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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-03-04

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Boxing is replacing military train
ing in Germany.
There are 26,7OO sporting clubs in
England with a membership Of 1,400,-
600.
Barefoot football is sport feature
In Hawaii. Punts frequently average
so yards.
The worlds heavyweight crown Is
said to be worth 100000 to $780,
600 to its possessor.
Basket ball was originated 35 years
ago by DR.. James Nainsmith, now at
the University of Kansas.
The largest football score on record
was made at King college, Bristol,
Va, 2O6 against Lenoirs 0, In 1922.
British athletes have decided to take
part in the winter sports section of
the Olympic games at st. Moritz in
1928.
Barook Masuda, a member of the
westling team of the University of
Pennsylvania, is an Egyptian. He is
from Cairo.
According to it's showing at the
gate this year, professional football is
destined, in time, to be one Of our
most amateur sports.
Charles Vimmy Of Oakland, Calf,
though born legless, is an expert
swimmer. His time for ten miles is
6 hours and 43 minutes.
Boxing fans paid the enormous total
of 81, 790,993.15 to the Garden in New
York city during the three years the
big arena has been in operation.
Johnny Weismuller Of the Illinois
A. c. has a record of covering 100
yards in As As seconds, considered one
of the impossible" feats of swimming.
Princeton has adopted the huddle
system for basket ball. The quintet
will go into huddle before each tip
off to give the signal for the offensive
play.
The names Of all the offsprings of
the famous race horse, Man O. War,
have some warlike significance, such
as Crusader, Scapa Flow, Mars, Amer
lean Flag, Edith Cavell, etc..
George Grantham, first baseman of
the Pittsburgh Pirates, has what the
boys are wont to call soft job. He
is doorkeeper at the senate cham
Der Of the Arizona legislature.
A city playground hockey league,
recently organized in London, Ont,
will be governed by unwritten laws of
craftsmanship and fair play, no con-
stitution having been adopted.
Golfers of the United States spend
at least one and a quarter billions Of
dollars each year for the maintenance
Of their game, exclusive of the salaries
of club executives, clerks and other
help.
Unlike many other golf profession
ais, Walter Hagen goes in for other
sports He has an interest in the
Seminole greyhound race track in
Florida and owns several racers him
SELF
The Eastern Bowling league, new
association In process of formation,
will be represented by teams in New
York, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Philadelphia.
Syracuse, Rochester, Newark and
Utica.
Tom Blodgett, who was once given
tryout by the Yankees, pitched
game for an independent Nebraska
club in June, 1919, and struck out 26
! batters, walked one and threw one out
at first on a grounder.
Alas, the Nashville ball park last
week was flooded to depth of 20 feet
and no one thought to call 1t a dia-
mond Of the first water.
The scandals will be total failure
IL they don't inspire the raucous fan
to some very choice remarks next
spring when the playing gets sloppy.
Tom Tothill, the north of England
billiard champion, recently defeated
Stanley Newman by 5000 to 7,4S3
points in challenge match at To
ronto.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-03-04
Both Are Desirable

Greater usefulness and not a long
life should be mans aim, New York
health expert insists; nevertheless,
the impulse in some men is to strive
for both.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-03-04

yet notice you sit through them, show
after show"
"Well," said Arthur, "the rope might
break, and l really think If I could
see one acrobat killed l would die
happy"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-03-04
Snakes DeodIiest Enemy

Nearly all animals and birds are
deathly afraid of the snake. This,
however, is not true of the hog which
soon makes short work Of them, after
which they eat the reptile
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-03-04

critical period of life
when doctors did me no
good. / got five bottles
of the Prescription
and / feel it saved my
life. I also took three
bottles of DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Dis
covery for stomach
trouble and nervous
ness, together with the
Pleasant Pellets and
was perTnanentlv re-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-03-04
Deceptiue Fat Man

Jud Tunkins says overweight is al
ways associated with geniality and
comfort. A fat man is one of the
greatest of optical illusions.-Wash-
ington Star.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-03-04

