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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-08-06
HighIights from the Latest Books

SIS CO., by Wythe Williams and
William Van Narvig, covers a
lot Of territory-Nazi-conquered
territory-and is as exciting
reading as you will find on the
inside Nazi Germany theme
since William Shirer's Berlin
Diary
Wythe Williams, foreign cor
respondent during World War /,
then radio commentator, called
the turn on so many great
events in advance during the
present war that his competitors
were tearing their hair and
screaming, Where does he get
his OOPS? How did he know
six mohtns in advance that
World War II would start with
HItlcrS advance on Poland
early in September, 1889? Has
he a crystal ball or what
1t wasn't a crystal ball-it
was an officer VINO had served
in the Russian army. who knew
Europe like a book, who detest-
ed Hitler, who met Williams in
1915, met him more than 20
years later I'M New York, and
who readily agreed to supply
him with inside information
from overseas. This was Will
liam Van Narvig, who had close
connections with Berchtesgaden,
men and women who had access
to the Berghof, Hitler's noun
tain nest, and 10 Karin Hall
Goerings magnificent country
lodge. Overheard conversations
between Hitler, Himmler, Fran
co. Rlobentrop are reported in
letters TO Williams and those
names become more than mere
names--they become startlingly
real.
How Williams knew in adj
vance of the invasion of Den
mark, the ticklish Jap-German
get-togethers in Berlin, the lat
ter news being too hot to dis
pense for diplomatic reasons
how he scooped the world again
and again, is told in this amaz-
ing book which takes you be-
hind the scenes and makes clear
how one man knew, told, was
given a Skeptical reception, only
to be corroborated by facts and
history.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-08-06
By PETER EDISON


The way things are shaping
up now, one OF the warmer
domestic issues on which this
red hot 1914 political campaign
will be waged is not an alb
stract problem at all, but a mat
ter of personslitieS-the make
up and duties of the so-called
Palace Guard of Roosevelt ad-
visers haunting the White
House, specifically, Harry Hop
kins, who lives in the White
House, Supreme Court Justice
Felix Frankfurter, Judge Sam
uel n. Rosenman Of New York,
Presidential Administrative AS
siStant David X. Niles, who is
also regarded as an outside and
front man for Harry Hopkins;
Ben Cohen, who is an assistant
TO War Mobilization Director
James F. Byrnes, and Director
of the Budget Harold d. Smith.
There are other secondary
lights, fair-haired boys such as
Edward +. Prichard, in the of
flee of Economic Sterilization
Director Fred NJ. Vinson, and
Economist Richard V. Gilbert of
OPA, who probably don't cut
much ice There are also a num-
Der OF other presidential admin
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-08-06
WHO WON WORLD WAR II

a reporter on O njdwestern newspaper asked 30
men ond women, interviewed essentially at rondom,
which United Nation has made the ereotest contri-
button toword winning this war Two said Russo, one
Chino and T the United Stotes
Such question ond the answers make on ex-
ceIIent lecture but the results Of the poll prove only
one thing which S the willingness Of almost every
body to express firm opinion on matters about
which he knows very little
To such question there ore OF leost SIX answers
which con be orqued with considerable oglc-Brit-
DIN, China, RUSSO or the United Stoes Germany by
her errors, or our own fovorte-tho the hosn't
been won yet which IS not reoY O bubble
We should not be in position to dream Of win
ming the war, eventually. f the British Isles had not
weotnered the crisis that followed Dunkrk England
r1oht not have survived but for the weapons and 9th
er aid we contributed But thot old would have been
futile if the British had not used It with couroge
ond optimism unparalleled in miIitory history
The best we could hope for would be stolenote
If Russia had not 'omozed the world by the brewery
and skill Of her battered onnes1 ond by possession Of
noterol resources Of which none Of Us dreored But
without British end Anercon old, RUSSO probably
would not have been obe TO turn back the Nozi tide
Without Amercon rooterlel or without British
SEQ ond n7Itory n1onpower, the victory Of North A.
rico could not rave been won nor, for thot matter
would II hove been won # much Of 4itIers strength
hod not been tied UP in Russio.
II is utterly impossible 10 sort out the combined
contribution Of any one country ond soy thot il wos
greatest. Common sense tells US thot ony one Of
these notions produced q bolonce Of power without
which OF best we should have been forced TO on m
decisive 1rr7rstTCe.
And if Gcrmony hod INVADED England mn7edi-
oteIy after Dunkrk or bod reformed from ottock-
ing RUSSO We should have lost one or other Of those
invaluable Giles
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-08-06

