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The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-04-04
PRINCESS, PAUPER

Princess Maxhide, one of the three sisters of King Fog of Al bania who are visiting the U.S., is shown with one of the in mates as she visited 9 Salvation Army home for foundlings in Brooklyn, NY.
 Aluminium deposits in North China are being exploited by Jap anese.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-12-22
H. S. Students Reuel
In Biological World

that prey upon plants taken up. Ami
NAL life, which also includes the con-
troll of parasites is studied, and in case
you didn't know it, a sponge comes
under this classification and is not a
vegetable as is commonly believed and
spider is not an insect but very
definitely an animal and in some types
vicious one at that. The class has a
laboratory display of many types oil
animal life, from the protazoan, the
simplest form which must be studied
under a microscope, to the more COM
picked forms.
Many charts are available on this and
other subjects taken I'D by the class
Students keep a note book in which they
post a record of their work, including
free hand drawings of the subjects in
volved.
Physiology of the human body is also
given considerable consideration, in
Guiding its functions and the care OF
the body as living organ.
1--WE aid the students in developing
their powers of observation and in
arousing an interest in the world OF
living things" Mr.. Leino said in sum-
ming up the practical purpose of the
work. ''They often develop use fol
! leisure time in further study or ap-
plication of the principles they have
| learned"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-12-22
Fifty Years Ago
From Issue of Dec. IL, 1888.

Duluth is in the throes of a real
estate boom. The Vermilion range ore
finds are accountable for considerable
of the rise in values and the steady
buying of investment properties.
Divine services were conducted by the
Rev. Father Buh of Tower, Thursday
morning, in the town hall.
The young man who lost his overcoat
last week found it on Saturday about a
quarter of mile south of the Bank OF
Ely.
Another through wire has just been
put in by the D. & I. R. between here
and Duluth and business will be ex-
pedited.
Dobie Bros & Miller opened their new
store yesterday. R. S. Miller is the
only member of the firm who will re-
side here for the present.
New iron firms are being incorporated
almost every day for properties in this
vicinity. The Vermilion and Grand
Marais Iron Company is the latest to
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-12-22
Ten Years Ago
From Issue of Dec. FL, 1928.

The Ely high school basketball players
won an extra period game from Vir-
GINA on a score of 20 to &c.
Ely Review, W. B. A., elected officers
at the last meeting. Mary Spreitzer
was elected president; Alice Mcfarland,
vice president; Selma Winchell, past
president: Genebieve BONNER, financial
secretary; Helen Jackson, recording
secretary; Emma Moravitz, publicity
head; Caroline Quigley, chaplain;
Theresa Gouze, lady of ceremonies;
Louise Ludtke, sergeant; Emily Smith,
inner hostess; Mary Berglund, outer
hostess.
Mrs. Sam Rapson, Mrs. w. E. Ire
iona, Mrs. Gust A. Maxi and Mrs. Ed
Williams were named by the Mothers
club to have charge of arranging and
distributing the Christmas baskets for
the needy.
Helmer Olson was elected president
of the Ely Ski Club; Armas Hill, vice
president; Andrew Lamp, secretary,
and Ray Hoefler, treasurer The club
ordered the dues in the Arrowhead
circuit paid to retain membership.
The football team was feted and
given sweaters at the school cafeteria,
Thursday evening. Talks were made
by Supt. w. E. Englund, Coach Ed
Buckley and Captain Nicholas of the
team. Sixteen students were presented
with sweaters. They were Indy, Beck,
land G. RanOyetZ ends. GerZin John
son and R. Banovetz, tackles; Anderson,
center; Bolinger, Zgonc and SaSek,
guards; Nicholas, Hill, Smrekar Gouze,
Krall, backs; VIM Coombs, manager,
Nicholas star quarterback, was the I'M
animous choice for captain next year
Eight of these men will be lost by
graduation: Gerzin, Banovetz, Ander-
son, zgonc, Sasek, Hill, Smrekar and
Gouze.
Henry Gallagher graduated yesterday
| from the medical school of the Univer-
sity of Minnesota.
Wilson Carlson was installed Wor-
shipful Master at the meeting of the
Masonic order on Monday evening.
Other officers installed were Henry
Berg, senior warden; George Anderson,
junior warden; L. j. White, treasurer,
and John E. Johnson, secretary. Will
liam Mitchell was installing officer
Appointive officers named were Art
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-12-22

