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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-08-20
FOOD GOES UP
WHEN laps ARE INTERNEn

IN THE PACIFIC coast states,
especially in California, the intern
ment of the Japs made a big diff
ference in the cost of the white
mans food. The head of lettuce the
Jap sold for two cents now costs
from 10 to Is cents; the bunch of
cleaned radishes the Jap sold for a
penny, now, uncleaned, costs six
cents, and so the change in prices
goes all up and down the vegetable
line. But the white townsman is
not objecting. He knows that now
the white farmer can live in the
American way. But the purchaser
would like to have another cent a
bunch added to the price and have
the vegetables cleaned. AS for flow
ers-but everyone in the coast states
can raise his own flowers if he wants
them, so why worry.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-08-20

$4,000 permanently disabled and
100000 injured.
Traffic accidents were the largest
factor in rolling up the death and
injury total, the council said. Motor
vehicles accounted for 10000 dead,
1,450,oOO injured and a cost of
81, 300, OO0,O OO.
Accidents in the home ranked
next. They killed $1,000, injured
4,650,000 and cost 100000.
Other public accidents of all kinds
killed an additional $4,000, injured
100000 and cost $500, 1000, 900.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-08-20
Accident Toll Costs u. S. A Billion Yeally

Accidents-of which 81 per cent
were preventable-cost the United
States $4,000, 100000 last year. ac-
cording to an announcement by the
National Safety council, whose Of
fees are in Chicago.
Even more important, the council
said, in issuing its annual statistical
yearbook, Accident Facts, was the
productive time loss through occu-
pational accidents alone. On-the-job
accidents killed $4,000 workers and
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-08-20
NO BOASTER

The 43rd divisions signal COM
pany from Rhode Island has young
buck private who has a great future
before him-of some kind.
The other morning, while on KIP.
duty, he offered to bet the mess SER
geant SIS that he could eat two good
sized watermelons in ten minutes
fiat. The sergeant was suspicious.
"What makes you think you CAM"
he parried.
Because" was the reply, 81 just
polished off two when you weren't
looking"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-08-20

injured 100000 more. They cost
$3.50, 1000, 900 and resulted in the loss
of 400, 900, 900 man-days of work dur
ing 1941.
This lost time was the equivalent
of work that could have been done
by 10000 new workers, and came
at time when every hour lost de-
lays the nations war production
needed for victory.
All-accident totals in 1941, includ-
ing occupational, were 102, 500 killed,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-08-20
VICE PRESIDENTS
RECREATION

On a hot August morning, when
residents of the Wardman Park
hotel had fans turned on full blast,
they looked with surprise to see four
figures come out on the tennis court.
They looked second time. 1t was
the vice president and a party of
friends out for set of doubles.
Henry Wallace took off a pair of
Stacks, threw them into a corner,
and trotted out onto the court in
white shorts and a white sports
shirt. 1t was eight o'clock as the
game began.
Wearing no hat or eyeshade, and
welding the racket in his left hand,
Wallace entered into the game with
the gusto of a high school boy. 1t
was not tennis of professional quail
ity, but it was high class amateur
play. Frequently the ball was re-
turned eight or ten times in single
exchange Once when Wallace was
at the net, he made five returns in
succession, finally won the point.
At sos the set ended. Wallace
retreated to the corner of the court,
pulled On his Stacks, headed back
to his apartment for a shower.
Other apartment jewellers, still sit
ting in front of the fans, sighed and
shook their heads in wonderment.
MERRY-GO-ROUND
~ Dol Tro.. Doee No,,oo- na,,;.
remarked on the excellent service"
when he lunched at the local Red
Cross canteen for service men the
other day. But he didn't know that
his waitress was Mrs. Jed Johnson.
wife of the congressman from Okla
homa.
q Popular, white-thatched Repre-
sentative Joseph j. ("Judge")
Mansfield of Texas, who gets around
in a wheel chair faster than most
people walk, was telling colleagues
about political opponent in his dis
trict "who's always trying to make
people believe I am 49," Remarked
COP Representative Charles A.
Eaton of New Jersey: "Shucks,
Judge, you'd just be getting started
at 3d."
q Greatest pals of Rumania's exiled
King Carol and the titian-haired
Madame Lupescu in Mexico City
are U. S. Ambassador George Mes
sersmith and wife. The Messer-
smiths got to know the couple when
they came to Cuba while Messer-
smith was ambassador there. In
Mexico City they played bridge to-
gether frequently.
q Ex-Ambassador Josephus DAN
iels, now editor of the Raleigh News
and Observer, is writing more pun
gent editorials at 80 than most edi-
tors at 40.
NO BOASTER
The 43rd divisions signal COM
pany from Rhode Island has young
buck private who has a great future
before him-of some kind.
The other morning, while on KIP.
duty, he offered to bet the mess SER
geant SIS that he could eat two good
sized WatermelonS in ten minutes
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-08-20
SERGEANTS BUILD FIGHTERS

