The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 26, 1929, Page 1

2 eae TH North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 VAN HORN S Cooperstown |MARINERS MAROONED WITHOUT = FOR3DAYS Set Aside JOHN SLABBER TRIES TOKIL SELF APTER |=" Albert Campbell Shot Twice by Demented Bachelor in Farmyard Scuffle BEAT FRIEND WITH GUN BUTT Stayer ‘Just Alive’ After Slash-, ing Throat in Cell With -y Smuggled Knife ' Cooperstown, N. D.. Oct. 26.—()— | | Showing marked improvement after! slashing his throat Friday night with an old pocket knife while in the’ Shumak Griggs county jail, John Slabber, 60, Indianapolis, Ind. Oct. 26—()— confessed murderer of Albert Camp: bell, 60-year-old Cooperstown farmer, probably will recover, attending phy- z hry, called by Dr. be ‘The , cal Aimlov, iss» verdict stating that Campbell came to his death as the result of bullet wounds from a gun in the hands of John Slabber. The gun was found today by the side of the road, some distance from the field in which the shooting occurred. Conviction that Slabber is violently insane was expressed by local phy- sicians after hearing the testimony fic was at an end today. Death late ness of the man who for 22 years had been superintendent of the In- diana anti-Saloon league. Just as he had fought a losing fight in recent years to escape serv- ing a sentence for contempt of the Indiana supreme court for several months Dr. Shumaker has been los- ing his battle for life with a malig- nant tumor, the hopelessness of which fight was not revealed to him. Yesterday afternoon he sank into semi-consciousness, but rested easier and was able to recognize members of his family shortly before his death. He was 61 years old. ANOTHER TRAGEDY IS REVEALED BY STORM {Bits of Wreckage Are’ Washed fan church. it 45 years old, lived fi for about 12 ti is! tk i Ashore From Boat Missin, plotting zs clals and for Eight Years i i Detroit, Mich., Oct. 26.—(#)—The tumultous waters of Lake Michigan which eliminated the Milwaukee from the shipping lists of the Great Lakes yielded up the story of another tragedy this week. Out of the lake have come bits of fy ‘wreckage of the House of David ; Schooner Rosabelle, unreported since it set out for a cruise eight years ago. The Rosabelle carried a crew of 11 men and was on its way from High island with a cergo of potatoes raised there, when it disappeared in a storm. ‘Wreckage of the vessel was found on the beach near Racine, Wis. by i 5 Gn, fl ze i ae ag J = 8 & i Shet Twice searchers for a trace of the Milwau- Campbell was shot once in the | kee. chest, onee through the head, and beaten over the head, ith ret a APs i i é ; Hl eft i ill elleee ( tH fa | h fi ; ity ag E i i i i sf Eel int ith tr ot a Fa 5 5 | ize HE i EP ig i ie | 28.—()—The'to defraud and First organised. Not/four of the five the first Evanston;|ment by a there have them. This|court which one is the ‘terday before be eligible one must be "Gnoconded een cemnate from © first something. Take Wil- had 94 stores in lam Dailey. He's in. His uncle was Dakota, and i [ | vit iE F i iH | i i F z [ i ! t ie LY i Fg i i 5 { : F i i it i f i it i i g i i a be i! it if i i “ i u Fe ct > i BA i; t 1 The almost lifelong conflict of Ed-: ward Shumaker with the liquor traf-| mountainous island 100 miles north- | yesterday terminated a lingering ill- | MAY END IN PRISON) BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Weatier Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday. Cooler Sunday Package Freighter Grounded on Desolate Lake Superior Island in Storm 191 SAILORS AWAIT RESCUE | Wind and Waves anc Rough | Country Prevent Rescuers Reaching Starving Men Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., Oct. 26— (®)—The cold northern dawn spread- ing over the white-capped waves of Lake Superior today found Captain P. C. Farrel of the package freighter Chicago and 30 members of his crew huddled about their camp fires on the rocky shore at the western end of Michipicoten Island where they have been marooned without food or shelter since Tuesday night. Michipicoten is a wooded and west of Sault Ste. Marie. Its highest rocks rise a thousand feet above lake level. The only inhabitants are a few Indian fishermen living at Que- bec harbor in the southeastern part | of the island. | One member of the crew of the | Chicago succeeded in making his way | across the nine miles of desolate coast | to Quebec harbor last night and re- ported other members of the crew might attempt to get across today. He said the second engineer, James Black, who is a cripple, probably would be unable to walk over the rough country and