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Mitchell Evening Republican (Newspaper) - April 30, 1924, Mitchell, South Dakota The evening Republican vol xxx Mitchell South Dakota wednesday april 30, 1924. Number 165 47 killed tornadoes will spend millions of ten Centore magnate lavish with his Bride Nickels on her i noted men urge that Senate on world court will put his Fortune behind her ambitions in grand opera orders fourteen Sui that. However is just preliminary to what he plans to ii for Divorcee wite by Nea service Introit Mich. Apr. 30�?sebastian s. Kresge. Multi millionaire five and ten cont store magnate used to boast his lunch Only Cost him 21 cents a Day. And he always kept his go of Ball longer than any other members of his club. Business evangelism and prohibition were his favorite topics. But three months ago his friends discovered he had ordered 14 tailor made suits he began to spend hi4 Money right and left. And he buried his nose in the books of x erdi and the plays of Ibsen. All of which his old associates could t fathom at All. The answer. However. Has just Rome in the news of his recent marriage in new York to Doris Mercer. A Young Divorcee with grand opera ambitions. She has a fair voice a tis reported but she never has managed to reach even an opera chorus. But Kresge emulating Harold Fowler Mccormick. Chicago a Harvester is going to spend his millions to make her dreams come True just As Mccormick is spending his on Granna Walska. Kresge is 57 his Bride is 31. Mccormick too was past the 50 Mark when he won Grannas heart. A the Way through there is a striking similarity in the Kresge my j Cormick romances. Mccormick after his children were grown lived apart from his wife. S a did Kresge. Mccormick was separated from Edith Rockefeller Mccormick in jut 10 minutes in the fasten divorce hearing Chicago Ever witnessed. Kresge was parted from his former wife in just the same length of time in the briefest divorce hearing in Detroit s history. Kresge started his first store Here. He married Anna Harvey in Memphis. And took her in As his partner. He soon opened up another store in Memphis and then began to Branch out in other cities. Today he operates a Chain of 223 stores. Now the former mrs. Kresge alts quietly at Home with her children As Kresge plans to spend his millions in obtaining an operatic career for mrs. Kresge no. 2. Some senators with president on Jap Issue four states in Southeast torn by wind storms Bishop Brent Walker Hines i besides the 35 dead 87 Are and George Wickerham injured in score of to witness before sub chalices committee business is for it damage Over million senators Are Toad of support in referendum by u. S. Chamber of Commerce Washington. A. Apr. 3 0.-advocate of american participation in the world court concentrated their Forcer today before a sub committee of the sonata foreign relations committee and made spirited and determined pleas for action on the proposal by the present Congreve. Brent of the hundreds of houses Are levelled in i/ou1sia a Alabama. Georgia and South Carolina Doris Mercer Bride of Sebastian s Kresge five and ten cent store magnate an d Kres Ege. J Bishop Charlo h. I episcopal Church representing i Church organization. Told the com i Mitten that the mandate for the court Quot come from the nation and no longer is a the idea of presenting what he said represented a the careful conservative expression of business Walkr d. Hina. A King for the foreign relations committee of the chamber of Commerce of the United states outlined approval of the court proposal in a referendum by that organization and told of resolutions parsed advocating such a Agency. George w. Wickersham spoke for the american bar association and i told the committee that presidents i Harding and Coolidge secretaries Hughes and Hoover Elihu Root and i Many others had reviewed the Rea sons advanced against american adj Herence to the court and each had found them inadequate. Al of the witnesses insisted Anier can participation Iii the court would i not bind the United states in any Way i to the league of nations. Columbia. S. C., apr. 30.�? Twenty five person Are believed to have lost their lives in Horrell Hill Section today As a result of a Tornado which rocked Horrell Hill school and swept through the county. Nine bodies have been recovered. Atlanta. A. Apr. 30.�?reports received shortly before 2 o clock today lifted 47 known deaths in Hie series of tornadoes that struck the unit East today. Approximately 130 persons were reported a injured. Fire were said to he missing. A heaviest loss of life occurred at Andersons .c., where Riverside Xiii Village was partially demolished. The Mill building sustained loss that will boat total damage to $50,000. Nine deaths were reported there with a score or More persons injured. All available nurses and doctor at Anderson were dispatched to the scene. Physicians and a nurses wer rushed front Spartanburg. S. A. To Walnut Grove. 