The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 14, 1928, Page 1

} NORTH DAKOTA'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1928 Hickman Sentenced to Hang at St. Louis Despite Heavy Fog COMMODITY COMMITTEES WILL ESTABLISHED 1878 Lindbergh Lands Safely FAMOUS FLYER |[___tindy is Back at Home Port | COMPLETES HIS GOODWILL TOUR Last Leg of Flight Made Un- der Worst Possible Weather Conditions CROWD WELCOMES HIM Exhibition Flight at St. Louis Today Is Tribute to School Children St. Louis, Feb. 14.—(?)—His un- failing accuracy having carried him safely half way across a fog- blanketed continent, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and his famous mono- plane “Spirit of St. Louis” were home tod: Negotiating a planned course from Havana, Cuba, to Florida and thence northwest to the Miss: pi river, Col. Lindbergh swooped out of the fog at Lambert-St. Louis field late yesterday and ended his journey of 1,200 miles in 15 hours and 35 minutes. His flight, begun December 15 at Washington and leading , down through Mexico, and the central and South American Republics, was After a 7,860-mile goodwill tour from Washington to Mexico City, thence through Latin American countries to Havana, Col. Charles A. Lindberg! is back at his home port of St. Louis today. The heavy black li his route from Washington to Havana, and the dotted line re path he followed yesterday on his ria flight from Havana Louis. AVIATION ON COMMERCIAL BASIS BETWEEN U. S. AND SOUTH-CENTRAL COUNTRIES PRACTICAL, LINDY SAYS That Are Any Worse Than BIGGEST NEED, SAYS DR. MEAD Those Encountered in the! Jostly Reclamation Projects United States Worth Nothing Unless Land Is Used LINDY IS TOUCHY ABOUT WHAT HE ATE ON TRIP St. Louis, Feb. 14.—(AP)— There is one sure way to obtain a sharp retort from Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh—and that it to ask him what he eats on his nonstop flights. Apparently remembering the prodding he re- ceived after eating only a sand- wich and a half on the New | York to Paris flight, Colonel Lindbergh was on the defensive yesterday when asked what he ate on his way home from Ha- vana, . “What has that got to do with it, anyway?” he asked in the hangar. Again at night, when the same query was put to him, he reddened and grinned and then replied: “Well, I don’t see what that’s go to do with it.” s | | | St. Louis, Feb, 14.—(AP)—Avia- tion on a commercial basis is pra ticable and feasible between the, United States and the South and Cetral American countries, said Col.} Charles A. Lindbergh on his return) Raed i a good will tour of the! southern countries. 2 Washington, Feb. 14. — The rec- effect’ his Might might havecon the amation bureau is, spending $36, development of aviation and the pro- land, rahi tial ad He bate cman motion of friendly relations between | of them require settlers Dr. Elwood the United States and the southern! Mead, commissioner of reclumation, republics. declared today i:1 an address open- “T aie es someone else! ing a two-day conference on inal a= 1iore qualified tn I would discuss | tion and reclamation at the interior those things,” he added. department. tl He renee nae no ameacies nthe great prcblem of reclamation lying in oe that were any! is to mak: sure that when works are Parse than those encountered in the | completed, the land will be settled nt eet and the fields will be farmed, Dr. of Af ane ae Mead said, adding that costly proj- “f ‘chink "4 idimostc peatock ects were worth nothing until the condition, although it, will be over-| a™duitiey Hreinte are audy ants hauled here. Of course it is not in| ccttled he said. as good condition as when I first} wphis conference has beet. called id with it.” The manner in which! ¢, discuss thi situation, to consider . eu lane: stood mi be ayes toe whether leveling land and building will stand more use than mace pes | houses Js not as much a part of ree; le believe. The plane will eventual- lamation as building reservoirs and i i i vating canals” he continued. ly. be given to the Smithsonian In-|°*°*V4)iNE < stitution at Washington. Policy Change Necessary “It Ae vee use per nuation ig 1 funds for this purpose, hov. can we “No, Curried Nos Farn te obtain them?” he asked. “Settlers on the flight,” he replied to