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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-09-24
HIGH LICHTS in the weeks

NICKEL: Secretary of the Treas
ury Morgenthau has announced that
the new nickel will contain copper,
manganese, silver-and no nickel.
AUTHORITY: Organized with the
assistance of United States experts,
a central autonomous authority will
be set UP by the Brazilian govern
nent in a move toward stricter con-
troll over all phases of the nations
war effort. ez,ssrv I
MISSION: A group of American
technical specialists and production
engineers will accelerate war pro-
duction in India, according to the
state department. The decision to
send the mission resulted from rec
concentrations of the American ex-
perts who surveyed Indian war pro-
duction potentialities last fall.
DAMAGES: According to a Stock
holm dispatch, Josef Terboven, Nazi
commissioner for Norway, has ruled
that the occupied country must pay
damages for German property de-
stroyed there during the war and oc-
cupation.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-09-24
RAIDS ON BRITAIN:
From the Stratosphere

Germany's third new weapon for
daylight bombing raids against Eng
land was revealed in London with a
disclosure that Nazi substratosphere
bombers, equipped with super
charged Diesel motors, have made
several daylight attacks on Great
Britain.
The first of these bombing raids
on Britain were made from attitudes
of approximately 10000 feet. The
bombers were modified Junkers
86-P's equipped with experimental
pressure cabins. Others used were
four-motor Heinkel TITS, carrying
eight tons of bombs, equalling the
capacity of Britain's biggest bomb
ers, and the bomb-carrying Focke-
Wuf 1905. The latter planes are
primarily fighters and they are able
to speed low over coastal targets,
getting away before the fast British
Spitfres can get at them.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-09-24
LAVAL PROTESTS:
MADAGASCAR OCCUPATION

Even as the British advanced on
Tananarive, inland capital of NADIA
gascar, pro-Axis Frenchmen were
demanding blow for blow" re-
prisal against England in retaliation
for the invasion.
Britain's reasons for the occupa-
ton of Madagascar were speedily
set forth. They charged that the
island had supplied japanese sub
marines for raids in the Indian
ocean and the Mozambique channel;
that German spies had opoerated
there with the help of Vichy French
officials, and that Jap planes had
made reconnaissance flights over the
southern end of the island.
The state department in Washing
ton was quick to endorse the British
campaign to take the French pos
session out of the sphere of Axis
influence. Pierre Laval in Vichy
was equally quick to protest the
American endorsement. He said
that defending forces were Every in
sufficient, and regret it." He adj
mitted that the French on the island
were putting up mere token resist
ance as matter of ''honor."
And, as usual, little attention was
paid to the almost chronic COM
plants of Laval.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-09-24
ENFORCED LABOR:
In France

Passing one of the most drastic
laws in French history, the Petain
government established the princi-
pie of forced labor and total dicta-
torship over employment.
The law, originated by Pierre La
val, states that every Frenchman
between the ages of Is and SO and
every French woman between 81
and IS are subject to be called up
''to effect all labors which the gov
eminent will judge useful in the
highest interests of the nation" The
law contains no limitations as to
where the laborers could be shipped.
Every man must prove to the gov
eminent that he is engaged in work
useful to the country's needs" or
be subject to assignment elsewhere.
Employers may not hire workers
unless they are provided by the gov
eminent labor service.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-09-24
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FOURTH TERM DATA
Washington, D. C.

Not much has been said about it
publicly, but already the question OF
the Fourth Term has come in for
lot of backstage discussion.
Republicans, worried about it,
want to do everything possible to
block it. And in the vicinity of the
White House, some of those who
would like to stay around indefinite
ly, want to do everything possible to
encourage it.
But those closest to the President
are convinced that there will be no
Fourth Term Even if he could get
it, they say that this is the last
thing Roosevelt wants.
Or even if there should be a ire
mendous demand on the part Of the
public against changing horses in
midstream, they don't think the
President would yield. His ideals
for preservation of the democratic
system are too deep-rooted, they
say, for him to continue in office for
what would be a total of 16 years.
However, the President does have
one very definite political goal, and
that is to retain control Of congress
during his two remaining years in
office.
He remembers all too clearly,
when he was assistant secretary Of
the navy, the chaos which the coun-
try faced when Woodrow Wilson lost
control of the house of representa-
tives. He also remembers the trou-
bles faced by Herbert Hoover, Cal
vim Coolidge and his cousin Teddy
Roosevelt when they faced a rebel
lious congress during their last two
years in office.
So the President is out to win the
house, and win it at all costs next
November. To that end he will leave
Misunderstanding he hasn't
done since 1940-and take a swing
through the Middle West some time
in October.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-09-24

