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CALL THE LAWYER

The Rejected Subordinate the
idea-this sister stuff? Why do you
want to be a sister to me?
Miss Mainchance-Well, you see,
a sister isn't expected to return her
brothers gifts.
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aforementioned Railroad

The government-owned railways
Oh India form one of the largest
business enterprises in the world,
covering route mileage of Al, 1874
miles and employing over 100000
men. They normally earn substan-
tai surplus profits, after payment
OF interest on capital, which are
credited to the general revenues and
thus serve to relieve the Indian tax
payer.
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IN THE HOOSEGOW

Plain Clothes Man-Have you got
that gunman still spotted, jim?
Policeman-No; he's in stripes
now.
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HAD HER NUMBER

"Bill said I looked good enough to
eat last night"
"And so you steered him to high,
price beanery, suppose"
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MAKING PROGRESS

How are your New Year resolu-
tons holding out?"
First rate. By amending them
from time to time may make 'em
Last all year"
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Council Chambers
E1y Minnesota

Thursday, November 5, 1912.
Adjourned Regular Meeting.
Adjourned regular meeting of the
City Council was called to order at
1884 o'clock P. M, by Mayor John
Kapsch.
Present: Aldermen Ahola, Anderson,
Koschak, Porthan, Mayor Kapsch (5)
Absent: Alderman Maxi. Cd
Consideration of minutes.
Moved by Alderman Porthan, sup
ported by Alderman Ahola, that the
minutes of the regular meeting held
october 20, 1912, be approved Carried
unanimously.
Moved by Alderman Koschak, sup
ported by Alderman Porthan, that the
matter of adjusting salaries and in
creasing the working time of common
labor be considered at this meeting.
Carried unanimously.
Report of the Committee on Ac-
counts & Finance was read as follows:
Ely, Minnesota, November 5, 1912.
To the Honorable Mayor and City
Council,
City of Ely, Minnesota.
Gentlemen:
We, your Committee on Accounts &
Finance, having examined the fol-
lowing payrolls and bills for the
month. of october, 1912, find them to
be correct and recommend that they
be allowed and paid:
Payroll, Official & Miscel-
laneous Department ......$ 3,825.68
Payroll, Court & Police De-
partment .............2 10000
Payroll, Fire Department -. 605.00
Payroll, Community Center
Department .......... s6s.75
Payroll, Library Department 455.20
Payroll, Light & Water De-
partment ................ 2,7O5.37
Payroll, Street Commits
sioner's Department $500. 6,660.92
Mary Glavon & John Glavon,
Full settlement re: injury
case of Mary Glavon 49,. $4,000
Ely Fire Department, Fire
calls 2l6.0O
Edwin Allen Company, Lii
UOOhS LILO
American Linen Exchange
Co., Services ............ SAG
Armour & Company, Soap :. $500
Steve A. Banovetz, Plumbing
supplies and services ..... 9.25
Baxtrum Garage, Tires and
batteries 1905
Edith Bohince, Services for
Recreational Dept. ....... 1000
Central Garage, Recap tire,
truck supplies ......... 262.79
Coast-to-Coast Store, Sup
pies ~
I. G. Cox, Car maintenance
allowance ................. 2O.UO
Duluth Paper & Specialties
Co., Toweling ........ 41.10
Ely Drum & Bugle Corps,
Public appearances $500. 1900
Ely Gas & Oil Company,
Gasoline g. kerosene -. $3.50
Ely Hardware & Furniture
Co., Recreational supplies. 400
The Ely Miner, Printing &
publishing ............... l26.2O
Fairbanks, Morse & Co.,
Scale (contract) ....... 1851
Farm Service Company, Sup
plies ...................... e.o5
w. A. Fisher Company, Office
supplies ................... $3.50
The Flox Company, Supplies 1900
Ely Motor Sales, Supplies :. 5y62
Gaylord Bros. Inc, Library
supplies ................... 1785
