The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 27, 1921, Page 2

PAGE TWO - URGES CITY T0 ~ 20 MEN GOING ON TRIAL DEVELOP TALENT FOR THE DRAMA Director of American Legion Show Has Praise for City of Bismarck FINDS UNUSUAL ABILITY A community theat 1 company is urged for Bismarck by Sanford Dor director of the American I duction, “Are You a Mason s to be given at the Auditorium on Feb. Plenty of good talent is available. Mr. Dodge d “Seldom, city of th ndiord Dodge. much stage talent in all lines as there is in this city.” said Mr. Dodge, aiter h@ had completed the cast for the Legion show. . “A community theatrical company: in which all local a vould have an opportunity to rts and advancement, under mun ul super- vision, would be a fine thing. From ation talent could be productions at stated con of comedic ht operas. minstrel sho and even Shakespeare. “This plan, if developed, would be along the lines of modern theatrical thought as exemp] i by the college dramatic departinents, the Little The- movement and the college dra- (the Commun Y bhe country, e initiative along these lines such 2n organiz; selected to mak interval Gilbert Bettman, Chairman of the Na- tional Legislative Committee of the American Legion. eat Glibert Bettman, who was recently appointed chairman of the national legislative com- mittee of — the American Legion, is well known to many Legion mnembers because he helped to draft the four-fold op- tional plan of ad- justed cumpensa- tion and, with James G, Scrug- ham, new nation- al vice command: scented it before the ways and means committee of the house of rep- resentatives, / Rettman was graduated from dl coflege and the Harvard law school with three degrees, and prac- ticed Jaw in Cincinnati, until a short ‘time after the outbreak of the war. Appointed as assistant to the di- rector of the bureau of war risk insur- ance, Mr. Bethnan serve] in that ca- pacity until the German offe M h 21, when he was cemn captain in the military:intelligence di- vision of the general staff, Mr. Bettman attended the St. Louis caucus of the American Legion and the Minneapolis and Cleveland» con- ventions, He has served as chairman of the war risk committee and a member of the national beneficial leg: islative committee, ee pe General Sherman Stuff. It was a perfect French night. In ‘other words, the rain was coming down steadily and the mud was at its stickiest. In “squab” formation-—iwes, threes, fives and sixes—a regiment of Buffaloes was moving into an al- leged rest camp, The accent was en the camp. The most forlorn of all the forlorn crew staggered against a barracks doorway where he was accosted by a white non-com. “Well, Sam, whaddye think of this war now? Pretty good war?” “Ross, dis yeah war never was a good war—and dis last day practicel- ly done ruined It com-pletely.”—Amer- ican Legion. Weekly. \ i NOTICE! The annual meeting of the Women’s Auxiliary to the Amer- ican Legion will be held tonight at the Legion hall.” Officers will be elected for ensuing year and all members‘are requested to be present... Refreshments will be served after the meeting. Come and bring your 1921 dues. ’ Dancing. class tonight Elks’ hall. ' es a amen sid i ' we Id “ i poice cet Prececuton Gouncel. jt noitamear Gecussng-e Moker — ‘SirmgSor woroers— t * BISMARCK DAINY TRIBU: ut FOR KILLING OF MINE GUARDS AT MATEWAN thehee ‘ ‘ FIGURES AT TRIAL IN WEST VIRGINIA MINE WAR Friends and Foes Meet in Wil- as Police Chief and 19 “Citizens Face liamson, W. Va., ‘Court (N, Ek. Stall Spe Williamson, W. Va., Jan, 26.—Friend and foe rub elbows here, as miners and “Baldwin-Felts guards assemble tor the trial of Sid Hatfield, chief of police at Matewan, and 19 of his fel- low citizens charged with killing sev- en Baldwins in a street battle. Five Baldwin-Felts detectives en- gaged in the same battle will be tried under change of venue at Lewisburg, Greenbrier county, in April. \ Tom Felts, chief of the guards and man-hunter extraordinary, is here in Williamson. With him are his most trusted men. He has an intimate per- smal interest in the case, for two of the slain Baldwins were his brothers. At Matewan, ‘which is ten miles from here. the bullet-spattered wall of. the hardware store still gives evi- dence of the terrific battle that day last June when the Felts brothers fell at the head of their forces. The miners call it “the battle of Matewan” ani regard it as a defen- sive combat that ensued atter the 3aldwin men attempted to evict the e3 of striking miners from com- y houses But Tom Felts calls it the “massa- cre 6f Matewan,” in which, he sa. his men had no chance for a fetir fight, but were slaughtered after be- ing ambushet. But the seven’ guards were not all of the dead. Three ci s of Mate- wan were kilied in the exchange of shots. Atfompt to Arrest Chi Among them was C, C. ‘Testerman, the mayor of Matewan and the town’s leading business man. Witnesses say the guards started to arrest his-chief of police, Sid Hat- field, on’ the ground that he had at- upted to interfere with censed € 8. The m A said, warned them | not to take his of police away from the town. body tells exactly the gime story after that. A shot was fired and Mayor Tester- man fell. Then there began the gen- eral shooting. Other guards who survived fled, them inj discharge of their duties as Hie} about what happened | some swimming across the Tug river to Kentucky. These have been sum- mconed as witnesses by the prosecu- tion. Murder