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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-29
"WHEW," HE SAID

DIES MONIES. IOWA-State
Senator Robert G. Reilly, Du-
buuue Democrat. whewed a
loud "whew" when he opened a
letter at his Senate seat and out
dropped a check for $4,000.
1t was a routine letter from
his bank calling his attention to
some pending banking legisla-
ton.
Investigation showed that the
check was payable to somebody
else and had been enclosed in
the letter by mistake.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-29
GIN RUMMY QUIZ

Q. How do you score Gin
Rummy, Hollywood style?
A. The first score made by a
player goes on the first game,
his second score on the first and
second game, and all scores after
that on all three games.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-29
. FLASHES
OF
LIFE .
BY the Associated Press
NO ANSWER


PITTSBURGH-E d w n l..
Crone, carpenter, disagreed
when Judge w. Heber Dithrich
told him he could not be excus-
ed from grand jury duty next
Monday.
We'll, you'll have to-"
Crone insisted as court clerks
stiffened in their chairs.
How is that" snapped the
jurist.
I'm going into the army on
Saturday, the carpenters ex-
planned.
In that case there isn't any,
thing else TO do. The court
smiled. I'VE wish you WE'LL"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-29
FOR KEEPS

DENTON, TEX. For the
fourth time, Calvin Cumbie of
Athens, Tex. shook hands with
the president of North Texas
State Teachers college-and re-
ceived his fourth diploma.
This time he got to keep it.
On the other three occasions
he was a proxy.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-29
IT'S THE WAR

WENDOVER, UTAH - Priv
ates Joseph De Marco and Ever
EFT Dolphin of New York City
are fellow pill-dispensers in the
Army Infirmary at Wendover
Field.
De Marco used to be hat de-
signer. Dolphin was juggler.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-29
FACING FACTS

The miIitory situation Of the United Nations, on
every fighting front; has improved 9reoty during the
post few morths This is easily demonstrate and so
encouraging that the more volatile analysts may have
read too much significance into it.
On every street connor, at every bar and in most
Iivino rooms onooeur strote9iss ore saying conti-
IDENTIFY that the collapse Of Oermony is in sight, that
we can expect peoce-n the Occident, at leost-
before another New Year.
Admiral HoIsey, our commander in the South
Pacific, offers the same pleasing prophecy Everybody
hopes thot these enthusiasts are right. But most OF
the better-erounded observers feel that Admiral
Hosey should not be taken too literally.
Accepting Winston ChurchI's phrase that the
North African venture marks the end Of the beginning
conservative analysts feel that the year lo43 will
bring the beginning Of the end-thot the oxis will
be out permanently the rum but cannot be crushed
into capitalization before 1914.
Weather conditions reflected in the surfaces
Of roads and orfieds may prevent any ol-ou attack
on Tunis and Bzerte before lote February Hitler has
reinforced his troops there for major stand and even
with luck it may be summer before we can hope to
open up the Mediterranean and consolidate our
positions for an invasion Of the continent
The Russians are doing norveIousy. But we must
not forget thot the German scheme Of winter defense
hinges upon maintenance Of numerous strong points
rather than continuous bottle line.
1t is not enough that the Sovets encircIe-they
must obIiterote! And the farther the Russions go,
the shorter become the Germans lines Of commune
cation and the harder Stains task.
Despite Secretary Knox's flot disclaimer, every in.
dcotion points to alarming concentration Of JoP-
onese strength at Robou for some yet undIsolosed
purpose Australian sources contend that we do not
have enough dir strength there to warrant overcon-
fidence We ore long way from licking the shipping
problem.
Ultimate victory has turned the But it still
is long way down rocky sood Well do better in the
long run by being realistic.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-29
DIPLOMAT

