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Mitchell Evening Republican (Newspaper) - April 24, 1924, Mitchell, South Dakota
Twelve Page the evening Republican vol xxx develops Ray to destroy Armie Mitchell South Dakota thursday april 24, 1924. Number 177 scientist works on mightiest of War weapons great Britain maintains secret Laboratory where invent or works on problem nothing a lives in it mysterious Power would to tar air planes Ayd in stantly or Fth dirigible by Mit ton Bronner Nea service writer Lindon England. Apr. 24.�?some-�?��rhere in the West of England hid a i by the British government h. Grind Ell mat thews. Young scientist is experimenting with a mysterious and ter Flo Power which is Likely to Chance Anfir amply Tho nature of the re it War. This Power is like lightning. Artificially made and directed so that tiles and materials can be destroyed. At the will of the Man. Amie is permitted to see the inventor. One of his assistants described the Ray to me in this Way a att is a sort of path through which we transmit Power. It is most easily compared to lightning. When lightning has no Clear path. It zigzags about until it strikes a Bouse or some other conductor which gives it a path to the Earth. The Power we have discovered a form of electricity uses the Ray a path just As lightning uses the tree. A it has to been treated out on a Large scale yet but i can say that in a distance of 64 feet we have used it. We have killed mice instantly shrivelled up live Plant exploded Gunpowder and cartridges. Set fire to various inflammable thing. Lighted electric lamps and put out of Adion the magnetos of air plane and motor cars. Quot if our experiments on a Large scale Bear out what we have done in a Small Way. Then our formulae show that for $15.0-00,000 we could build a Plant that would maintain a barrage for 50 Miles around London and for five Miles up in Hie air. As the Ray is invisible a hostile air plane Crew could not Dodge it and would not know when we were turning it in its direction. Zeppelins live More than a few until lbs other Day the name of Grindell Matthews was unknown to the British people. It has just been revealed that the British government for one discovery during the War raid him 125.660 within 24 hours after he told the authorities about it. Bonus soon to go to Coolidge for Senatore pasted by Senate it will soon go through conference on changes can overcome veto bobbed hair oven just two More years by hos authority vote in Senate As in House sufficient to assure its becoming Law Washington. apr. 24. A House Leader showed an unwillingness today to accept Senate amendments to the soldiers Bonus Bill and declared they would ask for a conference to adjust the differences. Chairman Green of the House was and Means committee was of the opinion that Little difficulty would be experienced in reaching an agreement. Washington d. A. Apr. 24.�? a a advocates of the soldiers Bonus Bill entered their attention today on the White House. Passage of the insurance measure yesterday by the Senate in the same form As approved by the House left Only minor differences Between the Chambers for adjustment in conference and it is expected to be ready Chicago. Apr. 24�?bobbed hair i is Given just two More years by or. Charles Nestler who claims to be the originator of the permanent wave and who is attend in the Illinois hairdressers association show Here. A a we be had simplicity for so Long no the pendulum must swing the other Way a he says. The show includes the newest things in Boba w Ith bobbed hair wigs for those wishing to retain their Long tresses. Two Ordeny Wheeler acted As Counselor House plans Pouce guard adjournment i business Man before june against girl leaders Call on president Cool-1 y. K. Smith Chicago advert Edge to go Over their j Tising agent protected of program ter attack on Home plans Are approved caretaker is killed farm legislation is Only important new Mattek remaining in consideration Detroit Young woman said to have demanded that he divorce his wife Washington. House Republican president Coolidge today that the Quot House was approaching conclusion of consideration of constructive legislation and that so far As that body a Chicago. Apr. 24�?miss Wanda a. Apr. 24.�?Stopa, formerly of Detroit Aceom-1 cad Era informed j ponied by a Man. Invaded the country Home of y. K. Smith an advertising Man. Today shot and killed Henry a tining caretaker and fired two shots at Smith s wife. Quot in a going to kill i miss was a s Hington a attorney a and land office official say he did not represent client Washington. C., apr. 24.�?