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The Washington times., 1936-12-22
SHIP STRIKERS
DELAY TRUCE
INNEW ROW

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. %
QN.S0 Apparent progress to-
wards settlement in the Pacific
Coast maritime strike, now in its
fifty-fourth day, ran into another
series of SnagS today.
Shortly after terms Of the agree
ments between the sailors union
of the Pacific and shipowners
and between marine firemen, oil
ers, water tenders and wiperS as
Sociation and owners were made
public, voting by rank and file
for ratification repeatedly was
held up.
The delay was blamed on Harry
Bridges, district president of the
I n be r n ational LongShoremens'
Union and guiding spirit of the
striking maritime workers.
It was reported that the rank
and file of vhe sailors union
started balloting on an acceptance
or rejection of their pact but
halted abruptly when Bridges
was called into a meeting of the
men.
Following a secret talk by
Bridges, union spokesmen an
nounced no formal vote had
been taken and that a decision on
the pact would be withheld until
after further negotiations with
steam schooner operators.
At the same time, Harry Iunde-
berg, head of the sailors union,
said when and if a vote is taken,
it will be coastwise and will be on
printed ballots instead of by &C
clamation of locals at the various
ports.
It appeared likely that the fire
men and oilers union would begin
voting on their pact today, but the
union would issue no formal an
nouncement to that effect.
The Washington times., 1936-12-22
N. Y. Night School
Is 10 Years Old

NEW YORK.-The second old
est night school in the United
States, the New York Evening
High School, situated at Tenth
Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street, is
celebrating it's SEVENTEEN ami
versary. The school was founded
on October l, 1866, to provide op-
portunity to complete their educa-
tion for boys returning from the
Civil War.
The institution was founded at
time when night schools were
few. Only one other educational
institution providing instruction
at night, a school in Cincinnati,
is older than the New York Eve
ming High School.
The Washington times., 1936-12-22
Labor Act Violation
CharQed TO Bus Line

NEW YORK, Dec. % GN.SO.
Formal charges that the Brooklyn
Bus Corp. had violated the Wag-
ner labor relations act were filed
yesterday as Mrs. Gilmore M. Her
rick, regional director of the labor
relations board, sought to avert
strike which threatens to tie up
the entire B. M. T. system within
48 hours. Mrs. Herrick conferred
yesterday with union leaders and
officials of the B. M. T. subsidiary.
The Washington times., 1936-01-24

Texas He has known intimately
every President of Mexico for the
last 80 years, has helped more
Americans out of trouble in
Mexico than any other person;
once employed Pancho Villa as an
express driver; was recently of
fered the mayoralty of Ell Paso
but refused; has supplied coal and
food for the poor Of El Paso for
the last 40 years; helped rout the
bad men and hard women of
Texason, a town he founded and
developed, by threatening them
with a six-shooter one day and
shotgun the next. Stranded on the
way to an oil field, Krupp, in
order to fulfill the terms Of con.
tract with the University of Texas
started drilling instead on the
land where his machinery was
lying and discovered the ire
mendous oil field that he sold for
As millions of dollars eventually.
The Washington times., 1936-01-24
Loaded With Prunes

PORTLAND, Ore. GN.S)-Dr.
Saul B. Arenson, professor OF
chemical engineering at the Uni
versity of Cincinnati, left this city
after a recent holiday visit, loaded
down with 260 pounds Of high
grade Oregon prunes ordered" by
Eastern friends who knew Of his
impending visit to the West Coast.
Every time he visits his father
here, DR.. Arenson reported, he Is
asked by friends to load his trunk
with prunes before returning to
Cincinnati.
The Washington times., 1936-01-24
STAY SAVES
UTAHKILLER

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Jan.
"a U.SO.-Conoemned to face q
firing squad at dawn today,
Delbert Green. confessed triple
murderer, last night was saved by
a last-minute reprieve granted by
Governor H. H. Blood.
The reprieve was given on the
plea of Green's mother, Mrs.
Lille May Alexander, Of Ogden,
and the recommendation Of the
State pardon board and the
States attorney general, who
urged the action pending Green's
appeal to the Utah supreme court
for a sanity hearing.
The Washington times., 1936-01-24
F ALL IN FIR {
C0STSARM

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, Jan.
24.-Physical misfortune, which
has stalked Miss Martha James
since birth, has brought another
tragedy to blight her life.
A double attack of typhoid
and measles when she was an
infant left her deaf and dumb
and she has suffered from other
ailments also.
Yesterday she fell into a fire
place in the home of her brother,
r. E. James, near this city, and
was badly burned. Brought to
the Mary Washington Hospital
here, physicians found it neces-
ceSsary to amputate one arm.
The Washington times., 1936-01-24
Hewitt Case Studied
BY Jud &c Lazarus

Tillman, and Mrs. Mary Scally,
the pSychiatrist.
At hearing yesterday, the girl
testified substantially to the same
charges contained in her $500, 900
damage suit.
Miss Anne Lindsay, nurse who
attended Ann following the oper-
alton, also testified. Miss Lind
say declared that after the oper-
alton DR.. Boyd admitted to her
he did not believe the heiress
was moron" as she was
classified in an intelligence test
by Mrs. Scally.
No testimony for the four ac-
cuSed was presented.
The Washington times., 1936-01-24

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. "a
G.NS0.-A committing magis-
trate, Police Judge SYLVAN j.
Lazarus, today was considering
evidence given by Ann Cooper
Hewitt, 21-year-old heiress, and
three others in the sensational
sterilization case of the girl who
has accused her mother, two local
physicians and a city board of
health pSychiatriSt Of tricking her
into the operation.
Judge Lazarus will determine
Tuesday whether criminal war
rants should be issued against the
girls mother, Mrs. Maryon Cooper
Hewitt; the two physicians, Drs.
Samuel G. Boyd and Tilton E.
The Washington times., 1936-01-24

Nat Brandywynne Of the
StOrk Club, over whom the lebs
swOOn, has been a secret bride
groom for more than 2 years.
Ann Lee Patterson, former Miss
America" eloped this week
end with Joe Bandler, wealthy
shirt mfr. AS might have been
expected, the tOrch-bearing Ted
Husing and his honey, Ann st.
George, have renewed their
trOth. Richman flies to the
Coast Monday for q few days
additional work on his pic. at
which time an insert Of the
'MuSic Goes Round" sequence
with MeSSrS. Reilly and Farley
will be made. The recent
bridge contest at Mad. So. Gar
en- was a flOperOO to the extent
of IS gees. Contrary to printed
report, Tommy Guinan and
Sally O'NeiII did not merge.
Jack Benny, returning to town
in a few days, is being baited
by personal appearance offers
ranging as high as $4,000 per
week. The susceptible Mike
Durso is now whispering to
Alice Wallace, H'wOod nOvitiate.
Former Ziegfel1 beauty,
Christine Maple and Drew Eber-
son, production asst. at Warner
Bros. on the Coast, are melan-
choIy. Bunny Lee MRS. Jack
GOOdman), of the Paradise
cuties, will join the prOmpush-
ers. Marguerite Sylvia, once
acclaimed as one Of the worlds
greatest Carmens, Is now break
ing her two dtrs., Daphne and
Marguerite, Jr., into show biz.
:. They're at Butler Daven-
ports Theater. The top cOntri-
button to Daniel FrOhman'S Ac-
tors Fund is from Mae West.
Ramon Navarro returns shortly
to tour his vaudeville unit here.
=. Yacht Club Boys follow
Richman into Versailles, Jan.
9th. Nightly, Mrs. Rafael So
fro, widow of a ,eaIthy sugar
planter, long distances Henry
King all the way from Rio de
JaneirO.
The Washington times., 1936-01-24
Louis SObOI
THE VOICE OF
Broad

The death of English king apparently personal loss
every British subject the world The other night
instance the Stork the New York correspondent of
London newspaper kept dahng the phone half hour
to obtain the latest bulletins King Georges condition
and moped refusing to take part in the gayey at his
table You d think it his father dying the way ne
carries on whispered Dixie Tghe his wife, and all his
English pals in acting the same way Matthea
Merryed back from Berlin reports that the Germans haven
altogether lost their of humor and behind closed doors
poke fun at their mustached Fuehrer Berlin chief gigge
she insists the of the music hall which advertised
that it would refund money any patron who walked out
before during the fifth Many of the bughers decided
to take advantage Offer planning remain for four
acts and then and their back Game In the
fifth act and out walked attendant with victroa and
few later recording of the voice of Hitler in
impassoned patriotic speech 1t would have been treason
4ou IL o,tI
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-10-15
Midsummer Festival
Committee Statement.

In another place in this issue will be
found the statement of financial con-
dition issued by the executive COM
mittee, Victor j. Thompson, president;
Gust A. Maxi, treasurer, and William
B. Maxi, secretary, of the Finnish Mid
summer celebration held here in June
The report shows excellent manage
rent and much hard work on the part
of the people on the several committees
having the arrangements in charge, in
asmuch as finances were about equally
divided between resources and expendi-
lures
An attendance of 10000 was estimated
at the gathering, a greater attendance
than any Midsummer Festival held in
late years
The executive committee and their
assistants are to b congratulated on
the successful outcome of the festivities
which showed good management OF
affairs.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-10-15
Highway Patrol Here
and Inspected Trucks.

Several members of the state high
way patrol swooped down on the city,
Wednesday and Thursday, and checked
up on the trucks in regard to the neces-
sity of carrying flares and flags and
weight tests.
Forty-three were checked of which
many were presented with orders to
supply themselves with flares and flags
Others were cautioned in regard to
overlooking. The force operated with
the assistance of local police.
The officers said they would be here
little later in the season to see that
their orders were obeyed. AS they ap-
pear unexpectedly it will be well to have
things in ship shape, or suffer the
imposition of fine.
Trucks and buses using trunk high
ways are required to carry as STAN
dard equipment three flares and three
red flags, according to John P. Ar
noldy, chief of the highway patrol.
The only exception to this rule is that
trucks carrying gasoline or other in
flammable material need have only two
flares. Either electric or oil burning
flares of approved type may be used
The flares must be set out if a truck
is left standing on trunk highway
after dark, while the flags are for
daytime warnings.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-10-15
$4,000 AWARD
TO VIM. BUNNY
Jury in District Court Assesses
Damages in Personal
Injury Case.

Judge FeSler called the october term
of the District Court to order on Mon
day morning after having adjourned on
Thursday last week in order to give
the judge and court attaches an op-
portunity to attend the funeral of
Charles Adams in Duluth, Friday.
The jury in the Fred Bunny case,
tried last week, had delivered a sealed
verdict on Thursday evening. The YER
dict was presented to the court on Mon
day morning and read on the opening
of the session.
William Bunny, was awarded $1,000
by the jury for the injuries he sustained
in collision with truck while hauling
wood for the relief clients of the city
last winter and in which collision he
lost an eye. His father, Fred Bunny,
who brought the suit against the City
of Ely, was awarded 5000.
Attorneys D. A. Bourgin and I. K.
Lewis represented the plaintiffs while
Baldwin, Holmes, Mayau and Reavill
represented the insurance company de-
Tending the suit. Bunny in behalf of
his son and himself sued for damages
in the amount of $1,000.
The case Of the state VS. Mary Baltich
was taken up before a jury on Monday
This was criminal action in which the
defendant was charged with having shot
at John Sterk and was listed under Sec
ond degree assault. County Attorney
Thomas Naylor and John G. Arko, his
assistant, prosecuted the case while
Peter Moscatelli defended Mrs. Bal
itch.
The case was concluded Tuesday noon
when the jury returned verdict of not
guilty.
A jury was at once drawn and the
case of State of Minnesota VS.. Tony
Pulls was begun. Pulls is charged with
drunken driving and the case is the
outcome of an accident on the Moose
Lake road about year ago in which
younger brother of the defendant and
Mrs. Simonich met their death.
Pulls had undergone trial for man
slaughter and was acquitted in a pre-
vious term of court. It was the opinion
expressed by many that he would not be
placed in jeopardy the second time on
account of the deaths but the charge
was changed to drunken driving and is
being tried on the latter charge.
County Attorneys Naylor and Arko
are prosecuting this case while Attorney
Victor Essling is defending Pulls. 1t is
expected that this trial will occupy the
attention of the court and jury until
late this afternoon.
According to the settling of the cases,
the court will be in session for the
coming week or more before completing
the calendar.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-10-15
History Repeats

Daniel Webster that great statesman,
in his address in the United States
senate on March IL, 1888, voiced the
sentiment against Communism at that
time. History repeats and at this time
conditions show that there are those
who still believe in the preachings of
men and women dissatisfied with their
lot in this, the greatest nation on
earth. The great statesman said:
There are persons who constantly
Glamour :. They complain of oppres-
sion, speculation and pernicious influ-
ence of accumulated wealth. They cry
out loudly against all banks and cor
porations, and all the means by which
small capitals become united in order
to produce important and beneficial
results. They carry on a mad hostility
against all established institutions.
They would choke up the fountains of
industry and dry all its streams.
'Tn a country of unbounded liberty,
they clamor against oppression. In a
country of perfect equality they would
move heaven and earth against priv
ilege and monopoly. In country where
property is more equally divided than
anywhere else, they rend the aid with
the shouting of agrarian doctrines. In
country where the wages of labor
are high beyond all parallel :. they
would teach the laborer that he is but
on oppressed slave.
"Sir, what can such men want?
What do they mean? They can want
nothing, sir, but to enjoy the fruits of
other mems labor. They can mean
nothing but disturbance and disorder,
the diffusion of corrupt principles and
the destruction of the moral sentiments
and moral habits Of society"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-10-15
WHAT OTHERS SAY|

Grand Rapids Herald Review-Elmer
Benson offers nothing new on taxation.
His is the old time solution-relieve
taxpayers by increasing taxes.
Here is what he said
/ propose to bring about tax relief for
the home owner and farmer through an
increase in inheritance, estate and gift
taxes; an increase in income taxes in
the upper brackets; an increase in the
tax on moneys and credits; an increase
in the gross earnings taxes on railroads
and corporations; a corporate excess
tax, and an increase in iron ore taxes.
Everyone knows, especially those who
pay taxes, what has happened in Min
neSota.
The gross earnings tax on railroads
has been raised before without any re-
lief to the general taxpayer.
A tax on money and credits has
existed all of the time that the tax
burden has grown.
Minnesota has inheritance taxes, but
the living still pay.
An income tax was to relieve the
property owner. It did not accomplish
that purpose.
The taxes on liquor were to take us
out of the hole. They gave the govern
ment more to spend.
Occupation and royalty taxes on ore
were to relieve other property. Tax
payers are still looking for that relief
The larger the number Of taxes, the
higher the rate, the more government
spends. The more that government
spends the more that 1t asks.
There is but one way to reduce the
burden to taxes-spend less and re-
duce, rather than increase, the sources
of taxation.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-10-15

ployees and to tax-collecting agen-
cies were made possible by reduc-
tions il the amount paid to stock
holders of the industry and by i'm
provements in operating efficiency.
At the beginning of the period
the stockholders of the industry
in return for the use of their funds
received 1914 cents out of each dol
lar of sales, but in 1895 they re-
ceived only III cents.
Meanwhile operating costs other
than payrolls and taxes were being
reduced from so to SO cents out of
each dollar in sales.
In 1929, when the average an.
nual earnings of steel employees
were the highest of any year on
record, payrolls took 35 cents out
of each steel dollar, a percentage
which has been exceeded in each
succeeding year.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-10-15

Bruce Barton has an idea
which he expresses in a recent
editorial that counties are no
longer necessary. He points
out that there are more than
5000 counties in the U. S. to-
day and that they continue be-
cause they provide jobs. In
the old days they were neces-
sary when communication was
difficult, he says, with no tele-
phones and transportation was
confined to OK carts and horse
drawn vehicles and county sub
divisions were necessary for the
transaction of business. He
thinks that today, with rail-
roads, telephones and automo-
biles, the necessity for narrow
county boundaries has disap-
peared. With everyone trying
to get on the city, county, state
or national payroll, when will
anyone have the temerity to
abolish anything so "revolu-
tionary" as suggested by Bar
ton?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-10-15
"a Bite to Eat."

St. Cloud-An engineer on the Nor
them Pacific, Mr.. Dryer, is catching up
on his charity budget after having given
two hungry hobos "a bite to eat"
When approached by the buns for 'two
bits" Mr.. Dryer preferred to give them
slip to a lunch room. They showed
the proprietor the slip and started with
a T-bone steak each. While the steak
was sizzling each ate two orders Of
bread-they were hungry. Steak, po-
tatoes, coffee, etc., devoured, each or
dered a cut of apple pie, and then
another. That did the trick, but before
leaving each took along a Havana
stogie. That evening Mr.. Dryer asked,
did those buns come in?" and he in
quired about the bill. It amounted to
$1.30. Next time he will write the
amount on the slip.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-10-15

The share of each dollar received
from the sale of the steel industry's
products which goes to employees
in the form of wages has increased
by more than so per cent since
1900, the American Iron and Steel
Institute has calculated.
For each dollars worth of prod
ucts sold last year the employees
of the industry received Al cents,
while IS years ago only q cents
out of each dollar of sales went in
to payrolls.
During the same period the pro-
portion of the industry's sales in
come collected in taxes by federal,
state and local governments in
creased about 800 per cent. from
half a cent out of e. h sales dollar
to AZ cents.
These increases ii the share of
the industry's income going to en-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-10-15

Emporia KanSaS) Gazette-President
Roosevelt has his faults. Neither he
nor Landon is Gods perfect child. But
neither he nor Landon is knave or a
fool. Each is an honest, earnest puz-
lied and bedeviled middle-aged gentle
man, facing grave responsibilities, not
knowing exactly what to do, tinkering
here, trying on a bunch there, to tumble
a way out of what may become the end
of happy era in human civilization.-if
America fails democracy.
Those who call names, those who say
Roosevelt is "a liar and betrayer," for
instance, and that Landon is the tool
of Hearst and big business, are equally
unfair, equally tragically unjust in a
time when we need fairness, need can
dor and prayerful consideration of the
terrible problems that face our country
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-10-15
Ely Auxiliary Members
On District Committees.

Committee appointments for the
Eighth District American Legion Aux
iliary have been announced. Members
of the Frank Lozar Post Auxiliary
named to responsible heads are:
Mrs E. w. Hanson, district chairman
of the music committee.
Mrs. Arthur Nyman, assistant men,
bership chairman.
on legislation and war orphans.
The selections made by the district
president meet with the approval of
the local unit in every detail.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-10-15

We call you attention to the
political advertising for the re-
election of julius A. Schmahl
in another place in this paper.
Mr.. Schmahl has perhaps one
of the longest and best records
in public Office anyone can
boast of in the state of Mime
sofa. He has been in the pub
lie eye since 1901. Elected
first as state treasurer in 1926
he has been reelected to that
position by the people ever
since. His continued re-elec-
ton to Office indicates the fine
record he has achieved and the
trust which the people have in
him.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-10-15
Business Expansion.

Rikhus & Vertin are arranging to run
their truck to north shore points to
supply the several CCC camps with
candies, fruits and other necessities.
The firm has conducted a truck bust
ness with the Kabetogama country the
past year and is enlarging its service
territory with the addition of the north
shore route which will ltake them into
the district as far north and east as
Sawbill lake points.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-10-15

Imports of frozen and dried
eggs from China and other
countries have risen from the
equivalent of 100000 cases in
1882 to the equivalent of 708,-
900 cases in 1885 under the
new deal trade agreement. The
importation of these products
will reach nearly 100000
cases this year. This importa-
ton cuts the income of the
farm women by millions of dol
lars. The reduction of one
cent a dozen to the farm
women of this country reduces
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-10-15

Two Harbors Chronicle-One can
scarcely condemn the general disrespect
for law which is said to be so rampant
when those with judicial aspirations
have no regard for either the statute or
the beauty of the landscape. When a
candidate for the Office Of District
Judge has no regard for the law which
prohibits placing advertising signs on
the right-of-way of the highways in
seeking votes, voters should give thought
as to what kind of a judge he would
make. Civic associations, clubs of vari-
GUS kinds and individuals have waged
a gallant fight to keep the billboards
and distracting signs from the high
ways, and it surely should make their
blood boil to District
Judge
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-10-15
Initiation and Dance.

The Junior College will hold its in
itiation, outing and dance tomorrow
afternoon and evening. The outing and
initiation will be held at the Winters
Camp on Little Long lake during the
afternoon with a treasure hunt and
luncheon in the evening. The dance
will take place at the Washington
auditorium at o'clock. Arrangements
have been perfected for the affair under
the general Craftsmanship of Peter
Harri.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-10-15

disappointment by the coun-
ty commissioners of John P.
Murphy of Hibbing to the st.
Louis county sanitorium COM
mission after 13 years of salts
factory service on this import
ant body. The appointment was
held up since July 1, by two
commissioners who objected to
Murphy's re-appointment and
the name of Walter B. Brown,
Chisholm publisher, was sug-
gested.