The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 21, 1928, Page 1

NORTH DAKOTA'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, MAY 21, 1928 ESTABLISHED 1873 ACCIDENTS TAK Rescue Teams Endeavor to Reach 159 Men Entombed in Mine BODIES OF 39 SILVER WILL ARE TAKEN OUT PLEAD GUILTY AFTER BLAST HERE TODAY Explosion Late Saturday St. Paul Man Drops Habeas Traps 211 Workers in Penn- Corpus Action and Is Brought sylvania Mine Here This Noon OFFERED M’CURDY BRIBE Was Willing to Pay $1,000 a Month If Allowed to Run Still in County CAUSE WILL BE PROBED Experts Give Up Hope of Re- turning Any of the Others to Surface Alive The route of General Umberto Nobile’s first extensive trip over the arctic in the dirigible Italia is charted above. The journey occupied 68 hours, and covered upwards of 3,000 miles. Unexplored land was discov- ered, according to cable reports, near Nova Zembla. Returning safely to King’s Bay, Spitzbergen, Nobile said he next would fly across the North Pole to Alaska. Dunn County Gives Thoresen and _ Running Mates a Joyous Welcome TWINE OUTPUT FRANK JOHNS GREATER THAN | I$ DROWNED THAT OF 1927 AT BEND, ORE. | Was Presidential Candidate in Made This Year—Plant 1924—Attempt to Save Has Nice Surplus Boy Fails Harry Silver of St. Paul, who is charged with having offered a bribe to State’s Attorney F. E. McCurdy here for permission to operate an Mather, Pa., May 21.—()—With bodies of 39 miners recovered and taken to the homes of their kin, rescue teams from various sections of the soft coal belt carried on today | You see in the upper photo what illicit still in Burleigh county,, will in an effort to reach the 159 pod bombers did to the Richmond Hill, Gee guilty to the charge before | still entombed in Mather mine,| Long Island, home of Robert G. istrict Judge Fred Jansonius sometime this afternoon, according to Mr. McCurdy, who returned from St. Paul last night. When arresied Friday in St. Paul by the Minnesota state de- partment of criminal apprehension, acting for the North Dakota au- thorities, Silver's attorneys immed- iately secured a writ of habeas corpus to obtain freedom for their client. The hearing on the writ was set for today, but late Saturday, ac- cording to Mr. McCurdy, Silver de- cided to drop the action and an- nounced that he wished to be ar- raigned as soon as possible and would plead guilty to the charge. Silver was brought to Bismarck today noon by Sheriff Rollin Welch, who went to St. Paul last week with Mr. McCurdy and representatives of the attorney general's office. Silver's Proposal Silver called on Mr. McCurdy at his office here shortly after noon on January 28, the state’s attorney said today in ing the details of the bribery proposition. He offered to pay the Burleigh county: official $1,000 a month for as long a time as operation of a large liquor still was permitted somewhere in the county, probably near the city of Bismarek.. All he asked, McCurdy says, was the good will of the state’s attorney and the promise of being “tipped off” in the event there was any suspicion directed towards the project later on. 5 “He presented his proposition to me as coolly and in as businesslike a manner as though he had been en- deavoring to sell re a typewriter,” Mr. McCurdy said today. The local official asked for time to consider the proposition and made an appointment with Silver for-later in the afternoon, On his second call Silver, Mc- Elliott (below), official executioner for New York and. several other eastern states, Elliott and his family slept within. None was in- men and augmented by inspectors d. Elliott put Sacco and Van- from the state bureau of mines was ind also Mrs. Ruth Snyder ordered to delve into the cause of | @"d Judd pain Ait ath in the elec- wired Stal ATTONALISTS ARE WARNED BY UNITED STATES little mining town. Relatives of miners still trapped in the under- ground workings, while foregoing Americans in North China Must Not Be Molested, Communication Says where an explosion on Saturday trapped 211 workers behind piles of coal and slate. A coroner’s jury com) ing six Homecoming Celebration Is) Great Success—Speakers In-| clude Governor Sorlie, Sena- tor Frazier, Siljan, Thor-| esen, Kinzer, Olsness and | Mrs. Berta E. Baker their usual daily pursuits, did not display any outward emotion. Dry- eyed and hopeful, they awaited word of their loved ones, * Mine rescue experts gave up hope of returning any men to the st face alive, and while this feeling was secretly shared by wives, mothers and children of the en- tombed miners, outwardly they buoyed their hopes on other dis- asters where men were taken alive from mines several days after an explosion. Two elderly people, who had stood at the mine tipple since the news of the blast was broadcast, let it be