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Mitchell Evening Republican (Newspaper) - December 21, 1929, Mitchell, South Dakota Weather fair and Wanner the evening Republican volume Xxxvii saturday december 21, 1929twelve pages number 70finger prints Are Miller murder Clew capital plane crash cause Baffes All experts can find no reason for death dive of a or giant engines All worked by Oscar Leiding associated press aviation editor Washington d. C., dec. 21.�?up a paced with a mystery As baffling As that of ships disappearing at sea the War department searched today for any clue that might explain the crash of the giant Forker air plane that carried a member Ca Congress and four companions to death As they started Home for Christmas. The views of every person at the army Airport at Bolling Field who had any knowledge of the Accident were sought by the investigating Board but so far none have been Able to Tell what made the ship powered with three sturdy motors latter and plunge to Earth. As the inquiry proceeded a con Gressional committee appointed portly after the Accident arranged i to attend the funeral senders for i representative William Kirk Kaynor who was starting for Springfield. Mass., to inspect a National guard unit and be with his wife and six children for the hanging of stockings on Christmas eve when the plane crashed to the ground. The dead these killed with him were Captain Harry a. Dinger a Veteran Pilot who had More than 666 hours in the air in tri motored ships Stanley b. Lowe the congressman s Secretary Arthur a. Mcgill who was associated with the Republican National committee and Charles it Vladimir Kuzma the Mechanic. To wed w. H. Vanderbilt 700 rescued in ramming of ferry boat s. Officials to urge More Highway Cash Many boats flock to Aid hearings on Dowell Bill to after crash in Hudson River Hie engagement of Anne g. Colby daughter of or. And mrs. Everett Whilia rho iv>ffav0j i dolby of West Orange n. J., to w. H. Vanderbilt of new York and Natt for a c a apr Newport Bas been announced. No announcement has been made As is sex a a ume and piece a 1116 ceremony Cut a world War aviator and pres a a a went of the National aeronautic n n a /i1?1 Tivi pc i Sola Lien made a personal inquiry \ la As i in i or and called on the nation not to be Tiv ii Yuma a a its into Baster very help to Hoover i carefully he said a and i talked 1v Usu Toh both with Eye witnesses and those major industries report who had talked with Eye witnesses employment As Good it is one of those almost Unac for Winter season countable accidents that will Hap Wash Agton it d a. Dec. 21 the Board of inquiry composed i special president hoovers Busi of major r. A. Hale. Captain or j Ness stabilization program was give nest Clark and lieutenant Ronald i in another boost today when the j a. Hicks followed their prel Imir. Department of labor announced that Ary Survey of the Accident with in. _ Tervie Wera of Eye witnesses but movements now under Way South opinion prevailed that the explain j Dakota and other states will have action of the tragedy a cause May an encouraging effect on business have perished with the Pilot. A re this will mean an inc Rease in the port of the boards findings is sex. F. petted to be Complete within three 0aime of employ it ment the depart or four Days for announcement just j Niento stated which in turn will be before or after Christmas. reflected in increased buying Power. Launches investigation j those close to the president it p. Trubee Davison assistant Sec j understood say he fears the of retard of War for aeronautics for1 a whose use the plane had been set fact of decreased buying Power �3ide, also conducted a personal in More than any other possible out a estimation and sent messages of come of the recent Market break sympathy to the relatives of the j the information made Public today men who were killed. Drops $50 into army Yule Kettle some generous donor placed fifty do cars in the salvation army Kettle on main Street recently it was Learned today. The Money whim is dropped into this Kettle will help to provide Christmas dinners for the needy in Mitchell Ensign Clare Edwards said today. About one Hundred baskets will be provided these to be distributed tuesday afternoon. The salvation army has been co operating with the service clubs of the City in welfare work and has assisted in investigate in the wants of needy families. If anyone knows of a needy family who would be supplied with a Christmas dinner he is asked to Call the salvation army Headquarters