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SCIENCE:
Official Car

Within the antarctic circle lie vast
iron, coal and oil resources coveted
not only by the U. S. but by Norway,
Germany and Great Britain. In pre-
vious trips to that region Rear Adm.
Richard E. Byrd staked out vast
areas for the U. S., but no official
claim was ever made. Several
weeks ago congress appropriated
$40, 900 for land-staking expedi-
ton which Explorer Byrd will lead
out of New York early next October,
hoping to claim approximately 675,-
900 square miles of antarctic wastes.
Equipment will include three
ships, the coast guards Northland,
Admiral Byrd's Bear of Oakland,
and the ice breaker North Star. Also
taken will be ample air equipment,
but what fascinates most landlub-
bers is the ''house on wheels"
Since wide crevasses in the ice
crust offer mighty obstacle to ex-
plorers, ordinary tractors are use
less. At Chicago, therefore, DR..
Thomas E. Poulter announced he
was building huge new snow cruis-
er SIS feet long, powered by diesel
engines and tracked with endless
tread wheels. In its spacious quar-
tiers four men can live comfortably
with supplies to last a year. On its
roof will be dashed a small airplane.
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net. You can really make a whole
summer-full of daytime clothes
for your little girl, using this one
easy design. It's so quick and
easy to make. Bingham, linen,
percale and seersucker are nice
cottons to choose for this.
The Patterns.
No. 1853 is designed for sizes "a,
SO, 38, 40, AZ, A, 46 and 48. Size
SO requires, with short sleeves, 4
yards of SO inch fabric without
nap. "a yard of contrast for collar
and vestee.
No. 1765 is designed for sizes /.
2, 3, and 5 years. Size re-
quires ia yards of IS inch mate
rial, without nap, for pinafore, -
yard for playsuit, u yard for bon
net. 81 yards of braid or bias
binding.
Send your order to The Sewing
Circle Pattern Dept, Room 1924,
I'll w. Wacker Dr., Chicago, Ill
Price of patterns, Is cents Tin
coins) each.
Bell Syndicate-WNU Service.l
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The opponents: Japan and Russia.
The participants: Japs and their
puppet Manchukuoans versus Rus
slams and their puppet Outer Mon
golians.
For five years both nations have
kept their troubles out of print by
relying on convenient buffer states,
but by early June there were signs
of open hatred. Newspapers, first
in Tokyo, then in Moscow, began
boasting of incredible victories
which never gibed with the enemy
account. After several weeks of this,
American correspondents finally
reached the Japanese front lines
from where they dispatched more
accurate reports, yet there was
enough Japanese good news in them
to indicate official censorship. Most
important, correspondents found
well-equipped armies fighting on a
nine-mile front in a region so re-
mote from civilization that it might
be on another planet.
At Tokyo, Premier Baron Kiichiro
Hiranuma officially discounted the
importance of this warfare, but he
was fooling no one. Knowing so, he
made it clear Japan will show "a
stronger 'front.' to the Soviet on
questions of fishing, coal and oil
concessions.
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does, against an employer; it is
quite another thing for a union to
be organized to perpetuate govern
ment charity and to use that union
in a violent fashion as has been done
in this instance.
And, speaking of unions, there are
two of them-rival organizations
among WPA workers. There is the
Workers Alliance of America and
the Workers League of the United
States. The first named is headed
by David Lasscer and the second by
Lloyd Leith. / do not know the back
ground of either man, where they
came from or what their mission
in life may be. OF this, however, I
am sure: very few men and women
in this world of ours ever work for
absolutely no pay.
l wish that congress would dig
into those two organizations and see
how much these leaders" are paid
and find out where the money comes
from. 1t is difficult for me to be-
ieve that either one of them or the
several dozen "field men, and Sec
retaries and others with titles are
such lovers of humanity that they
are not being well paid for their
work. To believe that these men
are emulating Our Lord to that ex-
tent is stretching my credulity too
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HOUSING:
Political Vogue?

