The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 15, 1929, Page 3

JUDGE ORDERS JURY TO NDCT BUYER O, AND LIQUOR SELLERS “eters Asking Al Capone for Money to Escape Gangland Revenge Responsible ‘TO TELL COPS EVERYTHING’ Attacks ‘So-Called Good Citi- zen’ Who Thinks It Is Not Against Law to Buy INTERPRETS VOLSTEAD ACT Wife Accuses King of Crime of Putting Husband on ‘Spot’ by Denying Cash Believes Law Makes It Illegal for Individuals to Purchase Beverage Liquor prtcens recent years. a Louisville, Ky., Oct. 15—(%)—The| The man—Frank Biege. alias Bige, October grand jury of the United | ene being asked these States district court here today was iy n under instruction from Judge Charies | _ “Who killed McSwiggin? (Assistant I. Dawson to indict, if the evidence | State’s Attorney William McSwiggin ; Warranted, the buyer as well as the | Who was assassinated in front of the Attacking the “so-called good citi- ye v1 zen” who patronizes _bootleggers, | killed the New York gangster, Sudge Dawson, former Kentucky at- | Frankic Uae, last year? torney general, declared the wide-| “Were you one of the men who spread impression that it is not|took part in the execution of seven | against the law to purchase liquor is|°f “Bugs” Moran gangsters. lining | erroneous. them up against a garage wall and: Chicago, Oct. 15—(®)—The state's attorney today ‘.eld in custody a man | he believes holds the key to some j of the most vicious gang murders of HOLDSKEY TOGANG (CHEMIST CONVINCED | § MURDERS IS HELD IN CHICAGO (ip) WAS ATTACKED habeas corpus writ, hinting that | Biege would soon be “put on the | ae spot” by gang enemies if he were'So Testifies in Pantages Trial pee After Examining Miss Pringle’s Clothing Philadelphia, Oct. 15.—(#)--Warden Herbert Smith, of the state peniten- | tiary, where Alphonse “Scarface Al” | Capone is serving a year for carrying | Los Angeles, Oct. 15.—(/P\—Presen- a loaded pistol, said today he knew | tation of Alexander Pantages’ own nothing of the report that letters pur- | story of whit happened in the little porting to connect the Chicago “cubby hole” office in which he is gangster with killings had been in-| alleged to have attacked Eunice | tercepted in Philadelphia. |Pringle, 17-year-old dancer, will be | were never received at the peniten- | the millionaire showman’s tric?! on a | tary.’ |statutory charge preferred by Miss cI Y COMMISSION | and with completion of his cross ex- amination, District Attorney Buron yesterday. He identified clothing. presented as a state exhibit. as that | lin a downtown theatre building. and told of making chemical examinations ‘ap perintendent O. W. Mattison on the | Pi eeavNGed Tilt ah proposed reduction of electric rates in Le San peen taka oer Use eanicer. “The letters did not come from commenced by the defense today at Pringle. | Police Chemist Rex Welch was the | Fitts said, the testimony of the state | will be complete. |. Welch was the most important of Condition of Lot in Rear of Auto Wrecking Plant Offends iworn by Miss Pringle at the time of Neighbors of the various articles of wearing here,” said the warden, “and they the opening of the second phase of | last witness called by the prosecution | six men witnesses called by the state the alleged attack in Pantages’ office Outside of the hearing accorded Su- 1. The chemist testified that Referring to a recent decision of the circuit court of appeals of the second district at Philadelphia, Judge Dawson said that he had not read that court's opinion, but it was his opinion “t!:at what that court really Gecided was that one who purchases liquor is not such an aider or abet- ter of the seller as to make him guilty as a seller under the federal law.” To that extent, Judge Dawson said in his charge, “I agree with the opin- ion, but if that opinion holds that it shooting them down last Valentine's | tle business before it Monday evening. day?” Biege’s arrest last Saturday fol- | lowed three months of surveillance. Three letters written by Biege's wite | to Al (Scarface) Capone, now in jail in Philadelphia for gun toting. put the state’s attorney on Biege’s trail. | The letters were intercepted in Phil- | adelphia and turned over to State's Attorney Swanson who has since di- rected the investigation which led to Biege's arrest. Bonds were turned in by the Knife furnishing of coal to the city, and by H. A. Thompson in the amounts of $1,124, $1,101.08 and $1060, for faithful performance of Tenth and Mandan streets sewer contracts. These were accepted and filed. Dr. T. M. MacLachlan appeared the city, the city commission had nl Some discussions of an executive} character ensued on the airport proj- | ect, but no action followed. | River Coal company for the faithful | In What Month |] Is