The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 11, 1923, Page 1

_ GRANDLARCENY ‘\ con ‘“ of that county to aid ‘in investiga- ny WEATHER FORECAST Fair. tonight and Wellnesday. Warmer tonight. ESTABLISHED 1878 SENATE DEADLOCK UNBROKEN CANADA SLIDING FROM DRY RANKS Prohibitionists, Greatly Alarmed, Whet Battle Axes for Last Stand as Addi- tional Provinces Plan Referendum Elections 8 ARRESTED ON CHARGES OF Alleged to Have Stolen Auto- mobile Accessories From Local Firm POLICE CHIEF ATTACKED Ex-Convict Attempts to As- sault Martineson—Dawson “Robbery Investigated Morris Stock and Lawrance Halver- son of Raleigh and Harry Whitemore of Flasher are held in jail here on charges of grand larceny, growing out of alleged theft of automobile accessories from Stair and Pederson, All are young men, and Whitemore alone is married, Stock and White- more were arrested in Carson and brought back by Sheriff Hedstrom and Chief of Police Martineson while Halverson was arrested by Chief Martineson and Officer Peck in Bis- marck when they found his car had wheels, claimed to have been stolen. The Raleigh pair formerly~owned tn garage there. The alleged theft ed of taking wheels, cushions, spotlight and a tire, stripped from a car at the Stair and Pedersof garage. They will have a hearing late today before Justice of the Peace Beer. Attacks Chief. Chief Martineson was ‘attacked yesterday afternoon on the lpcal street by J. M. Corcoran, who was re- leased from the penitentiary a couple of days ago. Corcoran, arrested, is held on a charge of assaulting an officer. Chie: Martineson, who was with Officer George McDowell of the Northern Pacific detective force at Jamestown at the time, stopped THE BISMARCK T BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1923 rn) Yukon British Colum Alber This map gives some, idea of the comparative strength of wets Provinces where liquor is sold under governmental regulation. Shaded now, but where referendums probably will be held within the next year. strongholds. BY GEORGE W. H. BRITT NEA Service Writer Ottawa, Ont. Dec, 11.--Trace a| E R steadily rising curve to a dot labeled! 1918, then drop it sharply to another dot at 1923, and on the White paper ahead place a leering question mark. There you have a history of prohi- bition in Canada. On the rising slope are wavy ups and downs representing the varying successes of the Dominion Alliance,| or drys, and of the opposition that! fights noW as the Moderation Lea- AIDS CHILD Fund of $200,000 Provided To! gue. | ‘FORMER WIFE Work Out Welfare Plan— | But none of the waves in the line Corcoran to caution him and the latter immediately brandished a cane and swung at the chief, the latter said. A tussle ensued in which Corcoran ubdued without the use of a but it took four men to finally get him in a ceil, He talked irresponsibly at times, ‘acedrd- ing to Police Magistrate Cashman. He asked a continuance until he could get a lawyer. Arthur Schroer, who was released from the penitentiary here about two months ago has been arrested again and sentenced to three years in the penitentiary in Wisconsin for burglary, to waich he confessed, ac- cording to information received by the local police department. Schroer, who appeared at various times as a usician in Mandan and Bismarck, being sought by local police re- spicion of having stolen some money from a railroad man in Mandan. be Robbery Local rs' were at, Dawson, Kidder county, last night ‘on request of States Attorney Charles Liessman of robberies committed Satur- night. The safe of the Powers vator was blown, the safe of the Farmers and Merchants Elevator entered, a garage safe blown and two stores entered. The explosions were ly bungled by the cracksmen, ac- cording to officers. The. net result in cash of the robberies was said to be about $10. Those in the local \ party going to Dawson were Philip Elliott, assistant attorney-general; A, Risem, Photographer, Chief Mar- tineson and Mise Vivian Martineson, , who used a finger-print machine. APRISONERS IN ESCAPE Leader of Gang, However, 13 * Wounded and Captured > tion da Lansing, Kan., Dec. 11.—(By the A, P.)