The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 1, 1929, Page 1

NORTH DAKOTA'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED 1873 MEMO Labor RAMSAY MACDONALD MAY HAVE TO FORM LABOR GOVERNMENT Premier Has Two Alternatives, Resign or Reconstruct Stricken Ministry LIBERALS HOLD SOLUTION Lacking Absolute Majority, La- borites May Face Chal- lenge Vote for Power London, June 1—()—Faced with the defeat of his party and a stale- mate in parliament, Premier Stanley in went to his country home at comes for the week-end where it is expected he will confer with lead- ing members of his party. Next week he will meet a Recaro decide upon the course the gov- Pasot will take. With the ad- ministration defeated at the polls in ‘Thursday’s general election and the Labor party the largest in the next house, although lacking in absolute majority, the prime minister has two alternatives. ‘He may place his resignation in the hands of the king and leave to Ram- say MacDonald, the Labor leader, the duty of forming a Labor government, or he may reconstruct his stricken ministry, meet parliament and place on the Liberals the decision of either supporting him or putting Labor into sae Lead Tories ‘With 13 constituencies out of 651 still unreported, the lineup that now confront ts the prime minister is as follows: Labor 287. Conservatives 233. Liberals 54. Others 8. In all, eight ministers were de- feated, although of these Sir Arthur Steel-Maitiand, minister of labor, was the only member of the cabinet. The other cabinet vacancies remett to be. filled. Conservatives Divided Conservatives as to Mr. Baldwin's course are divided but there is a strong wing urging him to challenge a vote in parliament. They argue that while the Labor party is the strongest it has no clear majority, and that in about 50 constituencies won by Labor the Conservative and Liberal vote scare’ keg greater than that polled 5 Other eaeence think it would be more dignified to resign at once. Following the indecisive election of 1923, Mr. Baldwin met parliament and was de! Salta ob crgi soto to the speech from t! ne Bra combined vote of the Labor and Liberal parties. But Mr. Baldwin then occupied a position similar to that now occupied by the Labor party. He had the largest representation but not an absolute majority, and Con- servatives who favor resination hold because of this faci what happened in 1923 should not 2e taken as a minister cept the decision of the polls and give Labor an opportunity to present the King’s speech at the opening of the new parliament. KICHEN KNEE ROW ENDS WITH SLAYING Cleveland, Ohio, June 1.—(#)—As- sertions of Mrs. Anna Szeman, a maid, that she killed her employer, Mrs. Dorothy Marsh Snyder, promi- nent society Peg in a struggle THE BISMARCK TRIBUN RIAL F BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1929 E| Victory Causes Parliament Stalemate Madman NORTH DAKOTA Kills FARMERS ARE SHOWING BIG DIVERSIFICATION Bismarck Boy Bets | ‘Boots’ on Bunions | lrrsisdnforaietelimcionaintelies Anthony Faber of Bismarck has inal nursing his “dogs” the last few lays. Faber, be it known, is not manager of a kennel but a student at the state agricultural college at Fargo and the “dogs” in question would be known in other than fraternity college circles as feet. Faber’s care of his pedal append- ages resulted from a 90-mile jaunt which he took last Thursday. The boys in Faber's fraternity house were testing their vocal chords when the Bismarck youth offered to | | ° Corn, Barley, Alfalfa, Sweet Clover and Flax Acreages Greatest in History DROUGHT DAMAGE LESSENS Alleged Drift of Business From Small Towns to Cities Not as Great as Believed Farming operations in North Da- bet $25 that he could walk to Hills- | awe, boro and back in 24 hours. round trip is 90 miles. The wager was accepted, Faber had no alternative but to make the effort or lose the money. He steamed into Fargo Thursday morning with 30 minutes to spare, tired but richer. by $25. STANFORD CLINCHES TRACK, FIELD TITLE Pile Up 35% Points in Eight Events of 15 in Sensation- al Attack on Marks Franklin Field, Philadelphia, June 1—@)—With eight of the fifteen events completed, Stanford Univer- sity had clinched its third successive intercollegiate track and field cham- pionship today. The Cardinals had piled up the sensational total of 35 8 points while their nearest rival, Pennsylvania, had only 11 7-8 points. nford, the team favorite, got off to a nine point lead at the start when Harlow Rothert, ann Erig Krenz “one-two in the shot-put. Rothert’s new meet record, 50 fect 3 inches, made iterday, withstood further attacks. His teammate. Krenz, though losing the title, rallied to take second nlace with a tons of 50 feet 5-8 inches, eases Stanford took its