The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-11-10
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Washington - Secretary Andrew
Mellon says government is making
STEADY progress in funding and grad
ual liquidation Notwithstanding public
debt shows increase of $685., 000, 00(
during October.
Washington-Trade comission hear
ing on basic steel price gets evidence
of price exchange in formation among
steel and sheet tin manufacturers.
Observation-Disclosures gets copy
OF secret note in which soviet Russia
sought to mediate between Greece anG
Turkey.
Washington-Tariff Commission gets
100 applications for rate changes un
der tiexibility provision of new law.
Observation-Disclosures of justice
insists that railroads bring equipment
up to standard.
Washington - Administration, high
officials say, has no intention of urg
ing imposition of additional taxes al
coming session of congress-; believe
much of deficit for year will be alb
sorbed.
shington-President Harding, in
letter to Secretary of War ]. w
Weeks, takes strong stand against fur
Their army reductions in order tc
checkmate pacifist drives for further
military cuts.
Washington-State department in
structs Ambassador at Picking to ten
der to government of China notice OF
United States decision to end its share
of activities in inter-Allied control OF
Chinese Eastern railway.
ashington-Eugene Meyer, Jr., OF
War Finance corporation, after west
ern trip, say general business condi
lions on the mend.
Washington-Five Central Ameri
can republics expected to accept Uni
ted States invitation to welfare con
terence in Washington in December
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Medill Nc
Cormick Qn), says William G. Nc
Adoo fed from New York because
state democracy gave him no hope OF
political advancement.
Washington = Chairman John A
Adams of republican national commit.
tee, answering President Gompers OF
American Federation Of Labor, raps
demagogues and tells why labor should
support republican ticket.
Washington = Democratic national
committee files campaign expense &C
count showing difficulty in getting
money; Woodrow Wilson gives $500.
Domestic
Evergreen, Ala.-Scores of orphans
were imperiled and the Baptist orphan.
age destroyed here when flames
which apparently had been shoulder.
ing broke out and swept the entire
building.
Waukegan, Ill.-After having been
found guilty by jury on a, charge of
having libeled Rev. 7. H. Nelson, pas
tor of the Grace Missionary church in
Zion City, Wilbur Glenn Voliva, over
seer of Zion, was exonerated by
Judge Clair C. Edwards, who set the
verdict aside.
Groesbeck, Texas-Judge A. NJ
Blackmon of the. seventy-seventh dis
trict court, granted a temporary in.
junction restraining the secretary OF
state of Texas from. certifying the
name of Earle B. Mayfield as demo
cratic candidate for United States sen
ator.
Richmond, Va.-Officials of the JET
ferson National Memorial association
announced the association had under.
taken to purchase Monticello, the
home of Thomas Jefferson, from JET
ferson Levy of New York, under a
three weeks option agreement. The
purchase price was fixed at 100000
it was stated.
Los Angeles-Refusing to affirm OF
deny the report that his father, Henry
Ford, would be candidate for the
presidency at the next general cleo
ton, Edsel Ford, son of the Detroit
manufacturers, now in Los Angeles
did take occasion to deny Wall street
rumor that his father is worth $4,000,
100000 cash.
} Kansas City-The Confederate vet.
Grams of Missouri adjourned their 26th
annual reunion without acting on al
tentative resolutions, one condemning
and the other approving recent critic.
ism of Abraham Lincoln as responsible
for the Civil war.
Montgomery, Ala.-Governor Thomas
E. Kilby was quoted as refusing to
join with Daughters of the Confed
eracy in asking removal of the Roose
welt memorial tree planted in the Ca
pitol lawn by Boy Scouts.
Norfolk-The attempt of land type
of flying machine to land on the deck
of a man-o'-war in the United States
navy proved successful off the Virginia
Capes. Lieutenant Commander God
frey de Chevalier, flying two scatter
A-606, landed on the flight deck of the
U. S. s. Langley and the plane was
stopped by the arresting gear within
% feet.
New York-Lester James Wright OF
Waukesha, Wis, formerly professc-
at the University of Wisconsin, who
was murdered near Allepo, Syria, met
death at the hands of eight Kurd ban
dts, said a cablegram to Near East
relief headquarters detailing the
attack.
New York-The murder by bandits
near Aleppo, Syria, Of James Lester
Wright of Waukesha, Wis, a Near
East relief worker, was reported in a
cable message to Near East relief
headquarters by Stanley Kerry, one
of its workers in the Be; -ut-Aleppl
+. district.