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GASOLINE:
RatiOniing

The order that all gasoline in the
eastern seaboard states would go I'M
der severe rationing on May Is had
remained much in the air with
Ickes' Office and that of Henderson
sending out daily statements which
now and then were reconciled, but
for the most part were marked by
strong conflict.
One moment it would be an
nounced that rationing would be 21s
to gallons weekly for nonessential
cars, and the next moment it would
be, from the opposite source, an
nounced that the ration would be
30 to so gallons a month.
At the same time it had been an
nounced in Washington that new car
rationing would be relaxed in order
to put them in owners hands and
thus gain valuable storage space.
Henderson's office issued regula-
tons which included that men hav-
ing essential need of automobiles
could get them if the present cars
were declared inadequate. This
seemed to boil down to car being
a 1899 or earlier model, or having
been driven more than 10000 miles.
Under some circumstances own
ers could apply for the purchase Of
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MISCELLANY:

Rio de Janeiro: A Spanish ship
was carrying Axis diplomats back
to Europe from various South Amer
lean republics which had severed
relations. It had been held up for
more than two weeks trying to buy
oil fuel for the journey.
New York: A Norwegian ship
managed to make port under its own
power after trading shots at sea
with a German submarine.
Minneapolis: The University of
Minnesota announced it would no
longer accept japanese students
pending a statement of policy from
the President of the United States.
Chicago: Erosion looms as Enc
nv No. l of about farm production
for Uncle Sans 1912 war needs, de-
clared statement by the Middle
West Soil Improvement committee.
"This agricultural fifth-columnist, !"
it said, .'will rob the land of three
billion tons of plant food elements
this year" Antidotes suggested were
cover crops, rotation, use of ferti-
izer and contour blowing.
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DRAFT:
Reclassif

Shortly after the older men, those
As to "a had gone out and regis
tered, the selective service head
quarters had announced that it was
going to begin to call to the colors
younger men who had dependents,
provided they were not in war
essential occupations.
It had not been made plain how
wide this classification would be, but
it was stated that those in class ga
would be called, and the continued
deferment would continue to apply
only to those in BIB.
A Redistribution of these two
classes was to be made, and the
selective service heads said when
this was finished, a start would be
made in calling up those in ga.
AS to "war marriages, the board
said:
'In cases where the dependency
was acquired after December 8,
1941, or acquired when induction
was imminent, or for the primary
purpose of providing a basis for
dependency deferment, pregnancy,
birth or acquiring a child shall not
be cause for classification in class
ga" .
It also was planned to move back
into la those whose dependent
wives had voluntarily quit their jobs
which had been adequate for their
SeIf-S1IDDort
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ATTENUATION:
Presidential sMusts'

A seven-point program "to keep
the cost of living from spiraling up
ward" was presented to congress
by President Roosevelt. Living
costs have increased approximately
Is per cent since the outbreak of
war in 1899. The presidential pro-
gram proposes the following steps:
1. 1--WE must tax heavily, and in
that process keep personal and cor
porate profits at reasonable rate.
(The President called for a SOS, 900
net limit on Individual mooney
2. eve must fix ceilings on the
prices which consumers, retailers,
wholesalers and manufacturers pay
for the things they buy; and ceilings
on rents for dwellings in all areas
affected by war industries.
8. "We must stabilize the remu-
neration received by individuals for
their work.
4. eve must stabilize the prices
received by growers for the prod
ucts of their lands.
S. 'We must encourage all citi-
zens to contribute to the cost of win
ming this war by purchasing war
bonds with their earnings instead
of using those earnings to buy arti-
cles which are not essential.
6. eve must ration all essential
commodities of which there is a
scarcity, so that they may be dis
tributed fairly among consumers
and not merely in accordance with
financial ability to pay higher prices
for them.
7. eve must discourage credit
and installment buying and encour-
age the paying off of debts, mort
cages and other obligations.
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rManl{aqba,
IMERgfGO-RQuND
Washington, ID. C.
IMPORTING COTTON?
,SG R'!lsEWAME:N'

