Cochran Trial Resumed In South Dakota Case
Nile Cochran of Moville Iowa faces murder charges in a highway gun battle that wounded Frank Markell and killed his father. In Elk Point circuit court the state pressed its case with Markell identifying Cochran as the shooter behind a barricade pole. Markell testified Cochran fired 12 to 13 shots as the truck neared the post and barricade, with shots coming through the windshield throughout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elk Point
S. D
Nile Cochran
Moville
D. Markell
Frank Markell
Cochran
Drescries
Markell
Cochra
Belle Fourche City Justice Arrested
Belle Fourche reports that City justice A W Smith was freed on embezzlement charges by dismissal in H E Rich court, then arrested again on three informations for embezzlement false entries and neglecting to pay county fines. A hearing before Circuit Judge James McNenny is set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belle Fourche
A. W. Smith
H. E. Rich
H. A. Smiley
James McNenny
Thomas Taylor
McNenny
Dancer Contends Pigs Lacked Spirit in Illinois Suit
In circuit court at Waukegan Irene Castle McLaughlin testified William Schroeder's pigs seemed to lack spirit and appeared coughing with colds. She defended a $10,000 false arrest suit he filed, stemming from her investigation of Schroeder's pigsty and allegations about the pigs diet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dancer
Waukegan, III
William Schroeder
Irene Castle McLaughlin
Keck to Speak at Lenten Service at Congregational Church
The fifth Lenten service will be at 7:30 this evening in the church parlors. Gospel hymns, poems, and scripture verses will be shared. Dr. S. Wi Keele will speak on "Sources of Divine Strength." R K L Nordness will sing a solo. The public is invited. service lasts one hour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Keck
Congregational
A. S. Carson
S. Wi Keele
RK. L_-Nordness
Former Clear Lake treasurer jailed for funds misappropriation
J. A. Darker, ex Clear Lake school treasurer, pleaded guilty to misappropriation of school funds and received a five year penitentiary term. He faced accusations of misusing $5,600 in school money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elk River
Minn
J. A. Darker
Clear Lake
Depositors Seek Liquidation of Pennington Bank
Depositors file petitions with the state banking department asking that liquidation of the closed Pennington County bank of Rapid City be turned over to a local depositors committee. After verification that petitions reach 65 percent of deposits excluding public funds they will go back to Pennington County circuit court for final action. No completion date for checking was indicated.
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R. C. Bank
Pierre
Mar
Pennington County Bank of
Rapid City
State Banking Department
Pennington County Circuit Court
Bridge Olympic To Be Conducted Here This May
The second annual World Bridge Olympic will be held in Huron on May 1 with local captain Mrs. Chester N. White directing. More than 100,000 players in 42 countries are expected to participate. sixteen players have signed up locally, with at least eight tables planned in the Hotel Marvin Bughitt dining room starting at 8 p.m. All players will use the same 16 hands prepared by a committee of internationally known bridge experts. Mrs. White also competed in the first Olympic in Kansas City last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huron
Chester N. White
National Bridge Association
White
Marvin Bughitt
Kansas City
File Suit Against County Commissioner
SelIe Fourche March 2 1947 attorney for Dr A W Smith filed charges of embezzlement against county commissioner Thomas Taylor. This morning a damage suit for 20000 dollars was filed alleging Taylor signed the informations maliciously without probable cause harming Smiths reputation and business relations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Selle Fourche
van McCutcheon
A. W. Smith
Thomas Taylor
Taylor
Witness Fees Sought By Brown County Engineers
In Pierre on March 23 the state supreme court heard whether R B Easton and Lester G Hall are entitled to expert witness fees for testifying in Brown County graft cases. They sought 23 dollars per day for trial days and 15 dollars for non testifying days. County officials, led by Roger Campbell, sued to recover fees claimed by the engineers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roger Campbell
