The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 3, 1928, Page 1

| HOOVER PRESENT £ * doors, both ESTABLISHED 1873 CAMPAIGN ENDS AS CANDIDATES MAKE LAST BID Both Parties Forecasting Land- slide With Predictions Over- lapping NORTH DAKOTA DOUBTFUL Hoover and Smith Partisans in Violent Conflict Over Va- rious States BY BYRON PRICE ‘Associated Press Staff Writer) One of the memorable As Hoover swit through the west, Smith makes his final rounds among his neighbors in New York, millions of their fellow-citizens join in noisily to lift the drama to its proper climax. Party rallies are in progress in metropolis and hamlet, and party workers everywhere are lavishing advice on every wavering ter Most of this tumult will end to- night, when Smith speaks in New York city and Hoover at Pueblo, Colo., while scores of the lesser fig- ures of the stump wind up their speaking tours and turn hom« to cast their own ballots on Tuesday. It will remain for the nominees themselves to sum up the argument in radio addresses Monday night. Both Predict Vi As they prepare to close their ith and Hoover head-' quarters are predicting victo. As ut out for publication, these pre- jictions on either side sometimes go the length of forecasting a land- slide. When they talk privately, the estimates of party lieutenants are less sweeping, but even then each insists that enough votes have been won to insure the election of his can- didate. These claims are advanced earnestly and defended warmly, whether made on behalf of Hoover or of Smith. Of course the be! of these be correct. It has been the sort of ven the the politicians Some Democrats even now are claiming Pennsylvania and Michigan; and some Republicans are claimin, Georgia and Arkansas. When su predictions are voiced in the pres- ence of any leader of the opposing) party, they are greetd with redi- cule. Yet they illustrate the vague hopes which are afloat upon the twisting currents of this campaign. Forecasts Analyzed Even though they are so conflict- ing that one set or the other must be regarded as untrustworthy, the more studied predictions of the poli- (}ticians, as pings: eretaty, meet at cel % 4 ry ertain points and are worth analy- sis. They disclose a general agreement that expectations of a Hoover vic- tory are based on the promise of a Republican sweep through the east and west, enveloping the border and perhars, @ part of the south; and hat expectations of a Smith ged rest on upposition that he hold the , take rt of the east, and pick up a few iti al states here and there the border, in the farm country, and in the far west. North Dakota Doubtful enthi q hesitate to believe. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE By WILLIAM E, BORAH (United States Senator from Idaho) It was Tammany Hall through its spokesmen that put the liquor question into this campaign. I main- tain that upon this issue it is not a fight between 8, but a fight between those who believe in the tution and a corrupt organization in New York that does not believe in law at all. The first body of men Governor Smith reported to after he was nomi- nated was Tammany Hall. The first speech he made was to Tammany Hall. Ever since the days of Tweed m desirous of having a president. That is 60 years ago. The governor says he has two remedies: first, he wants to change the alcoholic content of the Volstead Act. He admits that you can’t change it so as to have | the intoxicating beverages because that is in violation of the Constitution, but he says that the limitation on al- coholic content is not scientific. He wants a scientific, non-intoxicating beverage. Says It Would Increase Bootlegging The people who want something to drink do not care an bout a scientific, non-intoxicating beverage. it they want is a scientific, intoxicating beverage. It will only make it easier for those who are willing to do so to secure illegitimate intoxicating liqyor. As Chief Justice Taft said, this increase in the alcoholic content only makes more difficult the enforcement of the 18th amendment. In other words, it is a subtle scheme to nullify, break down and destroy the 18th amendment. i Secondly, the governor proposes a repeal of the 18th amendment, and as substitution therefor, public, gov- ernment or state manufacture, sale“and distribution of intoxicati liquor. There is little or no chance of repeal of 