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Evening star., 1943-01-20
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The air force likes our improved
bomb sight, but the public Is more
interested In Just plain anthracite.
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Lne use Tor repuhlication of all news dispatches
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To Questions
BIZ Frederic J. Hnskfn.

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question OF fact by tcritino The Epe-
ming Stdr Information Bureau, Fred
eric J. Haskir, director, Washington,
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G. What portion OF the war dollar II
spent for aircraft and what portion for
ships?-I. c. N.
A. It Is estimated that a. cents out Of
each dollar spent for war Is for airplanes
while Is cents is spent for ships.
@. How many Stage Door Cantees1s
are therer-E. L. H.
A. There are three, located IN New
York, Philadelphia and Washington.
D. C. A fourth is to be dedicated In
Cleveland and fifth Is being organized
in Newark. N. J. Other cities, also, are
considering the project.
@. Does Japan begin It's New Year on
January 1?-I. B. D.
A. Yes. The 1st Of January tust
passed marked the beginning OF the
Japanese year 2603. According to the
custom Of giving each year a title bor-
rowed from the signs of she Zodiac, 1s43.
in Japan, Is designated the Year of the
Goat.
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@. Which is the oldest nation In the
worldly. L.
A. China generally Is regarded as the
oldest of the present-day nations.
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O. Where was Hattie Carnegie, the
dress designer, born7-S. r. N.
A. She was born Henrietta Ksnen-
geiser IN Vienna, Austria In 1889. Her
name later was Anglicized into Carnegie.
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Q. How early were portions OF the
Bible translated into English7-R c. z.
A. Portions of the Bible were trans
lated into English near the end of the
9th century.
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Q. Who was Chief OF staff during the
FIRST World war?-G. L.
A. Gen. Tasker H. Bliss was Chief of
Staff OF the Army from October 6, 1917
to May 10, 1918. Gen. Peyton c. March
served as Chief of Staff from May 40,
1918 to June 30, 1920.
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@. What Is an approximate figure ~
to the number Of persons that are Ill
each day OF the year?-L. F. E.
A. 1t has been estimated by the So
cial Security Board that on an average
day of the year there are approximately
100000 persons temporarily or perma-
nentiy disabled by illness.
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@. When did Congress first enact
legislation for the relief OF suffering out
side this country?-M. @. G.
A. The act Of May 8, 1912, appropri-
ated $50, 900 for the relief of citizens in
Venezuela who were In distress from
the late earthquake
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Q. Why are small people called Lii
liputians?-T. H.
A. Lilliput is an imaginary country Of
Swifts "Gulliver's Travels" whose tiny
inhabitants, the Lilliputians, have given
their name to anything diminutive.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-20
Palestine
Open Door
Backed
special to rur DETROIT TINES

NEW YORK. Doc 20 The
United States mast iberalize its
immigration laws and Palestine
must open ITS borders 10 large
scale immigration If the millions
of European Jews now facing
annlhilation AZ Nali hands are 10
he saved Ncwbold Morris, preSi-
dent of the New York council,
told a Hebrew immigrant aid CON
ference Yesterday.
The meeting, attended 10y repre-
>cntativc> of 1000 Jewish fra
tcrnal religious. labor and welfare
groups passed a resolution calling
ON The United States and united
nations governments TO undertake
speedy rescue action.
Morn, branded us idle Subier-
fucc" the talk of rc,cttlIng the
jewish people I'm central Africa
or the Jungle, of the Amazon.
The only practical solution IS
for the United States TO continue
the policy which made 1T great
that OF opening It's doors TO all
races and for the British TO lift
the immigration restrictions at
Palestine. he sand
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-20
Churchill Better,
Wins in Bout
WithPneumOniid

