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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-13

When the French city Of Die was liberated, the
first outfit to enter in pursuit Of the fleeing Germans
ywos the Both Division. The grateful mayor wanted
victory parade and review, but time wos too Short
The Both had to push on swiftly. Yet its members,
IN their speedy passing. seem to have poused long
enough to impress the local citizenY with the vir.
tues and importance Of their noiortys point Of orr
gin.
Today the main street Of Die hos been renamed
Avenue de Ia Division du Texos This certoinly ought
to aid and comfort all Texons 1t shows thot their
soldiers stote pride is still functonine even in the
midst Of war and on foreign SOIL Not only thot, but
Il hos given at Ieost one French city constant re-
hinder Of the Lone Stor axiom thot, though oil Tex
nns ore Americans, the vice versa proposition doesn't
Hold true-not by dorned sight.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-13
. QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS .

Q-Where did the white po-
tatO come from?
Alt is believed TO have been
taken from Peru to Spain in
1860, on TO Britain in the 17th
century, and to New England
in 1920 by Irish colonists-
hence, the Irish" potato.
Q-What is history's earliest
fixed date?
A-4241 B. c., date Of Egyp-
ton invention of a calendar.
Q-What is the Rafflesia?
A-Largest known flower, a
parasitic bloom found in the
East Indies which attains dia-
meter of three feet. 1t smells
like carrion.
Q-Who are the Dyaks?
"A head-hunting tribe OF
Borneo from, which the wild
Men of Borneo" were recruited
for circus display.
Q-How many rivets 60 into
q B-29?
A-More than 100000.
Q-Who is Paul van Iceland?
A-Former premier of Bel
GUM, recently named chairman
Of the Belgian Commission for
Study Of Postwar Problems.
Q-What industrial aid is
available in the Pas de Calais
and Nord Depar m n s Of
France?
A-Coal, needed badly. Two
thirds of Frances coal supplies
come from these two depart
ments.
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Q-What is the "West Point"
of France, reported bombed by
the Allies because the Germans
used 1t for military purposes?
A-St. Cyr.
Q-Do Swedes take greater
interest in their elections than
Americans?
A-Sadly enough, yes. In re-
cent parliamentary elections.
7l.8 &er cent of Swedish voters
cast ballots.
Q-How many coins do the
u. S. MINIS make year?
A-The past year they mint
ed 100000, 900.
Q-What high Philippine Of
fetal is partly of Chinese ances-
try?
A-President Sergio Osmeno.
Q-What is the fame of Mis-
(Nish, pop. $4,000, Yugoslav
city recently captured by Allied
forces?
A Constantine was born
there in 274 AID. Also a tower
of 900 skulls of Serbians killed
by the Turks in 1909 stands
there.
Q-What was the name of the
first steamboat?
A The Charlotte, which
piled the Firth Of Clyde Canal in
Britain in 1902.
Q-How many merchant YES
sells did japan have at start of
the war?
Asst 1--WE had 2345). BY
Oct. 10, 1914, we had sunk
1747, but the Japs have replaced
many.
Q-What is our homicide
death rate?
Alt was So per 100000
population In 1912.
Q-How big was Columbus
Santa Maria?
A-About 100 tons; the other
two ships were about half as
large, and without decks.
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Rowing Reporters

antly military and imperial in
its inspiration.
This will not be Berlin's first
fall. After the battle of Jena at
the beginning of the 10th CEN
fury it was occupied by the
French for time, and the King
OF Prussia had to move his gov
eminent TO Koenigsberg in what
later became East Prussia.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-13
BY S. BURTON HEATH
NEA staff Writer


