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The Ely miner., 1942-01-01
The Questions

2. What is the Dick test?
3. Who cut the Gordian knot?
4. What does frappe mean in
cooking?
5. Was "Old Ironsides" sheeted
with iron?
6. Who wrote the lines, '"The
world is so full of a number of
things, I'm sure we should all be
as happy as kings?
7. Mohammed fed what city on
what is known as the hegira?
8. What are the two most north
erly countries in South America?
9. In what country did Napole-
on fight the battle of Waterloo?
10. Caslon, Bodoni and Chelten-
ham are names familiar to which
of the following: Artists, printers
or chemists?
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AIRMAN:
Heads Navy

After a week which had seen rapid
shifting about of the American
naval and army high command in
Hawaii, Washington had made sud-
den move which made the supreme
commander of the U. S. Navy Ad-
miral Ernest j. King, an air officer.
Previously the command of the
Pacific and Asiatic fleets had been
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Kindness Is Greatness

Kindness is always an evidence
of greatness. Malice is the prop
erty of a small soul. If anyone
is glad you are here, you have
not lived in vain.-George F. Hoff-
man.
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! PATTERNS
SEWING CIRCLE

the bodice, the low pointed neck
line is youthful and fattering to
the face.
The skirt attached at a low
waistline takes pounds away from
your hipline because of its adroit
piecing and weight-minimizing
smoothness at the sides and in
back. The dress may be finished
with short sleeves or sleeves of
the new "below-the-elbow" drape.
The style is suitable for silk,
rayon or wool crepes, for satin,
faille or romaine.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1923 is de-
signed for sizes "a, SO, 80, 40. q, A. as
and 48 Size 80, q sleeves requires "a
yards 39-inch material. Send your or
der to:
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of the tie-up resulting from the Rus
sian campaign. But Hitler did say
that "the present war is now enter
ing upon a new and favorable stage
for us. We are now facing a deci-
sion of worldwide importance"
Germany's task until spring, he
pointed out, was to ''hold and defend
with fanaticisn" what they had
already gained.
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IVES, a dress to admire for its
= very fresh approach to the
problem of looking slim and state
ly when your figure is too heavy!
Pattern No. 1482-B happily over
comes your figure difficulties with
vestee effect through the top, ex-
tending as slim waist treatment.
The softly gathered side pieces
permit easy roominess through
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HONCKONC:
sSncrifciap

Canadian defenders of Hongkong
were termed "sacrifcial garrison"
in dispatches telling of the last-ditch
fight to hold the island stronghold
at the north end of the China sea.
Chief hope of the defenders rest
ed on the Chinese, and oddly enough
the Chinese were the chief menace
to the defenders.
Bearing out the former statement,
the Chinese soldiers were driving
southwark from the East river, past
Tamshui and Pingshan, within few
miles of the rear of the Japanese
who had occupied Taipo and Kow-
loon on the Hongkong mainland side.
That this attack would be success
full and divert enough japanese pow
er from the Hongkong front to
change defeat into victory for the
British was the chief hope of the
defenders.
Bearing out the second statement
was the fact that several hundred
thousand Chinese refugees from the
mainland, having no other direction
in which to flee, had gone over the
half-mile of water to Hongkong,
where they were jamming the al
ready crowded island and seriously
menacing supplies of food, water
and shelter.
These refugees were regarded as
almost equal in endangering the de-
Tending garrison as were the .Jap-
anese guns and bayonets.
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The Ansuers

