The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 18, 1927, Page 1

WEATHER Somewhat un: iy fair tonighe Ri mre neler and Sun “ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1927 FORMER BISMARCK YO LINDBERGH IS WELCOMED BY ~ ST. LOUISANS Official Holiday Declared as Residents Take Day Off to Acclaim Him lets “GOES ‘CRAZY’ Parade Held Through Down- town District as Mobs Roar Their Welcome TOWN ‘st. Louis, ; June 18—()—The “Spirit of St. Louis” soared to its zenith today in its formal and of- ficial welcome to its dauntless son, folonel Charles A. Lindbergh, its own “Slim? who flew his tiking airplane, the “Spirit of St. Louis,” from New..York to Paris. For fourweeks while the acclai of Paris, London, Brussels, Wai ington and New York was shouted and dinned into ‘the ears of the glorified young flyer, St. Louis, for the last three years, his home, stored up energy for its shouting of paeans of praise, and, with the rest of the . world, could only wish that it had him in person for its adulation. Does Him Honor ~ Today, it had-him and his historic ship, and St. Louis took the day off to ’o him honor. The day was an official holiday, and St. Louisans beran to line the Streets “at dawn. it. Louis, self-termed capital of a “forty-ninth state,” drew up all its resources for its royal welcome to the reticent youth already ac- claimed royally in fact. Many of those who lined the streets in front of boarded up win- dows came from out of town. Trains from e¥ery direction, busses, and automobiles with a motley assort- ment of state license tags brought “Yhousands bent upon ‘a moment's glinpse of the -hero of the age’s great adventure. “Slim” gave himself into the hands of the St. Louis arms com- mittee when he wafted his “Spirit of St. Louis” down, from a leaden, spot- y sky late yesterday at his home flying field, at which for years he had taken off and landed as a flyer of Uncle Sam's mail, a job he still hoids. U tional n Surrender His surrender was. unconditional. “No, I won't try to give. you the, slip,” he promised mewspapéf re- yprters, some of whom were exper- * atneed with the whims of the be- loved flyer whose only beloveds stemed to be the air and a ship to sail it in. And, under the guidance. of the arms’ committee, determined to show their own hero to as many Persons as possible today and tomor- row, Lindbergh got going at 9:17 o'clock this morning. He and his mother, accompanied by three automobiles full of the nation’s and state’s notables and a siren-shrieking convoy of the always- present motorcycle heralds, appear- ed at the Congress hotel, focal point of the “Lindbergh-Spirit of St. Louis” parade through the residence and downtown districts. Overhead flew three Pay Field dirigibles, the T, C.-52, T. A.-41, and . A.-52, as the heroic young- ster was greeted by 1,500 spectators who shouted a welcome. Right then the guardians of the dauntless flyer got a taste of the éay’s promise. Some of the approximately 1,500 spectators broke through the police lines and rushed towards Lindbergh. Shrilling sopranos were ih the: major- ity, although the men were as hyster- ical as the women in their rushing, hero-worship. Dwight Davis, himself a St. Louis- an, secretary of war; Assistant Secre- tary of War McCracken, Mayor Mill- er and Army and Navy. officers (Continued on page three) ee [ Weather Report } Weather conditions at North Da- koti ints nae | the 24 hours ending . m. today: Temperature a7 am. . Highest yesterday / lowest last night . recipitation to 7 a. Highest. wind_veloci 3 tation: in ee Preci Amenia REe i ERooRS oR cine ei 52 Moorhead, Minn. 70 56 .. WEATHER FO) For Bismarck and vicinity: Some- what unsettled, pat Remus fair to- night and Sundi change int temperature. For _ Dakota somewhas ut genera fair a Beoasy. sf Portis to it Dealer Sunday — north RAL, ‘WEATHER CONDITIONS| ressure is low over per the all 4 f,poeach, ees charge. sivernatha, ° “| have committed None are more interested in Commander Harte E. Byrd’s’ propcsed. transatlantic flight ‘than his three 3. charming children, Evelyn, § Dick describing over the radio the COOLIDGE GOES OUT TO ANGLE | BARLY TODAY Puts on Ten-gallon Hat, * Seeks Elusive Trout—Has Busy Day Ahead Rapid