LONUON pee % GNS1-
Prime Nuu,tcr Churchill APP
1carcd last night 20 have won his
bout with pneumonia An official
medical bulletin announced that
signs or The dread disease arc dis
appearing and hIs temperature IS
normal
Among the doctors signing The
bulletin Was H. Col. John GuNcti
SCadduc authority on diseases OF
tho chest and lungs
A medical authority quoted h\
tno British Press Association
wmufd however that until AN
Ems ol pneumonia are cleared
away "thcrc Is potential danger
present an tho time
AS ma. mention was made oil
the prime ministers pulse rate,
~ can Doe presumed there is little
cause Tor anxiety. hc said.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-20
Ydnks in China
Hit I Jap Ships

CHUNGKING. Dec 20 ms
Destruction of an 1,100-ton Jap
fIeightcr and damaging OF sec
ond of the same displacement by
American bor-bcrs based IN China
was announced last night by head
quarters of 1t. Gen. Sulwell.
The Communique announced
widespread attacks against Jap
targets in the China battle area.
BombcrS and fighters, without a
single loss. hit detectives in the
Tungtne Lake battle area on the
SalWeen River front, in Indo-
China and i'm the South China
Sea, the communlque said.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-20
Sky HerOisnl
Hands Are Frozen Fixing
Plane S Miles Up

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 QNS)
Although he knew his hands
wouldfreeze, sgt. Leonard Kamin-
ski OF Brooklyn took of his
gloves Iat a height Of five miles
and a temperature of 80 degrees
below zero to repair a Flying
Fortress machine gun while on a
mission against an Austrian air.
plane factory.
The story was related by the
war department. Kamnskys
hands froze almost Immediately
and his fingers swelled to twice
normal size
Although the skin Of his hands
stuck 10 the wheel as he worked,
he repaired the gun and went back
into action.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-20
Wire Money 10 Servicemen

FLINT. Dec. 90 The Western
Union oinco here Is doing a record
business a. relatives of SerVlccmen
stand i'm line owire money 10 men
I'm snrAIco throughout the nation.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-20
Pilot
Attacks U.Boat

LONDON, Dec 20 UP)-
United States and Czecho-Slo-
vakian coastal bombcrS teamed to
sink a German submarine after a
nine-hour running battle in the
Bay of Biscay, the air ministry
disclosed today
Depth charges dropped by a
Liberator piloted by w w. Paris
Of CooperSville, Mich. seemed to
roll the U-boat over the min
iStry said. Then a Czech dropped
the final bombs which caused the
sub TO founder and sink.
Buy War Savings Stamps the
convenient way. Order them
delivered 10 your door from your
Detroit Times carrier salesman.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-04-15

