The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 15, 1921, Page 1

ye The Weather THE BIS CK TRIBUNE [-:« FORTIETH YEAR BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1921 PRICE FIVE CENTS DEADLOCK THREATENS IRISH PEACE DESCRIBESHOW LARGEST STILL WAS CAPTURED Lane Moloney, Prohibition Chief, | Tells Details of Golden | Valley Case i BIGGEST HE EVER FOUND} Officer Declares Still Largest | Unregistered Still Captured | in United States | Tucked away among the buttes of i the Bad Lands of western North Da-/} kota, 25 miles from a railroad, federal | officers have found and destroyed the} largest illicit still ever captured in! the United States, according to Lane} Moloney, North Dakota chief for the | prohibition forces. Mr. Moloney, in Bismarck told details of the seizure. + "The still—of 345 gallon capacity—-j was operated by a Kentuckian, as-| sisted by a French-Canadian. All the | equipment of a distillery, including 2; gauge to test the alcoholic content ot | the liquor, was found, according to] Mr, Moloney. | “I claim this is not only the largest; still seized in the Northwest since na- tional prohibition became effective but also the largest unregistered s Mt ever seized by government agents in! the United States or its possessions,” ; said Mr. Moloney, “and I believe the| records of the internal revenue de-| partment will bear me out in the! statement.” | One of the largest stills seized here- | tofore was found in George, 25 miles; from the city of Atlanta, according to| the dry ch This was of about: 250 gallon capacity and was seized by | Mr, Moloney and other agents. | i Wanted to Pay Mortgage. | The ferreting out of the hiding place of the still by the federal agents cut short the hope of Lee Williams of | paying off a mortgage on his 900-; acre ranch in the northwestern corner ; of Golden Valley county, a half mile from the Montana line, according to} the story he is said to have told) Moloney. | Williams, 39, came to North Dakota} from Kentucky 18 years ago and ac-/ quired the ranch. He has 100 head of cattle und 100 horses, but had been unable to Hft a mortgage from his place. | Last fall he conceived his scheme} of making liquor on a large scale, and} when he decided to build a new house on the edge of a coulee on his lonely | ranch he made plans to put in the big; still, the agent said. When the found- | ation of the house was completed the, still was installed—it was so large) it could not have been put in after the; house was finished. On two sides of | the basement, built into the wall, were) four vats, each of 300 gallon capacity. | The best copper coils made were used | and other necessary appliances were} of good quality. The big still was) operated from 6 A. M. until midnight} when working at full capacity, and) this necessitated Williams and his’ French-Canadian assistant working in| shifts. However, when they did not; desire to operate the big still they: had another double-strength copper still of 100 gallon capacity. H Worked Two Shifts. Federal officers refuse to give de- tails on the amount of liquor whico} might be manufactured in the big still, in a day, but as an indication of the; extensive scale on which the manu-; FATHER THESE PICTURES OF DR. GEORGE T. AND MRS. HARDING WERE ENT AND HIS BRIDE “ OF PRESID fl COUPLETOLIVE IN MARION Courtship With Buggy and Sorrel BY HAL COC | (Copyright 1921 by Ne ' prise.) | Marion, Ohio, Aug, 15.-It was an | old-fashioned romance that led to the marriage of Marion's happiest couple, ; Dr. and Mrs, George “'T. Harding, | For instance, the doctor did his | courting with horse and buggy. When | the father of the president of the Unit- jed States went calling, he- | But let the bride atid groom speak | i RAN. + aper Enter- for themselves. | tle romance—that’s what they call it, isn’t it? jing so long acquainted.” “You see,” explains hig bride, “we've : known each other for twenty-five y | “Folks get pretty well dequainted in! that length of time,” says the doctor, Doctor's Helper. j “But, George,” interrupts Mrs. Hard” | you might call close friends. I’ve! been in the doctor's office for that} length of time as a sort of helper. [| aw Dr. Harding every day.” | “Every day including Sunday,” em-! phasized the doctor. “Alice has lived} | only a few doors down the street from | me, She roomed at Fred Zuchman’s| | home, you know.” H “Rooming is u more or less lonely} existence”, comments Mrs, Harding. | “[ pity anyone who must room for-; ever.” | | Jhen Sundays rolled around,”; | continues the doctor, “I just got in| | the habit of hitching up the horse| and taking a little drive. 