The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 31, 1927, Page 8

[, DRY AGENTS OBE ACTIVE IN CHICAGO ; Prohibition Enforcement To- night to Be Federal Affair, Police Chief Bays the New Year. per Chief of Police Hughes indicated that the police force would make no extra efforts toward liquor law en- . forcement. " ‘ “I’m going to keep my New Year’s resolution—to continue my fight against crime,” the chief said. “It is strenous work. Half of my force will be off duty. But I won’t stand in the government’s way. The fed- eral laws should’ be enforced—by aes agents.” lo to night clubs and cabarets, nor will hilarity be sy aa as disorderly conduct. Police will not be per- mitted-to search pockets for bottles, the chief said. cae The federal prohibition depart- ment, however, has made extensive a to make certain that Nit lew Year's eve celebration is dry. A force of 250 federal men has been assigned to hotels and cabarets. The federal men are understood to have'been instructed to arrest any hip flask toters they may observe. lany hotels have posted notices that. no “setups”—which is vernacu- Jar for ginger ale and cracked ice— served. BILLBOARD ADS DISCONTINUED Largest National Advertisers Doing Away With Advertis- ing Along Roadside Washington, D. C., Dec. 31—The iti Generat Federation of Women's on Clubs, in its nation-wide campaign It to banish offensive billboards from ithe American landscape, have in the ‘ biggest national users of billboards On and national advertising agencies, q their strongest allies. The restrict. ‘ ve dha billboards to commercial dis- 7 has struck a responsive chord '-in the hearts of the greatest national irms and highway billboards are iq) being discontinued. annually: by the | thousands, according to voluntary / reports that are reaching Mrs. W. ‘Tl Lawton of Glens Falls, New Yor chairman of the Committee on Bill- y board Restriction in the General - Federation. fi on acre Set re ioe - iven uy “Texaco” - yay baletina in the last two and one- years, retaining only twenty- ix Latah A the contracts 0 next year. i Standard tI Company of New York has given up “several hundred” highway billboards, all, in fe fact, which are not connected with Mei filling stations or garages. The z Company is using some posters, but > only with the understanding that the (£4 billboard companies will place then; « in: commercial districts. « The Standard Oil Company of i Saltornia, has given up nearly 1200 way boards. Were of Little Value The Hood Tire comrany, has dis- dé ccntinued more than 700 highway ner: bulletins and states that they do not @ think that the giving up of rural Hv, boards has in. any way retarded 3 ir progress. 21 + i ie age tich Tire company writes: = one time our com man: - ted bogrds eaiared along the ys of the country, but these been replaced by poster show- in commercial centers, in local- of 50,000 population and up.” have ites The Fisk Tire company says “we| f boa: el are, ustog no painted boards. | between 20 and 25 below zero would prevail tonight with a wind prob- | ably as high ss 20 miles an hour. Highway bus traffic is practically at standstill and trains are run- ning behind schedule. Jamestown, N. D., Dec. 31.—44?. The mercury hovers 10 degrees der zero here this forenoon with a stiff breeze from the north drifting snow considerably and the roads very heavy. Automobile travel is very limited but the main roads are being kept open as much as possible by the county snow plow. Eighteen below was the low record for the temperature for the past 24 hours. This was from 6 to 7 a. m. today. 4 RESCUE MEN NEARING GOAL Divers Hope to Enter Engine Room Compartment Today —Will Bring Up Bodies Provincetowny Mass., Dec. 31.— (AP)—Divers working upon the sunken submarine S-4 in an effort netrate the hull rapidly neared their goal this afternoon. police details will be assigned | t t [| tion agents. Before night they hoped to enter the engine room compartment in which they believe they will find the bodies of at least 10 members of the crew 6f 40 who lost their lives after the ship went to the bottom two weeks ago today. X 3 Today, for the third time since the salvage operations were started, a diver nearly sacrificed his life. Bradford Bedford, down for the first time, reported after 20 minutes on the bottom, that he was in dis- tress. His companion, “Bill” Carr, went to his assistance and held Bed- ford in his arms while the workers on the surface raised them to the 50-foot level, where Bedford was Placed on the diving bes, and carried to the surface. dford, suffering apparently from the ef- fects of the pressure, was placed in Four divers went down One Killed or More Injured — Snow- storm Believed Cause son and possibly railroad, roceeding through 4 road yard here. rescuers, conversing with them con- Tulsa, torches were being used on a second lead. The engine of the Hummer, run- ning more than an hour late, smashed through the rear of the standing St. Louis train, telescoping two sleepers. It was in these two dead were found. A third train featured in the wreck although it was not in the collision. BLINDING SNOWSTORM BLAMED FOR COLLISION _ Chicago, Dec. 31.—(AP)—A blind- ing snow storm this morning was blamed for a collision of three trains of the Chicago and Alton railroad in the decompression chamber. today. Captain Henry Hartley of the Falcon said today that the divers would bring up all bodies found engine room. in the Bank Bandits Pose as Prohibition Agents Blin ba Dec, 31.—(?)