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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-07-08
BN ERSKINE JOHNSON
NEA Staff Correspondent

II all started when Marsha
Hunt showed up on the set Of
Cry Havoc" at NJ G M with her
two BedlinCton TERROR puppies
Next day Ann Sothern brought
along her pct poodle Then Mar
Earct SULLIVAN arrived for work
with her dog, and Joan Blondell
barCed i'm with an airedale. Next
day Dorothy Morris. Frances
Clifford and Diana Lewis brought
along their pet pooChies. The set
began TO look like a kennel and
uSually-calm Director Richard
Thorpe Numbered forth de-
crcc-No More Dogs Unhappy
dogs The set Stimulates a Bataan
jungle and has 1862 trees,
And speaking of dogs. ever since
she clicked on the screen Yer
onica Lakes friends unsuccesS-
fully have been trying TO kid her
into buying an eye-hiding sheep
do&~NoW that her hair is up for
the duration, Veronica has ac-
quircd sheep dog on the theory.
| guess. that somebody in the
family has 10 keep one eye hid
den
Nominated for one of the
year funniest film scenes: Joan
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The moral of this potato tale,
il any, is that you never can tell
what tickle old Mother Nature is
going to do, and all the agricul-
tural economists, price experts,
rationing lawyers and congress
men in the world can't control
the weather or the growing sea-
son.
What has happened in pota.
toes might happen on the beef
situation. Right now, as you
know, beef cattle aren't coming
TO market, They're being held on
tie ranges, and cattlemen are
frankly worried about the dan
gers of overgrazing. If dry
spell should come along and the
grass lands start 10 shrivel up.
you might sec the biggest SIAM
pede OF range cattle towards
market that this country ever
experienced.
You might even get some roast
beef 10 go with your potatoes
and make roast beef hash and
wouldn't that be something, II
just goes TO show you what un-
certainties these government
regulators have TO gamble with
in trying TO manage the war on
L : home front.
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SEE THE SUICIDE SUB

Moeomb county residents Sunday will hove
an opportunity both sotisfy their wholly noturol
curiosity concerning unique Joponese weapon OF
war ond 70 invest in the which Will offset that
moteriei.
A coptive Jop submarine, token OF Peorl Horbor'
will be on exhibition the north side OF the Moeomb
county building in Mount Clemens between the hours
of ond 10: pm The Zee" for close up view OF
the submarines interior is the purchase either OF q
war bond or stomp at the scene OF the display.
As discerning Americans we'll know the bonds ond
stomps in themselves, constitute the best possible
Investment" sheery from fnoneol standpoint.
On Sunday such small investment os bonds ond
stomps represent will ente their TO view the
sub from cotwoIk troversine the length OF the ship
IL Moeomb county residents conform TO the pot
tern that hos been set elsewhere in the country they
will purchase Sl32 900 in stomps ond bonds Sun
doy during the Jop subs exhibition. The display,
TO dote, hos averaged $4,000 per hour.
Do your share.
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BY PETER EDISON

Remember that potato short
age of few weeks ago? Well, il
is a potato surplus now. And
you're actually going TO have TO
start eating Murphies till they
run out of your ears, just TO save
them. There are actually so
many early potatoes coming out
of the ground that it's a problem
finding what TO do with them TO
keep them from spelling.
The surplus may not have fill
tered down through the distribu-
tive channels of trade to reach
every community i'm the land,
but the Department of Agricul-
ture prediction is that they will
before long, so get ready for a
potato feast TO make up for that
famine Of last spring.
As You'll recall, that shortage
was caused by two things, First,
a demand for more seed potatoes
10 increase the acreage and the
yield for this year. Second, bad
weather and a late growing sea-
son i'm the south. which delayed
arrival on the market Of the first
new potatoes.
You know what happened
next. A potato black market in
which even the people who lived
on the tenth floors of crowded
apartment districts were signing
phony certificates so they could
pay eXorbitant prices for seed
potatoeS-not to plant-but to
cat. II was one OF the dirtier dis
graceful lows in wartime mob
psychology and human behavior.
POTATOES. POTATOES
All those new early potatoes
which didn't arrive on the mar
ket when expected have now
come to market-late. From
North Carolina, Texas, Okla
homa and Arkansas, potatoes by
the carload are coming out of
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. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

