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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-10-03
THE WAR:
AeridIistics

The British said it would take Hit
Ter 40 years to wipe out London, at
the present rate of progress. But
at the same rate of progress, the
German air force might be wiped
out in 40 weeks.
For the first time, just the same,
funny thing happened. The Brit
ish and Germans both admitted that
the other side had outshot them. The
British said they had lost at ratio
of z to 4. The Germans said they
had lost at a ratio of to /. This
was completely unprecedented, not
only in the checkered annals of An
glo-German warfare in the clouds,
but also in Sino-Japanese, Jap-Rus-
sian, and Spanish civil conflicts. No
body could quite figure it out. 1t
seemed peculiar.
The big question, which vexed the
critics, was whether the Germans
would actually try a land invasion
of England this fall. There were
all sorts of stories. The royal air
force bombed alleged German troop
concentrations along the channel
coast, and in Norway. They dam
aged flat-boats and similar equip
ment. Whether this equipment was
merely blind, or not, remained to
be seen.
There was yarn that 100000
Nazis were massed in Norway, for
drive across. Some critics de-
clared that the light German tank
had proved utterly vulnerable to the
two-pounder British anti-tank gun.
This, they added, had caused Hitler
to delay his invasion, and might
postpone it indefinitely. That, again,
remained to be seen.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-10-03
Strange Facts
I All Wires DoiUn
! 8 Per Cent Film ]
3-Weeks' Bath .

G During the Pareshnath process
sion, staged yearly by the jams in
India, all telephone, telegraph and
trolley wires crossing the line of
march are temporarily removed
so that the Great Indradwaja, a
50-foot banner, can pass without
being lowered.
q The average motion picture,
when released, contains only 8 per
cent of the film that was "shot"
during production. Although the
90 per cent that goes into the edi-
tors wastebasket is not entirely
wasted from a technical stand
point, it does sometimes contain
songs, small parts in their entirety
and even whole scenes that have
been taken on expensive sets.
q Scientific studies reveal that
the majority of people work more
efficiently Immediately after a
change in weather, not only on a
clear day following a storm, but
also during storm following sew
eral days of sunshine.
q The longest baths on record are
those taken by the patrons of the
mineral spring resort at Shira-
hone, Japan. Many of the bathers
will lie in the large, shallow tanks
for three weeks at a time, pack
ing smooth stones on and about
themselves at night to prevent
turning over and drowning in their
sleep-Collier's.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-10-03
MERRY-GO-ROUND

For admission to a press confer
ence with Secretary of War Slim
son, newsmen must be equipped
with Identification cards, colored
bright red.
Colonel Ward Maris, able press re-
lations officer of war department,
is literally behind the eight-ball.
Planted on his desk is a billiard
ball, marked with the figure eight.
Hefty Rep. Frank Fries of Illinois,
one-time miner, is leading the battle
to save the federal mine inspection
bill from being shelved in the house
mines committee. Sponsored by
Sen. Matt Nicely of West Virginia
and Rep. Kent Keller of Illinois, the
measure is being stymied by an un-
dercover filibuster.
''The Republican" official organ
of the Young Republican National
federation, urges Willkie to name
four or five cabinet members now,
and campaign not with two-man
ticket but with a six or seven-man
ticket.
'BEtZkrleg widows" is the state
department phrase for wives of for
eign service officers who are pre-
vented by war from joining their
husbands at foreign posts :. Like
General Marshall, chief of staff, the
army's chief of air corps, Gen. H.
H. Arnold, begins his working day
at 7:45 in the morning.
A Pacific coast ship captain, talk
ing by radio to another captain at
sea, damned the weather with an
old salts profanity. He was CEN
sured by the Federal Communica-
tons commission for unlawful and
superauous language" on the air.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-10-03
CRIME:
California Kidnapping

Three days after Marc de Tristan
Jr.'s abductor seized him from the
street near his home in Hillsborough,
Calf, he was returned to his no
bleman father, Count de Tristan, in
San Francisco.
The child was rescued unframed
from the kidnaper, identified as Will
helm Jakob Muhlenbroich, 40-year-
old German alien, by two woodsmen
at Pine River, in the Sierra foothills
200 miles from Hillsborough.
For this deliberately plotted and
boldly executed crime, the kidnap-
er, a German alien, received no
100000 as demanded in beauti-
fully phrased ransom note of 600
words, but he got black eye, a
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-10-03

