The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 3, 1929, Page 1

NORTH DAKOTA'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED 1873 ' Mrs. BISMARCK PEOPLE ESCAPE DEATH IN: CALIFORNIA CRASH Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Kraft, Frank Darrow, Howard Ells- } worth Are Not Injured Part of Spoils In Chicago His o> AUTOS COLLIDE HEAD-ON Former Devils Lake Man's Car ry Rams Into Another; Were Attending Shrine Meet Mrs. Howard H. Ellsworth, 32, and Harry Christen, former North Da- kotans, are dead and four others, in cluding Mr. Ellsworth, are injured as a result of an automobile collision on a sightseeing trip at Long Beach, Calif., today. Mr. and Mrs. Ww. T. Kraft, Bis- marck, who were in the same colli- sion, escaped with minor bruises. ‘They were in California to attend the Shrine ieee a. Los hnnn were riding in an autom aaven by ‘Sdward Elliott, Glendale, Cal., formerly Ramsey county sheriff for four years at Devils Lake, N. Dak., at the time of the crash. Has Relatives Here Mrs. Eliswerth is the wife of the as- sistant general freight agent of the The Ellsworths ved in North Da- The Ellsworths lived in h Da} oni the Big Four of Chi kota for a time, residins at, £ Sterling Poy Senior our of Chicago e orth | Joe Aiello and Bugs Moran—are ii : cluded in the new syndicate. aot | RAMSAY MACDONALD Seng wes ee EXPECTED 10 HEAD LABOR GOVERNMENT ‘Werner. He has been living at Los gaged in the insurance business. He Churchill Urges: Baldwin to Re- sign and Allow Victorious was acquainted with the Ellsworths Party Leadership Chicago's newest gangland peace pact, designed to end the bloody war of bullets and bombs and divide the Spoils of a $16,000,000 annual busincss in vice, gambling and liquor, gives Joe Aiello, above, a share of the “trade.” According to the terms of the agreement as revealed by the will go to Baltimore, Md., where burial services will be conducted. Was Baltimore Girl Mrs. Ellsworth was the daughter of Christian Ritter, Baltimore. Besides her husband she leaves three chil- dren, Jeannette, 12, Marguerite, 11, and David, 9. Mr. and Mrs. Ells- worth moved to St. Paul from North Dakota last August when Mr. Ells- worth was promoted to his new posi- tion. ‘The Elisworths left St. Paul last Tuesday on the Osman Temple Shrine London, June 3.—(7)—In con- ference with his colleagues of the cabinet this afternoon, Stanicy Baldwin, prime minister of Eng- land and head of the cbnesrvative government which has guided the nation since October, 1924, decided ministry to the king. His action, caused by the defeat of the conservative party in the general elections Thursday, is in agreement with constitutional usage and with the advice of powerful conservative leaders and most of the conservative press. London, June 3.—()—Great Bri- BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1929 WHEAT PRICE SKYR Ford, Edison, Dollar, Penney Among 20 Appealing to Nation’s Citizens URGED TO FOLLOW HOOVER Disapprove of Recently Organ- ized Committee of Lawyers to Defend Scofflaws New York, June 3—()—A “message to the American people,” urging that “prohibition should be given an hon- lest trial” and bearing the signatures of Henry Ford, Thomas A. Edison, Captain Robert Dollar, J. C. Penney and 20 other men prominent !~ busi- ness and industry, was published to- day. The message quoted the plea for law observance in President Hoover's inaugural address and invited Amer- icans, “whatever their previous opin- ions and social practices, and particu- larly those in business and profes- sional life, to join with us in follow- ing the president. Let us unite to give the eighteenth amendment an honest chance for complete enforce- ment.” Disapprove Wet Lawyers A letter, expressing disapproval of the recently organized voluntary com- mittee of lawyers opposed to the eighteenth amendment, and an an- swer to it by Joseph H. Choate, Jr., member of the board of managers of the committee, were ‘also published. Marshall Stimson, Los Angeles at- torney, asked that the committce re- frain from using the word “lawyers” to avoid “bringing the legal profession further into disrespect.” He asked whether any members ot the commit- tee were retained by interests seeking repeal of the amendment. Mr. Choate