The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 9, 1927, Page 2

ENFORCEMENT CAMPAIGN IS PLANNED HERE Group Plans Dri Drive to Create Sentiment For Prohibition Law—to Be in Fall Plans for a count: paign this fall to burid ment for enforcement of hibition law were mapped Saturday at a meetii ecutive board of county committee fordaw observance Meetings are * least 25 plac Thomas W tendent of will be th several sta: tively inc! ‘The campa snd motion effects of the be shown. The shee gn Reports from member: at the board meeting and a constitution adopted which de- clares that purpose of the committee ¢ extermination of the liquor traffic and the building up of a public sentiment whien will demand the observance and enforcement of the prohibition laws of state and nation and the loyal support of the amendment.” Devils Lake Hits Fine Water Supply Devils Lake, N. D., May 9-- (AP)—This city is assured of an adequate supply of water for many years to come, according ,to ex- perts who today examined the flow of water from the test well drilled by J. J. Larson of Yankton, S. D., | to whom has been awarded the contract to drill a city well. The flow from the test weil, through a | two-inch pipe, is 50 gallons of good quality water a minute from a eighteenth | iil catia ty nmin tential. sahispr depth of 1,511 feet in the Dakota ~ sandstone basin. will be drilled soon, and a 16-inch pipe will be u: assuring a nat- ural flow of from 600 to 1,000 gallons a minut Larson, thus eliminating the ne. The large well ording t> Mr. | cessity of pumping. The city re- | cently*voted a $55,000 bond issue cure a better supply of, wa- The big well will be the larg: est in peensen ever sunk in the Time Set For Schlaps | Hanging Dr: Draws Near | Wolf Point, ‘Mont., May hy only two more w in which to li unless his sentence is commuted, Fer dinand Schlaps, 18-year-old former North Dakota boy, held in the county jail here, nonchalant concerning his prospective death on the gallows, Sheriff J. H. Anderson declares. Sheriff Anderson, in whose c tedy Schlaps has been for seve months since his arrest and convic tion for’the slaying of Mr. and Mrs. Anton Geisler, near Biem, Mont., will have charge of the exectuion of the boy under a Montana law which de-| mands that the county in which a murderer is convicted must hang him. Schlaps wiil be hanged here on gallows constructed under the direc tion of Sheriff Anderson on Moy 20 under the sentence passed upen him after his convicuoa. Schlaps, who former: Ashley, N. D., has been a model pi oner at the local jail, the sheriff de- clarese Anderson des: rites the bey an “apparently of subnorm:! intel ject.” Doabt as to whether th pen: will be commuted ernor. js expressed by tne in sheriff who points out that the state , Supreme court has affirmed the cer ti returned by a jury in the lowef court. roughout all of tie proce with his life hanging in the b; Sch! has maintained an air of ir ~ diff@fgnce, it is said, and has accept- ed entence to die, which h: twier was ond dings: beer ‘imposed, without emotion. lt lecessary to sentence him a sec- ime due to the fact that the for the first hanging had passed | before. the supreme court ruled on his appe: | tion. | | funtey to promote a real commun. ity booster spirit has been proved | to Mandan merchants who are co- | operating in the management of station KGCU here. Recently nearly every | metor jentertained by the local merchant of their motor |a Mandan filline station. The Douglas high school band pe a@ program and numer- ous compliments were received by the station manage some of the boys i | murred that they needed their | Sons to help on the farm, take the places of the beys so th latter could help the band do its best. Managers of the viting delegations from programs. They believe ould do much |rounding towns. In addition various communitie: j ity to get “on the j by. 29 Mandan business firms. . Entire Town Is Almost, Submerged May Be Banner Year | ire Cream Production: | | te lack of pnsturage through- | ye winter and lack of other win. ter feed, 1927 may be a banner y. of ba volume of cream produced in | Dakota, John Husby, head of | ion of the state’ de- ie of agriculture and labor, ssid goday. — throu; iis in go of bein; 7 anid. Al high the cool weather hes it to root deeply into the and a f. mage of sunshine perfect sendtions® part of the. stat mee as some y he sai production "throughout the ie of Fasby's pope vy cream production. een’ a ay ag ig to cone winter condi. but These weed pick ime production. jout the stute are) | 5 sident cf Douglas, Ward county, made a trip to Mandan and were ; A free dinner, all the ice cream | they could eat and all the pop they -| could drink made the visit enjoy- liable for the Ward county delega- Then, to top it all off, the s cars were |filled with gas without charge by Fathers of the band de-| Mi so Douglas merchants hired men to ion are idering the advisability of in- other | towns to come here and put on ra- di it to cement the |pleasant relations between Man- {dan merchants and people in sur- it | will afford the entertainers of the n epbortan and Mrs. William Chapin of in The Mandan station is operated | grandchildren. ‘KGCU Helps Promote|Services Are Held | Booster r Spirit Here! | That the radio offers an opie Today For Slater Funeral services for John H. .