another | cannot provide all the needed money question. Parachutes are necessary |@ny more than they can build canals. in military maneuvers but not a Spauarer arceent) panelen @ radical Lrepaae ae See ie of “We have come to realize that the plane I’m flying.” economics of reclamtion are as im- “The Spirit of St. Louis,” he said,|portant as ‘ts engineering. We “is so constructed that it is possible | described as an odys of the air which in its spectarniar: as- bend was second only to his New ork-to-Paris flight. With characteristic modesty, Col. Lindbergh said the last non-stop leg of the flight through the fog was like any other flight and that he was not lost at any time. 2 Struck.Fog Over Mainland “My longest jump over the w: was between Havana and Key West, about 100 miles,” he related. “hen from Key West to Florida I thiak it was nearly the same distance I the west coast of Floriia north and flew directly toward st. Louis. It was from then on that I had to detour, though I encountered AF aa the time I hit the main- 1a) I was only occasionally out of sight of the ground on the trip yesterday. The flying ceiling was too low to circle over St. Louis xs I had planned and so I headed di- rectly for the field. The mouth of the Missouri river was a landmark for me.” The crowd of 800 people, stand- ing in a soaking rain at the field to welcome the good will er, grew apprehensive at 4 p. when TEN REPORT TODAY AT FARM CONFERENCE In Session Since Yesterday, the Committees Have Con- sidered Individual Farm Ex- periences and Reports of! Agricultural Expert | Service Clubs Entertain Ten commodity committees will report this afternoon at a general meeting of 200 farmer delegates from ten counties in the south cen- tral part of the state held at the federal building in Bismarck re- garding their recommendations for} improving farming practices, 1 Theso committees have been in session since yesterday morning considering the experiences of the} individual members and the infor- mation regarding price trends and other data presented by members of the staff of the Extension divi- tural college. Tho report of*the dairy commit- tee, which will be presented this afternoon for approval, follows: the volume of dairy products in this area be increased where ex- perience proven that pood dairy feeds can be produced. prices for dairy products in the fu- ture; the increase in the number of cows kept for milk in the United sion of the North Dakota Agricul-|¢, “The committee recommends that! nation by Harry F. Sinclair, Teapot Reasons | Nye, Republi Dakota, ex- are that indications are for good| Fe erent Danton ners States has not been too rapid when | DEMOCRATIC OFFICIALS T0 BE SUMMONED Senator Nye Wants to Know How Much ‘Oil Money’ Went Into Their Fund Washington, Feb, 14.—)—Cam- paign chest records of both the Re- publican and Democratic parties, with particular reference to the 1920 presidential contest, likely will be @&xamined by the senate Teapot Dome committee in its quest for traces of profits of the now extinct Continental Trading company of ‘anada, Will H. Hays, former chairman of the Republican national commit- tee, already has been asked to tell the committee about’ the $75,000 do- Dome lessee and a sharer of the Continental’s profits, to the party} deficit in 1923, .and now Chairman pects to summon Democratic party officials to see if they hrve a sim- ilar story to relate. Undecided on Whom to Call Chairman Nye said last night that increase in human population and co ption of dairy products per capita are considered. Dairy Increase Recommended “The committee recommends that the volume of dairy products be in- creased by the growing of more and sweet clover for hay, sweet clover for pasture, corn for silage {and sugar cane and millet as_the principal roughage feeds. Oats, barley and speltz are recommended as the principal grain feeds. Some tame pasture grass should supple- ment native pasture. Low produc- ing and unprofitable cows should be eliminated. Better purebred sires should be used. “The committee recommends 200 pounds of butterfat per year ‘as the lowest average production which will insure a fair labor income in | this area. Under oraey condi- | tions no more milk cows should be kept than can be cared for by the owner and his family. Cows should freshen in the fall in preference to the spring because they will give a ligher annual production, labor will be better distributed through the yea> prices for butterfat are usual- ly highest in the fall and winter months, and winter is the best time to raise calves. f “More attention should be paid to quality of cream as a means of. improving the market price. Co- operative marketing should be con- sidered in localities where suffi- (Continued on page iwo) MILLER GIVEN SENTENCE STAY Circuit Court of Appeals Grants Request of Former U. S. Official New York, Feb. 14.