<<4h�? further direct testimony bearing in the activities Here of senator Wheeler of Montana. In connection with land cases was heard today by the soon for president Coolidge Constd-1 special Senate committee investigate Erat Lon. I ing the senator s indictment on a no word on the subject has come charge of receiving Money for a above a h. Grindelia mat thews at work in his Laboratory a som Ewt Ere in the West of below Grindell Matthews. My nary Bill is reported out by committee plus agricultural products. He said he had hesitated to carry out instructions from his committee regarding from the president since his message to Congress. Re declared against a Bonus at that time but it has been predicted in some quarters recently that he might approve the insurance plan. At the same time proponents of the Hill have expressed Confidence that even of he should disapprove it. Sufficient votes were assured both in the House and Senate to override a veto. The Bill was passed by the Senate yesterday 67 to 17. And the vote in the House was 355 to 54. Much More than the necessary two thirds majority required to pass a Over a it to. Although the Bill providing for Cash payments to veterans not entitled to More than sort in adjusted service compensation and 20 year endowment insurance policies to others it was supported by the american legion. Senate democrats gave notice would renew peering before the Interior department in such cases. Uomm1 sooner Spry of the departments general land office testified that or. Wheeler came to his office on one occasion but told him he Only was interested in seeing that Gordon Campbell his client in litigation in the Montana courts got a a a Square deals from the Federal government in regard to his land interests. The commissioner added that the senator had talked to him Only As any other member of the Senate or measure House might have done for a constituent. Asked directly whether or. Wheeler had Quot interested himself in any controversy before the department. He replied that he did not recall Quot any controversy that senator Wheeler had been interested the Only other witness at today s committee session. William g. Feely yesterday that their fight for they j a Washington lawyer testified he concerned Congress Able to adjourn june i. Those conferring with the president included representative Long Worth of Ohio the majority Leader speaker Gillette chairman Snell of the rules committee and chairman Madden of the appropriations committee. The program for the immediate future As outlined to the president and approved by him provides for consideration of the child labor constitutional amendment the remaining appropriations Hills. Which Are largely of a deficiency nature and farm Relief legislation. Chief concern of the leaders after enactment of farm legislation they said would he to stave off Hills described by the president recently As a determined assaults on the Public Treasury by organized find Monument in Mexico older j than pyramids a Washington. apr. 24.�?the National geographic society announced today the dispatch of an expedition to Mexico to uncover in the ruins of Cui Calico South of Mexico City the oldest Structure yet found on the american continent. Prof. Byron Cummings Leader of the expedition in preliminary not by or would be Topa was alleged to have screamed _ Lions Iron is com Rauw Rega i Mug would renew their fight for full All substitutes Are reject a her a a a ure because he desired to Cash payments in the next Congress. though details of i ave Bolh that and the Mcnary Sterling votes for Bonus Mcnary plan Are altered Haugen Bill before the Senate Sim j Ulta Neoushy so that time might be i Lay in calling up the Mcnary Haugen measure in the Senate had been due to a ruling of parliamentarians that Ainee it Washington d. C., apr. 24.�? a a by a vote of 14 to 6. The House agriculture committee today reported the Mcnary Haugen agricultural Export by unsuccessful Effort a re made originate in the House. Substitute other measures for the proposal. By a vote of-16 to 4. The a committee rejected the Norris sin to december. 