The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 14, 1929, Page 1

' The Weather Cloudy tonight and Wed.; probably NORTH DAKOTA'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER tain with snow. _ze2]THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE == SENATE GROUP PLANS SECOND PROTEST VOTE EAST SLOPE BANKERS|[ Pret Sponsor for Summ] EDWARD P. WESTON, FAMOUS | Firevoris Take Hari Tom | DRBENTURE PLAN IS. VIEW FARM OUTLOOK) jms LOG DISTANCE WEEE, OES TET) | OBIECTIONABLE 10 IN ANNUAL MEET HERE a NEN BEHIND HOOVER Friend of Horace Greeley onal? Dog Catcher No. 2 i Civil War Spy Was 90 | Demoralized; Hits Convention Gathers at Associa- tara Measure Is Expscted to Pass Years of Age $100 Glass Window ° bron Chicago, May 14.—(4)—Curbing the curs becomes, as time goes on, more | > CROSSED COUNTRY WHEN 70 on, ventory Conditions — — ‘i ‘wasn’t heraiy sree coh that Despite Opposition, Chair- bregarec Veteran Made His First Long|digie ving for a dor. that turned man McNary Says PEACE IN PARTY IS SOUGH? out to be an iron ornament; and now John Sullivan, canine collector for Oakpark—another of Chicago's dogsy suburbs—plunges through $100 worth of plate glass window in an attempt to master @ mite of a mutt. Sullivan cornered the creature in front of the big show window of the Cranall Motor Car company. He sprang at the dog in the most ap- proved fashion, but the dog sprang, too. Sullivan kept on going right through the window. He was picking glass from his clothing long after the dog was two miles away and still running. Fortunately, Sullivan was not hurt. Someone, however, owes the Cranall Walk to Attend Lincoln Inauguration GOVERNOR IS ONE SPEAKER B. E. Groom Analyzes Prospects of Land Sales and Urges More Tenant Farmers New York, May 14.—(7)—Edward Payson Weston, famous long distance pedestrian, died yesterday. He was 90 years old. ‘The man who at the age of 70 walked 3,895 miles from New York to San Francisco in 104 days and seven hours, spent his last days in a wheel chair. He had been an invalid since being struck by a taxicab two years ago. Shortly after the taxicab accident he was found wandering about the streets of New York in @ daze. Recommendation for Elimina- tion of Plan in Long Run |s New Probability Bankers from the 11 eastern coun- ties of the Missouri Slope territory were gathering at the Association of Commerce rooms, this morning, for their annual session. Failure of some ‘of the members to get here on time ‘Washington, May 14.—(4)—Leade: of the Democratic and Republica Washington, May 14.—(?)—Leaders the export debenture plan gave ad- vance notice in the senate today that a serious challenge would meet any attempt by the house to decline on Not all fireworks fatalities occur on the Fourth of July. A series of terrific from distant points in the area was delaying the proceedings, which had been set to begin at 10:15. Up to that hour, about 35 of the 70 members expected here had arrived and registered. These spent the wait- ing hours in mingling in groups and discussing the business and agricul- tural conditions in the state. Their faces wore the looks of optimists. J. P. Wagner, cashier of the First Guaranty bank, president of the East Slope association, will preside at the sessions. W. J. Watson, of Mandan, is secretary. Other officers are Verne ‘Wells, Robinson, vice president; and A. J. Hezel, Jr., Zeeland, treasurer. The opening business of the con- vention was the appointment of com- mittees and county association re- Ports. ‘ The big feature of the first session was the address of B. E. Groom, of the Greater North Dakota associa- tion, on “Farm Sales Contracts,” on which he also spoke to the western group at New England, Monday. Farm conditions will be a big feature of the convention. ‘W. C. Macfadden, Fargo, secretary of the North Dakota Bankers associ. ation, was speaker on “Bank Manage: ment.” The sessions included a luncheon at which the program was: Anne Nichols, author of “Abie's Irish Rose,” established a trust fund for him which yielded an income of $150 a month. With this money Miss Anna O'Hagan, for 21 years his secre- tary. cared for the aged pedestrian in his quarters in Brooklyn. ‘Weston began his career as a walk- er while serving as a spy in the union army in the civil Later his re- markable ability to cover ground en- abled him to beat rival reporters when he was on the staff of the New York Herald. He w friend of Horace Greeley and was at the death- bed of the famous editor. Legs Never Tired Edward Payson Weston, one of the most famous of long-distance pedes- trians, seemed to have legs and feet that never tired. Although only 22 when he took his first long walk, 443 miles from Boston to Washington to attend the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln, the most remarkable feats of his long career were accomplished after he had passed threescore and ten. He continued taking long dis- tance hikes until his 8th year, in which