INDEPENDENCE, MO. - A
defendant interrupted police
court proceedings by ambling up
to the bench.
Got match?" he asked
Judge Gilbert Titus.
NO." snapped the judge
"but l have 20 days. They're
yours"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-29
. IN HOLLYWOOD

told me: THE difference be-
tween an American and an Eng
lishman is not an accent, any
way. It's the sentiment inside
one, a difference between New
World and Old World ways of
looking at life. Besides he
chuckled, maybe they'll think
it's a Bostonian's accent
AS a matter of fact, Stand BY
For Action" isn't the first time
Laughton has played an Ameri-
can. 1t was as an American in
The Happy Husband and as a
Chicago gangster in ION the
Spot that he first attracted the
attention of a New York pro-
Queer, Gilbert Miller. Miller
saw The. Happy Husband on
the London stage and immedi-
ately asked, who is that mid
dle-aged American in the CASTE
CHIEF SPIELER
From a language chair at Co.
lumbia University for ID years
to a Hollywood trouble shooter
on foreign accents is the capsul-
ed career of Dr. Simon r. Mitch
neck, another interesting exam
pie of obscure celebrity for
which Hollywood is famous. For
shunting the alien larynx from
ping to purr, Mitchneck annual
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-29
MORE COURTEOUS THAN ACCURATE

Polish Premier Sikorski turned neat compliment
when, leaving the White House, he bowed low to wot-
ina newspopernen and sold 81 bow to the dictotors
of American public opinion"
Thot was fIotterine to reporters, os it was meant
to be-o gracious gesture. 1t is not accurate, and no
sound newspopermon deceWes himself that it is.
The newspapers and their workers believe and
hope that on the whole they ore purveyors and inter-
prefers and, perhops cotoysts of public opinion. BY
informing the people they 10y basis for intelligent
moss reaction.
But they do not dictoe seek to dictote. When
or if they did, they would cease to have any in
fluence whatsoever.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-29
Steel ACHIEVEMENT

In OF talk about noterIoIs shortage It IS eosl
overlook American industrial achievement We
short Of steel; thot is we do not have enough to
everything we really need to do. Yet the steel n
have accomplished miracles.
In 1910 we produced 81 million tons. Today
capacity is 80 million tons BY md-l943 it will be
million tons.
Germony, toly and Japan together can prod
only SO to SIS million TONS
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-29
GOOD HUNcH

This country is manufacturing enough small arms
ammunition each month to fire s. rounds at every in
dviduo soldier in the oxs armies, reports the War
Department Thot is good We ore looking forward to
the doy when few months supply will be utilized in
that very woy.
Evening star., 1943-11-21
Italian Front

Striking fiercely against the American
5th Army positions on Monte Santa
Croce above Venafro, German troops
Monday forced the Americans to give
up their positions and thus eliminated
a serious threat pointed at one OF the
pathways to Rome. The Nazis were
concentrating the greater part of their
strength against the Americans because
they are in a more threatening position
in regard to Rome than the more remote
British 9th over on the Adriatic side.
The Americans held their positions
through three vicious attacks by Nazi
grenadier division, beating off the at
tackers with heavy losses, but finally
the weight of numbers forced the 5th
Army units to give ground. However,
the Germans were able to do no more
than take over the high ground.
In the meantime, the British 9th,
taking advantage of the lighter defenses
to the east, pushed forward to new posi-
tions along the Sangro River and moved
few miles further inland toward the
eventual juncture with the 5th Army
for concentrated drive on Rome.
The fighting throughout the week,
while sharp, resulted in no vital changes
of position. The Germans are reported
to have so divisions in Southeastern
Europe, of which 10 are operating in
Italy. Some of these are not of the best
In personnel and equipment.
Evening star., 1943-11-21
Strike Back on Three Fronts but Blasting Of Berlin Offsets Effect
AS the Magazines See 1t
BY Richard Tombkins,
Associated Press Stan Writer.

Nation. The battle-ground Is historic
Charleston, S. c. The invaders, facing
the triple threat, are shipyard workers,
10000 strong and still coming"
When the migrant workers meet the
$4,000 "land-proud, tradition-b bound
Charlestonians," they are faced with
"exorbitant rents charged for bad and
inadequate housing, hotel dining room
prices for hashhouse meals, and COM
plete lack of recreational facilities, ex-
cept for a few theaters with fuzzy
acoustics"
Wartime pay in the shipyards Is about
500 ,000, 900 year and has increased de-
partment store sales Sc per cent, but ap-
parently the merchants don't want the
temporary trade One complained that
he had to install cash register and
none Of his employees knew how to use it.
Since Charlestonians arrived from
Barbados in 1910, they have battled In
dians, French, Spanish and Yankees, the
article notes. They have survived two
Yankee invasions-Sherman' soldiers
and "the millionaires of the '20s In
search of picturesque estates-they
now are combating third" The United
States Housing Administration has
stepped in and built hemes for the
workers but this does not impress
Charleston"
Evening star., 1943-11-21