1915, England j Elair Bill and voted Down 16 to 2 the . A in on the final vote on the Bill nine i democrats and eight republicans of saved. I posed it while 33 republicans 32 chairman Norris disclosed that de democrats and the two Farmer i a Bor senators supported it. The Roll Call follows for the Bonus Republica was a Revenue Bill it must Brand ogee Brookhart. Bursum. Cam terri1>ly wrought up Over air Quot raids by zeppelins. Her army and Navy directors were in the Market for an air plane that could be sent up without anybody on it and that could be directed and steered from below merely by a Searchlight. To make a beginning. They asked whether a boat could be steered from Shore by such mean. Grind Ell Matthews announced he could do so so one cold Winter morning some of the most distinguished men in England headed by Admiral to it re Fisher and lord Balfour went out to Richmond Park. Grinnell Matthews launched on the Pond his Motorboat a Dawn a which had on Board an octagonal Cylinder composed of eight Graphite selenium tablets. Each measuring three inches by a half Inch made for him by the famous scientist. Or. Fournier do Albe. The Searchlight on Shore was of the Ordinary Type used on torpedo boats and had a 24-Inch Parsons Mirror. Balfour it Tood by Grindell Matthews and told the latter what evolutions he wanted the boat to perform. It followed his instructions like a live thing. No or Day Grindell Matthews got his Check. U. S. Takes Over War on epidemic in California Washington d. A apr. 24.�?orders were sent today by Secretary Wallace to or. U. G. Houck charge of the Federal forces fighting the foot and Mouth disease in California to immediately take supreme command of the California state forces and direct them in conjunction with the Federal staff. Washington. C., apr. 23.�? a a fifty additional Federal veterinary is Are being dispatched by the Bureau of animal Industry to California to augment the forces of the government now there battling the foot and Mouth disease among cattle. Thirty five men Are now Enro Ute John Neary is again in toils. On voting charge Sioux Falls. S. D., april 24.�?John Veary and Frank Merritt will by tried 3t the May term of municipal court in the charge of conspiring to cause illegal voting. Determination to hold the two men for trial was reached in judge Gibbs ourt yesterday afternoon. Both Junen were released on 500 Bona. Two other cases involving j. O. Kerns and Arthur Strupp were dismissed. Neary is the Man who was arrested some time ago As the result of a prohibition raid on his soft drink parlor in the Melee which followed to Federal prohibition officers were wounded. Neary was tried and acquitted but was convicted on the charge of violation on the charge of shooting the officers. The action against both men i based on allegations that they induced two women to go to the polls who were illegal voters. One was Aid to be under voting age and Tho other was declared not to have been a Legal resident of the precinct in which her vote was cast. Mckinnon Calls for Aid in cleaning up Soux Falls Sioux Falls s. D., apr. 24.�?likelihood of a contest on the election of y Thomas Mckinnon As mayor in tuesdays election seemed Remote today Georg w. Egan Defeated candidate while intimating that he might take action of some sort refused to make a definite statement of Hie plane and Hie supporters would not enlarge upon statements Nade yesterday about the Postai Milit i a contest Voight Bill which would set up a corporation to sell wheat abroad. The so called Yoakum plan As embodied in the Aswell Bill was turned Down by a Viva Voce vote. The Mcnary Haugen measure comes from the committee with a number of amendments changing the original provisions sponsored by the department of agriculture. As reported it would provide for creation of a corporation with capital of $200,000,000. Supplied by the government to promote the Sale abroad of surplus farm products. Livestock As Well As Grain and Cotton. Affairs of the corporation would be handled by five directors one to be the Secretary of agriculture and the others to be appointed by the president who would be required to give representation to All sections of the country. The corporation would seek to establish prices for various farm products that would Bear the same ratio to about 400 Basic commodities a they did during Thio years prior to the world War. To Aid Iii main other states. Four wore Given orders tenancy of such prices the Prem a today and eleven More Are being Sel Dent under a committee amendment j acted from the governments forces would have authority to declare pm in various parts of the country. Barges on farm commodities or too a put into effect increased Tariff duty n i j one of the important committee a i oiling v Kluvo changes was Ope which would do away with the requirement that the corporation pay Farmers for their products partly in scrip. As reported the Bill would provide that the corporation could either use scrip or pay entirely in Cash making allowance for Cost of marketing and probable losses. Norris urges action chairman Haugen of the agriculture committee joint author of the Bill said he had been giver Assurance by Republican leaders that the measure would be taken up by the House by May to. As the Bill was receiving the approval of the House committee pressure was exerted in the Senate for Early