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Headed by Valentine Bialis of Utica and Lake Placid, America’s team of Olympic speedkaters sailed last Thursday for Oslo, Norway, where they will train for three weeks in the European style of speedskating against time before going to St. Moritz on Feb. 11 for the three-day Olympic test.

Other members of the team are O’Neill Farrell and Eddie Murphy of Chicago, Irving Jaffee of New York, and Herman Perleberg of Cleveland. Oscar Hansen, of Chicago, is the manager of the speedskating team.

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1932 Olympic bid

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A determination to put Lake Placid on the map as a world center of winter sports is seen in the departure of Lake Placid Club Vice President Godfrey Dewey for Switzerland next Saturday.

Dr. Dewey will attend the 1928 Olympics and as a representative of Lake Placid will make every effort to secure the 1932 Olympic winter sports competitions here. Prospects are considered excellent and opinion is unanimous that no single event could do more to enhance further the resort’s fame as a winter sports center.

Dr. Dewey will incidentally prolong his stay to make an exhaustive study of bobsled runs in leading European winter resorts. Plans are in the making to construct a bobsled run in this section that will be the longest, fastest and most thrilling in the world and future developments will hinge largely upon Dr. Dewey’s report upon his return to this country.

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Trooper rum runner

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Douglas Cooper, a former member of Troop B, State Police, was taken into custody last Saturday night at the Stevens farm on the Harrietstown Road near Saranac Lake on a charge of conspiracy and possession and transportation of liquor. Beer was said to have been stored in the Stevens barn without the owner’s permission.

Troopers, who had been tipped off, thought that an attempt might be made to load the beer that night. Cooper and two others were arrested a short time later as they drove up in two cars.

In the summer of 1926, Cooper, then a member of the state constabulary, was one of a detail stationed to guard President Calvin Coolidge’s summer White House on Osgood Pond.

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More development

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A development for Lake Placid within the next 10 years is forecast by the action of the board of directors of the chamber of commerce in backing a quarter-million-dollar development program for the village at their meeting last week.

President Julian Reiss outlined the project tentatively and pointed out that entertainment facilities elsewhere considered luxuries are in Lake Placid necessities and that a definite program of development is a necessity. The program would include improvement of bathing facilities, construction of a spacious lakeshore pavilion for both summer and winter use, municipal boathouses and pier, a lakeshore boardwalk, permanent toboggan slide, improved ski jumps, bobsled run, and daily band concerts summer and winter.

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