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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-01-19

The technologists based their ex-
periments with the new wire on
series of mathematical studies COM
pleted by DR.. Melville A. Peters,
bureau of standards physicist.
The new ignition wire gives hot
ter, faster spark which lasts longer,
thus cutting down on the amount of
current necessary to start a gaso-
line engine. The navy used the new
wire for two years in naval air
craft, and found it so satisfactory
the wire until recently was kept on
the navy's secret list.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-01-19
QUIZ
If you read News Analysis, y,

If you read News Analysis, you
can answer these questions:
. Did the U. S. death rate rise or fall
in 1887, compared with 1852
Of what famous prisoner did a guard
say, Hes screwy as bedbug"?
. Japan's new premier strengthens the
hope for Chinese-Japanese peace. True
or false?
What nation viii serve as Germany's
front" in the Ukrainian conquest?
The legal limit of U. S. public debt
is $50. 200. 900, 900. True or false?
Why is Spanish Rebel Gen. Quiepo de
Llano known as the radio general?
Identify: Munkacs. Beck, Miaja, Rub
lee. Hiranuma.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-01-19

ABOVE - The past Ukraine,
spreading Oper southern Russia,
including a third of Poland and
reaching into Csecho-SIOrakia,
Hungary and Rumania. Eco
nomic-politicaI control oper this
huge area ,couId give Germany
a strangIe hold on European raiO
materials.
against France, German agents
have poured into Carpatho-U Ukraine.
Other measures have been direct
ed at Poland, whose Ukrainian dis
tricts of Volhynia and Halicz have
presented the Warsaw parliament
with demands for territorial auton-
omy. Although self-government de-
mands have been growing for Is
years, this is the first time a con-
crete proposal has been presented.
What shape Germany's Ukrainian
campaign will take can only be
guessed. Certainly Hitler cannot be
so blunt as to march his troops into
Polish or Russian territory without
a provocation, but he may follow the
currently popular technique of fos-
tering an incident which would
offer an excuse for marching into
foreign territory to Safeguard
peace" Since Carpatho- Ukraine is
the jumping-off place, revolt could
be planted there very conveniently.
Already Czechoslovakia and Poland
are at swords ends because Ukrain-
ian agitation is being fomented on
Czech soil. Should Germany march
in to settle this dispute she would
meet no opposition from subservi-
ent Czechoslovakia.
@ Western Newspaper Union.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-01-19
New Type Wire Can Feed
Faster Spark to Motors

Research work with complex
mathematical equations at the Ma
tional Bureau of Standards has re-
suited in the development of new
"easy flow type wire cable for use
in ignition equipment.
Using steel wire in place, of the
traditional copper wire, the WASH
ington Institute of Technology pro-
duced a wire cable with minimum
resistance and Glow capacitance."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-01-19
Observers Predict New Territorial Drive May Start
Next Month; Groundwork Laid by
Austrian, Czech Coups
By JOSEPH w. LaBINE

'When talk of new lands in Europe, bound to
think of Russia and her border states"
Fifteen years ago. from his prison cell Munich Adolf
Hitler inscribed that statement in "Mein Kampf Only
years ago. the Nuremberg party conference he spoke
again.
eff the Uras with their incalcuable wealth of
ras the rich forests of Siberia and the amending fields of
the Ukraine lay within Germany under National Socialist
leadership the country would swim in plenty"
Today these forecasts omnous than ever In
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-01-19
Japan's Blacksmiths Unite

Because much of their business
has been lost through the war ma
terial control law in Japan $40
blacksmiths in Tokyo have united
and will go into the munitions bust
ness. They have organized the To-
kyo Heavy Machine Manufacturing
Industry guild with a capitalization
of over S12,000,000. The guild will
build plant in Tokyo suburb and
machinery will be supplied by the
army. 1t will borrow part of its
capital from the government.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-01-19

word "skedaddle" is case in point.
In an old Bible printed in Ireland
about the Cromwellian period ap-
peared: ''For it is written / will
smite the shepherd, and the sheep
of the flock shall be squadadal," OBJ
viously misprint for scattered"
The word evidently impressed itself
on the minds of the descendants of
the Cromwellian troopers who had
settled in Ireland, and so reached
the New World, and eventually be-
came enshrined in the English
language.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-01-19

