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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-24
ABSENTEE WOMEN

-ovevooe employer in many industries would
be wiling 10 hire o larger percentage OF women.
kionv ere eooer 10 do 50, portcuorlyn view OF the
present uncertainty os 10 whether any under 80
or will Il soon be under 462 - really IS "drott-
proof"
The deterrent IS that women, the whole, ore
much less reliable tnon men, Their obsenteeism rote
often is many times os high os thot among men.
Since women os sex are as relobe as men in other
fields rnonp0wer students have been studying the
reasons for their undesrobdlty os workers. They
have come up with proof Of what logic told US long
ogo.
Women ore less reIjobe because, unlike men,
they ore trying TO swing two Jobs Simultaneously For
eioht hours day. or so, they work in the foctory
Then they try in leisure time TO do housework and
home maintenance thot should toke another eight
hours
inevitably they break under the stron. They ore
lote OF work. They ore sick and do not come OF OIL
They ore ethorgc and cont keep up their end Of the
work These things happen when they ore handicap
ped only by the strain of double Jobs But this IS O
small port of the picture.
With the husband either working or owoy from
home, the wife must market, bank, and supervise
her chIdren's education, recreation and physical
core. This con not oIwoys be done in the off-hours
not spent the factory Job It involves absences tor
which no mother con be blamed, but which no en-
pIOyer can permit TO become general.
Moreover, with both purents owoy during the doy,
children ore exposed to physical mental and n1orol
hozords They free TO poy where accident is
probable; they do not cot properly; they associate
with whichever companions seem most eomorous
and often ore eost desirable; they do not do their
home work; they ore deprived Of porentoI comPon-
ionshp and grow out Of the fomily circle
The crowinc need for women war workers is rois-
Ina O greet many questions which will not onswer
themselves They Will require intelligent ond per-
hops expensive community attention.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-24
THE BACKSAC MYSTERY

For short time otter the OPA announced price
ceilings on furs it seemed that the entire structure
Of fur-beono orsOcrocy might come topping to the
ground Reading the price list, one could envson the
doy when the promise Of mink coot to on her
afternoon off would be no more inducerent to q
housemoId than would the promise Of on old mack
inow
For CPA bod set q mere $40 ceiling on mink,
while ernnine wos n1eosy 81. But along toward the
end Of the list Of 81 domestic and foreign varieties
OF pets wos something coIed squirrel bocksocs =
ceiling, Sl95. Here wos obviously the most expen-
sWe, luxurious fur in the world
Society oosped and shuddered, but not for long,
OPA come along with the exploration that squirrel
bocksocs ore the books Of Russion squirrels dress
ed, dyed, stripped ond sewed together in sufficient
quontity TO noke fur gorrent
OPA didn't explon why it priced everything else
by the pet Including SIS for American silver fox
and 7 cents for Scotch roe) ond then put fur
blanket price on the bocksocs Perhaps OPA just
wonted TO see society jump.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-24

emily careless methods of pre-
pairing specifications and over
procurement OF models for which
there is questionable use.
The War Department is gener-
ally given credit for having
done a tremendously efficient
and effective job in handling the
renegotiation of its contracts.
Savings to the government Of
S1.500,000,000 net have been re-
ported by Under Secretary of
War Robert Patterson as result
of renegotiation and price adj
juStment. This is simply good
business practise. What the in
vestigating senators would like
to see is similar good business
practise in letting the original
contracts. Such efficiency in
the first instance would do away
with the unpleasantness Of rene
gotiation later on.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-24
. 50 THEY SAY

To exact a tax from incomes
at the subsistence level is a
questionable contribution to the
fight against initiation. - RAN
dolph Paul, Treasury counsel.
II is absolutely essential, II
we are to preserve free So
clety, that the people shall not
be made dependent for their
employment on the investments
of either big government or big
business. - Alvin II. Hansen,
Federal Reserve economist.
The goal after the war should
be the maximum utilization of
our human and material re-
sources. This is the way TO rout
the forces of insecurity and un-
Observation-Disclosures Roose-
welt.
Greater friendly understanding
among nations is absolutely es-
sential if international peace is
to be preserved. The progress
of science has made all nations
ncighbors Gov. Leverett SAL
tonstall Of Massachusetts.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-24

