The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 28, 1927, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT FREDDY WELCH | Washingtonian DIES TODAY IN’ GOTHAM HOTEL Was Former U. S. Light-| weight Champ—Lost | to Leonard New York, July 28.-() Freddy Welch, former lightweight champion of the world, was found dead today ip his room at a local hotel. Freddie Welch, 41 years old, wore the lightweight crown for three years from 1914 to 191 He won it from Willie Ritchie of San Francisco on points in a 20 round match at Lon-| iy 1. He lost it to ny ew York on May 1917, when he was stopped in the| ninth round Welch, whose real name was erick Thomas, tar and held in the reserve officers’ corps. 10 days ago he was taken to a police station on charges of disorderly duct when he red in eleh and Edw discharged after e court that he h “friendly fight. hotel Sidney in| apparently from widow said that | although he ¢ large sums in the ing he died “without a penny.” h has made his home in the United States since before this coun try entered the world war. Was Clever Known as one of the cleverest box- ers of his dag, Welgh had a colorful | ring careét Which started in 19¢ He won the lightweight championsh éf England from Matty Wells in 1912 and toured the United States and Cannda several times before beating | Ritchie for the world’s title in 1s Ich was vlaining to the been engaging in a th Rite ie in New ork but kept the title, until 1917. The hammering he took’ from Benny Leonard in lo: the championship put Welch on downward trail. A maid found Welch's body clad in and lying face down on the Welch's wife, house keeper at a hotel, from whom he: recently ed after a married life of was notified immediately. have two children, Betty, 13, aad Freddy, Jr. i TOURNEY IS BIG MAGNET stanton, Jamestown, Linton.) Turtle Lake, Mandan Send in Inquiries Inquiries concerning the hig Mis- souri Slope Baseball tournament to be held here August 25, 26, 27 and 28, | are coming in to officials of the! tourney here. \ Stanton, Jamestown, Linton, Turtle Lake, and Mandan have writte to get details about the big affair, the | largest ever held in the Missouri Slope country. Teams in the territory west and| south of and including Ellendale, Jamestown, Carrington, Fessenden, Harvey, Drake, Max, Plaza and all| west of the Missouri river arc eligible to enter. | Entries close at 5 The entry fee is for each team} and ~ust accompany the team’s ap-| plication. On the entry list filed by | the teams must be specified a list of | not to exceed 15 players who will] be eligible to play, and all of whom must be members of the team August m, August 10. | Merman to Paddle Down River Tonight ducted in the tent back of the City) | | ing beyond the use for life of - (QUEEN MARIE NOT SO RICH | Dowager May Be Forced to Convert Jewels Into Cash, Unless Aided Bucharest, July °° Ferdinand’s’ death has left Queen Marie relatively a poor woman, Un- jless the state comes forward with! help for the now dowager queen, she | may be obliged to convert some of| her Jewels and other possessions into | cash. ‘As already announced, Ferdinand’s | 300,000,000 ici fortune (about $1,500,- 000) will be apportioned among the king’s five children including Prince Carol who will receive about $400,000, | The queen, however, receives noth- certain of the king’s properties and palaces. | Only $30,000 Yearly | ¢ government now proposes to split_up_ the 30,000,000 tei civil list! which Ferdinand ‘received among Queen King Michael, the ~ () — King Marie, | Princess Mother Helen, Prince Nich- !This would olas tnd members of the regency. ! allow the queen only jwbout $30,000 annually. | This sum is very small compared with the salaries and allowances o ‘other royal figu Queen Marie is said to feel keen ‘distress over her financial situation In a forthcoming annual ct round-up at Atlantie City, Gladys | nee will represent the capital) “Miss Washington.” She expects | long tresses to help con- siderably. hee delegates arrive there for their con-| vention. He will drop off the Eifei tower in a parachute, | Evangelists Plan English Lectures | to Start Sunday are to begin at the | ngelistic meetings now being con. | Auditorium Sunday evening at 8 p.