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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-13
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTONe

tioning programs is that they
will be announced from the
White House. This was a tech
nique worked out by Leon Hen
derson and Economic Stabiliza-
ton Director Jimmy Byrnes.
The theory is that if the peo-
pie know that an order for ra-
tioning comes from the COM
mander-in-chief it will be recog-
nized as war necessity, in
stead of being put down as
whim. o.
What this amounts to Is a lot
of art moderne facade on the old
corner drug store. Behind the
black glass and silver trim they
still sell castor oil and rat poi
son, and rationing order is still
a rationing order, whether it's
handed out through the palings
of the White House fence or over
desk by the new price admin
istrator, Prentiss M. Brown.
Letting the shoe rationing or
der appear TO come from Byrnes
via the White House was not an
intentional nor an accidental
snub for Administrator Brown,
nor was it intended to save him
from any public wrath which
might arise as an unfavorable
reaction. AS a matter of fact,
however, Administrator Brown
had very little TO do with this
first order, except to make an
announcement explaining some
of its fine points, thought out
by others
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-13
McKENN ON
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM z. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

(This is the last of a series
of articles which will help
you to clarity the interpreta-
ton of some of the laws OF
bridge)
After the auction on today's
hand was ended, East led the
nine of diamonds, out Of turn.
The director was called and ex-
planned that South, the declarer,
could either treat the nine OF
diamonds as a penalty card or
call the suit to be opened by
West. South figured that 1t
would be of no help to him to
treat the diamond as penalty
card. But what lead should he
call? A diamond might DE
dangerous, as East apparently
had a short suit. The club situa-
ton was unknown. A trump
lead would be safe but of no
help, as North must hold the
queen. So South elected to call
a spade lead.
West announced that he could
no! comply. The diractor stated
that West was now free to make
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-13

the place for a couple of hours
like we did.
The house is one of those big
hilltop mansions, next door 70
Cecil B. DeMille's. There's moth
ing in the living room except a
billiard table, six regulation pool
hall chairs and a pile of empty
beer cases. In the dining room
there's a ping pong table and n
rowing machine.
Upstairs there's a big den,
with bar at one end where w.
c. spends most of his time. Over
the fireplace there's a black
board on which, in huge letters,
the comedian writes his appoint
mentS for the day. Il forget
EN-" he explains, "unless I'm
reminded.
Next to the den there's
white-walled room containing a
portable steam bath, an exercise
bicycle and BARRIERS chair.
Fields bought the BARRIERS chair
for afternoon maps. Too much
trouble climbing back into bed.
Except for punching bag
hanging in the doorway, the
Fields bedroom is the only nor
NAL room in the house. Twice a
day, on arising and retiring, he
gives il couple of pats.
That's the setup.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-13
NOBODY KNEW BUT
CHOSEN FEW

Shoe rationing was kept Sc
cret as we'll as the invasion of
North Africa. No one outside the
chosen few knew it was coming
until it happened. No shoe re-
tailers, no wholesalers were told,
and it is pretty we'll established
that the secret did not leak to
any shoe manufacturers There
were several men from the shoe
industry-dollar a year men and
consultants in the War Produc-
ton Board-Who had to be told
what was up because OPA had
TO get it's order to ration shoes
from WPB to make it legal. But
these few shoe industry people
were sworn to secrecy.
All the work, all preparation
for shoe rationing was under the
supervision of young assistant
professor of economics at .ale,
Richard Glenn Gettell, a tall,
gangling, pleasant chap in his
early 3O's, who didn't know any
thing about the shoe industry
until he came to Washington,
where he was assigned as direc-
tor of miscellaneous products in
the rationing division of OPA,
under the rationing chief, Paul
M. O'Leary.
Gettell went TO work on the
shoe problem way last fall. Made
an economic study of the indus
try, Army and Navy demands,
civilian requirements, the whole
works, to see if and when shoe
rationing would be necessary.
No one in the shoe industry ever
caught on to what he was up to.
Shoe rationing was originally
intended to 60 into effect Feb.
IA. But on Feb. / it became ap-
parent that everything was rea-
dy to go, so they moved it up to
Feb. Z. Just few weeks before,
Gettell quit his job. Seems his
draft board was about to catch
up with him. He's working for
the Army Air Force now as a CT
william economic adviser, think
ing up no telling what.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-13
BY PETER EDISON