When victorious armies ap-
proach a famous old-World met
ropolis that they may have TO
capture street by street, there
ordinarily is a psychological re-
vulsion against the impending
destruction of historic buildings,
beloved art and architecture and
symbols Of culture.
In the case of Berlin there
will be little of this feeling be-
cause Berlin, though more than
seven centuries old, has rela-
lively little of cultural value
that can be destroyed by shetls
and bombs and flame-throwers.
Berlin dates from about 1880,
and Kolln, across the Spree
river, is slightly older. The two
were merged in 1903, some 300
years after the twin-toWn first
became the residence of the
Hohenzollern dynasty and capt.
tai of the electorate of Branden-
burg.
But Berlin, as metropolis
and world capital, actually is a
more modern city than new
world places like New York,
Boston, Philadelphia. For it was
not until about 1870 that Berlin
began to take on real import
ance. Its rise conceded with two
events-formation of the Ger
man Empire under the Hohen-
zoiierns and building If inter-
national railroads for which
Berlin became hub.
RAIL CENTER
Berlin (now Europe's second
largest city, is situated on a
sandy plain so flat that the high
est point in the vicinity, the
kreuzberg, is only 200 feet in
elevation. 1t has very little in
the way of natural defensive
features. The navigable Spree
river bisects the city, and an
excellent system of canals helps
tc give it access to the North
Sea and the Baltic by way OF
the Elbe and the Oder rivers.
Twelve main railway lines
converge on the city from all
directions, and for the most part
are interconnected, so that any
rail movement Of importance
within Germany would be badly
disrupted if Berlin were held by
an enemy.
Inter den Linden is the best
known of Berlin's streets. 1t is
a fairly wide boulevard once
famous for its lovely tree-lined
promenade. The trees, however,
were cut down in 1887. II runs
from what was once the imper-
ial palace TO the Brandenburgcr
Tor, about a mile away.
South of Inter den Linden. as
far as the Leipzigerstrasse,
stretches the Friedrichstadt, the
government quarter. The north
end of the city houses It's mach
inc shops; in the northeast are
wooden mills; in the cast and
southwest are metal industries,
furniture and dye plants; to the
south arc railroad shops: south
west and west is residential; and
academic, scientific and military
institutions are in the northwest.
Many of the government
buildings are imposing, but
there are nc cultural landmarks
that possess particular signifi-
canoe. The Cathedral is big and
costly but far from beautiful,
AID dates back only to 1893,
None of the museums, or. for
that mates, of the universities,
have buildings TO compare will,
those of most ancient continen-
tai capitals. Ststuary, whatever
its artistic merit. is predomin.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-13
: BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

Grand Rapids editor ana pup
Usher. Most were small town
lawyers - George in Vienna,
Ga; Pepper in Perry, Fla; Nc
Clellan in Camden, Ark; Brew
ster in Dexter. Me-; Bilbo In
Poplarville, Miss; Ellender in
Houma, La. O'Daniel was a
Texas flour salesman. What are
the rights of these to pass on
who is a big enough business
man? Answer: These are the
duly elected representatives OF
the people and through them
the people pass judgment on
how things shall be done. This
is democracy at work.
FDR'S LETTER A KISS
OF DEATH?
But what about this letter OF
the Presidents to Jesse Jones,
in which the President said that
Wallace thinks he could do the
greatest amount of good in the
Department of Commerce? Is
this just getting even with Jesse
Jones in the belief that it was
he, Jones, who inspired the
Texas revolt against the fourth
term? Or is this another kiss Of
death letter like the one Roose-
welt wrote Democratic National
Chairman Bob flanagan at the
Chicago convention, consigning
Wallace to the political wolves?
A strange character this Wal
lace. Is he being vindictive in
wanting to take Jones job away
from him? Is this sweet revenge
for their last bout; which Wal
lace lost? Or is Wallace just the
simple, unaffected, child-like
character his intimates say he
is? He's a dreamer, they say
this Wallace is, mystic.
What's he driving at in his
suggestion that Congress inves-
tigate the RFC? What does he
mean by daring to question the
sanctity of the Federal Reserve
system? Seems he wants to lib
eralize them SO they will make
more loans to small businessmen,
more character loans. Bankers
used to grant character loans to
good honest upright men who
went to church regularly. raised
a family and seemed willing to
work IL or Ia hours a day to
pay off their debts. People don't
60 to church as much as they
used to. Maybe they have lost
their character. And Wallace is
talking about shortening the
work week and paying people
more money for it, too.
WALLACE'S ANSWERS
NOT TO THE POINT
Wallace, in fact, again out
lines the Presidents eiGht-point
Bill of Economic Rights. The
right to a job, to food, to a
home, to produce. to buy and
sell, to health, to old age Sc
curity, to education.
Yet Senator Bailey asks Wal
lace shrewd and pertinent ques-
tons. HoWs he going to get all
those things? Wallace's answers
aren't sharply to the point. He
missed here. If he had advocated
unemployment, hunger, S C X
ness, poverty, illiteracy for the
masses, OF course he wouldn't
have been asked such embar-
RAISING questions.
This is the battle Of the CEN
tury-the next century the
next generation at any rate. The
theme song for this two-day
show might we'll have
been. where do we 60 from
here?" Into new fields with
Wallace, or back over the con-
sentative paths trod by Jones?
These two men personify the
future. Which character will be
remembered longest? Which will
hive the greatest place in his
tory-Jones for his realistic SOL
vency and responsibility or Wal
lace for his impractical and ap-
parently consuming desire to
improve the lot Of the common
man?
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-13

