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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-02-16
COUNTY MINES
SAFETY RECORD
Mine Inspector Ed. Smith
Issues Interesting Report
for Year 1888.

Ed. Smith of Eveleth, inspector Of
mines for st. Louis County. has issued
his report for the year 1888 and the
figures shown are very interesting.
He shows that the average number
of men employed in the iron mining
industry in the county for 1888 was
2,843. This compares with 2,243 in 1892.
The materials handled, combining
ore shipping and mine stripping re-
moval totaled L, 400, 900 tons, or double
that of the previous year
Only one fatal accident occurred
which compares with two In 1882, the
best previous record In regard to this
phase of mining and stripping, Mr..
Smith says in his report !:
I'VE are pleased to report a con-
tinued disposition on the part of work
men and employers to cooperate to the
fullest extent in all efforts to bring
about the safest working conditions
possible We are satisfied that the
record made IN. 1888, in the face Of
many difficult problems due to part
time employment, resulted from this
cooperative spirit"
Following is a summary of the re-
mort
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-02-16

Tuesday marked the S3rd
birthday of ]. P. Johnson, st.
Louis County Clerk of the
Court. Since the year 1900
when he first assumed the
Office, he has been reelected
for eight consecutive terms.
Mr.. Johnson at his work, bellies
his age and besides being 80
he also has the distinction of
being the most faithful public
official on the job at the court
house, never taking a vacation
and always strictly business.
He has the further distinction
of being the oldest office holder
in the state with 43 years of
public service. Mr.. Johnson
is receiving the congratulations
of his numerous friends.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-02-16

Every time there is a COM
motion in the old country like
those that upset the equilibrium
of France and Austria the past
few weeks, up pops someone
and says there will be a war.
Even Father Coughlin in last
Sundays broadcast said he ex-
pected a war within a very
short time. AS far as we per-
sonally are concerned, we don't
give a boot now many foreign
countries go TO war. Let them
have their wars. What Ameri-
ca wants to do is TO keep It's
nose clean and out of other
peoples wars.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-02-16

A few years ago when
rabbits and partridges were a
scarcity, it is said, the wolves
also emigrated and became
scarce. Since the return of the
smaller game the wolves have
made a comeback in large
numbers and are now at the
peak. Forestry officials make
the claim that the country
along the Ely-Buyck Trail is
particularly invested and that
as many as seven in a pack have
been seen at various times.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-02-16

The measure which the
American Legion proposes of
conscrlptlng men, money,
mines, farms, manufacturing
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-02-16

The suggestion made by
County Commissioner Pete that
expert wolf trappers be placed
in various sections of the Su-
perior National Forest is a good
one and will bear looking into
by the State Conservation
Commission. In the past few
years the wolf question has
been lost sight of and the re-
suits are apparent by the
rapidity in which they have
multiplied and are proving a
distinct menace to the deer
population and a menace to
other wild life. The claim is
made that a small pack of
wolves will kill and devour a
deer a day. The deep snow
this winter has made it i'm
possible for deer to escape the
preying varmints. With a
crust on the snow which is
almost assured when the spring
thaw sets in, the wolves will
create havoc among the deer
population.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-02-16
On This
Occasion
Just = few thoughts by the Editor
On things Material and Immaterial

CONGRESSMAN Snyder of Penn
sylvania has introduced a bill
providing that kidnapers,
when captured and convicted,
be promptly executed by a
firing squad of the United
States army. Not bad, but
why add convicted? He could
have improved the bill by pro-
viding that kidnapers be tried
under martial law as public
enemies. We are at war
against crime in this country
and to court martial and shoot
organized criminals would be
a defensive measure which
surely would defend. You
cannot deal lightly with public
enemies or the corrupt de-
lenses they have a peculiar
faculty of sunmoning to their
rescue. Gang murderers and
kidnapers should be tried by
court martial and Immediately
executed by a military firing
squad.
The authorities in the larger
number of cases know who the
public enemies are but the
system is so complex that even
those who actually saw the
crime committed and the court
and juries trying them are
harrassed to the point of in
sanity and when on the witness
stand or in the jury box can
not remember a thing bearing
on the case. The gangs filthy
dollars are spent in defense
fees and after being set at
liberty, promptly pull off
another job to replenish their
excheQuor. A court martial
would do away with all the
thrill and glamor. The order
given in some cities to shoot
first and talk it over afterwards
will have a wholesome effect on
known public enemies. With
the addition of the court
martial and the firing squad a
most wholesome regard for law
and order might be produced.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-02-16