!. lieved. / don't think Dr. Pierce's med
Scines can be beat for know they saved
my life. feel that if others would take
them they would be saved lots of money!,
Mrs. A. D. Smith.
All druggists. Tablets or liquid.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-03-04
DEMAND "BAYER" ASPIRIN
Take Tablets Without Fear If You
See the Safety "Bayer Cross"

Warning! Unless you see the name
''Bayer" on package or on tablets you
are not getting the genuine Bayer
Aspirin proved safe by millions and
prescribed by physicians for 26 years.
Say 'cBayer" when you buy Aspirin.
limitations may prove dangerous.-Adv
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-03-04
Motorcycle Pal Of
Young Enters Movies

William Hastings, pal of
George Young on the long mo-
torcycle trek from Toronto, Ont,
to California, announced he had
signed film contract for pic
ture In which the seventeen
year-Old winner Of the $4,000
Santa Catalina channel swim
will not appear.
The contract will pay young
Hastings a minimum salary OF
$500 a week with 80 per cent
interest in the profits of the
film. The scenario is based on
the adventures Of the two boys
on their way from Canada to
southern California in order that
Young might compete In the
ocean marathon. Young Is re-
ported to have a contract for
similar film under consideration.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-03-04
Eat EeIs and Liue Long

Baron Kihachiro Okura's retire
ment at the age of ninety-one brings
to light an important fact. He at
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-03-04

The rising generation ought to pat
ronize aviation schools.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-03-04

Sparks Of genius have nothing In
common with love making.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-03-04

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Some people think they are entitled
TO lot of credit for doing as they
please.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-03-04
A Hint For You

White Cloud, Kans. II took DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription during the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-03-04

Burning Skin Diseases
quickly relieved and healed by Coles
Carbolisalve Leaves no scars. No medi-
cine chest complete without it 3oc and
6ec at druggists, or j. w. Cole Co., Rock
ford, Il.-Advertisement.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-03-04

White lies are apt to leave black
marks on a mans reputation.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-03-04
BY ELMO SCOTT WATSON

RY TO picture a simple
little frame house stand
ing on the wooded shores
Of a lazily-flowing stream
only u few miles from a
great city where the
roar and clatter of traffic
never ceases day or
night. But out here these
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-07
s4U. s. SHIPS AT HAND.
Largest Number Of Naval Vessels Is
at Shanghai.

Twenty-fur American men.o1'"ar
are in Chinese waters, six OF them at
Tankow. where recent disturbances
have caused requests for protection,
according to an official Navy an
nouncement. Two destroyers, the
Truxtun and Pope. are at Hankow'
with the Isabella, a converted yacht'
the Palos and the Villalobos, river
gunboats, and the m1nesweeper
Pigeon.
The greatest force Is at Shanghai.
where seven destroyers, two gungoats
and two destroyer mine layers are
centered. The destroyers are the Par
rott. Edsall, McLeish, Simpson, Bull
mer. Mccormick and Peary. The
gunboats Asheville and Sacramento
and the mine layers Rial and Hart
complete this detail.
other destroyerS are the Ford, at
Wuhu, and the Pillsbury. at Marking.
River gunboats are at Ichang. where
the Elcano is stationed: at Chunking.
where the Monocacy Is, and at Can
ton, where the Pampanga Is lying to.
The gunboat Helena Is at Bras Bay
and the minesweeper Penguin at
Kiukiang. '"
six dcstroyers have left Manila dur
ing the last few days, ffor sea-" but
no information was obtainable at the
Navy Department as to whether they
might put into ChineFA porta
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couldn't tell all the story. because he
didn't know ii. | can tell 1t, and no
man can scare me-
Whereas Risberg's story was gen
eral. Gandil's charges are definite. He
names several players and tells the
part which he said they played III
games he alleges were thrown"
Pertinent paragraphs in his af.
fidaYit are:
II know that the four games Sep
tember 2 and 3, 1917. were thrown by
Detroit to Chicago, and that subse
quently a fund of money was raised
to which all save one or two of the
White Sox team contributed s45
apiece, and that subsequently the
money was delivered by me to Bill
James, pitcher for Detroit.
AT the time the series began Chi
cago was two games in the lead. with
Boston pressing them. The winning
of four games would make Chicago S
pennant chances almost sure
whereas the loss of even half those
games would cut the margin of the
Sox over Boston TO almost nothing.
Our club left Chicago after thosg
four games. 1t was upon our return
that l first heard mention Of what
we ought to do for the Detroit play.
ers.
Some one suggested giving them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-07
EXODUS DESPITE PLEDGE.
Americans Continue to Leave Han.
kow. San Francisco Hears.