THESE orange crate bedside
Il tables are useful and easy to
make; they are very decorative,
too, when fitted out as illustrated.
These were lined with green oil
cloth cut, fitted and pasted as
shown. The full skirt pieces were
tackled to the top of the sides and
Tapped a few inches around the
back. A top cover with three
inch frill all around was added.
NOTE: These bedside tables are from
BOOK of the series of 32-page booklets
that Mrs. Spears has prepared for read
ers. BOOK contains a complete alpha
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-09-24
TRANSPORTATION:
u. S. Control

Before the operators Of 5000, 900
trucks, $4,000 buses and $4,000
taxicabs can obtain gasoline, tires
or parts after November Is, they
will be forced to show Certificates
of war necessity"
Government control of these We
hicles as conservation measure
was announced by Joseph B. East
man, director of the Office of De-
Tense Transportation. Eastman said
the certificates for commercial We
hicles would require a tire check
every 5000 miles, or every so days
whichever occurs first. Certifi-
Gates, he indicated, would be issued
to all types of trucks and vehicles
built primarily for transporting
property and passengers and others
available for public usage, such as
ambulances and hearses.
The control measure was inaugu-
rated to limit the use of vehicles
to operations necessary to the war
effort, or to the essential domestic
economy.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-09-24
JOBS TO REPUBLICANS

Some of FDR's political advisers,
among them Democratic Chairman
Ed Flynn, tell him privately that
the battle to control the house in
November will not be easy. One
trouble is patronage.
Patronage is word which may
bring a bad smell to the public, but
to the politician it is like the smell
of raw meat to circus lion. He
will not perform without it.
Back in the early days of the
New Deal, Jim Farley kept a little
card index of how every congress-
man voted on important issues and
what jobs he had received. When
the congressman stopped voting
right, he stopped getting jobs for
his constituents. That system
worked like a charm-for a while.
But in recent years Roosevelt HIM
self has given more and more jobs
to Republicans, while Leon Hender-
son, the greatest job dispenser Of
war times, has placed everything in
the hands of state governors, a large
proportion of them Republicans.
So today, the Presidents political
friends say that his definition of pa
tronage is: Something which you
hold out to your friends, but use to
reward your enemies"
And these friends have had the
short end of the patronage stick for
so long that, as November ap-
proaches, FDR is finding a lot of
the old politicoes unwilling to go to
bat for him, while the rewarded enc
mics won't stay put.
So the congressional elections are
going to be tougher than a lot of
people realize, and you will probably
see certain seasoned political sea-
dogs, among them Ed Flynn, resign
ing from the picture before many
weeks are over.
Note: Patronage under the old
congressional system had a lot of
faults, but it was not half as bad as
under the present dollar-a-year man
system, where somebody gets a key
WPB job or a cellophane commits
sion merely because he is the friend
of a big accounting firm or a part
ner of Wall Street broker.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-09-24
MORGENTHAU:
Lauds Bond Sales

Flatly denying that he regards the
voluntary war bond sales program
as failure" Secretary of the
Treasury Henry Morgenthau de-
clared in a statement to the war
savings staff that the treasury twill
continue to rely upon voluntary
lending for a large part of our
financing"
The secretary's statement was
made following recent press con-
ference. He said: "The impression
seems to have spread that I regard
the voluntary war bond program as
a failure This is not only a distor-
ton of anything I have said on the
subject, but it is also an injustice
to the hundreds of thousands of de-
voted volunteers in all parts of the
country
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-09-24

