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TAX BILL:
Still UnsoIUed

AS the senate made ready to act
on the new tax, the situation was:
The house had pared about $780,
100000 from what Secretary Nor
genthau had asked for-about three
and a half billions. The house
thought So 1900, 000,0 900 enough
The senate finance committee on
the other hand, set the American tax
bill at So, 672, 900, 900, or about $172,-
100000 more than Secretary Nor
genthau had asked in the first place.
Thus the amount the pocketbooks
of the country would provide to-
ward meeting Americas present
war expenditure was still very much
in doubt, and tied into this doubt
were several features of the various
taxes on which there was considera-
BILE difference of opinion.
Washington observers figured that
out of the huddle and the debate
would come a tax bill carrying
something halfway between the de-
cision of the two houses-or right
close to Morgenthau's original fig
ure, three and a half billions.
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HIGHLIGHTS -. in the ne,us

REHOB0TH.-This Delaware sum-
mer resort town had a blackout of
several hours and an airplane
caused it. The plane, carrying a
man and woman, crashed to a forced
landing through electric power lines
and burst into flames. Although the
pair escaped instant death, the town
was thrown into darkness for sew
eral hours. There was annoyance
but no casualties.
ROME.-Foreign Minister Lorko-
vic of Croatia, sprang sensation
when he accused the former United
States consul at Zagreb, John j.
Nelly, with being spy, and with
giving illegal aid to enemies of
Germany and Italy.
YORK, P-Physicians, nurses,
school and health officials banded
into an army to attempt to quen one
of the nations most serious out
breaks of infantile paralysis. All
public meetings were being banned,
and end-of-summer holidaying was
at standstill.
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NEW YORK.-Having confessed
10 murders of women, Jarvis R. Ca
toe, So, was held in Jail as a score
or more cities on the eastern sea-
board asked detectives to question
him about still other unsolved muir
derS of women.
WASHINGTON.-A further cue is
forecast in oil supplies from pro-
ducers to dealers during the re-
mainder of September.
At the same time Admiral Land,
head of the maritime commission,
said it was his opinion that the pipe
line plan of the oil companies spon-
sorship, would not be effective. He
recommended the construction of 100
oil barges, to be towed back of ex-
listing tankers.
Others criticized Lands state
ment, holding that a further short
age of tankers on Britain's part,
and the need for more tankers to
aid Russia might leave the barges
with nothing to tow them around.
In the meantime the senate was
investigating the problem.
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POLITICAL DYNAMITE
Washington, d. C.

IOLl1lCA1 LIZ MANTLE
There was real political dynamite
behind that letter President Roose-
welt sent the Young Democrats con-
vention in Louisville blasting Demo-
cratic isolationists as obstruction
lists who are in the wrong party"
The scorching attack was tip-of
on undercover plans which may
make next years congressional
elections the hottest in years.
Nothing has been said about it, but
certain administration and Republi-
can leaders have discussed uniting
Democratic and Republican forces
to oppose all congressional isolation
lists regardless of party label.
Under the proposed plan, Admin
istration-G.O.P. backing would be
thrown behind incumbent anti
lsolationist congressman whether
they are Democrats or Republicans.
Furthermore strong coalition candi-
dates would be entered against iso-
lationist congressman seeking re-
election.
One of the most significant things
about the plan is that it has the
hearty approval of Wendell Willkie.
Discussing it with a group of
friends the COP. standard bearer
declared, 'The people should have
the opportunity in every senatorial
and congressional election next year
for clear-cut expression of opinion
on this all-important issue of foreign
policy. This referendum should
not be cluttered up with phony or
inconsequential issues.
'In districts represented by iso-
lationists we should put the strong
est candidate in the field we can
get, regardless of his party label or
economic views. I'd like to see
young men and women brought into
this campaign. Let's get away from
the old political hacks. Let's bring
youth into this fight. It's theirs pri-
marily and they should be in the
lead in it.
Personally, am prepared to sup
port anti-isolationist candidates re-
CARELESS of their party affiliation or
economic views. If they are right
on the foreign issue, then I will be
for them and will take the stump
for Them
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-11
JAPAN:
And Roosevelt

