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Mitchell Evening Republican (Newspaper) - August 28, 1924, Mitchell, South Dakota Twelve pages the evening Republican i a a i % edition vol xxx Mitchell South Dakota thursday August 28, 1924. Number 281 boys 9fate up to Caverly five children Blu she will help Campaign with husband senator s wife decided he j would be vice presidential candidate at once and she told him too f to once and faithful a mass in politics. She says. Is woman s trait mrs. Wheeler Busy w i hot h Kles p. Stewart Nea senior writer Angton. Aug. 2s.�?-after Sena Follette had been endorsed for pre Lent by the Cleveland Confer or a for progressive political action. It w a the better part of two weeks before s Nator Burton in. Wheeler a ii i to accept a place on the ticket the Wisconsin statesman a a run Nung mate. I Wasny to anything like As Long As that before mrs. Wheeler decided to St that was what she was in favor of for her husband. A is soon As i heard what the pro Rreves had done in Cleveland he relates. A i told senator Wheeler. That a a ticket i d like to have you run a m Wheeler does no to know yet just what part she will take in the progressive Campaign. A i May undertake some organization work a she said leaving the Bunch of hollyhocks she was ministering to. A but i Shane to attempt any speaking. That a something i be never had any experience at. Helped husband before a a did help my husband in i Campaign for the governorship of Montana int it was in the nature of a personal canvass not As a stump orator he had been misrepresented and get was necessary to have him set right with the voters. I did what in could in thir direction. Or Wheeler broke off at this Point to Cut some sandwiches for her daughter Frances aged 7, and her a year old son Richard. With five children grading downward from John of 15, to Little Dick j she Isnit permitted to to k Long on any subject without stopping to at j tend to the want of one or another. Or maybe several of the Youthful Wheeler. The vice presidential candidates wife thinks perhaps the fact that women have had the vote for four years now has something to do with j the growth of the progressive movement a at any she maintains i think women generally inclined to be j progressive. And i believe the progressive movement s development Marks the beginning of a party re alignment into liberals and a talc Tennis dispute Here there was another pause while mrs Wheeler refereed a Tennis dispute Between Edward to and John the 15-year-old senior representative of the Junior Wheeler. That women Are new at politics and h pc a nod Deji to learn yet mrs Wheeler admits readily a a although men h Ive something to learn yet. Too. A she adds. A they Haven to a Mono Oil on nil the political Wisdom there is by any Means a oaf it impugn workers one thing to by ii i for women is that there Are no limits to their patience their . There a no limit to the pain take with the tiresome i conscientious political ills for work that men i Frances wont do her interposed 13-Ycar->. Rising from the Book Reading under the Elizabeth is the literary the Junior part of the senator wheelers family. Row Richard. Edward and top Row Frances Elizabeth. John. Mrs. Wheeler. Bottom wreckers kill forty russians in derailment odes a. Russia. Aug. 28.�? ave forty passengers were killed and a Large number were injured when the express from Odessa to Moscow which left Here last night was derailed 200 Miles from Here. The Accident was caused by a break in the track which apparently had been purposely torn from its bed by unknown persons. The train was going at High Speed when the Accident took place. The engine was hurled onto its Side and its boiler exploded causing a fire which spread rapidly to the coaches of the train. Relief trains were despatched from the nearest station and from Odessa where word is being awaited of the definite number of \ Tims. Wales is downed in Pillow fight by Harvard Man s. Beren Earla aug. 28.�? ave notwithstanding a strenuous Day of sport in which he emerged from three events on the losing end the Prince of Wales again was among the persistent dancers aboard the Beren Garia last evening. $212 millions value of Grain and potatoes Huron. 5? a. Aug. 28.�?South Dakota a Grain and potato crop this year valuation for state fixed at $1,804,222,100 increase of a of Mill is made in amount to meet legislative budgets less than tast year tax commission finally finishes its work of equalization for the year. Pierre s. D., aug. 28.�?the state tax comm lesion has completed the state equalization for the present year and has announced the various levies for state purposes showing that for state Ordinary expense to meet legislative appropriations there has been an increase of .4 of one Mill. This is Robinson leave for Paris to Aid Young in his work los Angeles. Calif aug ?s.�? Henry m. Robinson president of the first National Bank of los Angeles left yesterday with mrs. Robinson for Paris to collaborate with Owen d. Young on the administration of the Dawes reparations plan. Or. Young served with or. Robinson and general Charles g. Dawes during the original sessions of the Dawes committees. Jaffra peans work for farm Relief company Minneapolis minn., aug. 28.