davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-09-30

praying for a sidewalk to be ordered
to be laid along the north side of
Second Street from THE Southwest
corner of Lot 2 of Auditors Sub
division of S1a of NJ and M of
S1s Of Sec. 9, Twp. 126, Range 81
to the Southwest corner of Black 20
in the original Townsite. On motion
duly carried, the petition was grant
ed.
The following Resolution was OF.
fered by Alderman Gray who moved
it's adoption: Alderman Pangburn
seconded the motion and it was car
ried by all voting Aye, Nays none.
o.
ANNUAL BUDGET RESOLUTION
WHEREAS on August End, 1926,
the City Clerk submitted to the Coun-
Gil of the City Of Sank Centre an es-
innate in detail of the amounts that
would be required to be expended the
ensuing year for the carrying on the
business of the City; for the payment
of Bonds by providing suitable Sink
ing Fund installments therefor and
the maturing interest on said Bonds
for the period of one year. And the
Council at various times having con-
sidered said estimate and having
heard arguments and suggestions and
requests of the heads Of the several
departments and having amended and
added to the original estimate and
having fully decided upon the adop-
ton of such estimate as amended and
NOW THEREFORE, BE 1T RE-
SOLVED, by the Common Council of
the City of Sank Centre, that the fol-
lowing constitute and be the annual
R,11o nf "a n
year, to-wit:
For street labor, teams and
Commissioners Salary .....$1 ESQ 90
For miscellaneous expenses,
materials, etc ..............- 420 90
For Street lighting .......... $500 90
For Hydrant Rentals ....... 2,4S0 90
For Calcium Chloride and 9TH
Nor M sdnsasen of City Poor $50
For Maintenance Of City
For Maintnance of IF Public '''"'
Buildings including Fair orr ~
For fG Printing, elections, Board 800 ~
of Equalization, telephone $50 90
ory Maintenance ........... 250. 90
For Salaries of City Officials 1926. 90
For Public Library ....... 400 90
For Storm Sewer No. / 800. $50 90
Bonds ~. 5000. 90
Bonds .................... 1000. 90
White Way Bonds -. 1000 90
Interest on White Way Bonds 500. 90
Maturing Special Paving I'M
provement Certificates 80. 500 100
Interest on Special Paving
Certificates ............... $50 90
For Contingencies .......,.. 500 90
Total Expenditures ...$34,870 90
Estimated Receipts
Returns from the MI
nicipal Court ......$ $50. 90
Billiard and Pool Table
Licenses .......... 100. 90
Cigarette Licenses :. 275.00
Miscellaneous Licenses 5000
Community = Club
Rents ............. $1,000
Calcium Chloride from
private owners 80. $500
To be paid in by the
Water, Light & Pow
Commission.
Plant Bonds ........ 100000
Interest on Plant
Bonds ........ 1,2oo. 90 -.
Sinking Fund for W.
W. Imp Bonds -. 5000 90
Interest on w. w. Imp.
Bonds ............ 1000 90
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-09-30
Adjourned Meeting

Adjourned Meeting
Adjourned session of the Common
Council of the City of Sank Centre
held Friday, Sept. 18th, 1926 at
7:30 P. m. with all the members in
attendance.
Carl Eckburg presented a petition
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-09-30
1926 TAX LEVY RESOLUTION

|
BE 1T RESOLVED By the Common
Council of the City of Sank Centre that
the following amounts of City Taxes
be, and the same hereby are levied and
the City of Sank Centre for expenses,
interest on maturing obligations, Sink
| ing Funds for payment of bonds and
obligations for the ensuing year, to-
wit:
For account of the General
Fund $22,260 90 Qess estf-
mated receipts as per Budget
$14,2o5 .oOl sS,055 90
For Maintenance of Public Lii
brary, ......... ............ 2.7OO 90
of Water Works Improve
ment Bonds ....:...:...:. 1000 90
Improvement Bonds 800. 5000. 90
For Sinking Fund for payment
of white Way Bonds -. 1000 90
For Interest on White Way
For Storm sewer No. i Ger
tificates maturing and int. $50 90
For Special Paving Improve
ment Certificates and interest $50 .0Q
going resolution and moved its adop-
ton: Alderman Salmond seconded the
motion and it was carried by all vot-
ing Aye, Nays none.
City Engineer Bonner, through the
City Attorney, outlined the territory
properly assessable for the proposed
Sewer on Keller and Railroad Ave-
nues to connect with the sewer at the
south end Of Elm Street; and the City
Attorney was instructed to prepare
the necessary documents to be pre-
scented to the Council for further ac-
ton.
The meeting adjourned.
j. F. Cooper,
City Clerk.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-23
HEFLIN RENEWS
ATTACK IN The
Smith CHARGES
Senator Shows RancOr in
Charges Against Supreme
Court and Cabinet.

