The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 3, 1928, Page 1

NORTH DAKOTA'S * OLDEST NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED 1878 TAK CUT FIGURE THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1928 TOO LARGE __MEL LO Arkansas Is Fighting Most Serious Forest Fires in Its History RANGERS HOPE |[_tehnson comes Beck—in a Wheel Chir_| | og «=O | FOR DOWNPOUR One-year-old Boy Is Burned to Death When Flames Sweep .Father’s Home FIRE LOSSES ARE HEAVY Road Crews and College Stu- dents Join Rangers in Fighting Flames Little Rock, Ark., April 3—(AP) —Rains which a year ago this month were plese § Arkansas were iously awaited by forest ranger: he..Jraéds of volunteer workers today to aid them in fighting the most serious series of fires in the state’s history in its two national forests. One death, that of the one-year-old son of Jim Tillev. has been reported and each report from the front has brought news of added josses and in many ‘cases of new outbreaks. The Tilley child was burned to death when his father’s home was swept by flames. crews and even students from Arkansas Tech at Russellville, in addition to rangers, were fighting heroically to check the red wall of destruction on the northern frontier. mn the western front, the Ouachi- ta reserve, more than 500 men were battling scores of fires. 0 national planes pa- trolled. the area in search of new fires, and to drop notes to residents of towns nearby urging men to leave for the front. Lookout posts in the (Continued on page two) MAN BEATEN TO DEATH DURING CICERO VOTING Other# Severely Beaten and Stabbed by Gangsters of Capone Band - Cicero, Hi., April 3.—(AP)—One man was reported shot and beaten to death: and two others severely beaten by Al Capone gangsters in strife attendant upon today’s city election in this municipality which adjoins Chicago on the southwest. jangsters were touring the streets with but little show of in- terference from the Chicago police department. Al Mazintis and William Pra- dowskas were the men beaten. The man. slain was not identified. Five Capone men, three of them armed, were arrested after 2 two- mile chase during which policemen fired several shots. Three other men were reported to have been beaten and stabbed. Five squads of deputy sheriffs were on duty here to preserve order between adherents of Joseph Z. Klenha, the Republican mayor, and ‘ran z, heading the Demo- cratic Ph gay eer ena f Weather Report | Temperature at 7 a. m. Highest yesterday Lowest last-night Precipitation to Highest wind veloc Temps. Walter Johnson, former veteran pitching ace of the Senators and now manager of the Newark baseball club, comes back to Washington—in a wheel chair—to undergo treatment of an illness at Emergency Hospital. He was met at the Union Station by his two old bosses—Clark Griffith (tight) and Eddie Eynon. ADMINISTRATION SUPPORTERS WILL NO DOUBT NAME G. 0. P. CONVENTION CHAIRMAN AND KEYNOTE SPEAKER William M. Butler Said to Have Privilege of Making Selection —-Senators Fess and Moses Favorites on List —Proceedings Will Be Broadcast Kansas City, April 3—(P)— Staunch administration supporters were regarded as having a strategic position in the maneuvers of party leaders here today to select a tem- porary chairman and keynote speak- er for the Republican National con- vention. This view predominated among observers after William M. Butler, chairman of the Republican Na- tional committee, was reported to have been given the /privilege of being the first to propose a tempor- ary chairman when the committee on convention arrangements recon- venes today. As this report gained credence, the names of Senators Fess of Ohio and Moses of New. Hampshire, be- came the favorites in a list of sev- en understood to have been dis- cussed. Friends of Senator Fess then came forward with the contention that he would be more acceptable to some party leaders than Senator Moses. It was pointed out that Senator Moses was known to have differed with al oe nero supporters on seve! - cluding the MeNary-Haugen farm bill, wach was ive With gossip of that nature emanating from committee circles, the names of five others: continued to be mentioned. They were: Sena- tor Gillett, Massachusetts; Senator Deneen, Illinois; Irvine Lenroot, former senator from Wisconsin; pete i ree te “i _ 5 » former governor of: Missouri. if Lee Nixon, formerly of Indiana- polis, assistant to the last three na- tional committee chairmen, was named sergeant-at-arms yesterday. Decision to draft new hotel con- tracts also was announced. In the new contracts, the 25 per cent de- posit required on a five-day occu- pancy basis will be cayceled. Hotels will receive no depo/ts and money already advanced vAil be refunded. The committee approved the re- quest of the Navional broadcasting conpany. and the Chicago Tribune to place microphones on the speak- various .temporary committees. Seater dries £ M. Gra. sata EF FEEzS fe ey Ry, E ied ayFae f | | | REFUGEES TELL | | INQUAKE AREA i} |Several Hundred Survivors! Are ‘Tyken to-Constanti- | nople by Boat | Constantinople, April 3.