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Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-22
Tires Pierced in
Labor War Flare

PORTLAND, Ore, Dec. % UP)
The first extensive labor vandal-
ism since police instituted curfeW
partol was reported today.
The authorities were informed
that 20 tires on II automobiles
parked outside the labor temple
had been punctured last night dur
ing a meeting of the Motion Pic
ture Operators UNION.
As the operators have not ex-
rerienced labor difficulties locally,
it was believed the vandalism was
was directed at the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, which has head
quarters in the temple.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-22
PROSPECTIVE SANTAS
GET FIRST LESSONS

NOTE-The busiest the world this week is
Santa Claus swarming into
him. Santa Claus back-breakns dangerous
his whise they stick knives into him.
him. they him to deliver impossible gifts Par
tougher problem for Santa Claus than do
about this than other
Albion N " who conducts school
Santa Clauses been New York
During that time Harry Ferguson Of the
Howard school, his first
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-22
HOOver's Family
To Hold Reunion

PAIO ALTO, Cal, Dec. % (UP)
Former President Herbert Hoo
ver's San Juan Hill estate will be
the center of a family gathering
over the Christmas holidays it was
learned today
The Hoovers, who recently re-
turned from a long stay in the
east, will have as their guests Mr..
and Mrs. Herbert Hoover jr., and
their three children of Sierra
Madre ana Mr.. and Mrs. Allan
Hoover of Bakersfield.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-22
Cardenas Refuses
Gambling Permit
For Aqua Caliente

LOS ANGELES, Dec. % CUP)-
Baron Long, operator of the luxur-
ious Aua Caliente resort below the
border. today disclosed he had re-
eeived word from Mexico that
President Lazaro Cardenas has re-
fused to grant a permit that would
allow gambling at the resort casino
Previously Long had announced
the casino and hotel would reopen
Christmas eve for the winter
season. Long was not available
for comment ON President Car
denas' orders but his offices here
reported he would "have nothing
to say
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-22
STORK DERBY
CONTENDER
GRAVELY ILL

TORONTO, Ont, Dec. % (UP)-
Mrs. Martin Kenny, "stork derby"
contender, was gravely III at her
home toniht after the birth of her
10th child-a stillborn girl.
DR.. S. M. Linzon said Mrs. Ken
ny caught heavy cold last week
which lowered her vitality and her
condition was serious,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-22
BY HARRY FERGUSON
Copyright 1897 by United Press


Copyright 1887 by United Press
NEW YORK, Dec. %. (UP)-The
round-faced little man wore rim
less glasses and was deadly serious
about the whole business, for he
insists that every person who wants
to be a Santa Claus must believe
in Santa Claus.
"Well start off by singing Jingle
Bells said Charles w. Howard,
who conducts a school for pros
pective Santa Clauses. THAT gets
us in the right mood"
We sang it briskly, with How
ard waving his arm to keep time.
Jingle Bells, jingle bells, jingle
all the way.
"Oh, what fun it is to ride in
a one-horse open sleigh
Learning to be Santa Claus
is divided into three major cate
gories and they are, in the order
of their importance: l. How to
get along with children. 2. Make
up, uniform, method of approach,
ethics (including how to keep chill
dren from wanting things that.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-22

Johannes Baumann, 63, a member
of the Swiss federal council since
1884 and chief Of the federal de-
,,artment of justice and police, is
the new president of Switzerland
for 1888. The president holds Of
fee for one year and then is sue
ceeded by the vice president.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-19
u. S. Keeps Naval Pace

INDICATIONS were that both the
l United States and Great Britain
would embark upon unusually large
peacetime naval building programs
in 1888.
Britain, according to reports in
London, will lay the keels for from
three to five battleships, six or
seven cruisers and proportionate
quota of destroyers, submarines and
smaller craft, to surpass the 1887
total of 664, 900 tons, a peacetime
record. 1t was also reported that
personnel would be increased ulti-
mately by $4,000.
With the placing of additional 1887
contracts, Britain will soon have ITO
vessels under construction.
Admiral William D. Leahy, chief
of American naval operations and
acting secretary of Uncle Sans
navy, said in Washington that con-
gress will be asked to provide funds
for the construction of two battle
ships and two cruisers in the 1888
fiscal year. The admiral inferred
in a press conference that the
United States expects to keep pace
with other nations which are plan
ming extensive naval building. The
four new ships will cost $17O, 1000, 900
and will be ready in 1912. Construc-
ton is about to begin on two other
battleships, which will cost approx.
imately 100000, 900.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-19
Seek Unemployed Count