1 don't facturing was carried on permitted it! POSED ESPECIALLY FOR THE NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSOCI-!hanker much. for ite i to be known that they learned Wil-| ATION ON THEIR RETURN TO THEIR HOME IN MARION, 0. | Uae cates Lt aarteluigcetrittsanonen | liams had bought a carload of cora Se _ | tor. me.” | for use in liquor-making, had it ship-| ped to Beach and hauled it overland | 25 miles to his ranch. They found; the vats full at the time of the seizure, | containing 1,200 gallons of mash. They! confiscated eleven 50-gallon barrels) full of moonshine whisky and also} found a few gallons in a keg which} was used in catching fluid as it es- caped from the still, which was inj operation at the time of the seizure. ‘An incident of the operation was told the officers by Williams. During} a cloudburst in the Bad Lands, whea} the coulee filled up with rushing water| from the hills, two 50-gallon barrels) TAIN of whisky cached in the path of the! waters, were being carried awaw. In} 4 4 | attempting to recover them with a horse the horse was drowned and Williams had a narrow escape from drowning. When the officers began to demolish the still they found they could not take it out of the house intact. They chopped it into sections, and remove the connections. Williams is a married man, but his wife was away visiting at the time of the raid. He was taken before Unitet States Commissioner Halliday at Beacn and released on bond of $2,000 pend- ing the serving of a warrant for h arrest by the United States marshal. The French-Canadian was released on bond of $1,000. Williams did not tell the officers of having had any previous experience in mgonshine-making in Kentucky but the officers say he was very familiar with the proc! of man- ufacturing liquor. Other Captures. Moloney said that in his prohibi- tion enforcement work in the North west he had found one or two © where many stills were operated but the combined capacity was not as large. He said that he raided a Fin- lander in the swamps on the upper Crow Wing river in Minnesota who operated 18 stills, out that all of them did not have ‘one-third the capacity of Williams’ big sti. He said that (Continued on Page 3) FIVEKILLED IN OIL FIRE Five persons injured and a the result of a out in the Point of the Atlantic Re- Philadelphia, Aug were killed or fat score were hurt tire which brok Breeve oil wor fining company. ATTACKS 6.0. P. Aug. 15. Washington, White of the Democratic committee attacked the Republi tax revision plan declaring the pro | gram was developed to “make a fals show of economy.” RAR OHIO WOMAN SEEKS | IN THE HARVEST FIELDS OF NO. DAKOTA John Norris Smith is wanted home. In a letter to the postmaster at Bi marck, Miss Shelly Sm i Vv Jefferson, Ohio, who beli er hu in North Dakota, band follow “Will you plez newspaper reporter ating a farm near Sedalia. Ohio, and on the evening of June 26 went te that village to secure farm help. He suddenly disappeared and has not since been heard from. Since then } (his wife) have sold out and given up the farm. I think he may have got \tonight and Tuesday; slightly warm- the; | “I do love i horse,” says ; bride. i | Just Room For Two, | i 1 “And there’s just room for one more | Bi in my buggy,” the doctor smiles. “So! Fi I'd stop for Alice. Our favorite} | drive?—Well, J can’t say there was; a | any particular one. We have a lot of, (By the Associat-| 890d roads around Marion.” | have begun a} uinst the Turkish) utter retired rap- karia river without: ing George would just come over and? sit on the front porch,” puts in Mrs. Harding. “And once in awhile we would dine out together,” “Our marriage was quite sudden,” : , confesses the docto “Very!” says his bride. THER REPOL i eee hours ending at “Nobody expected it. In fact, we | ‘Temperature didn’t expect it ourselves—that is, not, Highe vester exactly. I just happened to be going 44| tO Detroit for the day and T suggested 57) to Alice that she might like to take the trip with me. Then, I popped: “‘While we're up there we can run over to Canada and get married.’ “She was so completely surprise she simply couldn't object. And awa we went without waiting to don any terday night ntion ..