The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 2, 1928, Page 1

. NORTH DAKOTA'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED 1873 TRANSFERS. IN COUNTY TOTAL 39,200 ACRES Volume of Movement Held Suf- ficient to Stabilize Real Estate Values MANY DEALS FOR CASH New Settlers from Other State’s Buy Seven Per Cent of All Land Sold Approximately 1,000,000 acres* of North Dakota farm lands were pur- chased during the six-month iod ending June 30, the Greater North Dakota Association announced today on complei‘ng a survey of the entire state. . This information is based on re- ports made to the association by registers of deeds from every coun- ty in the state. They were asked for the number of farm land trarsfers and total acreage involved in their respective counties since J: 1, 1928, after eliminating all sheriff’s deeds, trans- fers to heirs from estate and transfers which could not be re- garded as bona fide purchases. Reports from all counties gave a total of 4,251 purchases involving 805,998 acres. An investigation made with the cooperation of land selling institutions revealed that between 20 and 25 per cent of farm land purchases are made on contracts which are not - recorded with the register of deeds, indicating that with 805,998 acres involved in pur- chases recorded, the total purchases would be slightly more than 1,000,- 000 acres. Value $25,000,000 It is estimated that the 1,000,000 acres purchased since January 1 had a value of more than $25,000,000, previous surveys made by the asso- ciation wring the past 18 months revealing that improved North Da- kota farm land is selling, on an av- erage, at $33 an acre with unim- proved land slightly Below that fig- ure. ‘ The total acreage purchased dur- ing the first half of this year con- firms the association's prediction of | t¢ijs May 1 this year that during the two- year period, 1927 and 1928, more than 2,000,000 acres, or approxi- mately seven pax cent of all in North Dakota farms would be pur- chased. During 1927 apercrimetaly will 600,000 acres were purchased. Suc! # volume of land sales, it is contend- ed, is bringing about complete stabilization of land values in North Dakota. The survey just completed shows that the average tract purchased in- volves: 189 acres, indicating that a (Continued on Page Two) FAMOUS COOK COMING HERE Miss Naomi Rice, Nationally Known, Will Conduct Tribune Cooking School One of the nation’s most famous I ais i pe duu rent WAS FRIE! Miss Amelia Earhart was a settlement worker before she ever became So while visiting London after her transatlantic flight she toured the poorer quarters of the city and found one of her heaviest wel- comes there. Here she is shown surrounded by settlement children at SMITH IN NEW AUTHOR OF “THE YORK TO MAKE BAT’ DROWNS IN FUTURE PLANS/SIGHT OF BEACH Will Limit Campaign to Two Avery Hopwood, Noted Ameri- Months and Make 15 Speeches can Playwright, Collapses While Swimming Nice, France, July 2+)—Avery Hopwood, American playw-ight, was drowned within sight of live-savers and while the crowd watched last. night at Juan-les-Pins on the French July 2—Governor Al- ith was in New York to- dey "for some informal conferences at ‘which he will thrash out th. de- of his campaign for the presi- dency with a few close friends. The first meeting of the National ‘Democratic committee is not until July 11 but i: is generally believed bef dl time the governor desided exactly what ill follow and will me: he committee of his de- health, went swimming at 8 ofclock, soon after dinner. when far from the sl drowned: before. help could reach laywright had been here after a short tour of He intended to leave for Paris in a few cays, and then return to New Those close to the governor say that he intends to decide all im- it matte's relative to th himself, and that the tional committee will follow his ei a than act in an ad- cay oe eee tical acumen he respects, but their identity nor the nature of the discuss‘.n: he intended with thom w-+ not made public. He has alreay decided to limit his two ents compaian. $0 gist pceches in various parts o: will all be broadcast, be no back platform talks to station crowds a3 the cam- paign.train