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Mitchell Evening Republican (Newspaper) - November 20, 1924, Mitchell, South Dakota Sixteen pages the evening Republican City edition Mitchell South Dakota thursday november 20, 1924. Number 43 maniac May Murd s. Girl wins $13,500 novel prize Happy women Are not smokers says Martha Ostenso wins Laure As the Wolf nears norwegian Young woman child in this state wins renown will buy Wolf hound in she Mav ays wanted one a wrote tale of Manitoba life by Gene Colin Nea staff writer. \ w York City. Nov. 20.�?tile Cin i drama with its endless Varia has moved its scene into the to tin Quot realm and taken As its heroine mull Ostenso slender of build with Tawny blonde hair and eyes of r Uhland Blue. Martha Ostenso is the girl who steeped from the obscurity of a whitewashed log schoolhouse to Fame by aiming the $13,500 Dodd. Mead prize of Tim Best first novel to be submitted in the year. The Laurel wreaths Are resting upon a very confused Young head. It a hard for her to believe it really has happened. Overnight she was snatched from Whit threatened to become a most Uncertain struggle and deposited with Eaffie cultic suddenness upon the Heights. Tile Wolf was near when the prize was awarded her tvs Wolf had grown tired Barking outside the door and had nibbled his Way Well across the threshold. A i really like to Tell you How bad things had gotten econom i it Illy a she said. A things really seemed pretty hopeless. It looked As a i would have to go Back to the Little school. It literally was the old melodrama situation of the mortgage coming Down on the old farm. A i had been writing my Book for years and some of my friends told my a prize would be offered. I thought it useless to try but was in-<1 red to rewrite my manuscript. I and Little time. My manuscript was a aided in just about eight hours before the a and what Are you going to do Martija Ostenso Vienna physician Vienna nov. 20.�?happy and satisfied women almost never smoke in the opinion of i it a. R. Hofstaetter gynaecologist who some time ago created a stir by his assertion that smoking alters women a faces making them look More masculine than feminine. A women who smoke much have almost invariably contracted the habit at a time when they were especially he says in his Book a the smoking a a women regard smoking As something a smart a he continues a smoking affords them an Opportunity to execute a surprisingly Large number of playful and therefore Graceful movements and positions. It is a significant fact that the smoking woman is much More concerned about the motions which she goes through As she smokes than is the new theory is pot Forth in Ohio mystery Zabeth 14, and Alice to. Are being checked by authorities. Clarence according to his Story was the last of the family to see the Mother alive. He related that he left Home shortly after his father. Authorities admit they Are puzzled by his action in not reporting discovery of his mothers body in the Furnace about 3 of clock. O a a pastor husband however thinks wife May have ended life while insane probe is continued prosecutor seeks to Check previous life in order to find some motive Curtis Urey to be party a Senate Leader Boston Papet defendant in test tax Case Dawes plan is great Success experts state americans reparations agents say results exceed All expectations All Europe is helped Washington d. C., nov. 20.�?th� Baltimore daily Post was indicted by Germany meets All payments and Industry takes kindly to solution new York n. Y., nov. 20.�? a5 a America s reparations experts who have been in Europe to straighten out Columbus Ohio nov. 20.�?up a in a a the Federal grand jury today for pub a determined Effort to piece together Uca lob of the income tax lists. All the Loose threads in the Domestic the indictment the first test Case life of mrs. Addle Sheatsley wife of to be instituted by the department of the Post War financial muddle re a re now Ai Justice to obtain judicial construction i turned on the steamship Homeric to the Rev. V. Sheatsley pastor of one f non via inn in the income i of conflicting Prou Sions in the income convinced that the Dawes plan in of the leading churches of the Fash tax Law charges that the Post printed. Honable Bexley suburb whose Par j the returns on income taxes in Vio a ready 3 r�st0 con enc Day evening so that it might be Aseer lation of Section 31<>7 of the revised i Germany. Furnace of the Sheatsley Home on Mon i statutes despite a warning Given by Day evening so that it might Ascer i the Treasury department when Public trained whether the mystery of her inspection was Ord red. Death is finally to be established As wants court ruling suicide or murder. County prosecutor i Washington d. nov. 20. Up John r. King carried his investigation lie a ran i jury proceeding against i Quot Washington. a nov. 20.