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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26
Forty-nine Years Ago
From The Ely Times
Friday. March 8. 1893.

The baseball boys met this week and
organized. It was proposed to give a
skating carnival at the rink tonight and
dance on the 18th with the Italian
band of Duluth to furnish the music
for the dance in order to raise the
money for uniforms.
A proposed necktie party at the
depot was nipped in the bud Friday
evening last when large gathering
met the train for the purpose of lynch
ing man who was expected on the
train. The man was returning from
Duluth when he had been acquitted of
mur6ering Matt Volt in this city in
December. The acquitted man failed to
arrive much to the relief of the law
abiding people of the city.
The passenger train on the D. R.
w. g. S. railway was stuck in fifteen
feet of snow about four miles north OF
zumbrota. Six lady passengers among
others had to remain all night on the
stalled train and were taken off in the
men on skies. The conductor had
| started out early in the morning &c
go for help and was picked up by a
ski runner exhausted early in the
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. M. Olson became
the parents of daughter on Sunday
- A. N. Brown of Superior is here
at the Bank of Ely taking the place
of Will James on a two months vaca-
ton. = Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Mar
quardt became the parents of CIR
baby Monday. The heaviest snow
fall of the season hit us Sunday night
and Monday. All the trains on the D
& I. R. were behind time. The streets
are pretty well blocked.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26

VERNE E. JOSLIN, Heron Lake
newspaper publisher, has been named
acting director of the division of game
and fish of the conservation depart
ment. He succeeds Col. L. E. Fiero,
now on leave with the army.
The new head of the game and fish
division has been in the forefront Of
conservation activities for many years,
and as secretary Of the Heron Lake
Commercial club. member of the school
board, Jackson county fair board, and
director of the Southern Minnesota
Boy Scout area, has been associated
with groups vitality interested in the
best use of our natural resources.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26
Twenty-Five Years Ago
Friday. February %, 1917.

The lower house of representatives
voted Tuesday afternoon SO to 81 to
take a slap at the range section Of
the state by imposing tonnage tax
on iron ore as proposed in the Bjorge
bill The members of the house most
vitality concerned in the "stear' voted
solidly against the measure with the
exception of Rep. Warner of Aitkin.
From the annual statement published
by County Auditor Halden it is learned
that $48290 were spent last year in
SuppreSsing trouble during the IWW
activities on the Mesaba range. A
total of $10,378, 1914 was spent by the
county.
Leopold Erchul and Jozefa Kmet
secured a license to marry Saturday.
j. F. Engelfetter of st. Paul,
aged Al, who has been in camp 81
miles north of Winton was found
frozen to death on the trail to Winton
where he had laid down to rest while
on the way to town. william T.
Anderson and Miss Anna Alma Arvola
were married Saturday evening at the
Finnish church.
George Hughes who halls from Grand
Marais has been placed in charge Of
the road work in this district under
Commissioner Grant McMahan. He will
remove his family here in the spring.
Il Commissioner McMahan was
apportioned $1o5,00O as his districts
share in the road funds for this sea-
sons work. Mr. McMahan is recognized
as a road builder and more will be
accomplished for the amount appor-
toned than would be accomplished in
any other district of the county.
Tom Nick, a skip tender at the Sec
ton 80 mine was instantly killed when
he fell into the shaft Monday morn
ing. He was single man with no
relatives in this country. Secre-
tary P. Schaefer has issued notices of
the annual meeting of the Ely Burnt
side Outing company for Wednesday,
March 8. = Casualties to the end
of January in the German armed forces
amount to 4,087,000, exclusive of
colonial troops, since the war began.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26
Izaak Walton League
Association Formed.

Dean Sig Olson of the Ely Junior
College was at Chisholm Saturday
night where he spoke to IS represen-
tatives from seven Izaak Walton
Leagues of the Arrowhead country,
gathered to talk over league affairs
and to elect officers.
Dean Olson spoke on logging oper-
ations in the Canadian section of the
Quetico-Superior forest and told of a
conference with Canadian government
officials to protect the shore lines of
the lake regions.
Officers elected included Walter
MeNiven, president; DR.. A S. Cole,
vice president; Al Helming, secretary
treasurer All officers chosen are from
Chisholm.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26
S3,266 Donated to
Red Cross War Fund.