SAN FRANCISCO, January Z LP).-
dispatch received here today direct
from Hankow, filed at 8:45 o'clock last
night, indicated the exodus Of Ameri.
cans from the riot ridden Chinese CITY
was continuing In spite of the urgent
invitation of Eugene Chen, Cantonese
minister of foreign affairs, for them
to remain.
The message makes no direct men
ton of the situation in the British
concession. but indicates the Chinese
still were in control of that section of
the foreign colony.
The dispatch said it was felt in
some quarters by the Chinese that
Americans were leaving in sympathy
with the British evacuation move, and
the Cantonese government felt the re.
action among the natives might be in
furious to the Americans.
Conditions were reported Quieter,
although a panicky feeling prevails,
banks and business firms remaining
closed"
Telegraphic facilities out Of Hankow
are reported to be swamped. Mes
sages reaching here show delays Of as
much as Is hours.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-07

British warships reported to De rae
ing up the Yangtse from Honskong,
washington dispatches say there are
six American naval vessels at Han
low They are the converted yacht
isabel. gunboat Palos. mine sweeper
pigeon gunboat Villalobos and the
destroyers Pope and Truxtun. There
are ia other American naval units IN
Chinese waters. most OF them at
The Daily Telegraph said:
"A swift and decisive change IN tne
british policy is demanded by the
crnshine proof, furnished at Hankow,
of the unwisdom of relying upon con-
Citation at all costs.
The Daily News. however, aaVo-
Gated British recognition of the Can
tonese government.
e58 Sail for Shanghai.
SHANGHAI, January %.--A
d,snatch from Hankow says 2oS
Rritish women and children and a
few men sailed for Shanghai yester-
day morning. ..o
Word from Kiukiang says there
was a riot there yesterday afternoon,
6,rected against the foreign conces-
sion. but that Chinese military ponce
arrived in time. to prevent invasion
Of the foreign colony.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-07

covered the weather, the audibility
and the public interest In the new
service.
a reporter from each paper also
talked over the line before the call
was concluded
One of the first persons to carry on
a business conversation was Adolph
Zukor, president OF the Famous
, PlayerLasky Corporation Incident
ly, it was his fiftyfourth birthday.
$5,OOO,OOO Good Morning"
More than $4,000, 900 worth of equip.
ment was in use for the opening of
the service.
The voice on its journey from New
York travelled by land wire to the
Rocky Point radio transmitting sta.
ton on Long Island, where it was
thrust across the $3.50 air miles TO
Wroughton. England. where it again
went by land wire to London. The
westward route carried the voice from
London to the Rugby transmitting
station, then over 2,29@ air miles to
Houghton, Me.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-07
MEXICO DERIDES ACTION.
Officials See Sacasa Victory Before
Diaz Gets Help.
By Cable to The Star aud Chicago Daily
News. Copyright. 1927

