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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-16
SOLDIERS:
Spoil for Fight

The old saying "spoiling for a
fight" was borne out in the fall of
Bardia, Libyan port besieged for
several days by the British forces
in northern Africa.
The British blitz moved down
Italians and rushed them back from
the Egyptian border into their own
territory, almost to Tobruk, with the
result that an estimated 10000 Ital-
ians were surrounded and cut off at
Bardia.
General Wavell, wishing to con-
serve lives of his soldiers, decided
to put on a siege, to 'take things
easy'' and bomb and shell the Fas-
cists into surrender.
But his command included fresh,
vigorous Australian troops (much
like Americans in makeup, physique
and morale), and they howled for
a chance to charge in.
Finally Wavell surrendered to de-
sire of his own men for attack, and
''let 'em CO." They smashed through
the Italian defenses, captured 5000
prisoners the first day, and within
three days had captured the town.
Capable authorities estimate now
that Graziani's forces have been
cut about one-third, and that British
probably outnumber their enemy
now on the Egyptian front.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-16
MERRY-GO-ROUND

1t may be news to isolationist lead
ers in and out of congress, but Kath-
ryn Lewis, daughter of John L. Lew
is, is telling friends that her father
is ''the one man" responsible for
keeping the United States out Of
war.
Confidential reports from u. S.
trade agents in Mexico are that Nazi
Germany is not only underselling
American-made surgical instru-
ments but the money is being used
to finance propaganda operations in
the United States. Several big
checks received by DR.. Manfred
Zapp, head of the Nazi Trans Ocean
News Service, were drawn on "prop-
uganda credits" in Mexican banks.
Among his colleagues in the COP
cloakroom, Rep. Clare Hoffman,
Michigan anti-laborite, is jestingly
referred to as "Will' because of his
fond fancy that he resembles the
late Will Rogers both facially and
in wit.
When ex-heavyweight champion
Gene Tunney was being sworn in
as a lieutenant commander of the
Naval Reserve, Maj. Gen. Thomas
Holcomb, Marine Corps comman-
dant, wisecracked, "Once marine,
always a marine" Tunney was a
"leatherneck" in France, later a
captain in the Marine Corps Re-
serve.
Roosevelt's second Supreme court
appointee, courtly Justice Stanley
Reed, has caused lot of eyebrow
raising in inner New Deal circles by
lining up with the anti-New Deal
bloc in four major decisions recently.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-16

Here is retiring Vice President John N.
Garner, as he raped his gavel calling to
gavel until the neto Vice President, Henry
Wallace, becomes the senate's presiding
officer after his Inauguration, January 20.
proclaim it so to be-" He stated
further that "When the dictators are
ready to make war upon us they
will not wait for an act of war on
our part. They did not wait for
Norway or Belgium or the Neither
lands to commit an act Of war;"
He also said that the American
people would never "acquiesce in a
peace dictated by aggressors and
sponsored by appeaserS."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-16
NEW BROOM:
Gets Sweeping Material

The "old BROOM" namely the Sew
enty-sixth congress of the United
States, 366 days old, having closed
down, its successor found itself with
a lot of sweeping" to be done, and
the evidence was plain that it was
scheduled to be stormy and ep-
ochal session.
Swearing in of new and reelected
congressman accomplished, the SEN
ate and house hoppers, emptied of
all unfinished business, rapidly be-
gan filling with the new, and it was
plain that the bills would come IN
der three general classes.
There would be bills aimed to test
the strength of President Roose-
velt's administration, most of them
in the form of curbs upon his pow
ers; there would be administration
inspired bills seeking wider aid to
Britain and broader powers to rush
forward the tagging American ma
tional defense; there would be some
thing done about labor, unemploy-
ment and relief, what one might
call the social relations field.
Rapidly, as the session rushed into
its full stride, various figures of i'm
portance raised their voices in one
or another of these outstanding is
sues, some expectedly, others to the
considerable surprise of their con-
stituents and the general public.
Back of it all the various polls,
especially the Gallup Poll, which
Ickes sought to stife, kept sounding
public opinion on moot questions.
Eighty per cent of Americans want
ed national defense industry speed
ed up; 81 per cent wanted all aid
to England, even if it put the coun-
try into war; and so on.
It looked like a race to see wheth-
er congress would wag the polls, or
if the polls would do the wagging.
Outstanding among the early meas
ures was one aimed to curb the
Presidents financial powers, dubbed
the anti-infation bill; one aimed to
change the national labor picture
through revamping the labor board
and creating an appeals court" for
labor; still another urging repeal of
the neutrality act and substitute
permitting loans to England; and
one that would set old age pensions
at $50 the month.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-16
CREEKS:
Still on MoUe