replied that honest be- lief is the sole of the movement, adding “we believe that prohibition is the most serious re- mediable evil from which the country now suffers.” Prize Plan Awarded ‘The message to the American people and the lawyers’ letters were pub- lished a day after the announcement that Justice Franklin C. Hoyt of the New York children’s court had been awarded the prize of $25,000 offered by William R. Hearst for a substitute plan for proh:bition. Justice Hoyt's plan called for re- peal of the Volstead act and enact- ment of a new law defining “intoxi- cating liquors” as “all alcoholic prod- ucts of distillation” thereby excluding wines and beer. Traffic in wine and beer would be under state regulation under this plan. 'NORTH DAKOTA WET; MIDDLE WEST CHILLY {tain today awaited the next move of Stanley Baldwin before shaping itself for what was generally felt would be a labor government headed by forms Premier Ramsay MacDonald. It was not known particularly, whether the prime minister would re- sign immediately, or would choose to reorganize his government and fight it out before parliament when that body meets June 26, hoping with lib- eral help to stave off a vote of “no Sir Austen Chamberlain, foreign minister, believed his party leader ‘should -carry on as long as possi Winston ignifi sign at once and let the’laborites have their day. Public opinion, too, seemed divided, although there was a tendency to f2- vor immediate resignation and for- mation of a labor government. One of 10 unreported seats was What, You Can’t Swim? ‘No Excuse it ip J Thy Lowest June Temperature in Years Reported From New York to Rockies x we tern North Dakota farmers re need to fear lack of rain for the next few weeks. The soil reservoirs already filled with mois- weather man. Probable showers are predicted for tonight and Tuesday by F. J. Baven- dick, assistant meteorologist at the United States weather bureau here. It will be slightly warmer. Mrs. Catherine Cassler, who escaped hanging for a murder three years ago, today was back in prison facing @ new charge of murder. Discovery of a woman's body in an Indiana swamp and revelations that the dead woman had been employed by Mrs. Cassler’s husband has enmeshed the aged woman again. Mrs. Cassler is said to have threatened to kill her husband and his maid shortly after her release from tic death house ® few weeks ago. JINSIPES, PIONEER OF FORT LINGO, I VICTIM OF OLD AGE Former Post Trader Was on ‘Far West’ When Custer Wounded Were Picked Up Another of the frontier figures: identified with the history of this section in the days of Custer passed on, Sunday afternoon, in the death of James M. Sipes, 77, at Billings, Montana. Sipes was one of the men who helped load up wounded of Major Reno's command when the steamer Far West went to the mouth of the Little Big Horn to bring in the sur- vivors of the battle in which Custer To his men were wiped out, June 25, He heard the account of the battle from the lips of Curley, the Crow In- dian scout, who alone escaped from the annihilation of the cavalrymen with their leader on the hilltop near the present town of Crow Agency. Sipes at the time was a clerk in the government licensed store at Fort Abraham Lincoln and he accom- OCKETS 9 CEN Howard Ellsworth, Taylor Man, Killed ‘PROHIBITION SHOULD BE GIVEN [Faces Gallows Again '|(ATHERINE CASSLER (MANDAN POLICEMAN DIES IN HONEST TRIAL,’ FAMOUS PLEAD -__ WHO ESCAPED NOOSE IS SCAFFOLD'S PREY New Murder Accusations Are Lodged Against Chicago Woman Just Freed INVOLVED IN GIRL’S DEATH Divorcee's Body Found in Swamp Revealed as Maid of Accused’s Husband Chicago. June 3.