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Evening star., 1940-02-04

agencies has been increasingly un-
der fire In recent months, while.
correspondingly, Supreme Court de-
cisions have strengthened their po-
sition.
u. 8. Chamber Orders Study.
Meanwhile, the United States
Chamber Of Commerce announced
It had authorized . special commit
tee to study the operation Of ad-
ministrative law.
The chamber said the inquiry
would include the rules, procedure
findings, decisions and orders by
administrative agencies of the Fed
eral Government and the possibility
Of their review by the courts"
Commenting that such agencies
had multiplied greatly and are
tending to be autonomous and re.
sponsible to no one" the chamber
asserted they had fostered "critica
controversy" through Efforts t.
make law as well as apply it."
Evening star., 1940-02-04
Study Group Doubts
Agency Procedure
Uniformity Possible
Preliminary Report
Sees Too Rigid Rules
Defeating Purpose

Doubt that uniform procedure can
be prescribed for all the admins
trative agencies Of the Government
was expressed last night in a pre-
liminary report by the Attorney
Generals committee which has been
studying for year the opreation of
the agencies, including commissions
and other bodies exercising quasi
judicial and quasi-legislative func-
tionS.
President Roosevelt directed the
study last February, in response to
a suggestion by former Attorney
General Cummings, and the COM
mittee, headed by Dean Acheson,
one-time Undersecretary Of the
Treasury, was named by the then
Evening star., 1940-02-04

showed today an increase Of 46,1S4
members for 1899.
DR.. Curtis B. Haley, statistician,
submitted the report listing $685.
38l lay and clerical members.
The union of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church South. Methodist
Protestant and the Methodist Epis-
copal Church will become effective
in April.
The largest increase was reported
from the area including the Balti-
more, North Carolina, Virginia and
West Virginia conferences, which
had 10,136 new members.
Evening star., 1940-02-04
Club to Give Play

The Dorothy Hancock Club Of
Gordon Junior High School will
give q play in the school auditorium
at 10:45 am, February is. The
club is sponsored by the Junior
American Citizens Committee Of
District Daughters Of the American
Revolution.
Evening star., 1940-02-04
13 Nobbed by F. B. |.
In 24-Hour Period

Thirteen was very unlucky In the
a. hours ending at noon yesterday
according to the r. B. I.
That was the number of fugi-
tives from justice nabbed by the bu-
reau over that period.
The crimes ranged from extor-
ton to theft Of Government prop
erty, and the arrests dotted the
country from coast to coast.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-04
Is Silk Stocking Era Passing?
New Hose VIII Soon Tell Story

WASHINGTON. - About
w May Is several million
American women will begin
testing a product on whose sue
cess or failure hinges the future
of Japan's 100000, OOO-a-year
silk trade with the United States.
Stockings made of various
natural and synthetic sub
stances will 60 Gil the market
then, designed to replace the IN
glamorous silk worm whose CLAM
orous product has sheathed shapely
American legs for many years.
There will be stockings made of
coal, air and water-a product
trademarked "nylon.'
Others are made from rubber,
some from resin and still others
from cotton camoufaged so skill
fully that it doesn't look like cotton.
If these substitutes are success
full the $500, 900, OOO-a-year American
silk stocking industry will be re-
shaped overnight.
Can 1t Replace Silk?
Women are watching the expert
ment with mingled caution and in
terest, because no stocking material
has yet been devised that will hatter
their legs like silk In 1898 it &C.
counted for 88 per cent of all stock
ings sold. 1t has been at once the
most luxurious and pestiferous item
on milady's budget, for silks cob
webby texture will snag and run at
the touch of rough fngernail.
Nylon, most pubicized of the new
products, was perfected in DUPONT
laboratories and is now being tested
under actual wearing conditions. To
develop it chemists discovered how
to mix coal with air and water, ex-
truding the mixture into flaments
stronger than steel and sometimes
as fine as spider web.
Sheerer Than Silk.
In many ways nylon resembles
silk, overcoming some of its faults
yet presenting few new ones which
silk doesn't have. Nylon stockings
can be knit even sheerer than silk
and don't snag so easily, but once
they do the run develops more
quickly. They won't spot when
splashed by rain or snow because
they're water-resistant. But by
the same token they're not so COM
Portable as silk, feeling bit metal
lie and cold to the skin. Since they
absorb only 3 per cent of perspira-
ton, they may also feel bit clam
my In hot weather.
So confident are its sponsors of
nylon's success that factories cost
ing S11, 900, 900 are now being built
About 100000 pounds of the stuff
viii be processed this year.
Another synthetic stocking is that
made Of resin dust mixed with salt,
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$3.50; bouquet for maid of honor,
So; five bouquets for the brides
maids, $3.50; flowers for the church,
SIS; flowers for the reception, $40;
candles, 81; wedding invitations,
200, costing S14; 10 wedding pic
lures, $40; gifts for mattresses and
kitchen assistants, So, and her trous-
seau, SIS. She must also provide
about $40 for food at the wedding
reception.
Groom's expense items are fewer
but larger. He should aIlot $3.50
for the engagement and wedding
rings, says Miss Cederquist, and
another SIS for the honeymoon. In
addition he needs $50 for clothing.
$40 for marriage license, another
$40 for the pastor and $40 for the
brides bouquet. To do it UP brown
he spends another SITS On seven
boutonnieres.
Miss Cederquist says her esti-
mates are based on her experience
as attendance at several weddings
as well as survey of prices. :
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-04
Horse and Buggy Customs Return
AS Britain Feels Pressure of War
By GRANT BUCKINGHAM

