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The Ely miner., 1938-09-29
ELY FIREMEN
PURCHASE new
RESUScITAT0R
Modern Device for Life Saving
Acquired by Firemen for
General Public Use.

Will Hanscom, district representative
of the E & resuscitator and inhalator
of the E & j Manufacturing company
of Glendale, California, was in the city
Saturday and delivered to the Ely Fire
department. one of the machines manu-
featured by the company which will
prove valuable to the department in
emergencies that arise and which the
machine will remedy.
At a cost of $4O7 delivered in this
city, the department purchased re-
Suscitator and inhalator for use by the
department in handling cases which
come before it in the course of years
work. The machine is of size to be
easily handled and operated, capable of
use in reviving victims Of droVAnings,
electric shock, carbon monoXide gas, il
Illuminating gas, cyanide gas, ammonia
gas, sulphur dioXide gas, smoke, suf-
location, Strangulation, physical shock,
acute alcoholism morphine poisoning,
convulsions, diphtheria, acute asthma,
heart attacks, whooping cough choking,
Group, pneumonia, new born babies, in
fantile paralysis, and the transporting
of victims and emergency use, collapsed
lungs, atelectasis of the new born and
such other emergencies where artificial
respiration is required
The fire department purchased the
aspirator from money in the treasury
of the relief association and the ma
chine will be for the benefit of the
public free of charge and supposed to
be ready for emergencies at all times.
Mr.. HanScom when making the delivery
and while demonstrating the machine,
instructed several of the department in
particular and the entire membership
in general as to its operation.
The instrument is a portable model
encased in leather trunk for carrying
and expeditions handling. 1t has two
cylinders one containing oxygen and
the other a mixture called carbogen
which contains SO per cent of oxygen
and z per cent of carbon dioxide. Some
times mixture of 80 per cent of
helium and 20 per cent of oxygen is
used to fill the cylinders.
Such machine is used by SO per cent
of the big time fire departments, police
and sheriffs departments.
Many of the cities have number in
use, for instance, Chicago has 81, Los
Angeles, Is, and many others having
from one to eight in active operation.
Another machine is constructed for
pitals are now equipped with what is
The Ely miner., 1938-09-29
LEGION NAMES
new OFFICERS
Thos. Thielman Chosen Head
of Frank Lozar Post; Plan
Installation Meet.

Thomas Thielman was elected COM
mander of American Legion post No
248 at the annual meeting held in the
Legion rooms of the Community Center
Other officers chosen at the meeting
were John A. Anderson, vice COM
mander; William Rowe, second vice
commander; Florence Kurvinen, third
vice commander; Ray Hoefler, adult
ant and service officer; Edward Buck
ley, finance officer; Thomas Murn
chaplain; Emor Ellefsen, sergeant-at-
arms; John E. Thompson, post his
torian, and Douglas Nankervis, child
welfare head.
Harold j. Dillon was chosen official
delegate of the post. Mr.. Thielman,
Mr.. Dillon, Mr.. Hoefler, Mr.. Buckley
Mr.. Anderson, Mr.. Rowe, Ernest w
Hanson, Jack Gianotti and Albert Nc
Mahan were chosen as the executive
committee.
A committee of five were named to
arrange for the installation and the
annual "duck feed" usually furnished
by the Frank Lozar post and for oc-
casionS of this kind.
This committee is composed of DR.
j. E. Thompson, w. A. Hanson, Frank
Schweiger, Douglas Nankervis and John
G. Kotchevar.
1t was decided that the So year
dues would stand for the year as pre-
viously placed. These dues go to keep
up the activities of the post, barring
special occasions.
The post also decided to purchase
two large display posters for the bill
boards maintained by the post at sew
eral places in the city, these posters to
call attention to Legion activities.
A special membership drive on the
part of the members of Frank Lozar
post will be inaugurated to keep the
Ely post in the forefront of active posts
in the state.
The Ely miner., 1938-09-29
Former Ely MdtrOn
Dies in Duluth Hospital.

Mrs. Katheryn Ann Kelly, 68, who
with her husband, George Kelly, prom
inent in the city and mining affairs
here in the early nineties, died in a
Duluth hospital, Wednesday. She was
born in the Isle of Man and came to
Ely 81 years ago.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. j. j.
Werstlein, Minneapolis, and a son,
George, of Aurora. The funeral was
held at Aurora, Friday, from the Aur-
ora M. E. church, the Rev. Arthur
Cartwright officiating.
The Ely miner., 1938-09-29
Duck Hunters Oiling
Guns in Preparation
for Seasons Opening
Season to Open Saturday
Morning and Close on
November 18th.
NEW HUNTING AREA
Back and Wind Bays of
Eastwood to be Opened
on October 8.

