The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 25, 1928, Page 1

Wa li eG ee oe ee ‘ ir NORTH. DAKOTA'S WSPAPER OLDEST ESTABLISHED 1873 NIGHT RIDERS’ » TRY TO LYNCH SWEETARARTS| r- Man and Woman Hanged on Tree Cut Down When Masked _ Leader Is Recognized SEIZED ON BUGGY RIQE Grand Jury Returns Riotous Conspiracy Indictments Against Mob Commander St. Clairsville, Ohio, Sept. 25.— ¢ @—An attempt to lynch ' Lester Berry, 18, and Mrs, Goldie Wheeler, 21, residents of Barton, near here, by a band of “night riders” a week Lb ‘Mammy’ Master | RLAYS SMITHS ISSUES STAND Prohibition, Farm Relief and|t! Immigration Come. Under Idghoan’s Attack IGNORES RELIGIOUS SIDE ene ot Says Hoover Best Equipped to Bring Farm Equality and ‘Uphold Constitution tH Tulsa, Okla., Sept. 25.—(#)—Sen- ator William E. Borah flayed Ta many Hall and attacked the stand of Governor Alfred E. Smith on pro- hibition, fa ae and immigra- : i ht. ago last Sunday night, was revealed tion, zy his speech he: tees Ll here today when the Belmont county # : fe eco Al as Ib re gtand jury returned'an indictment : , able patie service of Herbert E. ake Tels Se ed wage : Heemeing his talk he made no ref te - Berton, charging’. +0008 ssa erence, direct! or indirectly, to Berry's so-called “religious controversy,” velig, Hanna, reed escaped which, he declared earlier in the day, Tie a a a eee Q mad T re- | Acco! ing to the si % grand id His opening words, after greeting mn soeninert mae tie a eee Oklahoma, pat in explanation of per] Sunday sheen tie a my ‘were accom! ys Wheeler, who was visiting at the Gallagher home. A alines aiSance rg alll Root 4 . were stopped by a band of masked! The master of the mammy song and dressed in white robes trimmed . jared sity bah Pibnege Bit ie oe his Serre ty ry are Pina uggy. Miss Gallagher made her Y escape and ran to her home. and Mrs. Wheeler were taken to a clump of trees 7 be opal a mile distant where ro , fastened about their mes yand the other ends thrown over limbs of ‘the trees.’ The ropes then were tight- rf] ened until the two victims’ toes i merely touched the ground. received a let- ter at my hotel, a friendly letter, I » 88 "You've always been considered rather irregular as a lican, heretofore—why are you regular in this campaign?’ “I am interested, deeply inter- ested, and for two réasons. “The first reason for my interest the ben rath farm problem—and t equipped man ites today to deal with that com- problem is Herbert Hoover. fe the le sailed for ee a Fe gh heed beta ly second Teason is-my desire to HAWAII DENIES JAP MURDERER. ‘QUICK ame Judge Sietusia to acne ‘Guilty, Sir,’ Plea and Orders . Defense Attorney ‘and enforced the people-have written it. — rea- “Gover od Hein posed to nor o the present Fen 2H ite I un- Recognize Leader a While Berry and Mrs. enone were dangling from the tree with their: toes. the pe around, | the ‘mask ne all “sé Hs peopl the most an oerrostaal that ever dis- America.” THEATRE BLAZE VICTIMS FOUND Spanish Government to Ap- propriate Money for Relief of Stricken Families Madrid, Sept. 25--)—With the dead and injured in the Novedades theatre fire for the most part a ego expected, to propia ap) Prey for the relief of ‘Approximately 100 bodies have been recovered ‘and the fire chi estimated today that as Faprag as 40 others might te pugs the ruins. Knife wounds on ERE dent to no one under thi to say, nothing "et ie ie the 8a) 0! } victims ‘called the ‘ ‘count; Sica Honolulu, Sept. apt. 25. —P)—His ‘de- and related their ex; sire to plead guilty and accept quick matter was promptly placed before dustice for the slaying of Gill Jamie- in mre Pe a son denied by territorial law, Miles POLICE HEADS [isstiss suse “ARE ARRESTED island’s fast-moving kidnaping-mur- der drama. Less than six da: Captains of Philadelphia ‘Sta-| 7° ty tions Charged With Bribery and Extortion — the 10-; oH rea Shiota Honolata b banker, Philadelphia, Sept. 25.0)—With two police cay from school, Fukunaga .was indicted yesterday and arraigned before Cir- charged with xortien, oe Leap and from cuit dodge Alva E. Fe comes, who refused to accept the Japanese stu- dent's plea of eed sir.” The the the bie playing a | as eek as possible! today. = =| HOOVER FACES ~~ (HARD SCHEDULE et ne a f: 3. Yates oil field, in Pecos county, is one of the most freakish fields in Inot to contain any oil at all. sunk a discovery well, however, and discovered a pool of amazing rich- ness. is sunk has the habjt of becoming a “gusher” of great size. oil fields so often