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AD DAILY OFFICIAL PAPER CITY AND CODNTY ASSOCIATED PRfCSS SERVICE THE WEATHER PARTLY cloudy tonight and Sunday probably snow; not much change In temperatures. THE BLACK HILLS EVENING NEWSPAPER THIRTY-THIRD YEAR LEAD DAILY CALL, LEAD, 80. SATURDAY, DEC. 4, 1926. PRICJB FIVE CENTS Maintenance is Rapidly Becoming South Dakotans Have Faith In Land Values in the State MRS.

HALL AND HER BROTHERS Greatest Highway Problem, Claim "LAME DUCK" SESSION FACES HEAVY BUDGET FLOWERS LOSES CROWN NAVAL AFFAIRS 'FIGURE; FALL DOHENY CASE Statement Contains Only Veiled References to Foreign Powers; No Names Are Mentioned in the Statement. JUNIOR CLASS TO GIVE "BOOMERANG" DEC. 10 New Scenery is Being. Oonntructoil For Production. "The Hoomering," by Smith and Mapes, is the dramatic vehicle chosen for the annual play this year of the junior class of the high school.

French Debt Agreement, China Mexico and Central America Are Among Problems Which May Demand Action at Once. WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. (AP) The short session of congress better known as the "lame duck session Is at hand. The limping flock this year Includes ten senat ors and nearly half a hundred of the house.

Just who is author of the moth eaten phrase Is not a matter of of ficial record, but It amplifies to those members who were defeated in the recent elctlons and who will not return to Capitol Kill when the congress elected last November convenes. Besides those defeated at the noils a number bt senators and house members who were not can dldat.es for reelection are entering concluding session of long terms of continuous service. Formidable Budget WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (AP) A formidable budget of internatioa al problems awaits the attention of the short session of congress. So far as the senate is concerned, the World court, for the time be ing.

Is out of the picture. But the French debt agreement remains China Dresses into the horizon of the senate foreign relations com mlttee. whose chairman Senator Borah believes a serious problem is taking shape In the Far East. Mexico and Central America present situation which may demand sen ate action at any time. The Lausanne treaty with Turk ey is the special order of business on the senate calendar for anuary 5.

The Borah resolution urging modification of States' Russian policy comes over from- the last session. Events in Cuba since the cession of the Isle of Pines are to be subjected to American scrutiny under authority of a resolution by Senator King democrat, Utah, directing an inquiry by the Foreign Relations committee of the upper chamber Disposal of alien property seized during the world war Is the aim of a bill already In the hands of the house ways and means committee. Machinery for settlement of remaining claims against Germany forwar damages probably will be provided by the same measure. Wets Plan Strategy WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.

(AP) The wets in congress are planning their field strategy so as to block any administration drive for dry laws at the coming short Bee-fllon. Should this maneuver prove successful they win advance to the counter attack with some of their own proposals for modification of the Volstead act, but admittedly without anv hope of forcing a breach in the dry army. The wet forces will have some recruits as a result of the recent nrohfhitlon referenda in 8 state but the drys still hold the prepond erance of numbers in both the house and senate and are certain they can flatten out any attemps at modification. Leaders of the wets concede that once the drys can bring their proposals to a vote they can win, but with crowded calendars at a three months' session of congress they In sist they have the numbers neces ARE ACQUITTED Verdict Leaves the Slaying of Pastor and His Choir Singer on Deserted Farm as Great a Mrs tery as Ever. SOMERVILLE, N.

Dec, 4. (AP) Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall and her brothers, Henry and Willie Stevens today were free of the charge of murdering Mrs Eleanor Mills four years ago. The Jury acquitted them last night. They are still under Indictment for the killing" of the Rev.

Edward Wheeler Hall, but' It bas been idicated that this will be quashed. Mrs. Jane Gibson, chief accuser of the defend ants, Is critically 111 in a Jersey City hospital and may never learn that her story of having seen the murder was discredited by the jury. The verdict leaves the slaying of two on a deserted farm outside New Brunswick as great a mystery as ever. The state's case was built entirely out of circumstantial evidence with the exception of the eye witne9 story of Mrs.

Gibson. "My brothers and I are very glad? after four years of gossip and false accusations to have he sad oppor tunity to face the situation in open court," said Mrs. HaH in a state ment after the verdict. "We are gTad to have personally gone on the witness stand and sub mitted ourselves to a thorough cross examination and to have oh talned a complete vindication thru the verdict." WORK PLANS COMPLETION I RECLAMATION PROJECTS Tentative Program Appropriates 1,000,000 for Belle F. District -WASHINGTON," Dec.

