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Mitchell Evening Republican (Newspaper) - May 24, 1924, Mitchell, South Dakota Sixteen pages the evening Republican City edition Mitchell South Dakota saturday May 24, 1924. Number 202klan War flames up again a copt. Macklin is still on Job Jefferies 65, leads indians in Southland virginian was original hero of Davis stories of Central America fights for principle maker of latin presidents i is again leading revolution i of Ferrera by Bob Dorman Nea sorrier staff writer copyright 1921, by Nea service Tegucigalpa honduran May 24.�? sixty five years old 44 years of fighting. A maker of presidents and today still playing the same game the game he has loved and followed for so Many years. General Herbert Jeffries is Back i in the country to which he came As a boy to instruct the soldiers of the country in military tactics. He left a Good place in a Bank in Salvador to answer the Call of old companion in arms general ferret. He gave lip the comforts of civil j Iza Tion to once More take place 1 at the head of the faithful indians who followed in Many campaigns j in the past. To eat Beans and tortillas to sleep on the ground to face the Sun. J rain and storm. A Why did i come because i am j of that race that has discovered the j far Corners of the world whose one j desire is to see what lies just beyond the horizon. To see strange people and stranger countries. A the heritage of the Anglo Saxon race is the wanderlust and it has Given them Dominion in All parts of the world. A and i came. Too because of Friendship Friendship for general Ferrera one of the most valiant Aud honest men tha i Over have met. A it was not Hope for financial gain that brought me. A i have plenty for my a ars. And for my son. A but Don t think boy that i want my son to be a Soldier. A fighting never brought one anything. A what the world needs is peace and As i grow older i see More and More clearly that need. A the Day a a. off. When All will realize and act. On that general Jeffries was born in Mia of an old family tied there in the 17th Century. He is the original of the Captain Macklin of Richard Hardin David. He has commanded armies o Bambi. Panama. Honduras hosta Rica and Salvador. He has led troops against Nicaragua and Guatemala. He was one of the leaders of the panamanian revolt nest a hat gave to the United mates Panama canal. He has made and helped unmake presidents throughout Central Amel life of excitement life has been one round of adventure and excitement. Picacho the hi., that dominates Tegucigalpa the capital of proved the Stumb general Herbert Jeffries and lower left general Geronimo Rivas a Pupil of Jeffries. Lower right is an Indian of the Type which Jeffries has commanded in War. Remaining farm Aid Bill Senate votes is target for i to exonerate amendments Montana Solon Chicago police senators vote seek woman in for adherence Franks murder to world court new threats of violence foreign relations committee cause guard to be placed j finally adopts plan Sim about bereaved Home liar to peppers Auto number is clue i Hiram still opposed character of Slayer suspect Mattek will now go before is Beni rep from an a Lysis of glasses. Senate by t action this session is enl rely Toldo affords yank aviators noisy Welcome Tokio Japan. May 2 4.�? a3 a Tok to took the american fliers to its heart today. A Welcome unsurpassed in cordiality and enthusiasm was Accord did the three aviators who Are circumnavigating the Globe by plane and their mechanics. The Day was a round of official Calls and entertainments. At each of which notables expressed admiration for the achievement of the americans in crossing the Pacific. Several Corella i references to japanese american relations were made. Chicago 111., May 24.�? a3 a a woman was sought today for the first time in connection with the kidnapping and death of Robert Franks 13 year old son of a millionaire manufacturer. This and an automobile License num Ber were All that the police allowed to Washington. Omay 24.�? the conference report on the tax reduction Hill approved to Day by the Senate. It will to taken up by the House monday and of accepted there unchanged will he sent to tile president. Washington d. C., May 24.�?adherence of the United states to the become known of their plans to solve i permanent court of International the mystery. A police guard was hurriedly thrown about the Home of Jacob Franks father of the slain 13 year old victim of kidnappers. Robert Franks today after new threats of violence had been reported to state s attorney Robert e. Crowe by members of the family. Fathered threatened again Anonymous Telephone Calls to the Franks residence the father reported to the state s attorney warned of tace was endorsed in a Resolution reported today by the Senate foreign relations committee. The Resolution by the committee j follows closely the composite proposal put Forward by senator Pepper Republican Pennsylvania. The committee action brings the world court technically before the Senate for the time by