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The Ely miner., 1943-03-11
EASTERN FRONT:
Russians Roll On

All along the eastern front the
Russians had continued a series of
blasting offensives. Each offensive
was battle unit in itself, but added
to all the others it formed a pattern
that was inexorably moving west
ward across the map toward the
Dnieper river.
Military observers were asking
whether the German defenses on the
Dnieper line were as strong as the
anchors the Axis had lost further
east in the Don and Donets river
basins. If sufficient time had not
been available to strengthen this
secondary line, then the Nazis faced
crisis more serious than anything
that yet confronted them.
In the upper Ukraine the Red
armies had moved steadily forward
on wide front toward the Moscow
Kiev railway, their offensive based
on a triangle formed by recaptured
Sunny, Lebedin and Akhtyrka.
To the south the Germans had
fought violently in an effort to halt
the Russ maneuver for enveloping
the remainder of the Donets basin
from which hundreds of thousands
of Axis forces were seeking to retire
in some semblance of order.
The Ely miner., 1943-03-11
CAFE RATIONING:
Strean,Lir1es BiLL-of-Fnre

DinerS-out in restaurants and ho-
tells faced simmer helpings on their
plates and a streamlined bill-of-fare
reducing the variety of foods Of
fered, as enforcement of the food
administrations rationing orders for
commercial eating establishments
was undertaken.
Aimed primarily at food waste,
the orders governing restaurants,
hotels and other institutions did,
however, provide a larger proper
tionate allotment of canned and pro-
cessed foods than individual house
holders were permitted to have. Be
cause allotments were based on the
number of persons served in Decem-
Der rather than on the amount of
rationed foods actually served, small
cafes and stands would get a pro-
portionately larger share of canned
and processed foods than places that
serve for the most part complete
meals.
Restaurant and hotel allowances
were set at minimum rate of 13
per cent larger than those for house
holds.
The Ely miner., 1943-03-11
FARM PRICES:
Wickard Us. Senate

When Secretary of Agriculture
Claude r. Wickard requested con-
gress for a "clear mandate" to pro-
ceed with his 1943 farm production
program, he asked for sanction to
attempt the difficult feat of increas-
ing farm prices without raising
prices to consumers. The "clear
mandate" was appropriation by con-
gress of $100, 100000 for incentive
payments.
But the senate farm bloc had ideas
of its own about solving the farm
income riddle. Legislation provid-
ing higher ceilings on prices Of some
farm commodities passed the senate
by 1872 vote Under the terms of
the new act, the government no
longer would deduct benefit pay
ments from ceilings.
How much this measure if finally
approved by all branches of the gov
ernment would add to the food bills
Of consumers was question neither
the department of agriculture nor
the OPA was prepared to answer i'm
mediately, because of technical fac
tors involved.
OPA officials, however, expressed
the view that increases in living
costs would be considerable.
The Ely miner., 1943-03-11
CAPITAL CHAFF

q General Eisenhower has sent word
to Washington that there are too
many news correspondents running
around North Africa.
q Budget Bureau has prepared a
plan for consolidating all picture
making branches of war department
signal corps, air corps, special
services, and strategic services.
q The senate's 75-year-old athlete,
Theodore Green of Rhode Island,
eats a buttered muffin and coffee
for breakfast, bowl of soup and a
glass of milk for lunch.
G War department figures it costs
them $4,000 reel to make pictures
such as Prelude to War;" which,
being a six-reeler, cost about $54, 900.
q Before Connecticut Congresswom-
an Clare Luce delivered her maiden
speech panning the British on future
air routes, her text was carefully
blue penciled by the state depart
ment. They did not object to crit
icism of the British, figuring that
hands across the-sea policy was
strong enough to take it. But they
did. cross out some of Clare's caustic
words about Russia not giving US
more cooperation on airplane routes.
The Ely miner., 1943-03-11
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC:
To Haze and to Hold

