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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-13
STORIES .
. IN STAMPS
Emperor Francis Joseph
BELONGS to Old Vienna

CHILLED by the blare Of the
- German military bugles, the
lifting music and gaiety Of Vienna
are today only nostalgia memories.
Playing an important role in
Old Vienna was Emperor Francis
Joseph, stern, side-whiskered
monarch Of the Austro- Hungarian
empire, pictured on the stamp
above, issued in 1908.
The Emperor. tall and agile even
in his old age, was not bound BY
the conventions Of royalty.
His valet, Eugene ketterl. dis
closed many facts In his remin-
iscences which show the Emperor
10 be intensely human.
Francis Joseph had q dislike for
the ''neswfangled" instrument. The
telephone. Once. while In his bath
An fashioned wooden tub
the telephone rang and the Em.
peror imperiously told II to
"Wait!" But wait IL would not
and il rang again. The Emperor
had il taken out
A man Of reat vitality and .
capacity for intense work. the
Emperor would rise aG3:3o In the
morning, have . frugal breakfast.
and work until late afternoon.
Although 10 hsd wealth That
surpassed M own knowledge Of
IL, ne was satisfied with simple
comforts and but few retaincrs.
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gardener-until the declaration
of war. For a few days, then, the
man didn't show up; probably
was busy getting himself straight
tened out with the FBI. But fin
ally, said the actor, Mr.. Nokashi-
ma was there again, working
among the flower beds and smil-
ing broadly beneath a huge Mex
lean sombrero. "Buenos dias,
senor!' called the beaming gard
ner.
Most startled employer of a
Japanese-American was a direc-
tor whose houseboy was some
thing of a legend in Beverly Hills
for his comedy-dialect, complete
with kissing AMI deferential ges-
tlsres. Shrewed and competent,
lie never seemed to be able to
understand anything on the tele-
phone unless the caller was
somebody the boss really want
ed to talk to.
The director was in Palm
Springs when news came of ia
pans attack, and several times
on the drive to Los Angeles he
wondered what would happen to
his valued servant. He found out
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-13
Hieh|iehts from
the Latest Books

Any 'fireside enthusiasts Tor
outdoor life knows from looking
at those nerve-jarring pictures
that mountain climbing must
be a thrilling affair. Most of us,
however, never thought we
would find a man who can both
kick a spike into the side Of q
crag and beat out a dramatic,
well-written account of this So
called sport.
James Ramsey Ullman Is
your man. Not only has he
bucked as many peaks as the
searohers for Shangri La but he
has set down q fine account of
mountain climbing in High
Conquest" (Lippincott: $3.5O).
And if you have any inclinations
to follow the eagles and noun
tain goats, his book will help
you.
Those interested chiefly in
this struggle to get IS far off the
earth as possible will find this
as thrilling as any adventure
book. Ullman takes the reader
for dizzy climbs in the Alps,
Andes, Himalavas and then
brings you home for q try ut
some American mountains.
Ullman tells of several OF the
attempts to scale Everest, in
GLIDING the famous Mallory,
who, when asked why he want
ed to climb that unconquered
peak, replied: why. just be-
cause it's there, guess" NAL
lory was one of many who have
died after almost reaching the
top of Everest.
Then there's the account of
the Duke of Abruzzi, who pulled
himself through an icy gully in
which he could get no hold at
all, up treachero y crags. past
death-dealing crevices, only to
reach the summit of Ruwensori
to find the view completely
blocked by heavy fog. Also re-
counted are famous exploits of
conquerors of the mighty Mat
terhorn.
The question everybody asks
is, why do. people want to risk
their ccks and lives in such
undertakings? Might as well ask
why some people like to stunt
airplanes, walk tiehtwires, or
explore the Amazon jungle.
Ullman explains the call for
high adventure among the peaks
In these words:
1T is an escape from cities
and men, from turmoil and
doubt but in the truest and
most profound sense Il is an es-
cape not from but 10 reality"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-13
BY WIN. 4. MCKINNEY
Americas Gard Authority

A great many bridge clubs
have permanent headquarters
which are used only in the af-
ternoon and evening. During this
emergency a service can be rem
dered to civilian defense COM
mittees and Red Cross workers,
who would find such quarters
suitable for morning work. Many
clubs have already made their
space available for emergency
work, one Of the largest of which
is the Mayfair in New York.
operated by Mrs. Ralph II.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-13
. MCKINNEY ON BRIDGE

