The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 15, 1926, Page 1

PRICE FIVE CENTS ESTABLISHED 1873 é BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1926 oe nena ntn nal cnaonORSnn Seem men SEAT _ CORONER'S JURY TO INVESTIGATE HERRIN DEATHS RESERVATION | INDIANS ARE ON RAMPAGE Redmen at Beatty and Bly, Oregon, Are Drinking, Gambling, Carousing TROOPS MAY BE €ALLED Situation Results From Ruling that Indians Are Wards gon, are on & ram gambling and carousing, felt for the safety of white residents in the district, Li id county peace offi- to cope with the rowth of a recent decision by Circuit Judge A. L. Lea- vitt, in a habeas corpus action, hold- ing that Indians. on the reservation, are not under the jurisdiction of state and county laws. Judge Leavitt's decision holds that the Indians are wards of the govern- ment, protected by treaty and -im- mune from arrest by anyone but United States officials so long as they remain on the reservation. District Attorney Elliott said yes- terday that if the demonstrations continued he would be forced to ask for federal forces from Portland or that local police be empowered to act as United States deputies “As the matter now stands,” £ said, “an Indian‘may in the mid- dle of Beatty's one eet with a moonshine still running _ beside, drinking his own product and run- ning a cash poker game on the side and be legally free from all inter- ruption until United States officers arrive. ‘Something must be done, and done quickly, or someone is going to be jurt.” YOU MAY NOT RETURN. IT's A FINE EARTH. SOUTHERN BOOM. THE SUNSET LIMITED. BY ARTHUR BRISBANE See this earth’ while you are still hei You may not come back. Fieve, 25,000 miles ly balanced, at even by the sun through th "infinite ether. Astronomy says the earth = is) “only a grain of sand, attached to a minor star among the billions of fly- ing suns.” Nevertheless it is, per- ‘haps, the only planet you ever Sce it while you may. is a beautiful round, marvelo temperature, d e 8 and California, via the Pennsylvania to Washington, Southern Railway to New Orleans, then on the Sunset * Limited over the Southern Pacific to the big ocean, and all the way north along the Pacific shore. Z Try this route on your next trip west. —e ‘Going by a northern roule you may see Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, To- dedo, Chicago, Detroit, Kansas City, Denver, the prairies of Kansas, where therg are no more automobiles than there ever were bison. This way you’ see Newark, Philadel- phia, Baltimore, Washington, Atlanta, New Orleans, Houston, El Paso, Yuma, most fertile spot in the world, and all the coast cities up, to Seattle. Not to know the southern part of the United States is not to know your country. This wey to the Pacific is just a short trip. Take New Jersey, Pennerlvania, Delaware, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina, uth. Carolina, Georgia, Albama, Mississippi, Louisi- New Mexico, Arizona, Californii Each of those states has land energy, fertility, and opportunity enough for a great empire. In Texas ‘alone you could pack away several) important European nations, and that one state could raise food for all peo- ple.living on earth and five ‘hundred millions more. : Haven't we enough to attend to in this American League of Netions from the Atlantic to the Pacific, -without going to Europe for trouble! —— : This train is flying through North Carolina, omst ‘beautiful tend. Like all this southern country the bright red earth is covered witht green, ‘trees. in eg ie Eaphepo’ ba thro: ows every 3 Peal estate ‘room. A thousand such | booms sre on either sidé of the track, iin ‘New: York all the way, to Se- attle. Have we prosperity? We have Tens of thousands of acres, terraced to prevent erosion, are ready for the cotton thet wil clothe the world, and stretched out mile after mile across the country you .gee metal spider webs, Pr ‘on steel oe. poner lines carry energy » in- sumereble. : Revit ey a Pog eee modern, that meen a = iy, eae ond. town ang city. The no manu; to provide tebor ‘and profit . jn the north. It ws the makes, the cotton ‘cloth, shi finished product and oops the: here. know Northerners orner of ithe Ry q bout Calli! + Flo gece te advertising.’ The: foow ot all sae st beantifa i meGontinved. 60. Mussolini Premier Mussolini of Italy: (center) is Starts Amundsen Off 1 ‘were designated to pic hown ‘here at the formal de- | livery to;Raold Amundsen (right) ef the dirigible “Norge” in which | Amundsen will attempt to WAS SEEN H Aurora Borealis, or N Lights, Shown Brilliantly Last Night A display of aurora northern. lights, said by have ‘been the most ‘ens last evening, from 8:30 late at night. the evening, watching the phenomenon, word having bi ed from one home to another by tel- ephone concerning it. The*brilliant streamers played hide and seek thro! skies, flashing up here a like ‘flames from a huge fire. lights extended into the heavens to the east and west and even to the south, but were most beautiful in the northern skies. A phenomenon, of this kin affects telegraphic communi tinies silencing the wires comp but local telegraph operato: that their wires from Bismarck to Fargo were not affected last evening. Reports, from ‘the east, howe that ‘soine wire trouble was exper- ienced through the middle. VISIBLE OVER ENTIRE NORTHERN UNITED STAT borealis or northern light, of telegraph communc! and peautiful of northern sections ° Temperature at 7 Highest yesterday . Lowest last night Precipitation to 7 a. m Highest wind velocity ther conditions at N. m, kota points for the 24 hours ending at 8 a, m, today: Temps. 5 Amenia Bisma: Bottineau Devils Lake Dickinsgn Dunn Center . Ellendale . Fessenden : Grand Forks .... Jamestown ecoccecesooc]c]Scoo Precipitation Williston 2:00"; Moorhead, Minn. .42 34 WEATHEI FORECA' For Bismarck and vieinit erally fair tonight and Friday; some- | Generally fair what cooler Friday. For North Dakota tonight ang ,Frida: er pias GENERAL WEATHER CON! The high pressure area, accompanying cold weather, somew! tends from the Great Lakes southwestward to the Plains States. Pressure area, accompanied siderably warmer weather, tered over the north and south: Temperatures are thoderate s Mountain’ Rocky bet an ‘states also. e over. the’ Ganadian Ir cl PHENOMENON — OF THE ARCTIC bo brilliant beautiful ever witnessed here, was plainly visible throughout the heav- r People in all parts of the city were out of doors during "ES Ghicago, April 15—()—The aurc ion. circuits, | henomenon of the arc- tic, hone brightly last night over the (Continued on page two.) Weather Report forth Da- in inches ‘riday ‘and northwest portion to-} Frost occurred parts of Oklahoma and Texas. A low ern Plains ral Canadian Province i T throu, ir antral parte of fly to the North Pole.. Photo was Rome shortly befcte the attempt on Mussolini’s life. 84 Above Zero i 3 This After: ummer weather ar marck today, and at vi this afternoon orthern| ing to the loca! weath and 84 above from While it seems unusual! exceeded on lis, or to and many month of past years. today, the instruments op umtit!l 25 and 30--miles-en hou this is not an exception wind, according to the unusaal een pass-/1 the country makes it pa: disagreeable. of light ugh the nd there The d usually ation, at rs report ver, state west. Dr. Schneller May bugbea St. Paul, Minn. April —Dr. millan Schnell wealthy surgeon his war, pleaded not arraigned before Judge Boerner in the Ramsey district court today on of forging a check for downtown hotel and his set for trial April 20. Paul, April 15.—Al United ° “a 4 5 4 1 | 4 7 4 0 St. 24 Maximilian Schneller, State of = Weather 2 the passed. A smal jewels—four aa Be 5 diamonds arson es €o 8 323 oe =. | of her husband's attorney, _ | 511 Pioneer building. In t Cloudy | g letter written in Germa flear | how this sacrifice had i Ch Y:i her at a time when the CHEE | nother child is imminent, Cigatly |» The check represented Clear Clear Cloudy Clear | Clear Cloudy ir y: Clear her at Mott, N. D. gel hospital cashier the money to his’ wife. He had bee: place on the- hospital s' ‘time he was arrested. But co-indicental with of Mrs. Behoslat ! utficient funds t DITIONS | sufficient funds to cover with its |-checks. nowse From Wahpeton, where region | ler also practiced, sout el in Gen- hat cool- ‘there are anxious to have ‘and are ready ‘to by con-| wishes is_ cen- us States|a low rating as s bu: ng thou, is professiqnal ski ‘over the| questioned, the friend Pacific | ‘Schneller not only cha: ather is|lously small sums for lorthwest{ among the. poor, bi eh: | got to collect a the| counts total several { the maf affir: ing a s the thermometer registered 84 above zero, accord- The mercury remained between 83 noon on. due to the sudden change, records show that this is not an ‘unusual temperature for April but that it has been equaled many times and several occasions. Several readings of 90 above have been recorded during the fourth }/ A strong wind has been blowing || it to have a velocity of between observers, the unusual dryness of WOMAN GIVES GEMS, CASH, 10 SAVE HUSBAND Prison Term—Friends Come to His Aid PLEADS NOT GUILTY who sacrificed fortune during the world guilty {own mistakes have ‘brought-him to a! cell in the Ramsey county jail on aj charge of second degree forgery, Dr., German Cross physician in the World war,! can thank a wife of unbounded faith} for providing most of the funds need- ed to make good the worthless checks! box containing her only Dr. Schneller’s cash and was sent to just before ‘he was brought here from Milwaukee to fuce ‘the forgery charge. drawn on the account of ,the Evan- 1 Deaconess hospital of Milwau- kee after Dr. Schneller-had given the| 's offering, aid from veloped that assured |, # friend came to jlend assistance. The doctor's patients with money. The rincipal difficulty was thet ‘he had frequently fo: taken at at noon rived in 3 o'clock bureau. ly warm, showing | vr, While ally high weather rticularly |; Escape 15.—) ler, once when John W. county a charge $50 on a case was though his! Red | which she valued at. $300— and a check for $200) ator of his marriage tast Saturday to has been delivered at the office; Frances Heenan, 15-year-old school A. W. Uhl, the box was! in that told| poverished | arrival of! the last of It_ was to forward | mn promised, f at the: the arrival all the bad Dr. Schnel- him return their) loctor’s sman al- il was un- said. Dr. ridicu- is service ind his ac- eta dolars, | from four td cight years, were sent arrested and p Jury Places Damages at That} ~| trial on the murder charge. CHILDREN T0 PICKET THE WHITE HOUSE This Form of Protest Adopted Today By Striking Tex- tile Workers WILL CARRY A BANN ER Children and Adult Strikers Will Also Picket New Jersey Capitol Passaic, N. J., April 15-—()— | Picketing of the White House by) children was one form of protest | adopted for today by striking textile | workers. Six little girls, ranging in age | to Washington to carry a banner in front of the White House reading: “Mr. President: Does the United | States constitution cover New Jersey 2} Are meeting halls closed? ts free speech denied? Are leaders illegally | ed under exorbitant Some 50 children and adult strikers t the state| capitol in ‘Trenton and the home of | Governor Moore in Jersey City. { The special object of protest is en-| Yorcement of riot act regulations. By the reading of the riot act, the sheriff of Bergen county has forbidden all! assemblages of strikers. i PAY $4,000 FOR GIRL'S DEATH Figure in Stejskal’s , Suit For $31,000 Fargo, N. D., April ‘ese | Stejskal, Lankin, N. D., father of Jessie Stejskal, for whose death Dr. D, C. Darrow of Moorhead was con- victed of second degree murder, is entitled to $4,000 damages fronDr. Darrow, a jury in Cass county d trict court decided Wednesday af noon. The case has been on trial since Saturday. Stejskal asked for $31,000 damage Stejskal sustained $3,000 damages as a result of the loss of his daugh- ter’s services, $500 for the loss of her care, comfort and protection, and $500 for funeral expenses, the jury held in a finding of fact on 24 ques- tions submitted to them. They held that the defendant’s negligence and failure to give Jessie Stejskal proper care and medical treatment were the proximate cause of her death in the doctor's Fargo office last June. | Counsel for Dr. Darrow said Wed- nesday that they did not know whether they would appeal the case. They said they would not know until after Judge A. T. Cole formally or- ders judgment against the defendant. Dr. Darrow is now at liberty under bond while attorneys are preparing to apply to the supreme court for a new BROWNING IS DESIROUS OF AHAPPY HOME Wealthy 51-Year:Old Realtor Gives Explanation of Re- cent Marriage New York, April 15.--(P)--Edward W. Browning expects to realize his greatest ambition—to preside over a happy home and family. He fell in love at first tht in spring and his romance promises to be endless. Such is the explanation of the weulthy 51-year-old real estate oper- rl. In a statement‘issued at the honey- moon house in Cold Spring, N. Y., he says he had no intention of an imme- ate matriage with ‘his latest “Cin- derella girl” until the detion taken by the children’s society to investi- gate his relatidns with her made a wedding desirable “a rebuke to ‘those who either conceived or believed) the motives attributed to me by the children’s society. i The bride is still under treatment for acid burns, which she says were inflicted by an intruder in her mother's Manhattan apartment be- fore the marriage. Ernest K. Coulter, general manager of the children’s society, said yester- day that the organiaztion ‘had virtu- ally abandoned proceedings to take the girl from custody ofher mother. The proceedings were started before ‘the marriage. Call For Condition of National Banks Washington, April 15.—(#)—The comptroller %f the currency today i a i) for the condition of ks at the close of’ busi- one Monday, April 12. The average farm housewife wi: three acres of dishes in. the co! pea) ‘of a year. ¢ Prairie Fires} Are Burning In Vicinity Three fierce prairie fires were reported raging in the vicinity of Bismarck today. One which began at Welch's spur on the Soo line railroad 14 miles south of Bismarck in re- ported to have burned a school house and to be sweeping un- checked toward the Emmons county line, The second is reported raging four miles west of Mandan and ‘scores of men from Mandan are said to have gone out to fight the flames. Both fires are being driven by a high wind and are said to be sweeping through hay meadows and other fields heavy with dry grasses, The drought which has persist- ed since late last summer has left the prairies unusually dry for this season of the year and dif- fieulty in checking the flames ix reported. Reports received by the Bis- marck Association of Commerce indicated that the school house reported burned was located southwest of Menoken. One fire was said to have started five ilex southwest of Menoken and be sweeping eastward. A third reported southeast of Me- noken, was reported moving to- ward Hazelton. April 15 (®) -Two immense pi fires were burning and traveling at a terrific rate be- 50-mile wind near here late afternoon. One fire started south of Judson or it Briar, 19 miles west, and has swept over many square miles of broken country, in which are some farmsteads. Another fire started south of F and is believed to have been swept into the dense woods of the Missouri river bottoms, which in some places are two es wide. Dozens of cars of volunteers have gone from Mandan to both places to assist farmers in fighting the blazes. The high wind has made rural tele- phone farm lines useless and details can not be-obtained. Thousands of acres of tinvberland along the Missouri river bottoms north of Mandan were doomed this (Continued on page four.) WILLIAMS’ TRIAL MAY BE ENDED TODAY Court-martial Hopes to Be Able to Develop a Ver- dict Before Night Mandan, Marine Base, San Diego, Calif., Apri 15—-@)-—With but a few swal- lows of rebuttal testimony remaining in the bottle uf evidence, the cocktail court martail of Colonel Alexander S. Williams today is expected to turn down an empty glass over brief con- cluding arguments and ppssibly de- velop a verdict before night. Defense counsel for the suspended colonel of the fourth regiment of marines rested their case late yes- terday. after introducing evidence pointing to Brig. General Smedley D. Butler's tooth troubles and Colonel Williams’ ailments «as underlying causes of the general's belief that the colonel “was staggering drunk,” at the hotel Del ‘Coronado on the night of March 6, last. a few hours after the general had refused to drink cocktails at the colonel’s home. Hexyl resorcinal, a medicine given to Colonel Williams, a ‘half dozen doctors explained from the witness stand, is unfortunately, apt to induce gastric trouble, nausea or dizziness. Was Under Treatment One of the doctors, a navy surgeon, aid he had been treating the defend- ant since last January for a serious disorder whieh, while it did not pre- vent Colonel Williams from fulfilling, his military duties, required him to continue taking daily dozes of hexyl resorcinal. But a few days after March 6, the witness continued, Colonel Williams returned to him with the news that the medicne had been giving him gas- tric irritation and plenty of it. Previous witnesses already had tes- |tified that when they saw Colonel Williams at the hotel Del Coronado on the night in question, he appeared sick rathcr than intoxicated. General Butler’s condition on the other hand, said“the surgeon who ex- amined him a° few days after ‘the Coronado cocktail episode, was that of a man suffering low blood pres sure and nervous exhaustion, “easily js \d “with poor vision in’ his BUTLER DENIES CHAR OF “BROWBEATING” OFFICERS Marine Base, San Diego, Calif., April +5.-(#)—-Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler, star prosecution witness in. the court martial of Col- onel Alexander S. Williams on a chi of appearing drunk at the ho- tel Del Coronado, resumed the stand at the opening of today’s session and denied he had attempted to browbeat subordinate officers into tesifying ugainst the colonel. General Butler admitted he had called Captain Clifton B. Gates and other officers before him and round- ly upbraided them for i. ee bree in their statements Bhar ad submit. ing the Coronado were a lot of boys running around in a circ! ‘Go out now and tell the truth,’ [ woe them, ‘or you'll get into trou- le.’ Weds, at 81, in First Plane He Saw WILL ENDEAVOR TO FIX BLAME ' FOR SHOOTING Strife Burst Forth Anew, Shattering Hopes For Permanent Peace |SIX MEN WERE KILLED Troops Will Remain on Guard ‘| Until After City Elee- J, R. McCord, air by MeCor son, the Rev. W. W. McCord, of Albany, Ga. plane was the t McCord ever saw, as he had been blind for The bride and groom are seated in the rear of the cockpit, and i of them the Rev. McCord and Mrs. McCord, who went along as witness. The pilet in the rear is Erret Williams. ‘BOOZE MAKING DESCRIBED BY | SENATOR REED TODAY IN WASHINGTON Bankruptey bill is before house® Senate takes up miscelianeous bill Wets conclude hearing. ROTARY WORK at prohibition ’ | Wet Committee Member Pro- te DURING YEAR | duces Still, Keg, Sugar and Flavoring ashington, April 15. (®) -Argu- ts by anti-Volstead members of d with a vivid distilling its con the wets 1 commit me: _TS OUTLINED District Governor Tells of AC-) gescription of how complishments of Ninth | do e, today carried tow clusion the demonstration District Clubs before the senate prohibi tee. | The lesson in whisky making given by Senator Re Missouri, the lone wet among the | committee member: He brought } along with him and put into evite a bevy of s sf a } some corn ; | voring ex’ which to make up the finished product of ‘the illicit liquor manufactured, The articles were identified for the Isenator by enforcement officials of {the federal government. Mr. Reed ! then presented commerce department that consumption of than tripled be- pe a was MINOT MAN ELECTE it Grand Forks, N. D., April 15. —A)—Dr. AD. McCannell of Minot was utianimously chosen governor of the ninth district of Rotary here today. Dr. MeCan- nell's was the only nomination made, at the convention today, whereupen the secretary was in structed to cast the unanimous vote of the convention for him. Dr. McCannell was nominated by the Minot club and seconded by St. Paul and Devils Lake. | figures showing sugar April 15. -)--| tween 1919 and 1 s the rule ofj mime Representat Republican, and, head of the wet bloe in the for the house advo- ge in the dry laws, us- cquitt: nd jury as a prec contention that inks with a sub- content is consti- same rule must h almost as old as ¢ Edward A. Le Minn., gov | pacer ratachs before the district convention] IME fis own s morning. {SRO DY eS ary ifficulty has always been in! dent to support h its realization and observance. Ro-| See eanolie tary was the first great international | {t4 sneha organization that endeavored to find, @ way to fit this ideal into the busi ness and professional world only has Rotary proclaimed and glori fied the ideal of ser but it ha: through its codes of correct practic: its work for boys, its devotion to civic progress, and its fellowship in‘ "Questioned clubs. given a practical demonstra-! 249 the effect ‘of tian of how the rule may be made to! pean to « operate in the every life of the! ooing. people: everyday. man She read a letter telling Rotary School Practical jsa Speaking more particularly of the} ans’ year in the Ninth district, he said:/ sult that The Rotary school, whieh was) ‘The nan thought to be unworkable, has been| held. found by some clubs, notably those | 2 of Stillwater, Winona, Owatonna and; Minot, to be eminently practical, and to have borne excellent results. ‘The club council, which is nothing more| himself and others, than the application of the best prin- | clus: ciples of business to administration in| sold du Rotary ‘clubs, was found to have re-| cating. : ; sulted in more efficient, more| “Not only that,” he said, thorough, and more satisfactory re-/ sults than had been achieved before. | nor The definitely planned programs sug-' more th gested Rotary International in| beer » Rotary education, business methods | mas) Me cating’ aad. sucatonsl to ttelDakes False Teeth When Girl Refuses declared a how cal the three women represent- Mrs. Mary T. 3 a former 1 national of ra “horrible on, Democrat welfare worke referendum on juestio in an end the present condition.” by Senator rohibition had of the bureau hospital, with the r ome of the patients died : ysic periments which he f ud “proven con per cent be al stomach would not ex n three cups of coffee. s of the people clubs and have solved the proble’ of holding the interest of membe Clubs which have led in the cultiva- tion of the rural by the urban popul tion, this year, ‘he said, included Moorhead, Stillwater, Bismarck, Cale- donia, Fairmount, Fargo, Winona, | Crookston, and Wahpeton. bd The se nag SUFH8y of hey Ife, ee as in Minot, he praised, as also the Nathanial ° “suvcessful plan of introducing moral | false teeth and Kept them, he odes for youth, framed, into each | Plained .n court today: grade room of schools of that city. “In the city of Austin the Rotary club is responsible. for the largest and strongest organization of Boy Scouts in the district in proportion to the size of the city,” he said, “600 scouts having been enrolled under the directorship of Rotarian James Pre ratil of that club. Other Activities Minn., (P) Rose April 14. ‘dweriscki ul, When Miss iscki who sought to recover teeth. of her appearance. argument about | becau: } During an ring, Xo i veris and he relating to the boy may be cited the} fe F : ‘ senelad Ol 6. wees BML coming over (ag tence, fonn Doyle topk $2,000 to the Boy Scouts of Duluth 4 by the Duluth club, the expenditure, of $500 by the St, Paul club for a/ girls by. the Rotary clubs of Fair-| Calendar show that d mount, Grand Forks, Owatonna, Vir- ginia, Cloquet, Ely, St. Cloud and Jamestown, the establishment and maintenance of a community skating rink and field track by the Caledonia club, the employment of a boys work director by the Bismarck club, the employment of @ recreational director (Continued on page four.) a RACING INTEREST BOOMS London.--Interest in horse ra flat racing season 4,690 horses ran Junder Jockey ‘Club rules, this being the greatest total on record. In 1 son, Mrs. John Butzer, Oshkosh, Wi: of twins. he said went} some months | Reed she a great many of our of poisonous liquor in a veter-| of the hospital was with-} ndred, Democrat, | can nomination for se n, declared ex-| ator William B. MeKinley in Tues- id conducted on | Qy ¢ Was non-intoxi- t “but such ; ity of @ committee man almost continuously,” larate | Such uld not be unwholesome to the | hig vi to Give Up Ring: refused ' uw his diamond ring, Barth-{ 5 Xonoydas took her noydas told the court, Miss ki's teeth fell to the ground! yey left that he had a right to “Among other activities of the year koe them until she returned his ring. the y the Racing uring the last only 1,166 horses ran during the sea- tion Tuesday Herrin, ML, April 