The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 4, 1929, Page 1

a7 NORTH DAKOTA'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED 1878 Questio TAHOURSOPSTEADY. |[_¥etiows xamote_| PLIGHT PASSED THIS MORNING BY CRAFT Passes Refueling, Non-Refuel- ing and Continuous Hop Marks During Night FOG DANGERS CONQUERED ‘How Long Wil! It Fly?’ World| Asks as Army Ship Makes Home in Heavens —After peacefully sailing over the Imperial Valley since yesterday, the army monoplane Question Mark headed back towards Los Angeles be- fore noon today in its fourth day of & flight to set a new endurance rec- ord through refueling. i Word of Major Carl Spatz’ decision ‘o quit the valley and journey north- ward came from Captain R. G. Hoyt, pilot of refueling plane No. 1. The flight started at Los Angeles 76 hours ago. “They're all happy up there,” Cap- tain Hoyt said. “Seem to be feeling good and everything fine. Guess they're a bit tired of watching this desert and so we're going to fly to Los Angeles.” Captain Hoyt said his ship would ‘accompany the Question Mark and that a gasoline contact probably would be made en route. the flight of the Question Mark. Metropolitan Airport, Los Angeles, Jan. 4.—(#)—Driven from point to low hanging clouds the army endurance ship. Question Mark roared its way through blazing its way to a new quest... ‘The at. 7:33 Continuing its flight the ship at 12:51 o'clock today swept aside the magnificinet record of the two Ger- man aviators—Risticz and Zimmer- man, who six months ago flew for 65 hours and 25 minutes. ‘There was every indication today that the motors of the monoplane and the morale of its crew were as sturdy oe inte : : i g. % g i : i 2 zg a ee : k E ? F i i [ i : a if i ; 4, i i f i ah E g i : i Ht i 2 f i sf i ATE Imperial Valley, Calif, Jan. 4—(>) | jf S iameenameniemsememmmeed George 8. Who succeeds F. E. McCurdy as ‘leigh county state’s attorney lay, follows example set by uncle and father, who were former state's attorneys in this county. GEORGE §, REGISTER TAKES COUNTY POST HELD BY DAD, UNCLE Third Member of Family to Hold State's Attorney Office Also Youngest Michigan, worked as a clerk in the office of the county treasurer. Following his com- of his law course, he became eee ae and uncle THE BI BUDGET B INDICTMENT ‘PEACE PACT DUE FOR TTS BAPTISM OF FIRE AS BORAH TALK ENDS Naval Construction Bill Advo- re Dishes, Furniture and 00 : cates Agree to ‘Sidetrack’ 50.00 Other Furnishings 10.00 Measure for Time ro te slats sw {FUNDS WILL SOON BE PAID 5.00 REED OPPOSED TO TREATY 2 seo ol Red Cross and Club Ladies Do- idaho Senator Declares Pact Zuo ing Bit in Clothing; Gift of Does Not Encroach on Na- 2.80 Hay for Scott Horses 2.50 — : tion's Self-Defense 200 | With the finding of house in — 250 |which they can make their home, Washington, Jan. 4.—(AP)—Single| 1.00 the Carl Scott family will be set on handedly championing the Kellogg} 1.00 |their feet again, up out of the mis- peace past before the senate /tdday, 1.00 [fortunes so cruelly inflicted by the Chairman Borah of the foreign rela-) 1.00 | fire which last Monday wiped out all tions committee warned that if “We their and took the life of don’t find a way to preserve peace, 10.00 | little Donald Scott. civilization is imperiled as it has not 5.00 While the parents are undergoing been since the evening of the dark 100 |e ten-day stay at a local tal, ages.” receiving relieving treatment for the Summing up arguments against 1.00 | painful burns they suffered as they the treaty which would peldge the joe [rescued their other children and then nations of the world to renounce war, | - 1.00 escaped through the flames, the city he asserted that: 100 has been going down in its pockets The Monroe doctrine is a part of 1.00 for their economic relief. From sev- America’s policy of self defense and ey [eral sources helping hands have been thereby would be under 1.00 extended. adherence to the treaty by a nation's op | These include the fund being re- inalienable right to self defense. z.5y |ceived by The Tribune, another fund Correspondence of the other ner i.uy |being collected by Roland H. Crane, tions in connection with the treaty ley |deputy sheriff, at the request. of| day. are not a part of the treaty and iey |Mayor Lenhart and D. J. McGillis, therefore can have no effect on the 109 ‘the assistance of the Red Cross and treaty. ‘yyy |of the B. I. C. club and the care of No sanctions, stated or implied, are _igy |the children, which has been as- involved in the treaty which’ would 5.0y |Sumed by Clifford Scott, a brother, force the United States to join in 5.09 |8nd W. R. Johnson. punishing offending nations. 