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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-13

Georgia women war workers
have formed a sight saving
corps" for eye conservation
methods. Touring the plant con-
tinually, they test workers on
the job, suggest changes in
glasses or goggles: repair, steri-
lize, adjust more than 800 pairs
weekly. Result is sharp cut in
absenteeism, increased produc-
ton.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-13
BY ERSKINE JOHNSON
NEA Staff Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD - This is 60
Ing to be a great plug for the
picture, kiss and Tell"
We kissed Shirley Temple.
And now we're going to tell
about it.
After all, % other guys were
kissing Shirley so we figured
one more wouldn't make much
difference.
OF course, being polite, we
had an assistant director check
with the lady first.
Tell her." we said, that
Johnson is at the end OF the
line"
The assistant director came
rushing back.
Shirley" he beamed, will
be delighted"
Six soldiers and five sailors
got Shirley's fipstick all over
their faces as the line moved up.
Sixteen news and magazine
photographers recorded the os-
lations and cluttered up the
place with flashlight bulbs.
Shirley giggled but we can
report that she did not blush.
It was a momentous event in
the young lady's life.
At II, she was getting her
first grow-up screen KISS
Twenty-three of 'em, including
Johnson's.
BEGAN WITH BATH TOWELS
1t all starts at a USO bazaar
where Shirley and girl friend,
Virginia Wells, are trying to
sell embroidered bath towels.
The girls aren't doing so well
until a boy friend buys five OF
them Shirley is so happy she
kisses him. Some service men
see the clinch; decide that Shir'
ley is selling kisses and launch
a frontal attack.
Being a patriotic little girl,
Shirley co-operates. AT 81 a
smack. (No amusement taxi
Two years ago, when Shirley
was Is, the movie press agents
also ballyhooed Shirley Temp
les first" screen kiss. 1t was
in the movie, miss Annie Room
ey," but it really wasn't a kiss
"Just a little peck on the
cheek" Shirley told US.
1T was silly" Mrs. Gertrude
Temple said. Lets not even
talk about it,"
The line moved up, the flash
light bulbs got knee-deep and
finally there we were-about 10
kiss Shirley Temple-with only
about 500 people watching us.
We handed her 81 bill and
puckered up.
"You - you - your Shir'
ley sputtered. scowling. The
assistant director said :"
II know. I gave him my
name"
"But I thought he meant VAN
JOHNSON! It's only you - Err
skine johnson"
"Only 500 newspapers" 4
wild-eyed press agent interrupt
ed.
Shirley is no dummy.
"Okay,' she laughed. But T.
pretend he's Van Johnson She
shut her eyes-and we kissed.
1t was nice. Very nice.
Only I guess Shirley was
little kissed-out. She didn't pu
much into 1t. And we were Sc
darn nervous, with all those
people around, that we didn
get going good, either. That Val
Johnson routine threw us.
IVAN johnson is wonderful,
chirley reminded us later.
20 WOULD DO
In fact, when Shirley frs
heard she had to kiss % 70
kiss and Tell" she told he
mother. Z.
IL think I should have some
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-13
MCKINNEY ON
BRIDGE
By WILLIAM z. MCKINNEY
Americas Gard Authority

