The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 29, 1928, Page 1

ESTABLISHED 1873 SHAFER REITERATES STATEMENT THAT ~ HEIS NOT CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR Statement Said to Have Been CLEANING OF GRAIN 1S TOPIC MADE ISSUE OF NEXT CAMPAIGN ——— | Paging Henry Olson | zien — berthed itd calle Last Night at Conference} —Henry Glnon, wherever you With ‘Friends of John W.| *"¢; read this: Drys Demand That Both Con- Convicted of slaying Floyd . 5 Today Is ‘Managers’ Day’ at Carr, an Avowed Candidate] Stotler, oil station attendant, ventions Declare For Rigid State Convention of N. D. and sentenced to life imprison- vernor 1 Enforcement Grain Men wees boned Icot Thuredey, didn't pou? With your young wife you drove away, and your $10,000 bond, on which Judge Fisher had al- lowed you your freedom pend- ing arguments for a new trial, was declared forfeited. But you may come back now, Henry Olson! That life sentence, though it still stands over you, is not likely to be enforced. Do you know George Bliss and Morris Mahan? They are only 17 years old, nine years younger than you. They are under arrest, Henry Olson, and the police say they have con- feased they were the ones who L. S. BURGUM PRESIDES Jamestown, N. D., Feb, 29.—(AP) —Statement that he is not a candi- date for the governorship is said te . have been made by Attorney General Grain Dealers’ Band Plays|George F. Shafer here last night at onference with friends of John W. Concert—Con juests 9° vention Gi Carr. Carr, who was speaker of the Still Arriving house at the last session of the legis- lature, is an avowed candidate for the gubernatorial endorsement at the state convention of the Independent Voters association to be held here March 7. Shafer’s statement is expected to clear the ANOTHER MEET SUNDAY Candidacy of Al Smith For Democratic Nomination to Be Discussed Washington, Feb. 29,.—(4)—Pro- hibition has been thrust with re- newed vigor into the coming presi- dential campaign by the insistance of a group of militant drys that both the Republican and Democratic par- It is Managers’ Day-today at the Bismarck auditorium where the North Dakota Grain Dealers holding their annual convention. L. 8. Burgum, Arthur, was the litical atmosphere of the ‘i i ling officer at the morning ses- ‘3 ft held up the filling station last ties mect the issue squarely. Bona tic began at 10 o'clock with beagid whi “Reha saa clas September and shot down Stot- | | Representatives of thirty-odd na- the grain dealers’ band playing a paign’to “draft” hime t for] ler when he resisted. tional temperance organizations, at short concert. 4 <greting badges You should come home, Henry | a conference here which terminated last night, drafted formal demands that the two national political con- ventions not only declare for rigid dry enforcement, but consider as presidential timber only men whose stand on prohibition is not to be questioned. Olson, and give personal thanks to your attorney, H. B. North, whose certainty of your inno- cence led to the uncovering of evidence which resulted in the Mahan and Bliss arrests yester- day. North heard rumors of a governor. mitaitoe” waa started after Shafer commi was 5 after er in > cient manner of handling dirty Sacondhig to those at last night’s i conference, is for the purpose of shelving both the senatorial aspira- Robert H. Black Talks “Grain Grading” was the topic on othe topic for the morning discus- - In addition, plans are on foot for sion was “How should the pending tions of Shafer and those of Carr; oman, who had wa irs. |a/theeting in Florida. next week by grain be handled when there is doubt | for the governorship. aisle: Hmrebemavcneecns, |dcy lenders Trom-codtherntstktesrier innocent. woman was ques- tioned. She told police that Ma- han had told her he took part in the holdup. They are searching for you today, Henry Olson. You think about liens?” i Carr, who has the unique distinc- Other topics were, “What is.con- of having been unanimously structive notice of the existence of elected speaker of the state house liens? Do we favor federal inspec- | of representatives at @ recent spe- tion as against federal supervision? | cial session, has been active in civic which it is predicted ways and means of nipping the presidential ambi- tions of Governor Smith of New York will be discussed. The Florida conference will get How can grain be purchased 50 88/ affairs for more than a quarter cen-| { be i under way Sunday at St, Peters- ie ey — content to the/tury and has gained a wide reputa- tines chtsige Saperacenly fn |burg. It will be under the auspices tion for fairness in dealing with factions in state politics. of both Nonpertisana and Inde- of ans ai je- Leben in the legislature is an in- dication, according to his friends, of the Anti-Saloon league, and friends of prohibition in nine states south of the Potomac and Ohio and east of the Mississippi are expected to attend. Its Main Purpose The