5.00 Harold and Merlin, two of the boys, 5.09 jare at the.Johnson home and Mar- 1.0y |Jorie, Barbara and Walter are with 1.00 |their uncle. Another uncle, Grant 2.09 | Scott, extended them a home the day 1.0y |of the fire, but sickness there di- 100 ‘tha slammer i a: ‘rv rag abo 5.00 .|, Kindness Makes Children Happy Mr. and Mrs, John K. Skei, ice The children, whose ages ———— | they They have re~ oa Total to noon .. $545.00 (Continued on page two) RUSSIA GRAIN FARM W. T. Kraft, Bismarck, Named EE EE | . f ai BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1929 HOUSE FOR SCOTT FAMILY HOME BEING SOUGHT BY WOMEN WHO ARE RELIEVING FIRE DISTRESS ili Aa ee a il ip Tribune-Scott Fund ||8. C. |. Club Gathering Beds, @ Representative to Imperial Thomas D. Campbell Will Plant Council Meeting 10,000,000 Acres of Wheat and Flax for Soviet Pilgrimage of El Zagal temple, A. Los Angeles, Jan. 4—(AP)—The Times today published an announce- ment by Thomas D. Campbell, of row, Fargo, who was elected illus- trious potentate of the organization Hie a iq g® i Hi age F g i a; 3 $Be i j i g t E i 3 i i ‘Biisabet Besides children I I REEEE eae : ee ) SMARCK TRIBUN Potter Murder Count Dismissal Action Is Not Contem- plated by Cameron REGISTER WAITS INDUCTION Walla’s Attorneys Will Move to Quash Charges Against the Former Hotel Cashier Action of Judge James A. Coffey yesterday in quashing Burleigh county grand jury indictments against four former officers of the closed Bis- marck Bank has caused the contemp- lation of other defendants to pre- sent motions in district court to quash indictments against them re- turned by that body. No further action by the state is at present planned in connection with the indictments, according to F. E. McCurdy, state's attorney, in a statement made this morning. He said that the cases against the bank officials were outlawed yesterday by the statute of limitations and that as far as he could see the state's case against them was dropped. John Knauf, Jamestown attorney who aided the grand jury in its in- vestigation as a special assistant at- torney general, left for his home last night following the session in dis- trict court in which the bank indict- ments were quashed. Judge Coffey also returned to Jamestown last night and it is as- sumed that the term of court will not be resumed until R. G. McFarland, Coffey’s successor, takes office Mon- * "waits For State Scott Cameron, one of the attor- neys who defended Ray Potter in his | pn, trial on a charge of first degree mur- der, said today that he contemplated no action to have the indictment against Potter quashed. He said that he will do nothing on the case until the state makes its next move. The eee in the first trial of George S. Register, who succeeds F. E. McCurdy as Burleigh county state's attorney Monday, said this morning that he had no official an- Tange| nowncements to make regatding ‘the atatets other cases until he .had a ‘what | Chance to review the cases. He said that he probably would have no statements to make, until the middle of next week. Crum and Crum, local attorneys defending Eugene Merritt Walla on charges of embezzlement, forgery, and grand larceny, said today that they are preparing an action to have Wal- la’s indictments quashed. They will also attempt to have indictments of four other defendants quashed at their earliest convenience, they said. Denies Fugitive Charge C. Liebert Crum said that contrary to early reports, Walla was not a fu- itive from justice from the time the (Continued on page two) BISMARCK [S FIRST IN FIRE CLEAN-UP State Honor Awarded City by the International Prevention Committee in Contest | Bismarck has won the state honor of clean-up activity of Fire Preven- ‘week, being accorded first place North Dakota competition. news was brought to H. P. , secretary of the Association ODY SLASHES APPROPRIATION n Mark Roars Aerial Way to New Endurance Record QUASH MOVES PREP ARED| Doomed to tans | Their last plea for clemency having been turned down by the Louisiana Board of Pardons, Mrs. Ade LeBoeut and Dr. Thomas Dreher (shown above) of Franklin, La. are to be hanged for the murder of James Le- Boeuf, the woman's husband. The governor refuses to interfere. The* state alleged that Mrs. LeBoeuf and - Dreher, madly in love, hired James Beadle, a trapper, to shoot Le- Boeuf whose body was mutilated and thrown in a lake. The jury recom- mended life for Beadle. The crime was committed:on July 1, 1927. CONDEMNED KILLERS - AWAMT DECISION FOR SANTY COMISSION and Sob When Governor Re- fuses to Stop Execution Franklin, La, Jan. 4.