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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-09

If the raising OF an eyebrow
produced an audible creak or
Scraping sound, and a nation
wide decibel measurement could
be taken in the living rooms
where Erskine Caldwell's "Trag-
ic Ground DUEL, Sloan &
Pearce: $3.50 will be read, final
tabulations would be most inter
esting. They might we'll forecast
that CaldWell'S new novel Will
hit the public interest jackpot
as Tobacco Road" did, for he
has returned TO the theme which
left an undeniable imprint on
American letters.
But if Tragic Ground scores,
il will be pity if its success IS
based on the books passages OF
broad humor alone. 1t is a we'll
titled story of poverty In a
southern community called Poor
Boy, and the tragedy Of people
like Spence Douthit who had to
live there because they couldn' t
afford 10 move away.
Spence and his wife and kids
came down from Beasely County
along with lot of other families
whose menfolk took jobs at the
powder factory. When the fac
tory closed its doors, cars and
radios soon went back to their
original owners. Back rent piled
up. There was barely enough 10
eat. The social worker told
Spence he should have stayed
home.
Spence had a ready answer.
Stayed home. How could any
body stay at home in those days
with them roundup men rip
snorting through the country
handing out big bottles of whls-
KEY TO the men and black lace
drawers to the womenfolks? II
it'd just been me, could've
drunk their liquor and thought
nothing of it, but you know
yourself that there amt nothing
else in the world that can get
woman stirred up like, fancy
drawers
Spence wanted to 60 back, and
he wanted t. keep his l3-year-
old daughter off the streets, but
the money for the trip home,
provided by welfare authorities,
somehow evaporated after a crap
game at Bill Tarrants and all
he had to show for it was a few
bottles of his wife's favorite
tonic OR. Mundys, apparently
about Sc proof, an alligator
handbag for her, and some bour-
bon for himself.
Mr.. Caldwell provides an
abundance Of riotous humor, but
beneath it is a bitterness and a
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-09
British Take
Jan StrOnSpOint

SOUTHEAST A STA COM
MAND HEADQUARTERS, Kan
dy, Ceyon, Nov. 9-lP)-Allied
troops have captured the Japa-
nese stronghold of Fort White
on the Tiddim- Kalemyo road in
Northwestern Burma after two
days of heavy fighting, Admiral
Lord Louis Mountbatten an
nounced today.
Fort White is eight miles
southeast of Kennedy Peak, the
fall of which was announced by
Allied headquarters on Tuesday,
and about Is miles southeast of
Tiddim-main base from which
the Japanese launched their
abortive invasion Of India last
year.
Kalemyo lies about Is miles
beyond Fort White.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-09

One of the most popular
Christmas savings plans is
Christmas cards.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-09
Beer Hall Puisch
May be Forgotten
Hitler TO Remain
Silent This Yeor

LONDON, Nov 9 = up -
Berlin broadcasts indicated to-
Gay that for the first time the
greatest Of Nazi party holidays
Will pass without a speech from
Adolf Hitler.
Last night was the eve of the
annual celebration Of the abor-
tive 1923 Munich Beer Hail
PutSch, and il has been the Gus
tom since Hltler's rise to power
for high ranking party members
TO me I in Munich with him and
renew their pledges of faith IN
the Fuehrcr.
But the German radio an
noUnCed that because of the
Rcich's total mobilization the
celebration would take place lat
later date not specified. 1t
appeared that no speech would
be forthcoming from Hitler.
Earlier neutral correspondents
IN Berlin cabled they had been
Informed the party expected
Hitler TO speak. When he had
not gone on the air by 8 p. m.
a powerful ghost voice broke
into German radio program
with this demand:
why doesn't Hitler speak?
Why does the Fuehrer keep
silent? What is the matter with
Hitler?
/ Hitler has made no appear
ances before a mlcrophone since
July 81. when a voice purpor!-
ing TO be his broadcast an assur-
anCe to the German people that
he was safe after the bomb
attempt on his life.
The London News Chronicle
said yesterday it had reliable
information" that Hitler's ST.
lence has been due to mental
illness.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-09
Break Up Labor
Rally at Teheram

