The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 28, 1927, Page 1

NORTH DAKOTA'S “OLDEST NEWSPAPER 2 /® ESTABLISHED 1878 } TENSION OVER SITUATION IS ON INCREASE Kovno Government Cites Ex- tracts From Polish Newspa- pers to Prove Claim STATE OF WAR’ Poland Denies It Has Any Ag- gressive Intentions Against Lithuania EXISTS Geneva, Nov. 28.—(4—Increased tension between Poland and. Lith- uania is indicated with the receipt by the League of Nations today of two new communications from the Kovno government containing ex- tracts from Polish newspapers’ which Lithuania insists’ prove that’ land seeks to secure the over- throw of the existing regime at Kovno. : Premier Waldemaras of _Lith- uania first sent Sir Eric Drum- mond, League secretary, a memor- andum contai various declara- tions in the Warsaw press and fol- lowed this up today by a telegram containin; ther extracts which he alleged demonstrated clearly that Warsaw was fomenting the organi- zation of a military offensive de-, signed to secure the downfall of the Kovno government. The Lithuanian premier asked that these communications be at- tached to and considered in connec- tion with Kovno’s original appeal to the league against the arrest of clergy and the closing of Lithuanian schools in th Vilna district, whose ~octupation by Poland Lithuania re- fuses to recognize. 7 Ay Russia's Stand . ith the Pe apr og seal ict worrying ats (wi are beginning to gather here for the meetings of the preparatory a ‘i somite. and the league council, ussian ea- tion mace clear today that it ei not assent to the disarmament de- ity. A soviet spokesman told the As-| sociated Press that Maxim Litvin- off, head of the Russian delegation, will explain in detail Russia’s views on’ reduction of armaments, be- lieving that now is the time to thrash out the entire problem in its broad aspects by a frank exposition of the ideas of various countries. 7 had ‘proposed. a reduction, in arma: ad pro} a jon in arma- ments to her Baltic neighbors but that the latter had refused to listen to the soviet initiative. He that soviet ae now would make a@ more genere! The Boil aie Neel e whether Russia would join the se- curity committee which will take up the problem ‘of security in relation to disarmament. POLAND CHARGED WITH FOMENTING A REVOLT z New York, Nov. 28.—(AP)—Dis- indicated that ten- and feeling certain} WTOM - HE BIS Sinclair and Associates May © OER ST RIE ee joods Take Many Lives in Algeria Algiers, Nov. 28 —)— F which swept the coastal region of the French territory of Algeria, in north Africa, aft- er a 40-hour rain today were have claimed hun- dreds of lives, Houses were swept awcy and large build- ings collapsed ‘n an area. 50 miles wide from Orleansville to Perregau, and northward to the Mediterannean sea. The worst damage was at Mostaganem, where 28 victims of the flood were buried. Throughout ti flood-swept area, 37 bodies were known to have been recovered. All these were’ natives. | Fh LAST ATTERPT MADE T0 SAVE RUTH SNYDER Dr. Neymann, of Leopold-Loeb Case Fame, Called to Make Psychoanalysis New York, Nov. 28.—(AP)—Upon Dr. Clarence J. Neymann, Chicago psychiatrist who testified for Leo- pold and Loeb, today depended the defense’s hope of saving Mrs, Ruth Snyder, convicted’ with Henry Judd Gray of the murder of her husband, from death. Suppressed pages of the confes- sions of Gray and Mrs. Snyder were regarded by counsel as providing vital material for Dr. Neymann, summoned here from Chicago in a la:‘-minute attempt by Attorney Edgar F. Hazelton to set up a parallel between the Snyder slaying and the ae ve Fehon type Bol for. wi Leopold. basis of Dr. Neymann’s conclusions from the confessions and a psychoanalysis of Mrs. Sny- der, Hazelton hoped to be enabled to argue before Governor Smith that Mrs. Snyder was impelled to the crime by influences that. overpow- ered her conception of right and Case of “Folie a Deux” It was understood that thc Gray- Sndyer defense would seek to show that Gray and Mrs. Snyder comprise a case of “folie a deux,” a rare com- bination known to psychiatry and literally translated as “insanity of two. First use of the defense in Amer- ican jurisprudence, it is believed, was in the case of* Leopold and Loeb. It implies a complementary insan- ity; that.is, one would have lived a normal life if he had not, met the CATHOLICS PAY LAST RITES 10 WINONA BISHOP Two Archbishops and 12 Bish- ops Preseht at Pontifical Requiem Mass =— Nov. 28.