The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 12, 1928, Page 1

RTH DAKOTA'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED 1873 BORDER STATES ARE DEBATABLE BATTLE GROUND prohibition and Religious Is- sues Play Potent Part in Campaign f HOOVER GAINS FOOTHOLD Ministers and Churches Mix Freely in Dixie Presidential Fight By GEORGE D. MANN Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 7—Democ- racy is not 80 militant as you work toward the border states of Ten- nessee and Kentucky. These com- monwealths are political battle grounds in the campaign and are termed doubtful by Democratic as well as Republican leaders. Here in Tennessee where they close things up tight on Sunday and have a law preventing the teaching of evolution in the schools and col- leges, the ipa and religious issues are playing a very potent part in the Li jidential campaign. Many pulpits been given over frankly to a discussion of issues, principally the liquor plank as voiced by Gov- ernor Smith, Hoover's Visit Yesterday Herbert Hoover came to Tennessee and spoke to a great crowd at Elizabethon. The Hoover party returned to Washington pleased with the reception and the reports of the progress of the Hoov- er campaign in the state made fam- ous by “Old Hickory” and the mon- key trial not so many moons ago at ue foe Tenn., when the funda- mentalists e: the services of the late William Jennings Bryan to uphold the law which silences the teaching of the Darwinian theory. Rev. Straton Active Following Hoover’s address at Elizahethon, Rev. John Roach Stra- ton, one of New York’s leading fun- damentalists, spoke to 5,000 people at Nashville denouncing Governor Smith because of his stand on the liquor issue and also scoring him as the tool of Tammany. One of the high lights of his address follows: “For 20 years the politicians of both parties have been trying. to put! 4 sare ocean tad ce louse. Tammany foug! lexe- land and Wilson because it could not control them, But now these same leaders of corruption have got a strangle hold on the machinery of the Democratic party and have led 4 Re a covenant and a league with ell, “T am greatly heartened since this trip through the South, for I have seen tides of spiritual power stirring in southern men and women _ that’ have given me new courage. I find preachers and good men and women everywhere standing like corps of Stonewall Jacksons.” As you motor through Tennessee you see in many villages banners roclaiming anti-Smith clubs which old weekly meetings. Democrats are enlisted in the opposition, but they are assured that it will not be necessary for them to support any Republican candidates other than the presidential nominees. Talking to “Hill Billies” The writer sopred at crossroads in the hills of Tennessee where he met some most interesting charac- ters whose sentiments on politics are most and_unbending. They uote Good Book to you and for the most part the plain country folk, the hill Bi if you please, are do- ing a “tolerable talking” for Herbert Hoover, _ Here and there you meet with * others who are for Smith, but the Hoover sentiment is more outspoken, better organized, and Republicans are carrying on a more effective (Continued on page two) FARMER DIES IN HAYSTACK John Meringdol, 55, Succumbs to Heart Disease as Work Day Ends John “Ieringdol, 55, farmer in Clear Lake township about 10 miles northwest of Driscoll, was found dead in a haystack on his farm about midnight Wednesday, according to E. J, Gobel, Burleigh county coroner. , Gol el who returned last night rom. farm where he conducted ssid the farmer le igs 4 Hoe, E $ ts 8g it THE BI GRAF ZEPPELIN DODGES ATLANTIC ST NOISY GREETING [FRAZIER DRIVE || If there isn’t a romance between these two “children” of prominent cabinet officials, at least there is always a chance, To the left is Miss Alice Davis, daughter of the secretary of war; to the right, Allan Hoover, son of the former secretary of commerce and Republican presidential candi- date. The picture was taken at Aberdeen, Md., where both attended an army exhibition, YoungHolly woodSurgeon Removes Own Appendix Feels Well Enough to Walk Three Days After Self-Ex- perimentation Los Angeles, Oct. 12.