The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 9, 1929, Page 1

North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1878 NYE ACCUSES GRAIN OPERATIVES OF ‘HOLD-UP' | Death and Te FHT REED '§ CREMATED BE HOLLYWOOD GIRLS JAILED FOR SUGGESTING $25,000 ‘GIFT’ TO WITNESS IN PANTAGES’ TRIAL |] Soulptress and Stenographer BY SOVIET FLYERS INEPT ATTACKS Artillery and Air Bombs Loosed on Chinese Eastern Rail- CHINESE DEFENDING SELVES Hard Fighting With Consider- able Losses on Both Sides’ Is the Report ‘Los Angeles on second degree charge. dl | fy is re t | FOUND MURDERED ON GRAND FORKS FARM dught for Stabbing and Slashing Victim, Burying ' Body in Straw eported today to Rengo, news agency, in dispatches f bin, Manchurian railway center. Me Grand Forks, N. D., Sept. Filipino laborer, set Grand Forks county au deadi: on the trail of Alfred Aregones, 18, Filipino. there were many casualties from the tween Pogranichnaya and Harbin during the fighting i i } i E f ef val H TE : i gE A al i i i i F sf FE it : t E f tei i s il 3 i fT i i if i f f i BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1929 Invited Man to Attend Drinking Parties Liquor Alleged in Counts Facing Woman CASE OPENS SEPTEMBER 23 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ee rror Spread by Russian Planes YOND RECOGNITION IN PLANE CHARRED WRECKAGE Legion Charges Politics Blocks ON MOUNTAIN SIDE TELLS HEROIC TALE Pilots of Lost Transport Battled | Cop's Shot Kills Movie Publicity | Blindly to Cheat Death in Storm Possession of Highly Potent| CRAFT MELTED AND TWISTED Los Angeles, Sept. 9. — (#) — Two Hollywood young women were in jail in default of $25,000 bail each today, charged with suggesting to a state's witness that $25,000 might be given preparations today marked the final Blazed Hundred-Yard Runway Through Trees, Tearing Fuselage to Bits Grant, N. M., Sept. 9.—(4)—Funeral him if he would testify against the|chapters in a story of eight lives’ state in the forthcoming criminal as-/ snuffed out in the crash of a giant sault trial of millionaire theater magnate. Alexander Pantages, |air liner against a mountainside as a pilot battled blindly for a haven of The two, Nancy Lee, 25-year-old | safety against a raging storm. sculptress, and her half sister, Janice ‘With five passengers, onc a woman, Hill, 19-year-old stenographer, were |and a crew of three dead, the cause accused by District Attorney Buron | of the crash of the City of San Fran- Fitts of making the offer in a note/cisco, Transcontinental Air Trans- to the witness, whose liberty was) ports, Inc., plane on Mount Taylor, 20 miles from here, may never be known. Miss Lee and Miss Hill were arrest- | A searching party of 15 men, includ- Associated ed yesterday in a rooming house in/ing an Press _correspond- convinced |ent, was led by Sheriff Bob Roberts The note, © to him house. manship of National‘Com- mittee From Work Ey ent E | [ Hi ly fi aE z i | | i i i | : fl +. ell ; u [ til if Hl al i é t HEH if fh tin lie i i | { i | i Z HA z= i Hud ‘ennessee Man Takes Chair-| f iit Litt it i i t is iP precipitous sides of Mount Taylor. In a little canyon the party of 15 marked the final lspace of 150 yards the plane was Fitts said, was turned |strewn in bits, the largest piece a man living at the | wing section about 10 feet long. Three motors that roared their challenge to the elements when the City of San Francisco left Albuquerque, N. M., Tuesday morning at 10:22 Amnersees the passengers yond recognition. On one arm of the pilots, a wrist watch loomed as a single telling rem- |nant of the wreckage. Its hands were stopped at 11:01. Sheriff Roberts ex- ;amined a watch of one of the passen- gers. It showed 11:04. It was certain proof the plane was winging its way westward on time when tragedy in- fig gq Fe { H E i i J ry i s big E g i } E E 8 [ g i | i F i | i ct i iit [ a dil | & i STUNT FATAL Man Staging a Simu- lated Holdup Shawnee. Okla.. Sept. 9—(— Ahrind Ruhberg, 32, who was shot | while playing the part of a robber in | & simulated holdup, staged as a thea- trical press agent stunt, died last night. 