MRS. ELLA DONAT, ,Oite of
Robert Donat. famous English
actor, iUho has just arrived in the
United States from their home in
Ayiesbury, Buckinghamshire,
England, Vith their three chill
dren, stated on her arrival that
she believed England would
emerge from the ,oar victorious
and that she would ultimately
return to her green-hiIled home
to rejoin her actor-husband, best
kno,on in the U. S. for his star
ring role inthe motion picture,
Goodbye, Mr.. Chips"
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Washington, ID. G.
SECRET BRITISH WEAPON
Britain's new secret anti-aircraft
weapon, which is described as neith-
er "gun, ray, nor balloon" is the
most ingenious defense instrument
the war has yet devised, according
to military reports received here.
1t consists of a shell which when
fired by an anti-aircraft gun, ex-
plodes at a desired level and re-
leases new kind of gas. This gas
has the same density as air and
does not dissipate. 1t holds together
and constitutes a sort of invisible
balloon. The gas is harmless-ex-
cept when it explodes, and then it
possesses tremendous destructive
power.
Explosion is by ignition. An air.
plane engine roaring through one of
these gas masses ignites it and
causes an explosion which tears the
plane to pieces. That is the way
the British are reported to be using
il
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-10-03
CAMPAIGN:
Spirit of I776-'AO

The drums beat. The bugles
blared, the flies footed, the crowds
cheered, the urchins ducked in and
out, while women tainted, and can
didates kissed babies, and wrapped
themselves in the old red, white and
blue bunting. The electoral cam
paign of 1910 still was in progress.
The latest Gallup poll galloped all
over Mr.. Wilkes chances. 1t told
the following sad tale-that is-for
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-10-03

NCHOOL girls will love to wear
- this pretty frock-and it's so
very becoming to all of them!
Flared at the skirt, wide at : the
shoulders, design No. 8763 fills
them out, at the age when they
shoot up like beanpoles. And the
high-cut princess skirt scoops in
gratifyingly at the waistline.
This pretty frock makes up
charmingly in a combination of
plaid and plain fabrics, as pic
tured, but it's very smart in one
color, too. The two versions look
so different that you'll really get
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-10-03
Seven-Months' Funeral

The greatest funeral procession
in history was that of the third
Tashi Lama, spiritual ruler of
Tibet, who died in Peking in 1851
while visiting the emperor OF Chi
ma. The cortege of thousands of
monks, dignitaries, soldiers and
cooks, with hundreds of camels
carrying supplies, made the 2,400-
mile journey from Picking to
Tashi-lhunpo on foot, over high
mountain passes and through rag
ing rivers, in seven months and
eight days.-Collier's.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-10-03
Earnest Living

Whatever I have tried to do in
life have tried with all my heart
to do well. Whatever I have de-
voted myself to, I have devoted
myself to completely: in the great
aims and in small I have always
been thoroughly in earnest
From "David Copperfield."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-10-03
RUMANIA:
Trar,syIudr,id

Rumania was settling down, under
the anti-Carol dictatorship of Gen.
John Antonescu, who had been
locked up in monastery until re-
Gently. Antonescu helped to chase
Carol out of the country, with his
hated, red-headed girl-pal Lupescu.
Then it turned out that Carol and
Lupescu were married, and had
been since perhaps 1929. This news
cheered the Mrs. Grundy's of the
entire world.
Antonescu's new Rumania was
pro-Nazi and anti-Jewish. It had
lost about two-thirds of its territory:
Bessarabia and Bukovina to Russia,
Pennsylvania to Hungary, and the
southern part of the Dubruja prov
ince to little Bulgaria. Antonescu
didn't care for all this. The Ru-
manians accused the Hungarians of
committing all sorts of atrocities in
Pennsylvania province as they
marched in. The Hungarian
Rumanian tension seemed scheduled
to go on forever.
The Germans and Italians had
forced Rumania to cede territory to
Hungary and the Bulgarians. Now,
the Rumanians began to talk about
Germany and Italy forcing the Hun
garians, etc., etc., to cede territory
back to them. Meanwhile, Runan-
ian oil exports to Germany were
soaring. The best highest airplane
gas comes from the Rumanian wells
and today one can consider Rumania
as General Goering's kept" filing
station.
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gashed head, bruised body, and
he faces almost certain imprison-
ment for life. The lumbermen, Ce-
Gil Wetzel and Ellis Woods, violently
manhandled him when they found
him and the child in an automobile
on a dead-end road.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-10-03
Just Kids

