The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 5, 1927, Page 1

_ NORTH DAKOTA'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER MARCK TRIBUNE [22=2 ESTABLISHED 1878 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1927 Chicago Cafe Gun Battle |MUGH DiscoRD . a a —— 70TH SESSION Senator Norris, Nebraska, Pre- sents Resolution Keeping Vare and Smith Out ounded, in > GANG LEADER A «SHOTDOWNBY | © fc) gee OOF GUESTS LA) = oe ge Stock Land Bank Cohvicted of Using Mails to Defraué— W. H. Gold;*Former Presi- dent, Fined $1,000 in Prison, Fined $11,000 WOMAN TELLS: HOW HUSBAND WAS MURDERED Mrs. Effie Jowers and J. E. F Waiter Killed by Bandit Look- 4 out as He Attempts to Slip : Out a Rear Exit ~ DECLARES THEM UNFIT Senate Puts Off Election of Officers and Plans Over Mankato, Minn., Dec, 5.—(?)— Guy Huston of New Yorle and Chi- 5 OTHER YEGGS ESCAPE —— : 3 cago today, was sentenced to nine} Swift, Alleged Paramour, Night Conferences . “3 t! a Ps Attempted Holdup Occurs at : ‘oes fine of $1,000 for asin the yes Held For Killing Washington, Dee. 5—(AP)— 2:45 This Morning at State i ay oN wa Sound gullty hy a cRedeead The oath of office was eld Street Cabaret HARRY , court jury Saturday night. Huston| DEATH PENALTY SOUGHT pitied Ms pe ‘was given the maximum fine pro- vided by the 11 counts in an indict-| ¢ Pennsylvania, whose eligibility was questioned on the ground session by William 8. Vare, stood aside whi bers of the Peni gation were sworn in, Washington, Dec. 5.—(i—A new session of congress, born with The casualties: were: One man shot dead. Five men and two women wound- Chicago, Dec. 5.—(®)—An at- ment charging six former officers! <q. ; tempt to hold up 200 guests-at the of the Southern. Minnesota Joint, Wilt Killed Man With Sledge one ees cae ee Parody Cafe, 1201 North State \ g Stock Land bank with using the} Hammer and Staked Body resentative Garret’ ef Gal 5 nes j mails to further a scheme to sell & peur Demectatie bic os street, at 2:45 a. m., today turned “ $1,200,000 stock issue of the bank to Bottom of Creek woe, the Temecratie Sender. ty into 2 sensational gun with * |] in the summer of 1925, The max- easiea fer te ie pepe > the dance floor as the battle ground. imum prison sentence was 55 year: He was given five years, the max Haynesville, La., Dec. 5—(AP)— mum, on the first count and four|Mrs. Effie Jowers, 43, mother of years on the second. Judge W. A. tour children, and J. E. Swift, 43, a There ‘were six /robbers. Two, erp Mealeay so hia itr lanai at soft drink salesman and alleged prtiond Fe seg gridit \ ag 2 j ra A. W. Sawyer of defense counsel; paramour of *Mrs. Jowers, were rance during an intermission in i Id be immediate " vi i the dance program and ordered all bein a ie Me teiruater eee charged today with slaying J. E. : y every promise of a care@r of discord hands up. Behind them came two - court of appeals. The court placed Jowers, 55, storekeeper, ex-minister| YY, ( and political insurgency, opened to- others, carrying sub-machine guns, the appeal bond at $10,000. and husband of Mrs. Jowers. y 3 Si, 4 with a curtain raiser in which her mem. nin dele- Papal tag hinnoiaatss: sossond 3 ° . *Mrs. Jowers confessed: yenter 4 4 A illiam S._ Vare of Pennsylvania frequently employed gangster oP Huston fleet plata the | according to W. D. Goff, district ptiliger’ “lone rhesd les the raids. Ged ii 7” original six defendants in the action toes at on the night of Octo- senate seats to which they aspire. Behind these four came a man in WILLIAM J, found .guilty. W. H. Gold, Miami, ;ber 31 she held a lamp while Swift, . \ ' When they presented themselves meacesmeeggl ome dee ioe rnecrene g Fig., former president of the bank| wring © sledge hammer, struck and to take the oath of office the two ais ay in the middie of the LPR HENRY MASON DAY pie BURNS Sirs noe which Huston represented as fiscal er sleeping husband so that f would-be senators were stopped by ..