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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-20
Civil Service Improvements
SPurned by AgricuIturoIist

LANSING, July 20 - Up
Charles Figy, state commissioner
of agriculture, declared today
he had rejected a proposal by
the state Civil Service Depart
ment that he install a S7500-a-
year Agricultural Director" in
his department to act as a sort
of deputy commissioner.
Figy said the proposal was
one of three or four suggested
for improvement of the depart
ment which he found "imprac-
teal and inadvisable." The dir
ector, Figy said, would have
been paid more than the COM
missioner, would be a needless
expense and would confuse ad-
ministrative jurisdiction.
He said he also rejected a
proposal to employ a S3,200a-
year procedure analyst and
training officer" contending de-
partmental bureau heads could
train their specialized employees
better.
He said he also declined a
suggestion that one of the de-
partments two bureaus of ami
NAL industry be abolished, but
had changed its name instead
TO the Bureau of State Institu-
tional Farms, naming Alton B..
Clark, its director, as Institu-
tional Farm Coordinator. Figy
said the state administrative
board had directed his depart
ment to supervise all institution
al farms and that he believed
that work was becoming in
creasingly important.
He declared part Of the Civil
Service proposals conceded with
his own plans for reorganization
and in that connection the Feeds
and fertilizer inspection and
seed inspection programs had
been combined with the bureau
of foods and standards to form
a new bureau of marketing and
enforcement.
The orchard and nursery in
spection bureau, now called the
Bureau of Plant Industry. Dairy
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-20
ATTENTION HOUSEWIVES.
Housework Tough? Read What G Does

ange flame, and 20 feet from the
entrance of this small cafe the
bodies of number of Ameri-
can soldiers caught in mortar
concentration lie beside a tank
destroyer.
Gay is still welding the
broom and grumbling at his
pals.
Il just got this place cleaned
up and they dropped a bunch
of mortars out in front and dirt
led it up again." he says. 1T
blew all the bottles off tho
shelves and got glass all over
my clean floor.
Then they shot the roof off
this morning -wtth-att- 85=shctf
and another mortar shook plas-
ter all over the place. When
they get 10 the first floor l am
going to pack my clothes and
get out"
The soldiers chuckle, almost
reluctantly-all but 1t. How
ard T. Brown, of New Mexico,
leader of tank destroyer pla-
toon who is standing, shaken,
near the door during a lull in
the fire, looking at one of the
bodies which has two silver bars
on the shoulder.
He was my captain" he
says. He just climbed out for
a minute and was looking
through field glasses when the
mortars hit all over the place.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-20
Ruth LaPOintc
Leaving Post

Miss Ruth LaPointe, an en-
ploye of the Macomb County
Drc N Office for the past 10
years, announced this week she
has relinquished her post as
bookkeeper and will spend the
summer at the LaPointe cot
tage, Anchorville.
Prior to her service with the
Drain Office, Miss LaPointe was
employed in the County Treas
urer's Office for number of
years. After a vacation she said
she may return to County
Building work in the Fall.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-20

The men have showed a heavy
wooden cabinet in front of the
inner doorway as a barrier
against shell splinters and
whenever the Nazis open up
with barrages-as many as 30
shells sometimes land in a few
seconds-we all crouch together
on the floor on the inner room.
The clothing of the soldiers
is torn, dirty and stained from
lying in ditchwater and their
own sweat. The soldiers pop in
and out as they move around on
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-20
Truckdriver Loses
400 Gases Of Liquor

DETROIT-(P)-Police today
were seeking two armed men
who a truck driver for the state
Liquor Control Commission said
bound and gagged him as he
was driving a load Of more than
400 cases of liquor from the
commission warehouse Wednes-
day and then hid the loot with
in a five-mile radius. The driver,
Peter Geftos, 81, said the two
entered his cab at a traffic light.
Police said 305 cases of whiskey,
valued at $4,000, were missing.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-20
Halls Strike Probe