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-25

This new money-mOney earned
elsewhere and spent in Indianapolis
by convention deleg ateS will
amount to approximately S5,OOO,0 900,
it is said, an amount equivalent to
the pay rolls of so average size in
dustries. This estimate is based on
statistics compiled by the Interna-
tional Association of Convention Bu-
reaus, of which the local bureau is
a member.
While more than $4,000 persons
were registered at 293 conventions
in indianapolis during 1884, the bu-
reau's records already show bookings
of more than 155 conventions for the
future with a total estimated at
tendance of more than 1900, not
including the attendance at such
events as the 500-mile Speedway
race, the Indiana high school bas-
ketball tournament and the Indiana
State Fair.
Outstanding among 1885 conven-
tons will be the National Associa-
ton of Retail Grocers, scheduled
for June 16 to 20, expected to bring
more than 5000 persons to this city;
the Indiana Department of the
American Legion, estimated attend
ance. 10000; Supreme Guardian
Council, Order of Jobs Daughters;
National Public Links Tournament
of the United States Golf Associa-
ton, 1000; National Paving Brick
Manufacturers Association, booked
for February; third annual India
napolis National Poultry Exposition
to be held in December; National
Cooperative Milk Producers FEEDER
alton. estimated attendance, 1000;
International Association of Gyro
Clubs, 600; National Association of
Special Delivery Messengers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-25

The North Central Music Super
visors' Conference will meet here in
March, attracting approximately
1000 school music educators from
Mid-Western states.
Other groups which have selected
indianapolis for 1885 include the
Western Table Tennis Tournament,
National Building Officials Con-
ference; District No. 2, BNai
Birth; American Millers' Associa-
ton, International Association of
Public Employment Services, AsSo-
ciated Traffic Clubs of America, the
International Brotherhood of Fire
men and Oilers and the Indiana
Federation of Clubs.
More than 80c0 persons are eX-
pected to attend the general Grand
Chapter meeting, Order of Eastern
Star, in 1887.
More than 300 indianapolis bust
ness houses are members of the
convention bureau. Officers are Clar-
ence E. Crippin, president; George
Vonnegut, treasurer, and Henry T.
Davis, secretary manager. The an
nual membership meeting will be
held late in January, at which time
new officers will be elected.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-25
46 UNBELIEvERS
IN SANTA CLAUS
GIVEN FREEDOM
Old Timers Get Mild Shock
When Judge Turns
Them Loose.

Forty-six men who don't believe
in Santa Claus got Christmas pres
ents yesterday.
They we're oral gifts, and came in
two words: case dismissed"
The rs old men had been in court
before; 46 old men guilty as charged
drunk and disorderly. Bedraggled,
clinging to a life they plainly found
distasteful if they had any opinion
about the matter; they had, in fact,
gotten drunk the day before Christ
mas.
A Sad Awakening
They got drunk mostly because,
through some miracle, they had
liquor to drink. That was in the
nature of a Christmas present, too,
but they didn't believe in Christmas,
so it was "the breaks"
The liquor was so rotten that they
became crazy, hilarious, and then
rough and beastly. It worked that
way. Then they awakened in Jail,
foggy in memory, wracked with
hangovers. Jail again! Probably
the prison farm. Maybe just more
and more Jail.
Oh, we'll, better than a flop house
that cost them a part of what they
could pick up on the streets bum
ming.
Receive Mild Surprise
So, they filed their dingy way into
Municipal Court again, and they
pleaded guilty to being drunk and
disorderly. They knew they had
been drunk, and they wouldn't dis
pute the disorderly charge.
They we're mildly surprised when
the judge turned them loose. 1t had
been done before, but generally
there was a lecture or a small SEN
tence or some punitive measure.
What's that about Christmas? Oh,
yes. They had forgotten Christmas.
No use recalling much about it,
either.
Free Until the Next Time
Well, so they got their Christmas
present. Cease dismissed"
And they trudged out into the
rain and the snow and the sleet of
freedom, and they wondered
whether they could pick up enough
for a f1ophouse bed for the night
and maybe some more for a bit of
liquor-just for Christmas sake.
And 46 old men, who didn't be-
lieve in Santa Claus, took Christmas
presents with their swollen tongues
in their cheeks.
Next time they'd get Jail or the
prison farm, and they knew there
would be next time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-25
Thieves Unload Corn
By Times Special