13 mile away to determine j extent of damage and probably Leas of life following report Tubat a Tornado struck that place at i Povlock today. Twisters struck Lake Charles la., late yesterday and windstorms swept through Arkansas and Tennessee where Little damage was done. One death was reported at Lake Chaves and one at Memphis. Tent. Dorm that swept this Section Early today according to reports reaching Here. Wires Are Down Spartanburg s. Capr. 30�?wal j nut Grove a Small town 13 Miles South of Spartanburg was struck i by a Tornado at to o clock this morn i ing and it is reported that several people were killed or injured. All i wires Are Down. Sweeps Over Albany Albany ga., apr. 30.�?a Tornado swept Over Albany Early today causing considerable property damage but to one was injured. Several wooden buildings were demolished. Near Columbus. A. Columbus. A. Apr 30.�?nine Are reported injured in a severe storm Between warm Springs and Greenville a special dispatch to the Ledger this afternoon states. Camden s. A apr. 30.�?report received Here this afternoon Are that to or la persons were killed and 35 injured by a Tornado Early today in the Vicinity of Dalzell and Horatio two Small town Between Sumter and Camden. Of three circuit judges sit on supreme court three of jurists Are disqualified by state Law on nominating petitions service because of bus lines suit is for affections judge Smith of Mitchell one who is acting in Walworth county Appeal is robbers loot prison term Bank and three Given Caskie of Watertown s. D., apr. 30.�?rob Yankton. S. Is hers last night robbed the Bank at j Schmierer. Jr., Stockholm. According to reaching Watertown this morning the robbers also broke into the. Hardware Mora and carried off Alt i Len ,toda1y Quot hrs he ully guns and jewelry in the establish by or Tripp to a ment. D., apr. 30.�? Tohn formerly cashier of reports defunct american state Bank of 1 Parkston was sentenced to serve two and one half years in the state Peni charge of having made a fal report to the state superintendent of banking. Speculation in Oil land was said to have been blamed by him for the Dif nothing is known As to the num of men in the gang nor the time the robbery was committed. The work having been done so quietly As to awaken no one. Two safes were j a a a Hie of ii. Hank the hardware store and institution formerly the <, wires leading a a Quot a Quot Hank. A been in the. Hands of the state banking department for $75,000 offers jailers to be condemned me Raton Rouge iat., apr. 30. Governor Parker who fixed May 9 As the Date for the execution of the six italians for the murder of Dallas Almes received several alleged a Black hand letters to threatening his life unless the lives of the six italians Are spared. New Orleans. La., apr. 30.�?archie Rennison superintendent of the new Orleans Parish prison today received a letter offering him $50. 00 and colonel Guy Moloney superintendent of j the new Orleans police department. The Peru ton 5.000 they would permit the escape from jail of the six italians con cracked it contents taken into the town except one were Cut. Being the Long Dis Washngton. �?T., Republican leaders h4be accepted the View Coolidge that the effective Date of the japanese exclusion provision of the immigration Bill should be set far enough ahead to enable the state department to work out a new agreement with Japan. Senators from California and other Western states will make a Strong fight against adoption of such a pogrom. Of congressman and clerk put on trial on serious charge Washington d. C., Arp. Harold Knutson of Minnesota. And Leroy m. Hull a Washington government clerk were placed on trial in Arlington county Virginia today charged with a serious offence growing out of an automobile ride the two men took on a Virginia Rode several weeks ago. Virginia policemen arrested them while their car was parked on the Roadside. The one missed to Nee wire. The robbers Are thought to have i driven to Castlewood 16 Miles South j of Watertown in a stolen car and i there robbed the Reid general store. About $1,200 Worth of shoes and silk. Were the loot obtained. Driving from there to Stockholm. Apr. 29.