City, S. D., June 18—(@)— President Coalidge put ca a ten gallon hat of a size and shape that | would make a movie actor or a cow- boy justly envious, slipped on a pair of tubber hip boots and went to Squaw Creek early today to angle for mountain trout. ‘The hat was one of those the presi- dent had been noticing out of the corner of his eye on cowboys as he motored through the ranch coun- abetwaen Rapid City, and the state game ledge. ly pointed fully 10 inches into the air and its brim was so wide that he had to bend it slightly to get into his limousine without disturb- ing ,its»contour. Up Early The president was up at his usual hour early this morning and after a breakfast of brook trout, which he caught. himself last evening, hur- ried to Squaw Creek for his daily angling. He had a busy day before him, including a reception of sev- eral hundred small town newspaper editors who were to be received after a buffalo and elk barbecue at Camp Galena, +a short distance from the summer White House. As usual, Cecil Gideon, South Da- kota game expert, and E. W. Star- ling of the White House secret serv- ice staff, were the president's only fishing companions. After a morning at the creck, Mr. Coolidge returned to the summer White House with four troyt, each weighing one pound or slightly bet- ter. CUSTER HERO, PIONEERS SAY IN DISCUSSION) Died Fighting, Wounded, In- stead of Committing Sui- cide, Veterans Say Norfolk, Neb., June 18.—(#)—Gen- eral George A. Custer wes in real'tv the hero of the Battle of the Little Big Horn, and he died fighting with three wounds from Indian rifles in his body. This was the verdict reached yesterday at the round table discussion. on the subject by pioneer western characters - who verbally fone, over the historic Indian fight. the plainsmen who . ex- riews on the matter were Captain Lute North of Columbus, of Pawnee Scout fam “Deadwood Dick,” of Deadwood. Carver, the “Pawnee Bill Earnest of Wyoming: Dick” of Norfolk and Pea! sons of Idaho. wicid that practically all the information Be had on the subject came from In- dians. ‘CAR HIT BY TRAIt Di An Overland coach, owned by John Bats: was compleveiy demélished Sunday afternoon when it was hit -by a passenger train on raped 8 ft f be ped onthe gat Aha Katherine, preparations for Island. ed Ra ARRAS ea Dobbin | — Lost Laurels in Minnesota Town || Cold Spring, Minn. June 18.— (P—Venerable in, some~ what neglected and out of place in the realm of snorting- gas buggies, came into his own with a vengeance yesterday when two Cold Spring youths were arrested for speeding on horses. 8. J. Muggli and Alois Stein engaged in a friendly derby handicap Cold. Spring’s main street, each astride a horse of uncertain racing qualities. As the heels of the equestrian speedsters clicked down a high used to rubber tired traffic, it appeared that the race would be a close one. Waiting at the tape, how- ever, was the village, constable who halted the race in the man- ner that all law officers halt de- | mons of speed. Hated before the village court, the paid fines of $5 and cpsts ach, ‘nnd-- have. hen~-searching through their dictionaries since to learn whether a saddle hoi can rightly he termed @ veh.cle. | IRVING L. CAMP NEW PRESIDENT Elected Unanimously at Clos- ing Session—Next Conven- tion at Des Moines Miam Fla, June ae peal Moines,. lowa, was selected as the 1928 convention city of Lions Inter- ‘national at the'closing of the annual meeting here today. Irving L. Camp, unanimous f Johnstown, Pa. was elected president o: ‘and drive out the “leprosy of cor- IRVING L, CAMP Other international ously chosen, in- { eluded Ben A. Ruffin, of Richmond, | » first vice Ray | of pr lew York city, third vice’ presi- dent. Conn., and has in Ne ince that time ured time to either the production or ais. tribution of coal. pis president of the Pro ducers Coal'& Coke company. of Johnstown, Pa., and is an officer or dirottor’ of ‘ether coal tributing companies. + - erved as director of dmpecsabt Mpolit cal, charitable, socipl, and civic bod- ies in both his city and ante Execrep| Bennett's Fe ‘Marry te. dian York Ju june i cdo Daily meen Withs Wallace, and Mrs. E, eee nest were nam Morrison, see her empl Ed Bg 8 | einer: his take-off for Paris from Roosevelt Field, OF LIONS CLUBS; Mr. Camp was born.