the complete hand. | can tell
you, however, that G. n Q r |
Clark redoubled and made an
overtrick-and he has been rub
bing salt in the Gruenther
wounds ever since.
Before the war General
Gruenther was secretary of the
Vanderbilt Cup Tournament
Here is an interesting hand from
this years Vanderbilt Taurnaa
ment-another hand in which
clubs played the important part
Af'ar winning the opening lead
with the queen or clubs. South
CaShed the ace Of diamonds
and led low diamond West
won and returned a heart. South
ruffed and then made a fine
play. He ruffed small diamond
with dummys ace Of clubs
ruffed another heart. tn e n
ruffed another diamond, East
could over-ruff but could make
no other trick.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-08-06
. BARBS .

Any soldier will tell you that
the best thing to induce chest
expansion is a medal.
In wartime, says our govern
ment, men should not do work
that women can do. How about
the dinner dishes
Work in a Saginaw, Mich,
gun factory stopped during a la
Dor dispute This is no time to
cease firing -
At least he war has put an
end I'm many families 10 the
old question of who wears the
pants.
A Baltimore man switched
shoes with a sleeping sailor be-
cause one of his pinched-and
so did a cop!
One thing that keeps the di-
vorCe rate high is the clinging
vines before marriage that be-
come ramblcrS afterwards.
Mussolini joined the war to
share whatever Hitler got out
of it. Two people hanging from
the same rope would be a nov
city.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-08-06
McKENNY. ON
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM T.. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

Many Bridge League execu-
tives are now serving Uncle
Sam, First and foremost, Maj
Gen. Alfred NJ. Gruenther is
chief of staff of the Fifth Army
under command of Lieut.. Gen.
Mark w. Clark. Before leaving
for overseas, General Gruen-
Their was member of the
Leagues executive committee
and a member of the National
Laws Commission.
received a letter recently
from General Clark, telling me
that he and Commander Butch
er were playing against General
Eisenhower and General Gruen-
Their. General Clark bid up TO
four clubs, and General Gruen-
Their doubled. We may have 10
wait until the war is over 10 get
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-08-06
TAPERlNG OFF

Ambassador Wlnont in London, reveois thot two
million AnedeeAs hove been sent to fighting zones
in months @ lot but no more than we trons-
ported oversees in O snnlor period in World War l.
Then our men under orns did not reach s. 100000;
now they surposs 5000 600
This might have something 10 do with SecretoY
Stinoson's concession thot the Wor Department is
studying the desirobty Of topering off the Undue
ton Of new tronees II we cont them in uniform,
we surely need them on forms ond in factories.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-08-06
HOMING Bus

VALLEJO, Calf - Remem-
Der how conveniently old Dob
bin would plod homeward, with
out hand on the reins?
Mrs. c. NJ. Nelson, operator of
a Mare Island Navy yard bus, is
ready TO christen her vehicle
Dobbin.
1t stalled en- route 10 Walnut
creek She hiked TO telephone
TO report the trouble, then
liked back TO find the bus gone.
II was waiting in Walnut
Creek, engine still running.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-08-06
RARE HAND

CHlCAGO-Ben Nepster con-
siders he's just as lucky as a
bowler who shoots 800 or a golf
er who scores hole-in-one.
Peter Gothberg, pinochle
fan, at a party celebrating his
25th we d d ing anniversary,
played few games Of pinochle
with Nepsted and Walter Gus
tafson.
He proved a gracious host -
dealing Nepster a perfect 1000
point hand--eight aces-con-
sidered a rarity.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-08-06
TRICKY COMEBACK

