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The Ely miner., 1939-10-26

VON PAPEN-Notu German am
bassador to Turkey, Capt. Franz
uon Papen ,Uas recalled by the
Reich on December 3, 1914, upon
the United States request for ''im-
proper activities in military and
naval matters"
money involved.
A few days later Ambassador
Dumba was recalled and the gov
ernment began investigating the un-
named German attache." In De-
cember Germany was asked to re-
call Capt. Franz Won Papen (now
a high Nazi and ambassador to Rus
sia) and Captain Boy-Ed, for Sim
proper activities in military and ma
val matters"
Within a few months some inter-
esting data was collected concern
ing Captain Won Papen. The gov
ernment seized papers of Wolf Won
Igel, former secretary to Won Papen
in a New York advertising office. "
Later the state: department said
these papers. disclosed maintenance
of spy system and the financing of
a spy system to stir up labor trou-
bles in munitions plants, "the bomb
industry and other related activi-
ties" Propaganda and subornation
of American writer's and lecturers
was also financed by the "agency, "
it was alleged.
Recall Black Tom Case.
In 1917, while pro-war sentiment
was mounting swiftly in the face of
repeated bombings, two west coast
German consulate officials were
convicted of conspiring to injure
shipping and munitions.
That same year, on January II,
occurred two history-making explo-
sions. At Kingsland, N. j., a mu-
nitions plant of the Canadian Car
& Foundry company was destroyed
at loss of $16,000,O00. Nearby, at
Haskell, N. j., an explosion of AGO.
600 pounds of powder in DUPONT
plant was felt in four states.
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cussed and blood pressure examina-
tions should be few and far apart"
Exercise Is Important.
Rest and exercise must be pre-
scribed as needed. Regular after
dinner maps, a rest cure, vaca-
ton for the nervous overworked is
just as important as is exercise to
the easy-going, overweight individu
al. Fresh air and sunshine are good
for both. Most individuals with high
blood pressure eat too much and ex-
ercise too little.
The second cause of high blood
pressure to be prevented or correct
ed is infection. The infection may
come from tonsils, teeth, gall blad-
der, intestine or other parts of the
body. With each Infection may come.
just a slight Inflammation of the lin
ing of the blood vessels, with the
result that the muscular or elastic
coat of the blood vessels is replaced
by a hard tissue.
The Ely miner., 1939-10-26

steppe or desert as the sailor navi-
gates a trackless sea.
The United States receives more
than million pounds of pitted dates
annually from Saudi Arabia's oasis
palms, many of them watered by
leather buckets hoisted from wells
by camel-power. Lambskin, kid and
goatskin that once roamed desert
sands in search of green pastures
finally are gathered into the fold of
American department stores. Saudi
Arabia ranks halfway down the list
of "a countries which fill American
coffee cups.
An independent kingdom of Is
years growth, Saudi Arabia has ex-
tended the authority of a powerful
inland dynasty from coast to coast
over 80 per cent of the arid penin-
sula which natives call "The Island
of the Arabs" Since 1913 when Ibn
Saud elected the Turks, he has
pushed his realm outward in every
direction, capturing Mecca in 1924.
He now rules some 10000 square
miles, nearly 10 times the size of
Great Britain. Today a dozen ma
tions, including the United States,
have accredited diplomatic repre-
sentatives to the desert state.
The Ely miner., 1939-10-26

VON ICEL-On april I9, 1916,
the United States government
seized papers of Wolf uon Igel,
former secretary to uon Papen.
The state department later said the
papers disclosed a spy system
financing a bureau to stir up labor
troubles in munitions plants and to
finance propaganda.
ed States involved in a war with
Mexico.
One chap, Chicago school teach
er named Frank Holt, alias Erich
Muenter, tried on July 2, 1915, to
blow up the capitol building at
Washington. The next day he tried
to kill j. Pierpont Morgan at his
home in Glen Cove, Long Island.
Dumba Sent Home.
Many of the plots were strange
as fiction and were traced to the
highest diplomatic representatives
of Austria and Germany. On Au-
gust 80, 1915, a sensation was Gre
ated by seizure and publication of
an official letter from Constantin
Dumba, ambassador from Austria
Hungary. The letter disclosed he
planned "to disorganize and hold up
for months, if not entirely prevent,
manufacture of munitions in Beth
lehem, Pa, and the Middle West,
which, in opinion of the German at
tache, is of great Importance and
amply outweighs expenditure of
The Ely miner., 1939-10-26
Luxembourg, Threatened Again, Recalls Pretty Princess War

