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Mitchell Evening Republican (Newspaper) - April 2, 1924, Mitchell, South Dakota Visit sooth Dakota a greatest automobile show in Mitchell april 10-11-12 vol xxx Mitchell South Dakota wednesday april 2, 1924. Number 158stone in Daugherty ifs make or break with Gen. Butler now i Senate usurped Power in drive Philadelphia vice crusade nears Climax Fri is will be reached when question of More pay for police comes up people Are to decide of Advance Atli i be is need As tantamount t0 us of Confidence by Max Weill Hyde of Soniot staff Larimer Phil Adelph a. Apr. 2�?within a. A Tirre general Smedley bunkers Revere test will come. The fight Marine who came Here to be a it Quot director and to clean up i will reach crisis of his Quot with Nethat Short time both police and firemen Are to make open bids in increase in pay. If Public in general thinks a a it a it r upon Daugherty roof of Phi la Delphta City Hall to it St bulb in Center of photo above it is from thi8 building that director Butler looks upon this peaceful View. But he knows that beneath Tite outward Calm. An underworld exists and flourishes a an underworld he is fighting. Authier assails Wheeler committee for position during probe move Only political Washington critics sat it was forced to curtail 7 >11 la on majority a a men entitled to an increase it he accepted As a general endorse general s theories. If pub ent of general me reaction is against any increases particularly for policemen then such a ack approval will be tantamount a refusal of a a vote of Confidence. Such refusal will be a distinct Victory for criminal element of Uthe writer stood in butlers office other Day when he instructed his Beemen and firemen How to go april storm lashes East coast today he told to about getting an increase. Them to a a organize Quot properly. By that he mid he meant they should a prepare their through his carefully worded infraction. Patiently Given As a a Achter peaking to his pupils this writer thought he sensed that Butler himself realized he would fall or Rise depending on whether men received More Money. And should Butler Lee out. Nos wicked underworld in Western hemisphere will celebrate a Vic tory like of which Good citizens cannot possibly realize. There is published Here a sunday newspaper that is viciously attacking Butler and butlers methods. It Calls of div for butlers Scalp and to prove crime exists in a a great in Caum re now As Ever it prints in Ark and White names addresses Arri operators of Dens of vice booze joints and hang out for thieves and gunmen. Incidentally this newspaper Muscat is a curious but interesting phase of a Crook s psychology. The Man who operates newspaper counts Many underworld denizens among his acquaintances according o his own admission. A i cannot understand Quot i said to in a How you can print names Ted add ses of these criminals without arousing their hatred and a Quot dancer your life. What do they think a nut stuff you publish Quot you done to understand because you Cav a Normal he smiled. A Gnu sup Heso people Are not nor a they think it an Honor or rather i should say they consider themselves Semi martyrs. They feel a hey ate Nerving a cause and that cause ridding City of Butler. If s proved Butler is not cleaning up City he will go. And that is what hey want. And they feel Only Way to prove City is still criminal Ridden is to have their names and a Tua locations this v Riter repeats a new York n. R., apr. 2.�?mild april Tongue in her Chee and tragedy in her Wake All Day yesterday crashed deep Thunder spat forked lightning blew from Northwest at forty five knots and whipped to mad Flurr Ying a snowstorm which made slush and Snow drifts from Virginia capes to Eastport Maine All in striking contrast to arrival in Ney York of first Louisiana strawberries and new Green peas frown California. Snow clouding vision of a Motorman brought on a collision of elevated trains in which one Man was killed and 13 taken to hospitals with broken Bones and other injuries. Piling on tracks drifts delayed and held up trains in Baltimore caused postponement of i races at Bowie track in Washington. Paralysed traffic and caused adjournment of Senate two hours earlier than usual. Wind and Snow carried away Telephone and Telegraph wires throughout East harried Harbor traffic in new York and Boston and in polled display of storm signals at Cape Hatteras. A Tongue of lightning licked roof of a chiropractors House in new Jersey As he Bent Over a patient. Before Aid could be summoned flames had caused considerable damage. To Roosevelt wins Delegate seat at party convention new York n. Y., apr. 2.�?theodore Roosevelt assistant Secretary of Navy was elected As a Delegate to Republican National convention in yesterdays primaries. In Westchester county Augustus Thomas. Playwright was Defeated by Oscar Leroy Warren county democratic Leader As Delegate to democratic convention. The regular organization workers charged that or. Thomas candidacy was an attempt on part of tammany Hall to gain control of party machine. District delegates to both National conventions were elected throughout state. No candidates for presidential nominations figured in voting. 