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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-10-16
BY S. BURTON HEATH

NEA stair Correspondent
DETROIT-How would you
like to save 80 per cent of the
gasoline that you ordinarily use
in your automobile if you
could do it without buying 50
much as 10-cent store gadget,
or doping your fuel, or adjust
ing a single nut, bolt or screw?
am prepared to tell you how.
I have just learned from an &C
quaintance who has been with
the auto m obile manufac-
turing industry for more than Is
years. He and many of his as
sociates regularly got % miles
to the gallon, throughout the era
of gas rationing, from STOCK
model Chevrolets. AS stunt on
one occasion, this man drove his
car 80 miles on a gallon in nor
NAL traffic.
Perhaps you remember the
phenomenal mileages that pro-
fessional drivers used to get
from stock cars, under careful
supervision, under very difficult
conditions, in the pre-war an
nual Gilmore economy contests
out in California.
Those chaps would pull out OF
Los Angeles, climb over 5000
foot mountain range, drop down
to below sea level, climb up
again to about 5000 feet--much
of the way over sandy roads-in
800 miles. Out Of WHY'S they
would get 43 to "A miles from
one gallon of standard motor
fuel. A Chevrolet or Plymouth
would give as much as 35 miles,
and even big Cadillac would
give Is miles.
Well-here's how they did u.
There are some warnings that
will follow. II you ignore them,
don't blame me for any trouble
you may get into, but first,
here's how:
When you start, accelerate in
low gear to five or 10 miles an
hour, and then shift directly in
to high without passing through
second.
OPEN THROTTLE
Open your throttle not less
than one-half or more than two
thirds. Hold it there, unless some
hazard prevents, until you are
up to about 35 miles an hour
or with in coasting distance of a
stop light or stop street crossing.
Declutch and shut off your ig-
milton with the key.
II there is a traffic stop ahead,
try to brake or time your coast
so that you arrive just as the
light turns, and can continue
on without stopping.
II the road Is clear, coast until
your speed has dropped to abou,
25 miles an hour. (For greater
economy, coast to speed of Is
miles an hour, but even at %
miles you will save a lot Of gas)
Then turn on the ignition and
double clutch" your motor
back on: That is. let. the Gluten
pedal out until the gears begin
to engage. hesitate, and then re-
lease the clutch pedal the rest oi
the way. (This is for smooth
ness.)
Again open the throttle MOI
less than half or more than two
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-10-16
THE sheriff AND THE BUDGET

". note that one Of Detroit's esteemed journals,
under the heading Reeonvert the Sheriff finds the
action Of the Wayne county boord OF supervisors
whoIIv commendobIe in .purnins Andy Boird's op-
peel for more men.
So far as we know thot conclusion is entirely
sound and ustfiobIe In any event it is Wayne eou"-
tys business - not ours
The situotion in Mocomb eoAnty, however is Ut
tsrIy different.
Here with vast exponse Of unineorporoted ter
ritovv in which some 10000 persons make their
homes the sheriff ond his staff represent the dif-
ference between law ond order ond possible anarchy
To exercise q restraining influence upon ire
sponsibls spirits and to bring to justice those who
disreoovd the laws Of the land, Sheriff Harley En-
sign hos at his disposed but 20 regular officers Thot
msans with allowance for three Investigators an
absolute minimum in view Of the multiplicity OF com"
pIoints that come over his desk dolly, and two-mon
Identification bureau, he has available but 5 men
TO cover three eight hour shifts. As result, with
one man on each shift Detailed to the duties Of
turnkey, and desk-mon obviously required on each
shift at the Warren township booth, but nine Off
GERS are ovoilobIs over "a hour period to patrol
the highways ond onswer emergency coils in the
entire oveo. Therefore, with two men per petrol cor,
it is oppovent that only one such machine con be
kept in eonstont operation out Of the Mount Glenn
ems office. Thus three men remain to cover q similar
~ hour operotion in the heoviIy populated Warren
township district. Thot means petrol cars, monned
by lone officers, must ottempt to enforce the law
throughout z4-hour period in that teemins and
sometimes explosive oreo. highly dangerous ond
ineffective means Of operotion.
Had the Mocomb county boord Of supervisors
odhsrsd to the shsrffs request for three more men
it would at least, have assured proper two man
crews for full swing around the clock both in the
North and South Moeomb oreos.
The point Of this outline is not, necessarily, TO
criticize the Bood Of Supervisors for its rejection Of
the shsrffs pso. We recognize the foet that Ma
comb county, with expenses oIreody soaring $4,000
onnuoIIy obovs anticipated revenues, is in no Po-
sition to throw your money ground.
We also want to moks it plain, nonetheess, that
the rules applying to Wayne county - where most
Of the popuIotsd orso comes within corporate limits
= presents on altogether different problem thon
does our own spFowIins home district.
The sheriff, at least, hos gone record" u
post-wor crime finds his forces incapable Of deons
with the situotion he will - beyond question -
BE in the eIsor." He hos sueeinety and properly
pointed out the inadsquoey Of his stoff.
II IL Is impossible for the board Of supervisors TO
90 trim other less vital budgets in order provide
the fundamentals Of protection to life ond property
for 50 per cent Of the eountys popuIotion that,
suppose, is the way II must stand.
As to the need for more help however there con
b no question.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-10-16

