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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-10-05
TO BUILD FOUR
LOG Cabins

The U. S. forest service at Washing
ton has granted permission to the
customs patrol to construct four over
night cabins on border lakes in the
Ely territory, according to word re-
ceived here. Sites for the cabins will
be approved by the local forest service
workers.
It is planned to build one-room log
cabins on LaCroix, Crooked, Eastwood
and Knife lakes. They will be ap-
proximately IA by 16 feet in dimension
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-10-05
30 Assigned to CCC
Camp 7O4, Isabella.

Thirty young men from the Ely well
fare district will be sent to CCC camp
7O4 at Isabella today The new enroll
ment period also starts today.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-10-05

Honest Fisherman's Prayer
20 Lord, suffer me to catch fish
50 large that there will be no need for
me to lie about it to my friends"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-10-05

Leave No Mark
The doubter and the faint of heart
set no mark on the pages of history.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-10-05
ELY SKI CLUB TO MEET.

The Ely Ski Club will meet Monday
evening in the Community Center.
Evening star., 1939-08-08
Baltimore Tobacco Sales
Reach Peak for Week
Special Dispatch to The Star.

BALTIMORE, Aug. 8.-Sales Of
Maryland tobacco on the Baltimore
market reached a peak last week
when 2618 hogsheads were trans
ferred. This was an increase of 1.165
hogsheads over the total for the
previous week. Receipts, however,
recorded a decrease, totaling 3O47
hogsheads. which was 154 hogs
heads below the total for the
previous week. 1t is expected that
the receipts will continue to de-
crease gradually. Prices remained
unchanged.
The stock of Maryland tobacco
in warehouses now totals 20053
hogsheads There were no receipts
of Ohio tobacco during the week,
but IA hogsheads were sold. This
leaves the present stock of this
product at 296 hogsheads.
Quotations on Maryland tobacco
are as follows:
Maryland, flrm leaf-NondeScrip
and unsound, pound, 3a4; dull and
greenish, 4a15; sound to good COM
mon, 8a25; short to medium bright,
25a35 good to fine, red or bright,
35a40.
Seconds-Common, 4a9 medium,
10a24; good to fine. 25a36
Badly mixed hogsheads from 200
to 500 lower.
Evening star., 1939-08-08
Stock Averages
BY VICTOR EUBANK,
associated Press Financial Writer.


NEW YORK, Aug. 8.-An uncon-
vincing early rally failed to follow
through in today's stock market and
initial gains running to point or so
were chopped down to inconsequen-
tial fractions in many cases or
changed to declines at the close.
Dealings we're moderately lively in
the first few minutes, but from then
on the ticker tape moved only spas
medically. Transfers for the full
session were around 100000 shares,
one of the smallest turnovers in
about a month.
The generally cheerful business
outlook, brokers said, remained as
the principal selling deterrent and
the days erratic price shifts were be-
lieved due to so-called professional"
in-and -outers. While the public ap-
parently Stunned the buying side,
some encouragement was derived
from the fact liquidation in this
quarter was virtually nil.
Technicians again held to the idea
reactionary tendencies of recent ses-
SlOllS were d lul IIltI IlOlllldl CO1 .
rection" of the broad upturn in July.
Foreign affairs were still viewed as
speculative handicap because Of
possible new crisis in the next
few weeks or months. European
securities exchanges, opening after
the holidays, failed to develop for
ward inclinations.
Resistant stocks the greater part
of the time were United States Steel,
General Motors, Chrysler, Sears
Roebuck, United States Rubber,
Boeing, Western Union, North
American, Great Northern. Stand
ard Oil of New Jersey and American
Can.
A disposition to back away was
shown by Youngstown Sheet, Good
year, Phelps-Dodge, American Tele-
phone, Santa Fe, General Electric,
Johns s-Manville, J. C. Penney,
Sperry, Continental Oil and United
States Gypsum.
Evening star., 1939-08-08
5. &C. Recognizes
Securities Dealers
Association
Action Is Hailed by
Choirmun Frunk us
Safeguard