not later than noon on monday. O panic is averted new York n. Y., dec. 21�? up a Harbor Craft rescued 700 Christmas hoppers commuters and newly a ived immigrants from the ferry oat West Point last night after he ferry had been rammed and disabled by a car float. Three per on suffered minor injuries. The ferry boat was crossing from he foot of West 42nd Street Man Attan to Weehawken n. J., direct a across the Hudson River. Unlike in heavy fog which prevailed when in liner port Victoria was tamed by the Algonquin in the lower a last wednesday the weather As Clear and visibility Good. The Rry boat was brilliantly lighted. Rammed by car float in Midstream the car float which As being towed by a tug lashed Longside of it drove its prow into in port Side of the ferry tearing Hole through which water poured Ito the engine room. The passengers startled by the Impact rushed from the Cabins Asie ferry boats Siren began to Ream distress signals. Amid a bedlam of answering vigils tugs and other ferry boats converged upon the crippled Craft the towing tug held the prow of the car float in the Gash in the Side of the West Point reducing the flow of water and preventing the ferry boat from listing. As rapidly As they could be mane Vered into position Rescue Craft were lashed alongside and passengers assisted off the West Point. The Large electric ferry boat Grenville Kane took 35o Over the Stem of the West Point. A new York Central tug made fast and its Crew helped men and women through the shattered windows of the disabled boat to safety. Panic is averted the Rescue work was accomplished under the Glare of search lights. The passengers who left hundreds of Christmas packages behind in their hurry were landed at the Central Railroad of new Jersey ferry House. The three who suffered cuts and bruises in the scramble to quit the boat were treated by an ambulance surgeon and sent Home. Although there was considerable confusion the passengers said there had been no panic. The immigrants who numbered several Hundred including Many women and Childre showed signs of fright when directed to put on life presenters but they were reassured and helped aboard the other boats. Raise Aid to $125,-000,000 opened Busy year in 1930 evening Republican Bureau the Albee building. Washington d. Washington d. C., dec. 21-South Dakota officials Are expected to testify Here during hearings now on before the House roads committee on the Dowell Bill increasing by $50,000,000 the amount of Federal Aid Road Money appropriated annually by the government. Present Federal appropriations Are $75,000,000 a year. A. Markham executive Secretary of the american association of Highway officials the first witness pointed out that the Federal Aid Highway system is a hardly More than 24 per cent paved and but 56 per cent is gravel surfaced or he said the Federal policy for expenditures for roads should be limited to the Federal Aid system a at least until it is much More advanced in improvements than it is Samuel Eckels president of the association said the states should not be selfish in meeting allocations of Federal funds for Road constructions. Interstate highways Are a necessity in present Day life he said. Touching on the stimulus to Industry furnished by Road building he said it had been estimated that in 1930 a minimum of 700,00 men would be employed in Road construction in the United states. He presented a table which showed. That in 1928 the states had disbursed $827,549,983 As against $�>0,798,365, received from the Federal government. Fred r. White chief Engineer of the state Highway department of Iowa told of Road building construction in his state. Iowa a highways Are paying for themselves by the gasoline tax and motor License fees or. White informed the com Rottee. Christ Abel is Back to pre Ach coming of Christ once famous militant English Suffragette turns from politics to religion finds world sadly lacking in Faith in hereafter Baltimore md., dec. 21.