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

“es oe v wo a! wa * € ] f \ a | * 4 ey, e ~~ eFabe al s NORTH DAKOTA'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER zm] THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE =e: BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1928 POPULATION GROWS TO 11.03 ESTABLISHED 1878 BISMARCK’S Donald Scott, 4, Meets Death in Bismarck Fire Early Today BOY'S BODY CHARRED| OPERATION PLANNED TO TAKE IN RESIDENCE FIRE; SIX CHILDREN SAVED!| Father Awakened by Smoke About 2:30 a.m. to Find Flames Spreading NEW YEAR'S EVE TRAGEDY Bismarck Sympathizers Begin Drive for Contributions to Help Family OPPORTUNITY Tragedy, grim and terrible, stalks through the community on , New Year's eve. A Bismarck family has lost its youngest child and all its earthly possessions as the result of fire. ‘This is an opportunity to start the New Year by demonstrating appreciation of the good things God has given you and sympathy for the plight of others. A group of business people sug- gests that a fund to meet the sub- sequent greater needs of the Scott family will help to alleviat. the tragedy which has befallen them. As far as immediate needs are concerned, the Red Cross re- sponded at once this morning. It will take care of the hospital bills, clothing, other immediate needs, and funeral expenses. The Red Cross, however, has no objection to the community in general voluntarily contributing for the ultimate needs of the family, as here suggested. A hard-working husband and father and a toil-worn mother in the hospital. Children without clothes. The youngest child to be buried. He gives twice who gives quickly. Contribution. may be sent to The Tribune. They will be turned over to the Scott family. Not as charity but as a demonstration of neighborliness. _ Let’s show that Bismarck bas 9 . truly great heart. ee Donald Scott, 4-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs, Carl Scott, Avenue D and Twentieth street, was burned to death at 2:30 a. m: today when the Scott bungalow home burned. Mr. and Mrs. Scott, who rescued the other six children from the burn- ing structure, were badly burned and are now under treatment at a local hospital. ‘The father was awakened shortly before 2:30 by smoke. He found the Tooms ablaze. He wakened Mrs. Scott who was confused and resisted her husband's efforts to get her out. She seemed to be wanting to do some- thing, but {hn her confused state, waking out of sleep with flames all around here, couldn’t gather her wits. Evidently she had the children in her confused thoughts. Blocked By Flames The fire had started at the only door that opened. Another door was nailed up, as the house had not been completed and still was in process of (Continued on page eleven) ——— Year’s Highlights in Bismarck oo Special legislative session, Jan- wwe Mothers convention, Jan. North Dakota Tuberculosis as- : Dakota Grain Dealers’ convention, Feb. 28-Mar. 1. ee TENSE CM te Oy One PEANUT FROM BABY’S LUNGS Hi Has Been in Organs Since Nov. shietbeiee 1 and Pneumonia Developed; Is Third Ohio Baby in Hospi- tal With Foreign Objects Causing Internal Trouble. Columbus, O., Dec. 31.—(#)—Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hettich, today placed gr bag ard gb coord setting in. Ba feeens ny bape ster ioe Brooks ql woul mtinue improve Malcolm Almack is the 15-year-old = iat high school boy of Palo Alto, Calif., who won the $5000 Durant prize for his essay on methods of procedure in enforcement of prohibition. Major Chester Mills won first prize, $25,000. BISMARCK’S PAVING VALUED $1,200,000 City Has 21.3 Miles of Paving; 71 Blocks Paved During Closing Year Biemarck’s paving today ts worth $1,200,000, according to Myron H. At- ‘kinson, city auditor. Seventy-one blocks in the city were paved during 1928 at a cost of $315,- 200, the auditor said. ‘The city now has 256 blocks or 21.3 miles of paving exclusive of the mile of paving from the Northern Pacific railway underpass at the western end of Main avenue to the Memorial pier bridge across the Missouri ver. The 71 blocks paved during the year | The gangsters , added five and one-half miles to the |21, and Nicholas Celebre, 29, both of city’s total