there is Little Hope in any quart of a vote during the present ses?1 n. Before taking up the plan even Mcmaster tells East to boost for democrats evening Republican Bureau 301 Albee building Washington d. C., May 24. One assailant of klan chief shot by police s. Glenn Young and wife fired on and authorities engage gunmen in fight two other captured new outbreak is directly charged to Young s activities against bootleggers. Further outrages if the Hunt for the dually reported the committee voted slayers continued. Chief of police Morgan a. Collins and chief of detectives Hughes after a protracted conference this afternoon issued a joint statement predicting a pointed developments a in Tho baffling and tragic mystery. Science in the meantime has satisfied the authorities that Robert Franks was killed by suffocation and Down to to 8 the proposal Prepa red by senator Swanson. Democrat Virginia which compromised substantially the proposal transmitted to Congress by president Harding and Coolidge. The Vole on the proposed plan was to to 0, All Tho Republican members except senator Johnson California being recorded in favor and the Derri science too had pointed the Way Tojo rats present in opposition. Washington d. C., May 24.�? a Washington d. A. May 23.�?<a> will come and it is not. Amendments to the Mcnary Kau the Senate today adopted the major Gen farm Relief Bill were in order Muity report of its investigating commit exonerating senator Wheeler. I Democrat. Montana of the charge of Vit which see the House today with discussion Lim tee item by the five minute Rule. Numerous amendments were pre pared by opponents of the measure i accepting a. Fee to prosecute on land which would create a $200,,ooh claims before the Interior department corporation to sell surplus farm pro after election to the Senate i ducts abroad during the 15 hours of the vote on exonerating senator j general debate which ended yester a Wheeler was 56 to 5. I Day and these were expected to pre a the Senate previously had voted vent a vote today on the Bill As a Down a motion by senator Stirling whole. This would prevent action Republican. South Dakota to Post until the latter part of next week. Pone action. Senator Sterling who uder plans of House leaders to Lay minority report from the Spe identification of the ownership of the Peculiar spectacles found near the swamp where the body was found in a Culvert. The spectacles Are such As Are Ordinary worn by a woman. Coroner Oscar Wolff announced that the boy was a victim of suffocation after chemists had found no external cause of death no metallic poisons in the vital organs and concluded that a hand or cloth pressed Over the lad s Mouth brought death. The spectacles narrow from Temple to Temple with comparative straight Hows such As usually Are worn by a woman concave lenses intended for Street Wear by a far sighted person were made to order from prescription a Chicago optician declared. Recons meted prescription the proposal of chairman Lodge a which would have set up an entirely new court was withdrawn by its author before the committee had an Opportunity to vote upon it Herrin ju., May 24.�? a a Jack Skelcher an alleged gangster was killed and the other occupant of a heavily curtained touring car was wounded in the leg and captured in a revolver fight with constabulary Here today. The two men Are a inspected by the officers fat of having participated in Tho attempted assassination last night of s. Glenn Young. Kun Xian liquor Raider. _ the wounded Man gave name As by George f. Authier a Brrown a but refused to make a governor w. H. Mcmaster of South statement. Dakota together with lieutenant Skelcher who had a Long police governor Carl Gunderson is working record was caught in one of the her with the South Dakota delegation in Rin liquor raids last Winter directed the interest of the Mcnary Haugen by Young. Bill. Governor Mcmaster made the two automatic revolver two sawed following statement of shotguns and a riot gun wars if Eastern representatives fail to found in Skelcher a car we hich was support this Bill which will material wrecked when it collided head on 1\ increase the purchasing Power of with another machine. The wrecked the Middle fest the East will soon machine was of the same make As Tho experience the same financial distress one occupied by Youngs assailants which prevails in the agricultural Dis nikot., i Herrin ill., May 24 up Jack Tina Diana trial paranoia is slow j Skelcher was killed and two other Union surely spreading eastward. Last occupants of a heavily cur u7.077 eprtm.?n?,"t0.r.� to led touring car. All by officers of having participated in the Central West City dismissed 1,200 employees another dismissed 500 employees. The shoe and leather business Cotton manufacturers and other industries in the cast have already been . A the Cost of butting into operation the Mcnary Haugen Bill is the Cost of Tho plan approved by the commit i insurance which will protect the East tee recommends adhesion to the court on condition that the court statute and protocol Are .