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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-14
Fisherman Caughf;;Lei
 off Easily
CoIumnisi and Friend Nab
 bed, Angling in Clos | ed Season
Rx GEnRGE TICKER

NEW YORK, Feb, 14-That little fishing trip which I have been look ing forward to with so much pleas ure has ended rather abruptly. l was arrested for fishing out of sea- son and fined $25l0. We were fishing through the ice. We hadn t been on the ice more than half an hour when the warden came. But at that time were lucky, because you could be fined $50 for every fish taken-and we didn't have any fish
 This, may I hasten to explain, was more luck than lack of skill
 We did have a fish. Just one. As II said, we hadn't been there more than half an hour. When you fish through the ice, you dig a trap in the. ice and put the caught fish in there A trap is hollow basin scooped out of the ice and filled
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with water. Fish will live fer day in an icc trap
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C. D. A. Groups
 Plan Gatherings

A business meeting was held last night at the Parish Hall by members of the Catholic Daughters of America, presided over by Mrs. George Shaw.
 Announcement was made that the sewing circle will hold meeting tomorrow afternoon at the Gold Street home of Mrs. J. K. McAlister. At 1:30 o'clock dessert luncheon will be served and hostess for the occasion will be Mrs. Irene Martin.
 The afternoon sewing club will gather Monday at 2 o'clock for session at the home of Mrs. Wal ter Hellan on Distin Avenue.
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MARINE NEWS
STEAMER MOVEMENTS

!. ss ss Q NORTBBOTND
 c Taku scheduled to arrive Sat @ urday morning. . SCHEDULED SAILINGS 0 Northland scheduled to sail c from Seattle February l6 at 6 10 a. m 0 Yukon scheduled to sail from
 0 Seattle February IT at 9 a. c m Q Tongass scheduled to sail from 6 Seattle February 20 at p. c m. Q Princess Louise is scheduled to e sail from Vancouver Febru-
 e ary 20 at g p. m.
 0 SOUTHBOUND SAILINGS c North Coast scheduled to ar Q rive from Sitka Thursday c night and sails south Friday 0 morning. Q Alaska scheduled southbound Q next Monday.
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with water. Fish Will I've 4of caJS in an icc trap.
 My friend and companion in crime. enc Harrison Wood, had maie the uap, and by a rather lucky &C., c-dcut his pick slipp d and he hacked a hclo in the boticm Of the trap. Net knowing this, I seized the first fish caught and heaVed him into the trap. think tl.s fish must have heard the w3rden com ing. As he hit the trap he fhpped himself around. leered at me once, and disappeared through the hcle in the bottom.
 T. was precisely at this juncture that the warden arrived He droTe up and briskly climbed cut cf his car. Well he said "do you know what I'm going to do?' We had a gcod idea, but we didn't want to commit ourselves, SC we said, What Sir?" And he replied, I'm going to pull you in. I'm going tc take you down and let you tell it to the Judge"
 So we gathered all the equipment and got into the car and followed him on down to the town at the bcttcm of the hill. The Judge was a good skate. He was store-keep- [ CT toe. During the hearing he sud- denly excused himself and went in- to the store. A customer wanted three cans of condensed milk. A few minutes later another customer came in and asked for a pound of coffee and about four weenies. :" These were the only Interruptions there were, and so the papers were made out and we pleaded Guilty, but may I explain, and the Judge very courteously said Certainly, sir" So he listened patiently until all the explanations were over, and then he answered us in very sym pathetic and quiet voice, showing us how in error we were, and then he said $"25 To-"
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SENTENCE IS
 EXTRA LONG

PADUCAH, Ky. Feb. 14.-A negro complained to City Judge Rex Corn ellison tn a his daughter -in-law knocked down his door with bricks, "cussed' him out and stole his shot gun. He told the judge he never wanted to see her again. So Judge Cornelison put the woman under $10O peace bond, instructing her never to return to her father-in- laws home until Judgment Day"
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N0DTNl AND MAN
 10 VISIT HERE

Walter J. Manahan, Assistant Manager of the Northland Trans portation Company is a passenger on the North Coast and visited in Juneau on his way 10 Sitka.
 Manahan will return here with the North Coast and stop off for a sew days.
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LOCAL SAILINGS

g Estebeth scheduled to sail every Q Wednesday at 6 p. m. for Sit c Ia and wayports. c Dart leaves every Wednesday e at a. m. for Petersburg. Port c Alexander, Rake and way
 Q ports.
 , os
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BOuND FOB STATES

