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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-10-12

selected, he to be the chairman Of the
new administrative board. Five other
members of this latter body are s.
Clay Williams, head of the Reynolds
Tobacco company; Arthur d. White
side, president of Dun & Bradstreet;
Sidney Hillman, president of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers; Leon
c. Marshall, labor specialist; and Prof.
Walton II. Hamilton of Yale. Two ex-
officio members are Blackwell Smith,
assistant general counsel of NRA, and
Leon Henderson, chief of the NRA di-
vision of research and planning under
Johnson.
The judicial branch of the NRA was
still under consideration. Mr.. Roose-
welt indicated that its duties might be
assigned to a special department of
the Department Of Justice.
The recommendations of the new
policy making board are subject to the
will of the President, but under the
terms of the executive order these rec
concentrations must be submitted to
the President by the director. Thus,
Richberg will have the final voice be-
fore the President himself approves or
disapproves the boards decisions.
The board was further empowered
to "promulgate administrative policies,
TO appoint, to employ, discharge. fix
the compensation, define the duties,
and direct the conduct of the person.
mel necessary for its administration,
and to exercise all those powers here
tofore conferred by executive orders
upon the administration for industrial
recovery"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-10-12

INTERESTING, though not highly i'm
i portant, is the report that comes
from Vienna that Mustapha Renal
Pasha, dictator president Of Turkey.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-10-12
CECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR

CECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR
- ICKES, as head of the federal pub
lie works administration, announced an
ambitious family housing project for
Chicago which, at cost of 81, $500, COO,
will abolish "slum area" Of 81 city
blocks on the southwest side and re-
place demolished buildings with small
apartment houses for 5000 families.
Condemnation proceedings were start
ed in the Federal court in Chicago, and
Mr.. Ickes said If the property owners
are reasonable in their demands the
project will go through speedily. The
area to be rehabilitated is inhabited
now almost entirely by persons OF
Italian descent and, far from being a
typical "slum," contains numerous
neat, well-kept homes and several
large apartment houses. The plan OF
the PWA for its rebuilding is very
similar to housing projects in Moscow
and Vienna, with the government sup
plying social and nursery facilities as
well as dwellings. The work will be
done through the federal housing cor
poration, which concern the govern
ment owns.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-10-12

CEVEN hundred thousand German
- peasants gathered at Bueckeburg
hill for their national harvest festival
celebration and were told by Chan
cellor Adolf Hitler that their independ-
ence as a nation was perfectly safe.
Said he: "The latest prophecy is that
lack of currency for the purchase of
foreign raw material will bring about
our collapse. They will never beat US
down. Under the worst circumstances
they will make US more independent"
Reiterating his governments opposi-
ton to war, the fuehrer said: "We
Nazis regard honor and life as indivis-
ible. We have told the world what is
the honest wish of every German
Germany and the German people de-
sire nothing but peace. Nevertheless,
they will never relinquish equal
rights"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-10-12

MISS GRACE ABBOTT, for years
1Nl one of the governments most
faithful and useful servants, has re-
signed her position as director of the
children's bureau, to the grief of her
associates in Washington and the re-
greet of every one who knows about
her fine work there. Miss Abbott now
becomes professor of public welfare
administration in the University of
Chicago and editor of the Social Serv-
ice Review.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-10-12

D ESIGNATION of General Johnson,
IN as accepted by the President, is
not effective until October Is. Until
then he will be busy compiling his final
report and also, it is said, writing the
story of his life. 1t was learned that
he has been offered the management
of industrial and labor relations of
"a large group of midwestern manu-
facturers."
This is not the time or place to es-
innate General Johnson's achievements
as administrator of the NRA which
was largely his own creation. He GER
tainly worked hard and accomplished
much. whether for good or evil. His
mistakes were admittedly glaring, and
not the least of them was his recent
assertion that during his administra-
ton he had been in close touch with
Justice Brandeis of the Supreme court.
As that tribunal will have to pass on
the constitutionality of NRA before
long, this statement created a sensa-
ton and was dismaying to the friends
of Justice Brandeis. OF course, the
jurist could take no notice of it. The
Tow down" is said to be that Johnson
did consult the justice when he was
formulating the NRA and received
some informal advice which he dis
regarded. and that later Mr.. Brandeis
told him he had better resign.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-10-12

CEN. HUGH S. JOHNSON steps
~ out of the picture and the NRA
is turned over to Donald R. Richberg
and other "left wing" members of the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-10-12

o. B. Winters, flying from New York
to California, wires: 'Flying would
be easier if prominent roof was
marked in each town" Chambers of
commerce should discuss that. It is
an important kind of advertising now
neglected and the national government
should do something about it, provid-
Ing abroad signs for flyers and huge
arrows pointing, "This way, north to
Chicago" 'sThis way to Seattle" "This
way to New Orleans" ''This way to
Key West"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-10-12