�?some. The band Cut All wires leading into in the Senate the town except one and in leisurely of fashion robbed first the hardware store then the Post office and a a ast looted Hie Bank tile robbery was was not known until about 7 o clock this morning when president o. P. Johnson of the Bank opening up for the Days business discovered a huge Hole in the Safe vault. The robbers ruffled the safety de posit vaults but failed to a a crack the vault Safe. They obtained a Small sum in Loose change and Currerthe Bank officers said amount missing in Bonds and securities cannot be estimated until a Check is made. The Only hardware Ste at Stockholm was Jimmie an it Stock of guns and ammunition taken. The robbers also carted off a Small Stock of jewelry the value of which had not been computed Early today. About $800 in Money order and Stamps was taken from the Post office. Of a dispute of 60 years duration Over the Boundry line Between Bra several months. Agreement is reached today on Bonus Bill Washington. A apr. 30.�? agreement was reached today by House and Senate conferees on differences Over the Soldier Bonus Bill. Most of the provisions in dispute were of a minor nature and Early ratification of the conference report by the Senate and House waa predicted by the conferees who agreed in but the Ani Mousey on the report. The Bill then will go to the president. F. Roosevelt new manager of Al Smith Boom damned to die at Amite on May 9. Coupled with the offer was a threat if it was not accepted the Illinois Central train on which the convicted men would be taken from new Orleans to Amite for execution would be wrecked Enro Ute. 80 Bod est of locate in Coal mine Wrecke Zil and Venezuela was settled in 1905. New York City apr. 30.�?franklin d. Roosevelt former assistant Secretary of the Navy was today chosen chairman of a state committee which will promote the candidacy of gov. Alfred e. Smith for the democratic presidential nomination. Weather and roads these bulletins Are filed at 8 30 a. In. Daily by the associated frets Iowa generally fair tonight and i thursday somewhat cooler in South-93 St portion tonight probably Frost tonight. North Dakota fair tonight Aud thursday rising temperature thursday. South Dakota fair tonight thursday partly Cloudy with somewhat warmer in East portion. Local temperatures maximum and minimum temperatures As recorded by the official government thermometer from 7 a. In. Yesterday to 7 a. In. Today maximum. 61. Minimum is. At 8 a. In. 49. Weather forecast Mitchell Clear. 40 roader Good. Bioux Falls Clear. 42 roads Good Pierre Clear 40 roads Good. Aberdeen Clear. 42 roads fair. Watertown Clear. 34 Roade fair i him Cital 35 roads Good. 4 this Emblem is for your Protection look for it in All Republican advertisements. It is backed up by a vigilance committee composed of three men and two women who Are not merchants and whose duties Are to on All complaints of misrepresentation a a. A a and misleading advertising. Look for the Emblem Wheeling. W. A. Apr. 39�?Only 45 bodies have been recovered from the Benwood mine in which 111 miners were entombed by an explosion monday Rescue workers reported this afternoon. Earlier in the Day j. M. Carpenter general manager of the mine announced that the rescuers had penetrated entry number eight and had located 35 additional bodies. Rescuers said they had found three bodies a Short distance beyond this entry but had been unable to get through a heavy fall of Rock to the main passageway. Town marshal fatally shot in Duel of guns Littleton. Colo., apr. 30.�?virgil Stevens town marshal Here was wounded perhaps fatally shortly before noon today in a revolver fight with two men suspected of having escaped from the Denver county jail last thursday in a delivery led by we. Dali Hunt of St. Paul. One of the fugitives was probably fatally wounded. A Beadle county Man shot As gun Falls to ground Aberdeen. S. A. Apr. 30.�?operation of passenger busses and freight trucks upon the improved Highway of South Dakota is forcing Radical reconstruction of train service by the railroads serving the state the effect of which is to reduce the number of trains operated although not to eliminate Public service. Changes Are chiefly concerned in consolidation of passenger and freight trains on Branch lines into mixed trains. The first effect locally is observed in a substitution of a mixed train for the daily except sunday passenger of the Milwaukee system on the Branch from Here to Linton. N. A. Under the new schedule freight service will be every week Day instead Early today Greenville. Fla., was of Only four a a it Eek. The after struck. Four negroes being injured and noon train on the Milwaukee Between two reported As missing. Sioux Falls and Flandreau will be in Alabama later reports told of i discontinued after today. The time of storm at Autaugaville and Louisville tit train North from Langford to where Only property damage a Britton on the Milwaukee has been wrought. One person a injured at Auburn. Four were killed at Opelika and five injured. Albany ga., was visited by a windstorm without Joss or injury of life. South of Macon. ., three persons wore killed More than a dozen injured and heavy property loss reported from a Tornado. Six wore injured at Lawrenceville ga., and $200,899 estimated As material destruction. Atlanta ga., apr. 30.