The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 17, 1926, Page 1

Showers probable tonieht and Wed. nesday. Not m@ch change in temp. HOLDUP MAN GREETS AGAIN AAS VICTIMS Tom Johnson, Cot Confessed Mur- derer, Identifies Them Firet, Not They Him, * POLICE ARE ASTONISHED | Stickup Artist Laughs With Store Manager Whom He "Saleen “ was indicted on a charge of robbing a shoe store, ed specific charge made nqainst him to accomplish hi: r.iurn from Seattle where he first con- fensed criminal activities, He . will be arraigned on both the murder and robbery charges to- morrow. * Minneapolis, Aug. wee aaa Johnson, sed sticky bel ting fis wictinee identify him; he identifies the ti . Johnson’s initiative astonished police, who have been treated to one sensation after “another since John- brought back. Saturday from Seattle, where he had given up. Tsohneon has confessed to numerous hholdups committed here last winter. He not only has led police to the spots where he worked, but has de- seribed each robbery in detail and given the amounts taken. But the police decided to have some of the victims properly identify Johnson. So a, “show-up” was ar- ranged at the city jail. Among those called in was Mrs. Charles Tatum, of Aberdeen, S, D., who was .robbed at her home there July 9. Greetings Are Cordial The victims were lined up agai a wall in front of the “sho Suddenly, Johnson ate; id walked over to greet How do you'de, Mrs. Tatum? How are you?” Johnsen and then shook hands h her, “I am fine,” she answered. “It seems strange to see you here.” Then Johnson stepped over to an- other victim, G. F. Nilsson of Min- neapolis, “Remember when 1 shoved my gun at you and you tried to get it away from me and I. told you to beat it? Nilsson laughed and they ‘shook hands, To the manager of a shoe store which had been robbed, Johnsor turned and said: “Did you get your feet wet that night Both Laugh at Incident Roth laughed as they recalled the incident, Johnson had tied the man- ager to a large tub of water before proceeding with the looting of the ce, : Johnson has confessed that he shot. d fatally wounded Leonard Erdall, attorney and former University of Minnesota football star, during a holdup here. The county. grand jury met today to hear evidence in the case. The First St The first murder of Ts criminal career Johnson told pe last night, occurred when, as a boy of 13, he was working on a farm near San Fran- ciseo. ‘There was a man who used to go to San Francisco regularly with sums of money. Johnson had stolen .# revolver and he made it his habit to follow the man. “One night I got my chance,” he said. stopped him, walked him into an alley and told him to hold up his hands, When he ay who it was, he refused and I shot him eral times, When I saw he was d 1 ok his money, smounting to Johnson then repeated the detail he had previously given of ving at kato. re, he said and an accomplice known to him ,” quarreled and to Johnson said he kill- Gf put his body in Sting it with. stones. — CLOSE TO MURDER. BLESSED HOPR, WHEN A MAN WORRIES, - IF HELD UP, SMILE, fiat hy ~ prohibition” Hanae 4 necessary Ge od - , alcoho! poisons tI * cannot fry i court wigonator Reed of pa aie a tha for bags ce ‘government to pi alcohol, knowing that : Palkigent, will drink the alcohol, iy a Howsrar, those foofish ‘enough t drink bootleg whi habitustly ould probably not live how. i little longex or. shorter ee bt at Vd o e stant would drop ita pie Scientists + They aay ae wil ond ail as me worrl oe) o —s TWO ENSIGNS. Maria De Bourbon, second ing Mr. and Mrs. B. their summer home Minn., and is rapidly learning how to enjoy life as a ple- She has not only taken up @, swimming and hiking. learned how to shoot craps, and it cost ‘ther nine dolla’ STRUCTURE 10 BE. REBUILT Contracts, Totaling $20,217, ‘Are Let For Improving Gussner Building Contracts were awarded yesterday} for ‘the improvement of the Gussner building, Mi streets, which. pra to { misio n and ‘Third! almost complete reconstruction of the structure, and make it one of the best Work will be started immediately, to be finished by Nov. 1 The contract for general construc- tion was let to A. J. Weinberger for wiring to B, K. 'Skeel nting a total outlay of $20, 217. The ss Sew are Vi New Storehouse Built The front will be modern in every: respect. There will be display we dows, with pressed brick walls. the rear there will be erected. an an - dition fer storage purposes. the old building is to be torn down, so the structure when complete The building ix to be occupied by, Temperature ut’7 a. m. . the Winston’ & Newell company,' Highest yesterday: whajesale § groce It: Lows will be the branch house for this sec. tion of the country. of the plans wilt be made later the operations of the company. :110,000 Veterans of | Spanish War Encamp es, Aug. 17—(#)—A mili- air icuivped ‘this ¢' to Spanish American war v. pared for a parade, which will over- Shadow virtually all other events of the national encampment now being From 15,000 to 20,000 old and young soldiers will march by the reviewi ind late this afternoon, the 10, of 1898 attending ion being augmented cd Towa National Guardsmen in camp here, regular army pe Fort Des. Moines and, students at the of the veterans, at which cfficers for the ensuing year were to be nominat- ‘ed, several well known mén were be- ing, sanatavees, as candietes to suc- ceed Carmi A. Thompson, commander- samen them were Frank B. Dodd City, vie¢ commander ‘presid. of Mr, Thompson; Wisconsi: BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1926 WIDE UPRISING PLOT CHARGED IN MEXICO PLUNGE TO DEATH INLAKE | Seaplane Flying Above Lake Michigan Suddenly Takes a 500-foot Dive ALL HIT THE BOTTOM Bodies Recovered_Aticr Two! Hours’ Dragging—Howard, S. D., Man One Victim Chicago, Aug. 17.—()-—Two na: ensigns plunged to their deaths to day when the setplane th were flying above Luke Michigan, near the Great Lakes Naval T x sta. tion, suddenly dive water. The dead ute F sign corge Hammer of 1 and Edgar T. Stone of Howard, 8. 1. The two were flying 609 feet from shore when comrsd1s on the beach saw it swerve downward and disap- pear below the surface of the’ water. Crew: Hastily organized crews found that the force of the dip had d both the pinne and its two Ingers to the bottom of the lake. ‘o hours of craipein were nec sary to recove: WESTERNRATES TO BE REVISED Interstate Commeree Commis- sion Calls Conference to Consider Freight Tariffs Washington, Aug. 17.-)—Rec- ognizing the need of a comprehen- sive revision of class rates in west- ern trunk line territory, the Inter- state Commerce Commission today called a conference of railroads and shippers to be held at Chicago on Sept. 10, 'to determine course of prccedure je commission out that, einustiges af taretthy” Sua autoners have been end ring to work out a mutyally satisfactory adjustment, but said there was little prospects of complete agreement on all the rates in dispute. “Agreements that are reached prior to the commission’s hearing will be made a part of the record, subject iter consideration by the com- Points to be Discussed The Chicago conference will dis- cuss the following points: What sepurate proceedings now Pending should be consolidated. Whether the scope of such pro- ceedings is sufficiently broad, or! whether —_ additional —_ proceedings should be instituted. Whether other than class rates in- volved in pending complaints should be treated separately in a different | proceedi: in; Plans Tor developing a complete roundup of the situation as expedi- usly and economically as possible. Weather Report Weather conditions at North Da- will Keis points. for the 24 hours ending Q. m. today: . last night recipitation to 7 a. m. .. | Highest wind velocity . abovi pears ending at 7 a, m. today, local River stage at 7 a. m. today, -0.2 feet. 2 ea chal +01. For Bismarck and vicinity—Show- ers probable tonight and Wednes- dey, Not much change ih tempera- Ror North Dak jowers prob- able Content tient nenday. Not. much cl in X re. oon Pressure is over ‘kes region Bs He. Wremn ae isa ener thd | Hall Case Clean-up | weeny nn eee eee | { 1 1 | Henry de la Bruyere Carpanaie New York stock Rae social regis- | terite, next door neighbor and cousin of Mrs. Frances Hall, goes to a jail.cell beside “Crazy Willie” Stevens, charged with the Ha’l-Mills * murder. - He is escorted by a detective, left. Minors Are Fined, Drinking on Road Six young men and girls, all but one, minors, were arrested over ak week-end for drinking on the Me- POST OFFICE . } ROBBED AGAIN , They drew. fines a ey Monday arnt in ey, rem ines Third Visit Made to Driscoll man’s court. ‘ 4 A number of speeders were also in One Year—Safe Is Blown picked up over the week-end robbed last night, for the third time this year, State’s Attorney F. E. Mc- Ourdy with Sheriff Albin Hedstrom and 2 postoffice inspector, left this morning to investigate the matter. ‘A umber of children robbed. the the first time. They were sent to the reform school. The second Service Is. ihc Between aims it meee by grown ups, “eho Chicago and St. Paul After « | ef sentenced to the penitentiary. Beyond the fact that the safe was One Day’s Lay-off blown and about $75 or $80 taken, the — the matter. authorities had no further details of Chicago, Aug. 17.