l. Memoranda of things to be
done.
2. A test made by physicians to
determine the susceptibility to
scarlet fever.
3. Alexander the Great.
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This time it was not the Italians,
but the Germans, who were fleeing
across the desert North African
plains along the coast, with the Brit
ish in hot pursuit.
General RommePs famous tank
divisions, battered and broken, were
jamming the roads toward Bengasi,
chief German-Italian landing spot
for supplies, having abandoned Der
ma and all the hard-fought-over ter
ritory close to the borders of Egypt.
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The President, attempting to run
the war again with an augmented
cabinet which contained no less than
Is persons, was said to be contem-
plating a supreme war council
which would sit with him and under
him prosecute the war.
And the reports had been that
Wendell Willkie, his 1910 opponent,
might be a member of the group.
This had been speculation since
Willkie lunched with the President,
and since a couple of other jobs that
were open were not rendered to
him.
Those closest to the President be-
lieved he had a most prominent
place reserved in his mind for Will
kie.
In fact, informants as to the Presi-
dents plans named the following
as probable members of a five-man
board which would plan the war eff
fort:
Willkie.
Rear Admiral Leahy, minister to
Vichy, former head of the navy, for
mer governor of Puerto Rico.
Vice President Wallace, now also
head of the SPAB which runs priori-
ties.
Philip MURRAY. head of the CLIO.
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es4k Ews q ~ quiz with answers offering
a AhAfA&0 information on various subjects

4. Chilled with ice.
5. No. The historic ship was
wooden.
6. Robert Louis Stevenson.
z. Medina.
s. Venezuela and Colombia.
9. Belgium.
10. Printers (names of type
faces).
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BY Edward C. Wayne
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Hitler Takes Over Personal Command
Of German Army as Russia Continues
To Push Invaders Back on All Fronts;
Far East Battle Centers in Philippines


(ReIeased Western Newspaper Union.)
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SUBMARINES:
Tersus Submarines

Almost simultaneously with re-
ports from our navy of the sinking
of at least two japanese vessels by
our own submarines, and the ex-
pressed belief that the navy was
beginning the long process of block
aiding japanese shipping came re-
ports of attacks by Jap submarines
on our shipping along the California
coast.
Three vessels had been reported
attacked, one escaping and one ap-
parently being hit, though the fate
of the third was not at once clear.
Two of them were oil tankers, the
Enidio and the Agriworld. The
latter vessel was said to have es-
capped and the former to have been
hit and to have sent out an SOS.
The navy was not telling the world
where its submarines were moving
about, but Japan admitted about "20
u. S. undersea boats" were operat-
ing in waters close to Japan and
that their shipping was being mer-
aced.
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SHORTAGES:
Looming in u. S.

In addition to the tire rationing
which was imminent, and the tire
prohibition which preceded it, the
government saw other shortages
looming in 1912.
Among them, it was said, would
be shortage of electric power. Such
a lack, it was declared, seemed
practically certain in 1912 and 1943"
in some sections of the country, in
Guiding the Southeast, the South
west, the Pacific coast and part of
the Middle West.
Householders were warned to be
parsimonious in their use of cleo
tricity.
Blackouts of all non-essential
lighting, including many store signs,
were predicted
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DRAFT:

Preparations for an army OF
1000, 900 men were foreseen in the
passage of the 20-44 draft act and
its signing by the President.
Also, on the heels of the action
on the bill came the prediction from
army headquarters that by spring
there would be established in the
South 10 super-cantonments, for the
housing and training of these men.
s'It won't be so pleasant for them
as the present camps" the report
said, 'but we haven't time to bother
about that now."
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By KATHLEEN NORRIS
tBell syndicate-wNU Service.

w THEN a man is mental.
M ly defective, girls per-.
ceive his afflictiOn. and
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already game
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All We Can Ask
Cincinnati Enquirer)

