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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-11-13
FIRST LOSS:
Sinking of James

First American naval loss of the
war was the Reuben James, 1000
ton destroyer, 20 years old, sent to
the bottom of the Atlantic with an
undetermined loss of life somewhere
west of Iceland.
Details were shrouded with great
est secrecy by the navy, who finally
disclosed that A men, apparently
all enlisted men, were saved.
Whether more would later be res
cued was problematical.
She carried about 120 officers and
men. Whether she had previously
encountered and battled success
fully with submarines was a matter
of conjecture.
One news service had obtained
purported letter from one Of the
sailors on the Reuben James which
stated that the vessel had sunk two
submarines, maybe more"
The writer was Leonidas G. Dick
erSon, seaman, who wrote to his
aunt in Danville, Va:
"We've been at sea for AZ consecu-
tive days, and I've lost lots of sleep.
I'll be glad when we're through with
this job and can get some sleep
again."
The letter, written several weeks
before the sinking, said:
1--WE have gotten two subs, maybe
more. I have lots to tell you when I
see you"
Another letter told of a subma-
rine attack on the James. It had
been written by Harold James Or
ange to his mother, Mrs. Marie
Orange, in Chicago. He said:
81 was up on the crows nest on
watch when we were nearing Ice
land and I saw a torpedo. 1t was
coming right for us. I gave the
alarm and we started zig-zagging.
It missed us, sped right by. I saw
not one, but several submarines.
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PHOTO FINISHING
I 'si kYssS
Bulbs Bloom All Winter
If You Start Them Now

A SUCCESSION of lovely blooms
4 \ in your home all winter!
That's your reward-if you start
potting bulbs now.
Clever to choose stunning "show
pieces" that flower at different
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REACTION:
In Many Quarters

Following the sinking of the Reu-
ben James the reactions followed
swiftly, drawing certain powerful
figures closer to the Presidents for
eign policy, and bringing from Hit
ler's headquarters no other state
ment than that people foolish
enough to walk down a railroad
track may expect to be run over"
Berlin issued a lengthy formal
statement from Hitler, most of
which was devoted to answering the
Presidents Navy day address.
He reiterated his statements that
the South American map and the
document purporting to reveal
Nazi plan to do away with all re-
igion as "nonsensicaP' and "crude
forgeries." He categorically denied
that the Reich government had Gre
ated either of these items.
The wording of the declarations
from the German leader was
scanned carefully by foreign CORE
spondents, who saw in it the typical
Nazi line of argument that their YES
sells had been attacked; that Ger
many was being attacked by the
United States, that the U. S. was
stamping itself as the aggressor.
These words were believed sig
nifcant in that it was the usual Ger
man Technology preceding an open
break between the Reich and anoth-
er nation. 1t was pointed out that
treaties between GERMANY ard her
Axis partners called for help in
case any member of the three is
attacked.
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JAPAN:
Tie,Ued Menace

Following the German declaration
that she had been attacked" by
the United States, Washington was
openly fearful that peace in the Pa
cific could no longer be maintained.
There were many signs, it was
asserted, that Japan would receive
a signal from Germany to open hos
tilities, thus to draw the American
fleet strength into the Pacific, and
remove some of the vessels, per-
haps from North Atlantic convoy
service.
1t was significant that Hallett
Abend should have sent dispatch
to the Times from Honolulu stating
that the Japanese navy had been
guilty of activities in American wa
tiers that verged closely on the
commencement of hostilities.
The American navy has been
watching the activity of a Japanese
submarine, and while it had not TAX
en- any measures, much was learned
of the Japanese tactics through
American apparent Indifference to
what was going on.
A submarine had been observed
in Hawaiian territorial waters, sub
merging by day and coming up only
after nightfall.
This vessel had at all times been
at the mercy of American naval
vessels, but the naval officers
laughed at it, saying that the Japs
could not have observed anything
worthwhile through their periscope.
Other fast Japanese ships have
been cruising openly at full speed
around Midway, Wake island, John
son, Palmyra and other u. S. Pa
cific islands, always keeping just
outside the territorial limits, Abend
said.
Japan's comment on the James
incident was that the United States
was close to participation in the
war. Therefore," it continued,
"the United States is making every
effort to avoid clash in the Pacific,
which now seems inevitable. Ten
sion is growing despite sincere
efforts of Japan"
This was regarded as being writ
ten on an extremely menacing note.
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PLANES:
Keep Crashing