others would re- main with him until the coast guard boats or the tug Whalen, which have sought to aid the castaways, were able to take them off. Wind and waves have prevented rescue ships from approaching the western shore of the island thus far, ; although they have been close enough | to see the camp fires. Radio reports | from the tug Whalen last night said | the Whalen, the freighter John Hen- derson and the coast guard boat 119 } were standing by and would attempt | to take off the Chicago's crew today | if weather permitted. The Chicago is a 345-foot package freighter in the service of the Great Lakes Transit corporation. It was bound from Duluth to Buffalo when it was driven off its course by the 50-mile an hour gale ‘Tuesday night and ran aground on Michipicoten’s | rocky shore. The bow of the ship was lifted high and the stern sank so low in the water that the crew thought it necessary to abandon their ship. They managed to reach the shore, taking with them some bedding to protect them from the storm. Ac- cording to reports reaching here, they have been without food for more then three days. PANTAGES GUARDED AS JURY GETS CASE Theatre Magnate Remanded to Custody of Sheriff as His Trial Concludes Los Angeles, Oct. 26.—(#)— Two husky deputy sheriffs held Alexander multimillionaire vaudeville jimpresairo, a virtual prisoner in his |own home today pending the decision jot the jury which will decide whether he criminally attacked Eunice i fst § BF £8 He i AG 5 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1929 ES LEGION FOR Farmer Is Slain by Madman Huge Fund For Farms ;Grain Farmers Will Be Able to Hold Back Crop for Bet- ter Prices by Loans | Chicago, Oct. 26.—(4)—A $100,000,- | 000 fund today was placed at the dis- Posal of the American wheat farm- er to be loaned out by the federal farm board through the newly or- ganized Farmers National Grain cor- Poration. Climaxing its session here this week, the farm board, through its Chairman Alexander Legge, an- nounced its plans for making im- mediately available this huge fund to aid the wheat farmers who Mr. Legge said at present are getting too low a price for their grain. Under this plan, the grain farmers will be able to hold back their crop until prices are more satisfactory. in the meantime borrowing from the Na- tional Grain corporation for funds needed to meet obligations. The board, Mr. Legge’s statement said, placed no limit on the amount of money the government will loan to the wheat farmers. He said nearly $100,000,000 was available now and if necessary the board would ask con- gress to appropriate more. 4 OF 43 BODIES OF FERRY CREW FOUND {Discovery by Coast Guards of Four in a Lifeboat Spurs Them to Find More found late last night in a water- filled lifeboat several miles off St. Joseph, Mich., spurred coast men to an inteysive search today for the remaining 43 bodies of the crew of the car ferry “Milwaukee,” which sank in Tuesday's storm. | The four bodies brought the total jthus far recovered to nine. Two of those found last night were lashed to seats in the lifeboat, which was gunwhale deep in water and bore |the name “Milwaukee.” One of the sailors, the coast guard said, appar- ently had died yesterday. The others had been dead probably two dvs. The death list. tentatively fixed at 57 Thursday on the basis of the com- plete roster of the crew, was reduced to 52 last night when five members of the crew were found on teave at their homes. Grand Haven, Mich., today was Officially in mourning. Eight Grand Haven men were among the {ferry's crew. Flags on public buildings were at half mast and plans were being made for public memorial church services tomorrow. ROVAL ENGAGEMENT CALLED LOVE-MATCH Princess Marie Jose Seeking Just Plain Happiness, Bel- gian Writer Says Brussels, Oct. 26.—(4)—The engage- ment of Humbert, Prince of Pied-| #5 | the William Desmond Taylor case|as great pain and humiliation. Chicago, Oct. 26.