—Posing as Prohibition agents, six men id- naped the teller of the Ravenswood National bank and his parents here today, holding the father and moth- er captives in a private garage while they forced the son to open the bank’s vault. They escaped with $80,000 in currency. As George Anderson, the teller, drove into his garage shortly be- fore midnight, six men step for- ward and said they were prohibi- They wanted to search his automobile and home, they said, would not harm him if he remajned quiet. Mr, and Mrs. Algot Anderson, the teller’s parents, were made captive in the house, which the bandits searched thoroughly to be sure no one was missed. Drawing revol- vers, the men ordered the family out of the house. They took them to a private garage rented the previous day, where they bound the Andersons and held them until about 6 o'clock. pocige egret Temperature and j \ Road Conditions (Mercury readings at 7 a, m.) BISMARCK—Cloudy, 15 below; roads drifted. Ales Cloud—Clear, 17 below; roads fai Rochester—Cloudy, 9 below; roads the railroad yards, a collision of two elevated trains and a dozen less ser- ious traffic accidents. In the railroad accident the Hum- mer, from Kansas City, running an hour and a half behind schedule, struck a mail train from St. Louis which in turn crashed into a passen- ger train from St. Louis. All the trains were moving through the yards under slow orders due to the storm. Twenty-four passengers and one member of the crew were injur- ed, none of them, except the railroad employe, seriously enough to require hospital treatment. In the elevated crash, a Logan Square Metropolitan train which fad slowed down to await signals to proceed after crossing the bridge over the Chica; by a Douglas ark train. One pas- senger was caught in the wreckage | boa: of the platform between two, cars and held a prisoner for more than an hour while doctors administered stimulants as firemen worked fran- tically in the storm to release him. The passenger, R. C. Schij , doc- tors said, probably will dle Other peemees were shaken up and rightened and one member of the crew was injured slightly. The passengers were transferred to ani | in Wreck |two Others May Be Dead—25) fj CHEVROLET Chicago, Dec. S\—(P)—One per-| a. other were killed and 25 or morgan today when the “Hummer,” crack passen- ger train of the Chicago and Alton i cautiously blinding, snowstorm, crashed into the rear of a mail train | from St. Louis standing in the rail- Firemen and railroad employes worked for hours after the wreck with acetylene torches in the snow and cold to reach an 18-year-old girl imprisoned in .a Pullman com- fecrey who, despite the fact that oth legs were crushed, courageous- ly directed the rescue efforts of the stantly. The girl, Miss Sara Spreckell, of kla., is not expected to live. From the same compartment she was in the rescuers lifted the body of # woman who has not been iden- tified. While the firemen searched this car for other victims, acetylene car reported to contain the bodies ee two persons, both believed to be cars that most of the injured or river, was rammed | Re; THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | torches were brought into play on the sides of another steel coach and where firemen believed others were injured and unable to help themselves. MODELS 10 BE SHOWN SUNDAY Wonderful Changes Made in Car, Inside and Out, Accord- ing to Local Dealer New Chevrolets were being un- Cariai in esac Cr fA the pital Chevrolet company in prep- aration for the New Year's ‘ da; showing tomorrow of the -latest motor car product of the General Motors com ny Six models, § Il that will be shown Sunday, were being transferred from freight car to the local distributin; agency where they will be seevieadl washed and polished in preparation for their bow to the public. Exceptional interest is being shown in the new low priced car that is being introduced tomorrow by General Motors, according to F. M. Davis, local manager, who stated that “the bigger and better Chevrolet will fulfill every anticipation of the driving public.” “There has been a wonderful change in the new Chevrolet,” said Mr. Davis. “From bumper to bumper, inside and out, people will find practically a new car.” “No radical changes have been made in the new models but refine- ments in engine and body will astound the public who may have thought that the peak of improve- ment in low-priced cars had been reached.” With one exception, all of the cars that will be shown are closed models. The cars are a coupe, sedan, coach, imperjal sedan, cabriolet and a one-half tén chassis. More than 400 freight carloads of the new Chevrolet: models are being unloaded over all of North Dakota today and will be shown universally tomorrow. Fred Midelsteadt Buried Near Regan Funeral services were held | at Regan Thursday for Fred Midel- steadt, 62, who died at Bismarck Monday following a cerebral hem- orrhage. Rev. G. W. Stewart of Mandan officiated at the. services, and interment was in Rose Hill cemetery, 6 miles southwest of gan. Mr. Midelsteadt was born on ship- in New York harbor, October 11, 1865, while his parents were en route to this country from Germany. He spent his early life with his par- ents in Wisconsin and Minnesota. On November 25, 1890, he was mar- tied to Miss Barbara Standly at New Ulm, Minn. Coming to North Dakota 25 years ago, the family settled on a farm one mile from Regan. Mrs. Midelsteadt died November 4, 1914, and Mr. er train which pulled