Started off by the crashing of five
army pursuit planes, this disaster
seemed the signal for a series of
tragic losses, which had reached a
new record for American aviation.
A Northwest Airlines plane
dropped to earth in fog, killing IA
persons and hurting the pilot clear.
Within "a hours a 21-passenger
American Airlines plane, carrying
20 persons, plummeted to earth in
rainstorm near st. Thomas, Can,
and burst into flames. All lost their
lives.
Less than 48 hours later an army
bomber, with five air corps men
aboard, fell out of misty clouds into
a cornfield near Findlay, Ohio, and
burst into flames.
The five men were instantly killed.
Then it was the navy's turn to an
nounce a disaster. This was the
crash of huge bomber at sea with
the loss of IL lives. The plane was
operating in the Atlantic ocean
area"
At nearly the same time 22-year-
old American of German extraction
was arrested at the Glenn L. Mar
tin plant in Baltimore, and con-
fessed to be a saboteur of planes,
having cut electrical wires in such
a way that contacts would be broken
at some later date.
His deeds had affected more than
a hundred planes, though most, if
not all of them, had been dis
covered. So cleverly did he hide
his work that suspicion had been
thrown on hundreds of other en-
ployees. 1t took the FB1 agents
from July until late October to
catch him.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-11-13

Hitler, it was believed by the cor
respondents, was simply laying the
usual groundwork for a definite hos
tile declaration against this country
and its policies.
He said: Herr Roosevelt has
been placed before the tribunal for
world judgment of his acts"
The declaration attacked the truth
of Roosevelt's statements that the
Greer and the Kearny had been
attacked by the Germans, and
stamped both vessels as the at
tackers.
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REDS:
Reservoirs

Although the defense lines around
Moscow had been bending now and
then, the break had not come, and
enormous reserves from "manpow-
er reservoirs" in Siberia and other
parts Of the vast country were re-
ported as having been hurled into
the fray.
The United States heard that the
first American planes had gone into
battle, and had bombed Berlin,
fact which Berlin promptly denied.
1t was an unquestioned fact that
the Reds had, however, some of the
newest and largest American bomb
ing planes, easily capable of flights
over Berlin and back.
The Nazis had broken through into
the Crimea, however, and the fall of
the whole peninsula, thus opening
one narrow and difficult road to the
Caucasus, was believed certain.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-11-13
TURKS:
Pedcen,akers?

President Ismet Inonu of Turkey
had announced himself as willing
to act as mediator for a negotiated
peace.
His offer brought chilly
''thanks" from London.
Inonu told the Turkish parliament
in a speech which was broadcast to
the nation that the country's "joy
would be unbounded if it could one
day become the source of peace
which the world awaits and needs"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-11-13
LEADER:
Eagle on Top

The American Eagle Squadron
No. / led all units of the Royal Air
force in bagging German planes dur
ing October, it had been revealed.
The American volunteer pilots
had destroyed 9 of the 81 German
planes credited to the fighter COM
mand for the month.
All of the victims of the Eagle
fiers were shot down over Axis
occupied territory, the dispatches
said.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-11-13