through the shimmering flames you
could see only jagged walls. Then
we saw Admiral RockweIl-he was
directing the fire apparatus which
was trying to save the depot. He is a
tall man, a fine figure of a sailor,
but his head was down that day. In
dead voice he told us we'd better
get out-that the magazine was LA
BILE to go up any minute. We offered
to take him with us to Mariveles,
but he said no, his job was here, to
do what he could to save the maya
zines.
$50 we picked up from the gut
tiers and streets lot of cans of food
we knew we would need-they were
from the bombed warehouses
stacked them in the boat, and set
out"
81 was back there a couple of
days later after the fires were out, :"
said Ensign Cox, good-looking yell
low-haired youngster from upstate
New York. They were burying the
dead-which consisted of collecting
heads and arms and legs and put
ting them into the nearest bomb
crater and shoveling debris over it.
The smell was terrible. The Fill
Pine yard workers didn't have much
stomach for the job, but it had to
be done and done quick because of
disease. To make them work, they
filed the Filipinos up with grain al
cohol.
'That raid gave me my first big
shock of the war;" said Lieutenant
Kelly, shut it wasn't the damage
they did. From over in Mariveles I
couldn't see what was happening
after the Jap bombers disappeared
over the mountain. I got my shock
after they had unloaded and flew
over us on their way home-the same
beautiful tight formations-not a
straggler. Where was our air force?
From over towards Cavite we
could now see that huge column of
smoke rising into the sky as the
Japs left the scene.
'But it wasn't until Lieutenant De-
Long dropped In at four o'clock in
the Al boat that I knew how bad
off we were. He said the Cavite
base was roaring blast furnace
the yard Uttered with those man.
gled and scorched bodies-and fur
thermore that all our spare parts
for the MTB'sengines and every
thing-had been blasted to bits. Ma
chine shops completely gone. Not so
much as gasket left to see us
through this war, with the factory
halfway around the world.
ALSO he said the Cavite radio
had been hit. That still left the
short-wave voice stuff to talk with
Manila or Bataan or the Rock, but
of course this couldn't be secret
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the other pair of SOS, was the same.
They'd picked out one plane and
were pouring it up into the sky, when
we saw the plane wobble, and pref
ty soon she took off down the bay,
weaving unsteadily, smoking, and
all at once, two or three miles away,
she just wobbled down into the drink
with big splash. So we know the
80 boat got one. Meanwhile the 81
boat had shot down two more. After
that the planes didn't bother STRAIT
ing the MTB's. Guess the Jap pilots
back at their Formosa base passed
the word around
1T certainly surprised our navy
too, which had never guessed tor
pedo boat could bring down an air.
plane. Later on I got a kidding
message from Captain Ray, chief
of staff:
"'Dear Buck: I really think your
gang is getting too tough. The lat
est report is that Three dive bomb
ers were seen being chased over
Mariveles Mountain by an NTH"
Don't you think this is carrying the
war a bit too far?'
about $3.50 the Japs left, so we
went on back in to Cavite to see
what had happened. They'd fiattened
it-there isn't any other word. Here
was the only American naval base
in the Orient beyond Pearl Harbor
pounded into bloody rubbish. We
didn't have time then to think about
where our American planes could
have been, because the place was
a shambles, and we began loading
in the wounded to take them to
Canacao hospital.
eve went on back to Cavite and
offered to carry more wounded. The
big base was one sheet of flame ex-
cept for the ammunition depot. Only
a piece of the dock was left, and
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dI!I||''|la
GIMME ATTITUDE
is UN-AMERICAN

LIVE in a small town in which
there is a park In that park are
comfortable seats. On warm days
those seats are occupied by con-
siderable number of men, most of
them so or more years of age, some
of them physically disabled. The
majority could fill jobs which these
days they could have for the asking.
I, too, sit in that park at times
to listen to the conversations. AL
most invariably they turn to the sub
ject of what the government owes
them" and their hope for collec-
ton. The gimme" habit has mas
tered these men. They have been
fed on a diet Of something for
nothing" They expect perpetual
dole"
know many other men in my
town, and In other towns and on
farms-men of equal age and Of
equal needs who are working for the
living they want and must have.
They are enjoying life because they
work for what they have. know
farmers of more years than the
average of those men in that park
who are working long hours, not
alone that they and their families
may live, but that the nation, our
armed forces and our Allies may be
fed. They know the Joy of work.
In this land of opportunity, it is
not well that we should acquire the
gimme" idea. Instead, we should
encourage and practice the desire
to work, to save, that we may do for
ourselves the things the men on the
park benches demand that the gov
eminent do for them.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-04-15
DEFINITION
OF A BUREAUCRAT

REGARDLESS of what Webster
says, to me a bureaucrat is the fell
low for whom I, as a citizen and
taxpayer, have provided a job, and
who then feels he can push me
around, be discourteous when l seek
information, and be generally dis
agreeable. He feeds at the public
trough, into which I pour food, and
bit of brief authority has given
him a swelled head. He sees him
self as the boss. You frequently find
the species holding public offices, Of
both high and low degree, every
thing, in fact, from dogcatcher to
heads of important bureaus and de-
partments of the public service.
They forget that we, the citizens
and taxpayers, have the privilege Of
changing employees.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-04-15
HOW AMERICA
LIKES ORDERS ISSUED

