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Evening star., 1937-11-09
CREDIT IMPROVES
IN SOUTH AMERICA
Survey of Expert Concerns
Indicates Progress Is
Continuing.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

NEW YORK, Nov. S.--Latin- Amer
ican markets showed a generally con-
tinued improvement during the third
quarter Of the year in credit condi-
tions and collections, a survey of the
experience of American export firms
reveals. The survey was conducted by
the Foreign Credit Interchange Bureau
and the Foreign Department of the
National Association of Credit Men.
Discussing credit conditions, the as
ISOLATION survey notes that the i'm
provement indicated in the first and
second quarters Of the year in most Of
the markets in which substantial busi-
ness is being transacted has generally
continued in the third quarter, and a
greater number of countries show i'm
provement in the index of credit con-
ditions as compared with the previous
quarter. This is particularly notice.
able for some of the countries where
credit conditions have been relatively
low on the index.
13 Show Improvement.
Credit conditions in 13 Of the coun-
tries show improvement, in most cases
OF substantial amount. OF the
countries previously relatively high on
the index Of credit conditions, sub
stantial improvement is shown in such
countries as Brazil, Uruguay and Co.
lombia, and further improvement in
Argentina, Panama and Venezuela.
The index of credit conditions for
Chile shows a good gain.
OF the countries which have been
relatively low in the index for some
time a substantial improvement is
indicated for Ecuador and Bolivia.
Paraguay has regained the loss pre-
viously sustained and moderate i'm
provement is indicated in Nicaragua.
OF the seven countries in which de-
clines are shown on the index of credit
Evening star., 1937-11-09
q. S. TREASURY POSITION
" the Associated Press

The position of the Treasury November
6: Receipts, $21. 1885, 177.97; expendi-
tures. $23. .84S, 64S.39; balance. x2,663.-
520,S36; ;5s; customs receipts for the
$1,000. 967, ,o7s .o3; expenditures % s2.731,.
97S.145.62 including $740,341 .662.Sl of
emergency expenditures, excess of expendi-
lures. S641 oil .072.59: gross debt, $37.-
oil 9.677. .6S2.77. an increase of $516.223.9 "a
over the previous day; gold assets, S12.-
S03.941. .S65.25,. including $1.272, 403,-
SS0.33 of inactive gold.
Evening star., 1937-11-09

SYDNEY, Australia, Nov. 8 R.-
Today's sales saw q fair selection Of
12,145 bales of wool offered, of which
e,620 were sold, with the prices Of
hest Merinos unchanged and average
faulty woods per cent lower. Cross-
breds were irregular. with prices
tending lower.
Evening star., 1937-11-09
Greyhound Earns
&,l2l,186 Profit
For Nine Months
~ the Associated Prers.

0y tnE A1Soclated PrefS.
CHICAGO, Nov. 9-The Greyhound
Corp, reported first nine months net
income plus equity in undivided net
profit or loss Of af1liated bus COM
panies totaled $4,721, ,186, or $1.55 a
common share, compared with $3.577.-
S43, or $1.4l, the corresponding 1896
period.
Evening star., 1937-11-09
METAL MARKET.

steady electroiytic. SPOT and future trJIp5ei az;
export. 1913. Tin steadier; spot and
nearby. 43.12h: future. 43.12h Lead
STEADY; spot. New York 5.OO-5.O5: East
st. Louis. 4.S5. Zinc steady; East ST
Louis. spot and future. 5.75. Iron. alum
mum. antimony. quicksilver. platinum and
Wolframite unchanged.
Evening star., 1937-11-09
DAILY OIL RATE
|SDOWN SHARPLY
Average Off 1879 Barrels,
With All Districts Shar-
ing Decline.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the ASSociated Press.
TULSA, Nov. ga decrease of TO-
7Se barrels daily, bringing production
for the week ending November 8 down
to 1857 ,203 barrels daily, was report
ed today by the Oil and Gas journal.
Every major producing area shared
In the drop.
Oklahoma decreased 1850 barrels
daily to an average OF 582,375. East
Texas decreased 1850 barrels daily to
4S4,s07 and the State of Texas was
down $500 barrels daily to 1,427, ,Oo2.
Production In Louisiana dropped g.
365 barrels daily to 235,650, California
decreased 5000 barrels daily to es2,-
200 and Kansas had a decrease of H.
375 barrels daily to 174,225.
Eastern States, including Michigan,
dropped 1855 barrels daily to 1885,
646 and the Rocky Mountain area de-
creased 2,110 to an average OF SO, $50.
The Bureau Of Mines reported to-
day stocks of domestic and foreign
crude petroleum at the close of the
week ended October 80 totaled 307,-
140, 900 barrels, q net increase of 584,-
600 barrels, compared with the previ-
Gus week. Stocks of domestic oil
increased 100, 900 barrels for the week
and foreign crude declined 10000
barrels.
Daily average production for the
week was about 100000 barrels, OF
q decline Of about 10000 barrels COM
pared with the previous weeks level
Runs to stills averaged 1885, 900 bar
rels daily, compared with 1890, ,00o
barrels for the preceding week. Daily
average imports were $4,000 barrels.
Evening star., 1937-11-09
ODD-LOT DEALINGS.
By lie Associated Press