—()—Four bodies | PRICE FIVE CE 910.000 DAMAGES HIM IN RESOLUTIOR Asks $10,000 for Alleged O famatory Statements in Me-x morial Controversy NAMED WINE DEFENDANT: Legion Charged That Bismaret Man Deliberately Withheld 4 Craftsman’s License AMERICAN BUSINESS [ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY ORDER _ STRONG AND SOUND, |__OF SECRET CULT, LOVER SAYS INHOOVER' OPINON FIRST PERIOD North Dakota U. 7; N. D. A.C. 0. Kansas 13; Iowa State 0. Missouri @; Nebraska 0. Self-Styled Scion of Wealthy California Family Strapped to Operating Table REFUSES TO DESCRIBE CULT Woman for Whom Youth Said He Was Condemned Pre- vents Shooting Production and Distribution of Commodities on Prosper- ous Basis, He Says TREND OF WAGES UPWARD Chicago Dartmouth 1; Harvard 0. IMlinols 0; Michigan Towa 0; Wisconsin ia athe Adolphus 0; Augsburg Hamline 6; Macalester 0. SECOND PERIOD Harvard 7; Dartmouth 7. Minnesota 14; Ripon 0. Kansas 13; lowa State 0. Mlinois 0; Michigan 0. Williston High 14; Minot High 0. THIRD PERIOD Ohio State 0; Indiana 0. Yale 21; Army 13. Notre Dame 7; Carnegie Tech 0. Navy 13; Princeton 0. Charging that he has been libel by nine members of the memo building committee of Lloyd Spet! Post No. 1, American Legion, A. Vi Horn, local architect, yesterday suit in district court for $10,00# damages. The alleged libel was contained in @ resolution recently adopted by th Legion committee, copies of whicl; were sent to Van Horn as sec of the state architect's board, the ci commission, the county ct y and to Liebenberg and Kaplan, Min: neapolis architects, appointed by city and county boards to design Proposed Memorial building. In its resolution the Legion com: mittee charged that Van Horn h used his official position to prevent Liebenberg and Kaplan from obtain: ing a license to practice architect in North Dakota and had caused Wy F. Kurke, Fargo architect, to with: draw from a proposed associ : with Liebenberg and Kaplan in con nection with the design of the b ing and supervision of its erection The resolution asserted that in Horn had done these things in effort to obtain the architectu work for himself. Alleges Charges False Van Horn alleges that the charj made in the resolution are false a1 Interprets Factors as Indicating ‘Healthy Condition, j Statement El Paso, Tex., Oct. 26—()—A state- ment that he attempted suicide on order of a secret cult because he had fallen in love with the wife of anoth- er cult member was made to police today by James Clifford, 28-year-old self styled scion of a wealthy Oak- land, Calif., family, as he lay strapped to an operating table suffering from @ self inflicted bullet wound. Police were forced to handcuff the injured man and he was strapped to the operating table while physicians worked because of violent attempts to complete what he said was an at- tempt to kill himself. He was not wounded dangerously, one of two shots going wild and the other inflict- ing a surface abdominal wound. Neither Clifford nor two young men with him, Ben Powers, 19, and Paul Harper, 21, both of Oakland, would describe the cult other than to say it was known as the “O. R. T. P. T.” New York express of the Pennsyl- | " im vania lines was killed, a dozen pas. |All questions were greeted with st sengers injured and scores severely | railed late yesterday when the express | wednesday night, while riding with sideswiped a buckled car of a freight | ne woman for love of whom Clifford train on the southbound track, at! said he was condemned, Mrs. Gladys Iron Hill, three miles north of here. | unter, he was prevented from shoot The engineer. George Rollins of jing himself by Mrs, Hunter. defamatory and have resulted i Washington, leaning from the side of | Harper said he is a brother of Mrs.|damage to his personal and profe his cab, was struck over the heart by| Hunter. Her husband is an employe|sional reputation and his soc & piece of timber knocked from the |of the Southern Pacific railroad. The | standing. buckled freight car and killed in-|coupie is understood to have left here! Van Horn has been a member off stantly. The fireman jumped over | yesterday for San Antonio. the state architect's board for many the dead body of his chief and sought years, during much of. which time to halt the train, But was unsuccess- 6 {has been its secretary and cut! ful until the locomotive had jumped ‘ele officer. the track, dragging 10 Pullman cars The resolution was adopted by tit jin question, that a seasonal decrease | With it. Memorial committee, had been noted in one or two other | The express train raked along the cording to its provisions, to info fields, but this he said was of a “sec- Side of the crippled freight, turning the public of its attitude on the q tions involved in selection of an architect for the building and other matters Fpaeoprtird to the work. Vai i Horn charges that its purpose was te Lobby Probe Committee Ques- | prevent him from getting the work! tions Propriety of Railroad | and this appears to be borne out by . ss the statements made in the resolu: Paying Lobbyist tion. These statements follow: “That information in the possession of thi committee leads it to believe that Van Horn, as secretary of the stat board of architects, deliberately with-| held the granting of an architect’ license to J. Liebenberg and th 3 held up the construction of this| Washington, Oct. 26.