The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 21, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER FORECAST Fair and colder tonight; Sunday fair with rising temperature. > ESTABLISHED 1873 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATUR! DAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1925 FINAL EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS 371,000 IN STAMPS STOLEN IN BOLD ROBBERY TEXAS WINS BATTLE AGAINST ROAD CONTRACTORS H FERGUSON'S ~ HIGHWAY BODY _ IS INVOLVED, ‘Defendunte gees: to seein! $600,000 to State and For- feit Permit GOVERNOR IS SILENT Federal Grand Jury May Probe Alleged Discrep- ancies in Road Funds (P) The! erged victor: | tle against the by © Governor s highway Austin, Tex., 1 state of Texas has ¢ in its legal of contra . Ferguso: e American Road company, de- yndant in a suit brought by Attor- ney General Dan Moody, agreed in court late yesterday the a should recover from it $600,000 in| illeged excess road profits, that the road company’s permit to do business in the state should be cancelled and thet it should pay the costs of the! suit. The $600,000 the state will recover is ubout two-thirds of the total pro- fits of the company from its road surfacing work. Attorney General Moody said that| he would’ not have brought the ac-| tion had he not believed the disputed contracts were “conceived in fraud ? Any crim- y grow out of the r entirely with the dsrand jury, he added. Governor Is Silent Governor Miriam A. Ferguson ted with the highway against Attorney Ge an unsuccessful intervention attempt seeking dismissal of the action, was gilent regarding the outcome of the suit. Neither was comment avail- able from Frank V. Lanham, comm: sien chairman. rom San Antonio came reports that United States District Attorney John D, Hartman. was taking cog- tiizanee.of allegations made during the hearing that federal aid funds showed @ considerable discrepancy between the amount paid out from Washington and the amount on hand in the state treasury. Mr. Hartman intimated that the federal grand + Which meets in Austin in Janu- a might be asked to look into the matter. SOLDIERS GO TO CHURCH 43 TIMES A YEAR Total ‘Attendance at Post Service Increases Over That of Last Year shington, Nov. 2 y of average ttendane: last fiseal y that every member of the mili- personnel attended church on aun army post thirteen times during ‘the year,” Colonel John ¥. Axton Chief of Chaplains, reported in his annual report today to Seeretary Davis, The total attendance at post _ser- vice for the year was 1,880,027 or 0,554 in excess of that for the preceding year, and a new high mark for the army. The strength of the army and the number of chaplains ailable remained unchanged for the two years, Colonel Axton com- mented. Due to Deep Personal Co Judging from his own visits to about half the army posts in the United States during the fiscal yeur, Colonel Axton attributed the growing * interest in religious matters “to the deep personal concern officers, and particularly commanding — officers, ave. shown in safeguarding the . moral und spiritual ‘life of all mem- bers of their garrisons.” He recommended an appeal to Con- gress for funds to permit four or five post chapels to be constructed each year “adapted to forms of wor- ship of the major divisions of the church.” | Weather Report ‘ m. the church ing ¢ cate {4 t rmy posts dur- Temperature at 7 a. Highest yesterday Lowest last night Precipitation to 7 a. Highest wind velocity feather Fore For Bismarck and and colder to-nigh with rising. temperature. For ‘North Dakota:—Fair and cold- ér to-night; Sunday fair with rising temperature in west portion. Weather Conditions A large high pressure area, panied by somewhat colder weather, _ covers the northérn Rocky Mountain region while warm weather continues from the Plains States eastward due to ,the low pressure area centered over the upper Great Lakes region. Considerable wind prevails ip the Dakotas between eke Uae afeas. Somewhat unsettled weather, with light precipitation pre: ails over the northern Rocky Mountain region while ‘elsewhere the weather is gen- erally fair. ORRIS W. ROBERTS, m Sunday fair ‘PROF. CROW Sight of Food _ Drives French Faster Insane | $- —S of a young woman eal colate ecla outside his glass cag bert Wolly, a prof to go violently gazing fixedly at the pearing dainty in the ers, Wolly suddenly rode, seized his chair and smashed the glass in an effort to reach the He was taken to a hospital, raving. The: faster was on the’ 12th of his scheduled 30 foodless days, and had bi ina busy Pari where his cage na large hall. thoroughfare, was