-0 amended that the United states shall have the same voting representation As any other Power that the original jurisdiction of the tribunal shall be restricted an. From great financial distress. Unless Eastern senators and congressmen do their part in restoring the enormous purchasing Power of the Middle West which today is greatly impaired the East in a very Short time will be confronted with closed Mills and factories attempted assassination of s. Glenn Young. Kun flux klan liquor Raider last night were captured Iii a gun fight with police Here today. One of the two men captured was shot in the leg while the other was bruised when their car collided with another and both overturned. Officers refused to reveal Tho names of the men according to an unverified report they were indicted in connection with the slaying of Constable Oscar Cagle in riots last february. The three men were armed with automatic revolvers and a machine d that Jurt a shall be fleeced in a not dime a Quot a the j a fou to car it. Same financial depression we hich pre 1 Der a Council and Assembly composed of signatory Powers instead of Sim Val 8 n a we it it 0_ liar auxiliaries of the league of a tons. Only one change from the text of 1 the Pepper plan As introduced thurs aside the measure during the first three or four Days for consideration of other legislation Cial committee. Proposed that the majority report exonerating senator Wheeler be held in abeyance and that and which has night up Tine hand had cloudiness fair to eing Block of the present Renvoi to la Quot a ims. He captured in 1919 by a Strat a stripping indians to the1 skin and armed Only with. Led them in the darkness the the Steep sides of Pica outstretched the other r rasping the Machete ready should the outstretched hand touch a re flesh the Man was sate. But should it meet cloth the. It swung and another enem it had fallen. Thus he envied a siege that a 30 Days. We athe forecast Sun a Dakota fair tonight and probably sunday rising temperature. Iowa fair tonight not quite so. In West portion Light Frost 5 by sunday increasing a rising temperature. North Dakota Generali r so and sunday not so Cool in West and South portions. Minnesota fair tonight and pro. My sunday Frost tonight not so Cool tonight in Southwest portion rising temperature sunday in South portion. W Eer s forecast Washington d. C., May 24. Weather Outlook for the week beginning monday of the great i Akes Gen foil fair at beginning followed by c a Psi durable cloudiness and unsettled occasional showers temperature Normal. A upper Mississippi Valley consid Erable cloudiness and occasional show frs first half latter half fair Normal temperatures. I it Oeal temperatures maximum and minimum tempera tires As recorded by the official government thermometer from 7 a. In. Yesterday to 7 a. In. Today maximum. 48. Minimum. 28. At r a. M. Today. 41. Precipitation .07. these bulletins Are filed at s 3� a in. Dally by the associated Presa Mitchell Clear. 41 roads fair. Huron Clear. 39 roads rough it it our Falls Clear 38 Road Good Pierre Clear. 32 roads Good. Aberdeen so roads Good a Watertown Clear 32 Road Lair. At the outset of consideration of i in the meantime no Steps be taken the Bill today. Representative As i to question that senator s right to sex Well Democrat. Louisiana offered excise the duties of membership. As a substitute the Yoakum farm re \ senator Spencer Republican mis Lief plan but it was thrown out end sour then offered a Resolution which a Point of order. It would create j would have modified the committee s a farm marketing association to shopping exoneration of senator would loan Wheeler and would have declared merely that the inquiry had disclosed no facts which would disqualify which the government $10,000,000. An amendment by representative Blaton. Democrat. Texas proposing that the president instead of the corporation to be created under the Bill should decide when conditions warranted termination of the corporation s activities was rejected 82 to 13. Hughes county votes $50,000 for new Bridge Pierre. S. D., May 24.jhughes county commissioners today cited $50,000 in county warrants for the construction of a Bridge across the Missouri River at Pierre. The commissioners have the virtual Assurance of other counties in this Vicenty that they will cooperate in launching construction of the Bridge this summer. A a �1 a a a a the statute kno usually consid similar to those already signed with Ere As a Standard is 6082.66 feet. Great Britain. Germany and Sweden from serving in the Senate. It was Defeated by to 8. Eighteen republicans joined with 36 democrats and the two Farmer labor senators in support of the report. It was announced that All of the absent democratic senators would have supported the report had they been present. Four Republican senators were present but did not vote. They were Moses. New Hampshire Reed Pennsylvania Warren Wyoming and wads Worth new York. O Norway and u. S. Sign fourth rum pact at capital Washington d. A May 24.