The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 10, 1928, Page 3

j j q TUESDAY, APRIL 10,1928 tua THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ‘NIGHT RIDERS: ORGANIZATION 1S DESCRIBED, Witness Says Band Was! Formed by Klan to Conduct - Reign of Terror Pittsburgh, April 10.—(AP) —That he witnessed the burning alive of seven or eight men by Ku Klux Klansmen in Texas was the testimony given in federal court here this afternoon by Clerance W. Ludlow, who was called as a witness in the Klan injunction suits, Pittsburgh, Pa., April 10—()—A sensational story of the organization of a band of “night riders” by the Ku Klux Klan to conduct a “reign of terror” in Ohio, was told on the witness stand in federal court here today by J. R. Ramsey of Dayton, who described himself as a former member of the riders. i" Called as a witness in the Klan injunction suits, Ramsey said the night riders were organized “to burn. churches and to carry out bombings and assassinations.” He said the riders had bombed the west Dayton Klan temple as a means of increasing the Klan mem- bership in that district. nae Ramsey testified a Klan chief in Ohio had issued orders to kill cer- tain persons and that he (Ramsey) and other klansmen_ were delegated to take a man to Bellaire and kill him. He said the night riders went out to “administer justice to the offending citizen” and that he was taken to Bellaire. Ramsey said he refused to obey orders to kill the man and brought him back alive. Ramsey named a “Mr. Bronson” as a member of the Ohio grand dragon guard and the night riders. Van A. Barrickman, a defendant in one of the suits and counsel for the five ousted klansmen who seek a receivership for the klan in this state, asked Ramsey if he had any knowledge of Imperial Wizard Hiram Evans sending a carload of| klansmen into Mexico to stir up trouble between the United States and that country. The question was ruled out on an objection by John H. Connaughton, klan attorney. Hebrew Services Are Tonight and Tomorrow Members of the Bismarck Hebrew congregation will hold services to- night at 8 o’clock and again to- morrow night at the same hour. Wednesday and Thursday morn- ings at 9 o’clock the last two days of Passover services will be held. Thursday there will be “Haz- coras Neshomes” and all Jews who are in mourning should plan to at- tend, according to Rabbi H. Shapir 7 abbi will speak and Cantor s will assist with the vocal services. Several Aviators Are Local Visitors Byron Cooper of Troy, Ohio, landed in Bismarck this morning in a Waco 10 airplane. Mr. Cooper is a graduate of the army flying school at Kelly Field, Texas, and is en route to Great Falls, Mont. Edward Schneider of Mott spent Monday night in the city en route by plane from Rapid City, S. D., to his home. He was driving a new Eaglerock plane. Wiley & Jacobs, two Miles City, Mont., aviators, were here the lat- ter part of last week. They were flying a Travelair plane, and were en route to their home from Wichi- ta, Kansas. G.N.R.R. Conductor Dies Aboard Train Devils Lake, N. D., April 10.— (AP)—V. L. Fletcher, about 43, Great Northern railway conductor, dropped dead yesterday shortly aft- er boarding Train No. 29 which left here at 1:25 and on which he was acting temporarily as flagman. After remarking to fellow work- ers on the train he was not feeling well, Fletcher had seated himself in in the rear of one of the coaches where he was found when the train stopped at Penn. defeated in the Senate, but his bat- He had been employed by the Great Northern for 11 years, and NEW YORK THEATRE LETTER Le Gallienne Honor. * * * s Tbsen—And How! Leads Her Company Through Three of Henrik’s Plays in a Day; Then to Bed BY LEONARD HALL New York, April 10.—Old Henrik Tbsen, the great Norse dramatis now has been carrying on—boy and angel—for one hundre: and this notable centenary in world theater has been here by a lot of spcech dramatic efforts of Gallienne. This youn; the celebrated Ss manager, who for two years has been running what she calls The Civic Repert Company in an old barn of a th ter down on the upper rim of Green- wich Village, has added Henrik’s fine play “Hedda Gabler” to her bag of dramatic tricks, and is ap- pearing once or twice a week in the play with considerable success. eee ; This preduction, however, is only an item in Eva's birthday pa: f old Henrik, When Le Gallienne ce!