The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 20, 1929, Page 1

ne me SENSIS" Tlie Weatlier =e; THE BISMARUK TRIBUNE -2=2- Oldest Newspaper : D Somewhat colder tonight, ESTABLISHED 1878 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1929 PRICE FIVE CENTS Eielson Reported Near Nor ‘Santa Claus’ Robber Lynched by Texas CONDEMNED MAN IS DRAGGED FROM JAIL | BY ENRAGED PIPL oe re ine Eastland Crowd Impatient at! snag \to SAVE SEVERAL MILLIONS Law’s Delay to Execute Killer of Officers HUNG FROM PHONE CABLE| Deputy Sheriff He Shot in At-; tempting to Break Jail De- clares ‘I'm Glad of It’ Eastland, Tex., Nov. 20.—(7— Deputy Sheriff Tom Jones, wounded by Marshall Ratliff, bank robber, who was lynched here last night, died in a hospital today. patient at the law's delay and enraged by the latest violent crime of Marshal Ratliff, condemned “Santa Claus” bank robber, a mob of approximately 1,000 persons last night hanged the condemned man from a telephone cable 200 yards from the jail irom which he was dragged. For several hours the man’s naked body dangled from the end of a grass rope in a bitter wind, while a crowd which included many women and children stood gazing upward until a justice of the peace ordered the body cut down. Attempted to Break Jail Two years ago Ratliff, dressed as a Santa Claus, participated in a bank holdup in which two officers and one of his companions were killed. Mon- day, after feigning paralysis and win- ning the sympathy of his keepers, he attempted a jail break shooting and seriously wounding Deputy Tom|made for consolidating niger eal a Jones, veteran peace officer. Last night 200 men overpowered his jailer, entered Ratliff's cell, dragged him naked to a well lighted business street and lynched him. * ° Ratliff was held in the Eastland jail pending @ sanity hearing, asked for by his aged mother, who her son had lost his mind whil awaiting his execution in tl cell at Huntsville state 5 night a crowd in front of the swelled to nearly a thouand at o'clock. At about 9 o'clock, some 200 men ra i i g H s pl ilies Liner Olympic Quicered as Though It Had Collided With 2 elif | ue eRe Be i g i i i g z E j it é § i | jiftet F i " gfe fi i i if HI gE SEE ae rm et Fastland, Texas, Nov. 20.——Im- | the interior department, the national e” ‘HOOVER OKAYS PLAN TO UNITE ALL WAR VETERANS AGENCIES, al Reorganization i Dry Departments Consolidation | Survey to Be Complete for Regular Session Washington, Nov. 20.—(4—Presi- dent Hoover is ready to translate into action 10 years’ talk about re- organizing the federal government. As a first he has approved a plan to consolidate all of the agencies | dealing with war veterans and their dependents and will ask the sanction {of congress for it at the opening of ; {the regular session two weeks hence. | Chief among these agencies are ‘the veterans’ bureau, now function- : ing as an independent establishment, {the pension office, admini by home for disabled volunteers, an- other separate establishment, and the hospitalization division of the public | health service. ‘Te Simplify Veterans’ Werk The consolidation is expected bring about a saving of several mil- hospitalization costs alone and simplify the work of dealing with veterans and their dependents. There would single agency under @ director report- ing directly to the president throug! his administrative assistant. It would the $500,000,000 spent by the veterans’ bureau, some $290,000,000 by the pen- sion office and around $20,000,000 by the other divisions. Unites Dry Departments Under the direction of the president & comprehensive survey now is being | justice Gepartment most deal agencies forcement 32 Et eee g 5 ge government. =: STOCK PRICES SOAR il ite Hi il f £ HH i a toj iSecaate Sana { | i | | campaign for establishment of a new; |terminal elevator with a capacity of ' Chicago, Nov. 20.—(?)—Abe Holz- man is making good his pledge to divorce the woman He loves. Holzman's wife, Helen, was a na- tive of Poland and she desired to enter the United States four years ago, although the Polish immigration quota had been exhausted. Holzman as a friend offered to marry her, bring her in as his wife and then | grant her her freedom. But Holzman fell in love with his wife. Since then he has tried in vain to win her love. “I have never even kissed her,” Holzman told Judge Sabath. “She is in love with another man now, and I must keep my promise.” Sabath indicated he would grant the decree. NORTH DAKOTA MEN DETERMINE 10 BUILD TERMINAL ELEVATOR Grand Forks Project to Be First Unit in System of State Terminals Grand Forks, N. D., Nov. 20.