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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-23
Down to Business

81 cannot understand" said the
young man, why you permit
your daughter to sue me for
breach of promise. You remem-
Der that you were bitterly opposed
to our engagement, because you
said l wasn't good enough for her
and would disgrace your family"
THAT, young man., said the
girls father, twas sentiment
This is business"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-23

M IW ISIlN.- OullS OilSlIlldii Il.
Fairchild inherited about $l0,-
600, 1000, and the money took wings
not around the night spots, but in
70, -. aviation enter
Heir Pools His prises whic h
Money, Brains; have made him
panjandrums of
the plane designing and building in
dustry.
Just now, the Civil Aeronautics
authority certifies Mr.. Fairchild' S
new 500-horsepower "in-line" en-
CINE, which, he says, has more pow
er for its weight than any other.
For several years, Mr.. Fairchild has
been pioneering the "in-line" en-
gineS as against the radial type of
foreign nations. In 1886, he sold 20
of them to the Greek government,
which, it was later reported, found
them highly satisfactory. His en-
CINE is about one-third the size OF
radial engine.
His father, the late George w.
Fairchild, began his business
career on So a week, invented
the dial telephone, the comput-
ing scale, and the adding ma
chine. He wanted his son to
become a junior executive of
International Business Machines
corporation. The young man,
however, was interested mainly
in cameras. At II, he had in
vented revolutionary flashlight
camera, and, at Fl, a radial
aerial camera.
He organized Fairchild Aerial
Surveys and in 1924 carried through
an air camera survey of New York,
with six-mile camera of his inven-
ton which was a pioneering exploit
in that field.
By 1927, he had corraled several
companies in the Fairchild Aviation
corporation, had Igor Sigorsky build
ing planes, and soon unveiled the
first cabin monoplane in the United
States.
In Harvard at the start of the
war, he was rejected for mill
tary service because of physical
shortcomings, later remedied in
Arizona. Intent on war duty of
some kind, he brought out an
aerial camera for war use,
completed just before the Armi-
stice. He is typical of a num-
Der of free and adventurous self
starters in Uncle Sans industri-
al and technical establishment
who can be rounded up in case
Of trOuble-a refutation of the
totalitarian belief that only the
g0Ose-step can yield efficiency.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-23
Peach Blossom Watermark
Is Popular in Hsueh Tao

Thirteen hundred years ago, dur
ing the Tang dynasty, tiny Szech-
wanese singsong girl committed sui
eide because love had passed her
by, recalls Chengtu, Szechwan,
China, United Press correspondent.
Behind her, according to the old
Chinese story, she left trail of
beautiful poems, written on tiny
slips Of peach blossom paper and adj
dressed to her many admirers who
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-23

WASHINGTON. - Homer Cum
mings, formerly attorney general,
announced that he had formed a
partnership for the practice of law
in the courts of the District of
Columbia.
His partner is William Stanley, a
former assistant attorney general.
The firm is to be known as Cum
mings & Stanley. Mr.. Cummings
also will continue to be the senior
partner Of his Stamford, Conn.,, law
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-23

SEVERAL notable moving pic
y lures of recent appearance have
achieved portraits rather than carl
catures. They also have shown a
the star system
Renaissance Is and a new reli-
Looming High ance on coherent
form in the pic
ture as a whole. Chastened by hard
times, the films are taking thought
and adding cubits to their stature.
This bystander hears much talk of
a coming moving picture renais-
sance-not in any splendiferous out
break, but in a new infusion of Gre
alive intelligence into the industry,
and longer tether for the same.
In focus here is "Stagecoach,"
opening in New York with gen.
erous salutations by reviewers,
who note that, with a n0-star
cast, natural-bOrn horse opera
has been conjured into an ex-
cellent film by the def artistry
of John Ford, director, and Dud-
ley Nichols, Scenarist. They
also scored, jointly, in "The
Hurricane" and "The Inform
er." This film is commended
for its further trend toward sim
plicity and artistic integrity, and
away from overemphasis, the
traditional occupational disease
of H0llyw0Od-On or off the lot.
Mr.. Ford, born Sean O'Fearna, in
Portland, Maine, "A years ago,
thinks moving picture directors see
too little of the world about them
in proportion to what they record.
Renoir had the same idea, insisting
that, if an artist observed intently
enough and long enough, his line
would be almost self-recording. So
Mr.. Ford stokes his pipe, medi-
tates, observes, studies types,
speech, dress, mannerisms, be-
havior, regional and occupational
traits, and achieves characterize
ton.
His older brother, Francis,
was ahead of him at Hollywood,
as a serial star and director.
John Ford tagged along and
soon had his brother working for
him. Before he was Is, he had
directed many westerns. When
he was %, he directed "The
Iron Horse" He is an autOcrat
on the lot, apt to throw the
script away and improvise bust
ness and lines, working usually
in a frayed sports jacket and
old dungarees. He sidesteps
Hollywood parties and passes
much of his off-shift time on his
small yacht. He is big and
bulky, with thinning, sandy hair
and glasses.
@ Consolidated News Features.
WNU Service.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-23