—(4)—In spite ; of the week's ruinous decline in se- curity prices, President Hoover is convinced the general condition of American business is strong and sound. The collapse of the stock market led newspapermen to question the chief executive as to his opinion of the situation and he replied with SIDESWIPE WRECK Production and distribution of com- | Express Train Roars Into a modities, which he termed the fun- i ill. damental business of the country, he Buckled Freight Car, Spill declared to be upon a “sound and ing Ten Coaches prosperous basis.” As the best evi- dence of the truth of this assertion, the president pointed out that al- though production and consumption are at high levels, the average prices of commodities have not increased nor has there been any multiplication of stocks of manufactured goods. In addition, Mr. Hoover said the trend of wages was upward and that { individual output of workers in many industries was growing. All of these factors he interpreted as indicating a “healthy condition.” The chief executive, however, noted a few weak spots in the nation’s busi- ness structure. The construction and building industries have been affected to.some. extent, he said, by high.in- terest rates resulting from specula- tion on the stock exchange. He added, without naming the industries Elkton. Md., Oct. 26—(4)—The en- gineer of a northbound Washington- ondary character” when considered | Over 15 of the freight cars, and threw in its relation to the whole situation. | Passengers right and left, scattered Mr. Hoover also mentioned a sym- |debris over the three track right of pathetic decline in grain prices which | Way for several hundred yards, and accompanied the drop in stock quo- | delayed all traffic over the road. tations, asserting that this usually Washington, Oct. 26—(P)—A re- port on the relations of Senator Bingham, Republican, Connecticut, happens. The significant factor in| the grain market is, he said, that the | P ANKING Wil | NET year’s world production is estimated ‘at 500,000,000 bushels less than last HOSTESS i ( D and the Connecticut Manufacturers’ —__———_- association was submitted to the sen- { year, which will result in a very low l carry-over at the end of the present \Harry K. Thaw Slapped Night) ee by the lobby investigating Club Hostess With Hair- a building. “That information in the posse: of this committee leads it to bel that A. Van Horn, as secretary of th state board of architects, threaten to withdraw the license of W. Kurke of Fargo as an architect North Dakota, unless Kurke hdi his name for consideration for t work.” Van Horn charges that these other statements in the resolut relating to him are false and Defendants in the action, all bers of the American Legion harvest yer. UNSOLVED MYSTERY ee mendation—that the senate adopt H brush and Left Scars resolution calling upon the depart- ment of commerce to submit a list New York, Oct. 26—(4)—A jury|0f any “dollar-a-year” men on its has decided that Harry K. Thaw must | Tolls, as a result of the testimony of . " pay a night club hostess $75,000 for | Joseph E. Wuichet. of the Connecti- Detective in William Desmond | spanking her with a hairbrush. cut sronciation, shat beam a dollar Al rd of that amount a-year man for ment. Taylor Case Thought Mur- | given in supreme court ian ae me committee alto > Repacied that favor of Marcia Estardus, who brought “quest dered in Los Angeles suit for $100,000 for personal injuries | utilization of the funds of a railroad — which she charged Thaw inflicted | Company for the payment of services Los Angeles, Oct. 26.—(7)—Echoes pg her at a New Year's party in Pe migteage Barge rng se ie y] = @partment Ji 1, 1926. " S der case in. 1028. flmiand’s. most | Thaw expressed amazement at the| mitec said it had found that the| mittee, are sald to have signed th ay: ’, New York, New Haven Hart! les sent famous unsolved mystery. cropped out | amount of the award and his counsel oe tad central f teeea | Horn, the local public and to the Connecticut Manufacturers'| Minneapolis architects. They Harry W. Rosenthal, chairman; Charles F. Martin, secretary; Ken: . Brocopp, in southern byes the verdict was announced “It's goodbye Broadway for me. the depart-| I'm going to the country.” Eger, 2 bare | ples, Oct. nr is oo ae for a visit to Pope Pius. He was Morth Atnerican college in Rome and other prelates. iH A tite i HA ¥2575E8 ae i 3 i i E id Bi & : zg i . i i Fy e E i ¥ it os i HH Hy & 8 &F i £ ii Ha j e EE it A it eth Rosy esis cach ‘The suicide note “t can't afford The posts before for her to i a fe i