The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 5, 1928, Page 6

PAGE SIX GUNMEN SQUAD ARRESTS 18 IN BIG HOTELRAID Cleveland Detectives Find Place Full of Suspects and Arms in Rooms Cleveland, Dec. Jeer alleged gunmen z S from Chicago, Buffalo, and New York were seized in a raid on a downtown hotel, today, led by Act- ing Chief of Detectives Potts All available detective reserves were sent to the hotel when Detec- (AP)—Eigh and rackete | Greet Hoover | | | i i tive Lieutenant Kurt Gloeckner re- | ported there “was a whole mob” of known gunmen in the place and asked for assistance. Police said ‘they believed the gang had gathered for an “executive ses- Those arrested offered no i id. aid they were unaware of uny motive for the gathering, but believed it msut be a meeting such) 28 preceded the killing of Frankie (Yale) Uasle, bootleg baron, in New York, or that it might have some bearing on racketeering in the dry cleaning industry here. The raid was staged that guests in the hotel were disturbed. Guns were found nearly all of the gangsters Further search of the hotel, one vf the most fashionable in the down- town distric room a 45-calibre pistol and puanti- ties of ammunition. The men were booked on ¢ oS of carrying concealed weapons. They gave their addr ew York, Chicago, Buff ast St. Louis, and other cities. Meanwhile the Bertillon department began a check us to their identity. so quietly not on BOARD DEFERS GUNNER CASE 12 Pardons Granted; 15 Paroles Allowed as Session Comes to Close William Gummer's application for a hearing before the pardon board was deferred until the next meeting of the board, according to announce- ment today. Gummer, convicted go mur- derer, had made to the pardon board an application for clemency but withdrew his application when coun- sel he had employed was unable to he present at the hearing. The pardon board which went into session Monday morning heard 141 application. Its hearings were com- pleted at 10 o’clock last night. Twelve pardons were granted and 15 parole allowed. Applications denied hearing totaled 84 and four were withdrawn, Nine applications were deferred to the next meeting of the board. In eleven cases senten were commuted. Two leave of se were granted, one tempor parole was made a regular parole and one sentence was changed to a fixed duration from an indeterminate sentence. Two men were restored to citizenship, URGES WATERS TO AID SHIPPER Secretary of War Advocates Co- ordination of Every Trans- portation Means Washington, Dec. opening session of the national r ers and harbors congress was told by Secretary Davis, of the war de- partment, today, that the nation’s needs require coordinated use of every form of transportation and that the waterwa ould be used ties, water-borne commerce 1927 was over 500,000,000 tons said. “The increase has been steady with resulting benefits to the country in reducing its freight bill. We have become a great nation. Railroads are reaching a high state of effi- in ciency. We have thousands of miles | of ithproved highways. We are de- veloping air transportation. “But these transport agencies op- erating alone will soon become in- adequate to handle economically our commerce, “The country needs every form of transportation facility. “However, their use must be coordinated. In- terconnection is also of great na- tional need. The movement of freight by water results in large savings, which are reflected in reduced cost ig and in great commercial . We do not want to limit these savings to stream borders and seashores. The whole country is en- titled to the cheapest and/best meth- ods of transportation. “Air, roads, railways, waterways, should, jointly and separately, each carry the part of the load for which it is economically best fitted. Only by the coordination, cooperation and interconnection of all means of transportation can the people get the full benefits to which they are entitled and which they must have for their future progress and pros- Perity.” SPLINTER PROVES SERIOUS Wheeling, W. Va—(?)—Albert Nickergon, 68. must submit to an op- tion for removal of a steel splin- ter in his thumb because 2: when he sustained the injur: a Id oles. gts seliniar wor! 6 way into the muscles wae thumb. RELIEF TRY THIS indjen and by at dowed higher aled in each man’s } Presidents of two South American | | republics countries. t | Augusto B. Leguia of Peru; below, | President Carlos Ibanez of Chile. | LIQUOR TREATY NEEDS CHANGE, OFFICIAL SAYS Would Prevent Canada from Clearing Liquor Cargoes | to U.S. Washington, Dec. 5,—(AP)—-Li- | quor smuggling over the Canadian horder, in the opinion of Prohibition Commissioner Doran, presents the most. serious problem in dry law en- cement today. To correct it he uggests a revision of the Canadian | | liquor treaty to prevent Canada from clearing liquor cargoes to this coun- . Doran made this statement before a house appropriations sub- committee at hearings, made public today, on the treasury supply bill. The commissioner said that not- | withstanding the fact thet the coast guard has operated to. break up. y -rows, there is still a vement of liquor into the United States from European ports, French Island of St. Pierre, and! some central American and| \M e he largest quan- | ve said, comes in from Canada, and seven-eighths of it] through the Detroit gateway. Under the new policy of control- ling industrial alechol production at} the source, Dr. Doran said distilling | i tiquor had been reduced.} nt supply, he added, is to <tent smuggled or made inj is country. tilling from large to small plant: the commissioner said, had increased } the need of cooperation in enforce-| ment from local officials. This has heen forthcon:ing in some sections, he added, but in others there had been not only passive but “active and hearty” opposition. Dr. Doran said he believes that while the new law requiring dry of- ficers ind agents to stand civil service examination will work out satisfactorily in the end, such a merit system “per se does not pur-} chase honesty” and some hired un- der it have had to b: discharged. DEMOCRATS TO FARMING YOUTH | flaming, but farming—wore a broad, | | day. an ‘hour! | |Iowa, to the international 1; The breaking down of illicit dis-! 