paving, Atkinson said. Philadelphia. Samuel Orlando, 19, Contractors began work in May and | also an occupant of the coupe, was completed their paving work in Octo- | Shot through the head and body. ber this year. Casano was at the wheel of his car. Streets paved during 1928 are: An-|The driverless coupe shot from the derson street between Thayer and| highway and was wrecked in the Rosser; Avenue C between Third and ditch. ‘Washington; Seventh between D and| Eleanor McDevitt, 19, in the rear Boulevard; Eighth between B and F; |seat of the car ahead peered Ninth between B and D; Tenth be- tween Broadway and Thayer and Rosser and C; Eleventh between Broadway and C; Twelfth, Thir- teenth, and Fourteenth between Broadway and B; Broadway between Ninth and Fourteenth; Thayer be- tween Tenth and Fifteenth; Rosser between Tenth and Sixteenth; A be- tween Ninth and Twelfth; B between Ninth and Sixteenth; C between Seventh and Eleventh; D between Eighth and Ninth, and E and F be- tween Sixth and Eighth. Late News Bulletins the last two days. GANGS’ GUNS DEAL DEATH 10 QUARTET Five Others, Including Two Women, Wounded in Cam- den, N. J,, and Chicago Beige arty N. besa Sa i BA lice, of | cty. day % underworld» for & trio‘of gunmen who, armed with a machine gun and a pump gun, shot two men to death and wounded five I loaded with merry-makers on the Black Horse pike near here early yes- terday morning and then sped away liam “Stubby” McGovern, death early today cafe. Nearly 200 patrons slid under tables, dashed for exits or hid be- hind pillars at the sound of the six shots, fired in rapid succession. George Mahoney, a pistol in hand, was arrested as 2 aong the frightened ment after the shooting. E iz fi i g28 FE Py ? Pile rs : i : Ux i H ef 1 i gt FE Leading Figures eee Arthur G. Sorlie, Aug. HEARING SET TODAY IN “MORAL MURDER’ Canton, Ohio, Man Charged PRICE FIVE CEN’ : ee : NEW FIGURES SHOW. GROWTH OF 55 PER CENT FOR 8 YEAR City Is Fastest Growing Cor munity in State; Business Is Expanding JOSEPH DREW, FORMER NODAK FOOTBALL STAR, IS DROWNED | Royal Baby | | 4,194 WORKING FOR GAl A NEW YEAR ON THE THRESHOLD ° In the mystic relay of Time two years touch tips again. Its race run, 1928 falls back into the discard of the past. Young and fresh for the perpetual task of the years, 1929 takes up the eternal course, leaps cross the mythical line, face to the future, and is off to carry the cosmic touch on to the unending succession of years. Humankind also runs this‘race. Time bears the world forward from year to year in cycles of progress for its races, its nations, its empires and its social structure. All existence is change—evolu- tion. Without Time this could not be—neither change nor even existence. For Time is the all-containing element of that cosmic consciousness which is existence. Neither this world nor the all- embracing universe were possible except as Time cradled them and bore them onward and upward through all the ages in its endless vibration. But the finite mind of man thinks of Time in terms of seasons ‘and periods. Appropriating the coursings of the celestial bodies, man makes a clockwork of them to measure the endless flow of existence. So it happens that he has beginnings and endings— years—for this universal element Time. Now the world comes to a pause in the tide of its affairs, An- other of these vertebral stages in the cosmic current has been attained. An old symbol has come to the point of extinction and another is to be written on the eternal calendar. To Time this all is @ mythical gesture. It flows on ceaselessly. There is no break. For humankind there is a hesitant stay not only in temporal measurement—New Year is the polsing of the soul for a new brief span of adventure in the infinite and eternal. Thus it is that the shift from one year to another has ever hhad the associations of something momentous to the world. Men think of it in terms of @ change fraught with new leases of hope and aspiration and effort. So the world pauses at this time to look Devils Lake Youth Studying Medicine at Northwestern Accepts Dare to Swim in Icy Lake Michigan Yesterday; Was Four-Year Athlete at U. Chicago, Dec. 31.