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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-15
BY ERSKINE JOHNSON
NEA staff Correspondent


Dennis OKeefe. one of the
few Hollywood extras to become
a star, complained today that he
had never seen so many scene
stealers. Il don't think anyone
in Hollywood history has had
so much competition he moan
ed.
Dennis is Eleanor Powell's
co-star in new movie titled
Sensations of 1914 The big
gest sensation in the picture,
sighed Dennis. will be if any
one notices me-
We thought Dennis had
right to moan. Even grounds
for legal action.
In Hollywood, stars scream,
60 on sit-down strikes and even
wind up in Cedars of Lebanon
hospital with nervous break
downs if they are asked to work
with babies or animals.
There are no babies in Sen
sations of 1914" But there are
more animals than people. Zone
way to get around the manpow-
er shortage Also w. c. Fields.
Dennis, you see, operates a
circus restaurant. The acts in
clude a 6OO-pound Siberian
grizzly bear, tigers, lions, a
black panther, some zebras,
wire walker, a dancing horse, a
line of chorus girls and w. c.
Fields.
We agreed with Dennis that
he had some pretty stiff compe-
tition.
Why" he said. "in one scene
they've even got me walking in
to a room and sitting on a chair
is that d bear. l have to tip
my hat and say, Pardon me, /
didn't know you were bear.
They've got w. c. Fields throw
ing eggs into an electric fan.
Why, they've even got Orson
Welles' uncle-in-law close Can
sino) dancing while I make love
TO Eleanor. Why, they've even
1t looked like Dennis could
use a sedative. Or stiff drink.
BRIEF BOG
Seriously though Dennis said
he was having a lot Of fun. Ev-
en- if the 600-pound bear is such
a smart scene stealer that every
one on the set claims it took the
bear three years to teach Train
er Ernie Pallenberg Jr., the
tricks.
Dennis said he calls the bear
Jack. HE shoves you around in
a scene just like Jack Oakie.'
Dennis O'Keefe, who made
good in Hollywood the hard"
way, doesn't hesitate to give full
credit for his success where
credit is due.
Except for the grace Of God
and Director Jack Conway" he
says, II might still be struggling
along as an extra"
He had been working as an
extra for five years when Con-
way singled him out of the mob
for a bit in Jean Harlow's last
picture, Saratoga" He gave
such a good performance that
within two months he was play
ing the romantic lead in Bad
man of Birthstone. Since then
he's forged steadily ahead.
Extra work is very dis
couraging occupation he says.
The odds are 81 much against
your ever making good and get
ting a break il kills your ambi-
ton and all your hopes"
FAMOUS FAMILY
Until he received that break,
O'Keefe kept plugging only by
an inherent love for the theater,
in which he had been raised. His
father was a headline comedian
of the famous "Off and On"
Flanagan and Edwards team.
His mother, Charlotte Ravens
croft, was a vaudeville singer.
OKeefe's real name was Ed
ward James Flanagan when he
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-15

But they needed him on the
set to read some offstage lines to
that 600-pound grizzly bear.
They wanted the bears reaction
to O'keefe's line, Pardon me.
but didn't know you were
bear
THE bear" said O'Keefe,
putting on his hat, lis going to
steal the picture.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-15

Shrangri-La Field at Glen
dale, Cal.,. perhaps the strang-
est Army Air Force field in the
world. reproduces all the fea-
lures of a combat zone operating
base, so that graduating techni-
clans may demonstrate their
ability under simulated war con-
ditions.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-15
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

