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Mitchell Evening Republican (Newspaper) - May 14, 1924, Mitchell, South Dakota The evening Republican vol. Xxx Mitchell South Dakota wednesday May 14, 1924. Number 194 californian i a a Quot a a a hire cad Etc no a school girls to Salute the Cradle Hien uses it Wells developing As much As 2500 horsepower Are put Down a wild ideas works John d. Grant puts the forces of a a Devil a Canyon to work for him by a. H. Frederick Nea service writer Healdsburg calif., May 14.�?they dig for steam in a Devil s near Here. Then convert it into electricity. Only once before has Man succeeded in conquering the a burning i in Dago Italy they did it j to years ago. But on a smaller scale i years ago indians came awestruck to the spot worshipping face downward the inconceivable Power which j or it it smoke Curling up through the ground. Along came a Hunter named Elliott in 1 847. His Awe equated the red men a and he called the place Quot Devil s for years it was a Mecca for tour j Isis. To remained for a neighbor i Hood lad. John d. Grant to see its hidden possibilities. Now he is carrying out dreams of his boyhood. But he was Only a Man with a i a wild Bankers and business men laughed at him. Undaunted. Grant mortgaged his own property even his Home and put the Money in his theory. Pressure is intense with a. Three Man Crew. He began to Drill for steam. At 12 feet under the Sandstone. Steam spouts were struck. At 140-foot depth the Well assumed volcanic proportions. Rocks hundreds of feet away were loosened and sent hurtling Down the Hillside. Fifteen Pounders were thrown so feet. Steam pressure became intense i too pounds to the Square Inch and the temperature at the surface was 335 degrees. Pipes were sunk in casings to the desired depth and there anchored. London. Eng., May 14.�?�?oif i had Tny Way i would put a Cradle beside the Flag on Empire Day and when the girls of the schools came to Salute the Flag i would make every girl Salute the lord William Gascoyne Cecil Bishop of Exeter a Cousin of lord Balfour. Declared in a speech yesterday. What has happened in France in the matter of the falling birth the Bishop continued Quot is also happening Here. The average family in Devonshire is Only slightly Over three Norris might be nominee of third party Lafo Uette i poor health May eliminate him a presidential candidate Dodge estate Given Valueff 39 millions Detroit mich., May 14.�?the estate of Horace Dodge Multi millionaire motor car manufacturer who died december to. 1920, showed a balance May i of $39.390,806.4s, according to an accounting filed for probate today by Howard b. Bloomer execu-1 Tor. The estate comprises stocks Bonds mortgages notes contracts and property real and personal. Of nebraskan is Strong Norris. Asta Folta Ette intimate and supporter. Is natural heir to his Mantle i blonde chinese Are found in obscure Region in China Washington. C., May 14.�? Blende chinese with curly yellow hair and women who keep no account of their Ages have been found by an expedition of the National geographic society sent into the unmapped Kansu Region of Asia. Reporting to the society s Headquarters Here Frederick r. Jul sin Leader of the expedition told of is trip on the yellow River on a raft made of 72 Yak skins the a to guns meaning a Earth men were the most interesting people encountered he said and it was among these that the question of age had no importance. He added that unmarried women wore from 20 to 30 braids of hair. A. O Quot m. E. Conference repudiates Aid to communism evening Republican Bureau Soi. Albee building. Washington i it. C., May 14. By George f. Authier there is a growing feeling in Washington that Robert m. La Fol Leite on account of 111 health will not be Able to re enter the political lists with the necessary political vigor to make him a Factor in the approaching political Campaign. It appears Likely also Afriat so far As he gives Way in his Wade ship of the progressive group that leadership will be taken Over by senator George w. Norris of Nebraska. In the event that a third party ticket i the Senate Oil committee today ten is placed in the Field Norris and not j Tat ively closed its hearings on the naval Oil leases which have con Senate Oil probe Send work today Borah report clears Wheeler of indictment Senate investigators will says he did not represent client As charged now writing report charge brought against prosecutor by Daugherty agents not upheld Auto drops sixty feet and neither car nor passengers Hurt i Washington. a May 14.�?<>p Springfield maps. May 14.