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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-04-29
Kentucky Once Was Center of u S. Hemp Industry

40 producing hemp rope for fast clip
per ships and other merchantmen,
and for the growing U. S. navy.
Lexington was a market for hempen
goods.
Foreign competition cut domestic
output. Abaca, so-called manila
hemp, from a plant of the banana
family, made better rope at less
cost. Jute supplanted hemp for
many uses. Also Kentucky planters
found tobacco a more profitable crop
to raise.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-04-29
FkGEScREENARADI
BY VIRGINIA VALE
y a,aa sed NV Western Newspaper Union,

THE Hollywood telephone
L repairman was phoning
his report. "Yeah, I fixed it;
cord was chewed." Pause.
yeah, chewed. No, not a
dog-a lion" Pause. 'Sure I
said lion" Pause. 'Look, I
haven't had a drink all day,
and 1 said a lion chewed it.
I'm at Jinx Falkenburg's house."
He grinned. "Yeah, I knew you'd
understand" The cub, a present to
Jinx from her brother, Bob, has
since then taken to sharpening his
teeth on the piano legs. The Co
lumbia star of "She Has What It
Takes" says that's perfectly all
right, if he sticks to piano legs.
Pola Negri, who years ago was
one of the head glamour girls of the
silent movies, is returning to the
screen in the United Artists film,
eli Diddle Diddle"; she'll play an
operate star, the wife of Adolphe
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-04-29

ago, the state was still producing
nearly a quarter million pounds Of
seed year. Grown for its fiber,
the hemp shoots up seven to ten
feet, and IA feet when cultivated for
seed.
Homespun cloth was woven from
the fiber by wives and daughters of
settlers. A later use of the fiber
included the making of bagging, cot
ton baling, rope and sailcloth. Early
in the last century Kentucky had a
dozen mills making hemp bagging;
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-04-29
Crowd Raced First English Locomotive on Maiden Trip

tie. When the engine blew off steam,
the crowd scattered. Turnpike pro-
motors and their stockholders were
hopefully present, but the engine
did not blow up as new era in
transportation opened.
Accommodations were inadequate
for all persons wishing to make the
trial trip. Some unable to hang on,
followed the train in wagons or rode
cross country on horseback. As
the train started, spectators ran
alongside until outdistanced.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-04-29

The 1913 farmer is on his
honor!
Like the boy taking an exam
ination at school, it's up to him
and him alone. He's strictly ION
his own"
Under the 1913 agricultural
adjustment agency plan, the
farmer for the first time has the
full responsibility for measur-
ing his acreages on specific
crops and reporting the results
he gets. Formerly this was done
by AAA employees, but the new
scheme will conserve travel, cut
down wear and tear on tires and
cars, and decrease the use of gas
and oil.
Now it is up to the farmer to
check on his own fields.
He appears to be happy about
this change in program admin
istration, department of agricul-
ture reports show. While AAA
committeeman - themselves
farmers-will continue to give
him every assistance, the re-
sponsibility for carrying out pro-
duction plans and doing his
share in the national program
rests with the Individual opera
tor.
Spot checks will be made periodi-
cally to determine the status of COM
munity and county production, and
farmers are being asked to keep
records and lay out their crops so
that reports can be made easily and
quickly.
Goals this year call for about S
per cent more production than in
1912. Basis for the 1943 AAA pro-
gram to reach these goals is local
action" 1t recognizes that the job
of production adjustment-of shift
MS SAORo " 4IACCI VIZ anu
planning acreage to the best adj
vantage-must be worked out and
carried out on the individual farms.
1t can't be done in Washington, say
the committeeman. It must be done
locally, to conform to the local stu
alton.
Instead of a national overall goal
formula" each state and county
has been left free to adopt the means
which seem best suited to the par
ticular section concerned. Wide lat
itude is given the committeeman in
making goal assignments. They are
not only allowed to determine such
assignments on capacity of the
farmer to produce" basis. They are
expected to use such yardstick.
Capacity to produce varies accord
ing to the character of the farm
land, machinery and labor availa-
bic, and many other factors. Each
region has it's individual problems
which must be taken into considera-
ton in determining what>the specific
area may reasonably do in given
period.
AAA Committeeman VIII
Keep Government Informed
The role of the AAA committee
man will be that of an important
go-between who keeps the govern
ment informed on the farmers prog
ress and problems, and the farmer
informed on what the government
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-04-29