4. The department of the interior has announced details of the tentative 10 year program for federal reclamation projects submitted to congress by Secretary Work. It calls for an expenditure of $97,614,000. The plan. It was said, contemplates the completion of all existing reclamation projects before new ones are undertaken.

For the Belle Fourche, South Da kota project a total of $1,000,000 will be appropriated, divided as fol lows: $125,000 in 1928, $250,000 In 1930, $250,000 in 1931 and $125,000 in 1932. Under the program this project will be completed In 1932. ELKS, FAMILIES, FRIENDS INVITED TO DANCE PARTY Elks and families and friends are Invited to a dancing party this evening at the spacious Elks hall, when a dancing program will be furnished by the Melody Six orchestra. No written Invitations have been issued, this invitation through the press being the only one extended, and all dance lovers of the city are Invited to take advantage of the Elks Invitation to be -their guests. CHICAGO SPECULATORS CLEAN UP IN WALL ST.

Over 10 Millions in 30 Days, Times! 8yg NEW YORK, Dec. 4 (AP) Halt a dozen Chicago speculator headed by Arthur w. Cutten have taken more than $10,000,000 in ac tual and paper profits out of Wall Street in the last 30 days through operations in Baldwin LocoBlotlvej stock, the New York Times says to day. Peeve I I TO MICKEY WALKER Scribes Seem Reluctant to Second Referee's Decision CHICAGO, Dec. 4.

(AP) Tig er Flowers, praying deacon from the southland lost the middleweight boxing crown to Mickey Walker, beating back from the Elba of a lost welterweight title. The referee's decision was not seconded by many scribes. Most of the fight critics believed Flowers had the best of 10 round bloody argument in the historic coliseum although Walker was going strong in the closing round- and again in the ninth, mat In the ninth. Walker scored two knockdowns dropping the negro in the first round an dagain in the ninth. The extraordinary comeback of Walker Is the first time In the his tory of the fight game where a con tender has held and lost a title In the welterweight class and redeem ed himslf by winning a champion ship crown In the middleweight field.

SKELETONS OF CHAPLIN FAMILYDRAGGED OUT Movie Comedian Denies Wife's Charges of Cruelty LOS ANGELES, Dec. 4 (AP) Overtures for a truce between Chas. Chaplin and his estranged wife having failed, he settled down to day for a finish fight in court after an exchange of statements which brot some of the family skeletons out of the luxurious closets of the film comedian's Beverly' Hills man sion. Chaplain issued a statement denying charges of cruelty, declaring his wife had preferred her own acquaintances Instead of Mb, had preferred parties where he was not present and had abused an unlimited credit privilege CIRCUIT COURT WILL FACE HEAVY CALENDAR Convoiws Monday; Jury to Report December 18, An unusually heavy calendar con fronts the forthcoming term of clr cult court which convenes In Dead- wood next Monday. There 1b a larger number of civil cases than usual 21 and the' Jury Is, not to report until December 13.

The calendar lists, in addition, 12 jury cases and 23 criminal cases, many of the latter growing out of thf series of raids conducted at the in-stiatlon of E. enn federal prohibition officer in the Black Hills this fall. Following are the jurors whe have been lmpanneled: Ed' Charboneau, Spearfish; Wi! Ham Howe, Nemo; W. A. Richards, Lead; E.

M. GregoryLead; William Zuhr, Lead; H. R. Jackson, White-wood; Al Veltl, Deadwood; Kennc Pyle, Lead; George Hibbard, Spearfish; John Gyles, St. Onge; John Noeller, Lead; Clifford Dewey, Lead; Joseph Hitzel, Spearfish; Josiah Ger-rans, Lead; Angelo Rich, Deadwood William Lead; Charles Custer, Deadwood; Roy Klingler, Lead; Claud Heppler, Spearfish; Louis Benhart, Lead; A.

G. Eilers, Deadwood; Matt Minerlch, Lead; E. J. Wolzmuth, Spearfish; Raymond Good, Fred Cooper, L. Hendrickson, Lead; Clay Ayer, Lead; John Sohn, Deadwood; Geo.

F. Johnson, Whitewood; Joe Wells, Spearfish; C. A. Brooks, Lead; Lewis McFarland, Lead; Ernest Curnow, Lead; -W. E.

Rodenis-er, Lead; Walter Campbell, Lead; C. A. Syverson, Lead; Lester Moore, Lead; Henry Carlson, Spearfish; H. S. French Englewood.

Our Pet Questioning of All Visitors at the Capitol This Week Reveals Optimism. (By Walter Travis) PIERRE, Dec. 4. Abiding faith in South Dakota land as a class A Investment was expressed almost unanimously by people from all parts of the state, questioned at the capltol this week. They included state officials who have an interest In land values, business visitors, and casual tourist groups.