�?a charge that the methodist Church had been brought into ill repute As a supporter of communism and the third internationale threw the methodist episcopal general conference into an uproar today. It was finally voted that Harry f. Ward chairman of the civil liberties Union and editor of the methodist federation for social service was beyond the jurisdiction of the conference. Circulation by the civil liberties Union of bulletins of the federation in regard to the arrest of a group of tee a i ves were attached to the tip communists in Berrier county. Mich per end Gate valves drilled through and the steam brought under control. Pipes to the turbines completed the Job. A the whole says Grant a can be sunk with Wells. A we have two within 50 feet of each other. With no dimunation of steam exhaust in either. We could go still deeper. But we have sufficient for our present each of the three Wells in operation thus far has developed from a Ioco to 2500 horsepower increasing in exhaust a new Stratas at re opened. Grant estimates one steam Well develops a much electricity As the Oil from seven Oil Wells. Head of plow factory debates for Mcnary Bill Chicago iu., May 14.�?the my nary Haugen Bill designed for agricultural Relief was assailed As a indefensible in principles and defended As embodying the same principle As the protective Tariff in a debate Between the Illinois chamber of Commerce Here today. George n. Peek president of the Moline plow company Moline 111., presented Tho Case for the Bill. Or. James k. Boyle professor of Rural Economy at Cornell University Ithaca. A y., opposed it. Igan about two years ago was the basis of a report by a standing committee which was adopted. A the Church ought to take action.1�?T said John c. Willits of the Michigan delegation. A the Church has been brought into great reproach in Berrien county. Quot we ask a deliverance whereby the people of that county will know that the Church does not stand for communism and the communists that seek the overthrow of the United states a o woman aids in robbery of victim found in ropes new farm Aid plan is presented As Compromise j Washington. A. May 14.�?a new a farm Relief Bill providing for the creation i agricultural associations with Power to lend Money on farm products. Limit production and Market commodities was presented today by1 senator Smith Democrat South Carolina. The Bill was drawn its proponents be id with the idea of providing a Compromise upon which the whole strength of the farm bloc in the Senate could be entered. New York City May 14.�?search was instigated today for the woman companion of Harry lesser arrested last night on a charge of robbing mrs. Howard Johnson wife of a Pla right of More than $9,000 Worth of jewelry in a hotel suite monday night. The woman was said to have been in the suite at the time of the assault and i Ruh was registered As the assailant s wife great la Follett May be the candidate this possibility Calls attention to a Man with a remarkable personality and one who appears to be entering upon a new phase of activity which will make him a National Leader whether he becomes a presidential candidate or not. The condition of senator la Follette has been carefully guarded from the time several wrecks ago. That a bulletin was issued saying that la Follette had pneumonia there has been no additional information concerning his exact state of health. In the Case of the Wisconsin senator pneumonia it is assumed would have been either grip or a violent attack of pneumonia in a More robust person. The illness Clung on and is supposed to have been fostered by his weakened condition. The tax Bill in which the senator expected to be vitally interested has been parsed and senator la Follette is now recuperating in Atlantic City. He is Over the immediate danger that occurred. But his friends insist upon his taking a Long rest before getting bark into the harness. Although looking much younger than his sixty Odd years senator la Follette has never been in robust health. He has been compelled to give up his strenuous work at different times and his friends to put if it would be at All Safe for him to engage in the desperate attempt to Lead a third party which has been suggested. Animosities forgotten it is a tribute to to it a Follette that in his illness All of the old animosities he has awakened in times past i in the Senate Are forgotten and Only the kind Liest sympathy and Good i feeling exists for him now and the i Hope that he May be Able to get Back in the harness is uniform. I senator la Follette has been anxious to see the principles of a Liberal party placed in a party platform and put before the Public although it is known he has had no illusions about the difficulties involved in building a third party. He has had said that a party must represent some nation wide movement and mrs. Johnson was shut in the Bath t that ii could not depend upon the room of the apartment with a rope about her neck hands and feet. She said she had Ben invited to the apartment by the couple whom she recently had met. And after drinking a cocktail had become unconscious. When she came to she succeeded in breaking Loose front her Bonds and notified hotel employees. The assault was suggestive of those j which caused the death of Dorothy King and Louise Lawson police said. A if the knot in the rope about her Throat had been tighter mrs. Johnson i probably would have choked to death. I of Brooklyn clerk defeats Kansan for checker title weather forecast new York City. May 14.