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NAMES
in the news

q Congressman Hamilton Fish, who
wanted Roosevelt's foreign activi-
ties investigated, himself led colored
N. Y. troops in the last war. He
fought with the French army, in
the only American unit officially at
tached to the Gallo high command.
Fish also was Harvard football cap
tain, and a member of the Harvard
crew. He is Roosevelt's unwilling
fellow-townsman in Hyde Park,
N. Y.
q DR.. Thomas Parran, surgeon
general of the U. S. public health
service, declared that cancer, which
caused more than 100000 deaths
last year, is on the increase and
ranks as second leading cause of
death.
q The Irish Republican army of
wild men demonstrated against
tall, calm canon De Valera, pre-
mier of Fire. "Val" was born in
New York, with a Spanish father,
and an Irish mother and sympa-
thies. His American origin saved
him from an English firing squad in
1916.
q william Horlick Jr., IS, whose
father started the multi-million dol
lar Horlick matted milk fortune,
died at Racine, Wis.
q William p. Buckner, who began
serving a two-year term for mail
fraud in the Philippine railway
bonds scandal, was revealed to be
the husband of Adelaid Moffet, night
club singer and heiress to Standard
Oil millions.
q Henry Ford ii, grandson of the
great Henry, is preparing to become
a Roman Catholic. His grandfather
comes of Irish Protestant stock. The
boys father is Edsel Ford.
q Harry Hopkins, secretary of
commerce, sent his 12O, 900 census
takers out to work with the admoni-
ton that their task is not an Sin
QUESTION and that they should ham
die the people politely. Said he:
"You will meet people who have
been misinformed, who are con-
fused. Give them the true facts.
Be polite and patient. Show your
credentials willingly"
q Warren X. Billings, famous as
Tom Moneys political jail-mate in
California, got married in Nevada
to Miss Josephine Rudolph, who met
him in court.
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drive the half-crazed audience out
of the theater.
Meanwhile Rathbone has succeed
ed in unbarring the door to the box
and several people, among them a
surgeon, rush in. They see the tall
form of the President slumped for
ward in his chair, his sad eyes
closed, never to open again. Some
one brings a shutter, torn from
building near by, and they lay his
gaunt form upon it. They carry
him out of the theater to the house
of Charles Peterson across the
street.
Ford's theater is empty, deserted
now. It's curtain has been rung
down upon the comedy, "Our Amer
lean Cousin"-and upon one of the
greatest tragedies in American his
tory.
Death at 7:22 A. M.
The next morning Washington
newspapers carried this story:
"The body of President Lincoln,
who died from an assasSin's bullet
at 1922 o'clock this morning, was
removed from the Peterson resi-
dence opposite Ford's theater to the
executive mansion in a hearse and
wrapped in the American flag. 1t
was escorted by small squad OF
cavalry and by Gen. Augur and 9TH
er military officials on foot. A dense
crowd accompanied the remains to
the White House, where a military
guard excluded the people, allowing
none but persons of the household
and personal friends of the deceased
to enter. Gen. Grant arrived here
at 2 o'clock in special train from
Philadelphia. His presence tends
somewhat to allay the excitement.
The last lines penned by Mr.. Lincoln
were written on a card about BIS
p. M, while seated in his carriage
in front of the White House just be-
fore he started for the theater. They
were addressed to the Hon. George
Ashmun and were as follows: ALLOW
Mr.. Sherman and friends to come
to me at 9 a. m. tomorrow.
"A. Lincoln
Leaf through the pages of James
C. Blaine's Twenty Years in Con-
gress," published in 1885, and read
there this description of the events
which followed:
1.-THE remains of the late Presi-
dent lay in state at the executive
mansion for four days. The entire
city seemed as a house of mourn
ing. The martial music which had
been resounding in glad celebration
of the national triumph had ceased;
public edifce and private mansion
were alike draped with the insignia
of grief.
Funeral services, conducted by
the leading clergymen of the city,
were held in the east room on We'd
nesday, the 10Th of April. Amid the
solemn tolling of church bells, and
the still more solemn laundering of
minute guns from the vast line of
Notifications which had protected
! Washington, the body, escorted by
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-11