Three activities had continued to
occupy the attention Of American
and other Allied forces in the Pacific
war theater. These were Ito hold
the territorial gains they had al
ready exacted from the Japs; 2To
destroy enemy aircraft installations,
dock facilities and ships in nearby
occupied territory; 3To gather
strength and momentum for further
full-scale land and sea blows at the
Japs.
In unremitting "softening up'' tac-
tics, heavy American bombers in at
tacks on the Jap base of Rabaul in
New Britain scored hits on two jap
anese warships, drove a third onto
reef and damaged a 10,000-ton
cargo vessel. U. S. planes scored
hits on a Jap barge at Rekata bay
in the northern Solomons and
strafed enemy positions at Munda.
Indications appeared that the Brit
ish drive against the Japs in Burma
was gathering steam preparatory to
major movement to retake Burma
and open the supply road to China.
The strength of the British was indi-
Gated by the fact Jap effort to raid
Assam airfeld resulted in the loss of
30 planes.
The Ely miner., 1943-03-11
4.4O3 NEW SHIPS:
To Help Beat A1is

Funds for the construction of 4, 4,403
ships for the Maritime commission
were approved when the house ap-
preparations committee reported an
appropriation bill providing $685.
$50, 0,435.
The current shipbuilding program
to thwart the Axis submarine peril
and provide transoceanic facilities
for men and supplies has been
mapped through 1943, according to
Admiral Emory Land, director OF
the Maritime commission. The
schedule called for construction of
2,242 ships of which 554 were deliv-
cred before January l, 1943. In ad-
dition, he said, it was proposed to
extend the program to provide for
2,161 additional ships to be contract
ed for during 1943.
The Ely miner., 1943-03-11
HITLER BOASTS:
Nazis Not Yet Beaten

Adolf Hitler's absences at key
Nazi party gatherings had caused
speculation as to his health and rea-
sons for remaining under cover. But
wherever he was, his remote-control
message to the German people via a
Munich proclamation was as harsh
and fanatical as if der fuehrer had
delivered it personally.
Ominous to the people Of occupied
Europe was Hitler's declaration that
1--WE shall not scruple about foreign
lives when such hard sacrifices are
exacted from our own lives"
Germany's future and the future
of Europe, he said, will be decided on
the Eastern front. He boasted that
enemies who believed they almost
had Germany down would be "ter-
ribly disappointed.
mo matter how great the coali-
tion of our enemies may be-" his
proclamation added, cit is smaller
in power than the strength of the
alliance of our peoples"
The Ely miner., 1943-03-11
AIR OFFENSIVE:
Allies Harass Europe

Although Allied land operation Of
fensives against Hitler-held Europe
were still in the blueprint stage, the
offensive by air continued to gather
momentum.
Wilhelmshaven, the major Nazi
naval base, and Lorient, the vast
Axis submarine base on the French
coast, were repeated targets. The
RAF celebrated its 18th raid on
Wilhelmshaven by bombing key OBJ
jectives without the loss of a single
plane. In one of the raids on Lorient
Allied fliers dropped more than 1000
tons of explosives.
In a summary of operations, an
RAF spokesman revealed that 100,-
600 tons of bombs had been dropped
on German objectives to date in the
war and that 1000 daylight sorties
had been made by the bomber COM
mand in 1912 alone.
The Ely miner., 1943-03-11

NEW YORK: Unless certain mer-
chandisers cease encouraging mail
ing of an excessive number of par
eel post packages to the overseas
navy personnel, the mailing privi-
leges may be restricted, according
to a navy statement. While army
personnel abroad must obtain prior
permission from commanding Of
ficers to receive parcel post pack
ages, navy men do not.
LIVERPOOL: International con-
troll of the three C's-currency, COM
modities and commerce-through
the creation of a world political
association" was envisioned in a
postwar political and economic plan
charted by Minister of Home Secur-
ity Herbert Morrison Morrison de-
clared that Britain, the United
States, Russia and China-as WELD
ers OF the Sword of world Justice
and sovereignty"-after the war
must mobilize the free people to
create world political association.
Such an association, he said, should
implement positive policy.
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MO SEWING machine should be
l Y idle today. No matter if yours
is not the newest model, keep it
in good repair and include it in
your decorating scheme. This
sketch shows how one was fitted
into a living room to look very
smart and to do extra duty as a
table.
Plywood or composition board
may be used for the removable
top, (see sketch). The top cover
is of blue felt with a scalloped
band stitched around it. This is
quick and easy to do as it is not
necessary to finish raw edges of
The Ely miner., 1943-03-11
4 TO l RECORD:
For u. S. Airn,en

