The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 8, 1928, Page 12

‘THE BISMARCK LAHR OFFERING SAME SERVICE, Office and Sales Department | Moved to Give Montgomery Ward & Co. Room Announcement that allow the Lahr Motor Sales company to operate on approximate same basis as it did before a the building was turned ov new Montgomerdy been com- o give a maximum of with a minim of space—a n vice remains th and business de- “Our operation hi only in location, and in the we do not operate ment,” Mr, Lahr idea is to elimin overhead in carryin; department and. as a re trate our efforts on t service of Whippets Knights at retail and \ well as parts and acces Department Dec The rearrangement, 1 pleted, places the busi ment in a balcony of the sa partment and leaves the rem of the space free for displa departments have been de lend color to the dis s The entrance to thi been changed to th side from the former the Fourth strect side, filling pumps have also been to the Thayer avenue side of the building. Due to the new arrangement, the repair department is to be clusively for repa ing storage service. No be made in the nature of mechanical condensed | sales and service arrangements will | la | Geor, 3 MAY IDENTIFY. KILLER OF GIRL: storage depart- | 1, “Our whole | of North Dakota ¢ ing to unof ge I’, Shafer late today was apparently elected governor Governor Walter F, Maddock, accord- cial tabulations of state votes. | Harry Gran, Suspected as Mur derer of Pearl Osten, Held | in Moorhead | nessee mountains to photograph lightning hitting superpower lines have a $75,000 autograph. That’s rae it cost to get a record of one bolt. Reno Charged With ‘Broken’ Light Bulbs Martagement of the local city au- ditorium will not have to pay for any broken electric light bulbs after Reno, the magician, visits here, it is LIONS CHARTER CLUB AT LINTON Dr. L. C. Wolverton Named President of 23-Member Unit ,in Emmons County Linton has a Lions club, Twenty-three charter members of the new group, which is being spon- sored by the Bismarck Lions club, met yesterday with Larry Slater, field secretary, to consider organ- ization and elect temporary officers. Charter. night has not. yet. been chosen for the group, but members of the Bismarck and Mandan clubs will attend the charter night. cere- monies, Slater said, Several members of the Bismarck Lions club will attend the charter night celebration of the Glen Ullin Lions club tonight and another roup will journey to Hebron next ‘ednesday to join the charter night ieee of the Hebron Lions club, Temporary officers elected by the Linton club at the meeting yesterday follow: Dr. W. C. Wolverton, presi- dent; George Schmidt, secrctary, and J. D. Meier, treasurer. Members of the charter night com- mittee are: Dr. Wolverton, chair- man; George Schmidt, J. D. Meier, Dr. F. M. Gilbreath and James Mc- Cormick. Charter members of the club fol- low: Dr. W. C. Wolverton, James McCormick, C. C. Lowe, Dr. F. M. Gilbreath, C. B. Larson, H, M. Har- ris, Peter DeBoor, George Schmidt, H. L. Petrie, H. Pietz, E. D. Fogle, E. C. Kruger, E. R. Schultz, J. V. Kramer, William Heyerman, F. J. Pietz, August Vinroth, A. L. Portz, L, D. Berg, E. H. Smith, E..A. An- derson and C. B. Jenkins. ARIZONA FALLS TRIBUNE Did Miss Knaak Thrust Body Into Blazing Furnace for “Psychic Love?’ Improbable That Even On Person Could Have Pushed Girl Into Flames By ALMA SCARBERRY Pine Bluff, Ill., Nov. 6.—Did Miss Elfrieda Knaak, powerless to resist the impelling force of a strange “psychic love,” thrust her own body into the blazing furnace in the base- ment of the Lake Bluff city hall and thereby receive the frightful burns that finally brought her death? To the very last the girl insisted she did. It may be so. But— I went to the basement with po- lice officers and detectives and made some experiments, And as a re- sult of these experiments, the of- ficers in charge of the case admit it would seem to be impossible for the girl to have inflicted her injuries on herself. Only the Tops Burned Only the tops of Miss Knaak’s feet were burnef—across the toes. Now that means that had Miss Knaak put her own feet in the fire she would have had to stand with her back to the furnace, stretching her left hand out to a bare wall for support and grasping a ‘ not-too- strong hot air-heating pipe with the right. In this position she would have had to insert first one foot and then the other. Had she stood fac- ing the furnace—the