Red Gross war fund donations now
total 1926, B. o. Strachan, Chair
man of the local branch, reports.
A Saturday auJernoon luncheon
sponsorde by a group of local women
raised $2370, Mrs. Joseph Fleming,
in charge of the war fund campaign,
reports.
Serving were Mesdames William
Anderson, M. j. Murphy, Oni Porthan,
Harry j. Homer, William Palmgard,
John Palmgard, Andrew Watilo, Matt
Martin, Andrew KiUpelto, and Joe
Roman. The Women's Catholic Order
of Foresters donated $2725, and the
Finnish relief committee turned over
the $1,000 in its treasury.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26
SOLDIERS
fContinued From Page One)

"rm the only one in this Battery
from E1v and the other three boys
are in Battery B. manage TO see
the bows about twice week. All OF
them are truck drivers and I'm CLASH
fed as a platoon leader, although I've
been working on a gun crew as an
elevation setter.
1--WE 60 to Fort Crockett on the
Gulf of Mexico to shoot the guns
that is. when it isn't raining. And
it's been raining here for the last
week, off and on, and that's supposed
to keep up all the rest Of this month
But when the sun does shine IL really
is warm down here.
1--WE miss the snow. We could &c
skating in Houston on a rink they
have there but we don't get In very
often.
st see that Raphael Grahek is II
Camp Roberts, California. We saw
him down at Fort Smelling and h
was shipped out about three day
before we were, I believe. I suppos
he does get plenty of drilling. That
one thing we miss out on down here
We have a half hour infantry drill
about 8 times a week and sometime
not at all. But this last week We ha'
a lot of bayonet drill and we've fire.
on the rifle range but all together W
have very little work with rifles. 1t
mostly all 155 millimeter Six-inch GU
work
"We have a second class gunner
exam coming up pretty soon that W
have to pass in order to get any kin
of a rating later on. In this test the
ask everything from knots to the work
ing of a truck and tractor. Remembe
I said knots and not nuts.
This coastal artillery work is Yer
interesting and I like the outfit yer
much. I never knew that these hi
guns had so many things on ther
that we have to learn; and they SUI
make plenty of noise but after aboJ
10 salvoes anybody gets used to
and doesn't mind it anymore. Some
times We shoot at targets we can
see, and when we can see the targt
it is about Al or miles out. 1t lool
like a small speck against the horizon
But we manage to blast it out of tt
water most of the time.
"Well I guess that's about all I g
to say except thanks to the VIEW fl
the paper. I sure appreciate it. Tn
includes John Sustercich, Albert Zul
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26
20 FOUNDER
7-Year-Old Catches Big
Fish In Eastwood.

A 7-year-old boy has set fishing
record for both juveniles and adults
to aim at.
He is James Mistek, and he hooked
2O-pound great northern pike through
the ice Of Eastwood lake a short time
before the season ended. The fish
measured A inches in length and was
practically as long as James.
He is the son Of Mr.. and Mrs
Ludwig MiStek
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26
DRAFT LOTTERY
Continued From Page one)

will be given the first draft number.
AS mechanical device to placing
all new registrants behind those al
ready registered on the draft board
list, the first number viii be listed
as order number 10Oo1. The next will
be 10000, and so on. AL present order
numbers for the nation are below
10000.
The Redistribution of the present
1-B men In the local district will not
be started Immediately because the
district has a reservoir of la men
from which to fill draft quotas. The
1-B men who may be reclassified are
those who have been deferred because
of poor teeth or eye sight.
| -n
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26
RETREADING TIRES
ARE BEING RATIONED.

Retreading tires are now being
rationed by the commodity ALLEGATION
board and the February quota was
eight tires for the Ely-Tower- Biwabik
district. This quota was only for
heavy trucks and buses.
Figures on the March quota for both
new and retreaded tires were expected
to arrive here today.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26
Travelling Statesmen

According to the 1880 census there
were 223, 1872 commercial travellers
in the United States.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26
Silk for Hosiery

The hosiery industry accounts for
SO per cent of the total domestic
consumption of silk.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26
Ten Years Ago
Friday, February 26, 1882.

Steve Seliga of the Ely Ski club
made the longest standing Jump at
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-02-26

TRY A MINER WANT AID.
Evening star., 1942-07-10
20 Workers Killed
By Blast, Fire in
West Virginia Mine
BIoze Hampers Rescue
Of Men Trapped
Az Miles Inside Pit
P, the Associated Press.

