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The Ely miner., 1943-06-17
BEATS old Days
Lumberjacks Fly to Camp
in Seaplane.

Thirty-five years ago lumberjacks
thought nothing of hiking 40 miles
through the woods to logging camps,
but now on one logging operation in
a remote border area they are taken
in by seaplane.
The seaplane is only temporary
mode of travel, but is it probably the
first instance where it has been en-
ployed to bring in men and supplies
as WELL
A logging camp is being established
on Bass lake, about 20 airline miles
north of here, by Jacob L. Pete An
other camp, whose men are construct
ing a logging road along an abandoned
railroad right to Hopkins juno
ton, is located at Picket lake, -four
miles from Bass lake.
BY the end of the week the road will
be usable for trucks, and a speeder
will be used over a reconstructed spur
rail line to connect Hopkins junction
with the "Y" Just west of Winton.
A sawmill viii be moved in to Bass
lake this weekend and will be placed
in operation next week. BY this fall
Pete plans to have from Is to 100 men
employed on the operations.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-17
next CONCERT
TO BE UP TOWN

The next concert Of the municipal
band will be played in front of the
Community Center and not at White
side park, Director Frank v. Di Nino
announces.
The concert will be given Sunday
evening, starting at 8 o'clock. Like
last Sundays opening outdoor concert,
the one next week will feature a COM
munity sing led by Miss Mary Hutar.
Persons who listen to the concert
while seated in the family auto are
requested to leave the car and join in
the community sing.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-17
Three Uninjured as Plane Crashes
V-Gardens Winning Fight?

Ely's victory gardens ap-
pear to be winning their battle
with the elements, after fight
ing adverse weather ranging
from frost to near floods.
After many gardens had nearly sue
cumbed to cold, wet weather, they were
hit by a one-ineh torrent of rain early
Monday morning, the heaviest fall re-
corded this spring during a 24-hour
period, according to records kept by
the U. S. forest service.
Since then high temperatures, which
reached 81 degrees Tuesday, and high
humidity have pushed Vegetation along
at rapid clip, while gardeners sur
veyed their plots several times daily
hoping for the best.
Up to last night 424 inches of rain
had fallen during June, the forest
service records reveal. Precipitation
was recorded on all but six Of the Is
days.
The maximum temperature averaged
only 81 degrees, while the average low
was Al degrees. There was frost on
the morning of June S, when the mer-
curry dropped to "a degrees. Not until
Tuesday did the mercury get higher
than the lower 70's. On this day it
went to 81.
The maximum and minimum tenn
peratures during the past seven days
follow.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-17

the same as any engineering college,
with emphasis on mathematics and
scientific subjects. Military drill, nau-
tical subjects, signaling, rules of the
rope (navigation), ordnance, gunnery,
and seamanshtp are also studies, and
during the final year advanced courses
in these subjects predominant. There
are also courses in electrical engineer
ing and government.
Upon graduation the midshipman is
commissioned an ensign, and now all
of them receive an additional three
month course of indoctrination in the
aviation branch of the navy.
Before leaving the academy. the
graduating members draw to see what
type of ship they viii be assigned to-
Especially able men may secure ad-
mittance to the marine corps.
The individual ensign's scholastic
standing in his class will determine
the order of his advancement until he
reaches the rank of captain After that
his advancement will be made solely
on ability and achievement.
The plebes rate dragging" only
three times during the year, Midship-
man Nankervis said Dragging" is
academy terminology for dating q
Continued ON Page Four)
The Ely miner., 1943-06-17
They May Be Yours Some Day
Field RQtions K

pressed sugar tablets smaller than or
binary lump sugar, 2-ounce fruit bar.
three hard biscuits, four graham
crackers, 81 ounce can Of chopped
pork and egg yolk. one stick of gum.
The coffee powder, like other bev-
erages in the rations, must be mixed
with water, and a waxed container is
provided for this purpose.
Dinner unit-Lemon Juice powder
synthetic, three pressed sugar tablets.
package containing nine matted milk
dextrose and six dextrose tablets, three
hard biscuits and four graham crack
ers, 4-ounce can of processed Ameri-
can cheese and bacon, one stick Of
gum.
Supper -BouiIlion powder, three
pressed sugar tablets, 2-ounce bar Of
concentrated chocolate, three hard
biscuits and four graham crackers,
81 -ounce can of corned beef loaf with
carrots and apple flake, one stick of
gum.
These were the rations that kept the
American field forces going while they
licked the Germans IN Tunisia.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-17