Despite the rumbling thunder Of
Germans about to swoop through
Bulgaria toward Salonika, the
Greek armies, facing worst billiards
in Albanian history, continued to
move forward, but more slowly in
the face of stiffening Fascist resist
ance.
Chief gains were made on the
southwestern front, but gains were
reported in all sectors. Interesting
were the dispatches telling of how
Italians were taking to skis with dis
astrous results, and how Italian
mechanical forces were begging
down.
Picture editors in this country con-
tinued to get dozens of photos of
Italians surrendering, one of the cap
tons even saying that when cam
eraman happened not to be present
at one surrender scene," the Fas-
cist troops obligingly posed for the
picture when one finally showed up.
"Tirana by Christmas" did not
materialize, and the Italian stifferre-
sistance debut there was con-
tinued evidence that if the Greeks
were to be beaten back and Italy
kept in the war, German planes and
German troops would have it to do.
Hitler's statement, made when he
was mad" with Italy before her en-
trance into the war on the eve Of
the fall of France, that it would
take 10 to Is divisions to keep Italy
going if she did come in, seemed to
have been conservative.
Estimates of German troops al
ready available for an invasion of
Greece through the Bulgarian door
had risen to half a million, or four
times the maximum of Hitler's es-
innate.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-16
Device for WEAVING Calves

An electric calf-weaner has been
invented by Patrick Kelly of Ana
tone, Wash. The device consists OF
small battery that fits around the
calls neck and metal contrap-
ton that rests on its nose. A wire
connects the two. When the calf is
ready for food, the metal contrap-
ton touches the animal and closes
an electric circuit. In this way the
calf is shocked. The device should
make it more pleasant for the moth.
er and at the same time give the
baby a quicker start in life.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-16
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HITLER REPORTED TO FEAR
u. S. INTERVENTION

U. S. INTERVENTION
In talks with his close advisers
recently, the President has revealed
much more confident opinion Of
the outcome of the war in Europe.
This conference rests partly upon
the belief that Hitler, and Nazi Of
ficials generally, are greatly wor-
ried over the possible entry of the
United States into the war, and are
acquiring a genuine respect for what
the United States is accomplishing
in the way of national defense.
Hitler, Roosevelt has told his
friends, had the greatest scorn for
Britain under Chamberlain, and for
France. For some time, also, Hit
Ter had the same idea about the
United States. The President con-
fideS that as far as he has been able
to ascertain, Hitler regarded him
just as another Chamberlain.
But now intelligence reports from
Germany indicate that Hitler's opin-
ion of the United States has changed
to one of respect and even fear.
Roosevelt plans to make the most
of this psychological factor, and be-
ieves that sending every possible
aid to Britain, short of war, will help
to do it. He believes this can be
done without getting into war,
though he acknowledges privately
that it carries risks.
Most risky American project would
be to convoy merchant ships across
the Atlantic, and so far Roosevelt
has refused to commit himself,
though this is what the British need
most desperately. However, some
of his advisers continue to be strong
ly for it, and believe they have made
a dent on the President.
What they argue is this: The
United States cannot be attacked as
long as the war continues to rage in
Europe and the British fleet remains
afioat. Therefore, since we cannot
be attacked, we can get into the
war to any degree we like-without
sending an expeditionary force.
Should Germany declare war on
the United States, these Roosevelt
advisers urge, we can merely con-
tinue with our present support to
Britain. Business would proceed
about as usual, since the Nazis
would be powerless to cross the At
lantic to attack the United States
at least until Great Britain fails. Up
until that time, they figure that de-
claring war on the United States
would be about the last thing the
Nazis could do.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-16
POLITICAL CHAFF