W h o appointed
him after being
elevated to the
post of Pope Plus
XII. Ordained in
1901 in his native
Italy, Cardinal
Maglione imme-
diately entered
the Vatican's dip
lomatic service,
going to Switzer-
land in 1918 and
to Palestine in
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-23
Trend
Ho,o the ,oind is bIo,oing .

BANKING-New York state
commercial banks have been
urged to eliminate as many of
their thrift" accounts as posi-
BILE, because interest payments
are too great drain on earning
power.
MANAGERSHIP-A total of 487
U. S. communities now operate
under the city manager form of
government, with four more ex-
pected to join the list via cleo
tons by May 30.
HOSPITALS-U. S. hospitals in
1888 totaled 6,166 compared with
6,128 in 1887. Last year a patient
was admitted every 3.3 seconds.
SHOES-Missouri's legislature
has been offered a bill to ban sale
of toeless and heelless shoes for
women in spring, fall and winter
months.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-23
Pinks and Carnations

Pinks, the near relative of carna-
tions, are not called pinks because
of their color. The name came
from the verb to "pink" meaning
to prick, and was given to these
flowers because of the jagged edge
of their petals.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-23
England

From mid-May to mid-June, Great
Britain's King George and Queen
Elizabeth will be guests of the North
American continent on junket
which most good Americans regard
as simple, friendly gesture. But
as travel time approaches, the royal
expedition is meeting with far more
distracting bogeymen than Toron-
to's Dionne quintuplets, which are
being shipped $50 miles under pro-
test to curtsy before their queen.
From June to II the royal party
will visit the U. S. Because the
entire journey was planned last win
ter in the heat of international chat
ter about democratic solidarity"
more than one anti-Chamberlain
writer has tried to place the prime
minister in a difficult position. A
sample, by one Peter Howard in
Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express:
''Now the royal visit puts Chamber
lain himself on trial. If it succeeds
Chamberlain goes up. If it fails he
goes down.
WIldI EllSllSlllIlSl lIlSdll ny SUC-
cess" or failure" of the American
visit was finally brought into fairly
close focus, but it still remained a
doubtful quantity. Probable mean
ing: The visit will 'fail" if U. S.
citizens get the impression that King
George and Queen Elizabeth are
making begging expedition to gain
American aid in pulling England's
chestnuts out of the European fires.
Politics
Tt Bergen can put words into the
mouth OF Charlie Mccarthy; il President
Roosevelt finds it Uery Convenient to use
Ickes, Hopkins, Jackson ct al as mouth
pieces or stooges, ,ohy shouldn't use my
friend 'Stu6y,' the old gray squirrel OF
the White House larUn?"
Thus reasoned Illinois Republican
Rep. Noah Morgan Mason, to whom
an idea had come while watching an
unidentified squirrel scamper across
the White House greensward. Said
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-23
BY WILLIAM BRUCKART
WNU Service, National Press Bldg, Washington, D. C.

WASHINGTON.-City officials and
newspapers of Washington, D. c.,
have worked themselves into a ter
rible other lately over new kind
of bootlegger-a bootlegger of milk
and cream. This city, like every
other city, has tight regulations con-
corning milk and cream that en-
tiers the national capital. They are
regulations designed to protect the
health of those who reside here.
Moreover, maintenance of such reg
ulations are an entirely proper func-
ton of government, because there
can be nothing more important than
health.
According to the charges filed and
upon which arrests were made, a
dairy four or five hundred miles
from Washington, inspected and Ii
censed by the state of its location,
brought in truck load of refrig-
Grated cream without first having
obtained permit to do so. The city
officials, prodded perhaps by local
diaries and nearby milk producers,
threw a couple of men into Jail and
barked and squawked all around the
place because of this bootlegger.
The local press reports indicated the
city officials had made asses of
themselves over the whole matter,
but that is of no particular concern
to this discussion.
The incident is very important as
illustrative of a condition that is
rapidly endangering the national un-
ion of states, and is, therefore, a
matter for analysis here. Frequent
ly, great national issues lie around,
or are kicked around, for months
before somebody inadvertently sets
a match to the powder; and it hap
pened to be local officials who struck
the match
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-23