sabotage by Americans in their
own country has not been
checked.
"TECHNICAL" SABOTAGE
In the three years from Jan.
l., 1910, to Jan. /, 1914, 1852
cases of reported sabotage have
been investigated by the Omen.
Technical sabotage of some type
was found in 1404 cases-a lit
tie over one out of every 10 cas-
es, but in the vast majority the
sabotage was motivated by ju-
venile delinquency. spite, care
lessness, pranks or just plain
ordinary dumbness.
There have been 500 convic-
tons for sabotage in these three
years, with convictions totaling
1912 years, one life sentence and
six executions, fines and recov-
cries of over $250,O00.
Nearly half of the reported
cases of Observation-Disclosures
in l943. And while no foreign
directed acts of sabotage we're
uncovered during the year,
technical sabotage was discover
ed in 874 cases.
The pattern of these cases in
the past year showed one nota-
BILE change. A large number Of
sabotage reports investigated by
the FIJI involved acts commit
ted by juveniles.
In Alabama, a l2-foot length
of green timber and a cast iron
sign-post were placed on a rail-
road track by l6-year-old boy,
who thought that by wrecking a
train he might obtain canned
goods and candy.
Three fires in a Boston shoe
factory were traced to another
16-year-old boy who merely
wanted TO tease girl employees
until they blew their top"
CRANE CRIPPLED
More serious was the act of
an 18-year-old boy who stuffed
waste into the machinery of an
overhead crane he was operat-
ing in Pennsylvania steel mill.
The crane broke down and a
large portion of the plant had to
be shut down as a result because
the crane handled all the mills
raw materials. The boys reason
for the sabotage was that he had
been out carousing the night be-
fore and needed sleep He
thought he'd catch up while the
crane was being repaired.
This boy had a record of de-
linquency going back some five
years, had trouble in school, was
expelled for stealing from the
church poor box, breaking the
showcase windows. hangi n Z
around taprooms. His greatest
defenders were his parents.
who, not realizing what they
were doing, let the boy grow up
to become a saboteur.
Desire to get off from work
early SO as TO keep a date with
girl friend caused youthful
employe in a Los Angeles steel
firm to commit an act of sabo-
tage. He took a sledge hammer
and beat on an electric furnace
till the fire brick lining inside
collapsed. OF course the plant
had to shut down and the young
man kept his date. Later, he
threatened to kill anyone who
reported the incident, but five
employees willingly reported to
the FBI just what had happen
ed.
Activities of Juvenile sabo-
teurs are cited by FBI Director
Hoover in issuing a sharp warn
ing against complacency. "The
war is now going our way" he
says, but it is reasonable to as
sumo that as the moose tightens
on the necks of the Axis tyrants,
a still greater effort may be
made to disturb production on
the home front. Juvenile sabo-
tage may be the worst danger
now, but we should continue to
guard against the foreign
agent"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-15
LOTS OF PLUCK

CHICAGO-When nine-year-
old Gordon Terroux accident
ally shot himself in the leg, he
celmly bandaged the wound,
took an aspirin and went to bed.
His aunt, Mrs. Floyd Walker,
discovered his plight hours later
and took him TO a hospital for
proper treatment. Doctors said
he would recover.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-15
LITERATURE'S LITANY

Have YOU ever wondered what
Gray's Country Churchyard'
looked like, whether there actu-
ally was a Sherwood Forest,
what sort of house Elizabeth
Barrett escaped from to marry
Robert Browning, where it was
the Hound of the Baskervilles
bayed. or speculated on the as
pect of Reading Gaol, the Wall
in Puck of Pook's Hill" the
Inn to which the Highwayman
came riding?
Did you know there actually
is a Rock of Ages a Tintagel
Castle in Cornwall where the
legendary King Arthur was sup
posed to have been born, city
that was the prototype for Cam
eliot?
Even if the landmarks OF Eng
lish writing don't arouse your
curiosity, Literary England
(Random House: S4) is beaut-
full book TO have around the
house. 1t is a collection of
photographs taken by David E.
Scherman illustrating famous
scenes of English song and story.
Descriptive passages from the
original works appear opposite
each picture, and these are pre-
coded by short explanatory
paragraphs of Richard Wilcox.
Book is attractively bound
and should prove collector S
treasure.
When, in early 1942-some
few months after Pearl Harbor
-Germanys U-boat specialist,
Admiral Doenitz, threw his first
string team of submersible raid
ers against the exposed shipping
lanes off our Atlantic coast, the
bitter truth was brought home
forcibly to America that two
ocean war had caught up with
us before we had completed a
two-ocean navy.
How the Navy sought to pro-
vide coastal shipping with all
possible aid by forming "Hooli-
CANS Navy" of converted peace
time vessels manned by auxil-
larry coast guardsmen over. the
protests of professional Navy
men, and the true story of one
of these ships, the going
yacht Zaida, are thrillingly told
by Lieut.. Lawrence Thompson,
u. S. N. r., in the book, The
Navy Hunts the CGR 3070'
doubleday, Doran: Sl75.
The Zaida was one of the
coastal picket boats which we're
sent out in great numbers to
serve as one continuous line Of
observation posts, and to serve
as rescue craft for survivors of
torpedoed merchantmen. Hers
was a motley crew; there were
a few old yachtsmen among
them, but her skipper had play
ed Buck Rogers in serial prior
to his enlistment, and hisFmate
had come straight from bank.
How they were caught by ter
rifle storms while on a routine
patrol, and tossed and blown for
FL days before their reseNe. is
the lively seafaring tale that
fellow-reservist Thompson tells.
LEND-LEASE LOWDOWN
How lend-lease came into be-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-15
BURROWING TROUBLE

