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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-09-07

Another important war move was
to prohibit dealing in a number of
foreign securities. This action was
interpreted as CONSUMPTION of wealth.
1t is estimated that 5000, 000, 900
worth of securities will be affected
by the order.
Danzig, the Polish corridor and
various sections of Poland along the
border, these Germany must have,
is Hitler's defiant demand, otherwise
there will be war. These were the
declarations of Hitler in a letter to
Premier Daladier of France. This
revealed for the first time officially
Hitler's full demands on Poland.
'For nation with honor it is i'm
possible to relinquish a population of
100000 of its compatriots at it's
border" the letter said.
In the meantime mobilization of
German military forces was reach
ing its climax. New war measures
were taken. Food and clothing ra-
ton cards were distributed. Pur-
chase of gasoline was restricted.
In Washington it was learned that
President Roosevelt is prepared to
go the limit of law and perhaps far
Their to swing the power and re-
sources of the United States to the
side of Great Britain and France in
the event of war. If he is unable
to procure repeal of the arms pro-
vision of the neutrality act, he still
will be enabled by certain loopholes
in the legislation to temper the ap-
plication of the embargo to favored
belligerents. The loopholes are af-
forded by the rules and regulations
on the export of war supplies that
the law leaves to the discretion of
the executive.
France, with the greatest force I'M
der arms since 1919, awaited calm
ly and vigilantly the outcome of dip
lomatic negotiations then under
way. Notices were pasted UP
throughout the country ordering re-
servists to report to their mobiliza-
ton centers at once. Approximately
100000 men are now under arms.
While not general call to arms this
partial mobilization is sufficient to
provide France with an army on a
wartime footing capable of taking
the offensive as well as holding up
surprise attack until the whole man.
power of the country could be rnobi-
ized, was the general belief in
Paris.
In Warsaw pail of depression
settled on the Polish capital. In au-
thoritative circles it was believed
mediation by the United States, or
some other equally distinguished
and disinterested third power, was
the only remaining chance to avoid
European war. This conviction was
crystalized as Warsaw heard from
Paris that Hitler had refused direct
negotiations with Poland for
peaceful solution of Danzig's status.
In Rome Premier Mussolini was
represented as willing, perhaps ca
ger, for negotiations that would
avert war. But, along with this,
Fascfsts emphasized, must be con-
sidered Italian claims upon France
for greater share in African colo
NAL possessions. II Duce, neverthe-
less, pushed military preparations.
Hope for peace from an interchange
of messages between Mussolini and
Hitler was tempered by the frank
Italian statement that Hitler was
seeking to throw on other powers
responsibility for any war that may
result.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-09-07

reached the limit of endurance over
Hitler's continual grabbing of terri
tory. The brutality, bad faith and
menacing methods of the Nazi gov
eminent have kept Europe in a state
of upheaval for years, and this must
stop now, and definite guarantees
must be given that will ensure the
peace of Europe.
Diplomatic negotiations have
been proceeding in half a dozen Eu-
ropean capitals in an effort to avert
another world holocaust. Principal
interest centered in London where
the British cabinet wrangled for
hours over Hitler's latest proposals
for a peaceful settlement of the Ger
man-Polish territorial dispute. These
proposals were submitted to Sir
Neville Henderson, the British am
bassador to Berlin, in an interview
requested by Hitler. Henderson flew
to London and laid them before the
British government. The ambassa-
dor was to fly back to Berlin with
the British cabinets reply.
While the fuehrer's proposals were
not at that time made public, it
was the belief in well-informed quar-
tiers that they were not likely in
their present form to offer any hope
of providing solution. Some
sources close to the government
were downright pessimistic.
Chamberlain's government, armed
with dictatorial powers voted by
parliament, continued to oil up the
British war machine. The first sig
nificant act was to sign treaty
giving formal effect to British
pledges of aid to Poland. The treaty
will run for five years.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-09-07
INDUSTRY:
Steps ahead

While the sensitive financial mar
kets had slight attack of Filters"
as result of European war threats,
industry quickened its pace through
out the week.
Steel production was at the high
est level in nearly two years, output
Of electricity set an all-time record,
and the movement of railroad
freight reached a new 1899 peak.
Cotton textile mills were the busiest
they have been this year. Automo-
bile production increased as facto-
ries began to make more Roadway
on the 1910 models.
Narrow gains were shown in re-
tail trade over the preceding week.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-09-07
British Royal Family Is
Not Paddy About Its Food