James A. Moffatt, President Roose.
velt's housing administrator, predicts
that 100000 new homes will be built,
and will put S2yOOO,OO0,OO0 of private
funds into new construction, employ
ing many. Three million new houses
will arouse serious thinking in land
lords Of houses already built, especial
ly those that have let their properties
run down.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-10-12

in age from twenty-three to twenty
six. The Albanian royal family, like
Renal, is of the Moslem faith.
Rumors of another almost royal
marriage come from Paris. The Pariser
Tageblattt, German refugee newspa-
per. says Chancellor Hitler contem-
plates taking as his bride German
princess, one of the family of SAKE
Coburg and Gotha which is allied to
the crowns of half dozen European
countries. 1t adds that the fuehrer at
the same time will assume the title
Of duke of the Germans"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-10-12

1t is cheerful news that all cadets
at West Point are to be trained for fly
ing. If they are not to be taught fly
ing, you might as well confine your
teaching of young West Pointers and
Annapolis men to driving hanson cabs
and ''four-wheelers."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-10-12

Life insurance experts find that
poets do not die young. They live
about as long as physicians. You are
told that you must not compare stat
istics on modern poets with Chatterton
dead at nineteen; Shelley at thirty
Keats at twenty-six, Poe at forty
Burns at thirty-seven.
Unfortunately, you cannot compare
modern poetry with the product of
those dead gentlemen, either.
G, King Features Syndicate, Inc.
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-10-12

WNU-G
The Washington times., 1934-02-24
FL|ERS Off
ONSEARCH
DESPITE
STORM )
Ship Believed Forced Down
In Rugged Mountains of
Utah or Wyoming =.

SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. "a
(I.N.S.) .-Dense fog and snow
today hid the whereabouts of d
giant twin-motored Boeing air.
plane, missing somewhere be+
tween here and Rock Springs,
Wyo., with seven men and on9
woman aboard. The plane wad
due in Rock Springs at 3 p. M.
yesterday.
A dull humming of distan6
motors was heard over the desert
stretches Of western wyoming and
eastern Utah early last night.
Heavy Fog Prevails
The missing plane, one Of tho
crack liners of the United Air~
lines, left Salt Lake City at 2:3g
p! m. and was due at Rock Springs
a half hour later. )
l.. The plane did not reach Rock
Springs. "A heavy fog, in which
the ship was believed lost, covered
the ground in the vicinity Of Rock
Springs. The fog was so heavy
that westbound plane that left
Rock Springs for Salt Lake yes
terday afternoon, bearing Edward
A. Hayes, national commander Of
the American Legion, turned back.
AS time wore on without word
from the air liner reaching here,
the fear that it had crashed on
some isolated mountainside grew.
Air line officials said that it care
ried gasoline enough to last only
about eight hours.
Leading the search for the
missing plane, two veterans Of
mountain flying today took off
in the face of perilous weather.
conditions.
They were H. A. Collision, who
in ten years of mountain pilot
ing has learned every peak and
valley along the route, and Jack
O'Brien, another seasoned vet~
eran. Collision left at tbs a. m.
(MIS.TO, and O'Brien shortly
afterwards.
The crew Of the missing plane
consisted of Pilots j. Danielsol1
and Lloyd Anderson and Steward
ess Mary Carter.
List of Passengers
The passenger list, as announced
by United Air Lines here included
E. l.. Walker, of Rock Springs
Wyo.: J. j. Sterling. of Benton
Harbor, Mich, flying from Los
Angeles to Chicago; Bert Nc
Laughlin, Marcellus Zinmaster and
w. B. Berland, of Des Moines,
Iowa, flying from Los Angeles To
DeS MoineS.
Many telephone calls reached
Rock Springs during the night
telling of supposedly lost ship
CONTINUED on Page 2, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1934-02-24
ARMY INQUIRY
GETSLETTERS