he walked from Buffalo to New York city, completing the trip nearly two days ahead of his schedule. ‘When the fast-thinning ranks of the Confederate veterans hold their annual reunion in Charlotte, N. C., early in June, a direct descendant of Jefferson Davis, only president of the Confederacy, will be their sponsor. Pictured above is pretty Miss Robine Webb, granddaughter of Davis, who during the thirty-eighth annual reunion will be attached to the staff of General A. T, Goodwin, commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans. BAPTIST CONVENTION TO HEAR DES MOINES U STUDENTS’ SIDE | Faculty Member and Trustee on TEXAS WIFE SHOOTS ’ Way to Buffalo to Pre- WOMAN WHO SOUGHT Welcome address-—-A. P. Lenhart, sen scrip’ president of the Bismarck city com- t De tion career as a pedestrian. His first feat mission. — HUSBAND'S COMPANY 3 Ses = ae ., to Chicago in 1867, covering 1, iles in 26 days. Forty years later he duplicated that trip and al- though he walked 19 more miles he bettered his previous record by 29 Between those two walks Weston appeared in many exhibitions and contests in this country and Europe. He performed in several European countries between 1876 and 1884 and among his accomplishments was the winning of the Astley belt in 1879 by walking 550 miles in 141 hours and 44 minutes. The Church of England engaged Weston for a campaign in 1883. He walked 50 miles a day for 100 succes- sive days and cach evening at the conclusion of his walk he delivered a lecture on temperance. Walked Across Continent Two years after his second Port- performed what is regarded as his most remarkable feat. Then at the age of 70 he walked from New York to San Francisco over a route 3,895 miles in 104 days and seven hours. ‘The next year, 1910, he made the re- turn trip over a different route of 3,600 miles, which he covered in 76 days, 23 hours and ten minutes. In 1913 Weston walked from New York to Minneapolis to lay the cor- nerstone of a new athletic club build- ing. He negotiated the 1,546 miles in E. F Ripley: Mandan. + EDITH.REBMAN HISSED AGAIN University Again in Operation| Three Shots Fired From Old After Egg-Throwing Spree Single-Action Pistol on Saturday Night Amarillo Street Des Moines, Ia., May 14—()—A| Amarillo, Tex., May 14.—(#)—Mrs. faculty member and a trustee of Des|L. P. Stallworth, Amarillo, shot and Moines university have gone to Buf- | killed Mrs. Grace Morrison, Plainview, falo, N. Y., to present to the Baptist | Texas, when she met her in front of Bible union convention the students’ | a hotel in the downtovvn district here and faculty's side of the dissension | late yesterday. Mrs. Stallworth sur- that has shaken the 8 rendered to police and told them, ‘On the same train with these two— | they said, that Mrs. Morrison was a Dean Earl C. Callaway and the Rev. | rival for her husbanc’s affection. Minor Stevens—was Miss Edith M.| Before the shooting, Mrs. Stall: Rebman, secretary of the university | worth, accompanied by her mother. board and also of the Bible Union. | in-law, had gone to a rouming house Four others left the campus last | in search of -Ars. Morrison. The land- night for their homes. They were E.| lady, who saw Mrs. Stallworth was Knechtel, Morris Rose, J. F. Demp-| angry, informed her Mrs. Morrison ster and Frank Smith, Canadian stu- | was not at home and ordered her to dents. They were given police pro- | leave. tection to the ‘station to prevent a| A block from the rooming house, recurrence of a Sunday night demon- | Mrs. Stallworth met Mrs. Morrison stration which was the culmination | and fired three t-mes. Police said of resentment which one faction of | several witnesses declared the two because of | women were less than three feet effort was being! apart when Mrs. Stallworth began shooti The weapon used an old, single students Sunday night in| action pistol and it was necessary to inister's home where|cock it after each shot. One bullet People.” Governor George F. Shafer. Vocal solo—Mrs. Frank Barnes, Bis- marck. Following the luncheon, as after- noon program, the order of the con- vention was: Legislative report, Gordon Cox, Bis- k. marek. “Bank Protective Measures,” led by Verne Wells, Robinson, and Henry Handtmann, Mandan, Morton county sheriff. “County Credit Bureaus,” led by George H. Leick, Hebron. “Community Educational Talks on (Continued on page eleven) CALIFORNIA MURDE TRIAL WILL BE HELD IN DANCING PAVILION ‘Mail Order Bride’ Is Charged With Poisoning Husband struck Mrs. Mcrrison in the neck, | 51 days, making an average of more y in the chest and a third in| than 30 miles a day. He was escort- at Dance . Ghe died on the way to the |ed into the city by members of the Columbia, Calif., May 14—(?