�?promotion of diversified farming and due. The tax Oom Elsdon announced. J Dairying through direct Loans to far partially to a decrease in the total mers will constitute the major activities in the future of the $10,00,000 valuation of property in the state and also to the fact that the state levies for 1918. 1919 and 1920 were of such an amount As to accumulate a balance in the Treasury which would permit of less levies being made for the past three years thereby relieving the Burden to some extent during the years of financial depression. ,. ,. _ ,._. Ago at the instance of president Coo to this connection it is worthy of a la. Lidge to Aid the financial situation in noting the commission states that in 1918 the total valuation of the state was $1,598,544 562, the Levy for that year of 1.8 Mills resulting in a state tax of $2,877,380. In 1919 the valuation was $2,095,154,178, the Levy being 1.7 Mills and the tax $3,561,762. In 1920 the valuation was $2,257,853, 656. The Levy 16 Mills and the tax $3.-612.566 w Hile this year the valuation of $1,804,222,121. The Levy 1.3 Mills and the tax $2,345,489. The total valuation of the state this year subject to and valor urn levies is $1,804,222,121. This valuation i $64,573,897 under the valuation for 1 923, which is due almost entirely to a lower equalization value of farm that their Effort win not evolution lands and structures on these lands. The levies for 1924 Are As follows for state Ordinary expense to meet appropriations made by the legislature 1.3 Mills. For Highway interest and sinking fund .52 of a Mill. For is valued at $212,422,380. A big in he also attended crease Over last year according to the ships concert which was Well compilations based on estimated crop the state Bridge fund .1 of a Mill patronized. Figures today by the Federal Reserve for soldiers come Ignatio interest Board at Washington in its monthly land sinking fund. .3 of a Mill. For review of crop and business Condi after losing to the american collegians in the tug of War and also falling in the potato race the Prince took j tons in the ninth Federal Reserve Dis part in the Pillow fighting his Oppon j strict. Ent being l. E. Bull a graduate of of a a Harvard they exchanged spirited kept to Pic Tinq Ava blows amid great hilarity and it look a dry Langl blvd de for a time As though Wales would emerge the Winner but the american a finally put him out. The Prince a j i Cepter his defeat smilingly As he did in the other events. Installed fliers wait on weather five liners hit by storm steam into Safe Haven Den pro Nevi a pm piano old i she Tilor Xiv in pm i that i ration c for Wou t her. Prs it it a Zabett d been id of. Or cd new York. N. Y., aug. 28.�?five liners bearing evidence of a winning struggle against a Hurricane which tuesday lashed the Western Atlantic steamed into Harbor yesterday several hours late Thel palatial fittings smashed and battered by the was. Only one life was lost the Steamer Elisha Walker reporting that Captain j. Madsen had been swept overboard from toe Bridge of the danish Steamer Nord Farer while South of Cape Hatteras. Captain Hickson of the arabic whose vessel and passengers were the major victims so the wind at times attained an of 120 Miles in hour and Captain Metcalf of the Homeric. Sister White Star liner of the arabic asserted it was the worst within his memory. The arabic had an estimated casualty list of More than 150, with 52 persons who required treatment. Of these 33 were under the care of surgeons when the vessel docked. Said mrs. Wheeler a i Lave to get her started All Board records Are broken during Altoona a. Races a Ana pa., aug. 29.�?All Auto mob acing records for Board Speel mashed Here yesterday when Ernie Ansterburg turned a Lap i seconds a rate of 125.7 Miles hour. The record was made in the of the of a stiff Mark was said by Offl-f�?~5�?T to be tho highest Ever set by n 122 cubic Inch wheelbase machine on any cd but a straight away. Davis remains at Home to work on future addresses soldiers land settlement interest and sinking fund. .1 of a Mill. For internal improvement interest and sinking fund state Cement plant.1 of a Mill. This Mak is a total of 2.42 Mills 1.3 of which is for state purposes the other amounts being for the in j Terest and sinking funds of Bonds which were voted by the people at i various elections in the past. In these levies for interest and sinking funds there is no marked diff Herriot who use knife on French budget Paris. France. Aug. 28.