known today that they had four sons inside the mine. Andy Boots, and his three brothers obtained work at the Mathe.saine Saturday morning and reported for their first labor with the ill fated shift. It was their parents who awaited news. The explosion occurred at what is known as the 14th and 15th butts off the main channel. Bodies Mutilated Dunn county is thoroughly sold on Thorstein H. Thoresen, Republican candidate for governor endorsed by the Nonpartisan League, and his running mates. It gave him and the state candi-| dates running with him on the) ticket a royal weleome at a home- coming celebration in honor of his nomination for the governorship Saturday, for it has known him a long time 2s the years are measured in a new country. Its welcome to TEX WILL TRY AGAIN TONIGHT Mandell and McLarnin Chafe at Restrcint; May Be Pest- oned Till Thursday New York, May 21.—(—Down but not out from the effects of Bend, Ore., May 21.—@)—Frank | T. Johns of Portland, Ore., Socialist- |Labor candidate for president in | 1924, was drowned here yesterday in ja vain attempt to save a boy from a similar fate. The youth, Jack Rhodes, 12-year- Lars J. Siljan,|old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Rhodes Thoresen’s running mate for state | ot Bend, was fishing from a bridge auditor, was less formal, but none|over the Deschutes river when he the less sincere. pn his valance ey zl into the m employed in the plant through-| Farmers waited about to shake swift stream. Johns, who was on i the nore Murphy said, which hands with Senator Lynn J. Frazier | his way to address a political mect- includes 16 men who are employed | and to remind him they were among/ing in a park along the river, saw by the state as guards, instructors the original “six-dollar suckers” and; the boy being swept downstream and engineers. The remainder are|that they have not changed their and plunged in after him. - convicts. minds. The crowd also gave Berta! Johns reached the boy 25 yards The production this year will be E. Baker, candidate for state treas-| from shore and managed to tow him about 1,250,000 pounds more than/ Urer, and S. A. Olsness, insurance | to within 10 feet of the bank. There in 1927, Murphy said, when! commissioner, an old-fashioned | the rescuer became exhausted. He 5,000,000 pounds of twine and rope western welcome. : |made a desperate attempt to push were manufactured. The rope mar- The Manning bend dedicated a | the hoy ashore and in the effort keted by the institution is a small| Special number to Senator Frazier, | both went down. tem, Most of it is from inferior | ‘Among My Souvenirs.” A crowd) It was said that Johns was to material and is used for binding, that packed the community theatre have been a candidate for the presi- bales of twine. Occasionally, how-|fose to cheer wher. Thoresen was |dency again this year on the Social- ever, when the twine storeroom is introduced at the end of the wel-fist-Labor ticket. He had lived in Curdy says, went into his prop aeaill stocked, a carlond of rope is|come program, by Representative | Portland about nine years and was tion in even more detail, explaining | yanufacturcd and sold. Clarence Lee. It lingered to shake'a member of the carpenters’ union that he planned to locate a still in hands with Governor Sorlie, who!there. He had been active in poli- some barn out in the country where Nice Surplus Amassed made the principal speech of the|tics for several years. Although the low cost gf labor there would be little chance of de- day and gave to Thoresen his un- ———— i The vlaht, he said, would] has enabled the penitentiary to mar- | qualified endorsement. Man Risks Life to When the annual accounting is made at the state penitentiary this; year the books will show that more| than six million pounds of twine have been manufactured and mar-/| keted, according to Bruce Murphy, secretary of the North Dakota twine | and cordage plant. An average of about 95 men have Shanghai, May 21.—)—The United States has warned the Na- tionalists not to let unruly troops molest Americans in north China. The note of warning also said American t would protect their Nationals in the threatened cities of Peking and Tientsin. Edwin 8. Cunningham, American consul general at Shanghai, in con- t firming that the note had been) three right hand jolts by the weath- handed the Nanking Nationalist;er, Tex Rickard again essayed to ro veg ae ea acereal| its ae a lightweight championship i eq|contents. Nationalist officials how-| fight. Bevery See eee ac pe ever, said it read about as follows: legs, or in other ways mutilated.