"A long conference DetWeeu All
bassador Nomura and President
Roosevelt, followed by the an
nouncement from the White House
that the President personally would
attempt a peaceful solution of the
unprecedented States impasse
brought hopes up high that the out
come might be the freeing of the
Pacific fleet or portion of it to aid
in the battle of the Atlantic.
Nomura's attitude, following the
conference, had been:
''The gaps between the policy of
our two nations are not SO great
but that they can be bridged peace
fully"
Almost Immediately Prince Ko-
noye, Japanese premier, issued a
statement of aims in which two
points stood out-a desire to "dis-
pose of the Chinese affair"-and a
wish ''for lasting peace and prosper
ity in the Pacific
Those were broad aims with
which, the United States had no
quarrel. Yet a recent speech of
Churchill was taken by some to
mean that America was about to
appease Japan by tossing China
overheard. This the President
swiftly denied and said it should not
be read into the Churchill speech.
However, that remained a chief
issue. For few could reconcile
with President Roosevelt's general
foreign policy the throwing over
of a democratic oppressed nation to
appease a nation already labeled
by this country as ''aggressor."
Even a bigger obstacle, and one
requiring most delicate handling
was the question of lease-lend aid to
Russia. Again, unless the President
was to make a most drastic APP
peasement move, gasoline and oil
would be going to the Soviet through
Vladivostok, pill Japan so far had
announced itself unable to swallow.
Some observers saw these two
items as insuperable obstacles to
any rapprochement between the
Japanese and Americans, and be-
lieved the Nomura statement and
the Konoye message were simply
further Japanese "stalling" and
"bluffing" to avoid becoming en-
broiled in any further warfare.
The Nazi announcements (and
many believed the japanese gov
eminent was taking its dictation
from Berlin) gave japan no choice
if it wanted to follow German lead
ership, stated fatty that they OPP
posed oil shipping into Vladivostok,
not only on their own part but on
that of Japan, and sharply crit
cized President Roosevelt and
Churchill in these words:
"The abyss separating the real
future of our (Japan's and Ger
many's) common destiny from the
propagandistic verbosity of Church
i'll and Roosevelt is clearly visible. "
The Vladivostok plan was de-
nounced as "plans to bring in for
eign influences through such back
doors to keep Bolshevism alive"
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Kremllin a Fortress

The Kremlin in Moscow is the
most concentrated seat of govern
ment in the world, says Golfers.
Its 60-odd buildings, built to con-
tain the homes as well as the Of
fees of Russia's most important
executives within the small space
of 80 acres, is surrounded by
50-foot brick wall with 10 great
guard towers. To avoid sabotage,
all visitors have been barred from
this fortress since 1884.
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PEOPLE,:
4nd Realization

President Roosevelt, realizing that
he was faced with a determined
anti-intervention bloc, both in press
and congress, which was taking as
its theme ''pooh-pooh, there's no
DANGER" had been making strides
in his effort to bring about in the
American public a realization OF
what he considered to be the real
seriousness of the international stu
alton. Coupled with this was an
effort he was making to have Amer
leans also make a more realistic
evaluation of their own blessings.
In recent utterances, particularly in
one from Hyde Park, he quoted at
length from a personal letter to him
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LINDBERCH:
Sees Netu Menace

Charles A. Lindbergh, chief admin
istration critic, enlivened the dis
cussion of extended aid to Britain
and Russia by turning on England,
and warning the American people
in an address that if we banked too
much on the British, we might find
ourselves in the same company with
Finland and France.
Pointing out that these two ma
tions, like this country, started out
in their participation of the war as
allies of Britain, and now were
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-11
LIGHTNING RODS
GETS IMPORTANT POST

