The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-03-23

- der trial In recent years resulted
in the conviction of the elderly DR..
Alice Wynekoop who was charged with
killing her daughter-in-law, Rheta-
presumably to get the insurance on
her life. The jury fixed her penalty
at % years in the penitentiary, which
amounts to life sentence. The first
hearing of the case resulted in mis-
trial because the defendant was to
ill for its continuance.
Doctor Wynekoop, member OF
family of physicians, had practiced
medicine in Chicago for many years
and her crime astounded her numer-
Gus friends.
THE CONSTITUTIONALITY of the
Il -Rayburn stock regulation
bill, which the President expects con-
gress to pass at this session, is chal-
lenged by the New York stock ex-
change. This action is taken as notice
that if the measure Is enacted Its
validity will be tested in the courts.
The position of the exchange is that
the mere declaration by congress that
transactions in securities as COM
monty conducted upon securities ex-
changes are effected with national
public interest" does not make this
so as a matter of law. Such transac-
lions as commonly conducted" are
not transactions in interstate COM
merce, according to the lawyers for
the exchange, and congress-, they de-
clare, cannot by legislative fat as
cribe to them legal characteristics
which they do not otherwise possess"
CECRETARY OF COMMERCE RO-
- PER obtained the approval of Pres
ident Roosevelt for new program for
substituting the American merchant
marine which he will submit to con-
gress. This time it will be openly
called a ship subsidy.
DESPITE the protests of the little
II navy" group, the senate by vote
of 65 to Is approved the administra-
TONS naval replacement bill authoriz-
ing the construction of 15,2O0-ton air.
craft carrier, approximately 65 de-
stroyers totaling $4,000 tons, some %
submarines totaling $3.50 tons and
the airplanes (from $50 to 1850 re-
quired to complete the fleets air equip
ment.
Planned to cover a five-year period
the replacement program will cost ap.
proximately $475,OOO,OOO in all for the
projected vessels, and 100000 more
if the maximum number Of planes are
built.
Enactment of the measure assures
the United States of navy as strong
as is allowed under the London agree
ment of 1880.
DY A vote Of Is to District of
- Columbia grand jury refused to re-
turn indictments in its investigation
of an alleged conspiracy to defraud
the government on War department
contracts. Secretary Dern was highly
pleased with what he called vindi-
SoIAOh Va thC oCPdA
A WAS predicted recently, the
President appointed Judge Flor
ence Allen of Ohio to the federal
Circuit Court of Appeals bench. She
is the first woman to be made a fed
eral judge. Since she was admitted
to the bar twenty years ago her legal
career in Ohio has been notable. In
1922 she was elected to the Supreme
court of that state.
The President also appointed Mrs.
Bernice Pyke of Cleveland as collec-
tor of customs there, and Frank P.
Corrigan, likewise of Cleveland, to be
minister to Ell Salvador.
MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.
AVA accompanied by Assistant Secre-
tary of the Treasury Tugwell and
others, took an aerial trip to the Carib-
bean islands, the special purpose of
which was to visit Puerto Rico and
the Virgin islands. From Miami they
flew via Cuba to Port Au Prince,
Haiti, and San Pedro in the Dominican
republic, and thence to San Juan and
st. Thomas. The last named town
gave the First Lady gay welcome.
She made brief study of social and
economic conditions there and took
part in the dedication Of a hospital
building named 1.-The Anna Eleanor
building in her honor. After a hop
to st. Croix, also in the Virgin is
lands, the party returned to San Juan,
where Mrs. Roosevelt was quite elab-
orately entertained.
Carefully avoiding all matters relat-
ing to politics, Mrs. Roosevelt spent
several days in Puerto Rico inspecting
its industries and living conditions.
MARGARET ELLINGTON, who I'M
AvI til twenty years ago was one of
Americas leading dramatic actresses,
died In Miami Beach, Fla, at the age
of ffty-two. A native of Bloomington,
ILL.,, she made her first stage appear
ance in 1900 and rapidly went to the
front, gaining especial repute for her
Shakespearean roles. Her first. hus-
band was Daniel Frohman. Divorced
from him in 1909, she married Maj. Ed
ward Bowes. now managing director of
a New York theater.
ID USSIAN Communists are ever dill
IN gent in spreading their doctrines
in other countries, but they don't like
similar missionary work in Russia. The
Soviet secret police have arrested a
LARGO number of Germans In Moscow