installed ARRIVES TO HELP JAMES Pianist. of Fame—L Night's Sermon Preached to Capacity House A a ° A capacity house gr vangelist James last night as he brought a 1 rmion on the sub- J € v to be the Son of Go subject is of greater importance than the deity of Jesus Christ, for if He is what He claimed to be, the man, woman or child that rejects and de- spises Him is guilty of a most dia- polical sin, if, on the other hand, He was not what He claimed to be, He was the greatest imposter the world has ever known and we who, worship Him are idolators, Take the blood of Christ and the divine, living Christ out of the Bible and what is left 1s of no more value than an old almanac. Jesus claimed preexistence. ‘Before Abraham was, was I." 1 onderful passage John 3:16, ‘For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth on him should not perish but have everlasting life.’ he refers to himself as the ‘only be- gotten son. Again, He claims to be the only way of access to God, ‘No! man ¢ meth unto the Father but by me.’ Now the question is, are these statements true, Has He substantiat- ed them?” Deity Is Proven The speaker then proceeded to show that Jesus Christ had proven His deity by ‘his perfect character, Hi life was so blameless that the bitter est enemies were compelled to admit he was the best man that ever} ed. He proved his deity also by his miracles. While miracles are no’ uuways a proof of divinity, for there | audulent miracles, but those of st were genuine and bore the stamp of divinity. The evangelist painted a graphic picture of some of the outstan sof Christ such as the turning of water into wine at Cana, In this connection he flayed the moonshiners who try to excuse their diabolical and lawless practices on the ground that Jesus made wine. He insisted that the drink € ist made was refreshing: and health giving and did not send people staggering ubout, bereft of reason and debauched, “If you use nothing but water of which to make your drink, I have no objection, but do not drag the name of the holy Christ through the mire fy your ungodly, criminal and iligh practices by which you are poisoning and damning body and soul,” he said. ‘Moreover Jesus sub stantiated His claim by the influence of His life upon the history of the world,” he affirmed. He closed with a vivid portrayal of the victory of Christ over the grave, proving thereby his absolute deity, and made a touching appeal to serve and love this Christ. Rev. Paul S. Wright and Fred Han- son sang a beautiful duet entitled “It Was For Me,” just before the ser- mon. Another Worker Here s announced that another of his party,’ Prof. Cfow of New York, one of the greatest artists on the piano in the country, would ar- rive today and be in the service to- night,. “I'am somewhat of a musician myself and in my theatrical life have touched elbows with many great mus- h rg w ves! his at shri » shri the evangelist, and added, Mr. Crow a rousing recep row night.” Ag. College to Have Exhibit at Live Stock Show The North Dakota Agricultural Col- lege will stage an educational exhi at the International Live Stock Ex position in Chicago, November 28th to December Sth, which will tell the story of linseed, and particularly how the experiment stations of the north- west have re-established flax as a farm crop through the conquest of the wilt disease and the use of better cultural methods of production. The display will show how the seed flax of the northwest through its oil and its various by-products of tow, etc., is a great domestic necessity. A cross- section of a model house will indi- cate by actual materials the various ways in which flax enters into its structure. These will include paint, varnish, linoleum, insulating mater- , etc, Another-part of the exhibit ill show the composition and feed- ing value of linseed meal and the dif- ference between the old and new pro- cess meal. About 25 other-egricul- tural colleges from all parts of the continent will make similar educa- tional displays at the coming Interna- tional, featuring their important. lines on otmor- and Official tin charge. of investigations, ¥ Page, automobile. Mem shows members of commission, Secretary nth f repor ere ork Ti eneral hich a s Jury at deisees Harvest Hand After 224 | Hours’ Ashley, N. D., Klingshrin, Bu kenivilie, t hand, friend, o'clock Friday jury had deliberated twenty-two and a half hau Page was killed early in tt ing of August 9 in the village chur Melntosh county d'two men robbed him and led Page and eseay Zeeland; in he sti in kill motiv hers of the bot ‘T OF CO. RIKE York, Nov. fields today hat the ope in any be made with ¢ United Mi