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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-25
. SOTHEY SAY

There IL only one practical
way to overcome war. That is to
learn the way of cooperation,
Of nations working shoulder to
shoulder for common ends to-
ward the goal Of human pro-
gress and betterment. - Assist
ant Secretary Of State Francis
B. Sayre.
The one thing that can unite
men Of all races Is the gospel
Of peace, the only genuine rela-
tIonship between human beings
that can keep them human. -
Rev. Paul Sherer, New York
7 aston.
There was very heavy fight
ing on that American beach all
D-Day, swaying back and forth,
and by the end of the day the
Americans were not more than
100 yards inland and were hang
ing on by their eyelids. You can
imagine Americans doing that.
Gen. Sir Bernard l.. Mont
gomery.
The pace has been hot and IL
was clear that someone would
have to give ground sooner or
later. 1t was equally clear that
Allied soldiers would see it
through to the end and would
never give up, and so the Ger
mans have been forced to give
ground, which is very right ard
proper. - Gen. Sir Bernard l..
Montgomery.
From dusk 10 dawn we were
under q barrage and suffered
terrific losses during the night.
Now they are even firing phos-
phorous shells that make wounds
that never heal again. - Letter
TO his wife found on German
soldier killed in France.
We need q fresh approach TO
the teaching Of American his
tory. The courses are over
crowded with material, and
there Is boring repetition
throughout the elementary, jun
Tor high and senior high school
levels.-Dr. Erling H. Hunt Of
Columbia ".
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-25
BY ERSKINE JOHNSON
NEA Staff Correspondent

Dracula looked at his cards
and said, ~ raise you rs cents"
The Wolf Man looked nervous
but tossed in so cents. And I'll
raise you a quarter" he said. The
Frankenstein monster passed.
I'm just 4 sissy" he said.
Dracula raked in the pot with
three mines. The Wolf Man was
left holding pair of jacks.
Dracula started to shuttle the
cards again but director Erie
Kenton broke up the game. "On
the set, boys" he ordered.
THE Devils Brood" is the
title of the picture and it's new
high, or low, in celluloid horror.
Three of the screens most maca-
bre characters - Dracula, the
Wolf Man, the Frankenstein
monster-all in one movie. Plus
4 psychopathic hunchback killer
and Boris Karloff as DR.. Gustav
Niemann, scientist and disciple
of Frankenstein who wants to
combine the Wolf Mans Body
and the monsters brain.
These horror pictures are so
hot ut the box office they've had
to water cool theater cash regis
tiers. Celluloid chambers Of hor-
ror bring in 200 per cent profits.
Hollywood likes to make
them. They give us a chance to
let our Imagination run wild"
director Kenton said. The art
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-25
L. QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS .

Q-What candidate received
the most votes at the Republican
national convention?
A-Bricker, nominated I'M
animously for vice president.
Dewey was one short of a un-
animous nomination.
(Which month Is called
mares month" in horse racing?
A-September. The ladies are
believed to run best then.
Q-What new improvements
have been made on Armys ba-
Zooka?
A-Frame fitted to shoulder
for greater accuracy; two-sec-
ton frame for easier carrying;
rear section strengthened for
greater safety.
Q-Does our government have
any postwar planning commit
tees?
About a hundred, uncor-
related and distributed among
the various departments.
Q-What is a good home
remedy for emotional shock,
such as bad news?
A-Food. DR.. Walter c. AL
varez of the Mayo Clinic advises
eating every two hours, especial
ly between midnight and 3 a. m.
Food may prevent hemorrhage
or ulcer.
Q-What is text blindness?
A nervous visitation rem
dering the victim unable to-
understand printed words or
symbols, though ability to
speak them and understand
them when spoken is retained.
Off the sun exploded, how
much would its released heat
raise earths temperature?
A-Probably about 800 de-
grees c.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-25
TOWARD NoRMALCY