DICTATOR FRANCISCO
FRANCO-A year after the
Spanish uar ended, his people
took stock.
Council OF Grandees indicated that
40 ermine-clad ducal ones had been
killed in the civil war, and that no
less than 116 more of them had been
"assassinated." 1t was further re-
ported that Spain was slowly gath
ering momentum in reconstruction
that her people and her leaders
were pro-German; but that her eco
nomic life now was closely integral
ed with the fortunes of the allies.
1t is typically Spanish, that the His
panic heart does NOT follow the
dollar.
q Pope Plus XII called for more
Christianity in all nations, and for
a rebirth of human decency in the
face of hell on earth, i'll will to
men. He deplored the bombing of
civilians, the violation of treaties,
and the whole conception of power
politics and super-tough Realpolitik.
The Mohammedans, in India, usu-
ally the fast friends of John Bull as
against Gandhi and his predomi-
nantly Hindu Congress party, de-
nounced British treatment of the
Mohammedan Arabs in Palestine,
thus complicating both the Indian
and Minor Asian toothaches.
q Canada rallied enthusiastically to
the war, by landslide Liberal cleo
ton which sustained Premier Mac
kenzie King. 1t meant another five
year term for the Libs, all things
being equal and reasonably success
full. The King cabinet had pledged
itself most emphatically against
CONSUMPTION for Canadians, which
satisfied the pacific French of Que
bee and the polyglots of the western
provinces. Social credit, radical
experiment, retained control of AL
berta, but the Tories lost catas-
trophically, all along the line.
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Woman-of-the-Week
MRS. HJALMAR PROCOPE

Uncertain OF his nations fate,
Finnish Minister to the u. S.
Hjalmar J. Procope kept mum
about his marriage plans until
Finland came to terms tUith Rus
STA. after that he lost no time.
Bundled aboard a U. S.-bound
steamer ,Uas Miss Margaret Sha,u
Of Yorkshire, England. Minister
Procope met her at the dock in
Ne,o York. Next day they tUere
married at the Fairfax, Va.,
home Of r. Walton Moore, coun-
selor of the U. S. state depart
nent, by the Req. F. Y. Joki of
the Brooklyn Finnish-Lutheran
church. ahead, before the Pro-
copes settled dotUn in Washing
ton, ,Uas a southern honeymoon.
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let it be known, to take a more
active part in pushing the war, and
there was a lot of gossip about
Chamberlain going the way of Dalai
dier-into the prime-ministerial dis
card Due to British naval losses,
there was also talk of the axe for
Winston Churchill, first lord of the
admiralty.
1t appeared that the neutrals
would suffer, as the result of an in
creased war endeavor by the allies.
Germany must be shut off from oil
and iron, and if Norwegian, or Ru-
manian, or Russian neutrality suf-
fered in consequence, that could not
be helped. The special threat was
aimed at iron-carrying ships, from
Narvik, Norway, to Stettin, Ger
many, which have the habit of plod-
ding safely along in Norwegian ter
ritorial waters, free from the frus-
trated allied blockade. The allied
reasoning ran something like this:
No Swedish iron; no German steel;
no Nazi mailed fist; no Hitler.
But the neutrals were not too
afraid of the allies. The Dutch shot
down a British bomber that had vio-
lated their neutrality, and Rumania
appeared to be turning more and
more to the German camp. The
Russian ambassador to France ex-
pressed rude opinions in telegram
to Moscow, and the French kicked
him out on a variety of charges.
France appeared to want war with
the Soviets; England, most emphat-
ically, did not, as a number of sig
nificant organizational elections
across the channel showed.
Meanwhile, the Germans and Nor
wegians scored off one another l to
/. A German U-boat wormed its
sinister way into Kirkwall, British
base in the faraway Orkney islands
north of Scotland, and "singed
ChurchilPs whiskers, if any" by
sinking a Norwegian freighter,
which was safely" held there by
the British navy. This was consid-
cred another maritime coup; but the
Norwegians countered by interning
a stranded U-boat in Norwegian wa
tiers, which aroused the customary
amount of Juror Teutonicus. There
was sensational talk of a U-boat
base on the Pacific, at Whale bay,
southwest of Vladivostok, in the ST.
berian maritime province.
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FORODDS & FORENDS:

q Tokyo, capital of the japanese
empire of Nippon, claimed a popu-
lation of 100000. This is said to
make the Jap-cap the worlds second
city, with New York first, and Lon
don third. London, formerly first
in population, has been reduced by
wholesale excavations, blackouts,
and utter boredom, so the story
goes. Berlin is still fourth, and YER
minous Warsaw has doubled its
population since the war began.
q With the Spanish civil war year
over, the grandees (noble families of
rank No. y took stock. Dictator
Franco recently restored them their
estates, confiscated by the late Ia
mented republic, but still they had
paid a heavy toll. Records OF the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-11
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
released by Western Newspaper Union.)

By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
released by Western Newspaper Union.)
TT is the evening of April IA,
1865-Good Friday.
L On the stage of Ford's
theater in Washington the ia
nous actress, Laura Keene, is
playing in a delightful comedy,
"Our American Cousin. Join
ing in the laughter that sweeps
through the audience from time
to time is a gaunt, sad-faced
man sitting at ease in a high
backed, satin-upholstered rock
ing chair in an upper stage box.
Abraham Lincoln is forgetting
for a few minutes the crushing
responsibilities which he, as
Chief Executive of a nation torn
asunder in civil war, has been
bearing for four long years.
The third act of the play be-
gins. The President leans over
to whisper something to Mrs.
Lincoln who sits besidehim. Mel
Their the Lincolns nor Maj. Har-
ry R. Rathbone and a Miss Har-
ris, who accompanied them to
the theater, notice that a dark
moustached young man has slipped
through the door at the rear of the
box and is now standing behind the
President.
The next moment there is the
muf1ed sound of a shot. It is I'M
noticed by the players on the stage
or the audience, still chuckling over
the last funny line they have heard.
But the Presidents head drops for
ward on his breast.
Startled, Major Rathbone looks
around. Through the smoke he sees
the dark young man with pistol in
his hand and hears him mutter
something which sounds like Free
dom!" The major leaps to his feet
and grapples with the intruder, who
slashes at him with a knife, tears
loose from the officers grasp and
springs to the front of the box.
AS he vaults over the railing, his
spur catches in an American flag
which Grapes the front of the box.
He drops heavily to the stage with
one leg doubled under him, then
scrambles to his feet. With blood
streaming from his wounded arms,
Rathbone rushes to the front of the
box.
''Stop that man! Stop him!" he
shouts. 1.-THE President has been
Shot!"
But everyone is too stunned to
move for a moment. The young
man, waving aloft the bloody knife,
drags himself across the stage and
disappears in the wings. But be-
fore he does so, the startled actors
recognize in the white face and the
black eyes blazing with fanatical
hatred the familiar features of one
of their own profession - John
Wilkes Booth.
All this has taken place in less
time than it takes to tell it. The
next moment Ford's theater is a
pandemonium of screaming women
and shouting men, showing, push
ing, breaking chairs, crashing
through ratings and trampling upon
each other as they surge toward the
stage or try to climb up to the box
where the moaning Mrs. Lincoln is
supporting her stricken husband and
Major Rathbone is trying vainly to
open the door which the assassin
had barred from the inside.
Now the soldiers of the Presi-
dents guard come bursting into the
theater and with fixed bayonets and
drawn pistols they charge the mill
ing crowd. Their hoarse shouts of
"Clear out! Clear out, you sons OF
hell" rise above the tumult as they
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-11

