The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-03-13
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Washington-The question of the
constitutionality of the North Dakota
Grain Grading act was argued in the
Supreme Court for the second time.
The attack on the law was made by
the Farmers Grain Company of Emb-
den, n. d.
Washington-Witho record vote
the house suspended its rules and
passed a measure literally clarifying
the Reed-Johnson World War Veter-
ans act and providing for establish
ment of a permanent medical corps
in the Veterans bureau, modelled
after those Of the Army and Navy.
Washington The United States
government now has more liquor than
it can take care of. AS all federal
warehouses now are overfowing with
confscated beverages. the customs
authorities have asked the budget
bureau to provide funds for the ac-
QUESTION of more storage places.
Washington A letter from Secre-
tary Hughes naming IA states which
formally have registered with the
state department their rejection of
the so-called child labor amendment
to the constitution, was read into the
congressional record by Representa-
/. tive A. P. Andrew (rep., Mass.).
Washington = Transmission of
photographs over telephone wires 81
600 miles long simultaneously to
three cities was tested here by the
American Telephone & Telegraph
Company, and was declared by Off
Gals to have been a complete sue
cess. 1t was the first time such
transmission of photographs had been
attempted to more than one city at
once and over so great a distance.
Washington = A policy of conserv-
atism in measures for combating the
tobacco habit among Americans form
ed the keynote of addresses at the
opening session here of the first ma
tional anti-tobacco convention. The
convention was described as designed
to consolidate the forces working
along the conservative lines of edu-
cation and moral suasion, rather than
drastic legislation to curb the tobacco
habit.
Domestic
Long Beach, Calf. = Colonel Will
liam C.. Butler, II years old, veteran
of Indian and Philippine campaigns
and said to have been graduated from
West Point in 1876, was buried here.
New York-Fire destroyed the
Queens electrical repair shops of the
Long Island railroad causing damage
of s1,000,000. and throwing 500 men
out of work.
Los Angeles-Mae Allison, moving
picture actress of Hollywood and
New York, was granted divorce from
Robert Ellis, character actor, here.
She charged desertion.
San Francisco-The Bay City
Bridge Company has applied to the
board of supervisors for permission
to build $25.OOO,O0O bridge which
would span the bay from San Fran
cisco to Alameda.
Observation-Disclosures the terms Of a
bill favorably recommended by the
senate judiciary committee applica-
tions for marriage licenses would
have to be made five days before a
license could be issued.
New York-Will H. lays, adviser
to the motion picture industry, said
that self-imposed system of censor
ing successfully functioning for more
than a year, had done away with the
need of censorship bodies.
Fort Worth-Eight planes were de-
stroyed and the aviation garden hang
ar and dancehall were RACED by fire
believed to be of incendiary origin
The damage was unofficially estimat-
ed to exceed $4,000.
Savannah, Ga. Mrs. Georgia Ma.
thans, whose memory carried her
back to the visit of Lafayette to Sa.
vannah in the early nineteenth cen
fury, was buried here Mrs. Nathans
ulSu do BIG Acdicu uSI 1VolH UlTlu'
day.
Scarborough. N. Y-Frank A. Van.
derlip, widely known banker, who has
been i'll several weeks at his country
home in Scarborough, recently con-
tracted pneumonia He first had an
attack of influenza followed by ty.
phoid fever. Mr.. Vanderlip was re.
cuperating from that when pneu.
monia set in. He is on the mend
however, according to Dr. Norman
Earnestly.
Chicago = An IL story apartment
building to cost $2,250,000 will be
built shortly in Chicago's exclusive
residential section known as the gold
coast, the syndicate projecting it has
announced. 1t will contain 120 three
and four room apartments leasing at
s225 to $500 month and will be
most modern in equipment. The land
for the building site cost $1,000 a
front foot. the owners said.
Portland. Ore-It was estimated to-
day by state officials that the 10 per
cent state tax enacted by the recent
legislature on the retail price of ciga.
rets, smoking tobacco and snuff will
amount to s1.210.5S6 by the end OF
1925.
Williams Bay, Wis.-Professor John
Parkhurst, for % years member OF
the staff of the Yerkes observatory
and an associate professor of the
University OF Chicago, died here at
the age OF So. Professor Parkhurst
was an astronomer widely known for