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Mitchell Evening Republican (Newspaper) - October 21, 1924, Mitchell, South Dakota Ten pages the evening Republican City edition n Mitchell South Dakota tuesday october 21, 1924. Number 18 says happiest Man is living in the ice explorer finds brotherly love among eskimos i valiant declares people is in Stone age Are most Joyful know no strife la truly cooperative they Satisky the Kiu Sim pkg wants a ii loin Matson m a sen i v writer to mr., oct. 21.�?found a St Man Eskimo living in tho ice a poem and Kyack. He eau Walrus meat he eats the it i Birds and he eats Dot. He m is with skins. His Home Iii the ice. Ile has no Tiv a no steam heat. He has or us store. No movies. No. Or is Happy. So says or. Donald Man. Artic explorer. Just j to oui a 14-months scientific Isit in the far North a that if Cir talk about our Civ i not Buncombe. The More i in Eskimo the More i think anybody is civilized on Thi is this Man of the ice. Icv Ihan has lived with the he first met him when he lamber of the Peary expedit i be has since known him on expeditions. The Eskimo a Millay. Each time he comes their country they Greet him d Friend and they help him r his staunch Little Schooner Wdowin through the icebergs. Spirit of brotherly love exists a else in this world As it exists the eskimos a or. Macmillan of a have no Bank accounts. Tory Date no property. What belongs belongs to another. Their is a cooperative spirit. Seal meat rat. Dog meat Homes that Are holes in the ice these Are tan cards not above those of in acre. Truly the Eskimo is five dead in gun blast on scout Cruiser unexplained explosion takes place in Forward Turret of the Trenton fourteen Are injured Chain gang to be used to clean up mushroom Oil City Wewoka okla., oct. 21.�?equipped with a sixty foot Chain to which he purposes handcuffing violators of the Law and marching them 16. Miles j to jail Here. Judge George c. Crump of the ninth judicial District planned to go to Cromwell Oklahoma s new est Oil Boom town where it is charged vice and minor crime is rampant. J candidates All speeding up As election nears Fata ii Accident accompanied by Maxy deeds of heroism of new warship top shows members of the Polar expedition under Captain Donald r Macmillan. Seated Captain Macmillan and John Jaynes. Engineer. Stading Tom Mccue mate Donald mix. Radio operator Eugene Robinson William Lewis and Dick Goddard. Lower left shows the staunch l 1ttlk Schooner Bowdoin in which the trip was made. Lower right shows the greeting Given the adventurers by people of Wiscasset me. Norfolk va., get. 21.�?op five dead three in a critical condition and 12 or 34 others More or less j seriously injured comprised the casualty list Early today resulting from j an unexplained explosion late yes j ter Day in the Forward twin gun mount of the new scout Cruiser Tren i ton. The ship was engaged in target practice on the Southern Drill grounds off Cape Henry when the Accident occurred and was rushed immediately to Hampton roads. Eight of the Moat severely burned were transferred by tug to the naval Hospital at Portsmouth where one died Early today and several others were thought to have Little Chance to recover. The dead include Ensign Henry Clay Drexler of Sussex Beach Del. Roland Philip # Hanson Seaman first class Soldier Iowa. Bernard Beverly Byam Seaman second class Bristol Conn. William Alfred Wall a Seaman first class Mayo s. C., who was terribly burned blown overboard Ani drowned. George Robert Cholister Boatswain a mate first class merchants Ville n. J., who died of his injuries in the Hospital. C Ause still unknown a message from the Trenton re Grain embargo at twin cities is threatened advisory Hoard told conditions Mik so congested drastic action needed la Follette threatens Senate scandal if Money is expended unlawfully judge Crump convened a Brief court of inquiry Here yesterday As a Davis visits Kentucky prelude to his activities at Cromwell j today he will Convene a similar court i Hawes plans Mav assault on there and As evidence is found a j Lafollette Bertan talks rests will be made and the a Chain to Illinois miners gang formed. _ la Follett special. In route to Rock Island iu., Des Moines la., get. 21.�?up a As he turned eastward today with the intention of devoting the remainder of Bis Campaign to stump Jing in tho states cast of the Mississippi River senator Robert m. Lafollette Independent presidential candidate renewed his demand for a searching inquiry into Campaign expenditures. I declaring that letters already put f into evidence before tho Senate invest Ligating committee a show that fund being raised in Eastern states Are to be used in doubtful Western or. Lafollette declared in a statement that a fall these Western states have corrupt practices Acta and should it develop that this Money is being used in. Unlawful amounts in those Western mates where corrupt practice acts exist inc rights of the senators and congressmen to their seats will be questioned in the next from Rock Island tho Wisconsin senator will go to Peoria he Aud then will invade Michigan again for Art and Aberdeen s. D., oct. 21.