The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 16, 1929, Page 1

ee» i igen North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper , ESTABLISHED 1873 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1929 Russian Workers Demand War Against China HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS + |FARMBOARD BEGINS |ARREST OF MAN ENDS THREAT CAPITAL IS FILLED |[__Wede Grandson of Senator Lodse | WITH RED PARADERS DEMANDING DEFENSE Communist Leaders Call for Punishment of ‘Manchu- tian Militarists’ POPULACE READY TO FIGHT Armored Trains Patrol Entire Line of Railway on East- ern Frontier three days of grace Chinese government in an ultimatum. ‘Thousands of workers paraded the streets of Moscow until early bere streamers flaunted slogans demanding “@ determined against “Chinese fascists.” Heavy rain did not deter the marchers, many of whom were sol- ers in the audience replied with tes- timonials of willingness to “take up arms in defense of the social father- Demand Release At the foreign office L. M. Karak- han, vice commissar, caused to be published a statement from the Chinese Charge d’Affaires, M. Liao 8. K. Liao, giving notice of a delay in translation and transmission of the the absence of Georges Tchicher- in, commissar for foreign affairs, arid Maxzim Litvinoff, vice commissar, the crisis arising out of the Manchurian seizure of the Chinese Eastern rail- way has been handled almost entire- ly by M. Karakhan, vice commissar, and former ambassador to China. RAILROAD TRAFFIC IS ENTIRELY STOPPED _ , China, July 16.—(7)—A cen- sored telegram today from the Asso- ciated Press correspondent at Har- bin, Manchuria, indicated Russian troop movements toward the Siberian border already were under way. ~ $6,100 AT AUCTION Fifty-eight Head of. Holstein Cattle Bring a Total of $40,550 in St. Paul release | She's the wife of. John Davis Lodge, ‘Cabot Lodge. | grandson of the late Senator Henry A Boston society girl who danced on the vaudeville stage, pretty Francesca Braggiotti was married to graduate, re- Lodge, Harvard cently in Boston. They are spending their honeymoon in Europe. ft At 6P.M. Saturdays Over July - August ° ° Nearly all, the stores of Bismarck and Mandan have come into the early closing movement for Saturdays dur- ing the remainder’ of ‘July and of ‘Those in the early closing agree- ment will place announcements in their windows ard,’ Satur- day, will cloce at 6 p.m. also se ss entire Labor day, Mon- Even the mail order and chain stores have -one into the agreement, but the men’s furnishers and the 5- | ‘rs ard.10-cent. stores are not included, i:ording ..to it Bismarck-Mandan credit bureau. ‘The meat and grocery stores some time decided to close at 8 o'clock | Saturday evenings. NEIGHBORS ‘SEARCH FOR MISSING GIRL Lilllan MacLean, Living in the - Southern Part of Burleigh County, Disappears of Burleigh and ‘farmers in | county's i g a i 3 : E ch Fl Fe i i eee Ppeee vat g BoEEE Eg i i ; rt i R Te : fl SUN'S RAYS SCORCH ALL NORTH DAKOTA; SANISH IS HOT POINT Nineteen Cities Report Tem- perature Above 90 Degree: Few Clouds Are Seen Clear skies and a blazing sun sent in thermome: eral weather bureau here, all but -ive Crosby, Sanish and Moorhead, Minn., reported partly cloudy and Ellendale reported rain. Nineteen of the 26 points reported temperatures of 90 or above for Mon- day. Drake, Minot, Sanish and Wil- liston tied for the high mark with 96. THREE ARE INJURED IN BUILDING CRASH Nearly 100 Escape Collapse of Buildings in Montgomery Business District Montgomery, Ala., July 16.—(7)— No fatalities were apparent today from the collapse of two mercantile The workers, how- i | a - G0 TO THEIR DEATH IN HONDURAS ABYSS Picnic Ends in Tragedy When Truck Leaves Road and Plunges Into Depths CAPITAL IS OVERWHELMED Theatres and Concerts Are Sus- pended and National Mourn- ing Will Be Declared Tegucigalpa, Honduras, July 16.