15---P)—A: jury of Williams county citizens will sit tomorrow morning in inquiry over the fatal shooting Tuesday in front of Herrin polling place in which three klansmen and three anti-klansmen were killed. Newspapermen will not be barred from the inquest, State's Attorney | Boswell announced today, dispersing rumors to the contrary. While the community awaits the verdict of the coroner's inquest, it is analyzing, each side in the, light of its own sympathies, the exuses be- hind strife which burst forth anew Tuesday just as residents were | beginning to hope that an 11-month truce meant permanent peace. Relatives of the dead klansmen de- clare that. the anti-klan faction launched the attack in reprisal for juor raids sby S, Glenn Young, klan | leader, ars ago. Young killed J in a gun fight in the lobby rin hotel, across the street fro: . mith garage where — yesterday's hooting began. i Bootleggers Blamed | Mayor Marshall MeCormick, a, | former Klansman named to office on | Nonpartisan tic blames boot- eggers of the anti-klan faction for j the Tuesday shooting, while States Attorney Arlie Boswell, a klansman, | says the mayor and the sheriff could trouble had they done their duty.” Sheriff George | igan, an anti-klansman, had Jagreed with McCormick not to send { deputies, both believing it would on- ‘ly irritate the situation which did | not look serious a few hours before {the actual outbreak. The incident which served to focus | the shooting at the polls and on pele mary day was the fight for the Re- {publican nomination for sheriff of | Williamson county. The nomination | was won by Oren Coleman, endorsed j.by the klan, who had a big pluraiity {in a fteld of seven. Coleman, if ele ed, will succeed Galligan, who has been a storm center throughout his ial career, |, Coleman is a graduate of Southern ‘Illinois Normal of Carbondale, and |has almost finished work for a mas- ter’s degree at the University of Illi- nois. He was principal of the Herrin ' township high school eight years ago, and is a world war veteran, The national guard has been ask- jed to remain in Herrin until after Tuesday’s city election—the fourth {here in two weeks, A week ago Tuesday, a township election was {held and last Saturday there was a school election, at both of which there were minor disorders. [have prevented ey ‘SMITH BEGAN ATTHEBOTTOM AND WORKED UP Has Been Precinct Committee Man For 31 Years— Gave Him Influence April 15,—(#)-—Colonel Frank L. Smith, who won the Republi- or over Sen- ‘Chicago, ’s primary, has been a precinct -! committee man for 31 years lieves that “the way politics is to begin in a minor p ion with « small zone of influence. “For 31 years I have been precinct to su home in Dwight, Ill, he received congratulations on tory. “Nothing much to make a hurrah about in that, yet that job | brings you into relationship with all | your neighbors. You are their poli- tical father-confessor. You hear | their troubles. You have an influence that gathers momentum.” That momentum has carried Colonel / Smith along, past occasional defeats, | to his party’s choice for one of the highest political offices Minois can offer. His majority over Senator McKinley stood at 128,605 today, {with returns counted from all but he said at his her eX | 437 precinets. One of those defeats, strangely Xonoydas was brought into court! enough, was suffered six years ago on a replevin action by Miss Zwer- her She has not been able to eat ;much for two weeks, she said, and | when he was a primary candidate | against the same man he’ defeated Tuesday. On that former occasion he apparently was a victor for 11 days has stayed at home during that time; until the women’s votes, kept separ- the (ately at that time, were counted. | They gave the nomination to Senator | McKinley. | Use of Chemicals in Warfare Shown Members of the staff of Adjutant General G, A. Fraser were eanhities. of oe use ot ee warfare here this week by Cuptain \ eapebe P. Gempel of the chemical warfore service. Ca; Gempel is attached to the seventh cot area headquarters at Omuha, Ne! - rg Gempel demonstrated. No: Dakota guard officers: Reales army men jutant general’s recently gave birth to her fourth set| smoke, ‘tear and and smoke can