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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-05-06
VENGEANCE:
For Jap Executions

Stern punishment for the Jap mil
itary leaders responsible for the ex-
ecution of American fiiers captured
after last years raid on Tokyo was
promised by President Roosevelt,
who said the United States would
"hold personally and officially re-
sponsible" all those who partlcl-
pated in these crimes and bring
them to justice.
That the Japs' barbarity was a
confession of their vulnerability to
air attack was clear. This was un-
derscored by Tokyo broadcasts
threatening to execute American fiji
ers captured on future raids over
Japan.
The reply to such threats was CIV
en- by Maj. Gen. Henry H. Arnold,
commander of the air forces, who
told his fliers:
"Let your answer to their treat
ment of your comrades be the de-
struction of the japanese air force,
their lines of communication, and
the production centers which offer
them the opportunity to continue
such atrocities"
To this Maj. Gen. James H. Doc
little, who led the Tokyo raid year
ago added: "Soon our bombers will
be there again, striking at the heart
of Japan until the empire crumbles
and they beg for mercy"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-05-06
II g III l. | @ ii I S in the weeks ne,os

RUBBER: In addition to vast
amounts of regular crops, Siberia
will produce huge quantities of ma
terial for synthetic rubber this year,
a Moscow report disclosed.
REFUGEES: Spokesman for the
British American conference in
Hamilton, Bermuda, on the Euro
pean refugee problem said that any
large-scale rescue of Nazi-oppressed
people seemed out of the question.
EXCHANGED PRISONER: First
American soldier freed from an
Axis war prisoner camp is Alan
Stuyvesant of New York, who was
released from a camp near Rome
after 10 months Imprisonment.
SECRECY: Former President
Herbert Hoover in a public state
ment said there can be no real
justification for secrecy" at the AL
lied nations food conference sched-
uled to open May 18 at Hot Springs,
Va, adding that mo secrets exist
concerning the food situation in any
county in the world"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-05-06
RUBBER:
Showdown on Oil Use

Rubber continued to be a contro-
versial subject as William M. JEFF
fers, rubber director, came to grips
with Robert P. Patterson, under
secretary of war, and Harold l..
1ckes, petroleum administrator, in a
dispute over the use of gasoline in
the synthetic production program.
Patterson, supported by Ickes,
charged in a statement that LETTERS
was weakening American air
strength against the Axis by reduc-
ing combat supplies of high octane
gas for the benefit of the civilian
synthetic r,,bber manufacturing
schedule.
Still at odds with Elmer Davis,
Owl director, over publicity re-
leases on the rubber program, JEFF
fers briskly took on his two new OPP
ponents declaring that their charges
called for investigation to bring out
the true facts to the public.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-05-06

SAILORS: More than 5000 Ger
man naval personnel, mostly off,
GERS, arrived in Italian ports for as
signments aboard Italian warships,
according to reports received in
London.
FEDERATION: Ezequiel Padilla,
Mexican foreign secretary in a book
published in New York wrote that a
federation of American nations "is
a pressing and imperative duty"
SURPRISE: Vice Adm. Jonas H
Ingram, commander of the United
States Atlantic fleet, predicted "dis-
agreeable surprises" for the enemy
off the Brazilian coast soon, but did
not amplify his statement.
"CAN OPENERS: Specially
equipped I'D Hurricane fighter
planes, known as 'can openers" and
armed with two 40-mm. guns firing
shells weighing 215 pounds each are
being used as tank busters by the
Raj in North Africa, the British
air ministry announced. The tank
busters have proved very effective
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-05-06
PACIFIC:
u. S. FLiers Busy

From the Aleutians to New
Guinea, American airmen continued
their assaults on Jap airfelds, ship
ping and ground installations.
Liberators, Mitchells, Lightnings
and Warhawks made Is raids on the
enemy at Kiska, carrying the total
of forays on this menacing Jap in
stallation to more than 100 in the
course Of a single month.
In the Solomons, Yankee fliers bat
tered Jap positions in four air raids,
attacking Tonei harbor and Kieta
and smashing at Kahili and Munda.
From Australia, Allied aircraft
made 10 forays in single day, de-
stroying enemy planes and straffing
Jap base installations and occupied
villages. Rabaul and Ubili, New
Britain, the Saidor area of New
Guinea and Laga on Timor island
were the principal targets.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-05-06
U-BOAT DAMAGE:
More Ships the Remedy

