The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-01-25
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Washington - President and Mrs.
Coolidge called on Arthur Brooks, Ne
gro to presidents since the Taft adj
ministration, who has been confined
TO his home several weeks by illness.
Washington = The board OF tenn
perance, prohibition and morals of
the Methodist Episcopal church, an
nounced 76 of the 9S United States
senators and 373 of the 434 congress.
men are members of some church,
Washington-A message expressing
his sympathy and that Of the off.
GERS of the state department in the
death of Maurice Francis Egan, form.
er minister to Denmark, has been
sent by Secretary c. E. Hughes to
Gerald d. Egan, Of Brooklyn. N. "
son of the late diplomat.
Washington - A resolution by Sen.
ator W. E. Borah (rep., Idaho) calling
on the state department for the text
Of reports on conditions In Russia
made by various officials and semi
official observers within the last six
years, was adopted by the senate AS
chairman Of the subcommittee named
to conduct hearings on Russian rec
ignition, Senator Borah has notified
the state and justice departments that
hearings would begin as soon as those
departments were ready to be repre-
sented.
Washington-A slight decline in
wholesale prices in December was in
Dictated in labor department reports.
The wholesale price index maintained
by the department, which represents
the composite price level of 404 COM
modities entering into living expen-
ses, was Isl at the month end, as
compared with 152 for November.
The price level shown was ga per
cent less than that Of December a
year ago. Food building materials
and fuel were included in the list of
commodities showing declines. Cloth
ing increased slightly in price.
Domestic
San Francisco - Cyrus E. Woods,
American ambassador to Japan, with
his wife and mtoehr-in-law, Mrs. Mar
chand, left here for Toxic Oh the Pa
cific Mail liner, President Taft.
Dayton, Ohio Raymond Fields,
Dayton, civilian pilot, was injured
seriously and his airplane wrecked
when he fell at a local commercial
field. Fields was taken to a hospital
in an unconscious condition.
Beaufort, N. C.-The four masted
schooner Anna NJ. Records, was aban-
doned by its crew off Cape Lookout
Shoals, because of its waterlogged
condition and was towed into Cape
Lookout cove by a wrecking tug,
which had taken the crew off.
Columbia, Mo.-Dayid Sarnoff, vice
the Radio Corporation of America,
sent a message to Iwaki station, jap
an, and received his answer by tele-
phone. the message travelling $4,000
miles in 1 minute, As seconds.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for this -city's
1000 firemen, and 100 additional mo-
torcycles for the police force were an
nounced by Director of Public SAT-
ETY. Smedley D. Butler as his latest
plan for the suppression of banditry,
following an appeal to the fremen to
pitch in and help the police"
Chicago DR.. Henry F. Helmholtz,
head of the section of chi.dren's dis
eases at the Mayo clinic, Rochester,
Mimi, will be the principal speaker
at the annual meeting Of the Infant
Welfare Society of Chicago, at the
Opera club. He will talk on 1.-THE
Future of Infant Welfare Work"
Seattle, Wash.-President Warren
G. H%arding's last bit of hand-set type
set while visiting in the office Of
the Fairbanks (Alaska) News-Miner,
on his trip to the territory last sum-
mer-will be presented to the Asso-
ciated Press at its annual meeting in
New York, Sept. Is, according to a
message received here from w. F.
Thompson, editor and publisher Of
the Fairbanks newspaper.
Los Angeles-Vilkjalmur Stefann-
son, arctic explorer, has decided to
turn his attention to the little known
areas Of Australia, he announced at a
banquet given in his honor here by
the Adventures club Of Los Angeles.
1t is his intention to devote six
months to S~xploration and research
on the continent with a view to writ
ing a suitable geography of that part
of the world, he said.
New Orleans-Reversing the deci-
sion of the federal district court Of
southern Florida, the United States
circuit court, of appeals ordered that
the $1,000, 900 damage suit filed by
Edward H. Huff, of Miami, Fla,
against the FORD Motor company of
Detroit be Ismanded to Florida for
hearing befoi , a federal judge instead
of a jury. L was held that the mat
ter in question was one of equity and
the presence of a jury was not neces-
sary.
New York-Discoverl of a serum
for scarlet fever was announced by
DR.. A. R. Dochez, associate professor
of medicine at Columbia university.
Observation-Disclosures franklin Pur-
nell and others of the HousJ of David
in Michigan lost a D~tion filed in
United States circuit court of appeals
for summary reversal of their con
viction in United States district court
at Grand Rapids. Reversal was
sought On the ground that John w.
Hansel and others had failed to file
their brief within the time limit. Ap-
pellate court granted the appellees
until. ian "a to file their tfief.