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ALADDIN WAS A PIfSER
Continued from poss six

first picture, Colleen Moore's Orchids
and Ermine" Mickey played a midget
with a tiny mustache. with Colleen
as telephone operator.
Joe says he sat through the picture
twice and turned to the woman sitting
in the next seat. That's my son." he
commented with commendable pride.
"Oh, yeah" said she - and walked
out.
Yule watched Mickey in the various
Mickey Mcclure comedies he
made ninety-five of them in six years
"a and during the summer lay-offs he
went out to California to see his boy.
II never talked to people about
Mickey" he says. Il didn't want to
cash in on the kid in any way. Nobody
ever knew"
Seven years ago. Yule made one of
his trips out to see the lad. Restless
one night, walked down to the bur-
lesque house, the Follies, in downtown
Los Angeles. I'm a Number One
comic and they offer me two weeks
engagement. Why not? says to my
self. l stayed there seven years. Then
people began to talk. They'd 60 sight
seeing to look at Mickey's father. l
decided to 60 East and keep away from
Hollywood. tell Mickey that and he
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around to vaudeville theaters and
watch the acts. If a line got laugh.
he'd appropriate it. "Just a born
pirate" comments Yule proudly.
In Cleveland young Mickey with
out warning tried an experiment. He
went out on the runway. the platform
extending into the audience and used
by the chorus dancers, and did his
song. Joe can't remember the exact
title but it was all about a white
haired mother.
Mickey would get down on his
knees in the spot and weep real tears
while he sang" says Yule. THE
words ran something like Mother. oh,
Mother, what would give to erase,
all the wrinkles from your dear face
Gave you lump in your throat every
time. After he'd done that out on the
runway, says to him, Why did you
do that? Was it wrong?' says Mickey.
No, it was right, but why did you
do it?' Says Mickey, I wanted to be
nearer my audience A trooper from
the start, that boy"
Yule remembers a Dayton, Ohio,
appearance. Because of their age,
the Lee kids, Catherine and Jane.
had been stopped at nearby vaude-
,,;lla theater hv the ChiIdren's Society,"
But they passed Mickey by. Some
how they thought he was midget.
But Saturday they got WISE" says
Joe. Raised Cain"
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JoE also remembers an appearance at
Auburn Prison. Mickey made the
hit of the show. "You shoulda seen
those fifteen hundred cons sob," he
says. "Woulda done your heart good"
Afterward the warden sat the four
year-old Mickey on his desk and
talked to him like father.
Then came what Joe calls "the
lull." Business was bad. Joe's wife
was ill and it was decided that she
return to her folks in Kansas City
and there place Mickey in school.
81 went on. doing my routine fifty
two weeks year"
The Yules drifted apart. Mrs. Yule
took Mickey to Hollywood. Friends
were driving out. She paid her way by
contributing the tires. Joe went on his
custard-pie way. Eventually there
was divorce and then remarriage for
both of Mickey's parents.
Joe remembers the kick he got in
Chicago out of seeing Mickey in his
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OCCUPATIONS.
BEACHCo oMBER
Continued from preceding poss

