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|. OHREM KILLED UNDER B|C MAGNET
 LOADING VESSEL
HAD BEEN IN RAILROAD SER VICE FOR MANY YEARS.
 MEMBER OF ELKS

Charles Ohrem, former assist ant foreman at the Seward Dock, Alaska Railroad, died at 1:30 a.. m today from internal injuries sustained yesterday afternoon when he was pinned beneath the two-ton steel magnet now being used by the railroad to transfer scrap steel to the s. s. Taiyu Maru
 MT. Ohrem, who was working in the hold of the vessel, stepped into the square of the hatch to guide a sling-load of dunnage that was being lowered by the magnet hook, unmindful, it is said, of the fact that the mag net was following the dunnage.
 Continued on Page Eight)
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FOuR ARRESTED ON
 CONSPIRACY CHARGE
 BLACKMA|L COUPLE:
BLACKMAIL PLOT HINGES ON ART WORK; DEFENDANTS
 SOUGHT $270,0OO

WASHINGTON, Aug, 13, P)- Four persons, including w. Clark Noble, an artist, at liberty under bond, and Mrs Anna Hillenbrand, are in prison in default of bond on charges of conspiracy to blackndail Captain and Mrs. c. c. Calhoun, socially prominent residents of Washington, who entertained the Prince of Wales on his last visit to the United States.
 Besides Noble and Mrs. Hillen- brand, those arrested were Mrs. Noble, James Byrd and Stephen Armstrong.
 The charges arose from a com- plaint by the Calhouns charging the defendants sought to extract '$27O,OOO from them under threat of getting into press scandalous material.
 The background of the alleged plot is Scaht but it is believed to hinge on some art work Noble did for the CalhounS.
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YOUNG FINANCE
 CONFERENCE IS
 POSTPONED DAY
PROBLEMS; TRANS FORMATION TROOPS; OTHER
 MATTERS NUMEROUS

THE HAGUE, Aug, 13, (P)- The skirting of a crisis has dead locked proceeding of a confer ence to make Young's plan eff fective and the delegates have decided to postpone the meetings of tn financee committee until he next Wednes lay Tn the mean time the committee is taking up the discussion of the Rhineland evacuation problem.
 Chancellor of the British Exche- quer, Philip Snowden, who precipi- tated the near crisis when he ob- jected to a reduction as the British share in the reparation funds himself called for the adjournment of the finance committee.
 No, date is contemplated for the Rhineland evacuation as military problems relative to transporta- tion of troops and other mat terS are numerous.
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CARS OVERTURNED ON THE SANTA FEE:
 NJ ONE INJURED

PUEBLO, Colo, Aug, 13, P)- Three pullman cars overturned and three other cars were derailed when the truck baggage car of the Santa F'e train, Chicago bound, broke while travelling at high speed.
 The passengers were badly shak- en and some were bruised, but none were seriously hurt.
 The derailed coaches polwed up the tracks for more than 700 feet; holding up traffic for eight hours. The passengers continued on their journey on relief train.
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EDITORIAL
AGRICULTURE IN CENTRAL
 ALASKA

Farming and gardening in the Susitna valley and in the numerous valleys of Kenai peninsula, includ- ing the great plateau on the west ern side of the Kenai peninsula be- tween Cook Inlet and the Knik mountains, have progressed far enough on many small patches widely scattered since the building of the Alaska Railroad to demon strate what can be done on large scale on every square mile of those extensive areas.
 With certainty, there are 100000 acres on the Kenai peninsula and 3,000,000 acres in the Susitna valley to say nothing of an equal amount in the Panama valley, which have possibilities for growing every kind of vegetable, berries, rye, oats, bar ley and the harder wheatS, more abundantly and of better quality, acre by acre, than the northern states of the United States.
 If that statement should seem too sweeping, the answer is before the eyes of every man and woman who will visit the hundreds of little farms and gardens in and around Seward, Seldovia, Kenai, Hope, An cnorage, Sunrise, Matanuska, Was fila, Talkeetna, and scores of other places in those valleys.
 What is produced on one acre can be produced on the adjoining acre under the same conditions, or the adjoining hundreds of acres, or thousands of acres.
 The long summers and the long hours of daylight in these attitudes produce with rapidity and luxur- lance of growth that are not sur passed in any State of the Union. When summer comes, it is here in a bound. and the danger of killing frosts is past, unlike the conditions that menace crops in many of the agricultural states.
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MORE EXPLOSIONS
 SPREAD FLAMES IN
 SHERMAN GOAL MINE