Duck hunters of this territory are
oiling up their guns and putting other
equipment in readiness in anticipation
of one of the best seasons in years. The
principal reason for the unusual ac-
tivity on their part is because Back and
Wind bays of Eastwood lake have been
declared vacated from the state game
refuge, opening up for hunting terri
tory near Ely that repeatedly abounds
with fat and heavy water fowl.
Notices that township "a range 10 had
been vacated were posted by state game
wardens Friday. Fifteen days follow
ing this action the territory will be
open to all legal taking of wild life.
That will make it open to duck hunt
ing on Saturday, october 8, eight days
following the opening of the migratory
water fowl season. which is Oct l..
AS pointed out at the hearing on the
matter held here two weeks ago by
Frank D. Blair, superintendent of game
propagation and refugees, if a territory
is vacated from refuge it is open to
the legal taking of all wildlife, which
would include deer. Refugees are Gre
ated, he said, because of a scarcity of
game, and are abolished when they
have served their purpose; that is, when
game is once more abundant in them
The vacating of Back and Wind bays
from the refuge centered around the
hunting of ducks and petition signed
loyr T4
not known here then that other wild
life could also be taken. Plenty of
ducks inhabit the territory, but no men,
ton of other wild life population was
made at the hearing. No opposition
was voiced at the opening of the terri
tory and it had the recommendation of
Mr.. Blair when the meeting ended.
The water fowl season will open Sat-
urday and close Nov. A. Shooting is
allowed from A. M. until P. M. each
day. The daily bag limit on ducks is
10, with possession limit of 90 In the
daily bag may be. included not more
than three of the formerly protected
species, canvasback, ruddy, redhead, or
bufflehead, or six of these may be in
cluded in the possession limit of 90
The wood duck is entirely protected.
From all parts of the country come
reports that waterfowl by the millions
have been noted this year on nearly
every lake in the state Last spring
they nested in every slough, pothole and
stream in the Minnesota duck area.
Bountiful spring rains and a return
of the normal ground water level in
the state is declared largely respon-
sible for the great increase this year in
the duck population. The states de-
velopment of two huge waterfowl breed
ing areas in the Thief and Mud Lake
regions also contributed to the in
The Ely miner., 1938-09-29
Former Ely Young Lady
Married at TUO HdrbOrS.

Announcements have been received,
by the many friends of the young lady
in this city, of the marriage of Miss
Eileen Gibson to Robert Morrison at
Two Harbors on September %.
The marriage was solemnized at the
parsonage of the Presbyterian church
in that city, the Rev. v. A. Woodwork
performing the ceremony at IL o'clock
noon
Miss Mary Morrison, sister of the
groom, and Roy Shogren attended the
couple. Following the ceremony, a
dinner was served at the Rustic Inn by
the brides mother, Mrs. o. E. Gibson.
The couple left for a honeymoon trip
to the Twin Cities and later will join
Mrs Gibson for the winter in San
Francisco, California.
The bride is former Ely girl and
a graduate of the Ely schools where
she was popular member of her
classes who join with host of other
friends in wishing her all possible
happiness.
The Ely miner., 1938-09-29
Legion Auxiliary to
Hold Meet WedneSday

Members of the American Legion
auxiliary will meet Wednesday evening
Oct. 5, at the Community Center, with
Mrs. Rosa Schaefer, new president, pre-
siding.
A keno game will be held at the clut
rooms after the business session, ac-
cording to Mrs. Oscar Friedsburg, ac-
tivities chairman. Mrs. Sara Gordon
will be in charge of the lunch COM
mittee, assisted by Mrs. Dora Butala
Mrs. Edith Chinn, Mrs. Anna Noval
and Mrs. Angeline Pirsh.
All members and prospective mem
bers are urged to be present to assist
in initiating the years program.
The Ely miner., 1938-09-29
Commercial Club Lists
,$7,839 for 1899 Budget

