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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-09-17
HALT LIVING COSTS:
FDR Orders Congress

In fortnight speech to the ma
ton, President Roosevelt carried his
battle against rising prices to the
people, demanding immediate anti
imitation action to avoid serious
domestic economic crisis"
In a message to congress he de-
manded legislation by October ! to
bring farm prices under control. in
the event that the congress should
fail to act, and act adequately, I
shall accept the responsibility and I
will act" he said.
With farm prices stabilized, he
himself would act to stabilize wages,
he promised. He stressed the point
that the control of the infiationary
threat could be obtained only by
control of all the factors influencing
it. Wages and farm prices remain
to be stabilized. ". I give you
the solemn assurance that failure to
solve this problem at homeland to
solve it now-will make more diff
cult the winning of this war"
81 cannot tell what power may
have to be exercised in order to
win this war. The American people
can be sure that will use my pow
er with full sense of my response
bility to the Constitution and to my
country When the war is won,
the powers under which I act auto
matically revert to the people-to
whom they belong" he said.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-09-17
LUXURY OR LIBERTY?
ANSWER is EASY
Released by Western Newspaper Union.

LUXURY OR LIBERTY?
ANSWER is EASY
IN ORDER that we may win the
war in which we are engaged, and
so preserve our liberties, we must
forego the luxuries we have learned
to enjoy and to accept as necessi-
ties. We can, and must, do without
some things so that our armed
forces may have guns, tanks,
planes, ships and all other essen
tials of modern warfare.
Our grandfathers and grandmoth-
ers lived without electricity or gas,
and some of them without kerosene
for lights. Our grandmothers, most
of them, did not know the luxury of
washing machine. They scrubbed
the dirt from the family clothing on
a washboard. Our grandmothers
dried the apples from the family
trees for the winter supply of fruit.
They dried the corn for winter
vegetable. They used the well or
springhouse or a deep dugout in lieu
of ice. For them the family cook
stove provided the means of prepar-
ing food and the only heat the fami-
ly knew for the cold of winter.
We, too, can, and will, go back
to the primitive ways of our grand
parents in order to provide our
armed forces with the essentials of
victory. We can, and will, do with
out electricity, gas, kerosene, wash
ing machines, refrigerators, home
furnaces, canned fruits and vegeta-
bles, and all the many other things
that, in these war times, are con-
sidered luxuries.
But there were some other things
our grandfathers and grandmothers
did without that we, too, could dis
pense with as a means of providing
| war essentials.
In the days of our grandfathers
and grandmothers, or in fact, as
late as the days of our fathers and
mothers, there were not close to
two million people on the federal
governments civilian payrolls,
more than one and one-third million
connected only with civil activities
of the government. AS late as 1913
the federal government collected as
all taxes less than three-quarters of
a billion dollars. In 1910 it collected
as taxes S., 566, 900, 900. For our civil
activities we could do with the kind
of government we had in 1913, and
the approximately five billion dol
lars saved would go far toward sup
plying the war essentials for our
armed forces. Even the two billions
Senator Byrd and the Brookings In
stitution say we could save in the
civil activities of the government
would pay for thousands of planes
and guns and tanks and ships.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-09-17
in the weeks ne,os

CONIMANDOS: 1t was announced
in Ottawa that ITO Canadian soldiers
lost their lives in the Commando
raid on Dieppc, France.
FINGERPRINTS: Fingerprinting
of every man, woman and child in
the United States as a war measure
is being urged by Rep. Sam Hobbs
(Ala.), who is drafting legislation
to that effect. 1t would also be a
boon to law enforcement agencies.
BOUNCED: 'They rode hard''
was the unfavorable comment of
Mayor LaGuardia of New York after
riding in seven-ton sanitation
truck with wooden tires. He added
that 'they might do in a pinch for
light trucks"
WOMANPOWER: Paul v. Nc
Mutt, head of the nations manpower
commission, has issued a call for an
increase in the number of women
at work in war industries and esti-
mated that by the end of this year
100000 will be SO employed. By
the end of 1913 he thinks this num-
Der will have grown to 5000, 600.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-09-17
SPAIN:
Complications

