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Mitchell Evening Republican (Newspaper) - December 13, 1924, Mitchell, South Dakota F Twenty i pages City edition Voi xxxix Mitchell South Dakota saturday december 13, 1924. Number 62gompers yields to death she a called sweetheart of tammany Hall Claric Baright converts whole Gotham suburb declines nomination for Congress and urged for children s court judge successful As lawyer i i it St a had stenographer. She to Encke As an attorney by George Britt \ a service writer new York City dec. line roes out Hunting a vague personage identified Only As Quot Clarice. A he sweetheart of tammany Hall a a a in imagination May paint a Gau Dily untrue picture. The name suggests a Cleopatra or Catharine the great or some sort of Gypsy Queen. If one excludes pleasant fictions the alternative is a heavy Jawed loud voiced creature of realism who knows her political rights and asserts them. Such imaginings Are no preparation for meeting Clarice. She is blackly Ai red. Black eyed Good looking. Slender feminine. There is a touch of inherited portuguese fire in her make up a touch of american Confidence and resourcefulness and. A threat Deal of womanly courage and persuasion. She is a Quot Good fellow and her name of Clarice is used As frankly As governor Smiths Quot air. But she is the soil of Good fellow to whom the men Lake off their hats and at whose approving smile they thrill pleasantly. Tammany quite justifiably May retard Clarice with Loving admiration. Turned her Lier District tile Washington Heights neighbourhood where she lives used to be considered Safe Republican territory. \ that was three elections ago before j a lie moved in. These last three elections they have elected democrats to Ltd engross each time and by this time they have also a democratic state senator assemblyman and Alderman. The organization gives the credit to her and the women whom she led to Battle. She is a Power in politics. Quot not a Power at All if you mean cracking the whip Over Clarice replies to that perhaps i am a Power if you mean having an idea and being Able to impress it upon others so believe it and believe in your sincerity. I have been wielding that sort of Power All my life. It is the Power of tho idea of sympathy for the under a g. T always have fought for that idea whether for tammany or against it. Quot i do believe firmly in this one thing if you work steadfastly for an Ideal you la realize it. If you sell out cheap meantime you la miss Clarice is no Mere District Captain for tammany. She is one of the most effective woman lawyers in the City and was a suffrage crusader. She was the first woman admitted to the american bar Asse cution the first one to try and win a Case before an army court martial in wartime and the first to sit on a lunacy a commission. She has befriended the men at sing sing and More than too have been paroled to her he was offered the nomination to Congress in her District and declined it and she has Harding Cousin subpoenaed in trial of Forbes Mccoy a defense fails to Block damaging Story a los Angeles. Calif., dec. 13�?kid Mccoy Beau Brummel of fist Ana of other Days was in his cell in the county jail Here today recovering from the Legal pounding he received in the Superior court yesterday in the fight for his life on a charge of murder resulting from the death of mrs. Theresa Mortimer alters tale mors in her apartment Here. _ the kid s attorney was unsuccessful in his efforts to Block testimony re Charles r. Pope offered million for influence by Thompson is charge government witness makes import a it admission Ender Cross examination Duquoin 111., Dee. 13.�? a Francis e Pope of Spokane wadi., a Cousin of tho Jato i Trident Harding denied Here today lie had been offered $1,000.-nno a for any other sum to ids influence to obtain pts Nikon tial consent for Sale of tile governments wooden Fleet. A uti i ores nothing to it at Pope said. A i never was approached by any Thorn Jim it a representative or any on Chicago. 111., dec. 13.�?ca3 a coun lating to Mccoy a rampage after to j left the apartment in which mrs. Mors 1 was found shot to death on August t 12. The trial will be resumed on monday. Newark for general raise in mail Rau last wish to die on native soil granted Veteran labor Leader passes away among friends at Early hour today makes funeral plans final words invoke Blessing on american institutions he fought foil Washington d. C., dec. 13.�?in Sel for Charles r. Forbes former ii creases in postal rates on virtually All Rector of the veterans Bureau announced today they had issued a subpoena for Francis e. Popo of Spokane wash., a Cousin of former president Harding to appear in the trial of Forbes and j. N. Thompson classes of mail except letter mail Wero recommended to Congress today by Post in Aster general new. In a letter to senator Sterling chairman of the Senate Post office committee or. New recommended Chicago contractor for conspiracy to r rate advances to yield $66,300,750 a new York. X. A�?T., a cd 13.