The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-03-19

The bloc has been counted on to kill
the 40-hour week, but the laborites
served blunt notice that if the bill
was passed, labor would AK the
farmers. Result, the farm bloc ran
for cover and the bill went into the
ashcan.
WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED
The other day Harry Hopkins had
a visitor in the person Of Aubrey
Williams, head of the National
Youth administration, who has been
one of his closest friends for many
years.
Harry" said Williams, looking
around the room in the naval hos
pital, chow many bottles of medi-
cine have you got there?"
"About 49," replied the lend-lease
administrator.
"About Is too many" commented
the National Youth administrator.
"And how many doctors have you
got?"
Hopkins told him.
"Well, Harry, what's the use of
your fooling around with all these
doctors and all this medicine" said
his friend. "You know that the more
doctors you have the more this
whole thing gets on your nerves.
Now there's only one doctor who
really knew what allied you, and
that's Andy Rivers out at Mayo's in
Rochester. Why don't you have DR..
Rivers come East and get you fixed
up?"
Harry Hopkins acted on his old
friends advice, sent for DR.. Rivers,
and now is out of the hospital.
He says he has forgotten about
medicine and doctors, and feels bet
ter than he has in months. Fur
thermore, DR.. Rivers has told him
that without any question he can
recover entirely.
NEW COP. CHAIRMAN?
It's very shush-shush, but in GER
tain inner Republican circles there
have been secret pow-wows on re-
placing Rep. Joe Martin as national
chairman.
The Woodworking little Bay Slater
wanted to quit last year, but party
chiefs decided that the wisest course
would be to persuade Martin to stay
for the sake of harmony.
Now some of the strongest advo-
Gates of his retention are after his
scalp. The hostile fire is from two
sources.
One is from Midwest leaders,
sour on Martin, (1) for his failure to
give them recognition in national
headquarters; (2) for his secret
financial wooing of Pennsylvania oil
millionaire Joseph Pew and Penn
sylvania steel millionaire Ernest
Weir.
In the farm belt the two big-money
contributors are political dynamite
and the Midwest COP. chiefs can't
understand why Martin is palling
around with them. So they feel the
time has come for one of their group
to be named either national chair
man or executive director.
FhENCd fhODLEM
When you get them out Of official
earshot, exiled members of the old
French cabinet now in Washington,
are very suspicious of what the
Vichy government is doing in Mar
Unique and Guadeloupe.
Guadeloupe is less publicized
French island near Martinique, and
certain coded messages have been
intercepted indicating pro-German
activities on both islands. Suspi-
cion is strong that Guadeloupe is be-
| ing used as a submarine refuelling
base for Nazi submarines operating
in the Caribbean.
But when the state department Of
ficially denied this recently, French
ex-cabinet exiles remarked:
"Your state department is still
playing the gentlemen's game of di.
! plomacy You bow graciously and
believe what is told you. But gentle
men do not know how to deal with
gangsters."
French friends warn that the
French navy is fascist-minded, that
Admiral Robert, commanding Vichy
Martinique is pro-German; that
there will be sabotage against
French ships in Martinique harbor
| if the Allies threaten.