A recent U. S. Circuit Court Of Appeals decision
in New York has prepared shield for the Good
Time Chorey showoff in the hopper days to come.
In ruling that certain domestic champagne bore
q label too like the imported Mumm variety to be
Legal the judges sold:
Champagne is q wine especially cherished by
those who seek to impress their associates with their
opuIence and munificence Those who covet
name for toste and elegance do effect discrrino-
ton in the recognition Of vorious brands But as
an evening wears on, cosuoI glance at the label is
enough to assure the host and his tobe that he re-
mains as free.honded os when he began. As such
stoees of an entertainment nothing will be eosier
than for on INSCRIPTIONS restaurant keeper to SUBJ
stitute the domestic champagne"
So when the lights come on again, the snob
is guaranteed full value received.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-25
TELL THE FOLKS BACK HOME

senotor james M Mead has written book, the
story Of the As ,OOO.mile tour of American bosses
which he took with his colleagues, Senators Brew
ster. ChondIer Lodge and Russell He coils it Tell
the Folks Back Home" One Of the things thot the
bows would like the honefoIks to know is that they
are pretty we'll fed up with pictures OF pretty soldiers
fighting pretty battles. .
Soys tie senator: THE con1monest grippe every
where is the dds we in the mogozines with love-
" bottle scenes where all the soldiers ore always
shoven clean as whistle and our pants sPotess
and pressed What the devil do the folks back home
think this war is like? If they could see what
one of those bIockbusters does, in reo flesh ond
blood If they could get the oetuo| smell and
reek Of village thot's honestly starving :"
This beinq the cose the frontne bottle sketches
sent back by Pownee Indian infontNmon, Sgt.
Brumn1ett Echohowk, and now released for pubco-
ton, must be the answer to CTS prayer. For here
are soldiers as they really are, seen by man who
sketched them as he fought with them, ond who
completed his rough drawings in hospital while
convoesciine from bottle wounds.
Sergeant Echohowk shows US that foot-sloeeine
soldier as he really is - hoeeord, dirty, unshoven,
doq tired He shows us the decd and wounded; the
new recruits, tense and nervous; the veterans, al
ready wise in war otter few weeks or months, who
have learned to catch their breath and sove their
strength before the next ottosk.
They aren't pretty pictures but they portray the
fighting 81 as he wants to be portrayed Maybe we
ought to take long look at them, especially those
Of us who have no or husbands or brothers at
the 'front.' Maybe it would help US to recopture what
Under-Secretory Of War Patterson has colled "the
frame Of mind Of Dec. 7, l94l," which some Of US
have shomefuIy lost in life Of peocetine comfort
and sofety and fretfuI wartime complaining.
Maybe 1t would help US to echo Mr.. Potterson's
message ITO the men lying out on the hills OF to'y,
in the swomps Of the South Pacific, ond to those
training and waiting all the world, this is our
war; and it needs to be shared"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-25
. IN HOLLYWOOD

department can 60 to town on
creep sets. Prop men have fun
with cobwebs. The cameraman
has fun with trick lighting and
shadows. The director has fun,
We have more fun making a
horror picture than a comedy"
Boris Karloff and the Frank
enstein monster - played this
time by actor Glenn Strange
weren't having fun at the mo-
ment.
Director Kenton was shooting
the final scene of the picture.
Carrying flaming torches, a
posse of irate jewellers had
chased Karloff and the monster
into a marsh. Encircled by a
walled inferno Of flames, they
step into a slough of quicksand
which engulfs them.
The movie quicksand was a
gooey batter of sawdust, ground
up cork and bran. The prop de-
partment had rugged up a n.y.
draulic lift with a platform.
Boris and Strange stood on the
platform and were lowered into
the batter. For a closeup they
had to take the boys right under
for a split second. They came up
looking like they had just fallen
into a plate of breakfast mush.
II hate to think" producer
Paul Malvern shuddered on the
sidelines, what would have
happened If that hydraulic lift
had broken when the boys were
underneath that stuff"
Weirdest scene next to this
dunking routine is sequence in
which Karloff finds the frozen
forms of both the monster and
the wolf man buried in an un-
foreground ice cavern. Karloft
heats up the glacial tomb with
fire and the boys finally thaw
out, good as new, which is the
best idea Hollywood has yet ad-
vanced to keep hams fresh.
DOUBLE LOVE THEME
But The Devils Brood
won't give you Dracula, the Wolf
Man and the Frankenstein mon
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-25
PLASMA CHAMPS