fuses to help her in wartime; (3)
because another ally, Russia, is far
away and would be of questionable
assistance.
Colonel Beck left Berchtesgaden
after discovering he had much in
common with the master of Europe.
Though unannounced, the confer
ence results are quite discernible.
Having been granted security at
Germany's mercy, Poland will play
an important role in the Reich'S
campaign to create a Ukrainian re-
public, also serving as rear guard
while Berlin turns its attentions to
helping Friend Mussolini win Medi-
terranean territorial concessions
from France. Poland will lead in
forming a band of armed, neutral
states from the Baltic to the Bal
kans, protecting Germany from
Russia. Poland will permit a Ger
man railroad and highway from
East Prussia to Germany proper,
across the Polish corridor. Most
important, Poland will probably
lead in Pan-Ukrainian agitation,
serving as a ''front" nation for the
Reich.
Munkacs. Bad blood has stood be-
tween Czechoslovakia and Hungary
since last November 2, when Ger
manhattan commission remarked
the southern boundary of Carpatho-
Ukraine (Ruthenia) and gave added
territory to Hungary. Unpopular
with Germans and Czechs alike was
one Italian demand, that strategic
Munkacs be ceded to Hungary.
Munkacs is key city in Germany's
plan for vast Carpatho-U krainian
Notifications, slyly planned as a
threat to keep Russia inundated
while the Reich turns its attentions
to winning concessions from France
and Great Britain, both for itself
and Mussolini.
When Czech-Hungarian hostilities
broke out at Munkacs, the inspira-
ton was obvious. This time using
Czechoslovakia for a 'front.'" Hit
Ter was stirring up trouble which
will lead to re-demarcation of the
Czech-Hungarian frontier, bringing
strategic Munkacs back into his
power. This done, the Reich has
only to placate little Hungary. Then
the chain of pro-German states will
extend from Baltic to Balkans.
These things happened just as
British Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain left for Rome, where
observers expected him to make a
deal with Mussolini. The probable
deal: France would give Italy
Suez canal rights and joint use of
the Djibouti-Addis Ababa railroad.
In return Italy would guarantee Sc
curity for British shipping in the
Mediterranean, also helping settle
Britain's Palestine headache. But
with Hitler once more turning his
eyes westward, this could be inter-
preted as only the beginning. After
helping Mussolini win his demands,
the Reich will probably demand gil
gantic economic and financial con-
cessions from the democracies, even
going so far as to demand return of
World war PREPARATIONS. Mulling
over these prospects, European de-
mocracies have good reason to fear
1895 eleven remaining months.
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Reichsfuehrer Hitler absorbed
Austria, devitalized little
Czechoslovakia and pum-
meled eastern Europe into eco
nomic and political submis-
sion. The groundwork is al
ready laid; sage foreign OBJ
servers look for his newest
campaign-aimed at creation of
puppet, Ukrainian republic-to start
around February /.
Potentialities Great.
It is fearsome picture. In south
ern Russia, Poland, Rumania,
Czechoslovakia and Hungary are
some 50,000,000 Ukrainians whose
vast lands, if put under one flag,
could constitute Europe's greatest
and richest nation. For 300 years
they have sought freedom, some
from the pre-war Austrian-Hungari-
an empire, others from Russia's
czarist regimes. Today the Russian
Ukraine, which constitutes but 2 per
cent of the Soviet's actual territory,
supplies one-ffth of its wheat, one
third of its barley and three-quar-
tiers of its sugar beets. This land
contains coal, iron and timber. Its
Dnepropetrovsk power plant is sec
ond in size only to Americas Boul-
der dam.
What Hitler would do with this
vast territory is no more than the
Ukrainians themselves would do if
given a chance. He is merely seiz-
ing the opportunity to give the
movement impetus and strength,
guaranteeing that in return the
Ukrainian republic will be his vas
sal state.
German interest in the Ukraine is
not new. 1t dates back to the Rus
sian revolution of 1917 when the
Ukrainians - an entirely separate
race from the Russians-proclaimed
their independence and established a
capital at historic Kiev. Pressed
for food and supplies during the last
year of the World war, Germany
recognized the new republic at the
treaty of Brest-Litovsk. In return
the Ukraine agreed to supply Ger
many with a million tons of food
annually.
Republic Already Attempted.
When the republic was over
thrown by combined White Russian
and Bolshevik opposition, Germany
stepped in to establish puppet gov
eminent at Kiev under Paul Skoro-
padski, who is today leading the
Pan Ukrainian agitation from Ber-
lin. This government also collapsed,
and Russian Ukraine joined in 1919
with the newly organized Western
Ukrainian Peoples republic. The
following year this brave attempt at
naturalization collapsed; Russian
Ukraine went to the Moscow gov
eminent and Western Ukraine to
Poland.
Every German move of the past
year has been well-reasoned and
planned along lines of logical pro-
erosion. For the moment, the most
important fact is that each of these
moves was essential to the Ukrain-
ian campaign. First came Austria's
anschluss, which in turn permitted
Germany to use a ''pincher" play
on Czechoslovakia. This barrier re-
moved, Hitler went about his job of
Nazifying the Balkans, carefully
avoiding any indication that this
program looked ultimately to the
Ukraine.
1t was not until November that
the cat jumped out of the bag. Qui-
city, through pressure from Berlin,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-01-19

