The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-09-07
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Washington
Washington-Navy program To-
scrapping 20 naval vessels under fou
power treaty now under consideration
Washington - State appropriation
for welfare activities stimulated b!
5000" legislation, according to sta
tistics of federal vocational board.
shington-Reduced volume o
bank credit and decline of, wholesale
prices and production in basic indus
tries reported by federal reserve
board.
Washington-Senator Hiram John
son left for his home in San francisco
without making any announcement al
to his candidacy for the presidential
nomination.
Washington-Erecti OF govern
ment hospital for insane World wal
veterans on tract of land now part o.
Great Lakes Naval Training station
may be recommended by Director
Hines of the Veterans bureau.
Washington American exporters
warned by Secretary of Commerce
Hoover not to neglect trade with Eu
rope, the largest customer of the Unit
ed States in their zeal to expand bust
ness with South America and Asia.
Washington-Press on anthra
cite miners and operators to com
pose their differences increased by
administration forces, which still
are optimistic as to prospects OF set
Element before strike order becomes
effective.
Standardization Of income
tax downward on all incomes, high
and low, to be recommended to the
next congress by Representative Mad
den, who is convinced by study Of the
question that immediate reduction is
feasible in view of economies effect
ed by the government.
Observation-Disclosures of Justice
agents will endeavor to determine
whether gold coin reported to have
been dug u presently near Hagers'
town, Nd, by a road worker is the
property of Grover c. Bergdoll, Phila'
delphia draft evader, now in Ger
many.
Washington-A small blaze in the
basement of the United States capitol
filed several of the lower corridors
with smoke, but was extinguished be-
fore doing any damage. The fire
started in a pile Of cordwood, Fire
men were able to put it out with the
use of the building fire equipment
about 20 minutes after it was discov-
cred
Washington-Geor Harvey, am
bassador to Great Britain, and Mrs.
Harvey are. guests of President and
Mrs. Coolidge at the White House.
No announcement of the visit of the
Harveys was made through official
channels. 1t is significant, however,
that the ambassador came on the eve
of Secretary of State Hughes depart
ure for the West. The visit may be
regarded as a farewell call on the
President before the ambassador sails
for Europe.
Washington President Coolidge
is regarded by political leaders as
harder to nominate but stronger can
didate for election if nominated than
President Harding would have been.
Contest for the nomination in which
Senator Hiram Johnson Of California
will be his chief opponent, will be de-
cided in the west. President Coolidge
now assured of New England and the
south and probably will go into con-
vention with more delegates than any
other contender.
Domestic
Marion-The casket containing the
body of the late President Harding
was placed in an asphalt sarcophagus,
weighing $500 pounds, and replaced
in the vault pending construction of a
mausoleum.
Neutrality-suspicious. than 10000 YES
sells carrying an aggregate of $4,000
600 tons of cargo and paying tolls of
more than $76,500,00O, have passed
through the Panama canal in its nine
years of operation ending Aug. IA.
Washington-Gibbs Brothers, Inc,
will relinquish supervision and con-
troll of the operation of the Leviathan
on the liners arrival in New York,
from it's present transatlantic voyage.
In making this announcement, the
shipping board said it would be done
at the firms request and in accordance
with it's contract Future operation
of the vessel will be in the hands of
the United States lines.
Chicago = Steamship service be-
tween Chicago and Europe by way of
the lakes and Welland canal is ex-
pected to be inaugurated Sept 10, &C
cording to information received at
the Chicago Association of Commerce.
The Otto Sinding, 1900 tons cargo ca
pacity, is scheduled to sail on that
date for London, Liverpool and Man
chester. The first cargo out of Chi
cago will be mae up OF packing
house products; automobiles, clay,
talcum and machinery.
Norfolk, Va.-Plans for the erection
of a $12,500.000 tuberculosis hospital
as a memorial to war mothers and
other women who made sacrifices dur
ing the World war, were approved by
the Veterans of FN'eign Wars in an
nual encampment.
New York-William G. Durant, head
of the Durant Motors, soon will open
q bank in New York to be known as
the Liberty National bank, it was an
nounced. The bank, according to Mr..
Durant's plan, will have 100000
partners" each of whom. will be per-
mitted to own no more than one
share of his stock.