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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-28
BLIND YOUTH
GIVES OPERETTA

LLOYDELL, Pa. - U,D - A
keyboard virtuoso at Is, Hen
nv Evancic-blind since birth
presented his own. operetta,
SLIPPERY Nick, the Giant" at
the annual graduation exercises
at Western Pennsylvania
School for the Blind. The
youthful pianist, an honor stu
dent, includes in his memorized
repertoire the works of Bach,
Mozart, Beethoven, List and
Handel.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-28
0 Questions and Answers

Ats an aN-Japanese out
fit.
Q-What is Ro?
"A universal language pro-
posed by E. P. Foster of Mari
eta, o., in 1905.
Q-How big is Bialystok, cur
rent eastern front battle prize?
A-Pre-war, $1,000; Poland's
biggest textile center.
Q-Why is hay fever not
found in the Orient?
A-One Oriental scientist
credits the rich supply of potas-
SUM chloride in the Orientals'
kelp diet.
Q-Are the Nazis getting food
from northern Italy?
A-Crops are being harvested
currently by Nazi order; the
Nazis take SIS per cent.
A-What is known as the
flying bazooka" in the AAF?
A-The rocket shell.
Q-What is the chief scourge
of our troops Victory Gardens
in the South Pacific?
A-Rats, which eat the vege-
tables as soon as they appear.
Q-Is the sun nearer the
earth in winter or in summer?
A-Winter; Jan. 4 it was 91,-
$4,000 miles away, and 94,450,-
900 miles away July 8.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-28

Q-What is considered the
most decimating war of modern
times?
A-Paraguay's war with Bra
I'll, Argentina, and Uruguay,
l865-7O; of the Paraguayan
population of 100000 in 1864,
only 100000 remained in 1870,
and only 28,70O were men.
Q-HoW much ground does a
tornado cover?
A-Usually a path about 80
miles long and 1000 feet wide
at 20 to 40 m phi. forward, prob
ably 800 to 500 m.p.h. circular.
Q-How does the length of
time the sun is visible in a day
at the equator compare with the
time in the United States?
A-Visible IL hours and few
minutes at the equator; IA to
Is hours in the u. S., the longer
period in the south.
Q-What is a relict?
"A widow or widoWer.
"A hundred, mostly in ru-
raj areas and often unpublicized.
When a tornado strikes a town,
the buildings tend to break it
up-and vice versa.
Q-What is "long pig?
A-The human victim of a
cannibal feast. It's considered
a delicacy.
Q-What is X-Day?
A-The unknown day when
Germany calls quits.
Q-What is the Japs' Jake?
A-Their twin float recon-
naissance plane.
Q is Germany suffering
from serious crop shortage?
A-Potatoes, their main sta
pie, are 20 million tons under
last year.
Q-What three island clusters
form the BONN Islands, be-
tween Saipan and Japan?
A=The Parry. Beechy and
Coffin--or Bailey-Islands.
Q-What is the PR Mark XI?
A-The newest version of the
Raj Spitfire fighter: length 81
IT.; wingspan SO fl. 10 in;
height IL #. 8 in; speed $50
mph plus.
Q-How is penicillin admin
istered in the newest treatment
for pneumonia?
A-By inhalation through an
oxygen mask.
Q--How many youths reach
the draft age of l8 each month?
About 100000; only 50
per cent are fit for military
service.
Q-How do rocket shells COM
pare with naval rifles in de-
struCtive power?
4, "A salvo of eight is equal to
light cruisers broadside.
-
Q-What unusual feature
characterizes our .442nd regi-
ment IN Italy?
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-28
PAJAMAS ARE WARMER