Calling submarine losses of United
Nations shipping "heavy but not
disastrous" the Truman senate
committee revealed that approx
mately 100000 tons a month were
sunk last year-or more than the
total tonnage built by the United
States and Britain combined in 1912.
Adding that losses were reduced
in the latter months of the year, the
report declared: "The submarine
menace can and will be effectively
met"
Most effective answer to the
U-boat threat will be increases in
new construction of merchant ships
and escort vessels this year, the
committee said. The report esti-
mated that between Is and 10 mil
lion lightweight tons will be built in
1913, compared with 100000 tons
last year.
Increased speed for newly con-
structed ships was promised through
the building of new Victory models
and the redesigning of Liberty ships
to permit speeds of Is to II knots
compared with II knots for the pres
ent design.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-05-06

a NY pretty Powered print may
1 \ be combined with the side
strips of sheets that are good after
the center part has worn out. A
good section may be cut from the
center bottom too. The diagram
at the left gives all the dimensions
you need for making a spread for
a double bed from the good parts
of three old sheets put together
with six-inch strips lowered cot
ton material of about the same
weight.
Here, the figured goods is in a
pink and white pattern that is
especially effective with the white
muslin. 1t is also used to trim
the curtains made from old sheets.
Another interesting color note is
the mats of the pink and white ma
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-05-06
RUSSIA:
Caucasus Front Actiue

Continuing to employ "strive at
any cost" tactics, German armies
in the Caucasus kept up full-scale
attacks against the Russians in the
Kuban delta despite heavy losses
and lack of success in the early
stages.
Two detectives were included in
the Nazi plans, military observers
believed. One was to relieve So
Wet pressure on the enemy's bridge
head at Novorossisk. The other was
to build up the momentum of a
drive that might be the prelude to
new Axis spring offensive.
AS the fighting increased in in
tensity, the activity of the opposing
air forces was stepped up. German
communicates reported that the luft-
waite was straffing Red supply
bases on the Black sea coast. So
Wet communicates revealed that
while Red airmen had broken up
one enemy effort to ferry reinforce
ments across the Black sea to Novo-
rossisk, the Germans had succeeded
later in providing substantial rein
forcements for their army in the
Caucasus bridgehead.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-05-06
Bride Carried High

Among the strangest wedding
customs of the world are those of
the Bugis tribesmen of the Celebes
in the Dutch East Indies.
When a woman is to be mar.
ried, it is necessary for three days
before the ceremony that her feet
do not come into contact with the
ground. During this period she is
continuously under the influence of
drugs administered to her as she
is carried about on the shoulders
of members of her family.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-05-06
VACATIONS:
Public Must Cooperate

Summer vacations by train for
Americans remained a probability
in spite of a ruling by the Office of
Defense Transportation that no adj
ditional summer train service re-
quiring the use of Pullman sleep
ing car equipment would be author
lied. Rail officials expressed the
belief that regular services would
be sufficient to accommodate vaca-
tionists if the public is willing to
accept inconvenience and cooper
ate by spreading travel throughout
the week.
Only exception to the curtailment
policy, the ODT stated, will be
coach trains operated in the pc
Rod between Saturday noon and
Sunday midnight utilizing primarily
commuter equipment otherwise idle
in that period and additional trains
of semi-commuter type operated on
other days of the week within a
radius of approximately so miles of
a terminus"
All other requests for extra coach
or parlor-car train service for daily,
tri-weekly or weekend summer OPP
erations will be denied, the ODT in
Dictated.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-05-06
TUNISIA:
Nazis Counter-Attack