�?miss Christabel Pankhurst daughter of the famous British feminist mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst has forsaken the cause of equal rights to turn to religion because she Felt called upon to do it she declared upon her arrival Here to initiate an evangelical Campaign. Miss Pankhurst was once a militant Suffragette. When her task along that line was accomplished and women were Given the right to vote politics held no further Appeal for her. A there Are some things More necessary than politics or social Reform a she said. A votes Are Good but they done to go far enough. The Lack of Faith in the world toda., is the thing i am trying to combat. A human prophets foretold that things would be in an Ideal state at this particular period of our existence but the biblical prophecies Are quite the contrary. They Tell of the disturbances and unrest that Are current today. For 1,900 years Man has done Little to better conditions arid it is time for divine intervention. Hits ordaining of women a i believe that we Are in a period that is leading to the second coming of Christ a miss Pankhurst although she feels called upon to preach does not approve of women being ordained to the ministry. On the contrary she thinks it better for them to go on As they Are and simply Bear testimony to the truth of the biblical prophecies. Declines prohibition comment a the reestablishment of Faith in Christ will help the individual far More than the making of new Laws a she said. Miss Pankhurst declined to comment on the prohibition Law in this secrecy veils investigation by officials decline to Tell where newest information in Case Points miss Pankhurst country. A i done to drink anyway a she said a so it makes no difference to me whether you have prohibition or the English evangelist is a Blond. She smiles almost constantly. During the conversation she wore a Black Felt hat trimmed with Horsehair braid a Chenille coat with a fringe and a Black silk dress. Miss Pankhurst will remain in this country preaching the coming of Christ until the latter part of March. Holder of perfect hand faints then goes Home mad Chicago 111., dec. 21�? of a Gene Kier got a perfect �?o1,500&Quot pinochle hand last night collapsed from excitement recovered became peeved at the Man who dealt the hand and left the place in High dudgeon. Speeds to Rescue of Ben Eielson Nome Alaska dec. 21�?</p a prospects of locating Carl Ben Nielson and Earl Borland Arctic fliers lost somewhere near North Cape Siberia since nov. 9, appeared a Little brighter today with receipt of word that a fellow aviator had reached the Vicinity after a flight from Teller Alaska. Harold Gillam who piloted one of the Rescue planes which left Teller wednesday reached the fur trading ship Nanuk. Which is Frozen in the ice near North Cape. We Ord of his arrival came through the wireless of the Nanuk. Congress Sheds cares to Start Yule recess had j therefore regarded As very opt Mac Dawi pc Ecta arted to twist in its Earth Rard 1 mistic. A 11 a j duly Peu in top two billion started dive was established from the wreckage. The right motor was buried several feet into the ground the Central engine was flush with the Earth while the left motor appeared to have been cast upward. Senator Bingham after his personal inquiry said a i regarded the plane As the safest Ever built. The Pilot was one of the Best in the service. Those who saw the be off said it was Normal. Yet suddenly without motor or structural failure the machine went into a nose concerning South Dakota the report says a Highway construction and building projects were being rushed before the Advent of severe Winter weather and unskilled labourers were especially Well employed. There was however a surplus of building All records for free Dis i Tributino will be Brok. In this season new York. N. Y., dec. 21�?More trades men. The Railroad shops re i than two billions Dollar will be distorted a slight decrease in employ j tribute to Wall Street workers in ment. Canning establishments worked overtime. Other major industries reported operations and employment fairly satisfactory for this period of the Kaynor former sheep Herder in Buffalo co. Congressman William Kaynor who was killed yesterday in an air plane crash at Belling Field in Washington d. C., was a former resident of Buffalo county. With his parents or Kaynor moved to a Bock the flour Milts and fruit f vectors and. The general Public Dur i ing this years Christmas season. This huge sum will break All records exceeding last years record distribution by at least Twenty percent. Christmas club payments will make the largest aggregate More than $600,000,00 in Cash now being distributed to investors All Over the country. Payments to bondholders a i interest payments to bondholders a evening Republican met Are expected to add another half Bil Chell s d Uon to the tota1, while dividend Dis Quot 2tsrrks��ovw ski gentlemen in regard to the its which was then taught by lira. Rerun of my recent and wish Paymen but a 1 is and e. Ziebach wife of j. E. Ziebach l0 a it Vise that i had excellent Ndu Stria l a Quot a 1&Quot Are Esu Washington d. a dec. 21�?up a Well advanced with its program in the first three weeks of the regular session Congress turned happily today to the Christmas recess and two weeks of rest. The pre Christmas record shows four major pieces of legislation already enacted into Law. Satisfied with the accomplishment Only a handful of members remained on duty today to go through the formalities of quitting for the recess. It is the first real vacation for the Senate which is still in the throes of the Tariff debate it began last september and no Hope of getting a quorum in that chamber was entertained by leaders. Giving in to the yuletide spirit investigations hearings and meetings of All kinds were abandoned until the end of the recess on january 6. Then the Senate resumes the Tariff struggle with the pledge of All factional leaders to sidetrack everything until a Tariff measure is finally acted upon. In addition to the legislation sent to president Hoover congressional leaders pointed to another mass of problems disposed of in the Senate and House. The Senate has finally settled the three year old claim of William s. Vare of Pennsylvania to a seat s barring him for expenditures of $785,000 in his primary and refusing the 1926 election to his democratic opponent William b. Wilson. It has seated Joseph r. Grundy As a successor but has yet to dispose of a contest against him. Legion Here to Bury its first War Veteran Wessington Springs. While still a. Boy or. Kaynor spent one Summ results. In fact it kept me herding sheep Tor or. Ziebach on b answering Calls for a the ranch in Buffalo county. A a. It was about 1909 that the Kay week after the Sale. I Hui nor family who came from Iowa to b j occasion to use your a ninth . i consider the advertising records Ana from present Indi. I .1 cations will continue extremely a service in i sen Worth the Jve least Over the first few mated at one Quarter billion and payments for Bond retirements will total nearly As much. Contrary to printed reports bonuses by leading Wall Street houses Are confidently expected to break Buffalo county left South Dako i. I All records no withstanding Possi to. They moved East and or Ray and department several times Hie huge losses nor attended the or h a i to j Uve never vet had an of the houses through the novem and Yale University. After be amp Bixik a r j v Iff Ber break in the Market College or. Kaynor became inter and that tailed to do its still. Business in stocks has broken is Ted in local politics in Springfield. He served As postmaster there for six years and Wras a member of the Price of subscription. Months of next year. Verv rest stabilizing fac v cry re Hajji. Buying Power of this t on Dol Thomas Conley Lar distribution to the Gei Al pub Kimballs Lic an i investors undoubtedly. Exercise a powerful stabilizing fac the above letter is Only Tor in the Stock r Arket Over the _ one of dozens of similar year end. In addition to the heavy Mont ome. Ais., i it. A i a i i re investment demand the fade of former Cen Emmen judge Henry jeters which have come to giving Stock certificates for Christ Frlj d a us and which we have not m Pant has not diminished -cdr.a. Coart Pisuk a to any extent and some buying is at his heme Here this afternoon. Yet had either time or spaceexp2cted from Locse quarters. Ito print. City Council and chairman of the Republican City committee. He was first elected to Congress in 1912. Defeating his democratic opponent j by More than 8.000 votes in a Dis j strict that is nominally democratic. He was author of the Clayton anti j Trust act. Coacher Post s plot in Graceland and Calvary cemeteries will receive its first world War Veteran next monday. On that Day James Alman Tastad who died at a local Hospital Friday night will be buried. The legions cemetery plot was dedicated last memorial Day. Members of Coacher Post Are requested to meet at dreamland promptly at 2 00 p. In. Monday dec. 23. To attend the rites. Coacher Post will provide the firing Square for the occasion and the funeral will be conducted with full military honors. Services will be held at 2 30 p. Rn., monday at the English lutheran Church with Rev. A. O Storvick officiating. Or. Tastad was a life Long resident of South Dakota and formerly lived on a farm near it. Vernon. For the past few months he hid de with his parents or. And mrs. James Istad 1108 West third Avenue. He was 32 years old and had been ill Only a few do Lys. His parents two children Ber Dine and birded five Brothers Harris George Edward Virgil and Elmer of Mitchell and two Sisters mrs. Irene Green of Storla and mrs. Clara Johnson of Mitchell i survive. O Dole is near in u. S. Couzens says Detroit mich., dec. 21�? pm a i warning that american Industry is on the verge of an Era of governmental regulation to stabilize the incomes of its workers unless it takes such measures of its own initiative was sounded by senator James Couzens last night in an address before the Twenty seventh annual meeting of the Michigan manufacturers association. German official quits Berlin Germany dec. 21�?op a finance minister Hilferding who has been under fire for some weeks j in connection with the Golem Mentis financial reforms and proposed Loans resigned today. His resignation was accepted immedi i lately by president von Hindenburg. Rail merger i plan completed 19 giant operating lines Are formed under i. Scheme Washington d. C., dec. 21�? a3 a a plan for merging practically All of the steam railroads of the United states into Nineteen giant operating units was Laid Down by the interstate Commerce commission today in compliance with a congressional mandate. Five Eastern trunk lines would be formed headed by the Pennsylvania Baltimore and Ohio Wabash Seaboard. New York Central and Chesapeake and Ohio. The Boston and Maine and the new Haven would form the key system in new England. In the South there would be three systems headed by the Atlantic coast line the Southern railway and the Illinois Central other key systems under the plan were As follows the great Northern Northern Pacific the Chicago Milwaukee. St. Paul and Pacific the Chicago Burlington and Quincy the Union Pacific the Southern Pacific the Atchison Topeka and Santa be the Missouri Pacific and the Chicago. Rock Island and Pacific and Chicago and Northwestern. Two Canadian groupings were also allowed but these were not included in the list of trunk systems. Many Long established relationships Between existing Carrier systems would be disrupted by the carrying out of the proposal but the a commission said that it represented the attempt to create a transportation system in the country which would maintain Competition and give every important traffic Center recourse to two or More lines for transport service. Without specifying the actual local treatment necessary the commission declared tha any Railroad consolidation a Shou f a accompanied by unification of All terminal lines in the respective terminals a so that All terminal properties should be thrown open to All users on a fair and equal terms regardless of terminal time ship. O a Michelson quits u. Post Chicago 111., dec. 21�? a3 a prof. Albert a. Michelson world famous physicist who observed his 77th birthday thursday has resigned As head of the physics department of the University of of Chicago Board orders wheat buying $1.18 is offered in Chicago will enter other markets Chicago ii dec. 21.�?op a the $20,000,000 Farmers National Grain corporation entered the trading lists of the Chicago Board of Trade shortly before yesterdays close with a Cash bid for wheat. The Price offered was $1.18 for no. I hard wheat country run and the figure was one and one Quarter cents above yesterdays close. Acceptances were to be made today and delivery within 20 Days. Coming at the end of a Day of bearish sentiment the effects of the bid could not be determined until today a opening. That the Grain corporation intends to remain in the Market hot Ever was seen in an announcement by officials that bids would also be made to support prices in other what markets. A the Grain corporation will be buying wheat in All of the principal markets by monday a they said. Coincident with the company a Cash bid for wheat came the announcement that w. G. Kellogg prominent Minneapolis Grain Man had been retained to take charge of the Grain corporations Grain Market operations. The selection of or. Kellogg who has been under consideration for the Post for some time followed a conference thursday. Making a Start in the Grain business 25 years ago As an office boy in Milwaukee or. Kellogg has held several important posts including the presidency of the Delmar company of Minneapolis a subsidiary of the Armour Grain company. In accepting the Chicago position or. Kellogg retires from the Archer Daniels Midland company of Minneapolis where he was in charge of the wheat department. Boards buying sends pit prices up 4 cents Chicago 111., dec. 21�?up a a measure of Confidence was restored to the Grain Market today by the announcement of the Farmers National Grain corporation that it would immediately enter the Market with a bid above current Cash prices and wheat opened at a maximum of 4 cents above yesterdays close. The big Grain cooperative sponsored by the Federal farm Board had published a bid of $1.18 for no i hard wheat after the close of the Market yesterday i 1-4 cents above prevailing prices. Wheat futures had closed yesterday More than a cent below the loan value specified by the farm Board. Spanish fliers to hop to Rio Janeiro Natal Brazil dec. 21�?up a the uruguayan tarns Atlantic aviator major Tadeo Larre Borges and his French companion lieutenant Leon Challe will leave today in an Aero postal plane for Rio Janeiro. They will continue later if the same plane for Montevideo capital of Uruguay which was the destination of their flight this week from Seville. The flight ended in a crack up not far from Here s. Sheriff helps Miller s. D., dec. 21�?up a secrecy shielded movements of officials Here today in their investigation of the murder of mrs. Anton Lapke farm woman whose body was found with knife wounds near her Home North of Here monday afternoon. Paul Mershon Deputy from the Tate sheriffs office at Pierre arrived last night to Aid in the investigation but would not comment on the Case. Refusal to describe official action also came from Grant Parrish hand county states attorney. Rumours among townspeople Here indicate that the work on the mystery still entered about immediate members of the Lapke family. The states attorney however refused to verify this supposition. Matching of fingerprints found on the window Sill of the shed where the woman met death with persons unmentioned Are said to have yielded some valuable information according to reports Here. Parris also declined to speak of this matter. Neighbors of the family suggested yesterday that life at the farm Home had not always been As harmonious As it appeared recently. Neighbors would not comment on a report that mrs. Lapke and the oldest son Alphonos 30, made efforts about four years ago to prove Lapke insane. The states attorney today was said to be planning another trip to the farm to re Check the scene of the slaying in an Effort to uncover evidence that might have been overlooked. Body was moved further substantiation of a theory that the body was moved during the 24 hours after mrs. Lapke was killed Wras obtained yesterday when sheriff Adam Mohr on another trip to the farm traced evidence of blood from the shed to a Field about 50 feet away where it was thought the body might have been placed the first night. Mrs. Lapke the family told officials disappeared last saturday night at eight of clock when she left the House to shut the Chicken House door and get some pork from the shed. The search was started that night by neighbouring banners and hand county officials. It was continued through sunday and monday. The body was found about three quarters of a mile from the farm House. The Throat was gashed and evidence of blood in the shed led officials to believe that the slaying was done there. O House would make Byrd an Admiral Washington d. C., dec. 21�?op a the House today passed the Senate Bill to promote commander Richard e. Byrd to the rank of rear Admiral on the retired list in recognition of his Antarctic explorations. The measure now goes to the president. Weather forecast South Dakota fair to unsettle tonight and sunday slightly co or tonight in North Central poetic rising Temperato sunday. Nebraska mostly fair Toni and sunday rising tempera sunday and probably in extra West portion tonight. Minnesota a or to unsettled i night and sunday not soc it sunday afternoon in West a South Poi Lions. North Dakota fair to unset tonight and sunday rising temperature sunday and in West i Tion late tonight. For the upper Mississippi a lower Missouri valleys and then it them and Central great Plains r ing temperature beginning of we it probably no return to Anborn cold not much precipitation first week but probably More or less be eral period by Middle or close. Local temperatures maximum and minimum tempi natures As recorded by the offic government thermometer from 7 in. Yesterday to 7 a. In. Today maximum 0. Minimum 2 below. At 7 a. In. Today 4 above. Precipitation 0 precipitate since january i 24.92 inches i capitation excess since january 5.81 inches. Weather and roads temp. 7 . Hilo of Roach Sioux Falls -2 to -5 .00 Good Yankton i la i to. Good Huron 4 8 -2 .00 fair Aberdeen 0 to -4 .00 fair rapid City 4 22 -2 to. Good Watertown -6 7 9 ,00 fair

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