| an illicit love affair between the two dance floor, whirling about with the/ ‘The first step to bring to order the confused status of the Fall-Sin- apy) “ite iced la Rlad ofha! Set. conspirators might be continued. weapon so as to command the four/clair Teapot Dome case and subsequent jury.tampering charges Will| urday night, recéiving a fine of| After killing Jowers, Swift is poet of tables at which sat the/he made by the government today, when these five relia legos $1,000, the ‘minimum sentence for on Ure taken the body in his LONGWORTH IS SPEAKER . it Washington “‘to show cause why they should not ¢ i .. | Automobile to a point miles awa; Z 3 = cad ads The man in the mask fired one ohregetcg eld of court They are Harry Fr. Sinclair, millionaire tea count on which he was con: where he weighted it with 100 ; . Nikolas eee Page shot into the ceiling as he command-) oj) man; William J. Burns, head of the Burns Detective Agency, and his 4 han 10 minut pounds of scrap iron and dropped it - today was reelected speak ed all to keep their hands above/ son, W. Sherman Burns; Henry Mason Day, alleged “liafson man” be- Ed ae soa Tinel scene of the! into a creek. Then he fastened a s the Rouse. reelected speaker of their heads. “leween Sinclair and detectives shadoging the Fall-Sinclair jury, and| yer ie) ‘ited seven weeks, Or-|leather belt around the body and Longworth’s election’ over it Chief W Sheldon Clark, right-hand man of Sinclair. dered into court at 8 a. m. to Or" tied it to a stake driven into the| Representative Nicholas Longworth of Ohio is shown as he took up the Finis F. Garrett of Tennessee Scare ra estan 51 Sttached able Judge Cant to keep a court) creck bank so that the body would] gavel to open formally the Seventieth Congress, as speaker of the House |} had been a foregone conclusion. a etd ERTS TORE rosecutor’: appointment in Minneapolis today,|"0t rise. of Reprerentatives. since the last general election, was 8 a fire on the man, AL DEFENDANTS CLAIM THEY Huston walked up to The clerk's i when the Republicans main- ‘was a guest, opened fire on the man, o f 1 Said Husband Left Home tained f r : ~ an easy mark in the center of the desk for his sentence. ee eet te Mrs. Jowers reported to police Balmy Weather @ safe majority in the pak fez “nesererce] HAD RIGHT 10 HAVE JURY Sg | oh Naha ha ae Py around to meet the attack, fired one : pochery oe praet ted hee the from home. sits ,Sumiay following ‘ollows Drop to s me or '- e q ert! ie] eo Judge Cant promptly began a| cated on Mrs. Sovmdiicectesdtae 18 Below Zero LIGNITE MINES house. The speaker, who is a son-in- ‘weapon jammed. ene Fried emptied his revolver and] Recess Ordered After Defend-|¢ ———————o— ——-# Resa it chief with four { mild five-minute lecture. . He found he: ‘ the handit chief dropped | Eastern States Huston Most to Blame Bilan et noticed several, re After hitting 18 below zero at 6 law of former President Roose- bullets in his body.” Later at a hoa-| anés Deny Guilt When Called i 2 ; » ht y ” the i a.m. Sunday, shift of the wind Have Snowstorm fh creali a Se mde wie calgon Rha Somars AD aneaucr tro sortie oan Sonik scone! THIRD) LARGEST 1 a resolution presented by his own party. He first became the presiding officer of the house bwo years ago. The vote today..waz 225..for Longworth and 187 for Garrett. Five members voted present. velt, was without opposition in ital i€ was aid he probably would’ ‘ i 3 Be vetover= nS PUPS seratbasm Cause “Why Ther h bear the ‘burden of the penalty. It/Ark., Coleman obtained shavings{eranged the mercury\in Bismarck | ‘New York, Dec. S—-(AP)— | apparently recognized from the!from the floor of the Jowers ho: thermometers to 37 above zero at A snow and sleet blanket over ave that you were the dominant} Under chemical tests these shaviegy midnight Sunday. The coldest tem- |p, ds T by a Jookout the sixth the eastern states, followed by | character in the affairs of the bank.