Many reliable foreign sources
viewed the shake-up in Spain's po-
litical set-up as pretty much a do
nestle matter and forecast no gen.
eral change in the pro-Axis lean
ings of Gen. Francisco Frances
government. Though one of Hit
ler's best friends in Spain, Foreign
Minister Serrano Suner, had been
busted, it appeared that the main
point of difficulty was discord be-
tween the Spanish army and the
Falange political organization.
However, there was an interna-
tional complication as well as the
domestic dissension which had some
effect on the change. Suner was re-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-09-17
RUSSIAN FRONT:
Greatest Weight'

Russian reports that the spear
head of the Nazi drive through the
Grozny oil-fields in the Caucasus
had been checked tended to Offset
the more ominous news from Stain
grad. There, 1880 German dive
bombers led the final attack on
that city. 1t was at Stalingrad that
the Russians had admitted that they
battled the greatest weight of arma-
ment ever hurled against a single
objective.
Before the final assault came this
was typical of the Moscow commu-
niques on the fighting in this Sec
tor: "West of Stalingrad our troops
engaged in heavy fighting. One So
Wet unit repulsed four attacks, one
after another, but then was forced
to retreat to new positions. How
the Russians stood up under the
pounding was battling to many mill
tary experts.
Nazi assault forces had aimed
their heaviest blows at Soviet ar
tillery and anti-tank batteries, thus
striving to level these anchors of
the centers of resistance. East of
the Volga, said German reports,
their fiiers had raided important
Russian airfelds.
Russian attacks on the northwest
front, near Leningrad, rolled on,
stalled, rolled on again. Conflicting
reports from Moscow and Berlin
dimmed the picture of this front.
Germany claimed the fall of No
vorossisk, strategic Black sea naval
base, and military sources saw it's
capture as a terrific blow to Rus
sian naval action. Since the Soviet
navy had been driven from its
strongest base at Sevastopol fleet
operations had been badly curtailed
and the loss Of Novorossisk would
even more hamper these operations.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-09-17
Famous Signs

A few years ago on Broadway,
New York, several large electric
signs won distinction in unusual
ways. One became famous be-
cause a king purchased a replica
for his palace in the Orient, an
other because it regularly re-
ceived fan mail from its countless
admirers and another because it
virtually stopped traffic each night
at a certain hour while a number
of living chorus girls danced" up
and down on its face to the music
of their orchestra.-Collier's.
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81 | G. Fl L l G Fl T S

PEACEFUL: Because the law
abiding city of Old Ripley, ILL, (Pop.
115) had no use for its Jail, six tons
of scrap metal from the cells have
gone to the scrap-metal drive.
LIMIT: Because the volume is
exceeding facilities for distributing
it, air mail addressed for points out
side the continental U. S. has been
limited by weight to two ounces per
piece.
PRAISE: AS DR.. HUI Shin, retir-
ing Chinese ambassador, made his
leave of Washington, he was lauded
by Secretary of State Corden Hull
who called him one of the ablest
and most efficient public servants to
have served in the Washington dip
lomatic corps.
SPEED-UP: Because of war con-
ditions the army will inaugurate a
speed-up system at West Point un-
der which men will be graduated
and commissioned after three years
of study instead of the usual four.
The naval academy at Annapolis al
ready is on three-year basis.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-09-17
EGYPT:
The Tide of Var

Although his Africa corps was
stopped cold in its second major bid
for the valley of the Nile, Nazi Field
Marshal Erwin Rommel was report
ed to have retained certain territori-
al gains at the southern end of the
FL Alamein line.
Reports from Cairo indicated that
Rommeps chief gain was the FL
Hemeimat ridge, 700-foot observa-
ton post from which the Nazis can
watch British movements.
However, the position of the then
retreating German and Italian
troops was given officially as west
of the British mine fields which they
entered the previous week. This in
dicates that Rommel had been forced
to retreat beyond his starting point.
A blow to Axis strength was re-
vealed with the information that
Maj. Gen. George Won Bismarck,
first cousin of Chancellor Otto Won
Bismarck, founder of the modern
German empire, was killed in &C.
ton. Won Bismarck was one of Hit
ler's most able generals.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-09-17
MANPOWER
Freeze

