The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 8, 1927, Page 1

Sei, ao ee < NORTH DAKOTA'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER | THE ESTABLISHED 1873 University President Walter Schlogser, State Senator and Former University Foot- ball Captain, Charges President Kane With Being ‘Cruelly Unfair and Unjust to Davis’ DAVIS PUT NODAK ATHLETICS ON PAYING BASIS Schlosser Labels Complaint Lodged With Board of Adminis- tration as Pure Falsehood—Samuelson Has ‘Inflated Ego, Small Knowledge and Immature Judgment’ A new angle in the attempt to depose Paul J. Davis as athletic direc- tor at the university of North Dakota was injected into the situation to- day when it became known that a letter suggesting curtailment of the powers of the state board of administration had been sent to state legis- lators by Rev. Halsey F. Ambrose, Grand Forks minister. The Ambrose letter, a copy of which is said to be on file in the of- fices of the board of administration, is sald to have suggested that a proper arrangement for handling the affairs of the university would We a board of control composed of the president and ghe deans of the vari- ous whiversity departments, Obert Olson and Gordon Cox, respectively state senator and a repre- sentative from Burleigh county, said they had received letters on the subject addressed to them by Ambrose. > ~ Ambrose and Kane Close Friends In his address to the board of administration yesterday, which marked the first public disclosure of the University situation here, State Senator ‘Walter Schlosser, Grand Forks, intimated that a close connection exists between Ambrosé and Thomas F.| naan Kane, president of the institution. ing day Charles Forks, it developed today, the board ‘ quizzed Kane with regard to hi relations with Ambrose in the ef- T AKES LIVE fort to remove Davis. One of the preliminaries to’ the VERS in which he attacked Davis and his YOU NG LO Pepe eg id " ea the Scnicadiae university. is is sai fe OC~ curred about the same tine that an Girl and Fiance Drink Toasts attack on Davis was unched in A the student. daily newspaper. to ‘Future Happiness in Questionnaires Sent Out Marriage, Then Die The editor of the student daily, een New. York, Dec. 8—(?)—The of the university, asking their opin- ion on the advisability of keeping! on the record of the medical exam- Davis as the athletic department iner togay as the closing chapter of| be held head. He is said to have ‘told the/'s party where they had drunk toasts| June 12, board of administration at Grand| to future happiness in marriage. Forks that he chose alumni whom draught of the: same | liquor he believed would bé unfavorable to ed-the deat’ Monday of! Davis. _ Some, ? {Gray .' McDenaid, former Columbia University stud- to the letter. z Schlosser today was. insisting that: the board of administration sift the attempt to oust Davis to the hottem and establish the truth or falsity of the charges leveled against him by President Kane. Although board members declined to discuss the matter it was the understanding here that a. sharp er said, was a sermon by Ambrose numerous fetters to various alumni year-old girl and her fiance were great majority. made no response] ent, Hetton Sleckinger, 28, salesman, an investigation by the chief .medical, exgminer showed. Blindness. pre- ied death in both case: Miss McDonald, author aid, returned to her apartment in Green- wich village Monday from Balti- more, where the’ party was held at the home of a Mr. and Mrs. Mur-' phy, and immediately complained of Central Western City Gets; Necessary Majority og ‘ FRISCO ALMOST WINS Charles Evans Hughes Men- tioned For Temporary Chair- man of Convention Washington, battle. of. ballots for a ‘Republican presidential candidate to succeed Calvin Coolidge will be waged in the civic auditorium of Kansas City beginning next June 12. Offering a foretaste of the skir- mishing likely to develop at. the convention, selection of the Missouri city by tl committee came the 20th ballot. Although openly supported by Chairman Butler of the committee, Kansas City won out only after a do; one time found lughe. sideration by the Republican na- tional committee for temporary chairman of the party convention to ee BIS Twentieth Ballot . Dec, _ 8.