secona straight event when Leo Kibby won the jav- elin with a throw of 204 feet 7 inches, the mark he made in the Cualifying trials yesterday. Emory Curtice, Cali- fornia captain, got off a heave of 203 fect 2 1-4 inches, to take second place. The javelin was a clean sweep for the far west. John Collier, the Brown ace, whip- ped Ross Nichols, Stanford captain and defending champion, in the first semifinal of the 120-yard high hur- dies. Collier won by @ good four yards in the spectacular time of 14 6-10 seconds, only one-fifth second short of the world’s record held by Earl Thomson. & Stanford also recelved a setback in the second semifinal when Ward Edmonds fell and was eliminated while up with the leaders. The heat was won in 15 3-10 seconds by McCoy of Pennsylvania, « The second record to be tumbled during the meet and first today went to the credit of Jimmy Reid, Harvard captain, who raced his famous Penn State rival, Bill Cox, into the ground in the stretch to break the tape in 9 minutes 22 seconds for the two mile run. In successfully defending the title he won last year, Reid broke the I. C. A. A. A. A. mark of 9:22 2-5 fusce by Ivan Dresser of Cornell in Jesse Hill, of Southern California, cracked the I. C. A. A. A. A. record in the running broad jump with a lead of 25 feet 7-8 inch. This eclipsed. the former mark of 24 feet 10 3-8 inches set by Alfred Bates, of Penn State, last year. HOME RN OF SEASON ; New York, June 1.—(#)—Babe Ruth z j a i ti 8 i el i Ea 5 i I Z g i Es ek gE i f bg Fy The | ¥ its member papers. Review follows: Increased acreages of corn, barley, alfalfa, sweet clover and flax, all i very during the past week, and even in greater quantity than was forecast in the May 1 review. General rains throughout western North Dakota have given the ground {8 thorough soaking, alleviating for jsome time any danger of drought damage, and the warm weather dur- ing the past week has gone far toward making up for the cool weather prior th hea time, which gave crops a late start Heavy Debit Increase Factors in a comparison of the business volume for April with that of a year ago include @ very heavy increase in the debits to individual accounts, larger lumber sales, little change in retail sales, an increase in building permits, and a decrease in life insurance sales. A special study has been made by this institution in an attempt to se- cure be ee, figures on the | allege o anes away ‘the sitall towns of state ‘ta the larger centers of population, and the facts thus far divulged would indi- cate that this drift is not nearly so great as is commonly supposed. Figures on volume .of busincss are (Continued on page eleven) TILDEN IS BEATEN BY RENE LACOSTE Roland Garros Stadium, Paris, June 1.—(/P)—Rene LaCoste conquered Bill Tilden, today, in one of the greatest of their series of Franco-American tennis battles, winning the semifinal round duel in the French champion- ships by scores of 6-1, 6-0, 4-7, 6-3. Big Bill, who always gives his fol- lowers a real run for money, thrilled the thousands in the stand by @ miraculous rally in the third set. LaCoste had outplayed him by a wide margin in smashing through the first two sets and had gained a lead of 5-3 in the third when Tilden flashed four games of the tennis that made him a champion of champions five or six years ago to run out the set. . Hip Flask Toter Is | Freed in Wisconsin ° Beloit, Wis., June 1.—()—Richard Everhart is the first man to profit by the repeal of the state dry law in ‘Wisconsin. Arrested by a chief of police in a ‘village near here for having a pint of liquor on his hip, Everhart was bod before the municipal court Fiend guilty to what?” asked Judge msen. erage, with alcohol content in excess of one-half of one percent,” said the oe ua seni ut ‘s ‘Wisconsin law,” said the judge, point- ing out that the state court has no jurisdiction. Everhart returned home a free man. $600,000 Fire Sweeps Sheboygan Factories Sheboygan, Wis, June 1.—(#)— from the fire not an offense 3, Wounds 3, Is Decapitated Under Train 110 Drown as Floods Sweep Texas; poet re Torrential Rains Swell Streams CRAZED WITH DRINK, WIELDS DEADLY GUN Maniac Drops Two Policemen Coming to Arrest Him for Threatening Wife BLIND MAN ESCAPES SHOTS Slays Neighbor, Curses Dead, Rus Wildly Away to Die Under Wheels Chicago, June 1.