�?sam go no sky. 22 year old Brooklyn clerk who anti graded to the United states at the age of of pure today won the National checker championship when personal leadership of any one Man. If neither of the parties should nominate a progressive both enunciate a conservative platform with a conservative candidate sentor Lefollette it is understood believes this might justify the proposed third party. Norris close to to Follette _ the relations Between him and senator Norris Are very close and it is probable he might be satisfied in seeing his Mantle of leadership pass to the nebraskan should he be compelled to Lay it aside in the interest of his health. Should the wisconsinites come Norris will be an enthusiastic lieutenant. All during his term in the Senate. Senator Norris has been one of the most Independent men there. He had planned to retire but during the past few months was induced to reconsider his decision became a candidate for renomination and was renominated. He will be overwhelming elected. Norris has been the outstanding tribute Many colourful chapters to american legislative history since they began last october. Adjournment was taken subject to Call of the chair. Senator Walsh of Montana the committee prosecutor said he had no More witnesses to Cal and would not ask for another hearing unless the courts should compel Harry f. Sinclair to return and answer the questions to which he had heretofore refused to reply. Senator Spencer Republican Missouri indicated there was a possibility he might ask later that one or two pieces of additional testimony be added to the record. Until there is a decision in the Sinclair contempt Case pending in the District of Columbia courts the committee probably will stand in indefinite recess. Most of the information it has gathered already has been turned Over to the Law officers of the government. Drainage of Oil Fields by Wells on adjoining property was discussed before the Senate Oil committee today by Frederick b. Tough Petroleum Engineer of the Bureau of mines. The witness said that in his judgment drainage of Teapot dome by Wells upon the Salt Creek Field would not have been prevented As some witnesses testified had the Wells on Thot Field Bren located 500 feet or More from the Boundary of the Reserve. Parties agree on june eth to end Congress Washington. May 14.�?<a> a agreement was reached by Republican and democratic House leaders at a conference today with president Coolidge to work for adjournment of Congress on june 7. Legislation before the House was discussed in a general Way with the president and representatives Long Worth of Ohio and Garrett of Tennessee the Republican and democratic leaders. Chairman Snell of the House rules committee and representative Garner. Democrat of Texas. Consideration was Given to these Bills which could be disposed of in time for adjournment for the National political conventions. O-�?1 a a a Washington d. C., May 14.�? by a Toto of four to one Tho Senate investigating Ommittee today Beld that the charges in the indictment returned against senator Wheeler Democrat Montana by a Federal grand jury in his own state were unsupported by the fact. Senator Sterling Republican South Dakota declined to sign the majority report which bears the signatures of chairman Borah. And senator Mcnary Oregon republicans and senators Waukon. Virginia and faraway arkansans democrats. Chairman Borah was directed to file the majority report with the Senate at once. Senator Sterling is expected to file a minority in port. Tile committee reached its decision quickly on the basis of a testimony Given by a dozen witnesses and documentary evidence submitted by the Justice department to support the Dirge in the indictment that senator Wheeler accept cd Money for ap-1 tearing before the Interior department in Oil land cases. Washington d. C., May 14.�?a report on the a special Senate investigation of the indictment at great Falls. Mont., of senator Wheeler Democrat of that state is expected shortly the committee having voted unanimously late yesterday to end its hearing. Chairman Borah with whom senator Sterling Republican of South Hornell n. Y., May 13.�?two smashed automobile headlight bulbs constituted the Only damage we Hen a closed automobile occupied by or. And mrs. Edward bump crashed through the guard railing on an overhead Bridge last night and dropped sixty feet to the Railroad tracks below. Bump was hurrying to the bedside of his Mother who was reported to be near death at Bath. The automobile landed right Side up and neither of the occupants was even bruised. Couzens soon to renew probe of rum Trade Washington. �,., May 14.