- ebrates ~ centenary, it ecle- brated, and how! She decided, lack- ing Ibsen’s presence, to puff out the five score candles in a bigger and more constructive w and the gale that occurred seriousiy unsettled the shipping in New Y harb What happened when through must have set the wright rolling in his cool b. For she ented no less than three of his plays in one and the same day. At 10:30 a. m., and her company presented a dress rehearsal of “Hedda Gabler.” Re- suscitated by heavy drams_ of aromatic spirits of ammonia, at 2:50 p. m. the actors went after “Tho Master Builder,” and had that situa- tion mopped up by five. At 8:30 p. m., faint yet pursu- ing, the company went at “John Ga- briel Borkman.” At midnight, with eight of Ibsen shouted, whispered, cooed, the actors staggered to homes, fell into their trundle bod fully clothed, and slept for 14 hou ees Nothing like this theatvical s day bicycle race hes ever in the theater, and prot be until the ambitious E Shakespeare the Bard's midnight wind up the bri Intensive inguiry have failed to turn up sat through the three ILsen —probably for the very geod r son that if such a person r yt existed, he is now cither in a mad. house or his grave. to one mained for Eva Le | hours and side, it re- Galli 0 Eva Le Galilenne—hoth of them in America ¢ centenary of re first done he was ast of the ort. London im, and intellectu- have gone ice those till remains ked overboard fussy dramatic ing terse, people. REED WON FIGHT AGAINST LEAGUE PACT, BUT NEARLY WRECKED CAREER Country Had Heard Little of) Missouri Senator Until His Famous Clash With Presi- dent Wilson Over League of Nations in 1919 Editor's N second of a seri by Robert Talley. T continues the story of Senator James A. Reed, which will be concluded tomorrow. eee BY ROBERT TALLEY sé ashington, Apr. 10 m—For nearly a decade before his historic clash with Woodrow Wilson over the League of Nations in 1919, | Jim Reed of Mis-) 4 souri had been a member of the U. S. Senate, He the —— Fase country had heard ee comparatively tle of him fe then. i iar. It was then that , Reed’s inherent ability as a fight- er manifested itseif, to be met by that of Wilson, who was no less! uncompromising, himself. Reed won insofar as the league proposal was unti tle made him tremendously unpepu- lar with a large part of his had recently been promoted to con- ductor. A widow and two children at Williston survive, G.N.D.A. Directors Will Meet Here Soon The annual meeting of the stat2 board of directors of the Greater North Dakota association will be held in Bismarck some time this month, according to an announce- ment made today by James 8. Mil- loy of Fargo, secretary. The exact date has not been determined, but will be announced later. District directors are being named at meetings of county chairmen, the last of these meetings being held this week. To date the only change in the personnel of the state board was made in the northwest corner of the state where P. M. Shefviand of Van Hook was elected to suc- ceed Fred P. Bergman of Williston. ie ry idea served on the board in 1926, LEG FOILS HOLDUP Tampa, Fla., April 10.—A_ one- legged man has little chance in the hol up me. One of them tried it on H. R. Lewis here, but hb: was Knocked unconscious for his trouble. After Lewis had given up his money the one-legged man started to run away. The victim being dissatisfied with the bargain, picked up h club and followed. When police arrived “peggy” was out for the count and Lewis had retrieved his cash, NOTICE A meeting of Lodge of Verfection will be held: Wednesday evening, April pee he, Bh atces = pec! Present, members who are in in the degree. work are re- quested to meet and have their et of degree work tional convention at San in 1920, It has been said that the opposition of Senator cultured, scholarly and sensitive leader of the anti-league Republi- cans—was bred of wounded vanity, following Wilson's failure to take him as a delegate to the Versailles peace conference. But no such con- siderations motivated Reed; a stern Andrew Jackson type of Democrat, he was opposed to “setting up any government that woud be greater than our own.” itter Lodge—the ° Supported Wilson After his first election to the Senate in 1910, Reed had fought for lower tariffs, championed the direct election of senators and helped un- seat Senator Lorimer (Rep., Ill.) on charges of fraudulent election in 1912, He supported Wilson in the Mexican crisis of 1914, on the Adamson eight-hour law and stood with him on the bulk of pre-war measures, : Reed voted for war and, as he afterward said, voted for “every dollar, every man, every ship and every gun the president asked to carry on the war.” Their first real clash came on the federal reserve act, which had been lit-! fi me of hating Wilson was the equal of Reed. ° . Reed One cf Doubiers Wilson came b: from ding on the crest of a de wave of popularity that story have enjoyed h him his cherwshe ions covenant for nate, League of adoption by the For a time it 5 that it would be accepted. son’s_ tremendous pre certain