—Four convicts who faced a rain of bullets while they scaled the north wall of the Kansas state pentitiary here last night and jump- ed to fréedom were at liberty to- day. Their leader, Chas. Kavanaugh, however, was back in the prison hos. pital with a bullet wound in his leg. The break, probably the most daring in the prison’s’ history, was the sec- ond within eight days. On Dec. 2, 18 other prisoners escaped by crawl- ing through an abandoned tunnel and four of them have been captured. GETS VERDICT FOR AUTO CRASH Knudt Herbranson’ was given a verdict of $200 against’ Julius Lad- dehoff by a jury in district court late ‘yesterday. The case resulted from an automobile accident on August 27, 1928, in which the form- er’s auto was démaged. The case of Joseph B, Fleming against D. E, Matt's was dismissed with prejudice. In the case of M..0. Hunter against: William Meyers of Driscoll on & note, the evidence was submitted to the court, a jury-being waived, and the court indicated he would’ find for the defendant. ae ‘The case of Fred Manson’ against the Menoken Farmers Cooperative ‘Agsociation was on trial this, morn ¥ * i has the sudden, violent, jagged ap- pearance of the depression since} 1918. This’ plunge takes one's breath. i Local Sentiment Rules If you place the Canadian graph erase m now alongside a similar curve for} years this little city of 30,000 has the United States, there appears a|given itself to science as subject for striking. parallel. “Phat-is, up to!® gigantic experiment in humanity. 1918. In these two years, Mansficld and The eighteenth amendment has|.its surrounding territory in Richland held the United™States to the peak} county have tended to vindicate pro- level- of its legislation. by constitutional restriction, follow- | ing its fundamental policy of deter- |. mination by provinces, Canada has{in nent, ‘ altered the course as local sentiment |¢4 is looking toward this city with wished. |far greater hope and expectation, But there is no getting away from/than it had two years ago, for the the jaatallenijle inal Tipon the/ development of a healthier, stronger, question, “Will the United States | happier population. eventually follow Canada in this lat- Red, Cross Starts It est turn?” Such encouraging prospect arises BY ISRAEL KLEIN A Service Writer Mansfield, O., Dec. 11.-For two stract theories in medical science. Now, with three Qore years to go Canada reflects the American'out of the progress already shown movement through most of its his-| by the Child Health Demonstration tory. |—the official name for this human experiment. For out of frail, bony frames have come virile, muscular bodies, testifying to the soundness of the theories put into practice here. This was the idea when the Ameri- can Red Cross provided a fund of $200,000 to the National Child Health Council, now the American Child Health Association of which Herbert New Brunswick First When Maine went nominally dry} in 1851, the adjoining province of New Brunswick followed in four years with a tentative prohibition law, It lasted a year. When the American prohibition! party was organized in 1869, it was} followed soon by the Dominion Alli- A i ‘ance. And so it continued. Do- | Hoover is president. It has been the tuinion wide prohibition was voted in| intention to collaborate all branches 1898, but the government never put.| of health into one system which, if it into effect. | Proyen practicable by this Mans- “County option,” as provided inj the “Scott act” of 1878, was for/° years the Canadian national” policy on prohibition. In cerfain provinces provision was made for votes by townships and municipalities. Local option was especially popular Tn the maritime provinces. At the beginning of the war On- tario had 68 per cent of its munici- palities dry and Quebec, 75 per cent. Has Time Restrictions The war eventually brought d minion-wide prohibition. It was or- dered by the government, effective in April, 1918, continued until Jan. 1, 1920, and was severely “bone dry.” Prohibition, by the province as a unit had been started in 1901 by Prince Edward , Island, Influerced by the war-time* wave of prohibition sentiment, other provinces fell into line. The landslide included in or- der Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Nova i iy Scotia, Alberta, Ontario, New ‘Bruns-|@ducational program.” / wick and British Columbia. The fed- MA Ill Co-Operate eral order brought it-in Quebec also.} So Dr, Brown and his assistants— Dry forces, naturally, fought in fact all the physicians of Rich- against repeal of the war-time order,| land county, who are heart and soul but in: vain. They did ob\n, how- with him—are training childhood it- ever, a law which permitted dry self into better health habits. Start- provinces upon petition, to have the} ing with the expectant mother, they federal government prohibit ship- develop instincts of health into the ments into their ¢erritory, youth of the community. 