Dissatisfied over roles or pic
lures, film players have dIScov-
cred a new way 90 outWit studio
bosses The unhappy player inn
mediately calls the Hollywood
Victory Committee, and asks to
be sent out on an varmy camp
tour, thus avoiding the picture.
It's 4 beautiful out. and there's
nothing the studios can do about
II Signs OF tho times:
Mickey Rooneys hoped up
roadster VIII be sold four times
during the course of the next
Andy Hardy comedy. Andy
Hardy's Blond Trouble
Producer Jesse LaSky has a con-
tract on his desk waiting 10 be
signed by Fred Astaire to play
himself IN Rhapsody in Blue,
II contracts can be arranged
I've seen and heard a lot of
singing trlOS, but Hollywood
latest discovery 1922 the Tailor
Maids is the first trio we know
bringing beauty 10 music The
glrlS-VIreinia Friend of Wichi-
IA. Kan, Marian Bortcll of La
Sale llL.-and Faye Rene = of
CrcSton Iowa, are all beauties.
The girls have worked IN two
Universal fllmusicals since form
ing the trio IN Los Angeles only
seven months ago. All are
trained singers, arrange their
own numbers and describe their
warnings as Sweet Swing
Promised and hoped for:
Alan Dunehart S comedy charac-
torizatiOn of theatrical pro-
Queer IN Tropicana Hot trum-
pet PLAYER Leonard Sues YER
SION Of the ST. Louis Blues IN
the same film.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-08-06
BY ERSkINE JOHNSON
NEA staff Correspondent

Hollywood finally won its
tiff with the Hays office Ccnsors
over the torrid romantic situa-
tions IN The Constant Nymph
They'll remain M the picture
Bat the ccnsors did succeed IN
killing all the publicity stills
showing Charles Boyer kneeiing
at the beside OF Joan Fonlaine
when sAe-dte>~T hey-WeFe reject
ed as "horlzontals Which re-
minds me The Hays office pro-
hiblts the showing of the oppo-
site sex in bed together even If
they are married But i'm Crash
Dice 30 Tyrone Power and Anna
Baxter are shown together,
briefly i'm a train berth. And
what's more, they are strangers
haven't even been introduced
10 each other Apparently the
film cenSors do not look with
aSkanCc az the nations over
crowded railway SNStems-
= At a recent Los Angeles per-
-formancc of the horror play
Silver Nails, Henry Hun was
playing the role of 4 corpse at
an Irish wake when the candles
near the coffin accidentally ig
nited some straw flowers HUI
immediately raised IN from the
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-08-06
LATEST VERSION

SCHENECTADY n Ma
than Golfine gave police a new
excuse for driving 20 miles an
hour.
When ! drive along at IS,
I'm likely to fall asleep he eX-
planned. Wide awake. he paid
a S25 fine.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-08-06
SIX-DAY MARRIAGE

LOS ANGELES-TheY tried
putting their marriage on six
day week, Mrs Airline Rutter
testified in divorclng Howard
II Rutter.
but he came home with
lipstick on his clothes after his
night off, she complained.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-08-06
SURPRISES

CHICAGO-Roger Gale was
taken by surprise when woman
drove up in an automobile al
northwest side plant where he IS
a Waterman. handed him pack
age and said, Here take this.
I'm in trouble" Then she drove
away.
Gale got his second surprise
after he unwrapped the package
and discovered two sticks Of
dynamite. He called police and
a bomb squad confiScated the
dynamite.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-08-06
TAILY-HO,

RICHMOND, Wa pitch
fork, pair of neighbors and a
pack OF hunting dogs were
pressed into service to help j.
d. Hodges run down the crea-
ture that was eating up his Vic
tory garden.
The dogs led the chase 10
Hodges garage and the hunters
bore down with the pitchfork.
The villain was 20-pound
grounding so old he had turn
cd completely gray, Hodges
said.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-08-06
Q FLASHES
OF
LIFE .
By The Associated Press
CLEARS HIS CONSCIENCE

NEWTOWN, Conn.-Put away
your lantern, Diogenes, here ne
is:
A man walked into the New
ton City court and said he want
ed TO pay his fine.
What fine asked the Judge.
The man explained that he
hadn't had the money until re-
Gently TO pay a SIS fine levied
back in December, 1893.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-08-06
LOOK OUT, ADOLF!

