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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-31
Immaculate
Alumnae Dance

Arrangements have been COM
pleted for dance to be given by
the Immaculate Seminary Alumnae
Association at 2400 Sixteenth street
NV. tomorrow.
The dance is a benefit for the
scholarship to the Junior College
which the alumnae donate annually.
Miss Eleanor Neale, general chair
man, is assisted by Miss Catherine
Kane, president of the alumnae /;
Miss Geneyieve Beane, chairman of
tickets. and Miss Ann Patrice
Brosnan. publicity chairman.
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John Luehrs, son of Mr.. and Mrs
Peter H. Luehrs, took place Satur-
day evening, october 26, in the rec
tory of st. Peters Church. The
ceremony was performed by Father
Charles Nelson.
Miss Regina Bean was maid of
honor and Mr.. Lester Estes was
the best man.
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Mothers to Meet

The Mothers Club of st. Johns
College will meet tomorrow at 1870
pm. in the school auditorium. Plans
will De discussed for a card party and
musical quiz to be given November
Is. Mrs. Ray Couleman will serve
refreshments, assisted by Mrs. Frank
Ford
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-31

speak at the Woman's National
Democratic club at IL am. tomor-
row. She will discuss work with the
foreign born in New York and her
own experience at Ellis Island.
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To Address Club

Mrs. Charles Thomson, q member
of the board of the National Insti-
tute of Immigrant Welfare, will
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Of narrow-beamed, over-canvassed
ships known as clippers" Until
near the outbreak of the Civil War
these ships were to dominate the
worlds shipping lanes. Even years
after the permanent entrenchment
OF steam vessels. speed records OF
the clippers remained untouched.
Where the Savannah was forced
to sacrifice precious space for awk-
ward machinery and large supplies
of fuel, the clippers could use such
space for cargoes. Little wonder
the history making ship returned to
her regular run between New York
and Savannah as a sailing packet.
Two years later she was driven
ashore in a northeast gale of Long
Island, where her oak timbers lie
buried from wind and sea.
Today, as shipping lanes narrow
down to seas yet unmined and free
of the scourge of submarines, the
United States takes leading role in
dwindling world of trade.
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are among the primary aims Of
the T. v. A. It goes beyond the
improvement Of the land, the con-
servation of forests, natural re-
sources and wild life. It includes
something new and revolutionary
in principle, the conservation Of
human welfare and those elements
which make for fuller, richer life.
It is intended, as one prominent
Tennesseean expressed it tersely,
"to make all of the benefits of
nature available to the greatest
possible number of people for the
greatest possible length of time"
The Tennessee program represents
the embodiment of all that is best
in the basic New Deal philosophy.
It represents an intelligent, ener-
getic effort to attain a level Of
human happiness and well-being
which seems almost utopian in q
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the war, to them, has been god
send.
American merchant fleet-now
rated the fourth largest in the
world-has spread to all parts Of
the world not falling under the
Neutrality Act.
Brisk, too, is the ship market
which, at the time war began, found
merchant tonnage selling around
$50 per ton. Today ships are selling
between $50 and $40 a ton. This
is a far cry from the $3.50 peak cf
the last war, but authorities point
out the allies continue to acquire
increasing tonnage Of invaded
neutrals.
A total of 100 ships aggregating
586,758 tons has been transferred
to foreign registry since war began,
according to the Maritime Commis-
sion. OF these, British interests
have purchased So and French buy
ers %. Other purchasers have been
China, Italy, Greece, Uruguay,
Latvia, Panama and Brazil.
There is now before Congress a
commission backed bill to authorize
the sale of los idle and outmoded
vessels to buyers here and abroad.
Six of the vessels already trans
ferred are sailing craft with an
average age of Is years. This does
not include 10 pleasure craft totaling
1908 tons which have been trans
ferred by American yachtsmen. The
commission points out, however,
that the majority of this group has
been sent to Canadian sportsmen
who have turned their own yachts
over to the Government and are
looking for boats for the summer.
Four tankers of 22.030 tons have
been sold abroad, while freighters of
more than 1000 tons number 102.
In New Trade Lanes.
Of the 78 ships affected by the
Neutrality Act, the majority already
have been moved into other trade
lanes, the commission reports.
Wartime sinkings have eliminated
about 1,750,000 tons of the worlds
merchant shipping. This is more
than the 1,500,00 excess world ton
mage that was in existence last
September, they point out.
Shipping Comeback Staged.
Up and down have been the for
tunes of our merchant marine since
the day the wealthy firm of Scar
borough & Isaac purchased the sail
ing ship Savannah and fitted her out
with a changing, low-pressure steam
engine of only 80 horsepower.
Shipping's comeback within the
past seven months, since hostilities
began abroad, follows an erratic
course over a period of nearly 100
years that has seen the American
merchant marine rated among the
lowest of major powers.
The era of the great clipper ships
those fast greyhounds which were
to carry the American flag to remote
corners of the globe-was yet IN Its
infancy when cries of steam coffin
were hurled at the S. s. Savannah
as she was readied for sea.
No steam coffin she turned out to
be to officers and crew, but to hel
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Bv joseph S. Edeerfon.

