The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 16, 1925, Page 1

} q | HAD WEATHER FORECAST Partly cloudy tonight and Thurs- sing temperature Thurs. ESTABLISHED 18730 - THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE —$_$_ $$ ————————— —, FINAL EDITION BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESD: AY, . DEC EMBER 16, 1925 PRICE FIVE CENT MORON SOUGHT FOR ILLINOIS TRIPLE MURDER BOY ADMITS KILLING THREE - INARKANSAS Arrested by Police After He Had Threatened Another Family With Gun FIVE Left Home Because He Wasn't Treated Right—Confesses Other Crimes FIREARMS a Yellville, Ark., Dec. 16.--UP)—Ap- parently confused and at times illo- zical, Arnold Comer, an undersized backwoods boy, yesterday confessed to Sheriff C. A. Willingham of Mar- ion county and Deputy Sheriff Hud- son to slaying, near Buffalo, Mrs. Tom Boyd, 50, because he “was hun- ery” and ‘killing her infant “grand daughter “because the baby cric FORCED OUT TRADE BOARD CHANGES SET FOR JANUARY) = jPlans About ‘Competed for Putting Clearing House Idea Into Operation iS) FAVORED BY Will Mak 1 to’ K grandchildren, left. motherless’ seven {Will Make Effort to Keep|; | is p sakes “Mellie™ is ¢lad ! Market Representative of [that he is making money. Other- wise he would) pre be hack Supply and Demand among the tall pines that surround his little farm house, But the 12 a. $n cre farm is pretty rocky and does: { Chicago, Dec. 16 (P) The reer lay ve ab and av “atellie™ Nu ganization program of the Chicago ee ey sue lines. sen as ite board of tfade is now dy to be} Gling. j rounded out with the estabiisnment? 7 Must Have a Chane ‘of a clearing house early in January. | «1, gure-am fond of th ees i This is the last of the ch [Their mother died right after tae oe purer eet eee last one and it’s hard Tor her which came with pasage of the ’ te re of then ‘thextve futures t, the board's own votta be doand ha a chanee. house ¢ ning, the sugge oin’ to give th . tempted n t manipulation MANY |? POR eee “It’s For The Kids,’ Says Mellie-- Maine’s Champion Fiddler Explains BY Detroit, ROY J. Dec. 16. the wizened li ion of the Maine was picked up from a and set down here in the lap of luxury by one wave of Henry Ford's magic. wand has nine very good re ons for welcoming this unlooke prosperity. These reasons range i 7 to 21 years, They GIBBON Mellie" Du le fiddling woods who rocky farm age from © Mellie’s” " Nye Contest I Fire Destroys The boy also told iillin of th etary ricultur has fi Charles Moore, a fur tr: Sund: | The clearing house, advocated by offers. tee toue. Vie because he thought the | was go many of the members of the board! inen since h ere ing to urrest him, He later confess- especially those out of town, was! hether he will” any of them. to other depredations in the adopted upon the suggestion of the Make (ate you with his hood, since he left his ho secretary of — agvicultur do the » Wednesday armed with a board’s committee has been working Would “Yow Gos He waeS libre pistol. He said he left home out plans tor several months. — The tne to 4 ivan ‘ause he was not treated rig machinery is mow ly to functém} them, There’ Young Cc s taken into farting y, besinnise | dren, and y y at the home of fra (with one of comin F Robnett, 10 miles from Buffalo, when | sn the beard a ly working! “Mellie is no more ed with the officers went there in answer to . up to the corm and wheat “lhis trip to Detroit. than Henry Ford ; ; - : a summons from Robne The ee” Fons. Kxpe ce with the is, however. The automobile king, y Ford beams his approval This photo was taken in the Ferd ad appeared last night and threat-| peg Grange’ yall career came to! Volu t ns is ex-lwho has developed a great fondness dance hall at: Dearborn, ening the Robnett family with a uml” pau burg. when the Hl system Lor] for the homely old tu the coun- forced them to feed him and p wees aulle iaiuved hiscavarl ll in wheat which in}try fiddlers so) much indeétlt . him to spend the night. ‘and ave. the wame. ‘This, betiods of great activity, some times} that he has had no fewer t 3 