 POTTSVILLE, Pa, Aug, 13, P)- With three additional explosions after midnight, and spreading flames over an area of 250 feet long, heavily marshaled fire fighting force continued to battle the fire in the Primrose vein of the Sherman Coal Co.
 Twenty-Five miners were working when the explosion occurred; they escaped thru an air breach in the gangway but four members of the rescue party were severely burned. The fire spread quickly thru the vein of soft anthracite.
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FRUIT GROWING POSSIBILITIES
 IN ALASKA

Natives of Norway and Sweden who live in Seward and other towns on the Alaska Railroad have been for years telling other residents that apples, pears, cherries and peaches can be grown in parts of Alaska They cite the fact that those fruits have been grown suc- eessfully in the Scandinavian coun- tries for many centuries, where the climatic conditions are similar to the climatic conditions in cores bonding attitudes of Alaska.
 But the days of. mining excite r.ents and stampedes brought to Alaska generally class of men who were bent on finding placer gold. They cared nothing for other forms of wealth. Like most people of that early period, they had pre- conceived ideas about Alaska that banished all thought of agriculture and fruit growing.
 Year by year, however, the real Alaska has displaced the old inn pressions. It is now known every where that Alaska grows garden vegetables the equal in quality and quantity per acre of the best sec tions of Washington, Oregon and California. Also it's possibilities as grain growing region on a large
 Continued Page Six)
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ELISIF CREW READY

ST. PAUL ISLAND, Aug, 13, (H)- Tn crew of the Elisif are ready to proceed to East Cape, Siberia, either in small boats or on the Stayatoll, where they will be picked up by the Northland about September 10.
 The damage to the Elifis is unde- termined; the Elisif is beached 300 miles up the Holyna river.
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CUNNING PEND"

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug, B, (P)- Bay authorities were searching for Cunning Fiend" who stabbed Geraldine Seliciane, IS, of Colma, after pulling her into parked au- tomobile. The girl received seven wounds and is in a critical condi- tion.
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PROVISIONS, TREATY

ROME, Aug, 13, P)-Provisions of the Lateran Treaty eliminating civil marriage ceremonies as re- quisite for lawful wedlock. went into effect.
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EXPLOSION, FACTORY

NEW YORK, Aug, 13, P)-Two men were killed, one dying and Is were injured in an explosion in Brooklyn macaroni factory.
Evening star., 1929-10-06
THREE FIRMS RAISE
PRICE OF CIGARETTES
Leading Brands Affected in Whole.
sale Rate-Move Not
Explained.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 5.-Wholesale
prices on three widely advertised brands
of cigarettes were advanced 40 cents
a thousand today.
Neither the r. J. Reynolds Tobacco
Co.. Liggett d Myers, nor the Ameri-
can Tobacco Co., the concerns which
in quick succession announced that the
price of its leading brand had been
increased. made statement explaining
the change, although they said they
might have something to say next week.
Meanwhile. some of the chain stores
which recently have been engaged in
a so-called price-cutting war on popu-
lar brands Of cigarettes were wondering
what to do about the retail figure In
view Of the increased wholesale cost.
The executive committee of the United
Cigar Stores of America was called to
meet Monday to settle that point.
A number of stores have been selling
the familiar 15-cent brands at a two
a-quarter rate.
One immediate reaction to the an
Evening star., 1929-10-06
10 ARE RESCUED {.
A..
FROM SINKING SHIP
Captains Wife and Daughter
Among Those Saved in
Pacific Storm.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, WASH, october 5.-Seven-
teen seafaring men and the captains
wife and daughter were rescued today
by the steam schooner Whitney Olson
after they had taken to lifeboats when
their ship. the French schooner
Bretagne, became waterlogged during
storm off the Washington Coast.
Word of the rescue, picked up by the
Everett radio station and relayed here,
said the Bretagne became waterlogged
of Cape Flattery yesterday morning
and took a heavy list.
Efforts Are Futile.
Desperate efforts were made to keep
the 57-year-old vessel afloat, but she
was finally abandoned early today. The
Whitney Olson sighted the Bretagne's S
crew In lifeboatS at am. and picked
them up.
The Bretagne, an auxiliary power
schooner. sailed from Vancouver. B. c.,
early this week with a full cargo of
lumber and 200 tons of canned salmon
for the South Seas. She was COM
manded by Capt. L. Ozanne.
Proceeding South.
The Whitney Olson left Bellingham,
Wash. yesterday for San Pedro with
cargo of lumber. She proceeded to
San Francisco. where the Bretagne's S
crew will be landed.
The waterlogged vessel was left
adrift in the sea lanes and a Coast
Guard cutter was sent to sink her by
gunf1re if she was still afloat. 'Ale
Bretagne was Is miles south of Una
tilla lightShip when abandoned.
Evening star., 1929-10-06
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BELIZE, British Honduras. october
5.-The Lindbergh archaeological air
expedition was completed this after
noon with the arrival of DR.. Alfred v.
Kidder from Miami by airplane. The
exploration of the Yucatan area Of
Mexico for ruins of the ancient Maya
civilization will begin tomorrow.
Col Charles A. Lindbergh Is to be
the only pilot on the exploring ship,
although he will be accompanied by
Mrs. Lindbergh, who has had expert
ence in handling a plane. DR.. Kidder.
head of the archaeological department
of the Carnegie Institution, will be as
sisted as guide and observer by DR..
Oliver RicketSon of the institution, who
is known as one Of the foremost au-
thorities on this almost vanished race
and its culture. The only other person
on the plane will be radio operator.
Evening star., 1929-10-06
LINDY'S EXPEDITION TO EXPLO ORE
MAYA RUINS IS READY TO START
DR.. Kidder of Carnegie Institution Reaches Belize
Completing Personnel for Trip.

