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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-01-05
Medical Association Will
Fight u. S. Trust Charges

WASHINGTON. - An indictment
was returned here by federal
grand jury charging violation of the
antitrust laws against four organ
lied medical associations and twen-
ty-one leaders in the medical pro-
fession. The prosecution appears to
be headed for a court battle which
will go to the U. S. Supreme court.
The indictment was based on al
lege.l acts of the defendants against
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-01-05
White House

AS chief of the Works Progress
administration Harry Hopkins has
spent more money than any pre-
vious U. S. citizen, yet that was
precisely what Franklin Roosevelt
hired him to do. If this job as fed
eral Santa Claus gave Harry Hop
kins a bad name among conserva-
tive Democrats and Republicans,
the bad name grew bigger during
1885 electioneering. But the cam
paign expenditures committee Of
Texas Sen. Morris Shepard found
Harry Hopkins generally blameless
of using WPA funds for political
purposes.
Considered a spendthrifty scape-
grace, Mr.. Hopkins is to U. S. BUSH
ness what a public executioner is to
a pious churchman. With this rep
ntation it is therefore considered
bad taste and bad political judg-
ment for President Roosevelt to
name Mr.. Hopkins secretary of
commerce. Regardless of Gen.
>Ironpants" Hugh S. Johnson's opin-
ion that Mr.. Hopkins will be the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-01-05

ing. Last fall, when the European
threat first became imminent, Pres
ident Roosevelt limited at the desir-
ability of a two-ocean navy to give
our Eastern seacoast the protection
now enjoyed at our back door. At
the same time he suggested the
u. S. might enlarge its defense pro-
gram to encompass the entire West
ern hemisphere. AS the new year
started, the state departments stiff
ened attitude and Mr.. Roosevelt's
hints could be seen taking form in
smoke clouds over the Panama ca
nal.
Eastward from the Pacific came
the entire feet Except small sub
marine and destroyer squadron at
Honolulu, led from the battleship
New Mexico by Admiral Claude o.
Bloch. It's intent: To stage the first
Atlantic naval maneuvers since
1884, and the second largest in U. S.
history. From January to May 140
combatant boats will play hide-and-
seek. from Brazil to Cuba.
TIC ANNOUNCED PURPOSE .rTo af-
ford the maximum amount of feet
training, training of personnel and
tests of !: material" Added, III.
anno,inced'. purp6ses: % Tc focus
u. S. attention on naval re-
quirements while congress is de-
batting armament appropriations;
(2) to stage q show for the benefit
of any ambitious European dictator
who might be watching; (3) to court
Latin-American friendship by show
ing how Uncle Sans battlewagons
would protect South America as
well as North America.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-01-05

Either or both diseases might
break out suddenly in a city or
town, spreading from small field
animals to house rats and thence to
humans, say physicians of the U. S.
Public Health service. The cause
of such an outbreak and the disease
itself might not be recognized inn
mediately since comparatively few
physicians have ever seen a case.
Bubonic plague germs have been
spreading gradually eastward
among the ground rodents since a
1905 outbreak in San Francisco.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-01-05
Some Racial Traits

when you knock about the world,
and especially the outlying places,
you discover that certain races fol-
low definite rules when they are i'm
planted in foreign soil," declares
Isaac F. Marcosson, veteran globe
trotting journalist, in his reminis-
cences, Turbulent Years" ""The
first thing the English do is to start
a bank, the Spanish invariably build
a church, the Americans launch a
chamber of commerce or a Rotary
club, and the French open cafes.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-01-05
Transportation

Last autumn President Roose-
Velt's railroad fact-finding commit
tee ruled against wage cut to help
sorely pressed carriers on the
ground that its benefits would be
only temporary. But this did not
minimize the problem of high oper-
ating costs VS.. low income, and the
President agreed to ask congress
sional consideration for any re-
adjustment program railway man.
agement and labor might offer.
Therefore, just as congress pre-
pared to open, six-man committee
offered its plan, indirectly laying
part of the responsibility at the
Presidents own doorstep. The conn
mittee's explanation of rail trou-
bles: Q) governments favoritisni
to competitors, such as barge lines;
(2) lack of centralized transporta-
ton regulation.
The remedy: Regulation of all
forms Of transportation by (1) the
interstate commerce commission,
which would fix rates, regulate serv-
ices, valuation and accounting; and
(2) an independent transportation
board which would handle all other
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-01-05