main purpose of the meeting is to canvass the prohibition situa- tion in southeastern states, but those in charge of arrangements predict that the candidacy of the New York governor for the Democratic nomi- nation, in particular, and the possi- bility also that first place on the ticket might go to Governor Ritchie of Maryland, or Senator Reed of Missouri, both of whom are also You are wrong. It is true. Come home, Henry Olson, LOWDEN FILES DECLARATION OF CANDIDACY No Other Petitions For Repul- Grain Spegen nad Flos be ng into the city from four pei the compass, the registration table in the lobby of the Grand Pacific hotel being busy all mon ing. Grain Cleaners Shown The Carter Mayhew Manufactur- ing company cf Minneapolis, manu- facturers of Carter disc grain separ- that he would: receive thousands of tors, have on display in the Corwin- Churehill Motor ‘company’s. show jonpartisan Lea, votes as a Dieconatoriat cantidate. rooms, three of their latest models Pik Lr = KINDNESS GETS reeset CONFESSION IN chaser of this type of machinery of and several of their s oe looked up with distavoaby the Anti- “well as gngtheers live in this state.| rym oy} lican Presitfential As- | Ssioon league, will be considered. The three machines on display ‘ i Ex During the conference here yes- here are the No. 1 Special, No. 3.and} : x pirants Expected terday the name of Governor Smith Big Four models The Big Four)’ - |. : : Pork i on several occasions crept into the ts the name implies, is a machine discussion, although for the most vf unusually large capacity and has 5 Personal declaration of Frank 0. act epeckera, tatralnnd. thorn et Wife of One of Men Arrested Lowden, former governor of Illinois, Continued on page two) T Overhearing Gang | that he is a candidate for the repub-|ferring to him or any others men- nN AT RYeS — i. lican presidential nomination was|tioned for the nomination. ; Lay Plans filed with Secretary of State Robert} The conference adopted resolu- Byrne here yesterday. tions calling on both the major po- : b. 29. The declaration was inthe form | litical parties to put dry law enforce- ment planks in their platforms and to consider for the presider.tial and vice presidential nominations only men whose acts and utterances show them to be true friends of the prohi- bition amendment. Arrangements were made to have a committee, to be made up of repre- sentatives of all the organizations {participating in the conference, resent arguments in behalf of dry fw declarations to the resolutions committee at both the June national conventions. 2 ARE KILLED IN MINE FEUD Union Trouble at Pittston Re- sults in Death of Campbell and Reilly Pittston, Pa., Feb. 29—(P)—Pitts- ton’s mine union feud has claimed ‘fod? lives in the last two months. Alex Campbell, check weighman and union leader at No. 6 colliery of the Pennsylvania coal company, tt week. The statement was/ and Peter Reilly, treasurer of local placed on file and is merely added| 1703, United mine workers of assurance that Lowden’s name will| America, were riddled with bullets r on the ballot. fire: uA unidentified assailants late h the time for filing peti-| yeste! , 98 they approached tions will not expire until midnight} Campbell’s home in an automobile. of March 1, they said, no other peti- were dead when police reached tions for Republican presidential] the scene a few minutes later. Their aspirants have been received and| assailants, who apparently had none expected. Lowe has been| trailed them in another motor car, given the support of both the Inde-| disappeared. Fe ts al the Nonpartisans,|_ Later an automobile, believed to factions of the Republican} have been used by the slayers, was ty in the state. Action ihe take fiend abana, Lae a vali oad tions rossi a LRecwgg hcg tego ge from Pittston. Inside the car were found two pump-guns, a .38 calibre pistol with six empty shells, and three dozen loaded pump gun shells. Several persons told the authorities seen three young men abandon the car and ip on a eraing siehqht train. bound of an affidavit made by Lowden in Marieopa county Arizona on Feb- ruary 20, and reads as follows: + “TI, Frank O. Lowden, being first duly sworn, do depose and say that I reside in the county of Ogle and state of Illinois. That I am a quali- fied voter therein and a Republican. ‘That I am a candidate for nomination hed the office of president of the United States to chosen at the residential primary election to be Id on the 20th day of March, 1928, in the State of North Dakota, and I do hereby request that my name be printed upon the __ presidential rimary election ballot as provided by law as a candidate of the Repub- |lican party for the said office.” The statement was witnessed by ©. W. Handley, a notary public of Maricopa county, Arizona. It was presented to the secretary of state by F. L. Conklin of Bis- marck, who said he had received it from Harrison Garnett of St. Thomas, Republican national com- miteeman for this state. ? Officials at the secretary of state’s office ssid that Mr. Lowden’s per- sonal declaration was unnecessary to place his pame on the ballot, since that had ly been provided for by the filing of petitions which were resented to the secretary of state CONFESSION WAS FORGED Says Statement Was Given to| tnt State’s Attorney Under ALLE | i f Hi within the last month. Earthquake Shakes Bakersfield, Calif. Bakersfield, Cal., Feb. 29.