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Mitchell Evening Republican (Newspaper) - June 14, 1924, Mitchell, South Dakota Fourteen pages the evening Republican Mitchell South Dakota saturday june 14, 1924. Number 219gas War is taken to court g. O. P. Reorganized upon Lincoln Ian lines new political alignment near Authier thinks arianism says another Republican party was really born at Cleveland liberals challenged i \ eos Joette Gropp is com Peete i it cast off by administration leaders by George f. A Ethier Cleveland. Ohio. June 13.�?what has really happened at the Cleveland Republican convention is the birth of a new Republican party and that a conservative party. For years it has Leon evident that the country was Ripe for just such a division namely a conservative and a Liberal party. The republicans having Don what they Call a House cleaning Start out anew with a new purpose namely to present a compact organization a inst the Radical tendencies of the Day no longer will the party masquerade As a. Cohesive organization with one part Radical and the other conservative. It has been decided that the party cannot live half Liberal and half conservative and the men in control have chosen to take the conservative Angle. It is the answer to the Challenge of the la Follette supporters. Challenge to la Follette this convention says to them. Go before the country with your Price fixing schemes your attacks upon the supreme count your resolutions against conscription and your talk of a referendum on wars. Talk All you please about monopolies about business organizations Etc. We will 5trahk. W. Stearns a Geri Al co a amp Talf looking Coolidge closest pts Mal end and Cetin Demtia adviser int at All like any political Texer vie Ocsie. Saw Nuxol it up in rout pcs. You d almost Call him Uncle from instinct. C Bascom Sukop Asp v to pc Oku of Monk. Yarn to of Hamcky who Loo is As Tho he might it in Utt be Karo soiled it the of axiom Eow Aca a Wmk Sutler. Us news nah Cha Man Ano maker. Of the. it Dawes is Given wild greeting by chicagoan Chicago. 111., tune 14.�? up a general Charles o. wee Republican assume that business is clean. That vice presidential nominee was Wel he Prosperity of business is Essen 1 corned Home to Chicago today by a to i to the Prosperity of the country i Large gathering of friends and Chias a whole. We do not believe that end the general maintaining his the of a Fol Man is a candidate for smiling but characteristic attitude of the Penitentiary just because he is successful it is not an offence to win Success and we set our faces against the taking away from him j that is successful that which he has amassed for himself and his children for the he refit of the less successful. It is a bold Experiment in politics. On the face of it the party is giving away the strength it has had in the Northwest. It is bidding for the support of conservative democrats everywhere a Well is conservative republicans this too is a slender Reed upon which to base Hopes. However there is no essential difference in the attitude of a conservative president Coolidge and a conservative senator Underwood of Alabama neither is there great difference Between senator Ija Follette and senator Heflin of Alabama. Art experimenting too the Lafollette forces Are making just As bold a bid and just As Boid an Experiment As the Coolidge re rub leans. They propose to throw off All camouflage except that of the party Label and go before the country As the real Liberal party. The democratic party will have to enter the it Imp Ign with its divided formation. Consisting of radicals and conservatives. Northern Antt Kun flux klan faction and its Southern supporters of that organization. It will have to straddle unmercifully. Becomes too Radical it will refusing to make a statement unless he has something Worth while to say of Scholz Breaks own worlds record in 200 metre event c. W. Best Calls political meet in Huron july 8 Huron p. To june 14.�?a Call was issued today for a conference meeting of the South Dakota state conference for progressive political action by c. W Best of Huron chairman of the organization. The state conf Emce will be held Here on july 8, according to the Call. The purposes of the meeting As set Forth by or. Best in his announcement Are a a to consider endorsements of constructive progressive proposals of platforms and candidates for the november election to carry out the idea of Independent political action for Publ welfare instead of for private party Harvard stadium. Cambridge mass june 14�? a a Jackson Schelz new York athletic club Veteran smashed the worlds 200 metre dash record for the second time in two Days when he won his Semi final heat today in the olympic trials in the spectacular time of 20 9-10 seconds one tenth of a second faster than the figure he set in yesterday s trials. -.o�?-. American held by bandits in China makes his escape peking. China. June 14.