The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 30, 1928, Page 1

NORTH DAKOTA’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED 1873 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 80, 1928 The Weather Generally fair tonight and Wednes- day. SI = ightly colder. PRICE FIVE CENTS CANE RUSHING ZEPPELIN OVER ATLANTI —— 18 Witnesses Testify Before Jury Probing Fatal Shooting BITTER COURT BATTLE PENDS _ FROWN HEARING Funeral Services for Oliver Webb to Be Held Wednes- day Morning MURDER CHARGE FILED Efforts to Secure Lower Bail Bond for Ray Potter’s Re- lease Fail That Oliver Webb came to his death early Sunday morning “frem gunshot shat apparently from a gun discharged is ce wach Sea by a coro- ner’s jury yes' jay. The jury’s statement came after it had listened to hrc f 18 witnesses. Testimony offer hearing was generally believed presage a bitterly fought trial if the case comes before the district court, which will convene in December. Funeral services for Oliver Webb have been definitely set for 9 a. m. tomorrow at the St. ee Pro- cathedral. Father John Slag will conduct the services and burial. will! be made in St. Mary’s cemetery. Pallbearers, selected from amor his former associates, follow: Pat Halloran, Paul Homan, James Walsh, Charles McGarvey, Thomas Burke, and Joe Sheehan. | Decision to waive a preliminary! heen viewed hearing wat reached last night after the inquest by the defendant's at- torneys. Potter is in jail charged with first degree murder, the charge having been filed by State’s Atto ney F. E. McCurdy, Rébert Webb, a cousin of the dead man, and Coroner} 1. Gol he If the preliminary hearing is waived according to plans, the case will be referred to the grand jury| which conven:s again Nov. 13. Mc-: Curdy is certain that the jury will indict Potter and that the case will probably be set for trial in Burleigh) country district court. Ray Potter, who has been a re#i- y one Ray Potter,”| has WAGE INCREASE FOR TRAIN MEN}* “RECOMMENDED Arbitration Board Proposes Two Solutions to Railroad Controversy , TWO INCREASES OFFERED 6 1-2 Per Cent Without Rule/>e Change or 7 1-2 With Rule Elimination Washington, Oct. 30—(AP)—The emergency board appointed by Presi- dent Coolidge to investigate the wage dispute on western railroads recommended a 6 1-2 per cent in- crease in wage: ithout chal of tules, or alternatively. A 7 1-2 per cent increase if certain rules are eliminated. Further, the arbitration board pro- posed whichever alternative the railroads and train service unions cept should be put into effect re- troactively, and the terms made to ly as of May 1, 1928, a date on the controversy developed. The solution of the controversy suggested dealt with the discussion of complicated rules Pedic the applicatiop of wage scales hitherto agreed upon between the brother- hoods and the railroads. These have long blocked a settlement of the con- troversy. A number of these rules, upheld by the brotherhoods, have n by railroad executives as unnecessarily hampering the ef- ficiency of railroad service. . In_ consequence the arbitration board suggested that conductors and trainmen take either the 6% per cent increase in wages, keeping the present form of contract and rules, or that they obtain a 7% per cent increase, conceding certain altera- tions in the standard rules. Specif- ically, the board mentioned the elim- ination 'of the present rule affecting the operation of trairs with double- header engines, and the elimination dent of Bismarck for about eight Addit years, is 30 years old. He has employed as a salesman in the Webb Brothers department store - about two years. ¢ Mr. and Mrs. Potter have three Henry, 17, sophomore in Bis- k high school; , 15, also sophomore in Bismarck high school; and Elwyn, 11, in the sixth grade. x Efforts to have Fred Jansonius, district court judge, fix a low bond for Potter failed yesterda: Jansonius said th come before the district court, tech- nically, unt‘l after the proceedings are completed in tice court, and that he would review the testimony given to the coroner’s jury before he decided whether or not Potter would be released on bonds and what the bonds should be. Relatives Arrange Bonds H. L. Barchenger, Center, and H. R. Ringoen, New ‘Salem, brothers-in- law of the defendant, were here to arrange for bonds but Jansonius in- formed them that it might be a week before he would be prepared to make his decision. Testimony offered at the hearing] iterday tended to show that Potter ired the shot from which Webb died. In addition, Coroner Gobel said, Pot- ter admitted to the father of the slain man, in a conversation Sunday, morning, that he had shot young Webb but that he did not know why. ting been an that Mrs, Potter made a stetement’ to the same effect. In addition, State’s Peat F, E. McCurdy said, ys Webb told his father that the rade rules, affecting the operation ‘of trains where additional locomotives are attached to “boost” trains over short stretches, arid where the num- ber of cars are limited. Under the railroad labor board procedure, the arbitration