was Joe Dunn in getting money out
of delinquent debtors that the mer-
chants of that day used to say: 81
shall have to Dun him" when
they resolved as last resource to
take proceedings to recover their
debt. Hence the name of this pio-
neer professional collector of debts
crept gradually into the language,
until it was adopted to signify ur-
gent and persistent demands for
payments.
Slang is frequently more express
sive than orthodox English. The
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-01-19
Relief

~Not0 that Mr. Hopkins has been made
secretary OF commerce you ipon'f need all
Of this s875, 200, 900, ,oill you?"
The questioner: New York's Rep.
John Taber. His audience: Works
Progress Administrator F. c. Har-
rington. The implication: That
President Roosevelt's request for an
$875, 000,0 900 deficiency appropriation
to carry WPA until the next fiscal
year starts July l, is too high, since
Former WPA Administrator Harry
Hopkins can now dispense patronage
instead of relief funds.
If Administrator Harrington
thought this reasoning was silly, he
knew better than to say so. So did
any other Roosevelt appointee who
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-01-19
Germany

Two events on one bleak January
day, one at tiny Munkacs, Hungary,
the other at lofty Berchtesgaden,
Germany, gave puzzled European
observers the key to future plans of
the Rome-Berlin axis. The events:
Berchtesgaden. To Adolf Hitler's
Bavarian eyrie came another Wis
itor, Poland's Foreign Minister JOS
eph Beck. Colonel Beck was fright
ened because: ID Germany has
shown outright hostility by foment-
ing revolt in Polish sections of the
vast Ukraine; has been busy Nazi-
flying Lithuania's Baltic seaport OF
Memel; has Nazified the free city
of Danzig and made other threats
at closing Poland's precious "corri-
dor" to the Baltic; (2) because
one of Poland's allies, France, re-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-01-19
49,,
49,

Tricks of the Trade
"When he tried to kiss that pref
ty seamstress against her will
what did she do?"
PINNED him down, basted him
and then cut him out!"
Indignant Denial
'Listen carefully, Willy" said
teacher. "'It was you what
ate the pie Is there anything
wrong with that sentence?"
"Yus," was the indignant re-
ply, 81 amt never seen no pie!"
Stray Stories.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-01-19
ANOTHER HOUR

SaIly-Does my gown look as
though it were falling off my
shoulder?
Tom-No, let's go.
Sally-Tm sorry, but l must ar
range it. It's supposed to look
that way.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-01-19
AgeleSs Question

Ageless Question
Husband-Why does a woman
say she has been shopping when
she hasn't bought thing?
Wife-Why does man say he's
been fishing when he hasn't caught
anything?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-01-19
Weekly News Analysis
Beck Visit, Czech Border Tiff
Point Probable Nazi Course
by Joseph w. La Bine-
BY Joseph w. La Bine-

