The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 26, 1929, Page 1

NORTH DAKOTA'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER THE BISMARCK: TRIBUNE ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1929 BETTER SCHOOLS IN 500 Prohi Agents With Navy Dam COUNTRY ESSENTIAL 'Canadian Rum Flood at Detroit ‘Hunt Treasure of a Foundered Craft | Juneau, Alaska, June as started yesterd TO STATE PROGRESS} C. C. Swain, Mayville College | Head, Makes Statement | o forts were tain H. Finch, others to recover a fortune of ea believed to have been on the ocean in Address bottom for 28 years. Captain Finch bia oelgeN on Biggs Bo Raney steamer Islander which SCHOOL BOARDS MEET HERE crashed into an iceberg and foundered south of Douglas Island, in 1901. The safe was reported to have contained between $100,000 and $600,000 in gold. STOWAWAY DENIES LINDY COMPARISON Arthur Schreiber Has Little to Say About Stolen Trip Across Atlantic Approximately 200 Burleigh County Educational Heads 1} Attend Annual Session ye ' Rural schools must be put on an equal basis with city educational in- stitutions, C. C. Swain, president of the Mayville State Teachers college, said this afternoon in an address be- fore approximately 200 Burleigh coun- ty school board members, in conf ence here. In declaring that the rural school presents America’s greatest educa- tional problem, Mr. Swain said that 53 per cent of pupils in elementary and high schools of the United States come from the country, 58 per cent of the country’s teachers are employed in rural schools, and all which affects the rural schools affects one-half of the population of the United States. Proves With Figures Supporting his contention that rural schools are not given as much atten- tion as those in the city, Mr. Swain quoted many statistics. Only 25.7 per cent of rural children between the ages of 15 and 18 years are in high school while 71.7 per cent of city chil- dren in the same class are attending high school. On the average, country children attend school only 156 days of the year compared to 183 for city children. Total average expenditure for education for each rural school child per year is dnly $75.01 compared to $129.82 for the city child. Average value of school property per rural child in the United States is only $99 compared to $299 for each city child. ‘The average yearly salary of the rural teacher is $855 compared to $1,878 for the urban teacher. The solution is almost wholly econ- omic, the educator said. “We should spend more money for brains and less for gasoline. We should learn to get Pleasure and satisfaction out spied the simpler things of life. Farmers must ene Soom pay 10 8 raise {at ee eae wt ey In 1927 d Dakota spent $17,075,384 for piucation and $70,539,854 for automo- piles. “If we must retrench because of hard times, let us not begin with the schools,” he said. Better Teachers Necded Better teachers for the rural school today are imperative, he said. “Half of the teachers studying at the state teachers college at Mayville are in the New York, June 26—(#)—The stow- away of the Yellow Bird, Arthur Schreiber, of Portland, Me., returned to America aboard the Leviathan to- cut French clothes, but with little to trip. He was met at Quarantine by his father, Morris Schreiber, a Portland fur worker, with whom he exchanged affectionate greetings, and then he posed. with his father end by him- self, for several photographs. ‘The youth had nothing to say about his future plans. All he wished now, he said, was to get back home and see his mother. He became angry when questioned regarding reports that he had com- pared himself to Lindbergh and his landing in France. “There is no precedent for what I did,” he said, “and there is no way to tell now what I shall do with my ex- perience.” The French clothes he wore were purchased for him by Armeno Lotti, backer of the Yellow Bird flight and NORTINEST BA BANKER FAVORED BY HOOVER Washington, June 26.—(P)—The | j, business man or banker to be appoint- ed to the federal farm board probably the m country, has a sympathetic attitude toward the farmer and his and has a professional at- raecseesonil Because the progress of North Da- kota will be Iknited by spain social, and intellectual progress of men and women in the rural districts, the state must remedy the school sit- uation in the near future, he said. He white house today along with the that Mr. Hoover was making Progress toward the nam- of the farm board members and it was indicated that some of the names sale ie Probably be announced during week. in bao future. Mr. Swain pesantay appeared be- fore an 1 body has at La Moure and will leave tonight for Carri day—first class—attired in extreme} say about himself or his unigvited] Greatest Force in Border His- tory Is on Duty as ‘Big Push’ Is Launched BIGGEST LIQUOR PORT SHUT Rum Runners Abandon St. Clair River for Other’ Points of Entry toU. S. . Windsor, Ont., June 25.