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The Ely miner., 1941-03-20
NIGHT CLUB:
And Death

There were many who believed
that Hitler was merely putting on a
sideshow in the Balkans, attempt
ing to lure England away from At
rica and the Suez, thus permitting
two things-a drastic attack on the
canal and Gibraltar at the same
time; and, second, a strong invasion
attempt on the British isles with
England's head turned the other
way.
That this might be so was seen in
the fact that the Nazi Luftwaffe
launched almost its bitterest air
night attack on London that the war
has seen.
Many civilians walking along a
road were killed and wounded; a
direct hit was scored on a night
club with many casualties; and two
bombs hit streets on each side of a
cafe, collapsing the building and
burying many who were dining there
after dark.
Cables carried pathetic stories of
the night-club bombing, telling how
the bomb landed in the midst of the
band-stand, killing the band-leader
and many of his musicians; scatter
ing death and desperate injury
among gay group of dancing men
and women, the latter extensively
gowned.
Though with customary British
censorship the location or name of
the club was not cabled, it must
from the description have been an
exclusive recreation spot for the
well-to-do, showing that the East
Enders have not been the only suf-
ferers from the air blitz.
The Ely miner., 1941-03-20
LEASE-LEND:
Finally

The passage of the lease-lend bill,
called many names by its oppo-
nents, including the lend-spend bill
and the lend-give bill, suddenly was
passed by the U. S. senate by 60-31.
The action seemed sudden after
the long and vituperative debate
which found Democrats leading the
opposition and many Republicans
finally in the favoring fold.
,As the vote neared on the final
day, almost exactly two months to
a day from the time when it was
jointly introduced in both houses,
leading opponent Wheeler (Mont.)
declared angrily:
81 have been told by New Dealers
who get their information direct
from the feed-trough that the United
States will be at war by April l."
Within the hour, however, the bill
had passed, and the same Senator
Wheeler grinningly was posing for
pictures amicably patting the joined
hands of Democratic Leader Bark
ley of Kentucky and George of Geor-
gia, the bills leading proponents.
Many amendments were added in
the senate, but those which were
passed did not arouse as much COM
ment as those which went down to
defeat.
Chief among these were three, the
Ellender amendment which would
have kept the Presidents hands tied
on the movement Of U. S. troops,
the anti-convoy measure, and the
Taft substitute for the entire bill,
which would have made two billions
available Immediately for Britain,
but which would have nullified most
of the general intent of the British
aid measure as originally framed.
The seven amendments added in
the house, which limit the size of the
aid to 81, 300, 900, 900 without further
authorization by congress, and
which limit the life of contractual
obligations, and which make it man.
datory for the President to advise
congress of steps taken, and which
make it possible for congress to
terminate the arrangement under
certain circumstances, seemed gen.
orally acceptable to. the senate, at
least to the majority of senators,
and materially shortened the fight
against it in the upper house.
The solid Democratic South was
strongly in favor of the bill and
chief opposition generally was more
marked from the Middle and Far
West. The eastern senators were
generally in favor, and of the 10 Re-
publicans who voted aye" six
were from New England and New
Jersey, while only Aiken of Yer
mont, Danaher of Connecticut and
Tobey of New Hampshire made the
three out of seventeen Republicans
who voted MAY" Of the thirteen
Democrats who voted against the
bill, only one, Reynolds IN. CO. was
from the South, and only one, Walsh
(Mass.) was from the East.
The issue was clear-cut, the op-
position saying in effect two things:
(a) the measure was frankly
war measure;
(b) it would give the President
dictatorial powers.
The proponents took two posi-
tons:
(a) the bill was our best protec-
ton against active entry into the
war because it would aid Britain in
holding the Nazi menace away from
our shores;
The Ely miner., 1941-03-20

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The Ely miner., 1941-03-20
There's the Rub-Pete Had
Liued Within That Distance

A traveller was wandering
across the Rockies in search of a
man to whom he had been given
letter of introduction.
After a long and tedious jour
ney he hailed a wild-looking fel
low who was smoking outside a
shack.
Does Hard Pete live near
here?" asked the traveller.
''No," said the man.
"Then can you tell me where 1
can find his friend and neighbor,
Rough-House Joe?"
'I'm Rough-House Joel"
''Well, they told me Hard Pete
lived within gunshot of YOU"
''He did,"
The Ely miner., 1941-03-20
ODDI TIES
In the ne,Us

