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Mitchell Evening Republican (Newspaper) - May 2, 1924, Mitchell, South Dakota Ten pages the. Evening Republican City edition vol. Xxx Mitchell South Dakota Friday april 2, 1924. Number 184cooligde would japs when great magnate turns Vanderlip for turning Light Ancor Rupton Man of great wealth cuts Loose from his business associates if says capital wrong Pix ares Money interests Volt it profit by pitting an est to graft by Alexander Herman Nea service staff writer copyright 1924, by Nea service Washington. May 2. Although95 cent time to con or one v talks it is often Blind. A Tractive analysis of executive pro muck Raker governor says hell Pitt new punch in War Mcalester declares dealers Are now making profit of 8 Byz cents a gallon legion kidnaps him several close ups of Frank a. Vanderlip. A realization of this prompted Frank a. Vanderlip. Former president of the National City Bank of new York. To Cut Loose from his big business associate. Resign his Many directorships. Come to Washington found the citizens Federal research Bureau and undertake an expose of corruption and inefficiency in our government. A for the Hest Way to prevent rat Hole from being used for rat Hole purposes a he believes a is to turn a Light on to this exclusive interview granted to Nea service and the Republican. Vanderlip Points out his findings he Date. A big business. Says Vander a he. A does not like the investigations that Are going on in Wash. In ton. A what we know As big business has slight if any. Relation to the corruption which is being uncovered Here. That is not. The cause of big business antipathy to this investigation. The fear is that with the uncovering of the True state of affairs Tilers will come uncertainty into the political Situ a to on. And Radical political tendencies May be encouraged but the revelations. A big business always wants a continuance of the flatus quo. It fears a political change a though admitting existing political and talons Are had. It would rather endure than Fly to evils it knows not of. A in assuming this attitude Rig business Speaks hut it does not pee clearly does not reason accurately. A capital is vitally interested Ann rightly so. In the reduction of taxation and so capital thinks it More important to Forward the Mellon tax plan than to permit that legislation to lie interfered with by a disturbed Post Leal situation. Where capital belongs of capita reasoned accurately and with a better understanding of political conditions it would Range itself solidly on the Side of sound a partisan investigation. A there is Little use attempting to regulate the Stream that flow into a barrel if the Staves Are separated and the barrel badly leaking. Tile Staves of the Public Treasury arc permitting a vast amount of the Money which a collect in taxation to run away. Sonic of it is lost through corruption. That being so corruption must be the first leak to Stop. A vastly More important leaks so fsr a the amount of Money involved come from inefficiency. A there a collected in the United states last year in municipal county. State and National Taves. More than the value of the agricultural crop. Rome of that was stolen through corruption. Far More was lost through inefficient government procedure. Both causes of loss need investigation and correction hut naturally the loss through corrupt administration ought first to have attention. A notable examples of both corruption and inefficiency arc to be found for instant in the veterans Bureau. A a direct result of the corruption and inefficiency of the veterans Bureau is first an expenditure of 450 minion dollars a year without accomplishing the purpose for which the Money is appropriated and second. The failure properly to relieve the distress of disabled soldiers Jas built up the demand for a soldiers Bonus. That Wilf Tost the country several billion dollars if it is pasted As it seems Likely to be. A tile Man who la interested in reducing his taxes ought to see that investigation rather than tax measures. Is what is needed. The Mellon tax measure has much to support it. Are members. But if it to re passed the saving would be slight compared to what the saving would have been had we a sound administration of the veterans bureaus an administration both honest and intelligent. A tile veterans Bureau offer Only one illustration. There Are others almost a important to be found in the administration of the Bureau of internal Revenue the Railroad administration the Mien property custodian the shipping Board and Mill other bureaus. A the Man who wants a reduction of taxes and everyone with an economic insight should want a vast reduction of faxes ought if he saw clearly to apprehend what the True reasons Are for taxes being so High. The Trup reasons Are dishonesty and inefficiency. The aim of the citizens Federal research Bureau is to contribute something toward the eradication Ort corruption in government and a great Deal toward constructive criticism of inefficient procedure in government. Under Normal conditions the citizens Federal research Bureau would perhaps to devoting five per cent of us urn to the function of watch it Qaq a Medure in the government. A there never was a time in our history when it was More important for Money to talk but Money ought to talk intelligently. Money ought to talk with a basis of sound understanding of the nature of the problems of government. Money ought to talk about something that is infinitely More important than even an excellent legislative measure for tax redaction. It ought to talk courageously and in the Light of a Rea understanding of conditions that Are in fact threatening methodists in session favor world court conference passing Resolution urging action of Harding a proposal Springfield Mas. May 2�?the methodist episcopal general Confer ence voted today in favor of the United states joining the world court for the settlement of International disputes. The Resolution was presented by Henry Wade Rogers of new York judge of the United states circuit court and was adopted without a dissenting vote. The Resolution read a resolved by the general conference of the methodist episcopal Church representing four million five Hundred thousand members that we favor the proposal made by president Harding in his message of feb. 2 4, 1028, and which has been endorsed by president Coolidge and Secretary of states Hughes that the government of the United states should join with other nations of the world in the maintenance of and participation in the permanent court of International Justice. We favor the determination of International controversies not by Force of arms but by the impartial investigation of facts and the application of them to the rules of International Law by a world court. A a resolved that this action be at once communicated by the presiding Bishop and the Secretary of this general conference to the president of the United states and to the chairman of the foreign relations committee of the Senate. Henry Cabot the chistian Church is in one of the most crucial periods of its history. And the methodist Church should therefore re Affini its Faith in the fundamental doctrines of the Virgin birth and the deity of Christ the Rev. Harold p. Sloane of new Jersey delegation told the members of the conference. His Resolution was referred to the committee on the state of the Church his speech on the Resolution having called Forth pronounced applause. V w the conference adopted a Resolution asking Congress to extend the pro Hilton Law to the philippine islands and voted support of the methodist Church and press in India in their Effort to bring about prohibition there. The appointment of a committee to consider a declaration on the Ivorid problem of War was voted on the motion of the Rev. Merton s. Rice of Detroit. In was announced that the committee of five which will report to Congress the conference s stand in favor of the prohibition Law and the volstead enforcement act had been approved. Bishops Nicholson of Chicago and Leonard of san Francisco Couzens in Good condition after operation report Baltimore md., May 2.�?the rendition of senator James Couzens of Michigan continues satisfactory to his physicians at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was reported As doing Well this morning no complications have developed since his operation on tuesday for Gall stones. Coolidge who get Bonus Bill by next monday members of both House Fri dict passage again if president vetoed Washington. A. May 2.�?up�? the Soldier Bonus Bill was before the House today for final approval with some minor changes made by the Senate a it and agreed to by House conferees to be ratified. Almost without discussion yesterday the Senate ratified the report of its conferees and with similar action by the House and the completion ref some administrative details the measure will be ready for dispatch to the White House to Congress declared opposition to a probably tomorrow or monday. President Coolidge in Bis message Bonus. Although his attitude in this particular Hill Bas not been made known advocates of the measure in both the House and rename insist it can be passed Over a veto by the necessary two thirds majority. The Bill was approved by the House by a vote of 355 to 54, and by the Senate 67 to 17. The Bill provides for Cash payments to veterans not entitled to More than $50 in adjusted service compensation and 20 year endowment insurance policies to other. The Bill passed last season and vetoed by president handing had the same Cash provision but instead of the insurance policies it would have Given options of deferred payment certificates vocational training or farm and Home convention plan of third party on rocks death Tou of storm placed at 109today property damage fat at to million South Carolina is hardest hit soldiers Force him to Maile May Day address at it. Pierre As forfeit Atlanta. Ga., May 2.�?up a with the number of dead definitely placed at 109. Reconstruction and Relief measures rapidly were being put into effect today in portions of seven Southeastern states which were Laid waste tuesday and wednesday by windstorm of unparalleled intensity. Not until the outcome of injuries sustained by All the casualties is established will the Fin death toll be known but it was believed today that All fatalities in the stricken area now have Peen listed. The injured of Hom Many probably will not recover number More j than 500, while those made homeless in the disaster Are coiffed by the hundreds. Preliminary estimates of $10,000,000 damage to property May be exceeded when Complete reports Are compiled. Early today the known dead was divided As follows South Carolina 76. Georgia 14. Alabama la. North Carolina 5. Virginia i. Louisiana i Arkansas i. Fort Pierre s. D., May jct charging that the present Price of gasoline in South Dakota permits a profit of eight and one half cents a gallon governor w. La. Mcmaster of South Dakota asserted in an address Here yesterday that unless the Price is lowered a the mate will Start to sell gasoline on a larger scale than the governor spoke of the latest developments in the a gasoline War a incidentally during an address at a May Day Celebration sponsored by the american legion. Or. Mcmaster was a Kidnap eds by the legionnaires for two hours who came to his office at Pierre in an automobile and took him to fort Pierre after the governor had cancelled his scheduled appearance there of pressing business. The legionnaires demanded and obtained the address As a a Ransom and then took him Baek across the River to his desk. Martin Safe in sheltered Nook officers think Landis admits president in he has sampled message would pre War stuff avoid trouble i former Federal judge wit j thinks matter ought to be Ness in Daugherty probe settled courteous to the hits at Coolidge japanese criticises clemency i his position is Clear he blames Frfd Upham for getting Pardon for Chicago Bootlegger Senate and Hoise both up exclusion feature of immigration Bill Washington d. A. May 2.�?up a i Washington. A. May 2.�? pne i with the picturesque emphasis that Ltd it Coolidge came out today for made him famous Long before base Jan one a. The president a Ball took him from the Bench to become its High commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis today gave the Senate Daugherty committee his opinion of prohibition enforcement and other administrative questions As they have been dealt with in recent years by the Federal government in doubt that Federal hum Viu an pee Luction i finally enacted but his conure noes with congres5danai leaders is attempting to Are auge it in a manner courteous to Japan. Hopes Are by the executive that a Bill will be finally enacted which will provide for exclusion and at he same time avoid any f at dinner parties in Chicago he deep offence to the japanese. Said. A pre War stuff still appeared the president s position was Mads to be holding out remarkably Well. Miwa Dably Clear today the and he confessed that he himself had. White House. No formal statement not been Able to resist the enticing was issued. Other i i gets. However. Fear that round the world flight May be failure Seward Alaska. May 2.�? a3 a belief that major Frederick l. Martin chief of the army world fliers and sergeant Alva Harvey still were alive and probably in some sheltered Nook was expressed today by Captain o. A. Johanson Mast a of the government mail Steamer Starr who rank j As one of the Ablest navigators in Relief agencies in All localities a us alaskan wasters. The two airmen probably Are at Kun Penof Point South of Chignik or in one of the Many sheltered and quiet Hay Between Jacob Island on the Southern Shore of the alaskan Peninsula Northeast of Shmagin Island groups and Paul Island also South of Chignik according to Captain Johneen. Republica in Washington Bureau 101 Albee building. Washington d. C., May 2. By George f. Authier Washington. C., May 2 be Vised by the american red Cross. Were operating at top Speed today to provide shelter and food for those made destitute by the storms. Norbeck offers my nary Haugen Bill in Senate evening Republican Bureau. 101 Albee building. Washington d. C., May i. By Legge f. Authier the Mcnary Haugen Hill was introduced into the Senate this afternoon by senator plier Zocher k of South Dakota. Senator nor Hack offered the Bill As an amendment to the tax reduction measure. Former Beauty of follies settles suit for Fortune May give up Effort Seattle was a. May 2.�?three pilots of an american army Squadron that left Santa Monica. . March 17. To Fly around the world and who Are at dutch invitations of his hostesses to try some of it. But he added that the department of Justice appeared to be doing the Best it could in View of the fact that it did no to always have the Best of lawyers on its payroll. Called to testify about the House of correction sentence he imposed on Phillip Grossman for liquor Law violations he said he understand to save his life How Grossman got his Pardon from president Coolidge. He thought Fred Upham treasurer of the Republican National committee and other Republican leaders in Chicago were to he criticized. And he told the committee in a Way no one could misunderstand that he believed politics should have no More to do with executive clemency than with decisions handed Down from the Bench. Then under the urge of a Sharp Cross examination he got up from the witness stand and strode up and Down the room and Between puffs on a Long Mack of Togie. Summed up and reiterated All of his statements about the Grossman Case and the conduct of the department of Justice in general. When the committee was satisfied he departed with an invitation to All of its members to coma along with him and see a Hall game. \ Coolidge sets machine going for nomination Washington d. C., May 2.�? aft Republican leaders in Washington saw today in president Coolidge # Arbor. Alaska have designation of win. M. Butler of bos become concerned Over whether their new York City. May 2�?the $500. 0-00 damage suit brought by Helene Jesmer. Former follies Beauty against Trou Philip Morgan Plant wealthy Stepson Hie has broken out among Hie third of Federal attorney Hayward for Al party supporters. The St. Paul farm heed injury in a motor car Accident or labor convention scheduled for j which ruined her Beauty today was june 17 is placed under a ban by the settled out of court at a figure in More conservative forces such As or de stood to be in the neighbourhood Gan led labor headed by Samuel of $ too too. \ Gompers and by the supporters of la j Follette. The Wisconsin senator Iii j taking no part in the movement. Themore conservative element favors the Farmer labor convention als. Cleve a land on july 4. It is claimed that the i St. Paul convention is dominated by a communistic element in labor and in Radical farm circles. Senator ship Stead of Minnesota has declared in favor of the Cleveland convention. Senator Magnus Johnson remains silent but is understood to be taking the same position. Is this Emblem in the and look for the Emblem in All Republican advertisements. Like Quot Tiffany on jewelry and a Sterling Quot on Silver the Emblem is a Mark of reliability. It is the official Label of the Mitchell advertising club a group of leading Mitchell merchants seeking to make store news As truthful and As reliable As an associated press news dispatch. Look for the Emblem Daugherty would keep telegrams from Senate body Washington d. a May 2.�?an injunction suit was filed in the District of Columbia supreme court today by former attorney general Harry m. Daugherty to prevent the Senate Daugherty committee from obtaining Possession of telegrams he sent and received in Washington. Weather Quot forecast South Dakota generally fair tonight and saturday cooler tonight in extreme West portion. North Dakota generally fair tonight and saturday somewhat cooler tonight in Northwest portion Lineal temperatures Maxi maim and minimum temperatures As recorded by the offic Laj gov Ern Rhent thermometer from 7 a in. Yesterday to 7 a. In. Today maximum. 72 minimum 44 at 8 a. Rn., 56. these bulletins Are tiled at 8 30 a. In. Daily by the associated Presa Aberdeen Clear. 40 roads Good. Sioux Falls Clear 50 roads Good. Pierre partly Cloudy 48 roads Good. Huron partly Cloudy. 45 roads Good. Mitchell Cloudy 56 reads fair Watertown Clear goads Good. Adventure will succeed. Captain c. E. Rolstad master of the St a Anis hip Brookdale declared Here today. He said the flyers Are fearful that if weather conditions do not immediately improve they May to unable to Circle the Globe this season. Quot a a a of records exonerate Harding and Denby witness declares Washington. D of. May 2.�? aft a search in the records of Tihe Interior department has fabled to disclose a at president Harding authorized Albert b. Fall As inferior Secretary to lease More than three thousand acres of land in California a Al Oil Reserve number two to the Honolulu Oil company e. Finney assistant Secretary of the Interior testified before the Senate Oil comic Pittee. Moreover the witness said the lease which is to be the subject later of a special investigation by the Oil committee had not been approved by Edwin Denby Secretary of the Navy at the time it was executed. 31 miners still missing in blast a in Benwood mine Wheeling. W. A. May 2.�?thirty bodies were found by Rescue workers in North entry no. 8 of the Benwood mine of the Wheeling steel corporation last night and today accounting for 79 of the 110 miners who were entombed by an explosion last monday morning. R. M. Lambie chief of the West Virginia department of in in is. Said the bodies would be hoisted to the surface during the afternoon. The Wheeling chapter of the red Eros has appropriated $10.ooo for Relief while other organizations have approximately $50,000 in their Relief funds. All tourists to be disinfected at Colorado Border. Denver. ?., May 2.�?motorists from California who cant produce certificate showing they have compiled with the Fot and Mouth disease quarantine regulations will be disinfected at the Colorado Border As soon As orders to that effect can be issued or. Leo k. A a instead. President of the Colorado state Board of health announced Todar. Ton As his Choice for the Republican National chairmanship an Opportunity to give a running Start to the party a presidential Campaign. Close political advisers of the president Khz cd this was a he motive which actuated him in making the an a it urk ement last night that or. Butler was his Choice for the chairmanship in View of the indicated desire of John t. Adams of Iowa the present chairman to retire. Or. Coolidge has indicated that he regards his nomination As assured and accordingly sees no reason Why there should be any delay in getting the Campaign ready for its prompt inauguration immediately after the convention. It is or. Cloudge g expectation that or. Butler will undertake immediately the preparation for the presidential Campaign. California has its own bobbed haired Bandit Bakersfield. Cal., May 2.�? Eleanor Walling bobbed hair and 20. Has admitted she was implicated in the robbery of the state Bank of Taft. Col., last March in which $5,660 was stolen and $30,000 overlooked and has led authorities to two caches which yielded $2,832 of the loot. The sum recovered represented her share she i said. The Young woman has steadfastly refused implicate two men under arrest As accomplices. Today Seball american league Chicago. Boo 200 Cleveland. Boo too Lorus and Schawk Coveleskie and Myatt. Washington. Too 300 new York. Ooi to Mogridge and Rue Pennock and Behan. Boston. Oo00 150�?ll 13 0 Philadelphia too too oooo o 3 0 Ehmke and o Neil Naylor Helm Ach Pierson and Perkins. National league St. Louis too too 010�?2 to i Pittsburgh Oil too ooi�?3 6 0 Pfeffer and Gonzales Cooper and Grooch. Cincinnati lot of Chicago Quot. Oso of Sheehan and Hargrave Kaufman and of Farrell. New York. 020 too 2 Boston. Ooi Ooi i. Bentley v. Barnes and Gowdy Marquard. Mcnamara and of Neil. Philadelphia. Too 010 14 Brooklyn. Ooi too of Hubbell and Wilson Yarrison bickering in and Taylor. 1 Washington d. C., May 2.�?Senate and House conferees today finally took up the japanese exclusion Section of the immigration Bill. Both drafts before the conference include a provision excluding aliens tenable for citizenship but there is a slight difference As to effective dates. President Coolidge has urged that this variance be considered a a a Point of departure for a longer postponement than offered in either Biu. So that the japanese Issue May he set tied through diplomatic negotiation. Some Republican leaders in Congress already having agreed to provide adequate Opportunity for presentation of the administration a proposal on the floor Are said to have found definite precedents to uphold a conference committee in going beyond the limits of the language under discussion. The terms of the president s proposal Are Heid in strictest Confidence under an agreement among the conferees reports of its provisions ran All the Way from acceptance by the Senate of july i next As the effective Date which was approved by the House to postponement of the whole exclusion provision for a year or More. Egan Case to be appealed to supreme court Sioux Falls. S. A May 2.�?preparations for the Appeal by the state from a decision of the Federal District court under a Ipoh George w. Egan of Sioux fails obtained a writ of Hareas Corpus and Freedom from a sentence of two years in the Penitentiary for making fraudulent insurance claims were virtually completed today when assistant attorney general Buell f. Jones acting for sheriff Vincent Knewel of Minnehaha county defendant signed Appeal Honda under which the Case will be taken to the United states supreme court. Or. Egan whose conviction in Dia strict court Here was upheld by the state supreme court gained his Freedom on a Hareas Corpus writ issued at Kansas City to Federal judge Reeves. The state will go before the High court of the United states in an Effort to have the writ aet aside and to compel Egan to serve his sentence. Frazier wont be v. P. Candidate on ticket in Montana Helena. Mont. May 2.�?the Nam of Lynn j. Frazier Wir not appear As a candidate for vice president on the Farmer labor ticket at the Montana presidential primaries on May 27. As a Vult of a it letter received today by Secretary of state Quot Stewart from the North Dakota senator cute Claring he is not a candidate and requesting that Hie name be withdrawn. The name of la Follette a a candidate on the same ticket was withdrawn previously. Court can to act in Bank action Medin decides Sioux fails. S. A. May 2 a the circuit court has no authority to authorize depositors to examine the Book of a defunct Bank. Circuit judge John t Medin decided today in the test Case brought by depositors of the closed Sioux Falls Trust and savings Bank against the uate department of banking to compel superintend ent John t. Hirning to a admit them to the records of the Bank. Mcdonald meets Theunis to talk on Dawes report London. Enc May 2.�? aft the Eon Ference Between premiers Macdonald of Krch raid and Theunis of Belgium on Tho reparations expert report began late this afternoon Rad will continue until late tonight wills graces tar dinner

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