INDIANAPOLIS - n e | n z
Hammerschmidt, 81, who was
brought out of Germany
through the determined efforts
of relatives here. still has the
upper hand over Hitler.
While in. German concen-
tration camp Gestapo officers
had left Hammerschmdit 10 die
after they had broken his arch
es, smashed his knee, knocked
out some teeth, shot him in the
arm and stabbed him in the eye
and neck with a bayonet.
Despite the injuries. he was
indicted into the army here.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-08-06
o IN HOLLYWOOD

adviser what 1t means. 1T says, ;"
he replied Be brief, % Tip
to film talent scouts Singer
Margaret Whiting, daughter of
the late song writer, Jack Whit
ing. should be In pictures. a
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-08-06

beautiful voice and very photo
genie.
Sydney Greenstreet will defl-
nitely insist on sympathetic
role after completing his latest
badman part with Humphrey
Bncart- IN. Conflict. ,,----------
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-08-06
FILM FACTS

Milton Bcrlc is celebrating his
28th year in show business the
youngest oldest veteran.
George Murphy Will lecture on
dancing 10 next semcsler's
physical education classes at the
University OF Southern Califor-
MIA There's a sign in the
newspaper set office for Back
ground 20 Danger which re-
au.res $50 Arabic characters.
Somebody asked the technical
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-08-06

Dairy news flashes tell Of the
valiant battles our boys are
fighting and winning in the
South Pacific. Intent upon pre-
Scnting the action of the war,
however, these news items can
but through implication tel of
the nature of the enemy we are
fighting.
The reader has chance to
see the Japanese as a personal
lty. however, IN Carroll Alcott s
My war With Japan (Henry
Holt g. Co: So AS a personal
enemy of the laps, Alcott had
many amazing and violent ex-
poricnces - these he has put
forth in his book.
As a reporter Of three wars
and an observer Of the Japan
csc military machine at close
range, Alcott possesses an inval-
liable background for his story
of the social political and econ
omIc struggle in the Far East
Alcott began neWsCastInC
over Shanghai station XNIHA
in 1898 and was soon after plac-
ed high on Japan list of public
enemies The author tells about
buying a bullet-proof vest and a
-calibcr automatic and tray
cling with a bodyguard i'm an
armorcd car when he was mark
ed for liquidation by AXIS ter
roriStS because he refused 20
stop broadcaSting the truth
about the enemy.
Adventures Alcott describes
range from arms smuggling IN
the Philippines in 1928 TO a Jap
aneSe attempt TO kidnap him in
1910.
In rcportorial style the author
presents up-to-date information
about Japan, her institutions,
her people, and the havoc
wrought by her. In his out
spoken way, Alcott helps TO cX-
plain the Japanese psychology
of war, and a reading of the
book will aid the news follower
W h en- interpreting japanese
news releases.
Punctuatcd with episodes
showing the Japs hypocrisy and
brutality, the book viii make
the reader realize he is not just
fighting an opposing nation but
rather a personal enemy.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-08-06
0 BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