ruves from one chosen another. Graduating from the Unive of Michigan in 1905, Avery Ho) ial dent for the Cleveland Leader, almost immediately sold his first play, “Clothes,” written in collabora- tion with Charning Pollock and pro- duced in 1906. He wax 24 yea.s old at the time, having been born in Cleveland in 1882, From that time forward he was one of the most prolific playwhights, although in the last two or three sea- been an infrequent coh- tributor to the Broadway stage. Many of his farces were adipted from the French, ani he was known for si snveaiier. a rerun ising situations for roines. nn Wrote “The Bat” ~|AIR MAIL PILOT 1S FOUND DEAD r-makers ever sto} Hopwood ’s plays eet sceeal bi peal that they were played with equal succes: thro ts in the nativ tongues. Many :f them’ others, luding “ ¥ G “TI i. Girl in the Limou: ” pots with Wilsor Collison, and two with Mrs. Rhinchart, “Seven Days” and “Spanish Love.” , Hopwood was never sate HUGHES NAMED WORLD JUSTICE f Charles Evans THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, JULY 2, 1928 Machine Guns .Mow Down Al- leged Slayer of Colosimo and Dian O’Banion Park Section e New York, July 2—(@)—Chicago| wrecked bar: gangsters were sought tolay for| fallen telephon: the killing of Frank Yale, friend of} poles today marked the path of “Scarface Al” Capone, and the man| a heavy wind and rain storm blamed by eee Police for the| that swept sections of the Dako- jim” Colosimo in 1920, and Dian O’Banion in 1924.| and early today. No lives were Whether the shooting of Yale on a] reported lost. killing of “Bg Brooklyn street yesterday ha thing to do with the slaying of “Big| extent of the storm was lacking | Arthur Schlosser, Grand Forks, pilot of last year's winner of the inter- i because of the crippled condi- | national balloon race for the James Gordon Bennett trophy, and Com- tion of by Sed and telephone | mander Ed. Hill (left) hoped to repeat this year when the 16 big gas lamage was esti- | bags representing the-United States and seven foreign countries, took off and his diamonds on. He was in his| mated in thousands of dollars. at the Ford Airport, Detroit, Saturday. They were forced down at Dur- bin, W. Va., yesterday. Schlosser is a brother of Senator Walter Schlos- ser of Grand Forks county. Tim” Murphy in Chicago last week was fot appprent. Yale, ganvst-r, died with his boots| lines, but automobile alone. In his ket Heavy rains followed the ‘were a gun and $1,000 in bills and] high wind, nearly two ‘nches checks. On his fingers were his} falling at Moorhead. The twin diamonds, envy of those who knew| cities also felt the storm with “Tai rasan (TY ISREADY |ETELSON AND IND OF POLICE Broken Trees, Wrecked Barns and Garages Mark Path of Big Storm SLOPE IS HIT BY HAIL Flood Waters Sweep Railroad on Main Highways St. Paul, July 2—(AP)— Broken trees, shattered glass, garages, and ind telegraph tas and Minnesota last night Information as to the exact street in the Borough park section] Sperle family, living 12 miles ci ghet aint get] ake | FOR A RECORD nois license plate crept up behin Just before the following car drew] molished the § tle home and abreast of Yale a fusillade of death| three other farm buildings. shattered the Sinday quiet, and| Sperle and his wife were re- slugs from a sub-machine hg and| ported seriously injured. sawed off shotguns broke the win- Forty per cent damage to dows of Yale’s ca Bullets Miss Girl Yale slun-ped down over his wheel, bullets in his head. The other car| miles long. Ss ted in a strip of % cones “aga of Venturia, tive Double-Header Ball Game Kulm, nine miles wide and 14 Opens Big Slope Event led up, turned the corner and Hail damage of 50 to 70 per dissippeared in the traffic. Yale’s| cent was re in a strip of Tomorrow Afternoon car jumped the curb, mowed down| country soulft of Venturia, five _—_ a small tree cnd came to en nie rig nme ie cen veal Bismarck opens the liggest two ainst the stoop of a house. little girl cowered in the bottom of| near Herreid-was reported dam- | 48Y' Fourth of July celehration a car — nearby a hole from a y bullet in the windshield above ra} her head. 35 ever arranged in the Missouri slope “a pri soor ie