There hos been q good deal OF toIk oOout 'o'
nnonpower shortage, and (b) paper shortage we
had never questioned the existence OF either unt'
there came to hand study on Family behoVor NJ
titudes and Possessions" which is Volume 4 OF q Sc
ries called "FomiIy Living as the Basis for Dwelling
Design" Now we wonder.
The study is as you might expect, design tor
building postwar houses around prospective oWe''-
ers' hobits But it is also lot more AS explained IN
the preface There ore also on Introduction and an
Anoyss of the ProbIem here is stuff for the sooi-
oIoeist, the onthroPoloest and the psychologist as
we'll.
Having read the fascinating monograph, such
learned gentlemen will probably share our amaze
rnent that civilization and the family have managed
to come thus far without this volumes help.
The authors pried into the inner works of some
typicoI American families, and the following samples
are typical Of their findines
Twelve women have q triple mirror, Of whom
six use it for conbing hair three for dressing, and
three make no use of it at ALL" This is followed by
Tobe 40 "Per Cent of People Putting on Clothes
While seoted")
"AII husbands shave standing in the bathroom
Three women read three smoked and IS re-
ported they sang in the tub"
Besides straight reporting, the study has some
brilliant deductions: ALTHOUGH the niehteown is
most popular in both winter and summer, there is
shift to pojomos in winter, which means they must
be warmer" (CopitoI, my dear Holmes! But how the
deuce did you ever figure it out?)
Bathroom seuthine disclosed that So per cent
Of the families use the tub for umbrella storage and
81 per cent for foot washing Also that 50 per cent
can reach the faucet while sitting in the tub 1t also
reveals that when showering most women report
they do no get their hair wet The reason is that
they wear cop and most do not mind it. Of those
who do not get their hair wet SO per cent mind it.
We'll, get yourself cop and stop squowking)
Occasionally there is wistfu admission Of work
undone: 1T would seem worthwhile investigating
how far the desire for twin beds may be tied up with
Hollywood social influence as by-product Of GEN.
sorshp restrictions" We shall probably have the an
swer in Volume 5.
There are 200 pages Of this, 200 poees Of heavy
slick, shiny paper. Whoddoyoneon, monpower and
paper shortage?
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-28
ROOMMATES

HOQUIAM, Wash. - T w o
war wives who are living to-
gether here have learned that
their husbands are rommates,
too in a German prison camp.
One is 1t. Col. Charles Ross
Greening, a pilot in the Doolit-
tie raid on Tokyo and designer
of the makeshift bombsight used
by the raiders. He was captured
in Italy. The other is 1t. Col.
Loren G.. McCollom, shot down
over France. They were former
Washington State College class
mates.
Said the wives: Nov We'll
be able to meet the boat togeth-
err"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-28
GANGsTER's ENDING

Reports from the German frontier say that truck
loods of supplies arriving at Hitlers inaccessible
Berchteseoden, where he and his henchmen ore ex-
pected to run os defect draws neor
II all sounds like echo Of our lowless prohibit
tion days - the lonely hdeout, the arsenal, the
coche Of food It's the eonesters typical cornered-
rot reaction when the game is up
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-28
DAYS ARE GETTING LONGER

JERICHO, VT. -W.P)-- Citi-
zens of Jericho out after dark
may soon be singing SHOW Me
the Way to Go Home" - and
really meaning it. The town
clerk neglected to include tax
for street lighting in the bills
sent to taxpayers recently.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-28
NEA Staff Correspondent

Beryl Wallace, yoo-hooed at the
waiter: "And save me a piece of
that banana cake!" The waiter
nodded as if he'd already
made a mental note of it.
Not knowing Miss Beryl Wal
lace, we were a little startled.
After all, she had her figure
to watch. And the banana cake
was just a chaser, She already
had ordered a shrimp cocktail,
chicken pot pie, and a salad.
In fact, it was all quite startl-
ing, this having a date at noon
with a gal who works half the
night. We didn't know her set
was up at that time. Or had
even gone to bed yet. 1t was
even little early for us. We
hardly had our ears open yet.
But this Beryl Wallace, the
queen of Earl CAROLS runway
nudists at his lavish Hollywood
theater restaurant, does the
darnedest things
I'm always up by 9 o'clock
in the morning" she said. and
I always eat lot. l work it off.
/ drop four pounds in a two
hour ballet lesson. Why, do you
know my schedule? l work at
CAROLS from $50 to 2 a. m,
every night. l do two l5-minute
radio shows and one half-hour
show. dance with the boys at
the HOLLYWOOD Canteen on Sun
day afternoons. l take four dra-
matte lessons a week, a dancing
lesson, a singing lesson and a
ballet lesson. And on Saturday
nights between shows l help en-
terrain soldes at the Masquers
Club. And then I work in pic
lures. Why. I practically knock
myself out"
NUDITY is OUT
But didn't she make enough
money just parading around
minus her clothes at Carrolls?
"Yes, but I love to work. I
don't want to be a film star
some of the stars l know are
very unhappy just want to
+, a good performer. What
was that crack about parading
around without any clothes?"
"We-l-l-l," we welled, I'VE
had heard rumors."
THAT was last year" Beryl
said. THE Carroll girls are
wearing more clothes than ever
this season. It's a new trend. Lots
Of clothes but lower cut with slit
in one dress I've got, you can
see my whole leg. They say it's
a lot more effective than nudi-
ty."
GOEBBEL'S GIRL FRIEND
You'll be seeing Miss Beryl
Wallace on the screen again
soon as DR.. Goebbels' girl friend
in producer W.-R. Franks The
Private Life of DR.. Paul Joseph
Goebbels."
cts pretty good part, "
Beryl said, Lots of drame, and
that's what | like"
She started out in pictures a
couple of years ago in westerns.
But ! got tired of them" she
said. "All / ever got 10 say was,
oh, no, don't take away our
ranch. J"
Flossie Friedman is Beryls
dramatic coach and she's practi-
cally a press agent for Flossie.
"She's the best coach in town,
Beryl said when / heard she
taught Peter LORE how 10
speak eight pages Of dialog in
English when he didn't know
any English at all, l knew she
was the one to help me lose my
Brooklyn accent"
You gotta give Beryl Wallace
a lot of credit. For girl who
went to work at 8 minding bah
les i'm the Brooklyn slums TO
help support her family, She S
CLAUDETTE COLBERT -
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-28
Q m HOLLYWOOD