actors. Just think, if l took
the test and became star /
would have to hate myself"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-10-16
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

der-who is supposed to know
and who is ordered by law to
tell the President and Congress
what's what, every three months.
The answer to where are we
now" is unfortunately never as
simple as: up in Mabel's room,
down in the cellar behind the
ak, on top of cloud number eight.
at the bottom of the deep blue
sea, bound for heaven in a char
lot or headed for hades in a hack.
It would be a relief If one of
these top-drawer officials would
some day put out a report as un-
derstandable as that. This new
report Is shorter than most
which is a break-but still re-
plete with the usual economic
palaver. AS such, 1t is another
report which Congress will file
and forget.
Trying to find the one key
phrase that tells all, you come
upon this: e. We are emery
ing from a taut economy :.
into an economy of mobility"
Now you know-or do you?
CLASSIC EXAMPLES OF
DOUBLE-TALK
This economy of mobility APP
parently has no reference to the
fact that Oct. l is national NOV
ing day or that on Oct. ! the
clocks were all moved back one
hour. There's a lot more to 1t
than that. AS the report says,
this Is the Period of Paradoxes.
Business expansion along with
business contraction, increasing
employment while there is in
creased unemployment, initiation
while there is deflation. In short,
nobody knows where we're going
but we're on our way.
AS a matter of fact, farther
back in the report there Is one
section, Chapter v, which is
headed, "On Our Way" But 1t
says right in the first paragraph
that with only Al days having
elapsed since the capitulation
of. Japan, 1T is too early to
make a definitive progress re-
port"
Right below that is q SUBJ
heading, "Clews to Progress.
So that's the way it is. They
don't come right out and tell
you where you're going. They
just give you clews and you have
to figure it out for yourself by
recognizing the surroundings.
Two Of the clews are worth
special mention:
Industry has not been ham,
pered by red tape or the contin-
uance of production controls"
That'll be news to some of the
industry boys.
Then 1t says, washing ma
chimes, refrigerators and even
few automobiles have been put
on display"
Well, at least you can look
at 'em.
WHAT! NO STRIKES?
Strikes aren't mentioned In
this report, 50 they probably
don't exist. 1t does say, though,
that with collective bargaining
being increasingly restored, it
is to be expected there will be
differences"
The report makes another nice
distinction by referring to dis
employment" That's a lot more
polite than saying "unemploy-
ment." Elsewhere the report ad-
mits frankly there may be eight
million unemployed.
In an effort to explain all
that is being done by the govern
ment, a big chart measuring II
by 16 inches has been folded and
pasted into the report. It is head
ed, where We Stand on Recon-
version, Oct. l, 1945." 1t tabu-
lates what policies govern which
agencies to take what actions
and make which future plans II
Congress does what's needed on
Ia different things. So that you
can understand it all at q glance
this map has been broken down
into a mera "a boxes that show
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-10-16
BY ERSKINE JOHNSON
NEA Staff Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD

Il
THROATY VOICE: Carmen
Miranda called Director Lewis
Seller the other morning to tell
him she could not report for
work because she had a "horse
in Detroit" 1t hurt, she add
ed. Bewildered Seller demand
ed further explanations. So
Garments secretary came to the
phone. She explained that Car
men meant she had hoarse
throat and had been ordered to
stay home.
TITLE: Ed Gray, the Holly
wood agent, is responsible for
selling the film version of "Jaco-
bowski and the Colonel" Ed
says that when the play first
opened on Broadway one Pole
standing in front of the marquee
said to another: What q title?
How in the world will they pro-
nounce it? Jacobowski and the
WHAT"
HOPE MEETS HIS MATCH
BALANCED CONV E RSA.
TON: 1t happened at a San Luis
Obispo hospital. Bob Hope was
doing a show when a pajama-
clad patient suddenly joined
him at the mike and started ad
libbing. They were going great
until a man in a white coat came
up and took the patient away.
The patient was from the mental
ward. Commented Hope: what
worries me is that we were hav-
ing what l thought was . very
we'll balanced conversation"
NO SHORTAGE: Hollywood
famous Beachcombers probably
was the only restaurant in NOV
ietown, if not in the entire coun.
try, which did not suffer from 4
help shortage in the kitchen
during the war. The Lees
cousins, uncles and nephews-
took care of the situation. Since
1888, the Chinese Lee family
has dominated the kitchen at
the Beachcombers. AS Lees
went off to war, new Lees took
their places.
One night, the boss Of the
Beachcombers, comely S u n n
Lund, got to wondering how
long this could 60 on. So she
went back to the kitchen and
asked the eldest of the tribe II
he thought there were enough
Lees to last out the war. Senior
Lee grinned, assumed q Jimmy
Durante pose and in q Durante
growl announced: missy Lund,
I've got a million of EN-"
1T HAD TO BE OFFICIAL
STUBBORN: Carole Lands
story of the waiter who refused
to reform with the coming OF
peace is the best yet. She was
having a farewell dinner with
friends in New York before set
ting out for Hollywood to star
in Behind the Green Light"
II was the period between the
first news of the surrender Of
the Japs and the official cere-
mony of signing the peace.
Irked by the surly manner OF
the waiter, one Of the men in
the party exploded: Don't you
know there's q war overt"
yeah" replied the waiter, but
!. they amt signed the papers yet
have they"
ACTOR Halter: A casting
!. director at q major studio saw
Larry Ginsberg. the press agent
having dinner at q swank night
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-10-16

Q-What customer has the U.
S. regained through Germany's
fall?
A-Sweden, for chemicals,
machinery, machine tools.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-10-16
BY PETER EDISON

WASHINGTON - So you're
confused about the way things
are going. So you'd like to get a
picture of where you are at. So
you pick up the new quarterly
report of the Director of Office
of War Mobilization and Recon-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-10-16
MCKINNEY ON
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM e. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

Too many beginners worry
about when to take finesse,
how to develop squeeze play,
or how to make an end play.
still claim that il you will count
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-10-16
. IN HOLLYWOOD

club and asked him if he WOul
like to take a screen test. INC
me-" said Larry, firmly. Il hat
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-04
Mosher Sees 56,O00,OOO
Jobs After Reconuersiion

poets for the period following the
war.
Realization of the NAM esti-
mate, he added, would mean an
increase of at least one-third over
the prewar manufacturing labor
force.
His report said:
The manufacturing industry
employed 10000, 900 persons in 1889.
Add the minimum of 100000 ad-
ditional industrial workers which
our survey indicat will be need
ed, and we have a total of IA, OOO,.
600 men and women who will be
needed to p n o d u e peacetime
goods.
Manufacturing normally EN-.
ploys about Is per cent of the
total working force of the nation.
Should the other elements of our
economy be able to make similar
increases in employment we
would have about 56,00O,0 900 indivi-
duals working in our stores, on our
farms, in the various services, in
local, state and federal govern
ment and in other activities that
make up our national life
This volume of employment
must necessarily depend upon a
favorable economic climate, upon
how quickly the government lifts
its ban on reconversion, and upon
a national confidence shared by
all elements of our society"
Mosher said the survey indicat-
ed unexpectedly low predictions
for unemployment during the
transition period when manufac-
turers will be converting from war
to peacetime production. 1t indi-
Gated most such Unemployment
would last less than is weeks.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-04
Al Capone's Brother
Charged With Murde,

