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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-11-16

The dressing table skirt was
made with a one-inch heading
at the top and tackled along the
ends of the table and the hinged
arms with thumbtacks through a
double strip of the plain material.
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-11-16

paper, soap and some others {.
This backwardness must be COM
pletely overcome :"
"The third-plan period is to carry
further the satisfaction of needs and
desires of the workers for foodstuffs,
housing facilities and services of a
domestic and cultural nature"
How Russia lags by comparison
with American production was
pointed out few days later by
Pravda, the official paper. The per
capita comparison showed Russia
producing IL barrels of petroleum
for Americas 81 barrels; BOG
pounds of wheat and rye compared
with Americas 452 pounds; 1,722
pounds of coal compared with 1888
pounds; 235 pounds of steel COM
pared with 478 pounds; 1913 pounds
of sugar compared with 1854 pounds,
and 233 kilowatt hours of electricity
compared with 1,12O hours.
U. S. Trade to Suffer.
One other point the experts bring
up. Most Russian imports in the
past few years have been from the
United States, which, in 1888, sold
the Kremlin STA, 644, 900 in products
compared with Germany's $11, 849,-
600. Undoubtedly Germany would
get trade formerly placed with the
United States under the new CO.
operation plan. But since Russia's
industrial expansion has been ac-
complished chiefly with American
made machinery, most of this must
be junked if the Soviet continues her
expansion with German tools.
Can Russia complete her third
five-year plan and still aid Germa-
ny? The experts think not. Some
body's going to get fooled.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-11-16
ASK ME
ANOTHER
The Questions

1. When a state is added to the
Union, when is the star added to
the flag?
2. What animal has the largest
brain in proportion to its size?
3. What is the difference between
a cornet, a trumpet and bugle?
4. How many tons of water flow
over Niagara falls per minute?
S. What is the difference be-
tween permanent and perpetual?
6. Are there more red or white
stripes in the American flag?
z. How many times does high
tide occur during a week?
8. What is meant by the heur-
istic method?
9. How does the size of Brazil
compare to that of the United
States?
10. Which are the highest exist
ing animals on earth?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-11-16
The ANSWERS

1. On the July Fourth following
the admission.
2. The ant.
3. A bugle has no valves, the
cornet and trumpet are similar,
but the cornet has more winding,
curved pipes and is shorter.
4. The flow of water over Mag
ara falls is $1,000 tons per minute.
S. Permanent-constant, without
cessation. Perpetual-repeating at
intervals.
6. Seven red and six white.
z. Usually twice a day.
8. Heuristic is derived from the
Greek heuretikos, meaning ingen-
ious. Heuristic method is one
which incites the pupil to find out
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-11-16

BOTANICAL CURIOSITY is
this maze of banyan tree roots.
The banyan tree, common in Ha-
toaii, sends out numerous aerial
roots that groro back dotUn to the
soil and form props or additional
trunks"
itely to the prince, SIN Japan how
sweet is the singing of the birds"
Kalakaua's magnificent funeral,
with its dirges, its wailing, the piano.
ply of its feather cloaks and kahilis,
really marked the end of Hawaiian
royalty. His sister Liliuokalini sue
ceeded him, but her reign was short
and stormy. In her desire to abolish
the constitution and make herself
absolute, she was a few centuries
after her time. The result was her
dethronement and the establishment
of republic.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-11-16

The Illustration shows what be-
=. came of the mirror and piano
stool which the bride had left over
last week. To the mirror and
stool were added two wooden
boxes from the grocery. These
were placed on end about Is
inches apart and a shelf of r.
inch pine screwed to the top. A
frame was then screwed to the
back of the boxes as shown here.
A curtain rod was placed across
the top and the mirror hung
lengthwise under it. An arm was
then hinged to the front of each
box. Paint was next. White, be-
cause white furniture is smart and
because it matched the woodwork.
The lowered chintz in tones of
rose and blue-green with narrow
frills of the plain blue-green tone
matched the window curtains.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-11-16
Capone Goes
Free After
8-Year Rap
But Mantle of Glamour Is
Strangely Missing From
Scarface AL.
By WILLIAM BARNES

tAsSASoSSA ny "SStSAh 2NS"SPdPSi " ihoi.J
CHICAGO. = They tell you
~ in this town about the
heyday of "Scarface AL" Ca
pone who was so rich he could
squander $7,500,000 in eight
years of gambling, whose
fine Italian hand was seen in
some $50 Chicago gang deaths
between the years of 1925
and 1880, and who ''beat"
two murder charges and a
couple of miscellaneous legal
entanglements before the
federal government caught
him-on the small item of income
taxes covering $215,0O0i
The Chicagoans don't CULVER or
google when you tell them Al Ca
pone leaves prison this month. Since
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-11-16
SOMEBODY'S POOLING
Can Russia Help Reich?
WASHINGTON. - When
w Russian Premier Via

M ASHlNGTON. - When
w Russian Premier Via
cheslav Molotov made his
epochal speech before the
Soviet parliament on Hallow-
cen day, he stated very en-
phatically that Germany and
Russia were going to improve
their trade relations.
That means Adolf Hitler
expects to get oil and food
stuffs for his massive army in ex-
change for machinery and finished
products which he would send to
Comrade Josef Stain. 0...
But somebody's fooling, say the
experts, because Russia's in no po-
sition to help anyone but herself.
Disrupts tFive-Year Plan
Last January Dictator Stain
made a speech outlining the third
"fve-year plan," during which in
dustry was ordered to increase it's
production by SO per cent. Agri-
culture, he said, was to be boosted
So per cent. His speech, which is re-
produced in United States depart
ment of commerce bulletins, said in
part:
''It is undeniable that the country
still lags behind the capitalistic
states in an economic sense. Be-
cause of the low level of industrial
production which prevailed before
the World war, the present level is
still below that of capitalistic coun-
tries with respect to per capita pro-
duction in such respects as electric
power, pig iron, steel and coal pro-
duction, and the manufacture of
consumption goods such as textiles,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-11-16

scribed to a magazine devoted to
social progress, Survey Graphic"
Despite his efforts to win parole
by good behavior, Capone had at
least two scraps in Alcatraz. The
first was in 1886 when James c.
Lucas, Texas bank robber, knitted
him in the back with a pair of bar
Der scissors. Al dealt a return blow
on the chin that sent Lucas Keeling
before they were both carted off
to the hospital.
In 1888 a mail robber named Roy
Gardner was freed from Alcatraz,
bringing forth the story that he and
Capone had mixed it up one day,
and that Al was sent to solitary con-
finement four days as result. An
other paroled convict said Capone
had been branded a yellow rat"
for refusing to join mutiny.
But Capone's resolution did bring
one result. He succeeded in get
ting three years Topped from the
original 10-year sentence, and last
January he left Alcatraz with only
a years Imprisonment Con misde-
meanor COUNT and payment of $780,
600 in fines standing between him
and freedom. But after freedom,
what next?
Even if the paresis story is I'M
true, the glamorous and reckless
life of the mad twenties is no long
er open to AL. He can only re-
turn to his home in Florida and re-
lax with memories of the most in
sane period of American history,
when organized crime fought with
itself and with the law-usua1ly to
the latter's distress.
Johnny Torrio's Protege.
AL came from Naples originally.
He had just turned % in New York
when the notorious Johnny Torrio
took him to Chicago to be body
guard for "Big Jim" Colosimo, a
former street sweeper who pulled
himself into a place of power in
Chicago's south side night life. Tor
rio was a henckman of 'tLefty LOU
ie' and "Gyp the Blood" who with
others were supposedly hired by a
Manhattan police lieutenant in 1912
to Stay the gambler, Herman Ro-
seminal.
They were nice, clean fellows, all
of them. Torrio seized control of
Colosimo's kingdom when the lat
ter was shot down behind his own
liquor bar. He taught Capone the
ropes of racketeering and built vice
and crime into a 500, 000-a-week
business before he made the mis-
take of engineering Dion O'Banion's
murder. Dion also had gang, and
they took a few shots at Johnny in
retaliation. So Torrio left town to
save his skin-and Al Capone inher-
tied the empire.
Law Caught up at Last.
But even a ring of steel couldn't
protect him at the end. They
couldn't get him for murder, for
election fraud or for violating the
dry laws, but tax evasion was Scar
face Al's Waterloo.
His notoriety reached a climax
during the trial and in subsequent
months when he languished in At
lanta prison. But there were ru-
mors of an escape plot and the
charge (Which reached congress)
that Capone was given special IA
vors at Atlanta.
So one dark night in August, 1884,
a heavily barred railroad car
slipped into the prison siding. At
midnight the great Capone and So
other dangerous prisoners were
hurried away. A few days later
they were safely stored away in
AlcatraZ.
The beer baron died that day.
When they release him this month,
he'll just be plain Mr.. Alphonse
Capone.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-11-16
A Quiz With Answers
Offering Information
on Various Subjects

things for himself and use his own
initiative.
9. Brazil, 1925, 319 square miles,
is larger than the United States,
3 $685. 89 square miles.
10. Small spiders found in the
Himalaya mountains at an alti-
tude of more than %, 900 feet. They
live on broken rocks, surrounded
only by ice and snow and nearly
a mile above the last vegetation
or animal life. How they subsist
is unknown.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-11-16

tened to the mine itself by the an
tenna. If a boat strikes either the
mine case or the antenna, the
charge is fired.
Both the British and Nazis have
thick mine fields in the North sea,
though no one knows how many
have been laid. In the World war
British and American boats plant
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-11-16

ed about 10000 of them in this
area, giving German U-boat crews
a bad case of filters. After the
war, Germans admitted % of their
subs had been sunk by mines.
Battleships are sometimes DAM
aged severely by mines but their
thick plates and water-tight COM
partments usually offer protection.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-11-16

on has lost face among Windy Citi-
ans. When he steps from Terminal
island correctional prison at San Pc
dro, Calf, this month, there will be
few to cheer, sigh or groan.
Underworld Has Passed.
Not even the underworld will call
a holiday, because Chicago's under
world isn't what it used to be. More
over the mugs who once worked
for Scarface Al have heard stories
about him.
First there's that paresis report
the story that Al is suffering from
decay of the brain tissues and con-
sequently has been deranged to
dangerous" extent one week in
four. Then there's his reputation
as a model prisoner at Alcatraz,
which is anathema for a gangster's
reputation. One story says this for
mer enemy of society has SUBJ
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-11-16
Missionaries Were Valuable.

Hawaiians and guarded them
against exploitation by others.
Missionaries Were Valuable.
These missionaries were good
Americans, but they made no at
tempt to bring about annexation of
the islands to the United States.
They did, however, give the Hawai-
ian government every possible as
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-19
SPAN. FORCES BEING SENT
 NEW FRONTS
Madrid Troops Are Dis. patched to CafaIon-
 ian Battlefield

HENDAYE, Jan. 19-Catalonian militiamen today fought off Insur- gent thrusts in the mountains west of Barcelona while the Government sought to run the Naval blockade and rush endorsements from the Ide and Madrid fronts.
 Twelve thousand Madrid troops, the first contingent of 6000O, and geographically divided and the Gov ernment hopes to shift the hard pressed Catalonian fronts.
 Advices reaching the French from tier said Government troops em- parked last night at Valencia and others are expected to leave short ly.
 An undetermined number of In- surgent warships. three of which yesterday shelled the Government lines northeast of Tarragona, have been ordered to intercept the trans fer of Government troops.
 The manpower on the Catalonia front is about evenly divided, it is said, 100000 each, but the Insur- gents have the advantage of planes, artillery and other equipment.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-19
5LIp.Up BREAKS RED TAPE
 ON BIGGEST STORY OF NAVY
By PRESTON GROVER

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. - Con- gress was barely in its seat this ses- sion when 1t was startled by one of the most amazing slips of years the accidental, premature publica- tion of the Navy's plan for extend ing its fortified zone right up to the Japanese door step.
 For a foreign spy to have gath cred this advance information on what the Navy hopes to do in the Pacific and around the Canal Zone would have assured him at least a stiff raise in pay. Now the whole thing can be had for perhaps a dime-the price isn't set yet-from the Government printing office.
 The report told of the Navy's hopes for building 25 new bases for planes, submarines, destroyers and mines over a zone that encom- passed half the Pacific Ocean and all of the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.
 It told of the number of air. planes and men advisable for each
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-19
Evade Sfaie
 Tax,5piking
 0fNear Beer