—(7)— Heavy firing was reported from off the foot of Capon avenue in » and at 5 o'clock this morning there was a of the Clinton river in the Mount Clemens areca, it v-as reported. Windsor, Ont., June 26.—()— (Canadian Press)—Canadian cus- toms returns for the current menth should show a significant drop in the exports of liquor from the Essex border docks, according to reports of the United States authorities, Imports at the one-time notor- tion, according to customs patrols, while the occasional rum boat on the American side of the Detroit river is more or less of an oddity these nights, they say. Considerable liquor, however, is eed through below Ecorse on he Trenton front. The rum boats pe shooting out from Amherst. je Sacer a oreo there are Some ‘to em the tide. Detroit, June 26.—(NEA)—The Greatest prohibition army and navy ever brought together under the American flag have made the once rip-roaring Detroit river into as peaceable and law-abiding a stretch of water as the North American con- tinent can show. The “big push” of the prohibition forces has made the opening of its campaign a huge success. The run- ners are not coming across at Detroit now. The Detroit speakeasies arc closing right and left. The highways leading out of the city no longer re- sound to the roar of big truck trains booze for distant cities. There's a reason—several reasons, in fact. 500 Agents on Duty Five hundred prohibition agents or other government forces serving in that capacity are on duty here now. The coast guard has five of its snappy 75-foot cutters, each one mounting a one-pounder rapid-fire gun, a couple of machine guns squad of expert rifle men. It has more cutters on the way here, is building a whole flotilla of BY SUDDEN FLOODING = 1 Host Coneiderate —1 i Most Considerate | | Justice Is Found | Bereich etieentalehrennsnty F Thornton, Texas, June 26.—(#)— The “boys” in Thornton now refer to Nat Hudson as “the most considerate justice of the peace in the world.” In @ paid advertisement in the Thornton Rustler, Hudson warned his “bootlegger friends” as follows: “Beginning with July 1, I am going to make it hard for any man to make or sell home brew or whiskey. “Boys, don’t let us catch you, for we will bind you over to the grand jury with enough evidence to convict you. I'm not on the water wagon. My great grandfather took a drink in our war with England. Grandpa had a drink in our war with Mexico. I was more or less Aer in three different armies. I will take a drink. Boys, stay out of our way, we are your friends, but have to do our duty.” FIND RACKETS DON'T MIX SUCCESSFULLY Arrests Follow Bootleggers' Hi- jacking Rival Carrying Counterfeit Money r= Macon, Ga., June 26.—(7)—It ap- Head that rackets don't mix success- fully. For instance, when a gang of Mi- ami, Fia., bootleggers decided to hi- jack a Jacksonville rival, they neg- lected to find out whether the money they took, from the linings of his coat, was good or bad. Consequently, with secret service men as well as prohibition agents on the trail, the result has been 10 ar- rests, five in Miami, three in Wash- ington, D. C., and one each in Jack- sonville and Macon. 'W. M, Bolton, of Goulds, Fla., was under $5,000 bond for the federal grand jury here today after his plea of guilty before a United States com- missioner on a charge of passing two worthless $50 bills. He said a man in a Miami lunch stand gave him the bad money to buy liquor and that he came here and spent it instead. George Brodnax, secret service op- erative, today was authority for the statement that Jack Fields of Jack- sonville was the man who was iil- jacked at Miami and had $1,750 of spurious bills taken from him, since has been arrested and placed in j Jail at Jacksonville, the operative said. Brondnax said all the bills were printed off a plate used by L. M. Ren- na of Jacksonville in 1924. Renna is serving a term in the United States prison at Atlanta for counterfeiting. ‘The plate never has been found. BISMARCK COMPANY WINS $6,498.98 SUIT Charles Rigler. Bismarck, must pay Northwestern Hide and Fur, Ine., $6,498.98 as a result of a verdict in favor of the plaintiff ordered by Judge R. G. McFarland in district court at noon today. After the jury had deliberated more than 2¢ hours and had not reached a decision, the judge directed the mem- bers to sign a verdict in favor of the Pinion but exempting A. J. Rigler and Bertha M. Thal, codefendants, from lability in the action. “ The Rigler