THE LATE GEN. HUGH JOHN.
SON instituted the method of crack
ing down. as a means of getting re-
suits. It did not work. Other bur
reaucratic chiefs have tried the
same method of enforcing their de-
crees, and it has not worked for
them. American people have been
masters for the past $50 years. They
do not appreciate being talked to as
slaves, even IN wartime. An arti-
Gle on the serious rubber problem by
Rubber Administrator William NJ
letters m the February issue of the
American Magazine was couched in
the language American people I'M
derstand and appreciate. His is the
method and language which will pro-
duce results so far as cooperation
by the people is concerned. He asks,
rather than commands. The Amer
lean citizen does not stand for dicta-
tOrShip.
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Paper W atermarks

A watermark is obviously a very
valuable trademark, since it is
embodied in the paper without in
terfering with that papers use
fitness. The name of the inventor
of watermarks is unrecorded. We
find watermarks as far back as the
18th century.
Briefly, a watermark is made by
Incorporating a design in thin wire
in the mold on which paper is
being formed. Where the wire
touches the paper, it is naturally
thinner. And so the impress of
the wire is visible if the finished
paper is held up to the light.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-04-15

YOUR tape measure and a little
figuring can help you save ma
terial when making those new
slip covers. In estimating goods
remember that the length and
width of each section must be
the same as the widest and long
est measurement of the part of
the chair to which it is to be fit
ted plus seams, seat tuck-in and
f1ounce fullness.
Slip cover material usually
comes in SO and 50-inch widths.
Frequently a narrow chair back
may be covered by splitting So
inch width of goods. For other
chairs 36-inch material might be
cut to better advantage. If the
material has a large figure an ex-
ira yard will be needed for match
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-04-15
ASK NE u
ANOTHER Z
A General Quiz
The Questions

/. Exclusive of the armed forces,
how many people are now on the
federal payroll?
2. What was the real name of
Billy the Kid?
8. What is the approximate area
of Alaska?
4. What is the position of the
Tropic of Cancer in relation to the
equator?
5. An Andalusian is a native of
what country?
6. Who is the patron saint of the
huntsman?
Z. Who introduced the resolu-
tons on June Z, 1776, that the
American colonies should be in
dependent?
8. What is the 'tBig Inch?
9. What was the hornbook?
10. How many Americans were
in our armed forces at the end of
1912?
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The Answers

1. Two million, five hundred
thousand. The payroll totals $780,
100000 a month, $4,000, 600, 900 a
year.
2. William H. Bonney.
3. About $50, 600 square miles.
4. North of the equator.
5. Spain.
6. St. Hubert.
Z. Richard Henry Lee.
8. The new oil pipe line that will
run from Longview, Texas, across
eight states, under 20 rivers, across
the Appalachian mountains to New
York and Philadelphia.
9. A primer for the use of chill
dren.
10. Seven million, of whom one
million are In the navy.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-04-15
NON-WAR EXPENDITURES
SHOULD BE REDUCED

THE "a PER CENT of his pay
that it is proposed to take out of the
workers pay envelope is needed and
will be paid without undue protest.
But that is not all he pays. If he
has a telephone, he pays, as an
average on all phones, Slab year
as tax collected by the telephone
company. Over and above the state
sales tax, if any in his state, he pays
a tax on everything he buys, a tax
which is, and must be passed along
by the manufacturer, wholesaler,
retailer and the transportation COM
pany. The war must be paid for,
and there is no complaint about
taxes to pay war bills. There is a
complaint against the cost of unes-
sential civilian activities of govern
ment, whether they be local, state
or national. People demand the
elimination of such expenditures.
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l. THEY WERE e
LxPENDABLL

ant Commander), squadron commander;
Lieut.. r. B. Kelly, second-in-command;
and Ensigns Anthony Akers and George
e. Cox Jr. After learning that Pearl
Harbor had been bombed, Lieut.. Bulke-
ley ordered Lieut.. Kelly to take three Of
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-04-15

It was a combina-
ton of a SIN art,
shrewd m ana FER,
the major master of
b allyhoo, and a
sla shing puncher
with an iron chin.
1T all gets down
to the matter of
Styles" K e a Tn s
said. For example,
A can lick B, B can
trim c and c can
murder A. I don't
believe Dempsev
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-04-15
- .EEi
l6oil9!i4i1
.A@MzADA

