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Mitchell Evening Republican (Newspaper) - May 21, 1924, Mitchell, South Dakota The evening Republican City edition vol xxx Mitchell South Dakota wednesday May 21,1924. Number 200asks Iowa banker epilogue in thaw drama begins Mother s Faith alone unshaken after 18 years Floradora Beauty whom millionaire went mad Over is dancing again old friends All gone Ani thaw sobered by Long imprisonment must Start ukr Oral again a Ork n. Y., May 21.�? Harry k. Thaw is hold in Hail again today of Tor a few Brief hours of absolute Freedom. To pleaded not guilty yesterday to two indictments a a barging him with kidnapping y Rederick Gump jr., in 1916. And with second decree assault and was hold in bail. Soon after lie left the court another indictment charging conspiracy to take Gump then 16 years old. Out of the jurisdiction of the court after the alleged attack was discovered. Thaw returned and pleaded not guilty to this also. Hail will be adjusted today. Tile civil action in the Gump Case was settled out of court. By Alexander Herman Nea service staff writer Atlantic City n. J., May 21.-�? with Evelyn Nesbit singing and Russel thaw her 13-year-old son. Strumming a Banjo the Quot epilogue of the great Harry k. Thaw tragedy begins. When finally the curtain drops they All Pray it will be on a Happy ending a a Long. Long time in coming. For nearly is rears have passed since the tragedy began. Love hate a confide Are jealousy murder birth Hope despair All have been churned about in their caldron of human emotions since that night of june 25. 1906. When thaw killed Stanford White the famous architect. Nearly $2,000,000 have been spent a save the millionaire first from the death chair then from ending his Days in a Lunatic Asylum. And now. Finally. A group of five alienist world court question is up in Senate foreign relations committee considers matter after Coolidge conference fight starts in House Over farm Aid Bel agreement is reached upon Revenue Bel charged with grand larceny Mcnary Haugen measure is Senate and House conferees vice president of Iowa loan target for All sorts of Par i make changes in Hopes an Ltd Rusf company i3 Liam entry tricks j measure will pass i linked by state four plans proposed finally Side tracked Cut publicity clause my till is taken up for the first time during the present session Evelyn Nesbit former wife of thaw and her son Rissell Hiers held up at yet Rofu by fear of storms grave yields body but Frazier Case is still in doubt Tokio Japan. May 21.�?op a the american army aviators flying around the world Are being delayed at hit Tok Appu Bay. Island of yet Rofu in the Buriles. By bad weather. An official dispatch to the Japan Niobrara. Neb., May 21.�? pm the grave supposed to contain the body of Arthur Frazier. Indian War Veteran. Was opened Here today and after examining the body. Physicians and officials of the veterans Bureau said they were no nearer than before to knowledge of whether the body actually is that of Frazier or whether Washington. May 21�?the Senate foreign relations committee was called today to consider for the i first time at the present session of Congress action on Tho proposals for american membership in the world court. The meeting called at the request of senator Swanson of Virginia i ranking democratic member of the committee was preceded by p. Lengthy White House conference last night at i which president Coolidge reiterated to Republican members his stand in i favor of conditional membership in j the permanent court of International i Justice set up by the league of a Mons As recommended More than a i veer ago by president Harding. The conference was described As i primarily to ascertain ways and i Means of giving effect to the presidents recommendation for american adherence to the permanent court of it International Justice. Three members absent it was attended by chairman i Lodge and senators Brandegee con next Reutt Moses new Hampshire Wadsworth new York Pepper Pennsylvania and Lenroot. Wisconsin. Senators Mccormick Illinois and Willis Ohio also members of the committee were absent frown the capital. And senator Borah Idaho although in Washington did not attend. The absence of senator Borah was declared by the other senators not to be significant As he had been consulted and his views ascertained but measure will come Back on Flook of Izower body for debate tomorrow Washington d .c., May 21.