released by Western Newspaper Union.b
TONDON.-One year ago the
l. average Britisher would
have scoffed at the suggestion
that he would soon discard his
automobile for a horse-drawn
dogcart.
Equally outlandish would be
the suggestion that he'd return
to the simple evenings before
the freside which characterized
an earlier generation.
Today, after seven months of
war, the Britisher is doing both.
BlackOuts, gasoline rationing and
other restrictions have shaken the
years. from England's shoulders and
revived the national customs of two
or three decades ago. What's
more, England is not complaining.
Some Lose, Others Gain.
The blackouts which descend at
nightfau over London and other
principal cities have created an en-
tirely new technique of living,
working and playing in which the
gods of war have dictated almost
every feature of the national exist
ence. Many have lost by it, yet
paraodXicaly-others have profted.
Moving picture theaters in metro
poItan London are suffering the
leanest period in their history be-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-04
Insomniacs Woo Sleep
With Army of Gadgets

NEW York; is estimated
there are $50 sleep-producing items
on the market to help the nations
$500, 900 inveterate insonaniacs go to
sleep at night. They range from
phonograph records to eye shades,
the former being a recording of
Handel's Largo in which a sooth-
ing speaker chants instructions on
how Ito experience the divine bless
ing of refreshing sleep"
So great is interest in this subject
that this spring Columbia university
is offering a course N how to
sleep" through Yogian methods.
Most numerous are the ancient
home remedies for insomnia. One
calls for going to bed wearing
dripping-wet socks, the theory be-
ing that cold water draws blood
from the head.
Benjamin Franklin slept in four
beds each night, believing that
major cause of sleeplessness was
the accumulation of body heat un-
der the blanket.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-04

at the top and bottom are favor
ties. Edges are pinked or ma
chine stitched in heavy contrast
ing thread. Contrasting shirring
holds the fullness at the top; and
color is added by means of fancy
braids, ribbons or bias tape, ac-
cording to type. Sewing Book l
and 4, contain directions for max
ing foundation frame, or you
may use a shade that you already
have.
NOTE: Each Of the four book
lets Mrs. Spears has prepared for
our readers contains an assert
ment of % pages of curtains; slip
covers; rag rugs; toys; gifts and
novelties for bazaars. Books are
10 cents each-please order by
number-No. !, 2, 3, and with
your order for four books. you viii
receive a FREE set OF three Quilt
Block Patterns of Mrs. Spears
Favorite Early American Quilts
Send your order to:
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-04

SPEAKING OF HIGH STAND.
ARDS-MiSs Virginia PheIan, Sec
rotary of the National Research as
ISOLATION, ShorUn at the bureau of
standards toearing pair of hose
iOhich lUere to be tested on the ne,U
Snag resistance tester" The ma
chine has a sharp point for Snag-
ging the stockings. Snag resistance
is measured and recorded.
natural gas, coal and oil. The chem
lists who produced it expect to turn
out 1000, 900 pounds year for rope,
fish nets, sails and women's hose.
Rubber Hose a Novelty.
Rubber stockings now on the
market are knit IN lacy meshes and
have attracted attention as a novel
ty because they stretch to fit the
leg snugly.
From the American farmers
standpoint, the most important
hosiery development concerns cot
ton, which the government is trying
to convert into a beautiful and pop
ular stocking material. Directed by
David H. Young, veteran hosiery de-
signer, weavers have perfected so
or more designs ranging from her
ringbone to stripes.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-04
Getting Married Is Expensive, EUen in Leap Year;
Surrey Places Cost Of Church Wedding at S6Z

