The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 23, 1927, Page 1

FORECASTS Generally fair tonight and Sunday. Not much change in temperature. ESTABLISHED 1873 MADRID. ‘ XN BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1927 COOLIDGE PACKS FESHING ROD, CAMERAS CLICK So Ends Day in Woods With Army of Writers and Pho- tographers Along PLEASANT MOOD Presdient Lets Down Bar on Taking Pictures—Trav- els By Rail IS IN Mystle, S. D., July 23—U)—New trout in a tumbling canyon creek called to President Coolidge today in erritory here thick with pine trees from telephone wires and rail- js. He packed his fishing rod and reel into @ canvas container for a whole day deep in the woods, as the guest of Sam McKelvie, former governor of who has a summer home one of the most picturesque « portions of the Black Hills, The fotmer governor himself a publisher, also had invited the corp of Washington newspaper writers and photographers to be his guests, and Mr. Coolidge, in a (2 ant mood over the prospect of the ex- pedition, promised to permit all th photographing and writing .of his skill at angling that pen and lens desired to record. Youngster Foiled However pleasunt the day might be for, the president, it was set down foremost as a distinct victory for the photographers. When Mr. Coolidge first dropped a hook into the lake waters near White Pine camp last. summer, they started their demand for: a picture of the presidentiai fisherman but throughout that sum- mer the White House secret service detail watched cameras like a hawk. The demand was renewed when ‘the trout began to be pulled from the swift creek of the Black Hills but to mo avail, A young amateur from Sioux Falls, S. D., did get a pic- ture of Mr. Coolid~- fishing here, but his film was seized and de- stroyed. “Just wait,” predicted one of the photographers. “We'll get that fish- ing picture before the summer is over.” and today the bars were oy- Marine Slain in Nicaragua Private Michael Obleski of Rou- lette, Pa., a marine with Uncle Sam's forces in Nicaragua, was killed in the recent fighting with the insurg- ent General Sandino’s sold A seant two-score of marines, aided by bombing planes, routed ' Sundind's force of 500 men, Obleski being the only marine slain. Three hundred dead and 100 wounded was the toll the marines and planes took in Sandino’s ranks, 4 WOMAN, 3 MEN CHARGED WITH HIGHWAY THEFT Mr. and Mrs. Ray Fowler of Bismarck Accused With Others of Robbery GARAGE MAN ATTACKED Defendants Charged With Beating and Taking $10 to $15 From Victim dered removed, 1e cam instructed that they might fire away. Black with Trees ; Mystic is 34 miles. ‘ie Rapid City, toward the head of Rapid Can- yon, where pine trees grow so thick that they make the surrounding country actually seem black. Through the valley of this precipitous canyon runs a creek, whose water dashes and splashes over rocks and fi The president reaches My! his summer White House base over a railroad line, which winds in and cout smong the pine trees. and crags and the cars used by the road are open at the top to permit sight see- ing. At Mystic, a rumbling lumber wagon, drawn by a couple of sure- footed horses, awaited to bump Mr. Coolidge along a seldom trod moun- tain trail to the McKelvie cottage. POISON CANDY SENT BY MAIL Orphanage Matron Charged With Dispatching Package to North Carolina Man Richmond, Va., July 23-—()—With Mrs, Eva Hollowe' matron of a Methodist orphanage ‘here, lodged in jail, postal inspectors’ of North Caro- ina and Virginia today. were en- deavoring to clear up the mystery surrounding her alleged dispatehin; ‘of a box of poisoned cal throug! the mails to a North Ca iS mi The woman is charged with send- ing the candy to Robert Thompson of Aurora, N. C. Mrs. Hollowell de- niéd the charge, but after s prelim- inary hearing yesterday was held for federal ind jury. Thompson, according to the postal inspecto! spected the candy when he rece’ it and immediately sent postal inspector for analysis, the federal bureau of chemistry find- ing it contained poison. nding of the discloses AGED OPERATOR AIDS