�? Samuel go wipers late president or the american federation of i jailor will Llu buried in sleepy hollow cemetery near Tarrytown it. A a a it was said Here today by Harry m. Monos a personal Friend of or. Gompers. Jill. Monett said to had sent instructions to san Antonio to have Hie body transported to this City where it is expected to arrive monday night or tuesday morning. Mrs. Clarice Margoles Baright Fate of third party will be fixed feb. 21 la Nata it Al convention of of i Fette followers will be held in Chicago Washington i it. C., dec. 13.�? tile executive committee of the Nat Iona socialist party Votel Hon today to continue for the present at least its affiliation with the Ija Follette group with which it cast its lot in the last Campa Ign. Committee members said tile party would maintain its separate entity. Washington. C., dec. 13.�?the question of whether a new political party is to be created by the political and labor forces which joined in the last Campaign to support tho presidential candidacy of senator Lafollette of Wisconsin will be decided by a National convention to meet at Chi been endorsed by a score of Organiza of the children a Cago on feb. 21. The National committee of the conference for progressive political action which led in the Lafollette r for is years. , a in pain. Afer an a a Day di8cus. Happily to the same s in. Aion. Which indicated some division. Full name is mrs. Clarice Margoles i Baright. Tons for judge court. More than that. She has been Marls years successfully and to the same husband. Her won out in the Law when Clarice was a child. She showed some of the Pride and deter. Sue Ltd initiation which win Caes for her to i Clay. She was the youngest of seven i Hildren. Often the clothes Given Lier had been worn and outgrown by two or three older Sisters and the thought was irksome. So she would sit up far into the night making Over and fancying p of those old cast offs. Then when they went walking it was Little Clarice win won attention by her c hic frocks instead of the big Sisters j supp0r. Who wore Only what the Dull stores supplied. The family did not like t Lance s idea of studying Law. She went ahead. To Bear the expense Independent of unsympathetic relatives she worked in a Law office. On the door of her Little stenographers room she posted a sign and lived up to it. It said a Doniv business in business hours. Next Day after she was admitted to the bar. In 3905. She opened her own Law office. Business came to her. Quot a woman lawyer has to be bettor than her men says Clarice. Quot if she makes a mistake the courts think she is trying to w n favors simply of a woman. I had in better or and that is How dance won favor in politics and the Law. Shelby mayor May regain Money lost on Dempsey fight a great Falls. Mont. Dec. 13�?jim, Johnson mayor of Shelby. Mont., who put the town he rules into the front rank of National prominence when he j dipped an oar into the Pool of the boxing game by promoting the Demp j so Gibbons fight in 1923. Is in a fair Way to stage a financial comeback to j pay yesterday an Oil Syndicate of j which he is the head brought in a Well in the Kevin Sunburst Field that v As estimated to be Good for an Ini Aal production of 5,000 barrels Dail it. Decided late last night to assemble the convention to decide the future course of the movement. The formal Call for the convention will be is by William h. Johnston chairman of the conference from Washington next week. Railroad labor organization representatives attending the meeting voted to drop tentative plans for calling the convention which would be another step to the creation of a new party but the socialist Farmer and other representatives on the committee constituted a majority in its three will be candidates for Gompers place Green. Woll and Rickett mentioned Choice up to executive Board new York. N. V., dec. 13.�?ca3 a the Man to succeed Samuel Gompers As president of tho american federation of labor is expected in labor circles Here to be chosen from three men All present members of the executive Council. They Are William Green Secretary treasurer United mine workers of America Matthew Woll for fifteen years president of the International photo engravers Union and Thomas Rickett president of the United garment workers. James Duncan first vice president of the american federation of labor former head of the Granite workers Union May receive some Forside fiction. These eligible it was Learned have been quietly discussed throughout National councils of the organization for months past As or. Gompers failing health became increasingly apparent. Under article six. Section 5 of the american federation of labor Constitution. Secretary Frank Morrison will notify the executive Council to meet within six Days. The councillors Weller named by my master on charities Mitchell Man is appointed by govern to succeed t. T. Burns on Board Pierre. S. P., dec. 13.