The MONITOR-LEADER • BEHIND THE SCENES McKENNY ON The MONITOR-LEADER April 27, 1943 Mount Clemens, Michigan MACOMB PUBLISHING COMPANY Page 6 IN WASHINGTON • BRIDGE PtibluhPd Tri-Weeklv—Tue»da\ ThurvUv *r.d Frirtaj »t Can Avenue and Wal- nut Street. Mount Clemep Fntrrrd as mail mat’ci o l the second claw at th# BY PETER EDSON belittle, just what is behind this BY \VM. E. McKENNEY po*toffire at Mount Clemen*. Michigan. ' Fed Up! Things have come to a pretty potato predicament? Is produc- America's Card Authority Just About pass, indeed, when you have dif- tion off? Are people eating I am sometimes asked what Tt LI TIKIMS
- - getting a potato. Has the American distri- Mount Clemens 1800 * 01 . 02 03 04 ficulty in Yet more? the four suits of the deck of are bution system gone completely lor Newt Call Editorial Department the mere fact that potatoes cards represent. There are sever- Manager it the weather? Are On Other Rusinefcs Ask for Publisher or Genetal now hard to get—in some places to pot? Is al versions, bqt 1 rather like impossible to get—is perhaps the people hoarding potatoes? Are the French version, that they re- Ml Mill K OF Till ASSOCIATI D PRESS significant development of they going to lend-lease? Or AH DER G4KE AMT most all present the divisions of a medie- Cl IINT Ot I’MTIl» PR InS >l I just home has black market got 'em? the war. It isn’t a the val army: Spades, the lance The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled tr> use an: or all ne ss cred- y- LV development, cither. The The answers would seem to be * front ited to It or not otherwise n edited. m this newspaper and . > the local n» w* FIMtSHEPy points of the chivalrous knights; published herein. SIBSCKIFHON RATES B\ urnn in Mount Clemens. 1 Cft.tt Army, too, has had difficulty in a little of each. i bun n M•- Diamonds, the arrowheads of the for three Issues a week; *7 80 per sear. Bv ramn m an> suburb getting spuds for overseas ship- People are working harder. naintau a carrier ei\;ce, 1 ter.l- lor Clubs, comb Counts where the Monitor-Leader ment. so, of people are working hard- yeomanry or the archers; three issue a week; $7 80 per yea: Bv mail, smicv paid In advance in Maco- b And the decline More ina $2 scr stat* tiic clover leaf of husbandry or Countv where carnet service is NOT tamed 7.’ p< i Out of the potato becomes a burning er. More people working hard- s.’>oo per year. Subscriber* will confet a lasu: by icporting piomptiy anj modu- question, an issue—the hot pota- er make more money. Their en- the peasantry, and Hearts of delivery whethei hy mail, or t?s carnei. larity in to issue, you might say, and ergy requirements are up, they course representing the church. Ml Mill K MICHIGAN PR IS S ASSOCIATION fraught with social significance. have more money to buy more Some also say that diamonds Ol'T-OT TOWN OH ICES The OWI report on the U. S. potatoes and blooey! Up goes Associate*, Inc. New York .... J. J. Devine A food situation, hot off the potato consumption. 2.1 West 43rd Street wartime Associates, Inc. indi- nice theory is that when *53 Chicago J. J. Devine A the duplicating machines, A M O 2 333 North Michigan As nine cates that there should be as starchy potatose became unsty- & Associates, * 9 7 6 2 Atlanta J J Devine Inc. many potatoes this year as last. lish, production dropped off to AK In fact, more: 129.7 pounds per next to nothing, but that isn’t so. *AKQ acreage has dropped - capita in 1943 as against 125.1 Potato * K»J 8 7 N 1 * 104 only one off 3.5 million acres to 2 8 AID FOR THE CRIPPLED pounds in 1942, and from VAIO 8 5 v/V F* J4 pound (exactly) less than the million acres in the last 10 years, ? 