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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-08-13
PEACE PLAN:
For CIO-AFL

A proposal that the Congress for
Industrial Organization and the
American Federation of Labor "ini-
tate discussions regarding possible
establishment of organic unity" was
made by Philip Murray, CLIO presi-
dent, in letter to William Green,
AFL chief.
Peace proposals between the two
organizations have been discussed
for several months as step toward
speeding war production. In his
letter, Murray proposed the estab-
lishment of committee composed
of representatives of both organiza-
tons, with an impartial arbitrator,
to settle all jurisdictional disputes
between the two groups.
Murray named a committee of
three to discuss the problem of cor
ganic unity" He named himself,
r. j. Thomas, president of the CIO
United Automobile Workers, and
Julius Emspak, secretary of the
United Radio and Machine Workers
union.
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MISCELLANY:

COUSINS: Conklin Mann, New
York genealogist who discovered
last month that President Roosevelt
and Prime Minister Churchill are
eighth cousins once removed, an
nounced that he had found the Presi-
dent to be a sixth cousin once re-
moved of Gen. Douglas Macarthur.
MARKETING: u. S. farmers in
the first half of 1912 marketed prod
ucts totaling $5,773, O00,0O accord
ing to a department of agriculture
estimate. This compares with $4,012,-
000, 900 for the same period in 1941.
FATS: The Office of Price Ad-
ministration has set ceiling of
four cents pound on waste kitchen
fats now being sold by housewives
to retail meat markets in the ma
tional salvage campaign.
GASLESS: Pleasure driving is
practically a thing of the past in
Britain. AS of August l, gasoline is
sold only to business and profession
al automobiles.
DEATH: Maj. Gen. julius Won
bGTuduLll, SSl-Ildli CAjClt, WIGS
killed in action on the Russian front,
it was announced on a Nazi broad
cast.
PLYWOOD: First of their kind
ever built, 1000 plywood lifeboats
have been ordered by tie U. S.
Maritime commission FROM Port
land, Ore, firm. Made of six-ply
Douglas fir, about ton of metal per
will be saved in the plywood con-
struction. They will be % feet long
with 25-person capacity and will
be used on Liberty ships.
ANTIWAR: Arriving with Is other
passengers on a transatlantic plane,
Robert Brennan, Fires minister to
the u. S., declared that "the Irish
people are more determined than
ever 20 remain out of war;"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-08-13
RUSSIA:
Flank Tactics

While Moscow's official radio was
telling the Germans in their own
language that the United States and
Russia had come to their agreement
on the creation of the second front
in 1912, Soviet troops were busy with
flank attacks on the Nazi forces all
along the 300-mile Don river front.
German drives had pushed far be-
yond Rostov, toward the Caucasus,
but the Russians were claiming that
their new flank attacks were netting
terrific toll of Nazi tanks and men.
AT VoroneZh, northern anchor of the
Don front, the Russians had been
holding out doggedly while their col
umns were being pushed back in the
other sectors.
If Germans in the homeland had
been listening to the Russian radio
tell of the coming of the second
front, they heard too that their coun-
try would be confronted with Is, 000,-
600 men, IS, 1000 tanks, 100, 1000 guns,
and $4,000 airplanes. But this was
brave talk for even the official Rus
sian communiques admitted the
gravity of their nations peril. Most
feared was Nazi break-through in
the center of the Caucasus front.
This would more than likely mean
that the so-far orderly Russian re-
treat would stand chance of being
turned into a rout-a result that
would be disastrous for the cause of
the United Nations.
Soviet officials had other troubles,
too. There were reports out of the
Don valley that large rings of fifth
columnists had been uncovered.
Many of the spies in these groups
were quickly executed as they were
caught trying to cooperate with
Nazi parachute troops who were
dropping behind the Soviet main
lines.
Meanwhile, through England and
the United States the cry was get
ting louder for military officials to
establish the much-discussed second
front. From widely diversified
groups and sectioSs came the urg-
ing. There was considerable agita-
ton for this move for many people
feared the United Nations would suf-
fer a most severe blow should Rus
STA fail to last the year on the Euro
pean side of the Ural mountains.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-08-13
Englishman Wouldn't Take
Chance on Blooming Bomb