case was an outgrowth of business transactions between him and the com} HOT, EH? have at least one thing in common with the Vice President of the United ‘States and one of the world’s richest men. For heat’s no respector of per- sons, and above you see Mr. Curtis wiping vice presidential perspiration from his brow at his office in the Senate Building, Washington. Pic- tured below, in much the same sort of gesture, is J. P. Morgan, famed fi- naneler, who found the sun's rays tor- rid during the Harvard University commencement exercises at Cam- bridge, Mass. J, R. BRANLEY NAMED 300 SUPERINTENDENT Veteran Railroad Man Succeeds Late W. D. Boyce at Bi: marck Headquarters J. R. Branley, yetcran railroad man, today became superintendent of the Missouri river division o: the Min- neapolis, St. Paul and Sault 5 Marie railway company with heat quarters in Bismarck. He succeeds the late W. D. Boyce. Mr. Branley came to the capital city from Gladstone, Mich., where he has been trainmaster since February, 1928, Prior he vas a member of the president's staff in Minneapolis. The new superintenden‘ has lived in an atmosphere of railroading all his life. He was born in Melrose, Minn., the son of J. E. Branley, road- master of the Great Northern rail- way. Mr. Branley entered active rai toad work in 1912 as clerk in the su- perintendent’s office at Melrose. Promoted to roadmaste:. he entered the employ of the Soo Line in 1919. E. H, Bublman, Minneapolis, gen- | poig, eral superintendent of the Soo Line, and L. K. Thompson, Bismarck agent, DORAN DENIES USE OF SCHOOLS DON SILK BREECHES ‘Hel 'n’ Maria’ Will Meet Queen Mary in Plain Swallowtail Evening Dress London, June 26.—(#)—Ambassador Dawes will abandon the example set him by certain of his predecessors and buckles at his presentation to Queen ; Mary in the third Saint James’ court ; tonight Instead the American, a former General sometiines called affection- ately “Hell an’ Maria” Dawes, will wear plain swallow tail evening dress. Both former ambassadors, George Harvey and Alanson Houghton, donned knee breeches for court func- ticns. No reason was assigned by the sources revealing the former vice President's intention, which was in defiance of conventio: VISITORS ARE URGED TOINSPECT OUTDOOR CAMP AT WILDWOOD 39 Boys From Bismarck, Man- dan and Mercer Begin Out- ing at Chan Owapi Fathers and mothers and all others interested are urged to visit Thursday night or Sunday afternoon Camp Chan Owapi, cn the shores of Wild- wood lake, near Wilton, where 39 Boy Scouts of Bismarck, Mandan, and Mercer are enjoying an outing, ac- cording to W. G. Fulton, director. Thursday evening and Sunday afternoon are visiting days. The camp was opened Monday, which was taken up with setting up tents, put- ting up bunks, games, hikes, swims, and a campfire program. Began Reconstruction Work ‘Tuesday the scouts launched their reconstruction work, repairing boats atd building benches, waste paper baskets, candy counter, paper con- tainers, and many other articles need- ed in the camp. They all were given swimmnig tests. The afternoon was devoted to boating, fishing, swimming, scoutcraft instruction and practice, and inspection. Arnold C. Van Wyk is activities di- rector of the camp and junior officers are: Bud Munger, scribe; Lloyd Murphy, waterfront director; Robert Edick, handicraft; and Myron Ben- ser, hikes. Mrs. Olson Cooks Mrs. Oscar Olson is cook and Mari- anne Fulton is acting as camp nurse | paitroad and dietitian. Scouts at camp follow: Rattlesnake patrol, Bismarck— Ralph Rand and Donald Lund, lead- ers; Russell Arnot, Houston Galyen, Donald Bowman, and Arthur Sandin. Prairie Wolf patrol, Mercer—John O. Hijelle and Sidney Nelson, leaders; Merle Berg, Conrad Freeberg, and Brant Hijelle. Apaches, Bismarck—Howard Freiss and Walter Ward, leaders; Tom Dohn, Carroll Baker, Bob McCurdy, Del Perry, and Joe Wright. ‘Thunder patrol, Bismarck—Robert Griffin and Neil Beylund, leaders; ‘Tom Culbertson, Bill Culbertson, Dick LaRue, Dick Griffin, and John Rei- Ostrich patrol, Mandan—Donald | to Maitland and Earl Cantwell, leaders; will not wear silk knee breeches and | patent leather shoes with silver| washington, hie 26.