Land cannot be ioBt or be destroyed and South Dakota land has shown its production possibilities. These were the dominant ideas. Land bought at peak boom prices may fal 50 percent In the amount that can be realized on It, and It has In some cases. But there cannot be a total loss, as in the case of some other ways of investing money. In times of stress the return from land may not be large, It was agreed.

But the capital will be unimpaired. A man, who has a piece of land that will pay taxes and even one percent on the Investment is In a position to rest In utroubled sleep, it' was agreed. There are two pitfalls to avoid, these people warned. To pay a price for land that it cannot return through normal production Is to gamble, and no gambler has a license to kick if he gets stuck. To buy land on a shoestring, without knowledge of the source- of the resi of the payments, is to speculate, and the speculator who holds the sack is just taking a brand of speculators' luck, these people agreed.

They had little sympathy for the large number of citizens over the whole northwest who were cleaned out for one of these two reasons. Many people have money now. and steady incomes, however, who are puzzled as to the best place to put it. 41 advice of the overwhelming majority of disinterested people questioned Is considered, they will put It in land. will make conservative investments that are not spread out too thin.

Land prices are low In some cases lower than in normal times before the war. There is real value aboye such prices, in years of normal produc tion. Those years will come. will be the time to bring in the hnr-vest, these people agreed. What is the real estate prospect? Tnere waB n0 agreement on that.

A low but 6teady movement Is in pro- gress, closest observers believed. A majority of them thought it was gaining speed. Few looked for a boom recovery unless oil Is die- covered soon. Few thought a boom desirable. Some talked of Immigrant and development syndicates buying up vast tracts and putting life in the market.

Others anticipated little aid from these, pointing out that the usual buyers in neighboring eastern state are hard up now, while conditions In Europe are not such that the average foreigner Is rolling In wealth. Visitors from west of the river reported more transfers of real estate than east, and more cheap lam' was reported selling than that high. Some discouragement wup reported from all sections, but therf was a general feeling that a good crop year will do much to change this. And the people from every part of the state seemed thoroughly convinced on the sound Invettmeni value of South Dakota real estate. iccurc CTaTFMFNT ON S.

D. 0. APPROPRIATION IMERHE. Dec. 4.

(AP) E. U. Berdahl, secretary of finance, to day Issued a statement In which he said that appropriation necessities of the University of South Dakota, as set forth by Pres. L. Slagle, do not coincide with requests re ceived by the budget board.

WEATHER AND ROADS Meported by the North Weatera BeU Oo at 8 a. m. Today Lead 19; cloudy roads fair Deadwood 18; cloudy roads good Spearfish 18; cloudy roads good Sturgls 11; foggy roads good Belle Fourche 12; cloudy roads good. Hill City IS; clear roads good Custer 30; cloudy roads good Rapid City 18; foggy roads good Hot Springs 30; cloudy road good, Philip 10; cloudy roads good Presho 14; cloudy roads good Chamberlain 20; raining roads good. Chadron 30; cloudy roads fair Newcastle 28: foggy roads good Cost is Particulary High on Lower Type of Road Construction Work, Says Bates.

PIERRE, S. Dec. 4. (AP) Maintenance is rapidly becoming the greatest problem of highway construction, C. T.

Bates, commissioner said today. This particular phase of highway work during the last fiscal year cost South Dakota and the department estimates that for future needs approxi mately 30 per cent of the highway revenues will be required for main tenance purposes. This cost Is particularly high on the lower type of road construction work, such as earth grade which re quires so much attention and repair that the entire reconstruction of th road is soon necessary. South Da kota bas many miles of that typo road which have been reconstruct during the past few years. The constructed portion of state trunk highways, the commissioner said, represent an investment of $23,000,000 and in order that maximum returns be produced th highways must be kept at the very best serviceable condition at al times of the year.

As the wearing course of surfac ing on a road is improved the maintenance decreases, he said, and our gravel surfaced highways are gen erally the most economical, when the original cost, cost of mainten ance and amount of travel over them Is considered. South Dakota highway mainten ance Is carried on by a patrol sys tem, which averages about one pa trol to every nine miles, and the pa trolmen, although they are county employees, and under the supervis ion of the state highway department and are paid from state highway funds. During the past fiscal year 2206.65 miles of gravel Was maintained al an average cost of $223.45 a mile, and 2107.33 miles of earth grade was maintained at an average cob! of $97.65 per mile. The tota' ileage now maintained by the de partment is 4313.98 miles. The state maintains a gravel crew for the resurfacing and stock piling old construction, outfit enmnosed of a loader, crusher and I approximately 40 state trucks.