A very large number of the Nazi
fliers up over England were young
kids in their teens. They had been
raised under the totalitarian system,
and had the reckless fanaticism of
utter youth. Their only enthusiasm
was Hitler. They almost courted
death. The Nazi regime seemed to
be deliberately exploiting these am
ateur wild-men. Their bombs might
almost be termed: gifts to the
school-children of London, from the
high school boys of Berlin Cor Bres-
lau, or Augsburg, or whatever). No
regime in history, said one historian,
had ever sacrificed youth in this
completely cold-blooded manner
that is, its own youth. The Goering
flying circus might well be renamed
the Goering suicide squad.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-10-03
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY Roger Shaw
50 English Refugee Children Perish
AS Ship Is Torpedoed in Mid-Atlantic;
Kidnaper of 3-Year-Old Lad Captured
And Boy Returned, Unframed, to Home
BY Roger Shaw
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Released by Western


necessarily this newspap0
Western Newsp JInion
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-10-03
CHALLENGES:
DueILO

General Goering, flying chief Of
the Third Reich, was up over Lon
don in his own Junkers SO bomber.
Goering was the former command
er of the Richthofen flying circus in
the first world war, and an ace of
great renown. Like many an old
war horse, in the second world war
he couldn't keep his hands off the
controls. 1t was the first time, in a
very long time, that general led
his own troops into battle.
Goering may be the black eagle
of Germany. But Harlem-New
York city's Negro section-has a
black eagle, too. His august name
is Col. Hubert Fauntleroy Julian. Ju-
liam had just finished reading Hit
ler's book, "Mein Kampf" Julian's
blood boiled over, at Hitler's re-
marks on the colored race. This is
what happened:
Colonel Julian issued a challenge
to General Goering, to meet him in
single, solitary combat. The
place was to be up over the English
CildiIlel. Inc weapons were tO DC
Messerschmitt planes. Colonel Ju-
liam inferred that General Goering
was ''lousy divided by o." Goer-
ing was to have 30 days in which to
accept the Julian challenge. The
challenge itself read as follows:
81 therefore challenge and defy
you, Herman Goering, as head of
the Nazi air force, to meet me at
10000 feet, to fight an aerial duel
to avenge the cowardly insult to my
race. Neutral correspondents must
be the referees" Colonel Julian
added that he would buy Messer-
schmitt from the British govern
ment, which had two captured ones
up for sale. Colonel Julian over
looked one detail. General Goering
is probably too fat to get into a
Messerschmitt.
Julian was Halle Selassie's only
flier in the Ethiopian war.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-10-03
Inquire Within

Go to your bosom; knock there
and ask your heart what it dotf
know.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-10-03
NEW AID FOR BRITAIN

AnOther historic move TO AID Great
Britain, almost as significant as the
destroyer-islands deal, is now on
President Roosevelt's desk.
1t is plan to sell to the British
80 merchant vessels owned by the
United States government and now
tied up in the James river, Virginia.
The vessels, built during the
World war, are desperately needed
by Great Britain because of her Sc
we're shipping losses in submarine
and aerial warfare.
In the once-scorned James river
fleet, controlled by the maritime
commission, are the only ready
made vessels in the world today
that can be purchased in quantity.
The fleet consists of 90 ships of about
5000 to 10000 tons each. The en-
gines are in fair condition, having
been turned over periodically by
the navy. However, considerable
repairs will have to be made to other
parts of the ships by the British,
totaling $165, 1000 each.
The British plan to offer about $50
a ton for the vessels, which is con-
sidered high in view of the fact that
they will have to spend $165, 900 or
about $40 per ton for repairs. The
total price paid to the United States
for the ships will be in the neighbor-
hood of $8,OOO,OOO, while the total
British repair bill will be about
100000
FROM MISSOURI
One of the greatest publicity
drives in U. S. political history is
about to be launched
From thousands of billboards,
posters, window signs, movie
screens, radios and sound trucks,
the voters of the country will be
bombarded with arguments, slogans
and oratory until November as
to why Wendell Willkie should be
elected President of the United
States.
The campaign will be under the
auspices of the Republican national
committee, but its real authors are
a group of live-wire St. Louis bust
ness men headed by bustling Edgar
Queeny, president of the Monsanto
Chemical company, one of the big
gest such firms in the country.
An original Willkie booster,
Queeny has been giving large part
of his time to the job of electing
him. He lunches daily with a score
of politically smart friends, and it
was at these informal powwows that
the nationwide publicity. plan
evolved.
Originally Missouri was to stage
the show alone, but the national
committee was so impressed with
its possibilities that Queeny was
asked to apply it to the entire coun-
try. He responded with character
istic zip.
Through his influence, five leading
advertising firms went to work with
the agency that handles the Mon
santo account, the Gardner Adver-
Using company of ST. Louis, and as
signed two representatives to each
state to explain the drive to local
G. o. P chiefs.
One particular point to be ex-
planned was that the cost would be
too large for the national COM
mittee to bear under the Hatch act.
and that the state organizations
would have to carry the load. The
advertising contact men have re-
ported back that without exception
the state headquarters are willing
to raise and spend the necessary
Ic
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-10-03
BRITISH TROUBLE:
Egypt

