The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 21, 1926, Page 1

w ; week al x Ay > . ‘ } yaand ve y" WRATHER FORECAST Partly cloudy tonight end Sundi becoming unsettled. Warmer tonight, STEAMER SINKS IN LAKE ERIE, 4 MEN LOST THE BISMAR BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1926 Mexican Rebel | BABY BANDITS COME TO END OF THE TRAIL BRIDGES MAY | BE LEFT AS: HIGH AND DRY Ly ‘ we i wae? Further Changing of Channel ! {One Brother Is Dying at Hos- Would Also Cut Washburn pital—Other Gets Long bow Off River Prison Term - 13 WILD "WEEKS - ¢ U. 8. ENGINEERS INSPECT Leslie, Emulating Western “Bad Man,” Drops With His “Boots on” Federal Government May Do Some Revetment Work This Winter & pie Pueblo, Cole, Aug. 21—(AP) Coal} oe jeputies The town Weshburn, the ~Bismarck-Mandan bridge and two wounded Leslie Gonce, a 14 year bridges old boy bandit, who, with his brother, Forest, 21, had terrorized this vicinity for three weeks in lawless frontier tashin 11 br. came known today, The guard was thrown about the deomys» home, after a crowd of 75 men had started toward it, threaten- ing the officer for the shooting. arlier in the evening, two ue Estrada, for- Mexican’ secretary of war, who rrested at San Diego with 150 men on charges of plotting a revolution against President Calles jon stand m Histon isolated it Mexican towns along the border were captured by the sheriff at San Diego. ing farth yond, avigation and hes sials and federal en shat. pinion, after an of the situ n, the lat pi 0 which wes trip undertaken this ong the west bank from Man- dan to af . With loeal men and officials from the Twin Cities were Major C. D. Gee and Captain H. L. Robb, United States engineers’ corps, with ‘headquarters at Kansas City, on whose report the United States government undoubtedly will decide what proportion of the cost for the necessary. improvements, along tl it should bear. \ Project Affects Many It is contended that inasmuch as the State of North Dakota built the one bridge and is building the two others, on ‘the understanding that awavigation should be a continued as- surance, it has a primary interest in their protection; that the bridges be not left “high and dry” with the stream elsewhere needing to be cross- ed. Ma towns nee the river, railroad comp: utility com- panies and. others interested like- , are involved in the project, with the federal government appa: ently willing to help what it can. The federal government will spend $8,000 this year in #1 wo! along the upper Miscourt but, it is " problematical what it will do pout revetment work, which is the ost important part to be done to on the channel in its present an ext, “Of course, Tecan onty make recom mendation: said ‘Major Gee. to my chief to decide what ‘BOOTLEG KING’ CAUGHT ATER LONG PURSUIT Ike O'Neil, Connected With Cleveland Conspiracy, Eluded Officers other groupe of excited citizens had been dispersed in the down- town streets. At the hospital, where he lies at the puint ot death, Leslie charged today that Fiscus shot him without warning and that several bullets were. fired into 6 ly. after he had dropped to the sidewalk. Pueblo, Col: flo county s were at 1 trail that led Forr a long prison term and his brot! Leslie, 14, to d hospital cot he lay fighting for his life, a slender chance that he might Shot down in the streets of Pu yesterday by officers when, it id, he made a movement toward a revol he ‘carried, Leslie's condi- tion early today was said by doctors to be “hopeless.” Forrest, who sur- rendered to officers here Thursday, was sentenced to from 20 to 30 years in prison for robbery with a gun, after pleading guilty to the charge in district court at almost the same time his “kid” brother fell’ in the street nearby, his bey riddled with bullets. Dressed For the Part ped to the pavement ta.on” clawing for hi ent of the western ulated in deed ani clad in cowboy a belt. Forrest had forecast th ending. He told officers tl might. show, fight if they “got hard with hi into Pueblo Thursday essfully eluding posses eurchers and bloodhout that the chase had lost its and thirsted for other adventure. They found it—Leslie in the 45's and Forrest when th pronounced sentence. it was a startling climax to three weeks of wild’ outlawry that followed the youths’ escape from state penal institutions for juvenile