Fighting stubbornly to delay the
inevitable day of reckoning, Axis
troops sought desperately to pre-
vent the Allied armies from further
narrowing their last hold in Tunisia.
On both the north and south fronts,
German counter-attacks were fol-
lowed by successful Allied thrusts
that wrested mountainous terrain
from the enemy and forced the Axis
armies nearer to their last-stand po-
sitions.
In the north, the British First
army pushed southeast after repel-
ling major enemy assaults in the
Medjez-el-Bab sector, destroying
more than one-third of the Nazi
tanks opposing them.
In the north, General Montgom-
ery's British Eighth army made inn
portant gains in the strategic hill
country north and west of Enfida-
vile which brought it closer to
Tunis.
Meanwhile, bombers of the Allied
tactical air force kept up constant
attacks against the few remaining
Axis-held airfelds.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-05-06
POSTWAR FINANCE:
Congress Holds Reins

Voting to extend for two years the
Presidents authority over the
,00O,000,00O currency sterilization
fund, the house adopted an amend
ment designed to prevent the use of
this money in the $4,000, 100000 in
ternational banking fund proposed by
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau for
postwar world bank.
The senate had previously with
drawn the Presidents power to de-
value the dollar while approving
continuance of his power of the sta
Utilization fund.
In effect, the house amendment
introduced by Representative Reed
of Illinois gave congress control
over the $4,000, 100000 sterilization
fund and the proposed postwar bank
ing fund. House leaders indicated
that congress would provide funds
for the latter, in the event it was
set up.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-05-06

The gaily enameled unit insignia
you see on a soldiers lapels and
overseas cap are reproductions of
his regimental shield displayed in
the center of the eagle on his reg
mental flag. It's a part of U. S.
Army tradition. Traditional, too,
is the Army mans preference for
Camel cigarettes. Biased on actual
sales records from service mems
own stores.) It's a gift from the
folks back home, that always
rates cheers. And though there are
Post Office restrictions on pack
ages to overseas Army men, you
can still send Camels to soldiers
in the U. S., and to men in the
Navy, Marines, { Coast Guard
wherever they are.-Adv.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-05-06
DRAFT:
PayroIIers on Call

Probability that many of the 840,4
600 draft-eligible men on govern
ment payrolls would be inducted
into the armed forces was seen in
the selective services ruling that
federal workers could not be de-
ferred for occupational reasons ex-
cept through examination of individ-
ual cases by special presidential
committee.
Up to the present, thousands Of
government workers had been given
deferred classification as essential.
Selective service announced that
effective May Is, the $500 local
boards must submit monthly to Ma
jor General Hershey, for transmits
sion to congress, the names and
numbers of federal employees clas-
sifed as IA or 2-B, the classes Of
deferment for occupational reasons.
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Washington, d. C.
OVERSEAS LETTERS

Many an American mother Is
hearing from her boy: "Why don't
you write? I haven't had a letter
from home for ages" And she
knows she has written faithfully ev-
cry day.
The explanation is the U-boat,
which the war department regrets
to say caused the loss of several
million pieces of mail" during the
first three weeks of March alone.
But still the mother wonders why
some of her daily letters don't get
through. Even if third of them
were sunk her boy should have re-
ceived 20 letters in the month.
Unfortunately, it doesn't work that
way. If she writes 80 letters a
month all those letters may have
accumulated in the Port of New
York or some other port waiting for
convoy outward bound. Conveys
cannot leave every day or two. So
all 80 letters might go into one ship
and if that ship is sunk her son will
have no mail for a month.
There is no solution to this prob
lem except to keep on writing.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-05-06
"a HOUSEHOLD
al! % lIllTSIEHEZ=