—(#)—Dr. Robert Meals, young Hollywood surgeon, who three days ago re- moved his own appendix, today said he felt well enough to get up and walk, and “I would do so nov. in- stead of waiting the necessary 10 days if I thought it would be safe.” Neither economy, necessity, nor desire for publicity prompted his self-operation, ‘the doctor said. Rather the operation was an experi- ment to verify his previous conclu- sions that the “shock” which most patients suffer from operations was due largely to anesthesia rather than the operation itself. This theory, he said, had been corroborated. ~ Such an operation has been per- formed only two-or- three times-be-. ae in surgical history, doctors ia 3 assisted by a mn Nicols, who Dr. Meals wa: friend, Dr. J.» Ne helped locate the appendix, ‘which | j was in an unsual position, and to loosen it from adhesions to the back of the sbdominal wall. Dr. Meang took his place on the operating table with only nurses, in- ternes and Dr. Nichols present. His back and head was prop) up and a surgeon’s gown was slip over his shoulders. He wore the usual rubber gloves and with his own hands proceeded as though he were operating on 1 patient under anaes- thesia, Throughout the operation the surgeon carried on = conversa- tion, Meals said. A local anaesthetic was applied but the surgeon-patient was sub- lected to considerable pain due to inability to anaesthetize the inner organs, : GRAND OLD MAN TO BE HONORED Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 12—(?)— ‘At a unique birthday party in which thousands throughc::t the state will partici , General Charles King, Grand O14 Man of the Army,” vet- eran five wars and celebrated sobennorelit, tonight will observe his 841 irthday. & General King \:as. born in Albany, N. Y., the son.of Rufus King one of the organizers of the Iron Brigade of the. Army of the Potomac. ii grandfather was Charles King, one time president of Columbia univer- sity and his great grandfather was Rufus King, distinguished as a United States senator from New 4 ved in the civil war and served in vs was graduated at West Point and then kept there to teach. From there he Ee. south, then to the Lands where Eas is trouble, then to the Philip- pines, later came his work as pro- fessor of military science and tac- tics at the University of Wisconsin ‘as an important officer in the Na- tional Guard, as adjutant general of the guard and cs director of military science and tactics at St. John’s. —__— India hes between 20 and 30 languages, of which the Principe ely used is Hindustani. leading lady, NIGHT CLUB VISITORS HOLD fe CURTIS LEAVES WEST FOR EAST Girds for Drive on Eastern Shore, Beaming Confidence in West En Route with Senator Curtis to Washington, Oct. 12.—()—Senator Charles Curtis, the Republican vice presidential nominee, left the west today, beaming corfidence over the party outlook there and girding himself for a drive on the eastern shore. “I feel confident the central west and west will go Republican over- whelmingly,” was the report given today by the senator to party Sead. ers he met along his route to Wash- He “stop~at the over Sunday before resuming the campaign, ™ month in the west, the vet- paigner visited 16 states ing all of those in the Great ippi Valley agricultural re- Farm relief and the tariff have een the subjects of almost every talk, although he has taken in the fyll range of Republican ar- guments including the plea for con- tinuation of “Coolidge prosperity.” On the swing into the northwest this week he confined himself to one or two subjects a day and excluded back platform talks. The nominee spoke last night in the Janesville, Wis., high school au- ditorium. He leveled his attack on Governor Smith for his positions on eon relief, the tariff and prohibi- ion. Senator Curtis will start next week on a campaign in the east. POISON LIQUOR VENDOR JAILED Los Angeles, Oct. 12.