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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-07-01
VI0LAT0RS PAY
S37,232 FINES
In 5 MONTHS
Report of State Highway Patrol
Shows Penalties Totaled
STAG a Month.

Minnesota motorists paid $37, 232 for
traffic law violations the first five
months of 1887, on arrests by members
of the Minnesota highway patrol alone,
according to report to N. w. Elsberg,
state highway commissioner, by John
P. Arnoldy, patrol chief. No estimate
was available on how much more was
paid by erring motor vehicle drivers
through arrests by police and sheriffs
The "fines imposed" figures of the
patrol averaged 81, 446 month for the
first five months. The May total was
$9,113
Careless drivers are the principal Of
tenders so far in 1887, according to the
patrol report, 495 paying 17,4O6 in fines
Drivers of overweight trucks are second
345 paying s5,O79. Drunken drivers
came third, 50 paying S4,881, their per-
centage per individual being the highest
in the state.
The record shows 1923 motorists paic
$1,205 for driving through stop signs
So paid $3.50 for improper passing; 10t
paid $1,033 for speeding; Sc paid $40l
for improper parking; 470 paid LAT;
for driving with improper equipment
271 paid $2,123 for improper registra.
ton; 1875 paid $305 for driving without
drivers licenses, and 301 other violator:
paid $2,872.
The patrol in May increased its tota
mileage travelled to 1885 ,536 miles, b,
automobile and motorcycle, an averag,
of 81, lot miles a month. The patro
stopped 20,108 vehicles to check pos
sible traffic code violations in May
gave aid to motorists in 1851 cases
warned 8,642 drivers of various traffi
law violations without making arrests
tagged 1868 others, corrected 1,411 i'm
proper tags and arrested 1888 violation
of various traffic laws.
For the year, the patrol shows, il
addition to $37,232 in fines through
Justice and Municipal courts, $138,62
was collected, through efforts by patrol
men, for license corrections of variou
sorts.
The patrol gave first aid to injure,
in IA cases in May, increasing its tota
to As for the year; directed traffic il
193,785 cases, and pulled 1,614 moto
vehicles from bitches.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-07-01
500 Acres Sprayed to
Control CaterpiILars,

Spraying operations to rid resorts and
lake homes of the tentless caterpillar
plague were brought to close last
week, according to Grover M. Comet,
director of the state division of forestry
Approximately 800 acres of privately
owned lands were treated with arsenate
of lead by means of six spraying ma
chimes recently purchased by the for
eStry division.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-07-01
"NOONANISMS"
(FrOm the Baudette Region)

The only difference between the kids
Of 1900 and those of 1887 is 81 years.
Many cities have services to remind
husbands of their wedding anniver-
saries. What is really needed is a SER
vice to remind many husbands that they
are married.
A doctor says that when you are
hungry you will feel better if you chew
a straw. Another good way is to eat
something.
Another Hollywood couple were mar
ried this week. Wouldn't it be funny
if it turns out that they really love each
other?
Many lad has nothing saved up for
rainy day because he spent it on wet
nights.
A No-Talk bridge club exists among
the ladies in nearby town. A woman
who can't talk at bridge game must
endure untold suffering.
Mae Vests new picture is unnamed
as yet, and writer suggests 1.-THE Hip
Parade"
Alice Tone Fig in the Frazee Press
aptly heads the senior class graduation
"Out of School Life into Lies School,
Talking of trailers, "a rolling home
gathers no mortgages" says the Whine.
bago Times.
The average cost for a party of foul
| at New York night club is around 500
A fool and his money are some party
as the fellow said.
Want advs. are statesmen that worl
"a hours day for you at little cost
| We often wonder how some of thos.
radio sopranos ever got their jobs
Many of them sound like hound dos
with laryngitis.
| Bang that fly on the nose early il
the morning while he is a bachelor
If you don't his children will be samp
ling your food by evening.
| Time will cure snoring, says doctor
The doc probably means daytime.
Il
just as Governor Benson was gettine
ready to fire lot of Republicans from
the highway staff Bernie Craig helpet
himself to a better job and resigned
He was like the man in the saloon wht
went out the door and said to the bar.
tender Come on outside and put m,
out"
The no-drinkers, no-smokers, says ths
Baudette Region, are pointing to Johr
D. Rockefeller as life prolonged BY
total abstinence. We have a number o.
octogenerians in Winnebago who have
used tobacco for years. They are still
living and going strong So what?-
Winnebago Times. They had better cu
it out, Charley, or it may get them some
day.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-07-01