offenders. In that short pace of time they rob- bed a. filling station at Garden City, her, Duluth, Minn,, Aug. 21—(AP)—Ike O'Neil, alleged booze runner ‘and bootleg king, wanted by federal au- thorities in connection with the Cleveland aleohol conspiracy since last spring, was arrested by police today after an all-night chase, led by James A. Pearce, United States marshal. O'Neil was brought to Duluth from Superior 6y Marshal Pearce and ‘ar- raigned before. Lioyd J, Palmer, United: States: cémmiasionen ~°°" Mokey 100 Per Cent Record” Saw arrest of O'Neil. marks the! fourteenth person taken into cpstody in Duluth in connectidn h the) nation-wide alcohol conspira. that resulted in more than 120 arrests throughout the country. Federal au- thorities pointed out that the Dulu office made @ 100 per cent record in , the -serving of warrants and sub: poenas in thé éa O’Neil had:,evaded federal auhori. ‘ties-ever since a warrant was issued for. him -with the irteen others, May 20. Qn that day, Eugene R, O'Brien, government operatiye from New. Yark, and a city detective start- ed aut to grrest O'Neil but he caped. Since then, O'Neil) has been reported back. in’ Duluth several mes. @uthorities claiming that he has n running liquor from the Twin Cities to Duluth, Bath Parlors Last night Marshal Pearce, who ‘has ‘been on his trai May, learned that 0” McKay. baths for |'there with the police gr O'Neil had disappeared again. Following up his clue, for the work there but it i that sma!l part of it might be Miverted to the work necessary here year. Next year, of course, the appropriation could be divided to allow a bigger share for improve- ments in this section, On thet point,: however, I repeat I can only give an opinion, not a promise. Only ‘Initial Expenditures “In my estimation, it will cost he- tween, $30,000 and $40,000 for re: vetment and other work necessa to protect the three bridges. This -would only be an initial expenditure; the expense kept down to the mini- | Kansas, escaping after a gun battle, robbed a Pugblo county deputy sher- r iff of weapons and automobiles, loot- ever since lasted a Y. M. C. A. camp hear Rye, Colo.,, and generally terrorised the "Major Gee said there is a real coUntryside need of doing something to protect, the channel bt the vicinity of Wash- burn, It is estimated that the river has ‘changed its course about 200 the past ye it @ point -called Mand: ike, which six miles northwest of Washburn. The channel is now only about 300 feet from the lake, it is At the present rate of chang- the river channel would compar- sutively cut into the lake, with the result. that the town, of Washburn | and the territory around would be! cut off dared the river. This would mean, it is urged, ly would Wi caged ‘be semised, ar its ‘water supply and navigation no lon: ger ible to its docks, but that it would be # hard blow to the $400,- 000 steam power plant, now under construction near Washburn by the Otter Tail Power company. This Yplant is being built in that location ‘because of oe water seraraee 2Y. the river for cooling purposes, a big eco- nomical saving in the operation of e plant. . me Washburn Community club ap- pointed a committee to meet with the visiting delegation of engineers} ;, others and the need of revet- ‘nent work was discussed. The visit- ors also met with a number of men,| fepresenting Senish and surround- ings. The trip did not take in Wil. iston this time, for the army engin. s hed oan previous investi- tion of the situ 4 Va PR a op e trip also where ere, Hage e worl m of the, Waele See eee leg extended, e governme! extend the dike there and do other engineers considered the BiomarekcMandan situation, with re: spect'to the channel, as threatening. Improvements pte 4 at red o a - the water supply. ed called Superior police, advising them where O'Neil might be found and he was arrgsted this mornin |] GERMANY COMING UP. BIG BUSINESS PAYS. RUSSIA LESS RADICAL, A FIGHT NOT FOUGHT. ie 51 0 Clear 60 0 Clear 46 .02 Clear Dunn Center Ellendale ... Fessenden . Langdon German steel works. tenner. Clarence Dillon, just back from) Minot Europe, has probably discovered what some peericnns one know, tone ar many is making the most rapid re- Cuperation after war, and in five years will lead all of Europe indus- trially and Yinanciall, Xu, The whole of Germany's