—(#)—Joseph Myrtelius Drew, 22, Devils Lake, N. D., & medical student at Northwestern university, drowned Sunday when he completed a boast to take an early morning swim in the icy waters of Lake Michigan. He was the son of Dr. G. F. Drew, Devils Lake. Drew attended a party at the north side home of Miss Ruth James. About midnight the conversation of the young people turned to swimming, and Drew, an enthusiast, declared he frequently went in the lake in win- ter, and to dispel the skepticism of his friends, decided to go in immed- jately. He went to the beach a short dis- tance from the James’ home, took off all his buothes but his underwear and entered the water while members of the party watched him from the house. ‘When he did not return in half an hour, Arthur Cook left the party, saw him swimming about near shore, and called for him to come in. Drew dis- appeared and Cook thought he was City and Adjacent Urban Terri tory, Including Mandan, Has 20,000 Persons That Bismarck is the fastest grow ing city in North Dakota is indicate ‘by the fact that its population he grown 55 per cen‘ since 1920. | Population of the capital city ir jf creased from 7,122 in 1920 to 11,06 at the close of 1928. ‘ Population of the city and adjacetg urban territory, including the city Mandan, ts estimated at 20,000. An interesting feature of a made recently is the occupational et timates. Among the 8,635 persons ! years of age or over residing in th city there are 4,194 workers for gait 3,311 being males and 883 females. Characteristics of the city’s popula tion are: Population . backward and forward, to appraise that which it has accomplished intentionally worrying him and Males . < and that in which it has failed, to re; in its progress or to waited. Females . Cook later waded out in the shallow Persons over 21 ....+ lament its recessions, to charge itself with new hope, greater vision water where Drew had disappeared Males ... . and a bolder courage, The world ever nurtures the ambition to 1) and’ found the student’s body. This Uttle lady 1s Princess Shigeko| Females . : Grow better and worthier, and an accumulating progress has marked Police believe that the exposure of | Teru-no-miya, baby daughter of the| Persons over 10. : its course through the ages to this day of the profoundest and the water had weakened Drew, who|emperor and empress of Japan. It} Males ... = grandest stage in its evolution. became unconscious and sank. His|is the official photograph, taken on| Females . the occasion of her third birthday which was celebrated recently. 1928 BIRTHS DOUBLE DEATHS INBISMARGK 503 Children Born, 261 Persons Die, in First 11 Months of Last Year father is expected here today for the inquest. Members of the house party told police that no liquor had been served. Drew was a member of athletic teams at Devils Lake high school, competing in football, basketball, and track. Upon completing his work in Devils Lake high school he entered the University of North Dakota where he became noted as a crack athlete. Drew played four years with the University of North Dakota football team and was one of the best track men the Nodaks ever had. He won the 440-yard dash at the North Cen- tral Conference track meet for two years, setting @ conference record of 60.1. second in his-last.year of com- ion. ‘When in school at Devils Lake, young Drew was known as the “most tugged boy in town,” going to school during the winter without coat, hat, and tie, often with his shirt sleeves rolled up and his collar turned down. Joseph M. Drew was graduated in 1927 from the University of North Dakota where he was one of the out standing members of his class in at! letics activities and scholarship. He ‘was a member of Phi Delta Theta so- cial fraternity, and was honored with election to the blue key, a campus service fraternity, and to the Iron Mask, senior men’s honorary. He was @ member of the athletic board of control and secretary of the Athletic An excellent scholar as well as an athlete, Drew was strong candidate for Riedes écholarship in 1927. He was given especial consideration be- cause of his wide knowledge of foreign DICKINSON WOMAN INURE CRASH Dickinson, N. D., Dec, 31.—(?)