ALI Landon did a lot better for
himself in 1910 than in 1886. During
the past fall he brought in several
very profitable oil wells in Stafford
county, Kansas.
Judging from recent reports on
campaign OUTLAWS, the Wanted Hatch
"purity-in-politics" act seems about
as effective as sieve. Example:
In Missouri the Republicans spent
$584,780 in 1910 as compared to
S204 ,093 in 1886; the Democrats spent
$155,272 as against $3.50, 030 back in
1895.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-16
GUARDING THE PRESIDENT

No public appearance of the Pres
ident receives more elaborate adj
vance precautions than when he
makes speech or attends dinner
in hotel. Secret Service men vir-
tually turn the place inside out.
If you should happen to be regis
tered at the hotel, the Secret Service
men will find out all about you, your
business in the city, where you came
from and where you are going.
Here is the procedure for guarding
the President when he arrives:
The day before he is to appear,
White House Secret Service Chief
Edmund w. Startling carefully in
spects every foot of the route
through the hotel and the chamber
used for the meeting. Next the
guest register is inspected. All
guests whom hotel officials can't
vouch for personally are quietly
checked up by Starling's men. In
addition, the management must SUBJ
NIT complete information about all
employees.
If the President is attending a
dinner, and extra walters are need
ed, Secret Service agents get a
Zine" on the ones employed.
Sleuths, dressed as guests, are stra-
logically posted all over the banquet
hall. When the President enters and
leaves an invisible" Gordon of
guards surrounds him. Nothing is
left to chance.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-16
HAPPINESS IN MARRIAGE

"Take marriage seriously" Kathleen
Norris urges married couples. She
advises them not to presume upon the
affection of their mates for their oton
selfish ends, because this ,UiH gradu.
ally destroy the mutual bonds that
hold them together. Miss Norris adds
that it ioould pay many ,Uom,an to
check up on her marriage no,o before
she uncOnsciously alienates her hus-
band and destroys both their Hpes.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-16
DOMESTIC NOTES:

DAYTON, OHIO.-Army bombers,
carrying a crew of six, took off on
a record-breaking 3,0O0-mile nom
stop flight, figuring to stay up in
sub-zero temperatures Is hours.
RICHMOND.-A survey of Vir-
GINA rural sections showed 365 ma
chine tools, available for defense
work, lying virtually idle-90 per
cent unused in fact.
Observation-Disclosures Perkins re-
ports that 100000 jobs for Ameri-
can workers will be open in the
next 18 months.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-16
HOPKINS:
Hops to Europe

Announcement that President
ROOSEVELT was sending Harry Hop
kins at once to Britain as his per
sonal representative" caused con-
siderable speculation as to the rea-
son for delay in naming an ambas-
sador to fill the shoes of the recall
citrant Kennedy.
Washington observers were in
clined to the view that Hopkins
hop to London meant that career
man" would finally be sent, prob
ably one at a considerable distance,
who could not leave right away.
Eyes turned to Norman Armour
at Buenos Aires as a possibility.
He is a career mamie is far away
it would take him time to get
ready to 60.
That seemed all the basis for the
report, as the White House was ~si-
lent. The former commerce secre-
tary, however, was a fact, not a
rumor.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-16