1MfOhIlNO CO1ION.
For years the United States has
had huge surplus of cotton. The
idea of importing cotton seemed fan
tastic. Yet that is exactly what is
about to be done, as the latest de-
velopment in the Good Neighbor pol
icy.
Oscar Johnson, leading Mississippi
cotton planter and former official of
the AAA, will go to South America
to buy surplus cotton from Peru and
Brazil. He carries a checkbook of
the Commodity Credit corporation,
whose funds for domestic and for
eign crop purchases amount to
81, 1000, 900, 600.
Both Peru and Brazil are suffer-
ing severely from loss of foreign
markets. Brazil's cotton was sold
in Europe, Peru's to Japan. Both Lat
In American countries wholeheart-
edly backed the United States at the
Rio conference and now Uncle
Sam is returning the favor.
For some time, department of ag-
riculture officials, fearful of out
cries from the cotton belt, were tim
id about buying foreign cotton. They
thought they might get away with
purchases for storage in South
America-but not for imports into
the u. S.
But two agriculture officials-John
B. Hudson, president of Commodity
Credit, and Sam ~Bledsoe, aide to
Secretary Claude Wickard - con-
ceived the smart idea of putting the
plan squarely up to southern con-
gressmen, with Oscar Johnson as the
choice for buyer.
This worked like a charm. Cotton
congressman have full confidence in
Johnson, and they even approved
importing some cotton, especially
the long staple variety from Peru,
which does not directly compete
with U. S. cotton.
Meantime, plans are being made
to purchase other Latin American
agricultural SURPRISES, including beef
and vegetable oils. But Argentina,
which is suffering more than any
other country, will get no U. S.
help while President Castillo re-
mains on the neutrality fence.
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BEAVERBROOK:
Leads With Chin
In Call for Invasion

Lord Beaverbrook, in his master
full speech in which he praised
Churchill to the skies, but called
for desperate and sudden invasion
OF the continent in order to create a
second front and thus win the war
swiftly while Russia is at her peak,
caused a storm of controversy to
arise in Britain.
1t appeared the famous publisher
had led with his oddly shaped chin.
And his opposition press was not
long in taking shot at it.
One influential newspaper in Brit
ain after another criticized Beaver
brooks speech, most of them TAX
ing the attitude that while Britain
had been keyed up more and more
for an invasion attempt, there was
no spirit in the country to attempt it
until the last bullet necessary for
success was ready and in the hands
of the troops"
Britain, these papers said, twill
not be hustled into a decision to
attack on the continent.
This had put somewhat of damp
er on the previous reports, which
had emanated in the form of hints
at the time of General Marshall's
visit to London, that an invasion on
a large scale of some part of the
continent was definitely in the i'm
mediate offing.
1t made it look as though high
quarters were chastising Beaver
brook, and that his speech indeed
had been ill-advised.
That the British were definitely on
the offensive in the air could not
be denied. But that land offensive
would come soon seemed wishful
thinking.
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l6IlMIs'lY
CHEMURGY-
AND AMERICAN FARMS