LONDON.-The man who for a
quarter of a century has been or
dering food for the royal house
hold told the world that the British
royal family isn't faddy about its
food.
Harry Mercer, comptroller of sup
ply, retiring after AZ years service
with rs medals given him by vari-
Gus monarchs, said:S
''It's been a grand job. absolutely
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-09-07
WAR PROPAGANDA:
Deluges america

The greatest flood of war propa.
ganda since the period Immediately
preceding American entry into the
World war is deluging the United
States, according to report made
public by the Dies committee on un-
American activities.
The war propaganda, according
to the report, is traced to two major
groupings of European nations-the
London-Paris entente and the Berlin
Rome axis. Communist Russia is
placed in separate category. The
most effective war propaganda in
this country emanates from Great
Britain, the report said.
ALREADY wide sections of Ameri-
can public opinion have been def
nitely nodded to the acceptance of
many of the detectives of the current
war propaganda emanating from
abroad" the report said. ''Polls of
American public opinion would seem
to indicate that certain powers (the
London-Paris entente) have won the
first major battle of the next war by
enlisting the preponderant sentiment
of this country on their side"
The report was compiled by DR..
J. B. Matthews, director on research
on foreign war propaganda for the
committee.
Of all the nations in the world the
United States is the most coveted
prize to be bagged by foreign war
propagandists, says the report, as
resources of the United States might
well be the decisive factor in any
war.
when all of the war slogans have
been stripped away from the under
lying interests which they conceal,
it is plain on the one hand that GER
tain nations have empires and want
to keep them, and other nations do
not have empires (not imposing
ones, at least) but want to acquire
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-09-07
Marconi Echometer

The new liner Mauritania is fit
ted with the Marconi echometer for
determining depth of water under
the ship. BY determining the con-
tours of the seabed, the echometer,
in combination with the direction
finder, helps check on the ships
position. All electrically controlled
are the distance thermometers in
the cold chambers, rudder indica-
tors, tank alarms, carbon dioxide
recorders, salinometers, fuel alarms
and sprinkler alarms.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-09-07

Ill DUCE-DLd ne UISIt an eye
doctor, Herr Hitler, or just dip
lomdt?
private German citizen who said his
cousin had seen the troop trains
one night at Genoa. Similar ru-
mors came from many villages
along the line.
In the end these troop trains"
proved to be shipments of German
confscated Czech army equipment
being sent to Libya in trains guard
ed by German sentries.
Recently Italian newspapers made
capital out of false rumors printed
abroad, publishing list of them
under the heading, "An Anthology of
False News" 1t included stories
growing out of the seemingly fantas-
tic report that foreigners were being
evicted from the Italian Tyrol. This
story, denied by Pop Cult" was
true.
So while Germans and Italians
blame democratic malice or panic
for the melange of rumors surround
ing their comings and goings, for
eign correspondents put the blame
elsewhere-on blanket system of
news suppression which has made
the task of checking rumors almost
impossible.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-09-07

umphed so far this year is indicated
by results in Illinois. Out of 341
local option contests last April, the
drys won 273 or 80 per cent accord
ing to survey by the American
Business Mems Research founda-
ton.
Illinois now has 728 dry areas, of
which about 500 represent commu-
mites that have voted that way since
repeal. ''It is estimated that there
are now more than 100000 people
in Illinois living in areas made dry
by local option votes" says an Off
cial bulletin of the foundation. If
the results elsewhere are similar, it
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-09-07
JAPAN:
Drops German, Ties

AS a result of the Russian-Ger-
man nonagression pact, a drastic
change in foreign policy has been
decided upon by the japanese cabi-
net. Japan casts itself free from
the ties which bound it to the Ger
manhattan lineup and embarks on
a course of splendid isolation" The
decision to start all over again met
with the approval of the entire
cabinet.
1t was predicted that later the
government will realign its inter-
nal structure, but no inkling was
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-09-07

free from grumbies. The royal
family have always eaten like any
ordinary family, good, plain, English
food. And they were not faddy. The
butchers and bakers I ordered from
never had any real complaints to
offer.
"It has never been difficult to or
der for the royal larder. I always
bore in mind the good things l liked
myself, just what ordinary people
like"
Mercer worked under five English
sovereigns.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-09-07