�?Charles Weller. Mitchell s. A. Was appointed today As a member of the state Board of charities and corrections by gov. W. Ii. Remaster. Or. Weller a appointment fills the vacancy on the Board created by the resignation of defraud the government Pope s name was brought into tho trial by Elias h. Mortimer government witness. During his Cross examination last wednesday Mortimer said Pope had been offered $1,000,-000 by Thompson interests in 1922 and 1923 for his influence in undertaking to secure presidential consent for Sale of the governments wooden Fleet. Testimony is stricken Federal judge George a. Carpenter ordered the testimony stricken a from the record but it was later introduced by Mortimer in answer to another question. Pope a member of the insurance firm of Eldorf and Pope of Spokane is understood now to be in do Quoin 111., where court attaches Are seeking to serve notice of his summons. Week end adjournment was taken last night after Mortimer who had been on Hie stand for seven Days completed his Cross examination testimony concerning alleged corruption in the veterans Bureau under f or be s. The government Stilly has a number of witnesses to be heard and it will therefore be impossible for Pope to take the stand for a week or ten Days unless an agreement Between counsel provides for his interrupting the governments presentation of evidence. Such an agreement is considered unlikely. Completing their five Day Cross examination of Mortimer yesterday defense counsel Drew from the witnessing the admission that his entire test the Mony before the Senate committee last year in relation to a trip with Forbes to Atlantic City n. J., in year approximately covering the additional costs provided for in the vetoed postal employees pay increase Bill. On second class mail consisting entirely of newspapers and periodicals the postmaster general asked for an increase in rates designed to yield $10,876,000. On fourth class or parcels Post the increased rate would amount to $12,000,000. On third class mail which is largely circular an direct mail advertising rates would be increased to produce $18,000,000. The rate on postcards would be increased from the present one cent to one and one half cents yielding an additional $12,500,000. Other increases included registered letters to produce ilog too. Money orders $3,500,000. Postal insurance $3,058,000. collect on delivery service $1,103, too. O hinting asks for order to pay five Bank dividends Pierre s. D., dec. 13.�?court petitions for dividend payments by five state Banks of South Dakota closed their doors last Winter and Spring were made Public today by John turning state superintendent of Bank retired from the Board upon receiving the appointment of postmaster at Mitchell. Or. Weller has served As a member of the state legislature being a member of the lower House in 1914. He was Active during the recent Campaign in supporting the Republican ticket. Of a a a miss Pyle leaves to attend Hoover safety sessions j Huron s. D., dec. 13.�?representing the motor vehicle department of i the Secretary of state. Miss Gladys Pyle of Huron left this morning for Washington to attend the National conference called by Secretary Hoover for next week in an Effort to find some solution to the heavy annual j loss caused by traffic accidents in the a general election will j nation. In his letter calling this con Wili elect a provisional president almost certainly from among their own number it was said and the new incumbent will hold the office of chief executive until the next annual convention. When be held. In the general gloom caused Ference or. To Over Points out that Here by the passing of the Veteran in 1923. 22.600 persons were killed leaders various labor to discuss political it was decided that under terms of a Resolution adopted by the Cleveland convention last july at which senator i Follette was nominated All questions As to future National policy of the various organizations and groups which fused in the Lafollette Campaign must be submitted to the convention. Swap a cow for a Windmill. Horses for a tractor. Ewes for pigs. Horses or cattle for shoats. Cattle for horses. Corn picker for Thresher. Whatever you May have for Road tractor. Cattle for farm tractor. Town residence for farm. Store for farm it in today want ads chieftain the were Loath chances of the Likely candidates. Their Only expressions were ones of devoted tribute to the memory of or. Gompers himself. Weather forecast North Dakota partly overcast