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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-26
14TH ENGINEERS LEAD.
Philippine Regiment Qualities 100
Per Cent in Rife Shooting.

With record of 100 per cent quail
fed IN rife shooting. the 18th Engineer
Combat Regiment, Philippine Scouts,
stationed at Fort William Mckinley,
Philippines apparently has captured
the engineer rife record for this year.
The infantry championship, recently
announced. was taken by the Porto
Rican regiment at San Juan.
The Philippine engineers regiment,
the War Department announced today.
qualified 10 per cent assessssss<-ssss.=sA "a
per cent as sharpshooters and "a per
cert as naarksnen. The regiments
average score was 300.26 points out of
possible $50. The Porto Rican in
farlrry regiments average was 299 6
points.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-26

trihution either to motion pictures or
to the casualty list of daredeviltries.
II George Bernard Shaw visits Holly
wood. as Is intimated, there will be no
holding the Aim capital. Notables the
world over come to this section of Cali
fornia. where 9S per cent of the worlds
moving pictures are made.
Shaw. the enfant terrible OF today's
world. who releases ideas only to rouse
an entire universe to argument, has
announced his intention to accept an
invitation from Douglas Fairbanks and
Mary Pickford and visit Pickfair dur
ing the coming year.
When he encounters grandmothers In
pale blue socks and with tanned legs,
leading ladies with pale blue brains and
film executives with blue chins at din
ner time. George Bernard will give vent
to some Shaw-isms worth remembering.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-26

G. b. s. has trick Of keeping his
eye on the main chance. and he has
created more of a sensation than any
one yet appearing In movietone.
'"This," said the author proudly, lis
the best picture yet written. Marvellous
Oriental setting. Such costumesl Such
minarets!"
wait minute-wait minute" said
the studio supervisor. i've ruled dane
ing out You'll have to substitute those
minarets with some other actionl"
But the author had tainted.
Copyright, 1928. by North American
Newspaper Alliance.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-26

All the daredevils in the world are
not concerned with Brooklyn Bridge or
Niagara Falls.
Hollywood lays claim to a unique
stunt. Clyde Devilliers, British war
ace, has invented the smallest broad
casting set ever made When he jumps
from an airplane at $4,000 feet, with
the set strapped to his body. he will
broadcast his sensations as he para
chutes to the ground.
Universal City Is to be the theater of
the stunt. Devilliers will make con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-26

Aided by only five skilled workmen
and parishioners in their leisure time,
Father Highly of Limehouse, London. is
building church with seating Ca
pac!ty of 600.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-26
pr OCCASIONAL INTERESTS FAIL
TO SEPARATE LA ROCQUELOVERS
British War Ace Plans New Thrill by
Broadcasting His Sensations in
15,0OO-Feet Parachute Jump.

domesticity &c does II with the same
frenzy 1t brings to other things. Small
wonder the chatterers were surprised
when two such turtle doves considered
art before companionship.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-26
Gets Lieutenancy.

Paul F. Peter, zsiI v street. has been
commissioned a second lieutenant Of
Infantry. Army Reserve Corps, by the
War Department
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-26

tribution either to motion pictures OF
to the casualty list of daredeviltries.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-05-25
Players Toe Injured
So He Sues Railroad

A baseball player who charged that
injury to toe resulted in his failure
to make the grade" in the National
league and his subsequent trade, filed
suit in city court at Atlanta seeking
$4,000 from a railroad whose en-
ployee, he alleged, stepped on his foot.
Grover Hartley, a former catcher
for the New York Giants, filed the
suit against the Georgia railway, set
ing forth that in April, 1926, while a
passenger on the road in Fulton coun-
ty, he walked into the yestibule of a
pullman barefOoted, where a flagman
stepped on his right foot, turning and
tearing a nail from one of his toes.
This injury so slowed him down."
Hartley claimed, that Manager John
McGraw released him and that he
had to go TO LESS remunerative and
desirable place with Cleveland.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-05-25
,D0r,N03es'