Consideration and approval of the
budget for next year was made at the
meeting of the Ely Commercial club
held Tuesday evening in the Communi-
ty Center. 1t will be submitted to the
city council for it's approval.
The budget estimates expenditures for
next year at 1889, as compared with
S5436 for the present budget, or an
increase of $2,403.
This increase is occasioned by sew
eral items, among them being the fol-
lowing:
5000 for Ely booklets. The budget
for this year contained no sum for
these booklets because $500 had been
left over from the previous year, and
this amount, augmented by $465 contri-
buted by resort owners, paid for the
1888 booklets.
$500 for celebrations and sports. Of
this amount $3.50 is for July Fourth,
$1OO for Labor Day, $1OO for Hockey
and $50 for Ski club. Requests for
these sums were made this year and
were granted so they were included in
next years budget.
$500 increased for the drum & bugle
corps, from $1,000 to $1,500 This in
crease will help pay expenses of the
corps on a contemplated trip to the
national Legion convention in Chi
cago in 1889 and it is hoped that no
solicitation from merchants will be
necessary.
$500 increase for two highway
signs, from $100 to $4OO. At meet
ing of the club early in the summer
| it was decided that the erection of
several large signs, one along the
North Shore and one at Virginia direct
ing traffic to Ely would be of great
lCaratital1a pncroA
The Ely miner., 1938-09-29

by the forces in charge of the station
at the Halfway, replica of the work
being done in other stations of the
country.
Mr.. LeBarron informs us that the
Ely party were interested visitors and
that it was a pleasure to explain the
work in which he was engaged to his
appreciative audience.
The Ely miner., 1938-09-29

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Evening star., 1938-08-28
Forest Buried Under Ash
OF Volcano Is Uncovered

PORTLAND, Greg. (R).-Millions of years
ago volcanoes that had been spraying West
ern America with lava took one of their
periodic recesses.
In what is now Oregon, near Ashwood, a
placid countryside succeeded the inferno
Around lake grew a tremendous forest.
The volcanoes coughed out clouds OF ash
so fast the forest was buried before 1t could
burn.
Another thousand centuries rolled by
and the trees opalized, or petrifed.
Came the Ice Ages and water erosion
and part of the forest, in the lee OF q lava
capped butte. was uncovered. Not long ago
some ranch hands discovered It, Dr. H. c..
Dake. Portland, mineral authority and
editor, visited the scene.
DR.. Dake in giving the geological ea-
planation of the forests origin said that it
was the only known one chat was trapped
and petrified as it stood. All others were
merely log jams. water soaked and en-
bedded in wet mud, that were covered by
lava which chilled before 1t could destroy
the trees
Evening star., 1938-08-28

and the slum people moved to other
slums
That has been the chief criticism OF
the housing pioneering Atlanta already has
done with her fleetwood homes for whites
and her University homes for Negroes.
Automobiles are parked in the streets of
these housing projects, while the slum
folk live on in squalor.
Taught New Dealers.
New Dealers who sponsored these prof.
ects admit their shortcomings. But they
point out that fleetwood and University
homes we're the first Government sum
clearance attempts in the Nation. and
say that weaknesses were, therefore, ex-
pected. Now they are ready to remedy
the weakness and to try to make Atlanta
a model housing city.
The 'slum rehousng for slum people"
probably will get under way within six
months, C. F. Palmer, head of the City
Housing Committee. said. He predicts
rents in these new homes will 60 as low
as $3.50 per room per month for Negroes
and $3.50 per room per month for whites.
The lowest rental afforded at University
homes is s4.36 per room per month, and
the lowest at fleetwood is $552
The s2.50-s3.50 rent will be low enough
to touch all but ~ per cent Of the white
population of Atlanta and all but 1871 per
cent Of the Negro population.
This closer approach to the bottom of
the economic heap will be possible only
through high Government subsidy, bQt
many businessmen usually opposed to Gov
ernment spending are in favor of it, Their
reason is admittedly selfish. 1t is this:
Real estate values in the fleetwood and
University areas have risen since these
slums were cleared. As far as six blocks
away from the outermost edge Of the prof.
ects. lots have been sold at prices $50 to
800 per cent higher than pre-slum- clear
ance values.
From social standpoint, other improve
ments have appeared since the Atlanta
projects were established. To understand
them, it is necessary first to understand
Atlantas housing plight.
The business, financial and Government
center around which the city was built
could be compared to an octopus, with ten
acles spreading in all directions Each
tenacle was a small creek, draining down.
ward and outward from the center through
a winding valley. ..
Sewers Blighted Areas.
In the course Of events. the creeks
became open sewers, outlets for the wastes
Of the central area The land along their
banks deteriorsted more and more as this
condition continued until finally it became
the least desirable residential district. BY
the time the sewer condition was improved,
1t was too late.
Slums were rising there. They grew
toward as well as away from the center
OF town until today they reach virtually
to the steps OF the Georgia State Capitol
Along two of these valleys lay the dis
tricts which now include fleetwood and
University homes. In each, there was
the anomalous situation of university de-
voted to enlightenment overlooking the
most unenlightened novels in the city.
Students Of Georgia Tech could look cut
of the college windows and be close enough
Evening star., 1938-08-28
Test Tube for Sl1m Rehousing
Atlanta Experiment Begins to Show Results.

