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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-12-14
CURRENT EVENTS
PASS IN REVIEW
BUSINESS OFFERS A PROGRAM
FOR REFORM OF BUDGET
mo NEW TAxES"-RoBINSoN
BY EDWARD w. PIckARD
G. Western Newspaper Union.

BUSINESS leaders Of the country
~ who are members of the Chamber
OF Commerce of the United States de-
mand a reform of the governments
budgetary methods. Through refer
endum they have given approval to
thirteen proposals to this end.
One step recommended was "a more
active centralized administrative con-
troll of expenditures" This would be
obtained by broadening the execu-
tive allotment system of funds so as
to include all expenditures, ordinary
and emergency, and strengthening It
so as to avoid the necessity Of defici-
ency appropriations"
This recommendation for broader
control by the administrative branch
Of the government also suggested that
when feasible" expenditures be re-
duced below appropriations.
Among other proposals approved
were:
That the executive budget be sub
mitted to congress about March 1, in
stead of early January Gin the belief
that estimates would be more accurate
If submitted nearer the beginning OF
the fiscal year"
That the President, in his budget es-
Inmates, designate activities he thinks
should be discontinued.
That revenue estimates in the execu-
tive budget be so expended as to pre-
sent a complete revenue program.
That there should be a general &C
counting office, directly under control
of the executive.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-12-14

front and was arrest
ed by Gen. Enrique
Penaranda and forced
to resign. Meantime
Vice President Jose
Sorzano had taken
over the presidential
powers by decree and
installed a new cabi-
net. Penaranda ap-
peared to be the vir-
tual dictator and it
s e e m e d likely he
would take stems to
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bring about peace with Paraguay.
However the fighting in the Pilco-
mayo river sector was continued, the
Paraguayans pushing the Bolivians
steadily back toward their main base
at Villa Monies. There were contra
dictory claims from opposing quarters.
The Bolivians declared the offensive
has ceased with heavy losses suffered
by the Paraguayans, while the latter
claim the capture of La Puerta, only
a few miles south of Cururenda. North
of the Pilcomayo strong Bolivian forces
were operating, having been rushed
from the northern Chaco sector.
INSPECTOR SAMUEL P. COWLEY
land Agent Herman e. Hollis Of the
bureau Of Investigation, Department Of
Justice, engaged in gun battle with
Lester ellis, better known as George
("Baby Face") Nelson, Public Enemy
No. 1, and companion, near Barring
ton, Ill, and both the federal men were
shot to death by machine guns in the
hands of the bandits. The killers, &C.
companied by a woman, escaped for
the time being in the agents car, their
own being disabled.
Next day Nelson's body was found
miles away, in Niles Center, at the en-
trance to cemetery. He had died of
nine bullet wounds from the guns Of
the federal agents he killed and evil
IDENTIFY his body had been left at the
roadside after his companions had
failed to save his life.
Cowley was the man who killed John
Dillinger, chief of the gang to which
Nelson belonged, and he also was in
command of the posse that ran down
and killed Pretty Boy" Floyd In an
Indiana cornfield not long ago.
THOMAS N. MCARTER, president
l. of the Edison Electric institute,
has made public the legal opinion
drafted by Newton D. Baker and James
NJ. Beck holding the Tennessee valley
authority act unconstitutional.
In their joint opinion Mr.. Beck and
Mr.. Baker declare that analysis Of the
IVA act indicated that its content did
not constitute regulation of interstate
commerce or provision for national de-
tense, but rather project for the fed
eral government "to embark In the
power business" The opinion goes still
further and finds that the very enact
ment of the law "was beyond the con-
stitutional power of the congress"
For the government to engage in the
power business. the opinion asserts, Is
"at once a denial Of the police power
of the state and an invasion Of state
sovereignty over territory as to which
the state has made no cession Of SOW
ereignty to the federal government"
Mr.. Baker and Mr.. Beck voiced the
belief that the references in the IVA
act to flood control, navigation. and
national defense are merely "a dis
guise for the plain but unconstitutional
purpose of the statute"
The act, according to the opinion,
does not authorize the acquisition and
operation of electrical distribution
plants, nor the extension of utility rate
legislation beyond the narrow limit Of
sales to municipal plants. The pro-
posal of iva to regulate rates Of pri-
vate utilities to which 1t makes power
sales is attacked as outside the con-
stitutional sanction. Mr.. Beck and Mr..
Baker assert that in this respect the
law violates the fifth amendment to the
constitution by denying equal protec.
ton Of the laws"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-12-14

