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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26
Duluth HERE FRIDAY
FOR SEASONS FINALE
Chief Buckley and Indians
Cooking Potent BrelU
for Invaders.

Therell be no more basketball here
until next winter after the Duluth
Ely junior college game Friday night.
The Tower and Ely junior high
school teams will meet at 7:30 o'clock
in a preliminary, followed by the main
attraction.
The local college club will have its
final opportunity to break into the
conference win column, a column that
shows only one victory for the cam
paign.
At Duluth the Vermilion range
cagers staged spirited fight to "win"
until the final minutes, when Duluth
came from behind and garnered the
game, 1881 That was one of a half
dozen contests that might have gone
to Ely had the fate, or whatever it is
that decides close game, waved its
favored wand over the Ely crew.
At Ely this week Coach Ed Buckley
and his gang will shoot the works to
give Duluth what they handed
Ely at the Head of the Lakes.
They tried the same stunt at Vir-
ginia the middle of last week and came
within an ace of upsetting the second
placed Queen City quintet, and a little
added cooking of this potent brew
may bring Chief Buckley and his In
dians the upset they've been after.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26
DISTRICT q TOURNEY
DRAW UP next WEEK
This Weeks Games to be
Used in Determining
Final Standings.

District 81 basketball coaches will
meet in Virginia Monday evening at
$50 o'clock to make the draw for
Edward T. Buckley, director of ply
steal education in the Ely school sys-
tenn.
Games played to and including this
Saturday will be used to determine
the status of the team in making the
draw. Coach Steve Smrekar will rep
resent Memorial high at the meet
ing. The tournament is set for March
IL to IA, inclusive, at Virginia
Under the system used the two clubs
at the bottom of the standings will be
paired and will open the tournament.
This will put Eveleth, Gilbert, Inter
national Falls, and possibly Aurora in
line for the cellar" game.
Then the team at the top of the
standings will draw to see whether
it will be placed in the top or bottom
half of the bracket Biwabik has this
position sewed up.
The team next to the top will be
placed in the opposite bracket.
Team No. 8 in the standings will
then draw to see which bracket it will
play in, with team No. going into
the opposite one.
This arrangement places the strong
est. teams in the opposite brackets,
making for a better meet and, for all
intentS and purposes, assuring that
the two stronger ones will meet in
the finals-unlesS eliminated before
hand.
After the first four teams have been
placed in the brackets, they will draw
for opponents with teams five, six, and
seven, and the winner of the game be-
tween teams eight and nine.
There will be three games the first
night of the meet, two the second
and third, and one, the finals, the
fourth.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26


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before returning New
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another contract
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26
MERMAIDs WIN
fourth PLACE
Hill, Carlson, Markovich, Two
Relay Teams Come Through
at State Meet.
HOW THEY FINISHED.

The Ely mermaids garnered fourth
place in the state meet finals at Vir-
GINA Saturday night, and were nosed
out of third by Chisholm by margin
of only 2 points.
Ely defeated Chisholm in two dual
meets, the last time by a $500 count,
and can make a moral claim at least
to being the third best team in Min
nesota.
In winning the meet Nashwauk de-
throned Virginia, which couldn't re-
peat after it's THIRTEENTH conSecu-
tive victory. The winners had defeated
the Queen City twice in dual meets.
Ely qualified three swimmers in the
preliminaries of the individual events
and every one came through in the
finals.
Captain Waynetta Hill won third in
the 5O-yard free style, Betty Carlson,
third in the 50-yard backstroke, and
Leone Markovich, fifth in the 50-yard
breast stroke.
The medley relay team staged the
most sensational performance, finishing
behind NaShwauk to take second place.
The combination of Carlson, Marko-
vich, and Hill bested Virginia and
Chisholm.
The free style relay team of Hill,
Kristine zeleznikar, Ona Myntti, and
Markovich won third place, beating out
Chisholm and finishing behind Vir-
GINA and Nashwauk in the order
named There were no relay prelim-
inaries.
Ely's lineup for the individual events:
1O0-yard free, Margaret Ferderber; 100
breast, Joyce and Dolores Butala; so
free, Hill, zeliznikar, Myntti; so back
Carlson, nona Mills; so breast, Marko-
vich, Joyce and Dolores Butala. Emily
Grahek was manager. All of the girls
are eligible for letter awards.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26
TALL timber
TALES
BY A. K. u.

