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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-17

labor's enemies would profit from
the schism. He made a plea for a
higher wage level, shorter working
hours, freedom to organize, addi-
tional social security legislation and
adoption of the child labor amend
ment to the federal constitution.
He also assailed the idea of an
independent labor party and
pledged the federation to a nom
partisan policy in the present presi-
dental campaign.
John L. Lewis made a radio ad-
dress at Washington but did not
mention the split. He maintained
that American industry could "easi-
ly pay a minimum income to I'M
skilled labor of $4,000 a year." Urg-
ing labor to organize to better it's
condition, Lewis said that liable
economists have already shown that
the entire scope of American life
social, economic, physical, and
spiritual - may be vastly i'm
proved"
Secretary of Labor Perkins, also
speaking over the radio, ignored
the civil war within labor's ranks
and painted labor's future as rosy.
Some 100000 men and women
who were jobless at this time last
year have been added to the ranks
of workers in private industry and
the amount of money in pay en-
velopes has been increased nearly
AZ million dollars in weekly wages"
said Miss Perkins.
None of the noted speakers
seemed to wish to comment on the
situation in Minneapolis, where
strikes have resulted in the shut
ting down of that city's immense
milling industry. 1t is expected this
strike will be extended next to Buff
falo, second American milling CEN
ter, and later to Chicago. The issue
is the closed shop; the milling in
dustry never has been unionized.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-17
Irun Falls to the Rebels;
San Sebastian Next

FIERCE attacks by the Spanish
rebels resulted in the capture of
1run, on the French border, and
the defenders were mercilessly
slaughtered save for those who were
able to take refuge in France. The
town was reduced to smoking ruins,
and the victors promptly started
an advance westward against San
Sebastian, their main objective in
the north. Recognizing the fact
that this large resort city could not
long. be defended, the government
administration there offered to sur
render the place if full amnesty
were promised; but declared if this
were refused the city would be
burned to the ground and the 625
fascist prisoners held there would
be shot. There was great discord
among the defenders, the anarch-
lists insisting on destroying the city
anyhow.
South of Madrid the government
forces were said to have made
progress and there were claims that
Talavera had been taken and that
the Alcazar in Toledo was practical
ly battered to pieces by loyalist
artillery. The rebels advance on
Madrid from the south and west
was supposed to have been halted.
The Madrid government was re-
organized and Francisco Largo Ca
ballero, left wing Socialist, was
made premier.
French workers in Paris in
great demonstration insisted that
the government abandon its nom
intervention policy and give active
aid to the Spanish government.
Premier Blum, while not conceal
ing his sympathy with the Madrid
crowd, declared that if France
dropped neutrality, Italy and Ger
many would be able to give the
Spanish rebels much speedier and
more effective aid than the French
could give to the loyalists.
Representatives of twenty four
powers were scheduled to confer in
London on plans for the establish
ment of a nonintervention control
committee. Portugal, however, was
still holding out.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-17
Mrs. Markham Flies Atlantic,
Landing in Nova Scotia

M RS. BERYL MARKHAM of
4NI England put her name on the
roll of fame as the first woman to
make solo fight across the north
Atlantic from east to west. She
started from London for New York,
but her fuel gave out and she was
forced to land her small monoplane
at Baleine cove near Louisberg,
Nova Scotia. Except for a few
scratches she was unhurt, but the
plane was badly damaged.
Another woman, Louise Thaden
of the United States, gained fame
by winning the $4,000 Bendix
trophy race, transcontinental dash
from New York to Los Angeles;
and yet another woman, Laura In
gals, took second place. In the
Los Angeles air meet Michael De-
troyat, French race and stunt pilot,
won high honors.
Nine persons were killed when a
sightseeing plane crashed near
Pittsburgh. The only survivor was
a girl passenger.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-17
Lithuania May Abandon
Fascist Regime