TN LINE with this budget "revolt" Is
L the opposition the business men are
demonstrating to the ten billion dollar
work relief program proposed to the
President by his brain trust advisers.
AS outlined by Secretary of the In
terror Ickes and Relief Administrator
Hopkins this is an undertaking to ter
inmate federal direct relief and put, all
able bodied unemployed persons at
work on government financed projects,
while the states continue to afford re-
lief to those persons not able to work.
Theoretically, the projects would be
to large degree self-liquidating in 20
to 80 years and the government would
recover large part of the outlay. Thus
the cost of relief would be cut and the
revival of business at the same time
would be promoted through the demand
for construction materials and the in
crease of workers purchasing power
resulting from the vast government ex-
penditures.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-12-14
Fortunate for Us. Il Don,

If the polar Ice were melted the
Advance of Science says that enough
water would be released to raise the
worlds sea level $50 feet. This would
bring the inundation Of many coastal
and areas.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-12-14

W e j com e assurance
that the New Deal
program to be pre-
sented to congress in
January does no t
contemplate the i'm
position of new taxes
or the substantial in
crease of exis in G
taxes. He added that
he believed expendi-
lures for normal gov
eminent purpos e S
would be kept well
within tho national
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-12-14
Pvrrhonism

Pyrrhonism is term for scepticism.
Pyrrho, who lived in the Fourth CEN
fury, B. c., believed and taught that
nothing was capable of proof and ad.
mitted the reality of nothing but sen.
sationS.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-12-14

EGYPT Is being given 'New Deal"
BY royal decree the parliament has
been dissolved and all its powers dele
gated to King Fuad until new con-
stitution, much more liberal in type
than the present one Is drafted.
general clean up Of the govern
ment. made on British advice. has
greatly curtailed the control of Ibrashi
Pasha, reputed power behind the the
throne Of King Fuad. and paved the
way for the new constitution.
Ahmed Ziwar Pasha, veteran states
man. was named chief Of the royal cab
met, post long untitled. The political
cabinet was completely overhauled,
with Tewfik Nesshim Pasha replacing
Yehia Pasha as prime minister.
TROUBLE over the Saar plebiscite
may be averted after all the alarm,
for 1t Is reported unofficially that Chan
cellor Hitler of Germany and Foreign
Minister Pierre Laval of France have
reached an accord providing that Ger
many will pay for French mining prop
critics in the Saar If France abandons
the effort to keep the region under the
jurisdiction Of the League Of Nations.
Substance was given this report
when Reichsfuehrer Hitler instructed
all the Nazi propaganda forces in the
Saar to cease their activities. He or
dered that disturbances must be avoid
ed and that the Nazi must rely largely
on the press to keep the Swastika fly
ing in the disputed territory after the
prebiscite. This would seem to insure
an impartial vote on January Is.
zen. LAZARO CARDENAS, who
~ though only thirty-nine years old
is veteran Of the Mexican revolu-
ton, was installed as president of Mex
leo on December 1. He Is of Spanish
and Tarascan Indian stock, fine sol
der and statesman and has held office
under the revolutionary government
for five years.
IN A trial lasting only few minutes.
L Lord Ashley won divorce from his
wife, the former Sylvia Hawke, actress,
and the costs, estimated at $4,000,
were ordered paid by Douglas Fair
banks, who was named as correspond
ent. Neither Lady Ashley nor the
American film star made any defense,
and there were but two witnesses, Lord
ASh1ev and George Edwards Fair.
banks secretary. A decree nisi was
granted by Justice Sir Bord Merriman.
and it may be made final in six months.
DOLIVIA'S troops in the Chaco were
II being soundly whipped by the Par
aguayans and President Daniel Sala-
manca was blamed. He visited the war
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-12-14

THE federal government has start
i ed in Buffalo the contest that will
finally determine the collective bar
gaining powers of organized labor un-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-12-14