There has come story from a
former Ely man now employed on a
defense project in Greenland that will
make local yarn spinners who delight
in recounting their fishing proves
catch their breath.
1t semes that Eden Ellefsen is liv-
ing beside very productive lake for
fish life. And now the Arrowhead's
lakes will wont to keep their deep
covering of snow so that the shame
on their faces cannot be seen.
Ellefsen's lake is typical of those
which live in the imaginations of
midweSterners who have heard many
fish stories about the Border Country
and are just pushing off in about 102
in the shade temperature for their
initial sojourn in the Far North.
These tenderfoot woodsmen firmly
believe that all the Tall Timber
country's fish actually fight over which
one gets hooked first. And so they do
occasionally, as any one who has
angled for northernS in shallow, weedy
bays knows. But the inexperienced
angler never stops to think that at
times the fish don't bite at all. No.
sir. That couldn't be, not after the
stories he's heard
Well, Ellefsen's lake is better than
that.
There are plenty of uninitiated land
locked sportsmen who have listened
open. mouthed as some more fortu-
nate individual told how he hooked a
fish, pulled it in, trailed his bare hook
in the water while he reached for
more bait, and hooked a monster on
the bare hook. And so he did, but the
listener never allows for the fact that
this doesn't happen often.
Then there are endless tales about
the fish nibbling at fingers thrust into
the water, and warnings to pop-eyed
innocent listeners to avoid such
hazards. And there are other stories
about fishermen on shore playing
tug-of-war with fish in the water, the
fish winning in a variety of exciting
climaxes. And still others about I'M
SScIl ulOllSUcIS IulllllllS d1Oul CIlc IlOOh
and diving down, down, down until
the singing reel gives up the last of
the line-and the fish.
All these, while in the Tall Timber
country are relegated to the campfire
sessions at which liquid refreshments
are generously consumed, are related
as factual in the plains states distant
from give-away evidence.
Now, whether EllefSen's lake goes as
far as this is up to imagination, but
anyway it's mighty good lake.
Enefsen claims that the fish in his
lake are so thick that one can hike
across on their backs.
Here we are in the same position as
the midwesterner who listened open
mouthed to fish stories about the
Arrowhead. Greenland is long way
off, land of vast distances and un-
explored wilderness Chats just what
the plains states man thinks of u.s.
So, until some future date when
we can go to Greenland for our fish
| ing, We'll have to admit that its
angling is better than ours.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26

A couple of boys named Stepan
will be remembered for a long time
by Elyites at the Tower-Ely game
Friday night, for they pushed the
bitter pill of defeat down revenge
seeking red and white club to the
tune of 1922.
Together the Stepans scored enough
points to turn back the challenge of
Memorial high by a APPOINT margin,
as the two Tower giants thrilled home
folks with a masterful exhibition.
Ely held a slim 1-point margin at
the end of the first quarter in strictly
defensive battle, but in the second
quarter both teams opened up and the
pace reached its high point in the
third as the ball swished through the
net with regularity.
Ely ran into considerable difficulty
sinking their close-in shots, either be-
cause of greenhouses or because it
wasn't their night to score. Tower was
never headed after it took over the
lead in the second quarter.
The box score:
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26
Crisp Bedroom Decoration

A crisp and Immaculate bedroom
is decorated in gold, mauve anu
white, with maple furniture in a
wheat finish. The white-painted
walls have thick ceiling molding of
white plaster rope. The carpet is
mauve. White shantung draw cur
tains frame the widow. The white
bedspread is of rough novelty, tex
ture fabric. Gold and white striped
material covers the chairs, dressing
table bench and small sofa.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26
Ely Safety Posters
Displayed at Hibbing.

The Ely schools entrants in the st.
Louis county safety poster contest
were exhibited in Virginia yesterday
and are on display in Hibbing today,
along with others entered in the
event.
The poster award dinner will be
held in Eveleth April "a, at which time
Is special awards of defense stamps
will be given.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26
Northland Al, Ely 46.