4 The dominion government always) They are succeeding with amazing has retained control over the manu-| progress. Nurses and medfcal men facturers of liquors and beer in dry|are going into the homes to spread provinces and export from such pro- the gospel of infant care and. health. vinces. It permits that business to- Schools have turned over all their day. facilities to the demonstration, so that now a well qrganized method of child health education is in prog- gress. ‘ From everywhere comes only en- couraging do-operation. No attempt is made at health education or at- tention in a family, unless the dem- onstration has obtained full consent from the parents concerned, Yet, no oppoaition has been encountered. Every city and county authority is working hand and glove with (the demonstration. It is this co-operation, Dr, Brown suggests, that has helped the dem- serited in Saskatchewan beforé|onstration progress toward its defi- Christmas and a vote is expected in\ nite gofl. ntarion almost certain- a y the spring. ly, will eet the question next| The proportion of males to females is generally largest in the west, (Continued on Page 3) ther localities of the country. New Viewpoint “This is putting scientific theory into actual, positive practice”, ex- plains ‘Dr. Walter H. Brown, who ‘has been directing ‘the demonstra- tion, “We are approaching the problem ‘of community health from an entirely different viewpoint. Here- tofore we've stressed too much the negative side of health rather than o-| the positive side. “Now we are getting the idea over of prevention of disease, rather than its cure. , “Qur main purpose is to develop the technique of health education and training on a scale that the average community can understand and afford to pay for it. Our dp- Iproach is definite, in providing pro- per medical attention to the fam- ilies, in our nursing system and our . Governmental Control After the dominion dry order was revoked, provinces began rapidly to jump the fence from the prohibi- tion fold. Quebec inaugurated its present system of government sale and licensing in May, 1920. The next June British Columbia put a sinti- lar system into effect by authority of popular vote.. Yukon territory fol- lowed in September. KX This year thé progress has contin- uel Manitoba voted for governh mentPsales in June Alberta ‘in No- vember. A petition is to he pre- and drys in |NEGRONAMED | BY COOLIDGE | Lou Hoover Heads Movement | Unhampered | fessors and physicians for their ab-| n this five-year experiment, Ameri-j field experiment, may be adopted by} Canada. Black indicates spaces are provinces that are dry White spaces mark prohibition | Washington, Dec. 11.—The name of Walter L. Cohen, New Oriears ne- gro, Republican leader, was sent to the senate today by President Cool- toms despite the the senators, protests of OF SAILSTAD TO SEPARATE | Will Leave Present Husband Until She Can Get Divorce, | } She Announces Eau Claire, Wis., Dec. 11.—Ross R. Richardson today is living at ,eal hotel, while Mrs, Leona Sa’ | Richardson, who for a year has {as his wife, is occupying the home. This is the result of the arrival of a photograph last night of Edward Sailstad who arrested last week at Napa, Calif., with Miss Dorothy Anderson. ad and Miss Ander- son are wanted at Superior, Wis., on }eharges of arson, | “My God its Ed.” That was the exclamation of Mrs. | Sailstad Richardson when shown a j photograph of her husband, Edward |Sailstad shortly after his arrest. Shortly afterwards retreating with her present Rusband, Ross R. Rich- jardson, into a corner of her home | away from inquiring eyes of report- |ers and officiats the Richardsons , conferred in a low voice for about ten minutes. When they again faced newspaper men and officials and an- nounced that they had decided to separate and not live as husband and wife until a divorce had been se- j cured and a sufficient time had elapsed to remarry, under the stat- | utes. READY TO RETURN. Napa, Calif, Dec. 11—(By the A. | P.)—Edward tad and Dorothy | Anderson, nomadic lovers, whose three years of roving terminated in their “arrest here, completed prepar- ations today for their return with j officers to Douglas county, Wisconsin, where in 1020 they robbed a grave of the body of a friend and burned the corpse so that the charred bones would be mistaken for those of Sail- stad. The pair was permitted plenty of time to arrange their affairs today. WARRANTS SENT OUT First Hail: Warrants For 1923 Are ‘Given Farmers a Hail darrants totalling about $125,000 were to Be sent out today from the state hail insurance depart- ment, as the first payments on the 1923 hail losses suffered by farmers insured with the state department. Warrant holders in