report made to Pri tt Coolidge must’ be considered by both the carriers brotherhoods during a period of 30 days. Either side may iegally pro- 1» CASE accept the find- erences will fe ccepanaly CASPER POLICE ARREST WALLA Alleged Bismarck Embezzler Traced Through Attempt to Sell Land Eugene Merritt Walla, wanted here to face a charge of embezszii: $8,308.52 from the Patterson hotel W Siar ia tetanus eee! ss ACO! forma’ iv- en’ by ‘Sheriff Rollin Welch oe Meare De PREROranE: ONE BE: tOE he: vatterson swore out a warrant for the arrest of the man Ott. 20, when and] the sheriff failed to locate Walla at shooting had been accidental. Webb} da; died without amplifying this state- ment and Potter has said nothing statement to a local news- except. (Continued on Page Two) JOE ROBINSON Decatur, Ill., Oct. 30—(/)—The Minois political situation was scruti. nized by itor. Joe T.- Robi: today in ration for his second day of which was to Tilinois cam 1g i take him as south as East St. Louis betore sug bidet i. attempting to sell what land owned here to the company in Chey- enne, Wyo. 8 Little information about how. secured A i PRS eee LUN eereee Omer ce ey ; Smith’s Muster 10 | | Votes to Hoover 5 | steerer nana es SOMERS Washington, Oct. 30.— (#) —The Alfred E. Smith family can outvote the Herbert Hoover family two to one next Tuesday, there are 10 of voting age in the immediate fam- ily of Democratic presidential candida’ ind only five in that of the Republican nominee. Besides the governor and Mrs. Smith there are two sons and their wives and two daughters and their husbands who can cast their ballots. In addition to Mr. and Mrs. Hoover there are two sons, both of voting ase, ad the wife of one son, Her- ir. ‘All five of thé Hoovers will vote will have to separate, some of them voting outside of New York City. MELLON ASKS FOR BUSINESS SENSE IN VOTE Urges Electorate to Choose Man Capable of Running ‘Greatest Business’ Washington, Oct. 30.—(AP)— Secretary Mellon last night asked the electorate to apply business prin- ciples to its choice of a president and, if it approves of the adminis- tration of President Coolidge and the Republican’ party, continue that party in power. “In my own business experience,” he said in an address which was broadcast by radio, “when a man- agement gave me a satisfactory bal- ance sheet at the end of the year,| (i, showing a reduction in overhead, a decrease in indebtedness and at the same time an increase in dividends, I would be unwilling to see.a change in management.” Decla: ment to be “the greatest business enterprise in the world,” ard infin- itely complex in its effect upon its individual. citizens and in ‘its rela- tions that what he termed “those great economic forces by which the average man’s welfare is tly af- fected,” the secretary said. that at the head of ‘such # “business” he wanted to see “a maa of ability, who is thoroughly. familiar with all of and |its phases,” one. who “understands these it economic forces - with which he must deal” and who has a feeling and sympathy for the condi- tions under which the average man and woman must live. “Herbert Hoover measures up to these qualifications,” he said. “The government will be safe in his hands. As a Republican and an American I shall support him and vote for him because I believe his election will do the most for the progress and prosperity of the country and for the larger welfare of the world.” Mr. Mellon asserted that the Re- publica: “has kept abreast of the tim has been meet new conditions as they arose,” but that “each forward step” has been tested “by the light economic principles and of lished American traditions.” Chicago Man Killed Before Hundreds at Roller Skating Rink Chicago, Oct. 80.— (4) — Several hundred spectators at a marathon roller skating contest early toda; saw William Marzano, 23 years old, shot to death, and were herded into’ 5 ee of patrol wagons as witnesses the-American govern- ti FARM RELIEF 18 HOOVER'S TOPIC IN LAST SPEECH Advisers Think Nominee Will Go Into Complete Detail of Plans TO ELABORATE FORMULA Greater Tariff Protection and Satisfactory Marketing Sys- : tem Seen Washington, Oct. 30.—(?)—Aside from his speech of acceptance per- haps no address Herbert Hoover has made in this campaign has aroused keener advance interest than the one he will deliver next Friday night at St. Louis, Dealing almost entirely with farm relief, the speech not only will be the last word of the Republican nominee before election day on this outstanding issue, but it is likely to iat the pattern after shoe ne rst message to congress eleti) re he is successful in his quest of the presidency. * While the contents of the address are being closely guarded, it is be- lieved that Hoover has followed the suggestions of his adivsers to dis- cuss in rather complete detail the manner in which he believes his formula for farm aid will work out and elaborate upon the various quotations in that formula. To Discuss Board In his acceptance speech, the Re- publican standard bearer put the tariff first in his discussion of the agricultural