to carry it ov But there were a i Wil- ige seemed ew U, S. sena- doubts about the up a govern. nt supe! our own.” One these was Jim Reed, a Democrat. ckson school. His m was of the flaming, independent kina that hed at the frontier. His op- sition to the League of Nations something instinctive; he could ibly have been for it, had wooed him with all the honeyed words, in, the dictionary. ° anisn Makes Fiery Speech The battle raged in the Senate. “IT decline,” Reed shouted in a peech late in 1919, “to help any government that is that established by et up reater than my fathers, greater than that bap- tized in the blood of patrints from the lanes of Lexingtcn to the for- ests of the Argonre, greater than that san-tified by the tears of all the mothers whose heroic sons have gone down to death to sustain its glory .and its independence. I decline to help set up any gevern- ment greater than the government of the United States of America!” Reed—admittedly one of the greatest orators who ever sat in the capitol—was at his best that day, the fires of pacsion and ¢uty burn- ing hot within him. It was a speech that Washington still remembers. It shattered the staid gravity of the Senate; cheers resounded through the galleries, soldiers waved their caps and even senators leaped to their feet atd applauded. ee When Jim Reed fights he fights all the way, so he carried his battle to the people with a number of speaking engagements throughout the country. He was at outs with Wilson, unpopular and even hated by millions of his party, assailed as a “traitor” on many sides—-but when Reed fights he throws no cream-puffs, At Ardmore, Okla., they threw rotten eggs at him, cut off the clec- tric lights and a near-riot cnsued. In Birmingham, Ala., he was told that he might be mobbed if he made his address. In North Carolina, the legislature canceled an_ invitation for him to address them dnd Lrand- ed him as “a traitor who ougnt to be shot.” The Missouri legislature likewise refused to let. him speak before it, and throughout thai state rushed through the House at Wil- son’s insistence. Reed, however, de- manded hearings in the Senate and succeeded in making 5€? smend- ments to the bill before it was finally passed. Next, Reed refused to vote for the Panama canal toll bill,’ despite Wilson’s plea, They broke again when Reed blocked Wilson’s nomination of Thomas D Jones to the Federal Reserve Board, charging that Jones was allied with the “harvester trust.” | When future historians write the story of that widening breach and what followed, they will probably say that both Reed and Wilson were lly sincere. They ddubtless will explain that each had the abil- ity to hate bitterly, and that in the “Rid Us of Keed” clubs were formed. pi Threats of Violence — There were threats of physical violence more than once, but Reed was never molested Maybe his iron courage explains why. At a little town in the backhills of the Ozarks, Reed was warned that he might be shot if he made: his speech, but Reed went. He spoke in the crude little town hall, and after he had finished he looked at his au- dience in silence for a full minute and then said: i “I am going to walk down the iddlo aisle of this hall, and if inyone wants to shoot me, let bim fire away. Then I’m going to my | beaten, ae everybody now knows, eers; coolly he crossed the street The door will be open and visitors will be welcome.” Coolly he walked down the aisle between the dark-faced mountain- eers; coolly he crossed the street and went to his room, where, true to his promise, he left the door wide open. He was not molested. . Threats of physical violence were not the only dangers that Reed faced in those days, however, Wood- row Wilson, who could excoriate an enemy as sharply and skillfully as any man in history, turned all the fire of hig eloquence on the Mis- sourian. Wilson’s cry of ‘Marplot!” is still remembered. ‘ The League of Nations plan wes} and it seemed also that the politi-| cal career of Jim Red had been, wrecked forever in the same crash. | The worst insult of all came when} the Democrats barred Reed, a sen- ator, from their San Francisco con: | vention in 1920, : Before Reed—in 1922—lay his! race for reelection for another six-| year term. A man less courageous, | less determined and less able might, have given it up as hopeless and} retired. Woodrow Wilson was no| longer president, but the shadow of Wilson’s bitter hatred for him etill hung over Reed like a shadow from a tombstone, But Jim Reed “came back.” De-; spite Missouri’s “Rid Us of Reed” clubs, despite Wilson’s appeal to the voters, he ran for reelection in 1922 and was returned by 43,000 majority. How he did it is another story. TOMORROW: Jim Reed “comes