the ground, flooding the market
and running right into the nor
NAL supply of early spuds being
harvested on time from the next
tier of states, Virginia TO Kansas.
Those early potatoes don't
grow the thicker tougher skins
that the later northern potatoes
do, so they won't keep as well.
Cold storage facilities for early
potatoes are limited. Further
more, these early potatoes aren't
as suitable for drying or deny
drafting or canning, though they
can be handled in this way.
War Food Administration has
therefore come through with as
surances that it will support the
market, buying all surplus pota-
toes not taken up in regular
trade channels at prices up to 90
per cent of parity which figures
out roughly at two dollars, more
or less, per hundred pounds.
STUFF YOURSELF ON SPUDS
Having bought up these sur
plus potatoes, the War Food Adj
ministration agencies will do ev-
crything they can TO get them
used Shipments will be diverted
To. areas not receiving their pro-
portionate supplies. If necessary
they will be distributed to relief
agenies and hospitals. A large
pack will be canned.
Above all else, consumers will
b. asked TO eat potatoes as they
never ate potatoes before and to
keep on eating them as long as
the surplus lasts. Victory gar
dcnerS who planted potatoes will
be asked 10 refrain from digging
their first. tender but immature
little SpudS, but TO save EN-, let
EN- grow 10 full size IN the
ground and harvest them late so
as to help eat up this surplus on
the market now.
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. BARBS

The worst villain in the NOV
les is the one who sticks gum
under the seats.
Every summer resort viii be
the playground of the nation '
again this year-eXactly what
the OF front porch will be for
most people.
The more we think Of the
Japs, the less we think OF them.
A portion of Germany was hit
by the strongest earthquake in
40 years, How mild that will
seem when the allied forces
really get going.
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THERE WAS A BETTER WAY

In oil the comment about Worner Brothers pro-
pooondo film, Mission to Moscow" none thOt we
hove seen strikes closer to the-heeft Of the b4nder
than on editorial in the Saturday Review of Literu-
ture which wos intoed by the editor Mormon Cous-
ms
After discussing the films terrible monqIng both
OF the original book and OF history and pointing out
thot this wos particularly undesirable because Of the
ser1-offcioI stotus enjoyed by the film Mr. Cousins
notes the most hormfu feature Of the producers
error.
The film, os il stonds he soys, constitutes an un-
founded confession thot there is no common ground
for understanding between the United Stotes and
Soviet Russio ond therefore that it was necessary to
-tobrtcote O common ground by presenting picture
OF Russio 50 foIse that the whole thing would be
Ioughobe if IT weren't 50 trogic"
But in foot there ore ample grounds FOR mutual
respect ond friendship which could have been stress
ed We ore fighting in common couse, IN which the
Soviet is making O marvellous showing. "If you want
O motion picture thot will help Anercons 10 admire
the Russjon people, let them see what IS happening
in Russo today" soys Mr.. Cousins.
"Russo hos not been q democracy in the post
But does anyone think thot the millions Of Russian
people who hove nod TO 90 through such hell on
eorh os hos never been seen in order TO save their
country from destruction con be kept from inc
right to vote otter the wor2 Or the right to make
themselves heord2
Whether we like it or not whether the Soviet
leoders like it or not the march Of progress toword
den'ocrotc organizations is on in Russo."
The sponsors Of this unfortunate film mode the
some bunder thot others hove mode They foiled
10 discriminate between. the American reaction to
Russr07 rerotsrn, me American opprec0tion of how
much we ore protitjng from whot RUSSO is doing to
Hiter-ond our intense dislike for the treocherous
toctcs Of the Communist Pory os agent for the now
ostensiby detunct Corointern, in this country
Understanding ond friendship never can be found
ed firmly on lies hoIf-truns, distortions and suppress
sions They must rest upon publicity, not propogon-
do.
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CINEMA CHATTER

MGM is paging M ton
Berries wife, Joyce Mathews, for
term contract. There's an
amusing reason why Keye Luke
is not resuming the role of
Charlie Chan's son in the film
series. Now assigned 10 the Kill
dare films, Keye is afraid au-
dicnceS will not take him serious
~ as doctor if they see him as
laundering detective again.
You'll soon be able to sign
up as Red Cross blood donor
when you buy theatre ticket.
The plan, inaugurated in Los
Angeles, goes national next
month.
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PICKLlkG FACTORY

Who would think Of pickle foet9ry as O war
production pIont2
In II hours the R. g S Pickle Works Of Boston
converted from cucunbers TO incendory bombs, which
have TO be pocked in O special preservatiye ocid.
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o IN HOLLYWOOD