Elyites on the home front who want
a graphic illustration of army field ra-
tions-those like Cpl. Tech. Raphael
j. Grahek lived on for five months in
the New Guinea campaign-should in
spect the display in the Community
Center lobby.
The rations were placed there by the
q. s. forest service, which uses them
for its emergency fire fighting crews.
Originally designed for paratroopers,
the rations are now standard through
out the army.
The food looks like only snack, but
it contains sufficient calories to pro-
vide all the energy needed by a soldier
in strenuous combat.
Its concentrated form permits each
meal to be packed in a small, IL
ounce package which is wax covered
to protect its contents in temperatures
ranging from 20 below to 1876 above
Here's what ration K (there are
others in addition to this) provides foI
the three daily meals:
Breakfast unit Coffee powder, three
The Ely miner., 1943-06-17
90 Confirnands Will
ReceiUe Sacrament at
St. Anthony's Sunday
Bishop of Duluth Diocese
Will be in Charge of
Services.

A class of 90 boys and girls
will receive the sacrament of
confirmation at st. Anthony's
Catholic church at 80 o'clock
Sunday afternoon.
His Excellency, the Most
Rev. Thomas Welch, d. D.,
bishop of the Duluth diocese,
will administer the sacrament.
A group of priests from out Of town
will assist at the confirmation services
under the direction Of the Rev. Frank
Mihelcic, pastor of St. Anthony's, and
the Rev Carl Priley, assistant pastor.
They include the Rev. j. z. Schif-
frer, Chisholm; the Rev. L Pirnat
and the Rev. Felix Kuras, Eyeleth; the
Rev. Michael Popesh, Hibbing, and the
Rev. John Jershe, Tower. Father Pop
esh is former Ely resident and is the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Michael Popesh.
Solemn Benediction Of the Blessed
Sacrament will be given Immediately
after confirmation by Bishop welch.
Assisting the bishop as deacons VIII be
the Rev. Father Popesh and the Rev
j. Hayden of Duluth
The following girls are members Of
the confirmation class: Erma Annerer.
Mary Ann Arola, Sophie Barich, LII
cille Brula, Jean Buckley, Elizabeth
Deyak, Margaret Deyak, Mary Dusich,
Eleanore Ellefsen. Lucille Gordon,
Marcella Grahek, Joan NJ Grahek.
Theresa Kapsch, Theresa Koschak,
Rose Marie Koshak, Lorraine Klun-
Dolores Kozar, Mary Lesar, Mary G.
Leon, Josephine Lunka, Mary Marko-
vich, Marilyn Mihelcic, Dorothy MAX
ar, Marian MelovaSich, Ruth Mersh-
mix, Clara Nekich, Angela Paun, Nil
dred Preblich, Dolores Rom, Rosemary
Rudman, Ethel Seliga, Mary Ellen
SaZdoff.
Mary Ann Slogan, Helen Skube, Mol
ly Struna, Rosemary Tauzen, Dolores
Ann Velcheff, Angeline NJ Velcheff,
Veronica Vertin, JEANNE Zelesnikar,
zimwernan Clara, Margaret zorman,
oNeSy 2411 O4J dAs MAY E4CA OScl1A-
Der, Genieve Ranta.
Boys to be confirmed are: William
Anderson, Rudolph Banovetz, John
Bouska, Lucas Chimzar, Frank DeIak,
Donald Frederickson, Louis GIatch,
Raymond Gradishar, Lawrence Gra-
hex, Warren Hansen, Joseph Kastelc,
Robert Koschak, Philip Kotchevar,
Bernard Kuzma, william Kvas, Ray
mond Levar, Adolph Levar.
Peter LIilek, Louis Leustek, Edward
Mavetz, Leonard Meden, John Miko-
Itch, Rudolph Mrache, Arthur Murphy.
William Mulek, John Novosel, Edward
Orazem, Ernest Paulisich, Paul Preb-
Itch, Emery Prisk, John Prola, Mar
tin Pulls, Ernest Ravnikar
Stephen Rokovina, Joseph Ruzich,
Frank Samec, Albert Skraba. John
Slabodnik, James Slogan, Donald Sny-
ker, Frank Stepic, Theodore Stonich,
Jerome Tarvin, George Vipavetz, VII
liam Yadlosky, Robert zgainer, Robert
zgonc, Russell Robertson.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-17
TWO TEACHERS
FACE INDUCTION
Are Reclassified In la. Draft
Board Informs Directors
of District No. IL.