—(AP)—With Attempt to Block Indications Are That Six Men Cited For Contempt of Court in Jury Shadowing Scandal Will Plead Double Jeopardy —May Ask Full Bench to Hear Case Washington, Nov. 28.—(?)—Indi- cation that Harry F. Sinclair, Wil- liam J. Burns and their four asso- ciates cited for contempt of court in the Fall-Sinclair ag tty, eae ht 3 scandal, would endeavor to bloc! the proceedings by pleading double edommd ‘was ie today when Burns, his son, W. Sherman Burns, and C. L, Veitach, were served with the contempt order. The detectives were served in the office of their attorney, Charles A. Douglas. It was indicated that they would bring up the point that in ad- dition to the contempt proceedings, the grand jury investigation then might return indictments, thus plac- ing them in double jeopardy. jis point, Mr. Douglas pointed out, was important, and he beffeved that the contempt proceedings should not be held until the grand jury reported. It also was indicated that the respondents would ask Justice Frederick L. Siddons, in whose court the contempt is alleged to have been committed, to ask the full bench of the supreme court of the district of Columbia to hear Proceedings “Commits Suicide Wolf Point, Montana,” Nov. 28.—(#)—Over-worked and de- spomdent because of financial difficulties, Mrs. A. W. i. 24, mother of three children, the oldest of which is not three years, drank poison Sunday and died in a rooming house. At a coroner's inquest the husband testified that Mrs. Blank often said that, were it not for the children, she would prefer to die, but that he had been able to dissuade her from attempts at suicide. He said he frequently had known her to work from 24 to 30 hours at a stretch without rest, Before her m years ago, Mrs, ° , ‘iage four lank had taught school at Crosby, N. D. Mr. and Mrs. Blank came here two months ago from Scobey, Mont. They had been conduct- ing a restaurant. * BOOSTER BODY CAMPAIGNERS ARE SELECTED the case, OWA JUDGING TEAM WINS AT CHICAGO SHOW Scores 4,506 Points Out of Possible 15,000—N, D. Team in 12th Place Chicago, ‘Nov. |.) —~lowa, State college Ames ~» today won the collegiate livestock ; ing contest at the Internationa ive Stock exposition Sunday, nosing out Ohio State, the-second place win- ner, and Kansas Agriculture col- lege, which finished third. The victory gave the Iowa team a second leg on the union stock yards cup, which goes permanently to the first team winning it three times. Towa State’s team scored 4,506 out of a possible 5,000 to win the prize. Teams from 21 states com- get in the contest with individual onors also going to Iowa State, when T. Besch, of the.lowa team, scored 920 points out: of a possible 1,000, . T. H. Christgan of Minnesota was second with 917 while K. G. Wert- man of Ohio State and C. C, Turn- er of Iowa State tied for third ‘at 915. Other school teams in the “4 collegiate judging contest included: ; Ninth, Minnesota 4,298; twelfth, North Dakota, 4,245; seventeenth, South Dakota, 4,087. * John Henderson, of Cokato, Minn., won the event for white corn. Sodth Dakota carried off prelim- inary honors in the hay and grain show with A. G. Vincent of Letcher winning first in yéllow corn com- tition and Albert Miller taking irst in white corn for Region 2, THROWN AGAIN Leicester, England, Nov. 28.