TOR four years congress has
l failed to order any serious at
tempt at finding out just how seri-
Gus the unemployment problem is.
Now the senate has passed bill,
sponsored by Hugo D. Black (Dem.,
Ala.), which directs the President,
with funds from the 1887 relief ap-
preparation, to order a census of the
unemployed and partially unem-
ployed on or before April /, 1888.
Senators Byrnes, Lodge, Clark and
others objected that the bill was
inadequate, but permitted its pas
sage on the unanimous consent cal
endar.
What will be included in the ques-
tionnaire is, under the terms of the
Black measure, to be determined by
the secretary of commerce, the Sec
rotary of labor, the Works Progress
administrator, the chairman of the
social security board, the chairman
of the central statistical board and
the director of the census.
Harry L. Hopkins repeatedly has
told the President that an unem-
ployment census would be useless.
Administration opponents have
charged that he only wished to exag-
gerate the unemployment problem.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-19
Outline Madrid from Sea

CLOWLY but determinedly Gen.
- Francisco FRANCOIS rebels are
pressing their campaign to cut
Madrid off from Valencia and the
sea. Latest advances of well-mo-
bilized and mechanical troops, fol-
lowing up co-ordinated attacks,
brought the insurgents near to the
capture of Salvacanete, which is
only 80 miles from Cuenca. Cuenca
is the provincial capital, and from
it emanate most of the roads upon
which the loyalist government is
depending to keep open the traffic
between it's two most important
cities. At Teruel, another vital
point in the line of advance, Franco
was reported as having built an
air base with underground hangers
for so planes, which the rebels were
using to harass the government
lines.
Meanwhile, other nations were on
the point of being involved again.
There was a riot among rebel troops
at Toledo, and Italian soldiers were
alleged to have aided in quelling
the uprising. Four merchant ships
one British, one Italian, one
French and one Greek-were at
tackled in the Mediterranean by
three mystery" planes. Great Brit
ain blamed the rebels and demand
ed an answer to its protest. Italy
blamed the red loyalists. The 10y
alists blamed the rebels, the rebels
blamed the loyalists, there were lots
of talk and back talk, and nobody
got anywhere.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-19
Ask Me0
Another /.

/. What countries have dictators
at present?
2. Is there any guide to the
length of sentences when one is
preparing a lecture?
3. How is GPU (Russia's secret
police) pronounced?
4. BY what title was Commodore
Perry known to the Japanese?
5. How fast do bullets travel?
6. How many Carnegie hero
medals have been awarded?
z. What is the famous hot spring
in Iceland?
8. Who are the rulers now in ex-
lie?
Answers
1. The principal relationships
are Russia, Austria, Italy, Ger
many, Turkey, Hungary, Bull
garia, Albania and Mexico.
2. There is the generalization
that sentences should not be long.
Twenty-four words is safe maxi
mum.
3. GPU is pronounced Gay'pay-
ooh-but only by foreigners. Rus
slams do not mention the name,
sometimes referring to them as
the "three-letter men,"
4. For diplomatic purposes
Perry created for himself the title
of Lord of the Forbidden Inte-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-19

Peiping japanese and Chinese forces
were approaching each other. There
were said to be $4,000 japanese,
well-equipped and organized, and
rs, 900 comparatively inefficient Chi
nese.
Between the Peiping-Tientsin line
and the Yellow river were $50, 900
Chinese troops, half of them con-
trolled by the national government,
and south of the Yellow river were
200,0 900 more. 1t was reported that
if the Chinese dictator, Gen. Chang
Kai-shek, wanted to fight, he could
throw 100000 men, including his
crack German-trained divisions, into
the field. Still there was no indi-
cation from Marking that the CEN
trail government would declare war
upon Japan, rather than letting her
have what she wanted, just as she
took what she wanted in Manchuria
and Jehol a few years ago.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-19
New York's Share Cut