best commerce secretary ever, po-
litical observers think the appoint
ment foreshadows a serious, perma-
nent rift between Rooseveltian
Democrats (Hopkins, Solicitor Gen
eral Jackson, Interior Secretary
Ickes, Brain Truster Corcoran) and
middle-of-the-road Democrats (Vice
President Garner, Postmaster Cen
eral Farley, Secretary of State
HulD.
A month ago, when Homer S.
Cummings retired as attorney gen.
eral, Chairman Farley warned that
his potent political organization
would be swung to one side or an
other, depending on who was named
to succeed Mr.. Cummings. By
choosing Solicitor General Bob Jack
son, President Roosevelt would
show left-wing tendencies and there
by lose Farley support. AS it hap
pened, the commerce vacancy APP
peared and was filed before Mr..
Roosevelt got around to the attorney
generalship, so this post became
the weathervane. Mr.. Farley's cur
rent opinion: That President Roose-
welt, by naming Mr.. Hopkins, is
boosting him for the presidency in
1910; that Bob Jackson, the alter
native for 1910, will be named at
torney general; that some New
Dealer, like Michigan's ex-Gov.
Frank Murphy, may get Supreme
court post. If this happens-and
the wind is now blowing in that di-
rection, Farley, Hull, Garner, ct al
will bolt from the New Deal.
Whether the President dares to
thus bite the hand that feeds him is
doubtful. Vice President Garner
carries tremendous prestige in the
South; Jim Farley runs the most
tremendous powerhouse in U. S. his
tory; Cordell Hull is the New Deals
most popular cabinet member, with
Democrats and Republicans alike.
If these men bolt, there is a posi-
bility that either 69-year-old Mr..
Garner or 67-year-old Mr.. Hull will
head a presidential ticket in 1910,
with Farley as running mate.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-01-05

the Group Health association,
medical cooperative of government
workers in the capital. The defend
ants are charged with entering a
conspiracy in restraint of trade by
preventing members of the associa-
ton from getting proper care, and
restraining Washington hospitals
from providing facilities for mem
bers of the association.
The most widely known of the 81
physicians named is DR.. Morris
Fishbein. editor of the Journal G
the American Medical Associabn7
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-01-05
ShotOs Results of Minority
Pressure From, Many Angles

I called the governors attention
that in the current fiscal year, the
national government is scheduled to
spend something like $4,000, 600, 900
whereas its income, at the most,
will hardly exceed five billions. The
observation struck fire.
"That's what you get for letting
government go into fields where it
does not belong" he shot back.
s'There you have the results of mi
nority pressure from many angles.
In my campaign last fall, / told
every audience that I had been
taught it was wrong for a candidate
to buy votes with his own money
and think it is worse to buy votes
with other peoples money or tax
payers money.
"And here is something for you
to think about: as long as you plan
on pensions or aids or security or
whatever name the thing is-if you
plan on fixed amounts to pay peo-
ple-however deserving they may
be, you are going to have pressure
for more and more. What must be
done is the nation must face the
facts-call this stuff what it is-call
it charity, and make it unpopular.
Unless you do, the thing that faces
this country is huge population of
panhandlers."
Within a few days after Governor
Cochran's visit, word was given out
at the White House that President
Roosevelt will send special mes
sage to congress early in the new
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-01-05
Plaques Threaten Health
Of the American People

Typhus fever and bubonic plague,
two of the devastating diseases of
medieval Europe, are still threats
to the health of the American peo-
pie.
The germs which cause them are
still lurking in the blood Of rats and
wild ground rodents, such as squir-
rels, and can be carried by the fieas
or other insects which bite them to
man.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-01-05

