The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 17, 1929, Page 1

North Dakota’s | a.’ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1929 . The Weatlier - Generally fair tonight and Thurs- aay. Cooler tonight. . PRICE FIVE CENTS PROHIBITION LETTER AROUSES BITTER DISSENT ‘Like My Pets?’ Asks Lupe Velez HAIL RUINS CROPS NEAR DEVILS LAKE: WINDS WRECK BARNS ‘ 10,000 Acres of Best Land in Northern Part of State Are : Laid Waste by Storm | Bust Commemorates Hughes LOSS NEARLY 100 PER CENT Crary, N. D., Recuperating From Last Week’s Tornado, Is id Hard Hit by Hail Devils eer. N. Dak., July 17.—()— |OFFICERS AND GREW OF TRANSPORT LOST OFF CHILEAN COAST Only Two Men Are Rescued | Following Sinking of Ship in Violent Storm Abtao Finds Bodies Tan- gled in Wreckage Valparaiso, Chile, July 17.—(#)— Forty-one officers and crew of tha Chilean transport Abtao were missing today — apparently drowned — after sinking of that ship yesterday off VESSEL CALLS FOR HELP HIS CONDITION IS GRAVE VICTOR L. BERGER IS CRITICALLY INJURED WHEN CAR HITS HIM National Socialist Leader Suf- fers Basal Skull Fracture and Other Injuries Destroyers Coming to Aid of | Weak Constitution and 69 Years Count Against Recovery, Doctors Say Milwaukee, Wis. July 17.—(®)— Victor L. Berger, national socialist leader and former congressman, was waging a fight against death today, VOLSTEAD ASSERTS. WICKERSHAM PLAN WOULD REPEAL LAW Suggestions Would Weaken En- forcement in Dry Localities, Ory Law Father Says WOULD END IN LICENSE Wet Localities Would Not Be Hampered; ‘Work Must Be Dealt With as a Unit’ St. Paul. July 17.—()—Andrew J. juthor of the prohibition enforcement law, said George W. er, Brocket and Crows © in its path. It was accompanied by high wind watica _ +... barns and other farm buildings. The hail storm broke many win- dows in Crary, which ts just recuper- ating from the tornado of last week. — BUILDINGS DES1KOYED BY SMALL TORNADO Grand Forks, N. D., July 17.—(?)}— ‘Three small buildings were destroyed by @ small twister which hit the Irv- ing Stewart farm near here last night. Reports of damage by wind and hail in last night's storm also ite legislature county pioneers association and unvelied last week. ~zu CHINA ANSWERS SOVIET NOTE; 15,000 Manchurian Troops Are Mobilized at Strategic Points on Border DEMAND FULL PROTECTION Promise to Send Ambassador to Moscow to Discuss Situ- ation in East July 11-——)— government has Russia's ultimatum seizure of ? Anita Hopes Next | Marriage Will Last Los Stewart hopes rose to 87 at-5 p.m., the day. al i Hi ment in Full, Directors of Closed Houses Say HE H Q a ait If Habe was tions following the sppearance of the om Feopouaibie for s feeling ef Unrest and gi fear developed on the part of the rg % PiTbe directors predicted all depost a i z : z A Hi i i t i . Hug’ & member of the bust was presented by the Burleigh} washburn, N. D., July 17.—(#)— > pleted this afternoon. NERS’ RELEASE |" betes scrnre tt sey sr: quire only one day to present their ] case will go to the jury Friday. - @ | state yesterday. She was Mrs. Anna July | 17.—(7)}—Anita i which Potter was said to Pig dey will apartment whic! this port in one of the most violent storms experienced here in years. Only two of its crew of 43 were saved. At noon the transport radioed appeal for help which three boats an- swered, the Flora, the Antarctico, and the Imperial. The Imperial picked up boatswain’s mate Enrique Aranda, and the Antarctico, the sailor Fran- cisco Miranda. Two other destroyers, arriving at the location given by the ship in its distress signal, found several bodies among wreckage from the ship. It did not appear likely there were any survivors as yet unreported. PROSECUTION’S CASE IN POTTER TRIAL MAY CLOSE TODAY One New Witness Is Called in Prosecution of Bismarck Man for Murder Presentation of the state's evidence against Ray Potter, on trial in dis- trict court here on a charge of mur- dering Oliver Webb in Bismarck last October, was expected to be com- evidence and indications are that the One witness other than those who testified at the first trial in Bismarck last winter, was presented by the Wolfe, Bismarck, who lives near an have visited a short time before Webb was shot. Defense attorneys indicated that they may attempt to have her testi- mony ruled out as irrelevant. Witnesses who testified for the tion today were Susie Boehm, & servant of the Potters at the time of the shooting; P. B. Webb, father of Oliver Webb; Elmer Brown, a Bis- marek policeman; Dr. E. P. Quain, Charles Rigler and Alfred Thal, Webb testified that Potter had ad- mitted shooting his son and on cross- examination said that his son had told him, shortly before he died, that the shooting had been accidental. Rigler and Thal told of finding Oliver Webb in the strect