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

~~ ce ci malic cE >» re td ora i x -” Se North Dakota’s -£ Oldest Newspaper . THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1929 Fair to and Sunday, ft PRICE FIVE CENTS PRAYERS FOR RAIN ANSWERED BY CLOUDBURST Denh ’ HOLD BANK OFFICER PRISONER UNAWARE ‘OF HIS CONNECTION ‘Gentlemen’ Cracksmen Allow E. H. Wahl to Keep Dia- monds and Cash DAMAGE ESTIMATED $1,500 | Four Hours’ Work Fruitless as Yeggs’ Supply of Gas Burns Out Somewhere in North Dakota today four courteous, lootless bank robbers will curse their luck when they read this. For unknowingly they held prison- er for four hours the vice president of the Pirst State bank of Denhoff, off Bank Robbers Fail to ‘Crack’ Safe ’ Babe Can't Hit; | Only 395 Yards New York, Aug. 3.—(?)—Babe Ruth's golf is improving. In the in- terest of accuracy, he says, he is not ' who could have opened the safe which they were trying to raid short- ly _after midnight today. But they won't curse loudly, for Sheriff John Bauer of Sheridan county has warned other county offi- cials of the state to be on the look- out for the gang that has in- augurated-North Dakota’s annual fall open season on banks—even though they did escape empty-handed after their supply of acetylene gas gave out. Between $700 and $800 in the safe through which they were burning a hole was destroyed by the gas flame and the safe valued at $1,500 totally destroyed, A. R. Schlenker, cashier, told The Tribune. The safe is fully covered by insurance. Capture Vice President “Shut your mouth! Stick up your hands!” That was the greeting that E. H. Wahl, vice pres:dent of the bank, re- ceived as he rounded the corner of the bank building on his way home from a friend’s shortly after mid- night. While a revolver bored tibs, Wahl to folded = & Es “It was 50 couldn't get a description of them before they blindfolded me. think one of them was about 28 years old.” ‘Continued on page six) NEGRO'S THROAT IS SLASHED BY FRIEND Wounded Man Chases Assailant With Car Jack; Has Gash From Ear to Ear te roy yey Warren is in a local hos- Will Let Contract For Ellendale Mains Contract for the extension of steam mains and repairs to the heating Normal school will be let by the state board of ad- ministration August 9, at Ellendale. The ‘appropriated $15,000 for the work. Chicago, Aug. 3 hitting so far. The best he did in re- cent play at St. Albans was a drive of 395 yards. Another shot carried 360 yards into a pond. On a heavily trapped 177-yard hole he used a put- ter from the tee and got a three. He had two 79's on the 6,300-yard course. CASH AND CARRY T0 PAY OR FACE TRIAL i POR WAGE PAYMENT Pyle Is Given Until Today to Settle Claims of Members the | Committee to aempfert Sees Comfort for Men Clothes Made From Gay-Tinted P of Cross-Country Run ge today parts on wage claims made lure to appear with the money will result automatically in the filing of criminal proceedings against him, Officers of the commission said. zi tureday, sending with it-s Blea for a a for an extension of time. In the mean- time another claim has been placed before James asks $259 | which he says the promoter owes him. | for services in the 1929 distance jaunt. CHOOSE WRONG MAN - AS HOLDUP VICTIM | Aged Night Watchman Shoots Brothers Before Either Can Draw His Pistol tart Work Moving Grain Minneapolis, Aug. Members of the joint grain trans- portation committée of the north- preparatory to starting wort ia pre| “a SR hace ft pt erop of Minnesota, North and Dakota and Montana. tee will meet again in 10 days or vant congestion, in saseamant.” of ven ion mi of ‘ins from fields to mills will be gun. E together The mighty Graf Zeppelin, the largest dirigible in the world, is across the Atlantic ocean from its resting place at Friedrichshafen to New York. It is expected to arrive Sunday. , [4 a. m. eastern standard time. She 2 |in a direct line to the United States | Graf Zeppelin Is On Its Way to New York Huge Craft, When Last Heard From, Speeds West and South of Azores HAS 2,000 MILES YET TO GO| Course Will Carry Her-North of Bermuda on Bee Line From Gibraltar (By The Associated Press) The transatlantic airliner Graf Zepnelin, two and a half days out, was far over the western Atlantic today making steady progress to- ward Lakehurst on her second voy- age to the United States. A direct message to the Associ- ated Press from the Zeppelin at 8 a.m. G. M. T. (3 a. m. E. S. T.) placed her about 500 miles west and slightly south of the Azores with approximately 2,000 miles still to 0. Although several radio messages from the ship gave slightly varying positions about the same time, it speeared that she was