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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-09-26
Ivy'S Symbol

The ivy has always been symbol
OF the clinging love of woman. The
altar of Hymen, the Greek god of
marriage, whose blessing was in
voked at every wedding, was kept
green with ivy. In the legend Of
Tristan and Isolde, two ivy vines,
entwining, are symbol of the un-
dying union of the lovers.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-09-26

ANo use W Oeily tIldI.
But nowhere along
the line did we find
a stabilized market.
Had we bought we
would have been
paying a price which
the seller thought his
horse was worth.
There was no mar
ket authority we
could consult which
would tell my friend
whether he was be-
ing overcharged or
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-09-26
u. S. Motor Traffic

The United States has about one
third of the worlds highway mileage
and more than two-thirds of all the
worlds automobiles. This informa-
ton was recently released by the
acknowledgements trade divi-
sion of the department of COM
merce. The divisions survey
showed that the United States has
$685. 900 miles of highway and 49,
0,500 motor vehicles. The rest OF
the countries of the world own about
100000 cars.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-09-26
HappY Paw DaY

If you can, get contract to go to
work for one cent on the first day
providing your salary is doubled
every day for 80 days. At the end
OF the month your days pay would
be 5000, 709.12.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-09-26

AAY FRIEND asked me if I
Nh would 60 with him to buy
horse. went. We traipsed from
one dealers to another. One man
asked us $500 for horse. The next
man had horse which looked no
better, but his price was $3.50. Be-
fore the afternoon was over we had
seen horses ranging in price all the
way from $3.50 to $4,000.
Now, the $14, 900 horse was much
better animal than the $3.50 horse.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-09-26
Ancient Reptile Skeleton

Ancient Reptile Skeleton
The skeleton of reptile that lived
in the middle Permian period, 200,-
000, 1000 years ago, has been mounted
in the Transvaal museum at Pre-
toria, South Africa. The work of
mounting the skull, 26 vertebrae,
shoulder girdle and the right hind
leg required 20 years.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-09-26

Great Famine of Bengal
The great famine of Bengal in
t769-70 cost the lives of an estimat-
10000, 900 persons.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-09-26
ROAD PROGRAM

CONTINUED from Page One)
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-09-26
SUMMONS
action to be tried in the
City of Virginia)

State of Minnesota, County of ST.
LouiS-SS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-02

upon something at this session, -
Senator Sheppard said.
1t was indicated that the necessary
legislation would be handled sep
arately, rather than as an amend
ment to the Burke Wadsworth COM
pulsory training bill. Leaders said
they did not want to burden the
training measure with any addi-
tional provisions. If it could be
avoided.
Amendment Wins Support.
! Considerable favor was manifested
however, for an amendment drafted
by Representative Smith which
would permit employers, if they de-
sired, to continue paying salaries to
their employees who were drafted for
training.
Representative Smith said he I'M
derstood some employers had offered
to make up the difference between
Army pay-to be raised from $2l to
$50 monthly in the CONSUMPTION bill
and trainees' wages at the time
they are called.
Present law forbids members of
the military establishment to re-
ceive remuneration from private
concerns. This law was designed
especially to prevent military men
connected with Army purchasing
from drawing any gratuities from
companies doing business with the
Army.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-02
Brother Of Former D. {.
Police Head Dies

Charles F. Gessford, SO, brother of
the late Harry L. Gessford, former
Washington police superintendent,
died yesterday in Philadelphia, &C
cording to word received here.
Mr.. Gessford. who was born here,
moved to Philadelphia at about the
age of 81 and went to work with the
Pennsylvania Railroad as conductor
on the Washington to Philadelphia
run. He served in that capacity
for As years. retiring Is years ago.
In addition to his widow, Laura G.
Gessford, and three daughters, Mr..
Gessford is survived by two brothers,
J. G. Gessford of Washington and
Ross GessN I'd of st. Marys, Pa, and
sister, Mrs. Ross Reilly, College
Park, Md.
Funeral will be held at
pm Wednesday from the home in
Philadelphia, with burial at a Phila-
delphia Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-02
In Mrntnriat1t