after the shooting and Brown told of seeing Mr. and Mrs, Potter on the street shortly before the shooting occurred. Witnesses who testified for the prosecution Tuesday afternoon, in ad- dition to Mrs. Wolf, were Mr. and Mrs. Donald Snyder, Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Bartley, Mrs. Cora Anderson, L. E. Hankins and Linda Clausnitzer, as a result of a basal skull fracture received when he was struck by & street car here ight. Mr. Ber- ger was in an tremely critical condition Emergency hospital taches reported. Twice early this morning he emerged from the coma in which he has lain since the accident, uttered a |few words to his wife and then lapsed into unconsciousness. Physicians described his condition Slightly improved, but still “extremely jgrave.” | Physicians feared Mr. Berger's 69 lyears and his rather weak constitu- tion might not be equal to the strain of the skull fracture, coupled as it is with internal injuries and severe lacerations and bruises. Keeping watch with the doctors at the bedside through the night were Mr. Berger's wife, and his daughter, |Mrs. Dorothy Welles, as well as a number of intimate friends and busi- ness associates. Mr. Berger was hit by a street car while he was walking from the office of his newspaper to his home early yesterday evening. Witnesses said he apparently became confused in the traffic and after dodging several au- tomobiles seemed not to see the on- moving at a great rate of speed, it threw him to the pavement. POLITICAL TANGLE CONFRONTS BOARD ON WARDEN’S POST Independent Members Assert Brown Refused to Abide by His Agreement Last Fall Inability to straighten out a political tangle was today regarded as respon- administration to appoint a warden for the state penitentiary here. ‘The matter has been in controversy for several months and this was the reason why action was not taken on the wardenship at the same time the heads of other state institutions were appointed. Friction Arises Failure of George Brown, present warden, to abide by the terms of an agreement made with certain mem- bers of the board at the time of his appointment last fall was given by two Independent members of the board as the reason for the mixup which has created considerable fric- tion among Independent leaders in Stark county. They say that Brown, at the time he was appointed, agreed not to be a candidate for the place after July 1 and would step aside for servant for the Biglers. Scott Cameron, chief of defense counsel, said the defense would offer two or three witnesses who did not when he shot Webb. The defense con- tehds that Potter and Webb were close friends and that the shooting corporation dentally backed into a 2,500 volt pow- er line. fi rvs BB 3 8 if Bap i H AG sit “i / if ; Ff t if if Hy A 5 i ‘Hell and Maria’ Dawes Is Given Sobriquet of ‘Oratorical Volcano’ |<..t25'%' sites? C. ©, Turner, a representative from Stark county. After getting the job, however, Brown refused to abide by the terms of the agreement, accord- ing to Miss Bertha Palmer and J. A. Kitchen, Independent members of the board at the time Brown was ap- pointed. Brown also is from Stark county. ‘The story, as they tell it, is that the wardenship was offered to Tur- Lee last November. Turner had just been reelected to the legislature and if he were to ac- cept the appointment he would have to resign that position, making & special election necessary to fill his E eat th Somehow or other, it wouldn't be hard to switch positions in life with these monogramed turtles that Lupe Velez, screen beauty from Mexico, is dis- Playing so proudly here. You see these turtles are the pride and joy of Miss|» ynit.” Velez's life, and her particular pets, and who would mind being the pride : and joy and greatest pet of Miss Velez? The initials? They are supposed to stand for “Lupe” and “Gary”—meaning, of course, Gary Cooper. FEDERAL FARM BOARD SEEKS MARKETING COST REDUCTION | siicc"simecs” era cme "hate Mackerel Carry Spare Tires— So Anglers Say coming trolley. Although it was not| | sible for failure of the state board of | in competition for business in the ter- ritory. It is probable that the company. will send as many as three trucl Wickersham's suggestions would in effect repeal the eighteenth amend- big Pes ddb rhe % of strengthening the law,” Mr. Volstead said, “it won in effect repeal the eighteenth amendment and its enforcement code in wet localities and greatly hamper law enforcement in ary sections. “It would practically license sales in certain sections. ‘Violators ere sections would be arrested ‘and small fines imposed upon t! ‘at stated intervals, which of on would amount to a license system. “The work has to be dealt with as. LITTLE SUPPORT FOR WICKERSHAM PLAN New London, Conn., July 17.