The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 4, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER FORECAST For Bismarck and vicinity: Fair jonight, followed by cloudines ESTABLISHED 1873 CHAPMAN SENTEN U.$ AGENTS , | MAKEGREAT | _ BOOZE HAUL Largest Moonshine Capture in History of State Made Near Fried RUM AND MASH FOUND; Propérty Taken to James- town While Officers Seek Men Who Made Liquor (By! The Associated Press) Jamestown, Apr. 4.—The largest moonshine haul ever made in the) state was made in Stutsman county yesterday by J. H. Ross, and dep- uties with federal prohibition agents Crist and Walsh. They found a giant plant in a ‘haystack house near the, village of Fried, 12 miles northeast of Jamestown. In a large room built in the haystack the of- ficers found 750 gallons of grain mash in barrels, 106 gallons of moonshine whiskey in bottles, jugs) and kegs, one case of beer, a large still and hundreds of empty bottles,| apparently ready for filling for re- , tail bootleg trade. All of the property v brought to the county jail at James- town, where it awaits someone to} claim it, since the officers have been | unable so far to find any one with title to it and no one was at the plant when it was raided yesterday | { yifternoon. | CIDER PARTY Madison, Wis., April 4.—-State | : Senator Ben Gettelman, Milwaukee, | center of a wet and dry controver: engaging the attention of the Wis- consin legislature, last night issued a general invitation to leading wet: and dry advocates of the state and nation to attend a fruit juice cider party to be given at his M' s seized and| } waukee home April 18. A special in- vitation, Senator Gettelman would be extended to Wayne Wheeler, head of the national an} and| THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1925 saloon league. Decision to hold the party, the senator said, was prompted by a newspaper statement by Rev. G. Ken- neth MacInnis, Milwaukee dry lead- er, that he had made inquiries con- cerning the senator’s statement in a recent legislative committee hearing to the effect that Gettelman made wine “with a kick in it” and con- clnded the beverage. bodsted of was not_as advertised by the senators “If the Rev. MacInnis will attend this function, he will be surprised,” Senator Gettelman said last night. The senator said he had asked two othey senators, rated as wets, to as- sist in the serving of refreshments. Senator Gettelman is the’ author of a bill in the legislature to mako the Severson act, known as the state dry law, correspond with the provi- sions of the Volstead act in connec- tion with the manufacture and use in the home of cider and fruit juices, non-intoxicating in fact. STATE OWNED INDUSTRIES LOSE HEAVILY Deficit in Last 7 Years More Than $5,000,000 Report Shows. North Dakota’s state industries Thave lost more than $5,000,000 in the Jast seven years, according to the in- dustrial commission’s annual report. ‘The loss in the operation of the four major units of the program is now $1,120,594.30, with other expenses and losses as figured by the auditors bringing the total to more than $65,- The report, which gives the status of the North Dakota Mill and Ele- vator at Grand Forks, the Drake flour mill, the Bank of North Dako- ta and the Home Building Associ: tion, shews the Grand Forks mill the heaviest loser to date, exclud- ing the reserve of $2,000,000 which auditors set up to cover the losses expected in the Bank of North Da- kota from operations a few years ago. ‘The deficits of the industries are) given as follows: $637,268.00; Drake mill, Bank of North Dakota, . Home Building Association, $314,443.- Grand Forks mill, AUTO TRAVEL OVER PRIEST PASS POSSIBLE Automobile travel over Priest Pass on the National Parks Highway in the Rocky mountains is now posai- ble, a shovel brigade clearing away what snow remained on the west ap- proach to the pass to block traffic. Several cars have already made the trip between Helena and Missoula, The opening of the Pass during March igs considered early. It was not ready for travel until a month it year. ow than usual’ during the winter, together with warmer tem- peratures than usual at this sea- son, is given as the reason for the earlier ‘opening of the road. Although the roa een open- ed and travel can: go through inter- rupted, it is said the Priest Pass sec- tion is wet from melting snow in the