| revealed blood stai perature during the -past 12. hours |Preduee 184,700 Tons of Coal) Nosris of Nebraska decla; them member of the robber 4 —— rain, made trouble for all forms | ‘The jury came to understand that} Mrs. Jowers and Swift, who had| Was 21 above at 7 a. m. today. During 1926—Total Value | Unfit to sit in the senate ~ Pried’s action in ope: fire! Washington, Dec. 5.—(?)—Haled| of traffic today. the blame rested chiefly on youjbeen linked to her through village| Thousands of cars took to. the of the scandal ‘surrounding their threw the place into confusion. Sev-| before the district of Columbia su- Riding a northeast gale which | and held that the Golds were not/gossip, were arrested, and, after| Semi-drifted highways Sunday after- $327,000 primary campaigns. eral police officers, off duty but} preme court today on charges of| at some places’ reac! a ve- | largely responsible in the matter. | questioning, Mrs. Jowers confessed.|200n while many Bismarck citizens It was agreed to postpone furth- + present as guests, began firing. contempt, Harry F.- Sinclair, Wil-| locity of more Lan 50 miles an “The jury seemed of the opinion,| Jowers’ body was revealed by |¢Moyed their first. comfortable walk ih sacl eres er action until tomorrow. liam J. Barns and their assistants) hour, the storm, which came with | and you need not think through any|Swift’s 16-year-old son, Paul, who|in the past week with the balmy| Lignite mines in Burleigh county,| The senate also put off until later Others Get Bullets insisted they were well within the| the season's first eold wave, re- | malice toward you, that a serious! said he was forced, under threat of| Weather temporarily displacing the |the largest of which is the Washburn) the election of its sec The single shot the bandit lead-| iaw in having the jury in the Fall-| sulted in at least five deaths | offense had been committed. The! flogging, to aid his father in dis-|Coal scuttles, fur coats and mufflers, | Coal company’s mine at Wi'tcn, were| other officers, around which an- er let go in Fried’s direction, struck} Sinclair oil case placed under sur-| from traffic accidents in Great- | court must assume the verdict of|posing of the corpse. The boy is| Continuation of. the welcome jthe third largest producing mines| other storm is threatening. A west- — ethene, robbers first appeared! “Shoald. Not Be Held in Con- ale oat a rear exit.. He -was|~ tempt of Court June Griffith, 20, an entertainer, in} Veillance. er New York. the jury is correct. held as a material witness. weather is forecast for the next 24|in North Dakota during the year Republican the left side. ” She may die. Henry Mason Day, an official in There were storms in New w Beaty for substantiating hy by OG. W. Roberts, federal |1926, according to statistic: com- five, wi “4 Pn ee res Miss Fannie Hillman, 28, a guests) one of Sinclair’s oil companies, said] England and northern New [the charges in a case of this kind Swifts Had Separated who pre@ictsnot much | piled by the bureau of mines, depart-| farm relief and other tive the hand as she held it} he hired the Burns men to shadow| York state, with snow cad sleet evident, and the necessary physi-|. Paul said his mother and father perature with a slight |ment of commerce, and announced] subjects, still was deli this head. afternoon whether to bolt the Re- F the jury at Sinclair’s request, ex- inches to sev- | cal effort in connection with a case separated six months ago as a re-| prospect of snow. Pia today. : ‘ ro ge Cohan; maine, that the oil os believed ranaing irom tueit - of this kind is great, so great, in) sult of the gossip which had grown| Prince Albert, Sask., and Winni-| During that period the Burleigh! publican slate of senate officers and s an improper effort would be made Eigh thousand and | fact, that the defendant would be) out of Swift’s relations with Mrs.