After kissing Fred MacMurray
for a scene in practically
Yours" she told him: II can re-
member back eight years ago
when you made your first pic
ture with me. I thought you
were going to faint when the di-
rector told you to kiss me-"
DON AMECHE-An old farm
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-28
BOTTLENECK

BOTTLENECK
ELKHART, Ind.-When traf-
fic became tangled at Main and
Jackson streets Policeman Wal
ter Carter rushed into action.
He found it was caused by q
baby buggy crossing the inter-
section against a red light. In
the buggy was a three-year-old
girl and propelling it was her
four-year-old brother.
Carter said the children had
wandered away from home and
borrowed" the buggy from in
front of a furniture store.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-28
FISHERMAN'S LURE

PUEBLO, Colo.-Lake Isabel
has too many fish, too little fish
food and too few fishermen.
So the State Game and Fish
Department has raised the legal
limit to 20 day, any size, in an
effort to attract anglers. 1t said
gasoline and tire rationing had
helped the fish over-populate.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-28
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .


will be placed one-third-life'
size statues of some so national
wartime leaders. This Living
Hall of Washington will be un-
yelled at the Smithsonian In
stitution some time this fall.
1t is an ambitious undertaking
The sculpture will be the work
of one artist, Max Kalish OF
New York and Cleveland, per-
haps best known for his series
of statuettes of American labor
types. His Living Hall Of Wash
ington commission is a still big
ger job in that 1t Is the first at
tempt in history to sculpture
from life and in characteristic
poses so many of a nations top
flight leaders in time of crisis.
Full list of the officials to be
so honored is for the time being
kept confidential. Speculation
on the list will run high in
Washington, however, and when
it is announced, will unques-
tionably create discussion.
There are bound to be some fig
ures many people will think
should be omitted, and the sup
porters of many officials not in
Guided will wonder why.
SOME ARE NATURALS
Purely as guess, the list
could begin naturally with the
President, vice president, Chief
Justice Stone, the eight cabinet
members and the three under
secretaries of state, war, navy.
There could be at least four
Arnold, Els
enhoWer, and MacArthur-and
four enthusiastically, King,
Nimitz and Halsey.
Some of the top war agency
administrators would be natur-
ais, including Baruch, Byrnes,
Nelson, Wilson, Bowles, Rookie
teller, McNutt, Owl Davis, VIA
Jones, Censor Byron Price.
Congress might be represent
ed by Speaker Rayburn, and as
notable senator, perhaps Tru-
man of Missouri. If only one
senator is included, the roofs on
both the capitol and the Smith
sonian may both be raised, but
in keeping the list to so, sharp
decisions must be made.
Republicans in addition to
Stinson, Knox. Patterson, and
Rockefeller might include Dew
ey and Willkie.
The big three labor leaders
could go in-Lewis, Murray,
and Green. And three news
papermen - Walter Lippmann,
Ray Clapper and Ernie Pyle.
Clapper and Secretary Knox
would be the only two notifying
names on such list, but their
selection could have been made
before their deaths early this
year.
A FORMER
NEWSPAPERMAN'S IDEA
Inspiration for the Living Hall
of Washington project really
goes back to the last war when
sculpture Max Kalish came to
the capital to make portraits of
Secretary of War Newton D.
Baker and others. w. M. Kip
linger of the Kiplinger business
newsletter organization, who
was then a newspaperman in
Washington, conceived the plan
for memoralizing capital lead
ers. He and Kalish were old
friends, but they did nothing to
develop the idea until about a
year ago.
The project is now being fin
anced by the Kiplinger organi-
cation, but it is being accepted
for custody by the Smithsonian
Institution.
The original plan was to have
a board of historians make the
selections, but finding that no
committee could agree, Kipling-
err himself took the responsible
ity of making up the list after
consulting many people he con-
sidered competent to give opin-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-28
EXACT CHANGE