The present administrator war
against slums Wds opened in Atlanta,
Ga. two years ago ,oith completion of
the Nations first slum clearance project.
The accomplishments and mistakes of
that experiment haze been matched BY
social ,Dorkers as a guide for the nea0
housing cleanup the Federal GoUern-
ment is noU beginning. How does the
record stand to date? What haze the
projects shortcomings been, and What
is being done to correct them? John
Lear. Associated Press reporter, tells
in the tollo,pin0 story What he learned
there in study OF the problem and
forecasts uhat is coming merit.
Evening star., 1938-08-28
and radios ct night instead of visiting pool
rooms and glorified lodge meetings.
Exercises Moral Influence.


More important to the negro problem In
general Is the projects value as An example
in neighboring negro sections Of Atlanta
Far more susceptible to the power Of sug-
gestion than their white brethren, nearby
negroes have painted their houses and re-
built their fences. Flower boxes have ap-
peared on front porches where no flowers
bloomed before. Community meetings in
the project have drawn crowds from out
side, and an educational influence is
spreading rapidly.
Together, fleetwood and University
Homes have served to contradict one theory
about housing: That when you give better
homes to people Of one economic level,
the homes they leave are occupied by the
next lower strata, and thus begins q long
series Of step-ups which ultimately lift
the level Of the people at the bottom.
The contention Of these social workers
Is that housing is just as worthy Of high
Government subsidy as is the mail service
or public education.
To answer that contention, the Federal
Housing Administration has allotted So
0C 1000 to Atlanta to build new homes
under slum people for the first time in
America.
The 100000 represents 90 per cent Of
the cost of the housing projects, an
amount the Government will pay of itself
with annual subsidies over q period Of
so years. s .....
In beginning its new housing experi-
ment, Atlanta will tear down one section
Of slum area after moving the families
in that area to other homes designated in
advance in each instance. When the ney
buildings are up, another slunn, section VIII
be torn down and its residents moved into
the new buildings. a a,. s;ss
Evening star., 1938-08-28

to count most of the 1877 miserable shacks
huddled in the valley below them. That
was all they could see on "A acres of Negro
and poor white habitation.
Thirty-one criminals. charged with ma jor
ofenses. were living there In one 20-day
period chosen for a census in 1888
Nine Juvenile delinquents with police
records lived there on one day picked by
chance.
Twenty-one babies died there before
they were a year old in 1881, 1882 and
1893.
tuberculosis took a toll OF l3 there in
the same three years
All this misery in the space of a few
blocks.
Doom Is Ordered.
The area was a chronic problem to the
police when the p w. A. began looking
for slums to clear, so Atlanta nominated
it for destruction. The 279 families
three of them white-were moved away
and their homes were torn down. Removal
OF one wooden prop was all that was
necessary to demolish many of the build
ings.
On August l, 1886. the fleetwood homes
were complete and the 604 new families
were moving in from sub-standard homes
elsewhere. They all were white families.
and their income level was much higher
than the people who had been moved
out, but they were not admitted if they
earned more than s2,379 a year. Their
hair
rent was S5.52 per room per month for
apartments and houses of 3, 4, S and 6
rooms.
A complete transition had been made
in the neighborhood.
Instead Of a tangle Of ramShackle shacks
amid narrow, twisting alleys, there was an
orderly rectangle of trim brick homes on
broad, straight streets Where there had
been no sanitation. there now was bath
room for every family. Unhealthy over
crowding was replaced by life in ample
space; only IS per cent of the area was
occupied by the buildings.
What had been a wilderness of weeds
or no vegetation at all became a garden
Mimosa, white and pink crepe myrtle
CllncSe ana AHlcflCdA clIIlS anu OkWUOu
trees bloomed Roses and other flowers
took root And under them, acres Of new
green grass.
Clinic Doctor Available.
Every apartment had cross ventilation
and electric service from lighting to cook
ing Floors were Of asphalt tile. and
everything else was Of metal and plaster
save the wooden doors between the rooms
In the basement were laundry facilities
and on the lawns were scattered loo
benches to replace the traditional South
ern front porch Garage space was avail
able at 50 month
fleetwood Homes was more than hous-
ing project; it was a new community
Under the guidance Of Housing Manager
X. s. McAllister, the tenants formed their
own association to direct their own &C
tivities.
A cooperative was formed to make food
purchases more economical Forty men,
bers pooled their weekly orders for farm
produce, eggs and chickens, and saved
500 In three months.
A kindergarten was organized. Adult
Evening star., 1938-08-28