EDITORS NoTE-When opinions are
expressed in these columns, they are those
of the news analyst. and not necessarily
of the newspaper
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-23
HeadIiners
LUIGI CARDINAL MAGLIONE

The new, 62-year-old papal Sec
rotary of state is lifelong friend
and one-time classmate of the
former Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-23
National Government Policy
To Blame for Conditions


what had actuated the selfish inter-
ests of the country to start on this
spree of battling among themselves.
There must have been some reason
behind that. At least, I have come
to believe there is. / believe that
the condition fundamentally springs
from national government policy
which for years now has been in
the direction of destroying the rights
of individual states. Little by little,
the federal government has torn
away the rights of the states-and
the states, with pain reduced by fed
eral money, have permitted it.
Suddenly, however, the states and
their citizens have discovered their
whole jurisdiction is enveloped in
creeping paralysis. We have all
noted resentment in the last few
years at the encroachment of fed
eral regulation upon individual
rights and freedom. When these
things were realized by the rank
and file of the people, there devel-
oped a new disease as a counter
irritant, the disease of knocking the
other fellow off. 1t will take more
than socialized medicine to correct
it. The national governments poll
cies, having started it, will have to
assume the blame and will have to
find way to remedy the condition.
I hope Mr.. Halleck, and those he
has enlisted to help him, can find the
proper prescription for the cure.
g Western Newspaper Union.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-23
Sketch Over 5000 Years oId

A crude sketch of a woman twang-
ing the strings of harp, found in
the pavement at Amageddon in
Palestine, in a layer of ruins, dates
from before 5000 B. c.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-23

the squirrel: The Democrats were
elected in 1882 because the Repub-
licans had done nothing but tumble
the ball." After the Democrats took
office they discarded their excel
lent platform" and have since "pro-
duced little else than great ma
tional headache.
For the edifcation of any news
paper reporter who would listen,
Mr.. Mason put the following pro-
phetic words into the mouth of his
mythical furry sage:
''It offers a real opportunity for
your Republicans, and should pre-
sent challenge to your party. Fa-
Their Time and vicissitudes of politi-
cal fortune have kindly removed
most of your old discredited leaders.
New leaders have developed :.
The elephant has fully recovered
from his sleeping sickness All
signs point to a landslide in 1940."
Miscellany
Probably lost by Chicago Jews,
their vote in Chicago's mayoral
election April 4, which is observed
strictly by orthodox Jews as the
first day of Passover.
q Requested of General Electric
company by little New York
school girl: Twill you kindly send
me little sample of electricity, if
you can spare it. We are studying
about it in geography"
People
Forecast, by Radio Priest Rev.
Charles E. COughlin, 20 per cent
boost in U. S. taxation if the govern
ment continues attempting to bor-
row us out of debt"
Q Celebrated, by Scientist Albert
Einstein at Princeton, N. j., his six
tieth birthday; 10 years ago Ger
many gave Jewish DR.. Einstein a
summer estate as birthday pres
ent.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-23
Bruckarf's Washington Digest
Bruckarts Washington Digest
National Union Endangered by
Trade Barriers Between States

Bootegging of Milk and Cream Calls Attention Condi-
ton That Has Become fragrant; Proper Government
Functions Used to Accomplish Inscriptions Ends.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-23

Omnipresent Duty
A sense of duty pursues us ever.
1t is omnipresent, like the deity
Daniel Webster.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-23
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
= - 94~
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