sardine pack is consumed by the
armed forces. In addition, CT
william requirements have in
creased as housewives, faced
with a meat shortage, have
turned to fish as a main course
alternate.
The fisherman's job is not an
easy one. Added to the normal
hazards of the sea are the sub
marine menace and the difficult
ties resulting from material
shortages. However, fishermen
continue operations despite new
perils, striving to equal former
production records.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-04-29

John Riberia, captain of the fish
ing tra,oler, Old Glory, kisses his
wife before leaving for the fishing
grounds off the Massachusetts coast.
Fishing trips usually extend from,
four days to a ,Ueek.
Certain varieties Of fish are ap-
pearing on the markets for the first
time, and Ne,o England fishermen
are hauling in large quantities of
rosefsh, Uariety considered useless
fUe years ago. Picture at right
sho,Us heavy nets sliding dorUn Old
Glory's side, ,ohere rosefsh are be-
ing sought. This species can be
caught only in daytime.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-04-29

Government plans to grow nearly
half million tons of hemp annually
promise to restore to Kentucky the
hemp industry for which the state
was first distinguished.
Kentucky's blue grass section was
adapted to hemp. Seed had come
to the Colonies from Europe; Vir-
ginia supplied Kentucky's early
planters. In time practically all
hemp in the United States was grown
from Kentucky seed. A generation
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-04-29

Prime Minister Churchil's recent
remark in his radio address, that
england was ''the earliest in the
world with railways" was a ref
erence to the opening of the Stock
ton and Darlington railway.
The 27-mile line was built from
Stockton-on-Tees, where the first rail
was laid on May %, 1922, on oak
ties. The lines first two engines
were built by George Stephenson
who, with Edward Pease, promoter
of the railway, had opened loco
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-04-29
Cultivate Mahogany

Tests with African mahoganies in
Florida indicate that mahogany for
furniture and other uses may come
from cultivated forests. Trees plant
ed at the Florida experiment sta
ton IL years ago on rather unprom-
Using sites are now around 40 feet in
height, with trunks eight inches in
diameter. The trees have survived
several cold spells, including one
freeze. Trunks of these trees are
twice the diameter of pines twice
their age.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-04-29
Farmer Plots Crop Acreage Under New
AAA Program; Agency to Assist Drive
To Meet Record Wartime Production
Be DeatW ION LOCAL.

more easily adapted to the individu.
al areas and the individual farms
within them. In turn, available funds
may be used to the best advantage
and with the greatest efficiency.
Acreage limitations have been re-
moved on a number of crops which
previously had such limits. Except
for short staple cotton, tobacco and
perhaps one or two other crops,
farmers are urged to exceed their
goals in 1913. This is particularly
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-04-29

motive works at Newcastle-on-Tyne.
One branch line, less than mile
long, was laid to YARN, where a
tablet on an inn credits the town
with being the birthplace of the
worlds railways. YARN provided
the band for the opening of the line,
September q, 1925. three years and
four months after construction be-
gan.
A crowd came from nearby towns
to see the new engine perform.
George Stephenson was at the throt-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-04-29
Boy PLAYS With Lion

The seven-year-old son of Super
llntendent M. Flood of the Dublin zoo
has made pal of a year-old lion,
which was born during a blitz in the
Empire theater, in Leeds, England.
SO attached has the animal become
to the boy that he is the only person
it will allow near it. Daily the boy
iromps with it on the lawn of the Dub
lin Geological gardens, the pair roll
ing about playfully on the grass.
The fun over, the lion meekly fol-
lows the boy back to its cage.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-04-29

expects of him and what it is doing
to help him circumvent obstacles
that present themselves.
Adjustment, the process of help
ing the farm operator to scale his
crop production upward or down.
ward to fit into the national agricul-
tural picture, has always been one
of the major activities of AAA. 1t
helps farmers meet production
problems by providing guidance and
assistance in producing the kinds of
crops that are needed in the re-
CURED amounts, working in cooper
alton with other units of the depart
ment of agriculture.
Community farmer committeeman
in 1912 totaled $4,000 regular elected
committeeman and about $1,000 al
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-04-29
Men Who Go Down to Sea
In Ships for Victory Food

In quaint fishing towns off Americas many coasts who
following their forefathers the find fishing booming
industry The armed forces than half of all the
frozen fish in the United States.
greater amount per cent the mackerel and
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-04-29

Released by Western Newspaper Union.

