
ence wos the recent oeree-
ment, subject TO Ioter rotifico-
ton by Bolivian government,
under which q payment Of
SIS million will be mode to
STANDARD Oil Of New Jersey for
claims dotine back to 1887,
when Bolivia notionolized its
Oh rights. 4
In one South American re-
public, all this new war pros
perty hos had q significant
result. Urueuoy's imports from
the United Stotes for lo4l
we're eight million pesos. Her
exports have risen to as mil
lion pesos. So the Chamber Of
Deputies posed q law requir-
ing all public officials to regis
ter their wealth upon election
and to report their wealth
when their term hos expired.
The information is to be made
public and the idea, Of course,
is to keep an eye on govern
ment Officials who might get
too rich as q result Of all this
new national wealth.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-28
. FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .
so YEARS AGO TODAY

so YEARS AGO TODAY
1892
No services at the Presbyter-
ian church Sunday next. Kracht
Bros. have taken the agency of a
number of leading organs.
IS YEARS AGO TODAY
1887
John F. Gratopp, the florist,
has established an agency at
Shotwell Bros. drug store, where
a full supply of cut flowers will
always be found.
Detroit papers say that q
Mount Clemens girl by the name
of Lizzie Nahum was taken out
of low resort in that city Wed
nesday. Never heard Of her.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-28
ACROBATIC BABY

CHICAGO - Four-month-old
Chalmer Palmer's favorite pas
time is to hang with his hands
from the clothesline and to chin
himself.
His mother, Mrs. c. A. Bow
man, said when the boy was
born he surprised hospital nurses
by holding his head up from the
very beginning He started his
clothcsline acrobatics at ten age
Of ~ months when his father
decided to test his grip.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-28
NO SUGAR.!

NO SUGAR.!
SPOKANE, WASH. - Police
felt they were pardonably ac-
curate in recording the burglary
of the Gillispie lunchroom as a
sweet job.
Thieves took 100 candy bars, a
box of minis, 30 packages of
gum and some cough drops.
Evening star., 1942-01-28
Police Press Inquiry
In Mystery Death
Old. e. Woman
Laurel Probe Continued,
Despite Report She Died
Of Natural Causes

An investigation into the mysteri-
Gus death of a women tentatively
identified as Mary Scott Burke, %,
a waitress, Of the 1900 block OF
Eighteenth Street NV, was con-
tinued today by Maryland State
police. although a medical examiner
said her death was due to natural
causes.
The body was found yesterday
under q tree near a bridge on a
road leading to the Laurel race
track. Her maroon waitress uniform
had been partially torn from her
body. Her clothing was blood
stained.
In Baltimore last night, Col.
Beverly S. Ober, State police super
intendent, said: We're working on
the case from every possible angle.
We're checking the circumstances
that led to her death"
He said the case Is not closed"
even though DR.. James I. Boyd.
Prince Georges County medical ex-
aminer, issued a certificate of death
due to natural causes"
DR.. Boyd said the woman died
from a hemmorhage. He said an
examinat ton revealed no bruises or
other injuries.
Col. Ober said tentative identifi-
cation had been made from Social
Security card and from letters in
her purse.
Police Chief Edward Brown, who
has been working with State and
District police on the case, said
Miss Burke left Washington Satur-
day afternoon to bring Dolores Lin
dain, 9, pupil at ST Mildred's
Academy, back to Washington,
where her father, Sefanio Lindain,
lives at the Eighteenth street ad-
dress. When his daughter did not
arrive, Mr.. Lindain checked Sum-
das morning with academy officials,
who said Miss Burke had not been
there since an earlier trip on a
similar errand two weeks ago.
Chief Brown said Miss Burke's
movements from the time she left
Washington were being carefully in
vestigated. Up to the time she left,
she had worked for a drug store
near her home, he said.
The body was discovered by Ralph
Rector, IA Lee Wiley, 10, and Robert
Mitchell, IT. all of Laurel, as they
emerged from a thicket along the
Patuxent River where they had set
muskrat traps.
DR.. BOYD said the woman had
been dead from II to 20 hours.
Evening star., 1942-01-28
Non-Essential Uses
Of Brass, Copper
And Nickel Curbed
w. P. B. Orders Shorp Cut
In Employment Of Metals
In Decorative Bulbs