Two members of the school faculty
have been reclassified in Ia, the local
draft board notified the board of edu-
cation in letter read at the regular
monthly meeting Monday night.
The two, Frederick McReady and
Laurin Leino, are in the married reg
istrants' group, and will now be SUBJ
ices of the nation.
McReady has taught general science
in high school and also acted as a SUBJ
stitute mathematics teacher in the
junior college for several months
Leino is high school biology teacher.
A number of teachers left the school
during the term just completed or at
its conclusion.
Among them were j. Oliver Hall, di-
rector of the st. Louis county civil
service commission, and Paul Cramer,
who is teaching pre-meterology to
members of the q. S. army at Denison
university, Granville, III. Both were
members of the college faculty.
Miss Elda Anderson, former eighth
grade teacher, is in the WAVES, and
Miss Judith Johnson, primary de-
partment instructor, is a member of
the WAAC'S.
Miss Eleanor Kuntz resigned to take
a course in therapy and will become a
civilian enploye of military hospital
She was member of the physical ed
ueation department. Miss Luella Err
ickson, domestic science instructor, has
resigned and will attend Iowa State
college at Anes during the next term.
Miss Kuntzs position will have to
be filled, but that of Miss Erickson
will not.
The filling of other vacancies that
may develop will depend upon the size
of the student body contemplated for
the next term of school, The same
condition also applies to securing adj
ditional teachers for the junior college.
McReady had taken over some of the
mathematics classes taught by Cramer
In order that action might be taken
without delay, the school committee,
in conjunction with the superintend-
ent, was given authority to fill vacan-
cies as they occur without calling the
entire board into session. This ar
rangement holds good only until the
reorganization meeting of the board
which will probably be held in con-
junction with the regular monthly
meeting July Il.
Miss Gerda Lindberg, who has beer
studying the past term at the Univer-
sity of Southeran California at Los
Angeles, has notified the board she
will report here for work next fall A
primary teacher, she had been given q
leave of absence.
Supt. Stanley Adkins reported that
there would be no college football OF
basketball during the coming term, anc
that high school football may be cur.
tailed or eliminated because of trans
portation difficulties. High schoo
basketball will undoubtedly be con-
tinued.
Replacing er-scholastic athletic.
will be an intensified physical educa-
ton program for all students. This i:
in line with the request of both state
and federal departments of education
and follows the recommendations O.
Continued on Page Four
The Ely miner., 1943-06-17
25-Man Fire Fighting
Camp Set Up at Isabella

A 25-man fire fighting camp has
been set up at Isabella to safeguard
this district, which is remotely located
from inhabited areas.
The camp is manned by 16- and IT.
year-old high school boys recruited
from various points throughout the
state outside this area. The youths are
now working on white pine blaster rust
eradication.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-17
NeU TT Gasoline Books
Are Being Distributed

