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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-01
. STORIES
 IN STAMPS
Stamps Troce Mans Search for Gold

THERE'S gold in stamps ane @ gold seekers, too. In all cor. ners of the world, mans amending search for the earth's hiddeE wealth is chronicled in stamps.
 New Zealand's centennial issue, above, contrasts old-style pan. ming with modern dredging. Gold hunters helped settle New Zealand In the rush following the discov- cry of gold in 1861.
 United States has Q prospectoi on the 50-cent Trans-Mississippl issue. The 10-cent stamp of the same series, "Hardships of Emi- gration," recalls the suffering oi pioneers who crossed the conti- nent in the gold rush of '49. The l940 U. s. 3-cent commemorative, honoring the 50th anniversary of Wyoming's statehood, pictures a miner.
 Tanning for gold is shown on Ecuador and Mozambique issues, ,luice boxes on French Guiana and British Guiana stamps. South Africa's famous mines are includ- cd in the designs of two values. Newfoundland termed Labrador "Land of Gold" In a 1888 airmail stanon.
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STRAND
Answers on Back Page.

Ending this evening at Warmers Strand theater is Jean Arthur in Arizona" with William Holden and c cast of thousands; also Ann Sheridan and George Brent in Honeymoon for Three"
 Victory" greatest South Seas picture ever to reach the screen, will be in the offing for theater- goers attending the Strand tomor- row through performances Tues- day evening.
 Starring Frederic March and Betty Field, the picture was adapted from Joseph Conrad's novel of the same name, and must be listed in the front ranks of major screen achievements.
 It is definitely triumph for It's splendid cast and not only Conrad fans, but everyone, will find grand entertainment in this screen version of the novel.
 Tn stirring fashion, the film tells the story of man who loses his cynicsm and distruct of the world through tf faith and love he finds III U WOIHHH. " b SHe WHO BiVeo HHii the courage and the desire to fight back when their new-found love is threatened with destruction by the invasion of their island paradise by three ne-hunting cut-throats.
 March and Miss Field, are said to turn in sensitive and impassioned performances as the lovers. Tn the roles of the invading williams, Sir Cedric Hardwicke. Jerome Cowan, and Lionel Royce rate high praise, as do the rest of the impressive cast, including Sig Rumann, Margaret Wycherly, Fritz Field, Rafaela Ot- tino and Chester Gan.
 Co-featuring the program is the Case of the Black Parrot" with Wil-' tam Luncigan and Maris Wrixon.
 "The Thief of Bagdad," Alexander Kordas technicolor masterpiece, comes to the Strand Wednesday with Sabu. June Duprez, John Jtis- tin and Conrad Veidt topping the cast. Michael shayne, Private De- tective" with Lloyd Nolan and Lynn Bari will co-feattre the program.
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him and he could look back at her, this time with his eyes.
 "I'll carry 1t through some- how" April thought, but deep in her, she knew she couldn't.
 She began marching up and down her room, testing the in- jured ankle, measuring her strength.
 On the day of Rents return, she even tried the stairs and wan dered disconsolately in the down. stairs rooms. Dad grinned at her, over his work of helping Mother hang some new pictures. Mother smiled and said. "Youre doing fine to make the trip down here all by yourself. Here, Dad, move the frame a little to the right. We want everything just right for Rents homecoming"
 Nip nosed at April's heels. He'd been a great comfort, attaching himself to her ever since the day he had gone on the ill-fated drive with Kent.
 That had been her day and this was Ann's.
 As Ann made ready to meet the train which would bring sKent home, Mother poked her head into Aprils room. "You'll be ready to say hello to Kent?" she called out.
 April had on her terry robe, the white one that hugged her thin figure and made her look like some wrath of herself.
 No, I'm sort of tired" she said q think I'll be excused tonight"
 Then she shut the door quietly, on her heart and on her happiness.
 (To Be ContinuedD
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Hal nronosed that niRht.