AND AMERICAN FARMS
SOME 30 years ago, James Hill
proposed method for increasing
American farm production. At thai
time we had foreign market fol
the surplus of all of our farm prod.
ucts. The Hill proposal resulted in
the enactment of legislation for the
employment of an agricultural sci.
enlist in each county in the United
States-the county agent.
The plan worked. These trained
experts, placed by state agricultural
experiment stations, carried scien-
tific agricultural methods direct to
the farmer and applied them direct
ly to each Individual farm.
We had a market for our in
creased farm production through,
and for, two or three years after the
close of the first World war. When
we stopped lending European ma
tons money with which to buy, they
stopped buying and the American
farmer suffered.
We will not again have a farm
market capable of absorbing all of
our potential farm products until we
can find new uses for those products,
or produce those things for which
new uses can be found.
Industry must come to the relief
OF the American farm by a utiliza-
ton of those things that can be
produced on the farm, as well as by
a utilization of those things that
now are considered farm waste.
It is through the comparatively
new science of Chemurgy that these
things can be, and are being, ac-
complished, thanks very largely to
the efforts of one man, Wheeler Nc
Millen.
Mr.. McMillen is urging the enact
ment of legislation that will provide
for investigations of new crops which
can be grown in the United States,
and also for new industrial uses for
crops now grown on our farms or
from the present waste from these
crops. To the agricultural commit
tee of the house of representatives,
Mr.. McMillen recently made the
statement that of the 100000 known
species of plants, not more than 500
are known to have commercial val
ue. He said that of the many vege-
table products imported from for
eign countries and of which we are
now suffering a severe shortage,
most of them could be produced
from crops that can be grown on
American farms.
Mr.. McMillen sees agriculture as
the next great expanding industry
in the United States, with opportuni-
ties for every small farmer, and in
this he sees a safeguard for the
American philosophy of govern
ment.
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BRITISH:
Increase Tempo

The tempo of bombings by the
Royal Air force planes on detectives
in Europe had been vastly stepped
up, and there had been indications
that more and more deliberately the
British were attempting in these
raids to aid Russia.
Ever eastward had moved the OBJ
jectives, first Lubbock, then Stettil,
and then Rostock.
On this latter town, in two raids,
the Royal Air force fiiers had
dumped a total of 100000 pounds
of bombs. The destruction was said
to be most complete. Particular en-
phasis had been placed on the Helm
KEEL aircraft factory.
But these were not the only OBJ
iectives. On one day six giant raids
had been carried out, with more
than 600 planes looming over the
channel, bound on their lethal task.
British losses were not increasing,
showing that with more constant
practice, the British fiiers were
stepping up their technique and
managing to get home in increasing
numbers all the time.
Daylight hours had heightened,
weather had been favorable, and all
of this was working to the liking
of the British who were giving
Germany, they believed, a worse
and more continuous strafing than
anything the Nazis had melted out to
them earlier in the war.
Germany had begun to increase
their retaliatory raids, and the
British, ducking again into their
shelters, hoped that these planes
had been withdrawn from the Rus
sian and Libyan fronts, thus Civ
ing the Red and the British troops
more respite from attack.
Of the six raids in one day, three
were on Baltic ports and the other
three on channel coast points, the
air ministry had said.
Heaviest hit town of England had
been Exeter, home of famous
boys school, where hundreds were
said to have been made homeless
and IL deaths had resulted. But only
Is planes had taken part in this at
tack and this small number the Brit
ish counted as a moral victory.
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NEW CALEDONIA

The first positive and active after
math of the Laval situation in Vichy
was shown when the United States
troops landed in force on the stra-
tegic Free French island of New
Caledonia in the Southwest Pacific.
There had been small garrison
of Free French on the island, and
it was announced that the consid-
cradle American force landed there.
The DeGaullists had only recently
seized the island, and still more re-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-05-07
ARGENTINE:
Swinging OUer

Favorable news to the Allied ma
tons had finally come from Buenos
Aires.
1t had been learned that the new
Argentine chamber of deputies, fol-
lowing an election, had swung over
to the United Nations side.
Thus the opposition coalition had
gained control. Radical Deputy
Jose Luis Cantilo had been elected
president of the chamber.
1t had been dramatic scene,
with supporters of Acting President
Castillo, the neutrality toward alp
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-05-07
GERMANS

One of the followups of the ascen-
sion of Laval to control of Vichy
France, at least within Germany,
was the report through Swiss circles
that the Nazis soon were to release
thousands of French prisoners of
war.
This release" however, did not
mean that they would be free to go
back home, but that they would be
retained in Germany to work in
factories"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-05-07
Midget Mother

Judith Skinner, a 26-inch midget
who died in London in 1853, made
a unique maternal record. Dur
ing the % years she was married
to Robert, her 25-inch husband,
this woman, weighing less than 80
pounds, gave birth to IA normal
sized, robust children, all of whom
grew to adulthood, says Golfers.
Furthermore, she is believed to be
the only mother in history who
survived IA Caesarian operations.
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Reaction to LauaI

Gently American state department
officials had issued recognition.
There had been bitter protests
from Vichy. The island, part of the
New Hebrides group, lies in the di-
rect line of supply between the Unit
ed States and Australia.
There had been a French naval
base at Noumea, capital of the is
land, and the New Caledonia metal
resources were described as consid-
cradle.
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Do You Bake at Home?

