The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 17, 1927, Page 1

WEATHER FO! Feir tonight and Saturday, ex- sept for some cloudiness, ESTABLISHED 1873 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [aubno | BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1927 FARGOAN PLEADS GUILTY TO MURDER CHARGE BOARD OUSTER COMES AS END TO ARGUMENT Dispute By Pharmacy Group Members Over Seating of Rosoff Brought Charges BISMARCK MAN NAMED urt Action Not Feared From Deposed Members— Murphy Case Sets Precedent Removal from office of all the acting members of the state phar- macy board, announced by Gov- ernor A. G. Sorlie Thursday, came as’ the culmination of a two-day dispute between the governor and board member's over the seating of Louis Rosoff, Grand Forks, recent- ly appointed by the executive to fill a vacancy. Members of the board refused to accept Rosoff, contending that they had a right to present to the governor the name of the man whom they wished to appoint. Local Man Named In removing the members of the board Governor Sorlie sent a brief note to Secretary of State Robert Byrne, informing him that since none of the pharmacy board mem- bers had filed an oath of office as required by law they were act- ing illegally. In the same com- munication he named P. H. Coste! lo, Cooperstown; Burt Finney, Bi: marck; C. R. Meredith, Killdeer, and O. B. Sjurseth, Larimore. These will serve along with Rosoff, whom the old board refused to seat, Governor Sorlie said. One of the men named, Costello, was the man whose apvointment was asked by the jp harioney board at the, time Rosoff was named by | Plays For Title | ¢ Harry Cooper of Los Angeles is playing an extra 18-hole match with Tommy Armour of Washington on the Oakmont course this afternoon for the open championship of the United States. The players were tied at the end of 72 holes with scores of 301 each. Bobby Jones, last year’s champion, tied for 11th place with Bobby Cruickshank, HARRY COOPER PLAYS ARMOUR FOR OPEN TITLE Golfers Tied at 301 Aft- er 72 Holes of Play the executive. The governor re- fused to name Costello at that time on the: ground that the pharmacy beard was attempting to “make a rubber stamp” out of the gover- nor’s office. The digpate between the execu- tive and the pharmacy board came to a head Wednesday night when Sorlie informed W. S. Parker, Lis- bon,, secretary, that none of the Oakmont, Pa., June 1—(4%)- Bobby Jones today, the first time in his golfing life, will watch two other golfers play off a tie for the open, championship of the United States. Tommy Armour of Washington and Harry Cooper of Los Angeles, tied at the end of 72 holes with scores of 801, have removed the champion from the picture. There have bee: two other play-offs since Jones bi members were serving legally since gan to take an active part in open they had not filed their oaths of championships seven years ago, but office and that he would remove he was a player instead of a specta- tor in both. them unless they agreed to Rosoff. “The ultimatium was di The champion will not be named ered during the course of a tele phone conversation. ire Reply The reply ie the old | board mem- bers came in the form of a tele- until Cooper and Armour have fought out an extra 18 holes this afternoon. ‘At Exciting Finish Armour, a golfing Scot, won the right to contest further with Cooper, British ‘born but American tralned poles, by an exhibition of the dar- m received at the executi' ae ‘ing that has made him famous as a tices Thursday. It read: player -always willing to take a chance.” The Congressional club pro secretary, Mr. Parker, has advised came to the 18th green after a the board of your demand over the phone yesterday that unless we round in which a less stout heart. would have broken, needing a birdie recognize Rosoff as a member of three to finish with the leading 301 the board you will declare the of- Cooper had contributed some time b ficés of all board members vacant fore. A drive left him something and appoint others in their places less than 200 yards from the green by.reason of claimed oversight in and only two shots left if the Arm- ours were to be considered in subse- not filing our, oaths with secretary of state. The board members de- quent