debt is: four billions of dotlars, less than one-fifth of our national debt. “Winning a war” is not always profitable. Ask England or France. Bigger business con where| smaifer, ne F. Schulte, business can’t. who has hundreds of retail stores, atone vi o or ayndicate of d: Ge lech at ond ‘cents s share in five years, and on. raateidus! to pay seven still count. WEATHER FORECAST For Bismarck and vicinity—Partly cloudy, Senieht and Sunday, becom- i somewhat unstttled Sunday. farmer tonight. . For North Dakota-—Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday, becoming some- it unsettled Sunday. ‘armer east and south portions tonight. it ee pr Mailtibe, dollaes stock. initiative. and | Life Guard Margaret Wilcox, 18, ' | ‘appears mains-| State Poet Will Holds Down Rather Unusual Job MARGARET WILCOX This 18-year-old girl holds down the rather exciting job of life guard in an open air poo! in Monument Valley Park, Colorado Springs. The pool filled with melted snow from Pike’ Peak and is crowded with bathers during the summer. Margaret is a. regular water queen. She learned to. swim at the age of eight inthe samé pool where she now watches over others. RAINS HELP. THREE CROPS North Dakota Corn,’ Flax and Potatoes Show Improve- ment, Says Report Grand Forks, N.D., Aug. 21—Im- proved condition of North Dakota corn, flax and potato crops due to rains the past two weeks is reported by Paul C. Newman, federal agri- cultural statistician, Harvesting of spring whest and eoarse grains is general in North Dakota, Threshing operations were beginning on an extensive scale when showers the past week slowed them up considerably, Yields which have been pape eel e e further the’ unusually spot! condition of all North Dakota crops this year. Many fields are turning out. much better than anticipated, earlier in the sea- 80 North Dakota spring wheat yields show a wide range. Reports to date from the northern tier of counties and the Red River valley average around 14 and 15 bushels, ranging from 7 and 8 bushels to 20 bushels and more per acre. Farther south where only poor to fair yields were anticipated, reports of yields of ‘threshed grain range from 2 to § bushels per agre. In reporting once yields, consideration should be takén of the fact that they are mostly from the best crop territory of the state this season and also that early threshings are usually on farms most favored by climatic and other factors entering into the making of a crop. However, has been good genera! yiel have deen better th: ticipated. Seed has been returned by use of headers from fields thought to be complete failures. ‘ Quality of wheat is an North Dakota corn prospects have been greatly improved by rains the past two weeks. But the ,erop is quite spotted, especially in the no: ‘thern half;of the state, The crop is gaits generally late and rte in- jicate that .probably very Title will mature before frost especially in the northern districts. Flax is «very spotted Dakota, but in general the crop has ‘improved with recent rains, parti larly the late flax., Some flax i: late that it may ‘fot. mature before ae The best flax crop-is expect- from the hortheastern district of ‘the state and the corresponding areca Minnesota. Potatoes in North Dakota are gen- erally reported in fair condition. Re: cont rains roved the pros- pect a great 101 a few sec- tions are yet in need of rain. Hay and feed prospects continue ‘below at for tate and some ‘sections will have iP North Dakota livestock condition is generally fair. Sheep condition ported “es' Mat igs ebove average en: that season marketings above average 'y an in. have im ' Address Teachers James W. Foley, North Ragkota’s state poet, and Dr, Caroline Hedger, Chicago, world’ famous child health specialist, will, be the ipal rs at two-day hers’ qi soit wit be held j VFRANGE PUT 4 in North) rts. tool ‘willy probably run ON WAR THE ~ SAVING BASIS iPoincare Shows Intention to Restore Frane Without Foreign Credits \CETIZENS TO BCONOMIZE | | Radical Changes in Adminis- | trative Services Also Urged —Radical Program Paris, . 