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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-07-15
GAS:
Tight Pinch

Completion of the big oil pipe line
in the Middlewest and declining
petroleum production in California
might well spell a Tightening of gaso-
line supplies in those sections within
the near future, Secretary of the In
terror Harold Ickes declared. At the
same time, Ickes could see no relief
in the gasoline situation in the East.
In all cases, Ickes said, the serv-
ices huge consumption of petroleum
is digging deeply into the nations
supply. Ickes cited Lieut.. Gen.
SomervelPs estimate that military
demands now approximate 10000
barrels a day, exclusive of gasoline
and lubricating products, while
American refining capacity stands
at $3.50, 900 barrels.
Completion of the big pipe line
in the Middlewest, Ickes said, will
free many tank cars for hauIage of
oil from the area east of the Mis-
sissippi. However, Ickes pointed
out, it is this area which is suffering
from a decline in production, and
further diversion of it's supplies nee
essarily will result in a further pinch
in civilian consumption there.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-07-15
MACARTHUR ATTACKS:
AdUdnce in Pacific

Under cover of bursting shells and
strong aerial formations, American
forces in the South Pacific strength
ened their hold on the Solomon is
lands and opened up another front
against the japanese in New Guinea.
Protected by big guns of the navy
and a protective canopy thrown
across the skies by fighter planes,
U. S. troops scored a surprise land
ing on Rendova and New Georgia
islands in the Solomons, and soon
were Smelling the big Jap air base
on Munda.
To the west, American units
swarmed ashore on the Huon gulf
of New Guinea, and soon were ad-
vancing toward the important Japa-
nese position at Salamaua, already
menaced by an Allied force which
had hacked its way through the jun
gle to within II miles of the outpost.
Between these two theaters of OPP
Grafton, American forces occupied
the Woodlark and Trobriand islands
without opposition.
More than 100 Japanese planes
were shot down resisting the Amer
lean landings. Our own losses were
II, along with a 1000 ton transport
and several other ships damaged in
the dangerous reedy waters of the
So1ornons
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FOOD SUBSIDIES:
Banned by Congress

The administration plans for the
use of subsidies to ''roll back" retail
food prices were strongly jolted by
congressional action in passing the
Commodity Credit corporation bill
outlawing such payment except as
incentives to producers. AS a re-
suit, the "rollbacks" recently in
stituted on meat and butter would
be wiped out, with payments only
being made on previous commit
mentS.
In passing the bill, congress acted
in opposition to administration sup
port of the subsidy program. Prior
to passage, the War Labor board
came out for "rollbacks" to Offset
the increasing cost of living, which
threaten its policy of limiting wage
boosts to Is per cent over January,
1941.
In passing the bill which extends
the life of the CCC for two more
years and adds $50 million dollars
to its lending authority, congress
permitted payment of $50 million
dollars for substituting increased
transportation costs and the produc-
ton of critical minerals and food.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-07-15
EUROPE:
Clearing a Path

Europe rocked from all sides as
British and American air squadrons
continued pounding vital Axis in
dustries, installations and air
dromeS.
Nowhere did the Axis find rest.
British bombers flew into Germany's
Ruhr to strike at the already badly
battered industrial centers, and even
while the blockbusters and incendi-
aries plummeted roofward, the
Nazis Munitions Minister Walter
Speers complained that Axis work
men were compelled to labor in the
open in many places.
In the Mediterranean American
Flying Fortresses, accompanied by
Lightning fighters, struck at air.
fields in Sicily, apparently striving to
cripple bases from which Axis craft
could oppose Allied landing expedi-
tons.
Off to the east, American bomb
ers began lambasting Axis air.
dromes and installations in Greece,
along the route an Allied army
might take to invade the Balkans.
In anticipating a major Allied drive
in this direction, the Axis reported
fortifcation of mountain passes
along the whole rugged Grecian
coast.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-07-15
CHINA:
Press Japs Back

See-Saw warfare in China contin-
ued, with Chinese forces recapturing
a large section of Owchihkow on the
Yangtze river, thus driving the Japa-
nese further out of the great rice
bowl which they had threatened to
overrun.
Assisting the Chinese in their sue
cessful counterattack was the Amer
lean air force, which has been estab-
hshed in the southeast of China. I'm
der leadership of Gen. Claire Chen
nault, the Yanks have been concen-
trating on japanese locomotives,
freight trains and other heavy equip
ment which the enemy finds most
difficult to replace.
Japanese attacks near Shanghai
and Swallow were also checked, with
Chinese troops regaining several i'm
portant points at Swallow, once IA
NOUS treaty port on the Kwangtung
coast.
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CORNSTARCH:

CORNSTARCH: Corn refneries
are facing shutdowns because of in
sufficient supply of corn, executives
of the industry warn. Only about S
million bushels are believed to be
available to professors for the year.
SERVICE: A law making almost
all adult men and women subject
to wartime service wherever need
ed, is being urged by Rep. Wads-
worth of New York.
FISH: Forty-eight species of fish
are included in the OPA wholesale
price ceilings recently placed on
the fish industry. Top price for cod
will be 1914 cents pound.
JUGOSLAVIA: King Peter of Ju-
goslavia, in exile in London, urged
all factions of Jugoslavians to unite
in national front against the Axis.
He praised the guerrilla bands, fight
ing with little equipment.
VICTORY: Victory may be far
ahead, in the opinion of Secretary
of the Navy Knox. War may con-
tinue for three or four years more,
he stated.
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MINERS:
Return Ickes Pleads

Despite the plea of Secretary Of
Interior Harold Ickes to return to
work, about $50, 900 miners remained
idle. Most seriously affected were
the steel companies coal fields in
Pennsylvania.
Declaring the miners wage de-
mands were among many received
in Washington, Ickes said it was
necessary for particular groups to
submerge their personal considera-
tons for the general welfare. He
then asked the miners to return to
the pits ION the eve of the greatest
military operation in history"
More than 100000 other miners
were back at their jobs following
their unions decision to return to
work only if the government main
tanned control of the mines. Al
though granted a wage concession
amounting to 20 cents day. it was
expected that the miners might
press efforts to obtain compensation
for travel to and from their working
stations.
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RICKENBACKER: Capt. Edward
Rickenbacker visited the Russian
front while on an official mission to
Moscow for the secretary of war.
MILK: Synthetic milk, made of
vegetable oils, was pronounced an
unsatisfactory substitute by the two
government experts. The artificial
product failed to stimulate growth
and development properly in feed
ing tests.
BALLOONS: A ring of barrage
balloons protects New York city
metropolitan area, it was revealed,
when "a of the sky barriers were
tested lately.
WHEAT: The loan rate on the
1913 wheat crop has been increased
by one cent to $1.23 bushel, the
Commodity Credit corporation an
nounceS.
HOSIETY: There will be little
sheer hosiery available for women
this winter, manufacturers are pre-
dieting. Heavy rayon or cotton will
have to substitute. They blame OPA
price ceilings.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-07-15
HOGS:
Flood Market

With principal markets flooded
with heavy receipts, prices on hogs
dropped and government and indus
try representatives appealed to
farmers to restrict shipments.
Although the government had
promised to support prices for $40
to 270 pound pigs at $13.75, hogs
of this weight brought less as a re-
suit of the large receipts. 1t was
explained packers lacked the labor
to handle such huge supplies.
Prices for hogs over the 270 pound
weight sagged as the government
made no commitment to prop re-
turns at the $13.75 mark. The action
was seen as a move to induce farm
ers to market pigs at lighter
weights to relieve the critical corn
situation, which continued to plague
professors and manufacturers, who
said they would be compelled to
seriously restrict operations unless
further grain was forthcoming.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-07-15
BLOOD PLASMA

The latest miracle of TRANSMISSION
-plasma-has been described as the
No. l agent in saving the lives of
our American soldiers.
Plasma is the liquid element in
the blood in which the red and white
cells float. BY adding salt of So
dunn citrate to fresh blood, the
blood remains unclotted and is al
lowed to stand for two or three
days, during which the cells settle
and the plasma then is poured off.
Formerly, it was necessary to
"type" blood since it was discov-
cred in 1900 that substances in GER
tain bloods destroyed red corpus
cles in other kinds. Plasma, how
ever, removes these substances and
makes use of the fluid general.
Dried or frozen, plasma can keep
for weeks or months. It can be
shipped to any part of the world
and used. Through the agency Of
the American Red Cross, blood do
nors throughout the country are
making plasma possible.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-07-15
One Bit of Tough Detail
That Smith Didn't Nina

