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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-16
IN HISTORY

I'VE have stopped cold everything that has been
thrown at from the north cost south, west, sold
the Christmas edition Of little poper put out by
one Of the encrced American outfits OF Bostoene.
"Aow effectively this done will be written in his
tory Of our glorious units but in the history Of the
world"
Those ore confident words, but they not con-
ceited They are the words Of men who knew what
they had suffered and they had accomplished by
their suffering And as nearly os predict,
they true.
It must be solemn and glorious thing to reoze
that circumstances have brought one to the point
where his actions may TO guide direct in.
spire the lives Of men in generations unborn and un-
dreomd Of And surely it must be realization eront-
ed only to few.
II is doubtful that the Greeks at ThermopyIoe,
the obes at Runnymede, the formers Of Lexington
or the citizens army before the Bostille could have
realized the npoct that day in their lives would
have upon history.
But the men Of Bostogne knew the stakes for
which they expended their couroge and their blood
They stopped the enemy OF O critical moment, and
did il with on unfIinehing bravery which is in the
highest tradition Of greet soldiers. The Thanks and
glory they receive will be meoeer recompense.
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at Memorial Hospital, where .
fight is being waged constantly
against cancer in children.
The Brooklyn and Long Island
Committee of the American Con-
tract Bridge League recently put
on successful tournament and
turned over the entire proceeds,
amounting to more than $1,000,
TO the Leagues Children's Fund.
An interesting coup was made
on the hand shown today by
Raymond j. McGrover, chair
man of the Brooklyn Commit
tee. After cashing three spade
tricks, East returned 4 diamond.
Now il looked as II the declarer
could not pick up the king Of
trumps. But McGrover led the
queen Of hearts from dummy
and played the nine from his own
hand. On dummy's eight of
hearts he played the seven-spot.
The ace and king of clubs were
cashed and the third club ruffed.
A diamond was led to dummy's
king and the nine Of clubs play
ed, McGrover discarding a dia-
mond. When the eight Of clubs
was led, East had to trump with
the Six Of hearts, Moreover
overtrumped with the jack and
cashed the ace. Thus the king
was picked up and the contract
made
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Rowing Reporters

is tough business. Hope and his
four gag writers. for instance,
work 48 hours week on each
show Hope lays out the situation
idea it might be the Army
Navy football game or the MORN
ing after New Years eve-and
the gagstefs so to work on writ
ing around it. Then Hope edits
and reWrites it in his own style,
making certain that he's the butt
of all jokes, which seems to be
the secret of his tremendous
audience appeal.
Compared TO Hope, Sinatra is
a rank newcomer. Seldom has q
star risen so fast. In 1885, when
Hope had finally hit high &C" as
an entertainer, Sinatra was
Jersey City sports reporter TAX
ing his girl Nancy (now Mrs.
Sinatra4 to see Bling Crosby. Her
"oohing" and "aahing" over the
crooner decided Sinatra to
switch from sports TO singing. He
collected popular orchestral ar
rangements, bought public ad-
dress system and rented them to
local school and club orchestras
along with himself as a fea-
tured singer.
UNEASY LIE THE HEADS
An addition with Major
Bowes' Amateurs" won him a
first prize and tour and later
spot with an orchestra. Tommy
Dorsey signed him, he appeared
in two movies, and after buying
up various pieces of himself
owned by those who knew a
good thing when they saw it, he
was on his way to crossing
million a year and becoming the
bobby soxers' delight.
Radio critics called Hildegarde
a flop at first. She wasn't getting
over the warm welcome and
flirty personality that made her
a hit in intimate clubs where the
atmosphere was coy.
This season her energetic
manager, Anna Sosenko hit the
right answer-she put Hide
garde's night club on the air, at
mosphere and all. The studio is
set with tables and filled with
famous personalities for Hide
garde to heckle and tease as she
has done always so charmingly.
And there's no more program
ming of songs the sponsors wife
Of such want. She sings only
those Observation-Disclosures num-
bers that cafe society has
okayed.
dating now she's tops, but
Hildegarde's keeping her eye on
that dynamic ditty-singer Dinah
Shore, who's way up there in
personality polls and record
sales, and inching her way up on
airwaves.
So you see, not so easy lie the
heads that wear the radio
crowns.
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BY ERSKlNE JOHNSON
NEA STAFF Correspondent