General Electric Supply
Corp, Electrical supplies. 3.66
Stanley Glinsek, Electric meter
returned ................. 1o.4l
The Goodyear Tire & Rub
Der Co., Recap grader tires 1920
Frank Gustafson, Plumbing
services ............ 6.34
Ingersoll-Rand Company,
Jackbits and jackhammer
parts ................ 1906
Iron Range Civilian Defense
Council, November assess
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jacobson Service, Gasoline ESQ
James Drug Store, Supplies. 1872
Kansas City White Goods
Mfg. Co., Blankets ....... 1880
David F. Kennedy, Inc, Floor
wax .................. 1910
Mrs. Ruth King, Librarian,
Petty cash disbursements 795
Klug's SC to $1.00 Store, Sup
pies ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 340O
A. o. Knutson, City Clerk,
Petty cash disbursements 1858
Frank L. KoSchak, Tire and
supplies ................... 4o.z4
Laing Hardware Company,
Lamps and supplies $50. 1870
Lampert Lunlbre Company,
Supplies .................. 1871
c. B. Lyon & Bro. Inc,
Alum ................... f.oI
A. G. McClurg & Co., Library
books 1914
McGraw Hill Book Co., Inc,
Lineman's Handbook -. Az
McMahan Lumber Company,
supplies ................... l3Oo1
Mantel Hardware & Furniture
Co., Supplies .............. $3.50
The Mathieson Alkali Works,
Chlorine and ammonia -. $3.50
Mathisen Tire Co., Recap tires 1880
Frank Meden, Car Mainten-
ance allowance ........... 800
Midland Chemical Labora-
tories, Inc, Brushes for
scrubbing machine ...... 1866
Mine Safety Appliances Co.,
SupplleS ................ az
Minnesota Power & Light Co.,
Power consumed during
October, 1912 ....... 4,563.67
Stanley Modin, Car expense
re: Recreation Dept. ...... 1000
John Nordstrom, Blacksmith
ing 1190
Pete's Garage, Tire ........ 21.25
Range Paper Company, Sup
pIeS ................ 1000
Clement v. Ritter, Library
books ..................... 400
The Oscar c. Rixon Co., Re
pair Community Center
door checks ... 11.65
s. Sikala & Sons, Screenings
(contracD ............... z4f.32
Matt Sikala, Blacksmith
ing .................... 1919
S & S Auto Parts Co., Truck
supplies .................. 1910
Standard Oil Company, Gas
oline and oil ....... 94.74
ST. Louis County Humane
Society, Appropriation 49,. 10000
ST. Louis County, Road &
Bridge Fund, Grader rental 1920
ST. Paul Book g. Stationery
Co., Library books .....,. 66.19
Tourist Service Station, Gas
oline & fuel oil (contract 1885
Troy Laundry, Services -. 1905
Amelia Veranth, Building
rental for polling place -. 1900
Veranth Fuel & Lumber Co.,
Supplies, sewer tile (con-
tract) .................. 1,17227
John S. Vessel, Electric wire. 1854
Westinghouse Electric Sup
ply Co., Electrical supplies 215.71
VIM. II. Zlegler Supply Co.,
Electrical supplies ........ 4O.4O
Election Board Services,
General Election, November
8, 1912, as per verified
claims No. 70 to No. 129
inclusive, on file $500. 387.25
Total ...................' .Szo'ooo.iS
Respectfully submitted,
Gust R. Anderson,
Toimi Ahola,
COMMITTEE ON ACCOUNTS &
FINANCE.
Moved by Alderman Koschak, sup
ported by Alderman Anderson, that
the report of the Committee on Ac-
counts & Finance be accepted and
filed, and the approved payrolls and
bills be paid. Carried unanimously.
Moved by Alderman Koschak, sup
ported by Alderman Porthan, that the
Superintendent of the Water & Light
Department be directed to have one
of his men do radio interference
work Carried unanimously.
Report from the City Clerk, show
ifada1. L
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,ecinct: Judges:
rst Ida May Moonan
Violet LaSSi
Vienna Tanttari
,cond Alma Tuomikoski
Grace Pekkala
Mike Gordon
aird Ellen Sundholm
Myrtle Rice
Josephine Brennan
)urth Rose Svetich
Anna Stukel
Martin Skala, ST..
fth Alma Kauppi
Carol LaSsi
Margaret Lambert
xth Rose Maxi
Mary Stubler
Irene Grahek
Evening star., 1942-01-07