Two men worked side by side
in War Production board office.
They never spoke, but each
watched the other. One man left
work daily at four o'clock. The
other toiled on till six or later.
Some months passed. Then the
Woodworking of the two ap-
preached the other.
81 beg your pardon" he said,
"but do you mind telling me how
you can clean up your work every
day at four o'clock?"
mot at all" said the other man.
"When I come to tough piece
of detail, I mark it, Refer to Mr..
Smith, I figure that, in a depart
ment as large as this, there is
sure to be Mr.. Smith. And
must be right; those papers never
come back"
The harder worker started to re-
move his coat.
Brother" he said, prepare for
action. I'm Mr.. Smith,"
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ARMY:
Arms Program, Cut

Emphasis of war production on
aircraft, cargo ships and navy COM
bat vessels has resulted in a reduc-
ton of the army ground supply pro-
gram and delayed full equipment of
it's forces until 1914, Lieut.. Gen.
Brehon Somervell declared.
Because of the production drop,
Somervell said, the army has been
compelled to ship equipment in
camps to the fighting front. Not only
does this affect the training of
troops, he remarked, but it also
tends to lower morale.
Somerven said u. S. and British
military chiefs had planned opera
tons for 1943 predicated on a IS bill
lion dollar production program. But
the War Production board stated
the industrial output of this country
could only approximate rs billion
dollars.
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WALLACE VS.. JONES:
Rene,U Feud

War Mobilization Director James
F. Byrnes' efforts to patch up the
feud between Vice President Henry
Wallace and Secretary of Commerce
Jesse Jones apparently had come
to naught as the two ripped into
each other once more.
Cause of the controversy was Wal
lace's charge that Jones, as Recon
struction Finance chairman, had
been niggardly and slow in advanc-
ing funds to Wallace's Board of Eco
nomic Warfare for the purchase and
development of strategic material
abroad. Jones struck back by stat
ing that the BEW initiated only 5
per cent of the governments pur-
chaSes.
Wallace started the ball rolling
again by stating that the two dis
putants had agreed to have the BEW
warfare ask congress for separate
funds to continue operations. Then
he repeated his charges that Jones'
agency had been slow to act on
BEW projects.
Flaring up, Jones called Wal
lace's statement "dastardly," and
repeated his demands for congress
sional investigation of the BEW.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-07-15
This Modern Hen Creates
Incubator of Her Own

Among the interesting birds on
Guadalcanal is the brush fowl,
dark-colored bird about the size
of a bantam hen. Instead of set
ting on her eggs, this mother bird
covers them with decaying vege-
tation. The heat generated by the
action of decomposition keeps the
eggs at Matching temperature.
The incubation period lasts
around so days-longer than for
any other land bird. As a result,
the young have the power of flight
as soon as they are Matched.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-07-15
ASK Me q
ANOTHER (
The Questions
A General Quiz

l. What does chicanery mean?
2. Why are macadamized roads
so called?
8. Who was the tallest President
of the United States? Who was the
shortest?
4. How many lines has a SON.
net?
5. What is the status of children
born in this country of alien par
entS?
6. How many states meet where
the Ohio and Mississippi rivers
merge?
z. Why is a stiff hat called a
derby?
8. Who was Jean LATTE?
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The ANSWERS

1. Trickery or sharp practice,
especially in legal proceedings.
2. That type of road was invent
ed by John Loudon McAdam, q
Scottish engineer.
8. Abraham Lincoln was our
tallest President, at six feet four
inches. James Madison, five feet
four inches, was the shortest.
4. Fourteen.
5. They are citizens of the Unit
ed States.
6. Three-Illinois, Kentucky and
Missouri.
z. That type of hat was first
worn at the Earl of Derby's race
track.
8. An American buccaneer.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-07-15
CHURCHILL:
Must Cooperate

The United States and Great Brit
ain must continue to cooperate in
peace as well as in war to assure
their security, Prime Minister Wins
ton Churchill declared in a speech
in which he also predicted heavy
fighting 'before the leaves of au-
tumn fall"
Stating that Great Britain sought
no profit nor desired any aggran-
dizement from the war, Churchill
added that it would accept no COM
promise.
Rejoicing that May was the best
month for the Allies in the U-boat
warfare, Churchill revealed that 80
German submarines had been sunk
in that month and new ships were
being built at a rate of seven to
every single loss.
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,N1liaqoa,
|M6QRfG0-QQUND |
! M A 11fw fEARsaW |
GOOD NEIGHBOR
Washington, d. G.