heeplnR 80 Dedu lllul glTlS
happy is really very simple, Phil
Spitalny said. Except when you
receive 36 ties for Christmas.
Spitalny and his musical
harem are in Hollywood al the
moment, working with Bud
Abbott and Lou Costello in Uni
versals Here Come the Co.
Eds" We looked him up to dis
cover the secret Of his way with
the ladies.
"You gotta be diplomat"
Spitalny said. People look at
me with surprise when | tell
them we are happy family
that we don't fight. They don't
believe me. But it's true. It's
not because of me but because
the girls are earning more
money than they could get any
where else. They're happy"
Salaries Of the gals range from
$500 to S25,000 year, Spitalny
said. The band is a corporation,
with the girls as stockholders.
why" said Spitalny, every
girl musician in the United
States wants a job with us. We
always have from 1000 to 5000
applications for jobs on file"
TURNOVER NEARLY NIL
The turnover, though, is prac-
tically nil. Seven of the % girls
who started with him IL years
ago are still in the band. Most
Of the others have been with him
more than six years.
Girls making that kind of
money don't quit to get mar
ried," he said. Eight members Of
the orchestra are married.
when they get married" Spit
alny said, they 60 on working"
Spitalny brought along Ev-
elyn, without her magic violin.
II thought you'd like TO meet
her" he said. She's terrific on
the violin and she's also manager
of the band. She does all the
work. I'm just the conductor"
II was Evelyn who gave Spit
alny the idea for his all-girl
orchestra. Eleven years ago,
when she was Is. he heard her
give a violin recital in Carnegie
Hall.
81 thought TO myself that il l
could find 90 or 80 other girls
as good as Evelyn ! could make
fortune. Next day l gave notice
10 a male band | was leading.
hired Evelyn and starting look
ing for girl musicians. 1t took
six months before we could get
started. But / was -right. There
was fortune in an all-girl
orchestra"
Except for one night at the
Capitol theater in New York not
long ago, life has been running
smoothly for Phil Spitalny and
his all-girl orchestra. That was
the night the elevator orchestra
pit refused TO work.
The cue came for the orches-
ira to come up out OF the pit
and nothing happened. The girls,
all dressed up, were stuck at
the bottom with no place TO go.
w lille stagchands scurried
around trying to fix the elevator.
Evelyn stood up on top Of the
piano, with just her head visible
TO the audience, and started
playing her violin. Four solos
later the elevator was back in
working condition.
THAT was the first time | ever
did a Helen Morgan routine with
p violin" Evelyn said.
COOKIN' WITH GAS
For their three-week stay IN
Hollywood. the orchestra was
lucky, getting enough rooms
with kitchencttcs for everybody
at a local hotel. Most Of the
girls prefer TO cook their own
meals.
fourth floor of the hotel
smells wonderful at dinner
time," Phil Spitalny said.
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. SO THEY SAY

They ask me il there isn't
something they can do for me.
tell them. Eyes, you
can invest in q plane and kid
to take the place of Robert and
his plane" - John Kakerbeck,
Worthington, N. Y. buying war
bonds after death of his son Rob-
ert over Europe.
Buying War Bonds Is no sac
rifice. 1t is the solemn obliga.
ton from which there can be no
Sinking until our soldiers job
is done. - Lt.-Gen. Ben Lear,
Army Ground Forces command
er.
There can be no half meas
ures. II fascism Is left to breed
anywhere than in 10 to 20
years time rivers OF flood will
flow again. - Ilya Ehrenburg,
Soviet writer.
We are departing from the an
cient policy of unilaterally
guarding the rights and property
Of our citizens to accept q new.
er policy. recognizing that de-
cent society holds it TO be an
obligation to every nation to col
laborate in the preservation Of
world order. Sen. Warren H.
Austin (R) OF Vermont.
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I. QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS .

GIN Marshallese, what does
Ailinlaplap (the island) mean?
Avery large island. Ailin
means island. lap means large.
Q-How large a labor force
worked on the B29 airfields in
China a year ago?
A-Peak force numbered 430,-
900 Chinese farmers.
Q-How many service men
never had job?
About 100000, states DR..
Robert Maynard Hutchins, presi-
dent of u. of Chicago.
Q-What has the war cost the
u. S. so far?
A-S234,5r 100000.
Q-Where S the worlds larg-
est war plant?
AIT Chicago, the Chrysler
Dodge plant, 81 acres and nearly
100000 square feet of floor
space. Aircraft engines are made
there.
Q-Wherc does the name Pal
atinate-the Bavarian province
lying ahead of our troops-come
from?
A-Palatinis, officials of the
Roman emperor. Districts they
governed were called Palatln-
ates, and the Frankish kings
adopted the name. The district
in point kept
Q-What is the Let (R)?
A-Landing craft, tank, rock
cts.
Q-What is a Jap Tony?
A-Their latest sin2le-seater
fighter, better than the Zero.
Officially it's the Mltsubishl
S-003.
Q-Are there any snakes in
Hawaii?
A-No.
Q-With what metals is mag
nesium usually alleged for con-
struction purposes?
A-Aluminum, zinc, or man.
ganeSe.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-16
BY ROSELLEN CALLAHAN
NEA Staff Correspondent

NEA Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK Silly, swooney
and simple is the radio enter
tainment order of Mr.. and Mrs.
Average Listener. Give them
gag they can laugh at, a song
they can sway to and straight
from the shoulder sales talk and
they'll vote you tops, as they
have Bob Hope, Hildegarde and
Frank Sinatra.
And catering to the armchair
audience pays off, for sponsors
watch listeners polls as closely
as a doctor does a patients fever
chart. AS the fever pitch of au-
dience enthusiasm mounts, so do
the stars salaries. Those few
minutes or air time each week,
for instance, drop $4,000 a
year into the sock of Bob Hope
The Voice-Frank Sinatra to
you-rakes in $4,000 a week for
his two regular network shows,
plus $4,000 more for each extra
guest appearance, which is just
a drop in the 81, l25,000 yearly
bucket of salary which his re-
cordings, night club and movie
jobs help TO fill.
Hildegarde, darling of the, sup
per clubs, after years of trying TO
make a 60 on radio, has at last
hit the top of the list of listeners
favorite femme warblers, and is
nicking her sponsor for $4,000
a week for her Raleigh Room"
appearances. Of course, this isn't
all gravy. The girl from Milwau-
kee with the hard-to-place &C
cent has to peel off q few "C's"
for guest talent and music.
A TOUGH BUSINESS
But some.of the biggest mon
ey-makers in radio are hardly
known by name. They're the
soap opera stars and hard-work-
ing snnouncers. Clayton Collier
and Karl Swenson, who play in
at least half-dozen shows a
week, keep the wolf from their
door to the tune of nearly $780,
600 year. Pert Julie Stevens
and Observation-Disclosures actress
Gertrude Warner vie with their
radio sisters for top place at sim
liar salaries. Announcer Ben
Grauer, who has SHE'D away
from vocal gymnastics and stuck
to straight style of-announcing
for IA years, has outlasted many
of radios personality boys.
Working six days week from
10 o'clock in the morning to mid
night, announcing long wave
shows in English, short wave
Owl shows in French, narrating
news casting and occasionally
acting, Grauer collects close to
$4,000, year.
Tops though they are today,
staying there is something else
again. Jack Benny and Kate
Smith, replaced in the public's
favor by Hope and Hldegarde,
fell from top place by a throat
cutting piece of airline pro-
gramming, with the two slug
gng it out over rival networks.
But Benny, with a fvc-ycar-
non breakablc contract at slO,-
600 net program, and Kate
Smith with almost two years to
60 OH her evening show at S13,-
500 a week plus $500 more for
weekly afternoon shows, aren't
worrying too much just yet
about dropping out of first place
in polls.
Easy though N sounds. comedy
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indicated that sugar rations
might be increased and has even
limited that the ration would be
entirely removed. Thus far, he
has not been able to make good.
The Presidents two hints on
easing the ration naturally
started a lot Of rumors. Natural
ly, everyone in the industry
agreed with the President and
for once they all thought he was
wonderful. The big question
was: When"
All branches of the trade -
growers, refiners, shippers, i'm
porters, dealers, confectioners,
Gamers, makers of soft drinks
and syrups-the whole sugar
lobby began turning on the heat
to force the issue. They built up
stockpiles of statistics to show
that the present restrictions -
particularly on industrial uses
were entire unnecessary.
Whatever the figures, the Com
bined Food Board. U. S. War
Food Administration and Office
OF Price Administration still say
there is not enough sugar in
sight to increase the rations.
RUMORS AND MORE RUMORS
But the rumOrS continue to
fly. Rumor: There are two mil
lion tons more sugar in stock
pile than the government is adj
hitting. Rumor: The British are
building up a million-ton stock
pile. Rumor: Cuba and Puerto
Rico are full Of sugar which
can't be moved because War
Shipping Administration won't
assign ships to haul it. Rumor to
top all rumors: Sugar stockpiles
were being built up SO that ra-
tioning restrictions can be lifted
just before the election, when
ration-free sugar will be offered
as a great gift to the American
pee-pul who will thereupon vote
Mr.. Roosevelt back into office
for fourth four years.
Sugar lobbyists aren't above
trying to plant these rumors
just to got everybody stirred
up.
On behalf OF the industrial
users Of sugar, now limited to
from 20 TO 80 per cent of l94l
consumption, Rep. Bartel j.
Jonkman Of the big sugar beet
state of Michigan has made
couple Of speeches in the House.
The British Supply Council
called press conference in
Washington for its sugar expert.
Sir William Rook." to explain
that the British weren't building
up stockpile and that they
were supplying sugar to U. S.
troops in Britain and elsewhere,
under reverse lend-lease.
A REPORT COMING UP
OF greatest interest, however,
is survey on U. S. sugar sup
plies now being made in OPA by
Ellsworth Bunker of New York,
vice president of the National
Sugar Refining Company and a
member of OPA's Sugar Indus
try Advisory Committee. BunA-
er's study is being made with
White House blessing to get the
real for-sure truth. His report
should be ready in the near fu-
ture. That it will change the pic
ture any is considered an ex-
tremely long shot.
Sir William Rock, speaking
from the European point of view,
goes SO far as to say that stock
piles have not yet been built up
for postwar relief, that increas-
ing the rations now would be q
great mistake, and that TO meet
the sugar demands of the liber-
ated countries it will be neces-
sary to continue rationing for
perhaps two years after the war.
But this is getting into world
sugar politics, which is even
more explosive than the domes-
tic variety.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-16
. BARBS