ZOE ROBINSON of Arkansas, senate
- floor leader, spent four hours III
conference with President Roosevelt at
Warm Springs, and emerged with the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-12-14


army officers had been executed as the
result of a plot to assassinate all
Soviet leaders at the same time. The
dispatch said, in reporting the as
sassination of Sergei Kirov, that the
G. P. U. (secret police) had discovered
the plot and that the 10 officers were
put to death within the hour. Sixty
others were arrested. General Rudow,
chief Of the Leningrad G. P. o.. dis
missed another general and arrested
many high officials.
Moscow officially denied this story,
which does not necessarily mean that
1t is untrue.
A LFONSO. former king of Spain,
and Antonio Goicochea, who used
to be his minister of the interior, held
a secret conference in Rome the other
day and Immediately there were ru-
mors that a dictatorship might be set
up in Spain, to be followed by restora-
ton of the royal family.
Italy's Fascists, many Of whom have
in Spain is the only way to avert COM
plete chaos, and the four groups of
Spaniards in Rome-the exiled mon
archists, the leftist intellectuals, the
Spanish clerics, and the diplomats-as-
signed considerable Importance to Col
cochea's visit.
The name most frequently mentioned
in monarchical circles in connection
with possible dictatorship is that of
Jose Maria Gil Robes, young Catho-
lie leader. The efforts of Jose Primo
de Rivera, son of the late dictator I'M
der Alfonso. to spread Fascism in
Spain are hailed by monarchist circles.
DISPATCHES from Germany tell
II of serious unrest in the reich, and
though the government calls them ina.
licious lies" it is fact that the army
and police forces are being held under
emergency orders.
A long smoldering feud between the
reichswehr Irregular army and the
schutzstaffel (black shirt picked Nazi
guards) was believed responsible for
the orders, which involved suspension
of Christmas furloughs for soldiers and
military police.
Drilling of Nazi storm troops has
increased, reports said, while all mar
riages of army men and police set for
the Christmas holidays, popular we'd
ding period for Germany's military
men, have been postponed.
Baron Werner Won Fritsch, chief of
the reichswehr, in a memorandum to
Hitler, said plainly in discussing Nazi
suppressive methods that, unless a
more liberal spirit prevailed, the gov
eminent would face opposition from
all sides, in case of war. He told Hit
Ter something must be done about the
bad blood between the scfutzstaffel
and the reichswehr.
Japan, having given unofficial notice
- that she will withdraw from the
Washington naval treaty, still seems
TO have hope that the United States
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income. Of course, this does not mean
a balanced budget, for this cannot be
had while enormous sums are being
spent for relief and unemployment,
but the senator would not admit that
the cost Of these would go above the
ten billion-dollar mark.
Unemployment relief is to be pre-
ferred to the DOLE" he said. "a rea-
sonably conservative program should
be adopted with view to tapering off
the deficit"
Senator Robinson said that the bonus
was discussed at some length but no
conclusion was reached. Intimates of
the White House have expressed the
fear that a bonus program calling
for expenditure of more than two bill
lion dollars may be passed over a veto.
Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi,
chairman of the senate finance COM
mittee, who was also present at the
conference, left for Washington to be-
gin study Of unemployment insur-
ance.
Next day the Presidents chief caller
was Secretary of Commerce Daniel G.
Roper, and he told Mr. Roosevelt that
business would move rapidly on the
road to recovery if only it were as
sured Of safe and sane federal pro-
gram Of expenditures. To correspond
ents Mr.. Roper said he was greatly
cheered by Senator Robinson's state
ment. He felt that the left wing de-
mand for vast sums of money for re-
lief Of the unemployed must be
checked and that there must be fur
ther shifting Of relief control to COM
munities.
DRESIDENT ROOSEvELTS avia.
ton commission, having concluded
its hearings on national defense be-
gan drafting its report, and it was
authoritatively said in Washington
that, If congress approves of it's rec
concentrations, government airships
VIII surely be operating in a new
transoceanic service. Details were be
ing worked out, and 1t seemed likely
the commission would adopt the ST.
100000 plan approved by Ewing Y.
Mitchell, assistant secretary of COM
merce, and the national advisory CON-
mittee for aeronautics. That plan
calls for two huge Zeppelin type air.
ships and one smaller metal clad craft
along with necessary modern landing
equipment
The commission also will ask con-
gress in Its February report to create
a permanent federal agency with SUI
pervisory control over all civil avia-
ton. This would comprise five to sew
en- members and take over present
Commerce department aviation, actiyi-
ties.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-12-14

Winthrop w. Aldrich, head of the
New York Chase National bank, big
gest private bank in the world, tells
reporters in Seattle: Business men
and bankers in all the cities we have
visited believe that there has been
real Improvement since September"
Prosperity is climbing up, according
to Mr.. Aldrich, and he ought to know.
He has on hand more than billion
dollars that he will gladly lend you, If
you can prove your ability to pay it
back
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-12-14