26 lose lives in movie House fire. In mexican City Mexico City apr. 2.�?up a Short circuiting of an electric wire in a motion picture theater at to Cuba a a Superb of capital last night caused a fire and subsequent panic in which 26 persons Are known to have been killed and Ai least 56 injured. The wire carrying High voltage dropped from above and Hung neck High in main aisle and brought death to those touching it in mad scramble for exits. Many were seriously injured or trampled to death under feet of stampeding crowd. A o Nebraska vote in annual municipal elections Light Lincoln neb., apr. 2.�?municipal elections in Southeast and South Central Nebraska towns and villages yesterday were generally marked by an absence of issues and with a Light vote. Some of results follow Wymore b. O. To ill was re elected mayor and proposition to permit sunday motion picture shows carried by a majority of 116. Witt a proposal to allow Pool Halls carried by a vote of 83 to 43. It was Only Issue. Nebraska City Frank Thomas was re elected mayor. There were practically no contests for any municipal office. Wisconsin to stand by my in convention Al Smith gets democratic delegation Meadoo h As big Lead Over Reed Milwaukee. Ute., apr. 2.�? a a senator roller m. Lafollette of Wisconsin cont inned to maintain a substantial majority in Montest for delegates at Large to Reid lican National convention Over those pledged to president Coolidge As additional returns were received Here today Over crippled transmit Jon facilities. Milwaukee. Win., apr. 2.�?United stat1 senator Robert m. I a Follette evening Republican Bureau 301 Albee building. Washington d. C., april 2. By George f. Authier now that Harry m. Daugherty is no longer attorney general of United states a postmortem is in order. But no such after event discussion w Ould be proper without some consideration of methods used to discredit and drive from of Jolce personal Friend and political Warwick of late president Harding. What caused political extinction of Harry Daugherty was not evidence of wrong doing on his own account but accumulating evidence that he was not big enough for his position and that he had not lived up to dignity of position of attorney general of United states. Surrounded As he had been by Jess Smith. Howard Mannington and others there could be no other decision in Public mind but that Harry Daugherty was rattling around in a Large place. There is much to Point which president Coolidge made in demanding resignation that it was impossible for him As president to be advised by a Man who was personally under investigation. The president had inherited Daugherty and had not selected him. was not another Bismarck arises on German political horizon Berlin Germany air. J.�?f4> a Prince Otto von Bismarck grandson of Iron Chancellor will sit among German nationalist deputies in new Reich Stag Prince who is 27, has been living in retirement on family estate at Fried Rich Truhe near Hamburg. J to made his political debut at German nationalist convention yesterday in Hamburg where reactionary spokesmen introduced him As a Headliner Quot who is to Lead patriotic German youth into monarchists Camp in coming a Lection. To pledged a Bismarck youth league a to a National monarchy and to old colors which to asserted must again to raised to awaken National consciousness of German people. Former Dean of Columbia Given Cabinet place appointment follow Brief conference with Coolidge at White House was never in politics new attorney general to director in several corporations it is s Aid imminent after a frustrated attempt informed concerning affairs of j to up seventeen employees of department and in such a Situa of Wisconsin and gov. Al Smith of j tj0n is entitled to advice of an new York. Were leaders in attorney general upon whom he and contests for delegates to two Public could rely. stressed Point that refusal of at fire on British Steamer is menace to 12,000 pilgrims London eng., apr. 2.�?of a British steamship Fra Gestan bound for Jeddah with 1,200 pilgrims aboard is afire Between decks says a Lloyds dispatch from port . The fire which is consuming Cotton in vessels hold is serious and spreading message says. The Fra Gestan is being accompanied by other vessels and is due at port Sudan tomorrow. The Steamer Tang Stan has left port Sudan to assist her. Philadelphia will not rid itself of a e criminal element unless in j citizenship gets behind Butler j f bus far Many feel he has done1 i ill cals a Villi i it make speeches. One Man j will clean up Philadelphia. It Ake a and that Over rent Quot must include every deman. And woman and child in City. Nebraska Farmer Frozen to death during big storm # a neb apr. 2 a Frank West i about 60. Single and living a a on a farm near Here was Ye-�r1ay found Frozen to death in a Hay a by a searching party about a 3,f in Fie from his Home. To was Cost fun saturday evening when to 3- a neighbors where he took and was caught in and is supposed to have been r Vurnm a eggs on new York Market Are lowest of several years k City. Arr. 2.