—@)—Ferdinand Preuss, the maniac who shot three men dead and wounded four others while in a drunken fury yesterday, was decapitated today by a Chicago and Northwestern railroad train. A body found on the right of way was tively identified by a fishing license issued to Preuss, and police believe the man, sobered overnight, realized the tragedy of yesterday and committed suicide. ‘The position of Preuss’ body indi- cated he had lain on the track and waited for the train to run over him, police said. Preuss, a war veteran and expert marksman, killed two policemen and a civilian yesterday and wounded two policemen and two civilians with {@ pump shotgun. The policemen were members of a squad sent to arrest him after neighbors heard him threaten to kill his wife. Detective Falls First John Lee Conley, leader of the de- tective squad, was the first to fall before the madman’s onslaught. Conley was approaching the rear door at the time. After mortally ae him, Preuss swung around and fired at Policeman Herbert Hag- berg, who was coming. in the, front ‘way, Hagberg whirled, screamed, took a dozen steps and fell dead. Policeman Joseph J. Murphy, Con- ley’s chauffeur’ who had remained in the car, seized a shotgun and started to the help of the other policemen. He had taken less than a dozen steps when Preuss’ puynp- gun blazed through a front winlow and maohy, fell badly wounded. Neighbor Shot Dead A second later Gus Karos, who lived three doors away from the Preuss home, and John Chorazak, another neighbor, both attracted by the shooting, met where Murphy had fallen. Karos had rushed out to meet his blind brother-in-law, Ru- i | dolph Krusche. nother shot and Chorazak, who was standing not 10 feet from the window, fell dead. Karos jumped to {shield with his body his brother-ii [law who was just passing the house. As he did so the fifth shell in Preu: in was discharged and struck him in the back. in a fury, pressed the in the hammer fell ty chamber. Police be- lieve that is the only reason Krusche, the blind man, was not numbered id Body The slayer a second later rushed out of the rear door of his home, {stood cursing the bodies of Conley and Hagberg, and then fled into an alley after taking the policeman’s stonaue. and, it is believed, his re- volver, In the alley, Preuss met Frank Vodicka, who was running toward the scene of the shooting. Vodicka and ran into a narrow pas- sageway when he saw Preuss, foam- ing at the promt ands ing. 8 in point blank at him. Preuss ge shell, then threw the weapon at Vodicka as the latter fled. The drink crazed man was seen to take a pistol from his belt, wave it wildly, and run down the alley. Th was the last seen of him. "To Dickinson Post b | 6 Dr. C. L. Kjerstad, formerly vice president of the Valley City State Teachers college, has been named President of the Dickinson State Nor- mal school. He succeeds the late Samuel T. May, first president of the Missouri Slope’s only higher educa- tional institution. Dr. Kjerstad will take over his new duties July 1. BISMARCK LIONS THIRD IN CLUB TEST San Angelo, Tex., Takes Lead in Sponsoring New Organ- izations, Minot Next Bismarck Lions club placed third in the club-spoisoring contest, a tele- gram from headquarters to Dr. F. B. Strauss announced today. The club at San Angelo, Texas, sprung a sur- prise, evidently holding back reports on clubs instituted under its auspices as it finished at the close of the com- petition with 1458 puints to its credit. Minot, by putting in a club at Sherwood, while Wilton, Napoleon and Washburn hesitated in this area, established ‘tself in second place, with @ narrow margin, scoring 1354 points. Bismarck rolled up 1338. These clubs were followed by Port- land, Maine, with 1204 points and Houston, Texas, 959. Bismarck gets the same prize that San Angelo and Mino: do, a free trip for a delegate to the international convention at Louisville. BOLDEST GANGSTER BSGAPES JAIL GEL Chicago, June 1.—(?)}—Frank Mc- Erlane, known as gangland’s boldest gunman, sidestepped the fate of Al Capone, gang chieftain, jailed in Philadelphia for gun-toting, when he was acquitted by a jury today on a charge of carrying concealed weapons. McErilane, surrounded by 25 of his cronies, politely thanked the jurors and walked out of court leaving the police holding three .45 caliber auto- matic pistols. Defense Attorney James J. Mc- Dermott said the jury had the word of only one witness, Policeman James Stockover, that McErlane carried a Pistol in his bel ‘HEAT DEATHS TOTAL 19; 3 ARE DROWNED New York, June 1.