The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-12-12
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Washington - LaFollette- Wheeler
| campaign headquarters reported ex-
penditures to December 2 of $221,-
977 and receipts of $225,936.
Washington Senator T. H. Cara
way (dem., Ark, member of the spe-
cial senate committee on investiga-
| ton of 1924 campaign expenditures,
proposed thai the federal government
control and pay for future political
campaigns.
Washington-The condition of Vice
Consul Henry A. Dayton, shot on
Thursday in Belgrade by young wo-
man who afterward committed sui
eide, was reported in State depart
ment advices as better than expected
but still critical"
Washington - In the Sixty.ninth
Congress there will be 319 "dry" votes
in the House, Ill wet" votes and FIVE
which it is impossible to classify with
certainty, and in the Senate there will
be "a dry" votes, 81 wet" votes and
one vacancy, according to estimates
presented to the annual meeting of
the board of temperance, prohibition
and public morals of the Methodist
Episcopal church.
Washington-The concensus of Off
cial information in Washington is
that the basis for a tentative propos-
al for a refunding of the French debt
has been reached. Although the
American debt commission reached no
conclusion in its discussion of the
French debt situation the meeting
was understood to have developed
views, that, barring backward steps
by France, will lead directly to actual
negotiations between the two govern
ments.
Washington-Alien bootleggers and
narcotic peddlers may be deported by
the immigration authorities under the
terms of bill introduced in the house
by Representative Albert Johnson
(rep., Wash.), chairman of the immi-
grafton committee. One section of
the bill provides that any alien con-
ton law carrying a sentence of a
year or more, or convicted more than
once for the same offense carrying a
penalty of less than year, may be
deported at once by order of the sec
rotary of labor.
has issued an appeal to wartime Off
GERS, field clerks and enlisted men of
the army in France, requesting that
they forward to the department any
papers they may have which would
throw light upon the participation in
the war of the units to which they
were assigned. The papers are de-
sired that the historical section of the
General STAFF may complete a series
of monographs covering the partici-
patton of the American forces in the
various operations of the World war.
Domestic
Chicago-Roald Amundsen, plans to
command an expedition of three air
ships on a hop off 1900 miles across
the Arctic regions in June, stopping
for few hours at the Pole. He pro-
poses to<make the fight from Spitz-
bergen to Point Barrow, Alaska, in 81
hours, two years before the proposed
flight of DR.. hansen.
New York-The aicplane was de-
scribed as the ambulance of the fu-
ture by Colonel Robert Picque of
the army health department in
France. Colonel Picque and Colonel
]. Uzac, both leaders in the move
ment for aerial disqualification. are
here on a visit as delegates to the an
nual meeting of the Military Surgeons
Association.
st. Paul-The state on Dec. was
IL times millionaire counting only
it's cash resources. Tho monthly re-
port of State Treasurer Henry Rines
showed s12, 429,7 25.57 in the cash bal
ance, $4,000, 600 more than a year ago.
But more than s6.000.OOO of it will go
out this month in special school aid
and the school apportionment
Milwaukee, Wis.-Marking the Sec
ond episode in the impending upheayal
and reorganization of the local fed
eral prohibition unit, which took de-
finite form with the resignation of
Clark M. Perry as director. United
States Senator Irvine L. Lenroot dis
patched to Washington recommends
ton for the appointment of Ray ].
Nye of Superior as Mr.. Perry's sue
cessor
Scranton, Pa.-Proceedings were in
stituted by officials of District No. /,
United Mine Workers of America, to
revoke the charters of the locals of
the $4,000 miners of the Pennsylvania
& Hillside Coal & Iron company, who
have defied the international and dis
trict officers by refusing to call off
their strike and return to work. No
tice to this effect were sent to the
secretary of each local, but the heads
of the unions in the Pittston district
disclaimed having received any COM
municatio from the mine officials.
South Bend, Ind.-Two men were
shot and killed and five others were
by two bandits who were frustrated,
attempting the robbery of a soft drink
saloon. and then shot their way to lib
erty in a running battle with police.
sheriff's DEPUTIES and citizens.
Plymouth, vt. Plymouth. birth
place OF Calvin Coolidge, is preparing
to welcome the President home for
Christmas. Although the report that
the presidential party win pay mid
winter visit to this Green mountain
hamlet remained today without confr-
nation from Washington