COUNT JERRY POTOCkI-
PoIanPs ambassador to the u.
S., whose alleged reports to
WARSAW on conversations lOith
William Bullitt, u. S. ambassa-
dor to France, Were published
in Berlin. Said Pofocki: 81 deny
the allegations I neUer had
any (such) conversations :"
unison. But Congressman Hamilton
Fish and the hardsheIl isolationists
were infuriated, asserting that
where there is smoke, there is a
fire or two. Fish demanded a thor
ough investigation, and others de-
fed the President to laugh it off,
salt or no salt. 1t was bad thing
to have happen in presidential,
maybe third-term, year.
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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Release of Polish Documents
Creates Furore in Washington;
Hull, Bullitt Deny Nazi Charge

opinions expressed these columns they
Western Newspa Union
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ANGLO-FRANCE:

The allied war council met, some
what bewildered by it all, in Lon
don. The French and English re-
affirmed their unity, barred any
separate peace by either, and an
nounced that their financial, econo-
mic and imperialistic cooperation
would continue after the present
war was over. They intended, they
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-11
SUPREME THE COURT:

Our top tribunal found guilty the
Ethyl Gasoline corporation, in an
antitrust case. Ethyl, despite her
attractive name, was accused of Ii
censing jobbers in way contrary
to the public veal. At the bottom
of the case was an anti-knock COM
pound Also, according to the
court, the Federal Communications
commission may license new radio
stations freely, without bothering
about the veal of other radio sta
tions Also, Judge Gordon, of
the Washington federal district
court, declared that trade unions
were just as liable as anybody or
anything else, under the Sherman
antitrust law, including the serious
charge of criminal conspiracy. This
decision was good news to capital
lists the country over
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-11
MURDER DE LUXE:

It is hoped that the English and
Nazi newspapers do not go to town
on tidings from Brooklyn, N. Y.
There the mass-murder racket in
vestigation continued under Dis
trict Attorney ODwyer. 1t turned
out that the mass-murdering outfit
maintained branch offices in various
cities, on truly national scale. Kid
Twist Abe Relies told astonishing
details; one poor music publisher
had been shot down on the errone-
Gus suspicion that he was a Dewey
witness. Three important Brooklyn
witnesses were held at 100000 bail
apiece, 'for their own safety" One
gangster was arrested; he had given
Scarface Al Capone that famous
scar. His name was Frank Galluc-
clio.
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UP ABOVE:

The American airplane transport
system is fast becoming one of the
nations good boys. We point with
pride: Once we viewed with alarm.
A full year has just passed without
a single death or serious injury to
any passenger, pilot, steward, or
innocent bystander on the U. S. air.
ways. This encouraging figure
takes in well over two million trav-
elers, and nearly 80 million aerial
miles. The statement came from
the Civil Aeronautics authority,
which has no axe to grind.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-11
NICKEL SUBWAY:

The end of the famous five-cent
subway fare in New York city was
predicted! The state senate and
assembly both passed the Moffat-
Coudert bill, taking away control of
the City subway-fare system from
the legislature, and turning it over
to the city board of estimate. Spe-
cial gloom was registered by the
nickel-minded subway Democrats.
Among city proletarians, the five
cent fare has been always fetish.
Many local Republicans have long
considered it a nonsense.
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WNUG
OueneSS of Shirt

Oneness of Spirit
What attracts men to one an
other is not a common point Of
view but consanguinity of spirit
Marcel Proust.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-01-26
WHO PAYS THE COST OF
THE NEW DEAL?

Continued from Page One)
Deal high finance may be beyond
their understanding, but not the
principles of a sensible budget.
Now, in the first place, what is
a budget? In everyday use it
means a statement of probable
income and probable expense. 1t
doesn't seem to mean this to New
Dealers. A reading of the recent
budget message indicates that
they must have gone to the
dictionary and found this defini-
milton of a budget: "a collection
or store, as of news, anecdotes,
ETC., widely used in a colloquial
or in figurative sense"
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-01-26

In round figures our national
government will take in five bill
lion dollars this year, according
to is own estimates. 1t is going
to spend at least nine billions
Five from nine leaves four bill
lion dollars in the red.
What does this financial hocus
pocus mean in personal terms -?
How much is this administration
taking out of your pockets every
day? What does it mean to your
children and mine? Are your
children and mine going to be
fire men or are they being sold
ito the bondage of debt by an
irresponsible and spend-thrift
administration?
These questions are live and
real and they effect the whole
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-01-26
iREENSBORO, N. 6.