There are 900, 455 motor boats reg
istered in the United States.
.
The 1929 tournament of the Ameri-
can Bowling congress will be held in
Chicago.
The 1923 Olympic program will in
clude % events for men and five events
for women.
If Voliva finds the earth is fat, as
he contends, his discovery may solve
the mystery of lost golf balls.
The G. c. in front of Charley Pyles
name doesn't stand for Cash and Car
ry, it has been discovered. 1t now
means Cross Country.
Chubby Leonard, Maryland's great
little jockey, has been riding horses
since he was five years old, when he
climbed aboard pillow horse and
promptly fell off.
Turkey will be represented in the
Olympic games by 46 athletes, as fol-
lows: Twenty football players, six
fencers, eleven wrestlers, four marks
men and five cyclists.
The finals in the American zone of
the Davis cup competition will be
played in Chicago, June l, 2 and 3.
The United States and Japan are ex-
pected to meet in the finals.
Humbert' Fugazy. Tex Richards
only rival as a boxing promoter, has
announced that his new $6,OOO,OO0
sports arena in New York for winter
athletic events will be completed by
next December.
Tennis will be played this coming
summer in the cemetery of the Church
of the Ascension in Bayswater Road,
neac London, England.
Announcement has been made that
the University of Minnesota band will
play concerts at the Olympic games,
at Amsterdam, on July 80.
With Lawson Robertson as head
coach, the American track and field
team in the Olympia games at Am
sterdam will be coached by ten men
There will be 80 athletes.
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grew fewer in number and went about
their sacred duties more slowly and
YEARLY, all that they had lost in num-
bers and physical powers seemed re-
turned in moral and spiritual strength.
In many villages and cities all over
the land, sports are nearly or quite
abandoned and the people join heart
lily with the few veterans in blue as
they come together to hold their sim
pie services. All alike seem to realize
that it is not for the living. And
while there may be tears for them,
too, the day is for the memory of the
100000 Union soldiers who gave their
lives that the nation might live"
Sew veterans in blue"-how true
that statement is of the men who have
kept alive the tradition of Memorial
day is more apparent each year when
the Memorial day parades wend their
way through the streets of American
cities and villages. In 1865 President
Andrew Johnson stood in reviewing
stand on Pennsylvania avenue in
Washington and saw 100000 men, the
soldiers of Grant and Sherman, pass
by. In 1915, President Woodrow Will
son stood on the same spot and saw
the survivors of that first grand re-
view march once more down Penn
sylvania avenue. In 80 years the 2O0,-
600 had been reduced to less than
10000. And that is typical of how
the ranks of the men who wore the
Blue as we'll as those who wore the
Gray gave been reduced by time.
So it is easy to see that the time
is near at hand when neither the Gray
nor the Blue will be represented in the
Memorial day parades which honor the
men who lost their lives when the
United States was in the thrOes of
the greatest civil war in history. But
as the gaps began to appear in the
ranks of the Blue and the Gray their
places were taken by men who wore
the khaki of 1898 and the 80. D." of
1918. For Memorial day now is more
than a day of memory for the Blue and
the Gray. This is day for hOnOring
our soldier dead, the countless host
of those who gave up their lives in
the Civil war, the Indian wars. the
Spanish war, the Philippine
instruction and the World war.
Conceived as symbol of forgive
ness for civil strife and a nation re-
united it has become the symbol of
nation more strongly united than ever
before because it honors the memory
not only of the men who fought I'M
der two different flags but also the
memory of their sons and grandsOns
who fought and died for one flag Orig
mating in the South but taken up and
made a permanent national Observ-
ance mainly by the North, the spirit
of Memorial day now knows no North,
no South, no East, no West. 1t honors
the fighting men of no particular war
hut of all wars. 1t iS the symbol of
Americas gratitude to her fighting
men who have died in her defense.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-05-25
Historic Old Deed in
Archives of VIRGINIA

Discovery of the original copy of
the birth certificate of Michigan
among the musty archives of Virginia
at Richmond, was made by Col. John
w. Williams, clerk of the Virginia
house of delegates.
This document is the original deed
by which Virginia conveyed the North
west territory to the United States.
Later the Northwest territory was
carved to make Michigan, Ohio, In
diana and Illinois.
The deed, handwritten and yellow
with age, was discovered in the mid
die of an ancient volume of papers,
one of the many which Colonel VIII
liams has been indexing for years. 1t
bears the signature of Thomas Jeffer-
son, Samuel Hardy, Arthur Lee and
James Monroe, delegates for the
commonwealth in the congress of the
United States"
Probably the most remarkable fea-
ture of the ancient document is Vir-
ginia's stipulation that the states to
be carved from the territory must be
distinct Republican states" limited in
size to be not more than $50 or less
than 100 miles square.-DetrOit News.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-05-25
Put Ban on Sailing in
American League Race