Follows Battle The murder of Uriah Hatfield, own- er of the Urias hotel of Matgwan, may or may not have had something to do with the affair. He was sitting, one evening, several months after the killing of the guards, ta front of his, hotel. Suddenly a rifle cracked and Uriah Hatfield fell dead with a bullet through his heart. The-murdered man, who was no re- iative of Sid Hatfield, had been a wit- ness before the grand jury that had investigated the Matewan affair) and had received a threatening note af- cerwards, Gathering Evidence All the forces of the Baldwin De- tectives, Inc., have been at. work ever since the day of the Matewan tragedy, gathering evidence against suspected versons. The enclosure-in the court room re- served for judge, jury and defendants be fifled with the numerous dp- ants, at the head of whom sits Hatfield. In the auditorium gath- er the friends and foes of the accused men. é In the friendly delegation from Maicwan sits Sid Hatuesas wife. Sue was the widow of Mayor Testerman. ‘jiled in the gun fight. The chief of police married her a few weeks after the mayor's death. It/Did Come Suddenly. An unusually interesting communt- cation was received by a New York , life insurance company from the Dahl- strom. Metallic Door company ‘of Chi- cago... A letter, pointing out the ad- ges of insurance, nailed to Dahlstrom on November 16, 1920. M A part of this letter read ‘as ‘follows, | “Have you ever thought >that) your! | to become known. Recentl turn may come suddenly, did—"-‘The“answer to th tion, as written by some unknown per- son, is as follows: “It did. He's Mead. Returning fetter and posteard. Can't forward. Keeping blotter. Can use this.” : Suppose it Traffic through the Panama Canal | in 1919 was)the greatest of any year ‘in its history. disbandsy It wa but none of its victims “squealed,” | so thelr activities are just: beginning | upposi- | stepson, It is greatly superior Texas Woman With Gun Drove Masher to Jail Alex Kobelinko of New York city tried to strike up an ac- quaintance with Mrs, J, GC. Moody on 2 country road two ifles from Dallas, ‘Tex. found himself looking into a re- “volver muzzle. dust then,, Mrs. Moody's brother came. along in the famic ly automobile and, with the wo man sitting in the back seat usual shot at Kobe- time his speed slack- ened a little, they chased him toward town until, they met Sheriff. Harsion, who arrested the New Yorker on a charge of free che was going back to Broadway where the girls do not know how ‘to shoot, fi ; KU KLUX BAND IN MISSOURI Secret Organization Deals Out Sum. | mary Justice im) Cedar County. Yair Play, Mo.—aA_ white cap_organ- {zation, similar to the Ku Klux Klan} of the old South, is said cto be work- | ing effectively in the eastern: part of | Cedar county. reported that a new _ KIEL FORTRESS—JUNKPILE! = \ In diccordance with the terms of the Versailles peace. treaty the gu Kiel is rapidly becoming a junk pile. Remains of some of the powerful (5 and 24 ¢ m. guns are The workman is wing ametalcutting torch to destroy fhe other mon- shown in the foreground, ister, at German 4 | Kriz supply of chinaware, vases He. | | ty was binding up a bullet hole in The band works secretly and silent-| the calf of her sister's leg where the ly, deals summary justice, and then | bandit had shot her, Fred was wash- formed a year ago, \ Ing a cut on his hand. accordiig ‘to ‘reports, a | county hospital, but it was several Cedar county furmer was, taken from | hours before he would tell his name. his home and whipped. i said to have followed reports that the | Charles Bolpen. According to the po- farmer had beaten hig: three-year-old | lice, he fs an ex-convict with a long +record as an habitual burglar. The visit is; qd light say. He said he had no home and to any previously ! known, has been perfected in London: | pag to pull off another job. foriress: at THIEF PULLS ~ AWFUL BONER Invades Home of Policeman’ ahd Needs Repairs When Children , Get Through With Him, EMULATE MOVIE’ PLAY Burglar Shoots’ Girl, but She, With Brother and Sister, Continue Work on Intruder Until They ‘Fix ~ Job for Surgeon. Chicagor—Exploits of a celluloid | Rattles having fired their fancies, the | two daughters and the son of Patrel- man Frank J, Kriz emerged from the neighborhood movie one night discuss- ing styles in strategy to cope with real life burglars. ‘They are Marie, Liberty and Fred, ; 'rruth being stranger. than fiction, , the trio-encountered the burglar when they entered their home. They heard him ransacking the upper floor of | thelr house when they opened the door, and the girls, not waiting for their brother, rushed upstairs to cap- ture him, Here the movie ‘changes from a dfama to a comedy, for the burglar, after firing shots from one of the policeman's three revolvers he “had | stolen, tried to escape. and dashed | past the two sisters down the stairs right into the arms of Fred. | Trio Registers Action. Now, Fred is a prety husky lad ond | an overseas veteran, and he procecied | to treat Mr. Burglar like. he would? have treated a Boche, But Marie and” | Liberty weren't going to let Fred get | all the. credit. In the movie the girl had helped. capture Mr, Raffles. so they went to the assistance of thcir | brother, ba | The scene which met the eyes of ; the police told the story. Strewn on! the floor were the. remains of the \ Kriz, dinner and the remnants of the \ | bric-a-brac. 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