IliuCu. 1AdI ID WHY tiiCy
1 v L so often are unhappy,
annoying, useless and ill.
This is an unpleasant truth,
but it is one that makes a most
important difference in ones
life, when it is fully grasped.
The difference between feeling
young and cheerful and eager
to serve, and feeling heavy and
old and ill is often the difference
only between a sensible dinner
and a foolish one.
Two pork chops with gravy,
mashed potato, hot biscuits, a
stuffed tomato and a cup Gus
tard can do you no harm while
they remain in the refrigera-
tor. But once inside you they
can cause an amount of sheer mis-
cry that may end in death. Thou
sands of elderly persons kill them
selves with poison every year-only
it doesn't seem like poison because
it comes off the family supper table.
In one New England town visited
many years ago the old people spoke
of "getting your shock" as though it
was something the postman infalli-
bly, delivered between the ages Of
SIS and 60.
''Her father got his shock last win
ter. Poor Maria's had her shock.
Why Lizzie got her shock when she
wasn't but 80 beats mel"
In winter this particular family,
which comprised several families,
consumed meals that would have
satisfied lumbermen. They were all
elderly, but they ate just as they
had in vigorous youth. Every meal
was embellished with hot breads and
variegated jams; we had pie for
breakfast and strong tea, with thick
Jersey cream late at night. Dunn
pings, turkey dressing, fresh lob
ster right out of the bay and hot muf-
fins were daily fare.
One woman, complaining con-
stantly of sick headache, vertigo,
heartburn and a dozen other all
ments, called down to her daughter
each evening for sherry and egg
flip as night cap.
Many Become Burdens.
If all this resulted in a swift and
clean exit from this mortal scene
it wouldn't be so bad. But it doesn't.
The chronic dyspeptic, the patient
sufferer from head colds and indi-
gestion, headaches and chills, or
from that perpetual languor and
WEAKNESS that so many elderly
women think is inevitable at their
age-these people don't die. No,
they live on and on, burden and
expense to those who love them.
And yet the fifties and the six
ties and the seventies can be beau
tiful years, filled with vigor and
health and service and the joy of
life. There is no key to that envia-
BILE state more valuable than de-
termination to STOP STUFFING.
Some years ago I asked Irwin
Cobb, who had been seriously i'll,
the secret of his restored health,
his improved figure, his tremendous
ly increased vitality.
Honey" said this old friend
mournfully, "I'm tryin' to eat only
twice too much from now on, instead
of five times too much!"
Now, by these suggestions for an
old age that will seem like youth I
don't mean merely to cut down-a
little-on starches, 60 easy on Sec
ond cut of roast beef, refuse the
third piece of candy. I mean trying
the little game of seeing how LIT
TIE you can eat-that is, if you're
getting up in the roaring forties.
Happiness Ahead.
You will find that you can live a
new type of glorious life, on just
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periods-white callas start bloom
ing in January, colorful amaryllis
and daffodils a little later.
Before these and in between you
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-11-13

about what our Victorian forebears
considered "high tea" You won't
eat more in "a hours than they ate
in the way of cakes, hot buttered
scenes, toast, cream, jam, marrons
and chocolates at the coy five
o'clock Preside. Your breakfast will
be what it is now; most of us aren't
sinners at breakfast. Your lunch
will be big plate of mixed salad
with slivers of chicken or ham or
crab or shrimp in it, and some dark
toast; and your supper will be a
bowl of soup, more buttered toast,
and some fruit. Not any more rich
meat, sauces, gravies, starches,
heavy sweets. Your sweets will be
about what your baby grandson
gets; cooked fruits, an occasional
cookie, an occasional molasses taffy.
Achieve this by degrees, and you
will find that this diet is far more
filling than it sounds. And with it
comes freedom from all the choked,
poisoned, dragging ills of the body.
You will sleep as soundly as you
did at the age of 10; you will feel as
light, all day, as dancer one-third
your age.
We are very apt to feel, we aging
women, that the younger generation
owes us something. But we owe it
something, too. Habitual complaints
of "bad nights" headaches, weari-
ness, physical discomfort worry our
children, as their nursery ailments
once worried us. To see Mama plac-
idly pouring cream over her mince
pie, and then to hear her martyred
description of having had bad
night, and of suffering "those spots
poor Grandpa always had before his
eyes," infuriates loving children,
even though they don't show it. The
one thing a devoted son or daughter
wants from Mama or Dad is health
and cheerfulness. The old man or
woman may be of real use and COM
fort to the younger household, if he
or she can forget bodily discom-
forts long enough to find the oppor-
tunity.
"A Boys Last WISH.
One of our popular American writ
ers of almost 100 years ago tells in
her biography of the desperate i'll
ness of a beloved child of eight. He
was just rallying from typhoid fe-
yer, when he CHANGED to smell
"Grandma's dinner" cooking, and
his mother reports that the ''sore lit
tie mouth asked YEARLY what
Grandma was having for Sunday
dinner.
The answer included roast goose,
stuffing, batter pudding, fried onions
and beaten biscuits. The sick child
begged for some.
what a JOY" writes the mother
of 1850, 'to crafty my darling's last
wish, for last wish it proved to bel"
Little Arnold departed this life
abruptly. Most old persons are not
so lucky. But warn them that the
time is coming when strokes and
embolisms and shocks" are not GO
ing to elicit the sympathy they once
did.
When young persons overeat, the
strong forces of their bodies save
them from the full penalty. They
may suffer from indigestion, or feel
uncomfortably full, but that doesn't
last. But in an old persons system,
whose machinery is somewhat tired.
whose fibers and tissues are wearinc
thin. that supper may be fatal.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-11-13