championship developments. Armour, noted as a truly great sire no controversy or disagree- handler of the irons, tore into the ment with over the Rosoff ball and sent it right on the pin and matter but they were recommend- 12 feet from the cup. There was one ed for appointment as members of stroke left and it was enough. The the state pharmaceutical associa- putt went into the cup and # recount tion and the association, consisting was necessary to decjde the cham- of the pharmacists of the state, pion. has advised them that it is Bobby Jones had plenty of com- wish and purpose that it ht to have Appointed to the ard the (Contin on pi | Weai er Report Weather ponditiena at North Da- kota points for the 24 hours ending at 7 a. m. today: ‘Temperature at 7 a. m. Highest yesterday .:. Lowest last night . Precipitation to 7 a. m. Highest wind wcciy Fessenden” ij # Grand Forks . lettinger Jamestown . Larifhore Lisbon . inot . poleon . pembina Villiston Moorhead, Minn. #.,... WEATHER FORECAST 4 sgnig and Saturday and visialiy: Fair a except fo jiness. earns, much ines 4 i} Nos Dakota: Fair saint pday, one for some cloudi- moss. lot tuch change- in. tempera-| - 7a) 6 - ‘ture. “ a waaruze THER CONDITIONS ns, f ra uses Toron mee over the Rocky | and pany. The ‘champion was tied for Lith place, the lowest position he has ever occupied in an open competition, byt Bobby Cruickshank, heavily fav- ofed to win before the play began, had the same score of 309 and John- ny Farrell, another favorite, was only Los Angeles and Washington; MEASURES T0 DETER CRIME ENACTED BY 19 LEGISLATURES, SURVEY SHOWS wiry WIVES QN' Laws Adopted Tend Toward; Increase of Sentence, With Tightening of Legal Net About Habitual Criminals, Gangsters, Gun Men and ‘Stick Up Men’ New York, June 17.4P)—-Measures designed to check crime have been passed by 19 state legislatures thus far in 1927, a survey revealed. Thirteen other states adopted measures, such as those altering the penal codes to make former mis- demeanors felonies, which were con- sidered general anti-crime legis! tion, but not specific checks on crime. : The measures adopted in the 19] states generally tended toward an increase of ‘sentence, with a tighten- ing of the legal net about the hab- itual criminal, the gangster, gunman and hold up man. A significant feature of the anti- crime legislation was the tendency to follow New York's pattern in curb- ing the activities of habitual crim- inals and the operations of bands of organized criminals. A number of states enacted laws comparable to New York’s Baumes act, a piece of anti-crime legislation passed in 192 It provides a mandatory life sentence for fourth offenders and gerierally tightens up the criminal code, Have Wide Range The measures enacted in the 13 states range from Montana’s banning of the chewing of mescal nuts by Mexican laborers, a practice thought by some to be necessary to certain religious rites, to Oregon’s new measure making it unlawful to skin dead stock without the owner's con- sent. The last measures is a check on cattle rustling. Oregon was also one of the 19 states adopting legis- lation to check crime. A number of legislatures discussed the carrying and use of firearms. Many states had already provided themselves with checks against: this practice, and several followed suit in (Continued on page three) COOLIDGE GETS DOWN TO WORK AT RAPID: GITY\s Motors to Town From State! they had seen containing accounts | w Game Lodge to Take Care of Nation’s Gag ree) Rapid Ci D., ink. iP President Coolidge came down from the hills today to resume contact with the outside world at the execu- tive offices set up for him in the school building here. A_good sized batch of mail and routine business which had been for- warded from Washington awaited the attention ‘of the president when he arrived from the 32-mile ride from the state game lodge at 9:30 a. m. While no callers were on the en- gagement list, Mr. Coolidge devoted considerable time to delving into the first work to come before him since Monday and to getting. acquainted with activities in the world beyond the hills where he has established himself for the summer. Sticking to the pry geen he started yesterday, the president wag up at 6 o'clock this morning and, after.a