— (AP) —A stay of sentence was granted today to Thomas W. Miller, former alien Bae dropped sie old iden Has any: inji dy can succeed as a settler. 'e 2 land secre ingary, joe ie know that the successful settler belleve @ parachute should be car-| must be a good farmer. He must ried where it is advisable and makes|have experience an. a certain for greater safety, but when the gas|@mount of capital. We cannot re- tank is in front of the pilot he is in quire them to have all the capital little danger of = forced landing. | they will need, because if we did we “But what would have been the ed cut off oe suppl of nathan. outcome,” he was asked, “if you had|!f we require them to have enoug! ] capital to underwrite the money been oe BARRE SRE mee PS needed to develop their farms, we “I guess the outcome would have should previde from some source the been that I would be dead,” he said|remainder of the development cost, and laughed merrily. Until we do this, we have not thought reclamation out to a final To Fly Over Former Route conclusion, nor do we deal fairly by Turning to his planned trip over]the settlers.” _ plane to a hangar. the old air mail route which he aban- Authority Lacking Thrusting his long legs out of the|doned exactly one year ago yester-| The commissioner explained that cabin of the plane, Fe i met by day to go to San Diego, where the|the federal reclamaticn act ‘provides the reception committee and many| “Spirit of St. Louis” was being built, of his comrades of the national] Lindbergh said: for building irrigation :vorks and selecting eae os the rs Jone, i x “My primary object in going over|and that if the land is all irriga' ard ae air mall rea A the cil mail is is to stimulatejand the water all used, the govern- plane nlaced safely in the hangar| aviation and interest in it—although|ment gets its payments and the if and then gave a short interview to|1 do want to go over the old route.|rigators prosper, but if irrigat per (Continued on page two) But I think: the air mail will become|lags, both the government and irri- — more and more important, especially | gators lose. f Weather Report *|coee. Pespece%'tec st important| bureau lacks authority fo: help of ‘loped. I ex see all im ureau lacks aul a Weather Report _ | ail sent'by air in the future.” |fectively in. both settlement and * . Pri joe i farm development, and for the last 28 A vate. Stocks of reau’s efforts has worried those Liquor Immune From |connected with reclamation, he said. ‘ As a_ result the conference was Seizure by Officers) calied in an effort to find a solution. San Francisco, Feb, 14.——| New Evidence Found Private stocks of liquor are immune Ne E unless such sel is ee eee Vee ee at unless there used in the of an air mail plane took off and re- turned five minutes later unable to patente the cere i. and waist. rowd ut the dripping \- red into the southeast- the powerful electric on light swung to and fro, its beam penetrating the sodden heav- ens. Circles Field, Then Lands Even as they stared a sputter caused the people to turn and, with a roar, Lindbergh’s plane swept over the hangars from the no! west. Circling the field sever: times to inspect the ground, the Lone Eagle landed and taxied his Precipitation to 7 a. m. Highest wind velocity . WEATHER FORECAST For Bismarck and vicinity: erally fair tonight and Wednesda: Not much change in temperature. For North Dakota: Generally fair tonight and Wi iy. Not much thre years the limitation of the bu- prohibition agents Los Angeles, Feb. 14.