Brown County
John L. Ruckman
Eastman and
Hall
Supreme Court
Frank L. Lieh
H. ©. Hepperle
Aberdeen
Hearing Resumes in Insull Extradition Case
Extradition proceedings against Martin J. Insull were resumed in Toronto before Justice A C Kingstone. Insull, a former utilities official, faces Cook County Illinois indictments for larceny embezzlement and theft by bailee tied to the Middle West Utilities collapse. The hearing was brief with no date set for another session as Justice Kingstone reviews Chicago depositions offered by the prosecution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
Mar
Martin J. Insull
A C. Kingstone
Ontario Supreme Court
Insull
Utilities
Cook County
Illinois
Middle West Utilities Company
King Stone
Chicago
Hospital Admittals And Dismissals Update
At The Hospitals Admittal Mrs J B Stuart Huron medical Dan Maloney Huron surgical Dismissed Mrs C A Kaufman and baby Yale event notes patient movements across facilities with names and locations in a concise health ledger style.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Stuart
Huron
Medical
Dan Maloney
Surgical
C. A. Kaufman
Baby
Yale
Dempster Dies in Beatrice Neb Founder of Mill Co
C B Dempster founder of the Dempster Mill Manufacturing Co died yesterday in Beatrice Nebraska after several weeks illness. He had been active as head of the company which operates four branches including Sioux Falls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dempster
Beatrice
Neb
C. B. Dempster
Dempster Mill
Dempster Company
Sioux Falls
Satiric Humor Keynote Of Junior Class Play To the Ladies
Satiric humor frames the junior class play To the Ladies set for Friday at 8 in the senior high auditorium. Lenore Pederson and Irving Axelrad play the Beebes with Charles Economy and Florence Montank as the elderly Kinkeads. Faith Haskell and Neal Long-Orin Oviatt lead a cast including Billy Anderson and Willie Gross. Kenneth Norris manages, Gail Gibbs and Gladys Irish handle properties, Berndts Electric Shop lights, and the high school band under John Wharton performs. Directed by Miss Irene Fensberg with Mrs. Lillian Love supervising ticket sales.
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Leonard
Elizabeth Wharton
Phyllis Wilson
Alvin Schroeder
Kenneth Norris
Gail Gibbs
Gladys Irish
Lillian Love
Farm Women Rally To Halt Foreclosure Near Dawson Farm
One hundred farm women gathered in Madison Minnesota to stop a mortgage foreclosure sale on the Knut Anderson farm near Dawson. Sheriff A G Smaagaard postponed the $8043 loan sale after contacting the mortgage holder insurer. Governor Olson had issued a statewide halt, but it covers only owner-occupied properties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Minn
A. G. Smaagaard
Dawson
Knut Anderson
Smaagaard
St. Paul
Gov
F.B. Olson
Six More State Banks Licensed to Reopen
Pierre March 22 The South Dakota banking department said six more state chartered banks can resume business bringing total reopenings since the banking holiday to 121 of 163 operating before March 4. The banks listed are Melotte County Bank Wood Buffalo Gap State Bank Buffalo Gap Farmers State Bank Amherst Bank of New Ellington New Effington Miners and Merchants Savings Bank Lead Stockholm State Bank Stockholm
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Pierre
Mar
South Dakota Banking Department
Melotte County Bank
Wood
Buffalo Gap
Farmers State Bank
Amherst
Bank of New Elington
New Effington
Stockholm State Bank
Stockholm
Bingham Appointment Approved by Senate
Robert Worth Bingham of Louisville won Senate approval as ambassador to Great Britain. The confirmation came without debate after an earlier objection was withdrawn by Republican leader Senator McNary of Oregon.
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Bingham
Senate
Washington
Mar
Robert Worth Bingham
Louisville
Great Britain
McNary
Oregon
Hofer Baby Dies At Local Hospital
Infant Larry Stanley Hofer two days old died at a Huron hospital yesterday afternoon. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter G. Hofer of Yale. Mrs Hofer is daughter of Mrs. Anna Stahl who died Monday afternoon.