along-| Midelsteadt continued to reside on side the wrecked trains to*remove| the farm until last summer, when he them. Surface line, elevated and retired from active farm life and railroad traffic along with motor|came to Bismarck to make his home traffic all were slowed to a snail’s ¢ by the snowstorm and trains ‘rom the west were reported far be- hind schedule. Listed among the injured was} weeks ago. Alfred Norman, 208 Sixth Avenue, Fargo, N. D. _ A special relief train brought the injured passengers from the scene of the wreck to the Union station. They were given treatment at the emergency hospital there and then taken to other hospitals. ACETYLENE TORCHES USED TO RESCUE WRECK VICTIMS jicago, Dec. Sara Spreckell, 18, of Tulsa, Okla. alive but seriously unidentified woman w! of a Pullman car in the roads fair. drifted. Duluth—Clear, 20 below; roads, Mankato—Cloudy, roads fair. 17 . below; roads fair. Hibbing—Clear, 31 below; roads Grand Forks—Cloudy, 8 below; roads fair. 12 below; roads fa: Man Winona—Partly cloudy, 9 below; roads fai Minot—Clear, 14 below; fair. 18 below; Jamestown—Clear, "Ya rgo—Cloudy, 16 bel adi ‘a joudy, low; roads driftes Crookston—Cloudy, Cloudy, 14 below; roads fair. fair. Devils Lake—Cloudy, 15 below; th roads good. University Students Caught ‘in Avalanche Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 31.—(i—A acetylene torches. remen and railroad employes Pull digging in the wreckage of man cars on the St. Louis train acetylene s when they found one wom- in one compartment injured | and unable to extricate themselves hurriedly called for torche: an imprisoned and one or more persons in another compartment. The imprisoned woman was able | her rescuers as they began cutting away the side avy steel coach in the to converse with of the he: snowstorm. Mi anot! woman lay m fy She em bee aane, was ies of cago an at ron otionless by 31.—()—Miss jured, and an was dead, were removed from the wreckage Chicago and Alton wreck today after fire- men and railroad employes had cut through the walls of the coach with with his son, George Midlesteadt. He had been in ill health forthe past two months but his illness de- velo a critical nature only two He leaves two children, Mrs. Peter New Year Dear Friends and Patrons, we thank you for your patronage which has made our business a pleasure and success the past year. May Happiness and Prosperity yours throughout the coming year. < Yellow Cab Co. Michelsen of Regan and Midelsteadt of Bismarck, and Mrs. John Standl: of Regan Miss Christina Midelsteadt of Mani- toba, pope ee ‘ Snowfall Causes - Postponement of Harry Hill Trial Ottawa, Ill, Dec, 31.—(—A 12- Nig tad tawa today and the trial of Harr’ inch snowfall which tied u prevented jurors from reac! he tor where one man’s form could be seen| lowing brothers and sisters: William Midelsteadt of Oklahoma City, Meo tan Tall ig ceyp ot taht ie. fal ol fall crop of 1926 for North Dakota is shown by the December 1, 1927, pig survey ba re-issued through the office of Paul C. Newman, ag- ricultural statistician. The of sows farrowing this fall was 31 Bera teat fat’ rhe nusaber of Be num saved High ovd this fall was slightly ‘a year ago. 4 ber of sows bred, or to be bred, for next 8] Ne Da- Hill was adjourned until Tuesday | kota afternoon. Mrs. George McGrath, mother of and | North Di Alice Sawyer, over whom Harry his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth A. Hill, were said to: have quarreled often, denied her daughter had ever con- Ce tbat marrying the Streator youth, The state claims that Harry stiot and killed his mother, body in the basement of tl jome, after a dispute over his friendship with the girl and over his having passed checks drawn on Mrs. Hill's oe Rour prospective j red ‘our prospective jurors appea! to have been tentatively accepted by both sides when court adjourned yesterday. = TAKE OFF IS DELAYED St. Louis, Mo., her | ve; Dec. 31.—(P)— Snow and wind this morning pre- vented the take off of the ‘ord monoplane bearing Mrs. Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh and party on the its flight to aay next leg of 3 Weather permitting a start will made later in the day, it was an- nounced, ONE INDICTMENT (RETURNED political corruption along with oth- er matters, completed its work to- day with the'return of one indict- The name of the man indicted was withheld his arrest, but it was in- that the person indicted was ment and 37 discharges. pendit dicate not a public official. WOULD DISMISS CASE Washington, Dec. 31—(AP)—A motion to dismiss contempt proceed- ings against H. M. Blackmer, miss- ing Teapot Dome oil witness, on the ground that the citation was uncon- stitutional was made before Justice Frederick L. Siddons today b; George Gordon Battle, Blacksner’s| counsel. ing. Increases of about-five for the corn belt states and sos eae pigs saved, 8 yy the survey. These increases are equivalent to between two and one-| half and three million pigs in the corn belt and about five million for the United States. Increases in areas outside the corn belt this year indicate larger contributions to com- supplies the coming year than for several years. The increases in sows farrowed this fall for states east of the ge river was only two per cent, while in sor wine waded chad 16 P°> cen! tenn nd 2 conte in Fargo January 25 and The only car of its kind in the world. Entirely new engineering principles. Years ahead of its time. 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