By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright. 1877.
MEXICO CITY. January dis
patches announcing the increase or
Rear Admiral Latimer's squadron in
%icaraguan waters 10 seven cruisers,
seven destroyers and one mine sweep
or are looked upon locally as a demon
stration against the reported Mexican
backing Of the SacaSa Liberal party
in the troublesome Central American
republic.
The report that the force of the
squadron is now 5000, including 500
marines available for landing; that
President DiaZ will soon receive Amer
lean arms and ammunition in large
quantities, while Sacasa will not be al
lowed to receive any except from
authorized sources" and that at the
same time the United States is pur-
suing policy of neutrality between
the rival factions, is considered here
as best evidence of American lack
of neutrality and is accepted with
derision.
The crux of the American interven-
ton In Nicaragua and the sincerity
of the statement that American action
has been taken solely to protect
American interests could be estab-
which have been damaged or which
are being Jeopardized. the local Off
Gals claim. Unless such disclosure
Is made. they say, the world can ac-
cept Sacasa's official declaration that
no such interests are placed in the
slightest danger.
Unless American arms and ammuni-
ton reach Diaz in the near future.
the view here is that Sacasa may we'll
have won out and the revolution will
be over.
In the oil controversy between Mexi-
co and the United States both sides
continue to mark time, and the situa-
ton probably will continue as at pres
ent until Mexico takes some positive
action.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-07
BANDIT Who SHOT
VICTIM IS HUNTED
Posses Seeking Man Who
Held Up Powder Plant EN-
ploye Near Indian Head.
special Dispatch 70 The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
INDIAN HEAD, Md, January -
Posses under command of Sheriff
Cooksey are securing the country
side In this vicinity today for the
bandit. or bandits, who early today
shot and seriously wounded J. Ed
ward Carpenter, employee of the Gov
eminent powder plant here, and
robbed him Of his weekly pay en-
velope.
Carpenter. a son-in-law of the
sheriff. was attacked shortly after
midnight near the Government
Bridge. just outside the military
reservation. as he was on his way to
his home at Rison, Md, several miles
distant
Fellow employees who were follow
ing few hundred feet to the rear of
Carpenter heard the shot, but arrived
at the scene of the shooting too late
to see the assailant.
Rushed to Hospital
The wounded man, unconscious
from a bullet wound in the head, was
carried to the naval dispensary and
then rushed to Washington aboard a
tug, in company with a. naval sur
geon.
The tug was met at the Washington
Navy Yard by an ambulance, which
carried him to Providence Hospital.
Surgeons there this afternoon were
delaying an operation, in view of Car.
penter's serious condition. The bullet,
il was said. is in the brain.
Carpenter is believed to have had
about $35 when he was held up. He
%as paid off last night and was walk.
ing alone to his home because of an
inca pacitated automobile.
Find Traces Of Struggle.
Marines from the reservation who
Investigated found evidence of a strug.
gle where Carpenter fell. and the
anptied pay envelope was discovered
on the ground nearby. it's flap torn
open. A flashlight. thought to have
been owned by the victim. also was
found.
Carpenter is 35 years of age. He is
married and has seven children, all
girls. The oldest daughter is 10. Mrs
carpenter went TO the Washington
hospital this morning in company
with two of her husbands brothers
d, Lawrence G. and Robert w. Carpen
Ter. both of Washington. The broth
ers were summoned here early today
from their home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-07
WOODS SAYS POST
HAS NO STRINGS.
Tells Senators He Would Not
Participate in Lake Cargo
Rate Case.

Cyrus r. Woods. named by Presiden
Coolidge 10 the Interstate Commerce
Commission. told a Senate committee
today that If his nomination were con
hrmed, he would not participate IL
the commissions decision in the pend
ing lake cargo coal freight rate case
He explained that it would be "ar
extremely bad case" for him to take
part in. because it involved rates from
his home district.
Pressed by Senator Nicely, Democrat
West Virginia, the former Ambassador
o Spain and Japan said that II there
were a. continuation of the case altei
the commission had rendered its De
cision in the pending application nc
would feel that he would stu DE
ineligible to participate.
80 Would View Broadly.
III go on the commission, l shall
try to treat all questions from
broad national viewpoint and MOI
from a sectional viewpoint" said MI
Woods. whose nomination is being OPP
posed because of his participation In
the recent Republican primary In
Pennsylvania and his former service
as general counsel for the PITTSBURGH
Coal Co.
Mr.. Woods said he did not seek APP
pointment to the commission. but Sen
Rtor Reed, Republican, Pennsylvania
had asked him If he would permit the
presentation of his name to the Presl-
dent
did You discuss the lake cargo
case with Senator Reed" inquired
Senator Golf, Republican, West
Virginia.
Most emphatically no." Woods re.
Piled.
No Strings Attached.
isn't it a fact that Secretary
Mellon was largely responsible for
your appointments"
81 don't know. Senator Reed knows
the details. do not"
Woods told the committee that after
Senator Reed had spoken TO him he
saw Secretary Mellon and asked his
opinion as to his fitness for the office
did YOU ask Secretary Mellon what
You We're to do after you got on the
commission" asked Senator Wheeler,
Democrat, Montana.
Absolutely not" Woods returned
with emphasis And want to say
right here that no one has any strings
O'A itiC anu OOIi liiAuh any OJlC
wants to have any"
Ir0ned Out Differences.
Questioned at length about his par,
ticipation in the Pennsylvania prim-
cry last Summer. Woods denied testi-
mony of Joseph E. Grundy before the
Senate campaign funds committee
that he had been the manager for the
combined Pepper Ffsher,Smith-W Wood
ward ticket on behalf of which nearly
100000 was spent.
The former Ambassador said there
had been friction between the Pepper
and Fisher headquarters and that
about three weeks before the cam.
paign ended he was called in as sort
OF ambassador to iron out the differ
ences. He added that only controver-
sial matters were referred 10 him.
There Is not a line of testimony be-
fore the Reed committee to show that
] collected any money or distributed
any money In that campaign Woods
said. II had no knowledge Of 1t in
any wey whatsoever.
IF there was anything wrong in
what / did in that campaign. then you
have got TO say that no citizen Of any
State can take any part in any polit-
icai campaign"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-07
AMERICAN WOMEN
LEAVE HANKOW ON
ADVICE OF CONSUL