�?up _ senator Curtis of Kansas assistant Republican floor Leader is regarded today As the outstanding candidate for the Senate Republican leadership made vacant by the death of senator Lodge. Final decision concerning the Post is expected to be reached at a party conference november 2s. Meanwhile today into the Circle of the dead woman a blood relatives. Accompanied by City detective Harry Carson. Or King left for Paris. Home of mrs. Sheatsley smother near ,. I tire conditions existing in Baltimore Canton Early today to go Over with to a All agreed moreover that the installation of the plan is proceeding with even greater Success than its framers had anticipated. The party included Owen d. Young the Baltimore daily Post atorney1 originator of tho technical features general Stone sought to present Var j of the plan re us Dawes it brother of the vice president elect who had Lous phases of the question of publishing income tax returns so that a court ruling Mav be obtained under the aged Mother the life history of the daughter from infancy Down he has instructed United states attorneys in six or seven other in charge of the Berlin office of the agent general of reparations h. M. Robinson of los Angeles who had charge of the organization of the reparations Bank and George p. Auld who or Taufi us stances to make presentment to \ a through the intervening Yea re to her Rand jurle9 n m Many Cutles ask. Ganged theace Untung marriage with Rev. Or. Sheatsley Nettra Nonor a i Nippa in my i All i it j us of and the Domestic relations in the Sheatsley Home up to the time of the daughters tragic death. Claims foul play the aged Mother made her Home with her daughter for several years until about a year ago by getting of of i i your Money a she was asked. A i Haven to the slightest idea. It frilly Isnit a great amount As Money figured but it seemed like All the r Oney in the world to me. My first a Era Valance will be a Russion wolfed. I always have wanted one. Maybe it will keep the Wolf away from the door in the miss Ostenso explained that she v i written her Story around a com a nit of primitive Stark peasant in Northern Manitoba. It was Ohe declares candidacy for speaker ship member of House for Tayo sessions says he favors Gunderson program Clark s. D., nov. 20.�?george b. Otte Clark member of the House of representatives for the last two sessions and re elected nov. 4 for a third term today made formal announcement of his candidacy for speaker of the House at the coming session of the legislature. Announcing that he is in Harmony with the program outlined by governor elect Carl Gunderson or. Otte declares for a a policy of Economy without Nigga Liness acid the elimination of duplication in boards departments and a of i ave no axe grind no rewards to bestow no favors to of farm Aid body word is said to have been received j the life history of mrs Sheatsley. Prosecutor King Hopes to be Able to to get facts next january in Senate circles that president Cool i j Edge will maintain a hands off policy with no preference to indicate As among the candidates mentioned All of whom have recently called at the White House. Senator Warren of Wyoming would succeed to the Post under the time honoured custom of Hoofring with Iman to have remedial legislation in shape for coming Short session. Fer a he says. A appoint eat the age of is she went to or intr a Jujj to mime strictly on a Bali in a of Cal in school. Among Sis a my serve the interests settlers was in icelandic Coloni. 0� people if this or. Otte is 4$ years of age and has lived in tit state for 20 years. He is a fori ice educator prominent in the Stater fear association and a world Wari Veteran. His candidacy is the Seco jul for the speaker ship to be Jannoun Jold formally. Charles s. Mcdonald of Sioux Falls having tired the j race several Days ago. T o Ved to this new scene because of in earthquake enforced exodus. They i id brought their hard native Cus fms to the new soil. A child in South Dakota herself of norwegian Stock and it lighter of a nomadic Norseman in the town that bears tho family miss Ostenso came to America a the age of two and spent her ii Hood in a a Sereti Little towns in s ii Dakota and Minnesota. A sensitive poetic Strain rebelled against the manner in which her neighbors met life. A the heroine of my Story is a k i that attended my she late. A she was quite intelligent a 1 possessed of unusual interests i stood High above the stolid and Ltd Are dumb assortment that came me. I found that she was being Illy beaten into submission. I not dare to write the whole Blunt us of her Story. People would to branded it unreal and too Pessi in former member of. House Dies a mourned in Ohio. Nov. 20.�?joseph t. Fry Many years ago a member Huso of representatives of Dakota who died at Miami Hospital was buried in Wood cemetery today. No mourners Washington d. C., nov. 20.�?the presidents agricultural commission was in recess today while All government agencies Whoso activities affect the farming Industry began the assembling of comprehensive information it requires As a basis for considering a permanent Relief program. Members of the commission plan to reassemble in january when it is expected sufficient data will be available for them to proceed with the formulation of livestock and cooperative marketing proposals which they regard As the must urgent problems before them. They Hope to have recommendations on these subjects and As Many others As possible ready for consideration by Congress before it expires March 4, in compliance with president Coolidge a desire that agricultural Relief be acted upon at the impending Short session. The commission recessed last night after agreeing upon a tentative plan of procedure which chairman Carey will carry its work Well beyond the adjournment of Congress. The data it has asked the government agencies to provide takes in financial statistical and regulatory activities pertaining