—)—Deaths from the extreme heat which has blistered the north Atlantic states four days neared the half hundred mark today. Nineteen persons died from the Hirst hast seetarday and three were win With the temperature in the New . |York City area reaching a maximum of 90 degrees, the highest thus far season, nine persons succumbed and 18 were prostrated. | | recovered Terrified Watching Messenger | Boy Drown, Man Falls into | River and Disappears HIGHWAYS ARE BLOCKED) Beaumont Cut Off From World; Four Towns Are Turned Into Lakes by Water Sheet today had claimed 10 lives, and caused damage amounting to millions of dollars. Three persons, none of whom was identified, drowned yesterday. A messenger boy on a bicycle was caught in the swirling current in a! street here and was swept away. A/| terrified onlooker fell into the water | and he, too, was carried away. It was believed the bodies would be! n the basement of some| ing when the water Fe-| nearby buil cedes. nee | | At Fort Worth, a negro boy swim-) ming in the high waters of they Trinity river, was carried under by| the swift current. Police used 125) sticks of dynamite in a futile at. tempt to bring the body to the sur- face. The river was 13 fect above normal but had not left its banks. Seven others lost their lives carlicr this week. Houston Bears Brunt The Houston and Beaumont dis- |tricts received the brunt of the gulf jbound water. Hundreds of homes |and business buildings were flooded. shipping was at a standstill in the ship channel, the movement of all vessels being halted. Water covered two docks and flooded several ware- houses nearby, Buffalo Bayou, which flooded sec- |tions: cf Hotsten,-passed its crest jlast night, and barring further rain, will be back in its channel tonight, according to L. H. Daingerfield, Houston weather man. The Bayou cuts Houston in two, and only four {bridges across it were open. High- tways were either blocked or in such jpoor condition that travel was slow. | A levee break in Madison county {flooded 10,000 acres in Houston county, and 10,000 acres in San Jacinto county were inundated by water from the Trinity and San} Jacinto rivers =i Beaumont Cut 0.. | Beaumont itself was cut off from through traffic in all directions. The old Spanish train to Orange was one of the last roads to be inundated residents along the line moved ahead of the water and camped at the south Texas state fair grounds. Re- lief trucks from Beaumont carried supplies to the refugees. It was feared the Neches river bridge between Beaumont Orange would give way and 30,000 dbags were on hand for an ;emergen The Orange-Port Ar- jthur fe was operated continu- jously to accommodate traffic unable to get over the highways. The towns of Lynchburg, Katy, \Clodine and Gaston were lakes. The ,residents that had not moved to dry nd were using boats at Clodine. bayou was said to be 10 miles wide. 1 Gopher Congressman_ | Cuts Capers Flying | Plane Over Capitol Washington, June 1.—{#)—Repre- sentative Melvin J. Mi of Minne- sota, a reserve army aviator, has been warned by Major General Fechet, chief of the army air corps, not to we too low over dowhtown Washing- on. The warning was issued of the commerce department king @ verbal complaint to the war depart- ment that Maas recently had flown over some government buildings be- , ing constructed on the western end of Pennsylvania avenue, startling the workers. General Fechet said he had investi- gated the complaint, but found there was no hazard in the representative's flying. He added, however, that he had called Maas’ attention to the complaint. It was said at Maas office at the capitol that he was out of the city today. @ result $$ $+ Legion Appreciates | Service of Tribune | ¢ An expression of gratitude to The Bismarck Tribune for its service in the campaign which resulted in the success of the Community Memorial Building proposal has been made by R. J. Kamplin, campaign manager. A letter from the manager to The Bismarck Tribune follows: “Mr. George D. Mann, Publisher, Bismarck Tribune, Bismarck, No. Dak. My dear Mr. Mann: “At this time, or. behalf of the American Legion Campaign Com- mittee, permit me to thank you and The Tribune for the splendid cooperation and support which have given us in this com- ‘ity endeavor. ‘Through the columns of The Tribune, and its advertising pages, the people of Bismarck were advised of the facts per- taining to the memorial com- munity building. The vote yes- terday speaks for itself. “We hope that the memorial community building will, when constructed, render in its own peculiar way, the same sort of service to the community as it obtains through the services of & progressive newspaper such as The Tribune. “Sincerely yours, RHEINHART J. KAMPLIN, Campaign Manager.” 4 PRISONERS ESCAPE} INDARING JAIL BREAK Saw Way Through Everything But Brick Walls-in Remack- able Get-Away > | | i . Louisville, June 1.