An enemy plane passed over a
certain district in England one
night, and the following morning
man told his neighbor that an
unexploded incendiary bomb had
fallen into his bedroom.
''Throw it into the garden?" in
CURED the neighbor.
Cant do that" was the reply.
cts six feet long"
Good gracious" gasped the
neighbor, that's not an incendi-
ary-that's q high explosive! Have
you been sleeping in the bedroom
with that thing all night?"
mot bloomin' likely I slept
on the couch in the drawing
room!"
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BEHIND THE AIR CORPS

This war will be won or lost in
the air. But despite that fact the
air forces will win or lose the war
on the ground. In other words, the
success of operations in the air de-
ponds on ground crews, who out
number air crews ten to one.
Featured in the headlines and the
newsreels every day are the pilots
and machine gunners. But the un-
sung heroes of this war are the
ground crews.
Real fact is that it takes only one
man to pilot a fighter plane, but it
takes eight or ten maintenance men
to keep it in shape to fight. A four
engine bomber requires a flying
crew of nine, and a maintenance
crew of Is. Often a ground crew
will be assigned exclusively to one
plane, and will become attached to
it with the affection a stable boy
has for race horse.
Chief of Staff General Marshall
has revealed that the overall
strength of the air force is expected
to reach 10000 men by the end of
1912, and 100000 by the end of next
year. If the war is won in 1913, it
will be won by these 100000 men.
But 1890, 900 of them will be eight
ing'' on the ground.
They are the overall-boys, the
grease monkeys, the men who spend
all day overhauling an engine which
has been flying all night, the men
who know what heat is like in the
deserts of Africa, because they don't
get up in the air for relief, as do
the pilots.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-08-13
BEEF:
TuUO Varieties

In butchershops from the Bronx to
Boise there was considerable beef
ing about beef. Beef was high. Beef
was hard to get. What was the
trouble?
President Roosevelt told his press
conference there were three main
reasons for the current meat short
age: C) this is the off-season for
beef; (2) people have more purchas-
ing power now, with which to buy
better cuts of meat; and (3) around
1000, 900 men under arms are now
eating much more meat than they
ever ate on their own dinner tables
at homs.
Meanwhile Agriculture Secretary
Claude Wickard reported that there
may be some relief in the temporary
beef shortage this fall when more
cattle are brought in off the range.
But other sources looked with dis
favor on what effect this would have
on the normal spring beef market.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-08-13

From an old French word
zines" derived from the Latin
word "missus'' meaning a course
at a meal, comes the Army's
name mess" for it's breakfast,
dinner, and supper. Favorite meal
with the soldier is chicken dinner
his favorite cigarette, Camel.
Biased on actual sales records
from Post Exchanges.) A carton
of Camels, by the way, is the gift
he prefers first of all from the
folks back home. He's said so.
Local tobacco dealers are featur-
ing Camel cartons to send any,
where to men in the armed forces.
ADV.
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AIR MONSTERS:
Things to Come

Reading like a tale from the pen
of Jules Verne, the story of two
super-gigantic cargo planes was un-
folded in Washington by aviation en-
gineers. Senate committees heard
the stories.
Details of huge plywood plane
were disclosed by DR.. w. w. Christ
mas, technical aviation engineer.
The plywood carrier, weighing
100000 pounds, would be both a
cargo and battle plane. 1t would be
10000 horsepower, two hull plane
with 400 foot Widespread and with
wings l6 feet thick, with a speed of
about $50 miles an hour. 1t would
carry 5000 men. 1t would carry a
rack of torpedoes weighing 10000
pounds. DR.. Christmas pointed out
that the torpedoes would have a
striking force of 19,000,0 900 pounds
when dropped. "a battleship deck
would be like wet paper when one
of these bombs hit it," he said.
The second plane was a revolu-
tionary type of amphibian flying
cargo plane, which would be lifted
and propelled by a combination of
engines, helium gas and air tunnels.
The engineers are Horace Chapman
Young and Eric Langlands of the
Aerodynamics Research corpora
ton.
A single wing combination cargo
fighter-carrier, the plane would have
a flying deck of approximately 200
feet, from which IL fighter planes
could take off. It would carry
enough helium gas to lift So tons
and with its engines could lift 70
tons. Four tunnels would run
through the wing. Engineers in
these tunnels would create a semi
vacuum, whose suction would sup
ply pulling power while the prope1-
lers gave it thrusting power. It's
speed would be about 200 miles an
hour.
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Washington, ID. C.
WAGE STERILIZATION