—(P) —The Prince of Wales was thrown today while hunting with the Quorn hounds at Widmerpool. He was not jurt. Solicitors ner Meet Tuesday ————______—— Mother of Three and Other Local Business Men to-Attend Din- ve representative Bis-| pyre in an ‘attempt to perform the iness men have volun-| ancient rite’ of the suttee—self im- teered their services as campaign-| molation of the widow with the ers in the drive for 1938 member-| body of her ships in the Greater North Dakota association which will be staged] trict of India, | Here is Folsom State Prison, California, where 1200 convicts mutinied on Thanksgiving Day, and where 13 men were killed and 31 wounded in the battle that followed. Many of the prisoners had obtained rifles from an unknown sourfce and for hours defied police, deputies, penitentiary guards and militiamen, POLICE HAVE DIFFICULTY IN SAVING SUTTEE Onlookers For a Time Prevent Them From Removing Wom- an From Funeral Pyre London, Nov, 28.—(P)—After suffering intense agony in the flames of her hus! funeral husband—a Hindu idow at Barh, in the Patna was rescued by the Wednesday, according to J. P. Wag-} police, a dispatch to the Daily Mail ner, county chairman, who will have| from Allahabad, Indi Th charge of the drive kere. At a campaign dinner that will be held. in: the Grand Pacific hotel at 6:15 p. m. Tuesday which will be nded by the volunteer drive wor! ers and other Bismarck men, James|.the funeral p; of 'Fasgo, secretary of the reser ion, will give a report of the ivities of the organization during S. Milo; the past year. . Fred © L. “Conklin, ‘Bismarck, member of the state association's board of directors. will also give re ports of activities in this territory and will outline the 1528 program. “There; is no doubt in the minds of siness men that the isan S proved to be the most effective ad- vertising agency of the state that| hi been o-ganized in North Dakota and for that reason we ex- pect to vut the drive across in one local bi North Dakota association has ever day,” Mr. Wagner said. To Increase Membership “Bismarck will double or triple the membership the association that it had la: year,”. said Mr. Wagner, “largely due to the good agricultural condi- We ex- tions prevalent in this area. t to mak> up for the small show- ‘4 of last year and also show the other parts of North Dakota that had poorer crops than we did that carry, the citizens of Bismarck can on the labors of the G. N. D. A Members of the campaign com- mittee are Spencer Boise, R. E. Bon- ham, Otto Bowman, Earl R. Draper, John Hoffman, 0. L. Jarrell, B. F. Lawyer, R. W. Lumry, A. H. T. Murphy, W. E, Perr: Saxvik, J. B. Smith, 0. J. G. E. Wingreene, F. L. Moule, Churchill, E. A,’ Thorberg, Ellsworth, J. Fleck, E. B.. KI L, J. Siljan, E. G. Wanner, F, Oonklin, and J. Wegne. probably have ‘ullberg, N. 0. FC in, L, 8 police experienced difficulty in res- cuing the woman because of a hos- tile Hindu mob. 3 On learning of the widow’s inten- tion, 5,000 Hindus gathered around on the banks the Ganges. to terfered. Crowd Applauds “The living woman and her ‘dead husband lay burning on top of the pyre, while the crowd applauded excitedly. The widow, however, was unable to bear the torture. She rolled to- ward the river clutching her hus- band’s body, which disappeared in the\current. The police, despite the ostility of the crowd, rescued ‘the woman. . She, however, refused to leave the funeral pyre and the onlookers prevented the police from removing her. She lay there for two days while thounsands of Hindus flocked from the surrounding districts to pay homage to the woman who, in their eyes, had gained great relig- ious merit by her act. Police were eventually reinforced and took the injured woman awi Three ringleaders in the ceremony were arrested. - x The suttee is now very rare in India in fear of the penalties im- posed since 1892 which extend even to those who the rites as “guilty of culpable homicide.” State Mill Report Will Be Printed . For Legislators When members of the legislature meet here January 10 presented with printed copies of the udit of the state mill and: elevator at Grand Forks as filed with the in st of |? ‘he local piolice tried event her, but the Hindus in- MARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1927 “MINOT GARAGE EMPLOYE STABBED TO DEATH | Lithuania Claims Poland Seeks to Overthrow Kovno Regime hours, finally. escaped, Loses Part of His | \ Nose, But Wins Hat | _—$__—____¢ New Orleans, Nov. 28.