TO QUICKLY CONVERT the
rockies" being indicted into the
army into well-trained, tough, hard
hitting soldiers, we should have a
few thousand old regular army SER
geants. 1t was the army sergeant
who made the soldiers of our Indian
fighting days.
One of those old-time army SER
geants is George Fitzgerald Lee In
time he became commissioned of
ficer and retired as major. While
he was sergeant, before the Span
iSh-American war, there fell to him
to train what seemed to Sergeant
Lee an unusually dumb recruit-so
dumb the Sergeant felt time would
be wasted in an effort to train him.
At that time enlisted men could
transfer from one armed service to
another and the marines were seek
ing recruits. Sergeant Lee advised
the dumb rookie to ask for trans
fer.
The advice was accepted; the
transfer to the marine corps was
asked for and obtained, and the
young recruit was disposed of to the
satisfaction of Sergeant Lee.
In 1941, Maj. George Fitzgerald
Lee, retired, was living in San Di-
ego, Calf. An inspection and re-
view of division of marines was
announced, the occasion being the
taking over of the divisional COM
mand by marine general officer.
Major Lee went out to see the show.
When the marine general officer ap-
peared to take over his command, it
was Sergeant Lees dumb recruit of
old army days. He had not been as
dumb as Lee had thought he was.
The marine general felt he was in
debted to the army sergeant for
some valuable advice.
ACCORDING TO THE FAMILY
ECONOMIC Bureau of the North
western National Life Insurance
company, wages of the American
worker have advanced an average
of "a per cent and living expenses
are up Is per cent as compared
with 1899 levels. Such condition
helps to produce initiation.
THE AMERICAN FARMER will
see that our armed forces and our
workers do not 60 hungry while
they are defeating the enemy.
Buy War Bonds
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-08-20
Reaping Disappointment

1t is a bitter disappointment
when you have sown benefits, to
reap injurieS.-PlautuS.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-08-20
LABOR RACKETEERS
AND WAR EFFORT

IF AMERICAN WORKERS must
pay tribute for the privilege of pro-
ducing the implements of war with
which our armed forces are to de-
feat the Huns, the Wops and the
Japs, why not pay it to Uncle Sam?
The labor racketeer gives them only
the right to work in exchange for
the membership fees and dues they
pay. Uncle Sam could give them
that and in addition an equivalent
in that best of all investments, war
stamps and war bonds. 1t would
mean upwards of a billion dollars
year in bond sales.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-08-20

SEN/NG GlRozEJ<~

Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1615-B is de-
signed for sizes II. IA. is, ID, 20 and 40.
Corresponding bust measurements 80. 30.
"a, Sc, SO and 40. Size IA 1922 with short
sleeves requires Ala yards 35-inch materi-
al; IS yard contrast for dickey.
Send your order to-:
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-11-16

