The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 5, 1929, Page 1

eee North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper THE BISMARCK TRIBUN ESTABLISHED 1873 COLORADO LAUNCHES EXTENSIVE PROBE OF WHOLESALE MURDER Seven Guards at Canon City Institution Laid Down Lives for Law and Order 1,000 ARE WITHOUT SHELTER! Rap of Carpenters’ Hammers | Replaces Staccato of Ma- chine Guns and Bombs Canon City, Oct. 5.—«)—The tragic | drama of the Colorado state prison Tiot gave way today to a common- | place routine as the rap of carpenters’ hammers replaced the staccato of machine guns, an eight-fold investi- gation of the bloody mutiny got un- der way and preparations were made for funerals of 12 who lost their lives in battle and massacre. Of the 12 dead, seven were guards who laid down their lives to uphold law and order. The other five were convicts, one fatally wounded by a guard, three slain by the ringleader of the revolt, and the leader who end- ed his life when his chances glimmer- ed to nothingness. With his death the: mutiny ended as suddenly as it began. While hundreds of convicts, not participants in the mutiny, bent to! tasks of rebuilding cell houses and other buildings, plans were taking form for investigation of the trouble. Sanford Bates, director of federal prisons; J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the bureau of investigation of the federal department of justice; Gov. W. H. Adams of. Colorado; Colorado board of corrections; coroner's jurors; state civil service commission; state mili- tary authorities and Warden Francis E. Crawford were to cooperate in a sweeping study of the situation hop- ing to ascertain why, by whom and | where the tempest started. - Convicts Without Shelter Nearly 1,000 prisoners were without shelter as.a result of fires that swept the buildings. Twisted steel work was scattered about the granite buildings. Damage of $300,000 to $400,000 was caused by fire and the subsequent at- tack by national guardsmen and vol- unteers on the stronghold of the fel- ons. The mutiny started Thursday noon in the prison mess hall when one of ; the convicts, James Pardue, seized a guard's gun and shot the guard dead. Four other convicts, A. H. Davis, Mel- vin Majors, Albert Morgraidge and Danny Daniels, ringleader, captured several unarmed guards in the mess hall. Meantime they herded other convicts into a group. Another guard was shot from the prison wall, dead. Continuing their march, the five des- Pperadoes captured a total of 10 guards. ‘These men they held as hostages for their freedom. A note was sent the warden saying they would free the guards if the war- den would provide three automobiles and let the five men go their ways. Death of the guards was threatened as the price of failure to comply. The Bodies of four guards were thrown from the cell house where the five men and their captives were barri- caded as repeated demands met re- fusal. Pardue, wounded by a guard in the | Reclamation Begun in Prison Slaughter ° ° He'll Find Plan to Make U. S. Drier i ! if eo | | | ° i |He may put more teeth in the dry law. John McNab, above, San Fran- lelsco attorney, has been di |by President Hoover to formulate a plan for better enforcement of prohi- bition and to present it at the De- cember session of congress. McNab will be given assistance by govern- ment department heads. SCREAMS WITH HIS HANDS,’ GIRL SAYS Interest in Pantages Case Shifts to Sentencing of Wife for Manslaughter Los Angeles, Oct. 5.—(4)—Interest in the trial of Alexander T. Pantages, 54-year-old theater magnate, on a statutory charge brought by a 17- year-old. dancer, shifted today to the fate of his wife, Mrs. Lois Pantages, who was to in superior court: to hear herself sentenced to from one ; to 10 years in San Quentin peniten- tiary for manslaughter. Pantages’ trial was adjourned yes- terday until Monday with Eunice Pringle, co-ed dancer who brought the | charge against him, still on the stand. {Miss Pringle, recounted her version ;of the alleged attack the multi- { minionaire made upon her August 9 and resisted efforts of defense attor- neys on cross examination to impeach her. She will take the stand for further questioning Monday. Mrs. Pantages was found guilty of responsibility for the death of Juro Kokumoto, Japanese gardener, fa- tally injured June 16 in a collision of their automobiles. In the trial of Pantages Miss Pringle broke into tears once as she | related the alleged occurrence in Pan- ages’ private office. “He smothered my screams with his hands,” the girl said. “I kicked him as vigorously as I was able and : struggled until I fainted.” CLEVELAND FLYER | STARTS AR TOUR jMeyers Leads Aerial Parade | ae al F i is 2° 2 i E i it § gf i i ; by?y Bu