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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-29
WILLKIE:
TaIkie-TaIkie

A challenge to President Roose-
welt to meet him in series of plat
form debates on the issues of the
1910 campaign, highlighted the ac-
ceptance speech of Republican pres
idential candidate, Wendell Willkie,
as he addressed an Elwood, Indiana,
crowd of between $50, 900 and 200, 200
persons.
The G.. o. P. standard bearer in
dorsed "selective military service"
(conscription) and came out for ma
terial aid to Great Britain in that
country's struggle against Nazi Ger
many. Willkie charged that the
present administration had failed in
its program of economic rehabilita-
ton and has been counting war by
dabbling in foreign politics.
Even his sternest critics were
forced to admit, however, that was
none of the "appeaser" in the man
behind such words as these: "We
must not shirk the necessity of pre-
pairing our sons to take care of them
selves in case the defense of Amer
lea leads to war" and again
1--WE must face a brutal, per-
haps terrible, fact. Our way of
life is in competition with Hitler's
way of life. I promise to outdis-
lance Hitler in any contest he
chooses, in 1910 or after. And I
promise that when we beat him, we
shall beat him on our own terms,
in our own American way"
Republicans hailed the speech as
a masterpiece and saw in it the be-
ginning of a campaign that would
definitely result in victory for their
candidate. Democrats saw in the
speech an endorsement of many of
the reforms the New Deal has been
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-29
GREECE:
And Italy

Germany grabbed Czechoslovakia,
Austria, Denmark, Norway, Luxem-
burg, Belgium, Holland and parts
of Poland and France. Russia
grabbed Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,
and parts of Poland, Finland, and
Rumania. Italy grabbed Ethiopia,
bounced on republican Spain, and
swallowed Albania.
Italy was on the move again.
This time against Greece. Poor
Greece had done nothing but shiver
since the war began. Its dictator,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-29
Good Counsel

To awaken each morning with a
smile Frightening my face; to
greet the day with reverence for
the opportunities it contains; to ap-
proach my work with a clean
mind; to hold ever before me, even
in the doing of little things, the
Ultimate Purpose toward which !
am working; to meet men and
women with laughter on my lips
and love in my heart; to be gentle,
kind, and courteous; Ito approach
night with WEAKNESS that woos
sleep and joy that comes from
work well done-this way I desire
to waste wisely my days.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-29
THOSE so DESTROYERS

NEW YORK.-The fight to sell so
of our destroyers to Britain is led
by the two whirling dervishes of
the third-term assault on American
tradition-the glamorous Senators
Josh Lee and Claude Pepper. Each
has right to be as fanatical as he
pleases-as Pepper is for Old Doc
Townsend's cruel deceit of the
aged; as Josh is for the uncompen-
stated confscation of property.
Both schemes would wreck beyond
repair the economic strength of this
country in a time of great danger.
During our Civil war, Great Brit
ain permitted swift Confederate
commerce destroyers to be fitted out
in British ports. They gave the final
push to our once-supreme merchant
marine-a blow from which it never
recovered. Our protests continued
for years. The British finally ad-
mitted that for this sort of illegal
participation in undercover war, the
offending country is responsible in
damages for every loss its unlawful
act has imposed.
Apart from any such clubbing as
Josh Lee is doing to make mock
cry of statutory and treaty obliga-
tons, let's not overlook the Ala
bama claims. They involved, in the
main, only two wooden ships. What
would so destroyers involve?
There are some vital factual ques-
tons which should be considered
against all this juramentado third
term hokum.
Are these vessels Obsolete? If
so, how can it be urged that the
life of the British navy depends on
them?
Are they surplus? If so, why
are we in such a concern to double
our navy and in more concern be-
cause it will take so long? Is dis
posing of so destroyers and 200 guns
the best way to start? Will their
detachment weaken our navy? I'm
der our policy of policing the seas of
half the world, obviously it will.
The "pro-sale" argument is that
we are in danger of immediate in
vasion if the British navy goes down.
IT that were true, will these so So
called Obsolete and surplus" de-
stroyers save the British navy?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-29
NIGHT CLUBS:
In n. y.

