The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 1, 1927, Page 1

NORTH DAKOTA’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED 1873 ‘ BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1927 Ny The Weather i Mostly cloudy hag ld and Fri- day. Probably ‘snow. | Kresge Fined | SNOW STORM SWEEPS OVER NORTHWEST Rocky Mountain States Blan- keted and Storm Is Moving Towards the East TEMPERATURES DROP Missouri’ Has Heaviest Snow- fall Since 1906—Five Inches at Bismarck Kansas City, Dec. 1.—(@)—Snow stretched from the Rocky Moun- tains to the upper Mississippi val- ley states today to support winter's threatened invasion of the cast. Originating in the - Canadian Rockies over the week-end, the storm swept through Montana and ‘Wyoming to close mountain passes in Colorado and: then turned east- ward to blanket the middlewest and southwest with from one to nearly five inches of snow. Moving along a six-state front yesterday, snow flurries frotn the Canadian line to the Texas Pen- handle sent thermometers to sub- zero marks in the Dakotas and Min- nesota. The mercury slumped to the upper 20’s in the southwest to nip flowers enticed from _ winter beds by temperatuyes well above 70. Missouri Has Heavy Snow While as much as seven inches of snow fell in the northwest, central Missouri points led the southwest four and a ‘half inches, the heaviest snowfall in that section since 1906. Kansas, Sa to hunt frogs drawn from ponds by balmy weather, awoke to find more than ‘an inch of snow. ~ A north wind continued in Texas today, bringing the first snow of the season to Amarillo, where ther- mometers stood at 29. Snow changed to sleet as the dis- turbance crossed the Mississippi in its advance on the Atlantic sea- board, where storm warnings were broadcast. Trains Little Delayed Little damage to transportation or communication lines was report- ed in the west. A passenger train crashed into a freight-train near Ottawa, Kansas, to mark virtually: the only delay to railroads. None was seriously injured. Witha- minimum of:26.” helow: freezing recorded in Calgary, Al- berta, and unsettled conditions fore- cast for-the Dakotas, weather bur- (Continued on page nine) 3,000 People Have Perished in Floods Algiers, Algeria, Dec. 1.—(P)— ‘Three thousand persons, including 250 Europeans, have perished in the fl in the Oran department, it ‘was conservatively estimated today. The estimate was upon the latest. advices from the devastat area in northwestern Algeria. + Twelve thousand square miles of the most fertile territory in the de- partment have been devastated. ‘The flood now threatens the neighboring department of Algiers. The Shelif river in the Orleansville region is rising rapidly. Certain sections of Orleansville have been - evacuated. Canada Goose Given to State Museum Presentation to the state museum of: one of the six Canadian Reese shot north of Bismarck early Mon- day by L. H. Carufel, Joe McClusky and Arthur Finseth is inced x Col. Charles R. Forbes, former di- rector of the Veterans’ Bureau, is shown upon his release from the federal penitentiary at Leaven- worth, Kas., after serving a sen- tence for fraud in the awarding of contracts, Col. Forbes, a Hard- ing appointee, declares he means to clear the former president’s name of any stigma which may have resulted from his conviction. JAIL BREAK AT DULUTH FRUSTRATED) Trusties Prevent Delivery Aft- er Assistant Jailer Is Badly Beaten . Duluth, Minn., Dec. 1.—(AP)—In- tervention of “trusties” after three prisoners had beaten John Murphy, assistant jailer, into insensibility, is thought to have saved a break from the St. Louis county jail last_night. The attempted break, the result of three days’ planning, was start- ed when three juvenile prisoners, George King, 16, Proctor; Louis Mabay,16, Ashland, Wis.; and-Peter Orescanin, 15, Duluth, called Murphy into their cell under the pretext that they wanted him to fix some- thing in their cage. As the jailer entered their cell, one of the boys swung on him with a table leg. As he went down under the blows, Murphy cried for help and Ed Jennings, a trusty, immedi- ately put in a call to the city police station. : Secure Jail Keys After Murphy had been knocked unconscious, the three boys rifled his pockets and secured his keys. They rushed to the elevator but on eaclt floor of the jail they found trusties, summoned by Jennings, standing guard over the exits, armed with clubs, Finally the youths sent the eleva- tor down to the basement where they stepped out into the corridor, The door of tho elevator: closed behind them and they were sepia Ina few minutes Jailer Joseph Allen and city police arrived and locked the boys in solitary confinement. ‘he plan, divulged by another | beta who refused to join the k, was to escape down a fire escape, follow alleys and dark streets to a large hotel where they intended to steal a large car. They were then going to drive to Green Bay, Wis., for a few wecks and pro- ceed to Chicago, RUMORS ARE DENIED Dec. 1.