4 ASCISM in Lithuania, estab-
: ished about year ago by An
tanas Smetona, the president-dic-
tator, is likely to come to an end
very soon. The new parliament is
now in session and has begun to
study possible revision of the consti-
tuition.
The Lithuanian government has
had serious trouble with Germany
over Mcneil, which, though mainly
populated by Germans, was turned
over to Lithuania for use as port
by the League of Nations. The
country's second source of woe is
its broken relations with Poland.
There have been no formal rela-
tons between the two countries
since Poland seized Wilma, the origi-
nal Lithuanian capital. There is no
mail or telegraphic communication
across the border and no trade.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-17
High Labor Costs Drive
Big Concern From New York

p ECAUSE labor costs in New
- York city are too high the
Charles Schweinler Press, largest
magazine printing house there, has
decided to close the plant in which
it employs 1000 men and women
and move where costs are lower.
Executives of the company said
they did not object to the wage
scales imposed by New York I'M
ions, but found the differential be-
tween the local scale and the rates
in force elsewhere so great that it
was impossible" to continue in
New York.
When the Schweinler Press moves
it will take with it an annual pay
roll of $1,750,000. Publishers of the
seventy magazines printed by the
company have been notified of the
impending closing. Among them are
The Literary Digest and The Ma
ton.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-17
When 1t Is the
Other Fellow

Have you ever noticed that when
the other fellow is set in his way,
he's obstinate; when you are, it's
just frmness? When the other
fellow doesn't like your friends,
he's prejudiced; when you don't
like him, you are a good judge
of human nature?
When the other fellow tries to
treat someone especially well,
he's toadying; when you try the
same game, you are using tact?
When the other fellow picks
flaws in things, he's cranky; when
you do, you are discriminating?
When the other fellow says what
he thinks, he's spiteful; when you
do, you are frank?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-17
Railway Labor Act Is
Attacked in Court

IN AN appeal to the Supreme
Court of the United States the
Virginian Railway company made
an attack on the provisions of the
railway labor act authorizing collec-
tive bargaining between representa-
tives of the employees and the car
riers.
The railroad appealed from rul-
ings by the Eastern Virginia Fed
eral District court and the Fourth
Circuit Court of Appeals re-
curing it to negotiate concerning
disputes with a unit of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor. 1t con-
tended the legislation, passed in
1926 and amended in 1884, violated
the Constitution by depriving it of
liberty and property, and, attempt
ing to regulate labor relations with
employees engaged solely in intra-
state activities.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-17
Six Men May Be Cited
for Contempt of Senate

IT NITED STATES DISTRICT At
~ TORNEY L. G. GARRETT of
Washington was asked by Vice
President Garner to present to the
federal grand jury the case of six
Railway Audit and Inspection COM
pany officials who failed to appear
before a senate committee some
two weeks ago. Those cited by Mr..
Garner were: w. w. Groves, presi-
dent of the company; w. B. Groves,
vice president; Earl Douglas Rice.
vice president; j E. Blair, secre-
tary-treasurer; r. S. Judge, direc-
tor, and J. c. Boyer.
The committee, headed by Sena-
tor La Toilette, is investigating the
alleged use of labor 'spies" by en-
ployers in disputes with their en-
ployees. At the time of the hearing
an attorney for the company told
the committee an injunction was be-
ing sought in federal court to pre-
vent the officials appearance and
to prohlDlt production of their rec
ords.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-17
Life of Grain of Wheat

Stories have appeared from time
to time regarding the finding of
wheat in Egyptian tombs which had
been stored for centuries and which
terminated when planted. There
is no truth in such stories. The max
imum life of grain of wheat is less
than 20 years, and a grain buried
for so many years would have abb
solutely no viability.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-17

Great and Napo-
leon had little
idea of wars flu
ture. But marvel
Gus things, some
of the greatest,
Napoleon espe-
cially, m i G h t
have done with
t o d a US inven-
tons.
Frederick the
G r e a It's father
selected the tall
est men he could
find for hi S
guard, probably
lxok A.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-17

Moines, Iowa; but
they met as chief
executives of the
United States and of
Kansas respectively
for the purpose of
discussing pl a n S
for the relief of
d rou t h stricken
farmers. The con-
ference, held at Mr..
Roosevelt's sugges-
ton and including
the governors of the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-17
Richrnan and Merrill
Fly to Wales

