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Mitchell Evening Republican (Newspaper) - July 24, 1924, Mitchell, South Dakota Twelve Page the evening Republican vol. Xxx Mitchell South Dakota thursday july 24, 1924. Number 252crowe piles up evidence thoughtless fool costs desolation and he death race in Wake of fires whole towns wiped out and vast tracts of lumber destroyed in West carelessness blamed campers Caise of destruction and Are in danger of Lynching by pm i dip a a. Sinnott Nea service writer in ii Francisco july 24.�? i Tea the in collation Are racing a gang a la Roukh ii Quot wrist a tip to thought so scores already Are dead scores j More Are missing thousands of Va-1 ratio in Sis Are in imminent danger w Hole towns Are f being wiped out. J and millions of dollars Worth of j Fine old Timber is being Laid Low. And the blame or most of it a is being Laid at the door of a the j thoughtless fool a As the smoke i from dozens of Forest fires Rolls up j Ward a incense from the sacrifice to the fire god. Education a failed education been under Way for years to convert the thoughtless fool into a Safe member of society. A lessening number of Forest fires each year was pointed to As the re-1 suit. It took a dry year like the present j to prove this All wrong. As soon As it the vacation season called Auto Isusi and other campers into the open fires began. And they have continued unabated beaten Down at one Point Only to break out anew at an a other. Jail sentences Are now being meted out to those who even smoke in Tho Forest Reserve. And the millionaire tourist the Hobo the ranch hand and City vacation St alike Are subject j to Ion to save. forests from destruction. Up to july 15, a total of 839 Forest fires were reported to Forest Servic Quot officials. Of these 659 were due entirely to carelessness. A vast land army of fighters supplemented by army air planes and the radio Battle doggedly on every Western front a but the thoughtless fool keeps just ahead of them and weary workers subdue one fire Only to be rushed to fight another. Demoralization is the aftermath in Many communities. Every Able bodied Man must spend Long hours at the hard hot Job every Auto St passing through myst expect to be called upon and to serve or go to jail. These Battles May carry the fighters far from their Homes. A sudden change of wind and they momentarily Are in danger of being trapped by the flames or of having their Homes endangered with Only their women folks at Homo to conquer the Blaze or perish. Cause water shortage Forest fires cause life and property lose disrupt communication and entail enormous expense. The area swept Over Are denuded of Timber by the fast Licking flames. Lack of Timber cuts Down the labor wage entailed in milling these Trees had t hey for Vav Quot ii Quot Quot Quot arh a a Ines affording no Shade to the soil is soon dried by the Sun and no longer helps furnish w aters to the principal streams. This brings about water shortages and with the West using largely Hydro electrical Energy a Power shortage which May itself bring on unemployment. But through it All. The thoughtless fool goes Unher Edingley about his work of destroying the Hist big lumber red res on this Side of the world. It has reached a Point now w Here being caught might mean Lynching. Of millions1 deadlock Over state paving i Dawes scheme Way to demand still unbroken death penalty conflict Between French Dele Gre some exhibits Are Intro Gates and financiers May diced today in Leopold be near solution Loeb murder hearing observers optimistic defendants Are Calm presence of i Gres and chisel. Bloody of Hie. Type Melix in my Lead to sir j writer and acid bottle mounting of impasse offered As evidence he won nomination cr0ps Fly four faces a real task i states Promise a Good yields London. Eng july 24.�? a a the j Chicago 111., july 24.