The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 27, 1928, Page 1

‘ a * ? ¢ | ¢ 7 -_ d 4 < » NORTH DAKOTA’S SS an aN See ee THE BISMARCK TRIBUN The Weather hi Th OLDEST. NEWSPAPER Frobehin leat ashen ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1928 ; . PRICE FIVE CENTS AL SMITH MAJORITY WILL SMOTHER RIVALS Gang Slayers Kill Big Tim Murphy With Machine Gun Fusilade CHICAGO LABOR |[__#es Rooting for Grandpa Smith LEADER FALLS ON OWN LAWN Marked for Death 15 Years Ago, Dearborn Mail Theft Director Finally Falls WAS PUT ‘ON THE SPOT’ Called from Radio by Door- bell’s Ring, Wily Giant Walks Into Trap Chicago, June 27.—(7)—The gang guns got Big Tim Murphy last night. A machine gun barrel was thrust through the window of a sedan cruising slowly by the Murphy bun- galow. Murphy’s six feet three standing on the lawn was an easy mark. Fire streamed ?rom the window of the sedan. The bedtime quiet of the Rogers Park neighbor! ood 9 was broken by the gun’s deadly rat-a- tat-tat. The knees of a led, and the blood of Bi ae the grass where he fell. ro years ago Murphy stepped from Leavenworth penitentiary aft- er serving a sentence for complicity in the daring Dearbon street station robbery of 1922. Several men were playing ball on a vacant lot near the station at noon. When a mail truck carrying $125,000 drove up, the men drew revolvers, took the money and escaped in automobiles. The gov- erhment chayged that Murphy plotted and led the execution of this most daring of daylight robberies in = wae mail robber, “pron! —Murphy’s name frequently was whispered in connection with police mysteries. When “Mossy” Enright, who had beex prospering in fields which had been Murphy's own, was shot dead at his home in 1920, Mur- phy was arrested. But they couldn’t connect him with it. It was following his release injof this case that Murphy for the first time appeared in public with the bodyguard which signates the marked man in Chicago’s under- world. He wrs never one to carry a gun. He had no weapon when he was shot down last night. A Fifteen years the-word went around that Murphy, who had risen to power as president of the Gas Workers’ union, had been marked for death. Yet Murphy’s buck teeth continued to = in the Morphy smile and he. lived to read the obit- uaries of scores of gangsters, rack- eteers, feudists and slayers. But 42 years is a long time to live for one with pursuits so precarious as Big Tim’s. His time came last ht. a was no new story, the manner of his taking off.’ There was the in- evitable closed car, wit shades—four or five men with mur- |land, der in their hearts—the clip of car- tridges—the quick 5} ing machine gun. They put hii “on the ” Bi Fin the basersent of the $866 Tim was in the it of the $35,- 000 enpeow list with hi brother-in-law, Harry Diggs, to a radiocast of the Houston convention. No one was sight. Murphy moved across the grass tl atreet. Then they saw the luge Dairy Congress Opens London Rally relati: London, June 27.—()—Sixteen hundred. del ee legates 45 s, Penpeeratiag for the world’s Ssiry comeets, under the auspices of International federation, whose patron the . The program is two fold, of tec! w 4 Dairying represents & third of England's agricultural wealth. Al Smith has one ardent booster in his race for the Democratic presi- dential nomination, and here he is, Arthur Smith, Jr., grandson of the governor. Here’s young Al with his mother, Mrs. Arthur Smith. AMUNDSEN WAS SEEN BY SHIP Dense Ice Flees Prevented Sailors from Reaching Stranded Crew Berlin, June 27.—(AP)—A second version. containing additional details @ report received in Norway that the plane of Koald Amundsen was sighted by a Norwegian sealer on June 20 is contained in a special dis- patch from Tromsce to the Lokal Anzeiger. . This states that a telegram has been received from Archangel, Rus- sia, stating that the Norwegian sealer, whose name was not men- tioned, had sighted the long-missing lane on én ice floe southeast of jortheast Land. Dense ic> prevent- ed the approach of the. sealer, but the crew of the plan could be dis- cerned through a telescope repairing the machine. As the vessel was w:thout radio it handed its message to a Russian steamer, which in turn sent it by! wireless to Archangel. Miss Boyd, an American woman, who hired the sealing ship Hobby for a hunting expedition off Green- 5 ee spose ship at the ae posal of the Norwegian government free of cost to teach for Roald Am- undsen, missing in a French sea- ane with five companion: since Sues 18. The Hobby returned to is | Tromsoe from Spitzbergen, where it had been engaged in the Nobile res- cue work, to take the hunting party aboard. The gove-nment accepted the of- fer, and the ship will probably sail for the east coast of Spitzbergen. The French dispatch vessel Quen- tin Roosevei: was at Tromsoe today, ready to start in search of the miss- ing men. The French cruiser Stras- bourg was en route to Tromsoe, as were the Norwegian cruiser Tor- densjod] and the “-ussian icebreaker Krassin. : Kidnaped Americans Write They Are Well Treated by Captors Mexico City, June 27—()—Dis- patches from Guadalaraja today said that W. M. Mitchell and John F. Hooper, At mining men who recently kidnaped and held for bate Pig gr ma Te ene Solent Troops were i Pees Mae Arp eeend. DONATE, that the lives of Americans would be if the troops attempted compels to free them by force of arms. peners snd Hen vats ts | Prehistoric Monster ‘ound in Salvador igi yee? a ia rE 20 Persons Injured As Tornado Sweeps Wyoming Oil Figids Casper, Wyo., June 27.—(#)— Twenty persons were injured, three seriously, and damages estimated at $500, was cal yesterday by a tornado in the southwestern sec- tion of the Salt Creek oil field. The twister stryek.the camps of the Consolidated ‘and Carter Oil companies, about 40 miles north of here, causing considerable damage to buildings. Upwards of 125 oil derricks were wrecked and two gas plants and a power station were de- MAEWURRAY IS SILENT ON HEIR Actress Angry Over Husband’s Announcement of Their Child, Avoids Reporters Beverly Hills, Calif, June: 27.— (AP)—Blae Murray, motion picture and vaudeville actress, declined yes- terday to give any information con- cerning the recently announced ad- dition to her sap boy now more than a year old. ‘Miss Murray’s husband, Prince David M’Divini, anno.. ced the birth of the child only a few days ago while the actress was in New York, He explained that the news of the birth had been suppressed because of the possibility that it might af- fect Miss Murray's career. “All my life I’ve lived like a goldfish in a glass bowl, and I’m getting good and tired of it,” tered the actress on her arrival the east. She was greeted bv a bevy of newspapermen and cameramen eager for additional news and for pictures of her child. . M’Divini made it plain that no pictures would be taken of the child if he and his wife could prevent it. Miss Murray, who was taken from her homeward-bound train by her husband at Barstow, 100 miles east of Los Angeles, appeared consider- ably upset at the annou:.cement of her motherhood. refused to re- veal the baby’s name, birthplace, or anything else concerning it, and hur- ried away for a rehearsal of a new veudevillc act. WOMAN LEADS TRAIN BANDITS Terrarists Who Wrecked Mexico City Passenger i ateeatiee Mexico City, ' J AP — HEAVY EARLY [NORTH DAKOTA VOTEIS CAST IN ELECTION Weather ‘Conditions Generally Good for Full Verdict Over State RAIN IN TWO SECTIONS Women Lead Voting Volume in Early Hours; Crowds Wait at Polls North Dakota voters are going to the polls today to nominate national state, judicial and county officers in the state’s biennial pri élection. Over the greater part of the state weather conditions were good for a heavy vote. In southwestern North Dakota .77 of an inch of rain was reported at Hettinger, here coun- try roads have been in bad condi- tion for several days. In the Bismarck district there was .18 of an inch of rainfall early today. The rain areas here and in Hettinger county were the only precipitation recorded in the weather report, al- though the forecast was for thunder showers in widely separated dis- tricts late this afternoon. A heavy carly vote was polled in the state’s towns and cities with ‘women apparently making a special effort to go to the polls early. Pre- cinct organizations of the state’s two dominant Republican groups were active in getting out the vote and workers were predicting a record town vote in the state. Weather Ideal In the rural districts weather con- litions were generally r as 1 for getting out the farm vote. Light rains last night were suffi- cient to stop field work but were not heavy enough to put country roads in bad shape. In Bismarck a heavy beri vote was indicated at 11 a. m. with wom- en going to the polls in greater num- bers than is past elections to vote nny. e vote record at 11 a. m.: two hours after the polls opened showed that in the first precinct of the Fourth ward 84 of yoters regis- tered had voted: In the Fifth ward voting precinct 76 of 425 registered had voted. In the