Ely junior college dropped thrill
ing 47-46 game at Northland Sat-
urday night, as the Ashland, Wis,
club evened the score for previous
defeat here.
Victory went to Northland by the
margin of a single free throw. Both
clubs made 10 field goals, but the
winners made free throws to 8 for
Ely. Northland was ahead, 24-22. at
half time.
Ed Grahek ran wild to set an indi-
vidual scoring record for the Ely club
for the season. Grahek counted 10
points.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26
Circus Elephant

The circus elephant of today is a
descendant of one of two groups of
mammals that appeared on the
earth at the beginning of the Great
Ice age a million years ago and
were destined to become bitter ri
walls for world dominance for many
ages, according to Natural History
Magazine. The brute strength of
the elephant lost out to the intelli-
gence of the other race, which now
owns the circus-Man.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26
Use of PlaStics

The need to economic on the use
OF metals in England is reported to
be large factor in the increasing
use OF plastics in the building of
their warplanes.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26
RECREATION
news
by Anthony Brimsek
= Recreation Director.
Square Dance.

Square Dance.
The square dance held at the Com
munity Center Saturday was thoroughly
enjoyed by the rs persons who parti-
cipated. Beginners went through the
square dances like veterans after
short period of instruction from Joe
Fleming.
Another dance will be sponsored by
the Ely Recreation Department at the
Community Center auditorium next
Saturday at $3.50 p. m.
TObOggan Party.
The toboggan party at the golf
100 participants, both children and
adults, who found ideal weather con-
ditions and rides fast and long. I'm
promptu exhibitions in slalom and
jumping showed considerable talent
among our younger generation.
Ice Follies.
Skating races were the main feature
of the Ice Follies which were held
at the Whiteside rink last Saturday.
Winners of the different contests were
awarded prizes.
Physical Instruction.
The Women's physical training group,
under the direction of Angela Masnik,
has more than tripled its membership
during the past three weeks. The
group meets every wednesday at the
Memorial gym at $50 p. m. Basket
ball, volleyball, badminton, calisthenics,
and dancing comprise the program.
Funsters Club Party.
Tuesday, Feb. 16, the Funsters en-
joyed party to which each men,
Der brought guest. This was the
first effort for admission of new MEM
bers. Games which everyone enjoyed
were played. After lunch was served
the attendants danced to the music
of Albert Smuk and his accordion.
The next regular meeting of the
group win be March s.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26
Balls Cost s1ao .ooo

The 16 baseball teams in Ameri-
can and National leagues use in an
average season, approximately 105,-
600 balls, which cost about $13O, 900.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26
Balla Round Tower

Balla Round Tower, one of the
few remaining ancient round towers
in Ireland, has been designated a
national monument.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26
CITY LEAGUE.
Final Standings

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bonds and stamps!
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26
BOYS DUAL MEET
COMPETITION
194I-42

Final Meet Scores.
'Hibbing 38, Virginia 80.
Eveleth SO, Chisholm "a.
Hibbing won when Virginia was
disqualified in the final event.
1904
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26
x x x
X STARS IN THE SPOTLIGHT! x
X X X BY ETHEL VINE X X X 4

Walter Pidgeon is one of Holly
woods most distinguished actors
on a number of counts. Versatile,
affable and modest, he is equally
popular both on and off the screen
and is one of the few leading men
who survived the transition from
silent to talking pictures.
Pidgeon has played all kinds of
roles with facility. His commander
in "Flight Command" had the same
sincerity and strength that his
hearty Texan ranchman displayed
in Blossoms in the Dust" But as
a newspaperman in "Design For
Scandal he returns once more to
the type of light comedy he has al
ways managed so adroitly.
Enlisfs
Walter Pidgeon's background re-
veals as fascinating a success story
as there is in movie annals. He was
born in st. John, New Brunswick
and attended Alexander School.
Leaving high school at the age Of
sixteen, he enlisted in the first
World War but an elder brother,
Colonel Don Pidgeon, who had
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26
BASKETBALL
COLLEGE CONFERENCE.

Northland Al, Ely 46.
Duluth Al, Crosby 46.
Virginia so, Ely 46.
Eveleth 35, Hibbing 80.
FRIDAY.
Duluth at Ely.
Crosby at ItaSca.
Hibbing at Rochester.
SATURDAY.
ItaSca at Eveleth.
Bemidji TIC at Virginia.
Hibbing at Austin.
MARCH 5.
Virginia at ItaSca.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26
Submarine First


Robert Fulton invented a sub
marine before he devised the steam
boat. Both inventions were turned
down by the French and English
governments.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26
L00k!
Tower SO, Ely %.
Gilbert 81, Biwabik 81.
Int'l Falls 33, Mt. Iron "a.