Tne Securities Commission reported to-
day these transactions by customers with
odd-aot dealers or specialists on the New
Yogk Stock =, chance for November B.
12.4e6 purchases involved ca6.6Q 1
shares; 6,932 sales involving O9,1O5
shares.
Evening star., 1937-11-09
RUBBER FUTURES.

NEW YORK. Nov. (P.-Crude rubber
FUTURES opened steady. 13 TO II higher.
December I4.40-44; March. l45T-6O;
May. 14.66-6T.
Evening star., 1937-11-09
MONTREAL SILVER.

MONTREAL. Nov. P,-silver fu-
lures opened steady, 10 higher. Bids.
November: 44.60; December. 44.20; jan
uary. 44.00.
Evening star., 1937-11-09
INSURANCE STOCKS

NEW YORK. Nov GP.-New York
Security Dealers Association:
Evening star., 1937-11-09
WOOL PRICES UNEVEN.

ALSO extra or extras.
g-Declared or paid so far this yeaI
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-04-08

$50 I think it is my duty to say
that careful inquiry indicates that
the sit-down strikes do not reflect
any widespread movement to defy
the law or impair civil government
or change current conceptions of
property rights. The detectives are
the usual detectives of unions in la
Dor disputes"
That the sit-down strike involves
grave implications detrimental to
labor's interests" is the view of the
American Federation of Labor as
stated by President William Green.
This for two reasons:
First, public opinion will not sup
port sit-down strikes. That means
labor loses public support when any
part of it engages in sit-down
strikes. Without such support or
ganized labor cannot win strikes or
establish and maintain itself as
vital force in the economic and in
dustrial life of the nation. Labor
cannot afford to lose the support of
public opinion.
Second, temporary advantages
gained through sit-down strikes will
inevitably lead to permanent injury.
The public generally will not long
tolerate the illegal seizure of prop
erty. If persisted in, it will through
state and federal law-making bod
les force enactment of legislation
providing for compulsory arbitra-
ton, the incorporation of unions and
other repressive forms of legisla-
ton"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-04-08
No Government Action Yet
on Sitdown Strikes

Under pressure from his advis-
~ ers to take public stand con-
corning the sit-down strike, Presi-
dent Roosevelt Immediately after
his return from Warm Springs held
a conference with Vice President
Garner, Senate Majority Leader Joe
Robinson, Speaker Bankhead and
House Majority Leader Sam Ray
burn. At it's close Senator Robin
son, presumably voicing Mr.. Roose-
velt's views, said:
1.-THE government cannot initiate
action under the circumstances thus
far presented 1t is felt that the sit
down strike situation in a general
sense is improving.
There are two conditions under
which federal action may be in
voked in case of acute strike condi-
tons; namely where federal laws
have been violated or where federal
property, including the mails, is in
terfered with.
UNLESS one of these conditions
exists, federal Intervention or ac-
ton, under the Constitution and de-
cision of the courts, is not warranted.
''The second condition is cases
where state authorities, under the
federal law, ask the services of fed
eral agencies in the preservation of
law and order and in the prevention
of violence.
Neither condition has so far aris-
en-. Except in instances where in
terstate commerce is interfered
with, where federal law is disre-
garded, the federal government
does not, and cannot under the Con-
stitution, initiate action"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-04-08
Negotiations to Settle
the Chrysler Strike