Se at the country tomorrow at 2 p.m. with a state many farm Bulldings were | Daseball game between Bismarck and Parshall baseball teams. mente iat With favorable weather i bring one of the bigg five points gang. He had a New , July 2—(P)—Thousands| pected to i York criminal record dating back Bir oa incgeneral ann property holiday crowds ever assembled in the to 1912, damage, including the wrecking hun-|°"Ine baseball game will be a dou- Yale, reputed wealthy, was always| dreds of buildings, tearing down of| ple-header affair. While the games a friend of the policeman who need. ‘ -|telephone lines and the damgae to i ’s air cir- ed a loan. Strikebeaker, bootlegger, ae resulted from sfc aiyy groin progress’ Canfield) sir.ci R ill stage its stunt program fea underworld leacer he aided scores of| struck te id thes cus wi 4 bluecoats in his time and alsy made|North Dakota and ee tured by a parachute jump by Flor it a practice to look up and take] Minnesota Sund: care of poor families in his neigh- ence Klingensmith om an lies . moving at an altitude expected to In the Fargo-Moorhead areas con-| set record for this section of. the borhood. | During a coal shortage| siderable damage was done; 1.48| state’ Au illcminated plane will be once he bought a supply of fuel, hired motor truck:: an to on the boz lid. 0: ‘I, |inches of rain fell in an hour and/a| used in exhibition flight tomor- distributed it/ half; ‘lights and telephones in the the poor, He later promoted alcity were cut off for several hours; | °¥, Gone show for charity and once gave i ; 5 ‘ A $5,000 to a church. A brand of ci.|szpianes, at, the Municipal Field} Salem, Steele, Wishek, Goodrich and gars carries his name and picture g bands from “New were wrecked; trees were uprooted| McClusky will participate in a or badly broken and several store teateneert program at Northern much damage. Residents in the De-| free to the .-owds on the pavement He was married and had two|“imdows were blown in, causing| Pacific park. Street dancing will be BUTTER PRICES MAY BE LOWER Centralized Cream Buying Suggested by Formation of * Makers’ Cooperative Chicago, July 2.—()—As a move intended to reduce the retail price of butter on an average of 2 cents each pound, a plan calling for the or- ganization of a rative cream sociation been pro- the butter manufacturers William 8. Moore it at pric Mexico City, July 2—()—Extra- tions are being taken Ambassador butter-fat content s|but at noon all but 600 were based on the prevailing quotations |in sha ‘for butter. their butter on contract for fu- ture delivery, or “hedge” their ex- Production, greatly to the ad- the consumer and pro- ducer, and the manufacturer as well, te | it ras claimed. to troit Lakes region, dependent for| in fiont of he postoffice. light on a highline running south| — Band Concerts Open Fourth from that city, were without lights} Opening the Fourth of July pro- for several hours when the line was| gram on the day of the Fourth broken, there will be street band concerts. Telephone communication through | Soldiers frota Fort Lincoln will par- southern North Dakota still was cut| ticipate in the flag raising exercises off today with Wahepton and Lis-| at Northern Pacific park at 9 a. m. bon, central points, being out of} The indvstrial, civic and military touch with the rest of the world. parade, which will be a big spec- Nearly total crop loss was report-| tacle, moves at 9 o’clock with H. T. ed in a 40 mile stretch along the| Murphy, marshal of the day, in Soo Line railroad between Kensal|eharge. Four bands and all the sol- and Wimbleden as a result of afdiers from Fert Lincoln with bag- gage wagons and all equipment will Appeai in the line. Bismarck Serv- ice clubs w'll have floats and busi- ness houses a’: putting more than ported 40 in the line of march for the three tical; prizes of a ities #10 ennonoest, roof blow off, the lumber yard roof} The parade will form in six divi- was torn loose and carried for a . Startirg at the Lahr, Motor block, a potato warehouse room, Co., corner of Fourth and blown loose, cut through the trans-| Thayer, move ‘wo blocks west to the continental line of the Bell Tele-| public libra: block south to the phone company, cutting off eastern| Auditorium, sour blocks west to communication with Minneapolis | Second street, . block south to Main and St. Paul, an auxiliary wire,| street and two and a half blocks however, gave Fargo direct connec-| ¢@st to Northern Pacific park. tion with Chicago, Parade at 10 A washout occurred on the N. P.