�?-eggs Are i n a Tny lowest prices in several r drifts quoted today at 21 ,. Nis. Ordinary first Sang it re in 19 1-2 cent these am lowest at this season be year since 1916. Cause Iowa Swain to end his life weather forecast a it quota Cloudy tonight be a jt1 settled thursday warmer Central portions tonight. Tax Al temperatures Irra a and m Murn tempera it a a re red by official govern j a a Rio meter from 7 a. M. ,0 a a in. Today tax Mun. 35. Minimum. 21. M a a a a Tea. St Ida Grove. La., apr. 2.�?ben sleeves. Aged 26. Was found yesterday in a barn at his Home nine Miles South of Here in a dying condition with a Bullet Hole through right Temple. was to have been married Friday to miss Myrtle Plank of Ida Grove teacher in a school near farm. The cause of suicide was established on Anding among his effects a letter from a girl in Waterloo. Iowa threatening his arrest on a charge of seduction. Sioux City five trounces quintet from Butte Mont. # Chicago th., apr. 2 a Sioux City la., trounced Butte Mont., 29 to 20 in a fast and Well played game in National High school basketball tournament. The winners using Short past system effectually. Sioux City took a four Point Lead at Start but later Butte gained a two Point margin which was overcome. In third Quarter Butte rallied and took a two Point dad Only to lose it we Hen Coan. Center for Sioux City threw four baskets in a Row. Warden Center for Butte and Mcbride left Forward for Sioux City each made six Field goals. The defense work of both teams was Best seen thus far in tournament. A. O never used phone Paris a Man who never has used Telephone has been discovered in Par a. is Alfred Valletta editor of Mercure de France. transacts All business by mail. says i he admires Telephone in would i not fear Fra Gestan is a steel vessel of 8.228 Gross tonnage. She is 485 feet in length and was built in 1s99. She was last reported arriving at Hong Kong her port of Register from Shanghai on March 21. Of Large numbers of show girls Are out of jobs in Gotham new York City. Apr. 2.�?at least 3.500 chorus girls Are out of work in new York it is estimated in theatrical circles. The closing of season for Road sch pea soon will bring number to five thousand it is believed. Bad business High Railroad rates excessive expenses and controversy Between actors and managers were Given As chief reasons for Large number of unemployed. Plan to use alien funds to finance Market is approved Washington d. C., apr. 2.�?proposed use of at amp a propert funds to finance a foreign Market for american farm products was endorsed today before Senate agriculture committee by Thomas w. Miller Allen property custodian and by several senator and representatives from Cotton growing states. House body will Call governor of Arizona to stand Washington. C., apr. 2.�? House irrigation committee today voted to repeat its request that governor Hunt of Arizona appear to testify in regard to recent charges by him that Secretary work was using hts position to favor state of Colorado in proposed Colorado River ?j2meut. It Law a i la % major party a political conventions when returns from about one seventh of states precincts had been heard from Early today following election of yesterday. Senator la Follette s candidates for delegates at Lar Jfe to Republican convention had assumed a rather cot manding Lead Early last evening and this held at a ratio of two votes to one for delegates pledged to president Coolidge throughout night and Early today. The margin for Smith delegates Over those of or. Mcadoo was not As great but it had increased steadily from time first returns were received up to time when crippled wire service put a Stop to transmission of returns for time being Early this morning. President Coolidge however will probably have several District delegates returns from 359 out of 2574 pre a Cincys Early today gave i a Tollette i delegates at Large 34.194 Coolidge delegates at Large 16.752. In democratic connect. 264 precinct out of 2574 gave Smith 5.714 Mcadoo. 3.741 Smith delegates were leading in a majority of districts. The former Secretary of Treasury was leading in presidential preference primary where senator James a. Reed of Missouri was his Only opponent. Little interest was shown in this race and vote was Light. In 154 precincts heard from Early today Mcadoo had 2,082 to Reeds 925. Wet organizations in both Milwaukee and in numerous outdated counties have been Active last few Days in working for governor Smiths delegates and it is also thought that his candidacy will run Well in Milwaukee. In Milwaukee a City election. Mayor Daniel w. Moan socialist was leading David Rose. Nonpartisan in race for mayor by 8.727 when 166 precincts out of 242 in City had reported Early today. Mayor Hoan took Lead with first returns received last night and kept it throughout night and Early today although race at All times was close. Scattering returns showed to Ltd remainder of City nonpartisan ticket leading socialists. These offices Are at present held by nonpartisan. Bryan plan would have government pay for Campaign Washington. A. April 2.