18th amendment. And there is not the slightest chance in the world of government or state ownership, control and distribution. ~ The governor himself is supporting all the Dem cratic senators up for reelection, and I presume at least 25 of them would vote against repeal. The only effect of such agitation is to confuse and demoralize the prop- osition of enforcement, to encourage those who weal violate the law. The governor contends that if we could have public ownership and public control it would lead to respect for law. A newspaper in British Colum- bia has this to say about government control: “Rum runners, gun men, thugs and all the parasites which thrive on the miasma of the underworld of the Pacific coast are fostered by the policy now in'force. Cal- culations show that bootleggers in this province handle as much liquor as the government stores. . There is only one thing to do and that is faithfully, sincerely and with courage to maintain the Constitu- tion so long as it-is the Constitution. States Have Concurrent Powers But the governor says: “I will enforce the law. When I,put my band on the Bible take anjoath I will carry out that oath.” It is the same Bible, the same gonstitution, game man, same oath, in effect, has four times taken ag. governor of New York. ach state sill “have, ogncusl state. ne er: ; this amendment. Just eae same ity i didi ge the governor of New York to ehforee the eight amendment in his state as there is upon the president of the United States to enforce it through- out the United States. The governor stood up over in Milwaukee and told about lawlesshess and violation of the law, and no man in the United States is more responsible for the breakdown of the eighteenth amendment in the state of New Yotk than the governor of that state ; ee is no need pane arma bout this issue in this campaign. ir. Hoover says he is opposed to the repea! of the eighteenth amendment. "dovernor Smith says he is in favor of repeal. Mr. Hoover says it is a noble eepesitanat and should be worked out constructively. ir, Raskob says it is a damnable affliction and should be worked -out constructively. | be the TOEPKE HEADS NEW LIONS DEN Permanent’ Officers for New Salem Club Will Be Chosen Soon! Hey, Don’t fail to sllortly after 6 Da (Special to The Tribune) New Salem, N. D., Nov. 3.—Tem- tes Ramey officers’ of the new local '| Internat he ‘of the ies overlap. It does oP Coutinho on Page ) Mrs. Craig Gives .Endorsement to Walter Maddock nswer to A the statement that Minnie Craig, \ oN commit Republican’ National itteewoman for North Dakota, is opposed to Walter Maddock for governor is made in a statement giv- en to the Associated Press today. The statement follows: “There has been broadcast over the. for governor, ions club, formed under the spon- sorship of the Bismarck Lions club, were named at a muaabing 06 mem- bers of the: club here it night, Larry Slater, field director for Lions tional, today. as president, W. E. Schmidt secre- tary, and Phil we Blank treasurer, The temporary offi serve nig someihate to perfect plans for ‘Ons member bas been added to the list of 32 charter t ‘s Slater said. He is Max W. Thiele. teams today, The Tribune, wil ter a wi ony a football * extra edition ering all important games in the count Among the headliners of to- ipo aret Columbia vs. Cornell, t fe to er Vann don't fngtt to anew By ALFRED E. SMITH (Democratic Candidate for the Presidency) © I recommend an amendment to the Vo! act which should contain a sane and sensible definition of what constitutes an intoxicating beverage, because upon its face the present definition does not i etd ith common sense, or with medical opinion. h state Kod vane iio for an alcoholic content sot ater than that fixe congress. R i must be borne in wind that the eighteenth amend- ment does not prohibit alcoholic beverage: hibits intoxicating beverages. can truthfully be prepared to say that one- per cent of alcohol constitutes an intoxicant. : I firmly and honestly believe that a great deal ‘of dangerous ana poisonous hard liquor would, be driven out of this country if the people could be assured of an alcoholic beverage declared by common sense and by science to be non-intoxicatiry. Not for Return of Sal I further recommended an amendment to the efgh- teenth amendment. I leer it squarely upon the basis of the Jeffersonian principle