�?conges- Tion of Grain at twin City and do j Lith terminal markets co serious As to threaten an embargo was reported to the meeting of the Northwest and j visor Board Here today by chairman i p. Coleman chairman of a joint terminal Grain comm tee. Appeal to Farmers and country elevators to i withhold shipments Mas recommend j cd by the committee hut when the j More drastic prohibition of All Grain i shipments to Minneapolis and Duluth i was urged the matter was made a special order of Busine. A in the Stone ago but whether nows it or not he possesses great Voi Nens a happiness far above our j he explorer explains his own the j their Superior happiness and lid seem that Macmillan Attri most of our troubles to our to is what we own we Light to get tight to protect. Their needs Are simple so they get hey need. That is Why they Are a they know that if they have j Gilt for their food they will fight Clements and that every Man j my them joins there is none i no them who could Corral All the a get a Corner on the whales and or k to better himself through offering of others. T e life of the a amp Kimo is sincere pie. He has no intricate Codea pions no pretences no am it can be realized Olny beating Down of his Lei Quot min to a i it a Al i it m ii Jan asserts that one Gem perspective on life a North. A civilization a he j is its he de j e a he Eskimo race As one Large a Ippu Imily willing to work and j a Fie i with their lot. A i Jrsn or. Macmillan was Hap in in again at Mohegan is off the Maine coast where he relatives and friends. Back i the hardships of the North he i is it v \ might have been elated a g returned safely to a Civ stage All set for trial of Ben Salinger former head of defunct mid land packing company finally brought to bail Sioux Falls. S. In Ort. 21.�? a a Ben i Salinger jr., charged with use of the mails wit ii intent to defraud in connection with promotion of the defunct Midland packing company of Sioux City pleaded not guilty in Federal court Here today after Federal judge j. By. Woodi Dougli. Presiding. Had overruled a demurrer by the defense a motion to Squash the indictment and a motion which would have required the prosecution to elect which of two counts they would try Case on. Tile court then adjourned until 10 of clock tomorrow morning when Sele it Tion of a jury for the Salinger Case will begin. Alien smuggling on Canada Border becomes alarming i Montreal Canada oct. 21.�?smuggling of aliens into the United states j across the Canadian Border has increased alarmingly during the last few weeks it was declared yesterday by i. F. Wixon United states commis a sooner of immigration for Montreal. I he said the american consular offices throughout Canada were crowded with applications for admission to the a United states. A Millay is going Back it would he easy to live Tim Eskimo. That is How t the Man of the North. He is not alone of the hat Confidence. Or. Rich Ard. It Sioux Falls. S. P., get. 21.�?a United states senator a Secretary of state i former High officials and present to a Utica i candidates As Well As Farmers j and middlemen have been summoned i to appear As witnesses in the noted j defunct Midland packing company Case which was scheduled to be called for trial in Federal court today with the ugh magnetic Ian says Lush to think that us himself civilized. I saw of the Eskimo the of our ways of living a d ays. A a a they can to fight a us about the Eskimo. W Ell a Why they can to tight. They to. I never heard an argue Cen two eskimos and i ii Eskimo cop. Nor an Ese nor an Eskimo traffic done to murder each other done to hang each he civilization a s of the North u will Point Ben i. Salinger jr., c. H. Burlingame and Fred c. Sawyer As defendants on charges of using the mails to defraud. Summonses have been issued among others it was Learned for la s. Senator Albert in Cummins of Iowa Charles a. Rawson former United states senator from Iowa Walter c. Ramsey Secretary of state of Iowa and r. E. Johnson Secretary of the executive Council of Iowa and present candidate for state treasurer in that state. Judge Joseph Woodrough of the Nebraska District before whom the yes. But j will be tried Here and ready Arti Cward to proceed. It is not expected that other. My. Bound for net p a j in 0 trusty at on employed Arden escapes los. 8. P., oct. 21.�?isaac tto a trusty at the state Here disappeared late from the prison gardens is been employed and a tis have asked county and n South Dakota and and to watch for him. Har j a five year term from j to for assault with a Dan 1 Pon. He would have been n november. O a Happy the Case will actually get under Way i before wednesday however As the Petit jury will not Convene until wednesday morning it was said yesterday the grand jury met this morning to consider alleged violations of the a Zeppelin twice As Large As zr-3 to be constructed Akron. Ohio get. 21.