In the second of officer changes
in the Russian army tUithin a
feiu Ueeks, Marshal Boris N.
Shaposhnikou (aboue) has been
named chief of the Soviet gen.
eraI staff. He succeeds Gen. Thu
kou, WFro several weeks ago sUas
named commander of Red armies
on the central front. Shaposhni-
kou is a close personal friend of
Josef Stain.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-11-13
INITIATION CURE
MERRY-GO-ROUND

Introduced to a British production
expert who had just completed
survey of u. S. defense plants,
OPM boss William Knudsen took
him off his feet by inquiring "What
impressed you least?"
A sports commentator, sponsored
by a shaving cream, called the duke
of Windsor in Baltimore, inviting
him to appear as guest star on the
radio program, the money to be
paid to British charity. The duke
declined-even before he was told
the offer was only 500.
Results of the army's quiet shake
up of officers: Is generals already
bounced or shifted, and more than
40 colonies slated for the ak.
thine Is Short" is the slogan of
the OPM. But because of an army
major, who is provost marshal of
the OPM building, its telephone
service continues to be one of
the worst in Washington. His of
fee, next to the OPM phone ex-
change, is essential to enlargement
of the telephone office, but he ada
mainly refuses to move. The ma
jor's chief function is issuing passes
to the OPM building.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-11-13
MISCELLANY:

Washington: The navy announced
its sixth battleship, the Alabama,
will be launched February 16.
New York: Senator Barley, in
an address, had urged that "when
the time comes for the building of a
new world, Palestine be restored to
the Jewish people"
Lansing, Mich: Governor Dick
inson, 80, gave this recipe for a
long life: ID Be yourself; (2) take
care of your tissues; 60 don't get
stuck on yourself or another mans
wife.
Washington: It was estimated
that on the first of the month more
than 1000, 900 people started shoot
ing in the United States. Their
target? Wildfowl.
Orange, N. j.: A terrific explo-
sion leveled the palatial home of
William Schlegel. Seven hours later
police found the body of Mrs. Schleg-
Ell and her dog. They had not known
she was in the house.
Baltimore: Given up as dead fol-
lowing a sea battle in which his ship
was sunk, Alistair Taylor, son of the
British consul here, turned up alive
in a German prison camp.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-11-13

the Bendx N j. plant OF Air Associates at
of President Roosevelt shown camping in held
plants occupation the interests OF
Associates
kinds
held of difficulty
got under
after
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NoTEwhen opinions In these columns they
-(Re by Newspaper Union. )--
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-11-13
CEILINGS:
Prices, Note Wages