The solution to the problem of feed
ing the United Nations and Europe
may be found in "vest-pocket meals"
compressed dehydrated foods which
have proved invaluable in the armed
forces. In Golfers, Ben Merson tells
the story of John G. Donnelly. ex-
railroad laborer and one-time movie
extra--the inventor of "nutritional
bullets"
Six boatloads of Donnellys foods
are equivalent to Is ship cargoes of
ordinary dehydrates, Merson points out.
They do not require tin containers and
they will keep indefinitely in any
climate. Donnelly is quoted as saying
that he learned all he knows in room
11S Of the New York Public Library.
A stew sufficient to feed 100 men,
and containing beef, onions, carrots
and potatoes is compressed into q
package the size of pound of butter,
under the Donnelly process. A quart
of berries is no larger than yeast
cake. Borscht for eight is half the
size of pack of cigarettes.
ITO the housewife" Donnelly says,
"it will mean emancipation from the
kitchen, with more time for leisure,
culture, family companionship and
recreation The kitchen itself, as We
know it now, may disappear"
Donnelly expects, however, according
to Merson, that good, thick steak
will still be good, thick steak.
Evening star., 1943-11-21
Russian Front

Striking with 10000 troops, the Nazis
drove the Russians back out of the
important rail center OF Zhitomir in
the Ukraine last Wednesday in the
first Russian setback in the four months
Of the present offensive.
While the Russians gave ground the
resistance stiffened and the Germans
were unable to do more than regain
some lost territory but while the gain
was being made, Russian troops moved
forward in other important areas off,
setting the loss in any weighing of the
weeks results
Striking out in heavy force from the
newly captured bases at Korosten and
Rechitsa, the Russians have driven a
wedge deep into the German lines in
the direction of the old Polish border
and have successfully separated the
German armies in White Russia from
those in the Ukraine. Korosten Is espe-
cially important because it provides
adequate rail lines to simplify the move
ment of Russian supplies and reserves.
Capture of Rechitsa imperils the be.
leaguered German garrison in Gomel,
which presently may be trapped in an
inescapable position. At the moment
the escape corridor is reduced to about
Is miles,
Other Russian forces operating inside
D the Dnieper bend were said to have
caused heavy casualties in seesaw fight
ing on a large scale.
The situation of the German troops
in White Russia is becoming precarious,
with the right flank of the Russian Army
safely pinned to the Pripet Marshes,
permitting the use Of the maximum
amount Of striking power farther east,
but as the week ended the NaMs were
reported counterattacking all along the
'front.'
Evening star., 1943-11-21
European Front

Launching a new aerial campaign
against Germany and German held ter
ritory in Western Europe, American
Liberator bombers Monday blasted 4
power station at Rjukan in Norway and
molybdenum mine at Knaben, strik-
ing serious blow at German war in
dustry now being operated in Norway.
After previous raid on the mine
last February by British Mosquitoes, it
was claimed that about three-fourths
of Germany's supply Of molybdenum, re-
quired for the hardening of steel, had
been eliminated. Whatever restoration
of facilities followed that raid was wiped
out in last weeks blast. The Rjukan
power station supplied the power for an
important electrolisis and high explosive
industry. At the same time as this raid,
Mosquitoes blasted an alcohol plant at
st. Nazaire in France.
The NaziS, on the offensive themselves,
staged fair-sized raid on Southeastern
England where American troops are re-
hearsing an invasion across the Channel.
In a one-two attack, British bombers
Wednesday night smashed at the Ger
man chemical industry in Ludwigshaven
to be followed by another American
raid on Norway Thursday.
The climax came Thursday night.
however, when perhaps as many as
1000 British heavy bombers sped across
the Channel to blast Berlin as it had
not previously been bombed and to mop
up the situation at Ludwigshaven.
At least $50 blockbusters, huge 4,480-
pound bombs, were dropped on Berlin
In the beginning of what may be an
effort to wipe Berlin out as was Ham,
burg. The attack was centered princi-
pally on the outskirts of the city where
the industrial area lies. Scattered single
bombs fell in many parts of the city. A
low ceiling made it difficult to determine
results, but great raging fires were left
behind. DNB said that some damage
had been done, probably an UNDER
statement in view of the $500 tons of
bombs which fell.
During the daylight which followed
the big night attack, American planes
smashed at an important airplane fac
tory II miles from Oslo.
Friday night another heavy raid was
made on Germany proper, hitting a
chemical plant near Cologne, to be fol-
lowed by still another American Flying
Fortress attack, which was conveyed by
Thunderbolt fighters. Not single Ger
man plane was encountered during that
raid.
Information has been slow coming out
concerning the objectives and accom-
plishments of the raids late in the week,
but there is every indication that reeling
Germany Is in for the worst pounding
she has so far encountered in the ruth
less warfare she inaugurated,
Evening star., 1943-11-21
League
Continued From Page C-1)