question but advices re- ceived here indicated that his pro- posal for a farm board to handle with federal finan- has cted the more widespread intere: corn and wheat belts. Greater tariff protection and a Measure establishing a more satis- factory. marketing system _uire coupled with the farm board and the the three months session of congress which will begin on December 3. Session Promised Especially would this be so if ad- vocates of the McNary-Haugen bill should renew their efforts on behalf | ho of that legislation, which twice has been vetoed by President Coolidge. Herbert Hoover has stated that if congress fails to act this session and if the voters continue the Re- publican y in control of the gov- ernment will call an extra ses- sion of the seventy-first congress. Hoover planned to finish his St. Louis speech today and to resume work on the three others he will de- liver as he swings through the bor- der states of Maryland, West Vir- ginia, Kentucky and Missouri and on across Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Ne- vada, and California. =| STICKUP’ MEN RIFLE STATION Filling Station Is Held Up and Robbed Second Time in Six Weeks “Stick ‘em. up and open that sate!” is ‘i . And A. C. Kelly, attendant of the Standard Oil filling station at Main avenue and First street, obeyed the command at the point of a pistol at 8:45 o'clock last night. Two men, both armed, then rifled the safe of all its cash, believed to be between $25 and $30. Leaving the fil station, one of the rob- bers ‘a shot into the wall of the Marzano paling, presumably to frighten “One ‘of the men, whom Kelly claims he has seen several times, accosted him. Kelly did not obey un- til the command was given a second an amateur: at the ¢ ” Kelly stated. The leaving, erin sal seanity: fot fisck from sppersnlt for behis ‘elly | Didn’t Like School | So Boy Runs Away | —- ° Because he didn’t want to go to school, Charles William Russell to- it ee by police and in a half-dozen Northwest Mid-western states. The boy disappeared from his’ home at Stanton, North Dakota, Oct- ober 22, was seen at Dickinson, an ‘was known to have stopped at Man- dan. He is traveling by train, work- is way westward, it is said. is described as being about five feet tall, weighing about 100 Ltn with jock of light hair. ther features are rosey checks and a broad nose, His face is marked ne a prominent scar on the right, side of his chin. ¥ Search for the lad is Henid pushed by Miss Myrtle Russel, 411 Fifth street, Bismarck, and police officials urge anyone seeing or hearing of the lad to communicate immediately with either the police headquarters here or with Miss Russell. hen the boy returns home, mem- bers of the family, said he will not be punished and every effort will be made to help him. THRILL KILLERS SEEK DARROW'S AID FOR TRIALS College Students Jointly In- dicted for Two Murders; Sued for $150,000 Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 30.—(AP)— Hardly 72 hours after their arrest George Harsh and Richard Gallogly, érstwhile college students, were un- der joint indictment today, charging murder in two holdups and faced damage suits asking a total of $150,- three weeks career of crime. during which seven robberies were’ staged, put-police said - they had enough evidence without asking robbery indictments. Meanwhile the\ wealthy relative: of the two youths, through attorney: announced that they were consider- ing plans to retain Clarence Darrow, Chi criminal attorney, to join the defense. No uest for his services had been made last night, ywever. Mrs. Mary Belle Smith, 19 year old widow .2 Willard A. Smith, drug store manager who was fatally wounded in a holdup on October 16, filed suit for $100,000 inst. the pny citing the confession y Harsh, V. Ellis, manager of the chain store in which E. H. Meeks was fa- tally shot on October 6, oie a holdup, asked $50,000 in a suit. Ellis was wounded during the robbery. Indictments were sought before a special session of Pultons grand jury t fice of solicitor General John A. in announced sudden action im- perative because of the “reluctance of certain witnesses to testify.” The office indiccted that the prominence the youth’s families apparently, was partially responsible. jarsh is the son of a late Milwaukee Shoe manufacturer and Gallogly a mem- ber of a wealthy Atlanta family. Halvorson Condemns Maddock’s Nomination by Democratic Party}; Cavalier, N. D., Oct. 30—(AP)— Halvor Halverson, Minot, Democratic candidate for governor in 1924, last night spoke in behalf of George F. Shafer, the\Republican gubernatorial candidate. Halverson condemned the nomina- tion of Governor Walter Maddock by the Democratic party as the work of a “little group of opportunists who had been willing to seneencine Smith’s chances to carry kota for the sake of an unholy al- liance with the Townley oil crowd,” of the Non isan League. “To ask the Democrats to support such a candidate as Maddock is an out ” he continued. “Maddock was as lieutenant governor as a Republican on two occasions and headed the state delegation to the Repub convention at Kansas SMITH CHARGES KLAN AND DRYS ARE GOP TOOLS Contends Republican Leaders ‘Wiggle and Wobble’ on Prohibition SPEAKS ON INTOLERANCE Says Democrats Stand for ‘Progressive’ Treatment of Questions Governor Smith’s Train en Route to New York, Oct. 30.—(#)—Home- ward bound after a flying campaign visit to Maryland, Governor Smith was on record today with the blunt charge that the Anti-Saloon league and the Ku Klux Klan were forces working hand-in-hand with the Re- publican party to bring about his defeat. Addressing one of the most de- monstrative and colorful audiences of his presidential drive in the Fifth regiment armory Baltimore last night, the Democratic presidential nominee vigorously sailed ~ the league and the klan and contended that Republican leaders, including Herbert Hoover, were “wiggling and wobbling” on the question of pro- hibition because their party was “held right down to ea! by the power and the influences of the forces of intolerance.” Speaking in the same building where Woodrow Wilson was nom- inated 16 years ago, and with the war president’s widow on the plat- form, the governor devoted a large part of his speech to the argument that the Republican party stood for “the old order of things” and stand- patism, pposed to the Democratic stand for “progressive” treatment of the big questions facing the country. Foreign policy, waterpower, the tariff, government reorganiza- tion—all were dealt with in detail before prohibition and intolerance were reached. Hits Anti-Saloon League _ The Anti-Saloon league, the nom- inee charged, kad flooded the country with propaganda “in an effort to make God-fearing men and women believe that the eighteenth amend- ment and the dogmas of religion.” “No church that I ever heard of, no church that you ever heard of,” the governor asserted amid loud ap- plause, “attempted to make the eighteenth amendment or the Vol- stead act an act of faith.” “What is it?” he continued. “It is nothing more or less than legis- lation passed in the stress of war and lobpied through the congress by the browbeating methods of the Anti-Saloon league.” Says Norris Attacked Senator Norris epublican in pendent of Nebr: » Who, in a speech Saturday night announced is support of Governor Smith, was id by the nominee to have received a “cold-blooded threat” from the Anti-Saloon league, declaring it would withdraw its support of the Nebraskan if he made that speech. Referring to “that gallant band of patriots known as the Ku Klux Klan,” the governor said: “I never hear the words without having the thought flashed across my mind, what must the American people think after the countless billions of dollars they have poured into the cost of education, to see reared up in a country like ours an organiza- tion calling itself 100 pe cent Amer- ican without the slightest notion of American ideals or American prin- ciples?” A roar of applause swept the flag-wavin, nds that jammed into the armory, ‘overnor said there is abun- evidence that the klan is re- ceiving “a good deal of encoura: ment from some Republican leaders. Alleges Klan Approved Reading from a Long Branch, N. J., newspaper, which said ad- vertised a klan meeting “in conju: tion with the Republican national committee, the nominee said a Re- publican leader of that state was sieationed about it in an effort to letermine whether committee plans were submitted to him for approval when they concerned New Jersey. The local leader’s reply, the gov- ernor added, was: “They are sup- to be, but they have gotten us in trouble before. Once or twice they have gone over our heads on this religious question. I know nothing about this (klan) meeting.” The nominee brought applause when he said he would “sooner go down to ignominious defeat than to be elected to any office in this » if to accomplish it I had to ipport of any group with rted ideas of American- Volstead’s Daughter to Marry Alaska Man paper-throwing thou-|- SS Waited in Vain | | cS When Lieutenant Commander H. C, McoDnald hopped off from New- foundland in a tiny plane, bent on flying home to London, his wife and son, Ian, pictured here, kept a long and hopeful vigil. Ian is shown call ing a wireless station for news of his flying father. But the only reports indicated that another name had been added to Spl of ocean trage- ies. LOCAL SPIRITS COMMENDED BY ARMY GENERAL ISHIP REPORTED 620 MILES OFF CANADIAN GAPE Gale Howls Behind Craft a3 It Heads for Lake Constance Hangar / WILL ARRIVE WEDNESDAY Friedrichshafen Prepares Gigantic Welcome for Eckener and Crew (By The Associated Press) Bucking a moderate southeast gale, the dirigible Graf Zeppelin was a nae to bee born over the North lantic on her homeward. journe to Friedrichshafen. : ed The exact position of the bend airliner, which ig completii first round trip commercial air voyage, was not entirely clear. There was no doubt, however, that she was flying = northerly route along the normal steamship lanes with the possibility that ae was heading slightly southward. Although her exact position was obscure because of the lack of posi- tive message from here, there was direct word that everything aboard was “O. K.” 600 Miles Out The best available information in- dicated that the Graf Zeppelin was approximately 600 miles somewhere east or northeast of Cape Race. _At noon, Greenwich meridian time, the steamship Mauretania, westward bound, was in communica- tion with the dirigible. The Mau- retania was then about 500 miles directly east of Cape Race, New- foundland. So clear were the Graf Zeppelin’s signals that the rr of the steamship estimated that the air liner could not be more than fifty miles to the north. taeieed hours later, however, the auretania sent a dispatch givii the “authentic position” of the Gat Zeppelin at 7 a. m. eastern standard time as 52.30 north and 40.80. west. This position placed the dirigible about 620 miles northeast of ice, ss War Bonnet Received «from Ra Sioux Chief Gets Attention of Summerall Volstead act are}. Bismarck won its way into the heart of the leading hand of the United States army yesterday, it is shown by remarks made by Major General Charles Pelot ' Summerall just before he departed for Fort Snelling, Minnesota, last night. The stop at Bismarck has un- doubtedly been the most happy one of the tour the general has been making, he said at the depot last night. He especially expressed gratitude for the way in which he had been welcomed by citizens of both Bis- marck and Mandan. A final effort of the arrangement committee in charge of the general’s welcome— placing of several roasted ducks on the train—also brought favorable comment from the gener: The war bonnet placed on General Summerall’s brow when he was of- ficially taken itno the Sioux nation and named “High Star” by Red Tomahawk, chief of the tribe, re- ceived especial attention from the general just before the general de- parted for Minnesota. As final arrangements were being made for his departure a lieutenant took the bonnet from its place on the table and placed it in a trunk with other objects the general wished to take back to Washington with him. “No, sir,” the general said as he Off South Labrador Messages tending to confirm this also were received in Friedrich. shafen, but officials there hesitant to accept this norther: sition which would place ‘the uir liner in the latitude of Southern Labrador as entirely correct. _ The messages received at Frivd- richshafen said that the ship was proceeding in a northeasterly direr- tion which should carry her along the true great circle followed by Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh on his historic New York to Paris flight last year. Other advices received in Ger- many placed the airship somewhat to the south of the great circle on an easterly course that would carry her toward central France. London, Oct. 30.—{AP)—The steamship Mauretania pin ory ‘the Position of the Graf Zeppelin at 12 noon Greenwich meridian time (7 a. m, eastern standard time) as 52.30 north and 40.30 west. ihe sieaange Pisred the pg Zep- 1 approximat same longitude but far nore. of the posi- tion which the Mauretania had indi- cated in an earlier message. The -corrected position indicated rong ine Graf Lar —_ about miles northwest ot Race, NOSE aot ee dee 01 radio i picked up both messages from the lauretania. The second: message was received at 3:01, Greenwich meridian time, and read: 12 “Authentic position of rf *) time) 52.30 no. 40.30 west, . K. on board?” iat G. M, T. (7 a. m. eastern had the head decoration taken from] 0, K. the trunk. “We'll take no chances on that being lost. That headpiece is one of the most prized objects I have been given since I began this trip.” As a service man, the general also expressed gratification on the way he had been welcomed by the Ameri- can legion drum and bugle corps. Fort Lincoln has made satisfactory progress in the time since it was re- organized, Major General Summerall declared, after a thorough inspection of the barracks, soldiers and train- ing fields. e general was taken for a tri about fe. fort by a group, of Bis. marck citizens and officials of the fort, and afterwards was taken to the firing ranges and Haining Seles, The group accompanying the gen- eral included M. B. Gilman, Adjutant General Frazier; Major Harold Sor- enson, and all officers of the fort. While touring the fort it) was Pointed out to the general that a new Speccpriation will soon be needed to care for the increasing activities at the fort. The present plot contains 600 acres, and recent development of training fields and firing range: have been such that activities are “It was fued at 8 p.m. Greenwich time, Berlin, Oct. 30—()— storm areas but aided by strong (Continued on page two) NEW CHURCH T0 COST $60,000 Trinity English Lutheran: Edifice Will Be Ready for Use Next Summer Announcement that a },000 brick edifice will be srested be toe Trinity English Lutheran congrega- day by F.C, Frits, Blmareh chal he board of trus crowded, officers at the fort told | will be ready the general. The general first visited the fort | 0°, at 11:15 Poletti 9 Rea a hono: by the local avie and hee sociation, and