Big news from the modern Bab-
ylon. All the New York nightclub
people were to be fingerprinted, and
high time, too. This included the
capitalists, their sub-profteers, the
glamour girls, comedians, doormen,
walters, hatchecks, kewpie dolls and
cigars and cigarettes.
The reason for this drastic step
seemed to be that nightclubs and
robberies were (said the police)
closely connected. They printed"
the ritziest in the game, as well as
the more sordid types. Some of the
nightclubbers liked the idea, but 9TH
ers raised big yowl.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-29
BLESSINGS:
OF Warfare

One English farmer blessed the good
old War, and especially the Blitzkrieg
features. This agriculurist had t,Oo
chickens killed by German aerial
bomb. But he had a romantic and pa-
triotic neighbor. She ,0anted those
chickens to have them stuffed as ,oar
souvenirs. She paid the farmer 10
pounds for one OF them, and S pounds
for the other. This totaled just s60.30
in american money. The pound is no,o
,0orth about s4.02 in your Uncle Sans
ni0zunla.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-29
HOW SEW
by Ruth Wyeth Spears oSp

everything from pottery to peeling
knife handles in tones of green,
orange and red. One gift that was
appreciated most of all was the
apron, curtain and tea towel set
sketched here.
This set was made from muslin
flour and sugar bags. Muslin by
the yard would do just as well,
and / have shown in the sketch
how the gingham facings and bias
tape trimming were applied to add
the correct touch of color. If you
have never cut an apron without
a special pattern, you will find di-
rections in Book 4 along with
ideas for more aprons and other
fascinating things to make for al
most nothing.
NOTE: AS service to our read
ers Mrs. Spears has prepared
series of homemaking booklets.
Booklet S just published contains
80 pages of clever ideas fully il
Illustrated; and description of the
other numbers in the series. Book
lets are 10 cents each to cover
cost and mailing. Send order to:
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-29
LUXEMBOURG:
No More

Luxembourg is known to Americans
by the melodious strains of the
Waiting Count of Luxembourg" 1t
was tiny grand duchy, wedged
between Germany and France and
Belgium. 1t got invaded in 1914,
and again in 1910. Neither time did
it fight. 1t is rich in iron, and in
iron works. The Luxembourgeois
royal family, cousins of the $3.50
Hapsburgs, fed to this country not
long ago.
Before the last war, Luxembourg
was independent, but in customs
union with Germany. After 1918, it
went into customs union with Bel
GUM, instead. Now, it has been
re-annexed to Germany, along with
the little Belgian districts of Eu-
pen and Malmedy, which the Bel
gians had grabbed from Germany
in 1919. Neighboring Alsace-Lor-
raine, German from 1870 to 1918,
has also been re-incorporated in the
German reich. Meanwhile, Amer
lea is filed with swarms of royal
Luxembourgeois children. Mr..
Roosevelt has sent the U. S. S. Tren-
ton after them.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-29

General Metaxas, was neither pro-
British, nor pro-German. He was
just plain pro-Metaxas. But Albania
and Greece have common border
line. There was an insignificant in
cident over the Greek handling of
an Albanian bandit; Albania always
is bandit-infested. The kept" Ital-
ian press went into a roar, and de-
manded satisfaction. Just as reds
said the Firms threatened Russia,
so the Fascists said the ferocious,
insidious Greeks were threatening
the modern Roman empire of Sig
nor Mussolini.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-29
DEFENSE:
First Round

When it came to mobilizing the
National Guard for a year of train
ing, the house followed the example
of the senate. The house finally vot-
ed for the Gallup, by landslide of
342 to 33. The senate vote was II
to z. There are 100000 National
Guardsmen. They are to get the
works for II months, and can be sent
anywhere in the Observation-Disclosures,
or the Philippine islands-which is
long way away from the Western
hemisphere. Youngsters under Is
were to be discharged from the
guard at once, and married guards
men were permitted to resign with
in three weeks.
Mr.. Roosevelt, who had goodly
share of the American press against
him in his campaign for a third
term, had none the less won the
first round in his campaign for a
general mobilization. His program
called for no less than $4,000, 000,-
600. The second round was the
much-contested Burke-Wadsworth
CONSUMPTION bill, which would call
up 100000 men, between the ages
of 81 and 81. They, too, would get
a years training, if the bill went
through. 1t was opposed by COM
Plete cross-section, ranging from
experienced military critics and reg
ular officers to the Woman's Chris
tan Temperance Union and many
patriotic isolationists. Apparently
to speed things up, War Secretary
Stimson had said England might
not last a month. Naval Secretary
Knox said England might not hold
out for 60 days.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-29
THE LEAGUE:
What's Left

