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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-12-30
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decided that it is not well for man
to live alone. That is natural, isn't
it, Padre, and teaching of the
Church? All, yes. So ! have this
day sent word to the Viceroy that
wish to have my wife join me
here"
Sierra also rose to his feet. He
remembered now that he had seen
before the expression that smol-
dered in the Governors eyes. but
in the eyes of other men.
"Ahl" he said softly. "Ah! Your
wife. l see. So you want her in
California with you. Naturally"
He walked to the low door and
stared thoughtfully at a group of
Indian children, playing some alb
sorbing game with hoop and a
dart while circle of elders watched
them lazily in the afternoon SUM-
shine.
Strange, Pedro FACES. l always
think of you as man among men;
a soldier, an explorer. A mans
man entirely. But of course you
are married. It must be a long
time since you have seen your wife,
yes?"
"a long time" he answered in a
low voice. "a long, long time. Eight
years. I have son, too, Padre.
And the last time saw him he was
few days old.
''Now that l feel 1 am going to
stay here, somehow the need for
that son and his mother has become
more than can bear. And need
ing them so / must talk to you about
them. I think they can be happy
here. I am. The living quarters at
the preside are not so bad, and
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-12-30

City Hall and scores of other build
ings have been automatically brought
back to life. An old timer walking
down those streets might be tempt
ed to hum a chorus of 'Shoo, Fly,
Don't Bother Me" or some other
catchy tune of yesterday.
I'm Old Chicago" story eli
NAKED by the lamp-kicking act of
Mrs. O'Leary's cow, cost 81 500, 600.
But it wasn't extravaganza, even
though Mr.. Zanuck did build a
1855 900 gallon artificial lake to
simulate Lake Michigan. Nor was
it extravaganza to use LOO extras
in one scene. Sure, it cost lot
of money, but Hollywood producers
are skinf1int as building contractor
when it comes to planning the cost
of production.
Research-the First Step.
How is it done? Well, let's get
started with SIN Old Chicago"
When Daryl Zanuck decided to
produce this film he Immediately
set the research department at work
collecting data on the 1854-1871 pc
Rod in Chicago which the picture
was scheduled to cover. He decided
that the great holocaust which laid
waste $4,000 buildings at loss of
Sl96, ZOO, 900 should be reproduced
only as a concluding sequence. The
picture would really relate an i'm
portant epoch in the building of
Americas second city. An impov-
erished American family of the
frontier type would be chosen,
around whom the epic of growth,
destruction and rebuilding could be
constructed.
The O'Learys were chosen be-
cause Mrs. O'Leary's COW with the
high-kicking rear legs is supposed
to have started this greatest of con-
fagrations.
It took the research department
one year to gather data covering
manners, costumes and buildings of
the 1854-1871 era. Then Niven
Busch set to work with his original
screen story, eve the O'Learys."
This was turned over to Lamar Trot-
ii and Sonya Levien, crack script
team.
Costumes, Properties, Music.
The research department fur
nished information for the style di-
rector, Roger, who designed cos
tunes for the principals. Art Di-
rector William Darling supervised
construction of sets and properties
from old building prints and maps
furnished by the researchers.
Since modern films need music,
Lew Pollack and Sidney D. Mitchell
wrote "I'n Never Let You Cry"
"I've Taken a Fancy to You," and
stake a Dip in the Sea-" Mack,
Gordon added SIN Old Chicago" as
a fourth tune. Among old-time
numbers studied by these crack
songsmiths were Aunt Rhody,"
"Come Home Father" "The Dark
Girl Dressed in Blue" 'We Never
Speak as We Pass By" and "The
Captivating Due" Remember any
of them?
Actually, two cities were built for
the production. First came the Chi
cago of 1854, sprawling cosmopolis
of dirt streets, inhabited by set
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-12-30

tiers, frontiersmen, ruffans, sharp
traders and all the other sturdy and
warped souls who drifted through
Chicago on their way to and from
the American frontier. Against this
background was filmed the prologue
sequences of SIN Old Chicago"
Through its increased streets rum
bled the covered wagons bearing
Alice Brady, the newly widowed
"Molly OLeary," and her three
brave youngsters.
Sets Are Rebuilt.
When the prologue had been
filmed the 1854 sets were rebuilt to
match 1871 Chicago. Dirt streets
were paved, tracks for the horse
cars were laid. ''The Patch" a
tough section of old Chicago occupy
ing an area of over five blocks on
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-12-30