Cincinnati Enquireo
Although a number of Caribbean countries have
declared war in consonance with the action of the
United States, most Latin American states
tent to sever diplomatic relations with the Axis
powers in other way to indicate their SYM
pathy and solidarity with the United States.
Argentina has announced her neutrality, but also
has made it known she will regard the United States
acknowledgement, which means shall have the
use of Argentine ports without restriction. This is
form of benevolent neutrality Argentina S
part
Mexico is doing much the thing, having
already severed relations with the Axis states Pres
dent Avila Camacho has requested the Mexican Con-
gress to authorize the passage of American troops,
and the fueling, provisioning, and repair of Amer-
can planes and ships in Mexican territory and
waters. This again is benevolent" form of
neutrality.
This is quite much we have any right to
expect or to ask The United States did not go to
war until it directly attacked Therefore it has
no right to expect any Latn-American country to
go to until it likewise is directly attacked. All
the American republics have stake in this war.
All are endangered by the Axis. But since we did
not become a belligerent merely because of that
comprehensive threat there is why we
should expect Southern neighbors to do So
They are following essentially the policy We have
followed. Far from complaining that they have not
all declared war to prove their friendness should
be grateful that they are all finding way of
confirming their identity with the common aims of
the Americas.
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quite satisfactory The naval heads admitted that
at the time they unable to provide protection
against any contingency. They declared, however,
that within three months it was planned to have
in Alaska sufficient air and surface craft to pro-
vide the needed safeguards for the seasons
operations"
This is gesture the part of the navy to
offer protection to just any civilian industry. The
fisheries interests receiving consideration far
above anything which might be accorded other
business enterprises in Alaska elsewhere
There is a good reason. Already in this war,
as in the first World War Alaska canned salmon
has become important item in food supplies for
the nations armed forces OF the total 1941 pack
of six and half million cases, the navy, army and
lend-lease agencies have taken than million
and half already and calling for bids on
quirements from an already depleted stock in can
nerymen's warehouses Their requirements from the
1912 pack with the nation at and military
forces rapidly expanding, are logically expected to
be several times the amount of canned salmon pur-
chased during the past year Alaskans may recall
that in 1918 the government established a prior
claim on the entire output of the canneries at fixed
prices
Most vulnerable spot from the standpoint of
Japanese invasion, is the Bristol Bay fishing area
which usually accounts for 20 percent of the total
Alaska pack, especially supplying the larger part of
the reds the species in heaviest demand by both the
military and civilian consumers That Bristol Bay
must and will be protected is them a foregone
cluson, and to make Bristol Bay accessible
may be taken there and the pack shipped south
the entire Alaska coast must be made secure.
The navy is fully aware of this responsibility,
and from all statements is ready to do its stuff
when the men who mine the silver horde start their
migration north, a few weeks from now
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ard contracted TO build in the
spring of 1910 have only been de-
livered to the extent of about 100
engines. And it is now 1912.
These are the motors which Hen
ry Ford refused to manufacture al
the time of the fall of France, be-
cause they were British. Later
Packard agreed to make them, but
waited several weeks to see what
the new tax bill passed by Con-
gress was going to be. This caused
part of the delay. Also the fact
that the motors were British slowed
things up somewhat, for the Army
and Navy Munitions Board has
given higher raw material priori-
ties to American engines.
However, the really big reason
for Packard's delay was lack of
machine tools. 1t simply has not
been able to tool up its plant -
even though Is months have passed
since the fall of France and the
placing of the contract.
Another illustration of how bad
ly machine tools are needed is
that Charles Sorenson of Ford, I'M
til recently had been yelling at
the OPM for weeks trying to get
229 machine tools to go into pro-
duction of a Pratt Whitney engine
for medium bombers. Sorenson used
to be able to call up Warner and
Swasey in Cleveland on a Friday
and have a machine tool costing
100000 delivered on his dock at
the River Rouge, Mich, by Monday
But today it's different
story.
That is why the OPM report rec
ommends the following measures to
remedy bottleneck No. l of war
production:
J.. Machine tools, like manpower,
should be registered.
2. A government Machine Tools
Board would assign tools for most
effective use.
3. Tools and arms plants must
go on l68-hour week-every hour
and every day of the week.
4 A new program to train la
Dor to manufacture machine tools.
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on for otherwise unobtainable cor
porate and financial data for the
placing of war orders. In many
other ways it is assisting the war
program.
In addition to constantly fur
nishing crack power engineers to
various war agencies, the REA is
operating and building many power
plants for Army, Navy and Ma
rine camps, and war industries.
Also the two agencies are among
the most outstanding New Deal
achievements, created only after
long and bitter battles that made
political and legislative history in
the 1905. Time and again tn e
President has proudly acclaimed
| the SEC and REA as two of the
greatest reforms Of his admins
tration.
Yet, under an order cooked up
by undercover pro-utility elements
in the Budget Bureau, SEC AMI
REA will be moved kit and ka-
Doodle hundreds of miles away
from Washington.
While their utility lobby foes
will have free rein to snipe at them
on Capitol hill and while the War
and Navy Departments, OPM and
other war agencies will be serious
ly hampered in obtaining the valu-
able services of SEC and REA, they
will be stuck far away in make
shift offices.
Tens of millions of dollars are
being expended to build temporary
office buildings all ovN Washing
ton and the nearby countryside.
Also there are some permanent
agencies, like the Agricultural Ex-
tension Division, which should never
have been located in the Capital
to begin with and which are occu-
plying huge buildings.
Yet, despite all this, the pro-
utility Budget bureaucrats could
find no other way to obtain office
space than to GUST SEC and REA
from their very modest quarters.
1t looks awfully funny and al
signs indicate there is more 70
the affair than appears on the
surface.
NOTE: The Budget Bureaus or
der directed SEC to move to Phil
adelphia and REA to ST. Louis. The
agencies assumed the Budget Bu-
reau had inquired in both cities and
that they had available adequate
office space. But when SEC and
REA investigated, they discovered
this was not the case and have had
to find their own locations.
Copyright, 1912, by United Fea-
ture Syndicate, lncJ
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A CONVOY FOR COHOES