Letters written to Secretary of
War Dern by Representative John
j. McSWain, of the House Mill
tary Committee, are being in
vestigated by the Grand Jury
in its probe of War Department
contracts, it was learned today.
These letters, it was learned,
were written in behalf of R. C.
Remick, manufacturers agent
who was seeking War Depart
ment contracts for tires and
motor vehicles.
Admitting that he wrote two
letters to Secretary Dern almost
a year ago, Representative Nc
Swain said that he had done so
at the request of Mr.. Remick,
a former constituent in South
Carolina.
He declared he made no effort
to influence the War Department
to do anything but what was
proper.
The McSwain letters have been
placed with those of Senator
Copeland of New York, and Sen
ator Reynolds of North Carolina,
written in behalf of Joseph Silver
man, jr., New York and Washing
ton dealer, who was questioned by
the Grand Jury il regard to con-
tracts, and who was barred from
further dealings with the War
Department.
The Washington times., 1934-02-24
ROGERS
Says:

NEW YORK, Feb. 24.-JusS
flew up from Washington
Neither Senate nor the House
was operating.
Shows you what giving 'em a
raise does. But they was awful
busy investigator. I run into
my old friends Pat Harrison
and Bob La Toilette and they
was investigating sugar. We
have more arguments over
sugar than we do over all the
things combined that sugar goes
on, or in. Pat was kinder pro.
tecting Mississippi. They got q
kind Of a Kaffir corn that rem
ders out a thing they think ID
sOrter sweet.
In another room they was In
vestigating Wall Street. That
was a real sugar investigation.
Corporations loaned 20 billions
to Wall Street in '29, so Mr..
Roosevelt didn't invent the
word billion.
Copyright, 1884. by Mcknight
SyndiCate)
The Washington times., 1934-02-24
BR|TT|N FREED,
SEEKING JOB

Homeless, deserted and without
funds, Col. L. H. Brittin, former
vice president of Northwest Air
ways, left the District Jail free
man.
Colonel Brittin served a Today
sentence for contempt of the Sen
ate in connection with its inVesti-
CATION into alleged irregularities
of air and ocean mail contracts.
The tall, thin, grey-haired air
mail promoter adhered strictly to
the regulations of the jail in leav-
ing by the back door in company
with II other prisoners whose SEN
fences expired today. There was
no one to meet him and he was
taken to the National Press Build
ing in the car Of a local reporter.
Denies ANY Partially
He shook hands with the super
intendent of the jail, Thomas M.
Rives, before leaving, expressing
his appreciation for the treatment
received. He denied prison
authorities had been partial to
him. He said:
81 slept in a dOrmitOry with
70 other men and ate the regu-
lar prison food. I worked in
the basement as a clerk in the
file section. In free moments
1 studied or read the papers.
1 was very much impressed with
the morale of the District Jail.
and highly esteem Mr.. Rives."
is ALMOST PENNILESS
Colonel Brittin admits he is al
most penniless, that he has no
where in particular to go, and
that his friends have deserted
him. He said:
81 shall stay in Washington
until I get something to do. If
that fails shall return to st.
Paul.
81 am not accustomed to re-
ceiving favOrS and / guess 1
can start all over again by my.
self. This sob stuff bOres me.
/ am not looking for Sympa-
thy"
The Washington times., 1934-02-24
FARLEYDENIES 'SLUR' ATBLACK
It Amt No SIN to End
Gangs Film Rule,
Says May West

their hand and if it has to be
me, I'll do it.
Don't think it was any
pleasure sessiOn-thOse days in
court teStifying against what
investigators told me was q
mob that would stop at moth.
ing.
tits time someone in Holly
wOOd-Speaking very frankly
showed what is known as in
teStinal fOrtitude!"
The two armed men detailed
by District Attorney Buron Fits
to guard the screen star are Jack
Criss, chief of the district attor.
ney'S gangster detail, and j. c.
Southland, investigator and pistol
expert.
Besides the two officers Miss
West also is accompanied by her
manager, James Timony, former
athlete and New York baseball
player: Boris Petroff, associated
with Miss West in her pictures
and her chauffeur, a former
boxer.
Keep Her Guarded
CriSS explained that the pre-
cautions were being taken to be
sure that Miss West is unframed,
and on hand to testify against
the two other men we are deter
mined to try on the robbery
charge. He said:
eve will keep her guarded,
although she has not requested
the protection"
The Washington times., 1934-02-24
MARKET
REACT|ONARY
COL. BRITTIN

NEW YORK, Feb. 24.-Today's
short session of the New York
Stock Exchange was featured by a
continued reactionary tone. The
volume was relatively dull, with
sales around a million-share total.
Selling centered principally in
the steels and motors, where
United States Steel, Bethlehem
and Republic, Chrysler, General
Motors and Auburn were princi-
pally sold. Considerable selling of
Consolidated Gas and North
American was experienced.
Curb securities yielded ground
in dribbling liquidation. Bonds
continued on a declining trend:
cotton held narrowly in limited
trading, and grains lost frac-
tionally,
The Washington times., 1934-02-24
WHITE HOUSE.
WILL DECIDE
PAY ISSUE
Move to Reconsider Vote in
Senate Deemed Unlikely;
Leaders Confident