Mai. Gen. Russell Maxwell, left,
head of the u. s. forces in the Egyp-
tan battle zone, works out tactical
problem with Sir Allan Brooke,
chief of the British Imperials gen.
eral staff. This picture was made at
Middle East headquarters in Cairo.
midas PROBLEM:
More Complex
The Indian problem appeared
more complex than ever with the
statement by Mohammed Ali jim
nah. leader of midas Moslem
league, that the Moslems would not
be prepared to enter a provisional
government unless their demand for
"pakistan," or the establishment of
a separate Mohammedan state, was
met.
The demands made doubly difficult
Britain's job of placating Indian
factions long at odds with each other.
The Moslem leader declared that
'sWe do not want to be stampeded
into forming a provisional govern
ment, under the stress of the war
emergency, which would be of such
character and composition that it
would PREJUDICE or initiate against
the existing Moslem demand for
pakistan.
"This is not a scheme, but our
birthright. According to our latest
resolution it means that three
quarters of India goes to the Hindus
and one-quarter to the Moslems, but
even that the Hindus want to wrigg
out Of"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-09-24

NAVY: Approval of Clinton, Okla,
as the site of an $4,000, 900 naval
aviation training base has been an
nounced by Navy Secretary Knox.
RATIONING: When Verney Har-
rop of Toronto, Ont, decided that
William, aged g. should have a ra-
ton card, he ran into trouble. The
wartime prices and trade board dis
covered that William, aged 6" was
dog. Mr.. Harrop was fined 500.
VOLUNTEERS: Because of full
application quotas for such services
as the adjutant generals, finance
department and quartermaster
corps, draft deferred civilians who
volunteer for army officer training
must choose one of the fighting
branches, the war department has
ordered.
GANDHI: Mohandas K. Gandhi
has been denounced as an "arch
saboteur" in London by L. S. Am
cry, secretary of state for India,
because of his civil disobedience
campaign launched while Jap inva-
sion forces knocked at the door.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-09-24
ga DRAFT:
inevitable

eff Hitler landed on the beach
now, this afternoon, there would be
no question in the minds of wives
in sparing their husbands"
With that statement, Maj. Gen.
Lewis B. Hershey, national draft di-
rector, made it clear to the nation
that the need for man power in the
armed services has made inevitable
the drafting of now deferred hus-
bands with dependents and war pro-
duction workers.
"We will have to come to the real
ization that there are not enough
single men, that there are not
enough married men without de-
pendents, for the mobilization of,
say, between 10 million and IS mil
lion in the United States" Hershey
said.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-09-24
PRODUCTION CUT:
Faced by Industry

In a straight-to-the-point speech,
Donald NJ Nelson, chairman of the
War Production board, warned the
nation that we are not winning the
war and that, although the nations
production is not what it should be,
shifts must be made in material al
lotment that will enforce layoffs and
production changes.
He pointed out that further cuts
in materials for civilian use and
shifts in materials from one war
product to another would be made
to balance war production, and said
such cuts and assignments would
result in enforced layoffs for men
and women intent on production for
victory.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-09-24
GAS RATIONINC:
Discomfort, Not Defeat

Approximately 100000 motor
lists throughout the nation have
made drastic changes in their driv-
ing habits and, faced by a matter Of
discomfort or defeat" are prepar-
ing for further restrictions.
When Bernard NJ Baruch's spe-
cial rubber committee handed it's
hard-hitting report to Mr.. Roosevelt,
the President was ready to act. His
opening gun was an announcement
that "as rapidly as arrangements
can be made" he would put into eff
feet set of recommendations SUBJ
mitted by the committee. These in
Guided nationwide gasoline ration
ing and severe restrictions on civil
ian motoring.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-09-24

form, training is one
of the most subtle
of all the arts. 1t
is a job that calls
for expert treat
ment.
For example, I
was talking about
this with Col. Bob
Neyland, head coach
of the army team.
Colonel Neyland
knows what condi-
ton means as well
as anyone I've run
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-09-24
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lust how much training and hard
- driving can the human system
stand? When it comes to matter
of lifting a human being to peak
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-09-24
The Only Way