of ti When the officers appeared to take) jicture was snappe he was! Tun ats high as 150,000,000 bushels a} them came to Detroit so their] one t tols, a shotgun and a sack of am- the injured member Lot the board. “Hoseph simon, a form: [ty likes *Mellies” works the best | om top of the iat enue munition containing 400 shotgun er vice president of the board, is the] of all xel shelis and about the same number | ~~~~~~y~~~e hy tof the clearing house. Mellie” was playing at ivate] “ h of pistol cartridge i : " [recital he Ferd unconsciously | he trot t eon ch for the youth b . ‘ai rere . Business Conduct Committee Named) co rted dancing jig and kept -| old violin on 2, He was brought ‘here.for FODANSIN WASHINGTON While the clearing house method] yy ty the group of newspaper men | bor's when he was Uh, ping. Bon aterand house mact:tenoony iesiitl a how the elose of exch day | ayout him: “The old fellow can play, | sun SL21 Asleep When Arrested | House on inherit: } the net position of each clearing | Co pe? For 10,000 Dances « who says he is “about 13 or:| ance tax s member, long or short of And then Ford strode over to the} "Got that fiddle and TP had ¢ . sleeping the sleep of ex Counsel's arguments begin in | ket, many of the members 1 estes |Necrpee ies . yesterday when a sheriff's J Mitchell court martial. their own busin nduct commit-| eee d him. tee will be in tion to gol Jo disposition of the youthful behind these returns to uncover at- | * desperado, whose’ simple countenance contradicts his bloody. sto! zling wthorities ere urging the puz- ome ial calling of rand jury session toh the «course of justice. Others shook * their heads Arnold’s story, told to Sheriff! Wil- lingham here, was « thriller to match any outlaw’s tale. This is the gist of it: ig The Boy's Story The bo: discontented v conditions, fled . from t home Wednesday night, pistol with which he was a practiced shot. Thursday afternoon he entered a rugal home and took $17.55 and shotgun while the occupahts .of the house were ubsent. That night he plundered a little store, increasing his armament. Friday night, seeking food, he me to another mountuai: home to assuage his hunger but be came afraid when a man opeued the .,door. He fired his shotgun wounding the man, his wife and child, and re- treated ‘into the darkn Hungrier still on Sunday approached the house where Mrs: Tom Boyd lived with her infant granddaughter, shot and beat the aged woman to death—he didn’t seem to know why—und then killed the baby because it cried. A quarter of a mile away as he ran from this tragic scene he met Charles Moore, dealer in pelts, and shot him He was wearing Moore's hut und shoes when deputies found him. DEAD BODIES OF MOTHER AND SON ARE FOUND Dog’s Howls Lead to Discov- ery—Woman Had Reli- gious Delusions the boy Philadelphia, Dec. 16,--()--Howls of a pet fox terrier early today led 0 discovery of the bodies of Mrs. . Blanche Mepham, 41, and her son, Mepham, 14, strangled to binding tape in their home The bodies were found b, Mepham’s aged mother, Mrs. beth Palmer, 75, who had ‘been asleep in an adjoining room. Detectives vexpressed the _ bel Mrs. Mepham had strangled the boy then slipped a noose ubout her own neck, fastened the end of the tape to the bed post and dropped to her “knees, drawing the noose tight. Mrs, Palmer told police that her daughter had .been suffering from religious delusions. amore Weather "Weather Report | | aa. at 7a. 0 Highest yesterday 28 Lowest last night 16 , Precipitation to 7 a, m, . 5 ae 4 Highest wind velocity . 