education groups studied subjects like CO.
operatives social medicine civil law and
government and book reviews. An athletic
association sponsored a sports program. A
woodworking shop was set up to give vo-
cational training to children over g.
1t is now only two years since fleetwood
was occupied, but the results are already
clear.
There has not been single case Of
juvenile delinquency from the area.
Infants Thrive.
There have been no infant deaths,
although the birth rate is at least five a
month.
There have been no cases of tuberculosis
two suspected cases were tested and found
negative.
Burglaries. larcenies and assaults have
been reduced to virtual zero in contrast
to the surrounding area, which. still largely
slum, has as heavy a concentration Of
crime as ever.
Housing Manager McAllister sees three
other effects less obvious to the outsider:
% Healthier children, due to oppor-
tunity to play in the projects outdoor play
grounds
(2) Establishment of higher standards
Of housing by tenants in their contracts
with real estate men Gnstead of accepting
any apartment or house. as they once did,
they now ask what conveniences are
offered);
t3) A new sense OF obligation in COM
PIC tn tha Il, ,l -
gendered by years Of tenant farming and
sharecropping. tSharecroppers are notori-
Gus in the South for the way they desert
their land and their agreements with the
landlords when crops faiD.
The story of University homes is much
the same as the story Of fleetwood There
was Observation-Disclosures a
slum in creek valley There were di-
lapidated buildings, 2l8 OF them, in a
blghted area of 171a acres There was
poverty, crime, disease and death.
Like fleetwood, University homes was
built by p. W. A. funds 1t can house 675
families, does house 645 with total popu-
lation of $500. Unlike fleetwood, it is all
negro.
"GOdsend" for Negroes.
Although fleetwood means much to At
lanta's whites. University homes means
more to the city's negroes. Its $436 per
room per month rents departments and
houses run 2, g., 4 and S rooms) are too
high for the poorest classes but low enough
to assemble an economically underprivi-
legged community.
"A godsend" is the way the editors Of
THE Daily World Atlanta's negro news
paper, described the project.
The results Of the project can be meas
ured more concretely in terms of what the
negroes who live there have now but did
not have before. They have:
A library, whose attendants are trying
| hard to interest their readers In more
serious things than fiction.
| nursery school,
A credit union, the cooperative form Of
bank, owned and operated by the depositors.
Playgrounds--19 small ones and one big
! one. Q~ i,@"<
A growing tendency on the part Of the
Adults to stay home and enjoy their book
Evening star., 1938-08-28
BY John Lear,
Associated Press Staff Writer.

Bv John Lear,
Associated Press Staff Writer.
A TLANTA, GA.-The most advanced
~ attack yet made on the housing
n problem in the United States is
planned in this Southern capital
Atlanta. with the aid of Uncle Sam, is
preparing to tear down her slums and
rebuild them with decent homes for the
people who now live there
This has not been done before any,
where in the country.
Mote: 1t is being done in the District
OF Columbia by the District Alley Dwelling
Authority. but on a relatively small scale,
not comparable with the Atlanta project)
SlMms have been razed, but the houses
that have gone up in their stead have
been too costly for the slum dwellers in
the great ma jority Of cases. Higher -income
families moved into the new buildings
Evening star., 1938-08-28
Warning Declared Timely.

speech containing implications for
those who can read between the lines
especially between the lines of the Neutral
play favorites in the event of an actually
declared war-was deemed timely by AM
Evening star., 1938-08-28
US. Turns Scholarly Scowls
On Dictators to Salvage Peace
Roosevelt and Hull Speeches Forecast Wrath of
America to Stave Off Threat
in Nazi War Games
By Constantine Br01Yn.

- RESIDENT ROOSEVELT and Secre-
- tary Hull's momentous speeches last
week on Americas s position in inter-