ion. While nothing official has In announced cussion and decision at the thracite Th as to detai ursi me: tion question To an undisclosed impression of Deliber: 1. with De charged Jack Page, retur fternoo! contended Page with ite led e. AGREE ON ITALIAN American and h comr of the AL S DELAYED Peace seemed more remote in the bh agreed to insist upon an ng the oper ne Work Is, dis of spokesman for the operators is credited the the min owners that the suspension must continue some time longer before the state of mind is r ttlement can come. ‘KLINGSHRIN ACQUITTED OF PAGE MURDER Frees Ohio ation (A) Ohio, murder Mi H ql etroit, igan, was found not guilty by a jury] MeIntosh county district court ned at f n after mo: Kli d in that Kli robbery SUB’S LOSS WAS FROM A CRASH WITH STEAMER Captain of ‘Swedish Steamer | Vidar Reports Feeling a London, Nov. monitor subma ieians, but I have never heard any-flast week, now appei one superior to Prof. Crow,” said the{due to a collision with me and give| steamer, today. Information seut by the captain of the steamer Vidar, now at Stockholm, that he felt a shock at the time 2 in he vicinity of the ‘disappearance, leads to the sion that the M-1 sank Severe Shoc! >) the admiralty immediately. contention is Knife Kk 1. Loss of the ine M-1 with 68 lives to have been a Swed announced subm: struck the Vidar Washburn Lignite Company Appeals to Supreme Court Appeal to the supreme court from the decision of the Burleigh county district court was tuken today by the Washburn Lignite Coal company in connection with its suit to enjoin the state board of administration carrying out alleged illegal contracts with competing coal companies. plainti: board had illegally awarded contracts to the Republic, Lucky Strike coal companies despite the alleged fact that the plaintiff sub- mitted a lower bid. The lower court held that it could not interfere with the discretionary powers of the state board. The board contended that the awards were bas- ed on the value of the coul as shown by chemical tests and actual exper- ience and that the coal ‘from plaintiff's mine tested by the board was less efficient than that from the mines of competing. companies. fre that River The the and the. Italian debt ions, reasury comm igning the ag Mellon, and Cong ions agree lett Smuin to Bu 1 Functions neeled — Theaters Play Funeral Marches — Newspapers Come Out in Deep Mourn- ing — Funeral to Be Held; Two Weeks Later | | | i London, Nov. 21 ! empire is in méur ing of the bi Dowager Queen Alexandra, Flags flew at half-inast in London today, and many buildings ned in black | came to the Danish princess! iternoon in Sandring-| (RP) The B i i | | | ng over the pass-| of grandson, was by a heavy is he traveled from London to nd did not! reach the palace in time to bid his! dmother farewell. | St. Paul's Bell | ‘Tolls Listen isles heard ove the widow the motlier of t hag gone to he fro their radio sets that! ng Edward VIE and sir present monarch! In London the big bell in 1 Britain's royal family nly when a member of roy it the clang of the bell in vakens the sleeping belfry umerous social functions or last night were cuncele theatres did not receive the news in ‘time-to close their doors, but in them, and in the motion picture houses which gave their program, funeral, marches were played. No date has yet b the funeral of Ale her body will be to lie in’ the | George's chapel be VI. It is expected, the funeral will not be held for weeks, Social Plans Affected ing: ch- | our the en announced for} andra nor when ken to Windsor vault in S m=} ng: an] ngs two as} the arrangements of so: n influence — public Sane fixtures in ubers of y mnoyneed their intention to. ne A period of | mourning will be d by those | connected with large number of persons outside that circle, | When Queen Victoria died many people wore black for some weeks. Dealers in women’s wear in the end of London began last evening toi replace gay garments and milliner in their shop windows by black parel in ipation of a conside ble dem go into compli ary It is understood that will not adjourn, as is the case a reigning sovereign dies, but “that formal votes of condolence to - the king and the family will be! passed by both ‘houses. ish Newspapers In Mourning ‘The newspapers today came out in d vep mourning for the Danish prin- , who arrived in England in 186: to become the bride of the Prince of Wales. An indication of the popular alfec- tion existing for Alexandra is the fact that the Iaborite organ, The Her- | ald, which usually ignores royal hav- penings or prints an inch concerning them when other newspapers print a column, ted»y