walk about the lawn under a brightly shining sun, returned to the lodge for breakfast and some of the trout he caught in a twilight fishing expe- dition in front of the lodge last night. The ride to the office was without incident, several tourists on their way to the Black Hills home waving a greeting as the cars passed. better. Bill ‘MehIhorn, iz records for the event with @ sensational 32 out, finally got 305. when he ‘took 41 to get home. Gene Sarazen was third with 302, and Em- met French came with a rush to fin- h with 304. Walter Hagen, with a great ‘chance to wi ked an 81. Two ing were well up, Archie Compston with 308 and Arthur Havers scoring 310, The 18 hole play-off starts at o'clock ‘this afternoon. MEN TIED aT. ‘39 EA ON FIRST NINE HO! Oakmont, Pa., June 17.(#)—Har- ate cae of Los Angeles, “Light jorse”’ the links, bagged a “birdie” lok on the ninth hole to tie Tommy Armour of Washingto: D. C., for the first nine holes of their 18 piaycete for the American open golf championship. They re- mained deadlocked with 39 strokes each, two over par. It was a sensational nip-and-tuck duel between the sleek-haired Cooper and the lean, straw-hatted Armour, each seeking ‘his finst national oj title after a deadlock at 301 strokes yesterday in the rgulation 72 holes of competition. Armour was in more trouble than his rival, finding reps on three suc- ‘|vessive holes, ‘the sixth, seventh and eighth, but saved himself with his Putter. The Scot had three one-putt: wal ee seine an eight footer on ding his drive in a trap ay ‘saving a par,three where Crests on ae green with his driv Fequired three putts. ° But tor nen lapse on the MACHINE GUNS ARE GUARDING MARY PICKFORD Police Believe She Is Picked as First Victim of Huge Kidnaping Plot pepe? Hille, Gait. June! flr P)—Mary ford:’ went work today under the protecting muzzles of machine Police, regs throug! Haut the fi ag guarded the h jome ‘tere of the he ie im Dotglas Fairbanks, following . information he had’ been sel accompanied her to Ie Pins aba th this morn ing. irbanks, piding. bee his wife a hand Fi in their mo [AVIATORS VISIT BOARD ‘BERLIN’ Chamberlin, ‘Levine Give Slip to Newspaper Men to Have Reunion Aboard Ship WAS ‘SURPRISE PARTY’ Mrs. Chamberlin Doesn’t For- get Wifeliness — Rebukes Hubby For Untidy Clothes } Bremerhaven, Germany, June 17, 50 newspaper men and photogra- phers, the transatlantic aviators, larence Chamb« Levine, had an early morning re- union with their wives, who ar- rived during the night on the liner Berlin from New York. The reporters and camera men were awakened at 5 a. by the bugler of the steamer Bremen, on which the aviators were the over- night guests of the North German Lloyd, only to find that Chamber- lin and Levine had quietly boarded the Berlin at about 1:45 a. m. Had ‘Surprise’ “When we bade you all good night about midnight,” Chamberlin told the correspondents later, “we didn’t even know we could see our wives within the next hour. We understood that the harbor regu- lations forbade the boarding the ship until the quarantine inspec- tion was finished, but to our happv surprise we were awakened at 1:30 and informed we would be permit- ted to go aboard the Berlin with Herr Heineken (president of the North. German Lloyd). - You can imagine how surprised our wives were.” By 6:15 the official welcoming Haas with the newspapermen and photographers, had drawn along- side the Berlin in a tender, and soon on the upper deck of the liner | & the aviators and their wives were being subjected to a barrage of lq Blitle and demands for poses. They, obligingly accommodated edmera men and exchanged kisses while the shutters clicked. Both aviators had their hands full of American newspapers, the first of their flight, and they stole glances at-the headlines with ob- questions of the reporters and im- portunities of the photographers, Tenuing, jakes Wifely Remark “Why, didn’t you even have those knickers cleaned?” asked Mrs. Chamberlin of her husband, refer- ring to the golfknickers in which he made the fli; ht from New York. “How could I?” he replied, good naturedly, “I hae been too busy even to think of it.” A reporter asked Mrs. Levine whether she had forgiven her hus- band for his unannounced partic- ipation in the flight, to which she replied: “You bet. I think he is ue wonderful.” When Mrs. Chamberlin’ was asked what she thought of her husband now that he had become a hero, she replied, gaily: “It would be foolish to | to say.” HOPE RENEWED FOR SAFETY OF LOST AVIATORS): Trapper. Tells of Hearing Plane Over Densely For- ested Region May 9 Chicoutimi, Quebec, June 17.