show, the field has made millionaires out of three chubby little girls who hadn't in the least expected it. nie Pearl sisters. Their ages are 15, 12 and 11, respectively; their mother is dead to her three daughters piece of range will jest, Three Girls San Angelo, Texas, Sept. 25 —The he southwest. Experienced oil men had agreed that this particular territory ought They Furthermore, each well that And that isn’t all, either. With the freakish liberality that Yates The girls are Lennie Lorene, Min- d Willie Mae Matthews, and they live with their grand- mother.and their father, who is a cary nter. ‘hen Mrs. Matthews died she left fair-sized land. It was not con- sidered especially valuable except as ir range land for cattle. But this plot of ground happened to lie next to the territory that was to become the Yates oil "Field. the black, feathery plumes of the And “gushers” on the Yates field trans- formed ‘the property of the three little girls from low-priced in the present bet into exceedingly high-priced oil range a has made little difference to the three girls, however. They con- tinue their daily round of school work, school on Sunday; although they now ride to school in a new automo- pnb taer of on horseback, as for- nerly. going regularly to Sunday They are not particularly excited about their riches. A reporter, who found them at their grandmother's farm home, asked them what they ‘were going to do with their money, Leas they can buy whatever they want “T am going to.go as far as school take me—I want to be edu- cated,” said Lennie Lorene, the eld- Millionaires Above: one of the great “gus! ers” in the freakish Yates fie in Texas; and, below, the thrée girls it has made millionaires. Left to right, they are Minnie Pearl, Willie Mae and Lennie Lorene Matthews. “I am going into business after T finish college,” said Willie Mae. Minnie Pearl wouldn’t even go that far. She said she wanted to stay right on the farm. “I don’t want to — grandma,” ‘the asid. Al's Favorite Tune Will Candidate’s Special Train Ar- rives in City .at 12:30 A. M. Tomorrow St. Paul, Sept...25.—(7) — Slight revision of the edule of Governor Alfred E. Smith's train en route to Minneapolis was announced by the Northern Pacific railway here today. Under the present schedule, the train will arrive at Mandan, N. D. at 11 a. m, mountain time, tomorrow, leaving 15 min- utes later at 12:15 p..m., cen- tral time. Other stops are: Arrive Bi rek -2:30 p. m., rece a p. m.; arrive Jamestown . m., leave 5 p. a arrive Vay City 6:05 m., leave 6:15 p. m. arrive Fargo 7:50 p. m., leave 8:50 p. m.; arrive Min- nespolis, September 27, 3 a. m. \ | “East side, west side, all around the town” will be sounding merrily as Governer. Al Ault enters Bis- marck ai m. tomorrow oy his 9] cal train for his 90-minute The eae! will be informal throughout, no definite program be- js mapped out for the visitor and party. they wish to travel about the city in automobiles, they will have an opportuni ae to do s0. If they wish to. visit the y capitel building, they may also do the reception committte ait be a the party’s command, Murphy said Pen Cid Sa Metin it charge e protection for Al while he is ‘ace, te city police will be assisted in taki care of crowds anticipated by A, of the First Regiment unde fil of Captain Herman r command of Cap’ lerntan oe Brocopp. The National Guards | t out at the command of ‘alter Maddock. The Elks , under the direction 1, will furnish music the} visit Sound as City’s Welcome PLAN FLORIDA DEATH CENSUS Storm Fatalities Fixed at 2,300 While Exact Toll Will Never Be Known West Palm Beach, Fla., Sept. 25.. ()—One of the first definite moves toward permanent rehabilitation of the storm swept area of southeast Florida, will amount to a virtual census conducted by the Red Cross, it has been announced. More than a week after the di astrous hurricane, reports of cl which, resulted continue to come in. Red Cross officials here have fixed the known dead at approximately 2,300, with the announcemen: that the exact total never would be Heorned: . Apparently the most crying need of the survivors was an occupation. Their farms were ruined—those in the Lake Okeechobee sector and those who sod go back to work have no seed to plant. The Red ‘Cross has issued orders to several. dealers at Okeechobee City to furnish seed to the farmers who can get to their land. It was understood that the Red Cross planned to furnish th. farm- ers with sufficient necessities to meet the emergency, then when. the