The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 18, 1929, Page 1

I ET AES PAIN oR sm MNT NE North Dakota’s ~~ Oldest Newspaper ! ESTABLISHED 1873 ARMAMENT INERT THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1929 - ‘Tlie Weather © Fae day moore cloudy and wartanr. PRICE FIVE CENTS FLOOD WATERS TRAP 20 IN SUBMERGED CARS TRANSPORT TROOPS ~ TOSIBERIANBORDER|{ Rumors Are Rife’ That White i Guards Are Aiding Ori- ' entals in Struggle ENGAGEMENT IS REPORTED Soviet Makes Complete Break in Relations With China; Postpones Trouble ie — Peiping, China, July 18—(@%— Japanese news agency dispatches from Harbin state that Russian forces are being massed at Pogranichinaya and Manchuli along the Siberian- Chinese also was re- Ported being rushed. ‘The Russian consulate-general in Harbin has been closed and the staff confirmed to the retired Japanese major, Kuroki, from Ataman Semionov, white leader, at Dairen, whom he served as aide for many years. Semionvo summoned him to come to Dairen where he was planning resumption of his antl- Soviet efforts. Major Kuroki said there were about 30,000 white Russians in Manchuia available for military service, and he remarked this might present gold- en opportunity for a white blow at the Red troops. IN HEARS RUMOR churia. MOSCOW ORDERS OFFICIALS TO COME BACK HOME Moscow, July 18.—(#)—Soviet Rus- tionalist nt. The action postponed possibly the gravest po- litical consequences, Russian representatiyes, both trade and diplomatic, in China were ordered home, railway communications be- tween the two countries suspended, and Chinese officials in Russia told they must leave immediately. The break was made last night, al- to the hour upon expiration of imatum given by Mos- demanding restora- i es & a ze z the Soviet action, that Nanking’s an- ultimatum had Judge Pugh's Decision Ends Dis- pute Over Votes Cast in Divide County Dickinson, N. D., July 18.—#)— affecting three contest suits ANCIENT ORDER OF HIBERNIANS ttt DEMANDS AMENDMENT REPEAL Hot Weather Wear ‘ National Origins Act Is Under Fire at Convention of Or- der in Minneapolis DISARMAMENT DENOUNCED Federalization of Public School System and Education Secretary Rapped Minneapolis, July 18—(P)—De- mands for repeal of the eighteenth amendment and the national origins act were contained in resolutions pre- pared ‘for presentation today before the biennial convention of the An- elent Order of Hibernians. ‘That resolution pertaining to the dry law urged members to obey the ENFORCEMENT PLAN Governors Refuse to Go on Rec- ord For or Against Wicker- sham Suggestions ARE PLEDGED NOT TO VOTE Dern Announces State Heads in Conversation Favor Lat- ter's Sentiments New London, Conn., July 18 ‘The 21st annual governors conference today refused to go on record as of- CONFERENCE PASSES! WITNESSES TESTIFY THEBUCK ONDRY LAW} BEFORE SENATORIAL BODY AT FT. YATES Senators Lynn J. Frazier and Burton K. Wheeler Are Aid- ing in Investigation COMPLAINTS ARE HEARD Mossman, the Agency Head, Charges That Indians Were BEN G. WHITEHEAD, ONE TIME LOCAL NEWSPAPER MAN, DIES @ Founded Newspaper in Willis- ' Gladys Glad—to ton, and Was Colonel on |, Keep on Dancing Governor Burke’s Staff WAS A PRACTICAL PRINTER Virility of His Writings Made Him a Prominent Figure in North Dakota Colonel Ben G. Whitehead, former Bismarck newspaperman and widely Urged to Complain Spending today at Fort Yates, members of the special subcom- mittee of the U. S. Senate com- mittee on Indian affairs is ex- known throughout North Dakota at one time as a champion of the De: ocratic party and enthusiastic sup- porter of William Jennings Bryan for president, is dead at Martin, Texas, according to word received here this morning. law but to exert every influence to ficially approving or disapproving mel for reforms in pro- Whitehead was in Bismarck for abolish the statute. Others among the 25 resolutions prepared for pre- sentation included measures denounc- ing disarmament and the world court, and a plead for adequate military a forces for the United Another resolution opposed “feder- recom! hibition enforcement made in a let- ter from George W. Wickersham, head of President Hoover's law enforce- ment committee, to Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York. The letter ‘was presented to the conference Tues- day by Mr. Roosevelt. ‘The refusal to allow the question to come to a vote was made on recom- is not known. Fort Yates, N. D., July 18—(7)— Forty witnesses were here today to testify at the hearing being conducted by the subcommittee of the senate committee on Indian affairs relating to