DOVER, Del.-A small dam
in St. Johns river collapsed, sew
eral acres of lowlands we're
flooded and two farm families
were forced temporarily to
leave their homes.
The collapse, said City Mana
ger G.. l.. Wilcox, was due en-
tirely to the burrowing of a col
ony of beavers.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-15
FROZEN NORTH

STAFFORD, Conn.-Lieut.
Olive Thompson, Army Nurse
Corps, home on furlough after
Is months in Iceland, was asked
about the weather at her north
ern post.
I've been just as cold here in
Stratford, since I've been home,
as l ever was up there" she re-
piled.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-15
NEER FORGETS A FACE

PHILADELPHIA Detective
Edward Mayors memory click
ed as he questioned man held
on a charge of stealing fur
piece.
Say" said Mayer, aren't
you the guy who walked out of
here l3 years ago after you
were held for stealing golf
balls?"
The man admitted he was -
and Mayer rearrested him on
the old charge.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-15
McKEN1Y ON
BRIDGE
By WILLIAM z. MCKINNEY
America's Gard Authority

What makes Mrs. A. M. Sobel
OF New York a great bridge
player? II you sit and watch
her, the plays she makes seem
perfectly natural, and therefore
kitbitzing her may even seem
rather monotonous. But the
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-15

A single iceberg sometimes
contain enough ice to cover an
entire square mile to a depth OF
500 feet.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-15
NEW SIDELINE

SAN FRANCISCO-The City
Board of Supervisors was told
by J. j. Sullivan, member,
that some wholesale liquor deal
ers were forcing retailers to buy
a dozen Bibles at $3.50 before
they would deliver the spirits.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-15
WHAT NOW?

WHAT NOW?
POCATELLO, d aho He
won't have to worry about a
dogs life any longer. The dog
catcher has resigned to clip hair.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-15
GETS COLD FEET

UEIS GUILD FIJI
BOSTON-A bird that came
home TO roost too long is flying
again but probably has a severe
case of chilblains.
Boston elevated railway re-
pairmen today rescued pigeon
whose feet we're frozen to the
elevated's iron structure.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-15
LEND-LEASE LOwDOwN

How lend-lease came into be-
ing. what it is, how it works. its
development and future is hon.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-15
. FLASHES
OF
LIFE .
by the Associated Press
BRACING NEWS

HARTFORD, Conn.-Mrs. Ed
ward M. Curtin, Jr., has asked
the Red Cross to help her get
word to her husband, an Army
lieutenant last reported in
North African hospital.
She wants him TO know that
not one, but two surprises await
his return home. Their names
are Sheila and Maura Curtin.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-15

DIN the jargon of the arm
ed services, what does "fubar
mean?
A-"Fouled up beyond all
recognition.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-15

Answer 20 Previous PUZZLE
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-15
. QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS .

Q-What are the chief exports
of the Union of South Africa?
A-Gold, diamonds, wool,
mohair and sugar.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-27
The Living Wage
These Days5Hy f gEo 5ot {: 5Gf6t2R

with no phoney statistics devised
to prove a point. And it ought not
to be so difficult to effect an ad-
justment. Workers as we'll as en-
ployers get run around when
they apply for increases. Bureap
after bureau has to pass on the
facts. IL we are to live under q
planned and controlled economy,
its administration ought to be eff
ficient and there can be no efficien-
cy in the delays of which everyone
complains who has to get decision
from a government agency. These
telephone operators should have
had an answer within fortnight or
so after their complaints were mi
tiated. Either their wages are
out of line or not.
Certainly when the telephone
company in Dayton. o., paid out-of-
town workers an slS.25 cost-of-liv-
ing additional wage, il becomes
obvious that they could not have
regarded the wages they paid as
adequate or get new workers at
that wage. Why should a local
resident received less for the same
work than a worker from out of
town? There is no logic in any OF
this and the fault is incompetent
administration in Washington-too
much shifting about before a deci-
sion is reached-too much passing
the buck which Is normal disease
among bureaucrats.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-27
BY JACK O'BRIEN

