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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-06
THREE Shattered HOUSES
- BEN AlMES WILLIAMS

but not rebelliously, complaining
without struggle. She heard June's
report in an unaccustomed silence,
and without comment; but she must
have reported the matter to Aunt
EVE, because later Aunt EVE told
June, in her soft, irnplacable tones,
not to walk in the woods again for
while, and she babe the girl for
get this man she had seen.
Kitty Leaford herself would have
submitted-though relationships
this prohibition; but June was of
stronger fiber than her mother She
disobeyed Aunt EVE once, and met
Uncle Jim and told him what had
happened. He came to the house
that afternoon June saw him meet
Aunt Evie. She did not hear what
passed between them; but after that
Uncle Jim built a cabin on the
rocky knoll above the pond, and
dwelt there sometimes for weeks on
end; and June often went that way.
These hours when after her les
sons under Aunt Ewes tutelage
were done June could slip away to
the river, or to see Uncle Jim, made
life endurable for the child. As she
grew into young woman, they
were a part of the routine of her
days. Her days all were routine;
just as it was part of the routine
which held them all, that every Sat
urday night after supper they came
together In the big sitting-room in
the Hurder house. They did not
meet for supper, because that meant
extra work and even a certain adj
ditional expense. But after supper
they all met and were determined
ly festive.
''It is duty we owe the chill
dren," Aunt EVE used to say. ITO
make home pleasant and attrac-
tive for them in whatever ways we
can"
June and Rab and Asa were the
children. When June was eighteen,
Rab was twenty-six, and Asa seven
years older; children no longer. But
the routine bound them still
When this particular evening be-
gan-though June would remember
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-06
U. S. AND FOREIGN BIRTH RATES
Infant Mortality

highest In the world, averaging IN
excess of 10 per thousand of popula-
ton per year for the past several
years. Meanwhile Germany's mar
riage rate had shrunk from Ill in
1884 to 81 in 1887; the Austrian
rate is 6.5 per thousand, the Czecho-
slovakian 8.3. The Italian rate is
8.6, having climbed from ST. in 1885.
Of the two major European de-
mocracies, the United Kingdom
shows drop In birth rate from
20.4 for the 1925 period to 1873 in
l937-which represents halt in the
decline, as the rate for 1885 was
1873 also. Frances birth rate de-
clined from 1873 in the 1925 period
to Is In 1886 and to AT In 1887.
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son-the button-front frock for ev-
cry day wear. 1t has wide shout
ders, a fiaring skirt, and the fit
ting is all by means Of simple
darts that draw in the waistline
and fill out the bust. Flat crepe,
prints, thin wool and linen are
nice materials for this dress.
The Patterns
No. 1721 is designed for sizes "a,
SO, 38, 40, A, "A and 46. Size SO
takes 41s yards of 80 inch material
One yard edging for neckline
No. 1910 is designed for sizes "a,
So, SO, 40, A, A and 46. With
long sleeves, size So requires AS
yards of 80 inch material. With
short sleeves, 4 yards.
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Make smart new frocks for street,
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It's chic, it's easy, it's economical,
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Send your order to The Sewing
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Pity the Poor Cartographers in Year Like This!
Arnlies March and Their Work Goes Up IN Smoke

