The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-03-30

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@ construct military
S. planes, but the devel-
IS opment of the sport
of flying and training
German people as fly
eoer'ns ers is entirely depend
ent upon ourselves and our readiness
to make sacrifices"
The demand for a German air force
was also emphasized by Gen. Her
mann Wilhelm Goering, premier of
Prussia and reichsminister of aviation,
in speaking at a flying exhibition at
the Essen airport. Goering declared
that Germany can enjoy no security,
no peace, no equality until she is
granted the right to defend herself in
the air. This demand cannot be al
tered, the air minister proclaimed.
IF other countries are permitted
the heaviest weapons of attack in the
air, Germany at least must be given
the right of Defense" he said.
CAMUEL INSULT, fugitive utilities
at ILLS "llllIS, SoluC-
where on the high seas aboard his
chartered freighter Maiotis, bound for
an unknown asylum. The Maiotis is
the boat on which insult made his Sc
cret escape from Greece, and which
was ordered to return by the authori-
ties when his absence from his hotel
in Athens was discovered. Later he
was given permission to depart.
Reports are vague as to his destina-
ton. Some say he is bound for Abys-
sinia and that he would find refuge
there from the indictments returned
against him in Chicago.
An Athens lawyer who has repre-
scented insult denied that Abyssinia
was the goal, but he would not sug-
gest any alternative. His reticence
was attributed to fears that kidnap
plot was being laid to snatch insult
from his slow-moving ship on the high
seas.
On the other hand, friends Of the
fugitive in his seventeen-month fight
against extradition to the United
States Sdlu tudl lhS NudlotlS &c
main at sea until April 20 "or perhaps
longer"
THE Bankhead compulsory cotton
L control bill, designed to stabilize
cotton prices, passed the house Mon
day. This measure would limit pro-
duction in the coming cotton year to
100000 bales and levy tax of so per
cent of the market value on staple
produced in excess of quotas allocated
to producers.
Termed an emergency measure, 1t
would have a life of two years and
could be extended third year by pres
idential proclamation. Production in
the second and third years would be
fixed by the secretary of agriculture,
provided two-thirds of the growers APP
prove continuation of the law. The
President would be empowered to sus-
pend it at any time. The bill now
goes to the senate.
a FTER being grounded for eight
days following series Of crashes
that killed ten men in twenty-five
days, United States army pilots took
to the air again with the mail on Mon
day.
Precautions to put planes and men
into safest possible condition have
been taken by army officials. Blind
and night flying equipment has been
installed in planes. Two-way radio
facilities have been put into planes
on transcontinental routes, and soon
will be in all planes in mail service.
Under the new setup the army will
cover about 40 per cent of the route
mileage formerly flown by the COM
mercial lines, according to Maj. Gen.
Benjamin D. Foulois, chief of the air
corps.
pRESIDENT AND MRS. RoosE-
welt celebrated the twenty ninth
anniversary of their wedding with
quiet family dinner in the White
House. 1t was strictly family af-
fair, just as the event 20 years ago
was a lew
intimate friends were invited over for
dinner. Mrs. James Roosevelt, eighty
two-year-old mother of the President,
came down from her home In New
York. Other immediate members of
the family were also present.
The White House was flooded with
messages from all over the country,
with flowers from close friends.
a NEW and serious controversy has
arisen in the railroad industry.
Unexpectedly, representatives of the
railroad brotherhoods fatty rejected a
compromise wage settlement suggested
by President Roosevelt, calling for a
continuation of their 10 per cent pay
reduction until April 80. 1885, and de-
manded an immediate restoration Of
predepression wages for all railroad
workers.
The action, taken by the Railway La
Dor Executives association. threw ne
gotiations looking to an amicable set
Element OF the rail wage situation into
virtual uproar and precipitated what
the spokesman of the railway manage
ments called serious situation"