not more is, as previously said, due to the
campaign which has been conducted with in
creasing efficiency and beneficial results since
1914. In that year the rate Of deaths was
1876 per 100, ZOO Of the population. At the end Of
194l it had been reduced to 60 per 100000.
Splendid as this is, it is not to be forgotten
that 1,717 graves were dug in the old North
State last year because the fight against
tuberculosis had not been won.
Wilmingtonians will bear this in mind when
the Christmas Seals that annually decorate
holiday postal matter are offered for sale
on next Saturday These seals create large
revenue for the fight on this terrible fifth
column Last year they brought in 500, ,o80 in
North Carolina. It is not presumptious to think
that many Carolinians are alive today, in
stead of in their graves, because their neigh
bors and Tar Heels generally bought seals.
This years sale should far exceed that of
1941. Tuberculosis spreads most rapidly in
war times. Already it is increasing in over
crowded areas throughout the country. If
history should again repeat, tuberculosis will
kill more Americans during the present war
than will die in action or from wounds re-
ceived in battle.
To make this less probable it will be neces-
sadly to help implement the battle Of science
against tuberculosis with liberal gifts to the
Christmas Seal campaign.
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muster their industrial n1anpoWer for produc-
ton on a tremendous scale, the fruits OF which
are now to be seen in Ronmeps collapse in
Egypt and the employment Of great united
American and British force in Frances Afri-
can colonies.
It is not too much to say that Russias mag
nificent defense and counter-offensives, and
her ability to keep Hitler out of major Cau-
casian petroleum fields, have been Of vital
importance and help to her chief allies in
their present operations.
In the far Pacific similar claim may be
mons as means Of keeping Japan from at
tacking Russia in Siberia. It is true that
Japan's agreement with the Nazs placed a
time-lippit for the capture of Stalingrad an
engagement which Hitler was unable to fill,
but it may be equally true that Tokyo could
not have sent a sufficient force against Siberia
to insure its reduction, with Macarthur steadi-
ly growing stronger in Australia and consti-
tuting definite and growing threat to Japan S
communication lines to her newly acquired
territory in the southwest Pacific. When the
attack on Guadalcanal came and was fol-
lowed by the Marines capture of its vital air
field, it is probable that Tokyo was ready
to abandon any plan for Siberian campaign
until the issue was settled there, despite any
pledge to Hitler.
The general results in Russia and the Medi-
terranean and Pacific arenas Of war show
what can be accomplished through coopera.
ton, even at the ends Of the world.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-11-16
Davis and the Chest

Camp Davis participation in the Whining
ton Community and War chest is doubly
creditable by reason of the fact that the camp
maintains its own fund for relief of soldiers
families and will have no share in the bene-
fits deriving from the campaign.
General Smiths announcement that the boys
under his command will contribute up to 81, 900
to the city fund shows not only where the
commandments heart is but his confidence in
the troops at Camp Davis to make a sub.
stantial return for the efforts of Wilmington
ians to make their leisure time spent in the
city pleasant.
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Star-NewsP Pr0gram

To aid in every way the prosecution of
the war to complete victory.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck anc Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Seaside Highway from Wrightsville
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension Of City Limits.
35-foot Cape Fear River Channel,
wider Turning Basin, with ship lanes
into industrial sites along Eastern bank
south Of Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport, via
Orton Plantation.
Development Of Pulp Wood Production
through sustained-yield methods through
out Southeastern North Carolina.
Unified Industrial and Resort Promo
tional Agency, supported by one county
wide tax.
Shipyards and Drydocks.
Negro Health Center tor Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital.
Adequate hospital facilities for white.
Junior High School,
Tobacco Warehouses for Export Buy
ers
Development Of native grape growing
throughout Southea eastern North Carolina.
Modern tuberculosis Sanatorium.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-11-16
Raymond Clapper Says:
Command Unity Issue
Has Been Raised Again