WAGE STERILIZATION
You can write it down that the
President will use his executive
powers to keep wages in check
rather than ask congress for any
new legislation dealing with wage
sterilization.
There are two reasons for this:
Q) Wage control legislation would
be sure to stir up another bitter
congressional controversy, as bad
or worse than the brawl over farm
parity prices. 1t might even re-
quire months to get both houses to
agree on a bill satisfactory to the
administration.
~ The President believes that the
policy proposed by the War Labor
boards recent steel wage decision
limiting wage increases to Is per
cent over scales prevailing on Janu-
airy /, 1941-plus additional ration
ing of consumer goods, will be suf-
ficient for the time being to brake
initiation threats to the working
mans pocketbook.
Inside fact is that the War Labor
board is contemplating only one fur
Their step in its wage sterilization
program, and this is not so much
an anti-inf1ation move as a conces-
sion to certain labor groups and a
contribution to the prosecution of
the war.
Wages in certain industries, in
GLIDING shipyards and tool-and-die
plants, are above the Is per cent in
crease ceiling set by the board. This
raises the question-shall wages in
these industries be brought down to
conform with scales in other war
plants which pay below the ceiling?
The answer is-there will be no
reduction in wages. The President
has decided definitely against this.
Instead, to prevent piracy and mi
grafton of workers away from vital
war plants paying below the Is per
cent ceiling, the War Labor board
is planning to amend it's wage policy
to permit the payment of "premi-
UNI wages" (above the ceiling) in
such plants.
Note: One industry sure to be al
lowed premium wages" is aircraft,
which has lost many workmen, by
piracy and migration, to higher-pay-
ing shipyards.
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PROBLEM OF FOOD
IN POSTWAR WORLD
Released by Western Newspaper Union.

PROBLEM OF FOOD
IN POSTWAR WORLD
No living man can know more
of the terrors of starvation on peo-
pie or the needs of meeting such
conditions than does Herbert Hoover.
His wide experience during and fol
lowing World War / and during the
Russian famine, gave him pre-eml-
nence in that field.
In recently published book, "The
Problems of Lasting Peace" by
Herbert Hoover and Hugh Gibson,
the authors say the first great prob
lem to follow the final command to
cease firing will be to feed the starv-
ing people of Europe and Asia, friend
and enemy alike. To do that, they
estimate it will take 80 million tons,
60 billion pounds, of food.
Supplying that food will be
largely the job of American and
Canadian farms. 1t means
wheat, corn, rye and barley,
hogs and cattle and dairy prod
uctS in enormous quantities. 1t
means continuous supply, not
for weeks or few months only,
but probably for some years.
1t means food for people of
starved France, Holland, Nor
way, Belgium, Spain, Greece,
Poland, China, the Dutch East
Indies, the Philippines, Germa-
toll IF
Balkans, Denmark and other
lands.
1t means a greater job than has
faced the American farm during the
war period, when only ourselves and
people of the Allied nations were to
be fed. 1t means tilling more acres
and more careful cultivation that
every bushel of grain, every pound
of meat may be saved.
It means continued rationing for
months or years for people of Amer
lea that we may divide with and
succor the starving peoples of the
world.
For such job we need bumper
crops for this year and next year
and the year after. We will have
no need to worry about surpluses-
there will be none. There will be a
need for every pound, and more, OF
food stuffs the American farm can
produce.
The American farmer will do his
job. He will not wrangle about
hours or wages or social advance
ments. He will give unstintingly OF
his time and labor and ability. He
will do that because he is first of all
a humanitarian, an American.
Out of it all may come contin-
ued foreign market for the products
of American farms. That depends
on the kind of peace terms made
when the war is over. If those
terms are along the theological lines
the American people wish for, il
will mean an increased market
abroad for American farm products.
Such terms would embody the prin-
ciples of the Atlantic charter, plus
economic freedom
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-08-13
Nla1 ON THE
'FRONT.'
IAIZ7A RUTH WETH SPEARS TA

WHATEVER the limitations
" that priorities may place on
new bathroom fixtures there is no
limit to the gay color and good
cheer that you may have with
brightly painted cupboards and
towels decorated with pieces from
your scrap bag. In this bathroom
a morning glory applique design
is used for towels of two sizes
and for curtains.
The handy towel and lotion cup
board is painted white outside and
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-08-13
GIANT PLANES:
From Shipymds

