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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-22
THE WAR:
Step-UD

Reports from both London and
Berlin indicated that long awaited
aerial blitzkrieg against the British
isles had been stepped up to the
point where as many as 500 NaZl
planes were making periodic at
tacks on shipping ports and air.
dromeS.
Apparently the German tactics
had a threefold objective: Cd to
challenge Britain's sea control of the
English channel by damaging ma
val harbors and shore establish
ments; (2) weakening of British air
defenses by bombing airports, ST.
lencing ground guns and attempting
to wear down British pilots by fore
ing them to maintain 24-hour pa
trolls; 90 bolstering of the morale
of the German people by continued
reports of air victories.
As usual London and Berlin in
turn each claimed to have the upper
hand in the first days of this bat
tie of Britain" Nazi leaders de-
clared that in the first raids the
ports of Margate, Dover and Ports
mouth naval yards) had been ru-
ined by constant bombings. British
sources reported a large number of
NaZi warplanes shot down (as many
as 60 in one day. and government
spokesman praised what they called
the "heroic work" of the British
fighter plane pilots.
DOtUn East
The most interesting new phase of
the II German war was not in the
least degree German. 1t came as
John Bulls worst setback in the
whole fracas, since last September,
and Hitler had virtually nothing to
do with it. 1t was simply this:
The Japanese kicked the British
out of lie wicked Chinese city of
Shanghai. Here England has con-
trolled the so-called international
settlement for century. In North
China, where corrupt Shanghai is
queen-city, there still are 10000 Brit
ish subjects, and nearly a billion
dollars worth of British invested
capital. But out the British garri-
son went, and it was sent far south
to Hongkong, British commercial
island just off Canton. Hongkong
probably will be next. Already, the
japanese are penetrating French In
do-China, which doubtless won't be
French" very much longer.
That's Not All
There are 100000 folks in the
British empire. Of these, about TO-
100000 are whites, and the rest are
multi-colored. Some 400,000,000 Of
them live in India. In the II Ger
man war, they have been practical
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-22
Type Measured

Type is measured by the number
of points in the height of the face
thereof. A point is approximately
one seventy-second of an inch (ac-
tually .013837 inch). There are 996
points in Is centimeters. Nonpareil
type, the size generally used by
newspapers, is a six-point type and
therefore sets II lines to an inch,
measuring up and down the column.
Twenty-four lines of nonpareil type
make what is commonly called a
stick. There are usually 10 sticks of
type in newspaper column.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-22
The ANSWERS

1. Until one of the fighters scored
a Touchdown over his opponent.
2. Six weeks.
3. Soldier field, located in Chica-
go, Illinois, takes this honor. It's
seating capacity will handle a
crowd of 125, 900 persons.
4. The University of Michigan at
Ann Arbor, and the University of
Minnesota at Minneapolis.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-22

Almost 500 pilots
to-be are IlOtU in train
ing at Randolph Field,
which at present has
200 training planes.
Photo shoiUs student
pilots and planes just
before the daily pro-
gram gets under Uay.
Left: Calisthenics are
part of the strenuous
daily routine the fly.
ing cadets undergo in
being transformed to
fuH-fedged birdmen.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-22
Trained Heart

The man anywhere with a
trained head apart from a trained
heart is a menace, however many
degrees he may write after his
name.-Anon.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-22
| " s%S>N' e"e1< ~

the blouse is gathered to round
out your bustline.
Carry out the nautical idea by
making it up in blue chambray
with white braid, white linen with
navy braid, or beige with scarlet
It's good style for checked ging-
ham and sharkskin, too. Send for
the pattern right now. Be among
the first to wear it!
Pattern No. 1888 is designed for
sizes II, Is, Is, II and 10. Size 13
requires Az yards of 35-inch ma
terial without nap; 81 yards
braid. Send order to:
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-22
Training Winged Cladiators
At u. S. West Point of the Air

Now that the has launched its huge preparedness
the Randolph Field Uncle West
Of the dir will be bigger than The OF about 10
hours Of flying OF ich 30 hours dual instruction and 40
solo, Civilian candidates
States excellent health spoe
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-22

a British soldier seems to get
some grim humor out OF the IedJlet
dropped on many English to,Uns
from German bombing planes.
Leaflets contained translation Of
Adolf Killers speech in ,Uhich he
made "a Last appeal to Reason"
before sending aerial Iegions on
extensive raids ouer the British
Isles.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-22
FINLAND:
Doomed?

