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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-25
RUSSIANS:
Hold and AdUance

Conflicting reports from the
Russo-German front continued to
paint, as near as it was possible to
determine, general picture of
the Russians holding out in the siege
of Leningrad, and making steady
and fruitful advance against the
Nazis in the central sector around
Smolensk.
Whether this was the natural sag
ging of a salient due to the removal
of Germany's best troops to the Len
ingrad front, or whether, as the
Russian communicates insisted, the
Red victories were against the
Reich's crack legions IN full force,
was of course matter of conjec-
ture.
Two names emerged from the
daily dispatches-those of Marshal
Semeon Timoshenko, general COM
mander on the central front, and
that of Gen. Jacob Kreuzer, leader
of the Russian blitz forces who
were doing much of the driving
ahead.
The Russian daily claims of 2 to
10 miles advanced might be dis
counted, but the names of places
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-25

Vichy: Marshal Petain made the
use of his prerogative to save the
lives of condemned men when he
committed two such sentences. The
men had been charged with foment-
ing strike in 1888.
Washington: Charlie Chaplin was
subpoenaed to testify concerning
his motion picture "The Great Die
tator" in which Hitler was lam
pooned.
Moscow: Arrangements have been
completed for the ferrying from
Britain to Russia of large numbers
of American-made warplanes.
Buenos Aires: A German beer
hall was bombed in the general pro-
test against Nazi activities culmi-
mating in congressional movement
for the expulsion of Edmund Won
Thermann, a Nazi agent.
Washington: Although two more
plants have been arranged for to be
placed in the output of metallic
magnesium, the supply of this vital
material for planes is still INSULT
cient, it was reported.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-25
CLASSIFIED
DEPARTMENT.
PHOTO FINISHING
Made Most of Opportunity
To illustrate His Point

The prisoner charged with as
sault had been severely cross
examined by the prosecuting at
torney, but continued to maintain
that he had merely pushed his vic
tim ga little Bit
Now" said the prosecutor, ''for
the benefit of the jury, will you
please step down here and, with
me as subject, illustrate just
what you mean by a little bit'?"
The prisoner descended and the
spectators were astonished to see
him slap the lawyer in the face,
seize him bodily, and with SUI
preme effort, lift him from the
floor and hurl him PROSTATE across
a table.
Turning to the jury, he explained
mildly, Gentlemen, about one
tenth that hard"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-25

London: 1t was purse "blackout"
for Britishers. The postman brought
them their income tax bills. They
called for up to one-half of all their
earnings in the year ended April 5.
New Orleans: Hurricanes of Sep
TENDER revealed a new menace to
defense. Five hundred and fifty
war planes had to be moved to
points of safety when a hurricane
was reported in the vicinity.
Atlanta: Air line night trips in a
wide area were cancelled out be-
cause there were ''too many army
planes taking part in maneuvers in
the area west of Birmingham"
Capetown: The story was current
here that Is submarines, flying the
French flag, but with crews whose
only language is German, and that
they used Dakar as base.
Rome: Myron G. Taylor, who has
returned here as personal envoy of
President Roosevelt to the Vatican,
was charged in Fascist circles to
have asked the pope for a clearer
stand on Hitler.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-25
LINDBERGH:
Loss of Support

A recent speech by Lindbergh,
leading orator of the America
First committee, instantly lost him
the support of the Hearst news
papers, which had been enthusiast
tically printing everything he had
been saying.
Lindbergh was booed and Kissed,
as well as applauded in Des Moines,
Iowa, when he made. the statement,
among other things, that the only
groups really pulling for American
entry into the war were the British,
the Jews and the Roosevelt sup
porters.
This brought down on his head a
considerable blast of indignation
from private and public characters
throughout the nation.
But outstanding among his critics
was William R. Hearst, who caused
an editorial to be displayed on the
front pages of his papers under the
heading can Un-American Address"
in which he said 'The raising of
the racial issue is the most unfor-
tunate happening that has occurred
in the United States since the pres
ent tense international situation de-
veloped."
He further stated that 'the asser-
ton is unwise, unpatriotic and I'M
American"
The editorial closed with the
words: ''Mr. Lindbergh has made
an un-American speech and has
ahenated many of those well-mean-
ing persons who have sincerely ad-
mired him."
Willkie, in brief statement, ex-
coriated speech and speaker, say
ing, in part: SIT was the most un
American talk made within m,
time by person of national repu
tation."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-25

