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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-07-09
IT'S ALL WORK
Little Play for Flyers
in Training.

It's all work and no play for the
flying men of the navy who are
training to whip the daylights out of
the Axis.
From Cadet Harry Anderson, who
is taking his advanced training at the
navy's University of the Air" at
Corpus Christi, Texas, comes word
to his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Gust An
deson, that ct have just 20 minutes
to write this letter. Time sure is
valuable around here now that am
in advanced training"
Haven't flown less than six hours
daily in the past six days. That
makes SO hours, and there are 105
hours we get here in dive bombing.
From this you can figure out how
long it will be before I get home"
Apparently when he completes this
training, Anderson will receive his
wings and commission, and he expects
to come home on leave then.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-07-09
'N00NANISMS'
(From the Baudette Region)

Goering has more than a million
dollars sailed away in South America.
It will he stuffed pockets for him
when Germany gets the stutflng
knocked out of it.
Hitler says that Germany has
plenty of food The truth is that it
has plenty of food for reflection.
We over here should be thankful
for the Affections we haven't got. For
instance Germany had a food riot the
other day, and more are sure to
follow.
A financier figures that it will re-
quire IS years to pay our war debt,
but you don't have to worry about
the final payments unless you come
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-07-09
PAY OFF
YOU DEBTS

quired. We also make many loans on
other plans. The principal require
ment is a job or other source of in
come. Even when making car and
furniture loans, We consider character
andregular income far more important
than the actual value of your security.
Loans for many purposes
You may use Household loan to pay
a doctor or dentist bill, insurance, in
stalment contracts, old store bills, car
repairs, union fees, training course,
tools, moving expense, coal for winter
and for expenses fmanyother kinds.
You may repay your loan on al
most any plan you wish. The table
shows how loans may be repaid in 2
to IL payments. The sooner you re-
pay, the less your loan costs. Look in
the table now for the loan you need.
See how you may repay out of
monthly income.
Payments in the table include
charges at Households rate of 212%
per month On unpaid balances. This
rate is substantially below the maxi
mum permitted by the Small Loan
Law. Lower operating costs permit US
to give our customers the advantage
of lower rate. Compare rates and
costs before you borrow anywhere.
Why pay more for your loan than
you have to?
If you can make good use of loan.
see us at once. Or just phone for in
formation.
X 4 4
FILL YOUR COAL BIN NOW
We gladly make loans ion buying coal
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-07-09

of long-lived family.
A Jap never amounts to much after
bomb drops near him. Buy defense
bonds and stamps.
That milk strike in Minneapolis
didn't cow its citizens. In fact they
were fighting mad.
The lieutenant governor job is worth
fighting for this year, and many lads
are casting longing eyes at it. Among
other things the winner gets 20
months in the governors Office.
The next time war gossip starts
to work on you give him the Goldfish
eye.
Uncle Sam will have quite a family
when he gets the army up to nine
million, and then there will be
million or so rollicking sailors and
marines all set to see that Hitler and
the Japs will catchinell.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-07-09
SUGAR.

Northwest housewives who have
been worried about getting their al
1otment of sugar for canning were
assured a plentiful supply under the
rationing program all through the
normal canning season.
Reports to state OPA headquarters
in Minneapolis disclosed that ter
price and rationing boards to get
sugar Immediately.
The OPA officials said that while
housewives must obtain their full
quota for the season on one applica-
ton, there is no need for them to
apply now They can, as a matter
of fact, obtain better service by wait
ing until they actually need the
sugar.
Provision has been made by the
OPA to increase sugar stocks of re-
tailers to take care of the summer
canning requirements and to offset
the possibility of inconvenience to the
public. The additional stocks to be
allowed retailers, however, will not go
beyond actual needs, but adjustments
will be made so they can maintain an
uninterrupted flow of sugar to their
customers.
Canning sugar is being allowed
households as a supplement to the
sugar rationing program. The plan
provides that a housewife can apply
to her local rationing board for an
amount up to 10 pounds for each
member of her family. Basis for this
rationing is one pound of sugar to
each four quarts of fruit the house
wife plans to can. Vegetables to be
canned are not included in the can
ming sugar program.
OF the 10 pounds allowed for each
member of the family, nine are cal
culated to be for canning fruit, and
one for putting up preserves.
Where the housewives request is
limited to a maximum of 10 pounds
for each member of her family, GER
tificateS can be issued by the ration
ing board Immediately. If she applies
for more than this amount, her ap-
plication must be examined by the
board before decision is made.
Experts explain that not all fruits
need sugar for canning. Juicy fruits,
such as cherries, berries, currantS and
plumS can be canned in their own
juices. The ripper fruits can be
crushed, heated and strained and the
rest of the fruit packed in the juice.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-07-09
-. Here's how
q Household loan con help
you clean up your old bills
on d monthly payment plan