FRESNO, CALIF.-It may be leap
= year but that doesn't cut the cost
of getting married.
According to Miss Lorraine Ceder-
quist, student In the home econom-
les department at Fresno State col
lege, modern church wedding in
1910 viii cost the bridegroom a cool
S406.75 and the bride S268.50.
Here's how she figured it:
Brides expenses: Dress, SIS; veil,
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correspondence school piano teach
ers. On the other hand, regular
personal music instructors are suf-
fering because children have been
evacuated from the major cities.
Many family orchestras have
been organized, and small groups
gather each evening for family and
community song-fests. Another old
custom revived is that of taking
turns reading aloud before a group
gathered around the freside.
Blackouts have doomed astron-
omy, because there is no longer any
distraction from the shinmering
glow of lights from nearby cities.
If There's a Moon
Only when the moon is bright do
the English travel about at night,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-04
Saved by a Mirror

Saved by a mirror. That is the
report of barber and a customer
after an irate bull invaded a barber
shop In Varese, Italy, while on its
way to market. When the snorting
and believing animal appeared the
barber was shaving the customer
and both men fed. Seeing its re-
Election in the mirror, the bull low
cred. its horns and charged. The
entire shop was wrecked before the
dazed and angry beast was cap
tured.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-04
Pretty Frocks for
Your Lamp Shades
By RUTH WYETH SPEARS

a CHANGE of lamp shades
\ gives any room lift, and
here is smart, new transforma-
ton trick. You start with a plain
parchment paper or bristol board
shade, preferably white; then you
make a full skirt of some exciting
fabric to cover il. By sewing
snaps inside and also to the top
of the shade, it is easy to remove
these for laundering or cleaning.
Taffeta, lawn, net, organdy,
swiss, gingham-al are used and
the imagination runs riot In trim
mings. Frills or double ruchings
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-04

Hickman, which was insulated In
1882, almost So years ago. The
mineral wool used in this house is
still In perfect condition.
Mineral wool has achieved its
present countrywide acceptance
only In the last two decades. New
methods Of fabrication and distribu-
ton have taken it out of the luxury
class and made it easily available
to home owners in every income
group.
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and many evening invitations are
accepted with the proviso that the
guest will come IF there's moon"
So great is the night travel problem
that most London business firms
sent their employees home two
hours earlier during the short win
ter days, getting them home before
the blackout fell.
Though the blackout has appar-
emily segregated and isolated family
groups, other war measures have
added to the community spirit.
Many families whose children and
grandparents were evacuated to the
country have joined their remnants
under a single roof, cutting their
living expenses and enjoying each
others company during the long
and cherries evening.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-04
Insulating Material Marks Tooth Year

NEW YORK.-America' oldest
insulation is celebrating its one hun
dredth anniversary this year. It is
mineral wool, which was first made
In Wales, England, in 1910, and was
introduced into this country in 1867.
Since that time, it has been used
to insulate hundreds of thousands
of homes.
One Of the oldest Of such home
installations still exists In Salem,
Va. It is the home of Mrs. Noah
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-04
Light army bombing planes guard They'd harry enemy ships
Garden Wall

A garden without a wall is only
half a garden. It need not be
brick wall or a stone or concrete
wall, for living wall of evergreens
or some hedge shrub viii serve ad-
mirably. But there should be some
thing to shut out the world and form
background for flowers. If the
garden is small, the wall can be
kept low so as not to shade it too
much, but even low wall gives
feeling of privacy that is necessary
for the real enjoyment of a garden.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-04