HUNT Mrs. Mary Norviel Hi ©., who js white-haired and years old and who claims di tinction of being the oldest ective ‘telephone “girl” fe the state of Ohio, recently had her first experience with bank bandits. She was on duty when three bandits entered the state bank of Huntaville next door to the tele- hi office. When informed that its had visited the bank and JS e Rus eee G of loot, sl through neighboring town and cities. in. the The cotton states showed wed this year in ra! 4 Ee ee hoa Mada Pr 7 any F part id the camera men|> Mr, and Mrs. Ray Fowler of Bis- marek, Clyde Wayt and Herbert Mil- Ver of Kansas City, are being held sin the Burleigh county jail, in de- fault of $5,000 bonds each, awaiting trial on a charge of highway robbery. They are alleged to have robbed A. C. Dance of Menoken of between $10 and $15, after beating him yes- terday afternoon. They were ar- rested by representatives of the sheriff's office and the city police department at a farm near Brittin, after fleeing from Menoken, It is alleged that the four people entered Dance’s garage, demanded his money. and, when he at first re- fused to give it to him, beat him. They then left, taking what money they found, it is alleged. Passerby to Rescue A passerby saw Dance tacked and piened the police depart- ment, but before officials reached tee towes the alleged robbers had le Scouring the country, officials found them on the Ohmer farm, near Brittin, where they had stopped to fix their car. It is the belief of of- ficials that they had planned to go to South Dakota. Preliminary hearing for the four will be held Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock, They will come op for trial at the next jury term of Burleigh county district court, in December. | Weather Report . ——— Weather conditions at North Da- kota points for the 24 hours ending at 7 a. m, today: Temperature at 7 a. m. Highest y y Lowest la: ing at- Oj arriving at Temps. ipitati in inches Preci BISMARCK . Bottinesu . Devils: Lake ... Dickinsan ..... Dunn Center .. Ellendale Fessenden .. Grand Forks cockigoe be a SSLRISSISSSTSZSS Srowest SSeesesesssen eeczoose Moorhead, Minn. + Cloudy For Bismarck and vicinity: Gen- er lly fair tonight and Sunday. Not much change in temperature. For Nort F peat Generale Sais nd Sunday. m ‘in"tem itu Ke re. Quite wont vetted weather condi- th} in cotton prices. | 4. Com Phillip BIG BASEBALL TOURNEY T0 BE HELD IN CITY $1,000 Purse and Silver Tro- phy Offered For Missouri Slope Contest ‘STAGED FOR AUGUST Association of Commerce Sponsors Greatest Effort of Kind Attempted ! | Bismarck is to hold the biggest \baseball tournament ever staged in |the Missouri Slope country August !25, 26, 27 and 28, | This announcement was made to- day by a committee of the Aisocia- tion of Commerce, which is sponsor- ing the project, A purse of a thousand dollars and a silver cup are to be given by the association. Baseball teams in the territory west and south of and including El- lendale, Jamestown, Carrington, Fes- senden, Harvey, Drake, Max, Plaz: Sanish, and all west of the Missow river in North Dakota, are eligible to enter. Entry Fee of $25 Entries close at 5 p. m. August 10. The entry fee is $26 for each team and must accompany the team’s ap- plication. On the entry filed by the teams must be specified a list of not to exceed 15 players, who will be eligible to play. All of whom must be members of the team Aug. 10, All entries are to be mailed to jarry P. Goddard, secretary of the Association of Commerce. Drawing for places in the prelim- inary round will take place at 8 p. m, August 10 at the association rooms. Each entry is asked to have @ representative present. Import Umpires Umpires will be two men from the American Association, if possible, and ut any event will be from out- side the territory covered. The um- |pire-in-chief shall be the sole judge of all questions that may arise in connection with the tournament which are not specifically covered herewith or by the rules of organ- ized baseball, which rules shall be interpreted by him. Any team not abiding by the decisions shall for- feit all rights to participate in the tournament or in any way share in its awards, - The committee that drew up the preliminry plans for the tournament is composed of Eddie Tobin, J. P. Sell, Al Brink, “Doe” Love, William Kontos and W. 8. Ayers. Pavement dances are planned for ‘each evening of the tournament. COUNTESS MAY MARRY AGAIN Rumor That Former Millicent Rogers Will Wed Argen- tinian Is Strengthened Paris, ig 23.