We hope thot there will be no strain Russo
American relations os result Of the very under.
stondoble pout thot Edward tSpke) Howard ex-
wrestler and strong man, is wearing. Mr.. Howard,
who claims to have given lo2 blood donations in 5
years, reod where Toss, Soviet news agency, pro-
cloined Moscow railroad man the worlds cham
pion blood eiver otter l4l donations.
Since Mr.. Howord is modest man, he can't
blame Toss for never having heard Of him.
But hundred or q thousand, they ore still roe-
nificent humanitarian contributions thot few Of
con hope to opprooeh. All we can do is remember
thsm as We contemplate our own record Of dono-
tions. ard remember too that the need for blood
.dces not stop.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-25
PROBLEMS OF FASTER
FIRING BEING SOLVED

PROBLEMS OF FASTER
FIRING BEING SOLVED
The normal rate of fire of a
.50-caliber machine gun, for in
stance, is $50 rounds a minute.
That is IL rounds a second, but
even 50, aircraft travelling 500
miles an hour, five miles a min
ute, 400 feet second, stand a
good chance of missing each
other in the intervals of one
shot for every 80 feet or more of
travel. The problem, then, is
one of making the machine guns
fire faster and it is being solved.
The 2O-mm. cannon likewise
seems destined to be stepped
up in efficiency-first by twin
mounting, second by installation
as a packaged gun to be hung
from the wing OF q plane.
This is only the beginning of
what will probably be an era of
automatic weapons of sizes that
used to be considered too big for
destroyers, for the tendency is to
make every weapon bigger, bet
ter, faster. Five hundred-pound
bombs are still effective, but the
ratio of 4000-pound bombs goes
up and up and up. Advances in
control of all these ne,y weapons
have kept pace with improve
ments in the weapons them
selves. Here is where the real
gadgetry comes into play. There
are bombsights and computing
gyroscopic gunsights which do
things the original Norden and
Sperry models cannot Doom
pick thinking machines which
solve mathematical problems
faster than mechanical gunnery
devices can execute the an
swers. Details about these fan
tastic things will probably not
be revealed until after the war.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-25

ster all in one scene. The boys
never meet in the picture.
To keep romanticists happy,
there are two love stories in the
picture, with Anne Gwynne and
Elena Verdugo throbbing.
John Carradine plays the role
of Dracula, J. Carroll Naish is
the psychopathic hunchback
killer, and Lon CLANCY, Jr. plays
the Wolf Man.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-25
. FLASHES
OF
LIFE .
HOW'S THAT AGAIN?

PITTSBURGH - The Kiwan-
is Club declared Ed Kliment-
holder of a &C" Gasoline Ration
card-the winner Of a biggest
liar" contest for this one:
my Ration Board gave me
so C. Gasoline Coupons for a
pleasure trip merely because ]
smiled at the members. Then,
they gave me so more because
thanked them for the first
batch"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-25

Q-What nation has the most
fighter planes capable of faster
than 400 m. p. h.?
A-The u. S., with five: the
Lighting, Thunderbolt, Hellcat,
Corsair and Mustang. England
has three, Germany two, Japan
none.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-25
PERSISTENT

WILLIAMSPORT, PA To-
cal motorist has a market for his
automobile any time he decides
to sell. Daily for the past few
weeks prospective buyer has
left his name, address and this
note tied to the auto: II need
a car like yours"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-25
McKElr1EY ON
BRIDGE
Americas Gard Authority

americas CARD Authority
The story of bridge play is not
always just playing q good hand
well. More often the player IS
faced with an impossible situa-
ton and has to find the way to
victory. That is what Paul Jo-
sephs did with today's hand in
a rubber bridge game at the
Mayfair Bridge Club in New
York.
West had been making lots of
psychic bids during the evening,
and the bid of two spades was
designed to smoke him out. Jo-
sephs would have preferred 20
have his partner pass the four
heart bid around to him, but
when North bid four spades and
East doubled. Josephs made the
best of the situation.
After winning the first trick,
West shifted to the king of
hearts. which East ruffed. Now
East should have returned
club, but he made the mistake
of leading the king of diamonds.
Declarer ruffed, led q low spade
to the queen, returned a low
diamond and ruffed with the
king of spades. Dummy's other
club was discarded on the ace of
hearts. East -trumped and led a
club, which was ruffed in dunn
my. Now the contract was safe,
as a diamond trick could be es-
tablished for the needed tenth
trick.
M Jaynnhc ,,o,,ct ho 0iuon
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-25
NIPPED BY COURT