~ Ine Associated Press.
MORGA1TOWN, w. Va, July
| 10.--Rescue workers early today
found the bodies of 20 men in the
Pursglove Co.'S No. mine, where an
explosion and a fire trapped two
crews of miners Az miles inside the
workings.
Officials indicated it would be only
a matter of hours before the bodies
of the men, killed in the blast late
yesterday, would be removed from
the mine. Eighteen of them have
been tentatively identified.
Company officials said 10 of the
mines 300 employees were inside at
the time OF the blast. and that 26
men had been definitely checked
off as safe. Many others, however,
began aiding the rescue work with
out reporting their escape.
Hampered in efforts to reach the
blasted area because of the fire.
rescue workers said the victims had
been trapped under the State of
PenDsylv The mine, one of
the newer operations in the rich
SCOTS Run field in Northern West
Virginia, is close to the Pennsylvania
border.
A year ago, No. mine received
Bureau of Mines award for pro-
ducing mole than 5000 900 tons of
coal without a fatal accident.
Evening star., 1942-07-10

have been meeting in q one-room
schoolhouse, part of Gandhi's school
colony, at Sevagram, miles from
here.
A conference of such potential
Importance to the war situation
scarcely could be held In less pre-
tentious surroundings. Wardha is a
formless, heat-ridden little city in
India's cotton belt and the confer
ence chamber is a small room in
which the Congress leaders sit bare
footed on padded quilt on the
floor.
The resolution which will outline
course of action still is to be writ
ten, but some members have ex-
pressed hesitancy about too aggres-
sive policy for the present.
Demonstration May Result.
Indians said the meeting may call
for general civil disobedience or for
some specific demonstration such as
the salt marches" when Gandhi led
thousands of his followers to the
sea to make salt in violation of the
salt monopoly.
1t also might decide on something
relatively harmless in keeping with
Evening star., 1942-07-10
{. Donald Robb Dies;
Carved S on Church
Iy the Associated Press.

Iy the Associated Press.
NEWTON Mass, July lO.-E
Donald Robb, g., nationally known
architect WHO admitted responsible
itv for carving a dollar sign over
the BRIDE door of ST. Thomas
Episcopal Church, New York, dice
"Wednesday after a brief illness.
NJ. cbb, an authority on the arts
of the church. said at the time thai
the sign symbolized loveless mar
riage for money. It had gone un-
noticed for lG years before It's dis
covery created a furore 20 years ago
Evening star., 1942-07-10

newspaper La Nacion Barros was
quoted as saying The millions OF
tons OF strategic materials which
we are sending to the United States
speak for u.s."
Marcial Mora, leader of the Rad
ical party, announced his resigna-
ton after the vote on government
policy, saying II cannot accept a
share in the responsibility since 1t
would betray the precepts Of my
party and swerve me from the dem
orcratic faith of our people"
A bond each payday keeps the
Evening star., 1942-07-10
|Gandhi Ignores Advice
To Rest, Continues
Par|eys in India
Conferees Hold Sessions
In One-Room SchooIhouse
Five Miles From Wordhu
r, the Associated Press,

| HS tne Associated PTeSs.
WARDHA, India, July 9 de-
layedD. - Wizened Mohandas K
Gandhi brushed aside his physicians
advice to rest and went ahead with
his Indian Congress colleagues today
in a conference seeking agreement
on action to free India from British
rule without paving the way for the
Japanese to come in.
Concerned about overwork and eX-
haustion from which the shriveled
little Indian leader has lost much
ill-spared weight in the past three
months, Gandhi's physicians have
urged him to rest for two weeks as
soon as possible A medical bull
letin said. however, there was no
reason for anxiety.
Meeting in Schoolhouse.
In consideration for Gandhi's
weakened condition, the conferees
Evening star., 1942-07-10
New York to Auction
Battery Aquarium,
FishIess 8 Months

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. July 10.-Would
anybody like to buy a large
aquarium. empty of fish?
The city Of New York an
nounced today that the aqua
rum in Battery Park would be
offered for sale next Friday
The buyer must either move the
building away or demolish it..
All the fish were removed
when the building was closed
last october / and won't be in
cluded in the sale-if any.
Evening star., 1942-07-10
Chilean Liberals Back
Axis Diplomatic Ties
ey the Associated Press.