1 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ment, filed by his attorneys, was! North Dakota Pionéer Governor Flies IS GIVEN HOUR AT STOCK SHOW 17-Year-Cld South Dakota Girl, With 99 Score, Wins First | \ | ‘ Honors | Chicago, Dec. 5.—()—Youth—not | good-natured, old fashioned grin to It had had its hour; and such | A slip of a lad, only 12 years old, { had come up from exposition ‘to win the grand pionship (the most important event of the entire exposition) with his vearling Hereford ste D haired stockmen still were gasping over this demonstration of what farming youth can do when two other youngsters from the wide open spaces picked the prizes in the “healthiest boy and girl” competi- tion. South Dakota appeared to be the | sf healthiest place for girls, fot it was |__ i froin Brown countytn that gtatele {Governor John C. Trumbull of Con- the blond, nned Thelma i necticut, is a licensed airplane pilot. Svarstad came to win the gold medal 1 Here he is shown getting into a big that goes with the title “healthiest | passenger plane during the recent girl in the United States.” She had | governors’ convention in New Or- able jleans. Governor Trumbull took the William Tobi g- | Zovernors and their ladies for a long inaw county, Michigan, had a rating | flight over New Orleans. He is 4 to top the field on the mas- | father of Florence Trumbull, report- culine side. Tobias is 15 years old, ; ed fiancee of John Coolidge. an eighth grader ireh_ Run | school. Thelma said she was “17 and FOUR INDICTED FOR SHOOTING OF ROTHSTEIN District Attorney Believes They Are Responsible for Gambler's Death ? college. and Will im of “early to bed ; and early to rise” was a factor in| making them Miss Svars 122 pounds and is five fect three and one-half inches tall. i She followed no special rules for | the health contest, which is spon- sored annually by the Elizabeth Me- Cormick memorial fund. More than 600,000 boys and girls from 44 states were entered in the contest, and the selections yesterday were made frem the 16 girls and 12 boys who survived sectional elim- New York, Dec. 5.--(AP)— | George McManus, “Richard Roe,” “John Doe” and a fourth unnamed ination contest: | man were under indictment for DRIVE AGAINST murder today in connection with the | fatal shooting November 4 of Arn- | old Rothstein, big time gambler. | _ Only McManus was under arrest. | District Attorney Joab H. Banton |said he had good descriptions and |fingerprints of the other men, in- cluding a photograph of the fourth man, “The world is not big enough for ; them to hide in,” he said, forecast- ing early arrests. | McManus, supposedly Rothstein’s A cam- good friend, has been identified as © stamp | the “George Richards” who rented z t, Te-| room 349 in the Park Central hotel vealed to he widespread in this re-| in which Rothstein is believed to gion following the slaying of Nelson | have heen shot. He also was named D, Rehmeyer who refused to give a! hy a waiter as the person who called Jock of his hair demantied by a“pow- | {othstein to the phone in Lindy’s wow doctor” to break a spell. ‘| restaurant that night after which . At a conference last night between | Rothstein left for the Park Central. Coroner L. U. Zech and Colonel | McManus’ overccat was found in the James Duffy, chief of the bureau of | yoom after the shooting. field inspector of the state depart-| “There is ment of health, plans were laid for | the di: cooperation of state and local author: ities in the campaign. The coroner’ ‘ords showed that several childr had died within the last two. ye reatment by “pow-wow” doc Precipitated by Death of Man Who Refused to Oblige ‘Pow-Wow’ Doctors a way to¢ ut the practice of wi 0 doubt in my mind,” ttorney ‘said, “that lured to the Park ¥ 1 hotel and then killed in cold blood, and that the four men now under indictment were participants in that murder.” COURT DROPS ROSSEN CASE Demurrer Upheld Claiming That Grand Jury Indict- ment Was Faulty ein was A resolution will be presented to- morrow night at a meeting of the York county médical society asking | that organization to aid in stamping | out witchcraft practices. The three confessed slayers Rehmeyer, John Blymyer, bert G. Hess, 18, and John C were committed to jail toda await action of the grand jury i January. Blymytr is alleged to be a “pow- wow doctor,” and confessed he was engaged to break a spell over mem- bers of Hess’ family. Blymyer took young Hess and Curry with him to Claude ‘Rossen, Bismarck, charged | sustained The court held that the indictment was defective in that it failed to state the nature of the nuisance which Rossen previously had been convicted of conducting, whereas the nuisance complained of in the present case was one of operating a place whcre liquor was sold. The machete, South America’s own native tool of varied uses, is pur- chased from the United States, the department of commerce is informed. the home of Rehmeyer. When Reh- meyer refused to give up a lock of his hair, he was attacked; and killed, the confessions said according to the police. The prisoners have said they did not intend to slay him HOLD MEETING with keeping and maintaining a common nuisance, was freed in Bur- leigh county district court this morn- ing. = Rossen was indicted by the grand jury but a demurrer to the indict- _Woman Dies at Home Jamestown, N. D., Dec. 5.—(AP) —Mrs. Martin Clark, 84, a resident of Central North Dakota for the ES 46 years, died at her home here ast night from complications inci- dent to old age. Mrs. Clark formerly lived at Mel- ville and Kensal, coming to James- town three years ago on the death of her husband. She is survived by two sons and a daughter here, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1928 the Fairmount Jockey club during 1927, were killed early today when fire destroyed one of the eighteen barns on the track. The loss was estimated at $82,500. PAID TO BE ANGRY Meriden, Cohn.—(?)--A taxpayer who came to court on, crutches tc appeal from a tax collector's decisior as to his assessment lost his temper when the judge sided with the col- lector. His anger was so great he threw down his crutches and stalked out of the courtroom. | daughter in Minneapolis, a son, John, at Faribault, Minn., and a son, Pa- trick, at Long Beach, Calif. 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