Hal proposed that night.
 After he'd told April the news in the town and answered her ques- tions in regard to work at the plant, he eyed her quizzically.
 You've been. through war yourself, April" he said
 "H'm not far wrong, Hall"
 "I've missed you. Been leading a hermit's life"
 You shouldn't have done that, Hal"
 "Ah, but wanted to. You've spoiled me for other girls. I'm going to brood and sulk until you can do the town with me again. I'm terribly fond of you, April. Maybe you've guessed"
 She wanted to stop him, to tell him he mustn't tie himself up to her when she wasn't in love with him. Perhaps she would be some day. Perhaps, when all memory of Kent was gone and she was sure he had his eyes back and was happy with Ann, she could think of Hal. Not yet.
 Hal picked up her left hand appraised the ring finger. "A dia- mond would be beautiful there he said. Then the bantering mood fell from him and he was all ardor, all lover. April, darling, ! mean 1t. I love you. Say you'll 0arry me-"
 She drew her hand away. "1'd wke to say yes" she began, then stopped abruptly.
 You mean. April, you're not in love with me?"
 She nodded her head miserably and blinked back tears. T like you an awful lot, Hal, but it's not-it's not love-"
 "Is there someone elseP" Hal spoke quietly.
 Someone else? Someone with a crisp, russet wave in his hair, whose eyes had been shadowed behind dark glasses? Someone who was shy and serious and yet with great courage? But Kent Carter wasn't hers. He belonged to Ann.
 "No, there isn't anyone else" she choked. "It's just that I can't be sure yet.'
 Hal stood up. outwardly suave again but with that endearing way of understanding her. "I'd rather wait for you and lose you than have any other girl" he said.
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PEPPER IN FEATURE CAST

Hollywood, Calf. = Barbara Pep per has been added to the cast of Warner Bros Three Sons O Guns, which features Wayne Morris, Will Ham T. Orr and Tom Brown. Miss Pepper recently played the feminine lead in The Dog in the Orchard 2 one of the i've Warner short sub- jects nominated for the Academy Award in it's division.
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cR ANllJM CRACKERS
WE'LL KNOWN NAMES

Some names pop up so frequently in the same place that 1t seems one man is getting more than his share of publicity, but 1t generally turns ou there are two men of the same name involved. Can you tell what these persons have in common be- sides the same namesp
 l. Henry Knox and Frank Knox.
 2. William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison.
 3. Edwin c. Johnson and Hiram w. Johnson.
 {. Alan Baxter and Warner Bax- ter.
 5. George Rogers Clark and Wil- Ham Clark.
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o SERIAL STORY
YFsTERDAY: April tries tI

YESTERDAY: April tries to avoid questioning Ann about Kent, but realizes thta her sister is nursing some suspicious. The surgeons have operated, but will not know for some time whether Kent will see again. As April re- mains at home, her numerous boy friends gradually desert her. Only Hal Parks Is faithful. When he comes at last to see her, April Is grateful for the haven of his arms.
 KENT REGAINS HIS SIGHT
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CHAPTER XVII

KENT REGAINs HIS SIGHT
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-13
HIGHLIGHTS. f. in the weeks ne,Os

Rome-The practice of killing
horses for meat was attacked by
the newspaper La Tribuna, which
said: "The horse is more useful
when alive than when put in the
form of beefsteaks and sausages."
Baltimore-A Sample" blitzkrieg
started a near-panic in a movie
house. Tanks and motortrucks vi
brated the pavement, setting off the
automatic fire alarm.
Rome - Three years imprison-
ment and a fine of about $454 were
imposed by court in Lucea, Italy,
on Dante Fenili, butcher convicted
of hiding IA pounds of Goldfish from
the authorities. Evidence showed
that Fenili had planned to eat the
fish himself.
Champaign, nl.-A draftee gave
the name of Cologne E. Tate"
Asked about his first name, he said
"My father was looking through a
mail-order catalogue. He came to
Cologne (perfume) and there was
my name, with an % knocked out
Of it."
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CRISIS:
For LedSe-Lend