10 Weather Forec: For Bismarck and vicinity: Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight and Thurs- day; rising temperature Thursday. For North Dakota: Partly cloudy « to cloudy tonight and Thursday; ris- , ing temperature Thursday. ¢ Weather Conditions Pressure conditions: indicating fair weather with rising-temperature pre- vai! this morning. An area of low prebsure is central over Alberta with high pressure over the Southwest. The “low” which has caused scatter- ed precipitation over the Mississippi ley is now over the ite Lakes. ORRIS W: BERTS, ott cial in charge. + building, telephone 840, FIGHTING AT MUKDEN WILL BE STOPPED, Japan Has Been Asked to Pro tect Foreigners at Man- churian. Capital Dec. 16, Government today that troops! had left Korea for Mukden, Mainchur- n capital, and that additional forees ould leave tomorrow after which no fighting would be permitted within six miles of the c It Was Tokyo, Marshal Chang T: * nehure ja, and General Kuo Sung-Lin, his former henchman and now his prin- cipal adversary in the factional flght- ing in progress in Manchuria, would be notified by the J ¢ that this order must be obeyed It was also stated by the govern- ment spokesman that all consuls met recently in Mukden and requested that Japan take all necessary steps to protect foreigners at the Man- churian capital. Neutrality Demanded All Japanese troops, it was stated, have been instructed to maintain the most strict neutralit in the factional Chinese fighting. Also, it was said, no more troops would be sent to Mukden unl situation demands explaine d that the Portsmouth (the peace treaty tween Russia and J tthe end of the Rowso-Japanese war), allows Japan to maintain approximately 15 90 railway guards in Manchuria, but that the r cement of troops makes the total Japanese troops in Manchuria only about 8,000, bey mate employ approxi- 377,000 worke The iwork of the “Good Fellows” in Bismarck at Christmas time last year was so thoroughly successful and brought so much joy and sui shine to many Bismarck homes which would otherwise have been dark and dreary on Christmas day that the movement will be continued this year. ‘The “Good Fellows” this year are being organized under the chair- manship of A. E. Brink, and the co- operation of various men’s and wom- en’s clubs, lodges and luncheon clubs is expected in the work. This ibe a part of the Community Chri mas plan being followed in the city each season. There ure already many’ families on the list who will be without Christmas cheer unless it is provided by someone from outside, Each fam- ily reported is visited and their needs ‘ascertained. A card bearing all necessary information is. filled and when an organization or an in- individual wishes to be a “Good Fellow” they are given these cards and allowed to choose those they wish to help. This-work ix connected with the social registration bureau, which is kept so that duplication will not occur und 50 that everyone will be remembered. Anyone wishing to join the “Good Fellows” club is requested to tel honé Miss Mary Cashel at a | jan! Cress office, City National The chief of the three reorg tions measures adopted by th MOSUL REGION Two Montana Po ntil tponed U ix fall to stabilize the “market | Timbermills k ‘ After Holidays cheek frenzied speculation such Pr 6 hes ) set the wheat pit wild last w |e o- = was the appointment | . ; - conduct committee which ’ : Mont., Dee. 16.— , ton, Dee 16 —(P)— york for two months, ! destructive f The contests over the s een d losses of 82 Gerald PL Nye as a sen Powers Not Hampered hermills at’ Rockner North Dakota will noth The business conduct committee] 7 = 1h | eee ; up by the senate itself until att- has unlimited powers to investigate, | Wife ‘tells Police Siki Had The Anaconda Mining com: | League of Nations Coun er the holiday recess. control, or discipline members of the a | pany’s ¢ nt at Rockner ae Chairman “Erast of the clec- board and is backed by the new rulet Been Threatened Because | waka aout Hin aE Attempt at Mediation Has coninmitie fe sbi vesting in the board of directors the i | $150,000. _ Lambe - t today in power to declare an emergency dur- of Liquor Debt | company’s saw and planing mills Proved a Failure report in ing which ranges shall be restricted) 7 | at Polson were burned, with a committee held that to a specified. price above or below : a - | loss estimated at $115,000. Loss | —aotelehaakedat the last sale of the previous d: New York, Dee, 16) An ob-| eg at but. plants i ered by Debora governa ‘The three members of the commit-|sctre bootlegger, seeking