GRAY. ANNIE REBECCA.. In lovinr, re-
msmbTanee Of our desr wife s and d motns
this life one year ago. September 2. 1889.
Days of sadness still come over us.
Hidden tears SO often flow;
HER ' PEvoT yS9 's1 Hg y as . ESkEY
VIENNA MEADE. AND SONS.
HOLDER. ARTHUR oRvILLE. IN n.I 10y,
o 3s mfM0rf Ho & R o Who went 70 Jsst
as o Ssas f pA !Haiy xsp
LEWIS. LUCY, J. In lovins memory
and grateful appreciation Of the deyotlon
of my precious mother LUCY J. LEWIS
who entered into rest five years ago today
September . 1880.
In my heart your memory fingers,
Sweetly. tender fond and true:
There is not a day, dear mother.
pE TR % aR rs SAB SAC HR7 sr
LEWIS DERRICOTE.
ROBINSON, SARAH. In sad but loving
remsmbrance Of our ssaT HotRey sTsnS
today. September .. 1889
When alone in our sorrow and bitter tears
There steals dream of sweet long ago;
And WHISPER SHl sree' Dear ones death cannot
divide"
Surrounded by friends / am lonesome,
In the midst of my JOYS / am blue:
With smile on my face I've a heartache,
Thinking. dear mother, q YOU; :.
SCHARTNER. IDA C. A tribute of love
to the memory of our dear daughter and
sister. IDA c. SCHARTNER.- who passed
away five years ago today, September 2,
1885
Today recalls the memory
OF a loving one who has gone 20 rest
And those who think Of her today
Are those who love her best,
THE FAMILY.
SLATER. HORACE L. A tribute of love
to the memory of HORACE l.. SLATER
who passed away one year ago today. Sep
TENDER 2. 1889.
Days Of sadness still come over us,
Hidden tears so often flow;
Memories keep you always near Us.
ALTHOUGH YOU left US one year ago
LOVING WIFE AND son, GERTRUDE
AND HORACE SLATER.
WILSON, MARGARET LIPSCOMB. A
tribute of love and devotion to the mem
DRY Of our dear mother, MARGARET LIPS.
COMB WILSON. who departed this lie six
ysars ago. September 2. 1884.
Love eaH asyss less ~ sxa...
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-02
Lillian WaId, Is, Dies;
Noted Social Worker
Was Roosevelt Friend
Henry Street Settlement
Founded by Her Served
As Model for Similar Work
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WESTPORT, Conn.,, Sept. 2.-Lil-
liam Valid. founder of the famous
Henry Street Settlement in New
York City, author, and close friend
of President and Mrs. Roosevelt,
died last night. She was 70 years
old.
Miss Valid. who devoted her life
to social reform, had been i'll here
for some time at her home. House
on the Pond.
The Henry Street Settlement with
which she was closely identified was
founded by her shortly after she
was graduated from the New York
Hospital Training School for Nurses.
The settlement. a community civic,
social and health center, has serv ed
as model for similar social work
In Stun areas throughout the coun-
try. .
Miss Valid also founded the Visit
ing Nurses Association in New York.
which today sends more than $50
nurses daily throughout the city.
Funeral arrangements are incom-
plete.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-02

Lanier place while he was taking
course at the bureau, was shipped
to his home In Milwaukee, and the
body Of H. j. Hofferth, a Chicago
safety engineer for an insurance
broker, was sent to Chicago.
Bodies Shipped to Homes.
The body of Edwin G. Bowler, a,
junior revenue agent of the Internal
Revenue Bureau who had just COM
pleted a course at the bureau here,
was sent from Leesburg to Mount
Lebanon, Pa.
A Pittsburgh undertaken went to
Leesburg to claim the body of Edi-
son w. Chambers of Pittsburgh
The body of David P. James of Des
Moines, Iowa, district supervisor of
the Bureau of Motor Carriers, In
terstate Commerce Commission, was
sent to Paris, Mo. The body of Ar
tur Holloway of Oklahoma City. also
a district supervisor in the Bureau
of Motor Carriers, was sent to Okla
homa City. Friends said Mr.. Hollo-
way had been on his way to Okla
homa City to be married.
The body Of Miss Margaret l..
Turner, F. B. I. stenographer, was
shipped to her home in Huddleston,
Va, and the body of Joseph j. Pesci.
who was on his way to his first
F. B. I. assignment, was shipped to
Blairsville, Pa, his home. The
F. B. I. made arrangements in both
cases.
James L. Colpo, 1921 Newark street
NV, went to Leesburg to arrange
for the shipment of the body of his
wife, Mrs. Naomi Colpo, to Saxon
burg, Pa.
The body of Miss Mildred Chesser,
Veterans Bureau employe, who lived
at 1888 M street NV, was shipped
to Mineral, Ohio. The body of Miss
Dorothy Beer, War Department
clerk, who lived at COL Nineteenth
street NV, was sent to Galesburg.
Ill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-02
Consumption
Continued From First Paee.)