SALT LAKE CITY Grocer
Leo R. Jensen always left $3.50
in small change in his cash reg
lister, with the drawer open, be-
lieving that if burglars entered
they'd take the money and not
damage the costly depository.
It worked even better than
that. A burglar came in, took
the money and left without
damaging anything. And he was
convicted of third degree bur-
glarly, too, after police caught
him close by with exactly
$3.50 in small change in his
pocket.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-28

DENVER Melvin L. Backes,
46, Denver shipyard worker en-
route to a new job in Portland,
Ore, was refused an ice cream
cone in the service mems can
teen at the station. He pleaded
that he was a war worker and,
besides, had two sons in the
service. Rules are rules, replied
the waitress.
But he got his cone. Corp. AL
vim H. Bruins and WAC Pvt.
Lottie Haynes came along, ask
ed to have a cone on them.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-28
MCKINNEY ON
BRIDGE
By WILLIAM Z. MCKINNEY
Americas Gard Authority

While there are 100000
card players in the United
States there is only one national
card organization, the American
Contract Bridge League. Only
a small percentage of the card
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-28

er these days, Don receives
feed, seed and farm implement
catalogues through the mail.
Recently one arrived from the
midwest with a penciled nota-
ton on the cover: please send
IL autographed photos. We're
starting a fan club for you in
this office"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-28
BY PETER EDISON

II you have a few minutes to
spare this evening, list your so
most important people in the ma
TONS capital today, and then
read on about the Living Hall
of Washington" project which
has been quietly developing
around here in the past year.
The big idea is for a modern
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-28
. FLASHES
OF
LIFE .
BY the Associated Press
TWO ON THE HOUSE

PHILADELPHIA - Rudolph
Weber, who is "a years old,
painted his house blue, decided
he didn't like the color, did 1t
all over again in white.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-28

Q-What unusual feature
characterizes our s442nd regi-
ment in'Italy?
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-28
TOO MUCH COMPETITION

KANSAS CITY-Toby was a
pet chow belonging to the Don
aid Hudsons. Three and a half
years ago they became the par
ents of Donna.
When Donna was a month
old, Toby was let in to see the
new baby. He took one look,
left the house, and hasn't been
back since.
Then Hudson heard Toby was
at a nearby police station. He
wet to see his old pet Toby
and got growl for his trip. The
Hudsons still have Donna
the Cops still have Toby.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-28

Q-How do rocket shells COM
pare with naval rifles in de-
struCtive power?
"A salvo of eight is equal to
a light cruisers broadside.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-28

II never has been decided
whether fishing makes loafers or
loafers make fishermen.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-28

Q--How many youths reach
the draft age of l8 each month?
About 100000; only 50
per cent are fit y for military
service.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-28

It's our own fault that boot
leggers have SO cleanup weeks
while the rest of us have only
one.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1944-11-16
Pigs Irradiated
Yeast for Quick Gains
Vitamin D Feeding in
Winter Is Profitable

The winter feeding of irradiated
yeast to pigs should become a
must" following experimental
work conducted at the University OF
Wisconsin. It vas found that pigs
that wer fed four ounces of irradi-
ated yeast in each ton of feed, and
had access to COW manure, out
distanced all others.
The yeast-fed pigs made average
daily gains Of Isl pounds per head
and required only 375 pounds of feed
to produce each 100 pounds Of pork.
The pigs used in the investigation
were allowed to run outdoors, in
dicating that winter sunlight is not
always sufficient to prevent vitamin
D deficiency.
Despite the high price of ir-
radiated yeast, the feeding of only
four ounces to a ton of feed, makes
it very economical to use.
Recent Investigations indicate
that rapid bringing to maturity of
from 200 to 240 pounds will prove
the most profitable weight under
present conditions. Type of pigs ar.
irving on the market would indicate
that there is considerable room for
breed Improvement. Produce houses
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1944-11-16
Heat Sovbean Meal