Just because she rationing was
sprung on the unsuspecting pub
lie like a japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor in the middle of an
otherwise quiet Sunday after
noon-it doesn't necessarily fol-
low that this will be the tactic
in announcing other rationing
programs
This Surprise! Surprise" me-
thod of rationing is now conSid-
cred the preferred technique. 1t
prevents boarding, prevents runs
and scare buying, and insures
the build-up of maximum re-
serve stocks before rationing be-
gins. Furthermore, it is fairer
when done that way for it gives
every purchaser an equal chance
getting his share of what stock
there is
But there are some commodi-
ties that simply can't be put UNI
der rationing by quick order.
Take canned goods. A lot of pre-
parations had to be made before
procesSed foods could be ration
ed thus giving people advance
warning of what was coming
and making provisions for the
housewife TO take an inventory
of allowable reserves on the
shelf. The national distribution
system through normal trade
channels had to be entirely re-
surveyed and in some instances
supplies had to be allocated so
that every area would have its
fair share.
Doing a job of that kind takes
time. Consequently for the flu
ture you find that on some of
the new rationing programs you
will be given plenty of advance
warning. Others will be sprung
at you suddenly, like the shoe
job.
A NEW TECHNIQUE
One point that will probably
be a regular part of future ra-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-13
. SO THEY SAY

The time is not far away
when I believe we will have to
ration fuel oil throughout the
country to save our limited sup
ply.-Everette de Golyer, oil adj
ministration official.
The basic concept of a mas
ter race is nothing more or less
than the instinct of a carnivor-
Gus animal or of a savage tribe
TO impose its own power by
force over the area in which it
can hold sway. The whole his
tory of the Third German Reich
has exemplified this brute in
stinct-Undersecrctary of State
Sumner Welles.
The road TO Berlin is long and
hard, but it is very sure.-Presi-.
dent Roosevelt.
All Of you (students) are
wondering what kind of world
you are going to live in when
the war is over and you are fol-
lowing careers of your own.
One thought l would like to
leave with you above all else
this world will be what you and
the others of your generation
make il. - Vice President Hen
ry A. Wallace.
The Russian is the most So
stable of human beings. He de-
rivcs from feeling that he is one
with the rest Of Russia and with
the rest of the world. - Alfred
B. Mirovitch, lecturer.
I am disturbed by the rapid
ity of the change from a specu-
lative pessimism to undue opti-
mism regarding the course of the
war. Nothing could be more
dangerous TO the success OF our
arms.-Gen. George c. Marsh
all.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-13

any lead he pleased. West led
the jack of clubs, dummy duck
ed, but East overlook to lead
spade, knowing West to be
void. Thus the defenders took
two clubs and two spade ruffs
at once.
Declarer protested, saying that
the operation of the penalty had
disclosed Vests spade void. Had
the irregular lead not occurred,
West would probably have led
the jack of clubs, which East
would probably have ducked.
Even if East overlook the Sec
ond club to lead a spade, the one
spade ruff would not defeat the
contract. The director ruled
that declarer was not entitled to
redress. He had simply made
wrong guess, such as he could
make in any ordinary situation
Of bidding and play. Had he
wished to avoid guessing, he
could have left the guess with
West by treating the diamond
nine as a penalty card, or by
waving the penalty entirely.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-13
. IN HOLLYWOOD