�? possibility of a final vote in the Honan this week on the Mcnary Haugen farm Relief Bill practically vanished today when tim House unable to of train a quorum for several hours for a night session last night abandoned such a procedure for tonight. This change in schedule will prevent carrying out an agreement which would have left tile Way Clear Friday for taking up Reading of the Bill with amendments in order. Leaders Euy press b e ii i e f that Ooi j def will not find measure a Eft Able Stewart files charge Washington. C., May 21.�? discussion of the Mcnary Haugen farm Relief Bill was sidetracked in the House today by an agreement for consideration of miscellaneous measures. The debate will he resumed tomorrow however under the program accepted late yesterday allowing 15 hours for general discussion and calling for Day and night sessions in an Effort to get action by saturday night or Early next week despite the delay yesterday in making a Start. The Bill received Only Brief discussion after it was reached yesterday afternoon running into a series of quorum Calls which continued for More than two hours after the dinner recess until enough members had been rounded up by the sergeant at arms to permit the chamber to pro by those who met with the president j need representative Voight of wis the meeting Between the presiden Consin a Republican member of the and the Republican members was i agriculture committee opposing the preliminary to a session of the full Byas a Price fixing measure made Vul i 411011 v f v 1 11 v a ave declared him sane and he use a it department which was senti Frazier is alive and at Home. As his from a japanese destroyer on duty i ,. ,. No i a. Parents and friends claim. With the flyers at la a. Rn., today said j the americans were waiting until measurements of the body were foggy weather which had persisted taken and will be submitted to Arch stands free. But the friends that were once his have deserted him. A wife has been divorced from him. Only his Mother mrs. Mary thaw remains unshaken in her Faith. Evelyn singing again Evelyn Nesbit the Beautiful Flora Dora girl Over whose love thaw went mad. Is Back at work As a professional entertainer. Nightly she captivates her audiences in the palais Royal an Atlantic City cabaret on Kentucky Avenue a few Yards from the Boardwalk. She sings Hight frolicsome songs some in dialect. And then at 3 30 in the morning she goes Back to her hotel tired foreign relations committee today. The various plans which have been put Forward for american world court membership were considered during the conference. Which lasted three and a half hours Abd senator Pepper who has been making a special study of the question carried away with him an outline of a Compromise proposal. A ecologists for final decision As to whether the body actually is that of there for several Days clears. An official dispatch from the american destroyer John d. Ford also on duty with the fliers to the american i Frazier. Embassy read As follows j examination of the body and the a at Smith s request Lieut. Lowell j personal effects within the casket h. Smith is acting commander of the failed to prove either that the body flight the Ford is anchoring tem j was or was not that of Frazier Pora Rily off Lushire on the Southeast j the autopsy disclosed the Skeleton coast of hokkaido Northern most of practically intact with a number of the principal japanese islands to As Yuhos evidently carried by the de f ceased Soldier. The coffin which was of steel hermetically sealed and in a a but never she says a and in the Hest of for Russell lives with her now and she is dedicating her life to him. He is a handsome boy Good at school and an expert at the Banjo. Through he does t go out and play games much with the other boys he does like to play his Banjo for them. But even Over the youngster the thaw tragedy is casting an ominous Shadow. For the boy does t know his father. Since the sensational trial when thaw s Brilliant lawyers saved him from the chair by putting up a defense of insanity Evelyn Nesbit and he have drifted farther and farther apart. Ten years after the murder came their divorce. And Only once Ainee has there been a meeting of their minds on common ground. Each contemplated suicide when the new life seemed darkest. Evelyn attempted it when the Tea shop which she was running in new York failed. A thaw attempted it in a Rooming House in Philadelphia when he was plunged into a new scandal after gaining his Freedom from Matte wan. Where he had been sent after his conviction. But both have lived to be thankful that their attempts failed. For the horizon of each seems brighter than it Ever has been. One obstacle remains one obstacle still looms up before thaw an indictment in the new York District attorneys office that Hasni to yet been dismissed it was