last Sunday. He in company with Peter
Kerze and John Tekautz were hunting
rabbits on the other side of the lake
and while crossing the lake on the ice,
the three struck thin ice and fell into
the water. Kerze and Tekautz were
rescued by party near there. Lesar
sank at once and failed to rise within
reach. He was Is years of age and Is
survived by widow.
Matt Agnich was injured Wednesday
morning when he was thrown from the
wagon while delivering goods at &c
Location, when the team was frightened
and ran away. He was taken to the
Shipman hospital where he is in a
critical condition. Mr.. Agnich is a
member of the firm of Agnich Bros.
The Owls elected officers at their
meeting in the new hall in the Hosking
building. A j. Stein was elected presi-
dent; A. P. johnson, vice president; E
J. Cole, secretary; Jos. Martinetti,, Sr.
treasurer; Charles Mccarthy, invocator
o. Gilbertson, inside guard; Joseph
AleXSon, outside guard.
What We actually need" says the
Miner in this weeks issue, "is real
winter with zero weather and a foot OF
two of snow. Business is suffering by
having summer weather in winter
months"
| Walfred Laitinen and Irene MEM
secured a license to wed Saturday
They are from Winton. ***Otto Hasu
and Miss Saima Pienimah secured q
license to wed yesterday. They were
married at noon, the Rev. Hirvi tying
the knot. Excellent skating on the
lake is being taken advantage of by
young and old. The ice is clear Of
snow and furnishes an excellent rink
large enough to take on the entire
population at the same time.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-12-22
LOOKING BACK IN into gh the M T,.ss

incorporate with a capital of $4,000, 900.
All the new companies are capitalized
into the millions.
Announcement has been made that
the Nee Chaplin saw mill will again be
started with the new capital which has
paid all outstanding accounts.
A man was found murdered near
West Superior and at once the officers
came to Ely to look for the murderer.
The Duluth Tribune even went so far
as to print a half column story of a
deputy sheriff having caught the muir
derer near Ely and was bringing him to
Duluth. Deputy Sheriffs from both Du-
luth and Superior were here to in
vestigate but nothing was discovered
A Ladies Aid was formed Wednesday
at the W. B. Goldsworthy residence.
Mrs. A. E. Camp was elected president;
Mrs. Goldsworthy. vice president; Miss
Belle McCurdy, secretary, and Mrs. A
Lawson, treasurer.
Twenty-Five Years Ago
From Issue of Dec. IS, 1913.
Frank Lesar drowned in Long Lake
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-12-22
IrU Gets Tractor
"Het Up" And HOlU.

Luverne-Irv StrasSburg didn't get
started with his road work as early as
he'd planned one morning recently be-
cause when he came to work that day
he found to his utter dismay that the
wintry blasts during the night had
chilled the motor of his big tractor so
it just would not start. Irv's only hope
of ever getting the huge Cat" purring
was to coax it along with the tender
touch of blow torch. This he did and
suddenly an entire side of the motor
burst into flame due to the ignition of
gasoline which dropped from pipe that
had been cracked by the freezing tenn
perature. Flames spread to the ground
where the gas had dripped all night
and Irv thought he had better move the
machine with smaller tractor, but as
luck would have it, that machine
wouldn't start either. Soon the Hard
wick fire laddieS arrived but they were
unable to extinguish the ever increas-
ing flames. Suddenly the 50-gallon gas
cline container exploded at both ends.
| BystanderS estimated the flames to have
scared so feet in the air and finally
eliminate in cloud of smoke. A COM
pletely burned tractor cab, a few
scorched mechanical parts and ruined
gasoline tank and disposition was the
extent of the damage.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-12-22
Birth, Life, Death of Plants,
Animals, Proves Interesting
School Subject.

