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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-21
FOR THE YOUNGUNS

IL often takes whimsical
children'S book full Of make
believe and fantasy to remind us
that war has not erased all the
fundamental pleasures of life.
Maud Hart Lovelace's Down
Town CThomas Y. Crowell CO.:
so is Betsy-Tacy story which
seems TO be the "Bobbsy Twins"
and Dick in the Mountains" of
the last younger generation.
Miss Lovelace has her young
characters frolic from one hilar-
ious adventure eto another. The
story never leaves the children s
world i'm style or vocabulary. It's
book the youngsters will en-
JOY, for they need not constantly
run to their parent to explain
"grown-up' words.
The story is about Betsy, Tacy
and lib, "the very best friends
who are old enough TO 60 be-
yond the Big Hill where they
used TO play and venture toward
the exeitements of the town. Gil
max TO their adventures come
when they find themselves act
ing behind the footlights on the
stage of the Opera House.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-21

Joseph Curron. for left leoder OF the National
Modtime Union, hos new ideo. He wants the gov
eminent to toke up the working popers Of seonen
who have been suspended by the NNU for whot the
union may decide constitutes misconduct.
Alreody by force Of strikes, the union hos forced
nnony coptoins TO bock voter their dscipIin-
ory ootons AIreody, by suspendino q union member,
Mr Curon con deprive him Of working rights wher-
ever the NMU hos contracts Now Curron who
wos against this war until Russia wos ottocked-
wonts to set ashore everywhere any seonon whose
conduct offends Mr. Cuuon.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-21
. 50 THEY SAY

Education is still America s
first line of defense. We are
pledged 90 strengthen that de-
Tense i'm devotion to the demo-
cratic way of life and It's per
pctuation - Joseph Lands,
presidcnt-clcct American Fed
GRAFTON of Teachers.
. II is telling no secret 90 say
that we hop TO wind up the
fighting iu Europe and turn all
our resources 10 the Far Fast
Under-ecretary of VA Robert
u. Patterson.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-21
THE WHITE SENTENCE

The sentence melted out Lost night against Lieut..
Col ChorIes 6. White, suspended executive officer
Of selfridse Field, would appear TO be entirely in
keeping with the srovity of the charges on which he
convicted.
Col. White hos been ordered dismissed from the
service.
What must strike mony injustice, however
not TO Col White for he hos been found guilty by
different eourt-but TO the public of large, is the
severity Of the White sentence eontosted TO that
accorded lost week TO Col WiIIiom T. Colmon.
Col. White, CoImons subordinate, didn't shoot
anyone.
Col. Colmon did.
Yet the earlier court. made up OF entirely differ
snt officers thon the White pone SOW fit merely
TO reduce the former base commonder to the ronk
Of eoptoin for q three year period.
His subordinate, Col. White, hos been coshiered.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-21
High|ights from thu Latest Books

Remember way back when.
those dim and distant days whca
locomotives burned wood in
stead OF coal, and=the sides of the
passenger cars were Splendidly
lllumined with portraits Of pres
idcntS and governors? If you do,
Joseph Bromley's Clear the
Tracks, tW hIttles ~ House
S2.75) VIII bring those memories
OF the sos into sharp forcus. If
YOU don't, this nostalgia and hui
mcrous chronicle, written by an
old time locomotive engineer,
furnishes a color-rich picture of
an almost forgotten era in Amer
lean railroad history.
Young Bromley began a long
and adventurous career as a call
boy, checking on engineers and
firemen and making sure they
started their runs on time. His
great day came at 20, when he
was made an honest to- goodness
cngneer-younGeSt on the road.
1t was then his travels really
began Though they were con-
fined principally TO upstate New
York, YOU could hardly ask for
more IN the way Of variety of
scene and character. Drunken
Indians, tattoo artists, medicine
n o " S, tent performances of
East Lynne" and Uncle Tom 5
Cabin, the Great Blizzard Of
90 (Which stopped BromleyS
train cold, a hammer-and-tong
election campaign, runaw
trains - all add up to form a
gay kaleidoscope pattern of
bygone day.
Song played big part in the
lives of the old-time railroadcrs.
There was rivalry apIenty, and
the engineers fine contempt for
the conductor is expressed in
this rough-and-ready stanza:
on, Just once more before I'm
dead
Let me stand the conductor on
his head;
Let me see him crawl from be-
meath the wreck
With a window sash hung round
his neck"
Clear the Tracks is more
than log book of personal rem
lniscenccS, it is history we'll
worth the reading, and for ev-
Cryonc who has any feeling for
the romance Of railroading, IT is
required reading.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-21
ARMY LED BY 1865 Generals
BY PETER EDISON