mountains. E We: Mi by automobile will soon be their motor routes, with he pass op-| en and a clear road over tains, +) Highest wind velocit WE. STATE CENSUS TO BE TAKEN THIS SPRING Secretary of State Orders Work To Be Done in North Dakota Census-of North Dakota will be taken for the year 1925, it was an- nounced yesgerday by Secretary of State Byrne. The announcement fol- lowed action of the state emergency commission, composed of Governor Sorlie, Commissioner of Agriculture Kitchen and Mr. Byrne, in transfer- li SURVEY MADE FOR FEDERAL AID PROJECT The state highway commission has just completed the making .of a sur- vey of federal aid project No. 282 which contemplates the construction of a highway from Sterling to the county line of Burleigh county. The e plans provide for road con- struction of about fourteen miles and passing under the railway tracks of the Northern Pacific railway by means of an underpass or viaduct of concrete sufficient to provide space for two lines of traffic and a clearance of not less than 14 feet. No plans or designs have as yet been framed nor has there been any estimate made of the cost of this project, The survey for the project was made by T. R. Atkinson, for which he was paid $737.40 by the state. AN nn ring up to $3,000 to the secretary of state to undertake the work. Censug blanks will be put into the hands of the county assessors when they are given their supplies on April 8. ‘Assessors will be required to list the number of families and dwellings visited, the f.ames, ages, sex, nativity, of each person in the ; state. Secretary of State Byrne said the census was required by the consti- tution and Governor Sorlie has been insistant that provision be made for taking it. . i The state census is required to be made every ten years on the odd year, while the federal census is taken every even year. The next |federal census will be taken in 1930. c Weather Report 4 For 24 hours ending at noon. Temperature at 7 4. | Highest yesterday . ; Lowest yesterday Lowest last night ... Precipitation citys: ATHER FORECAST For Bismarck and vicinity: Fair tonight; followed by increasing clou- diness Sunday., Slightly warmer to- might A ‘or North Dakota: Fair tonight; followed -by increasing cloudiness Sunday. Slightly warmer tonight and in east portion Sunday. WEATHER CONDITIONS High pressure, accompanied by fair and slightly — cooler weather, prevails from the Plains States northeastward to the Great Lakes region. The pressure is low over the western slope of the Rockies. Precipitation occurred at most pla- ces west of the Rockies and in the piscle Mississippi Valley. Moder- ite temperatures prevailed in all sections. ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Official in charge. GOOD RIDER AT 99 Dartmouth, Eng., Apr. 4.—Richard Ferria, 99 years old, still rides to hunting meets and keeps wp with men one-third his age. He never called a doctor for sickness until a few weeks ago when he developed severe cold, ems to be a bet- ter horseman than the Prince of Wales as he was injured only once in a fall from a horse, The United tates produces more. worth of milk in NORMAL HEADS SEEK CHANGES Ask Strict Requirements For N. D. Teachers Presidents of the five North Da- kota Normal schools, who were in annual session in the office of the State Board of Administration Thursday and Friday, decided on several recommendations which they presented to the Board of Adminis- tration. . Recommendation was made that the granting of teachers’ diplomas for one year of normal work be dis- continued. The presidents agreed on a re- quirad standard of 48 units of work out of the 96 units required for a two-year diploma and they ask that this standard be accepted by the Bodrd of Administration. Recommendation ‘was made that the residence requirement for grad- uation be set at a minimum of 36 weeks. The proposal that the normal schools be designated as Tedchers’ colleges was discussed and it was agreed to recommend that the leg lature pass a bill to legalize desig. nating the schools as Teachers’ colleges. Under the state con- stitution no provision is made to designate the schools other than normal schools and until a bill is passed by the legislature the schools will be designated as normals on diplomas and other official docu- ments, The presidents will meet in Valley City on April 18 to cofisider unifor- mity in curriculum for a four year ‘leollege course. The presidents who were in ses- sion here are S, T. May, Dickinson; C. E, Allen, Valley City; R. M. Black, Ellendale; C. C, Swain, Mayville, and G. A.. McFarland, ot, * CLOCK OF STRAW Munich, Germany, Apr. 4.