Taft on the next day. John Philip Sousa conducted the Sousa Band on October 26, 1926, at the facility that became known as Slagle Auditorium in 1929. Paul Edmund Bierley, ''The Incredible Band of John Philip Sousa'' (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006), p. 190. On March 24, 1967, Thomas James White Hawk and William Stands murdered the Vermillion jeweler James Yeado and raped his wife. Gerald Vizenor, "Thomas