$3.50 A. M.-Parade
1000 A. M.-Drum Corps Exhibition at the Ball
1O:15 A. M.-Awarding of Parade Prizes
1880 A. M-Seectons by the Municipal Band and
School Band
10:45 A. M.-Races and Stunts
100 A. M.-Drum Buge Corps Exhibition Streets
1:3O P. M-Junior School Band Concert on
2:3O P. M-Base Ball Game
600 P. M-Junior Legion Base Ball Game
1880 P. M-Band Concert
800 p M-Dance
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-13

Inc documents dlSpOSlng OF the
estates of Mrs. Parsons and Mrs.
Anna Kupryanova in the event of
death were signed in April, 1897,
Assistant District Attorney Harry
c. Brenner of Suffolk county said.
Some investigators cited the ran
som note demanding $4,000 within
% hourS-which expired at noon
Thursday-in support of their be-
lief that Mrs. Parsons had been
slain. Others said they were not
entirely satisfied that the case was
an open and shut kidnapping. These
latter would not discuss their theo-
rieS.
So far as is known, Mrs. Kuprya-
nova, whose position in the Parsons
household never has been fully
explained, was the only witness
to Mrs. Parsons departure from
her Long Meadows farm estate
at Oils am. (CST) on Wednesday.
Mrs. Kupryanova told police that
Mrs. Parsons left in an automo-
bile with a man and woman, pre-
Sumably to show some property
which she had offered for sale in
nearby Huntington. She did not
return. and several hours later a
crudely penciled ransom note de-
manding $25,000 was found in the
car, which was parked in
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-13
FORMER FILM
STAR TELLS OF
SUICIDE TRY
Version Revealed in New
Investigation of
Taylor Case

LOS ANGELES, June II.
Mary Miles Minter, star
of the silent films, in a state
ment today regarding the
latest investigation of the
William Desmond Taylor murder
flatly contradicted her mothers
statement that Miss Minter's sui
eide attempt several years ago was
joke. 1T was a very tragic and
serious affair."" the former star
said.
At the same time Miss Minter
branded as false the story of the
family's former chauffeur, Chaun-
cey Eaton, that he hid five .38 cali
Der cartridges in the basement OF
her mothers former hcme in swan
ky Fremont Place.
IF Eaton hid five cartridges two
years before the murder of William
Desmond Taylor" she said, "they
we're little, tiny ones and would
not have fitted a .38 caliber gun" :"
For the first time the screen
favorite of silent pictures, who has
said that "raylor was the only
man ] ever loved" revealed the
details of her suicide attempt prior
to the screen directors mysterious
murder Is years ago She said:
TT was not joke, as mother
tried to make out III newspaper
interviews. 1t was very tragic
and serious affair.
II really didn't want to live and
Continued on Page 2, Col -
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-13
EVELYN ELLIOTT
KILLED IN AUTO
N EAR SEELEY
Light Machine Crashes
Into Concrete Canal
Bulkhead

Miss Evelyn Elliott, FL
Centre, was killed instantly
Friday night when her light
roadster smashed into a con-
crete canal bulkhead d mile
and half east of Seeley on the
San Diego highway.
She was the Goth victim of high
way accidents since Jan. l, and the
second this week. Harry Nelson, a
dishwasher at Imperial, was killed
Thursday night.
Miss Elliott, who was 81 years
old. had lived here since she was
child. Her mother, Mrs. Andrew
J. Elliott, was believed TO be the
first white woman to settle per-
manently in Imperial Valley. Her
father still is prominent among
valley pioneers.
Miss Elliott was familiar figure
in the valley, driving about III a
small roadster in cowboy attire.
She followed her parents in the
cattle business. One OF her BROTH
erS, Fred Elliott, is associated with
AL Kalin of Brawley in the cattle
business at present. He was a depu-
ty sheriff for nine years.
A coroner's inquest Saturday re-
turned a routine verdict of acci-
dental death in the tragedy.
Roy Wells, California highway
patrolman, said Miss Elliott's death
was instantaneous when she was
thrown from her roadster after
it hit the concrete bulkhead, and
herself catapulted head-first
against it.
Miss Elliott's roadster, tire marks
showed, skidded 100 feet before
it left the highway and crashed
against the canal abuttment, turn
ing upside down. The woman was
riding alone, driving towards El
Centre.
A witness was 1t. Commander B,
E. Rokes, U. S. Navy, who was driv-
ing with his wife to the east from
San Diego.
Funeral services for Miss Elliott
will be held at the B. E. Lemons
mortuary here at 9 am. Monday,
with burial in Mt. Hope cemetery,
San Diego. The Rev. E. K. Latimer
will conduct funeral rites.
Miss Elliott is survived by her
father. Andrew j. Elliott, two Sis
ters. Mrs. Rena Rath and Mrs.
Archie Chilwell, and two brothers.
Fred and James Elliott
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-13
FUNDS MAY BE
SET ASIDE FOR
HIGHWAY LINK