Americans learned with pride tha,
their fighting airmen had destroyed
four enemy planes for every one Of
their own knocked out of the skies
in 1912.
An official tabulation covering
complete operations for the last year
showed that army, navy and marine
fliers shot down at least 2,587 OF
their foes. This total did not include
hundreds of planes listed as prob.
ably destroyed.
Aircraft losses by all American
armed services last year totaled 609
Some of the fliers were shot dowr
by anti-aircraft fire, others simply
did not return from combat missions
for reasons unknown. A majority o1
the 500 losses, however, resulted
from actual combat with enemy air.
men.
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ID u h l. u ID i TN the weeks

WASHINGTON: More than 3,000,-
600 babies were born in the United
States last year, the census bureau
estimated. This was the largest
number of births in any year in the
nations history. The previous rec
ord was in 1921 when 2,95G, 900 were
born. The 1912 record compared
with an estimated total births of
2,7l5, 900 in 1941 and 2,550 900 in 1910.
Officials estimated fewer 1943 births.
LONDON: Blunt warning was
served on the German people that
Britain has enough stocks of death
dealing gas to destroy the entire
population of Germany, civilian as
well as military" This warning was
given by Reginald Purbrick, a men,
Der of the house of parliament, in a
request that the prime minister ap-
prise the Nazis of British prepared
ness. The warning was in answer
to speech by Propaganda Minister
Goebbels in which he said the Ger
mans intended to wage total war
beyond any Atent which can be
imagined"
The Ely miner., 1943-03-11
CONGRESSIONAL MILLS
CONTINUE TO GRIND

CONGRESSIONAL MILLS
CONTINUE TO GRIND
WHEN BRUCE BARTON of New
York city ran for congress, it was
on a platform of repeal laws rather
than to enact new ones. He was
elected, and though he tried, he did
not get many, if any, laws repealed.
The congressional mill continues to
grind.
For example, during the first days
session of the present congress there
were more than 1900 bills intro
duced in the house and senate. For
tunately, no great number of them
will ever be passed or, in fact, voted
upon in either the house or senate.
Few OF them are of any consequence
to the general welfare of the nation.
Most of them are of importance to
a very limited number of people.
Largely, they were introduced at the
request of some one who was a po-
tential vote producer in the district
of congressman or the state of a
senator.
Each of those 1900 bills repre-
sents a consumption of time in con-
gress and each represents a cost to
the people of the United States. Each
must be read, and referred to and
considered by a senate or house COM
mittee, thus taking the presumably
valuable time of members of the
two houses. The great majority of
such bills never get beyond the COM
mittees to which they are referred.
They are shelved, but copies of them
have been printed at public expense.
They are also printed in the Con-
gressional Record. The congress
man or senator did not make a
speech about the bill he introduced,
but he requests permission to have
the speech he might have made
printed in the Record. 1t is granted
and insertion of that speech means
more cost. When printed in the Rec
ord, the senator or congressman
may order reprints and these he
mails to his constituents. The public
pays for the printing and mailing.
1t all means waste of time and
much needless expense, but it Is a
part of the price we pay for free
dom, for republican form of gov
ernment. Our freedom and the
privilege of governing ourselves is
worth all of that, and much more.
Just the same, Bruce Barton had a
wonderful idea as to repeating old
laws, rather than enacting new ones.
We have cursed ourselves with too
many needless and meaningless
laws.
The Ely miner., 1943-03-11
CURE FOR TYPHUS

, BY way of London has come word
that the Germans have evolved a
cure for the dread disease typhus.
If so, it is discovery meaning the
lives of thousands of men in the
eastern front. In 1914 General Ty-
phus" was responsible for more
lives than machine gun fire, and
from time to time it has ravaged the
Balkans, Russia and eastern Eu-
rope ever since.
The German cure was discovered
by a DR.. Van Meerdock and is a
combination of atebrin and plasmo-
chin. U. S. Public Health officials
have their fingers crossed regarding
the cure, but British medical circles
seem to be favorably impressed.
The Ely miner., 1943-03-11

tiles, President Inonu declared: "We
are grieved by and suffer from the
global disaster. We shall do our ut.
most not to be entangled in it nor
contaminated by it, but we know
that it is not entirely within our
power to stay out of the war"
Turkey has spent more for defense
in the last four years than at any
time in her history, he declared.
The Ely miner., 1943-03-11
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RUSSIAN SOCIALISM WAVES
Washington, D. c.