by the indirect method Of reservations. "
There has been tremendous conjecture
over Lodges motives. It's asserted en-
phatically by some that he was for "a"
league, but not this particular one. On
the other hand, Thomas A. Bailey, the
Stanford University historian, has writ
ten Ibis Godge's) record of inconsistent
cies and partisanship indicates that he
attacked the treaty of Versailles, largely,
If not primarily, because OF his an
tipathy for Wilson,"
So the Senate took up the League
covenant, paragraph by paragraph. The
speeches explored the fears felt by the
League would endanger the Monroe
Dostrine. 1t was pointed out that the
British members, together, had six votes
to our one. Some one wanted to know,
If Ireland rebelled against England,
would We have to send American troops
to fight the Irish? Some saw the League
dominated by kings, some by the Vati-
can, and Reed feared dominance by
the worlds colored people.
1t was article 10 which got the dress
parade attack. That was the section in
which the League was committed to
attempts to stop wars. The article mere
ly said the League Council would "ad-
wise" upon means to prevent aggres-
sions.
But on the Senate floor speakers saw
American boys being rushed of to de-
fend unknown spots of the globe.
Oddly enough, although the League
never did call out an army to implement
the clause, soldiers Of many nations, to-
day, have familiariZed us with names
like "Guadalcanal" and "Surabaya"
This debate went on until September
1919, when Wilson became so worried
over sentiment in the country that he
took to the road. He was SO, worn out
from the war and the peace confer
ence. but against doctors advice-he
made 81 speeches in % days, the last
at Pueblo, Colo, September Is, 1919. As
his train pulled through Wichita, Kans.
he was too sick to 60 on.
The League covenant finally came to
a vote November 10, 1919. with IA reser-
vations. 1t was defeated, and Borah
called it the greatest victory since APP
pomatox.'
Evening star., 1943-11-21

usable as major base OF operations for
the drive on to Messina.
A most startling incident occurred in
clearing up the harbor. The Navy SAL
wage unit was engaged in removing
small Berman cargo ship which had
been ,scuttled alongside a pier, cargo
unknown. Several light dynamite ex-
plosions had failed to do much toward
breaking up the ship, so the officer in
charge decided to plant number of
charges we'll inside the hull and explode
them simultaneously.
Accordingly, he had his divers down
all one forenoon carefully selecting
strategic locations for the TINT. Fin
ally, the charges were all wired and the
leads were taken to the point where the
switch would be thrown to set them of.
The salvage officer expected a fairly
heavy explosion, so he carefully cleared
the area of all personnel for distance
of 500 yards. He was prepared for a
jolt, but nobody was prepared for what
happened.
The switch was thrown and the whole
surface of the harbor for the extent of
about an acre simply shot heavenward
with crash and quake defying all de-
scription. They had hit the Jackpot
the ship was loaded with dynamite!
A hole the size of two-family house
was blown into the side of the cement
pier and the air was full of flying stones
and debris. The blast knocked every
body in the area down, blew several men
off the end of the pier into the water,
but no one was seriously hurt. The
harbor suffered most.
Distributed b. North American Nswspspsr
Alliance,
Evening star., 1943-11-21

