The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 31, 1929, Page 1

NORTH DAKOTA’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER TABLISHED 1873 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1929 PRICE FIVE CENTS LABOR PARTY SECURES 281 SEATS IN COMMONS WPARLAND DELAYS |Marmarth Disease Spectre Lessens ' With Falling Flood OPINION ON POTTER CHANGE OF VENUE Bismarck Business Men State Fair Trial Can Not Be Se- cured in Burleigh County 22 AFFIDAVITS SUBMITTED Prosecution Declares Most of Prospective Jurors Are Unduly Influenced ‘ After hearing y arguments in Bur- leigh county district court this after- noon on the state's motion for a change of venue in the second trial of Raymond E. Potter, Judge R. G.; ‘McFarland announced that he would make no decision on the motion until after 6 p. m. Monday, June 3. In making the ete for the change of venue, George 8. Register, atate’s attorney, submitted “affidavits by 19 prominent Bismarck men in which they expressed the opinion that a fair trial could not be secured in Burleigh county. Having less than two hours after 11a. m. today in which to secure affidavits signed by Bismarck busi- ness men expressing the opinion that @ fair trial could be secured in Bur- leigh county, Scott Cameron and Louls H. Connolly, Mandan, defense counsel, submitted only three affi- davits in rebuttal. First J jury Disagreed Potter is charged with first degree murder in connection with the fatal shooting of Oliver Webb in neommeen tre Oct. 27, 1928. The jury disagreed in hi. first trial here last December. Because Judge McFarland desired @ reasonable amount of time in which to consider the motion, the case was carried over to the next term of Bur- leigh county court. Prosecuting and defense attorneys may file additional arguments with the court up until 6 p. m. Monday, the judge ruled. Register and John Sullivan, Man- dan, prosecuting attorneys, and the 19 signers of the affidavit claimed that Burleigh county, in their belief, could not give Potter a fair trial be- cause the acute interest evidenced here almost daily since Oct. 27 in street’ conversations and newspaper articles had influenced a bd Pye against the defendant. hiree 4 claimed that because Potter, hi and Webb have “ees in ths commu ity 80 many, most of the npoupaaave reps would be influenced unduly. Newspapers Influenced Area The motion asked for a change of venue from Burleigh to some other county in the state outside of the fourth judicial district, claiming that the whole judicial district and the western part of the state have been influenced by articles concerning the case published in Bismarck and sae caren Papers Neuts 1 Cameron claimed that every daily paper in North Dakota and ‘Minne- apolis and St. Paul cara detailed accounts of the case, thereb; eoby giving at ints in the state a x review the case. He claimed that Bis- hic and Mandan newspapers treated the ne case a so neutral a manner that prospective jurors could not possibly have been influ- enced one or another in the case. Cameron also stressed the allega- fin tat the defendant should not sul to so great an expense as ee be incurred in a change of venue. He explained that more than| record 20 witnesses on each side of the case lly would be forced to move with the trial, incurring a great ex- pense and causing great incon- eee etic if the. pon completion o! argu- ments, Cameron moved that the nd jury indictment cha laude Rossen with keeping maintaining a common nuisance on g second offense be dismi cause of ir: ity in the Jules of the Jndicheepnt by the grand jury ers Unidentified Body Ly- ing in Water and Reeds 2 FREREEE ttt i atl li i i i a rf i i i | & | E i nb who i sa tte ‘ i i ui t itd 4 § l | Hi Bere E i s i. e i Mary Cashel, sashel, Bismarck Red Cross Official, Leaves to Examine Conditions MANY TOURISTS STRANDED Digging Drainage Ditch to Carry Off Stagnant Water in Western Section Miss Mary Cashel, executive secre- tary of the Burleigh County Red Cross organization, left today for Marmarth, N. D., to confer with offi- hog there on possible measures to be taken in case of an outbreak of any epidemic as the result of the breakdown of the sewage system fol- lowing Wednesday's flood. ery Possible precaution was be- ing taken today to guard against the outbreak of disease and Marmarth of- ficials do not believe that emergency measures will have to be taken. A large crew of workmen was busy digging a drainage ditch to carry off stagnant waters left in the western section of the city by the receding flood waters of the Little Missouri. Relief in that sector was expected to clear the clogged sewage system and permit complete drainage of the city. Estimates of $75,000 damage will stand, V. E. Swanson informed The Tribune by telephone at noon today. He stated that more than one-half of the homes and business houses in Marmarth had been so thoroughly soaked with water that personal prop- erty was worthless, The Little Missouri was almost within its banks again while its tribu- taries were also returning to their normal watercourses. The river and tributaries was falling at all points above and below Marmarth. Dozens of tourists are stranded in Marmarth, the Yellowstone trail still being under water in many places and the wagon bridge over the Little Beaver still useless. Although a little rain had fallen during the past 24 hours, it was not on to affect the stage of the ver. The relief work is in charge of the local Red Cross committee composed of Mrs. wont Seal Mrs. C. Taber, Rev. S. Heglin and Rev. Wm. 8. Davies, uz WHEAT PRICE BREAK CAUSES STOCK DROP Bull aooneaeggrng tions in Rails and Utilities Check an Abrupt Plunge on Wall Street New York, May 31.—()—Bullish operations in the rails and utilities checked a sharp decline on the New York stock exchange today. Another break in nl prices caused a sinking spell in farm im- plement and mail order shares, which, together with unconfirmed rumors that a few large pool operators had taken severe ioewes In the recent de- cline, threatened to break the market for a time, but an unexpectedly am- ple supply of call seer, prompted a powerful operations igri Peery aga ay Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe common stock was sent up $8.75 to a record price at $224, and New York Central, New Haven, and Canadian Pacific mounted $5 to $7. American eter at sil Light Sonaan in mame i | | i NEWSOM IS ELECTED ROTARY’S PRESIDENT Dallas, Tex., May 3 31.—(#)—Eugene Newsom of Durham, N. was named president of Rotary International for tion’s 20th ‘annual convention today. The vote for pres- ident was 1,354 for Newsome to 959 for Raymond Knoeppel of New York City. This was later made wi ‘ Roy Ronals, Mit- Be chell, 8. D. and & Newsom Clyde W. Hulsizer, Des Moines, oo were among di- rectors elected. WHEAT MARKET DIP TO NEW LOW DEPTHS German Tariff, Bumper Winter Wheat Crop Prediction Send Prices Tumbling Chicago, May 31—(#) —Grain prices crumbled again today under broadsides of selling inspired by un- favorable news from abroad and month-end settlements. New bot; toms were found for every grain traded in the futures pits, wheat dropping 2 3-8 to 2 3-4 cents below Wednesday's final quotation and rye contracts for May delivery collaps- ing sensationally nearly 8 cents a bushel and closing 6 1-4 cents lower than Wednesday. May wheat touched the floor level at 93 1-4, the lowest figure for wheat since an exchange at 93 in 1915. The close was a bit higher, however, at 94 5-8. July wheat ended at 97 1-2 to 5-8 and Septem- ber contracts, after dipping nearly G.|% & ed rebounded to $1.01 5-8 *\to 3-4, A violent reaction had taken place at the start, the result of severe breaks at Winnipeg yesterday which were ascribed to continued good crop weather in Canadian northwest and hints at higher import duties in Ger- many. The domestic markets, idle on yesterday’s holiday made for the lost time today. Besides the tear of a german wheat tai a new element in the domestic situation was a_ private estimate that the United States wed wheat harvest would bring 40,000,000, bushels more than the government's latest forecast. DEVILS LAKE SECTOR STRUCK BY TORNADO Twister Rips Through 20-Mile Strip, Causing Farm Prop- erty Damage of $15,000 Devils Lake, N. D., May 31.—)— A tornado wi struck south of Lakota and pt in a northwest direction to Bartlett yesterday ree hoon, covering @ narrow si miles long, erty and $15,000. A violent wind, accompanied by beavy rain ‘and soma hall ited arns, garages and small buijdi with ‘treakish irregularity. saings the damage done by the twister was south of Lakota and southeast of Bartlett. Telephone poles near La- kota were leveled and farms at Doyon felt the effects of the storm. Several small buildings in Bartlett were picked up and carried some dis- Gee | hanes the fury of the wind id damage to farm pro) ity buildings patted 3 CRAZED MAN SHOOTS). 2, THREE PERSONS DEAD = Chicago, May 31—(7)—Two de- tectives and 5 the i t i Fy Fy H rT} dt i Agee CHEST ABSCESS PUTS KING GEORGE 10 BED Anxiety Relieved This Afternoon When Doctors Pronounce Condition Good TROUBLED SINCE SUNDAY RLANDDELAYS |Marmarth Disease Spectre [ENGLAND STIRRED AS (96 PERSONS DROWN |[—_atdwins Reign Appears Over] Lord Dawson of Penn, King’s Physician, Rushes From Continent to Aid Windsor, England, May 31.—(?)