NEW YORK - Joseph Schlei-
fer told u. S. District Court
judge that he kept a supply of
alcohol on hand because he liked
an occasional nip" Agents
found he had % gallons on hand
and the court fined him 500 on
a charge of possessing untaxed
alcohol.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-25

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE :. l.. More than 1900 of our
employees are now in the armed forces-about one
out Of every FIVE. Of this number, So are women
There are Is gold stars the company's Service
Flag Every branch of the service is represented and
over 500 of the 1900 employees overseas Five
Distinguished Service Crosses have been awarded to
Edison men.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-25

POWER GRID -. Putting the Axis con the griddle'
Is more than a figure of speech in southeastern
Michigan. The uninterrupted flow of electricity to
thousands Of war plants has made possible pro-
ducton records in all sorts of vital war materials
And one of the things that this uninterrupted
electric supply is the power grid" network which
covers all this If for any there is power
failure somewhere in the system the grid" connection
makes it possible to restore service Immediately by
feeding in power from another point Should turbine
in one plant shut down. other Edison plants pick up
the load and keep the electricity flowing The far
flung Edison network is interconnected with the
Consumers Power Company the west and with
the Detroit municipal power plant, lending added
strength to the combined power grid
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-25

Mr.. Josephs must be given
credit for taking advantage OF
his opponents mistake.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-25

SUMMER SNACK For something new and different,
try this recipe from our Home Service Department:
Tomato and Salmon Toast
6 slices bread 6 tbsp faxed salmon, seasoned
8 slices American cheese IL slices bacon
slices tomatoes
Place slice Of cheese each slice OF bread On top OF
cheese put the faxed salmon Place tomatoes salmon
and slices of bacon each slice of tomato BroH
until bacon crisps and cheese n,eks.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-25

Adding more guns and more
rockets to aircraft and surface
vessels is only one of the means
of increasing the firepower
which each plane and ship can
throw against an enemy. Every
effort is being made to increase
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-25
By PETER EDISON


will be loosed in World War
III, or even in World War IL II
it lasts long enough, tests Of new
weapons and new explosive.
now being made at the u. S
Naval Proving Ground, Dahl
gren, Va, and at the big Naval
Air Station, Patuxent, Md, give
the best picture. A two-day in
spection of these bases, arranged
by Navy Secretary James For
restal for a small group of news.
paper correspondents, reveals
the extent to which naval war
fare at best has become a war OF
gadgets.
Begin right with the explo-
sives going into shells, bombs
and depth charges. The INT OF
the last war was thought to be
the ultimate as a force Of de-
struction, but it has already been
surpassed. 1t is still highly re-
stricted subject for discussion
The British have permitted some
mention of their "R. D. x" ex-
plosive, but the Americans have
something that is a much more
stable equivalent. What it will
do, of course, is increase the
range, velocity and destructive
ness of nearly every type OF
thing that can be thrown at an
enemy. 1t is only one of the new
explosives under development.
Tests are being made with
new powders that are not only
smokeless, but conceal the flash
at the muzzle when big guns
are fired. This is a highly i'm
portant development. In night
action, the tell-tale flash Of a
main battery is the worst give
away of a ships position.
ROCKETS COME IN VARIOUS
SIZES AND SHAPES
Rockets, which have caught
the public fancy to such an
amazing degree, are now in pro-
duction and in use in a variety
of shapes and sizes and from
special purpose mounts. Recent
Navy communicates have re-
vealed the use of rocket bar
RACES fired from landing craft
in the southwest Pacific, and in
the sinking of a Nazi submarine
in the Atlantic by planes firing
rockets.
Against submarines, the roc
ket projectile is of exceptional
advantage in that the rocket
gives the shell head continued
driving power under water.
Having all the destructive force
Of three and five-inch shells,
rockets can be fired without re-
coil. Mounting a five-inch gun
on an airplane is today unthink-
able. Rockets on planes, how
ever, can be fired in pairs or in
salvo to give from two to 10
times as much fire-power as
could be obtained from sim
gle five-inch gun, and without
the extra weight or strain.
Adding more guns and more
rockets to aircraft and surface
vessels is only one of the means
of increasing the firepower
which each plane and ship can
throw against an enemy. Every
effort is being made to increase
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-25