�? ave the French Cabinet today decided upon a Radical overhauling of governmental expenses with a View towards strictly balancing the budget. It was agreed that Premier Herriot and finance minister Clementel should begin sept. 8. The task of eliminating All unnecessary expenses from the budgets of the various ministries. The Premier and finance minister will go Over each budget and prune it whenever necessary in order to hold Quot Chines in the Hest of condition for Down next years expenditures within j mile trip the nations income. It. S., Richmond at ice tickle. I Spence from last year. Except that the Labrador aug. 28. A3 a for nge of j Levy f0r 4yje soldiers compensation the violent storm which has been Bonds. Is .3 of a Mill this year w hich i travelling northward Over the Allan was <2 of a Mann 1923 at that ume tic for several Days and which there was an unexpected balance of caused further postponement of the s297 604 50 in the compel american aviators flight Here from station fund that was applied a de in Ighut Greenland struck the Labra duct on to the amount to be raised Dor coast shortly after the arrival Dur. To at year of the Richmond Here yesterday. There were heavy winds accompanied by rain but the local forecast indicates Clearing weather later in the week possibly in time to allow the aviators to carry out their desire of leaving in Lotut tomorrow morning. Rear Admiral Magruder upon the approach of the storm informed the vessels of the naval patrol that the flight set for this morning had been put off until Friday at the earliest. During their stay at in Lotut the aviators have taken the Opportunity to install new engines and put their judge to pass sentence upon youths sept. To court in Loeb Leopold Ca a sharply rebukes prosecutor for his remarks kidnapping Case is up father of slain boy and police Captain Are witnesses on second charge Chicago 111., aug. 28.�?cp a after portions of the closing argument of Robert e. Crowe states attorney had been Sticken from the record by judge John r. Caverly As a a cowardly dastardly attack upon the integrity of this court and an attempt to intimidate it a the court took under advisement today the penalty which he must decide for Nathan Leopold jr., and Richard Loeb confessed kidnappers and murderers of Robert Franks. The remarks of the court came out of a Clear sky and startled the crowded court room into a shocked silence. Or. Crowed a jaw dropped and he blanched visibly under the judicial Broad de. A your Honor i had he began but the judge interrupted him. A the states attorney knew full Well that his remarks would be heralded far and wide a said the court. A the knew too the court would have no Opportunity to reply or defend himself from criticism except by tho action he has the judge then read a prepared statement and at its conclusion announced he would give his decision sept. To at 9 30 a. In. A unless illness Only the defendant the attorneys for both sides court attaches and newspapermen will be admitted to the final scene in the famous Case remarks roused courts ire the court did not state specifically what portions of or. Crowed a remarks aroused his ire. It was recalled however that the states attorney had referred to possible outbreak if the death a penalty were not imposed and had emphasized the possible Power of Money in the courts and the wealth of the defendants. Just before the argument closed or. Crown also made a defense of had lessened considerably reflecting testimony by James Cortland the improved financial conditions in j one a is Sta detectives t hat Leo e Northwest. Pold had expressed a Hope to a Kapy the death penalty by pleading guilty a before a Friendly this had i been denounced by or. Darrow Asa a perjury and when or. Crowe de a fended it the court asked the stenographers to give him a special copy of that statement. None of the attorneys in the Case would comment after the proceed agr cultural credit corporation c. T. Jaffray chairman of the corporations Board announced today. Or. Jaffray a announcement was made at the completion of a meeting of the Board of directors called to hear reports on the corporations work since its formation six months the Northwest. A the directors decided today to make the distribution of livestock the chief work of the corporation during the next be weeks or. Jaffray said. A this work already is in full swing and will be parried on hand in hand with the Bank Relief program which comprised the original activity. The difference will be that the executives will push the livestock distribution end of the business harder than Ever before. We find that Farmers appreciate this work we Are doing for them through direct credit Extension. The directors Realise ize Northwest farming animals but believe that Milch Good can be done by planting High Grade farm animals on selected farms As nuclei of herds and As examples of efficient work along this or. Jaffray explained that the department for Relief of Banks will continue but that applications tor Ald the a Pere Marquette directors vote to join Nickel plate new York City aug. 28.�?directors of the Pere Marquette railway com Ings were Over. Clarence s. Darrow. Benjamin Bachrach and Walter Pany today approved the offer of the j Bachrach. The defense leaders said it a would be improper and or. Crowe remarked that he had a a been talking three judge Caverly appeared for tho j first Lime in Many Days in his Black i Robe. Perhaps the Goober weather Van Sweringen interests of Cleveland to join the proposed a Nickel plate merger assuring completion of one of the Greaten Railroad consolidations in i history. O Farmers nearly hang suspected cattle rustler in Wilson Scase butlers sleuths Are Given orders to shoot to kill Philadelphia. Pa., aug. 28.�?eighty detectives with shoot to kill orders issued by brigadier general Butler do. _ j. I have become enraged Over the thefts Rector of Public safety cruised about. Buffalo minn., aug. 28.