studies in the, procurement OF
motor trucks, industrial tractors
and lift trucks, as we'll as spare
parts for all mechanical equip
ment. The purpose is TO deter
mine whether the Army pro-
curement services oVcr-ordcred,
not only getting more equipment
than they could possibly use,
without regard TO requirements
for maintaining the civilian
BY PETER EDISON
Forthcoming disclosures by
the Senate Truman Committee
investigating the war effort will
raise again the question of
whether or not a war-particu-
larly this present war-can be
run efficiently at home, behind
the lines.
In preparation nov arc re-
ports on transportation and the
building up of Army inventories
which will 60 into the whole
matter of War Department poll
cies in these two fields.
Particularly, there will be
economy which must support
and continue to supply the arm
ed services.
War has always been conSid-
cred a wastefpl business. - A
prevalent idea has been that the
side with the greatest resources
the side which could put the most
men and materials in the field
the side which could withstand
the greatest losses, the side
which could afford to waste tho
most, was bound TO win the war
THEORY QUESTIONED
In a short war, maybe that
theory of logistics holds good
But in war that stretches ou'
as this one seems TO be stretch.
ing, the idea is open TO question
In its place is the theory that the
side which can manage its re
sources Of men and material!
most economically is the sldc
that can best withstand The
drain of a long war and is The
side that in the end will win.
Getting down TO present cases
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-24
MERCHANT MARINERS

During the next year minimum Of s. 900 3D.
dtionoI experienced officers and seonnen must be
found to man the American noerchont rorine, If
we ore to noointon record Of meeting every in
voson need, the War Shipping Administration soys.
In the post year the personnel hos been ncreos-
ed from 10000 to 900 men, BY year from now
we must have OF Ieost It's 900 seonoen About hoIf
OF the 10000 thot ore needed con be toned The
result must be pulled from less portont shore Jobs
to which they have retired" from the seo
Don't let anybody tell you thot the shipping crisis
hos been licked. It's down. but it isn't yet out
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-24
WAR AND PEACE

HARRISBURG, Pa. The
boys club Of Harrisburg had an
extra special Santa Claus to
pass around the presents at
Christmas party.
He was Pfc. Nicholas Ordan-
off of the Marine Corps, home
on medical Through after be-
ing wounded in the Southwest
Pacific, who helped organize
the club a few years ago.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-24
SANTA CAUSED

LOS ANGELES-Twenty lost
g mage youngsters, som e
missing as long as three months,
have returned home.
Detective 1t. Monrad Rande-
burg, juvenile missing persons
detail, has a theory;
Christmas is coming"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-24
JUST CANT WAIT

WILMINGTON, Calf. - A
pilotless Army bomber went out
of control, hit an apartment
house and caused $4,000 dam
age - although the planes
wheels never left the ground.
Being toWed tail first, il
broke free from its tow truck.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-24
0 BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

take the matter of trucks. In its
forthcoming report on transport
tation, the Truman Committee
will take strong position with
respect 10 the purchasing of
trucks by the Army. The War
Department has asked for the
production of hundreds of thous-
.ands OF trucks in 1914.
Meeting these military truck
requirements has meant depriv-
ing civilian truck operators of
new equipment. The stockpile
of new trucks that has been ra-
toned out gradually in the last
two years is now all gone, and
only 100 new trucks were made
for civilian use in these two
years.
Civilian truck transport, haul
ing an estimated 20 per cent of
all the freight in and out of war
production plants, may run the
risk of a breakdown as a result,
though there is further ques-
ton of what additional civilian
trucks might use for tires, If
they had been built. That is
even a problem for the $4,000
civilian trucks which IL is plan
ner to build in 1914. But when
civilian supply on essential items
like trucks run as close as this,
then you see the need for eX-
treme care in the placing of mill
tary orders.
TOO MANY TRACTORS?
Another phase of this problem
comes in the ordering of indus
trial tractors and lift trucks.
Army warehouse space is said to
be three times the total of all
commercial space, and TO move
war supplies in and out OF
storage, requirements have been
put in for large numbers of in
duStrial tractors, used in hauling
strings of small warehouse
trailers from freight car 10 stor'
age space or ship side, as we'll as
for fork lift trucks TO raise and
lower supplies in storage piles
Investigations of the Truman
Committee explore the appar'
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-24

