The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 31, 1928, Page 1

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1928 The Weather Partly cl tonight and Thursdar. ryt change, PRICE FIVE CENTS | Yum Yum! Nize Grapes, Nize Girls TURMOIL SEEN IR SMITH WINS HUGHES AVERS Declares Governor Is Fighting ‘Sham Battle’ Over Pro- ; hibition ASKS CERTAIN QUESTIONS Hoover ‘Is Best Qualified to Assume Greatest Office in the Work?’ Worcester, Mass., Oct, 31—(7)— Charles E. Hughes told an audience here last night that he believed Gov- ernor Smith’s election would lead to “far greater demoralization than we have had” in the enforcement of prohibition. Answering a question put to him by Governor Smith in a_ recent speech as to whether he (Hughes) was satisfied with present condi tions under prohibition, he sai “Most decidedly—no. But I must add that I do not wish to see matters made worse, and I believe that would be the result of his election.” No Adequate Test “Governor Smith might raise his hand to heaven and swear that he trying to enforce the prohibition law,” he continued, “but country would not accept any performances by his administration as an test. Without questioning his sin- f cerity—although I do not believe * he thinks he would enforce the law— I am quite confident the country would never accept enforcement by & wet as a test of prohibition.” Mr. Hughes reiterated that Gov- ernor Smith was fighting a “sham battle” over prohibition. “If it is not a sham battle over prohibition, why is Governor Smith not asking the people to elect a congress favorable to his liquor pro- 1m? Why does he state that the mocratic candidates for congress eee to run as drys if they see it?” Asks Smith Questions Turning to farm relief and water- power, Mr. Hughes said that he had asked Governor Smith “certain def- inite questions,” to which he had not heard an answer: “Is Governor Smith for the im- position of the equalization fee by the government 2?” the building by the ie building transmission tines arid distributing: vlectrical power?” , Mr. Hughes stirred his audience to cheers when he declared his be- lief that the Republican nominee “is the man best qualified to assume the seepreeils 8 cma Maja the exacting requirements great- est office in the world.” STICKUP’ MEN ADIT ROBBERY, Two Who Raided Standard Oil Station Arrested; Both a Confess .Two men who were ineson, po- Both men declare that the firing’ of the shot into the filling station was accidental. the confessions White drove the automobile and Car- roll walked away. had sevowed the ai Chi with first degree murder in ihe death of Mrs. Genevieve Stultz, pretty eae divorcee of South Bend, Ind, Harvey L. Smith, private detective and side jow barker, here is pictured after his arrest in Atlanta. Mrs. Stultz is reported to have been the sweet- heart of Charles Reyher, real estate broker, whose wife is . alleged to have hired Smith to get her rival out of the city. The Reyhers also were held on the murder charge. =| PHILADELPHIA TO FORM NEW POLICE FORGE Greatest Shakeup in American Municipal Protection Follows Graft Probe formation of nearly an entirely new force, is planned .by. Mayor Harry Mackey in an.effort to rid the ” led by Smith: in favor of |" gtand jury, yor nounced today that he had worked out plans for a complete reorgani- zation of the bureau of police. The reorganization ll include a revision of the boundary lines of lice districts. so that they no nger will correspond with the borders neler iga! Bice pins pe sug yy the grand jury an Mr. Mackey said he was convinced it would be one of the most effec- tive moves in divorcing the police ‘from politics. Mayor Mackey’s . plan contem- lates the dismissal of every mem- every posed by the investigation, y|but whose record shows derelicti attendant loss of . Pap istrict A Me the page Ai ponte its investigation cused policemen were as deeply SHITH MAKES LAST FOREIGN TALK TONIGHT Al Believes Chances Good for Bagging 59 Electoral Votes : Near Home WILL UPSET PRECEDENT Newark Address Will Probably Deal With Labor Imitating Hoover - New York, Oct. 81.