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Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-26
'Teen-Age Couples
Honeymoon Ends

LOS ANGELES, May 26. up
A pair of 'teen-age kids who spent
a marriageless honeymoon in
roofless pumphouse furnished with
stolen furniture were in Juvenile
hall Friday.
David Gayton, 13, and Enedina
Medina, Is, spent a week in a
windowle5s structure shaded by
giant Pepper tree, working by day
in a nearby onion field to support
themselves.
Enedina cooked their meals on
an open fire in frcnt Of theil
.loneymocn cottage She still woulc
pe she said. if David's father hadn';
found cut where they were.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-26
PoIyqamists Sentenced

of fundamentalist leader Joseph w.
Musser's plural wives, stood up in
court when Musser was about TO be
sentenced, screaming:
THE wrath of God will be
brought down on you, judge, if you
sentence that mani"
The judge called the sheriff. who
took her into custody Immediately.
The plural wived fundamentalists
had expected conviction and sem
fencing in the district court - In
fact, hoped for a conviction so
their case would be brought before
the higher court for a "ehowdown."
Meanwhile, the date Tor sentence
ing of nine fundamentalists who
have been convicted on other
charges by the federal government
was tentatively set for June 7.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-26
Blast on Island
Causes Deaths

WASHINGTON, Nav 26. (UP)-
The navy has announced that an
explosion and fire on an ammuni-
tion-laden landing craft at Pearl
Harbor on Sunday destroyed sew
eral small vessels, and caused some
loss of life" and injuries.
The blast occurred as ammuni-
ton was being unloaded from the
vessel, one of a group of landing
craft moored together in the harbor.
The incic ent will be investigated
by court Of inquiry CT which Rear
Admiral John F. ShafrCth is presi-
dent.
The navy provided no other in
formation here but it was presumed
that the explosion and fire caused
The destruction of some of the land
ing craft which were nested to-
gether
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-26
WLB Refuses
Extra Day
For Holidays

WASHINGTON, May 26. up
The war labor beard unanimously
denied a request by the National
Retail Drygoods association, repre-
senting 1000 retail establishments,
for approval of plant to give
employees additional paid holidays
on the days before decoration day
and the fourth of july.
WLB held that practice in the
areas in which the individuals
stores are located should determine
the granting OF paid holidays.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-26
Veterans Seek Education Aids

are being trained for various car
eers such as teaching, medical, le-
gal, social service, and business
administration" Riordan said in a
report to Governor Earl Warren.
OF the total applications, SO still
are under submission, 13 were de-
MED and three cancelled at the ap-
plicantS' request, he ado ed.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-26

WASHINGTON, May 26. CUP,-
Announced Casualties among the
American armed forces, not includ-
ing losses in the current italian
drive. tctal 2O6 227. it was revealed.
This total comprises 47,605 dead,
77.868 wounded. 44.522 missing, and
36352 prisoners.
Secretary of War Henry L. Stim-
son said army casualties through
May 6-prior - launching of the
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-26

SACRAMENTO, May 26. up
A total of lis veterans of the pres
ent war have applied to the state
for educational assistance and At
applications have been approved,
Thomas Riorc an, chairman OF the
veterans welfare board disclosed.
THE students now enrolled IN IA
different educational institutions
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-26

SALT LAKE CITY, May 26. CUP)
Sentencing of one plural wife to
che day in the county jail COM
pletely overShadowed the sentence
ing of her alleged husband and IA
other fundamentaliSt IS to one to
five years in the state prison for
illegally cohabiting with 55 other
plural wives.
Elderly Betsy Lee, allegedly one
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-26
Here's The Gasoline Situation
right this minute!

We in America are no longer saving
gasoline only 70 save rubber. We
ore no longer saving gas JUST be-
cause Of q bad transportation Jam.
From now on we ore also saving gas
to save human Iives-to shorten the
war. From now on we must make
rofioning work as it should =. or
else! Here's the situofion..
Near miracles of production expansion
have been accomplished by the oil com
panies. But the war machine needs gas
oline in fabulous quantities.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-26

Ever since we went to war, the military
need for gasoline has been going up,
and the civilian supply coming down..
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-26