— (AP)—Hope for the safety of Nungesser and Coli, tuhelne. French aviators, rested today a trapper’s story that an paiben airplane had droned out of hear- ing behind a storm swept moun- tain along the Ste. rguerite river on the night of May 9, the day the flyers were expected in New York. The gad told b; by Georges Rous- seau, 50 years old, who returned created new interest in the theory lected as the|that the aviators may have bee! first vietim ins $1,900,000 3 Kid: | forced dows ay have been forced down in the wooded silences of the northern regions of the Province, The noise of the plete: he said, | #8! faded away in the distance toward the north in the direction of the ly’ forested, is seldom visited by parte sf and is sparsely populated v faved ha te ie” i pert ian that rstenious flares, re- eat was in the Viewing the Vinee. 8 © | From America |—(AP)—Giving the slip to about erlin and Charles} . Chamberlin was The end of the Columbia's-flight from New York to Germany where Pilot Cla forced to land at Kettbu Soldiers and ci is pictured her ans of Kottbus are e: Chamberlin and his passenger, Charles A. Col. Lindbergh Flying From enced York to St. aa Today Tired as He x0tham After Four Days of Celebration—An- ‘Homecoming _ Him When Reaches St. Louis Late To-) first actual photo to r amicing the brcken propeller of the plang pth | before that time by operation of law. Famous Now, bat |* Byrd | Awaiting Better Weather For Paris Trip st it > _ sae Flyer Senses Cost of | H Sitting on Top of World— Grows Immeasurably Older} in Three Short Weeks 17.—(P)—Com- mander wichard E. for the start of his flight Mite net Field It also has come to him, out of the | chaos of tramping mobs, cannot gain the ing. up something in return. ” that one surrend- ers, he has discovered, ; sonal and casual contact with one's iced him, he sait rd ey ed ‘oft at 8:17 a © world without giv- was little hope for an over the north Atlantic as generally unsettled. “It may be two or three days before we will be ready to star y lined the runway police had - difficult time y from the path of the The “brightest - alone; the eames of the kids are not for him a join, the others would take out thei f-consciousness in some boy - in - school aa ‘Troops Are Coming To. Ft. Lincoln : "|General Smith of Omaha ia fident Barracks Will Be Occupied Soon vious curiosity whenever, amid the} S¢! they could snatch a moment for]; than a mont suddenly appear. 10 miles from St. i Lindbergh has feel those barriers. ute. be aided in vk flight west by a dif- Solemn Things to Learn These are solemn things to when one has been 25 and care perhaps even thoughtless. One day, fellow is a “f for taking a dare and three weeks later, he's-a historic figure for hav-| newspapermen just before he left Mitchel Fi i to proceed di : Columbus, Oh i then head for St He expects to pick up a new army escort near Dayton +| ing wounds Small wonder, then, that folk gin to read the change that has come over “Slim” Lindbergh, Confidence that Fort Lincoln befor: icra here yeste y Gene Smith of Omaha following | uh inspection.of the property. he answered the morning when’ young: few hands, made a b or two, and nosed his Y thanks for ‘his reception in New ¢| from her bod; extended him cheeks were pink and that he secmed lonel Tenney C. Ross and Governor Sorlie, visited the propert Ieariay and General Smith expressed urprise to find it in such good con- dition in view of the troops have been quart . It is estimated that it will require $18,000 to paint the property nd repair it in readiness for occu thanked the press for its coopera- “ How they all laughed when they heard that he had taken letters of introduction with him! Grows Much Older people saw him come Lindbergh appeared under the pression that unannounced shifts in his plans during 3 ” him in his four-day come in New York. given the greatest ovation a solitar; figure ever received. i As