The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-04-06
MINNESOTA NEWS

chisholm-The local high school
basketball team won the state cham.
pionship in a play-off series in Min
neapOlis.
montevideo-Trying 10 rescue live
stock from a burning barn on his farm
near here, Alfred E. Dederstrom, So,
died in the flames.
Albert Lea-Thirteen children were
left motherless when Mrs. Hans Chris
Hanson, IS, died at her home here.
Nine Of the survivors, are stepchildren
Deer River-An educational pro-
gram for workers in CCC camps
northwest of Deer River is to be
maintained besides the ordinary camp
activities.
minneapoIis-The state executive
council has granted a $4,000 allow
ance TO the state health department
to carry on a statewide campaign
against diphtheria.
Winona-A steel cable which caught
in the wheels of an automobile that
plunged over a high wall under the
bridge here saved three men from
death in deep water below.
ST. Paula joint meeting Of the
Ten Thousand Lakes Association and
the Minnesota Boosters Association
was conducted here to consider the
1884 program to bring tourists to the
state.
owatonna-Company F, 135th In
fantry, the larger Of two local mill
tary organizations, was lauded at its
annual armory inspection for the war
department by Captain ". K. Pigman,
United States army.
ST. Cloud-The largest collection of
delinquent taxes in recent years was
reported by the Office Of County Au-
ditor Nicholas Thomey. The total
amount collected was sS4,4S19S, and
taxes were paid as far back as 1914.
Winonz-Because he violated the
terms Of his probation, Leonard Wei
ner. % years old, Dodge, Wis, farm
youth, has been returned to st. Cloud
refoTmatoTy to serve a term Of up TO
five years. Weiner was sentenced
June 3, 1888.
MinneapoIis-A total of sS,3O9, 707
was paid to northwest farmers in, Feb
Tuary in compensation for reducing
wheat acreage in 1884, while the en-
tire payment since the plan went into
effect has amounted to s14,043,316,
the Federal Reserve bank says in its
monthly review.
Detroit Lakes-Pleading guilty to
charges Of burglary in connection
with theft of 200 bushels of grain
from the farm Of John Olund, near
here, Herbert Wall, Of Hamden town
ship, was sentenced by District Judge
Roeser to serve one to five years in
Saltwater penitentiary.
Fort sneIIing-In an effort to con-
tinue the unemployment relief work
Of the CCC (civil conservation camps
in Minnesota this summer, 800 new
men will be enrolled during the two
weeks period beginning April 1, au-
thorities in charge of the work at
Fort Smelling announced. These 800
men will take the places Of those who
are retiring from the camps.
Minneapolis-The local chapter of
the Izaak Walton league reproduced
in miniature, al the Specimens show,
their bass pond where last year the
largest number Of dngerlings were
raised in the history of the local
league. Two hundred thousand, eight
hundred bass were taken from the
pond in 1888, half of which were
planted in lakes outside Hennepin
county.
Minneapolis-James Silent Jim"
Ryan and Frank "Blackie' Mckee,
survivors OF the once powerful Ter
Tible Touhy gang Of Chicago, pleaded
guilty TO the Milwaukee station mail
robbery and were Immediately SEN
fenced to Leavenworth penitentiary.
Ryan was ordered to prison for 20
years and fined $4,000. Mckee was
given a 17-year sentence and fined
$1,000.
St. PauI-Minnesota's new state in
come tax was upheld by the Mime
osta S1preme Court in a unanimous
decision which rejects all the argu-
ments raised against its eonstitu-
tionality. The decision ends lengthy
debate as to validity of the law, and
makes the new tax Immediately due.
Taxpayers who have not yet fled
return under the new law have until
April Is in which TO make a return
and pay the first half of the tax.
Minneapolis - More than 5000
names TO petitions asking presidential
clemency for Wilbur B. Foshay and
Henry H. Henley, convicted of using
the mails 10 defraud, have been ob-
tanned so far, friends said. Another
petition circulated among persons
who lost investments in the Foshay
enterprises has been signed by own
ers Of 100000 worth Of stock. Fo-
shay and Henley are under sentence
up 10 Is years in federal prison.
They must surrender in two weeks.
ST. Paula campaign for enforce
ment Of the state drivers license law,
in which the state highway depart
uent and all Minnesota police Of
fcers have been asked to cooperate,
will start April l, Gil Carmichael, Dr.
rector Of the license bureau, said Al
though more than 100000 licenses
have been issued, between 2O0,o
and 100000 drivers still are without
licenses. According TO the law, which
became effective March /, driving
without a license is a misdemeanor
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