ships hardly can be reconciled with
japanese claims of tremendous victories
over the American Fleet. Claims at
Toxic have been stepped up until now,
according to the japanese propaganda,
since October II, the Americans have
lost four battleships, seven carriers and
IS cruisers, all Of which were claimed
sunk. In addition two battleships, three
carriers and II cruisers were reported
damaged. Still, despite these claims of
terrifflc blows to the American fleet,
the Japs continued to permit our forces
on Bougainville and other islands to
carry on their ground warfare against
Jap troops and our surface ships steam
up the length of Bougainville to shell
the enemy installations on Baku.
Since the announcement of the loss of
three destroyers last week, of which only
one, the Chevalier, was lost in the Pa
cific, the Navy Department states there
have been no American losses.
Hitting heavily at the Jap bases in the
Gilberts and Marshalls in what is limited
as the beginning Of a drive to clean the
enemy out of that area, both Army and
Navy planes have carried into the sixth
day in row heavy air assault which
has done great damage and which en-
countered little air opposition. Tarawa,
Maxim, Jaluit, Mill, Maloelap and Nauru
all were bombed, both land based and
carrier-based planes operating. This is
considered the first manifestation of Ad-
miral Nimitz's plans to assume the of
fensive and carry the war to the enemy
without letup.
Down on Bougainville and on New
Guinea there were indications that
two-pronged drive is now underway
aimed at an early assault on Rabaul, the
main Jap base. Marines on Bougainville
are driving the Japs steadily back into
the jungle, claiming eight of the enemy
for every American casualty. Buka,
north of Bougainville and only 200 miles
from Rabaul, was shelled for the second
time In a month and an intercepting
Japanese air force was roughly treated
without getting any bombs home.
Additional Jap ships have been sunk
at Rabaul and scores of planes shot
down. Down on New Guinea, mean
while. Australian troops under Gen.
Macarthur are pushing the enemy away
from the new invasion springboard on
Huon Peninsula which is only 10 miles
from New Britain on whose northern
tip Rabaul waits for the attack which
Is soon to come.
individual! hero of the week was It.
Ralph Tuttle of Coffeyville, Kans., who
IN \ single-engined fighter shot down
three Jap fighters and Jap biplane
and destroyed barge, killing IS Japs
for good measure. 1t. Tuttle was out
Ga . ons-man stradng expedition.
Evening star., 1943-11-21

improved, however, with the Yugoslavs
opening fierce commemorative which
gained some ground. Guerillas operat-
ing in Trieste and Fiume set off heavy
demolition charges which rendered
those cities unusable to the Germans.
An important coal mine supplying the
power plants at Belgrade was captured
by the Patriots near Lazaravac on We'd
nesday, but in other areas in Bosnia
and Herzegovina there were additional
German successes. AS the week ended
the Germans appeared to hold the up
per hand, but only at the cost of heavy
troop concentrations which the NaN
command no doubt would prefer to have
available for use at other points.
Evening star., 1943-11-21
Pacific Front

The war went especially well in the
Pacific this week with American forces
striking almost at will at the Japanese
installations in the Gilbert and Mar
shall Islands and moving around freely
in the Solomons with no very great
show of opposition from Japanese air.
craft. AS for the Japanese Navy, no
surface craft have been encountered in
the Southwest Pacific or South Pacific
in the past II days by American task
forces which are cruising around spoil
ing for fight.
The absence Of any japanese surfacs
Evening star., 1943-11-21

German leaders were forced to strike,
regardless of cost, to delay any of these
threatened developments.
Out of Madrid came a story to the
effect that Germany has closed the
French-Spanish border in the Mediter-
ranean area and the speculation is either
that Germany fears an invasion Of
Southern France from the Spanish side
or is planning to launch a counterat-
tack from that section against the Al
lied-held portions of italy.
In France itself new trouble is brew
ing with Marshal Petain, chief of state,
preparing to establish new democratic
form of government with Pierre Laval
renounced as his successor. 1t was stat
ed that an effort by the aging marshal
to bring his plans before the French
people by way of the radio was frus-
trated by the Nazis.
A belief is growing in the Balkans that
q meeting soon will be held between
Premier Stain, Prime Minister Churchill
and President Roosevelt at some point
In Africa. Such meeting would COM
plete the psychological victory obtained
by the Moscow meeting with Secretary
of State Hull representing the United
States, out of which, according to Mr..
Hull, came agreements which will make
entirely unnecessary the old system OF
alliances in the postwar world.
There were evidences that political
changes will occur in Italy soon with
likelihood that the King will abdicate
and that Gen. Badoglio will resign once
the Allies reach Rome. Already Gen.
Ambrosi, Gen. Badoglio's chief of staff,
has been removed from office after the
Yugoslavs laid at his feet responsibility
for various atrocities which were charged
to the italians in Yugoslavia.
New threats of armed clashes between
Hungarian and Rumanian troops over
their private border dispute arose during
the week also to harass the Nazis, and
Bulgaria's known sympathy for Russia
did not tighten the German worries over
the Balkans.