+ Low Lowest Precip Highes Forec Dakota: Generally fair For North er tonight “Well,” begins the doctor, “our UL ein oughou the Northwest. is probably the result of be-| stated, so much difficulty is not ex-| scheduled to be arraigned on the same | ing, “it only has heen during the past| flux hree years that we have’ been what! tsk “ hey a » ae | ‘ eT : And then when we didn’t go driv-' Deadlock in Negotiations is Put) millionaire, who has been "SWIMMING POOL RUSH OF BOOZE | BENEFIT WILL THROUGHSTATE _ TIS THREATENED | ‘Federal Dry Chief For North-' west Worried Over Cana- | Those who know what the old swimmin’ hole was are guaran- teed a lot of fun and those who never enjoyed splashing in the old swimmin’ hole will find out what they missed, at the Eltinge thea- ter tonight and tomorrow night, ‘The swimming pool benefit per- formances, showing the Charles Ray picture enacting the scenes James Whitcomb Riley's fa- dian Courts Decision i Sa on mous poem, will be given on these | CANADANOT TO INTERFERE; nights. People are urged to at- —— tend the first show, at 7:30 P. M., | eee ecay, because of hig crowds expected. Courts Decide Customs Officials; ‘The presentation of the bathing Have No Right to Stop | suit made for W. A. McDonald by : : members of the Business and Pro- Liquor Shipments H fessional Women’s club will be made either tonight or tomorrow night, and it was expected the bathing suit—truly an immense creation—would be on exhibition in the lobby this evening. | A hooze rush from Canada is ex-! ; Pected by federal prohibition officers. | North Dakota is one of the states ; through which the rush is expected to {be made before cold weather sets in. | Federal agents n not be able to jeurb the traffic, according to a Min-| Neapolis newspaper which quoted an ; admission of Kmerson E. Hunt, prohi- ‘bition director for the Northwest, on} freceipt of dispatches that the Canadi- an courts have ruled customs men ou! j The Minneapolis News, telling of the ; Situation, said: Boundary Piled High, | The boundary line from east'to west is admittedly piled high with cas and casks which have already dimin- j ished through large shipments into! | the Northwest since the decision, | At Detroit, jon the Canadian side. ram runners; BELIEVES HER INNOCENT | Chicago Counsel for Former Wife Accused of Murder {the other side of the northern border! H ve no right to interfere with ship-} | ments of liquor into the United States.! s Lawyer Appears as; ENGLAND FACES ne CRUCIAL PERIOD _INNEGOTIATIONS ' |Publication of Letters Shows Difference Between De Valera and Lloyd George IRISH WANTINDEPENDENCE | ; Not Satisfied with Dominion | Plan Offered by the British i Government | London, Aug. 15.—(By the | Associated Press.) —England to- ‘day faced a crucial period in the |negotiations looking to the es- ‘tablishment of peace in Ireland. | The action of the British govern- ;ment yesterday in making public iletters exchanged between Prime ‘Minister Lloyd George and ‘Eamonn De Valera, Irish Re- |publican leader, showed the peo- \ple that a virtual deadlock ex- iisted and although the door was declared to have been left open |for further parleys it was appar- ‘ent that the situation was one of \considerable gravity. The government terms were free from interference ae in brief as follows: | Dominion status for Ireland ‘plied back and forth across the river |with complete autonomy in finan- tin launches and other craft in such 'numbers that federal agents were! | without sufficient forces to deal witi! Obench ‘the invasion, information reaching) O/C ‘here today indicataed. Later state! court on an indictment charged ee ith the murder of J. B. Kennedy, troops were sent there to stop the rum! ™! : ae | P Hbere:ty clon: Sis) Sain ed for an extension of time in | | running. | ate iasplend = Thaycwereleri ;, In North Dakota the situation will ae sa ee ‘be. hey were Brats || lhe especially difficult to meet, Mr.j CU WRU! Aug: | | Hunt admitted. \ ! ‘vhere the runners, already familiar} Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 15 —Wher | with the best trails, and establishcd} Mrs. Madalynne Obenchain was taken | | With the border dwellers, will be prac- into court today to answer to a mur-| tically free from interference, but for| der charge involving the death here; | the action of state officials. Aug. 5 of J, Belton Kennedy, broker, | Decision of the Canadian courts was} Ralph B. Oberchain, her former hus- | followed by a rush of the runners for] band, was at the counsel's table as jclearance papers, it was reportel her attorney. ‘here. Thousands upon thousands of Mr, Obenchain, after a conference ! quarts of bonded liquors wait only for] With the prisoner, declared himseli ‘a time propitious for the move when | sure of his former wife’s innocence. they will be transported to cities Rev. «William A. Burch, of Evan- ston, IIl., was also here to be at the Mr. Hunt] side of his son, Arthur V. Burch, In northern Minnesota, ' pected as police of Duluth and Supe-| charge. irior are co-operating in an attempt Mr.’ Obenchain said he assured his ito stem the booze flow, thus far very] former wife of his determination to | effectively. help her despite the fact that she had Hampers Minneapolis Drive. once turned from him to receive Ken- i Coming at a time when Minneapolis | nedy’s love. | police are laying plans for an offen- Mr, Gbenchain said he could take sive on the city bootleggers, the in-|no active part in the proceedings be- of Canadian liquor will make the} cause he has not been admitted to doubly hard, it was conceded. practice law in Californis. The first night after the decision} Rev. Burch expressed a was rendered by Canadian courts, ac-| in his son’s innocence! cording to reports, 75 federal agents failed to stem the stream of whisky that crossed the Detroit river in the open. It is pointed out that in Minneapo- where hiding places are numer- ous, officers will experience much dif- ficulty rounding up offenders. Meanwhile, runners who had ceased operations on account of danger on the Canadian side, are again groom- ing the speed cars for the dash across the Dakota prairies in quest of the cup, which in addition to cheering, has made many men rich. RUSS DEMANDS FAMINE AREAS solute faith CLAIMS MISSING MILLIONAIRE IS HELD IN HIDING Former Detective in Des Moines Says Ambrose Small is Located police officials today were inclined to: discredit the story given out by| Frank Hearty, former assistant chief} of police, now private detective, that | he has found Ambrose Small, Toronto; missing | from his Canadian home for more; up to Herbert Hoover for than two gears. | Hearty and his 4 ciates refused | Decision to tell where the man they believed} to_be Small is located. Hearty has announced some def-; inite information will be given out on; the arrival of persons from Toronto! "| late today or tomorrow whom he e Associated Press)—A deadlock Was} pects to’ substantiate his identific reached in the negotiations relative to/tion, The man Hearty has under sur- | American relief for famine sufferers] yeijiance, he says, has been in Des; (between the American Relief adminis-) Moines for about six months. He} tration and Maxim Litvnoff, acting On| sayg he is legless and mentally in-| |behalf of the Soviet famine relief com-| .,,acitated as a result of an accident) mittee Action by Washington andJor gun-shot wound. | Moscow will be necessary to decide) John Broppy, former chief of de-) the issue, it is declared. tectives here who is working on the, \LITVINOFF STANDS FIRM Riga, Letvia, Aug. 15.—(By the Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 15.—Ar- ‘cial matters but without tariff thur C. Burch and Mrs, Madelynne : oy trade restricti: ain, arraigned in superior | islands, uons betweanithe | Mr. De Valera in reply de- manded full independence for Ireland and desired a treaty of association with the British com- monwealth group. PARLIAMENT MEETS _Dublin, Aug. 15.—(By the Asso- ciated Press)—An informal meeting of the Irish Republican’ parliament was the chief manifestation today of activity obzervable following the dis- closures ‘in the dorrespondence be- tween Lloyd George and Eamonn De Valera, The meeting was held to give the members, many of whom had never met, an opportunity to become ac- quainted prior to the summoned meet- ing of the parliament which will be held tomorrow to consider the nego- tiations. Correspondence Published London, Aug. 15.—(By the Associat- ed Pres —The correspondence be- tween the British prime minister, Mr. Lloyd George and Eamonn De Valera the Irish republican leader made pub- lic by the British government this evening shows that while there is a deadlock on the question of independ- ence for Ireland the negotiations still are open. Great Britain’s offered Ireland com- plete autonomy in finance and taxa- tion, military force for home defense, her own police, and among other things control of the Irish postal serv- lees, In hig replay to Mr. Lloyd Geogre Mr. De Valera argued for independence and offered to submit the Ulster ques- tions to arbitration. In his final letter Mr. Lloyd George denied Ireland’s right to secession, re- fused