| “Since the Civil war has reached Brass workers’ checks in many cases|4 crisis in north China and in view were the only means of identifica-|of the fact of the many Americans tion. residing in that area, apprehension A feature of the Mather mine she - Tease ee, pecins esha vo iis ish speak- es east ir ine dase peter re feat Cae the protection of its nationals and | ® he intends to call the bout off in this region, since the open shop|their concentration where protection until Thursday night when he'll try has ruled, employed foreign labor|is possible. Please instruct the Na- bo . hae procedure, however, and a majority of negroes, Math-|tionalist forces not to attempt to| Wi) force re promoter: to postpone er was different in this respect. Injenter these areas to avoid misunder- | ° 5-rourd battle between Tod Conditions permitting, Jimmy Mc- Larnin and mmy Mandell will meet in a 15-round battle for the lightweight championship at the polo junds tonight. If Rickard fails to get his light- wolgnts into the squared circle to- ight lor- i‘ , f Seattle and Eddie (Cannon- ity of fi 1,000 to i i than ry fact, the entire village is different|standing. “cre capacity of from ket its products at little more on the average ae settlement, “If it is necessary to dispatch iM ene te lirqek ae are fhe lions of alcohol a day and] cost, a surplus of $750,000 has been| 4 Tiesesce Teitale Cherted fine| Treat Rattlesnake Tidy little cottages, clean streets,|Chinese troops to the Tientsin area, eer ses ae aa ved the roduct would not be marketed/ built up since the plant began! tribute to Thoresen in a brief speech peal we urge the use of well-disciplined| Pacific coast star, which is sched-| locally but would be placed on tale! operating, Murphy said. Besides Minneapolis, May 21.—(?)—Ed- well dressed children, and a general air of refinement are noticeable. The mine was it March 12 by state mine inspectors and at that time the general condition of the working was found to be good. : (Continued on page two) i Weather Report Temperature at 7 a «1 Highest yesterday Lowest last night Precipitation to 7 a. m. Highest wind velocity ... and it gave itself over to a great demonstration when the senator de- clared that Thoresen is the kind of a man who cannot be bought, bribed or bluffed, in an appeal for support of the entire state ticket. Then it save itself over to in- formal entertainment of its guests of honors. Lars Siljan, who lived several years in Dunn county as ed- itor of the Dunn Center newspaper, uled on that day. Other outdoor | shows are billed on Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Mandell and McLarnin, chafing at the bit, have been going through a daily course of training while wait- ing for the weather to clear up. They are scheduled to weigh in for the second time at the boxing com- mission offices this afternoon, The betting odds remains at 7 to 5 on the champion. The chief suf- ferer has been Rickard, who figures to lose about $25,000 on refunds to customers who came to town last week and can’t hold out any longer. payment, demanding The Huzuls of the Carpathians| or nothing. Silver agreed to return at distant points. Shafer Behind Bookcase During the second conversation, however, without Silver's knowledge, Attorney General George Shafer was concealed behind a row of book- cases in McCurdy’s office and there- fore heard the entire proposition. Silver, McCurdy says, offered him a roll of currency at that time which he claimed contained ) and romised to pay the balance of the i ment a week or 80 this, the profits from the plant have been used to provide new dairy barns, new officers quarters, poul- try houses and a tract of land for the farm at the institution. “When the plant was built 1900,” Murphy said, “bonds were issued to cover the complete cost of construction. These have long ago been retired and the present value of the plant is set at $750,000. “From 1900 up to 1928, a total of 74,739,950 pounds of twine was manufactured and sold by the penitentiary. This included prod- ucts of three grades—standard, mani and best manila. In this ward G. O'Connor, caretaker of the museum of natural science at the Minneapolis public library, risked his life to help relieve the pain of “Big Boy,” a seven-foot, rattlesnake suffering from a sore throat. Mr. O'Connog noticed Sunday that Big Boy's throat was swollen, so he prepared a swab, pried open! the snake’s jaws and treated its insists that in every undertaking to| throat. Both the snake and Mr. which Dunn county sets its hands} O’Connor were much relieved when evéry man is 19,000. On that basis! the delicate treatment was conclud- he insists that Dunn Center is a|ed. city of 300,000. It isn’t such a bad| It was pointed out at the museum measure of Dunn county’s hospital-| that the poison sacs are not re- ity and if surface indications count| moved from snakes captured for the removal forces to avoid disorder. “The United States government