—(7)—Rumors that Countess Salm, the former Millicent Rogers, who obtain a divorce in Paris, three months ago, contem- plates a second marriage, have been strengthened, says the Paris edition of the New York Herald-Tribune, be- cause on arriving at Cherbourg from New York yesterday, she met the Argentinian, Arturo Ramos, who ac- companied her to her hotel. Later, according to the newspaper, they left for Paris in Senor Ramos' automobile. The count refused to comment on her plans, further than to say she was extremely anxious to be in Paris to see her son, Peter. Before Coun jalm sailed for Europe there ere bit in New York that she was to be tiarried to Arturo Peralta Ramos, a wealthy Argentinian, but friends said there was absolutely nothing to it. Upon jew York from abroad recently, in company with her father, Cofénel H. H. Rogers, she noddes assent when, in reply to questions, he said he would like to see her m: id that if and when there was another marrige, there hed be an announcement before and, Boost Good Roads missioners Jacob Goldsmith, and Jacob ni Auditor C: Kez of Logan cqunty appeared before the state highway commission today, ,in behalf of the construction of, between Lehr and Streeter. The proposed road will be 25 miles long and an important fais in the development of that dis- ict. GRAIN INCOME Is LESS Economics, United States of Agriculture, at $1! or the crop year, July 1926 to June 1027, compa! with hy 1,000,000, the Riper cont, dus’ chistly to the dectine os lechine Peotton ‘prices. Smaller income is also estimated for tee products. Ll ples, and potatoe: wan iy \b- i! chigher ated tm oe at sadn livestock i aEanaaaTemaa Y Logan Co. Officials’ " ‘Guards Watch U. S. Embassy in | Argentina 3, duly 23.—()—The embassy and legation and American banks were _ being closely guarded today, as a con- sequence of the explosion of a bomb at the statue of George Washington at 11 o'clock last night and of an- other about an hour later in front of the Ford Automobile Agency. The outrages are attributed by police to Sa zetti sympathizers and an acti gation is unders There were no casualties. Buenos Ai United Stat way. FLYER PLANS | . Coolidge Hears Ho TO MAKE JAPAN} IN SIXTY HOURS} Grace of Hollywood Will Not Carry Any Auxiliary Ap- pliances on Long Trip TO START SEPTEMBER 5 Plane to Be ‘Built From Own Design—To Carry 1,400 Gallons Los Angeles, July 22.—(#i—Tokyo will be the goal of hard V. Grace, Holywood aviator, who wrecked his plane in an attempt to take off from Hawaii for California, in a flight he intends to start September 5. Plans for the 6,500 mile ocean flight from Los Angeles to Japan were announced by the flyer last night, following his return by steamer from Honolulu. He will be an entry‘in the Dole flight to Hawaii August 12 and will immediately re- fuel in the islands and attempt the return flight to the mainland. This will be a bit of training for his 60 hour flight to Japan, he said. No Extra Equipment He said he intended to carry, neither radio, navigator nor para- chute with him. Grace announced his plane would be built from his own design, and would carry 1400 gallons of gasoline. His two motors would burn 16 gal- fons an hour and maintain a speed of 120 miles an hour. Another development in transpa- cific flights was the commencing of work on a two mile runway a the Long Beach Municipal Airport. This is being prepared for the take-off of other planes whieh are expected to enter the Dole race. TIMBER WOLF, | FAMILY PET, KILLS BABY; | emia Animal Renews Attask Victim After Child Is Seized By Maid FATHER SHOOTS BRUTE Aggressor Considered Tame, But Escapes From Private Park at Red Bank, N. J. Red