The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-03-15

Congratulations are in order for
Coach Buckley and his winning team
of basketball players. The team this
year is by far the best basketball ma
chine ever appearing on the Ely floor,
barring none The tournament Just
passed through proved to our visitors
that we have the facilities to care for
crowds and gymnaSiums TO accommo-
date the largest tournament ever pulled
of in the northwest.
The tournament of last week also
proved that such affairs can be handled
without the usual quarrelling and bick-
erings INDUCED in at affairs Of this
kind Not a thing happened to mar
the occasion. This is largely accounted
for in the efficiency and fairness CT
the referee and umpire. HalSey Hall Of
Minneapolis certainly handled the
tournament as referee without a pro-
tested decision.
Ely won the trophy and was present.
ed with the same after Saturday even
ing's game. Coach Buckley received
the statute on behalf of his team from
the hands Of Supt. Berquist of Aurora,
one of the Seventh District Athletic
Board. Each of the team were also
presented with silver medal.
While we are passing out commenda-
tons it will also be fitting and proper
to put in word for Mayor Hanson and
his police department. The handling of
the hordeS of followers from the range
towns was masterfully done. Thou
sands Of people were here and not one
was arrested and no accident happened
to mar the festivities.
Radio has done more within the
span of few years to popularize good
music than any other medium could
have done in thousand years. That
is the view Of DR.. Frederick Stock,
scholarly conductor of the world fam
Gus Chicago Symphony Orchestra,
heard every Sunday night, 600 to 700
P. NJ, in concerts sponsored by the
Standard Oil Company of Indiana
through stations associated with the
National Broadcasting Companys sys-
tenn.
The supreme court of the United
States will decide the oft mooted ques-
ton Of can the President of the
United States kill legislation that has
passed both houses of Congress by
means of the pocket veto, or failure
to approve or disapprove a measured"
Ely had at least one of its native
sons at the Inauguration ceremonies
in Washington on March T. Ewald L.
Almen, son of Mr.. and Mrs Charles
Almen, who is state editor for the As
ISOLATED Press in its Milwaukee bureau.
covered" the part Wisconsin played in
the inaugural. He was one of those who
shook hands with President Hoover at
the executive Offices in the White
House the day after Herbert Hoover's
induction into Office Mr. Almen was
recently assigned as the newspaperman
aboard a special eleven car Wisconsin
goodwill tour train which toured 5000
miles Of the south and east The train
went as far south as Jacksonville, Fla,
The itinerary was Milwaukee, Chicago,
indianapolis, Cincinnati, Louisville,
Chattanooga, Tenn, Atlanta, Ga, Sa-
vannah, Ga, Raleigh, N. c., Columbia,
s. c., Baltimore, Md, Harrisburg and
Pittsburgh, Penn, and Columbus, Ohio.
While there is a wide divergence of
opinion as to the effect of the Jones
law increasing the maximum penalty
for bootlegging to 5 years in prison
and $4,000 fine, Calvin Coolidge who
signed the bill just before he left the
White House, believes it will materially
help the enforcement officers. The fea-
ture of the bill which impressed Cool
idge most was the provision authoriz-
ing the deportation Of foreigners con-
o. victed Of repeated violation of the law
against the sale Of ardent spirits. Both
proponents and opponents of prohibi
ton seem to be pleased over the exc
cutive signing the new and drastic law.
Advocates Of prohibition and more
rigid enforcement express confidence
that the severe penalty will serve as
a serious deterrent to liquor selling.
Those who have opposed prohibition
say the drastic law will defeat its
own purpose because juries will be less
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