SonnnUeo from pFeceoin0 p00e
rescuer in amazement. She was fat and
very plain. The sun of years had baked
her skin to parchment, and bleached
the color from her hair. Her hands
we're big and capable, roughened by
toll, and she wore mems boots. A
strange figure. yet there was kind of
indomitable twinkle in her blue eyes
and her mouth was still inclined to
curl at the corners.
10 made her a bit of a bow, for
beachcombers were gentlemen beneath
their rough exteriors. Some were even
the sons of dukes and earls. "And who
may you be?" asked the lady in a
gruff but not unpleasant voice.
a." he said with an air, "am 10
Vain, the beachcomber."
Her eyes opened wider. The what"
"The beachcomber, but still at a
lady's service, though l didn't know
there we're any on the island"
"Oh," she said, Il don't live here.
Just came across from Raku over there.
If you've been any time in these parts
you must have heard of Widow Smith
- the only woman in the whole group
to run plantation, and at that run it
better than any man."
In SORRY, ma'am, but l haven't.
People don't talk much to beach,
combers."
LAS a matter of fact I'd just come
across -" She broke off suddenly. It.
had been on the tip of her tongue to
tell him that the object of her visit
had been to give the worthless rascal
of boy the thrashing of his life for
daring to sneak across to Raku and
carry off the girl, Masi, whom it had
taken three years to turn into some
thing like needlewoman. His intru-
sion, though so surprisingly effective.
had robbed her of task she was ham
ding with great competence and salts
faction.
As the words took shape she looked
more closely at 10 Vain, and was
silenced. Poor gaunt fellow, let him
enjoy his triumph. 1t was doing him 80
much good. He looked like an
elongated child who fancies he has
conquered an ogre. Why shatter his
enjoyment by pointing out that there
hadn't been any ogre? What queer
bird! A child, she thought again, and
playing life as a game. That was dam
gerous. No wonder he looked so mys-
teriously happy, and so mysteriously
sad.
I'm interested in you, MIR. Wain."
she said. "And immensely grateful.
Let's sit down here in the shade and
you must tell me all about yourself"
At that 10 discovered how lonely he
had been, and how he had missed all
his friends at the Kings Arms.
why" he stammered, that's very
kind of you. Perhaps you'd under
stand better if l started at the very
beginning"
If THERE could be comparison be-
tween superlatives. Raku is a more
beautiful island than Takaraki. There
is more of it, and it is richer. Under the
rule of that benevolent despot, Widow
Smith, it blossoms not only like the
rose but to good profit.
She and her ex-bookkeeper, 10 Vain.
stood together on the veranda of her
big and roomy house. The sun dropped
down to the west, and along the broad
path of gold, Widow Smiths white
launch returned from Takaraki with
the missionary. 10 Vain and Widow
Smith held hands and looked into each
others eyes. There were no OnlOOkers
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says, Dad, why don't you quit Il
show business and stick with me!
like to have you near me- So l quiz
stay. Maybe I'm wrong. But
don't think So"
Metro Goldwyn-Mayer, Mickey |
bosses, put Joe under contract. No
and then Joe does small part IN
picture. He was with Mickey in OF
of the Judge Hardy series.
Joe is pretty proud of Mickey's r
semblance to him. mot so long az
got letter from an old pal hadn
seen in twenty-five years" he say
He wrote he'd been watching one
Mickey's pictures. There's Joe Yul9
is the way he put it, Just as he waA
Mickey has all my hand movemenfI
my eyes, my facial expressions.
Yule chatted on. "Mickey's grei
kid. He loves acting. It's fun for hin
And he's wonderful. See his Your
Tom Edison? Great, wasn't it? Mickt
was all smiles when told him ths
He values my judgment. Mickf
wants to do big things in acting. He
love to do The Hunchback of Not
Dame That's a long way off.
course. But he keeps his eyes opt
and keeps learning all the time. SOM
day he'll direct. That's one of n
goals. He wants to write music, to
Never studied in his life. Picked it
up. Now he has a little piano on IL
set so he can work on songs betwetd
scenes. \
Shoots in E;phties !
liz PLAYS a good game of golf. to-
Often plays with Bing Crosby. Mickt
can do eighteen holes in eighty-five
eighty-seven. He's been teaching mi
Gave me a set of sticks for Chris
mas. Now, Dad he'll say, 'youf
never get anywhere like that
Hes out on the lawn at his houi
every morning exercising. He usf1
to be always weighing himself. Had
complex. Kept worrying about h.
height, too. Would put mark on tt
wall and try it two days later to 81
if he'd grown any. He's sort of givif
up on that. You're short, Mother
short he says. It's all OK. I'm nt
going to be good-looking lead, BIZ
I've got lot of your talent. Ths|
can't take that away He's sweep
like that, in what he says about m,
Dads the best comic l ever saw,
he'll say. And he sticks to it.
Mickey always was good. A Sc.
soned performer when he was a kif
Instructive. That's the word. Nevf|
had to be taught. And no schoi
teaches personality. You have it I
or you haven't"
Joe Yule misses the theater. TT
small roles he has been given at Metz
have taken so little of his time.
can't imagine getting pay check f
so little" is his comment. AT fir
l sat around waiting for studio call
Felt little like a whipped dog"
Everybody is nice to Joe but I
would like to be active. "You know.
he says, I'm tempted to 60 around
to one of those community theatei
and ask if can do something to hell
Move scenery. Anything. That urS
is pretty terrible at times. Once q
actor, always an actor. ! always sa!
But it's nice being near MickeI
1t makes him happy. Nice to he;
Mickey say, Dad, isn't this wonde
full? We're together. We're enjoyi1
ourselves Everything comes
me. It's all great. That boy Aladd
was piker."
N
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academic year recently completed.
Approximately half of the 1856 col
leges and universities having r. O..
T. c. training make it required
subject for the first two years and
offer it as an elective for the junior
and senior years; in the remainder
it is on a voluntary basis. 1t is a
required subject at all of the uni
versities which have the larger R. O..
7. c. units.
But in the World war years of
1914-18, the number of U. S. high
schools offering military instruction
and the number of students taking
it increased many hundred per cent,
the study shows, and then tobog-
gained rapidly again when the "war
to end all wars" was finished. In
1914, only rs public high schools in
the United States giving military
"drill," of a sort, with 8,702 stu
dents enrolled. By 1916, just be-
fore Americas entry into war, the
number of schools giving military
training and the number enrolled for
it had approximately trebled, to 224
schools, and "a, 433 cadets. BY 1918
it reached a peak, with ], ,265 public
high schools in the United States
giving military instruction to 1O6,986
boys-and to 5,697 girls! The num-
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full about our American way of life,"
adding that "they constitute the
most fertile seedbed for those social
ills which already are disrupting
Europe"
Asserting that the impact of Eu-
ropes war falls more heavily on the
farmer than any other group in the
country, the FSA spokesman said
effects of the war are striking with
greatest force" on migrants and
the low-income farmer.
This group includes more than
100000 farm families who three
years before the wars outbreak
were trying to exist on an average
annual income of less than $500.
Troubles of these farm families
have increased since war was de-
clared," Henderson said. Since Sep
tember, last year, exports of food
stuffs have fallen 20 per cent.
1t was asserted that the pinch of
these dwindling markets has been
felt most severely by low-income
farmers whose share of the COM
mercial market was ALREADY pre-
cariousiy small"
The Ely miner., 1940-07-04