of right of each state to determine for itself what it wants to do about i of local habits of life usually covered by local Police laws. s T have carefully, however, provided safeguards that will make impossible a return to the old conditions of sale in the saloon, despised, and rightly go, by the American peop! I suggested @ referendum for the expression of the will of the people themselves in the first instance. I would then regard it as the right of the state itself, subject to limitations which I outlined, to dispense to its own inhabitants alcoholic beverages as desired by the people of the state. The Rights of the States No man who believes in states’ rights, who believes in the fundamental princi democracy, can find any fault with that. No state should be permitted to impose its will/upon another state in matters of local concern, What would the states that desire prohibition think about a proposal to amend the constitution to forbid them to enact prohibition laws? They wou! justly resent it. That's the way the people of the other states feel about the eighteenth amendment. The cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Let them decide it. for Dry States It must be borne in mind that under my suggestion federal prohibition is preserved in its entirety for the states that desire to remain dry. It will remain always the duty of the federal government under my proposal to protect the states desiring to remain dry from the introduction or importation into them of alcoholic bev- erages. It retains all the features of the eighteenth amendment act sustaining it, except that the state itself in its reign “ange may ra vote of its people decide under strict control to pense alcoholic beverages. Now I am fully aware that the president of the United States cannot bring this about by himself. (But, repeating what I said in St. Paul, what in country is Hand this back to the people. Prohibition Preserved ere is your issue. There is your scheme on one side and your plan on the other. It is up to the people of the United States to de- termine whether or not they are in favor of enforcing the constitution of the United States as the people have written it. In my judgment the major dominating force in the great fight ‘inst the liquor traffic and in the writing of the eighteenth amendment into the constitution were the women of the United States. And ‘the great dominat force in maintaining and keeping it in the constitution of the United States will ‘women of the United States. ARID OCTOBER Fans! follow the for- Precipitatios in Bismarck Last Month Only 20 Per Cent of Normal Came October was'a good month for plowing and prairie fires, according to the monthly report of the local U.S. weather bureau. ‘ Precipitation for the month was only Py of an inch, a aprcoxinetaly 01 per cent o! erage pre- eppliation for October, which is .94 p.m. today cov- of the month pre- Beet eapnant at preciotecion greatest amount ipitation for a 24-hour period te 15 of an ANNOUNCEMENT The management of The Bismarck desires to thank you for the splendid vote and at the June primaries in your marck Tribune is on.the ballot again Geet, Doisenper 6, snd takes. ¥ois-oscasion £0 é its friends and readers that it will be nec- your support and appreciation assuring on of your past favors. . . The at the fall Yecorded in ves pry ir October 6, 1920. ies bei 4 dropped to. low. for the month at 8 degrees October 29. Low- eee es em ever recorded in Oc- was degrees below October 26, 1919, i ee averaged the possible time, 6 per Eton normal. .. Bhorsark Ft oo cloudy, loudy ‘s the'month, Tribune you of HBLPED FIRES) és BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1928 S COMPREHENSIVE FARM PLAN 20,000 SHEEP |Andrew Carroll Is Dead RANGECOUNTY | From 40,000 Volt Shock FARMS TODAY Wool-Raising Industry in Bur- leigh Shows Tremendous Growth Since 1926 PUREBRED RAMS BOUGHT Wool Crop Worth $60,000 This Year Compared to $7,500 Two Years Ago Increase in number of sheep in Burleigh county from 2,500 in 1926, to 20,000 in 1928, indicates the tre- mendous growth that the wool-rais- ing industry has made here, accord- i A. “2 Miesen, county agricul- ent, The average number of sheep on zach of Burleigh county’s 1,250 larms in 1926 was two, according to the agent. The increase in money received by county farmers for their wool in the three year period