DETROIT - P) - A War
Labor Board fact-finding panel
which has been hearing fore
mems grievances which led to
strikes in IA Detroit war plants
in May has adjourned its ses-
sions until July 81. Officials of
companies affected by the strike
and of the Independent Fore
mans Association of America
have been heard thus far.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-20

missions but this little group
has been here for more than .
half an hour.
II includes Pfc. Donald Curtis,
2002 No. Fifth street. Niles,
Mich.
"We keep hearing that the
Germans are supposed to be
running short Of ammunition"
remarks a private. ~ wish some
one would tell them, 50 they
would start saving up righ: now.
Oh, oh, here they come again."
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-20
Hines Appeal
Again Denied
Tommony Leoder
Stoys in Prison

ALBANY, N. ", July 20 -
(P)-The New York State Court
of Appeals has refused to re-
view parole board denial of an
appeal for release made by
James j. Hines, 81, former Tam
many District leader serving a
four to eight year term in Sing
Sing prison on a lottery convic-
ton.
The Court, in a unanimous
decision yesterday, with Asso-
eiate Judge Harlan w. Rippey
not participating, ruled that the
granting of a parole was dis
cretionary" and not subject TO
Court review.
In another decision, The court
declared a grand jury law
passed by the 1914 Republican
legislature unconstitut i n ].
The law, while not mentioning
Albany county, was applicable
to a county with a population Of
100000 10 100000, and contain
ing a city Of $4,000 or more.
Albany is the only such county
in the state.
The law was passed during
an investigation of crime in
Democratic Albany county by a
Governor Thomas f. Dewey-or-
dered grand jury. 1t broadened
the field of selection to include
Republican towns, and increas-
ed grand jury lists from 800 to
600.
Investigators for Dewey have
asserted county grand jury pan
els were packed with Demo-
Gratis"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-20
F. 0. (. Plans Picnic
on Moravian Drive

The Fraternal Order of Ea-
giles have scheduled a picnic on
Budka's picnic grounds on Mo-
ravian Drive for Sunday, July
%. Entertainment in the forms
of games, dancing and floor
shows has been arranged.
A War Bond is to be awarded
as a gate prize. The public is
cordially invited.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-20

inspection and veterinary in
spection have been left separate,
Figy said. because their special
lied nature forbids joint opera
ton with the other inspection
services.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-18

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-18
Golfer S Death
Halls Veres Trial

The death Sunday Of Recorders
Judge 6UttCr today complicated
the motion for new trial filed
by an attorney for Mrs. Rose
VereS. alleged witch of Delray,
who is serving a life sentence fol-
lowing her conviction 13 years ago
for the murder OF her Toomer,
Steve Max.
The motion for a new trial was
scheduled TO be filed today with
Judge Cotter, who heard Mrs.
Veres' trial and sentenced her.
Instead. il was filed with Record
er's Judge John j. Maher. execu-
tive Judge of the court, who
adjourned the case 10 Oct. "a.
Judge Maher said he needed
time TO determine whether he had
the jurisdiction 10 render a de-
ciSion in the case, or whether it
must be handled by Judge Cot
terS successor.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-18
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-18
State 10 Build Signs
To Aid Pedestrians
Times staff Correspondent

LANSING, Oct. 1S-In keeping
with the statewide safety cam
.paign to reduce pedestrian acct
dents, the state highway depart
ment today announced plans to
construct large reflectorized signs
at hazardous intersections, urging
motorists 10 watch for pedes-
trianSi".
State Highway Commissioner
Ziegler said that signs urging pc
destrians to walk with care
would be stenciled on the backs of
existing traffic signs or cross
walks and other objects at edges
of highways.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-18
$4,000 MANUSCRIPT

NEW YORK, Oct. IS QNS)-
The Rosenbaeh Co. today paid
$1,000 for the Charles Dickens
manuscript of "Our Mutual
Friend. offered for sale at public
auction by the Drexel Institute of
Technology in Philadelphia.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-18
Judge COtfer
N1Ourned

On the motion of Councilman
Sweeney, the council today passed
a resolution of regret on the death
Of the late Recorders Judge
Thomas NJ. Cotter.
The resolution said in part;
The passing of Judge Cutter
will leave "A void in the heart
Of every citizen. The city has
lost a great public servant and
the people of Detroit will long
cherish his memory"
Copies of the resolution were
sent TO the members OF the Cot
ter family.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-18
Alma Soldier Missinq

ST. LOUIS. Oct. 1S-Mrs. An
son F.. Foster of st. Louis has
been notified by the war depart
ment that her husband, Pfc. An
son E. Foster. has been missing
in France since Sept. Is.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-18
Stein Rites
tomorrow
Obituary