Periodically there arises David
who Stays the wicked giant Goliath.
Usually it sets a fashion until cor
ruptness again catches hold. Last
year New York's racket-busting
States Attorney Thomas E. Dewey
became a David, captured public
fancy, inspired radio programs and
placed wicked politicians on the de-
fensive. The public obviously want
ed reform and no more rackets.
When Tom Dewey began looming
as a 1910 G. o. P. presidential pos
sibility, reformation sounded like
good strategy for any aspiring poll
tician or party. By early July, At
torney General Frank Murphy had
behind him an excellent record of
smashing corrupt political machines
Qike Kansas City's Tom Fender
gasD and tracking down income tax
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evaders. This was the signal for
Scripps-Howard Columnist Raymond
Clapper to charge that Frank Muir
ply was trying too hard to win the
vice presidential nomination.
Meanwhile there was arising an
other administration racket-busting
program under guidance of the JUS
tice departments Thurman w. Ar
mold. Its aim: To drive trust prac-
tees, price-fxing and collision out
of the U. S. building industry. The
day Mr.. Arnold told his plans to
the temporary national economic
committee, Chicago Daily News
William H. Fort wrote from Wash
ington that this was obviously the
New Deals most ambitious trust
busting venture in its attempt to
push young Tom Dewey's New York
activities into the shade"
Designing or not, Thurman Ar
nold's drive bids fair to accomplish
something. With 40 lawyers and
an enlarged appropriation, the JUS
tice department expects to uncover
plenty of reasons why metropoli-
tan dweller runs into trouble when
he wants to build house. Alleged
monopolistic devices: Cd fixing of
prices by producers of building ma
terials and trade associations; (2)
use of joint selling agencies; (3)
control of sales and limiting of
quantities; (4) elimination of COM
petition by assigning business in ro-
tation to the one next in turn; (5)
refusal to sell direct to purchaser,
so that all material must be bought
through retail outlet.
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POLITICS.:
Explanation

Ever since Chicago's Democratic
convention of 1892, Indiana's presi-
dental aspirant and former Gov.
Paul v. McNutt has been at odds
with National Chairman James A.
Farley. Reason: Democrat McNutt
allegedly tried to block Franklin
Roosevelt's nomination in 1892. Thus
when the white-haired Hoosier re-
turned from his Philippine governor
generalship last month to start his
presidential boom, he found no well
come at national headquarters. But
few weeks later he emerged from
conference with Mr.. Farley and po-
litical wiseacres smiled, for a feud
based on misunderstanding had evil
IDENTIFY been settled. The reported
feud:
Since early days Illinois and Indi-
ana Democrats have worked togeth-
er, switching from one presidential
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EUROPE:
Balkan Pressure

In June Yugo-Slavia's regent,
Prince Paul, visited Berlin. In ear
ly July Hungary's army chieftain,
Gen. Henry Werth, attended Ger
man army maneuvers just as Bull
garia's premier, George Kiosseiva-
noff, was discussing "the general
situation as well as specific Ger
man-Bulgarian questions" in Berlin
with Adolf Hitler.
AS well it might, this frightened
Rumania. Reason: Adolf Hitler's
three guests represented nations
surrounding Rumania on as many
sides, south, west and north. A
second reason: Adolf Hitler is angry
with King Carol for consorting with
England and France. A third rea-
son: From these visits may grow an
anti-democracy Balkan entente COM
posed of Bulgaria, Yugo-Slavia and
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-20

Hungary, opposing the pro-democra-
cy bloc composed of Rumania,
Greece and Turkey.
Greatest reason, however, was
Germany's apparent support of Bull
garia's long-standing territorial
claim to Dobruja, which she lost to
Rumania after the World war (see
map. Should enough Rome-Berlin
axis pressure for return of this terri
tory be placed against Rumania,
Adolf Hitler evidently presumes
King Carol might be persuaded to
drop his Anglo-French connections.
Biggest fallacy in Germany's plan
for a pro-axis Balkan bloc is that
the Reich must support two nations
which want the same thing. Yugo-
Slavia, though leaning axis-wise,
could hardly be persuaded to ally
with Bulgaria if it meant surrender
of the land she gained from that
nation after the great war.
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AGRICULTURE:
Frozen ASSET

Ten years ago science discovered
perishable fruits and vegetables
might be preserved by freezing, thus
providing hotels, hospitals and res
taurants with quasi-fresh products
out of season. So well did the idea
go over that last season a heavier
than-normal Greece" was encour-
aged despite previous seasons
carryovers amounting to 10000, 900
pounds of vegetables and 10000, 900
pounds of fruit. But consumption
dropped unexpectedly last winter.
With new packing season under
way, food freezers are now survey
ing 100000 pounds of vegetables
and 100000 pounds of fruit, won
dering how to melt down almost
100000 pounds of frozen assets.
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Smart Patterns In
Midsummer Styles