AN AMERICAN FARMER
OR WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
A FARMER I had known for up
wards of so years died recently. He
knew farming of the "dirt" and the
scientific variety. He was Frank O..
Lowden, governor of Illinois during
World War I.
My first acquaintance with Frank
O. Lowden- was when he served as
lieutenant colonel of the First Infan-
try, Illinois National Guard, OF
which I was junior subordinate
under him. AS a citizen-soldier, he
was efficient, as he was in all other
capacities in which he served
America.
In all of those capacities in which
he achieved distinction none was
more notable than that of farming.
He was born to it on Minnesota
farm, and was educated to it on an
Illinois farm. Though he branched
out and included school teaching,
law and politics in his activities, he
was first and always farmer.
He was not the gentleman" type
of farmer. He could follow a pillow,
milk a cow and do any needed task
on the farm. But he was more than
a "dirt" farmer-he believed in,
promoted and practiced scientific
agriculture. He demonstrated the
practicability of scientific agricul-
ture. I have seen the results on his
farm at Oregon, Ill. He made of
farming not merely the hobby OF
the man of wealth, but profitable
vocation. At all times he practiced
what he preached, and he preached
better farming methods.
Frank Lowden, the farmer, might,
and would have been President of
the United States but for the intrigue
of a group of Republican politicians.
By questionable methods, they pre-
vented his nomination in 1920. Six
months in advance of that nominal
ing convention, I had been told how
the wishes of the majority of the
party would be disregarded and how
the nomination of Lowden would be
prevented-and it worked. Harding
was nominated instead of Lowden.
I sat in on the national conven-
ton at Cleveland in 1924, where Cal
vim Coolidge was nominated for the
presidency by reclamation, and
Frank Lowden was named as his
running mate on the first ballot.
Lowden refused the nomination. Had
he not done so, the story at Kansas
City four years later might have
been different.
Frank Lowden's interest was in
agriculture. Had he been President
of the United States, believe the
recent story of the American farm
would have been very different. He
knew the needs of agriculture and
fought for those things which he
believed were essential.
Mrs. Lowden was a daughter Of
George M. Pullman, but the Pull
man wealth played no part in the
activities of Frank Lowden. He
demonstrated what can be done on
the American farm. He was farm
er and a friend of all other farmers.
He demanded a fair deal for the
farmer. Had a bit of crooked po-
itical trickery not prevented his
nomination for, and election to the
presidency, the farm story might
have been quite different.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-04-29

ternates. County committees totaled
1929 with 9,087 members. The coun-
ty committeeman are responsible to
the state offices, which in turn re-
port to the regional offices. Uncle
Sans millions of farms depend upon
the AAA committeeman to keep them
informed of changing phases of the
overall national program, of the
states particular part in the 1943
farm plan, and of the numerous de-
tails having to do with production
goals and how they can be met.
AAA county chairmen are also
chairmen of the County Farm
Transportation committees, which
issue certificates of war necessity
for mileage rationing, and the Coun-
ty Farm Machinery Rationing COM
mittees, which ration many types
of farm equipment. In the matter
of labor shortage, the community
committees report localized needs
to the county committee and war
board chairman, the latter then car
rying the problems on to the proper
authorities.
Chairmen of AAA state and coun-
ty committees head up the war
boards which correlate the efforts of
department of agriculture agencies
to assist farmers in their war pro-
duction.
Getting the right fields into the
right kind of production and getting
higher yields out of every acre
through better farming practices is
the basic theme of the committee
mans work in 1913.
Committeeman Will Help
Arrange Cooperative Action
Among his activities is helping to
arrange cooperative use of scarce
machinery and cooperative trans
portation programs. Many local.
ties already have worked out sue
cessful schemes for sharing trucks
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-04-29
AMERICAN FARMERS
HAVE REAL WAR SPIRIT