blood pay-| insurance ‘ Galbaaka a tee, who are pled dwt to speculate qipent for a small debt, is scught to- i 1 it medi. a for themselves, work in close cooper- ag dhe chan: Who. chotcubateling’) elev ieenedl: 4 ation with the grain futures admin: | ptgidbse cathe: the ee Se istration officials in endeavoring to “Senegalese “wild man,” | decided: th a keep the market really representative | of the prize ring, Wear te teak of supply and demand. Police a ng the bootlegger treat Brith DODGE BROTHERS REDUCE PRICES EFFECTIVE JAN. An announcement which will b WILL YOU BE A “GOOD FELLOW” TO SOME POOR FAMILY THIS YEAR? especiul interest to those planning|Memphis and married her, he came; Situation hdi Bey, ‘he to buy automobiles is made today by |to New York and “Hell's Kitchen” to; aeitee: the M. B. Gilman company, local] bulid up a reputation as a wild ae it y labiene navine Dodge Brothers dealers. The Dodge] young street demon. _ Harrisburg, Dees UP) aE | righ Ene cout company will, on January é ‘ jforts to tern the anthracite | iting that t ‘ make public a tremendous Had Many Street Fights mining: suspension, now in its 16th ee P men and panied: sof their -| He rode all night in ta sj week. shifted to Harrisbure today} dren inte slaver Nein the ious models and these reductions | fused to pay and then dhalle: for the third time, when ors and mean A reelaeedl 46 will apply on all cars bought after |the drivers ty fight for their fare — burgesses of communities “in the : Rae Pe a he midnight last night. While the new] Which they frequently did — f hard) coal region | here at TaReUeed 41 aNer ean jprices will not be made known until He walked about town with a wine, the requ of Gov fg nchot to i heapee ar January 7, anyone purchasing a car|bearer at his heels and on three jdiseuss the situation y him ac Wis bebaaile ibis Bhs io how will have the full amount of the | Successive days invaded the Penn-| Little in the way of a formal pro) acai Sie uitish {ake ceeaiee on dee renee cae Redaction refunded svlyania station too late to ram other than an opening address ¢ Assyrian Chale discipline ame through the The price reductions are made pos-|ttain for Memphis. After each re-/by the governor was arranged RE eR ENRUM che yd Gecuslnie incle| Gihelecde iaiGan sible, the company states, by a re-| Port that the train v gone ‘he; the meeting. scheduled at the execu tocintipne of etaacide Geuandine andeiiuge ‘ently completed $10,000,000, expan. | Would call his wine bearer, x negro (tive offices in the capito p.m a diseredlelOherclions, the ee. GalGe wih Sion program which includes new }#!most as huge as himself, it opened My. Pindhot did not 1 i SEKI tarlO lor eiunee aneal ine buildings and equipment and almost | Dim, and then slake his thir further he might Soe hen Aan TBE a eee ae doubles the capacity of the Dodge | ter three days the little gr her his to end ich investi-| the during winter months Brothers factories. The company’s | information clerk became tired Armenia policy of constant improvement with- | the daily invasion and took Siki b, jal Spokesmen Turk NINE STATIONS ON LAKE out-vearly modele will be.in the scruff of the neck and threw, More than for | SUPERIOR TO STAY OPEN peor hint ont of the See dhe bed |orlneipnl, €0 \ incident suffe Duluth, Minn. Dec. 16, GP) The a) Phal identified the body, | re; co: ruare ons on Lake unconsciously she uttered her eulogy : representative trey DA vieie tirana Miers ry for him. principal purpose of for the first time, Boatswain Danie “He nvas a good boy.” she said,|askinz them to come TAR eR UReetr Guta BETIS aeeal ceene “but they didn’t understand him; he! dicted, was to obtain an expression Aneta oe ate was full of mischief.” ‘from them a the sentiment in} Aiea mte =P ae GaURPRtnt one camne bo: ; pe D Re, swin Magnussen said. Sinee 1918 abor Conditions ee ee a all scigae three men have been kept on duty Throughout State ‘the extra session of the general as- i pa eee He con eee Bee Are Satisfactory *""'s ret mon" Driver of Car From Which of the stations were kept on full | | Seliool ‘Teacher Jumped | ™Y 2! winter. as keener Enplosment conditions throughout | SUFOpeans Dance | Sega Heaene Le 1 May intra) Hosa ' N i satis- | stioni 1 No changes in’ gener: 3 to rere ar een ot:| to American Jazz | Held for Questioning — | se changes in aeyeral ders of the United States department of i i ———— ceived to date, ¢: n. Magnussen labor réceived here bade. | Sent Via Radio| “fs Brookings, apy s a J Hh f Spt that ition hie A good call is reported for bot sear * a salesman, faved i ors, and some s the entire aullicd and unskilled labor and em | New Yorks ‘Thow-| coroner's’ jury here today ax county piyrDors, and some times the entire ployment in the lignite coal mines, sands of person E Wicials sought to clear the mystery be brought by water, but in the western part of the state has; early this morn un time) {which surrounded the death of Miss in certain contingencies he increased since last month, Fac- | to the strains of t from) Elsie Loner, school teacher at Bruce./ Would patrol the north shore. reads tories generally are running at nor- the United Sts j | three miles north of the latter place |jeading. to forse anelere. mal and there is a brisk call for! Associated Press dispatches from! Monday night. Tie NAg Haver aan done: btw uTh gentral farm help, the report states.,London and Berlin tell of en-and| Jones told authorities that he w S\be done if a tip on operations or or- In Fargo, the report states, build- {women in hotels and supper clubs of | driving with Miss Loner and was’ qors were received, ing operations “remain active with|English and continental cities trip-| lighting a cigarette while the eat)“ small craft. continue sailing the resident craftsmen putting in full ping, the light cata ito sneopat-/ was in motion. | When he had finish: jtukes long after, the bigger vessels time. Opening of a packing plant, ed strains from mi ay. ed, he noticed that the door was op-}are moored for the winter, and need during the month gave employment to} Dance numbers were ed from jen and Miss Loner was gone, he stat-! protection. even more, Captain Mage a considerable number while other! the Waldorf-Astoria in New York tojed., Jones declared that he knew of” hussen siid. major manufacturing concerns still, WGY in Schenectady and re-broad-j no reason for the young woman's act. GM ald ae This little Bismarck chap is there is a Santa Claus. ‘hig faith be destroyed. _ RESPOND TO “STATIONS T0 REMAIN OPEN Change From Usual eSystem Made as a Step Against as his m because tie andate over Trak Phal, Siki’s wife, told h hus ed territory band was threatened by a man t nds, It ing to collect a $20 liquor debt a few days ago. | ‘Those of the ring who had followed Si not surprised whe found face down “Hell’s Kitchen, may brawls there. ‘After he met a PINCHOT CALL i th \hey Meet at Harrisburg Today to, ya: ane ‘or _ | Discuss the Coal Strike young mulatto in} a underworld | ploits wer bod a gutter 7 eof in for in he had been in KDKA, are employing normal force Over-| cast. Pittsburgh, Jones is 26 years old, he told au- | Bank at Moose tent farm help.” jis cashier, Standards show, Why He Came to Play For Henry Ford time prevails in farm Camaeleny a porn ae ite ote at the re | Rhonibles He eee his | wife atT ® jhouses. There is a good cal] for] quest e Britis! roadcasting | Omaha last night | yi % | ¢ommon labor, Aerts for farm'company, which conducted the Euro-| Coroner E. R. Bartling stated that Lake Is Closed activities.” |pean end of the test. is | the possibility of any charges being! pose Eee At Grand Forks, the survey said,| The dispatches from Evrope did! preferred against Jones depended on Paul, Dec. 16. -()—The Farm: | there is a “slight surplus of build-|not mention receipt of the m the euteome ef the inquest. s State Bank of Moose Lake, with ing tradesmen-but common labor ap-|from WGY, but did report excellent re ‘deposits aggregating about $400,000 pears to be well employed. Normalj results from KDKA. The music| Sole leather stuffed with greases | was closed because of depleted re- employment conditions obtain