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gouth View street before entering the priesthood said that his talk was one of the most inspiring heard in the course of the series of programs. Father Stephens resigned from the New York bar to study for the priesthood.
 The Earbenders will hold their second clambake of the season on Sunday, August 30th, at Earbenders grove. Bake starts at 10:30 with clambroth and hamburgers with Art Dulac in charge of the general ar- engagements.
 The card game between Pat Ho- gan's team and Tom "Curley' O'Donnell's card sharks will be the main feature of the afternoon. "Si- lent" Bill Blacker, plays on Pat Hogans team, and it Is almost a sure bet, Hogan's team will take home the cigars, when they have as gooda player as MT. Blacker with them.
 Committee consists of Ralph Rug gles, as chairman, Ed Leach, Bill Dews, Tom Reynolds. Art Dulac, Frank Joyce, Jack Tehan. Ed. Con- lon, Henry A. Hayden, ST, and : Thomas Conway.
 The bake is an all-day affair, with the setting of the sun sending everyone home.
 Miss Ella Rider of Waldoboro, Me, is visiting with Miss Mae Braun, of Keefe street.
 Mrs. Freda Haneman of Brooklyn, N. r., was a weekend visitor with her brother and sister-in-law, MT. and Mrs. Chris Braun of Keefe street.
 Miss Peggy Conway and the Misses Anna and Betty Birming- ham of Lounsbury street have just returned from a weeks vacation 4pent at Atlantic City, N. J.
 Miss Mary ODonnell of Baldwin atreat tha Y10riIlar school nllrSA is
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Miss Mary ODonnell of Baldwin street. the popular school nurse, is back on the job after spending her vacation at Bayview, Milford. Conn.
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the accident had been covered with dust and other loose material with a brush just before the race.
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Miss Peggy Conway and the Misses Anna and Betty Birming- ham of Lounsbury street have just returned from 8 weeks vacation 4pent at Atlantic City, N. J.
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Mrs. Freda Haneman of Brooklyn, Y. r., was a weekend visitor with her brother and sister -in-law, MT. and Mrs. Chris Braun of Keefe street.
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Miss Ella Rider of Waldoboro Me, is visiting with Miss Mae Braun, of Keefe street.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-04-09
COMMANDOS:
Hit Daring BLo,u

Britain's commands, after a hull
of several weeks during which they
doubtless had been cooking" an
other raid, had descended in full
power on the German-held port of
st. Nazaire, important submarine
and naval base, with dire results.
Chief objective, outside of general
demolition work around the port,
had been the destruction of a huge
dock, the only one on the European
Atlantic coast capable of handling
the 35,000-ton German battleship
Won Tirpitz.
The commands had attacked St.
Nazaire under cover of an aerial
bombing raid, using paratroops, de-
stroyers, and motor torpedo boats.
The Nazis denied all efficacy of the
raid, but the British just as positive
ly declared it to have been a huge
success.
Chief item and most daring in the
raid was the use of an average u. S.
destroyer as a swiftly moving bomb
to ram the dock. The destroyer had
been loaded with five tons of high
explosive in its bow, fixed with
time fuse to permit the crew to get
ashore and fight while the ship blew
up.
British sources had reported that
this was just what happened. The
vessel rammed the dock and stuck
there, later to blow up and put the
structure out of commission.
The Germans said, however, that
their coastal defense batteries
struck the destroyer and caused her
to blow up before reaching her OBJ
jective.
The Germans, however, admitted
that many of the raiders got ashore,
but claimed they were all killed or
captured. The British said there
"were some casualties" but that the
detectives were carried out, and
that many members of the raiding
forces returned in safety to England.
1t was all part of the British spring
offensive, which included practically
nonstop raids against Germany and
occupied France.
The U. S. destroyer found at her
end place in history along with the
Vindictive and the blockships of Zee
brugge fame.
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Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, pick
ing up where General Macarthur
left off, was continuing the Bataan
campaign, and Corregidor had with
stood the heaviest bombing attacks
of the war.
The guns of Corregidor and her
sister fortresses had hammered
away at flights of Jap bombers,
dropping four one day, two the next,
with others probably downed or
damaged"
President Quezon, on his arrival
with his family and cabinet in Aus
tralia, predicted that the iron stand
of Wainwright's men soon would re-
ceive its reward, and that relief
for the Philippine garrison would
mot be long in coming"
The Filipino president had been
variously reported as killed, dead of
disease, and murdered on orders of
General Macarthur. Actually, he
had never left MacArthur's head
quarters, and had flown to Australia
to take his stand there again.
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he was regarded as more reason
able, more DESTROYS of defending In
dia than the other leaders.
Nehru, the congress chieftain, pri-
or to talking with Grips had said
that anything less than a promise of
complete independence would be in
adequate.
Japan is offering us that" he
said boldly. While he protested no
'love for the aggressor, he said
that British failure to offer independ-
ence would leave India no recourse
other than to adopt passive resist
ance to the Japs, which he admitted
would be no practical resistance at
all.
Nehru frankly did not believe the
British could achieve Indian unity,
blaming Jinnah, the Moslem head.
He said that Jinnah was insisting
on a divided freedom for India, and
that while he, Nehru, was willing to
Ego along" with any type of free
dom, he doubted that England was
going to accede to Jinnahs de-
mandS.
Relations were worse at the time
of Cripps' arrival than at any time
in history, Nehru said, talking dark
ly of civil war being "just around
the corner" an eventuality which
most observers believed would be
suicidal with Japan knocking at the
nations eastern borders.
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AMERICANS:
Cupid 'Do,Un Under