During th last year 1010.73 miles was resurfaced, patched air stock piled at an average cost 257.75 a mile. Nearly all of the highways are now marked with standard mark ers. During tne lasi year iv iles of new road was marked and 500 miles was remarked, by a crew of three men and two trucks which placed 6348 marker. The new United States highway markers arf now being placed and it is difficu' for one to get lost while following a route over any of the South Dakota trunk highways, Mr. Bates said.

LEAD AND DEADWOOD ELKS JOIN MEMORIAL SERVICES Details of the memorial service program which will be given Jointly by the Lead and Deadwood lodges of the B. P. E. have been announced. The program wll Hake place in the club rooms of the Dead-wood lodge at 2:30 tomorrow afternoon The public is Invited.

The memorial address is to be delivered by Judge Harold Hanley of Custer, newly appointed to the bench of the Beventh district. Following is the complete program: Prelude Elks Orchestra. Selection Elks Quartette. Opening Exalted Ruler. Invocation.

Roll Call. Solo "There is No Death" Miss Gladys Morthland. accompanied by Mrs. George Richardson. Memorial Address Judge Harold Hanley.

Duet, "Beyond the Shadows, White Mrs. Thomas H. Fee William Croghan accompanied Mrs. George Bernard. Seleectlon Elks orchestra.

Violin solo (a) Souvenir; Melody, by Dawes; (c) The Old Refrain, by Krelsler Henry Elster. Accompanied by Miss Sarah Marshall. Selection Elks orchestra. America Orchestra and audience. Benediction Chaplain J.

G. Lar-. sen. Elks orchestra. would be pracically impossible with the country flooded with beer and ale containing an alcoholic component farIn excess of he one half of one TK-cent now allowed.

The play is one whlc hsa proved popular for amateur performances. Rehearsals have been In progress for some time under the direction of Miss Mildred White. The production is scheduled for December 10 in the high school auditorium. Although the members of the cast for the most part, are new at th business of facing the footlights, Miss White said, a few of them have appeared in other, productions and a number of them have appeared In various performances of the high school dramatic 'club, and are making good progress with 'The Boomerang." New scenery Is being constructed for the stage of the high school auditorium for the occasion. It is believed that "The- Boomerang" will prove as big a hit as the two school dramatic productions last year, "The Romantic Age" given by the juniors, and "The Goo.c Hangs High," by the seniors.

The latter was especially popular. "The Boomerang" abounds in up-roarous situations. Imagine a young man who seeks medical aid be cured of jealousy! And from a young doctor who has an extremely good looking young nurse. Do you wonder that the doctor's efforts nr of no tvall, and that some startling complications are the result? ACCOMODATIONS FOR 85 M0REAT NEW HOSPITAL WATERTOWN, 8. Dec.

4 (Special) South Dakota ex-service men eligible for admittance to the new tuberculosis hospital at Hot 8prlng may forfeit their rights at Hot Springs and their places may be taken by patients from outside of the state, It was announced here today by Al Jones, state department adjutant, American Legion. Mr. Jones in a statement calls attention to the fact that the new tuberculosis hospital Is completed nnd In operation. "Instructions have been Issued from headquarters of the legion here," Mr. Jones said, "pointing out to the 243 posts in the department that the hospital has accommodations for 85 more patients.

Post officers are urged to get In touch with prospective patients and help them prepare applications for admittance." STATE COMMANDER LENKER TO ADDRESS LEGIONNAIRES Arrangements are being rapidly completed by members and officers of the Homestake Post of the American Legion for the entertainment of delegates from this district who will meet here next Tuesday. Legionnaires from Whitewood Sturgls, Spearfish, Belle Fourche, Nlsland, Newell and Buffalo are ex peeled. John.McArthur of Spearfish, district committeeman, was expected I-be In Lead this afternoon to mak final plans with local officers. He has called a meeting of all post of fleers for Tuesday afternoon, 1 meeting to be followed by a dinner In the A. F.

cafe. Carl Lenker, of Colome, state commander, will be the main Bpeaker the program In the evening. Former State Commander Dan McCutcheon, of Belle Fourche and R. D. Crawford of Spearfish, will also speak.

Ten rounds of boxing by local pugilistic artists Is being instigate' by Jack Krambeck as an additional event In the entertainment. STATE COLLEGE GRIDSTERS TO MEET HAWAII UNIVERSITY BROOKINGS. S. Dec. 4.