—(AP) —Robert Hackney, city detec- tive, lost part of his nose but won a hat yesterday. Hackney and Eads Blocker, a salesman, both expert marksmen, bet a hat on their respective prowess. az (ncaa was produced and Hackney shot’ ‘six cigarettes from between Blocker’s lips. Blocker flicker three cigarettes from Hackney.’s. mouth, but his fourth bullet pierced the detec- tive’s nose. Hackney went to a hospital. FORD DEALERS MEET AT FARGO 10 SEE NEW CAR Most Enthusiastic Meet Ever Held, According to F. A. Copelin, Local Dealer With 460 Ford dealers-from North and South Dakota, Minnesota and will be] Montana present, the Ford Motor company Friday introduced its new model A automobile to its represent- atives at a private showing at the The cell room in. Folsom State Prison, California, turned into an armed fort by hundreds of convicts in a Thanksgiving Day mutiny is pictured above. Warden Court Smith, who was held a prisoner in his office for He is shown in the inset. BODY PIERCED WITH SCISSORS;. CASH IS GONE Crime Not Discovered Until Truck Driver Stops at Gar- age This Morning —" ibe! VICTIM BADLY BEATEN Officials Hunt Two Men Who Bought Storage Battery About 1 O'clock: ' Rudaiph Tehelks, 200% ba (0! ‘ehelka, 20, em) on the pth crew of a local Sarage, ly was found stabbed to death this morning, with a pair of scis- sors piercing his body near heart. A total of $58.50 was miss- ing from the cash register, it was announc. I by the management. A safe, which contained $382, had not been opened. Tehelka had been beaten about the head and face and, when the crime was discovered, his body was in a sitting posture on the floor, leaning against a chair, with one arm on another chair. His cap was lying on the floor beside the body. A pair of coveralls and a shirt covering his chest was open, expoi ing the scicsors which had pene- trated his body four inches. Two Men Are Hunted Officials immediately started a search for two men who at 1 a. m., today had purchased a sto: tery in the garage and paid for it in cash, this being the last sale recorded by the cash register. Fred Hanson, another employe of the garage, told officials it the sale of the battery was made about Fred Almy, residing in a block across the street from the garage, said that when he awakened about 5 a. m. and looked out of the win- dow, he saw'a flash light being moved about in the office where Tehelka’s body~was found. A flash light, thought to be Tehelka’s, was found on the floor beside the bedy. The discovery of the body was made by ‘Roy Gasing, local truck driver, when, about 7:30 a. m., he entered the office to ask to have a punctured tire repaired. Officials. were immediately summoned. Mrs. L. D. Gilbert of Fargo is a sister of the murdered: man, and Paul Tehelka of Graf:on i brother. In additi the brotfer in Grafton, the mur- dered youth is survived by his par- en ir, and Mrs. P. P. Tel Carpio, and two sisters, Tehelka, Minot, and Mrs. Birdsall, Berthold. MAN CHARGED WITH ‘GOADING WIFE 10 DEATH Must Face Manslaughter Count Because Wife Suicided After Argument OIL SCANDAL IS SCORED BY SENATOR NYE Use of Money to Control Gov- ernment Called Democracy’s Greatest Menace Hazel Clara Boston, Nov. 28.