NEW YORK.-Young Sherman M.
- Fairchild inherited about $l0,-
100000, and the money took wings
not around the night spots, but in
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-23

keted with a variance of laws on
most subjects that it seems almost
a hopeless job to untangle them.
For example, there are ITO differ
ent state laws dealing with the la
belling and grading of farm prod
ucts. A good ear of corn in one
state won't be recognized as a good
ear of corn in another. My friend,
the ordinary irish potato may be ac-
cepted as No. / in one state, and
find himself as No. in another. A
bottle of beer in Missouri, tax paid
and respectable there, becomes vir-
tually bottle of slop in an adjoin-
ing state. Wines from grapes grown
in California cannot possibly be as
good as wines grown from. grapes in
Oregon, because the Oregon law says
so and lays burdensome tax to
prevent Oregon citizens from having
their stomachs corroded or some
thing. Cement entering Florida, for
time, was not as good as cement
produced in Florida and Florida was
prepared to tax it-until the case got
to the Supreme court of the United
States
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-23

trend away from
the star system
and a new reli-
ance on coherent
form in the mic
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-23
States Differ as to What
Constitutes q Truck Load

Take another and less known con-
dition-less known because fewer
people come in contact with it, but
it enters into the cost of the things
you buy, just the same. I refer to
state laws about load limits of
trucks. I don't have any love for
trucks; they are so doggoned big
these days that I want to take to
the timber when / see one of them
coming head-on along the highway.
But they have rights. Yet, there
are no two states as far as can
learn that have the same regulation
about the size of a trucks load. The
trucks can be regulated because
they use the highways, and yet one
state says 10000 pounds is load
and another state says $4,000 pounds
is a load. The others have laws
specifying a load at varying sizes
in between, and there you are! Just
what is a load, anyway?
The truth of the matter is that
local interests are to blame in most
cases. They are taking advantage
of situations to further their own
selfish ends. And where are they
leading to with this polyglot of leg
islation?
The whole thing seems a bit in
congruous to me. Here, on the one
hand, Mr.. Cordell Hull, the very
able and valuable secretary of state,
has been moving heaven and earth
to get rid of trade barriers between
nations. Reciprocal trade treaties,
he calls his method. Some of them
seem to work badly, and some 9TH
ers appear to be producing results,
but no one knows yet whether the
whole system should be kept or
thrown out. That question does not
belong here. 1t is the national pol
icy of breaking down obstacles, jar
ring loose log jams, so that our
products may move into other ma
tons that is important to be consid-
cred when within our own bounda-
ries every known means is being
used to block shipments and sales
between states. I cannot figure it
out unless some folks are strict fol-
lowers of the Biblical injunction not
to let the left hand know what the
right hand 6Oath
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-23

GENERAL notable moving pic
y lures of recent appearance have
achieved portraits rather than carl
catures. They also have shown a
Evening star., 1939-10-08

Hiawatha was the hunter;
Paul Bunyan chopped down trees;
But our Giant stuck to farming
Featured special corn and peas.
Picked Minnesota farmland
Added more farms one by one
Grew the better peas he promised
Grew the goldest corn-bar none!
Green his peas are, green and tender,
Crisp and fresh and sweet as honey
For their seed is like no other
More fine flavor for the money.
Evening star., 1939-10-08

Gold his corn is, as sunset,
Tasting like corn off f-the-cob
But to breed the seed that grows it
Was twenty -year-long-job!
Sowhsn yovgo oUftoy yoxQoessy
(As 90 oftsntinss yov n,uss
Mote tie Green GioMt On ibe lobej
HES q fellow yov con irvssl
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-20
RUTHENIA COMES
UNDER CUSTOMS
BAN IN AMERICA
Imports Of Seized Country
10 Be Considered as
from Hungary

Ruthenia, seized last week by Hun
gary, today came under United Stat
es tariff restrictions such as were
applied Saturday to Bohemia and
Moravia taken at the same time
by Germany
Collector of Customs James j.
Connors today received from w. r.
johnson, Acting Commissioner OF
Customs at Washington, notifica-
ton as follows:
1.-The State Department having to-
day advised the Treasury Depart
ment that in view of the recent mil
itary occupation of the Province
of Ruthenia (Carpath tho Ukraine) by
Hungarian military forces and the
assumption of control over these
areas by the Hungarian authorities,
the State Department, while not
recognizing any legal basis for the
chnaged status of Ruthenia, is
obliged by existing circumstances to
consider that that part of the Czech
oslovakia republic is now under the
de facto administration of the Hun
garian authorities, products of Hun
garian authorities, products of the
area mentioned exported from any
country on or after March 10, 1889,
shall be regarded as products of
Hungary for the purposes of the
marking provisions of the tariff act
of 1880 and for determining appli-
cable rates of duty. Give importers
all possible notice, Apply provisions
of Article 822 (E) Customs regula-
lions of 1887 in determining dates of
expectation"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-20
HOUSE AND FARM
SOLD TODAY TO
HIGHEST BIDDERS
Kaher, Foster Buy in Two
Pieces Property from
Dickinson Estate