—(AP)—Se- cret evidence which Amelia Appleby, weal widow Chicago itor, was declared to have been found by the sheriff's of- date of the of Mrs. Appleby was in a canvas by. road- San Fernando the day after in: Appleby Murder property custodian, convicted of de- frauding the government of his hon- est services in releasing $7,000,000 worth of war impounded German property. Miller was sentenced to serve 18 months in the federal penitentiary and to pay a fine of $5,000. His conviction and the sentence was up- held on Feb. 6 by the United States circuit court of appeals. Miller's counsel then requsted a stay of sen- tence and the circuit court of ap- peals today granted his application. Miller was tried jointly with Har- ty M, Daugherty, former attorney general, in two trials, At the first trial the jury disagreed as to both defendants and in the second trial disagreed as to Daugherty but con- victed Miller. The indictment against Daugherty was then quashed. In applyifig for a stay of sentence, Miller’s counsel explained that he jh wished to appear before a judge in the United States supreme court within a week to present an appli tion for a writ of certiorai, which, granted, would assure a teview of the entire proceedings. for the most dangerous of ‘beset a bride’s path. And she candidly expressed her own man friends and meet tied women do,” she wrote. How can you hope to make But Marye, reared in , a Sere nodes eyes. letter Jem first edition, and better feeds including alfalfa! A_ BRIDE'S ‘FOLLY’ ALARMS HER OLD-SCHOOL MOTHER “Mom” saw her beloved Marye heading straight “....It is folly for a married woman to have her very fact you belong to another man will make it so much harder for Norman to ag Crema in The Tribune. to Marye oy editorial page meinbers of the committee believed | that if “this off money” went to one | |Party it was “quite apt to have gone | Ee the other, too." He has not de- |cided yet just whom to call before ithe committee, but he recalled that | {Sinclair had testified in 1923 that he had contributed to campaign funds of both parties. The senator’ said also that the Democratic party-was' known to have had a deficit of nearly $600,000 at the close of the 1920 campaign, but that by 1924-that figure was re- duced to $200,000. There is no pub- \lic record of: how that was done, Nye said, and he ‘believes the com- mittee should: find out whether the party received @ portion «f the now jidden liberty ‘bonds which formed the $3,080,000 profits of the Conti- nental company. The es Shenae inquiry will be resumed Thursday, and witnesses summoned to’ appear fren to be quesioned by Senator Walsh, Demo- crat, Montana, :the ‘prosecutor, in- clude officials and employes of’ the| New York brokerage ‘firm of Potter and company. WILL FIGHT TO: SAVE SHOW GIRL FROM GALLOWS Women’s Protective Associa- tion Engages Attorney to Seek Leniency Chicago, Feb, 14. —Attorney James C. O'Brien, retaii by the Women’s Protective association, to- day entered into a_ long distance fight to save Doris Parker McDon- ald, New York show girl, from death on the gallows at Montreal. She is under sentence to hang March 23 for murder. Attempts to save the girl were started by her mother, Mrs, Michael Greco, formerly Mrs. Hazel Snyder, of Chicago, who enlisted the aid of the protective ciation. The mother, who has not seen her daugh- ter for 15 years, and three members. of the tective association con- ferred with Attorney O'Brien to pre- pare affidavits which it is hoped may induce the Canadian courts to eho leniency toward the convicted girl. “If necessary, I will go to Mon- treal to plead my case,” said Attor- ney O’Brien. “We have affi its to show the girl was ‘.enta: re- sponsible.” The affidavits were obtained from the girl’s mother, her grandmother, Mrs. rine Walker, who lives with Mrs. Greco; and Miss Margaret Gould, governess for Doris after she had deen adopted by Dr. Francis Parker, wealthy physician of Mt. Vernon, N. Y., now living in Okla- oma. They testified, O’Brien seid, that Doris ‘since child »od had been sub- Ject to delusions of grandeur, that she lived a fantastic life and often assumed the names of celebrites she admired. the domestic pitfalls which with a mother’s solicitude fears: them alone just as unmar- “Don’t you know that the ut you out of his mind? forget you by lunching’ different era, saw her prob- Read this intimate mother- “Mom's” of this’ oe PRICE FIVE