There was a new answer to the
shipping problems of the United Ma
lions looming on the horizon. It
was an unofficial agreement from
the War Production board to give
the green Light to plans of Henry
K. Kaiser, West Coast shipbuilder,
to build giant cargo and troop trans
port planes in nine of the nations
shipyards.
First hitch to be overcome in the
suggested set-up was the granting of
authority by military officials to re-
lease engines and other parts need
ed in the building of aircraft for
the army and navy.
Donald Nelson, WPB head. ap-
peared to be willing to proceed with
the plan if these materials could be
obtained without hampering the war
effort. This came as a surprise as
WPB first voiced skepticism on the
plan.
Kaiser's idea calls for the CONVEX
sion of three shipyards on each coast
to produce 5000 flying boats year.
The ships would be of 1OO-ton de-
sign fashioned after the lotion fly
ing boat Mars, now in active use.
Support of Glenn Martin, Baltimore
bomber builder, Tom Girdler, steel
magnate and all others with knowl-
edge of production problems of
plane building would be sought, &C
cording to Kaiser.
After Kaiser had discussed the
idea with Nelson he appeared be-
fore a senate military subcommit-
tee to testify and Nelson later issued
a statement stating that the WPB
was willing to Cooperate to the
limit in any practical way for in
creasing the effectiveness of our /.
transportation systems"
At the same time, James H. R..
Cromwell, former u. S. minister to
Canada, was proposing that Kaiser
be made "czar of air transporta-
ton" He said: eff we can't get sup
plies to the fronts by air transport
we are going to lose this war;"
VENGEANCE:
Extracting a terrible vengeance
for the capture of nine Bosnian
towns by Gen. Draja Mikhailovitch's
Jugoslav forces, Italian planes
rained incendiary bombs on the
towns, burning them to the ground.
Axis occupation forces have warned
that every town taken by the pa
triots will be treated similarly.
Hundreds were made homeless by
the fires, which burned for two days.
The nine towns raised to 81 the num-
Der of towns obliterated by the Axis
during recent weeks.
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U. S. HISTORY
IN OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Washington crossing the Della
ware; the ill-fed, ill-clothed, i'll
housed patriotic army at Valley
Forge; the surrender of the British
army at Yorktown; the signing of
the Declaration of independence; the
struggle of Lewis and Clark through
the western wilderness - what a
thrill of patriotic fervor all of these,
and hundreds of other incidents
brought to me as a small boy when
l studied American history in that
old brick schoolhouse at Ainsworth,
Iowa. 1t was such study that laid
the foundation for my love of Ameri-
ca, my respect for our Institutions,
my appreciation of the freedom in
herited from that ragged, frozen lit
tie army at Valley Forge.
Today in % of our 48 states, Amer
lean history is not required study
in the public schools. Small wonder
that we are drifting away from our
ideals, that our theology is changing
to a following of false gods. Our
children need the lessons taught by
the hero worship of our patriotic
forefathers and what they endured,
that we may enjoy the blessings of
American freedom and opportunity.
ESSENTIAL?
The labor union organizer, the fell
low who tells the American work
man he cannot have job at build
ing ships, planes, guns, tanks or
other war equipment unless he pays
the price of union membership, is
considered essential to the war eff
fort. He is given a priority on
tires to keep his high-priced auto
mobile running, or new car, if he
wants it.. He is allowed what guam
tity of gasoline he says he may
need. He is essential. But if the
tires of the workman or the farmer
wear out, they must walk. Accord
ing to the priority listings, they are
not essential as is the labor racke-
teer.
TO LISTEN IN ON THE "ARMY
HOUR" on the radio gives to all of
us better idea of what the Ameri-
can army is doing, its efficiency and
high standards, and it also gives all
of us civilians that morale without
which no war can be won.
A FEW YEARS AGO, DIR. TUG
WELL was insisting that advertising
was an economic waste. The gov
eminent is not finding it SO as APP
piled to the sale of war bonds. Adj
vertising is selling them just as adj
vertising sells merchandise.
1T IS TO BE REGRETTED that
we cannot win all the battles; that
we must suffer some defeats, but
that is the way of war. Our job is
to win the last battle and the United
Nations will do that. Such has been
the record of the wars in which Ell
Their the United States or England,
with but one exception, has engaged,
and this war will not be an excep-
ton.
FAILURE TO SUCCEED CAN
more often be laid to lack of effort
in the pursuit of an opportunity than
to bad luck.
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OVERSEAS CANDY