Most interesting while the Amer
lean troops were training in Aus
tralia, becoming acclimated, and
meeting the people" was the flood
of romance sweeping over the con-
tinent.
Literally scores of marriages were
being performed, causing all sorts
of reactions.
Some of the Aussie clergy de-
plored these marriages in haste"
and one cleric had the bad taste to
say the Americans came here to
fight, not to get married"
The Australian public met the
romances with whoops of joy, and
the press was definitely on the side
of young love.
One American commanding Of
ficer forbade his soldiers to get
married, and drew down on himself
bowls of rage from the rank and
file, and reprimand from his SUI
periors.
The war department in Washing
ton capped this climax by issuing
a statement that any American sol
der had a perfect right to get mar
ried as long as he did his duty as
soldier, and obeyed the commands
of his superiors-and was free to
get married.
And that, after all, turned out to
be the only major worry of those
who watched Cupid's darts flying
right and left in Australia-the fear
that some enthusiastic lovers might
forget that they had wives at hom,
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people to rise and emulate brave
Jugoslavia." It called for the throw
ing out of King Boris, who was de-
scribed as "only a German pawn"
and Gin Berlin with Won Papen."
Cause of all this antagonism
toward active entrance into the war
on Germany's side was the blood
kinship felt by Bulgars, as well as
Jugoslavs, in the main, for Rus
slams.
It was not considered unlikely that
the government might be over
thrown, and that the army itself
might rebel against orders sending
them into action against the Reds.
A possibility was seen that they
might only make 'ttoken" of fight
ing, and surrender rather than meet
the fate which mutiny would bring.
The Jugoslavs, who overturned
their government, only to succumb
to unpreparedness and Croatian de-
fections, were still fighting in force,
and Jugoslav guerrilla force of
100000 was reported about to start
a 'spring offensive" of its own
against the Nazi army of occupa-
ton.
Chief worrier about the Bulgar
situation was Turkey, who saw in
this move of soldiery the war COM
ing every nearer to her borders.
Political circles in Berlin suggest
ed that King Boris might renounce
his old east Thracian aspirations.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-04-09
TIMETABLE:
Revised