Col. Lindbergh has given emphatic
and explicit instructions that no search
is to be made for the party unless they
should be missing for at least two days.
The announced plans call for the re-
turn of the plane here each evening.
but the instructions of the colonel
caused speculation as to whether he
was not leaving the way open, if con-
ditions proved favorable, for landings
in order to make closer inspection Of
interesting finds or perhaps to refuel
at other bases.
During the next four or five days
different sections Of the tropical jungle
which has crept over the land since the
dense population of the Mayas van
ished, will be surveyed from the air.
The flights will carry the scientists
over Northeastern Guatemala, British
Honduras. and the states Of Quintana
Roo and Campeche In Mexico.
Evening star., 1929-10-06
WOMAN BANDIT CLAIMS
AUTO SPEED RECORD
Admission of Identity as Joan La
Coste Follows Scene in
Chicago Hotel.

CHICAGO, October (P).-After hid
ing her identity during three days of
police grilling, young woman whu at
tempted a jewel robbery in a fashion,
able South Shore district hotel Thurs
day, tonight told police she was Joan La
Coste, holder of the worlds automobile
speed record for women. She says she
had driven her car las miles an hour
at Daytona, Fla. in 1925.
Mrs. Rebecca Bobbe overpowered the
young woman as she entered the Bobbe
apartment and held her until the ar
rival of police to whom the girl gave
the name of Mrs. Jean Rust.
She told police that her husband
Thomas Rust" sent her up into the
apartment building to stage the hold
up, but police were skeptical of the
story
Evening star., 1929-10-06

nouncements was a sharp upturn in
the price of tobacco shares on the New
York Stock Exchange. The two issues
OF American Tobacco Co. scared $36
and $38 a share; Liggett & Myers
shares jumped $15,25 and $16: Rey-
nolds advanced nearly $3.50. and Loril-
lard gained $11.
Evening star., 1929-10-06
ARLINGTON FlREMEN'S
AUXILIARY GIVES SHOWER
Fire Lieut.. and Mrs. c. E. Scheffel,
Recently Wed, Are
Recipients.

A miscellaneous shower for Fire Lieut.
and Mrs. Carl E. Scheffel of the Airing
ton Volunteer Fire Department, who
we're married September 13, featured
the meeting last night of the Ladies'
Auxiliary of the department at the
home of Mrs j. F. Scheffel, 124 Jeffer-
son street, Arlington.
The first-aid class of the auxiliary,
it was announced, will hold its second
meeting Tuesday night at the Patrick
Henry School Benjamin H. Gammage,
first-aid instructor of the Arlington
County Red Cross Chapter, will conduct
the class.
The bowling committee of the VOL
unteer Fire Department met last night
to discuss plans for a dance to be held
in the near future.
Evening star., 1929-10-06
SEGRAVE COMING BACK.

Briton to Challenge for Speedboat
Trophy.
LONDON, October S R.-Sir Henry
Segrave. speaking at a complimentary
dinner at Wolverhampton last night,
said he expected to return to America
in 1880 with Miss England H. to try
to regain the British international
trophy taken by Gar Wood 10 years
ago. He said the boat he is now build
ing would attain speed of 100 miles
per hour.
Evening star., 1929-10-06

After several years of work the hydro
electric development of the Shannon
River, intended to supply ireland with
cheap power, is expected to be in opera
ton hY the close of the year.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-06-07
RIDING A GOOD HORSE TO
DEATH.