VI y
W years of marriage -
three or ten or fifteen, she and
her husband have made the dis
NAL discovery that they have
absolutely nothing in common,
that they are beginning to jar
terribly on each others nerves,
that without wishing each other
any i'll, they can no longer live
together in anything but con-
tinual repression, discomfort
and utter futility, then I know
that sheer he, or both of them
are exhibiting a lack of char
acter and common sense.
It is quite different when
serious matters are influence
ing either one. Intemperance,
cruelty, infidelity may be valid
grounds for the breaking up of
homes and the separation of chill
dren, although in the aforementioned
case I have always thought divorce
too high price to pay for tempo
rary weakness and vanity.
But when it is just a general less
ening of affection, glamour, COM
panionability, mutual satisfaction in
being together, it means that one
or the other has let 60. Has stopped
the pleasantness that is friendship
in marriage, the eagerness to dis
cuss plans, the readiness to for
give trifling mistakes, the old honey
moon anxiety to be generous and
considerate and loving.
Once these are lost, they are hard
to recapture. It can be done. But
the wiser way is never to lose them.
Husbands Position Parallels Child's.
That a husband is in much the
child's position is a simple truth
that many wives fail to grasp. Cold
ness, sharpness of voice, scolding,
Indifference, putting the feelings or
the comfort of other persons first
her family, her old friends, herself
begins the trouble. Then when his
affections wander, and when she
suddenly senses that she no longer
comes first with him, it avails her
very little to reproach him, to ask
pathetically how she has failed him.
She has kept his house and borne
his child and never been unfaithful
and given him the best years of her
life, she protests. What more did
he expect?
But if he is thoroughly alienated
by years of being just a bill-paying
boarder in his own house, with a
wife whose interests run entirely to
her own beauty, bridge lunches,
matinees with the girls, friends he
does not know or does not like, she
fnds-as thousands of women find
every year, that the neat selfish little
scheme she has built up is house of
cards and that she is being forced
to join the ranks of the divorced.
Dislike Divorce.
Most women hate the idea of
divorce. They suffer bitterly with
loneliness, once marriage is dis
solved, and they suffer more when
they realize that a second mar
riage means life with another man
just as faulty as the first, and the
fearful problem of the children's 10y
alties and their happiness thrown in.
The moral of which is that it would
pay many woman to check up on
her marriage now. 1t would pay her
to determine that life was going to
be lived at least half the time on
Georges terms. That the weary
man Of the house was going to be
in for a little spelling. That what
he says at dinner tonight is going
to have an attentive and interested
answer; that his views upon low
cred household expenditures and a
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-16
LAG:
Leads the Ne,us

Usually it takes something more
than lag to make a headline. But
the continually tagging national de-
tense program continued to lead the
news pages.
Mark Watson wrote that an alumni
mum shortage was menacing plane
production right at a vital stage.
And this story came out just after
the public had been informed, that
there was plenty of this important
material.
Watson said his information was
being fatty denied by defense COM
mission men, yet revealed that pro-
duction men were finding the short
ages of aluminium alloy castings,
forgings and "extrusions" (shapes
which are pressed cold) were giving
them more headaches than any one
thing.
There are two bottlenecks, says
Watson,-one of them the fact that
several new aluminium plants will
not be in full production until mid
1912, and one of the main ones not
until June, 1941; and the other bot
tleneck is the dependence of the
country mainly on Guiana and Bra
I'll for supplies of bauxite, the raw
material from which huge electric
plants make aluminium ingots.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-16

WASHINGTON, d. C.-Coun.
terpart of the "Don't tell iUar Sc
crets" placards so ,Uidely used in
England is this neto poster Which
has made its appearance through
out the United States ,Udr depart
ment. The war department poster
uses cartoons to bring home its
Button up your lip message.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-16
QuINTuPLETS
use MUSTER0LE for
CHEST COLDS
Mother-Give Your CHILD
This Same Expert Carel

At the first sign Of the Dionne Quin-
tuplets catching cold-their chests and
throats are rubbed with Children's
Mid Musterole "a product made to
promptly relieve the DISTRESS of
children's colds and resulting coughs.
The CUNTS have always had the
best of care, SO mother-you may be
assured of using just about the BEST
product made when you use Musterole.
MORE than an ordinary "salve"-
warming, soothing Musterole helps
break up local congestion. Also made
in Regular and Extra Strength for
those preferring a stronger product.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-16
FIRE
Ne,U Angle to Bombing

Germans, having found that fire
bombs are more effective in ruina-
ton of civilized dwelling places than
high explosives, have changed their
tactics and now are dropping about
1000 incendiaries to 100 TNT's.
They nearly wiped London off the
map, only determined and brave
work by fire fighters saving the city.
The people, raging against the
Nazis, roamed the streets, roaring
to Churchill to give the Germans re-
prisals.
Reprisals
So the Raj, yielding to these de
mands, carried out a three-day
straight-out reprisal raid on Brem-
en-. Final reports were that Brem-
en- now is the "worst-devastated
city" of the entire war zone, and
that covers a lot of territory.
Germans came back with story
that since August 8 they have
dropped Is bombs for every one the
British have let fall, and Hitler, in
his New Years message, declared
this percentage would be stepped up
to 100-1.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-16
Visible World