'W. N. Jones, a policeman fired the fatal shot, not knowing the robbery was not . Ruhberg, a theater employe, con- | cocted the histrionic effects after an- other theater had started a make-be- lieve fire to attract patrons. Whil of the rival theatre, Ruhberg ra | around a corner. In pursuit came shot spine, L. L. Hackett. night chief of polic asserted that he had apprised. officer: of the stunt, Jones denied this. de- claring that he thought the robbery was genuine. which penetrated Ruhberg' G PERSONS CRUSHED | IN BUS-TRAIN CRASH ! Speeding Passenger Vehicle Is | Ripped Open by Side-Swip- ing Transit Truck | rich transit truck by an Indian Trails passenger bus on highway U. S. 12 lour miles west of here early Sunday. Two. of the injured remained in Mercy hospital here today. William Shane, 30, of Owosso, Mich., driver of the bus, was arrested on a charge of negligent homicide but later was released on bonds Pending | @ coroner's hearing tonight. Joseph Bellinger, driver of the truck, was not injured. The motorbus, speeding to make up an hour lost time, was ripped open. the | witnesses said the bus was going 50 miles an hour and that the truck, “| proceeding in the opposite direction, PLANES KILL THREE INFREAK ACGDENTS ' Seaplane Rips Through Motor- boat; Pilot Forced to Land on Bathing Beach the f a sea- day were seeking Bi cs 9 aes t » Queens, were fishtg from the motorboat when the nose o! loomed from the mists a i the plane's through the boat, i i | ip z ; | ft i dl sP B g Pd i l i if i iff ty ii i LOCATION OF BULLET 25, Glen Ullin, today hoped definitely if the man has a bullet in his heart as they suspect. Not sure. day and from these the physicians hope to definitely locate the posi of the bullet which still threatens Viets's life. this morning, however, that he is in| much stronger and that his chances for recovery are much better. Memorial Building Construc Minneapolis Architects to Design Structure URGE IMMEDIATE ACTION Feel People Should Have Use of Community Project as Soon as Possible Approval of action by the commit- tee of three which will have charge of constructing the proposed city- county World war memorial building, tentatively selecting W. F. Kurke Estevan Girl Dies Instanty! and Truck Driver Is Seriously Hurt in Collision Grand Forks, N. Phyllis Henk liam Henley, Sask. was killed instantly and Roy Tronson, Cummings, N. D., was seriously in- jured in an automobile accident nine miles north of Hillsboro. A machine carrying five Estevan | People was said to have crashed into a truck driven by Tronson at a road intersection. ‘Tronson was brought to a Grand Forks tal and the Henley girl's | body was taken to Hillsboro where a ommittee of the local American Le- gion post Saturday night. In a resolution, copies of which will be presented to the city and county commissions, the committee instruct- R. J. Kamplin, as the American Legion representative on the com- ‘ittee of three, to urge immediate action so that work on the building may not be further delayed. In making public today a copy of the resolution adopted by the Legion committee, Harry Rosenthal, commit- tee chairman, said: Discuss Causes of Delay “Mr. Kamplin reported to the com- mittee Saturday night and discussed with it the causes of the delay in get- ting the World war memorial build- , ing under way. The American Legion feels a responsibility to the public in that it agitated and advocated con- struction of a proper memorial build- ing for the service of the people of Bismarck and Burleigh county and we feel that.the structure should be —— for use as quickly as possi- ble. “From information obtained by the American Legion committee it would appear that the difficulty in selecting an architect has been due, in part, to a natural desire on the part of the committee of three to adjust some differences of opinion which have been agitated by some local persons. Frankly, this agitation appears to have taken a political tinge at times but we are confident that both the county and city commissions will sup- (Continued on page nine) IN VIETZ 1S SOUGHT Glen Ullin Youth Gains Suffi- cient Strength to Enable Taking of X-Rays Physicians attending William Vietz, to learn ietz. has shown steady improve- ment since he was shot early last Thursday morning New York, Sept. 9.—(4)—Police to- Glen Ullin poolroom attendant. by Charles Bower, An X-ray, taken after Vietz Additional X-rays were taken. to- Hospital attaches said coroner's inquest will be held today. William Henley, driver of the pas- senger car, received treatment at Buxton for injuries sustained in the crash and then returned to Hillsboro. Paul Grundeen, Ernest Botting and a Mrs. Keeley, who also were riding in the car, were uninjured. The impact knocked Tronson’s truck three rods, demolishing it. The sedan driven by Henley tipped over on the road after the crash. Dr. 8. Vinje, Traill county coroner, said the Henley girl's skull was fractured. ‘JOINTLESS WONDER’ | OF BEULAH IS DEAD E. E. Foster, 60, Farmer-Actor, Had No Ball-and-Socket Joints Eugene Edwin Foster, 60, known in