II AIRY RICHMAN, night club
IL entertainer and aviator, and
Dick Merrill, veteran pilot, success
fully flew across the Atlantic in
their monoplane Lady Peace, but
failed to reach London, their desti-
nation, by some 200 miles. Run
ming into a hard rainstorm over
Ireland, they lost their way and
were forced to land near Llandilo,
Wales, because their fuel was ex-
hausted. Neither the aviators nor
the plane were injured.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-17

had just become eff
fective. However,
the holiday was cell
ebrated as much as
usual all over the
country a n d tn e
workers were adj
dressed by many
notables. President
William Green of
the A. F. of L.,
speaking at Knox
vile, Tenn, d e.
clared tn a only
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-17

caused by the bonus
and the AAA invali-
dation will put the
public debt at the
all-time high figure
of $34, 1873, SAB, 494.
He says, however,
that better business
will run tax receipts
up $4,000, 900 high
er than was expect
ed. The Presidents
revision covered the
fiscal year that be-
oop Ju1u | last and
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-17
Practical Gifts

THOSE things that are not
L practicable are not desir-
able. There lis nothing in the
world really beneficial that
does not lie within the reach of
an informed understanding and
well-protected pursuit. There
is nothing that God has judged
good for us that he has not
given us the means to accom-
plish both in the natural and
the moral world. If we cry,
like children, for the moon, like
children we must cry on.
Burke.
What we hope. ever to do
with ease we may learn first
to do with Observation-Disclosures
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-17
Split in Labor Ranks
Is Now in Effect

7 ABOR DAY, for organized labor,
- was considerably marred by the
fact that the suspension of the ten
unions which followed John Lewis
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-17
Roosevelt and Landon
Confer on Drouth

Z rankin D. ROOSEVELT and
l ALT M. Landon, rival candidates
for the Presidency, met in some
what dramatic fashion in Des
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-17
Revised Budget Figures
Increase the Debt

D EVISING the 1887 budget fig
IN ures he submitted to congress
in January, President Roosevelt
now estimates that expenditures
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-17
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Worlds Chemists Busy
The New Hell-Broth
Our Huge Gold Pile

The great fighters in Asia and
Europe in the days of Frederick the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-17

It seems impossible to believe the
hideous accounts of the maltrear-
ment and cruel deaths inflicted upon
women in the civil war now raging
in Spain.
That men should fight and muir
der each other is to be expected,
since they are at best ,''haf tiger,
half monkey" and often the mon
key gives way to the tiger. But
that they should infiict shameful i'll
treatment and hideous death on de-
fenseless women seems utterly un-
believable, even when you know
what men are, in a mob.
g King Features Syndicate. Inc
WNU Service.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-17
Silk Industry Old

China's silk industry has -four.
ished for 1900 years.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-17

The wholesale killers of the old
days prepared their killings by
marching men up and down, drill
ing them, encouraging them with
titles, brass bands to lead them,
fancy uniforms. All that means
little now.
About 100 miles from Berlin there
is station called Leuna. There
most useful work is done, in theory
and through study of the manufac-
ture of synthetic petroleum; and
there most important, learned men
with big heads, spectacles and an
amount of education that would
make you dizzy if you could mag
inc it, concentrate their brains on
the preparation of better, more eff
ficient poison gases and high ex-
plosives.
Every country has it's similar
death laboratory; men perhaps as
efficient as those of Germany,
though Germany is the kingdom of
chemistry, the teacher of other ma
tons.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-17

from the firing line. In battle they
would have been killed first, hit by
the bullets that go over the heads of
shorter men.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-17