Arthur and Admiral Ghormley con.
ferred before the Solomons cam
paign was undertaken. Arrange
ments for. cooperation were worked
out between them, although it is
true that neither is responsible for
the other, but each to his own ser.
vice command.
General Macarthur is in COM
mand of the Southwest Pacific area,
which embraces Australia and the
enemy approaches to it, and the
Philippines. The South Pacific, the
adjoining area. is undel Navy COM
mand, Admiral Halsey being in
charge now. n includes the supply
line to Australia, and the Solomon
Islands area which overlooks that
supply line. The area boundaries
are determined by the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, largely for administrative
and supply purposes, and are fre.
quently shifted, as was done to
throw all of Guadalcanal into the
Navys South Pacific area. Origin
ally the line divided the island.
On paper it is not unified COM
mand in the sense that Rep. Mas
means. There is unified command
at the top in the sense that the
strategy decisions are made by the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, which is a
unified body representing both SER
vices. 1t happens also that General
q a
genial and function we'll together as
a team. The same goes for General
Arnold and Admiral Leahy. AS
long as King and Marshall are
there together, you have in practice
unified command at the top.
That probably is not true further
down in the services, where rivalry
crops out at some points. If Gen.
eral Macarthur had personally any
other idea of what should be done
in the Pacific, it has not been in
dlcated that he has failed to the
slightest extent in cooperating
with the Navy when help was re.
quested.
Possibly there have been some
differences as to how planes or 9TH
er equipment might be used but if
there were any they undoubtedly
were resolved by Washington. Evil
IDENTIFY no questions have come up
that would not arise in the normal
course of operations under unified
command. Individual officers al.
ways will have suggestions as to
what ought to be done. But it. is
possible to have orders issued at
the top as result of decisions of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which
would seem to give working unity,
Another body, the Combined
Chiefs of Staff, in the same way
brings about Anglo-American col
laboration, as instanced in the
North African joint campaign. Rep
resentatives of Russia and other
United Nations are consulted on
questions pertaining to them.
That is about the picture as you
get it from the military side. Less
satisfactory has been the dove
failing of strategy with production
planning. The now controlled ma
terials plan of WPB is a move to
strengthen what has been a rather
serious weakness there.
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gument for democracy or freedom
to insist women be hired for hard
physical work.
And it should be noted that Rus.
sia is an invaded country, right
under the guns, in which every
pair of hands and every muscle
counts. If the enemy, striking the
Atlantic coast, had swept our peo-
pie to a stand west of the Missis.
sippi, no doubt American women
would be, as Mr.. Wallace says of
the Russian women, Sin uniform,
either actively fighting or stand
ing guard" and we would have
"called on the tremendous reserve
power which is in our women" to
an even greater extent than Rus.
sian has on hers.
A troubled thought occurs in
connection with the purpose to ex.
tend the four freedoms everywhere
in the world. American troops
landing in Africa were solemnly
warned that deadly consequences
might ensue if they addressed so
much as a word to a Moslem
woman. The Moslems are numer-
GUS and hosts to some very cranky
prejudices. They would be certain
to regard this phase of Mr.. Wal
lace's concept of democracy as an
affront and this freedom would
have to be imposed on all Islam
by force Of arms.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-11-16
By RAYMOND CLAPPER

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.-The ls'
sue of unity of command has been
brought up again, this time in
sharper terms by Rep. Melvin Mas
of Minnesota, the top Republican
on the House Naval Affairs Com
mittee.
Some naval and military officers
are concerned at what they feel is
lack of understanding as to the
operating setup now in effect. They
feel that it gives actual unity OF
command.
Rep. Mas says there is no unity
of command here and that there
can't be any in the Pacific until
we have it in Washington. The Ar.
my and Navy are run separately
he says, with separate staffs and
separate plans, and with divided
commands. If that continues, he
says, we will continue to lose the
war;
The picture is drawn somewhat
differently in high military and
naval circles. They say that unity
of command exists through the
Joint Chiefs of Staff. That is a
group which consists of: Admiral
William D, Leahy, representing the
President; Admiral Ernest J. King,
commander of the United States
Fleet and Chief of Naval Opera
tions; Gen. George C. Marshall,
Army Chief of Staff: and Lieut..
Gen. Henry H. Arnold Chief of the
Army Air Forces.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff derives
its authority from the Commander
in-Chief. 1t functions as a body.
Probably the correct way to put it
is that in planning, we have uni
fled command. In operations, the
Army and Navy function separate
ly, each down through it's own chain
of command, but cooperating in
operations as directed from the
top here.
AS I understand it. General Mac.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-11-16
The Worst Fifth Column

Since the civil war in Spain the term fifth
column" has come into general use as indi-
eating an enemy within the borders, It was
by his fifth column that Hitlers invasion of
Norway was made easy In most of the lands
overrun by the Axis the path had previously
been cleared by fifth columns. We were
, betrayed by the same device in Hawaii. Rut
TOR the prompt evacuation of Japanese from
the Pacific coast we probably would already
have been subjected to widespread enemy
bombardments and bomings in that area
Hitler has his fifth column at work through.
out the United States even now.
But we have another fifth column in orr
midst more insidious than any foreign ene-
my could hope to establish. Tuberculosis sill,
claims 4 toll in lives which must make req.
sonable men shudder when they think of its
power.
In these last four years it has caused the
death Of 10000 more Americans than were
killed in action or died from battle wounds
in all the wars that this country has fought
from the Revolution to Pearl Harbor. In the
persons lost their lives; in the same period
tuberculosis killed $4,000 in this country. In
1910 alone, 10000 more Americans died from
tuberculosis than were killed in the first World
war.
Our own state has not been immune, de-
spite the best efforts Of the medical profes
sier and the great advance in the scientific
treatment Of the disease. The toll in 1910 wa.
1,7to lives; in 1s4l It was 1,717 That is wa
a
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-11-16
Results of Cooperation