—(7}—Sug- it. | _AS ‘DRY’ PROPAGANDA MEDIUM DAWES REFUSES T0 Follows Publication of Pam- phlet Containing Sugges- tions for Dissemination Curriculum in Schools Not Sub: ject to Control of Fed- eral Government gestions that the public scnool sys- ‘tem was to be used by the prohibi- tion bureau for dissemination of en- forcement propaganda have brought an emphatic denial of any such intent from the treasury department. The dental of vhe “wrong impres- sior as Prohibition Commissioner Doran described it, followed swiftly on the publication of a pamphlet containing suggestions for the incor- | 0. poration of prohibition information in eight school study subjects, together with slogans supporting prohibition and admonitions to teachers to help teward enforcement. The pamphlet was made public by Anna B. Sutter, director of the statis- ‘ical and educational division of the bureau, with the explanation that she would display the proposed course of study, entitled “How Shall We Teach the Eighteenth Amendment?” in a booth at the meeting of the National Education association in Atlanta, June 28 to culy 3. “The treasury department does not intend to make suggestions to school authorities or to mpt to use the schools as @ propaganda medium,” Commissioner Doran declared, ex- Plaining “the public schoo! system is operated under the control and au- thority of the several state govern- ments and the curriculum in the schools is not subject to control of the federal government.” His announcement followed a series of conferences which began with a summons to Miss Sutter from As- sistant Secretary Lowman and wound up with a discussion of the subject by Lowan, Doran and Under Secre- tary Mi HARDING IS HOPEFUL FOR RATE REVISION Believes Northwest Stands a Good Chance of Defeating Railroads’ Efforts Returning today from Washington where he sst for a month with the Interstate Commerce Commission in the grain freight rate investigation, Commissioner Fay Harding said he is hopeful that huge increases in the North Dakota grain rates, as suggested by examiners for the fed- eral body, will be materially revised. Following the completion of argu- ments, Harding said, the Interstate Commerce Commission conferred with the 11 state commissioners who sat with the commission in an ad- visory capacity. When a decision will be reached there is no way of telling, he said. ‘The fact that North Dakota grain rates are apparently, though not actually, lower than the rates in some other states, put this state con- tinually on the defensive during the arguments, Harding said. They were continually urging the federal body establish a uniform scale, which Nagasaki, Japan, June 26.—(7)— AUSTRALIA GROSSED BY SOUTHERN CROSS , June 26.—(/)—In the hours, Sr Derby, Northwest Australia, 26.—(7}—Captain Charles June 5,000 miles over an 80 mile set course, it was claimed today by sponsors of their endurance flight plane, “Miss selpeon Sd Hanghiend. who sari Williams and Yancey Hop for Old Orchard 85 per cent of the nation’s imported liquor supply found its entry, is being dried up. The rum runners are not to get across. “Aw, what's she use?” remarked one smuggler. “We don’! need to take a chance. Detroit ain't the only place in the United States where they dri drink booze. We can find another market. Thus, while Detroit is growing parched and arid, other citics such as Chicago are getting even more Cana- dian liquor than they got before. Turn to Unguarded 5; shore north of Toledo, where heavy (Continued on page nine) FRENCH CONSUL AT Hasbrouck Heights N. J. June 26.— (@)—Roger Q. Williams, and Yancey took off from at 12:20 p. m. BT) voday| ane For old Orchis Maine, the point of their proposed flight to Rome. elat i x | JACK DALTON, WEDS pany. Fred Hilderbrand’s suit for $20,000 against Nick Bittis, Bismarck, was opened this morning. Hilderbrand, a Bismarck man, claims that Bittis alienated his wife's affections. The plaintiff has retained Scott Cameron while Charles L. Crum represents the defendant. NOTORIOUS OUTLAW, Albuquerque, N.:-M., June 26—()— Jack Dalton, 60, survivor of the notor- fous Dalton gang of outlaws, who made history in the frontier days of bg errige was married here today in aerial wedding to to “Cattle Annie” Burke, his boyhood sweetheart. The reformed outlaw and his bride will live on a ranch in Arizona. —————__ i i i i ae today were acquainting Bismarck businessmen with Mr. Branley. Mr. Branley has a wife and daughter who will move to Bismarck when a residence is located. HOPE FAST WANING Bill McClelland, John b Willie Malmgren. Black Eagles, Bismarck—Richard Hoskins and Maurice Hoskins, lead- ers; Lorin Duemeland, Kenneth Jos- would mean either an increase for North Dakota or a reduction else- ‘The argument presented against this, Harding said, is that in the lin, James Hyland, Boe Mocrenay. Jack Humphre; ind Bob Gi northwest grain shipments move only eastward whereas in other states they move in all directions. Northwestern grain has no free transit privileges hereas other states have such FOR OGEAN FLYERS Madrid, June 26.