handed Down in 1917. When thaw was charged with kidnapping and whipping a Kansas City boy visiting in new York. The civil end of Ushiro As emergency Landing place. Both the embassy and the Tokio Central Observatory sent warnings to the fliers to expect bad weather today and thursday. Storms Are deported All along the Eastern and Northern coast of Japan. The Start of the americans for Minato in Northern Japan their next scheduled stopping place now is tentatively set for thursday the Japa Nese dispatch said. But in View of the bad weather it is possible their departure May be a played even further. Witness asserts a whole of Wheeler Case was Frame up Good condition bore the inscription company a Twenty eight to Bow information however it was pointed out. Did not prove that the body was that of Frazier. The mud of Flanders Field was still in evidence on the Hobnail shoes and mixed with the Bones of the remains. A careful examination of Teeth and Skull was made and these measurements will be submitted to archaeologist to determine the height age and general characteristics of the deceased. While the body was raised from the grave the Indian youth who says he is the real Arthur Frazier stood beside the Tomb and witnessed the exhumation. Washington d. C.,. May 21.�? a a the Senate Daugherty committee was told today that representatives of the department of Justice not Only had sought to a Frame Quot senator Wheeler its prosecutor. But had spied on its members and its witnesses and had spirited away the j famous diaries of Gaston r. Means working with it As an investigator. One of the witnesses was o. Duck Stein who said he knew about the whole proceeding because his wife is a secret agent of Tho department. It was she he said who identified in his presence the records of Means after they had been secured by a ruse. A o Jap press lauds Woods sorry to have him retire masonic Temple at Illinois town is Tokio. May 21.�?- a a the resignation of the american ambassador. Cyrus e. Woods is the subject of editorials in All the newspapers this morning. All a retouched in laudatory terms and express deep regret a hat the ambassador finds it necessary to relinquish his Post. All. Likewise link up his resignation with the recent enactment of the american immigration Law with its clause excluding japanese. None of those present would venture a prediction that adoption of a plan for american world court membership would be brought about before the adjournment of Congress As it was pointed out that the time remaining is Brief and the legislative situation in the Senate too complicated to make anything certain. All left the White House hopeful however that something could be done and in this View the president was said emphatically to coincide. The conference had been Pree Edd by a meeting late in the Day Between the president and Secretary Hughes who is credited with having had much to do with the original recommendation by i Vesi it Jit Harding in february. 192�?~3, for american adherence to the present permanent court of International Justice. President Coolidge in his message to Congress referred to this proposal As pending before the Senate and declared that it had his Complete support. Since then at various times not edly in his address to the asses elated press in new York last month the chief Genitive has reiterated his endorsement of the original allarding Hughes proposal. Chairman Lodge after tile conference declined to say what consideration was Given to his recently presented proposal that the Senate direct president Coolidge to Call a third j Hague conference with a View to creating a new court. It has been known however that the Lodge pro Reet Consul Talon with either the postal was put Forward without i White hous or the state department. Of the Only address at the night session which ended shortly before mid night. Attack Haugen i a ii preceding general debate the House spent an hour discussing whether the measure should be Given the right of Way. Or. Kincheloe de Washington d. C., May 21.