The driving force inherent in the
human breast which through the
ages has impelled men and nations
to conquest over fellow men or to
tame and colonize the wilderness
is being harnessed today in the
United States in new sort Of
pioneering intended to make the
world a better home for mankind.
Nowhere is this new tendency
being made more manifest than in
Tennessee, where the Tennessee
Valley Authority and a capable,
far-seeing State Conservation Com
mission are working with people OF
the State to achieve a new and
better design for living.
The Tennessee plan goes far be-
yond the mere control Of floods,
generation Of electric power and
improvement Of navigation, which
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owners she became an eventual liza
bility. despite a triumphant tour Of
foreign ports that summer. Royalty
Of three nations trod her decks and
sang her praise, while the press
hailed the ship as the first trans
oceanic steamer.
Auspicious, too. was the departure
of the Savannah from the United
States. President James Monroe
and his party journeyed from WASH
ington to the Georgia port and spent
a day cruising to Tybee Light.
Greatly pleased with her appear
ance. the President asked that the
Savannah be brought to the Capital
on her return from Europe.
President Monroe envisioned in
the vessel powerful instrument in
combating Spanish pirates harassing
American shipping of the Cuban
coast.
Returning from Europe late in
November of 1919 after stormy
passage of 40 days in which her en-
gine was used only one day, the Sa-
vannah remained in her home port
but four days before sailing for
Washington.
On arrival at the mouth of the
Potomac River, the vessel got up
steam, and on December 16 she was
'hald' to the wharf at Washington
and made fast" her log now in the
National Museum here reads. From
Washington the Savannah sailed to
New York. where her engines were
dismantled and sold for $1,000.
The Savannah, history has proved,
was born many years too soon.
She had conquered the ocean
twice, had visited the great ports Of
Northern Europe and had been ac-
claimed a new triumph of American
mercantile endeavor. Yet not sin
gle passenger or one pound Of freight
had been carried on the voyage
The Savannah had brought new
glory to the American merchant
marine, but had cost her owners
only headaches.
1t was eight years before another
steamship was to attempt the At
lantic. That and subsequent ven
lures were to bring only financial
disaster to investors.
Meanwhile, the United States was
forging ahead in the construction
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river to prevent these dams from
being rendered useless by sitting in
of the reservoirs behind them. Soil
erosion control and refo,estation,
therefore, have become a major
activity of the T. v. A. and the
United States and State forest
services.
Paul Girard, forest service super
visor, Cherokee National Forest,
with headquarters at Cleveland,
Tenn, explained that when the
proposed total of 100000 acres Of
forest land has been acquired and
developed in Tennessee $4,000 peo-
pie will be able to gain their liveli-
hood from the forests, which will
produce an annual yield of 1920, 900
of timber without injury to the
forests.
Incidental Purpose.
Recreational use of the forest and
the increase of wild life are merely
incidental to the real purpose of
the project, important though they
may be, Mr.. Girard said. The
Cherokee Forest now includes about
10000 acres of the proposed 1,000,-
0O0-acre total, and it yields 10000
600 feet of timber per year, ex-
elusive of lumber from blight
killed chestnut trees. There are an
estimated 600, 900 600 board feet of
timber in Cherokee, one-third of
which now are under governmental
control.
There are two wild-life areas
within the forest, and fisheries and
fur crops are becoming OF increas-
ing economic Importance. Game in
cludes a number of Prussian wild
boars, the offspring of boars inn
ported Is years ago by an English
concern and released in North Caro-
lima. The boars in Cherokee pro-
vide excellent hunting, and in re-
cent years sportsmen have begun
hunting them with bows and ar
rows.
Wild-life management in Tennes-
see now Is on an entirely self-sup-
porting basis, hunting and fishing
licenses paying all costs Of stock
ing and maintaining the preserves.
Not only so, but hunting and fish,
ing have begun to contribute to the
social and economic welfare Of the
people in the surrounding areas
Careful studies show that former
landowners in the Tennessee River
bottomlands, who were flooded out
by construction of T. v. A. dams,
today are making a far better nv-
ing from the lakes than they were
from the land now under them
They are housing and feeding fish,
ermen and other visitors, renting
boats, providing guide service and
furnishing bait and other supplies
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mounted on trucks and barges.
These units travel throughout the
State, following the harvests, and
are available to farmers for the
preservation by quick freezing of
choice crops, such as the famous
Humboldt County strawberries and
other small vegetable, fruit and
berry crops. There has been good
response from the farmers; the serv-
ice is being used willingly as the
farmers foresee increased markets
for their produce as freezing in
creases the shipping range almost
indefinitely.
Much of the Tennessee agriculture
land is in rolling country. The fields
are hilly and, since most of the farm
machinery for large-scale farming
was developed with an eye to the
great level areas of the Middle West,
it cannot be used efficiently or eco
nomically, If at all, in large part
of Tennessee. Consequently, the
Tennessee research program looks
toward the development of special
lied equipment for hillside farming
Aim to Help Industry.
"The effect of our research work
is not to hurt, but to help industry
it was pointed out by j. Charles Poe,
