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Mitchell Evening Republican (Newspaper) - April 17, 1924, Mitchell, South Dakota Sixteen pages vol xxx the evening ref Bucan \ City edition Mitchell South Dakota thursday april 17,1924. Number 171 Japan is facing upheaval Forest waste is Chin Alvinq the u. S. 335,000 stolen two witnesses a from mails at Clear Wheeler last tree is due to go in Twenty years this is rate at which country s Timber Supply is disappearing denuded soil goes when thees Are destroyed nature s Reservoir is broken up permanently by Cha Rees p. Stew Art be a service writer Washington. April speak of China a overdo Poi lated. The country i , As big a the United Staten. Its population is larger True but China is big enough for Quot a population. Originally it was a Noat productive country too Rich poll plenty of water and a Fine Cli in a. The climate has t changed. The Rains St i fall but not now to or Alee China a Fields Bloom instead to sweep the country with devastating floods. Where nature put the for i. In an even Laver Over All the surface of the land today Are Barren Gully scarred Billa great out cropping of Rock washed Dean by the water pouring in Cataract Down the ear hides during the wot season to swamp the valleys below. The soil today it jogs the in the form of mud or forms huge Harp Thorn which the patient chinese dredge it laboriously to spread Over heir Impo Erif hed Fields Only to hoc the next flood scour it Back again toward the sea. That a the reason and not overpopulation. Why China to a land of famine Toda v. Why the change the chinese Cut Down All their a Rae a just As americans Are doing in their own country now China once wooded Forest co China s Hills in i centuries past. They be been Prodoti i rally treeless for Many s the Genera j Tion. Quot a tree covered explains director Herbert a. Smith of the j Public relations Branch of the United j state Forest service Quot is a natural j Reservoir. Quot the tree roots bind the sox to j a Ether hold it in place. Water sinks j in. To Bubble up again Here and j there in Small Springs to trickle gently Down the slopes to reach the lower ground by degrees to irrigate the valleys and give late to crops. Quot Cut the Trees and the dam is broken. The water cataracts its after the Trees Are removed. There 1,9 nothing to for of text the lat eur of soil from a the soil 13 washed away. The Mountain sides Cut into Steep ravines the Rivers flooded and thib Springs dried up. I ill. To May a a y a a a it it is. It by. V lit to we i i a a n j. D j Ltd sex for amp a r v j by ii a i i 4 a Cyl r r it it .2 y j # v y a amp if Quot a jmj amp a i y a a Isis i \ v a a it it v it Ltd souths. Pae three bandits take five mail pouches from railway station there clerks held at Bay Monet was for Armour a company a officers Are hot on Chase St. Paul minn., apr. 17�?up a thirty five thousand dollars in currency waa included in loot obtained by three bandits who help up two of Tal employees in South St. Paul today escaping with five pouches containing a Large Quantity of registered mail. The robbery took place at the Chicago great Western station just after a southbound train had unloaded the five mail pouches one of which contained that a $35,000 payroll for Armour and company s South St. Paul Plant. Just an the mail pouches were being loaded onto a Post office truck the bandits Drew up in a Large automobile. Two sprang to the platform of misconduct Senate probes told Daugherty a a prosecutor did not represent Montana client offer was declined Lewistown editor and a Lieg Educ fint both absolve Wheeler of charge in indictment ambassador is said Likely to lose Osmon newspaper says Han Fkiara May be recalled for angering u. S. Senate Coolidge seen today senators Dodge and Burto both discuss immigration crisis with the president Tokio Japan apr. 17.�?ia a Afna basal Der Hanihara at Washington 1a to be recalled by thai Japa none government. The newspaper yom Luri declared today. The publication added that foreign minister rataul will Washington d. a apr. 17.�?�? cutting at once to the heart of the Wheeler controversy the ape Chi Senate committee invert gating the Monr Tana charges against senator Wheeler j re if n in order to appease the storm opened its hearings today with Tesuji expected at the coming session of the Mony bearing directly on the extent j Imperial diet Over the immigration of his activities in Washington in con i problems. Both reports were official Neetum with cases in which Montana by denied. Clients Gere interested. Mass meeting of protest prom Gordon , a geologist. Tokyo. Japan. Apr. 17.