�?th fourth of the rum treaties to be negotiated by the United states was i signed Here today by Secretary Hughes and norwegian minister Bryn. The agreement provides for Extension of the right of search beyond the three mile limit and is he reconstructed the prescription after an examination of the spectacles j was made in the committee. It As follows would have the effect of admitting to both eyes plus fifty cylinders. Axis the benefits of the court any nation j ninety degrees both eyes. Pupillary which has diplomatic relations with distance sixty five Millimetres. Len Seany signatory instead of restricting 1 circumference forty Millimetres. Them to signatories. Six Inch Skull fit temples. Torte lenses i the Resolution reported contains j Frame material All Zyl onite. Textually the half dozen amendments j from these deduction the opt that the other nations would be re Cian believed the owner of the spec quire to adopt As a candidate of am tables could have been a woman be i Erica membership. They have the cause of the straight bows or a Man. J effect of deleting from the court stat although men usually prefer rounded i Ute references to thy league of a a search for diamonds remember the legend of the Arab Al hated How he sold farm to raise Money so he could go in search of diamonds a and How the Man who bought farm found diamonds in the very Stream where Al hated had gone for water for years Are you missing the same kind of an Opportunity that lies at your door you May think of various ways to raise Money but what about the unnecessary articles in your Home right now that could be disposed of to advantage someone could use them and a classified and in the a for Sale column of the Republican will find that person for you quickly. Bows to Hook Over the ears. The wearer either he or she the optician believed is of nervous perhaps neurotic tendency rather intellectual and temperamental one leading a sedentary life. The person he added was one of Long rather than round head Short reach from temples to ears and narrow frontal. The lenses were specially ground he said. A threatening letter also was received at the Franks Home today. Its contents were not made known at once but it was said to be written in poor English much different from the style and construction of the original Ransom letter demanding $10,000 which was received on thursday morning. The letter according to Samuel a. Ettelson. Attorney and Friend of the family said the letter purported to come from the kidnappers and threatened death to members of the family unless the investigation was stopped. At the same time four men. One an instructor and another a former instructor at the private school which the Franks boy attended were detained for further questioning. Pension plan is adopted by presbyterians grand rapids. Mich., May 24.�? a a the presbyterian general Assembly today adopted a pension plan for ministers missionaries and other accredited workers of the Church effective april i 1926. Or sooner prepared by a special Lay committee of which will Hays president of the motion picture producers and Distri iwas reported. Police had gathered on the West outskirts of Herrin to head off the men when it was reported their car had gone through Carterville six Miles West of Here travelling at High Speed. Tons and substituting in each Case a phraseology that would include the United states. Specific reservation is made also in the Resolution with regard to Preser-., ,.ration of the Monroe doctrine and a tutors of America is chairman. The president is called upon to con i Vene a third Hague conference to codify International Law. O �11 a a extradition of Fuller sought from governor Pierre. S. A May 24.�? special a a request came into the office of governor Mcmaster this morning for the extradition of h. T. Fuller of Des Moines vice president of the Iowa Trust and loan company. It is expected that the governor Wil Lissue a requisition on the governor of Iowa within the next few Days the governor not yet having returned from the East. Fuller is charged with grand larceny in the alleged removal of securities and other valuables from the o. L. Branson co., Bank at Mitchell shortly after that Bank closed its doors on May 4. 1 to 1 a feeble jury is still out Given Case late Friday one dead Many Hurt in storm in Missouri Poplar Bluff mo., May 24.�?at least one person was killed and several we Ere injured Beverly by a wind and electrical storm in Southeastern Missouri late last night. The two year old son of or. And mrs. N. Anderson at Gray Ridge mo., was killed when the storm demolished the Anderson Home. Or. And mrs. Anderson were seriously injured the latter probably fatally. Three of their children were Aslo severely injured. Telegraph and Telephone service was demoralized and reports had not been confirmed at noon of one killed and seven injured at Caruthersville where a business Block was said to have been destroyed. Resolution for peace adopted at Church meet the first defeat for the fundamentalists came late last night when the committee on judicial business accepted a report that had been presented by a minority Section of the Philadelphia presbytery and which the fundamentalist majority had urged be thrown out. Fire Moon s shoe store of unknown origin Arm Vej outlaws in Sedan attack Young on Highway Belleville iii., May 24.