a real lake front, Zanuck snapped
his fingers and ordered an arti-
fetal lake built right on the lot!
This wasn't extravaganza, because
it was cheaper than transporting
hundreds of extras, properties, crew
and equipment to a location many
miles away.
Filming the Holocaust.
To film the lakeside scenes-most-
ly pictures of the fire-the studio
built the highest parallels ever con.
structed for a film, towers 165 feet
tall. The complete picture of desc
lation and horror could be seen
from cameras at such an advan-
tageous angle. A dolly, 20 by sc
feet, was built to run along tracks
laid in the lakebed, holding three
more cameras.
Altogether, seven outdoor sets
were made for the picture. In
terror settings are scattered through
five sound stages at Twentieth Cen
tury-FoX. One, illustrating the in.
terror of Chicago's old Nineteenth
Regimental armory, used as the
scene of a free-for-a1 election
dance battle among 500 extras, fills
an entire stage.
Fifteen fire engines of 1871 vim
tage were secured for use in the
picture after a search that covered
most of the nation. Furniture was
obtained from second hand shops
and antique dealers, much of il
coming from an old house recently
wrecked in Los Angeles. But num-
Der OF pieces had to be built to
correspond with prints of the Pc
riod.
Although "In Old Chicago" de.
tails the romance of Tyrone Power
and Alice Faye, plus the adventures
of Molly and Jack O'Leary (Alice
Brady and Don Ameche) the real
interest in this unusual spectacle is
the great Chicago fire. Everyone
wants to know chow it was DONE
and show much it cost"
It's An Expensive Job.
The studios answer is that $780,
600 was appropriated for especial
effect" this mostly means the
fire. When you consider that the
real Chicago confagration spread
over an area of three and one-quar-
ter square miles, destroying ap-
proximately a third of the city's
$575, 10000 assessed valuation, you
can understand the task confront
ing those who would reproduce it.
No chances were taken during the
filming of the fire sequence. The
studios own fire department was
constantly ready behind scenes lest
the flames should get out of hand.
And just to make sure that the fire
adhered to schedule, a battery OF
equipment from the Los Angeles
fire department was also on the
spot.
Yes, there was also "Daisy
O'Leary," the famous Jersey cow.
DAISY" was discovered on a farm
near Stockton, Calf. With her three
sisters as "standins," the bovine
Thespian was moved to Hollywood
and taught the proper technique OF
kicking over lamp.
But the important part of this and
most other Hollywood productions
is that acknowledgements workmen
seldom get the credit they deserve.
The stars glitter before the cam
eras, but their glittering would be
in vain without the prodigious
amount of research, construction
and planning which lies behind ev-
cry film. Costumes, scenery, sound,
photography, makeup, research and
casting-these are but few of the
fields in which Hollywood workers
occupy themselves.
Think that over when you take in
a show tonight!
@ Western Newspaper Union.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-12-30
of Monterey
REvEILLE

In one of the annals of California
history, there are these paragraphs:
Turn now to the Northern coasts, to
the Bay of San Diego, iohose toafers had
lain for more than century and halt
undisfurbed by European keel, ,rhose
shores had knoton no tread OF iron heel
since Sebastian Vizcaino sOas there. The
native inhabitants yet preserved a tradi-
tionaI remembrance OF iohite and bearded
visitors, kept atipe perhaps by an occa-
sionaI rumor ,oafted overland from the
southeast, and by distant gIimpses OF the
,Uhite Winged galIeon Uhich year after
year bore its oriental treasure do,on past
this port, iohich, so far as can be knoton,
ioas neuer entered. And noto the abOrig-
inai solitude is to be forerer broken.
a.. On the goth day OF April. 1869,
the San Carlos, otherwise called the
Golden Fleece, comes in sight.
a.. On board tUere Lieutenant Pedro
Fages,* pith twenty-five Catalan Uolun-
teers. :"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-12-30

That may be true In
New York, where
folks are anxious to
get the dinner over
with so they may
hurry to the night
spots and do some
sincere and earnest
drinking in an effort
to forget what the
stock market did to
them yesterday and
what it's going to do
to them tomorrow.
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-12-30
Old Center of Education

One of the oldest centers of edu-
cation in America, the University
of Havana, was founded January
S, 1923, by a Dominican priest, with
the authorization of Pope Innocent
XIII. 1t remained under Papal jul
risdiction until 1912, when it was
officially secularized.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-12-30
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After Dinner Speeches.