. Y 7 IWfN \ VttTUE
MARTINSVILLE, Dec. 25.-
Thieves spared Homer Rhea, Nor
gan County farmer, the trouble of
unloading three wagons filed with
corn. The wagons were removed
from shed during the night and
the loads of corn placed in trucks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-25
155 Conventions Booked
for indianapolis in 1885
100000 in New Money to Be Spent Here During
Year, Publicity Bureau Declares.

Christmas greetings Indianapolis business
Publicity
Of the
money" in CITY
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-25
319,4OO,2OS
SPENT BY PWA
IN Is MONTHS
Peak Reached in July When
624,286 Was Employed
on Projects.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 25. - The
Public Works Administration, look
ing forward to an even bigger Job
in a program expanded by the
President and Congress, glanced
back today TO count up 56l.58O,27l
man-hours Of work it has provided
on actual construction sites
During PWAs Is months, its pay
rolls aggregated 1919, 48O-2O8. the
average pay being S. cents an hour
S612. 476. O24 was spent for materials,
providing an unestimated amount
of additional labor in private indus
try.
Peak Reached in July
Starting with 1859 construction
Jobs in August. 1888, monthly PWA
employment totals continued to
grow until July Of this year, when
a peak figure Of 624.286 was reached.
Since July the number Of jobs has
fallen. In November there were
469.8 76 men working.
PWA material purchases reached
their peak in March. when con-
tracts totaling s69,334408 were
placed. In November this figure
had dropped to S56.274,511.
PWA orders for cement have
totaled s700OOO00; for steel and
rolling mill products. 10000 900; for
freight cars. S350OO,OOO; for lumber
and timber products. s30000,000,
and for electrical machinery and
supplies, s35.O0O.O00.
100000 Employed by CCC
In addition. PWA ALLEGATIONS pro-
vided work for 100000 persons
during the Civil Works Administra-
ton, and made grants which kept
more than 100000 employed in the
Civilian Conservation Corps.
Other Federal funds used for en-
ployment purposes during the past
eight months include those from the
Reconstruction Finance Corp. and
and Federal Emergency Relief Ad-
ministratiOn.
In November. $500 persons had
Jobs arising from RFC funds. This
represented a decrease from Octo-
Der. when 1900 were employed.
RFC-made employment reached a
peak in July. when 10000 got wages
from its loaned funds.
Jobs Increased Steadily
Starting with $4,000 persons on
work relief in May of this YEAR. fol-
lowing the cleanup of CWA activi-
ties, the FERA has steadily in
creased the number of relief jobs
In November the total reached
1900 600, with an estimated 100000
working for cash wages in Deem
Der.
Still another branch Of the Fed
eral service has provided jobs.
Grants to states for road conStruc-
ton have aided materially in cut
ting down unemployment The high
point Of this type of employment
was reached in September, when
$4,000 men we're at work on high
way construction.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-25
Jobs Increased Steadily

Six Bombs Exploded in Hanava
BIZ Unifcd Press
HAVANA, Dec. 25.-Six bombs
were exploded here during the night.
Damage was slight.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-25
IMMIGRANTS ENJOY
CHRISTMAS PROGRAM
Elsie Janis, Opera Stars, Entertain
Persons on Ellis Island.

