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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-07-23

needed alternative 10 butter
y ere either defeated or tabled
in Connecticut, Nebraska, Penn
SlVania, Wyoming, Vermont and
Washington
Pennsylvania provides various
examples Of restrictive legiSla
ton The state requires $1,000
annual license fee for margarine
manufacture, $500 license for
wholesalers handling it, 500
license for retailers. a $50 IL
cenSe for restaurants serving
margarine, and a $40 fee for
boarding houses serving II. The
Pennsylvania Grocers ASsocia-
ton made a vigorous but futile
fight for removal Of the retail
license, declaring that 90 per
cent Of the retailers couldn't al
ford to pay 500 a year for the
right 10 sell one food product.
AN OLD GAME
The game Of butter. butter
let s tax margarine started way
back In 1898, New Hampshire
had a law requiring that all mar
garine be colored pink, but the
Supreme Court declared it un-
constitutional But the pink
butter story ism half 50 funny
as the Iowa incident.
Last March, Iowa State ~G;ta
lege issued 4 pamphlet Called
Putting DaIrying on War
Footing The editorial commit
tee consisted Of four scientists
all members OF the faculty
IN suggested. as a war meas
ure That instead of trying 10
Shlit men and feed into produc.
ing more butter the state proba-
ply could afford 10 increase the
pEnduci4aa-eE >enae r1t-1er-f ais
and expand the processing of
margarine.
Inc ! oW a dairy industry
gangcd up on President Charles
r. Frlley OF the college. demand
me the recall of the pamphlet
and the removal of its authors
as Seit-convicted incompetents
He replied that the right of IN.
stitutionS 10 publish facts is no,
a debatable question in this
country.
PRODUCTION GOES TIP
Attitudes generally iowa
margarine are beginning to i'm
prove Oklahoma boldly has
Withdrawn all taxes on the com
modify; California has removed
one OF five taxes. The FDA re-
ports that the production of mar.
gaflne this year viii be about
ooo million tons as compared
with 344 million in l940-4l. ex-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-07-23

Airplane tires, pulled out of
the sea near Pearl Harbor after
rs years, still had air in them.
Enemy RADIO detectors are not
accurate on fast airplane fly.
ing low
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-07-23
Production of Substitute
Nearly Doubled This Year
Nv GAYNOR MADDOX
NEA Food and Markets Editor

Margarine, the science Of ma.
triton and the dairy interests
are engaged in a Mad Halter
fight these DAYS And only
Americas warneeds can dictate
a truce
The government wart m G
nutritional'drive urges everyone
70 eat butter or fortified margar-
inc daily Our leading nutrition
ISIS and medical groups CLASSIFY
margarine. with vitsmin A add
ed. as the nutritionsl equivalent
Of butter Nevertheless as re
Gently as June. 1871, the maya
zine Dairy Record was declar-
ing The dairy industry must
set as is goal the complete eN-
termination of oleo-margarlne
L must never rest until the
manufacture and sale Of marGar-
me have been outiswed in TINS
country
IN March OF this year. the
Children's Bureau, Department
Of Labor issued 4 booklet called
The Road To Good Nutrition. -
recognizing that parents, teach
erS and others have special
problem in wartime TO keep up
the health Of children despite
shortages DR. Lydia J Rob
erts. who wrote the book IN col
alteration with the Children S
Bureau staff. says that children
over one year should get three
servings daily OF butter or Of
Oleomargarine with added vita
min A But the legislators of
South Dakota feel that state
rights come before the rights
Of children in lower income
groups They passed a law this
year requiring all consumers Of
margarine made outside the state
10 pay a license fee OF 81 90 Sort
OF a pool tax on health.
RESTRICTION SQUELCHED
The War Food Administration
has acknowledged margarine
as a necessity Of our war diet.
That seems TO be quite differ
ent opinion than that held by
Rep A II Andersen of Mime
sofa On April 18th. he introduced
an amendment 10 the appropria-
lions bill for the Department OF
Commerce which would pro-
hibit 'promotional activities, in
quiries or Investigations IN con
nection with oleomargarine or
other pretended substitutes for
dairy products The Senate,
however. was not interested.
Mr. Andersen had been irked
by Department OF Commerce
bulletin stating that because
margarine is used more widely
among families OF low income.
taxes on II fall most heavily on
those least able 10 pay. Margar-
inc 90 percent Of which is now
fortified with vitamin A. costs
about half As much as butter.
and four ration points less than
butter
There isn't enough butter to-
day for our Armed Forces. Lend
Lea ; and home front needs. as
every slice Of bread knows. Mar
garlne IS the nutrltional equiva-
lent Of butter, no matter what
YOU think Of IFS taste. Yet at
iempts 10 remove license fees or
excise taxes this year from this
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-07-23