New TT gasoline coupons to be valid
for use on July l are being issued this
week to Northwest operators of COM
mercial vehicles, the Minneapolis Of
flee of war information reports. CThe
release did not say which agency was
distributing the coupons, and the 10
cal rationing office has not received
information on their distribution.)
The OPA issued the new design of
gasoline certificates for trucks in an
effort to take up 'slack" mileage and
remove potential sources of black mar
ket gasoline.
Not only will the present T coupons
be invalid on July 1, but it will also
be illegal to have the coupons in pos
session after July 5.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-17
ONLY COMPLAINT FROM FIGHTING MEN
News Of Strikes DESTROYS Morale

News OF strikes at home-not the
toughness Of the fighting or the
long hours on duty-are the worst
morale destroyers on the North AZ
rican front, an officer who formerly
resided here declares.
"The soldiers over here Tin Africa)
have certainly done swell job, with
never q complaint regardless Of how
tough the going" 1t Col. A L
The Ely miner., 1943-06-17
Sisters of st. Benedict
Teaching Vacation School

The Sisters of st. Benedict from
Duluth viii conduct a religious vaca-
ton school for four-week period be-
ginning Monday of this week. Chill
dren of prayer, first communion and
post communion classes will attend.
1t is planned that the first holy COM
munion will take place the first part
Of July.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-17
EIyite Receives Gibraltar
Pound Note From Son

memento of his stop at the for
tress of Gibraltar has been sent by
an Ely sailor to his father here
The sailor, Robert Gordon, torpedo
man, third class, sent his father. Sgt.
Harry Gordon of the U. S. customs
patrol, a one-pound note issued by
the government of Gibraltar
The note is worth s4O8 in American
money.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-17
TUo Additional EIyites
HOnOred by University

Two Ely senior students at the Uni
versity of Minnesota were on the cap
and gown day honor list for having
maintained an average Of B in all
studies.
They are Edward A. Pirsh, who was
graduated from the university's in
stitute of technology as a chemical
engineer, and Jalmer j. Jokela of the
college of agriculture, forestry and
home economics. Sheldon Kayute, a
freshman student, was listed earlier as
having his name on the honor roll
The Ely miner., 1943-06-17
ESCAPES FROM
hAzI FRANCE
Sister of F. B. Hubacheck at
Eastwood Lake; Lived In
France 81 Years.

An American woman who recently
escaped from Frances and returned to
the United States is spending several
weeks on Eastwood lake.
She is Mrs. Mary Reynolds, sister of
F. B. Hubacheck, who has a camp on
Eastwood.
Although Mrs. Reynolds had been in
France for 81 years, she had main
tanned her legal residence in Min
neapolis.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-17

do away with strikes and Wen
do the rest"
Before being called to active duty
with the army, Lieutenant Colonel
Morley was in charge of the Gegoka
CCC camp occupied by Co. 7O4. His
camp was noted for its athletic
teams, which he coached. His basket
ball squad won the state CCC title
twice and was runnerup once.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-17
MRS. MARY PULLS
FOUR SONS IN ARMY

Four sons of Mrs. Mary Pulls are
in the armed forces of the nation.
Pvt John G.. Pulls is stationed at
an undisclosed base over seas.
CPL Frank v. Pulls is at Camp
Davis, N. G.
Pvt. Joseph A. Pulls is stationed at
Camp Claiborne, La.
Pvt Loren j. Pulls is at Fort Smell
ling
The Ely miner., 1943-06-17
TO ENTER SERVICE.