�?w a Ai who said he employed the senator in j mass meeting of Osaka citizens in i f>22 to represent him in the state a protest against proposed exclusion of courts the committee received copies japanese from the United states was with drawn revolvers forcing Albert j 0f two fit9 of telegrams passing be called today by the Osaka chamber Manthey and Walter \ an Hale postal j fwd a a him a it and Wheeler one purport of Commerce. Employees to surrender the mail bags. Ingr t0 a How that Wheeler had Quot been a delegation representing emigre gun squads motorcycle patrolmen j advised the govern mein could not in Tion societies visited Tho foreign of and detectives from both Minneapolis Terrene in Campbell s behalf in land be Here today and urged opposition and St. Paul were sent out within 16 proceedings against him and the oth minutes after the robbery covering indicating that the senator had a every Road from the South leading into the two cities. In addition to the payroll the pouches contained registered mail of an undetermined value but police sex j ranged for Campbell to Confer with Bol loiter Booth of the Interior department regarding the Lincoln permit a Campbell who was indicted with pressed the Belier that the payroll j Wheeler in Montana., insisted this did was the Only thing the bandits were snot constitute senator 9 spatter. And probably would discard the j Pear Anre a before the Interior de harlot her pouches ment on behalf of his clients a the $35,000 in currency was con a charged in the indictment. Signed by the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis to the stockyards a so it we Fiviea logging in California thaw on stand briefly is not Cross examined Chicago mail-carr1er it pm a of Voth walks As much As nine times around world Philadelphia a. Apr. 17.�?harry k. Thaw flushed and confident testified for a Brief period in his own behalf in his sanity trial today. Then Way Bis lawyers dramatically turned him downward washing away the Earth j Over to the other Side for Eroth the Low lying lands Chang j lamination. Ing the whole face of the country in thaw corned she pop dressed. Form mar actively a few years. The judge John m. Patterson his coun Are Grashed by torrent Beds. I a ked thaw Only Fly e questions. Quot in the River Bottoms every Little seemingly the attorneys for the of and hollow becomes a yawning Pelion were greatly surprised when he was turned Over to them. Arthur g. Dickson counsel for the trustees of the thaw a ate and William a. Gray representing Evelyn be bit thaws divorced wife whose 13 year old son has intervened in his own behalf discussed the Case with the alienist supporting their Side in Low tones and with great Earne Ness. At the end of five minutes or. V. Print. New the Lam tree a we have no questions to thaw smiled and left the witness stand. Another Brief conference followed among the attorneys for thaw. They were not prepared for the immunity granted their client and asked for a recess until this afternoon which Craw Ravine. The Stream Are loaded Quot us mud. In dry weather they disappear thens Are no Pere Mai Springs to keep them fed. In wet weather they overflow their Hanks the hillsides Drain into them too rapidly. Quot who Rich districts Are transformed deserts in a. Few to i be Gore inside co to -5 yearn. Rut of course we Shane to keep it up a literal la to the last tree a a says Smith. Be chinese did practically that. F Cost a hey finished off All the tinier they could use industrially. Then a buried the rest for firewood. A in his steel and Concrete 5 granted. 9 Pitman director Smith a the alienist Strong for thaw a troller May wonder How the Philadelphia apr. a or f a a country a Timber i thaw w expected to take the stand. Wind eth Lago. Apr. 17.�?in thirty seven years an a mall Carrier w. E. Fowlkes. 65, who retired yesterday wore out 185 pairs of shoe and walked an equivalent of nine times around the world. He says. He bought five pairs of shoes a year and bad each pair re Weld three Tinea before discarding them. C0ntractmade for s. D. Bridge at Chamberlain Pierre. S. P., apr. 17.�?the Missouri Valley Bridge Iron company of Leavenworth. Ran., was awarded the contract for the construction of the Missouri River Bridge at Chamberlain today by the state Highway commission. The by of the successful company was $346,24.71. This estimate submitted by the company when bids were opened by the commission on last tuesday is $3,000 More than the estimated Cost. Made by state Bridge Engineer j. E Kirkham. The difference is represented for the most part by the increase in the prices of Steed which have been made since the Kirk Supply Opp affect him. Rut think As the City Dweller j own witness in his Effort to prove his a at himself in a wooden chair at a sanity and regain his Freedom from wooden table maid takes the the Pennsylvania Hospital for mean <<5pulp wrapping paper from a Tai and nervous Diases. Quot i want to testify and let them in common pleas court today As his Ham Bridge plans were completed. Construction is to Start at once and is to be completed by june to 1935, for quota of one per cent Washington. D. A. Apr. 17.