—()—Catherine Cassler, who spent 27 months in jail for murder, part of the time close in the shadow of the scaffold, was back there today with new murder accusa- tions flying about her graying head. A mesh of circumstances which be- gan forming even before her release from jail April 30 has involved her in the inquiry into the death of Cammeolia Soutar, the 24-year-old divorcee whose body, a bullet through the heart, was found deep in a swamp near Hebron, Ind., last Friday. In the face of police charges, Mrs. Cassler has maintained a calm de- Soutar's death. She said she knew her husband, Truman, had employed the young woman as housekeeper during part of the time she was in jail, and that she had heard other things involving the two. “Cammie,” as Miss Soutar was called, was said to have called on Mrs. Cassler in jail several months ago, taunting her with a story that she and Mrs. Cass- ler's husband were to be married. Mrs. Cassler, however, said she “wasn’t mad at her for it. I don't get jealous.” Used Pistol Threateningly Mrs. Cassler's husband said three days after his wife's release from jail she had confronted Miss Soutar and himself, threatening them with a revolver. Mrs. Cassler said she had not becn but police pointed out that Hebron was her old home town, and they had three witnesses who claimed to have seen Mrs. Cassler there Tues- day. Miss Soutar was killed with a 32 calibre bullet. Police found a quan- tity of bullets of the same calibre wrapped in a handkerchief in a trunk belongin,; to Mrs. Cassler at the home of her sister there. The jsister, Mrs. Grace Stringham, said | Mrs. Cassler has had access to the trunk in the last two weeks. Chester Johnson identified Miss Soutar's body as that of the girl he planned to marry. Convicted of Murder Mrs. Cassler was convicted in May, 1927, of the murder of William Lind- strom, a ‘cabinet: maker. She was sentenced to death but won @ new trial 24 hours before she was to have been hanged. When her panied the Far West, under Captain | case finally came up last April one Marsh, with stores and supplics for Custer’s men and as barber on the| boat. The boat went up the Missouri, the Yellowstone and the Big Horn to the mouth of the Little Big Horn, With these loaded aboard, Far West made the trip back to this witness had died and another refused to testify, the state being compelicd to nolle pros the case. sei m= gauss. ces |THROTTLED’ PASTOR Sgt eons ate) TS FORCED 10 RESIGN Became Barber in Montana Later, Sipes drifted to Montana. For years he was @ barber in the Milligan hotel barber shop at Miles City. He also plied that avocation at Chico Hot Springs, between Living- ston, Montana, and the entrance of Yellowstone Park. He was a familiar figure in many parts of Montana and full of reminiscences of the pioneer Ky edre i i Fs days of the Dakotas and Montana. kane. Sipes died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Ray Anderson, wife of the federal commissioner at Bill- ings. He had another daughter, Mrs. A. W. Helms, living in the Montana In Poor Health a Year Sipes had been in poor health for a He Hi i Salad eight events fi; gs Forbidden to Sermonize on Sex, Prohibition; Knows Vestry- men Have ‘Cellars’ Detroit, June 3.—(?)—The opposi- congregation from the pulpit was be- lieved today to have forced the resig- nation of the Very Rev. Herbert L. Johnson, dean of St. Paul's Episcopal thedral. cat 5 Dean Johnson announced his resig- ae a i nia’ of any knowledge concerning Miss | near Hebron, Ind., for three years; | Ind. tion of a church vestry to a pastor who denounced its members and his nation yesterday from his pulpit and left wih ns denne in the after- sugar Spok: noon for New York from where he Mrs, aaa ann ace resident ae sail for plidigd of paul abroad. orth Dakota dur- vestry, after a special meeting, i Sera lle, hee us innounced acceptance of the resigna- Gs - oe Dean Sohne might ven ‘opportunity’ to abroad.” go Several weeks ago Dean Johnson For a time ‘he lived with his}who came to Detroit in 1926, from his | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ARMS OF MAN HE ARRESTED Coroner’s Inquest Called to Set- if tle Question of Foul Play or Heart Attack HAD QUELLED DISTURBANCE Railroad Men Find Hans Jess | Dead in Arms of Anton Kary After Help Call A coroner's inquest was to meet at Mandan at 1 p. m. today to decide if Hans Jess, 55, Mandan night police- man, was a victim of foul play or died of a sudden heart attack on a Man- dan street about 1 o'clock this morn- ing. Jess was called to quell a disturb- ance at the residence of Anton Kary, 606 West Main street. to enter an automobile with Kary, who was his prisoner, when he felt unconscious into Mr. Kary’s arms, according to information given to po- and several men rushed across the street from the Northern Pacific freight depot. Kary, the freight men say, was