The Benson WillcoN-Steins Pass
short road in southern Arizona has
an appropriation of $4,000 in the
tentative Arizona highway depart
ment budget, according to a tele-
cram received at El Centro Cham
ber of Commerce headouarters.
IN addition to that if the Cart
wright bill now before congress be-
comes a law. an additional $133,815
will be spent on the 50-mile sector
between Wilcox and the New
Mexico state line, thus making
total of $433,815 to be expended on
these ninety-odd miles of highway
in Cochise county for grading,
drainage and surfacing.
The road has Importance to I'M
perial Valley, because it will re-
store parity between the Tucson
Yuma-El Centro route TO the coast
a ID the Globe-PhoeniX-B Blythe
route.
The Ell Centre chamber highway
committee, working through vari-
Gus Arizona channels, has been en-
deaVoring for years to give assist
ance in having the Wilcox road
hard-Surfaced and thus shorten the
distance between the east and the
Pacific coast via the highway route
through FL Centre Arizona has for
years been divided on the matter
but a few months ago, a political
change made it possible to place the
Wilcox road in the Arizona state
highway system. Recognition Of this
Continued on Page 2, Col a
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-13
TAX INQUIRY.
TO COMMENCE
N EXT W E { K
Resolution Pressed to
Extend Nuisance
LevieS

WASHINGTON, June II.
(UP)-Administration lead
ers today studied their only
two tax proposals of the ses-
sion - extension of the So
called nuisance" levieS and inves-
tigation of alleged income tax eva
sion.
They planned to start the tax
evasion inquiry next week with
Secretary of the Treasury Henry
Morgenthau, ir. as the first wit
ness. Legislation to close tax loop
holes was expected within a lew
weeks.
In the senate, President Roose-
velt's forces pressed a resolution
extending for two years the null
sance levieS which have produced
approximately $2,250,000 900 since
their enactment fiYe years ago.
The resolution, which also calls
for continuing three-cent postage,
was passed by the house last night
229 to 95, after numerous amend
ments we're defeated.
Because most of the nuisance
levies expire or are. reduced on
June 80 or July 81, administration
fiscal officials asked immediate
senate action.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-13

OF their latest struggle.
All the fanfare of a heated poll
tical campaign between outstanding
personalities will be slpashed across
the horizon before the voters enter
polling booths Wednesday to decide
the issue, experienced observers
believe. Leaders in both camps
had tossed caution to the winds as
they grappled in what has been
described as the most vital phase
Of a 21-year-old fight.
On one side are officials of the
Imperial Irrigation District, elect
ed by the people, fighting for public
ownership and control of hydro
electric energy to be developed on
the All American canal.
District VS.. Company
Aligned against them are chief
tains of the Nevada California
Electric corporation, which has en-
joyed monopoly on electric pow
er in Imperial Valley since it ac-
quired the old Holt power COM
pany years ago.
Only one point is agreed upon In
the current contest: that power
plants on the All American canal
shall be owned by the public and
operated by the irrigation district.
From that point, two widely di-
vergent plans are presented. One
will be placed before the people
Wednesday. The other is lever to
defeat the first.
The irrigation district will place
before the voters contracts offered
by two agencies of the federal gov
rrnment, the Public Works Admin
istration and the Rural Electrifl-
cation Administration The power
company. through many advertis-
ing mediums. has placed its own
plan before the public, together
with constant admonition to de
feat the districts program.
The contracts favored by the dis
trict would povide for government
Continued Oh Page 2, Col. %
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-13
WESTERN UNION
OFFICES CLOSE

SEATTLE, June IL. UP)-Western
Union Telegraph company closed
its main office and all branches in
Seattle today because of a four day
old strike of ll6 messenger boys.
The messengers went on strike
Wednesday for higher wages, Short
er hours and recognition of their
new Seattle telegraph messengers
union. affiliated with the CONNER
cial telegraphers' union and the
American Federation Of Labor.
Bicycle boys who have been get
ting 80 to 35 cents per hour asked
for 40 to As cents; boys who drive
their own automobiles on meSsen-
ger duty asked ST. per hour instead
Of so to rs cents. The boys also pc
titioned the National labor rela-
tionS board TO conduct an election
among the messengers to decide
who shall represent them in col
lectiVe bargaining.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-13
TROOPS CALLED OUT ~ STRIKE
Soviet Traitors Die
Before Firing Squad