and somewhat unsettled tonight and sunday colder tonight. South Dakota and Nebraska overcast and somewhat unsettled tonight and sunday colder. Minnesota generally fair tonight and sunday colder in West and South portions tonight. Weeks forecast Washington d. A. Dec. weather Outlook for the week beginning monday Region of great lakes mostly fair and cold except probably Snow with Acme moderation in temperature about Middle of week upper Mississippi Valley cold most of the week mostly fair except Enow about tuesday or wednesday. Local maximum and minimum temperatures As recorded by the official government thermometer from 7 a in. Yesterday to 7 a. M. Today maximum 48, minimum $0. At 8 a. In today 41, weather and roads Aberdeen tartly Eio Udy lit reads Good. Huron Cloudy. 87 roads Good Mitchell Clear 48j reads wet. Lieu ii fail Cutic 3�l reads bad. Watertown Neap 85 reads fair. Yankton j Cloudy 14 j roads ult t. A Burns also of Mitchell who March 3922. Was in error. He made no such trip he testified but repeated testimony concerning a trip to the same City with Forbes in May and june of the same year. James s. Easby Smith counsel for Forbes. Asserted the repudiation of the Senate testimony concerning the March trip will have an important being upon the entire Story told by Mortimer about his relations with Forbes. Victory for Forby the fabric of Mortimer a Story in the Light of the repudiation of the Story of the March trip leaves the sequence of events in an order indicating that Forbes was approached in the matter of profit splitting after Mortimer had arranged All details of the plan with the contractors the defense declared. The previous sequence brought Forbes into All the preliminary conversations and negotiations leading up to the alleged agreement. The alteration of the testimony is viewed by the defense a3 bearing directly upon the question of conspiracy Between Thompson and Forbes the charge on w hich tho trial is based. Of Security state Hank of Rake Norden will pay a to per cent dividend the Hamlin county Bank of Hayti a Twenty per cent dividend the first state Bank of Zell a Twenty per cent dividend the first state Bank of Fulton a Twenty per cent dividend and the Alpena state Bank of Alpena a fifteen per cent dividend. Judge orders vote in Yankton fight to be re counted persons were 67?.ooo injured and $600,000,000 property loss was caused by traffic accidents. This is an increase of 80 per cent in seven years while 85 per cent of the accidents were due to automobile traffic. Senate unable to fix Date to take up postal pay Bill Washington d. C., dec. 13.�?another Effort for an agreement for consideration of the postal pay increase Bill failed today in the Senate. The plan proposed would have provided that the Bill be taken up Jan. 8, but senator Reed. Democrat mis Era National a sour blocked it because it Contemp in essay. Plated reference of the measure to a committee. Ii declared it was an Effort to kill it. Notorious Bandit killed in Effort to disarm captor a a Oklahoma City. Okla., dec. 13.�? dutch Weber notorious Bank Bandit was shot and killed by chief of police w. E. Nelson Here last night when he attempt to Jerk a Piston from the hand of United states marshal Alva Mcdonald. The shooting occurred in an automobile while Webber was being taken to the police station following his arrest in j connection with the robbery of the Bank at Shawnee Yankton. S. D., dec. 13.�?overruling numerous motions of defense objection to the admission As evidence of the ballot Box from the third Ward in Yankton in the recent goner a1 election. Judge r. B. Tripp in circuit court Here today ordered a re count in that Ward in the contest hearings brought by a. Johnson Republican candidate for sheriff against James Foley democratic candidate. Of big consignment of Holiday Hooch taken in new York new York n. A. Dec. 13.�?holiday liquor valued $35,000 and $50,000 and said to have been made of re distilled denatured alcohol was seized in a Mulberry Street tenement by prohibition agents. Thirty six families occupying the building police said were in danger of death in Case of fire because of the presence of the highly inflammable alcohol which filled three Bath tubs and four casks. Funeral services held for murdered Webber was end of the few surviving members of the notorious Al Spencer outlaw band. Ii was arrested after a fight with officers at the Horny of Earl Thayer on West tenth Street ii had a Ald to have been wanted it connection with several crimes Mill City relator Cash when near Minneapolis mina., Dee i3,= $2 lw2uk tool Ftp in neral services were conducted Here mall my in today tsp Harvey t Daniels pres a Lull a of Quot a Siv Leaf Dent of the Northwestern mortgage i a us Viliy Luai Kul company of Minneapolis and Farmer Quot a a a a by of Garretson h. A who wad