�? a a thirty five death were reported today More than 87 persons were injured and three Are missing in a score of tornadoes and wind storms that swept Over the Southeastern states. Severe storm of Tornado proportion were being reported in various parts of Louisiana Alabama. Georgia and South Carolina Early this afternoon. A dozen towns in four states bore the Brunt of the storms that wrecked property estimated As close to $1,009.-009 in value. From Albany. ., word was received that considerable property damage resulted from a twister but that no one a injured. At Lawrenceville ga., six persons were reported injured and property damage of $209,000 was done. Twenty houses and barns were lev-1 Elled by a Tornado at Autaugaville. Ala., and several head of livestock killed. The methodist Church was badly torn by the w ind. All available doctors and left Anderson s c. Early today for the Riverside Mill Village when re a ports indicated that damage prob a ably was much greater than at first reported. Wipe out Village Anderson s. C., apr. 30.�?the death toll from the Tornado which struck Anderson this morning was placed at nine by latest reports from the stricken area. More than a score were injured by the Tornado which destroyed fifty houses in the Riverside Mill Village and damaged the Mill building. Property damage 1 estimated at More than $500,000. The Tornado swept Over the Southern part of the City which included Many negro Homes As Well As Tho Riverside Mill. Fear were Felt Here that it May have done further damage beyond Anderson but All wires were Down and it was impossible to learn How far the twister effects were Felt. Die in school House Columbia. S. C., apr. 30.�?three Pierre. S. P. Apr. 30- a a the South Dakota supreme court sat today with three circuit judges occupying the seat of Justice Sherwood pollen and Gates ail candidate for re election this year and All disqualified by a Peculiar restriction of state Law from sitting in the Case to come before the court. The Case to be heard is that of Bertha Spiry against Fred Spiry a warmly contested suit for alienation of affections appeared from the circuit court of Walworth county. The three justices seeking re election Are disqualified from sitting in the Case because the defendant in it signed and circulated nominating petitions on behalf of All three at the time his Case was pending. Similar substitutions of circuit judges on the supreme Bench have been made four time since the legislature five years ago altered the Law relating to the supreme court to prevent justices from sitting in Case in such circumstance. The circuit judges who Are temporarily elevated to the supreme Bench Are judge Skinner of Watertown. Burch of Dallas and Smith of Mitchell. Changed to bring the trip within an eight hour Day for toe Crew cutting out overtime. A we Are like any other business a said us Peri Nten de Jit j. K. Hills of the Milwaukee today in speaking of the changes. A we can to operate service which does not says ase against Trust was a a ditches Washington d. C., apr. 30.�? up a chairman Thompson of the Federal Trade commission was questioned by the Daugherty committee again today regarding anti Trust prosecutions which the Trade commission sought to have the department of Justice Institute against lumber interest. Evidence against the Southern Pine association which the Trade commission gathered. Or. Thompson said was considered by Henry s. Mitchell assistant to former attorney general Daugherty to he stronger than that assembled against Trade association which were successfully proceeded nurses against in court. Seah favors Cut i tax on earned income 150,000 cow shot in California As infected with foot disease Huron s. A. Apr. 30.�?george Bell. Employed on the Crawford farm. 20 _ Miles North of Here is in a local hos Tornado which struck persons were killed today when the Horrell Hill school House. 12 mile from Here was wrecked by a Tornado according to reports received in Columbia Early this afternoon. Hits negro settlement Opelika ala., apr. 30.�?four persons were killed and five others injured Joy a Tornado which struck a negro settlement Early today in the suburbs of Opelika. About 12 House in the negro Section were demolished. Two women a Man and a Little boy made up the list of dead. The Tornado struck about 5 of clock and lasted Only a few minutes. Hit Georgia town Lawrenceville. ., apr. 30.