The Securities and Exchange
Commission granted recognition to
the National Association of Securi-
ties Dealers. Inc, as a national as
sociation of the ver-the-counter
security brokers and dealers. The
association has about $500 members
throughout the country.
Chairman Jerome N. Frank of the
S. E. C. said in letter to Wallace
H. Fulton, director of the associa-
ton, that the recognition marks
the beginning of a significant at
tempt by an important segment of
business affected with a marked
public interest in regulating its own
affairs in cooperation with the
Government. - in the main, the
result is indicative of a desire on
the part of large and important
part of the business and group of
sincere, representative leaders to
tackle with the commission the
very difficult job of regulating the
vast and unorganized over-the-
counter securities markets.
Seen As Benefit.
" 1t should benefit both the
investor and the honest dealer. 1t
should be an aid in safeguarding
our securities markets against those
tendencies which destroy the in
vestor confidence so vital to our
economy
The association will be managed
by a national Board of Governors,
IA district committees and a num-
ber of business conduct committees.
all consisting of members serving as
unpaid volunteers.
The S. E. c. said that almost all
of the associations rules of fair
practice are directed toward elm
mating abuses which might well
lead to the defrauding of investors"
and that one rule specifically for
bids the effecting of transactions
in, or the inducement of purchase
or sale of any security by means of
any manipulative, deceptive or 9TH
er fraudulent device or contrivance. ;"
No SOlvency Rules.
1t added, however, that there were
mo rules whatsoever concerning the
solvency of members or requiring
any regular or periodic inspections
on the part of the association of a
members books or the submission,
on the part of the member, of his
financial statement to the associa-
ton or to an independent firm of
auditors acting for the association"
The commission expressed regret
that the association had not adopt
ed any such rules and said it feels
that it must emphasize the lack of
such rules lest the public be miSled
into thinking that membership in
the applicant association in any
way connotes solvency"
With the granting of the appli-
cation, Henry H. Egly resigned as
chief of the S. E. C.'s securities as
sociation unit to return to private
business. In a letter to Chairman
Frank he explained that he con-
sidered his work completed.
Evening star., 1939-08-08
i. ). Oil Concession
Reported Doubled
In Saudi Arabia
STANDARD of California
To Extend Operations
In Nejd Area
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 8.-The Standard
Oil Co. of California was understood
in informed diplomatic and oil quar-
tiers today to have been granted an
approximately so per cent enlarge
ment of its present Oil concession in
Saudi Arabia, involving a payment
of more than s1,000,O00.
The extension was said to involve
operations in the North and South
Nejd areas.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is
ruled by Ibn Saud, dominant figure
among Arab leaders. Britain, in a
treaty of 1927. recognized the COM
plete independence of his domains.
The American oil company, oper-
ating concession in Eastern Saudi
Arabia, early in 1888 struck oil in
satisfactory quantities. Drilling op-
erations have been carried on in
Hasa Province.
Standard Oil Co. of California,
through subsidiaries, produces oil in
many parts of the world, including
Saudi Arabia, where the California
Arabian Standard Oil Co. operates.
1t sells its products to Bahrein Pc
troleum Co. another subsidiary
owned in connection with Texas
Corp, which markets throughout
the Persian Gulf and in China, In
dia, South Africa. Australia and the
Philippine Islands.
California Arabian Standard Oil
Co. held long-term concession in
Saudi Arabia, covering about 1O0,-
100000 acres, which, according to re-
cent reference books was producing
about 5000 barrels day. No rehn-
cry has as yet been erected.
Evening star., 1939-08-08
Virginia Quorries Find
Upswing in Business
pecial Dispatch to The Star.