is another proof of the popularity sheep raising is enjoying in the district, he said. County farmers received $7,500 in| bod: 1926, $40,000 in 1927, and $60,000 for their wool in 1928, Miesen’s fig- ures show. Forty Farmers Buy Forty farmers have brought 108 purebred rams into the county this year, according to the nt, who aided them directly or indirectly in securing them. Dr. W. H. Boden- stgb, Bismarck, A. E. Dutton, Mof- fit, P. C. Remington, Bismarck, and fa |A. H. Helgeson, Regan, lead the 1928 purchases with 12, 10, 9 and 8 Tams respectively. Approximately 120 purebred rams were brought into Burleigh county and the surrounding territory in 1927 through the aid of the agent. There are only two known breed- ers of purebred sheep in the county, meen 9 to Miesen. They are jagel, Bismarck, who ri Oxfords Rambouillets, Frank Schaffer, Driscoll, who has a Shropshire herd. The county had few rams in 1926, it is shown. Ram Owners Listed Burleigh county farmers who have purchased purebred rams from Rambouillet, Hampshire, Oxford, or pace stock this year follow: 9: janson, 8; 5 ; Max Lang, Sterling, 1; Ted Steffens, Wilton, 1; Dr. W. H. Bodenstab, Bismarck, 12; J. A. Norlem, Menoken, 4; N. A. Magnuson, Wilton, 1; 8. S. Tracy, Braddock, 1; Theodore Taylor, Wi ton, 1; H. E. Redington, Wilton, H. A. Knutson, Driscoll, 2; Nick Yockim, Bismarck, 2; George Mc- Allister, Regan, 3. Patterson Land company, Bi marck, 2; Eric J. Englebretsen, Re- gan, 2; O. A. Nordstrom, Braddock, 2; 8. E. Clizbe, Sterling 2; Alan Clizbe, Sterling, 2; Carl A. Bjor- strom, Menoken, 1; George Harding, vat Ed. ba ved prea » 1; . H. Helgeson,’ Regan, 8; Naaden, Braddock, 3; J. Stels- marek, 17,0. E, Too Beediccke a; A. E. Dutton, Moffit, 10; Matthew I, Hazelton, 1; Melvin Ness, Sterling, 1; Raymond Gates, Harel- ton, 2; Walter Simons, Baldwin, 2; J. A. DeLong, Baldwii 5 sk, Mrs, William Meyer, Il, 1; Fred Heidt, Arena, William Jacobson, Wing, 1; Ira Fal- constein, , 3; and P. P. Bliss, McKenzie, HOSPITAL DRIVE IS PROGRESSING Mandan Hospital Campaign for $40,000 Is Success First 10 Days Good progress,is being made in i ihe nen aes es Mabel Stensrud, superintendent of the hospital. Scene realized from the cam- which was started about 10 days will be used to build a Leaitage me, punk te instikaivon anew X-ra: pment, ‘4 and ‘edecorate le. X-ray has been ordered, she and is expected to arrive in a KILLING GIRL New York, Nov. 3—(/P)—Vincent’ Sir penta old, contoreed Bismarck Power Plant Em- ploye Instantly Electrocuted as He Touches Wire Andrew Carroll, 28, employed by the United Public Service company, died almost instantly when he was accidentally electrocuted here at 7:45 a. m. today. A current of 40,000 volts passed through his body, according to August Carlson, construction fore- man of the company. Belief of fellow-workmen that Carroll lived until he reached the hospital was denied late this morn- ing by physicians who said that he had apparently died within three seconds after receiving the current. Carroll was sitting on top of sub-station near the power plant of the company south of the North- ern Pacific passenger depot, Carlson said. He and two other workmen, Ludwig Overby and Charles White, were employed in repairing the station. Carroll apparently raised his head, touching the high power line carrying the 40,000-volt current out of the city into neighboring districts. The current passed through his Wr Overby’ and White did not see Carroll's plight, but the shock threw him backward, though he did not fall to the ground from the top of the station. The two men found Car- roll unconscious in a prone is and brought him to a local hos: immediately. Carroll’s face and head were badly burned. Deceased came to Bismarck to work for the company in April, 1928, He formerly lived at Armstrong, Towa. A brother, Ralph, and other relatives in Armstrong have been informed of the death, .and funeral arrangements are being held up pending further word from the relatives. SLOPE RAISES FINE POTATOES Certified Seed Planted in _ Spring Produces Quantity ‘and Quality That the Missouri Slope district can raise the finest seed potatoes in the country is indicated by the qual- ty and quantity of an experimental crop raised in Burleigh county this year by eight farmers, according to . R, Miesen, agricultural agent. Two hundred bushels of certified ital Triumphs were planted for the ex- periment last spring. » J. Garske, farmer near Bis- marck, produced over 300 bushels to the acre on a 15-acre plot, and all other farmers in the scheme had Tesults equally as good. The crop from the special plots will be used for seed purposes only, some being used here and other parts being sent to southern states, Mi anno : The farmers in the experiment fol- low: L. J. Garske, John Schneider. Wilbert Fields, Carl Schultz, Oswald Oss, Julius Andahl and C. O. Nelson, of Bismarck, and Erick Slovak, Peon, | Brittin. The seed potatoes were purchased from Frank Splonskows! raddock, who has been raising variety for a number of years with pronounced | to C: success, according to Miesen. “The Slope country is at the right altitude for the growing of this variety,” Miesen said. ‘Potatoes raised here are remarkably free from disegse and for that reason are much in demand by southern growers. Hitherto the distance from the com- mercial market has hindered the de- velopment of the potato-seed raising in western North Dakota, and this ne. the prices are discouraging, it the day is coming when the Mis- souri Slope country will take its place with the Red river valley in the quality of seed potatoes that can be M shade here. i Introduction of the Triumph v: riety and its successful development will mean the planting of consider- able acreage. North Dakota and Minnesota potatoes have a great market in Texas and other states as far north as Iowa, and it is this mar- ket for which the Triumphs will be grown in the future.” Lock Expert Directs Safe Opening by Ear Baker, Ore., Nov. 3.—(#)—A lock expert, listening over the telephone to the almost imperceptible sounds of falling tumblers in a safe door, directed the openfhg of a strongbox here yesterday. Kathleen Kivett, office employe, telephoned Charles Braun, the ex- ‘pert, in Weiser, Idaho, nearly 50 J. miles away, that she had lost the safe combination. She said Braun told her to put the mouthpiece of the telephone next to the safe door and to turn the dial. By the sound of the tumblers he directed her hand, and the door was opened in less than five minutes. ROOP IS VICTIM OF HORSE-PLAY ATTORNEY SAYS Extortion Charge Against County Constable Called Political Trick That action taken in Cass county charging J. I. Roop, Bismarck, can- didate for reelection as Burleigh county constable, with extortion is “nothing more than horse-play” and evidently instituted to effect Roop’s defeat in the coming election, is the helief of C. Leibert Crum, attorney for the defendant. Roop is charged with extorting $30 from W. J. Kelly, Fargo, Oct. 14. Roop and his attorney have been un- successful in securing a hearing at go on two different occasions since the warrant for his arrest was sworn to by Kelly Oct. 16 “because the complaining witness was out of town and no one knew when he would be back.” Demand Immediate Trial The defendant and his attorney went to Fargo and demanded an immediate trial as soon as news of the warrant’s issue reached Bis- marck. Kelly was said to be out of town-at that time, but the assistent state’s attorney of Cass county set the he: ng definitely for 2 p. m., Oct. 26. Kelly failed to show up Oct. 26, so Roop has had no hearing on the charges. W. J. Kelly passed an alleged worthless check for $35 at the Grand Pacific hotel Dec. 14, 1927, according to Crum. Failing to get a response from Kelly, John Peterson, owner of the hotel, swore out a complaint against him and a warrant for his arrest was issued by W. S. Cassel- man, justice of the peace, April 18, 1928, Constable Roop then went to Fargo to serve the warrant and ar- rest Kelly. Kelly then wrote Casselman telling him that he would make payment on the check. He sent one check for $30 and was to pay $10 a month to pay the hotel and court and con- stable fees, Crum said. The check sent to Casselman was also worthless, according to Crum. Kelly shortly afterward sent a bank draft for $30 to make good the check sent to Casselman. Roop, as constable traveling to Fargo and perving. the warrant on Kelly, was lawfully entitled to fees amounting to about $95, according Roop Reduces Fees “When Kelly put up a ‘hard-luck’ story, Roop agreed was Roop’s lawful privilege.” When in Fargo Oct. 14 on some other business, Roop telephoned Bally, telling him that he wanted to see him. Kelly agreed to meet him, but failed to appear, according to the defendant. Ciatming. thet Roop extorted $30 14, Kelly swore out a from him complaint st the constable Oct. 16. A warrant for the Bismarck man’s arrest was issued by J. Bingham, Fargo, justice of the Peace. John C. Ross, Cass county sheriff, requested that Bismarck authorities arrest and hold Roop, but Roop and his attorney motored to Fargo im- mediately. “As far as the case goes now, we are still trying to secure a hearing,” Crum said: I desire you to attend the Tieeee RETR Betis B gig ws Part; Tuesds: it Rex Theatre. ‘ion night service. Never in the his- of the political world has 2 c PRICE FIVE CENTS FEDERAL BODY T0 SOLVE ILLS OF ALL FARMS Board Would Have Power and Authority to Act on Agricul- tural Troubles HAS CONSTRUCTIVE IDEAS Reiterates Promise to Call Spe- cial Session and Readjust Tariff Hoover Train En Route to Pueblo, Nov. 3.—(#) —“The first duty of every American is to go to the polls,” Herbert Hoover said today in a rear platform talk from his spe- cial train at Hoisington, Kansas, where he was welcomed by the larg- est crowd to gather at a station in the “Sunflower State.” “And when you do go to the polls your decision will be right, becasue the majority of the American peo- ple always are right,” the Republi- can presidential nominee said. “I believe this is the most im- portant election that we have seen in many long years. There are not solely economic and business issues, but also moral issues which require the response of every American at the polls.” Hoover Train #n Route to Pueblo, Colo., Nov. 3.—(AP)—Having com- pleted his one campaign tour in the northern tier of border states, Her- bert Hoover today passed into the normally Republican state of Kan- sas, the home of his running mate, Senator Charles Curtis. Before him was a series of rear platform talks in the Sunflower state and the fourth and last ad- dress of his transcontinental trip. This will be delivered early tonight at Peublo, Colo., where his special train_will make a stop of half an hour. During his two nights and a day of traveling from Washington, the Republican presidential candidate has been accorded enthusiastic re- ceptions which cultimated last night in a demonstration at St. Louis that rivaled the one given him at Madi- son Square Garden in the home city of-his Democratic opponent when he closed his eastern campaigning more than 10 days ago. Presents Farm Plan Speaking in the Coliseum, Hoover presented to the agricultural west a plan for the formation of a new gov- ernmental institution, the purpose of which he said would be to meet not only the present farm needs but also those which might arise in the future. “We propose to create a federal farm board composed of men of un- derstanding and sympathy for the Problems of agriculture,” he said, and adding that this board should have ‘power to determine the facts, the clauses, the remedies which should be applied to each and every one ef the multitude of problems which we mass under the term, the agricultural problem.” “This program further provides more than investigation,” he de- clared. “It provides that the board shall have a broad authority to act and be authorized to assist in the further development of cooperative marketing, that it shall assist in the development of clearing houses for agricultural products, in the sevelips ment of adequate warehousing facil- ities, in the elimination of wastes in distribution and in the soluticn of other problems, as they arise. Owned By Farmers “But in particular the board is to build up with initial advances of capital from the government, farm- er-owned and farmer-controlled stab- ilization corporations which will pro- tect the farmer from depressions and the demoralization of summer and periods surpluses. “It is proposed that this board should have placed at its dispusal K,| Such resources as are necessary :to make its action effective.” In concluding his exposition of his farm relief plan, the nominee again expressed the hope that congress at its December session would be able to s remedial legislation, but me ae if vs ioe Re be ae ui e would call a speci Sess) (Continued on page two) ISSUBS EVADED, SHAFER STATES Maddock Dodging Main Cam-_ paign Questions, Independ- ent Candidate Says Fargo, N. D.,_ Nov. George F. Shafer, 3) | candi- date for governor, here last lican