to agricultural Tariff reclamation and numerous other subjects. Eugene Meyer jr., managing director of the War finance corporation. Chairman Hall of the interstate Commerce commission and officials of the Federal Power commission were among strengthen or completely disprove the theory advanced by Many and Clung to by county Coroner Murphy that mrs Sheatsley climbed into the Furnace and deliberately destroyed herself. Or. King notwithstanding the coroners theory of suicide maintains that mrs. Sheatsley was a victim of ing indictments of newspapers there to obtain court expressions in a variety of communities. Tho attorney general sad Oday he would press for Early court action in in the Baltimore Case and would pursue the same policy with respect to the others e desires to get the question to the supreme court As soon As possible. A a a o a a a a a the leadership the member with the fou play it that it would have been in longest serice record but is said to possible for her to enter the Furnace be unwilling to accept the task except for the Sake of party Harmony. Two other candidates have been mentioned senator Wadsworth of new York and senator Watson of Indiana. Senator Wadsworth has not taken an Active part in the Campaign in his behalf and is understood to be in the hands of his friends. Senator Watson says he is not a candidate although his name has been frequently brought Forward. Senator Warren continues to maintain silence on the question but it is with a bed of live coals in it and close the door behind her while at Paris or. King also sex great fortunes to be United As Kahn weds miss Whelan new York. N a a a nov. 20, of the wealthiest families in the country Are United by the marriage of Gilbert w. Kahn son of Otto h. Pets to question Brothers of the dead j Kahn of the banking firm of Kahn woman to ascertain what Light they May throw on her life. Further mystery was injected into the baffling Case when mrs g. R. Al Loeb and company to miss Anne e. Whelan of easter and n. J., daughter of Charles a. Whelan president of the United Cigar stores company. Ion who lives on Oak Street about i the wedding ceremony was perform two Miles from the Sheatsley Home. \ de by the Rev. John b. Kelley Spir reported to the prosecutor that on the j ritual director of the Catholic writ morning of the tragedy a strange Man visited her Home and asked if she would give him an overcoat. Upon understood he favors senator it Urtis j being told that she could not. Mrs. Al for the leadership and is willing to step aside in favor of the Kansas senator. Coolidge plans new arms meet Europe thinks Len told the prosecutor the Man asked to be shown the Furnace room. She refused and the Man jumped from the porch and ran up the Street in the general direction of the Sheatsley Home. Police tonight were looking for the Man. Maniac May boat Large while not placing much credence in the Story belief was expressed by some officials that a maniac might be j Orsu Bureau. After a two weeks honeymoon at Virginia hot Springs the couple will return to new York and the Groom will enter the banking business. Of five die in fire when 7 Plymouth buildings bum Plymouth. A. Nov 20.�?five lives at Large in the City and might have comprise the toll of a fire which de thrust mrs. Sheatsley a body into the a stroked seven Frame buildings in the Furnace. The prosecutor was not business Section Here today. The Geneva nov. 20.�?up a the latest Rumor circulating in Geneva on the disarmament question is that president Coolidge will convoke a new arms conference to meet in Europe perhaps at the Hague. Those circulating this Rumor insist that the Washington government already has sounded the new British government on the subject. Ihui Ial at capital Washington d. C., nov. 20. Up the state department issued today a Flat denial of rumours current in those consulted by the commission at i Geneva that the Washington govern its concluding session. Sui Ostenso finally fled the a country a i came to new j j engaging in social work and p. A a _ a Al a 4 i ing literary opportunities. But ends were failing to meet when j t Ess and Fame came to her. Hat will she do now Ivy to live up to the reputation ats a terrible responsibility upon people will expect so much i now she sighs. Weather forecast and erne a a a generally fair tonight an a i. Slightly cooler tonight 1 uth West portion. Minnesota generally fair ton i Friday slightly cooler ton d in Northwest portion. Dakota partly overed a Chi and Friday not much temperature. Outh Dakota fair tonight May warmer tonight in uth West portion. Nebraska fair tonight j warmer tonight in we est Faical temperature maximum and minimum a yes As recorded by the off a Airt thermometer from a verday to 7 a. In. Today maximum �T�53. Minimum 33. At 8 a. M. Today 37. Of under the grave which was Pur de by Michael Dunlevy Xenia grocer. The City paid for services n undertaker. Henry was known few persons in Dayton even years ago he placed his be rings contained in an old trunk a shed in the rear of Dunlevy Nocery. Yesterday mrs. Carrie Raymond of the City welfare department examined contents of the trunk and Learned for the first time that he had Een a member of the South Dakota legislature in 1895. Subsequently according to documents found m trunk he was appointed to be postmaster of Spearfish s. D., by postmaster general John Wanamaker. How Henry happened to Drift to Day-11 ton penniless is not known. Great Prosperity is just ahead is capper a belief Cincinnati Ohio nov. 2b.