—(7)—Rumors that en,| Rome, Premier Mussolini had been assas- h. Museum officials who have made} The a study of bird life state that the specimen is one of the Great Can- ada icoee, tee at one time nest- sinated, circulated abroad, were denied emphatically today through the Ita¥ian news agency) Stefani. rumors were described as “ab- solutely fantastic.” Annual Report. of Chief of ‘Staff to War Department litera Fails to Mention Army Problems Involving Budget- crease Praised Washington, Dec, 1.—(AP)—The first report of Ma; ‘doneral WESTERNERS | DO NOT FAVOR 6, 0.P. SLATE Only Few Votes Needed to Up- set Republican’ Control of Organization BLOC IS NOT UNANIMOUS Moses’ Reelection as President Pro Tempore Opposed by Western Group Washi . Dec. 1. The wee: of inde publicen senators decided nitely today to go before the party caucus tomorrow with a program of its own. Washington, Dec. 1.—(AP)—With only a few votes needed to upset Re- publican plans for retention of con- trol in the organization of the sen- ate, members of the western inde- ndent Republican group have ‘ound cause for objection in the slate of officers proposed for the. coming session by party leaders. The bloc, however, is not unan- imous in, its opposition and as yet there no indication of whether those who are dissatisfied would vote adversely when the time comes for settling the organization question, Their objection is said to be raised principally against the reelection of enator Moses of Ncw Hampshire as president pro tempore of the body to ased on the part Moses played in the filibuster against the Recd slush fund committee resolutior. at the close of the last session. Following a meeting of tho west- ern groun, it was reported, too, that some members were not favor of the r-election of David S. B rry as sergeant at arms and of Edward P. Thayer as secretary of the cenate. Opposition to Barry was hased on his refusal to follow the directions of the Reed committee dur'ng the congressional recess without funds from the senate treasury. The meeting was attended by La Follette and Blaine of Wisconsin, Nye and Frazier of North Dakota, Norris of Nebraska, all Republicans, and Shipstead of Minnesota, Farmer- TROOPS GUARD MINES AS WORK 1S COMMENCED|2:" Mining Resumed in North Field—Production 75 Per Cent Normal in South Denver, Dec. 1.—(AP)—National guardsmen patrolled northern Colo- rado coal properties today where op- erators generally planned to resume mining for the first time since the state-wide strike was called by the Industrial Workers of the World, October 18, last. In the first test of the plan to resume, in the north field, more than 200 miners have returned to the Columbia workings, where * produc- tion ceased last week following a skirmish with state police in which five alleged strike sympathizers were killed and a score wounded. Reports from the southern field, where I. W. W. leaders concentrated their forces for more than a month, showed production was about 75 per cent of normal. The larger, com- panies in that section announced em- ployes were following their policy. of avoiding demonstrations and that scores of miners were returning to work daily. baie State and county authorities co: tinued to arre: fied as I. of Yast summer when he was re- called from the Pacific coast by a White House order after he had de- a me et Ben that subject, then that he had the remarks aizaiorted te Bit in cra and Mrs, Inman had bee because Charles P. Summerall sot Sct ‘of | troops , .Valorous. | For rescuing two children Yrom drowning’ in Lake Michigan last summer, Miss Sarah Britton, 16- year-old Kenosha, Wis., Girl -Scout, was awarded the Golden Eagle, the highest valor award a Girl Scout can win. She is the fit girl in Wisconsin to receive that honor. IOWA OFFICERS BREAK UP GANG OF 6 OUTLAWS Only One of Party Still at Large—Ray Terrill Was Leader of Group Des Moines, Iowa, Dec. ‘1.