The job of patroling Alaska's coastline protect
ing its merchant ships their coastal runs supply
ing watch far out at sea against any attempt at
invasion, is the chore the navy is now performing
But providing protection for scores of salmon
canneries fleets of deep-sea habut fishermen
full schedule of cannery tenders plying between
packing plants and Puget Sound, and the many
other varied plants and crafts of the fishing industry
is going to be much ambitious undertaking
for the nations bluejackets
When the navy supplies this protection for the
fishing fraternity, which it is pledged to do Alas
kans are bound to great deal activity
along the waterfront than today Where we
are now aware of bombers roaring across our sky
line and patrol boats off our coasts the challenge
of the fishing industry will see navy ships poking
their dark prows into our little inlets guarding our
straits and and playing the part of marine
watchdogs for any indication of attack from without
or sabotage from within.
AS completely as any military division can
guarantee security in event of a war the navy has
statement from national naval sources said:
The navy fully appreciates the situation with
which the salmon packing industry is confronted
and is in full sympathy with its desires 1t will do
everything in its power to provide the protection
CURED but it must be understood that the contin-
gencies of not practicable and that the stu
alton prevailing at any given time must be the gov
erning factor in any operation"
In relatively few weeks the transporting of the
seasons supplies for the northern operations would
logically commence. With that in mind, number
of cannery operators last month, after the
outbreak of war got in touch with the Navy Depart
ment and asked what assurance they might have
of protection for their operations. The answer was
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HOROSCOPE
"The stars incline
but do not cOmpeW
SATURDAY. JANUARY 10


Benefic aspects rule those who
desire to plan for this new year
Of crisis 1t is a date well suited
to relaxation and serious reflec-
ton. There is a promising sign for
romance.
HEART AND HOME: This is a
favorable sway for looking after
details usually avoided in the
household. Girls should attend to
mending, the arrangements Of
closets and the improvement of
their wardrobes. The wise Will
make much of bargain sales, be-
cause the stars seem to warn that
prices will soar for all sorts of
household necessaries as we'll as
clothing. For many months the
seers have stressed economy and
now they point out that thrift is
imperative.
BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Sudden
slumps in many securities are fore
cast The stock exchanges come
under a critical planetary rule
after the twenty second of this
month. Grave war complications
will affect trade and commerce,
but wage-earners will prosper. Re-
sentiment among selectees who have
surrendered good salaries will be
marked as higher pay is demand
ed for former union associates in
shops or factories. Inequalities will
be more and more apparent among
young Americans as drastic rules
govern them under defense regu-
lations which are imperative.
NATIONAL ISSUES: Women s
part in war service now will be
widely discussed as the highest
efficiency is planned. Increased
numbers will be employed in fac
tories, but training in nursing will
be of greatest value in 1912 Col
lege girls who specialize in chem
istry and the sciences will be much
needed, the seers foretell. Public
health will engross wide attention.
INTERNATIONAL A FAIR S:
The stars are read as presaging
extraordinary mortality among ma
tional leaders of every class. Again
| it is pointed out that Hitler will
come under ominous influences be-
longing to those who seek unde-
served glory. For him the Road of
Termination, or death, long has
been visioned.
Persons whose birthdate it is
have the augury of year of sur
prises, some of which are less ac-
ceptable than others. Danger of
domestic discomfort is foreseen.
Children born on this day prob
ably will be studious and especially
interested in the sciences. They
should have successful careers.
Copyright, 1912
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Garden Club Meeting
Set for Next tuesday