Funeral services for Mrs. Lena
Ncuman Stein. wife of Recorders
Judge Christopher r. Stein, will
he held AZ > %. m. tomorrow in
the Schmaltzrlcdt Sons Funeral
Home 1926 Grand River.
Mrs. Stein died early yesterday
in her home at 100 West Grand
Blvd. OF a heart attack. Friends
may call at the residence until
9 a. m. tomorrow.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-18
Cafe Fined BY OPA

LANSING. Oct. 1S-Accused
of violating price ceilings, Ken
tuck'S Eat Shop, Pill South
Cedar, was fined SIS by the local
OPA price panel here yesterday.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-18

Flows cks" asks Frank of master magician Orson Wees
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wells Wees Il not delvng into egerdeman this evening"
I'm that case chimes orchestra leader Axel Stordah
maybe you'll make with magic eh2" Anyhow, that's
the of tonghts show with Frank weaving the usual
magic spell with his swell songs and Orson Weles, Eileen
Barton the Vimms VocaiSts and Axe Stordah and his
chestra all lending to the general hlay Anchor your dial
tonight Snaa and company presented by Vmms the best
known name in VitaminS. WJR, 9 p. NJ
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-08-04
Clayton Tries
Reply 70 Farmers
Union Charges

WASHINGTON LPA)-Will
L. Clayton, Surplus War Prop
erty Administrator, on July "a
announced that the government
will follow a policy of selling
surplus real estate in family-size
parcels and to farm purchasers
who will cultivate the land
themselves.
The statement came as a di-
rect reply to the recent charges
of James c. Patton, president of
the National Farmers Union that
administration by the Recon
struction Finance Corporation
of the program to dispose of
100000 acres of farm land ac-
quired by the government dur
ing the war would result in
domination of the program by
the National Association of Real
Estate Boards and result in
helping the big landlord inter-
ests.
Claytons statement said that
all land would be appraised by
experienced and disinterested
men" usually drawn from the
local community. 1t brought an
immediate reply from Patton
who insisted that This means
that the wishes of the National
Association of Real f st e
Boards and its affiliates are to
be followed and that priva e
realtors and appraisers will be
able to make a killing regard
less of the interests of agricul-
ture."
According to spokesmen for
the family-sized farmers here,
several congressman are consid-
ering an investigation of the
whole land disposal program un-
less Clayton proposes a program
satisfactory to the small farmers.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-08-04
Famed Fat Comic
Proves Good Chef

HOLLYWOOD-When Oliver
Hardy was cast as chef in
THE Home Front" he was cast
more true to type than imag-
ined.
Hardy returned to the studio
recently after two days off and
was deeply sunburned.
He'd put in the two days
picking fruit at his San Far
nando Valley. Calf, farm and,
rigged out ir kitchen apron,
helped Mrs. Hardy put it up.
They made 81 quarts of boyen-
berry jelly, 81 quarts of april
cot butter and so quarts of plum
jam.
mo matter what hapepns, we
eat" beamed the rotund come
dian.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-08-04
Philip Dorm To Play
First Light Film Role

HOLLYWOOD-Philip Dorm
will have his first role in a
screen comedy in the masculine
lead opposite Mary Astor in
Autumn Fever" which will
also be Richard Whorf's first
assignment as a director. Pro-
duction is scheduled for Aug. l.
Dorn's role will have him
portraying suave, sophisticated
European, manager of a smart
cafe at Lake Tahoe and the hus-
band of Mss Astor, who falls
for a flirtatious girl. The girl
will be Gloria Grahame, Los
Angeles beauty who is making
her screen debut after roles on
the Chicago and New York
stage.
Autumn Fever" is adapted
from Ferenc Molnar's play
"Delilah. 1t will be produced
by William H. Wright.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-08-04
Dog Stars Fans
Are Too Admiring