assures the Nationalist government that it has no intention of interfer- ing in Chinese-domestic affairs.” It was understood that the note also mentioned the recent killings of Amezican missionaries, Dr. Wal- ter F. Seymour at Tsining and Mrs. William T. Hobart at Taianfu. _ The Nationalists officials indicat- 63 ed that they considered the note ee proper.” ae ston of japanese in present a ual ultimatum to Marchal Chang Tso- lin, northern tor, was by the Nationalists as “interference in 3 in Chinese domestic affairs amount-| milk their cows through a wed the following week with the full| state aud throughout the Northwest,| it seems to be about right on the/ museum, because such a Te: Ey 3 ing to a declhration of protectorate | ring to prevent ie from po amount, buts few days later wrote|by far the biggest market is for| prospect of support for Thoresen/ would be injurious to the health of anes. over ‘yf , i ing the milk. McCurdy that he had changed his|the regular manila grade, which is (Continued on page two) the snakes. i 8 plans and the deal was “off.” durable and sells at a low price.” Lj a 4 In the meantime, however, Mc-| Binder twine is made from North Dakota— Curdy and Shafer had been working| various kinds of hard fibres, he ex- UNION OF LING, TLEGGIN Amenia 80 32 3 on the case and their action lly] plained, with the most common the 9 Bismarck ... 9 resulted in Silver's arrest Friday.|manila hemp, which is imported VICE AND POLITICAL INTERESTS IN CHICAGO CLAIMED IN CRIME SURVEY Al Capone, himself, wh e Te- port sals was at war with the O'Donnell brothers for control of the beer trade, was arrested but was re- leased, when the state failed to im- from the Philippine Islands. Other used in the manufacture African All precautions agains: Silver's shading. them or gaining his freedom after being arrested had been tak- en, and arrangements were made for his extradition to North Dakota be- fore he was taken into custody. Man With Fish Pole Arouses Suspicions Bottineau . Crosby .. Dickinson Dunn _ Cen Ellendale Fessenden . Grand Forks. Hettinger Jamestown By Oscar Watson Cable Editor, The Associated Press Events are shaping in China re- | calling those weeks in 1900 when the foreign residents of Peking, the pyony capi sought saf be- products are New Zealand hemp, sisal and Mexican sisal. Today in Congress patched to the United States govern- ment, has given her acceptance to the Secretary of State Kellogg's Report of Illinois Association for Criminal Justice on ‘Or- Senate meets at 10 a. m. to Ubon ee lenge ; f Chi Officers| take u,tax bill with hope of | ganized Crime’ Tells Story|piicate him in the killing. Minot . i u The death of two men, known the 9 cago nee leaders shat. Sian! yee zue of Two Decades of ‘Big Busi- hiet. wy pared J fhe pgs 4 ea meee ‘chie! ruli world over, occurred last week. Sir] Chicago, May 21.—(P)—Out in the| > Fenced ee plans Tee ness’ on Part of Liquor|day,” Pod war descrined ay baving of librarian the| wide mm spaces, a man with a Lords, noted Tish pale means the man is going ths (Big Bul) Haywood, labor’ celestor, | ames, a0 fish Ot in he passed out peacefull y 4 aiid mente Kas lly at Moscow, in| sor ing else. N & country whose creed en- men met Jos: fovak deavored to preach in his native sale. ie had a aie ole, a land, which brought him into con-| ine and hooks. ‘He had no” bait, flict with the United States govern-| which: interested the icenten. ment. “You were going—?” said an of- ficer to Novak. been trained with John Torrio, “now a retired millionaire.” Both were connected with the late “Big Jim” Colosimo, and prior to that with the five point gang of New York, the report said. Gang Controls Juries Failure of the state to convict cer- tain gangsters, the report said il- lustrated that “even if the evidence of bills. Senat mpaign funds sub- ittee ‘hears Chesley | W. Surney, secretary to Senator Copeland, Demos t, New York, to organiza work for Smith in Texas; another sub- mail takes testimony of regarding Smith and anti-Smith maneuvering for that state’s 24 AP)—A story de Busine: that enabled certain Chicago vice and liquor lords to retire as million- ajres and others to reign on, &: Rapid Gity.: The above, WEA' For Bismarck and vicinity: Most- ly fair tonight and Tuesday. Warm- In Nicaragua, American marines,| “Fis! came the answer, is obtained, at whatever cost, ©. pole Dek after penetrat ig into the northern| « teh ” purs 0 delegates. tice. inst a gangster chief, even when tonight fared Warmer tae en Pig ssiljcbannl fe hogy es See ee abe Pureaicls charged the aut tere are wineses brave. enone 50 E going fishing,” fore a » ence of TA t- | ident im in cour,t the prosecu- be: None i emabronnned ml - A ey pore tical interests | tion fails because the jury is manip- WEATHER