Why does God say that there
will be wars and rumors of
wars? Because God says | am
the way, the truth and the life. "
And men are not going to follow
God, rs a great big rule, regard
less of the price they pay.
Europe is in deaths grip to-
day because of the pregnancy of
her official records Of lies and in
justices. No bushes, no nation
and no home-life ca long endure
when its official records are full
Of lies and injustice. for God is
the way and he will not safe
guard the wrong way.
For a people, nation or human
groups, to live long their course
of life should be the truth and
nothing but the truth. Ban all
forms Of lies in the home life of
Il nation and the nation will long
cdure. Why? Because the home
is the recruit depot Of all nation
nj life - and no nation can be
stronger than the home-life of
lis recruit strength. people.
1t has | o II & been my wonder,
this: Why home life and bust
ness cannot see the danger Of go
ing the wrong way. Would auto
mobile manufacturers be any
thing but fools if they put out
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-01-26
Choppers in Capital for Aid

Washington. Jan. 81, (Spec'l
To CNA).-The petition of 90
Geo Sharc-croppcrS and planta-
ton workers for enough relief
during the winter months to
keep our families from starving"
was presented to administration
officials this week.
lIarassed by threats of mass
evictions and disturbed by cuts
In relief and farm aid i'm Presi-
dent Roosevelt's new budget,
the sharc-croppers sent thirty
iivc delegates to tell their story
and to bring the big stack of
petitions with them.
The delegates who came here
are all sharccroppers themselves
plainspclien and plainly dressed.
Most of them are Negroes, in
Guiding several women cotton
pickcrs, and there are also Il few
white SharccropperS.
In addition to relief, the dele
gait asked for governmental
action ito stop wholesale evic-
tins" for steps by government
agencies "to keep decent cover
over our heads" and for rcgu-
Iations requiring landlords tc
turno YER to sharccroppers tho
benefits which are legally theirs
and to pay the minimum wage
which they are asking the Dept
of Agriculture to fix.
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Along Elm Street
GREENSBORO, N. 6. BY Capt. D. J. s1INSa

! sIssQM pus ssIxv ssIsJ q3tA s1sa
Would not they soon perish from
business. So with a nation, home
and men. 81 am the way, all
others lead to death"
There is not anything that can
successfully, with time. win with
|lies. 1t would be that people
would not believe what news
papers printed in their columns.
But they have changed, now. I
know a newspaper that printed it
t h frightened COW ran so
fast and excitedly that she jump
ed clear of a railroad cut aud
cleared q running train which
was going though the cut. B u t
that paper would not print that
story now. And why not? Peo-
pie would not believe it, and for
the continued improvement Of
the paper it cannot trifle with
the peoples confidence neither
can man! 81,
/ What people won't believe,
leave it to Time and go on al
ways aiming at truth-iet it be
with nations, business, Gospel,
|homelife and service. The, world
is crying for the way that Jesus
goes at least, for he is the truth
and justice-an all men love it
for themselves.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-01-26

Three were killed in the Mt.
Meigs section, 16 miles east Of
Montgomery, and at least three
others at Beatrice and Riley's
Crossing in Monroe county. 80
miles to the southwest, accord
ing to the Red Cross. No white
casualties were listed.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-01-26
Two Children Die in Flames

Newark. \. j. Jan 24.-Leon
ard Harris, > year old, and hi:
sister, Gloria, aged 16 months
were killed by smoke in a fir,
that swept their home in the rear
of % Crane street. Agnes Har-
riS. mothe of the children, had
locked them in the house. ac-
cording to the police. and gone
to visit friends some time before
( he fire was discovered.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-01-26
SIN KILLED BY TORNADOES

Montgomery, Ala, Jan. "a
Six Negro worker were killed
and many others injured by
tornadoes which struck widely
separated sections of this state
last week, demolishing the flimsy
shacks of the victims.