State conservation commissioner.
"A large part of our research work
is of a type which industry cannot
afford to conduct itself or which,
for some reason, it does not care to
pursue. It Is easy to see, however,
that a development of the quick
freezing process along the present
lines or the development of special
lied farming machinery would di-
rectly benefit industry"
1t Is the belief Of Tennessee ON
cials that Americans have been ex-
traordinarily wasteful in the clear
ing of farm lands. Far more land
has been cleared than Is necessary
to support the population. Return
ing worn-out or less suitable land
! to forests not only will increase
the timber crop, which Is becoming
steadily more valuable as chemistry
develops new uses for wood, but also
will increase recreational areas, pro-
mote the return Of wild life. de-
crease erosion and lessen the flood
danger.
Plentiful production Of cheap fer
tilizer has been q result Of the
T. v. A. development. This makes
possible q more intensive cultiva-
ton Of the best farm land and a
great increase in acre yield.
The T. v. A. has made great In
vestments in dams along the Ten
nessee River. Soil erosion must be
! reduced In the watershed Of the
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world so ravaged by war and greed.
It represents the type Of activity
into which human beings can put
all Of their energy in the days be-
yond wars when the nations shall
walk together along the paths of
peace.
There is much in the Tennessee
program which is worthy of study
by all Americans. The Tennessee
Valley and much of the remainder
of the State have become research
centers and proving grounds for
projects which may be applied, with
far-reaching results, not only in
Tennessee but in every part Of the
country.
Basis for Progress.
The T. v. A. program, which has
ramifications little understood by a
great many American citizens, forms
basis for much of the progress now
being made in Tennessee. Soil con-
servation, reforestation. the develop
ment of power markets, river ship
ping and agriculture, the develop
ment of recreational areas, control
of such diseases as malaria and the
stocking with wildlife Of water and
land areas all are q part Of the
T. v. A. program.
The State of Tennessee, through
It's Conservation Commission and
other agencies, however, is keeping
pace with the T. v. A. throughout
the State, establishing State forests
and parks, controlling timber lands,
preserving wildlife, promoting more
eficient use Of the land for all pur-
poses, and generally improving con-
ditions under which people live.
With the cooperation Of the Uni
versity of Tennessee and a similar
agencies, the T. v. A. and the Con-
servation Commission are undertak-
| ing fundamental research work look
ing to development Of specialized
types of farming machinery, crop
control and the distribution Of crops
in the most suitable areas, food
preservation and the improvement
Of marketing conditions.
Out Of this research program have
come such activities as the con-
struction Of quick-freeins units
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An interesting phase of the wild.
life development program is the
creation of at least one excellent
trout stream where none existed
before. Norris Dam has created a
lake with a mean depth of 256 feet.
Water released from the bottom of
this lake through the dam has
uniform temperature of about 48
degrees through most of the year.
1t was so cold that it killed off or
drove downstream most of the ma
tive fish, but at the same time it
provided wonderful trout water ex-
tending downstream to point
where the water warns too much
to be comfortable for these game
fish. Trout more than 20 inches
in length have been taken from
below Norris Dam since the stream
first was stocked; there was a
record catch of 23la-inch fish. ,
Wall-eyed pike and large and
small mouth bass are the princi-
pal game fish in Norris Lake,
which, with 705-mile shore line,
approximating that of Lake Michi-
gan in length, covers 34500 acres.
The lake extends up the Clinch
River a distance of 70 miles and
up the Powell River 56 miles. T.
v. A. owns 100000 acres of land
around the lake as an erosion con-
troll basin.
Norris Dam, however, is but one
of II dams which will be included
in the completed T. v. A. project.
Each will have its own local prob
lens and its own benefits to the
surrounding areas. Great forests.
game reservations, fishing waters
and recreational areas are integral
parts Of the development.
I'VE are working toward q new
design in government" Mr.. Poe said
in summarizing the work now in
progress in Tennessee. There is
need for regional or local planning
Of the type now in progress in the
Tennessee Valley. Such planning
Is more than intrastate in charac-
ter; it must be considered as re-
gional in scope, enlisting the joint
efforts of the National Government
and governments of the States af.
fected."
In such program there is pio-
neering work to keep Americans
in all walks of life happily en-
ployed for many years in the fu-
ture. Here is type of peaceful
conquest which will build up the
resources and wealth of the Ma
ton, improve the beauty and liv-
ability of great areas Of the coun-
try which have been marred by
wasteful and unwise development
and increase the living standards
Of the people.
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At top: The S. S. America,
largest merchant ship euer
built in a United States ship
yard. She UdS constructed by
the Newport Ne1Ds Shipbuild-
ing G. Drydock Co., at Newport
Neps, for the United States
Lines at a cost of $15,750, 900.
Aboue:: An artists concep-
tion of ho1D the S. S. America
1Dould look 1Deartng maritime
cdmoutage.
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Merchant Fleet Likely
To Be Largest in World
Last Conflict Proved Need of
Additional Shi ips as Tonnage
Decreased Dangerously
Bv Malcolm D. Lamborne, yr.