better go home and play the piano.
/ have my orders. There is Moth
ing to. discuss"
Marie-Adelaide had four years to
play before the Germans left on No
vember IL, 1918. Then, with senti-
ment growing in favor of a repub-
lie, she Gained the revolutionists
by abdicating in favor of her young
sister who became Grand Duchess
Charlotte. Marie-Adelaide retired to
a Carmelite convent in Italy and
died before she was 80.
Grand Duchess Charlotte has done
a good job. Luxembourg held ref
erendum in which 80, 900 voted, two
thirds favoring retention of royalty.
About the same number voted for
economic union with France, but
the French declined and Luxem-
bourg united with Belgium to
achieve a customs union and estab-
lsh uniform currency.
In 1919 the grand duchess mar.
ried Prince Felix Of Bourbon-Par.
ma.
The Ely miner., 1939-10-26
Liver Acts
As Natural Filter

A few years ago I found that I
was writing about the liver so often
that I practically stopped writing
about it. To me it is still king of
the organs, and the old saying ''life
depends upon the liver" is replaced
by "health depends upon the liver"
We, are not apt to think of the liver
as the organ most important to life,
because stopping the heart beat
means immediate death, whereas
stopping or sluggishness of the liver
still allows life to go on for con-
siderable time. But from the health
standpoint, the liver is your most
important organ.
Why? Poisons entering the body
by way of the mouth or directly
into the blood are Immediately
seized by the liver cells, and the
great majority of them are held by
the liver and thus prevented from
doing damage. Harmful substances
are broken down by the liver, are
rendered harmless and pass out Of
the system in the urine. The liver
is natures great filter.
Dye Test Often Used.
Thus, in testing the 'health" Of
the liver and it's ability to remove
poisons from the blood, what is
known as the dye test is made
whereby a dye is taken by mouth
or into vein and the blood is ex-
amined at intervals to see how long
it takes the liver to remove these
poisons. A definite amount of the
dye should be removed within def
mite time.
What can you and / do in the
way of keeping the liver in good
condition to do all its jobs, including
filtering out poisons from the blood?
The two ways to keep liver healthy
and active are (a) by bending ex-
ercises (knees straight and breath
ing exercises, both of which
squeeze" this large, soft organ, and
(b) by eating small meals (even if
four a day are eaten), thus not over
working the liver. A little fat
cream, butter, bacon = eaten at
breakfast time is good stimulator
of the liver processes and helps
empty the gall bladder, thus pre-
venting stone formation and gas
pressure.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
The Ely miner., 1939-10-26

DARIS. - Crowded uncom-
L fortably in tiny corner
between France, Germany
and Belgium, the tiny grand
duchy of Luxembourg, is un-
happy again. In the 1000 years
since this 999 square-mile
territory belonged to the Holy
Roman empire, it has been
ruled by practically every imperi-
alistic conqueror whose sword fell
across Europe. Today, with France
and Germany again at war, Luxem-
bourg wonders if the 1914 invasion
will be repeated. If so, who'll do
the invading?
The 100000 residents of Luxem-
bourg smile nowadays recalling how
pretty, 20-year-old Grand Duchess
Marie-Adelaide tried to stop the
German invasion single-handed Is
years ago. ignoring her army of
$50 men, she raced her car to the
sAdolphus bridge as German troops
The Ely miner., 1939-10-26
Saudi, Desert Nation, Grants
Concessions to u. S.
Company.