�?mp a unanimous agreement was reached today by Tho conferees on the tax reduction Bill the Simmons democratic income rate schedule providing for 40 per cent maximum rate and 50 per cent reduction in Normal taxes on incomes under $8,000 was accepted. Senate amendments providing for full publicity of tax returns and a tax on undistributed corporation profits were rejected. Hope was expressed by Senate Republican organization leaders that the Bill As now framed would meet the approval of president Coolidge who has declared opposition to both the publicity and corporation proposals which were eliminated. Below Treasury surplus chairman Smoot of the Senate finance committee estimated the Bill went $100,000,000 below the Treasury surplus available for tax reduction. This did not take info account the Cost of the Bonus Bill which it has been estimated will require an appropriation of $150,000,000 for the next fiscal year or other pending measures calling for special appropriations. The House provisions for a 40 per cent increase in existing estate tax rates and for the imposition of a gift tax with rates similar to the estate tax rates were accepted. Senate democrats in yielding their proposal for substitute corporation tax and full publicity tax returns explained that they did so in expectation that the Bill would not to objectionable to president Coolidge. Compromise jewelry tax the provisions for a 25 per cent reduction on earned incomes was retained but the Senate amendment restricted the amount to which this Cut could be applied to $10,000 was accepted. A Compromise was reached on a Cut in Tho jewelry tax. All articles Bank examiner charges iowan with carrying out $35,-000 in securities do Moines la. May 21.�?j. My Parson attorney for the Iowa loan and Trust company Here issued a statement today saying that a warrant issued at Mitchell s. D., for arrest of h. T. Filler View president of Des Moines Hank Wop a a mistake which Arr from misunderstanding of a a tile Iowa loan and Trust company a or. Parsons declares a had advanced the Branson Hank $50,000 for the purpose of taking it up of depositors. Subsequently. Advanced $45,600 More. The securities Elal my to have been taken by h. T. Filler vice. President were for the purpose of securing the subsequent Advance. The securities were fumed Over to filler prior to closing of Branson and company Hank by authorities of South Dakota. The transaction was an Ordinary transaction Between Hanks. The filing of information for warrant was a mistake and arose from misunderstanding of dared other farm Relief proposals also should be taken up. And urged Lions for ,3� ices were exempt that an Opportunity he Given to Dis woman 85, with Idaho democrats endorse Mcadoo As party a candidate Chicago May 31.�?a bomb thrown from an automobile Early today wrecked the Entrance and damaged a he Case has berm settled by mrs. 8everal floors of the grand crossing thaw hut the new York officials say \fa80nlc Temple and injured a Man they will press the indictment As soon in an adjacent building. Wrecked by bomb numerous progeny w recite by weds Lover of 71 As thaw is freed from the Philadelphia Asylum. Police believe the bombing had a connection with a meeting in the St. Mares Idaho May 21.�? a a a Resolution endorsing the candidacy of we. G. Mcadoo for the democratic nomination for the presidency was passed by the Idaho democratic state convention shortly after mid a night following a contest to prevent committing the delegation to the National invention. The vote on the Resolution was 68 to 20 1-2. Of for the past is years have changed building last night of the Kun Siux the Gay. Care free spendthrift int a sobered mature person who his relatives say realizes the value of Freedom. Vice presidential Boom for Owsley started in Texas Klin held in Defiance of Anonymous letters it warning. The attack was not made until some time after the meeting was Over. Oakland. Ta., May 21.�?william, Wells. 71, and mrs. Mary a. Little fair. Both of Riehmond. Pal., were married Here yesterday. Mrs. Wells is 85 years old and has 15 children. 39 grand children. 15 great grand a children and four great great grand j Philadelphia. 199 today a baseball Nat ional i league Brooklyn. Cincinnati Osborne and Taylor Nan Jio 9oo nil Rixey and children. Wells is Only 71. But is the proud progenitor of four children six grand children and two great grand children. Jackson Mississippi May 21.�?an a Alan Owsley for president club Quot Avins for its purpose the putting be a or the people of Mississippi the Amo of Alvin Owsley of Texas for the nomination i f ii he As democratic vice presidential candidate at the new Lork National convention was formed Here yesterday. Similar clubs a being organized throughout the stat it was said. What do you want whatever your desires nine chances to one you can find an Opportunity to gratify them if you read the Many varied and interesting want ads in this Issue. 