Billings, Bot- tineau, Cass, Cavalier, Grand Forks, Griggs and Pembina counties, will receive the warrants, which may be cashed with the’state treasurer. All losses are paid<on an 80 per cent basis and will bear no interest, since they are cglled immediately on is- suance. if Writing of warrants for 27 other counties has been completed, and warrants will’be issued in a few days, according to Martin Hagen, manager of the department. State officials yester@ay signed up $1,600,000 of hail warrant notes, on which money was borrowed, from Twin Cities financial houses to en- able the department to pay losses in cash before tax collections are made. BUNE [nwnn] PRICE FIVE CENTS REBELS TAKE BIG PROVINCE Ygnacio Enriquez Taken Pris. oner by De LaGuerta For- ces, Is Report Ted Loran paid the game board of the state $15 and today at last was in full and legal posse of the doe white-tailed deer which he killed 10 days ago by hitting it with his automobile on the Man- dan-Bismarck road. About 24 bids were received by Deputy Game Warden Harry Thor- berg, in Mandan, ranging from $3 to $15, which was the price paid by Loran: ; “[ killed the doe and I wasn't going to let any of those other fellows get it if I had to pay $26 for it,” said Ted. Loran hit the deer at night when it ran across the road. The car was badly shaken, but because the fender and bumper struck the ion REVOLT NEWS MEAGER Few Dispatches Filter Through to Show Progress of Mexican Revolution Chihuahua City, Mexico, Dee, 11 Governor Ygnacio Enriquez of tl state of Chihuahua has been captur- ed near Torreon by De La Huerta forees and is being held prisoner, according to word received by legi GERMANY BEARS Iators here today. Governor Enti-| & MILLION MARKS itol from Mexico City where he went! 5. aye ‘ Hane aifort to prevent a rupture of |, Fight million marks to bring a let- PUGHIEN AMARAUBIPROADE Tayiniiertiy| Cor eons commen: nie) Was te jamount on a letter received in Bis- arck today from a German adver- ng a refill pencil for 12 cents h, The pencils are urged as an dvertising medium. | LETTER FROM REPORT CAPITAL FALLS ler FI Paso, Tex., Dee. 11.--Coincident | with reports that Tepic, capital of the Mexican state Mayrit. had fall- en into the hands of the rebellicus| forces General J. G, Escobar, com- mander of the department compris- ing the state of Durango and Conu was en route with 2,000 troops from} Torreon to cut off the rear of Gen-! eral J. Estrada, the rebel com@ander| of Guadalajara, military officials at} Juarez learned last night. i Only meager reports of the upris-: ing against the Obregon government by supporters of Adolpho De La Huerta, presidential candidate, were available early today due to the dis- rupted communication with the in-| terior of Mexico. A dispatch from Nogales, said that all federal tele- i aph lines through the state of! For Flooding { Nayarit and Jalisco were suspended | i PLANFORICE RINKS IN CITY I$ EXPLAINED Committee Informs City Com- mission of Proposed Plans | LORAN FINALLY GETS DEER WHICH GOVERNOR OF | — BROUGHT SQUABBLE WITH WARDENS LAFOLLETTE FORCES HOLD UP ELECTION Senator Cummins Unable to Command Majority Vote For Committee Head DEMOCRATS ARE SOLID deer and threw it to one side the car was not wrecked, Loran, who knows something about the hunt- ing game, immediately bled the deer and soon after the entrails were removed. It was thus in per- fect condition. A friend of Loran bid the deer in for $5 before a justice of the peace, but game wardens seized the deer and announced bids would be received up to December 11. The original purchaser considered bringing a replevin action against the game wardens to obtain the deer, but decided that the ex- pense of doing this would hardly justify the action. The deer remained in cold stor- age in Bismarck, and now is in Loran's hands. " WIFE SLAYER’S SANITY TOBE TESTED, PLAN Commission Will Determine Whether He Is To Go On Trial For Murder Stick to Their Candidate, Who Is Within Two Votes of Senator Cummins . KELLOGG CONFIRMED Washington, Dec. 11—After a contest in executive session the nomination of. former Senator Frank B. Kellogg of Minnesota to be ambassador to Great Bri- tain was confirmed. Both of the Farmer-Labor senators from Minnesota, Johnson and Ship- stead, are understood to have argue against confirmation. They lost their fight, however, on a roll call vote. Washington, Dec. 4.