CENTS | They Demand Ieving Fisher Dr. Ray Among the leaders of naticnal mect in Washington February planks in the platforms of both men above. dency will Dry Planks | tymanVilbur to demand arties are the Nomination and election of a dry candidate for the presi- | iched, he was smiling and jaunty as ——— FRIDAY, APR. 277 IS SET AS DATE OF EXECUTION Murderer Pallid When Led From Room, But Quickly Regains Jauntiness |DEFENSE MAY APPEAI {Judge Trabucco Denies New Trial and Overrules Mo- tions of Defense Los Angeles, Feb. 14.47)—Wil« liam Edward Hickman today waa sentenced to death for the kidnaping and slaying of Marian Parker. The execution was set for Fridayg April 27. Judge J. J. Trabucco pronounce the sentence. Hickman will be Ll se! unless his attorneys are successful in an ape peal to the state supreme court. Two witnesses were placed on the | witness stand to establish the crime ‘and the degree of murder. | Hickman was ordered turned over to the sheriff at once for transfer to San Quentin prison. The prison« jer, who had stood erect to hear hig sentence pronounced, dropped heave lily into his seat after the last word, fell from Judge Trabucco’s lips. 7 Before passing sentence, Judge Trabucco denied the defense motion for a new trial and also overruled ja motion alleging the court was j without jurisdiction to pronounce | judgment. ees The court overrode an objection by the defense to the admission of any evidence to fix the degree of the crime. Hickman was pallid and he ap- peared grave as he was led from the court room. However, ten minutes after the brief procedure was fine Mary E Woolley oe BishopWilliom, ‘T-Manning. nizations and professions who will! hibition enforcemeni| l-kKnown women and} be sought. |he returned to pose for news amera, men in the court room. KINCHELOE BLAMES FARM RELIEF | realest aa DELAY ON FAILURE OF FARMERS’ ORGANIZATIONS TO GET TOGETHER PLUS get ST TSE PT EPR | Today in Congress | ¢——_—_____—____—_—_+ (By The Associated Press) Senate resumes consideration of Walsh resolution for inquiry into financing of public utilities corporations. Johnson coal investigation resolution, railroad consolida- tion, labor injunction suits and flood control remain before the senate committees; commerce | committee debates calling of | Hoover on flood control. | House continues debate on | treasury-postoftice appropria- | tion bill as its committees dis- | cuss. naval building, reduced | posta] rates, flood cntrol, farm relief, “and reapportionment of representation in house. | PARTY PLAN OF © BEST DEVISED Safety of This Nation Depend: Upon It, Says Nicholas | Longworth New York, Feb, 14.—(AP)—Re-| sponsible party government is the kbone of the United States and any departure from that system would lead to anarchy, holas, Longworth, speaker of the house of representatives, told the National Republican club at its Lincoln day dinner. 2 “My experience has convinced me, more and more that the safety of the nation depends upon responsible ty government,” he said. “I he- Fieve it would be disastrous for the | United States to adopt, even in the lightest degree, the group and bloc system, wit! 1¢ which is the bane of Europe today. “The house,” he continued, “has a) system of responsible party govern. ment and has pretty well solved th problems it has had to handle. An other body, for which I have the | highest respect, has no such system, | and so St has done nothing.” _ Speaker Longworth also voiced a plea for a political system free from | ‘distinctions of geography, race, or worst of all, of religion.” He ex; ed confi at im-} portant slation now pending in| the house, including flood relief, the | merchant marine and the navy. pro-| gram, would be substantially solved. Pershing Praises Linco General John J. Pershing, who was also a speaker, praised Lincoln as a strategist, quoting from his Fitters to General HeClel nin which it to military principles, which he said were later accented 2 as sound, were ero it. ue ait snilitary’ strategy is bu: the application of common ao fauatibie® noe GOVERNMENT IS , {the saddest things th | Grange has faced.” (Continued on page two) 1 YEGG KILLED, 2 WOUNDED BY Kentucky Representative Charges That Jealousy Ex-| CHICAGO COP ists Between American | Farm Bureau Federation, : and National Grange of Ili.) Detective Sergeant Cooper. inoik Beats Robbers to the Draw | in Restaurant Washington, Feb. 14.