The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 16, 1924, Page 1

re, \ cial privilege” ) Cumber tariff act, and promised that yield. ‘WEATHER FORECASTS Fair tonight and Wednesday. Somewhat warmer tonight. ESTABLISHED 1873 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [™onm BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1924 PRICE FIVE CENTS CONFESSION CLEARS N. D. ROBBERIES? GITY’S ANNUAL FIFTY-FIVE BELIEVED BUDGET PLACED AT $98,313.00 Reduction of $23,602.00 Ef- fected Chiefly by Reduc- tion in Water Works COMBINATION MADE City to Employ Full Time Au- ditor, Assessor and Water Works Officer Combined The city annual budget ordinance was introduced by Finance Commis- sioner Larson at the city commission night. It will remain under consideration for two weeks before final action is taken. The or- dinance probably will be changed in some respects, it was said by mem- of the commission, though various detai under- stood to have been pretty well con- \meeting last bers city al- are sidered The budget provides for a total levy for all purposes for running the city for one year, beginning tember 1, of $98,313.00. The same levy last year was $121,915.00. The reduction of $23,602.00 in the city expense for the year was caused chiefly by the fact that it was not necessary for the city to levy $22,000 again to meet securities issued for the water plant, this expense being taken care of by revenues. The commission made one consid- erable change in the method of ad- ministration. It provided for a full- time auditor, who shall also handle the finances. of the municipal water plant and be city assessor. This change embraced in part recommen- dations made by Commissioner H. A. Thompson as commissioner in charge of water and sewers, who urged this change in a report, the hiring of an engineer on a salary who should also be superintendent of the water plant and discontin- uance of the five percent system of meeting engineering expense. No change was made in the latter tem. The position of street coi missioner remains, Some Changes There is an increase in exp2nse for lighting, more are lights being provided, and expense included for making new connections because the Hughes Electric Company will re- (Continued on page 4) 6.0. P. COLLEGE CLUBS PLANNED Will Be Organized in North Dakota, Announced informally. Coolidge and Dawes clubs will be organized in the institutions of high- er education North Dakota, ac- cording to James K. Pollock, repre- sentative of the Republican national committee; who has been in the state for the last few days. Among those where ,clubs known as Repub- lican clubs but designed especially to further the candidacy of Pres- ident Coolidge and Charles G. Dawes, will be formed are the Agri- cultural Cojlege, «University of North Dakota, Jamestown College, normal schools at Minot and Valley City. “The situation looks pretty good for Coolidge,” My. Pollock declared after traveling in the state and in- terviewing many citizens. “I have found business ‘men, members of organized labor, farmers, in fact, men in all classes, for Coolidge.” There is, he asserted, a decided swing toward Coolidge in the North- west. He noticed it particularly in Minnesota, he declared, and said that it is noticeable in North Dakota and is increasing. DAVIS HITS AT G.0.P. TARIFF Candidate, Speaking in Mis- souri, Assails Republi- can Party Eastwood Farm, Bunceton, Miss- ouri, Sept. 16.—(By the A, P.)—John W. Davis, Democratic candidate for President, spent today resting at the farm home of Dr, Arthur W. Nelson, Democratic nominee for Governor of Missouri, and working on the address he will deliver at Des Moines Wed- nesday night. Yesterday Mr. Davi opened the campaign in Missouri with the addréss here in which he assailed the Republican party “spe- and the Fordney-Mc- if elected he would furnish a gov- ernment “honest through and through” from top to bottom, Tariff and taxation, it is under- stood, will form the subject of the is Des Moines address. Canadian wheat crop is aboyt 40 per, cent smaller than -last y asa rst, Kemmerer, Sept. Sept. 16.