A very arresting fact in the l94l
income tax law is the lowering of the
personal exemption from $500 to $3.50
for a single person, and from 81 600
to $500 for a married person or
the head of family, and the change
in the basis for determining liability
for return.
Every citizen or resident of the
United States must file an income
tax return, if single, or not living
with husband or wife, and his or her
gross income is $3.50 or over; or If
married and living with husband
or wife and his or her gross income
EQUALS or exceeds 81 500; or if both
have gross income, and the COM
bined gross income of husband and
wife equals 81 500 or over. Thus
single persons or married persons
not living with husband or wife,
who earn as much as Sl4.43 a week
for the So weeks of the year, and
married persons living together who
aggregate earnings of as much as
s28.85 a week for the year, are re-
ouired to file returns.
It matters not if the return dis
closes that, by reason of allowable
deductions, or the credit for personal
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the United States and Britain.
They sometimes think only in
terms of doing something" in
stead of remaining on the de-
fensive until forces are suffl-
ciently concentrated to permit
naval and military commanders
to strike, without fear of defeat.
The possibility of dispersion Of
forces causes the high command
particular concern.
From the strictly military point
of view it is considered necessary
in Washington that the Allies
concentrate all their efforts in the
Pacific in the next two months.
This is for two reasons-because
the territories in the South Pa
cific and more vulnerable than
Russia and the Near East and
are vital TO the Allies prOSecu-
ton of the war; and because the
japanese are in a less favorable
position than their European
allies. After spending their major
effort In spectacular offensive
in the Philippines and Malaga
the japanese will be weakened for
the day when overwhelming
Allied naval and air forces attack.
Sound Strategy.
This is considered sound STRAIT
e9y. 1t is based on the theory
that during the first year OF the
war we cannot fight extensively
on two fronts and that the Allies
will 90 we'll If they maintain a
successful defense in Europe while
helping the Russians to continue
their excellent work by supplying
them with war materials. In the
Mediterranean, the Near East and
Africa they should defend them
selves without thinking of spo-
radio orensives which are costly
and in most cases futile.
Military and naval strategists
repeat untiringly that the Ger
mans have had serious reverses
in Russia and in Libya, but that
they are nowhere near collapse.
Even the Italians, demoraliZed
and tired of war as they are, still
possess strong nuisance value in
the Mediterranean.
The meetings between Prime
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fireman's S Suit TO Recover
Salary Is Dismissed

A former District freman's suit.
charging he was deprived Illegally
OF salary increase in the depart
ment after entering the Army as a
selectee. was dismissed without
prejudice by Justice Jennings
Bailey in District Court Yesterday.
Keith L. Bell, now on duty at the
Orlando FlaD air base. had sued
the District Commissioners and the
municipality, seeking a mandatory
injunction for the increase and re-
covery Of salary claimed due him,
He declared the Commissioners
made an entry of unsatisfactory"
on his record after his induction
into the Army last August 7, depriv-
ing him unjustly of a S100 annual
salary increase due 10 days later.
He asked judgment against the Dis
trict for s10863 back pay.
In asking dismissal. attorneys for
the District. headed by Corporation
Counsel Richmond B. Keech. con-
tended the Selective Service and
Training Act of 1910 required only
that Mr.. Bell be returned TO equal
employment upon his discharge
from service. not better status.
They argued. further. that the auto
matte salary increases for hremen
are not mandatory, but subject 20
the Commissioners findings of sat-
isfactory service.
The courts Without preiuGtce"
ruling permits counsel for N5r. Bell
to bring other legal action if de-
sired.
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100000 in Back Wages
Won for District Workers

Enforcement of the Fair Labor
Standards Act in the District last
year resulted in agreements for the
restitution of more than 100000 in
back wages to District workers.
Thomas w. Holland. administrator
of the Wage and Hour Division. an
nounced today.
The award Of approximately
sl37000 to employees OF the Smoot
Sand & Gravel Co. was the largest
single payment made in the District
during the year This restitution
was made by the firm as the result
of suit brought by employees.
Enforcement of the law in the
District is carried on under a Coz
operative agreement between the
Wage and Hour Division and the
Minimum Wage Board, of which
Mrs. William Kittle is chairman.
Miss Elizabeth Champe, wage-hour
law inspector, operates under tbs
general supervision Of Miss Eunice
Broyles. executive secretary Of ths
board
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Womon's Democratic
Club Elects Officers