�?a band of Wright county Farmers sunday night kidnapped Joe i Nelly a Farmer living near Montrose and threatened his life by hanging unless he confessed to cattle rustling it was revealed Here today. Mcnelly who steadfastly maintained his innocence is held at the county jail Here without charge while r. Alley county attorney and Deputy sheriffs investigate the Case. Scores of Catle have disappeared from Wright county farms during the past year and a half and the Farmers weather forecast Minnesota generally fair tonight Ard Friday warmer in South portion tonight. North Dakota partly overcast and Friday not much change in terrier nature. South Dakota generally fair tonight and Friday warmer in extreme portion tonight. Lineal temperature maximum and minimum temperature from 7 a. In. Yesterday to 7 a by today As recorded by the official government thermometer maximum. 93. Minimum 68. At 8 a. M. Today 72. Locust Valley. N. A. Aug. 28 a John w. Davis remained at his Horn Here today Enas to be free to give his attention to some of the addresses he will deliver next month on the first ext we ded drive in his Campaign As the democratic presidential Standard bearer. Whether that drive will take him to the Pacific roast has not yet been decided. In fact the Only speaking dates that have been fixed Are those at Wheeling. I Bor Day Omaha sept. 6, and Denver. Colo. Sept. La. It had been the original plan to have him speak at Denver sept. 8, but this was changed at the request of the local party leaders there. Besides expanding in those address his views regarding the rights of labor and the things that should be done to bring about Relief for the agricultural Industry or. Davis will continue to Hammer away at the record of the Republican administration As he did in his Columbus. Ohio address this week. Gang of Diamond thieves broken up detectives think i new York City aug. 28.�?an in a voluntary petition in bankruptcy was i filed in United states District court today against Wilson and company. Chicago packers by three creditors with claims totalling about $2,600. A to warship to Shanghai Shanghai. Aug. 28.�? ave British cd american warships Are proceeding Here from chemo and Wei Taiwei in connection with the seizure by the Tuc huns of the Chekian and klan Gnu provinces of different sections of the peking Nan King railway. Today a baseball National league Cincinnati. 040 too ooo�?5 to 3 Pittsburgh 300 Ooi ooo�?4 9 0 Mays and Hargrave Cooper Kre Mer and Gooch. First game St. Louis too too 010�?2 8 2 Chicago.400 too oox�?8 7 i Bell Fowler Sherdel and Gonzales Niebergall Aldridge and Hartnett. First game Boston goo too oooo it 5 0 Philadelphia Ooi too Oxx 4 Barnes Cooney and of Neil Glazner and Wilson. Second game Boston too 111 ooo�?3 7 i Philadelphia. 010 020 42x�?0 13 2 Genewich and Gibson Betts and Henline. In the fall. Get out and clean up i a. Buffalo where they summoned i second game every Guy you see hanging around Deputy sheriff and asked them to81 let note suspiciously. Ask no questions. Lets arrest Mcnally. I Chicago. 50 look him Mcnelly was taken int custody a yer bei1 and do Mons Jacobs and and placed in jail. He is held there t of Farrell this revised list of appropriations will then be considered by the Cabinet and a budget Bill strictly balancing expenditures and income will be prepared and giver to parliament at its opening session about the beginning of october. Specia Appeal is allowed in Sinclair a. Quot a a around his neck. Tho rope was then gun he ordered his men a they a red to it he Job of a tree us the Washington. C., aug. 2r.�?the started on late last night. Anyone jaw the a West one of the the City Early today in Bandit chasing automobile in a new or autumn drive on suspicious characters. The general declared he feared a fall crime wave with the return of vacation lists from the seashore. A go out and shoot everyone wit a shortly after dark a crowd of men drove up to the Mcnelly farm three Miles South of Montrose seized Mcnelly and took him to a wooded tract on the Shore of the Lake. Mcnelly was forced to stand on a barrel while a noose was adjusted District of Columbia supreme court hat threatens you with a gun kill today allowed a motion by attorneys those boys before they get for Harry f. Sinclair for a special j j 0�?� Appeal from an order by the District go out and get the Crooks a was supreme court overruling Sinclair a the general a parting shot. A there is demure to an indictment charging to an of Crooks from contempt of the Senate by his re the seashore. It Mav be beginning. Fugal to answer questions of the sen j &Quot,e1,are3l�?Tc or wave scene and went to the Wright county ate committee men shouted a Are you ready to admit stealing cow a Mcnelly pleaded for them to remove the rope and repeatedly said he was innocent. Unable to get a confession from Mcnelly some of the men left the Mccoy scheduled to plead today to assault and theft weather and roads clan chief found guilty of assault on Dinois Man Buren Clar. 69 roads Good. A Crown Clear. 65 roads Good. Mitchell Clear. 