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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-12
WE REALLY ARE GOOD

The thorough drubbne administered by General
MocArthurs bombers to 22-ship japanese convoy
near New Guinea confirms further what had become
increasingly evident = that even at the other TEL
lows game Of war there is nothing decodent or soft
about Americans.
Consistently since Pearl Horbor, man for man
and weapon for weapon we have shown ourselves su-
perors to the Japanese though they had been troIn
ed long and diligently while we we're rank amateurs
Likewise, in Africa our men adjusted themselves,
otter preliminary defect by Rommels hardened vet
Grams, and took the play away from the Old Fox OF
the Desert.
American fighting men ore not the best in the
world Australians Canadians, English, Czechs, Rus
slams, to mention only those which have had opPor-
tunity to prove themselves fully good os Amer.
icons But they ore better, and that is another
way of saying that there ore no better in the world.
Perhaps it is unfair to omit the Chinese, in view OF
the results they have achieved under tragic hond-
COPS but they can hardly be included until given the
tools, they are permitted to show what they can do
with tnen
1t is fortunate that the British, at home and in
the dononions, and the Americans have preserved
the spirit which makes good soldiers out Of peoce-
minded civilians. Otherwise democracy would have
been destroyed before preliminary hondicoPs could
have been overcome.
Having surnnounted that obstacle Of unPrepor
edness, we now see our soldiers, sailors and marines
demonstrate land at sea- in the air, their ability
to whip the type Of man produced by totoIitorlon-
ism
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-12

not sufficient to right the wrong
resulting from the revoke, the
players upon agreement among
themselves, must give the de-
clarer all ofothe tricks to which
he is entitled.
Today's hand brings out this
point. Declarer won the opening
lead with the king of spades and
then laid down the ace Of clubs.
West showed out, discarding a
small diamond.
Naturally dcclarer thought
that East had the queen and ten
of clubs. He could count six club
tricks, the ace of diamonds and
the ace king Of spades, nine
tricks.
He led a small spade toward
dummy, won with the ace, and
played a small club. East played
the ten, South the jack, and
West won with the queen. West
now cashed his four good spade
tricks, squeezing South and de-
feating the contract despite the
fact that South received two
tricks for the revoke.
In q case of this kind the
players must concede that the
declarer had six club tricks, the
ace of diamonds and the ace
king of spades, sufficient tricks
for his contract.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-12
BY ERSKINE JOHNSON
NEA Service staff Correspondent
An open letter TO the man

An open letter 10 the man
power chief:
Mr.. Paul V. McNutt,
ManpoWer Director,
Washington, D. c.
Dear Sir: Don't look now, but
there is a hole in your work
or-fight' order which may have
escaped your attention but which
is as obvious to some of us film
customers as a busted shoulder
strap on Jane Russell. AS things
are now, most of the handsome
young he-men in pictures have
gone or are about to 60 off to
fight, and if the movies are de-
clared essential, the over age
boys who are left behind will be
officially considered as working
for morale. All right, that takes
care of the actors. But what
about the characters they play
on the screen?
For years, Mr.. McNutt, we
have been going to the movies
after a hard days work Chang
ing over a hot typewriter) and
viewing the cinematic doings of
male characters who have all
kinds of adventures but who
never seem to do anything for a
living.
They are shown living in lux
ury, dancing in cabarets, run
ming down 10 Florida for week
ends, and even marrying blends,
but half the time the picture ig-
nores the fact that all these
things cost money and nothing
is ever said about how the char
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-12
BY PETER EDISON