— (#)—Laughing and happy at the end of a perfect day's picnicking, eleven Honduran high school girls yesterday went to their death when the truck in which they were riding crashed into a thousand-foot abyss near Sauce, a few miles from here. Twenty-two were hurt, some serl- ously. The driver, Luis Medina, was killed outright. Salador Corleto, min- ister of public works, was seriously in- * -* I attempting to reach the bot- tom of the abyss to aid in extracting the bodies from the wreckage. ‘The tragedy overwhelmed this capi- tal with grief. Many of the girls were from well known families. All theatres and concerts were suspended and na- tional mourning will be declared for, the funeral day. ONLY MEN WILL SIT ON JURY IN POTTER TRIAL IN WASHBURN Testimony for the Prose- cution Today Washburn, N. D., July 16—(®%)— Only men will sit on the jury which will decide the fate of Ray Potter, on trial in district court here on a charge of murdering Oliver Webb in Bis- marck last fall. The case was brought here on a change of venue. The work of selecting the jury, be- gun yesterday, was completed this morning and the state began the presentation of ttstimony for the ition. Panton Beer identified exhibits of- fered in evidence at the first trial in Bismarck last winter and E. J. Gobel, Burleigh county coroner, testified re- garding the manner in which Webb {met death and his findings as coroner. ‘When recess was taken at noon, Donald Snyder, a friend of both Webb and Potter and one of the men who had intended to go on a hunting trip with them, was on the stand. He testified as to the happenings at the Potter home on the night of the shooting. “Judge Fred Jansonius issued an order today that the jurors be kept together until the case is decided. They will not be permitted to go home until a verdict has been reach- ed. Attorneys for each side indicated Eleven farmers and one elevator that trial of the case might be com- pleted this week. employe were selected members of the Y Borg and Henry Field, Turtle Lake; George Boots and David Henne, Garrison; Christ Sprecheis, Butte; and Henry N. Han- sen, Ryder. Basement’s Sod Gives Up Steins, Trio Seeks Beer have no beer. are Paul A. Wachter, John A. and McGillis. FE # ieee itr! ue ty ae i g é E i i i ? st 38 i i é & Hf i WORK ON PROBLEM WITH LUCKY BREAK Legge Promises to Work Long and Hard in Solving Market- ing Problem of Nation HOPE TO HELP THE FARMER Spokesman for Wheat Grower Is Still to Be Found; Little Unified Support Washington, July 16.—(4)—Bur- dened by only one promise from its firm jawed, cautious tongued chair- man, Alexander H. Legge of Chicago, the federal farm board was already engaged today at the task of fulfill- Sted Pledge “to work long and ard.” A spokesman for the wheat growers was still missing from its membership, owing to the’ difficulty President Hoover has encountered in finding reasonably unified support for such an appointee. But the urgency of the wheat problem apparently had been alleviated by the sharp rise in prices on the Chicago market, which Legge described as “a break of luck at the ste Confronted with a number of re-. quests for aid from representatives of various commodities besides wheat out of the $150,000,000 now available and the $350,000,000 additional au- thorized by congress, the seven men who have given up their private con- nections in business and agriculture to attack the “multitude of agricul- tural problems,” lost no time in begin- ning with Secretary Hyde as ex-offi- cio colleague, the “long and hard” work before them. Expect Quick Aid They “hope,” as Legge cautiously phrased it, to get something done _| which will be of benefit to the pro- ducers of this year's crops. Within a few hours after they were formally organized yesterday in the white house, and before their second meeting with President Hoover at dinner last night, they were estab- lished in temporary quarters in the Mayflower hotel. Today, they had at their disposal a corps of clerks and stenographers and, as the secretary to the board, Chris L. Christenser, chief of the cooperative marketing division of the agriculture department. Work on Cooperative Much of the board’s work is to be directed toward the strengthening and building up of cooperative and other agricultural organizations al- ready in existence. One of the first | | major tasks looking to th:t end will e be the selection of advisory councils for different commodities. These agencies are to preside cver stabiliza- tion corporations to be set up by pro- ducers through their cooperative mar- keting organizations and financed out of the