Davis grabs an Australian soldier
whom she doesn't know and in
PRODUCES him to Kay Kyser in
RKO's Around the World"
Meet my fiance." says Joan.
Kyser turns around to acknowl-
edge the introduction and faces,
not the soldier, who has disap-
peared, but a midget who has
taken his place near Joan. Joan
does a double take when she sees
the midget instead Of the soldier
and yellS, I've been short
changed"
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been some time since we had
talent so abundant One
plays the piano (the girl and
the other sings in a deep rich
voice-"Danny Boy" and other
favorites Ella Fitzgerald,
direct from Cafe Zanzibar sue
cess, will be the new feature at
the Apollo when Count Basic
and his subjects vacate 1t
isn't known,-but Billy Rose
and Oscar Hammerstein are
trying no end to get Muriel
Rain to take the lead in
Carmen Jones' along with a
newcomer to the field, Muriel
Smith Miss Rain is so in
demand that the hackers are
willing to pay her expenses to
Philadelphia, give her tickets
to opening night in an effort to
change her mind, but she has
concerts already arranged
NewSpaperman A c Shields, Jr,
Editor of Argansas World,
spent 16 days in the big city at
the Hotel Theresa.
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BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
The second meeting to obtain
specific cases of alleged Brook
lyn Navy Yard discrimination
against colored workers called
jointly by the National Race
Congress, Brooklyn Council, and
the Brooklyn Urban League In
dustrial Department, Wednes-
day, october 6, brought out rep
resentatives of the NAACP,
Central YWCA, New York State
Conference of Colored Youth,
trade unions and a large num-
Der Of grieved Colored Navy
Yard workers.
Lorenza F. Davis, Industrial
Secretary of the Brooklyn Ur-
ban Leaguean d Edward Strong,
Executive Secretary of the Ma
t1onal Race Congress presided.
Samuel Risk, a local FEPC
Examiner, counselled the work
ers on properly filing written
complaints and assured them
of the FEPC's protection from
job intimidation, giving as ex-
ample the courageous action of
colored workers testifying at
the current Railroad hearings
in Washington.
Close to a dozen complaints
charging in most cases refusal
to upgrade, segregation, and
unequal working conditions
were recorded.
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shotgun at Hitler and his pal,
Hirohito . Thanks to the Post
Office Department, finders of
lost ration books may now drop
them in the mail without pre-
paying postage or enclosing
them in envelopes The books
will be returned to the person
whose name and address ap-
pears on the cover on payment
Of a Ave cents postage-due
charge.
Massachusetts, will have 365
Local War Price and Rationing
Boards when new one is
established at Fort Devens next
week These boards serve
populations varying from Mt.
Washington's ST people to Bos-
toms 770816 residents The
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1943-10-23

Price Division in the State OPA
has been busy this month set
ting uniform prices for hard
coal and coke for various areas
throughout the Commonwealth
:. While the OPA has nothing
whatever to do with the supply
of coal, or any other commod-
ity, for that matter, the officials
of this agency always welcome
improvement in the supply sit
uation.
From Washington comes the
information that the military
now takes about one third Of
the nations daily output Of 25,-
100000 gallons of gasoline
That more than explains the
Tightening up on "B' and "C'
rationS
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Frank E. Karelsen, Jr., chair
man of the education and rec
reation Of the Citizens Com
mittee on Harlem this week de-
clared that schools in under
privileged colored areas present
special problems He urged
Mayor La Guardia to appoint a
colored man to fill the vacancy
on the Board of Education.
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BROADWAY CHATTER