|peg,Man., were the only stations |county mines produced 184,700 tons} turn majority for the Democrats. to have that jury return a verdict} 769 ve teen were Mreutihe task | Virtually immune from prosecution Jowers. és x reporting subzero temperatures dur- | of coal, of which 160,075 were load-| ‘The senate ‘remained in session against Sinclair. The oil man asked! of clearing en York city | Were it not for the zeal of the gov-| Mr. Goff said he has rejected an| ing. the past -24 hours, with the|ed at the mines for shipment, 15,715] only 35 minutes after. Vice Presi- ismi: lack t. offer by Mrs. Jowers and Swift to| region from the slopes of tk: Rock-| Were sold to local trade and used by oe jutiediction. pres streets of two incehs or more of | Or N of the great expense to|plead guilty to murder providing ies-east to the Great Lakes enjoying |employes and 8,910 were used at pepe bree pred repo ig The defense contended it had} "OW: the government in prosecuting the|they might escape capital punish-|a spell of warm. weather. the mines for steam and heat. The tempt in over night conferences to "made no actual contacts with jurors Eastern Pennsylvania, south- | case the court will impose the|ment. ‘the district attorney . ————— total production was valued at $327,- th of ' . but had. ood on its legal ristis in| erm New Jersey and Teaneee maximum fine, which is not great.” | nounced "he will demand the deat ROBERT BYRNE 000, or an average value of $1.77 pail Heer their differ inter-| Were coyered by snow. penalty. per ton. 3 gotenreriag Drvtect te Sonspir.| depth was two inches at Phil- Terms Run Consecutively been called for December 12 to heay _ Burleigh county’s coal mines dur- sonar waiet bad fe sinter The nine year sentence comprised , adelphia. . ing 1926 employed 182 people, of pele eg ee Ageting of oN ——e te tee gag pa whom 113 ae i ease and bie Si cet Ot ee a cby Albert B. Fall to Sinclair. tomas 3 eh cence Only * ¢ shot firers; 15 were used in hauling wen at Ohio to the pretties Recess Ordered t the maximum. fine was assessed on Temperature and 7 copy and track work, 40 were employed] .14 perfect other, details of its or- ...Almost..as the hearings the remaining nine counts. Road Conditions “ on oe surtaes and 14 at other cor- ganization. denial of guilt Concluding the administration of | i The average number of da CLAI! 0 al ei ‘< “there is no measure 0! (Mi ead a | 4 ney's office to study the defendants’ satisfaction in imposing sentence in| BISMARCK Clear, ai; voads was 141, and the average number of Dec. 5.—(AP)—The replies and ener @ course of ST LOUIS FIRE any case and this one is no excep- iy a a ie at legal procedure. i ig - Cloud—Clor 3 roads waiter Bure, Sheldon. Clark, "Huston stood virtually. motion-| good isanhue aes Jess throughout the procedure. There | Minot—Cloudy, 11; roads fair. Burns and Charles L. Veitsch were Oiner Bodies May Be in Ruins| was not one spectator among the} Rocheste udy, 33; roads fair. five years on the first count and| Charges against the prisoners. Was! Memories of Deceased Elks! tons Pas oat arn ae right wig baat L Smith of {ili Commemorated at Ritu- : fentte sit ich | 8nd, William §. Vare of Pennsyl- ‘ $ Mercer county lignite mines, which Ganik to-alc in the, re alistic Program include the Knife River Coal com- lenged’ Pha pag he adie coger. chal- pany’s mine at Beulah, led the state ta Rigg A fhe y peosaties in production during 1926, with 351,- | tmemse! take the: oat of § i