Senator Nye, an earnest man, de-
voted to peace, but not at "any price"
asks the big United Aircraft company
just what it has in mind in its constant
expansion in production and betterment
of airplanes. The senator seems to
fear that United Aircraft has in mind
the possibility Of war.
Let us all hope that 1t has exactly
that in mind, and that a government
showing little energy or initiative of
its own in air defense will at least APP
preciate help from private initiative.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-12-14

Samuel insult and sixteen co-defend-
ants are acquitted Of using the mails
to defraud. A majority of the jury,
which took two hours to decide, voted
for acquittal from the start.
Apparently Mr.. insult might have
avoided that firing trip to Greece.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-12-14

When President Roosevelt says he
means to give the people of the United
States cheap power, he means it. At
Warm Springs he has been working on
"a broad national program" for cheap
er power. 1t is understood that he will
not be "too drastic" but he will give
the people what they need.
Next in Importance to free air and
free water is cheap power.
G. King Features Syndicate. Inc.
WNU Service
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-12-14

Again there is cheerfulness. United
States exports since October were
highest in three years. Uncle Sam
sold $206, $4,000 worth of goods to
other countries, SIC, 900 less than he
took in.
That is called favorable trade bal
ance," and is supposed to be a good
thing.
Absit omen, but the French revolu-
ton started at a time when France,
for the first time in long while, found
herself exporting more than she bought
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-12-14

Edsel Ford, son of Henry, and a
great help to his father as president
of the Ford company, dined with Presi-
dent Roosevelt in Warm Springs, Ga,
and told him the nation is "out Of the
trough"
The two Fords are good judges Of
returning prosperity. They expect to
sell at least 100000 other "Fords"
this coming year.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-12-14

Japan, having given unofficial notice
y that she will withdraw from the
Washington naval treaty, still seems
TO have hope that the United States
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-12-14

New Jersey draws a panel of $50,
SO of them women, for the Lindbergh
kidnapping and murder trial. The au.
thorities, without being specific. say
they have evidence against Bruno Rich
ard Hauptmann not revealed to the
public. Hauptmann's lawyers would
probably prefer all men on the jury.
Women feel more keenly than men do
about kidnapping children.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-12-14

Observation-Disclosures leaders
In congress are prepared to oppose any
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-12-14

DOLIVIA'S troops in the Chaco were
II being soundly whipped by the Par
aguayans and President Daniel Sala-
manca was blamed. He visited the war
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-12-14

= EhGEI hIhOF, one OF tHe nUst
~ prominent members Of the Russian
Communist party's political bureau,
was assassinated in Leningrad, and as
Evening star., 1934-05-11
COLLEGE PLAYERS IN
ANNUAL SPRING PLAY
Murder, Magic and Ghosts in
Production at Maryland
University.

It Is an eerie and unusual piece the
Footlight Club of Maryland University
has selected for its annual Spring
production. "A Murder Has Been Ar
ranged" is the title and, what with
weird ff-stage noises, black magic,
ghosts walking and a murder done
right before your eyes, there is plenty
of excitement.
The entire action of the play takes
place on the stage of the deserted st.
James Theater, in London. The plot
concerns a Sir Charles Jasper who
is about to come into a fortune of
some odd millions of pounds and his
murder by his only relative, who is
rather desirous of obtaining the cash.
1t is not giving away any secrets to
tell who committed the vile deed,
because it is done in plain view No
body is left in the dark except the
cast, and they suspect it, anyhow The
ingenuity of arranging the murder to
look like suicide is striking. 1t couldn't
happen that way. But it does; you
see it.
Sarah Louise Short has the most
difficult assignment as Beatrice Jas
per. She has several melodramatic
moments, which she carries off we'll,
without the least bit of overacting
Betty Ehle is another who fits into
her role and gives a thoroughly nat
ural performance. The others, Tenn
pie Thomason, Loretta Dolan Bob
Kent, Betti Bushman. Sam Leishear,
Bill Ripple and Ethel Pidgeon offer
portrayals better than adequate.
This production of the Emlyn Will
liams play was directed by G. B. Hale.
1t will be given its final showing to-
night at 8 al the University of Mary
land auditorium. H. M.
Evening star., 1934-05-11
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
IN ANNUAL PRODUCTION
"a Winters Tale" to Be Played
Tonight-Elabor Costumes
and Little Scenery.