PrepareS BY Nsti0nal GsSgEaPhis Society.
More of Arabia now has been
thrown open to American oil
prospectors by the petroleum
concession awarded to the,
Standard Oil company of Cali
fornia and it's associates for the
kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The relatively young desert
nation of Saudi Arabia is one
fourth as large as the United
States, or larger than Mexico;
and prospecting in one province
alone has already placed the
country among the leading oil
producers of the Near East.
In the native land of Mohammed
and the traditional realm of the
Queen of Sheba, a 40-mile pipe line
now carries eastward the oil from
new kind of well that shares the
esteem always accorded wells In
that parched country. Terminus of
the pipe line is Ras Tanura, opened
this year as the first deep-water
port on Arabia's Persian Gulf coast,
once notorious for piracy and
slave-smuggling.
Land of Thirst.
The Saudi Arabia concession gives
United States oil interests two stakes
in the petroleum-rich region where
Asia, Europe and Africa meet. The
Standard Oil Company of California
and the Texas corporation have add
ed the Saudi Arabia territory to
their holdings in the Bahrein islands,
20 miles off the Arabian coast, which
had been a historic center for pearl
fishing before the discovery of oil
seven years ago. Rights to the rich
oil fields of the Near East are held
by the British in Iran, the French
in Syria, the British in Kuwait. In
Iraq the rights are held jointly by
The Ely miner., 1939-10-26
Food Goes Up, but Not Farm Prices;
Here's Why, Says One Market Boss
: -EVERYBODY'S WOE :
NEW YORK.-It's not the

NEW YORK.-It's not the
L Y greedy middleman nor the
selfish consumer who forces
the American farmer to accept
a pauper's profit on the prod
uce from his land.
Blame it on the "dead end"
of agriculture, the typical
metropolitan market place
where swift owing fruits
and vegetables run against stone
wall of waste, confusion and spoil
age.
That, at least, is the opinion of
William Fellowes Morgan Jr., New
York city's commissioner of mar
kets, who's trying to ''forge an al
lance between the man with the
plow and the woman with the mar
ket basket"
Writing in the current issue of
Country Home magazine, Morgan
places the hot poker of distribution
waste firmly against metropolitan
markets. It's not a deliberate plot
that causes the farmer to get back
as little as Is cents from the con-
sumer's grocery dollar, he says. It's
simply that city markets through
out the country are "illy equipped,
clogged up and handicapped with
wasteful practices which cost mill
lions of dollars yearly"
New York Guides Food Prices.
Discussing New York, which an
nually buys billion dollars worth
Of fresh food, enough milk to keep
The navy afioat and enough fruits
and vegetables to sink it, Morgan
points out that market quotations
throughout the nation are affected
directly or indirectly by the daily
Manhattan quotations. New York
prices, in turn, will remain exor-
bitant until the bottleneck of ineffi-
cient handling is transformed into
smooth-working market system.
81 have wandered amidst the mid
The Ely miner., 1939-10-26
European War
Has Echo Near
u. S. Frontiers
Colonies Furnish Supplies
Needed on Battlefronts.
Prepared by National Geographic Society.
Washington. d. C.-WNU Service.