In any consideration OF this
freedom of the air" idea, you
come eventually to the theory of
reciprocal rights, for which the
record of negotiations between
the United States and Great
Britain offers the swell example.
In May, 1885, the first trans
oceanic airline schedule was
established by Pan American
Airways - across the Pacific
Maybe you have wondered why
the Pacific was flown before the
Atlantic. One real, underlying
reason was because the u. S.
had one of these reciprocal
rights amendments with the
British.
This agreement was not in the
form of codified treaty, but ii
was made after series of diplo-
matte negotiations, following
which the u. S. Department OF
Commerce issued a landing per-
nit to British Imperial Always
and the British government is
sued a similar permit to Pan
American Always to fly into
through and away from the us
and Great Britain via Canada
Irish Free State and Bermuda
These permits were effective
June /, 1886, and were to re-
main in effect Is years, with
the provision either side could
cancel on two years notice.
The catch in this is that at the
time the agreement was made
the British had no planes cap
able of flying the Atlantic with
a pay load, though Pan Ameri'
can Always had developed its
clippers in the Caribbean ano
was ready to fly the Atlantic in
1897.
POINTS AGAINST
RECIPROCITY
But transatlantic flight was
delayed two years because the
British had no comparable
equipment and because of this
reciprocal permit which pre-
vented American planes from
touching at British ports until
the British could catch up with
the procession and develop
planes to fly the ocean and touch
u. S. ports.
In situations like this, free
dom of the air" advocates may
have one of their best talking
points. If there were no recipro-
cal agreements, if there were no
sovereignty of the air. restric-
tons, planes of any nation might
fly into ports of any other ma
ton and do business. Reciprocal
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-12
. IN HOLLYWOOD

acters acquire this convenier
commodity in their spare time.
Occasionally, the character is
permitted some fine talk about
1.-The office" but you never see
him there, and if he really has
an office it is plain that he keeps
no regular office hours.
Then there is the kind of pic
ture like "A Night to Remem-
ber." The writer's put in an airy
piece of dialog calculated to in
form the customers that Brian
Aherne was supposed to be a
writer by trade.
This sounded encouraging, but
Aherne didn't write a line till
the picture was tWo-thirds over.
Then he suddenly plopped down
in front of portable typewriter
But Loretta Young said, Good
heavens, Jeff, you're not going to
start on that new novel at this
time of night are you?" He
wasn't, Mr.. McNutt. He was just
going to dash off letter to an
other character.
Herbert NJ h | in The
Moon and Sixpence' was the
same kind of writer. He never
wrote more than three lines from
fade-in to fade-out, but as the
narrator he talked a good story,
so we concluded that his writ
ing habits ran to the dictation
method We won't kick about
this, anyhow, because in the
picture we actually saw Painter
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-12
. BARBS

Uncle Sam a ways wants
promising young men - and by
March Is, paying ones, too!
Every day there is more in
dication that we're not going to
let the Germans, Japs and ltal-
ians make our Statue Of Lib
erty memorial.
Bricks made in the U. S. in
one year would build wall
several feet high around the en-
tire country. When do we start?
Why is il that moths never
make the mistake of eating a
patch?
The closer you get to people
the quicker you get next to
them.
II may be common this sum-
mer for the stockingless woman
10 meet the shoeless, man.
A couple on the west coast
were M rried by telephone.
That's one way to get along.
Sanitariums arc places where
people who let themselves get
run down wind up.
Girl babies learn TO speak be-
fore boy babies, says speech
expert Meaning they get the
first word, too.
II is expected that the air
will be full of pleasure planes
after the war. With traffic di-
rected by helicopters?
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-12
WAR TINE

Assistant Secretaries Patterson Of War and For
resto Of Navy say that nationwide war time, 3D.
voncine the clock an hour, has soved more than ! +,
500, 900 900 kowott hours Of electricity for indus
trial If this is true, then surely nobody would
won't to change back now.
Is it true? Never yet has anybody given loei-
cal explanation how electricity is soved by turning
on the current on hour earlier SO os to turn it off
an hour earlier. In summer, with early sunrise, un-
questionoby there is big saving. How is that econ
onny carried into winters short doyso
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-12

We are proud Of the militory record Of our men.
We must not, however, become overconfident even
now We have the men. We can make for them the
weapons. But still they oborng under the hand
icop Of enormous distances, which present serious
transport problems unknown to our enemies because
Of their interior position.
1t is going to take all thot can dish out to
overcome the obstacles in course. The men in
uniform have demonstrated thot they do their
port. 1t is up to at home not to let them down in
any way.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-12