— Fifty-five men engaged in repair work in Mine No. 5 of the: Kemmerer Coal Com- pany at Sublet, Wyoming, se entombed by an explosion at ven miles north of here, were 11:45 o’clock today, according to word received here by company officials. Smoke was pouring out in great volume at 1:30 this after- noon. Mining officials believe all kil FAIR AMOUNT GRAIN CORN IN THIS SECTION Southern Part of the State Suffers Only Spotted Frost Damage Frost damage to flax and a general delay and threshing throughout by the corn and late of harvest ate ains that set in Sentember 10th, are noted crop notes issued by J. federal agricultural statistician who has issued the following summary for North Dakota covering the per- iod September 1 to 15th. The first week of September was fair and cool with night frosts that were damaging to corn and especially in the northern half of the state. General rains during the second week have definitely checked in the mid-month « Diamond, harvest and threshing operations for! several day Wheat harvest is now mostly com- pleted with threshing well under way in the eastern half of the state and about to get a general start in the western districts. All harvest work, however, is still delayed by the rains of last week, which found considerable wheat still in shock. Some damage to wheat ir. stock and to standing grain by heavy winds; in the northwestern czunties is noted in some reports from that. area. Elsewhere harvest comments continue very favorable both as to yields and quality which for the state are now generally the best in several year: Most of the corn crop in the nor- thern half of the state was caught by the frosts of the last night of | August and first week of September which have reduced the prospect for; matured corn in this area to a rel- atively small percentage. Corn in the southern half of the state will’ also show a spotted frost damage but will have a fair amount of grain corn, Early flax is now mostly harvest- ed and a fair amount has already been threshed. There is able of the crop still standing in shock and also a large amount of late flax still uncut. The late crop is now expected to show a general spotted frost damage and _particu- larly in the northern districts where it was in many cases quite green. There have been a few fields of potatoes dug to date but harvest of, this crop is a full two weeks later than average. Frosts during the first week of September have killed off vines in many cases which were still green and growing and have prob- ably reduced the prospect somewhat. Reports as to yields of the fields now at harvest are not as favorable as were expected. Quality, however, will probably average much better than a year ago. The recent rains while delaying farm work generally, were needed in many sections for fall plowing and seeding which work has been somewhat backward as a result of the dry weather during the last week of August and first week of September. Pastures were also help- ed by the rains. J. G. DIAMOND, Agricultural Statistician. {Weather Report _| For 24 hours ending at noon: Temperature at 7 a. m. Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday Lowest iast night Precipitation Highest wind veloc WEATHER FORECASTS For Bismarck and vicinity: Fair tonight and Wednesday. Somewhat warmer tonight. 7 For North Dakota: Fair tonight and Wednesday. Somewhat warmer tonight west portion. General Weather Conditions The pressure map has not changed materially since yesterday morning. It is still high over the Great Lakes region and low in the extreme West and extreme South. Precipitation oceurred in Iowa, Missouri and Illi- nois while elsewhere over the West the weather is generally fair. Sea- sonable temperatures prevail in all sections. Only a few places in North Dakota reported light frost while none of the Canadian stations report- ed frost. Orris W. Roberts, Meteorologist. Fire Department Called The fire department was called to the home of Charles Wright, 507 Fifteenth street, about 8:30 o'clock last night. A sbort circuit in elec. tric wiring caused a fire scare. There was no damage, the depart- ment reported. e flax considered i consider- | Rescue crews are unable to nenetrate the property. led. FROST VISITS TWO POINTS Fargo, Sept. 16.—-Jamestown and Dunn Center, North ota, both were visited by frost last night, ac- cording to weather reports received here. The frost at Jamestown, it is thought, ranged from heavy to kill- ing while that at Dunn Center was likely light to heavy. CLEMENCY FOR YOUNG SLAYER I$ PETITIONED Lecpold, Loeb Verdict Af- fects Plea to Save Life of Illinois Youth .--Shortly before Bernard Grant, sentenced to hang on October 17 murder, signed a petition to Governor Small plead- ing for his attorney, Thomas wanson, received a tel- jegram today from Dr. Agnes Lewis lof St. Cloud, Minnesota, stating that citizens of St. Cloud would petition the Illinois Governor to spare Grant’s life. The movement to save Grant's life ‘was started after Judge John R. ;Caverly spared the lives of Nathan jLeopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, rich men’s sons, and sentenced them to life imprisonment for the murder of Robert Franks. 