PAUL APPLEBY worked for a
couple of years in the print shop of
country newspaper in Missouri.
With that experience, he went to
Montana and for a few months
operated a weekly newspaper there.
Then he went to North Dakota and
another paper for another few
months, and then on to Minnesota.
In Des Moines, Iowa, as a member
of debating society, he became
acquainted with Vice President Wal
lace and that acquaintance resulted
in his appointment as undersecre-
tary of agriculture. Now Paul APP
pleby is in England investigating
the food needs of the British people
for the American government. You
might term it from devil to am
bassador."
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Quisling has become a word sy.
nonymous with treachery. Quisling,
Nazi intriguer, was put in charge OF
his native Norway when Hitler con.
quered it. Quisling was repol ted
last week to have taken an overdose
of sleeping pills-deliberately OPP
position to HitIerism has been grow
ing in Norway.
AMERICAN LEGION:
Serious Note
On Milwaukee in mid-Septembef
will converge an estimated $50, 200
American Legionnaires, families
and friends, but this years national
conclave will bear a more serious
atmosphere than ever before. An
nounced recently by National Com
mander Milo Warner was a roster
of speakers indicating that fun-lov-
ing Legionnaires will get down to
brass tacks on subjects like nation
al defense, American participation
in the war and Pan-Americanism.
On the program are Navy Secre-
tary Frank Knox, Red Cross Chair
man Norman Davis, Civilian De-
tense Administrator Fiorello H. La
Guardia, Ambassador to Mexico Jo-
sephus Daniels and British Ambas-
sador Lord Halifax. Even the Le
gion's high jinx has a good neigh
borly touch in the Schenley post S
huge "Pan-American Night" festi-
val. An all-day parade, drum corps
contests and fireworks are also on
the program, but the main concern
of World War / veterans today is
how to keep the Western hemisphere
safely defended IN World War II.
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GOVERNMENT BONDS
A GOOD BUY

WHEN was a small boy in Iowa,
old General Weaver of that state,
then the leader of the Greenback
party, was frequent visitor at
fathers home. His demand was for
printing press money. In recent
years, we haveNcome close to Gen
eral Viewers idea. We have sold
the banks q billion dollars worth of
government bonds and the banks
have issued the printing press
money. More money means more
imitation. To prevent an increase
in the currency, the government is
selling its nontransferable bonds
direct to the public. If the public
does not buy voluntarily, it is pos
sible that congress may conscript a
portion of each persons income as
a means of disposing of the bonds.
They are good buy and their pur-
chase by the public will 60 far
toward preventing that greatly-to-
be-feared imitation. We have now
more currency than is good for us.
MAIN STREET
MORE THAN three-fourths of all
the counties in the United States
contain no town of more than 10000
people. A fraction over so per cent
of the members of the house of rep
resentatives come from districts in
which there is no town of over 5000
people. This is an indication of the
part rural America has in determin-
ing national policies and legislation.
People of the towns and farms can,
if they wish, dictate what we, as a
nation, shall do. Main street has
greater influence than Broadway.
WATCHWOMEN
A SAMPLE of American war
hysteria may be seen on Connecti-
cut hillside on bright days. A group
of women watch day after day for
the appearance of Nazi bombers.
A membership is claimed of around
80 900. It's activities follow the lines
of a similar British organization.
The English women really have
something to look for, but their
American imitators can see only the
planes that arrive at and take off
from the New York air fields.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-11

a NEW-FOUND smartness for
Junior girls is presented in
this basque dress. Gay with the
colorful charm of the old-world
peasant frock, this youthful style
provides a refreshing fashion
change which you, too, will find
becoming. Learn for yourself,
when you make this easy-to-sew
frock, what a curving basque bod
ice, low square neckline, a taut
wide waistband and a swirling
skirt will do for the feminine fig
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-11
Growth in Silence