"Stalling' will be reduced to
minimum in the 1923 American league
race, President Z. S. Barnard said in
his personal Interpretation of the
leagues new general and ground
rules.
In the future the batter will be eX-
pected to remain in his box until his
time at bat is ended unless granted
permission TO leave by the umpire.
No parades of succeeding batsmen,
each swinging anywhere from two to
four bats, will be permitted and the
players will be prohibited from taking
seats in the stands, practice in some
parks.
To further speed up preliminary
practice, one umpire will be delegated
each day TO be present on the field an
hour in advance of the advertised time
of starting to insure visiting teams
it's proper time for batting and field
ing practice and to preclude posi-
bilities of a late starting game, the
president said.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-05-25
Legs of Ball Players
Cause of Much Concern

Trainers in the various big league
camps this spring devoted much of
their time to the legs of the valuable
athletes. In baseball the legs count
most. Many player who can still
see the ball to hit it finds that his I'M
derpinnings have gone back on him,
and he can't run out his hits after he
makes them. No players career ever
Outlasted his legs. A well-known
trainer remarked the other day:
players never think of their legs;
all they think about is their arms.
But what they do not realize is that
no arm was ever in shape before the
legs. If the legs are still stiff, sore
or tender, then the player ought to
realize that it's too early to cut loose
with the arm"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-05-25
WALTER LUTZKE
GOES TO NEWARK
Indians Send "Rube" to
Walter Johnson's Team.

Walter Lutzke, third baseman on
the Cleveland baseball team since
1923, has been sold to the Newark
club of the International league. The
deal was announced by Billy Evans
after conference with Jimmy Sin
mott, business manager of the Newark
club.
AT least seven class AA clubs were
after him, but the Indians sent him
to Newark in preference to any other
place as they were eager to make an
alliance with the New Jersey team.
At Newark Lutzke will play for
Walter Johnson, the man off whom he
seldom made hit when both were in
the American league. Johnson and
Paul Block, owner of the Newark
club, have lined up a great team for
that city and RUDE is expected to be
one of the mainstays of the outfit.
Lutzke was one of the greatest
fielders the American league has seen
in years, but never could hit up to
major league Standards. He came to
the Tribe in 1923, after e. S. Bar
nard had paid Kansas City in the
neighborhood of $4,000 for his re-
lease. He supplanted Larry Gardner
at third for the Tribe and was a regu-
lar until the close of the 1927 season.
When in the minors, RUDE always
was 300 hitter and made many ex.
ira base blows.
With the departure of Lutzke the
third base job on the Cleveland team
goes to Johnny HOdapp. Johnny is
not the fielder RUDE was, but is bet
ter hitter, much faster and younger.
RUDE has turned thirty in years and
was slowing up each season.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-05-25
Pitchers Famed Many

In the entire history of baseball
there are only two records of pitch
ers who famed 800 or more batsmen
in a season. John G. ClarksOn, with
the Saginaw club of the Northwestern
league in 1884, and finishing that sea-
son with Chicago, had record of 511
strikeouts in SO games. Matty Kilroy
of the Baltimore club of the old Amer
lean association in 1886, struck out
sos men in Go games. These records
are expected to stand for many years,
as pitchers do not strive for records
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-05-25

niscences of the earlier observances
of Memorial day were published In a
seemed for many years that the OBJ
servance of the day in the spirit of
Order No. IL was left to the veterans
only, while others made merry on this
legal holiday, going to horse races,
prize fights and all kinds of noisy
amusements. This class called it Dec
grafton day. AS a rule the veterans
made no protest to what seemed to
them a dissertation of the day. They
met and carried out the mandate of
Order No. IL and did so patiently and
devotedly. But of late years there has
been marked reaction. AS the old men
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-05-25
The Blue and the Gray