—(4)—The Republican national late yesterday on fight that at Francisco just San Francisco, four, and Chi Philadelphia ai received : Selection of June 12 for the open- » One, San Antonio also scattered votes, of the meeting made it atic pear~certain that the Democr: convention will follow that of the Republicans, tional committee will meet. here next month to select a date, prob- ably in the last week of June. HUGHES MAY GIVE KEYNOTE “ADDRESS Washi The Democratic na- in Kansas City beginning The former secretary of state, who yesterday issued a statement retiree he was not a ca: tion, has been r ments committee which authorized to Sourenann ie man is expected the next month or six weeks. Mention of Mr. Hughes met with unanimous response among the members of the arrange: mittee, the only doubt expressed be- ing whether he would the ndidate for tial a cine. ited to Mare rfect cetails of the tempora:” chair- to be chosen within ments com- 9 publican pee to remove Davis, Schloss- it was disclosed here today, wrote deaths from poison liquor of a 25- }: said, Davis, others favored: him tl . the life lay of S. division of opinion éxists on the board, some members supporting Kane and others supporting Davis. It is ex that a-large number! by a friend who notified him of his of witnesses will be called by the! ¢iance’s condition. returned to New board when the hearing on the case/ York and was able only to reach opens Monday at Grand Forks. his apartment before he was strick- In his address yesterda: on. Miss McDonald, who was em- y. Schlosser labeled the charges against Davis as “trumped up ang utterly wn-/ ployed as a secretary, came here true.” From her home in oeieu i Fia., —— ,. r'8 SEEKS REVENGE BECAUSE | fbovt two, years ago... Slectinge home was in Norfolk, Va. They had HIS FACE WAS: SLAPPED The action of Paul Davis in slap- | Psnned tobe married in. Fi ping the face of Paul Samaeison ts V. Y.S0CETY ~ FOLK CURIOUS th Walter Schlosser. Pb Remar ty the admi: Identity of Man to Whom Mrs. Wood Was Reported En- board of nistration h gaged Remains Secret feeling ill. She died before a phy- 8 arrived. Sleckinger, called from Baltimore} of J. B. rtunity of making the eynote addre: SMITH NAMED NORTH DAKOTA BUYING AGENT Local Business Man Succeeds} Three W. A. Donnelly, Who Re- {sre signed a Month Ago. Resignation of W. A. purchasing agent for the Bdministration and the appointment was too small to warrant work involved in proper adminis- tration of the office. The job pays Donpelly took the office less than| ™! less “ succeeding M. E. Mc- Smith, Bismarck business here Nearly Three-fourths for com| Released from Atlanta penitentiary after serving a year’s sentence on conviction for fraud, now deported to Jamaica, Marcus Garvey, self-styled president general of Africa, is shown’ above as he was leaving United States shores at New Orleans. in the rain to hear his farewell: speech, Negro Improvement association, and his dream was an African Utopia. a STRANGE MALADY TAKES TWO MEMBERS Mrs; Emit 0. Boettcher Sue~ - Tuesday—Three Sons Who .. to Recover —Death has member of the family of Emil O. Boettcher, farmer near here, within three days from a strange malady, or combination of maladies. Boettcher, second of five of the family to be stricken with the weird illne :, died at 10 p. m. Wednesday. Mai Boettcl Geo: A. alan, wha has been baffled by the disease. The disease is a strange combina- ion of spinal and cerebellus infec- | tion, the doctor said, apparently having its origin, in this instance, , .4in_attacks of the flu. mont! Ld sen icus fi ld unconscicus fcr several days. | set fons h ago, saying bq Cecil and Wayne, other stricken Holm Sumner, in ay ing for. the pring Se wed. sons, were «ttacked two weeks ago, “er Los Mecapatgn Sh ampere ment ame mbers o! local camp of the | n- ‘actor. lodern Woodmen - wized to am ve with the Baiaen 8 nurse to aid Mr. Boettcher and his |ton’s Mardi G uper- aiatst. Who Pays pn caring for ‘e | fallen in love with him when she materials] five New York Dec. 8,—(?)