—(?)— The oil field area of Kern county today was from an earth- quake scare cal bya series of blors last night. 2 quakes were felt on the out- skirts of Bakersfield at 7 o'clock ight. Although no damage was , the shocks caused consid- excitement. eight or nine shocks ing of doors and ratt joors increased il t izz i the International of the Unit- ed mine workers, and Reilly were leaders of a faction of the union lo- cal which has been vigorously op- sing the contract mining system Ay vogue in the Pittston district. Their slaying is believed by the au- thorities to ha retalia- tion for the kil a district org: to death 10 a : i i : i a 3 ae - il z = bt ? 8 2 i H 2 3 bay # ty Fe URGE.BEACON TO LUFBERY i f i Es é i HE i i s - z Es Hea H z a 3 € - elds ny KELLOGG RENEWS PLEA Grain Dealers Discuss Matters Pertaining to Their Work PROHIBITION IS \Jt for a. Longer Life You Pine, Rejoice! Today Is February 29 Four years of waiting for a birth- day celebration ended for 75,000 Americans today, Then tomorrow they will begin four more years of ita for another such opportun- ity. Should others than persons born on February 29 want to celebrate, also, growing custom provides plen- tiful excuse. . The occasion is ideal for the exercise of pie centyes which Leap Year tradition assigns to femininity—such as proposing, invit- ing male friends to dinners and dances at which the womenfolk pay the bills, and the like. Blame That Caesar Feller Julius Caesar is the individual on whom rests blame for the long hiatus between “birthdays of the February 29th-ers. It was: Caesar, aided by the astronomer Clavius, who in 46 B. C. devised the idea of an extra day for the calendar: every four years. : A calendar year 365 1-4 days in length would be properly adjusted, Caesar figured, to the natural or solar year. But he wasn’t quite right. For the solar year is exactly 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds long—or 11 minutes and 14 seconds shorter than the year that Caesar and Clavius calculated. Pope Gregory XII was the man who corrected the error. He found in 1852 that the calendar was a full 10 days out of joint. To fix matters, he ordained that October 5, 1852, should be called October 15. And then he amended Caesar’s Leap Year | formula so it wouldn’t happen again. Caesar ruled that every year divis- ible by four without remainder should be rome Year. Gregory added the provision that of the years evenly divisible by 100, only those also evenly divisible by 400 should be | for | havi Campbell, formerly. a member of | bill Board Leap Years. No Cause for Worry That shaved the lack of coordin- ation betwen calendar ‘and solar years down to a very fine hair.. Not until some 3000 years after 1852, or about the year 4852, will the sur- viving error of .the Gregorian calen- dar amount to a full day. Thus the extent to which the civil year of today still does not exactly coinéide with the solar year is no matter for. present generations to worry about. With F 29 coming. only once fn I! S, iA natural that not: very many things’ of great: im- portance have happened on the extra; days of American Leap Years. . r Admiral Colby M. Chester, | retired, a distinguished naval officer, was born on February 29, 1844, how- ever. He’s living in Washington row. February 29, 1892, the U. S. secre- tary of ‘state signec with Lord Pauncefote a treaty referring the Anglo-American Bering Sea dispute ‘to arbitration. February 29, 1820, the House of Representatives passed | a tal admitting Missouri to the/ union. PRESIDENT DISCUSSES | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1928 The Weather Fair tonight and Thursday. Not much change in temperature. PRICE FIVE CENTS FOR ANTIWAR TREATY od 'U. S. Secretary Claims Therc ANOTHER NOTE GIVEN FRANCE ON QUESTION Is No Bar to a Multilat- eral Treaty | e WaAl-GF THIS awTr FiRst ay Twenwy SIRTHOAY 7 sx 1 FRANCE IS DOUBTFUL French Paper Says New Note Makes Genuine Progress Over Earlier One Washington, Feb, 29—(AP)—Re- newing his plea that France join with the United States in laying the groundwork for a treaty prescrib- ing war between the principal pow- ers, Secretary Kellogg has sent an- other note to France in which he op- poses the contention that such a pact would violate her obligations under the League of Nations. France has maintained doubt whether, as a member of the league CoN = Zw Rene pominar COUGY ™. Cuester. BORN FEB29, 1944 ! ! Does Leap Year Day Mean Loss or Gain For You? New York, Feb. 29.