MOSCOW, June IL. U.P) The
bullet riddled bodies of eight high
army officers were believed TO be
in Moscow prison morgue today,
awaiting dishonored burial, in evi-
dence Of the swift, mercileSs pun
ishment that Russia metes TO trai-
tors.
The eight men, a marshal and
seven generaiS--thc marshal, Mix
hail Tuckhachevsky regarded as
RuSsia'S most brilliant soldier
were convicted on their own con-
fessions of espionage i'll behalf Of
foreign country unfriendly to the
Soviet union.
The military collegium of the
supreme court ordered that they
be stripped of all military titles
and honors and then shot sum-
marily, without right of appeal of
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-13

mass meeting near the city limits.
Murphy himself will attend the
meeting, to be held three miles
north of the city limits, but will
not speak.
I'VE are working this out in
common sense way to safeguard
both the peace and security OF
Monroe and its citizens and at
the same time to guarantee the
rights of free speech and free as
sembly to union members" the gov
ernor said.
Martial law, the governor en-
phasized, has not been, and won't
be declared"
He said that Col. John S. Bersey,
adjutant general of the Michigan
national guard, and Oscar G. Oh
ander, state police commissioner,
would be in charge Of the law en-
forcing agencies at the meeting,
to be held in a state park.
Guarantees to me py Homer
Martin of the United Automobile
Workers and by Mayor Daniel A
Knaggs of Monroe made it evident
to me that there will be peace, \
Murphy added.
Approximately 100 state police
will go to Monroe.
1.-The 'vigilantes' of Monroe will
not be operating tomorrow, the
governor said. "All possible traffic
will be kept outside of the city OF
Monroe"
He added that Martin, president
of the auto union, had assured him
he would discourage influx of union
members from Ohio and Indiana
to the mass meeting and "try to
keep the meeting purely Michi-
gan matter"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-13
Educators Wife
Saves The Day by
Grabbing Mouse

TORONTO, Ont. June IL. -
W.P)--Mrs. ii. J. Cody, wife of the
pre ident of the University of
Toronto, Canon Cody, was ac-
claimed today as the savior of
the university cOnvocation hall
commencement exercises.
As the commencement exercis-
es were to begin white mouse
dashed down the aisle between
rows of cO-eds and women
guests, neared the platform on
which the president and other
officials sat, but it never got
past the sharp eye of Mrs. Cody.
As the mouse scampereh past
her front row seat the presi-
dents wife scOoped 1t up, flipped
il irtO her purse, and as the
hall echoed to cheers of students
who had seen the action, she mo-
toned to an usher to carry the
bag outside.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-13

by the reclamation depa "tment and
operated in connection with the
Yuma project has returned enough
revenue from the sale of surplus
power to pay for the original in
stallation expense, distribution lines
and upkeep, including interest on
the original investment, deprecia-
ton, etc.
2. Geologists claim that the sand
hills are moving toward the south
at the rate of about six feet year
8. The original boundaries of San
Diego county included that portion
of the city of Yuma north of line
running east and west from point
on Prison Hill through the lobby
of the San Carlos hotel and in
Guiding the present site of the Yu-
ma city hall. The line roughly
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-13
NEW BATCH OF COUNTY QUESTIONS

parallels First street. When the
assessor of San Diego county sent
deputy to collect taxes in the then
isolated desert settlement, the ma
tives resented his crossing the riv-
er, and the small area of San
Diego county on the Arizona side
of the river was abandoned to the
county of Yuma as being of no
material value.
5. The government required the
railroad company to install a draw
bridge over the Colorado river as
the river was regarded by the war
department as being navigable. Ow-
ing to the fact boats made no fur
ther trips above Yuma after the
railroad reached that point, the
bridge was never used as draw
bridge.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-13

possibility of clcmency, by The Sc
cret police.
Tho trial was secret and the gov
ernment was silent But Prayda. Of
ficial newspaper organ OF the Com
muniSt party, said in its editorial.
THE artfulneSs of the agents Of
Fascist intelligence services in our
country has not helped and will not
help them. We have disclosed
plans of a certain foreign govern
ment. and any attempt by it TO
attack the Soviet union will be the
beginning of the end of Goebbels
and his like
DR.. Paul Joseph Goebbels is the
Nazi minister of propaganda and
the inference seemed unacceptable
that Pravda was disclosing that
Germany was suspected III the trea-
son trial.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-13
THIS WEEKS QUESTIONS