Do you need some cash? Would you
like to pay off old bills as part of
your wartime financial program? This
advertisement tells about a simple plan
which is helping many and women
with their present day money problems.
Suppose you need 500 for an emer-
gency or to pay off debts You can get
the money in a simple transaction.
Then you may repay on regular
monthly payment plan. At the end
of definite time you are entirely In
the clear. The payment plan thus be-
comes a personal debt paying program.
The cost of this service is reason
able. Suppose you borrow 500 and
repay in six monthly instruments of
$18.18 each, total of $10908. The
cost of your loan is just $9.08. A $50
loan repaid in six monthly install
ments of 5000 each, a total of $54.54,
costs only S4.54.
This service has been specially de-
signed for folks with jobs. Many peo-
pie have no car. furniture or other
security on which TO borrow. And
they hate to ask friends to sign notes.
Salary loans give these people an OPP
portunity to borrow on earning abil-
ity and willingness to repay. When
you get a salary loan you merely give
us your personal note. And no en-
dorsers or wage assignment are re-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-07-09
LETTERS FROM
SERvIcEMEN

From Corp Ted Loushin, Camp
Gruber, OKLA, comes this note:
"Just dropping you a few lines to
let you know I'm still in the good
old U. S. A.
"Ive just been promoted to Tech
nician Corporal, and was transferred
along with a few hundred other nom
commissioned officers from the Ninth
Division at Fort Bragg, N. c., to
Camp Gruber, Oklahoma. We have
been selected as the cadre to form
the new 18th Division, and it will be
our duty to train the recruits who
will form the major part Of the
division"
Pvt. Anton j. Tomsich writes
about the heat at Camp Robinson,
Ark. He says:
"We are about through training
here and spent most of our time in
the woods doing aid work and minor
| war maneuvers. 1t is lot of fun but
the only thing we dislike is that there
are too many chiggers here which
| bite and they sure itch. The bugs
are so little that one can hardly see
them They are red and look like red
pepper.
"The weather sure is hot here and
only hope I get transferred to some
cooler place for a fellow just sweats
when doing nothing and double the
sweating when on marches. I sure
enjoyed my stay here even though il
was 50 hot and hope I get to another
place which I will enjoy as much"
Charles Pusovich writes from For
Warren, Wyo., as follows:
ct receive The Miner every week
and I can hardly wait for Mondays tx
get the paper and read about tn,
home news.
i ct have just finished my basi,
training, and then I'll be shipped
out someplace. So do not send nj
The Miner after three weeks until
give my new address"
From Pvt. Albert S. Grahek, For
Riley, Kan, comes the following note
"Just a line to thank the VF'W AM
J. The Ely Miner for sending me tn
paper. I look forward to every Mon
day afternoon so I can enjoy readin
it.
3 ct want to take this opportunity +
5 say hello to the boys in service an
my friends at home. I'm still barber
3 ing here at the hospital and I Xix
! it lot.
ct saw my first rodeo here las
i week and also Sally Rand and he
d husband Joe Louis is also here 6
+ Fort Riley but didn't get to see hin
t yet.
"The weather here is swell, but +
It still take Minnesota's fishing an
S swimming"
VI Pvt. John Godec, Herbert Sinai
Airport, Macon, Ca, writes the VF7
that "Just to know that your lare
organization is backing us new soldie,
: gives us new faith in democrat
t that will withstand all adversely an
: foreign propaganda"
From Lubbock Texas, comes VOL
from Pvt. j. F. SkradsH that CT ha,
met few other Ely fellows here. II
! weather is plenty hot and dusty. TT
3 Miner is sure nice to receive"
And from the deep south Pvt. Lou
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-07-09
" THIS WEEK FOR VICTORY