Silence is the element in which
great things fashion themselves to-
gether; that at length they may
emerge, Uniformed and majestic,
into the delights of life, which they
are henceforth to rule.-Carlyle.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-11
BY Edward C. Wayne
WEEKLY NEWS ANAL YSIS
Roosevelt Asserts Positive Stand
Against Appeasement as Lindbergh
Sees Trouble With Great Britain;
Diplomats Try Their Hand in Far East

NoTEwhen opinions expressed in these columns they
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amused, and laugh at the time,
but they will be remembered, and
brought up against him upon some
subsequent occasion. johnson.
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! PATTERNS
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VICHY:
In Lin,eIight

The shooting of Pierre Laval and
Marcel Deaf by Paul Collette, a
Norman youthful assassin who had
to join the French Legion to fight
the Soviet in order to get close to the
Nazi collaboration with his pistol,
turned eyes suddenly toward Vichy,
and the double assassination attempt
seemed confrmatory of previous re-
ports of serious unrest.
At almost the same time that sto-
ries were coming across the wires
telling of the sudden arousal of SYM
pathy for Cellette, a New York
newspaper writer uncovered story
about the operations in the United
States of a clique of Vichy agents,
working under the direct control of
CASTOR Henry-Haye, French ambas-
sador to the United States.
1t was a romantic yarn, telling
how advance plans of General De-
Gaulle's Inflated expedition against
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WE, THE JOHN DOES,
ENTITLED TO KNOW

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WE, THE JOHN DOES,
ENTITLED TO KNOW
IN. LESS THAN 10 months, the
congress of the United States, our
representatives at Washington, has
obligated John Doe, Mrs. John Doe,
John Doe Jr., Sally Doe and Baby
Doe for $512 each, the whole Doe
| family for $3.50.
All of us John Does, and our
| families, realize the need of being
prepared to defend our nation, our
institutions, our way of life, our
homes, but as those who must pay
for that defense, we are entitled to
know what it is costing and what
we are buying.
Appropriations made by congress
for IL months, up to August l of this
year, have amounted to $67 ,559, 1885,
$40. During that 18-month period,
congress has obligated each man,
woman and child, including the
babies, for $512. Each family of
five is obligated for $2,560. And that
is not the end, for additional appro-
priations of from to 10 billion more
will probably be made before the
end of December.
We John Does do not object to
digging down in our jeans to pay
for whatever may be necessary to
defend this land we love, but as the
fellows who must pay the bills, we
feel we have right to know what
we need and to receive an account
ing as to what we are actually get
ting for these sums for which we
have been obligated.
Certainly someone must know
how many really serviceable planes
we had when the agitation started
and can give an honest statement
of what we have now. We should
know how many light, medium and
heavy tanks we had when it started
and how many we have now. We
are entitled to more than a state
ment of an 800 per cent increase in
heavy tanks because that is mean
mgless when we do not know how
many, if any, we started with.
With an army of one and half
million civilian employees, it should
be possible to keep books, to take an
inventory, to know what we have,
what we need and what we are get
ting. If those who represent us at
Washington do not know these
things, they are spending our money
like drunken sailors and when the
opportunity offers a year from now,
we should carefully pick as repre-
sentatives others who can be de-
pended upon to obtain the facts and
give them to us fellows who must
pay the bills.
1t is our money that is being spent
so lavishly and we are entitled to
know what we are buying, and why.
LIGHTNING RODS
WAY BACK when I was boy, the
wagon of the lightning rod erector
was familiar sight on the country
highways. He disappeared with the
passing of the last century. It is a
safe bet that the farm home or
barn ornamented with lightning rods
was erected before 1900. It was a
profitable racket for a number OF
wears
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-11
Disadyantageous Tales

A man should be careful never
to tell tales of himself to his own
disadvantage; people may be
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AMERICAS ANSWER