The U. S. Army can now be
known as the army of a thous-
and generals the exact total as
of July /, last count, being 1868.
Only As of them have the rank
permanently, all the other 1920
being temporary appointments.
OF the 1865, only five are full
generals, 25 lieutenant generals,
27l major generals and 764 brig
adiers. Nearly all Of them are
regular Army men, the excep-
tons being 10 from the. reserve
corps. 80 from the National
Guard and nine promoted to
stars after being commissioned
to lower grades from civilian
life.
Two years ago, the Army had
fewer than $50 general officers,
but at that time there was one
general for every 1900 men
while today there is one general
for every 6400.
Your government sometimes
finds strange ways to do things,
as you may have heard. In one
department they put out tele-
phone directory which, through
some strange mixup that will
happen in the best regulated
plants. came back from the gov
eminent printing! office with
hundreds Of wrong numbers.
The type had been hopelessly
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-21
ALL PURIFIED

TOOK TON, Calf, A
strange malady killed 35 ducks
at the victory park pond.
Caretaker August Jones car
ried away the dead ducks and
placed a quantity of purifier in
the water.
Then he had to carry away a
half a barrel Of dead fish.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-21

deliver 40" He was proud, too,
that mo producer at Monogram
ever lost a nickel or completed
a picture owing money"
What's the secret Of an indie
pendent film company'S success
in major-Studiodominated Holly
wood? If YOU ar going TO be
Independent, said Carr, you
must be independent No million
dollar-a-month profits. You can't
kick people around. You have TO
be honest with everyone and
honest with vourself.'
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-21
O IN HOLLYWOOD

didn't look like a movie baron,
either. He was neat and dapper
and soft-spokcn and white hair
ed.
He said he found greater en-
joymcnt in accomplishment than
in seeing his name in the news
papers He was proud of Mono
grams slogan, Monogram al
ways Delivers What II Sells
The major studios he said,
promise 40 or 50 films a year
and maybe deliver 26 II Mono
gram promises 40 pictures, we
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-21
POWER OF THE LAW

SEATTLE - Night st c X s
have been dug up from storage
for Seattle police.
Explains Asst. Chief Arthur
l.. Chaffee:
1T gives an officer a psychol-
ogical life TO pound his beat
twirling night stick - and the
mere sight OF il often discour-
ages potential trouble makers.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-21
GREEN BEAN BLUES

TULSA, Okla. - Tulsa city
schools canned $500 gallons of
green beans and $50 gallons Of
cherries this summer for school
cafeterias.
The OPA says that's CONNER
cial canning. and wants the
schools TO surrender 10000 ra-
ton points. please
It's going 10 be quite a battle,
says unyielding Wendell A. Mel
ton, school business manager.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-21
NEGRO RIVETERS

One doy the Baltimore Sun reported that the
BethIehen-SporrowsP Point Shipyord employing 5000
men, wos closed down by dispute becouse IS Ne
oroes had enrolled ironing Gloss for rNeters Two
doys oter New York newspapers told how five per-
sons had been killed ond 400 injured IN spontaneous
Harlem disorders, which appeared to be under con-
troll otter 1900 peace officers had been. sent in.
The connection between the two IS Indirect The
HorIeno disorders not in protest about the Bal
tnnore incident. They sprong from interference by
Negro soldier on Ieove with the arrest OF q woman.
But Horer would not hove begun seethng over SO
minor offor if scarcely beneath the surface most
Negro communities we're not oIreody~jittery Their
tters upon long history OF poverty overcrowd
ing ond economic discrimination.
The situotjon IS particularly bod now becouseA
oil over the country, Negroes feel that they ore not
being permitted TO shore in war prosperity, though
they ore not refused the privilege Of being drofted
into uniform The Boltimore strike, irnobiIizng on
nportont ship-budlng ocjIity, is Just one case in
point.
This situation s I'm no woy sectional Some north
erners appear to think thot the south, ond only the
south dscrin0notes against Negroes But refusoI to
permit Negroes to do relatively skilled wor work IS
common north Of Moson-DDon as we'll os south Of it
-ond, for whatever bearing the foct may have it
springs for the most port from workers and son0e-
times their unions, rother than from employers.
In the SOUTH where the social implications Of
The Negro problem" ore predominant OF least some
ponts hove found i possible to upgrode Negroes in
TO skilled Jobs by setting aside focites where men,
bers OF the two roces need not work side by side.
This IS not on ideoI solution, but it is infinitely
preferable TO the shutting down OF whole shipyord
merely because Negroes seek 10 learn how TO rvet
Thot happened in Baltimore II IS preferable 10 the
banning Of Negroes from unions which hove closed
shop contracts with shipyords Thot happened in CoI
ifotnio ond Oregon which not in the south.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-21
BY ERSKINE JOHNSON
MA STIFF Correspondent