Continued from First Page.l
We're hurt, and their injuries were
slight.
Chen's proclamation declared the
Nationalist government establishes a
commission of provisional administra-
ton in the British concession TO as.
sumo control of public safety and
municipal affairs, undertaking full
responsibility for the safety of foreign
lives and property
The proclamation Is equivalent in
effect to retrocession of the British
concession with the Chinese remain.
ing In full control of all bureaus in
the district. Because of a steady rain
rev people were on the streets
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-07
PRINCES COMING ALMOST SURE
Only Urgent Demands Will Prevent
Visit to America,

LONDON. January 7 FD.--Only ur,
gent demands for the presence of
the Prince of Wales lin England on
official duties, 1t is understood, will
prevent an American visit this year,
news of which was sent by radio
phone from London to New York
today.
After the prince attends the jubilee
celebra ton at Ottawa in July, he
plans to spend a vacation on his
ranch in Alberta. then to revisit Mid.
western United States and later to
go to New York for the Angio-Amer-
lean polo matches before returning
home.
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and had been declared President and
Iuderto ok 10 assume power.
Nov. the result of it is that we
have recognized those who started the
revolution against the legally and con
stitutionally elected president and
vice president. Diaz hasn't any more
right under the constitution to be
president than any other person in
Nicaragua who might have been
chosen.
"D!az is president in violation of
every provision of the constitution,
and in violation Of the tive-power
treaty in Central America and is held
there by sheer force of foreign arms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-07
SEEKS WIFE, GETS POLICE.
Man Asks Phone Operator Where
to Find a Spouse

NEW YORK. January Up].--It is
seldom that the oracles occupying
telephone information desks here are
etumped, but no ready answer was
avatlable when caller asked TO be
advised where he might find Il wife.
Inflammation" switched the inquiry
20 a nolice station and the spouseless
ons was placed under observation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-07
Comstock Divorce Fought,

MIAMI, Fla. January 7 CP.-Coun.
sci for Mrs. Evelyn Cady of Chicago
yesterday relied bill for review in
Circuit Court of the divorce decree
granted her former husband, Stanley
r. Comstock. wealthy Detroit and
Miami Beach sportsman and ne-time
t1anCe of Peggy HOPKINS joyce.
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(Continued from EIIsL . akS:g
time when the situation In Nicaragua
,.as satisfactory, generally speaking.
They forced solozarno to retire as
PRESIDENT. Thereupon. or course
sacasa. as Vice President, would ne'
conoe president. But they drove MN
o,It of the country under a threat OF
death. and then Chamorro had hlmseiI
elected President by the Congress.
"Rut our Government refused 10
recognize Chamorro. Chamorro tnen
stepped aside, and under pressure
compelled the Congress to eject Olal;
In the meantime Sacasa had returneu