MT. and Mrs. Edgar Clausen and Edith Clausen are passengers south on the Mount Mckinley for two months in the States which will include motor tour across the country. Clausen is manager of the store of the Northern Com mercial Company at Fairbanks.
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LAW RESTS

HOUSTON, Tex, Feb, 1l Assist ant District Attorney A. c. Win born, known to his colleagues as The Sage of Cypress Creek" dis missed a criminal complaint against woman.
 Here is what he wrote: "This defendant has been tried in an- other land-the court above the sun-where the poor are made rich and the weak are made strong; where the oppressor's rod IS broken and all earthly distractions fade away She has departed this life"
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CapT. G5ISTAFS6N
 RETURNS 10 WORK

Capt Gus Gustafscn. skipper of the motorship Estebeth. returned on the North Coast last night af- ter visiting in the States.
 For the past two months, Capt. Gustafson has been visiting Tacoma relatives.
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First of Washington bigwigs to receive a marriage proposal in this, a leap year, Senator Rush D. Holt of West Virginia holds the greeting card and offer of marriage he received in his Wash ington office. Remembering that 1e40 is a campaign year, also, Holt will stick to political rather
 than marital battles.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-07-25

Miss Mary Majerle Exchanges
Vows With III. Hendrickson
Saturday Morning.

Miss Mary Majerle, daughter OF Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Majerle, was united
IN marriage TO Hugo Hendrickson,
Soudan, son of Mr. and Mrs Richard
Hendrickson. also Of Soudan, in a cere-
mony performed in the parsonage OF
st. Anthony's Catholic church. Saturday
morning at II O'Clock, by the Rev.
Frank Mihelcic
The bride was attired in blue suit
with white accessories, and wore 3
corsage Of white roses. She was at
tended by Miss Julia Majerle, her
sister, who was gowned in a dusty rose
colored suit with white accessories.
She wore a corsage Of pink roses and
lilies Of the valley. Edwin KosIakie-
wicz, Duluth, brother-in-Iaw Of the
groom, was best man
A wedding dinner and supper we're
served at the home OF the brides
parents, following which the newly
weds left an a weekend wedding trip
to Duluth and the Twin Cities. They
are residing at Soudan where the groom
is employed by the Oliver Iron Mining
company.
Out-of-town guests present az the
wedding included the groom's parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hendrickson; Mr.. and
Mrs. Koslakiewicz, waino and Elmer
Peterson, Detroit, uncles Of the groom;
Mr.. and Mrs. Erick Kukkla, Sandstone.
grandparents Of the groom. and Harold
Hendrickson, Soudan. his brother
The bride is graduate OF the Ely
schools in 1896 and for the past year
has been employed in Detroit.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-07-25
ON WILDLIFE
FILMING TRIP
So Canoeists on Weeks Trip
Through Quetico to Take
Pictures of Moose.

A party Of SO persons, headed by
Milton Yielding, Birmingham. Alabama.
department store executive, are making
weeks canoe trip into the Quetico
Park TO take pictures of wild life. They
will return Saturday.
The members Of the party, which are
being guided by Steve Moravitz, are
especially anxious TO secure pictures Of
moose. They are making the trip in
ten canoes.
Yielding, accompanied by w. Emmett
Perry, also of Birmingham, arrived here
Saturday by plane from the Alabama
city. He is the gentleman who wrote
to the Commercial club a week and q
half ago TO secure information on air
port facilities here.
Yielding, who has a two-place Mono
coupe, remarked that Ely has a fine
landing field, but suggested that it be
given more publicity. He said that he
had many friends in Birmingham who
owned ships, and who also were fond
Of good fishing, who would take ad-
vantage of the combination Of plane
facilities and angling waters if they
knew about them.
The party included 80 boys, under
the leadership of Homer l. Thomas,
from Camp Wininepp, Eagle River,
Wis. All are from Birmingham
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-07-25
50 Attend Barbecue
Held at Camp OliUer