Under the above caption, The Lamp,
published by the Standard Oil Co.,
of New Jersey, contends that "the
present tendency to add to gasoline
taxes until the public's patience is
exhausted will certainly bring it's
reaction in time, but not until large
amount of harm has been worked. It
would be much better for the states
to adjust their taxes on the equitable
basis now in conformity with the rec
ognized principles of fair division Of
government expense.
I'm 1927 the public paid $3.50 ,O0O, 900
to the states with it's purchases Of
gasoline. That happened to be two
and one-half times the aggregate net
profits Of the oil industry in that year.
In 1928 the total ran well above $780,
100000 and for the current year indi-
cations are that collections will ex-
coed $40O, 100000.
Last year this item amounted to
SIS per automobile in the taxing
states. Moreover, in addition to the
gasoline tax the owners paid $500 ,OOO,-
600 out in registration and license fees.
The result was that in the aggregate
they were taxed about 81 900 per mile
for all the surfaced highway in the
country.
1.-THE gasoline levy Is paid not only
by the head of the family but by
mothers, wives and children out Of
small and more closely watched allow
anceS. Their discomfort is heightened
by the knowledge that already in sew
eral states a considerable part of the
gasoline tax money ostensibly collected
for highways is being converted to
other convenient channels"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-06-07
FROZEN-PACK GIVES
FRESH" BERRIES YEAR ROUND.

Experimental results with the "froz-
en-pack method" of storing berries
promise to furnish fresh straw
berries, raspberries, and other soft
| fruits to the housewife the year
round. says the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.
Department investigators have
found it feasible to pack these fruits
III small containers suitable for do
nestle use which may be handled by
groceries and markets with improved
refrigeration facilities.
The preserving of berries by freez-
ing them in barrels, kegs, or cans,
commonly called the frozen-pack or
cold-pack method, is already an in
dustry of considerable Importance in
the Pacific coast region, where ap-
proximately 100000 barrels of berries
are put up by this method yearly.
When good fruit is put into cold stor-
age within a few hours after it is
packed in the barrels and is cooled
quickly to freezing temperature, it has
q quality which compares favorably
with the fresh fruit. The berries may
be packed with or without sugar, and
If enough sugar is used the rich color
and the flavor of the berries will be
retained.
Although the 5O-gallon container is
commonly used at present, there is a
| tendency toward the small package
which can be sold direct for domestic
use. Experiments indicate the practi-
/ cability of packing strawberries and
| raSpberrieS in the smaller package and
storing under refrigeration, so they
will retain much of their freshness
long after picking.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-06-07
TAMPERING WITH TEMPERA.-
MENT.

There is continual endeavor on
the part of minority groups in this
country to ape European customs and
m Ike 'paternalism" instead OF
liberty" the slogan Of the land.
Our crime record is cited as show
ing failure in our moral structure We
are told that in England private own
ership of guns is not allowed, hence
less crime.
In order to reduce deaths by auto
mobiles one might again cite England
and say that compared to the United
States proportionately few people en-
joy the luxury Of car, hence there
are fewer deaths from this cause
Therefore, by making conditions in
this country the same as in England
the auto death toll could be reduced
In all these comparisons one import
ant fact which spells the difference
between America and Europe is over
looked, namely, the temperament of
the people. This nation was founded
because of the urge for freedom
escape restrictive laws and class privi-
lege. As whole our people have been
a straight thinking, straight living
and straight-shooting nation. Hunt
ing, shooting, fishing, automobiles,
guns, horses and the open country
have been symbolical of American life.
There is nothing wrong in owning
a gun. Therefore it will be hard to
make nation of gum owners accept
such restrictions to their personal
liberties. Punish the man who uses
gun wrongfully just the same as you
would punish man who uses an auto
mobile wrongfully, but don't make the
law-abiding suffer for the errors Of the
wrong doer.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-06-07
POOR LOGIC.