WASHINGTON, Dec p P,-The
United States Supreme court was a
target of barbs of criticism hurled
today by Senator Heflin, democrat,
Alabama, in another attack upon the
administration, the Daugherty case
and Doheny acquittal.
Declaring on the senate floor that
the court should have decided in 80
days the contempt proceedings
again Nal Daugherty, brother of the
former attorney general, for refus-
ing to permit n senate committee to
examine the books of the Midland
National bank of Washington Court
House, Ohio, the senator called upon
the court to render decision in this
case, now pending for two years"
IIeflin said he voiced the senti.
ment of nine-tenths of the people IN
demanding action by the court.
1T is useless for me to say" he
declared, that had it been some OBJ
scure man or woman out i'm the
common walks of life, he or she
would have had to testify n long
time ago, but Mr.. Daugherty was n
mCmber Of the cabinet of the Har-
ding administration and his brother
was trying to heir him cover up mis-
continued on Page Ten)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-23
F Family Brought Here Through Advertising
Of Borderland Climate Club Pleased With
Climate, the City and Real Hospitality

Telephone and Telegraph company
made up the committee which took
charge of the newly arrived family
and secured hotel Accommodations for
them.
Reece said that he had never met
people in any part of the country
who were so hospitable and who
seemed SO interested in doing some.
thing for the strangers. Mrs. Reece
and the elder son, w H. Reece, were
also enthusiastic over the climate,
the people and the city. 1t is the
intention of the family to locate her.
permanently if it is found that the
climate is of lasting benefit to the
health of Reece.
A house will be found for the fans
lily through the Borderland club ana
the chamber of commerce today or
tomorrow, and the club will also
escort them about the city. seeing
that they become acquainted and
familiar with the advantages of llv-
ing here. They We're assured by
representatives of the chamber OF
commerce and the Borderland Cil
mate club that they would have the
full cooperation of these organiza-
tions in their efforts to get located
in satisfactory manner
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-23
new YORK HARD
HIT BY DRIVE
AGAINST CLUBS
Dry Operative Posed as
English Nobleman" So
ciety Folk Involved.

NEW YORK, Dec. % R.-The
"scalps" Of 15 more night club pro-
prietors are to be added to the cor,
eral prohibition administer, gathered,
in. the great white way Tuesday
night.
Discussing today the relative dry
ness of the "Roarin' Fortes,'' il,
which Were. located some of the
clubs and cabarets raided Tuesday
night, between cocktail hour" ana
''stirrup cup" time, Mills said he had
no hope of drying up the "Great
White Way but t<fhat he would put
fear into the night club and cabaret
owners hearts
I'm going to add about Is more
scalps to my belt" Mills said!
The central figure in the first
drive, which placed the hand of the
law on the shoulders of such night
life celebrities as Texas Guinan, fora
mer show girl, VINO operates the 300
club" and 'Dinty" Moore, who re
ceives in his Forty-sixth Street club.
was revealed by Mills as a society
woman whose name is in the socia1
register and who felt it a civic duty
to enforce the dry laws
She had, he said, introduced into
the clubs four ex-army officers, who
got the evidence. The raids were
carried out under the supervision OF
the United States attorneys office.
IF there hadn't been a leak some-
where we would have got more
places" Mills said. But somebody
got hold of the time or the raids
and tipped off some of the pro-
prietors"
Assistant United States Attorney
Lowell Wadmond, who arranged
some OF the raids, gave further IN,
formation about the manner IA
which an operative, impersonatin9
an English nobleman," had pro-
cured evidence. This operative, Wad
man said, developed acquaintance
with young society girls, whom ne
escorted to various clubs without
them knowing they were being used
as props To some of the society
CONTINUED on Page Ten)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-23

w. ~ Reecc, business man of
Buffalo, n Y, who arrived in Doug
las on the late afternoon train
Wednesday, and who came her.
under orders from his physician on
account of chronic asthma, told &
representative of the Dispatch last
night that he was feeling better al
ready and that he was sitting i'm s,
chair and breathing without great
difficulty for almost the first time
in a year. He said that he had not
seen so fine day as Wednesday
since a year ago and that the eli
mate here had impressed him very
much. This statement came as an
added recommendation for Douglas
when it is considered that Reece and
his family arrived here on the after.
noon of one of the most dismal,
cloudy, windy days that Douglas has
experienced in years.
The family includes Mrs Reece ano
two sons. William Howard Reece, a
young business man, and Richard
Reece, a younger lad. The family
was met at the depot by the wei.
coming committee from the Border,
land Climate club, j. w. Tardy, presi-
dent of the club, and A. A. Sundin,
manager of the Mountain States
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-23
Freshets Spread Death in Four States
Congress Gives Right Of
Way to Santa Claus Until
January 3;Now Adjourned.