In icy weather, one safety rule
to remember is TO increase the
distance between your automo-
bile and the one ahead.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-07-23

License plates for 1913 take
such forms as windshield stick
ers, date tabs, and even wooden
Stats.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-22
Curtain of Fire
Hd|tsGermdns
In Caucasus

MOSCOW, April % tUPl-A
curtain of mortar, machine gun
and rifle fire shattered German
night attack in the Northwest
Caucasus, killing 400 OF the enemy
and wrecking three Of his tanks
the Russians announced today
"a British broadcast said the
Germans were using s TO 10 d.
visions-l20.000 to 10000 men
in the Caucasus fighungD
Small groups Of Germans who
penetrated the Soviet line al the
height Of the fighting were wiped
out in hand 10 hand fighting, the
midday communique said.
Front dispatches said the Ger
mans were attacking in ceaselcss
waves and under strong aerial
support in a thus far futile at
tempt to enlarge their threatened
bridgehead in the Kuban area.
Ninety-eight German planes
were reported shot down Tuesday
and Wednesday in the area west
of Krasnodar, with Russian losses
totallng AZ.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-22
Macarthur FIiers
Raid Arc Of jap
Invasion Bases

UNITED NATIONS HEAD
QUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA,
April % INS)-A series of at
tackS by medium and heavy bomb
ers on Japanese invasion bases
from the northwestern TIP of New
Guinea 10 the nartheast end of
New Britain was announced today
by Gen. MacArthur's headquarters.
The enemy's only retaliation TO
the sweeps, carried oHt yesterday,
was the raiding of the Morohe area
on New Guinea by single Jap
plane under cover of darkness.
Damage was "inConSeQuental.
In the northeastern sector, a
heavy Allied reconnaissance plane
shot down one of four enemy
mtcrceptorS over Rabaul. New
Britain. Other heavy units raided
the GaSmata airdrome. destroying
an enemy bomber on the ground,
and started fires in Ubili Bilau
was bombed and Strafed along
with nearby villages in the Saidor
section of New Guinea.
Medium units operating in the
northwest sector bombed airfeldS
at Timika and kalmana in Dutch
New Guinea and, with fighters,
bombed and strafed buildings, fuel
dumps and a float plane at Dobo
in the Aru Islands. The village
of Wadtek and coastal vessels
near Wadanela, both in the Kei
Islands, and the Wailoetoe village
in the Tanimbar Islands were at
tackled.
Large fires were started when
medium bombers b m b d ano
strafed the enemy-held town OF
Laga, on Timor.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-22
Americans Push
Closer 10 Two
Enemy Positions

WASHINGTON April % CINS)
American airmon apparently are
operating from secret bases in the
fog bound AleutianS in sky Of
fensive designed TO check con-
struction Of enemy airfioIds at
KiSka and Attu
The navy admitted that an air.
field was constructed several
months ago in the Andreanof
Islands, east of Kiska. but its eX-
act location. of course, has never
been revealed. Other bases are
believed 10 have been constructed
since.
An International News Service
dispatch from an advanced Aleu-
tlan base stated that IN the last
few months American engineers
have moved from one uninhablted
island 10 another, building bases
and alrilelds. '<
Their acOmpli sh m ent is
brought Americas newest air.
fields almost within kiSka's
shadow, hut there aren't any
traffic laws up there" the dis
patch added.
The increasing frequency Of re-
cent L. s. air attacks leaves no
doubt we are creeping up on
kiSka.
Proximity Of American airfields
10 KiSka was minated in a navy
Icommunique which stated that
IL S fighter planes had dropped
$4,000 pounds of bombs in nine
attacks on kiska. These planes
have short range, especially
when loaded with bombs.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-22

WASHINGTON, April % (UP)
Occupied France was asked to-
day to carry out mass sabotage
and strikes against the German
overlords on May /.
Radio France at Algiers, con-
trolled by Gen. Giraud, told French
in a broadcast:
"On Saturday, May I. the
young must carry out their pa
triotic mission of ceasing all
work for Hitler and continuing
resistance until the liberation of
France"
The broadcast was reported by
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-22
1000 Airp|dnes
Month Output