First hand information from the
men in the service show cigarettes
and smoking tobacco first choice as
gifts from the folks back home.
Actual sales records from post ex-
changes, sales commissarieS,
ships stores, ships service stores
and canteens show Camel cigar
cites the largest-selling brand.
Prince Albert Smoking Tobacco is
another big favorite. Local deal
ers, quick to note this preference,
are featuring Camels by the car
ton and pound tins of Prince Al
bert as ideal gifts for men in the
service from the folks back home.
ADV.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-25

THE dress which is practically
! requirement for college en-
trance is the jumper. It's the
basis of every well-planned school
wardrobe, for it can be worn with
different blouses and sweaters in
many interchangeable effects.
Pattern No. 8018 presents a jump
er which slim girls will like-it
has fitted waistline, marked with
a shaped, wide belt. The regula-
ton convertible collar blouse is in
cluded with the jumper pattern.
Pattern No. 8018 is in uneven sizes II
to 19. Size Is jumper requires 3Is yards
35-inch material or 25s yards 54-inch ma.
terial Blouse with short sleeves takes 12s
yards 35-inch material. For this attrac.
tive pattern, send your order to:
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-25

club directors at that time felt that,
regardless of the senator's decided
ly isolationist position, the club
should continue its policy of listen
ing to both sides of every question.
However, because of the recent
Nazi sea incidents and the recent
clearly definite speech of President
Roosevelt, we feel now that Sena-
tor Reynolds talk might be in a
definite conflict with the national
defense program.
"The withdrawal is in no sense
an indictment of the eminent sena-
tor. He is entitled by the Consti-
tuition of the United States to ex-
press whatever viewpoints he
chooses to indorSe. q
Nevertheless feel sure that the
people of New Jersey, one of the
thirteen original States of this coun-
try, are 100 per cent against Hitler,
and, in my opinion, are solidly op-
posed to the views expressed by
Senator Reynolds"
A foreign correspondent was SUBJ
stituted.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-25

Strange sight for a war-torn land
is this picture taken in Vichy,
France, as Marshal Petain, head of
the Vichy government, awards a
trophy to one of the winners in the
meet that marked the revival of ath-
letics in France. Admiral Darlan
and other important government
leaders attended the meet.
where fighting was reported showed
definitely that there was an actual
advance, and of no inconsiderable
proportions. Three towns easily
locatable on detailed maps of
Russia which lie well "behind Smo-
lensk" were reported captured.
Absence of any further German
claims on the Kiev and Odessa
fronts were accompanied by simple
Russian statements that the battles
there were continuing" One Rus
sian commander said Stains or
der not to yield Kiev is being COM
piled with.
Many military observers believed
that the long, waving line of the
Nazi front was fraught with exceed
ing danger to the German campaign
provided the Red army on the CEN
trail front really has the enemy in
an important retreat.
Perhaps the outstanding Russian
claim was the recapture of several
points on the west bank of the
Dnieper. This, if true, did much
to bear out the feeling that the Sec
ond great Nazi blitz against Russia
again was begging down.
Isvestia stated "the Napoleonic
record of 80 days from Warsaw to
Moscow still remains unchallenged
by Hitler"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-25
SHOOTING WAR:
Reconciliation

Repercussions among the nom
interventionist opponents of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's general foreign pol
icy were surprisingly calm, follow
ing his address in which he told
u. S. naval shippers to. shoot first
and ask questions afterward. Be
yond seeing it ''as step toward
war;" there seemed to be an utter
unwillingness on the part of the
White Houses opponents to sail into
the President tooth and toenail.
The request of Captain Halliday
of the sunken Steel Seafarer "give
us guns and we will shoot, toe"
brought the discussion of arming of
merchantmen into the fore. In this
the pattern of the last war was
being sharply paralleled.
The declaration by Germany of
unrestricted submarine warfare
was closely followed in those days
by the arming of merchantmen,
which, in turn, was followed by the
country's active entrance into the
war.
however, II was not lmmeolately
apparent that any such move was
being sponsored on Capitol Hill.
For All Flags
Later the trend of U. S. policy be-
came more clear as Secretary of
the Navy Frank Knox, in speech
before the national American Lee
gion convention in Milwaukee, indi-
Gated that U. S. warships would
provide protection l.. 81. for ships
of every flag carrying lend-lease
supplies between the American con-
tinent and the waters adjacent to
Iceland"
While he avoided the use of the
word convoy" this appeared to be
the plan for providing the prom
ised protection and to most observ-
ers it looked like the logical follow
up to the Presidents former "shoot
on sight edict against German or
Italian raiders.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-25
REYNOLDS NIPPED:
Il RepercuSSiOn