WASHINGTON, Dec. %. = H0 = Con-
gress gave up its deliberations on the
state of the union today, granting
Santa Claus unanimous consent to.
carry on until January 3. The holiday
recess will end a week from Monday
and work will resume where it was
left off today.
The senate did not surrender before
The advance of st. Nick Without
struggle, but the house, with much
time and little work on its hands, in
dulged in sort of dress rehearsal to
prepare for the eleven day vacation.
The house met at noon as usual, but
after the formalities were over re-
cessed until o'clock, when the senate
sent over the interior department. bill.
1t took the house two minutes to-
send the measure to conference and the
vacation began.
1t was more or less field day in
the senate, where an executive session.
was late in the afternoon to top off
as hectic a day as has been seen this
session.
While it was considering the interior
bill, the senate received a partial re-
port on its campaign funds committee
investigation one of its committees
began a bread company merger in
quiry and three more items were addedI
to the senate's long list of things to be-
investigated
The senate now wants to know if tIel
Chester concessions in the Mosul DILL
field affected this countrys recogni-
tion of the Turkish republic; to what
extent corporations distribute dividends
in stock, and what can be done to in-l
stitute law and order regime in Mic
aragua. The house alien property set
Element bill reached the senate during
the day and the house received theI
rivers and harbors bill, passed yester-
day by the senate, but took no action
on it.
Something of Christina sspirit at
tended the meeting of the house irri-
cation committee today when it re-
ported the Boulder canyon dam bill.
After nearly three years labor on the
proposal, committee, members were
more than glad to stuff it into the
houses Legislative sock.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-23
RRInGE CnLLAPsEs

HUNTINGTON, w. Va, Dec. 22.-(R
The center span of the new Midland
Atlantic bridge over Big Sandy river,
connecting Kenova, w. Va, with Cat
lettsburg, Ky, collapsed today under
the pressure of high water, causing the
death of one workman, the probable
drowning of five other and serious in
jury to two. Six of the IA men work
ing on the structure escaped practically
uninjured, most of them swimming
ashore through icy waters.
The five men unaccounted for We're
officially listed as missing and little
hope was held that any had escaped
alive. Rescue crows in skiffs searched
the swirling waters below the bridge
in an effort to recover thei bodies.
Those missing are H. w. Overstreet,
Glasgow, Mo-; Bert Flack, Huntington;
p. Carter Rarden, Ohio; A. Campbell,
(Continued on Page Ten)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-23

WASHINGTON, Dec. % R.-Pre.
sentation of the partial report on the
Pennsylvania primary Expenditures
by the special senate investigating
committee today threatened to throw
the senate into heated debate or
the qualification of Cyrus B. Woods
Of that state to be an interstate
commerce commission.
His nomination for the post is now
the subject of investigation by the
senate Interstate commerce commit
tee, and mention of his name in the
campaign recently as "harmonizcr
for the Pepper-Fisher ticket" brought
Senator Reed, republican, Pennsyl
vania, to his defense.
He drew from Senator Reed, demo-
crat Missouri, chairman of the in
vestigating committee, the admission
Continued on Page Ten)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-23
HUNDREDS N
OHIO VALLEY
ARE HOMELESS
False Work on Bridge at
Catlettsburg, Ky.,. Col
lapses, Claiming Several.
HIT
SOuthbOund Tourists Ma
rOOned in Kentucky Along
the Dixie Highway.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Dec.
% (AP)-Freshets, caused
by unreasonable heavy
rains spread death and de-
struction in four states,
made several hundred per-
sons homeless, marooned
tourists and threatened to
cause flood conditions in the
Ohio valley by Christmas.
One life lost today was added to the
previous toll of five when bridge
worker died from injuries caused when
the false work of a new bridge at
Catlettsburg, KY, collapsed under the
pressure of high waters. Two other
workmen were seriously hurt and five
were missing. Three children We're
drowned in Arkansas and two men in
Kentucky yesterday. Tug river, on the
boundary between Kentucky and West
Virginia, overflowed it's banks at Will
Hanson, w Va, making 500 homeless
and damaging buildings and industrial
plants.
Southbound tourists were marooned
in southeastern Kentucky, where the
Dixie haghwhy was reporaed under
water between PineviIle and Corbin.
One hundred presons were homeless in
Pineville. and 25 families were driven
out of their houses at Harlan. Trains
were annulled on several lines in the
mountains when bridges washed out
and landslides covered tracks in sew
eral places.
w. C. Devereaux, weather forecaster
at Cincinnati, issued a warning today
in which he said inhabitants of the
Ohio valley probably will witness a
Christmas flood. Rising rapidly, the
Ohio has passed the 25-foot mark at
Cincinnati today. Flood stage there
is 81 feet.
Several Arkansas and Tennessee
cities reported unusually heavy rain
fall during the past sc hours.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-23
ASSAILS
ALIEN PROPERTY
ADMINISTRATOR
Investigation Will Probably
Result in Senate After
the Holidays