3 The petition, which Grant’s lawyer will mail to the Governor, probably tomorrow, will not be simply # sen- timental appeal based upon the ac- |tion in the Leopold-Loeb case, but the attorneys said he would cite the ifacts in the ease that Walter Crau- ser, under a death sentence with Grant for the murder of Ralph Sou- ders, a policeman, had repudiated his first statement implicating Grant jand now states that Grant had noth- ling to do with the holding up of a |tea and coffee store in which Soud- lers was killed Grant claims he was 19 years old when the crime was committed—the ‘same age as Leopold and Loeb. Crau- ser also asserts he was only 19. Grant's appeal to the supreme court was refused, and his only hope for Jescape from the gallows is in the Governor's hands. Crauser has an appeal pending before the supreme court, Grant was reared in the district near the stockyards. It is not char- ged that he d the fatal shot but he was alleged to have participated. Crauser now says that Grant had nothing to do with it. FIRE DESTROYS PARK RIVER ‘MILL, ELEVATOR Grand Forks, Sept. 16.—Park River mill and elevator totally destroy- ed by fire early this morning. Loss. is estimated at $80,000. Cause of the blaze is unknown. LAFOLLETTE T0 START TOUR Likely to Make Many Speeches, Beginning Oct. 1 Chicago, Sept. for clemeney, Washington, Sept. 16.—Although the speech-making plans of Senator LaFollette for the campaign have not been disclosed, even in tentative form, aside from his engagement to deliver an address in Madison Square Garden, New York City, Thursday night his friends here now expect him to start out on an extended stumping tour by October 1. After his New York speech, the Senator intends to remain in the metropolis several days to discuss the political situation. On his re- turn to Washington he is expected to announce when and where he will speak during the remainder of the campaign. MILL BOARD MEETS Grand Forks, N. D., Sept. 16.—The regular meeting of the board of man- agers of the state mill and elevator was opened this afternoon. Attorney- General George Shafer is in Grand Forks, presumably in connection with the board meeting. FIERCE BATTLE FOR SHANGHAI Reported That it ety Gov- ernment Has Sent Rein- forcements to Defendants FIGHT IN MUD, WATER Also Reported That Manchur- ian and Peking Troops Clash to the North Shanghai, China, Sept. 16—Rein- forcements from the Peking govern- ment to be thrown into battle against the Chekiang forces de- fending Shanghai were reported 85. miles west of here at 11:45 p. m. last Sunday, according to a messen- ger from the Kiangsu front who re- turned here today. The troops, 3,000 in number, were well armed and equipped and were moving toward the Shanghai front in two special trains on the Shang- hai-Nanking Railway, the messenger said. Wounded Kiangsu troops return- ing from the Liuho front, where a fierce battle was in progress today for possession of territory adjacent to Woo Sung, outer anchorage of Shanghai, told Dr. F. A. Wilmott, at- tached to the Kiangsu army medical corps at Quirsan, that “we have been fighting waste deep in water through torrential downpours.” The Chekiang troops are most stubborn opponents and have been employing grenades and land mines with destructive effect. The Kiangsu wounded were moved to Quinsan in a special train, The American Red Cross corps from Nanking is assisting in care of wounded behind the Kiangsu lines. NORTHERN CLASH REPORTED Peking, Sept. 16—Reports were received here today that Chihlian and Manchurian troops had clashed at Chaoyand, in northern Chihli, about 20 miles in an air line from the border of Manchuria. No offi- cial confirmation of the report has been forthcoming. Representatives of the British and American governments today offi- cially informed the Chinese govern- ment that they could not accept the blanket prohibition of travel of their nationals in the provinces of Kiang- su, Chekiang, Anhwei and Kiangsi. The diplomats stated that were entirely willing to recognize the right to the Chinese govern- ment to bar foreigners from zones where the fighting actually was go- ing on, but that they ing to assume respongib tending the prohibition to parts of the belligerent provinces. Recruiting announced to be for the transport service in the coming hos- tilities to the Northward was pro- ceeding today. Military officials al- so were commandeering carts, horses, mules and camels, giving’ in exchange official receipts which constituted promises to pay if the property tak- en in each case should not be re- turned. FIGHT IN DARKNESS Shanghai, China, Sept. 16.—(10:30 p. m.)