THE ANSWER IS UP TO YOU. Total gasoline
supply for this total war is limited -.
but it can be made to do Fighting forces
come first and will get what they need.
AS result, the home front gets less
than it wants. OF this, the biggest part
must go to essential home front work.
farms, trucks, buses, industry. Needs
of this group, too, have gone UP 20%
since 1942-and they are the supply line
to Victory.
Civilian rationing takes care of what is
left Rationing is not an arbitrary plan
to deprive people of gas-but the only
workable plan for spreading too little
gas fairly among all users. Every wasted
gallon of gas means somebody else must
do without. And the armed forces will
not be cut.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-01
4 J
y 9 S 4 2
q K J 10 5
= J 10 4 3

a grand slam on today's hand.
The bidding varied with the
players involved. The play, al
though simple, Is sometimes
bungled on hands of this type.
The opening heart lead was won
by South with the king and a
low trump led to the queen.
When the jack dropped, declarer
realized that he had to guard
against four spades In one hand
and four clubs in the other. He
led a low spade from dummy,
finessed the nine, then picked up
the rest of the trumps. He led
his club to dummy's ace, ruffed
a low club, entered dummy
with the ace of hearts, and dis
carded his losers on the club
suit.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-01
q. QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS .

Q-From what is the quota
ton 20 death, where is thy
sting?"
A 1 Corinth i ans 1855;
Shakespeare lifted it.
Odd Russia or Germany
get more of Poland in the par
tition of September 1899?
A-Russia got $4,000 square
miles; Germany 72,5OO but near
ly twice the population.
Q-How profitable a purchase
was Man o'War, 27-year-old
race horse?
Ale was bought for $4,000,
has since brought more than a
million i'm stud fees, has more
than 800 sons and daughters.
@ What physical process
does catalytic cracking - the
method of making aviation gas
oline involve?
A-The splitting of molecules
and reshaping them into differ
ent combinations.
Q-How big are our rocket
shells?
A-Single-seat fighters carry
them 2.5 inches in diameter;
twin-motored fighter bombers
carry six-inchers.
Q-How does the Raj Ty-
phoon fighter-bomber compare
with the German Stuka?
A-Carries two 1,00O-pound
bombs, twice the load; has four
20-mm. cannon; flies 400 mph.,
which is faster than the Stuka.
Q-What is agar?
"A product of seaweed-
formerly obtained from Japan
harvested off the coast of Cali
fornia. Used in candy, ice cream,
baking, pharmaceuticals, pho
Biography.
Q-Are our armed forces at
scheduled strength?
Ayes, 11,35O,OOO: Army T.
100000, Navy 3,650,000.
Q-When will passenger-car
production be resumed?
A WPB plans to authorize
100000 for the first year fol-
lowing the fall of Germany
about half the pre-war annual
output.
Q-Where did the Germans
first use their radio-controlled
winged bomb, forerunner of the
robot bomb?
A-Against Allied conveys at
Salerno.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-01
LEGISlATED COMFORT

Any thinking, feeling man knows that eoot
and tie in the heat Of is uncomfortable nom
sense He quickly sheds both in the privacy Of his
home or in the accepted pursuit Of leisure activities
But convention DEGREES that for business he must
bind his neck with piece Of storched nen further
encrcIe it with sitting piece Of knotted colored
GOODS, and protect his steomne torso from health
full sun and cooling breeze with on enveIopne gor-
nnent.
The wiser and more successful man is, it
seems, the more he respects convention. Comfort
and good sense count as nothing against it. But even
more than convention he respects wise and bene-
ficoI ow
Thot is why the bill, introduced in the Louisiana
stote legislature, to prohibit the wearing Of coots
and ties from June to October Except for weddings
and church, is not as wocky os it sounds.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-01
By ERSKINE JOHNSON
NEA Staff CorrespOnde Mt