}—An elevated dance pavilion just off main street of this front! town was turned into 4 today a the preliminary 5 ive ge bail z ‘Motor company $100. BISMARCK MAN AND DAD ARE TOGETHER AFTER LONG SEARCH James Douglas Learns That his Real Name Is Douglas Franklin Renkert ‘The melodrama of James Douglas’ search for a father from whom he was separated 19 years ago ended Sunday at Jamestown, when parent and son were reunited and their iden- tities mutually established. Douglas, 23,a resident at 1100 Broadway, Bismarck, finds he is Douglas Franklin Renkert. He is the son of Pred Renkert, an employe of a lumber company at Jamestown, years of age. In addition, the Bismarck man lo- cates two brothers and a sister, who, like himself, were scattered in adopted homes by the death of their mother 19 years ago. ‘The Bismarck man was at James- town, today, expressing his joy at re- establishment of the family ties by shaping up the grave of his mother. It is @ real joy that he feels, said Mrs. Douglas and his employer. E. R. ‘Thompson, of the Washburn Lignite company’s office. “We spent more money on trying to find his father and old home on anything else,” said Mrs. Dou today, as she stood in her home with @ baby in her arms—the youngest of their two children. It was an unusual story of a child buffeted about from home to home for years, until he a! most lost the faint vestiges of re- membrance of his days as a child of four, while other kin also lost trace of him. Went From Family to Family As near as Douglas can remember, he was adopted by John Rolland, south of Stanley. when his mother died. Subsequently he was taken over by the family of George Kruger, of Palermo, then by the family of Ben Morman, in the same commun- ity, near Minot. When he working as a laborer in various com- munities of North Dakota. All the time since then he has been seeking for traces which should establish his identity and discover his father. Hav- ing been called “Douglas” he knew no other name and, thinking it was his family name, he termed himself “Jimmy Douglt ‘Three years ago he married Lenora Steinert, of this city. The wife Joined in the scarch for the parent (Continued on page eleven) ame 17, he began = SHAFER PROCLAIM explosions in the National Fireworks Co. factory, at Hanover, Mass., re- sulted in at least three deaths and the total wreckage pictured above. Two more workmen were missing and ten were injured as the different sections of the plant were blown up. YANK TAXI DRIVER FOUND DEAD IN MEXICAN REBEL SOD TRENCH GRAF ZEPPELIN SET FOR SECOND FLIGHT FOR NORTH AMERICA Takeoff Is Set for Dawn Tomor- row, According to Dr. Hugo Eckener Friedrichshafen, Germany, May’ 14. (#)—Final preparations for departure of the giant dirigible Graf Zeppelin, on its second trip to America, were under way today. The takeoff is Planned for dawn tomorrow. A last trial fight.of one hour and three-quarters was made at dusk yes- terday under command of Captain Lehmann, assistant to the ship's mas- ter, Dr. Hugo Eckener. The motors functioned perfectly and everything was pronounced in readiness for what, despite its having blazed the trail in a previous journey, is regarded as its great adventure. The little South German town was a beehive of activity today, with its quarters crowded with passengers, newspaper men and sightseers. At the Zeppelin’s hangar mechanics and handlers busied themselves putting last-minute touches to the ¢irigible’s apparatus and fittings. It was assumed here that after tak- ing off tomorrow morning Dr. Eckener will shape his course to Lakehurst, N. J., as far south as the Azores, or even farther south, since adverse weather conditions are expected to prevail along the northern route. The extreme southern course measures 7.500 miles, as compared with 4,000 minimum mileage along the northern course. Fifty-nine persons and one “lady” gorilla, “Missie” by name, who is dressed to the Chicago zoo, will the trip aboard the ship, 40 of the persons being members of the crew. Among the passengers is Captain Sir George Hubert Wilkins, polar ex- plorer, who wishes to make some navi- gational studics en route. AIRPLANE RACE FOR Santa Monica, C: WOMEN IS PLANNED May 14.—(?) Authorities Seek Clues to Mur- der of Robert Chambers Near Agua Prieta }BODY SLASHED WITH KNIFE ‘Examination Discloses 10 Knife Slashes in Neck, Chest and Heart Douglas, Ariz. crumbling earthern trench which rebel soldiers used during the recent Mexican revolution, today provided the chief clue in a search for the slayers of Thomas Chamber, Douglas taxi driver. Chambers’ knife-slashed body was found yesterday on the outskirts of Agua Prieta, Sonora, across the in- ternational line from here in a rifle {pit where less than three weeks ago soldiers of the rebellion had main- tained a machine gun nest. Mexican children who had appropriated the war-time trench as a playground stumbled over an exposed human; hand and fled in terror to spread an alarm. Chambers had been missing since last Wednesday night when he left his stand here with a passenger,; said by witnesses to have been an American. Examination of the body disclosed eight deep gashes in the neck and chest, one knife-thrust having sev- ered