Labor in essential war industries
in II western states was frozen"
under terms of a far-reaching or
der of the U. S. War Manpower
commission. Announced by Paul
McNutt, head of the commission,
the order specified that no worker
in the 12-state area engaged in nom
ferrous metal mining, milling,
smelling and refining, or in logging
or numbering, could seek other en-
ployment without first obtaining a
certificate of separation from a des-
ignated representative of the U. S.
employment service.
States included in the critical"
area were: Arizona, Colorado, Ida
no, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Cali
fornia, Nevada, Oregon, Washing
ton, New Mexico and Texas.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-09-17

THESE curtains were made of
L the long pieces of good ma
terial from each side of a pair of
sheets that were worn in the CEN
ter. They were dyed a soft cream;
then wide strips of gingham and
narrow ones of prepared bias
trimming were stitched in place
to make stripes. The chart shows
the colors used and also gives the
widths and spacing of stripes. In
case you should want to use short
lengths of goods for the foundation
part, stitch these together with
seams on the right side; then
place contrasting strips over join
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-09-17

ported to have lost diplomatic
'face" because of the swing to the
side of United Nations by many Of
the Latin-American countries.
He was replaced by Count Gen.
Francisco Gomez de Jordana and it
was expected that both this new
official and Franco would now be
less inclined to issue anti-United
Nations declarations even though
their sympathies must continue to
lean toward the Axis.
This point of view appeared to be
rather well based on logic for Fran
co.'s power in great part is depend
ent upon help given him by Hitler
and Mussolini. Yet as Latin-Amer-
lea tended to draw away from the
Axis, he would be forced to take &C
count of this attitude for the tie be-
tween his country and Central and
South America is close.
SCRAP:
Every home has scrap. We need
it."
That was the message delivered
to the nation by Donald Nelson,
chairman of the War Production
board as he discussed the critical
scrap iron situation with newspaper
publishers at conference in Wash
ington. Nelson had called the meet
ing to show these newspaper men
how serious this problem really was.
Scrap iron is urgently needed if the
country's steel mills are to be kept
running.
One steel company official esti-
mated that there is only two
weeks supply of scrap in the hands
of the plants. Publishers were urged
to undertake a vigorous campaign
to get in the scrap from the ma
tion's homes and farms to relieve
such a situation.
Said WPB Chief Nelson:
'sWe are not doing very good
Job of winning the war yet. Our
present facilities can produce more
than we have materials we
must bring in the materials" This
must be done, he said, in the short
est possible time.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-09-17
WEEKLY NEWS ANAL YSIS
FDR Moves to Stabilize Living Costs
With Deadline Ultimatum to Congress;
Labor Frozen on Jobs in IL States;
New Pacific Action Takes High Jap Toll

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ings. Colors used should repeat
the colors in rugs, pictures, books
or bric-a-brac.
NOTE: The above idea was taken from
BOOK of the series of 10-cent booklets
which Mrs. Spears has prepared for read
ers. BOOK also contains several sug-
gestions for fixing up kitchen; ways to
remodel closets and various household
conveniences. Send your order to:
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-09-17

production,
Donald Nelson WPB chairman told AL and CLIO leaders that he
charmanShips WPB
Nelson that WPB's
administrative ndutrasts
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-09-17
POLITICAL DICKERING
ON A MILITARY MATTER

CONGRESSMAN WADSWORTH
of New York is proposing a perma-
nent military training law for Amer
lea which would put every Ameri-
can youth into a uniform for one
year before he reaches his 21st
birthday.
From 1916 to 1919 an effort was
made to enact just such a law.
Congressman Wadsworth was then
Senator Wadsworth and as chair
man of the military affairs commit
tee of the senate, favored the bill
and urged it's enactment. I know
the details because I was one of
those responsible for the prepara-
ton of the bill and the effort to
pass it.
In 1919 we could get it through
congress as introduced by a Repub-
ican member. President Wilson,
however, told us he would veto it,
if passed, unless it came to him as
an administration measure, and adj
vised that the bill be withdrawn and
a new one containing the same pro-
visions be introduced as an admin
istration measure by a Democratic
member. That was done, and then
a Republican senate and house
would not pass it as Democratic
administration measure.
Such is the 'dog eat dog" atti-
tude of American politics.
Our purpose in proposing such a
law was more to preclude the rise
of class distinction in America, than
to train soldiers, but had it passed,
America would have had not less
than five million trained men, eligi-
BILE for immediate service, when the
Japs struck at Pearl Harbor. In
tense partisanship prevented that.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-09-17

Can Successfully! Put some of those =
billion jars on your shelves; they represent a
dependable, Low cost food supply for your fam
lily. But be sure your home-canned foods keep.
Use BALL Jars, Caps and Rubbers. Fill in the
coupon on the printed leaAet from carton of
BALL Jars and mail it to us for free copy of
the BALL BLUE BOOK-complete canning in
structions and more than 500 tested recipes. IL
you do not have the printed leaAet, send lOf
with your name and address.
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DOES HE REALLY KNOW?