�?senator Couzens of Michigan recently operated on in Baltimore has so far recovered As to make it probable he will resume his activities in the Senate investigation of the internal Revenue Bureau before the june political conventions. It was said at his office today that the senator probably will be Back at work in a week or so although some further treatment May be necessary later. Senator Couzens employment of Francis j. Heney As counsel for the Revenue Bureau committee stirred up one of the bitterest controversies of the recent Congress but recently the Senate authorized the committee to proceed. Sessions have been suspended awaiting the return of or. Couzens under whose Resolution the inquiry was undertaken. Of i Huron chamber asks support for Mcnary Bill Coolidge opens new drive upon exclusion act Calls ranking House Leader of both parties in White House conference Hughes makes talk Secretary gives reasons effective should be declared Huron. S. D., May 14.�?letters Dakota a member clashed monday Ever winding up the inquiry was authorized to draft a report for com j Mittee approval. He is convinced j have been sent today from t in Hur that it has been indicated that Sena chamber of Commerce to the Tor Wheeler is not guilty of the i senators and representatives from charge of accepting a fee from Gor sout Dakota in Washington Strong Don Campbell Montana Oil operator j by urging them to vote for the Melodi Zed with him. To prosecute land nary Haugen Bill now pending in Congress a it is says the chamber a that this legislation will be of tremendous Benefit to this Section of the country. This action has been taken because the Huron chamber cases before the Interior department after his election. 1. A Alan Bogue in Lafollette for president club Washington d. May 14.�?further Steps were taken by the administration today to obtain postponement of japanese exclusion. With the immigration Bill embodying the exclusion provision pending for final action in the House president Coolidge called into conference at the White House Secretary Hughes and the ranking House leaders of both parties. The president is understood to have presented again the administration s View that japanese exclusion a Ifould a be postponed until diplomatic negotiations can be conducted with Japan. The basis for the administrations anxiety Over the matter was set Fortt to the House members by Secretary Hughes. Seeks bipartisan support the House rejected last week a conference report adopted at the Behest of the president to delay the effective Date of exclusion until March i 1925. The conferees sine then have reported to the House an agreement based on the original House provision making exclusion effective next july i but action on the report has been deferred until tomorrow. The House leaders called into conference by the president were representatives Longworth of Ohio. Republican floor Leader and Garrett of Tennessee democratic floor Leader chairman Johnson of the immigration committee representative Garner of Texas ranking democratic member of the House rules committee and chairman Snell of the same committee. By calling in representatives Garrett and Garner the president initiated an Effort to gain bipartisan support for the pleas for time in which to negotiate with Tokio. The House members who conferred with the president said no definite policy with respect to exclusion was put Forward by or. Coolidge or by Secretary Hughes but declined to discuss the Tenor of the conversation. Minister to be withdrawn Tokio. Japan May 14.�?suggestions contained in Washington press dispatches that Japan might withdraw her ambassador from Washington. Leaving the embassy under the of Commerce is vitally interested in charge d a affaires As a protest Kentucky a vote conceded Mcadoo by Underwood Lexington. By. May 14.�?with drawl of the presidential candidacy of senator Oscar w. Underwood of Alabama from the prospective contest with William g. Mcadoo for the Kentucky delegation in the state democratic convention today was announced by Underwood managers. A a in the interest of party Success Quot Madison wis. May 14�?a a la Follette for president committee has been appointed and has opened Headquarters at Chicago it was announced today. W. T. Rawleigh of Freeport ii has been named chairman of the committee and Harry Sauthoff Madison attorney Secretary. Other members of the committee As announced include Alan Bogue Parker. S3. R. F. Koening. Freeport 111., will act As treasurer of the committee which plans an Active Campaign for senator Robert m. La Follette for president it is stated. O a Butler denies he a for wet Plank in g. O. P. Platform the Prog rest of agriculture and in its assistance As la promised by the my nary Haugen the South Dakota. Farm Bureau federation in a statement issued Here declares it is solidly Back of this measure and is asking the commercial organizations throughout the state to lend their support also by writing representatives in Washington. It is explained that a special Effort must be made at this time if the present Congress is to enact a any legislation during the session which will be of Relief to agriculture a the Bureau Points out. Probes Call for witness now in Federal cell Washington. C., May 14�?of a the Senate Daugherty committee today ordered the Warden of Atlanta i Penitentiary by wire to produce or. Nich George Rem us an Ohio Bootlegger new York City. May 14 i a Las Murray Butler president of co j now a convict there to testify before Lumbia University does not advocate it in Cloudy tonight cooler Minnesota Cloudy Mon Frost in South clears thursday and partly in East por portion if sky generally fair. Somewhat warmer in West portion. Iowa mostly Cloudy tonight thursday probably fair not so Cool thursday in extreme West portion Light Frost tonight if sky clears. North Dakota generally fair to a new York City. May 14.