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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-22
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On me opening club lead the
declarer played low from dunn
my, East played the ten and
South won the trick with the
queen. The ace of hearts was
cashed and showed four hearts
in the West hand. The ace of
diamonds was cashed, then
small diamond was ruffed in
dummy. Declarer picked up the
trumps, led club over to dunn
mys king, then led the queen
of spades, East won with the
ace and returned spade, South
won with the king, laid down
his last trump and East was
squeezed. He must discard Ell
Their a club or spade.
Right here the post-mortem
begins. Should the queen be
played from dummy, or should
small spade be led? Mrs. A.
NJ. Sobel believes that the queen
is the correct play and when you
analyze the hand, l think you
will agree with her.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-22
SOLDIERS AND POLITICS

One Of the most remarkable contributions to con-
~reesonol thouoht on the subject Of votes for SOL
diers has been thot offered by Rep Frances P Bo-
ton an Ohio Republican And when we single Mrs
Bolton out for special mention, it is with the tu
KNOWLEDGE that she gained this distinction over some
pretty stronoe and wonderful debate that this SUBJ
iect hos already produced on Capitol Hill
The Cleveland congresswon1on has sold that she
"fovors the principle Of vote for soldiers But the
difficulties she discovers in its practical application
BEEN to leave her in whots-theuse frame Of mind
As proof Of the futty Of it all, she puts forth
Two arguments:
First she soys "the information given them
l(sevice men and won1en) is not such thot would
the statement that oversees newspapers, Stors and
Stripes and Yonk, are put out by the odmlnistro
tion"
Then, as clincher, she adds that "of my two
kons in service, is not interested in voting and
khe other could not be reached for his opinion"
If the overseas service papers ore run by the 3D.
ADMINISTRATION, then so is the Army For these two
keIIent publications ore edited, stoffed and man.
need by Army men. Their editorial policy is Army
policy True, their pages not filled with stories
Of inter and intro-deportmento strife in Washing
ton. But on the other hand they ore not bosed in
fovor Of the administrations domestic policies They
are periodicals for soldiers filled with the stuff that
soldiers want to read.
As for the implication thot the Army is poIit
lco offshoot Of the administration it might be not
ed that congressional efforts to prove that 10
ment, incidentally in which Mrs. Bolton took no
port proved dull and dismal flop.
Mrs. Bottoms point that one Of her sons is mot
Interested in voting" seems more Of sad Comment
ory upon the civic education Of the son Of political
household than anything else 1t is doubtful thot his
attitude is typical Of the millions Of voting.oge men
and women in service.
There numerous practical problems to be
solved in the soldier vote question: but they will not
be solved by the negative, portson attitude implicit
In Mrs. Bottoms statements The question must be
settled by fair, intelligent nonportson statesman
ship.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-22
. IN HOLLYWOOD
PYLE'S PROTEGE

Arthur Miller is Hollywood s
Cinderella story for today. A
year ago this 28-year-old writer
was a shipfitter's helper in the
Brooklyn Navy yard at cents
an hour. Now he's in Hollywood
on fat contract with Producer
Lester Cowan to write the
screenplay of Ernie Pyle's best
seller. Here Is Your War"
After graduating from the
University of Michigan in 1888,
he went to work in box fac
tory. writing plays by lamp
light. Clicking as a writer, he
won the Avery HopWood drama
award twice, the new play
award of the Theater Guild.
Pyle chose him as a protege and
alter ego after Miller made a
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-22
. SO THEY SAY

The German people are
strengthened in their attitude by
the power of faith which we
have observed and admired In
Adolf Hitler since 1919. Every
day we express the power OF
that faith by shouting the Fueh-
rers name to each other, Hell
Hitlerv Berlin radio.
We hope that peace will be
reestablished as soon az posi-
BILE. We must, however, have
such a place as guarantee our
country's freedom. On this point
no compromise is possible. -
Vaino Tanner, Finnish finance
minister.
The morning after the last
heavy raid | went to Cologne. In
my widest imagination / never
thought the metropolis of the
Rhine could present such a pic
ture Of devastation. Clouds OF
smoke, pitiful ruins, heaps OF
ruble, and stencil that was
Cologne.--German woman liv-
ing in Switzerland.
The danger of a general often
sive by the Red army has been
virtually removed. 1t can be said
that the German army Is in con-
troll of the war situation.-Jap
Domei news agency - quoting
German DNB news agency.
In the peace to come, the New
Deal will not be dead. II it il
dead, the Democratic party will
be dead and well dead.-Vice
President Henry Wallace.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-22