�? a3 a police of Many Southern Illinois cities j Are searching today for four unidentified gunmen who late yesterday of ter noon attempted to take the life of s. Glenn Young. Kun k4ux klan dry Raider while Young and w Ife were driving on the Atlantic Pacific Highway at the Okaw River Bottoms West of Okawville by firing a Volley of shots at them from a Sedan. Both Young and wife were wounded but escaped death by dropping to the floor of their car As Tho gunmen a car sped by them whip three of the men fired from 43 calibre automatics and a Shotgun. Mrs. Y Oung received a charge of shot in the right Side of her face while Young was wounded in the right in. The wounds Are not considered serious. Youngs machine was pierced by fifteen bullets. Young was returning to East or. Louis iii., following attendance at a klan meeting at Harrisburg iu., thursday night accompanied by wife when a Sedan which had be a following . Seeded up and As it passed the three men opened fire. Although two automatic revolvers and a sub machine gun were in car. The attack was so sudden he was unable to return the fire. As paid Leader of the klan in i seris of liquor raids in Williamson county. Illinois Young caused the arrest of Many persons charged i h fire of unknown origin broke out shortly after 2 p. In. Today in the basement of the a. U. Moon shoe store. It was not possible to Esti mate the damage but or. Hoon be-1 i ovations lived there was considerable loss to j 0 the Stock caused from the smoke i which filled the building. The janitor had built a fire in the Furnace Early this morning and had gone Bak. At noon to look at it and clan the basement. Reports were that the fire had started from an overheated Furnace but after the flames had been extinguished the janitor examined the Furnace where there was Only a Small bed of smouldering coals. To service record not needed for Bonus policies Springfield mass. May 24.�?the peace Resolution of a special committee announced yesterday was unanimously adopted by the methodist episcopal general conference Here today. An amendment was adopted which demanded that the conscription of wealth and labor a be a counterpart of any future conscription of human in War. The demand for the conscription of wealth and labor in time of War was proposed by or Joseph m. M. Gray of Scranton a. A we should demand a he said a that the government which com Resinto the parsonage and says a in my that the government which comes today baseball National i league new York. 2oo la Cincinnati. 220 20 and Snyder Benton Washington d. C., May 24.�?officials Are taking Steps to Avert a flood of useless correspondence with War veterans in connection with the Bonus. Plans for Issue of insurance certify Dean Nehf and Snyder Benton ,.hav� been so. Deal cd As 10 and Wingo make it unnecessary for any Veteran Boston. 002 03 to do More than f111 out the App Ca Chi ago. Loo j j Aberdeen s. A. May 24.�?no ver dict has been returned by the jury deliberating the Fate of Jonas Keeble Indian preacher on trial at Webster j into the parsonage and says a in a Gofer the murder of wife last March j ing to take your two boys to die in t the culmination of family disa j the battled shall go into the offices arcement. The Case was Given to the of the laymen and the Central labor jury at 6 of clock Friday evening and j Union and say a a we la take your no verdict or word from the jury i wealth to that when our boys Are rent had com at 2 of clock this of i dying for i a Day no other Man urn Oon. 20 Houri afterwards. Chall be striking Tor til a Greenwich and of Neil keen and Hartnett. Broklyn at Pittsburgh postponed rain. Philadelphia. 3 St. Louis. 1 Glanzer and Henline Haines Sher Del and Gonzales. American league St. Louis too too ooh i 5 0 Philadelphia too 002 oo�?2 6 i called end 8th inning shocker Pruett kelp Vangilder and Severeid Rego Heimach and Perkins. Cleveland too too ooi�?2 7 i Boston too 112 iox�?6 14 0 Coveleskie Metevier and Myatt Ferguson and of Neill. Iki troit .200 210 101�?7 13 new York Ooi too 010�?3 8 2 Holloway and Bowler Pennock and scan. Hic ago at Washington postponed 1 Ain. Tion Blank soon to be made available All Over the country. The circular of instructions which accompany the Blank will instruct applicants to fill in their answers to the questions to the Best of their knowledge or recollection and let it got that. There will be no necessity for obtaining records of service. A seven killed in fire in Eastern Mill town today Canton. Mass May 24�? a woman a and six children were killed in a fire which destroyed a two family Hou _ he e Early today. The victims were mrs. Arnett a Amateio and two of her children the four children of Joseph i Cabre. Tbs cause of the be is not Alao wet

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