If you do, send for a grand cook
book-crammed with recipes for
all kinds of yeast-raised breads
and cakes. It's absolutely free.
Just drop a postcard with your
name and address to Standard
Brands Inc, 691 Washington St.,
New York City.-Adv.
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Plan Release

Hitler was having production
problems, not disassociated with the
British bombings, and this was con-
sidered one of his means of coping
with the problem.
A dramatic story, further showing
Germany's internal difficulties was
the escape from a German prison
camp of General Henri Honore
Giraud, who did the same thing dur
ing World War I.
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Broadcasting Via Phone

The 800, 900 people on the island
of Malta receive their radio enter
tainment through a ''rediffusioH'
system. One central radio station
tunes in the best European pro
gram every hour and transmits II
by telephone wire to each receiy-
ing set, which rents for S3.75 =
year.
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BURMA:

British and Chinese defenders of
Burma, the former mostly Indian
territorial troops, of which the Brit
ish army had in it more divisions
than those from Canada, Australia,
New Zealand and South Africa COM
bined (believe it or not), were still
on the retreat under terrific Japa-
nese pressure.
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AMERICAN SYSTEM
GIVES ALL A CHANCE

GOVERNMENT CAN PROVIDE,
as our Constitution says, equal OPP
portunity, for every man. Govern
ment cannot provide equal ability,
initiative, the will to succeed or en-
ergy with which to pursue success.
Government can so discourage ini-
tiative and ability as to make the
achievement of success almost. if
not entirely impossible. By doing
so, it does not raise the standard
of the incapable, but by limiting the
activities of the capable, will lower
the standards of all.
Henry Ford was born with no
more opportunity than were mil
lions of other men, but few had the
ability, initiative, the will to sue
coed and the energy of Ford. With
these qualities, he achieved sue
cess that has been beneficial to the
people of the nation. Directly and
indirectly, that success has created
hundreds of thousands of jobs. It
has made homes and the conforta-
bic support of families possible. It
has provided markets for the farm
ers' products. 1t has raised ma
terially the living standard of all
America. When Henry Ford is gone,
what he has created will continue.
I knew two farmers who settled
on adjoining claims in Nebraska.
Each had the same number of acres,
the same soil, the same rain and
the same sunshine. They had equal
opportunity. One succeeded, the
other failed. One had ability and
energy, the other did not.
Three men of my acquaintance,
three brothers, were educated at
the same university. Each had
equal opportunity. One became an
efficient, successful business execu-
tive. The other two became clerks.
There was a difference in the abili-
ty, initiative and energy-one, or all
of these, attributes to success.
The success of no individual bene-
fits only himself. It is the cumula-
tive results of success which cause
us to prosper as people. 1t is
success that creates wealth and
jobs. The success of one does not
condemn another to the morass of
poverty and want. It raises the gen.
eral standard of all.
SOYBEANS-
TODAY WE MAKE automobile
upholstery, automobile steering
wheels, and other parts of the cars
we drive, out of soy beans. In 1914,
we produced only 1000 bushels of
soy beans, but because of market
created by industrial demand, that
increased to 10000 bushels in
1941, and this year the government
is asking for SO per cent increase
in that very profitable crop. That
is one of the things the organic
chemist has done for American ag-
riculture.
SOME DAY ONE of the political
parties will make a hit with farm
voters by advocating government
payments for raising crops we now
import. That would be more salts
factory to the farmer than to be
paid for not raising those things of
which we have too much. The farm
er would prefer to be paid for do
ing, rather than for not doing.
THE FELLOW WHOSE tires 60
to the bad finds out what an "all-
out" war means to him. He is tout"
for the duration.
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an additional car to the one already
owned, Henderson said.
Fourteen classes of persons had
been previously authorized to pur-
chase cars, but hardly anybody was
buying them, and the auto dealers
had been loudly complaining that
they were being strangled by gov
eminent restrictions.
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POWER PROBE