dorsed by the Army high command,
would be deferred at least until the
pending flve-year program has had
trial
House proponents of CONSUMPTION
predicted the issue of putting it on
a permanent basis would not even
be raised in the debate starting to-
morrow because it would jeopardize
the measures chances for passage.
Home Defense Force Urged.>
Meanwhile, home defense"
force to replace National Guardsmen
called into Federal training was
urged by some members of the Sen
ate Military Affairs Committee.
Chairman Sheppard said chief ex-
ecutives of several States. includ-
ing Governors Lehman of New York
and ODaniel of Texas, had asked
the Military Affairs Committee TO
authorize State defense units.
i believe we will be able to agree
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-02
First Minister Named
In Argentina Shuke-up
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES. Sept. 2.-Acting
President Ramon Castillo yesterday
began recognizing the Argentine
government with the appointment of
the first of the new ministers to
replace those who resigned as a re-
suit of an army land-purchase scam
dial.
Castillo. acting for ailing President
Roberto M. Ortiz, named Guillermo
Rothe Minister of Justice and Public
Works
Coincident with Rothe's appoint
ment. President Ortiz issued state
ment that the government will be
placed IN entirely new hands" but
that the new appointees would be
expected to continue his policies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-02
Yu9osIov Communists
Clash With Police
BY the Associated Press.


ZAGREB, Yugoslavia, Sept. O.
Several persons were injured and
scores arrested yesterday when po-
lice clashed with Communists DEM
onstrating against the government
of Premier Dragisa Cvetkovic.
The Communists distributed PAM
phlets, branding the government a
fifth column" for Germany and
Italy and demanding a military
pact with Soviet Russia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-02
u. S. Ambulance Unit
Released From Spain
By the Associated Press,

BY the ASSocIdttu FfesS.
LISBON. Portugal, Sept. DIR
James v. Sparks and 20 members OF
his section of the American Volun-
teer Ambulance Corps arrived from
Spain yesterday on their way to the
United States. DR.. Sparks, dentist
and former commander of the Paris
Post of the American Legion, was
accompanied by his French wife.
The group was arrested in Spain
and held two days as Communist
suspects.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-02

by the fire." said their granduncle,
Deputy Sheriff Andrew Adams.
They were Ray Adams, 8; Dart,
5; Fern, 3. and Elzina Arlene, IL
children Of Mr.. and Mrs. Hyrum r.
Adams.
Deputy Adams said the fire was
discovered shortly after 3 am. Sum-
day by three youths whose car had
broken down nearby. He said the
father and two other men had left
the home little while before. The
mother was not at home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-02
Lightning Kills Woman.
Youngest Postmaster
BY the A associated Press.

BY tne NSSOcldted PIeSs.
GILEAD, Me, Sept. a. Miss
Shirley NJ Cole. who, at %, claimed
to be the Nations youngest post
master, was killed by lightning last
night as she worked in the Gilead
postofice.
An honor graduate of Gould
Academy in Bethel in 1884, she
attended Westbrook Junior College
in Portland where she was carnival
queen in 1895.
She succeeded her late father as
postmaster in January.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-02
-Four Children Victims
Of Fire While SLEEPING

BY the ASsoclated Press.
GRACE, Idaho, Sept -Four
small children died as fire leveled
the four-room frame home in
which they slept yesterday. They
apparently were not even awakened
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-02
Darn nf ThankH

GORDON, SYLVESTER. Mrs. Mary Cor.
don wife of the late SYLVESTER COR:
DON. gratefully acsnowledsss the KING Inc
time of her husbands death.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-11-01
Warrington Digest
Congress Establishes Vocational
Schools to Train Farm Youth
Rural Schools Offer Instruction in Mechanical Trades;
Rumors Predict Roosevelt, Willke Will Name
Loser to Head Defense Board

political opponent as head Of our
gigantic effort to ring America with
an impenetrable wall of wings and
ships and men.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-11-01
Close Election Would
Necessitdte Recount