The League of Nations was bum
died out of Geneva some time back,
and went to France. From there,
it moved on to Portugal, where it
thought Of staying. But the Span
iards and Germans may yet invade
Portugal. So the ghost went west,
just like in the movie. The econom-
ic and financial sections of the
league secretariat pounced on
Princeton university, which was al
ways strongly anti-league in feel
ing, even though Woodrow Wilson
was a former Princetonian presi-
dent. But the latest was this: The
excellent international labor office of
the league selected McGill univer-
sity at Montreal, Canada, for its
hideaway. The Yankee John Winant,
formerly the able and progressive
governor of New Hampshire, is di-
rector of the labor office. He
thanked McGill by wire.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-29

Il ITCHEN showers are fun for
~ everyone and, while they are
always supposed to be surprise,
the prospective bride will be wise
to give out a broad hint as to her
color scheme. The dearest wish
of one bride-to-be was a kitchen in
gay Mexican colors. Her friends
had a wonderful time selecting
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-29

ACCept.
This picture was taken during Mr.. WILL
kie's Elwood. Ind. speech.)
advocating and thought Mr.. Willkie
wanted only change in personnel
mot policy-to carry such reforms.
At any rate it marked the real
beginning of what looks like the
hardest fought presidential contest
thus far in the Twentieth century.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-29
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
BY Roger Shaw
British Abandon Colony of Somaliland;
Nazis Continue Air Raids on England;
Trouble Looms Between Greece, Italy;
House Approves Mobilization of Guard

EDITORS NoTE-when opinions columns
Of
Released by Newspaper Union
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-29
Chrysler

Meanwhile, the Chrysler corpora
ton got $50, 500, 900 to erect a mass
production tank factory and pay for
mass-production tanks. The plant
was to be set up in the Detroit area
and was to start production within
Is months. The tanks produced will
be medium" 25-tonners. About
5000 men will be employed. Some
observers thought the proposed
plant was too near the Canadian bor-
der, unless the Canadian border was
to be obliterated.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-29
Sad Ne,Us

But later came sad news for the
House of Chrysler. Its head, Wal
ter P. Chrysler ST., died of a cere-
bral hemorrhage, after an illness of
more than two years. Sixty-five
years old, the automobile manufac-
turer who started his career as an
apprentice machinist at seven cents
an hour, was reported to be "the
most insured man in the world" In
1881 it was said he had taken out
S12, 900, 900 in surance policies.
Chrysler had not taken an active
role in business affairs since 1888.
Evening star., 1940-08-10
Battle Over Britain
At the TranS.Lux

You will find on the new program
of news reel shots at the Trans
Lux Theater a. forceful view OF
what air warfare can be-in fact
what 1t is. Dive bombers attack a
convoy of merchant shipping in the
English Channel, British fighters
surge up to battle, the convoy
changes course to dodge bombs drop
ping dangerously near, one missile
at least scores a direct hit, enemy
bombers roar down to destruction
in flames. It's an exciting reel the
cameraman caught from his more
or less bombproof shelter on the
channel coast Also you will find
conveys reaching their destination
safely, you will see Nazi bombers
guided by the chalk cliffs to Dover,
you will see British massing for
battle in Africa, the Italians at
tacking Egypt.
Back on this side of the Atlantic:
You may cheer and jeer 1--WE did
not come right out and say "re-
spectively'') at the remarks of Gen.
Pershing and Col. Lindbergh on our
position in this world aflame; you
will find Wendell Willkie greeting
farmers in Iowa, Franklin D. Roose-
velt playing host at Hyde Park, the
National Guard maneuvering, j.
Edgar Hoover warning against fifth
columnists, the oldest high diver
being discussed by Lew Lehr.
Short subjects include Silent
Wings" story of glider tests for
distance, altitude and endurance al
Elmira; Curacao" camera visit to
that sunny isle of the Netherlands;
STRAY Lamb" a nature short, ano
Disney's Officer Duck" H. M.
Evening star., 1940-08-10
Joe Is Surrounded
By Vaudevillians