There had been much talk about
the japanese timetable being awry,
but to the man in the street this was
hard to believe, since the Japs had
swept the East Indies, including
Singapore, but excluding Bataan
and Manila Bay fortresses, in the
unbelievably short period since De-
cember z.
However, it had become apparent
that the Japanese plans to enter the
Australian mainland had suffered a
severe setback in the arrival of thou
sands of American troops on the
continent, in the about plane
attack on Jap concentrations in is
lands to the north of Australia, and
in the reported reinforcements be-
ing received by the Aussies of their
own blooded troops back from north
ern Africa.
These were signs all could read.
The attacks on New Guinea had
been going on far too long in COM
parison with those on other islands
in the Indies without the Japs NOV
ing in for the Australian ''kill."
1t was inconceivable that the jap
anese wanted to wait until the Amer
leans and North African troops had
landed, had become organized. They
had not wanted Macarthur, and
President Quezon to escape to the
mainland
Nor did they want their enemy to
be holding onto Port Moresby at this
late date, with its airfelds and gar
risons awaiting Jap push over the
almost impossible mountainsides to
the southern part of the island.
Here, it was evident, the Japs
had met serious delay. Many be-
ieved the attack on Australia was
to be abandoned, thus setting the
stage for a real Allied counter
offensive.
The Australians, however, particu-
larly General Blamey, who had been
placed in command of the Aussies
under General Macarthur, believe
that 1--WE must arrange our strate-
gy on the basis that the Japs are
going to try an invasion"
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ldI!I||'l|la
OUR SON, JOHN
is IN THE ARMY

OUR SON, JOHN
is IN THE ARMY
OUR SON, JOHN, is in the
army" said Farmer Nordholm,
"but we do not know where he is.
We can write him at an address we
have and know our letters will be
forwarded, but where they will
reach John, we do not know.
HE may be somewhere in the
United States or he may be in Eng
land, Ireland, Russia, Iran, Egypt
or Libya. He may be in Java, Bur-
ma, India, Australia, or in any one
of the many south Pacific islands.
Or he may be in Africa, in Dutch
Guiana, the Canal Zone, or any one
of the several islands of the Carib-
bean sea; or it might be the Philip
pines or China or Norway-we do
not know. Because his ancestors
came from Norway, I expect John
would like to be there, helping to
drive the Germans from that Hun
infested country. We know he is
doing his best wherever he is"
In that little statement about his
son, John, Farmer Nordholm paint
ed a picture of this war and of the
Americans who are fighting in it for
us. A war which encircles the globe;
war on every sea and on every
continent-the most terrific conflict
the world has ever known, the re-
suit of which will determine the
freedom or slavery of practically
all peoples.
For America it is being fought by
people of all races and all nationali-
ties, for of such America is made.
In our armed forces are men
whose ancestry comes from all the
nations of Europe, Asia, Austral-
asia, South America and from the
tribes and peoples of Africa.
They are the product of the Amer
lean melting pot. Freedom, the op-
portunity for advancement, to pros
per, to live as free citizens, has
made of them the kind of Americans
who will give their all that they and
their children may retain the rights
and privileges.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-04-09
INDIA:
At Crossroads

While there had been no immedi-
ate indication that the Japs were to
make India the supreme objective,
and abandon any idea of an immedi-
ate invasion of Australia, the situa-
ton in Burma was serious enough to
give poignancy to the visit Of
Sir Stafford Grips and his offer of
dominion status to India-after the
war.
The sharp division of opinion in
India placed three men and their
followers in the forefront of the pic
ture, Gandhi, Nehru and Jinnah.
Gandhi, the Mahatma, leader of
more, Hindus than any other man,
had been the first to confer with
Grips, and two-hour conference
had found the two men willing to
admit that the basis of negotiations
was Satisfactory"
But the handling of Nehru and jim
nah was a horse of another color.
Despite the fact that Gandhi had
been more than any other man the
leader of resistance to British rule,
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Washington, d. C.
HOMEGROWN FASCISTS
1 6: Ss!a!:!sl!zaszsE:2'|'E!'