�? it fat a the Senate today voted 54 to 25 to reduce the quota percentage in the new immigration Bill to one per cent. Several senators explained they voted for the one per cent quota on the theory that the 1910 census would be adopted. If the census of 1890 should be approved they said a motion to reconsider the percentage with a View of increasing it to two would be made the motion to reduce the quota of those entering from two per cent of the nationals in this country in a Der the 1910 census was made by senator Willis. Republican. Ohio j who said he was one of the a total he said however there should be left a foundation quota upon which a permanent policy could be constructed. Washington. D. Apr. 17.�?<a> a in attempt to raise the Basic quota provisions in the new immigration Bill fire in 2 to 3 per cent was voted Down of oily by the Senate. 72 to 8. The Effort Wasco Marseil in an amendment by senator Copeland Democrat new York. A a of Dpt Carton and shakes out Tho a is Cecal he bought from of a grocer whoa a i. In a wooden Box brought a train nmn Fng Over a 03 3rd directed by a Dis nether n a Frame built station Over a is so or a on wooden poles. The a Quot which the Cereal was cultivated with simple 3 n partly from Wood. The judge for thaw said yesterday at the close of the third Day of Tho trial. Mrs. Mary Copley the. His 82 year old Mother probably will follow him on the stand. At yesterday session or. George Wilson neurologist the principal witness. Maintained that thaw was sane and fun amply capable of managing his William a. Gray. # ,. Bairns and fenced his Elds with a men posts. A ii Ca my his breakfast Cereal re first act of the City nw4 ers v,.�?T the v 12 5. N o o. 0 o Lav cd states began with acres of Virgin Forest. To i in .49.009,000 acres a re till is there Are acres of cull and second not Refl get am Gnu a 1o and 3 30, a Mati ?rr8 part by stocked with _ be. Timber estimates governor in be not. , axes of a a Cal and. Once productive has rank formed into desert a Quot re d0structdon of Trees. So ado delivers speech at Aberdeen As train halts i a a apr. It adv a no lower freight rates immediate Daltit in a the farm problems and thro nement of a Wall Street men uhf. A Kjad of the Treasury department 0�?~hk reral Reserve William 5 Mcadoo candidate for theocratic presidential Nomi Nahon Tho addressed a larg crowd in tra i Rai was station w Hile the Pacofi h re taking him to the a 25 a. $1,000,000 Eer Tate. William a. Gray. .7? is com a a for a Safyn no bit. Divorced wife of thaw failed throughout his vigorous Oross examination to shake the testimony of the alienist. Or. Wilson asserted that the Petitioner wite a a Clear Brainy fellow who was in no Way of unsound mind. Other medical experts gave similar testimony. A a a a it it kills father who kicked him Spokane wash., apr. 17.�?because his father struck and kicked him Louis Craver 15, last night shot and killed his Parent John Craver a Carpenter recording to a confession police say the boy has made. Of. A Gray lowering Sunset or one where the sky is Green or Yellowish Green indicates rain. According to the contract. Of 15-year old Chil slopes with father of five children Chicago apr. 17.�?a fifteen year old Springfield Ohio girl was on her Way Home today after eloping with a Man whom she later discovered was married and the father of five children. Henry t. Wissinger 40, is in custody. Through a letter the girl is said to have written giving her Chicago address and saying she waa to be married Springfield authorities directed the Chicago police to the apartment and separated the couple at the request of the girls brother. O Moscow Russia apr. Trotzky soviet War minister who recently returned to Moscow greatly improved in health has regained the physical capacity for the resumption of full activity according to prof. Gentle who attended him during his prolonged stay in the caucasus. Trotzky is expected to resume his duties at the War office next week. It. Vernon and Parkston merchants Are advertising on the classified a a add Page of today a Republican. These merchants know that Many of their customers search Republican Adver Lisments for bargains. In Central South Dakota nearly everyone reads the Republican sweeping probe of prohibition is proposed Washington i it. C., apr. 17.�?an investigation by the House judiciary committee in All phases of prohibition enforcement was proposed today in a Resolution introduced by representative Dyer of Missouri the rank in Republican on the committee. Representative Dyer said it bad been claimed that the prohibition Law had caused disrespect for All Laws that crimes had increased and iat a thousands of people were manufacturing alcoholic beverages. He proposed that the investigating committee should look into whether beverage containing not More than 2.75 per cent of alcohol Are really intoxicating and j Eek to work out methods for relieving congestion in Federal courts growing out of liquor Lav violations. Tonal Hank of South St. Paul. It was kept in the Minneapolis past office yesterday and put on the train this morning. Two hour after the robbery gun squads found the Bandit car 15 Miles from the scene of the Crim near Tho Cedar Avenue