Washington. D. C.-WNU Service.
Martial law in Bermuda, a
mobilization act passed in
British Guiana, war emer-
gency regulations in Jamaica,
Canadian shipping taken over
by the navy, and a training
course for Canadian fisher
mems submarine patrol =
these are among the remind
ers that Europe's war condi-
ton is not confined to Europe.
European colonies and dominions
bring Europe's war to the very bor-
der of the United States on the Ca
madam frontier. Other war meas
ures are no farther away than the
Bahamas, rs miles off the coast of
Florida, or Bermuda, five hours
from New York by air, or Jamaica,
600 miles northeast of the Panama
canal. France, as represented by
Clipperton island, lies due south of
New Mexico (about 1,500 miles
away. The Netherlands, modified
although neutral, has an island
group some 700 miles east of the
Panama canal, and less than twice
asfar from Miami. Together, Great
Britain, France, and the Neither
lands have almost 14,000,000 sub
jects in the New world where their
colonies and dominions aggregate
more than 4,000, 900 square miles.
Great Britain Leads.
Great Britain, thanks mainly to
Canada-her largest dominion-con-
trolls "a per cent of this land and
98 per cent of the people. Her New
world holdings constitute 80 per cent
of the entire British empire.
In the South Atlantic in 1914 Brit
ish and German fleets fought the
Battle of Falkland islands off the
coast of Argentina, for control of
the group of 100 bleak little sheep
pasture islands which Great Brit
ain had occupied as recently as
1888. Bermuda in the North At
lantic is headquarters for the Amer
lea and West Indies squadron of
the British navy.
Most of the European footholds in
the Western hemisphere are rem
nants of much larger empires held
early in the colonizing era. French
Guiana and its associated inland
territory of Inini in the northern por-
ton of South America are the oldest
members of. the French colonial
family, having been occupied in
1926. Barbados in the Caribbean sea
has been British since 1927. Meth
erlanders took their section of Gui-
ana in 1867.
Among the supplies from these
New world holdings to ease Eu-
ropes needs are wheat and meat
from Canada. st. Pierre and Mi
quelon, rocky French islands at the
mouth of the Gulf of st. Lawrence,
send Goldfish to France. Caribbean
islands belonging to all three ma
tionalities contribute sugar, rum,
coffee, cocoa, and fruits.
Except for Great Britain, France,
and the Netherlands, the only Euro
pean country still holding land in
the Western hemisphere is Den
mark. The Danish colony of Green
land, 95 per cent ice-covered, lies
1000 miles north of Newfoundland.
The Ely miner., 1939-10-26
By PARKER ELDRIDGE

tReleased by western Newspaper Unon.D
NEW YORK. - There are
L Y many good arguments for
repeal of the embargo against
arms shipments to- belligerents
in the European war. Maybe
this is an argument to retain
the embargo:
Should the United States
try selling munitions abroad
as in the World war, would
another plague of terrorism
raise havoc with our industrial pro-
duction?
Searching newspaper files from
the 1914-16 period, history students
find that Americas attempt to aid
Great Britain and France in their
last war brought a rash of general
sabotage, the responsibility for
which was usually placed on the Cen
trail Powers doorstep.
The Ely miner., 1939-10-26

KING IBN SAUD is the fierce
and fearless ruler of Saudi Arabia,
desert country, ,Uhich has just
made ne,U oil concessions to Amer
ican companies. Rumor has it that
the kings desire to deal ,Uith
American 'Big Business" caused
him to turn doi0n an offer for
ttUice as much money from Jap
anese oil interests.
the British and Dutch, with minority
votes from French and American
companies.
Oil is opening new era for Saudi
Arabia, where lack of water has
kept untraveled an unknown region
surpassed in mystery only by the
unexplored areas of Antarctica. AL
though one man in every seven-the
Moslem fraction of the worlds pop
ulation-aspires to visit the coun-
try, few dare to do more than skirt
a desert expanse that is second in
size to the Sahara.
country is Dry anu HOT.
The rough rectangle of Arabia has
a lofty central plateau, or Nejd-
high, dry, and hot. Bands of desert
border the plateau, rocky in the
north, sandy in the south. Saudi
Arabia crosses the peninsula from
the Red sea to the Persian gulf, ex-
cluding a fringe of smaller semi
independent states on the north and
south. A land of no perennial riv-
ers and little rain, Saudi Arabia
must find its moisture through wells
and springs from water beneath
the desert crust.
Perhaps less than one-ffth of the
country is cultivated by patient fell
lahin who shelter their citrus trees
and pomegranates behind wind
breaks of tamarisk trees, or carry
water to patches of egg-plants, on
ions, melons, and carrots. The Bed
ouins drive their fiocks of sheep,
herds of camels and horses through
the land in the wake of rain, travel
ing by night to escape the suns
heat and navigating the barren
The Ely miner., 1939-10-26

