The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-10-27

from a Canton court
's"es and for bringing po-
litical pressure to bear on officials Of
the Indian bureau in Washington. The
bureau has sought for several years to
close the institution.
"Those responsible for securing this
injunction presumably are actuated by
a desire to save for Canton the reve-
nue. that continued operation of the
institution there MEANS" Mr.. Ickes de-
clared. "They appear to be willing
to make profit out of the degradation
Of helpless Indians. They do not OBJ
ject to locking up sane human beings
in an insane asylum"
Conditions in the institution were
revealed by DR.. Samuel A. Silk, medi-
cal director Of st. Elizabeth's hospital.
He conducted an investigation at the
request of Secretary Ickes. His re-
port, made public by Mr.. Ickes, de-
scribed the asylum as filthy, inhuman,
and revolving"
NEW YORK's three-cornered fight
for the mayoralty grows hotter
daily. The registration exceeded all
estimates, falling only little short of
the record for the Presidential cleo
ton last year. This was interpreted
by neutral observers as indicating a
steadily growing revolt against Tam
many and it's candidate, Mayor
O'Brien' La Guardia, fusion nominee,
and Joseph V. Mckee, Independent,
seemed to be well in the lead, with the
latter gradually catching up with La
Guardia. Mckee, however, appears
to have been hurt, temporarily, by
charges of anti-Semitism made by La
Guardia who quoted slurring refer
ence to Jewish students supposedly
written by Mckee in 1915 when he
was teacher. Mckee issued denial
that he ever had attacked any race
and objected to the intersection of the
racial question into the campaign.
CIAM was in the throes of a rebel
- lion, the rebels being led by Prince
Bovaredej, a member Of the royal FAM
lily. A large force attacked the cap
ital, Bangkok, and captured and lost
the airdrome on the outskirts. The
rebels were recruited from up-country
districts, but late dispatches said they
had been Joined by the navy and that
the arsenal had been seized.
NEW MEXICO has a new United
~ States senator in the person of
Carl A. Hatch, who has been serving
as district judge in Santa Fe. He was
appointed by the governor to succeed
Samuel G. Bratton, who resigned from
the senate to become federal district
Judge.
EROM the newspapers and also from
L letters the President has been
brought to a realization of the huge
salaries paid to stars of the movie
picture directors. He called General
johnson on the telephone and directed
him to take the matter up, find out
whether these salaries are "conscion-
able" and do whatever should be done
to level them down. Johnson turned
the inquiry over to Sol A. Rosenblatt,
NRA movie administrator. Dispatches
received from Hollywood said the film
industry was nervous over the matter,
fearing the investigation would reveal
secrets concerning salaries that have
been kept hidden during the depres-
sion.
Q OMETHING went wrong on
~ transcontinental passenger plane
of the United Air Lines as 1t was over
Chesterton, Ind, on the way from
New York to Chicago. There was a
terrific explosion, the tail broke off.
the big plane whirled down a thou
sand feet to the ground on farm, and
burst into flames. Seven persons, in
Guiding four passengers. two pilots
and the stewardess, persisted United
Air Lines officials pointed out that the
accident was the first fatal one on
it's passenger service in seven years,
in which millions of air miles were
travelled.
CENATOR JAMES ]. DAVIS of
y Pennsylvania, director general of
the Loyal Order of Moose, is at last
freed of charges of violating the fed
eral lottery law in connection with
the charity balls conducted by the
order. A jury in New York found
Davis and Theodore G. Miller of Au-
rora, ILL.,, not guilty after a trial last
ing nearly four weeks.
PHILADELPHIA police broke up
what they say was a plan of the
Khaki Shirts Of America" to march
on washington and install President
Roosevelt as dictator under a Fas-
cist government. The leader, Art ].
Smith, was not apprehended, and his
aids now accuse him of decamping
with about $4,000 of the organizations
funds. When the headquarters of the
"Shirts" was raided a collection of
small arms was seized.
g. 1874. Western Newspaper Union