devotes two columns to the death of Queen Mother Alex- andra and also a cordial editor headed: “A waman with a kind heart.” Williston Company Asks Permit for Line to Kenmare Application has been made to the state railroad board by the United Power company for permission to construct an electric transmission line from Williston to Kenmare and for permission to establish » scale of rates for electric service in the city of Williston. The company yester- day purchased from the government the property held by the government on the Williston irrigation sy operation of which wag halted a ago. om Wpen # settlement of the war le DEBT ETTLEM EN right they rton are: Secretary ‘BRITISH EMPIRE IN MOURNING FOR BELOVED QUEEN ALEXANDRA = en Football Results FINAL Harvara 0. SCORE: Niagara Alfred , Buifalo adelphia Lake hurst ee 1 Providence THOUSANDS , Boston U. y Hampshire’ 1M. ort Benning infantry 0, , Fordham 0. Wittenberg 0. x4; Muskingum of Idaho 27; Idaho Ohio U Molde) b 203 Yanktown : Vermilion 20; Gregory Webster Canton rs in throughout the British! E Mlinvis 14; 5 Rutgers 7: New York U Wisconsin 6. Northwestern 10, - MICHIGAN BEATS MINNESOTA TEAM Field, Ann Arbor, Mich., (P)—-In aw brilliant | setting y 48,000 enthusiastic root- met Minnesot. today for th of the We. Werry field championship The day w the turf was f tle wind. a ost spring-like, and there lit! i off, and on the Minnesota 2 Failing to ma! ing sta urd Tine, ii the line, Minne Michigan, with Mole line, took’ the ball to the Gophe yard line marker, where Frie led in an attempted place kicl Michigan Scores the Michigan first touch- down, ored 1 Uline, to whieh had punted, ' to mark, on passes Vosterbaan and Gilbert. Molenda then broke through the line with ard sprint across the goal line. Friedman place kicked the extra point. Michigan again kicked off and Min hesota, at the line, punted. Two passes Friedman’ slipped through Oosterbaan’s hands and Gil- Iara to | bert punted over the Minnesota goal The Gophe on the fourth down. nine the period ended: put the ball in rd line and it was yards to go as Michigan 7; Min- j nesota 0. Both teams were penalized in the period for roughness and were frequent inj The Gophers w bucks and end runs, and the ines persistently smeared. Gilbert's 33-yard return of a punt gave Fried- man another trial at pace kicking, but the boot went wide. Michigan’s second touchdown fol- lowed a passing, plunging drive that arddine. Edw- ied the ball 10 yards into Gopher territory and Friedman fol- lowed with a long pass to Oosterbaan that put the ball on the 23-yard line, Gilbert ducked past enemy tacklers to the Gophers’ two-yard mark and Molenda burrowed through for the touchdown. Friedman kicked the added point. The Third Touchdown Michigan scored her third touch down by a dazzling offense in the third period that carried the ball from her own 38-yard line across the Minnesota goal line. Gilbert return- ed the bal} 13 yards when he took # Minnesota punt and Molenda brush- ed through 24 yards to the Gopher 25-yard marker. Line smashes took the ball to the 13-yard line and then Oosterbaan caught a Friedman pass (Continued on page 8) debt of Kellogg. con- serim- working the ball from her own , STATE MILL Italy Count tw the is Ttalion Volpi United States head of the ‘November and December Will PLAN UNION SERVIC \ vices will be held 1 hyterian church on Th day a TarSO) a. om Rey port of the Episcopal chureh will preach the sermon and the Men's Gospel AS furnish the music for the marek Minister ion is sponsoring M Chorus detail the on thi he divided equally Children’s Home in the Society for the offering to pa will n the nd PARTICIPATE IN CARNIVAL Pavement Dance, — Which|' Closed State Corn Show, Attracts Many street carnival and pavement th Da p official s largely ed by the da which brought the } Kot ute to Felose here attended merryt jwith a band concert st jafter which the crowds were ‘ducted to the block in front of the building confetti, str tickle and other |noisemaking devices were distributed and the mardi gras spirit prevailed. ———S NOT SO COLD! The fact that a 1 ement dance was held in Bismarck on the 20th day of November, with tempera- tures well. above the freezing point, certainly disproves the ide held’ in’ some sections of the country that North Dakota is snow bound from the 1th ef Oc- tober on. Many of last’ night's rs took part in the val without hats or topec tens and overs order, Corn Show last evenii do gre aker on the con- | postottice where mers, horns about 9 o'clock on t 3 pavement between Third and Fourth streets, which had been blocked off to prevent automo- from interfering