—Mrs. Humankind gazes into the mist of 1929, certain that new splen- Occupied for gain . dors le within its orbit. Behind stretches backward the silvery path which 1928 opened toward its goals. The retreating vision of the passing year is fading away in an effulgent sunset. It has been a year of abundance, of surpassing achievement, of great movements for good. The benignities of peace and prosperity have blessed it. Life never before has meant as much as in that significance with which the past year has endowed it anew. Some missions remain to be launched, some tasks to complete, but, on the whole, 1928 has not been a period upon which to shed spology. To the world comes 1929 buoyant and unfaltering and eager for the new quests, the new problems, the new trusts and tasks of Time. Amid the prospect of toil and burden, of accomplishment and checkmate, of untiring aspiration and undaunted optimism, Jet there be also the note that rounds all these out in harmony. The note of happiness. ‘This, then, is a wish in which The Tribune frames its New ‘Year greeting to its readers: May they all have a happy and pros- BOLIVIA APPROVES OF PROPOSED PACT Today's Announcement Says South American Country Makes Modifications ‘Washington, Dec. 31.—(”)—Bolivian approval, “with slight modifications” of the proposed protocal for concili- Births have exceeded deaths in th city since the 1920 census by 640. T! number of qualified voters in the cil has increased 50 per cent since 193 Children of school age have ine 56 per cent in the last eight-year p riod. Number of active domestic wi ter services in the city has inc 50 per cent since 1920. The city hi made no annexations of tertite since the 1920 census was taken. But Bismarck has not grown ition alone. o ate indicated by the following Nine business houses, 85 homes and 24 private garages were built and 34 buildings were repaired int the city during the year, accord- ing to the records cf Myron Atkinson, city auditor. The build- ing expenditures totaled $621,305. Cost of the various types of build: ings follows: Houses $378,800; business buildings $163,400; ga~ rages $5,100; and repairs $64,705. Miscellaneous building activity cost $9,300. -~-~- _ The efty spent $354,7669% in publie’ improvements during the yepr as follows: Paving $315,200; sewer extensions $18,688.72; new: Births almost doubled deaths in Bismarck during the first 11 months of 1928, according to the records in the office of Myron H. Atkinson, city auditor. )” During that period 503 children were born and 261 persons died, ac- cording to the records. Number of births each month ranged from 32 in January to 61 in August and October. Deaths ranged in number from 17 in June to 28 in April. Records of births and deaths for December have not been received by the auditor yet. Births and deaths for the first 11 months of the year follow: Births Deaths +32 2 Died During ’28 K. E. Leighton, Jan. 10. 8. L. Nuchols, Jan. 11. James H. Spohn, Feb. 12. C. E. Wachter, Mar. 17. W. A. McDonald, Mar. 21. Dr. F. F. Smythe, Apr. 24. $10,801.57; $2,120.57. Bismarck’s postal receipts for 1928 increased by $3,000 over the 1927 receipts and totaled in 1928 $203,293.16. Postal receipts are usualy accepted as a fair indl~ cator of the city’s business. Ten years ago postal receipts in the local office totaled only $106,- 116.82, 1918 being a world war year. Bismarck’s paving today is worth . $1,200,000. Seventy-one blocks or 5.5 miles were paved in. the city during 1928 at a cost of $315,200. The city has 21.3 miles or 276 blocks of paving now ex- C. M. Christianson, Sept. 6. W. M. Cook, Sept. 14. Mrs. C. K. Blunt, Oct. 11. Mrs. Mary L. McLain, Oct. 14. 261 WRONG "PLANE FUE BRINGS DEATH T0 3 Graham, Texas, Dec. 31.—(7)—The substitution of ordinary gasoline for to| aviation petrol was held responsible for an airplane accident here yester- day in which three persons, including one.goman, were killed. Andrew Burke, of Wichita Falls airport, home port of the wrecked ship, who came here to investigate said the pilot, Welch W. Curtin had exhausted his supply of it the avenue to the Memorial highway ‘Continued : With ‘Moral Murder’ After (Continued on page eleven) © Wife Kills Self Bismarck’s Mayor _ Bids People Make. 1929 Record Yea ie H skh 8 i i ; “4 ef HAL at ines East? it