Bank, N. J., July 23— ()— Thomas Holten, aged 2% years, is dead today, the victim of an attack by a hi timber wolf, which had peanaa tron his fath private zoo. The animal, born in captivity, and considered quite tame, scaped while Oliver W. Holton, the boy’s father, and several keepers were repairing a fence of the zoo, which occupies near- ly 200 acres of the heavily wooded Holton estate. Goes Quarter of Mile The wolf made its way a quarter of a mile to the Holton home, where Thomas wi FF om dage’ in the yard with Henry Mazzo, 3%: old son of Mrs. Anna Mazza, the Holton maid. Mrs. Mazza. heard the children scream and Henry ran to her, crying that a big dog was biting his play- The emaid ran into the yard the wolf seize Thom: into the air. She kicked the animal, which turned if to attack her. Renews Attack When she kicked again, it drew sl pic ed up the boy and carried him into the house. The wolf followed, seized the boy again and dragged him to the yard. ljazza stunned the rifle, picke into the n, who found the wolf near the hor and shot it. The boy died at a hospital several hours later. 3 % President Coolidge, with no warning, bumped when he attended the farmers’ picnic at ‘Ardmore, D. yn above tossing a few verbal bombs into the tariff and the “fixing of artifleial prices for the things the farmeryhas to buy,” into a political jamboree Governor Bulow is sh while Coolidge, straw-hatted, sits listening. After the crowd’ had cheered Bulow, Senator Norblck, shown to the left of Cool- idge,, tried to even up things with words to the effect that “the only thidg worse than a Republican tar- Then Ray Maguson (right) made sweet music iff Was a Democratic one.’ on his banjo and everybody was : happy again. Bud Stillman Grabs Sweetheart As Result of Family Quarrel |, smi Religious and Social Barriers, Are Swept Away By Ar-! dent: Wooer—Girl Wants to/ Be Manicurist in Montreal Wilsons Ordered From New York, July 23.—()—'The New | York Daily News, today, in a copy- righted dispatch from: Grande Anse, Quebec, says a quarrel between the Stillman and Wilson families result- ed in Bud 6tillman “kidnaping” Lena Wilson, his 18 year old northwoods swgaebeart, and taking her to his| mother's camp, 7 ir marcia, next Tuesd ail Prior to Is and stay there for months, while his bride-to-be tearfully insisted she would go to Montreal to become a manicurist./ In Battered Car The quarrdi is reported due to religious and social barriers raised by the Wilson family, farmers, and the matter was only settled, when Bui literally kidnaped the hysterical Lena and carried her in a battered car-oved 30 miles of forest trails to his mother’s camp. First, says the Daily News, Bud signed a document, agreeing that the marriage ,should be by Catholic ual and that any children of the union should be reared in the Cath- olic faith. In return, he received from Lena's mother her written con nt which is necessary under Que. ¢ laws for the merriage of a minor daughter. But none of Miss Wilson's rela- tives, says the dispatch, will be per-| mitted to attend the welding. { ts on | Mrs. James A. Stillman, Bud’s| mother. is reported to have ordered | the Wilsons from the house at La- | tuque, which she presented to her son | when his engagement was announced | and also had advised storekeepers in| Montreal, Latuque and Grandmere,' that the ‘Wilsons to receive, no} more credit in he: 1c. COUPLE TO BE WED IN QUEBEC. SAYS CURE Montreal, July 23.—(#)—The mar- lage of James “Bud” Stillmrn, and Canadi sweetheart, Lena Wilson, will tal lace at Grande Anse, Quehee. on Tuesday morning. July 26, by the Abbey Lamy, cure of Grandes Piles, near Grand Mere, it was learn- today. This information was obtained to- wer by long distance telephone from }thé eure of La Tuque, Quebec. The! cure declared he knew of no drastic 1 between the Stillman fam- fly and the Wilson familv, as re- rted, in the United States. The onl Bepute which had occurred he said. Gkitimpn's parente at first not ‘el ints at first n Ine Should be Catholic: This matter. hae” 0) matter. how- ever, has been satisfactorily settled, the