�?plans to construct a Zeppelin Airship off too too cubic feet twice As Large As the zr-3 the largest Ever designed were made Public Here today by Paul w. Litchfield vice president and general manager of the Goodyear Zeppelin corporation. The ship will be designed especially for trans Atlantic service or. Litchfield stated. Weather forecast Minnesota generally fair tonight and wednesday warmer wednesday and in Northwest portion tonight Frost tonight in East portion. North Dakota partly Cloudy to night and wednesday warmer tonight in East and South portions and in East portion wednesday. South Dakota Cloudy to partly Cloudy tonight and wednesday rising temperature in East portion. Lxi Al tempera Tirc it maximum and minimum temperatures As recorded by the official government thermometer from 7 a. In. Yesterday to 7 a. In. Today maximum 68. Minimum 42. At 8 a. In. Today 4 6. Gasoline War puts 6 million in Public purse state Highway commission shows $206,489 Worth of fuel sold in year terminal receipts Are now too cars greater than the daily consumption marketed out of these markets and the cars now loaded and in transit were said to to More than enough to fill up elevator storage. Reduction in shipments by at least 700 cars a Day Cei Ved by naval officials Here said the urfed.f3 an absolute necessity to powder a Quot a Shell were being hoisted a Lens Titan would throw the into the Turret at the time of the explosion and that a fall safety pre j cautions had been no shot had been fired and electrical trouble was not regarded As the cause. A immediately after the explosion a j the message added a the Access door in the rear of the Turret was opened j and four men fell overboard because of the overhang. Three were rescued j one Walker apparently was Burn j de and drowned and the body was not Ensign Drexler was the outstanding name in the stories of heroism told by some of the men taken to the Portsmouth Hospital. He was near the Turret when the explosion rocked the ship throwing men to the deck fore and aft. Rushing into the Blaze he dragged three men to Safe Market into confusion. Bullet riddled body is found in Corn Field tonal Laws. Weather and roads Sioux Falls Clear 48 roads Good. Pierre Cloudy 4 6 roads Good. Aberdeen Clear 32, roads goo. Huron of Cloudy 41 roads Good. Huron Cloudy 41 roads Good. Yankton Cloudy 52 roads Good. Mitchell Clear 56 roads Good. United lutherans to determine pose on War at session t. 21�?problem? of War ent and revival of the Oral were before the of the lutheran Broth convention of the unit Church in America open a a a a and continuing to oct. Be up similar subjects. A a a de re and laymen from of the United states and in arc Here for the meeting t ask for your tickets they Are Worth actual Cash or will admit you free to the unique theatre afternoon and evening four shows daily�?2 30�?4 00�?7 30 9 15 Mitchell merchants participating in Community shopping week Are giving a ticket with every Dollar Purchase this week. Each ticket May be redeemed for Cash at the City Hall or will admit you to the unique theatre afternoon or evening or can be used to secure free lunch at City Hall or redeemed for gasoline at any Down town filling station. Unique program changes tomorrow and Friday. Ask for your tickets to Are valuable according to a detailed financial statement compiled by Carl Butterfield manager of the state Highway Supply depot in Mitchell today Between five and six million dollars hive been put into the pockets of the gasoline consumer in South Dakota As a result of the gasoline War started by Igov. W. If. Mcmaster a year ago last summer. Or. Butterfield declares that an initial saving of two millions of dollars was effected for the people of the state when govt. Mcmaster made his Purchase Early Iii August 1923, of eighteen cars of gasoline for. He Points out the retail Price of gasoline was almost immediately reduced ten cents for the balance of the summer As a result of that Purchase. The figures of or. Butterfield show a total of $206,489.80 cents Worth of gasoline has been sold at various state gasoline stations in the state a face the governor a Gan his gasoline War a Little More than fourteen months to go. This gasoline Cost the state including freight $167,952.69. Deducting the two cent gasoline tax. The report shows Tjie state made a Gross profit in the last fourteen months of $18.