DICK POWELL, nice gent VINO
has been taking a beating on
and off the screen lately, went
to work in a new motion picture
yesterday which he says will
either be my best or my last"
The picture is RKO's Fare
we'll, My Lovely" in which
Dick, once the towns top mu-
steal star, plays private detec-
tive who prizes around in the
underworld and gets Dashed on
the head in every reel. It's all
heavy drama-not song or a
giggle anywhere.
"It's just what I've been want
ing to play for a long time
Dick said. II hope it will do for
me what Night Must Fall did
for Robert Montgomery and
what quitting gangster roles did
for Jimmy Cagney."
Dick is rather bitter at a GER
tain studio in this town. You
can't blame him, either.
At the height of the frothy
musical comedy era, Dick saw
the handwriting on the celluloid
and asked for a change of pace.
Let me try a dramatic role for
a change" he pleaded with
studio bosses.
Their answer was: Dick.
you're a bad boy. You're getting
difficult to handle. Now run
along and sing your little songs
and don't bother US. These mu-
steals are bringing you, and Us,
a fortune.
So Dick ran along like good
boy and sang his songs and
pretty soon he and musicals
were so dead at the boxoffice
even a pulmotor squad couldn't
revive them. Il was dead at the
boxoffice," he admits. But /
don't think it was my fault. If
a star slips in Hollywood it's the
studios fault. Look at Bob Tay-
lor. He started slipping because
of the roles he was playing. So
M-G-M gave him a variety of
roles and brought him back"
NO HAMLET HE
Dick went from Universal to
Paramount without much sue
cess. The roles were all just
about the same with the excep-
ton of christmas in July, '
which proved he. could play
something besides musicals. But
the picture didn't click.
Please don't get the idea, Dick
said, that he wants to play Ham,
lets. He doesn't. Just roles with
CUTS in pictures with a story.
Like Farewell, My Lovely
Dick gets beaten up twice,
outwitted several times, makes
several wrong guesses-whlch
Director Edward Dmytryk and
and Producer Adrian Scott think
makes him more human and
reasonable as a character than
the usual private detective.
For the sake of the record, we
asked Dick about Joan Blon-
dell's impending divorce SUIT.
He hemmed and hawed and
looked embarrassed and said a
lot of things had been printed
but that he hadn't said any
thing. So we changed the sub
ject.
But later. we got to thinking
about how Dick and Joan were
the victims of the most ridicul-
Gus publicity stunt ever perpe-
trated by Hollywood.
STUNT THAT BACKFIRED
When they were married,
Warner Bros. engineered a
honeymoon for them in the form
of a steamship cruise through
the Panama Canal to New York.
In New York harbor, there was
a reception equal TO none except
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and excur-
sion boats, tugs, welcoming COM
mittees, bands, parades, the
mayor-it was just too-too-too
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-01
. IN HOLLYWOOD

All tying up, of course, with the
opening of their latest picture.
The newspapers kidded the
stunt until Joan and Dick were
ready to kill the entire tribe of
Warner Bros, including all their
little press agents.
Couple of nights after their
arrival the went to a night club.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-01
Hiqh|iqhts from Latest Books

% clear the seas Of this menace.
The role played by the Brit
ish seaman in the evacuation OF
Dunkirk, the landing of Allied
troops in North Africa, and the
conveying of men and supplies
to the Allied nations is de-
scribed with romantic force.
Having lived, worked and
fought with Britain's merchant
seasman of both World Wars,
the author sets forth his belief
that these men are the real he
roes of this, and the first World
War.
You do lot OF thinking
about where the crooked can
die" comes into the story be-
fore you finally find out that it
plays the major part in the
solving of THE Case of the
Crooked Candle" by Erie STAN
ley Gardner Morrow: $2).
Book is the usual clever plot
of the writer built around Per-
ry Mason, his fictional lawyer
and crime solver de luxe. The
murder itself takes place
aboard a yacht, and involves
karacul sheep, oil promoters,
the usual bevy of beautiful gals,
and the crooked candle.
Try to figure out how the
candle plays such an important
part in the solution of the mys-
terry before you're halfway
through the book. It's tough
lie.
CAVALRY CAPERS
Another in a series of books
describing the life of your son
and mine in the armed forces
is Hes in the Cavalry Now"
by Brig. Gen. Rufus S. Ramey
Mcbride: $2.75).
First off, you probably have
the idea that the cavalry is still
a horse-opera branch of the
services. But you'll get a dis
tinct surprise in learning how
it has been modernized through
mechanization. Sure, the boys
still know how to ride horses,
but they also know how to
move with trucks, jeeps, amphi-
bians, and execute all the from
tai and thanking maneuvers with
mechanical power that made
the cavalry so famous back in
the days when the horse was
the difference between winning
and losing a battle.
General Ramey, top word in
cavalry strategy, has gone to
great pains to tell how young
sters are put through the rigors
Of present day training. And
you can be assured that, after
coming out of this course, our
cavalrymen are more modern
and better conditioned than
any others, and that they are
following a tradition that has
been one of the most illustrious
in the armed forces of the coun-
try.
Little, but, oh, my. That
briefly describes the subject of
"Microfilming," little book
that tells a big story about the
photographing of V-mail and
important documentary Stats
tics in miniature form. Written
by Ralph DeSola, it is publish
ed by Essential Books, and sells
for $3.50.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-01
MCKINNEY ON
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM e MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

