The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-01-30
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sand persons are jobless. packing
houses have closed and approximately
SIS, 100000 already has been lost as
result of the virtual paralysis of the
oyster industry in Virginia, due to
the typhoid scare, w. Mcdonald Lee,
commissioner of fisheries, announced
here.
Sports
New York Paavo Nurmi, the
great Finn, won two races and set
three new records on his first appear
ance in Madison Square Garden, New
York.
neapolis-William II. Spaulding,
for three years head football coach
at the University OF Minnesota, was
re-engaged for period of two years
by the board of regents at its regu-
lar meeting.
New York Legal investigation
which may lead to grand jury action
in the Dolan-O'Connell bribery scan
dial was launched by District Attorney
Banton of New York upon receipt of
all the evidence gathered in the case
of Baseball Commissioner Lands. At
the same time, Commissioner Lands
pledged his readiness to cooperate
with the district attorney in obtaining
witnesses or in any other way, thus,
since his authority over the national
game virtually is supreme, putting
basebalps entire machinery at the dis
posal Of the investigation.
Foreign
neutrality-suspicious. of the
Radio Corporation of America an
nounced that plans have been virtual
~ completed for the erection of
super-radio station at Manila. The
project will involve an outlay of $4,-
100000, it is said.
Stockholm-King Gustav has ap-
pointed Frederick Thersson, success
sor to Premier Hjalmar Branting, Mr..
Branting has been ill for a consider
able time and is not expected to re-
cover. Mr.. Thorsson is former
shoemaker.
Paris-Possible abandonment by
the French government, at the re-
quest of the Spanish government, of
the prosecution of Vicente Blasco
Ibanez, the Spanish author, for his at
tacks in French territory on King Al
fonso and the Spanish military direc-
torate was forecast in French parlia-
mentary circles late today.
Honolulu-Smoulderi Indignation
in the ranks of Filipino strikers
broke out anew on the island of
Hawaii today when 1000 strikers
marched to a plantation where fellow
workers were employed and demand
ed that they join in the strike Two
plantation workers officials were bad
ly beaten. The disturbance was
quelled by police.
London-Interest aroused in the
United States in the project under
taken by the dean and chapter of ST.
Pauls to safeguard the cathedral for
generations to come has led to their
making an appeal not only to the
British empire, but to Anglo-Saxons
in the United States and elsewhere,
to assist in preserving the memorial,
threatened by crumbling inside the
massive piers which support the ia
nous dome.
Tokio-Ambassad Matsudaira, re-
spending to toast at dinner to the
American ambassador to Japan, Edgar
A. Bancroft, expressed confidence in
the success of his mission in Japan,
stating he would be inspired by the
universal desire of the Japanese for
peace" He said the japanese senti-
ment, of which he was representa-
tive, was the same now as at the
time of the Washington conference
mot competition but cooperation"
Paris-The body OF Edward Lee
Clark, young American whose threat
five weeks ago to commit suicide be
cause of an unrequited love affair
was little credited by his companions
in Paris, has been taken from the
Moselle river at Nancy. Clark, whose
home is said to have been in New
York state, was a rising employee of
a steamship company in Paris, though
he had small debts here and there
about Paris, was not financially EN-.
barrassed.
Paris-Both France and Germany
are disputing the United States claim
to possess the most powerful and the
fastest locomotives in the world. The
Eprenay shops in France have turned
out an engine capable of hauling q !
train of 500 tons at the rate of 120
kilometers (roughly rs miles) an
hour over a six hour division with.
out stopping. This engine is consid
cred more powerful than the German
locomotive completed at the Breslau
works which hauls 900 ton train at
80 kilometers an hour.
Toulon, France-The horticulturists
of southern France are planning a
monster demonstration here soon in
protest against the reported decision
of the United S,~.es government to
forbid the importation of French flow.
er bulbs. The privilege Of exporting
granted by the American secretary OF
agriculture in December 1922 expires
on December 81 next, and the narcis-
sus, tulip and hyacinth growers OF
the Riviera are urging the represen-
tatiyes in the French parliament to
get the ban rescinded. Otherwise
they say they will be faced with ruin
and hundreds of workers will be made
idle.
London The crossword puzzle
craze has extended to Sandringham,
where it is stated that Queen Mary
has taken up the pa5time of so. ging