board’s $500,000,000 revolving fund. Another big task which the mem- bers confronted within the first 2¢ hours of the board's existence was the beginning of a study to acquaint themselves with the full extent of their authority under the farm relief law which gives them their authority. Described by President Hoover as “the representatives of organized agricul- ture itself,” they were invested by him “with responsibility, authority and resources s'ch as have never be- fore been conferred by our govern- ment in assistance to any industry,” and they saw in the very breadth of that grant of power a requirement to study its extent and limitations. | MANY THOUGHT LOST IN RUMANIAN FLOOD River Sereth Rises 13 Feet, Threatening Countryside; Bridges Washed Out » July 16—P)— 7 g Ee Ui. AGAINST 17. Postal Authorities Nab Timber Cruiser Who Is Thought to Have Written Letters SUICIDE CAUSED BY WORRY Arrested Man Planned Scheme to Win Affections of Girl He Fancied Blackduck, Minh. July 16—(%)— With the arrest of J. F. Letourneau, 56, Minneapolis, United States post- office inspectors believe they have solved a series of blackhand letters which have been terrorizing a 17- year-old girl and indirectly caused the suicide of Con Kopperud, Blackduck, several months ago. Letourneau, according to author- ities, admitted he wrote the letters in which he represented himself as the only one who was standing in the way of a white slavery gang which wanted to get the girl. Employed by a Minneapolis firm, Letourneau came here in 1927 to work as a timber cruiser. While at Black- duck, he became acquainted with the Kopperud .amily and a 17-year-old niece of Kopperud. Letourneau is alleged to have planned a scheme whereby he could win the ections of the girl. Be- cause of the letters, authorities said, he persueded the girl to go to Min- neapolis. Letourneau is married and the father of eight children ranging in age from 8 to 30 years. The letters, which contained obscene » were mailed from Blackduck and Minneapolis. When Kopperud committed suicide last fall, Coroner H. N. McKee found the let- ters addressed to Kopperud and turned them cver to postal author- ities. Major Adam Otto, Bemidji, took charge of the investigation that followed. Major Otto found that in every letter the writer had mentioned Letourneau’s name as the protector of the girl. The man was arrested Saturday on a charge of sending obscene letters through the mails. Mrs. Kopperud told authorities that, after several of the letters had been received, her husband began to brood over them and even wrote several letters to the governor. One of the letters written by Letourneau is said to have offered Kopperud $2,500 for the girl. a aT eee a | Hedin to Issue His Own Stamps | @ New York, July 16.—()—Sir Sven Anders Hedin, 64, Swedish explorer, is to issue his own postage stamps when he rejoins his expedition in China. It is a privilege never granted to anyone cise. He told about it while eating Swiss cheese and drink- ing coffee interview in a hotel. TEXAS FLYERS TRY ~ TO BREAK RECORD Glass and Loomis Set Out to Make Better Mark Than That of Angeleno YEAR-OLD GIRL f : Eats 100 Cones = | Speaking of marathons, here's the ice cream cone eating champion of the world. She's Miss Caroline Bierhals, 18, of New Kensington, Pa., who re- cently ate 100 ice cream cones in 1 hour 45 minutes. And she went to work as usual the next day. FARMER BOY SAVES THREE GIRLS FROM DROWNING IN LAKE Walter Jordan Works Two Hours to Revive Girl Who Tried to Save Sister Brainerd, Minn. July 16—(%)— Waiter Jordan, 17 year old farmer boy, saved three daughters of W. E. Lively from drowning in a lake near North Long Lake. They are Mary 17, Ellen 15, and Jennie 12. Ellen stepped in a drop off and the other two attempted to save her. All three went down and Young Jordan made three trips into the water to save one after the other. He worked over each and revived them. Mi was unconscious two hours. MINOT MEN HELD ON BOAT THEFT CHARGE Ashland, Wis. July 16.—(?)