TT NDER the persuasion of Gov.
~ Frank Murphy of Michigan,
John L. Lewis, head of the c. I. o.,
and Walter P. Chrysler, chairman
of the Chrysler motor corporation,
were brought together in more or
less peaceful conference at the state
capitol in Lansing. The immediate
result was an agreement that the
sitdown strikers should evacuate
the eight Chrysler plants in Detroit,
and that the corporation should not
resume production during the pc
riod of negotiations. Six thousand
strikers had held possession of the
plants since March 8 in defiance of
court orders and the governor, as
in the case of the General Motors
strike, had been extremely reluc-
tant to authorize forceful methods
of enforcing the law. He had, how
ever, insisted that the men must
obey the law and court orders, and
the concession by Lewis was VIC
tory for the governor, as well as
for the corporation which had de-
clared it would not negotiate while
the men held its plants. Mr.. Chrys-
Ter also has asserted the company
would not enter into any agreement
recognizing any one group as sole
bargaining agency for all en-
ployeeS.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-04-08

New Mexico, a Democrat and a
member of the judiciary committee
that is holding hearings on the ad-
ministration bill.
Mr.. Hatch proposes to modify the
Presidents bill so that no more
than two additional justices could
be appointed in any one year. Furth-
ermore, it would provide for fiex-
ible court with membership vary
ing between fifteen and nine judges.
The additional appointments, made
upon the failure of justices past 70
to retire, would not become per-
manent increases. They would be
Offset by failure to fill an equal num-
Der of vacancies caused by SUBJ
sequent retirements.
Though the opposition claims at
least AZ votes, its leaders privately
admit that congress probably will
pass some kind of bill which will
permit the President to change the
present complexion of the Supreme
court. Even if he is empowered to
add only two new members, that
would be an administration victory:
and it is likely that death or volun-
tary retirement will give him a
chance to put on the bench yet 9TH
ers better suited, in his opinion, to
deal with problems of the present.
Further witnesses for the opposi-
ton, appearing before the judiciary
committee, included DR.. Irving Girls
void, professor of constitutional law
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-04-08
Spodumene Now Made
Available for Many
Uses in Industry
Method for Reduction
Devised by Scientists

New York.-Few people prob
ably ever heard of the little
known, lttle-used ithium min
eral called spodumene, but
through a process which United
States bureau of mines experts
described here the mineral may
soon help cool your home, i'm
prove the dishes from which
you eat, improve the produc-
ton of lithia water you may
drink, help start your motor
car and make a special extra
tough glass.
At the annual meeting of the
American Institute of Mining and
Metallurgical, Engineers, Oliver C..
Ralston and Foster Fraas of the
bureaus scientific staff told of the
simple method by which spodumene
can be separated from other min
erals with which it is associated in
nature. Lack of use of the mineral
has, in the past, been due to the alb
sence of such separating process.
Easily Reduced in Lime Kiln.
Heating the mineral in a lime
kiln, it has been found, reduces the
spodumene to a chalky white mass
which can be crumbled in the fin
gers while the remaining minerals
in the ore remain strong. Even
farmers and miners with home
made kilns can use the method with
considerable success.
The fine dust resulting from this
treatment is about 80 to 80 per cent
pure, and from many localities
this product will be of acceptable
purity. 1t is much better adapted
to use in making lithium chloride
than the original hard, dense spodu-
meme. 1t is also ready to be used
in a glass batch, unless nature
happened to put magnetic iron min
erals in the ore, in which case a
preliminary removal of iron min
erals would be needed.
Useful in Pottery Making.
The pottery makers have desired
to use spodumene, but it has been
unacceptable because of the fact
that at the temperature of lime
kiln it tended to expand and tear
pottery to pieces. The beta spodu-
meme formed by the heating and
now to be sifted out of the heated
ore has already been expanded and
does not have this disadvantage.
Therefore potters are urged to for
get ordinary spodumene and to try
beta Spodumene.
Spodumene is the most plentiful
of the lithium-bearing ores. 1t looks
much like feldspar and behaves
like it. Lithium and lithium salts,
heretofore extracted from less COM
mon and more expensive ores, now
promise to have several important
new uses. Lithium chloride solu-
tons, for instance, should find
greatly increased use in the condi-
tioning and drying of air in the fast
growing air-conditioning industry.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-04-08
MINNESOTA
ON PARADE .
Gopher News Review