JACK KEARNS, who drew in many
millions in trade with Jack
Dempsey, was explaining how tough
it is to rate and rank fighters.
Kearns and Dempsey made the
greatest combination in ring history.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-04-15
NO ASPIRIN
can do more for you, so why pay more?
World slargests seller at Toe 36tablets2Oe,
lOO Tor only 35f. Get st. Joseph Aspirin.
Distributing Doctors

The army has one doctor for
each III men; the navy has one
doctor for each 154 men, and that
leaves one for every 1900 citizens.
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W.N.u.FEATuREs

the six torpedo boats to Bataan where
they would get provisions and fuel from
a submarine tender. But when they ar
rived, they found that the tender had
been ordered away. So they set up
headquarters In Sisiman Cove.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-04-15
PUBLIC UTILITIES
AND TAX BURDENS

I DO NOT HAVE the figures fol
all states, but in California the pri-
vately owned electric light and pow
er companies pay as taxes fraction
over IS cents out of each dollar of
gross revenue received In most
other states, the amount is approx
mately the same The publicly
owned utilities carry no part of our
tax burden.
WE ARE ENGAGED in an about
war, but those on the home front
have not been disciplined to take
orders, as they do in Germany.
American citizens are more inclined
to listen to requests, than they are
to commands. That is the American
way.
AT THE LAST ELECTION, Idaho
voted every person over SIS years of
age a S48 month pension. Now
Idaho is trying to raise the six mil
lion dollars a year with which to do
the paying.
AT SOME of the eastern seaports
from which we are rushing cargoes
to our troops overseas, cargo ham
dlers refuse to work on SATURDAYS
and Sundays, but the work goes on.
The railroads and shipping people
are permitted to employ non-union
men on those two days each week,
provided the employers pay to the
unions IS cents per day per man
employed. That is the price we
must pay in order to ship planes,
guns and food to the men who are
fighting the war so we may remain
free. How long, America, how long?
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80 ON THE 1GI7
(HOMEFRONT,>G;,s9zS
A12u4N RUTH WYEIHsPEARsl@0

ing and centering the design. De-
eide in advance which seams are
to be accented with welting or
trimming and measure them to
determine the amount needed.
NOTE-Do the springs In your chairs
need fixing? Mrs. Spears new BOOK
gives illustrated directions for doing this
This book also contains more than So oE.-e-
thrift ideas for keeping your home attrac-
tive in wartime. Copies of BOOK are
available at Is cents each. Address:
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-04-15
Tough Ranking

"Pn tell you how tough it is to
rank fighters" the always genial
Doc continued.
ST couldn't name you a greater
fighter than Jack Johnson
"But Johnson had trouble with
Sam Langf0rd, and after their first
meeting let Langf0rd alone. On the
other hand, Langford, another great
fighter, met L39-pound Jack Black
burn seven times without any great
success. Sam will even show you
some teeth Blackburn knocked out.
"You see where that leads US
from Johnson, weighing 30 pounds,
to Blackburn, weighing 139 pounds,
and who looked that weight when
facing Langford at ITO pounds. John
son, and say again that he was
one of the greatest I ever saw, out
weighed Blackburn by some 80
pounds, and yet, was no better
against Langford than the far lighter
and smaller man."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-04-15

could have beaten Harry Greb, when
both were at their best, for Greb
had too much speed and was even
rougher than Dempsey was. Yet
Greb had trouble with such smaller
fellows as Tiger Flowers and sew
eral others, who also had speed.
against that, I'd say that Demp-
sey would have had an even chance
with Joe Louis for this one reason
he could take a punch around the
head better. I'm talking of the
Dempsey of Toledo, "a years old, 1856
pounds of punching dynamite, who
was also fast.
There isn't any matter of game
ness or heart mixed up in this. When
it comes to taking a hard punch you
either can or you can't. Some of
the gamest fighters I ever knew
couldn't take a punch.