conditions on the Standing Rock several years after 1910, first as an employe of the Bismarck Palladium, and later as publisher of The Bis- marck State. He conducted an edi torial column dn the Bismarck called “Meetings of the Ananias Club” in which he featured many Bismarck persons. Came in 1906 alising” the public schools system and protested the to create a mendation of the executive commit- Indian reservation here. Proposal federal secretaryship in the cabinet tee, which held the conference was Before coming to North Dakota in The hearing was late getting under 1906, he was a well-known special for education. Pledged not to vote on controversiar way, Senator Frazier of North Dakota writer and sociologist in the east and Officers were nominated today and subjects, and Senator Wheeler of Montana, south. He was attached to the staff provides incum- Although no vote was taken, Gov- inasmuch as custom bents shall be re-elected for another being delayed on their trip from Mo- of the Louisville Courier Journal as a writer on race conditions in the North ernor Dern of Utah, chairman of the bridge, 8. D. It is expected to end year after one year of service, the executive committee, said a consul- about Friday noon. and made a tour of the northern tation with other governors had re- In a statement prepared for the following are expected to be renamed: Martin L. Sweeney, Cleveland, presi- vealed, however, that all favored the states and Canada studying sociolog- committee, E. B, Mossman, reserva- . W. Delanet, Chicago, vice sentiment of the resolutions. ical conditions and attracting great tion superintendent, said the commit- attention by his work. . J. Dowd, Holyoke, Mass., The decision brought to an end & tee would hear complaints only from He was educated as a printer round-table discussion on prohibition those Indians who have grievances. while an apprentice in the office of secretary, and Patrick Fitzgerald, Philadelphia, treasurer. in the course of which Governor The good Indians, he said, have no the Eastern Illinoisan, at Marshall. Successors for three directors, who Ritchie of Maryland had declared complaints to make. In his work he was connected with already have served the maximum of that “it is time for the country to Mossman charges that @ woman the Cincinnati Enquirer, the Fort two years, also will be elected. Tealize that the eighteenth amend- who visited the reservation last fall Wayne Journal Gazette, the Kokomo, | Marriage won't keep glorified Gladys ment imposes no obligation on the to do research work had stirred up Ind., News, and the Goshen, Ind.,|Gled off the stage. She and news state to enforce it.” And if they trouble and induced Indians to com-! News Times. Following his departure | Paper columnist Mark Hellinger were choose not to do so “they violate no plain against the superintendent. He wed in New York the other day, but Deputies Break Down Door of Nunnery on Tip a Still Is in Operation Los Angeles, July 18.—(®)—Details MRS. POTTER AGAIN DESCRIBES HUSBAND IN DRUNKEN STUPOR Wife of Defendant: in “Murder Case Duplicates Testimony Given at First Trial ing of Oliver Webb in Bismarck Oct. legal or moral obligation.” Governor Ritchie pointed out that courts and police in Maryland, under an attorney general's ruling, do not ‘act in prohibition cases. He said that for this reason the courts and police are left more time to act in other cases, with the result that there have been more arrests and more convic- tons for other types of crime than ever before and that criminality is on the wane in the state. He believed the same thing would happen else- where if states concentrated on class- es of crime other than those created by prohibition. MEMBER OF COMMITTEE CALLS LETTER FEELER Meredith, N. H., July 18—()}— Miss Ada L. Comstock, president of Radeliffe college and the only woman member of President Hoover's na- tional law enforcement commission, believes that the proposals set forth by George W. Wickersham, chairman of the commission, to the governors’ conference at New London, Conn., re- garding prohibition enforcement, are “interesting and worthy of careful said tl this woman “crystallized and unified the opposition of bootieg- gers. moonshiners, grafters and. bums to the administration of affairs on this reservation.” Later in the fall the woman re- turned and campaigned for Smith for president. Through her efforts, Mossman said, an Indian defense association was organized. He charged that its of- ficers are “loafers and no accounts” and that one of its members was dis- missed from the Indian reservation service