CONDITIONS CREATED BY,
or credited to, the war will not real
ly tighten up until after the cleo
tions,' said congressman to me
recently. He is Republican con-
gresham and may not know the de-
tails of the program. Just to illus
trate: Of several thousand bills
passed by congress within the past
two years, 10 were introduced by
Republicans.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-09-17
THOUGHTS OF BOYHOOD

OVER THE YEARS, since pass
ing from the stage of a boy in Iowa,
I have often thought sympathetical-
ly of the boys in the towns and on
the farms who must, as I did, cut
red elm logs into stove lengths. Be-
fore this coming winter is over, with
its threatened shortage of fuel oil,
it is possible that many city boy
would welcome red elm logs and an
old wood burner as means of keep
ing warm.
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Buy War Bonds

THE WEEKLY WORKIN
HOURS in most of the munitions
plants in England are from 81 to 70.
In a few it has been reduced to So.
To maintain social gains that are
evidently more precious than our
liberties, we must maintain the 40
hour week in our munitions plants.
FOR MORE THAN EIGHT
MONTHS we have talked about
what we are going to do to the Huns,
the Wops and the Japs. When can
we begin writing headlines in the
past tense?
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-11-26
az Men MISSING
AFTER SINKINGS
Two Allied Merchantmen
Destroyed By Enemy
Subs In Atlantic

The Navy yesterday disclosed
that 48 seamen were missing fol-
lowing the destruction OF two Al
lied merchantmen by enemy sub
marines in the western Atlantic.
One of the vessels, an American
cargo ship which was sunk in the
north Atlantic last month, lost 81
crewmen, but N others were pick
ed up soon after the ship went
down.
The second submarine victim,
whose registry was not revealed,
sank so quickly that most of the
crew were thrown into the sea.
Men clung to wreckage and to an
overturned lifeboat which finally
was righted. Three RATS, ripped
from the ship, were spotted later
and survivors climbed aboard,
lashing the RATS to the ifeboat'
Two days later, SO SURVIVORS
were picked up by a Norwegian
ship. Sixteen shipmates were miss
ing.
The sinkings raised the Associ-
ated Press count of announced unit
ed and neutral nations Marine
losses in the western Atlantic to
538 since December 7.
Meanwhile, dispatches from
Bridgetown, Barbados, reported
the arrival there of 27 survivors
from a torpedoed Allied hi p.
Twenty-eight others who were
adrift in two lifeboats also were
land there soon.
No details of the attack were
available and the vessel was not
picked up and were expected to
included in the tabulation OF west
ern Atlantic sinkings, pending ad-
ditional information.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-11-26
Obituaries
DAN M. CARROLL

Requiem mass for Dan M. Car
roll, 63, who died Wednesday aft
ernoon after a brief illness, will
be offered at st. Mary's Catholic
church, tomorrow morning at 10
o'clock. Burial will follow in the
Oakdale cemetery.
The recitation of the rosary will
be held at Ali North Fifth street,
tonight at o'clock.
Mr.. Carroll was secretary and
treasurer of the Independent Ice
company, and member of the
board of directors of the Peoples
Building and Loan association.
He is survived by one sister,
Mrs. J. H. Nigel.
]. C. VANN
CLINTON, Nov. 25. - Funeral
services for J. c. Vann, 73, who
died early Tuesday night at his
home in Taylor Bridge Township,
will be held in Red Hill Univer-
salst church this. morning at 10
o'clock. The Rev. o. E., Bryant
will officiate, and interment will
follow in the church cemetery.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Effie Knowles Vann; three daugh-
tiers, Mrs. C. NJ Thomas of High
Point, Mrs. G. D.. Moore of Co.
lumbus, Ohio; one son, Clem c.
Vann of Clinton; tn r e G sisters,
Mrs. Hettie Knowles, Mrs. Mary
Bryant, Mrs. Jane Rich; one broth
er, Thad Vann, and several grand
children.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-11-26