-251.86. Operating expenses reached $9,659.04 and inspection fees totalled $4,230.21, leaving a net operating profit of $7,362.51. Out of the net profit however must come a loss which the state was forced to take on a Purchase in August 192 3. Of eighteen cars of gasoline. Or. Butterfield Points out that the governor made this Purchase As the result of an agreement reached in a conference with Independent dealers in the state who agreed to take the gasoline providing the state ceased the Sale of gasoline As Long As fair margin of profit was maintained. After the gasoline had been purchased and delivered within the state the dealers. Or. Butterfield says re niger on their contract and failed to Purchase the fuel. As a result the state was forced to re consign the gasoline to jobbers. The result was a net loss of $4,945.94, consumed by de Murr age re consignment and a de Cline in the Market in the meantime. In his statement or. Butterfield deducts this loss and still shows a profit at the state gasoline stations in tho last fourteen month of $2,416.67. Of Desnet s d., oct. 21.�?a Bullet riddled body of an unidentified Man found in a Corn Field eight Miles East j of Oldham yesterday is engaging the authorities of Kingsbury county in an Effort to unravel a murder mystery which so far is devoid of Clews. Tae body was found Bjo a Farmer about 75 feet off the former Meridian Highway Road Between Madison and Arlington. Three 32 calibre bullets had passed through the Back and breast. The body had been mutilated and clothing torn by hogs. It is thought that the dead Man had been to his face a mass of Burns and his clothing in flames he was turning Back into the fiery Turret when he dropped dead. Saves two i Yoni sea Lieut. Sedgwick others related was hurled overboard by the blast. His right Arm was broken but with his j Spain somewhere else and dragged Inlet he saved two others from drown j the Field. He had red or Brown ing and was trying to keep walkers half and was dressed in Outing clothes head above water when a heavy wave i with putters. The body is being held broke Bis hold. 1 at Lake Preston where an Examina the Trenton was commissioned Hod was made by the Coroner Sher about six months ago shortly before and states attorney the Turret explosion aboard the battleship Mississippi off the California coast which caused 4 7 or 48 fatalities. She had just completed a shake Down cruise around Africa by bringing Home the body of Robert w. In Ibrie american vice Consul who was killed at Teheran by a mob of persian religious fanatics. She was commanded by Captain e. Kalb fus and is designed to carry a of about 400. Nestor named vice chairman for area methodist Council better Farmer nations need says educator Minneapolis minn., oct. 23.�?appointment of the Rev. R. B. Nestor it Oty. Superintendent of the Minneapolis i District of the methodist episcopal j Church As vice chairman of the organization of the St. Paul area worlds j service Council was announced tues. Day by Bishop Charles e. Locke chairman of the permanent Organiza ton. Members of the Council As announce de include Dakota conference Rev. I e. Kohlstedt Mitchell and g. L. I Kemper. Aberdeen. Franks makes fund to keep Leob and Leopold in prison Chicago. 111. Oct. 21.�?-plans for a Trust fund that May be used after his death to oppose any efforts to free Nathan Leopold. Or. And Richard Loeb were announced yesterday by a ration of the lease under which it Jacob Franks father of the boy they j a used. The Board held that the tax Brookings s. D., oct. 21.�?the United states needs not More Farmers but better Farmers or. Liberty Hyde Bailey agricultural educator and writer of Ithaca n. Y., declared in an address Here last night before an audience of Farmers townspeople and students of state College. A when the pressure of population on the food Supply makes the farming of land More profitable or pays for better and More intensive farming this country can greatly expand its production a or. Bailey said. A probably not an acre of land in South Dakota is producing its turning to the marketing situation he declared that the problem of marketing could not be simplified without simplifying the processes of living. A Consumers demand products in a sophisticated form a he said a and they must be willing to for producing them in this a o tax Appeal Board makes new ruling on income returns Washington. oct. 21.�?in a ruling of general application the Board of tax appeals today decided that a Lessee of chattel Sis not authorized to deduct from his Gross income i amounts set aside each year to be used in replacing property upon sex Man Hunt on in Iowa for bandits who looted Bank Sioux City la. Oct. 23.�?a sheriffs posse and a score of citizens today were searching Western Iowa for four bandits who robbed the vault of the Little Sioux savings Hank shortly after Midnight while residents of the Village carried on a pistol fight with them. About $4.900 was obtained by the robbers. Trip to polls is not Worth while so Cal will use mails Washington. Cd oct. 21.