1.-THE law says that if the elt ctors
can't decide on the President that
the Vice President with the most
votes has to take over the presi-
dency in the interim. But it would
be quite likely that IL one candi-
dates vote was questioned his run
ming mates would be, too. So who
would be President them"
This is the problem as some of
the legislators see 1t. They point
out that II fraud were approved in
a single precinct in single state,
it might change the electoral vote
of that state and so the outcome of
the election. Meanwhile, an inves-
tigation might drag out and post
pone the approval Of the electoral
vote indefinitely.
OF course this isn't likely to hap
pen but at least it provides some
thing for congress and the country
to worry about and take their minds
of the war. And it could happen.
In the famous case of President
Hayes the vote was protested and il
took a nine-man commission to set
VIC I've COiiB oClGGlG0
bers of the Supreme court, three
senators and three Representatives
TO do IL. Their task was consider
ably expedited, however, since they
had a pro-Hayes majority and sim
ply threw out all the electoral votes
challenged by the other side. The
supporters of Tilden, the defeated
candidate, we're never convinced
that he wasn't cheated out of the
presidency.
Such thing could hardly happen
again but it is true that fraud
charges are predicted this year and
nobody but a spendthrift or a VIC
lently loyal partisan is anxious to
risk his money betting on the num-
Der Of seats that will be won or lost
in the house in November.
What we forget is that the Amer
lean people usually go in for land.
slides and the close election is the
exception. That's probably why we
don't take close races into consid-
Grafton and perhaps it's why Sena-
tor Norris and his friends who drew
up the Lame Duck amendment
didn't allow a little more time be-
tween the meeting of the new con-
gress and the counting of the cleo
toFal vote and Inauguration day,
Gust in case"
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-11-01
WAR AT NIGHT:
Tactics Change

England was emerging from al
most three months of continual
bombing with greater confidence in
its ability to withstand whatever the
Luftwaffe can deliver. AS the
stormy weather wore on and Ger
man planes were not halted by fog
and freezing weather, British air
leaders increased the fury of their
own raids over France, Germany
and Italy. Prime Minister Winston
Churchill made bold to predict that
by spring, 1941, with the help of
American production, England will
seize supremacy of the air.
The German air attack on London
was reduced in one respect. Day
light raids were fewer and less VIC
lent. In the beginning Air Marshal
Goering sent large formations in
daylight raids. During this period
the British scored heavily. Then the
tactics shifted to single planes at
varying heights. The German losses
were reduced, but still remained
high.
Now raids are confined largely to
night. Bombers drop their packages
from the substratosphere and scoot
for home. The result is that the
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-11-01
DEFENSE:
Numbers Called

To War Secretary Henry L. Slim
son went the honor of selecting the
first number in the national selective
service lottery. PresifS,nt Roosevelt
was to pick the first capsule out Of
the goldfish bowl that was used in
the 1917 draft lottery, but graciously
yielded to Stimson. The late New
ton D. Baker, secretary of war I'm
der President Wilson, selected the
first number in 1917.
Contracts
The industrial program of national
defense entered its second phase.
First was drafting and awarding of
contracts. Billions of dollars worth
of goods, from battleships to paper
clips, were contracted for.
The job now is one of procure
ment, actual manufacture on the
speed-up scale demanded by the De-
tense Commission in order to
achieve the two-ocean navy and
equip an army that will number
close to 100000 within a few
months.
Chief bottleneck is machine tools,
Tie uldCilIIeIy anu gear necessary
in the process of turning automobile
shops into tank factories, and the
mass production of warplanes and
munitions. William S. Knudsen,
head of the production division of
the commission, said tool makers
are swamped with orders, sold out
a year in advance. President Roose-
welt issued an order permitting seiz-
ure of tool machines being made for
foreign countries, wherever the ma
terial is necessary in American de-
tense.
Outside tools, however, the vast
industrial capacity of the United
States seemed to be taking both de-
tense and expanding civilian orders
in its stride toward record produc-
ton figures. The climb in manu-
featuring induces since last spring
still has left margin of surplus in
manpower, raw materials and
money.
But despite the rise of various
business statistics to new peaks
since 1929, Wall Street security mar
kefS remained inert
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-11-01
ROADS OF DESTINY:
Burma Road