WASHINGTON, Dec. % R.-Ad'
ministration of alien property seized
during the war was subjected t.
bitter attack in the senate today
that probably will. result in an in
vcstigation after the holidays.
After the administration over
period of eight years had been char
acterized by Senator Borah, repubn-
can, Idaho as tainted with theft,
graft and extravaganza" Senator
King, democrat, Utah, gave notice
that he would move after the holt
days recess to get an appropriation
of $4,000 to permit the special sen>
ate committee to proceed with its
Investigation of the custodian's of
flee.
In the midst of the discussion,
President Coolidge sent to the senate
a report of an investigation by.
Comptroller General McCarl into the
custodian's office. This report fur
CONTINUED on Page Ten)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-23

BY unanimous action, however,
resolution by Representative Sinnott
republican, Oregon, was adopted ex-
pressing Willingness of the commit
tee to consider carefully any recon
mendations that may be received from
commissioners of California, Arizona
and Nevada now conferring in Los
Angeles over the formation of COM
pacs between states in the Colorado
river basin.
If necessary, the commit ee agreed
to recommend an amendment to the
bill when it comes up in the house
to cover recommendation as may be
deemed advisable to embody in the
measure.
Chairman Smith was instructed TO
wire the commissioners in Los An
geles that the committee hoped they
would continue negotiations and reach
an agreement.
Representative Swing, republican,
Continued on Page Tenl
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-23
FOUR OFFICERS
OF AVIATION
DEAD IN CRASH
Two Planes Collide in Mid
air - Were About 400
up When They Struck.

RANTOUL, Ill, Dec. 22.-(P-Four
Officers at Chanute Field were killed
today when their two airplanes
crashed head-on in mid-air above the
field.
The dead are Capt. Harold G.. Foster,
World war flier of Chicago; Second
Lieut. Ralph J.. Lawter and First
Lieuts. Henry w. Kunkel and Albert
J Clayton.
Foster and Lawter were in one plane
and Kunkel and Clayton in the other,
and both planes were cruising over
the field. r. C. Leeman, travelling
salesman, was driving past the flying
field when he saw the ships collide
about 400 feet above the ground and
mile from the airdrome.
He apparently was the only witness
of the accident. He hurried to the
! scene and recovered two bodies, then
hurried to the ardrome for aid
Neither plane caught fire when they
collided Attaches of the flying field
determined that three of the four
were instantly killed and that the
fourth died before he could be eXtri-
Gated from the wreckage.
Lieutenant Kunkel was plotting one
/ plane and took the air ten minutes be-
fore Lieutenant Lawter, who piloted a
De Haviland. When the accident oc-
CURED the planes were about one mile
south and two miles west of Chanute
field.
Lawter was flying northeast and
Kunkel southwest when Lawter at
tempted to fly under kunkePs ship,
and in doing so knocked off the land
ing gear when his upper wing struck
! it. The ships were less than 400 feet
in the air, and crashed about 800 feet
apart.
| Continued on Page TEND
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-23
CalifOrnia-ArizOna Co.
Formed to Erect Bridge
at Blythe, California

SACRAMENTO, Calf, Dec. 22.-
The California Arizona Bridge
company. "a San Francisco Organiza-
tiOn with capital stock of $3SO'OOO'
filed articles of Incorporation with
the secretary of state today.
Directors of the company, which
proposes to build and operate toll
bridges, include s. n. Barnes and
III. j. Finn of San Francisco and
s. II. Pfund of BurIingame.
The company proposes to build a
bridge, at Blythe, Calf. This Will
cut 30 miles from the distance be-
tween Los Angeles and Arizona
points.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-23
Every Child in City, Under 10 Years Of
Age, Invited to Attend Christmas Party
Of Dispatch at Grand Theatre Saturday