—(®)—Airmail ser. vice between Chicago’ and St. Paul was résumed today after a one-day break in the schedufe encountered when Charles J nson of Ohi- . Di cago, the contractor, sought govern- ment rélease from obligatfon. Mr! Dickingon said he expected 'the St. Paul-Chicago mail planes to be ‘ontinued on a basis of five days a week, rather than seven, Doesn't Expect Profit Mr. Dickinson is under $12,000 bond} to give that much notice before cvs-| sation of .service. He would | elaborate his statement, further to a that the financial return was} Jamestown, N. D., Aug. 17.—()— not the governing factor in his de-| A protest on behalf of the Chamber sire i: drop out of the airmail ser-| of Commerce of Jamestown, which vige. has been filed_jointly with the organ- “I have been losing money; the| izations of Bismarck, Valley City, postoffice department and I agreed! Minot und Mandan and the North that there would be no money in| Dakota hoard of railroad commis-, it, and I never expected to make;any| sioners, agai he proposal of the money from the service.” railroads in the western district to He said that last Sunday's airmail increase the freight rate one hundred from St. Paul-Minneapolis bore $8 per cent on less than carload ship- worth of postage of which he receiv-| ments of empty ‘soft drink contain- ed 48 per cent. ers:‘such as pop, malt, when returned | Commercial “Bodies Protest Proposed Increase on Emp- ty Soft Drink Containers {to the local bottl has been filed ANOTHER ‘RED’ with E, B. Boyd, rman of the | western. truck line committee. 3 Roads in Joint Session The present rating is one-half of | fourth class, while the proposal is ing fourth class. was not. initiated by t! serving this territory joint proposal of all rail- the western line territory. Baber Pat rg fi ‘ Mounted Police Nab 4 eseare Grand Forks, N. D., Aug. 17.—(@)— Moscow, Aug. 17.—(#)—Another, Landing in Manitoba in_an airplane, bolshevik idol has) fallen, Leon B.| without reporting to Canadian im- Kameneff, commissar of trade, once| mi; jon oparpoel es, cost James A. member of the so-called ‘triumvirate | Kilbane of St. Paul $200 fine with which rules Russia and one of the) costs sand Fred Wiltemore of Min- rincipals of the communist world,’ neapolis $300 fine and costs, when a8 been replaced by a mere youth,|they were arraigned by a Canadian M.. Mikoian of Tiflie, a friend of M.' northwest mounted ‘police fore Sills, head of the communist party. Magistrate ‘Ashby at Emerson, Mani- Leon Trotsky, Kamenef toba. aa arded by Stalin and other doctrin-| The men are being held for further aire communists as a heretic. invapesiion into an alleged attempt penalty he paid for “pitied to que: amuggle Mquot: into the United tion the supremacy of those in hed jer! Bt tes via air” ‘une. wes first the loss of his post as a member of the powerful political bur- eau and the post of commissar of labor and defense and now the for- feiture of the trade commissary. Sixth to Go Kameneff, whose real name Rosenfeld, always has ye regarded #8 one of the Tedacate on id progre: ive elements of the bolshevitt re- fetal vieim, ce Seales police fall vic in's political]; (Mercury readin; axe within the last The others} Bismarck—Reini ‘Trotsky, Zi noviett, Radek, . and| Sokolnikov and Lashevitch. Always imma-ulate! sroemad. 3 and}! ve in manner, Reneoett had be - called “the gentleman of the ariat i ze the| eabinet.” ‘ Lake—Cloudy, 61; roads ever] Plasto N. D. tom-{ eral services, for Letouggett Flaxton ‘1 ¥ at get OO OFFICIAL IS KILLED IN na CRASH: THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Se nae | (3 N. Woodruff, Retired Mas- | | ter Mechanic, Enderlin, Drives Off Bank LOSES CONTROL OF CAR | With’ Husband Till Machine Begins Plunge Minot, N. D., Aug. eS aaa N. Woodruff of Enderlin, N. retired divixion of the Soo Line, came to his death at 8:30 p, m. yesterday five miles south of Mi an automobile accident, according to the death certificate signed by Dr. R. The accident took place on a grade on the road from Logan. Plows Into Cornfield and en route to Outlook, Mont., from plunged from the: highway down a , 20-foot bank, remaining upright at ‘the ‘bottom of ‘the descent, The violence of the impact when ied machine struck the new level is believed to ‘have resulted in Mr. Woodruff's dea The auto con- tinued for 75 yards into a corn field before coming to a complete halt. The widow informed Dr. Pence that Mr. Woodruff had toppled over against the steering wheeel, after striking the bottom of the ~histepbe . — that until oe car plunged fro: sandy toad she bed notived noth- | im obi behinds bas beech with her husband. (WON'T MEDDLE WITH MEXICO U. S. Has No A Authority to Step in, Is Reiterated View of Coolidge Paul Smith's, Aug. 17.—@)— While the petition of the Knights of Columbus, asking that the United | States intervene in ‘Mexico to protect Catholic churchmen in their religious dispute with President Calles, was not referred to directly, it was reiterated today at the sum- Laer executive offices in behalf of | President Coolidge that the Washing- to on government has no authority un- ae diplomatic usage, international [ilaw. or treaty sighias to interfare. in the purely domestic affairs of Mexico. sypaul Smith's, N. Y., Aug. 17.-()- was denial day at the summer ite House. In behalf of President Coolidge a number of reports which have ap- peared in the public prints trom time to time were dismissed with the word that in reading the newspapers, Mr. Coolidge had received his first word of a number of contemplated | moves attributed to him. A published report that bankers, at the instance of the president, were plan a $100,000,000 pool for loan to farm property, was suid The president, it was no knowledge of any h pla Another denial was made of a re- port that Mr. Coolidge had issued orders to the prohibition enfor ment unit in Washington again adopting a plan to put poisons in lcohols intended for non-beverage hen the president read of thi in some new: it was said was the first he red heard of it. As! a matter of fact, it was added, hej happened to know only in a most general way of his legal powers in ha 4 such matter, jome reports that the president was informed of a farm conference that might be held in New York soon between prominent financier: and farmers representatives to devi: ids for the agricultt industry also were said to news to him. Concrete Will Be Used d For Paving Contract tor perin paving three blocks about St. Alexius hospital and be-| be St, Mary’ tween it and "s parochial school was awarded to W. E. Ken- nedy, Fargo, on a ta of $2.94 a square yard for concrete work at last night’s council meeting. Pro- cedure was started anaster mechanic for’ the mesota | inot, as the result of | W. Pence, coroner of Ward county. Mr. Woodruff, driving with his wife his home in Enderlin, apparently lost control of his sedan and the car ‘on the extension | of the water main to the St. Mary's! Catholic cemetery, and repairs were | ordered for the sidewalks, mainly in| Wife Notices Nothing witng | Milton Kraus’ great-uncle, Leopold Weisburger, went to Australia years ago, amassed millions and died. Now Milton, 14, a New York schoolboy, learns he may be the heir—and have plenty of money to study art, VALENTINO | FIGHTS HARD FOR HIS LIFE |Local Peritonitis Sets in and | Splendid Physical Condition Actor’s Only Hope New York, Aug. 17—(AP)—Rudolph Valentino, sheik of the silver screen, as fighti for his ion dollar life today in a bower of roses at the Polyclinic Hospital. His physicians have revealed that local peritonitis had already develop- ed when the film star was operated on Sunday night for appendicitis and a gastric ulcer. Peritonical poisoning, the doctors say, usually becomes gen- eral and when it does the Patient di The strong resistance of the screen actor's splendid physical condition is regarded as this only hope. Pola May Go East Pola Negri, who announced recent- ly that she was engaged to Valentino on trial, said in Los Anegles that she would take the first train to New York to see him, after she finished the picture on which she is working, The screen sheik’s life is insured for a imillion, in favor of his pro- ducet, Joseph M. Scheme. BULLETIN IS FAVORABLE New York, Aug. 17—(AP)—Al- though visitors were still refused per- mission to see Rudolph Valentino to- day, the screen star's condition was said in an official bulletin by his phyricains, not to be such as to cause undue anxiety. He underwent a double operation, for appendicitis and gastric ulcer at Polyclinic hospital Sunday night. It was said that he was suffering from local peritonitis, which had already reached a serious stage, but no men- n of this complication was con- tained in the bulletin today. Mrs. Bertsch Dies 160 CATHOLICS ARRESTED IN ONE DISTRICT Some Reported in Custody in Other Places, Including Federal General GUNS FOUND IN HOMES Project Is Linked With Inva- sion Stopped on Cali- fornia Border Mexico City, Aug. —M—Some 80 Suddenly, Aged 69 Mrs. Flikabeth | Bertsch, an old time and prominent resident of the city, died suddenly early Sunday morn- ing at the age of 69 years. Bertsch was born, June 21, 1857, and was married to Gottlieb Bertsch, November 13, 1877.. Mr. Bertsch died @ year and eight da: Eleven children were born. survive: Mrs. J. d, 715 Eighth street; Henry E., Lodi, Calif.; Gustav, Glasgow, Mont., and Carl Bertsch, cit; Funeral services will be held Wed- y afternoon at 2 o'clock at oe