The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-11-12
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DREW PEARSON
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RUBBER MIRAGE

tons have been produced, against
an expectation of around $4,000 tons.
Part of this failure is due to the
jealous tug-of-war between Jesse
Jones and the Board of Economic
Warfare. Jones' Rubber Reserve at
first delayed doing anything about
Brazilian rubber. Later the BEW
stepped in.
This situation, bad as it may be,
is insignificant compared with the
handicaps of nature. For in the jun
giles of the Amazon, nature has
erected the most difficult barriers
conceivable to protect her rubber.
Here is the tragic, inside story of
what has happened.
First, the BEW, working in CO.
operation with Jesse Jones' Rubber
Reserve, offered a higher wage to
rubber workers, with the result that
they flocked to the jungle. But this
took men away from the lesser paid
work of farming and wood-cutting,
so that river steamers lacked wood
fuel, and the jungle settlements
lacked food.
Starve in Jungles.
The result was that a great many
men actually died of starvation in
the jungles. A few had been given
shot-guns, but ammunition was so
scanty that they were scarcely able
to shoot monkeys.
Later the people in the towns from
which the rubber workers were re-
cruited heard that their friends and
relatives starved to death. Now
these towns won't send any more
workers.
One factor contributing to the
tragic situation was that a ship
bringing food, firearms and more
equipment to the Amazon was sunk
by a Nazi submarine.
Also it takes a tremendous num-
Der of tin cups to collect rubber.
A cup is tied to each tree, and
catches the rubber as it slowly
oozes from the trunk.
However, the chief shipment of tin
cups got held up on the dock in
southern Brazil, missed the boat,
then were further delayed by sub
marine warfare, and now have
missed the current rubber season.
A lot of these handicaps, such as
submarine warfare, are insurmount-
able. But the net result is that al
though we are spending many mil
lions, we will get almost no rubber
from Brazil this year.
HITLER'S NEW ORDER
Here is an authentic account from
Dutch government sources, of what
happened to Hollanders who were
caught in the act of printing an anti
Nazi publication in the Netherlands.
One victim was forced to place
his feet in a tub of water, which
was brought slowly to the boiling
point. Another patriot, who had
been arrested in mid-winter, was
compelled to undress and was
placed upon a chair in the open
courtyard of the prison, surrounded
by warmly dressed Gestapo men,
who questioned him as long as he
could stand it.
Whenever he tainted, they poured
hot drinks down his throat and
rubbed his numb body until the in
terrogation could be continued.
Still another Hollander had his
fngernails torn out; and a very
common method of torture was the
use of dazzling light directed upon
the eyes of the suspect.
When the Nazis first took over
they gave orders to their troops to
deal gently with local populations.
But with continued local resistance,
the gloves are off. Men and women
all over Europe are learning the
true meaning of the "new order"
now promised by Germany
SENATOR D0XEY'S RAILROAD
The subway train between the
Capitol and the Senate office build
ing is great help to senators shut
ting back and forth to their offices,
but Senator Wall Doxey of Missis-
sippi would be the first to admit that
it can prove a political liability.
Doxey seldom uses the little tram
way, preferring to walk. Nonethe-
less, Mississippi farmers call il
''Doxey's Railroad" and according
to friends, it had something to do
with the Mississippian's primary de-
feat. Here's the story:
James Eastland, who defeated
Doxey, made practice of inquir.
ing, during speeches in farm COM
munities, if there was a railroad
nearby.
"Nope," someone would reply.
Nearest ones ten miles"
"What a shame" sighed East.
land. ''You know, Senator Doxey
has a private railroad in Washing.
ton which he uses to ride back and
forth to his Office"
CAPITAL CHAFF
Marshal Rommel now has approx.
imately one division of U. S. tanks
previously captured from the Brit.
ish, with which to combat the pres.
ent British advance.
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