session, asking that the social Sc
curity act be broadened to cover
more people. The act, as it stands,
was described as having many in
equities, many injustices, and it
might have been added safely that
it contains many impossibilities
Senator Vandenberg, Michigan Re-
publican, long has complained about
some of these and he has urgently
called for amendment of the laws
provision that would set up "re-
serve fund" This reserve fund, cal
culated to reach the fantastic figure
of SAT 900, 900, 900, eventually, is sup
posed to be invested and the interest
from that investment is supposed
to be enough to pay the old age
pensions, etc.
Social Security Money Goes
Into Treasury General Fund
The Michigan senator repeatedly
has sought information from the So
called experts as to how this money
could be invested in government Sc
curities, and has had no answer.
The truth is that there has been no
cash reserve set up at all. The
money paid in for social security
tax has gone into the treasury's
general funds to be appropriated
and spent like any other dollars.
And the further truth is that if
there had to be full payment now,
congress would have to appropriate
other money to pay it.
There is no way to forecast what
is going to come out of the congress
on the Presidents projected propos-
al. In some quarters, one hears
declarations that congressional in
vestigation of the whole cobwebby
situation is the only way to arrive
at firm foundation. Other places
are sources for observations to the
effect that the federal government
can not handle charity or pensions
or assistance matters of any kind
without sinking fumes coming
therefrom. Besides all of these, the
experts in the field of social science
and the inner circle of radicals who
originally conceived the gigantic So
cial security program will tell you
in most convincing way that the
federal government can not shirk
its duty to the destitute. From their
standpoint getting the money to
make the payments is the easiest
part of the whole job.
Adverting again to what may
come from the all of the discussion
concerning social security, one can
not ignore the possibility of whole
sale revision of the law so that
fixed monthly sum will be paid to
persons attaining some stated adj
vanced age. There were too many
members of the house and too many
members of the senate elected last
November after having limited they
were favorable to such a course
when they were hunting for votes.
AS matter of fact, there are prob
ably about 100 house members who
pledged themselves outright to vote
some type of Townsend plan or who
said they would support a modifica-
ton of the present law to provide
early and large cash payments.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-01-05

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, 1939-01-05
Defense

The satisfaction of U. S. speech
makers from denouncing Nazi Ger
many is equalled only by Nazi Ger
many's satisfaction in making re-
ply. Yet each outburst and retort
invites wider rupture of the already
strained German-American diplo-
matte relations, started during No
vember when each nation withdrew
its ambassador over the Jewish per-
secution issue. Returning from Eu-
rope just as protests and replies
were charging from Berlin to Wash
ington and back, Illinois Sen. ].
Hamilton Lewis commented that the
u. S. must stop its "hate wave"
against European dictatorship, must
instead substitute peace through
Cancellation and conference.
What prompted Mr.. Lewis state
ment was the remark week earlier
by Secretary of the Interior Harold
S. Ickes, to the effect that Henry
Ford and Col. Charles A. Lindbergh
should be ashamed to accept a
decoration at the hand of brutal
dictator (Hitler), who with the same
hand, is robbing and torturing thou
sands of human beings" Result was
a German protest, followed by the
state departments refusal to apollo
gize. This latter action was con-
trasted with the hasty apology last
spring when New York's Mayor FL
orella LaGuardia similarly cursed
Nazidom. It's significance: That the
u. S. has decided to handle Adolf
Hitler with boxing gloves, not kid
gloves.
Such a revolutionary diplomatic
stand requires military-naval back
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-01-05
News Analysis
Farley-G arner-HuU Alliance
Arises to Plague White House
By Joseph w. La Bine-
BY Joseph w. La Bine-

regulations. Also recommended Is
a federal transportation court to
handle reorganization plans.
In addition, the committee offered
four other complaints which could
be remedied by legislation. It asked
removal Of restrictions on RIG
loans to carriers, repeal Of the
long-and-short haul rate clauses
(Which prevents rails from charg-
ing lower rate for a long haul
than for short haul over the same
route in the same direction), elimi-
nation of low rates for government
freight, and Discrimination of gov
ernment-operated barge lines.
Briefly, carriers want less red
tape and more efficient government
regulation over their industry.
Against President Roosevelt's prob
able approval Of the general pro-
gram, observers stack Montana's
Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, chairman
of the interstate commerce commit
tee.
Chief comments to date come
from President John J. Policy of
the Association of American Rail-
roads, who calls the report "the
most comprehensive and construc-
tive ever made" and President AL
exander F. Whitney of the Broth
erhood of Railway Trainmen. The
Whitney opinion: cts just another
smoke screen to tickle the public
Chin
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-01-05

