The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-05-06
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WASHINGTON

by has presented bill proposing coin
age of 21a cent piece bearing like
ness of Theodore Roosevelt.
Neutrality-suspicious. White of Valley
City, N. D., former governor and vet
eran of the World war, has been sworn
in as United States treasurer.
Washington-John T. Adams OF
Iowa is expected to be selected to sue
coed Chairman Will H. Hays for the
republican national committee.
Washington-The Dial bill requiring
federal judges to devote their entire
time to the duties of their offices was
reported favorably by the Senate judi
ciary committee.
Washington-A decline of 8 per cent
in wholesale prices during March is
announced by the federal reserve
board on the basis of index numbers
compiled for comparison.
Washington-Both exports to and
imports from Europe and South Amer
lea fell off sharply during March as
compared with the same month last
year, a trade summary shows.
Washington-The German repara-
tion counter proposals are unaccept-
able as a basis for discussion, Secre-
tary Hughes informed DR.. Simons, the
German foreign minister, in note.
Washington-Fox fur has come into
such demand that agriculture depart
ment officials have put up immigra-
tion bars against the flow of undesir-
able live foxes imported for breeding
purposes.
Washington-The director of sales
of the War Department announced that
Camp Dodge, near Des Moines, Iowa,
is being offered for sale through seal
ed bids to be received by the quarter
master general until May 20.
Observation-Disclosures A. B. Cum
minis of the senate interstate COM
merce commission announced the gen.
eral inquiry into railway conditions
would begin May TO- with railway exc
cutives as the first witnesses.
shington-President Harding has
turned the threatened seamen's strike
over to Secretary of Commerce Her
bert Hoover and Secretary of Labor
James J. Davis for settlement, it was
announced at the White House.
Westinghouse bill to control forest
devastation and perpetuate timber
supplies was introduced by Senator
Arthur Capper, who said it was along
the lines advocated by the National
Conservation association, of which Gift
ford Pinchot is president.
Washington-Senator Truman H.
Newberry's sentence to two years i'm
prisonment and his fine of $4,000 on
the charge of illegal use of money to
defeat Henry Ford in the Michigan
senatorial election of 1918, were set
aside by the United States supreme
court
Washington-The Senate voted 40
to % to terminate the technical state
OF war between the United States and
the people of Germany, Austria and
Hungary. The Knox resolution, iden-
teal in principle to that which Presi-
dent Wilson vetoed on May 81, 1920,
was adopted by substantially the
party vote in response to the request
by President Harding for legislation
declaration repeating the war resolu-
ton.
Sporting .....
New York--John ]. McGraw, man.
ager of the New York National league
baseball club, was exonerated of two
charges of violation of the Volstead act
Philadelphia-Fred Fulton of Min
neapolis made short work of Jack Bell
of Houston, Texas, the bout being
stopped after two minutes and SO Sec
onds of fighting, to save Bell from
further punishment.
New York-The prince of Wales and
Lord .Lonsdale, head of the National
Sporting club of London, have been
invited, it was announced, to attend
the Dempsy-Carpentier fight as guests
of Tex Richard, promoter
Domestic
Chicago-Six hundred eviction suits
were filed by landlords in the "rent
rebellion"
Ell Paso-John Watson, prohibition
enforcement officer, shot in a fight
with liquor smugglers, is dead.
Roanoke, Va-Six persons were
killed and a score injured when pas
senger train backed into string of
coal cars. sH..
Lincoln, Neb.-Bank robbers broke
into the safe of the Citizens State
bank at Palmyra and escaped with
safety deposit boxes containing loot
amounting to more than $4,000.
Names of Is of the At
l, w. w. sentenced to prison and who
have failed to show up were sent to
District Attorney Clyne at Chicago for
apprehension.
Jackson, Miss.-Ten bodies have
been recovered from the ruins of build
ings wrecked in the tornado at Brax-
ton. More than 80 persons were in
jured, several perhaps fatally.
Boston-Louis Agassiz Shaw, assis-
tant instructor in applied physiology at
the Harvard medical school, was ar
rested by federal authorities charged
with manufacturing liquor at his home.
in the Back Bay portion of the city.
Atlantic City, N. J.-Maintenance of
a government information service to
compile and publish production and
consumption figures of the more i'm.
portant industries and the primary
prices of few commodities as a rem
edy for high prices and profiteering
was advocated here by Herbert Hooy-
er, secretary of commerce, in an adj.
dress before the ninth annual confer.
ence of the United States Chamber of
commerce.
West Chicago IlI-Ceoroa poh