�?apian to lot government pay Campaign expenses of candidates for Public office was brought Forward Here yesterday by William Jennings Bryan. Recalling that president Roosevelt once suggested some such arrangement or. Bryan said disclosures had prepared Public mind for acceptance of practical details of plan and advocated Quick action so it could be employed in 1224 Campaign. I o Torney general to give up files of his department to inquisitorial committee which was examining him was a reason in itself for demanding resignation. Omid Farrr is it a i no More but aside from this president probably did not feel he could longer carry Load and there appears no reason Why lie should. Another. Reason which must have moved president was fact that As attorney general or. Daugherty had used agents of department of Justice to Trail and investigate senators who were investigating himself. Next to practice of Senate in abrogating to itself Power to invade prerogative of executive department no action could be Washington d. A. Apr. 2.�?harlan fit debt on of new York a been selected by president Coolidge a attorney general. Or. Stone a native of new Hampshire and 51 years old. Has served As Young von Bismarck is certain of since to Dean 0f Columbia University Law school and recently resigned to become an Active member of new York Law firm of sat Price Canfield and Stone. A received his Law education at Amherst and Columbia and was admitted to new York bar in 1898. is a director of Atlanta and Charlotte air line railway company and other corporation and is a Republican although he never has taken a leading part in politics. Summoned to Washington yesterday. Or. Stone had a Brief conference with president Coolidge and was presented by t in president to number of his callers including Republican leaders of Senate. In selecting or. Stone. Whit House officials mad president believes he has about accomplished purpose he announced yesterday of finding a $75,000 or $100,000 Man to serve in a $12,000 Job. The prospective attorney general is not a stranger to president two having been Freind since College Days at Amherst. Or. Coolidge received his bachelors degree on year ahead of or. Stone. The name of or. Stone and cheif Justice Arthur Rueg of Massa election there will be at la at one Prince in new Reich Stag and there is every Prospect of other As reactionary Campaign manager Are combing country for Blue blooded candidate blonde bobbed hair girl thug shoots to kill woman and companion make sensational escape after attempted robbery new York n. Y., april 2.�? Brooklyn a blonde robbed hair Bandit who has smiled through a scone of daring holdups in past ten weeks shot to kill yesterday when capture seemed Brooklyn Plant of National biscuit company. Her victim Nathan Mazzio lies Chusett supreme judicial court have continued on Page seven my nary Bill is unwieldy says Tariff expert Mak Viv hot by Eyer rec of Nicks sex i Stilt i pm erg ency in agricultural West 10,000 miners in four states Idle during wage War Kansas City to. Apr. 2.�?forty thousand Coal miners in Missouri Oklahoma Kansas and Arkansas Are Idle today a result of failure of representative of southwestern interstate operators association and miners to reach an agreement on a new wage scale Tot night a a Washington. C., apr. 2.�?chair Man Marvin of Tariff communion appearing today before House ways and Means committee declared monary Haugen agricultural Export Bill a introduced would open so wide a Field of government supervision an it a dog it a try a that it would lib a exceeding or difficult to administer. Or. Marvin said he had been informed however that House agricultural committee proposed to Amend a measure to limit its scope and eliminate some objection Al features. Or. Marvin said Tariff commission recognizes that an emergency exists in agriculture but has had no Opportunity to fully Analyse Tariff features of pending Bill. Bogus $20 Bills Are circulated in Sioux City claim Sioux City la., apr. 2�?watch your $20 Bills. This in warning of Sioux City banker. I Clever Money raisers have put a number of bogus $20 Bills in circulation in City. Two Dollar Bills Are raised to $20 Bills by pasting Corners clipped from $20 Bills on Corners of $2 Bill. The work is so cleverly done that it cannot to detected unless Bill is carefully examined. Of horrors Price of Bobb is going up Barbers declare Chicago ilf., apr. 2.