—A clock made entirely of straw is on ex- hibition here. It has been keeping nearly, 17 years. Ri \w was obtained by . straw ‘with smaller straws, The clock is run by eight | atrew pendulums, ins "i ane e usual wheel arrangement con- ltains no springs. It Is Almost Getting To Be A Pleasure HAVE YOU MUCH LilITER ATHE BISMARCK | TAX IS THIS K_ YEAR 2 _ Kouras STATE HEALTH PROBLEMS 70 BE DISCUSSED Officers of North Dakota To Hold Conference Here April 27 Local health problems and meth- ods ‘of prevention of disease are to be discussed at the first annual conference of health officers of the state to be held here on April 27. Among the speakers for the con- ference and subjects, will be: “Goiter, in Bowman County,” Dr. D, Lemieux, “Cancer, Its Prevalence and Con- trol,” Dr. L. G. Eastman, Stanton, “A Suggested Health Program for Counties,” Dr. M. D,’ Westley, Cooperstown. “A Suggested Public Health Pro- gram for Cities of North Dakota,” Dr. W. C. Nolte, Jamestown. “Full Time Health Administration in Fargo,” Dr. B. K. Kilbourne, Far- go. “The County Nurse—Her Prob- lems,” Miss Isabelle Carruthers, Far- go. “Oral Hygiene,” Dr, R. S. Towne, Bismarck. “The Administration of the Shep- pard-Towner Act,” Dr, Maysil . Williams, Bismarck. he Fargo Demonstration,” Dr. William J. French, Fargo. “Examination of Schools as a Basis for Constructive Health Work,” Dr. A. A. Whittemore Bismarck. “The Relation of the Educational) System to Public Health Work,” Miss Minnie J. Nielson, Bismarck. “The Ethical Relation of the Pub- lic Health Officer to the Medical Profession,” Dr, J. G. Vigeland, Brinsmade. “Tuberculosis, Its Prevalence and Control,” Dr, J. Grassick, Grand Forks. “Pure Milk Control—In_ Small Cities and Towns,” A, W. Ecklund, Bismarck. “The Public Health Laboratory System,” Dr. H. E. French, Grand Forks. “V. D. and Its Control in North Dakota,” Dr. F, R. Smyth, Bismarck. WEEKS PASSES RESTFUL NIGHT (By The Associated .Press) -, Washington, April 4.—Secretary Weeks, who is ill with cerebral thrombosis, passed such a restful night that attending physicians did not find it necessary to call at the sick room until well in the evening. The situation was not regarded by the doctors as serious enough to warrant the iss of regular bulletii GRASS FIRE A grass fire that started in field in 200 block on Avenue E this morning burned a wide path about half a mile to the north and west. The Bismarck fire deparhment was called and with the aid of a pumber of volunteer fire fighters, ‘extinguished the blase. a} ted sat) | Judge MAJORITY RULE TO GOVERN ALL ROAD PROBLEMS No action of any kind will be tak- en by the state highway commission unless it shall meet with the appro- val of @ majority of three members of the entire commission, In other words, if but three members are pre- sent at a meeting, these three must be unanimously in favor of the r lution or proposed action of the com- mission. This was the substance of a resolution adopted at a meeting of the state highway commission on Saturday morning in which Governor A. G. Sorlie, State Engineer W. G. Biack and Joseph A. Kitchen parti- cipated. : The state highway commission also resolved not to send a representative to the conference to be held at Washington on April 20 relative to securing # uniformity in the mark- ing of public roads. This action was based largely on the grounds of economy. WORKERS SBEK COLLINS’ BODY Contractor Prepares to Sink Shaft to Victim (By The Associated Press) Cavé¢ City, Ky., April 4.