/. If the Colorado river were to
break through as it did in 1906
and flow unrestrictedly into Salton
Sea, how deep would it cut the
channel under the bridge at Yuma?
2. Where in Imperial county is
Yolo Well located?
3. Is Signal Mountain or any
portion thereof in Imperial county?
4. Does any tribe of Apache In
dians have a reservation in Impe-
rial county?
5. What well known organization
of Mormons passed through Impe-
rial county in the early days OF
California history?
LAST WEEKS ANSWERS
/. Official figures show that the
Siphon Drop power plant owned
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-13
Derrick, McCary
Continue to Lead

A. b. Derrick and ]. ID. Nc
Cary continued this week as
leaders. in the POst-PreSs "KnOw
Your County" answers, with the
next best list giving only one
correct answer to last weeks
questions
Both Derrick and McCary
answered four questions correct
ly. each missing the answer to
Question No. 2. McCary declar-
ed the sand hills to be moving
east, and Derrick said southeast.
Neither gave the rate of drift.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-13
Earhart
Reaches Sudan

Ell flasher. Sudan, June II. U.R)
Amelia Earhart Putnam arrlv-
ed here at $3.50 pm. GMT QO:30 a.
m. EDTC today from Fort Lamy
French West Africa, on the eighth
leg Of her world circling flight.
She made the 600 mile flight into
the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in four
and one half hours in her twin
motored LOCkheed Electra
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-13
BATILESHIP STUCK
FIRMLY IN MUD

SAN FRANCISCO June Il. UD
The u. S. battleship Tennessee
was aground on a mud flat in San
Francisco Bay today. Fourteen boats
we're tugging to dislodge her.
There was no immediate danger
and the 1,400 sailors aboard appear
ed to be enjoying the diversion.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-13

the driveway near where the
strangers had stopped their car.
Acting on tip from an undis-
closed source, detectives went to
New York City and took into Gus
tody Alex Kuprianoff, 43 year old
factory worker, who said that he
had married Mrs. Kupryanova sew
eral years ago. but had lived with
her only a short time. No charge
Continued on Page 2, Col. u
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-13
GULDAHL WINS
OPEN TOURNEY

OAKLAND HILLS COUNTRY
CLUB, Birmingham. Mich, June
-. UP)-Ralph Guldahl, OF Chi
cago. today won the national open
golf championship when he blazed
around the Oakland Hills course to
defeat a field of hard playing golf
ers.
Guldahl set an all time record for
the event when he posted a 28i
score for the 70 holes.
The red-hot Guldahl combined an
outgoing 33 with S6 on the way
home.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-13
BROKER FREED IN
VICE PROBE

SAN FRANCISCO, June u. up
Peter P. McDonough, bail bond
broker and reputed head of or
ganized graft and vice in San
Francisco, was free today after
spending four days in the county
jail on an intermediate sentence
for contempt OF court
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-13
ALL GENERALLY
CALM ON u. 5.
STRIKE FRONT
Mass Demonstration in
Oakland Planned
After Fight
BY United Press

The strike situation at a glance.
JOHNSTOWN. Pa.-WorkerS af-
filiated with the steel workers or
ganizing committee extended the
steel strike to the big Cambria
plant of the Bethlehem Steel cor
poration. Many of the $4,000 en-
ployes remained at work and COM
pany officials claimed operations
were continuing according to
schedule" Picket lines were estab-
lished around the plant but made
no attempt to interfere with work.
ers desiring to enter.
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COLUMBUS, O.-Gov. Martin l.,
Davey requested S. w. o. c. leaders
and officials of Republic and
Youngstown Sheet and Tube to
return Tuesday to continue con-
ferences which ended without any
agreement yesterday when company
officials reiterated refusals to sign
a working agreement with the un-
ion.
YOUNGSTOWN, O.-Steel strik-
eTS viewed d concentration OF rail-
road police as indicating possible
company attempts to reopen strike
bound steel plants in the Mahoning
valley. The city councils action in
granting the mayor more power to
hire officers and equipment was
denounced by the Ohio labor feder-
alton as a declaration of war
against labor.
OAKLAND, Calif.-C. |. 0. men,
oerS planned a mass demonstration
around packing plants of the East
Bay area following a skirmish yes
terday in which six men we're in
jured. Packing plants have been
operating several months in defi-
ance of strike by the warehouse
mems union.
MUNIE, Ind. - Homer Martin,
International president of tbs
United Automobile Workers union
sough conference with officials
of the Chevrolet factory here fol-
lowing scuffle in which two union
organizers were hurt.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-13
KIDNAP VICTIM
FEARED S. LAIN.
WILLS pROBED

STONY BROOK, N. Y, June r. (UP)-The existence
of reciprocal wills in which Mrs Alice Mcdonnell Parsons
and her Russian housekeeper named each other beneca
les disclosed today Investigators voiced the fear
the society had been slain by kidnapers.