�?surro night and thursday warmer thurs a Gate tames a. Foley today declined was the reason Given. He Defeated Alfred Jordan of Kan in opposing the granting of the decision according to mad Sas City. Kansas former British f muscle Shoals to Henry Ford and by j co managers gave the former treas to it in Holder in the final round of the j 11s and the ability with which tournament that has been in Progress j conducted it has accentuated the for nearly three weeks. Foley declines to take Crown of tammany Day and in Northwest portion tonight probably Lusht Frost tonight in Southwest portion. South Dakota generally fair to night and thursday somewhat warmer thursday in East port a probably Frost tonight. Local temperature maximum and minimum temperatures As recorded by the official government 4hermomcjter from 7 a. In. Yesterday to 7 a. In. Today maximum 40 minimum 33 at 8 a. In. Today 37. Precipitation .06. Weather and roads these bulletins Are flied at Sjo in. Daily by the associated to accept the leadership of tammany Hall in succession to his father in Law. Tile late Charles f. Murphy. The. Committee of seven which waited on surrogate Foley today will hold another meeting at 8 30 of clock tonight in an attempt to select a Leader. There was no indication As to who will e chosen. Force which he possesses. His own health has been a Little less than could be desired but he appears to be stronger now than for years lock. Senator Norris is one of the readiest debaters in the Senate and an eloquent speaker. He is a firm believer in government ownership and his fight against the Ford offer for muscle Shoals is in the interest of the development of water Powers on a Large scale by the government. Out Watertown Cloudy 34< roads Muddy. Mitchell Cloudy. 37 roads Good. Sioux Falls Cloudy. 45 roads Good. Pierre Cloudy 49 roads Good. Aberdeen Cloudy. 36 roads air. Huron Cloudy 37 roads fair. Of deaf mutes in the United states number almost 45,000. Lucy a coat Lucy had a handsome coat shed grown too Stout to Wear it kept it lying around the House poor Lucy Bear it. So being a Young lady exceedingly Wise she turned it into Cash with a for Sale and in the Republican want and columns. Ury Secretary unchallenged claim to Kentucky a 26 votes in the National convention and forecast adoption of a unit Rule Resolution by the state convention Billy sunday on Way to Hospital in special car Memphis. Tfnn., May 14.�?William _ a. Billy sunday evangelist who in British flier nears Calcutta his in words a has been driving the Allahabad British India May 14.�? j machine hard for 30 years and i the British aviator Stuart Maclaren t less some of the bearing Are hot engaged in an attempted flight 19 on his Way today to the 7� Clin around the world arrived Here today 1 in at roche�5r minn., to have some from Nasirabadi. He plans to hop of re air Quot to. T e his physician. Or. A. L. Sanders ascribed the evangelists illness to impaired functioning of the kidney. With his engagements for the immediate future cancelled the evangelist realized when he left for Chicago and Rochester that continuation of his career As a famous preacher depended upon the course of his present illness. He is travelling in a special car and will have a few hours rest in Chicago today before proceeding to Rochester tonight. I the insertion of a Wett Plank in the platform of the Republican party. A a anyone would be made to make such a proposal Quot or. Butler declared in reply to a statement by or. Chas. W. Eliot president emeritus of Harvard University in which or. Eliot took exception to or. Butlers views on prohibition enforcement. Columbian a president insisted that the question he raised in his speech before the Missouri society a has nothing whatever to do with wets and Drys so he wished simply to Point out that the policy called a a dry has made the nation Wetter than it has been in years. Today a baseball for Calcutta tomorrow. Cotton consumption Washington d. C., May 14 a Cotton consumed during april amounted to 48-0,019 Bales of line and 42,-289 of liners compared with 438.428 of line and 41,030 of liners consumed during March this year and 574,-514 of lint and 52,59-5 of liners in april Lajet year the census Bureau an Nom we today american league ago 00 of 90�? 0 4 4 Boston. 022 202 31x�?12 19 2 Connelly. Steengrafe. Cvengros and Crouse Quinn and of Neill. St. Louis. Ooi 055 new York. Too too j shocker and Severeid Hoyt Pip grass and Schang Hoffman. Detroit. 