narawbeamed sailing packet Of 1872 feeno bigger than the
todydropped moorig
OF
cruising
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-11-21
CHURCHES TO
GIVE THANKS
Protestant Churches Schedule
Special Thanksgiving Day
Worship Services.

Ely's protestant churches will hold
special services on Thanksgiving day.
The Methodists and Presbyterians,
following their annual custom, will
conduct a joint community Thanks
giving service at 1890 a. m. in the
Methodist church. The Rev. H. Russell
Browne, pastor of the Presbyterian
church. will be the guest speaker. The
host church is in charge of the rest
of the service, which will include a
selection by the choir, 1.-The Prayer of
Thanksgiving, and several numbers
by the girls quartet, composed of Lois
Mae Eckert, Lois Anderson, Marjorie
Rikhus, and Florence Lindbeck.
The Bethany Lutheran church will
hold its service at 1890 o'clock, with
Student Pastor Wallace Carlson speak
ing. There will be special music by
the choir, and Lynn Pearson will
appear as soloist.
The First Evangelical Lutheran
church will meet at 7:30 p m. for its
festival service, followed by a social in
charge of the church board. At the
service the Rev. E. A. Heino will
preach in both English and Finnish.
The Suomi Synod church will have
a special program starting at 7:3(
o'clock for the benefit of the Suomi
college at Hancock, Mich. The Luther
League is sponsoring the affair anc
will put on the program. Lunch viii
| be served
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-11-21
Albert o. and Albert g.
Grahek Selected by
Board No. 8.
10 MEN VOLUNTEER
Graheks Assigned Because
They Were First to
Offer Services.