8 e ?QJI OS while that was happening, 43 five-year average of 130.7 but - drive *8632 , The Mount Clemens Rotary Club's annual pounds per capita, 1935-39. All the yield per acre has gone up * J75 goes to how much from 100 bushels to the acre to to finance aid for crippled children is in full swing. of which show * ACSO 62 the experts know about these over 130 bushels to the acre, VKQ763 direction of Oscar Watz, commit- things, in OWI making the 1942 crop of 371 mil- Under the able the truest line the * None being magnificent gen- bushels higher than the report a lion * 4 tee chairman, the service club members have con- of the last 25 10 9 erality. “The food situation is yield of 17 out vul. not entirely predictable." Life years. Duplicate—None tracted hundreds of prospective donors —and have East is like that, too, to coin another All right, but if all those pota- South West North dug deep into their own jeans. phrase. toes were grown, where arc 1 * Pass 2 ? Pass WHYS AND WHEREFORES they? The alibis run something 2 V Pass 2N. T. Pass to doubt that the cam- Pass There seems little reason But seriously, now, and not to like this: 3 V Pass 3N. T paign will be an outstanding success even in this day Now is the tag end of the 1942 Opening—? Q. ** potato jiotatocs are drives. season. New of other vitally important • just beginning to come to mar represent titles but they were optimistic picture which Chairman Watz FLASHES ket, or should be. But the Flor- just a problem in today's hand. The ida freeze the early potato cut opening lead was won by paints is a tribute to the people of Mount Clemens. crop by 50 per cent. Louisiana The Mississippi the ace of diamonds, dummy dis- OF and crops are three spades. They have not lost sight of the children whose pain- weeks late. Texas potatoes are carding the deuce of split will be assured proper medical and • just beginning to move And the Reading the diamond from wracked bodies LIFE next tier of potato states, Ala- the fall ot the eight-spot, North surgical care. Many of those youngsters will run and By The A«»oriatrd Pre*» bama, Georgia, California, won t could not resist the temptation PROFITABLE be doing much digging till the to lead the six of diamonds. His play again just because you, Mr. and Mrs. Mount played NEW BRITAIN, Conn.-—When first of May. swindle worked, as East Clemens, have cared. that army booklet warned the THE BLACK MARKET BOYS low. Dummy discarded another North African AEF about Arabs That puts up the demand on spade. Now North led a heart general public itself have rea- • crops Idaho Rotarians and the IN HOLLYWOOD being sharp traders, perhaps it the holdover of and and tile queen fell to the acc. son to experience that inner glow of warmth which might have said something to Maine some 15,000 to 20.000 car- Back came a club, North led the BY tItSKINK JOIINSCN is pressing Laurel and Hardy for Suv who can stand next to Lana the Arabs about the boys from loads. The Army has practically other heart and let East hold the accompanies a mission well done. NLA Stuff Correspondent first Jionors in thr Latin . Ameri- Turner for five minutes without the Nutmeg State. taken over all of the remaining with the jack. East led the to trick • * « Darnell is headed for can field. They’re even naming moving is ready for immediate A local boy writes home that Maine crop, about 5000 7000 of spades,’ bringing out the Linda overseas supply. ten roundup. theaters after him in Chile. duty. he sold his dollar watch, which carloads, for king. led A lie firct She ll play the * • • queen and West * * • No one in Maine can now ship opposite Mc- wasn't running too well, to an forcing king. feminine lead Joel old potatoes without a govern- heart, South’s GENERAL LAGUARDIA Harry SERVICE SONGS Arab. Crca in Producer Sher- ARMY FILMS ment permit, and what the Ar- The ace of spades and remain- Cen- Lupino, song- “Got three