three month tour Of Army
camps to get the soldiers view
point.
Here Is Your War" will give
the long-neglected infantry the
Hollywood glamorizing hereto
fore almost monopolized by the
Air Force and the Navy.
Most interested spectator at
the first showing of THE Story
Of DR.. Wassell' will be Oliver
Thorndike, stage actor who
makes his film debut in the pic
ture. His position is unique in
Hollywood. Thorndike never
saw a bit Of action while it was
being filmed. He plays the role
of a sailor blinded by bomb
explosion, and goes through the
entire picture wearing heavy
bandage over his eyes.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-22
DESPERATION

There is something not only naive, but actually
desperate about the Nozs' lotest diplomatic feint.
They dispatched "a Danish citizen" to ask the Swed-
ish government to occupy Denmark and Norway and
guarantee their neutrality if the German occupying
forces should Withdrew
Of course it would be just dandy if Hitler could
send these occupation troops TO the front and at
the same time close off two possible points of Allied
invasion. But how could he hope that such pro-
Poso would be swallowed? Certainly the Allies would
not permit it. And certoinIy Sweden who knows the
Allies are winning the war and whose popular senti-
nent is overwhelmingly pro-Aed, would not con-
slider it.
Hitler must have known this. Yet the foct that
he launched such bald and obvious plan would
seem to indicate thot he has come to the point
where he will try onVhner
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-22
. BARBS .

It's absolutely correct to get
your income tax filed-but more
than likely wrong after you do
so.
Maybe, since liquor is hard to
get, more money will be spent
on the home brood.
-
That same old stitch in time
saves worry over whether that
hole in your sock heel shows.
It's bad enough TO be the
black sheep OF the family with
out being made the goat for
everything.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-22

Somewhere back in the misty dawn Of onthro
pology man acquired the persistent conviction that
woman is nnotely eonulous But that conviction re-
ceved nasty jolt the other doy 1t disclosed thot
IS WACs in the Signal Corps for some time have
been receiving and sending dolly the most secret and
confidential of military messages. And they haven't
breothed the contents to soul.
4 The WACs even kept mum about the Job itself
But the Army tmoIe) just couldn't keep the secret
cry longer.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-22

Orde Charles Wingate's strik-
ing similarity to the fabulous
Lawrence of Arabia was first
recognized in the course of his
one-man campaign against the
Italians in Ethiopia. How he
hoodwinked the enemy, and
with a small force accounted for
100000 prisoners or dead made
history; but how he refined and
expanded the methods he en-
ployed on the side of the Lion
of Judah and turned them
against the Japs makes even
more fascinating reading.
Charles j. Rollo, in Win
gates Raiders" (Viking: $3.50
tells the story of this bearded
brigadier and how his bands Of
British, Aussies, Anzacs and ma
tive troops filtered into Burma
and harassed a much bewildered
enemy.
Wingate put his "Chindits'
through six months of the most
intense commando-type train
ing. He taught them every trick
of jungle fighting, at which the
Jap was supposed to be master.
They emerged more than a
match for Private TOTO,
Narrow trails, navigable only
by mules and men for much Of
the distance, made the usual mo-
torized supply lines out of the
question. Food, ammunition,
blankets, fuel for the gasoline
motors which generated electri-
city for the radios all had 10 be
dropped by Raj planes. Less
than per cent of the bundles
that we're parachuted down to
designated clearings failed to
reach the Chindits.
Through jungle across
mountains and rivers, the small
bands crept, blowing up Jap
held railroads and bridges, strik-
ing silently at troop concentra-
tons and Withdrawing into the
tangle of elephant grass, They
in turn we're stalked, by the
Japs. disease, starvation and
death. But they returned to re-
cross the Shindwin River - 10
return again, in gripping mar
rative devoid of melodramatics
RED EPIC
That battle the Reds waged
around Leningrad to throw the
Nazis south and break the hold
Germany held on the huge Rus
sian city makes very timely
The Siege OF Leningrad,' by
Boris Skomorovsky and f. c.
Morris (Dutton: $3.50.
You can't begin TO realize the
misery a human can go through
and still retain courage until you
read of the heroic stand Of the
Russians against the Huns and
Firms in the north of Russia
With '.omes blasted to rubble
food of any kind a luxury, and
the shellsIof the enemy's big
guns blowing up right i'm from,
of their noses the men and wo.
men - and children. 100 - OF
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-22
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .
BY PETER EDISON