from Shakespeare, Voltaire and
Clifford Odets."
Bob Crosby, usually an impec-
cable dresser, walked into the
home of his mother the other
night dressed IA brother Bing.
No tic, an open shirt and SLOUGH
hat. Mrs. Kate Crosby took one
look and said: Bob - I'm sur
priSod at you. Where's your
tic? After all, one Bing in the
family is enough"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-24
o IN HOLLYWOOD

have a chemistry set for Christ
mas Mamma answers, 80
should say not - you're not CO.
ing 10 stink up our house"
One Of HollyWood's more no.
toriouS plagiariSts, a producer, is
sim looking for the guys who
staged the gag. When the pro-
Queer went to a projection room
to see some rushcs the other day,
the credit line read: Produced
by - . Material stolen
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-24
o FLASHES
OF
LIFE o
BY The Associated Press
PREPAREDNESS

. KANSAS CITY - Lawyer
BARLEY j. Ready, who bought
Christmas gifts for his three
children last June and hid them
carefully in the attic, still isn't
ready ..
Fire at his home last night
destroyed the attic.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-24
OBLIGI\G

NEW YORK - Daniel Field
man politely asked three hold
up men to return his wallet
after they had filched out the
cash. One of them graciously
did so.
When police arrived, Field
man discovered the wallet was
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-24

not his, but the holdup mans.
And it contained Identification
papers.
Police made an arrest shortly
afterwards.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-24
PIN-UP PROBLEMS

A bunch of the boys were
whooping it up in the studio pub
Lefty department. Let's name
her the pin-up girl like Betty
Cradle" suggested one press
agent.
Nav, that's been done"
"Why not go it just one better
and call her the nail-up girl?'
I'VE can't do that, Jinx Falk-
enburg has already been called
the rivet-up girl"
And Simone Simon is the
wallet girl, with her picture in
servicemen's wallets"
"Why not the paste-up girl?"
TOO sticky"
1--WE could say she's got the
most beautiful crossed legs in
Hollywood.
The Hays office would
squawk."
Let's go get beer"
Barbara Stanwyck asked Di-
rector Billy Wilder the other
day how much longer before he
would complete filming OF
Double Indemnity"
We'll" yelled Billy, "the way
! figure it, I've got about an
ulcer and a half TO go yet"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-24
BY ERSKINE JOHNSON
NEA staff Correspondent

1t could happen only in Holly
wood. Two weeks ago AleXan-
der Knox was playing an AFRO
CANT Nazi heel in a movie titled,
They Shall Not Escape To-
day, with glasses and a little
putty on his nose, he's our
World War | President, Wood
row Wilson, in Daryl Fan
uck's film biography Wilson. -
The spittln' image, we might
add.
Thirty-six-year-ol Knox. Ca
madam ncWspaperman turn G q
stage actor Ia years ago, has APP
pcared in only two other films,
The Sea Wolf and This Above
AL" Before that he played min
or roles on Broadway and in
Boston stock. And before that he
worked on the Boston Post and
on the copy desk OF the Advcr-
tiser in London, Ontario, his
home town. He's still citizen of
Canada.
The Wilson role is one OF the
years greatest As the prcSI-
dent of Princeton University,
whose address later becomes the
White House, Knox does more
talking than any character ever
cast in picture. Says Knox:
ITS like playing Hamlet four
times a day
SO the Parent Teachers AS
ISOLATION Of Portland, Ore, has
launched campaign TO curtall
nccking among tecn-aGers in mo-
ton picture theatres. Seems TO us
the drive is about 40 years too
late. A kiss in the dark of a mo-
ton picture theatre has become
almost an American institution.
Paramount is filming one OF
those coed type collegiate pic
lures, You Can't Ration Love"
Opening scene called for a total
of 81 sweaters to be worn by the
gals of the senior classroom. To
av oi d inevitable censorship
trouble later on, the foresighted
Paramount wardrobe depart
ment wisely ordered all the
sweaters two sizes too large,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-24
GOOD GAGS

Another swell series OF gags in
Producer Jerry Fairbanks next
Speaking Of Animals short for
Paramount, i'm which the animals
do the talking. A mother pos
sum, walking along with her
young on her back, looks at the
audience and says, I'm possum
packin mamma A baby skunk
says 10 his mother: Ma, can l
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-07
Union Row Halls
.Auto-Bodt Tieup