CHICAGO, March 3.-(R)-Al Ca.
pohe youngest brother. Matt Ca.
pohe, 81, was arraigned on a charge
VI murder before justice of the
peace Henry Pendl today. A hear.
Als on The charge was continued
Until March Is.
Capone, wanted for II months
m connection with the Staying OF
seiS harrison in April, 1874, was
selzed by police yesterday while
having his hair cut and was taken
se the grand jury for question.
Larrlson's body was found in a
s .ou'h side alley last April. He had
c cseh shot. Prosecutor Wilbert F.
ssio|ley said a police investigation
:; t.selosed harrison had been dr1nR:
W. .,,s, me night of the shooting in a
suouFOan saloon owned by Capone
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-04
EIGHT BUILDINGS
DEMOLISHED HERE

Five of the II city buildings or.
dered condemned this year by the
City Council have been demolished,
Building Inspector Gilbert F. Nor
ton said yesterday.
Condemned and torn down have
been one story grocery store
at 623 South Fifth, and one 8ory
dwellings at TIT South Twelfth, 113
Wooster, 2O6 North Tenth, and 401
Queen.
Repair of one story house
at 1@ South Tenth has been com
pleted and reconstruction of Jar
mans Pharmacy, 1920 Markett is
40 per cent finished, Mr.. Morton
reported.
Demolished for t h e reasons
than condemnation have b n
houses at 301 Hanover, 604 Daw-
son, and SIG North Third, he said.
The third survey this year has
been ordered on nine other city
properties. Mr.. Morton said the In
spection probably would be made
this week. and a report to tn e
Council filed at the next session.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-04
HOME BREAK.INS
REPORTED HERE

Three additional house break
ms were reported to police FRI
day night to boost to 16 the city
residential burglaries committed
in the past two months.
Besides the Is house break-ins
last month, when 500 worth Of
valuables were stolen, Is store
and office robberies took place.
Purse snatching was cut to one
last month.
The theft Of automobiles, house
and store robberies last month
accounted for the loss of S., 135
worth of property, of which 49,
247.01 was recovered by police.
Police Chief C. H. Casteen de-
scribed the house break-ins as
"spasmodic" burglaries. Persons
hearing odd noises about their
homes or yards were asked to
notify police at once, so as to give
the officers an opportunity to APP
prehend the thieves.
DR.. E. P. Walker, of f01 North
Seventh, reported that $3.50 in
cash and S. in ten-cent war stamps
was stolen Friday night from his
home. Officers found the thief en-.
tered by removing window
screen.
A pocketbook, containing SIT and
other valuables, repeatedly was
stolen from the bedroom Of Miss
Anne White, 1106 Grace street,
while she and her guests played
cards in the living room. 1t was
determined that the robber enter
ed by raising the bedroom window.
Raising the screen to a window
at the home of w. G.. Farmer, 1905
Princess "thieves entered and
ransacked the house. Five dollars
was taken from a cedar chest,
police said.
nrYvy aN,r
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-04
NEGRO BATTALION
ON HUNGER STRIKE

LOS ANGELES, March 3.-lR-
Approximately 1000 members OF
Negro construction battalion at
Port Huenene, near Oxnard,
Calf, veterans of 81 months
South Pacific service, have been
on a hunger strike since break
fast time yesterday.
Norman o. Houston, member OF
the Los Angeles board Of direc-
tors of the National Association
For the Advancement of Colored
People, said he understood "prac-
tically the whole negro person
nep' of approximately 1000 men
were participating.
Houston said the demonstration
was in protest against alleged ad-
dition Of white enlisted men to
the battalion for eventual eleva-
ton to chief petty officers; that
the negroes, because of their
training and overseas experience,
feel qualified for these ratings.
Commodore William M. Quig-
ley, commander of the advance
base depot at Port Hueneme, was
quoted by Navy spokesman here:
II knew them and admired them
at Tulagi and Guadalcanal.
However, they have no basis
whatsoever for complaint, since
there has been absolutely no color
line and no discrimination against
members of the battalion by its
own officers or by the naval base.
VINO action is contemplated re-
garding their present behavior.
The food is being prepared regu-
larly and will be available to
them when they choose to eat"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-04

NEW YORK, March s. (R -
American industry will provide g.
10000 to 100000 more jobs af-
ter reconversion than existed in
1889, and with comparable in
creases IN other lines there will
be work for 100000 individuals,
Ira Mosher, president of the Ma
tional Association of Manufacture.
ers, said today.
The NAM forecast was only
slightly under the goal of 10000,
600 set by Commerce Secretary
Henry Wallace and other admin
istration leaders.
Mosher based his estimate OF
manufacturing employment gains
on an NAM survey of specific
plans of 1,756 individual manufac.
turers. Inquiry was made in every
section of the country and into ev.
cry type of production.
Mosher qualified the prediction
by pointing out it was not neces-
sarily long-range forecase, but
was the experts analysis of pros
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-04
Chamber OF Commerce
Membership Campaign
To Be Talked Monday