dollars for it," he man's million-dollar 20th Alan Hale’s fire extinguisher Ida the amateur my doesn’t want, the Food Dis- ing clubs were cashed, leaving The Senate opposition which persuaded President tury western, “B ulf a 1 o out anew commented. Fox factory is now producing thou- writer, has turned tribution Agency does, for em- North and East with three dia- Bill.” It's her first ho-; opera. gallons tune, “He's High Falutin’ When —O—- Roosevelt not to nominate New York's Mayor La- sands of of insecticide ergency shipments. There is an monds i ach. Then North led the . Walker, . . Jimmy former and spray guns for the Army. He’s Not Salutin’ the Major." FAINT DISRUPTION increased demand for Idaho, diamonds, assuring him- - even of brigadier generalship a healthy mayor of New York City, will . . . of the Mer- While Arturo Guardia for a is Alan himself is in uniform for Ted Me Michael NEW YORK Colorado, Oregon and north cen- more tricks in the suit. he coordi- the self two named soon as film Irving Berlin's “This Is the Ar- ry Macs has been rejected by the Toscanini was conducting tral states potatoes to keep the all of four diamond thing. It shows an awakening revulsion against po- in Thus he won nator for Hollywood Wash- my.” . . . Eve the cowboys Army because of athlete s heart. NBC symphony orchestra before dehydrating plants going, to fight Hall, tricks and made the contract. litical appointments to high Army rank, and it dem- ington. He will movie- are going to sea these days. Tex . . . Now that Kay Kayser has 3,000 persons in Carnegie build up Army reserves. And to town’s battles at a salary of £30,- Hitter will play a fighting ma- discovered Georgia Carroll’s Oswaldo Mazzucchi. his second further assist in sweeping the that more the Constitutional provision cellist, suddenly • GIN RUMMY QUIZ ostrates once 000 . . (and Georgia fainted. a year. rine his next film . Fred- singing voice Car- market clean, there is the nor- • * * director’s aide, If or.c player scores five die Bartholomew is seriously ill roll) two studios for whom she Al Walker, the mal spring demand for seed po- Q. requiring Senate "advice and consent" to major ap- Moscowitz, flutist, (100 he win? Incongruous Hull ywo o and: with a strep throat in the Army once worked are bidding for her and Harry tatoes, boxes points) does through A. Twenty points for each pointments has come to mean something. George Sanders, who has been hospital at Amarillo, Texas services . . . Benny Goodman threaded their way the Here comes in your old friend, No. singing ranks of musicians and carried count only after the player with LaGuardia's mer- ill with th flu. returning to Promised and hoped for: War- makes his debut in his the black market operator. box This has nothing to do Mr. the stricken man out. Few in the requiring has scored 100 points. Box scores vvotik to “die” for a scene in Co- ner's film biography of Al next film, “The Girls He Left Knowing that people audience were aware of the inci- seed to plant can get do count game, but its or demerits for the as yet undisclosed job the Pres- lumbia’s “Appo utment in Ber- Schmidt, the marine hero* of Behind." potatoes not toward # • * dent. them on certificate, thousands of game is reached. . only after lin.” . . Paulette only to the pleasing C«oddard Guadalcanal who killed 200 Toscanini and the players did- ident has for him. It refers indi- sure good newspaper Howard, once bushels of “seed potatoes" have made of Japs . . . Liuet -Comdr. Robert John reported t \ n miss a beat. been sold on the black market at cation democracy is belligerent. breaks during her last isit to Montgomery return to the engaged to Hedy Lamarr, dated that still will —O—- high, seed potato prices, which * o <• Mexico City. She received the