The Masters pair and Masters
team of four championships,
held in the national tournament
at the Hotel Astor in New York,
are known as the world cham
pionship pair and team events.
Generally speaking, bidding
and making a grand slam will
get you better than average; but
practically every pair in last
years tournament bid and made
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-01
. SOTHEY SAY

The thing to do with Germany
is to isolate Prussia from the
rest of Germany and break up
the Prussian junker class. Prus-
STA is thoroughly hated In Ger
many.-Emil Ludwig, author.
Those who fear we face the
task of feeding Europe for long
period do not realize that agri-
culture is the first thing to come
back after a war.-Dr. Henry F.
Grady of the Allied Control
Commission.
1t would be a serious mistake
to suppose that we could put
off all thought of postwar prob
lens until the day the shooting
stops. There is no need for a
leaf-raking economy after the
war.-Tom M. Girdler, chairman
Republic Steel.
The measure Of the worlds
tragedy is the measure of our
opportunity, of our responsible
ity and our duty.-Sir Wilmott
Lewis, the Times of Londons
Washington correspondent.
1t is not important that the
soldier conform to the family
pattern, but he needs the sense
of belonging to something stable
that can serve as a safe anchor
age for the time being and per-
nit a certain amount of floating
and drifting. - DR.. Alexander
Reid Martin of New York.
Not everybody will be happy
after the war, and it is much
better that the Germans and
Japs be unhappy than the Czechs
and Chinese. - DR.. Hans Kohn
of Smith College.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-01
WHO SPEAKS FOR FRANCE?

As the doy OF Frances IIDeroton oPPfooe'e'
who can speak for France in the councils OF the I'D
erotors? What Frenchmon, with the confidence or
his counnnen and the best interests Of his country
at heort can aid and advise the American and Brit
ish governments in the civil difficulties that VIII fo
low closely the military Probems'
The obvious answer would seem to be General
de GouIe But that answer has never satisfied those
two governments, and it unlikely thot it ever
will General de GouIIe was to meet Prime Minister
Churchill to be sure Yet Mr. Churchill, in the same
speech that announced the meeting, repeated his
doubts that the French Committee Of National Lib
erotion now by it's own decree the Provisional Gov
eminent of the French RepubIic) represented the
French people.
It would be interesting to know if reasons other
than those stoted are behind the persistent Anglo
American refusal to recognize General de 0oulle,
except as head of the French troops now fighting
with the Allies. Is it pique at his triumph over the
Allied choice for head Of the French government-'n-
exile? Have they another candidate in the ottine'
Are there unreveoIed focts suspicious that count
against the general?
General de Goue has made his share Of mis-
tokes But on the bosis Of evidence available to the
public, he is the best man at hand. He lobored in
vain to prepare the French army for this war over
the defeotist opposition Of Petoin He has promised
not to perpetuote himself or his government in pow
er once France is liberated
And the French people seem to want him. 1t is
significant that there was popular protest from
North Africa or metropolitan France when General
Giroud foded out Of the picture. From what can be
learned from underground newspapers and from the
few persons coming out Of France General de Goues
popularity there is growing.
Onnosed bv America and Britain. and denied the
usual machinery of political buiIdup, he would
seem to have achieved his present stature through
his post reputation and the French peoples present
faith in his obiIity and intentions.
Surely the French patriots deserve consideration
They have endured with little complaint the tragic
necessity Of civilian deaths in the Allied dir war
against their conquerors. They have hidden clothed
and fed our flyers, and helped them to escape. They
have suffered brutal reprsos.
These are the people who apparently want Gen.
erol de GoulIe to represent them until they can
choose their own leaders. They cannot be blamed if
they have begun to question why the Allies SO stub
bonIy oppose that wish.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-01
MAN BITES DOG

The House Of Representatives has recently been
described as THE least enlightened and dunnbest
bunch ever had to do with"
Wnot's uriusuoI about thot? Nothing, except thot
~ accusation was made by Thomas F. Ford Of Coli
Sossio, Denocrote member Of the House Of Repre-
sentotves, In declining to seek denomination.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-01