Third ward pre- cinct the records showed 90 of 541 registered. voters had cast their bal- lots. In the First ward 100 of 400 had gone to the [aes In the second precinct of the nd ward 136 of 400 registered voters had balloted, while in the first precinct of the Fifth of 342 registered votes were cast. In the Fourth ward 53 out of 500 had voted. In the two recincts of the Sixth ward 150 of bss registered voters were recorded as having cast their ballots. In the first precinct of the Second ward 90 of 356 votes were recorded. Meetings Close Campaign The Cone closed in Bismarck last night with meeti: by the wet Republicans and the Independents. C. P, Stone, Wallace Campbell and others spoke at the City Auditorium to an audience that filled the place. F. Shafer spoke at the Rex theater to an audience that filled it. In both meetings the speeches made throughout the campaign were re- peated in final a) to the voters. Polls close tonight at 7 o’clock and fitst returns from rural * precincts will be available shortly after that If precedent of other papers, incl: The Tribune, have assembled one She bigeaet organi- zations to hendle el m returns Radio be tabulated and Station KFYR in co- une as are tabulated. The ue a special election at 6-a. m, tomorrow to call The Trib- as all its tele- in the election re-| to the DEMS LAUNCH FARM PARADE Biggest Demonstration of Houston Convention Comes During Keynote Speech ALL N. W. STATES JOIN Agricultural State Delegates Express Satisfaction With Bowers’ Address M. M. OPPEGARD (Associated Press Staff Writer) Houston, June 27.—Northwestern delegations Knit took advantage of the impression they made last night when t! *, were the first to precipi- tate the Democratic convention into a spectacular demonstration, by urging a strong agricultural plank in Ae pare Lena h was during the keynote gpeec! by Claude Bowers that the demon- station was started by the North Dakota delegation when the spokes- man said “We do demand that the hand of privilege shall be taken out of the farmer's pocket and off the farmer's throat.” « At this statement Dr. W. H. Port- er of Calvin, chairman of the North Dakota delegation, started the pro- cession which included not only the northwestern states of Minnesota and South Dakota and the corn belt states but all the state delegations. The demonstration, the.noisiest since the opening of the convention, con- tinued for about 20 minutes. Minnesota delegates were quick in rallying around their standard and took up the march with South Dako- ta behind the flickertails. , Although expressing general sat- isfaction with the keynote talk, Min- nesota South and North Dakota del- egations realized that it is up to the resolutions committee to frame the latform and to insert the farm re- ief plank, which they hope will con- tain a pledge of legislation “for full equality for the farmer.” Present United Front , The interest of the three delega- tions centered principally upon farm relief and it was evident that they were determined to present a united sien in urging a strong agricultural plank. : Unless the resolutions committee includes a plank satisfactory to the South Dakota delegations it is prob- able that the members will seek a minority report. It is also under- jovernor Bulow will go before the resolutions committee or the Agreuiaral sub-committee some time late today, providing the com- mittee consents. i P, W. Lanier of Jamestown, N. D., and member of the resolutions com- mittee has an agricultural plank prepared but will not present it to the committee if the draft of that body meets the approval of the North Dakota representatives. Thomas E, Cashman of Owaton- na, the Minnesota resolutions com- mittee member, is understood to fav- or American farm bureau federation agricultural plank, which corre- sponds to tNe Carraway plank a) ved by that organization at the publican convention at Kansas City. For South Dakota Holton Daven- port of Sioux Falls will present the ulow plank and urge its adoption. It also became evident last night that Governor Bulow, mentioned as vice presidential sibility will make no effort to have his name Placed before the convention and the other Squth Dakota delegates will join no move to have him “drafted.” REED RALLIES ANTI-SMITHS BY FRANCIS M. STEPHENSON (Associated Press Staff Writer) Hosstes, June 27.—Brushing aside of the vice presidency, ‘tor Reed of Mi was ii eee i bate ait Uatt isl “F Lets i ; Senator Jim Reed and Mrs. Reed ai Houston for the Democratic national convention. | The Reeds; from Missouri re pictured here as they arrived in Reed was greeted royally by anti-Smith factions. Leviathan Mail Bag Seals Were Removed Southampton, Eng., June 27.