—(AP)—The New York World today esti- mates that millions of dollars will be lost and gained as a re- suit of leap year day today. | For example, the newspaper says, the man who pays a yearly rental of $1,200 for his apartment is ordinarily spending $3.29 a | day for a year of 365 days. Then along comes Jeap year and the | tenant is $3.29 to the good. The landlord's loss and the tenant's ‘ gain in New York city alone, the-World estimates, is $4,000,000 today. On the other hand, the. man who geta paid for # year of 365 | days gives his services free today, For a man on a yearly sal- | aty of $3,600 this would be $10. The anuual pay roll of the | United’ States (not including milltary personnel) amounts to $798,000,000, says the World, meaning a loss to federal employes of over two million dollars. Here are a few other figures the World gives of losses and gains caused by leap year day: Gain to the United States in the interest free day for use of the money represented by the public debt—$2,156,000. The day's interest lost ou money owed to this country by foreign powers—$2,500,000. ~ : | Amount saved by banks on savings deposits—$931,000, which. will be lost to the 15,000,000 depositors. 2 { Loss to American bankers on money loaned foreign coun- | \ 3, ' tries, states, cities and provinces—$178,000. Loss to American bondholders-—$8,500,000. Economists whom the World consulted termed the estimated losses and gains illusory. | Doings in Coneress ‘SMUGGLING OF | —-9 | . md FARM RELIEF Senator McNary and Rep. Pur- nell Confer With. Coolidge at White House Washington, Feb. 29.—(AP)—At! the request of President Coolidge, Senator McNary, Republican, Ore- gon, called at the White House today to discuss the status of farm legis- lation in congress and to give the executive his.own views on the sub- ject. . After the conference the senator said he had told the president that, while. he had amended his own meas- ure somewhat, he had not omitted the equalization fee provision. President Coolidge also conferred with Representative Purnell, Repub- lican, Indiana, on farm legislation and Purnell said sfterward that he had told the president that the house agriculture committee would begin next Monday to draft a bill which the committee hoped would meet all objections to the McNary - Haugen bill which was vetoed last session. The equalization fee in the posed house bill, he said, would be jroad|s0 modified ‘as to eliminate many of the features which prompted Presi. dent Coolidge’s objection. . Fee Would Be Last Resort The house committee proposes to make imposition of the equalization fee for the stabilization of agricul- tural commodity prices a last resort measure, the Indianian said. Before ing recourse to the fee the board, belie opel be established mde te , would have guthority a variety of other expedients. entire Minnesota congres- sional delegation, including Senators Shipstead and Schall, and the state's 1 representatives, has endorsed the icNary - Haugen’ equalization fee lief bill, Rey tative And- ro iaclt's Bop house trict subheadquarters in Wilkes-|sota the | in the car at the tim ican agriculture} lost from the Arm wamwncere wets | NARCOTICS IS | T0 BE STOPPED bills. Impossible to Wipe Out Habit Committes af both houscr con- tinue hearings on bills restrict- Unless Foreign Importa- tions Are Shut Off ing western hemisphere immi- gration. Swing-Johnson boulder dam bill, before senate irrigation committee in executive in. Other senate committees con- cites ane amare! (a5 Mh ae ers al si ‘ards act amendment, and blind coos of movie fiims. i Washington, Feb. 29—?—Ad-| chant marine committee /mittedly up against it in its enforce- continues hearings on how nittedly up against it in its enforce. ment of the Harrison narcotic act, jthe federal narcotic bureau has now started an unrelenting . drive against smuggling, which it regards {as virtually the only source of sup- ‘ply for illicit drugs. | Although federal officials believe! they are holding their own in the| battle against the nation-wide drug | ring, they confess that with the} Present facilities it will be impos-! sible to wipe out the habit in the! United States unless the foreign im- | porations of morphine, cocaine, and | {epiuin beyond sl 2@ build up American commerce. DIOGENES MAY CEASE SEARCH Honest Man..Is Jobless New) Yorker Who Returns $52,- 000 Found in Gutter the legal limit are| ut off entirely. Federal Narcoti: Commissioner L.' G. Nutt holds that it is “fruitless as! @ permanent proposition to proceed} further with curing drug addicts of their habit unless the source of sup- ply of the drugs is eliminated.” He} New York, Feb. 29.