NETWORK, April % QNS)-
factories probably will
turn out the amazing total of
1000 airplanes this month, Don
aid NJ. Nelson, chairman of the
WPB. told the first general session
of the American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association.
Certainly "a year ago II any
body had told us that we could
build 1000 airplanes In one
month. we would have told them
they didn't know what they
were talking about" Nelson told
the publishers.
I'VE will do II, probably this
month. Next month we will
build even more, and the next
month we will build even more:
until we get up to just as large
a production as we feel we need,
no matter how many we need"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-22
Tom Harmon Tells
OF Battling JungleS

and swan several miles to an
other dry ridge.
"My flying suit had shrunk
10 my knees and my trousers
were out, but i kept wading and
swimming along until finally i
saw smoke and found two native
huts along the edge of the
swamp.
THE natives spoke no Eng
lish but finally they understood
that / was an aviator. They
had a dugout canoe and rowed
me 10 village where there was
an official who spoke a little
English. He gave me one of
his uniforms and we finally got
away In a little outrigger canoe
at about 2 a. m.
Eventually we landed and
went down a small path which
finally wound up at a base OF
an Antilles air task force"
AS soon as Harmon arrived al
the base, he boarded an army
plane and directed the aeria
search which located the wreck
age of his plane.
Harmon's chute still was hang.
ing on a tree near the ship. Other
parachutes were in trees about a
mile away.
A searching party was organized
as soon as the plane returned tc
base and the group started for
the scene Of the crash before dawn
the next day.
Later Harmon said that after he
gave the order to bail out, he was
unable TO tell what happened 10
Sgt. Leonard D. Gunnells, a gun
ner of Deatsville. Ala, and Sgt.
James +. Goodwin, engineer, OF
TeXarkana. Tex.
The war department today
listed the two men as killed..
Medical authorities reported
that Harmon was unhurt except
for scratches, blisters and bruises
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-22
Hitler
w armed
OF Gas

LONDON, April % ms
Prime Minister Churchill an
nounced today that he had re-
ceived reports that Hitler is
preparing 10 loose poison gas
against Russia and warned anew
that such action would evoke i'm
mediate British gas attacks on
war centers throughout Germany.
The Columbia Broadcasting
System correspondent in Mos
COW quoted Russian officials AS
saying they had proof Ger
mans were preparing TO use
poison gas on the Soviet front,
United Press reported. The
Soviet publication "Agitator'
was quoted as reporting capture
of Nazi documents disclosing
plans for &C h emical Of
fenSlve.D
The premier recalled that he
had issued a similar warning 10
the Axis before last years spring
on the Russian front
were launched by the Germans
British resources" in chemical
warfare supplies and the scale
of delivery by air or other
means have greatly increased
since last year" Churchill said
He added that the necessary
precautionary measures against
the Nazis might at
tempt against Britain have been
put into effect throughout the
United Kingdom.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-22
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and missed; grabbed again and
yanked.
"The next thing I knew 1
was hanging on a tree. Twenty
yards away my ship had crashed
and was burning. i managed TO
climb down from the tree but
I couldn't get near the ship
until IL cooled off.
almost everything was de-
stroyed. but i saIvaged a pair
of pants and shoes, a jungle kit
and a few cans of water. had
a bolo knife from the kit and /
found a Very pistol. also found
a cigaret lighter.
81 put some trousers over my
flying suit and tied the other
things in a bundle, then started
off due east toward the coast.
THE jungle was terrible, thick
with underground and no trails
at all. I had to cut my way
through with the bolo knife.
The country was hilly and every
little valley was swampy.
ut rained and rained. l didn't
make more than half a mile by
dark. / spent the night the best
way l could on a high spot.
THE next day l started out
again after eating some small
chocolate bars. All the drinking
water I had leaked out of the
battered cans during the night
and from then on / had 10
drink water from swamps.
THE jungle was full of lizards
and birds and / saw a few big
crocodiles, but no other animals.
That night I heard an animal
that sounded like a dog barking
and I hoped he would lead me
to some natives, but he disap-
peared.
This went on for four days
until l came out of the Jungle
and found a large swamp ahead.
l got TO a small, empty hut on
an island and spent the night
there. The next day / waded
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-22
$50 TONS HIT KISKA