George Sanders paint. 1t was
quite shock, too.
There is also something to be
said for IS spic ion," even
though Cary Grant managed to
maintain an income without
working. The redeeming feature
was that the picture let the aud
fence in on his system, showing
him hooking furniture, winning
at the races, trying to borrow on
his wife's life insurance, and re-
sorting to other disreputable de-
vices.
TREND OF THE TIMES
All in all, things aren't so bad
as they used to be, because the
movies try to follow the trend
of the times and right now the
trend is what you said in your
order-"Work or fight"
Greer Carson and w a ! e r
Pidgeon are scientists in Ma
dame Curie," Bob Hope is war
correspondent in They Got Me
Covered Fred MacMurray is a
sandhog in mo Time for Love"
Humphrey Bogart is merchant
seaman in Action in the North
Atlantic" and so on. But bear in
mind, sir, that jobs for movie
characters are still on volun-
tary basis, and they haven't all
volunteered. We think you ought
10 lay down the law; either the
characters in each picture work,
or the producer goes to Lock
heed.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-12
WORTH TRYING

OPA Director Prentss Brown believes that COM
pusion is necessary with criminals but thot potri-
Otto men and women will cooperate in the war pro-
gram if compliance is put "honor bosis" He
is trying out his foith by removing horossnent meth
DDS from enforcement Of the ban against pleasure
driving in the Eost.
We hope thot Mr.. Brown is correct We believe
thot he is taking the proper approach in not treot-
inc the general public like nation of unconvicted
eriminos But if he is wrone and if the people prove
themselves unworthy Of his trust we hope that Mr.
Brown will not hesitate to crack down hard
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-12
McKENNY ON
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM z. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority
This is the fifth of a Sc
ries of IL articles on the
new laws of contract bridge.

The revoke laws have under
gone several important changes.
the most important of which is
that a player cannot make an in
territorial revoke and gain there
by. From time immemorial there
have been arguments as to
whether or not an intentional
revoke could be made legally.
1t was always considered bad
ethics but was not covered by
the law.
The new code clearly states
that il the two-trick penalty is
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-12
WHAT, NO CHASER?

INDIAN APOLIS-ATter TAX
ing S25 from the cash register
and Is cartons of cigarettes, two
holdupmen forced Gus Ferger,
drug store proprietor, to the
basement, where they leisurely
looked over the liquor stocks.
Were only looking for the
best" they told Ferger.
Making their choice, the two
men bound Ferger and left with
a case of whiskey, he told po-
lice.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-12
DISCOURAGED

IND. Okla, The rabbit
doesn't like army life any more,
concludes Pvt. Wesley Lohrey,
former Associated Press en-
ploye in Kansas City.
When soldiers began calls
themes at the army flying
school, he explained, the frisky
young rabbit used to dash about,
tempting them to chase him.
The soldiers got tougher and
tougher and faster and faster, as
days passed.
One morning they chased the
rabbit-and caught him.
Shaken, the bunny returned
for the afternoon class. That out
fit caught him, too
He hasn't been back.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-12
RATIONED DANCING

GLENDORA, Calf. - Dancer
Sally Rand applied to the Glen
dora ration board for shoe cou-
pons.
The board told her to pool all
her family's coupons.
MY family's not big enough;
I need so pairs year." she re-
piled.
Chairman G.. F. Rinehart sent
the request to the state board.
Three pairs is all, the state
board said.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-12
LOVES DREAM

LOVES DREAM
OKLAHOMA CITY-He was
married here sometime during
January, February, or possibly
March, 1940," the Pennsylvania
man wrote the marriage license
bureau.
And could they tell him,
please, his wife's name?
They told him.
They also mentioned the fact
a divorce was recorded.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-12
NOT so FAST, POP

SAVANNAH, Ga. - Fort y
Fifth street residents have to get
up early to beat some of the
victory gardeners.
The head of one family had
big plans afoot. The seeds had
been bought, pillow borrowed
and a vacant lot was waiting.
He got into some old clothes and
started running the pillow up and
down the length of the garden.
Another member of the fam
lily stopped him. His son had
planted the garden several days
previously.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-12
. FLASHES
OF
LIFE .
BY the Associated Press
IAYBE HE'LL LEARN NOW