�?cfh�?rex Ray. An american captured by River pirates in twang so province late last month. Has escaped from the Mountain stronghold where he was taken a Aid advices received today from the commander of the american gunboat Sampanga sent to Wue How in connection with the capture of Ray and for if it irises the support of most of its con j others Servatt ves who will go to Coolidge. A and if too conservative. It will lose n. # _ its radicals to Lafollette. The demo examiner is ratio party is Likely to suffer More from the Lafollette revolt than the republicans. It will have its difficulties in harmonizing Al Smith of new York and senator Mayfield of Texas. It will have More difficulty in harmonizing its bryans and its j. W. Sioux Falls. S. A. June 14.�?wal Davies and its Oscar i Nderwood a Ward. Examiner in charge of before grand jury in probe at Falls while the task of fusing the dry element of the South and West with the wet element of the East offers its own problems. Situation difficult of the party nominates a Radical Mcadoo appears to he the Only candidate in the Field who will fulfil the requirements. But Mcadoo cannot take the position in foreign affairs that will satisfy Tho supporters of Lafollette and the chances Are that the reported Railroad following which Mcadoo assembled while in charge of the payrolls of the government controlled railroads leans to Lafollette rather than to Mcadoo. Th4 situation is so filled with difficulties with contrary currents and with seemingly unsolvable problems that it will be weeks after the nominations Are made before the real situation is revealed. Today a baseball National league farm labor Heads meet in St Paul to Complete plans St. Paul. Juno 14�?members of the arrangement committee of the National Farmer labor progressive convention Here next tuesday met this afternoon to formulate plans for the gathering. Before the conference several leaders indicated a Delegate attendance of from 70ft to 1.50ft is expected a the convention which will he held in the St. Paul auditorium the largest convention Hall in the twin cities. Organization details Are expected to occupy the first Day of the convention. And tentative plans Call for the selection of William Mahoney. St. Paul labor Leader As temporary chairman. Salary changes to be carried out on Coolidge order Washington to a. Juno 14.�? a1 a plans were made today to carry out the revision in salaries of 480.Ftftft government employees in Field service the refunding of income tax payments made March 15 As provided in the. Defunct Emu fall Trust Andi in War he no Eavin irs Hank. F m Martson. Form or aka of the , rum a auditor of the institution an Runn Quot a do put. Failure of Congress three former tellers of the. Hank a i it Quot a Quot appropriation Hills Rar Ryin peered before the special county1 necessary funds grand jury today in its investigation a j Ryll of failed state Hanks of Minnehaha a it Clefs i of Clcil county. The grand jury adjourned this afternoon until monday without indicating what Progress it had made. Iowa and North Dakota partly of cast tonight and sunday probably local Thunder showers not much change in temperature Minnesota and South Dakota partly overcast tonight and sunday possibly local Thunder storms not much change in temperature. Local temperatures maximum and minimum temperatures from 7 a. In. Yesterday to 7 a. M today As recorded by the official Ain Tift ftoo�?2 9 it government thermometers Tab i Brooklyn Haynes Delaney. Sherdel end Gonzales Vance and de Berry Cincinnati. Ft4ft ft02 nap�?6 12 3 new York ftl4 a Oft 12 Sheehan. Benton. 103 too i ox�?5 is it -8 12 i Donohue and maximum. 8$ minimum. 65 at 8 a. M today. 7ft. Precipitation Trace. Weeks forecast Washington. A. June 14.�?weath to push trial of Means liquor Case Washington d. Cd june 14.�?attorney general Stone yesterday instructed Hiram c. Todd special assistant to the attorney general to proceed with the prohibition cases against Gaston b Means a without unnecessary delay. Means in p letter to the department of Justice had asked the removal of Todd As prosecutor in the cases charging that the latter was prejudiced against him. Train robbers fled on Lake police think fief Are arrested Chicago ii june 14.�? a five men and a woman now in in St Ody one of the men wound ers was expected and that part of the loot Goon would be recovered. The chief declared that some of the robbers had Peen identified and that the arrest of a tried five times were declared today by chief of Pollee Morgan a. Collins to have been involved in the daring Holdup of a Chicago Milwaukee and of. Paul train which was looted of valuable mail on thursday night. Naval Board seeks answer to ship blast Radical Leader in France is invited to gather Cabinet mystery of Turret no. 2 on Mississippi unexplained survivor talks explosion was slight bit tar rift o heat avd poisonous gases were cause of loss of Wilfe Chicago. Ii june 14.�?a Man with five Bullet wounds in his body and in Possession of $1.5ft0 in new Bills was taken to the county Hospital today and the Pollee soon made four other arrests including a woman and Are questioning three men in connection with the mail train robbery thursday night. The wounded Man gave the name of j. H. Wayne. San Pedro calif., june 14�?�?~ just a Small explosion like a match being touched to a pile of celluloid. Just a puff to an a Little flame then a bigger one like a Streak of lightning with hot suffocating thus did r. J Mcavin. San Francisco Boatswain a mate on the Mississippi Tell a worried flurried examiner Hoard his version of the disaster in gun Turret no. 2, which on thursday afternoon claimed the lives of 48 men. And injured a dozen others five perhaps seriously. Farther details of the blast await telling As members of the naval Hoard of inquiry gathering today for their second Day s session on the battleship. Ship closely guarded to the meantime the great Gray dreadnought is a thing of mystery almost suspicion her seared Turret scarred and jammed by the terrific heat of the explosion a thing taboo a Craft apart. None but those who have official business aboard Are permitted near the vessel. A vivid picture of the Fate that overtook these fighting men of Turret no. 2, was contained in testimony offered during yesterday session. Lieutenant commander f. G. Rein Ecke. Gunnery officer of the missis fire control Tower directing the fire Sippi said he was stationed in the any explosion until just before the of the hic guns. He was unaware of twelfth Salvo was fired. Then Over the Telephone he heard a hoarse voice a fire in no. 2. By this time the twelfth Salvo had rocked the great ship and Flung its tons of steel at the target. The order a cease fire was signalled. The gunnery officer hastened Down from the conning Tower. He found smoke pouring out of the Turret saw the chief gunners mate flooding the magazines with Watia Paw Blu jackets frantically trying to open trap doors through which the stricken Crew might escape. Finally the rescuers gained Entrance to the Turret but too late to save life. Rescuer were daring a those who entered were extremely daring a declared commander Reinekee. A i thought they were going in with too much abandon for i had been cautioned by medical officers to Tell them to go slow that the Turret must he full of poisonous inside they found the bodies of the addled close dealer would enjoin state from business Home Independent company of Claire City asks Elliott for injunction Highway Board cited edouard Herriott Paris France june 14�? a a edouard Herriott. Leader of the Radical party and head of the left bloc victorious in the recent parliamentary elections. Today accepted the invitation of president Dommergue to form a ministry. The new Premier expects to go to London on saturday next to Confer with minister Macdonald. Main inside on account of the Gas. A the division commander then ordered the ship to return to base. On the Way Back some of the bodies in the Turret were removed after we had anchored and Admiral w. V. Pratt came on Board i was talking with him when one of the guns in no 2, Turret fired. From what cause i am unable to say. This was while bodies were being removed to the Hospital pet Titov declares governor h a exceeded Powers avd used funds illegally a theory that the four automobile i a of bandits who thursday night it groups huddle held up a Chicago. Milwaukee and various openings. The bodies St. Paul Railroad mail train at rond Quot Alj Tho Quot a who had corked with out. 111., near Here and took More Typhon Bead sets clamped to their than 4ft pouches of registered mail of. To War pm made their escape in a launch divid testimony of Captain w. their loot Miles out in Lake Mich brother top. Commander of the mis Igan and singly debarked along the Sis Lippi also emphasized the stealth Shore is under investigation today. With which sudden. Taming death meanwhile hundreds of county of a a it from a gun breach into the flyers and postal inspectors re tread i crowded Turret and extinguished Al ing the country roads of Northern la most half a Hundred lives before the flood Waters in Tennessee kill i thirteen Lino is and Southern Wisconsin seeking the grave or refugee of one of the bandits known to have been seriously shot by one of his companions who mistook him for a mail clerk. Officers believe he was not taken with the band in their flight. Evidence gathered by i Ake county officials has disclosed that a launch mysteriously appeared off Highland Park a suburb half Way Between Chicago anti the scene of the Holdup Early thursday night and landed about 20 men some of whom answered the description Given of the bandits. A Short time later two of the four automobiles used in the robbery were stolen. Although r. B. Woermer chief postal inspector believes the bandits did not obtain More than $100,000, chief Larry Benson of the Railroad s police Force estimate it at close to $3,000.-Ftftft. A shipment of $150,000 in Liberty Bonds destined to the Federal Reserve Bank at Minneapolis is missing and other Bonds taken May be rest of the ship knew what had happened. To blame no one a a said in conclusion. All my men did their duty every one. I have Only the highest commendation for them Ensign j. J. Levis eur. Of the battleship new Mexico who was in the Turret As an observer told of the loading of the three 14 Inch gun just prior to the explosion. Commander j c Traynor medical officer of the Mississippi told How the bodies of victims were removed from the death Turret and certified that the number of those who perished was 48 and the number of injured 12. Captain tells of disaster How the plight of the men in Turret no. 2 became known to him and others aboard ship was vividly described by Captain Brotherton. A we had made a rehearsal he said a which was successful and we then commenced firing. A we were practising without diff valued at $1,000,000 or More. Federal Ltd to 1 in the conning Tower Reserve Bank officials Here said they when we received the signal to make had consigned $75,000 to National formation a Haker 3, a Battle forma Banks in the Northwest and much East pm mail on the train probably contained currency or valuables. A chauffeur and two boys who saw the men Landing from the launch described the Leader As a Stockill built Man of Middle age wearing a Gray suit Edward Maroney. Police chief of Highland Park said. The description is the same As that Given by mail clerks of the Man who directed the Means and Todd recently clashed looting of the train after the clerks at hearings before the Senate Daugh had Ben subdued by Gas bombs and Erst committee when both were Call pistol fire. Wingo Barnes. Oeschger Jonnard or Outlook for the Wek beginning Mon Ryan and Snyder. Chicago at Boston postponed rain Pittsburgh. Offt Toft Oion a 6 Philadelphia. Too too �3x�?3 7 2 Morrison Kremer end Gooch ring and Wilson. American league Boston. 000 Cleveland too Oft Piercy and Pipinich Smith and Myatt. New York .n0 Detroit .010 Sioux Falls hot and Behan Collins and Muddy Pas or Aberdeen partly Cloudy. 75 roads Philadelphia .020 Good. .030j Watertown Clear. 68 roads fair. Perkins Leverett Mitchell Cloudy 70 precipitation. Day Region of great lakes occasional local showers and probably Thunder storms temperature near Normal. Upper Mississippi Valley partly Cloudy an occasional local Thunder showers temperature above Normal Over South and near or slightly above Normal Over North portion. Weather and roads Cloudy. 74 roads Chicago. Rommel and and Crouse Trace roads rough. Finds girl in 30 minutes within 30 minutes after the Republican went to press wednesday night mrs. R. W. Jamison 413 e. 9th had selected a girl for general housework from three applicants who came in answer to her want and. Before her own paper was delivered four other applicants making a total of 7 answers within an hour called for the position advertised. The Cost to mrs. Jamison for this service was just 25c. Republican want ads get results at Small Cost finn in which ships of the line Zigzag in their course at�?~19 knots i was not watching the salvos closely As the ship a turning. Just As we completed the turn i noticed. No. 2 Turret fire. I done to know How Many guns. In five or ten seconds no. 2 fired again and she seemed to fire on time. War a then t noticed Brown powder coming out of the Periscope holes and from Between the Turret and Barbette. A the navigator called to me to looks like fire in no. 2. A a we had received no word Over the phones up to that time. But just then chief quartermaster c. Martin called a fire in no. 2, sir. A in the meantime the salvos from the other guns were continuing. I immediately gave orders to haul out of the column and halt the ship. A sounded fire quarters and Cut All electric Power i got out of the conning Tower. 4 a i Quot a ordered magazines flooded a a then i saw the fire was serious and ordered flooding the magazines. A the Turret continued to turn slowly to port and came around to extreme astern to Stop. We attempted to get into the Turret from below and from caches in the rear. But powder fumes made it impossible. A about this tim the powder fumes began to slow Down and while smoke came out of the cracks. Men with masks and oxygen Tanka got Forward and attempted to open the hatches i they succeeded after one hour and rescuers entered but could not re Johnson City tonn., june 14.�? 45f a with thirteen persons known to be dead and some of the bodies recovered unconfirmed reports from the Edge of the area swept by a cloudburst and flood Early today said the number of dead might reach As High As forty. Early and meager reports told of 12 persons known to be dead at Carden and one at Stony Creek with to others reported missing at Hunters. This latter report has not been confirmed. Many reported missing confirmed reports from other sections told of persons Missin Gand believed to have been dead. Relief parties have started from Elizabethtown and Hampton As Well As from this City. Broken roads however. Prevented them penetrating further than rho outer Edge except by primitive modes of travel. Telephone and Telegraph lines Are Down. No word a. Been received from fish Springs and Butler Tenn., Good sized towns believed to he in the Center of the devastated area. The cloudburst came As a Climax to a Day f heavy intermittent Rains swelling streams already raging torrents and sweeping everything before them. Bridge Are Tom out Concrete Bridges were tossed aside in the highways and the Appau Aeh Ian division of the Southern railway is reported badly damaged Between fish Spring s and Mountain City Tenn. This division runs from Bristol. Tenn., through Elizabethtown and Butler to Mountain Gity. The stricken area is partly traversed by two line railways both of which Are badly damaged and by High ways which were not the Best in dry weather and now no longer exist Relief parties Are unable to penetrate further than the Edge of the storm area except on foot. Aside j from Tbs impassable condition of roads the Section is very Mountain i Ous. Cut by precipitous Bluffs coves and Many streams most of the j uses and farms a in the a i lays j and lower lands in the path f rising streams which feed the Watauga anode Rivers. Sioux Falls. S. June 14.�? a31 a a an injunction to prevent the retail Sal of gasoline b. Gov. W. H. My matter and the Highway commission of South Dakota l. Asked in an action filed today in a ederal court Here by the Independent Home Oil company. Judge j. Fat Elliott signed an order compelling the defendants to show cause Why an injunction should not be granted and made it returnable on june 24 Here. The action. Which is brought a. Inst or. Mcmaster and the members of the Highway commission a individuals and not As state officers charges that the defendants Are acting outside their duties and Powers As Public officials and that state Pale of gasoline is causing a depletion of state funds which is illegal. Is Row its county company the Independent Home Oil company is a corporation with Headquarters at Fairmount. N. In and it operates a station in South Dakota at Claire City in Roberta county. Counsel for the plaintiff said the action was in no Way associated with a threat of similar action by Sioux Falls Independent dealers last fall. The complaint charges that the state has been a direct loser financially through state Sale of gasoline and asserts that last August the governor purchased a Quantity of gasoline which was sold at a Joes of about $4,000, which a was absorbed out of the Highway department the individual defendants in addition to gov. Mcmaster Are c. T. Charnock c. N. Teedom and Andrew Marvick members of the Highway commission. The complaint declares that private dealers must pay the two cent state gasoline tax whereas the state in Reth Jling gasoline la not required to pay this tax a thereby depriving the Highway fund of the it goes on however to say that a the defendants for the purpose of making a pretence to pay such tax at intervals have drawn warrants on the Highway fund to the Highway fund to pay the tax a the complaint contends that Public funds were unlawfully used to Purchase tanks and reservoirs to store gasoline for state retail Sale and mentions Al a equipped stations at Mitchell. Watertown Huron. Aberdeen and rapid City and projected stations at Madison. Yankton and Sioux Falls contending that the expense of establishing and maintaining these stations is charged to Public funds outside the scope for which the funds were raised. Governor is absent Pierre s. D., june 14.�?governor w. H. Mcmaster name in a suit. For injunction against stat retail Sale of gasoline brought today at Sioux frills was not in Pierre today and members of his staff said he would not he informed of the injunction action until his return from Draper s. D., w Here he is addressing a Community gathering. Watertown to Cut Watertown. S. D., Une 14.�?a reduction of one half cent a gallon in its Price of gasoline to take effect next week. Was announced by the South Dakota Supply depot Here today. Unexpected demand ran the state station out of a Supply Here yesterday. Three carloads Are to be delivered Early in the week. The local manager said. The first of hich will arrive monday will be sold at j amp cents the present Price and the others at the reduced prices the state s policy the local manager said he had been instructed a to handle the Gas on a two cent margin. The wholesale Price of the two cars now in transit Here has been slightly Cut it was said. Ishii is not yet officials named chinese minister Trio is held in new York charged with Gem robbery new York City june 14�?three i men. Two of whom the police say Are 1 out on bail in connection with charges concerning other holdups were a 1 rested Early today in connection with j the robbery of a Pouch containing i $100,000 Worth of jewelry from a truck last saturday. Tokio. Japan. June 14�?<yfh�?it is officially denied that Viscount Kiju Hiro Ishii has Heen selected to become Japan s new ambassador at Washington though it is stated authoritatively that he is the most Likely candidate for the Post. State Bank Board and local officers of Hills Bank hit Deadwood s. A. June 14.�?laxity of the state banking department and indiscreet practices of officers of the defunct Black Hills Trust and savings Bank Here were alleged and criticized in a report of the special county grand jury on investigation of the Bank a affairs. Surgeons warned against Wiles of the Beauty doctor Chicago. 111. June 14�?so Long a the general surgeon looks with derision upon the surgery that deals with defects of the face he furthers Tho work of the quack a Beauty doctor or. George e. Schaeffer of Columbus. Ohio told the american medical association at the close of its annal session Here a the Beauty doctor is bad in Many respects and in the majority of Case not a recognized surgeon a he said. A we. The recognized surgeons have encouraged the quack by refusing to recognize this legitimate Branch of surgery people have a right to de Mand from their surgeon the re pail of facial defects congenital and a quire. A a

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