—Darkness failed to stop the fighting on the “eastern end” battle front in the vicinity of Shanghai to- night. The offensive of the Kiang- su army seeking to capture the city, continued. TRAVELERS HELD Tientsin, China, Sept. 16.—Travel- ers from Urga, seat of the Mon- golian government, arriving here to- day, declared that as a result of po- litical upheavals there, a dozen fo eign residents—Americans, British and Danish—are not permitted to leave the city. The travelers also declared that Premier Danzan of Mongolia had been shot by order of the Mongol So- viet, members of which are alleged to be plotting witR the central Chinese government at Peking for the return of Mongolia to China. RENEW DRIVE Shanghai, China, Sept. 16.—The Kiangsu army today opened a re- newed and determined offensive neur Liuho on the Yangtse river west of this city, in an effort to reach the Woosung forces, according to a re- port issued by the Lungwha head- quarters of the Chekiang army. Simultaneously attacks were launghed by Kiangsu at Kiating and along the railroads. Bombardments are progressing along the entire line and the casualties continue to mount. The battle lines were ap- parently unchanged by the renewed fighting. The weather remains clear. In the foreign settlements in Shanghai, everything remains quiet. FAIR TO FEATURE DAIRYING Beach, N. D., Sept. 16.—The annual Golden county fair to be held in Beach on Oct. 2, 3, 4, will feature the dairy industry products and officers have announced many special prizes to winners of butter, poultry, dairy, livestock, cheese and other similar exhibits. Eastern Montana, farmers will also be exhibitors. Algerian wheat crop is but little more than half its-last year’s pro- duction, they } DEFINITE END I$ ADVOCATED Halvor Halvorson, in Open- ing Campaign, Proposes to Try it Two Years More AGAINST EXPANSION Would Not Increase Indus- trial Program in North Dakota, He Declares Devils Lake, N. D., Sept. claring that the chief issue before the voters of the state and nation in the present campaign is that of orderly constitutional government versus radicalism, state industrial- ism and socialism, Halvor Halvorson of Minot, Independent fusion can- ate for governor of North Dakota struck the keynote of the principles on which he asked election in his opening campaign address here last night. This was the first speech which Mr. Halvorson has given since his indorsements as a fusion candidate by the Real Republican and Demo- crats at Bismarck last week. Hyland Pledges Support Frank Hyland, Republican and present lieutenant governor of the state, at the close of Mr. Halvorson’s address, arose and, in a short speech full of fire, declared that he was heart and soul for Coolidge and Dawes for president and vice-presi- dent, but was equally enthusiastic in support of Mr. Halvorson for governor of North Dakota. The same spirit of co-operation was shown in Mr. Halvorson’s ad- dress. The speaker took occasion to pay a tribute to the work which has been done by the Nestos administra- tion to untangle the snarl in which the state’s finances were left by the Nonpart league administration, and was especially vehement in urg- ing the re-election of George Shafer as attorney general, declaring that Mr. Shafer was one of the most hon- est and capable officials who had ever occupied that position. LaFollete Denounced “in opening his address Mr, Halvor- son delivered a strong denunciation of the principles advocated by Rob- ert LaFollete, and his followers. Calling attention to the fact that th was “constitutional week” he pointed out that the constitution of the United States, designed to pre- serve t6 its citizens their lives, liberty and pursuit of happiness, had divided the government into three equal departments, executive, legis- lative and judicial. “This triology of government,” he said “is the cornerstone of democ- racy. Never before has any faction or party come out with a demand for a departure from these funda- mentals. This year there is such a party. Its leader says that congress should have a veto power over the decisions of the supreme court. “Surely no thinking man or woman can believe that to give congress such veto power over the decisions of a court on justice would further the cause of justice. The situation would be similar to that which has only recently arisen in our own state in connection with the supreme court’s decision on the proposed initi- ation of the law to bond the state. A movement to recall three judges of the supreme court arose within a few hours of that decision. Why? Because one of the litigants was dis- satisfied with the decisions.” Government Challenged “I have