MEMPHIS - Arthur Smith,
16, whose homemade torpedoes
shattered the silence of high
school when book brushed
his pocket, experienced another
explosion.
Showing a friend the explo-
sive formula, Smith miscalcu-
lated.
He's in a painful, but not
serious, condition at a Memphis
hospital-for the second time
in week.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-12
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

agreements are III t1dt SeIlsc ic
strictive, though proponents Of
reciprocal agreements emphasize
the protective value of allowing
no foreign airlines to fly more
planes to this country than for
eign governments allow U. s.
airlines to fly to their countries.
Before the British were ready
TO put the reciprocal agreement
into effect, deals were MADE
with the French and the Portu-
puese. so that when trans-Atlan-
tic plane service did begin IN
1899, the clippers went not TO
British ports, but to Marseiiies'
by way on Bermuda, the Azores
and Lisbon. The British did per-
nit the clippers to 90 TO ber-
muda because the Bermudians
insisted on having the service.
In the case of the service TO
France, a formal reciprocal
treaty was negotiated between
governments in 1889, but France
let u. S. plane fly over France
and come in to Marseilles even
though there were no french
living boats developed to pro-
vide reciprocal service. Inc
French had the right, however,
to put reciprocal service INTO
effect, schedule for schedule
when ready.
In the case of Portugal, Pan
American Always made oil
rect deal, getting a FRANCHISE
from the Portuguese for exclu-
sive landing rights until such
time as the us. and Portuguese
governments should negotiate a
reciprocal agreement.
BARRED AXIS LINES
FROM U. S.
The advantage TO the U. 5.
in having an American COM
pany hold an exclusive franchise
is apparent. 1t prevented Ger
man and Italian lines from fly
ing planes into u. S. ports be-
fore the war and during the time
this country was still neutral.
Also, it prevented the Germans
and Italians, who were flying
land planes into Lisbon, from
forming a dummy Portuguese
company which might have Sc
cured landing rights had there
been a reciprocal agreement in
effect.
Up to about 1941, Pan Ameri-
can had been the only U. S.
company developing interna-
tional air services. At this juno
ture, into the picture stepped
another company - American
Export Airlines. 1t got U. 5.
government certificate of con-
venience and necessity to oper-
ate, but it couldn't land its
planes in Portugal because of
the Pan American exclusive
franchise. American Expor
thereupon set up pressure to
have the Pan American exclu-
sive franchise revoked by nego-
tiation of treaty between Por-
tuguese and u. S. governments,
permitting other us. airlines to
operate in Portugal.
This put the U. S. government
in spot Monopolies are not
popular with the New Deal and
many administration eff o r S
have been made to break mo-
nopolies so as to permit free
competition. However, if the
u. S. government ought to ne
gotiate an air treaty with Por-
tugal it could be done only on
the basis of granting reciprocal
rights, which in time of war
would not be to the advantage of
this country.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-12
GIN RUMMY QUIZ
@. What is the talon?
A. The discard pile.
TOO FAMOUS

KANSAS CITY, Kas.-Police-
men George F. Grauberger and
Eli Yovetich couldn't help over
hearing young men in a cafe
talking about a friend who'd
sold his car.
And say" piped up one OF
the crowd, Did you guys know
he sold his c gasoline ration
book, too? For So"
The patrolmen went into ac-
ton, the seller went TO jail, and
the city recorded its first gaso-
line -rationing arrest.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-12
THERE ARE MORE TRAINS

THEME ARE MORE INhINo
COFFEYVILLE, Kas.- Ralph
Mills and Edwin Martin missed
a train.
They were bsuy drinking cof-
fec. After all, they can always
find another train. :. >.
Evening star., 1943-06-06

STOCKHOLM, June 5 (P.-Two
of Germany's largest coal mines are
out Of commission temporarily and
tons of fuel badly needed for the
Relch's war industries are going up
in smoke as a result of RAF bonn
hardmentS of the Ruhr. recent trav-
elers on the continent reported to-
day
Brea ching of the Moehne Dam
May Is loosed food waters which
trapped hundreds of miners in the
Sraiherr Won Stein and Rarbenberg
mines and caused widespread devas-
tation in other Ruhr cities, eye
witnesses said.
Scores of miners were drowned
in the pits. Equipment was dam
aged
Hell broke loose when the dam
was mined" one traveller told the
/ newspaper Allehanda. What was
left by the water at Dortmund was
later smashed by bombs"
Water was reported to have run
3 feet deep through the streets
Dortmund was subjected to a
terrific bombardment May 1924.
Due to insufficient transportation
facilities, millions of tons of coal
are stacked in mounds in the vicin-
ity of the Ruhr Valley mines. RAF
incendiary bombs ignited these
mountains of COAL" causing fires
which resist all efforts to extinguish
them, it was said
A traveller said the entire area
from Cologne to Hanover was a
picture of destruction.
Evening star., 1943-06-06
BY NELSON SHEPARD,