72 roads Good. Sioux Falls Clear 69, roads Good Pierre. Clear 70 roads Good. W Aberdeen Clear 58 roads Good. I deadly we a on on George Stover new York. N. A. Aug. 28 a Avii the arrest Early today of two men and a woman charged with the robbery of Alexander Feldenheimer of Mccoy Gide $1,000,000 Worth of uncut diamonds i los Angeles calif., aug. 28.�?kid on aug. 22. Police and private deter Mccoy former motion picture actor lives representing Lloyd of London and pugilist was scheduled to appear believe Thev have taken the first set in Superior court today to plead to in the arrest Early today of two men a charge of murdering mrs. Theresa Herrin. In. Aug. 28.�?carl Nielsen i exalted Cyclops of the Kun flux klan Here and Carl Winsteadn were found t i a a a guilty by a jury in Herrin City today on a charge of it a nth band of Gem thieves and the Clearing up of rubber is involving millions of dollars Worth of jewels. The woman. Mrs. Dorothy Burns 22 years old. Turned Over to the police $4,750 which she said was the remainder of the Money obtained from the tale of the diamonds. The other prisoners James j. Burns a chauffeur the woman a husband and Harry Chance both 20 years old denied any connection with the Cue. Mora Here aug. 12, last and also to enter his plea to fou counts of robbery and three of assault with intent to murder growing out of a shooting affray in and near mrs moral antique shop the morning after her death. The alleged slam Eros Mother mrs. Mary Selby hovered Between life and death Early today. Heart disease according her physician is practically certain to Ber life before her son s trial begin pending an investigation of the charges. He fears that i fhe is not protected another attempt will be made to take to life. One dead 12 Hurt in ammonia blast at Des Moines la. De fines i., aug. 28.�?one Man was killed and 12 person were injured several perhaps fatally when an ammonia tank exploded in a South Side grocery he today. The Man killed was Everett Armel a truck Driver for the grocery company. The injured were Hurt when they were precipitated to the basement a the explosion ripped out the first floor of the building. Some also suffered from ammonia fumes. American league Washington Ooi 020 0 new York 010 210 2 Zachary Russell and Ruel pen Nock and Behan. First game Chicago too too ooo�?0 8 2 Cleveland .200 200 12x�?7 13 2 Thurston and Schalk Smith and Myatt. First game Philadelphia. Too too 201�?g j j Boston 123 too oox�?6 8 i Heimach Harris and Perkins Gibson Fullerton and Piconich. Second game Philadelphia too 501 0 Boston .700 too 0 bums me seeker and Perkins Winters. Ross and of Neil. Second game Chicago too Cleveland. 012 Cvengros Blankenship and Schalk Waynberg and Sewell. J suggested his re assuming the Vest. Ments of his High place. Loeb in Good humor Leoj amp id and Loeb were Brou Obj into the court room and Loeb tsp i n a conversation with his guard. He smiled and then broke into a moment of laughter. Leopold indicated sustained interest in the argument of the prosecution. Perusing the report of the alienist from which or. Crewe read at length yesterday Over the shoulder of waiter Bachrach defense counsel or. Crowe began his argument with the statement to the Pudge that two Chicago boys 16 and 19 yearn of age had confessed to the state s attorney last night that they had murdered a woman for sixty dollars. He then raised his voice from the conversational pitch and resumed his discussion of the banking transactions of Young Loeb As revealed fro a the statement from two of his Banks covering some is months before the crime. He alluded Early in his address to a crimes a a c and do and suggested that the larger deposits revealed in the Bank statements a May be explained by a a a c and he turned then id his theory of a Money motive a citing again the quotation from the first Ransom letter written to Jacob Franks the father of the victim in which the defendants told the Parent a this is a strictly commercial stimulated by the Prospect of hearing the Climax of the states Appeal throngs swarmed into the Vicinity of the county court building and through its corridors in numbers which threatened Early to outdo the record of the More than la week hearing. Only a few More j than the capacity of the be it Urt room i gained Entrance to the building Darrow on hand Early Clarence Darrow. Chief counsel for the defense and master pleader for the live of the two Brilliant College boys was in court earlier than usual. He read telegrams and mail addresses to him by Distant followers of the proceedings and chatted pleasantly with the newspapermen. Apparently he was amused by the Tenor of the Days quota of correspondence. Court attaches tiring under the Strain of the Long trial and the persistent crowding of spectators manifested a Quot happier humor generally As they began what they believed to be their last Day of intensive ushering. Or. Crowed a assistants were in court a few minutes before the tension began but the prosecutor did not enter until a few seconds before the Bailiff lifted his Gavel to Start the Day. Or. Crown closing i statement told judge Caverly that youth i no legitimate defense to crime. He used Tarn to Page Tea

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