�?United states senator Arthur capper of Kansas Leader of the farm bloc in the Senate who addressed the Cincinnati advertising club yesterday declared that the nation faces the greatest Prosperity in its history. A it is a most optimistic message that i said the senator. A i think that we face the greatest pros Pety in our history. We have shipped More wheat to Europe in tho last three months than in All of 1923, and at satisfactory prices. This Means a great Deal to the Farmers. It Means that they Are coming into their own and Are on a More prosperous basis than at any time since the of ment was taking Steps to convoke a disarmament conference in Europe. The departments statement follows a in answer to a question by the associated press today the acting Secretary of state authorized the statement that there was no truth in the report circulated in Geneva that the Washington government was taking Steps to convoke a disarmament conference in new Farmer labor Alliance nearing completion claim overlooking any angles in his attempt to Clear what officials admit is the most mysterious Case that has confronted them in Many years. Because of its charred condition a dead Are mrs. Martin Sherako her Niece. Emily Petroski. La years old. And three unidentified boarders in the Sherako hotel. Another Board sered the ground in his remarks or. Edward Alexton. Was taken to a i Germany has met All payments under the Dawes plan to Date or. Young said adding that As a result of the recent $2,000,000,000 loan payments for the year terminating aug. 31, 1925 already Are in the hands of s. Parker Gilbert now agent general of the reparation commission. The general effect of the application of the plan we As of such an encouraging character he continued that it was not anticipated Germany we Ould have to float another loan next year. German Industry he said has taken kindly to the plan. A two things have surprised me and everyone else who has had anything to do with the installation of the plan a or. Young said. A first the ease of its installation and second the simplicity of its working and the Small Force required to operate the staff of the commission not including clerks and stenographers will not exceed two Enty persons he added a emr. Gilbert and his associates made a most profound impression in Paris and or. Young said and turned to a discussion of the revival of Industry in Germany saying unemployment decreases a there has been the greatest improvement in the spirit of the people of Germany and a marked reduction in unemployment. The increase in Industrial activity is chiefly due to a returning spirit of Confidence. The morale of the German people has improved. As to politics there is a Drift on the part of the nationalists and the communists to the Central party which is essentially democratic in spirit and Liberal in its concerning the French attitude toward Germany or. Young said he believed that a emr. Herriot is convinced that the greatest Security of Franco lies in the establishment of More Complete democracy within others of the party had Little to say explaining that or. Young had a Cov chemical analysis cannot be made of 1 Hospital at likes Barre in a serious the stomach of mrs Sheatsley. It is j condition reported expert examination of the j the fire which was of in Determen Fri found portion. Pera Al gov a. In. Bijou Hills s. D., nov. 19, 1924. Tile evening Republican Mitchell s. Gentlemen weather and to Sioux Falls Cloudy Pierre Clear 42 roads Good. Jan Clear 40 roads Good. Aberdeen Clear. 32 roads goo Watertown Clear 44 roads Gol Mitchell Clear 37 roads Good. Please discontinue the want and for my travelling bag As it has been returned to me. Enclosed find 56 cents to pay for the two insertions. Respectfully mrs. E. L. Creamer. Captain Smuts in Hospital tried to end life belief Boston. A. Nov. 20.�?Captain a. Smuts Cousin of general Jan Smuts. South african War hero. Was resting comfortably today at a Hosp a Tai. Where he was taken last night with a Bullet wound in his Chest. When questioned at the Zoelta Captain Smuts warned the authorities not to make trouble for his a life mrs. Smuts As May Yohe was form Erly the wife of lord Francis Hope and later was married to Captain Putnam Bradlee Strong son of a mayor of new York. She was married to Captain Smuts in London in 1923. As the wife of lord Hope she became possessor of the Hope Diamond around which is Woven a Story of mishaps for the York n. Y., nov. 20.�?a movement to Arm a National Alliance Between Industry and agriculture is Well underway William ii. Barr president of the National founders association announced yesterday in an address before the Twenty sixth lungs and oesophagus. Now in the hands of chemists May reveal police said whether she breathed after she entered the firebox of the Furnace. Recalls hindu custom in explaining to prosecutor King the cause of his reversal of opinion from murder to suicide. Rev. Or. Sheatsley pointed to statements of alienist who declared that insane persons will cast themselves upon flames. He also pointed to religious works which relate the hindus cremate themselves while in a fit of religious Fervour. Per. M. Sheatsley said that he had come to the conclusion that a woman the size of his wife could crawl through the 14 Inch