—(AP) —Only ene member of a party of six alleged Oklahoma outlaws, who started north on @ fishii hunt- ing trip arid ended up by perpetrat- ing a series.of robberies in north- ern Iowa and southern Minnesota, remains at large, according to a re- capitulation of their activities given in a confession of one of their num- ber, Roy Harmon. Upon his plea of guilty to being an accessory to an attempted rob- bery of the Farmers State Bank. of Rudd, Iowa, on November 8, Harmon was. sentenced yesterday at Charl ity ‘to serve 10 years in’ Fort M son state prison. Harmon clai he was a mile away from Rudd at the time of the robbery. Sherwood Free Elvin Sherwood is the only one of the six at large, according to State J. C. Tracy, who revealed that Harmon had detailed their route of pillage and disintegration. Ray Terrill, notorious Oklahoma outlaw, was the leader of the alt ( which also included Mrs. Terrill, Elmer Inman and his wife, and Sherwood and Harmon. After Ter- rill and his wife inaugurated the al- leged crime wave by stealing two fur coats at Ames, Iowa, atcording to the confession, the party, in four automobiles, went to Waseca, Minn., where they consummated the sup- posed purpose of the jaunt—hunt- ing al ing. @ x After a weck’s pastiming they headed south, Terrill, Inman and Sherwood taking time out at Man- kato, Minn., to break into a jewelry store and making away with $12,000 worth ‘of jewelry and diamonds, Harmon said. Bank Robbery Failed i They then dropped below the Min- nesota line to victimize a Mason City, Iowa, clothing store and make the Rudd bank attempt on the same night. The clothing store break was fruitful, but Terrill, Inman and Sherwood failed in an effort to load the Rudd bank safe into an automo- bile, after binding the night watch- man and breaking into the building, the confession related. Rudd attempt was the last misadventure tried, Harmon said} and after its failure the group|2™ started their return sore to Ok- lahoma. Outside of Marshalltown, Towa, the car Harmon was driving went into a ditch and he was in- .. He was taken to a-Marshall- hospital by Inman and Terrill, who then resumed the trip to Bris- tow, Okla., with their wives. Where Eearecod iopped out rd the Big: remains unsolvé Tacy 828! Arrested at Hot Springs The Terrills and Inmans were ar- by ‘was urn to Oklahoma to complete a sentence in the state prison; and Inman is awaiting extradition from Hot Springs ied} may occupy the streets, page Commission Rules M. A. Erick- son Must ¢Have Certificate of Public Convenience Be- fore Building Plant—Erick- son Claims Law Is Uncon- stitutional : : Holding that the legislature in- tended to give it gene: upervision over the public utilities of the state and that its powers extend to the operations in cities, tre state rail- road board has ordered M. A. son of Rugby to halt construction of an electric light plant at Kenmare he complies with the law re- him to have a certificate of convenience and necessity efore beginning on such a business venture. The case, whick is regarded by railr ard members as one of great importance, is the first cf its kind to come before the railroad board and sets a precedent for fu- ture cctions. It is expected here that Erickson will appeal the board's decision to the courts on the ground that the public utility law passed last winter is unconstitu- tional. The case came before the board when W. A. Minor of Tolley and A. F. McKenzie of Kenmare asked the board to order Erickson to stop the construction of a power plant at Kenmare. The facts, as disclosed in a lengthy decision by the » are that Kenmare was served by the Montana - Dakota Power company through a power line which also supplies electricity to many sur- rounding towns in the vicinity of Kenmare. Franchise Granted Prior to July 1, when the new pub- lic utility law became effective, the village of Kenmare granted a fran- chise to Erickson to supply the town with electricity. Erickson began construction of a plant and was halted by a temporary order of the railroad board which directed him to show cause why he should not be permanently enjoined from proceed- ing with the work. At a hearing conducted by board, attorneys for Erickson con- tended that the law ting juris- diction to the state railroad board is unconstitutional because of an agin defect in the title | one and because it attempts “confer the ema of Taliread ‘commis. sioners the power to determirie’ who alleys*or public: places of a municipality with- out the consent ‘of the local author- ities. Since the ‘constitution | re- serves to local authorities the right to determine what use should be made of streets, alleys and public places the new law is, to that ex- fess unconstitutional, it was con- ied. In their appeal to the board Min- or and McKenzie contended that Kenmare and surrounding ’ towns (Continued on page nine) Bundesen Removed as Health Commissioner Dec. _1.