|__In the first division, formed on railway line near Edmunds and | Third street, between Thayen and second one near Melville. Rosser avenues will be a band, the The wind in the Fargo-Moorhead | ®°ldiers fror: Fort Lincoln, quarter- area reached maximum of 49 miles| masters’ corps city council, Boy r hour about 9:05 p. m. Sunday. Scouts, the “Snirit of '76” and vet- maxi: erans. riod Me ae eine See The hospital float anda band, thousand telephones in Fargo-Moor- formed 0 Becond ee 1 bepaess head order toda: yer ai josser, will lea ak igo b back second division, formed on Second pe. street between Rosser and Avenue From Alexandria to Barnesville, A, in whica will appear floats of down, grea Market, Red Trail Grocery, Scott’s pe in are f ahaa oa Grocery, Wir ston-Newell, ’ Bridge- iderabl dai yi fe ; | man-Russell, Hughes Bakery, Bark- is used mM [ite nates. wind was| or Bakery, 3owman Furniture store, pe ~ "1 buildings eagh Pcl ~| Webb’s depa:tment store, Lucas de- down. ci : oo ee Bare, rage Toggers, ‘orrent tr .. Drum an x tial sains swept isolated Bugle Come, Cowan's drug store, ‘inne; 8 In the thisd ivision, formed on Thayer Avene, between First and i marooned scores nd streets, will appear floats of of week-end motor lowing business concerns: Tented co bage two) | Eg SHE Copelin Motor, Bismarck and Stair motor concerns, Bismai Accessory and Tire Co., Gilman, Super-Six. Motors Lahr Motor Co., Hedahi Motor VOLUNTEER CHAPLAIN Frankfo1 Minn., practically every "telephone the Bismarck Dairy, Bismarck Food|) i NOBILE POLAR FLIGHT IS SEVERELY CRITICIZED Million Acres of State Farm Land Is Sold to Farmers WILKINS LAND AT NEW YORK North Dakota Boy Trods Path Traversed by Lindbergh, © Byrd and Others New York, July 2.—(#)—Sir George Wilkins and Lieutenant Ben Eielson landed here today to receive one of New York's welcomes: Captain Wilkins and Lieutenant Eielson, were met at quarantine by the mayor’s reception committee. ‘The explorers were escorted to city hall over the route already traversed by such heroes as Lind- bergh, Chamberlin and Byrd. Captain Wilkins and Lieutenant Eielson, last April 15, flew from Point Barrow, Alaska,to Dead Man’s Land, Spitzbergen, on the top of the world. Among the first to greet the ex- plo-ers today was Ole Eielson of Hatton, N. D., father of the lieuten- ant. Father, Proud Y “I am proud of him—But I’ve said it a lot already,” said the father, who was accompanied by a younger brother of the flyer, Arthur, who lives in Orange, N. J. Wilkins spoke for both, although Eielson, now and thea questioned by Sir George, filled in a blank. Captain Wilkins in confirming his plans for an Antarctic flight de- clared his expedition would not be in conflict with the Byrd explora- tions to the South Pole. He would The Weather Mostly fair tonight and day. Not much change. PRICE FIVE CENTS TWO AIRPLANE RESCUE CREWS ARE NOW LOS! Disappearance of Amundsen and Babushkin Charged to Italian Carelessness ARE GIVEN UP AS DEAD Danish Explorer Says Nobile Expedition Is Dark Blot in Arctic Annals London, July 2—()—A Paris dispatch to the Exchange Tele- graph Co. reports that accord- ing to messages received from Oslo the body of Captain Roald Amundsen has been found in the sea off Norway. The report lacks official confirmation. London. July 2.