the jugular vein and another having penetrated the heart. Chambers’ friends reported to po- lice the taxi driver had $300 on his person when he disappeared. No money was found on the body. Working with the trench grave as a nucleus, police of Douglas and Ag Prieta today were endeavoring to run down reports that there were eye- witnesses to either the slaying or the apparently hasty burial in Agua Prieta. Investigation also was being made of rumors that Chambers’ automobile had been seen at several places in Mexico since his disappearance. Chambers was the sixth Douglas taxicab driver murdered in the past 15 years. LEACH AND KUNZE MAYOR CANDIDATES Kunze Has 5,130 Margin on In- constitutional grounds to receive the farm bill because it included the de- benture proposal. Washington, May 14—(P)—. second protest agaiune de eared . benture provision a number of ad. ministration senators have decided to vote against the farm relief bill at the time a ballot is taken either late today or tomorrow on final Lepr ho the measure. jupporters of President Hoove Senator Watson of Indiana, the Ree publican leader, Senator Moses, of New Hampshire, and a substantial number of other Republicans are en- deavoring to make the vote in favor of the farm bill as small as possible in an effort to impress the house that no greater majority of sentiment in pine re favors the debenture prop- osition so strong); the house. ee ee Expected to Pass In spite of this defection, however, the measure is expected by Chair- man McNary of the senate agricul- ture committee to pass with votes to spare. McNary said today he would ios of those to vote against the “I have every hope,” he , getting a good farm Bites in a coucnee of senate and house mem- rs after the bill is passed ae is by the The view held by McNary is shared by Senators Thomas, of Idaho,-and Capper, of Kansas, members of the agriculture committee, who also. ope Posed the debenture plan. There remained a great deal of Speculation as to the course of action should the house refuse to receive the senate farm bill on the ground that debenture provision constitutes reve enue legislation which the constitu- tion directs the house to initiate. Should the house decline to receive the measure, it would be returned to the senate where a lengthy debate on eg constitutional question is looked May Recommend Elimination McNary said he Probably in the end would recommend the elimina- tion of the debenture pian. He thought advocates of the proposal in the senate might agree to his sug: gestion, if the house was determined not to receive the bill, and later at- tempt to tack it on the tariff bill. The debenture clause as it stands in the farm bill merely gives the Proposed farm board the option of the use of the debenture plan. Advocater of the proposal intend, however, to make use of the plan mandatory should they find it n to make an attempt to add it to the tariff bill, Administration leaders in congress were intent today on closing breaches in Republican ranks and increasing the legislative efficiency of their majorities while both senate and house were aware they were proceed- ing with bills containing objectionable to President Hoover. As the senate approached a vote on the farm bill coniaining the export debenture plan which the president denounced. the administration leaders —Announcement of an airplane race for women. for $10,000 in prize money, from Santa Monica to the national air races in Cleveland next August, was made here last night at a meet- ing of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Aeronautical association of America. The distance is 2,044 miles. TEXAS FLOOD KS TS DAMAGES GREAT Livingston, Texas, May 14.—(#)—]| Complete returns showed amend- Seven ment No. 5, which provided for cen- Gead and property and crol|tralization of street funds, carried by a vote of 58,321 for or approximately 64 per cent, and 36,600 again. MAY 25 POPPY DAY American Legion Auxiliary Will Conduct Sales Camp<..gn in North Dakota cumbent Opponent, Who Seeks Fifth Term Minneapolis, May 14.—()—Mayor George E. Leach and William F. Kunze will oppose each other for the office of mayor at the general clec- tion June 10. Complete unofficial returns of yes- terday’s primary gave Kunze s mar- gin of 5,130 votes, his total being 31,- 306 against 26,176 for Mayor Leach. John R. Coan, the runner-up, fell far back of the two leaders with 18,- a Ninety-six thousand votes were Cc Governor George F. Shafer has set Saturday, May 25, as the American Legion Auxiliary Poppy day in a tion issued here. The proc- follows: “Whereas, the citizens of this coun- try should be ever mindful of the sacrifices made by those who have edes- | offered their lives in the defense of . O. Showers and George Bjornson Prove Their Mettle After Making Wager 3 $ 5 a5 z : i E i E i f 3 7 ! i be al i i i Pi i H i i “BF t i} TY a F | if | z i i f i spectators fee andar, el proven that tention iF ett Hf By E é i