Aurora 70, Virginia Is.
Eveleth %, Cloquet 81.
Cathedral, Duluth, 80, Aurora, 35.
FRIDAY.
Ely at Gilbert.
Aurora at Mt Iron.
Tower at Eveleth.
Virginia at Hibbing.
SATURDAY.
Tower at Biwabik.
Eveleth at Int1 Falls.
Evening star., 1942-06-10
0ES Chapter 10 Present
Ambulance 10 Red Cross

Members Of the Order OF the
Eastern Star in Washington will
present a standard Army ambu-
lance to the American Red Cross
Sunday as its contribution to Flag
Day exercises.
The ceremony will take place at
4 pm. in the South Auditorium, In
terror Department, on c street be-
tween Eighteenth and Nineteenth
streets NV.
Mrs. Hazel r. Engelbrecht, worthy
grand matron of the District grand
chapter. will preside. The speaker,
a member Of Congress, will be in
Evening star., 1942-06-10

Of respecting contracts. In ex-
change, Brazil would produce the
iron which 1t that time was not
being produced.
Mr.. Welies invited DR.. Souza
Costa, Brazilian Finance Minister
to visit Washington. DR.. Souza
Costa went.
Minas Geraes can't swing Brazil
alone. But opening the Rio Doce
means that Minas will house Brazils
new steel industry. So to Minas
the ItaDira deal means assuring it
. dominant place In Brazilian
politics.
To President Vargas, success of
the Itabira deal means mending his
most important political fence.
copyrisht 1912. by Chicago Daily News
Evening star., 1942-06-10

troduced by Ira Y. Balm, worthy
grand patron. Mrs. Engelbrecht
will present the gift of the ambu-
lance. which win be accepted by
James L. Fieser, vice chairman Of
the American Red Cross.
Theodore c. Lewis, who Is chair
man Of the ambulance committee,
will be master of ceremonies.
Mrs. Minnie E. Keyes, on behalf
Of the Eastern Star general grand
Evening star., 1942-06-10
chapter, will be on the program.

chapter, will be on the program.
Funds for the ambulance, cost
ing $500 and fully equipped for
Army field use. were raised by East
ern Star members here within two
weeks, Mrs. Engelbrecht said, add
ing that q drive to secure funds
to buy q second ambulance Is well
under way.
Soloists at the exercises will be
Mrs. Marie c. Deal and Richard
Evening star., 1942-06-10
Rooster's Lost Ride

ALBEMARLE, N. C. R.-Baxter
Moss picked up his three regular
passengers and drove six miles to
the aluminium plant where they
work. On arrival they found Moss
rooster perched on the automobile
bumper. What could they do with
him? A vote was taken. They had
hot chicken stew for lunch.
Evening star., 1942-06-10
Awarded Scholarship

Edouard H. Siegler, jr., Of Takoma
Park, Md, has been awarded q
scholarship to Johns Hopkins Uni
versity and will enter there later
this month. He is a cadet captain
at Central High School.
Evening star., 1942-06-10

E. Titlow. The District grand chap
ter is comprised of 40 Eastern Star
chapters.
Evening star., 1942-06-10
Only Slightly Navigable.

Near the source of the Rio Doce
lie the great iron deposits of Brazil.
And by a miracle there bulges the
mountain of Itabira, 00,000, 900
tons of iron ore, 68-70 per cent pure
The Rio Doce, however, is only
slightly navigable 1t has numerous
small falls and the thick matted
jungle of the valley breeds malaria,
locking that valley shut until now.
The value of the Rio Doce as a
Evening star., 1942-06-10
Last OF a Series.)
By ALLEN HADEN,

ny hLAEN nhDEN,
Foreign Correspondent of The star and
Chicago Daily News.
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 4 (By
Clipper Brazilian objectives in
making the Itabira iron ore deal
which links the state of Minas
Geraes to the steel industry of Eng
land and the United States, are a
complex of geography. politics and
pioneering, since working the TIA
bira mine is expected primarily to
develop the valley of The Rio Doce,
Brazils only river excepting the
primitive, fever locked Amazon)
which flows most directly toward
the sea.
Talking to Brazilian experts about
Itabira, your correspondent took a
liberal lesson in yeography-and
politics.
The crazy fact is that Brazil's
rivers have habit of running
parallel to the sea coast or away into
the interior. The Parana begins in
Sac Paulo, the Paraguay starts in
MattO Crosse, and both now TO Ar
gentina. The Sac Francisco. huge
waterway navigable for hundreds of
miles, parallels the coast and is use
less since four huge cataracts cut
off all contact with the sea. A minor
river, the Parnhyba, looks like a
safety pin on the map; 1t starts a
few miles west of Rio de Janeiro,
flows south. then doubles back and
flows north finally meeting the sea
north of Rio.
Only the Rio Doce acts. like a
normal river. 1t begins in the hills
of Minas Geraes (on the other side
of the watershed begins the Sac
Francisco), skirts the ends of two
mountain ranges and flows into
the Atlantic Ocean near the port
of Victoria in the state of Espirito
Cantn
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-04-25