The visible world is but man
turned inside out that he may be
revealed to himself. - Henry
James.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-16
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY Edward c. Wayne
President Calls for Armaments Drive
With Increased Aid for Democracies;
Irish Investigate Bombings of Dublin;
New Congress Tackles Vital Problems
BY Edward c. Wayne
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS

NoTE-when opinions expressed these columns they
Western Newspaper Union
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-16

your rooms as well if you use
boxes in clever designs like these.
Bits of plywood are cut out with
jig or coping saw, painted and
nailed together to make the boxes.
Pattern Z9207, 15c, brings the kitten,
pup and hen and rooster motifs together
with the needed directions. Send order to-:
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-16
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
(Bell Syndicate-WNU Servi

w 7HEN a woman writes
NJ me that after so many
w wears of marriage
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-03
ATTY LEVINSON
 DIES IN CHICAGO

Chicago, Feb. 3-(UP)-The body of Salmon O. Levinson, 75, Corpor- ation attorney and war debts expert who aided in drafting the Kellog- Briand pact to outlaw war, lay in state here today.
 Levinson, proposed as Nobel peace prize candidate in l930. died yesterday of a nasal hemorrhage after a two-year illness.
 He had received the University of Chicago's Rosenberg medal for his work in improving international relations, and in 1884 was decorated with the French Legion of Honor He had opposed the league of na- tionS and the Versailles treatry be- cause he felt they did not specific ally outlaw war,
 Levlnson was born lt NobleSyille Ind, and attended the University Of Chicago. Yale university and Lake Forest college before being ads mitted to the Illinois bar in 1891 Surviving are his wife, Ruth; three sons, Horace C.. New York city: Ronald B.. Augusta, Me: aiid John O.. Bridgeport. Conn; and q dangh- ter, Mrs. Joseph Furfiaa. New York city
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-03
UNFIT FOOD IS
 SHIPPED HERE
Cold Storage Fowl Had Been Doctored; Shippers
 to Be Prosecuted

The U. s. Food and Drug Admin istration was today ready to take action against two shippers who sent to local establishments colo storage consignments of unfit fowl which were being held at the city abbatoir under embargo ordered by Dr. Edward J. Godfrey, city health officer. One consignment was found to be watered and the other dis eased, discovery being made by Fred J. Delmor. federal inspector for the state area west of the Con- ncticut river.
 Dr. Godfrey said that reports of shipments of fowl similarly unfit for human consumption had been reported today from Springfield, Mass, and New Haven. In the local case, he said, the government will probably order the fowl de- stroyed and then proceed to take action against the shippers.
 Watered Fowl
 The watered fowl the shipment of birds, whose weight had been in- creased which totaled PIP pounds, included more than 3 pounds by the injection of water, according to Dr. Godfrey.
 The shipment of diseased fowl. the health officer said, included p cases, containing 264 birds who were found after autopsies to have been suffering from tuberculosis, rickets, pleurisy and other ailments.
 One of the shipments came from Topeka, Kansas, via a jobber in Boston, Mass, and the other came
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-03
APPEAL DROPPED
 IN SPELL TRIAL
States Attorney Willis De- Cides Not to Appeal After
 Talk With Judge Foster

Bridgeport, Conn.,, Feb. 3-(UP)- States Attorney Lorin w. Willis an- nounced today he would not appea, to the supreme court from the Su- perior court jury's acquittal of Jo- seph Spell, Negro chauffeur butler on charges of raping Mrs. Eleanor Strubing, his Greenwich society ma tron employer.
 Spell, held in custody for AS hours after the jury returned it's verdict of not guilty at midnight Friday night was ordered released.
 Willis issued this statement, as ne announced plans for an appeal had been abandoned:
 "An I want to say is this. I have carefully considered the advisability of appealing in this case. I am, how ever, forced to the conclusion that no issue of law is involved which would justify such action. It is purely a question of fact and has been considered by the jury.
 While I completely disagree with the verdict and feel that it repre- sents a gross miscarriage of justice under the law I must accept it. Spell will be released at once"
 Advice Of Judge Foster
 Willis said he reached his deci- sion after q conference with trial Judge Carl Foster, on whose order Spell was retained in custody while the prosecutor made up his mind whether to take the verdict to the higher court.
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