easiest way, if she burned herself—her heels and soles would surely have been burned. I demonstrated that position my- self. I might add there was no fire in the furnace at the time. __ Then came more demonstrations, which showed rather conclusively In these the THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1928. Reporter Shows How It Was -Almost Impossible For Sales Girl to Burn Self in Furnace Mystery * Showing How Burning Took Place Lake jictures Miss Alma Scarberry, special writer for The Tribune luff police station furnace that Mies Elfri¢da Knaak could not on herself. At the left, Officer Eugene Spaid is demonstrating how an Miss Knaak in order for the tops of her feet to be burned, as they were. At and NEA Service, demonstrates in well have inflected the burns lant would have had to hold right, Miss Scarberry shows tl how Miss Knaak would have had to stand to inflict the burns on herself, earvice: Minneapolis, Nov. 8.—(P)—Three | indicated by a letter from the magi- that the only possible way for the Contracts for new machines this year call for approximately 400 more than in the last year, Mr. Lahr said. The new contracts bring the tots to 2,699 new cars, Is Pioneer Firm The company, which was started | in 1909 in a frame building about 20 by 50 feet in size, is the pioneer | automobile firm in the city, and pos- sibly the oldest in the It con- | trols the sale of Willys-Overland | motor cars in two-thirds of the state and 14 counties in Montana, operat- ing a branch at Minot. In the first eight months of 1928 the automobile industry as a whole produced 2,863,9 and trucks, against in the first eight months of 1927, or an increase of 23 per cent. In the same period the Willys- Overland company produced cars and trucks, against 151,56: and trucks in the first eight months of 1927, or an increase of 68 per cent, bettering the record of the industry as a whole by 45 per cent. TO END TODAY 250 Guards Keep Crowds from Courtrcom; Mobs Are Incensed $ of 250 guards in front of the city hall today kept the crowds from the courtroom where the trial of Jose de Leon is being held, charged with the assassination of President-elect Obregon. This is expected to be the day. It is believed the case will go to the jury tonight. Excited people jeered Senor Sodi, when the attorney for t defense arrived under heavy escort, shout- ing “Viva Obregon! Death to Obre- gon’s assassin!” The guards began loading their rifles, but the attorney entered the building without further demonstra- tions, Some forty police with loaded rifles surround Toral and Mother Concepcion, charged with complicity, in readiness to resist any attempt at disturbances, Five Counties Okay County Agent Work Fargo, N. D., Nov. 8.—(AP)— Voters in Benson, Cass, Slope, Steele and Towner counties approved coun- ty agent work at the election. They already have this service and the vote was in the nature of a referen- dum. Four of seven counties where new county agent work was pro- qpeed defeated the plan, ey, are ttineau, Traill, Ransom and Eddy. in, Hettinger and Renville counties, which now have no agents, also voted on the question. The re- jt |where Miss Osten worked while at- w last persons who saw Miss Pearl Osten in the company of a young man on a Minneapoli: treet car a short | time before she was slain here Oct. | 2, 1927, left for Moorhead, Minn.,} today to decide whether Harry | Gran, under arrest there, was the man. Upon their identification will} depend whether the police reopen| investigation into the slaying. | 0 of the witnesses, Robert F./ Roffler, St. Paul, conductor of the} treet car, and Mrs. A. W. Kempf, ; finneapolis, a passenger, started | rom Minneapolis. The third wit- Mrs. Elfie Anderson, Kathryn, » left for Moorhead from there. | according to police, lived | near the tea shop in Minneapolis, tending school and he was also said to have known her in Barnesville, Minn. Oil Case Prosecutor Hands in Resignation! _Presi- | the | Washington, Nov, 8.—(/). dent Coolidge accepted to resignation of Owen J. Robe: cial counsel for the United Sta the -oil effective immediately. In his letter accepting the resigna- | tion President Coolidge expressed | gratitude on behalf of the govern- | es in | with which you have prosecuted these ca which have returned to the Uni Sattes all the property in question and many millions of dol- lars in money.” Roberts tendered his resignation because under the senate joint reso- | lution calling for his appointment he s prevented from taking up any es of his own which had any con- nection with the government. Atlee | Pomerene, with whom Owen Roberts. ited in the prosecution o will continue in his pres ent position and conclude the remain- | ing work. | LIGHTNING COSTS $75,000 New York, Nov. 8.