Tmrty-eight persons were guests al
Camp Oliver on White Iron lake at a
barbecue given Tuesday evening by
Mr.. and Mrs. D. B. Oliver, Chicago, and
Mr.. and Mrs Joe Oliver, Racine, Wis.
The affair is an annual event for the
Ely friends of the divers, who have
been mentioning at the same spot for
ten years. A Bingo game and bonfire
were enjoyable features Of the evening s
entertainment.
Those present included Mr. and Mrs.
John Buccowich. Mr.. and Mrs. John
Dragavon. John Mayerle, Ray Hoefler,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Rikhus, Albert Russ,
Joe @zeppy' Lanfranchi. Mr. and Mrs.
Levi Saari and son, Jimmy, Jack Stark
man, Miss Katherine Kapsch, Mr.. and
Mrs. B. J. Agnew, Miss Rose Koshak
Mrs. Stuart Schaefer, Mrs. Joseph
Stou, Paul Buccowich, Jr., Miss Kath-
crime Buccowich, W. A. Hanson, A. L.
Hassel, Fred Childers, Jr., A. j. Sla-
bodnik, Patrick Markovich, Mrs. Joe
Markovich, Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Bucco-
wich and A. z. Unger.
Also present were Mr.. and Mrs. VIII
liam Burley. Louis Lundstedt, Mr.. and
Mrs. c. E Lytel, and R. II. Hauch and
son, Dick, all of Burley Park
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Committee to Establish Two
Harbors Headquarters at
Agate Bay Hotel.

A large delegation from the Ely Loya,
Order Of Moose will go to Two Harbors
Friday and Saturday, to promote Ely
as the 1871 state convention city
Delegates to the conclave are acting
as the convention committee and they
viii set up headquarters in the Agate
Bay hotel, Friday.
The convention starts today, but the
main attractions are scheduled for Sat
urday. On this day the new officers
will be elected and the convention city
for next year named. A mammoth
parade will be held in which the Ely
municipal band and the Legion drum
and bugle corps viii take part.
A bowling tournament, which starts
today, viii be held and a team from
here has been entered. On it are Jack
Poshak, DR.. T. Ahola, Joe Poshak, Mike
Bacher and Joe Zupancich. They viii
appear at p. m, Friday.
Although several other cities are after
the convention, Ely is believed TO have
very good chance Of securing it. APP
proximately 600 delegates annually at
tend, and this number is augmented by
members Of the various orders in the
state.
Ely, which had the convention in
1886, viii be more able to care for it
now The Community Center will be
available for use as a central meeting
place for the convention sessions and
the various committees The new lodge
rooms on Sheridan street have been
erected since the convention met here
Lyle j. Brennan vice president Of the
Third district, will be a candidate for
reelection at Two Harbors. Brennan
will serve on the convention grievance
committee, Anton A Kotchevar on the
ritualistic, and Anton Kun, Jr., on the
credentials
Paul P. Schmitz, Mooseheart, director
of enrolment, viii address an assembly
starting at 10 a. m. Friday. A luncheon
viii be held at noon, followed by q
business session at which Albert Ladner,
Mooseheart governor, will be the
speaker. The annual banquet is sched-
uled for $50 o'clock, with Senator
Henrik Shipstead giving the main ad-
dress.
A fellowship breakfast is scheduled
for $50 o'clock. Saturday morning.
A business meeting will follow, with
Charles Kennedy, regional director,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-07-25
Stay In Woods as New Garbage
Burner Gets Food They
Once Fought Over.

The bears at the Portage River CCC
camp are no more Famous 10 tour
lists, story writer's, camp members. and
local people, the bears no longer make
the camp their summer residence.
Reason for their disappearance from
the camp area is that they are getting
plenty 70 eat out in the woods, Supt.
J. W Shaw, believes. The new gar
bage incinerator, built last summer,
leaves little in the way Of food for
them TO pick up.
Old Bruno failed TO show up at al
this year, Shaw said, and apparently
this legendary animal has either gone
70 other parts or is dead
Old Bruno, huge and marked with
q wart on his nose. is responsible for
the bear-proof garbage burner. A
year ago one was built and the first
night he made known his displeasure
by wrecking it completely. Another and
stronger one was put up, which has
very effectively disposed Of both the
refuse and bears
Hanging around the camp like 50
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-07-25
School Board Makes
Application for Pilot
Training for Jaysees
Information on Facilities
Here Forwarded TO Civil
Aeronautics Board
WOULD START OCT. l
Navigation, NJ e t e o rology
Would be Taught in
Junior College.