WINCHESTER, Va. Aug 8.-Stone
quarries and lime manufacturing
plants of Frederick and Shenandoah
Counties report the best business
they have had in several years Most
of the plants are working on large
orders and operating shifts have
plenty of work.
In addition to those that have
been in the business many years.
others are being opened in various
localities of the two counties in
which there is an abundance of
limestone. It was said the steel
trade has taken a decided upswing
recently, which accounts in large
measure for the increased demand
for limestone for f1uXing purposes.
Large quantities of the stone have
been shipped to Washington, D. c.,
and suburban Virginia and Mary
land for limestone dwellings.
Evening star., 1939-08-08
Chicago Grain
BY the Associated Press.

BY LHe associated PreSS.
CHICAGO, Aug. 8.-The wheat
market had an easy undertone to-
day and prices averaged lower
within a narrow range After losses
of as much as 7s cent prices rallied
to about the previous close in late
trade, due largely to light offerings
and small short-covering
The International Institute of
Agriculture was said to have pre-
dicted that world wheat production
this year would be the largest since
the World War, with the exception
of last years crop.
Wheat closed unchanged to Il
lower, September, $685.; Decem-
Der, 641. -3s; corn unchanged to 20
lower, September, 421s-14; Decem-
Der, 4l34-7s; oats, Is of to "A higher.
Evening star., 1939-08-08
Boston Wool Market

culture) Inquiries for wool were slower
than last week, but the moderate amount
of business being transacted was closed at
firm prices today
Good French combing length fine terri
tory wools in original bags was selling at
Months og gesas voos we're moved
sonally at 81 to II cents, secured basis.
Fleece wools were mostly slow at quota
tions nominally unchanged from last week.
Evening star., 1939-08-08
New York Cotton
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Aug. 8.-Cotton fu-
lures were moderately active today,
with early gains pared somewhat in
afternoon trading. The list was un-
der pressure of aggressive commits
sion house and foreign liquidation,
together with professional selling
which met only limited trade de-
mand. Prices in midafternoon
ranged 8 to II down, with October
of 10 at 800 and December 8.71.
Futures closed 1917 lower
Evening star., 1939-08-08

In S t | t u e of
B a n k i n G, a S
chairman of the
House Commit
tee of the chap
ter.
Mr.. Gibbons. a
graduate of the
American Insti-
tute of Banking,
has served as
consul and on
committees OF
the chapter.
The new quar-
ters of the chap
ter, including the
o@oo. aIo,,
Evening star., 1939-08-08
5. H. Kress July Sales
Advance Over Last Year
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 8.-S. H. Kress
Co., operators of a national chain OF
variety stores, today reported July
sales at $6,225,1 ,134, an increase of So
per cent from S5,821 $40 in July last
year. Sales for the first seven
months of the year we're O.4 of 1 per
cent ahead of the similar period of
1898.
Evening star., 1939-08-08
Simonds Saw & Steel Co
Dividend Is Doubled
BY the Associated Press.

BY tNe HSSOc1ated Press.
BOSTON, Aug. 8.-Directors of ST.
monds Saw & Steel Co. declared a
dividend today of 40 cents a share
on the common stock, payable Sep
tember Is, to stockholders of record
at the close of business August 26.
For the previous quarter, 2O-cent
dividend was paid on June is and
a 10-cent dividend for the years
first quarter on March Is.
Evening star., 1939-08-08
Certificates Authorized
For Southern Pacific
By the Associated Press.

