The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 3, 1927, Page 8

- PAGE EIGHT 8,664 PHONES IN BISMARCK New Directories, to Be Deliv- ered Monday, Are Larger Than Ever Before Bismarck and Mandan grow far-| ther each year from the old Hot! Stove League, that medium of the old American country store about which the gossip and news of the! community was once discussed. Today the fathers, for lack of the ancient baseburner, and the moth ers, who once hailed “Mirandy” across the back fence, use the tele- phone, F'. H. Waldo, area_manuger | of the Northwestern Bell Telephone | company, reporting 3,664 separate | telephone stations in the cities of Bismarck and Mandan. Telephone users of the two cities will receive the December issue of their telephone, directory on Mon- day, the last copies of the directory coming off the presses of the Bis- marck Tribur» today. Johnsons Lead List Perusal of the list of names re-/} veals the fact that the name Johnson is the most popular, ¢ scendants of the original Jom clai i 15 separate families in Bis- pressing the Johnsons are | ersons with 14 listed while the Smiths and the Olsons staged a dead heat for third place with 12 apiece. Asking consideration are the ‘Thompsons and Petersons with 10 families each. Trailing them are the Nelsons with nine and Hansons, Larsons and Joneses with eight separate listings. The Scotch have their innings among the Scandina- vian leaders with seven branches of the .Clan McDonald, Welch and Baker. Number 6 is popular. Under this figure Cook, Brown, Fisher, Erick- son, Morris and Schneider are found. Seven cosmopolitan American names are printed five times. They ate Small, Snyder, Klei., Miller, Harris, Hughes, and Trygg. Odd Names Attracting attention as the pages are turned are the names Beer and Beers among the Bs; Derby, Ditch ‘and Dollar; Fox and French; a most 4rritating name—Growlers; repre- Sentatives of royalty—Kings, -three ‘of them; sweet name; — Lips and Tove, Lions and Lamb, Little and darch. “tAmong the Ws the following mames strive for prominence—Ward, Wachter, Webb, White, Will and Williams—three’apiece. . most popular letter in the alephabet is B, 266 telephones being fonnd under that letter with S com- ing second with 239 ’phones. The it popular letters are Z and Q, eight phones having been rented b: People whose names begin with Bismarck has 2,602 stations while Mandan has 1,062, the largest num- ber of telephones that either city has ever had. I'NIDER WANTS BOARD NAMED President Should Appoint Committee to Determine War Time Munition Needs Washington, Dec. 3.—(?}—Recom- mendation that the president be 1e- quested to appoint a board to dcicr- mine the war time munition needs the nation was made today by Assistant Secretary MacNider, of the war department, in his annual rt. his board also would prepare a project for placing the army into such.a state of material prepared- ness that the assistant secretary of sly pene be ae Somake adequate flor meet: Study of industrial which brought about definite recom- mendations last February for i- fication of general staff plan® as Tate of man-power mobiliza- the event of war, Mr. Mac- Wark Already Started tal general staff has already in- a restudy of the mobiliza- ym the viewpoint of the authorization of re- so that its possibility from a standpoint can be investigat- rt said. “The point Teached where initial form with Meath) ae #2 with i in keeping wi authorized by 8S production possibilities of i the law charges eakiek se in for mobil must be kept on hand. Such plan- ning involves cost, he added, but | there was “no doubt” that intelli- | gent planning would cost less “than Already such planning Laws tending to restrict muni- tions contracts to the government arsenals have hampered industrial preparation, MacNider said, urging that congress be asked to’ amend the act so as to permit orders to be given private factories which would both “build up depleted reserves” and serve to train plants and work- ers, 80 BOY SCOUTS GIVEN BADGES First Public Scout Ceremony Held Friday Night at St. Mary’s Gymnasium Thirty Bismarck Boy Scouts were inducted into the tenderfoot class and two new troops were installed at the first public scout ceremony of this nature in Bismarck Friday night in f {the St. Mary’s gymnasium. The two new troops which have been designated Troops 7 and 8 were sponsored by the Knights of Colum. bus and have a nucleus of 15 mem- bers each. Twelve scouts from troops 2 and 6 under the direction of, Clayton Finlayson, scoutmaster, conducted the impressive tenderfoot investiture ceremony. After the ceremony the new scouts were presented with their first badges. “The value of scouting” was the subject of the principal address of the evening by Father John Slag, pastor of St. Mary’s procathedral, who charged the new scouts to up- hold the best traditions of the organ- ization. W. G. Fulton, director of Boys’ Welfare work and acting scout executive, was the chairman of the meeting. J. P. Wagner, Seal of the troops committee, presente the scoutmasters and their assistants with their badges. The following boys were made members of troop 7—Edward Auer, Donald Crane, John Dixon, Thomas Fortune, Robert Griffin, Thomas Ryan, William Lambert, Anton Gu- ger, George Manning, Eugene Mc- Donald, Nicholas Mildenberger, De- lain Ward, Alfred Barrett, Paul Becker and Neid Beylund. The members of troop 8 are James McDonald, Edmund Schreiner, Duane O'Hare, Bernard Steiner, Albert Papacek, Vernal Anderson, Erwin Barbie, Aldo Bobzein, Victor Carufel, James Healow, Vernon Kelly, John Wingate, Joe Zahn, Leo Brown and Frank Welch. "| FIRST DONOR 10; the reserves thereby rendered un-| | |Riverview Township Farmer Subscribes $10 to Com- munity Chest Fund A