When European troops start
marching, American map makers
simply lay down their pens and
wait. There's nothing else to do
except figure how much they lose
through a dictator's whim for more
territory.
Thus it was in 1886 when Musso-
Eni grabbed Ethiopia, coup which
cost one United States photographer
some S25, 900. It happened again
when Hitler marched into Austria.
later when Germany acquired SUI
detenland territory from CzechosIo-
vakia, and it's happened again Just
recently. Only this time Hitler's al
most simultaneous grabs in Czecho-
slovakia and Memel allow the map
pers to make two changes at once.
thereby saving considerable money.
No great effort is made to keep
up with changes in war-torn Spain
and China; the photographers pre-
fer to save their money and wait
for peace- But some map makers
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its every detail all her Iife-there
was nothing to make it seem any
different from others that had gone
before The day had been warm
and sullen, and there was promise
of a thunder-shower to relieve the
heat; but Kitty Leaford hated thun-
der-showers, so that June did not
welcome the prospect of this relief.
She was always apt to suffer when
her mother did.
The girl did the supper dishes to-
night as her regular duty was; and
while she was thus engaged, Uncle
Justus and Aunt EVE came IN
through the kitchen from their house
next door. There was a half-bottle
of milk on the table, and Uncle JUS
tus, as he passed where it stood,
knocked it off with his elbow, so
that it spilled across the floor. June
had to mop it up, while Aunt EVE
thrust Uncle Justus on toward the
sitting-room. She did not scold him,
because she always spoke IN low,
gentle tones; and Uncle Justus was
stone deaf and never heard anything
she said. June sometimes thought
his deafness was an armor that
served him well.
After she had finished her tasks,
she went upstairs to her bare, high
ceiled room to wash her hands and
smooth her hair, and when she re-
luctantly came down again, the 9TH
ers were already gathered in the
sitting-room Uncle Justus sat in
the shabby old chair by the piano
reading his paper. He would GO
presently TO sleep, his chin on his
chest, his glasses on his nose, his
paper on his knees.
June's mother and young Rab
Taine and Asa were playing three
handed contract bridge at a card
table at one side. Rab had friend
ly eye, light and amiable tongue.
When June now came to the door
and hesitated for a moment here,
be called to her:
"Come along and play with us to-
night, June. You belong with us
young fry, not with the patriarchsl"
Mr. and Mrs. Bowdon, Grandma
and Grandpa Hurder, and Aunt
EVE were playing anagrams at an
other table; and a chair waited
there for June. June hesitated, but
Mrs. Bowdon interfered. Mrs. Bow
don-she insisted that June call her
Grandma, although she was in fact
June's great-aunt-was a ponderous
white lump of woman, white hair,
white cheeks, small tight lips. June
thought of her as a crushing weight.
Grandma Bowdon said now to Rab,
In her slow, heavy fashion:
"Rab, June's place is here with
US. June, here is your chair"
June had no thought of exercising
any choice IN the matter. She might
have a choice; but If she had, she
kept her wishes to herself. She had
found by experience that nothing
but bruised knuckles could result
from battering a stone wall. She
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-06

marriage and production of chill
dren, fell from o. In 1925 to 1873
in 1887. The 1888 figure is expected
to show a further decline, rejecting
the lowered marriage rate and the
economic straits of the German pop
ulation. The Austrian birth rate
dropped from an average of 22.2 per
thousand of population in the 1925
period, to 1913 for the year 1897;
the Czechoslovakian rate fell in the
same time from I'll to 1873. The
birth rate In the United States de-
cEned from 22-5 in the 1925 pc
riod to low of 1875 in 1888, but
recovered to ITO in 1887 and then
jumped to 17.9 for the year of 1888,
the highest figure since 1881.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-06
Hitler Inherits Lo,U Birth Rate
InCzech Grab; u. S. Figures Up

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. bache-
lor taxes, marriage subsidies, or
baby bonuses, the United States
birth rate has climbed to 17.9 and
approximate equality with Germa-
ny's birth rate, which has fallen
steadily in recent years. Further
more, Germany has now annexed
the two lowest birth rates in Eu-
rope, in Austria and Czechoslovakia,
probably pulling the present aver
age for the whole German empire
to a point actually below the cur
rent U. S. rate, according to a study
just completed by Northwestern Ma
tional Life Insurance company.
The German birth rate, in spite of
that governments efforts to promote
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-06

The Italian birth rate, in spite of
Mussolini's many edicts, declined
from 29.7 in the 1925 period to
22.7 as of 1887, still considerably
above the q. S. rate. However, 10
out of every thousand Italian babies
born in 1887 died in their first year
of Life, approximately twice the U.
S. infant mortality of 544 per thou
sand. Germany's infant mortality
figure Is almost as favorable as that
of the United States, 81 per thou
sand live births, but the Czecho-
slovakian rate is the highest in Eu-
rope-122, and the Austrian figure is
SO deaths per thousand.
Also without legislative promo
ton, the U. S. marriage rate is the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-06
How Women
i'm Their 4O's
Can Attract Men

Here's good advice for q woman during her
change usually from So to 52). who fears
she'll lose her appeal TO men, who worries
about hot flashes, loss of pep, dizzy spells.
upset nerves and moody spells
Get more fresh air, hrs sleep and 4 you
need good general system tonic take Lydia
E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. made
especially for s1oBsen- Il helps Nature build
up physical resistance, thus helps give more
yivacity TO enjoy life and assist calming
iittery nerves and disturbing symptoms that
often accompany change Of life WELL
WORTH TRYINGi
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-06