Normally 1t would be rather I'M
fair to sneak a look at an out-of-
town tryout OF a Broadway show.
But the sheer extravaganza of
names announced by Billy Rose for
his new revue, The Seven Lively
Arts, provided more than an ex-
cuse for seeing l. he knew what he
is about.
THE Seven Lively Arts" opened
at the Forrest Theater in Philadel'
phia. The curtain went up approx
fhately on time and descended at
Is minutes past midnight. When 1t
went down the question OF the BAN
tam Barnum's theatrical taste and
good judgment was answered quite
adequately. He has what assured
ly is a hit. 1t should keep his new
ly-acquired Ziegfeld Theater rattl-
ing with applause for a year at
least. Maybe two.
First of all the Electrically IN
clined should be very grateful that
Billy Rose effected some sort of
reverse 'lend.lease which brought
the wonderfully antic Beatrice Lii.
lie back to America. Who knows
We might have got Noel Coward
who isn't exactly fashionable right
now. particularly around Flatbrush
But Brooklyn. Broadway, Park
Avenue and their hinterland equi
valents may we'll be satisfied with
what has arrived. Miss Lilies
sense of the ridiculous is enchant
ing. Her material is bittingly and
probingly glib. All her skits were
written by Moss Hart. The ele
gan Mr.. Hart has done as we'll by
Miss Lille as she has done by hel
public. She is the shining stand
tout of a glitteringiy smart show.
Not that there isn't anything
wront with the show as it stands
It's hour and a quarter of extra
running time undoubtedly will b'
CONSTRUCTED to the normal IL o'clocl
curtain.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-27
The Living Wage

The telephone strike raises the
question as to whether any indus
trial worker can be expected under
present conditions to be satisfied
with a wage of SCI week. The
take-home wage on that basis is
approximately SIC week. And
it raised another question: how
can particular wage inequalities be
adjusted speedily while boards and
bureaus of government abide in a
realm of major congratulations?
The difficulty over the ceiling on
wages is that it creates untenable
inequalities between workers in
old-line industries and those en-
ployed in the new war industries
When. a girl can earn $50 or $50
or even more a week in what is
called war work" she will never
understand why she is called upon
to work for so much less in old
line industries. Certainly a tele-
phone operator-and particularly
one who is employed on the long
lines--is engaged in war work most
OF the time. Is her work less inn
portant than a welder in a ship
yard? Or Is IT matter of luck
one girl gets into rut at a
switchboard: another grabbed her
self a good job in new industry
Nor is it a question Of initiation.
When the Little Steel Formula"
was first proposed. opposed 1t as
fallacy. It's theory is that a
statistical yardstick can be applied
to wages and prices so that their
rise or fall can be controlled by
government. And since the adop-
ton of this yardstick, statistics
have from time to time been pro-
/ duced TO show that the rise in
/ prices has been kept within the
/ bounds OF the formula adopted by
/ the Administration. But personal
/ experience has disproved the Stats
tical data. Goods have disappear
ed from the market altogether be-
cause Of ceiling prices and their
substitutes are either more expen-
size or shoddy at any price. The
housewife discovers that not when
she buys labelled packaged goods,
but when she attempts to buy. let
us say. fresh fruits or vegetables.
Similarly, II is easy for the OPA
10 demand that the people support
it's attacks on the Black Market
and on the excuses they are called
upon TO pay over ceiling prices
But the housewife, who has to take
care OF a family. has her own prob
lens which grow increasingly com
plicated. She does not like TO dc
II any more than the OPA likes
her 10 do it-but she knows per
fectly we'll that 1t is unwise "a
watch the scales too closely. That
extra half pound that worked It's
way into the weight is part OF the
price she pays and the little Iii
she occasionally gives the clerk is
also part Of the price. Her prob
lem is 10 be waited on and TO ge
home TO cook her meal. She can
not spend her day arguing owe
ceiling prices.
The telephone strike Is sympto
matte OF trouble and whatever III
immediate cause. whether right y
wrong. wages and prices need TO b.
adjusted In our controlled economy
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-27
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