MOSCOW, Nov. 8 - tP) -
Iranian militia and police were
reported today by the lass News
Agency to have broken up q
planned celebration at Tehersl
by the Labor Union Council and
other organizations Tuesday on
the 9th anniversary of the
Soviet Union.
The Tass Dispatch from Te-
heran said labor union officials
had been arrested.
Nov. 7 is Russia's biggest and
most solemn holiday. The re-
ports of the discord put an even
greater strain on relations be-
tween Russia and Iran, already
strained over the question OF
oil concession.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-09
Kelly to Take
Brief Rest

LANSING, Nov. Q - (P) -
Governor Kelly said today he
would take trip with Mrs.
Kelly 10 rest up from his victor
ious campaign for reelection.
I'm not going to announce
where l GO he said. Il want
to read a few books and see a
few movies and get myself
rested for a big two years ahead,
This has been a hard campaign
and I'm tired. I'll discuss no
affairs Of office until l return.
The Governor said he planned
to leave before the week end.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-09
FAMILY
WASH

Fluff Dry - Basic bundle
charge 10 pounds for soc.
All over 10 pounds at Sc
per pound. Any flat work
will be ironed at the Gus
. toners request for an adj
ditional SC per pound. The
remainder of the bundle Is
fluffed and dried, and re-
turned folded for an addi-
tional &c per pound. Chen
lie bedspreads, turkish tow
els, etc, may be included.
Shirts hand finished in this
bundle for 12c each, il the
customer desires.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-09
Armada

ARMADA - The Night Owl
Club met with Miss Angela
Rosalez, Thursday evening, No
vember 2. Eleven members
were present. Mrs. Victor Russ,
a new member was present.
Games were played. Mrs.
Francis Montgomery received
first prize, Mrs. Victor Russ,
second prize and Mrs. Walter
Russ, low prize. Delicious re-
freshments were served.
The next meeting will be held
with Mrs. Al Kahler, WedneS-
day evening, November 90.
Mrs. Frank Bradley is visit
ing friends and relatives in De-
troit and Highland Park for a
few days this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Sutherland
entertained at dinner, SUNDAY,
honoring the birthday anniver-
sary of their daughter. Mrs.
Harold Day.
Guests were Mr.. and Mrs,
Harold Day and son Harold Jr.,
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Laursen
and sons Ricky and Larry.
Paul Hillman and Norman
Laursen attended the 28th an
nual meeting of the Michigan
MILK Producers Association
which was held in the Fairchlld
theatre on the campus at East
Lansing. Mr.. Hillman is presi-
dent and they both represented
the Armada lodge as delegate al
tie annual meeting.
And now the battle for ciga-
rots re ~ UAllOntr ono
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-09

And now the battle for ciga-
refs is an "All-Out" one.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-09
High|ights from the Latest Books

pity for all the Douthits every
where, and of all time, for there
are no indications that the day
will come when there will be
no Douthits living in Poor
Boy.
Don't Wait Up for Spring
by Charles Mergcndahl Little,
Brown: $3.50, is novel of
promise. Lieutenant q. g. Mer-
gendahl, who somehow found
time to write this love story
between engagements in North
Africa, Tarawa and elsewhere
in the Marshalls, gets off 10 a
rather u9sure start with his tale
of Greenwich Village play
wright who falls in love, then
goes 10 war. But once Harry
TreXler's first play is produced
and flops, the author relaXeS
along with Harry and the book
takes direction and meaning.
The love of Trexler and Barbara
Gray becomes real. Their last
weeks together before he is
called for naval duty are mem
orable attempt to crowd a lot Of
living into a short space of time.
But it is when Trexler, as on
officer in charge of a landing
craft in the invasion of Africa,
gets ashore that the author,
again in step with his hero, finds
himself on solid ground. The
scenes there, especially one IN
a church where Harry is he'd
prisoner with other Yanks, are
reminiscent of those Ernest
Hemingway used to write. The
book is energetic, close to bril-
lance in some passages, a little
haywire in others, and alto
gether an interesting effort.
An unconventional and facin.
ating, off-trail travelogue deal
ing with South and Central
America is Kurt Severin's ITO
the South DUEL, Sloan &
Pearce: So. Mr.. SEVERN COW
cred the side streets in his jour
neys, and leaves the more publ
cized avenues to his more stald
contemporaries. Love and mar
coticS, sports and art and die
tators all come in for their share
of shrewd examination, and the
result is volume Of the curious
and bizarre.
Mr.. Serevin, who spe n {
enough time with natives down
TO the most primitive types 10
know what he is talking about,
collected first-hand experience
along with his notes. Not con-
tent with hearing what effect
this and, that drug had, be t
peyote, mescal, or cocoa, ne
tried them out-so many differ
ent passports TO an artificial
heaven that he was in no DANCE"
of becoming addicted TO any If
them. Anecdote follows anec-
dote, with entertainment and an
intimate acquaintanceship Of our
neighbors TO the South" the
result.
SUM-UPS
IF This Be Treason" by Mar.
garet Echard Crime Club:
$4,000. Murder in a California
valley, and plot involving
prisoners-of -war. Ample sus-
penSe and action.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-09
Court Of Honor
to BE Held Here