C.ENATOR ROBERT F. WAC
~: NER'S (Dem., N. W S726, 000,-
600 housing bill was passed by the
senate, 81 to 16, but the senator
scarcely recognized it when his fell
lows were done with it.
Senator Wagner and other admin
istration leaders struggled frantical-
ly to defeat an amendment by Har-
ry F. Byrd (Dem., Va.) limiting the
cost of housing projects to 81 1000 a
room or $4,000 a family unit. Result
of the struggle: The upper house,
which originally passed the amend
ment 40 to SO, defeated motion to
reconsider by A to SO.
The bill originally called for ex-
penditures up to $1,000 a room or
$1,000 a family unit. Opponents
conceded that the Byrd amendment
would prohibit the building of the
type of houses Senator Wagner had
in mind in New York City, but con-
tended that $4,000 was enough to
spend for housing one family. Per-
sons of extremely low income could
not pay the rent anyway, they ar
gued.
Some senators charged that the
Wagner bill was designed to afford
the bulk of the housing appropria-
ton to New York. This was pre-
vented by the adoption of an amend
ment by Willard E. Tydings (Dem.,
Md which limited the share of any
one state to 20 per cent. This would
permit New York no more than
$4,000, 900 of the $500, 100000 in
loans, and no more than $4,000, 900
a year of the proposed $40, 900, 900 in
rent subsidies. Senator Tydings al
so obtained adoption of an amend
ment which would require local
housing project sponsors to pay 5
per cent of the total cost and per
cent of the rental subsidies.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-19
A Quiz With
Answers Offering
Inform a ton on
Various Subjects

rior," but, of course, he did not
actually hold such a title.
5. Military rifles drive their bull
lets at speeds of from 1000 to
5000 feet per second. The Ger
Itch bullet, one of the speediest,
is capable of travelling almost a
mile a second.
6. In the 33 years of it's exist
ence the Carnegie hero fund has
awarded 10 gold medals, 551 silver
and 1895 bronze medals.
7. The Great Geyser is hot
spring of southwestern Iceland.
Although in medieval times it
sent jets of hot water three times
daily to a height of several hun
dred feet, weeks now elapse be-
tween its eruptions.
s. The rulers in exile at present
are William II of Germany, AL
fonso XIII of Spain, Ferdinand of
Bulgaria, Halle Selassie of Eth
opia, Frederick-Augustus of Sax
ony. Prince Otto of Hapsburg,
heir to the throne of Austria and
Hungary, may be added.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-19

which would permit it to deal only
with employers who maintain
"sweatshops" and starvation
wages" through fake collective bar
gaining agencies.
The Green amendments" in
brief are:
l. Board jurisdiction over wages
and hours in any industry only if it
finds that collective bargaining
agreements do not cover a sufficient
number of employees or facilities
for collective bargaining are inef-
fective.
2. Acceptance of wage-hour stand
ards established by collective bar
gaining in any occupation as prima
facie evidence of appropriate stand
ards in that occupation.
3. Board cannot alter wage-hour
standards already prevailing in &C.
cupation in community considered,
or establish classification in any
community which affects adverse
ly the prevailing standards in the
same or other communities.
4. Industries are protected against
prison-made goods.
5. Label provision" of original
act is eliminated to protect indus
try from what is considered a nui-
sance.
6. Government work is removed
from the boards control and placed
under the Walsh-Healey act.
Chairman Mary T. Norton 3D., N.
j. of the labor committee indicat-
ed the bill would be brought up in
the house under a special rule and
speedily passed.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-19
Senate Q. KS Court Reform

a LII that was left of the admin
= istration's sweeping court re-
form proposals passed the senate in
an hour without a record vote. This
was the procedural reform bill for
the lower federal courts. It was in
the nature of a substitute for the
Summers bill in the house of repre-
sentatives, and went back to the
house for what was expected to be
a peaceable conference.
Vice President Garner whipped
the measure through, even though
Senators McDuffey (Dem., Pa.) and
Lewis (Dem., Ill., loudly protested
that they wanted to go on record as
opposed to it.
The bill, as summarized by Sen.
Warren R. Austin (Rep., Vt.), who
wrote most of it, included:
Provision making it the duty of
the District court, in any conStitu-
tional suit between private citizens,
to notify the Department of Justice
that upon a showing by the attorney
general that the United States had
a probable interest the government
would be made party to the suit.
Permission for the senior circuit
Judge to reassign district judges
within that circuit for the purpose
of clearing congested dockets. Of
necessary, judge may be trans
ferred from one circuit to another.)
Permission for direct appeal to
the Supreme court, if 30-day notice
is given, from any decision of a
District court against the constitu-
tionality of an act.
Requirement that all suits for in
junction against the operation of
federal statutes to be heard by a
three-judge court, including at least
one circuit court of appeals judge.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-19
Where Was John [. Lewis7

