The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-02-10
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
WHO'S news
THIS WEEK..
By Lemuel :. Parton
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

~ hadn't jumped out of a two
story window and escaped, 123
years ago, newspapers today
wouldn't be front.
Biggest Star paging the de-
Traced to scription of the
2-Story Leap biggest star in the
universe, 3 ,00C
times larger than the sun. They
should have named the star Napo-
leon, instead of Epsilon Aurigae.
His was the touch-off of events ter
restial which finally ranged out 5000
light years and brought news of the
giant star. Chronologically, as the
astronomers would put it, it was like
this:
Frederick Georg Wilhelm Struve
was a studious German youth who
wanted to be an astronomer, but
lacked opportunity for study. For
no apparent reason, ranging band
of Napoleon's scouts seized him and
locked him in prison on the banks
of the River Elbe.
He timed his high window-dive to
the passing of queer-looking ship,
made long, hazardous swim and
was pulled aboard. The ship was
homeward bound to Russia. The
czar was a patron of astronomy.
The young man was encouraged
and became not only director of the
observatory of the University OF
Dorpat, but one of the founders
of modern astronomy, with Herschel
and Bissel.
His sons and grandsons became
famous astronomers and it is his
great-grandson, DR.. Otto Struve,
who, with his assistants at Yerkes
observatory of the University of Chi
cago at Williams Bay, Wis, discov-
ers the facts about Epsilon Aurigae.
He is director of the observatory.
He arrived here in 1921, after fight
ing with the white armies in Russia
and fleeing to Turkey with their col
lapse. He became director of
Yerkes observatory five years ago
at the age of thirty-four.
IN THE new movie, Hollywood
Hotel" Bonnie Goodman, trump
eter and swingster, again demon
strates that he gets all the college
trade. The boys
'Grunt-iron whinny with ex-
Music Makes element at Mr..
Kids Whinnv Goodman's most
off-hand toot. Ex-
petitions sent by this department
into the far domain of youth say
it's that way all over the country,
particularly among the collegians.
The Dossier says he does it with
his ''gut-bucket, barrel-house,
screw-ban and grunt-iron music"
Be that as it may, it nets him
100000 year.
At the age of ten, he was a semi
pro vaudeville musician, earning
around 81 week in Chicago
Ghetto. He was the eighth of eleven
children of tailor who earned $40
a week. He bought mail order
clarinet on the installment plan,
and, by the time he was thirteen,
was full-fedged journeyman mu-
sician, but still in short pants.
He first got out in front in Cali
fornia, running his first band in 1881.
He slumped down to $40 week in
1884, moved in with Billy Rose, hit
his stride again, and, via radio, is a
recent arrival in the top-money
brackets.
He is twenty-seven, tall, dark, ath-
letic, good-looking, with rimless &C.
tagonal glasses, and, the more saw
age his music, the more money he
makes.
ERANKLIN MOTT GUNTHER,
American minister to Rumania,
decorously, and quite unofficially,
he says, challenges the new anti
Semitism in Ru-
mr.. GUNNER mania. He is a
Created Big suave career dip
NetDs in 1914 lomat who once
pulled headlines
as Dig as hunanla war would get
today. That was in 1914, when there
was less news.
He was guest on a yacht an
chored in Christiania harbor. The
harbor master told him that spot
had been saved for Kaiser Will
helms yacht.
There was an argument and the
harbor master said Mr.. Gunther
had clipped the cap off his head and
wouldn't pick it up. 1t boiled up in
to big international story, but Mr..
Gunther came through it nicely to
continue representing his country in
many foreign ports.
President Coolidge made him min
lister to Egypt in 1928. He is a ma
tive of New York, fifty-two years
old, an alumnus of Harvard.