Mrs. Willard r. SmallWood was
elected president of the Women's
Democratic Club Of Silver Spring,
Nd. at a meeting Monday at the
home of Mrs. Donnell Mason. She
succeeds Mrs. Robert M. Poole.
Other officers elected are Mrs.
Poole, first vice president; Mrs. j.
Howell Forsyth. second vice presi-
dent. Mrs. Calvin Schaeffer, record
ing secretary: Mrs. Louis A. Yost,
corresponding secretary: Mrs. John
l.. Crawford, treasurer; Mrs. Arthur
L. Blateslee., parliamentarian, and
Miss Alice Jones, auditor. Precinct
chairmen named include Mrs. Einar
B. Christensen, second; Mrs. Poole,
fifth: Mrs. Jackson c. Lusby, sew
enth: Mrs. Mason, eighth; Mrs.
John J. Geary. 10th, Mrs. l.. T
Faulconer. 1lth: Mrs, Ralph A
Wells. 18th: Mrs. DYKE Cullum. 18th
and Mrs. E. Francis McDevitt. 14th
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muddle headedness and the COM
placency of the democracies, ard
above all by the bureaucratic
mechanisms that run democra-
cies.
The Russians are doing their
lob. both on the military ard the
political front.
What can we do to seal the
defeat of Hitler this year so that
we can feel confident in the
Atlantic and devote our whole
energies and those of our Allies to
licking the tar out Of the Jap
anese?
Since we, entirely due to pro-
longed myopia, were unprepared
for the attack in a military way
and utterly unprepared for the
initial defeats, we have to make
every conceivable effort to come
rapidly to war footing.
This demands not the mobiliza-
ton Of the State. but the mobi-
lization of the Nation.
The Nation is composed of an
overwhelming majority OF work
ers and farmers.
Experts Missed Opportunity.
Our President asks us for a
seven-day week. We are happy
in the realization that our work
ers want to do their job. One of
their leaders, Walter P. Reuther.
made a proposal year ago for
the adaptation of the entire
motor industry to the production
of planes and tanks. His pro-
posals were plain horse sense
that any layman could under
stand, and several columnists, as
I recall, supported them, among
them myself But not the "ex-
perts" They declared that it was
quite impossible to make planes
and tanks in automobile plants.
So the auto plants continued
business and produced 100000
automobiles last year, using up
so much rubber that now people
with cars can't buy tires.
OF course the industrialists did
not obstruct. They were for
building new plants for arma-
ment purposes on very favorable
financial terms from the Gov
ernment. AS this demanded time.
we were short of planes And as
there is no longer material for
the automotive industry, the
plants are idle and there will be
an unemployment of 100000
skilled workers by the end Of
January.
Meantime, however, the 'ex-
perts" have discovered that now
it is possible to convert the auto
mobile plants.
The plain fact is that the auto
mobile workers were right and
the industrialists wrong. And
now the union leaders are offer
ing proposals for increasing the
arms output, and Mr.. Reuther
and his associates must be given
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This Changing World
Allies Should Concentrate on Pocific
And FORGET Other Fronts for Moment

Minister Churchill and Presi-
dent Roosevelt resulted in COM
plete agreement between the ma
jor Allied nations and their
sympathizers. AS far as we
know officially there has been
full agreement on the necessity
of pressing the fight in the South
Pacific to the utmost.
Concerned at Impatience.
But some politically minded
leaders are worrying lest their
peoples grow impatient at the
lack of initiative on the part Of
the Allied military forces and are
said to be thinking in terms Of
some spectacular raids which
might give the Allies an improved
strategic position in other
theaters of operation.
The idea in itself is heartily
indorsed by every one who has
had contact with it. If success
full it would bolster the morale
of nations which have been in
the war longer than we and
hearten the subjected European
nations, which are becoming dis
couraged in spite of the Russian
victories. Apparently the strict
German censorship prevents peo-
pies in those countries from learn
ing the truth about German dis
asters in Russia to the same eX-
tent that We and the British
learn Of them.
But, it is pointed out, if Of
fensive military operations are
undertaken in other areas than
the Pacific, the consequences of
failure would outweigh the pos
sible fruits of success Military
and naval operations predicated
on political necessities have sell
dom been advantageous TO the
military situation.
Disastrous to Hitler.
The last operation of this kind
was undertaken by Adolf Hitler
i'll Russia. He moved troops
from Gen. Karl Won Rundstedt's
forces on the southern front in
an attempt to capture Moscow
and thus keep his rash promise
to the German people that the
Russian capital would be handed
to them as a Christmas gift.
The consequences of Hitler's
failure are only too obvious. The
German armies are in retreat
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20 resolutions l day-dreamed little
about the Henry McLemore of 1912.
There he goes" could just hear
people say, "a noble and sanity man
if ever there was one. Did you know
that he doesn't smoke. doesn't drink
and never eats the fattening foods
he so loves? He never fights with
his wife at bridge and every time he
comes across word he doesn't know
he looks it up in the dictionary.
He doesn't bet on the horses and
no one could drag him near a
roulette table. He reads and rereads
all the classics that he's been mean
ing to do for years and never loses
his temper nor cusseS even a cuss
on the golf course.
He takes regular exercises when
he gets up in the morning and he's
taken inches off his WaiStllne. He
Is a slave to his typewriter and
never lets anything interfere with
even if it takes him 10 hours. Hes
always beautifully eroomed and
never complains when he has to get
into his formerly too-tight dinner
clothes. Why, he"
That's really amazing. He must
indeed be man of character and
high principles. Has he always
been this Way?"
NO, indeed. just since January I,
1912. You should have seen him
in 194l-a chain smoker, if there
ever was one Six slices of bread
and a half pound of butter were
mere appetizers for him ut any meal
and his wife brought bodyguards to
the bridge table"
l don't know when I've had such
good time as I did picturing the
1912 Model McLemore. l might
even say the 1912 Model model Nc
Lemore. But I decided TO wait until
l943 to stick to all my New Year
resolutions. II Just seems to me
there are so many drastic changes
being made these days that I have
no right to inflict my 2 cents worth
of drastic change on anybody.
!.
No, instead of selfshly wasting nv
efforts on self improvement I have
decided to remain the same old dis
credit to any community I happen
to be living in, and devote myself to
more important things. At a time
when big business is curtailing the
production of new models. who am
to start changing my old chassis
and calling a strike on my former
habits in open defiance of our
present labor agreement.
No, even at the risk of bringing
down the anger of Messrs. Roosevelt
and Churchill on my head by going
against their policy, I have made
separate peace-a separate peace
Netween my 194l self and my 1912
+ self to cease hostilities at least till
1943.
If I had a dictionary handy, and
if had the dictionary habit, Id look
up the word "rationalize." Wonder
what it means?
Distributed by McNausht Syndicate, IncJ
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The Great Game of Politics
Defense Leaders Criticized in Peo to President
To Make Next ReshuffIine More Effective