Bridge in Minne amp Pola. Apparently the bandits had continued their flight in another machine. Four of the mail pouches and a number of Money bags Slit open and emptied Wero found in Tho abandoned car which was stolen last tuesday from a private garage in Minneapolis. Pollee reports placed the amount of currency stolen at $50,000, but a checkup at the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis and the stockyards National in South St. Paul completed thin afternoon disclosed that the ship Monte were $35,000. The Money was to he used by the Stock Yards National Bank to moot the payroll of the Armour pliant at South St. Paul which in issued by checks drawn on this Bank and therefore Armour and company had no part in the Money transaction. The Money shipment was fully insured Bank officials said. Reparations body approves Dawes plan Paris. France apr. 17.�? a the reparation commission at a plenary session today decided Nonann Mously to take note of the reply of the German government adhering to tile conclusions reach eel Iii the experts report Aud to approve within the limits of tile commission attributes the it it a Clil Sions and to adopt tile method proposed therein. Chicago apr. 17.�? of Hiram Johnson says Mellon should be the nominee to the exclusion measure. A spit in their face Quot Tokio. Apr. 17.�?�?tf the japanese exclusion provident i made a Law by the United state a we japanese will feel that the americana have spat in our faces a 5jadat#uchi Uch Ida. Former japanese ambassador to Turkey declared today at a luncheon Here of the pan Pacific club. Leaders Are resigned Tokio. Japan apr. 17.�?-op>�?-Tbei on the advice of solicitor Booth i resignation of Oric Rotaj dhar the witness said. He bad hired his i act prizes the spirit in which Japan own Washington attorney to handle is leaders have received new of the Bank head Dies in silence about $600,000 shortage Kansas City mo., apr. 17.�?-Jofon of. Moore deposed president of the i Fidelity National Bank and Trust a company died today without making any statement As to a discrepancy of $690,000 which has been found in his accounts. Weather forecast Minnesota. Tows North and South Dakota fair mud Friday not much Chappe in tem$cn�uf9b Newark. N. Y., apr. 17.�?senator Johnson of California has entered the new Jersey Campaign for Republican National convention delegates with an assertion that the cause of present conditions at Washington is the a of the unholy Alliance Between crooked big business and crooked in a speech at Newark last night the senator also characterized the recent speeches of senator Pepper and Secretary Hughes As lacking even a conventional indignation at a a Fiat has been disclosed in senator Johnson said Secretary Mellon was the dominant Factor in the Republican party and that therefore be should be the presidential nominee. Senator Johnson Aid he was in the fight until the Day a baseball National league Brooklyn. 200 new York. Too Vance and de Berry Dean and Snyder. Pittsburgh at Cincinnati postponed rain. Boston at Philadelphia postponed Quot rain. Chicago. 2 St. Louis. 0 Kaufman and of Farrell Sherdel and Holm. American league new York. 990 to Boston. 022 00, Hoyt and Shang Ferguson and a Neill. Adelphia. 110 Washington. Too Heima hand Perkin Zahniser aim Buel. Phi land Ltd re. He insisted that senator Wheeler had told him he could not handle such ceases because of hts election to the Senate. Washington d. C., apr. 17.�? pm former representative Thomas Stout of . Montana was called to Day As first witness before the aporia Senate comi Muttee investigating the indictment in Montana of senator Burton k. Wheeler. Stout testified that he had been editor and publisher of the daily Democrat news of Lewistown for 19 years and that lie had known senator Wheeler a quite intimately for a number of years. Stout also and he had talked with go re on Campbell in december 1922, about Campbell s employment of senator Wheeler. Campbell did not know Wheeler. Stout said and he volunteered to see Wheeler about his being retained. Tile Case involved a a receivership matter in the state District court. When he saw Wheeler Stout said the latter advised him he could not represent Campbell except before mate court. Stout said he Iliad no further connection Lith the matter but knew that senator Wheeler had appeared for Campbell in the state court cases. Campbell gives version Gordo no Campbelo i and cited with Wheeler Fot owed Stout on the stand and waived All immunity. Wheeler told him Campbell said. That a he a had been elected United states senator he you old not attend to any of my land a the did no to Warot anything to do with the land cases a Campbell added. Campbell declared Wheeler had never appeared for him before the Interior department and a repeatedly told me he about a month ago. Campbell said. He telegraphed Wheeler when a the it were going to pull some of my casing in Oil Well on i folic land. A a they referred to the Bank Whf of had foreclosed. A