Many a state department official
wishes we could fix up Argentina
as neatly as Comrade Stain thinks
we can.
When Willkie was in Moscow,
Stain raised a question about Ar
gentina, describing it as the Axis
source of information about ship
movements. He couldn't understand
why such condition should be al
lowed to exist.
eff you have so much power"
Stain told Willkie, "why don't you
clean up the Argentine government,
or take over the country-do some
thing to turn the Axis out of there?"
Willkie found it somewhat difficult
to explain that the Good Neighbor
policy would prevent such interior
ence, in time of war as in time of
peace.
NOTE: State department experts
expect that, despite the new Argen-
tine governments reactionary atti-
tude on domestic questions, it will
be driven to break relations with
the Axis, in order to get lend-lease
supplies from the United States. This
is what Latin generals want most.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-07-15
CAPITOL CHAFF

q Most carefully guarded targets
in all Germany are the synthetic gas
oline and synthetic oil works of
Blechhammer and Bruex. If they
could be knocked out, Germany
would be pretty well out of the war.
U. S. airrnen are itching to get at
them.
q The Japanese embassy and
grounds are being carefully cared
for by the neutral Spanish embassy.
q Manpower shortage has caused
substitution of women for men at
the switchboard of the FBI.
q Strong-willed Winston Churchill
has had some differences with Brit
ish African hero General Montgom-
cry. Montgomery" grumbles
Churchill, sis indomitable in de-
tense, unconquerable in attack, and
insufferable in victory"
q After state departments Maynard
Barnes was made top u. S. repre-
sentative in West Africa he became
very critical of Spanish fascists in
Tangier; he protested that Franco
and his pals were walking all over
the Allies, especially the British.
Shortly after Barnes reported, he
was denoted.
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WPA:
Fiiniis

Since its beginning in 1885, the
WPA oft-times was charged with
squander, but when the time came
for going out of existence, the agen-
cy returned S130, 900, 900 in unex-
pended funds and materials to the
government.
Officials say that the records will
show that WPA spent 101z billion
dollars and employed more than
eight million persons. Only small
staff was left behind for liquidation.
MARTINIQUE:
Declaring it sought to avert blood
shed, the French Caribbean island
of Martinique, heretofore loyal to
the Vichy regime of Marshal Petain,
broadcast an appeal to the U. S. to
send an envoy to discuss the islands
association with the Free French
committee headed by Generals Gil
raud and DeGaulle
MartiniqLe's action came after
priva.ion haj repeatedly beset the
island fo.iaY.rg Americas halt of
food expar., 20 I as evidence of dis
pleasure Owe. its po teal stand
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-07-15
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Entire Pacific War Strategy Changed
By Latest Allied Attacks in Solomons;
Raj and u. S. Air Force Rock Europe
With New Series of Nonstop Bombings

1
Western
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-07-15

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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-07-15
INSTALLMENT BUYING

Business is usually squawking
about government regulation, but
here is one case where merchants
want it continued after the war.
They want to cherish and preserve
Regulation w.
This is the regulation requiring
heavy down payments on consumer
purchases. For example, the down
payment on 5000 refrigerator to-
day-if you could get one-would be
about $50, compared with three or
four dollars before the war.
Wartime purpose of this regulation
is to curb buying and thus reduce in
flation. But retail merchants like it
for other reasons. It saves them
bookkeeping expenses, avoids the
nuisance of dunning, and provides
cash.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-07-15
HUMANE BOMBING

