The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1925-05-29
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Washington

washing lOu-A SCIeulluC e4peulIlOL
to determine the geologic relation Of
Europe to North America will be un
dertaken this summer.
shington-Lieutenant Ralph OF
site was injured when a naval sea
plane which he was plotting went in
to tailspin and crashed into the
sea wall. The plane fell 1000 feet.
Washington = Secretary Weeks
has so far recovered from the attack
OF acute gall bladder collie which re-
tarded for time the progress he was
making against thrombosis that he
was able to leave his home for a
short automobile ride and spend sew.
eral hours with his private secretary.
Washington = The oil conservation
board appointed by President Cool
idge to formulate an oil policy for the
federal government has about COM
pleted its mail canvass of the industry
and is preparing data received for
consideration later at public hearings.
Hundreds of questionnaires asking for
information and advice on every phase
of oil production and distribution,
were sent out to leading oil men.
Washington-Mrs. William Howard
Taft stood in line for more than a
half hour outside the executive Of
fees at the White House, where she
once was mistress, awaiting her regu-
lar turn to be admitted to shake hands
with President Coolidge. Mrs. Taft
who was with delegation Of Colonial
Danes Of America, made no effort to
gain special privileges. and her iden-
tity was not disclosed until she was
discovered by photographer.
Domestic
Spokane = Nicholas Vachel Lind
say, author of several books of Ameri-
can poems, and Miss Elizabeth Con-
ner, teacher Of this city, were married
here. Mr.. Lindsay formerly lived in
Springfield, Ill.
Norfolk, Va. = Captain Emile Bour-
&c, of the French steamship P. L.
NH, pleaded guilty in United States
District Court to charges Of violating
the immigration laws by smuggling
aliens into this country.
Charlotte, n. CA pageant of gi-
gantic proportions, portraying many
historic events of the Colonial period
In North Carolina, feature the sesqui-
centennial of the Mecklenburg Declar-
alton of Independence.
Chicago-If crime is to be stopped
IN this country 1t is not the men but
the children on which the concentra-
ton must be based, ]. Adam Bede,
former congressman from Minnesota,
said in an address before the Chicago
Association of Credit Men.
Pittsburgh, Pa. = All of the Pitts
burgh Coal Company's union mines
are now closed, the company has an
nounced its Forest Hill mine, near
West Newton, employing 400 men,
was the last to go down. Two years
ago the company had so mines in
operation in the Pittsburgh district
and IA in Ohio.
delphia-Samuel M. Vauclain's
one year agreement to abstain from
alcoholic liquors or forfeit $4,000 was
a joke. People waiting to see what
/ would do when the agreement ex-
pired," he said. We'll, can tell them
now that / don't drink, so it wasn't
hard to keep my pledge and the $780,
600.
Chicago-Opposition to the pending
congressional investigation of the
structure of railroad freight rates,
principally on the ground that the in
vestigation exceeds the authority of
congress, is voiced In a brief to the
Interstate commerce commission by
the Illinois Manufacturers Association.
New York = Benjamin Winter, who
came penniless from Poland "a years
ago, and who recently purchased the
for about s3,000,000, has bought the
William X. Vanderbilt mansion at
Fifty-second street and Fifth avenue,
where he will erect a commercial
building. The price was said to be
approximately 100000.
Charlotte, N. CA veteran of the
board tracks, Earl Cooper, shook his
fink and won the annual Confederate
Memorial day 250-mile race here be-
fore 10000 spectators. Coming from
behind after being led by Tommy
Milton, winner of the event last year,
Cooper, during the last so miles, ran
away with the field and crossed the
final mark with lap margin.
indianapolis - A death stroke ap-
parently was delivered to cooperative
mining ventures in Indiana when
Judge Robert C. Baltzell in United
States District Court dismissed an in
junction suit brought to prevent in
reference by union officials with min
ers engaged in such projects. The de-
cision of Judge Baltzell leaves union
officials free to carry out their threat
to revoke the charter of any local
union whose members persist In work
ing mines under group leasing ar
rangements or as joint stockholders.
New York-Mrs. Marie Peary Stat
ford, daughter of the late Rear Ad-
miral Robert e. ioary, the "Snow
Baby" who was born nearer the
North Pole than any other white
child, will christen the Peary. mother
ship for the United States navy Arc
tic planes, at Brooklyn. Mrs. Stat
ford will break a bottle Of water
from Eagle Island, Maine, her fathers
home.
Memphis, Tenn.-A memorial to the
% persons who drowned when the
steamboat Norman sank In the Mis-
sissippi river 90 May 8. will be erect
cd here.