Former vaudevillians are not un-
common in Hollywood, but Joe E.
Browns new Columbia starring
picture, so You Won't Talk?" sets
a record for the number of gradu-
ates from the two-a-day in a single
troupe. There are 13 of them, in
cluding the director, assistant
director and second assistant
cameraman and an electrician.
Joe E. Brown heads the list. He
was member of the acrobatic team
OF Provost and Brown and earlier
appeared with the Marvellous Ash
tons, Bounding Trampoline Art
lists" Edward Sedgwick, the direc-
tor, was one of the Five Sed-
wicks, Comedy Sketch Artists. I"
Abby Berlin, assistant director, was
the last half of the team of Brown
and Berlin. billed as knights of
Knonsence. Eddie Bush, studio
electrician, was one of Those
Komical Klowns," Bush and Bush.
While Irving Gzzy) Klein played
q euSo III oooby 11cllSldW pdIlu.
Then, there are in the cast Jimmy
Conlan of Conlan and Glass c'Whoa!
Whoa!'D; Tommy Dugan of Dugan
and Raymond; George Mckay, of
Mckay and Ardine; Chick Chandler,
THAT Surprising Guy; Luis AL
berni, an Italian comedian; Harri-
son Greene, one of vaudeville's
standard acts, and "Baby Vivienne,"
who grew up to be Vivienne Os-
borne. Even the author of so You
Won't Talk?" was vaudevillian He
is Richard Flournoy, who as Dick
Noye did blackface act billed as
Bonway and Noye, 1.-TWO Black
Sheep"
Evening star., 1940-08-10

rules for the Star-studded cast is
mo visitors back stage" So the
doorkeeper refused to let them by.
But you can't do that" said Con-
ME, or words to this effect. And
she told him who they were-the
Marquis of this and the Countess
of that. But the boy wouldnt t
bulge. Finally Connie demanded
to see Dudley Murphy, one of the
directors of the show. But he was
obeying the rules and staying in
the front of the house! Connie, by
the way, was pretty good in her
1--WE Were Dancing" playlet with
Doug Fairbanks.
Gloria Jean is tickle. Remember
her great love for Basil Rathbone?
It's all over. All her downward
glances and sighings are now re-
served for Brian Aherne. I watched
her watching Brian in the Univer-
sal commissary the other day, and
Gloria positively simpered every
time the actor glanced her way.
isn't Mr.. Aherne wonderful!" said
Gloria later. Said Brian, "It's
wonderful to have a girl like that
crazy about you'll"
That's not the way to carry a
baby, honey" says George Brent to
Ann Sheridan during an interval in
their Honeymoon for Three"
George takes the baby-it's a doll
shows Ann how to hold it, swings
too roughly and-drops it! Luckily
for the baby it was only a doll
Helen Parrish lunches with Charlie
Lang in the R-K-O-Radio oommis-
sary. Helen is playing the love in
terest for the studios You'll Find
Out" Helen tells me she was under
contract to R-K-O some years ago
She was fired because her mother
insisted on braiding her hair and
making a little girl of her. Now
that her glamour is in the grown-uI
class, the studio wants to give her
long-term contract.
\ X \ X
Adrian is selling his dress and
decorating shop on the Sunset
Strip. His wife, Janet Gaynor, re-
sumes her film career when and II
she can tear herself away from
their newly arrived infant son
A newspaperman I know asked Joan
Fontaine to an afternoon preview
(while Husband Aherne was work.
ing). Joan refused on these grounds
People will talk If they see me with
another man. I'm never going to
do anything that will create gos-
sip" I wonder, does Joan know OF
Gloria Jeans interest in her hus-
band?
This date is f1nal-September IS
for Charlie Chaplin's "The Great
Dictator" The picture will end with
Chapln's voice summing up the
European situation and explaining
the why's and wherefores of his pic
ture John Barrymore at Terry
Hunts gymnasium-to knock of an
unwanted II pounds. John blames
them on his current healthy life in
Hollywood !. A group of pro-
ducers' wives are taking English
lessons-to pass on to their hus-
bands?
tRslessed By the North American
Nswspapsr Alliance. IneJ
Evening star., 1940-08-10