The Italians came out of Tripoli.
Libya, and started to invade Egypt,
up the long coastline. Already, they
had conquered British Somaliland
down in East Africa. The British
in Egypt were slowly retreating
along the coast before Mussolini' S
Marshal GRAHAM
The object of the Italian high COM
mand was to cut the Suez canal.
This would sever the imperial life
line of England to India.
India, Too
India, meanwhile, was seething
with discomfort. 1t contains AGO.
600, 900 of the British Empires $780,
600, 900 subjects. But India, under
the unofficial leadership of Mahatma
Gandhi, was virtually neutral in
the second world war-more neutral,
in fact, than the United States. In
Egypt, too, there is an anti-British
nationalist party called the Wafd:
W-A-F-D. But the Wafd had enough
balance to be even more anti-Italian
than it was anti-British.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-10-03

Pattern No. 1868 is designed for sizes
6. 8. 10. IL and IA years. Size 8 requires
Is yard of 35-inch material for short
sleeved waist portion. Ia yards for skirt.
Send order to:
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-02
Mrs. Strickler
Club Dele gate
To Conve en4ion

Mrs. E. S. Strickler. who is of
ficial delegate for Townsend club
No. l at the fifth annual national
convention of the Townsend clubs,
to be held in St. Louis. Mo, start
ing June 80. will leave Sunday.
stopping en- route To visit relatives
in Kansas and Missouri.
She will also be present for the
marriage of her son, Harold Striek-
Ter, and Vernita Shoemaker OF
Plattsburg, Mo, the ceremony TO
be performed the latter part oil
June in Plattsburg.
Mr.. Strickler and his bride both
attended school in Mcpherson
Kans. and the romance dates back
To their college days.
Harold Stricken has a wide circle
OF friends in the valley who will
be greatly Interested i'll the news
of the approaching marriage
Among the relatives whom Mis-.
Strickler will visit are DR.. and Mrs.
H. j. Harnly OF Mcpherson, Kansas,
who are known TO many as they
visited the Stricklers in the valley
some time ago. Mrs Stritkler and
Mrs. Harnly are sisters.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-02

Announcement of the marriage OF
Allora Wilmington Gallaher, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. j. F. Gallaher,
10 James Easson Slusher jr., son
of Mr.. and Mrs. James Easson
Slusher. ST. of Phoenix, Arizona,
is one of interest to many resi-
dents of both FL Centro and the
valley since the bride comes from
q prominent pioneer family.
The marriage was solemnized in
Yuma, Arizona, Thursday morn
ing Judge Ed Wynne reading the
service. Immediately after the cere-
mony Mr.. and Mrs. Slusher left
for Phoenix to visit the bride
groom'S parents.
Mrs. SluSher is a graduate of
Central high school and junior col
lege. later attending u. c. L. A..
where she was a member of Alpha
Xi Delta sorority, and the young-
est member of the graduating
class. She has taught in the valley
schools. both at Mulberry and
North End and she is a popular
member of the Junior Ten Thous-
and club.
The brides family has played a
prominent part in the development
of Imperial Valley, coming N this
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-02
Twins Celebrate
Sixth Birthday

Doris and Dean, the twin chill
dren of Mr.. and Mrs. H. V. Hop
good who claim the same birth
date, May 28, as the Dionne quin-
tuplets, celebrated their sixth an
niversary Tuesday at a gay birth
day party given for them by their
mother at the Hopgood ranch south
of Ell Centro
Here a group of young friends
enjoyed a merry afternoon devoted
to all sorts of games after which
came the birthday cakes and other
refreshments. The table decora-
tions were unusually pretty and
the youngsters had delightfcl time
helping Doris and Dean to cele-
brate the day.
Guests were: Michael and Tom
my Afford Tommy and Betty King
Phil and Beth Haas, Clark Jacobs
Christine Clements. Madeleine Gold
en- Barbara Jean StraWn, Bill and
Patsy Montgomery. Mary Jane Lay
Sherry Ann King, and Doris and
Dean Hopgood
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-02
ommencement Exercises For
High School Friday Night