—(AP— Refugees from the stricken city of Smyrna, where at least 40 persons lost their lives in a devastating earthquake on Saturday, have bel bringing harrowing tales of panic and suffering. The first boat to quit the shatte: ed city arrived here today with ser eral hundred refugees, including number of orphaned children. Mustapha Bey, captain of the boat, was an eye witness of the earth- quake horror. “On the night of the 31st all the people of Smyrna were calmly sleeping when suddenly a thunder- ous roar filled the city, followed by a terrific quake,” he said. “The whole population rushed from the swaying brittle wocden hou: into the graying dawn of the streets, their .night gowns and feet making a ghostly effect. “Many of these poor souls had lived through the horror of the 1922 fire. For two nights and days they|an wandered on the outskirts of the city sleepless, foodless and unclad. It was pathetic to see the older Turkish women trying to veil their faces with the corners of their itgowns, “Sunday, when I left, the city was ining its calm. Ninety per cent| six J: ofall the buildings must have been damaged.” : BUYS NEWSPAPER Linton—Frank Fiske of McLaugh- lin, 8. has purchased the Siou= County Pioneer published at Fort Yates. me mee a former Siour| county official and an ai on! Indian lore. “The governor’s wife and Judy| wady are the same, when it comes to the things that ipterest women most, such as home and-family, be- Neves Mrs. A. G. 8a; tele red by the Press and sent to all member papers in the United States under the head: “First Lady of the State.” Each “Mrs. C the expeutive ‘mansion! ” the i EI EE Ez Ww. | soomia, WEEKS, HOOVER AND DAUGHERTY NOW MENTIONED IN TEAPOT DOME PROBE New York Man Tells Commit- tee He Sent Them, as Well) as President Harding, Pro- tests Against Leasing of Oil Reserve to Harry: F. Sin- clair i Washington, il 3. (AP) — Birch Helms of New York ‘testified today before the sehate oil commit- tee that in the spring of 1922 he protested to President Hardj retaries Weeks and Hoover .and At- torney General Daugherty ‘against the leasing of the Teapot Dome oil reserve to Harry F. Sinclair: In his testimony at the Fall-Sin- clair trial which was read into the record, Helms said he had sent tele- grams about the Teapot Dome case , Sec- | to a cabinet officer. “Which cabinet officer did you ; send telegrams to?” asked -Senator alsh. “Secretary Weeks (the late John Weeks); Attorney General Daugherty and Secretary Hoover,” Helmns replied. .f ‘ Telegraphed Harding, The witness also said he had sent a telegram to President Harding on April 22, 1922. This, as read into the record, protested against the closing of the Teapot Dome lease without permitting his company to bid on the lease. Apparently there no reply and two days later Helms telegraphed to George B. Christian, then secre- tary to President Harding, making a further protest. Helms’ testimony was asked for after the committee had decided to offer to Senator Smoot of Utah and fee r eee Lenroot of einaees sin an opportunity to answer S of Albert B. Fall that a senator, a former senator, and a former cab- inet officer had advised him to write the famous McLean letter. This let- ter had E. B. McLean, Washington publisher, as the source of the $100,- | E. OF SUFFERING |: ‘all obtained from E. L. Do- Messages Are Read The message to weeks was dated on April 20, 1922, and asked him, he were interested, to use his ence in the premises. The night leter to Daugherty was similar to that to Weeks. That sent to Hoover was-along similar’ lines. ~ Christian replied on April 21, 1922, telling Helms that the president could not see him on April 25, as he suggested, because the cabinet met that day and the president planned to leave on April 26 for Ohio to take (Continued on page two) Marriage of Josef heny gun to arrive in Constantinople, Hofmann Four Years fe Ago Just Revealed New York, April 3.—(AP)—The musical talent he discerned in Betty Short, 17-year-old student of piano, was revealed today as tho attraction which ripened into love and marriage for Josef Hofmann, famous pianist. The seeret marriage of the musi- cian and his former Dagmar Go- dowsky, a daughter of Leopo! Godowsky, and subsequently confirmed by Mr. Hofmann and his wife. The wedding took place short- ly after Mr. Hofmann and his first wife were divorced. The divorce and marriage were kept secret, Miss Godowsky ex- plained, because Mr. Hofmann feared announcement might interfere hea ary career of his Menahias by it marriage, now a sculptress and about the game age as the present Mrs. Hofmann. CLUB FORMED AT STEELE Jamestown, April 3.