and made a handsome profit, are
being eliminated.
The city also has Mrs. Frances
Foley Cannon, who goes on the ra-
dio every morning to tell house
wives about market conditions. If
certain item is plentiful, yet the
price stays high, she tells them.
Within few hours grocers are be-
ing asked embarrassing questions.
Mr.. Morgan is trying to start
nationwide campaign against inef-
ficient metropolitan markets. He
wants both the farmer and consum-
er to howl.
Lower retail prices are a con-
summation devoutly to be wished by
both," he says. 'sThey would mean
more consumption. More consump-
ton means fewer surpluses. And
fewer surpluses would mean an in
creased farm income"
The Ely miner., 1939-10-26
World War Turned i. S.
Into Saboteur's Utopia;
Will It Happen Again?

In the 80 months while America
tried with one hand to remain neu-
trail and with the other to help her
European friends, there were scores
of munition plant explosions, at
tempts were made to dynamite
trains and bridges, spy plots were
uncovered almost daily (often snar-
ing folks in high places), assassi-
nations were attempted and at least
one effort was made to get the Unit
The Ely miner., 1939-10-26
HOUSEHOLD
QUESTIONS

Biscuit Pans.-A shallow pan
about one inch deep is the best to
use in baking biscuits; otherwise
the biscuits will not brown evenly
on all sides.
Mending Pillow Slips. - Hem
stitched pillow slips that are too
badly torn to mend neatly can
have the hem cut away and a pi-
cot edge crocheted on.
Drowned Potatoes.-Before fry
ing cold potatoes slice them and
well dredge with flour. This not
only causes the potatoes to brown
more quickly but improves flavor.
Laying Linoleum.-Never try to
lay linoleum when it is cold. 1t
should be left for at least "a hours
in warm room, so that the heat
may penetrate to the center of the
roll, otherwise it will crack and
peel off when unrolled.
Canape Hint.-Spread thin slices
of bologna with cream cheese
mixed with chopped pickles, olives
and onions. Roll the slices up and
stick wooden pick through each.
Quickly dip the rolls into salad
dressing mixed with catsup and
broil them four minutes on toast
squares. Serve them.
Gum on Carpet.-To remove
chewing gum from carpets, rub
with an ice cube until the gum
becomes brittle and cracks off.
Carbon tetrachloride removes any
residue.
Gravy Hint.-If stock or gravy
is required in a hurry, melt tea
spoonful of some meat extract in
half pint of hot water, bring to
the boil, season and use. II time
permits, piece of onion, a spray
of parsley, or a tomato added to
the water gives flavor.
The Ely miner., 1939-10-26

night uproar on our Hudson river
waterfront, watching the goods ar
rive. I have followed crates, boxes
and barrels from boats, trucks and
freight cars until they rolled into
the thunderous traffic snarls of West
street."
Manhattan Reforms.
New York has made a start in
solving the problem with it's new
Bronx terminal, a model market
which other cities may soon be
copying because Manhattan's con-
fusion is duplicated in most other
large population centers. New York
has also taken market peddlers off
the streets and placed them in city,
controlled centers where stall rents
are kept at a minimum. Market
gangsters, like the famous "arti-
choke king" who once controlled
New York sale of this vegetable
The Ely miner., 1939-10-26
Pattern 2210