A truek-ferry service carrying
war materials across Lake Erie
between Detroit and Cleveland
Screduled TO start today, has been
postponed until next Tuesday be-
cause OF a labor dispute, Troy II
Browning, president of the Truck
ers Steamship Co, said today.
Browning said the AFL Team
sterS Union is pickering with "a
trucking companies over trans
mission of the freight TO the
boats. The union claims the Serv-
ice would result In serious dISloCa-
ton of drivers schedules.
The truck-ferry delivery, Brown
ing said. viii conserve more than
100000 tire miles daily and save
manpoWer and equipment.
The service plan was worked
out last winter among local ship
perS. tho ODT and the Interstate
Commerce Commission. Browning
said the IT, S. Department Of La
Dor has been notified of the dis
DutC
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-07
III YOu Gam
Write a Tin Can Slogan,
Win d $50 Bond

Prizes Of one $50 war bond and
three S25 bonds will be given for
the four best slogans submitted for
DetrOitS next tin can salvage
drive. Terry Bannan. chairman OF
the County'S tin can committee
announced today.
The contest is open TO any per
son living in Wayne County. II
Will close on May %, the day OF
the next tin can collection.
If you prefer, you may draw a
cartoon or compose an original
Jingle, instead of submitting q
slogan.
Entries must be mailed TO Tin
Can Salvage, 1921 Woodward, by
May p
Judges are +. J. Anderson
chairman of the Wayne County
Salvage Committee; John McGilliS
of the WPB, and Kenneth Burns
chairman OF the Michigan Salvage
Committee.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-07
Auto Hurts Soldier;
Driver Is Released

Sgt. Walter Paul, 80, Of An
army air base al MISSIONER, Mass,
was in serious condition in Re-
cciving Hospital today with inter-
nal injuries and a skull injury
incurred last night when he
walked into the side of an auto
mobile on w. Fort near nth. The
driver of the car joseph Schall,
10 Of Belleville was not held
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-07
RIGHT LONG ENJOYED
Henderson Gets Job
With Research Group

WASHINGTON, May : GNSj
Leon Henderson, former price
administrator. today has a new
position with the Research lnsti-
tute OF America as economic CON
sultant and chairman OF the board
Of editors. The research facilities
of the institute are utilized by
both government agencies and
private organizations.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-07
Demand
Action OH
Us. laps

WASHINGTON, May { tINS1 F.
A Senate military affairs sub
committee today submits a report
demanding immediate separation
of loyal and diSloyal japanese
held in concentration camps and
aston 10 protect the nation from
dangerous Japanese lnterned IN
1.-THE United States.
Announcement or the report
came from Senator Chandler Cd
OF Kentucky. subcommittee chair
man, and followed charges by Sem
ator Robertson tRD of Wyoming
that dangerous intcrnccS are PAM
pered and allowed 10 run free in
the vicinity of power plants.
Chandler. who had held hear
ingS i'm many western cities, said
that a full inquiry probably would
follow filing Of his report and for
NAL presentation of the Robertson
charges
Robertson told tho Senate that
an investigator sponsored IN part
by him found enough canned
goods boarded in japanese camp
near Cheyenne 10 represent over
20.00OO00 rationinG points.
III these goods were parceled
out To the 10000 Japanese in
this camp alone on the same
rationing basis that American
housewives buy them. there
would be enough To feed the in
ternees for more than three
year" Robertson said
Earned His CountrN'S Graft
tude by Com m tting Cold
Bloodcd Murder. what DO You
Want ." Snarled Public Enemy
Number One a. Mild-Man-
nered Little Man Barred His
Path. Just Your Life" RctOrted
the other and Pulled out n
Pistol and shot Him Dead. Read
+ Why This Crime Was Conn
/ mitted and Its Amazing After
math In The American Weekly.
/ Great Magazine Distributed
With This Sunday Issue of
The Detroit sunday Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-07
QUESTIONS CITED