The Germans took over Czecho-
slovakia in two stages. The first
stage consisted in grabbing the Ger
manic Sudeten region, and the sec
ond stage came five months later,
when Hitler snatched virtually all
the rest of the country. So, with
Russia and the Films. After a war
of 100 days, Stain took the Manner
helm line, Viborg, Finland's second
city, strategic islands, and border
strips. Finland was almost dis
armed. Then the Soviet's absorbed
Bessarabia (from Rumania) and the
little Baltic states of Lithuania, Lat
via and Estonia.
Now it looked like Finland again
or what was left of it. The Russians
said they feared" Finnish activi-
ties, and accused the Films of mall
treating their Communist minority.
1t was the old formula, to precede
aggressive action. Meanwhile, the
Finnish red leader, Otto Kuusinen,
was elected vice president of the
Soviet Russian parliament, as sig
nificant gesture. Kuusinen had been
an open traitor to his country dur
ing the first Finnish war of 1910. The
number of Finnish Communists, ac-
tually, is rather minute. They call
themselves members of the society
for friendship and peace with the
Soviet Union in Finland"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-22
DR.. FOSDICK:
He Speaks Out

DR.. Harry Emerson Fosdick, gen.
orally considered New York's No.
clergyman, spoke on the radio, and
assailed the ''hysterical haste" of
congress in the matter of peacetime
CONSUMPTION. He said it smacked
of being ''totalitarian." He said it
was undemocratic, and that volun-
tary enlistment had not been given
a fair trial. In substantial agree
ment with DR.. Fosdick were our two
best military critics, Hanson Bald
win and Maj. George Eliot.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-22
MOSLEY'S:
Upper Crust

One of the funniest aspects of the
war developed. 1t was this. Per-
haps 400 of Sir Oswald Mosley's
blackshirts-male and female-are
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-22

ly neutral, although some Indian
regulars in the British army have
seen service. England is anxious
to get India into the war, and so Of
fered Mahatma Gandhi ''full and
equal dominion status, like Can
ada or Australia, but not until after
the war. The Indians were too foxy.
They replied they would be great
help-if they were given complete
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-22
In africa

The Italians in Ethiopia staged an
offensive against little British So
maitland, on the Red sea. Musso-
lini's local legions started out by do
ing very well, and won some bush
league initial successes. 1t looked
as if the Somali capital of Berabera,
was going to get it, and the Italians
captured some tanks and sunk some
airplanes, as they forged ahead.
London did not worry much about
Berabera. That hell-hole is no gold
mine like Shanghai, Hongkong, Bonn
bay or Calcutta, where imperial
profits stack UP.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-22
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Battle of Britain On as Nazi Bombers
Increase Momentum of Mass Attacks;
British Are Forced Out of Shanghai;
Italy Stages Minor African Offensive
BY Roger Shaw

NoTEwhen opinions columns
necessarily
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-22

p EMEMBER how nice you used
~ to look and feel when you
tripped off to school in a fresh
white blouse with a sailor collar?
Well, if you're in the junior size
range, you can take upon yourself
that same naive, engaging charm,
by making this frock with sailor
collar and rows and rows of braid.
Design No. 1888 has very soft and
feminine lines, however sailorfed
its spirit, because the skirt has
smart impressed front fulness and
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-22

independence, right now. Churchill
had always been the No. foe of
Indian home-rule, and the Indo-na-
tionalists simply didn't trust him. In
the last war, India had dished up
millions of soldiers and workers, and
many, many millions of good, hard
dollars. What Churchill really want
ed, was another crack at these I'M
told, untapped resources. But Gan
dhi, as usual, was from Missouri
or, perhaps, from the Irish Free
State.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-22

TAKING THE COUNTRY By STORM
uTNT ASK YOUR DEALER FOR fno
KIM The Outstanding BLADE VALUE ttG
NLVI Single 10 Double Edge Blades "
cuPPLEs COMPANY, ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-22