Col. Rene r. Studler, small arms
expert, yesterday reached into an
ordinary brief case and drew out the
pieces of an odd looking As caliber
sub-machine gun, the Army's latest
hand weapon.
In less than Is seconds, he as
sembled the gun and balanced it
easily in two hands, from which
position a parachutist, for instance,
could pump $50 shot a minute.
Sort of silly looking Buck Sog-
ers outfit, isn't it?" Col. Studler re-
marked to reporters at the Pentagon
Building where the first public dem
onstration of this deadly Ms sub
machine gun was given. 1t was a
silent demonstration, however, for
the scene was conference room.
You can step on it in a deep mud
puddle, or submerge it in salt water,
smear it with sand or dirt and pick
it up and start shooting the
ordnance expert explained. 1t is
an ideal defensive and offensive
weapon in the hands OF a trained
parachutist or amphibian trooper.
So small that the parts can be
carried in jacket pockets, this novel
gun is now in mass production. 1t
hasn't seen action at the front as
vet, but when it is placed in the
hands of our invading forces the
Nazis and Japs had better keep their
heads down.
The new M-3 weighs under
pounds complete, pounds less
than the Tommy gun and it is
easier to handle. 1t would be iumpy
in the hands of novice, Col. Stidler
explained. but a trained soldier
could fire 1t easily from the hip or
shoulder or just hold it lightly away
from him in both hands.
1t is probably the safest weapon
of it's kind invented. There are
several trick features which make
it safe and undamageab Work
ing parts of the gun are inclosed
to protect them from dirt, water
and mud. A piece of adhesive tape
over the muzzle is the only added
precaution needed.
An amphibian trooper would load
cock the gun and close the cover
which locks the safety device before
jumping out of a barge during q
beach landing. There's no chance
for accidental firing, and a flip of
the finger puts the gun in action,
Col. Stidler explained.
The Ms has a trick stock OF two
iron or steel prongs that can be
pulled out when one wishes to fire
from the shoulder for more ef-
fective aim. The stock can be used
also as a cleaning ramrod.
The weapon represents "a com.
plete and radical departure" from
previous conceptions of gun manu-.
facture. 1t has no gunsmith prob.
lens to hold up mass production. I,
cost $40 to make, compared with sac
for former similar types
Designed primarily for "close ac-
tion,' it can be used as pistol anc
has the equivalent effective range
of that weapon. 1t is of all-metaI
construction.
The unusual weight distribution
of the gun, combined with its com
Evening star., 1943-06-06
Georgetown U. TO Give
Army Language Glasses

Georgetown is one of the uriversi-
ties selected to give foreign area and
language courses to soldiers in the
Army specialized training program,
the Very Rev. Lawrence C. German,
S. j., president, announced yester-
day.
Approximately 125 men will begin
courses in the school Of foreign
service June ID 1t ives expected the
classes would build up gradually to
$50 men. DR.. Edmund A. Walsh
S. j.. regent. and Dean Thomas H
Healy will supervise this training
which will follow the curriculum set
up by the War Department.
The soldiers already are arriving
and are being quartered on the
campus in dormitory rooms. Those
assigned to foreign area and Ian
guage studies will be divided equally
into advanced and basic courses.
Evening star., 1943-06-06

in the manufacture of a new sub
machine gun was foreseen almost
a year ago, Col Struder said, when
it became evident that available ia
cilities were inadequate to meet the
growing demands for such weapons.
Within four months, an expert
mental gun was ready for Army
tests.
The infantry reported that. in
comparison with standard weapons.
the Ms was more accurate and
easier to control, and that its de-
creased recoil and lower rate of fire
made each shot more effective.
Col Struder said 10000 shots can
be fired from the gun before it gets
too hot 10 handle.