040 cuss the so called a Yoakum Quot pan offered by representative Aswell and providing for a cooperative marketing system. Or. Aswell asserted die a scheme Quot was to make members think they must a either vote for this Mcnary Haugen or no other farm Relief he added he could not support a measure with such a wild Quot theories. Representative Schall. Republican Minnesota asserted that a trusts Quot have been setting prices a right and left and it would be a strange thing Quot if the Farmer a cannot even get the Protection of the Tariff he is enticed to in comparison with other Basic Haugen reviews Bill opening debate. Or. Haugen gave an exhaustive review of he measure s proposals while opposition to the Bill was voiced by representative Linthicum. Democrat Maryland who several times interrupted the debate to make a Point of no a substitute for the bin which he declared would a Only Basten and in Tenor Jay the impending calamity Quot was proposed by representative Rainey Democrat Illinois. The Rainey plan would it Rente a commission to be composed of the secretaries of Commerce and agriculture the chairman of the Tariff commission and an administrative commissioner to be selected by the president. Should the commission at any time find that a surplus production existed for Export in wheat flour or the food products of Swine it would be authorized to request the president to declare an emergency under which the provisions of Tho measure would become operative. Roam fix prices to the estimated Cost of production of the products enumerated the commission would add a ten per cent profit for Farmers which would then be the Market Price of the commodities. Should the commission find after a Survey of the probable average Price in the world markers exclusive of the United states that the Price of the commodities would be less than their value in the heme markets plus ten per cent an Export deficiency Price would be declared. The commission would be empowered to Issue script with which would be paid on Export deficiency prices. Of from the five cent. . The House had set this limit at $40 and Senate proposals to exempt produce and merchandise brokers from the brokers tax and to restore the full Levy on billiard and Pool tables and Bowling alleys were approved. The Treasury proposal to limit deductions on account of capital losses to 12 1-2 per cent was restored to the Bill by demand of House conferees. Secretary Mellon has estimated it would increase returns in Revenue by $25,000,000 annually. A a Ole Hanson once Seattle mayor is held for to theft los Angeles. Calif., May 21.�?ole Hanson War time mayor of Seattle now a los Angeles real estate Subdivider will have an Opportunity to prove that he is not a horse thief in a Pasadena Justice court tomorrow. La Neon joked about the charge filed against him by Clarence w. Basten who alleged the former Seattle mayor stole a Strawberry Roan from his pasture. Hanson admitted taking the horse but explained it was one stolen from him 18 months ago and no doubt had been purchased in Good Faith by Basten. Basten however said the affair is not a joke and that swearing out of a horse theft complaint was his logical course when Hanson invaded his pasture and walked off with the Roan. Meanwhile Hanson has the horse and is at Liberty under $1,900 bail. Of committee wont Send Ford offer to Senate floor Chicago. 599 201 ring and Wilson Alexander and Hartnett. New York. 310 004 19 Pittsburgh. Too 012 Isi Bentley and Gowdy Kremer Lund Gren. Stone. Steineder. Yde and Gooch. American league St. Louis at Washington postponed wet grounds. Cleveland at new York postponed rain. Detroit 301 too ooo�?-4 7 i Boston too 400 olx�?5 7 3 Collins and Bailer Quinn and of Neill. Chicago at Philadelphia postponed rain. National league Boston. 0 St. Louis. 0 Stryker and o Neill Stuart and Gonzales. War discovery is used on Coolidge to break up cold Washington d. a May 21.�?a motion to report the Ford Bill providing for leasing of Muse e Shoals was lost by a vote of to to 6 today in Mitchell and i continued by invest James e. Stewart Deputy state Bank examiner in charge of the of l. Branson and company Bankers Bank Here today swore out a warrant for the arrest of h. T. Fuller Des Moines. Ta., vice president of the Iowa loan and Trust company on the charge of grand larceny. It is alleged in the complaint sworn to by or. Stewart that Fuller took securities of the Branson Bank amounting to $35,505.