Henry Irving, on the stage of his
theater in London, prepared an inn
pressive presentation of the witches
in Macbeth" old, toothless hays,
preparing their hell-broth, with
power to summon spirits from the
dead and make them foreten the
future.
Far more efficient are those sol
emn German chemists, physicists
and other professors, preparing the
real hell-broth of poison gas, upon
which the future of civilization and
the domination of the earth may
depend for many centuries.
We had our periods of universal
barbarism and cannibalism, our
ages of flint, bronze and iron, our
many interesting forms of ruler
ship, planned to give one or a few
control over all the others. We had
the age of military feudalism, and
many think that we are now seeing
the end of industrial feudalism."
There may be- in the centuries
ahead of us a period of airplane-e
poison gas rule, which will make
the peoples of the world as COM
pletely subject to a single dictator
ship as were the ancient galley
slaves, swinging their oars under
the lash.
There are a good many things
we haven't seen and many to which
we devote too little thought, includ-
ing perhaps the fact that it is dam
gerous to be too rich if you are not
prepared to defend yourself against
burglars.
Those thousands of millions in
gold that we are hiding away in a
hole in the ground, as ingenuously
as any squirrel hiding his hickory
nuts, may bring us trouble some
day.
The thought of those ten thou
sand millions worth of gold bars
and dollars, hidden not very far be-
low the surface, might cause some
ingenious Asiatic or European to
say to himself:
"For one or two billions I could
prepare the necessary machinery,
flying ships and poison gas includ-
ed, to conquer the necessary areas
of the United States and brighten
the others into submission. Having
laid down my layer of gas, would
descend and take the ten thousand
millions and go home with clean
profit of eight billions in gold"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-17

Come in today
and see this amazing
new tire. Don't take
chances on unsafe tires.
Let your Firestone
Auto Supply and
Service Store or
Firestone Dealer
equip your car
with a new set of
Firestone Standard
Tires first choice of
thrifty car owners.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-09-17

Mussolini races his big Italian
built automobile, the engine burn
ing alcohol, made of Italian farm
products-no gasoline. Some law
makers in America suggest COM
polling the use of 10 per cent alco-
hol in all fuel for American auto
mobiles. Fuel alcohol can be made
from corn, and the law, it is said,
would give work to 1000, 900 men on
sc, O00,00 acres of farm land.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-01-10

herited from his mother. Mrs. Stein
metz lost some personal property
among it being four poster bed and
chest of drawers which belonged to
her grandmother.
Mrs. Steinmetz and Mr.. Halls loss
were covered by insurance.
"Roseland" known to many of the
older people as the CDR. Satchell
Place." was built about 1790-1800 by
James Walker. He gave it to his
daughter, Anne Parramore Walker
who married Enoch Reed. 1t was sold
by the Reeds to DIR. Southey Satchell
in 1881. After DR.. Satchells death
the property passed to his daughter
Mrs. Eliza Garrett and at her death il
was purchased by Mr.. VIM. P. Bel
who sold it to Mrs. Steinmetz a few
years ago. During DR.. Satchells
lifetime the largest variety of trees
at any one place on the peninsula
except nursery was planted. Among
the trees still standing are two beau
tiful Irish yew trees, which stand
near the house and have been declared
by experts to be worth $500 each
The Reeds, made an attempt to estab-
lish a silk business there but this was
failure.
Just a short time before the holt
days Mrs. Steinmetz had the new
roof put on the house and it was
painted on the outside, so it was in
first class condition at the time Of
the fire.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-01-10

Ice blocked their path when they
were some distance from the barge
The Dennis, making it's regular o.
clock run from Annapolis to Clai.
borne, picked them up about an hour
later.
The rescued persons were:
Lacy Hall and his wife, of Norfolk
Va.
Francis Satterfield, of Baltimore.
George Sande, of Boston.
The Dennis continued it's run to
Claiborne and it's rescued persons
were given hot drinks and food. They
were taken to Annapolis by the Den
mis- on it's last run that night.
The barge was under tow of the
tug Columbia and was loaded with
steel rails. A heavy sea and ice were
encountered in the bay off Kent Is
land and the tug had to set the barge
adrift. On it's way up the bay, the
tug ran on bar between Sandy Point
and Hackett Point.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-01-10

and some of the furniture including
several valuable antiques were saved
before the fire made Roadway.
The blaze was discovered by Mrs
Knots as she went downstairs to COM
mence the morning duties. The odor OF
smoke and the cracking of flames
led her to the cellar where fire ap-
parently starting at flue was eat
ing it's way up to the first floor.
Judge Knots telephoned the fire
company while the children were be-
ing dressed and led to safety. The
extreme cold hampered the firemer
and several rooms on the first and
second floors of the two-story frame
house were Quilted. The entire dwell
ing was watersoaked as were much
of the furnishings, and practically
every window was broken.
Judge Knots and his family have
been living in this residence for sew
eral years. It was built about TWEEN
ty-five years ago by the late J. Dukes
Downes, former State bank examiner
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-01-10
VIRGINIA ROAD NO. IL
WILL BE WIDENED