—(By the As- sociated Press)—The senate gain found itself in a deadlock as it re- sumed balloting today for the elec- tion of a chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee, Senator Cummins, Republican of Towa, who now holds the dual posi- tion of chairman of the committee and president, pro tem of the senate, received 41 votes for the chairman- ship on the first ballot to 39 for Senator Smith, Democrat, South Car- olina, and seven for Senator LaFol- Milwaukee, Dec. 11.—Judge A. C. Backus in municipal court en- tered a plea of not guilty for E. Ray Tompkins, charged with murder in the first degree in connection with the death of his wife, Ora Belle Tompkins, and appointed a lunacy commission to inquire into the defendant's sanity when the case was called today. lette of Wisconsin, leader of the ‘ — Republican insurgents. This left Milwaukee, Dec. 11.—(By the A. P.)| Cummins three short of the neces- The first definite action that will | sary majority. and that a strict censorship was in| force. Reports that the Yaqui Indians at Dacelete were about to go on the warpath or that they had taken to the mountains in preparation for such action were declared unfounded ih the Nogales dispatches. PRESIDENT T0 GIVE AID FOR LIGNITE FIGHT President Calvin Coolidge, in a letter to the Association of. Com- merce, assures the Bismarck people that every possible and proper aid will be inore for the protection of proper interest in the lignite coal industry. The letter of the Presi- dent is as follows: , * Gentlemen: Your telegram of December 7th, communicating to me the text of the resolution adopted by the Associa- tion of Commerce is received. have to thank you and exp! my great appreciation of the generous attitude you have assumed. You can be as- sured that every possible and proper effort will be made through the ex- kating rinks in the} send , Ray Tompkins to the hospi- city were discussed last night with|ta1 for the criminal insane or to a the city commission by the Associa- tion of winter sports committee composed of L, S, Crass- well, S. W. Corwin and Benton Bak- er, Plans for i Commerce taken today in municipal court when Tompkins will be arraigned for the death of his wife, Ora Tompkins. He has confessed that he killed his |wife and then buried the headless body in an city. When Tompkins is brought into It is proposed, it was stated, to again flood ground at the William Moore school and at St. Mary's school, _| municipal court District Attorney It is proposed to have one big Shaughnessy will ask the appoint- city ice skating rink, where hockey jent of a commission to inquire into may be played, The only good site) the sanity of the’ former normal in the city, it was reported by the’ cohool teacher, now a wealthy real committee, is the baseball park, Mr.! estate dealer.’ Miso Florence Wit- Corwin explained that the idea of| meyer, former normal school student the committee was to flood a place! and former public school teacher, rested on a statutory about the size of the football grid-| who was iron, but that a ‘Survey Thorne Dickinson showed the ground was three feet higher at one end than in front of the grand stand, and this plan would have to be changed. A tool house which had been used by the Haggart Construc-| tion Company can be obtained for a| Miss Witmeyer bore up well when warming house, he added. brought’ before the district attorney The big problem is getting water! and expressed the opinion that she to flood the place. Various methods|should not be arrested becau: were discussed—one to tap a mai ompkins has forced her to do his just west of the International Har-/ bidding by threatening to kill him- vester Company's plant, another toj self. lay pipe from Third street and an- other to send water through the, of my ability,” she asserted. “I am storm sewer which goes through the| just a victim of circustances. I did athletic park. Some additional in-| not break up his home. I knew there unhappiness there. 1 was on $500 bail yesterday. Tom kins in his confessions repeatedly referred to Miss Witmeyer as “his in- spiration:” He first met her, he said, while she was a student of his the normal school here. trial on first degree murder will be | isolated spot near the made by} charge as a sequel of the murder “I repulsed him to the full extent was On the second ballot Cummins again was short three votes of the necessary majority. La Follette held his seven Votes and Cummins again got'41 and Smith 39, Cummins’ vote dropped to 39 on the third ballot, Smith holding his 39 and La Follette seven. With Gummins four. short ot a majority the senate went into an ex- ecutive session and later adjourned until tomorrow when there will be more balloting. TRAIN CREWS FACE INQUIRY | ON BAD WRECK [Engineer of Death Train Had Clean Record For Two Score of Years Erie, P., Dec. 11—Ten