The real crisis in the lease-lend
legislation found well-defined pub
lie response to the antagonistic eff
forts of the isolationists and the nom
interventionists.
The result? The administration
called big guns to the support of
the measure, and predicted its
passage during the week beginning
March 3. The schedule called for
unlimited debate in house and sem
ate, but there were many indica-
tons that this limitation would bring
forth tremendous opposition in Re-
publican floor circles and in senate
committees as well.
Generally speaking, the public at
titude, as disclosed in numbers of
polls of sentiment conducted by
newspapers throughout the country,
seemed to be that the about aid
to Britain principle was favorably
received.
The public, on the other hand,
seemed to feel that there was at
least a reasonable doubt whether
the President should be given as
much and as drastic power as the
original lease-lend draft indicated.
This was reflected even in the
sponsorship of the measure, because
Representative Bloom IN. " who
was chairman of the house foreign
relations committee, scarcely put up
any opposition against three or four
major amendments, limiting the
time for which the presidential pow
ers would be granted, declaring in
principle against conveys and other
items in which the opposition found
fault with the bill. -.
This showed the administration
forces to be in the unusual position
of fostering legislation of which they
do not approve themselves, at least
in part.
Either that, or they were "shoot-
ing for the moon," and willing to
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-13
ITALY:
In africa

The African campaign of the Brit
ish forces against the troops of Mus
solini continued to be a victorious
one, despite the fact that it was re-
ported that the Nazi air force had
given considerable aid to the Fascist
legions.
In succession one port on the Medi-
terranean after another had fallen
to General Wavell's men-Salum,
Bardia, Tobruk and Derna. In Libya,
none but Bengasi remained to be
conquered.
All the cities previously captured,
some of them cities only by cour-
tesy, for they were only a few huts
huddled together and small group
of embryo wharfs, had been on fiat
land. In passing Derna the British
were moving on the capital of eyre
naica, and were stepping into a
more mountainous territory, the So
called Green Mountains of Libya,
where force of sc, 900 Italians were
determined to hold out to the last.
The same combination of land at
tack, backed up by air force and
navy Smelling from naval craft at
sea, was being used by General
Waven in the final phase of the
Libyan campaign. There was every
belief that with the capture of Ben
gasi the campaign would end.
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very favorable results, according to
DR.. Wilmot F. Pierce, chief sur
geon. The new therapy also has been
used at an emergency hospital. Sur
geons of that hospital were enthusi-
astic about the possibilities of the
new compound.
The discoverer of hydrosulphosol
was the late Maj. Earl H. Wilson.
officially credited with shooting
down seven German planes in the
last World war. Devoted for years
to medical research, he died last
November.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-13

London-The Raj claims that $40
German and Italian planes were
downed in January, as compared
with only 33 British warcraft. The
total for the war shows 1909 Ger
man planes downed over Britain.
Lansing, Mich.-Wild deer, for
merly forced to swim across the Au
Sable river, this winter have a rustic
footbridge. 1t was built for them by
the conservation department.
Alberta, Canada-Two training pi-
lots collided in midair, their planes
locked in "pickaback" fashion, both
managing to land uninjured. Both
were approaching the field, neither
knowing the other was around. They
were so feet in the air when the ma
chimes hit each other, locking to-
gether. The pilots hung onto their
controls and hit the field safely.
South Woodbury., W. - William
Constant Wheeler, SO, whose father
fought in the Revolution, died. He
is believed the last man in the coun-
try who reached one generation back
to our first war.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-13
INVASION:
Threat Near