BISMARCK, N. D., Jan. 19.-Neal beer spiked with grain alcohol has become so popular with North Da- kotans as beverage that state off, ficials are going to ask the legisla- ture to tax it.
 Director A. J. Gerlach of the state regulatory department said consum- CTS are buying near beer at 10 cents a pint instead of real beer at l5 cents and then fortifying the non- intoxicating malt with grain alcohol which retailers and wholesalers are selling lat almost cost price"
 He said the practice is com pletely disrupting the North Dakota liquor market and routine operation of the tax system"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-19
ApAp Passes
 Up Dividend

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 19-Dir- ectors of Alaska Packers Associa- ton voted at their January meet ing to pass the quarterly dividend which normally would have been payable February 10.
 The company has paid $1 share quarterly since May 10, last. prior to whcih time quarterly rate of $2 a share had been maintained since February 1885.
 No announcement was made as to the reason for passing the cur rent payment, but the move is thought to be to conserve cash be- cause of the uncertain outlook in the food packing industry.
 The company is subsidiary of California Packing Corporation.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-19
Roosevelt Asks Congress 10 Bring Salaries Under
 Income Tax Law
NO MORE TAX FREE
 FEDERAL SECURITIES
States Would Benefit by Reciprocal Features of
 Presidents Plan

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-Presi- dent Roosevelt today urged Congress to make all private income from all Government salaries and all future Government securities subject to the general income tax laws of Federal and States governments.
 Federal tax officials estimated Federal reevnue would increase as a result as much as $300,000,000 an- nually. State governments also would benefit by large revenue in- creases from reciprocal authority given them to tax Federal salaries and bonds.
 In a special message the Presi- dent also advised Congress that re- cent Supreme Court decisions made some State securities subject to taxes and asked legislation to pre- vent persons whose income is thus taxed retroactively from suffering inequalities.
 MT. Roosevelt said immunities granted the income from Govern ment securities and employment were mot memorable requirements of the Constitution but the result of judicial decision"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-19
PRESIDENT ASKS FOR CONTINUANCE
 COIN AUTHORITY
Extension of Governments 5 StdbiIizdtion Fund
 Is Requested

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-Presi- dent Roosevelt has asked Congress to extend for two years authoriza- tion of the Governments stabiliza- ton fund, also the Presidents power to change the value of the dollar. such authority expiring June 30.
 The White House announces the request is made on recommenda- tion of Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau.
 The President said the existence of these powers enables the United States to safeguard the Ma tions interest to carry forward the International monetary economic cooperation"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-19
DAVIS FLOODS HOUSE CLERKS
 IN MEMORIALS
Also Introduces Bill 10 Make Territorial Office
 Purchase at Bid

Representative James V. Davis took Speaker Lyng and his hurry up" talk to heart, it would appear, for Davis must have broken some sort of record today when he intro duced seven memorials, one resolu- tion and one bill on the House floor.
 The bill, House Bill No. 16, intro duced by Davis, is potent. It is an act that would provide for obtain ing bids and awarding contracts for all purchases in excess of $50 made in behalf of the Territory.
 Under the measure, all Territor- ial offices would have to submit bids in writing for purchases be- tween $50 and $1,000, and would have to publish bids in sums great CT than $1,000.
 An exemption clause would make the law inapplicable to common carriers, specifically. boats, air. planes and busses.
 Estate Escheatment
 The only other bill introduced today in the House was by Repre- sentative Rogge of Fairbanks, made with regard to escheat of certain estates in Alaska.
 Under the act, proceeds of sale at public auction by the Territorial Treasurer, of property of estates unclaimed for seven years, would revert to the Territory, bank bal ances included.
 The memorials and resolution by Davis, cover a wide variety of subjects.
 House Joint Resolution No. l, introduced by Davis, calls for a charwoman and janitor to be named by the Governor for tidying the House chambers.
 House Joint Memorial No A., memorializes Congress, the Biolo- gical Survey. the Bureau of Fish cries and Delegate Anthony J. Di- mond with regards to sea otter.
 The memorial says sea otter now number around 1000 in the Aleu- tian Islands Refuge, and that this once near extinct fur bearer is gradually coming back into it's own,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-19
ATTEMPT ON LIFE OF SON OF BRIT. PREMIER
Frank Chamberlain Near Victim of Bomb Plot in
 TraIee, Ireland