Through press dispatch the State
Highway Commission announced on
Monday last low bid on High Con-
struction project in this county on
road widening from Deep Branch to
approximately mile and half north
of Eastville. The bid, $94,044.20, was
submitted by the Brooks Construction
Company of Norfolk.
The Highway, Route Is, is now
three-way drive from the corporate
limits of Cape Charles to 20 miles
north Of the intersection of feeder
route number 1876, or to what is known
locally as Deep Branch. The project
announced last Monday will make the
three-way drive extend Ia miles north
of the corporate limits of Eastville
Just when construction will be start
ed has not been announced.
Total ALLEGATIONS announced Mon.
day by the Commission were $780,.
1868.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-01-10
$4,000 FIRE OCCURRED
LAST WEEK AT STAFFORD

A fire early Monday morning of
last week, causing property and per-
sonal damage we'll over $4,000 at
Seaford, Del, completely Quilted the
Palace Theatre and the Todd Build
ing on High Street and but for the
fact that heavy snow had fallen all
Sunday afternoon and night, would
have destroyed great part of the
business and residential section in the
central part of that town.
The fire completely wrecked both
the theatre and the Todd building in
Guiding a restaurant and second floor
apartment, occupied by the owner
j. T. Todd, ST., his son, J. T. Todd,
Jr., and Garland T. Russell and Oris
Wright, co-proprietors of the restau-
rant. The four men, awakened by the
dense smoke from the fire raging in
the theatre, were forced to flee for
their lives, and were unable to save
even their own clothing.
Probably no fire in the history of
the town was more furious, or caused
more complete loss. A barber shop
in the theatre building owned by
Theodore S. Hatton was destroyed
not a single piece of equipment es-
Gaping the wrath of the flames. The
theatre itself was completely con-
sumed brick front being the only
remaining part of the building now
standing.
The Todd Building, housing the Mon
ticello restaurant, was Quilted with the
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-01-10
RICHARD F. HALL LOSES
APARTMENT BY BLAZE

"Roseland," one of the Oldest homes
in that section of Accomack county
now owned by Mrs. M. B. Steinmetz,
of Accomac, Va, was partially burned
Sunday, December %, by fire which
originated from the chimney on the
second floor Of the south section. The
house is built in five sections, the
first, third and fifth sections each
being two stories and attic and the
second and fourth sections being one
story and half.
The fire was discovered about 11:3O
a. m. by persons who happened to be
passing by. At the time it was dis
covered, Mr.. Richard F. Hall, who oc-
cupied that section with his family,
was on the first floor reading. Mrs.
Hall and son were at church.
Onancock, Tasley and Parksley Fire
companies responded to the alarm
and aided by many volunteer fire
fighters checked the fire. The build
ing burned very slowly and this no
doubt helped the firemen to save it
from complete destruction. The fire
fighters were handicapped by lack of
water.
The section which caught fire was
Quilted on the second floor. The first
was flooded by water and the hand
some old hand carved mantle and 9TH
er woodwork in the large room in the
south end were badly damaged.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. F. Hall, lost con-
siderable personal property, including
most of Mrs. Halls clothing, and
many items which Mr.. Hall had in
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-01-10
JUDGE ]. o. KNOTS
HOME VICTIM OF FIRE

A smouldering blaze originating in
a defective flue near the furnace in
the cellar drove Judge J. Owen Knots
and members of his family from their
home on Court House Square in Den
ton about 9 o'clock last Saturday
morning, wrecked the dwelling and
did damage estimated at $4,000 before
it was brought under control by the
Denton Fire Company.
Judge and Mrs. Knots and their
three children escaped without injury