The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-05-23
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WASHINGTON

/. OIL making the Oulc9 OIL governor OI
Porto Rico elective in 1882.
Washington-An urgent deficiency
appropriation bill, carrying $2,S17, 900,
the bulk of it for Federal Court ex-
penses, was passed by the house and
sent to the senate.
shington-Abolition of the new
prohibition regime in Turkey was for
mally reported to the commerce de-
partment by Commercial Agent Gill
lespie at Constantinople.
ashington-President and Mrs.
Coolidge entertained more than a
thousand guests at the first of series
of garden parties planned for the
month of May.
Washington-A bill to authorize the
funding, over 81 year period, of
Hungary's $1,6S5,000 debt to the Uni
ted States, as negotiated by the debt
commission, was passed by the house
and sent to the senate.
Washington-Plans to carry fight
against the Ku Klux Khan to the floor
of the democratic convention were an
nounced by supporters of Senator Os-
car Underwood, (Ala.), candidate for
the presidential nomination.
Washington-A Supreme Court re-
view was denied in the case OF Cap
tain G. H. Miles of the steamship
President Van Buren,, convicted in
the federal courts in New York city
on charge of cruelty Furnishing
Harry Baxter, who died while in con-
finement on the ship.
shington-Renewing debate in
the senate on proposed modification
of the long and short haul sections of
the interstate commerce act, Senator
Smith w. Brookhart (rep., Iowa., de-
clared he had been conservative in
his estimate that S1,000,000,000 could
be cut from the nations railroad
freight charges without reducing the
labor pay item.
Washington Secretary Herbert
Hoover appealed to the nations coal
consumers to prevent coal shortage
by laying in coal supplies in the sum-
mer. He urged industries to purchase
their stocks in the slack coal sea-
son to prevent congestion on the rail-
roads in the fall, which, he said,
would tend to increase the coal prices
and create shortage.
shington-Funeral services, at
tended by President and Mrs. Cool
idge, the members of the cabinet and
their wives and small group of
friends, were held at the White House
60 60 of he
rotary of the interior, who died here.
The services were conducted by Rev.
Wallace Radcliffe, pastor emeritus of
the New York Avenue Presbyterian
church here, which Mrs. Work attend
ed. Members of the cabinet were hon.
orary pallbearers, and burial was at
Arlington.
Domestic
Mineola, N Y.-Major w. N. Hens
ley, Jr., stationed at Mitchell field an
nounced that he would attempt dawn
to dark nonstop flight of approximate
ly 1900 miles to Columbus, Neb., to
visit his parents.
Freeport, Ill.-Aaron P. Lattig, 81
years old, Civil war veteran and
father of IL children, died on the 10th
birthday of his oldest son. Thirty-one
grandchildren and Al great grandchil-
dren survive.
Atlanta resolution designed to
put the Southern Baptist convention
on record as unalterably opposed to
modernism, or to anything, called
science, that questions, discredits or
denies fundamental doctrines of the
Old and New testaments was present
ed to the convention by DR.. R. K
Maiden of Kansas City.
Boston-The Roosevelt Newsboys'
Association has received one cent
each from Governor Alfred e. Smith
of New York and William j. Bryan,
as their contributions to the penny
fund which is being raised to present
to Mrs. Harding a statute of Laddie
Boy, the White House dog during the
Harding administration.
Chicago-The National Livestock
Producers Association announced the
organization of the Producers Live
stock Credit Corporation, corpora
ton organized under the general CO.
operative law of the state of Illinois
with a capital stock of $4,000, and
designed to make available a new line
of credit to feeders of livestock in
Missouri, Iowa, Arkansas, Illinois, In
diana and Ohio.
Leavenworth, Kan.-One hundred
and fifteen of the 223 military prison
ers serving time in the Leavenworth
federal penitentiary received Glenn
ency as a result of the inquiry con-
Quoted in March by special war de-
partment board. Eight were given
outright pardons aud 10 were reduc-
tons in sentences Sentences of II
life termers were reducd to terms of
20 to 80 years.
Seattle-Because the United States
controls the worries supply nt helium,
the airship Shenandoah can reach the
North Pole before the craft of any
other nation, in the opinion of Cap
tain Robert A. Bartlett, arctic explorer,
and passenger on the United States
coast guard cutter Bear. The Bear
left for its 36th annual cruise in the
arctic
New York-Dr. Nicholas Murray
Butler, president of Columbia, assailed
the notion that men can be made
happy and prosperous and rich and
virtuous by law" and attacked govern.
ment interference In personal life.
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