—()—Thirty- business men ac- poeil four years ry held Wednesday, April 11, will complete organization of the Steele community club of rural and urban ts of Kidder » if | Ad: ALL ELECTORS LIKELY 70 BE NONPARTISAN Official Returns Also Indicate 11 of 13 Delegates Will Be Nonpartisans Nonpartisans here today’ were predicting that final official returns from the March 80 presidential pri- nary election would show the elec- n of all five Republican presiden- | tial electors and 11 of 13 delegates to the Republican national conven- tion. Official returns had been received this morning from all but Cavalier, Divide, Grant, McKenzie, McLean, Rolette and ‘Steele counties. total 312 precincts and all except Steele and Cavalier gave heavy Non- partisan majorities in unofficial re- turns. Steele county was slightly | Nonpartisan and Cavalier returned a small majority for most of the In- \dependent candidates in the unof- | ficial returns. | Present Standing The standings of various contest- |ants, as shown by official returns ‘received to date, follow: | For national committeeman—Gar- nett, 34,393; Graham, 46,000. For presidental electors—D. A. Gibbs, 40,163; R. A. Lathrop 34,848; | Nels Magnuson, 45,742; Henry Mc- Lean, 39,305; Blanche M. Nelson, | 40,933; jer, 38,997 C. H. Noli Thomas Pendray, 40,721; '. W; koff, 34,251; E. H. Brant, 45,149 Ben O. Everson, 38,894. For delegates to national conven- tion—Jerry D. Bacon, 36,876; A. F. Bonzer, ji aes George E. Bi 690; ine, 40,093; Marie Durey, Lee B. Greene, 36,252; F. T. ld, 35,976; Frank H. Hyland, H. P. Jacobsen, 37,861; R. A 37,417; E. G. Larson, 43,768: Lefor, 35,870; W | 38,89) . | Kinzer, ir , 35,236; J.C. Oberg, ‘arkinson, 36,- 99; Harry 4.656; Peter Romsaag. 35,- 785; William Watt, 35,335; H. .B. Wingerd, 38,228; Obed A. Wyum, 34,848. Returns Are Official Returns received by the secretary of’ state are the official returns sent in by mail and show some errors in jthe unofficial count as reported to Assocated Press by telegraph telephone following the election. Analysis of the official returns shows that H. P. Jacobsen, Mott, is ling E. L. Peterson, Dickinson, 522 votes and Adam A. Lefor, jonpartisan, by 1,991 votes. '._E. Matthaei, the Nonpartisan next behind Lefor in the official standing today, would need to gain van votes to catch P. D. Norton, high among the Independents. YOUNG URCHIN "SAVES CANTON | FROM UPRISING ; Youth Tells Police of Commun- | ist Plots—Leads Them to | Strongholds Canton, China, April 3—)—A 14 year-old street urchin today was credited with having saved | Canton from forber gar through a communist uprising. He informed police oy ap en mera intending to precip’ an_uprising similar to that of last December | when they seized control of the ; city, held it for a few days and \ were ousted with a large loss of ‘e. Under the leadership of the youth, the police were shown 18 Red | strongholds. Raiding arrested 463 communists. hundred and thirty persons, eight women, were ex- victims died gladly, my. eee NATIVES URGED TO KILL. ee O. F. Bryant, 37,210; | Simonson, 40,098; William | 74 minutes the mark set last year by ‘SEVEN SHIPS BATTLE WEST New Aboard One: Adds to ‘Dit- ficulties. — Other Boats Badly | Battered Portland, Ore:, April. 3.—(AP)— Five ships and two coast guard ves- sels in the north Pacific today were fighting the aftermath of a batter- ing storm which made itself felt from northern Oregon to central California. One of the ships was f' -hting a “‘re aboard. Beyond the breakers, somewhere north of Heceta, Ore., five coast guardsmen were. adrift in a 36-foot power launch, without gasoline and depending on their sai he men, commanded by Captain Lyle Slitt, were forced to sea. Saturday, when they went to the aid of the distressed schooner Helen B. Stcrling. Somewhere beyond Heceta Head, the Sterling was. iv tow of the coast uard cutter Haida. The Sterling jost half of her gear, had her canvas stripped away and lost her rudder in the terrific storm. steam schooner Ernest M. Meyer sent out a message iniicating she was in danger off the Columbia She was taking aboard more water. than she could hold, the mes- sage said, and was heading back to harbor. ‘Fire Increases Danger A fire added to the difficulties of tempting to ride out the storm off the south Oregon coast. She car- ried a crew deck load of piling. The oil tanker Kewanee messaged at midnight she was leaving the Nettleton as ‘the freighter’s crew apparently had the blaze under control. Somewhere toward the north the four-masted K. V. Ki be- Neved making a run for shore wit her provisions gone and her sails tatters. She has a crew of 15. The cutter Snohomish was breasting the seas and terrific wind in search. of the Kruse. No word was received from either vessel. _ Storm warnings were displayed along. the coast from Seattle to San Francisco, heralding the Fe which brought snow to parts of Oregon and northern California and further rises in many streams which already have been swollen by recent rains, Today Senate contin debate i 7 F i i COAST STORM the freighter Jane Nettleton, at-! of 32 men and had a! George Haldeman (left), Ruth Elder's transatlantic partner, and Eddie Stinson, veteran sirman, land at Jacksonville Beach, Fla., after landing the world’s endurance record with a flight of 53 hours, 36 minutes and 30 seconds in their great Stinson-Detroiter monoplane. They bettered by the German aces, Risticz and Edzard. DELEGATES TO NATIONAL MEETINGS ARE BEING PICKED BY REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS IN 3 STATES TODAY .. . | Presidential Primaries Are = ing Held in Wisconsin I New York, While Democrats} y 5 } Have Convention in Maine; and Republicans Meet in! Kansas : | ares Washington, April 3.