back.” PURCHASE CASE I$ ARGUED HERE Judge Jansonius Takes Matter Under Advisement—3 Ques- tions Involved Taking nuder advisement the case of George Purchase, former state’s attorney of Sioux county, who _is appealing from a decision of Governor A. G. Sorlie ousting him from office, Judge Fred Jan- sonius yesterday announced that it! might be some time before nc would} be able to give a decision in the matter, due to the length of the transcript and the many other mat- ters now before him awaiting action. The case was called here yester- day, having been transferred here from Napoleon by _ stipulation. Transcript of the testimony taken in the original hearing before the governor's referee was presented to the court here, and arguments made by counsel for both the state and the defendant. Three questions are presented as the basis for the appeal from Gov- ernor Sorlie’s action. One is that no testimony was offered at the referee’s hearing to show that the five persons who signed the origina) complaint against Purchase were electors of Sioux county at that time. The second point is that a bond was not filed at the time the petition was filed, and the tafrd is that the governor did not decide the case within 10 days, as specifica by law, after the records had bcen presented to. him by the referee. Purchase was removed from of- fice by the governor followiny a hearing on claims of malfeasance in cutis and drunkenness while in office, South Dakota to Try Airplane War on Rust Aberdeen, S. D.,.April 10.—(AP) —Planned as the first large - scale attempt to fight wheat rust with airplanes, a heavy, sulphurous bar- rage will be laid down on an experi- ment tract in Brown county about July 1. Arrangements were completed at. a conference here between Dr. C. R. Ball, senior agronomist of the fed- eral bureau of plant industry; farm leaders and representatives from the chamber of commerce. While the mixture to be used has revealed a marked proclivity for checking the growth of both rec and black stem rust, nemesis of grain growers in the northwest, the im- pending application is considered purely experimental. I: is planned to use about 20 pounds to the acre over an area four miles long and half a mile wide. _ A similar experiment in Canada, in which the dust was sprayed over a 40-acre tract, has been declared a sugcess, although eradication of barberry, host plant of rust spores, heretofore has been considered the only effective measure of control. PROPHECY FULFILLED _ New York—Dr. Charles A. Phil- lips, a New York physician, demon- strated his powers as a dignostician to the end. Having inhaled chlorine gas in the course of his hospital work several years ago he studied the symptoms and complications which arose. As a result he foretold the date of his own death and died several months later on the day named. TRACK PROSPECTS ARE BRIGHT AT = BISMARCK HIGH Jumps Are Weak Spot on Promising Team—Nearly 39 Veterans of Other Meets: Reported For Daily Drills—| 20 Frosh Are New Candi dates With a squad of 30 veteran track and field men reporting in addition | to approximately 20 freshmen candi- | dates, promising for a winning cinder | team at Bismarck high are the best in a number of years, Conch Roy J. McLeod believes. In another week, 50 boys will be| Hoffman, Hultherg, and working out nightly preparatory to the Capital City Track and Field meet which will be held on Hughes field in Bismarck May 4 and 5, the North Dakota Agricultural college Spring Festival meet on May 14 and 15 and the annual state track and field meet ai North Dakota on May 21 and 22. Only one weakness has cropped out in the first few days of the oval grind. Jumpers on the squad are sparse. Ed and John Spriggs, both point winners in meets last year, again are candidates in the high and | broad jumps. Carl Thornberg will raise the hopping squad, the stocky little guard of the basketball team deciding to report for work in the broad jumping pit. Jacobson Is Captain Captain Ben Jacobson x ll head_a small coterie of pole vaulters. Ed Spriggs, Martin and Rubin are other high flyers. “If there are any aspiring ath- letes in the high school who can jump or vault, we will have use for them,” McLeod said today. In the sprints, Hank Brown, Carl Thornberg, Sell, Thompson, Kiesel and John Spriggs will vie for the right to carry the Demon colors in the spring meets. Duane Davis, Greene and Jimmy Slattery will do the quarter mile. Slattery will also train for the half mile events. Other distance men are Frank THE TRAGEDY OF MANY LIVES IS CONSTIPATION | Guard against it in time This evil scourge ruins thousands | of promising men and women. It saps vigor. It kills initiative. 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