foreign arbitration for Trish questions and expressed the hope that Ireland would accept the British terms which he declared were the best that could be offered. Proposals Maye July 20 The British proposals which were dated July 20 said: “The British government is actuat- ed by an earnest desire to end the un- happy divisions between Great Britain and Ireland which have produced so many conflicts in the past and which have once more shattered the peace and well-being of Ireland. At the present time they long with His Maj- esty the King in the words of his gracious speech in Ireland last month for a satisfactory solution of those age-long Irish problems which for gen- erations embarrassed our forefathers and they now weigh heavily upon us (Continued on Page 3) tL) often spoke of it and> had been there. » was oper-| é MISSING HUSBAND So I thought T would write you and if you will please have this pub- shed. His little 6-year-old boy (Carl Norris Smith), asks every day when Will papa come home. 1 know if Jack knew how [ and his baby are worr ing about him he wonld come hack or ys loved his home » now living with ‘abbe, West Jeffer- pute No, 1. We just my father son, Ohio, ruré want Jack ba Whether the American relief admin- Changes In Plans, istration will compromise on ome hi ne we chang Vag its usi al methods and permit the So- AES ried | Be and distribution o! merican foo pred yaw! th aes Monroe, Mich that has been granted any other coun- “phat’s all there is to our little try which has been aided has been put ae dl ‘ °'up to Herbert Hoover, head of the finery.” romance,” concludes the doctor, “ex- Reli see . p elief Administration by Walter al that the happy couple co going,‘ Lynn Brown, European director of the ive in my home on Center street.’ administration, Pending a reply Honeymoon to Washington and the fom Mr, Hoover the conferees will White House? a ‘discuss minor points but Litvinoff it is Not right away. "Bult Warren may ynderstood, will stand firm in his re- run down here before long,” says the fysal to sign some of the American doctor, “though he has a pretty big conditions unless ordered to do so by job and works at it pretty hard.” the Moscow government. Dr. Harding is 76; his bride is 52. BARN IS BURNED A barn in the rear of Tom O’Con- nor’s home, on Seventeenth street, was destroyed by fire about 8:30 MORE PAVING AT FORKS, Grand Fc . D., Aug. 15.—Peii- tion for more paving here to connect WISHEK MAN KILLED AS AUTO Des Moines more than a year ago. He John Helmuth’s Neck Broken intimated that he was brought here is : by John Doughty. Small’s former se in Accident Near James- retary, wh« servi aterm in a} Canadian prison for the theft of some| town of the millionaire’s stock and bonds. | Hearty says the man was fairly well! Jamestown, N. D., Aug. 15.—John supplied with money and that he WaS! Helmuth, a farmer living near Wis- left in the care of a private family : : which promised to keep his where-,hek, was killed in an automobile ac- jcident on the Red Trail about 7 miles abouts a secret. i Broppy s it is tnpossinle to en-jeast of Jamestown Sunday night. gage the man in actual conversation.) pig ck wa | a as ile his replies are invariably His neck was broken and he died al “yes” or “no” and frequently mean-| Most instantly. ; ingless. | Helmuth, in company with his Small cannot explain why he left | brother-in-law, had been in Fargo for Toronto in December, 1919. A reward j thresher repairs. The heavy parts of $50,000 is offered for his return Were in a wooden box in the rear of to Toronto. the car. It is thought the added heartbroken wile. Tribune by to be publ discouraged and perhaps has gone to your state to the harvest fields as he The letter concluded “from his The letter was turned over to The he postoffice officials here hed in the hope that the woman wight be helped in her searcn, o'clock this morning. The barn was ablaze when the department reached there, Chief Jager said, and he was unable to determine the cause of the {fire. two avenue been granted by the city commission.” Bids will be adver- tised for soon, Bids for the sale of $16,000 worth of auditorium bonds have been advertised for. A local theatrical man who had dealings with Small in Toronto sev- eral years ago has been taken to see the man. He says he is sure the man is Small. weight caused the automobile to turn over as Helmuth turned out to allow ‘another car to pass. He was pinned junder the machine, Helmuth leaves a ‘wife and eight children.