Use a stiff wire brush to re-
move crumbs and other particles
from the burners of a gas or cleo
trio stove.
A paper plate glued to the bot
tom of a paint can will catch all
drippings from the can and serves
as a rest for the paint brush be-
sides.
Worn bath towels may be cut
in squares or circles for wash
cloths. Either crochet an edge
around them or bind with wash
able cotton tape.
When washing a coat sweater or
cardigan, sew up the buttonholes
to prevent stretching.
Mixed with salt, vinegar will
clean discolored copper, brass and
silver, and remove ink stains from
the fingers. Diluted with water, it
will clean gilt picture frames.
-
A variety of play materials is
essential for a child's all-around
development. Toys are needed for
vigorous physical activity, for ma
nipulative and creative play, and
for dramatic play.
=.
Butter will spread more smooth
1y and go further if a little hot
milk is creamed with it.
S.
An old pair of curling irons
makes an excellent gripper to use
in dyeing garments. You can grip
the material firmly and swish it
about in the dye bath and it will
not slip off as it sometimes does
when a stick or something of that
sort is used.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-05-06
BRITISH DEMOCRACY

A great deal is being written on
the question "What are we fighting
for?" but if the American public had
looked in on the Servicemen's Can
teen of the National Press club on
a recent Saturday afternoon, they
wouldn't have to be told.
One of the guests was a British
naval officer, Rear Admiral S. r.
Digit, famed in the British navy for
his toughness in battle, and the salti-
ness of his sea yarns. At the Press
Club canteen, he more than justified
this latter reputation to American
soldiers, sailors and marines who
fiocked around him.
However, it wasn't until the party
was about to break up that the adj
miral came into his own.
1t isn't every day that an admiral,
British or American, joins a song
fest with gobs and soldiers, but Ad-
miral Digit sang popular American
airs with gust and enthusiasm for
half an hour.
Finally an American sailor called
out: Lets sing this one for the
admiral-For He's jolly Good Eel
low!"
What followed was probably the
lustiest rendition of that familiar
tune ever heard in the nations CAPT
tai. More than 100 soldiers, sailors
and marines joined in the tribute to
Admiral Digit, who looked almost
as happy as if he had just won a
naval battle. 1t was one of the
things we are fighting for-democ-
racy.
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AIR TRANSPORT

How air passenger and cargo
transport service will be expanded
after the war was indicated by the
application of the Chicago and South
ern Air Lines for charter to OPP
crate postwar trans-Alaskan serv-
ice from Chicago to Singapore and
Batavia.
The company had previously filed
pplication to operate from the West
dies to New Orleans. The new
arvice to pore and Batavia
ould est 'i7e shortest route
} the Fats EEts n w. - -
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PATTERSON
WITHOUT FARMS, RANCHES,
AMERICA WOULD VANISH
Released by Western Newspaper Union

WITHOUT FARMS, RANCHES,
AMERICA WOULD VANISH
HE WAS a prosperous, wen-fed
looking individual, beside whom /
sat in the lounge car of train cross
Ing Nebraska. He told me he lived
in New York.
From the car window, we could
see the western Nebraska ranch
homes. people who live in such
places must be only half human to
endure such life," he said. "For
the sake of the nation, and especially
in wartime, it is a good thing we
have places like New York to de-
pend upon"
''The man who lives in that house
over there" I replied, as pointed
to too-pretentious ranch house,
sis one of the kings of America. He
rules over a few hundred or few
thousand acres. People of New
York and other cities are but his
subjects. Without him and his kind
your cities would not exist. He sup
plies the foundation upon which not
only the cities, but the nation is
built. He thinks more intelligently
than do IS per cent of the people of
the cities. He represents the culture
of America. He supplies the food,
that first essential of both peace and
war. He is intensely patriotic. He
works whatever number of hours
are required to do the job in. order
that you, and your kind, may live.
He, and his kind-people of the farms
and ranches and those of the rural
cities and towns through which we
are passing, constitute the most val
liable so per cent of the population
of our nation. They, not the people
of the cities, represent the real hui
mans of America. People of the
cities, that rancher's subjects, would
do well to emulate his many virtues
and his patriotism.
Of course I did not convince the
New York gentleman that he and
his kind living in the cities were not
the first and most valuable citizens
of the nation, but I told him few
plain truths, which I hope he may
think about. Without the farms and
ranches, there would be no cities,
and no America.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-05-06
POISON CAS-:
British Ready