informed in the Brixton and Halo
way jails in London. Mosley is a
wealthy blueblood, and so are most
of his Fascist followers: people who
are used to the best, in everything.
These Fascists have turned the two
jails into pleasure resorts. One lady
Fascist ordered 26 bottles of cham
payne in a single day. The war
dens have turned into walters. The
government has had to advertise for
more wardens, to do more waiter
ing. Lady Mosley, sister of Hitler's
famous girl-friend, Unity, takes sun
baths in bathing suit, on the prison
lawn. Good Sir Oswald eats via an
outside caterer, wears silk shirts,
and sports different, newly tailored
ensemble each week.
DEFENSE?
Nat-Cuard
The senate passed the measure
of National Guard mobilization, by
II to z. The National Guardsmen,
who didn't seem to know what they
were in for, could be sent absolutely
anywhere in the Western hemi-
sphere, or to the far-f1ung Philip
pines, for that matter. Most of them
were business men, and could ill be
spared from key positions. Mar
ried men were exempted if they re-
signed within three weeks after they
were called up. AS a whole, the Ma
tional Guard is supposed to have
Willkie tendencies, and not Roose-
veltian ones. But Mr.. Roosevelt
fastened to assure the Guardists
that it was most unlikely they would
be sent far understanding like a
100 to l shot. This tended to cool
their disgruntlement. New York s
crack high-society cavalry became
an armored-car outfit and New
York's ditto infantry turned into
coast artillery anti-aircraft. So did
Harlem's ditto-ditto infantry Ne
groids. The entire New England
National Guard had two tanks (from
Hartford, Conn.,, and it was anthem
tically asserted by war department
bigwigs that we wouldn't have real
army till 1914.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-22
More of 1t

Another aspect of Nazi persecu-
ton is the Danish case. Up in Co
penhagen-the Paris of the north,
they claim-they still like to fight
duels. But the Nazis have disarmed
the Danes, and they are gun-less to
the nth" degree. A local dramatic
critic made dirty crack about a
local actress. So a local actor chal-
lenged the critic. The critic &C
cepted. There were no guns, no
pistols, no nothing fiery. But hate
will find a way. The enemies took
to bows and arrows. After two
flights of arrows, the actor was
pinked in the arm, and it was all
over. The actress looked on, and
everybody went home anti-Nazi, but
happy.
Those same Nazis, it was an
nounced from Vichy, had shot down
80 per cent of the entire French air
force in As days of the battle of
France. Pierre Cot, former French
air minister, was placed on trial
by the enraged Generals Petain and
Weygand, and perhaps not without
reason. Meanwhile, the Nazis
slapped Is per cent income-tax,
surtax on all their new Polish SUBJ
jects, for "social equalization. They
also claimed, in bewilderment, that
the subject Dutch had such bad
manners
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-22
NO JEWS?
Persecution

Inc TWO toughest papers In NaZl
Germany are the Stuermer and the
Schwartz Korps. The latter is the
organ of the party's "elite" black
bodyguards. 1t came out with an
editorial which said: a German
peace will be Jewless peace. It
said: the Nazis plan to clear the
entire European continent of Jews,
and colonize them in some remote
spot. It said: the recent Hungarian
and Rumanian anti-semitic legisla-
ton is too weak. Needless to say,
the radical Schwartz Korps did not
speak for the German conservatives,
like Goering, Krupp, and Schacht,
whom it dislikes, and who openly
dislike it.
Julius Streicher, Nazi boss of Muir
emburg, and publisher of the radi-
cal Stuermer, was reported dead.
Then he was reported alive again,
but it seems he had lost his lucra-
tive Nuremburg job. Streicher is a
close student of Yankee lynchings,
which he approves. He always
quotes the --latest" lynch in detail,
when the Yankees assail his meth
DDS in the III Reich. Streicher is
especially disliked by Tory-minded
Goering. Plebeian Mr.. Streicher is
a self-made man. Goering is not.
The air marshal attended the aristo-
cratic Prussian "West Point" and
his father was a bigshot under the
old Kaiser. Goering owns the Ma
tional Zeitung of Essen, which is
comparatively respectable. 1t is
not especially anti-semitic, nor is the
German air force.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-22

instructions in radio code work.
Messages are tapped from the
rostrunl on "buzzer." The stu
dents receipe them through their
headsets and ,Urite them dotUn.
Three classes enter the school
each year.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-03-23
l. ! Camera Club Will
1--WE y. Sport Dance At
o. Antoine March 20