no apology to make for the fusion of the Democrats with the Real Republicans of North Dakota for the state campaign,” declared Mr. Halvorson, taking up the state sues. “When the foundations on which our government rests are challenged it is time for all law loving men to stand together. “In the present campaign the league leaders are not satisfied with the demands of the original league program; they want to expand it and take over the coal mines and elevators throughout the state. This means the issuance of new bonds, of course it does. The league chiefs have learned a lesson. State bonds sell ‘better than do post dated checks, and they want the power to issue those bonds.” Mr. Halvorson entered into an ex- ttended analysis of the problems con- fronting the state in connection with the ‘operation of the state mill and elevator at Grand Forks, citing among other things. the trend of the milling industry towards Buffalo, N. Y., on arcount of the advantage which could be obtained in that lo- cation in the matter of rail rates, etc, and the flow of cheaper soft spring wheats which could not be obtained for the state plant. These conditions, he pointed out, made the operation of the state mill at a prof- it a very difficult problem. On the other hand he made it plain that the fixed interest charges of the in- vestment of the big plant would continue whether the plant were op- erating or not. For Continuing Mill Test “Turn the key in the door, and you will still have $1,000 per day of interest to meet,” he said. “What we propose is this. If during the next two years the mill does not make a better showing than it has up to date, let the question of the con- tinuation of the experiment be sub- (Continued on page 4) 16.--De- ESKIMO FLAPPERS DESCRIBED BY BURNED IN MINE BLAST) BEING WAGED! TO MILL TRIAL |APT. MACMILLAN, HOME FROM ARCTICS Don’t Bob Hair, But They Like to Smoke, and Are Coquet- tish, the Explorer Finds—Tells of White Indians and Amazement of Eskimos at Motion Pictures Sydney, Nova, Scotia, Sept. 16. ~(By the A. P.)—Capt. Donald Bax- ter MacMillan, explorer, who has brought his vessel, the Bowdoin, to an- chor in this port after fifteen months in Northern Greenland and Elles- mere Land, ment of E: today told of Eskimo f imos at motion pictures lappers and white Indians, the amaze- and other things in the Arctic. “The Eskimo flappers haven't bobbed their hair yet, but they like to smoke cigarettes,” MacMillan said. enough girls to go around, but this yea surplus and a number of u dition among the Polar Eskimo. DAWES TAKES PLACE IN BIG. LEGION PARADE : Candidate for Vice-President | Attends Convention as “Legionnaire Dawes” | BOOM GEN. PERSHING ; there ahead of you, | breeds.” Many Would Make Him Na- tional Commander of the American Legion St. Paul, Sept, 16.—Dividing terest with the annual parade of the American Legion today was the visit of General Charles G. Dawes, Re- publican vice-presidential candidate, who came “Solely as a Legionnaire” to visit the Legion national conven- tion, in- the insistence of the General and of Legion officials that the General came as “Legionnaire Dawes of the Evanston, Illinois, Post” his visit attracted much in- terest. He declared upon his arrival today that he would march in the parade with the Evanston Post. Business session activities morning included addresses by Charles Donnelly, president of the Northern Pacific) Railway; Albert D. Alcorn, commander-in-chief of the Spanish-War Veterans and John J. Tigert, United States Commission- er of Education. Mr. Donnelly held up the proposal for government operation of rail- roads as un effort to establish a bureaucracy and characterized the “a live one, potentially Despite this Alcorn brought greetings from the Spanish War Veterans whilk Commissioner Tigert praised the American Legion for its success in promoting educational and patriotic work and said he hoped “we will ne- ver abandon a sane program for a better understanding of American institutions, ideals, history and gov- ernment.” Politics came to the fore sharply with a well defined boom for Gen- eral Pershing to succeed John R. Quinn of California as national com- mander. Legionnaires boosting him were reported telegraphing “feelers” to the commander of the A. E. F. in an effort to ascertain his attitude. WORLD FIERS WAIT FOR DAY S. Air Mail Field, Maywood, II. Sept. 16.