Strange as it may seem, the Unit
ed States air forces are planning
the humane bombing of Germany.
They want to avoid killing people
and destroying non-military build
ings. They want to bring the war
to a merciful ending.
High ranking officers of the air
forces are urging that we conduct
our bombing operations in such a
way that unnecessary destruction
of enemy life and property shall be
held to a minimum.
This is. part of their thesis in
favor of precision, or "pin-point"
bombing, as contrasted with the
"area" bombing of the Raj. The
precision bombing, carried on in
daylight, is able to pick out the pre-
else military target, and destroy that
without laying waste to an entire
city, or killing helpless civilians.
These air forces officers speak of
the postwar attitude of nations to-
ward each other, emphasizing that
careless bombing would intensity the
hatreds of war, and make it more
difficult to build peaceful world.
Somebody will have to rebuild the
broken cities of Europe. World ties
are now so close that no great areas
of destruction can be allowed to re-
main; rebuilding will have to be
done, and only the victors will have
the power to do the work.
Therefore, say these opponents of
precision bombing, let us have no
indiscriminate bombing, but only a
precision job, which spares the life
and property of the enemy as much
as possible.
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CHURCHILL THE PROPHET

Students of air power have dug UP
an old statement of Winston Church.
ills, written in 1917, which reveals
an amazing foresight in the posi-
bilities and limitations of aerial
bombing.
AS everybody knows, the Nazi
blitz against England, intended to
terrorize the people, failed in it's OBJ
jective. On the other hand, the
more scientific bombing of the con-
tinent by the Raj and AAF-stra-
tegic bombing-is now expected to
bring Hitler to his knees.
Churchill seemed to foresee both
of these developments when he said
in a paper on Air Power, written
in 1917, that nothing we know about
warfare can lead us to believe
that bombing for terror alone can
cause such a morale collapse as to
force major nation to sue for
peace.
Churchill emphasized that air
power must single out and attack
transportation, factories, and other
enemy installations, upon which the
enemy war-making ability depends.
England's survival of the blitz
gives dramatic support to the first
part of that statement, and Allied
air power is now proving the Sec
ond part.
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CHILDREN AND RATIONING
FREE ENTERPRISE

FREE ENTERPRISE
IF WE WANT TO CONTINUE the
American system of free enterprise,
we must give industry an opportu-
nifty to expand, and industry cannot
do that under a tax system which
confscates all it's earnings.
MANY A VOLUNTEER in that
land army of urbanites which is s,.p-
posed to help harvest the summer
and fall crops will have greater
appreciation of what food and its
production mean after few days
in the fields.
A SIGN IN A LOS ANGELES shop
window says: eff you come in, be
courteous to our employees. We
have no difficulty in getting custom
ers." That message might be ap-
propriate for all in these war days.
There are too many people with
too much money to spend, but store
help is hard to get and hard to hold.
WHEN YOU FIGURE WAR wage
scales, do not forget that extra eight
hours at time and half in war in
dustry plants. That time and half
does not help to prevent initiation
Evening star., 1943-09-03
I Saved In 30-Foot Waves
On Rubber Raft Built for 5
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
LONDON, Sept. 3.-Maj. Preston
Piper. United States 9th Air Force
squadron commander from Santa
Ana, Calf, helped save the lives of
six members of his crew when his
Flying Fortress Lula Belle crashed
into the sea 80 miles off the English
coast recently, it was disclosed yes
terday.
The story of Maj. Piper's heroic
efforts. resulting in the rescue of
himself and six crewmen, and his
attempt to revive and keep together
six others during a 22-hour vigil in
an overcrowded life raft was told BY
European theater headquarters of
the United States Army.
Maj. Piper's plane was forced
down in heavy sea when two
engines gave out on the return from
the recent shuttle raid on Regens-
burg, Germany.
When the big bomber came down,
only one rubber dinghy with a
Evening star., 1943-09-03
WPB to Drop Collection
Of Silk and NyIon Hose
b. the Associated Press,

" NIIt HssVLIdItu FTtSs,
Collection of used silk and nylon
stockings under the wartime salvage
program will be discontinued after
September 30, the War Production
Board has announced.
Paul c. Cabot, director of WPB's
Salvage Division. said yesterday the
public response to the stocking sal
wage appeal has been amazing. /"
More than 100000 pairs of used
stockings were collected up to Au-
gust 81.
Evening star., 1943-09-03
Comp Springs Appeals
To Public for Radio Sets

An appeal for old radios to be
used at the Camp Springs Airport
for training and experimental pur-
poses was made today by Capt. M. H.
Robin, public relations officer at the
post.
Capt. Robin said persons who
have old radio sets that no longer
will work are asked to donate them
to the post. He emphasized that the
sets do not have to be in working
order.
Persons wishing to donate sets to
the post are requested to call Hillside
1900.