HOLLYWOOD - Lassie, COL
lie dog star, almost suffered
the fate of shorn sheep re-
Gently.
The dog with its beautiful
gold, white and black ruff was
surrounded by admiring young
sters at Holly yood park,
where location scenes were be-
ing filmed for "Son of Lassie.
Before the director was able to
stop the young souvenir seek.
ers seven kids had clipped locks
from Lassie's lush ruff.
The little fans were cautious
to limit their adulation to Civ
ing Lassie pat on the head!
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-08-04
New Film Story Tests
Young Actors Talents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS rare
opportunity to young acting
talent on any movie lot, Pro-
ducer Sam Marx has written a
story which he will also pro-
duce. 1t is titled II Can If
Try" and John Twist has been
signed to do the screen adapta-
ton.
Marx describes the plot as a
Cinderella story" the tale of
an ambitious movie extra and
a sympathetic test director who
film their own production at
night after the studio closes.
Jan Clayton and Tom Drake,
currently before cameras in
Marks "Airship Squadron A."
are slated for lead roles. Bal
ance of the cast, according to
present plans, will be filled by
young actor contractees at
-GoldWyn-Mayer
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-08-04
Reverse English"
Career For Starlet

HOLLYWOOD-After spend
ing four years perfecting her
diction prior to starting her
theatrical career. Pamela Brit
ton has become the victim If
one of Hollywood's famed iro-
nies.
When the blonde beauty
Joined the cast of Oklahoma
last year, she had % develop a
Southern drawl for her role in
oklahoma.
Pamela was brought to Hol-
lywood to play opposite Frank
Sinatra in the Technicolor mus
ical. Anchors Aweigh.
Much to her amusement, she
is now learning to speak in a
Brooklynese accent for her role
as a waitress.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-08-04
News and GoSsip u Stage and Screen
Seen On a Hollywood
Movie Set

HOLLYWOOD - Esther
Williams is in a swimming
tank making underwater
ballet scenes for "Ziegfeld
FoIIies." She's waiting for
the electrician to achieve
the desired lighting effect.
Around the tank the talk
is about Joe Suddy, famed
water polo player, who re-
putedly could stay under
water three minutes. Pooh
pOOhed Esth er: That's
nothing: ] can stay under
five minutes"-and down
into the depths she sank.
Watches came out. When
five minutes passed with
no sign of Esther, there
was ripple of consterna-
tion. At that point came a
sudden peal of laughter
from behind Overhanging
scenery at the far end Of
the tank, and out of its con-
cealment flOated Esther.
She readily confessed to
the hoax but declared rue
fully he wasn't sure
whether the joke was on
her or the others.
Il held my breath prac-
ticalIy the whole five min
utes anyway" she splut-
tered, "fOr fear l would
burst out laughing too
soon"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-08-04
Famed Pianist
Makes Bow

Seven round trips between
California ana New York in 80
days is Jose Iturbi's record. The
famed Spanish-born pianist and
musical conductor. who makes
his movie bow in featured role
in Private Miss Jones" soon to
be seen at Loews Valentine, SAYS
that he has spent much m o
time in the past three years in
Pullmans and airplares than II
his own Beverly Hills bed.
He is quite philosophic about
it. He doesn't mind the sort of
round -the-clock and roundthe-
country high-presure peregrina-
ton that would make the aver
age temperamental musician
tear up his contracts and the
average citizen head for sani-
tarium. Physically rugged, with
flashing, intelligent dark eyes
and a happy mixture of self-im-
posed self-composure and Gallo
vivacity, Mr.. Iturbi has so far
been able to stand any schedule
his agents and his appreciative
public have foisted upon him.
He looks none the worse for it,
and may be off on a $4,000
mile tour of South America
sometime in the spring. He'd
like at least forty-eight hours
notice before undertaking this,
but otherwise views the pros
pect without alarm.
That Beverly Hills bed does
have very substantial appeal,
Mr.. Iturbi admits. Three years
ago he bought house out there
-one of those illusory per
manent homes" in which rowing
international celebrities invest.
He has lodged his family there
ever, since, but he himself has
had relatively little time to en-
Joy the plush mattress and
Spanish-style balcony of his
California chamber. The only
exception was a three-months'
spell during which he rehearsed
for and appeared in Private
Miss Jones" at the Metro Gold
wyn-MaNer studios.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-08-04
Bracket Racket
Is Hit By Watt