entrance.
BROADWAY CHATTER
The Cafe Zanzibar (acrosS
the street from "the Capitol
presents a fine array of sepian
amusement, and along with a
two dollar dinner, or cocktails
at so cents each you will re-
CeiYe a cordial welcome. Head
cd by Don Redmon and his
famous ork, there are Ella
(Tisket-Tasket) Fitzgerald, at
her peak in songs; Maurice
Rocco, marvellous pianist with
ecallent showmanship; the in
inlitable Berry Brothers (2);
AnnaniaS in the US Army;
Count Leroy, on skates; Moke
& Poke, comedy dancers d.
And the luciouS crop of dane
ing dolls including "Hilda
Brown Craig, Juanita Berry,
Mit1 Coleman, Ferebee Pur-
nell, Eoline Doudy, Hyacinth
Curtis, Jackie Godfrey Low
ingS incidentally I was
. interested To note that, most
of the girls are now married
to men in the armed forces.
hoping and wishing for the
end of the war. The adorable
Lena Horne was guest star on
the Woodbury. Soap program
Sunday night, WIZ, NBC' i.
Paul Robson opens his "Ota-
clio" Tuesday at the Schubert
Theatre Katherine Dun
ham, in her Tropical Revue is
the talk of the main stem,
she's great Edna Thomas
is playing with Helen Hayes, i'll
Harriet" at the Henry Miller
Theatre; The Ubangi Club, an
other sepia night-club show
continues to gain the raves of
the critics The Ink Spots
closed a most successful en-
gagement at the Paramount.
A REPORTERS DIARY
Pops & Louie, sensational
dancers, besides landing a con-
tract from Warner Bros. to ap-
pear in pictures, open this
week at the Earle Theatre,
Philly =. Pops is entertaining
his mother, Alice Whitman,
his wife, the former Hazel Dent
and son of Chicago.
Eddie (Rochester) Anderson
and his charming wife en-
trained for Hollywood Monday
-. Louie (Satchmo) Arm
strong, the trumpet king, is in
Harlem greeting friends after
a long absence Earl (Fa-
tha) Hines, famous maestro
and William B. Graham of
Blue Ribbon Beer are regulars
at the Theresa bar >. Marva,
and Jacquelin Mario, the Joe
Louis family still in Hotel
Theresa enjoying l i f e.
Ed (Hotel olga Wilson back
TO his famous parties, at
Franks with Pete Liotte, Alice
Davies, Edythe Mills while
at an adjoining table distin-
guished visitors dining we're
Mrs Elizabeth Gordon, head of
the daughter Elks, Mrs Beuna
V Kelly, Norfolk, Va, Mes
Games Hattoie I james, Eliza
beth Minbrough, Margaret
Stout, Rosa L Blocker, who at
tended the convention of the
National Council Of Colored
Women, as did Mrs Leila T
alexander, noted social worker
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D Y N A MITE
BY H. Geo. Davenport

LIGHTNING STRIKES HOME
CHICAGO, press Photo Serv-
ice)-You will read stories of
murders, you will probably go
to hundreds of funerals of your
friends, you will from time to
time read of terrible accidents,
you will read of casualties in
this great war. You have just
read of brutal murder of a
white airman whose head had
been severed from his body by
the Japs. That incident struck
the home Of every white Am
erican. They had read of as
we'll as condoned lynchings of
colored for centuries; they had
heard the pleas of helpless
blacks; they ignored the de-
mandS fer freedom; they lynch,
burn, and torture the black
men, and sneak around at
night, in some cities and rape
colored women; they do every
thing possible under the sun to
the black men, and it is just
another incident; but when the
head of a white officer is cut off
by the Japanese, HOW HOR-,
RIBLE". BRUTES they call
them, barbarianS they yell, not
fit to be classed as human be-
ings, unfit to mingle with civil
lied people. Yet, what happen
ed to that white officer has hap
pened in this country for hun
dreds of years and still is going
on.
The colored man has been
complaining about these condi-
tions. Some of these crimes
have been worse than ever will
happen to white men in this
war. This civilized white man
has been past master at all
brutalities since the beginning
of time. There isn't anything
that can happen that is low and
contemplate that hasn't been
committed by the civilized
white man. He has not only
done that to all races and ma
tionalitieS, but according TO
books written by white men and
white women they have thrown
away the books on rules and
regulations in doing that 10
himself. In reading the history
of Europe written by white
men, everything that is hap
pening now has happened be-
fore; they cry when they out
strip each other, they holler
their heads off when their cities
are burned by retreating arm
les, leaving this writer to won
der: Should the enemies leave
the cities intact? Should they
make everything nice and coy
for the victorsP If that is what
they are expecting they are out
of luck. An old saying which
runs something like this: "ALL
is FAIR IN LOVE AND WAR"
still holds good.
Now, Mr., white man, If you
cannot take it why did you
start it? You could have avoid
ed this war by clinging to the
golden rule. You started to
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steal from the other fellow; you
divided Africa up between
yourselves and got to fighting
about it. You exploited China,
India and all other groups ex-
cept JAPAN, and now on every
radio broadcast your white
commentators tell you about
what you are doing to each
other and what the Japs plan
to do to you,
MAYBE YOU WHITE AM
ERICAN BARBAR1ANs WHO
HAVE BEEN DOING THE
SAME THINGS TO COLOR
ED AMERICANS w I L L
REALIZE WHAT WE HAVE
B E E N COMPLAINING
ABOUT FOR CENTURIES"
Blacks have had their heads
chopped of, lynched and even
burned at the stake, colored
women have been raped and
debauched right here in this
so-called civilized country for a
long, long time. But away over
in j a p a n, LIGHTNING
STRIKES HOME and now you
yell, Don't do that 70 usIe Z
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HAZEL'S BACK IN TOWN!
Everybody's talking about Ha-
eel Scott and why not? She's
Just returned from Hollywood
to her exclusive spot at Cafe
Society Uptown. She's the fem
sinatra and in her deep heavy
voice, with those heaven knows
where she gets them evening
gowns, sh all but takes the
mems breath away.
Hattie Noel, Hollywood &C.
tress is in town at the Hotel
Theresa, appearing on Broad
way. New York City's Muse
UNI has opened a Photographic
exhibition called ''Harlem'S
Children in Wartime" /.
Radcliffe ana jenkins, comedy
team at the Apollo Theatre
last week were really swell, It's
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Answer: Miss M. B. In times
like these almost anyone can
make a mistake. However,
othere should profit from your
experience. If you'll contact
the NATIONAL EQUAL RIGHTS
LEAGUE, 1885 7th Avenue, N.
Y. c., they'll be in position to
give you particulars.
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Home Front News
BY LAWRENCE ]. BRESNAHAN
State OPA Director