—?)—Delay | in farm relief legislation was Chicago, Feb. 14.—(AP)—Detece at the door of national farmers’| tive Sergeant Thomas Cooper, quick organizations by Representative| on the draw and of deadly aim, fall Kincheloe, Democrat, Kentucky, at|jto “stick ‘em up” in answer to a hearings today before the houe agri-|bandit quartet's _ commands last cultural committe night, but when the smoke cleared With the appearance of Louis J.|away one robber Iay dead, another Taber, master of the National] died later in a hospital, a third was Grange, charges that jealous: 'probably mortally wounded, while isted between the Americar the fourth had fled. Bureau federation and the National} The shooting took place in a southe Grange in Illinois, were brought up|side restaurant. Men entered the by Kincheloc. He questionec Taber! place, one of them seizing Miss n reports that the Farm Bureau] Blanche Wilson, proprietor, by the federation had brought pressure to! throat. id Ki ident of i As she screamed, Sergeant Cooper’ the Univ of Illinois, to pr wheeled around, drawing his pistol. the appearance before the commit-|The bandit leader dropped to the tee of Professor Charles L. Stewart! floor at the first shot. Two others, on the export debenture m relief | unarmed, attempted to rush the po- plan. Taber said that he had heard! liceman, but they, too, fell. » but that he v i The fourth man ran. position to speak authoritatively! About this time, Fred Kern, @! on the subject. customer, entered and a bullet, in- Leaders Cannot Agree tended for the fleeing robber, passed “I think that the farmers of the | through his coat. ; : country ought to know that their or-| | The dead leader, identified by ganization leaders here in Washing-|cards found on his person, was be- ton cannot get together here,” lieved to be Charles Green, 26, Kincheloe declar Te Edward Smith, 23, with four shots this was prima: ible for|in his body, died a few hours later no farm relief progr: g agreed|at a hospital. Jack Gold, 30, was upon. {shot once and is said to be dying. ed Kincheloe when’ he would get relict. | Officers’ Training ” | School Is Open f farm or- | and self- | Grand Forks, N. D., Feb, 14. | (AP)—A four-day school of instruc- tion, attended by appro sae 65 officers of the North Dakota nations al guard, got under way here today. Formation of the training sched- ule for the June encampment at s {. Camp Grafton and discussion of sub- May Call Meeting jjects of interest to company com- Representative Anderson, Repub-|manders in their armory training lican, Minnesota, asked Taber in the | work formed the principal part of National Grange were willingto meet !the program. with representatives of the Farm| Captains William Sp4nn, E. F. Bureau federation in the next ten} Boruski and J. L. Ostrander, now on days to try for au agreement onjduty with the North Dakota nation- farm relief, and Tater assented. al guard, are in Bigs of instruc- “If it is’ desirable,” he said, Hon will issue such an inv | Adjutant General G. A. Fraser say right now that it seless. if | opened the school this morning with any group nails up the equalization | an outline of the program and pur- fee and says take that or’ nothing. pose of the course. That attitude will not be accepted by a 61-year-old organization like the Grange, with nearly 1,000,000 mem- bers.” : 4 The equalization fee principle is cia in the McNary-Haugen Taber had carlier told the com- mittee, that the Grange, the Farm Bureau federation and the Far Union, had met tgether twice in} 1 February and November, 1927, but could reach no agreement or. pt relief or Muscle Shoals legislation. It was this revelation that percipi- the assault on organiza- tions’ tactics by committee members. Shortly before the meting ad- urned, Anderson announced that e intended to introduce a resolution calling for the committee to go into ex: bear on David Kinley, pre > ganizations forget politi ishness.”” Taber said eason which ha farm orga tions from ing together “politics and outside influences.’ He said the situation was “one of | hat the National executive session for consideration [of farm relief measures, g 1