Editors Note-This is the fourth in
series of articles on activities of the
Ely school system0
A leaf may be leaf and a bug may
be just bug to you and me, but to the
$50 odd members of Laurin E. Leino's
high school biology classes they are
| living, breathing wonders of nature that
have a very definite place in the
scheme of things, from the dust from
which all living things spring to the
human beings who rule-and too often
ruin-thiS biological world in which all
| things have a part.
And to put what perhaps should be
the climax of this story at its be-
ginning, one of the principal detectives
of Mr. Leino's work is to show the re-
lationship existing between all living
things, how to develop the good and
how to destroy the bad; how to put to
use the plant and animal life for the
benefit of man, and how to control the
parasites that prey upon them.
Biology, translated literally, means a
science of life, a science whose practi-
cal applications to everyday living are
thousandfold, a science that every
person considering career in medicine,
agriculture, and many other lines of
work must know intimately, a subject
that is decidedly interesting because it
contains the key to the preservation of
the universe.
Every gardener in Ely, of which
there are many of high caliber, is an
amateur biologist, whether he knows it
or not, observing the principles that
the class studies daily, and being re-
warded for his efforts in proportion to
his knowledge of the subject. In fact,
they undoubtedly could learn thing
or two about gardening from members
of Mr.. Leino's biology class that would
bring in handsome returns in the way
of better, more tasty vegetables, if they
put this information to work for them.
| Members of the class, most of whom
are SophomoreS, are at the age of
adolescence, when clear-cut imperson-
al knowledge of the reproduction of
plant and animal life is invaluable No
particular stress, however, is laid upon
this part of the subject and it is dis
cuSsed as a matter of course.
Vegetable life is studied from the
planting of a seed to the fully de-
veloped plant, the production Of seeds,
and then the cycle is started all over
again. A small greenhouse is MAIN
tanned as an annex to the classroom,
located in the southeast corner of the
Memorial building.
Insects, their growth and their habits,
are studied, and the control of those
Caln
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-12-22

Solem, w. N. Peterson, DR.. James
Thompson, John Nicholas the Rev. H.
R. Browne, Walter E. Englund and VIM.
HasSelblad.
st. Ann Lodge No. IL, elected Anna
Novak, president, at the meeting, Mon
day. Other officers elected were Amelia
Veranth, vice president; Mary Smrekar,
secretary; Mary Lozar, recording sec
rotary, and Frances KoSchak, treasurer.
Evening star., 1938-07-10
ORDER TO ABANDON
CAR line PROTESTED
Northeast Business and Civic
Groups Ask Reconsideration
bv Commission,

Protests against abandonment of
street car service on the line from
Union Station to Eighth and F streets
NE. were filed yesterday with the
Public Utilities Commission by seven
civic and business groups In a request
for reconsideration Of the order for
abandonment.
The motion for reconsideration was
filed by Louis I. Obergh. attorney for
the Federation Of Business Mems As
sociations: the Northeast Business
Mems Association, the Northeast Citi-
zens Association, Trinidad Citizens
Association. Northeast Conference Of
Citizens Associations. Lincoln Park
Citizens Association and the Logan
Thomas Citizens Association. The
groups contended that the Capital
Transit Co. had failed to prove that
trafflc on the line had declined or
that continuation Of the service was
not justified.
Abandonment Of the line, the bod
les contended. would leave insufn-
cient service for the territories served.
Complaint also was made that the
commission had failed to have . final
count made of trafdc on the line and
had failed to call final public hear
ing for further testimony before it
issued It's order June ~.
Evening star., 1938-07-10
BACK REDUCTION
IN JOBLESS TAX
Governors and Merchants
and Manufacturers Urqe
Rate Based on Need.

e. The Board Of Governors of the
Merchants and Manufacturer Asso-
citation yesterday urged the District
Commissioners to obtain authority
from the next Congress to reduce the
Districts unemployment compensation
tax according to the need"
1t a letter to the city heads, Ford E.
Young, president Of the organization
said study Of the unemployment tax
situation disclosed that the present 3
per cent tax is producing more than
twice the revenue required at q time
when unemployment is greater than
normal. and that the employers OF
Washington ARE being taxed for COM
pensation purposes higher than any
other jurisdiction"
In view Of the fact that the Dis
trict now has to its credit in the
United States Treasury a surplus OF
about $4,000 in this unemployment
compensation fund.-" the letter stated,
the Merchants and Manufacturers
Association feels that the rate of tax
could be cut in half and still provide
an ample reserve and sufficient oper-
ating funds to meet all requirements
of the law"
Mr.. Young pointed out the fund is
being augmented by about $3.50, 900
each month through payments by
employers.
He said he had been informed the
local Unemployment Compensation
Board is considering seeking an
amendment giving it authority to re-
duce the per cent tax if found
feasible.
Evening star., 1938-07-10
-FOUR BOYS HELD
FOR TAKING CARS
D. c. Youths Run AfouI of
Law by Borrowing
Autos for Trip.

Borrowing" automobiles got to be
a habit with four District teen age"
boys who were taken into custody yes
terday after what was to have been
a beach holiday turned into q misad-
venture
Exactly what the youths, ranging
from 13 to 16. did was not certain. but
Maryland and Washington police are
fairly sure Of this much:
Early Friday the youngsters left
their northeast homes to 60 to North
Beach for = couple Of days. Having
no money or means of transportation.
they took the car OF Philip Brown Of
Greenbelt, Md. who had left it parked
while he shopped-with the key il
the ignition switch.
At Prince Frederick they ran out of
gas 50 Mr. Browns machine was aban-
doned. A little more walking and
they spotted another parked automo-
bile. The owner saw his car being
driven of. however, and gave chase in
another machine. The boys !eaped
out and fed through some woods.
A farmers truck provided their
next opportunity, but it made 50 much
noise the farmer cut loose with q shot-
gun. once more sending the youths
into the woods.
Two Of the boys, brothers. decided
to sleep out Friday night. ahile the
others started walking back to WASH
ington.
Evening star., 1938-07-10
aches Trying to Solve Complicated Foreign Exchange Problem

It Is advisable procedure to obtain
an order for your marks before l"av-
ing. But be sure not to get any Of
the marks themselves or it may cost
q large fine 1T the German border.
where they have strict rules about
outsiders bringing any German money
into the country.
Tourists Must Watch Marks.
Once in with your order for marks.
the traveller ordinarily receives the
mark 1T q valuation Of IS cents Is COM
pared to the basic price Of 10 cents.
The trick, however. Is In seeing to 1t
that you spend your marks only for
certain things, such - hotel and
travel accommodation.
Purchase Of articles for bringing
back to your friends must be done
with marks bought at different rate,
or else the articles will Be eonAscated
at the same old border.
Evening star., 1938-07-10

For 10. these many years, foreign ex-
change has been something Of head
ache to the fiscal experts Of govern
ment and business. This year it is
being even more Of . headache for
our unodicial emissaries abroad-the
tourists.
According to accounts which have
reached here. badly exhausted, the
principal trouble is being encountered
in that part of Europe which lies.
roughly, east Of the Rhine. For almost
without exception, the countries east
of the waltzing river not only manage
their currency. but usually manage to
confuse the American cavaliers.
For instance. Aunt Fanny reports
that she had no trouble-or at least
not much-in changing her travellers
checks In Britain into pounds, shillings,
ETC., and then spending what she got
Evening star., 1938-07-10

The confusing circumstance IS the
fact that all the German marks, and
there are nearly . dozen, are one and
the same Is far as the actual piece Of
currency is concerned. In other words,
the traveller receives the only German
mark printed when he cashes his
order, but he gets, them at different
rates depending upon the use for
which they are intended. And when
the lightning mathematicians at the
border start comparing the tourists
declared possessions upon entering the
country with those in hand upon leav-
ing, 1t Is well to be able to balance
things up properly.
Trying to figure this situation out
got US 30 dizzy that when Aunt Fanny
wanted to tell US about her troubles
with the sloty in Poland and the
koruna in Csechoslovakia we Just fell
ali to pieces.
Evening star., 1938-07-10

for things she either did or did not
want.
They were equally cooperative in
Holland and France with respect to
gulden and francs. although Aunt
Fanny said she bought q slide rule to
help compute the day-by-day gyra-
tions of the franc. Switzerland was
equally casual about its less hysterical
franc.
Some Pretty Cute Tricks.
The simple things. including Aunt
Fanny, Just about ended there, how
ever, and it began to develop that
there are some pretty cute tricks about
money in Italy and Germany.
With regard to Italy. for instance,
it develops that the cheap way to
travel over there Is to spend your
money over here. In other words.
Italian money Is cheaper on this side
Of the Atlantic than in ltaly-to the
extent Of about II per cent.
Evening star., 1938-07-10

Your travel agency, by way of exam
pie. can get you an order for 1000
Italian lira for $47.50, the procedure
being to get the order here and cash
1t in Italy at . rate not to exceed
800 Ira per day. But If you just take
your dollars and cents to Italy, 1t will
take $3.50 Of them to get your 1000
lira. And unless you are DR.. Jekyll
and Mr.. Hyde, purchases are limited
to $4,000 lira. Aunt Fanny was neither
DR.. J. nor Mr.. H.
Italy, places no restriction on what
you may buy with your lira, but she
does offer price reductions on hotel
and railroad accommodations.
Hotel Coupons on Sale in U. s.
For instance, If the deal is made
here, coupons may be purchased for
hotel accommodations at figure sup
posed to be 30 per cent below the
quoted price In italy. But you must
Evening star., 1938-07-10

