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

Le > Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 ~ 41,098,201 ACRES OF NORTH DAKOTA LAND ASSESSED BY STATE ue of Property Other Than Farm Lands Increases $14,431,287 SHEEP AND CATTLE HIGHER ) g THE BISMARCK TRIBUN HOLY LAND BEDOUIN INVASION BROKEN BY BRITISH MILITARY French Close the Entire Syrian Frontier to Maintain Law Valuations of Farm Machinery | British, and Electric Transmis- eion Lines Jump Although the total assessment of farm land in North Dakota for 1929 1s $6,000,000 less than for 1928, the number of acres assessed was 59,777 acres greater, according to data com- piled by State Tax Commissioner Iver Acker. The number of acres assessed 41,008,201. Although the eee. ae of than a billion dollars, the total valuation was $1,331,443,323. cent. ‘Assessment valuations of threshing machines and separators increased more than $1,000,000 and tractors @ ° 35 s i 3 i $3 LOS ANGELES POLICE SSHAKEDOWN RING’ IS REVEALED BY PROBE 62 Members of Force Accused i more than $2,000,000. Recent heavy died purchases of combines and ‘were given as the cause. ~~ itz 2° ett z if it vik ate if ff gees i # i 7 rit if Hi] i i : ‘ i Pinch I i : z i i | Gilli of Exacting Tribute From Bootleggers Los Angeles, Sept. 3.—(7)—Possible Grand jury action was expected today ‘upon two reports, one by the federal Prohibition office and another by a eS E BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1929 MINNEAPOLIS POLICE BANDIT, WOUND IN SQUAD TRAP Attempted Daylight Robbery Is Foiled by Accurate-Shoot- ing Shotgun Crew DIES HOLDING TWO GUNS ‘| Gambled Once Too Often for Some Easy Money,’ Liv- ing Man Declares Minneapolis, Sept. 3.—()}—One robber was killed and his co-worker wounded by a police gun squad “trap” on the third floor of the Essex butld- ing yesterday. Gilbert Peterson, 28, was killed by @ volley from police shotguns as he and Thomas Finn, 54, attempted a daylight robbery of Joseph Westman, messenger for the Pure Oil company. Finn was wounded in the hand and head. ‘Westman possessed about $8,000 in cash at the time of the attempted holdup. Peterson, also known to police as Edward Roth, was observed loitering around the building Sunday by De- tective W. J. Meehan. A check of business activities over week-ends followed and police learned that col- Jections from filling stations were made Monday. Four detectives were concealed in the oil company offices. Unaware that only a thin partition of a room separated them from four detectives, Peterson, and Finn, armed ‘95! with sawed off shotguns, entered the ‘The federal prohibition office re- ported that 62 policemen of the Met- . ranging from Pure Oil company offices and hid themselves behind desks. Shortly afterward Westman. ac- companied by a patrolman, entered the room. A curt order “Put ‘em up” was heard. The command was an- swered by a volley of shots from the detectives. Peterson died holding the guns. Finn ran into the hall, trying to escape, but was shot down by a de- tective. Another charge of slugs struck Finn as he fell backward in- . | to the office. [x f ; Is fe His i it i E i ? be Hi i i ty ef i iis iy ett Hi: Sounds of the battle aroused occu- Pants of the building and attracted Passersby and police found it neces- sary to assign patrolmen to keep the curious from entering the building. for questioning about a recent bank robbery in Pequot, Minn. “You fellows have got me good,” Finn told police. “What's the use of anything. I am 54 years old | 'd rather | to saying and this will finish me. I Curran and Byerly to Remain at State Jobs Reappointments of two state offi- were annouced today at North Dakota state capitol. dt i i i i i if i te ie ! i tt i i 8 Ba Fi 8 innll NONSTOP AIR DERBY FLYERS MISSING ON COAST-LAKE FLIGHT /All Trace of John Wood Lost After Speedy Plane Left Los Angeles FEAR FOR SAFETY OF PAIR Wisconsin Airway Aviator Mak- ing Second Attempt to Break Record | Los Angeles, Calif., Sept. 3— (PymA telegram was received here teday from Ward Miller, mechanic, flying in the airplane | of Major John Wood, indicating | it ler telegraphed that he saved himself by with a para- chute after the plane went into a@ tail spin near Needles, Calif. The telegram said: “I'm in Needles, Calif. ship went inte a tail spin. 1 jumped offered at the national air races. took off at 4 o'clock (E. 8. T.) flight Saturday. Ine line forced him . N. M. But he later ‘Los Angeles for the re- | Hi ‘ i AD z, Fi Fl RE i f [. i i 8 i i : | i ut E E 4 : iy i Hi ft gh F EF ! i i 14 Killed, 13 Hurt in Accidents GRAF ZEPPELIN NEARING HOME _| AFTER RACE ACROSS ATLANTIC Convivial Imbiber ‘ speed Toward Friedrichshafen Rings Wrong Phone ‘| Intent on Breaking Ocean Evanston, Il. Gept. 3.