M LILLIAN GREEN, president of
w the American Federation of
Labor, emerged as the administra-
TONS favorite son in matters affect
ing labor as he was permitted vir-
tually to write his own amendments
to the house version of the wages
and hours bill. The senate had
passed the bill, Sc to %, only after
President Roosevelt had called
Green to the White House and per-
suaded him to give lukewarm ap-
prevail to the measure, with the un-
derstanding that the house would
amend it.
Southern Democrats in the senate,
led by Pat Harrison of Mississippi,
bitterly opposed the bill, but their
motion to recommit it to committee
was defeated, 48 to So. The same
vigorous opposition was expected
from Dixie's representatives in the
house labor committee, but the
Green amendments" ESQ called be-
cause Of the federation president
complete domination of the commit
tee meeting) patched up the essen
tial differences.
The bill, as passed by the senate,
would create a labor standards
board empowered to set minimum
wages up to 40 cents an hour and
maximum work weeks down to 40
hours. The house committee had
intended to extend the limits to per-
NIT the board to set wages at 70
cents and hours as low as 35. I'm
der Green's influence the house COM
mittee decided to accept the senate
provisions on this part of the meas
ure, but the scope of the board was
greatly curtailed by an amendment
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-19
Sheet Erosion a Thief
That Nav Fool Farmers

When a field is being robbed by
sheet erosion, the theft may go on
for years without a farmer know
ing it. Erosion which carves deep
gullies is pretty obvious. But soil
conservation workers in the De-
partment of Agriculture know that
sheet erosion works so slowly that
it may not be evident until too late.
If a farmer looks at his rolling
Hillside fields from a distance and
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-19

Torashimo Kawabe m h d
through the city, taking possession
of it in the name of Tokyo.
What would be the result of the
new Japanese domination apparent
ly begun by Maj. Gen. Kawabe was
a matter for speculation. Chinese
residents, long since convinced that
the inevitable would happen, took
it calmly enough. Some of them
voiced their belief that the former
boy emperor of China, Tsuan Tung
(Henry Pu-YD, since 1884 Emperor
Kang Teh of Manchukuo, would re-
turn to his throne in Peiping. He
would then rule over North China as
well as Manchukuo, as puppet for
whom Japan would pull the strings.
Japanese control was extended IN
Tientsin when the japanese CO.
commissioner of the Chinese salt
administration announced he had
taken over the administrations
Tientsin district. This includes the
Changlu salt fields, with production
valued at more than 100000 a
year and formerly a government
monopoly.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-19

sees light-colored knobs in dark col
ored fields or if the color of a slop-
ing field fades to light tan or gray
as his eye travels up the slope, he
is seeing the results of sheet ero-
sion, which strips thin layers of top
soil little at a time.
This same test can be made later
on after crops are growing. Corn,
cotton, tobacco and other crops
may be making fine growth on the
lower parts of field, but up above,
where sheet erosion has been at
work, the stand is thinner,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-19
Memorial for viii ROGERS

THE memory of Will Rogers,
L Americas lately beloved gum
chewing philosopher, will be en-
shrined in fitting manner near his
Claremore, Okla, home after the
President signs bill which has now
been passed by both houses of con-
gress. 1t appropriates $780, 900 for
a memorial to Will; the state of Ok
lahoma also will be required to fur
nish $500,000.
Mrs. Rogers will donate the site
for the building. Architects will
compete for the right to design it.
While nothing has been definitely de-
cided as yet, it is held probable the
memorial will be museum of In
dian life. Rogers was part Indian.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-19
Haiti Once Robber Stronghold

In the West Indies, Haiti, ''Black
Republic" is about one-third of the
Island of Santo Domingo and was
once a buccaneers stronghold. In
1880, when they were driven from
st. Kits and other islands, they es-
tablished their pirate nest, which
the king of Spain and all his men
could not destroy for a long time.
It's small harbor, protected from the
open sea, probably contains more
buried treasure than any other
place in the West Indies.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-19
Running a Hotel.