Hits a ‘HE SMOTHERED MY | The Weather Mostly fair tonight and Sunday. Not much change in temperature, BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1929 all PRICE FIVE CENTS; _ | SUCCESS IN TRAILL | COUNTY BRINGS MORE NONPARTISAN MEETS ‘Feeler’ in Traill, ‘One of Rock-' Ribbed |. V. A. Counties,’ Is Encouraging FARMERS UNION UNDER FIRE/ Admission Fee and Split for, Townley-Upshaw Debate Cause Skepticism Apparently believing in that old) maxim, “the early bird catches the; worm,” Nonpartisans will continuc | their “pep meetings” next week, near- | ly nine months before the June pri- maries. t T. H. Thoresen, former tax com- —— and candidate for the gov- ernorship at the last election, and William Langer, ex-attorney general, both Bismarck attorneys now will ap- Pear before audiences in two places on October 8, according to plans. Meet- ings have been tentatively scheduled | at Cooperstown and Finley on that | ‘day. The two speakers have been in- | Spired by the spirit displayed at three ! meetings held recently. They found | the “we'll stick” spirit in a greater de- | gree than they anticipated. What will they find at Cooperstown and Finley? Organizers’ reports have been en- couraging. Response to the paying of dues in Traill county has been flattering and | encouraging, says The Bottineau | Courant. The county, it explains, ts “one of the rock-ribbed I. V. A. coun- ties of the state. A local organization was effected at Rolette where 600 at- |tended the Langer-Thoresen mect- ing, despite rainy weather. The Courant goes on to say that payment of membership fees is the only salvation of the league. If farmers and progressives in North | Dakota refuse to pay organization dues there will be no Nonpartisan ticket in 1930, the Courant says. Oth- erwise, “the league is through and Mr. Twichell becomes political king of the state.” “We will hark back to absolute con- trol of the government by the rail- ways, giant corporations that have tentacles in the state, and the Minne- RECORDS SOURCE IS SOUGHT BY SENATE Mysterious Document Dealing With British Spies ts Pro- duced by Shearer BRANDED ABSURD FORGERY Allen Has Navy Intelligence Re- port Attacking Authen- ticity of Paper Washington, Oct. 5.—(4)—Senator investigators intend to learn the source of the mysterious document placed before them by Wiliam B. Shearer and purporting to be a secret British record of its espionage system in this country. That will be one of the loose; threads of the investigation into Shearer's activities as an agent of | American shipbuilders at the unsuc- | cessful 1927 Geneva naval conference | which the committee will pick up on; the resumption of hearings late next | week. Chairman Shortridge wants to know how and why such a paper, the authenticity of which has been chal-; lenged, has been circulating in this country. He also is interested in the testimony of Shearer that the name of William Wiseman was added to the paper before it was photographed at the navy department. Shearer described Wiseman as “the chief British spy in this country dur- ing the war.” Now in New York, he has wired the committee challenging the paper, which he said he under- stood to be a “clumsy, absured forg-| ery.” Senator Allen, Republican, Kansas, | has a report from the navy intelli- gence service attacking the authen- ticity of the paper. Pending a meeting next week the committee has not determined, how many of the shipbuilders will be re- called as a result of Shearer's testi-| mony. It seems certain, however, that investigavion will be made into Shearer's story that the shipbuilders told him that Frank B. Kellogg, for- mer secretary of state, called the Bethlehem shipbuilding officers “on the mat” and ordered them to drop their Geneva agent. apolis flour and grain interests,” ac- cording to the Courant. At the previous meetings Mr. Lang- er expressed his views in a cl her concerning giant corporations and “outside interests.” On the other hand the Grand Forks Herald has this to say: “Those who ‘view with alarm’ con- solidations and chain hookups which have taken place in northwestern banking circles during the last year may comfort themselves with the re- flection that the mergers which have been effected in this country are al- most negligible when compared with the gigantic consolidation which re- cently has taken place in Germany. ed in six institutions. the largest of these have merged, BERSERK BUTCHER | Associated Press telephoto of Ramsay MacDonald, British prime minister. his conference on naval affairs with President Hoover. to right) Ishbel MacDonald, MacDonald, R. Cruigie, head of American department of foreign service, and Thomas James, deputy sccreta ry to the cabinet. | MACDONALD PAYS COURTESY CALLS ATCA