Coca leaves, which have mar
cotic content from which cocaine
is derived, have been grown and
chewed in Peru from early times.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-11-26

promise it gives of the America
that is to be. We had trembled,
not so long ago, for our national
security, but that day is past. He
urged Americans to be not only
free, but brave-brave enough to
face the future, the postwar world
which will bring its own great
problems; brave enough and
strong enough to assume word
leadership.
w. B. Bryan announced the de-
parture Of a group of selectees
from the Tide Water building, Sec
ond and Princess, at 7:45 o'clock
Saturday morning, and u 6 e d
members to turn out in force to
bid them good BY.
Following the regular program,
Mrs. Chares King and Mrs. W. H.
Henderson, introduced by Emsley
Laney, offered war bonds a d
stamps for sac as a part of the
Women at War week observance.
DR.. H. W. Stephens Of Jackson
vile was a guest. President j. @.
LeGrand presided.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-11-26
Man Found Guilty
Of Assault Count

In recorders court yesterday
morning. Recorder Judge Alton
Lennon found Clifford Icard guilty
of assault on a female with in
iuries. Icard was fined court costs
and $500 as restitution to his wife,
Betty Jane Icard, and eight e e n
months in Jail.
Upon payment Of costs and
restitution, Icard was allowed
to leave New Hanover county by
November % at 10 o'clock at night
and must remain out of the county
for a period Of two years.
1t was alleged in Recorders
court, that Icard threatened Mrs.
Icard several times, and on one
occasion, hit her with his fists, do
iag severe injury to her ear drum.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-11-26
SHRINKING LARDERS
NOTE THANKSGIVING


a plea by War Production Chief
Donald Nelson, who asked that
nothing be allowed to interfere
with the uninterrupted flow of war
materials.
President Roosevelt asked that
the day be observed with prayer
and will set the example with spe-
cial religious services at the White
House, to which members of the
cabinet, Army and Navy chiefs,
heads of government agencies, Su-
preme Court justices. congression-
al leaders and members of the
Presidents family have been in
vited.
The chief executive will open
the services by reading his Thanks
giving proclamation. The service
will be broadcast.
Afterward the President will re-
sumo work in the executive Off
ces. Mrs. Roosevelt has announ-
ced that the White House will have
a traditional turkey dinner, but
does not expect any guests.
Although their folks at h m e
may have to forego some of the
traditional Thanksgiving food,
Americas soldiers, sailors and ma
rines in the United States and on
the sea and far flung battlefronts
will have an old-fashioned turkey
dinner.
The marines and soldiers on
Guadalcanal may be an exception.
Naval authorities said that every
effort was being made to get
Thanksgiving supplies in to the
fighting front there, but if the for
tunes of war intervened, the troops
would have to get along on regu-
lar rations.
In Britain and northern Ireland
where thousands of American
troops are stationed, the British
people have made plans to observe
Thanksgiving in American fashion
to help make Uncle Sans forces
there feel at home.
There will be special services
in Westminster Abbey and other
historic churches and dances and
other functions have been arrang-
ed throughout the British Isles.
Turkey will be missing + r m
British dinner tables because it is
not available, but many British
families will make deep holes in
their limited ration allowances in
order to provide as festive a board
as possible for their guests.
U. S. Army forces, in recipro-
cal gesture, have turned Owe r
some of the supplies of turkey
they received from t h e United
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-11-26

States to be served in hospitals
to the sick and wounded of both
countries.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-11-26
WPB Lumber Leader
Tells OF Canadian
Embargo On Timber

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.-F-
Lumber coordinator Ben Alexan-
der told investigating senator's to-
day that it apparently would take
"a bigger brass hat than I've got
to force Canada to lift war en-
barge against expectation Of logs
into the United States.
Moved by complaints from mill
owners in the Pacific northwest,
Senator .Wallgren D.-Wash.) re-
peatedly urged Alexander to "get
tough with Canadian officials and
to urge ga little reciprocity in
return for American aid to the
British Empire.
Wallgren previously had express
ed the view that there was "some-
thing smelly about the situation.
He said Pacific northwest lumber
interests feared thy might have
to shut down unless they got the
logs.