soon as the war department can | spare the money for the work it will | be done, the army officers said. Sorlie Wants Flying Field Here Fi he cxplained ihe difficulties of , immeasurably cheeks wen gone, announce our plans for any moments when he scemed iets | i ee ctators who sought | etches of himself from the aviator with the ‘explanation that he would more autographing reached St. Louis. Fort Lincoln would be an. ideal site | for a government flying field and one of the purposes of the visit of the ‘two oficers was to facilities for an airport here. y were doubtful, however, that officer: of the army air service would be en- his “autogr aph o: a aoa and say bergh.” Nobody gave him the chance. Everything was the importance and historical nificant nature of the occasio! To one who watched him during PRICE FIVE CENTS WOMAN SLAYER ‘SENTENCED 70 30-YEAR TERM | Charles J. Wire, Alias Alex- ander Samuel, Admits Kill- ing When Arraigned | WILL’ GO TO Ss STILLWATER | Charge Resulted From Death of Mrs. Anna Nelson of Fargo 10 Days Ago Moorhead, Minn., June 17. Plea Ity to ‘third degr ing to death Mrs. J. Ware, 8 sentenced tor 30° yi penitentiary: at Still by Judge C. A. Nyeste-’ y county district court tt Moorhead. | Under the indeterminate system of sentences in effect im Minnesota, Wire may be released any time after seven years by the state board of par- dons or the state parole board. Judi Nye’s sentence provides that Wire is to be confined in the state prison for 0-year period unless released Degree of Crime Lessened Before making his guilty plea, Wire withdrew a plea of not guil to first degree murder made ‘Thurs- | day. An indictment charging him with first degree murder for Mrs. Nelson's death had been returned against him Wednesday. Wire was sentenced 11 days after Mrs. Nelson was found fatally beaten and cut ona side road ‘South of Moorhead. Suspicion pointed to Wire, an acquaintance of Mrs. Nelson, and he was arrested in his rooming place in Fargo an hour after Mrs, Nelson was found. He returned to Moorhead immediately with the officers and | was lodged in the county jail. Wire stoutly maintained his inno- cence, despite a net of circumstantial lence which pointed to him as the , until he pleaded guilty today. After sentence was passed County Attorney Steining of Clay county made a statement praising the efforts of Sheriff Whaley and Chief O’Laugh- lin and the officers under them for “their rapid gathering of a mag of evidence pointing to Wire’ as guilty of Mrs. Nelson's murder.” Goes to Prison Saturday Preparation of a transcript of the record in the case and commitment papers is exp d to be completed to allow for taking Wire to Still- water sometime Saturday. Before sentence was passed Wire Was sworn, after which he said he was born in 1886 in Springfield, ll. state in building up its case against Wire that he slew Mrs. Nelson when refused to sign an affidavit ab- ving him from blame for the al- leged stealing of $1,000 from her. A blood stained autemobile wrench, found near Mrs, Nelson's body, was believed by the authorities to have been the weapon used in the attack. A coroner’s jury verdict in the case charged Wire “as being Mrs, Nelson's murderer and said that she died from fractures of the skull and accompany- le with a wrench or other flat in ment, Woman Was Horribly Beaten Mrs. Nelson was horribly beaten. Her skull was crushed in in _ two places, her nose was broken and her head, body, arms and legs were a mass of bruises. Her scalp had been cut so that it was nearly severed The attack occurred on a road | ing west from state highway N: two miles south of Moorhead. ‘The trunk highway, which runs’ within dl 6 | 50 feet of the point of the attack, is one of the most heavily traveled roads in the Moorhead vicinity. ‘GORILLA MAN’ CHARGED WITH, MURDER OF 2 Public Barred From Court Room and Prisoner Is ST. LOUIS 18 PLANNING THREE-DAY C1 St, Louis, June 17. the brink of the greatest public re- ception in its annals, this city day stretched out its arms to receive | the flying colonel, of glory and caught, the overtones of loneliness, idea that perhaps “Slim” should have brought letters of introduction back with him from France so that his own people would thusiastic ‘about flying field in this