shot j Minneapolis Man dec. 19,-�?an and killed in Hie office by Henry in upward Rush of Grain prices Here to Emrich of Roseau Minn. Services Day on the heels of advances made were under the auspices of sea mail almost every Day for a week hurled rite masons. Cash wheat five pent from the 2 Emrich has been ordered held to a Mark when a Sale was recorded at the grand jury in a charge of our Ilia Pear the a lose of trading Der. Of. Daniels is survived by his. Futures on wheat Rye Oats and a Dew it pm Duff cos i it Ais a at up. Sold 12,000 Alexandria s. D., dec. To 1924. The evening Republican Mitchell s. Dear sirs we sold Over twelve thousand Chicks last season All from a Small want and run in the evening Republican. Can do better this year. R. L. Cummings sen Antonio Texas Doc. 13.�?gw a Samuel Gompers grand old Leader of the american federation of labor is dead. His last wish death on american soil was granted. Surrounding or. Gompers in i last moments were till men with whom he had fought Many of labor s Battles through a generation of american Union labor development. At his bedside and holding his hand was James Duncan of Quincy mass., vice president of the federation who had stood shoulder to shoulder with his Leader for 44 years. Their parting was pathetic. Holding his hand also was William d. Mahon of Detroit president of the amalgamated association of Street and electric railway employees whom tho dying federation president affectionately called Quot kill and whom a had told several Days ago that he wished to shake his hand just before he went. There were others no less close to or. Gompers. John e. Giles cashier of the federation Martin Ryan of Kan a i City and Mathew Woll of Chicago. All members of the executive committee were there. Frank Morrison Secretary of the federation was close at the death bed. Most of the faithful leaders were there when president Gompers gave up his last fight. Death finds him fighting there also was his nurse miss Mathilde May of new York City who has been with him since his illness of last August. She remained kneeling at the foot of his bed As the Shadow of death crept Over the stricken Leader. Death found Sam Gompers As life found him a fighting Man. He never gave up. When told by Bis physician that to was passing his jaw clenched As tightly As feeble strength would permit to breathed heavier but he never said i give or. Gompers last thought was of tho american institutions he had Laboured so Long to maintain. When he was convinced he could not win the Battle to said to his nurse Quot nurse it is the end. God Hies our american institutions. May they grow better Day by these words took his last strength and after that he was not Ablo to utter a syllable. The great heart pulsed feebly and soon it ceased its wearied work. Gave funeral directions until the moment when he slipped into unconsciousness about an hour before his death he was Able to look into the future and was master of his own situation. He gave a few simple directions for his funeral should the end come before morning. He talked to his followers. He called for life Long friends whose hands he wanted to clasp before slipping off into the unknown. With All the Energy that his worn. 74 year old body could Muster to grappled with the enemy that had i come to claim him. In life he had made friends and enemies. In death he had Only one enemy. Against i that he could not prevail and he it j gave his soul with the vigorous protest that was characteristic of him. When or. Gompers became ill in i Mexico City a few Days ago hex pressed the wish that if he was die he wanted to pass away on american soil. His physicians would not let him Rise from his sick bed to go to tho train but had him taken on a Stretcher and placed him on a special Couch. This was said to have Given Rise Olhs report that he was dead which was sent out from some town in Mexico along the route which or. Gom per a car travelled going to Laredo j Tex. Wished to Roach native land his wish to reach his own coun try before death should overtake him i almost was Defeated for he Sank very Low on his journey up from Mexico City. Or. W. S. Cockrell his physician and Friend for 20 Yean a resident of the Mexico capital wha accompanied him said that had or. Gompers remained in the High Alti i tude of Mexico City six hours longer he could not have reached the United states alive. The complications which combined to end the career of the famous continued on Page eight of Branting Premier of Sweden said to be near death Copenhagen Denmark dec. 13.�?�?� a3 a Hiu mar Branting Premier of Sweden is seriously ill according to advices reaching Here today. It Ira said that he had developed incarnation of the lungs and that grave fear for his recovery were entertained

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