(AP) The South Dakota State col- lege undefeated football team will! play two games in Hawaii during! Christmas holidays, one with the' University of Hawaii on Christmas day. Officals of the State college approved of the trip yesterday. LOCAL GIRL MARRIES MAN FROM FT. MEADE Miss Marjorle Eunice Carney, daughter of Mrs. Grace Carney of Lead, was married this morning to Guss Louis Bopvalesky by Justice C.

E. McHugh, in his office In Deadwood. They were attended by the bride's, mother, Mrsv. Grace Carney and Earl Carney, the bride's brother. The bridegroom is member of WASHINGTON, Dec.

4 (AP) Out of the whirr of argument and confusion, the defense counsel in the Fall-Doheny oil trial finally produced before jury today an expurgated version of navy's "strategic reasons" for favoring oil stor age at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Nothing more than veiled references foreign powers was contained in the statement as it went to the court record and no names were mentioned. Only in general terms was It set forth that the availability of a naval fuel oil supply at the Hawaiian outpost was considered of great value in national defense. SEEK TO CLEAR AWAY MYSTERY OF SLAYING Unclaimed Body in Chicago Morgue May Solve Knot PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, Dec. 4 (AP) In a setting endowed with all the starkness of an Ibsen drama, authorities today sought to tear away the veil of mysery surrounding the slaying of Clara Olson, Norse farmer's daughter.

Clara's missing sweetheart, Erd-man Olson, has been charged with the murder and an unclaimed body In a Chicago morgue Is the focal point for the investigation in their search for the boy who wrote hlB parents: would rather take death than captivity." CITY IN BRIEF The Rev. A. H. Cromble returned to Lead today after several weeks stay In Minneapolis. R.

G. Wayland, assistant superintendent of the Homestake mine, Mrs. Wayland and Mrs. Nate Pool, visited Rapid City yesterday, Mr. Wayland having business at the Gate City.

A good program has been prepar ed for Lions ladles night next Wednesday evening, which will be given at 7:30 with a dinner at the A. F. cafe. The complete program of this entertainment will be announced later. Don't forget that C.

A. Cairns, passenger traffic manager for the Northwestern railway, will broadcast a talk on the Black Hills from station KYW, Chicago, at 6:30 o'clock, Hills time, this evening. Miss Esther Landis, daughter of B. F. Landis, of Lead, left over the Northwestern last evening for Gary to attend the state school for the blind.

Miss Esther was a victim of a gunshot wound, reecived while at play, when about four years of age, and her eyesight was badly Impaired. Mr. and Mrs. W. P.

Tucker left this morning on the Northwestern for St. Louis, where they will make their home In the future. The board of directors of the KI-wanls club held a' meeting today In the Black Hills cafe. E. L.

Crow received word this morning that his mother In Nebraska City, is critically III, and Mr. Crow left on the Burlington today to hasten to her bedside. SO. DAK. FARMERS ENDORSE LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM HURON, Dec.

4. (AP) The endorsement of legislative program by farmers In variouB parts of the state was announced today by President R. M. C'rowder and Secretary A. W.

Tompkins of the South Dakota Farm Bureau association following a series of six meetings held at Sioux Falls Watertown, Mobrld-ge, Aberdeen, Pierre and Rapid city. LEAD TEACHERS EXPLORE UNDERGROUND, HOMESTAKE An annual event with Lead teachers occurred today when about 30 of the instructors in the local schools were taken on an underground tonr of the Homestake mine. The party was under the personal guidance of Alex Ross, mine foreman, and a group of mining engineers from his Btaff. They went Into the mine at 9 o'clock this morning and came out about noon, after descending to the 2,100 toot level. Stops were made alo at other levels, and they Inspected the ore trains," crushers and other mechanics necessary to the product- niBi I tw resworn 5C sary to talk the administration proposals to death.

As congress assembles it faces nearly a score of wet and dry measures, with the administration pressing tor only four one to tighten up enforcement of the Volstead act; one to authorize distllaltion of medicinal liquor; one to create separate bureaus of prohibition and customs In the treasury and one to place prohibition field agents under the civil service. The wets will concentrate their attack on the Goff bill to make the Volstead act more drastic and especially on that provision permitting the issuing of warrants for raids on private dwellings In which It' is known lfquors are being made, for commercial purposes. As a counter proposal the wets: but that HOH! LLBUffNTUPTOO! isA- OwEu.rvrLOsT will urge the Edge bill to amend the Volstead act. so as to make the definition for malt beverages the same as that for ciders and fruit Juices "Intoxicating in fact." This would leave to the court the determination of what constitutes an intoxicating beer. The dry will light that proposition tc the limit aa they insist that enforcemen of the Volstead act.