—(#)—Gov- ernor Smith will carry his fight for the presidency outside the borders of his home state for the tonight, when he motors Jersey for a h at Newark, a city only fecently evacuated by his Republican opponent. poe | to his headquarters here immediately after the address, the Democratic presidential nominee will spend tomorrow in preparation for his twin effort to swing New York into line with speeches in Brooklyn and this city Friday and Saturday. Fifty-nine votes in the electoral college are at stake in New Jersey d its neighbor state of New York, and Governor Smith believes his chances are lor bagging them all, despite fact that aa once in the last eight quadrennial elec- tions have they been found in the Democratic column. This was in the tri-cornered race of 1912, when Wil- son ca! both states. What the Democratic nominee will choose for his text tonight in New- ark not been announced from the Smith camp today. sidered likely, howeve: would devote a good portion of the speech to an appeal to the laboring lanes; inasmuch as Herbert Hoo- ver chose this topic for his Newark address. Whether Governor Smith will stick to his original plan to wind up his speaking campaign in Madison Square Garden Saturday night, or It was con- ir, . thi consent to make a final radio appeal |‘ to the electorate Monday night, is a subject of much discussion around headquarters here. CRANELEAVES 10 GET WALLA Alleged Hotel: Embeazier Waives Extradition Hear- ing in Wyoming Deputy Sheriff. Roland H. Crane left last Binh for: Casper, Wyo., where he will take charge of Eu; Merritt Walla, wanted: here to face a charge of embezzling $8,308.52 from the Patterson hotel, and bring him back to Bismarck. Walla was arrested Monday at Casper by G. O. Housley, sheriff of | that Natrona county. Housley immedi- ately notified Sheriff Rollin Welch and agreed to hold Walla for Bur- leigh county officials. Walla has agreed to waive extradition ceedings, according to Housley, but he requested 10 days to finish busi- ness in the Wyoming city. Learning that Wall was in Wy- of | oming, local officials wired the Wy- lookout oming sheriff to be on the describing th volved 95 Shey. et. with Boatiag: | Bs RUETER HEADS ‘NEW LIONS DEN Mott Service Club Holds First Official Meeting With 30 Members meeting of club night.. The club has membe: of lcution and SF. Madden. was chosen first| marck. president: Leo Bannon, second. 0 president; orn 'G. Hr Bounds, We J Glenney 8) jored by marck It was organized Slater, field directa of Lions Dr. John W. Ham, Atlanta, OT contuck a eiecial varies ras Hageeerek Ht fhe s 26 and contin Denar ibn tas ceensoed am Thousands of carloads of California grapes have been auctioned during the last few days in the railway yards adjacent to New York City. In the photo, Misses Helen Hullan and Margaret Fallon of Newark are about to sample California’s offerings, Most of the grapes were destined for home wine presses. Girl Tortured Self With Fire for Love, She Says he! Tells Weird Tale of Testing Faith and Purity in Furnace Flames Lake Bluff, Ill., Oct. 31.— (4) — Self-torture by fire to prove her faith in a “spirit love” advanced oday to explain the strange case of Elfrieda Knaak, 30 - year - old Sunday school teacher and book agent. It was a weird, uncanny explana- tion, full of hol Deg eitle oer ed po! it it came from’ the fi Knaak herself, lying near death from burns mysteriously inflicted in the basement of the Lake Bluff i station sometime Monday night. Physicans were unconvinced. “To believe her story,” said Dr. A. J. Risinger, attending her, “you would have to believe these facts: Facts Disprove Story “That she first placed one foot, then the other, in the furnace and kept them there for some little 3 that she thrust head and arms and held them there under what certainly must have been terrific The fire box is only 12% by “It does not seem possible that a person, even in a trance, could do t. Muscular reactions alone would cause her to jump back from the flames.” The name of Charles W. Hitch- cock, 45 years old, married and the Pro-| father of four children, was brought into the case by Miss Knaak who during the night srequauy. cried out: “Hitch, oh, Hitch! Why don’t you come to me?” “Who did this?” said the state’s attorney, bending over the girl’s cot. “I did it myself, for faith, for rity,” was the response. At in- terval, the officers” obtained her si . Knew Teacher 4 Years sal stu elo- peri eee in classes conducts here. “I had an appointment with him Monday night. He did not keep it. (Hitchcok, who besides being a ‘teacher is night policeman of Lake Bluff, has been confined to his home with a broken leg for a week.) burned myself. “I survived. I proved my faith, and I'll live. Be sure of this: I knew I would survive.” leg in a cast, was ‘p the girl’s story. “Poor girl, if she had a crush on bare I certainly didn’t know it,” he said. Chris“ Louis, village employe, re- lated how he found the girl. Saw Nude Form He said he was not employed reg- ularly to stoke the furnace in the basement, but that yesterday morn- Chief of~ Poll him to do-so. ‘The chief usu- the basement about half way when he saw a nude form reeling Rosenhagen | the good SPOOKS HOLD HIGH CARNIVAL IN CITY Ghosts will walk, goblins, gnomes, pixies and elves will wander abroad this evening, for this is their night of nights, Halloween. A Harvest moon rides high these nights, and elongated shadows will cross the paths of the timid and re- mind them to hustle home before they find themselves carried off on a witch’s broomstick. However, Halloween has under- gone a reformation. Soaping win- dows, ringing doorbells and a few brave little boys wearing grotesque masks are the only breaks in the autumnal celebration which was once looked upon as the annual; reign of terror. “Halloween pranks in the early days aren't fit to print,” John Peter- son of the Grand Pacific hotel said today in recalling past celebrations. “The town youths went out in gangs on Halloween night. Fences and gates, which kept cattle out of the yards, were totally destroyed, and everyone found somebody else’s gate on his front porch. I remember one Halloween,” Mr. Peterson said, “when a crowd of the boys took possession of a switch engine and ran it down the track.” “My early recollection .of Hal- loween,” Burt Finney told a reporter today, “included ‘no school’ on the following morning. Wagons, lawn benches and machinery were piled up in front HS the schoolhouse Ao0ra, erything from a pocket er- chief to a lawn mower was tied to the flag poles.” William Harris recalls one event see "th toe. delowien ‘mareiee nig! oll morning church members found beer kegs artistically on the church steeples. - HOOVER LEADS PARTY FORCES AS DRIVE ENDS Will Retain Personal Charge of Campaign Until Poll March Starts TURNS WEST TOMORROW Will Deliver Major Speech of Battle at St. Louis Friday Night Washington, Oct. 31.—(AP) —A_ prediction of Republican victory was made today by Her- bert Hoover in his final confer- ence with Washington newspa- per men. “We shall win this election without any question of doubt if the people who believe with us will go to the polls,” he said. Washington, Oct. 31.—()—An- other oddity will take its place in this campaign of oddities late this week when the Republican high command directs the: party’s vast field forces from general headquar- ters on a swiftly moving special train carrying Herbert Hoover to his California home. Since the day of his nomination, the Republican candidate has had personal charge of the conduct of his fight for the presidency, and so it will be until the last shot has been fired and the army of voters begins to march upon the polling places. The Republican standard bearer also will be firing some solid shot himself. He will deliver a major speech at St. Louis Friday night, and also speak at noon that day and on Thursday and Saturday nights. His range will cover a field from Maryland to Colorado while his Democratic opponent is active in and around New York City. Besides his political advisers, Hoover will be accompanied by Mrs. Hoover and their son Allan as well as Lewis Straus, of New York, secretary to the presidential candi- date during the world war period. DOCTORS BACK HEALTH DRIVE Slope Physicians Endorse Cam- paign to Eradicate Diph- theria in State Unanimous endorsement of the campaign being made by the state health department to eradicate diphtheria in North Dakota was given by members of the Sixth Dis- trict Medical Society at a mecting at Mandan last night. Two speakers spoke on the diph- theria campaign—Dr. C. E. Stack- house of Bismarck, talking on work in Bismarck, and Dr. J. D. Jung- man, Bismarck, telling of the work being done throughout the state. Dr. Jungman is the epidemiologist at the state health department. Dr. A. W. Guest, Jamestown, di- rector of the state institution for the insane, was the principal speak- er at the meeting, talking on the modern methods of care and treat- ment of insane persons. His talk followed a banquet held at 7 p. m. Bismarck was fully represented at the meeting. The physicians at the meeting from the Capital City included R. W. Henderson, V. J. La- Rose, F. B. Strauss, A. A. Whitte- more, W. H. Belisnstab H. A. Bran- G. Stackhouse, A. Ramstad, F. F. ven. Mandan representatives were W. C. Ayien, L. G. Smith, G. H. Spiel- man, C, C. Smith, B. S. Nickerson. Representatives from other cities and towns in the sixth district were F. P. Rasmussen, Beulah; E. E. Hamilton, New Leipzig; 0. C. Gaebe, New Salem; W. C. Wolver- Linton; 0. T. Benson, Glen in; P. F. Rice, New Salem, and W. L. Gordon, Washburn. Visitors, besides Jungman and Guest, were A. L. Bavone, Bis- marck; Dr. Vounegut, Hague, and Contain Oswalt of Fort Lincoln. fficers of the society are R. W. Henderson, president, and W. L. Diven, secretary -treasurer. Both are from Bismarck. Wales to Don Irish Tri-color for Race London, Oct 31.—(AP)—The D E: id today thi the ‘ales had pro. to wear the Irish free state tri-color in @ horse race at El Doret, Tanganyi- gs eo 1 Doret is a predominately Irish settlement, .One of the citizens, Thomas O'Shea, who was a leadi Sinn Feiner in Ireland in 1913, ask if he wou'd object to the prince the wearing the ‘shatnrock and tri-color Face. J I will be delighted,” 0 daughter will pre sent the colo:; to Rie rings: si CORN SHOW PLANNED ‘Van Hook, is scheduled on that day. aarly be last tight tod taia| * A pevulasity.prize-winner will be on page two) aetdbd’onth Bresing of the day. | Wilson Aide Dead | ROBERT LANSING & Robert Lansing, former secretary of state under President Wilson, died today after a few days illness from heart disease. Lansing played a prominent part in the shaping of the policies of the United States during the World war. He succeeded Wil- liam Jennings Bryan as a cabinet member when the Commoner and the president disagreed on policy. Lans- ing resigned his position under the same circumstances, ENUNCIATOR OF FOREIGN POLICY Robert Lansing, World War Secretary of State, Dies from Heart Attack Washington, Oct. 31.— () — The last of three figures that bulked large in the enunciation of Ameri- can foreign policy during the crit- ical days of the World war and the period that immediately preceded the great conflict has gone. Having claimed Woodrow Wilson and William Jennings Bryan, death late yesterday overtook Bryan’s.suc- cessor as secretary of state, Robert Lansing, who held the portfolio dur- ing the entire time that America was one of the belligerent nations, and resigned upon receiving a rebuke from President Wilson. For several years Mr. Lansing had suffered from a heart ailment de- scribed by his physician as myo- carditis, Four weeks ago he re- turned to Washington from his sum- mer home at Henderson Harbor, N. Y., and a short while later his illness became acute. For the last three days ne was semiconscious. The former cabinet officer had so withdrawn from public affairs that only a few knew of his critical con- dition, and word of his death came as a surprise and a shock to official Washington generally. Robert Lansing was a_ life-long student of government, diplomacy, and international law. Bryan’s cele- brated break with Wilson, arising from a disagreement as to what the official American attitude toward the tragedy of the Lusitania should be, found Mr. Lansing holding the post of counsellor of the state de- partment. With Bryan’s resignation he was promoted to the cabinet and was faced at once with the intrica- cies of what already was a tense na- tional situation. As with his predecessor, Mr. Lan- sing’s tenure of office ended in dis- agreement with President Wilson. In Mr, Lansing’s case the break was brought on, ostensibly, by his action in calling a meeting of the cabinet whil® the president was ill. A shar exchange with his chief followed, and when the documents were made public they included Mr. Lansing’s L.,| resignation. Mr. Lansing was 64 years of age. He was born at Watertown, N. Y., and was a graduate of Amherst col- lege and a lawyer by profession. Be- fore becoming actively connected with the state department in 1914 he had represented the United States in connection with various arbitration treaties for more than 20 years. CARSON FIGHTS ELEVATOR FIRE Prompt Action Saves Two Ele- vators Early This Morning; Damage Is $1,000 (Special To The Tribune) Carson, N. D., Oct. 31.—Two ele- vators narrowly escaj destruction by fire today when Vaught, agent for the Powers Elevator com- pany here, discovered a blaze in the Da to the Powers Elevator and grain was estimated at $1,000, TO HAVE AUTO SHOW Steele, N. D., Oct. 31.— Plans are being made for an ai show and concert, to be here Nov.. 1. Representatives of many wi are ning to have at the IN WAR IS DEAD = COVERS COURSE INRECORD TIME OVER ATLANTIC Expected to Reach Friedrich- shafen Hangar at Daybreak Tomorrow STOWAWAY OFFERED JOB Storms Along European Coast Abate as Dirigible Speeds to Homecoming Paris, Oct. 31.—(AP)—The homeward bound dirigible Grat Zeppelin reached the French coast from Lakehurst, N. J., late today flying over Nantes at 6:43 p. m. (1:43 p. m, eastern stan- dard time). At that time the huge ship, which is completing the first round commercial transat- lantic air voyage had been in the air 59 hours and 49 minutes. She still had about 900 miles to go before reaching Friedrich- shafen, her home port, where she was expected at about 3 o'clock tomorrow morning. Le Bourget, France, Oct. 31.— (AP)—The dirigible Graf Zeppelin informed the Le Bourget flying field late today that she expected to strike the French coast in the vicin- ity of Nantes about 7 p. m. Green- wich meridian time (2 p. m. eastern standard time). The great air liner, rapidly ap- proaching the end of homeward flight from Lakehurst, N. J., to Friedrichshafen notified the flying field that she was traveling at a rate of 60 miles an hour. The boister- ous weather over the Bay of Biscay was bating. Nantes is midway between Bor- deaux and Brest on the western coast of France, and is on a direct line to Friedrichshafen. Aviation experts expressed the opinlntay the Graf Zeppelin would fly over the cities of Nantes, Lyons, Dijon and Basel with the likelihood that she would reach Friedrichshafen about daybreak tomorrow morning, Speeding over the Bay of Biscay, the homeward-bound -Grat--Zeppetin was heading swiftly for Friedrichs- hafen today, with the likelihood that she would make her landfall along the French coast. __ Aided by powerful tail winds dur- ing the night, the huge air liner was making extraordinarily fast time, her average speed at times going as high as 80 miles an hour. The great airship was reported many times by steamships, amon these being the Westerdijk and Boul- (Continued on page two) MINNIE NIELSON MADDOCK ALLY Former Superintendent of Pub- lic Instruction Endorses Governor Minnie J. Nielson, former state superintendent of public instruction, in a statement issued by the Mad- dock headquarters in . Bismarck. to- day endorses the candidacy of Gov- ernor Walter E, Maddock. Miss Nielson sanctioned the state- ment already made by Miss Nellie Dougherty and Mrs. Minnie D. Craig, where special mention was made in regard to Governor Mad. dock’s legislative record and a8 a presiding officer of the state senate. “We_ especially reciate Gov- ernor Maddock’s activities in behalf of educational legislation and child welfare work, When the support of the public schools of the state was in jeopardy Governor Maddock was @ valiant fighter for North Dakota’ educational system. It was ed through his efforts that the chil- dren’s bureau maintained,” Miss Nielson said, according to the state- ment. ‘ “As lieutenant governor he pre- sided over the senate in a fair and impartial manner. Even when de- prived of his rights to appoint the committees of the senate by a ma- jority of hi litical opponents, Gfrervor, Maddock maintained a calm and dignified bearing and treated every member with such uni- form courtesy it aroused the admira- tion of his political opponents and won their personal friendship,” Miss Nisleon said, according to the state- ment. Miss Nielson concluded with the statement that it is her belief that Governor k will conduct state affairs in the same able man- ner if elected governor next Tues- the statement says.