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Mitchell Evening Republican (Newspaper) - February 3, 1924, Mitchell, South Dakota Ten page5 the evening Republican City edition vol. Xxx Mitchell South Dakota saturday february 3, 1924. Number 107wilson is slowly sinking sex president grows steadily weaker today refuses All nourishment and is too exhausted to talk continues conscious Gre m v a Vbk Vvs his patient \ ble to str Vive the Dav a Langton. In c., Fob. 2.�? we i continues to crib a soaker hour by hour but Thoro want no indication this afternoon How so it a the end might Rome. To 3 p. In. Or. Grayson said Tho sick Man it condition had sin it we no material change except the cry slow hut certain Advance toward Complete Rahaii t Ion. Or. Grayson said the most Dis to re and no Mats Tux attending Jar a it a Sci apis Ham their in ability to do More than relieve Tho patient of pain. A fir is in no pain Tho doctor said. A and its hard to stand 1 v and not he Able to do More for it it or of those who called to in pc a card Aas former minister Calderon of in Olivia. Or Wilson Nas a great Friend of lain or. Calderon Aid. A we Are deeply d it eau of ills serious condition. His loss will he our in no Small degree even As it will or omits in this # the staff of the Argentine Emba a called in a body to pay or up cts and Lea a cards. Win p. Fob. 2 a at i Grayson has persuaded her to take j any rest. She did take some sleep i during the night while or. Grayson 1 relieved her at the bedside. Then she j took up the Vigil this morning while or. Grayson want to his Home for a Brief rest. Hither the physician or the wife Are constantly watching and waiting. Shortly after la o clock Admiral Grayson announced that a emr. Wilson still is obtained rest in night through the weary stretches of the night past the dangerous hours of the Early morning and so on into the full Light of another Day the sex president kept his grim visitor a amp Itin outside the Portal with an insistence that astonished even his physicians. A Little rest snatched fitfully from the hours of darkness helped to stay for the moment the hand that almost had extinguished the faint spark of vitality. Those at watch by his bedside were encouraged by Ever so Little but they did not dare believe there had been any real improvement. It appeared More than Ever certain that the death of the War president a is Only a question of hours. So weakened was he by a full Day and night face to face with death that there was scarce strength enough for him to open his eyes. Upon the sunlight of the new Day. As i his physicians assessed the results of j i the night and watched for any new changes a the Day progressed they appeared not entirely hopeless but f they plainly were convinced that Only i some unusual development could j Long delay the end. J throughout the night or Grayson had remained almost constantly at the former president s bedside. A soft Light burned in the quiet Cham j Ber and a nurse tiptoed Here and j there always on watch. During a j Good part of the time mrs. Wilson too was close beside her husband bearing courageously the Strain of the Long hours of her Vigil. Rpm4 darkened the remainder of the big House on Ibert Alk. Directed a a e a sign Stet a it \ eve add the a was no evidence p Street to which or. Wilson retired from the White House was dark and quiet after or. Grayson find his two colleagues. Pre. Ruffin and Fowler had held their evening consultation of More than an hour and had announced at 10 30 tha get Tho former president gradually was losing ground despite the great exhaustion of the patient which today kept him hovering Between consciousness and sleep his heart remained Strong and his pulse regular. There was no fever and for the nest part he suffered no pain. The Only Hope of his physicians was that there still might be Energy enough j in his broken Constitution to Ward off the languor under whose spell Resis j Tare at last would cease. There was Little the medical men could do. More than four years of illness had so racked his Constitution that Strong medicines and surgery j would do More harm than Good. They j could Only Pray and Hope for the Best. After his night in the sick chamber j engined a it a Grayson left the Wilson residence j i at 8 4 j this morning for a Brief visit o or. I to his own Home before the morning was consultation with the other doctors1 Oday to be admitted 1 an hour later. J when he reap-1 Quot Ile is slowly ebbing away he that mrs. Wilson said. A the is a Brave Man. He knows i j that his life is t there is still even before the physician a j de. A but of course geared and other members of the j Droit there was not household were astir a new process a of friends and admirers of the by i that had gather former president began to pass by the a Small boy carried a House to leave their cards As a sign Rose As his of. Of their sympathy or to stand mute i in at a respectful distance. A police j line again prevented vehicles from j passing through the nearby streets. A change in the Gondi a rms a president Wilson. Her it in s bulletin issued at i in. Said or. Wilson is e readily weaker. Habas Tiki very Little nourish he has had some sleep and i pa.�?�. He recognizes those Bim but i too exhausted to our efforts in the main Are towards keeping him Comil fan t. Grayson. G Ruffin. s As though or. Wilson 3 through the Day or. Idled to Tho formal text of j a Al bulletin a but that is i it the Hazard of a sudden m Eal socialists who Are or. Grayson lectors few 1 . Left the House after or consultation but will rep rn., and after a further e then will Issue a further. As usual. Hand. Thy Secretary e was preside my Addo wont fall refuses halt in race to testify for for president Senate body his manager says Doheny a former Secretary challenges testimony will not of authority of committee feet his Campaign j probing Oil leases he asks to testify will be called again former Secretary of treas committee will seek renew Fry seers Opportunity and of authority and then to be heard by Senate apply authority committee j _ Washington d. C., feb. 2.�?up a % Chicago iii., feb. 2.�?th� Cam haled before the Senate Oil commit Pajgin to bring about the nomination tee today against the protest of his americans War president Sinclair to return to u. S. Within week Gregory comes to capital too late to serve Admiral says Oil safeguards West coast Oil Man named in Teapot dome scandals is coming Back from France former attorney general a Rhi yes in Wash no ton after president i Les Ihm t. Robinson tells House com Mettee contract with Doheny prevents Pacific invasion Man. It was hand opened the in refuges water in. a feb. 2.�? a it a sing ground. Woodrow led to grow weaker and in. But. Having lasted gut which his physicians ii bring the end. They can a How Long his remarkable j hold out. He n As taken no nourish lost 24 hours Dis n to take sips of water j s raise respiration and a Nelv Toay were Pratti of it growing weaker. His physician said his ply ebbing away. A v is the former Prev i Cue. At no time have a sure a As applications i to and at to time have men. As he has been in Paris France. Fob. 2.�?gyp a Mason Day. The representative in Europe of the Sinclair Oil in tor of today in mohair of Harry f. Sinclair the following a statement. S a i expect a it return to America on either the steamship Berengaria. Nailing feb. 6. Or the steamship president Harding nailing feb. 12. Subpoena broker Cleveland Ohio feb. 2.�?samuel Ungerleider Cleveland broker with Secretary Herbert Hoover whoa Washington Brantli office was lives a few doors above the Wilson Home was the first of those who stopped to leave a message of sympathy. A Little later Cordell Hull. Chairman of the democratic National ii in before was n committee card. Came also to leave his subpoenaed today to Tes the Teapot dome inquiry in ton. The summons directs Ungerleider to bring All record books and accounts of All transactions through the Ungerleider House Between dec. Washington feb. 2.�?up a a Lull a in the Oil leasing storm prevailed today Tho Robinson Resolution seeking the resignation of Secretary Denby j having been Laid aside until monday i in the Senate and the Walsh measure directing president to Institute Legal proceedings adopted yesterday j but the House being in the hands of i i i president Coolidge. The Senate invest j Ligating committee however had i 1 subpoenaed former Secretary fall under whose jurisdiction leases were i made to appear for questioning about t his financial dealings with e. L. Do Heny and Harry f. Sinclair. Luton Japar d. C., feb. 2�?possi-. Perhaps in conjunct i of William Gibbs Mcadoo As the j democratic presidential candidate is to by in no Way influenced by the i it Ort a connection of air. Mcadoo. With the e. L. Dohney Oil interests 1 Pavid Ladd Rockwell National Man Ager of the Campaign makes it Plain. Wants to lie ii can i Quot Quot Quot log Angeles Cal. Feb. 2.�?william j g. Mcadoo candidate for the D�Mo-1 Cratie nomination for president late yesterday telegraphed senator Walsh of the Fena in committee investigating of Theny and Sinclair Oil leases ask Jing that arrangements be made for Bim to appear before the committee. Or. Mcadoo a Telegram to senator a Walsh quoted the statement he Al a ready had issued relative to e. L. J j Doheny a testimony a to or. My Jadoon Slegal relations with the Doh any Oil companies. To conclusion he stated that he was leaving for Washington today on account of illness of i his father in Law Woodrow hoped he would he aide to Testi to at the senatorial investigation and asked the senator to make arrange i ments for his appearance. Or. And mrs. Mcadoo earlier had planned to depart for the National capital last night but found that 1 they could not arrange to leave in i til this morning. A the dragging of my name into the investigation of All lease at Washington is wholly without justification of any a Ort a said Mcadoo. A in 1919, a year after leaving president Wilson a Cabinet my former Law firm in new York Mcadoo Cotton and Franklin s retained As counsel by or. Doheny a companies and upon my removal to California in 1922. I was retained As special Here. I such employment being entirely in connection with the mexican affairs of or. Doheny a enterprises. A i have never at any time been pm played or consulted regarding any Oil leases anywhere in the United i j i Mcadoo received $150, 300, not $250,000 As stated by Doheny before i the Senate Oil least investigation i committee for Legal services to the i i Doheny companies according to a j i declaration made tit Mcadoo a offices Here late today. Daniels hit Back Raleigh. N. C., feb. 2. A a Josephus Daniels former Secretary of the Navy. I j last night declared that statement it Side by e. L. Doheny today Testi i flying before the Senate committee in Vest gating the Teapot dome leases j i to the effect that he had during his j administration favored the Standard n of court n the Oil he would irate him. Wash ability o Tion with great Britain attempting to invade the Pacific coast prompted the Navy department to arrange with. Of. Company and other prospective the Doheny interests for the construe j leases of Oil reserves were without Tion of fuel tanks at Pearl Harbor i he asserted that he had declined to consider a proposition for leasing the Oil reserves to two Oil men whom George Creel had to1d him wished to lease them. He said also that the records showed a that though there applications to lease Oil re Ila Waii at rear Admiral Robinson in chief of the Navy today Engineer informed the House naval committee. The Admiral pointed out that the contract for storage construction was entered into while the Angio Japan est Alliance since abrogated was in we re effect and prior to the Quot Washington Thomas w. Gregory attorney Gen f arms conference. Which he said had j i 1921, and dec. I of 192 Wilson Given j Kansas City is Lincoln a rank badly shaken by by British Gas explosion eral in the we ii son administration who was invited by president Cool a Cut a a s have been Given or. Wilson been s i he seem at ail times is f what is going on in a r although he is too weak Aversa Tion he Dees in i a a a not in reply it Ltd a what May be done f More comfortable. M Wilson s physicians fear a Hering flame of life e Early morning y \ Tlsty is lowest. anxiously watched his a at r a lion continued s breathing regular a it a t res fully. E through the night r to feel there is no a it w tar tenacity May linger for Days a or i the Rance of pro 1 a Woodrow Wilson might a Bree or four Days. It o possible that something it any moment and he will Klov a was. S failure to take Nour Mer Norg was a disown a Quot of his physicians. When t of ods he Shook his head a w whispered alien r water he tade the a the physicians agreed might have to be r the a Way Quot a d a Imber where a s it bes. Mrs Wilaon is or a ant afer Dart and it difficulty that or. London. England feb. 2.�?wood j Row Wilson s critical illness was an j outstanding feature of the worlds i news in the newspapers this morning. Dispatches from Washington were printed under prominent headlines and the introductory paragraph re i called the activities of the sex presi Dent in War and in peace. Or. Wilson has a great number of flirts and admirers Here who maintain that when the influence of political rivalries had passed history will endorse the Contention of Many writers in his country that he belong in the category of the great presidents and was a worthy successor to Abraham Lincoln. Huron Bandit Given 15 years i theft Case i Kansan City. Feb. 2.�?on� Man so known to Hay been killed and eight injured one dangerously in a Gas explosion Here today which Shook i the entire downtown District and i wrecked the four Story building of the Bailey Reynolds chandelier company. The loss was estimated Between $100,000 and $150,000. Fifty persons escaped from the building which tvs engulfed by fire j folic Wing the blast. Plate Glash was blown from windows in Twenty three buildings in the Block. Of removed Many of the causes for International friction in the Pacific. Punctuating his remarks by banging his fist on the table Admiral Robinson declared a if we hold a base near Honolulu no enemy will succeed in conquering our West coast. Without an adequate re serve Supply of Oil at Pearl Harbor invaders might gain a Admiral Robinson said he was not familiar with the Transfer of the and i _ ministration of the naval Oil reserves Sorth a it Dakota senator says tip the Interior department which end tabled Secretary fall to negotiate contracts with the Doheny and Sinclair interests. Serves not one was made to anybody in my Norbeck asks 4400 for views on farm Bill Wallace plan would make si.50 wheat he said. However he had been on of those who advised Secretary denier to arrange for tank construction at Pearl Harbor a step that was and in evening Republican Bureau. 301 Albee building Washington d. A. Feb. 2. By George f. Authier an Effort to obtain from the attorneys and physicians former Interior Secretary fall flatly refused to answer questions about the naval Oil leases and big relations with Harry f. Sinclair and e. L. Doheny. Or. Fall Cai o two major reason Why he declined to reply. The first was that Tho authority Given to the investigating committee by the big a Congress had expired and the second til at in the ii Gin of the action of Congress in directing inst Muiir action civil and criminal least cases any answers make might tend to intr air or. Fall read this prepared Stafe ment a a i decline to answer the questions for the following and on the following grounds a the committee is conducting an investigation under Senate Resolution 22. Agreed to april 21. 1922. In the h7th Congress and Iii Senate Resolution 29 4 Jig Recd to May 15. 1922, in the same Congress. And further by virtue of Senate Resolution 434, agreed to by flu Senate on Urb. 5, 1923. During the sumo Longres. And i Flo not it his idler that acting under Tho a resolutions or under the last mentioned Resolution which authorized the comr Nettee to a it after the expiration of the bit ii to Gresh a until the assembling of the Flyth Congress and until otherwise Ordo de by tin sen afe tills committee Lias any authority to conduct the investigation now attempted to to conducted by the addressing of this question to me. I decline to answer on the for Thor ground that on january 7, 1924, senator Araway introduced in the Senate of Tho United states in Lii it engross Senate joint Resolution 54, attempting to Deal with tile lease of tile Mammoth Oil company that the Resolution was referred to this com Mitten anti in due course the Senate i can get this committee As of Jan. 21. 1921. And thereafter Oil Jan. I 1924, agree to that Resolution and completed its consideration thereof tilt Resolution being to amended Aslo Leal in i he Senate in a plenary w a. W Ith tin leases Ufi ii naval Oil reserves which were before this commit tee under Senate Resolution 22 and Senate Resolution 294 and that this committee has no further authority to Flea with tile Senate joint Resolution 54.�?� i All dazed and weak Clearing the hearing room of the crowd which jammed every avails blk space the committee went into executive session to determine its course in the Light of the attitude of the former Cabinet officer and senator. As the committee deliberated. Or. Fall waited with his lawyers and physicians in an Ante room. After the committee had gone info executive session or. Fall was brought out of the Ante room where he had been awaiting the decision. He was resting heavily upon till arms of two men who virtually earned him Down the corridor to the room of senator Elkins of West Virginia where a lounge was found for him. He seemed dazed and very weak. Its authority to continue the investigation having been challenged by or. Fall the committee decided to i ask the Senate on monday to remove All doubts by re adopting the original j Resolution authorizing the inquiry. The committee then adjourned until next tuesday. A a or. I All will he recalled before the to to Ommittee next tuesday and should he then decline to answer quotations senators maid tile Issue of authority of flu committee to compel an answer under pain of contempt Juroc ceilings in the courts would by squarely raised. A a to i visible he added because of the people of his state an expression of i leakage of Oil from the California re. Opinion on the Mcgarv Haugen farm serves. Thomas w. Gregory former attorney general Federal Reserve opens Branch in the Black Hills Relief Bill senator j Junior senator from South Dakota \ has sent out in the past week 4.400 personal letters to the press and others in South Dakota asking for an expression on the measure. The Mcnary Haugen Bill also weather forecast South Dakota Cloudy and sorry Peter Norbeck j what unsettled tonight and Sunda of the id go to act with Silas h. Strawn Chicago for the government in court proceedings was due to arrive Here Early in the afternoon but the. President had decided to withdraw j his request in View of or. Doheny a j testimony yesterday that he had served As counsel for a group of Oil companies to Huron. S. A. Feb. 2.�?fifteen years in the state Penitentiary at Sioux Falls was the sentence imposed today by judge Alvae Taylor on John Hanahan. Convicted in circuit court Here last week for the theft of an automobile. Hanrahan who was originally f Wessington Springs. Tuesday booked on a Chare of shooting with noon Miller. Tue slav might intent to k u in connection with ser Preston wednesday afternoon de piously wounding two Huron police Smet. Wednesday nigh Arlington. Men. Was tried on the robbery charge thursday afternoon Elkton. Thurs because under South Dakota Law s. The Day night \ Olga Friday afternoon latter charge Calls for almost triple i White Friday night Iroquois. Satur the number of years of in Dav afternoon and Wolsey saturday Case of conviction. 4 night. Gov. My master to speak daily in Campaign Verd Onbank a i cashier arrested by the state rapid City. S. D., Fob. 2�?the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis has established a Branch in the first National Bank Here. Sending a or at Quantity of currency for the Relief of Banks in this territory. Rapid City has had Only one Bank failure and business has gone on with. I out trouble. Other Banks in the City report increased deposits. Pierre s. P., feb. 2�?governor w. H. Mcmaster candidate for Republican nomination for u. S. Senator will open his Campaign tour the itinerary for which was announced today at Logan Hall near Here tonight. Engagements for next week include Highmore monday night after Lake Aberdeen. S. Feb. 2.�?e. G. Elliott cashier of the closed Farmers state Bank of Verden was arrested today on charge of embezzlement made by the state banking department. The Bank was taken Over by the state some months ago and the charge is based upon alleged Irreg Ula ties of management. Of about 41 percent of the world s i developed water Power is in the executioner who had beheaded 45 persons takes his own life United states. Breslau Germany feb. 2.�? surrounded by 45 candles lighted in my Morv of the persons he bad beheaded. Taul Spaethe Public executioner. Was found dead yesterday in his apartment having shot himself. Spaethe had Ben Public executioner for h years and his nerve was unshaken until the death of his wife a few weeks Aga. Known As the Wallace plan provides i for a revolving fund of $200,000,000 a to by used in financing an Export corporation to handle the american wheat surplus. In his letters senator Norbeck has explained the Wallace j plan in detail showing How the proposed Export corporation would Pur i Chase directly from the Fanner and sell for Export. The Bill would practically guarantee $1.50 wheat to j the Farmer according to senator i nor Beeks a exposition of the plan. Pomeren emay be named u. S. Oil prosecutor Wahington d. C., feb. 2 a a it a a App firstm a get of Atlee Pomerene former senator from Ohio As democratic member of the special government counsel to prosecute Oil cases is being by i Coolidge. I i colder. Forty a t for next week Washington d. C., feb. 2.�?weath or Outlook for the a amp a a beginning Mon j Day i upper Valley considerable cloudiness probably occasional snows Over North and Rains or snows Over South portion temperature above Normal at beginning and much colder thereafter. Local temperatures maximum and in minimum temperatures a recorded by the official government thermometer from 7 a. M. Yesterday to 7 a. In. Today maximum 56 minimum 31 at 8 a. No 33. Weatherman Deroads those bulletin Are filed a 8 30 a. In. Daily by gym aulos Dattel press St. Cloud Cloudy. 2 5� roads Good. Fargo Cloudy 32 roads Good. Winona Clear 33 roads no Anta travel. Huron Clear 34 roads Fain Sioux Falls Clear 33 Rood heavy. Pier re Clear 32 roads go old Aberdeen Houv 30 a it Ganda Fata grand Forks foggy 27 Readd fair. Watertown Clear 33 reads Fah m Scheil or is roads Tam 4 Good

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