cincts in almost as few minutes.
Fearless, constituencies, McGinty is
Immediately adopted by the ma
chine as its muscle man, from which
job he rapidly advances to Mayor,
thence to Governor of his State.
Obviously that is not the stuff of
which movies usually are made.
The way 1t is manipulated, it runs
from comedy that is muscular to
comedy that is satirical, with
pauses now and then for dramatic
sequences to touch the heart. That
will be recognized as the combina-
tlon OF elements which heretofore
has seemed to belong exclusively to
Frank Capra, a much-better- known
director than Sturges, and a per-
feet one for emulating.
His cast of rather lesser known
players never lets down Sturges'
faith that the scripts the thing. AS
the clustering, muscular dim-wit
who takes his orders from the boss
(Akim Tamiroff) Donlevy departs
from his traditional role of villain
to turn in surprisingly deft COM
edy performance. He is Just as
funny later in the film when he
begins to take his orders from the
wife he married as a matter of
political necessity, orders which are
the complete reverse of those given
by the boss.
Even Tamiroff is something less
than his old villainous self in 1.-THE
Great McGinty." In the course of
preying upon his political kingdom
he has many a moment in which to
be comic, most of them dealing with
McGinty, whom he is always try
ing to frighten. He never becomes
sympathetic character, but he
achieves degree of political de-
pravity which is admirable.
So definitely is the story woven
around these two characters that
very little is left for the others to
do. Those who do the little else
include Muriel Angelus, the wife
who finally reforms the stormy Nc
Ginty; Allyn Joslyn, who plays the
other man; Steh Duna, who dances
and vamps on minor scale, and
William Demarest, who plays capa-
bly, character called only, and
wisely, the Politician.
Paramount has provided Sturges
with enough money to make "The
Great McGinty" classify mounted
affair.
Better make note of its presence
right now.
* X X X
The Capitors stage show is dedi-
Gated to the theory that there must
be something to laugh about in
this world, and it might as well be
Cinda Glenn and several other per-
sons. The others are Bert NagIe
g. Co., who impersonate cats, and
Gautier's Bricklayers, dogs who
initiate men building a building.
There isn't single acrobat around
to mar the merry mood.
Miss Glenn, to be sure, wakes
slightly acrobatic on occasion, but
only for thing like wrapping her
left arm around the back of her
neck to tickle her right ribs. Most
OF the time she devotes her atten-
tion to such gay burlesque of glamour
girls-cinema and cafe society-that
any glamour girls within range must
certainly be ready to give up the
profession. The Rhythm Rockets
contribute to the merriment, too,
impersonating Mickey and Minnie
Mice for Bert Nagle to stalk, doing
new version of the Second Hun
garian Rhapsody" And there's a
fellow named Jimmy Edmundson,
who writes and talks backwards.
Evening star., 1940-08-10
Earle Holds
Gay Comedy
Second Week
ButNew Stage Show
Is Provided With
Bernhardt Hit

The Viennese of the period when
life in Vienna was a song had a
way OF turning out spirited, spicy
and ingratiating little tales of love.
That Vienna may have disappeared,
but the ingratiating little tales lin
ger on. One of them, my Love
Came Back" has been translated
into screen drama with such success
that it yesterday became a surprise
holdover at the Earle.
Richly sentimental, concocted of
equal parts of mirth and music,
the picture is likely to 60 down in
the year-end balloting as one of
the brighter comedies of 1910. If
1t does, major credit for that rating
should go to Karl Bernhardt, who
directed Olivia de Havilland, JET
frey Lynn and an otherwise COM
petent cast with such happy effect.
My Love Came Back" is Mr.. Bern
hardt's first picture in America.
One Of the best bets of the moment
Is that it won't be his last, for he
has a way of bringing out those
human values which make a ro-
mantle comedy tale seem more i'm
portant than it is.
Principal figures in MY Love
Came Back" are a young, tempera-
mental and beautiful violinist: an
elderly Croesus with roue tendencies
and a nice young man who cannot
help thinking the worst about situa-
tions. The situations upon which
he Is allowed to reflect are nicely
contrived to make a young man
think the worst and just as nicely
contrived to keep an audience con-
stantly amused
An all-new stage show, even down
to the routines of the Roxyettes,
is offered by Production Boss Harry
Anger. Its major ingredient is the
antic comedy of Red Skelton, who
is making his farewell farewell ap-
pearance. Beyond Skelton lies a
fine acrobatic act by La Lage, a
blond from the Folies Bergere; the
dancing, singing team of Rita and
Ed Oehman, and the slapstick ma
rionettes of Tommy Trent. The
Roxyettes reach their maximum
achievement in richley produced
tom-tom number which brings
down the curtain. j. C.