�?although president Coolidge has not decided definitely whether to will vote by mail or go to Northampton mass., to cast his ballot on nov. 4, it was said today at the White House that the president believes the Cost to the government and the inconvenience to attendants would necessarily accompany him in such a trip would make it hardly worthwhile. Killed. A the murderers must never get Freedom he declared a a lenient governor. A shrewd lawyer and indifferent people and their liberation would he the matter of Only a Short time unless provisions were made to combat any Effort to get them out of Joliet. A i done to know How Long i shall live. During my life i will fight any move to defeat Justice. After my death the i fruit fund will of payer May deduct Only such amounts As Are actually expended for replacement during each taxable period. The boards interpretation of the Law sustained a View held by the commissioner of internal Revenue. Of German election dec. 7 Berlin Germany oct. 21.�?the German general election will be held on dec. 7, it was definitely announced today. Dress in grand rapids before moving in to Syracuse n. Y., Baltimore md., Brooklyn n. Y., and several other cities in new England and Eastern states. Davis enters Kentucky. Nashville Terne get. 21.�? a3 a John w. Davis went out of Tennessee today to carry his Campaign into Kentucky and then Back to Indiana and Ohio. His departure from this state was made the occasion of repeated declarations voiced confidently to friends who conferred with him during his two Day stay Here that Tennessee a political trend was altogether satisfactory from a do mocha i tic standpoint. The candidates two principal addresses Here delivered yesterday were declared of local and state democratic leaders to have won Many votes for or. Davis. Two added stops were Given or. Davis for the Kentucky tour. On the Way to Louisville where he Speaks tonight the candidate will make Brief rear platform addresses at Bowling Green and Elizabethtown. Following the Louisville address tonight he will leave for Vincennes and Evansville ind. Or. Davis has been assured by political observers that Kentucky is certain to be counted in the democratic column on nov. 4. His visit therefore is counted As having less political significance than those he Lias made in other states during his Middle Western tour. Danes Iii Philadelphia Dawes special in route to Philadelphia Pittsburgh pa., get. 21.�?up a heading a general eastward movement of presidential and vice presidential candidates Charles g. Dawes travelled today to Philadelphia where tonight he will open his first and Only speaking tour East of the alleghenies. The Republican vice presidential candidate will begin his seven Day speech making swing through the five Eastern states of Pennsylvania West Virginia Delaware new Jersey and new y Ork with a discussion of the budget. The budget however will not be his main theme for he will stress in the East As he has on his Middle Western Campaign Tours the Republican assault on the Lafollette Independent candidacy. He declared today that he regarded the Lafollette candidacy not Only As having raised the dominant Issue of the Campaign in the agricultural Middle West. But also in the East and in every other Section of the country. Busy Day for Bryan. Briton Iii., oct. 31.�?up a gov. Charles w. Bryan of Nebraska democratic nominee for vice president stilted the second Day of his Southern Illinois Campaign tour with an address Here today. Two other speaking engagements were on today a schedule one at Fairfield and the other at Robinson All three town in the heart of Illinois a Coal Fields. The remaining four Days of the week will be spent by the vice presidential nominee in Ohio and Indiana one of the cities in which he is to speak thursday is Canton Ohio substituted for Middletown the Home of James m. Cox presidential candidate in 1920. Sullivan. Iud., will be the governors Stop Friday. In speaking at Murphysboro last a Gilt gov. Bryan told his audience composed largely of the labor class they would have to vote the democratic ticket next month if they wanted Relief from present problems confronting them. In voting the democratic i ticket he said the people of Illinois j could redeem themselves. Another address was made at Sparta. Coolidge is still waiting More data on sugar question Washington A. Out. 21.�?with a he Cabinet holding its regular Semi weekly meeting today government business today held most of the attention of president Coolidge j the report of the Tariff commission proposing a Cut in the sugar duty still is before the president but he does not expect the additional data requested by him cd the commission and of the department of agriculture until later in the week. Or. Coolidge planned to devote some time to further work today on the address to be delivered Here thursday night before tile Eastern division of a i the United states Chamar of coir i j Merce which is exp a be i i last extended Speed

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