census-is completed, to rebuild their homes, {furnish them and supply farm implemei.ts sufficient to meet the fgpved A requisition upon Na- tional h would be made 94 for sufficient funds with which to| filed gc rehabilitate the home. | #aid =e many of whom are fow desti-| be, NEGRO ROBB ROBBER HELD AT FORKS) “52x: Grand Forks, N. D, Bs on] here rotted demses Lowion,AOyeses of, Oakland, Calif.” who. con 1 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1928 HAZEN YOUTH INSTANTLY KILLED HUNTING SENATOR BORAH Freak ‘Gusher’ Oil Pool Makes||PAROLE LOOMS | Seow FOR LOBB AND | LROPOLD SOON Killers of Bobbie Franks May Leave Prison in Six Years Because of Error CALLED PAMPERED PETS Thrill Slayers’ Have ‘Fine Record’ Despite Plots of Tragic Prison Breaks j. — (AP) — An under which Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, dr., were sent to the Joliet peni iten- tiary four years ago makes these two slayers of little Bobbie Franks eligible for parole in six more years, Hinton Clabaugh, chairman of the of pardons and paroles, Clabaugh spoke of Loeb and Leo- pold as “sons of wealth, who are pampered pets in Joliet.” These men, each under life sen- tence for murder and 99-year sen- tences for kidnaping, are canes up Jabaugh said, with view to seeking parole when, be- cause of the error in the mittimu: become eligible within six ne is private secretary to the first warden,” Clabaugh said. “The other is private secretary to the protestant chaplain. Yet Leopold is generally believed to have been the brains of the prison outbreak a few months ago which cost, so far, sev- eral innocent lives and resulted in the hanging of three men.” Loeb and Leopold were the college students whose crime marked the birth of the “thrill” murder. They were defended by Clarence Darrow,|® the Chicago criminal lawyer, whose strategy of having them: enter pleas of guilty was one of a series of astonishing developments that marked the entire'case. Following this Darrow int: ed testimony the object of which, as he expressed it, was: nob.to fron: pay- pet ne thi jut to prevent their @ court in itences recom- crime, a passin; nf rad double mended that neither should be grant- ed a parvle, no matter how long they might serve. Clabay error in did not explain what the e mittimus was, Lacked Specification i G H. Storck, of Seat- oe ih Those round-{ tear interrupted by a smi France, when | his Storck, 56, has around the world eleven times and is a veteran aviator. BROOKHART 10 GO-ON THE AIR Iowa Senator Will Speak at Auditorium in Interest of Hoover-Curtis Generally fair day. Heavy to ki! The bale gs BR bade ner PRICE FIVE CENTS HARRY MOEN IS. DEAD IN FIRST HUNT ACCIDENT Details Hazy as Companion Collapses and Becomes Ir- rational After Tragedy GUN LAY IN BOAT BILGE Discharge Enters Youth’s Head as Journey Home Is About to Start vas os 21 ss Hazen ‘outh, was shot and ins' ly kill fh North Dakota’s first fatal 1998 hunting accident shortly after noon eee about 20 miles northwest of ‘azen| Moen’s head was almost complete- | ly blown off when a shotgun was cidentally discharged 4B a_boat in which. he and Dr. C, R. Chapmi n, Hazen dentist, were riding. believed that the shot was dis- charged from Moen’s gun, which was lying in the bottom of the boat. Dr. Chapman collapsed shortly after the accident and has been ir- rational since, according to authori- ties at Hazen. Moen and Chapman, who have hunted together for several years, left early Sunday morning slough bordering the Missouri which is called Manchester lake, where they hunted during the fore- noon. Rowing across the slough about ready to leave for Hazen, Moen exclaimed, “Here comes an- fark bunch of dugjes!” loen was sittin, the front part of the boat with his back to Chap: man, who was sitting at the rear. h) The ‘two guns were Joaded and were ed fept tens of the boat. As the lucks flew over the boat, thi gees for the guns. ee this point one of the guns ex- ploded, the shot entering” Moen’s head, killing him instantly, John Moses, state’s attorney for Mercer county, believes that the guns became entangled with some objects in .the bottom of the boat and the cdmmotion caused by>the - sighting of the ducks caused one of them to discharge. Examination of, Moen’s gun re- vealed five unexploded and one ex- ploded shell in the gun, with the safety released. This leads officials to believe that the shot was dis. charged from Moen’s own gun. The barrel of the Hee in the boat was pointed towards Moen’s estimated “Loeb and Leopold were sentenced to life i jowever, did not specify whether the terms were to be con- secutive or concurrent, and, the mittimus bere silent, their Haband run concurrently and the longer term, imprisonment for life, rules in }matters of parol Life prisoners are eligible for parole -after 20 years under ordin- ary circumstances, with special al lowances for good prison records. The best possible allowance, Mr. Clabaugs: said, would permit them to apply le after 11 years and three months in the meeps the penitentia 5 DRUNK AUTOIST RUNS OVER MAN On Way to Attend Father’s Fu- neral, Man Is Struck Down While Fixing Tire Mim. Se Sept. 25.—(?)— ruck by a truck while en route to jock Island, Ill., to attend the fun- eral of his father, Charles Staudu- har, 35 years ne was killed near here Monday nig! Ni wit years old, of Richmond, Minn., is being held in| dai the Anoka inty jail in connection with the accident. John P. Cole- man, Anoka county attorney, said shee charges will be jiehaus late today. He haus admitted to him that had been drinking before the ac- Peter Stauduhar, a brother, u- stained . C ankle, when he jumped from the road to his own automobile pe era being sirnes approaching HA brother were rej mobile tire’ when Both men sere a their wi - father + Aeaiee ee A a! wi H City, N. D,, Sunday ip fice af Sos odes ef the car was fisted ap "ond ear sied the ener his brother Senator Smith W. Brookhart’s speech in Bismarck Tuesday night, Oct. 2, will be broadcast over radio tion KFYR, H. F. O’Hare, Repub- n committee chairman of Bur- lei ‘h county, announced today. Penatar Srookhart will’ qeak in the interest of the Hoover-Curtis campaign, Republican candidates for the presidency and the vice presi- dency, respectively. Accordin; charge of tl Towa senatot the arrangements for the address, he will be heard, starting at 8 o’clock, in the Auditori icrophones_ will be installed in front of the speaker's stand, those who cannot attend the Bismarck meeting may tune in on the speech, prookhart will enter the state Oc- tober 1, speaking :at Dickinson at 2:30 that afternoon and at New Salem at 8 p.m. On‘ October 2 he will speak at Washburn, : driving from shburn to Bismarck for the address ‘here the night of October 2. From: Bismarck .the Iowa -senator s to Valley City. He will make fis last speech‘ i. the aie the eve- ning of October 3 at Oal O’Hare will be the chairman of the Bismarek meeting. . He will in- troduce Robert Byrne, who in turn will introduce the ‘speaker. Arrangements are being made te have on the pistons as many Re- ublican nomi for state. office, th Independent and Nonpartisan, as hoeaatie ie, Mr. O’Hare announced RODMAN LOSES COURT BATTLE Williston Banker Must Go to Penitentiary by High Court Ruling L. J. Rodman, fon former Williston banker, today lost Je last fight to O- Disturbances somew! escape the penitent ' pee aes ee ones by the su- me court today upho! @ prev- fous the case, in which to Mr. O'Hare, who has | hed. Position. Chapman took the body to shore, leaving it on the ground about 35 feet from the shore of the slough, and went to the farm of Jacob H: ner, about three miles away. Ch: man reached the farm house as the Hasner family was eating dinner. He was in an exhausted condition, feebly told the story of the shoot- ing to the farmer, and was put to I~ He has been under a physician’s care since, being irrational most of the tii ccording to officials. Mo- that Chapman has been suffering from a weak heart, and the shock has left him in a serious condition. male farmer immediately . called P. penne Beulah, and Pak Sie to the’ bod; Rasmussen declared that Moen "had been in- stantly killed. The body was taken to Hazen shortly after Rasmussen arrived. Funeral services have been set for 2 p. m. Wednesday at the Nor- wegian Lutheran church at Hazen, Rev. E. S. Tollefson will read the services. Suniel will be made at the Hazen cemetery. Parents of deceased are Mr. and Mrs. John Moen. Mr. Moen is a justice of the peace at Hazen. Be- ides his parents, deceased leaves ix sisters and two brothers. Sis- ters are Mrs. Petren Angon, Mrs. Martin Hovland, Mrs. Selvin Hov- land, at ae Jamestown Mrs. , pell, Mont.; and Mrs. Leonard Loy, Washburn. Brothers are Nickol, Agnew, Cal, and id Lawrence, Hazen. Dr. Chapman is about 35 old, and has a wife my. wife and tho two chi JEWS RIOT’? iT WATLING WALL Jerusalem, Palestine, Sept. 25-— at sim- to those of three’ years marked yesterday’s observance ef the Day of Atonement at the fa- mous waili ‘Williams = Ee ee aD