The American University Dramatic
Club, under the direction of Prof.
Will Hutchins, Is presenting as its
annual Shakespearean production,
"A Winters Tale" at o'clock this
evening in the college gymnasium.
In accordance with its tradition, the
club will follow the Elizabethan stage
conventions of using elaborate cos
TUNES and little or no stage scenery,
and will play the succeeding scenes
without the use of the curtain.
The cast for this years presenta-
ton includes Robert Brundage. as
Leontes; Ariel McNinch, as Mamillius;
Elbridge Church, as Polixenes; Rand
all Book, as Florizel; James Spratt,
as Archidamus; Ruth-Martin Simp-
son, as Hermione; Meredith Smith, as
Perdita; Betty Gray, as Paulina, and
Hazel Kirk, as Emilia.
The parts of the four lords of
Stella will be played by Merle Randle,
Jay Burlington, George White and
Howard Duckworth; the old shepherd,
by John Coulter; clown, by Arnold
Evening star., 1934-05-11

will not be surrounded by any re-
minders of ex-wives and must have
every single thing without suggestion
of previous domestic experience.
Setter has expressed his intention of
taking a yacht, mooring 1t in the
harbor here and using 1t as a house
boat so as to foil the droppers-inners
who make life at the beach horror
for beach owners.
That is one-and quite expensive
way of obtaining privacy in Holly
wood.
If Oracle Allen takes a nose-dive
in popular favor, she can blame none
other than her enthusiastic
producers, who have built picture
around her with excellent intent. but
who have not diluted the somewhat
heady dose of Oracle Allen as they
have in previous entertainment.
An anchovy is a delightful bit and
leaves one with that longing for
more food, but dinner of anchovies
would be a horror. Many Happy
Returns" is full length entertain
ihSAAO odllO Nj oNlC hllCIl az
her maddest. Lock and audience up
with a lunatic for the run of a pic
ture and they are apt to get nerves.
They are apt, what is more, to take it
out on the artist. Oracle is an artist.
The glimpses of her in the last
Crosby picture were piquant, laugh
provoking and long enough.
Too much Oracle Allen isn't fair to
Oracle, nor it it fair to the nervous
ones in the audience. Guy Lombar-
dos Orchestra and some excellent
dancing by Veloz and Yolanda all
come in for frequent interruptions by
this arch nut, whose artistry I truly
admire but whose high frequency I
greatly deplore.
(Copyright. 1884 by the North American
Newspaper Alliance Inc(
Evening star., 1934-05-11
FINE MUSIC HEARD
IN ARTS CLUB EVENT
Choral Group Gives Its Spring
Concert, With Cratorio as
Opening Feature.

OTTO TORNEY SIMON, director of
the choral group of the Arts
Club, arranged a beautiful program
for the Spring concert Of the group,
given last evening at the Arts Club
when Minna Niemann, pianist, was
the assisting soloist and Katharine
Morrison played the accompaniments.
Mr.. Simon showed his muSicianship
in the selection and arrangement of
the numbers, always choosing the mu-
sic appropriate to the season and
making the whole inspirational and
satisfying.
Last evening Handel's oratoric. "Is-
rael In Egypt" opened the program
and its difficult passages, many of
them true coloratura, the chorus Of
less than 40 voices. sang with ex-
cellent ensemble and attacks, WELL
finished phrases. good tone color and
legato. In Cigars Fly, Singing Bird
there was a violin obligato played
by Martha Davenport and Margery
Wilson, the group doing some par
Evening star., 1934-05-11

Fort: Autolycus. by Edward Hopper;
Gaoler, by Larry McLendon: Father
Time, by Richard Buckingham:
Mopsa, by Mercedes Rockefeller:
Dorcas, by Myrta Bronson; court
officer, by Richard Tuve, and servant,
by Harold Warner
Helen Shenton, Eleanor Waite, Ann
Henderson and Owenita Harrah will
appear as ladies in waiting. A chorus
of dancers, who have been under the
direction of Betty Gray, will be Doris
Brougher, Catherine Clough, Bea
Comeau. Frances Farmer, Lois Green,
Theo Heimerle, jeanette Howard,
Polly Lehman. Polly Monarch. Dor
othy Payne, Mary Quimby. Frances
Robinson, Esther Smith, Jerry Smith
and Betty Wilkins.
Music will be furnished by the COL
lege orchestra, under the direction Of
DR.. c. Henry Leineweber.