Two pieces of property from the
William H. Dickinson estate were
knocked down to the highest bid
ders on the Federal Building steps
this afternoon by M. E. Monagie,
Attorney for Guy McNaughton, ex-
ecutor.
Joseph Kaher bought the Dickin-
son house at Fourth and Gold streets
for $1,000 and Frank H. Foster bought
five acre tract at Eagle River for
5000. Both sales are subject to con-
firmation of the Probate Court.
Tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock
house and two lots in the Scatter
tract. part of the Estes estate, are
to be sold from the steps.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-20
BETHEL DOG
RACE IS WON
BY MAxLIEB
Drives His Team Over Fifty
six-Mile Course in 4
Hours, 81 Minutes

BETHEL, Alaska, March 20.-Max
Lieb, native musher, forced his team
of work dogs to victory last Satur-
day in the 56-mile annual Kennel
Club race to Akiak against field
of more than 300 dogs.
The time made by Lieb was 4
hours and 81 minutes.
Margaret Kemaroff and Margaret
Browne, the latter the wife of the
well known Alaskan airplane pilot,
tied in the 12-mile race for women,
their dogs making the time of
hour, 3 minutes and 20 seconds.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-20
similar to the German and Italian

similar to the German and Italian
plans,
Another big problem will be for
eign trade, which has fallen off con-
siderably. Britain and Spain always
have been good customers of each
other. Now British coal exports to
Spain are said to have dropped 81
per cent machinery 80 per cent;
motor cars, 95 per cent.
These are Britain's big three ex-
ports to Spain Naturally she will
try TO win that trade back. And
while financial experts predict a
free-for-all among various powers,
British interests feel they have the
top hand because they have the
money.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-20
MARION EDWARDS
IS TEA HOSTESS

Mrs. Marian Edwards was hostess
Saturday afternoon at the home Of
Mrs. Russell Clithero with a st.
2atrick's Day tea, with green carna-
ton and lighted tapers forming at
tractive decorations for the charm
ing affair.
Guests were greeted at the door
by little Miss Allene Maloney, and
those pouring during the afternoon
were Mrs. Olaf Eikland. Mrs. Floyd
Dryden, Mrs. Iva Tilden and Mrs.
Helen Webster The Misses Laura
Jean and Gordon Clithero assisted
during the tea hours.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-20
Miss De Wee Prultld
Celebrates Birthdays

Miss DE Wee Frucha entertained
yesterday afternoon at the Ninth
Street home of her parents Mr..
and Mrs. Gilbert Prucha, in celc-
bration OF her eighth birthday.
Seven Of Miss Prucha's classmates
spent the afternoon with her play
ing games and enjoying some home
movies. The usual birthday cake
and ice cream we're served during
the latter part of the affair.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-20

LOSE TO
VIKINGS
P Petersburg Norsemen
Take Third Victory in
Juneau, 1915

Petersburg's hard driving, smooth
working basketball squad, rolled up
another victory in the ranks of Jul
neau sportdom Saturday night when
they added to their two victories
over the Juneau High squad with a
1926 triumph over the City League
champions, the Firemen.
1t vcs evident from the starting
whistle that the Firemen were, no
match for the dazzling speed and
brilliant passing of the Petersburg
boys who cinched their superiority
with unerring basket accuracy.
Tom Wanberg, deceptive dribbling
Petersburg forward, was high point
man with nine markers, with Palmer
Peterson and Rungvald Stenslid
tallying seven each.
Ed Metzgar, towering over the Pet
ersburg boys, failed to run up more
than eight points for the Firemens
high individual tally
The Petersburg boys returned to
Wrangell Narows with coach Les
Wingard last night on the Yukon,
the basketball season over, but
boasted they will have IAN even
better team next year"
Juneau lost three games to the
visitors, but not fan has yet made
the remark that Petersburg isn't a
classy ball club and deserving OF
everything they are taking out OF
Juneau, including the Southeast Al
aska Basketball Crown taken from
Juneau High School
Box score for Saturday nights
game was as follows: