The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 28, 1928, Page 7

2. Eg bry Hf ‘WEDNESDAY, GREEN ELECTED HEAD OF LABOR Convention ‘Opposes Public Schools Use to Spread few Orleans, La., Nov. 28—(7)— William Green was reelected unani- mously today as president of the erican Federation of Labor. All other officers, including Frank Morrison, secretary, were reelected and the convention adopted a resolu- tion “opposing the use of public schools to spread propaganda of special interests.” The resolution, which was intro- ‘duced by Florence Curtis Hanson of the American Federation of Teach- ers, said: “Exposures of the federal trade ‘commission have shown that the special interests are seeking every opportunity to use the public schools to spread their propaganda and it has also been shown that there is ¢! misuse of the at aaa of rei institutes subsidized by special interests.” Toronto, Ontario, was chosen for the next anual convention. STATE CINEMA MORALS WORSE Juvenile Delinquency, Crime, War Caused by Films, Con- vention Hears Washington, Nov. 28—(AP)—The federal motion picture council has gone on record as favoring govern- ment supervision of motion pictures and also as declaring that the cin- ema grown worse morally. ‘These resolutions were passed, how- ever, only after representatives of five women’s organizations had walked out of the meeting. | They left the final executive ses- sion of the convention last night when they were denied the right by council officials of supporting their stand of opposition to federal super- vision of pictures production. e representatives withdrawing were those of the general federation of women’s clubs, the D. A. R., the League of American Penwomen, the American Federation of Industrial Women and the National Catholic Alumnae. During the day there were discus- sions of the effect of certain types of motion pictures, it being asserted the cinema might in some instances cause juvenile delinquency, crime among old persons and might also be a cause of war. Huston Thompson, former mem- ber of the Federal Trade Commis- sion, said that irritating national of other countries by motion pi tures constituted “a very gra’ cause of war.” G.N. D. A. Quota Near Reached in Bismarck The annual membership drive for the Greater North Dakota associa- tion which has been conducted in Bismarck during the last week has netted $1,500 the $2,000 quota with several committees left to re- port. This statement was made today by J. A. Wagner, treasurer of the drive. 2 The drive is being conducted in the city by seven committees made up of local men. f i Wagner believes that the city will furnish more than its quota for the drive. Red Cross Fund Here Is Growing Every Day The sum received by the Burleigh county chapter of the American Red Cross in its annual membershi| drive outside the city of Bis: Le mouse ae according to iss , secretary. Only 0 of the 48 townships had reported today, the soaine 40Y of the drive, the secretary said. Sums turned in by chairmen in the 10 townships follow: Moffit, F. H. Pillsbury, 23; Driscoll, A. 8. E. Metcalf, $20; Wildrose, W. Bogen 7 wing, ee 78 4 Edgertor 3 na, Mrs. C. F. Lambert $9; Canfield, Mrs. Earl Mowder, $13; Rockhill, Mildred Nel- son $9.50; Steiber, Mrs. C. L. Ma- lone, $16; PI $10; and laaaes Mrs, Hugh Mc- Donations totaling $4.50 have been received in the local offices from unsolicited individuals in the county. Special Thanksgiving Dinners Set at Hotels If you are looking for a real iving dinner, like Mother but don’t like to, with all mings: and ev. mer Perry, f ; ri rept i : ; ; EL NOVEMBER 28, 1928 Back from Living Death Among Lepers New Orleans, La.” Nov. 28— (NEA)—John Early has come back from the dead! John Early, the country’s most famous leper, has heard the “un- clean!” cry of his kind changed to “clean!” He may take his place in the world of men. John ly is cured. This is the vivid climax of one of the most dramatic human epics ever lived in this country. John Early, leper, became mous as any public celebrity during the 13 years he played hide-and-seek with Uncle Sam. Told that he was a leper, Early first refused to be- lieve, and ran away from the hands that would help him. Caught, Flees Again He was found, arrested, impris- oned, treated for leprosy again and again, only to defy his captors and benefactors and disappear again, A baffled, beaten, contradictory man, sometimes submissive and grateful to the hands of science which would help him, again sullen and rébellious and so hungry for the mountains of his own country that, clean or unclean, he must hide him- self in their hollows—Early suffused @ whole nation with ie headline fa- arly at Large” could send whole cities into panic, and Uncle.Sam hunted him as though he were a murderer wit! price upon his head. Less than two years ago, even though told that two more years of the chaulmoogra oil cure would re- store him to the world of normal men, Early ran away frqm the lep- sarium at Carville, La. It was his twentieth escape from the world science which struggled to save im from. death, If he had not been recaptured he would not be cured today—and set- ting forth with a smile to the moun- tains for which he yearned while im- prisoned in the valley country, SILENCE VEILS MURDER PROBE Rothstein Case Witness Re- fuses to Talk Despite Im- munity Promise New York, Nov. 28.—(AP)— George A. McManus, held ona charge of murder, was the sphinx- like enigma of the Rothstein case to- day. The man who “could clear up this mystery in three minutes,” to quote District Attorney Banton, occupied 8 cell in jail, refusing to tell what he knows about the slaying of his gambling friend, Arnold Rothstein, wealthy gambler. Before him dangled Mr. Banton’s bait, a promise of esa, trom Prosecution if he would talk. But McManus maintained the policy of silence he adopted after he casually surrendered himself in a barber shop, When he refused to. tell Mr. Ban- ton what took place the night of H.| November 4 in room 349 of'the Park Central hotel, where Rothstein wi shot and McManus’ overcoat was found, he was locked up without bail to await hearing Friday. ‘ While the authorities were trying to induce McManus to give himself up, it was made plain they did not suspect him of being the actual slayer. But he was one of three ei persons in the.room at the time, Police said, therefore could ex- plain the m; ry. McKenzie Church Has Thanksgiving Meeting The McKenzie Methodist Episco- Bel qhereh will hae specie) These services music tomorrow, Services will be conducted at 11 a. m., according to J. N. Snow, pas- tor, A special pienic-dinner is planned at Shel churee for noon. m Rey. Snow will’ conduct the fol- I iy services Sunday: Moffit, 10:80 a.m, and 7 p. Sterling, 3 im, Sunday school will be conducted! at'2 pm. RELEASED THR HOSPTTAL AS: “CURED* The drama of “Old John Early” began back in 1898, when he enlisted in the Spanish-American war. The other boys brought back rich and colorful memories from Cuba _and the Philippines. Perhaps John Early had his memories, too, but,he also brought back that disease which has caused men to shudder ever since the dawn of Ae a Oe Didn't Recognize Malady John Early did not know it at once. He was married and the father of two children before his malady appeared. Doctors made mysterious references to “something incurred in the tropics.” Early went to Washington and asked for help. “You are a r,” they told him. “I am not,” said Early. But the government seized him. It was the scourge of humanity in his person. He could deny his state, but the government had millions of other human beings to consider. ne leper can quickly infect an entire country. They built a special home for him —a two-part brick home with a wall down the center. Early, unclean, lived on one side of the wall; his wife and children, clean, lived on the other. The world of fiction contains few scenes more poignant than life in that brick home. Armed guards saw to it that the emotions of the human man, hungry for sight of wife and children, never interfered with the only life possible for an impris- oned leper, ward of the nation, to be saved by the nation. | Moon’s Temperature | | Takes Drop of 414 | | Degrees at Eclipse | clea ees » Nov. 28,—(P)— moon undoubtedly discarded his asbestos tuxedo for heavy flannels and a fur-lined over- coat when the turned off Luna's solar heat system during the eclipse yesterday morning. Dr. Edison Pettit, Mount Wilson observatory astronomer, who watched the moon’s temperature, said that before Mother Earth interposed her- self between the sun’s rays and the moon the lunar body had a tem- perabire of about 228 degrees ‘ahrenheit, but that during the total eclipse the temperature cropped about 414 degrees to 186 degrees low zero—close to the temperature of liquid air. Dr. Pettit took the temperature with the aid of an intricate set of mirrors which played tag with slen- der moonbeams. MANDAN NEWS Mandan High School Orators to Compete for Journey Honors Student orators at the Mandan high schools are laying plans compete for a South American te Prominent St. Paul Sam J. Aandahl, Mandan t school instructor who is in cl of oratory, has offered a $25 to ae winner of the high school m High school eliminations . begin at Mandan early in March, and the state contest late in March, competition will be held in Kansas May. City in 'e Zone winners in the United States will be given a 12,000 mile cruise to Panama and South Ametica, leaving | erous Jacksonville, Fla., July 4, rei to New York in August. » 4 p,m. and 8 p. m.;| | — GO! OBSERVE GOLDEN WEDD: Peta AL it their Jan. 15, a district meet will he held his home today after a long illness. Zone | 88 | A piano was moved close to the wall on the wife's side of the house. The leper sat on the other side, listeni to old army songs \and songs of home. Sometimes the wife and children were permitted to stand ten feet away from “Daddy” and blow him a goodnight kiss. Armed guards were ready at a second’s no- tice to enforce the deadline. Doctors Disagreed ig Then even LS ey ea disagreed as to whether they had a leper on their hands or not. Early was taken from the brick house and to New York in a box ‘ Y went on, with ‘ly playing peek-a-boo and hid -seek with the government. One escape fol-| To another, for he himself would neVer shout his own “unclean,” and continued to fight the government which tried to help him. There was one period when he was pronounced cured and lived like any | other man with his family. Then | the government brought in the same | old report, rearrested him, and the game was on. Fer the last ten ert Early has been in the Carville leper station | under the special charge of Dr. 0. | E. Denney, officer in charge. But he ran away several times, always | turning up in the office of Dr. Wil- | liam C. Fowler in Washington. i Whenever the headlines had “Early at Large Again” Dr. Fowler would put a sentry at his office door so that the alarm could be given the moment he appeared. “Happiest Man Alive” But he came back, and today he is cured! The doctors refuse to use the word “cured,” they prefer “ar- rested”; but Carville says that of its more than 40 “arrested” patients Paroled to the world ‘not one has come back. And what of John Early, clean? “I’m the happiest man ‘in the world. I’m going back to my moun- tain country in North Carolina,” he says. “I speak for the goodness of God and the miracles of science.” So Old John Early has gone away, dapper and gay, with a cane in hi: hand and a song in his heart, and no cry of “unclean” upon his lips. day. During the day and evening more than 100 friends and relatives called to offer ‘congratulations. The annual dance of the Brother- hood of Railroad Trainmen and Auxiliary will be held this evening in the old Elks hall in the Hudson! building. A feature of the evening will be a number of “headlight” dances, eee Miss Bernice Means had as her juest over the week-end Miss Winni- red Halfyard, who attends the State Teachers collage at Valley City. Miss Halfyard is the daughter Rev. and Mrs. 8. F. Halfyard, formerly of Mandan. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE tion or visiting teacher system tendent of public instruction. perintendent of public instruction comment is made on the various benefits derived from the vis’ demonstrating teacher system over the old method of holding teacher jeould be exposed to psychological TEACHER VISIT SYSTEM LIKED Method Wins Approval of Rural Officials Hearty approval and favorable comment has been expressed b: county superintendents and rural school teachers on the demonstra- in} preference to the old system of hold- | ing teachers’ institutes, according to Bertha R. Palmer, state superin-| In the biennial report of the su- ing institute meetings, In the report Miss Palmer states: | “The county institute or ‘round-up’ , Which required the presence of all teachers at the same lecture course, regardless of previous train- ing, experience, and present in- terests and needs, is bei discon- tinued all over the country. “In the days when certification of teachers did not require attendance at a normal school the round-up type of institute every year was the on! ly way in which teachers of every class principles and professional methods. Today 12 weeks’ attendance at nor- | mal school after graduation from | high school is required for the low- est grade of certificate. “While more than half of the Dist> | Devils Lake is at the ses- sion of district court in Mandan in the absence of Judge H. L. Berry, who is conducting a term of court at Dickinson. eee Mr. and Mrs, E. G. Collis left to- day for Fargo where they will be Eh aagicd over Thanksgiving day at the home of Mrs. Clara D. Knight. C. F. Kelgch, state’: cng ig A of} Morton county, and Milton K. Hi; teed have gone to Aberdeen where they will try acase in district court. Harley Holm of Carson will be employed st the State Training school during fhe, winter. Sam Buren of St. Paul is a guest at the home of his uncle, H. L. Dah- ners, Builder Dead Teday St. Paul, Nov. 28—(?)—William J. Hoy, 68, one of the northwest’s most prominent contractors, died at Among the works which remain @ memory to the builder are: The St. Paul hotel, St. Paul cathe- one of the aiaalealrl river in St. Paul, the home of W. Hill in St. Paul, and num- churches. Mr. H also r "600,000 grade ion of the Northern ne, WHAT EARTH WEIGHS New York, Nov. 28.—(AP)—The earth weighs six sextillion, 592 ite tons coe? and 38 ciph- . Dr. Paul bureau result years’ wor! le- termining it. 55 OF ~ ARTERNOON | < teach in the state are working in hools, oniy one of the five training schools prepares © understand and handle the conditions peculiar to the one-, {wo- and three-teacher schools, “With this situation in mind, the mode of procedure for teachers’ in- stitutes was completely reve-sed. Instead of bringing all teachers to the county seat to have inspiration and information poured upon them for five days while they sat and sat, the demonstration teacher now goes into every county for five days. “By this method, instead of bring- ing the rural teacher to the county seat, where her problems would be solved in theory en masse, an ex- perienced, tactful teacher is sent to the country school, there to help the rural teacher solve her problems where she meets them.” From a financial standpoint, the report shows this method to be con- siderably cheaper to the county and also to the individual teacher. Success of the visiting teacher sys- tem seems assured if the enthusi. displayed for it by county su- endents, teachers, and even the children themselves is any criterion. ST, OLAF HEAD QUITS Northfield, Minn., Nov. 28.—()— Endre B. Anderson resigned as di- rector of athletics at St. Olaf college here, effective next fall, and will enter business at Cleveland. No successor has been named. ‘TURKEYS’ NOW ‘INDIANS’ Stamboul, Turkey, Nov. 28.—(AP) —Americans here will eat “Indian” for dinner Thanksgiving. The Turks consider it an insult that un- gainly fowl should be named after their land, so they have retaliated by renaming it after the original in- habitants of America. SUPERPLANE FOR TRANSATLANTIC | SERVICE CONSTRUCTED IN GERMANY a! soni two will ‘Had me rH reas aaa ae on vast 0 in Boat: e r Pavitt eo for 20 toad of freigh 4 Body Tail weigh 46 tone. cargo the vessel Its maximum speed will be 118 miles Friedrichshafen, Germany, Nov. |" hour and it will have a fly raidus of 1,860 miles. There will be a salon larger than that of the Graf Zeppelin and there will be an electric kitchet The plane is being built for the German Lufthansa and is ini for service across the South: lantic via the Canaries-Cape V. Island and the Island of Noronha off the coast of Brasil. Mandan Pastor Gives Thanksgiving Speech at Rotary Club Meet Rev. G. W. Stewart, pastor of the Mandan Presbyterian church, gave a Thanksgiving address at the regu- lar meeting of the Bismarck Rotary a today at the Grand Pacific ho- tel. Members of the Mandan Rotary club were guests at the luncheon meeting, and H. K. Jensen, president of the penaen aot Wikre Music was furnished by ter from the Mandan club and ‘the Vagabonds orchestra. Visitors, in addition to the mem- bers of the Mandan club, were A. E. Skinner, Stoughton, Wis.; Laubenfels, Burlington, Iowa; J. M. Wylie, Fargo; and Roy Baird, Dick- inson. 28. — ()— While the merits and drawbacks of the Graf Zeppelin are being discussed, the Doriner con- struction works on the Lake of Con- stance, an affiliation of the Zeppe- lin works, are quietly completing a superplane for transatlantic serv- ice. For months the construction of this giant plane }.as been going on with all the secrecy of wartime at the shops of Altenrhein on the Swiss side of the lake. This new plane it is hoped, will solve the question whether the airship or airplane is to be the transoceanic conveyance of the fu- ture. The body of this plane is not a boat but a substantially constructed ship fit to weather the most tem- gmk ocean waves when it may found necessary to ga down on the water. It is built with massive walls and the interior is divided in- to a series of water tight bulkheads to prevent the entire ship from }:- ing flooded in case water is shipped. The span of wings measures 164 feet. Twelve. motors arranged in tandem formation, six in front and six behind the wings, will supply a motor energy totaling 6,000 horse- power, The crew will comprise a cap- tain, two pilots, two wireless opera- After Thanksgiving Clearance of COATS To make room for Holiday Merchandise and to Reduce our enormous investment in coats before the close of the year’s business we are announcing this great general clearance starting Friday, Nov. 30th These Reductions from our ordinarily low prices make this an event of paramount importance. All New and Snappy Styles Regular Values to $13.50. Special $8.95 Values $14.95 to $22.50 , $12.95 Values $24.95 to $32.50 $21.95 Values $34.95 to $42.50 $28.95 Values $45.00 to $48.95 $38.95 Values $55.00 to $65.00 $48.95 The above values can only be appreciated when seen. Thanksgiving Da SPECIAL CLEARANCE OF HATS Group 1—Values to $2.75 $1.00 Group 2. Choice of any hat in stock $2.95 McCracken Cash Stores: Fourth and Broadway . “Golden Rule” Great Savings in Holiday Gift Goods \ Bismarck, No, Dak.