because of thievery. Nellie Cottonwood, Cannon Ball, a young Indian woman, was the first witness. She said that Mossman had whipped her and Sarah Thompson four years ago following an argument at the Indian school. The woman pretended that she could not speak English and the committee spent some time obtaining an interpreter. Under cross examination by Moss- man, however, the girl admitted she could speak English and did so. She admitted that the whipping had oc- curred after she and the Thompson from North Dakota, he became pub- lisher and editor of a small magazine at Michigan City, Ind., called “Yan- kee Doodle.” On Governor's Staff Colonel Whitehead’s first newspa- per work in North Dakota was porting the Democrats’ convention Minot. John Burke, now chief j tice of the state supreme court, nominated for governor at that vention. During the ensuing cam- ‘paign he the Grand Forks Press and then moved to Williston where he established, with the aid of the Democratic party, the Williston State. In the Williston paper, which lived but a few months, Whitehead ballyhooed the cause of the Demo- crats. The veteran newspaper man was a colonel on the staff of Governor John Burke and also was a United States | commissioner at Schafer. | He was born in Marshall, Ill., Nov. | 15, 1869. His parents, Silas 8. White- head and Eva Wood Whitehead, were both natives of Indiana and of Scotch-Irish descent. Ben was edu- cated in the common schools of Clark after @ honeymoon in California the Ziegfeld beauty will resume her place as the highest-paid chorus girl in the history of musical comedy. ANTI-CRIME SESSION OPENS IN MISSOULA Officers Seek-to Know Why So Many Criminals Escape Ap- prehension for Crimes Missoula, Mont., July 18.—()\—Law enforcement officers of northwest states and Canadian provinces gath- ered today for the opening session of & three-day anti-crime conference. ‘The officers will seek to determine why so many criminals go unappre- hended in comparison to the number of a raid made by prohibition agents PH arlirieaipmiypeesinlegs greece yang 27, 1928. She said that Potter was in & girl had beaten a small girl pupil at the school and had knocked down the matron when the latter attempted to of crimes being committed. Expected to be here for the session late today were W. D. Smith of county, Ill. He was married at LaPorte, Ind. Saturday on a convent in Bels , & suburb, were ‘an order consideration. . She suggested the Wickers! ter was in the nature of Punish them, March 1, 1907, to Laura Wadsworth, | Helena, federal prohibition adminis- issued last night by Probably “feeler” to find out what the coun. Mossman charged that someone and they had three children, Doro-| tration, and Frank Lavigne, special Attorney Buron Fitts that his subordinates should secure search warrants before invading private residences. The raid was made on the convent, eisezite ee PITT ne ee ui sé g 3 Ey | ge EE, AEE won Bat He r fe i E i is 5 i j i He] at i z to, i try thought about the plan and said considered it probable that} plain similar questions would be raised by the commission's spokesman to ob- tain the benefit of the views of others. “If the commission is going to get anywhere, it will have to have the benefit of the thought, opinion and knowledge of the people of the Uni- ted States, who are interested in good government,” she said. CONSIDER AUGUST 10 TO HONOR BROCOPP Col. Alfonte, Congressman Hall and Lions’ Head Want Camp Date for D.S.C. Saturday, August 10, is being con- sidered as the date for holding formal presentation of the distin- guished service cross to Capt. Herman . The desire is had induced the girl to make 2 com- + to the subcommittee, despite the fact that the incident occurred four years ago. The girl admitted this but refused to say who it was. ROBBER IS KILLED IN HOLDUP ATTEMPT Policeman Shoots Theatre Ban- dit as Me Flees With Loot in Portland, Ore. Portland, Ore., July 18,—(?)—A rob- ber who went to a theatre here last night to stage a show of his own was shot to death by a policeman before he could escape with $4,000 which he had taken from the manager. Perry, 16, usher, who saw the the unguarded en- Jimmy Corcoran, check- , and then dash into the ice, notified police. turned to flee with the safe he was by two policemen, who re- ity By z, ue en him, and he fell, mortally 3 3 a Be Charles Colgrove Is Badly Bruised thy, Charles Miller, and Mt crime investigator. In Auto Accident) emtnjuies suttered’ when «train _ crushed his leg. » An- other son, Henry, died at the age of eight years. Colonel Whitehead was a Mason, and Elk, and was Chancellor Com- mander of the Knights of Pythias |Jodge at Williston at one time. Discussion will center around means of bringing about greater effi- ciency between law enforcement offi- cers. OO Lady Heath Plans CUSTOMS OFFICIALS | Marks for Women SEIZE BEER CARGO @ New York, July 18.