Fields predictions the second
week in July.
It's much easier for the come
dian to look back, anyway.
Gasoline rationing, the meat
shortage, the $4,000 salary
ceiling, his sequence in Tales
of Manhattan" which was cut
from the picture because it was
too funny" and spoiled the
mood of other dramatic episodes
Fields isn't worried.
A "A GASSER
Ike gasoline rationing.
Fields has four cars and four
"A books and he has it all fig
ured out. When he goes to
Santa Barbara, he'll just hitch
the cars together and drop EN-
off, one by one, as they run out
of gas. How he'll get back to
Hollywood, or why he'd want 20
visit Santa Barbara in the first
place, are problems on which the
great Fields brain is now work.
ing.
A friends gift of a live pig
temporarily solved the meat
problem but almost sent w. c.
10 the hospital. The pig eluded
the cook while being uncrated IN
the kitchen, fled to the pool
room and bowled over Fields
just as he was playing the six
ball into the corner pocket.
II finally demoralized the
ugly beast" says Fields, by
pelting him with billiard balls =
w. c. poured .himeslf out an
other Martini and said that may
be he'd like to forget feature
pictures for a while and 60 back
TO starring in shorts Of the Mack
Sennett variety. He has some
great ideas, one about taking
over the domestic duties of the
maid, the cook and the garden
err when they quit to become de-
Tense workers. There would be
plenty of laughs in that one.
If it can be arranged, Fields
says the first short will be his
two-reel temperance lecture
which was eliminated from
Tales of Manhattan" There s
no denying it's Fields at his
funniest.
GOOD COMEDY BET
But if they just set up CAM
era in w. C.'s home they'd really
have something over which
movie audiences could howl.
Just put the camera on rollers
and follow the comedian around
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-13
MANNERS
eMtND YOUR
Test your knowledge Of
correct social usage by an
swering the following ques-
tons, then checking against
the authoritative answers
heloU.

below:
/. Should a girl visiting a SOL
der at his camp be punctual for
all of their appointments?
2. Should a girl visiting a SOL
der at camp be careful not to
call him pet names in front of
his companions, or otherwise act
possessive toward him?
3. Is it important for a girl
visiting soldier at camp to be
friendly toward his pals with
out seeming TO treat them in a
flirtatious manner?
4. Should girl visiting at an
Army post be careful not to
over-dresS?
5. Should a girl going to visit
at an Army camp be sure that
she has a hotel or roo m | n g
house reservation before she
starts on her trip?
What would you do if
You are girl going to visit
boy at an Army camp
(a) Pay for your own railroad
fare and pay your own
hotel bill?
(b) Let the young man buy
your railroad ticket and
pay your hotel bill?
Answers --
/. Yes. This is especially i'm
portant as his time off is linn
tied.
2. Yes. If she breaks that rule
he i'll be in for a lot of kidding.
3. Yes.
4. Yes. She will look out OF
place at an Army camp IL her
clothes are not simple and some
what inconspicuous.
5. Yes, is it is necessary in
many towns near which camps
are located to reserve rooms far
in advance.
Better What Would You Do
solution-(a).
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-13

TAX RELIEF
CLEVELAND Four clients
who sought Attorney Sigmund
Rrinsky's help last night in'mak-
ing out income tax returns each
can make an unexpected deduc-
ton next year. Two masked
gunner burst into the attorneys
office and forced the five to
yield their wallets, containing a
total Of $177.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-13
. BARBS

Americans had their feet on
the ground long before Uncle
Sam started shoe rationing.
Now we can wear to the Of
flee clothes that we hesitated
about beforehand blame it on
rationing.
The loss of their Maikop will
help to put an end to Germanys
show.
Hog prices on the Cleveland
market reached the highest
point in % years. It's our turn
to squeal.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-13
BY ERSKINE JOHNSON
NEA Service staff Correspondent

w. c. Fields, the man who
was never seen on the screen
during 1912 because he was too
funny" peered into a crystal
Martini glass and started TO pre-
dict things to come. On the first
prediction, that he probably
would be drafted by Washing
ton as co-ordinator of liquid re-
freshments, Fields started bob
bling for the olive in the Martini
and-well, we have date for
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-13
. FLASHES
OF
LIFE .
BY The Associated Press
ONE MAN AUDIENCE

PALM BEACH, FLA.-Grace
Moore recently sang to her
smallest audience-one soldier,
it was related today.
Staff Sergt. William Pritch-
ard, a dinner guest with eight
other soldiers at the Jules Bache
home, declared himself a music
lover. Mrs. Gilbert Miller, wife
of the New York producer, call
cd Miss Moore. visiting at Pom
pano, Fla, on the telephone.
will you sing over the tele-
phone for this SOLDIER" asked
Mrs. Miller.
Certainly. What would he
like to hear" Miss Moore re-
sponded.
Pritchard chose "One Night
Of Love- Miss Moore obliged.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-13
GETTING IN WRONG