—(AP)—Mayor Thompson removed Bundesen, health Chicago, William Hale Dr. Herman N. commissioner, from office yesterday and appointed Dr. Arnold Henry Kegel, whom the mayor said “made a new face on me when I was burned several years ago in a gaso- line explosion.” The mayor’s action, quickly ap- proved -by the city council, was a surprise to 3undesen, who, however, Tefused comment upon it. Bundesen was named to the office during the previous administration of Thompson. He has become na- penanly, nown as 2. health author- ity.. Be, Kegel is 34 years old. He vir- tually is unknown in lic health work, although he was named chair- man of the medical division of Thompson's flood conference, accompanied the Thompson par- ty to Washington a few weeks ago. He is a graduate of.the Loyola uni- versity and served his interneship at the Mayo clinic, Rochester, Minn. High Pfice Paid For Prize Winning Beef Chicago, Dec. 1.—(AP)—Califor- nia Stamp, cross-bred . Shorthorn- Angus, selected as the cham} steer at the International Live SI a pound. The buyer was the lew City Packing and ion com of Chicago. to serve a sentence in Okla-| for tore Seopobtcutae: = Ne a up. learned that released at Hot Springs of lack. of eviden Terrill | tered There ‘are no members of the Ter- bi 15 and scat- | $45. # 5 i the| his RAILROAD BOARD’S ORDER HALTING “| CONSTRUCTION OF ELECTRIC PLANT AT KENMARE CONSIDERED IMPORTANT RUSSIA'S PLAN ATTACKED BY _ TONDON PRESS Proposal to Abolish Armament Arouses Anger and Con- tempt of Britishers London, Dec. 1.—(7)—The Rus- sian propos.! at Geneva for the complete abolition of drmament aroused anger and contempt in the} London press today. Papers of all shades of political coloring damned the soviet scheme with vituperative adjectives, It was declared, among other things, “a cynical joke,” “a gro- tesque mockery,” “stupid intrique,” “clumsy farce,” “an impudent rodo- montade,” and “theatrical buffoon-! ery, put forward with the tongue in the cheek.” Some of the sharpest criticism Howard G. Kresge, son of S. S. Kresge, ten-cent store magnate and prominent contributor to Anti-Sa- loon League funds, was fined | $55 for attempting to bring liquor across the border at Detroit the other day. Young Kresge is a stu- dent at the University of Michigan. He was carrying three bottles of whiskey and a bottle of champagne under his coat, according to cus- toms officials, and a protruding appeared in the editorial columns of Liberal orgens, which sometimes themselves incur derision for their alleged weak pacifism. It was contended that the soviet scheme was put forward with the obvious idea of placing the other governments in a false position, RUSSIA AGAIN ENROLLED IN FAMILY OF NATIONS Geneva, Dec. 1—(7)—The Rus- sian challenge to the world to dis- arm and the soviet’s willingness to have that challenge discussed on a give and take basis today were re- garded as having enrolled Russia again in the family of nations. It is a new Russia that is sitting as an observer in the security com- mission of the disarmament com- mission of the League of Nations. Maxim Litvinoff, head of the dele- gation, and Anatole Lunacharsky, hief aide, have shown a far .les: tagonistic spirit. than the Russians displayed at the financial and economic conference in Genoa in 1922 and at other international meetings. The soviet leaders advocated their . project for absolute and immediate disarmament throughout the world with vigor. They yielded graceful- ly, however,’ when the represenfa- tives of the other powers insisted upon. proceeding along the lines discussed at previous sessions of the commission. The Russians were temperate in the criticism. There was less” cussion of capitalism and capitalist- ic nations in the Russian speeches than there has been in the pa: Litvinoff and his associates have: won consideration from the other delegates in their effort to lessen the danger of war. There is a disposition everywhere to give the soviet leaders full credit for their readiness to wipe gut armaments. However, the general impression amore the other delegations is that total disarmament is, for the pres- ent at least, an idealistic dream. Wives to Learn How to Feed Husbands at Half a Dollar a Day Chicago, Dec. 1.—(AP)—The Uni- versity of Chicago will show wives tomorrow how to feed a husband on 51 cents a day. . It will, show, according to an- nouncement, how smart wives, by careful buying in large quantitie: may effect a saving of as much $273 a year without the husband’s even noticing the difference. 10 daily menus which supply a 150-pound man with his 3,000 calo- ries at widely different costs will be explained. Besides the’ 51 -cent u, there will be one,of $1,26 f food of approximately the same nu- tritive value. bottle was noticed by an inspector. INDUSTRY IS DEPENDENT ON ‘AGRICULTURE Jordan Says Report Reflects Growing Uneasiness About Boot-strap Prosperity. Providence, R. I., Dec. 1.