—Five members of the James Murdock fam- ily, Minot, N. D., who were charged with stealing a motor boat here, are free to roam again, but the remaining two, Russell and Howard, today were bound over to circuit coust under bonds of $1,000 each. ‘ The bond was set in municipal court by Judge George McCloud. The action against the family, which had been camping on Chequamegon Bay, resulted from the arrest Thursday members of the family on charges of stealing a boat belonging to Alfred Hultman. Acting on the judge's orders, the five who were released packed up their tent and other belongings and set out to earn their living by doing painting carpentry. | Propeller Splits | In Air But Flyer Jee]! Pair Is Uninjured | (Tribune Special Service) Dickinson, N. Dak., July 16.—Their narrowly escaped death when their plane crashed six miles southwest of Amidon Sunday The Weather Somewhat unsettled; thundershowers Probable. Wed. partly cloudy, cooler. PRICE FIVE CENTS PROHIBITION IS PUT UP TO STATE OFFICIALS WICKERSHAN ASKS ~ GOVERNORS? HELP IN ENFORCEMENT Plan Would Detail to States | Guarding Against Retail Infraction of Law \'S ‘MOST SERIOUS SUBJECT’ | Prohibition Will Be One of Chief | National Problems to Be Investigated | _ New London, Conn., July 16—(#)— ;Governor Pranklin D. Roosevelt of | New York, speaking at the governor's |conference which opened here today |read a letter from W. Wicker - | sham, head of President Hoover's law jenforcement commission, in which Wickersham admits the weakness of |the federal prohibition enforcement act. The letter, described by Governor Roosevelt as the first public expres- sion of the law enforcement chief on the subject, points out that enforce- ment of the Volstead act has rested chiefly on the shoulders of the fed- eral governmert. It suggests that some feasible means of dividing the burden of en- forcement between states and na- tional government be found and that states be given police jurisdiction over the “retailing” end of the “pecuniar- ily profitable crime.” Of liquor viola- tion and the national government re- tain policing power over the “whole- sale” end of the “business.” Wickershan:'s letter assured Gov- ernor Roosevelt that prohibition being a “most serious subject” will be one of the chief national problems to be investigated by the law enforcement commission. States Should Help The 18th amendment, the letter de- clares, confers upon the states con- current jurisdiction with the national government for the enforcement of this measure, but that “thus far the federal government alone has borne the brunt of the enforcement. That | measure is written into the constitu- tion of the United States. It seems to me the governor's conference might well consider approaching the fed- eral government on some feasible pro- Posal to share the burden of enforce- ment. “If the national government were to attend to preventing importation, manufacture and shipment in inter- state commerce of intoxicants, the states undertaking internal police regulations to prevent sale, saloons, speakeasies and so forth, the national and state laws might be modified so as to become reasonable, enforceable and one great source of demoralizing and pecuniarily profitable crime re- moved.” The letter closes with an indict- ment of the American people's atti- tude toward crime reduction and law enforcement and points to the “evi- dent disrespect for the Volstead Act” and other statutes as a consequence. Protection Inadequate Wickersham told Governor Roose- velt in the letter that his would investigate the cost of private Police protection obtained by firms and individuals because city, local and national police protection is “in- adequate.” Governor Roosevelt, speaking on “cooperation of governors on crime Problems,” urged the conference to appoint a permanent committee that © would act as a “clearing house” for | ea Statistics and penal laws so that one governor would always know what another governor's state was do- j ing toward reducing crime. “There is no crime wave,” he said. “That's a startling statement to make | in the face of all the talk that there is. And I say it because I realize that there is no one here or anywhere else who has facts and figures to prove | there is a crime problem.” He warned | governors against allowing the feder- yal government to encroach on state's rights and said one of the chief rea- sons the federal government “is get- ting away with it” is that public opinion is “terribly apathetic.”