You may well watch for the
emergence of something what
might be called The New
Peace" as successor 10 The New
Deal"
President Roosevelt, in his
now-famous aside to Dilworth
Lupton of the Cleveland Press,
just before Christmas, indicated
that the New Deal slogan was
outmoded and that something
like "Win-the-W War" would be
more appropriate. A month
later Vice President Wallace told
the Democratic Jackson Day
dinner audience that the New
Deal was not dead.
All the evidence would seem
10 indicate that Henry is right,
as a look at the record of the last
few weeks will show.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-22

legorically simplifying on his
own views about how old Doctor
New Deal had called in young
Doctor Win-the-W War TO cure
sick country, he explained that
although the postwar program
had not been settled on at all
except in generalities-it was
clear that plans must be made
now for an expanded economy
which will result in more Sc
curity, more employment, more
recreation, more education,
more health and better housing
for all, so that the conditions of
1882 would not return again.
PROGRAM OUTLINED
There, from the President
himself, you have the broad out
lines of a postwar New Deal
which is now being mentioned
as The New Peace program.
1t would in realty be successor
to the Presidents Win-the-W War
program.
This New Peace program has
been dealt with in both the
Presidents regular message and
in his budget message 10 Con-
gress.
Basis of this New Peace pro-
gram perhaps is best stated in
the Second Bill of Rights" pas
sage from the Presidents mes
sage:
The right to a useful and re-
munerative job in the industries
or shops or farms or mines of the
nation;
The right earn enough TO
provide adequate God and
cloth and recreation:
The right of every farmer to
raise and sell his products at
return which will give him and
his family a decent living;
The right of every business
man, large and small, to trade
in an atmosphere of freedom
from unfair competition and
domination by monopolies at
home or abroad;
The right of every family to
a decent home;
The right to adequate medi-
cal care and the opportunity to
achieve and enjoy good health;
THE right to adequate protec-
ton from the economic fears of
old age, sickness, accident and
unemployment;
The right to a good educa-
ton"
POLITICAL PLATFORM
This eight-polnt program GER
tainly did not get into the presi-
dental message by accident. 1t
Is a ready-made political plat
form if there ever was one.
Whether ii merely restates old
ideals or states new peace pro-
gram, it does not sound like
much of an abandonment OF the
New Deal. Maybe the label will
be dropped as something that no
longer gamers votes, but that's
all, and into the Second Bill of
Rights you can read anything
you like or don't like, from
socialized medicine or persecu-
ton of big business TO social Sc
curtity from cradle to grave.
AS if to implement this pro-
gram, the President in his bud
get massage gave clear indica-
tons that he would later ask
Congress for appropriations to
ach ieve the detectives of
strengthening the US. Employ
ment Service, broadening old
age and unemployment insur-
ance coverage, providing public
works to relieve postwar unem-
ployment and finally, spread
ing the benefits of stabilized
currencies and international
management of trade and the
production and distribution Of
food to the whole world.
The New Deal killed by Its
pappy? Don't let them kid you.
Henry was right.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-22
Book Reviews

Leningrad waged one of the
greatest stands in history, even
greater than Stalingrad.
To tell you more of the book
would be to spoi! it for you.
Read it and stop complaining
about wars hardships IL you
have in the past.
Virginia Chase. school teach
err turned writer, has created in
The American House (Duell,
Sloan g. Pearce: $275) a de-
lightful story Of Maine family
in 1909. The father was the best
doctor in the state, but that
wasn't enough for him. He
wanted to go into business, and
despite his wife's protests,
bought the village hotel - a
monstrosity of the first magni-
tude--and put a manager In
charge. The manager skipped
town, leaving number Of un-
paid bills, and the doctor was
forced to move into the hotel
with his wife and three daugh-
tiers. From there on it is a con-
slant OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,
drunken evangelist, drum
-mers, summer boarders.
A charming and well put-to-
gether story, its spirit we'll
caught by Jane Nelson's many
drawings.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-22
. QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS .

Q-Where and when was
Adolf Hitler born?
A-Braunau, AUSTRIA, on
April 20, 1889.
Q-When was New York
City's subway system first
opened to the public?
A-Oct. d, 1904.
Q-What South A m e a n
countries have not as yet de-
clared war on the Axis?
Q-Who was the first official
graduate of West Point Military
Academy?
A-Joseph B. Swift, in 1902;
he became the institution first
superintendent in 1912.
Off a new state is added to
the Union, how is it indicated in
the flag of the United States?
Am additional star is add
ed to the Union of the flag, such
addition to take effect on the
4th day of July next succeeding
such admission.
Q-How long has THE Star
Spangled Banner" been the ma
tlonal anthem of our country?
Alt was legally designated
as such by an Act of Congress
on March 3, 1881.
Q-What is the largest pri-
vately owned business and rec
reation center in America?
A-Rockefeller Center, New
York City. 1t covers almost IL
acres, has daily estimated pop
ulation Of $4,000, more than
$4,000 people are employed
there and $4,000 persons visit
there every day.
Q-Was tobacco ever used for
money?
Ayes, in early colonial days
ii became common currency,
passing freely in payment for
goods and services, accepted in
payment Of taxes, fines, etc.
Stores and taverns usually had
a special warehouse as a till for
tobacco coinage"
Q-Who is the quartermaster
general of the United States
Army?
A-Maj. Gen. E. B. Gregory.
Q-What country uses the
unit of currency plaster?
A-Turkey.
(Which state is sometimes
called the Excelsior State?
Anew York, because of the
motto, Excelsior, ON its coat OF
arms.
Qz-What is meant by the Eu-
ropesn plan in bookkeeping?
A-Furnishing room accom-.
mediation and service TO guests
leaving the taking of meals CD.
tional.
(Which state is called the
Everglade State?
A-Florida.
Q-What is an analogism?
"A reasoning from the
cause to the effect.
Q-What outstanding confer.
ences affecting war operation.
and postwar international aues
tons were held during 1943?
A - Casablanca, January
Moscow, October; Quebec, Au
gust; Cairo, November, anc
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-22
BY ERSKINE JOHNSON


wood now as film writers follow
up the wartime trends in love
making. Sample: A romantic
scene between Betty Rhodes
and Singer Johnny Johnston.
playing couple Of college kids
in "You Can't Ration Love"
when this semester is over"
says Betty, smuggling up to
Johnnie, Il go into the WACS."
You do" says Johnny. Yes"
Betty murmurs, putting her
arms around him, "and | wonder
what memories will be upper
most when I'm lying in some
lonely fox hole"
Dickie Moore, the former child
star, is making his last film ap-
pearance for the duration in
Sweet and Low-Down." He's
10, has a IA rating and has
passed his physical. Hopes to
land In the Air Force.
Adolphe Menjou showed up
at local golf tourney the other
day wearing oldfashioned golf
Knockers. Its the only proper
dress for golf game" said Hol-
lywood's best dressed man.
Menjou just returned from an
overseas entertainment tour.
Darn near broke his heart when
he was permitted to take only
two suits. He has rs of them.
But throughout the mud circuit
in Africa and Sicily he always
wore phony carnation in the
lapel Of his coat.
Bing Crosby's pet name for
Bob Hope throughout The
Road to Utopia" should get au-
dience bowls. It's Flat Top"
Joe (. Brown returns TO New
York late this month after COM
pletely circling the globe on his
entertainment tour There's a
real soldier in grease paint.
MI SIC MAKERS
Harry James is celebrating
his fifth anniversary with his
band. Four years ago. with
Frank Sinatra as his vocalist,
the James crew lasted only two
weeks in a Hollywood night
club. The manager said they
we're terrible.
Mickey Rooney, long famous
as the typically American Andy
Hardy, will speak with an Irish
brogue in his new film, Ma
tional Velvet He plays an Irish
jockey.
AKIN Tamirof Will model for
the Russian soldier in an all-Al-
lies poster 10 be executed by
Leon Charkowski on commits
sion from the government.
Eddie Lowe is eating his
lunch in his dressing room on
The Girl in the Case set. For
comedy sequence in the film.
he has TO wear a zoot suit. The
streets outside the stu d o
abound with sailors and SOL
diers. He's taking no chances.
That old meanie Gale Sender
gard will 90 heroic in The
Climax and prevent Boris Kar-
loft from doing dastardly things.
One OF Turkish Turhan Bey s
fan clubs in New York calls it
self The Dancing Fatimas.
An electrician, snoring loudly
on a catwalk above the set,
spoiled one of Jon Halls dra-
matte scenes for The Invisible
Mans Revenge" Cracked Hall:
IF my acting on the set does
that TO an audience, | wonder
what people in , thester do!'
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-22
MCKINNEY ON
BRIDGE