II it hadn't been for three or
chcetras, VIC probably Wouldn t
have mot from Carr, the man
who built film studio on loyal
Is But YOU cannot ignore three
orChs tras luxe Jan CARRIER s.
Henry King and Phil Ohman'S
Especially when they arc all
working n the same picture.
And the picture. SWCcthcartS
OF the q s !. is being pro-
duced al Monogram studio. one
of IoIivWoods independent film
companies.
II was precedent SCATTERING
Three orche ,ras I'M a low budget
tffu5 TOR Il srr1afftt r-rtrucudcut It
was sensational Why. MIG NJ S
bl1 n,o.mlliou dollar musical
DuBmr, Was Lady. had only
ONE orchestra Ditto for Hello.
Frisco. Hello Best Foot For
ward Co1cv Island and all
thc.a4thcr recent big time musical
htsll
So wc looked up the producer
of this picture with three orchcS-
tr7e Lester Cutler. whom we
think is one of the Smartcst
-hoWmcn n Hollywood Cutler
ga that was only the half of il.
He also had Una Mcrkel Donald
Novis and Parkyakarkus i'm the
cast Also sets like YOU sec at
~ M lot of chorus girls
'and "a mt musical score by Lew
Pollack. the tuncsmith who
wrote Diana and "Charmaine.
And an on q low budget.
FREAK FOPNULA
But don't write about nc "
said Cutler Write about Trem
Carr and Monogram The COM
pauy is going places. Carr is the
man responsible for the success
Of Monogram. He was born with
the ability to make people
loyal
That line about loyalty sold us
ON Trcm Carr You seldom hear
the word loyalty mentioned in
Hollywood
Before looking up Carr we
learned he had organized Mono
gram studio i'm 1928 with w Ray
Johnston. IN 1888. they sold out
10 Republic studio and Carr re-
tired A second Monogram COM
pany was organized and by 1910
was i'm serious financial Difficult
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-21

tartan to a California mountain
town In less time than il takes
to fire a AS they are up to their
neckS IN a tangle of hate and
vengeance. DiScntanglement is
handlly worked out, but not
without wear and tear on the
principals, especially Jennifer.
ON HAVING FUN
Your soldier boy friend is
coming home and you want to
plan a party that he'll remem-
Der for a long time to come.
What kind Of a Shindig Will he
enjoy? You'll find the answer,
along with dozens Of other get
together suggestions, in Parties
in Wartime" by Louise Price
Bell (Revell: $l50).
The lads in khaki, Mrs. Bell
reports, prefer a home party
with pl en- y Of home cooked
food, good coffee and cheerful,
amusing girls who can dance.
She provides complete details,
including menus, & a m and
quizzes, and the suggestion that
you have on hand a monograph
10 play the latest tunes for young
couples.
Business girls pressed for time
are advised TO hold apartment
picnics or jamborees to which
they are invited by notices typed
in the form of help-wanted ads.
Housecoolings instead Of house
warnings are suggested for Ar
my and Navy wives and war
workers wives who find they
must pull up stakes and move
on short notice.
Thoroughly delightful read
ing, with suggestions for many
enjoyable evenings, Parties in
Wartime" is written from a
practical viewpoint, with today s
hectic conditions in mind. You'll
enjoy everything from the Vic
tory Garden Party chapter to
the paragraphs on Christmas
Capers.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-21
TOTAL WAR

OGDEN, Utah - Mrs. Elan
or Lowe, a timekeeper, hurried
ly picked up her five share-ride
passengers, drove to work one
handed, then worked out her
shift-despite the fact she had
a newly-fractured arm, not yet
set
She explained:
I've got a brother in the
Aleutian Islands who would pull
the trigger with his left hand
If ne we're shot in the right"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-21
TRIFIF

ORTING. Wash. - A deputy
sheriff found $3.50 in the pos
session OF three children, who
said they had taken il from
car;
He finally found car an
swering the childrens descrip-
ton.
Yes, said John Skisuter,
logging camp worker, he had
missed the money-but he'd
been too busy to report it.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-21
NOT A VEGETARIAN?

