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Mitchell Evening Republican (Newspaper) - December 28, 1929, Mitchell, South Dakota Weather fair and warm the evening Republic an third edition volume a xxxv Mitchell s. Saturday december 28,1929 twelve pages number 75 3 sons held by sheriff at Miller league seeks fire sweeps White House executive office an economic peace base proposal for a world a Star in Tariff dealing soon launched pact draft is ready Geneva. Switzerland. Dec. 28.�? a a while the world has been j watching momentous events in International politics chiefly con j corned Aith Anglo american re la j Lions and naval questions to h e i league nations in the last Quad j ter 1929 has been carrying out an extensive economic program. Leaders the leagues economic work pleased and hopeful because their political Brethren s apparent Progress toward disarmament and Security Are striving to develop a spirit economic cooperation among nations As their contribution to world peace. Widest interest perhaps attaches to launching the scheme for a a Tariff the league s economic committee has framed a draft treaty for the proposed customs armistice and governments All countries have been asked to give their opinions As to the advisability holding a diplomatic conference As a further step. The economic committee also has arranged to Convene Early in 1930 a meeting experts from All parts the world to study agricultural industries which Are said to be generally in a poor state. The fiscal committee which like the economic committee has an american member has contributed a plan for eliminating double taxation and another plan for abolishing taxation Louring automobiles in foreign countries. A multilateral agreement for equal treatment foreigners was devised at Paris in november by a conference under league auspices. Questions involved in this cooperative move also Are largely economic. Another league engineered conference at Paris Hopes to give effect to the treaty for abolition import and Export restrictions and prohibitions which the United states has ratified. These activities Are the work the league secretariat. Hie International labor office the leagues institution which deals with Indus Garner seeks to get House coalition too democratic Leader would follow Senate example in Tariff relaxing Here is Story killing As Anton Lapke told it before taken by sheriff the above photograph gives a vivid impression the Christmas eve fire which wrecked the Wing the White House in which the nation s chief maintained h is executive offices. Although the Blaze came suddenly it was possible to save All the executive files an d papers. Temporary executive offices for . Hoover have been set up in the army and Navy building in a suite rooms set aside for the use general j. J. Pershing. Sioux who slew i wife kills self Paul 2 Lack Moon found dead ii own Home afer shooting Lake Andes s. D., dec. 28 a special a Paul Black Moon Sioux Indian who murdered his wife thursday night was found dead a suicide i his own bed at his Home near Marty Mission about noon Friday by officers who Nad been searching for him several hours. Black Moon shot his Young wife As she sat at a table playing cards with Frie ids in the Home Orson Packard another Sioux Indian seven Miles from Lake Andes. After killing mrs. Black Moon the husband whose jealousy is said to have been the cause the slaying disappeared in the Woods still trial matters also has been Active armed with his Shotgun. A posse / anxious because the chaos in the european Coal world the labor office has summoned for january a meeting technical experts from nine principal Coal producing countries to make a recon loitering attack problems id i Basic Industry. A Survey living costs in the great Industrial cities Europe has been organized by the labor flee. This Surrey is in response to a request from the Ford motor company Detroit which wants information that will serve As a basis for fixing a wage scale in its projected european factories equivalent to the wage scale for its american plants. The recent maritime conference the 1. L. O. Examined conditions affecting shipping companies and commercial seamen and proposals for improving these conditions. The discussions Are expected Obear fruit in a later conference at a Date yet undetermined. T a formula for a world wide inquiry into working conditions in the textile Industry was adopted this month by the textile committee the International labor office. It is hoped thai this inquiry will ultimately encourage improvement and standardization conditions textile factory work and remove inequalities which Are now handicapping the Industry in some european countries. To. League