SANTIAGO. Chile. July l0.-The
Central Committee of the Radical
OiberaD party yesterday an
nounced its Endorsement of Presi-
dent Juan Antonio Rios policy of
maintaining diplomatic relations
with the Axis while Foreign Minister
Ernesto Barros emphasized Chilean
aid to the United States.
In an interview published in the
Evening star., 1942-07-10
$14, 1000, 900 Of U. S. Arms
Sought by BoIiviu

By the Associated Press.
LA PAZ, Bolivia, July 10.-Min-
lister of Defense Gen. Miguel Can
dia disclosed yesterday that the
Bolivian military mission now In
the United States will buy $4,000
900 worth of armaments to bolster
Bolivia's national defense.
Evening star., 1942-07-10
THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON G, FRIDAY TO-

Gandhi's recent policy Of avoiding
anything which might assist the
Japanese, they reported.
Gandhi, who is 70 years old, never
has been in robust health. His
frailty drove him into seclusion in a
mud hut in the village of Haripura
in 1887 and in the fall of that year
he suffered from heart trouble and
high blood pressure. He rallied
slowly.
Evening star., 1942-07-10
Citrus Crops Abandoned

Many citrus fruit growers In
Palestine have abandoned their
orchards since war stopped the ship
ping of the fruit to other countries.
Evening star., 1942-07-10

Buy United States War bonds.
They will pay rich dividends on the
Toxic Shock Exchange.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-16
IS THE OTHER FELLOW
DOING YOUR WORK?

The other day we took verbal poke
at the ladies for what they weren't doing
i'm the war effort To their undying credit
it may be said that they took it like gen
tlewomen-and got to work. Chances
are they got to work because some of the
women who are in position of leadership
went out and rounded up some help, and
not because of what we said, but the i'm
portant thing is that the women respond
ed More will respond as time goes on,
and the need continues.
Now, how about the men?
SO far, taken as a whole, they've failed
even more miserably than the ladies.
Where a hundred or so women in the Ell
Centre area were carrying the whole bur
den, only about so men-and that is
generous estimate-haVe been doing the
work.
Look at the lists. The defense council,
the scrap drive the war bond sale cam
paigns-you find names duplicated time
and again in the community'S various
projects. Always the same names. AND
YOU FIND THE SAME NAMES MISS
: ING
y Gordon Scriven, who has done as much
: or moro than any other man in the coun-
: ty to promote the all-important sale OF
war bonds, put it straight the other day
when he said there are lot of men IN
the community who don't know the war
is going on.
If you want to be sternly factual, OF
course, that was an eXaggeratlon. These
men undoubtedly do know that there is
war going on What they seemingly
: have not been able to understand Is that
: they've got part in that war. Judging
from their actions, it seems that they
don't give hoot in hollow log who
wins the war If they do, they haven't
shown 1t.
1t isn't fair to ask 80 men to carry the
whole load for the whole community. 1t
wouldn't be fair to ask hundred to do
1T.
Not only is it not fair, but it is not the
Way to get things done. This Job IS too
big for a few men to handle. This sale
of war bonds, for instance cannot be put
over by one man, no matter how good
lob he is doing. He cannot see every po-
tentia buyer in the valley He's got to
have help.
It's the same with every wartime actlv-
ity. It's going to be a flop unless more
men get into harness.
And that, Mister, means you.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-16
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
No. 1878
Estate of ROBERT ARTHUR

Estate of ROBERT ARTHUR
TANNING, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the un-
dersigned, M. D. ZINN, Public Ad-
miniStrator, as administrator OF the
estate of ROBERT ARTHUR FAN
MING, deceased, to the creditors
of and all persons having claims
against the said deceased, that with
in six months after the first publi-
cation of this notice they either
file them with the necessary vouch-
ers in the office of the Clerk of the
Superior Court of the State of Cali
fornia, in and for the County of
Imperial, or exhibit them with the
necessary vouchers to the said M.
d. Zinn, as administrator of said
estate, at the office of D. B. Roberts,
POT Bank of America Building, Ell
Centre, California, the same being
the place for the transaction of the
business of the said estate in the
County of Imperial, State of Cali
fornia.
Dated at Ell Centre, California, this
26th day of october, 1942.
M. D. ZINN, Administrator
of the Estate of
Robert Arthur Tanning,
Go. 28) (O26-N2-9-16)
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-16
Aussies. Yankees
Strike at E Enemv