—(#)— Hope fast was waning teaay that Major Ranon Franco and three companions would ever bet found alive. Bellet apie sae Ses ape. 8 Dornier Wat 5 crashed or made a forced landing pa between Spain and the had been unable to sur- tempestuousness of the At- , England, and Portugal and air forces never- the seas for traces of aviators, who left Alca- z 5 stop en route at the afternoon for New York | a FAMED INDIAN SCOUT BURIED AT BILLINGS Billings, Mont. ;, June 26.—(P}—Vet- erans of four wars, concluding their annual sessions here today Scieurned to attend the ceremonies interment of the body of Captain He ther 8. Kelly, old-time scout. ‘The site was chosen at a spot on Kelly Mountain overlooking the city and delegates to the convention of the Grand Army of the Republic and ig ‘Women's ie Bellet Corps, attended, members of the gon War ete erans, National Indian War Veterans and Veterans of Foreign Wars Captain Kelly died in California last year. His body was brought Reni an Dold bee fer. faday's cape: Mapiain Kelly was a guide for the army during the Indian wars of the "10s and '80s. He served in the Phil- ippines war also with the rank captain. privileges and the rate is designed to cover them, so that the transit is free in name only. The fact that North Dakota, Min- able impression a urine the u- ments, Harding said. as Statisticians have estimated that Cooks Score ‘Fag’ Smoking at Meals qeeet ete ot *|pticie Priest Dodges Death, Parishioner Is WOULD BE STUDY SUBJECTS PRICE FIVE CENTS OWDEN SEES FARM RELIEF IN LOWER TAXES LAND CONFISCATION INEVITABLE UNLESS CHANGES ARE MADE Urges Exemption From Taxes of Crop Lands Used for Re- plenishing Fertility ADVOCATES FARM BOUNTIES Expresses Fear Future Farm Population Will Be Mentally and Physically Unfit : Milwaukee, June 26.—(}—A new attitude of the people toward agricul- ture and the frank recognition of the facts as to the agricultural situation 4s needed more than any one piece of legislation to secure economic justice to the farmer, former Governor Frank Lowden of Illinois told the 13th. annual convention of the Kiwanis in- ternational today. With the attainment of these ends, bend speaker held, ways to restore the roper balance between agriculture tnd industry will present themselves. | One way in which the ills of agri- culture may be remedied, Mr. Lowden said. is to change the present method of ation. The farmer is being done a great in- justice, it was pointed out, by the existing meth- ods inasmuch as intangible proper- ty escapes direct taxation while farm land, al- ways tangible Property, is Lee ing and in a period the taxes will absorb farm lands values, the farmers’ land will be con- fiscated by the state and our farm- jers ea become virtual tenants of the state.” Urges Farm Bonus Another remedy for the existing situation which the speaker pointed out is one which is being used to ad- vantage in England. “Depletion of soils is going on at a dangerous rate and when farm surpluses are often driving the price of farm products be- low the cost of production, we are adding to those surpluses by robbing the soil,” said Mr. Lowden. The state and federal governments could aid the farmer in this by exempting all lands from taxation which are devoted to some legume or by paying a reason- able bounty to the owners of the lands while they kept them out of cultiva- tion, the speaker suggested. “The United States government,” Mr. Lowden explained, “now receives in customs duties from $200,000,000 to $250,000,000 a year on the importation of farm products. The total acreage in cultivation in the United States amounts to 365,000,000 acres. If 20 Per cent of this acreage were to go in- to legumes and a bounty of $2 an acre were paid by the federal government upon every acre withdrawn from cul- tivation, it would cost the government less than $150,000,000 or considerably less than it now receives through its custom offices in the interest of agri- culture.” Boys Forced From Farm The former governor outlined the contrast between city and rural life and warned of the impossibility of maintaining much longer the double standard of living in the United States. A fear that the future farm popu- lation would be composed of the phy- sically and mentally unfit because of the double standard of living, was al- 80 expressed by Mr. Lowden. “The trek cityward is already un- der way.” he said. “I am not dis- turbed about the movement but Iam tremendously concerned that this mi- gration should not drain our country- side of the stalwart young men and women who prefer life on the farm but who are drawn to the cities be- cause they cannot secure a fair re- ward for their efforts on the farm.” Mr. Lowden urged that an “inven- tory” be made of the nation’s agricul- tural resources. Until such a survey is made “every step will be taken in the dark and agriculture must re- speaker declared.