Cancellation of an address sched-
uled by Sen. r. R. Reynolds of North
Carolina before the Advertising club
of Newark, N. j., was another re-
percussion which bid fair to be a
typical reaction of the times follow
ing the Presidents shooting"
speech.
The senator had been booked to
speak September "a ''many months
ago." and the statement made pub
lie by the club declared: "and the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-25
Norway:
Pays and Pays

Reports filtered through from
Norway to neighboring Sweden by
the simple method of couriers slip
ping across the border, to the eff
feet that Norway's boundless cour-
age and defiance of NaZis and Quis-
lings were the cause of the uprising
which swept the country and made
the conquered people pay and pay
again for their temerity.
The incident is said to have &C.
Cured at Oslo, when, during Brit
ish raid on the port, people thronged
the streets, waving happily at the
bombers overhead, regardless of
their own danger.
From the throngs, also especially
from school shelters, were heard
strong voices singing Norway's ma
tional anthem and the kings hymn.
Suddenly the word came that one
British bomber had been downed
and that two men of the Raj. had
been taken to an Oslo hospital.
The crowd surged toward the hos
pital, bearing flowers and cheering
the men within to the echo. They
demanded admittance. The demon
stration grew to such proportions
that the Nazi military dispersed it
and from that time on labor trou-
bles grew until the final outburst.
Locomotives were Sabotaged.
Nazi troop movements were halted.
Munitions factories were blown up.
A general strike spread through the
nation.
These troubles were simultaneous
ly and apparently spontaneously oc-
curing at other points in Nazi
occupied countries. These were the
developments:
l. Practical martial law declared
by the Quisling government over
most of Norway. A church purge"
expected.
2. A warning in Rumania that
Communists" would be "shot on
sight"
3. Reports from Jugoslavia that
guerillas had slain 1913 persons in
one village, had sabotaged freight
er and had blown up an important
highway.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-25
IRAN:
Sends Nazis Out

Eighty Nazis were reported ex-
PEELED from Teheran in carrying out
the terms of the British-Russian-
Iranian armistice, and that eight of
them were sent to Siberia, Every
glun";; the rest going to India.
The German legation had, by a
variety of excuses, postponed the
departure of the special trains for
nearly "a hours. The British and
Russian diplomats had expected
about 225 to be expelled, and were
visibly disappointed when only 80
left.
The German legation was report
ed to be housing about 400 men,
women and children rounded up in
preparation for the expulsion.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-25
FINNS:
viii They Quit?

The publication of anti-Nazi arti-
cles in Helsinki newspapers, plus
the general national jubilation over
the recapture of the capital of Ka-
relia, former Finnish province lost
to the Russians early in the war
brought to the fore the question of
whether the Films would continue
their part in the fight to occupy
Leningrad.
The feeling was expressed in GER
tain quarters that the Films already
have quit, and they cited the fact
that the Germans had reported the
entire encirclement of Leningrad
and then, two days later, had ad-
mitted this was not true.
The ''hole" they reported in the
enlightenment was in the Lake La
doga region, the exact part of the
front which the Firms were working
II, yradoyoipopf1v
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-25
Pounds Per Horsepower

The first Wright airplane engine
weighed about Is pounds per
horsepower, exclusive of its cool
ing system and coolant, while to-
days air-cooled engines weigh
about one pound per horsepower,
reports Golfers. The early en-
CINE developed about three horse
power per cylinder, while today's
engines develop 100 horsepower
per cylinder.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-25
Toes Out

Toes Out
Sticking her toes out of her
shoes is the Montenegro girls
signal that she is ready to consid-
er offers of marriage.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-25
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SPIES IN CONSULATES
Washington, d. C.