BARCELONA. - A hitch-hiking
farmer got a ride from truck
which was carrying an empty coffin.
He got inside. Two other farmers
were picked up and rode sitting
alongside the coffin, unaware a
third passenger was within. Sud-
denly the lid was raised and the
farmer said: "Why, it's stopped
raining" The two other passen-
gers leaped in terror. One was in
stantly killed.
WASHINGTON. - New Federal
regulations have been issued that
hot-dog sausages must have listed
on their outsides what is inside, in
the order of predominance.
FRANKFORT, KY.-The Employ
ment commission in Kentucky has
ruled as to the status of two inn
portant members of the working
classes. A pin-boy in bowling al
ley is an employee. But caddy is
his own boss-he being listed as a
contractor, and hence exempt from
the wage and hour law minimums.
PARASITIC famous Grevin mu-
scum of waxworks has melted down
Daladier, Blum, Herriot and other
pre-war leaders and will remold
them into ikenesses of Darlan, La
val and Petain.
COLUMBUS, OHIO. - Firestone
Patriarch Johanna is the champion
Holstein cow. If the bottles of milk
she has yielded in one year were
put side by side, they would make
a row 2,700 feet long. Scientists call
it 2,700 bottle feet" of milk, new
measure.
The Ely miner., 1941-03-20
QUO T E

MEXICO CITY-FOreign Minister
Padilla: "Let us 60 forward proudly
to our defense, convinced that we
are defending a great cause"
WASHINGTON-Miss Harriet FL
lott (National Defense CounciD: SIT
seems unlikely that American wom-
en- will be able to have field day
by sacrificing their aluminium pots
and pans to the nations defense as
did the women of England"
NEW Y0RK-Dr. Forrest C. Al
len, Kansas basketball coach:
"Swayed by his 'inexperience and
glowing promises of gold, the high
school athlete is at the mercy of
profit-seeking coaches, who see in
him only the game to build win
ming team"
CHICAGO-Francis ]. Trecker,
production Management): "We
must employ more, more and still
more of our men, materials and ma
chimes if we are to win this race
against the threat of destruction.
The Ely miner., 1941-03-20

(b) amendments adopted in both
houses provided sufficient safe
guards against dictatorial powers,
and strong single and central power
in the Presidents hands was need
ed in order to make the aid swift,
certain and considerable.
What Nest?
Aside from Senator Wheeler's
daring prediction of "War by April
l." Washington observers began to
ask themselves what would be the
natural aftermath of the passage of
the bill.
The bill frankly created one huge
arsenal out of this country, and it
was anticipated that the first act of
our government would be to begin
the transfer of huge stocks of war
material already on hand across the
Atlantic to England.
Much of it, too, could be expected
to be transferred to Mediterranean
ports, where many of the American
built airplanes are now in service.
Another step certain to be taken,
it was said, would be the awarding
of certain proportions of American
defense contracts now being execut-
ed to Britain, and making arrange
ments for delivery. Some more
American freighters, it was felt,
would be given to Britain, and prob
ably some more destroyers, Of
which Willkie stressed the British
need
The Ely miner., 1941-03-20
Atomic Bullets Aid Doctors in Fight Against Cancer

NEW YORK.-A new treatment
for cancer in man by smashing
atoms in the diseased parts of the
body may result from certain dra-
matte experiments made in New
York city.
This is the story of experiments
made by Prof. John r. Dunning, fa-
nous physicist of Columbia univer-
sity, and Drs. Paul A. Zahl and
Franklin S. Cooper of the Haskins
laboratories.
The Ely miner., 1941-03-20

ithium atom, starts powerful agita-
ton. The result is that the atom
bursts.
Tiny sub-atomic particles of
which the atom is built spread and
darts of energy are released. These
powerful fragments are urbelieva-
bly, small. They act like midget
cells, bombarding and breaking up
the malignant growths.
. A significant result of the expert
ment is that the healthy tissues OF
the body remain virtually un-
harmed.
The Ely miner., 1941-03-20
TRAGEDY:
On Duty

Twelve firemen were killed as
flames swept through a Brockton,
Mass, theater. Twenty-one others
were seriously injured in the same
accident. All victims were fighting
the fire both from below and on the
theater balcony when the roof col
lapsed. Trapped in the wreckage
they were crushed and burned to
death. Hundreds of theater goers had
left the building less than two hours
before the fire broke out.
The Ely miner., 1941-03-20
NEW IDEAS
|4Ds sAo.sse- nsohesA)
BY RUTH wYETH SPEARS dF

"DEAR MRS. SPEARS: have
- made pair of spool shelves
like those you give directions for
in your Sewing Book No. 3. They
are painted watermelon pink to
match the flowers in my bedroom
curtains, and they are very pretty
hung at each side of the windows.
/ would like to make some end
tables of spools for the living
room, but I can't think of a way to
The Ely miner., 1941-03-20