with the af- Olson’s orchestra furnished the music and the dancing space was {crowded until a late hour. The carnival closed the most suc- sful, exposition ever staged in Bis- arck, according to directors of the corn show association, The corn the largest number of ex- hibits in its history and the attend- veral times greater than previous occasion, The en- tertainment features which had been provided for this year’s show were above the average and the pageant was especially interesting and at- | tracted large audiences. The complete list of prize winners at the show will be published in The | Tribune just as soon as its compila- | tion is finished by those in charge of that work. New Directors — Are Elected for Bismarck A.C. The polls were ‘closed at 6 o'clock night in the annual election of of the Bismarck Associa- and the election bourd met at the association head- quarters last evening to count the votes, Over 200 ballots were cast in the final election, The five newly elected directors H. J. Duemeland, Burt "A. W. Mundy and Carl Nel- The other five nominees, #ho were defeated by very small margins, were ‘R. M. Bergeson, ’ 0. W. Corwin, Dunhan, F. A. Lahr and Alex aneing: Hig wan L. P. Warren was chairman of the | tion board, the other members being L. V. Miller, Price Owens, J. . Kelly and F. J. Gras “The new board of directors will meet some time next week for or- ganization purposes, at which time officers Yor the ensuing year will be named, the the sand oa Clara Morris, a Famous Stage Actress, Dead New Canaan, Con originally nglish speak! as the “woma worrawe” use of her illnesses and finan- reverses, ix dead of heart disease at the age of 7! h Bernhardt, witness 1 SHOWS PROFIT LAST 2 MONTHS}: Show Profits, ence Indicates Past Experi- Pleasure at the comp ess of tail shown by the report for the state mi J elevator filed with the state industrial commission by K. ¢ son, has been expressed by John mons and other members of that body. Although the report is much bulkier than 4 hich previously have been issued from the mill it shows in results of business trans- ted during the mont Included in the re statement by shows that the nei 10 months is $162.16 Tau t h mill m BS ‘eptemb: q mon profit for s for 06 de- dea and loss It first spite the profit o TMS $20,141.72 in Octob November and Dece:nber also may reasonably be expected to show a profit, past experience with the mill shows, John Gammoens, ary of industrial commission, said, sine ast four months of the year post profitable for millers y explained that t during that tim ns secre The is more re: flour is bo Reaches Peak in Octobe: hed its peak year in Octol s of whe: ROARS th of pro- rv when of flour, an < of wheat per The lowest point of produc- the report shows, yarrels were pro mediately ken charge of the ution as the result lature in turning, the to him. the mil] com ning h quired ing the and on the 4.55 bushels shown for nd the low point 4.44 bushels in July. ‘otal flour production for the 10 months } 1 barr wheat ground totalled 1,880,046, Since the mil] and elevator placed in operation in October, the report . they ha di With the re-or ed, howeve a year, Oct r report contains a sting in detail the pureh t by the mill and a comp: own by the September . Wheat now used pought on a premium basis, the premium being dete by the protein content of the The highest premium recorded is cents a bushel and the lowest is four cents, the premium in each ease re enting an excess over the ma price. Th produc of The tion whea inventory as i October r the mill i profit and loss statement and record of the state mill tor for the first 10 months hown in the report follow: Loss or guin per bbl. of 1925 a Month Bbls. Mfd. AR RAD 21 Loss Gain Jan, Feb. Mch. Ave 7 une July Aug. Sept. Oct. 1060 - 80,488, (net loss Total 417,372 162,165.06 1925 Building Boom in U. S. Largest Ever Chicago, Nov. 21—-U)--The year 1925 will record a five billion dollar building program. the largest in the history of the United States, says Herbert U. Nelson, executive secre- tary of the National Association of Real Estate Boards. His statement is based on estute index prepared by the tion- al association, covering 41 cities. A more favorable money market and a marked desire on the part of the American people to obtain better liv- ing conditions he assigns as the cause. A striking feature of the in- dex is a marked increase in the sales .and population of farm lands throughout the nation. real Board Approves Power Line Sale Sale by the Oshkosh-Cathay Trans- mission Line company of the power Tine between those points and Fess- enden was approved here today