HOUSTON, TEXAS. Late
L L ly, for my sins, I've had to
listen to, a jag of after-dinner
oratory, including plenty of
mine. hope people like to hear
me. I do.
Feature writer's say professional
after-dinner speakers are dying out.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-12-30
Woods Used for YioIins

Woods used in violin-making are:
Maple or pine-back, neck, ribs and
bridge; spruce-belly, bar of cor
ners, molds, Innings, sound post;
ebony or ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
nuts, pegs, tailpiece, tailpiece but
ton.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-12-30
Plague Evidence in Bricks

Adobe bricks from ruins of a Do
minican mission in Lower California
have preserved evidence of a small
pox epidemic that ravaged the In
dian population in 1871.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-12-30
BY JOSEPH w. LaBINE

Let's make motion picture not the pker' way like
would with his lamp but the Hollywood might
Let's make SIN Old Chicago" the super somehingor
other production exhibited u S. theaters We're
only using SIN Old Chicago example of the movie indus
trys uncanny skill, but what an example it isl!
years ago SIN Old Chicago just notion in the
Daryl F. Zanuck Goth CenturyFox production
chief Today of 1871 Chicago stand in faithful
reproduction studios Westwood lot The Palmer house.
Field Letter company, Adams Express company, the
Evening star., 1937-10-31

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Its modern lines will odd life ond beouy to the bedroom
Duob built of seasoned hodwood and richly >eneered Buh and
matched hand Nonut Includes bed chest ond choice
Of dresser vanity Dusproo construction center drowe guides
and hardwood interiors featured throughout.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-12-28
WIDE SECTION PARALYzED BY
 TERRIFIC GALE
Travel, Communications Systems Disrupted
 by Storm
MUD SLIDES ARE
 CAUSING TROUBLE
Seattle Streets Flooded, Also Blocked-Down-
 pour Continues

SEATTLE, Dec. 28.-Wind and water played havoc today in the Pacific Northwest with travel and communications as the death and destruction center moved from northwestern Oregon and north- western Washington.
 Fireman Elwood Tucker is miss ing, and apparently has been drowned, and Engineer Mark Mo- Lean was severely injured when a mud slide sent the westbound Great Northern mail train, locomo- tive, express car and two coaches, into the raging Skykomish River near Monroe.
 Charles Mock, World War vet eran, prevented a possible second Great Northern wreck, when he flagged a southbound passenger train just before it reached a l00- foot mud slide at North Beach, beyond Seattle's north city limits. Eighty-four passengers, mostly from British Columbia, were brought into Seattle by busses. One elderly woman passenger remained aboard the train rather than submit to the drenching rain. Telephone, telegraphic and even radio also power and light service is disrupted.
 Planes are all grounded.
 Many reports of flooded base ments and overtaxed storm sewers are received as the downpour con- tinues in Seattle and the surround ing territory. Wind also batters this section. There has been a rainfall of 4.55 inches since last Saturday.
 Many streets are blocked by mud slides.
 There Is 12 inches of water in the fire room of the Virginia Mason Hospital.
 At Kelso, sixty residents are threatened by flood waters.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-12-28
J. s. WILL BUY MORE SILVER
 FROM MEXICO
Understanding Reached in Treasury Conference
 at Washington

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.-Treas- ury officials announced today that Mexican silver will be purchased all during January.
 An understanding was reached at a conference between Mexican Ff- nance Minister Suarez and Secre- tary of the United States Treasury Morgenthau, that the United States will continue to purchase Mexican silver through January at least.
 The purchases will be made on the sane basis as in the past year, with the United States paying 45 cents an ounce for the newly mined silver originating in Mexican mines.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-12-28
NAVY USING
 ALASKA FOR
 EXPERIMENTS
Rotation System Is Giving Many Pilots Flying
 in North