—(4)—Experts | nt all ummer in the Ten- ment “for the fidelity and energy | t: | cian himself. The magician, it appears, is rath- er fond of a sp trick he often performs, but which he found rather epee e when he was appearing in a Kansas city. In this trick a handkerchief is borrowed and_ placed in a pistol, ich in turn is fired at an electric ht gle The audience can see the hand chief in the globe, which is then ken” so that the hand- kerchief may be returned, The globe isnot damaged in the least. At the Kansas city, however, the city fathers were taking no chances, they sent the magician a bill for six electric globes, which he paid rather than tell the commissioners how the trick was performed. Poincare Favored to Set New Government Paris, Nov. 8. () — Raymond Poincare today continued to resist the pressure of friends and support- ers that he form a new government. In the meantime President Dou- mergue consulted members of par- |liament, and a great majority of them persisted in the opinion that the retitring premier was the only man who could bring order out of the parliamentary chaos. The president consulted both ex- emes of the chambers of deputies he Socialists and members of the National Union party. The Social- ists, who have remained aloof from the conflict, reserved their opinion 4s to the formation of a government. | All others declared that M. Poincare should be called to power again, LINDY BACK TO MEXICO + Louis, Nov 8.—(4)—Business as usual right after election. Hav- ing voted for the winner, Lindbergh Promptly took to the air for Mexico, ; VE MODERN “Can I be of any assistance to you, ae 5 “I’m looking for something appro- priate for the tenth anniversary of a divorce.” —Life. sult of the vote there has not been determined. Zep Stowaway Sails After Changing Mind Nov. . 8.—(AP)—Clarence Paris, TO REPUBLICAN Second Time Since Statehood That Republican Governor Has Been Elected Phoenix, Ariz., Nov. 8.—()—The tidal wave of Republican votes which swept Arizona’s three electoral votes into Herbert Hoover’s column with a plurality of more than 13,000 votes carried John C. Phillips to the gov- ernorship, the second time since statehood that a Republican guber- natorial candidate has won a major- ity of votes over G. W. P. Hunt, who has headed the Democratic state ticket since 1912. While Hoover was piling up 49,703 votes to 35,924 for Governor Smith, Phillips won an admission of defeat from Hunt when his total reached 45,068 to the incumbent’s 41,243, with but scattered precincts yet un- tallied. The colorful Governor Hunt, Ari- zona’s first chief executive in 1912, has been defeated but once before. That defeat was administered by Thomas E. Campbell, Republican, in 1916. Hunt has run for office at the head of his state ticket eight times. By popular vote in 1914 Campbell defeated Hunt, but an elec- tion contest carried to the Arizona supreme court resulted in Hunt be- ing declared the winner. Campbell had held the office for a year and a few days as de facto governor when the decision was given. Coming back in 1916, Campbell de- feated Hunt decisively and served two years, but Hunt again took the lead in 1918, and had been successful in each successive election. United States Senator Henry F. Ashurst and Representative L. W. Douglas, Democratic incumbents, de- fied the Republican tide to win over former Senator Ralph R. Cameron and Guy Axline, their respective Re- publican opponents, by more than 10,000 votes. First National Bank Open Saturday Night Because Monday is a legal holi- day, the Fir; National bank as a courtesy to its customers will be open from 7 to 9 p. m. Saturday, F. girl to have been burned as she was would have been for her to hold to the furnace—face downward. While I acted the part of Miss Knaak, and detectives took the role of the un- known assailant, a number of pic- tures were taken. These are now be- ing studies to see just what that dreadful scene in the basement must have been like. As a further result of the demon- stration, in which a detective held me, head downwards, and thrust my feet into the firebox, I will say this: it seems impossible to me that one person could have forced the girl into the flames—unless she were drugged or unconscious. 2 From the beginning the offici were somewhat dubious about Mi Knaak’s story that she inflicted the injuries on herself in order to test her love. Now they are about ready to abandon the theory en- tirely. Who Let Her In? The answer. to ed Lae eems to depend primarily on the answer to one question: Who let Elfrieda Knaak into the police station on the fatal night? Lake Bluff is not a large town, and the station is vacant at night. It was left tightly locked, doors and windows, on that night. It is not believed she had a key. How did the girl get in? If the answer to that question were known the task of solving the mystery would be a long way toward complete solution. Through all of the investigation and newspaper talk about the case, one man is probably more eager than anybody else to get to the bottom of things. He is Policeman Charles W. Hitchcock, ‘beau brummel” of the Knaak said she entertained “psychic love” that led her to immo- late herself. Hitchcock has been confined to his bed with a broken leg since several days before the tragedy. He is im- patient to get up and go to work ‘on the case, and genuine tears came from his eyes as he had to admit hig hel ne panes. 5 ae itcheock is a strange person: ity. He has been a star on the vaudeville stage. He has been in the movies. He is a handsome man, with the mannerisms of an acter and a forceful nality. By day it Shepard, cashier, announced to- y. All banks in Bismarck will be closed Armistice day and business men are warned to transact their banking affairs on Saturday. Minot Banker Freed of Charge by Jury Minot, N. D., Nov, 8.—(AP)—C. L, Stevenson of Minot, former presi- dent of he First State Bank of Berthold, now closed, was acquitted on a charge of obtaining property under false pretenses, by a jury in ‘ rd county district court here to- rs The verdict was advised by tude C. W. Buttz of Devils Lake, who resided at the trial and who in- ‘ormed the jurors that there was no evidence to substantiate the charge. OR A BARBER SHOP “I'd like a e for a boy about ten years o! ing; at night he is a police officer. He had known Miss Knaak for two years, giving her a course of lessons on personality development so that she could win success as a saleslady. “Fritzy wasn’t what you'd call a real pretty |,” he told me. “The poor way she wore her clothes had ‘a lot to do with it, But she was as sophisticated as the ave ‘univer- sity student, and I don’t body says she was so silent and reticent. I did advise her against ing into the selling game, though. jhe was all mind—a t thinker.” Saw Her Every Fortnight He said that he saw ‘once every two weeks, how to “crack a’ partic f Forty-six Pounds nut who was hard to sell.” She al- ways called and made an appoint- ment. Elfrieda’s babblings, in which, on her deathbed, she told of her love for him, he attributes to the wanderings temporarily unbalanced mind. very sorry that his strong per- ity, dominating her weaker one, should have caused her to think of him in this way. In deep distress, He waved his hands and pleaded | with me to look at his three lovely daughters, stalwart son anl loyal wife and think what the world’s listening to the ravings of a de- mented girl means to them. Raymond, his son, is 17, and a soloist in the town band. His daugh- ters, Helen, 16, Charline, 20, and Alloa, 12, are in school. Mrs, Hitch- cock is quiet and a bit resentful, re- fusing to talk about the case at all. | tonight. BRING ON THE BALLOTS Congressman: What arrangementa ee made tq get the voters out? * oe i fei bd shifted the is from ie Wilkins’ cellar.—Life., ee st Don’t forget the Masquerade Dance at the A.O.U.W. Hall h little force—the man for whom Miss 101 he conducts a class in public speak- ow why. iy hard Call 32 We'll Do The Rest Woaen you are saying one thing in your message, and typography is saying something else — it’s time to call on v2 BISMARCK TRIBUNE JOB PRINTING DEPARTMENT Printers Who Make Type Talk Terhune, who stowed away on the Zeppelin, changed his mind and after canceling his passage aboard the Majestic pertertey, sailed aboard the Ile de France. It was ined today that he wanted to in to the United States with e haven't any as old as that, Have you tried a dentist’s Ing room. jing Show. MADE THE FRONT PAGE | “Look, Tita; something about me | ! in the “Really? 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