—Nearly three-fourths of the world’s $101,-|had been accused "of the 000.000,000'in lif, insurance is car-/“heavy” in two domestic tangles. es by ‘gitipans of the United States, | He divorced his roy A. Line WOMAN ADMITS SHE MURDERED HER HUSBAND 21-year-old Velma West of Perry, Ohio, Confesses After Grilling KILLING WAS BRUTAL Used Claw Hammer and Table ‘Leg For Weapons—Then Went to Bridge Party Painesville, Ohio, Dec. 8.—(P)—A restless night in a county jail cell, smoking cigarets for solace, was 21-year-old Velma West’s prepara- tion for facing a charge of husband slaying today. irs. West signed a confession bara that she had killed her usband, Thomas E, West, 26, Tues- day night in their home in Perry, Ohio, near here, using a claw ham- mer and a table leg for weapons; and that she had then motored to|® Cleveland to keep a bridge party engagement. The slaying, she said, followed a quarrel. The afrest was made at the Cleveland home of her mother, Mrs. Catherine Van Woert. Brought here, Mrs. West was given no inti- mation that she was suspected of having knowledge of how her hus- band had met his death. She was questioned by Sheriff Ed Rasmus- sen and Prosecutor Seth Paulin. After two hours of questioning, Rasmussen suddenly asked: “Why did you leave the back door open?” Vilts Under Quystioning s. West seemed suddenly to Then, straightening she re- plie “All right, I'll tell the truth. I killed him after a quarrel.” ; The bridge party, to which she had been invited by, Miss Mabel Young, of Cleveland, was the cause of the quarrel, the confession said. Her husband did not want her to go. In their little bungalow at Perry wilt A throng of Garvey’s admirers gathered Garvey headed the Universal OF NEW ENGLAND FAMILY-OTHERS ILL f BDDING PARTY = apts ane copes Ne CAUSES ACTOR Eset! 10 BE ARRESTED been broken off a small table and beat him. Then Goes to Party {Pat Somerset Pays Fine, But His Bride Pleads Not Guilty and Will Be Tried cumbs to Peculiar Disease Wednesday Night — Seven- year-old Daughter Died She tied the lifeless feet with twine, the confession detailed, and stuffed a gag in the mouth. Taking off her blood-stained garments she dressed for the bridge party. It was then 6 o'clock. She went down to the parlor, picked her music off the piano—for she knew bridge would become monotonous and that: ree me He asked a alae et tl with the lights all burn- “Los Angeles, Dec. 8—(AP)—| ing and drove in her own car to Charged by policemen with having’! Cleveland. been drunk at a wild early morning) “When she reached Miss Young’s party in Hollywood which was given| home, she said she went upstairs to celebrate their wedding, Pat Som-| and washed the blood from her, erset, the English actor, and Shelby) hands and arms. The guests at the Benson Woodall, his bride, ‘have party knew little about bridge and taken separate ways to account to the! she, too, was a beginner. In time law for the alleged escaj the game grew monotonous, as she Somerset and his bi obtained | expected it would. The: d her. their release yesterday from the| to play. So she played le the city jail where ty been held.| others danced. The actor’s admission of guilt and} ‘She remained overnight with Miss plea that he was celebrating his! young and in the morning went to marriage resulted in the ourt sus-| her mother’s home in East Cleve- pending a $30 fine. Two friends land, for they had planned to shop and co-celebraters paid $20 fines. together. They had just returned Mrs. Somerset was releascc after! from’ the shopping tour when de- she had pleaded not guilty and her! tectives came to the house. Mrs. trial had been set for December 14.| West, collapsed when she heard the The arrest of the couple. was the! news that her husband had been ny yen announcement for most of| Killed, son, Richard, has |their Hollywood friends, for Somer-| Young West was the son of T. B. West of Perry, well known nursery s mee America Is Nation of Thrift Addicts hool girl in Londo: New. York. Dec. 8.