TRALEE, Ireland, Jan. 19.-Po- lice have doubled guard over Frank Chamberlain, 25-year-old son of the British Premier, after an apparent attempt to take his life by bombing
 Explosion of the bomb damaged the hotel at which Chamberlain was a guest but he was not injured
 The explosion shattered hundreds of windows and blew hole eight feet in diameter in the wall enclos- ing the hotel yard.
 Several persons in nearby build ings were shaken from their beds.
 The bomb exploded shortly after the breakfast hour.
 Immediately following the explo- sion police became active and the force of Uniformed Irish Civil Guards began dogging Chamber lain's footsteps in this stronghold of the outlawed Irish Republican Army which is blamed for series of explosions in England and Scot
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-19
Long Fight
 preditfed,
 China War
Ambassador Johnson Also Says Bombing Does
 Not Win Conflicts

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-Nelson T. Johnson, American Ambassador to China, told reporters today, be- fore conferring with President Roose- welt, that the "Sino-Japanese war has proved beyond a doubt that bombing from the air does not win war"
 Ambassador Johnson also reiterat- ed his prediction that the conflict in China will continue for a long time. He also said he found the Chinese morale high and they were full of hope for the future"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-19
Sitka and Kodiak Recom- mended for Enlarge
 ment for Air Fleets
PACIFIC ISLANDS ARE
 RECOGNIZED IN PLANS
Authority for Proposa als Have Sanction of Pres
 ent Administration

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. - Legislation to authorize dozen new bases for the Navy, includ- ing an air and submarine base in the Island of Guam, has been introduced by the Naval Com mittee Chairmen of the Senate and House with the approval of the Administration.
 The Navy proposes only to do some harbor dredging on the Is- land of Guam and will not con- struct bases for air and submar- inc fleets before 1942.
 The bill also authorizes the Navy to establish or expand ex- isting facilities at Kodiak and Sitka, in Alaska; Kane0ne Bay and Pearl Harbor, Honolulu; Midway and Wake Islands. in the Pacific, also Johnston and Palmyra Islands; San Juan in Puerto Rico, and Pensacola and Jacksonville, Florida.
 Facilities are recommended to accommodate "occaGi0na1 heavy overload" at Sitka and for three patrol squadrons at Kodiak.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-19
FOR RELIEF
 AND BLAME5 WIFE

NEWTON ROAD, B. C., Jan. 19.- Because his wife would not support him, E. c. Elliott has applied for re- lief. Elliott came here a year ago from Ontario. Soon after he arrived he inserted the following advertise ment in local newspaper:
 "An educated man wishes to meet refined widow with means"
 The advertisement was answered and the marriage took place. Now Elliott has applied for relief be- cause, he claims, his wife will not support me as she promised"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-19
TRANSATLANTIC
 AIR SERVICE E TO
 BE 5TARTED SOON
French Permit, for Six Months, Granted 10
 American Lines

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-The State Department announces that the French Government has grant, ed the United States a six months permit for one or more American Air Transport Companies to operate 8 Transatlantic air service to France to carry passengers, mail and goods.
 The Pan American Airways and American Export Airlines are two of the companies mentioned as plan ming the service.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-19
Desperate Fighting Is Re- ported Especially in
 Shansi Province
SEVERAL CITIES ARE
 RETAKEN BY DEFENDERS
Hundreds Are Killed Along Borders in Attacks
 by GueriIIds

SHANGHAI, Jan. 19-The Chi nese are reported continuing their gains in desperate fighting in the southwest of Shansi Province.
 The Chinese have retaken Siah- sien, in the south central part and also derailed two Japanese military trains with fatal results.
 Gains and advances are also re- ported around Haouma and Kuwo
 The Chinese authorities also claim 1900 Japanese have been killed in guerilla attacks along the Kisngsi Hupen and Human Province borders
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-19
CCC pERMANENCY
 E RECOMMENDED
Direefor Feehner Also Asks Personnel Be Placed
 Under Civil Service

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-kobeft Fechner. Director of the Civilian Conservation Corps, has recom- mended to Congress to make the organization permanent.
 Director Fechner also asked that his salary be raised from $l0.000 to s12,000 and the Administrative per- sonnel be placed under the Civil Service.