—Tents to- day again dotted the hillside near Sand Cave, as they did during the trying days when rescuers worked in vain to extricate’ Floyd Collins from the trap that closed in on him January 30, while he was searching the subterranean reaches of the cave country. W. H. Hunt, a miner of Central City, Kentucky, who is di- recting the attempts to recover the body, estimated the job would take from two weeks to twenty days. The contract entered into with Homey Collins, brother of the vic- tim, who went on the stage to earn the money, was taken for less than $3,000, Hunt said. He added that it probably would take| considerably more than this to com-) plete the task. Each day the work will be pre- ceded by prayer services conducted by the Rey. J. S. Smith of Central City. Three of the half-dozen men en- gaged in the enterprise yesterday inspected the old crawl-way in which Collins traveled. At a point approximately one hundred feet from the entrance they found the passage- way closed. This preliminary inspection com- pleted, work of cleaning out the shaft sunk by rescuers in the at- tempt to rescue Collins was begun, and early today it had been cleaned out to a depth of twenty feet. McCumber Recovers From Long Illness Porter J, McCumber, former Uni- States senator from North Da- kota, who is practicing law in W: ington, D. C., is enjoying excellent Wealth again following a long seige of ill The many friends of Senator Mc- Cumber in North Dakota will be glad to know of his recovery. | Commi burlesque; HUNDREDS PAY LAST TRIBUTE TON. D, LEADER {Great Throng in Wilton For | Funeral Services of W. P. Macomber BUSINESS IS SUSPENDED | Persons From All Parts of State Honor Memory of Industrial Chief Persons from all parts of North Dakota were in Wilton today to at- ‘tend the funeral services of Walter P. Macomber, president and general manager of the Washburn Lignite Coal Company, who died Thursday. | The services were conducted in the Grand theatre in Wilton. Every seat in the large auditorium was oc- cupied and many were unable to gain admittance, Rev, L. R. Burgum, former pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church in Washburn, now taking post grad- | uate work in the State U rsity at. Grand Forks, and a life long friend of Mr. Macomber, officiated, assisted by Rev. E. V. Headen, pas- |tor of the Wilton Presbyterian church, An address was made by Andrew Miller of Fargo. Music was furnished by a quartet. pall bearers were men had been associated with Mr. master mechanic purchasing agent secretary und trea right, manager of L. Iverson, electrician. ry pall ‘bear B. F. Tillotson, Bismare! Herman Per . Wakeman, Bis- marck; D. K. Prentice, Lud i chel, P. K. Eastman, A. F. Nugent and Dr, L, E Wilton. More than 40 members of the Elks lodge of Bismarck, of which Mr. M omber was a member, and many sons from Washburn, Wilton ismarck attended the services. The body lay in state at the G | theatre from 10 a. m, until noon to- day and hundreds passed before the casket. All business houses in Wil- ton closed today until after the funeral. The body was brought to marck this afternoon where lie in state at the Webhy Brothers aking establishment from 5 The body will be t this evening and placed in a receiving vault in Lake | wood cemetery until the return of Mr. Macomber’ ister, Miss Carolin M. Macomber, from Honolulu, H. 1. C.B.LITTLE REPORTSSLUMP ~INLOS ANGELES Florida Getting Former Tour- ist Crowds, He Says Bis- it will C. B. Little, President of the First National’ Bank, , home today from Los Angeles, reports business conditions there to be just as he had predicted, undergoing a big slump, which ‘he considers the nor- mal reaction following the extensive boom of the past ten years. “It’s going to be a pretty severe depression,” he predicted. “There are about fifty men for every job, whether of the head or the hands; and any number of the people are trying to get away,” he said. ‘Anybody not going to Los Ange- les to spend money or for a vacation, should keep away right now, he warned, although he is confident of the city’s future development. The climate has been fine, Mr. Little reports, but, there has been nowhere near the tourist crowds of previous years. Whether or not Flor- ida will continue to divert touri from Los Angeles, he was uncertain but Los Angeles has the greater attractions in its variety of inter- esting places easily accessible by automobile, he deciared. Mr. Little has heen spending the past two months with his family in their Hollywood home. Golf, he | says. is the great attraction of Cali- farnia for him, and his fresh coat of tan proved it; disclaimed any improvement in his improvement in his game. Califor- inia courses, he thinks, do not com- | pare with eastern courses; though the fairways are good, greens are not nearly so good. For sand greens, he said, those at the Bis- marck’ country ‘club compare quite favorably. |B. A. Hughes, who returned this j morning with Mr. Little, after spend- ing few weeks with his mother in Pasadena, left. shortly after his ar- rival to attend the funeral of Wal- ter P. Macomber at Wilton. AGED MEDICINE MAN SENTENCED TO STATE PRISON (By The Associated Press) Cortez, Colo. April 4.