The Interstate Commerce Com
mission authorized the Southern
Pacific Co. today to issue $7,575 900
of equipment trust certificates,
series P, to be sold at 101. Al per
cent of par and accurued dividends
in connection with the purchase Of
new equipment.
Evening star., 1939-08-08
Steel Casting Orders Rise

Orders for steel castings booked
by 1873 manufacturers for the first
half of this year amounted to 227.-
285 short tons, a sharp increase
over the 152,070 short tons during
the corresponding period of 1888.
the Census Bureau found. PRODUCE
ton showed comparable increases.
Evening star., 1939-08-08
Jersey City Livestock

JERSEY CITY, N. j., Aug. lP Gu. s.
Department OF Agriculture> Cattle. so
steady; one load choice 1,3o5-pound Penn
sylvanias, with two out, topped at $50;
one load good 1,417-pound Canadians at
900 and one load medium, ,3OS pounds
at $50. Cows steady; medium. 0O-6 SO
ODD head 6.75: cutter and common, 4 rs
5.25; Gamers .3.50-4.5O few at 300
Bulls slow, steady: cutter to good sausage
kinds, 5.00-6.75. few 700
Vealers and calves. 12O salable; total
1850. Vealers active. steady to strong;
choice 165-pound nearbys. IL so: good
140-pounds, 900: Gull to common 81
pounds, 80: one deck go pounds me-
dium to good calves 500.
Hogs, 40 salable on New York market:
total $3.50. Market 5 higher: good to
choice. l92-pound average, 6.s5: good to
choice. 210 pounds. '6.75.
Sheep and lambs 450 salable; total
S,0l0. Lambs fairly active. steady; one
part deck, country graded, $50; one load
good to choice 20 pounds, $50: common.
6l-62 pounds, 6.00-7.00. No sheep on sale
Evening star., 1939-08-08

Winnipeg Cash Market
4934: No 3. "a
Oats-No. , white 90; No 3. 24h..
Baltimore Quotations
BALTIMORE. Aug. s lPD-Wheat. No.
6934. A0-NS'
Evening star., 1939-08-08
Gibbons Heads
House Committee
Of Capital A. |. B.
Chapters New Quarters
In Security & Trust
Building Refurnished

Frank A: Gibbons, jr, OF Riggs
National Bank has been appointed
by Frances E. Ropey, president of
the Washington Chapter, American
Evening star., 1939-08-08

Japan's invasion has not Sc.
riously interfered with China's ex.
ports Of tirecrackers.
Evening star., 1939-08-08
New York Metal Market

NEW YORK. Aug. F1.-Copper steady;
electrolytic spot, 1880; export. 1910
Tin, steady; spot and nearby 4875; for
ward. 1880. Lead steady; spot, New
York. 5.05-510; East st. Louis. 4 80
Zinc. steady: East ST. Louis, spot and for.
ward, 4.75. Pig iron, aluminium. anti.
mony. quicksilver platinum and Chinese
wolframite unchanged.
Evening star., 1939-08-08
Chicago Cash Market.

Chicago Cash Market
Wheat. No 5 red, tough. 62la: No .
hard. 67l2 No. 3 yellow, hard ga 4I4-la
sample yellow, hard. tough. 61i2: No 2
mixed, tough. 6334-64l4. Corn, No. i yell
low, 45-45l2 No. l white, ST; No 4. 55la
Oats No. l mixed, 2sl4: No 2, 27a4-2sla:
sample mixed grain. 24lz: No > white
29-2s1a; No. 3 white. 27A-29; No. 8
white, tough, 27l4-I2; mixed grain a.
27l2; sample white. 26l4 Barley, m citing
1870 nominal; feed, 34-4O nominal No. g.
4l-5l; No. > mailing, so: No 3 mailing
5O,ot. Timothy seed. 3,65-90: clover seed
red top, S.50-900
Evening star., 1939-08-08

COttOnseed Oil.
Bleachable .cottonseed oil futures closed
1913 lower. Sales 231 contracts sep
tember 5.6G: october. 563b; December,
b Bid.
Evening star., 1939-08-08

In REMEMBERING IA streets, Ben
fleet, England, left out the num-
ber 13.
Evening star., 1939-08-08

o
rim bankruptcy recevershp being reorgand under
dividend tie table
Unless otherwise
dividend. rights a
far
year Cash stock Accumulated dividends
Evening star., 1939-08-08

Approximate SoIes of Stocks the NJ Y Stock Exchange
II 100 AM 100000 Noon
100 Pm 270000 200 Pm
Total Sales the $50
Evening star., 1939-08-08

Russian farmers are taking up
flying.
Evening star., 1939-08-08
United States Treasury Position
mpared with comparable date year ago:

BY the Associated Press
The position of the Treasury August compared
Evening star., 1939-08-08

Winnipeg Prices
WINNIPEG Aug. & tPJ.-Grain range
odav i'- @".Ae~
Evening star., 1939-08-08

Middling. spot. 9.47n.
n Nominal.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-21
JobIess Insurance
Costs Boosted by
Change in Laws

SACRAMENTO, Nov. 81. CUP)-
Changes in the unemployment In
surance act, approved by the 1889
legislature and effective Dec. l. will
increase disbursements to jobless
Californians by approximately Sl3,-
100000 annually. the state depart
ment of employment announced to-
day.
The boost in benefit payments
will bring the yearly total to about
S50,000,000 Under the new proyi-
sions minimum payments are raised
from 81 to $40 a week and the
maximum is increased from SIS to
S18.
Claimants may obtain a total OF
S468 during the new maximum
benefit period of 26 weeks as against
$500 in 20 weeks under the previous
act. To qualify. however, claimants
must have earned $500 during the
first four of the last five calendar
quarters Immediately preceding fill
ing for benefits. Formerly they
were required to earn only s156.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-21

vention provided that danger zone
must be announced as soon as mill
tary eXigencies permit, once the
mines have ceased to be under OBJ
servation of those who laid them.
The prime minister said that if
unanchored mines are used they
must become harmless one hour af-
ter those who laid them have lost
control over them,
None of these provisions has
been observed by the German gov
ernment in laying mines which
occasioned the losses I mentioned
and this fresh outrage is only the
elimination of a series of violations
of agreements to which Germany
set her hand" he said, citing the
sinking of the British liner Athena
with a loss of 112 lives on the first
day of the war.
These attacks have been made
often without warning and to an
increasing extent in complete dis
regard of the rules laid down in the
submarine protocol to which Ger
many subscribed or to the elemen-
tary dictates OF humanity.
THE government is not prepared
to allow these methods of warfare
to continue without retaliation
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-21
Is Vessels Sunk
Since Saturday in
Intensified War
CONTINUED from Page y


where the Simon Bolivar, the Brit
ish steamer Blackhill and several
other ships have been sunk in the
last four days-apparently the GEN.
ter of a floating mine area.
The British mine-sweeping traw-
Ter Mastiff was sunk by a mine
a German one, the admiralty an
nounced-in the North sea.
One of the Mastiff's crew died OF
injuries and four were missing
She was of 400 tons and was the
sixth British warShip lost in the
war. She presumably went down
while engaged in the perilous work
of clearing mines out of the North
sea shipping lanes where they had
wreaked havoc on merchant ship
ping during the weekend.
The explosion that sank the Mas
tiff was heard on. shore and a life
boat, motorboat and airplanes rush.
ed to the scerie. A passing ship
picked up some of the Mastiff's
crew and transferred four of the
injured to a lifeboat. The four were
suffering from severe burns, ex-
haustion and shock and one died
in a hospital where the other three
were confined.
Another merchant loss, not VIC
tim of the new activity, was con-
firmed today when the Newcastle
lines announced that hope had been
abandoned for the 460-ton steamer
Newton Beech and her crew of a.
overdue for more than a month.
OF the u ships reported sunk
since Saturday, the Mastiff was the
only warship. She was the first
British mine sweeper lost and took
her place along with the battleship
Royal Oak, the aircraft carrier
Courageous, and unnamed destroyer,
the tug Northern Rover and the
submarine Oxeley, sunk by accident,
as wartime casualty. The mastiff
carried one four-inch and two
smaller guns. She was launched Feb.
II, 1888.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-21
TrickIins Water
Burd's Worst Foe