propaganda only film newcomer Madeleine screen soon in a DOVE OF PEACE will never be planted any place • press in her hotel room wearing the South Leßow’ during a week’s furlough BARBS short He's back from of- except in a pot or oven of some bathing suit’ . . . . ORLANDO. Fla —The FBI a . Paramount Pacific on sick leave. . . Rob- from the Navy. . Producer fice here received a call from an kitchen stove. Seed potatoes One of the most delicious cuts JOIN OR QUIT “sneak” previewed “For Whom ert Cummings will be commis- Alexander Korda is paging Or- excited farmer at Loughman, 30 have even been sold to apart- on the hog is the one that the Bell Tolls” over the week- sioned a captain in the Army son Welles to star and direct in customers, say, miles away, that a carrier pigeon ment house dwellers in some brought down points. they . to be of union a contract end and the Air Corps within the month . “War and Peace," filmed in The A. F. L. Machinists has with a secret message tied to its eastern metropolitan centers. • • • left th' th* al 'r raving -and Eddie Garr reports the Army London. Welles, set for limited Cj in leg had roosted in a tree on the So that’s the potato situation, some with the Warner Swasey plant Cleveland. There tired The | Jure runs three special test for service in the Army, may get a A scientist predicts that has devised a farm. and it will be like that maybe hours and 1 1 mriut* . and prob- prospective Any to do the job. day wc will be able to live on is no closed shop clause. Warner & Swasey is so Commandos. deferment agents hurried to the till mid-May. ably will be cut . . . Macdonald Two air. And we re beginning to be- bird, care- But the experts still say there is n<»u a spot, apprehended the it. hard-pressed for manpower, to produce war goods, Care\ second lieutenant message, isn't any shortage. Potatoes lieve . fully opened the found • • • in the marines. . . Leon Errol office that the pigeon was a shirking won't be rationed and victory that some 350 school teachers, lawyers and as bad off as competitor in a race sponsored gardeners are still advised not We're not quite workers are working four-hour shifts, on top of their Program to plant potatoes as there will be Little Be Peep. Wc know where Radio by a fanciers’ club. suf- • By B. A r. M.tcL —O—- enough later on to make up for our sheep are, but haven’t regular jobs, to help out. points to get them. QUESTIONS ASSURED what you don't get now. ficient volunteers have been ordered by the Ma- ONE WITNESS These Time WJR WW J C KLW TWIN FALLS, Idaho—Proof AND —in the flesh. chinists Union to "join or quit/' Most have joined, Ruckstage Compton PRESIDENT «h» New* Wif* W liter Borden, deputy FORMER U. S. IS Judy and Jane Stella Dallas News. Rhythm Matinee Virgil R. sher- unwillingly. Some have quit, also unwillingly. The • .:»»• Rhythm Matinee Lorenzo Jones Salon Serenade iff, a Kimberly " handed resident ANSWERS 4::I5 '* Widder Brown HORIZONTAL Answer to Previous Punic 11 union president concedes that he has no right to en- a summons to appear in court Motives on Sam A Girl News Ace. Rhythm charge harboring 12 Horseman's 7 do following t'-icle Marries on a of a vi- l Depicted first E GI Rl Q What the Life T irf Club, Interlude TITJ :IS Mother and Dad Portia Faces cious dog. seat force membership, but says that "insistence' of fellow :!» president of ST forms indicate on a mono: Au S.og Along Just Plain Bill Junior Newscaster EF>rjE p;o + s 5; Superman dog 18 Sick jus? Bechamel? Chantilly? Eh :I5 Ben Bcrme Front Page Farrell As Borden departed the the U. S. A., 9pMaHX R i!B E workers usually proves an effective persuader. bit him on the leg. George 20 Before coquillos? om News Tyson, Recordings Rollin’ Home ueMle'aTTTeTt : 21 Baseball dub What would happen if these volunteer patriots jus IS Fa win C. HiU I.ion’s Roar World News 9 Excludes A -An served with na- .rier Recruittng |K NEjEXZj 23 Fur-bearing u* Ft Hunt M isic Reconn. T-BONE PLEASE! 