Almost every athlete of any i'm
portance started his game as kid.
You never develop stars who start
after IS or 80.
Bob Jones began playing golf at
the age of eight. Jack Dempsey was
street-fighting at the age Of 10.
Babe Ruth was playing baseball
at IL.
You never make the Big League
starting some game after 20. The
knack comes to younger minds and
younger muscles-to kids who came
along to championships later on.
If this is true in sport, it must be
true in many phases of combat work
in war-fying, marching, shooting,
swimming, parachute jumping-any
part of the war games that calls
for skill and stamina. So far this
has been overlooked in this country.
For the army or navy I'd much
rather have 16-year-old boy than
civilian beyond 80 or IS. The latter
are game enough. They will have
just as much courage. But they
can't have that unbeatable gift of
youth-so much more easily taught,
so much more effective when the
showdown arrives.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-09-24
Briefs

q Bill Stewart, National league UNI
pire, pitched for Louisville when
Joe Mccarthy managed that team.
q Walter Johnson struck out 3,497
American league batters in 81 sea-
sons.
q Ray Starr, Cincinnati's 35-year-
old recruit hurler, played with 16
different clubs before he landed with
the Reds.
q Pete Gray, one-armed outfelder
with the Three Rivers club of the
Canaan league, is hitting 1867.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-09-24
WHERE CREDIT is DUE

One of the best jobs of Americana
cation has been done by the Illinois
State Register of Springfield in its
series of editorials and radio pro-
grams paying tribute to the big con-
tribution foreign groups have made
to the culture and progress of the
U. S. A
The radio program, called Amer
leans Advantageous All'' told the
story of how the men of many races
had contributed to this countryside
Italians, including men like Frank
Capra, LaGuardia, and Ernest Gu
neo; the Welsh, including Charles
Evans Hughes; the Slavs-Louis Ad-
annie, Sikorsky, Seversky; Joseph
Pulitzer from Hungary, John Philip
Sousa from Portugal, George YOUR
mas from Greece and thousands of
others,
CAPITAL CHAFF
q According to fair-minded Senator
Styles Bridges, who sits on the Re-
publican side of the aisle, Demo-
cratic Senator Scott Lucas of Illinois
is one of the coming men of the
country.
q When Henry Kaiser first got his
big shipbuilding contracts he had
Tommy "The Cork" Corcoran as
his Washington contact man. Now
he doesn't Kaiser isn't making
much Roadway with his cargo
planes.
Buy War Bonds
q One reason gasoline is inferior
these days is because of the tre-
mendous production of high octane
gas for airplanes, which skins the
cream of the petroleum.
q The state department is economic
ing by turning off the hot water in
lavatories and using bar soap in
stead of powdered soap at the wash
basins.
q Naval Lieutenant Barry Bingham,
publisher of the Louisville Courier
Journal, viii go to London, where
his father was the late much-loved
ambassador, to handle naval press
relations for Admiral Stark.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-09-24
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
New Allied Air Blows Take Heavy Toll
Of Jap Held Airports in New Guinea;
Nelson Warns of War Production Cut;
u. S. to Control Truck, Taxi Operation


Re Union
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-09-24

: dCTOS5.
''The point you have to watch, T"
he said, sis the human limit. You
can't afford to pass that point. In
my many years of coaching I've
seen squads brought up to 80 per
cent efficiency when it came to
blocking or tackling. When we tried
to lift this 80 per cent to IS per cent
by harder work and longer time, on
almost every occasion the squad
would drop back to IS per cent or
even 70 per cent. They were willing
enough to give all they had, but
physical and mental fatigue would
leave its poison and the extra work
was worse than wasted. It was
harmful"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-09-24
The Surest System

The SureSt system is to start train
ing kids from Is to 16 years of age.
They can be trained to walk from
10 to IL miles day. AS they get
little older this can be lifted to Is
miles or 20 miles. We have too
many hundreds of thousands of boys
from Is to Is who have known far
too little leg work. At that age
body contact should be light, to be
increased from year to year.
Someone was smart enough in
both Germany and Japan to start
training these younger boys as far
back as 10 years ago. Standing be-
fore the Army-Redskin game in the
Los Angeles Coliseum a few weeks
ago several of US from the top tower
looked down on the Olympic SWIM
ming stadium, recalling Jap swim
mers from IA to 16 years of age
winning distant swimming events.
These youngsters had been started
at the age of nine or ten. Some Of
them were among the Jap troops
that swan to Hong Kong.
I have mentioned before about
the hundreds of thousands of Ger
man kids from II to Is who were
in hard training all over Germany
during the 1896 Olympic games. In
this respect both Germany and
Japan, knowing the inevitability of
a war they were going to start, made
this youth training a national plan.
This youth training isn't a matter
of surmise, but a matter of fact
and of record. I still recall an old
Southern Civil war poem to Little
Giffen of Tennessee. Part of it ran
like this
"Sn,itten tUith grapeshot and gangrene-
Sixteenth battLe-and he fourteen"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-09-24
Football and Var