21. -— @) — Premier Poincare, by the publication of his ‘drastic economic program calling for & period of penitence, has removed ubt that he intends to try to stabilize the franc, without having recourse to foreign credit: Such etedits cannot be obtained without first ratifying the Washington and London debt accords, at present practicable, owing to the pol situation in France. The feature of the premier's pro- gram is un attempt to restrict im- ports of wheat by forbidding the sale of fresh bread; by restricting specu- lation in wheat; by registering the wheat producing areas und generally controlling the wheat trade so as to make the best possible use of the country’s production of the cereal. Like Wartime Other measures of the premier aim at tHe stopping of waste and the low- éring of pric Restaurants will be forbidden to serve more than two principal courses, aes during the war, fend committees will be appointed to watch all breaches of the provisions wo as to’ prevent manipulation of and attempts to corner food- | | Poincare feels that it is only just if he usks citizens to econom- ze that the government also should] do its purt in this direction. Con- sequently, he has prepared a pro-| gram of radical economics in the ad- Ministrative services, involving the ion of various sections of them and simpli ion of others. Public Is Favorable { The announcement of these new! measures has been well received oni the jwhole, as attesting the govern-| me! first determination to deal with the financial situation without vacillation, and as bringing home to population in cee the real seriousness of conditions in a prac- ticg), us opposed to an ucademic man. ner. ae ee: Bread Price Up There is a certain amount of skepticism as to some of the mea: sures whieh the government intends to put in operation, those notably controlling trade. Many of : were tried during the war but with- out great success. On Aug. 26, the price of bread under the new syste will be in creased one sou per kilogram. | ADAMS HAS GOOD CROPS Hettinger Editor Says There Is Surplus of Alfalfa Hay in County The condition of crops in Adams county refute the much advertised reports in western North Dak according to W. G. Miller, editor of the Adams County Rec- ord, at Hettinger, who is n Bismarck volar carried fine samples of Kota rye, marcus wheat, and al- falfa, and ‘the yields will. be high from’ all crops, he said. Especially in regard to feed is Adams county and there is much more y raised than is needed for local consumption, including a surplus from the past five years. Farmers in sections suffering from lack. of feed can find plenty of it in Adams county, by getting in touch with the county agent. All small grains will run into bumper yields, Mellett Murder May | Soon Be Solved Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 21—(P)—The solution ‘of the murder of Don R. Mellett, vice crusading Canton pub- lished slain five week ago, is look- ed for shin the next few days by Howell ick, assistant United States district attorney, he declared today. He also announced that warrants would be isaued on Monday for the arresg‘of tw ton men, | _HKADS WESTERN ELECTRIC Edgar S. Bloom, vice president of pase la Tolapnns and Hehe company, and director. of the Northwestern Bell. Telephone com- pany, has been elected president of the Western Electric company.’ He succeeds Charles G. DuBois, who con- tinues Electric company as chairman of board of directors. Bloom is a graduate of mt of the Mr, the engineering departme: Uni: rait: ny ¢o y pole of {uinols’ Bell T lephone ‘aldro ee Lt mn, H 5 Grand Forks, and Murdock | “Jazz King” Meets President ‘Paul Whiteman, “King of Jazz,” for once was serious as he shook hands with President Coolidge at the ground-breaking ceremonies for the Northwood sanitarium, Saranac Lake, N. Y.—where theatrical folk will go to seek health, TRIBUNE Lavon se bh ELEVATORS | POST BONDS Guarantee Is Made That Stor-! age Ticket Holders. Be Paid on Demand | Bonds, required by law to be posted with the state railroad b as a guarantee by elevator owners that they will pay the holders of storage: tickets on demand, have practically all been-posted for this year, ac-! cording to.