| Slater, 67, who died Friday morn- q| ing at Washburn, were held from the Masonic Temple here this aft- ernoon under the auspices of the Mandan Masonic lodge. |_ Pallbearers were L. ‘N. Cary, E. W. Miller, J. B. Racek, F. H. Motsiff, John I. Rovig and Anton | Olson. Mr. Slater was a charter mem- ber of the toral: Masonic lodge. Mrs. Nichois Dies at Harlowton, Mont. many years a resident of Mandan, ton, Mont., according to messages y| received here today by her one Mrs. W. M. Mackin and Mrs. E Nichols had been in ill health for the past two years, and a year ago suffered a heart at- tack. It is believed heart trouble tails were not given in the mes- sages. jand children, left Mandan about | 10 year ago, moving first to Glen- |dive and then to Harlowton to | make her home. |ters here, a brother, Frank Hill, of Wahpeton; her husband, E. E. Nichcls, and two children, Mrs. | Benjamin Oliver of Denton, Mont., Har- There are four! | lowton,’ survive. The body, very .probably will be Mrs. Elizabeth Nichols, 59, for| died Sunday evening at Harlow-| caused her death, although de-j The deceased, with her husband | Besides her sis-| THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE - Goat Getters|Week-end Storm in Western N. D. Sets, : Record For For Rainfall (Continved feb from down and are bei day. White all ldng distane sion lines of company were reported in dition, the gale ited circuits in the west’ end of the’ city were out rt of last night, as were street jights all over the city. were Unian, ot tie Is reported no damage to their line: The rain, driven by igh winds, | Bot penetrated ‘doors and windows homes throughout the city, while several downtown stores and’ office buildings reported seepage, causing minor damage. in apartment’ build- ings, the rain was reported ta have epee through cracks in the walls. orts that the Knife-'tiver had vernon its banks at Hebron and was flowing down the main street of the town were dent North- ern Pacific officials here’ after com- municating with their agent at He- bron. The agent said that the river w: the highest it had ever been, but tha‘ it had not overflowed its banks; that there was no danger of such an oc- currence—and that the enly .water which had flowed down the street came from ‘the heavy rainfall. He said the storm had done no damage in the Hebron vicinit Blizzard Along North’ Soo Towns on‘ the Soo line north from Garrison are in the grip of the wors?; spring blizzard in years, according to reports reaching the division of- fices of the Soo Line here. Drifts over 10 feet high were re- ported between Max and Sanish, A. W. Mellon, dispatcher here. said. From five to eight inches of snow on the level was reported from Max/ to Garrison, with the storm inctéas-| ing in violence at tly Rein was reported at Wai The blizzard seems to "be spreading out in a southern and northern ‘di- rection, Mellon said reports indicated. | No snow and only a trace of rain was! reported up to noon today on the/ South Soo to Wishek and east to La Moure and Hankinson. At Plaza, Mouptrail county, snow began fallin; at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon ana had reached a depth of eight inches! at 11 this morning. Soil Now & Condition The heavy precipitation makes the moisture content: of the soil through y the most favorable for transmis- dd con- broken Roberts. tests made a day be- fore the storm showed saturation to a depth ranging from 39 inches in the Missouri river bottoms to 24 ches on the hills in the Fort Rice n, Roberts said. ith the added precipitation of st three days, sufficient mois- conserved to carry us well in- to June,” he declared. The nearest approach’ to ‘the 4.15 inches precipitation record ‘set here during the past three days was in June, 1914, when 4.06 inches occurred in three days, edt storm lasted ‘longer, covéring’ a’ “pete iod.of five days, and during | 4.76 inch brought to Mandan. for interment! in the family plot where Mrs. Nichols’ parents and one child are buried. | Personal and | Social News of | Mandan Vicinity ——_—___—_——__——__4] = tire storm was | BENEFIT OF LIBRARY Mrs. F. W. McGillic and_ Mrs. A. J. Sylvester entertained Friday afternoon at four tables of bridge at the home of Mrs. Sylvester, the party being given for the benefit of the Mandan public library. Mrs. J. M. Hanley held the hign score for the afternoon. TO MILES CITY Mrs. George H. Wilson left Friday for Miles @ity, Mont, where she will &ttend the funeral of J. E. Lakin, who died Monday | at Colorado Springs, Colo. GUEST FRIDAY Mrs. Lela Vandola of Tacoma, Wash., was a guest at the k. M. Fleck home Friday. Mrs. Van jdola was on her way east, where she will visit for so some time. RETURN TO MANDAN 4 / ‘ Mr. and Mrs. Albert Vogelpohl, who have been visiting in n Valley, Minn., have returned home. VISITS IN MOTT Miss. Ora Burdick has gone to oe for a week's visit with rela- Aves. | HOODOO CAR Vienna.