WASHINGTON, April 22.-
(UP)-A m erican Army fliers,
striving 10 blast the japanese out
of their Aleutians foothold.
dumped at least 260 tons OF bombs
on KiSka during the first 10 days
Of April, air experts estimated
today.
They said that the nonstop air
offensive against kiska, high
lighted by a record-breaking series
of Is raids on Monday, was the
most intensive of the Pacific war.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-22
FrencElmen EXElOrted
To May Day Strikes

the Y. s. foreign broadcast intelli-
genCe service.
Radio France promised that the
demonstration of strikes against
all industries and public protests
against the Germans would give
a new impetus" TO the fight for
freedom.
The Russian information bureau
in London reported that French
patriots derailed a German mill
tary train near Lyon. killing many
Germans. and that Frenchmen at
tackled German patrol near Val
lere, killing eight Nazis and a
ceStapo agent.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-22
Hitler Error
Churchill Reveals Ease
Of Invasion in 1910

LONDON, April % GNS)-
Hitler made a grave mistake in
not attempting an invasion of
Britain in 1910. Prime Minister
Churchill told a miners meeting
in London last Oct. 81. The text
of his speech was released today.
eff the Wehrmacht had in
vsded England" the premier
said. "there would have been a
terrible shambles in this country
because we had hardly a weapon.
I'VE did not have 50 tanks"
he revealed. Whereas now we
have 10000 or 10000"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-22
i. :. Subs Sink
Eight Jap Ships

WASHINGTON, April % 1Ns)
United States submarines were
credited today with sinking eight
more Japanese ships and damaging
a ninth 10 bring their wartime to-
tai Of enemy ships sent 10 the
bottom or damaged 20 Z23
The submarine Wahoo -cored
the latest friumphs
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-22
Air Passenger Load Up

MIAMI. April p CCP)-Inter-
American travel on the Pan-Amer-
lcan Anyways system showed an
increase Of II per cent last year
over 1911 despite the conversion
Of much Of the passenger load
space 10 essential Martlme cargo.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-22
Fires Started
In Naples Raid

CAIRO. April % GNS)-The
Middle East command today an
nounced that heavy Raj bombers
had raided the town area and
quays at the Italian port Of Naples
Tuesday night.
Two fires were set near oil in
stallations. All the raiders re-
turned safely.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-22
Blues Songs Old Stuff

LOS ANGELES, April % (UP)
like the familiar Ameri-
can blues" were old stuff back in
the days of the Renaissance, ac-
to DR.. Walter L. Rub
samen of the music department Of
the University OF California.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-22
Girdud Radio Calls
For French SABOTAGE

NEW YORK, April % GNS)-
An appeal 10 French workers 20
stop all work for Hitler and begin
a great movement of sabotage on
May ] was issued today by Radio
France. Gen. Giraud's station in
Algiers
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-22
GERMANS MASS 100000

LONDON, April p QNS)-
has massed 100000 10
s 100000 troops for an attack on
the Russian front according 10
the military commentator Of the
Ankara radio, the Daily Sketch
said today.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-22
Musician Bueler in Army

CAMP POLK, La April %
tUPD-Betore Sgt. Joseph Aaron
joined the army he footed clari-
net in band. Fate hasn't been
kind He is the camp bugler.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-22

i. 5. Indignant
Over Execution
Of Jap Raiders

WASHINGTON, April % QNS)
indignation swept the capital and
the nation today over Japan's
"A mounting wave of furious
execution Of some of the eight
captured American fliers who par
ticipated in Mai. Gen. Doolittle's
raid on Toxic a year ago.
At least two and possibly three
of the American fliers appear to
have been executed on alleged
charges Of bombing non-military
detectives and firing on civilians.
The fate OF the others is un-
known beyond the fact that the
Japanese government claims their
sc. tence of death was committed.
TORTURE IMPLIED
The sta-e department strongly
Implied that the purportcd con-
feSsions' by our alrmen were
eXacted by torture,
AS the American government
moved 10 establish responsibility
for Japans criminal violation of
IT, rules of warfare, Gen. Arnold.
chief of the army Air forces.
ordered every army fier through
% the world 20 redouble his
efforts toward wipIng out the
japanese air force and destroying
the "inhuman warlords' in re-
.prisal for the-eNrcutlon Of their
brave comrades "Details on
Page ~
Congress echoed with demands
for revenge The general opinion
of a fightnG-mad Congress was
that the most effective method Of
retaliation would be 70 strengthen
Americas forces ~ the Pacific so
that this country's fighting men
could svcnge the torture and exc
Cuu0n Of The American fliers.
"Details on Page-f9D
CALL OR NEW RAIDS
Some members Of Congress also
expressed the hope that Japans
cities might soon be blasted by
new air raids as Americas an
swer 10 the Cold-bloodcd murder
Of the airnen
State and war department of
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-22