Schellenberg and Harry Fish
bein.
Fishbein, one of the country's
outstanding players, gave me to-
DAYS hand, which came up re-
Gently at his club.
South held up the ace of
spades until the third round-re-
GREETING afterward that he had
not stepped ur on the second
round. On the third spade East
discarded the king of clubs.
This far-sigh.ed play was bas-
cd on the looks of dummy, which
could surely prevent West from
gaining the lead through hearts
or diamonds. The only hope was
that West had a club stopped.
II West held the ace or queen
of clubs, declarer probably could
not make the contract. But West
Nigh hold only the jack-x-x. In
this event, his potential entry
might be killed through good
play by the declarer. II dummy
were put in twice with dia-
monds, to lead clubs twice
through East, declarer could win
tricks with the ace and queen,
and could let the king hold
whenever il was played-thus
letting East win a trick in order
TO shut out West. East there
fore unlocked by getting rid Of
his king of clubs.
After that, the declarer could
find no way to make the con-
tract.
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~ PETER eDSok
Dolly Meaites Wsshinstea

WASHINGTON. Jon. l3.-
The specific issues which will
bother the q American for
eien ministers meeting at Rio
de Joneiro in JonuoN ore the
curling Of olien activities, in
creased production Of stroteoic
materials like rubber and tin,
Priorities supply Of moterioIs
needed. and perhaps most i'm
portont Of al, maintenance Of
adequate shipping facilities.
For the moment, the alien
problem in lotin America is
generally considered under
control, but it con get q lot
worse. While nine of the
republics have declared war on
the oxis, they ore the Coribbe-
an countries, the little island
and central American republics
whose fote is all bound up with
the United Stotes. None Of
the countries on the South
American continent proper
had gone thot far in the first
month Of the war. They have
been cooperating beautifully.
The blacklist hos effectively
tied the hands Of the oxis COM
mercioI firms and the agencies
through which Germon and
ItoIion propaganda and indus
trial espionage hove been con-
Quoted. Thworted in this man.
ner, these onti-United Stotes
forces are turning to new
tricks, trying to work through
every channel thew can.
FRANCO WATCHED
One organization thot hos
come increasingly under the
attention of the United Stotes
in this record is the Spanish
FoIonee, the organization OF
the Franco Foscists in lotin
America. Not too much is
known about its workings.
There have been sporodic
drives for "Sponish America
for the Sponiords," but they
never gained much ground.
Spain itself is technically q
neutral in this war, and in the
South American Sp an S h
speaking countries there can
be no legal grounds for oction
against the Spanish Foscist
doctrinoires, so long as they
do not resort to promotion OF
sedition, treason and the over
throw Of the existing rePub-
lies governments. But If this
Spanish Fascist organization
should become the vehicle be-
hind which Nozi propogondists
work, thot would be something
else again.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-13
WHEN POSSESSIONS DESTROY

Our possessions, if they be exces-
sive, may destroy us by becoming an
obsession thot smothers the whole of
life.
A 75-yeor-oId New York widow
wos q hoorder Of mementoes and
clothes. Boxes and piles Of them over
flowed her three-room apartment. Then
her oil stove set them ofire, and, I'M
uboe to escape in the confusion Of boIes
and boxes, she died there.
Isoolc, you soy? Yes, but not more
4yopE 4hcn the spiritual sitting thot
Z gel,6ht deoth-in-life to many peo-
- surely overwhelmed by their
- ~ possosdon than this pitiobIe
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-13
. BEHIND THE, SCENES
IN WASHINGTON W
The Argentine Congress