A Board of Review and Court
OF Honor will be held on Thurs
day at p. m.
All Scouters and members of
the Macomb county Boy Scout
Council are requested to attend
this meeting, to be held at the
First Presbyterian Church on
New street.
Charles A. Mikelait is adj
VanCement chairman.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-09
KwaniansHear
Dean OEarreU

The Very Reverend Kirk B,
OFerrall, dean OF ST. Paul's
Cathedral in Detroit, presented
his inspiratIonal message, The
World of Tomorrow" before a
joint meeting of the KiwariS
and Lions clubs in the basement
dining room of the Medea Hotel,
yesterday noon.
Citing events of 1886 to prove
that the "old world" died in that
year, the Dean declared that
"the good old days are gone,
never TO return and that the
world of tomorrow is not yet
here.
Trends toward the new
world are marked by two UNI
ehangeahle principles the LAW
of rebirth and the law of
growth" stated the dean.
He then traced the growth of
patriotism from its inception in
the stone ages with loyalty III
man to his mate, up TO the pres
ent state of patriotism with 10y
atty to states, nations and en-
pires.
Qualities of patriotism in the
new world of tomorrow must be
universal TO be shared by like
minded people wherever they
may be" stated the Dean.
The meeting was. arranged
and presented by President OF
to Nickel Of the Kiwapis Club.
Next week the club will hold its
annual election Of officers for
the coming year.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-09
How To Hold
FALSE Teeth
More Firmly In Place

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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-09
O-What is anoXia?

"A condition resulting from
deficient oxygen supply to body
tissues. When a flyer gets an
Okla, his first symptom is exhila-
ration, then his judgment be-
gins TO play tricks on him.
Evening star., 1944-05-22
War Theme in Allowance

called the sudden halt because 1t
cannot forecast Allied military
strategy, especially in regard to
European invasion. Warner Bros.
have four stories awaiting a turn
in the war while other lots holding
war material also are keeping an
ear to the ground. Lester Cowan
had already placed Ernie Pyle's
C. I. Joe" in production but stopped
it last week to await developments.
Comedies, light dramas, westerns
and flashy musicals make up the
bulk of the studios current batch
of 81 features. M-G-M's 1.-THE
Ziegfeld Follies," with undoubtedly
the strongest all-star cast ever col
lected, Is the most ambitious of the
musicals.
To get the 20 lashes which will
be seen on the screen in Para
mounts 1.-TWO Years Before The
Mast" Tom Powers, the Broadway
actor who recently resumed his film
career, took more than 100 blows
of the cat-o'-nine tails across his
bare back. Mr.. Powers has a
pretty sore back today and Bill
Bendix, who handled the. lash, Is
the most apologetic actor you ever
saw
The f1ogging scene is one of the
dramatic high lights of this story,
and while such scenes are usually
faxed by showing the swish Of the
whip through the, air and by cut
ting them to the agonized facial
closeup of the victim, Director John
Farrow decided on showing the
whole business. The prop man did
his best to make the ordeal light
one for culprit Powers. He made a
cat" out of the softest felt he
could find, fashioning it so that it
looked like real rawhide.
The ordeal required half a days
rehearsal and filming, but in spite
OF precautions, Powers back was a
cross-patch of livid stripes at days
end.
When Spencer Tracy and Kath-
arine Hepburn make the movie
version of the stage success, with
out Love-" for M-G-M. The script
will be radically changed from the
footlights story.
Stage plot deals with folks who
marry for convenience only. In the
movies there amt no such ami
NAL" The Hays Office has long
since seen to that. So, the script
ing experts are now busy fixing up
a new love slant.
Miss Hepburn is anxious to do a
stage play in the fall. and is read
ing scripts at her Hartford Comm
home.
For scene in with All NV
Heart" one that required a full
days shooting, Shirley Temple did
nothing but write letters to service
men. All the dialogue was delivered
by Ginger Rogers, with Shirley sit
ting quietly writing at desk near
by. Shirley actually wrote letters
to friends of hers in the service.
She got out IL and mailed them
that night, which is making prac-
tlcal use OF your working movie
time.
For priority reasons, goth Cen
tury-Fox was unable to purchase
lumber for the fight deck of the
studio built carrier Hornet, in
Queen of the Flat-Tops," but that
didn't balk the technical experts.
They made the deck of concrete,
painted it all gray. oil it, lined it
and in the movie it will look Just
like wood.
Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, IncD
Evening star., 1944-05-22