BY the Associated Press.
Tightening restrictions on non
essential uses of nickel, brass and
copper, the War Production Board
today ordered sharp curtailment in
consumption Of those materials in
incandescent lamps designed chiefly
for Christmas trees, advertising or
decorative purposes.
In February, March and April,
the w. P. B. directed. use of the
metals must be reduced so per
cent under consumption during
comparable months OF 1910. After
February no manufacturer may
use any materials obtained with
preference ratings in production of
such lamps.
Further affecting the bulb indus
try, the order provides that the
use of nickel in all lamps must be
cut 25 per cent under 1910 con-
sumption during the next three
months and the use OF brass and
copper reduced 20 per cent.
w. P. B. officials said the restric-
tions probably would be absorbed
in elimination of non-essential
lamps and that the industry un-
doubtedly could meet all essential
needs through substitution of less
critical materials and strict con-
servation.
Evening star., 1942-01-28

ficiency of the japanese plans for
the attack.
They planned it for quiet Sun
day morning when the religious
services were about to be held. In
fact, the Catholic boys were ashore
at church at the time. The Japs
strafed even the small boats the
boys were going back and forth in"
japanese and American aviators
were compared in the following
comment by Capt. Lovette: Our
average flyers can equal their best"
He expressed the opinion that the
planes approached the harbor from
at least three aircraft carriers.
Speaking guardedly and avoiding
any conflict with or comment on the
Roberts report, Capt. Lovette was
unwilling to discuss casualties suf-
fered by our forces or the Japanese.
Evening star., 1942-01-28
Two-Edged Controversy Arises
Over Torpedoed Spanish Ship

juries and property damage on the
not seaworthy, was inadequate for
claimants charges the vessel was
carrying passengers and was filthy,
overcrowded, unsanitary and i'm
properly manned, equipped and
supplied.
The owners. the Compania Es-
pamela de Navigation Maritime,
have denied responsibility with the
statement the craft was under char
ter to a resident of Lisbon during
that voyage.
The second controversy to plague
the specter of the gloomy ferry
boat is between Britain and the
Axis over whose submarine sunk the
Navemar a few days ago of the
Portuguese coast.
German and italian news dis
patches from Lisbon Monday
claimed 1t was a British submersible.
The British Admiralty denied this
today. asserting Axts submarines
were responsible.
Evening star., 1942-01-28
Il on Iorpedoed Steamer
land on Island in Pacific
Ey the Associated Press

Ey the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS. Jan. 23--Capt.
G. H. Bov of Houston, Tex, and 10
additional survivors of the steamship
Prusa, torpedoed December 18, have
been landed at a Pacific island, the
Tampa Interocean Steamship Co.
announced here today
Steamship company officials said
several lives were lost in the tor
pedoing and that lifeboat of sur
vivors previously had been rescued.
In addition to the captain the
other rescued men were listed as:
James H. Darlin. Houston, Tex;
Bernard Baker, Jefferson, Iowa;
Floyd McWilliams, Smyrna, Ga;
Karl Knee, Hammond, Ind; Thomas
Bartlett, Elizabeth City, N. c.; J. P.
Higgins, Philadelphia; Frank Stew
art, Wilmington, Del. George Bercy
New Orleans; Alfred A. Smith, New
York and Eric J. Williams, New
York.
Evening star., 1942-01-28
Revision Of Tactics
Expected Following
WaveII's Burma Visit
Lessons Learned in Malay
Fighting to Be Turned
To Good Advantage
By RODERICK MACDONALD,

BY RODERICK MACDONALD,
Foreign Correspondent OF The Star and
North American Newspaper Alliance.
RANGOON, Jan. 20 (by wire
less) Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell's
talks here with Burma civil and mil
itary officials is expected to result in
application of special tactics to
counter the Japanese offensive.
News of the visit of the commander
in chief of the United Nations in the
Southwest Pacific was released after
he was on his way back to his new
headquarters in the Netherlands In
dies last night.
There have been many lessons
learned in the fighting still under
way in Malaga and it is believed that
these lessons will be turned to good
advantage in Burma where major
campaign is developing.
According to a very reliable source
here Gen. Wavell pointed out the
necessity of maintaining the Of
fensive wherever possible. He re-
portedly insisted that the utmost
Judgment must be used to avoid the
error of overestimating the Japanese
numerical superiority.
Some reports here indicate that
the japanese practice of inflltrating
along the flanks of British Empire
forces often gives the impression
that they are present in greater
numbers than actually is the case.
The counterattacks, according to
informed quarters here-and this
is believed to be one OF the Ma
laya lessons Gen. Wavell empha-
sized-are for empire forces to ad-
vance.
The air force Of the United Ma
tions definitely has the upper hand
in Burma. In view of this. en-
pire land forces are not going to
be hampered by the lack of air sup
port as they were in Malaga.
1t is likely that Gen. Wavell's
visit will result In q major read
justment in the defense plans
against the japanese and Siamese
troops which now are repeatedly
being held by the empire forces
along the Salween River line.
Evening star., 1942-01-28
Officer, Back on Duty Here,
LQuds Pearl Horbor Heroes
Men Stuck to Burning Decks Despite Order
To Save Selves, Capt Leland Lovette Says
Bv CLAUDE A. MAHONEY.