—(P)— Judge James D. Simon in the St. Mary Parish district court today refused to appoint a commission to inquire into the sanity of Mrs. Ada Bonner LeBoucf and Dr. Thomas E. Dreher ,sentenced to be hanged tomorrow, but said he would hear evidence as to their sanity. Franklin, La., Jan. 4.—(?)—Coun- sel for Mrs, Ada Bonner LeBouef and Dr. T. E. Dreher entered the last ditch fight today for the two con- demned to hang tomorrow for the murder of the husband of the wom- an, James J. LeBouef. Sleepless and emaciated after their long death cell waits, the widow and the doctor nervously awaited the de- cision of Judge James Simon in Par- ish court here today on the applica- tion for appointment of a sanity commission. When Mrs. LeBouef and Dr. Dre- her were told yt by Sheriff Charles Pecot that Governor Huey P. ing, Long had disregarded the recom- i ; { ily i Hi i i f Hi | i i 4 if mendation for commutation from the pardon board, both broke down and sobbed. Mrs. LeBouef’s 19 year old son, Ernest, fainted at the door of her it $74,585 ASKED FOR NEW STRUCTURES AT STATE INSTITUTIONS State Agricultural College Gets $284,000 For Needed Buildings at Fargo STATE FAIR FUND OMITTED University Has Largest Appro- priation Recommendation ; With $1,216,607.60 * Appropriations totaling $9,715,837.49 were recommended to the legislature by the state budget board Thursday. This is a reduction of $4,582,796.05 from the total of $14,299,633.53 asked by various institutions and depart- ments, and $159,583.09 less than the total appropriations at the last legis- be session for the current bien- jum. Included in the board’s recom- new construction. Of this sum $95, is for a wing to the $95,000 for a wing to building, $25,000 for the power plant, $50,000 for new power Plant equipment, and $19,000 for an ame to the library. College, for arts ding are: Valley City Teachers $115,000 for a tr: school University of North Dakota, $5,000 @ warehouse and storage ane to equip the new liberal > Minot $115,000 for a training school Dickinson normal school, $35, trial setiooi, 40,000 for a bray bella 1, for @ - it err aa feeble-minded at Graft for @ barn, potato cellars tluerouaate taaiteeieme Han Haven, $36,000 for extension of heating system, $40,000 for a nurses’ tome, ae me for minor construc- lon items; ite penitel , Bis- marck, $4,800 for farm ballaings, The proposed budget makes no pro- vision for 17 different appropriations from the general fund made by th last legislature, which totaled $224,- 395.88, and nine different appropria- tions from special funds, which to- taled $308,450. $35,000 for State Fairs Among the «ppropriations for the present biennium not included in the budget is one of $35,000 for state fairs, although the standing appropriation Of $5,000 for the Minot state fair was continued. It is expected by the budget board members that appropri- ations for various fairs will be made by special bills to be introduced dur- ing the session Appropriations from the general fund recommended for various state institutions follow: State patients at hospital for insane, Jamestown, $90,- 000; University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, $1,215,607.60; state agri- cultural col , Fargo, general ex- penses, $1,019,618.19; agricultural col- * lege experiment station $272,507; ex- tension department, $87,763.64; Bot- tineau forestry school, $91,770; Minot Teachers college, $410,496; Dickinson normal school, $180,692.18; Valley City Teachers college $449,906.02; Mayville Teachers college, $226, Ellendale normal and industrial school, $161,319; Wahpeton school of science, $116,055; Bathgate school for blind, $34,200; Devils Lake school ‘for deaf, $167,- 438.54; Mandan training school, $288,- 190; Grafton institute for feeble- minded, $253,035; San Haven tubercu- losis sanitarium, $276,670; Bismarc? state penitentiary, $271,135; general hospital for , Legislative Session Report Will: Probably Not Be Made Un-