H., Camera club. organized
,., M, .1.shnary. is sponsoring a pho
mo- rn dance" in the ST. Antoine
M gymnasium. Friday evening.
A. 49, ~ The proceeds from the
,IsS 's VIII be used TO decorate the
RAN, ,ooms with necessary photo
'spn'e material.
~, al,keis can be purchased from
n, lu0ers OF NAAcP Youth Coun-
N, o'irl Reserves. The vikings.
N. 'o-Eds, Pyramids and Camera
n \, members. Also at the desk
el Antoine Y.
" members Of the club headed
"ss'ey Stone as president. and
'Ys o'ed by Robert Taliaferro.
n,,a 'esiuence secretary. are:
a., ooore Masenberg, vice-presl-
y. vilitord Alexander. treasur-
Roh." Ooert Taliaferro. secretary:
Ma. Williams. chairman OF the
E,ss.',sm committee; Lawrence
lon,. ss'on. DR.. Robert Greenldge,
!, coats. Robert johnson. Juil-
.,1S,unsonn Eugene Cooper. Jesse
E..S,,onoerry, John CIaybourne,
,,,. Brown. Forest Young, Leo
An. thompson. George Small and
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-03-23

III we let children live in the
wrong kind OF homes we should not
be surprised II we later on have
TO keep them all OF their lives In
Jackson Prison. said Councilman
John Hamilton In a talk at Lucy
Thurman YwCA. Tuesday at
luncheon.
The councilman said that the
Nations would be much better off
II the Government had spent more
money on large housing pro-
gram.
ut Is necessary for us who are
interested In housing TO sell the
taxpayer on what he gets out OF It,
Hamilton said. THE first thing the
taxpayers sees is project taat
escapes taxation. II is true that on
some Of these housing projects.
the City does not get any more
revenue thar Il would from
vacant lot
However. the good that comes
from better housing facilities more
than makes up for any loss OF
revenue. I think that we owe an
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-03-23
Reputed King
OF Policy Here
.Surrenders
Grand Jury.
J Names Him With
10 Others

Everett Watson. manager OF Ros-
coe Toles, returned TO Detroit from
Chicago Tuesday. Watson, accom-
panied by Guy W. Jensen. special
assistant prosecutor for the one
man grand jury investigating col
fusion OF public officials and gamn-
lere, had gone TO Chicago to have
extradition and habeas corpus pro-
ceeSings Smashed there Monday :
Watson. who had been opposing
extraditlon for month, returned
10 Detroit Unexpectedly Saturday,
surrendered to the grand jury at
four o'clock. and n short time later
was arraigned before Judge HON.
er Ferguson who has been sitting
as the one-man grand jury.
Attorney Lloyd a LOOMS. after
waving reading OF the warrant on
behalf OF Watson. entered a plea
OF not guilty To four counts con-
tanned in the warrant. lie was
released under $4,000 bond.
In the meantime Detroit police
continued their search for six 9TH
ers accused with Watson OF con-
spiracy to operate a lottery.
Before leaving for Chicago Wat
son obtained permission from
Judge Ferguson. The trip enabled
him 10 get back the $500 he post
ed as bond while fighting extradi-
ton.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-03-23
DR.. Carver To
Exhibit Here
Takes Space
In Exposition

One OF the exhibits at the Sew
enty-Five Years OF Negro Progress
Exposition 10 be held in Conven-
ton Hall, May 10 TO 10, will be
that OF Tuskegee Institute and ITS
distinguished scientist, Or. George
W. Carver. Eddie Tolan. execu-
tive director OF the Exposition. re-
ceived notification that the exhibit
would be shipped.
The exhibit will contain a repli-
ca OF DH,, Carver's laboratory at
Tuskegee Institute. in addition 10
productions he has derived from
the peanut. sweet potato, and clay
There will also be desk for the
scientist to perform some expert
ments.
Born a slave IN Missouri Or.
Carver, as a child. was traded Tor
race horse during the Civil War.
lie was graduated from the Univer-
slty OF Iowa and has put four de-
cades in research In chemistry and
agriculture at Tuskegee
He was ore Of the three scien-
lists 10 receive the Roosevelt
Medal last year. Several weeks ago
he donated his life savings OF $4,000
as a nucleus for the George Wash
lngton Carver Foundation. which
will set up nine laboratories At
Tuskegee for research In chemis-
try, soils. bacteriology, botony,
plant breeding and physics.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-03-23