By United Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 25.-Those I'M
fortunates detained on Ellis Island,
the famed immigration station in
New York harbor, we're not forgot
ten by Santa Claus. Each inmate
received a gift and the entire group
was entertained by Elsie Janis, COM
edienne, and members of the Metro
politan Opera Company.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-05-13

HE American history used In
our schools" writes a Penn
sylvania teacher, was copy
righted in 1896. Our read
erS were copyrighted in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-05-13
LATIN AMERICA EXPECTS
REVIVAL OF L. S. TRADE
Depression and High Tariffs Undo
Work Of Years in Building Up Bust
ness With Nearby Neighbors.

But the world depression is not the
only factor responsible for the unpar-
alleled decline in interamerican
trade. The depression alone could not
have brought it about. because the de-
preston has not set the clock of Latin
American economic conditions in gen.
eral 90 years back Nor has it reduced
Latin American trade with Europe
to the pre-war level.
If the fall in the trade Of the
Americas is. then, out of proportion
With that in the commerce of other
regions of the world, there must be
another reason to account for it.
The reason is not hard to find. 1t
is contained in single word. which
has become exceedingly popular of
late with financial experts studying
the ills of our economic system. The
word is tariffs
Feared Tariff Act.
Some four years ago, when the
highly protective rates of the Hawley-
Smoot tariff we're under discussion,
Latin Americans pointed with concern
to the harmful effects which were
bound to result from their enactment.
They warned that declining imports
would be followed by declining ex-
ports, because the curtailed buying
power of the nations affected by the
tariff would force them to cut down
their purchases of manufactured
products in the United States
They emphasized that high tariffs
brought considerable i'll will and re-
taliations which might prove very
serious in the course of years. They
even stressed a third danger; the
flight of American factories to foreign
lands in order to get over the tariff
walls which those countries were GER
tain to adopt as counter-move, and
the resultant employment of foreign
workers.
All these arguments and the more
resounding ones in behalf of interna-
tional friendship and cooperation,
subtly voiced by the diplomatic repre-
Sentatives of the Latin American ma
lions which were to be the most
affected were disregarded by the gen.
tlemen at the Capitol. And the Haw-
ley-Smoot tariff went into effect.
Trade at Lowest.
The results, we all know. Inter-
american trade is at its lowest Some
of the Southern governments are ear
nestly advocating the Buy from those
who buy from u.s. slogan. The United
States is beginning to realize that a
new trade deal is necessary.
After listening to the repeated state
ments of President Roosevelt, Secre-
tary of State Hull, Secretary of Com
merce Roper Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace and other high adminIstra-
ton officials in favor of revival OF
international trade, and after the
frank and encouraging pronounce
ments they heard at Montevideo from
the lips of Secretary Hull, the Latin
Americans are expecting a radical de-
parture from the commercial and
especially from the tariff policies of
the United States in the past few
decades.
And unless such expectations are
fulfilled, all the gains painfully made
in the political field might prove SUI
perduous.
(Copyrisht, 1881
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-05-13
BY CASTOR NERVAL.

r IMPORTANT as they are. the va
riouS problems of a political ma
ture which We have reviewed in
L preceding articles are not the
only ones that the United States
will have to face in its relations with
Latin America in the course of the
next few months.
The economic problems involved
are just as pressing, if not more so.
The world depression and the high
tariffs of Uncle Sam have undone in
three years the work of business men
and pioneers in inter-American trade
during the last two decades.
Statistical figures released last
month by the Commerce Department
showed that totals involved in export
and import trade between the United
States and the Latin American coun-
tries were back where they had been
more than 20 years before.
While in the last normal year be-
fore the depression inter-American
trade amounted to 100000 900. by
the end of 1888 it had shrunk to a
sum far below the average given for
the period Immediately preceding the
World War.
Beginning in 1913.
The year 1918 is usually considered
the starting point in the tremendous
development of inter- merican trade.
which became one of the commercial
characteristics of the postwar era.
That year United States exports to-,
and imports from, Latin America
amounted to a little over 100000, 900.
The total for 1888 had dropped to
nearly one-half of the 1918 figures.
Evidently the worldwide economic
depression had something to do with
it. AS a matter of fact, it had lot
to do with it. Trade figures all over
the world have dropped in the past
four years as result of the shrink
age in the buying power of nearly
every nation. This shrinkage has
been particularly felt in Latin Amer
lea, where the economic structure OF
most countries is entirely dependent
on one or two specific commodities.
The price of these commodities hav-
ing tumbled to record lows, govern
dllu pIlNdGC lCNClAaCo nav oNA
fered enormous cuts and general
economic diSarrangement has ensued.
In some of the Southern republics,
such economic difficulties have not
stopped short of political unrest. I'm
doubtedly precipitated by economic
factors. series of internal revolts
and changes of government by vio-
lence have taken place. This. natu-
rally. could not have been an en-
couragement to foreign trade.
Moreover, almost at the same time
that the world depression set in, the
flood of money which had been pour
ing into Latin America from Wall
Street in the most extravagant man.
ner-in the major part excessive and
unsafe government loans-waS sud-
denly cut of.
Deprived of profits by the slump in
the value of prime commodities, and
then deprived of the credit with which
they had been paying old debts and
buying from abroad. the Latin Amer
leans found themselves forced to cut
down their expenditures to a mini
mum.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-05-13