SPIES IN CONSULATES
Vichy Ambassador Henry-Haye
recently let out a loud wall about
newspaper reports charging him
and his staff with undercover pro-
Axis activities.
It is possible that -Haye
knows nothing about it, but govern
ment authorities are in possession of
evidence that Nazi agents are on
Vichy consular stats in this coun-
try. Also, that such agents have
been installed in Hungarian consular
offices.
1t has been ascertained that sew
eral weeks before Axis consulates
were ordered expelled, Berlin, either
tipped off or anticipating the move,
quietly began shifting some of it's
agents to Vichy and Hungarian con-
sulates.
The Vichy consulate in Chicago,
headed by Raymond Imbault-Huart,
was one of those that suddenly had
mysterious staff expansion. An
other was in the Hungarian consul
late in Cleveland, directed by Louis
Alexy.
Two investigators" were added
to Imbault-Huart's staff early in
June. These men were in constant
contact with the Nazi consulate in
Chicago; in fact, they called there
almost every day until the Nazi con-
sui departed in July. This was
definitely established by Dies COM
mittee agents and from a former
member of the Vichy consular staff
in Chicago, who resigned in disgust
after many years of service.
THE PRESIDENTS MOTHER
Sara Delano Roosevelt thought
the man to whom she proudly re-
ferred to as ''My son, the Presi-
dent" was capable of doing any,
thing he set his mind to; and the
President would have done any,
thing he could to satisfy her wishes.
But one favor he could not grant,
despite his high office. Because of
its intimate character, the story was
kept secret by the few who knew
it, but now that the gracious mis-
tress of Hyde Park has passed on,
it can be told.
During the Czechoslovak crisis
in 1899, the President was confer
ring with advisers when a secretary
interrupted with word that his moth
er was calling from New York. The
President picked up the phone, in
quired, Eyes, mother?"
Mrs. Roosevelt was in a state of
high excitement. There was some
difficulty over a friend who had
come to this country from Europe.
He wanted to remain until he was
certain it would be safe for him to
return, but the state department was
refusing to grant an extension of his
visa. Couldn't the President do
something?
'I'm sorry, mother" he replied,
''but I'm afraid can't help you on
this"
An excited buzz of conversation
came through the phone. 1t might
be dangerous for the friend to re-
turn. Wasn't the President the
highest official of the government
and couldn't he do something?
Roosevelt glanced helplessly at
those about him. Then, with a pa
tent smile, he again addressed the
phone.
Mother" he explained, its
against the law"
This was one door even the Presi-
dent of the United States could not
open for his mother or anybody.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-25
BY Edward c. Wayne
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Protection of Lend Lease Shipping
Is Extended to Ships of All Flags
BY u. S. Warships as Far as Iceland;
Conflicting Reports Mark War News

opinions these columns they
Western NeMspaper Unonl -
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-25
NO SUGAR SHORTAGE

Don't get alarmed about those ru-
mors of an impending sugar short
age. The department of agricul-
ture, which should know, isn't.
Official statistics show that there
is plenty of refined sugar for civilian
needs. Production in the next few
months, plus the reserve stocks of
beet and cane sugar refners-
amounting to over 1,550,000 tons
will be more than enough to meet
consumer demands until the next
crop.
Only problem is what government
experts term ''mal-location." Due
to consumer boarding, stocks in the
East are below normal, though rap
idly being replenished from the top
heavy reserves of refineries in other
sections, chiefly the Gulf states.
AS double precaution, the agri-
culture department has approved
sharp increases in 1871 marketing
quotas, which were stepped up to
1902, 976 tons. This is 1886, 900 tons
more than the quotas announced at
the beginning of the year and mil
lion tons greater than those ap-
proved July 80.
Some sugar-producing areas, in
GLIDING Cuba, are not expected to
supply their enlarged quotas, due to
heavy drains on their raw stocks,
but Puerto Rico and U. S. beet areas
have plenty of supplies on hand to
meet the new marketing allotments.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-25
MERRY-GO-ROUND