13 Symbol for jobs tural juice or gravy; Bechamel 6::I5 World Today The Three Stripes Civilian Defense ANNA e animals Insisted upon keeping both their jobs and their KASAS CITY—The decision silver cream sauce usually with veal Today Fred Waring F ißon Lewis. Jr. ¦’TEMpkif 25 Slight taste mi The World ' Bustle 5 5 * 14 and their independence A strike You guess. stock base and vegetables: Chan- 15 Harry James News of World Tune F ,c,or y to become a volunteer farmhand KtTTICn) GjRWTiRiS 28 Suitable ::{«» by Arno Val Clare 15 Chinese * * Gus Haenschen Music is costing David Chasnoff in ra- ¦B;0 • till\ with whipped cream; Kn •• Call of Legion aborigine 29 Negative word 7:i:15 Ken Manuel the points. coquillcs in the shell or in tion 16 Genus of 30 Gear tooth Lights Out Johnny Present* Singin’ Sam Chasnoff, giving up golf and 1 •• •• 32 Plaything shell-shaped ramekins. ;15 Childrens Church shrubs A|R ffTA[sp E pfrL '[ Variety Program gin rummy, works hours Peep PROFITABLE SALVAGE * 0 0 ¦:t« A1 Jolson Horace Heldt several wayt S3 " ” 17 sc •’ In three AjftftflS : at Dodson. Mo., TTjjJE] HE nTTd B:fM>15 each day gratis a (comb, form) pfT!Al INiMiE^NiTI 34 Plunder Q Prnvda. the Russian news- breakfast used to be I 35 Cloth Providence, Rhode finding that human Burns end Allen Batt'e of Sexes G ibriel Heatter farm. One 19 Expert measure paper. warns that alter the war ; •• M Neighbors one be- shaft I5 enough. Now he eats 21 Staff of life 3d Lad 55 He was 36 Mine \uii) :,io s ispense Fibber McGee Murder Clinic experiment in ** ** to an- Soviets expect Latvia. ” going farm and hut salvage pays financial dividends. An the : fore the 22 Lampreys 40 Bashful known as 9no15 37 Lithuania and E thonia again' to other upon his return. 24 Native metal 41 Entire "The of Age . Hope Kai-Shek making self-supporting returned $7 _ son Red Cross Program Bob Madame 38 he part of the Russia empire. —O—- 25 Sorrowful 42 Observe His Country" Doltishness 1 0 :15 39 Honey maker placed perm- When were tin c nations a part :.to Melody Hour Red Honored Muslo NOT A CEILING 26 South Dakota 43 Weight VERTICAL for every dollar it cost, and has been on a | y .Skelton COMPLAINT 40 Close-fitting of Russia? Roswell, (abbr.) 44 Symbol for 1 Irrigate N. M.—Try this one coat with anent basis. A The three small Baltic New* News Donald Oordan for size, please. 27 Liberate fluorine 2 Coincide :|5 Dance Orchestra Dance Orchestra George Duffy’* Orch. egg ?5 Rubber tree 3 Laughter loose flaps is individual poten- countries were incorporated in • :
Vic and Sad* Sophtstocats „ 5 says _ year anew girl employe mm mation they This the fate of a or a convoy hangs in the balance do. :15 Goldbergs Music, News They Te.l M* battle 1: became curious as to whether Hf Light of World News. Fred Feibal* punishment will be too severe for the persons N I mmi Dr. Malone the egg was still edible. When No .Wi ll CONSCRIPTION :15 Joyce Jordan Lonely Women / Melody Time One-third of the able bodied :.Hi Love and Learn G i>dmg Light Q uct Sanctuary Hay stepped out of the studio for responsible for that situation, from underlings who Pepper Young Hymns Rhythm Matinee non in the entire Chinese Em- 2 :Ift a few minutes, the girl’s curios- Folk ity overcame her discretion. to the highest superiors who instructed or pire were conscripted by Em- mmi David Hsrum Mary Mi.lln M i*lc for Y’oung winked Fditor’s Daughter Ma Perkins will lift ” Hay announced his office peror Shih Hwang Ti to help Young ngs Hearts in tjarmony Pepper , reopen May 1. acquiesced. build the Great Wall. 3 lift Mo*;c Mca Right to Happiness Rhythm Mature*