-C.., MeDonnell, i member in charge of the elevmor department, The work was somewhat compli- cated thin year by the failure, early in the summer, of an eastern insur- ance company which had over $3,000,- 000 worth of elevator bonds out- standing. _ In all such cases, elevators hav-! ing bonds with the defunct com-! pany were required to post new bonds for the period covered by the old bonds, Some difficulties were adjusting such cases,! a. bonds posted with the board. The total of bonds ¢ year is somewhat less than last, McDonnell said, because of the fact that som elevators will not open this fall, In communities where the crop is short many line elevators will not com-|! pete for business, Cooperative elevators are usually remaining open, McDonnell said, be- jave better means of get- than most private com- panies, since, the members of the association not only bring their own grain to .the cooperative elevator ‘but induce their friends to do so. A still further inducement, he said, is the fact that many cooperative! elevators pay a patronage dividend, to their customers if the year's busi- i ness justifies such an action, Premier Poincare | ~ Is Simple Dresser | Paris, Aug,’ 21--()—Coming after, the bemonocled and bespatted M. De’ ‘Monsie and the equally beimonocled| and adorned M, Caillaux, France’s| new finance minister and premier, Raymond Poincare, is extremely | simple ‘dresser, Practicing his own preachment of | public ahd private economy, M. Poin-' care is wearing the same old soft grey hat he wore when he left the premiership more two years Also. he is working in an ol: jer-! ing. He is re-| pairing less frequently to the barber, for his heir and beard trims than when he occu; the more decorative post of president of the republi When Poincare was foreign minister the social duties attached to that office forced him to be more} or less stylishly turned out fpr gala! occasions. Even then, howeVer, he, never deserted the i way, or the plain black waistcoa in favor of the white vest with his evening clothes. It hed exceedingly important ai him discard his derby on soft hat in favor of a “topper.” it. Good. Fy , 64; roads © id | tl Charges Conspiracy Against U. S.; Held Rerkeley, jarence re toda, cl he Ke that idge letters, ie ted the Masons and the ons and the Knights of Columbus. were conspiring to overthrow the government. HIGH SCHOOLS. _ GET$83.440 State’ Department of Educa- tion to Distribute Aid farly This Year A total of $83,440 will be distrib- uted by the le department of education this year among the cla sified high s ols of the sta report by John E. Bjorli school inspector, show: Four agricultural high schools will ive $2,500 each and two county agricultural and training schools will re Those receiv ricultural high schools at Beach, Graf- n, LaMoure and Velva. Those get- ng $5,000 are the training schools at Park River, Walsh county and Maddock. county. rts Fighty-four first will get $612 each; high schools will.’ get 36 third class high schools will get $229.50 each This year's report was completed in record time, Minnie J. Niels superintendent of public’ instruct said, and the schools will rece their share ofthe state money wall in advance of the usual time. Rates on Grain Are Suspended By I.C.C. Washington, Aug. 21—(#)—The Interstate Commerce Commission to- day suspended proposed increases in grain freight rates from certain points in Montana and North and South Dakota to Duluth, Minn. and points in that group, when accorded transit enroute at Minneapolis. AID TO INDUSTRY Roger W. Babson, of the Publishers’ Financial Bureau, of Babson Park, Massgchusetts, is'generally recogniz- ed throughout the nation as an au- thority on the trend of business. As are most other businessmen of the country, he is a friend of the pro- hibition law. In a statement issued from Babson Park, Florida, Mr. Bab- son says: “Both friends and enemies of pro- | agree that the increas- | hibition mu LIFEBOAT IS MISSING WITH PART OF CREW S. S. Howard S. Gerken Bat- tered By Gigantic Waves Near Erie, Pa. SPRINGS A LEAK Water Rushes Into Hold and She Goes Under in Few Minutes SHIP Sixteen men were brought ashore at Anhtabula by the Mait- land, after they had been removed from the amail boata cast off the Gerken, which sank about 1:30 a. m., in an 82-mile gale. None of them suffered more than minor injuries. The fate of the remaining three men of the crew of twenty han not heen determined. With clear- ing weather early today, other boats, ax well as the Maitland, are searching the lake for them, but little hope is held for their rescue, unless they were onto the Canadian shore after their tiny boat capsized. _ Capt. John B. Gamble of the Gerken, a veteran lake pilot, de- nominated the storm the worst in te score of years on the Great Lakes, LIFE BOAT FOUND EMPTY Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 21.