Winding Your Own Business"
Was the subject of decidedly to-the-
point, and most appropriate COM
mencement address delivered by
Arthur F. Corey, in charge OF pub
lie relations for the California
TeaGhers association, for Central
hiGh schools 32nd annual COM
mencement exercises conducted Fri
day night in the city stadium
The speaker asked the question
What Is Your BuSineSS?' and
pointed out that it is generally con-
sidered to be ones occupation but
under the heading of "own business
should come to court system of the
nation, the school. the churches,
service clubs, character building or
carnations, and the government
Of the country. Mr.. Corey pointed
out the reluctance of citizens to
serve as witnesses or jurors; the
lack of interest on the part OF
many in membership or in leader
ship in churches, service clubs, and
character building organizations,
and also In the public school SyS-
tenn, all of which they should make
q part of their business.
He quoted from Emerson: MAKE
the most of yourself. That is all
there is of yourself" and closed with
"Resolve to use your whole mind,
to graw and to mind your own buSl-
ness"
The exercises opened with the
professional of the graduates in
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-02

Phyllis Purdy, by popular vote OF
Central high schools student body,
was elected to attend the first Cal
ifornia Girls state TO be held June
22-29 in Grant Union high school,
Sacramento.
Marilea Hanson was elected al
ternate.
Phyllis's expenses will be paid
by. Boyce Aten unit, American Le-
gi6n Auxiliary, each unit being
privileged to send girl if they
choose to do So Boyce Aten, how
ever, is the only valley unit send
Ing delegate this year, the first
session of Girls State.
Girls State is modelled on the
Boys State which has been in oper-
alton for a number of years and
1t is sponsored by the American Le-
gion Auxiliary, department of Cali
fornia.
Only those girls who will be jul
niors or seniors in high school for
the year starting in September Of
20 are eligible to attend and
,y are selected on the basis Of
III scholastic standing, student
ly leadership and interest in
7ernment
The purpose of Girls State is
prepare girls for citizenship, Civ
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-02
Clubs
Society
SOCIAL CALENDAR

SATURDAY
Business Women, ], Barbara
Worth
Jobs Daughters, 1890, Holtville
Masonic temple
SUNDAY
Sunday services, churches
MONDAY
Church school, 8-10:30, Harding
and Wilson schools
Commencement, 8, Imperial high
school
Auxiliary installation, 8, Veter-
ans hall
Livingston recital, 1870, 131 South
Sixth
D.U.V., 2, Veterans hall
Cactus Gavel club, 6:15, CalifOr-
MIA hotel
Scout Troop 20, 1880, Scout hut
Scout Troop 81, 1880, Heber
Building contractors, 1880, cham
Der OF commerce
V.F.W. No. 2O41, 8, Brawley
Typographical union, 7:3O, Labor
temple
Carpenters union, 7:3O, Labor
temple
Soroptimists, GAS, Barbara Worth
Chess club. 1890, st. Pauls parish
hall
Present Day club, $3.50, V. N.
Thompson ranch
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-02

their caps and gowns. after which
Dr. w A. McCleneghan Of the
Methodist church pronounced the
invocation.
Gounods beautiful ave Maria
was sung by the glee club with
Gloria Payne as incidental soloist
and Mary Louise Sigmon as ac-
companist
The speaker was then introduced
by Guy A. Weakley, superintendent
of schools, who also presented j.
E. Brock president of the board Of
trustees, who in turn introduced c.
E Sones., and Dorsey WhitelaW, re-
firing school board members. Mr..
Sones has served on the board for
18 continuous years.
Jeanne CrisS played Scene de
Ballet" (Ch. de BerioD as a violin
solo after which Mr.. Sones, as
sisted by D. w. Ketchen, vice
principal, presented the diplomas. to
the 153 graduates. Those gradual
ing with special honors are: Frances
Aaron, Eugene Adams, Yoshiko SAX
urai. Elizabeth Weiss and Frances
Newell.
The orchestra was then heard in
RavelS "Bolero", and like the glee
club and the soloists, gave really
outstanding performance. Stan
Atkin is head of the music depart
ment
Closing benediction was pronounc-
ed by the Rev Mr.. R. c. Rogers,
Church of the Nazarene.