PORTLAND, Ore = Frank
Tarrant is Portland's nominee
for the country's most honest
man.
In the street he found pack
age containing $50 pounds of
steak, worth some 1900 ra-
ton points.
Calmly. he stood guard until
a worried truck driver came
back TO find the meat.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-21
McKENNY ON
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM 4. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

The law OF compensation
WORKS for bridge players, too.
When a reasonable calculation
proves 10 have been mistaken,
occasionally a lucky break or an
opponents error makes il come
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-21
. FLASHES
Of
LIFE .
BY The Associated Press
UNDECIDED

UNDECIDED
VERPLANCK, N. Y. - Mrs.
Ella A. King isn't too sure she
wants to be the first justice OF
the peace of this Hudson river
fishing village-A 81, 500-s-year
Job offered her by the town
board.
For the past 33 years she's
been postmaster here and her
friends are legion.
Now, h e wonders whether
handing out justice-instesd of
letters and stamps-will contin-
ue her friendships.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-21
SPIDERS-AND MURDER.

A bowling wind and the tap
tap-tap of branch against the
window pane are, of course. a
help when reading a mystery
novel, but those adjuncts are
quite unnecessary TO the enjoy
mcnt of d. B Olscns Cats
Claw Doubleday, Dorsn: So
- unless, of course, the reader
is thoroughly case hardened
against attic stairs which creak
without apparent reason. collec-
tons Of spiders principally
poisonous ones and murder i'm
the worst degree.
Scptegenarian Miss Rachel,
who has a nose for dark doings.
and her less adventurous sister,
Jennifcr, follow the clue OF a
painting and a scrap of Scottish
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-21
. MIND YOUR
MANNERS .

! Should YOU show what =
good bridge player YOU are by
calling attention TO the mistakes
OF Others
& When YOU are in the wrong
is = better TO admit il and apollo
gizN or defend yourself with ex-
cuS@s?
4 II YOU are the victim OF a
practical Joker, should you let
yotfself become angry
q Should an employe speak
diS6aragingly OF his employer
or 30 the firm for which he
works?
z. II friend breaks her
engagement, should you ask her
WY
What would you do if
gYou are having a bridge
party
Ia Give a prize for low score
IS we'll as for high?
(bl Only give prizes for high
score or scores?
Answers
! I. No.
2. Admit it.
2. No.
4. No.
s. No. II she wants 70 tell
you, she will
Better What Would You Do
soluiion-(b) as il might en-
barrass some guests to be given /,
low score.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-21
BOXERS

SALT LAKE CITY-Soldiers
at the Salt Lake army air base
can box the compass mostly
from their own ranks.
In training at the base are:
Two Norths, three Souths and
two Vests.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-21
NO INCENTIVES

With industry advisory COM
mittees and labor-management
committees and incentive pay
ment plans and increased eff
cheney plans being urged upon
all civilian war plants 10 in
crease pr NC o n. Truman
Committee Investigators have
disco vered that in every
naval appropriation bill since
1915 there has been an abso-
lutte ban on using stop
watch TO time any government
employe on any job, or clock the
movements OF any employe
while engaged on any job. Fur
thermore. IT is forbidden TO pay
any bonus, premium or cash re-
ward to any employe, above his
regular wages, except for sug-
gestions resulting in improve
ments in the operation OF gov
eminent plant. These restric-
tons apply. OF course, TO all
work done in government Navy
yards.
Shortly before the Brookings
Institution issued its report
praising Canadas control of liv-
ing costs as better than controls
in the United States and Great
Britain. Donald Gordon, chair
man Of Csnads's wartime prices
board. made speech in Toronto
in which he sang the blues.
Pressure on the price ceilings is
rap d v becoming insupport-
able" said Gordon. Labor is
militant and demanding wage
adjustments all along the line.
Food prices are creeping stead
lily upwards Black markets are
commencing TO develop. The
pressures are real pressures, and
if the dam breaks, God help us"
Just like the United States.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-09-21
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