Plans for the Chamber of Com
merce membership campaign ten
atively scheduled for the week be-
ginning March IL, will be discuss
ed at a luncheon meeting of the
membership committee Monday at
l 80 pm, at the Cape Fear club.
Emsley A. Laney is chairman Of
the group, comprised Of L. c.
Robertson, Jr., ]. K. Paul, H. T
King R. Dannenbaum and Der
Kingoff.
Luther A. Raney, president O.
the Chamber and Walter J. Car
tier, executive secretary, will NEE
with the committee.
BIIY WAR 3ONDS AND STAMPS
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-19

had endured When Haldane finally
signalled TO be let out, he and his
friends were close TO death.
Not one of them lost his head and
asked for the door TO be opened" he
said. They were gasping for breath
and they felt they were dying, but
they trusted my calculations. They
knew ! wouldn't fail them"
Charlotte, whom he married soon
after her divorce, was equally trust
ing for long time, but, in court the
other day, she said she lost faith in
her husband after he came back in
1886 from the Spanish Civil War,
where he had been studying the ef-
fectS of bombing.
II don't know why" she said, but
he was a changed man after that.
a brilliant writer who has travelled
widely and lived dangerously in
many parts of Europe to study local
conditions, Mrs. Haldane declared her
husband no longer considered her
his equal.
when the bombing of London
started" she said, che didn't seem TO
care the least about my safety. He
would leave me every night and go
to the air raid shelter of Professor
Huxley at the London Geological
Gardens, where there would be Scin-
tillating discussions while the bombs
fell. He said the place was too crowd
ed for me-"
There was room for her, however,
at a house which the scientist took
later at Harpenden, well outside the
bombed area.
"Ie told me 1 could come there
occasionally" she said, "but only If
1 would do all the cooking and the
housework-which he knew 1 wasn't
capable of doing"
That was enough. She sued for
divorce. The experiment at romance
was a failure.
THE AMERICAN WEEKLY I5
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-19
LONDON.


A IL his life, J. B. S. Haldane,
"a the famous British scientist,
Z v has been his own guinea pig.
He has eaten poison, shifted deadly
gases, inOculatcd himself with lethal
germs. cut off his oxygen. severed
his arteries. and he always produced
satisfactory results
There has been only one failure.
That was when ne experimental with
love. His divorce the other day from
Charlotte Burghes Haldane. known
as one OF the most attractive and in
tellectual women in England, seemed
to prove what so many have con
tended that romance is not science.
John Burden Sanderson Haldane,
which Is the sort of name that
might be expected for the son OF a
noted researcher and the nephew of
a viscount, got involved in love about
the same way he became involved in
experimentation was pushed.
From the age of four his father
began 10 use him in one sort of test
or other, and when he was eight he
was taken into a coal mine. told TO
stand near the roof and speak.
Friends, Romans, countrymen-"
he began, and before he could get any
further he toppled 10 the floor, over
come by the coal-damp gas that had
collected in the higher level.
Other experiments followed and
then, when he was 13 he was thrown
over the side OF a ship in a diving
suit TO see whether he could descend
40 feet without training. The suit
was defective and he was n early
drowned but he went down 10 the
required depth.
The scientific world came 10 recog-
nize his sincerity when, as a young
man, he volunteered for test which
required vivisection because he would
not permit the operation 10 be made
on a dog
This was in 1925, about the time
he met Charlotte. She was the beau
tiful black haired bride of a farmer
and had come TO London because she
wanted to write. They collaborated on
August 10, 1915
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-19

a novel and in the process of writing
ii she fell so deeply in love with the
busy scientist that she asked her hus-
band TO divorce her.
The husband complied, but he
named Haldane as correspondent and
also was awarded 5000 from his
wife's collaboration for the loss OF her
love To make matters worse, a court
appointed by the senate of Cam
bridge University ousted Haldane
from his post as reader in biochem-
istry because OF the scandal. He de.
manded a hearing and at a subse-
quent trial-the first Of its kind in
a hundred years-he succeeded in
getting his job as a reader back.