Them" said the report. "Moscow's
special interest-clearly established
by it's own propaganda over many
years-is that these opposing combi-
nations shall destroy each other, and
that proletarian revolution and die
tatorship shall be extended on the
ruins of that destruction"
Democracy versus dictatorship"
is chief among the war slogans en-
ployed in this country to conceal
the imperialistic aims of certain ma
tons, according to the report.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-09-07
CLASSIFIED
DEPARTMENT
PHOTOGRAPHY
These Smart Patterns
Look ahead to Fall

no YOU take a woman's size?
~ Then here is a lovely dress
for you, (1799) youthful yet sophis-
ticated, with clever bodice de-
failing, to create a d-bosomed
effect, and a paneled skirt that
makes your hips look narrow. It's
perfect style for luncheons and
club affairs, yet not too dressy for
street and shopping wear, too
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-09-07
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY HENRY w. PORTER
War Threats Still Hold Stage
But Hope Is Not Abandoned;
Nazis Get Chance to Bargain

EDITORS NOTEWhen opinions these columns they
necessarily this
eleasedby Westr Newspa
Evening star., 1939-03-12

ception that the only difference be-
tween lady and a guttersnipe Is an
education, or the idea, recently be-
come a plaitude, that woman has
soul.
The picture is delightful, intelli-
gent entertainment, but its sue
cess does not surprise Hollywood
nearly so much as the returns from
The Beachcomber, which actually
holds Puritanism up to ridicule.
They Won't Forget" Mervyn
LIE Roy's indictment of intolerance
IN the Deep South, was considered
dangerous experiment by Holly
wood but piled up the profits. So,
to the amazement of the producers,
did The Informer," a dismal picture
OF man, which took the Academy
Award that year.
The producers began to wonder.
Perhaps, after ALL the movie audi
ence was growing up. Warner Bros.
sent out two feelers, The Story
of Louis Pasteur" and THE Life of
Emile Zola," both Intelligent but
not revolutionary. Encouraged by
the success of these, Walter Wanger
made Blockade" dealing with the
war in Spain. The publicity cam
palgn heralded this one as a bomb
shell, and the public flocked to see
it. Actually, however. all it had to
say was that war is you know
what.
Now Paramount is taking two bold
steps. 6. . one third of ma
ton :. - based on F. D. RS state
ment that one-third of America is
i'll housed, i'll clothed and i'll fed,
and Back Door to Heaven" Will
liam K. HoWard'S unvarnished pic
ture of life in an Ohio hamlet. are
ready for release. Both of these
pictures are serious departures from
the time-honored boy -meets-girl
formula.
Hollywood, like the rest of the
world, is readjusting itself to
new order.
Evening star., 1939-03-12

hand. It's a fine. theatrical part,
and want people to hate me In the
play. Otherwise I'd fail in the role"
This unfavorable picture of one
family in the South doesn't worry
Tallulah, whose home towns are
Huntsville and Jasper, Ala, and who
always will love the South. She
feels like crying when she hears
Dixie, e,"-says she's still s.rebel when
it comes right down TO it and is
willing to fight the war between the
States all over again.
Flash back, from Tallu]ah's back
ground: Her dad, Speaker Bank
head, used . aspire to be an actor.
He told ID one night when she
played in Washington, "Ah, if I'd
onlT hao q whack at acting!"
Once, when lie and a couple of.his
cronies were in school in George
town, thAr pe4nts sent them s25
each. All promptly bought silk hats
and canes, and turned out with
flourish.
Something's now. on Che floor Of
the House. Speaker Bankhead feel
ingly quotes Shakespeare. Flo knows
long passages from Julius Caesar"
Macbeth" and Hamlet" and loves
the line from "Othello" This is
the only wltchcraft I have used"
Tallulah is proud to be a chip of
the Bankhead block. She enjoys
hearing you're like your daddy
In the play. she wears her nair
up, in the style of The 19OOs.
Speaker Bankhead Wrung her heart
when he saw it by telling her you
look like your mother"
Her mother. the former Eugenia
Sledge, beautiful Southern belle,
died at 20, when Tallulab, was born.
Star Young once said the South is
as beautiful as Eugenia Sledge."
Tallulah went on the stage at 1C.
Some Of her women relatives
couldn't understand a woman want
ing to work when she didn't have
to, but she'd been acting for some
time.
She pranced at the age of S, when
Aunt Marie of Montgomery, Ala,
gave party for the flying Wright
brothers, and although she wasn't
supposed to take part, won a prize
IN dramatic competition.
She saw the circus, spent her
free time afterward doing cart
wheels, and jumped from the loft
with a parasol parachute, nearly
breaking leg. She saw tent shows
in Jasper, and walled over missing
one because she'd taken a whiff of
her grandfather cigar and had to
be punished.
She went to Keith's in Washing
ton to see FRITZ Scheff when her
grandfather was in the Senate and
her father first went to Congress
cher uncle John of Jasper, Ala. is
now United States SENATOR. She
saw Helen Hayes as child actress
and said, IF she can do that, so
can /" She did
Evening star., 1939-03-12
Heffernun
Continued From First Page.)