— The thrill of anxiety for the safety of the nation’s sovereign which had pulsed throughout the country since yesterday’s announcement that King George again was confined to bed, was somewhat relieved this afternoon by the issuance of an official medical bulletin ‘This showed that although his m jJesty was suffering from the form: tion of an abscess in the chest, which was the seat of his grave illness last winter, his condition was good. There was seemingly no cause for immediate alarm. A bulletin issued at Windsor castle today said “King George had a fair night. An abscess has formed under the site of an old scar on the right side of his chest and is now draining. His general condition remains good.” London, May 31.—()—Anxious fear gripped British hearts today at the news King George was ill again. The beloved sovereign after a month's convalescence from his dangerous ill- ness of the winter was abed at Windsor castle with a feverish attack. Lord Dawson of Penn, one of the ja physicians whose treatment through long months last winter pulled King George from death's grip, was called back by airplane from a trip on the continent to treat his majesty again. Although it was said this indicated no particular urgency it served gre: ly to augment public anxiety. The physician, after landing at Croydon from Paris hurried by auto- mobile to his royal patient and short- ly let it be known his majesty had been confined to his room since Sun- day although first word to the public of his fresh indisposition came only yesterday. His official announcement said that King George had had a “feverish at- tack” and was confined to his bed. A feverish cold marked the beginning of the scrious pulmonary illness which began last November. It was believed the ruler caught cold last Sunday when he joined the celebration of Queen Mary’s birthday by taking tca in the open near Wi sor at Frogmore. The weather was unseasonably warm, then it became cool; the change was the occasion of @ general prevalence of colds in the Metropolitan area. British citizenry were hopeful today his majesty would show a speedy re- covery and would be able to attend the national thanksgiving service slated for June 16 at Westminster Abbey in celebration of what had been considered his restoration to health, MINNEAPOLIS AUTO CRASHES NUMEROUS Minneapolis, May 31.—@:—One man, recovering from injuries, was held ee neral hospital today for sapuly, & eriffs, a second man was at the county jail, an cight| vete: year old girl is dead, and 18 persons were recovering from injuries as a result of holiday traffic accidents | grees, in inaenpolis and Hennepin county. pee Thro, Mankato, Minn., is in the Hennepin county jail finding inventian ation of a triple col- lision on Excels jior boulevard, one mile west of the city limits. , according to deputy sheriffs, first struck the car of C. W. Callo- way, then careened across the road hitting the car of J. C. Bailey, Belle Plaine, Minn. Galloway and his wife and family were injured in the sh. Anna Phillips, eight years old, fr,'and Mrs. ‘Carl Phil- li Minnes lis, died from i juries received wien. she was struck | by a PARACHUTE JUMPER FALLS TO HIS DEATH 06 PERSONS DROWN ON HOLIDAY OUTINGS Heat Prostration Takes Lives of 12 in One of Hottest Me- morial Days in East MANY OF VICTIMS CHILDREN dammed Highways Account for Scores of Wrecks; Bath- ing Beaches Crowded (By The Associated Press) Thirty-six persons in the United States and Canada were drowned on Memorial day. Twelve persons for- feited their lives to a scorching sun that sweltered over the eastern part of the continent. More than a score of deaths from heat and drownings marked one of th: hottest Memorial days in the cast. Memorial day drownings in the Chicago area totaled 12 with one tragedy at Ironwood, Mich., swelling the toll for the western Great Lakes {states to 13. Most of the victims were children. Herbert M. Smith, 23, senior in the DePaul university law school, was drowned in sight of his fiancee when he was seized with cramps while swimming in Benedict lake, west of Kenosha, Wis. Mathew Mundon, 21, of Chicago, was drowned in Lake Monona at Madi- son, Wis., while on an outing. John Farnum, 15, an inmate at the St. Charles, Ill, State school for boys, drowned in the lake of the school park. He had been given holiday because of good behavior. Nicholas May, 17, was drowned in the Fox river near Carpentersville, Minois, Neil Ragan, 11, was seized with cramps while swimming in a Chi- cago park lagoon and sank before he could be rescued. Lloyd Jones, 17, of Edwin, Ill., and Lawrence Williams, 18, of Beards- town, IIl., were celebrating the close of school when they met death, Jones was drowned in Lake Decatur vhen his canoe upset and Williams