I ground to Bard fields.
Water was turned through the
All-American at this time because
engineers felt that Bard was al
ready so wet from flood waters
that it couldn't get any wetter.
Farmers. however, charge that
seepage from the canal only added
to their troubles.
Unfortunately, it is difficult to
distinguish between damage done
from flood waters that raced down
Unnamed, Picacho and other wash
es and damage done by seepage
from the canal itself as well as
seepage from the lake impounded
near Unnamed wash. The farmers
believe the latter did the damage
and engineers are either non-com-
initial or inclined to minimize the
effect of canal seepage.
However, that's the story from
the farmers viewpoint and along
with it has come strong lack Of
faith in the ability of the All Amer
lean canal to hold water. When tolo
by engineers that the canal actually
seeped less than was to be expected.
the average farmer who lives along
its banks replied;
''Nutsl It leaked like a sieve. I
saw water trickling out the sides.
Had the canal been filled full I
think it would have burst
The latter question is, of course,
a matter of opinion. Certain it is
that the storm left its mark on the
canal. Deep ridges can still be
seen down the canals sides where
waters ate into the sand and gravel.
When told that all canals must
be seasoned before water tight, and
reminded that the Yuma main
canal itself leaked like a sieve at
one time. the farmer replies with
some reason:
"Okay, but what's going to hap
pen to US in the meantime, while
the All American is getting a mud
bath?"
Tomorrow: The other side of the
picture.)
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-21
Rumor Of Poyoff
Launches Inquiry

LES ANGELES. Nov. 81. cUP)-
District Attorney Buron Fits today
was reported preparing to go to San
Francisco to investigate recurrent
rumors of a 100000 payoff to the
1886 county grand jury in connec-
ton with the investigation of the
collapse of the defunct Pacific Mu-
tual Life Insurance company.
Fits was expected to confer with
Attorney General Earl Warren and
was reported to have two subpenas
for the appearance of a wealthy
San Francisco man, former execu-
tive for Pacific Mutual, before the
grand jury tomorrow, and the other
for records of San Francisco bro
kerage firm.
Fits was reported investigating
a charge that a 100000 bribe was
paid to halt the voting of an in
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-21
CONTINUED from Page u
fail floods.

fall floods.
incidentally, John is a cousin OF
Charles Sones of FL Centre. Il used
TO pitch pennies with Charlie and
bounce Harry on my knees" he re-
called
8 No one can deny that some land
along the canal has been damaged
by seepage or flood waters. But
when and by what is more difficult
10 fix.
Unfortunately, a true estimate of
Bard's seepage damage is obscure
because of several other factors
present that complicate the pic
ture.
Quite true Department of Agri-
culture figures taken from the more
than $50 test wells spread over the
valley show abrupt rises in the
water table when water was turned
into the All American canal. But
that isn't the whole story. Because
in early September. when most of
the damage TO land was done. Bard
valley along with the rest of south
ern California was doused in one of
the severest rains in recent years.
At the same time. Bards water ta-
BILE was already higher than normal.
(For this, many farmers blame the
spring turn-in of water into the
All-American.)
Bard farmers argue that flood
waters that poured down the various
washes from the hills would normal
ly have run off over the surface OF
the land without doing severe dam
age They charge the high water
table prevented quick run off and
that the canal impounded a large
lake which has seeped Slowly under
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-21
Diamonds Stolen
From Hotel Safe

MARYSVILLE, Cal, Nov 81
CUP)-Theft of $35, 1000 in diamonds
and jewelry was discovered when
the vault of the Hotel Marysville
was opened this morning.
The jewels. we're placed in the
vault last night by Leo r. Straus,
Los Angeles jewelry salesman. Po-
lice believed that an experienced
jewel thief watched for chance to
slip throuh the hotel lobby when the
desk clerk was away momentarily
and took the jewel cases before
the vault was locked for. the night.