If this goes for football, it also
goes for training needed in war. A
good many people, knowing that war
is tougher game than football, or
any other game ever invented, can't
understand why a soldier shouldn't
be worked from daybreak reveille
to nightfall. They can't see why any
recreation is needed.
But those who know their business
in the army and navy understand
the cracking point.
When anyone is packed with men
tai and physical fatigue, there must
be resting spots, as every good
trainer knows. After that point he
can't absorb any further develop
ment in skill or condition for the time
being.
This is why both the army and
navy have been smart in getting so
many physical conditioners who
know what should be done.
Golf, for another example, is not
a killing game. But fatigued golf
er is rarely any good. The mes
sage that comes from a tired brain
to tired nerves and muscles is al
ways badly blurred.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-27
Lungs Now on Sale
AS Low as $1,000

There are now four other ma
chimes on the market. All work
on the principle of partial vac
uum inside the respirator to ex-
pand the patients chest so that
the air is drawn into his lungs,
succeeded by a gentle pressure TO
contract the chest and force the
air out.
At the start, artificial respira-
tors cost $1,000 each. and were
hard TO obtain even at that price.
Now, there are four different types
on the market, ranging in price
from 81 300 to $1,000. The Drinker
and the Emerson are the kinds
used in most hospitals.
The National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis looks forward
TO the day when there will be
enough iron lungs in the nations
hospitals TO take care of all pos
SibIe patients.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-27
First Bottle O. K,
but Second
Causes Trouble

whisky off the lady who runs
the place and went outside when
nobody was noticing and drank
the whole bottle without stop
ping once.
You see Joe my Uncle Ben
had never drank a whole bottle
of Irish whisky before without
stopping so he wanted to try IT
on himself although he sees IL
il had been American whisky he
would not have had TO parctice.
/ ses no / guess ne wouldn't
al that Ethel and she seS well
then after he saw he could drink
the whole bottle at once my
Uncle Ben went back in the bar
room and took the bet and
started to drink another bottle
the same way he did the one out
side but he only got two thirds
of il down when he got sick and
Sam would not allow for that
and claimed the bet.
So they got in a little tussle
and Sans nose got broken some
how and they put my Uncle Ben
in the guaFdhouse.
/ ses he ought TO be ashamed
of himself Ethel and she says
why Joe he ses he is. He ses
he is ashamed that he has gone
so far back that he can't win a
bet like that but he is sure he'll
do better next time. He sends
his regards to you Joe.
Yours truly
JOE TURP.
-copyriEhi-- iai2--hy- Kiag Features
Distributed b. International News ssryiss
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-27
Snite S Daughter
Makes His Toast

Snite himself spends two hours
each day in the portable breather.
On Aug. 10. 1899, Snite, still in
the lung, married Theresa Larkin,
former college mate of his sister,
Mary Loretta. He had known his
bride for seven years. The cere-
mony was performed by the Rev.
j. w. Morrison in the elder Snite's
home in River Forest, Ill. The
bridal couple spent their honey
moon touring in the bridegroom
trailer.
On Sept. %, 1910, a baby girl
was born to Mrs. Snite. Grandpa
Snite reports that the daughter,
Theresa Maria (Pinkie), now 2,
helps make Daddys toast and
often feeds him.
Fred's general health remains
good except for hay fever which
afflicted him this season.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-27
Hearst Newspaper
Rushes I'd Machine

Physicians attempted 10 meet
the crisis by removing Shirley
from The mechanical reSpirator
for brief periods in order that
Maybelle might have her chance
at life. too.
Meanwhile. the Chicago Herald
American. a Hearst newspaper,
rushed an additional reSpirator
from Chicago to Denver.
But the younger sufferer could
not be removed from the hos
pitfalls one iron lung long enough
10 give the new patient a chance,
and, a few minutes before the
emergency respirator reached the
hospital. Maybelle died.
Denver hospitals now have four
mechanical respirators, and il is
unlikely that the city will ever
witness a similar tragedy But in
other cities and localities. danger
Gus shortages of iron lungs still
exist.