—Mormon Joe, aged Ute Indian medicine man, pleaded guilty to second degree mur- der ,ané was eentenced Yoday by District’ Judge Fearcy to twenty to twenty-five years in the state nen- itentiary for beating to death ao Mexican. vrisoner, his cellmate in the county jail here, i but he modestly’ FOUND GUILTY GERALD CHAPMAN WILLIAM HART WILL RETURN T0 PICTURES Famous Gunman of Screen to Appear Under Banner. of . United Artists (By The Associated Press) Hollywood, Cal., April 4.—With the definite announcement yesterday that William S, Hart would make his second retur! reen under the banner of United Artists, that organ- ization was preparing today for a series of conferences, beginning next Monday, at which its organization five years the leadership of Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and Char- les Chaplin, United Artists have grown to include Norma and Con- tance Talmadge, Rudglph Valentino and now William S, Mar In the face of this growth, however, uccord- ing to Joseph Schenck, chairman of the board of directors, the organiza- tion finds itself unable to maintain a regular schedule of releas nd faced with the necessity of enlarg- membership in order to build geregate production, Hart, who as withdraw! active work in the films, will con ack this time i of the Oklahoma land rush of the early nineties, according to tentative plan MAN WHO LIVED HERE IN EARLY DAYS RETURNS Bismarck of today and that of 1878 is some jump in the estimation of N. T. Collette, northwestern divi- sion manager of the Florida Citrus Exchange. Mr. Collette was a tele- graph operator at Fort Buford in 1878 and knew many of the old tim- s. He was born at Northfield, and remembers the excite- ment over the raids of the Younger boys and Jesse James. i he said, “that tribute is seldom paid to J. M. Carnahan, the operator who flashed the news of the Custer massacre to the world. For thirty hours he sat at the key without relief for there was no one to relieve him in Bismare sent thousands of words over the wires for Col. Lounsberry, then with the Bismarck Tribune, “Mr. Carnahan was one of the pest operators in this neck of the woods. He is now retired and living at Miss- oula, Mont.” Mr. Collette sells the fruit trade here and expects to t Carnahan before he returns to Tampa, Fla, JAMESTOWN GIRL TAKES FIRST IN PIANO CONTEST (By The Associated Press) Jamestown, April 4.—A music con- test to choose representatives from| this district to the state high school music contést to be held in May at Grand Forks was held at Jamestown College . last night in piano and chorus, these being the only two di- visions in which more than three schools had entered. There were five contestants in piano solo in which Miss Maxgaret Fried, representing Jamestown High School, won first place, Charles Adams, LaMoure High School second, and Miss Josephine Stokesfield, St, Johns Academy of Jamestown, third. Other contestants were Miss Olive Erickson, Edgeley, and Miss Bathilda Hess, Mandan. Jamestown High Sch girls e club won first place, with the other entry, Ellendale, MAKES OWN CALENDAR Manchester, England, April 4.— Richard Ragg refuses to accept. hi Roman calendar. He vised his own. The days on his calendar are only 10 hours long, his weeks 10 days long, and his months 10 weeks the , still further en-> then, He; Safer Kaya he does not observe 't [ FINALEDITION | PRICE FIVE CENTS CED TO GALLOWS FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER IN FIRST DEGREE |Spectacular Criminal Must Pay Death Penalty For Murder of Officer DISPLAYS NO EMOTION Mail Looter Remains Calm | As He Listens to Judge | Pronounce His Doom | (By The Associated Press) Hartford, Conn., April 4.