—(—Four pris- oners staged a remarkable break and | escaped from the Jefferson county | jail in downtown Louisville late last night or early this morning, it was discovered today. | Those who escaped were Tom Crawford, under sentence of 21 years | for manslaughter; Smithy Waters, under a five-year grand largqny sen- | tence, Foreman Price, who was being held for Bourbon county, Kentucky, authorities, and Theodore Turner, also held for Bourbon authorities. The prisoners sawed three bars from two cell doors; cut through a steel ventilator; sawed an inch-square | tumbler from a, door lock; cut one bar from a winddw; sawed one end of another bar and bent it; forced out a heavy wire window screen; low- ered themselves to the jail yard on ‘d| 2,rope of bed sheets and went over a 30-foot wall with the aid of a paint- er's scaffold. Jailer Thomas Dover declared he was “stunned” that so much could have been accomplished by the pris- oners without discovery. CHUCK KLEIN CRACKS OUT 13TH HOME RUN} Pittsburgh, Pa, June 1—(?)— Chuck Klein, sensational newcomer to the Philadelphia outfield, hit his 13th home run of the season here to- day in the second inning of the Phila- delphia-Pirate game retaining the interleague lead over Ruth and other sluggers. Jess Petty was in the box for Pittsburgh. The Philadelphians led by 3 to 2 at the end of the fifth. GRAFTON BANK SHUT ARTER STEADY ‘RUN’ * Grafton, June 1.—()—The Scandi- . The institution closed after 25 minutes of operation this morning, during which $3,400 in deposits was . G. is The Weather Cloudy tonight and Sunday, show- ers probable. Rising te: ure. PRICE FIVE AVORED BY LANDSLIDE OF VOTES BISMARCK APPROVES DEBT EDGEINCREASE | AND ISSUE OF BONDS City Obligation Boost Passes 2,268 to 784; Bond Issue 2,276 to 776 LARGEST VOTE IN HISTORY Architectural Contest Planned to Assure a Useful and Beautiful Building Burleigh county and Bismarck will have a new community memorial j building. By a vote of nearly three to one, citizens of Bismarck yesterday ap- {proved a proposal by the American | Legion to issue $125,000 in bonds to finance the city’s share of the struc- ture. This will be added to $84,000 |to be raised by the county and the ; Money used in constructing a joint city-county memorial. The plan, as advocated by the vet- erans organization, is to construct the building in such a manner that it will have the widest possible usefulness for the money expended. It will con- tain the largest convention hall in the state, preliminary estimates plac- HS the maximum seating capacity at 3.000. In addition to using this huge floor | for conventions, it will be available to children and citizens of the city for use as a gymnasium and for other community purposes. A swi pool will be located in the basement of the building to which children will be admitted free of charge. For Farmers’ Benefit oe In addition it will contain public resteroom facilities, a day nursery in which farm women may place their children, free of charge, while they do their shopping, and a farmers room. Two questions were presented to Bismarck voters at the special elec- tion yesterday. The first was wheth- er the city debt limit should be in- creased to permit issuance of the bonds. It carried 2268 to 784. A two- thirds majority was necessary. ‘The second was on the issuance of the bonds. It carried 2276 to 776. A 60 per cent vote was necessary. The campaign, which was managed by the American Legion, brought out the largest vote ever recorded in a Bismarck city election, 3,052 persons going to the polls. Lay Preliminary Plans At a meeting last night, following the determination of the result of the election, the legion campaign com- mittee met with the memorial build- ing committee of the organization and made preliminary plans for making the building a reality. They will submit to the city com- missioners and the county commis- sioners the resolutions necessary to obtain joint action by the city and county in constructing the building. As the matter now stands both the city and county fathers have promised to cooperate with the legion in con- structing the memorial. It has been impossible to take definite action un- til now because of the uncertainty as to whether the bond issue would be approved by the city. Had it been rejected the city would have had nothing with which to support any agreement which might have been made with the county. The legionnaires also decided to make careful invest ion of the ac- tual needs of the various organiza- tions which will be expected to use the building and will make a special survey to determine how it can be made most useful to the people living in the rural district surrounding Bis- marck. Will Serve Slope “This is a building which should be of vast service to the people of the county and the entire Missouri Slope district.” said a statement issued after the meeting. “We want to make sure that the people of the county as well as the people of the city obtain the fullest possible benefit. We will in- terview farmers and their wives, a5 well as consult with the county com- missioners before proposing a definite design for the structure. This is 9 proposition which should draw the people of the county and the people of the city closer together. We want