�? Cost of Bobbing a woman a hair in going up to $1.50, and a trim in to coat la according to actin i taken today by South Side Barbers association which expects to make Price general in Chicago. Objectors to Price raise contend that it take Only a ame amount of time and Effort to Bob a woman a hair As to Cut a Many a and dangerously wounded in a Hospital. has two Bullet in tile Chest and a third in thigh. Yesterdays attempt was by far most daring and danger defying in girls meteoric career of banditry. Accompanied by inevitable male she sauntered into retail department of biscuit Plant shortly before noon and asked for a dime a Worth of confections. The clerk turned from shelves to face a Small automatic pistol in Hei hand and one in each hand of Man. Hie backed into a rear rom at their orders. There they were confronted by fifteen girl employees and cashier Mazzio who had just come in with a payroll sack. The two bandits started herding 17 into smaller room. Mazzio suddenly seized girls wrist in on hand and Tore at her heavy impenetrable veil with other. She threw him off sent him stumbling into prison room and slammed Cator. Then she fired three shots through a door All of them hitting Mazzio who had fallen to floor from Force of her push. Tho two fled to a waiting taxi and woman still leading took wheel. They abandoned car seven blocks away and police later found a chauffeur in it neatly traced up with Strong picture wire and gagged. Girl who leaped from train said to be drug fiend Dickinson. N. D., apr. 2.�? final chapter in Case of Hattie Merritt 27 Falmouth. Ky., girl who leaped from a Pullman window of Northern Pacific train number 2, thursday morning at a Point East of Dickinson was written today when she was taken to Home of e. F. Lacey of Covington. Kv., her brother in to who had come to City to get her. Physicians in attendance said they believed girl was a narcotic victim from observation of her while at a local Hospital. 1 in 1 1 a jury ready to try former banker for falsifying books grand Forks n. D., apr. 2.�?jury was completed late yesterday for trial of j. J. Hastings former president of scandinavian american Bank of Fargo on a charge of making Faase entries on Bank a records indictment on which Hastings will he tried was returned by a Cass county grand jury jointly against him and h. To. Hagen former president of Bank. A motion for separate trials a granted some time ago. Boise quintet is eliminated today by new englander Chicago 111., apr. , n. H., High school eliminated Bol ?. Idaho 19 to 18 in first game of University of Chicago a interscholastic basketball championship today. Manche ter led throughout game. Bozek left Forward of Manchester team counted 19 Points for his team eight Field goal and three free throw. Robinson was leading scorer of Boise team. Getting two Field goal been two most prominently considered by president from time of retirement of Harry of. Daugherty and decision finally a Nade on or. Stone because of executive feeling that Massachusetts had had More than her share of High Federal officer. Or. Stone has been on leave of absence from Columbia for tace past year and his resignation As Dean of Law school is effective at end of Scholastic year. The Resina Tion now will be made effective immediately upon his confirmation by Senate however. His nomination was sent to Capitol today. Selection of or. Stone double representation of new York in Cabinet As Secretary Hub he is acceded to that state. Oil committee wrangles Over contributions Walsh. However mildly opposes questioning regarding democratic gifts Washington d. C., apr. 2.�?with George White former chairman of democratic National committee in witness chair Oil committee renewed it wrangling today a to relevancy of testimony relat ing to Campaign contributions. Senator Spencer Republican Missouri. Asked White if he knew what contributions had been made to democratic fund in 1920 Campaign by e l. Doheny and Harry of Sinclair. Renouncing that he would not object to questioning of White on this line. Senator Walsh committee prosecutor said testimony sought was nevertheless wholly free Levent. deemed it important to show Large contributions by Oil men to Republican Campaign fund a said because from it there might Rome a legitimate inference that Republican official were influenced unduly in granting Oil lease. Senator Spencer Inai Itei and White said Sinclair made no contribution to democratic fund. a Ney had Given $9,900 during Campaign he said and $26,000 afterwards to help wipe out a deficit. When his attention was called to Doheny a testimony that his contribution had Ben $75,000 White a Aid California Oil magnate was mistaken. Senator Walsh recalled Doheny a memory for figure a faulty in Case of payments made for Legal senders of William g. Mcadoo. After a cd a Ion lasting fifteen minutes tim committee adjourned until next monday because of absence of other witnesses. Of Mellon says raise in estate tax is economic suicide Washington. f apr. 2.�? increase n estate tax in tem mad in Revenue Bill by House a announced today by so Crew Ary Mellon before Senate finance committee As a economic a estate tax i a Levy on capita primarily and carried to an exec differs in no Way from revolutionist ? of mrm Leofi said. latter i charged Only an average and three free throws. The game argued this form of Hook by 75 scat. In u9w& ii amp a Tot

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