basis for negotiation by which the
intergovernmental refugee commit
tee could deal both with Germany
and Italy. Since Italy's Jewish per-
secution is far less severe than Ger
many's, President Roosevelt con-
tacted Premier Mussolini shortly
after January l, asking him to urge
more leniency on Chancellor Hitler.
Also suggested was the settling of
Italian Jews (who must leave by
February y in Ethiopia.
A week later, as Prime Minister
Chamberlain left on his "appease-
ment" journey to Rome, it looked
like President Roosevelt had mad
vertently given the Rome-Berlin
axis another weapon to hold over
Democracy's head. Smart Musso-
lini, probably on advice from the
even smarter Hitler, was willing to
discuss the Roosevelt program with
Mr.. Chamberlain. Observers
thought he would agree, but only if
Mr.. Chamberlain hastens French
capitulation to Italian territorial
claims. Meanwhile George Rublee,
American director of the refugee
committee, left for Berlin to ne
gotiate with Hitler, apparently will
ing to consider modification of the
Reich's program to blackmail de-
mocracies into accepting unWanted
Jews.
Interesting as a sidelight was the
announcement of an Italian repatri-
alton commission, whose duty is to
make 100000 racial Italians re-
turn from foreign countries, partly
replacing the Jews now being GUST
ed. But the drives real purpose is
to give Italy an uncomfortable sur
plus population, thereby backing her
territorial claims in Africa.
Spain
Just before Prime Minister Cham
berlain left London for Rome (See
GERMANY, Premier Mussolini sent
orders to Spain's Rebel Generals
sirno Francisco Franco. The Or
ders: Start an immediate major Of
fensive, aimed to show Mr.. Cham
berlain that Loyalist Spain is col
lapsing and should therefore be sold
out.
Aided by Italian troops, also by
Italian and German planes and
guns, General Franco started driv-
ing into northeastern Catalonia two
days before Christmas. A fortnight
later his offensive was sprawled
over 100-mile front, creeping slow
ly and painstakingly toward the
coastal city of Tarragona. Though
he boosted 100000 troops, though
his attack resembled the World
wars Verdun, the showing was still
too unimpressive to make Mr..
Chamberlain jump through a hoop.
What made matters worse was
news from south central Estrema-
dura, where Loyalist Gen. Jose Mi
alas Loyalist army had made a
spearhead advance of SO miles in
five days, capturing rich mining
lands on which General Franco de-
pended for buying war materials
abroad. Thoroughly angry, Franco
ordered removal of his famous sra
dio general" Gonzalo Queipo de
Llano, famous for his lusty broad
casts from Seville. Then he took
steps to protect the Loyalist obiec-
tive, the Seville-Salamanca railroad
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-01-19
How About a Horn?

Friend-I suppose when the earl
visited you he brought his coronet
along?
Mrs. Woodbee Swelle-No, no,
my dear-the earl plays the violin.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-01-19
CHECK
YOURSELF
FOR THESE COMMON
SIGNS OF
ACID INDIGESTION

. If You Haze Amy of These
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Acid Indigestion as the
Cause -"Alkalize" the
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Way. IF the Trouble Persists
See your Doctor.
Now there is way to relieve "acid
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-01-19
Medicine

Bright and dark sides feature Sur
geon General Thomas Parran's an
nual report on the nations health:
Dark Side. Some 10000, 900 u. S.
citizens cannot provide for medical
care during serious illness. About
5000 more hospital beds are need
ed. Only a few states have salts
factory programs against pneumo-
MIA and cancer; tuberculosis and
malaria are also serious. Venereal
disease control appropriations must
be increased Immediately.
Bright Side. Death rate fell from
11.3 per thousand in 1886 to 1913 in
1887, then to 1913 in 1885 first six
months. Infant mortality fell from
ST. per thousand live births in 1886
to 544 in 1887. Most contagious dis
eases are decreasing.
Chief causes of death in 1887 las
usuaD were heart diseases, cancer
and other malignant tumors, pneu-
monia, cerebral hemorrhage and
softening, nephritis, accidents lex
cept automobile) and tuberculosis.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-01-19
Natural Friendship
4 IN LIQUID OR TABLET FORM

'There are no rules for friend
ship. 1t must be left to itself.
We cannot force it any more than
love. "-Hazlitt.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-01-19

AutOist crushing back to assist
man he has STANDARDIZATION!
Well! Well! Well! This is a pleas
ant surprise!
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-01-19
Races

