The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-04-18
SOUIBs OVERSEAS:

SOUIBS OVERSEAS:
Holland is shipping valuable art
objects and pictures to peaceful
Portugal. Twenty paintings arrived,
from a Dutch plutocrat in Amster-
dam, to brighten up Lisbon.
George vi, King of England and
Kaisar of India, announced that his
old military uncle got the Canadian
job. John Buchan, novelist, had
died, and that left the Ottawan gov
ernor-generalship wide open. I'm
Gle, a bald Buchmanite, took the
vacancy by storm. He is well-liked,
on the whole. His full name runs:
Alexander Augustus Frederick Will
liam Alfred George Cambridge, first
lord of Athlone.
Some SO French parliamentary
deputies, with communist views, got
five-year jail terms, fines, loss Of
civil rights, and there was serious
talk about the death penalty for red
propaganda in Paris. Night-invasion
of private houses, hitherto banned,
now was permitted to the police.
Fritz Thyssen, big German Rhen-
ish industrialist, who financed Hitler
to power, once underground Nazi
No. 1, arrived in Paris from Switzer-
land, en- route to Portugal and the
United States. Communists always
used to claim that Hitler was Thys-
sens stooge, but Thyssen thinks diff
ferent, as does Hitler. Thyssen op-
posed the war last fall: hence the
break. Thyssen's vast properties,
allegedly, were confscated. In
Paris, too, were Fritz Mandel, Aus
trials former No. industrialist and
ex-husband of Hedy Lamar, and
Prince Starhemberg, Austria's ex-
No. / landlord. Starhemberg once
had been a Nazi.
MISCELLANY:
Mayor LaGuardia of the Big Town
persuaded John Lewis, c. I. o. big
shot, to avert the threatened N. Y.
c. subway strike, which would have
tied up everything in the metropol-
itan belt. The Mayor assured Mr..
Lewis that the city's transit unfit
cation plan would take over private
company bargaining contracts, SUBJ
ject only to judicial decision. Lewis
came to town, and it was close
call, with police reserves modified,
and the buck teeth of plain citizens
on edge.
Lepke Buchalter, convicted by
IDA" Dewey in his New Yorker
cleanup operations, got life term
in General Sessions. Judge Freschi
did the good deed. Abraham Kid
Twist Relies cleared up 20 Brooklyn
murders: one victim, it was dis
closed, was buried alive in the dread
Canarsie marshes. Relies was try
ing hard to save himself from "boin-
ing" - that is, from the electric
chair.
Seventeen rough young New York
ers, of the anti-Semitic Christian
Front, under indictment for plan.
ming to overthrow the United States
government and for alleged SNUG
Cling of weapons out of armories,
were to be tried by jury under a
middIe-aged Hausfrau, officiating az
fore-woman.
Glenn Guertin, age five, is learn
ing to be a hobo. His first solo
jaunt Tin a snowstorm) was IL
miles. His second away-from-home
was a 15-mile affair. But his third
vagrancy was tops: $50 miles az
stowaway on a bus.
The well-known Yankee Clipper
transatlanticker broke the round-trip
record between New York and Lis
bon, by five hours plus. 1t smashed
both the west-east and east-west
oceanic records, leaving on a Sum
day, and getting back on Thursday.
The American College of Physi-
clans archly recommended corsets
of nifty elastic, for fat males who
stick out in front. These are good
for coronary thrombosis and sagging
waistline, and for the streamline of
eternal youth. The good advice
came from an august Cleveland con-
clave.