The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-12-21

the decline OF our navy to q SuDord1-
nate place.
DEACEFUL solution Of the Saar
L plebiscite problem seemed assured
when the council of the League Of Ma
tons unanimously and gladly adopted
the report Of the Saar committee en-
bodying the Franco-German agreement
for payment for the mines in case the
region votes to return to the reich.
Leading up to this settlement were two
announcements Of utmost Importance.
First, Foreign Minister Pierre Laval
Of France promised that French troops
would make no attempt to enter the
Saar territory before or during the
vote on January ID. II desire to an
nounce," said he shat France will not
participate in any international force
which it may be found necessary to
send into the Saar. We cannot par
ticipate in such a force because Ger
many cannot participate"
Then Capt. Anthony Eden, British
lord privy seal, told the council that
Great Britain would contribute troops to
the proposed international force, pro-
vided Chancellor Hitler Of Germany
were willing that such an army should
be sent into the territory. When Ber-
lin was Informed Of this, foreign
Office spokesman announced that Hit
ler's government would raise no objec-
tons to the plan.
All this was in effect a victory for
the policies of Col. Godfrey G. Knox,
the league commissioner Of the Saar,
for he has long advocated the crea-
ton of an international police force
for the territory.
Delegates of Italy and Czechoslo-
vakia declared their countries would
send troops, and Maxim Litvinov,
Soviet foreign commissar. said he be-
lieved Russia would be willing to sup
ply a part of the league force.
A TTORNEY GENERAL CUMMINGS
1 4 held a four-day crime conference
in Washington with some five hundred
delegates, and President Roosevelt and
Henry L. Stimson made speeches at the
opening session. Criminologists, judges,
lawyers and sociologists Joined the gov
eminent officials in devising a program
to make the nation more law-abiding.
81. ]. Anslinger, chief Of the narcotic
bureau, discussed the recent raids in
many large cities in which his agents
seized hundreds of dope peddlers, ad-
diets and their equipment, and said the
raids showed the need of more drastic
laws against the dope evil. The mat
ter of shady lawyers was taken up
and Mayer c. Goldman Of New York
suggested that private counsel in Grim
inal cases be abolished and system
of state defense lawyers be established.
Treasury officials urged that their po-
lice authority against bootlegging
should be broadened. These and many
other topics were thoroughly discussed.
CUY 7. HELvERING, commissioners
~ Of internal revenue, revealed in
his annual report that forty-six Amer
leans enjoyed net incomes Of more than
a million dollars last year, and one
multimillionaire, richest man in 1888,
netted more than five million dollars.
In 1882 no one made more than five
million dollars, and only twenty per-
sons made million or over.
Total net incomes for all persons In
the country decreased slightly to ten
billion eight hundred and forty-six mil
lion dollars in 1888, compared with
eleven billions one hundred and eighty
five millions in 1882.
Corporation income showed slight
Improvement last year, according to
delivering. He reported that 104,702
corporations showed net taxable in
comes of two billion five hundred and
six million dollars in 1888, compared
with 7s,775 corporations reporting net
income of one billion eight hundred
and ffty-two millions in 1892.
The great majority Of corporations,
however, still show no profit at all;
316,S56 firms reported that instead of
net income in 1888 they had net deficits
aggregating four billion five hundred
and eleven million dollars.