find themselves in the cast of ''Fol-
low Through" They played togeth-
er in a charity match last autumn,
and it was then that the idea of
teaming them In picture was sug-
gested. They're all experts, and if
they can resist staging a match
that the script doesn't call for they'll
be doing well.
Announcer Del Sharbutt intended
to be a musician, but instead has
become widely known as announcer
for such programs as "Myrt and
Marge," "Ask-It-Basket' and Lanny
Ross. The musician in him has
come out at last, though; he's writ
ten two songs of Hit Parade proper
tions within a few weeks-"The
Kitten With the Big Green Eyes,"
and I'D Love TO-"
Ginger Rogers, who has millions
of fans now, had only one In 1929;
he was John L. Cass, who recorded
the sound of Primrose PATH" in
which she co-stars with Joel
McCrea. About 10 years ago RCA
made a two-reeler called Campus
Sweethearts, in New York, to try
out a new wide-flrn process. Two
movie unknowns, Ginger Rogers
and Rudy Vallee, were featured.
The director didn't care for the
song that Ginger had been rehears-
ing, but Cass insisted on recording
it. "She had everything, including
a swell mike voice." he says. 81
knew she was star dust-and howl"
Want to see what happens to win
ners of beauty contests? Claire
James, who was runner-up in the
Miss America contest last year, is
playing a bit in Paramount's 1.-The
Ghost Breakers; she appears in a
restaurant scene, wearing a floor
length dinner dress.
Ben Bernie and his lads and
lassies, including Dinah Shore and
Lew Lehr, are moving. After 60
weeks of Sunday broadcasts they're
setting up shop in a Wednesday eve
ming haf-hour, beginning April 10.
Want to bet that for the first few
weeks at least half of the troupe
will dash to the studio on Sundays?
Cecil B. DeMille is back in char
acter again. Now that he is di-
recting 1.-THE Northwest Mounted
Police and goes straight from the
movie studio to the radio one where
he does his Radio Theater broad
casts, he shows up in his shooting"
outft-high boots, riding breaches,
and headgear ranging from SOM
brero to pith helmet.
If you have a harpsichord that
you don't want, get In touch with
Alec Templeton. Collecting unusual
musical instruments is his hobby,
and he has no harpsichord and he
wants one. There are only 10 of
these ancient instruments In the
United States, four of them owned
by friends of Templeton's In Chi
cago. They urged him to try one
not long ago, he played his favorite
satire, Bach Goes to Town"-and
now his life won't be perfect until
he is presented with a harpsichord
of his own.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-04
From Want to " ant

That man is never happy is for
the present so true that all his
relief from unhappiness IS only
forgetting himself for a little
while. Life is a progress from
want to want, not from enjoyment
to Observation-Disclosures.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-04

Il DTLfLSh cycHSt tCIth q homemade
iCGrnEHg criSS-crosS of tohite Gdhe-
size tape on his coat, serving as
protective lOarning during black
outs. Fortunately, there aren't so
many automobiles on the highways
Is before the JUGr.
cause novie-goers hesitate to grope
their way very far through inky
blackness. Conversely, suburban
theaters near the residential Sec
tons are booming.
How to spend time at home is
an acute social problem for the
English, who like Americans are
accustomed to venturing abroad
during the evening hours. Many
old customs have been revived and
the radio, once merely an idle-hour
instrument, has become an essential
feature Of the evenings entertain
ment
Shutters Must Be Closed.
Long discarded games like cards
and cardboard have been resurrect-
ed from the attic and are enjoyed
behind carefully sealed windows.
Should light penetrate into the street
and UP to the sky, the British fear
German air raiders might drop
their deadly bombs.
Music, especially the home vari-
ETY., has enjoyed a marked rebirth.
Enghshmen who can afford it are
buying small pianos, and not the
least 30 profit by this trend are the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-04

WOMENl Relieve Trying Days"
by taking DR.. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription over period OF time Helps
build physical resistance by improving
uutritional assimulation--Adv.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-04

ODDS AND ENDS i. Muriei Angeius
(ot Paramounfs The Way Of Al FLESH y
has had to hare several rooms in her
house repapered for the second time in a
yeG-her taco Sc0tties sharpen their nails
on the DoHs PouIette Goddard de-
cIares that she keeps her figure by drink
ing sUarm, SKINNED milk: sir glasses OF
IL a day . Falling to get John Barry
more to play himself in The Great Pro
He," Darryl Zanuck signed AdoIphe
Menjou for the chore: Menjou had tried
his hand at being Barrymore in ~Sing,
Body, Sing" =. SeIene Royie, radios
~WonsGn OF Courage" is dramatic advisor
70 the Campfire Girls Of America
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-04
Idle Words

