14 Feb 1929
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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1929
Page
1
London report notes the Prince of Wales plans to dispose of his hunting hunters after a decision to curtail hunting activities. The sale catalog lists a faithful old horse among the items, described as entirely sound with no faults, destined for retirement from field work.
Anne Morrow, fiancée of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, draws global telegrams and congratulatory messages as she enters the public eye. Mexico City reports note planners weighing a ceremony, while Lindbergh alters travel plans and aids Pan American and other aviation interests as searches for missing planes unfold along the Florida Keys.
Huron hosts South Dakota State Young People's conference February 23 and 24 with an estimated 850 delegates. Free lodging and breakfast, rail fare subsidies, and half round-trip tickets planned to boost attendance. Noted speakers include Grate Sioan Overton and Dr. Hayward's assistant, plus a team of local chairmen for entertainment reception publicity decoration and banquets.
Pierre Feb 14 The South Dakota senate moved to concur with house amendments and set a special order for Feb 15 to consider an interim commission probe into the state highway department. The bill proposes a five member interim panel funded from highway funds, debated with party lines as Hitchcock Davenport report lead. Three Democrats supported the report. two Republicans opposed it. one member was absent. The house earlier adopted a committee report urging investigation of the secretary of state and attorney general departments. Continued on page 9.
The New York Times reports solid exchange indicating Kingsbury of Standard Oil California may be considered by Rockefeller interests as a potential successor to Colonel Robert W. Stewart as chairman of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana. The Times notes Rockefeller holdings in California Oil shares and suggests Kingsbury’s renomination could align with California interests and corporate leadership in the era.
President elect Herbert Hoover plans a Friday and Saturday survey of the Everglades flood district with Governor Coyle J. Carlston of Florida and congressional figures. The trip aims to assess federal flood control needs after two thousand deaths in 1926 and 1928, ending with a Clewiston stay and a return to Washington rested for his candidacy. Major figures Lincoln, Jadwin, and C. S. Poi mingled with aviation guests Huang and the Chinese chamber of commerce list.
A fragmented notice reports a land deal tied to Norbeck with a claim of fifty thousand acres and a blunt tone. The readable text suggests unfavorable terms or outcomes in a historical land settlement.
Heavy guards of soldiers held Trotsky, the deposed Soviet war chief, as a prisoner in the city. Reports say he puzzled over what he would write next in his history while under guard at the Rugulan custody.
Professor Victor O Peterson head of the chemistry department at Huron College died at 63 after a yearlong illness from neuritis and complications. Survived by two sons who are professors, another son in Chicago chemistry, a daughter, and the widow. He had traveled with revolutions in Mexico and studied chemistry in Rochester and Harvard before leading Huron’s department. Continued on page 8.
In Pierre, R. W. Parliman, a Tehama county senator, fought back against accusations in a state banking inquiry. Sam Fantle and Joe Livingston disputed his testimony, with Fantle asserting Parliman named directors while Fantle said he had no director duties at the bank before its closure.
Reports from central Europe indicate deaths linked to severe cold may reach 300 with thousands more affected by shortages. Conditions worsened in Czecho-Slovakia as residents brace for ongoing hardship and disruptions.
Yankton plans a scenic highway along the Missouri River as a memorial to Crill. Opie Graimbers of the Chamber of Commerce proposes the Crill Memorial Highway and an organized effort to pursue it. Officials say such a route could spur substantial development along the region’s main commerce artery east of the Black Hills.
Pierre South Dakota Senate tackles final action on the Slocum primary bill and amendments, with a plan to nominate the entire slate by direct primary. House calendar confronts 16 measures, including tax bills on motor vehicle registry and graduated taxes on cigars, snuff, and tobacco products. University bill revisited seeks leasing campus property to a private nonprofit for a student union building, about 100000 dollars plus additions, leased under a long-term arrangement.
The Indian affairs committee approved a bill to appropriate 9000 for half the cost of a bridge across the Cheyenne River in Cherry County South Dakota. The state would pay the remainder for the project aiding the Cheyenne River Indian reservation and agency at Whitehorse.
Unclear text indicates unsettled conditions tonight and Friday with colder expectations. Likely fair to tonight with diminishing winds. South Dakota forecast mentions fair conditions with some cold spell. Data is garbled. readable items show general unsettled, colder trend and local fair notes.
Sioux Falls Feb 14 Judge John T Medin announced he accepted an invitation to give the principal address before joint observance of the state legislative bodies at Pierre on February 22 The celebration will be in the nature of a Lincoln Washington observance and a complete program had been arranged
George G Bell, chairman of the entertainment committee, reports that dening the South Dakota State Young Peoples conference on February 23 and 24 requires private homes to host delegates. Six churches in Huron will provide free lodging Saturday night and breakfast Sunday morning, as organizers urge people with spare rooms to offer contact through their church or the Huron Chamber of Commerce.
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