munitions and food are equally es-
sential to victory. The fact is that
if either is first essential, it is
food. Without food there would be
no possibility of producing NUM-
tons or maintaining an armed force.
America is, and must continue to
be, the pantry of the Allied nations.
If it is to continue to be an inexhaust-
ible pantry, farmers of America
must have consideration somewhere
near that accorded to industrial la
Dor. They demand a 54-hour week
in war industry plants as being in
line with the 60 and 70-hour week
they put in on the farms. They are
not so much interested in maintain
ing social gains" as they are IN
winning the war and maintaining
American freedom.
PULLMAN PRIORITY
A MANUFACTURER, a man who
was providing jobs for some 5000
employees, was asking for a Pull
man car bedroom at the ticket Of
fee. There was only one bedroom
left on the train. Beside him stood
another man who also wanted bed
room and asked for it just as the
ticket seller told the manufacturer
he was getting the last one on that
train. ST claim that bedroom" said
the second man, sand here is my
authority" He presented a govern
ment priority card and the agent
had to sell him that last bedroom.
That second man was labor or
ganizer, a labor racketeer, but he
had prior rights over the man pro-
viding jobs for 5000 workers.
LOSS OF TIME
495 900, 900 DAYS is a lot of days.
It represents the working time of
1873, 1888 men for one year. It also
represents the time lost in war pro-
duction by absenteeism in war
plants. Six per cent of those lost
days is credited to accidents; 80 per
cent is credited to sickness. How
much of that sickness is real and
how much is due to "the morning
after" the report does not say. As
the greater part of it is maritime.
not woman-time, it is easy to guess
at the disease.
OUR INTERPRETATION of the
''four freedoms" may be quite diff
ferent from that of other peoples.
To force our Interpretation on 9TH
ers will but breed hatred out of
which war is born. The postwar
problem is to find a solution salts
factory to all, or to solve the prob
lem on a national, rather than on an
international basis.
IF WE COULD TAKE loyalty to
party out of the debates in congress,
our legislators would not find it diff.
ficult to arrive at decisions.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-04-29

Arlene Francis, of MICS What's
My Name" defines news COM
mentator as ga lad who can speak
interestingly for Is minutes. when
there is no news"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-04-29

Rose Marie, Guy Lombardo's sew
enteen-year-old sister who is being
featured on his ''Three-Ring Time"
was named via the air waves. Her
four brothers were broadcasting
from New York when she was born,
and they suggested the name to
their parents who were in Canada
by playing the days song hit.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-04-29

That new Salute to Youth" pro-
gram has just about everything ra-
dio fans can want. There's William
L. White, war correspondent; Ray
mond Paige and an all-youth orches-
ira; Nadine Conner, Metropolitan
Opera star; Berry Kroeger as mar
rator, and a guest war worker. With
most of the cast in their teens or
early twenties, the program-on
NBC Tuesdays-is salute to youth,
by youth.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-04-29

IF WE COULD TAKE loyalty to
party out of the debates in congress,
our legislators would not find it diff.
ficult to arrive at decisions.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-04
SECOND BLOCK
DANCE PLANNED

This seasons second block dance
will be held on the Bank street
grounds of the Duggan school IN
the Brooklyn section tomorrow
evening, announced William j. Der
win. recreational supervisor OF the
park department, today.
This event will be co-sponsored by
the recreational committee Of the
waterbury Tool Company in CO.
operation with the Park Depart
ment.
Michael Mancini will conduct the
12-piece Waterbury Tool orchestra
in a half-hour "sWing" concert pc
ginning at 1880 p. m. after which
ten dancing will commence and
continue to 1890.
The occasion is free OF charge
and war workers are invited to take
advantage of the recreation Afford
ed by the two sponsors.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-04