As the lease-lend argument
reached it's zenith, predictions that
England was nearing the critical
period in the Battle For Britain
were legion. Lindbergh had set the
most gloomy picture, figuring that
Britain could never Withstand the
onslaught.
One could figure which side of the
lease-lend battle the predictor was
on by the darkness of the picture he
painted. Knox and Stimson predict
ed a crisis, but gave few details
and little soothsaying as to what
would be the outcome.
But those opposed to the lease
lend proposal varied widely in what
they saw in the futures crystal ball.
Most gloomy of all was Won Vie
gand, who in a dispatch date-lined
Shanghai, purported to report what
German and Japanese authorities
believed was about to occur.
Six weeks would tell the tale, said
Won Wiegand. He envisioned 247 di-
visions of trained men, $4,000 para
chutists, a score of tank divisions,
descending on England, and Hearst
papers printed an artists concep-
ton" of the "Blitz on Britain" which
would tear London into shreds-long
before American aid could swing the
balance.
Every authority who discussed
blitzkrieg on London talked of poison
gas-new forms, lethal gas for
which mo gas mask" has yet been
provided.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-13

Mr.. Ford refused to sit d0tOn tOIth him.
his name that the Ford enterprises
would never yield to the govern
ment demand that defense products
be manufactured under union labor
conditions.
Ford's rejoinder was that he
would never knuckle down to labor's
demands, that instead he would
lease his industries to the govern
ment at one dollar a year, and let
the government run them.
Ford agreed in principle with the
necessity of America arming in its
own defense, and with the principle
that in defense work patriotism was
the primary urge, and profits had
no part.
He therefore offered to give up his
industries, and let the government
operate them under a non-profit ar
rangement, producing whatever vi
tai materials were wished for.
The only government answer to
this was to refuse Ford a contract
on which his organization had been
low bidder.
Basis of the dispute had been
Ford's refusal to sit down with Sid
ney Hillman, labor chief of the ma
tional defense, and to find some plan
by which the Ford interests could
operate in the defense scheme-set-
ting the labor difficulty once and
for all.
Labor, as personified by the CLIO,
had set as its major objective for
1941 the organization of the Ford
plants.
This objective seemed to mean
only one thing-abandonment of the
Ford plants-of their complete di-
vorcement from national defense
contracts.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-13
Remedy for Curing Burns

While medical literature indicates
that persons mourning moderate
burns must be given standard treat
ments for 20 days or more, 72-hour
recoveries are asserted to have been
effected with this solution of sulphur
bearing compounds. Two men whose
hands were burned by hot metal
were back on the job within five
days.
The new burn treatment has been
used at Golden State hospital with
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-13
LABOR:
Raises Its Head

The domestic labor situation be-
came steadily worse during the
weeks that the lease-lend bill was
ION the tapis" in Washington.
Perhaps the Allis-Chalmers strike
was the most serious, affecting as
it did not only that single industry,
but as Allis-Chalmers was making
parts, it meant serious hold-up all
along the line, particularly in planes
and tanks.
But the most striking labor devel-
opment of the week was the state
ment issued by Henry Ford through
one of his industrial heutenants.
Ford authorized this man to say in
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-13
World War Vet Discovers

LOS ANGELES.-Developed by
Los Angeles World war hero who
died without knowing the signifi-
canoe of his discovery, revolu-
tionary treatment for burns and
wounds has been used with promis-
ing results at hospitals. This lat
est curative agent, hydrosulphosol,
contains sulfhydryl, a substance
which is said to help nature re-
build damaged human cell tissues
at a rapid rate.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-13
Tide Will Turn

When you get into a tight place,
and everything goes against you,
till it seems as if you couldn't
hold on a minute longer, never
give up then, for that is just the
place and time the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-13
JAPAN:
The sPeacemdker'

With dramatic suddenness, peace
came in the Indo-C China war with the
Siamese.
Japan, it developed, had been Gin
vited" by the belligerents, when a
strong Nipponese fleet had ap-
peared in the ofing, to sit down and
settle the hostilities.
This settlement, as might have
been expected, was that Thailand
should keep what it had taken from
Indo-C China, together with some ad-
ditional cessions of territory.
Keenest observers of the far-east-
ern scene foresaw in the Japanese
Intervention only one outcome.
They believed that Japan would
become so dominant in southeast
ern Asia that Thailand and Indo-
China would soon be mere puppet
states similar to Manchukuo.
The state department in Washing
ton viewed these events with a seri-
Gus eye, seeing in them assured
proof that sooner or later there
would have to be a showdown Of
power in the Pacific between the
United States and Japan.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-13
Cultivation of Genius