100 210 0 Philadelphia. Too 031 0 Stoner Holloway and Bakaler Naylor Baumgartner and Perkins. Cleveland. 02 Washington. La Edwards and Myatt Johnson and Ruel. National league Boston 500 0 Cincinnati .020 0 Genewich and o Neil Sheehan Fay Harris and Wingo. Brooklyn. 0 St. Louis. I Grimes and Taylor Roth Ron and Gonzales. New York. Too Idi Chicago too 210 Mcquillan and Snyder Kaufmann and of Farrell. Philadelphia at Pittsburgh postponed rain. Several witnesses have told the committee that Remus had immense whisky operations in Progress in Ohio for some time involving a number of prominent people. It also a been testified that he has been Given special comforts at the Penitentiary where he is serving a two year banker a wife arrested by spouse on forgery charge new York City May 14.�?mrs. Eleanor Elaine Lee Harris wife of Beverly d. Harris one time View president of the National City Bank was locked in a cell in the Clinton Street station House this morning. I charged by her husband with third j degree forgery. Or. Harris who recently sued for j annulment of his marriage which the jury recommended charged his wife with submitting a letter to which his named had been forged a an Effort to gain a retrial of the annulment contest. A recent jury decision in the supreme court held mrs. Harria had misrepresented her social position and moral character prior to her marriage. Against the exclusion clause of the new american imn gyration Bill were denied emphatically today by the japanese foreign office which termed the step a a fund purified Quot and asserted it is not even being seriously considered. Of Quot. Merchants told they must not use lottery schemes Aberdeen. S. A. May 14.�?forging ahead into the second Day of their state convention retail merchants of South Dakota Here today topped 200 in attendance and heard inspirational general talks and helpful constructive discussion in group meeting where members got into the informality of round table talking. Mitchell s ambition to have the convention near year appeared today along with Madison s urge to come to its Lakeside later in the summer while rapid City is being mentioned. Reinforcement to the association Campaign against lottery sales help a brought to the convention by assistant attorney general Ray f. J re wry who told How directly the Law Laid its Barrier to lottery and Allien schemes. Rather than resort to such schemes hot urged merchants to Cut their overhead expenses in tinier of stress and stick it out till better times come instead of using such false stimulative devices bad for the customer who Over buys and bad for the merchant who violates the Law and Good business. William Hana self of Sioux Falls delivered a a Peppy Quot talk on the need of Selling ones own town before All _ girl Dairying to save Brothers in burning House Poincare plans to retire from Active politics in France to Booher makes Homer Chicago til. May 14.�?charlie hoi ocher appearing in i first game with the Chicago nationals since he left the dub in August 1923, in the first inning today packed out a Home run. Hugh Mcquillan was pitching for the new Turk giants. Paris France. May 14.�? apr Premier Poincare intends to withdraw from politics for the time being taking a Complete rest and it is understood he will request a leave from the Senate so As not to appear in Tho debates following his retirement As head of the government. He will resume his political activities when he considers the time Ripe. Meanwhile the question of who is to succeed to the premiership is easier put than answered and it provides ample food for speculation among the deputies who Are already beginning to prepare for the opening of the chamber on june 2. Bemidji. Minn. May 14.�?three children were burned to death when fire destroyed their Horny Here Early today one of them a 12 year old girls dying in an heroic attempt to rave her two younger Brothers. The children of or. And mrs. Enevold Stangeland of Nymore a suburb of Bemidji. The dead Are Anna aged 12 Melvin aged la and Norman. A aged 7. Or. Stangeland. Arising at 4 30 a. Rn., started Down the stairs to Light a fire in the heating stove. Just As he reached the Bottom of the Stair the lamp he was carrying exploded enveloping the room in flames. Calling a warning to his family upstairs. Stangeland sought to put out the flames his wife joining him in this Effort. Meanwhile Anna and another child a boy had fled from the building. When Melvin and Norman failed to appear Anna rushed Back into the House heedless of the warning shout from her father struggled up the collapsing Stair and died with her brother when flames Cut off their escape. Besides the boy who fled from Tho building with Anna Throe other children escaped one boy jumping from an upper Story window. One Hundred and forty five colleges in the United states have endow ments of $1,080,000 or More. It

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