The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-02

found guilty of numbering Lindbergh
baby; sentenced to death.
Congress voted to end federal pay
cuts.
Feb. 14-Robert e. Wood. Chicago.
named to head advisory committee on
-. $50 100000 work relief plan.
Feb. 16-Thirty-one convicts shot way
out of Oklahoma reformatory; guard
kiIled eight prisoners wounded. g,
preme court gold clause decisions by
to vote.
Feb. 22~House passed largest peace
time tim army bill. appropriating ss7S,Ooo.-
Feb. 2s-Federal judge holds section
Ia OF NRA unconstitutional in its APP
pitcation to Weirton Steel company.
Federal Judge granted 35 Kentucky
coal operators injunctions preventing
United States from enforcing code.
March 3-President asked congress
Tor outright subsidy to merchant ma
rine to. replace present mail contract
and building loan system.
March 5-S. Clay Williams resigned
as head of NRA board.
place all national bank currency with
money based on gold taken by treasury
March l1-House repealed pink slip
income tax publicity feature.
Samuel insult acquitted of embezzle-
ment charge.
March III. Crawford Biggs. solic-
itor general. resigned.
currency imitation plan to pay SOL
diers' bonus.
March 23-Senate passed works relief
measure.
March 24-President gave his ap-
prevail to proposed constitution for
March 26-President left on fishing
trip off the Bahamas.
Senate passed ssO5.OOO,OOO treasury
March 27-House voted sss. OOo.oOo to
strengthen navy shore bases
March 2S-Senate voted for repeal of
income tax publicity feature.
March 3O-Coal miners and operators
agreed to continue wage scale until
April limited States Supreme court
again reversed conviction and death
sentence of two negroes in famous
Scottsboro case.
Five per cent pay raise for railway
workers went into effect.
April 5-Conference report on work
relief bill accepted by senate and house
April S-President Roosevelt ended
his fishing trip and signed the work
relief bill.
April ,s-House passed mcswain war
profits bill.
Senate passed the navy public works
bill carrying $3S,000,000.
April 19-House passed administra-
tion's social security bill.
April 23-Frank Walker named d.
rector of National Emergency council
and chief adviser in work relief ex
pendltureS.
Toledo branch of Chevrolet Motor
company closed by strike.
April 24-President announced crea
ton OF three new agencies for work
relief program. and named eight classes
April 25-secretary Ickes named head
of works allotment division.
April 26-Harry Hopkins made head
of works progress division.
April 29-Supreme court ruled in ia
vor of Arizona in Parker dam case.
April S0-Toledo motor workers
strike spread to Cleveland and Gin
May 2-United States Chamber of
Commerce adopted resolutions opposing
legislation asked by the administra-
ton.
May 3-Leland Harrison appointed
minister to Rumania.
May 6-Supreme court declared rail.
way pension act unconstitutional
May Senate passed the Patman
bonus bill.
Conviction of Ex-Gov. William LANCER
of North Dakota and four others for
conspiracy to misuse federal relief funds
reversed by Federal Court of Appeals.
May 9-House passed the omnibus
May 11-President Roosevelt estab-
lished rural identification division
headed by Morris l.. Cooke
Dennis Chavez appointed senator from
New Mexico.
May 13-Toledo auto strikers accept
ed compromise settlement.
May 14-Senate passed bill extending
NRA until April /, 1886.
Longs resolution for investigation of
Farley rejected by senate
May 15-Representative Michael L.
Igoe appointed United States district
attorney at Chicago.
May 16-Senate passed the Wagner
labor relations bill.
May 1S-Audit by Comptroller Cen
eral McCarl disclosed great waste in
iva.
May 2O-President fixed wages and
hours for work relief program.
Norman Armour appointed American
minister to Canada.
May 22-President Roosevelt, appear
ing personally before joint session of
congress. vetoed the Patman bonus
measure The house Immediately re-
May 23-Senate sustained Presidents
veto of bonus act.
May 24-Senate passed $3.50. 900, 900
navy appropriation bill.
May 27-United States Supreme court
unanimously ruled the code structure
and wage and labor hours provisions of
MIRA were unconstitutional.
FraZier-Lemke farm mortgage mora
torium act held invalid by Supreme
court.
President Roosevelt's removal of the
late William E. Humphrey as trade
commissioner declared invalid by SUI
May 2S-Senate passed Copeland food
drug and cosmetic bill
May 29-California Pacific exposition
May 31-President Roosevelt sug-
gested revision of Constitution to give
economic control to federal govern
ment.
June l-Toung George weyerhaeuser,
kidnapped from Tacoma. freed on pay
ment of 100000 ransom.
June House passed bill extending
June 9-H. M Valley and wife were
arrested in Salt Lake City for Weyer-
haeuser kidnapping and confessed.
June 1e-Republicans of ten midwest
Deal.
June 11-Senate passed the public
June I2-President Roosevelt present.
ed diplomas to 276 West Point gradu-
ates.
June 13-Senate passed resolution ex-
tending skeletonized MIRA to April 1.
June 14-Secretary of War Dern vim
dicated General Foulois of air mail
charges.
June 1s-President Roosevelt named
new NRA board with James L. O'Neill
as administrator.
June 17-House extended nuisance"
taxes two years.
June 18-House passed AAA amend
ments asked by administration.
June 19-President told to congress
his plan to break up great fortunes and
redistribute wealth through taxes.
House passed the Wagner Connery la
Dor disputes BILL
Senator Couzens gave federal govern
ment $550000 for industrial workers
home colony in Detroit area.
June 25-Gen. Hugh Johnson made
works relief director for New York.
June 26-President set aside $50, 000,-
900 from works fund to provide jobs
for youth of nation
July President handed SOL 900, 900
to Rexford Guy Tugwel for rural reset
Element work.
July blouse passed utilities bill
without death sentence clause, and
then ordered investigation of lobbying
for and against the measure
July 16-AAA processing tax de-
clared unconstitutional by Federal APP
peals court in Boston.
July 22-General strike at Terre
Haute shut off all food supplies: Ma
tiona1 Guard called out.
July 23-Senate passed AAA amend
ments bill.
President Roosevelt named L. W.
Cramer to succeed Paul Pearson as gov
ernor of Virgin islands.
Terre Haute general strike called off