The school board Of district No. 2
approved applying for student plot
training for the Ely Junior College az
a special meeting held Friday.
Information necessary in making the
application for the training has been
compiled and sent TO Charles z Cox.
Jr., Chicago, who is in charge OF REGION
8 for the Civil Aeronautics Board Eight
middlewestern states are included II
the region.
1t is planned 70 start the training
program during the next regular period.
which starts Oct. l, if the CAB approves
Ely as base for training pilots.
One. and possibly two, units Of ten
students each may be formed. IN
structions viii be offered only 70
Junior College students.
Data sent TO Cox included blue prints
OF the field and description OF the
physical facilities available: quaIihca-
tons Of flight operators and pilots here
and descriptions Of their ships, and an
outline Of school facilities.
II is planned 10 have teachers already
within the system take charge Of teach
ing classroom work IN navigation and
meteorology, according TO Supt. Stanley
Adkins
Blue prints of the field show that the
northwest-southeast runway Is LOO
feet long and the northeast southwest
runway is 200 feet As originally
drawn in December. 1898, the plans
called for making the former runway
2,S09 feet in length and the latter
3.O48 feet. They were to be 500 feet
wide. As now constructed they are 900
feet at their intersection and about 200
feet at their extremities.
D. A Richard, Minneapolis. flying ex-
pert for the authority, was here 4
short time ago inspecting the field. ard
at this time he indicated that Ev
had very good chance Of securing the
student training program because OF
the enlarged program now being started
by the government He said. however.
that there would have TO be some i'm
provements done To the field.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-07-25
MISS BUEScHER
WEEDS R. HALL
Married in Parsonage of M. E
Church Friday Evening by
Rev. James Dowler.

Miss Irene Buescher was married to
Russell Hall, Friday evening at o'clock
in the Methodist parsonage, with the
Rev. James z. Dowler performing the
ceremony.
Following the service dinner was
held in Vertin's cafe by the bridal party,
after which reception was conducted
at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs wilford
Buescher Mr. Buescher is a brother
Of the bride.
For the ceremony the bride was
gowned in a blue dress and wore a red
rose corsage. Mr.. and Mrs. Buescher
attended the couple. Mrs. Buescher
wore q pink dress and rose corsage.
The bride is a former resident of
Nashwauk and has been employed here
for about two years The couple are
residing on East Sheridan street. The
groom is employed in the Pioneer mine.
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Robert HOkkdnen at
Wisconsin Music Clinic.

Robert Hokkanen. representing the
Ely high school, is enrolled in the 18th
annual music clinic now in session on
the University Of Wisconsin campus at
Madison. He is member of the
clinics 300-piece "All-State" band.
Approximately $50 persons, including
400 high school students and so di-
rectors and supervisors of music from
Wisconsin and a dozen other states,
are registered in the 1910 clinic.
Sponsored by the state university
school Of music and the Wisconsin
School Music association, the clinic,
which provides study and training for
bandmasters, orchestra conductors, and
chorus leaders, is held annually for
three weeks. coming to a close this
summer on July 81.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-07-25

Mercury Scars Above so for
Five Consecutive Days to
Set Record.

After sweltering through five con-
secutiye days Of 90-degree weather, Ely
residents received a measure of relief
wednesday as the cloudy skies
blanketed out the sun.
The heat wave, which promised to
subside somewhat today, was one of
the longest on record and came within
one degree of reaching the record high
Of SO degrees recorded on Memorial day
of 1899.
While the days were nearly as hot
as those in many middlewestern cities,
nights were comparatively cool, about
10 degrees cooler than the average
throughout the middlewest.
High point was 81 degrees reached
Sunday. The average high for the past
six days was 90 degrees and the average
low, 65-3, according to records kept by
the q. s. forest service Rain during
the time measured IA Of an inch.
Following are the readings.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-07-25
TRACY HEADS
old SETTLERS
Large Attendance at the 26th
Annual Reunion Held at
Tower, Thursday.