Every boz and girl IN $
the
the Grand theatre "A
mas the
begin = III. and is
wife TO preSen
the will he
in
Of amusin
hash
in and
md
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-23
LEGISLATORS SEND WIRE

A telegram received Wednesday
by the Dispatch from senator Henry
F. Ashurst and Congressman Carl
Hayden told of the action of the
house committee i'm reporting the
swing-JOhnsOn bill. The telegram
states that the cOnDlittee reported
the bill after taking a resolution
that if the negotiations now going
ON between California. Arizona and
Nevada reach any definite action or
conclusion. the committee will offer
amendments to the house in CO.
ordination with whatever action the
tri-state conference might take.
The telegram states further that
the submitting of the SwImg-JOhnSOn
bill to the house AT this time has no
bearing on the tri-states Colorado
river conferences, which will pro-
ceed as scheduled.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-23
r RECOMMENDATIONS
OF TRI STATE MEET
BE ACCEPTED

Action of Reporting Bill Taken by Vote Of IL to 81
Unanimous Action Adopted Resolution to Consider
of Arizona, California and Nevada, Now in Ses-
sion on Coast
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-23
PENNSYLVANIA PRIMARY FIGHT
CAUSES RIFT IN SENATE WHEN
WOODS APPOINTMENT CONES UP.

Interstate Commerce Commissioners Post Causes Row
Because Woods Was Mentioned in Senate Inquiry
"HarmOnizer for Pepper Fisher Ticket Sen
atOr Reeds Asks Withholding of Judgment Until
After Committee Reports.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-23
HAYDEN HOPES FOR AGREEMENT

Demand of Los Angeles for 95OOO Acre Feet of Water
to be Diverted From Proposed Dam on Colorado for
Domestic Purposes Still Causing Trouble in Confer
ence Now on in Los Angeles Delegates From New
ada Taking Little Part
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-23

WASHINGTON, Dec 22 (AP)-After more than
three years of deiberaton the house irrigation
mittee today reported the SWING bill to author
ze construction Of flood control irrigation and power
dam at Boulder canyon the Colorado river.
Action came after somewhat heated session The
vote was IL to g.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-23

N. Y, Dec. 22.-CR-Copper
dull, electrolytic spot and
futures 1874. Lead duh;
spot $50. Bar silver 53 i2.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-10-16

ben Hur" directed The Temp
tress." Greta Carlo and Antonio
Moreno head the cast which includes
Lionel Barrymore, Roy Darcy,
Marc MacDermott, Virginia Brown
Faire, Armand Kaliz and others.
The story is one of love, hate and
revenge all inspired by d beautiful
but tickle woman who possesses a
powerful evil influence over men.
She is Elna, wife of the French Mar
quis Tore De Blanca who ignors
her affair with the banker. NJ. Fon-
tenoy. At an amateur circus given
by Fontenoy for the amusement OF
his guests in Paris, Elna meets and
ensnares his friend Etobledo, South
American engineer.
OF an intensely jealous nature the
banker kills himself. and Robledo,
learning the true state of affairs. re-
turns to South America. The Mar
quis, in response to an invitation,
follows him. So too does Elna.
Among strange people she finds new
and fertile fields for her flirtations
and Robledo. engaged in the task
Of constructing a huge dam, soon
finds himself in a maze of trouble
on Elna's account. The story passes
quickly from one tense situation to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-10-16
GAY PAREE' IS
BOOKED HEREF
THREE DAYS SOON
Shuberts viii Send New
Revue to EngIiSh's
This Month.

The Shuberts will send Gay Pa
rec" a big revue, to English's for
three days, starting Thursday night,
Oct. %,
There are thirty-two scenes in
Gay Paree," including the wedding
of Benus to the Adriatic, Queen Of
Sheba, Glory Of the Sunshine, Living
Porcelain, Parfum Oriental, Ballet dc
Opera, Quaint Old Lace, Wide Pants
Willie. Sugar Plum, Bambo Babies,
Toddle Trot, Broadway Night Club
and others.
Alan Dale, the critic of the New
York American, in his revue of Cay
Paree,' said:
'NHaving come from gay Paree
quite lately, 7 can safely say that
the show at the Shubert has most of
the French revues beaten In all
ways. Perhaps in Paris they make
a cleaner sweep of clothes, but err
tho sweep is not so awfully inferior
in the Shubert show And we can
give 'em lessons in pretty sgirls all
the time. So, take it all in all, l
can recommend the new entertain
ment most heartily, and it has at
least a hundred legs to stand on"