~>— The suggestion of George W. Wick- ersham, head of President Hoover's Jaw enforcement commission, that en- agencies provoked varied comment from state governors assembled here é today. \Goal Is Increased Profit to the] Such of the state executives as ex- Farmer Without Greater Ex- | Port to air. Wickerstem's scosettien pense to the Consumer —_| {hat an adequate division of enforee- ment authority might lead to modi. fication of national and state laws duly 17.—()—Govern- to make them “reasonably enforce- ment experts are disinclined to think | HOLD MANY CONFERENCES | abie- Perk regres have appetites d yo —_—_ mobile from some shipwreck, but : nevertheless they are puzzied by At- | Psychological Effect of Estab-| ment: lantic fishermen’s catches of mackerel with rubber bands behind the gills. A band was imbedded half an inch in BISMARCK TRADING federal farm 2rd as a means of| “The proposal and the discussion of boosting the farmers’ returns without | it by Mr. Wickersham are purely spe- adding a corresponding increase to| Culative. Beyond that I don't want Governor Ritchie of Maryland he would have comprehensive ae The prohibition question came squarely before the governors con- ference yesterday when Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, Principal speaker at the crime ses- sion, read the Wickersham letter. Washington, July 17.—(4)—Reduc- Purely Speculative tion of the marketing costs of agricul- | Governor Roosevelt after reading tural products will be sought by the | the letter said: lishing Board Raises Wheat Price, Legge Says the consumers’ expenses. to say anything.” To accomplish this objective, the| Other comment was: h board has set itself to the task of or-| Governor Gardner of North Caro- Ganizing the farmers’ marketing fa- | lina: “I think the letter expressed the cilities on a gigantic national scale, | law enforcement situation clearly in Daily Except Sunday Service to working, all the time “with and | regard to modification. My Minot and Back Permitted by Railroad Body Bismarck’s trading area to the|in a statement by the board with an Governor Hammill, Iowa: “The xpanded greatly be-|@mnouncement that the members ginning Monday. —_—_—_ A petition filed by J. G. Belanger, | to attend the meeting of the Amer- manager of the Interstate Transpor- | ican Institute of Cooperation, during ERNME tation company, asking permission to | Which they expect to confer with na. operate a daily except Sunday auto-.| tional leaders in cooperative market- mobile freight service between here | ing. and Minot has been granted by the| The board’s announcement warned state board of railroad commissioners, | that “deliberate” action must be ex- it was announced this morning by Pay | pected. It was revealed that several Harding, member of the board. ‘The transportation company, under | groups but no hint was given as to the permit, will send freight trucks | the probable disposition of the $150,- out of Blanarsk daily at oe: m. ie rewen airy he: board already has arrive at Minot at 2 p.m. trucks | available out of the $500,000,000 loan i from Minot at 6 a. m. to reach Bis- | fund. Made Members of Special Agri- marck at 1 p. m. ‘The service will give Bismarck mer- | through the farm organizations in its chants an opportunity to ship goods | drive for reduced marketing costs is aie ef here in abe OrenS: Bit de~ Peg to gong te we conferences ver them to all points between here | W! e agricultural leaders. Re-| Because of the grazing investiga- and Minot adn also all points on the|gional commodity meetings are|tions being conteeee by Pu, station, Max to Sanish branch railroad line | planned “as soon as time will permit” | three officials of the U. S. Northern the same day they are shipped. Local merchants may ship goods at | becomes apparent. present only three days of the week to Points north on the Soo Line. The | about the rise in wheat prices. He buses on the new schedule will carry both general freight and perishable | and weather conditions both at home ner upon the death of Warden John | goods, ‘The new service merely is an exten- sion of a morning bus freight service through established voups o: farm- | {8 that the last election expressed the ers who are organized or who may be | sentiments of the country.” organized on a basis of specific farm} Governor Case, Rhode Island: “The commodities.’ subject is one on which I have no Declaration of this policy was given | opinion to offer.” (Continued on page nine.) would go to Baton Rouge, La., July 29, EXPERTS OF MANDAN POST ON COMMITTEE eppeals are pending from agricultural The board's decision to work cultural Group Because of Grazing Work § in such sections as the need for them Chairman ‘egge is enthusiastic says it is justified by crop reports a day Particular | i ye cf .- ° eppePert i ci i }