was drowned in Zerk’s pond, near Beardstown. Raymond Mitzel, 18, a senior in the Jerse; seyville, Il. school, was drown Macoupin creek near Jerseyville. Arden Mul- ler, 12, was drowned while wading at a camp near Kewance, IIl., Charles Crawford, 10. stepped into a hole while wading Lake Mau- vaiscterre near Jacksonville, IIL, and was drowned. Three other deaths in were attributed to the heat. Thomas Maki, 12, drowned at Ironwood, Mich. Robert Collar, 9, was a victim of the water at New London, Wis., and Alvin Tratz, 14, drowned at Lake Mills, Wis. ls flocked from the swel- tering cities to seek relief at bathing beaches, while highways were jammed with automobiles, adding to the toll many deaths in injuries from col- Usions. In New York city the temperature rose to 83 degrecs, while a humidity of 92 per cent added to the discom- fort. Four persons dicd from the heat, four others were prostrated, and there were nine drownings. It was 96 in Boston. In New Eng- land five persons died from the heat and four were drowned. At Corinth, near Glen Falls, N. the temperature was 110 degree: Three occurred in upper New York state. ‘Three Chicago Persons drowned in New Jer- sey, and at Meadville, Pa., e Civil war veteran dropped dead after taking part in a parade. Pittsburgh, Pa., re- ported nigh temperature of 96 de- ind two deaths from drowning. Te heat W wave extended into On- tario, Canada, with a temperature of 91 degrees at Toronto. In the province there were two deaths from heat and two drownings. 88 PERSONS KILLED IN ARGENTINE QUAKE Buenos Aires, May 31.—(?)—Earth- more than 40 injured. It of Villa Atuel was THROUGHOUT NATION i | of Great Britain. The famous Tory ing victory for the Labor party. Bismarck Is P. {00 PERSONS KILLED IN JAP FOREST FIRES More Than 1,000 Houses Con- sumed by Flames Raging Across Wooded Island Tokyo, residents of Southern Saghalicn island fought today for their lives; and their homes against forest fires! which were believed to have killed 100/ Persons and burned more than 1,000 houses. A dispatch to the newspaper Asahi Shimbun, from Maokahama, a village near Esutori, said Maokhama had been wiped out and that there were 100 dead and 1,000 houses burned. The newspaper Nichi Nichi said 30! bodies had been recovered. A shift in the wind carried the fires| |away from Esutori and toward Maok- ahama. Survivors were suffering from hunger and exposure with their sole provisions scorched potatoes from the fields of burned over farms. “Disastrous fires have swept throughout the island,” the dispatch said. smoke obliterating the sun.” It add- ed the blaze was spreading from Esutori toward Ohira, two miles to the south, where fighters were trying desperately to save a coal mine. MINNEAPOLIS GIRL IS Believed to Have Jumped or to! Have Been Thrown From Speeding Automobile Minneapolis, May 31.—()—Believed to have jumped or to have been thrown from a speeding automobile, Miss Anna Hudak, 20, found uncon- scious in the street in northeast Min- neapolis, was in a critical condition today. Her skull was fractured and one of her arms broken. Police were hunting for a young man with a large sedan with whom she and another girl, Miss Gladys Delby, had gone riding last night. Miss Hudak was found about 11:20 way to the house of commons for the dissolution of parliament. to power is doubtful as the gencral election returns indicate an overwhelm- With him here.is another member of the Conservative cabinct, Neville Chamberlain, minister of health. May 31.—(4)— Japanese | “The skies are black with) FOUND UNCONSCIOUS) This may be the last picture you'll ever see of Stanicy Baldwin as premicr leader is shown above, right, on his His return olling Record Vote on Memorial Building Legion Executive States Voters} Favoring Bond Issue by 8 to 1 Margin 3,000 BALLOTS EXPECTED | North Side Residential Section Electorate Pours Out in Great Numbers Bismarck will poll a record vote for @ city election today. That was the principal result of a {check-up of the votes cast at the city’s polling places today by The Tribune shortly after one o'clock. The turnout will not approach the figures established at the presidential election last fall, however. Voters started going to the polls carly this morning and the number | Of ballots cast at noon was unusually large for a city election. At noon there was an outpouring of persons} j employed in shops, offices and stores. Another rush is expected tonight, pre- ceding the time the polls close at seven o'clock. |. Although there was no positive indica- |Tepresentative of the American Le- gion executive committee said, after an independent check of the poils early this afternoon, that the bond issue and debt limit proposals had re- ceived a majority of approximately eight to one up to that time. How Vote Stands At one o'clock the vote in various | Precincts was: Vote Approx. Today Reg. Vote Association of Com- merece ........ | Swimming Pool. | Little’s Garage. . Wm, Moore school. \st. Mary's School |High School .. |Richholt School . ‘Will School . Fire Hall ... Wachter School . Total.. » 1337 3781 Hourly blasts on the whistle at the electric station notified the electorate that an election was in progress throughout the day but the principal explanation of the large vote for a city clection was the intensive work done by Legionnaires and other friends of the memorial building Project. So far as could be learned no one was actively at work against the proposal. Motor cars, manned by Legion- naires, were busy throughout the day carrying voters to the polls and plans were announced at headquarters to redouble their ef- forts during the afternoon. Those who could give time this morning did. so. Others worked only during the afternoon and some were on the job all day. “It certainly looks good,” said H. J. Kamplin, chairman of the legion 9 135 220 151 118 180 168 138 108 368 536 480 350 530 394 356 485 election by a handsome majority. It will be a big thing for Bismarck.” Argentine Cold Wave es tion as to the result of the election, a! 408 | 410) [__avin's ein Avpers Over ___} RUNS NECK: AND-NEGK WITH OTHER PARTIES FOR VOTE MAJORITY Combined Membership of Lib- erals and Conservatives Stands at 229 Seats LABORITES SHOW POWER Ramsey MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin and Lloyd George All Returned by Districts { | London, May 31.—()—The Baldwin | ®overnment, which has ruled England for the past five years, was defeated in te general elections of yesterday. | labor party scored a smashing lease but was still short of obtains jing a clear majority in the new house of parliament, making it likely that some sort of coalition would be neces- sary if the labor party was to form a government. The labor party held 281 seats in the house of commons at 6:30 o'clock this evening with 41 seats out of a total of 615 still to be heard from. The laborites needed 27 seats out of these 41 to obtain a clear majority. The standing: Labor 281. Conservatives 236. Liberals 50. Others 7. It was impossible for the conserv- atives to reach the labor figures, thus making it certain that this will be the first time that the labor party has the largest representation in par- liament. Even the Conservatives and Liberal total was only five more than the laborite figures. Returns shortly before 3:30 p. m., showed the laborites with seats secure out of 308 needed fot a ma- jority over all the other parties, while the combined membership of He other parties stood at a total of "The labor showing was the in its history. At the time anet jheld power in 1923 supported the liberals it had 191 votes while Pred liberals had 159, and the conserva. tives 259. Need 83 For Majority It seemed, however, as if the task cut out for the labor party was a difficult one to achieve as while it had a comfortable lead over the con- servatives it needed to take 83 out cf the remaining 161 seats to get a clear majority. Malcolm MacDonald, son of the la- bor leader, was returned to commons, turning the tables on his old rival Sir Ellis Hume Williams, who deféated him last year. Ramsey MacDonald, third of the leaders of the three great parties, rolled up 35,615 votes against 6,281 for his conservative opponent, 5,266 for his liberal opponent, and 1,431 for the communist candidate. Cut Labor Lead The commanding position of the laborites was being cut a little as the day wore on. At two o'clock this aft- ernoon the position of the conserva- tives had been somewhat improved. The standing then was as follows: Conservatives . Liberals . Others .. The cleargmajority of the labor party at that®time over the other par- ties was 11. A half hour it had had a clear majority of 24. In the half hour between 1:30 and 2:00, the conservatives gained 26 seats while the laborites gained only 16. The liberals had gained three while the other minor parties held their own. Leaders Reelected Of the three leading figures in Britain's political life, two of them, Stanley Baldwin, the conservative prime minister, and David Lloyd George, the liberal leader, had been reelected. Premier Baldwin's son, Oliver Bald- win, and Lloyd George's daughter, Megan, also will be in the next house of commons with their parents. AUTO RACER GRASHES AND KILLS TWO FANS New York, May 31 — ——(P}—T wo spece tators were killed and a driver and two others were injured at a Memor- ial day automobile race at the Metro-