months. A brother, Private First
Glass George Covielli is stationed
in Alaska.
The Navy communication statec
the local serviceman is survivor
and will communicate shortly with
his family.
Basic training at the Naval sta
ton at Sampson, N. Y, has beer
completed by the following loca
men: j. C. Griffin of 10 Clifton
avenue, Fred F.. Finn of 70 East
Farm street, Nicholas Rosa of Sc
Wood street, Francis Kuchinskas OF
SO Glover strete, Mario Ragaglia
of ISL Charles strete, Arthur R
Theriault of q TherouX avenue, Ugc
P. Carlo of 1882 North Main
street, and William Hayes, Jr. All
are now on leave at their homes.
Sergeant w. Dean Clark, local
Marine recruiter, announced today
the local station in the postoffice
building will be open tomorrow and
Friday nights from 7 to 9 o'clock
to aid local women seeking inform
alton on the Marine Corps Women's
Reserve. Application forms will be
distributed at that time and re-
quirements on enlistment will be
uotlined for all prospective recruits.
Three local men who applied for
enlistment in the Navy at the local
recruiting station took their oaths
New Haven headquarters yester-
day. They are: Eugene S. Slason of
CAB Woodtick road, Joseph insignia
of 645 Wilson street, and Vincent
Albano of % Vest Porter street.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-04
Unconditional
Surrender

London, Aug. A. (UP)-Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden reiterated
in Commons today that the Allies
were demanding Italy's uncondi-
tional surrender.
RHYS John Davies asked Eden to
name the honorable peace condi-
tons which Gen. Dwight D. Essen
hover said in a broadcast had been
offered the italian people.
"As stated July 3d." Eden replied,
mo peace terms have been offered
the Italians. We continue to demand
unconditional surrender"
Davies said unconditional surren-
der was not synonymous with the
honorable conditions" to which
Eisenhower referred.
II do not want to argue this mat
ter now" Eden said. Our position
is unconditional surrender. can
understand circumstances in which
unconditional surrender might not
be dishonorable to those who made
IL
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-04
APPRAISERS FILE
INVENTORY HERE
Late Dennis Harrington
Left Assets Valued at
$20,225

The estate of Dennis Harrington
of 1872 Highland avenue, who dled
January 8, vas filed in probate to-
day at the value of $2O,225.02 by
Judge Patrick Healey.
No will was left by the deceased,
therefore the cousins, who are the
survivors, will benefit.
The following were Used In the
inventory: land ond property on
Highland avenue, $4,000; land and
property on South Leonard street.
$3.50; accrued rents, $3.50; Dime
savings bank, $1o,O79.52; household
furniture, $500; REQ sedan, $4,000.
The Cizitens and Manufacturers
National Ban kwas appointed ad-
ministrator Of the estate.
Mr.. Harrington was native OF
Ireland and was employed IN Wat
erbury as butcher for 20 years.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-04
PLANS MADE FOR
TIN-CAN SAVINGS
Collections on Streets
North of East, West Main
to Be Made Saturday

Urgent pleas were issued jointly
today by j. Warren Epson, chair
man of the mayors Salvage COM
mittee and Street Supt. Theodore
Scott-Smith for az: persons residing
on streets north of East and West
Main streets, to "get their tin-can
savings out on u.1e curb before Sat-
nothing to boast about.
Waterbury,s past records were
nothing to boast about, said Mr.. Up
son, although the most recent COL
lection showed some improvements
Our records and figures indicate
approximately 60 per cent of our
homeowners are periodically bent
upon helping the great cause Tor
which our men are fighting, ne
added.
It's a very simple process women,
or men, have to put their hands
through in their effort to salvage
the few cans they use daily, he con-
tinued All they have to do is open
both ends of the can with the small
gadget called can-opener, push
those ends inside the can. put the
can on the floor and then flatten
it out by stepping on it, he said.
When asked why he was little
disgruntled he declared, cts sac
religious when officials make their
investigations of the sanitation
grounds and find SO many empty
cans persons haven't made any ef-
fort to save. If they only re-
allied in the long run that I'M
sa]vaged cans might have saved one
of our mems lives"