—Gerald Chapman, — spectacular mail bandit, jail breaker and criminal extraordi- |nary, today was sentenced to hang in the Connecticut State Prison June 25, in payment for the life of a New | Britain patrolman, of whose murder |last October 2, a jury had convict- {ed him at 9:30 this morning. | Chapman, the stoic criminal whose | flaming misdeeds have made him an {international figure, did not flinch |or falter as his doom descended up- {on him. With his arms folded across |his breast and his frail body held | stiffly erect, he listened to the dge’s sepulchral words spell out | his doom, with only a flushed face to mark his emotion. Gerald Chapman was found guilty of murder in the first degree for ‘the slafing. The jury had been out 1 few minutes more than eleven {hours when it announced it had ar- | rived at a verdict. Standing in the | prisoner's dock in the courtroom he |gave no evidence of emotion as the iclerk read the verdict handed him |by the jury foreman. Frederick J. |Groehl, ‘chief defense counsel, pre- | viously had announced that he would {file an appeal if Chapman was con- | victed. After dismissing the jury and con- gratulating the jurors on reaching this verdict which “I believe is a just Werdict,” Judge Jennings re- cessed court for half an hour at which time he set for hearing de- fense counsel motion to set aside the verdict “Chappie, I’m sorry,” Groshl said to the prisoner after the jury had been dismissed and Chapman had returned to the courthouse base- ment to await further developments. The attorney, tears in his eyes reached out for the condemned man’s hand. Without a break of the voice or a wavering of the cold blue eyes Chapman squeezed his lawyer's hand and replied: “Oh, that's all right.” Chapman's frail body was erect, his head held high, the eyes looking {straight uhead and the lips com- {pressed as his guards manacled him. {He took his chair in his basement cell asked for a cigarette of one of his guards, lighted it and went into !a whispered consultation with | Groehl. Chapman was convicted of the murder of patrolman James Skelly of New Britain in the grey morning of Sunday, October 12, 1924, in |shooting his way to freedom after |three policemen had trapped him in | the rear of the department store of Davidson and Leventhal, where he had just blown two safes, Gerald Chapman, often called a modern Jesse James, first gained notoriety in his daring leadership of the sensational $2,400,000 holdup | of a government mail truck on low- jer Broadway in October, 1921. | Chapman and his band had watch- | | | | ed the downtown Post Office for weeks. Learning of a rich shipment of registered mail, they followed the selected mail truck in an automobile when it started to the General Post | Office uptown just before daybreak. Drawing alongside, they crowded the truck to the curb. With both vehicles still moving, Chapman boarded the government van and jcovered the driver with a pistol. Then the robbers turned the truck into Leonard Street and removed its wealth of cash and securities at their leisure. | Chapman was traced and caught a few months later in fashionable Gramercy Park where he was found | living in a luxurious apartment. | During his subsequent grilling on | an upper floor of the Federal Build- ‘ing, he suddenly disappeared through an open window while his captors’ backs were turned. He was cornered after crawling along a narrow ledge, high above Broadway and opposite the Woolworth Building. He had nearly reached a window in another office farther down which would |likely have led to freedom. | Chapman and George“R. (“Dutch”) Anderson, an accomplice, were sen- tenced for the mail robbery in j August, 1922, both receiving 25-year |terms in the Federal penitentiary at | Atlanta, Georgia. Both afterward jescaped. Anderson is still at large. Chapman made his own first suc- cessful dash in March, 1923. He was recaptured two days later, bleed- | ing from various wounds, and placed fe hospital in Athens, Ga, ithin ‘a month, and still in of sur- geons, he escaped mysteriously a ; second time. For months he eluded a nation-wide” search in which some of the best man-trackers in the country took his trail. Various crimes and “jobs” meanwhile, which apparently. could not be otherwise explained, were put down as: “It’s Chapman.” Almost inveriably, how- ever, they proved to have been done by someone else. Patrolman James Skelly of Ne’ Britain, Conn., was slain when surprised two safe blowers in a de~ partment store Sunddy morni October, 12, 1924, He fell under bullets of one yegg who shot his way out. The other was caught and Proved to be Walter E. Shean, son of a Springfield, Mass., hotel owner. Shean 3: shapman was the man who got away. Three months later, January 18 last, Chapman was finally run to earth. in Munci .r by postal agents who had never relaxed their twa rene pon He t a 0 Atlanta, 0 Connecticut