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Mitchell Evening Republican (Newspaper) - May 7, 1921, Mitchell, South Dakota The evening Republican City edition volume xxxv Imitchell South Dakota saturday May 7, 1921 number 162to sit on Allied Council col. Harvey will attend peace Parley president Harding accepts invitation to participate in conferences Many questions up Paris says american decision will facilitate settlement of All peace claims fast stands and sure tue watch the watch on the Rhine ill a of ih4ih1 of j to it Wnm to ii alive a vol i. Till .111 i Lorn a 11 Alt to Rill brute forum Ingn. I Erk Wurr h. A. May 7.�?the sri Dent Harding last ii in. A personal represent. In it meetings of la Alme Council As Well Asut Povse natives of the i United Hie conference of Ambassa-.f.,4 the reparations commission. I a in studied a ire fully in All is today. Mph sized in the Lush est a. Get a circles that the step no in the participation of the j is a a in any project a of a he. Rumen or Worlitz Harvey ambassador to will in the president s reprove on the supreme Council and \ without Power to Hind the Quot fifes will he in position to a Macli information to Wash tie supreme Council is an outdraw i it i the Council of four which functioned it Paris during the draft ins of 111 peace treaty and to it ii in been referred for settlement Rainy questions including the. In Ierlan prot St to the league a nations against the award to of a mandate for the Island of tip. Ii is. Iii fact. Expected to tak up the whole subject of in rotates Lii i was reopened by recent notes of the american government to great Britain. France. Italy and Japan. Another important question which it has Peen indicated will be taken in with the Council by or. Harvey is tie possibility of initiating a world conference for disarmament. France greatly pleased Paris. Al Nice. May 7.�? newspapers of pus Cit to a expressed great Mai faction with Washington diet i Helios announcing tin United states of divided in resume her part in he supreme Allied Council the Conn o ambassadors and the Allied reparations commission. It was declared that the action of the Jeriean government was the re Sui French diplomacy and would huh u general settlement of peat1 problems. Deferring to divergences Between p of and prime minister i no i. Of. Which arose during the log a. Of the supreme Allied go ill Ltd p London the matinee Are a that opposition of the latter to Many a d h s a mands Quot stopped As a ant men i Quot when he was told of it Niteis states note to Bertin re a a or he German reparations pro roads deny waste Issue upon wages rail chief say even if True it would not determine pay Call it propaganda this school Board forbids teachers to use paint on faces poles must disarm with the germans allies uphold German plea j and move to suppress uprising in Silesia in $50,000 Sioux City fire starts in Hay he Tuioi Atria 1 Rew lenses wire g y. Ll., May 7.�?fire. Jye a a u to. Started in a pile of Hay a by destroyed the Quarter h a �11 Southeast Corner of fifth. A this . The w is estimated at 50.000. Tuair Block was occupied by Urban motor express com v r"1 to department in tie City a Dames. Court spends just 45 minutes giving Slayer life term 1 in Elrd a jul. I. May 7.�?lloyd in. is it of William a a a h. His brother in Law. To a enc. Do it life imprisonment a Georg mid at Mano Hest he an hour of testimony n Lutes occupied by counsel Quot his in a clemency plea. I t killed Iii. Brother in Law. Whose f., he worked As a farm a of Money difficulties. Of three Iowa a maoists killed Quot Quot oink. Or. May 6.�?ed Kelly. I Foreman on the Burlington. Toiled last night As were his i Quot a 1 in Law mrs. J. Williams of i and Pauline Johnson i i. A mrs. Cd Kelly miss Downing am Floyd and Telia h on were uninjured. All were in by it automobile when it was struck a switch engine. A by % snort re in a i on it win Maidstone fug., May 7.�?brinie minister Lloyd George declared today that if Germany disarmed in accordance with the treaty of Versailles she was entitled to ask that tin Miles insist on the disarmament of Poland. He made this declaration in addressing a meeting of 5.000 persons Limiter the allspice of the National unionist association. Allies to suppress poles Paris France. May 7.�?the Abies have sent to Hie Llie a High commission in i per Silesia an urgent request to act energetically in Hie suppression of the polish uprising in that District using the Allied troops fur the purpose. They also urge that the commission report As quickly As possible on the settlement of the boundaries Between Polan and Germany in this area As a result of tin recent plebiscite. French circles appeared much concerned today Ltd ver news received of the Here i by fifty germans who had crossed the Frontier of Gap Tain i Job lots of the French army controller of he District of Oher Glogau who was on a tour of inspection. Ministers a stolen car mysteriously returned to him m Tiwa i 5 \ a stolen Quot automobile belonging to key. W. X. Potter. 622 South Wisconsin Street which disappeared Friday afternoon while standing in West second Avenue near the City Hall was As mysteriously returned an hour after the police of the City Hail started searching for it. Investigation of the ease disclosed that two old men who owned a car of the same make and who had parked their car right next to Rev. Pot terms a taken Rev. Potters car by mistake. They a driven for half an hour on their Way to it their Home in the country when they discovered their mistake. They immediately returned Ami i Ai ked Rev. Potter s car where they had found it without telling anyone their names or making any explant Tion. Germans and japs in drug warfare to smuggle narcotics ill. A a so a list apr Wirt new York Lily. May 6. A Harleton Simmon special deput y p Vilice commissioner to4ay charge that Japan no Germany were waging a contest for world wide Contr a narcotics. Addressing the National police chiefs convention or. Simmon in command of the local narcotic division asserted that not Only was Japan manufacturing drugs in a vast scale hut some of her merchants were importing narc Dies from the frilled s la in in i it to smuggle them Hack into this country Ami China at Large profit. A Ign the other said or. Sim nun a we have in Germany Hie biggest manufacturers Ltd drug Iii the world. These men know that Japan is attempting i detain control of the Nar cd Lic fling i nation of the. World. In consequence tiler is a drug War Al present lie i Ween these two booze maker wounded he Moines la. May �?James Witt was wound in an Exchange of bin its Between a party of which he is alleged if a a been one and sheriff Jacob Clark and two deputies of Marion county mar Melcher la., late yesterday. Witt was shot through tile shoulder Aud left by his companions who escaped. The officers confiscated a still. Of Joy kids movies Are to take puce of books says Edison i or a Oti Alfil pre ,Pii wire i new York City May 7.�?substitution if motion pictures for Hooks in the nation s elementary schools Foo tits in Twenty years bring about an advancement of Fen centuries in civilization. Thomas Edison said today. The scientist declared present primary school systems were poor and unattractive to children. A eth remedy a he said a is to eliminate bore some Hooks and teach with motion pictures. This is a Mere vivid More compelling met in d of holding a child s attention or. Edison Quot criticism of primary schools was Given to qualify a previous statement that after a series of examinations of College men applicants for positions in iii4 Plant he had found a hem amazingly ignorant. The fault he said was not in lie colleges nor the men their Early education had been Toor. Oakland car prices slashed 20 per cent six Cylinder that sold for $1396 is now offered at $1146 notice of a $250 reduction in the Price of Oakland motor cars to go into effect on May cd was received today by g. L. Voss of i he. Western automotive company. The Oakland motor car company is the second largest producer of six Cylinder automobiles in the world and is one of the most important units of tie general motor company which is i to largest automobile company in the world. Because of the standing of Hie Oakland company the announcement of the reduction is considered an especially significant development in the readjustment processes going on in the automobile Industry. Tile new Price of Oakland touring ears and roadsters will he $1145, a reduction of $250 from the former Price of $1395. Sedans Ami Coupe which have been Selling for $2065 will now Heil at $1815. All tires Price arc o.h. Factory. Kernels play Attar sunday declared commission fixes valuation for rates and that supplies Are bought at Market la a v k Sio-1 a i a 11 in Rritt i a no Wirt Chicago Iii., May 7. The statements presented to the Railroad labor Hoard by w. Jutt Lauck. Economist for the railway menus Union charging that Large amounts of Money Are being wasted in the financial my operating management of Trie railroads have no relationship to Hie wage question now tie fore the Board it w As contended in a statement filed before tie Hoard today on behalf of the Western railroads. It was signed by Charlesll. Markham president Ali in is Central Railroad h. E. Byram president Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul w. It. Finley president Chicago and Northwestern j. E. Gorman president. Chicago Hock Island and Pacific and s. M. Felton president. Chicago great Western. A the sole purpose of these states menu is to divert Public attention from matters now pending before the Board. They Are Bald propaganda intended to discredit private management amt promote the plumb plan a the statement. Quot we respectfully protest against the Hoard s con bluing to allow hearings before it to be made a Means of spreading this propaganda. A it is charge that in various ways the capitalization of the railways Lias been made excessive and that in this Way a Burden has been imposed upon the Public. We deny that the capitalization of the railways As a whole is excessive. if it were. This would have no Effort upon passenger and freight rates since the interstate commission specifically bases the rates upon a valuation made by the commission itself. Say they buy on Market a it is charged that the railways and concerns from which they buy fuel materials supplies Aud equipment Are under the same financial control and that in consequence the railways pay excessive prices to these other concerns. Every railway buys material from literally bundt eds of different Coal Iron and steel lumber and equipment companies att Over the country and i Fie charge that the railways and All these concerns Are under the same financial control is absurdly untrue. A even if they were under the same control this would not prove that the railways pay excessive prices and indisputable facts regarding almost innumerable transaction of the purchasing departments of the railways could he presented to show that they do not and have not paid higher prices than other purchasers of the same tilings. A everything the railways buy except labor has been reduced. A among the item of alleged a waste or. Lauck mentions is loss and damage. In tot7, the last year before government control payments for loss and damage to freight were Only $35.-000.000. In i in 9, after two years of government control this had increase to 8 106.80 too. Or 205 per cent. Or. Lauck defends government unified control but fail to Point out that such a Large saving in this item is possible because it was so increased under government a by a or title my pre wire new Bedford mass. May 6�?the use of co Moses by teachers in the Public school was forbidden Iii an Ord a issued today by superintendent a. P. Keith. The order Ai decried shortened skirt but left their length to the teachers discretion. Two suspects Are nabbed in a Wolsey theft pair taken at Milbank while they Are sitting in poker game special to the Republican Milbank. S it. May 7.�?two men suspected of being the robbers who secured $2,700 in a hold up at the first stat Hank of Wolsey thursday afternoon were arrested Here this morning. The men were strangers and were playing poker when arrested. They could give no explanation of their actions during the past few a ays and Are Hing held until their cases can be investigated. Verne Miller sheriff of Beadle county who has been working on the Wolsey Case. Started to Milbank today to bring the men Hack to Wolsey for identification by r. E. Hager assistant cashier who was in the Bauk when the robbery occurred. It is thought probable by some that the rain of Friday night hindered the men in their attempt to escape an they were forced to Stop at Milbank because of flu condition of the roads. Carpentier sails for u. S. With own Cook woman slays her husband As hundreds gaze death shooting occurs in heart of new Orleans at noon divorce suit cause woman gives self up to police without a word in own defense ill % Quot Quot orbit Tell press wire new Orleans. La., May 7�?mrs Frederick it levee of los Angeles shot an Lka de her husband Here. Today. The hooting occurred in the heart of the Buess Section Shortie before noon when the Street were crowded with persons. The shooting was witnessed by Hundred Quot of persons and followed a Brief talk Between the couple from which levee had turned away. Mrs. Levee gave herself up to the police. So refused to make a statement. Mrs. Levee is is seeking a divorce according to the police. Business interests also were said to have been involved in the couple s Domestic troubles. Pair Well known through published marital Griefs los Angeles gal., m to 7 a the marital troubles of Frederick h. Levee los Angeles attorney Ami clubman and his wit mrs. Matilda levee who shot and killed him in new Orleans today have been recounted i the newspapers at various limes by the last two years. Publicity was fir elven their affairs when mrs. Levee publicly horse whipped a woman in on of the Lead a ing los Angeles hotels. Tho last published account of their troubles came a night a few ago. Jah Fiu from a cd first string and yannigan8 lined up for practice tilt at 3 of clock claim High rents dig big holes in railroaders1 pay first stringers of tin Champion Mitchell kernels will line up against the Yai Migwans in an exhibition game to be played at athletic Park in Mitchell sunday at j p. In. The regulars of the Mitchell club will be matched against the youngsters who Are trying out this year. And who a re listed As a nov aka a golfs the line up. As announced to a by manager Sehar Weber will be As follows regulars non. Of. To Hollacher. Is Pierce 3t Urban. The Peck. Of Whitfield. 2b Dougan c or Reynolds Buckley p. Of Novakos Colts Wright is gasp. 3b Novak c Waul la Bernier. A Osborn of Buster of Spung. Of a Lherison. P Cher Stead p a by % Quot sort aloud pre wire i Chicago he May 6.�?High rents which were described As digging big holes in to e pay of Railroad employees and were said to help make it impossible for Many of the workers to make Bolti ends meet at present rates of pay were oiled by representatives of the a big four Railroad brotherhoods before the Railroad labor Board today in replying to the request or the roads for reduction of wages. They contended employees pay should he increased rather than decreased. A. Lee. President of the brotherhood of Railroad trainmen presented rent figures from a number of cities. In Omaha. Neb., he said trainmen who paid $20 a month rent in 1916 j now pay $35. Tithers who paid 835 a in 1919 now paid $75. And fuel i which Cost 87.50 in 1918 Cost $14.50 in 1920. He continued. French pugilist sails for America where he will meet Jack Dempsey july 2nd a by Quot Quot Ort ite<1 in Ranii we Rel Paris France May 7.�?georges Carpentier heavyweight Champion pugilist Ltd Europe left Paris ibis morning for Havre where he will take a Steamer for America being matched to meet Jack i Dempsey for the worlds championship title on july 2. About too friends accompanied Carpentier to the station and when the word spread that the pugilistic idol of France was leaving for the United Quot tales the station was tilled with a crowd and incoming commuters delayed their arrival at their offices to give the Champion an ovation. The freighter Quot party was completed on the eve of his departure by the engagement of a a battling marred known As a Boxer but. In addition a first class Cook who will assure Carpentier of Frenchi cookery to which he is habituated. A Confidence was the keynote of Gar Pentler goo Bye Here today. In a Farewell message to the sportsmen or France through the Echo Des sports he said a i know your Vii it Hes accompany me. And i have every Confidence i will do the Hest i can. Of i am beaten the Only thing for me to do will a to recognize the superiority of Dempsey. Of i am the Winner i expect and keenly Hope the american fighter will give me similar Irish woman shot Gork or. May 7.�?two former soldiers were shot dead and a woman dangerously wounded Here Early today while returning from a dance in the Barracks at Yot Ghat 27 Miles cat of Here. Mrs. Levee was freed from a he arg of insanity after a hearing before the lunacy commission and admonished both presiding judge to cease her Vin Lent tactics and leave her husband i at the time of the horse Vahi Spinu mrs. Lev was said also to have j beaten Stilt another woman and to j have shot her husband Iii the Arni. She followed this with the tiling of a suit for separate maintenance charging i exec with humidity an with squandering her Money on other women women husband featured to Yourl named three women mrs. Levee named three with whom she charged her with having been attentive. These and other incidents their life together according actions and newspaper accounts each affair being followed by withdrawal of suit and until Early ibis year when levee caused the arrest of his wife on an insanity complaint. Levee went i new Orleans january i 4, shortly after mrs. Levee Clear Cit herself of the insanity charge. After he publicity Given mrs. Levee through her having horse a Vii a tie woman a whom she charged her husband had Beer intent the she called at various m a Quot Pap a offices arid mad As t her Domestic life. At that time she announced she was a me in tier of a wealthy family of Ghi Cag we i Quot he married levee Sev eral Vears As it. Lewis loses a mat Crown Stan Zbyszko put8 famous Headlock grappler on Back in 23 minutes weather forecast forecast so a uth Dakota probably showery tonight my sunday cooler and West portion tonight. Local Tampa Atura by the government thermometer to noon saturday maximum 75. Minimum 54. Temperature at noon 61. Rainfall .29 Inch. Forecast for the week Washington d. G., May 7.�?weather predictions for the week beginning monday Are upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys local and Normal tempera Ore first h i of fair and Cool latter half. Or a Quot Quot a a Tatry i"1&Quot wire new York City May 7. Stanislaus Jbv Szyk of Poland won the world s heavyweight catch catch can wrestling championship Here last night by defeating eds Strangler Lewis of san Jose cal., with a Nee lock after 23 minutes of wrestling after several minutes of strenuous grappling Lewis tried for ids famous Headlock and mis Quot Jung in i Quot Back. The pol q Kiy pounced upon him an a pinned h. Shoulders to the mat. Zbyszko weighed 226 put it in is and Lewis 235. The official time was 23 minutes and it Sec a a a a. Both wrestlers were in excellent condition. They indulged in rough tactics from the Start but in the first 20 minutes neither seemed to have the advantage each tried for a toe hold in the. Fri Quot to ten minutes hut with g. I i 4 self Pic

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