HEATING ~ REFRIGERATION :. Your electric
refrigerator manufactures" cold Why isn't it possible
to reverse" the refrigeration cycle and produce heat2
Then, in winter you could cold outdoor tempera-
ture to heat your home! Actually, the idea isn't
1t originated with Lord Kelvin over so years ago.
A few installations have been made-mosty in more
temperate climates than MchiganS So far, the idea
isn't practical for general but research eng
neers have it in their "active" file. Someday new
developments may transfer it from the realm Of
experiment into practical machine.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-25
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

efficiency and size of each wea-
pom.
Evening star., 1944-08-01

The women's vote, 20 important in the
1914 presidential election, Is the COM
pelling factor which wrung from the re-
cent Democratic National Convention
IN Endorsement Of the so-called equal
rights amendment" The victory for
the women was won by the active cam
paigning of Miss Alice Paul, chairman
Of the National Woman's Party. backed
not only by the party but also by many
of the large women's organizations OF
the country, including the General Fed
Grafton Of Women's Clubs.
The Republican party carried . plank
In its 1910 platform declaring for the
equal rights amendment. Since that
time the Republican members Of Con-
gress have given earnest support to the
amendment. When the COP National
Convention met . few weeks ago in
Chicago, It slapped the plank right back
into it, 1914 platform.
This was too much for the opposition
to the equal rights amendment-al-
though 1t was headed by Secretary
Perkins OF the Department Of Labor and
reinforced by q letter written by Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt. The women
fiatly told the Democrats they stood the
chance Of losing thousands Of votes for
the Democratic ticket If they persisted
In their old stand. So the Resolutions
Committee dropped Miss Perkins and
Mrs. Roosevelt overheard, metaphor
ically speaking. The convention sup
ported the committee. gssr -,cx
sss1sss .4s@4s4h-s I. ., ~,-.rssz.q- 81,
t* Mr.. rasl and her colleagues are con-
hdsnt that this action of the Demo-
cratic convention viii hasten adoption
Z Of tn amendment. It should, unless
the Democrats forget their platform
pledge. Like other proposed consti-
tutional amendments. this must run
the gantlet Of congressional action. A
resolution proposing the submission Of
the amendment to the States was in
troduced in the House and Senate in
January, 1943. It has been reported
favorably to the Senate by the
judiciary Committee. In the House
judiciary Committee, however. it has
SO far been blocked by Democrats.
Evening star., 1944-08-01
This Changing World
By CeMsfANfjNe BrooeN

Generals de like priyates on the
battledeld In this war. Their only
advantage over msn Of Lesser rank y
that when the situation appears hope
leas and the enemy II closing In, they
are able TO eet away In . plane or With
some fast armored unit,
For reasons which form the subject
Of intsnse speculation In American MILL
tary and political quarters, the German
generals on the Eastern Front have
preferred In the last fSw weeks 70 sur
render rather than avail themselves Of
the chance Of escaping the Russians.
Between July 10 and July n no fewer
than ~ German generals. ranging from
army commanders such - Infantry
Gen. 0oltwitssr, commander Of the Gar
man S3rd Army, and It. Gen. Won Lust-
row, commander Of the Sand Army, TO
major and brigadiers generals. have
either bsen captured o. have surren-
defed. At no tims during this war
o. the world War have the Allies cap
tufed such IN imposing array Of Ger
man gold braid In such = short time
- the Russians have basged.
In some quarters 1t II believed that
Hitler has instructed army corps, dtvi-
sional and brigade commanders 70 hold
out to the last man. When this 10 not
possible the commanding o6acsrs are
fearful that II they return to the
Fuehrsr's headquarters and report de-
feat they may be suspected Of lacking
loyalty and viii be purged.
Other observers Of the strange hap
peninss In the Reich are inclined to
interpret the surrenders Of the German
generals - their answer to Hitler's fight
against all rank not wholly welded to
the NaM cause.
AAH
Now that Himmler has become the
principal lieutenant Of the Fuehrer and
the Nah hierarchy IL fast replacing the
regular army men, 1t is considered pos
sible that the German generals may
have decided to surrender. preferring
defeat at the hands Of foreign powers
to butchery on the home and battle
fronts.
There have been fewer desertions In