The drastic price control bill re-
ported out by the house banking and
currency committee had turned out
to be one which set price tops, which
forbid farm price ceilings below
boom prices, and specifically ex-
empted wages from government
control.
The vote had been Is to S, but the
session repeatedly had been turbu-
lent. There were some modified
provisions for rent control. All rents
in defense areas were to be subject
to ceilings.
Farm prices were to have ceilings
prohibited at any point lower than
ITO per cent of parity, or at less
than the average price between 1919
and 1929, the boom years.
Some of the administration ex-
perts, studying the bill, said that it
would be impossible under it to con-
troll prices at less than 80 per cent
above parity.
They cited the example of sugar,
which now had a ceiling of $3.50 a
hundred, and showed that it would,
under the committee ruling, be per-
mitted to rise to $5.84 per hundred
before being pegged off.
A price administrator had been
named in the bill with a salary of
$4,000 a year to be named by the
President and confirmed by the SEN
ate to administer the act with adj
visory councils from the various in
dustries. The original draft did not
require senate confirmation.
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A Ready Hook

Luck affects everything; let
your hook always be cast; in the
stream where you least expect
it, there will be fish.-Ovid.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-11-13
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
BY Edward C. Wayne

Army, Navy and Commercial Airlines
Suffer in Series of Plane Crashes;
Reuben James Sinking, F.D.R. Speech
Draw Formal Statement From Hitler
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-11-13
By KATHLEEN NORRIS

n TOST old persons eat too
MI much. That is why they
L v L so often are unhappy,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-28
MAYOR SCULLY FACING PUZZLE
Naming Tax Commissioner as Successor to PalOmba
 Is One Headache

A vexing political problem faces Mayor Vincent A, Scully in the ap- pointment of 8 successor to Tax Commissioner Frederick W, palon~ ba, who is slated to be sworn ia as city court prosecutor next week, so many candidates have entered the field that resentment on the part of the disappointed aspirants and their friends Is certain, The post must, under the charter 90 to Q Re- publican.
 City hall sources indicate that Alderman William V 0erardi Is stlll in the lead for the $S,l00 Q year plum, appointment to which Is good for four years and eight months, However, strong support has been organized for Works Commissioner Fenton Niver, who Is known to he regarded highly by the mayor,
 Angelo Possemato, Republican candidate for state representative last year, Is another active contend- CT, along with Anthony Petrillo, highly-regaraed c. O. P, vote-get- ter. Others In the field are eX-Al- derman Addison Ashborn and Charles Schmidt, also several clark horses, notably Albert Schiavone, A deluge of letters urging the appoint ment of MT. Schiavone has reached the mayors office within the past few days.
 Opposition to Attorney PaloMha within the Republican party still continues. Not only is Q wing of the c. o. P. angry ct the fact that he is getting the city court plum, but complaints are now being openly made that he Is seeking to control the appointment of his successor as tax commissioner.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-28
AGENTS
 HIT IN ST. PAUL
Criminal Action Against Socialist Workers Party
 Has Been Started

St. Paul, Minn., June 2s-tUP) Federal agents today prepared criminal action against leaders of the Socialist Workers party, Q Trotskyite group active in the tur- bulent labor union situation in the twin cities.
 It was announced that indict- ments on sedition charges would be sought.
 Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and deputy Unit ed States marshals raided Min neapolis and St. Paul headquar- ters of the party last night and seized what they said were ''revo- lutionary pamphlets" Q Red flag and Q picture of tn elate Leon Trotsky, exiled Russian revolution ary who was assassinated in Mex leo.
 Henry A. Schweinhaut, special assistant to the attorney general, said evidence collected in the raspS would be submitted to Q grN:d jury convening Tuesday.
 Federal ficials said party lead- CTS to be prosecuted also were lead- CTS of Minneapolis Local 544 of the General Drivers, Helpers and Inside Workers union, which three weeks ago bolted from the Amer ican Federation of Labor to the Congress of Industrial Organiza- ton when its leaders were accused of radicalism.
 Persons in the offices at the time of the raids were questioned brief ly, but there were no arrests.
 Acting Attorney General Francis Riddle in Washington said the prosecution was instituted under the United States criminal code against persons who have been engaged in criminal seditious &C., tivities, and who are leaders of the Socialist Workers party and have gained control of a legiti- mate labor union in order to use it for illegitimate purposes"
 He said the action was not an attack on organized labor nor an attempt to interfere in an inter- union dispute.