GETTING IN WRONG
Throughout the northeast in particular, tomlIles
are shverine in their homes and still have not man.
ooed to save enough fuel to them against ocute
suffering.
The only relief in sight slight as it may be-uness
the weothermon performs mrocles-wil come from
Whatever conversions can be made to coal.
So what happens? First there is strike in
creased dues to John l. Lewis unon It is settled by
Presidential intervention Meanwhile there hos been
loss Of approximately one-thrd temporarily, in the
mines potential output
Harold ckes New Dealer and surely enemy
Of organized labor pointed out the effect in press
release otter operations had taken upturn:
Even with increased production and emer-
qency distribution instituted the cost coast
fuel situation remain acute"
Donald Nelson trying to clarity the issues in
another dispute, said that five military needs
ceivine prime priorities. They shiPbudng, dir
croft synthetic rubber onsubnnorine escort vessels
md heh-octone gasoline.
So what hoppens2 Petty strikes here and there in
each industry-portcuIorIy in view Of its size and
urgent importance in the synthetic rubber prePoro-
tions.
Now John l. Lewis is demanding poy rise for
coal miners This on top Of the foct thot by holding
onto the 5doy 35-hour week, as pay basis, when
national emergency demands o-doy work, his const-
tuents getting time ondohoIf for hours for which
most war workers have to be satisfied with straight
time rotes
The tme-ond-o-hoIf over s. hours provision has
forced the OPA to authorize q price increase. The
wage RISE if bued through, will shove UP the cost Of
cool again.
merely hit-ond-rniss passing common
tores upon why there is increasing oriti-
cisn Of organized labor by persons who hitherto have
not INDUCED 1t may be significant that these blasts
often come from who have recently at first
hand what the S5O-o-nnonth in uniform ore suf-
ferine while feIIow-Americons demand their pounds
Of flesh at home.
Smart labor leaders will begin looking ahead to
that day, whenever it may be, that few millions Of
mustered out Of uniform and get back where
they can 90 to the polls on election doy.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-13
AMOUR, INC.

FORT GREELY, ALASKA
eff your line is rough and words
come slow-we'll write that let
ter and she'll never know"
With this slogan, two soldiers
established confidential letter
writing service-Amour, Inc
for their Fort Greedy comrades.
Their rates?
To an old love, rs cents; to
someone you've never met, rs
cents; to a movie star, 81;
grounds for divorce letter to
wife, S1l0; letter to Fort Greedy
sweetheart, Rose iced, free Of
charge.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-13
GIN RUMMY QUIZ

@. Can gin rummy be played
by more than two people?
A. Yes, there are threeand
four handed versions of the
game.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-13
LUCKY Is

LUCKY Is
WILLIAMS FIELD, ARIZ.-
They'll never jinx Bombardier
cadet Eugene Jackson with the
number ID.
He was born on farm l3
miles from Carter, Mont.
There are ID letters in his
name.
On Friday the 18th, 1912, he
passed his cadet training test and
soloed on July 18th for Is min
utes.
He was transferred TO Will
liams Field from the 18th Army
Air force training detachment.
and will be graduated a second
lieutenant today-Feb. 13.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-13
SINK THE ARMY

During World War Secretary Daniels sought to
dry up the Navy by on onti-irbbng order Its overoll
effect was not notable but it did let sailors and their
officers in for some reciIess kidding from the Army
Now the tables ore turned The lost doses in Army
Comps the officers clubs, have been ordered dry by
Chief Of Stoff Marshall Naval officers ore taking
sodistc delight in inviting Army officers to their clubs
and messes for drink Of something stronger than 81
beer.
Times do change, and he who laughs lost has
sweet laugh
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-13
BURNED OUT

BURNED OUT
GRANTS PASS. ORE.-The
fire departments chimney burn
ed out yesterday-while the de-
partment was out fighting a
chimney fire.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-13
DOUBLE PAYMENT

DOUBLE PAYMENT
CHICAGO-A member of the
original Marine contingent on
Guadalcanal, Maj. John P. STAFF
ford was wounded in the cheek
by shrapnel that severed an ar
terry. Blood plasma saved his
life.
Back in Chicago, Maj. Stat
ford and his wife stopped in at
the Red Cross Blood Bank and
paid back the blood-each dom
ating a pint.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-13
REMEMBER THE IDES OF MARCH

