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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-26
Davis Sent to Europe
to Study Conditions

CHESTER G. DAVIS, head of the
~ invalidated AAA, is not going to
administer the soil conservation pro-
gram devised as substitute. Presi-
dent Roosevelt announced that Mr..
Davis would leave soon OH a trip to
Europe to make a special study for
the government of economic conditions
bearing on the agricultural plans for
this country. Critics of the admins
tration Immediately assumed that Mr..
Davis and Secretary Of Agriculture
Wallace had disagreed and that the
former was being gently edged out of
the picture. This Mr.. Wallace warmly
denied, asserting there had been no
friction and that he had deep affec-
ton for Mr.. Davis and the sincerest
respect for his ability and integrity.
In announcing the assignment, Mr..
Roosevelt said: I'm requesting him to
make this study for our government,
Secretary Wallace and 1 have had in
mind the distinguished service Mr..
Davis has given American agriculture,
especially during the last two and one
half years. AS administrator he has
been directing governmental efforts
which, to a considerable degree, were
made necessary by changes in the Eu-
ropean outlets for American farm
products"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-26
England's Bachelor King
Hints He May Marry

GREAT BRITAIN is interested and
~ pleased to learn that King Edward
VIII may abandon his state of bach
elorhood and take unto himself a wife.
This was revealed when the king au-
thorized these lines in the message
submitting the civil list to the house
of commons: His majesty desires that
the contingency of his marriage should
be taken into account so that, in that
event, there should be a provision for
her majesty"
Five princesses of Europe are con-
sidered most eligible to become Ed
wards spouse. These are Irene and
Catherine of Greece (whose ancestry
is Danish), Juliana of the Netherlands.
Eugenia of Greece, and Kyre of Rus
STA, daughter of Grand Duke Cyril of
Russia who is pretender to the Rus
sian throne.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-26
Prince Serge Mdivani
Killed by Polo PONY

DRINCE SERGE MDIvANI, one of
the more or less famous brothers
from the Russian province of Georgia
who have married so many American
heiresses and movie actresses, was
killed by the kick of polo pony at
Delray Beach, Fla, during game with
Cecil Smiths Texan team. Only five
weeks before the prince became the
husband of Louise Astor Van Allen,
and she and her mother witnessed the
fatal accident Serge was divorced by
Pola Negri and Mary McCormic, and
then married Miss Van Allen, who had
divorced his brother Alexis. The lat
ter was killed some months ago in a
motor accident in Spain shortly after
his marriage to Barbara Hutton
had ended in divorce. The third of
the brothers is Prince David, former
husband of Mae Murray.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-26

great victory" by James j. Bam-
brick, head of the local union and
leader in the strike.
Arbitration of minimum wages and
maximum hours under supervision of
Ferdinand A. Silcox, chief of the
United States forestry service Wages
and hours are to be fixed at the end of
each of the next three years on the
basis of prevailing economic condi-
tons.
In signing three year contract
with the realty advisory board, rep
resenting the employers, union lead
ers abandoned their demand for a
closed or preferential shop. Building
operators, in their turn, agreed to rein
state all strikers instead of insisting
on the retention of Is per cent of the
replacement workers hired during the
strike.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-26

Carlos Masquelet, minister of war, was
said to be in sympathy with the army's
demand.
Azana held a heated conference with
Francisco Largo Caballero, president
of the Socialist party and is said to
have told him that he believed revolu-
tionary Socialists were responsible for
most of the disorders, demanding that
the violence cease Immediately. Largo
insisted that the Socialists be permit
ted to demonstrate, but finally gave in
to the premier and issued orders to all
Socialists to behave themselves.
Despite strict censorship imposed
by the governor of Logrono it was
learned that incendiaries there set fire
to six converts and churches, four
rightest centers and rightest news
paper. and then attacked the army
barracks, attempting to seize artillery.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-26
Chez, Common Diet in India