this district as the “ less wonder” died Saturday nigh! the King County hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y., according to information re- ceived in Mandan. For more than 20 years Foster farmed near Beulah in the summer and appeared on the stage as a char- acter actor during the winter. He ‘was a member of a New York thea- trical company at the time of his death. Physicians, who examined Foster, said he appeared to have no ball and socket joints in his: arms and knees. As @ result he could bend his knee Joint forward or backward and whirl his elbow in a circle. The acting parts to which he was usual- ly called for the ability to imitate cripples or to assume grotesque post- ures. By some persons he was called the Lon Chaney of the stage, it was said locally. Besides his widow, six sons and two daughters, all of Beulah, he leaves a brother and four sisters. Among the latter are Mrs. L. C. Sinotte, Fuller- ton, N. D., and Mrs. A. G. Neville, Foster's .body will be brought to Beulah for burial but the time of }funeral services has not been deter- idely ROR GOES INSANE STOPS STRIKE TRAL Charlotte, N. . C., Sept. 9.—()—The trial sixteen of murder growing out of the death out of O. G. Aderholt came to an abrupt pothgnnd when J. G. Campbell, a 550 Cases of Liquors Seized in Pistol Duel _ Mem« onstruction PRESS AGENT | wean Select Fargo ani|GRAND FORKS CRASH KILLS Sept. 9 )— | hter of Wil- | The Weatlier Fair tonight and a what pig frrost in Towson PRICE FIVE CE. [FARMERS FORGED 70 DUMP GRAIN DUE 10 LOADED ELEVATORS Asks Federal Farm Board to In: vestigate ‘General Ter- minal Tie-Up’ MAY COMPLAIN TO HOOVE Lack of Credit and Stor Forces Sale Despite Bet- ter Price Outlook Washington, Sept. 9.—()—Senato Nye, Republican, “North Dakota, to ccused Duluth, Minneapolis, and) Chicago grain operatives of attempts! ing to force the wheat growers dump their commodity upon the mars! ket by keeping storage facil loaded to their maximum. He asked) an investigation by the federal farm board. The senator said an inquiry of his own had indicated the eleva! tors of the northwest were filled to) capacity and that the farmer had no alternative but to sell his product at whatever the current price might be, rather than hold it for more favor able terms. He asserted he believed’ the elevators had been filled through @ deliberate program of the Duluth and Chicago boards of trade and the Minneapolis chamber of commerce. Prepared to go before President Hoover with his complaint, if neces sary, after he has presented it to the farm board, Senator Nye declared if immediate action is not forthcoming: he will present @ resolution calling for a senate investigation “of thig general terminal tie-up.” Farmers Forced to Sell q “The wheat farmers are being ene couraged,” the senator said, “by the ;farm board and the d of agriculture to withhold selling their wheat. But the farmers are forced to sell outright for want of credit and storage facilities althougts everything indicates splendid prices for wheat later. “The farmer is being compelled to sell through what I believe is a deliberate program engineered by the grain trade, including the Duluth and Chicago boards of trade and the Min- neapolis chamber of commerce.” Nye went on to describe his own isclosed. int- |inquiry, which he said had di that winter wheat from the south- west had been brought into the north- western elevators by the opera tives, with the result that the north- western producers of spring wheat were being deprived of “storage facil- ities which would have meant much “This strikes me as being a delibe erate scheme to deprive the wheat growers of that price wi is in evidence for this year's crop,” Nye continued. “The local in the field are not at all responsible for this program but the wheat traders operating in Minneapolis and Chicago have the, Power to manipulate these terminal facilities at will. F “I have suggested to the North Dae kota railroad commission an investie, gation re ie yd assure me is being conducted. I hope to the farm board to make a {full and come plete investigation and to correct the. ills they may find to exist. “If for any reason the ft does not see fit or does not Possible to act then I shall the floor of the senate at an hour a resolution calling for a investigation of this general WELCOME INVESTIGATION Duluth, Sept. 8—(#)—The board of trade will welcome vestigation by the federal farm as asked by Senator Nye of Dakota in charging tl with a deliberate program to fill the Aine eavalees here to capacity. was the answer to the by Charles F. Mac! —