—(AP)—Use of money for the control of govern- ment constitutes the ;reatest men- ace to American democracy, Senator Nye, Republican, of North Dakota, declared here last night in an ad- dress at the Ford Hall‘Forum. Selecting the oil scandal as the “most flagrant example” of the place the American dolls: is given in American government, Senator Nye said there was involved the Although “purchase. of’ the administrative| to his home until three hours after branch of the government,” large] his Viola, 18, had taken her Eat serra ges | arsine ene ale, et and finally an. effort of wealth to| Sent diag with he eceas Ehe subvert justice in the criminal trial. eet ae what led his young wife to ‘Sometimes Justified suicide. “I have never }een an advocate of| 4, +1 Eat | Snary Sar nie pea jfapital punishment,” the North Da-| r' slammed the door ‘and went out, senator said, “but when I see . what men of the type of Sinclair Three hours later, when I went back I found her dead.” and Burns are attempting to do, and} ""bojice Ser; Chicago, Nov. 28.—(#)—For “goading his wife to death,” 20- year-old Kendall cone. was i today on a of . Cowgen did not return Ford branch house in Fargo. The |succeeding in doing, I can o:.ly co Mastin | Webees meeting was the most enthusiastic ;fess myself as seeing occasi ever held by Ford nebrese nial when capital punishment is alto- a state board of auditors by 0. B. Lund, its accountant. A Announcement that the board of Wi ll the solemnity and pomp of its 7 the Catholic church raid final BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS ‘oper. today;to the memory of the Reverend Patrick E. Heff- TUBERCULOSIS DEATH RATE auditors had ordered the report printed was made today; by tary of State. Robert Byrne. The Lund report and. the report of a special senate fact-finding commit- tee, each of which attacked the management of the mill, are credit- # iD baring done pug £2 re uence governor ue cial session call. Under the law the governor is manage? of the mil and he is expected to attack both plat when’ the legislature meets again. . “| Reserve Office to Meet With Capt. . Shutter Tonight Capt. Arnold W. Shutter of the 437th field sitilleny St. Paul, ‘will It | chines. according to F. A. Copelin, Bismarck Ford dealer, who attended. wae L. Nordlohne, manager of the Ff branch, opened the session lay afternoon with a_ talk on marketing and servicing of the new car. Enlarged photographs of the new models were displayed and mo- tien pictures showed the manufac- turing and testing of the new ma- ‘After @ turkey dinner served in the branch house, the dealers were iven their first, glimpse of the new ‘ord, and they were allowed to ex- amine it thoroughly and drive stripped chassis was also on di as was a separate motor and hibit of new Ford parts. Announcement is made today by | Mr. Copelin that he will have one of the new models on display at the in Motor ‘company’s garage iday, mber 2, in connection with a nation wide showing of the roa car for the first time on that te. 5 }|Fargo Woman Hurt Fargo N. D. Mrs. Crawford, Fargo, is : condition at Grand said ‘on | Cloudy, 34; the}; Devils _ in Auto Accident Nov. 28.—(AP)— ins gefher pr a s ‘They and their kind, with, the means which are at their command, constitute a threat agains: our well- being as a-nation thousands of times greater than that afforded by all the ‘reds’ ‘in ‘creation: combined! They and their kind -have no regard for justice except:in its use-against foes. Justice they regard with: utter con- tempt’ in -so -ft themselves are concerned. The young senator viewed the oil scandal as a natural culmination of a system: under which he cont A|the wealthy bought favors of gov- ernment by liberal contributions to the “war chests” of the two major political parties during national campaigns, ‘ [ Temperature and k Road Conditions $$ $$$ 4 (Mercury readings at 7 a. m.) (Mercury readings att 7 a. m.) Bismarck—Cjear, 26; roads fair. St. Cloud—Raining, 38; roads fair. “Minot—Clear, 20; rodds fair. lear, 30. aus Rochester — ilstios, 40; » Jamestown—Partly cloudy, 24; rr. 3 ponds fair, ake clea, 26; roads