region. ‘Commenting on the bui locating an army they are much better and more solid- ly built than ‘many in camps where troops now are quarjered. T! constructed at a policy of the army was to build well instead of cheaply, they said. They were doubtful that an assign- ment here would prove popular with ~any men in the service, they said, many enlisted men preferring to he placed near large. cities. i hunging facilities offered by this re- nd the climatic advantages are exnected to offset the desire of the Charles A. Lind- | ‘What Does the Future Hold? One feejs that flash a letter reading something like “I’m Charley Lindbergh, the fly mail out of the same bird they Never in history has the city pre-| pared itself for such a public demon- | It was the day of days for! y to do homage to its son, who has brought more glory i than any other living American indi- would like to fellow peat u tried to tell them then that I wasn’t knew what I was That's my racket! know me, because you seem to for- wet who I am. And I want to know you, for you are my people—and yet you are strangers. aoe and want to get acquainted I want some of that casual, chummy feeling again.” ut can he ever get it? Ny AS not always be “Colonel Lind: Only probable showers and thun- from his trap lines in Bersimis, | + I want you to could dampen the: ardor of the thou- sands who will extend their greetings to the nation’s hero. Will Arrive at 4:30 Winging his way across mountains | valleys, Colonel Rare neerucantel squadron of arm: large alten, He coud t Oe Sanish B Bridge Vi Will Be Opened Aug. 5-6 mish bridge has 5 and_6, State I feel uncomfort- planan ‘was to ar- rive over the Mississippi river here about 4:30 o'clock. His appearance will be the signal for a thunderous din of iis Peribonka river. The region dense- | Opening, of the Bat been set for Augi at this. very moment busy with its |Hichway Conn R. S. ‘Ashley inevitable eraser?, today. Wi He ‘Goes: Home cman for tomorrow. passed not even by the celebration The contrect for the west a to the bridge will be let Oy the contractor will be the work so that it wil igned. Colonel Lindbergh will circle the city at low altitude and then con- alts oat 98 a Hs at Chute 35 miles east of ————_____ ’ PAVES, AFTER ‘URY ne Later. it. Pushes re poaaty: “seat. Soon it is to. hi Peet, a cont sary to construct a temporary struc- ay back : mittee md ‘innesota town. ae earth ture to permit tinue his flight to the Lambert-St. Lou i ield, where he will be welcomed by the governor of and the mayor of St. Louis. ional guardsmen will be sta- tioned along the high wire fence en- circling the field to keep back the President Coolidge and Governor Sorlie will be invited to attend the opening epremney. “CAMOUFLAGE You said this blanket was all wel, and it’s Wainly mark ted ih gh Ah be about the’ last eir caress into a ae at will be a little °, There Immediately after the official wel- y Governor Sam A. Baker and Mayor Victor Miller, Colonel Lind- bergh will be taken to the home of (Continued on page five.) . Lin Serh daeyil be doing a ked iit. that. wi "| motie—Passing Shey. Closely Guarded Winnipeg, June 17.—(P)—Hag- gard and unkempt, Virgil Wilson, al Earl Nelson, held by the Winnipeg police as the “strang- ler,” was formally charged today with the murder of Mrs, Emily Patterson, 27, mother of two young children, and Lola Cowan, 14-year-school girl. ie suspect, who was not asked to plead, was remanded until June 23 for a hearing. The public was barred from the court room and the privoner was closely guarded. ~ Winniper. June 17.—(7)}—A man- beled prisoner believed to be the “gorilla man” who has strangled 18 {women and children in’ American cities and two here, was under heavy guard today. Garbed in.an old green sweater and blue overalls, and® showing no emo- re and little interest in proceed- fings, he was “paraded” at police headquarters last evenine. Police said he was. identified ft eeraens as. the slayer’ of Mi Mes. Bi Batters 27-year-old choir. sit nmol of two small children, here . oy and Lole Cowan, 14, ar r thick Of Detectives George Smith ee the oe e renld Perret te and aly an girl. When arrested in Killarney, Man. yesterduy. he said a was Sissi wa son of Vancouvet declared ha wae Fra aati m ee five.)