When soybean meal is properly
heated, its power to promote ami
NAL growth through the nutritive
value of its proteins al be improved
by 40 per cent over that of the raw
bean.
If the soybean meal is heated too
little or too much. the improvement
will be much less. 1t should be SUBJ
jected to a temperature of $50 de-
grees F. for a little over two min
utes in order to make its proteins
more digestible. Proteins of wheat
and oats are definitely impaired by
heat.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1944-11-16
Barnacles on Ships

In war or peace, the tiny
barnacles always are enemies tc
ships. Layers of them, weighing
as much as 80 tons, may attach
themselves to a 10, 000-ton vessel
and reduce it's speed by Is pei
cent. They also cause such vibra.
ton that certain instruments be-
comes useless. A new product
keeps the antifouling paints loose
from the body of ships so the ami.
mails cannot fasten themselves to
the metal.
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miled invasion
beach. You wanted to walk slowly,
for the detail on that beach was in
finite.
The wreckage was vast and
startling. The awful waste and de-
struction Of war, ever aside from
the loss Of human life, has always
been mi Of its outstanding features
to those who r in it. Anything
and everything is expendable. And
we did expend on our beachhead in
Normandy during those first few
hours.
For a mile out from the beach
there were scores of tanks and
trucks and boats that you could no
longer see, for they were at the bot
tom of the water - swamped by
overlooking, or hit by shells, or sunk
by mines. Most of their crews we're
lost.
You could e trucks tipped
half over and swamped. You
could e partly sunken barges,
and the angled-up corners of
jeeps, and small landing craft
half submerged. And at low
tide you could still see those
vicious ~six-pronged iron snares
that helped snag and wreck
them.
On the beach itself, high and dry,
were all kinds Of wrecked vehicles.
There ere tanks that had only just
made the beach before being
knocked out. There were jeeps that
had burned to a dull gray. There
were big derricks on caterpillar
treads that didn't quite make it.
There were half-tracks carrying Of
fee equipment that had been made
into shambles by a single shell
hit, their interiors still holding their
useless equipage of smashed type
writer's, telephones, Office files.
There were Let's turned COM
pletely upside down, and lying on
their backs, and how they got that
way I don't know. There were
boats stacked on top of each other,
their sides caved in, their sus-
pension doors knocked off.
In this shoreline museum of car
mage there were abandoned rolls of
barbed wire and smashed bulldozers
and big stacks Of thrown-away life
belts and piles of shells still waiting
to be moved.
In the water fioated empty life
RATS and soldiers packs and
ration boxes, and mysterious
oranges.
On the beach lay snarled rolls
of telephone wire and big rolls
of steel mating and stacks of
broken, ~rusting rifles.
On the beach lay, expended. suf-
6cient men and mechanism for a
small war. They were gone for
eve now And yet we could afford
it.
We could afford it because we
"CAC Ous VIC l1du Jul lOCllO1u, dIlu
behind us there we're such enor-
nous requirements for this wreck
age on the beach that you could
hardly conceive Of their sum total.
Men and equipment were flowing
from England in such a gigantic
stream that it made the waste on
the beachhead seem like nothing
at all, really nothing at all.
A few hundred yards back on the
beach is a high bluff. Up there we
had a lent hospital. and a barbed-
wire enclosure for prisoners of
war. From up there you could see
far up and down the beach. in a
spectacular crow's-nest view. and
far out to sea.
And standing out there on
the water beyond all this wreck
age was the greatest armada
man has ever You simply
could not believe the gigantic
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1865 '
en- a notable performance in Florida,
California and other of the southern
states, it has done almost as we'll
in the northern states.
Only about 10 per cent of the cas-
tor oil produced is now used medic.
inally. The balance is used for lu.
IRRIGATION of airplane engines, a SUBJ
stitute for tung oil. solvent in paints,
lacquers and varnishes. agricultural
insecticide, the stalks made into
paper and wall boards and the fiber
into sacks and ropes. While it is
growing it proves an ideal shade for
poultry. 1t will be an excellent crop
for many in postwar years.