IF YOU'RE looking for a gra-
! cious, sophisticated afternoon
fashion in women's sizes, you will
be delighted with 1853. Cut on
true princess lines, it is beautiful
ly slim and graceful. The shirred
vestee and narrow roll collar give
a pretty, soft, dressy touch. and
it has the simplicity that you like
in midsummer. For this, choose
silk crepe, georgette or chiffon.
Dutch Mode for Tots.
Cool comfort and cuteness for
tots is assured by 1865, a simple
pattern including playsuit, pima
fore and air-conditioned little bon
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navy in 1886, but his real initia-
ton came during the World war
while still in his twenties-when
he directed manufacture of war
materials. Mr.. Edison's chief
business interests follow in his
fathers footsteps, carrying on the
utilization by mankind of the in
struments that inventor perfect
ed.
Just as many army admins
trative tasks have been given to
Assistant Secretary Louis John
son, so has President Roosevelt
placed heavy trust in Mr.. Edison
for navy administration during
Secretary Swanson's long illness.
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Tree Stumps Reclaimed

The tree stumps which constitute
the ''feed" for the steam and SOL
vent wood naval stores industry are
found in the vast cut-over lands of
Mississippi, Georgia and Florida, ac-
cording to Industrial and Engineer
ing Chemistry. These remnants of
numbering are not useful until 10 to
Is years after cutting. By that time
the bark has sloughed off, leaving
the heartwood in which the resinous
material is concentrated. The stumps
are pulled out by tractors.
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Seeks Actual Graves of
THERMOMETERS Victims

ATHENS, GREECE. - Excava-
tons that have been carried out by
Professor Marinatos, director of ar
theological services of the Greek
ministry of education, in the neigh
borhood of the Gulf of Lamia have
aroused hope that discovery of the
actual grave of the 300 Spartans and
10000 Persians who persisted in the
Battle of Thermopylae is imminent.
Thermopylae was fought in 480
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-20

WASHINGTON.-The federal pow
er commission granted an amended
license to the Grand River Dam au-
thority authorizing construction of
the Grand river dam project with
water storage to 745 feet above sea
level. This permits construction of
the project without changing pres
ent plans.
Army engineers had recommend
ed that the water storage require
ment be fixed at a 755 foot level
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JAPAN:
No Pooling

Two years ago this month the men
of Nippon invaded China, stormed
Picking and started the war which
still remains officially undeclared.
Anniversary time finds Japan at her
wits end economically, enjoying an
artificial wartime boom but never
theless ready to impose new taxes
and new restrictions on an already
sorely pressed people. How much
longer the conflict will last is any,
body's guess, but certain it is that
China grows more unified each day
and will be a thorn in Tokyo's side
for years to come.
What troubles Japan today more
than her Chinese problem is Sec
ond war, which international OBJ
servers agree is now an actuality.
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B. c. and the heroism of handful
of Spartans under Leonidas has been
immortalized by the historian Hero
dotus.
Herodotus relates that an army
of 100000 Persians under King Xer-
xes invaded Greece from the north,
but in order to reach the center of
the country it had to go through the
Pass of Thermopylae, narrow road
between the mountain named CALI
dromos and the shores of the Maliac
gulf, which is now called the Gulf of
Lamia, an inlet of the Aegean sea.
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HEADLINERS
CHARLES EDISON

The instant death came to IT.
year-old Secretary of the Navy
Claude A. Swanson, his position
went automatically and without
fanfare to the assistant who has
actually managed that depart
ment for the past year-Charles
Edison, son of the late Inventor
Thomas Edison whom he closely
resembles. Though many in adj
ministration circles predicted Mr..
Edison would be named secretary
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Trend
Horu the ,Uind is blowing

Hoto the tUind is bLotUing
LABOR - Oregon's Supreme
court has held constitutional the
famous "anti-picketing" law
adopted by referendum last No
vember, combining picketing to
bona fide disputes between en-
ployers and majority of en-
ployees, prohibiting boycotts and
outlawing minority strikes.
BABIES-Since both 1887 and
1888 found Frances deaths ex-
ceeding her births, Premier Ed
Guard Daladier has announced
DEGREES to reward large families
and thus stimulate the birth rate.
BUILDING-Major U. S. engi-
neering construction awards for
1895 first half reached the great
est volume since 1880.
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because of flood control plans.
However, they acceded to requests
of the Public Works administration,
the power commission, and the
Grand River Dam authority to re-
duce the requirement until such
time as the government could fur
nish flood control funds for addition
al land purchases and construction.
Issuance of the license would per-
NIT condemnation of the lands in
federal as well as in state courts.
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NERVOUS?