The Argentine Congress
censure OF the Germon ombos-
sodor. rePutedIy the No. ! Nozi
propooondist in South Amer
leo before his recall, is one Of
the more hopeful signs Of the
southern hemisphere's senti-
ments. Venezuelo's closing Of
oil German consuIotes is an
other. But il South American
republics 90 beyond steps like
these and the according to the
United Stotes of all rights of O
acknowledgement in this war.
then some touchy questions of
international policy must be
decided on-principoIly,
how are these South American
countries to treot the tens of
thousands of Germans who
make up q not inconsiderobIe
portion of the population?
The influence Of this German
element in South America gen.
erolly hos been overmphosized.
Nevertheless, according to
Lawrence Ougeon of the Stote
Department, it is fair to as
sumo thot the Rio conference
will consider strengthening and
extending these controls, since
oxis alien activities ore in re-
oIity port of q vost miritory
operation.
Newest element in the
South American alien prob
lem is presented by the Jop-
onese. Penetration Of the Jops
in South America has been
minimized and pooh-poohed,
but thot wos the attitude in
Hawaii. the Philippines and
oafhe west coast OF the United
Stotes, too, and what hos hop
pened there has been nothing
TO minimize.
BroziI hos the largest Jop-
onese population, just os it
hos the largest German pop
uIotion, but these eIments ore
SO scottered they present no
real problem. II is in Peru that
the greatest japanese menace
is to be found and under pecuI-
ior circumstances. The $4,000
to 10000 Jops in Peru ore not
concentrated in strategic
oreos. They ore not miners in
the interior, nor ore they fish
ermen along the coost. Insteod
they ore O storekeepine and
gardening Gloss, with perhaps
the loreest concentration near
the metropolitan centers Of
Limo and CoIIoo.
From our points Of view,
where the japanese present
the greatest hozords ore as
the promoters Of strikes, or as
soboteurs. Dynomiting Of q
single trock tunnel from one of
the Peruvian or Bolivian mines
could do more domoee than
the sinking Of q convoy of
ships bearing the ores Of those
mines toward the United
Stotes.
Thus far, it is believed, the
Peruvian government hos
taken every step necessary to
curb the Jops and to protect
Unitel Stotes interests. But If
more drastic oction is required
and it should become neces-
sorry TO confine these oxis
cIiens in concentration camps,
the question might arise os to
who is to foot the bill and for
how Inn
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-13
BY PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. Is -
There is local notion that Irv-
ing Berlin's We'll Remember
Pearl Harbor" ought to become
the most popular song of this
wartime, but a couple of top
tunesmiths l know, who would
mt want their criticism to be
.misinterpreted, say it's a mis-
take. America won't 60 for songs
OF hate or vengeance, because
music and hatred are just natur-
ally incompatible. When the top
war song is written, it will likely
be a sentimental ballad like MY
Buddy" Or maybe a catchy
martial number like Over
There" The latter, you'll recall,
was no hymn of fury; it was a
forward-lookinc promise of aid
and victory.
Hollywood moviemakers also
are beginning to wonder about
the action-fiiied pictures which
they scheduled IN the first few
weeks of their personal idigna-
ton. Gradually they're recalling
that films of blood and hot lead
didn't do well il this country un-
till after World War ! was won.
Maybe sentimental stuff is bet
ter now, plus comedy, plus in
spirational stories of the behind
the-lines business of putting the
most and best fighting tools into
the hands of the men who use
them.
To this country, incidentally;
England has sent film unit to
record highlightS of the United
States vast industrial war effort.
The picture is to be shown
throughout the Empire as NOR
ale-building proof of the things
TO come.
GOOD NEIGHBOR
Like many HOllywoodsmen, j.
Carol Mash had a japanese
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-13
|, HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

quickly enough at his own front
door. Good evening, sir" said
the houseboy without trace of
accent.
"Mr. Zilchworth has been call
ing; something important about
the casting of the new picture. ]
believe. You heard the radio
news, of course. :. And-ah-
do you mind if from now on !
am just an American citizen? My
Christian mare is Henry. :. A
Mrs. Melton telephoned about
a story she said had been sent to
you. The cook wasn't sure
when you'd get here, and she's
afraid the roast may be too we'll
done. :. Mr.. Mathis wants to
break that golf date. -"
ROONEY WITH TEMPLE
Metro is figuring on break
ing up the co-starring combina-
ton of Mickey Rooney and Judy
Garland-she being married
though younger-and is wonder
ing about teaming him with Shir-
ley Temple.
Mae West is screenbound
again, with a divorce yarn CEN
tered in Las Vegas. George
Brent, who hasn't worked with
Olivia de Havilland in three
years, was required by the script
to kiss her ardently for a scene
in I'm This Our Life" "Whoo-
ee!' gasped the actor, afterward.
you certainly have grown up!"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-13
EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED

It is fun to predict the future. es-
pecioIIy if anybody tokes your Predie-
ton seriously enough to reod it,
But it is unsofe, and good many
experts have already found this out
to their embarrassment.
Therefore, this will be on editorial
without single prediction. We don't
know what is going to happen in the
next six weeks or six months, or six
years. And neither does anybody else.
II prediction of the results Of war
were possible with any accuracy it
would really be unnecessary to fight
the wor The foctors making for VIC
tory would be so Clearly and Clearly
stocked on one side that there would
be no point in fighting at oil. 1t is the
fact that the result is uncertain that
makes it necessary to fight it out to
see who was right
Americans tend to 90 on the cosy
assumption that the United Stotes can
not possibly lose the war. Thot is quite
q different thing from firm foith and
belief that we con win if we fight hard
enough, that we must win if it tokes our
last cent, our lost drop of blood.
The bland assumption thot we ore
50 big, so powerful, thot we can't pos
sibly lose, no natter what we do or do
not do, is q feorfuI stote Of mind for
people to get into. Obviously the Jopo-
nese think they can win; otherwise
they would not have launched the war.
The tolk thot it was all q desperate Of
tempt to plunge the japanese people
into some strange form Of Oriental sui
eide is all nonsense. The japanese
militory lords have laid their plans
croftily, and weighing their force
against ours. they think they can win.
Up to now, they have scarcely lost q
trick; their raid on Hawaii, their cam
poiens in the Philippines and in MoI-
oyo, have been carried on with mill
tory efficiency, no matter what one
thinks Of their morality. They suggest
that the japanese belief in victory is
not based entirely on opium smoke.
This is not toIkine defeotism. This
is merely saying that future events ore
unknown; thot in the noture of war
things happen which no one expected;
thot there is nothing about the latent
power or situoton Of any land, our own
included, thot guarantees victory with
out the stern, efficient, determined
fighting that alone brings victory.
We must have foith in Ultimate
victory thot will carry US through what
ever disoppontments and setbocks
owoit US land they await all nations
who engage in q major wor).
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-13
MAKES 1T UNANIMOUS

ARKANSAS CITY, Kas.-
Peggy Pepper. little Cocker
Spaniel, may have been alarmed
last week at the sagging jowls
of the Cecil Hawkins family.
Papa Hawkins and five little
ones came down with the
mumps.
But Peggy should understand
now. She's got EN- too.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-13
ANY COPS?

GARDEN CITY, Kas.-T h s
town of 5000 population is be-
ginning its tenth consecutive
year without a traffic fatality.
There isn't a stop-and-go light
within 100 miles.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-13

Small business has job to do-to assume
your proper and essential place in the mobiliza-
ton Of the industrial might of this nation for all
out effort.
Floyd B. Odum director. contract dstribu-
ton, OPM.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-13

="
fiscol blueprint of the necessary war
effort, President Roosevelt properly
dealt in dollars. Necessarily too, he
toIked of taxes. For many Americans
double foxes may be the best immedi-
ote gauge Of what they must do to win
the war. And in the diplomatic scoles
$50, OOO, 100000 Gig h s something
with friend and foe alike Yet you can't
buy victory. Not with dollars.
You cont buy victory with silver
and gold. Or even with steel and alum
mum. Even Winston Churchil's teors
and toll will not suffice - unless the
price is paid in time. Britain hos lost
one fiaht after another because it had
not turned pounds into planes - in
time. Americans at Wake Island gave
teors and toll without buying victory.
In the Philippines there is defect OIL
though in America there is steel and
aluminium enough to have eirded the
islands With ships and planes and guns.
Neville Chamberlain sold that the
democrocies' financial resources as
sured them victory Adolf Hitler sold
Germony's gold was the work Of its
people. So for, that work, put into weop-
ons in advance, hos been winning the
war. America has the noney-or roth
er the moterioIs and the potential To-
Dor represented by 1000. DOC. 600
and later instolInents - which con
turn the tide of bottle But so far it hos
not even $4,000, OO0.0 900 cortwheeIs
to throw at the Axis.
America has steel and aluminium,
it has machine tooIs-hoIf the worlds
suppIy-it hos skill and ingenuity and
a spirit of sacrifice which can win the
war. But these must be translated into
weapons and the weapons transported
and used on the crucial fronts 1t is
imperative that Americans realize that
this behemoth budget is only the blue
print Of victory. They had already OPP
proprioted more than $50, 900, 600, 600
but had turned only some SIS .OOO,-
600, 900 into effective weapons.
The Job isn't done by setting down
figures in budget estimates or oppro-
protion bills. Thot is the necessary be-
ginning, but the sooner the American
people reoIize it is only the beginning,
the sooner they will do the work and
make the sacrifices which will give the
men in the front lines the weapons for
which they beg.
Mr.. Roosevelt is Overwhelmingly
right when he soys it is not enough to
turn out merely "a few more planes,
few more tanks" than the Axis enemies.
Amrico must "outproduoe them over
wheIminey." The sooner it does SO the
sooner peace will be won. Every hour
Of work, every ounce Of moteriol, every
sacrifice Of .non-essentioIs, represented
in the war budget will contribute. 1t is
going to be necessary to carry through
drastic measures to turn American
production and consumption from non-
war to war goods.
1t is we'll thot the Government
plans to pay SO much Of the cost as it
goes and that the peoples purchasing
power is going to be drained SO largely
into the taxes outlined by Mr. Roose-
Welt. More will be needed, particularly
excess profits toxes Also some system
Of compulsory saving along the British
lines will be useful Much more ration
ing may be necessary.
CertoinIy America cannot buy VIC
torv oIono the lines il hos been follow
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-13
50 YEARS AGO TODAY
lA&Z