on this job. Without that knowledge
Id have been killed off long ago.
There are only 10 active stunt
men left in Hollywood who come
under the heading of "aces." They've
remained on the job through the
years because they carefully sketch
out each proposed job in advance,
| figuring each detail of movement
down to the fraction of an inch.
Those that won't prove OUT on
paper are turned down.
Parry and his few remaining CO.
horts turn down more danger Jobs
than they accept. That's because
overzealous directors stay awake
nights thinking up crazy thrills that
Will pep up melodramas at the box
office. Most of them wouldn't give
an expert stunt manipulation half
chance to join the wife and kid
dies at the dinner table.
For a spectacular shot in "Gunga
Din" Parry was offered $500 to fall
l05 feet off high cliff into lake.
He went out to survey the scene on
location. 1t looked simple. but. lust
as he was about to sign up, he no
tlced man in canoe padding
ABOUT the lake, Every time the pad
Ole swept the water, mud appeared
on the surface. That worried Parry.
He decided to do little "engineer-
ing"
He went over to his car and
brought back a dummy replica OF
himself identical in height and
Welght which he always carries
around to jobs. Parry dropped the
dummy off the cliff. 1t hit the wa
ter, but although floater it didn't
come up. That was enough. The
lake had a mud bottom, and it
would have been curtains for any
diver to take the leap. He turned
down the job and held firm, even
when the studio doubled the wage
offer. Dummies finally were used in
the picture.
The sex, height or weight of the
star makes no difference to Parry
he'll double for any or all of them.
He donned wig of curls, bonnet
and short skirt one day in busy
Los Angeles traffic and imper-
sonated Mary Pickford for a dan
gerous scene in MY Best Girl"
But that was aWfully embarrassing,
Parry said, because a lot of his
friends heard about it in advance.
They gathered along the curb and
yoo-hooed at him.
One day Parry doubled for Norma
Shearer while wearing a six weeks
growth of beard on his face. Half an
hour later he was riding a raging
rapids in behalf of the late John
Gilbert.
The king of stunters has suf-
fered but one major accident in his
career. Playing the role of drunk
in The Call of the Wild" three
years ago he was supposed to stag
ger off a 6-inch curbing and fall
into 3 feet of soft, synthetic snow
corn-f1ake variety. It was as easy
as hopping over that 4-foot mud
puddle-but Parry's engineering
mind faltered for the nonce. He
broke his back and was in the hos
pital five months.
Naturally, Parry is a fatalist.
"My death card is somewhere in
the rack already. I may be tagged
tomorrow or next neck. The jobs we
do don't make any difference. When
our time comes, plunk, out we 60
regardless!"
(Copyright. 1889, BY the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Ino)
Evening star., 1939-03-12

folks VINO saw LICK around COM
mented on his likeness to Gen.
Grant, so Dick was prevailed upon to
don generals uniform, hang a
sword by his side and have his pic
ture. taken
"It was just publicity stunt, but
it started a thought" says Bar
thickness. THE more I Looked at
myself, the more I believed I re-
sembled Grant. I didn't know much
about him thell. but my curiosity
was Whetted, and 1 started reading
about his life. I wanted my COM
pany then to do picture based on
his career, but biographies weren't
SO popular in those days and besides
I was laughed at for suggesting that
I be anything on the screen but the
romantic hero
Il don't know of any other sue
'cess story sc interesting as Grants.
From nothing, soldier with a dis
honorable discharge, he rose to he
.the general of the Union Armies.
and then he became President.
I'm grown up now. I'm no
longer the juvenile, SO I can play
roles like that-if they'll see it my
way"
Barthelmess collects Grantiana
and in a handy drawer in his desk
he keeps that old picture of himself
made up to resemble the general.
He has asked every movie maker
who will lend an ear to film the
life OF Grant with, naturally, Bar
thelmess in the title role. One
studio has been interested in such
story for long time and owns
a play based on Grants life. Bar
tfelmess has the inside track right
now for the role.
After nearly five years of little
film activity, Barthelmess has con-
cluded retirement isn't all it's
cracked up to be, especially for a
comparatively young man. He is 42,
but he might pass for 38 or so.
His daughter. Mary Hay Barthel-
mess 'by his first wife) just turned
Is and Dick says he feels almost
as old as any grandfather when she
asks him to tell her about things
way back when.s
At the moment Dick is a semi
heavy in Plane No. a. and, to
his complete and agreeable surprise.
several studios are asking him to
Evening star., 1939-03-12
Coming Attractions