What these scientists have done
is this: First some boron or lithium
was injected into the cancer growths,
or very close to them.
Then, neutron particles, such as
are produced by the cyclotron, were
shot at the cancerous parts of the
animals body. The neutron parti-
cles are captured by the atoms of
boron or lithWm.
A single neutron enters the nucle-
us, the very core of the boron or
The Ely miner., 1941-03-20
Moral Truth

The most natural beauty in the
world is honesty and moral truth:
for all beauty is truth; true fea-
lures make the beauty of a face,
and true proportions the beauty of
architecture, as true measures that
of harmony and music.-Earl Of
Shaftesbury.
The Ely miner., 1941-03-20
BY Edward C. Wayne
WEEKLY NEWS ANAL YSIS
U. S. Maps New Ways to Aid British
AS Senate Passes Lease-Lend Bill;
Nazi Spring Offensive Gains Speed
With Balkans as Center of Activity

EDITORS opinions
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Evening star., 1941-06-16
Big Philippine Defense
EXPANSION Is Planned

BY the Associated Press.
MANILA, June 16.-Plans for ex-
pansion of national defense organi-
cations on an unprecedented scale"
were announced today by Philippine
Army officials.
The program was devised in an
ticipation of a s50,000,000 congress
sional appropriation for common
wealth defenses from profits from
gold devaluation and from the sugar
excise tax.
President Manuel L. Quezon took
the initial step toward an intensi-
fed defense program today by post
poning industion of 1880 trainees
from July to September l in
the expectation that immediate
charges will be necessary to ac-
celerate defense preparations"
Usually reliable sources said the
Army planned to call 10000 to
100000 trained reserves for ex-
tensive maneuvers throughout the
archipelago and possibly keep them
on active duty for one year. This
would necessitate indefinite defer
ment of the new class of trainees.
These sources also said rapid ex-
pansion of all branches of the
armed forces. including artillery.
the Air Corps and the offshore
patrol was planned.
Evening star., 1941-06-16

torneys, H. I. Quinn-E. L. Jones.
1728-Mills VS.. Whelan Drug Co.;
attorneys, A. M. Schwartz; Samuel
Friedman-E. L. Jones; Jos. j. Cot
ter.
1914-Clements VS.. Capital Transit
Co.; attorneys, T. L. Dodson-E. L.
Jones; Howard Boyd.
1554-Nash VS.. Virginia Stage
Lines; attorneys, H. G. Allder-H.
I. Quinn.
l692-Goffney VS.. Freeman ct al;
attorneys, w. T. Hannan-Welch,
Daily & WEIGH.
2233, 2844-Loren & Crane VS..
Good Bros; attorneys, Michael F.
Keogh, C. H. Doherty - George
Zeutius; C. C. Collins.
199-Tully VS.. Washington Prop
critics, Inc; attorneys, w. E. Leahy;
E. B. Sullivan-Peelle, Lesh, Drain
& Barnard; c. w. Arth.
O42-Washington Securities Co.
VS.. Russell; attorneys, Michael F.
Keogh-Gardiner Earnest g. Gar
diner
277s, 23lO-Wright & Williams VS..
Mundy Motor Lines; attorneys,
Joseph j. Malloy-Clephane, Lati-
mer e. Hall.
2314-Mankin VS.. Fitzhugh; at
torneys, Lambert & Hart-W. C..
Burton.
1467-Tatro VS.. Powell; attorneys,
G. E. Taylor-C. E. Pledger, jr.
2214-Crosthwait VS.. Curtis; at
torneys. P. j. Sedgwick-Newmyer &
Bress; Frank Paley.
2425-ODonnell VS.. Sager ct al:
attorneys, Minor, Galley & Drury-
w M Bastian; corporation counsel.
2426-Kogak VS.. yellow Cab Co.;
attorneys, Newmyer & Bress-A. M.
Schwartz.
2018-Petty VS.. Y. w. C. A.: at
| torneys, M. F. Keogh-Frost, Myers
& Towers.
2428-OConnor VS.. District of Co.
lumbia: attorneys, Louis Rothschild; !;
E. E. Ditto-corporation counsel.
2445-Harris VS. Seek; attorneys,
F. L. Neubeck; Joseph Cavanaugh; !;
j. OConnell-Arthur Hilland.
1880-Boss ct al. VS.. District of
Columbia; attorneys, w. C. Sulli-
van-corporation counsel
2677-Jenkins VS.. Jelleff. Inc; at
torneys, Douglas, Obear & Camp
bell-SWingle & Swingle.
2697-Ginberg VS.. Carpet: attor-
neys, Louis Ginberg-J. B. Danzan-
sky.
2706-Leet VS.. Thomas Cook &
Sons, Inc. attorneys, Gardiner,
Earnest & Gardiner; H. L. Davis
/ G. B. Martin.
Evening star., 1941-06-16
Battle
Continued From First Page.)