But who would write the script,
especially the dialogue, unless, of
course, Pascal is convinced that
Shaw already has written both and
that 1t is now a matter of merely
compiling it?
And who, much more impossibly,
would risk the wrath of the most
Olympian of all critics, Shaw him.
self, by daring to play the hero's
role?
Some one should begin right now
to cast hero's medal for him.
y k
Department of evolution: In
marked contrast to her beloved Sc
clusion, which has deepened on the
eve of each of her new pictures,
Evening star., 1944-05-22

be back in the theater in a manner
Of speaking, come autumn. The re-
ports are based upon the fact that
Gilbert Miller has taken an option
on her play, THE Happy Marriage"
1t was written before Miss Luce
came to Congress as representative
of Connecticut's smart set and has
no flavor of politics.
But q gret many of her old ad-
mirers, not to mention some of her
later constituents, will 60 right on
waiting patiently for the first of her
dramas relating to her experience in
public life. In the meantime, they
will be content with THE Happy
Marriage" which was written-un-
less our dates are as wrong as
usual-back in 1941.
=
Employment department: Cecil
B. De Mile always has been a pro-
ducer-director who could get virtu-
ally any actor, or actress, he might
need for given project. He has
not bothered recently, therefore, as
have several others in the same
business, to sign talent to personal
contracts.
That, however, was before max
ing THE Story Of DR.. Wassell."
Today he finds himself with three
players under contract. They are
Carol Thurston, who plays the
quantity named Three Martini in
the Wassell picture; Olive Thorn
dyke and Kenny McEvoy. Thorn
dyke was signed when De Mile saw
him playing with Tallulah Bank
head in "The Little Foxes" Young
McEvoy is the son of the writer,
J. P. He is a comedian.
In an earlier day in the movies,
such players as Gloria Swanson,
Wallace Reid, Phyllis Haver, Lea
trice Joy, Bill Boyd and Richard
DIX could boast they were De Mile
discoveries, under direct contract
to the maestro.
Lost and found department: Rich
ard Skinner, who used to toll around
the clock and the calendar in behalf
OF. the Washington Civic Theater in
its earliest days, pops up again in a
new, but not unrelated, job. He will
be general manager of the Bucks
County Playhouse this summer. The
Bucks County Playhouse, due to the
difficulties of transportation, will not
be in Bucks County, but rather in
Philadelphia's Bellevue Stratford
Hotel. Streetcars, Buses, taxicabs
and pedestrians run directly to the
door of the latter and by moving in
Evening star., 1944-05-22

In our years of service to the Caribbean
and South American area shown on the
map at the right we have learned the
needs and wants and preferences there
-. the potential volume for products
of every type. We know the experienced
agents who can be helpful in each com.
munity. ALI of this information is avail
able as an Alcoa service to American
business executives :. to help them
prepare plans ahead for greater post.
war production and employment
Address requests for data to Dept
S Alcoa Steamship Company, Inc,
II Battery Place, New York 4. N. Y.
Evening star., 1944-05-22

WOULD you like to add to your
postwar sales a part of the half
billion dollars worth of goods that will
be imported annually by the caribbean
Islands and nearby South America?
For years the ships of the Alcoa feet
have served this convenient export mar
ket. While war continues, their first aim
is TO serve Americas military establish
ments around the world. But when the
war is won, the Aleoa feet will again
resume full shipping to this close.by
area-helping American producers and
workers expand markets there, and
bringing back materials needed here.
Evening star., 1944-05-22
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN.
HOLLYWOOD.