—The 445-mile hop to Oma- ha, the next stage of the flight for the round the world fliers, was post- poned until 8 a. m. central standard time, tomorrow, when, at 11:51 a. m. today, Lieut. Lowell Smith, com- manding, decided the weather condi- tions were too inclement to continue today. “We are all mighty disappointed,” Lieut. Smith said, “but we would rather be disappointed than sor: Despite reports of fair weather w the area immediately surrounding. Chicago is too foggy to try and fly through it. We dislike to have a forced landing even in good weather but more so in this kind.” A ground fog, which blanketed this section of the Chicago territory from the first light of today, togeth- er with chilly misty atmosphere and a murkiness that made it very heavy refused to be dispelled. When noon hour approached and conditions were still unsatisfactory, Lieut. Smith de- cided it was useless to wait longer. The flight commander said his principal concern was for the safety of his ship and companions and neither did he want to fly if in doing so in hazy atmosphere it would dis- appoint the thousands of people en route, who were waiting to have a look at them. “We got the ships this far, and we certainly want to get them to the end of the route, “Lieut. Smith said. “Neither because of poor visibility do we want to disappoint any of the folks along the line. This foggy con- dition seems to hang low and _ in poor weather safety lies height.” IN CHICAGO ON BUSINESS Governor Nestos is in Chicago on business for the State Industrial ried young women- “They used to have trouble finding r, for some reason, there is a snull ~a very unusual con- “About 20,000 feet of motion pic- tures were shown to the Eskimos, in- cluding several reels tuken on the voyage of 1917. The natives stood spell-bound on the shi; as they friends and relatives, some of them long since dead, brougnt back to life and motion by the white man’s magic machine. Previous indications that glaciers are advancing and not retreating have been confirmed, MacMillan said that he had heard | by radio of the discovery of “white | Indians” in Panama, They are Al- binos, he declared. “White Eskimos? I've seen lots of them,” he added. “They only mean that some other white men had bcen They are half- w The Bowdoin brings back, in addi- tion to much scientific data in the fields of geology, meteorology and ornithology, a great variety of furs, Eskimo canoes, arms and carved ivory. Despite his recent trip of 15 months and the fact that he has spent the greater part of the past 16 years in the Arc.ic regions, Mac- Millan said he would be back at this port next June, outward bound for the Polar Regions COOLIDGE BUSY AT HIS DESK Governmental Business Takes Precedence Over Campaign Washington, Sept. 16. —Govern- ment business held the attention of President Coolidge today with the regular semi-weekly cabinet meeting this morning and later a conference with other government officials. Mr. Coolidge received many callers dur- ing the past week and yesterday he was given detailed accounts of the political situation in most sections of the country. On the whole, the reports have been viewed by the White House as exceeding bright, although they were said to have indicated some growing strength for Senator La Follette, indepen- dent candidate, in, several states. PIONEER OF COUNTY DIES Mrs. C. B. Norton of Mc- Kenzie Succumbs at Farm Home Mrs. Phoebe Norton died last night ther farm home near McKenzie, as a result of a paralytic stroke suffered some time ago. Mrs. Nor- ton, who was 69 years old, is a pioneer resident of Burleigh county, having lived on the farm near Me- Kenzie for about thirty years. Mr. Norton died about eight years ago. They had no children. Funeral arrangements will not be completed until the arrival of a bro- ther from the e: Frank Lewellen, another brother who has made his home on the Norton farm, is the only other near relative surviving. BAD OIL CASE IS REVERSED The supreme court has reversed the verdict for the plaintiff, in the case in which Donald McLeod was awarded $2,000 by a Cass county jury against Joseph Simon, Wheat- land storekeeper, and the Consum- ers Home Oil Company of South Dakota, for damages caused by fire alleged to have been caused by the use of a mixture of gasoline and kerosene sold to McLeod by Simon for illuminating purposes. The court’s decision was based upon im- proper action by the court. Simon had two tanks, one for gas- oline and one for oil, in connection with his store at Wheatland’ Mc- Leod alleged that both Simon and the oil company were responsible for the addition of kerosene to the gas- oline tank, from which a mixture was drawn and sold as illuminating liquid. The state oil inspector ex- amined oil from the tank and found it not’ to comply with require- ments for illuminating gas, the evi- dence showed, according to the court record. The case will be tried