— (AP)—Microscopic examination of the seals of one of the rifled mail bags of the Leviathan has confirmed Police in the belief that the original seals were taken off and substitute fleet) affixed by the thieves. ‘he police reported that the imi- tation seals were made so cleverly that their difference from genuine ones could not be detected by ordi- mu inspection. e loss may amount to half a million dollars. WET-DRY PLANK DISPUTE LEADS CAUCUS FIGHTS ‘Bone Drys’ Organize for Con-| vention Floor Fight; Modi- fication Asked By BYRON PRICE (Associated Press Staff Writer.) Houston, June 27.-;(AP)—While the Democratic sifting of men and issues went on toward a decision today in committee room and cau- cus, the national convention turned again to that great American politi- | eal pastime of stump speaking to fill up with partisan fervor its sec. ond daylight session, | This time the center of the speak- ing stage, held for a colorful hour last night by the convention key- | noter, was assigned to Robinson of Arkansas, long a Democratic stal- wart, leader of his party in the sen- ate, and out in front among the can- didates for second place on the party ticket. His installation as perma- nent.chairman of the big quadren- niel pow-wow furnished the occasion for a preaching of the Democratic ospel with the embellishment of | fae pungent phraseology and com- manding gesture of which he is master. Both delegates and spectators cheered to the echo a rousing Demo- cratic assault on Republicanism and all its works, delivered by the tem- chairman and__ keynoter, ude G. Bowers of New York. Twice he stirred his hearers to crashes of noisy approval that ranked almost as demonstrations— once when he praised Woodrow Wil- son, and again when he demanded that the hand of Republican op- pression be removed from the throat of the farmer. é ‘Although the battle over first place on the ticket is conceded gen- erally to have about ended in vic- for Governor Smith, much in- terest centered today in caucuses by the delegations from Ohio and Oklahoma, the last to decide where they will go on the first roll call. It was unquestioned that a decision to throw to Smith at once the Ohio and peaeeie votes um beast expect him to get event ly, woul settle the whole question on the first ballot. The other headliner among con- vention disputes, the disagreement ; Woollen of Indiana, ROBINSON WINS GREATEST EDGE AT CONVENTION Arkansas Senator’s Name Dominates Talk of Vice Presidential Nominee BY W. B. RAGSDALE_ (Associated Press Staff Writer) Houston, Texas, June 27.—(P)— New names and enthusiasm were injected into the vice presidential free-for-all as the Democratic con- vention today turned toward dispo- sition of final routine details before settling down to choose a presiden- tial candidate. Spirit was given to the admirers of Senator Robinson, of Arkansas, ith the declaration by Senator Ed- ards, of New Jersey that he be- lieved the minority leader in the senate would be agreeable to Gover- nor Smith if the New York execu- tive should head the ticket. The Edwards statement was made after a conference with several ardent Smith leaders. Along with this came expressions from delegates from Oklahoma, South Carolina and New Mexico that Robinson would fit well into the ticket and probably would draw the support of these delegations. Dela- ware also considered him acceptable and there was a _ prediction that orth Dakota delegates might not ind him objectionable. Cordell Hull, of Tennessee, and former Senator Hitchcock of Ne- braska also were favorites among a number of delegations, with others rallying to ihe support of Evans Maine, Georgia and Rhode Island favored Hull with several of the farm belt states es- pousing the cause of Hitchock. Boost Native Son Indiana delegates declared they were for a ticket “All Woollen a yard wide,” and would fight for hit nomination as presidential candi- date. They added that they also preferred him for the vice presi- fenkiel nominee, niacin «8 ere came wi rom Newton D. Baker, secretary of war under President Wilson, and senti- ment in favor of Atlee Pomerene and Governor Donahey of Ohio, was sounded out. Pomerene carried the support of the Ohio delegation. The campaign of Senator Barkley of Kentucky was receiving addi- tional impetus with his admirers predicting that he would carry Ken- tucky, Tennesse. and Oklahoma and would prove a vote