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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1937
Page
5
A London message delays a BBC broadcast as Mickey, the British champion, faces a dispute over an overseas tender. The event was postponed for a week amid regulatory and contractual questions affecting the program.
Charlotte Dugdale of Huron will star as the Highwayman in Huron College School of Music's operetta The Highwayman to be staged Friday April 23. Dugdale sings two solos and a duet with Scottie Dexter while also portraying multiple disguises in the plot.
Clark Gable took the stand to deny under oath that he is the father of Violet Wells Norton’s 13 year old daughter. U S attorney Jack Powell listed witnesses Mae West and others to testify about alleged communications and alleged support offers. Local Portland residents were expected to testify about Gable’s past work selling neckties and lumberjacking in the Pacific Northwest.
Mrs. Norton a 41 year old mother of five from Billevicau Essex says she knew the defendant as Frank Billings in America and as prankish tutor. She describes a past romance, quarrels in 1923, a 1925 marriage to a Canadian and a letter she wrote a year ago renewing their friendship urging him to return to film work.
Report from Roberts County states Corona State Bank was burglarized with an acetylene torch. Robbers escaped with approximately 300 in cash as bank officials notify the Department of Justice. Authorities suspect the burglars may be same as those active in North Dakota.
Representative Case of South Dakota pushes a House amendment to allow attorney general appeals to the Supreme Court on constitutional questions while preserving order. A drought study notes South Dakota shows the worst conditions in the Plains with high drought intensity across 56 counties. Federal power usage and Indian service talks follow. W. W. Howes becomes president of the South Dakota Society in Washington.
Berlin April 2 church elections ordered by Chancellor Hitler to calm church tensions will be postponed until autumn. Dr Hermann Muhs, secretary in the Ministry for Church Affairs, said there is a division of opinion making a clear result unlikely at this time.
A. E. Buck, former Huron resident, testifies in a recent letter that a steam powered flow one foot deep and about sixty feet wide was entering Big Stone Lake early, marking progress for the Whetstone Diversion project.
In a correspondence from Corunna dated April 5, Mr. Buck states the Whetstone River was then running about one third full. He notes thawing ten inches of wet snow plus remaining melt from the hills west of Wilmot would double the river flow into the lake, predicting the lake could rise at least five more feet after already rising about two and a half feet.
An explosion occurred at the Bille at mine near Bellingham Washington killing fire boss Frederick Absaenster age 255 while workers Vox Thamir entered the shaft to resume work. Investigation opened today.
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