When medallions are as easily
memorized as these, there's no
excuse for not having a variety of
lovely accessories. And it's all
accomplished by crocheting and
joining these simple medaHions In
mercerized string or finer cotton.
Pattern 2210 contains directions
for making medallions; hlustra-
tions of them and of stitches; ma
terials required; photograph of
medallions.
Send Is cents in coins for this
pattern to The Sewing Circle, Nee
dlecraft Dept, 81 Eighth Ave,
New York, N. Y.
Please write your name, ad-
dress and pattern number plainly.
The Ely miner., 1939-10-26

and after feeling
the blood vessels 1ODAY'S
in the wrist, stated ucHuru
that the sister HInLu
aged 64 was really CULUMN
older than the one l. !
aged 70, because her blood YES
sells were harder and her blood
pressure was therefore higher.
The one aged 70 had had a fam
lily of nine, whereas the one
aged 81 had had but one child.
The older sister had also had a
more difficult time financially.
The physician pointed out
that, despite her large family
and her more difficult time
financially, there were two
reasons why she was really
younger physically than her
younger sister. First, she had
had to meet so many more diff
culties she had thus learned how to
meet and overcome them. There
would be, therefore, less tenseness
or Tightening of the blood vessels
from emotional disturbances. Sec
ond, she had had all her teeth re-
moved and dental plates fitted at a
much earlier age than had her sis
ter.
GAS psychic (mental or emotion
aD influences have a great effect in
The Ely miner., 1939-10-26
Try Lemon Juice Recipe
to Relieve Rheumatic Pain

To relieve rheumatic pain, go 70 any
leading druggist and secure package
of the REV PRESCRIPTION. Mix 1t as
directed and add the juice of four
lemons. This will make a full quart of
the best medicine for rheumatic and
neuritis pains you have ever tried.
Costs only few cents a day. This doc
tors prescription guaranteed and for
sale by leading druggists. Houix Co.,
st. Louis. Mo.
The Ely miner., 1939-10-26

raising blood, pres
sure, mental hygiene
is very important in
the treatment of
high blood pressure.
Cultivation of calm
ness, moderation,
avoidance of haste,
am bition, anger,
anxiety and excite
ment-there should
be seeking of the
quiet easy life. The
blood pressure
The Ely miner., 1939-10-26
All Seasons at Once

In the genial climate of Greece all
seasons occur at the same time.
When it's winter in the hills it is
summer on the plains. Today you
cool your wine in the SHOWS of
Arcadia and tomorrow pick ripe
oranges at Sparta.
The Ely miner., 1939-10-26
Gasoline Etbvl Fluid

More than half of the ethyl fluid
used in gasoline is provided by a
chemical plant at Wilmington, N. c.
where bromide is extracted from sea
water.
The Ely miner., 1939-10-26

CHART ABOVE shotos hoo the United leads the World
the production of OIL Records how this be far ahead Of
of
Soviet Russia pumps oneh less than the 1000 barrels
of crude oiIo here.
The Ely miner., 1939-10-26

From Trivial Causes
In war events of Importance are
the result of trivial causes.-Cae-
Sar.
The Ely miner., 1939-10-26

DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets made of
May Apple are effective in removing
accumulated body waste.-Adv.
The Ely miner., 1939-10-26
Heart Trouble
May Be Result
OF Infections
BY DIR. JAMES w. BARTON

4 PROFESSOR of medicine
1 \ was examining the blood
pressure of two sisters, one
aged 70 and the other aged "a,
The Ely miner., 1939-10-26
Just and Unjust

That which is unjust can really
profit no one; that which is just
can really harm no one.-Henry
George.
The Ely miner., 1939-10-26
LUXEMBOURG-The duchy in

LUAEWBUURG- ne dHcHy IN
tight corner.
were about to cross the border. Stop
ping crosswise on the bridge, she
held up her hand and waited for the
ryrants to STOP. m
But German general was equal
to the occasion. He strode up to
the car, saluted smartly and said:
= "Your grand ducal highness had
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-22

Though boycotted socially and
financially by her father, Edgar
F. Luckenbach, shipping mag
nate, Mrs. Andrea Luckenbach
Dobbs, 10, of Syosset, L. l.. has
filed a petition in Brooklyn sur
rogate court to include all as
sets of the Luckenbach Steam
ship company in the original
trust fund originated by her
grandfather in 1906 Luckenbach
disowned Andrea when she wed
Billy Dobbs. noted horseman. The
trust fund is to be divided be-
tween Mrs, Dobbs and her two
brothers on her fathers death.