contribution of $10 today un- officially started the campaign for funds for the Bismarck Community Chest. Martin Bourgois, -a farmer of Riverview township, was the first donor to the fund that will be raised that deserving welfare organizations may continue their good i “Although I am not a resident of Bismarck, I am heart and soul in favor of the Community Chest. Per- campaign a success.” This is what Mr. Bourgois said to G. L. Spear, a member of the cam- prign committee, today as he handed ‘im a crisp ten dolar bank note. The campaign will be officially ree launched Thursday morning, Dec. 8, and it is the expectation of the drive committee that the quota will be raised by Friday evening, when the campaign has been scheduled to close. That a farmer has set an example for the citizens of Bismarck has elated the chest officers. It brings the spirit of Christmas a little bit closer to the hearts of those who would bring Christmas happiness and cheer during 1928 to all who are depending upon the Community est. Contributions received early will be most helpful, chest officials said today, for it means that the collossal task" is made just that much the easier and provides for a more thor- ough canvass of those who are in a position to do their bit. Eleven Arrested in . Drive on Kidnapers Chicago, Dec. 3.—(4)—Operations of an interstate gang of kidnapers, recruited in Kansas City, St. Paul rnd Minneapolis, was believed to have been brought to light today when police arrested three women and eight men. A number of raids by detective squads followed news of the kid- naping of Morris Roisner, St. Paul redl estate operator and_ wholesale furrier, and the efforts of the gang) to obtain $75,000 ransom from, a wealthy friend of Roisner. A Minneapolis attorney showed police a letter to Mrs. Roisner pur- porting to be from the gang, de- manding ransom for the release of her husband. Roisner was kidnaped last Thursday. ‘ Co Because of the exclusive, funda- mental principle of its design, the patented Willys Knight with its sliding sleeves and > Only the patented Knight sleeve-valve engine gives you these vital advantages, engine, haps my little bit will help makefthe bar” ———_—__—_________» { Temperature and Road Condition: ° (Mercury readings at 7 a, m.) (Mercury readings at 7 a. m.) Bismarck—Cloudy, snowing, three inchds of snow during night; 3 be- low at 7 a. m., 5 below coldest dur- ing night; roads fair, not much} Theft of Dr. Strauss’ Car Is drifting. ee Cloud—Cloudy, 2 below; roads ir. io ee 7 below; roads ‘air, bs Rochester —- Snowin, 4 low; roads good, % * ™ Jamestown—Snowing, 7 below; roads fair, Hibbing—Clear, 12 below; roads fair, = / Grand Forks—Cloudy, 10 below; roads good. A Duluth—Cloudy, 5 below} roads fair. Fargo—Cloudy, 6 below; ood. Crookston—Clear, 11 below; roads roads id. Mankato — Snowing, 6 below; roads good. Mandan—Snowing, 0; roads fair. Winona—Clear, 1 below; roads good. Devils Lake—Cloudy, 10 below; ds good. , Earl Clark’s Widow THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BE ARRAIGNED Young Man Charged With Back From Arizona Leland Rhodes, who was returned here Friday from Phoenix, Ariz. in the custody of Deputy Sheriff Albin Hedstrom, will be given a prelim- inary hearing in the court of JuBtice of the Peace R. H. Crane some time this afternoon, Rhodes is char; with the theft of Dr. F, B. Straw automobile here last October 19, and was first’ arrested at Yuma, Ariz. with Charles Andrus. An- drus was sentenced to one year in a federal penitentiary on a govern- ment charge of transporting a stol- en afttomobile from one‘state to an- other, and Rhodes was released, only to be arrested again at Phoentx at the request of Burleigh county authorities. being taken to jeil, he made no such attempts while en route here, according to Deputy Sheriff Hed- strom. The Phoenix authorities told Hedstrom -that Rhod ‘ Marries Minot Man Minot, N. D., Dec. 3.—()—Mrs. Helen Scofield Miller of Minot, who a year ago last Halloween be- came the bride of Jack Miller, alias Earl J. , escaped slayer under sentence to be hanged in California, has married again. Mrs. Miller, who became a widow last September 22, when her hus- band paid with his ‘life for the crime of which he had been convicted, is now the bride of Donald Lampman of Minot. In obtaining a marriage license, Lampman gave his age as 23, and Mrs. Miller as 20. mpman_ is doing plumbing work in the city. —— ee ° Pea oe rer Om Foe AN ’ Police Court | en eRe Y Richard Tiokosin was fined $5 and costs when he pleaded Frits before aie yee Hey 4 con toa charge o! in nk. - ment of the conte, the fine van Ts: pended. . KIDNAPED MAN RELEASED Mexico City, Dec. 3—(AP)—H. W. 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Rhodes refuses to comment on the automobile theft, according to local officials, and"it is not known what his defense will be. | Masoni¢ Bodies _ Elect Officers Officers for the ensuing year have been’elected by ‘two local Ma- sonic organizations during the past two days. Last he the Twin City Council, Royal and Select Masters, held its annual meeting at the Masonic tem- ple here. The session started at 4 p. m., and work was exemplified in 1 four degrees. Dinner was served fn the’ temple dining room at 6 o'clock. Dr. A. O. Henderson of Mandan was elected master for next year, and L, K. Thompson was named district deputy master. Gilbert Haugen was elected secretary, and the other officers were mined divided between Bismarck and Man- dan, since the organization’s mem- bership comes from both cities. A. J. Arnot was elected eminent commander of ‘Tanered commandery, No. 1, Knights Templar, for next year at the election of officers held Thursday evening. L. K. 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