The eight questions deal win
court administration, jurisdiction
coordination and hours.
Criticism has been lodged that
there are flaws m an these points
Submitted bl thc bar aSSocla-
lion committcc on CRIMINAL pro-
oedure. he following questions
were referred today 10 a commit
tee OF Judges SNllnan, CotteT
and Gordon for study and recon-
mendauonS
1-Should the offices Of The eN-
Il executive and pres din =
, Judge be changed 50 that the
: executive Judge shall have cN-
elusive administrative and SUI
perVlSory control over all the
activities Of the court and should
the office be rotated or should
the term OF office be indefinite?
Should the employees be placed
on a merit or civil service basis?
C-Should regular monthly
- meetings of the Judges he
held. and a public record be
made of actions taken. and
should quarterly meetings be
held between the executive Judge
and the prosecutor regarding
law enforcement problems
C-Should full records he kept
- and full statistics be COM
piled Of all cases disposed Of by
each Judge of the court, lnclud-
ing the time devoted 10 judicial
duties of each Judge-wlth an
nual report?
1-Should. the present release
II bureau be continued, legal
lied. and administered through
the executive Judge?
E-Should the judge 10 whom
~ the trial of a felony or a
misdeHeaHor case tkas been as
signed continue 10 have eXclu-
sive jurisdiction over IT?
c-Should a different plan OF
" assignment OF counsel for
INDECENT defendants be evolved?
7-Should the judges. through
the executive Judge, deter
mine upon rules Of decorum az
fecting the court, including
rules confirming the transaction
of court business as much as
possible 10 the court room. and
making il improper for a Judge
10 be absent from the bench
during the course Of a criminal
proceeding?
Q-Should night court sessions
y be resumed. the trial Of civil
cases by the recorders court ne
eliminated. and the traffic divi-
sion be reconciliated, in whole
or in part. with the COURT
RIGHT LONG ENJOYED
The judges have long enjoyed
the right of naming their own
court clerks and have split among
themselves the appointment "a
other Jobs on the staff
A major political gift box has
been the assignment Of counsel for
defendants unable to hire their
own. some observers contend
This Is handled each month by
a J. = - -
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-07
Nelson Is Urged
To Weld Club
On 'FeudistS

WASHINGTON, May I GNS)-
WPB Chairman Nelson was adj
monShcd by the Senate Truman
committee today 10 be more firm
IN SuppreSSinC 'waSteful fcuding
among administration officials.
Reporting 10 the Senate on lis
invest lgatIOn of the conflict
among officials directing the SYM
thetic rubber. a0O-octane and ma
val escort vessel programs, the
committee said;
THE present conflict Is re-
suit Of basic weaknesses i'm the
control Of the war effort"
BELIEVED FEUD ENDED
The senators said they assumed
that when Nelson was appointed
war production director of Pres
ident Roosevelt, with broad power,
that confusion in home front plan
ming had been ended.
"Why then was IL not eNer-
CiZed ." the report asked in re-
ferrlng 10 the Presidents clear
and unequvocal delegation OF
authority to Nelson.
PARTIALLY ABSOLNED
"Clear leadership I'm strong
hands is required. The influ-
ennce from above must he al
ways toward unity. Where nee
essary. heads must be knocked
together"
The report partially ahSolvec
Nelson Of responsibility in the
clashes Of Cndersecretary Of Wal
+ Patterson, Fuel Administrator
! IckeS. UnderSecretary Of the Navy
ForreStal and Rubber Director
letters.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-07
Bar Groups Asks
Judges if They
Need Reforming

A Bar Association committee
which has been investigating
recorders court today asked the
Judges themselves It they thought
they should be reformed and, If
50. how
J. neither asked or stated why.
In series Of EIGHT questions.
the committee posed tho pos
sihlli'y Of drastic revision Of
court procedure.
The questions b,d not indicate
that such revision WAS required
or justified
Evening star., 1943-05-25

knife and can dispose Of them in q
dozen different ways Of rapid dis
patch. .
The finest athletics and profess
sional sportsmen and coaches from
all parts Of the country, many Of
them holders of world records, have
been called here to give the prospec-
tive flyers the best of instructions, to
harden them for their air training
to come. But even after they leave
here, the hardening process is being
kept up. Even aboard the carrier
and other ships, 1t is being con-
tinued, for 1t Is now naval practice
to assign such experts to all these
ships to give daily routine of prac-
tice to the officers after they be-
come aviators.
This station Is commanded by
Comdr. John P. Graft, and it has
taken over much Of the facilities of
the University of North Carolina.
Other facilities have been construct
ed, including a fine new hospital
where the cadets obtain the best
medical attention. But they are so
healthy that there Is little to do
beside medication of a few scratches
and burns received in the tough
athletic program, and the usual
Slight ills of men in this age group.
The cadets have little time for