—(#— The | distinguished looking, but disheveled | gentleman leaning against the lamp, a e Crossing Mark Post at Dewey and Foster avenues was tired, very. It had been a holi- day, and you know how holidays are this hot weather. He dragged himself to a police call ‘box. the door of which was conven- fently open. “Send my car right over,” he said, listlessly. “I'll wait..” They sent over the car with the lengthwise seats and the screened windows. The man, too tired even to say who he was, climbed wearily aboard. “Drive right home.” he said. ‘When he awoke this morning. ex- Pecting to be at home, he wasn't. BL ZAGALE 11,000 SHRINERS FOR. CEREMONIAL IN CITY Details of Nov. 9 Affair Planned by Officers in Confer- ence Here Approximately 1,000 Shriners are expected to attend the fall ceremon- ial of El Zagal temple of Fargo, to be held in Bismarck and Mandan No- vember 9. Potentate Frank I. Darrow, Chief Rabban Howard H. Ellsworth, High Priest Charles Dawson, Past Poten- tates A. G. Arvold and Walter Reed and Steward Harry Broad, all of Far- the twin cities of the Missouri. W. T. Kraft, Bismarck, heads the local com- mittee. The ceremony will be known as the Missouri Slope Ceremonial. About 150 candidates are expected to trek across the burning sands of the symbolic desert of the Shrine initiation. Shriners of Western North Dakota are enthusiastically supporting the 1 to hold the ceremonial on a brilliant ceremonial is . The first and third sections of the shrine work will be held Nov. 9 at 2:30 p.m. in the Bismarck auditorium. This will be followed by parade of the uniformed bodies of El Zagal. The second section will be held at the state training school gymnasium at 8 p. m. Between 400 and 600 Shriners from Fargo will come to Bismarck on a special train for this event. Members of the local committee in Breaking 140 of 150 clay pigeons, J. % won the Troeh, Minot, ee ee tte Corunna, Spain, Sept . 3.—(?)— The home-bound Graf Zeppelin, | flying steadily toward Friedrich. | shafen at a great height, passed over this city at 5:15 p.m. (21:15 a.m. E. S. The big dirigible | arrived at p. mand after crossing Mount San Pedro flew ever the town in a northeasterly direction. She disappeared in the direction of the Asturias moun- tains, Friedrichshafen, Germany, Sept. 3. | |_@\—The Grat Zeppelin, fresh from circling the globe, raced toward Fried- ;tichshafen today intent on breaking its own Atlantic crossing record and | lowering its mark for a round-the- world trip. | ‘The Zeppelin’s route was several | hundred miles to the south of the route chosen August 7 when it began its voyage around the world from | Lakehurst and completed a 4.200-mile crossing to Friedrichshafen in 55 hours and 24 minutes, which was nearly airplane time for the huge dirigibie. | 1¢ the Zeppelin were to reach Friedrichshafen by 8:42 p. m. tonight (2:42 p. m. E. 8. T.), it would equal \ its crossing record of less than a jmonth ago. Its arrival would lower ‘its own round the world clapsed fly- in time record, Lakehurst to Lake- | burst. NORTHWEST FOREST "ARES SITUATION IS / WORSTIN19 YEARS | Two Meet Death in Flame- Swept Woods as Lightning Sets New Blazes Spokane. Wash. Sept. 3—(7)— | Forest officials today characterized situation fires and many thousands of ‘acres of private timberland were devastated. ‘An electrical storm which hurtled | this season. Major fires were sweep- |ing through merchantable timber in {the Selway Pend d'Oreille, Nez Perce, | and Kooskia in Idaho, the loot, Missoula and Butte forests in Montana and the Colville region and Kaniksu forest of Washington. A new element of tragedy was in- jected into the situation with reports i a st a i d 9 >6 | t i z | a g a i i i i te i l | i i i i i i : é z Showers and cooler tonight. Wede needay protably fair. PRICE FIVE CENTS DEAF MUTE DROWNS VAINLY SIGNALING T0 HELPLESS PALS Connolly Proposes Campaign Against ‘Hearse’ Drivers on Memorial Road TO SPEED UP SLOW BOYS Bismarck and Mandan Persons Narrowly Escape Death in Auto Crashes Deaths by accident claimed the lives of 14 persons in the northwest over the week-end and Labor Day, late reports received here this after- noon indicate. Among the list of ac- cidents are automobile crashes, drowning, runaway of a team of horses, and electrocution. It was one of the heaviest tolls of week-end and holiday accidents dur- ing the year. Hundreds of pleasure seekers on the highways during the two-day vacation added to the haz- ards of motor travel and was named as an indirect cause of the numerous fatalaties. With another accident recorded on the Memorial highway between this city and Mandan, officials have in- dicated they would take up the mat- ter of “hearse drivers,” those whe drive at snail's pace and bring about scores of mishaps. ‘The dead are: Nels Kjeldahl, 21, Belgrade, Minn., John Saxman, 35, Minet, rune away. Mrs. Rosa Hutchins, Minneape- 16- lis, rundown by car. Wiccastrom Wojesch, months-old, Minneapolis, killed by hit-and-run driver. Lester Myers, 28, Minneap- drowning. Clayton Marks*"and Thomes Harrington, Big Fork, Minn., and Oscar Peterson, Effie, Minn., tomobdile accident. Vera Morek, White Bear, Minn., 8, electrocution. Mrs. Lillian Foster, Seton, Minn., automobile accident. The injured: George Dearholt, Mrs. George Dearholt, Mandan, and Albert Brandt, Bismarck. R. M. Wymore, Dorothy Wy- mere, 9, Keith Wymore, 7, Miss Leola Richardson, Percy Rich- ardson, 11, and Ruth Richardson, 7, all children of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Richardson, who live mt. not, “ D., = grade cros' utomobile TWO ARE DROWNED Norman Skaare drowned in Court lake. near here, despite an unusual display of presence of mind. The boy was a deaf mute and he started to sink in with him and he spelied the “help” on his fingers to indicate his aH f Mail A it t i il i iff i HEED COTE SEUSS iene ee iiieatianmaeaets — i I A a RII