The minstrels, were good and
packed the house.
The projectors Of the new
mineral well met last night and
met Ieain Saturday. II is pro-
posed 10 raise $4,000 for the .
experiment.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-13

II union labor Is TO endure, il must rid itself
Of men who stand ready to sell out labor when Il
suits their purposes
Federal Judge John c. Knox Of New York.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-13
50 YEARS AGO TODAY

Fishing through the ice nas
begun at the lake, but the water
is not sufficiently clear.
The Good Templars, now 100
strong and full Of life. gave an
orange tea Monday night.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-13

GOOD NEIGHBOR
Like many HOllywoodsmen, j.
Carol Mash had a Japanese
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-13
. FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES Q
ONE YEAR AGO TO-DAY

ONE YEAR AGO TODAY
l94l
William H. Nunneley has
volunteered for service in the
US. Army.
Senator Taft of Ohio demands
end of lend-lease to embattled
British, and urges cash loans
instead.
Construction on Naval Ar
senal is rushed as land in South
Macomb for site is condemned
in Federal court in Detroit.
FIVE YEARS AGO
1887
Inez Culver Corbin, 90 Avery
street. has been awarded a $50
prize for the outstanding con-
tribution during 1896 to the
Detroit Edison company mag
azine.
Dissolution of the Macomb
council, Boy Scouts of America,
will be voted upon Friday night
as leaders find difficulty In pay
ing full-time executive.
50 YEARS AGO TODAY
1872
Fishing through the Ice nas
begun at the lake, but the water
is mt e,,fficien1v clear.
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you CAN'T BUY VICTORY

In budget message sketehine for =,
(onarase nnd the American people
Evening star., 1942-11-26

him liable for possible maximum
penalty of Is years in prison and
fines of $4,000, consisted of failing
to register, failing to have regis
tration card and failing to exhibit
a card when requested to do so.
Jones trial was not completed
and will be continued Monday.
The inside story of the preachings
at the meetings of the group was
told by Raymond N. Weaver. col
ored, former member of the Metro
politan Police Department, who
Joined the organization as an un-
dercover representative of the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation.
Under questioning by Assistant
Evening star., 1942-11-26

United States Attorney John l..
Laskey Weaver said one of the
stories went like this:
THE Japanese have huge STRAIT
osphere airship that flies 40 miles
above the earth and which carries
in its belly a whole fleet of air.
planes. These planes each carry
three 2000-pound bombs. The
planes will be launched over the
land of the blue-eyed devils tAmer-
icans).
THE bombs are made so that they
will burroW themselves in the earth
and will not explode until some
time later. All Moslems wills be
Evening star., 1942-11-26

warned in advance so they may
flee. When the bombs do 60 off
every living thing within so miles
will be killed. The ship was de-
signed by Allah in Mecca"
Other statements allegedly made
at the meeting by Jones and others
included, I'VE rejoice every time an
American ship is sunk and an
American ship lost" and "The
white man will be pushed off the
face of the earth"
Seven members of the sect have
been convicted of failing to register
and have been sentenced to prison
for terms that usually were from
one to four years.
Evening star., 1942-11-26

Fantastic stories of how the jap
anese would defeat the United
States with gigantic aircraft were
told group of colored men here
in promotion of revolt against
selective service training, it was
testified in District Court yesterday.
The testimony came out in the
trial of David Jones, Al, colored,
charged with failing to register for
service and with counseling others