The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-11-14
Condemned Resume of the Important
Events In the Nation and State.

long as he lived.
Chicago-John R. Riley, secretary
of the Bolo Club of Cook County, an
nounced that Is men will publicly and
deliberately violate the Volstead act
on some date yet to be set to furnish
a new test of the laws constitutions
atty. The Bolo Club, comprised Of
war veterans, with, according to its
secretary, $4,000 members in Chicago,
will sponsor the test.
Henryetta, Okla.-One hundred Ku
Klux Klansmen became voluntary
prisoners in their meeting place on
the third floor of a downtown build
ing here, awaiting the cloaking shades
of darkness, while antiklansmen spied
out the gathering. The antiklansmen,
plost of whom were members of the
United Mine Workers Of America, took
inventory" of the meeting from the
roofs Of surrounding buildings. A
rule of the miners union prohibits
members from holding n ,mbership in
the khan.
Sports
Los Angeles, Calif.-Two big inter.
sectional football games will be play:
ed on the Pacific coast CT New Years
day. The University of Notre Dame
and University of Southern California
will clash at Pasadena while the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania and the Uni
versity of California will clash at
Berkeley.
Northfield, Minn.-After an absence
of four years the Minnesota confer
ence football championship returned
to Carleton college, when the Maize
and Blue eleven Eattled its way to
26 to 0 victory over Hamline in the
Methodist Homecoming struggle. The
Northfielders won their last title in
1920 by reason of IL to decision
over Manchester.
Chicago-The University of Chicago
next year will join those Western Con-
ference schools whose football fields
boast giant concrete stadiums .Erec-
ton of new field to provide seating
accommodations for 10000 to 10000
spectators will be undertaken imme-
diately as result of an announcement
that plans for the project were ap-
proved by the university board of
trustees.
Minneapolis-Before setting that
was more remindful of st. Moritz than
a football field, the Minnesota and
Ames football teams battled to z to
tie in the Memorial stadium Twelve
thousand rooters looked on and SILVER
ed and cheered while the determined
gridiron warriors struggled for vic
tory on field swept with chilly blasts
and a temperature lowering around
the freezing point Snow on the sides
of the gridiron and in the concrete
stands lent wintry background to the
contest.
Foreign
Berlin-Four persons were killed
when an airplane crashed in a storm
near Dantzig.
Paris-Increased automobiling has
been chiefly responsible for the deci-
sion of the great st. Bernard hospice
to open a hotel. For nearly 1000
years food and shelter have been free
ly given to all travellers who have
halted at the famous hospice, which
is noted for the life saving dogs at
tached to it.
Buenos Aires-The Brazilian en-
bassy here confirmed reports that the
crew of the Brazilian battleship Sac
Paulo had mutinied, seized the vessel
and sailed outside of Rio Janeiro har.
Dor. The statement indicated that the
battleship subsequently anchored out.
side and was being fired at by the
harbor forts.
Stockholm-The Swedish govern
ment telegraph department has an
nounced that the first tests of direct
radio communication with America
have just been carried out between
Sweden's now high power radio sta
ton at Varberg, on the west coast
and wireless commercial stations in
America The tests have been entire
ly successful and it is expected that
regular direct traffic will begin soon.
London-Former Premiers Asquith
and Lloyd George conferred at the
formers London home on how best
to retrieve the fallen fortunes of the
liberals, while the members of the
labor government were engaged in the
business of preparing to quit their of.
fetal residences in Downing street
and other attractions of office holding.
The completed returns show that in
round numbers the conso rvatives poll.
ed 100000 votes; labor 100000, and
the liberals 100000.
Paris-Rene Renault, minister of
justice, has prepared and will defend
before parliament new law imposing
rigid penalties on all merchants, hotel
keepers and restaurateurs selling food
products at prices above those fixed
by the department of the interior.
An experiment of price fixing is not
intended, as the ministry of the in.
terror will only record current prices.
and not attempt to fix them. Any
merchant going above the current &C.
copied prices, however, will be severe
ly punished under the proposed law
Observation-Disclosures Primo Rivera's
program of cleaning no the mountain.
Gus region of Chectian of Riffian rebels
has been completed, it is officially an
nounced. 1t is stated that the Span
ish forces now are proceeding meth.
odically to develop plans for the liber.
alton of the remainder of Morocco.
Constantinople = Vanderhoop, the
Dutch aviator, who left Amsterdam
early in October ON q fiisht to Batavia