—(#)— Women are to have official aviation marks. Lady Heath has been informed that the Federation Aeronautique Inter- nationale has granted her request to create a category of feminine records. RACE HORSE OWNER IS BANDIT VICTIM Chicago, July 18.—(#)—Three rob- bers, late yesterday, stole $22,000 in Jewelry and money from Frederick Grabner, race horse owner, Mrs. Grabner. and Mr. and Mrs. Ruel J. $30,000 Worth of ‘Beverage Falls Into Hands of Gov- ernment in Chicago Chicago, July 18—()—The first seizure of contraband beer at the port of Chicago was made yesterday by customs officials at navy pier. Beer valued at bootleg prices at $30,000 was scized, two men were ar- rested, and the boat which had brought the cargo from Canada was taken over by the federal officers. The “Sea Hawk.” as it was named, was discharging the last of 1,200 cases of Canadian beer into trucks at the navy pier when government men ap- peared. The captain of the “Sea Hawk” and two members of his crew escaped. One member of the crew and the driver of a truck were ar- rested. LEG CRUSHED, BOY DIES Breckenri .. July 18.—()— re fF i g a ES Pend dati ales me i i i COLORADO EXPRESS ROLLS INTO GREEK; | PASSENGERS DROWN Heavy Rains Cause Dry Wash to Become Torrent; Bridge ™.. Is Weakened 4 PULLMANS ARE SUBMERGED Injured Number 20; All Availe able Physicians are Rushed to Scene of Wreck Denver, Colo.. July 18.—(#)—Eight Persons were killed and more than a score injured in the wreck near Siratton, Colo, early today of the west-bound Colorado Express of the Rock Island lines, several cars of \which plunged through a bridge weakened by a sudden flood follow- ing a cloudburst. One car of the train carried most. of its occupants to death when it submerged in the swirling waters of Landsman'’s creek. Railroad officials said it had been established that geven passengers and @ negro porter Nad been kiljed. Twenty-seven ‘passengers were list- ed as injured, none apparently in a dangerous condition. Morris Gest, themtpical producer of New York city, who Was on the train, aided in rescue work and later went to Stratton where he telephoned a graphic account of the accident to the Denver Post and the Associated Press. The train, carrying several hundred Passengers, hit a weakened bridge near here early this morning and after two locomotives, a baggage car and a chair car passed over the struc- ture, a chair car plunged into the stream, which had become a raging torrent, ten feet deep and 100 yards wide. From the sunken car only one per- son e1 . One man broke a win- dow and, bleeding from many cuts, swarftito safety. The body of an unidentified man was found @ quarter of a mile down stream from the scene of the wreck. Chicago, Ill, July 18.—()— West bound Rock Island train No. 5, which was wrecked early this morning near Stratton, Colo., left Chicago at 11:30 Pp. m.,, Tuesday. It consisted of 12 steel cars and 8 pullmans. The train was known as the Colorado Express. An official report received at head- quarters of the Rock Island lines here said the wreck occurred at 3:55 a. m., three and one-half miles west of Stratton. The engine and tender derailed and spread the rails, causing nine cars to pile up and break through a bridge, the report said. The three last cars remained on the track. One car pitched down an embank- ment. Flood waters submerged the ill-fated Pullman car, sev- eral passengers. The submerged car contained seven passengers and a Pullman porter. BRIDGE WASHED OUT A highway bridge paralleling the railroad bridge was washed out. Am- bulances and doctors from east and west of the wreck were being delayed in reaching the scene by high water. Until the water recedes, rescue work will be difficult, said telephone reports. It was estimated that it would take four hours for the water to lower sufficiently to begin opera- tions. The train, which is a through passenger from the east, carried 20 coaches. Four of these, including the baggage car and the locomotive, went into the creek. An automobile road which parallels the railroad for some distance was five feet under water at the scene of the accident. This prevented anyone from reaching the scene immediately. HEAD OF VETERANS EXPECTED HERE AT 4 Commander E. P. Carver. Will Be Honored at Fort and in Banquet at G. P. | tH eis ae if eieis wi ¢ Woes