Hard fruits such as apples, peaches
and pears, require some water or
Juice, but their natural fruit flavor
is preserved best when little water
as possible is added.
BEES WAR JOB.
The bee, whose industry already is
a subject for comparison, is going to
be a still buster bee for the duration.
Because of the sugar situation, the
government wants 100000 additional
pounds of honey raised this year, as
well as 100000 more pounds of
beeswax.
To get it, northwest WPB officials
said that arrangements have been
made for beekeepers to get more
hives-about a third more than last
year.
At the same time WPB authorized
addition of several million pounds
of honey to the allotments for bakers,
Ice cream makers, candy makers and
ages in sugar allowances.
NEW WOOL CLOTHING.
A wool cloth program amied at
providing military and civilian needs
with a maximum amount of warm
wooden clothing for the fall and winter
is under consideration by the WPB,
according to its northwest spokesman.
K. w. Mariner, chief of the WPB
wool section, said that manufacturers
of wooden fabrics are being encour-
aged to produce maximum amount
of warm blended fabrics. Therefore,
an additional quantity of new wool
will be provided them, provided that
the additional quota is used for an
increase in production.
A small portion of the new wool
can be used in fabrics with more than
rs per cent new wool in their make |
up.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-07-09
ELuite Commissioned
at Officers School

1t. David Alar, who is visiting in Ely,
will leave July Is to report for duty
at Portland, Oregon. Lieutenant Alar
was graduated Friday from the Of
ficers' training school at Camp Lee,
Va, where he received his second
lieutenant's commission. He is in the
olartermaSter'S corps.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-07-09
varDonared water

The only naturally carbonated wa
tiers found in the United States east
Of the Rockies are found at the IA
nous eastern spa. Saratoga, N. Y.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-07-09
SIZE Underwear

Silk underwear should be washed
In lukewarm water, without rubbing
1t hard or twisting the fabric.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-07-09

It's common sense to be
- thrifty. If you save you are
ENS thrifty. War Bonds help you
III to save and help to save
I'M America. Buy your ten per-
- cent every pay day.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-07-09
PEWTER TRAY FOR TOOTHPASTE
TIRE.

Druggists who are taking in used
toothpaste and shaving cream tubes as
trade for filled tubes are getting
some strange offers from customers
who fail to bring in an old one.
Clifford H. Peck, Sioux Falls drug
firm official, in charge of the old
tube collection job in this area, told
of customer who offered an old
pewter crumb tray in lieu of used
paste tube. Another offered a set OF
old license plates when he couldn't
produce a used tube.
Peck explained that the government
wants the tubes for the tin there Is
in it. Sixty tubes will produce enough
tin for the soldering work of heavy
bomber.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-07-09
CAFES, HOTELS TO GET
BIGGER SUGAR RATIONING.