have often said that conven-
tional bids are used too often ~
a substitute for thinking. II II
true that they can be used to
great advantage on some hands,
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The oirpIone has added mystery as we'll as reve-
Iotion 70 worfore. We can send orcroft over Ger
nny to look and photograph as we'll as to 0omo.
And vet. except for the fringe OF border on when
the Americans and Russions stand, Germany renons
as boffna and inaccessible as Tibet The oirP'one
reveals only tonto|izng glimpse which deePens
rather than dispes the mystery.
/. There wos for nstonce the report thot 9Th Air
Force FLYERS brought back from the Ruhr These t'y-
ers oozed down on the Ruhr cities from what. as
spoce GOES was an insignificant distance. But they
were as remote as astronomers eoxino at Mors
through telescope And what they SOW was as fruit
hu Of speculation as the Mortion conoIs.
What we're those creatures doing down below? u
NOS night, yet they hod the lights turned on THIS
iodnt happened since the Allies first flew over the
Reich What were they up to? Wos i 9 trick? Were
HEY inviting further destruction? Or had they BE-
pme fotolistc o. dispirtsd past the point OF cor
no?
irved issuno from lighted buildings and trolley
xuss, and which resemblsd small ons fire? Did they
li,eon that civil Uprising bod begun?
IN Some GUESSED That tie Germons were hastily Try
4 ~ q move heavy foctoy machinery forther behind
~ tnes. Others thought that they might be work.
Nv aF,d s,iaht to turn out as much as they could
osm plants t1ot stood in the line Of imminent A.
~ occuposSon.
II Noiaher expIonoton seems very IoecoI. It mo-
bInosy IS worth solvogine and new goods ore worth
,fot turlnn, then they are at leost worth the
Seu1sufy blockouf precautions. Besides, these the
ID would not expIon the lighted troeys and air
2Ids which the flyers noted.
A3 Tor the suppostion OF street fighting, that,
~, seems unlikely According to common sense
I'D tie best tradition Of eon9ster movies, NOBODY
loud turn on the lights in room before taking
dot shot at an adversary.
But what are those flashes, then? An astronomer
HIGHT costly expIoin them if they we're few thou
Snnd oht years out in the universe But observed IN
Sne streets Of Dusseldorf, they bottle analysis.
One thing at least is certain. Something is oniss
!, the unquiet tenor Of wartime German living. And
We incline to the astronomical conjecture that the
whole thi1o is q SOD to dsinteerotne Germon NOR
ale.
The Ruhr cities have been bombed, repaired,
bombed, rebuilt, and bombed oeon-throu9h black.
outs and through clouds Night otter night their res
idents have waited in darkness The bonnbers didn't
owoys come But even when they didn't the wot-
ino was nerve-Wrockino.
The bombers still come And soon the cities will
be in range Of heavy ortiIlery and field guns. Then
blockouts won't matter. So perhaps the soldiers and
civilians Of the Ruhr decided that if they must die
they would rather die with the lights And if they
escaped they deserved brief respite from the years
Of unIit nights before the enemy orrived
And perhaps Hiter's government, which had no
other hope or comfort to offer desporine popu|o-
ton, o9reed.
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) m HOLLYWOOD

thing to say casting those said.
fellows" Twenty two Van Johnsons
"Who would you ask for?" said Shirley.
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Writer Severely Censures
ROWdyism at Ball Games
By DON DELEIGHBUR

NEW Y0RK-Rowdyism games is n
with the times Rowdy players who umpres with bats
fighting each other knocking down and braw prngg
all during the of the Complaints from
Of the cities where Negro ball clubs People take their
Stadium
Grounds Griffith Stadium Washington Crosley
Cincinnati Comiskey Park Chicago we'll Wrgey Field and
Briggs Stadium n Detroit
There they knife
utandsh making people wonder "hy the hell do
have be identified with people?"
fact that such sensees braw place the white uhes,
park attendants gatekeper and white FANS but it hurts because
have learned how behave public No have taken
this problem consideration effective has been advanced
cope with it.
Mere Matter of Collecting Money
The promoters baseball merely
in the the boxoe off the players and
of the parks policing white
stadium guards and attendants policy allow brang
continue The logic behind this plain The white policeman who pulls
blackjack whaling
technical carving another position
because predominanty Negro white beating
another Negro for whatever almost nce further
trouble That white policemen and stadium attendants
to leave such brawlng alone
Negro baseball has advanced the days of RUDE
Teddy and L. Wkerson has from wobt
affair million business But is threatened with de-
srucon because of its indifference the weeds growing
baseball Of all sports
involving play Negroes knowing following
baseball than other and that the why Negro baseball
able of public
Paige Wells Ray cambridge
Migrate North
Right there thousands thousands of Negroes mgt
the South daily such places New York. Chicago Detroit
Cleveland Cincinnati Indianapolis Washington and other places Many
them fans number of them
public certainly baseball game
Together with the hOodum element that already exist in these cities
they combine formidable threat the future webeg
baseball by duplicating all the sreputabe and unseemy habits the
ignorant and uncOuth in public
sorry Negro up a
park dogs
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FL q THIS lis NT
vi w KfknBx 0E0M RooSeu
A Friend