Square door he also expressed the belief that menopause through we hich mrs. Sheatsley was passing might have caused her to become violently insane with the chronic nervousness to which she had been subject As a contributing Factor. While prosecutor King does not deny that it would be possible for a person to enter such a Furnace he contends that the person could not survive the intense heat Long enough to close the doors. It has been definitely established he said. That the woman entered the door feet first. He declared that investigation revealed de origin started in the basement of the Sherako boarding House police said. The flames fed by the wooden Frame construction of the building gained rapid headway and soon spread to six other places. These included a grocery store a tailor shop meat Market furniture store and Cigar store and Pool room. Ofa 1 a he vhf wind fans fire loss near $60,000 Couzens starts his inquiry of Revenue Bureau Washington a c., nov. 20.�?the investigation of the internal Revenue Bureau by the special Senate committee got under Way today with indications that it would continue until the closing Days of this Congress. After an executive session and a conference with president Coolidge by chairman Couzens. Who outlined Worthington. Minn. Nov. 20.�?fire the plans 0f the committee it was an blown by a Strong Southeast wind. ounce j yesterday that a vigorous and which had assumed threatening pro uninterrupted inquiry would be con portions Early today was brought in into the operations of the by Der control after burning a half City Reau. Block bore causing damage estimate although its program was not defend at unit Ely agreed upon yesterday. The the St. Johns elevator Komnen it comm Ltee decided to examine one witness today on the tax settlement of i a huge estate before discussing further its procedure with reference to the prohibition unit. It had been virtually decided to in suffered the heaviest damage the main elevator and office of the com pan were razed reusing loss estimated at $40.nap wheat valued at to n Oon which was stored in the main elevator. Was destroyed. Another elevator to Manv. A Loev Awat from 1 vulgate the issuance of Tondu atrial the Blaze which had been fired by alcohol permits but whether the in Sparks together with a resistance. I Quiry will go Furtner remains to by that it would be impossible for her i it a jct wa9 it he �?zn1y one in the f clock determined. To do this without using something n j a machine 5hop an 1 but a Dongs of annual convention of the association. A is a step or support. All persons who Tranita company which were living i Vrell to or to the National Grange is interested have been have declared Djercj y a the path of the flames Airt us Bijj log. Al a Moo m m i a via a a a it a a a in the movement or. Barr said and that there was nothing near tho fur wer0 save j on y after a hard fight. Committees representing agriculture. Nace when the body was found that and Industry have been formed in Many states. The committee to promote the Alliance was named at today s convention with j. W. Thompson chairman of the executive com Vienna nov. 20.�?hayyp and Man. Rail body files protest against rate increases could have been used for this Pur Pierre s. D., nov. 20.�?the South Dakota railway commission today filed with the interstate Commerce commission a protest against impending advances in certain merchandise rates fro Middle Western Points to South Dakota jobbers. The commission charges discrimination favouring competing jobbers in Minnesota my Iowa. Pose. Advance new theory another theory advanced today by some authorities was that mrs. Sheats Ley committed suicide and that her body was placed in the Furnace by some one. A movements of the minister on the afternoon of the tragedy were thoroughly checked yesterday by the police who announced they tallied exactly with statements made during his examination. Miss Helen Roess. A student in one of Rev. Or. Sheatsley a religious classes at capital University who is ill in a local Hospital confirmed the ministers statement that he visited with her monday afternoon. Police verified his statement that he left Home about 1 30 in the afternoon and returned Home about 4 45. In the intervening time he visited a Bank bought a hat visited the Hospital and made several pastoral Calls. Statements of the four children. Milton 20, Gin Rene a 16 file sold Sheller Plankinton s. D., nov. 18, 1924. The evening Republican Mitchell s. Dear sirs the want and you inserted for me showing i had a Sheller for Sale got Good results. I sold the Sheller to a or. Meyer of Alexandria yours truly r. V. Fitzgerald. In Semi comatose state doctor says Marion. Ohio. Nov. 20.�?mrs Warren g. Harding was in a Semi comatose state today at the White Oak sanitarium of or. Carl e. Sawyer where she has been at the Point of death for the last week. Or. Sawyer in a bulletin however said that her heart action was fair. The White House is keeping in constant touch with or Sawyer several inquiries were received last night from Washington concerning mrs. Harding a condition. Of Church to be dedicated Emery s. A. Nov. 20.�?St Paul a presbyterian Church which has been recently completed Here will be dedicated next sunday november 23. Rev. Val Junker pastor will con i duct special services throughout it Public is invited

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