| m., it was announced today. Hand- | panted charts are to be used with| the lectures to illustrate the biblical | themes used. The purpose of the MSanrnay is announced by those in| to help every man, every | ch ‘wKanization and result in a| ulesing to the cies Lie Beicalera (oe TOUR Grand F N July 28. Forty ‘ teal count the court hoMletcat 7 @élock tbls afternoon, on the second of the sow thistle educational tours that are be- ing conducted by Dan E. Willard, ag- ricultural agent of the Great North- ern railway, for the farms of this district, Vincent P. Taylor. all round air man, a native of Australia, will float down the Missouri river in a rubber! suit this evening. river a distanc: back, and, sing’ He wil! go ‘up the | addied down on his} ing, will reach the Bismarck-Mandan bridge at 7 o'clock. | On the river ba e will distribute souvenirs to spectators. Mr. Taylor ,who makes balloon a censions and parachute descends, times, is on his way to Pairs, to be on hand when the Ame n Legion j | | Ort ht aarti ee j and Louisville and Nashville systems, to | follow the and efforts were started today by | friends to induce the cabinet to rec end to parliament a liberal al-j in order to enable her, as ueen, to maintain the for- and liberality of hes lowage mer dignit | court. Southern Railroads Would Lower. Rates|. Washington, July 28.--)—Two of the southern railroads serving West Virginia, Kentu and Tennessee coal fields, the Chesapeake and Ohio filed with the Interstate Com: Commission new rate schedules g to reduce their tariffs on lake carro coal, In accordance with their published announcements, the railroads propose, per ton and other reilroads serving tne southern fields are expected to action. The cut is just sufficient to meet the reduction given northern coal fields by a recent decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission. The commission under past prac- tice would suspend the rates from the southern fields and make a new investigation into the s Powers Lake Lad Is Drowned in Lake Park Rapids, Minn., July 28.17) to cut the lake cargo rates 20 certs}, THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE HER IN-LAWS’ SOCIAL STATUS PUZZLES FIFI Mrs. Stillman Doesn’t Know Where Lena Wilson’s Rela- tives Will Get Money Shot in Mexico New York, July 28.—(AP)— The New York Daily News in a dispatch from Grand Mere, Que- bec, says Mrs. James A. Stittman, |W Sr., whose son “Bud” marricd Lena on, her one-time servant, is puzzled ovér the financial and so- cial status of her newly acquired kinsmen. Mrs. Wilson and Lena’s six sis- ters have for years lived on the wages they received as servants from the Stillmans. “Of course,” said Mrs. Stillman. An attempt to assassinate William “I can’t have Lena’s mother and E. Chapman (above), American con-| sisters employed here as servants su! _at Puerto Mexico, Mexico, has! after Lena's marriage to my son. been repo:ted to American author-) At the same time I refuse to per- ities by J. J. Sparks, British viceecon-| mit Lena’s family to even think sul at the Me ican port. Chapmas | hey ‘can profit financially as a was shot and seriously oneh not Tatally, ‘wounded, ‘Sparks ingormed Tesult of the marriage of Bud and offi that two men entered the; * building during the night and when’ that the Wilson family and Chanma to investigate, one of | broke last week.” rma the men shot him, Mrs. Stillman, who said at the in mind when you're wondering what to order at fountain . ‘CANADA DRY Ree V8 Pat. OF. “The Champagne-of Ginger Ales” Donald Menholt, 17, of Powers Lake, N. D., drowned in Small Lake, 25 ml northwest of here late Wednes- day. The boy, visiting at the home of his grandfather, C. W. Hughes, was bathing with two companions, and unable to swim, sank upon stepping into a hole, The body, recovered early ‘today, will be returned to Powers Lake for, burial, | MONEY TO LOAN On Bismarck improved Segue property. Frparmees privileges. PRICE OWENS ELTINGE BLOCK time of the dispute that she would turn them from the home had provided and stop. their cl ac- counts to her name in. stores, indi- cated she would deal with them more leniently. “These are my Feo and I know them,” she said, remarking that to natives of the region sums poy one hundred dollars were be- their understanding. Elevator Man Gets Suspended Sentence Fargo, N. D., July 28—(AP)=- Thomas Dahl, former agent of the Monarch Elevator at. Leonard, which was burned to the ground June 6 with an estimated loss of $20,000, was given a suspended sentence of five years’ imprison- ment, when he pleaded guilty to 4 charge of first degree arson in Cass county district court before Judge A. T. 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