PALACE - Made for Each
Other" with Carole Lombard
and Jimmy Stewart engaged
in the comedy and tragedy
Of young married life, opens
Thursday.
EARLE - Spring Madness"
adaptation of Philip Barry's
Spring Song" with Lew
Ayres, Burgess Meredith and
Maureen O'Sullivan In lead
ing roles, opens Friday. And
on the stage will be Benny
Goodman, his orchestra and
all his speciality artists.
CAPITOL - Three Muske-
teers" comes back now as a
sort Of musical comedy, with
the Ritz Brothers doing the
musketeering. There will be
a new stage show Friday, too.
KEITH'S-'Love Affair" with
Irene Dunno and Charles
Boyer in the leads, follows the
w. c. Fields comedy. You
Can't Cheat an Honest Man"
METROPOLITAN Eyes. MY
Darling Daughter" opens Fri
day for its second downtown
week. Priscilla Lane, Jeffry
Lynn, Roland Young and Fay
Banter play the important
roles.
Evening star., 1939-03-12
BY Mary Elizabeth Plummer,
Associated Press Staff Writer.

ASSOClaLeQ HreSS stan writer.
NEW YORK.
Tallulah of the tawny hair, the
deep blue eyes and the husky voice
sat reading review which said,
mo more frippery for Miss Bank
head and no more con pone. She
plays the part with dignity
and drive that she must have
been waiting years to unloose. 1t
is suitable reward for an
actress = =" And then she said:
People are so happy for me that
I want to cry. How a success could
give a person the big head I can't
see. You're so happy, so grateful
that you want everybody else to
be happy, like children at Christmas
with a Christmas tree.
That first night, when I heard
them calling, Author! Author!' for
Lillian Hellman I told myself, If I
get up in the morning and hear they
don't like it, Ill still know it's a
good play and I said to myself.
Don't kneel down on the stage and
pray In sheer joy
That's how Tallulah Banknead
feels about the play, THE Little
Foxes" at which you hear people
say in the intermission, m so glad
for Tallulah. She's always been
swell" They talk about the plot
between acts, and go home arguing
about the lives of that Hubbard
family in the play-"the little foxes
that spoil the vines"
Flash-back from Tallulah's life:
Her dad, w. B. Bankhead, now
Speaker of the United States House
of Representatives, took her and
her sister, Eugenia, as small girls to
see The Whip"
1t was the first play Tallulah of
Alabama ever saw in New York.
She and Eugenia were so excited
they nearly fell out of their box.
Now she's in a hit drama, after
several years of great success in
London, and intervening years when
the New York plays in which she
acted for one reason or another
weren't hits.
Her fine performance as Sadie
Thompson in Rain" won praise, but
it was little too soon after Jeane
Eagels'. Her good work, with her
husband, John Emery, in a revival
of Somerset Maugham's play, The
Circle was in the spring No one
was in the mood for a revival
"Jezebel," when she fell i'll, lasted
five performances.
Tallulah would have kept on if
she'd never had a hit She feels,
as her husband does, Il have to act"
Today Tallulah kept pushing back
her long bob, and the words tumbled
out. She sometimes speaks of Re-
gina, the woman she plays in The
Little Foxes as if she were a living
woman.
"Oh, no." she argued at one stage.
Evening star., 1939-03-12
Lady With Red Hair
Set for Bette Davis

Bette Davis, who just won the
Academy Award as the best actress
OF 1888, will portray Mrs. Leslie
Carter in The Lady with Red
Hair, which is the sixth film on
the busy actress schedule.
The Lady with Red Hair" is to be
based on the autobiography of the
famous actress whose exploits made
news in the 9Os.
Miss Davis schedule of starring
roles, which will keep her busy
for the next two years, also in
cludes The Old Maid" "All This
and Heaven. Too" The Knight
and the Lady" THE Miracle" and
Memphis Belle" Her most re-
Gently completed pictures are Dark
Victory" which will be released in
April. and "Juarez." in which she
and Paul MUM co-star.