Your Birthday? | | | Known as Uale Slayer Pat Roche, special investigator for | the state's attorney, said pictures of | Biege, under the alias Perry, oot is not an offense against the national prohibition act for one to purchase liquor without a permit and not on a prescription, then I cannot agree with again to register a protest against the | appearance of the lot in the rear of | the Thal auto repair and wrecking | works on Main avenue near First | street. The lot was represented as be- it, because I have no doubt whatever that the Volstead act intended to and does, in express terms, make it ille- * gal for individuals to purchase liquor for personal consumption for bever- age purposes.” He cited section 6 of the national been identified as being one of the actual slayers of Uale. | Mrs. Biege’s letters to Capone asked $10,000 from him to enable her hus- band to flee Chicago and gangster enemies who sought his life. The letters threatened to “tell the cops ing cluttered in such a way as to be a fire menace as well as unsightly. It was decided to leave the matter to the city attorney, to take such ac- tion as the law In 1906 Santos: | \]]On your Birthday send your ! Mother Flowers Hoskins-Meyer everything” if Capone failed to pro- vide flight money for Biege. “No one shall manufacture, sell,| The first letter said. in part: purchase, transport, or prescribe any} “You know what Frank — done | liquor without first obtaining a per-|f0r you. He's got to get out of town | mit from the commissions so to do, | Pronto, for the other mob (gang) are | except that a person may, without a| Wise. So you get us $1,000 in cash. ; permit, purchase and use liquor for |2Md get it quick. ‘pose: i The second letter was somewhat | astniican” sfegeosian eile j Stronger in tone and told Capone to j “| ” “kick across” with the cash, “or Frank sina aginray to etre cee Bidens will go to the police and spill every- , hibit the purchase of liquor by in- | thing aimee Sera: : dividuals for personal consumption| The third letter was abrupt: for beverage purposes without a per-| Reviews Past Shootings # mit, then I am incapable of under- ‘All right. You are just as good as | + |putting Frank on the spot. Well. standing the meaning of language. how'll you like getting the finger on | yourself? Frank's going to tell. He) jremembers 15 shootings he did be-j| {cause you ordered him to do then. | | He's going to tell just who killed Mc- Swiggin for a starter. And he's going | tH AT MIAMI ‘to tell evout why you had him bump | off Ben Newmark—because you heard ; prohibition act, which, he said among other provisions declares: i | Ben wanted to steal your racket and | ‘had put up a cash offer to the man Millions of Acres Flooded asj|that got you. (Newmark was an in- | \ vestigator for former State's Attorney ; umont, a Brazilian | living in Paris, remained in the air 21 seconds flying a biplane of his own construction. | Home of KFYR Fox Movietone “FOLLIES” Drainage Ditches Overflow | Foliowing Rains Miami, Fle., Oct. 15.—()—Drain- age ditches overflowing from recent heavy rains caused an enormous lake | to converge on lowland sections of | Miami, Hialeah and other points in this section of southeast Florida to- day. Mullions of acres were flooded by the gigantic sheet of water, but the flood was not expected to reach into Mi- ami proper. H Hialeah, in the immediate path of the slowly moving flood, was faced today with the prospect of complete evacuation. With water standing from a few inches to several feet deep in Hialeah, a suburb of Mi- ami, an increase of six inches more would make living there dangerous, enid J. O. Frank, American Legion official in charge of relief work. An emergency fund of $21,000 has been voted by the Miami city com- mission for cutting a drainage ditch the southwest section of the city reduce the high water and allow it flow more freely into Biscayne; Cal . Carl Adams, engineering head Glenn H. Curtiss properties, an aerial survey of the huge and reported that the west dykes the Miami canal had broken in one place to the north of Hialeah, thereby letting loose a great mass of water. Biscayne dyke, Adams report- Beene a Robert E. Crowe.) “Yes, and then he’s going to tell | about your sending him to New York | along with others, to let the daylight | through Frank Uale. Of course he’s | going to cing about that Valentine's | day affair. And how are you going | to like that, Mr. Al Brown?” (Capone ‘ also is known as Brown.) j Mrs. Biege gave officers additional information, they said. Chicago, Oct. 15.