Capt Leland P Lovette. who COM
manded a destroyer division at Pearl
Harbor. was back on duty at the
Navy Department today with addi-
tional tales of the Japs' December 7
attack and enthusiastic praise for
defenders who got anti-aircraft
guns on our ships into action
faster than in target practice" and
who stuck to burning decks despite
orders to save themselves.
Discussing the Japanese attack
informally yesterday, Capt. Lovette
said every man did beyond duty.
A British officer told him, he said,
that he. a veteran of Dunquerque
and Crete, had never seen the equal
of the resistance put up by the
American fighters.
Capt. Lovette, who goes on duty
as assistant to Admiral A. J. Hep
burn in the Office of Public Rela-
tions, explained the well-planned
Japanese attack by saying that
those folks lived for years in the
hills overlooking Pearl Harbor, and
the Americans never did anything
to prevent it. They had visitors, and
they undoubtedly photographed
everything. We captured japanese
charts of the harbor as good as
our own"
Didn't Know Planes Weren't Up
Emphasizing the fact that his
entire attention in advance had been
in seeing that the ships were pre-
pared for any emergency, he ad-
mitted that "as a surface officer,
didn't know the aerial patrols were
not out to warn us in advance"
New tales of heroism related by
Capt. Lovette included that OF the
little doctor" who carried a 275-
pound medical chest down two
ships ladders. He had praise also
for the entire medical unit, includ-
ing pharmacists mates who ap-
piled emergency dressings and who
literally had to be ordered out of
straf1ng gunfire.
The officer spoke of the cruel ef-
Evening star., 1942-01-28
Heriot CIarkson Dies;
North Carolina Jurist
Hy the Associated Press.

Ry the Associated Press.
CHARLOTTE. N. c., Jan. 28.-
Heriot Clarkson, 78. since 1923 an
associate justice of the North Caro-
lima Supreme Court, died yesterday
ns the home of his son. Francis o.
Clarkson.
He was stricken Ill shortly after
his arrival here with Mrs. Clarkson
Friday from their summer home at
Little Switzerland.
Death was attributed to heart
trouble.
Funeral services were to be held
here today at st. Peters Episcopal
Church.
Survivors include the widow, who
befort her marriage December 10,
l889 was Miss Mary Lloyd Osborne
of Charlotte; three sons and a
daughter. Francis o. Clarkson and
Edwin o. Clarkson of Charlotte, the
Rev. Thomas Simmons Clarkson Of
Tupelo, Miss, and Mrs. John Gar
land Pollard of Washington.
Evening star., 1942-01-28
Gen. Lear to Promote
AbIest Officers Only
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. Jan. alt.
Gen. Ben Lear wants his I'd Army
commanders to place ability as the
first consideration in the advance
ment Of officers.
In an order yesterday calling for
abandonment of the traditional sys-
tenn of promotion by seniority, Gen.
Lear told his commanders 1t was
their solemn duty to see that their
troops have the best leaders avail
able.
Under no circumstances" he
said, would an individuals need for
higher pay be considered In making
promotions.
Evening star., 1942-01-28
BY the Associa ted Press.

BY the Associa ted Press.
NEW YORK, JAN 28.-The ghost
Of the gloomy ferryboat of Charon"
officially the Spanish freighter
Navemar-was the center of two
separate disputes today, although
the ill-starred vessel lies at the bot
tom of the sea.
On file in Federal Court are claims
totaling $3,427,6 ,628 brought against
the owners by 593 passengers who
arrived here last September after
a 48-day Atlantic crossing so marked
with illness and death that marine
circles Immediately applied the un-
complimentary nickname.
Forty-one persons became i'll and
five died during the voyage between
Seville, Havana and New York
as more than 1000 European refu-
gees were herded into the 5,473-ton
ship.
Claims are being made for pass
age money refunds, personal In
Evening star., 1942-01-28
Red Cross Seeks
Funds for War

The District Red Cross is ap-
pealing for $750,0O0 as its quota
of the American Red Cross
War Fund Campaign for $50
100000 to provide relief for
American war victims and to
carry on rapidly expanding Red
Cross services for the armed
forces.
Today the District fund stands
at $232,47462.
Checks should be made pay
able to the American Red Cross
and envelopes marked For the
War Fund"
Any bank will accept your
contribution and forward it to
District Red Cross headquar-
ters, 1920 Massachusetts, avenue
NV. There are also booths
in leading hotels. department
stores and at Union Station.
Evening star., 1942-01-28
Treasury Experts Study
Macarthur Tax Problem

By the Associated Press.
The Treasury yesterday sought
means Of preventing Gen. Douglas
Macarthur and other Americans
isolated in war areas from being
classed as income tax dodgers.
John L. Sullivan, Assistant Secre-
tary of the Treasury, said the prob
lem was being studied and might
require legislation.
Americans outside of the United
States have until June Is, instead
of March Is, to file their annual
tax returns. If they fail to pay
then, they must be charged per
cent interest. Present laws appar-
emily do not permit suspension of
these interest charges, although the
Treasury has authority to waive
any additional penalties.