The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-01-01
R. Erdman Of Princeton seminary

c. r. Erdman of Princeton seminary
| moderator
May 25-J. T. Scopes indicted in Day
! ton, Tenn. for test case of state law
against teaching of evolution theory.
Governor Baker of Missouri appointed
| g. H. Williams United States senator to
May N-Grand jury in Washington re-
turned new indictments against Fall.
Sinclair and Doheny.
Shipping board voted to scrap 200 yes
sells.
May 2S-Doheny leases In Elk Hills
naval OIL reserve and Hawaii contracts
Voiaeu py FEDERAL court in Los Angeles.
May 2s-Federal grand jury in Chi
cago indicted 26s furniture making con-
Germs and individuals for combining in
restraint OF trade and commerce.
June 6-William d. Mitchell. St. Paul.
Mimi, appointed solicitor general.
June SPresident Coolidge addressed
| st. Paul. MINI.
June IEPresident Coolidge declared
himself against reduction in sugar duty.
June 17-MacMillan expedition to ex-
| piore Croker land sailed from Boston.
June 1s-Forty-nine chairmakers pleaded
guilty to trust charges and were fined.
Cheyenne. wyo.. decided the Teapot
| Dome oil reserve lease to the Sinclair
company Z, was legal and proper
June 23-President Coolidge moved to
| Mass.
Sweeping reorganization plan for fed,
| by Treasury department
June 30-Ice box manufacturers in
| dicted for antitrust law violation pleaded
guilty and were fined by Federal Judge
| Mrs. Edith N. Rogers of Lowell. Mass.
| elected to congress to succeed her hus-
band, the late John Jacob Rogers
July 1-Overnight air mail service be-
| tween New York and Chicago estab-
lished.
DR.. F. E. Clark, founder and for A
of hrs E,n6elVOr.
resigned and was succeeded by DR.. d. A.
| Polling.
July 1o-E. B. Brousard. Utah. ap-
pointed TO tariff commission
Scopes anti-evolution law trial
opened in Dayton, Tenn. with w. ].
Bryan aiding prosecution.
Elghty-three furniture manufacturers
pleaded guilty of violating antitrust law
and were fined s1SS,OOO.
July 21-Scopes convicted in Dayton
evolution trial and fined $780,
July 2-New indictments returned in
Chicago against 155 furniture manufac-
turers for violating antitrust laws.
in Dayton, Tenn.
July 31-William j. Bryan inferred in
Arlington National cemetery
Aug. 4-Fords bid of S1,706,000 for 200
United States shipping board vessels ac-
cepted.
Aug. 12-National crime commission
men.
Aug. 1s-Max Mason. mathematics pro-
fessor In University of Wisconsin,. cleo
ted president of University of Chicago.
Aug. 19-MacMillan expedition aban-
doned exploration of polar regions by
airplane for the season.
Aug. 20-Secretary of Agriculture
Jardine ousted DR.. II G. Taylor, chief Of
bureau of agricultural economics.
Aug. 21-Assistant Secretary of the
ment Of "a prohibition district sdminis-
traitors
Muscle Shoals.
Aug. 31-Two navy planes began the
flight from San Francisco to Honolulu:
one broke down 800 miles out.
Fifty-ninth annual encampment of the
G. A. r. opened in Grand Rapids. Mich.
Senate recount of Iowa senatorial cleo
ton votes showed Brookhart 1S4 votes
ahead of Steck.
Sept. 1-Second navy plane forced down
near Hawaii by lack of fuel and lost
in stormy sea, with crew of five. Found
Sept. s-Navy dirigible Shenandoah
destroyed by storm in Ohio. Lieut..
Com. Zachary Lansdowne and 13 others
killed.
John B. Inman of Springfield. ILL.,, elect
ed commander in chief of G. a. r.
Sept 5-Col William Mitchell severely
criticized army and navy air service.
to WASHINGTON from vacat ton
Sept. 12-President Coolidge named
board of nine to investigate air defense.
candidate, nominated for mayor of New
York by Democrats, defeating Mayor Hv-
Ian; F. D. Waterman nominated by the
r. M La Toilette. Jr.. nominated by
Wisconsin Republicans for United
States senator: w. G. Bruce nominated
by Democrats.
Sept. 17-President's air investigation
board held first session.
Secretary kellogg Cancelled wise. of
Saklatvala, British Communist and dele
gate to Interparliamentary union.
Sept. 19-Col. William Mitchell relieved
of active service in army because of his
criticisms of air service.
Sept. OR. M. La Toilette, Jr.. elected
United States senator from Wisconsin.
Col. William Mitchell, testifying be-
criticisms of army and navy air services
and offered defense plans.
Oct. 1-Shipping board. resumed full
control of Fleet corporation.
Oct. ST. j; Thompson resigned from
shipping board
Oct. .5--Convention of American Legion
Oct. 6-President Coolidge addressed
American Legion convention, urging toll
erance. and adequate defense without
Leigh C Palmer forced to resign as
president of Fleet corporation: Elmer E.
Crowley elected to place.
Oct 8-Episcopal house of bishops af-
firmed charge of heresy against Bishop
w. NJ. Brown of Arkansas.
Oct. sTJohn R. McQuigg of Cleveland.
Ohio, was elected commander in chief
of the American Legion.
Oct 10-Episcopaliau house of deputies
voted to drop word obey from wedding
oct L-Bishop Brown deposed from
Episcopalan ministry
Lieut. Cyrus Belts, u. s. A., won
Pulitzer trophy in record time in Mitchell
Oct. 13-President Coolidge accepted
RESIGNATION OF - W. n " as VS. secretary
coed him.
Oct. 1HBshop Murray of Maryland
@sel,<x
oct. 15-Col. Hanford MacNider appoint
ed assistant secretary of war
Oct. 20-Court-martial for Colonel
Mitchell ordered to convene October 49,
Arthur r. Robinson of Indiana polls APP
pointed United States senator from In
diana to fill out term of late Senator
Oct. 2s-Lieut J. H Doolittle won
Schneider trophy in seaplane race at Bal
timore.
Oct. N-One hundred and fiftieth birth
day of the United States navy celebrated
Lieutenant Doolittle set new speed rec
ord for seaplanes at 254.71S miles an hour
at Baltimore.
Oct 2S-Court-martial of Colonel Mitch
ell opened; General Summerall, president
of the court, and Generals Bowley and
sl ads ~ Withdrawn Tn for alleged prejudice.
alien property custodian. four German
and Swiss citizens and three German and
Swiss corporations indicted by federal
defraud the United States government
Nov. 3-James j. Walker Democrat,
elected mayor of New York: A Harry
Moore, wet" Democrat, elected gov
ernor of New Jersey.
Nov. 5-Biennial convention of Anti-Sa-
loon league opened in Chicago.
Nov. 6-James E. Jones appointed direc-
tor of prohibition.
Nov. 9-Colonel Mitchell, opening his de-
tense, made a new series of charges
against the army and navy air services.
Nov. 14EGarland F. Nye appointed
United States senator SOrlie
of North Dakota to succeed the late Sem
ator Ladd-
Nov. 1S-Federal grand jury at Chicago
indicted Boston & Maine railroad and "a