—()—Mor- ris Cohen, a 22-year-old junk dealer, was under sentence of life imprison- ment today for the murder of Hy- a ah aman tl h use of Poisoned liquor. Evidence brought out at the trial was to the effect that Cohen, to On rid of Friedman’s son who was his rival in love, poisoned a bottle of liquor and left it in his rival’s auto- mobil The elder Friedman found| 4 lis |the liquor, drank it and died. PANIC FOLLOWS | Athens, Greece, Oct. 12 (AP the Indians were| The city of Corinth was shaken a severe earthquake Gy edad amo! i ic Miotficial of the 7 fare brick, \ tinuing this afternoon. FRANK KEENAN WEDS — Denver, fe 3, = (AE) — Freak Keenan, 70, veteran stage screen actor, and Leah May, 39, his nf married RENDEZVOUS WITH CRIMINA Hil wR 4 Ep Le. B CORINTH QUAKE)§ GIVEN AL SMITH ON SOUTH TOUR Heeds Demands for Informal Speeches in Raleigh and Richmond apie SECTIONALISM DEFINED ‘We Are All the Same, No Mat- ter Where We Are to Be Found’ Governor Smith’s Train, ‘en Route to Nashville, Tenn. Oct. 12— @—O the enthusiasm of thousands of Virginians and North | the Carolinans who eted him with noisy demonstrations as his train cut through those normally Demo- cratic strongholds yesterday and last night, Governor Smith came into the border state of Tennessee today for another round of receptions and flying rear-platform campaigning. Before heading for Louisville, Ky., where tomorrow night he will de- liver the first formal address of his second campaign tour, the Demo- cratic presidential nominee faced a big reception in Chattanooga before noon, and another late today in Nashville. Between these two cities the governor’s special train was routed into northern Alabama for a brief stop or two. Touched by the warmth of his re- ception yesterday in Virginia and North Carolina, the nominee heeded demands for an informal speech in both Richmond and Raleigh, the two i ind used “Dixie” and i ks of New York,” which bands had played for him en route, as an illustration that sec- tionalism no longer existed in the United States. “We all belong to the one great family of states that make up the greatest nation in the world,” he told a large and demonstrative audi- ence in the Raleigh auditorium, “and we are all the same, no matter where we are to be found, provided we are still well-intentioned and we have ous minds on the single objective of wae is best for the greatest num- rr. Most of the Raleigh speech a repetition of his ii mond talk, made insic minion capitol building; crow ah de ag eye: BON ‘3 after being informed at the last minute that the New Yorker was to be officially welcomed to North Carolina there, was receptive from the moment Josephus Daniels in- troduced Governor Smith and Mrs. Smith until the nominee had. con- cluded his brief address. Introduced by the former secre- tary of the navy as the “next presi- dent of the United States,” the nom- inee brought his first big response when he made joint reference to the tunes of “Dixie” and “The Sidewalks of New York.” “And I am entirely satisfied from the cordial and, I might say, affec- tionate greeting of the people of this section of the south,” he said at one point, “that the two tunes can be blended together.” Autographs Brown Derbies Leaving the auditorium the nom- inee, at the heed of a long automo- bile procession, was taken through cheering crowds on a tour which led past the state capitol and three miles out of the city to a place called Method, where his special train had been switched during the hour and a half stay in the Tarheel state capi- tal. Here, before boarding the trai: the governor stood in his autom bile autographing collers students’ brown derbies and shaking hands with scores who climbed all over the car. Durham, Greensboro, Salisbury and Charlotte were greeted in the order gathering about the rear of the special train at each city and pushing and stampeding for a clasp of the New Yorker’s hand and for a better view of his new brown lerby. ‘At Greensboro Govefnor Smith de- trained for a brief automobile tour of the downtown section, wi thousands cheered him to the echo. He_made no speech there. Governor Norton of Tennessee, Senator McKellar, and the entire mocratic nal delegation from that state planned to board Democratic special at Chatta- today to welcome Governor Smith and to accompany him to the capital at Nashville, HANSBROUGH IS CK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1928 LAUNCHED HERE BY LA FOLLETTE Accomplishments of Congres- sional Farm Bloc Delineated in Address FARM