friend person may sincere. Before him
may think aloud-Emerson.
Locally speakng The could be under the
everything going fine until the unforeseen
happened But the crowd at the Elks
with that real good music Howard Brown and his
reeaton was giving out Vernon Ptman
Hines the piano numbers And Dave Faison
plenty fiddle The really went through
little chan from New York took the trumpet from
that's something just Wish the crowd would
Jebug" St Pau) and his partner have the floor He's
bo hast in the Twin Cities in NV opinion People spotted listening
to the music were Josephine Brooks
MOnes and their Roscoe Kay Ann Walker 1t
David Allen Jones' the inventor Evelyn Joyner Dorothy Payne
wofing Young Ira Allen George Tre Russell
pack Booker, Mr. and Mrs Edmund Rice
Elsewhere Saw charming Roberts, here from Chicago
Miller Mason, Earnen Young Henry Bowman and
his wife, Carolyn Hunley Surret admng Evelyn Escues eyes
Cooley and Audrey Banks ong eisurey
Uncle has nuck Share in the army
. Roosevelt Thomas nay Khaki you know he's the
who said goes army would be dead) well
Roosevelt, looks like this it, Joe and Way Chambers, Violet
Asbury Mrs Carrie Peey Chicago,
their way to Lake Mnnetonka Jimmy Tove happiness
thing called Mary" (Gbson) Robert White eligible bachelor
Jack and Mary Ryan celebrating wedding anniversary
Frocking Kings Valley groups among whom
Howell Courtney Hyard Mines Ellis Manning
Naomi Thomas Ruth Gr Ella Shepard the William Goddettes the
Sydney Sae Attorney Hammond Turner, St. Paules
Underwood and Mrs H. Roper, the c. W
and Mrs Earl Weber all of St. Paul. the Tea Bur
Hiram Gibbs Mr. and Mrs Martin Brown and
Mr.. and Mrs c. W. Glenn
Richard JONES' private class Peery
and Samuel Mitchell Ellington Field Tex had card from
W Willis formerly employed the Athletic club who is in New
York; says he misses Minneapolis
Ghost Guide pulled its last
hreecoumn spread vocalist Trevor Bacon who made the
Lucky recording when the Lights Go On Again disc hit
skies Said the article 81" you take sight
seeing through New Yok eemng Harlem the chances excel
lent that you'll catch sight of Trevor because there's bound to be about
kids his heels" anybody catches sight of
please let know Bacon killed auto crash last
spring while the road with Tabb Smiths band!
Basic the Jump King of Swing appearing at the
Club Plantation Los Angeles celebrating his 10th anniversary as
band leader The Count they say has made close ambition
dollars this recordings and radio and
work. Two hear Wake Up Ce and Cottage
for Sale!"
speaking of music and records Maurice Strong has opened
record shop Olson this is the place records
Found the book titled THE Best of Negro Humo this
nnocen the preudces held him. old Negro
saunchy religious applied membership
The tried him off with all of evave remarks The
old Negro nstncvey becoming that he wanted said
finally that he would sleep and perhaps the Lord would tell him
what Several days later ne returned WELL asked the
did the Lord send you message?" did,
He told He said I've been trying the
mys for ten and Istlc nal
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DUKE DON.

ball with pnts whkey bags passing
and down until it is getting louder and all
American
other with knives smuggling each other with sticks or bottles at ball
certainly dastefu Maybe why
writer's
that none of Us like because in coming ns tbe ee nc
they and nothing the picture
Ball Players Also Blamed
There big against Negro player joins
ing gentleman the field The incidents umpires
been chased with bats struck by ate ball
is getting that fans don't the ball because
umpies being inundated by players calling
likely them into trouble The who
the outcome of doesn't like at all He feels he being robbed
which in a sense he is.
gambling public parks or at fights
think gambler and betting contest
rate protection against anything taking place according
Hoye remedy would patrol corps
at ball parks under jurisdiction police Negro
CLUB they are IN protecting their investment could
readily make such deals with the police department
police details assigned such with volunteers
identification or badges help keeping the un under control
Serious Accidents May Be Outcome
One of these days murder going to take place ball park
and that day the of that park who coore
the major clubs going Negro
motions from that park already place Chicago Wrg-
Philip wge the Chicago Cubs has
the cOOred and barred them from
park.
1t will happen in New York. it will happen in Washington in De-
ro Cleveland and everywhere unless somebody
self organize the situation CO. We
can't stand il as race because we are under foo much
The who bring whkey and drink open
be barred The promoters know them them
ary their favo clubs play identified easily
men who baseball place sell whkey which they
mugg into parks should be barred caught selling hskey they
should be promptly elected from the park.
Bring Dinners o Ball Games
In fact it wouldn't do much odashioned
people who bring their dinners park seen on
number of occasions An illustrative incident that which
three when Frank searching
suspects for bringing liquor along with federal upon
lady with big bundle trying into the park They stopped
opened the bundle and behold pot full
of and cornread She planned to be
the park all day and didn't to miss her dinner
and the FB ate the cornread
old ladies and others like her should be discouraged from