cure. said. ‘The cure of La Tuque said over the ne that Lena Wilson is at the home at Grand Anse, where “had spoken with her. matters, young | few how | Poison. WOMANGETS 30 YEARS AT HARD LABOR Farmer’s Wife, Who Con-| fessed to Killing Mother, | Wants Electric Chair | VICTIM GIVEN POISON. Father Also Partakes of Cap-' sules, But Reeovers—Mo- tive of Deed Unknown — Rushville, Neb. July sentence of 30 years ut was Roy W son, 1, a farmer's wife, when she stood before a judge last night and —P\—A d labor asked that she be sent to the elee- rf trie chair for the murder of her aged mother. | The woman was sentenced only a after she had confessed, ing of Mrs, Daniel Loomis ig her capsules containing Her father, to whom she also n. is recovering. | Makes Her Request | The confession was submitted to} Judge Ear] Meyer, who, after reading | it, asked the womiin if #he -had any-| thing to say before sentence was im-| posed, itis “Yes,” she replied. electric chair right ai The court told her that it was im- possible but im pronouncing sentence of 30 years at hard labor he said he “thought that would suffice.” Although Nebraska statutes pro- vide a death penalty, it has been the custom to sentence confessors to the penitentiary or hold them for trial. No woman ever has been sentenced to death in Nebraska, available ree- ords show. Death Is Sudden Mrs, Wilson concealed the motive of her crime, although admitting freely that she ‘had given her par- ents the poison capsules. Her mother died an hour after she took the cap- sules last Sunday night but her father was only violently ill. The crime had baffled the author- iti&s, unable to determine a motive. The mother was comortably wealthy, due to property left her by her fath er with ‘the, stipolation that upoh her death it should go to her daugh- ter. “T want the | Road Co nditions |! ———— (Mercury readings st 7 a. m.) WEATHER and BADE Hhkiking 3 roads i lear, 10; roads good. Rochester—Clear, is Minot—Clear, 59; is . ' fee Forks—Partly cloudy, 61; is : Jamestown — Cloudy, 70; roads bare ig—Cloudy, 64 ds good. tertal im 101 ' 3 Toads good. Wino} . Th lear, 70; roads good. bs loud: le Dalle ‘bakerclondy, €or roe t Words at Picnic THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [aaom] PRICE FIVE CENTS FEARS PLOT AMONG STUDENTS ISPAIN QUELLS LEADERS IN WAR ACADEMY Barcelona Workmen's Threat to Strike Also May Lead Authorities to Action STUDENTS REBELLIOUS Labor Unions Refuse to Deal With Other Committee Over Disputes _ Madrid, July 4P)—“Undiscin- lined elements” exist among the students at the artillery academy, ¥ a note issued by the government totow. Jt adds that energetic action will be taken against them. Another official note announces that drastic steps will be taken by the authorities to quell any disorders by syndicalist workmen in Barcelona, who are threatening to go on strike, Minister Takes Measure _The communique says that discip- line has not yet been properly re- established in the artillery academy, Jocated in Segovia, and that the min- ister of w ts taken measures to weed out the ringleaders. In Barcelona, the communique adds, the government is faced with the objections of old trades unions to participation with other organiza- tions in committees appointed to settle disputes between capital and labor, “The government,” it continues, “will remain unmoved, even if the unions call strikes in support of their intransigeant attitude.” he communique outlines an at- tempt by pupils of the military col- lege at Segovia to organize a con- spiracy against the government. CROP OUTLOOK ‘Big Jim’ on Way te Serve 80 Years 3.