1t is impossible to envision the success in
Egypt and the American invasion Of North
Africa without being deeply impressed by the
part Russias battle on the Eastern front has
mad in making both possible.
When Hitler made the great blunder Of in
vading Russia he counted on quick clean
up-not more than five weeks at the longest.
Instead the Russians have absorbed his closest
attention for year and halt, and he has
no major success to show for his effort
During this long period Of time, England
and the United States have been enabled to
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-11-16

into a Lancashire dialect quite un.
expectedly, but most delightfully."-.
In her appearances she usually
wears a loose white evening gown,
which gives the impression of con.
siderable size, but when I met
her in her hotel suite, she was
wearing simple black dress which
was relieved in its simple severity
by only a tiny ornament of nina.
ture beaded moccasins at he,
throat. Actually this whirl-wind
blonde is only five feet five.
''We wait patiently and Just PC
on until we win the war;" she
said, hazel eyes serious. 81 can
only help by singing and making
noises. My mother made munitions
in the last war, and maybe that
would be easier"
Oracle has a large repertoire
of songs, and she is inclined to
think the American radio is a bit
on the prudish side. There was
much fuss and to-do about one OF
her numbers. Thanks For the
Lovely Weekend" which she was
finally permitted to sing over here
after changes which she can't un.
derstand.
She is sure of one thing, how
ever. The night club and hotel
engagements, new to her this year.
are about to become a part of
the past.
"Its been an experience. But
likes to see the orchestra in front
of me. If they can stick it, maybe
the audience can. If the orchestra
goes to sleep, I wakes 'em up"
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-11-16
Civilian Defensf
Timetable

BASIC TRAINING COURSE
High School Room 109 at p II.
Fire Defense A: Every MoNla. NO..
General Course: Every Iuesua' ,,.as
Gas Defense B: Every "eu'''
day.
FIRST AID 10 HOURS
High School Room 1O6 at . p "'
First lesson: Every Monoa!.
Second lesson: Every TUESDAY
Third lesson: Every WedneSggay, goy
Fourth lesson: Every InuIs'''
Final lesson: Every FrloSE
SPECIAL COURSES d,v
Police course: Every TnlISurr N,
High School Room 109 at o p
FIRST AID 10 HOURS
(Colored) 4
Beginning Tuesday NoVe'"s 3D.
at Williston High School a' ,,ctor
M, John w. King, lilS'.rsdst
Classes on Tuesday and i''
nights. -..n SIS,
U. s. o. Club 9th and NlAoh at
Tuesday and Thursday nignIS' IN
8 p. m. Booker T. Washlns'''
structor.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-11-16
Photographs

The trantula killer is a large and
conspicuous wasp, more than two
1nche lslong, conxno min the south
western United States and in Cen.
eral America, which preys especial
ly on tarantulas.
Road building in the Republic of
colombia, South America, presents
staggering engineering feats, since
modern excavation equipment can
not De used in the geographically
rough country. Even modern we'll
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-11-16
You're
Telling Me

Zadok Dumkopf thinks some
one should tell all those mil
lions of wage earners who next
March will meet the Bureau Of
Internal revenue for the first
time, that a formal introduc-
tion is not necessary.
There's plenty of tea, we learn
Football formation or just plair
oolong?
On what grounds, asks a
reader, is coffee rationing insti-
tuted. Well, we said on a lack
of 'em.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-11-16
THOUGHT FOR TODAY

When God set out to fashion
This dwelling place Of man,
Vast was the task before Him,
Exacting was the plan.
But never could q burden
So fiercely on Him press
That He would be forgetful
OF simple loveliness.
And SO He wrought the sunset,
The lacework Of the SHOWS,
The silver Of the starlight,
The wonder Of the rose.
Utility He gave rs,
OF value none the less
But He was never forgetful
OF common loveliness.
From "FORWARl
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FAIR ENOUGH

Editors Note.-The Star and the News accept no
responsibility for the personal views Of Mr.. Pegler
and often disagree with them much many of
his readers His articles serve the good purpose Of
making people Think.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-11-16

hnlLl 70
drilling tools are too DUN sope
moved up the countr! S','4 .1ocir
SO blasting must be done o'
explosives in coyote holes