—(—Thej first of the April crop: of dqlogates} to the National political conventions in June were being picked today, Republicans making selections in} three states and Democrats in a like, number. From the delegate chvos- ing standpoint, it promised to j the banner day thus far on a pre-| convention campaign that has been a bit slow in getting under way. On the day’s calendar for both| Republicans and Democrats were the Wisconsin primaries, with dele- gations of 26 to be picked by each, party, and the rather perfun | primaries in New rk for ra j ing slates of 83 district Republican delegates and 86 district Demo-j | crats. | In addition, Maine Democrats,! making use of the older convention | | system, assembled to select a Hous- {ton delegation of: 12, and Repub! cans in the sixth Kansas district were called together to name convention representatives, completing the Kansas_ delegation of 23 that will go to Kansas City bent on bringing about the nomi tion of Senator Curtis, the Rep lican floor leader, who is the Kai sas “favorite son.” 5 In all, the day will add 111 Re- | publican delegates to the list of 215 | already selected? while the Demo- cratic total of 164 will be increased to 288. - Showdown in onsin | In Wisconsin, among the Repub- licans, today’s primaries afforded janother showdown in. the struggle i between the La Follette jits more conservative foes, with the La Follette element supporting slate of convention delega‘ pledged to Senator Norris of N ska, a leader in the senate inde- pendent Hepeblican group, and the Seeien acking an uninstructed; In the Wisconsin Democratic pri- mary, Smith, Reed and Walsh were pitted against each other, but on such a different footing that no con- clusive test of strength was to be expected. Two slates of delegates pledged to Smith, and a partial dele. gate slate put up by Walsh follo’ ers were in the jeld, while the Mis- of 90, which will Rain or snow probable We change bel the state, boulevard: |merce had at first The Weather tonight and - in temp. Not much PRICE FIVE CENTS SAY EXPENDITURES GREATER THAN WERE PLANNED House’s Proposed Cut of $290,- 000,000 Must Be Paired to $201,000,000 SUGGESTIONS OFFERED Secretary Proposes Return of Auto Tax, Smaller Cut in Corporation Levy senate finance committee today in reporting on the outlook for the treasury for the next ding This is even less the treas- ury secretary proposed to the house last fall and is necessary, he ex- plained, because of increased gov- ernment expenditures rather fin due to any ae elt tea’ which are expected to eq! pr iminist pro} was for a $225,000,000 cut. To attain the $200,000,000 limita- tion, Mr. Mellon suggested to the committee that the present automo- bile tax of three per cent which was repealed by the house be restored to the bill, saving $66,000,000; and that the existing 134 per cent cor - tion levy be reduced only to 12 per cent rather than to 1145 per cent as voted by the house. The committee began work today on the house bill passed before Christ: after wait- ing for the March 15 nS. Mellon's Program The secretary proposed this pro- gram: pore, revision od eae ps applying on incomes between (Continued on page two) * CITY TO CARE FOR PARKWAYS ON 3 STREETS Fourth, Fifth and Sixth, Fro. Rosser North, Selected For Tryout Beginning an effort to make Bis- marck the most attractive city in is along at three of the city’s streets will be cared for by the city this summer, and the cost assessed against the Property. This decision was reached by the ity commission last night after the affairs committee of the Asso- tion of Commerce again present- ed its project to the commission. The committee is headed by G. F. Dullam, and includes H. P. rd, Henry Duemeland, N. O. Bystrom Ed. Cox. Although the Association of Com- first asked that the entire paved district be included in the project, it was decided last night at the lateness of the season made it inadvisable to take on too large an a this year, and it was sug- gested that the plan be given a try- out this season on a small district. Then if it proves satisfactory, the district may be enlarged another year. Three Streets Selected Boulevards along Fourth, Fifth and Sixth streets, from ser avenue northward to the state cap- itol, will be included in this year’s experiment, and an ordi creat- ing a special assessment district to cover those streets was given its first reading last night. _ All boulevards in the district will maintained ance will be uniform along the en- tire street, the city will have entire charge and p. y owners will not be required to take care of the boulevards themselves. If Property owners here and there were permitted to care for their own boulevards, while others were main- tained by the city, the maintenance we form,