still holding Jess in his arms when they airived. The policeman was placed on the sidewalk, where it is believed he died within a minute, police say. Drs. G. H. Speilman and Cecil C. Smith, Mandan, who conducted an examination, found no marks on Jess’ body and expressed the belief that the man was a victim of a heart at- tack. The doctors, John K. Kennelly, Morton county coroner, and Sheriff Henry R. Handtmann were called to the scene immediately after the death. Kary is being held pending the coroner's inquest results. Police be- lieve Jess was arresting him for be- ing intoxicated. Jess moved to Mandan in 1919, where he was manager of the Occi- dent Elevator company until two years ago, when he became a police- man. He leaves his widow, who is a sister of H. H. Pilmoor, Bismarck, and a stepson, Leslie Harrison, Lafayette, No funeral arrangements will be made until the arrival tomorrow night of Mr. Harrison. CHICAGO DRUGGIST IS SLASHED, BURNED BY STILL-SEEKING GANG Jagged Glass, Burning Cigar- ettes Used on ‘Wrong Man’ by Brute Abductors Chicago, June 3.—()—Kidnaped, tortured with glass and burning cigarettes, then dumped bruised and bleeding from an automobile, Mat- thew Zimmerman, a druggist, had a story to tell today. He staggered into his home yester- day suffering from scores of burns and cuts, the latter having been in- flicted by piéces of jagged glass slashed across his body by his cap- tors in an effort to make him tell about a still he knew nothing of. Zimmerman old police he was kid- naped Tuesday nigh twhere he an- swered the hail of several men who addressed him as “Matt.” Lured to their car, he was seized, blindfolded {and driven .o a shack he believes to have been near Gary, Ind., where the men immediately demanded that he tell where the still was. His captors called him “Matt Daly” or “Matt Diligo,” Zimmerman said, and scoffed when he insisted they had mistaken his identity and that he had no distillery and was not engaged in the liquor trade. To force him to talk, the men stripped him and cut his flesh with glass. When they burned him with cigarettes, Zimmer- man said, he begged them to kill him. Saturday night another member of the gang came to the hut. After looking at the captive, the newcomer cursed the others and declared: “You've got the wrong man. “The men blindfolded me Zimmerman related, “and put back in their car. A little later Hammond, Moll Is Found Guilty; Recommend Leniency Frank Meil was found guilty statutory charge in district He was about | Mr. | lice. Kary, it is said, called for help | ofa court early Sunday morning. The jury, after deliberating from 4 p. m. Satur- day until 12:45 a. m. Sunday, recom- leniency in the sentence. | ee ‘Bewitched,’ Says | Youthful Killer | @ — “She bewitched me.” said Earl Man- chester, 21, above, of Rochester. Mich., who has confessed to Macon, Ga., po- lice that he murdered James Parks, a young printer, after being promiscd $1,000 by Mrs. J. C. Powers, an aged rooming housekeeper. Mrs. Powers was beneficiary for $14,000 of the slain man’s insurance, and is being held as an accomplice in the killing. ‘DRY’ DRINKS MORE LIQUOR THAN “WET, STATES LAGUARDIA New York Congressman Says U. S. Is Asking Canada to Enforce Prohibition Washington, June 3.—(/P)—Con- | tending that “dry” America con- sumes more Canadian liquor than | does “wet Canada, Representative LaGuardia, Republican, New York, ; declared in the house today that the | United States was asking Canada to enforce the prohibition law for her. |. Canada, he said, was cooperating fully with the United States and “has done more in helping the enforcement | Of prohibition in the United States than the government of the United States has been able to do.” “The present demands made on the Canadian government,” he added, “are nothing but a confession of weakness on the part of the United States government and an example of the complete failure of prohibi- tion.” The New Yorker said the Canadian government had faithfully fulfilled. the, stipulations agreed upon in the treaty of 1924. “Now the United States government asks the Canadian government,” he continued, “to change its law. to make that which is now lawful in Canada a crime and to deny clear- ance to vessels containing liquor