Bong, And Americas top
ranking ace rings up another
Jap plane!
One thing that really is a mat
ter of life and death is the
Army's call for more nurses.
The way to keep the enemy off
our toes IS 10 keep on them our
selves.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-16
UNIFORM AIR LAWS

The "a stote legislatures meeting this month ana
the next will have before them three bills OF notono'
importance They ore the proposed uniform dir lows
which have been drafted by the National Assoc
of stote Aviation Officials ond the NotIono' lnst-
tute Of Municipal Low Officers, otter consultation
with the Civil Aeronoutics Administration.
The bills are titled the Stote Aeronoutics De-
portment Act the Stote Arports Act, and the Stote
Airport Zonino Act. Their general purpose is to
avoid before postwar flying expansion begins, the
mistakes and federoI-stote conflicts that have
pooued other forms Of transportation in the post
Under the first oct the CAA would still make
the regulations governing the competency or flyers
and oirworthiness Of planes, as it does now But the
registration Of federal licenses and the enforcement
of these uniform regulations would be in the hands
of the states. BY this oct the stotes would adopt
regulations consistent with the federal rules, and
would define their rights to establish and maintain
oirports and to finance and otherwise assist devel-
opments by the stotes' political subdivisions.
The stote Airport Act would give the stotes
uniform law oeneroIIy concerned with federal did,
financing and toxoton Of stote county and city air
ports. The Stote Zoninq Act would protect planes,
pilots and passengers from such hozords high ten
sion wires and toll buildings in the immediate vicin-
ity Of flying fields
These proposed laws ere the result Of eorefu
otudy and the consensus Of many minds. And they
seem ennnently oommendoble for q variety OF req
sons Perhaps the most important is that their pos
sooe would avoid the creation Of another great bu-
reoucrocy in Washington.
It is not extrovogont to predict that half mil.
lion airline, private and commercial planes may be
flying American skies before many years have poss-
ed The ntrcoces Of licensing and regulating them
will require large force which might more solely
and practically be distributed among the several
stotes
The present CAA requirements for pilots and
planes have worked out successfully But stote gov
eminent cannot enforce federal laws So, if air
troll is to be decentrozed it will be necessary to du-
pIieote these requirements in stote laws and ossgn
enforcement to the stotes
1t is true that some legislatures have touchy
feeling about "federol dototion" But it seems to
US that in this the "dototion" endorsed by sew
eroI stote governments, is beneficial To combot it
would be dsservice to the stotes we'll as to the
country as whole.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-16