cation, pointed out, "the books could
offer no objection" The publishers
statesmen could and did, but no doubt
school boards, like myself. have less
confidence in most statesmen than in
most textbooks.
There are a few honorable excep-
tons to this dismal record. OF cities
of more than 100000 % either in
creased their textbook purchases in
1928 or estimated an increase for
1933-34. The following cities in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-05-13
Tokens in Peace and War.

From the Worcester Telegram.
We should not be hasty in con-
demning token" payments on the
war debt accounts. in the circum-
stances. Still, Europe might occa-
sionally consider what might have
happened II in 1918 we had sent over
only a token" expeditionary force.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-05-13

creased each year over the preceding
Berkeley. Calf: New Britain. Conn;
Peoria. Ill: Lexington, KY; st. Paul,
Mimi; Orange, N. j.; Dayton. Ohio;
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, and Nashville, Tenn.
OF these Nashville bought the most
books. She should have some sort
of medal.
Annual budgets. Of course. do not
tell the whole story Schools may
buy their textbooks. like their build
irlgS, in fits and starts, even though
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-05-13
FAR EAST TO BE TALKED
BY LEADERS AT GENEVA
Statesmen Attending League Council
Will Discuss, "Back-Stage," Many
Problems Confronting Nations.
BY ALBIN E. JOHNSON.

~ ENEVA-The seventy ninth
session of the League of
T Nations Council opens here
~ Monday May IA. 1t will have
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-05-13
Talking at the Opera.

From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
When the conductor of an opera
orchestra tells the talking audience to
shut up" he probably forgets that
the opera has been heard before, but
the conversation Is new.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-05-13

Author OF "The Economy OF Alum
dance" "A NeW Deal" "MericO-d
Study of TlUo Americas" Etc.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-14

Women's slippers,
soft, g ay POM
pom and ribbon
t r i m m i n g
Chrome leather
soles. Choice of
attractive colors,
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EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN

Fancy American Biscuits and Cakes in tins
Huntley and Palmer Xmas Cakes
English Fancy Biscuits
Morton Puddings and Pickles
Fancy Chocolates in Boxes
Spanish Nougat
Fancy Bonbons, Creams and Covered Almonds
Crystalized fruits in fancy boxes
Table Dates, Cluster Rasins and Figs in pkgs
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For your T able
Horomels' Cooked Hams
Pork SanSaCe

Horomes Cooked Hams
Pork Sausage
Roneless Pigfoot
Danish Ham Sausage. Sausage Meat
Beefsteak In GRAVY
q Heinz Fig anG Plum Pudding
Spanish Olives stuffed with Anchovies
Underworld DeviIed Ham and Sardines
Danish Picked Sausage, Eot dogs in Pickle
Family Extra Beef
Plaza Coffee (Puertorican Style)
Maxwell House Coffee
Fancy American Pickles. (all varetes)
Table Raisins
California Dried Figs, English Wanuts
Mixed Nuts
Boston Baked Beans. Brown Bread
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From England
FROM CZECHOSLOVAKIA

Powder pots, Perfume Atomizers, Va
ses, Cups and saucers, also an assert
ment of Toys, China Ware and Ename
Ware, Wrist Watches andPocket Watches