By the flow of the inland river,
Whence the fleets of iron have fled,
Where the blades of the grave-grass
CULVER,
Asleep are the ranks of the deadI
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment-day;
Under the one, the Blue,
Under the other, the Gray.
These in the robings of glory,
Those in the gloom of defeat,
All with the battle-blood CORY,
In the dusk of eternity meet;
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment-day;
Under the laurel, the Blue,
Under the willow, the Gray.
From the silence OF sorrowful hours
The desolate mourners go,
Lovingly laden with flowers
Alike for the friend and the foe;
Under the sod and the dew
Waiting the judgment-day,
Under the roses, the Blue,
Under the lilies, the Gray.
So with an equal splendor,
The morning sun-rays fan,
With a touch impartially tender,
On the blossoms blooming for all;
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment-day;
Broidered with gold, the Blue,
MelIowed with gold, the Gray.
So, when the summer calleth,
On forest and field of grain,
With an equal murmur falleth
The cooling drip of the rain,
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment-day;
Wet with the rain. the Blue,
Wet with the rain. the Gray.
Sadly, but not with upbraiding,
The generous dep& was done,
In the storm of the years that are [
fading
No Drawer battle was won:
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment-day;
Under the blossoms, the Blue,
Under the garlands, the Gray.o
No more shall the war-cry sever,
Or the winding rivers be red;
They Danish our anger forever
When they laurel the graves Of our
dead:
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the fundamentally,
Love and tears for the Blue,
Tears and love for the Gray.
Francis Miles Finch.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-05-25
Most Valuable Player

HOWE Morenz, center player Of the
Montreal Canadians and leading in.
dividual scorer in the National Hockey
league, has been adjudged the most
valuable player to his team, thereby
gaining possession of the Hart trophy
for the next Il months. MOrenz was
voted the most valuable player award
by committee of hockey writer's rep
resenting each city on the big league
circuit. Out of possible number OF
$40 votes, Moreno received 1913. The
odd votes were scattered.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-05-25
BY ELMO SCOTT WATSON

- EARLY every American is
J. ]. !. !. !: !. !. !. !. !.
EM familiar with the story of
tlA &A the origin of Memorial
IEllA VIal day-how a group of
IAIiaA <iE women in Columbus, Miss,
tslltskHl soon after the close of the
VXEkHs Civil war, decided to set
~kD aside April 20 as a spe-
cial day for decorating
the graves of Confederate dead, how
on that date in 1866 they covered with
flowers not only the graves of their
own kinsmen but of Union soldiers as
well, how the story of this gracious
act was reported in northern newspa-
pers the next spring and sent thrill
throughout the North and how it led
directly the next year to the issuing
of the famous Order No. IL by Gen.
John A. Logan which resulted in the
observance of a national memorial day
from that time on. But not many are
so familiar with the story of how
poem also resulted from the action of
these southern women and the part
1T played in doing away with the bit
terness which had been carried over
from the war between the states.
In Ithaca, n. Y, there lived
young lawyer named Francis Miles
Finch. When he heard what the Col
umbus (Miss.) women had done it in
spired him to write the verses which
he gave the title of 1.-THE Blue and the
Gray" When this poem was published
it seemed to strike a responsive chord
in the hearts of thousands and it was
widely reprinted and later set to
music and sung According to one
historian, "the singing and reading of
Finch's poem did more to re-establish
harmony than any of the well thought
out plans of reconciliation of the Dip
lomatS."
of his famous addresses in referring
TO the custom of decorating the graves
of the soldier dead on Memorial day,
said: ''Thus out of sorrows common
alike to North and South came this
beautiful custom" Although the in
spiration for the observance of Memo.
rial day came from group of south
ern women, it was the large group
of northern men who kept the custom
alive in its earliest days. This group
was the Grand Army of the Republic.
The Grand Army of the Republic, or
the G. A. r. as it is more fapsiliarly
known, was organized in Decatur, ILL.,,
April 6, 1866, at the suggestion of DR..
b. Stephenson and Chaplain w. ].
Rutledge of the Fourteenth Illinois in
fantry. Its membership was composed
of northern veterans of the Civil war
and at one time this membership
reached the total of 409,4S9
Perhaps its most famous command
er was Gen. John A. Logan who, as
previously noted, issued the famous
order which led to the regular Observ-
ance of Memorial day. In the words
OF one G. A. r. veteran, whose remi-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-05-25
Debt to the Soldier Dead