ABOVE-SiIhoueftes of SCRIP
ice, fiCo CCC youths fighting a
forest fire. RICHT-Ne,o en-
roIIees Leaning for camp. There
iUere SO, 200 of these young men
accepted last October but the cur
rent enrolment ,Ciu be smaller
because Gee is being forced to
refrench.
officers and technical personnel
were rushed to danger points.
Whittier CCC? In his budget mes
sage last January the President rec
commended slash of $120, 06O, 900 in
the corps budget (from $3.50, 0O0, 900
to $3.50, 000, 000). This means camps
and personnel must be reduced,
camps from 1,500 to 1000 and men
from 100000 to 100000 This reduc-
ton is already under way and the
April enrolment will be smaller
than usual. Worst of all, CCC will
die naturally on June 30, 1910, unless
extended.
Militarized Youth Camps?
Military minded congressman are
already thinking about this, wonder
ing if CCC can't be retained and
made an integral part of our de-
tense program. This means adop-
ton of the plan proposed by Ken
tucky's Rep. Andrew Jackson May,
which would provide for not less
than two, nor more than five hours
of military training for CCC en-
rollees each week. The immediate
result has been protest, not only
from anti-New Dealers but from
what are jokingly referred to as the
"tabbies "-pacifsts
You can paint a horrible picture
of this militarized Gees potentiali-
ties, if you let your imagination run
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-06
Patterns
Have Lovely Lines

THE full-sleeved,, high-waisted
L dress (1721) is perfectly
charming fashion for afternoon
parties, club meetings and lunch
cons. It does nice things to your
figure, because the bodice is gath
cred into just enough fullness. and
the high waistline makes you look
simmer around the middle and
over the diaphragm Make It Of
silk crepe, georgette, prints or
chiffon.
Here's a simple little pattern
(1670) that brings you one Of the
very smartest styles Of the sea-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-06

away. You can see several million
unemployed youths saved from hum
ger and privation, who would rally
round the banner of the man who's
responsible for it. You can see a
political army, if you wish, armed,
trained and disciplined but feeling
greater loyalty to a political clique
than to the nation itself. But Gees
militarizatien can be safeguarded
against such evils.
Dangerous? Perhaps, but maybe
it's even more dangerous to contem-
plate American youths fate without
some agency to keep idle minds out
of mischief. Gees 1868 budget
of $3.50, 900, 900 is far smaller than
our annual national crime bill,
which approximates SIS, 900, 000, 900.
g Western Newspaper Union.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-06
SYNOPSIS

Driving home through a torrential rain.
young, well-to-do Clint Jervies picks up a
girl. Scantily clad running in terror-stricken
fight down the road. She rides a short
ways, leaves the car and runs into the
woods. He decides to talk to his dear
friends, Inspector Tope and Miss Moss,
about his adventure. Clint still thinks of her
as Miss Moss. his former guardian, though
she and the Inspector are married. Clint,
having settled down, now manages the
Jervies estate himself.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-06
0uIlIccIkI g
elUOTEs ~
A GUARANTEE

1--WE enterprise chance and will
give you the guarantee of hap
py and prosperous America-"-U. s
Senator Josiah ". Bailey.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-06
Misplaced Pride

To be proud of learning is the
greatest ignorance.-Jeremy Tay-
lor.
Evening star., 1939-11-19
Easy Method
Drici1lq School

Teaches you to become a safe. careful
driver in few lessons with our new
dual control cars Lady and men
instructors. RANDOLPH 1884.
Evening star., 1939-11-19
the way to build a movie

is not the way to build a movie
reputation.
George Brent has regained lost
ground with his stellar perform
ances in Dark Victory" and THE
Rains Came" Villain Humphrey
Bogart has been put in inferior
pictures, which is no way to keep
popular at the box Office Both
James Cagney and George Raft did
themselves lots of good with Each
Dawn I Die" Norma Shearer
crawled out of the pit dug by Marie
Antoinette" and idiots Delight"
via her sympathetic and good act
ing in The Women"
Ann Sheridan has drawn lot of
publicity in 1939-but very little
else. Spencer Tracy gets more
popular with every picture.
jeanette Macdonald, who won sew
eral first places in acting awards
last year, has the handicap this
year of two terrible pictures.
Robert Taylor is less popular this
Evening star., 1939-11-19