not disturb the audience on shore.
1t. William H. Carlin, harbor master,
said canoes would be permitted to tie
up between the shore and the barge
on which the acoustical shell is built
Crowds on the shore will be handled
by special detail Of IS United States
park police. Parking will be permit
ted in the roads and driveways in the
Lincoln Memorial vicinity. Special
parking will also be provided in the
mderpass roadway from Constitution
avenue to the ramp and from the
Erickson Memorial to Arlington Me-
mortal Bridge.
Special bus schedules have been an
nounced by the Capital Transit Co.
The Potomac Park line will run every
five minutes after pm. from Seven
teenth and K streets NV. south on
Seventeenth. west on Pennsylvania,
south on Nineteenth. west on Consti-
tuition and over Lincoln Memorial
drive; two special trips on the Con-
necticut avenue line will leave Chevy
Chase Circle at 7:15 and 7:25 p.m.;
a bus will leave Georgia and Alaska
avenues at TOT PM, using Sixteenth
and K streets; one bus will leave
Fifth and Kansas avenue at 7:03 pm.
In case of rain before intermission.
the concert will be postponed until
tomorrow night at 8 pm, when ticket
stubs for tonight's concert will be hon
ored. If Mondays performance is
rained out before intermission, ticket
stubs may be exchanged for tickets
to next Sundays concert at the Ma
tional Symphony box ONCE. Julius
Garfinckel e. Co. store.
Evening star., 1938-07-10

decide in advance whether you want
class A, B, c, D, Z, 8 or l. type Of
hotel. Class 8 Is superior and class L
is luxurious, the others run the gamut,
80 to speak.
Coupons also may be purchased here
Tor railroad travel at . price 50 per
cent below the rate quoted at the
italian ticket windows. Two further
concessions are made In this regard,
one being three-day period Of grace
in which the traveller may decide upon
his destinations after reaching Italy
and the other being An extra 5 per
cent reduction If hotel coupons for 1T
least IL days are held.
II all your Ira orders are not used
while in Italy, they may be rebated
at place Of purchase-with q service
charge Of about per cent.
Things are even more complicated
In Germany, where the reichsmark u
the unit Of currency.
Evening star., 1938-07-10

ing touches to the mOderniStic accous-
tical shell. from which the orchestra
will play. A ceiling for the stage was
put in place and sound equipment
underwent exhaustive tests to insure
perfect audibility for concertgoers.
Engineers Of the National Broad
casting Co. also were on hand to make
special technical arrangements to
bring the symphonic music to radio
listeners. The second hour OF the
program-from 9 to 10 o'clock-will
be broadcast over WMAL, The Stars
radio station. The engineers made
tests to determine the best location
for microphones. Due to the excellent
accoustical qualities of the shell. the
tone OF the broadcast is expected to
be extremely good.
Final arrangements yesterday also
included numbering of the 75-cent
and 81 seats in the reserved section.
There also will be q section Of unre-
served chairs at so cents.
World Premiere for "Enchantment."
DR.. Hans Kinder. conductor Of the
National Symphony Orchestra. will
direct the opening program. beginning
at 8 O'Clock. Two American works will
be introduced to Washington concert
goers during the concert. John Alden
Finckel's "Enchantment," the work of
a Washington composer. will be given
its world premiere. and the Pro-
cession of the Royal Scot Guards" by
Armand Balendonck of New York, also
will be heard.
Mr.. Finckel, a cellist, who will play
with the orchestra during the sum-
mer, will be a member Of the audience
during the playing of his composition.
Other works on the initial program
are Dvorak's New World Symphony" !"
Beethoven's "Egmont Overture. p"
Strauss Artists Life Waltz and
.Mcussorksky's Chant Russo" and ex-
cerpts from Boris Godunov."
The box office at the Water Gate
will be open at IL am. today. Tickets
may be reserved by telephoning Re-
public 1857. Season tickets are IS, $4,
$3.50 and $3.50. Single tickets are 81,
IS cents. so cents and IS cents.
Tonight's concert will be the f1rst
Of IL to be given during six-week
period ending August II. The concerts
will be given on Sundays and Wednes-
days.
DR.. Kinder will conduct the pro-
grams tonight and on Wednesday
night and the final one on August II
In the interim the orchestra will play
under the baton of such outstanding
conductors as Reginald Stewart, Ru-
dolph CAM, william van Hoogstraten
Ferde Grofe and Victor Kolar.
Launch to Patrol Waters.
During tonight's concert a harbol
police launch will patrol the waters
around the barge. Concert patrons
intending to come in motor boats have
been asked to arrive well before thu
opening number 70 their motors viii