—7)—State's at- torneys dissolved as a “myth” today | the characterization of Prank Biege | as the arch executioner for “Scarface” | Al Capone, but held the man for in- | vestigation on a charge of extortion. | The prosecutor; denied they had | connected Biege with the major crimes of gangland. Biege has been under arrest since Saturday, and local newspapers pub- lished letters purporting to have been $1,000 for his safe exit from Chicago. Biege was pictured in the letters as Capone's staff slayer. i The letters, county officers de- clared today, were fictitious. John E. Northrup, assistant state's attorney. | and Chief Investigator Patrick Roche complained the publicity given the ; investigation had frustrated their | plans. The officers refused, however, to comment further. They planned to book the prisoner on a charge of ex- tortion to forestall his release on a | i ed, is under water. _—_—__eee | Directors Elected By Community Chest; Pick Officers Later tee is an insurance policy with every sack. RUSSELL- MILLER MILLING CO. The First Film Follies—The Most Intimate Revue Ever Produced with LOLA LANE —s SHARON LYNN JOHN BREEDEN DIXIE LEE DAVID PERCY DAVID ROLLINS —_ FRANK RICHARDSON STEPIN FETCHIT The cream of America’s youth, with a song and » laugh on thelr lips and feet that are never an all-singing, all-dancing, all- talking musical comedy that is all Joy... Hear It, See It at the Capitol! Capitol Theatre TONIGHT and WEDNESDAY SUE CAROL TITTLE BROS. ‘Packing Co., Inc. 402 Main Ave. Bismarck, N. D. Phone 382 Wednesday Specials Pork ‘Liver ‘Short ibe, Cottage Cheese Lb. - lle Lb. - 18¢ Lb, - 10e "Side Pork | Sirloln Steak | Guarattved Lh. - 19¢ Lh. - 28¢ Doz. - 38¢_ | ANNOUNCING A New Schedule of Electric Service Rates for Bismarck, Mandan and Dickinson, North Dakota It is the desire to extend to the communities served by the North Da- kota Power and Light company the same uniform schedule of rates in ef- fect in the communities served by Northwestern Public Service company, in South Dakota. With this in view the following schedule of rates be ffecti all bills rendered after December 1st, 1929. lear manige! _ Adequate and reliable electric service at the lowest possible cost con- sistent with the cost of rendering such service, is most vital in the growth and development of every community. _ Recognizing this responsibility, we are making this substantial reduc- tion in rates and planning extensive improvements to power plants and lines in order to render the best possible service to all. Electricity is now cheaper than ever before, and further reductions from time to time depend largely on the increased use of electric service by a majority of customers. RESIDENCE CLASS “A” RATE AVAILABILITY: Firet 5 K. W.H., per room @ 9c Next 5 K. W.H., per room @ 5c Over 10 K. W. H., per room @ 3c Minimum Monthly charge - - - - $1.00. The above rate is a combined residence rate for all classes of residence service. Existing customers, now having separate meters for lighting and cooking service, may at their option, continue the use of separate meters. The cooking rate in such instances will be 3c per K. W. H. with a minimum monthly charge of $1.00. Determination of Room Count : The room count will be based upon a real estate rating and in making the room count it leaves unfinished attics, bath rooms, cellars, closets, garages, barns and outbuildings, hall- ways, laundries, pantries, porches not enclosed will not be counted. Premises having less than four (4) rooms will be counted as four (4) room premises and premises having more than eight (8) rooms will be counted as eight (8) room premises. ‘COMMERCIAL CLASS “A” RATE AVAILABILITY: POWER CLASS “A” RATE AVAILABILITY : First 50 K. W. H., per month @ 9c Next 50 K. W. H., per month @ & Next 100 K. W. H., per month @ 6c Next 200 K. W. H., per month @ 5e Over 100K. W. H.. per month @ 4 Minimum Monthly charge ---- $1.00. o The commercial rate applies to all commercial places of business for lighting purposes and includes all lighting service except that classed as residential. A.C. D.C. @ Se 6¢ @ 4he 5%e @ 3%e 4he First 500 K. W. H., per month Next 500 K. W. H., per month Next 1500 K. W. H., per month Next 2500 K. W.H.,per month @ 3c 4c Over 5000 K. W. H., per month @ “2%¢ 3%¢ Minimum: For motors of less than two (2) H. P. Two Déllars ($2.00). For motors of two (2) H. P. and over one Dollar ($1.00) per connected horsepower per month. The power rate applies to all power installations of more than one (1) horsepower. Deposit: A deposit of 45 days estimated bill with a mini- mum of $5.00 may be required which deposit shall bear interest at Six per cent (6%) to be paid when deposit is refunded. The forgoing proposed rates will be filed with the Board of Dakota before Commissioners of the State of h December 1, 1929, but will be Bate to each community affected prior to that date. ' North Dakota Power & Light Co. Northwestern Public Service Company :