�?op a on it j con filet in the views Between the tinting the piling up of evidence de i French delegates to Tho inter Allied j signed to Send Nathan Leopold. Or. I conference and the american and and Richard Loeb to the Gallows for j British financiers regarding the Safe j up kidnapping and murder of Robert i Rua Riis for in of tanks stat Ltd a Aunley Robert k. In Tho Gorman loan propose i und it a i the Dawm plan remained Una in or. J oiled today according to Well r. We 3 i Ltd a. Jvn i ii. Ii a jul Mal meetings of the delegates this morning produced no indication f a Way out of the impasse. The principal meeting was at Downing Street where Premier ller riot of France Premier the Unis of Belgium. American ambassador Kellogg and italian finance minister de Stefani had a two hours conversation with prime minister Macdonald observers optimistic the greatest significance is by my attached to the comings and going of Secretary of state Hughes and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon of the United states who Are having a most difficult task in convincing Lon. I or that to amp ii a Mui min Frere is Quot not Filiai. Such High he Pps were raised j Crown today produced in court the j j states exhibits in the Chain of evidence for formal identification. These included Tho taped Coin Ems a used in beating the boy to death the charred remains of the blood stained automobile Robe rescued from the ashes of a Bonfire on the Lake front a portable typewriter similar to that on which was written the ran som letter received by Franks father and paper and envelopes identified twin City papers assert reports of Black rust in Northwest Are few Harvest is under Way ample moist re in ground to Farry i hops to maturity it is declared Clem Shaver life Long Friend of John w. Davis democratic Candi As of the same texture As that sold Date for for presidency has been to Leopold shortly before the disappearance of their victim. Introduced also by the stain was a pint bottle identified by a drug j Friendly and a ostentatious who Ark selected by air. Davis to by his Campaign manager. It was or. Shaver clerk As the one in which he had sold hydrochloric to Leopold on Tho Date of the murder. Throughout the morning session in which More than 15 witnesses were called by the state the two Young Mimer no at the outset of the conference by j College students sat composedly Beth participants of the United states j Hind their attorneys listening intent that observers of till Are optimistic j by to the testimonies and occasionally that the two members of the Anteri whispering with their attorneys. Ally swung the big new York convention deadlocked for two w weeks to or. Davis and won the nomination for .him.�?zno_w___, or. A a Davis has a resigned Shaver a real jobs that of Landing him in the White hours. A Viv can Cabinet can yet find a Way despite the unofficial character of their Good offices to be of assistance in solving the deadlock Between the financier and conference delegates. The Leopold Horny. She was Cross examined rain outdoors and the Prospect of j tj1a defense counsel. Lens dramatic developments in the hearing which is to determine the degree punishment of Nathan Leopold or. And Richard Loeb for the briefly while the French Are maintaining i kidnapping and murder of Robert i Tho Sanctity of the Versailles treaty j Franks combined today to Dampen and the International Bankers Are j enthusiasm of a court police i equally firm in their demands for guards which kept the curious on the j definite guarantees to satisfy invest sidewalks and the knowledge that is in America and elsewhere who j Only a few could gain admission to j will be ticked to support a German j judge John a cttwiy9 court a ohioan necessary to Iaun a the Dawes i tribute to this result plan it is the opinion today that a pa.-�, Renners come Early spectators with passes California Forest fire Penny brooms Are too big bargain 20 women injured Norristown pa., july 24.�?twenty persons most of them women were slightly injured in a bargain counter crush today when a new store advertised the Sale of one cent brooms. Twelve of the women were taken to a Hospital suffering from cuts and bruises. A to a it a Mumn finns a no Vita i nut Rui Uwadi to killed when picnic car is hit by engine Oak Harbor. Ohio july 24.�?investigation into the cause of the Grade crossing Accident Here late yesterday which took a death toll of ten and injured ten More was under Way Here today. The ten persons were killed instantly when a new York Central pasar try err. Ato Mobile truck loaded with children returning from a picnic. The tragedy occurred shortly before 7 p. In. At the Locust Street crossing one Block trom the new York Central depot and about one mile from the business Section of the town. Four Railroad tracks Cross the sleet at this Point. A passenger train a at bound from Toledo was just pulling out from the station when William Spangler 40, Driver of the truck halted for the train to pass. Witnesses say that As the last cars were crossing the Street Spangler started the truck in motion passing behind the East hound train to be struck by a fast passenger train going w Ost. The truck was hurled More than a Hundred feet. Bodies were thrown in every direction. Others being ground beneath the wheels of the flying train. Three were carried 300 feet on the engine Pilot. Davis to speak at Corn Palace Iii Irrer Mvi dec Kiu Tylo heal Hal j Way out of found Short both Side Lineal Conte to by Unyi entanglement will by admitting them to the trial came to court Early however and feasted their Early i curiosity in the doings of the news of paper writers and photographers. Rian and american delegates Are Nathan Leopold sr., accompanied striving to reach a Compromise. Even i Tjie defendant s elder brother and the Good offices of Secretary of the Jacob Loeb. Uncle of a a dickies car Tret Surv Mellon were invoked yes Quot i Rived a few minutes before court was ter Day at a Downing Street breakfast. Due to open judge Caverty delayed ills appearance from his Chambers in the present internal on reparations seemed i a i nor. No British. Be d later or. Mellon conferred with Premier Macdonald Thomas Lamont of j. Pierpont Morgan and company an i sir Montagu Norman and sir Robert Kindersley of the Bank of or. Mil Ion in an unofficial Way had contrite he of great assistance in finding a i Way out of the present deadlock. Agreement May be near j the French take the View that the j Bankers Are interlopers in the con a Ference. Which should he w Holly of political nature. The Bankers Coolidge gets More reports fro leaders Washington d. C., july 24.�?sand i we Iching political conferences Between j however. Insist that they Are merely discussions of official business pres interpreting their investing Market ident Coolidge received reports yes j they declare that the proper finance ter Day on the political situation in j a guarantee of German loan is Nec Kansas Ohio Low a West Virginia j Essary in order that the Public can and Vermont. I be led to subscribe readily. Haifa dozen political leaders visit-1 notwithstanding this it has been cd the White House without prey stated that the French have verbally i Quot us engagements and were sent in a indicated their Wittiv Gness to Quot pursue by Secretary Slemp to talk politics a policy we Ith regard to defaults and for a few minutes with or. Coolidge sanctions under the Dawes plan that they included senator Curtis of Kansas the Republican whip of the Senate Walter f. Brown of Toledo. A former Leader of the progressive party in Ohio Vernon l. Hague of fort Dodge la., who was a candidate for the Republican nomination for United states senator in Iowa for Mer senator Sutherland of West Virginia and senator Dale of Vermont. The president in addition to these political talks turned his attention toward preparation of the address he will make at the ceremonies Here a a tic be i a it a aril i k a iat i f i 01 up. X Quot of a by it i v a formally of his nomination. Democrats in session plan for Campaign and it was ten minutes after the scheduled hour before the clerks Gavel fell. Leopold and Loeb smiled greetings to their relatives As they entered. Or. Emil Deutseh Oculi St was called hated a suggestion which was Likely to identify the glasses found in the the Bankers could wholeheartedly recommend to investors. The problem is to reduce the verbal pledges to an acceptable written formula which would satisfy the Bankers and at the same time keep Premier her Marsh As those prescribed by himself for Leopold. He told of prescribing glasses for Leopold of the Type found near the Culvert. A a minor degree of astigmatism was Given As the trouble from which Leopold was suffering. The heavily taped chisel with which the life of Young Franks was beaten out was introduced in evidence today. Speed up proceedings there was a noticeable speeding up of proceedings today. Robert e. A i Rovt a a Quot 2� sense asked leading questions of his witnesses and dismissed the fourth student with this query a your Tes Timony is substantially the same As that of the other students a a yes sir a was the reply. Open court proceedings were delayed in starting by a session in riot is Flag flying in Tho French Chambers in which or. Rowe gave lament. Judge John r. Cav Ray some inform if the judicial committee establish Dan which in his opening statement de yesterday declare that Germany m10 and indicated was a not fit for shall be called into the conferences Public knowledge. The Berlin representatives Are expect i Clarence s. Darrow and Benjamin de to he in London by monday. Premier Herriot intends to remain in i Anil an f a a a it Viar a a a it. V.-,.------. A a a j a withstanding reports that he would return to Paris. Big elevator merger hit by wheat growers Minnesota fair tonight and Fri Day a Qew hat cooler tonight in extreme lure Sioux Falls s. D., july 24.�?John the portion rising tempera Vav. Davis democratic candidate for a. I president will speak at the Mitchell Iowa generally fair tonight and i Corn Palace on the afternoon of Friday cooler tonight rising temper i 26, Vav w. Howes Wolsey nature Friday afternoon. J tonal democratic committeeman North Dakota a fair tonight and j from South Dakota announced Here Friday warmer Friday and in sex j Date yesterday. Following his address Treme West portion tonight. At the Corn Palace or Davis will South Dakota fair tonight and j come to Sioux Falls to speak in the Friday warmer Friday. I evening. Or. Howes declares that in it Oal temperatures he has been in communication with maximum and minimum tempera a democratic National Headquarters and lures As recorded by the official gov that the engagements have Pratti Sio tix Falls s. A. July 24.�? the democratic party in South Dakota and the nation never promoted a More United Iron limn the Phalanx with which democracy will March into the coming Campaign. I oils frill of i in Man. Declared this afternoon in a a a keynote address to almost too democratic candidates and party workers of the state assembled Here in conference. The principal business before the conference is a selection of state Campaign Headquarters and election of a treasurer. Re election of j. P. Stahl of Huron to the Treasury ship is predicted. While Huron and Sioux Falls arc contesting for the Headquarters to the Pun 5. Bachrach defense attorneys were the Only persons besides the judge who re re. Cd v e n_., t h is material. Bernard Hunt a neighbourhood night watchman told of seeing the chisel tossed from a passing automobile about 1 30 of clock in the morning on May 22, a few hours after the slaying of Young Franks. A a there was fresh blood on the chisel when i picked it up a said Hunt. The relic was Given to the court. Hunt said that a a Maroon car with red disk wheels and Bright Metaj headlights passed him As he standing at 49th Street and Glt Reen Vood ave. A what happened a a kid or Crowe. I j a u a a a a a a a students arc witnesses four University of Chicago students classmates of Leopold in the Law school were called to Tell what they knew of the typewriter till by St. They could do was to say the machine they saw at the Leopold Horny was a a a portable a on. The portable off red in evidence by the. State was the one grappled Frodo the Bottom of a Nark Lagoon by the investigators after the confession of the two youths. As a part of their plans to cover their crime the state pointed out in its opening statement yesterday Loeb had jerked the letters from Tho machine with a pliers and had strewn them in scattered sections of the Lagoon. The Hulk of the machine and its cover w As tossed into another part of the Lagoon. The chisel also was inspected by Albert Hub Hinger hardware store clerk who said the states exhibit resembled a chisel he sold to i Leopold ing sold rope to the Young men. Ing sold rope to the Young men. He a o Chato to have been that with which the Young victim was tied was introduced in evidence. Aaron Adler told of having sold a pint of a chemically pure hydrochloric acid to Nathan Leopold. He had sold no acid of that strength for some three years the witness said. It was the strongest Grade obtainable he added. The state offered the bottle in which the acid was sold. State collects $&l,qoafr0m risk companies St. Rail. July 2 4.�? spa on the pc of Harvest farm crops in four Nort h Weest a in states a Minnesota North and South Dakota and Montana prompt so a Good yields despite a backward season according to unofficial Survey published today by three Minneapolis and St. Paul newspapers. A a the re Are Only a few reports of Black rust in the four states and Only a few traces of red Mfd on wheat stems1 have been reported a the report says. A in almost All auctions of the Dakotan and Minnesota there is ample moisture to Ca Rry Tho crops to maturity. The report published in the us Paul dispatch the Minneapolis Tribune. And the Minneapolis journal declares the cutting of Rye and Oats already has started in Minnesota and. South Dakota and the wheat Harvest will Start a within two retarded by backward Spring and Early sum if weather the Minnesota of the soil uniformly is reported Eft h o�?scu-�?ur.-i-f- r-�fyes4-�-d from on to three weeks behind Normal. 101 a a barring unusually Early Frost a Large crop seems in North Dakota a a where wheat to the main Reliance of the Farmers most of the slate is talking of bumper crops arid the Grain generally has reached a Point in development where Only extremely Adverse we eat re conditions can prevent yields running As High As three to one Over last year a the report declares. South Dakota reports a indicate a Small Grain yield better than average is in Prospect except in far Western counties where drought a taken its toll in some sections a the newspaper account says. Montana a dry farming a Ropsy the report continues a Are not quite up to average and in some districts Are poor but the irrigated tracts show Promise of Normal yields with Harvest already starting. Pierre s. D., july 24.�?collection of $191,000 from five Eastern surety companies who had guaranteed state deposits in three closed Banks in South Dakota was announced late yesterday by j. L. Driscoll state treasurer on his return from a trip for the purpose of collecting he amounts. Immediate payment of $10,000 was made by the american surety com Nav of new York foe state deposits of this amount in the closed first National Bank of Huron. Other payments promised within the next few Days include $143,243 of state funds in the close Sioux Falls National Bank of Sioux Falla guaranteed by the Maryland. Casualty company and indemnity j compar y of North America u Fhil i Adele by a. And $38,249 in the suspend j de tvs amp Tern National Bank of Mitchell under guaranty by Tho integrity Mutual casualty comp my of Chi a was go and the United stat ? Fidelity and guaranty company of Baltimore. Of. Farmers of Kansas reap fortunes in wheat Fields Topeka ran., july 24.�?wheat a replaced Oil As the source of rapi.1 wealth in Kansas. Poor tenant Farmers who have struggled for years Many of them in the southwestern part of the state who were compelled to Appeal to Tho Yin i in for a heat loan last fall to seed this years crop today find themselves wealthy. Many others who had purchased farms with Small payments and who expected to have mortgages hanging Over these farms for years Are in a position to off these mortgages buy More land build new houses and barns or Purchase motor cars and other things they have denied themselves for years. Kansas unprecedented wheat crop has produced All this wealth and with rising prices promises to convert this wealth into even greater wealth before All the crop is marketed. Hundreds of Farmers anticipating Price hikes caused by poor crops in Canada Ana a outer wheat a a producing countries Are holding their wheat for the gain they feel sure will be theirs by not marketing it at once. A no one Section is cornering All this wealth the condition is similar throughout the entire wheat Belt comprising the Western two thirds of the state. Such is the 1924 wheat situation in Kansas As outlined by j. Mohler Secretary of the state Board of agriculture and president of the Central seed wheat association. Meisenholder defeats Young in Golf play f i Cage iii., july 24.�?that the contemplated merger of five of the largest Grain elevator us Pinies in the country is a simply a combination j a Man in the rear seat raised up and of Grain Trade interests and not in any j threw out a 8�nse of the word a cooperative mar picked up the chisel keying association of Farmers a was what did you do a the opinion voiced yesterday by a conference of wheat growers Here. I the conference called by Frank o. Lowden chairman of the National j wheat growers advisory committee j included representatives of the state a wide wheat pools of Oklahoma Tex Jas. Indiana and North Dakota and a i number of leaders in the National i cooperative movement. Representatives of All the pooling j associations present stated that in i their opinion none of their Assoc a itans a Ouid sen any or Kwh through Ine j proposed merger and that the Farmers in their states would not Purchase any Stock in the undertaking. A a plan for the formation of a Central Exchange to handle the several pools output of wheat was prepared at the meeting and a referred to i the state associations for approval of favourable action on the proposed a i tonal Quot body. Which will unify the activities of the state pools and will push the whet pooling plan into other states than those where it is now supported by Tho Farmers. A i walked Over to where the child lit and picked it up. It was a cold chisel wrapped with tape and freshly dried blood on Hunt was not orcs examined Elizabeth Sattler second maid in the Home of Nathan Leopold sr., identified on the witness stand today a portable typewriter which she said a a resembled a machine she had seen in the room of her employer s son. She added she had seen Nathan to be today a baseball St. too oooo Philadelphia too 400 iox�?5 9 0 Kolp Wingard and cd Verein Baumgartner and Perkins. Cleveland. 010 016 too Sioux palls s. D., july 24.�? both leading contenders for the South Dakota Golf championship were put out of Competition today when Paul Young of Mitchell present state Champion was beaten one up by de Meisenholder of Vermillion. And William Sheehan of Winner was 0 n t eliminated 2 and i by l k. Williamson of Watertown. Other survivors of the third round of play included Dick Braskamp Aberdeen a. F. Tillman Pierre and c. Mccomb. Sioux Falls. won his mornings match by Bostos. Too 042 002 Shaute us in and Myatt Percy default while Tillman Leat Butts of a do j a i Murray Ross and of Neil. Detroit. 121 too 0 j new York. Too 020 2 Whitehill Holloway and Basher. Jones Hoyt and Hofmann. Chicago. On j Washington. 002 Leverett and Crouse Johnson j and Ruel. Aberdeen two and on. Salinger sued by . For $444,000 Back income taxes Trio merry rom in. Today or Ament v a jute Day to 7 a. Maximum 83. Mini Murri 60. At 8 a. In. Today 67 of weather and roads Mitchell Clear. 67 roads Good. Watertown Clear 60 roads Good. Huron Clear 65 roads Good. Aberdeen Clear 60 roads Good. Sioux Falls Clear 63 roads Good. Pierre Clear 60 roads Good. Cally been arranged. W h. King manager of the Corn Palace has assigned sept. 26 to the democrats As their Day and or. Howes is making an Especial Effort to secure an Iron Clad Promise from the democratic National committee to Send or. Davis to Mitchell on that Day. Or. Howes plans to attend the Davis notification ceremonies at Clarksburg. West Virginia next month and expects to be Able to Complete arrangements for a. Davis South Dakota visit at that time. Sioux Falls s. D., july 24.�?democratic candidates and party worke it is from throughout the state gathered Here today to Confer with the state Central committee of the party in the formulation of the forthcoming Campaign l. N. Crill of Elk Point chairman of the state Central committee and w. W. Howes of worse. National committeeman were prepared to outline to the conference plans for the Campaign in behalf of the presidential ticket. Or. Uro Pupil a Marlrne a Many it was on this machine it is alleged that the Ransom letters were Sattler was also questioned about the storing place of the automobile Robes in the Leopold Home. A fuzzy greenish and badly charred Robe said by the state to have been the remnants of the blood stained Robe which the two boys attempted to destroy by soaking it in gasoline and burning it on the Lake front was offered in evidence. The witness said she had seen a similar Robe in Pittsburgh Roberts Taylor Yde and 4 i 13 0 Brooklyn at Ehrhardt and Smith. Brooklyn Doo too ooo�?1 Pittsburgh .330 200 oox�?8 association Indiana acis Milwaukee postponed rain. A pinkish grass covers a1 the lawns in a Section of South Africa. Traffic officers in an English City Wear Small red lanterns Sioux Falls. S. A. July 24.�?a government tax Lien has been flied against Ben i. Salinger jr., for $444, 393 alleged to be due in unpaid income taxes for 1918, 1919 and 1920. The claim filed several months ago was made Public yesterday by the county recorder. Action was started under instructions from Lars Bla Dine of Dubuque. Iowa internal Revenue collector for the state. To a a Pines Are among the few tre�4 that cab grow at a High Alti Tod

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