about 425 miles southwest of the Azores at still had about 1,750 ‘miles to travel or approximately 2,000 miles allow- ing. for deviations. ‘he ship, which had been averag- ing 45 miles an hour during night, had picked up speed consid- erably, and was averaging 70 miles an hour this morning. She was on a course that would carry her north of Bermuda on a bee line from Gibraltar, with the pe-sibility that she would make her American landfall in the neighbor- hood of Norfolk, Va., and would then swing northward as she did on her last trip. 3 During the day the Zeppelin be- gan to get in touch with American She was winging—or, to be exact, {s floating—its way stations more frequently. first in direct communication with naval communications at Washing- ton last night and tuday was picked up at Chatham, Masc., and Philadel- phia. All reports from the ship indicat- ed the 18 passengers were enjoy- ing the trip, the Americans being perticularly enthusiastic. WEATHER BUREAU SAYS SQUALLS ARE EXPECTED Washington, Aug. 3.— (AP) — The weather’ bureau announced today WORK IS EXPECTED 3.—(AP)—|_ TO CALL MEETING id two huge dining cars attached to a TONAME SUCCESSOR New England Favors Selection of Huston; Gossip Says He Has a Clear Majority the moving of the grain|' we the ms tember 8 and for himself and to act regarded as likely in i ne 2 #2) ian iy Living Cost Up 1 Tenth Per Cent Washington, Aug. 3—(#)—The cost of living has increased only one-tenth of one per cent in the last year, as reflected in figures compiled by the bureau of labor statistics, which show that the average in June was 70.2 per cent higher than it was in 1913, RUSSIANS, CHINESE HOLD CONFERENCE ON GUARDED TRAIN Opponents Agree to Withdraw ; Troops and Resume Op- eration of Railway | | | > Tokyo, Aug. 3.—()—The third par-| ley between Chinese and soviet repre- sentatives took place Friday night at Manchuli, Manchuria. B. N. oy, soviet consul general at Harbin, crossed the international border to confer with Tsai Yun-Sheng, com- ee for foreign affairs at Har- in, They met aboard a train, heavily | guarded by Chinese troops, it was un- derstood that besides withdrawal of troops the two virtually agreed upon resumption of international railway traffic between the Transiberian railway and the Chinese Eastern. ‘The chief disagreement was said to be upon the question of restoration of the status quo before seizure of the Chinese Eastern as a preliminary ITALY 1S ROCKED BY FINANCIAL SCANDAL; Former Representative at Ver- sailles Conference Is De- clared to Be Involved | FARINACCI WAS IN THE PLOT GRAF ZEPPELIN MAKES ST EADY PROGRESS; | PICKS UP MORE SPEED IN ATLANTIC FLIGHT Mussolini Removes Belloni Sum- marily From All Public Of- fices and Activity Rome, Aug. 3.—(#)—Italy reverber- ated today with its greatest public scandal in years, involving Ernesto Belloni, former mayor of Milan and Ttalian financial expert at Versailles and the reparations and debt confer- ences, and unnamed advisers. Belloni was removed summarily late yesterday by Premier Mussolini from all public and political activity and various of his advisers, whose identity has not been made known, were im- Prisoned. The action followed report of a committee into Belloni’s activi- ties as podesta (mayor) of Milan. The charges provoking the investi- gation were levelled by Roberto Far- inacci, former secretary of the Fascist party and now provincial secretary at Cremona. Farinacci claimed Belloni favored the New York bankers, Dillon Read and Company, in return for a large money compensation in allotting ‘® loan of $30,000,000 to the City of Milan in 1927. The committee exonerated Belloni of this eharge, but found he had used his office as podesta to increase greatly his private fortune. Farinacci himself was subjected to scathing criticism by the premier, who said: “The head of the government deplores in most forceful manner the action of Attorney Farinacci, deputy in parliament and member of the grand council for having brought pub- leity and grave defamatory accusa- tions touching directly the Fascist Party and a great banking institution of the United States.” ‘TEXAS MAN KILLED BY DRY LAW AGENT Officer Claims Shooting Was Touring Americans 1 Astonish Russians condition to formal conference. ° y ] ° Kislovodsk, U. 8. 8. R., Aug. 3.—(?) —American men and women mem- bers of the delegation touring soviet Russia for business and professional a becoming the visitors’ habitual daily costume. As they sat in their shimmering Japanese silken ‘night garments in special train, New York society wom- en such as Miss Alice De Lamar, Miss Jane Breed, Miss Mary Van Renssa- laer Cogswell, and Miss Anne Tonetti resembled gay figures at a masquer- ade ball. They by the amazement of the Russians along the route. Some remarked that they did not care what they wore. Accidental; Stubbed Toe and Gun Went Off Poteet, Texas, Aug. 3.