nations is to get Wilson 1929 peace prize new York n. Y., dec. 28�?04s a the Woodrow Wilson peace prize for 1929 amounting to $25,000 has been awarded to the league nations for a ten years service in the cause world announcement the decision the Woodrow Wilson foundation to make this year s award to the league was published today the 73rd anniversary Woodrow Wilson s birthday. Sir Erie Drummond permanent Secretary the league has accepted the award tentatively. Final acceptance rests with the Council the league which meets in january. Of Salem Man Hurt in Tudor mishap Salem s. a dec. 28-Rov Gapp. 21-year-old son . And mrs. Joe Gapp who live three and a Hall Miles from Salem was taken to a Mitchell Hospital Friday afternoon with a broken hip and Tom ligaments in his leg As the result an Accident Friday afternoon. Gapp was helping Shell com the farm Daw Quot Merritt per Here when the seat the tractor which in was driving in r er9e�?T broke and he fell under the machine. Started a drive through the Woods in the Missou 1 River Bottoms late thursday Nigl and continued their search during Friday morning. About noon they arrived at Black Moons Cabin and there they found the dead body the Man for whom they had been searching. According to sheriff Carl Hammer Black Moon had spent much the night in the Woods and Early yesterday morning went Home sending his younger brother the Only other occupant his Home away an errand. Sometime Between to a. Rn., and 12 noon officials believe Black Moon fearing capture and despondent Over the slaying his wife blew his own brains out. He used the same Shotgun with which he had killed his wife and the gun. With an empty Magazine Lay the floor beside his bed. Morrell to put in Branch office at Aberdeen s. Ottumwa Iowa dec. 28�? up it. H. Foster president John Morrell and co., inc., provisioner today announced that total sales for 1929 would approximate $100,000,000 which he said was a marked increase Over 1928. He stated that no extensive improvements were contemplated at the Plant Here next year but that improvements contemplated elsewhere would involve expenditures about $200,000. He stated that a Branch would be established in Aberdeen s. In View the Outlook Tor 1930 he said that a indications seem to Point at present to a steadier Supply and More stabilized marketing cattle sheep and hogs which reans better times eventually for the Farmer breeder and Liberty lost by pantages los Angeles calif., dec. 28�? a a Alexander punt Ages Multi millionaire vaudeville magnate today decided to ask the appellate court for temporary Freedom As a result defeat in his fight in Superior court to win Liberty under Bond pending decision upon his Appeal from conviction a charge attacking Eunice Pringle dancer. After a hearing in which pantages physical and mental condition was described by several physicians As not necessarily dangerous. Superior judge George Fricke yesterday denied a motion to admit the wealthy showman to bail. Will Stop Chicago new year tipping avers Yellowley Chicago 111., dec. 28�? a be. Yellowley prohibition administrator will use his entire Force men and women stenographers and undercover agents in an attempt to mop up any wetness that May seep into Chicago a welcoming the new year. This Force will be spread throughout the City a cabarets night clubs and hotels wherever any celebrating is in Progress. A whenever you see anyone taking a drink a . Yellowley instructed his Force a Call up the office so j we can make a charges loom in coast guard killing Buffalo n. Y., dec. 28�?04 a the three coast guardsmen involved in the fatal shooting Eugene f. Downey jr., Christmas night Here found Quilty by judge Frank w. Stand Art reckless shoot in firearms at an inquest Downers death in City court today. Judge standart announced at the conclusion the inquest he would allow the Trio until tuesday to arrange for bail under second degree manslaughter charges. Of Snook plans new Appeal for life Columbus o., dec. 28�? up by an application for rehearing the Appeal . James h. Snook former Ohio state University professor now under sentence to die january 31 for the murder last june miss Theora k. Hix will be filed in state supreme court within ten Days e. O. Ricketts one his attorneys said today. Rival rum gangs War in Detroit one smuggler slain three others disappear less liquor handled Buffalo n. Y., dec. 28�?<>p a rival Detroit and Buffalo liquor running gangs were declared by Federal agents today to be engaged in a War to the death for control the Ontario liquor output. M. Gramer special investigator the Treasury department has been assigned Here to look into the situation which already has resulted in the murder one Detroit liquor smuggler and the mysterious disappearance three others. The liquor War started with the descent upon the Ontario ports Bridgeburg port Colborne and fort Erie by a gang Detroit smugglers who promptly proceeded with offers higher wages to lure away some the Buffalo gangs Best liquor traffickers. One result the War Between the two gangs has been a decrease in the amount smuggled liquor As crossing the Niagara River has been made More hazardous with smugglers forced to evade their rivals in addition to the coast guard and the ice floes. Rum running operations have been somewhat curbed also by the fatal shooting last wednesday night Eugene f. Downey jr., by coast guardsmen. One the men who disappeared in the War Between the rival rum running gangs is Jeremiah Sullivan who was last seen starting across the River from the Canadian Shore. Smugglers say the River swallowed him up. But the government apparently thinks differently for Gramer has been sifting All available facts and rumours. Then a former Detroit Man identified As a smuggler was found slain by the Roadside near the River Bank Between this City and Tonawanda. And later still two men have disappeared under mysterious circumstances. M. W. Rasmussen commander the coast guard operating in this District finds the situation beneficial to his interests. O Rhinelander gets divorce in Nevada Las vegas. Nev., dec. Leonard Kip Rhinelander member. Of a wealthy hew York family has obtained a divorce Here from his oct Roo wife Alice Jones Rhinelander. The divorce which was granted yesterday was not contested and mrs. Rhinelander was not represented in Amit. Ramseyer in favor Washington d. C., dec. 28.�? up a representative gamer Texas the democratic Leader today extended an invitation to the Independent republicans the House to join in forming a coalition similar to that controlling the Tariff Bill in the Senate. The object his move he said was to insure the final enactment the Tariff rates written into the Smoot Hawley Bill by the Senate combination. This would be done he explained by the House approving the Senate rate sections and sending Only the administrative sections the measure to conference. The scheme has been discussed and worked out by democratic leaders and includes a demand for a record vote when the Senate Bill comes Back to the House. Would follow Senate example a if the progressive republicans Are consistent a he said a in their declarations that they favor rates which will assure parity Between agriculture and Industry they should join with the democrats in voting the Senate rates and sending to conference Only the administrative sections the measure. A the Senate coalition has pointed the Way to secure for the american Farmers the Tariff rates essential to place agriculture upon a prosperous basis and every Friend Agricula tue regardless party affiliation should cooperate in achieving this very desirable although gamer has yet to receive any replies to his invitation the Tariff Bill passed by the House has been adversely criticized by a number midwestern House republicans who had to be into line by the Republican leaders when it was before the House. The minority Leader recently asked representative we tense Republican Iowa a member the House ways and Means committee and a critic the Hawley Dill if he would agree a to concur in the Senate rates if they Are preferable and More in the interest the Farr Quot Quot s than the House rates a Ramseyer May oin the iowan replied that if he regarded the Senate rates preferable throughout he would Avail himself a every parliamentary Means to retain the rates that Are preferable and get them enacted into a the Enate has not completed its work a Garner said a but the agricultural rates written into the Bill by the Senate coalition make it obvious that while the measure May be far from perfect it is the most pronounced step Ever taken toward securing for agriculture some measure Benefit through Tariff describing the Hawley Bill As the a most indefensible piece Tariff legislation Ever submitted to Congress a gamer said that in response to the Farmers pleas for Equality the rates practically Ever commodity the Farmer is compelled to buy were increased. O editors note following is the Story the murder his wife slain by an unknown person in the granary the farm Home 23 Miles North Miller s. D., dec. 14, As told exclusively to the evening Republican by Anton Lapke. Or. Lapke Speaks broken English having been born in Germany and for the readers convenience this dialect has been changed. The following account otherwise is exactly As . Lapke gave it to a staff writer for the evening Republican. My room and Lay Down again. My boys were All Home and they All stayed in there too and listened to the radio All except my youngest boy to years old. His Mother took him said his prayers for him and put him to bed. Then she came in and sat Down with us a Little while at one minute after eight she said i questioned knowledge farm killing will be grilled under John Doe warrant by officials first definite act Miller s. D., dec. 28�? special a she would go out and put the Chick j Anton Lap and his three sons a that Day we had All been to Miller and when i got Home my wife told me to lie Down because i had caught a cold working in the Fields the Day before. So i took off my shoes and Lay Down. A then she got dinner for the family who was All Home and we ate a Little later than usual. After the meal i went Back into the Liv 3 racketeers in Chicago slain shot in Effort to extort Montey from labor unions weather forecast used cars says he s a mesmerism a double service and for proves it to Copper Agena Lennox. It sold a strange Light. His Long fingers wiggled through the air As though weaving rosettes from imaginary Spaghetti. He intoned a lab Aqaba Oscaloosa deny Mee by Miny to bark a the sergeant did so. Quot pretty Good Quot said tile sergeant. A but i Felt a bark Cornin anyway so that does no to count. What very quickly after appearing in the paper. Equally successful was coach run for j. Reu land Parkston. Chicago. 111., pee. Tong count for Gene Tunney at so Dier Field was nothing compared with the one sergeant Tony hint the Calumet police station took d1 sergeant had arrested a fellow who turned out to be a Mesmer a a mesmerism a said sergeant Hintz. A i done to believe it. A you Grieve said the prisoner. Thereto get tet apr Quot a 55w tji my count to iat ten iwo wow Watertown to i High class with sergeant Hintz laboriously climb j Forth their merits in the j Yankton Al do you do Quot these cars were very at a a said the mesmerism a i win Tractive bargains and the and demonstrate my piece de ret stance. Ver Sers were n0 afraid to temp. South Dakota Are fair tonight and sunday continued mild temperature. Nebraska pair tonight and sunday continued mild temperature. Nebraska fair tonight and sunday slightly colder tonight in extreme Southeast not so cold in Northwest portion rising temperature sunday in extreme East portion. Minnesota probably fair tonight and sunday somewhat colder tonight in Northeast portions rising temperature sunday in West and Central portions. Iowa mostly fair tonight and sunday somewhat colder tonight in Southwest Tion. For the week dec. 30�?for the upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys and the Northern and Central great Plains not much precipitation Likely but May occur generally towards close week temperatures mostly above Normal except possibly colder at close. Local temperatures maximum and minimum temperatures As recorded by the official government thermometer from 7 a. In. Yesterday to 7 a. In. Today maximum 43 minimum 26 at 7 a. In. Today 26 roads Good precipitation 0 precipitation since january i 24.29 inches precipitation excess since january i 5.89 inches. O Chicago ii dec. 28�?041 a three racketeers Hunting easy Money with shotguns and revolvers were trapped by police last night and died resisting arrest. The racketeers had gone to the offices president Michael Powers the tire workers and repair vulcanized so Union demanding $10,-000 Powers life. If Powers did no to pay they warned him they would get him out the Way and take Over control the Union themselves under the racketeers theory that might is right. A police Ambuscade Powers called upon police for Protection. Officers were concealed at the Union Headquarters when the racketeers arrived. Five minutes later a police ambulance drove up to take one policeman slightly wounded to the Hospital and three bodies to the morgue. The dead William Dinky Quan with a police record dating to 1920 and including an indictment for murder and arrests and convictions for burglary larceny and disorderly conduct William Wilson alias Walker called the a Silver plated gangster a the first victim gangster machine guns in Chicago and with a police record dating to 1915. A Silver plate in his Skull necessitated by a Bullet wound gave him his sobriquet. John Ryan identified by detectives As a Hijacker and Beer runner and member a Quot red Bolton a West Side gang. The injured policeman was detective Ray Doherty. He was shot in the hand. It was Doherty concealed in a rear room who precipitated the shooting. The extortionists had entered Powers office Quan in the Lead stumping along with the Aid a Cane. He had not recovered from a Bullet wound in the leg suffered several weeks ago. Powers stood behind a grated opening sometimes used As a paying tellers window. A Well have you got the grand a Quan snarled. Powers played for time but Quan wanted action. A if you Haven to the Money get ready for a ride a Quan said. A a we be taken Many another Man As you probably know behind Quan stood Wilson and Ryan the one carrying a sawed off Shotgun the other an automatic pistol. At this moment detective Doherty tried to open the door slightly to be Able better to hear what was going . The door squeaked and the three racketeers whirled. A coppers a cried Wilson and opened fire. It was this shot that wounded Doherty. The detective brought his right hand up and his own pistol began blazing. Sergeant Patrick Connell and detective William Byrnes opened fire through the grated window. Ens to bed and Cut off a piece meat from a hog that had been butchered that Day. Can to Butcher a the hog was butchered by a neighbor for me. I can to do that work because i can to stand the sight blood it makes me sick. A i know it was one minute after eight when she went out because i looked at the clock and i remember. I waited i done to know How Long. Then i began to wonder what was keeping my wife. She sometimes counts the chickens and that takes longer but she was gone too Long. I was uneasy. Then it came to me a came like a knife turning in my heart that something was wrong. A i Send out my son Harry. He is ii years old and is afraid to go All the Way to the granary where he sees the door open maybe a foot maybe two feet. He comes Back crying. He thinks something is bad. A then i Tell Conrad who is 21 i think maybe 22, to go with him. They Tell me to come too so i Tell them when i get my boots i will go. They go out i put my shoes the big High ones like Farmers Wear you know. When i get ready i go to the door. Then i hear crying from the granary like to he . Lapke groaned several times and my god. A is she killed a its she killed is she killed a i yell and go running. Continued Page ten ten liquor report fails to satisfy dry senators want All hearings in study to be Public Washington d. C., dec. 28�? it a it a president hoovers commission has prepared its conclusions administration reorganization and Relief to the courts a in regard to certain the most urgent questions Law weather and roads Washington d. C., dec 28.�? up a the prospective prohibition report the Hoove Low enforcement commission Only partially satisfies the demands a a dry senators who have been clamouring for information the Progress the commissions Survey. An Effort will now be made senator Harris Democrat Georgia said today to break Down the policy secrecy under which the commission has been operating and bring about the substitution open hearings. The heated controversy Over the enforcement liquor Laws which has been in r Ogress for the last week was precipitated by a demand from Harris that the Low enforcement group make a report prohibition and by his request that no More funds be appropriated for it until such a report is forthcoming. He explained that he was particularly anxious that a report be received before the sedate takes up the Treasury department Bill which will include appropriations for enforcement. Referring to the prospective report the commission Harris said he was very glad it was to be made but hoped that in addition the commission is now ready to continue its Survey through open hearing he is prepared he said to follow up his demand that this be done. Two government departments a sizeable group a a dry senators and the we fee House have been brought into the controversy which followed Harris original demands it has Only now developed that during the entire course the discussion the commission had prepared and ready for publication a t report its prohibition Conlu a Sions a far As its Survey has gone. Al horns 30, Conrad 22, and Harry 17, were detained late yesterday by officials hand county under a John Doe proceeding and brought to Miller for questioning. Mrs. Anton Lapke missed under strange circumstances saturday night dec. 14, was found in a Straw stack the farm Harry Blake neighbor the Lapke a the following monday her Throat Cut. Is first action the action county attorney Grant Parris and sheriff Mohr is the first hint in the Case that any definite information As to the slayers was in their Possession. It was revealed shortly before the action yesterday that All Hope identification by Finger prints was dissipated by a report that they were too blurred because the porous nature the Wood in the door the granary the Lapke farm where the slaying took place. The Only remaining clue any value was a spot blood the Rump an old Blind horse in the Lapke stables. It is the conviction officials that the animal was used to carry the body from the scene the killing to the Straw stack a mile Distant where the Corpse was discovered. There Are some who hold to the theory that the murderer wiped his hands the animal. However it is pointed out that the nature the stains indicates the other theory is More sound. All members the Lapke family have been unable to offer any explanation the presence blood the animals Tail and Rump and this matter will be thoroughly sifted during the questioning the family members under the John Doe proceedings. Standing up Well All Are standing up Well under the grilling received so far according to officials who said their versions the affair Are the same As Given earlier in the investigation. Or. Lapke and his sons were listening to the radio from 8 clock to it 8 30 clock the evening the slaying they told officials. One form the questioning will take will be in regard to what program was received. The family agrees they were listening to Wax at Yankton at 8 clock and that a Cowboy Singer was the entertainer. At 8 15 they said he left the air and the Sears Roebuck Horn started. An investigation what programs were the air at that time will be made. The members the family will be held until questioning is Complete sheriff Mohr said. The course the officials after that will be determined by the nature the information gained he said. The Lapke family was being questioned behind closed doors but at the noon recess . Parrish said charges had not been filed. When asked whether Lapke and his sons were being held As prisoners the states attorney answered in the negative. He would not say How Long the John Doe proceedings would continue when charges if any would be filed. Two Deputy state sheriffs from Pierre Clyde Cunningham and Paul Mershon Are Here assisting Parrish. S. Attorney general a office to Aid in probe Pierre s. D., dec. 28�? up a the attorney general a office has been asked to assist in investigation the slaying mrs. Anton Lapke Miller farm woman it was Learned today. The office Here referred Miller authorities to Frank Mitchell assistant attorney general who was spending Christmas at Mitchell. It could not be Learned today whether . Mitchell had gone to Miller. Cooper wonders if Yule state sheriff to run Miller killing probe Pierre s. D., dec. 28�?up a stat sheriff Fred Minier left for Miller shortly after 2 clock this afternoon to take personal charge the investigation the slaying mrs. Anton Lapke. The sheriff left Trees Wilt in a year s.ts1�?o 4�?o�?o�?� Miller. Chicago he dec. 28�? up a Arthur Cooper is pretty angry with somebody just who he cannot be sure. Christmas week for him has been ruined by Christmas Trees. Monday and tuesday he was Pes said Cooper a Christmas was sad for me because i had no Trees. Now new years will be sad because i have Trees. There is i fear no a my idea a said the truck Driver who was one those kind who have i have heard Tell that Trees Wilt. People intimate that he trifles with so however i will dem k. O. With said the sergeant a do your stuff. Be Meme Tom eyes flashed with eel the numerical scale and j with a triumphant shout sounded my. A i he opened. Is eyes. The mesmerism was gone it always pays to Tell it All when using the Blank. I Huron Aberdeen is id City our Falls 7a.m. Hilo ads 20 39 20 .00 Good 31 45 30 .00 Good 27 42 23 .00 fair 22 41 20 .00 Good 29 49 27 .00 Good 26 39 22 \00 Good tired by customers pleading beg ideas a is to keep Mem until next Ging demanding Christmas Trees. Christmas. Still they might Wilt. Money was no object. They wanted Trees and . Cooper was just out. Yesterday with Christmas two Days gone a big truck backed up to Coopers store. It was loaded with Christmas Trees. A these is a said the truck Driver a bit careless in his grammar a Christmas Trees. They re from Maine and they got a Christmas has come and gone a Erdman Olson is believed held in Florence wis., dec. 28�? up a a Uard kept watch today Over the Quot ail cell a youth said by Florence county officials answer in detail the description Erdman Olson Fugi but you might Plant Mem and porn i five Slayer his sweetheart Clara water pm but be sure to get Olson. Good water. This faucet Waters arrested at a lumber Camp deep got too much j in the Woods near the upper Mulchi a hush and be about your Busi Gan Border the youth refused to Ness a said . Cooper and the to j give his name Tell where he had Bleau is . Cooper standing with his head propped in his hands gazing in sorrow at a pile Christmas Trees. Come from. Sheriff Miles Davis Saki that his height and general appearance was the same As that Olson

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