erman Baptist church on High street, with Rev. Eithler of moose, officiating. The body will laid to rest beside that of her husband™in the family lot. Mayer, Accused of Cleveland, Aug. 11--(P—Leuis Mazer, of Canton, accused in the the down town Rewiers, district, presence of his aged PaLante of hav- wherever they are in bad shape. The council created the assessment district, one of the necessary legal steps in the ereeaane | and per Glos the engineer to prepare plans, speci- fications and an estimate of costs the water main extension. Hunt Still on For Flora Bank _— Devils Lake, N, ND, Al Flora ban Se ao ing killed Don R. Mellett, vice crusading publisher of the Canton Daily News, collapsed today and was taken into an office, where, it was reported, “he was telling all,” to teen. The accusation that papaghs eol- lapse to the prisoner was the first was wanted for this s! United States District Attorney A. E.| 9, time that Mazer was directly told he} rsons have been take into custod; “ay an the federal district, charged wi Sevag participated in a plot of wide rami jon for uprising last Sun- day against the government's relig- ‘| ious regulations. ‘Additional arrests have been made at pa beg ee age a general of the ral army, whose ‘mame is withheld, and who was mode prisoner in the state of Morelos. the members of the city council of ‘the town of Amecameca, in the state of Mexico, were arrested, Eight of the persons hea in Mexico City were release The Catholic episcopate, when in- formed of police reports that Catholics had been taken by the po- lice in, connection with the alleged conspiracy, said it was known that a number of Catholic leaders had been arrested but that it was understood the police ‘were searching their homes for missing church treasures. Attitude Held Peaceful ae was stated that ‘the episcopate information of any uprising having been planned by Catholics in opposition to the religious regula- thee It was pointed out that the h authorities had announced on mesatal occasions that the attitude of ithe church was a peaceful one, and that no peritee against the state was contemplat It is cits a jals that in some Catho ‘ere found dynamite and rifles and also doew- mentary evidence showing that an uprising had been planned. Secret Documents Hidden Some of the Catholics arrested in the suburb of San Angel Sunday, when disorders occurred at the chum i tanned between commence od a je nalice, weer spsper tempting ‘to documents: state with @ revolt. ‘The police assert that were planned in the states of Thituee hua, Palisco, Puebla, Morelos and Michoacan and in Mexjco City and the federal district. Secret service operatives allege .| that many former army officers have been appointed by the League for the Defense of Religious Liberty as of- ficers to head an uprising and to be- come ‘military commandants in vari- ous states. The police declare they have found mainfestos, saying that a provisional president would be mamed. No further disturbances have been reported since the fight between the police and Catholic! Sunday at San Angel, in which numerous heads ‘on ‘both sides were broken. Mexico City, Aug. 17—(AP)—With two alleged ‘revolutionary projects announced abortive almost simul- taneously, Mexican officials toda: gan investigation to determine if any connection existed between the move- ment headed by General Enrique Es- ‘trade, near the Mexican border in California and a projected uprising in Mexico City. Knew of Invasion -News of the breakup of the Bstrade movement by the United States ay- ‘thorities has occasioned a great sen- sation in the capital, although later President Calles stated that he knew a ‘the project for the last two months ‘that measures had been taken to fryers ico. City’ police _regatted e Mexico City police ‘that about 50 persons, mostly promi- nent Catholics, have been arrested in the last two days in Mexico City and nearby towns. Fourteen were dis- charged last night. The police assert that those arrest- ed ‘had plotted for armed uprisings in various parts of the republic on Sunday. Dynamite, firearms end rev- slanenery, PI ja plans were iseated in the homes of some of Press arrested, the police charge. Government officals here say that ‘arrests have been made in other parts of the country, end that a number of details of the affair have not been revealed. They declare La the. a. Pea cere ‘thas been nipped i: San Diego, Calif, Avg. 17—(AP)— Destte fat Caates cad Selene ea Murder, Collapses | en when agen’ nited States aenertonemt of justice and county and of southern Colitorsis. Soe, mately 170 men Bey custod ‘together with large "lwhen mami ae tremendous one ines revenue ay .? begin con ‘ Ld