Two Ely young men with nearly
Identical names, ages, height, and
weight, but no relation whatever, have
become the first from here to be as
signed by local board No. 8 for military
training under the Selective service
act.
They are Albert j. Grahek and Al
bert S. Grahek. The only difference
in their names is the middle initials.
Friday morning they will leave by
bus for Duluth where it is believed
they will join other young men from
the Northwest for the remainder of
the trip to Fort Smelling.
There they will be examined and if
accepted for training will be indicted
into the state branch of the selective
service, serving in the army for one
year.
The two Graheks were the first to
volunteer for service under the act,
and. therefore, were selected to fill
the areas initial quota of two. They
received their questionnaires Friday,
returned them the same day, took their
physical examinations, given by DR.. H
N. Sutherland, Saturday, and were
accepted by the local board Monday
Tuesday they were mailed their notices
On Wednesday they were to be for
mally indicted into service by the local
board, on Thursday will eat Thanks
giving dinner with their families, and
on Friday will leave for Fort Smelling.
Albert j. is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Grahek. Albert s. is the son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Steve NJ. Grahek.
Albert j. was 81 years old August
90, is 5 feet 81 inches in height, and
weighs 1875 pounds. Albert S. was 81
Oct 2. is 5 feet 10 inches in height,
and weighs 1877 pounds. Albert j. at
present is unemployed, while Albert S.
has been working in Ely as barber.
Both are former CCC boys.
Nineteen volunteers and registrantS
with order numbers from one to seven
were sent questionnaires Friday, the
initial ones to be mailed out from the
Ely Office of local board No. 8, ST.
Louis county.
Both volunteers and registrantS have
five days or until Wednesday, to re-
turn the completed questionnaires.
The quota for board No. 8 was
set at two for the first call for selec-
tive service. This quota must be filled
by Friday, and preference was
given those who have volunteered for
a year of military training under the
Selective service act.
While the date for the second call
has not been set, it is believed that
it will be the latter part of December.
The quota for the state then is ex-
pected to be the same as that now,
353 men.
Under the first call the local board
is recorded as having 1,725 registrants,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-11-21

In 1888 a priest stationed at Tower,
then the principal town on the Yer
million range, walked to Ely about %
miles distant and conducted the first
mass in a lumber Office operated by
Thomas Fottrell.
In November of the same year he
oflciated at the first Catholic baptism,
that of Catherine A Byrne. daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Patrick Henry Byrne.
His name was the Rev. Joseph
Francis Buh, and his work in the
struggling town deep in the virgin
forests of newly opened country will
be remembered as long as there is
an Ely.
Father Buh was born in Lucne,
Krain, Austria, on March II, 1888. He
died in st. Mary's hospital, Duluth,
February 2, 1922. Sixty -four OF. his 80
years were spent as a priest, and all
but 6 of the "a were lived in the
wilderness of northern Minnesota
working first with the Indians and
then with the settlers as they came
into the country.
Father Buh was ordained on July
25, 1858, by Bishop Alloys Wolf of
Laibach. In July of 1883 he returned
to his native Laibach to observe the
silver jubilee of his ordination, and
on July 25, 1908, as pastor of st.
Anthony's here he celebrated the
golden jubilee of his priesthood, again
going to his native land for visit.
In recognition of his work in Min
nesota while the state was growing up,
the pioneer priest was given the title
of Domestic Prelate of His Holiness.
On Dec. %, 1899, Monsignor Buh was
invested by Archbishop Ireland with
the mantella and rochet, the distinc-
tive robes of his new dignity.
After spending six years as priest
in his native diocese, Father Buh, in
May, 1854, came to the Indian mis-
sions of Minnesota. A short time
later, travelling from st. Paul by rail-
road and stage, he went to Grow Wing
to assist Father Pirz
From 1865 to 1878 Father Buh had
his headquarters in Belle Prairie from
where he organized many missions.
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