Chez is clarified butter used in In.
dia. The best is prepared from butter
of the milk of cows, the less esteemed
from that of buffaloes. The butter is
melted over slow fire and set aside
to cool; the thick, opaque, whitish and
more fluid portion, or ghee, represent
ing the greater bulk of the butter, is
then removed. The less liquid residue.
mixed with ground-nut oil. is sold as
an inferior kind of ghee. In India ghee
is one of the commonest articles of
diet, and indeed enters into the COM
position Of everything eaten by the
Brahmans. 1t is also extensively used
in Indian religious ceremonies, being
offered as a sacrifice to idols, which
are at times bathed in 1t.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-26
Cummings Is Winner in
Dispute With Ickes

IN UNFOLDING the conviction of
Leonard Walter Mcintosh, chief
clerk of the department of public
works of the Virgin islands, on a
minor theft charge the federal circui:
court of appeals at Philadelphia ruled
that the federal department of justice
has complete control over the district
court and the government attorney of
the islands. This was victory for
Attorney General Cummings over Sec
rotary of the Interior Ickes, for the
latter's department, using the suit as
test case to determine control of
the civil affairs of the Virgin islands,
had asked that the conviction of Nc
lntosh be set aside as unju;tified.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-26
Legal Measures to Stop
Seizures of kilograms

THIEF JUSTICE ALFRED A.
~ WHEAT of the District of Column
bia Supreme court checked the tele-
gram-seizing activities of the Black
senate committee on lobbying. He
granted the Chicago law firm of Silas
Fl. Strawn an injunction restraining
the Western Union Telegraph COM
pany from giving the committee copies
of the firms kilograms.
The judge said the subpoena served
on the telegraph company by the COM
mittee, calling for copies of kilograms
goes way beyond" the committees
powers.
Next day William Randolph Hearst,
newspaper publisher, began fight in
court to keep an original confidential
telegram out of the hands Of the
Black committee; and the American
Newspaper Publishers association de-
nounced the reported seizure of that
telegram, which was to one Of Mr..
Hearst's editors. The association adj
vised any other editor, should he
learn of similar action, to consult coun-
sci and take vigorous steps to pro-
tect his constitutional rights"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-26

Paraguay, the government asserted,
will be purged of endemic, demagogic,
industrial, and sectarian evils" The
official statement places in the "liber-
ating army" the principal source of
authority.
The aims of the new government,
the decree said, will be the construc-
ton of a new, strong Paraguay and
constitutional reorganization for a fu-
ture republic.
FRANCOIS government was formally
recognized at Asuncion by diplomatic
representatives of the United States,
Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Uru-
quay, Great Britain, France, Germany
and Spain.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-26
Wrestling With Scowls
Still Sport in Japan

Among the few surviving old
sports in Japan, wrestling still re-
tains all the color and ceremony of
the past. In the ring, Samuel III.
Wainwright, Jr.. writes in Beauty
in Japan" wrestlers face each other
with fists on the ground and fierce
looks on their faces. If either is up
set by the scowl of the other, he
calls for time out, each returns to
his corner, sips water and starts all
over again. Wrestlers finally called
for so much time out that it was
limited to total of IL minutes.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-26
Simplicity and Honesty of
Language Advocated by Dean

"In writing and speaking, be SIM
ple," says Dean Afford. "be unaffect-
ed, be honest in your speaking and
writing. Never use a long word
whero a short one will do, you al
ways lose by using long one.
you lose in clearness; you lose
in honest expression of your mead
ing, and in the estimate of all peo-
pie who are qualified to judge, you
lose in reputation of ability. Ele-
gance of language may not be in the
power of all of us. but simplicity and
aightforwardness are"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-26
Destruction by Floods
in Eastern States

CPRING thaws and heavy rains ere
- ated a serious condition throughout
the northeastern states and as far
southwark as Pennsylvania and New
Jersey, and in the Maritime provinces
of Canada. The number of reported
deaths was not great but many cities
and towns were threatened by great
ice packs that were swept down the
swollen rivers, and vast areas of the
countryside were under water. Tex
tile mills and other industrial plants
were forced to close down and railway
traffic was handicapped.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-26
Newton Jenkins, Chicago,
Out for Presidency