Beirut and today's report apparently
referred to a second heavy cruiser.
The attacking force yesterday en-
countered strong naval force off
the Lebanon coast, the Germans
said, but all the planes returned to
their bases without loss.
Claim Air Mastery Over Sea.
Germanys weekend bombing of
the stronghold of Cyprus and heavy
attacks on British shipping OF the
Lebanon fighting front brought
German claims that the Luftwaffe
is master of the Eastern Mediter-
ranean, and that the British feet is
unable to carry out normal oper-
ations there.
The Germans also declared Brit
aims total shipping losses so far
amounted to nearly 100000 tons,
a figure greater than the entire
World War toll by U-boats. CThe
Encyclopedia Britannica lists H.
10000 tons of British shipping sunk
during the World War;
DNB, German official news agency,
said nearly 100000 tons of British
shipping had been sent to the bot
tom during the first two weeks of
June, leaving Britainis merchant
marine much weaker than in the
worst World War year, 1917
The sinking of 10 British mer-
chantmen, totaling $4,000 tons, was
reported by the Germans yesterday.
Evening star., 1941-06-16
British Credit
Big Successes
To u. S. Pilot
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, June 16.-The Air Min
istry News Service today described
the experiences of a United States
born fighter pilot who, in a thrill
packed hour over German-o occupied
territory, shot down Messer-
schmitt ITO, attacked an airdrome.
shot up searchlight station and
two beacons used for guiding re-
turning bombers."
In his first adventure, the news
service said, the pilot encountered
the Messerschmitt, which side
slipped away into the darkness
after the first burst Of fire from the
British fighter and "a few seconds
later there was large fash as it
hit the ground and exploded"
His next target, the report con-
tlnued, was some ACTIVITY on an air.
drome, then he banged away at two
flashing beacons, one of which went
out, and last he shot up a search
light station which tried TO catch
him in its beams as he headed
home
Evening star., 1941-06-16
Criminal Court No. 3-Justice Let's
United States VS.. Liskin ct al.

Criminal Court NO. 3-JuSt1ce Let's.
United States VS.. Liskin ct al.
Non-Jury Actions.
2048-Walden ct al. VS.. Guthrie
attorneys, J. j. Hayden-R. A
Cusick.
2413-Occidenta Hotel VS.. Schun-
dler; attorneys, E. E. Cummins;
Danny Hughes-Ira Kaehne; Pick
ems Neagle
Mo.-Lentholtz VS.. Ickes; attor-
neys, J. j. Hayden-Mr. Edelstein
Adv.-Marsh VS.. Hines; attorneys
c. L. Dawson; w. E. Miller-U. S
attorney.
Mo.-Hogan VS.. Monohan; attor-
neys, v. A. Sheehy; S. J. McCathran
-Swingle g. Swingle.
Adv.-Goshorn VS.. Goshorn; at
torneys, L. H. Dopp-L. Yebowitz
89-Holtzman VS.. Hoffman; at
torneys, S. G. Ingham-W M. Hoff
man.
147-Broussard VS.. Broussard; at
torneys, w. D. Hollowell-E Klein
572-Jones VS.. Jones; attorneys
Ray Neudecker-N. M. Baker.
Adv.-Nolan VS.. Greyhound Lines
Inc; attorneys, w. E. Leahy; N
Chiascione-H. I. Quinn; R. w
Galiher.
Mo.-Dairymens League Corp. VS.
Wickard; attorneys, Bowdoin Craig
hill-John Yost.
1708-Flythe vs. Flythe; attor-
neys, D. K. Ofiutt-J. NJ Board
man.
Adv.-Smith VS.. Washington Bot
ting Works; attorneys. Raymond
Gittelman-John Maktos.
Guard-In re Susie Allen; attor-
neys, G. H. Houston-B. v. Law
son, jr.
Adv.-Gorwitz VS.. Preston: attor-
neys, J. A. Crooks; Henry Gilligan-
George Gertman.
Adv.-Gorewitz ct al. VS.. Humble,
ct al; attorneys. Henry Gilliean
j. A. Crooks-Charles Houston.
495-Wyatt VS.. Wyatt; attorneys
Raymond Gittelman-Milton Conn
Adv.-Smith VS.. Smith; attorneys
r. A. Cusick-D. L. Riordan.
2121-Garrett Us. Garrett; attor-
neys, Ray Neudecker-Edw. Berger
2235-Keehn VS.. Keehn; attor-
neys, Thomas Scalley-Paul De-
laney.
228O-Brisco vs. sBrisco; attorneys
B. T. Sanders-Andrew Howard.
2290-Hinkle VS.. Hinkle; attor-
neys, Ellis Klein-Jos. Bulman; N
c. 1urnage
22o2-Gregory VS.. Gregory; at
torneys, Ray Neudecker-Paul
Jameson.
2293-Holford VS.. Holford; attor.
neys, w. w. Dosh-J. M. Boardman
2294-Pike VS.. Pike; attorneys
C. L. Dawson-Ray Neudecker.
2295-Hoover VS.. Hoover; attor-
Evening star., 1941-06-16
pictures on Page AID