Two Are Sentenced for Poultry Thefts in Luverne
In Luverne Minnesota on March 2 Frank Schroer and Ferdinand Pachell pled guilty to hog and chicken thefts in Nobles county. They were sentenced to one to ten years in state prison. Officers said the pair robbed Farm-Lerg Investment of Fulda of 300 dollars and kidnapped taxi driver Wayne Sutherland in Sioux City on the same day. A separate item notes North Dakota foreclosures or execution sales of livestock and other farm property prohibited by a proclamation from Gov. William Langer.
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Luverne
Minn
Mar
Frank Schroer
Ferdinand Pachell
Nobles County
Lerg Investment Company
Fulda
Mar. Ik
Wayne Sutherland
Sioux City
Bismarck
N. Dy. Mar
North Dakota
William Tanger
Notice of Mortgage Foreclosure in Beadle County
Default on a 1931 mortgage by Eliza and Charles Backer to Peoples State Bank, De Smet, Beadle County, SD. The South West Quarter of Section 2, Township 113 North Range 59, West Fifth P. M. is to be sold at public auction in Hulron on April 18, 1993, at 2:00 PM to satisfy $781.25 principal and interest plus foreclosure costs. Mortgagee is Peoples State Bank. Sheriff Don R. Huntley and Attorney C. Exitzel listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eliza Backer
Charles Backer
Kingsbury County
South Dakota
Mortgastors
Peoples State Bank
de Smet
Office of the Register of Deeds
Beadle County
Hulron
Beaje County
Sweepstake Winners Named in Local Comic Coloring Contest
The Evening Kuronite announces weekly sweepstake honors for young readers. Hazel Shepard of Alpena colored Out Our Way and Louise Beerman of Alpena 660 Sixth Street SW did the Gumps, earning free tickets to the Huron theatre along with eight area youngsters who excelled in coloring comic pages, including Leona Timm Huron Jean Melius Cavour Mae Miller Byron Tilman Lloyd Howard Evelyn Freeburg Margaret Williams and Jim Berenek.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Karonite
Hazel Shepard
Alpena
Louise Beerman
Sixth “Street
Southwest
Huron Theatre
Leona ‘Timm
Huron
Jean Melius
Cavour
Our
Mae Miller
Third Street
Byron Tilman
Iown Avenue
the Gumps
Lloyd' Howard
Evelyn Freeburg
Carpenter
Moon Mullins
Margaret Williams
Nebraska Avenue
Jim Berenek
Kansas Avenue
Pershing Greets His Former Mates in Tucson Visit
Gen John J Pershing defied his doctor and visited the United States Veterans Bureau hospital in Tucson Arizona yesterday amid his throat infection. The visit came as Pershing rests away from the east where he recently arrived and has been keeping to confinement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pershing
Tucson
Ariz
Mar
John J. Pershing
United States Veterans’ Bureau
Barley Planting Not Urgent Says Agriculture Expert
Washington March 23 Dr Harlan barley specialist with the department of agriculture warns farmers there will be no rush to replace other crops with barley for beer production. He cautions against immediate widespread planting and notes uncertainties in county usage and market demand.
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Washington
H. W Harlan
Department of Agriculture
Harley
Malt barley yields across regions cited in grain talk
A regional assessment notes that barley for malting varies by area. Western New York and nearby regions absorb a smaller share than northern Minnesota, parts of Wisconsin, and the Dakotas. Iowa and Kansas are highlighted as the most favored malt barley areas.
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New York
Wisconsin
Minnesota
South Dakota
North Dakota
Iowa
Kansas
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Walker's
Dak. Ave. S
Waibel Hardware CO
Don R. Huntley
Headle County
Co. C. Exitzel
Mortgagee
Ann Harding Leslie Howard
Philip Barrys
By Kaufman and Connelly
Bijou
Pat Obrien
Chester
Morris
Joan Blondell
Pola Negri
Bert Wheeler
Robert Woolsey Edo
May Oliver Roscobates
Coats
Fahrendorfs
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