The wounds of war healed quickly.
The vitality and strength of our ma
ton shortened its convalescence after
q catastrophe upheaval which ex-
acted a heavier toll from others.
Momentarily restrained, perhaps. but
unweakened, we have gone forward to
reap a harvest. In the manifold bless
ings of peace, sprung from seed sown
with the lives of our men and women
who died that there might be such
Washington Star.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-05-25
The Dead at Thiaucourt

From the day In the fall of 1917
when the first enemy shell struck
down the first three Americans who
fell in France, Gresham, Enright and
Hay, until the last soldier of the
A. e. r. was on homebound transport
there were casualties, and often fatal
ones. Death walked close at hand.
and few took heed. Now to return to
the quiet fields, and walk through the
paths at Thiaucourt, brings pause and
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-05-25

in its sides and collapsed It on the
Germans, taking nearly 10000 prison
ers in the operation After that the
st. Mihiel salient never bothered any,
one. In taking 1t, the Yanks took the
town of Thiaucourt. and at the euge
of that town there later was located
the permanent American cemetery,
where rest the dead from the st. Mi
hiel drive, and also the many others
who died in training or In battle in
that area of northeastern France,
which was the training ground of
the A. z. r.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-05-25
Great American Victory

The battle of st. Mihiel, because
IT was such an almost perfect vic
tory, was regarded by some as an
easy achievement. The more than
1000 dead give no such evidence, for
while not that many st. Mihiel dead
remain at Thiaucourt, great many
have been brought back to the states
these seven or eight years gone. 1t
was a perfect victory in that every
objective was taken on schedule time,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-05-25
Better Than Some

A small girl won a doll as a prize,
and, when asked what she intended
to call it, said: "Sershi."
The child explained that she had
got the idea from the song, Ppm GO
ing a-milking, sir she said."-BOstOn
Post.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-05-25

or sooner. But the perfect victory
was scored only by the perfect cOur
age of half million American fight
ing men, and by the heroic sacrifice
of many who were left on the field,
as the timed movements Of the
drive surged on to seize each chosen
objective
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-05-25
kismet

Angry Wife-YOu saw me slipping
down the cliff and yet you made no
attempt to save me.
Husband-I did, l tell you; ran
down here to try to catch you, but
you got down frst.-MOntreal Star.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-05-25

thought. When the thousands of
American Legionnaires returned to
France for their convention, and Wis
tied these battlefield cemeteries, they
experienced new feeling about the
war. Many things have happened In
the life of each veteran since he was
there in 1918 But those who lie at
Thiaucourt have been lying there sll
the years. and will lie there all the
years to coiie
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-05-25

bottles I began doing my work and
I feel like a new woman. l recon-
mend the Vegetable Compound to
my friends and say it will do all it
claims to do and more. / will gladly
answer all letters l recive."-MRs.
s. T.. STEELE. Pratt, w. Va.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-05-25

all the time and
couldn't sit up
and 1 am only
80 years old. I
saw your adver-
tising in a mag
azine and after /
had taken three
doses of Lydia F.
Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound
1 could feel tha5
I was better. At
fer taking two
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-05-25
A Life SdUer

"Cap'n, our foghorn won't work !''
"WHAT??!r
"Lor' bless We, cap'n, if you can say
that every ten seconds in the sama
voice we are saved !'-Exchange.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-05-25
The Luu

Il understand that your wife
thought of taking up law before She
married you"
That's so. Now, however, she's
content to lay it down !"-Bystander.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-05-25
At St. Mihiel

On September II, 1917, the first
American army, trained and operating
as a unit, attacked the st. Mihiel sa-
lient both from west and south. drove
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-05-25
Could Be Worse

Jeffery-So you're on the mailing
list of an oil stock company?
ThOmas-Yes, and that's better
than being on their waiting list.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-05-25

Because of the belief that the souls
of ancestors are transferred to chill
dren, Eskimo natives do not punish
their offspring.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-05-25

If some people were to think twice
before speaking they would never say
anything.