Still awaiting word from the
President, House leaders today
are frankly laying the pay cut
problem at the doorstep of the
White House.
If the President either directly
or by implication signifies his
approval of full restoration, the
House is expected to almost
unanimously concur with the Sen
ate amendment to the indepen-
dent offices supply bill.
Should the Chief Executive
send a message to the Hill OPP
posing full restoration, however,
it is likely conferees would be
instructed to concur only with a
five-and-five restoration, 5 per
cent as of February l and an
additional per cent July /.
G. o. p. Confident
Meantime the Republican side
of the House is solidly for re-
storing the entire cut, and is
confident it can Gull a sufficient
number of votes from the other
side of the chamber to carry
the vote anyway. Rep. Joseph w.
Byrns CD of Tennessee, Demo
cratic floor leader, at the same
time is disturbed by the Presi-
dents silence.
Vice President John N. Garner
and Senator James F. Byrnes
CD of South Carolina conferred
with the President late yesterday,
but made no comment other than
to say they talked politics." This
is believed to indicate the Presi-
dent will withhold any public
statement until after the Senate
CONTINUED on Page 2, Col. ~
The Washington times., 1934-02-24
Fay Webb Contests
N. Y. Court RuLinq

LOS ANGELES, Feb. "a. G.N.S.)
Fay Webb Vallee, estranged wife
Of Rudy Vallee, crooner, today
took issue with the decision in
New York of Supreme Court JUS
tice Bernard I. Sheintag restrain
ing her from suing Vallee for sep
aration anywhere except in New
York. Her attorney, Ben C. Cohen,
announced Mrs. Vallee would con-
tinue to contest for the right to
place her marital troubles before
a California court.
The Washington times., 1934-02-24
Er-DeacOn Must Pau
$4,000 Heart Balm

CONVICTION, KY, Feb. "a
G.N.SD.-A judgment of 100000
was returned by a jury in Ken
ton circuit court here today
against Ralph P. Scharringhaus,
81, former clothing dealer, Army
officer and church deacon of
Knoxville, Tenn, in the 100000
heart balm suit brought by Miss
Evelyn Hazen, 34-year-old former
Knoxville school teacher.
The Washington times., 1934-02-24
POSTMASTER
STANDS BY
HIS GUNS
Austin and Black Exchange
Verbal Blows; Brown Sticks
To His "SiIence" Code
BY International News Service

A minute after shaking
hands with former Postmaster
General Walter F. Brown, his
successor, James A. Farley,
took the witness stand and
flatly denied the former Post
master Generals testimony be-
fore the Black Senate air mail
committee.
Brown had asserted that Farley
had commented upon Senators Of
the Air Mail Committee and had
told Brown mot to repeat" the re-
marks. Brown again refused to
reveal what Farley allegedly told
him.
Farley said he made no dis
paraging remarks about the air
mail probe and said nothing which
Brown was not at liberty to re-
peat. Farley was asked:
"Did Mr.. Brown ask you why
Senator Black was pursuing him
in. such a savage manner and
did you then give him reply
and ask him not to repeat it,"
mo, / did not"
Brown had said:
cali my life I have made it a
rule not to disclose anything in
tended to be confidential, re-
CARELESS of subsequent relations
with the person who gave me
the confidence. 1 am going to
adhere to this rule now"
Brown told Senator McCarrar
that yesterday the Senator had
"tried to create the impression
you wanted me to tell what Mr.
Farley said"
McCarran said:
81 did not"
But Brown stuck to his decision
Didn't Remember
Senator Austin (RO of Yer.
mont read letters concerning air
mail contracts written by Farley
who professed lack of recollection
concerning them. Farley said that
his subordinates handled air mail
matters.
Farley said that a conference
was held with air mail company
CONTINUED on Page 2, Col. p
The Washington times., 1934-02-24
ON PLANE.
PROFITS HIT

Profits of manufacturers sell.
ing airplanes and engines to the
Navy Department cannot be linn,
tied to 10 per cent, former Sec,
rotary. of the Navy Charles Fran,
els Adams today declared before
House naval affairs subcommit.
tee.
The committee had summoned
Adams to testify on profits made
by the firms which had sold air
craft and equipment to the Navy
during his administration.
He said:
Due to various conditions
that enter into construction Of
airplaneS and engines 1 do not
see how it is possible to place
a 10 per cent limitation on the
profits of the manufacturers"
Mr.. Adams vigorously denied
that he owned stock of any com
pany which did business with the
Navy Department while he was
serving as Secretary.
The Washington times., 1934-02-24
Robert Reynolds
ReDOrted In1DrOUed