Crime reformers, citing the fact
that England, where possession Of
small arms is forbidden, has fewer
crimes of violence than the United
States, reach the conclusion that an
anti-pistol law is the panacea that
will save this country from the GRIM
inal
This logic is specifically persuasive
but far from complete says an author
ity. The lack of crime in England is
due mainly to the fact that its courts
are efficient and justice swift, and
that it has the greatest centralized
police system known.
Scotland Yard officers are sent to
all parts of England to investigate
major crimes. In this country 1t is
up to the small town sheriffs and
constables who usually lack both facil-
tiles and training.
In English courts evasion, technical
tiles and red tape, designed to cloud
the facts, are unknown. Immediately
on commission of crime, expert de-
tectiveS are given the evidence and in
most cases find the criminal. He is
Immediately tried, sentenced and ade-
quately punished.
American crime reformers would do
well to initiate the real causes Of
English efficiency instead of promo
ting law vulnel able in theory and
which in practice tends to diSarm the
law-abiding and not the criminal.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-06-07
THE CIRCUS
IS COMING

The Great Cole Bros, Circus on
its 49th Annual Transcontinental tour
will exhibit in Ely on June "a. Hailed
with delight by the juvenile populace
and the colder" boys and girls, the
coming of this well known circus is
always looked upon everywhere as an
annual festive holiday. Cole Bros,
instead of operating two distinct
shows as in other seasons has COM
bined their interests for 1929 into one
big, mammoth tented institution.
Features, novelties, curiosities and
oddities gathered from all sections of
the world form this seasons program
for the Cole Bros, Circus. Foremost
among the stellar artists will be
Crandell Troupe of English riders;
equilibrists and aerialists; Cadieux, a
French somer-saulting dancer on the
tight wire; the Collinges, Belgian mid
air gymnasts; Mons Wallitti who
stands on his head in lofty trapese;
the Clarksonian, European foot Jug
glers together with more than two
scores of artists famed in the annals
of the white tops.
Cole Bros. great herds of perform
ing elephants with Modoc, the larg-
est pachyderm in captivity with his
new Charleston dance novelty; the
society horse show; the balloon ponies;
scores of educated Shetland ponies,
dogs and monkeys all are again fea-
tured. It has been the history of the
Cole Bros. Circus never to repeat its
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-06-07
MAKING AUTOMOBILE TRANS
PORTATION SAFER.

Every year, as thousands of addi-
tionaI automobiles come into use and
traffic congestion grows, the accident
risk increases.
This is being offset to a great ex-
tent by the trend in automobile con-
struction and modern highway design.
Present-day cars, with four-wheel
brakes, non Shatterable glass and all
steel bodies, give the rider maximum
of mechanical protection. In an en-
Urgency any one of these features may
very easily mean the difference be-
tween fatality ana slight mishap.
The new trend in highway building
is likewise conducive to the highest
possible degree of safety. Engineer
ing specifications call for wider roads,
many of them capable of carrying four
cars abreast, with smooth "non-skid"
surfaces and banked turns.
New roads are being built and old
roads rebuilt to conform to these
modern standards of safety and COM
fort. Motor car manufacturers are
using all-steel bodies and equipping
their machines with modern safety de-
vices. AS result, in spite of high
speed driving and heavy traffic, mo-
toring dangers are being minimized
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-06-07

on the reserves of Minnesota ores
The future depends upon the de-
velopment of new reserves and upon
the utilization of workings that would
not be profitable under existing con-
ditions. Except as new reserves are
built up and new deposits are brought
in, exhaustion Is not far off. The in
dustry has but brief term Of years
to run on the basis of what is now
in sight.
1.-The ultimate reserves are beyond
computation. There Is known to be
enough ore, of a sort, to last one
thousand years at double the present
rate Of consumption. Whereas the
known supplies of ore now merchan-
table-some 1,250,000,000 tons-wfl
last, they tell us, at the present rate
not over thirty years, while the state
deposits will be worked out, at the
present rate, in ten years.
"Of course, we wish the mining
companies to be prosperous, and we
would do anything in reason to pro-
mote their rosperity-anything that
is, that would not conflict with other
public interests. But the prosperity
of the mining companies is not, the
object of the educational campaign
the Arrowhead association has pro-
posed. After all, that's their lookout
1t is the life of the mining industry
and not the profits of the mining
companies that gives us concern.
"It is the diminishing supply of raw
materials that warns the Arrowhead
association to consider carefully what
effect the states policy of conserva.
ton and of taxation, and perhaps alst
national conservation policies, ma.
have on the life of the industry.
"The Bethlehem Steel Compan,
and the U. S. Steel Corporation ar.
not worrying. They are concerned
for the future supply of raw mater
ial, but they are not worrying so lonl
as there are ample reserves of Cubal
and South American ores.
What we want is to see the indus
try prolonged, perpetuated, in Min
esota.