—()—Tom Chandler, 43, was shot and killed by Charles Stevens, a federal prohibi- tion enforcement agent, in a liquor raid on the Chandler farm near here yesterday. The officer claimed the shooting was accidental. Stevens, accompanied by F. H. Hertzel, another federal prohibition agent, Andy Aneson, city marshal, and Robert Lotte, said Chandler was on the front porch when they ap- proached his house. The officer said he called to him: Prohibition agents. Come out here.” Chandler, Stevens said, seized a gun on @ cot and pointed it toward them. The officer declared he started to “rush” the farmer and accidentally fired his rifle when he stumbled. The bullet penetrated Chandler's heart. The officers said they found a still, 19 barrels of mash, 28 gallons of Miniepet a0 uaeshy of bees: ob farm. r “We are federal Proudest Bismarck Of Minnesota’s Youngest Aviatrix A Bismarck man is the father of Minnesota's t aviatrix. i ‘Tribune. Ae rly fH I Man Is Father tion in Duluth in June she took me for an automobile ride. We drove out foresee Pike lake about 15 miles from al Dad? Let's drive git standing there. Pretty little plane, ‘Would you like i to go for a i i i i gE [ £ ge ik af EXPERT IS REMOVED, DURING FARM RAID, Fleet of Larger Boats Is Report- ed by Undercover Agents on Lake Ontario RUNNERS TAKE VACATION Much Liquor Is Being Run Across the Boundary Line From Nearly Every Dock Windsor, Ont., Aug. 3.—(Canadi- an Press)—Detroit interests are be- hind new rum running syndicates which contemplate operations around the northeastern end of Lake On- tario with headquarters at Kingston, according to claims of under cover agents of the United States prohibi- tion enforcement department. There is a further report that a new fleet of boats is to be placed in service by the Lake Ontario rum runners. The new craft, it is said, are of greater capacity than the us- ual rum boats and of greater speed. Many of th. rum runners took a vacation the past month after the blockade of the United States “dry” navy had become remarkably effi- cient along the Detroit river. They left for Lake St. Clair, Lake Erie and Lake Huron, end the Detroit river trade fell away to practi- cally nothing. But there is a general movement now all along the line, a checkup of the liquor business here has re- vealed. Much liquor is being run across the boundary line from near- ly every export dock from Sault Ste. Marie to the eastern end of Lake Ontario, MYSTERY VEILS CAR CRASH ON MEMORIAL ROAD AT DAYBREAK Woman With Two Names Nar- rowly Escapes Death as Car Climbs River Bridge When an automobile ran wild on the east approach of the Memorial highway bridge about 5:30 a. m. to- day the woman driver miraculously escaped death and became a patient in a local hospital while a cloud of mystery was thrown over the affair. The mystery developed when the woman who suffered severe cuts and possible internal injuries gave two names, one at the scene of the acci- dent and another when taken to the hospital. Picked up screaming, beside the wrecked auto, covered with blood from the numerous cuts on her face, she said her name was “Mrs. Walter Pomeroy.” Hospital officials sald she is regis- tered there as “Clara Dennis,” Man- dan waitress. Belongs To Pomeroy The car she was driving is owned by Walter Pomeroy, employe of the Tittle Brothers meat market in Bis- marck. Pomeroy was reluctant to say anything about the affair but ad- mitted that the woman “was a friend of mine.’ Heading for Mandan shortly after daybreak, the woman met another auto traveling towards Bismarck bout half way around the wide curving approach to the bridge. Attempting to avoid a collision, she is believed to have lost control of the car which jumped over the concrete curbing and sidewalk, crashing into the brick guard wall, then ricochet- ing along the south wall for 90 feet to come to rest eight feet up the first beam truss of the bridge about 85 fect above the Missouri river. Hit With Terrific Force “Bhe struck the bridge wall and steel girders with terrific force,” 8. I. Anderson, sand truck driver, and wit- ness to the crash, said. “I thought h on the river bank, stated that he saw two/| men get out of the other car on the bridge, as the woman crawled out of roadster. “They took one look at her, then climbed in their car and sped away,” said. at the Indian to the hospi- DETROIT INTERESTS BACKING NEW RUM-RUNNING SYNDICATE. 