Don't get so enerossed in the poy-osy ou-eorn
tax controversy that you forget the Ides Of March,
Thot could prove very, very embarrassing.
Beordsey Rum, outhor Of the plan, objects to the
ideo that anything is going to be forgiven" He par.
ticuoy wants it understood that even his ideo we're
to be adopted intoct there would be no break in he
reouor payment Of taxes,
Whotever nnoy happen in future, not later than
March IS you have date with the Income Tax. COL
yector, to hand him completed return and at eost
qne-fourth Of the amount of the income tax shows
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-13

A NEW TECHNIQUE
One point that will probably
be a regular part of future ra-
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EXtraditiOn
Continued from Page I

Continued from Page ~
r o k home. Mrs Durant's
daughter, Mary, q, also is
with murder. The
daughter has not been found.
TAKES NEW TURN
Meanwhile, in Calico Rock,
the investigation of the Staying
took new turn today with the
disclosure that efforts had been
made to stop Durant's World
War ! pension payments.
Sheriff J A. Rodman an
nounced that examination Of
Durant's files in the Veterans
administration office at Little
Rock showed.
The administration received a
hand-printed letter Dec. 4 pur-
portedly from Durant directing
cessation of compensation be-
cause he had found employ
ment in Chicago. The admins
tration replied that such employ
ment did not affect the pay
ments. Shortly afterward, an
other letter, also hand-printed,
CURLY ordered the payments
stopped.
VICTIMS CLOTHING
Rodman also announced the
finding Of the ehafred remains of
what apparently were all OF Dur
ants clothing, letters and per-
sonal effects less than 100 yards
from where his body was found
Sunday in a shallow grave in
the back yard of his former home
here.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-04-09
Africa
Continued from Page ~

corded by CHS said American
forces thrusting along the road
from Maknassy to the coast (by
way of Mezzouna) are now re-
ported 10 be little more than 20
miles from General Sir Bernard
Montgomery's spearhead.
LEAVE MAHARES
Military quarters announced
that Allied observers saw Axis
troops heading out of Mahares
yesterday. Both Mahares and
Mezzouna are way stations on
the elsa Sfax railway. Mahares
lies so miles northeast of Gabes.
While American and British
aerial squadrons maintained as
saults upon retiring Axis coll
umns, 1t was announced that 1870
enemy vehicles had been des-
troyed and 200 damaged in the
past two days.
Pressed nard by the Eighth
Army, Rommel was growing
short of motor transports to ex-
tricate his rear guards.
In the Medjez-El-Bab sector
of northern Ftffisia the British
maintained the offensive launch
ed Wednesday on a. l2-milc
front Long-range guns knocked
out two enemy tanks there.
Military quarters said one en-
envy tank concentration in that
area was observed yeste y un-
der violent attack by German
dive bombers which obviously
had mist'>;cn their target.
II was not ascertained how
many tanks were knocked out
through the error of the Stuka
pilots, but British troops were
jubilant at the sight and trusted
that the results were effective.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-04-09
GallamtS
Limed.UD
for Drive

A head-start on the bond drive
which opens Monday was reveal
ed today by Ralph W. Clark, To-
cal chairman of the state wide
campaign to find $4,000 Gal
lants' TO sell $1,000 each in war
bonds during the month of April.
Clark stated that 40 of the
$50 Gallants which Mount Glenn
ems needs are already signed up,
as service clubs and other or
CARNATIONS hent their efforts to
the success of the drive.
Twenty-three Gallants are an
nounced by William Floore, head
Of the Lions Club participation
in the drive. The club member
ship is divided into two teams.
headed by Stuart Green and
Daniel Lesperance.
Knights of Columbus have
placed Robert Wrigh. in charge
of their contribution. and Ro-
bert Beal is chairman at Mount
Clemens High school, where
things are reported to be I'm
fine shape"
The drive, which officially OPP
ems Monday. seeks TO sell series
E bonds in the greatest financ-
ing program in the history of the
world. Thirteen billion dollars in
bond sales IS the national aim
for the month. The $4,000 Gal
lants. a Michigan organization
TO cooperate in the drive. will
each receive 4 certificate Of mer-
1t when they turn in their list OF
bond buyers TO Frank N. Isbey.
state chairman, at the end OF the
month.