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28. = The Navy GepadJment is using Alaska as a proving ground for winter avia- ton, Navy officials have revealed.
 Alaska provides an excellent op- portunity with varying weather con- ditions to acquaint pilots with win ter flying, officials said.
 It was also explained that pilots are getting experience with hand ling of planes and motors under dif- ferent temperatures and varied haz- ards
 Navy officials said the Navy want ed to give as many pilots as possible Alaska training through rotation policy. Through this procedure 1t is believed a large number of fliers would receive conditioning during the winter flights.
 The training program consists largely of flying the Navy's big patrol boats between Seattle and the Sitka base from which latter point, patrols are made the length of the coast to the extremities of the Aleu- tian islands.
 All manner of equipment for air planes is being given test, de- icers to keep wings free of danger ous coatings of frozen moisture, and experiments with oils under differ ent temperatures. Every conceiv- able test is being given the new and different Improvements to de- termine their feasibility.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-12-28
COUNTER ATTACK THROWN AGAINST
 CITY OF 'TEREUL
Insurgents Drive on Region to Rescue 6,000, Be-
 seiged Within

HENDAYE, French-Spanish Bor- der, Dec. 28.-In a fierce counter attack on Spanish Government out posts northwest of Teresul, General Miquel Arandas is reported to have driven a relief column through to the outskirts of the city.
 Arandas is attempting to deliver 5000 men, women and children besieged within the fallen city.
 Insurgent sources declared the Generals advance guard might soon reach the Seminary Fortress. the Bank of Spain Building and the Civil Governors Palace where 5000 Insurgent officers and soldiers and about that many civilians are bil- leted in battle against hunger and thirst brought on by siege.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-12-28
DoDD COMING HOME;LEAvES
 BERLIN TODAY
Decided Chill in Farewell as Ambassador Sets
 Of for LISA.

BERLIN, Dec. So.-William Dodd, resigning United States Ambassa- dor, left today for the United States more unceremoniously than any other department American envoy.
 There was chill in the farewell in keeping with the present rela- tions between the Ambassador and the Nazi Government The relations have especially been strained since Dodd obected to American official representation at the Nazi Party Congress last September at Nurn- berg.
 Only the male personnel of the Consulate and Embassy said good- bye to the departing Ambassador.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-12-28
Is Fined for Speeding with Baby Buggy

COPENHAGEN, Denmark. Dec. 28.-For the first time in Denmark and perhaps in the world-a hus- band and wife have been fined for speeding with baby carriage.
 They linked juniors buggy to their bicycles and made good prog ress until a police patrol stopped them for travelling at 12 miles an hour. more than the law allows for a baby carriage.
 Two days later the parents had to pay g fine.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-12-28
Ne,c Deal Trust Busting;
 Just What Does 1t Medn?
By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer

WASHINGTON, Dec. -8. n Take all these antitrust suits that keep cropping up in the federal courts, add them together, and you have the Roosevelt version of the old time game of trust-busting
 And what game that was back in 1900 and again in 1910.
 The object was to have Uncle Sam catch a big, pot-bellied trust in the political arena. Then our bewhis- kered uncle was supposed to land a hay-maker flush to the jaw, in full view of millions of frenzied voters. The trusts soon revived behind the scenes and resumed business at the same old stand under new name. But what the public wanted was "the kill" And, from time to time, it got one
 Today it's different. The economic structure of the nation is obviously too complex, too delicately balanced, to stand such pummelingS.
 So the Roosevelt version is not a knock down, drag-out scrap but a refined contest played some thing like a contract bridge tour nament. It's a game replete with finesse and squeeze plays, hardly a tussle fit for big audiences.
 But even though the spectators can't follow the play now as well as they could the old one-big punch game, the stakes are actually higher; and there's a good chance that the outcome may mold the na- tions economic pattern for the fu- ture
 Four Targets
 The government has taken on four whopping big adversaries at once, and some of the small fry on the side
 Here are the "big four" ALUMINIUM: The government in- sists this industry is dominated by a single company Aluminium Company of America-which ran a $20,000 investment up to huge financial monopoly by killing off competition along the way. OIL: The government says all the big midwestern oil companies have been getting together in gasoline price-fixing pools and setting the price of gasoline in 10 states. TELEGRAPHS: The government expects to prove that two big tele- graph companies in the field have divided up the choice spots for telegraph offices and, thereby, split the telegraph business just the way they want to. CEMENT: The government suspects the Cement Institute and it's 75 manufacturing members of agree ing to increase the price of ce- ment.
 Three of the governments cases are lawsuits, and the fourth is a Federal Trade Commission com plaint against the Cement Institute The general theme is to prove that the suspected industries arranged to kill competition and then kite prices
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-12-28
LAST TRIBUTE IS PAID BAKER
 IN CLEVELAND
Men from All Ranks Gath CT at Bier of Former
 Secretary War