—The motor car in which Archduke Ferdinand of Austria | slain at: Sarajevo he in | the World War—seoms to be pursued edy. A dealer acquired the utomobile recently, and while try- ing to pass another car, the machine Notte four of the party being le ‘take’ skin. give By Floods, . page one): put in place to- with the Hughes ‘Blectri¢ | h veral places in toa Lights | jas a hurricane, must reach a veloe- , according to 0. W.| ‘4 ea S|GRAY-SNYDER inches oecurring. in four days, 4.06 inches in \three days, 3.79 inches in two days and 3.36 inches in one day. The rainfall of th was divided : m, May lay 8, 1.40 May 8, 65 of an a y 9, 1.82 inches, total ‘of 4.16 inches. wean ints in the state reported rainfall to 7 o'clock this mofn- "tie amounts recorded dufing the it 48 hours being: Amenia, 2.05; Lake, 2.50; Dickinson, 2.20 Ellend#le, 2.56; Fessenden, Grand‘ Forks, 1.63; Jamestown, 2. Lan 1 Larimore, 3.00; Lis: bon, 2.1 Ni 1,388; Pembina | 3.20 »ilosthead 4.18, Reports . from Dunn Center, |Sec'awe and “We lilietos were missing. S. W. Corwin, who drove here from rate yesterday, reported that roads t of here were practically impas- . He declared it took him nine ours to drive from Jamestown here and said that'the newly constructed grade between Dawson and Tappen was almost all washed out. Trees around the city were blown down-and-paving in some places was reported damaged. Boulevards in seme parts of the city were washed out. . Nofth central Montana experienced snow and cold rains yesterday, a continuation of thé spring storm which has been raging for nearly a week, Associated Press dispatches from Great Falls indicated. On the plains, the dispatch said, 7 the snow melted as rapidly as it fell, but reports from the foothills and mountains stated that the snow was being whipped by a strong wind {into drifts,in some cases two feet | jeep. FINISH. TODAY| Gray’s Connie ie wih Mrs. Snyder, Co-defendant, to ‘Poisonous Serpertt’ Queens’ County Court House, New York, May 9.—(#)—Mrs. Ruth Snyder ideued 40h “puleoloel meh pent” who drew Judd Gray into her glistening coils so that he could not escape, in the summation of Gray's case today. it joleon drew the simile today in summation for Gray. who with Mrs. Snyder is charged with killing the woman's husband, Albert Snyder, an art edi- tor. He also charged that Mrs. Snyder had planned to poison Gray on the same night her husband killed, and that only Gray's steady drinking of whiskey saved him. Gray never struck Snyder with the sash weight which was used to beat DRY aie \CLEANING Sedét Damage at Capitol The gale blew in a window-at the end of the east wing of the ‘capitol building en the second floor’ during last night and was so strong that in- dustrial exhibit cases along the hall were blown down and smashed. The exhibits were practically all ruined. The damage was not discovered until this morning. Maximum velocity of the wind on Saturday, Sunday and up to noon to- day was as follows: Saturday, 29 miles per hour; Sunday, 40 miles; to- day 36 miles. Although the severe’ #ind likened by many to a hurricane, its velocity was nowhere near that of according to weather bureau officials. A wind, to be classed . Mrs. T. J. Logan an hour, and yesterday’s wind is spoken of in weather bureau terms simply as a “strong gale.” The low pressure area which ,is over the Dakotas is ig hard pushed by a high pressure area now over tana, and this results in strong winds, her observers point out, Dissolution of Wing Bank Ordered Copy of an order county distriet coutt, ing di soles of the Farmers State Bank f Wing, Burleigh county, has been ‘filed withthe secretary’ of wate, Ti bank is voluntarily liquidating its as sets and going out of business. Ann, eat your Breakfast \ Here’s cream taken from a bottle, and breakfast food opsuiet abox. Fhaven’t tasted them yet, but I’m not id'to ask you'to eat. “And in the, bathroom is new toothpaste to use on your teeth. Here’s medicirie:'to before you start-off to school. . . CASE NEARING |¢: William Millard, counsel for Gray,|" Rg eek “4 MONDAY" MAY 9, 1927 the art editor over the head, lard said ya “He ick at him but missed,” blows _ tl Ruth Snyder: GOLDEN WEST LAUNDRY Mandan, N. D. Rates’ $2 Per Day and Up Visit Our Flame Room -- ON SEVENTH ST. BETWEEN. NICOLLET & HENNEPIN} . Don’t forget to wash your hands—that's.a fresh bar of ‘soap—and may- be dust. your faee with powder. No, it won’t hurt the This list of things I’ve seen advertised—stop and it to your father. never. be'betrayed! Stat mee Read the advertisements. Their honesty is as clear as #mirfor. ‘You tan believe in them as surely ‘as you be- lieve i in yourself: You can follow their directions with utmost faith. You can ase their products with; confi- dence you'll want to use them again. Theirs are facts proved and apenped. ve their news.‘ ose He'll bring them home tonight. Some of them old, some of them new. . eivilized thing!.:.To buy on faith and_use on Salt and . but what a