Mrs. Jenkins was an expert
enced home nurse. She prompt
ly offered her son and car to
take MIR. Swanson to the doctor.
But first she went over to make
him comfortable for the trip.
After looking at the swollen
hand she decided flaxseed
poultice would make a good
warm, moist dressing until the
doctor could take charge. After
washing her hands carefully,
she quickly assembled a sauce
pan, tablespoon, waxed paper,
piece of flannel, muslin bandage,
safety pins, flaxseed meal, a
piece of muslin about 10 by 20
inches in size, and q large plate.
TEST TEMPERATURE
She put l " cups of water in
the saucepan on the stove and
when ii was boiling briskly she
gradually stirred in IN cups
of flaxseed meal, beating ii light
and smooth. When the mixture
was so thick that II dropped from
the spoon, leaving it clean, she
removed it from the stove.
She laid one end of the piece
Of muslin on the plate and spread
il with a half-inch layer of the
flaxseed mixture, leaving
margin of two inches on three
sides to tuck in to keep the mix
ture from oozing out. The other
end of the muslin was folded
over and the edges tucked in
neatly.
After testing the poultice 10
make sure il wouldn't burn the
skin. Mrs. Jenkins applied it to
the infected hand. covered it
with waxed paper to hold in the
heat and moisture, and fastened
it on with the bandage, which
was pinned firmly with safety
pins The hand was then wrap
ped in The piece Of flannel and
placed in . sling.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-16
MCKINNEY ON
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM Z. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

am very proud Of the part
that bridge plays in raising funds
for worthy charities. My pet
charity is the Childrer's Unit
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-16
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .
By PETER EDISON

Sugar. these days, is being
made into dynamite. No - not
the kind they use to blow up
bridges in wartime, but the much
more highly explosive stuff
known as political dynamite. It's
this way:
Twice. in fireside chats, since
sugar first went under rationing
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-16
. IN HOLLYWOOD

They've stopped at the hotel be-
fore.
Spitalny once overheard two
bellboys talking. One shifted
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-16

and said What's that l smell?'
That said the other, lis Phil
Spitalny and his ah-girl orches-
tra-cookin with gas"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-16
HONE NURSE
By Iona l.. TROTT
Assistant Director
Red Cross Nursing Service
Written for NEA Service

Mr.. Swanson was a farmer
whose sons were in the Army.
His farm work kept him more
than busy, so when he punctured
his hand an barbed-wire fence
he didn't take time to 60 to the
house to have it properly clean
ed and dressed. Soon a serious
infection developed.
1t was thirty miles to the doc
tors office, there was no gas for
the car, and the rural telephone
was temporarily out of order.
When Mr.. Swanson began walk
ing the floor in pain, his wife
mounted horse and rode to the
Jenkins farm two miles away for
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-16

Q-Are there any snakes in
Hawaii?
A-No.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-16

Q-With what metals is mag
nesium usually alleged for con-
struction purposes?
A-Aluminum, zinc, or man.
ganese.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-16

Q-What is a Jap Tony?
A-Their latest sin2le-seater
fighter, better than the Zero.
Officially its the Mitsubishl