The richest genius, like the most
fertile soil, when uncultivated,
shoots up into the rankest weeds;
and instead of vines and olives for
the pleasure and use of man, pro-
duces to its slothful owner the
most abundant crop of poisons.-
Hume.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-13
GREECE:
Loses Master

The sudden and unexpected death
of General Metaxas, premier Of
Greece and organizer and leader of
the Hellenes' successful defense of
their fatherland from the invading
Fascist hordes who had swept over
the borders of captured Albania,
was a blow indeed.
His death came at the very mo-
ment when the Italian resistance to
the Greek armies was stiffening to
its utmost, and when counter-attacks
in force had been attempted.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-13
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give and take in order to reach their
main objective-of the passage of a
bill which would in effect repeal the
johnson act forbidding loans to bel
igerents who had not paid their
World war debts.
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-13
BY Edward C. Wayne
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Threat of German Invasion of Britain
And Congressional Lease Lend Debate
Present Grim Picture of War Situation;
Italians Continue to Fall Back in Africa

EDITORS NoTE-when
released Western Newspaper Union I-----
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-13

Gen. Maxine Weygand went to
Africa an enigma.
Much of this enigmatic quality
was dispelled when he issued a
statement in which he definitely re-
fused to throw in" his hand with
DeGaulle, but said he would track
along" with the Petain regime in
Vichy.
Yet it was not quite so clear as
all that, although it was extremely
important that Weygand should
have finally unmasked himself.
For the Vichy situation was still,
in its way, considerable of mys-
terry.
The Nazis were repeatedly much
Disguised with Vichy's failure to
back up the Laval theology, particu-
larly in regard to the use of Tunisia
for Nazi bases of operations in AT
RIGA.
So the stand, announced by Wey-
gand, that he would continue to sup
port the Vichy regime, could or
could not be taken to mean that
Weygand had fallen in with the Nazi
party line.
Yet Great Britain had hoped that
Weygand, in going to Africa, was
Escaping" from Vichy, and would
turn in the direction of DeGaulle.
That hope, at least, was complete
ly dispelled by Weygand's state
ment, which unhesitatingly lined
him up with the Vichy government.
What that government would turn
out to be, remained undecided.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-02-13

Everything in Use
What one has, one ought to use:
and whatever he does he should do
with all his might.-Cicero.
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U. y. r:
On Two Sides

oldest picture of the lease-lend
bill fight in America was the sudden
junket of Wendell L. Willkie, late
G.. o. P. standard-bearer, to Eng
land to take ''his personal look" at
the state of Britain.
Wilkes departure was speeded
by a paternal pat on the head from
his erstwhile opponent, President
Roosevelt, and a note written by
hand to Winston Churchill.
Willkie flew to Europe. He was
greeted practically with presidential
honor in the Azores, where the ma
tives could not be convinced they
were not greeting the President him.
self.
He landed at Lisbon, was ferried
hastily to England, dined with Chur-
chill, lunched with royalty, and hob
nobbed with the plain and fancy in
London.
He underwent air-raids, habitually
roamed about the streets without
helmet or gas-mask, Con three occa-
sions he had to be handed both with
a gentle reprimand from some high
er-up), and generally inspected the
state of Britain as he, Willkie, had
intended to.
America was treated to the
strange spectacle of the Democratic
administration needing" the testi-
mony of the ex-Republican standard
bearer to help it over the hill on
the lease-lend bill.
The whole situation was some
thing of shock to Republican lead
ers of the fight against the meas
ure, especially when Hull let it be
known that Wilkes sudden return
had been demanded by Senator
George, head of foreign relations in
the senate, who wanted the Indian
ian to testify before the committee
hearings on the bill.
In fact, the shock was so drastic
in some quarters that Republican
groups in various centers held meet
ings to decide Wilkes status" in
the party, with the evident intima-
ton that if he should prove too good
a friend to the administration, he
might be "read out of the party"