—()—Purchase with ayers mienners,” he said|in 1927 of $16,900,000,000 new life irance reveals America as @ na- ven ne-¢ ght to|tion of thrift addicts, Archibald A. ; a little bit without | Welch, president of the Phoenix Mu- specially on vour|tual Life Insurance company, de- clared at the 21st annual con- vention penoriation of Life Insurance sidents. * The new business, he said, brings to 62,000,000 the number of policy! rs, and to 115,000,000 the number of policies in force. The records offer proof, he asserted, that the Americon character is not softened Have Been Ill Are Expected New Englari, N. D., Dec. 8.—() claimed its second! Mrs. mbers ret, 7, daughter o° Mrs. r, died Tuesda: J boys, all of whom have been iti yr some days, to reco‘ er today by Dr. Sarchet, attending phy- youngest his true name, Pal license prior to the - ding, ‘ond no one assoc: :ted that Mo-| “Gee, I adore him,” said Mrs. , S, D., Wednesday, +- obtain | somerset, one ely of Galves- ras. She said she had members of the family. 8S. Citizens Carry Re able to si of World’s Insurance| veiling night.” i Somerset. had boon, the ‘ending man in three off-stage weddings playing first wife, Margaret oln, general counsel| Bannerman, and sul ntly_ mar- Metrépolitan Life Insurance} ried Edith Day, former. wife. of y, said today at the 21st an-| Carle Carlton, trical producer, ention cf the Association | who had, ‘his di. 2 le merican income orce proceedings. and that the A i Miss Day divorced Somerset. CK TRIBUNE [=a “. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1927 ‘ COLDEST MORNING SIN State Board to Probe Kane-Davis Scrap at N. D. U. |KANSAS CITY , Seeks Removal of Paul | SELECTED FOR ( J. Davis, Athletic-Coach\ §.0,P, MEETING 28 Below Zero Sets New PRICE FIVE CENTS CE 1925 Record for Early Winter Lowest Temperature Recorded Here Since January 26, 1925, and Lowest All-Time Record For First 11 Days of De- cember—35 Below at Fort Lincoln ALL PASSENGER TRAINS ARE RUNNING HOURS LATE Cold Wave Is General Throughout North Dakota—Minnesota Is Digging Out From Under Heavy Snow Blanket Spread + by Worst Blizzard in Many Years With the mercury sinking to 28 belqw zero here at 7 a. m, today, all low temperature records for the first eleven days of December in Bis- marck were broken as the mercury plunged to a new low mark of the season, : It was the lowest temperature recorded here by the federal weather bureau since January 26, 1925, when the mercury rested at 29 below zero, according to O. W. Roberts, federal meteorologist. Soldiers at Fort Lincoln, who had lived in the sunny climes of the south seas and other insular possessions of the United States where it Was common to experience extreme rises in the thermomcter, were treat- ed to a new sensation when the fort thermometers registered 36 degrees below the zero mark early today. Plumbers reported a thriving business as furnace coils and water ‘ pipes cracked under the extreme cold. Trains Run Late Trains running from the east on the: No behind their schedules as severe blizzards jorthern Pacific were hours that drifted cuts in Minne- | sota forced engineers to pi-h their | 41 ti it sh and’ | Weather Reports | track’ walkie catehilig. teatined all | From Two States || Steel rails for signs of cracks that | $$ would derail freight or passenger ins. Due to arrive in. Bismarck at 10:46 last night, Train No. 3 was scheduled to arrive at 4:15 p. m. to- day. The North Coast Limited due at 11:35 a. m. today was billed for 6 p. m. while the Twin City local due at 2:55 p. m. will not arrive until 8 p. m. ox Roads Are Passable | Devils Lake, N. D., Dec. 8.—(#)—| U. S. highway No. 10 ‘froin Bis- The lowest temperature of the sea-|marck east was reported passable | son was registered here today when| today although . members of the the mercury dropped to 24 degrees|highway commission advised all below zero. The skies are clear,| tourists to carry shovels. . however, and a brisk northwest} The main highway north to Mi-. wind is blowing. not was blocked between Bismarck i a Pad he apres se eee to inot, N. D., Dec. 8.—(P)—The| Minot the was pass: mercury touched a new low for the| able. The Interstat Tran: tion Present winter in Minot last eve-|COmpany operating busses from Bis- ning, when ‘a reading of -25 was|marck to Minot had a] - ~ crew of recorded, te weather has been ral erent Hoe highwav between clear for 36 hours with no snow,| here an in today, stated Roads are in fair condition and the| that the Minot bus woul temperature is moderating slowly. |1 p.m. ees, lercury in Bismarck .. iome= Grand Forks, N. D., Dec. 8.