Sights and sounds:
A new low in war theme produc-
ton was struck today on all major
lots when checkup revealed that
only three Of 81 features before the
cameras had military angles.
M-G-M is winding up production
on Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
after three months work and the
other two are musicals-"Battleship
Blues" starring Kay Kyser, at Co.
lumbia, and Bing Crosby's Here
Come the Waves" at Paramount.
This does not mean that Holly
wood has suddenly turned thumbs
down on all war pictures. It has
Evening star., 1944-05-22

Greta Garbo is startling Hollywood
these days by appearing in public,
wearing her hair in a glistening
coiffure, smiling and generally max
ing herself look at ease in cafe
society.
Her new producer, Lester Cowan,
is busy, meanwhile. casting Garbo's
next picture, drama in which she
will play the role of Norwegian
woman ship captain.
Her public appearances probably
herald Mr.. C.'s intention to intro
duce "the new Garbo."
y X
Drama department: 1t may be, the
reports go, that Clare Boothe will
Evening star., 1944-05-22

there last summer. Producer Theron
Bamberger kept his theater going,
but profitably.
He will repeat the undertaking
this year, Mr.. Skinner managing the
enterprise while Mr.. Bamberger re-
mains busy with his other projects,
most notably Tomorrow the World" :"
his first outstanding hit, and the
one which removed him from his old
task of being one of the theater's
most amiable advance agents.
* X
What's s-in-a-name department: !:
Evening star., 1944-05-22
It's a Fight Step

By the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD.
Don't be surprised to see a trend
toward longer movies. In an effort
Evening star., 1944-05-22
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time Of Showing

Stage.
National-"Lovers and Friends"
Screen.
Capit0l-"Broadway Rhythm: IL
am, 1:40, 4:25, 7:10 and 9:55 pm.
Stage shows ITO, $50, 6:35 and
$40 pm.
Columbia-"Andy Hardy's Blond
Trouble: II am, ITO, $40, 5:25,
TBS and $50 pm.
Earle-"Passage to Marseille": II
am, 1:40, 4:25, 7:10 and 9:55 pm,
Stage shows: /, 3:45, $50 and 9:15
pm.
Little - Private Life of Henry
VIII: 11:15 am, 1:25, 3:25, $50,
7:35 and 9:45 pm.
Keith's - Ladies Courageous
11:15 am, las, 3:25, 5:25, TAO and
$50 pm.
Metropolitan - Lady, Let's
Dance: 11:35 am. 1885, $40, $40,
TAO and 9:45 pm.
Palace-"Gaslight": IL am, lao,
AIS, 6:55 and 9:35 pm.
Pix - Cowboy Canteen" 2:05,
4:45, 7:30 and 10:15 pm.
Trans-Lux - News and shorts
continuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1944-05-22

We like the credit line in Katharine
Cornell's Lovers and Friends" pro-
gram which points out that the set
tings and costumes are by Motley.
\
Background department: Bands
represented in the personnel Of the
Coast Guard Dance Band which
comes to the Earle on Friday include
Alvino Rey's, Benny Goodman's,
Glenn Miller's, Sonny Dunham,
Charlie Barnett, Claude Thornhill
and Hal McIntyre.
Evening star., 1944-05-22
Super-Salesman Pascal Plans
Asking Shaw for Life Story
By JAY CARMODY,

Gabriel Pascal Central
Shaws prejudice his
project
such pretty specimens
celuod wants
to- flp,tn life Of Shawl biposef
Evening star., 1944-05-22

to stamp out the double feature
bogey, several already are under
way that will run from two to three
hours.