Sen. Bob Reynolds hopes to be
the bridegroom of S80,000-a-year
heiress Evalyn Mclean did not keep
the Raleigh, N. c., post of the
American Legion from scorching
him for his isolationism.
Friends of Jim Farley can always
tell when he is travelling abroad.
The genial ex-Democratic chairman
keeps them posted with a trail of
personally penned picture post
cards. He mails them by the hun
dreds. Farley visited Honolulu with
two of his children.
The only thing people aboard the
Prince of Wales with Roosevelt and
Churchill will say is that at the final
parting, as Churchill wrung Roose-
velt's hand, 'the prime minister's
eyes were full of great big tears"
Undersecretary of War Patterson
recently did a unique thing. Testi-
flying before the house appropria-
tons committee, he paid great trib-
ute to his predecessor, Assistant Sec
rotary of War Louis Johnson, said
that lack of delays in placing war
orders was due to Johnson's pio-
neering. Johnson is Demo-
crat. Patterson Republican.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-25
WNU-G
EQUAL Rights

Equal rights for all, special
privileges for none.-Thomas JEFF
ferson.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-25
DISTRESSING

DISTRESSING
1t is more disgraceful to dis
trust than to be deceived by our
friends.-La Rochefoucauld.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-25

TRAVEL BUSINESS
THE UNUSUAL JOB of Chicago
friend has been seriously affected
by the war. Mason Warner is a
tourist scout. For years he has
been seeking places for people to go
who wish to travel for pleasure or
personal enlightenment. The war has
practically barred travel through
out the world for Americans, with
the exception of North, South and
Central America, and for the last
two years and more his scouting has
been confined to those fields.
A SON was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
John Doe last week. The baby
starts life under a mortgage of $947,
with an annual interest charge of
S28.41. That is the infants share of
our local, state and federal govern
mental indebtedness. The interest
will be paid as a part of the price
OF his crib, his food, his clothing, in
GLIDING his diapers.
HITLER WILL FIND it long,
long way to Vladivostok, and his
Panzer divisions may encounter
several detours.
Evening star., 1941-10-26
Wall Street Amazed
By :. f. T.. Defense
Of Stock Market
EspousoI Of Common
Stocks for Insurance
Portfolios Is Surprise
v the Associated Press.

BY tho Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Oct. 25.-Wall Street
circles have been slightly amazed
over the fortnight words of defense
of the stock market uttered recently
by members of the Securities and
Exchange Commission in their es-
pousal of common stock invest
ments for life insurance companies.
1t was the picture of Securities
and Exchange commissioner recon-
mending that the life insurance
companies be permitted a wider
latitude in the investment of their
funds and leading insurance execu-
tives, in turn, vigorously renouncing
the proposed privilege.
On the surface it may have ap-
peared to some that the Govern
ment was reaoy to modify its Sc
curities market regulation program,
which from the beginning has aimed
to keep speculation at the lowest
possible ebb And this brought up
the question whether heavy buying
and selling by the insurance COM
pan.es might not create enough mo-
ton in the market to reSindle a
large speculative interest, thing
that has been absent from the mar
ket for a long time.
Little Change Expected.
Whatever the speculative view
investment students of Wall Street
saw nothing in the S. E. c. pro-
posal that promised more than a
moderate broadening of the stock
market base if the insurance COM
panies were allowed eventually to
add common stocks to their invest
ment accounts.
The Securities Commission mem
bers who have spoken in favor OF
the change have emphasized that
common stock investments should
represent only small part OF total
assets, and further, that only the
soundest issues with records for sta
bility and continuous payment OF
dividends would be eligible.
Not all insurance executives who
appeared as witnesses before the
legislative committee definitely op-
posed the S. E. c. plan but most OF
them pointed out what they re-
garded as disadvantages. Most out
spoken against the proposal was
Frederick Ecker, chairman OF the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. and
one of the most powerful figures in
the industry, who declared it would
be "a sin" if the life insurance COM
panies began to add common stocks
to their investment portfolios.
Studied by Committee.
There has been talk on the ad-
visibility of authorizing life lnsur-
ance companies to buy common
stocks for several years, but it en-
gagged relatively little outside atten-
ton until the Temporary National
Economic Committee, under Senator
O'Mahoney, explored the question
several months ago and approved.
The more recent support to it given
by members of the S. E. C. has lifted
the question to plane of high i'm
portance in the economic and in
vestment spheres.
Government and insurance agents
(See INSURANCE, Page CD