The quartermaster corps is in the
market to buy 2,500,000 pounds of
hard candy: peppermint, orange,
lemon, lime, anise, and cherry.
The hard candy is being bought
for overseas troops, as part of the
regular field ration. Official expla-
nation is that candy is an excellent
source of energy.
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AFRICAN CAMEL CREWS

They are the mechanics, the ar
morers, the metal workers, the
welders-yes, and they are the pick
and shovel men who build the land
ing fields in foreign posts, and re-
pair them after enemy bombers
have passed over. They are also
the cooks and the mess boys, the
pay masters, the doctors, and the
truck drivers. In short, they are
the men who perform every duty
that keeps a plane in the air.
They do everything except replace
the African camelS.
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NEW ARMY FOOD

To save shipping space, the army
is sending food overseas in deny
drafted form. Experiments in taste
preserving dehydration have been
carried out and tested on a group
of army cooks.
At the Chicago depot of the quar-
termaster corps, the cooks sat down
to a meal of dehydrated foods, prin-
cipal item on the menu being scram-
bled eggs made by adding water to
a yellow powder.
1t has been discovered that one
pound of dehydrated turnips will
serve % persons, after water is
added.
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CAPITAL CHAFF

Justice Frank Murphy, who has
been soldering in Georgia, definite
ly will come back to the supreme
court in October. Felix Frankfurter
would like to have him stay in the
army, but Chief Justice Stone has
expressed himself bluntly to friends
that Murphy should return.
Wall Street interests who for sew
eral years have been quietly trying
to sneak a bill through congress rid
ding the securities control law are
due for another. disappointment.
Buy War Bonds
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PETRILLO SAYS mo-:
To DdUis Plea

L cannot grant your request 10
cancel the notice that the ATM
members will not play for transcript
lions or records"
With those words, James c.
Petrillo, president of the American
Federation of Musicians, refused a
request by Elmer Davis, director of
the Office of War Information, to
rescind his ban against the making
of new photograph records or radio
prescriptions for commercial pur-
poses by union members.
In his appeal to Petrillo to remove
the ban, Davis expressed the opin-
ion that his action might deprive
many small radio stations of music
and be a blow to civilian morale.
"We refute any suggestion that
we are lacking in patriotism" said
:Petrillo. "We will not permit
hypocrisy on the part of the inter-
ests who are fighting u.s."
He added that the union had voted
to make recordings for the armed
Iorces and at the request of the
President. and pointed out that
canned music" has thrown thou
sands of musicians out of work.
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.ALEUTIANS:
10000 Japs

Breaking an official silence, a
navy spokesman officially estimat-
ed that the Japanese have succeeded
in putting mot more than 10000
troops into the Aleutian island area
and at the same time announced
there was no evidence that the
Pribilof island to the north had been
occupied by the Nipponese.
The statement came in answer to
a report made by the Alaskan dele
gate to congress, Anthony j.
Dimond, that between 10000 and
$4,000 Jap troops were on the Aleu-
tians and that the Pribilofs had been
occupied.
Questioned about Dimond's re-
ports, the spokesman said that eve
believe that not more than 10000
Japanese are in the Aleutians, prob
ably one-half ashore and one-half
afloat."
The Japs gained a foothold in the
Aleutians on June 3. So far, the
navy has confirmed the presence of
Japs only on three of the islands:
Attu, Agattu and Kiska, at the west
ern end of the chain. The Pribilofs
are in the Boring sea, and consist of
four islands: St. Paul, st. George,
Otter and Waldrus. The latter two
are small and uninhabited.
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morning glory blue inside. The
sides, top and bottom are screwed
together at the corners. Use half
inch metal angles as shelf sup
ports, or make grooves for a neat
er job. AS shown in the sketch,
the cupboard is trimmed and
made rigid with plywood scallops
secured with half-inch screws.
NOTE: Here is news for the man with
hammer and saw. Whether you have a
coping saw from the dime store or an
expensive band saw, you may now make
cut-out scallops for any purpose desired.
Pattern No. POT includes scallops from
one and half inches to nineteen inches;
together with numerous illustrations of
their use in home decoration. The lady
with needle and thread will want pattern
No. 202 with ten hot iron transfers of the
Morning Glory designs. Patterns are 10
cents each. Order by number and
address: