Mitchell Evening Republican (Newspaper) - May 9, 1924, Mitchell, South Dakota
Ten pages the evening Republican City edition vol. Xxx Mitchell South Dakota Friday. May 9, 1924. Number 190william j. Burns resigns tax Boqi up in Senate for final action separate votes on amendments previously adopted Are called for today farm Aid the Way senator Norbeck rider for Mcnary by til May rest it in More delay Washington May 9.�? a3 a declaring that farm conditions in the Northwest urge worse than they were in 1895 when wheat sold for 45 cents a Bushel senator Norbeck Republican South Dakota today urged the Senate to adopt the menary Haugen Hill As an amendment to the tax Hill to afford immediate Relief. Senator Xor Boek declared that a Daneo the menary Haugen Bill had i it con elapsed As a Revenue measure it was appropriate that it lie considered along with the tax Hill. Tho Farmers were not asking special consideration he said hut they were unable to help tie Seive because the Law of Supply and demand had been infer f erred with to such an extent it no longer regulated prices. Washington C., May 9.�?on the eve of a final vote on the tax Hill tip Senate today reaffirmed its adoption of the democratic surtax rates. Upon rejection of a plan for a maximum rate of 32 per cent instead of the 4 0 per cent in the democratic plan. Hie republicans sought with no better Success to have the Senate adopt the House rates calling for a maximum of 37 1-2 per cent. The 32 per cent maximum was rejected. 4 7 to 36, and the 37 1-2 maximum was Defeated. 46 to 39. Practically the same line up prevailed on both votes the re Bootleg whisky eats holes through Iron pipe used by dry agents Chicago 111., May 9.�?an Iron pipe into which Bootleg whisky it had been poured by Federal agents was found to be eaten by the action of the liquor when aides of Deputy United states marshal Sam Howard attempted to pour More of the confiscated wine and whisky under court orders. Large quantities of seized liquor have been dumped into the Federal warehouse sewer. The pipes of which were replaced. Langley Case goes to jury on two counts judge Cochran rules out one of three charges made against the congressman land offered Tou. S. Official for Oil permit letter before Senate committee quote Campbell writing fall assistant Wheeler takes stand senator asks to testify after letter attributed to him is introduced blackbirds called upon Henf a cts by los Angeles woman to nuul5e or tue a fight Caterpillar army Covington. Kit. May 9.�?the United states government today closed its Case against congressman John to. Langley of Kentucky on trial in Federal court Bere with two co defendants on charges of conspiracy to defraud a he government of tax on whisky illegally removed from a distillery. United states District attorney Sawyer Smith announced the government had concluded its evidence shortly after court convened today. Judge Cochran announced that he would permit Only the second and third counts of the indictment to be passed on by the jury. The second count charges conspiracy to sell and the third charges conspiracy to transport. The first count eliminated by the court charged conspiracy to defraud the government out of tax on whisky ostensibly withdrawn for medicinal use. But sold for beverage purposes. The evidence against Langley centers on Money he is alleged to have publican insurgents supporting the i received for using his influence in democratic plan. I the issuance of illegal permits for the Treasury proposal to limit tax removal of whisky from the Belle of reductions in relation to income Sanderson distillery at i Lawrenceburg. From tax exempt securities previously turned Down by the Senate altho approx i by the House was called up for another vote by chairman Smoot Washington C., May 9.�?of a disposing rapidly of pending amendment the Senate today brought the Revenue Bill up for final passage ky., and on a conference he is alleged to have had in Louisville with Federal prohibit lion director Sam Collins of Kentucky with whom he is alleged to have used pleas and threats to get Collins to sign permits. Elias b. Mortimer. New York and i Washington who testified against before the final vote however. Sep Wangler wednesday was recalled to Arate action. Was asked for on a the stand by defense counsel yester number of important amendment j Day for Cross examination and remit which had been Dop cd in committee j cd More details of alleged transact of the whole. Tons Between Langley and whisky repeal phone taxes men. E s. Langley the Congress a peal of the tax on Telephone and Many a brother who is in government Telegraph messages was voted 61 to service in new York figured in mor 23. And then it was agreed to take up Agaibi the surtax schedule. Repeal of the message tax had been recommended by Secretary Mellon and approved by the House. Senator Smoot then proposed a Compromise on the Mellon timer s testimony yesterday. The Washington. C., May 9.�? a9 John s. Pratt the Apodala assistant attorney general who assisted in securing the indictment against senator Wheeler in mint Atria. Today Laid before the Senate committee investigating the subject the documentary evidence on which the indictment partially was based. The material consisted of photostatic reproductions of correspondence said to have passed Between senator Wheeler and Gordon Campbell the Montana Oil promoter for whom the senator is alleged to have appeared unlawfully before the Interior department. Pratt produced also what purported to be a letter dated May 5. 1923. In which Gordon Campbell offered f. S. Booth the �ol-1 loiter of the Interior department. 40 acres of land ont of one Oft permit and suggested that 40 acres additional be assigned to f. M. Goodwin assistant Secretary of the Interior of the pen ult could he granted. A could both make Money the letter said that if Campbell a could get his on the land the two officials assisting they a could make More Money a than they a would otherwise make in a Long time Booth responding on May 19, according to records said he would take the matter lip with Goodwin though he himself had left the Interior department May i. One letter. Ostensibly from Wheeler to Campbell. Dated March 8. 1923. A it ked Campbell a to have your office Send me details of permits in order that when i take it up i May be Able to discuss it intelligibly with the department of the senator Wheeler asked the right to los Angeles Cal., May 9.-�? blackbirds and housewives today were fighting shoulder to shoulder if a Blackbird has a shoulder against an army of billions of caterpillars moving against the southwestern outskirts of i of Angeles and devouring plants and Flowers in its path. The housewives complaining that their children cannot come Home from school without walking on Worms were sweeping caterpillars off their sidewalks with brooms and spraying them off their Laws and Flower Beds with insecticides. The blackbirds. On the contrary were not complaining but were gulping with Happy App cities and arriving in new swarms hourly for the feast. Naturalists say the caterpillars Are of the variety which after passing through the cocoon stage become the a painted lady Butterfly. Facetious observers however noting the eagerness a with which the crawling invaders enter the City have dubbed them Dietz a Victor in Cameron dam bathes Dies Wisconsin Pioneer who held officers at Baa for area is is dead at 63 piece Battle Over exclusion finds Gold after so year search Only to be killed by train struggle Over Jap clause is to be fought out there first outcome is in doubt both supporters and opponents of presidents solution equally determined up a John Milwaukee. Wis., May 9 Dietz is dead. With members of hip family at his bedside the a defender of Cameron passed away late yesterday at a Milwaukee Hospital. While he hovered Between life and death Dietz became reconciled with those of his family for whom and with whom he fought the Battles on the Thor Napple River in 1910. His wife his three sons. And two Daugh Washington. A. May 9.�? a3 a a Sharp fight developed in the House today against the conference report on the immigration Bill which a would postpone the effective Date of japanese exclusion to March i 1925. The report was called up by chairman Johnson of the immigration committee. Immediately representative Sabath Democrat Illinois one of the conferees who declined to sign the report made a Point of order against it. The House and Senate managers he said. Exceeded their authority in writing the March i Date into the Bill. Washington. C., May 9.�?-op a already under fire in both Chambers because of its recommendation to postpone operation of the japanese exclusion provision until March i 1925. The conference report on the immigration Bill was before the House today with Republican leaders working for its approval. Opponents of the postponement recommendations inserted at the insistence of president Coolidge upon a delay sufficient to permit negotiations with Japan looking to abrogation of the gentlemen a agreement were equally determined however to Send the report Back to conference. The report was presented to the House yesterday by chairman Johnson of the immigration committee with the announcement that it would be called up today for action. It was not submitted to the Senate congressional procedure requiring action first by the House hut was made the subject of a two hour debate yesterday in which the delay clause was Cri sized from both sides of the chamber. Of Ludlow Cal. May 9.�?for a1- most fifty years Peter Collins. 86, had prospected for Gold in the Mon ave desert hereabouts. Last monday his lifelong search was crowned with Success. He struck Gold Ore running $60 a ton. Yesterday with the congratulations of his friends still ringing in his ears he walked in front of a Santa be train and was instantly killed. Secret service chief gives up his position famed detective lieutenant of Daugherty three years quits under fire Stone acts quickly soldiers guard while six men go to Gallows i immediate resignation promptly accepted by new attorney general 1.4 i Washington. C., May 0 a up a William j. Burns whose aet Vitle have been a storm Center in several Senate investigations. Has resigned As chief of the Justice department. Bureau of investigation. Selected for the Post three year ago by attorney general Daugherty Winneconne. Winnebago Ness read a letter from the Congress j ploy ment began in january. 1.-3, a Man to his brother concerning mor ter wheelers election to the semite timer and a a a matter of business before his installation in o be. Ters were with him when he died. Take the stand a Pratt finished and j Ditz was r 3 it ears chairman Borah granted it. Born at Winne Coni senator Wheeler denied that he had county. Dietz while a Young Man went Given any Assurance that when he got a into the North. Opening a Small farm to Washington he would straighten out the Campbell permits. Wheler tells Storr. Senator Borah directed Wheeler to Tell of the a scope terms and circumstances of his employment a a lawyer by Campbell. Tom Stout Wheeler said a former congressman from Montana had asked him to represent Campbell in state courts and general litigation. The pm 1923. Of i which he would discuss with him 1 i when he Mortimer arrived in new surtax York. A it will he beneficial to you rates calling for a maximum of 32. And will help me in my Campaign for per cent As against the 40 per be myth it it United states Senate in 1924,�?� the maximum tarried in the democratic 4 letter said plan previously voted into the Bill. A the rates on Tho lower brackets ? were similar to those carried in the t told Stout i was coming to in Barron county and a few Quot years later sold and built a log Cabin on the Thor Napple adjoining the Cameron dam. In 1904 Dietz posted a a no trespass notice on his land and served notice on lumber interests that he would fight any attempt to float logs Down the Stream. The lumber company obtained an injunction and it was in ignoring this injunction that Dietz first came into conflict with the Law. Dietz bests officers repeated attempts were made to Washington and was trying to close in up Dietz to Coatie into court in Mellon plan which called for a maximum surtax of 25 per cent applicable on incomes Over $100,000. The Compromise called for a 26 per cent rate on $100,000 with the 32 per cent maximum applicable on incomes Over $300,000. T before a vote on top Compromise was possible. Senator Norbeck Republican. South Dakota. Opened a fight for farm Relief announcing he later would propose the Mcnary Haugen Bill As an amendment to the Revenue measure. Doheny cited for refusal to talk to jury Bellamy named for Register of rapid City office Washington A. May 9�?nomination to the Senate today by president Coolidge included Paul e. Bellamy Register of the rapid City s d., land office. Weather forecast Iowa rain or Snow tonight colder in extreme East Quot and South Central portions saturday unsettled prob ably rain or Snow in extreme East portion temperature near freezing tonight. North Dakota generally fair tonight and saturday except rain or Snow in extreme East portion tonight freezing temperature tonight. No so cold saturday afternoon. South Dakota Cloudy and unsettled tonight temperature near freezing saturday probably fair not so cold in afternoon. Lineal temporal ares maximum and minimum temperatures As recorded by the official government thermometer from 7 a. In yesterday to 7 a. In. Today maximum 42. Minimum 34. At 8 a. In. Today 36. Precipitation .26. Weather and roads these bulletins Ore filed at 8js� in in. Dally by the associated pros Washington. A. May 9�?edward l. Doheny. Jr., was ordered today by Justice Hitz in the District of Columbia supreme court to appear on May 16 to show cause Why he should not he compelled to testify before the special Oil grand jury. When Doheny appeared before the jury last tuesday he declined to testify on the ground that what he would say might tend to incriminate him. This fact was reported to the court by the grand jury with a request that the order be issued. A to 1 Snow is falling Ami melting in the twin cities St. Paul. Minn., May 9.�?chilly i Spring weather with mixtures of Snow and rain greeted the Northwest j today. In the Vicinity of the twin cities Snow fell Early today melting As soon As it struck the ground. Re # ports from other sections of the state woman Quot. 1 f penalties and North and South Dakota told of a collection a illicit Man now falling with for Midi Man out my Law business and was t anxious to take any new litigation on. Senator Wheeler said. A i finally told Stout that if i did take it on Baldwin. My partner would have to handle All the business except that if it was imperative. In the trial of a Case i would come Back for Campbell had been a having trouble 1 with his senator Wheeler said and he refused to take work without a Cash payment of $2.ooo, and an agreement to receive $10,of As a retainer for a year. Poincare will meet Mcdonald in conference Paris. France. May 9.�? a3 a Premier Poincare has accepted prime minister Macdonald a invitation to go to Chequers i3ourton May 20 and spend the night for an informal visit with the head of the British government. Woman cited for big rum business fails to appear Aberdeen. S. A. May 9 a when the hearing of Mary e. Hall before c of Lector of internal Revenue Leslie Jensen was called the Sioux Falls m. E. Conference votes to ordain women pastors Springfield. Mass., May 9.-the ordination of women As local pastors in the methodist ministry was approved by the methodist episcopal general conference today by a decisive majority. Their admission to the itinerary and to membership in the annual conference was almost unanimously Defeated. Of phone companies ask higher rates in three towns Pierre. S. A. May 9.�?authority to increase Telephone rates at chamberlains Presho and Murdo was sought today by the Northwestern Bell Telephone company in a hearing before the state Board of Railroad commissioners. The hearing followed individual dropped in that manner. Connection with the injunction proceedings. And in May. 1901, a posse of 20 men was sent to bring him in Dietz met the party and a number of shots were fired and the pose retired. The Battle died Down for about two years when another Sherif with six men. Attempted to reach Dietz a Battle ensued and John Rogerh a Deputy sheriff and Clarence Dietz were wounded. Dietz was not taken. In september. 1910, the Battle was resumed with much vigor. That month Dietz visited Winter wi., where he became embroiled in an altercation with Bert Horeb Over an election argument and Horeb was shot. Dietz barricaded himself and again fought off the officers and in october. 1910. Sheriff Madden believing a that he could capture Dietz on the Road near the farm Lay in wait for him. Clarence. Leslie and Myra Dietz driving to town were halted by the police officers and another Battle ensued in which Myra and Clarence we Ere captured. Myra was taken to a Duluth. Minn., May 9. A break Hospital and had to be treated for be second serious ice blockade at her injuries and Duetz threatened to the head of the lakes this Spring to come to town single handed and take j ship including two Canadian rasher from the officers. Senger liners the harmonic and Hur onic had reached the Duluth Superior Harbor at 10 45 a. Rn., today. Small but powerful tugs today con Tangi Capoa pariah jail Amite la., May 9.�?up a six men were hanged Here today for the murder of one. Natale Deamore new Orleans Ani Roy Leona of Brooklyn n. Y., the latter the Slayer of Dallas calmed of Independence when Clanies frustrated an attempt of the sex Tette to Rob the Hank at that place died on a double scaffold a few minutes after noon. They were followed in order by Joseph Bocchio and Andrea la Manila of Chicago and Joseph gig Llo of Brooklyn and Joseph Rini of new Orleans. The executions followed at thirty minute intervals. As he was led to the scaffold Dea Niobe said a i Ani going to As the mask was being adjusted on him he cried a they Banga me they hangs me a Leona hissed a new Orleans Deputy sheriff before he was led to the Gallows. Lamantia stabbed himself with a knife under the Vight shoulder Blade but physicians said his injury was not serious. He and Bocchio were the next to die. Bocchio had to be supported As he was placed on the trap and Lamantia. Apparently unconscious Vas carried to the scaffold. Bocchio was supported by a priest while Lamantia was seated in a chair placed on the to. The trap was sprung at 12 37. Lamantia and Bocchio were pronounced dead at 12 44 and 12 45 p. In. Waiting their turn Rini and gig to paced up and Down their cell. Rini protested his innocence to the correspondent. A a a a a hey re hanging five innocent men a he said. A Only one was guilty or murder. I Eona. The last wish i have is that capital punishment will be abolished in this country. I Hope we Are the the traps were sprung on Rini and Giglio at 1 16 u. In. Giglio struggled and apparently Vas strangled to death. Rini was apparently killed instantly. Prices attend Otic tries in icicle Rini and Cigalio had been taken from their cells preparatory to beginning their death March when there i was a shout from the cell occupied by Lamantia. The turnkey discovered he had slashed himself several times on the Chest with a Small pocket knife in an attempt at suicide ire was not injured seriously. The order of execution was changed immediately and Bocchio. Who had collapsed a Acher in the Day was led with Lamantia to the Gallows. Lamantia. His shirt drained with blood could or would not stand and he was seated in a it chair on the trap and hearing at All three cities involved and the Broad scope of testimony indicated in the belief of commission Era. That the foundation was being Laid for applications for rate increases at other Points in the St the. A a a a 1 Quot of Quot 1 vessel Breaks ice blockade to Duluth Harbor posse closes in on the third Day of october of that year a posse was thrown about the Dietz Home prepared to remain j tinned pecking at the ice Jam in up there until Dietz had been a starved Uke Superior holding the next Day they Drew closer to the House and the following Day gov Davidson sent representatives to while standing on Tho trap door Giglio said a and this for gov. Parker. This makes i total of 17 deaths of italians due to him eleven by Lynching and six by hanging. He a made his record a Tangipahoa Parish jail Amite. La. May 9.�? a the death March of six men to he hanged for the murder three years ago of Dallas Dames of Independence when he interrupted a attempted Hank robbery began at 11 55 of clock. Tho to be executed were Joseph Bocchio and Andrea Mantia of Chicago Joseph Guglio and Ray be j Ona of Brooklyn n. Y., 8/nd Natale j Deamore and Joseph Rini of new j Orleans. Deamore was led from the cell at that time accompanied by a priest. Leona went to the scaffold with him # the priest stood with his hand on Leona s shoulder while a second 1 innately 15 Lake freighters with the priest was beside Deamore. The sex William j. Burns the world famous detective has bomb the Brunt of much of the criticism levelled at the administration of the chief lie now follows into retirement. Burns letter of resignation Laid before attorney general Stone today. Asked that his retirement from office he effective immediately the resignation was accepted by the attorney general on those terms. Repeatedly under fire not Only before the Daugherty committee hut in the Oil and Wheeler indictment investigations of the Senate As Well. Bums has been under fire repeatedly. He was called before the Oil committee to explain references to i activities in the Farmis Mary Duek Stein telegrams relating to efforts to prevent the appearance of Edward b. Mclean on the witness stand and was also asked about Sci it a my a enrolment As a secret agent of the Justice department. Before the Daugherty committee he has been questioned several times about charge against the secret agents under i supervision in elation to liquor and other cases and on wednesday he was grilled by that committee about reports that a Large number of department agents were sent to Montana to a get something on senator Ile was asked too. About the disappearance of Gaston b. Means famous diaries but denied that the department detective who was shadowing Means had anything to do with the incident. Say he wanted to re sign the Bureau chief said he had informed or. Stone when the latter came into office that he wanted to quit upon the conclusion of several important investigations now completed. He also had asked former attorney general Daugherty to he relieved of his duties on two occasions he said. Hut or. Daugherty requested him to remain. He declared he had realized a a life Ayubi Tiona in organizing a division of identification and information in the Bureau which he predicted would stand As a Monument to his services. His future plans Are undetermined. Watertown overcast 30 Road bad. Sioux Falls snowing 32 roads fair. Pierre Cloudy. 34 Road fair. Aberdeen snowing. 32 roads Muddy. Huron overcast. 35 roads Muddy. Mitchell drizzling. 36 roads Slippery. With around the freezing Mark. Lead. S. A. Dispatches said a track meet there had to be postponed yesterday because six inches of Snow covered the ground. Inch and half at Aberdeen Aberdeen. S. D., May 9.