ITALY'S COUNT CLANO
For the cause, or for Italy?
movement; if he loses, the anxious
Balkans will line up with Western
democracies.
For Great Britain and France, who
also covet Balkan friendship, mes
siah has appeared in Grigore Ga
fencu, 47-year-old World war fier
named as Rumanian foreign min
lister. Once an influential Bucharest
newspaper man, Gafencu has long
advocated closer cooperation
among Yugo-Slavia, Hungary and
Bulgaria, thereby averting depend
ency on either Germany or Italy.
Germany
Since German policies began an
tagonizing world democracies, the
obvious prediction has maintained
that German foreign trade would
suffer. It then follows that Ger
many must increase her domestic
production to become independent
of foreign imports. The difficulty OF
the task was first emphasized in
late November when Col. Won Schen
was named general plenipotenti-
airy" of the automobile industry to
speed production and standardized
ton, and institute necessary eco
nomic measures. A few days later
DR.. Karl LANCE was given similar
powers over Germany's machine in
dustry. Next came DR.. Fritz Todt
as general plenipotentiary'' in
charge of all road building.
Such industrial "czarships" smell
amazingly like communistic Rus
sia's commisar system, and the idea
was probably borrowed from that
good neighbor. To give the entire
system added impetus, DR.. Walther
Funk, salesman-like economics min
lister, has been named car of all
German industry, with supervision
over Herren Won Schell, LANCE and
Todt.
Always closely supervised, Ger
man industry will now feel official
domination even more severely.
How an apparently communistic
method of industrial overlordship
will work in a nation which still
supports private enterprise, remains
to be seen.
Germany's foreign trade has SUI
fered. In 1887 Germany built up a
favorable balance of $168, 900, 600. In
1888 this was wiped out and imports
were SIS, Zoo, 900 more than exports.
Great Britain
A solidifed empire is the United
Kingdoms goal since Nazi-F ascist
states began threatening her posi-
ton. Among the empires weakest
features is the string of miscel-
laneous possessions centering in the
Caribbean sea, who individually and
collectively have thus far received
too little attention from London.
One of them, Jamaica, recently
heard agitation for annexation by
the U. S. Still more recently it was
suggested that Great Britain might
pay its $4,000, 900, 900 war debt by
ceding her Caribbean islands to
the u. S.
Belatedly recognizing some valu-
able property, London now proposes
to group all the West Indies into a
new dominion. It's composite parts:
British Honduras, Bahamas, Jamai-
ca, Leeward islands, Windward is
lands, Barbados, Trinidad, British
Guiana, Kingston, centrally located
capital of Jamaica, would be do
rnlrion headquarters.
The United Kingdoms new en-
pire would include 100000 people,
mostly descendants of one-time Ne
gro slaves, who depend chiefly on
agriculture. Main trouble point the
past year has been Kingston, where
a royal investigating commission
was recently welcomed by a strike
of gas workers, throwing the entire
city into darkness.
Evening star., 1939-04-19
Three D. {. Fighters
Remain in Junior
A. A. U. Tourney
Topp Scores in Upset;
France, Mayo Beaten;
Two Drow Byes

PHILADELPHIA, April 19.-
Three Washington amateurs re-
mained in the running for National
A. A. U. junior boxing Champion
ships as the field moved into the
second round today.
George Calvin, 175-pounder, and
Billy Kekeris, 147-pounder, ad-
vanced automatically after draw
ing byes, but Willie Tapp, the Dis
trict's 118-pound standard bearer,
moved up the hard way. Tapp
scored an upset victory at the ex-
pense of Johnny Beaton, highly
regarded ringman from Trenton,
N. j.
Whitley France, District light
weight, and Gilbert Mayo, Alex
andrian, also entered in the 1885,
pound class, were less fortunate.
France dropped a close decision to
Johnny Noce, Philadelphia cham
pion, while Mayo was outpointed
by Frank Dobinson of Oil City, Pa.
Pennsylvanians dominated the
preliminaries, winning 13 of l8
bouts. Six were native Philadel-
phians. The survivors included Sal
vatore Tornabene, 112, New York;
Louis Dewey, 118, Youngstown,
Ohio; Carl Hilger, l60, Dallas, Tex,
and Wallace Gross, heavyweight,
East Orange, N. j.
Four Virginians fell by the way
in the preliminaries, one, Charles
Sloan of Roanoke, losing by tech
nical knockout at the hands of EN-
NETT Coffey of Pittsburgh in SIS
seconds of the first round.
Evening star., 1939-04-19
Montgomery County
Horse Show Slated
For September

SANDY SPRING, Nd, April 49,
Josiah J. Hutton. jr.. president;
Mahlon Kirk, vice president; Robert
H. Miller, jr., secretary. and Stanley
P. Stabler, treasurer, were reelected
at the annual meeting here of the
Montgomery County Horse Show AS
sociation.
They and the following, who also
were reelected. compose the coun-
Gil: Frederick Gilpin, DR.. Herman H
Ladson. Elbin Leishear, Eli Leishear
and Charles T. Nicholson. Dean
Acheson. who was instrumental in
organizing the association nine years
ago, was continued honorary member
of the council.
It was decided to hold the annua,
horse and pony show on the farm
of T. A. Barnesley. near Olney, Sat-
urday, September 9. Committees will
be named and other plans for the
show furthered at the June meeting
Of the association, it was stated.
The treasurer reported a substan-
tial balance.
Evening star., 1939-04-19
Takoma Rollers Hold
Calcium Tonight in
City Tourney
Northern Busmen Move
To Top in Glass c
As Event Opens