The Russians are doing more than
reversing the direction of Nazi mill
tary movement. They are also re-
versing certain important political
and social directions.
Americans in Russia now report
the temperance of shoulder insig-
mia on the officers of the Red army
for the first time since the dark days
of the Revolution.
In those days, officers who sup
ported the Bolshevik movement tore
the epaulets from their uniforms as
mark of democracy. Those who
failed to do so were regarded as
enemies of the Revolution, and in
some extreme cases, mobs attacked
them, drove nails through the epau-
let's into their shoulders.
There is also change in official
awards or decorations, indicating
that Bolshevik scorn for heroes of
the past is vanishing. Three of the
most coveted decorations of the So
Wet Union today are the award of
"Nevski," who was 18th century
prince, and the awards of "Suvorov"
and "Kutuzov," who were Czarist
generals at the time of Napoleon.
Also the st. Georges cross, which
would have been torn from the
breast of the wearer a few years
ago, has made it's temperance at
official functions.
The U. S. public has the impress
sion Of modern Russians as dressed
in coarse, formless clothing, but re-
ports from the USSR today state
that Red army officers dress with
such punctilio as to make American
officers look shabby by comparison.
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NOTE-Drections for making the spool
lamps illustrated together with 81 other
conservation plans are in the new BOOK
which Mrs. Spears has just prepared for
readers. Copies are available at Is cents
each. Send your request to:
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TURKEY:
Watches and Waits

A watchful waiting policy based
on a determination to stay out Of
the war if possible but to enter the
fight if necessary was enunciated by
President Ismet Inonu of Turkey.
Inonu pointed out that the final deci-
sion might not be in Turkish hands.
Calling all Turks to intensity their
preparedness against any eventual
The Ely miner., 1943-03-11

The new steel helmet just adopt
ed by the Army is no longer called
a "tin hat" It's a 'head bucket"
and when you see one you'll know
why. Our soldiers have changed
much of their slang since the last
war, but not their preference for
Camel Cigarettes. Now-as then
-Camels are the favorite. They're
the favorite cigarette with men in
the Navy, Marines and Coast
Guard as well, according to actual
sales records from service mems
stores. If you want to be sure OF
your gift to friends or relatives in
the service being well received,
stop in at your local dealers and
send carton of Camels.-Adv.
The Ely miner., 1943-03-11
OBEYING ORDERS
AND GIVING THEM

TIME: Early spring OF 1877.
Place: Inside a Chicago club.
BY direction of club member,
waiter placed a glass of liquor on
an unoccupied table. A young man,
wearing the uniform of a student at
an army officers training camp,
stopped beside the table and drank
the liquor. AS he did so, an army
officer, an instructor at Fort Sheri-
dan Training camp, entered the
room. The young man rejoined his
companions with whom he had been
talking. His father, a member of
the club, who resented the order
which precluded him from providing
drink of liquor for his son or the
son from indulging in liquor while
in training, and who had directed
that the glass be placed on the table,
continued the card game in which
he was playing, The army officer
seated himself in a chair and after
making a memorandum on card
from his pocket, began reading
newspaper.
The young man did not graduate
and did not receive commission.
He stood high in everything but dis
cipline. He had not obeyed orders.
He had taken a drink of liquor. He
went into the army as drafted sol
dier, and as such, was on the front
lines in France on the last day of the
war. Thirty minutes before the fir
ing ceased on November II, 1918, a
German bullet found him, and he Is
buried in France.
If he had not taken that drink of
liquor in disobedience of orders, he
would have been an officer and
would not have been where that Ger
man bullet would have found him. He
might have survived the war.
The boys father lived to lament
his connivance and his encourage
ment of his only sons disobedience.
The moral of the incident, if any,
is that it does not pay to disobey
orders. The army does not believe
that any man is qualified to give
orders who has not learned first to
obey orders.
TO SAVE CIPHERS in these days
of astronomical figures, we no long
er write it as 5000, 900, ,000, 100000. We
now put it as 200 billion dollars.
There are no longer ciphers enough
to do the job and anything less than
billions is not worth talking about.
WHAT A TEMPEST IN A TEA
POT there was over recognition of
that title of emperor" and now it
is just plain King Victor Emanuel
again. The Italian empire has dis
appeared, with the exception of little
Albania-thanks to a bad guess on
the part of Mussolini.
HOW WILL PA AND MA AMER
ICA like it when Johann, the Hun,
goes marching home to a job for
which they furnish the pay, while
John America walks police beat
in Berlin?
DEF OItE IL WILL WoieIA, iOSdi-
ism must be something more than
generalities. The details to make
it work must be practical or ideal
ism fails. We are having vast
amount of postwar idealistic ora
tory, but not much in the way of
practical detail. Someone must tell
US a practical way in which to in
sure for the world the freedoms we
are talking about.
TWO OF THE ESSENTIALS of
leadership are the ability to talk and
the ability to listen.
The Ely miner., 1943-03-11
SECRET RUML PLAN VOTE

The vote of the house ways and
means committee on the Ruml plan
was secret, but inside fact is it nev-
er had a chance of getting more
than five votes.
The flood of mail reaching COM
mittee members, at first favorable,
turned round and showed conclusive
ly that the country was against out
right postponement of taxes. Un-
derlying sentiment expressed in the
mail was that although high taxes
hurt, it was unfair to postpone too
much Of the war cost to the next
generation.
Also the committee became more
and more convinced that the Ruml
plan was largely cooked up for the
benefit of top bracket incomes, and
if taxes were forgiven one year, it
would mean shifting much greater
burden to lower income groups to
make up the deficit.
This, they concluded, was just
what Mr.. RumPs war wealthy eli
ents wanted.
The Ely miner., 1943-03-11

felt. The full skirt is made of the
best part of old sheets dyed soft
ecru tone. This is sewn to the
seam allowance of the felt and all
is tackled to the back of the re-
movable top so that it may be re-
moved easily. A pair of kitchen
stools are painted cream color and
topped with blue felt for lamp
stands. Scalloped felt also trims
the lamp shades and the cover of
an old side chair to match the
table.
The Ely miner., 1943-03-11
4TH FDR TERM?

AS informed observers were pre-
dieting that the war would still be
in progress in 1914, politicos were
prophesying that the Democrats
would draft President Roosevelt fol
a fourth term.
In the van for the fourth term fol
Roosevelt" movement were Cover
nor Nicely Of Maryland and Congress
man Adolph j. SABBATH of Illinois.
Dean of the house, SABBATH said he
had discussed the proposition with
the President and told him che owes
it to the country to run again."
LEND-LEASE
It had become increasingly clear
in congressional circles that final
passage of the measure extending
the lend-lease act until July, 1914,
was foregone conclusion. This was
earlier indicated by the unanimous
action of the house foreign affairs
committee in approving the meas
ure.
The authority of the original act
by which nearly 10 billion dollars
worth of foodstuffs guns. airplanes
and supplies have been shipped to
our Allies, will expire June 80
The Ely miner., 1943-03-11
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Buy canned goods with clean
wrappers and refuse anything that
seems bulgy.
There are 60 drops in an ordi-
nary teaspoon.
Keep matches out of reach of
the baby's hands.
Before icing the cake, brush it
over with the beaten white of an
egg.
When washing dishes used for
either raw or cooked fish, about
two heaping teaspoonfuls of baking
soda added to the dish water will
deodorize the dishes and dish
cloth.
Peroxide of hydrogen will re-
move perfume stains from linen
bureau scarfs.
Homemade biscuits Will be d1f-
ferent if tomato juice or fruit juice
is used instead of the liquid called
for in the recipe.
Never leave medicine or bev-
erages uncovered in a sickroom.
If you are about to clean gar
ments in gasoline or naphtha, wait
for a nice day and do the job out
side, where it is safe.
The mirror tends to get cloudy
if it is always in direct contact
with the suns rays. To clean,
dampen a ball of tissue paper in
methylated spirit and rub well,
polishing with a soft chamois
leather. Avoid touching the frame
with the spirit. The same treat
ment is good for windows.
The Ely miner., 1943-03-11
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Parity Vote Heralds Farm Price Rise;
Allies North Africa Strength Grows
AS Yanks Wipe Out Rommeps Advance;
RAF Raids Strafe German U-Boat Nests

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