smoke-jumpers in actual work on
forest fires this summer. The work
is just getting under way in national
forests in the northern Rockies and
northern Cascades of Montana and
Washington.
Planes which deliver the para
chuting fire-fighters scout the fire on
their first trip over the spot and
drop a small test chute with a 10
pound sand bag to determine wind
drift. They then circle back and
make a second approach, at which
time the parachutist descends, and
by using the steering flaps on his
parachute, generally manages to
reach the ground close to the select
ed landing spot. On third ap-
proach the pilot drops the freight
ing kit which is carried down by a
burlap parachute with a yellow
streamer attached to prevent its be-
ing lost-a method used by the for
est service for some years to de-
liver tons of equipment to back
country fire-fghters. The burlap
SllutC PCSh S0llIOlllS 1lCSSOSoly tOolo,
rations, first-aid kit and the like but
the parachutist will carry with him
the new lightweight radio so that he
can contact the pilot or his head
quarters Immediately if necessary
or can make reports later.
The small type radiophone devel-
oped by the Forest Service weighs
only six pounds with dry batteries
and all accessories, and is not quite
as large as a loaf of sandwich bread.
1t measures 2 by Az by IL inches,
and operates on ultra-high frequen-
cies between 10000 and 10000 kilo-
cycles, having a two-way communi-
cation range covering an optical dis
tance which with sufficient eleva-
ton may be as much as hundred
miles.
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Radio for Parachute Fire Fighters
Developed by u. S. Forest Service

WASHINGTON. - A new light
weight radio for the parachuting fire
fighters being used on the national
forests for the first time this year
has recently been announced by the
forest service, U. S. department of
agriculture.
Tests made by the forest service
on the Chelan National forest in
Washington last fall with a crew of
parachute jumpers indicated the
practicability of dropping fire fight
ers from airplanes to put out small
fires in some of the inaccessible
back-country areas of the national
forests. The new radiophone has
been developed so that the smoke
jumper" can keep in touch with the
plane pilot and with his headquar-
ters when he reaches the ground.
The smoke jumpers use a special
ly designed parachute which has a
rate of descent of about II feet per
second and permits a certain
amount of steering toward the land
ing spot. A special chute harness
and protective suit and headgear
were also developed to so protect
the jumpers that they can land al
most anywhere at any elevation-in
tall trees or open spaces, or on
rough ridges. Jumpers who went
down into stands of young lodgepole
pine last fall christened them
''featherbed landings because the
young pines will catch a parachute
readily and absorb most of the shock
on their bending, swaying tops. In
order to facilitate descent from tall
trees, the jumpers carry coil of
light, strong rope.
A small number of complete units
of equipment have already been pur-
chased, the forest service reports,
and these will be used to train
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Military Training in Nations Schools
Increases Supply Of Reserve Officers
BY MILTON r. KENTON