by the state railroad board. The prop- erty was purchased by the Otter Tail Power company for $3,000 and other considerations, YEGGS ROB POSTOFFICE AT SUPERIOR Assistant Postmaster Forced to Give Combination of Vault and Safe WATCHMAN IS BOUND Members of Mail Man’s Fam- ily Kept Under Guard Dur- ing Operations Wis most daring robberie: Wisconsin. in. ma arly today looted t r postoffice of nearly stamps and a small amount of ca after binding members of the family of McGill, assistant postmaster, and forcing the postoffics off sield keys und combinition to vault, The robbery was the climax of pre- liminary operations which began ear ly last night when several men went to the MeGill home, bound. sev members of the family then pr waited for others to return, secured and then wrung from the combination of the safe and fore ed him to turn over keys to the build ing and inner compartments. of the safe. one of the norther bandit: ried to" Evade Questions Il at first gave his captors a ombination, but when asked to repeat the numbers, could not re- member the figures first given, He was forced at the point of pistols to tell the true combination. One of the men was left in charge of the bound family, while the rest of the gang went to the postoffice where the job was completed. Left In Automobile A watchman at the postoffice was seized and bound, and watched the robbers at work. He told police one of the men appeared to be an expert in “feeling” out the tumblers of the safe, When the operation was com: pleted and the safe swept clean of valuables, the chman was wired to the door of the safe. Kscape of the bandits was effected in an auto- vbile. The only tangible clew left he men was an overcoat forgotten one of the bandits, McG wrong Some Stamps Overlooked The robbers stole $125 cash, which had been deposited with the govern- ment to cover printing orders for velopes. They over!ooked $77,000 in stamps, which were in : The stamps were the Ch t of Superior, papers two w proximately $150,000. in stamps ap- had i fa hibition, Klux KL wide inf They v masked, Mr. MeGill dressed, ‘ one robber en tered the house unmasked, masking once. A meagre description of hitn us secured. Get Finger I members of the clever ruse with andits, but another worked, they secured the finger prints their ¢' d after his mate; Left under guard of the s Miss McGill, daugh' f complained her glasses were paining her and asked the bandit to lay them on the piano, He did, but took ¢ ve no finger prints on them. however, Emmett MeGill, ad- ng solicitor for the Superior Telegram son of the assistant postmaster, asked for a gla of wa ter, and finger prints of the guard remained upon the tumbler. The quartette returned for their mate shortly after 3 a.m. and since neither Miss MeGill nor the © girl er, Miss Irene Olson, ha released’ the = men ill was able to telephone ¢ headquarters news of the rob- i the severed wires together with his hands to form a connection, but 20 minutes elapsed before police arrived, they having chased a false scent. Inspectors Not The bandits w ing between i Thompson, postmaster, who said they were undoubtedly professionals and who admitted to the Associated Press they might be the kind of a “robbery a day” bandits against whom Wiscon sin Bankers association recently warned every bank in the state. No postal inspectors are as yet on the job, Mr. Thompson said, though he has telegraphed Washington, Chi- cago and Ashland, Tne man usually stationed at Asnland was out of the city, he said. ints of One Phe McGill fi failed in one and of eft. $71,157.04 IN STAMPS, $127.80 IN CASH Ty Superior, W lice are searching for five robbers who stole more thun $71,157.04 worth of stamps from Superior’s postoffice early today, and for two men, he- lieved members of the quintet, who killed a pedestrian and critically hurt another, dashing down the main street of Superior at high speed later eh morning in a big green automo- bile. The robbers held the family of ‘Charles J. McGill, assistant postmas- ter, captive nearly five hours con- versing with their bound captives, before robbing the postoffice, de- parting at high speed in a big car. at approximately 3 a. m. At 10:30 a. m. the green automobile, with Min- nesota license, and two men on the driver's seat, crumpled the two pedes- trians’ and speeding up to 60 miles ‘an hour, fled with two motorcycle policemen in pursuit. In addition to the stamps, the rob- bers secured a trust fund for en- velope purchasers of $125 cash. and $2.80 in change, Postmaster F. M. Thompson announced to the Asso- ciated Press. Twenty-two years ago robbers se- (Continued on page three.)