Prime Minister Churchill had
warned the Nazis several times pre-
viously that the use of poison gas
on any front would result in imme-
diate retaliation by the British. Now
he cautioned the enemy again, add
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-05-06
CAPITAL CHAFF

Ambassador John Winant's young.
er brother Fred is the American
representative in the Middle East
Supply Center in Cairo There
is a shortage of planes for transport
ing officials to Africa. Some men
cool their heels for a month before
getting seat When Jimmy
Byrnes, director of the office of Eco
nomic Sterilization, heard that two
senate committees were arguing
over which should go to North At
RIGA, he said: isn't that another
argument for two fronts?"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-05-06
MERRY-GO-ROUND

Radio singer Jane Frohman, who
was at deaths door after the Clipper
crash in Lisbon, was so cheered up
by the arrival of her husband that
she is now homeward bound on a
Portuguese ship. FDR gave travel
ing priorities to her husband when
war agencies gave him the run
around Two entertainers who
didn't survive that crash-Roy Rog-
nan and Tamara Swann-will be
given military funerals in the U.S.A.
They were headed for North Africa
to entertsin soldiers, under USO.
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terial used for the row of framed
photographs over the bed. 1t also
edges the full white lamp shades
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-05-06
WAR BUILDING

With the completion of the major
part of the building construction
necessary for full-scale armament
production, shift of men and ma
terials from construction to other
fields is now under way, the depart
ment of commerce reported.
The department estimated a de-
cline of 80 per cent in new con-
struction in the first quarter of 1913
compared with the last quarter of
1912. New construction amounted to
$4,000, 900 in the first three -aonths of
this wear.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-05-06

ing that he had received reports
that Hitler is making preparations
for using poison gas against the Rus
sian front"
Munitions centers, seaports and
other military detectives throughout
the whole expanse of Germany, he
said, would be the target of British
gas attacks should the Nazis use
this weapon against the Russians.
Increasing Allied mastery of the
air plus the fact that Britain had
stepped up its chemical warfare
preparations in the last year lent
an ominous note to the British
StateSman'S warning.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-05-06
COLONEL HOBBY ROSE

Col. Oveta Culp Hobby of the
WAACs picked up the telephone one
bright morning and called Col. Will
liam Slater of the war department.
public relations branch.
Good morning, colonel" she
said.
Good morning, colonel" he re-
piled.
Colonel" she said, "I have been
told by large seed company that
they want to name a rose after me.
What would you think of my lending
my name to rose-the Hobby
rose?"
That was a new one for the colo
mel. He chuckled, laughed it off,
and suggested that horticultural
problems were out of his line.
In the end, the two colonies de-
cided the question was too thorny to
handle.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-05-06
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS

u. S. Pledges Bombs to Japan's Heart;
Allies Break Axis Mountain Defenses
AS Drive for Tmis and Bzerte Speeds;
Russ -Nazis Locked in Caucasus Battle
Western Newsna Union
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RUBBER FROM OIL REFINERIEs

NODDEN NUM- Jill hCT 1INCh1LS
It has now been more than a year
since far-sighted Oil Co-ordinator
Ickes urged that synthetic rubber
be made by converting small oil
refneries, closed by gasoline ration
ing, instead of building the mon
strous new rubber factories which
will not be finished until 1914 and
which require millions of tons of
precious steel and copper.
After long delays the first of these
converted small refneries will begin
making rubber on May l. 1t is the
Eastern States Petroleum Refinery
at Houston, Texas, and the results
promise to be astounding.
Not a single new steel vessel,
pump, tank, or piece of piping, so
badly needed for escort vessels by
the navy, have been used. Further
more, the total new material of 9TH
er types amounts to only 20 per cent
of the cost of the entire job.
However, this Eastern States plant
will produce in IL months enough
butadiene to make 100000 tires,
plus ingredients for several thousand
tons of high octane gasoline per day.
Also, because it was not necessary
to build new walls, roofs, equipment,
this converted refinery will produce
butadiene at cost equivalent to a
little over ST per tire, based on the
investment.
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Butter will spread more smooth
ly and go further if little hot
milk is creamed with it.