(Released by Western Newspaper Union)
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.-Nurnber
of students taking r. o. T. C. mill
tary training at U. S. colleges, acad-
emies, and high schools has in
creased 20 per cent in the last two
years, and totalled 186,750 men in
the academic year just ending, ac-
cording to a study of the current
status of military training in U. S.
schools, by Northwestern National
Life Insurance company.
Less than out of II universities
and colleges in the United States
offer military training-136 out of ap-
proximately 1,700 schools of college
grade. Yet, 116,309 collegians at
these schools received senior R. o.
T. c. instruction during the year
1939-40. The great majority were
taking the basic two-year course
however, during the month of June,
5000 men were graduated from the
four-year training course, qualifying
them for Reserve Officer commits
SionS.
When the United States entered
the World war, our reserve of Off
GERS numbered only $500; it now
numbers over 100000, thanks large
ly to R. o. T. c. student military
training, the study finds.
Texas A & NJ Is Largest.
Largest senior R. o. T. c. unit is
at Agricultural & Mechanical Col
lege of Texas, where the cadet corps
numbers 5,701 men; Ohio State uni
versity has the second largest sem
ior unit, with 4,395 cadets enrolled,
and the University of Illinois has
the third largest corps with 1888
men on the military roster.
Meanwhile, at 1873 public or pri-
vate secondary schools and AZ mill
tary academies, 70,441 youths re-
ceived junior R. o. T. c. training,
under U. S. army officers, during
the school year just ended. Of these,
l26 were public high schools; the
remainder were private high schools
and prep schools, both civilian and
military, but all with junior R. o.
T. c. military units.
Chicago has the largest junior
R. o. T. c. unit in the United States;
1854 regular cadets are enrolled at
q high schools in that city. In addi-
ton, 1876 freshman students take
R. o. T. C.. training at their own
expense-the war department pro-
vides only for the cost of training
second, third, and fourth year high
school students. The Detroit high
schools unit is the second largest
in the country with 2,280 cadets, and
the Dallas high schools unit is a
close third with $3.50 junior R. o.
T. c. cadets enrolled.
Compulsory Military Training?
In view of current proposals for
compulsory military training in U.
S. schools, certain figures given in
the study are of interest. R. O. T.
c. training was changed from a re-
quired subject to an elective at the
University of Minnesota in 1894; en-
rollment in the cadet corps fell from
2,484 in the preceding school year
to 497 in the 1934-35 school year;
numbered sos men in the 1939-40
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The Questions

1. What is the leading cause of
death in the U. S. navy?
2. Did Count Won Zeppelin fight
in the American Civil war?
8. How many presidential cleo
tors are allotted to the District of
Columbia?
4. Approximately how many
balls do the American and Nation
al leagues use during a season?
S. We're there any air battles
during the Civil war?
6. Can an American renounce
his rights and liabilities of citi-
zenship and become a citizen of
another country when the United
States is at war? I,
z. In the United States army
which insignia ranks highest, sill
yer or gold?
8. To what did Alexander the
Great attribute his prowess at
war?
The Ely miner., 1940-07-04

IT WAS with a thrill of pride that
Betsy's mother looked over a
list of the incest girls in Betsy's
class. She had said, Eyes" when
Betsy wanted to give a luncheon
for them. Now what would she do
about the shabby old dining room
with its veneered oak chairs,
short, faded curtains and bare
buff-colored walls?
Here is the answer and it cost
exactly six dollars. An inexpen-
sive green and yellow lowered
chintz was used for draperies
from ceiling to floor. The trick of
making the windows higher is ex-
planned in the diagram. The old
window shades were painted a
soft, clear green. The backs and
seats of the chairs were slip-cov-
cred with the chintz with green
bindings, and a set of green and
yellow china was brought out to
The Ely miner., 1940-07-04
HITLER'S SECRET GAS