The OPM is just releasing for wide
distribution its first post promoting
its drive for greater production.
Entitled Americas Answer-Pro-
duction!" it is a masterpiece of
power and drama. 1t pictures a
brawny arm twisting monkey
wrench fastened to the letter 90"
shaped like machine nut-in the
word production"
The artist is Jean Karlu, as free
a Frenchman as ever worked with
one arm. He lost his right arm
fighting for Democracy in the first
World war and, until the fall of
France, was doing an expert left
handed job painting posters for the
French government.
Recently arrived in this country,
Karlu wanted to continue his fight
for free France. He submitted
his poster idea in sketch form and
OPM officials snapped it up.
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Taking a cue from the German
Stuka dive bombers, U. S. army en-
gineers have included a powerful
siren in the midget NIB tanks. It's
shrill shrek freezes green troops,
and the army is counting. on its
scare power, at 70-mile an hour
speed, to make advance breaks
through enemy lines.
Phil Baker in his new Broadway
show said he will feature a song on
how to have a good time in a parked
car. The song is titled Thanks
for lovely evening, Mr.. Ickes."
Secretary of Agriculture Claude
Wickard turned the tables on report
ers at press conference by asking
them question. It was: "Why is
bad news better news than good
news?" His own answer was "Be-
cause misery loves company"
But the newsmen had a different
reply. Theirs was, Because it's
probably true"
Ex-senator Henry j. Allen of Kan
sas, visiting England to inspect the
work of the Save the Children fed
Grafton, has cabled officials of
the organization urging greater eff
forts to raise more funds.
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finding themselves at least technical
ly enemies of the British. Lind
bergh's speech was headlined in
many newspapers as "Lindbergh
Says British May Fight u. S." and
given prominent position.
AT about the same time Represent
alive Cox of Georgia, bitterly de-
nouncing the presidential shakeup
of the defense production group, de-
clared that the White House was
letting the ''left-wingers" take con-
troll of industry, and that the new
alignment would ''tie the hands"
of William S. Knudsen, and ''kick
Stettinius out of the picture"
Yet on the same day Mr.. Knudsen
himself was quoted as saying:
81 feel that the new arrangement
will achieve splendid results in in
creasing the rate of production. "
1t was a succession of incidents
like these which enlivened the
American war effort at the same
time confusing newspaper readers
as to the thought of leaders on con-
troversial subjects of how the eff
fort should be conducted.
Smyrna times., 1941-11-06
Four Generations Mark
The Same Natal Days

RIO VISTA, CALF. When men,
bers of the family of Mrs. Margaret
Ryan of Hamilton City met to COM
memorate her birthday the celebra-
ton virtually assumed mass proper
tions.
1t also was the birthday of four
other members Of four generations of
the family. In addition to marking
the seventy-seventh anniversary of
Mrs. Ryan's birth, it also was the
birthday of two of her daughters,
Mrs. Helen Kibby of Hamilton City,
and Mrs. Carleton Hansen of Cres-
cent City; that of her grandson, Rob-
ert Winters of Colusa.
Smyrna times., 1941-11-06
The Fight For Freedom

A1mistice Day this year
takes on new meaning and a
greater, vital significance. The
democracy and freedom that
men fought for, gave their
lives for in 1918, is in graver
danger today than during that
War to End Wars. With the
increased spread of Hitlerism
in Europe, our own democratic
ideals face a perilous test to
determine whether all we hold
dear shall survive, or perish.
Ever since the world began,
freedom has had to be fought
for, sometimes with guns,
sometimes with words, some
times with ideas; for there
has always been some dom
mating persons or groups who
tried to erase freedom, and all
it means, from the face of the
earth.
Our country is conducting a
gigantic program in prepara-
tion for its defense-the de-
fense of freedom and democ-
racy and brotherly love. Our
taxes have risen, our luxuries
have been curtailed, our cost
of living is higher. In spite of
all our grumbling, we are pay
ing for our protection. In
spite of all our complaining,
we are insuring our freedom
of religion, of speech, of the
press, and of our pursuit of
happiness.
Let us, the small towners in
a small state, fight for our
freedom by being calm and eff
ficient, by thinking clearly and
acting quickly, and by doing
our share in preparing to meet
the future, whatever it may
be.