railroad men, the crews of two sections of the New York Central Twentieth ‘entury limited when the fast train was wrecked ‘near Forsyth, N. Ye early Sunday with the loss of nine lives, came to Erie today to face of- ecutive establishment for the protec- | vestigation probably will be made, was tion of the interests in which you | before definite action is taken in this) are so deeply concerned. regard. i Two methods of financing are pro- osed—one to sell season , tickets) and the other to seek contributions. | Aid of the city commission was ask- | ed in necessary grading and in donat- ing -water. is] ‘The committee will meet again to- day. Most sincerely yours, CALVIN COOLIDGE. The Bismarck Association of Commerce, Bismarck, N. D. The highest steeple in Bohemia 290 feet high. ———_ SKATING RINK FOR BISMARCK Depends Upon Support Given The Project! It Is Up to People of Bismarck. The children are clamoring for this recreation cen- ter. But it will take money to put it over! PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION DESIRED! The Association of Commerce under its sports com- mittee is issuing this appeal to the community in order that the Capital City may have adequate winter sports. Three rinks are proposed near the following places: St. Mary’s School, Wallen Moore School. an { Big Public Rink at Baseball Park. Everything. is set to “go but $600 is needed for general maintenance. Fill in coupon, pin check or cash and mail to Asso- ciation of Commerce at once. * Subscriptions must be in by Thursday noon. Bee Reeders Name... .-tccspieshscceeus ees, AMES. 2... . Association of Commerce Sports Committee. - .P. 0. Box 383 ; j ficials of the road and to tell what they know of the fatal crash. Among these was Chas. Patterson of Buf- falo who for two-score years has been at the throttle of many fast trains. His record was clean until Sunday when during a driving rain and a\heavy fog his train plowed in- to a section of the limited which had halted momentarily. Road officials have stated that Patterson drove his train past warn- ing signals. Railroad executives in charge of the hearing were joined by Coroner, Blood of Chautauqua county and representative of the In- ter State Commerce Committee and the New York Public Service com- mittee who are also investigating, The hearing was behind closed doors, BALDWIN TO - MEET CABINET London, Dec. 11—Prime Minister Baldwin and ‘his cabinet will meet the parliament when it convenes and will not resign in the interim, t was Officially stated this even- ing. GIVE AUTHORITY TO SELL STOCK The state securities commission has granted the Gibson Land and In- vestment company, headed by James- town men, permission to sell $75,000 worth, of stock for the pesnses of dweveloping farming and oil lands in the. Orae Grogs seein of Montana, no: to Fargo should be properly adjust-| ity prs iat ae condition, that ed in their relationship to ‘cor meney- derived from the sale of.etock sponding rates to the Twin Cities! he held in escrow until all stock is nothing but a friend.” FARGOFAVORED IN RATE CASE, SAYS DISPATCH Tentative Report of Examiner of Commission Is Held To Be Favorable Fargo, Dec. 11.—Recommendations supporting virtually every claim ad- vanced by the Fargo Commercial Club in its suit for freight rate equality are made in the tentative report of A, C. Wilson, special ex- aminer to the Interstate Commerce Commission, according to a special dispatch to the Fargo’ Forum from Washington. “As examination of this report,” says the dispatch, “shows the ex- aminer \is found there is no just basis for lower basis of rates from the Twin @ties to Minnesota points than from Fargo to Minnesota re- ports; that there is no justification for a higher basis of rates relatively to Fargo from ‘icago and the east than applies from Chicago and the east to the Twin Cities; that there is no justification for applying lower relative ‘basis of rates from the Twin” Cities to Montana points than applies contemporaneously to Fargo and those Montana points; al- so that the rates from Kansas City and Duluth. Also that the rates/ gold. . from’ Duluth to Fargo, should be Soiy eae 3%: properly adjusted. He also recom: LANGDON BANK REOP! * mends proper adjustment of rates Frac yrats Cy oN Se ak from California to Fargo to be no} National bank of Langdon will re- higher than corresponding. rates to|open for business, according to ap- the Twin Cities. .The report also nouncement made by officials of the provides for similar changes in rates; bank. The ‘institution haa. been to, Valley City and Jamestown.” [etosea about five weeks, Bers f t