in|was picked up kt the British com-! wears 20 per cent longer than tht ;serves, A.J. Veigel. commissioner of aur Grand Forks factories for this sea- pany’s station at Daventry, England,| same type of leather before treat-jtbanks, announced today. S. A. Jacob- Do not let} son and there is a good call for and then. re-broadcast throughout, ment, tests by the U. S. Bureau of | son is president, and BE. L. Losensky del, AN ESCAPED PRISONER IS BEING HUNTED Authorities Have Worked Out Two Po: the Tragedy ROBBERY ible Solutions of WAS MOTIVE Automobile in Which Slayer Escaped and Pistol Found in West Ch azo a. Th, fan to a Auro ont and murdere: rshier, 16, ()— A mor wr with farm life a good wateh dog, ske, young by. stvey et Henry 4 his wife KE Ralph, at ML, Saturd This was the and conclusic they recor . hypothetically ir findings in the last four st likely to fit into the picture, ught He Coopes, 26, ¢ penite pei who 1 Mr Sleep children, a short of un y honor far killed two ke and who was Iy before the I Th ving. shag family v Christma hopping Saturday night when the burglar quieted the watch dog on the lonely farm a good dog and on previous occasions its bark. had been heard at some distance hone was heard Saturday, He entered the house by bre aeateh on the front room window, the police hypothesis goes, He d connected the telephone and pulled down wires tos: radio antenna on the roof, He owas) ransacking a strewing its con ahout wat interrupted turn Two Theories Offered Two the attempt explain ubsequent events, One says the burglar rushed out the automobile, d the man and b ke int a bloody. tr Th car, in and steering: The other entering t nd and he met th room. ‘The she was br torn and thorities. s: yugh her ed such n made v killed all th ed the bodie nto the yard the hou There il from the yard inte re were blood smear which the slayer ¢ bloody finger prints wheel theory house fon pee the Mrs was the house on the ved, on he has hile Mrs. J her hus wr in the shed, the livi ein whi clothing wiged, Medics e was not att and elothin might sed ary ard hi hody an attempt indi- have s need By Unable to. silence her clothing about burghir fired two hei Jeske was house in or met the bur running from house, He shot the husband through the head and chest. a few paces behind his father, throat and probably Shots her her shots head, into the and the twie The be ru spons sha bled to di The sla hile to West away, where he abandoned it threw away his pistol, an army 1 fully loaded with cartridges sim- ilar to those which killed the thr It was found in a clump of weeds. through th ath trove the Jes Chicago, f 500 Reward offered » had no known enemies. assistant cashier of the B. . a memb . of a fami lished in the vicinity for tion As the th were ied grave yesterday, the ia Minute | News Bulletins | Dee. 16.—A)— not get renton, N. J. did the police, as electrocuted r the murder of r Robert Coyle. Luthersville, Dec. 16.—(?) —Dr. James T. Taylor, 92, past eral grand priest, Royal Arch Masons of the United States, “dl at his home yesterday « Frank Ne Dees 16.—(P)— Imbedded in the bladder of John M. Patterson, 88, veteran of the Civil war, physicians who oper- ated on him discovered an old- Minnie ball, which had been his body since the battle of Chickamagua. The ball weighed seven drams, Athens, Greece, De ‘The Greek government, in a not to the British minister, says it accepts: unconditionally the League of Nations’ award the Greco-Bulgarian cident. It expresses hope, however, that the sum Greece must pay will be set- tled equitably with the sums owing by Bulgaria for repara- tions. Springfield, IIl., Dec. 16.—() —Governor Len Small must pay approximately $1,000,000 into the state treasury, the supreme court ruled today. Washington, Kansas, Dec. 16. —(#)—Holding citizens at bay for two hoars, robbers believed to have numbered five men carly today blew open the safe in the Bank of Washington and escaped with between $8,000 and $9,000. One cf the robbers wax wounded as he fled the tow North America’s water power is 60,000,000 horsepower.