William Tracy, now OF Minneapolis,
formerly engineer on the Duluth &
Iron Range railroad and one of the
and ont OF Ely and Tower, was elected
president Of the Vermilion Range Old
Settlers at the 18th annual reunion in
Tower, Thursday.
Other officers chosen were Herman
Olson Of Tower, first vice president;
Bruce o. Strachan, Ely, second vice
president; J. B. Pearson, Tower, sec
rotary; John Dragavon, Ely, assistant
secretary; J. o. Nike, Tower, treasurer,
and z. J. Morcom, Soudan, and Peter
Schaefer, Ely, directors, for the three
year term.
The newly elected officers will take
over after January lSt, 1871.
According to a motion made at the
meeting here in 1899, the outgoing Of
ficers and directors, who have until
the end Of this year TO serve. viii meet
shortly to talk over the adviSibility OF
having all future meetings at Tower
instead of alternating with Ely every
other year. In order to do this the
bylaws will needs be changed.
In all probability the board Of d.
rectors in setting the date for next
years meeting Will specify Saturday as
the day Of meeting. No changes in the
bylaws need be made for such a move
as the third week in July is specified,
Of which week no particular day has
been set. The suggestion of Saturday
instead Of Thursday is meeting with
popular favor. The mines do not work
on Saturday and many more would be
enabled 70 attend the annual event
One hundred and fifty names were
registered coming from all states Of
the Union. Those travelling the longest
distance were from Birmingham, Ala
bama, and Williams, Arizona. The
range towns, Duluth, Chicago, and
Michigan cities, furnished a large num-
Der at the reunion.
Following basket lunch and the
serving Of the Old Settlers tid-bit, the
booyah, j. Adam Bede, himself one of
the earliest residents of the ranges,
made the address of the day. Con-
gresham Bede called attention to the
changes that have taken place in both
humans and country since he first
came to the ranges.
A series Of land and water sports
took place at Mckinley Park where the
reunion was held
The program opened at 9 o'clock In
the morning with registration of Old
Settlers at the new municipal building
at Tower. At 1890 a parade was
formed headed by the Tower-Soudan
municipal band, of which Peter Moroui
Of this city is director, and marched
up the main street in Tower to the
monument where cars were
in waiting to take the party to Nc
Kinley Park.
1t is estimated that there were over
a thousand people at the park and the
afternoon was pleasantly spent talking
over old times, listening TO the band
and witnessing the sports program
The weather was built for the occasion
and "a good time was had by all"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-07-25
Ely Commercial Club
Push Drive to Improve
Ely Tower Highway
Plan Conference With Gov.
Stassen and State Road
Commissioner.
TOWER AIDS ELY CLUB
Civic Clubs to Petition for
Stabilized Gravel Lift
With Blacktop.

A conference with NJ ]. Hoffman,
state highway commissioner, and Gov
ernOr Harold z. StaSsen to discuss i'm.
proving the Ely-Tower road is being
arranged, Ray Hoefler, secretary of the
Ely Commercial club, reported at !
meeting Of the club, Tuesday evening.
Participating in the conference viii
be representatives Of the Ely and Tower
Commercial clubs. 4 hearing with
Hoffman, and the governor is being
sought for some time within the next
week or 10 days.
The VermiliOn range men viii ask
that the road be improved by the
construction Of stabilized lift and black
top. Various organizations in Ely and
Tower are being asked to support the
movement
Monday evening Hoefler and Waino
SOmero, city engineer, met with the
Tower club to discuss the matter.
They assured US that they will give
all the backing We want for improve
ment Of the road from Ely" Somero
told members Of the local club.
Even though Ely is the largest city
N the state not to have a concrete
connection with outside territory, the
state highway commissioner has fatty
turned down the request that the Ely
Tower road be paved. The cost in
yolved and the limited paving pro-
gram Of the department were given as
the reasons.
Improved bituminous surfacing is
being asked now as an alternative
The club discussed at length the Ely
landing field and the student pilot
training program Of the Civil Aero
nautics Board. Dr.. o. E Snyker re-
ported on the activities carried on by
private individuals in improving the
field
Hoefler stated that H r. Anderson,
st. Paul, who paid a recent visit to
Ely, reported that floating seaplane
dock. % feet by 10 feet, would be
constructed as a NYA project in st.
Paul and shipped here freight prepaid,
if the city Of Ely, or private individual
or organization. would sponsor the
placing Of the dock and put UP $50 as
its share of the project. It would be
for public use.
The club will have TO move its
ELY" sign at IIIgen City because the
state highway department has pur-
chased the land on which it is now
located for road purposes. The de-
partment allowed the club SIS.
The American-Slovene club was
granted an appropriation of 500 to-
ward the expenses of staging the state
convention of the American Yugoslav
clubs. The Girl Scouts were given their
regular appropriation Of SIS.
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Bears at Portage RiUer
CCC Camp Are No More

many dogs, the bears were very tame
and ignored the enrollees or camp visi-
tors completely. unless food was in
sight. Then they became very friend
ly and many of them would eat from
outstretched hands. Occasionally bodily
contact with them by members Of the
camp after dark scared both bears and
humans.
Here dozens Of tourists realized one
Of their greatest ambition-to see a
real live bear in the woods. Countless
picturse were taken and often the
photographers left their picture-taking
at top speed as the bears, either mott
waited by curiosity or anticipating a
handout, came at the visitors IN q
very forward manner TO say the least.
Professional writers collected material
first hand on the life and antics Of the
animals
The bears would show I'D at the
camp soon after the fishing season (fcr
them ended. Hungry and gaunt from
long winters sleep. they awoke in
early spring and made for the nearest
river where they Toasted on spawning
fish Squatting On the bank with a
huge hairy paw poised above the water.
they dipped unsuspecting fish out Of