CLARA CITY officials set July 8,
4, and as the dates for the celebra-
ton of the towns golden anniver-
sary.
MANkATo city election primaries
saw Mayor Frank J. Mahowald OPP
posing Charles K. Mayer. Mayer was
formerly mayor.
No beer for DETROIT LAKES re-
lief clients! That's the ruling recent
ly made by the city council and it
covers the 80 variety too.
There'll be plenty of pig knuckles
for the buyer of an animal possessed
by Henry Manner of NEW PRAGUE.
The pig has six feet, two on each of
the front legs.
William Eichten retired as assessor
of WILLOW LAKE township after 80
consecutive years in office. He won
the position by drawing lots back on
March IA, 1905.
At FERGUS FALLS, the Thorpe
family claimed an option on the let
tiers, 't' and "h" from the alphabet.
They have a Bertha, Dorothea, an
Edith, and a Catherine.
LANCASTER natives, now residing
in the Mill City, banded together to
form a club, inaugurated a regular
meeting program in which old ex-
periences can be rehashed.
Two new GRAND MARAIS fathers
passed cigars on the same day
March 81. And they're brothers
One Fred Jackson, operates a cafe i;
Ralph is maanegr of the local bus
depot.
NEW ULM's enthusiastically Ger
man appearance will be reflected in
the architectural design of nine pro-
posed buildings soon to be erected at
Cottonwood River State park near
the town.
The states oldest newspaper, the
HOKAH chief, celebrated its S1st
birthday. The print shop stands on
the site once occupied by the tepee
of old Chief Hokah, head of the Chip
pewa bands.
Heading the program of a WA.
DENA good roads institute was N.
w. Elsberg, state highway commits
sioner. Invitations were sent to all
good roads boosters in Becker, Otter
Tail, Cass, and Crow Wing counties,
bringing the attendance to more than
200.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-04-08
Temple Carved in
Solid Rock Is
Found in Mexico

MEXICO CITY. - Buildings
chopped from a single piece of
solid mountain form the strang-
est ancient ruins ever found in
Mexico.
They cover an entire summit
overlooking the present town OF
Malinalco, whose name means
Place of Twisted Grass, and which
is in the state of Mexico, westward
from Mexico City.
One structure completely excavat-
ed now-the usual temple topped
pyramid-has broad stairs on one
side, the steps and wide stone bal
ustrades likewise part of single
piece. Only here and there, where
the rock would not reach some far
corner of the projected building, did
the ancient mason have to fill in ma
lures lack with artifcially cut stone
block.
Door Is Snakes Mouth.
A number of features make this
building unique. One walks into the
temple on top through an uninvit-
ing door formed by the yawning
mouth of a giant stone snake. The
temple itself is round, a shape rare
in Mexico and one generally asso-
ciated with the Wind God. A low
stone bench follows the wall around
inside. The roof, probably of per-
ishable stuff like wood, is gone.
For trimming, this one piece
structure has mainly tigers, snakes
and eagles. A carved stone tiger sits
on a pedestal by the side of the
stairs, his head missing. On either
side of the snake-mouth door are
carved eagle and tiger-knights,
such as represented the two old
Mexican Indian military orders.
The one is on a huehuetl, or wood.
en- war drum; the other, on a
snakes head. In the middle of the
round room inside are eagle-head
carvings.
Further excavations are now be-
ing made at this novel site of Malin-
alco. These are under the direc-
ton of Jose Garcia Payon, Mexican
archeologist, who. is finding various
other buildings like this one. Some
of the stairways still have traces
of ancient paintings. This very odd
monolithic "city" has ancient drains
an sewers which used to protect
the tIildings when it rained.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-04-08

1oyalists northeast of Madrid. Count
Dino Grandi, Italian ambassador to
London, told the subcommittee of
the international committee on nom
Intervention that he would not dis
cuss the withdrawal of foreign vol
unteers from Spain and that not a
single Italian fighting in the Spanish
war would be ordered home until
the conflict ended.
Frances response was quick and
startling. Foreign Minister Yven
Delbos proposed to British Ambas-
sador Sir George Clerk that France
and Britain assume naval block
ade of Spain to keep Italian troops
from landing to join the fascists.
The British and French govern
ments thereupon agreed, with full
knowledge of other European pow
ers within the non-intervention COM
mittee, on ''all points" of program
to make non-intervention complete
ly effective and decided it was i'm
perative to prevent, even by force,
any further Italian landings. No de-
cision was reached to send war;
ships at once for this purpose.
The defeat of the Italians on the
Guadelajara front was followed by
an almost equally severe setback
in southern Spain where Italian
volunteers also were said to have
made a poor showing. These events
seemed to cool down somewhat the
fiery ardor of Mussolini, and the
English and French statesmen were
hopeful that a general outbreak in
Europe had been at least postponed.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-04-08