—(#)—Jobless for several weeks, Alexander Lu- bowsky, 40-year-old painter, found a scck containing $52,000 lying in a gutter in Brooklyn and returned it to its owners. Today he has a first class repu- tation Nor honesty, still no job, and no definite prospect of a reward. The United States Trucking cor- » from whose armored car; bag containing the money was lost, said the matter of a reward had not been officially considered inquiry. The Bowery and River National Bank had turned the money over to the truck- ing company to deliver to the Fed- eral Reserve Bank. contained bundles of $5, $10 and bills. Just how happened to be ie ate, truck was | recommends that states take action to segregate confirmed addicts, which he believes would prevent the spread of the habit. A national survey recently com- pleted. by. the public health service, the commissioner says, disclosed 100,000. addicts in ihe United States using about 420,000 ounces of drugs annually. Eighty-five per cent of the drugs are smuggled through New York, he declares, although some sli across the Mexican border. Buildings Wrecked by Bomb Explosion Hated onthe” police” blovter was| Pittsburgh Feb. 29—\—A bomb Masha aise, wore than $1,000000| tate bees at SEE aa nero ‘There was more frighten negro nonunion ha of jthe Pittsburgh Coa! company, spread tion through a section of ofa Neton beige oe e. is marricd. and has two children, chter, 19, who works fap notdle factory ‘and’ is the Per tent tis chs le csing tae mar school. f | identical multilateral treat: ‘as an instrument of their national }to the recent adoption by the ‘a resolution condemning war, point- in through other ports and J anda party to the Locarno and other treaties guaranteeing neutral- ity, she could enter into a multi- lateral treaty outlawing war as an instrument of national policy with- out. aol? afoul of these obliga- tions, and has suggested instead a treaty along this line only with the United States. In his latest note, Secretary Kel- logg argues that the only difference between a bilatral and a multilateral treaty to abolish war is ‘one of de- gree and not of substance,” and de- clares the United States is indiffer- ent to the precise language to¢ be used in the proposed pact so long as it “clearly and unmistakably sets forth the determination of the parties to abolish war among them- selves.” ation’: Right Upheld Taking up France’s admission that she saw no bar to the conclusion of an unqualified antiwar treaty with the United States alone, the note declares that any government free to conclude such a treaty “should be no less able to become a party to an since it is hardly to be presumed that mem- bers of the League of Nations are in 2 position to do rately somes thing they cannot do together.” , “If, however, members of ‘the League of Nations cannot, without violating the terms of the covenant of the league, agree among them- selves and with the government of the United States to renounce war policy,” the note adds, “it seems idle to discuss either bilateral or multi- lateral treaties unreservedly re- nouncing war.” Cites Recent Conference Mr. Kellogg attaches significance Pan- American conference at Havana of ing out that 17 of the 21 nations represented are members of the league. Declaring that inclusion in_ the proposed treaty of definitions of the word “aggressor” and exceptions and qualifications stipulating when na- tions would be justified in going to war would weaken the instrument, the note concludes: “I, therefore, renew the suggestion contained in my note of January 11, 1928, that the government of France join with the government of the United States in transmitting to the British, Italian, German and Japan- ese governments for their consider- ation and comment the text of M. riand’s original proposal, together with copies of the subsequent cor- respondence between France and the United States, as a basis for pre- liminary discussions looking to the conclusion of an appropriate multi- lateral treaty proscribing recourse to war.” Surprise was expressed in some quarters that Secretary Kellogg's last note continues to address France alone while mentioning Eng- land, Italy, Germany and Japan as proposed joint signers of a multi- lateral pact to outlaw war. The feeling was freely expressed in official circles that inasmch as the United States responded to the French proposal for a bilateral pact with a proposition including four other nations, the latter nations should be particiapting in the nego- tiations from the start. FRENCY PAPER BELIEVES REAL PROGRESS IS MADE Paris, Feb. 29.—(AP) — Le Petit Parisien today says that Secretary Kellogg's latest note on the outlawry of war marks a genuine progress over the preceding ones and permits the continued hope that some day a formula satisfying all the require- ments and duties of the two govern- ments will be found. The opinion of France’s most widely circulated newspaper is shared generally by the others. Pertinax, writing in L’Echo de Paris, however, strikes a he ob- note. i 't under ents. None is so deaf as he who will.not hear. The discussion is resumed. It only re- mains for us to rewrite our note of ‘an. 20 and play deafness on our part, too.” -(The French note of Jan. 20 stressed the need of limiting the wars to be outlawed to “wars of ggression.”)