—(#)—| ters started its rade for the/28 be- The temperature went to the low- low mark at 7 a. m. rope < est level here for the season during| When from 8 below i gradually san e night when 19 below zero was to 14 at noon, -18 at 6 p. m., -<4 at reached. At 7 o'clock it Climbe: Fargo, N. D., Dec. 8—(P)—The minimum temperature reported here today was 20 below at 8:45 \a, m.; an hour later the thermometer had risen @ degree, with moderated temperatures forecast, pave a midnight, -26 from 2 a. m. until 6. only one.degree. A bright sun-was|* ™., reaching th Yo wes. Point St shining hut there’ was @ rew_north|®:% m. today. wind, ie Blue a Hold rinse. bares was low at mon today Pleat N. D., Dec. 8—(?)—|with blue skies and a bright sun me oe ae ciate aepeeeny holding promise of 2 slow relenting move the libel from that much co: pi depedtiegaea ge sy lias guinea ine demned phrase, used’ several years é pe ty great plains sii ago by a national advertiser, “It’s nereasing lownlingss: ay “4 Cold in North Dakota.” The mer- today by Mr. Roberts but no sign of. cury hit the lowest point in ye: ‘ing from two feet to 10 feet deep. by accumulation of wealth | ¥ i sone ets mer aes rey from ars/ any of the nei ring bureaus. here at 7 a. m. today when it regis. Although ‘Bismarck ‘was the cold- tered 30. below. This is entirely out} est point in North Dakcta during of keeping with usual North Dakota] the past 24 hours, Jamestown also winters during which.the _ coldest reported 28 below while Minot, Man- spells have come early in Janvary.|dan, Devils Lake and Fargo regis- Residents dal to zeal any year tered from -28 to -19. when the cold weather came as mark early as this, although cold Decam:| ypre erat are = the - bers have started equally severe as/ northwest Canadian provinces while to snow and storms. marks from 20 to 30 below: were St. Cloud, Minn, Dec.,8.—uPi—|pommon, slong the internal With the mercury still at 20 below,) Minnesota was held in the frigi but with the storm of 40 hours, for the which started last Tuesday, some- what abated, central Minnesota set itself to the task today of digging itself out from snow drifts, rang- ni effects of the "Arction wave that wept out of the northwe:., LOW TEMPERATURES FOLLOW BLIZZARD St. Paul, ‘Dec. 8.—(AP)—Record low temperatures for the season: northwest today Winona, Minn., With gs rangi from 10 to 20 below zero, southeastern Minnesota including Winona, Hous- ton and Fillmore counties were gnewpeund this x Ly a ae anch passenger train o' » M. which sw this section yes> and St, Paul railway halted in the|terday. bil nisin drifts near Mabel, at 9 p. m. and! Virtually all points in Minnesota, was ‘still snowbound this morning.|North and South Dakota reported Few mail carriers on the rural|clear weather today, but told of in« routes were able to make their/tense cold hout. the three rounds in the storm yesterday, and|states and roads blocked by huge fewer orpecten to make their trips|drifts left by yesterday’s blinding today. pienrark wires were down| storm. ‘between Spring Grove and Cale- Hibbing, in northern Minnesota, ia, and Williston, western North Dak — ta, reported the lowest marks, Duluth, Minn., Dec. 1-] below, but many other points Stooal. was Dec. 8.—(F)— 8.—P)—A! though the mercury was still hover-|approached that i- ing around the 18 below mark here|nona, in southern this morning, Duluth was rapidly|the warmest, with nine below. assuming normal activities after North last night’s blizzard. Schools were| Jamestown Zeporied 28 below, dismissed this morning but ready|Fargo and Srand Forks having to resume classes at noon. One| maximum at 19 below. group of 45 children was forced to South Dakota “Also Hit sleep at a school house all night be-| Similar conditions arg) of feagenger of the pds South Dakota with s through the Two ships, ‘Continued which were unable to dock all da: ‘ yesterday on account of the wind, entered the harbor early this morn- ing and all shipping was resumed lay. Rochester, Mi ture of i xf ert ih ie E a " RE Nes aor i i f z 4 3 i i i E if HI il ? H z i / i 425i