4 if Ford, Age 66 | Here's Henry Ford, as he looked on | his sixty-sixth birthday. The Detroit | automobile manufacturer worked as usual, taking “time out” during lunch | for cameramen to snap a few pic- |, tures of him. i Two Men Are Killed Following Robbery Kansas City, Aug. 3.—(#)—Two un- identified men were killed and James Dwyer, patrolman, was wounded slightly last night in a gun battle which occurred when police corralled bandits in the basement of an apart- ment house after following them from the robbery of a filling station. AGED INDIAN FIGHTER OF EARLY CAMPAIGN IS DEAD IN ST. PAUL J. H. Buschman Carried First Paper in St. Paul Telling of Lincoln's Death St. Paul, Aug. 3—(7)—John Henry Buschman, 79, a resident of Minne- sota for 75 ye » and who took part in a military expedition against the Sioux Indians in Dakota territory when he was only 12 years old, died yesterday at his home. He became a lieutenant’s boy at Fort Snelling at the age of 12, and accompanied an expedition to Devils Lake, Dakota territory, where an In- dian uprising was checked. Mr. Buschman was a veteran em- Ploye of the Great Northern railway. Buschman, under 17 years old, de- livered the first paper in St. Paul carrying the news of Lincoln's assass- ination. A son and three daughters survive. Funggal services will be held at the home Monday. 750 Candidates Are Admitted to Aerie Minneapolis, Aug. With grand officers and veteran singe of ternal Order of les from many parts of the United States ooking on, more than order at an ceremony. The initiation was a preliminary to the opening of the 31st annual con- vention of the Eagles Monday. 3.— (AP) —| 750 candidates were initiated into | by he initiation IOWA IS FLOODED BY TORRENT OF WATER; TRAINS ARE DELAYED Seven-Inch Downpour Reported in Cedar Rapids; Thousands of Acres Are Inundated - | PASSENGERS ARE MAROONED Benefit to Crops Brings Quick Reaction on Chicago Grain Market; Wheat Drops Chicago, Aug. 3.— (AP) — The farmers’ prayers for rain were an- swered yesterday with torrents which brought relief to parched c ii most sections of the middle w desolation and flood to parts of Iowa. Starting carly in the morning, a steady drizzle continued throughout the day, frequently interrupted by cloudbursts. Seven inches of rain were reported at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with 3.5 inches recorded here. Farmers in ihe flooded areas of Towa saw their crops swept away by- the rain which they had needed badly to break the long drought. Thousands of acres were inundated, highways were awash, and railroad tracks ané bridges were swept away. Reaction Is Quick The benefit to crops, especially in Illinois and other parts of Iowa, rought a quick reaction on the grain ‘ket where wheat prices dro} to 4 cents and corn closed 3% to 3% cents off for the day. Oats and rye also closed lower. Estimates of the corn crop placed the yield at 82,- 000,000 bushels greater than was pre- dicted more than a month ago. Most of the damage wrought by the storm was between Cedar Ra ids and Bell Plaine, Iowa. Four hundred passengers aboard four transcontin- al trains Jue in Chicago yesterday | morning were delayed near Watkins, Ta., by a trestle washout on the main line of the Chicago & Northwestern railway. The trains were re-routed after a short delay. ' Train Delayed a A washout near Elmira, Ia., delayed westbound trains on the Rock Island lines between 8 and 9 hours and a washout on the main line of the Chi- cago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific line caused a delay of about 12 hours ‘ on that road. The Lincoln highway was awash between Chelsea and Gladbrook and 1,500 acres of corn were inundated. At Blairstown 15 acres of shocked oats were washed away and several families fled from their homes as the _ water rose. Creeks in the vicinity of Marengo rose ten feet, carrying off chickens, hogs, farm machinery and sheds. The government forecast predictee more showers and thunder storms to- day in the Great Lakes region and lower Ohio valley, with mostly fair weather in the middle west and north- ern and central great plain region. [INVENTOR OF FIRST DISC RECORD DIES Emile Berliner Made Grama- phone, and Telephone Trans- mitter; Was 79 Years Old Washington, Aug. 3.—‘)— Emile Berliner, 79, inventor, died today at his home here. The inventor of the gramaphone, the first disc record talking and the telephone transmitter, been ill only about nine days. had an apoplectic stroke. Chinese Prince Dies From Pistol Wound EE Nobody Can Take West Orange, N. J., Aug. 3.- Gelected from among the youth of the nation as the protege of Thomas A. Edison, 16 year old Wilbur B. Hus- rl ade & SE: F ! Es Hd He] afk at ue g Es 8 a8 i a down to 2 df e n 8 |