Custom authorities admitted
questioning the actor concerning
three suits he had purchased while
the show was in Toronto three
weeks ago. and had failed 10 de-
clare when the troupe crossed the
border. II was admitted by c. r.
wyatt. Supervising customs agent,
that the lazy Mr.. Fetchit had been
questioned IN 81 Louis and Chica-
20. and again after his arrival ir
Detroit
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-03-23
Poor Homes Pave Children's Way
To Jackson Prison, Says Hamilton

obligation to those who cannot car
~ their burdens alone. And this
responsibility extends 10 provid-
ing good homes for them"
Raymond VI. Foley. State direc-
tor OF the Federal Housing Ad-
ministration. and Alex Linn Trout,
executive secretary OF the Ciu-
zen's Housing and Planning Coun-
Gil OF Detroit, also spoke.
In telling how 10 eliminate sub
standard houses, Foley said.
I'VE can do this by building
better homes. IT. this way l think
the PHA is helping. AS more OF the
better type homes are built the
pressure is relieved 20 that Il Is
not necessary to rent the poorest OF
the other houses.
The meeting was sponsored
Jointly by the planning council
and the Detroit Federation OF Set
Elements.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-03-23
Shelby Brooks Wins
Freedom At Inquest

Shelby Brooks. SO, 22O5 ST. An
tome, was acquitted by a coroners
jury following an inquest into the
fatal shooting or Theodore Weaver,
SO. 2205 st. Antoine. Feb. II. Weav-
er died four days later.
Witnesses testified that Weaver
had beer using abusive language
prior TO the fatal alteration with
Brooks. Brooks, according to the
witnesses, had demonstrated with
Weaver.
Brooks testified that he had been
attacked by Weaver before shoot
ing the deceased.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-03-23
Membership Driv e
OF BTWTA Hoping
To Get Full Quota

with goal set OF 500 new mem
bers, the second annual member
ship campaign OF the Booker T.
Washington Trade associ q n
moved into It's second week with
prospects bringht for attaining the
goal. and the possibility OF exceed
ing the number. according to Of
fetal announcement
J. VIII Cooper. grand chancellor
OF the Michigan knights Of Pythias,
and d. NJ. Morrison. druggist. are
the leaders OF the two divisions.
The Revs. Robert L. Brady and
william II. Peck are co-chairmen.
The campaign closes Friday
night. March %. according 10 Wal
ter House. chairman OF the mem
bership committee.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-03-23
JAMES TO STAND
TRIAL FOR FRAUD
Ouash Watson Extradition Case
PETITIONS 7 O.
STOP NEGROES
BEING SIGNED

A concerted effort on the part
OF whites 10 erect barriers OF re-
siflctlor and circumscribe colored
res idents within prescribed dis
irict has been made manifest in the
past several months.
A number OF these efforts have
been frustrated through court &C
ton. The latest occurred last week
when Circuit Judge Joseph A.
Moynihan ruled against whites who
had signed restrictive covenant
10 prohibit the occupancy OF col
ored residents on Marston.
There are several other cases
pending court action. These con-
Germ colored families who have
purchased in neighborhoods where
restrictive clauses in covenants do
cot run with the land.
y, rp,o weeks sgo Howard Davis
and his wife were compelled 10
flee from their newly purchased
home IT. Ferndale after members OF
a unit OF the Ku Klux Khan had
burned 10 foot cross within so
feet OF the home on Muir Win
dows in the home were smashed
by leaders OF the demonstrators
who had gathered In front OF the
home.
The following day white resi-
dents OF the community began
signing petitions 10 prohibit the
selling or renting OF homes In the
neighborhood TO colored. notwith-
standing warning by the City
Attorney that all such restrictive
covenants had been declared in
valid by United States and State
Supreme Courts.
The latest efforts 10 Illustrate
any influx OF colored residents was
started this week when petitions
were circulated to land owners IN
the Hanford Heights, east OF Con-
ant Gardens and north OF Seven
Mile road. TO restrict the pro-
perty TO whites.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-03-23
Four Appointed To
Board OF Supervisors

Among the quota Of 81 appoints
ments made by the Common Cour-
Gil Tuesday 10 the wayne County
Board OF Supervisors for the one
year term. were the names Of
Louis F. Martin. OF 500 Woodland.
editor OF the Michigan Chronicle:
Donald Marshall. OF 23s f. PHIL
adelphia. OF the PERSONAL DEPART
ment OF Ford Motor Company;
Thomas J. Ormsby. OF 1927 ST. An-
tome. Detroit BOARD OF Health In
spector. and Mrs. Eugie west, OF
606 r. Kirby.
This will mark the first term
OF Martin and Marshall. while Mrs.
West will he serving her second
term. Mr. Ormshy wac appointed
FIVE years ago