Germany originally planned to
finance deportation of Jews by max
ing foreign powers buy her goods.
The plan: Jewish emigrees would
trade their money for-or be
financed in the purchase of-Ger-
man export products. This plan won
little sympathy from either Britain
or the U. S., but it at least offered
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-01-19

might be called upon to testify be-
fore a house or senate committee.
For there was revolution brewing
under the capitol dome, and most of
it was concerned with spending and
taxing. First the White House had
requested moderate" tax rises to
Offset farm parity payments and
finance the first half of a proposed
defense expansion program. The
added cost: $422, 900, 900. Next had
come the $875, 100000 to operate
WPA until July /, which was $685.
100000 greater than WPA deficiency
estimates included in the previ-
Gus days budget message.
Mr.. Harrington knew that his
WPA would have a harder time JUS
tifying it's expenditures than would
the agricultural department or the
army. Placed into the house COM
mittee's record was table showing
that WPA expenses increased stead
lily through September, October and
December, when the federal reserve
board index showed business was
booming. His defense: That relief
rolls dropped from 3,112,000 on De-
cember "a to 3,075, 900 on December
81. His claim: That a slash of the
deficiency appropriation to $500, 000,-
900 would bring starvation to many
unfortunates. Nevertheless it looked
like Mr.. Harrington would be lucky
indeed to get $500, 100000.
Such incidents demonstrate that
the Seventy-sixth congress is indie
pendent. If it grants Mr.. Roose-
velt's full budgetary requests for
the next fiscal year-which is doubt
ful-the U. S. public debt will rise
precariously near $45, 000, 000, 1000,
which is the legal peak on treasury
department borrowing. Anticipat-
ed daily is a White House request
that the limit be raised.
Asia
Under the premiership of Prince
Fumimaro Konoye, japan came
close to overthrowing China's Gen
eralissino Chang Kai-shek when
Wang Ching-wei, one-time leader of
the Kuomintang (Nationalist) party,
agreed to make peace and head
puppet Chinese government. This
three-man poker game first began
collapsing January l when Kai-shek
ousted Wang from the Kuomintang
and sent him scurrying to cover in
French Indo-China. The second
player to withdraw was Prince Ko-
noye, whose forced resignation from
the premiership places Chang in an
even firmer position.
Prince Konoye has been succeed
ed by Kiichiro Hiranuma, a pro-
Fascist and extreme nationalist,
who would hardly sympathize with
Wang's plans for an independent
China. Premier Hiranuma's only
offer to Wang could be leadership
of an outright puppet regime like
Manchukuo, and this he could not
accept. Another fly in the ointment
is Japan's military machine, now
strengthened by the Fascist govern,
mental tendency.
People
At San Pedro's Terminal island
correctional prison, where he was
transferred from Alcatraz, Al Ca
pOne was said by guard to be
"screwy as bedbug."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-01-19
People

At San Pedro's Terminal island
correctional prison, where he was
transferred from Alcatraz, Al Ca
pOne was said by guard to be
"screwy as a bedbug."
. In Vienna, Jewish, prosecuted
DR.. Solomon Frankfurter, 80, re-
joiced that the U. S. had elevated
his nephew, Harvard's Felix Frank
furter, to the Supreme court.
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which connects northern and south
ern Spain. The only Franco re-
course seemed to be withdrawal of
thoroughly tired troops from the
Catalonia front, which undoubtedly
meant a loss of the bloody gains.
Rebel Spain has made in that sector
since Christmas.
Evening star., 1939-03-01
Freight Rate Equality
For South Demanded
By the Associated Press.

bJ tIle hSSOCldteu TIeSS
E. L. Hart, manager of the Atlanta
Traffic Bureau, suggested today that
the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion be directed to investigate and
correct" freight rate inequalities
which, Mr.. Hart said, were hurting
the South.
Mr. Hart, appearing before the
House Interstate Commerce Com
mittee in support of the Ramspeck
bill to eliminate geographical differ
entails, declared:
I'VE do not advocate any revolu-
tionary action by the Congress that
would cause a frozen" rate struc-
ture. I don't believe Congress ought
to prescribe a fixed formula of rate
making. Congress should instruct
the I. c. c. to investigate inequali-
ties and correct them"
The Albanian said the present rate
structure, particular on Southern
products sold in the North. violates
every rule of fairness and naturally
initiates against national system
of rail transportation
Southerners brought their freight
rate argument before Senators also.
DR.. John H. Golf of the Tennessee
Valley Authority told Senate In
terstate Commerce Subcommittee
that uneven freight rates applicable
to the South were a form of dis
elimination which should be elimi-
mated.