�?six persons were injured and a number of residence blown Down part of a Mill Village demolished and property damage of $200,000 sustained Here Early today by a Tornado which struck this City. Twenty houses levelled Autaugaville ala., apr. 30.�? Twenty houses and barns were de Sacramento cal., apr. 30.�? Tillie Al Martra. Famous Milch cow owned by a. W. Morris and Eon of Yolo county was shot and killed in los Angeles yesterday after it was Learned she was infected with the foot and Mouth disease according to information received Here by the Sacramento Union. The famous cow s owners recently were offered $50,000 for her but refused the offer. One of her calves sold for $61,000 when Only three months old. The calf was bought by a St. Paul minn., concern. To a fire stops Dan do Boismi to a the wild j jangle of the fire alarm broke up the Washington. C., apr. 30.-Secretary Mellon proposal for a 23 per cent reduction in the tax on earned incomes was agreed upon today by the Senate with modifications. The maximum amount of income on which the reduction could be applied a Cut to $10,000 from the $20,000 allowed he the House. All incomes of $5,000 or less however would be considered earned for purpose of the reduction. Corporation tax opens contest Washington. G., apr. 30.�? up a a rougher Road Lay ahead of the tax reduction Bill today when the Senate went to work on some of the controversial committee amendment with interest entering on the provision relating to a state and gift taxes publicity of return and the Hoard of tax Appeal with introduction of an fun ment proposing a substitute corporation tax. Senator Simmons North Carolina ranking Democrat of the finance committee said the minority would be ready to plunge into the income tax fight on which the main contest on the Bill hinge. Opening of Thi fight a been postponed since monday because of the intention of Democrat to couple the corporation tax fight with that Over income rates. The finance committee turned Down the House proposal to increase the estate tax rate from a maximum of 25 per cent to 40 per cent and also eliminated from the Bill the House provision for a gift tax. Action of the House in opening tax return to inspection by certain congressional committees was broadened by the Fina Rue committee to per my the committee to make Public any detail found in the return and several senator have introduced amendment proposing Complete publicity of returns. Sex govt Mccray give the year prison term Pital suffering front a gunshot wound in Hie right Arm. Physicians expressed fear this morning that it would be necessary to amputate the right hand and lower Arm. Bell was shot when a shot gun he was carrying on a Hay rack slipped to the ground and discharged the shot Strling him in the of Ted Here this morning. The methodist Church a badly torn by the wind. No one a reported injured hut several head of livestock were killed. Of Var injured Greenville. Ala., apr. 30�?four person were injured two Are missing and property was damaged to the my it it. M it Fefolt Al a a o no in. Dancing party of the City firemen and their wives in the Borough Hall Here Tho women assisted their husbands i dragging the Hose cart to the scene of. The fire and in laying the Hose. Of a a there Are Many Miles of galleries and Chambers containing Peculiar j formations at wind Cave South da-1 Kola. Today a baseball american league Cleveland St. Louis postponed rain. Boston Washington postponed rain. New York Philadelphia postponed rain. National league St. Lot is oin Einal postponed rain. Quot Philadelphia new York postponed. Rain. Pittsburgh. 010 ooh 00 Chicago. Too Ooi of Monson and Schmidt Jacobs and of Farrell. Brooklyn. Soo too 200 0 Boston. 010 030 too 0 Vance and de Berry Stryker and Indiana poll ind., apr. 30�?warren t. Mccray who retired today a governor of Indiana a sentenced in Federal court to serve to year in the Atlanta Federal prison upon the charge of using the mails in further Anre of a scheme to defraud. In addition he a fined $10,000. He a found guilty monday and presented his resignation As governor yesterday effective at to a. In. Today. Mccray according to present plan will be Taren to Atlanta. ., this afternoon along with several other prisoners who have been sentenced from the Federal court. Emmett f. Branch of Martinville. Who has held the Post of lieutenant i governor today was sworn in As gov i error of Indiana to succeed Warren i t. Mccray. New York Reserve Bank Lowers its re discount rate new York City apr. 30.�?directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of new York today lowered the re discount rate from 4 1-2 per cent to 4 per cent effective May i

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