-15 after the Bank had been closed by or. Stewart acting for the state banking department on May 4. It is declared that extradition papers will be asked for Fuller immediately and that he will be brought Back from Des Moines to Mitchell to stand trial As soon As possible. According to or. Stewart or. Fuller. Who was acting for d. H. Mckee president of the Iowa loan and Trust company of Des Moines who purchased the Branson institution from o. L. Branson its founder last , appropriated the securities As further collateral for Loans already made to the Branson Bank by the Des Moines institution. Says theft occurred sunday the theft according to or. Stewart occurred on the afternoon of May 4. Last. The state banking department formally took charge of the Branson Bank at Midnight saturday May 3. According to or. Stewart. Sunday morning he. Together with Fuller and local officials of the Bank were checking Over the assets of the institution. Fuller was acting for d. H. Mckee president of the Branson Bank. Or. Stewart says that the work was continued until about 2 p. Rn., where it was stopped in order to give those doing the work an Opportunity to go to lunch. He claims that Fuller had a pile of papers concealed under his Arm on the desk and that when he Rose to leave the office he pocketed the papers. # a officers of the Bank who were in the room at the time told me of Fuller s action shortly afterwards or. Stewart avers a and when Fuller came Back later in the Day to continue the work of checking the Bank a paper i questioned him about the papers he had taken showed Stewart pencilled notes a file told me they were simply a few pencilled notes he had made and he Drew from his pocket some Blank checks upon which he had written certain notations of no value to the state. I returned the papers to him later the same night he came to me again and said that he had taken some securities and that he had changed his mind and wished to return them. He the handed me notes and mortgages valued at about $46,-000. The next Day we continued the checking of the assets monday. I then discovered that a Large number of other notes were missing. I questioned Fuller about them and he said they had been sent to Des Moines prior to the hour the state banking department had taken charge. An investigation however failed to disclose a receipt or a memorandum of the shipment. That night Fuller left the Senate agriculture committee. After the vote indications were that the committee might report the Norris government ownership Bill. In this event if the Ford bid is brought up in the Senate it would be in the form of a substitute for tee Norris Bill. Ltd a a a o. Weather forecast Iowa probably fair tonight and thursday possibly Light Frost to night not so Cool thursday. North and South Dakota mostly Washington d. C., May 21 a the chlorine Gas treatment for colds one of the discoveries of the chemical warfare service was taken by president Coolidge yesterday in an Effort to remove the remaining traces of the bronchial infection which confined him to the White House last saturday and sunday and since has slightly troubled him. The president took the treatment on the recommendation of Secretary weeks to whom it was administered with beneficial effects Nome time ago. Accompanied by brigadier general Cherie e. Sawyer Whit House Phy $ is clan fair tonight and thursday somewhat Wanner tonight. Local temperatures maximum and minimum temperatures a recorded by the official government thermometer from 7 a. In. Yesterday to 7 a. In. Today maximum 62. Minimum 32. At a. In. Today 48. A of weather and roads these bulletins Are filed at 8 30 a in. Dally by the associated Presa Mitchell Clear 48 roads fair. Watertown Clear 38 roads fair. Huron Clear 52 roads Good. Sioux Falls Clear 48 roads Good. Pierre Cloudy 42 roads Good. Aberdeen Clear 46 Road fair. Gallons and became convinced that Fuller himself had carried off the lot. I believe that the missing securities were in the bundle he carried out of the Bank office on sunday afternoon and it is my opinion that he got cold foot and returned Only a part of the securities thinking thereby to quiet my suspicion. recover notes. Or. Stewart pressed has investigations throughout the Days following Aud was utterly unable to recover the missing notes and finally determined that his Only recourse was to demand the arrest of or. Fuller. At the same time he requested a arrant for the arrest of Fuller or. Stewart asked for a warrant for Tbs arrest of c. Mckee of Mac Hal brother of d. H. Mckee of Des Moines president of the closed Bank. Or. Mckee was vice president of the institution. The complaint filed against or. Mckee charged that he made himself a loan of $800 on his own not without providing adequate collateral or responsible endorsers without first having obtained the approval of All the members of the Board of direct ors of the Bank and without immediately reporting such a loan in detail to the superintendent of Banks. In court this morning or. Mckee hearing wan continued until next monday and his Bond was fixed Ai $3,000

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