WASHINGTON NPA) - A
new attack on the bracket
racket" was launched here this
week by Robert Watt, AFL in
ternational representative, and
member of the War Labor
Board. This system used by the
War Labor Board to determine
wage rates has been under fire
by both AFL and CIO unions
for many months, but is still
used as a regular practice by
the WLB.
The racket" started in May,
1943, when James F. Byrnes,
economics stabilization director
at the time, issued a directive
giving the WLB power to cor.
rect wage inequalities when
they fall below brackets of
sound and tested" rates for
specific jobs in the various WLB
regions.
Inc way brackets are COM
puted, Watt pointed out, is by
collecting weighted average of
wages paid for particular occu-
pations in each region. From
that, 10 per cent is subtracted
to determine the minimum. y
Wage inequalities can be RENE
died only up to that minimum.
Another criticism Watt makes
is that the wage figures col
lected by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics for determining brack-
cts is not open to examination
by the unions, and is often fur
nished by employers without
allowing the Investigators access
to payroll records.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-08-04
Day Comps Moofins
vocofion Care Need

WASHINGTON - (LPA) -
Junior and his little sister aren't
on the streets those vacation
days in cities like San Diego
and Atlanta, where community
sponsored, publicly financed
day camps are now in opera
ton.
The Office of Community
War Services, commenting on
this new development, says that
play centers for children are
reaching new heights of pop
ularity.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-08-04

his role in "The Canterville
Ghost" was bit frightening at
first. Like most tots of her
age, Margaret has been condi-
toned against ghosts and COB
Inns. But Laughton was some
what of child psychologist.
When the initial shock of his
luminous grey makeup were
off he explained that, after all,
he was just a very tired old
ghost who wasn't eating or
sleeping very we'll"
From that moment Margaret
rushed to his defense. She coax
ed his appetite with treats"
brought from homo. She urged
him to take maps. Today she
refuses to hear any fictional
ghost maligned on the grounds
that the author had never met
a real ghost. After all, she had,
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-08-04

star "Z1egteld EollIes, dancing
in six of the production num-
bers, and he hasn't missed a
year of dancing in between his
fifth and his forty-fifth years.
What's more. "Ziegfeld Fol-
lies" gives him the chance he's
been waiting fora dance Sc
quence which is one hundred
per cent Astaire.
Is Versatile Star
In IF Swing Goes / Go Too"
one of the six Astaire numbers
in the "Follies," the dancer not
only created the dance pattern
for his own steps, but in addi-
ton wrote the lyrics. the music,
arrangements for the drums
used in it and it's Astaire, not
his ghost who plays those drums,
too. Then he also sings!
This isn't the first time the
star has invaded Tin Pan Alley.
He's a bona-fide member of
ASCAP, has such songs as Blue
Without YOU" 'rll Never Let
You Co. ''Tappin' the Time,
and Building Up to An Awful
Let Down to his credit. The
latter, he'll have you know,
made the Hit Parade.
"Ziegfeld Follies" gives him a
chance to use both his head and
his feet.
New Dance Partner
In it, he has beautiful girl
for a dancing partner. She's
Lucille Bremen of New York
who matches steps with him for
another one of the spectacular
dances, titled This Heart of
Mine" Combined in his SIX
dances are more than dozen
Individual routines includins
ballroom. tap, ballet, eccentric,
and soft shoe, veritable caval-
cade of terpsichore.
But he had to wait forty years
to achieve this ambition to show
that there's more than one type
of dancing for a dancing star.
Does he try to hide that forty
fifth birthday?
'Heck no" shouts Astaire,
hide it? Say, I've been on my
feet for forty years and I haven't
tripped yeti"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-08-04

but a dozen girls in the new
Technicolor musical.
AS a running gag in the film,
Ragland will be seen with a girl
every time he comes on the
screen, and always a different
girl.
Which gives Rags the last
laugh on Frank Sinatra, star
ring in the same picture. The
Voice" plays a lonesome sailor
who can't get a girl
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-08-04
Pretty Stage Star
In Screen Bow

HOLLYWOOD-M ar orr e
Davies, young vivacious bru-
nette from the George Abbott
Broadway sh o W. Highland
Fling, has been signed by M
GIN.
Miss Davies and G i n n y
Simms have been friends for
seven years-having met while
posing with a department store
Santa Claus in Chicago. Then
each was just beginning a
career-Ginny as singer with
Kay Kyser's band, and Marjorie
as an actress in the stage show
Brother Rat"