The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-07-11

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got $4,000 a year for this purpose dur
ing most of his time as keeper of the
Blue Eagle.) His job will end October
1, unless he and the administration
agree that it shall continue. He will
devote a minimum of four days a
week to his official duties. And he
will consult with Mayor Fiorello III.
La Guardia as far as possible, but will
be responsible to Harry L. Hopkins.
NEW YORK'S Harlem and its kin
dred negro populations through
out the land resounded in jubilation,
with chicken an ham in every fryin'
pan and juniper juice flowing freely,
as Joe Louis, the first great brown
hope of pugilism since Jack Johnson,
established himself as a real threat
to the worlds heavyweight boxing
championship.
Showing ring generalship far beyond
his brief professional experience, box
ing ability conspicuous by it's absence
from the heavyweight ranks since the
days of Corbett, and a wallop like
the kick of cotton-belt mule, the
dusky Detroiter cut Primo Camera,
Italian human skyscraper, to ribbons
for five rounds, knocked him down
three times in the sixth, and was de-
clared the winner by technical knock
out in a bout at the Yankee stadium.
Louis, former golden gloves cham
pion, will probably meet Baer and
Schmeling before getting a crack at
Champion James ]. Braddock's title
T IKE most Utopias, the new one in
IL Alaska's Matanuska valley has
been reported a nest of discomfort
the disillusionment apparently was
manifest even quicker than usual in
this case. Minnesota, Michigan and
Wisconsin farm families who made up
a large share of the recent expedition
to begin life anew in the North Pa
cific territory drafted list of griev-
ances for the FERA trouble shooter,
Eugene Carr.
Many of them said the project was
misrepresented, that the land is poor
and that housing is not what they
were led to believe it would be- Meth
er are medical service, school facilities,
seeds disbursed for planting, the eli
mate and prices for groceries meas
uring up to advance word-pictures.
There is considerable jealousy existent
over the distribution of farm land. And
to top it all off, the Utopians want
government pay for their work.
THE weeks peak in crime was
4 reached when Detroit police found
Howard Carter Dickinson, prominent
New York attorney and nephew of
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes,
lying dead in ditch beside a lonely
Rouge park road with a bullet through
his head and another through his chest.
Dickinson, law associate of
Charles Evans Hughes, Jr., had been
in Detroit on business of the $4,000
coo estate of the late William III.
Yawkey. Apparently, he had driven
to Rouge park while on a drinking
party after business hours His COM
panions on the ride, who were William
Schweitzer, Detroit underworld char
acter, and three burlesque-show girls,
all of whom he had picked up at his
hotel in the motor city, fled the scene
and were traced to Fort Wayne, Ind,
where they were arrested.
After several days of grilling by po-
lice, the four confessed they had plot
ted the murder to rob Dickinson.
Sweitzer admitted firing the shots.
Their loot was S134.
| N ETERMINED that what goes up
- must stay up, Fred and Al Key.
endurance fiers, broke the world 5
time record for keeping a plane aloft,
landing after 6531a hours in the air
| at Meridian, Miss. They passed the
unofficial endurance record of 647
hours, % minutes and 80 seconds set
in 1880 by Dale Jackson and Forest
O'Brien at st. Louis. Days before
| they had scared over the official mark
| of 553 hours, 81 minutes and 80 sec
onds set at Chicago by John and Ken
| meth Hunter