enactment of farm Relief legislation. Chairman Norris of the Senate or a culture committee gave notice that unless the Senate had. Opportunity soon to act on the Mcnary Haugen measure he would press his own Bill proposing an appropriation of $100. Eron. Capper it olt in Ummings. Curtis. Dale Elkins. Fess Frazier Gooding. Hal Howell Jones Washington. Keyes. I idd. Ixl up. Mccormick Mckinley. Mclean. Mcnary nor Beck. Norris. Oddie Phipps shortage Spencer Stanfield Sterling Warren and wallis�?33. Democrats Adams. Ashurt Broussard. A Caraway Copeland. Dill Ferris. Fletcher. George. Gerry. Harris Harrison Heflin. Jones of new Mexico Kendrick. Mckellar. Mayfield. Neely Overman. Owen. Pittman Ralston. Ransdall. Sheppard. Simmons Smith. Stanley. Stephens. Trammell. Walsh in of Massachusetts Walsh of Montana and wheeler�?32 i Farmer i abort Johnson and ship stead�?2 total 67. Against the Bonus republicans Ball Borah. Edge. Ernst Fernald Pepper. Smoot and wadsworth�?8. Democrats Bayard. Bruce dial had handled Campbells land matters j vat Lona disclosed an artificial Mound before the Interior department and that senator Wheeler had a absolutely nothing to do with them. No Date for the next meeting was fixed but chairman Borah expects within a Day or two to question m#m-1 hers of the grand jury which returned the indictment against senator Wheeler at great Falls. Mont. Big Gas tank set up by state at Watertown 412 feet in diameter and 52 feet High and the explorers believe it probable that a thousand years before the first Pyramid was built some Monarch of the Valley of Mexico forced his subjects to erect a great Monument for him. Skeleton remains of the americans of 7.000 years ago. Specimens of the emblems and idols and pieces of their earthen Ware found at Cui Chilco by j or. Cummings he believes have up. Set current theories about the origin of human life on the american continent. A the Steps of human development from the simplest beginners Are As As she and her companion fled in an automobile. The police were notified and gushed a detail to the office of John h. Dunham and company where Smith is employed took him to the state s attorneys office and left a guard at the office. A Smith explained that miss stops with whom he said he formerly had been Friendly according to the state s attorney bad demanded that he divorce his wife and marry her. Threatened before Smith said he had met Mise Stop when she was employed in the office of the United states District attorney Here. She had returned to Detroit some time ago he said and expressed the belief that she name Back to Chicago determined to kill both him and his wife. She once before had made threats against him he charged. Miss stops and her companion whose name was said by High Way police to by Ted Glasgow. Filled to appear at the Dunham officer and i they Are being sought. According to Smiths associates i Mies Stopa has been connected with j Bohemian circles in the North aide artists Colony where she had lived. They declare she Previ oriely had an i noyed him. I Caps through window after shooting Down Manning and firing at mrs. Smith. Miss Stone leaped through a window in making bet escape. Smith said he was in a dentists office when notified 1>j to. A. By Telephone of the shooting. Manning a was killed he said when he tried to eject miss stops. Mrs. Smith ill of influenza was in bed when miss Stopa invaded the House and stood in the doorway of the bed chamber. A threat miss Stopa was said to have made attracted Manning to the room and when he at two opted to restrain Mise Stopa the latter Drew a revolver from the folds of her wrap and began firing. Mise Stopa had the title of assistant / District attorney for a time. She was a stenographer was graduated from a local Law College and was admitted to practice at the Illinois bar in 1921. She was sworn in As an assistant District attorney to give her admittance to the grand jury room for the purpose of taking stenographic notes an Edwards. Glassy King. Shields. Ewan Watertown. S. Governor w h. Mcmaster gasoline or Quot or South Dakota is not yet concluded was evidenced by the arrival Here today of a huge steel tank consigned to the state Highway commission. Which tank it to he used in the Sale of gasoline in this City by the state. Citizens interested Are securing a trackage site where the tank is to be installed. The Highway commission. It is said will ship gasoline Here easily traceable in the Valley of Meg apr. 24. That Iro has 1� Mesopotamia or the Valley a to me a Yed a assistant District of the or. Cummings said. Quot Point out As we May similarities to Mongo flan types or Tow Western Asiatic and egyptian designs and conceptions. We must