bound for the United States and even to prevent such deliveries of liquor from the distilleries and warehouses The Weather For Bismarck-and vicinty: tonight and Tues; probably —_———— PRICE FIVE TS PER BUSHEL SENSATIONAL JUMP | FOLLOWS NEWS OF | PARM LEGISLATION Reports Published Government Aid Farmers With $100,000,000 Fund TO HANDLE GRAIN SURPLUS Trading Settles Down to Level Four to Six Cents Higher Than Saturday June prices skyrocketed today in terical outburst of buying that lifted wheat from 1 3-4 to 9 cents at the opening. Published reports that the {government would come to the farm- jers' aid with a $100,000,000 fund to jaid in handling the immense wheat surplus inspired the wildest opening in years, with prices in different sec- tions of the same pit varying as much as five cents. There were few offerings at the the market that had been in the dolorums for months, opened at $1.00 to $1.05 as compared with Saturday’s close at 98 1-8 to 1-4 September started at $1.08 to $1.11 compared with tl previous finish at $1.02 3-8 to December showed the extreme ad- vance of 2 3-4 to 8 3-4 cents, open- ing at $1.10 to $1.15 1-4 as against Saturday's last figures, $1.07 to 1-4. Other grains shared the upward although to Wheat had been depressed to the lowest point in 14 years during the last three bearish months. broadest advance in the corn pit was 82 1-4 to 3-4 cents against Satur- day's finish at 81 to tember was sold at 83 7-8 to 86 1-2 cents, comparing with Saturday’s end at 82 3-4 cents. July oats sold at 42 to 42 1-4 cents _ After the frenzied opening trad- ing settled down at levels from four to six cents a bushel higher than _, Since February wheat. -has been idling downhill and for the past two weeks has been gaining momentum, crossing the dollar mark on the downward slope for the first time in The hi left from the bumper crops of 1 was the prime factor in the situa- tion, and the week-end news from give prices an upward MURDER OR SUICIDE? POLICE ARE PUZZLED Daughter of Wealthy New York Parents Found Dead in De- troit Hotel Room Detroit, June 3.—(7)— Police and the coroner's office were at logger- heads today in theories accounting for the death in a hotel room Satur- day of Miss Mary Bayliss Lee, 27- year-old daughter of wealthy New York parents and formerly a teacher if such liquor is eventually to find its way into the United States. “Such a far fetched request of ask- ing a foreign government to enact laws in order to make unlawful that which in their country is lawful in order to assist the enforcement of a local law has never been previously recorded in the history of the world.” VESUVIS, SCOURGE OF NAPLES, ERUPIS Naples, Italy, June 3.—()—Mount Vesuvius, scourge of the rich neapol- itan country side, burst suddenly into eruption again this afternoon. The eruption occurred suddenly on the southeast side of the crater at the base of #2 small cone. A stream of molten lava poured out in the direc- tion of Pompeii, which Vesuvius wiped out several thousand years ago. stream was nearly 40 feet Hoover Address Will Be Broadcast Monday Washington, June 3.—(?)—The ad- dresses of President Hoover and other notables at the laying of the corner- stone of the new department of com- merce building next Monday will be broadcast by the National ing company over a in fashionable schools there. Dr. James E. Burgess, coroner, be- lieves a broken neck, battered face and chest, scratched hands and arms sufficient evidence that the young woman was slain after a struggle. Inspector Fred W. Frahm, head of the police homicide squad, announced last night he was satisfied Miss Lee died of heart disease and that her neck was broken while the body was being taken to the county morgue. The body of the girl was found last night ee in a neatly made bed a ion simulal sleep, hotel maid who et the “{ with f olan 2, Ohio a crew o! lumbus, i azine solicitors and did not ar for work Saturday morning. It is be- lieved she met death during the pre- t. AMOUS FLYERS T0 at the feat that brought them fame, Amelia Earhart, Bert showers. CENTS 3.— mM) hys- buying | orders nal comeback of July wheat less degree. The July. corn started at and Sep- Saturday's close was uge over ey 8 was all the market i Se F i Acosta and lin,