All the evidence gathered by mill
tary agents abroad now points to the
probability that Hitler's secret plan
for conquering Britain is poison gas.
1t is significant that so far, Hitler
has not used gas. Even more sig
nificant is the fact that he has been
storing it up in huge reserves.
French and British intelligence Off
GERS have sent back reports that
alarming quantities are now manu-
factured and ready for use. Wheth-
er any new and more deadly form of
gas has been perfected, they do not
know.
One reason Hitler did not use gas
in attacking France and Belgium
was that his army was moving too
fast. His tanks and armored cars
were penetrating into the enemy
lines so rapidly that they would
have caught up with their own gas.
1t would have hampered Nazi opera
tions rather than aided them.
But in England it will be different.
For the English channel lies be-
tween Germany and her victim.
There will be no danger of the gas
seeping back to Nazi invaders un-
til they actually land troops.
And so far all evidence indicates
that before attempting to land
troops, Hitler will subject England
to rain of bombs such as the world
never has seen before.
Only after Hitler has gassed and
bombed England to the verge of
surrender will the Nazi attack by
sea begin.
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HITLER AND u. S.

From diplomatic information it is
possible to get a general idea of
what the immediate future will bring
forth in Europe if Hitler takes Eng
land, as he seems sure to do in
the next month.
FIRST, he will want to buy U. S.
cotton and grain in large quantities
in fact, he will be willing to take
most of our surplus-but he will
want huge loan from the United
States government to do it. This
will be called reconstruction financ-
ing, and it will be tempting bait to
farming and business groups.
SECOND, it is more than likely
that Hitler will offer to freeze the
armaments of Europe and the Unit
ed States on the basis of their pres
ent armed strength.
This also will be tempting to a
tax-ridden American public. The
United States always has favored
disarmament, and several times has
proposed freezing armaments. How
ever, this was when France and
EllSlOtlO llCtNA C1ll anu ia c1AlN1
when this country was protected by
them in South America.
Today, Hitler's reported plan
would leave the United States with
less than $50, 900 men, Germany with
about 8, 1000, 900. In other words, Lat
in America would be open to at
tack at any time, and the United
States would be powerless to pre-
vent it.
Nevertheless, Hitler's plans would
have strong appeal in the United
States, especially if accompanied by
the usual Nazi propaganda stating
that Hitler had only the kindliest
ideas about the United States and
cherished absolutely no designs for
any part of her soil.
NOte-This was the propaganda
Germany dropped from airplanes on
France before the tanks came. 1t
told how France and Germany had
no basic quarrel, could live in peace
indefinitely.
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TESTS PROVE NEUROTICS
TO BE GOOD WORKERS

STATE COLLEGE, PA.-DOn't
hesitate to hire neurotics, advises
Clifford r. Adams, of the psyche
educational clinic at the PennSyl-
vanian State college.
Neurotic persons recently tested
by Adams proved to be as good
workers as stable people, as well
as more cooperative, both over
the telephone and in person.
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Migratory farm laborers may
prove very real threat to our de-
mocracy" unless they are helped to
achieve security, according to Philip
E. Henderson, regional supervisor
for the Farm Security administra-
ton.
In outlining the problem before an
institute at Rutgers university, this
federal farm official pointed out that
migrants "are becoming hopeless,
discontented and increasingly doubt
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lend color to the walls and add a
note of interest on green painted
stands in front of the windows.
The stands were made of empty
spools as described in the new
Sewing Book 5. This book also
gives directions for a buckram
stiffened valance of the type
shown here. All of its 80 pages
are packed with ideas to make
your home attractive without
breaking the bank. You can have
your copy for 10 cents to cover
cost and mailing. Send order to:
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- Offering Information
ANolHEh Various Subjects

5. A Confederate and a Union
observation balloon exchanged
shots while in the air, two soldiers
in the Union balloon being killed.
6. No, a law prohibits it.
z. Silver. A first lieutenant
wears a silver bar on his shoul-
der, and a second lieutenant wears
a gold one.
g. To the fact that he and his
soldiers ate large quantities of on
ions.