Harold Gordon, who was here from
Thursday to Sunday visiting his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Mike Gordon, left
Sunday for Fort Smelling for induc-
ton into the specialized training unit
at the University of Minnesota's med
ical school
The Ely miner., 1943-06-17
TUo High School Grads
to be Employed by FBI

Two Ely girls who were recently
graduated from Memorial high school
left Sunday for Washington, D. c.,
where they will be employed by the
federal bureau of investigation.
They are Florence D. Startz and
Marian Gornik
The Ely miner., 1943-06-17

Morley said in a letter just received
by The Miner.
THE worst morale destroyer we
have over here is news from home
of strikes. Men here work for $50
a month, IL to Is hours a day,
seven days a week, and never a
complaint, while people over there
strike because they can't get over
S1.0O an hour.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-17

GOV. EDWARD J. TtHYE was in Ely
yesterday on his tour of the iron range,
and while here made an inspection Of
the local mines. He was accompanied
here by his daughter and by Everett
Freeman of Chisholm
From Ely Governor Tnye, who had
made two previous visits here while a
candidate for lieutenant governor,
went to Birch Point Inn on Lake
Vermilion where in the evening he ad-
dressed Tower -Soudan and Ely Rotar-
ians. Delegations from other range
Rotary clubs were present.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-17
CPL. HEDLOFF ILL.

Cpl Clarence Hedloff suffered q
sudden attack of malaria and is now
in a Long Beach hospital. His con-
tempiated trip home is delayed until
his recovery from the attack.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-17
TREATED TO SHOW.

The school traffic patrol was given
free show at the State theatre last
week through the arrangement of the
Ely police department.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-17
ENROLLS IN NYA COURSE.

Margaret A. Kurie has enrolled at
the NYA war production training Gen.
ter in Duluth to take a defense train
ing course in sheet metal.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-17
M.-SGT. SCUFSA HERE.

Master Sgt. Frank ]. Scufsa, who has
served nearly 18 years in the army, is
IN the city this week on Through He
is stationed at Camp Phillips, Kan.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-17

ERECTING PORTABLE GARAGE.
A portable garage storage building
is being erected at the forest service
warehouse on the south edge of the
city.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-17

CAN'T REVEAL STATION.
Sgt. John L. Schiltz is now stationed
at an undisclosed American base He
says he has been out of the States a
year.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-17
.2x ,-r

ON SOUTH SEAS.
Pvt. Albert j. Priyatel is located
somewhere on the South Seas.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-17
This
Occasion
a Few Observations on Matters
Material and Immaterial BY
the Editor.
'ToRIcAL SOCIETY.

In our opinion that zoot-suit riot in
Los Angeles between the soldiers and
sailors and recognized gang of zoot-
suit hoodlums can be very easily
quelled. Arm the soldiers and sailors
and have them instructed to shoot on
sight of a zoot-suited hoodlum.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-17
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Roane Waring, national commander
of the American Legion, in his address
delivered to the assembled Legion
naires, hit rather hard and telling
blows. The veteran of the first World
War said: "As he Cthe American SOL
dier) faced the hated Nazi on the
Tunisian battle line, Americans wit
messed at home the sorriest spectacle
a nation at war ever faced, when John
L. Lewis issued his Infamous no
trespassing' order to $4,000 coal min
ers. The wholesale desertion On the
home front gave much comfort and aid
to the enemy. The no trespassing' de-
cree was Hitler's pride. It was Lewis
present to him of more than 5000, 600
man-hours of work desertion. Why
should the petty saboteur who drops
enemy dust in a machine be appre-
hended, imprisoned and tried while
this one man is permitted to block a
nations production and stay at
large?"
The Ely miner., 1943-06-17

When you hear from a soldier who
has been in the foxholes or at the
battle front, you get his utter con-
tempt for the Japs and the Nazis and
even for some of the native citizens of
the countries he was sent to protect.
They are considered traitors to all hu-
man emotions and as one soldiers let
ter stated, the only good Jap or Nad
is one who is as dead as the proverbial
mackerel. Yet there are those who ad-
vocate dealing with the Axis butchers
as if they were church brothers with
whom they have had slight falling
out.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-17