again. CHILD DRINKS LYE MIXTURE Selfridge, N. D., Sept. 16—The 3 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Schwartz of this place, is in a criti. Commission, in connection with its finances, al condition as the result of drink- ing a mixture of lye. MANY ‘JOBS INSTATELAID T0 GANG HELD One of Them Gives Officers Tip on Murderer of Devils Lake Policeman ALSO SELFRIDGE BANK May Have Stolen Bismarck Man’s Car—Gang Escaped From Rugby Jail Confessions have been wrung from some members of a gang of bank robbers, under arrest in South Da- kota, that may clear one North Da- kato murder and many North Dako- ta robberies. One of the yeggs, according to a story in the Aberdeen American- News of Sunday, has promised to tell who shot and killed a policeman in Devils Lake, North Dakota, a few months ago, as soon as he has re- ceived his sentence. Information was given according to the newspaper, about robberies at Ft, Yates and Selfridge, North Dakota, where banks were entered. “Devils Lake Red,” under arrest, is declared to have been in the Krem, North Da- kota, bank robbery. They are said to have stolen an automobile in Jamestown, probably that of Harry Clough of Bismarck. Other robber- ies in North Dakota may be laid to the gang. Five of the gang are said to be those arrested at Kenmare, North Dakota, and who broke jail at Rug- by, North Dakota, while awaiting an officer to bring them to the North Dakota penitentiary to serve five year sentences for burglary. Three Picked Up Three men, James Ryan, aged 40, alias “St. Louis Billy"; William Berg, 36, former alleged Minot boot- legger, and Ben Mahowics, 23, alias George Duane, are said to have pro- fessed willingness to enter pleas of guilty to a charge of burglarizing the Greenway, South Dakota, bank some time ago. The acceptance of Pleas of guilty was held up for furth- er investigation. The Aberdeen newspaper says that W. S. Gordon, agent for the South Dakota Bankers Association, said “Friday night that one of the men had promised him that as soon as he got his sentence he would tell who shot and killed a policeman at Devils Lake, N. D. a few weeks ago. The policeman was shot over the left eye and instantly killed when he sur- prised a gang of men about to make an effort to rob the postoffice there.” The men were arrested at Selby, S. D. on suspicion. They were taken to the Aberdeen jail for questioning. They confessed, according to the newspaper, and “told of a series of bank and store robberies and a career of crime that was romantic in its crudeness.”” Only Part Of Gang The paper says the trio is only a part of a gang of eight that made its headquarters in a little shack near Mobridge last winter, engaging in many thefts, one of them an au- tomobile. “Still later," the story goes, “they were arrested for bank robbery at Krem, N. D., three of them escaping jail while awaiting sentence. Before being arrested at Krem they abandoned the Slater car and it was found on May 26 at Minot, N. D.” Ryan gave the most clear confes- sion, the newspaper says, the story reading: “The proposition was put to him that he could take one of two things. Either plead guilty and receive the minimum, five years, or plead not guilty and get the maximum. He asked for a few hours in which to de- cide but the authorities were insist- ent. Tells Sordid Tale Then he reconciled himself and settled down to relating a sordid story reeking with criminal misdeeds, including the raiding of many coun- try banks and stores. He took the beginning of the story back to the little rendevouz near Mobridge where the gang of eight plotted their robberies. He named the five other men who were in the gang as Fred Cline, alias Eau Claire Whitey, alias Whitie Cline, alias Al Superior Whitey, whose real name is said to be William Roader; John Linden, alias Devils Lake Red, who has served terms at Stillwater and Bismarck; Dan Morris, George Arn- old, alias Sharkey, Herman Richman, alias Rich. All five men are well known by au- thorities all over the country. Cline is known generally as Whitey Cline. At the time of the Slater car theft he was believed to be the ringleader. He is an old timer and an expert “soup man,” having played a part in robberies at Lebanon, Onaka, Ft. Yates, Selfridge and Ladner, B. C. The latter wah his biggest job. He got $135,000 on this job. Devils Lake Red was in the Krem, N. D. bank robbery and several others and ‘he is now in jail at Stanton, N. D., on a burglary charge. Stole Car At Jamestown Then, the story says, the men en- gaged in attempted bank robberies in South Daketa and failed. The gang split up at the little shack near (Continued on page 4)