cares, reSCauTduGS, uOIel ulllllls
rooms, boarding houses and other
establishments may obtain increased
rations of sugar to take care of in
creased meal services, northwest OPA
directors have been advised by Wash
ington headquarters.
Many such establishments have had
an increase in business because of
war activities and the original al
lowance of sugar has been found too
small to handle the demands. Present
regulations permit them to obtain SO
per cent of the amount they used
each month last year or, if they were
not in business during corresponding
months last year, the amount they
used up to April % Of this year on a
monthly basis. The increase will be
allowed when application is made on
special forms to the state headquar-
tiers or local war price and rationing
boards.
WPB FREEZES CANNED BEEF.
All stocks of canned beef in excess
of 5000 pounds held by any one
person have been frozen by the WPB
for use of the armed forces, northwest
representatives said.
The order requires these stocks to
be set aside for 80 days, to be allo-
Gated to the armed forces. 1t will
make possible the purchase of 3d.
OOO, 900 pounds of imported canned
beef, or 60 per cent of the total supply
of approximately 100000 pounds
estimated to be available.
Imports of canned beef into the
United States consists chiefly OF
corned beef from Argentina, Uruguay
Brazil and Paraguay. The move, II
was said, will bring about substan-
tial saving in the need for tin plate
in this country.
CAN OPENER TO LOSE STANDING
The can opener, without which some
wag said a modern bride wouldn't bt
able to start housekeeping, is going *
lose much of its household standing
in the months to come.
In the first place, there are going
to be fewer tin cans to open. Then
the bureau of industrial conservation
of the wPB is pressing campaign
among food professors and manufac'
turers to use paper, cardboard, wood
and glass for many types OF foot
now packed in tin cans.
At the same time, the public i
being urged to eat more fresh fruit
| and vegetables in season. Berries
grapes, cherries, peaches, pears, swee
corn, tomatoes, asparagus, spinach ana
host of other fruits and vegetable
can be put on the dinner table dur
ing the season that they're Gin"
Many valuable foods can be store
for considerable periods, like the old
fashioned barrel of apples, the pile @
potatoes in the cellar, pumpkin
squash, carrots, beets, cabbage, caul
FLOWER, onions, pears. ripe peas an
beans.
Home canning of many fruits an
vegetables can be conducted success
fully in glass containers. Apple
peaches, apricots, prunes, pepper
peas and beans can be dehydrate'
Pickles, sauernaut, spiced and pickle
fruits and green tomatoes can /
preserved In earthen crooks, woode
pals and large glass jars.
80
pryvTER TRAY FOR TOOTHPAST
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-07-09

FILL YOUR COAL BIN NOW
We gladly make loans foT buying coal
Evening star., 1942-06-27

plant, the chamber says, 1913 per
cent OF the employees ride in private
cars. Now Survey is in progress"
with a view to transporting five pas
sengers to the car, and, concurrently.
to extending the plan to thirty-six
other war plants. The program, in
cidentally, was given a boost by a
Michigan Supreme Court decision
holding a group-riding driver is not
liable for injury to passengers. In
Canton, another reporting point,
1000 persons drive to the city daily,
but only Is per cent double up.
Rationing authorities have made
vigorous efforts to furnish tires and
gasoline to essential" workers at
the expense of those who neither
need nor seek to use their cars daily,
but the chamber survey does not in
dicate that the beneficiaries of this
policy are doing much in return to
help the situation. Until there is a
change in this respect, there should
be less talk about requisitioning the
tires Of "non-esSentiap users.
Evening star., 1942-06-27

I won't mention any "donts" for the
drivers Of automobiles and trucks, but
Just let me show you few points you
may not know
The average bus, operating al 20 miles
an hour, can be brought to a complete
stop in 18 to 25 feet on a DRY street.
However, if bus with a standing load
Of people were TO be brought TO a full
stop in 20 feet from 20-mile speed,
every standing passenger probabl would
be injuled some severely, some possibly
killed A sudden stop at slow speed is
apt to cause just as much damage TO the
passengers.
The above applies also to streetcarS.
They require more distance to be brought
to full stop, but any sudden stop is
liable to injure passengers
Won't YOU motorists, taxi drivers. truck
drivers, etc, please remember this?
Whenever you cut Off a streetcar or
BUS you may save yourself 20 seconds
and you may send 20 innocent people
to the hospital.
R. E. BERRY, No. 27OS.
Evening star., 1942-06-27
Transportation Problem