Powelps permission to take a
photograph.
"Just the two of u.s." glared
Dick, "or do you want Congress
to sit in?"
In recent years. Dick and Joan
appeared together in two pic
lures. ironically titled, Model
Wife" and Il want a Divorce"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-01

"Hitler's Generals" by w. E.
Hart doubleday Doran: $2.75)
provides a valuable close up of
seven of Germany's leading gen.
erals and two admirals-men
who symbolic even more than
Hitler himself the forces the
Allies will soon face on contin-
entail Europe.
Rommel, whose reputation as
the willy desert fox" was so
we'll played up that even his
crushing defeat in Africa did lit
tie to deglamorize him in the
public mind, appears at a dis
tinct disadvantage in Harris
book. The author, former
German officer now in Eng
land, and who served at one
time or another under the mill
tary leaders whom he sketches,
pictures Rommel as not at all
cagey or even a good general,
but a smart politician, deft at
ballyhoo, who hitched his wagon
to Hitler's star, and by that
alone reached his present rank.
General Won Fritsch, who
supposedly was killed in action
on the Polish front, died quite
a different death, according to
Hart. One narrow and highly
dramatic escape from Hitler's
henchmen was followed by an
other trap, but this time the
jaws did not miss.
The book is more than a Sc
ries of profiles. 1t is the strug-
gle between the old-line mill
tary and the Nazi upstairs, of
plots and counterplots. But de-
spite the internecine warfare,
all of these "supermen" had one
goal in common: German DOM
nation of the world. Of parti-
cular interest is Harris evidence
confirming the early suspicious
Of the more far-sighted - that
Germany began rearming al
most as soon as other nations
had laid down their weapons
at the conclusion of World War
!.
The book is important Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower seems to
agree, as copy of "Hitler's
Generals" was reported recent
sly as being on his desk at the
Allied Command Headquarters.
MERCHANT MARINE SAGA
Battle of the Oceans" Live
right: S2.50) is the story of the
gallant men and ships Of the
British merchant navy. There
is no more dramatic and poig-
nant tale of heroiSm than that
of the men of the merchant ma
rine, and the author, Warren
Armstrong, has chronicled their
life with the authenticity and
color which only a ea-faring
man could do.
The author sets his tales of
the deeds of the merchant sea-
men against the historic back
ground of England at war from
the bleak days of 1898 to l943.
He shows how Hitler's plan to
use U-boats to cut Britain's sup
ply lines was courageously
thwarted by the British royal
and merchant navies. The ruth
lessnesS and cruelty of the u
boat commanders is wildly
portrayed by the authors de-
scription Of Englands struggle
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-01
BY PETER EDISON

ny fExEn EDSON
WICHITA, Kan. - For the
next few days this department
is moving from Washington to
Wichita, not far from the geo.
graphic center of the United
States. The home front war is
being won in the Wichitas of the
u. S. A.. the election is being
settled there, and there the
peace and postwar problems are
being worked out. To know
how the planmakers and the
lawgivers are doing their jobs,
Washington must come to the
Wichitas.
You cannot convince anyone
in Wichita, Kan, that the war
is not being won here, for Wich-
tia is making one of the now
not-so-secret weapons that Is
going to help win the war-the
Boeing BIO Superfortress
bomber. It is no secret in
Wichita, for the whole city and
countryside for miles around
glow with a fierce midwestern
year-round pride, hotter than
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-01
Q BARBS

About the only way to keep
ants from getting your picnic
lunch is to let the cow have it.
Who remembers the nice cold
days of last winter when we
longed for the nice hot days of
this summer? - which are max
ing us long for the nice cold
days of next winter.
An Illinois dentist kissed
patient and was fined $50. Don't
tell us that didn't hurt!
A War Bond speaker has little
trouble collecting a crowd =
and should have just as little
collecting from it!
We hope that the present
answer to the old question,
whats up?" is all of the stuff
in your Victory garden.
For the Allied forces it's dig
in, for the folks at home it's dig
down and for the enemy, it's
dig out.
Stacks on the job and knee
pants on the beach-that's the
longs and shorts of il for women.
The average American man at
war is ISL years old. We don't
know the average OF the married
ones fighting at home.