By the Associated Press.
The United States placed on the
active service list today six Danish
freighters, first of refugee fleet
of "a foreign ships slated to be taken
over by the Government under pro-
visions of legislation Congress en-
acted two weeks ago
The new law permits the Govern
rnent to operate foreign vessels on
payment of Just compensation" to
the owners. Most of the ships to
be taken over have been tied up idle
in American ports for year or
more because of the European war
Owners to Be Advised.
The Maritime Commission said
yesterday there would be notices
posted today on the six Danish
vessels formally advising the owners
and crews that the United States
was taking possession.
The ships. which become the
property of the commission, are the
motorship Nora and the steamships
Marna and Jonna, anchored at New
York; the steamships Rita Maersk
and Herta Maersk, in Boston, and
the steamship Jutta, in Portland,
Me.
The commission said it would
take over other idle foreign bot
toms as quickly as possible. These
include % Italian and two German
ships. Whether this action would
result in the release of additional
cargo tonnage to Great Britain COM
mission officials refused to say.
Normandie Affected.
Besides the six Danish ships taken
over today there are 33 other Danish
ships in American ports. French
vessels affected number IL. includ-
ing the luxury liner Normandie
Other refugee merchantmen include
two Estonian. one Lithuanian and
one Rumanian.
Transfer of all the Danish ships
was expected to be completed first.
because there are less complications
involved than in some of the other
cases.
Evening star., 1941-06-16
build an aluminium plant to meet
the undoubted shortage"

pullo an aluminium plant to meet
the undoubted shortage"
Mr.. Ickes asserted that when the
senior vice president of Alcoa told
the committee in May there was
plenty of aluminium at that time,
his statement was las incorrect then
as it is incorrect to date"
Personally, I think" the Secre-
tary added, that this statement be-
trays either incompetence or self
interest, both of which are as dan
gerous to our program of national
defense"
Western Area Neglected.
In his testimony, Mr.. Ickes also
warned against concentrating de-
fense industries in the East, declar-
ing that If imports of minerals from
overseas should be curtailed seri-
ously, "the rapid mineral and in
dustrial development of the West
would become matter of life and
death to us"
In the defense program, Mr..
Ickes said, the whole area west OF
the Mississippi has been somewhat
neglected
Mr.. Ickes asserted:
Our best information is that for
sometime Germany has been &C
lively moving not only great fac
tories but whole towns. The Nazis
have learned that a wider dis
semination of vital sources of war
materials minimizes the danger OF
bombing attacks from the air. 1t
would be heartening if we could
anticipate the future in this re-
gard and thus avoid possible nee
essary decentralization of our in
dustrial plants later when it may
have to be done under abnormal
conditions at tremendous expense"
Evening star., 1941-06-16
JoequeIine Cochran
To Fly Atlantic as
Planes First Officer

MONTREAL, June Is Ca
madam Press. Miss Jacque-
line Cochran, the American
aviatrix, was at an Eastern
Canadian airport today, waiting
to fly the Atlantic as first officer
on a bombing plane ferried to
Britain.
In England. Miss Cochran
plans to study the part being
played by women In ferrying
and other branches of >he air
service, with reference to posi-
BILE similar work by women in
the national defense of the
United States.
Miss Cochran passed the reg
ular tests given to ferry pilots
by Atfero, the organization
which ferries bombers to Brit
ain.
Evening star., 1941-06-16
Africa
Continued From First Page

two bombers and nine fighters
over the battlefield on the Libya-
Egypt frontier, the war bulletin said.
The British offensive, launched
yesterday, was said still to be con-
tinuing, however.
The assault, in which the imperial
forces were said to have used
stronger forces" was described as
one of the major operations on
African soil.
Stukas roared necessarily over the
British, the Germans said, inf1ict-
ing heavy losses in men and ma
terial imperial columns and truck
concentrations.