efi, the men cited to show cause why 16 persons in the court room for the! | Fargo—Cloudy, 18; roads fair. ji i fice. ee they should not be held in avert of Buckingham Hotel An- tind scene. Jamestown—Cloudy, regents fee: teed thane Ning hp nf ont, soled Most ons mC Resolutions were presented by £5 & result, of the shadowing by ; Loss $170,000 Other Indictments faire This was the thome. of the ad-|loaded for shipment, 4,755 were sold| Senator Norris, blican, | Ne- their way| Burns men. ROME OEE Huston with Glenn Gold, former| — Hibbing—Snowing, stormy, 16;}dress by Robert Byrne, secretary of |to local trade and used by employes, | Draske, mich thé. two. wromid i . — vice preaileny of tee Eonar ty bs th—Cloud: 4 state, at the annual Elks* Memorial |and 6,580 were used at the mi and with sree Sar ee Holding Company St. Louis, Dec. 5.—U?)—Five wom-|nesota Joint Stoc! nd wee mi loudy, 20; roads drift-|services in the Elks home Sunday |for steam and heat. abe rsons| Was acquitted Saturday night, and/| ed. 3 ji The resolutions set forth ‘various Stockholders t o pois ete, lives, Cares. four others are under indictment inj Winona—Clear, 22; roads fair. ilgecoey ne ae marae OE ieee mines Perk Page matters relating to the contributions Toledo on charges involving estab-| Crookston—Snowing, 4 Sexe. commemorated. valued at $636,000. ‘tonni and expenditures. in the é n i i 000. age Meet December 1 ‘which destroyed the lishment of Farmers’ Funds Inc., a) good. “It is the fault of too many of us|loaded for shipmert a 318,908; | Sina +o are and Smith, ax argue van ion Buckingham unit of the Minnesota ban! Mankato—Partly cloudy, 20; |that we judge men by the outward | sold to local trade and used by em- | “is ore senate cam~- Stockholders of the Depositors') snnex. Sylvester Rush, speci: govern-| roads ly sometimes wayward | ployes, 17,363; and used at mines for | P&ED f Holding company, the corporaiton ment counsel, said today this case] Ma loudy, 18; roads fair. all see while we make no|steani and heat, 4,959. which took over the affairs of the| The would probably not be tried until} Devils loudy, 10; roads to know. their real self, thus 150 Active Mines in State closed City National bank, will hold] ¢5. Miss -Ma: 4 spring. Rush, who left at noon for | fair. fostering the growth of prejudice. their annual meetinz at the Elks hall! Mi-s Bessie Miss’ Ella in cies, is: going to Toledo| Grand Forks—Clear, 4; roads|The attempt on the part of our or- 1 si: North D: Tuesday, December 13, at 3 e’clock-| Omars, about 60;: Miss (Continued on page two) fair. 5 der to.overcome this is .a worthy |during 1926, which produced 1,370,- 1) Five directors will, be elected and) teacher, endeavor,” Mr, Byrne « 244 tons, valued’ at $2,378,000. Of. other business trarsacted. ‘The missing: Jewell Rice, Jr. Opening the services Mrs. R. E,|this amount’ 1,066,123 tons were 0) Stockholders who will be-unable to Mr. and "J. J. O'Brien. SCOUT WORK DECREASES JUVENILE Morris “played Chopin's Funerai| loaded for’ shipment, 268551 tons Mrs. Cot if # ; march will be the othe: T A fi pera) ar ‘was. foeyed Py. the panei sold to seen! Bice Hayes used by *. istic ceremony exemplifie employes, ant 9" is were the ft the lodge. * sed at the mines for steam and DELINQUENCY, STATES FATHER SLAG ee is iti, nee (Bat eg ‘Money Allotted to Boy Scout Movement by Bismarck Com-|by Harker, were numbers ung by 1388 men, of whom 712 were ‘min- ~ ‘munity Chest Is Very Good Investment and-People of «| Wiisriette Gmponed of Mrs. GE Jers, 70 were “Tb “tee employe on ace, r work Bismarck Should Contribute to Cause’ i Henry ‘with Mrs. Re a fs. no-donbt in-my ‘ind that the Blama Prime Septal work ts ockeaieg te tee tubes & ia patlaoee Ta aztne “He expected aleave goon as possible for Paris and then directly to the United States. 2