But, while the play attracts more
spirited bidding from major movie
camps than anything the legit has
presented since You Can't Take 1t
With You," even more attention is
being focused on the unknown" (to
Hollywood actor covering himself
with glory in the title role.
Every lot in Hollywood would like
to sign this unknown" to a long
term contract-and the studios are
going about the process with red
and shamed faces.
The man sorting over all these
dazzling proffers of rich and per-
nanent employment in Hollywood
is bearded chap named Monte
Woolley, one-time head of the Yale
Drama School, Broadway star of
"On Your Toes" He has a perfect
right to feel delighted about the
whole matter, for Mr.. Woolley was
a movie actor no more than six
months ago. Only trouble then was
that Hollywood did not want Mr.
Woolley.
The current king of the Broadway
stage was kicked around the town
for three years. and he never sue
ceeded in battering his way past the
bit-role stage Invariably he played
ambassadors. professors or diplo-
mats and other menial parts in
which a cultured looking gentleman
with well-trained beard seemed
essential to the atmosphere
For a year he was under con-
tract to M-G-M, but most of the
time he was one of those thousands
between pictures. He was fa-
miliar, studious figure along the
boulevards, usually sauntering alone
with book or two tucked under his
arm. Casting directors referred to
him as "the Judge" and walters
identified him to curious tourists as
''Mr. Whoosit," neither Yale nor
Broadway being recognized by
Hollywood.
The story back of Mr.. Woolley' S
big chance to go places in the
movies via return to the stage
bears quantity familiar relation
ship to the experiences of dozens OF
other potentially great movie play
ers who, after quitting the ballyhoo
capital in disgust, returned with a
golden halo around their heads
1t is related that Playwrights
George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
were in Hollywood last spring, and
while seeking relaxation at a night
club, spotted Woolley, beard and all
at nearby table
Look" said kaufman to Hart
"there's the star of our play" Wool
ley packed up and put Hollywood
5000 miles behind him.
When the casting call came for a
man with beard" one of scores
of other bewhiskered and typed
aspirants got the nod. And then
few weeks ago, producers suddenly
awakened to the distressing fact
that the new" actor they wanted
most of all from Broadway was the
very same Judge" they couldn1
find reason to raise above the BIT
category. Today their agents are
camping outside Woolley's dressing
room, for the man who came to
Dinner" has labeled their kicked
around actor one of the greatest
character artists of modern times.
How many potential Woolleys
roam the streets of Hollywood. un-
noticed by the studios? Undoubt-
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WoIfert
Continued From First Page.)

was going to die OF its problems.
The problems were spreading an
immense, uncomfortable weight of
tragedy, and they seemed insoluble
The substance of the remainder of
the play is that the journalist,
aided by rhetoric from the ghosts
he has summoned up. deduces that
it is each generations fate to have
tragic problems and each genera
tion's duty to grapple with them and
at least try to solve them.
Although the journalist has been
described by several people (not in
the audience) as a man of incandes-
cent brilliance, this idea takes him
by surprise He yelps like a sopho-
more who has been bitten by cheer
leader and rushes of to fight, fight,
fight, we got the team, we got the
steam, etc. Problem No. 1: Keep
United States out of war, so that
Europe, when it clears the smoke of
ruins from its eyes, can see an in
Evening star., 1939-11-19