HOMEGROWN FASCISTS
After three months of temporizing
with native Fascist champions, At
torney General Francis Biddle is
finally going to get tough-on direct
personal orders of the President.
Roosevelt directed Biddle to take
vigorous legal action against GER
tain factional leaders who have been
publicly denouncing the war against
the Axis and in some instances ac-
tually expressing pleasure over Jap
victories.
Complaints have poured into
Washington from parents of boys in
the armed services demanding that
these domestic foes be jailed. But
Biddle demurred on the ground of
preserving civil liberties"
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, FBI
agents arrested Robert Noble, rabid
Los Angeles Fascist leader, on seri-
Gus charges involving statements
concerning the war. Despite the
FBI's evidence, Biddle ordered
Noble released.
This brought down a storm of
protests on Biddle's head that stead
lily increased as the hostile opera
tons of these elements became bold
er and more outspoken. Still Biddle
refused to allow either the FBI or
federal district attorneys, who were
champing at the bit, to crack down.
Finally White House advisers,
alarmed over the situation, took the
matter direct to the President. They
laid before him a mass of evidence
dealing with Noble, Father Cough
lin, Francis P. Moran of Boston,
Gerald L. K. Smith of Michigan and
Charles B. Hudson of Omaha.
One document shown Roosevelt
was the March 16 issue of Coughlin's
weekly publication which declared
that worldwide sacred war" was
declared against Germany nine
years ago. The publication also at
tackled aid to Russia, denounced the
British bombing of French plants
making Nazi supplies, and contained
such statements as:
ShiCoo t1lC SC1lll0 Sdll
overcome Russia and successfully
invade England by the end of Sep
TENDER, there is every evidence that
the entire world will have elected to
experience blood bath the like of
which was never imagined by the
most poetic minds" TT has been
the practiced policy of the Roose-
welt administration to favor the Chi
nese in their war against Japan.
This policy has ranked in the hearts
of the Nipponese war lords who are
devoted to the policy of Asia for the
Asiatic, policy which, after all, is
nothing more than an expression of
our own Monroe Doctrine"
After carefully examining the
evidence, the President summoned
Biddle, ordered him to get tough
and do so Immediately.
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, ASK ME- q
; ANOTHER Z
A General Quiz
A General Quiz
The Questions

l. How much water can a thirsty
camel drink at one time?
2. What is the origin of the alb
breviation "lb." for pound?
8. The Constitution requires con-
greSs to assemble how often?
4. What bird uses it's beak as a
pantry?
S. Who was the first man on rec
ord to have his ship entangled in
the weeds of the Sargasso sea?
6. What is the chief quality OF
an Opaque substance?
z. What is a peccadillo?
8. "Man doth not live by bread
only" is quotation from-Shake-
speare, Pilgrims Progress or the
Old Testament?
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Washington: The American pur-
chasers will get along without 10
billions in goods they bought during
1941, it was estimated. Purchases
last year were 70 billions, and were
expected to be less than 81 billions
this year.
Paris: Napoleon's white waistcoat
which he wore in exile on st. Helena
was sold at public auction for 36, 500
francs-$730, it was reported.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-04-09
Origin of Dumdum Bullet

A dundum bullet is a partially
steel-cased bullet with a soft core
that expands as it tears through
flesh, says Pathfinder. Because Of
the mushrooming of the core it
aggravates the injury of the
wound.
Use of dumdum bullets was Of
ficially condemned by the Inter
national Peace conference of 1899.
Their name derives from Dunn
Dunn, town near Calcutta, India,
where they were first manufac-
tured by the British for use
against fanatical native tribesr en-
who refused to be stopped by or
binary steel-jacketed bullets.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-04-09
BULGARS:
Reported on MoUe

The Bulgarian army had been re-
ported on the move to the German
eastern front, the government hav-
ing acceded to the Nazi demands
that it furnish troops for the often
sive against Russia.
But the move, highly disturbing to
Turkey as well as to the bulk of the
Bulgar people, was not without
sharp criticism from within, almost
amounting to revolution.
An anti-war movement had been
gaining in popularity, and when two
divisions were withdrawn from the
Turkish frontier, repeatedly to move
against Russia, one radio station
kept broadcasting an appeal to the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-04-09
The ANSWERS