BILL NOT CURE-ALL McNary-Haugen Bill, Pros- perity and Nicaraguan Is- sues Discussed Young Bob La Follette, the “Boy Senator,” was speeding westward this morning for campaign work in third northwest state in as many fter campaigning throughout esota for tor Shipstead, the ‘Wisconsin senator officially opened the’ Maddock-Frazier cam- paign here last night and today was scheduled to begin work in Montana in the behalf of Senator Wheeler. La Follette was introduced to a large auditorium audience by Cover- nor Walter Mad t candidate for the governorship. Members of both the Republican and Democratic parties were seated on the Lees from which La Follette spoke. The Wisconsin senator's talk was at future sessions. For many years, he said, the sive group has. Fick a e last nent aia the te represent farmer, and he declared that the bloc would continue to do so in future years. Taking up the McNary-Haugen bill, the speaker declared that the bill was one of the most misrepre- sented ever presented to congress. “The bill isn’t now and never was meant to be a ‘cure-all’ for the American farmer,” he said. “It was meant only to do all that it could for the welfare of the farmer. It was meant as a tariff that would protect the farmer on the surplus ee for sale on the world mar- ~ “When merchants have a surplus y:hand and the market is at its which immediate! loaded and the Speaking of tl bill, he said that a part oi plus would be purchased by the gov- ernment for sale, at a loss if neces- sary, in the world markets. This, he said, would keep the market here up to the high price set by the tariff, and insure the farmer the price of production and additional amount of the tariff as a reasonable amount of profit. Called Unconstitutional The bill has been fought on the grounds that it is unconstitutional, the speaker declared, adding that a hare of the bills introduced at every session of cone on same gro supreme court has upheld the bills _ ter they have been made into laws y congress. Taking up the au ed of the Ame! prosperity, speaker (Continued on Page Two) JOHN. CONMY 40 AND 8 HEAD North Dakota Lesionnaires Go to. Mexico to See Bull Fight San Antonio, Texas, Oct. 12—() —The. North Dakota delegation to here |the American Legion convention here is going to see a bullfight. After four or five days of fun and business, the delegation will cross the American-Mexican border early this afternoon, headed for Laredo, ‘where arrangements have been made to have them attend in a group the bullfight there. : The highlights for the North Da- kota delegation at the convention BRANDED “LIAR ’|-=*. SMARCK TRIBUNE BISMAR! Mr. and Mrs. Emsley F. Preslar, all to have caused the death of hus! , made use of his insurance ai 23 days after Bismarck Has First Snow as Chicago Goes Bathing | Graf Zeppelin Log | BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (Eastern Standard Time) 2:00 a. m.—Graf Zeppelin left Fried: mn, Germany. i .. m.—Passed over city of Constance. 3:33 a. m.—Passed over Fran-.. co-German frontier. 7:25 a. m.—Passed Lyons, France. 9:05 a. m.—Passed over Mon- telimar, France. + 10:30 a. m.—Passed over French coast and out over Med- iterranean at Ste. Marie Dela- mar. 1:50 p. m.—Passed over Bar- celona, Spain. 3:15 p. m.—Passed over Tar- ragona, Spain. 6:40 p. m.—Passed over Cas- tellon de la Plana, Spain. Midnight—Passed Gibraltar. Eeiay,. 2 at 80 miles off coast of Spanish Mor- oceo heading west. 6:17 a. m. (E. S. T.) sighted steamship Gloucester Castle about 150 miles northeast of the Island of Madeira. 7:54 a. m. eastern standard time motor vessel Dacomba sighted the Graf Zeppelin northeast of Madeira. 00 a. m. eastern standard time advices from the Azores state the Zeppelin passed over Madeira at that time. SMITH BLUFFS, NESTOS AYERS Al Sidesteps Stand on McNary- Haugen Bill, Former Gov- ernor Says over Glenwood, Minn., Oct. 12.—(P)— Governor Al Smith has stepped” his stand on the McNary- Haugen bill in every speech he has made, R. A. Nestos, former gover- nor of North Dakota, declared here last night, in a political speech in behalf of Herbert Hoover. Mr. Nestos discussesd the nation- al issues of the presidential election, comparing the abili Hoover and the New York governor. Mr. Hoover is more capable of handling the farm poblem than Al Smith because of the Republican moninen's background, Mr. Nestos said. Smith was reared in the City of New York, and educated principally by Tammany, and has been kept in Politics by that organization for 30 the former North Dakota Smith is better acquainted with the interests of the consumer than he is with the interests of the farm- er, according to Mr. Nes' He charged Smith is “making a bluff” ad understanding the farmer’s prob- ms. Los Angeles, Oct, 12 (AP) s Angeles, Oct. 12.— ra Johnny Hawkins, former captain and ick of the Universit; of Southern California footba! team, pleaded guilty to five counts of burglary and was sentenced to from & to 75 years. in San Quentin ictured here, are jointly charged with murder in the “poison powder” plots in North Carolina. The pair was Clo Held in Poison Plot | L. M. Lockamy, Mrs. Preslar’s first ind gone into another state to marry the funeral. East Gives West the Ha-Ha But the Weather Worm Is Turning King Winter shed his first flakes of snow on Bismarck shortly after 8 a.m. today, as pedestrians pulled their collars closer to their necks, autoists put alcohol in their radi- ators, and indoor workers sought spots of most comfort near radi- ators. But the flakes melted as they fell to the streets, lawns, and pavement, and they fell for only a short while. Cloudy but slightly warmer weath- er is promised the Bismarck district for tonight and Saturd: Lowest temperature last night was 28 de- grees, the temperature which was recorded at 8 a.m. today. That the cold spell is shifting from the northwest to the southeast of the continent is evidenced by the Ahat. Chi and. fact, Chicagoans. who went bathing yesterday under sun which brought the mercury into the vicinity of 90 degrees, were | donning their overcoats, gloves and mufflers this morning. Indian Summer Leaves Snowstorms yesterday ari this morning interrupted an Indian sum- | mer in North Dakota which was in- terspersed now and then with a real summer day. Snow, which fell in nearly every western state and which reached a depth of eight inches in places yes- terday, had turned to rain as the storm swept down across the high plains of western Kansas and Ne- braska. Snow held autoists up at Minot yesterday, and in other points in northwestern North Dakota. A six-weeks drought, which had affected the growth of winter wheat on the Kansas plateaus, was broken by the rain, and colder weather is promised for today. Snow fell all day at Great Falls, Mont., yesterday, and Helena re- ported a temperature of 28. Snow was general in Wyoming and the higher Colorado Rockies. Snow in Southwest Rain, which fell in Denver and other Colorado towns last night, ‘was expected to turn to snow today and spread into northern New Mex- ico. Logan, tah, and wire communica- tion was The Pacific though conditions there were unsettled. ’s laugh at the west yes- terday was cut short this morning with a warning of a coming drop in temperature for the week-end. Chi- cago had the hottest October 11 in 56 years, the mercury reaching 87.2. Chicago beaches bloomed with bath- ers as the October hot spell was be- ing broken in Nebraska and the gen- eral northwest by angry rain and snow storms. Hot weather has prevailed during the last few days over territory as far west as Nebraska and east to Pennsylvania. Cleveland, O., had its hottest October 11, with a tempera- ture of 86 degrees, only six degrees under the high mark for the year, while it was 90 at Sandusky, 0. | In Minnesota and Thief River ati inches of snow fell at}! The Weather udy to partly cloudy tonight and Saturday. Not quite so cold Sat. PRICE FIVE CENTS PASSES ISLAND SOUTH OF PATH FIRST PLANNED Water Jump of 3,700 Miles Separates Craft from Amer- ican Coast OCEAN STORM BREWING Eckener Pilots Bag Over Most Southerly Course, Then Re- traces Route London, Oct. 12—()—An Ex- change Telegraph dispatch from Paris late today said that advices had been received from Ponta Del- gada stating that the Graf Zeppe- lin passed the Azores this evening. No direct advices had been re- ceived from the Azores at 3:45 p. m., eastern standard time, reporting the passage of the Graf Zeppelin. The Azores are approximately 600 miles from Madeira, which the Graf Zep- pelin passed over at 8:30 a. m., east- ern standard time. With favorable winds the Zeppelin could cover the distance in eight hours at 75 miles and hour, but in view of the con- trary winds which the ship has been encountering this appears somewhat doubtful. (By The Associated Press) Far out over the Atlantic, the dirigible Graf Zeppelin was west of the Island of Madeira this after- noon and headed for the United States over a southerly course that probably will carry her past Ber- muda. Thirty and a half hours out of Friedrichshafen, the huge air liner passed over the city of Funchal on the Island of Madeira with a good 3,000 miles to travel before hitting the American coast. At 10:30 a. m. eastern standard time the steamship Euclid reported the Graf Zeppelin about 60 miles west of Madeira. After passing Gibraltar early this morning, the big ship which had planned to head for the Azores, be- to swing southward ‘to: ‘avoid strong headwinds and Dr. Eckenor notified the Zeppelin station at Friedrichshafen that he planned t» strike Lakehurst, N. J., by way of Bermuda, Steamship Euclid, (west of Ma- deira) Oct. 12—(By Wireless to the Associated Press). The Graf Zeppelin passed over this steamship at 3:30 p. m., 10:30 a, m., eastern standard time, in lati- tude 32.38 northern and longitude 17.30 west. She was steering west-northwest and making good speed as she went by. Weather fine, wind light from the west-southwest, Visibility good. New York, Oct. 12.—(?)—Graf Zeppelin, first transatlantic ai today was out over the Atlanti nose pointed to the United States on a 3,700-mile jump across the water, after a trip of 1,200 miles mostly over land. _ Expectations at the ship’s des- tination, the United States naval air station at Lakehurst, N. J., are that she will arrive Sunday noo Four years ago today another giant, the Los Angeles, left Fried- richshafen, Germany, and was off the southeast coast of Nova Scotia at midnight on October 14, 1924, but as a more southerly route fall might be either the Massachu- setts islands of Nantucket or Mar- tha’s Vineyard, or the Long Island shore, some time Sunday. Passengers today had their first experience at breakfasting in the air—unless they were too airsick to eat. The menu was coffee, tea, bread, butter, and eggs or sausage. The 20 persons lucky enough to obtain passage on the air liner, some of them at a fare of $3,000, viewed from the air the lights of cities on the Spanish Mediterranean coast as the airship passed over them during the early hours of the night at a speed of about 50 miles an hour. They slept in the 10 cabins which line the gangway of the ship, five on each side. Each cabin was equipped with two berths, the upper one being a hammock. Aboard the largest dirigible are 60 persons in all, the greatest number Falls reported the lowest temper- ature this morning, the mercury dropping two points below freezing, while Bemidji reported a tempera- ture of 31. It was raining in most peeire of ponerse Biinseects this morning, with temperatures ranging between 35 and 65 above, “Albert prison. (Continued on page two) CHICAGO MAN COULDN'T HEAR BUZZER BLAST; HE WAS DEAD Chicago, Oct. 12.—()—The buzz- er in John Havelka’s apartment ity. He pushed the doorbell button at Havelka’s apartment. The elec- tric spark leaped in the buzzer, niting the gas which filled the s: kitchenette. A side of the Windows near by were shattered. Twenty tenants rushed in alarm to the street in their night clothing. In a trunk police found this note in Havelka’s hand, addressed to’ his wife, a sium instructor in St. lo. “Permit these posies,” it said, “to say that I love when I am not Your husi Jack.” ever to cross the Atlantic by ai When the R-34 flew from East Fo: tune, Scotland, to Mineola, N. Y., in 1919 she carried a crew of 29, and (Continued on page two) GOPHERS ARE JUBILANT inneapolis, Oct. 12.— (4) — Ed Westphal, fullback candidate on University of Minnesota~ football squad, successfully overcame scholastic difficulties and was de- clared eligible for the team. 2g . ood I PRO IAT. 2 i LG PLEO LETTER SE GEESE SAB EREC ELEC LIES OEE