The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-04-04
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WashinQton

aircraft expert, tells committee that
department of justice blocked prose
cution of 100000 graft.
Washington-Approval of the house
bonus bill providing 20 year endow-
ment insurance by the senate finance
committe is indicated as probable.
Representative Fred A.
Britten, (rep., nl), returned from
Cuba and said historical congressio-
nal investigations" had caused a loss
of American prestige there.
Washington-The democratic ma
tional committee announced it had or
ganized series of meetings for wo-
men throughout the country in the
next two weeks for discussing the
tariE.
hington-Democratic members
OF the senate finance. committee find
1t difficult to agree on surtax sched-
ule and decide not to present program
until after republicans report tax bill
to the senate.
Washington-Teapot Dome commit
tee in row over Senator Spencer's
statement that late Secretary Frank
lin K. Lane duplicated Fall leases.
Spencer issues subpoena for Doheny,
John Walsh, brother of Senator Walsh
and democratic committee officials.
shington-Daugherty committee
will try to put Nal S. Daugherty in
Jail for refusing to testify. Case was
to be taken to senate floor. Attorney
General H. NJ. Daugherty declares Gas
ton B. Means is making price of his
testimony the aid of committee in
keeping him from trial in New York.
Washington-Army and navy re-
cords were studied by the senate
finance committee in an effort to de-
termine the exact number of veterans
entitled to bonus and their average
length of service as a means of end
ing to some extent the confusion grow
ing out of the huge differences in es-
Inmates as to the cost of the bonus
bill passed by the house.
shington-Thousands of persons
engaged in church and institutional
work in central Europe are suffering
hunger and hardest privation and more
than so institutions of a pihlanthropic
character in Germany alone have
closed lately, according to a report
from the Rev. De Adolf Keller af Zu-
rich, Switzerland, European represen-
tative of the federal council of
churches
Domestic
Indianapolis-The rank and file of
the United Mine Workers of America
ratified the new wage scale agree
ment, assuring peace in the bitumin-
Gus industry for three years by an
overwhelming vote The vote was
164,S5S to 26,253
Chicago-Pacifiism at Northwestern
university is confined to 3S students,
less than one-half of 1 per cent of a
student body of 5000 or 10000 Briga-
der General Nathan William Mac
Chesney, president of the university's
general Alumni association, declared
CHARACTERISTIC supply of oil will
not meet expected requirements and
four new fields capable of producing
100000 barrels day must be devel-
oped, say arrivals for the annual con-
vention of the American Oil Mems as
sociation which opened here. Six hun
dred oil men are expected at the meet
ing.
Norfolk, Va. - Wireless operators
were baffled by the mysterious SOS.
calls flashed out on low wave length
apparently from a ship in distress
somewhere off the Atlantic coast be-
tween Hatteras ano New York. Frag-
ments of the distress calls picked up
at naval communication stations could
not be deciphered.
Eastview, N. Y.-Dr. Edward E. Ru-
mely, former publisher of the New
York Evening Mail, and his attorneys
Norvin R. Lindheim and S. Walter
Kaufman, all found guilty of conceal
ing German interests in the Mail In
the World war, have been assigned to
farm labor at the state penitentiary.
The three were sentenced to serve one
year each.
New York-Insulin, the cure for
diabetes discovered by DR.. F. G.
Banting of Toronto. already is check
ing the death rate caused by the dis
ease, according to figures made pub
lie by the Metropolitan Life Insurance
company. Among nearly 15,0O0,OO
industrial policy holders of the COM
pany, the decline in the diabetes
death rate for 1923.
Washington-An invitation is being
conducted into the administration of
the district office of the Veterans bu-
reau at San Francisco, in charge of
Major Louis T. Grant, Director Hines
announced. The director said certain
newspaper articles rejecting on the
reputation of Grant in connection with
alleged smuggling operations had
been looked into and it has been found
he had been given an unconditional
pardon" for certain offenses.
Jacksonville, Fla. - Mabe, CODY,
stunt fiier, received serious injuries
when she fell fron an airplane to
which she had just lsaped from a
speeding automobile, at Paole Beach,
near here.
New York-Federal officers and po-
lice searched the Hamburg-American
liner Albert Balm for Grover Cleve-
land Bergdoll, draft evader, when the
steamship arrived here from Germany.
Passengers on the Albert Balm said
the latest reports in Germany were
that Bergdoll had gone to France and
would come to America soon to sur
render to tho federal authorities