—(\—With_ two airplane rescue expeditions missing criticism of General Umberto No- bile’s polar flight and the conduct of relief operations was being voiced today. Two weeks ago Roald Amundsen and five other men started out in a French seaplane to join in the rescue worh and disappeared. On Friday the “ussian airman Babush- kin hopped off from the Soviet ice- breaker Maiigin in the Polar seas only to be swallowed up by the arctic. A Moscow dispatch to the Daily Express today quoted Sergi Kam- eneff, insepctor general of the Red army, as charging that Nobile’s base ship, the Citta di Milano, had failed to cooperate in the rescue work. He said the base ship had neglected to inform the Maligin that the position of the five castaways of the Italia and the Swedish airman’ Lieutenant Lundborg had been changed by the drift of the ice in time to warn Babushkin before he started on his flight to thom. 4 Kameneff, who is one of the lead- ers of the, soviet relief committee, made a statement to the Moscow newspaper Izvestia in which he con- demned “the shameful lack of co- ordination” of the various expedi- tions. He contended that Amundsen ought to have been put in charge of a centralized relief organization. He believed that rescue could be accom- Plished only by cooperation between Soviet ice breakers and Swedish air- planes. Nobile Is Denounced The Ber‘'in newspaper Montag Morgen today printed a dispatch from its Copenhagen correspondent in which ie said that a large num- ber of Arctic explorers arriving at Tromsoe from the meeting of ex- plorers at Leningrad’ were reported to have denounced the Nobile expe- dition. Peter Freuchen, a Danish ex- plorer, was quoted as saying, “It Was not a case of tragedy nly, but Nobile’s expedition was the darkest blot in the annals of Arctic explor- aticn, Nobile meeting both technical and moral defeat and discrediting . ores exploration by means of air- ships.” The Copenhagen.newspaper Politi- ken also published a statement from Freuchen in waich he said aviators at Tromsoe had little hope of find- ing the Amundsen party. Freuchen quoted Helmer Hansen, who accom- panied Amundsen to the South Pole, hold strictly to the frozen coast, he said, as his interest in that region was to locate a spot where meteoro- logical station will be located later. Asked whether regular travel by air over the polar regions was prac- ticable, Capt. Wilkins said: “If you take advantage of the fine weather carly in the year, it is possible. Of course, it is bitterly cold, but that is no setback.” Wilkins Plans After his Antartic explorations, Wilkins plans to circumnavigate the Pacific Ucean before returning to Australia. From the south polar regions he will work his way up the South and North American coasts to Alaska, cross by way of Siberia to Japan. He will return from the Antarctic in April or May, he said. “If I find my location, I will come back within 24 hours,” he added, “for that is my only objective in going.” The program here includes a theatre party tonight with noted aviators as the city’s guests. 29 Mexicans Killed + in Five Hour Battle Mexico City, July 2.—()—Dit patches from Queretaro to Excelsior today said that 26 Insurgents, one army officer and two soldiers were illed in a five hour battle at La Griega, a few miles from the capital of the state of Queretaro. Seven soldiers were wounded. A small detachment of soldiers forming the garrison of La Gri was attacked more than rero, to their aid. 15 Persons Killed —_ in Religious Riots py paleuite: India, Bae 3 se lewspaper advices sa; per- sons ior been killed’ Co., band. In tke four’: division, formed ‘on| wounded in _ reli First street between Thayer and as believing his former chief died heroically. ~ _ Experts ; "northern Norway be- lieved that the French seaplane was Probably forced down in stormy con- ditions and collapsed upon hitting the waves. This would have meant ® speedy en! for all on board. Amunds friends remarked that such a fin':!, would have been in accord with the veteran explorer’s own wishes. Despite tiese gloomy opinions, search by air and sea was continued today for Amundsen and aew expe- ditions got under way. A special ex- Pedition, financed by Popular sub- Scription, left Alesund, Norway, aboard the Arctic Vesse Veslekari to join in the Amundsen search, Those familiar with Arctic condi- tions suggeste ' that a large fleet of whaling boats be used to sweep wide areas in a desperate effort to find Amundsen. The Qslo correspondent of the daily mail said that Great Britain had agreed to send two British air- lanes, to aid in the search organized y Danish newspapers. TILDEN BEATS JEAN BOROTRA Wimbledon, England, Jul —William T. Tilden, Am: Borotra did not go down without a struggle, forci Tilden s to win the