A survey in ninety-three cities just
completed by the Chamber of Com
merCe Of the United States reveals
highly disappointing lack of progress
in solving the Nations mass trans
portation problems. The study dis
closes appreciable progress in the
effort to avoid exaggerated peaks
and valleys in the mass move
ment of workers by staggering hours,
but results have been almost negative
in dealing with the more important
problem of encouraging multiple use
of private automobiles. The cham
Der admits that data on this phase
is incomplete, especially for smaller
communities, but the showing made
by large number of those reporting
leaves much to be desired.
Just two cities are able to quote
definite figures. From Baltimore, it
is reported that a car-Sharing pro-
gram worked out at the Glenn Mar
tin plant has increased the persons
per car from 26 to Al. In Des
MoineS, the load to and from war
plant is 25, and is II in and out of
the business district. Several other
cities report satisfying progress in
this direction, but more than a score
are in the survey" or promotion"
stage, which prevails here, and about
fifty have nothing to show.
One example of delayed action Is
furnished In Detroit. At the Hudson
Evening star., 1942-06-27
Dozens of Cousins

A speciality Of some parts OF the
South, every bit as distinctive as
sugar cane or cotton, is "kinnery."
Other parts of the country may not
60 far beyond grandparents, in either
conversation or knowledge, and first
cousins are often practical limit of
relationship, but in the South it is
mighty poor amateur genealogist who
cannot name all his fifth cousins,
even those twice removed.
But for really bringing out cousins
by the dozens and dozens and more
dozens, the will of the late Mary
White set new record. TO each of
my cousins, however remote, I be-
queath a thousand dollars" it read,
the money to come out of half mil
lion dollar estate, thus allowing for
500 cousins. An ample figure?
Hardly. No less than 1000 cousins
showed up With far more cousins
than thousand dollar bills available,
some sort of rationing was obviously
needed. The Court of Appeals, Sit
ting as the ration board, performed
this service. Uncle Sam, the uni
versal cousin who gets first call on
inheritance taxes, was not forgotten,
and after that, five first cousins
shared the remainder. Had some
thing not been done, in another
month or so enough additional cou-
sins would have appeared to make
the payon about a nickel apiece.
Evening star., 1942-06-27
Proposes Transportation Favors
In Return for Like Courtesies.

To the Editor of The Star:
I will buy 80 cents worth OF War
stamps every day If some one will pick
me up between Connecticut avenue and
Q and Seventeenth and @ at about Tbs
am. and drop me off at Fourteenth and
G streets NV.
After parking my car every morning
in the above named area, I have been
taking a taxi for the balance of the dis
tance, costing me from 20 to 80 cents
each day. Undoubtedly, number of
autoists take this route every morning
and would be glad to give me this lift if
it would result in the purchase of nearly
slOO worth of War stamps a year
In addition, will give ride to three
persons from Forty-ninth and Massa-
chusetts avenue NV, or any interme-
diate point, to Connecticut and @, if
they can come down at that early hour
i am.
believe that quite number of people
use cabs in about the same way do, and
no doubt would be glad to put this
money into War stamps instead.
If you feel the idea is worth an expert
ment, l would be glad to have you pass
it on to any one who has the transporta-
ton problem under consideration
Should the idea "catch on" with the
public, I do not believe the taxi drivers
would have cause to complain, as there
is more business than they can handle
at the present time. and the situation
undoubtedly will grow worse Person.
ally, wait from 10 minutes to an hour
for a cab every morning.
E.w. EMORY.
Evening star., 1942-06-27

always, and 1t probably was largely
his intellectual energy that gained
him the friendship of such leaders as
Frederick Douglass, DR.. Henry A.
Tobey, Charles Thatcher, James A.
Herne, Major j. B. Pond, Colonel
Robert G. Ingersoll and William Dean
Howells. How honorably he merited
their favor is matter of history.
Few literary characters have been at
once closer to the people and more
highly esteemed by the cultural
aristocracy. Certainly, no other poet
more devotedly strove to express the
spirit OF humanity.
Dunbar would be seventy today if he
were still alive. 1t must ever be
cause for profound regret that he
was granted so brief span for the
making of music so true and pure.