Mrs. Florine Housed will speak on
Early Spring Seed Planting at a
meeting of the Juneau Garden Club
at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at
the Governors Mansion, Mrs. Well
man Holbrook, President, announced
today.
All Channel area residents inter-
ested in vegetable or flower culture
are urged to attend the meeting,
Mrs. Holbrook said The Garden
Club now is affiliated with the
Washington State Federation of
Garden Clubs, a branch of a ma
ttional garden organization.
Members are requested to bring
vegetable and flower catalogues to
Tuesdays meeting and to be pre-
pared to discuss the paintings with
which they have had mort success
in this region.
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Daily Lessons in English " %. L. GORDON

WORDS OFTEN MsUsED: rs that all the
go?" that AS go?'
pronunciation
e-zher E in
NIssPELED Pepetate carry through Perpetuate
o make asing
SYNONYMS Interview consultation meeting
WORD STUDY: a yours"
vocabulary
EPGRAM short treating concisey
thought wittsm,
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'IOOLNis IiIOoLIIL ROBERTA LEE

@ Is for a dining
hat?
A No Women should their hats in the hotel dining
Some the
to look though they employees the
c. Is right when playing cards. o from
hand and hold it apart ready
A No. this indicates play
exceedingly
O. i esccrting a theatre leave her
during ntermssions?
A Yes; there to
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full japanese naval captain caught
with U. S. naval documents in his
possession, and indicted on Hoo
ver's evidence. The other was a
japanese language student attached
to the japanese Embassy who was
caught among the 81 Axis spies
who were indicted in New York
through Hoover's efforts. However,
the State Department ordered his
immediate release. His name was
not even released to the news
papers.
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STRANGE DOINGs

Some things happening in Wash
ington in the name of defense just
don't make sense.
The Securities and Exchange
Commission and the Rural Elec
trification Administration are two
permanent Government agencies
making real contributions to the
conduct Of the war Hardly Gay
goes by that the SEC is not called
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NO. / WAR BOTTLENECK

On the surface, most important
results of the Churchill Roosevelt
conversations were plans for war
strategy in the South Pacific and
Russia, plus formal declarations for
future cooperation. Behind the
scenes, however almost equally i'm
portant was some tough talking
which Lord Beaverbrook did about
the slowness OF American indus
trial production.
Beaverbrook lecture has now
led to concrete plans for strict
government supervision of the most
vital defense bottleneck-th ma
chine tool industry.
The Machine Tool section of
OPM has prepared a report show
ing that not more than 81 ,250000,-
600 of new machine tools will De
produced in 1912, whereas the war
effort will require at least 81
350,000,000 of them. Unless this
amount is made available the
OPM report states, I'VE may expect
the arms production to be danger
ously inadequate until mid-l943 or
into 1914"
The Army-Navy Munitions Board
also estimates that Germany now
has under its control mot count
ing Japan at least 100000 machine
tools less than 9 years old; while
this country has only $4,000 less
tkan 10 years old. Furthermore,
German tools were built for war
purposes, most of ours for peace
time.
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LOOK and LEARN BY G GORDON

many round prize fight?
q What a printers
g. Which is the highest the
Who is the author Twenty
What metronome?
ANSWERS:
l. Fftynne minutes min
between
q An apprentice in the printers
g. The Himalayas
s. An instrument music marking