—(#) —The life boat in which four members of the crew of the steamer Howard 8. Gerken, which sank off Erie, Pa. early today, were cast adrift in Lake Erie, when their craft wan swept from the aide of the rescuing vessel, the car ferry Maitland, was found floating upside down in mid-lake thin afternoon by the steamer Uranus. FIREMAN WASHED ASHORE Cleveland, Aug. 21.—(I—A man, believed 10 be Herman Wageman, fireman of the steam- er ‘Howard S, Gerken, which went down early today off Erie, Pennsylvania, in an 82-mile an how ashed ir gale wi ashore at Erie Peninsula shortly before ‘Atthough alive, his. condition was so setious that he wan able to identify Rimself, T. H. Heyman, acting captain of the Maitland, a car ferry, which brought the Gerke: survivors ashore, deseribed the rescue ot 16 members of the Gerken's crew and told of three other men adrift in one of the life boate off from the sinking ship. Despite the fact that one man had been washed ashore, he des- paired of the lives of the re- maining trio unleas currents had caught their tiny craft and swept it toward the Canadian shore. Cleveland, Aug. 21.—()-—The steamer Howard S. Gerken, battered by gigantic waves, whipped into fury by a 50-mile un hour gale, sank in Lake Erie, eight miles out cf Brie, Pa,, today, Two life-boats, cont ig 16 mem- bers of the Steamer, were picked up by the car ferry, Maitland of Ashta- bula, Another boat, in wi four men put off from the sinking steam- er, has not been found. The men aboard the mi: bout ure George McKinn, mate; Rich- urd Freemen, watchmat Herman Wageman, fireman, aod Willlam Logan, derrick engineer. It is feared these four men have been washed out of the little craft. jeusage By Radio Report of the sinking of the Ger- ken, a freighter listed out of Buffalo, N. Y., and the rescue of the 16 men, was received here by the Intercity Radio Telegraph company, in a radio dispatch from the Maitland. The sinking of the steamer was des- cribed by J. B. Gamble, captain of the boat. His steamer, he said, was loaded at Erie, Pa., and was bound for Buffelo. While it was being pounded by the heavy sea, it sprang a ing _life- Water rushed into the hold rapidly, and it was only a matter of a few minutes before the sank, The three life-boats battled the large waves for more than an hour until the Maitland, bound for Canada, crossed their course and was attract- ed by the distress flares shot from the boats. By TIN De Captain man of the Mai! put his car ferry about and picked up two of the life-boats, The third could not be keen. Captain Heyman, it was announced in a message from the radio operator of the Maitland, stood by until daylight and then search for the missing The missing life-hoat could not. be found when a search was conducted for it by the Maitl after daybreak, according to a later radio penenas received here. It is feared the small boat swamped in the h and the men were drowned. ‘ie y, converted freighter owned by Howard 8, Ger- - ken of Buffalo, who. was among the rvivors. The vessel was formerly the Canadian Steel steamer Phelan. She about 200 feet and pgctate in the sand prvi trade. is ed purchasing power of the mai which -has been so general since the war, is largely due to prohibit ed wages are not responsible for increased purchasing power be- cause higher wages mean higher prices and do not materially affect the volume of goods purchased. When, man takes money formerly y on harmful drink and buying a home, an auto- mobile or ay. other merchandise, he: ing all legitimate indus- that a great sum re in saloons each year, and from which only the brewers benefited, ‘have gone into new bvild- ings, automobiles and the hundreds of other lines which have expanded so readily since prohibition went into offect. SEEKS COOK'S RETURN, A requisition asking the return from Minnesota .to Cass county of Myrtle Cook, charged with unlaw- fully. engaging in the liquor traffic, second offense, was issued today at the governo?’s offce. ‘he executive also quisition for the return from marck to Linton county, Montana, of Maurice Cremmings, 17, and Ci stance Crotteau, 16, cl are accused stealing s motor ¢ar in whieh they came to honored s pig last va