1. From Is to 20 gallons.
2. From the Latin word libra,
a pound.
8. At least once every year.
4. The pelican. Food is stored
in the lower part of its bill.
5. Columbus.
6. 1t will not permit light to pass
through.
7. A petty fault.
8. The Old Testament, Deut. 8:3.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-04-09
INCOME TAXES
! AND BATTLE FRONTS

THE FACT THAT % million
Americans planked down their
money to pay their income tax with
out any perceptible murmur of
complaint is the best evidence of
any lack of enthusiasm for the prose-
cution of the war in which we are
engaged. People will back the gov
eminent to the about limit. The
one place where war apathy is
found is in the halls of congress.
A large majority of the men who
represent us in our legislative bodies
are evidently thinking more of win
ming votes than of winning the war.
The rank and file of American labor
is willing to work 48 or 60 hours a
week if that be needed to supply
tanks, ships, guns and airplanes.
American farmers and American in
dustry will cheerfully sacrifice war
profits that our freedom and liber-
ties may be preserved. The coterie
of minority lobbyists at Washington
does not represent anything other
than themselves. Our law makers
may discover that at the next cleo
ton.
Buy Defense Bonds
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London: The German air force,
it was believed, was so heavily con-
centrated on the Russian front that
it would be impossible for the Nazis
to resume mass raids over Britain.
New York: Big names were in
the army now. David Rockefeller,
youngest son of John D. Jr., was in
uniform of the army, and Paul Mel
lon, huntsman son of the late An
drew Mellon, was in the cavalry.
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a NEW and different yoke treat
= ment brightens the top of the
"teen-age" frock which we present
today. A clever detail, this yoke
carries a front opening for the
bodice and in addition gives that
originality which younger girls
seek in their fashions! Pattern
No. 1520-B is bound to be regarded
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-04-09
WAR is DIFFERENT
THAN LAST CONFLICT

AMERICAS problems in World
War were much different than those
confronting us in this conflict. Then
we had an enemy on one battle line
in Europe. To be sure, it stretched
from the Atlantic through to the
Black sea, but we had allies who had
been holding that line and who Of
fered us landing places for troops.
We had war on one ocean only,
the Atlantic. German subs and Ger
man raiders were fairly numerous,
but we had the navies of France,
England and Italy. to join with our
own. Today we are fighting on the
seven seas of the world. We have
only the navy of England and the
limited number and size of ships
of the Dutch in the East Indies and
those of Australia. We have no
landing places in continental Europe
or in the Far East where we can
place an army.
World War I was not an "all-out"
war so far as America was con-
cerned. We did not become the "ar-
senal of Democracy" We were the
breadbasket of the Allies. While
we supplied food, England supplied
us with ships. France supplied us
with artillery, for which England
supplied the ammunition. American
pilots flew French and English
planes. We had no tanks.
World War ! was a conflict of
men. This is a conflict of machines.
At the end of Is months in 1918, we
had an army of some three million
men in France, and practically no
American-made machines. In this
war at the end of four months, we
are supplying the machinery of war
to all of the Allied nations.
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OFFENSIVE:

The oft-repeated question where
will Hitler's spring offensive strike"
had been sufficiently answered by
dispatches from Moscow.
Activity was definitely on the lull
in North Africa.
Activity across the channel was
largely from England to Germany,
with the Nazis on the defensive.
But on the Russian front, both at
Murmansk and all along the whole
2,000-mile line, the Reds themselves
were admitting widely increased
German activity.
The Bulgarian movement was con-
frmation of earlier reports that Hit
Ter had demanded 100000 troops
from Hungary, Rumania, Italy and
Bulgaria for the offensive.
The Moscow cables showed that
these men were going into action.
In the Staraya Russo trap, the Six
teenth army had been trying des-
perately to break through.
One Russian dispatch gave the
tip-off. It said "The Germans are
trying with everything they have
to take the offensive away from the
Russians, but despite that, the ini-
tiative definitely remains with u.s."
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BY Edward C. Wayne
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Jap Failure to Overwhelm Australia
Brings Revision of Pacific Timetable;
Anti-W Feeling Grows in Bulgaria
AS Government Meets Nazi Demands

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