As to people saying a few idle
words about US, we must not
mind that, any more than the old
church-steeple minds the rocks
cawing about it.-George Eliot
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STAGE SCREENaRADlO


ID AY MILLAND would like
IN to keep a controlling hand
on the scripts of all pictures
in which he appears from now
on. Truth came far too close
to fiction to suit him a while ago,
and he hasn't quite recovered
yet.
Hell finished work in Gun
tanned and gone to Sun Val
ley for a weeks rest. Mrs.
Midland stayed in Hollywood,
as they were expecting the ar
rival of their first child some
weeks later. Then he received word
that he'd have to race the stork
if he wanted to be in Hollywood
when it appeared. He started for
Boise, Idaho, in car, also in
blizzard. At Boise he chartered the
only plane available, and was
grounded at Salt Lake City. He
telephoned the hospital, in Holly
wood, and learned that he had
son.
In "Untamed" he'd braved biz
gard to reach the bedside of a sick
sweetheart. If it's all the same to
the scenario writer's, he'd rather
have less narrowing experiences.
Hollywood's most famous mixed
Observation-Disclosures Goddard, Ruby
Keller, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope
will probably have difficulty in
sticking to picture-making if they all
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-04

Don-You can't save Nina now.
Mrs. x knows what happened the
night Of the storm Read the whole
story In May True Story Magazine,
now on Sale.-Adv.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-04
Method in Work

Method is the very hinge of bust
ness; and there is no method with
out punctuality.-Cecil.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-04

VAR in Europe has caused
- Uncle Sam to tighten the guard
on his vital Panama canal. Euen
Visitors (aboue) are norU barred
from much of the canal area.
Troenty thousand troops are on
duty there notU. Sentry shopn at
the left sho,0s hotU these soldiers
must guard against malaria.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-01-11
u. s. MARINE CORPS RECRUIT
ING PARTY TO VISIT HERE

A Marine recruiting party from
Spokane will be at the post office
building. Coulee City, from 800 a. m.
20 1900 noon, January IL, for the
purpose of interviewing and examining
young men who are Interested in being
accepted for enlistment in the U. S.
Marine corps. Any young men between
the ages of 1s and 30 years, single
and of good character, who are inter
ested in taking this preliminary ex-
animation can contact this party at
the time and place above mentioned.
All applicants who pass this exam
ination will be furnished transporta-
ticn to Seattle, for the final examina-
ton. Should they pass this final exam
marion at Seattle, they will be trans
ferred tt San Diego, California, for
training.
The Marine corps is offering young
men today greater advantages than
ever before. Educationally, it is as
sisting thousands to improve an in
terrupted education through care
fully planned study and assistance by
expert instructors, and consequently
fitting them for better POSITIONS when
they return to- civilian life. from a
physical standpoint the United States
Marine now lives one of the best bal
anced lives known, through healthful
food, athletics Of all kinds, and var
ious forms of recreation. All this Is
carefully planned ON routine nature
that assures that every individual will
be given the fullest benefits possible.
And in addition to these advantages.
the young man who enters the service
and pursues it as career will not
have been disappointed in the ultimate
| rewards, inasmuch as retirement, at a
substantial pension for life, is offered
after 20 or 80 years of service.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-01-11
NEWSPAPER FACTS

Some interesting facts concerning
newspapers and advertising are con-
tanned in a book by Fred j. Haskin,
vete1an syndicator of information,
from which the following are con-
densed:
Egyptians used advertising 1000
years ago. Most early advertising was
pictorial in character. The first news
paper advertising Us said to have ap-
cared in Germany in 1891.
half dollars are spent annually for all
kinds of advertising in the United
States. More than $50 American daily
newspapers are equipped to print ad-
vertisements in color.
The fastest modern newspaper press
es can turn out about $4,000 24page
papers an hour, and a somewhat larry
er number of 12-page or 16page
papee~
The first news agency in the mod
ern sense is believed to have been that
organized by Charles Harvas of Paris
in 1885. In 1910 he established q
news service between Paris, London
and Brussels, using carrier pigeons.
James Gordon Bennett began the
publication of the first review of fl
nancial news in the New York Herald
in 1885.
Newspaper editorials were origin
ated by John Dillingham;, an English
journalist, and one of them got him
into Jail in 1915. Sometimes justly
and sometimes unjustly, other editors
have met similar fate many times
since.