getter among the farmers of the middlewest. Another Kentuckian entered the lists v@iile the Barkley ballyhoo was being steamed up. General Henry T. Allen, who led a division includ- ing many Oklahomans in the World war, appeared on the scene to wage a vigorous fight for the nomination, His managers predicted that he would be able to swing Kentuckv, West Virginia, Tennessee and Okla- homa into line. Want General Allen General Allen’s position, his man- over a ibition plank, was hav- ing its inning meantime before the platform committee, with mere than a poraiity that in the end it would (Continued on page two) Kerosene Explosion Fatal to Farm Girl EE 2. i is ; i if near Cleveland, An occurred when Renschler tried to hurry the kitchen fire with kerosene. ‘id, was favorable to the farmer. They asserted that being a Papas, Ne Soaks Memeee tae te t re ously if Governor Smith should nomianted, and being FIRST-BALLOP NOMINATION 1S READILY SEEN Louisiana and Canal Zone Throw 26 Votes to Empire State Governor OKLAHOMA IS FOR REED Ohio Delegation Votes ta Swing from Pomerene to Houston Favorite Houston, June 27.—(AP)— The Oklahoma delegation today decided to cast its first ballot for Senator Reed of Missouri. Houston, June 27.—(AP)— By overwhelming votes, the ére- dentials committee of the Dem- ocratic national _ convention early today seated twenty - six delegates pledged or instructed for Governor Smith. Foremost in interest was the delegate contest from Louisiana in which a flock of twenty Smith-pledged votes were given preference over a slate claimed by Senator Reed. Of the forty- nine votes recorded only seven favored the seating of the Reed faction. The other six Smith delegates seated were the Canal Zone faction headed by Mrs. L. O. Keen, national committee wom- an, who was accorded a una imous vote over the unin- structed but Reed-inclined ticket headed by National Committee- man Frank T. Hamlin. Houston, Texas, June 27.— (AP)—The Ohio delegation voted overwhelmingly in caucus today to authorize its chairman to switch practically its entire 48 votes from former Senator Atlee Pomerene to Gov. Alfred E. Smith, “at any time from the beginning of the first ballot.” Only two or three nays were heard on the viva voce vote by which the m ‘was approved and this was taken by leaders of the delegation to indicate that at least 44 of the 48 votes would be cast for Smith. The motion commits the chairman to cast the entire vote for Pomerene on the first ballot, but authorizes him to shift before the roll call is con- cluded as he sees fit. As agreed upon, he will cast the entire state vote for Smith when the shift is made except when di- rected by individual delegates to vote otherwise for them. While not committing him- self, Chairman Claude Meeker, of Columbus, indicated that he would switch the Ohio votes be- fore conclusion of the first bal- lot, if that would put Smith over, By BYRON PRICE (Associated Press Staff Writer.) Sam Houston Hall, Houston, Tex., June 27.—(AP)—Its candidate all but chosen and its major dispute over prohibition sidetracked in com- mittee, the Democratic national con- vention turned itself over again to- day to the sweeping spirit of party revivalism which was loosed last night by the convention keynoter, A short, a hot morning session, under a sky that was threatening a downpour, had no business before it but oratory, music, and a few de- tails of convention organization. Party managers planned to go on at a night session with more speech- making—possibly including the ora- torical flourish placing presidential candidates in formal nomination. “Joe” Robinson of Arkansas, the convention’s permanent chairman ind at the moment the party’s out- nding vice presidential possibility, ,the chief role in the morni session. According to custom he had prepared as his inaugural to the chair a second - party keynote crammed with Democratic cae A delegate contest from Louisiana furnished the high point of the purely formal part of the morning proceedings. veryone agreed in advance that the Smith majority could smother the challenge that had been made against the right of Col. Robert Ewing and his fellow Louisi- anans to sit in the convention, but his political opponents in the state insisted on ing their fight. Platform Men Work The platform committee was at work hearii ie conflicting Patil a be ready in time for consideration at_a night session, Nearly an hour before the time set for convening the morning ses- sion ancther touch of the revival (Continued on Page Two) and-Run Victim