acknowledge after All that the Early inhabitants of America were distinctly America. Their dissimilarities to asiatics both East and West. To africans and to europeans Are far More pronounced than their similarities. A Tho Mound at oui Ileo was preserved by lava from the Crater i to i 1 attorney. Smith declared that he did not by believe her mentally Normal and Ai ter previous trouble had persuade her to submit to examination by a alienist. The latter declared her apparently sane but highly emotional Smith said. A she Hod hounded me for month. Trying to get me to divorce my wife and marry Smith said. A o from new York. North Carolina and i on the difference Between what the soldiers would have received in their vocations of they had stayed at Home and what they did receive As nomination for vice president Washington d. a apr. Flat statement that Quot if by any Chance the nomination for the vice presidency should be offered to me i should decline to accept was made today by general John j. Pershing. A any statement that has been made that t would be a candidate for vice president has been made without my authority a the general said in a formal statement. A i Ani not a candidate and if by any Chance the nomination should be offered r should decline to accept of the Moon s diameter is 2169 Miles. Run spots Are areas having great heat intensity. Son underwood�?9. Total 17. Dation work for the placement of a ring wants bigger Bonus j Large gasoline tank at the state pen senators King. Democrat. Utah., Harp i under Way and wit made an eleventh hour attempt to completed within ten Days War have the Bill recommitted with in-1 Den George t. Jamieson said today True tons to the committee to report the steel tank reached Sioux Falls out a measure Basing compensation several weeks ago. Warden Jamieson said he had not yet received orders from governor w. H. My master to sell gasoline. In car lots and retail it from the big tank As the state is now doing at i the geographic society has found. The other cities. J Gazetos of Mexico were preceded by Sioux Falla. S. A. Apr. 24.�?foun-�?Ttha Toltec and the to tees were preceded by a primitive people whose traces were embalmed in this lava. Quot under the present Aufrance Blanket of lava however explorers have found a much earlier covering and in this first lava flow it is hoped by the expedition thai remains will j be found of a civilization that existed even before the primitive Pride estors i of the to items invaded the service men. He said be wanted to j farm Bodier to meet test the sincerity of advocates of the j Washington. �?T., apr. 24.�?a legislation but on a Viva Voce vote it meeting of organizations interested in his proposal was buried. I cooperative marketing and other undaunted. Senator King proposed i farm problems has been called for to recommit the measure so As to Cleveland. Ohio aug. 11-16, it was have it rewritten with provision for announced today by the a it permanent committee for tile International Institute on cooperation. Official of the department of agriculture will attend and the whole cooperative Field will be discussed. Weather forecast increased compensation for the men who actually fought on land and . Again voted Down he announced amid laughter on the floor and in the crowded galleries. In which he joined that he had several other re committal proposals to offer but saw the futility of offering them. At the finish there was general. Warning that the fight for a a a real i Minnesota rain tonight and prob Bonus had not ended that no ques ably Friday colder in West portion ton could be settled until it had been settled right. Called a Gold Nugget to senator Simmons of North Caro to Merlin a the ranking Democrat on the Al the thames. England a principal 060,000 to assist in the Export of sur River is 210 Miles Long. Saturday want ads free with two pud insertion we give you a saturday want and free. Insert a want and today get what you want tomorrow. Use the new want and phone Call 2424 if you find a lost article you can advertise it free in the Republican. Nance committee vehemently declared that the service men would find this Bill a a Gold nuggets Joist As the Farmers had found the Republican Tariff Bill to be a a a there will be another Opportunity for senators to vote on this question a he said Quot at a time when senators Are not restrained by threats coming from the White House. If the president signs this Bill after he has declare against a Bonus he will do so because he does not think it is a senator Ralston Democrat Indiana declared that the Bill would do All that should be done for the world War veterans. A i have been urge a by officials of the american legion to support he said. A and not to do anything that might contribute to its do feat. It is my opinion that unless this Bill becomes a Law no compensation legislation will be enacted by this Congress for the boys who suffered and fought so bravely in order that the institutions of this country might be made More secure and the civilization of the world charging that the Bonus Bill was the a result of a conspiracy senator King declared it was being enacted to save president Coolidge in the coming election advertising in newspapers up 400 per cent in decade new York City. Apr. 2 4.