I'VE just been a guest at one of the
best small-town hotels in Amer
lea. I should know about good no
tells because, in bygone days, I
stopped at all the bad ones.
The worst was one back East
built over a jungle of side tracks.
l wrote a piece about that hotel.
1t had hot and cold running cock
reaches on every floor and all-night
switch-engine service; the room
towels only needed buttons on them
to be peekaboo waists, but the roller
towel in the public Mushroom had,
through the years, so solicited that
If the house burned down it surely
would have been left standing. The
cook labored under the delusion that
a fly was something to cook with.
Everybody who'd ever registered
there recognized the establishment.
So the citizens raised funds and
tore down their old hotel, thereby
making homeless wanderers of half
million resident bedbugs; and
they put up a fine new hotel which
paid a profit, whereas the old one
had been losing money ever since
the fall of Richmond.
A good hotel is the best adver-
tisement any town can have, but a
bad one is just the same as an extra
pesthouse where the patients have
to pay.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-19

asked TO describe
the race in any by
gone period since
printers ink came
into common use,
I'd turn to the adj
vertising in the pa
pers and periodicals
OF that particular
age. For then I'd
know what people
wore and what they
ate and what their
sports were a n d
4 n 81 fo1Iior ord
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-19

could be averted.
Officials here be-
lieved that Japan's
next objective would
be the railroad from
Peiping into Sui
yuan, and that she
would seek to drive
all Chinese troops
out of Chahar, until
she could take pos
session of the irnpor-
tant city of Kalgan.
Along the railways
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-19
what /ILk
@IWV/ thinks
about:
Advertising's Value.

" ERNALIS, CALIF.-On the
' train a charming young
woman said: 81 always read
the advertisements whether I
want to buy anything or not. Do
you think I'm crazy?"
/ told her she was the smartest
young woman I knew. If I were
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-19
Meaning Of Different. Various

Different means other than, not
like, distinct; various means di-
verse, manifold. There are two diff
ferent ways of bowling, overarm and
underarm. There are various ways
of swimming, breast-stroke, crawl,
side-stroke, on the back. It would
be incorrect to say there are two
various ways of bowling.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-19
A Method

81 was sorry for your wife dur.
ing the sermon" said one parish
ioner to another. "She had ter
rible fit of coughing, and every
body was looking at her"
"You needn't feel sorry" said
the other dryly. "She was wear
ing her new hat for the first time"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-19

you"
Leaflets contain
ing these words fiut-
tered from the skies
to come to rest In
the hands of resi-
dents of the ancient
Chinese C a p j t a l,
Peiping. As the air
planes which spread
the news hummed
overhead, a brigade
of 5000 japanese
soldiers, in COM
mand of Mai. Gen.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-19
Time Repavs Labor

Time is an Estate that will pro-
duce nothing without culture, but
will always abundantly repay the
labors of industry.-Johnson.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-19

Fancy Meeting You!
Two friends met in midair.
"Where have you come from?"
greeted one. I've just dropped
from an airplane."
"Oh," replied the other, "I'm
rising from my stove"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-19

their tastes and their habits; know
what they did when they were
healthy and what they took when
they were sick and of what they
died and how they were buried and
where they expected to go after they
left herein short, I'd get a pic
ture of humanity as it was and not
as some prejudiced historian, writ
ing then or later, would have me
believe it conceivably might have
been.
I'd rather be able to decipher the
want ad on the back side of Chal-
dean brick than the kings edict on
the front-that is, if I craved to get
an authentic glimpse at ancient
Chaldea.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-19
See Little Hope for Peace

4 S MORE and more thousands of
= japanese soldiers poured into
North China, the Marking foreign
Office held little hope that a real war
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-19
Peipinq Gets Protection"

Sc a THOUGH Marking is pre-
"A pairing to wage destructive
war, do not be afraid.
''The japanese army will protect
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-19

A doctor says we should never
go to sleep in bad temper. As
the proverb didn't put it: "Surly
to bed, Surly to RISE"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-19
Organ Pipe Cactus

The spectacular organ pipe cactus
grows emily in fairly small area of
southern Arizona.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-19
Well, Now

Well, Now
Boss-For a man with no ex-
pe2ience you ask high wages.
Applicant-Well, sir, it's much
harder work when you don't know
anything about it.
We reap what we sow, we're
told. What about the amateur
gardener?