A powerful lobby is again back on
the Washington scene.
Driven out of the capital a few
years ago by the blasting investiga-
ton of Justice Hugo Black, then u.
S. senator from Alabama, the util-
ity forces have quietly resumed
their undercover pressure opera.
tions.
Inquiries at this Office elected the
explanation that the purpose of the
power interests was to facilitate
cooperation with the government in
the war effort"
They claim the Office is headquar-
tiers for a large and aggressive lob
by now fighting every proposal to
expand public power for war pur-
poses.
Up in arms over the lobby's sue
cesses, congressional public power
leaders are planning counter at
tack. Representative Clyde Ellis,
militant Arkansas leader of the
house public power bloc, soon will
introduce a resolution for sweep
ing investigation of the power lobby.
With congress now very investiga-
tion-minded, Ellis resolution BODIES
no good for the power boys.
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EDITORS NoTEwhen opinions columns
- Reeased by Western Newspaper Union.l -
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T EFT little sisters first new outfit
~ for sunshiny days be this fiat
tering frock and a matching bon
net! The dress is cleverly de-
signed to fiatter young figures with
the raised skirtline, the short, de-
mure bodice topped with its at
tractiye neckline and curved
shoulder yokes! Here's a set to
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-05-07
JAPAN /:

The japanese fleet, heavily con-
centrated in two general sectors, the
Southwest Pacific (including the In
dian ocean, and in home waters
near japan, was rumored to be on
the move toward the northeast, the
Japs having decided that the bomb
ers of Tokyo had been based on the
Aleutian islands.
Observers had been quoted that if
this should be the case, then there
was chance of major sea battle
in these waters, with at least an
even chance that the United States
navy would win.
True, the Japs had Is aircraft
carriers against about four for the
Americans, but it had been said that
the Japs could only marshal, on
these carriers, 300 planes as against
about 700 for the American feet.
AS close margin as this would
give the United States, on the basis
of past performances, a definite
edge, sufficient to win the battle in
all probability.
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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY Edward C. Wayne

British Aerial War Against Germany
Relieves Pressure on Russian Front;
President Moves to Halt Initiation;
Gas Rationing Marked by Conflicts
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MUSSOLINPS DOTAGE

Inside word brought back from
Italy by those in the know gives a
desolate picture of Benito Mussolini.
He has been pretty well isolated
from the war command and from
direction of the government, both
of which are dictated, directly or
indirectly. by Nazis.
Mussolini has gone in for reminis-
cling on his younger days when he
was a militant young socialist, part
of the time exiled in Switzerland.
He has even sent for his old So
cialist friends, including some pre-
viously exiled to France. And they
have sat around talking about the
good old days when they were
young.
Maybe this is insanity. Maybe it
is just getting back to sanity after
20 long years of decisions of
grandeur.
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leader, leaving the room in an eff
fort to prevent a quorum. But 81
deputies, one more than quorum,
remained on the floor, thus giving
the coalition its victory.
Argentina and Chile had remained
the only two South American repub-
lies to fail to break off relations with
the Axis powers. A resolution to
break off relations Immediately had
been offered in the new Argentine
chamber, and it was expected to
pass.
Cantilo was viewed as the man of
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MERRY-GO-ROUND

President Roosevelt has indicated
to Democratic chiefs who urged
him to tour the country, that he may
take a transcontinental trip this
summer-if the war permits. Demo-
cratic candidates facing tough cleo
ton battles are eager to have him
visit their states. Also the Presi-
dent long has wanted to inspect
several army camps and war pro-
duction centers.
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