�?national newspaper advertising has increased 400 per cent in the last ten years and totalled 200.000.000 lines in 1923, according to a report today submitted to the annual convention of the Ami Eriean newspaper publishers association by the Bureau of advertising. The Bureau of advertising is an Independent organization which works in conjunction with the association. A to a Oil probes Row Over Issue of drainage Seck Eta Kywa Ash d Fly a res that Engineer who testified yesterday deceived committee today a baseball american league tonight Aud in West and South portions Friday fresh to Strong shifting winds Iowa unsettled tonight and Friday probably local thunderstorms colder Friday and in West and Central portions tonight fresh to Strong shifting winds Chicago. 0 North Dakota unsettled in . Lour. 1 a Gold j West. Rain or Snow in East and South Robertson and Crouse Vangilder portion this afternoon and probably j and reverend. Tonight Collier tonight Friday part j Detroit. 931 Ioly Cloudy older in Southwest por Cleveland. Too 02 Tion Strong Northwest winds dim in i Stoner and rapier Edwards. Smith Ishing. Edmondson Morton and Matt. South Dakota rain tonight prop t Boston. Of ably turning in North portion to i new York. 03 Snow colder tonight Friday fair i Ferguson and of Neill Shawkeya i14 j. O Washington. apr. 24.�? Gaston b. Means former investigator for the department of Justice and Star witness before the Banate Daugherty investigation reported to the committee members today that his extensive collection of diaries and documents put in evidence had disappeared. An investigation was ordered to determine the whereabouts of the missing Pere Means told the committee a Man wearing the badge of a sergeant at arms of the Senate obtained Possession of the documents. Or a Pac of them yesterday at Means Home in Washington. Means possessed several suitcases of records a blah contained. He said. Till Day history of picturesque adventuring in de 1 Teetie work for the government and other associations and individuals. The collection dated Back several years and dealt. Means testified with inquiries into bootlegging it new yank and War funds Washington d. A. Apr. 24.�?aap a another Row Over geological surveys in Teapot dome developed today when the Oil committee resumed its hear colder in East portion fresh to Strong Sand Bengough. Northwest winds. Washington. 021 i xxx a i temperature maximum and minimum temperatures from 7 a. In. Yesterday to 7 a. In. Today As recorded by the official government thermometer maximum. 90. Minimum 60. At 8 a. In. Today. 66. Weather and roads Philadelphia. Too Martina and Ruel Walberg Burns and Perkins. National in Pattit Philadelphia. 130 0 Boston. Too 0 Hubbell and Hen True Genew cd Lucas and of Neil. Cincinnati. 021 too Pittsburgh. Too 600 Donohue and Hargrave Meadows these bulletins arc filed at 8 30 a in. Daily by tile associated press f ant it Schmidt. I new York 04 4 Watertown Clear 60 roads Good. Aberdeen Clear. 65 roads Good. Huron Clear 64 roads Good. Sioux Falls partly Cloudy 60 roads Good. Pierre Clear 58 roads Good Mitchell Clear of roads Good. I amp a Hka to a amp a amp Iii Talaat 900 _ Brooklyn. Of Nehf and Snyder Ruether and de Berry. St. Louis. 0 Chicago a a 0 Sothoron and Neibergall Jacobs and of Farrell , a Petroleum Engineer who testified yesterday that the dome would have been susceptible to drainage from outside Wells had not the government moved to have the Oil Eor treated immediately was recalled to the stand and was asked by senator Walsh rho committee pro a ecu Tor whether he had not Lien a guilty of deception in testifying As an impartial expert. A the committee sought absolutely impartial experts a senator Walsh said and every member of the committee is dumbfounded to learn that months before you appeared you had taken a position As to every policy involved to the leasing senator Walsh Road a letter or Tutasi by or. Lewis showing his opinion la the in alter but the wit Nara denied there was any deception and said a was entirely impartial in i attic j and conclusion inti j
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