—()—A warning that the old principle of interdependence of agriculture and sindustry holds today as much as ever was given in an address before the Bhode Island Agricultural con- ference by Virgil Jordan, chief economist of the National Industrial conference bo: today, Discussing the report of the bus- iness men’s commission on agricul- ture, he declared that it reflected the “growing uneasiness of many intelligent and far-sighted en about our boot-strap prosperity.” | “Our much vaunted prosperity in recent years has had something il- lusory, uncertain and exceedingly uneven about it,” he declared. “Bus- iness as a whole has not shown much more than the normal rate of growth since 1922, The Principal Reason “The prime reason for this is the slow and uncertain recovery of our agriculture from the depression of 1921, and the persistently subnor- mal purchasing power of the eno: mous part of our domestic market represented by the farm popul “We shall have no general around prosperity in this country until the farmer has some of it too, for real prosperity starts at the ground and works up from the bot- tom.” Dr. Jordan said that business groups and banking interests must be willing to risk part of the capi- tal needed to set up the stabiliza- tion corporations and supply the current dit needed to’ handle surplus ‘ops, if stabilization of farm prices along the lines recom- mended in the recent report of the business men’s commission on agri- culture is to be achieved. SINCLAIR LEWIS IN_ RUSSIA Moscow, 1.—@)—Sinclair Lewis, American novelist, has ar- rived in Moscow intending to spend a fortnight in soviet Russia. The both American colony gave Lewis a din- ner at the Grand hotel last night. DIVERSIFIED FARMING IN STATE HAS ~ BROUGHT HIGHER LIVING STANDARDS|"* Farmers Now Have Automo- biles, Radios, Better ‘Clothes, Modern Homes and Other ‘Things ‘Which Were’ Consid- . ered Luxuries 10 Years Ago, Clemens’ vailed during the last six years, or still hanging on but are making no, marked progress toward liquidation. Say Monthly Review}: MOTHER AND 8 CHILDREN ARE VICTIMS Woman Carried From House by Neighbors, But Dies Be- fore Doctors Arrive FATHER WAS NOT HOME Bodies of Children Found Hud- dled in Closet When Ruins Are Searched Cleburne, Texas, Dec. T— CAP)—A family of six persons was burn‘ to death last night or early today when fire de- stroyed their little home, 16 miles southeast of here. The : Ralph Williams and his wife; Chester, 9; Ossel, 6; Odin, 4, and W. T., infant. Unity, Wis., Dec, 1—(AP)—Fire took a toll of four lives—those of a mother and her three children—here Wednesday morning. The dead are Mrs. Paul Colby, 32; Clover Colby, 8; Leroy, 6; and Delvera, 5. Mrs. Colby was carried from her house by neighbors, who saw smoke pouring from the windows at about 4 p.m. She died before : medical aid could be summoned. The charred bodies of the children were not fund until 8 p. m., when a were discovered huddled in a i} closet in the frame house. The father, working in the woods, did hed hear of the deaths for several urs. A coal gas explosion was believed to have caused the fire. An investi- gation is now being made by Cor- oner Go Krueger of Marathon county. ‘ When the neighbors rushed into the house in search of Mrs. Colby, nei found her lying on the floor g a bedroom, apparently overcome smoke. Not Knowing where the children were and believing they might be playing somewhere in the neighborhood, the neighbors made etter h for ROT" vigade tates volunteer fire to put out the fire and at © p. m., when no trace of the children had been found, @ search was started among the ruins of ‘the house. The chil- dren's bodies were found in a closet. It was believed they had become teteed when they saw the smoke- and had. huddled until- they were overcome. Clover and Leroy Colby were stu- dents at the Unity school. Their father is a laborer and n sawing wood several miles away. He returned to find his house ir flames. Unity is a small town in Marathon county, 40 miles west of Wausau on the Soo line. TWO MEN HURT IN AUTO WRECK Jack Healow and Téd Farmer Escape Death When Car Turns Over Jack Healow and Ted Farmer, employes of the Lahr Motor com- pany, Bismarck, were injured Wed- Hrege page when automo- ile in_wi y were returning from Mandan skidded from the pered highway, 300 feet west of the lorthern Pacific underpass on the outskirts of the city, and over- turned. 4 The left feet of both men were pinned to the floo: ls when @ fence post pierced the right side of eg left foot o: low an several bones in Farmer’s left foot. Severe lacerations and of Had the fence post pierced’ the tonneau two feet furthc: back, both men would probably have been kill- ed, according to garage em) No glass was broken despite aidfoot adits coming’ to's stop a 1» Com a the wheels in midair. though it is thought skidded on an exceptionally stretch of the pavement. \ Both mere were reported easily today attending cians, who stated that no juries were suffered by either men.