The Communist, all else having
failed, is bending all efforts to have
the q. S. government declare war on
Finland. The Communist is a Com
munist, first, last and all the time.
Now that he has failed to conquer
America with his red theories, he is
using his every effort to cause dissen-
sion in the ranks here and elsewhere.
Why the q. S. should declare war on
Finland is not stated, and neither is
any idea advanced as to the better
ment Of conditions should such a move
be made. Singing out one little coun-
try that has been subjected to Nazi
rule does not seem to click. Might as
well be general and declare war on
Belgium, Holland, France, Bulgaria,
Poland, Jugo-Slavia and the Balkan
countries at the same time They all
are under the Nal yoke on the sur
face, but deep down in their hearts
are democratic and friends of this
nation. Of course there are "Quis-
lings" amongst them, just the same as
there were in Jesus time, and just as
We have lovers of Nazism and Com
rnunism in democratic America.
Evening star., 1943-08-26
Masons Of Alexandria
10 Fete Torpedo Workers

The Scottish Rite Masonic bodies
Oh Alexandria will entertain Masons
residing in the city and employed at
the Naval Torpedo Station tomor-
row night in the lodge room of the
Alexandria, Washington Lodge in
the Masonic Temple on Cameron
street.
Roger Sullivan, chairman of the
Committee of Arrangements, an
nounced that the meeting will be
presided over by Harry A. Leake.
senior warden of the Washington
Memorial Lodge of perfection in the
absence of Julian S. Whitestone, ven-
erable master of the lodge.
The fall reunion of the Scottish
Rite bodies will be held in October
In the George Washington National
Memorial on Shooters Hill.
The degree class will be known as
the United States Naval Torpedo
class and degree teams from Wash
ington, Baltimore and Alexandria
will confer degrees from the 4th to
the 32d,
Evening star., 1943-08-26

ard, 81, former law clerk for As
sociate Justice Felix Frankfurter of
the Supreme Court, a longtime
Rooseveltian adviser, before Mr..
Prichard went to war.
Gilbert OPA Brainstruster.
Richard Gilbert, a Harvard pro-
fessor who served as ecopomic ad-
visor to Hopkins old WPA and
later to Leon Henderson's OPA, now
brainstrusts for OPA Dire
Brown. Marvin Jones' first-string
war food economist is Mordecai
Ezekiel, who labored prodigiously
for early F. D. r. farm. plans. 4
David X. Niles, who was Mr.. Hop-
kins' WPA labor liaison ofIicer, now
is White House trouble shooter
and suspected by anti-F. .. r. forces
OF spearheading Roosevelt fourth
term campaign. 2sSSs'S
Critics assail Mr.. Roosevelt's ad-
vising with Justice Frankfurter,
with Judge Sam Rosenman of the
New York Supreme Court and with
Wayne Coy, Budget Bureau assist
ant director. They call Justice
Frankfurter and Judge Rosenfnan
idea man" and Mr.. Coy "axs man" :"
the latter meaning they think he
drafts executive orders delegating
F. D. r. executive power to others
somewhat willy-nilly.
The opposition calls these lawyers,
economists and administrators a
Evening star., 1943-08-26
Exchange Of Coupons
Begins in Arlington
II Centers Available
To B and G Motorists

Seventeen Arlington County schools
opened today for the exchange of
B and c coupons which become in
valid September /, Ration Board Of
ficials announced. Persons whose
last names begin with A through H
were to apply today, I through N
tomorrow, o through T on Monday
and U through z on Tuesday. The
hours are am. to IL am. and 4
pm. to 8 pm. daily.
All books which do not bear mile
age ration" on the cover must be
exchanged during this period, off,
cials said, as no exchange will be
made in person or by mail through
the local board Offices.
Schools designated for the ex-
change are Nellie Gusts, Patrick
Henry, Matthew F. Maury, Hume.
Thomas Nelson Page, Stonewall
Jackson, Claude Swanson, Robert
E. Lee, John Marshall, Cherrydale,
James Monroe, Woodrow Wilson,
Kemper and Hoffman Boston
Buckingham Community Center is
also an exchange center.
The price panel of the board has
announced the appointment of Hugh
Gunnell as price adviser on bev-
erages. Mr.. Gunnell is the 18th
commodity specialist named to serve
with the five-man panel in advisory
capacity.