American troops, flown to New
Guinea in transport planes and
landed by ship in September, made
contact from the south with Aus
tralian forces which captured the
village of Wairopi and crossed the
Kumusi river Saturday.
The main Australian force was
battling the japanese along the
river, while the Americans were
striking the enemy in the same Sec
tor from the south. The main
jungle track along which the Aus
sizes were advancing from the east
is cut by the river, which report
edly had reached flood width of
from 200 to 400 feet.
Allied aircraft continued to sup
port land operations, bombing and
Notwithstanding japanese antiair-
craft batteries, supply dumps and
rear communications, including
motor transports and river barges,
three of which were set on fire.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-16
Naval Achievement
In North African
Venture Described

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North
Africa, Nov. Is. CUP)-tDelayed)-
A special Allied communique de-
scribed today the naval operation
by which United States and British
forces were landed in North Africa
and said that persistent axis air
plane and submarine attacks had
proved costly to the axis.
Attacks by axis bombing and
torpedo carrying aircraft against
cur sea-borne forces in the Medit-
arranean on the days subsequent
to the initial landing have been of
varying intensity but the undaunted
performance of the fighters of the
British fleet air arm, the United
States army air force, the Royal air
force, and antiaircraft gunnerS OF
Warships and merchant vessels have
made these sorties by the axis air
forces costly adventures the COM
munique said.
Intensive attacks by concentra-
tiCns of axis U-boatS inside and
outside the Mediterranean also have
been carried out but have failed to
hinder the progress of the opera
ton. The enemy has sustained severe
/ lcsseS in these attacks"
The special communique describ-
ed an operation of gigantic scale
involving a 5000 mile journey
through submarine e-infested seas ir
which a United States fleet direct
from the United States attacked
Casablanca on the Atlantic and two
] British fleets attacked Oran anC
| Algiers on the Mediterranean.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-16
YANKS MUST
TURN THE TIDE
Nevada State JournaN

Nevada State JournaD
Any belief expressed by Field Marshal
SHUTS, premier, of the Union of South
Africa, is worthy of thoughtful consider
alton. He is an experienced and success
ful soldier and a discerning observer OF
world affairs.
When Premier SHUTS says that the Ger
man army is ''beeding to death" in Rus
Sia and that the stage is set for the last,
the offensive phase of the war for the
United Nations, his conclusion is to be
accepted as representing an informed
opinion which has 4 basis in existing con-
ditiOns and in military history.
Armies do bleed to death After the
Somme and the Marne and Verdun, the
armies of France were bled white and it
was necessary to fill the decimated ranks
with aging men and beardless boys who
went forth gallantly but with tragic futil-
ity to the slaughter. And in time the
merciless processes of war reduced the
once-mighty German army, which had
been quarter of a century in the making,
to an impotent remnant of its original
size and power
When two million fresh strong men
from the United States were thrown into
the battle, the Kaisers legions crumbled.
Today Germany is weakening under the
strain of three years of war and the toll
being eXacted by the heroic resistance
of the Russians. The specter of want,
disease and starvation is indeed arising,
not only in the occupied lands but in the
reich, and the explosive limits of endur
ance are nearing.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-16

- Somehow, it doesn't seem quite in keep
ing with the best traditions OF democracy
that a small group of senator's IN WASH
ington should attempt to delay consider
alton of the poll tax bill by purposely
absenting themselves from the senate
in order to prevent quorum
The senators who did so last week were
opposed to outlawing the poll tax. Ihey
STAYED away from their jobs-the jobs to
which they were elected-because they
were necessary to make quorum, and
without a quorum the senate could not
act on the measure at all.
Democracy lies in free discussion, not
in preventing free discussion. 1t lies IN
fair debate. not in evading fair debate.
If those men are against the measure
or any measure, let them state their reas-
ons and argue their side with all the
force they can. Let them make 1t 1alr
issue, fairly decided
Some senators have not yet learned the
difference between representing the po-
nj and .misrepresenting them.
4 majority vote is still the American
WaV