Condition of Mrs. Robert Reyn-
olds, wife of the Senator from
North Carolina, was reported as
improved at Emergency Hospital
today. where she has been seri-
ously i'll.
Mrs. Reynolds underwent a
blood TRANSMISSION on Thursday,
receiving a pint of blood from
Miss w. E. Mcdonald, secretary
to the Senator, and there has been
a marked improvement since then,
doctors said.
The Washington times., 1934-02-24
PILOTS
|MPER|LLED
BY CUTS
Mail Assignment Bares Lack
of Proper Equipment and
Repair Work Funds
Copyright, 1894. by International
Magazine Coz


An amazing revelation of the
state of unpreparedness in which
the Army Air Corps found itself
as the result of Governmental
economy when called upon to han
die the nations air mail was dis
closed to International News
Service today.
The informant, a high ranking
officer. revealed that no less than
81 per cent of all the airplane
motors possessed by the Army Air
Corps were in repair depots await
ing overhauling when the Army
was called upon by President
Roosevelt to fly the mails, follow
ing cancellation of commercial
air mail contracts.
Funds Lacking
The motors were piled up in the
repair shops because Govern
mental economy slashes left the
Air Corps without sufficient funds
to carry out repair work.
Most of these motors still are
in the depots and, unless addi-
tional funds are forthcoming i'm
mediately, the air corps will be
faced with the necessity of using
them without the required over
hauling if machines now being
flown need new motors.
Furthermore, it was disclosed
that on one occasion the Army Air
Corps was forced to bear 43 per
cent of the burden of an economy
cut in War Department appropria
lions,
The Washington times., 1934-02-24
Steel ROW
Before Labor Board
International News Service

Rebuffed at every turn in it's
efforts to, settle the controversy
between the Weirton Steel Com
pany and its 10000 employees, over
the question of collective bargain
ing, the National Labor Board
was catapulted into another battle
with "steel' today, when en-
ployes of the U. S. Steel Com
pany'S Duquesne, Pa, plant and
of the Carnegie Steel Works at
McKeesport complained of an
election held at the plants yes
terday.
The delegates charged the COM
pany with interference and in
timidation.
The Washington times., 1934-02-24
Alexandria Boy, 8,
Is Killed bu Truck

Marvin Chinn. 8, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel Chinn, Route 3,
Alexandria. was struck and killed
late yesterday on Fairfax Road,
near the Lee Jackson School.
j. A. Elberson, Alexandria, took
the child to Alexandria Hospital
where physicians pronounced him
dead. Police were told the boy
ran in front of a truck driven
by j. w. Stinks Of Warrenton, Va.
The Washington times., 1934-02-24

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. "a Q.N.SO .
Mae West today flung down the
gauntlet to gangdom.
The spectacular screen and
stage star, under double guard
since she took the witness stand
to testify against one of three
men accused of robbing her of
$4,000 in jewels and $3,4O0 in
cash, announced she would ap-
pear as a witness against the
other pair if they are brought
to trial. She declared:
81 felt somebody should put
a stop to the fOothOld that
thieves and racketeerS were at
tempting to gain in Hollywood"
LAUDS THE POLICE
"The Los Angeles District
Attorneys office and the pO-
lice department are efficient
and have kept Hollywood as
clean as possible of crooks, but
their work is in vain IL these on
whom the gangsters prey do
not do their part and go to
court on the side Of the law.
81 have to do it as q citizen;
I have to do it for society.
"They threaten us in the pic
ture colony under penalty of
having acid thrown in our
faces. And they don't stop at
acid threats, either.
"They threaten to kill.
at is time someone called
The Washington times., 1934-02-24
Storm in Midwest
Grounds Air Mail

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Feb. "a
QN.S0.-With a snow storm
raging over this section, Army air
mail planes were forced to re-
main in their hangers here to-
day. It was the first day since
the Army took over the flying of
the mail that planes out of Kan
sas City had been forced to can
eel. The plane from Chicago
came through safely, landing at
1925 a. m.
The Washington times., 1934-02-24
Three Killed As Bus
And Truck Collide

KANSAS CITY, Kans., Feb. "a
G.N.S0.-Three men were killed
and three persons injured today
when a truck sideswiped a bus
in a driving snow storm eight
miles west of here.
Edgar F. Keith, of Topeka,
driver of the truck. was among
those killed. The other two VIC
tins, one of whom vas a Negro,
have not been identified.