The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-05-09
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Washington-The house postoffice
committee adopted amendments tC
the postal salary bill granting in
creased pay to third and fourth class
postmasters and rural mail carriers.
Washington - Representative Will
liam d. Upshaw, of Georgia, said in a
statement he would accept the demo
cratic vice-presidential nomination If
offered.
Misunderstanding in accordance
with his new custom of endeavoring to
get away from Washington and the
White House for the weekend, Presi-
dent Coolidge spent Sunday on May
flower cruise down the Potomac.
shington-Invitation have been
sent to more than 100 organizations to
send delegates to the national confer
ence on outdoor recreation, called by
President Coolidge to meet in Wash
ington, May 1924, it was announced
in statement issued by Assistant Sec
rotary of the Navy Roosevelt, execu-
tive chairman of the conference.
ashington-Packers and whole
salers get rs cents out of every dol
lar paid by consumers of meat to
retail dealers, 10 cents pays the deal
ers' expenses and cents represents
the dealers profit, the department
of agriculture announced in making
public survey of 143 retail meat
stores.
Domestic
New York-Grover Cleveland Berg
doll, draft evader, was rumored to be
aboard the North German Lloyd
steamship Columbus, en- route to
Brooklyn on maiden voyage from
Bremen.
Cleveland-Warren S. Stone. pres
ident of the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Engineers, answering rumors he
was being considered as a running
mate of President Coolidge, said he
was not interested in partisan poll
tics.
New York-The annual dinner of the
Minnesota Alumni association of New
York at the Hotel Commodore brought
together nearly 200 former Minnesota
students, the greatest number ever as
sembled in New York. The hotel rang
with songs and yells of the Gopher
state.
New York-Cash on hand of the
Ford Motor Company, Inc, at the end
of 1923 totaled $271, 618,66S, the larg-
est of any industrial corporation in
America and nearly double that of the
United States Steel corporation, it's
nearest rival. This was an increase
of $112,012,9S1 over cash on hand at
the beginning of 1928
New York-A reconciliation between
Robert ]. Sanderson and his wife, Nina
Wilcox Putnam, the authoress, seems
likely. Mr.. Sanderson has Investigated
the charges brought against his wife
by Mrs. Richard Ellsworth Bassett. of
Madison, Conn, whose husband. a
former clam digger, acted as Mrs. San
derson's chauffeur and literary agent
He finds them groundless.
Hazelhnrst, Ga.-Mrs. w. ]. Bryan
has followed faith healing evangelist
to this little town in south Georgia
seeking cure from paralysis, from
which she has suffered for long time
In an invalid's chair she attended ser.
vices in tobacco warehouse by Rev.
Raymond T. Richey. She was one of
a congregation of 5000 After he had
called those who sought health through
faith, he left the pulpit and went to
Mrs. Bryan's chair to encourage her.
Cleveland-Three men, prominent
in the sheet metal workers union,
probably were injured mortally in
an explosion in an automobile in
which they were driving away from
the labor temple, here where they
attended a conference. Two passen-
gers in a passing streetcar were cut
by glass from the windows shatter.
ed by the blast.
New York-Branding the letter
which his wife had presented to SUI
preme Court Justice Geigerich as
downright forgery, Beverley Har-
ris formerly vicepresident of the Ma
tional City bank, stated he would
do all in his power to prove the, de-
ception and punish the guilty. The
letter in question was said by Mrs.
Eleanor E. L. Harris to have been
written by her husband but few
hours before jury awarded him a
verdict in his annulment suit against
his wife.
New York-Contribution of more
than $1,000,000 by John D. Rockefel-
Ter, ST., through the Laura Spelman
Rockefeller fund of the Rockefeller
Foundation, to cover the entire ac-
comulated liability OF a proposed
secretarial retirement fund was an
nounced at the eighth annual con-
vention of the Young Women's
Christian Association. The gift
may reach 100000, according to
Mrs. Lewis Fl. Lapham, member of
the national Board, who made the
announcement
San Pedro, Calif.-More than 400
officers of the battlefield will be
shifted to shore duty and to stations
in Asiatic ard European waters i'm
mediately after the completion OF
force practise off this base. June IL.
it was announced by Viceadmiral II.
A Wiley.
Detroit, Mich-Mrs Henry Ford
wife of the automobile manufactur.
er, underwent surgical operation
at the Henry Ford hospital here