about it. Gee, such smart lines!
Remember, you promised to help
me with new party frock next
week if I did well with this shirt
Waister. I wish all dresses were
as easy to sew and as swell to
wear as it is"
Perfectly cut patterns spell
success for any frock, Kay; your
party dress is as good as made
right now. But must be on my
way or I'll be more than fashion
ably late for the affair. Bye, bye
be good girls and see that Dad
dy gets something to eat"
Pattern 1853 is for sizes SO to
So. Size SO requires 5A yards Of
SO inch material.
Pattern 1896 is for sizes to IA
years. Size requires ia yards
of 80 inch material for the jumper
and rs yards for the blouse.
Armscye and neck edges of jump
er require 212 yards of IL inch
bias facing.
Pattern 1926 is for sizes IA to
20 (32 to ~ bust). Size Is re-
quires 3s4 yards of IS inch ma
terial.
Send for the Barbara Bell Spring
and Summer Pattern Book con-
tanning designs of attractive, prac-
teal and becoming clothes. Ex-
elusive fashions for children,
young women and matrons. Price,
Is cents per copy.
Send your order to The Sewing
Circle Pattern Dept. Room 1920,
I'll W. Wacker Dr., Chicago, Ill.
Patterns Is cents Tin coins) each.
g Bell Syndicate.-WNU Service.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-04-08

&c IN GLAD I'm not on the serv-
ing committee this week, 4"
muses. Mrs. Smith of Walnut
street, as she takes stock of her
self in the mirror preparatory to
leaving for the church supper. 81
look entirely 700 swell for me
why, I'm almost excited! I al
ways knew surplice waists were
becoming, but how becoming
never knew till now. That little
deceptiveness is just what l need,
and these sleeves are the most
comfortable things! If about half
our circle wore dresses like this
it would be better for all con-
cerned; so many of us have out
grown the tailored streamlined
styles. Now, Mrs. White for in
stance"
Enter an Admirer.
''Why Mother, you look de-love-
ly in that shade of blue! And you
look real stylish, too-you ought
to be going to a Coronation.
"Oh, I'd much prefer the church
supper, dear. I'll be a somebody
there in my new dress but at a
Coronation I would be little po-
tatoes. By the way, what did they
say about your new jumper at
SCHOOL,"
Mother, I meant to tell you.
Mary Jane and Betty are both 60
ing to coax their mothers to make
one just like it. I said maybe you
would loan them the pattern,
would your"
''Why of course. Did you tell
them it took me only two after
Moons to make yours including
two blouses?"
Enter "The Duchess"
isis, you're pretty young to be
talking about clothes so intelli-
gently. When you get a figure
that clothes really count on
ahem, like Yours Truly's for in
stance; then it might be different
oh Mother, how nice! I'm crazy
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-04-08
Congressman B. K. Focht
of PENNSYLVANIA Dies

THE small Republican group in
l. the house lost one of it's men,
bers by the death of Representative
Benjamin K. Focht of Lewisburg,
Pa. Becoming suddenly i'll while
dining at a Washington hotel, he
was taken to a hospital and passed
away from heart disease.
Mr.. Focht, who was editor of the
Lewisburg Saturday News, began
his public service in 1907 as a men,
Der of the Goth congress. The pres
ent was his tenth term, but he had
not served consecutively. He was
seventy-four years of age and was
the son of a Lutheran minister. His
widow, a son, and a daughter sur
vive.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-04-08
Uncle MiG
Says: IN
A Star for You

Some of the pleasantest remem-
brances are those when you didn't
get even although you could.
Yes, and some of the things Ex-
perience, the "dear teacher"
teaches aren't worth knowing.
They are just unhappy memories
without lesson.
A woman writes a paper to read
before her club and finds a lot of
new reasons to believe in some
thing she hadn't cared much
about.
And That Brings Regrets
1t is not because it is cultivat-
ing his virtues that one should re-
frain from anger, as that one is al
most certain to say something
foolish.
Way of the transgressor is hard,
and not only that, it is expensive
to the law-abiding citizen.
Some men are more energetic
about expressing their opinions
than they are about collecting
facts to support them.
You must not try to remember
where you put things. Your mis-
take was in putting something in
new place.
And So the World Can Read
Bad handwriting is generally
due to man being in too much
of a hurry to say what he wants
to. Go slow: the world can wait.
The instability of our tastes is
the occasion of the irregularity of
our lives.
If a man has too many worries
he may laugh and kick them all
out the door. It is the one worry
that persists and initiates itself.
All revolutions that undertake to
change everything at once become
failures. 1t is the one-at-a-time
changes that last.
Nearly all aliens Judge America
by New York, which it doesn't re-
semble in the least. Chesterton
alone found that out by living at
South Bend.
There never was an age that
wasn't the age for young men
with ability.