{n Waterbury, | : nd Richard, 3rd, 7. You see them here listening to Papa Long ARMY HOPES TOBEFIRST T0 | GROSS PACIFIC; | Final Authorization of Flight Depends on Result of Tests Under Way Washington, June 18—()—The | Army air corps is eciving to be the in crossing the Pac’ ocean een San Franciseo and Honolulu jin a non-stop plane flight. After months of preparation, flyers are now piloting a giant three- (motored Fokker monoplane pcross | was incorporated in 1907. the continent to San Diego, Calif., |for final grooming and testing ot the machine and .navigation instry nts°for the hop. Final authoriza {tign=of the flight by: the war de- partment depends on the result of these tests. If they, are successful, the hop-off on the 2,360-mile flight will be made not later than July 15, from March Field, San Francisco, First Lieuten- ant Lester Maitland, the plane's pilot, has announced. ~ Lieutenant itiand will be accompanied by First Lieutenant Albert F. Hegen- berger as assistant pifot and naviga- The flight has been an army proj- ect of long standing, Assistant Sec- retary Davidson, in charge of army ;aeronautigs, declared, and was not motivated by the offers of prizes for the trip, for both army flyers would not be eligible to receive any awards, if it was successful. RED TAPE OF GOVERNMENT “TS ATTACKED Reed Pleads For Abandon- mient of Centralization, Re- turn to Old Fundamentals Johnson City, Tenn., June 18.) -Appealing for a return to the old time fundamentals of government, {Senator Reed, Democrat, Missouri, i declared today in a speech before the Tennessee bar association that the time has come when the patriotic people of the country should rise up j ruption” which has spread through- j out the nation’s capital. The Missouri senator, who was u chairman of’ the senate's campaign funds investigating committee charged that not one-tenth of the corruvtion had been exposed. He also declared that-unless the soul of | America was to be-destroyed, the corrupt use of méney in elections must be stopped. | Responsibility. for the conditions was laid at the door of concentra tion of authority, in the federal gov ernment, which he said, “invariably brings in wake twin. evils, in- j competency and corruption.” “Indeed, it Aas so far that the not now in some degree subject to the rpg government of- and courts,” he are? the march toward state governments might as Caer to exist, for all authority will assumed by the, federal hava and and tetbunsly,” : * Butterflies, Thick as Snowstorm, Are Seen in California enti, Calif., June 18.—()}--But- described. as “thick aa the flakes lf a Binding soeatorn ob- scured the view at tl the lower slopes of Mount Shasta | Ni yesterday. - ra — In the British oi tags per cent of,, bs ga own clothes. ite are. nt ‘popular . win tbeme THOMPSON OF RESTAURANT FAME IS DEAD, Succumbs to Illness of Six Years’ Duration at His Lake Forest Home MADE LARGE FORTUNE Belief That He Could Make ‘Better Coffee’ Started Him in Business Chicago, June 18—(4)—John R. Thompson's belief that he could make a better cup of coffee than one him here in world’s fair da ed him in the restaurant that netted him millions in he Ht ed to his “one arm” s 8 a today by friends of “the late Thonpuae died yesterday at the Highlands, his Lake Forest estate, after an illness of six years The profits gained from a general in Vermilion county, Il, ied the initial capital with which john KR. Thompso ‘a fortune i arm” whit If-serve id but he capitalized it on seale that today there is a “Thomp- i y large city in lan in 1891 In 1891, festaurant in South State Street, 0, number 1 of his eventu: thats of eating places. The resta rant was notorious for the number of times, and the speed w en “turned over mpson toi a friend the place must have been a “stock jn trad for a chat- tel, mortgage House, which received a substantial cash payment each time the restaurant changed hands. But Thompson turned the tide of that lunchroom’s misfortun he paid off his mostgage and made money. He added two C| wo re! taurants to his “string” 1894 and began therewith a phenomenal expan- sion of the catering business which had