strative aSSlstants-LoWell Mel
lett of the defunct Office of
Government Reports, McNutt
protege Wayne Coy who is now
Smiths assistant in the Budget
Bureau; Jonathan Daniels, son
of Josephus. Their names are
not so frequently mentioned as
being Of the Palace Guard, but
they must be listed on any mus
ter roll of the pasSionately an
onymous official first family.
The top names on the list are
the ones that are hated. In any
political battle there must be
Somebody to hate. If you don't
have an opponent, or an enemy,
there isn't any issue. The plot in
this instance runs that the top
names on this list, in some MS
terious manner, constitute SUI
per- government which is above
the cabinet and seeks 10 over
ride Congress, overthrow the
government and establish gosh
knoweth what Maybe the
Fourth Internationale Maybe
so. The plot is that the Presl-
dent is so busy running the war
he lets these people run the
country.
SOME WRITE SPEECHES
There are, however, no
known facts on this plot. if any.
There are a lot Of rumorS and
surmiSeS, guesSes and accuse
tons. II is noteworthy that
there are no denialS. II is
known that these people have
the ear of the President Some
of them write tn early drafts of
his messages and speeches. 9th
ers draft in official language the
executive orders that he signs.
Others are his messenger boys.
Others his eyes and his report
ers and they come back and tell
him what they see and find and
think and feel.
A president may be no better
or no worse than his advisers.
At any rate, a president vulner-
able in all things, is particularly
vulnerable if his official family
is open TO criticism either per-
sonally or politically. This gang
is that way. Hopkins. II is said,
shouldn't live at the White
House. a Supreme Court Justice
should be above monkeylng
with politics. a New York state
Justice shouldn't be spending so
much time in Washington and
who's paying his expenses, none
Of the others was ever elected 10
public office, and who ever
heard Of them before, anyway?
NEVER AN EVEN BREAK
The rule in politics is that you
never give an opponent an even
break. An sppointive official IS
never given credit for having
the same sincerity or public in
terest as an elected one, and vice
versa. Anything about which
there is any mystey or uncer-
tainty is assumed to be crooked.
The trouble with the Palace
Guard is that il docSn't work IN
goldfish bowl. If II did, a 1T
of the suspicion might be remov-
ed II ID were removed. lot Of
the glamor would be gone and
these characters might be re-
vesled as just average citizens,
maybe smarter than most but
still too dumb--Or would IL be
more polite TO say-stlll not
smart enough to put over any
nd American revolution or
communistic coups d'ctat
On the other hand Hitler and
jobless MusSolinI aren't as smart
as they thought they were, and
look how much trouble they We
caused.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-08-06
MORE WAR-INDIANS

With praises still rcsounding
for her bcst-s selling Loon Fca-
Their, lola Fuller offers another
remarkable Indian novel, The
Shining Trail" DUEL, Sloan a.
Pearce So, a full, action-fillcd,
deeply sympathetic novel of the
Black Hawk War.
Using largely historical char
acters and basing her story on
history, Miss Fuller wcavcs a
colorful picture Of the magnifi-
cent leader Black Hawk and
how he led his Sank tribes in
their last fight for their homes
and hunting grounds. 1t Is a
tory full Of action, showing the
youths on their hunting expedi-
tlons. al their tests and games,
telling stories in their tcpces
and before their camp fires
and lola Fuller tells II with an
amazing grasp of the Indian
way Of life.
When the growing rebellion
against the white man's trcaCh-
cry cxplodes into open war. il
brings TO a climax an important
phase in the development of the
nation And IL brings into the
open the tender and moving
love story of Nanisa the Indian
girl. and Charlotte the white
irl. for Chaske, the adopted son
OF Black Hawk.
SCOOPS
Secret Sources (Ziil-Davis,
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SCOOPS.

Secret Sources" (zia-Davis,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-11
Mrs. Roosevelt
Continued From First Page.)

welt, Mrs. Florence Kerr, assistant to
the FWA administrator in charge of
public services. Mrs. Kerr said no
appeals for such centers have vet
come from the District of Columbia
but that many more States still are
expected to ask for Lanham Act
funds to set up centers.
Pressure for Treatment,
While no compulsion can be used
to make women go for treatment,
she said, military police and public
health authorities collaborate in
bringing the strongest pressure" on
women to use the treatment facil-
tiles. Treatment varies from the
experimental ''five-day treatment"
being used at the Chicago center to
treatment Of four, five or six months
at the other centers.
Mrs. Kerr also disclosed that she
Is urging District authorities to use
as many of the former Works
Project Administration workers as
possible in the new program to be
set up for nursery schools in public
school buildings. She said the Board
OF Education here has strict rules for
educational requirements for super
visers of the program, but she be-
lieved that some of the WPA sewers
or cooks could be used.
She said 1900 children were now
being cared for in 10 centers
throughout the country, but that
officials expected the total to reach
$4,000 coon.