DID YOU KNOW THAT =.
The State OPA office has set
an Oct. 25th headline" for
renewal applications to their
local boards for the new "a"
gasoline coupons The new
"a" books become valid Nov.
o.. The OPA's new ceiling
prices on appIes-two pounds
for 10 cents, are effective this
week.
Our citizens who are buying
War Bonds and living up to the
Home Front Pledge are person
ally pointing a double-barreled
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of waterbury, Conn, who were
guests Of the Theresa.
Ray Scott. Braddock Cafe
clubman, given a farewell by
his pals, Angelo Sandoyol, Aur-
lie Caccia, etc. :. The swing
prima- donna Geneva Washing
ton is now private nurse -.
I'll be saeinya again soon.
Your cruising reporter, Smell
son, 478 w. l59th Street. NYC.
r. :. : 5s--.zl.--
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TIE GUARDIAN
New York Roundup

NEW YORK: (C)-Forty Col
ored Juveniles were involved in
riots which broke out Wednes-
day at the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Children.
Eight of them as a result were
taken away from the shelter
and lodged in segregated tiers
Tomb'S prison. The shelter has
been under investigation by the
city for several weeks, because
of alleged intolerable condi-
tons and charges Of complete
lack of discipline among the
children.
B e a u J c k, former
lightweight champion is suffer-
ing from Synovities, commonly
known as water on the knee
and may have to undergo an
operation. DR.. Vincent Nardi-
clio, who examined Jack this
week plans to enter his patient
at st, Clare's Hospital which
will take the Beau out of action
for at least two weeks. How
ever, his manager, Chick Wer-
.geleS, insists he will have ample
time to train for his return bout
with Bob Montgomery, the Phil
adelphia Bobcat and light
weight champ, scheduled for the
Garden November 19th-If you
want to know why Jack lost his
fight to Bobby Ruffln last Mon
day night, it was attributed
largely to his injured knee.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1943-10-23

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.,
New York City Councilman pre-
dicted here this week that the
race vote will be the balance Of
the power in the next Presiden-
tial election. "In many major
states, the Republican and
Democratic machines are SO
close in strength that the coll
ored voters has in his hands
election OF the next President,
he said. "As things stand now,
the colored votes will probably
vote for Roosevelt, but if the
Republicans can put up some
body like Willkie, he will sit
back and think a while. Right
now in New York City, leaders
Of all parties are banding to-
gether to elect a Democratic
lieutenant governor, a Repub-
lican City Court justice and an
independent to take the place
I am vacating in the City Coun-
GIL"
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Announcement

Madam ETHYL OUGHTON
CLARKE, internationally Fa-
nous Coloratura Soprano, has
opened her Music Studio at
941 Stebbins ave, Bronx, N Y.
Music: Instructions in voice
and piano. Beginners a special
ty. Additions free. SERVICE:
Programs arranged for Recit-
ais, Concerts, Oratorios, We'd
dings, Receptions, Banquets,
Teas, Funerals, etc.
VocaIiStS and Instrumental
lists upon request.