is there no Way for the government to a top ruining these Wen a the message to Wheeler said. Another Campbell Telegram to Wheeler a presented relating to a the Lincoln it asked Wheeler to arrange a conference with Soli Ai Tor Booth of the Interior department. Senator Wheeler office replied that the senator had sen Booth and that the latter would see Campbell when he came to Wallington. At the outset of the hearing senator Sterling Republican South Dakota suggested the Ait it might be Well to have the witnesses waive Imthun a tyr Quot non of these witnesses ave charged with anything a said chairman to Ralh. Attention was jailed that Campbell had been indicted with senator Wheeler but senator Borah said that could be taken care of when Campbell was matted. i. I a macedonian takes life in u. S. Embassy to assist cause United states Senate # arc pea no of a the amendment. A ttys finished there nothing to Bai this Phr tee. Frequently uttered. Eem to sex pee a the mood of official Japan. While thee familiar with procedure in american legislation Hope we intervene to or Cevat the or Tang of the exclusion amendment into the atm Cui books opinion among the majority is i settled pact. It has been authoritatively stated repeatedly that the japanese government Doe not intend to take any action in reprisal for the american measure. Conversation in Jospi Onail quarters reveal that the reason for this is that japanese Leader now believe they have lost the last foothold in the straggle for racial Equality. They receive the Senate s denote pm As a crushing to their ambition a dearly cherished through two generations. To be received on completely equal toting with the great Whit pow Ere. Sober minded Leader however accept this of an irremediable cond torn and feel that they have nothing to gain and much to lose through a retaliatory policy. The primary consideration is Japan a economic depend Enoe on America. An policy prejudicing commercial ire Latiola with the United state it is realized would Lead to economic disaster for Japan. I Jeader do not desire to of Airt such a disaster White House conference Washington d. C., apr. 17.�?up the Fate of the immigration Bill with it japanes exclusion provision a involved in another conference today Between president Coolidge and 8en at or Lodge of m search aet to Republican Senate Leader prior to resumption of Senate debate on the measure. Senator Todge raid the immigration que ton had been discussed but would no say whether he bad obtained any information a to the probable action of the president when the measure reached the Whit House. Senator Willis Republican Ohio who with senator i Ridge supported the japanese exclusion provision conferred with the president following the visit of the Republican Leader. Hug lie with Coolidge Secretary hurtles today epee half an hour w Ith the prod Rrt the first conference he has hold with the executive since the Japan exclusion question a approved by the Senate. It declined to discus i fore Nee. Senator Simmon Democrat North Carolina opened Senate debate on the immigration Bill with a demand for drastic restrictive legislation a red offered an Amend rent under who pref Eremi would be Given immigrants coming to this country to follow agriculture. Tho amendment would it not vide that at least one half of the quota of each nation should let a re red of a of a such immigrants. The North Carolina senator a care a diversification of crops and Sofia. Bulgaria apr. 17.�?<> a choosing the american consulate a his place of sacrifice. Nikola Guen off a former High macedonian official today committed suicide that i estate might go to the Macedon Jan cause. Guenoff had been desirous of turn i Gover i entire Fortune to the macedonian organization but found he was unable to do so under the bulgarian Laws unless he died on foreign soil. The estate of a person dying in Bulgaria without Legal heirs is confiscated by the state. The former official a entered the consulate and asked a few questions the answer to which confirmed his understanding of the Law. Then shouting Quot Thi is american ii a he Drew a revolver fired a shot into his brain and fell dead. Sive cultivation Ara necessary Loag a culture and that a scientific knowledge is necessary to acco Pilati that Chance undergoes operation and we soon take team Chicago. Apr. 17.�?frank Chanco manager of the Chicago americana was Given a sinus operation yesterday six incisions being mad under his right Eye. The Quot Peerless Leader said Relief from the asthmatic condition which has troubled him since an attack of influenza several month ago came immediately. Chance will be Able to leave the Hospital soon surgeons said. A Rebert e Trees birthday i Obaer fifty thousand leva and $4,660 inked As a hell a a Alabama Arkan currency were found on his Bov to Sas. Florida. Gother with a will leaving it ail to the North and South be Vaud Cupit pot ironed run. Macedonian Causa. And Virginia

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