S—== ———_—_—_,_ en NEW SALEM GIRL, IS ASSAULTED BY DU Pseudo Painters Enter Farm Home on Finding Girl Is Alone Morton county sheriffs and farmers in this vicinity today had failed to find two men who yesterday assaulted Gertrude Cooper, 17. at the Cooper farm home five miles west of here. ‘The girl was found late yesterday in the dry bed of a creck.. Her hands and feet had been bound and a gag was in her mouth. She conscious. According to the story reconstruct- ed by Deputy Sheriff John Handt- mann from the hysterical girl's statements, she was alone at the oonee farm place when two men ar- ved. WOUNDED BY COPS Pushed Past Girl at home. Telling the girl they had GERTRUDE COOPER, was un- | i Actress Asks for | | Reduced Alimony! | OO Los Angeles, Oct. 5.—(#)—Mrs. Car- ter De Haven, actress and divorced wife of the comedian, asked the su- perior court to reduce her alimony.’ | “Why, I never heard of such a | thing!” the court gasped. | Mrs. De Haven explained that while she had been given custody of their two children the husband was taking |them on the stage, and “I want to jee him.” MERGER COUNTY TO | STAGE CORN SHO Hazen Prepares to Feed 1,500 \ Persons With Wieners and Sauerkraut Hazen is preparing wieners and sauerkraut for 1,500 expected visitors | Wednesday, Oct. 16. ‘The Mercer county community on that day will stage its first annual corn show and sauerkraut day. Ar- rangements for the day are being New York Meat Peddler Threat-|come to see about painting the | made by several committees appoint- ens to Kill Wife; Fights Police With Gun New York, Oct. 5--()—A butcher | was in a hospital today suffering from » bound @ dozen bullet wounds inflicted dur-;The girl fainted and remembered | ing a gun battle with police reserves who stormed his barricaded apart- Now two of | ment. Lohn armed with a knife. Svboda managed to disarm the house, they pushed past the girl and into the Cooper home. One man began looking in drawers and when the girl objected the other seized her. He stuffed a gag into her mouth and, with the assistance of the other mai her hands and feet. nothing further which occurred until she was revived this morning. Find Sister Missing When the Cooper children returned | from school at 4:30 o'clock Friday afternoon and found their sister miss- ing, they notified neighbors. The con- dition of the house showed that a taken place and a posse to discover the missing girl was unconscious when efforts to locate her as- é i i ;: i i | iN Ln sifell ‘ed by the Hazen Community club, | spons according to Herman E. | Mueller, one of the committeemen, | who yisited in Bismarck today. Henry Klein, president, and R. J. Sailer, sec- retary of the club, are in general | charge. Efforts are being made to have every part of Oliver and Mercer counties represented in the corn show. |The show is “open to the world, however, Mueller says. The corn show will be held in the forenoon. It is expected the judge will be A. R. Miesen, Bismarck; R. C. Newcomer, Mandan; or George ‘Will, Bismarck. Winning corn speci- mens will be sent here for the annual | state corn show early in November. Hazen stores are arranging special sales for the day. The wiener-sauer- kraut dinner will be served free of | charge to visitors during the noon hour. Free entertainment planned for the afternoon includes a moving picture show and a dance. Promoters are making efforts to stage a boxing show during the evening. The corn display and exhibit will be set up in the Krause Mercantile company building. ‘The annual chow has beeu adopted to encourage Missoupri Slope farm- ers in raising better quality and more corn. That good corn is raised in the Hagen district In the picture, taken aboard the Berengaria, arc BRITISH ESPONAGE | tncdvead Resches U8 Gonter Win ewer] as he reached the United States for dett UNDENTIFED MANS ‘CUTTO SMITHEREENS BY WHEELS OF TRAN | | {Mangled Torso Found Strewn in Pieces Along Right-of- Way in Mandan An unidentified man was ground | to bits under the wheels of westbound | | Northern Pacific No. 5 between the Missouri river bridge and the Mandan depot last night. Only clue to the dead man’s iden- tity was a notebook bearing the name Joseph Picard, Greenough, Mont. Authorities expressed the belief to- | day that the man had fallen from the | “blinds.” First traces of the accident | Were discovered 100 yards west of the j bridge and it is believed he fell at that point. Portions of the mangled body were | discovered at daylight this morning. in the Mandan yards by Conductor Frank Laughlin of extra 1715 west. A search carried on by railroad men | revealed parts of the man were scat- tered along the right-of-way for a mile. Section workers, it was reported, were still searching for one foot and * part of the man’s arm this morn- ig. When the passenger train reached Mandan last night, car inspectors discovered a broken hose connection. It was damaged, they believed. when jit struck the man’s body which had ‘fallen between the rails. A part of | the connection was found where the | accident occurred. | Can't Reach Montana Attempts this morning of the cor- oner to call authorities at Greenough were halted by disabled telephone lines in western Montana. Greenough is located 34 miles from Missoula, Mont. Whether the dead man was Picard or was on his way to visit Pi- card was a matter of conjecture this ing. Railroad men found a watch and a fountain pen on the tracks, believed to be the property of the dead man. A doctor's examination placed the man’s age at about 25 years and his weight at 140 to 150 pounds. He was clothed in a green mackinaw coat, striped brown and black overalls, a light brown hat and tan shoes, Exactly how the tragedy occurred forever remain a mystery, au- thorities here said. Because of the badly mangled condition of the body, : [: iigie Fe i z PITOL ‘PRESIDENT HOOVER | WILL ENTERTAIN IN | MOUNTAIN RETREAT 'To Make Misunderstandings Be- tween Great Britain and U. S. Impossible | SEEKS CORDIAL FRIENDSHIP i ee | Mission Has No Idea of Creating Alliance Between English. Speaking Peoples Washington, Oct. —()—A round | of official calls claimed Ramsay Mac- ‘Donald. the British prime minister, {today before he and his daughter, | Ishbel, went to the white house to be guests of the president and Mrs, Hoover until next ‘Tuesday. Although threatening clouds stud ded the heavens, plans were made at ‘the white hou jor the distinguished visitors to accompany the president, ; 8nd Mrs, Hoover and Secretary of | State and Mrs. Henry L. Stimson to ;the chief executive's rustic camp in the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia, 100 miles by motor from Washington. | The return was timed for early ;Monday so that Mr. MacDonald might visit congress at noon and ; Speak to the senate before luncheon: ie the white house. | Breakfasts with Howards After a night of rest at the British jembassy, the prime Minister arose jearly and breakfasted with Sir Esme Howard, the British ambassador, and Lady Isabella Howard. He attended {to some official correspondence be- | fore starting at 10 a. m. on courtesy {calls upon the Canadian minister, | Vincent Massey, and Michael Mac- | White, the minister of the Irish Free state. ; With an escort of motorcycle pos jlice, the prime minister drove to the | capitol half an hour ahead of sched- ule and there first called on Vice | President Curtis in his reception room off the senate chamber. He {and Mr. Curtis chatted for a few (minutes before being joined by Sen- | ator Moses, of New Hampshire, pres- ident pro tempore of the senate. Chats with Curtis Like the prime minister, Mr. Cur- tis was attired in morning dress. | Smoking ‘a cigarette, Mr. MacDonaid | Spoke of his visit here and at the {Same time met various senators who | called to pay their respects. Senator Watson of Indiana, the Republican leader, and Chairman Hale of the senate naval committee, were among the visitors. After 20 minutes the premier, ac- companied by Mr. Curtis, Sir Esme Howard and Representative Porter, of Pennsylvania. chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, walked across the capitol corridor and called upon Chief Justice Taft. To Open Their Minds Unhampered by the formalities that generally attend exchanges between the heads of governments, President: {Hoover and Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald purpose to open their {minds to each other with the hope that misunderstandings between the American and British nations may be made impossible. The conversations will encompass the wider aspects of relations be- tween the two countries. Details and non-essentials will be eliminated. With a frankness which may have surprised and certainly pleased Amer- ican officials, the British statesman i began his good-will mission with clear cut statements of his purpose, his aspirations and his hopes. ‘Seek American Friendship He emphasized that he spoke for s. British people united in the “very, great and very profound” desire for ; “cordial friendship with the American People.” Along with the assurance to the American people he gave notice to the other nations that there was in his mission no idea of an alliance bee tween Great Britain and the United America should be-at once followed by removal of other misunderstandings with or between other nations. “We have no exclusive ideas in E : HE BE if é : i E if é | Ae 5 Fi i ill thee ithe ye i ] i J i : : 3 | | 3 # i E 5 ; E il 2 3 x Zz z : g a it | i iliy He He ef , : af : sf z: hi i