Do you feel so nervous you want to screamf
Are you cross and irritable? Do you seold
those dearest to you?
II your nerves are on edge and you fed
you need good general system tonic, try
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
made especially for iooHen-
For over 60 years one woman has told an
other how to go Smiling thru" with reliable
Pinkham's Compound. It helps nature build
up more physical resistance and thus helps
calm quivering nerves and lessen diseomforSz
from annoying symptoms which often Se-
company female functional disorders
Why not give it a chance to help YOUI
Over one million women have written N
reporting wonderful benefits from Pinkh2n's
Compound.
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to succeed Mr..
Swanson, others
thought the post
might go to Adm.
William D. Lea
by, retiring chief
of naval opera
tons.
Though only 40
years old, Mr..
Edison is no new
conner to govern
ment circles. He
became assistant
&c ILL.,
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Oldest Company

At Falun in Sweden is the oldest
commercial company in the world.
1t has owned a mine there for 700
years and extracted from it over
half a million tons of copper, more
than Is tons of silver and ton of
gold.
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Chemical Elements

The substances which nourish the
body are quite similar in chemical
composition to the body itself. They
are made up of from Is to 20 chem
ical elements.
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Wisdom Through Failure

We learn wisdom from failure
much more than from success. We
often discover what will do by
finding out what will not do
Smiles.
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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBINE
Arnold Uses Popular Strategy
In Construction Trust Inquiry;
Charged With Copying Dewey

opinions
edhuyy Neu,una lin
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Women aCIose
Second to the
N. w. Mounties

is his finding in his survey of this
hitherto unexplored field of statis-
tics.
DIR. P0penoe is director of the
court of family relations at Los
Angeles. A specialist in the
daily SquabbleS of married life,
he has been effective in settling
many of them. He says it is
good idea to write down all your
wife's faults, check them against
your own, and then burn the
paper. You should keep the
family budget straight, refrain
from nagging, and keep yourself
and everybody else around the
house interested and never
bored. AS a geneticist, he
thinks it is fair bet that we
will become a race of "super-
idiots" whereas we could be
super-Einsteins if we could use
collectively the sense that God
gave geese.
He is native of Topeka, Kan,
educated at Occidental college and
Topeka university. He was a news
paper reporter in Pasadena and Los
Angeles before he became a biolo-
gist and sociologist.
PIG, ruddy John M. Carmody,
II known as "Powerhouse John,"
takes over $500 PWA employees un-
der the new arrangement by which
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PHOTOGRAPHY
LIQUOR HABITS

Since 1896 disqualification
FOR LIQUOR AND DRUG HABITS
For interesting Information l0rite for Pa-pALsfs
They Are Free 1t VIII Pay You
THE MURRAY INSTITUTES. 62o S. 10Th. Minneapolis
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NeD EVA Boss
BelittIes Atlas
With His Load

ball. Leaving the Rural Electrical
ton administration, he heads the
new Federal Works agency, which
takes in both the PWA and the
FWA; also the bureau of public
roads, the building operations of the
treasury, the U. S. Housing author
ity and many other Herculean en-
deavors.
He is rip-sn0rting Irishman
with a booming voice, employ
ing section boss technique in
getting things done. He was for
many years an editor of the Me-
Graw Hill Publications, making
his career in industrial engineer
ing. In earlier years, he man.
aged coal companies, factories
and steel mills.
He has been with the New Deal
six years, first with the NRA and
later with the NLRB. He has a
Pennsylvania farm background and
attended Columbia university.
CONSOLIDATED Features-WNU Service.)
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Complete Ignorance
To be proud of learning is the
greatest ignorance.
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WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