.UJMPN 1--WE
by ulysses boykin

netrot is city that's entirely different with that
arm personal touch of hospitality that makes you just
and in spite of the fact that so many of our coored
can't get jobs in all of the big defense plants
h. Governor Van Wagner wrote us that about July l.
michigan will begin to feel the worst labor shortage in its
history
Here in the Motor City, everybody loves to work
lard all week, and celebrate the weekend.
They like stroll up and down Paradise Valleys St.
Antoine street and who's elbowing the & Ca
nonular bar where continuing activity and the
expert MCing of Bobby Keys not to mention the
general charm of the place and the excellent show
continue to fascinate
Regardless of your troubles there's entertainment to
had mpressyely in the time honored Club Three Skies
fectonatey known the citadel of sociaes and plain
|oks.
Slim Jones' Club Congo draws the crowd that has
been Hocking to it for food, song and drink.
Among Hastings street institutions, one of our ia
|ores is Mac veys Cozy Corner, manager by Raymond
Jackson
The rug cutting industry appears to hold i'm
passioned priority the Club Zombie where Cecil Lee
is director of rhythm production
Fine food is discoverable upstairs at Earl Waon's
udo on ST. Antoine, where genial Earl acts host to
lis patrons.
The Frogs club is dedicated to gag festiv-
y ultra utro cuisine incidental drinking and melo
dies lightly rppled off the worries by George Saunders
Dtroers are indebted to Dr. Washington for his dis
motive barbecue served at the famed Uncle Toms Plan
(tion
A swell and typical spot to enjoy barbecue is
Vcs Log Cabin.
Sonnie Wilson'S cocktail bar is a shining spot where
bspaty is at its most glamorous and most fasdous at
be longest bar in town.
Paradise Valley, which is located in the northeast
vsr of the first precinct has a Inspector. He is
Joseph McNaey, a smiling personality and grand
guy We wish him lots of success
Glamorous Naola Nutta had birthday Saturday and
bynd Larry Bleach threw little surprise gettogether
br her Sunday.
1f- Il D.
Henderson and his new madam, who are honeymoon
ing in the South.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-04-25
Sweet Girl
.Captiivates
Broadway
Pinkard's Song
Will Be Feature
OF Musical Film

NEW YORK-"Sweet Girl" Maceo
Pinkard's new Broadway song-hit,
has been accepted by the 20th Cen
tury-Fox pictures for an early re-
lease, featured by either Tommy
Dorsey or Vaughn Monroe and his
orchestra.
This song is being arranged by
Edgar Battle for Louis Prima and
his orchestra who will feature 1t
over the MIC networks. and has
been staged by Leonard Harper and
Lew Crawford for their Elks Rem
devious New York revue. broad
casting via WMCA several nights
weekly.
Broadway music critics say Pink
ard has some OF the greatest bunch
OF songs OF his long and successful
career.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-04-25
URIN'..
THE RADIO WORLD
By ISAAC JONES

way 10 travel. Perhaps all that he
Is interested in is that. they Will
get there on time.
Did you ever wonder who Is the
funny Mrs. tpplngtOn one OF the
stars on the flbber McGee and
Molly program! Well she Is isabel
Randolph. she used to he mem.
her Of the Woodward Players nj
the Detroit Majestic. =. inst a
hometown girl that got a break In
radio.
Dick Osg0Od the man behind
the mike on The Show World pro.
gram is now heard Has 70 II mid.
night IL. station W\YZ. so II
you have missed this program AT
the ) pm. hour that is the reason.
SWEEP Hour OF Prayer. a reli.
eious program heard 1890 "a
l2:45 pm. over WJLB ... has
switched to 100 am, over the
same station. Until next week -
GOOD LISTENING