pied and the errors 81 mp ly
hadn't been caught. The printing
office was in a terrible jam any
way. being overloaded with
work, and besides, the books
had already been distributed.
Somebody then came up with
the bright idea OF changing all
the numbers to fit the typo
graphical errors in the directory
and that's what they did.
XMAS TREES
The Christmas tree supply sit
uation for this year doesn't look
any too good. There's short
age of cars TO move the usual
supply from the Cana d n
woods and a shortage of cutters
in the woods to chop EN- down,
all ak wielders being needed TO
cut timber and pulp wood for
paper making annd other essen
tial industries. Christmas trees
aren't considered esse a |.
Smaller communities may not
have much trouble il there is a
local supply OF nursery stock.
One way TO beat the rap is to
plant a small tree in your yard
now, then figure on digging it up
If it doesn't die on you and
the ground isn't frozen too hard
the night you're ready 10 start
trimming.
One Of the arguments that still
RACES in the Army Transport
service is whether there should
be military bands nn-hand- to
play when troops arrive al the
pier TO go aboard ship for over
seas. For time there were no
bands. Everything was done in
dead seriousness. Now there's a
band to play for every troop unit
as il arrives on the pier, mixing
military marches with hot licks.
Some officers still think it's a
phony gesture and ought to be
discontinued. The time for the
bands TO play, they argue, is
when the boys get back.
The Valley settler. (Palmer, Alaska) 1937-195?, 1943-01-29

; January e. 1913. No: s.
ANGLO G.. co"sLrT 8 rATIoEING
OF FLUFF ..1LK
Tt. eoa~rs. Of sacf.ore, Is
Inv atf - tn, W ross D. lf;%y Of
havine, to r. tioa IL csar ~. ~
ito Enreo, II It IS ! rtcd
that tn, !, t@' on hes beco4c 50
method Of this kind to supply mi TX
to those who need it badly, ospec-
tally children and pers ons who are
i'll. It is g condition who're the
supply cannot be increased by any
known method 50 that more Tx can
be obtained while It is nee6ed S
badly. This situat on will put the
spot ght on the Valley for this IS
the only place where expans on will
|be possible IN time to make any
dditional efforts effective.
MAN FOUND FROZEN NEAR HIGHWAY
"shorty" Wrinkle, an oldtirar in
this part Of Alaska, was q scovered
near Lila Lake on the Glenn High
way frozen to death this week. He
had been travelling over q trail
lea6ing to the roae from his cabin.
Another traveller discovered q
|snowshoe sti ckine up through the
enew and, digging Gown, found the
DO Y. Evidently S ONE illness had
s. denly overtaken him, anC he had
collapsed.
A party, including Walter Eunt1ey
I'm. Bous ems, Ed, Ueeck, Merle And
erson ane Deputy Marshal Monaghan
recovered the body and brought it
to the Valley. Wrinkle wos report
a6 -
and had been prospe ting in that
vicinity during last summer on
grub take. No relatives are known
but inv gati on may reveal s ONE
one that knows Of relatives that
can be notified.
SERIOUS AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT.
While driving from anchorage to
Pa liner the 6niNnn h11
The Valley settler. (Palmer, Alaska) 1937-195?, 1943-01-29
COOP. NOTES.

New bids are being called on the
two cats numb r l6 and II, tractor
disc number and pillow number 7.
New bids will close on Feb. S, and
be opened Feb. 6.
DELEGATE TO CONGRESS, ANTHONY j.
DIAMOND, DISCUSSES Budget.
In a letter dated January 18th,
the suns re CONNIE nded by the offici-
ais to the President and Congress,
to be Included In the 1914 fiscal
year for alaska, from the delegate
are enumerated in part. Of part
ocular interest to the Farmers Of
the Valley is the amount for the
Experiment Station and the Exten.
IS re cormended in comperis on wi tn
S25, 600 in the last appropriation
for lo43. This IS still small
increase VIII en- the need an6 the VAL
ue Of work Of this kind is consider
ed, and the amount already accomp-
1ished IS 20 small. However, the
Delegate should be commended for
his untiring interest in this work
and the fact that there has been an
increase viii Oh Will very probably !
go through.
the same as last year if the budget
suggestion is accept ed, or the sum
Of $23, $50.
Roads, bridges, trails will get
an increase from last year. The
ARC. received 800, 900 last year
and Will receive $3.50 900 this
year, and an additi onal sum Of
$l52 900 for wagon roads, bridges
and trails. The Governor and Sec
rotary will receive the same sum as
last year. or SIS, 600. The care
and Gust ody Of the insane Will re-
ceive an increase from, $2Oe, 900 to
$2o9 900, but the schools Will get
only $50, 900, the same as last year
INDECENT relief will be increased
from $25, 900 to $50, 900.
The Garage has received q shipment
Of Naptha that has been re commended
to them for use In Gas Lamps, Blow
Torches and Gas oline Stoves. AS
this product has not been used by
The Valley settler. (Palmer, Alaska) 1937-195?, 1943-01-29

ANCI CT CoNsLr~ IS shTI OEIMG
OF FLUrL .41LK