Takoma bowlers led by Red
Megaw and Dutch Sherbahn are
likely to furnish the top action in
the Washington City Duckpin Asso-
citation championships at Columbia
tonight.
Sherbahn, who reached the peak
Of a long career with a seasons
average of 120 in the Takoma Duck
pin Association League recently, will
be among the few bidding for the
Class A singles title. Also among
the field of 40 singles shooters taking
the drives at 7:30 will be Bob Chal-
fonte, now a Glass A bowler, who
once was a member of John Blicks
Arcadia Peewees.
Northern Bus Takes Lead.
The pennant-winning Takoma
Billiards and the runner-up Young
blood Hardware teams promise to
gather the naples in flocks when
team action starts at 8. A squad of
"a two-man teams will roll doubles
at TO-
The 29th annual tournament got
underway last night with Northern
Bus. of the Capital Transit League
gaining first place in the Glass C
team competition with 1893. Bob
Gamers 375 and Phil (Paddles)
Throckmorton's 372 were timely wal
lops. Bill Jones 375 was a potent
count as the Primary Control team
moved to the front in Glass D with
1,640. A 1893 gave Cartographic
No. 2 team the lead in Glass E. B.
Bracht's 354 led the Soil Conserya-
ton League outfit.
ThrOckmorton and Perce LaWhorn
with combined 682-set moved tc
the top in Class B doubles.
Booher High Man.
Charles Booher was the star of the
first nights rolling when he cracked
down for 403 set in doubles. He
paired with Dan Radice of the
Home Owners Loan League to grab
first place in Glass c with 1913. The
Lawhorn boys had big night when
Sidney, paired with Garner in Glass
c doubles. rolled 379 as his share OF
a 703 count. Sidney also coppeo
game honors with 1856.
L. Corbin and L. Eliff took the
Glass D doubles lead with 67l. j
Boyer and E. Tamagni topped the
Glass E doubles with Cos.
Perce Elicit, association president
opened the tournament by rolling
the first ball.
Evening star., 1939-04-19
Pawson Well Backed
To, Retain Title in
Hub Marathon
BY the Associated Press.


BOSTON, April 19.-Leslie Paw
son, the Pawtucket, R. l., alderman,
who runs, reigned the favorite today
as 215 plodders toed the mark in
suburban Hopkinton for the start OF
Boston's 43d annual marathon.
Pawson, defending champion and
holder of the 2.31O1ss record for the
26-mile 385-yard course, dominated
the pack and got the nod from the
veteran Clarence Demar, 50-year -old
Keene, N. H., printer, who has won
the grind seven times in 20 starts, as
we'll as from other marathon ex-
perts.
Demar will have a large number of
the expected half million crowd along
the route cheering him on but barring
upsets, he was given only an outside
chance to win again.
The other outstanding favorites
were Pat Dengis, Baltimore airplane
mechanic, who finished second to
Pawson last year: Johnny Kelley of
Arlington, 1885 winner; Ellison (Tar-
zan) Brown, the Narragansett In
dian from Alton, r. l.; Walter
Young, Verdun, Quebec, policeman,
and Garry Cote of St. Hyacinthe,
Quebec, eighth last year.
Evening star., 1939-04-19
Departmental Mines
Drill for Opening
Game Saturday

With the Weatherman's assistance,
Veterans Administration and Rail-
way Mail Clerks teams hoped to get
in some badly needed practice today
in preparation for Saturdays De-
partmental League inaugural.
Open ceremonies will be staged on
the east Ellipse diamond with an
official from the Post Office Depart
ment to toss in the ball. The Ma
tional Training School Band will
enliven the proceedings.
Manager Dwight Yates of the
Veterans nine, will send either
Charley Gatewood or Sam Tytelman
to the mound, while Bob Johnson,
pilot of the opposing nine, will call
on either Hof or Bolsted, both new
comerS to the five-team circuit.
Railway Clerks, incidentally, will de-
fend the title they won last season.