NEWTON JENKINS of Chicago, who
as an independent candidate for
the mayOralty of that city last April,
received IL per cent of the votes cast.
has announced that he is candidate
for President of the United States.
''The Third party will nominate a
President" he said in mimeo-
graphed statement sent to the news
papers. 81 am a candidate for that
nomination"
The third party" to which he re-
ferred is an organization which he had
Incorporated last year. 1t has candi-
dates for two municipal offices.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-26
Death of Earl Beatty,
British NAVY Figure

EARL BEATTY, commander of the
IL British war fleet in 1868 and
afterward first lord of the admiralty,
died in London after long illness at
the age Of sixty-five. Rising from a
sick-bed to attend the funeral of Earl
Jellicoe last November, he predicted
that he would soon follow his col
league. Lord Beatty had a meteoric
career as a naval commander and dis
played his ability in the battles of
Heligoland Blight and Dogger Bank,
and especially in the battle of Jutland
where he commanded the first battle
cruiser squadron. His wife, who died
in 1882, was Ethel Field, daughter of
the Chicago merchant prince, Marshall
Field.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-26
Benefit of Clergy

Originally, benefit of clergy was the
privilege of exemption from trial by
secular court enjoyed by the clergy IL
arrested for felony. In time it includ-
ed all who could read and write, since
they were capable of entering into
holy orders. 1t was abolished by
George w. Kipling called one of his
stories, without Benefit of Clergy"
meaning without the religious rites of
matrimony.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-26

eminent modelled after
German Nazism and
Italian Fascism. He
issued a decree which
declared the state and
the CELEBRATING revOlu-
ton" of February II
as indivisible a n d
banned for one year
political, labor, or
other unions which
"do not emanate eX-
plicitly from tn e
state"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-26

be the co-ordinator
of the entire scheme,
giving him a newly
created cabinet post.
This selection by Prime
Minister Baldwin was
a surprise. 1t had
been thought the place
might go TO Wins
ton Churchill, Neville
Chamberlain, Alfred
Duff Cooper or Sir
Samuel Hoare.
Sir Thomas is known
as an "anti-jingoiSt,"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-26

speculate on a un-
ion between Japan
and Russia.
improbable, you
will say, truly, but
If Russian-Japanese
hostility could be
changed into Rus
sian-J a p a n e S g
agreement a n e W
world chapter might
open.
You hear of Rus
sia's 'red army"
100000 men, thor
oughly armed, and
100000 reserves.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-26
Lonelie.t Populated Spot

Tristan da Cunna is located In the
South Atlantic ocean, 1,400 miles from
Capetown on the east, and $500 miles
from Buenos Aires on the west. The
island of st. Helena, 1900 miles to the
north, is the nearest inhabited land. A
possession of Great Britain, the island
often has been called the loneliest pop
ulated spot on earth.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-26
New York's Building
Service Strike Ends

TOMPROMISE brought to an end
~ the two weeks strike of building
service workers in New York and thou
sands of elevator operators and other
employees returned to their jobs in
some 2,400 apartment houses and
business structures. The settlement
provided for immediate unemployment
of all strikers and arbitration of wages
and hours, and il was hailed as a
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-26

a number of persons
were killed the Span
ish army was aroused
to vigorous protest.
Premier Manuel Azana
was told by the Off
GERS that unless his
new left government
adopted measures to
stop the widespread
violence e ar Y
would take the main
tenance of order into
to- Lole 49,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-26

is sixty years old and always is calm
and unruffled in the house of commons
or at the bar. 1t will be his duty as
defense co-ordinating minister to syn
chronize activities of the army. navy,
and air services.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-26
Do You
Ever
Wonder
Whether the" aim
Remedy You Use
is SAFE?
Ask Your Doctor
and Find Out
Don't Entrust Your
Own or Your Family's
Well : Being to Unknown
Preparations

THE person to ask whether the
l. preparation you or your family
are taking for the relief of headaches
is SAFE to use regularly is your
family doctor. Ask him particularly
about Genuine BAYER ASPIRIN.
He will tell you that before the
discovery of Bayer Aspirin most
pain" remedies were advised
against by physicians as bad for the
stomach and, often, for the heart.
Which is food for thought if you
seek quick, safe relief.
Scientists rate Bayer Aspirin
among the fastest methods yet dis
covered for the relief of headaches
and the pains of rheumatism, neu-
ritis and neuralgia. And the expert
ence of millions of users has proved
it safe for the average person to use
regularly. In your DUN interest re-
member this.
You can get Genuine Bayer
Aspirin at any drug store = simply
by asking for it by its full name,
BAYER ASPIRIN. Make it a
point to do this - and see that you
get what you want.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-26

vast system of fortiti-
cations along Frances
eastern frontier. The
French government,
backed by the other
signers of the violated
Locarno treaty and
by the little entente,
Poland and Russia,
demanding that Ger
many withdraw her
troops from the Rhine
land or that sanctions,
a~I DAccihlxy
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-26
Situation in Europe Is
Still Threatening

CIXTY thousand German troops In
- the Rhineland that was supposed
to be demilitarized. Practically the
entire French army in and behind the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-26
Leftist Riots in Spain
Arouse the Army

ONCE the recent elections in Spain
- the riots staged by the leftists
have been growing more vicious daily,
and after disorders at Logrono in which
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-26
Britain Names Inskip
to Coordinate Defense

DROCEEDING with its great re-
armament program, the British
government has named Sir Thomas
Inskip. attorney general since 1892. to
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-26
The Skyscraper

Any very tall Office or apartment
building. including one of % stories,
may be called a skyscraper.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-26
Franco Makes Paraguay
Totalitarian State

DOL. RAFAEL FRANCO, who be-
~ came provisional president Of
Paraguay after the recent revolution
there, has set up a totalitarian gov
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-26
Vs.
||lS An a I|s3||. EfaSR :

Washington. - Overshadowing all
else in the national capital at this
=, writing is the contro-
Need Curb versy that is boiling
on Inquiries and surging around
the head of Ala
bama's Democratic Senator Black, who
is the chairman of the senate's lobby
investigating committee. AS an off
shoot of this controversy, the federal
communications commission is in wa
ter much too hot for bathing and 1t
begins to appear that when the steam
blows off the communications COM
mission is likely to be a thoroughly
the part it played in Senator Blacks
unprecedented seizure of private tele-
grams from the Western Union and
Postal Telegraph companies.
Speaking generally, it has been sell
dom that a United States senator has
that Senator Black has used and it is
equally unprecedented that a federal
agency has gone to the extremes that
characterized the action of the COM
munications commission in connection
with the seizure of the messages.
But some good may come from the
police court prosecution tactics en-
ployed by Senator Black and some
good may come from the accusations
leveled at the communications COM
mission because that body helped Sem
ator Black carry out his plans.
The countrywide indignation that
has arisen from Senator Blacks usur-
patton of power has brought to the
front a question that needs public at
tention and needs it badly.
I refer, in this connection, to the
steadily expanding efforts of congress
torial investigators, to take over, as
their own, powers that always have
been regarded as reserved exclusively
to the courts. The consensus among
Washington observers certainly is that
the legislative inquiries have devel-
oped to a point where the most hum
BILE requirements of justice have been
and are being completely ignored.
Whether they are so intended, these
inquiries, and this includes investiga-
tons conducted by committees not
only of congress but of state legisla-
tors and even city councils, are ap-
preaching the point where they are al
most tyrannical.
1t goes without saying, then, that
the time has arrived for citizens to as
sert themselves. These inquiries will
not proceed when the elected legisla-
tors, state or national, learn that the
people do not approve of such high
handed tactics.
In order to have an understanding
of the latest of these escapades, it is
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-26

If enough rich Americans go to Eng
land to escape kidnapers" the kid
napers may move over after them, as
professional gamblers follow on big
ships. London police arrested Alfred
Molyneux, thirty-one, trying to extort
$1,000 from the Countess Barbara
Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow, offering
to reveal plot to kfdnap her baby.
Police knew by the moderate price 1t
could not be an American "snatcher"
or confederate. Easily caught, the
young man confessed he had invented
the plot.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-26