CLEVELAND Ohio, Dec 28 = Statesmen military, leaders, political figures, jurists, World War veter- ans and the man in the street, as- sembled today to pay final tribute to Newton D, Baker, former Sec retary of War, who died last Sat- urday.
 Hundreds of messages have been received, including one each from the President and Mrs. Roosevelt.
 Throngs viewed the remains at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral where services are being conducted by Bishop Warren Lincoln.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-12-28
Girl Wed by Proxy
 While on High Seas

BERKELEY. Cal. Dec. 28.-She embarked from New York as Flor ence Holden. an American citizen. and landed at Marseilles, Franco as Mrs. Maurice Miller, a subject of Great Britain.
 Such was the experience of a Berkeley woman in a recent mar riage by proxy on the high seas. Her new husband is British Vice. Consul at Barcelona, Spain. He could not get leave of absence and she could enter Spain only as his wife SO the marriage took place via radio while she was on shipboard.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-12-28
2 Escape Death,
 Electric Chair
Slayers Win Two-Year Fight To Serve
 Life Tn Prison

TRENTON, New Jersey Dec. 28. Mrs. Margaret Fox Dolbrow and Norman Driscoll, have won their two-year fight to escape death in the electric chair for the murder of Mrs. Dolbrow's husband
 The State Court of Pardons has committed their death sentences to life imprisonment.
 Dolbrow, it is alleged was killed by the woman and man, so he would not know of their illicit relations.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-12-28
MYSTERY BOAT
 REPORTED OFF
 so. CAL. COAST
Destroyers Maintain Patrol Despite Denials of
 Rumors

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 28.- "The security patrol maneuvers" of the destroyers of the battle force of the United States Fleet off the Southern California coast continued but rumors of a mystery submar- inc" sighted off the coast were laughed at by Navy officers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-12-28
CANAL ZONE
 GUARD FORGE
 NOW DOUBLED
General Boycott of Japan csc Goods Cuts Nip
 pon Import Lists

NEW YORK, Dec. 28.-War fears have caused the guard on the Panama Canal Zone to be doubled, according to Pete Miller, Sports Editor of the Panama American.
 A general boycott of Japanese products has cut Japanese imports by more than $40O.000. Miller also said.
 The increase in the guard per- sonnel has resulted in a housing shortage and building boom.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-12-28
MRS. ROOSEVELT RETURNS HOME;. GOES BY TRAIN
First Lady of Land Ends Visit with Daughter
 Tn Seattle

SPOKANE, Wash, Dec. 28.-Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. continuing her trip to Washington, D. C., by train, arrived here this forenoon, two hours behind schedule. Bad fly ing weather kept her from taking a plane.
 The First Lady of the Land spent Christmas with her daughter, Mrs. John Boettiger, in Seattle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-12-28
NOT BUYING
 JAPAN GOODS
One Big Chain Store Is Not Spending g Money
 with Nipponese

DETROIT, Mich, Dec. 28.--R. R. Williams, Vice-President of the s. s. Kresge Company. said today that his company is not placing orders for Japanese made goods nor spend- ing money in Japan at this time.
 "Our policy is to buy only mer- chandise acceptable to the public, :" said Williams.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-12-28
MISS MASSEY TO SAIL

Miss Beatrice Massey, nurse at the Juneau Medical and Surgical Clinic, is leaving for the south tonight aboard the Alaska enroute to Seat tie where she will be on vacation for a month.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-12-28
Nome Man Gets License to Wed

BELLINGHAM, Wash, Dec. 28.-- A marriage license has been issued to Walter Joyce, of Nome, Alaska, and Josephine Maxwell, of Oak land, Cal.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-12-28
COUNTER ATTACK
 FIGHTING REPORTED

BARCELONA, Dec. 28.-The in vading relief patrols of Insurgent troops led by General Miquel Aran- das are fighting inside the limits of Tereul with Loyalist troops who ap- parently yet hold more territory
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-12-28
Death, Property
 Damage in Quake

SAN SALVADOR. Salvatore, Dec. 28.-One man was killed and five injured in quake which shook the town of Ahuachapan- Atiquizaya, near the Guatamalan border. Much property damage is also reported.