edly, there are many. One Of the
screens most successful starmakers,
Producer Winfield r. Shehan, esti-
mates Is per cent of the worlds
best acting prospects 60 through life
undiscovered.
"A lot of them naturally come
to Hollywood" he says, but it is
physical impossibility for the
studios to give all of them the
thorough tests necessary to bring
their talents to light. Many people.
of course, are potentially great
actors and 60 through life in igno-
rance of their abilities. But too many
of those who do come to Hollywood
and should make good are cheated
by bad breaks. There is no remedy
It's too often matter of luck"
Often Hollywood has turned
thumbs down on bright prospects.
only to have them bob up later as
dazzling stage and radio person
alities-to be brought back at manv
times their old asking wage.
And in their number are many
of today's best box -office bets. In
1890 Jean Arthur was released by
Paramount with the word that her
voice was too serious a handicap
for talkie success. She went to
New York, scored a triumph on the
stage, and soon was the center of
frantic bidding spree that brought
her back to movies bigger than
ever.
For three years Hollywood turn
ed its back on Tyrone Power and
made him strike out on Broadway
before giving him a tumble. Clark
Gable had a similar experience
and so did Spencer Tracy, Fred
Astaire. jeanette Macdonald and
Mae West. A major studio scout
labeled Henry Fonda a dead pan
comic" but Henry took to the
stage route and came back-at
$4,000 picture
So long as Hollywood attracts
acting prospects far beyond its ca
pacity to absorb. Lady Luck is bound
to be the predominant factor in
carving movie career-and many
will gain their goal by putting the
town far behind them.
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telligent way Of life. This is tossed
of as a last-minute suggestion by
the author, the words just barely
managing to squeeze past the de-
scending curtain.
The Group Theater, beginning its
ninth season, has housed this ill-fed
one-third of a play in . remarkable
setting by the consistently remark
able Mordecai Gorelik. 1t has turned
loose its most gifted performers,
among them Myron Mccormick,
Lee Cobb, Morris Carnovsky, Roman
Bohnen, Art Smith and Ruth
Nelson. Unfortunately, the leading
role is made considerably less than
tolerable by the only bad PERFORM
ance 1 have ever seen Luther Adler
give.
I don't suppose 1t is entirely Mr..
Adler's fault. The author has un-
done him. The people in Mr.. Ard
rey's play who come closest to being
alive are the ghosts. The others
have the misfortune to be ideas, and
obvious ones at that.
There is nothing wrong with max
ing play out Of ideas, even obvious
ideas. Our authors are continually
telling us things we knew all along
and creating great excitement
among us by doing so. But only
poets and philosophers can coin
ideas. Being neither a poet nor q
philosopher, Mr.. Ardrey ought to
stick to his quiet distinguished trade
and write about people and the
ideas people have.
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Evening star., 1939-11-19
Pat O'Brien Is Cast
In 'TOrrid Zone

Pat OBrien will join George Raft
and Ann Sheridan in "Torrid Zone"
at Warner Bros, the studio an
nounces.
A story Of Central America, "Torrid
Zone" will feature Miss Sheridan as
a feminine card sharp, who lives by
her wits-and charm-as an exile
from her native country.
Jerry Wald and Richard Macau-
ley are writing the screen play,
which is scheduled for an early
starting date before the cameras.
Evening star., 1939-11-19

Charles Vidor is the director Of
My Son, My Son. The screen
play is by Lenore Coffee.
Evening star., 1939-11-19
Photoplays in Washington Theaters This Wee
SATURDAY

BULLDOG DTummond's
Bride" and "Silver on
the Sage"
Paul MUM and Jane
Bryan in We Are
Not A1ona''
Evening star., 1939-11-19
New York Philharmonic
ORCHESTRA


John Barbiroili. Conductor
November 22, $3.50 conffitption HaI}
Program: Brahms Symphony No. 4 Wein-
berger, Under the Spreading Chestnut
Tree; Works by Elgar and Berlioz.
Only concert in Washington this season
Tickets from s5c to $3.50 now on sale at
symphony Box Office in Homer L. Kit
Store, 1880 G Street, National 1882. C. C.
CappeI, Manager.
Evening star., 1939-11-19

year than last-to Judge by the size
of his fan mail. Ditto Fred Mac
Murray.
The star who. has made most
progress in 1889, and the one who
will figure inf not head-each
box office champion list is that pint
sized mugger-Mickey Rooney.
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Evening star., 1939-11-19
FRIDAY

ANDY Hardy Gets
Spring Fever" and
Trapped in the Sky"
Paul NUM- and Jane
Bryan in I'VE Are
Not kloDa
Evening star., 1939-11-19
Monte Woolley the Latest
To Ger the Last Laugh
For Three Years Hollywood
Has Given Him the Icy Stare,
But Now He's Wanted
By Harold Hefernan.
HOLLYWOOD

The tax OF the pagong world at the moment is The Man Who
Came New
the -Iar show the biggest hits
flash the Broadway Hollywood
cogged outlets
play novel