For three years China has alb
sorbed and dispersed the heaviest
shocks that a superior Japanese
army hurled against it. While Eu-
ropean nations who considered them
selves a nobler race have been sub
jugated, China has produced moth
ing to equal the treachery of the
Fifth Column, costly errors of COM
mand, or the crimes and stupidity of
European diplomacy.
For more than year its sole ave
nue. of supply from the outside
world has been via Rangoon by ship,
then by narrow gauge railroad
across Burma to Lashio, thence over
hundreds of miles of tortuous road
through wild, malaria-infected coun-
tryside to Running, in China, where
railroads again are available.
For three months Britain kept the
road closed, as an act of appease-
ment to Japan. When Japan signed
the alliance with Germany and It
ally the road was reopened. But
during those three months Japan
seized control of nearby Indo-China
from France and based airplanes
within bombing distance of the Bur-
ma Road. Nightly the crude bridges
are being blown to bits and rebuilt
by thousands of coolies working in
disregard Of their lives.
Blue Danube
Famed in song and romance, the
beautiful blue Danube has become
highway of conflict in Hitler's
march to the east.
Germany was supposed to have
agreed with Russia to limit its pene-
tration Of the Balkans to commercial
ties. When Nazi legions we're sent
into Rumania to instruct" King
MichaePs army, Russia apparently
looked at the proceedings with sour
face.
Heavy echelons of Soviet troops
we're sent along the Danube to Gre
ate military area. German troops
lined the other bank. German sub
marines, knocked down and shipped
by rail to Rumania, we're foated
down the Danube TO its mouth in
the Black sea. There a German ma
val base quickly grew up. The base
Is definite threat to the main Rus
sian feet in those waters.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-11-01
Defense Commission
Post in Doubt

There is an interesting rumor
chasing itself around the lamp-posts
on Pennsylvania avenue these dRys.
It's one of those wish-fathered
thoughts but it's worth repeating
over anybody's back fence. This is
the way 1t goes:
IF Roosevelt is elected he's going
10 make Wendell Willkie chairman
of the defense commission. II Will
kie is elected he's going TO name
Franklin Delano Roosevelt for the
job"
Such a contamination might do
more TO unity the defense program
than any other single thing.
At present there isn't any chair
man Of the commission When Mr..
Knudsen, head Of the production unit
of the group, has a problem that in
wolves national policy he has TO put
on his hat and walk over to the
White House, or else call National
1414 and ask to speak TO one Frank
lin Delano Roosevelt, for he's the
boss.
The same thing applies to the
heads of the other units. As a mat
ter Of record there has been no pub
lie criticism on the part Of the de-
tense commissioners about the ar
rangement but some people feel that
II would be a wonderful thing as far
as public opinion goes, II the next
President, whoever he may be aft
er next January, picks his erstwhile
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-11-01
u. S. May Lack
President in January

ETCStdCUt SoNuoTy
AS q matter of fact when inaugu-
ration day rolls around there actual
ly may not be any President to in
augurate.
At least that's what some of the
prophets of gloom on Capitol Hill
are predicting will happen if the
November election should be very
close.
This is what the worrying ones
say:
when the Lame Duck amend
ment to the Constitution was written
and inauguration day and the con-
vening of the new congress were
moved back from March to Janu-
airy, Senator Norris and everybody
else thought our troubles were over.
We all agreed 1t was wonderful to
get rid of the painful sight of lame
ducks limping around the political
barnyard. 1t was q waste of time,
often with a defeated President still
In the White House, always with
some defeated congressman who
really didn't represent anybody, sit
ting in the Capitol until the March
following the November elections.
That's all very well under ordi-
nary circumstances, that is when
we don't have a close election. But
suppose we do have q real close
election this year. Congress meets
on January 3. The brand new con-
gress. It has to organize, elect a
speaker and be ready for the joint
session with the senate three days
later because that's when the cleo
toral vote IL counted, And until the
vote Is counted and approved by the
whole of congress the results Of the
election are not official.
Usually this ceremony Is Just an
empty Communicating the specially
made box, taking out the beautifully
engrossed certificates from each
state signed by the proper officials
and reading off the score that every
body has known since election day.
But suppose the vote Is close and
there are charges of fraud and the
side which makes the charges has
enough votes in the house to de-
| mand recount?