BY WILLIAM 4. MCKINNEY
Do you like to post-mortem?
Here is hand which you and
your friends can argue about for
a little while. 1t came up In q
recent Philadelphia tournament.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-22
TALE OF TWO RIVERS

, The saga of a Mississippi river
boat in the dark days follow
ing the Civil War, makes a
swell novel-"Look Away, Look
Away" by Leslie Turner White
(Random House: $3.50.
Plot built around chartering
of the boat by band of South
erners who hated the Yanks and
the carpetbaggers who flocked
into their country to plot and
pillage after the war. The cream
of the gentry Of New Orleans.
they arranged with the Brazilian
government for a tract of land
on the Amazon on which they
were TO set up a southern COM
munity.
Dan Beals, pilot of the river
boat, and Captain Triggs, swash-
buckling soldier of fortune who
was hired to captain the boat
on its hazardous trip across the
Gulf and into Brazil, are brill
liant transformations. The hate
that Dan and the southern blue
bloods hold for Triggs grows to
respect when his knowledge OF
the bush saves their lives time
and again during series OF
misfortunes they undergo In try
ing to establish their South
American colony.
Sparkling romance built
around Dan and Sina, with
whom he was raised by another
quaint character, Mrs. Poly
carpe. All the color of movie.
l.s ~
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-02-22

Eleven large yachts raced
from New Jersey TO England in
1905.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-04-27
Army Miscalculated

COME OF THE heat was taken
off Selective Service Director
Major Gen. Lewis B. Hershey
when Secretary of War Henry L.
Stimson reluctantly confirmed re-
ports that the Army had made a
mistake in figuring its own
strength. This forced Selectiye
Service to abruptly halt the Undue.
ton OF men over twenty-six who
are working in essential industries
The induction stay for older
men, which was originally heralded
as a means of drastically stepping
up induction Of those under
twenty-six, was actually a move
to prevent manpower from pour
ing into the Army far in excess of
immediate needs. The demand for
young men, however, was genuine.
After all the turmoil created bv
the Army's miscalculation NAV
come a real effort to clarity the
draft situation. Qualification will
possibly take the form of a joint
statement from Hershey and War
Manpower Commission Chairman
Paul V. McNutt, outlining the new
draft program.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-04-27
Meat Packers Squeeze

hERE WAS A little more hone
this week in independent meat
packing circles that remedial action
would be taken on the cattle nr;co
squeeze that is driving them out of
business. John J. Madigan, assist
ant director of OPA's Food pr;ce
DIVISION, promised that relief
measures are at the stage where
they might be expected momen-
tar1ly. Fred M. Tobin, new presi-
oent OF the National Independent
Meat Dealers Assn, wired the
Senate and House small business
committees to investigate the
squeeze.
Typical of the troubles is that
which caused twenty-five local
packers in the Buffalo area to on
"on strike" against the OPA req
uiations. Their argument was that
they couldn't do business on the
margins allowed and that only the
big Chicago packers, geared to
make money out of all the bv.
products, could skin by.
The Independents don't know
what OPA is prepared to do for
them, but guesses range from n
combination of subsidy of Soc
per cwt, on western cattle shipped
into the Northeast and slaugh-
Tered there, a price rise of SOC per
cwt. on dressed beef in the Buffalo
area, or possibly combination of
both.
Independents in other areas feel
that if Buffalo gets any one or
combination of these types of
assistance, packers in other pinched
regions will ask for comparable
relief.