�?Snow today for the second time this week marked the fourth Day of intermittent rain and Snow in which an Inch and in half of water has fallen facture of liquor. Result Shaf several have been Able to break through the two mile Field to the Harbor. Dietz urging him to surrender and driving rain. Following the heavy promising him a fair Dietz St of an it of yesterday and As refused to surrender and the actor night was softening the top crust of Ney general a office ordered the coun i t10 be l Arri a today and tug wer sound Waves beaten London the broadcasting of big bends Chimes has shown that the sounds Are parried by wireless much quicker than they travel in the Ordinary Way. People listening to the Chimes on their wireless sets in a Block of Flats near Hampstead Heath 0f� find that they hear the notes about enormous Benefit to Grain Fields and 18 seconds earlier than those listening vegetation generally. At the Ope i window. Saturday free All wants ads ordered for insertion tomorrow to run in two or More issues will be published free on saturday. Want ads must be in Hie Republican office by 11 00 a. M. To be inserted the same Day. To officers to Quot do their on october 8, 1910, the posse closed in Early in the morning and the bullets started to rain into the Dietz Home after the Cameron dam defender had again refused to surrender. Dietz replied with Lead. Dishes and pictures were shattered. Furniture was. Ruined bullets were strewn about th4 place and Dietzs wife and children were cowering in the Corners when the Battle ended. Meanwhile a Deputy sheriff he been killed in the Battle. Dietz wounded listened to the advice of his wife late in the afternoon and Little Ellen did to was sent out carrying a White cloth. It was then that Dietz went into a cell and ultimately to trial on the murder charge. Various charges preferred against other members of the family were dismissed. Dietz was pardoned from prison a few years ago. O in a Flay Ai Garden City the Walker cup matches Between British and american Golf teams will be decided Over the testing and Beautiful Garden City links Ai Long Island sept. 12 and 13.Able to make comparatively Good Progress this Forenoon. Vessel men Are hopeful that most of the ships will be released by night and a Channel worked through so that the Fleet of Ore and Grain Laden freighter anchored in the Harbor May get through to the open Lake. A new machine gun Washington the Lewis machine gun famous during the War is being eclipsed by then a Model Browning which weighs lest than 15 pounds. Can be fired from the shoulder or the. Hip. And fires 20 cartridges in leis than two and one half seconds. Today a baseball National league Cincinnati at St. Louis postponed cold. Boston. 301 040 Pittsburgh. 211 too Stryker Mcnamara and of Neil Morrison. Stone St Eder and Gooch. Schmidt. American league Detroit at Chicago. Not scheduled. Others postponed. Elution or put the noose around be j Onas neck and adjusted the Black Cap. The same procedure was gone through for Deamore. The double trap was sprung at 12 01 p. In. The men apparently died instantly. Under the Law they were to hang for 20 minutes. Giglio and Rini were led out t of their cells at 12 12, accompanied by two pc tests. Tangipahoa Parish jail Ami ate. I la., May 9.�?ob a six men who were a to be put to death on the Gallows Here beginning at noon for the Mur j or of Dallas Crimea of Independence three years ago yesterday were spending their last few hours on Earth with priests in attendance. The prisoners Joseph Bocchio. Natale Deamore Andrea Lamatia. J Joseph Rini. Joseph gig to and Roy Leona the last the actual Slayer of Calmes. Were sprawled in their cells. Outside in the enclosure which surrounds the double Gallows last preparations were being made by deputies. The execution wer to take place Between noon and 3 p. Rn., and sheriff Bowden planned to begin them sharply at 12 of clock. It was estimated at least an hour and a half would be required to put the men to death inasmuch As the Law requires each Man to hang 20 minutes after the trap Falls Ven though he might die instantly of a broken neck. Head of Iowa farm school for my nary Bill asked by the evening Republican if he agreed with the position taken by or. W. M. Jardine president of Kansas agricultural College in a speech opposing the Mcnary Bill delivered to the United Staten chamber of Commerce at Cleveland wednesday. President r. A. Pearson of Iowa state agricultural College today wired fhe following statement to this paper a answering Lour question. I Ain my familiar with Alf the Cie Tail of the Mcnary Haugen we h la let or Decd hut believe the principle of t till measure is no More of an innovation than Hallie first Tariff Hill Aud think tile Mcnary Haugen we should he and Given a fair trial of course it should he further perfected if to Ilc. It is evident that agriculture needs Relief when so Many Farmers and Rural Hanks Are Iii i Tress. Farmers Are also entitled to help in View of what has been done to help other interests and usually this was in Large part at the expense of the a of. In a Steamer conquers fire Boston. Mass. May 9.�?word from the Steamer Ontario which caught fire off Block Island Early today and later brought the flames under control was that she would arrive shortly after noon Standard time. The latest message said the steam cretan was standing by