reluctance to do that is-and al
ways has been-one of the main
troubles with his administration.
1t has now become q dangerous ma
tional liability and the barrage of
the lsst week is indicative Of in
creased realization of the fact.
The sum of all this is basis for the
belief that the President is about to
announce another reshuffling OF the
organization. This will be the fourth
since its creation, and rumors as to
its character have been rife for some
time.
The forecasts, coming from usu-
ally well-posted correspondents, are
in two directions. One speaks of
super cabinet" of which Mr.. Will
kie may be a member. The other
suggests a reorganization in which
Vice President Wallace will be the
administrative head and Donald
Nelson the executive director. The
latter seems the more generally
favored, but, except that more au-
thority may be conferred, it seems
but slightly different from the S. r.
A. B., created by the President when
he mads the last reshuffle.
Need Is for Ablest Men.
Mr.. Wallace is now head of the
S p. A. B. and Mr.. Nelson is its ex-
ecutive director and the S. p. A. B.
(at least when it was first launched
was supposed to be sort of super
cabinet itself. 1t has neither ma
terially increased efficiency nor less
ened confusion. And it does not
reem reasonable to believe that Civ
ing Mr.. Wallace and Mr.. Nelson more
authority will do either. Certainly,
the idea that Mr.. Wallace is en- ex-
perienced administrator, capable OF
managing so gigantic an enterprise.
is not justified by anything in his
record
While the need for a reorganiza-
ton is obvious. the fear is that the
one now in contemplation will be no
more effective than those which
have preceded it.
Most certainly. it will not be if the
basic idea is to keep the New Dealers
at the top. What is needed is not
reshuffling that will change the po-
sitions Of the men already in the
organiza ton, but reshuff1ing that
will bring into 1t the ablest men in
the country. most OF whom at the
moment, are on the OUTSIDE. And
it ought not to make any difference
to anybody whether they are New
Dealers or not.
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Bv CONSTANTINE BROWN.

With the war being fought on
two fronts the United States
Navy is confronted with great
problems of strategy. During the
last war such problems did not
face our naval leaders; their sole
worry was the protection of trans
ports carrying hundreds Of thou
sands of American soldiers and
millions of tons of supplies to
the European battlef1elds. 1t was
mere routine.
Naval strategy these days Is
complicated by political leaders,
who have the last word in both
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any may consider themselves
lucky if they can establish VIM
ter quarters behind the Len
ingrad-Smolensk-K line.
Sound strategy demands
concentration of forces in the
South Pacific to offset COM
pletely the Axis plan to conquer
Singapore and the Netherlands
Indies. The other fronts are
relatively inconsequential at this
moment.