—()—James n, known as “Big Jim” MeGraw, ‘oday was on his way to the Okla: homa state reformatory to serve out an 80 ve: ntence for bank rob bery. McGraw was arrested here for stealing automobile. He confes- several robberies and jall breaks, MAN, READY TO DINE, 15 SLAIN Victim With Criminal -Ree- ord Is Found in Chieago Hotel Apartment (‘Pi\—The body! ently three days, | puch in a h bullet through his leove table set for e of the plates undis- turbed, provided police today with all the accoutrements of an unusual murder myste Faxton, who d, but little ap- rently had been learned of cireum- stances leading up to the slaying. On a chair was a pistol with one empty shell. Two persons apparently had supped at the table in the al- cove, but an untouched dish of bacon and eggs was at the third. The apartment had been leased y last week by a young man giv- in 5 name as James Britt. ince then, hotel employes had een nothing of the man and the slaying was not discovered until a maid entered the apartment with fresh linen: Identification of the body was made by # young woman, one of five women held with four men for ques- tioning. Her name was not revealed. Country Looks Good, Says Colorado Man “I have never been in this coun- try before and I am surprised how well things look,” said J. G, Mec- Cormick, business manager of the Express-Courier, Fort Collins, Colo., who passed through Bismarck yester- day on his way to Minot. From there he will swing uround Montana and through Wyoming. He spent two days in the Black Hills. “Somebody is there but I didn’t see him,” said Mr. McCormick. erything was quiet. Some gu: were patrolling around the lodge and they looked me over but they didn’t say anything. rops in“this state look good and wheat should run up to 35 bushels in some places. In our district, which is irrigated, wheat runs from 30 to 60 bushels and we have an excellent beet crop, which is our principal industry. 2 Preachers Head IS FAVORABLE, REPORTS SAY Prospects Still: Bright For Greatest Harvest in State’s History LITTLE RUST IS FOUND Corn Prospects Good—Mis- souri Slope Grains Are Doing Well Warmer weather has favored the covn erop without, at the same time, causing damage to small grains, and prospects still are bright for the greatest harvest in North Dakota history, according to reports received by the Bank of North Dakota from its field agents in all parts of the state. Although reluctant to make esti- mates of the wheat crop until it is farther along, none of the . field agents place it below 15 bushels an aere, Weather has been such as a de- velop black rust in some sections but none has appeared as yet. H. M: Eri on, reporting for the Minot territory, said he had examined 15 fields ia chig district and found no in of black stem rust. Northeast of Carpio he found a few fields which appeared to have some black rust on the leaves but none on the stems. The red rust is confined to the leaves also. Wet mornings with hot sunshine and sultry weather have fa- vored black rust development but as yet there is no damage, Erickson said, Corn Prospects Are Good Corn prospects are good but it still is too early to estimate the yields of wheat, oats, flax and barley, he said. His estimate of the rye yield still is 14 to 15 bushels an acre. Consider- able hay is being cut in the and pastures continue the best in 20 years. The rye crop is there is sufficient moist soil to carry through a good wheat crop, he rains have soaked the out the territory. T. E, Charlson said that the rye harvest will start in the Ray within a few days. metes the wheat yield in the north- western corner of the state at 15 to 30 bushels; rye 20 to 30 bushels and flax 8 to 15. The corn crop is in good condition, he reports. After a trip through eastern Mc- Kenzie county and the territory around Sanish, Ross and Ray, Charl- son reported that conditions continue favorable, Considerable acreage in the vicinity, of Charlson and ne s|Was planted late but even there the crops are doing well and will make a crop of from 15 to 25 bushels an acre if the rust stays away. Some fields will show an even higher yield. Alfalfa Is Cut In southwestern North Dakota the first cutting of alfalfa and other tine Raid on ‘Stag Party’ |reports ‘ee Chicago, July 28.—(#)}—Two minis- ters led. several ads of police in a raid on a “1 party” in a west ide hall last ni resulting in the of men, and 8 women ers. ae inisters, Rev. 0. G. Davis, head of the Bethany Bible Mlinols Vigilance’ Antoclation, art 0 lance " for and led the raid after] were seined, cae mS f : tram lack Roitares aerate