DAN WAS hesitaung about
hat TO do as he stood In front OF
Mrs. Reynolds house, when some
one touched his arm and = light
voice behind him said, Cant you
make up your mind which Of them
YOU like best ." He turned to see
Miss Withers looking up at him.
"Oh, Miss Withers." He spoke as
II the mention OF her name meant
something,
She chuckled. Il was coming
around to see you. I thought I'd
look here first"
He bowed. I'm honored."
WHY be so ironical? Do you
think I'm going to rush around and
tell everybody you were out here
peeping in at Anne Wilson 2"
He fell into step beside her. Are
you quite sure | wasn't peeping at
Laura?"
Very sure. No reason at all for
YOU TO peep at Laura. You're en-
gagged to her. Or aren't you! These
DAYS one never can be sure Of
things like that"
He was annoyed. but he kept In
slow step beside her. He wanted to
say something. but wasn't certain
Just what to say. Miss Withers was
a strange person. though he re-
membered his mother had always
said no one should get the foolish
notion that Miss Withers was
merely a cheap gossip. She was
something much more than that.
He knew it now as they walked
along together. At the corner she
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-27

Northumberland II. II. Arm
old, chief of the Army Air Forces:
mo matter where the Japanese
m y try TO hide their factories. We
will seek them out and destroy
them. Japan has sowed the wind,
now let 1t reap the whirlwind."
New York-John Foster Dulles,
international lawyer, criticizes
Dumbarton Oaks proposal: Too
much reliance is placed upon force.
The arrangement partakes much OF
military alliance"
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-27
IN CUSTODY AGAIN

Jacksonville last OF seven long
term convicts who fled the South
ern Michigan Prison Oct was In
custody today, shot and seriously
wounded when he sought to escape
from police who recaptured him in
Omaha. Neb. Prison officials said
the convict. John l.. (Red) Nc
Dowell. 81. had been co-leader
in the October break. He was ar
rested Saturday for questioning
concerning a fraudulent money ord
er and was shot in attempting to
break away from his captors on
the way TO police headquarters.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-27

thank heaven, has still been left to
us. Where did he go?"
The lawyer controlled himself
and said quietly, Suppose ! don't
know"
Cant you be frank ?"
ION fitting occasions, yer."
II see." The little woman drew
herself up. You're telling me to
mind my own business. Well, there
is nothing new in that. I've been
told far more bluntly before"
He couldn't help smiling little.
IT am not rude by intention, Miss
Withers. / don't know where Dan
has gone or II he has gone. He isn't
at home, but that isn't proof OF
anything. In my CASE wouldn't
send him away. want him here
with me. II you can find out where
he's gone I'll appreciate your tell
Ing me. l find 1t hard to believe
that he dumped Miss Wilson into
the water"
The little woman shifted. Laura
will tell you. She saw II. Everyone
in town saw him carry her up the
street. He wouldn't let anyone else
do It, though he should have been
worn out from the long swim. II
happened way out TOWARD the light
house"
He asked what he had been
wanting to know: Does Anne-l
mean Miss Wilson-say Dan tipped
her over deliberately"
That's just II. She doesn't say
anything at all. Everyone else has
talked their heads off and gushed
over her and syihpathized with her
and all she says Is that 1t was an
accident and she Is glad Dan
brought her In. All she wants now
is to be let alone, probably. My own
opinion is that she enjoyed t. She's
like you, She hasn't been quite hui
man up to now. She's acted as II
she always had something at the
back OF her mind. Thoughts belong
up front where you don't brood
over them but spit them out, Now
If Dan had only come to her today
and let her smack him once.
then"
isn't that rather an extreme
idea ?" cut In Russell.
mo. It's Just common sense.
But young people don't have that
any more"
Having delivered this dictum.
she tossed her head and walked of.
Ito Be Continued)