An intelligent young man who fought
well in the big war speaks of "the
2-to-1" advantage which modern meth
DDS give the defense over the attack.
To let the other man or nation come
at you, if you are prepared, has been
wise in the past.
1t might be different in future wars,
If the attacker, with a couple of thou
sand airplanes, dropping explosive
bombs and poison gas, should surprise
the enemy. Defense" would have no
2-to-1 advantage over that sort Of at
tack.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-26
Blacks
Activities

vestigating committee. Almost a year
the federal communications commits
sion which had the color of authority
In law for investigating the business
of the telegraph companies. Senator
Black issued broad subpoena, direct
ing the telegraph companies to make
available any and all messages his
committee desired. Communications
commission agents then went into the
telegraph company files, read every
thing they could find and made copies
of all of the messages which those
agents, under guidance of Black in
vestigators, thought would be helpful
to the Black committee in exposing
operations of private individuals.
The purpose of this, as outlined by
Senator Black, was to locate clues to
the Vaccinations of business interests
who were seeking passage or defeat
for legislation pending in congress.
The Alabama senator wanted to "show
up" lobbyists. He contended and has
maintained consistently that "these
malefactors of great wealth" could not
accomplish any influence in congress
unless it were done secretly and "in
the dark"
In other words, Senator Black per-
suaded members of the communications
commission to help him in his fishing
expedition. He persuaded that organ
ization that it should become a party
to an unprecedented effort designed as
dragnet, movement to smear any,
body and everybody who had used tele-
graphic service.
The Black plan was carried out in
secret. Senders and receivers of mes
sages which those agents copied knew
nothing about it. The operation was
just as much sin the dark" as any of
the lobbying about which Senator
Black complained, even more so. 1t
was only by accident that the facts
became known but when they did be-
come known, the lid was promptly
blown off.
The end is not yet, nor is it even in
sight. One federal judge has issued a
restraining order against such tactics
and a half dozen other applications
for similar orders are pending. Un-
doubtedly, the questions, whatever the
rulings may be, will find their way
eventually to the Supreme court of
the United States.
The senate itself is looking into the
situation. 1t has, by resolution, asked
the federal communications commits
sion to make report stating the facts
and by what authority 1t acted.
So there is much hubbub about the
whole thing and If one may Judge from
the line Of conversation generally
heard around Washington, Senator
Black is on the hot spot, and the spot
thus far has shown no indications of
entering cooling stage
Senate investigations long have been
considered by many people as a modus
operandi that creak
Ch0rge with unfairness. Un-
Unfoirness biased observers fire.
quently have criti-
-;.ol 49,, ha1onco 80
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-26
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
If Russia Joined Japan
Not Heroic Action
Lloyd George Hopeful
England Still Safe

Editors talk about Asia, led by ia
pan, conquering the world. They might
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-26

A bill that would have limited work
to five working days Of six hours each,
or thirty hours week, is dead in con-
gress for the time being. 1t would have
given workers twenty-four hours off on
Saturday and Sunday, eighteen hours
off on every other daylight hours for
sleep, "ten hours for what we will"
All that will come some day, but not
by discouraging improved machinery.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-26

With visibility cut to Zero" street
lights burning by day, not visible
across the street, dust storms are blow
ing over. parts of Oklahoma, Kansas,
Colorado and New Mexico.
By such displays of natures power,
for which mans foolishness is respon-
sible, fertile areas of the world have
been changed to deserts.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-26

A mother of Fort Worth, Texas, Of
fered her body to Chicago's Cook Coun-
ty hospital for dissection after natural
death, if the hospital would provide
free operation for her son. The hos
pital declined the body. performed the
free operation. Now twenty, all women
but one, offer to sell their bodies, de
livered after DEATH"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-26

Lloyds, the great English insurance
concern, at first refused to insure
against war at any price. Now Lloyds
will insure, otherwise "bet," nine and
a half to one against war within six
months. Wall Street wanted that news
and of course cheered up.