NEW YORK.-News of the ap-
' preaching retirement of Brig.
Gen. Harley B. Ferguson is a re-
hinder that it was he who super
vised the rails
Retiring General ing of the bat
Could Regulate tleship Maine
EJo,, os Ae.,. in Havana har-
Dor for t h e
u. S. government in 1910 and 1911.
In the service for AZ years in
the engineering corps, he prob
ably has won more shirt-sleeve
battles against all the disasters
of the Anglican litany than any
other army officer with a gift
for achieving the impossible.
He will be GA years old on
August Ia and there is talk that
he may be upped to the rank of
major general before the bell
rings on his finish fight against
the elements.
He is the Hackenschmidt of flood
grapplers, winning one fall after an
other against the Mississippi He
has been president of the Missis-
sippi River commission since 1882;
member of the board of rivers and
harbors since 1880 and is also a
member of the st. Lawrence Water
way board.
Back in the days of manifest
destiny" starting in 1897, the
young second lieutenant got his
first practice workouts in the
mud and miasma, floods and
elemental and human catastrO-
phe in the Philippines and Cuba,
and with the army swampers
tidying up China and providing
relief after the Boxer uprising
around the turn of the century.
If the destiny" involved get
ting things shipshape in hurry,
he always made it a lot more
manifest than it might have
been otherwise. He was chief
engineer of the China expe-
ditiOn.
He started fighting floods in Mont
gomery, Ala, in 1907 and through
the years commanded army engi-
neering works, defensive and ag-
gressive, at Milwaukee, Cincinnati,
New Orleans, Vicksburg, Pittsburgh
and Norfolk, Va.
In the World war, he was chief
engineer of the second army corps
in France. He went to West Point
from his home town, Waynesville,
N. c. His son is commander in
the navy. He has two daughters.
DIR. PAUL POPENOE, geneticist,
- biologist, and student of family
relations, who has given much of
his interesting career to clinical
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women are ag-
gressive pro-
posers and that
70 out of 85 get
their man. This
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he assumes a
load, compared
to which Atlas
would be just
toting a tennis
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DIR. PAUL POPENOE, geneticist,
- biologist, and student of family
relations, who has given much of
his interesting career to clinical
studies of home life, discovers that
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NEW YORK.-News of the ap-
' preaching retirement of Brig.
Gen. Harley B. Ferguson is a re-
hinder that it was he who super
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SPIRITUALS SINGERS
CAPTIVATE AUDIENCE
Music Excellent Though Amplihcation
In Stadium Leads to slight Blurring

lv pleasing. The audience Of 1,6Oo
persons sat on the north bleachers
while the singers stood near the
center of the enclosure.
Denote Souls Progress
The program was devotional II
nature. The Rev. GenE I. Settle
as reader, tied the spirltuals togeth
er with comss1nt. 4Thfse spifltnalS
were 50 arranged as ~ Indicate ths
souls progress toward eternity.
The moon was full, thy night va
cool, the music excellent. The SIZE
Of the audience repaid the efforts O
the churches which brought the
singing group to Dayton These were
Bethel Baptist, Corinthian Baptist
Mckinley Methodist, MT. Enon Bap.
tist, Norwood Avenue Christian, 1T.
John Baptist, st. John Catholic,
Tabernacle Baptist, Wayman Meth
odist, Wesleyan Methodist, Zion Hill.
Baptist, all of Dayton; cyrene Meth
odist, Piqua; Second Baptist Mid
dletown; Wiley Methodist, Spring
field; Zion Baptist, Xenia, and Zion
BAPTIST Lebanon.
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Bv MERAB EBERLE

The Wings Over Jordan choir
presented its second concert in this
city under direction Of Worth Kram-
er, Tuesday night at the University
Of Dayton stadium.
The chorus, which originated in
a Cleveland church, gained wide
audience in that city under the di-
rector whose love Of Negro spiritnals
led him into building up repertoire
of these songs of strong rhythms
and deeply religious nature. 50
splendid did the chorus become that
ii was engaged for concert work
over d radio network.
Wings Over Jordan chorus ap-
peared here season ago at Me
mortal hal. On this occasion no
amplification was needed and the
smooth singing of the chorus was
manifest. Tuesday night there was
considerable amplifcation which
seemed to be needed in the open air.
This led to some distortion Of tone
and bluaring Of fhythms, but on
the whole the concert was extreme