Strategic Burma and India where British and Jap air.
exchanging bomb blows and where ultimately
fu-scale Allied invasion will reopen the Burma road to
China. Preparatory to this British bombers have been
blasting Jap bases along the of Burma at Akyab,
Rangoon and other key points while Chinese guerlas,
fighting with bayones clubs and poisoned have
slaughterng the enemy the Saween River Mean
while Japanese bombers have been radng northern India
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-22
MADISON THEATRE

Names Of Detroits Var CosooI,ies uH be shoun
on the screen. Special Memorial serotes,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-22
CALL oR NEW RAIDS

Continued on Page Nine)
Evening star., 1943-01-03
Tough Training Keeps Civilian Rescue Squad on Its Toes

Corps. They remove victims. dead or
alive. from places where they may be
trapped, pinned or otherwise unable to
escape.
Experienced Leaders.
Fortunately, the men chosen to lead
the service were ideal for the Job. There
was Daniel G. Long, deputy chief, who
had done disaster relief with the Red
Cross in Florida, and George Strong,
chief, construction engineer.
These men personally recruited the
nucleus Of the service. They wanted
men who knew construction or had a
trade along mechanical lines. Once they
had their key personnel, they could take
volunteers without special skills and At
them into the squads.
The 400 men who now make up the
rescue service include statesmen, grocery
clerks, accountants, lawyers, a labora-
tory technician and some doctors along
with the riggers, carpenters, electricians,
engineers, truck drivers and steamftters.
Training Sessions.
These men have had to undergo one
of the most rigorous training schedules
in the whole of civilian defense. They
must take 30 hours of first aid, 18
hours of bomb and gas defense, 10
Evening star., 1943-01-03
Belle Of Washington Mrs. Payne Whitney Has Led Charmed Life

Mrs. Whitney doesn't concern herself
with major world problens-'I leave
them to people who know more than I
do"
She hopes racing won't suffer too much
during the war, and she worries some
at the talk of limiting investment in
comes to S25, 900.
Il don't know how I could keep up
all my places on $25000," she said
Mrs. Whitney has places, that Is
houses with and without stables farm
lands, polo fields, tennis courts, lakes,
golf courses, and the like, In Red Bank,
N. j.; Thomasville, Ga; New York City.
Saratoga, N. Y, and Lexington, KY, as
well as this one In Manhasset.
Il have large stats in each place
really have no idea how many people
I do employ-and I can't bear to think
OF putting them out Of their Jobs. Most
are past the age for the draft or defense
Jobs"
Mrs. Whitney has curtailed where she
can, she says. I'VE save tin in our
kitchens, we're careful Of gasoline, We do
everything the Government asks" But
she won't shut up her houses unless she
must.
Bold Anna
She's particularly fond Of her maid,
Anna. She named q fine mare Bold
Anna" In honor Of the girls bravery on
a certain occasion in Saratoga.
A Negro, trying to break into tho
house, had hit policeman and knocked
him down. Anna, Bold Anna, rushed
out, grabbed the nightstick out of the
PROSTATE cops pocket, and hit the ma
rauder over the head.
"She knocked him out, cold" said Mrs.
Whitney, with admiration.
Mrs. Whitney, likes prize fights-con-
siders them more fun than cafe societys
entertainments.
She rode in a subway just once.
ut made me as nervous as a witch. I
was going from the town house to Wall
Street, and was terrified that might
find myself in Brooklyn, or somewhere.
never tried 1t again."
Her Autograph Book.
One of her most treasured possessions
is an autograph book started by her IA
ther and kept up by her. It contains
signed comments, poems. music scores.
and drawings by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Walt Whitman. President Mckinley,
both the Presidents Roosevelt, Kipling,
Elihu Root, Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Henry w. Longfellow, Mark Twain. Hem
mingway, Fred Astaire, Clarence Day.
Gene Tunney, Charles and Ann Lind
bergh and others.
Dorothy Parker is among those pres
ent, too. with this contribution: II had
rather write in this book than be buried
In Westminster Abbey-much rather"