CONDITIONS tionalis! Under the influence of high pres- sure, cool weather prevails from T eastern S.ocky Mountain slo, the upper Micelle Valley. $7) frost occurred at a few places in northern Plains States. The ulated by the gang.” The re said in conclusion that organized vice “is of central import- ance because: “It is the cradle in which the over- lords of beer running and beer ware- fare are nutured. that five years ago was enriching gangsters and their protectors by some $13,500,000 a year. | Not the least interesting disclos- ure, said J Andrew A. Bruce, President of American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, his preface to the report, was| “Its from of organization is per- “the reign of power of real|sistent—the ring and its overlord- or organized crime in the|ship of politician and vicelord, com- Chicago is longer and more | bined. than that of many of our| “Its operations have persisted un- presidents — much longer |der the same chieftains forithan that of our public officials.|entire period of chi ‘of the town of| Administrations come ard go, but] mental administrations. of vice in| “It is powerful in the making and The suspicious policemen searched him and found several articles Mostly fair tonight and Tuesday. 10 LIVES IN MINNESOTA i The Weather Warmer tonight. PRICE FIVE CENTS AUTOS, TRAINS AND AIRPLANES KILL SEVERAL Mill City Man Struck by De scending Plane Dies Today in Hospital SKULL WAS FRACTURED Two Boys Killed While Play- ing on Railroad Bridge at Cass Lake St. Paul, May 21—)—A toll of ten lives was claimed by automo- bile, arain, airplane and drowning accidents in Minnesota over the week-end, Howard Samuelson, 22, i apolis, died this morning ct shies: tevideo hospital from injuries suf. fered Sunday when an airplane, mai eft struck an ir pocket” and dropped striking Samuelson, PP ee Bearing four Passengers, th plane, piloted by Delmar Snyder of Minneapolis, was preparing to land when it struck the air pocket. One of the wheels struck Samuelson, fracturing his skull. Snyder, who was participating in the Montevideo air derby, put on more power and ascended into the air, thereby avert- ing a more tragic mishap. ., Struck by Auto _ William Nelson, 27, of Sabin, was killed late Sunday when he was struck by an automobile as he alighted from his own machine near Baker. John Witch of Fargo, N. D., driver of the second car said he hh lel ey pa latte of a third car. le is being he i eee: ig y police for ques- While playing on the Northern railroad bridge at pe Lake, Bobbie and William Pankow, 6 and 8 respectively, were killed when a train passed over them. The boys, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Pankow, were playing with three ther companions. While the three ‘ompanions swung themselves under the bridge, holding on to the iron supports, the Pankow boys had themselves on the railroad ties to allow the train to pass over them. The train had passed safely over the boys, with the exception of the last coach, When they raised their heads, in their haste to leave, they were struck, The Dead Three of the deaths occurred in St. Paul and Minneapolis, and one (Continued on page two) BREMEN PLANE MUST BE MOVED BY STEAMSHIP Machine in Which Three Crossed Atlantic Damaged in Attempted Take-off Pictou, N. S., May 21.-—()—Hope of taking the German transatlantic plane Bremen to New York under its own power was abandoned today. The plane was badly damaged yes- yesterday in an attempted takeoff from the Labrador mainland near Greenly Island. Fred Melchoir, Junkers pilot who was to have flown the Bremen on the last lap of the trip to its origin- al destination, sent word that the flight had been abandoned and the Bremen would have to be shipped out by steamer, Melchoir’s message was addressed to Major General James E. Fechet, chief of the United States army air forces, in charge of the two army amphibians which brought Melchoir from the United States, dropped him by parachute near the Bremen, and were to accompany him to New York. The Junkers pilot asked Generai Fechet to return with the army planes and take him off, but Fechet said that floating ice made a land- ing in the water too dangerous and that no suitable landing surface was available on land. He planned te start today for Washington, with stops at Boston and New York. The accident brought to a ciors efforts to bring out the Bremen which have been under way almost constantly since Baron von Huene- feld, Capt. Koehl and Major Fit=- maurice landed on Greenly Island April 13, after making the first suc- cessful flight westward over the north Atlantic. May 21 burned Johnstown, age 1852—Mi Central railroad 0) from Detroit to Chi- © 1861—North Carolina seceded. $ U. 8. 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