no precedent. As busines enlarged, he instituted quantity bu ing and* standardization. of John R. | shrouded in secrecy, two crack army | ment. The Thompson company A $6,001 000 corporation took over the bu: hess in 1914, although the controll- ing. interest remained with — its founder. A group of 70 groceries in Chicago, which Thompson started in 1920, was sold to syndicate in 1924 His first 16 years spent on a farm Vermilion county Ill, where he born in 1865, Thompson attend- 1 normal school and later opened a general store in Fithian, near his home, But in 1891 he sold the store, mai Rose Holloway of George- town, IIL, and came to find a busi- ness. Was in, Politics He served as ‘Republican county committeeman for years and wi treasurer of Cook county from 1907 to 1911. After being defeated in the Chieago mayoralty race, he retired from politics in 1912 at his wife's cee: He was a warm supporter f Theodore Roosevelt in the latter's Bull Moose campaign, During the World War he executed several confidential missions for the Emergency Fleet corporation of the shipping board, National attraction was brought him when, in 1921, he advocated cessation of the manufac- ture and sale of pistols, offering $1,000 to any person who would show him “why they should be sold.” Announcing he would build a 22- story hotel, at a cost of between five and six million dollars, for the ac- commodation of the rural merchant when he came to town, Thompson in 1922 purchased a corner site in C! cago's downtown business district. A few years later plans were still pending for the building, but it was announced the hotel would be erected. Breeder of Horses Until 1924 Thompson owned a large | breeding farm at Libertyville, Tli., where his string of horses, most of | them sired by Azoff, were trained. He took many horse show ribbons and race track purses with his thoroughbred: Frank Hals’ “The Laughing Man- dolin Player,” for which he paid $250,000, topped his distinctive collec- | tion of canvases, chiefly paintings | of the Italian Renaissance school. | His art works were valued at nearly $1,000,000, He had two daughters, Florence H., nd Ruth E. His son John R. Ill, in late years looked after most of his father’s business affairs. in w —_______________¢ ‘Temperature and - | Road Conditions | {Mercury readings. at 7 a. m.) Bismarck—Clear, 58; roads good. St. Cloud—Cloudy. 60; roads good. Mandan—Clear, 61; roads good. Duluth—Cloudy. 52: roads good. Hibbing—Cloudy, 55; roads good. Mankato—Partly’ cloudy, 60; roads fair to good. Rochester—Cloudy, 63; roa Jamestown —Clet ‘argo—Clear, Grapd Forks—Cloudy, good, , 70; roads good. toads good. 61; roads vinona—Cloudy; 65; roads good. «Minot—Clear, 55: roads muddy, ReeateClOKEy, fe Toads good. Devils Lake—Cl roads fair. LAMOURE ‘Boy | bis is QCHOLAR- SHIP LaMoure—Reinhold 0. Goehl. son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Goehl of fou: peiss., edical society for having the hi est | ‘scholastic’ record * was al the annual ich- North Newt yer Mica choot ot North Dakota, ir Thompson bought a small the Grand Forks district in the entire he base and on aie course at the University of Dakota. Mr. Goeht took his Bachelor of Science in m the University this June. al oe be foetrenter ae armacology in the the University of INDIA FLIGHT IS HALTED AS | PLANE DROPS Aviators Forced to Descend Near Hop-off Point B:- cause of Minor Defect | NEITHER INJURED Routc Planned Was via Vi-| enna, Constantinople, Bagdad to Delhi Martlesha Sune 18.—()" tance aviators, carr, and P. The British long’ flight Lieutenants ( H. MacWorth, who | Lipeoln- | 2:41 o'clock this flight to Indin, ‘we at the Martlesham Heath s afternoon. | were forced | scend because of a minor despite the great load | their bombing plane carried for }long flight, landed successfully. airmen were uninjured. } Martlesham is near Ipswich, which is about 100 miles from Cranwell. Crowds Silent | The crowds at the field stood | silent at the hop off until the plane, | which ran 800 yards before rising, | to defec which its | The | cleared the fence at the end and slowly mounted into the air. The | machine was so loaded that it had attained a height of only 201 feet when it sed the boundary | of the field. The route which had been planned | was by way of Vienna’ and Con- | stantinople, thence across Asia | Minor ¢0 Bagdad and Karachi. The | flyers had hoped to arrive over the later place Monday morning, but had planned to continue on to Delhi | if they had sufficient fuel The machine used by the Briti flyers is a Hawker “Horsely” equi ped with a Relly-Reyee ¥'condo. motor. They had expressed the hope | of covering 6,000 miles before being | forced to descend, as against. tne | 3,905 aceredited to Chamberlin and Levine in their flight ELKS T0 OPEN BATHING POOL | Germany. | {Pool Will Be - Ciponed Infor- mally Next Thursday, With Gala Night June 30 Formal openipg of the munjcipal | pool will take place Thursday, June according to announcement today by the local Elks lode. The pes: will open informally Thursday, June “A concert by the Ejks’ band at the | pool is planned, with the stand to be| erected in front of the building. | Lights will be strung und special! decorations put up to make the affair! a real carnival opening. After the concert, the first weekly swimming meet, sponsored the Elks during the season, will be held. Contests in the long plunge, the 20 and 40 yard free style and back swims, life saving, diving and other events are planned. Ribbons to Be Given Ribbons are to be awarded win- ners at the weekly concerts und medals will be given the high scorers at the end of the season Initial tryouts for positi life-savers were held at Appl Thursday evening. Of the 11 eants for positions, seven were able to come and two, Art Cayou and |Ray Gobel, had to withdraw after | two. tests because of cramps caused |by the cold water, John O'Hare and Les Dohn were the other two who | tried out. As a result, tryouts will be re- peated some time next week, under the auspices of Harold E. Collins, in charge of the pool. The Elks, who also sponsor the | giving of a cup to the school which wins first place in the interschol- {astic meet, decided to purchase a ew trophy, because the old trophy |i8 now in the permanent possession of the St. Mary’s school, This trophy was, won twice by the Richhait | school; once by the William Moore | and for the past three years by St.| Mary’s school. | The new trophy and the St. Mary’s | trophy, both iarge lovinar cups, mounted, will be placed in the Hos- kins-Meyer window. Heavy Rains Fall at Nearby Points; Mercury Is Rising! Although heavy rains fell at points near Bismarck, this city had only trace of moisture last night, with 01 inch registered, At Napoleon, .57 of an inch fell and at Minot, .50 of an inch. Bot- tineau reported 0.2; Dickinson, .02; Devils Lake, 20; Grand Forks, an} Larimore, .35; Williston, .08, Summer weather came to the city today, with the mercury steadily fe. ‘The prediction for tonight | and Sunday is: “Somewhat unsettled, but generally fair. Not much change in temperature.” Vilma Banky, Rod LaRocque to Marry Los Angeles, Tune | 18.—)—Vilma Banky and Rod La Rocque of the movies will be married here Sunday. They ined a license yesterday. WITH CARNIVAL; PRICE. FIVE CENTS H PLANS OCEAN FLIGHT [rec moniers] RICHARD GRAGE WILL ATTEMPT PACIFIC TRIP Son of Former Supreme Court Justice R. H. Grace: En Route to Henolulu |TO FLY TO MAINLAND Hopes to Make Round Trip— Enlisted in Acrial Service During War En route to Honolulu by | steamship to attempt a round | | trip flight from Hawaii to the mainland is a former Bis- marek boy—Richard Grace, ;son of former Supreme Court Justice R. H. Grace. This in- |formation is conveyed in As- sociated Press dispatches from San Francisco today. Grace left yesterday on the steamer Manukai, with his | Plane stowed below decks. He said he would try to make a yround trip from Honolulu to | San Francisco. Like Lindbergh, he expects jto make the flight alone. His | plane and motor, with minor lexceptions, are the same as Col. Chas. A. Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis, used for {the New York-Paris flight. The gasoline capacity has! | bcen increased and the plane mother in the land doubtless 's the pride of these three in the © to which their sons have flow three are, top to bottom, Svangeline L hard . sons a Command Ch their rgh, Clarenes COMPANION OF BYRD ON TRIP NOT SELECTED, Curiosity to Fourth Mem- ber Runs High Today— Anncuncement Withheld New Wark dune i= (P)—Curioniy as to a fourth member of the crew of the projected transatlantic of Comn E. Byrd's vind ‘remembered by jel flight | has been stripped of every ounce of weight that can be Spared, Grace said his project was Major Grant E. Dodge, t Trom Los Angeles and Pasa- nat +A $50,000 prize being offered for flights between San Francisco and Honolulu, Served Over Seas Richard was an_ aviator in the army, leaving the University of Min- nesotg the latter part of 1917, when he w ges oll. After training, ,he was commissioned as an ensign jand sent overseas, returning tv, Bi marck a few months after the armi tice was signed. He will be better Bismarckans as Vir- race, the name by which he was known here. His father was a supreme court j justice here from 1917 to 1923. Rich~ (Continued on page three) CONTRACTS FOR HIGHWAY WORK TOTAL $474,000 State Highway Commission Awards Road Jobs in Stv- enteen Counties Contr fatale e state high’ Friday, The counties in w various projects are lo d, cessful bidder and the contract follow: | Hettinger count; ling, H. J. Hawley, | $25,61 improvements 9 miles of grad- 2 miles grading, iH. , 31,366.43. giant m high today as over the ment of the ta tomorrow night. Commander By deluged wi sons d to Paris in the these requests, he from women, but there is one, will said. While Byrd withheld definite nouncement as to the probable fourth member, followers of the flight spec- ulated whether a newspaper report- er, to act as official historian, or ja passenger would pe carried. A report that the’ America, instead | of landing at Le Bourget Field in Paris, would continue until its 1,300 gallons of gasoline were exhausted, gained credenc ‘The plane now has « ius of nearly 3,900 miles, almost 300 miles more than the distance to Paris, Thirteen hundred gallons of gasoline are enough to keep it in the air 42 hou! from per had fourth, man,” “the be he a an- cruising rad- \Sentinel Butte Youngsters May Meet President A good many Sentinel Butte | youngsters are going to be proud iads when they return from their va- cation this summer. The Sentinel ; Butte Boy Scouts 2 to make a trip to the Black ‘ills, leaving next week. They will carry with them letters of introduc- tion to President Coolidge frem Gov- ernor Sorlie and Secretary cf Anwi- culture and Labor Joseph A. Kitchen, Thus their chance of meeting cae resident is good. Besides meeting jim, they plan to explore the hills and to vie for scoutcraft medals. The American navy is now strong, Miss Banky gave her age 23 and a Hocque sale was 28 er in number of vessels than the navy of Great Britain, ’ Pembina 2.4 miles ing, Georg Grant Con Paul, $25,801 cone ; Mandan, $9,262. Grand Forks county, 7 miles ¢ ling, W. H. Noel company, 13 mil St. peep grading, Paul, $49,- county, Brothers, "Stark county, concrete work, J. J. Rue & Sons, Bismarck, $5,49 Stutsman and Barnes counties, 13 ‘miles grading, William Collins, La- | kota, $27,323.46. | Stutsman county, 12 miles grad- ‘ing, William Collins, $26,624.18. | Hettinger county, concrete work, . Carl V. Anderson, Baldwin, §12,- 987.29. . | Pierce county, 11.5 miles. grading, |John Coghlan, St. John, $26,062.46. Kidder county, 3.8 miles grading, |r, 0. Smith and company, Steele, st tlie county, concrete work Schultz Brothers, Bowbells, $2,746.76. Renville county, 12 miles gi ing, Stevens Brothers, $27,256.73. Stutsman county, 13 miles grad- - ing, A. J. Jackson, Jamestown, $40,- 060.26. McKenzie county, 6 mile, M. E. Thompson, Minot, $11,030.57. ¥ Pembina county, concrete, J. J. Rue & Sor $5,790. r-Stutsman counties, 11 | miles graveling, Charles A. Jacks Jamestown, $20,485.72. | McHenry county, 11 miles gravel- ing, H. J. Pitts, Ellendale, $11,793.40. Sargent county, 12; miles gravel- ing, W. H. Noel. company, James- eee $34,638.48. Stutsman’ county, concrete work, ae Bridge company, Fargo, | jai Tackoon, edi. 9 vgs grading, m, ays J. di nee og North pa AEs Products company, } Mandan, $11,500.31. “Corrugated metal culverts, North Dakota Metal Culvert -amrsn~ go, $7,433.40; Berger Manufacturing company, Minneauolis, ¥1v,2de.0c. 4HOR OW Bis rss ba