—(@)— Farmers, elevator men, and grain pro- ducers have determined to launch a one million bushels at Grand Forks. The campaign will be carried on by the farmers, grain dealers, coopera: tive terminal association, incorporat- | ed for that purpose. ‘The organization, formed under Sohn Quincy Murray's three heirs are: Alice Murray Lapossa, left; Jean Murray, right above, and Dr. Malcolm John Murray. | Jazz age. a trio of grandchildren, but to obtain the inheritance Jewelry, and short skirts. i use lipstick and her long tresses have never been Los Angeles, Nov. 20.—(NEA)—The hand of their dead grandfather has reached from the grave to protect three heirs from the evils of the moder; John Quincy Murray's will filed for probate here left $4,000 in trust to Miss Jean Murray and Mrs. Alice Murray Lapossa must abstain from lipstick, face paint, dancing. And Malcolm John Murray, the third beneficiary, must never wear a “Charlie Chaplin mustache” nor fritter away his time in motion picture shows. i If the heirs do not fulfill the terms of the will, the money gocs “to the superanuated ministers of the Free Methodist church.” 1 Mrs.eAlice Lapossa, a bride of two months and a school teacher at Wil- tmington, who is to receive $1,000 if she complies with the terms of the will, | indicated she will lengthen her skirts and forego the barber's shears. ‘She doesn't use makeup, but she will miss the movies, she says. Miss Jean Murray, a title company clerk at San Bernardino, will receive $2,000 under the same terms. She is fortunate, however, as she doesn't dance shorn. But the case of John Malcolm Murray as to acquiring the remaining project for | $1,000 is a little more difficult. He is a 27-year-old dentist of San Bernardino, first unit of | and he smokes, dances, belongs to a fraternity, which is barred as a secret at strategic | society, likes motion picture shows and wears a becoming. mustache. hasn't decided what he'll do about it. none of the money. He Even if the grandchildren fail to comply, the superannuated ministers of ' the Free Methodist church may not get the money. For if they wear chains or their wives go in for wrist watches, the will says they shall have ‘vt. AMERICAN WOMEN CHANGING said that actual assur- CLOTHES, MANNER AND MINDS | Abroad for Health ( London, Nov. 20.—(#)—Rudyard | who has sung the praises and faults of the British empire for nearly half a century, must go abroad | His physician has so | ncellation of | iest-é i eee iF i i! "i | z gee ip hi : ( i Ln a. E [ 5 i é E i Hi [ 534 & bt a sak if i - Hi 7 | : t . z A ui 833 F i ial i i fi I i; 1 of ! —_—_—__ | Kipling Is Ordered |< Friend Husband’s Pocketbook | Grows Flatter as Skirts Are Growing Longer RETURN TO GENTLE GRACES ‘Tired of Looking at Assorted Legs? We'll Tell the Bow- Legged World’ New York, Nov. 20.—.?)—American women are changing their clothes, their manner and thelr minds. a : l gee BERES ob E aan | ich | HOOVER PROSPERITY PROGRAM _DEPENDS LARGELY pia Thanksgiving Dinner. Cost Less This Year —_———————!_—s Chicago, Nov. 20.—(4)—A family of five can get a Thanksgiving dinner and $1.50 change from a $10 bill this year, the mercantile exchange esti- mated today. Last year one got only 50 cents change. The menu includes oyster cocktail, celery and olives, roast turkey, sweet and mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, turnips or peas, rolls and but- ter, pumpkin pie and coffee. The reason the cost is $1 less than last year, the exchange explained, 1s due mostly to the fact that turkey is approximately 12 cents a pound HSTORCEAST IN WHITE HOUSE SITE “OF GOD'S FUNERAL President Hoover and Official Washington Bow at Bier of Late Secretary | Washington, Nov. 20.—(a)—Flags at {nalf staff throughout the land today jsignaled cessation of governmental affairs as President Hoover and other j officials of both the American and foreign governments assembled in the historic east room of the white house jand paid final tribute at the funeral {of James W. Good, the late secretary of war. The services of the Presbyterian church were conducted with simple ‘dignity. Around the room, in which |many epochal events of American his- tory have taken place, were floral | tributes from personal friends, foreign governments, and many organizations. The metal casket was placed before (Continued on page nine) PLANE CRASHES ON | NEW YORK BUILDING jot Killed, While Passenger Leaps Safely in Parachute to Busy Street NewYork, Nov. 20.—()—Charles g 2 FI & Fy g § g a » | ¥. M. C. A. building in West Sixty- 2 & iil Mob ON BUILDING | Extensive Railroad, Shipyard | and Governmental Con- | struction Planned EXPECTS PROMPT REACTION ‘Merchant Marine Expansion | : and Easier Credit Condi- ' tions Are Promised Washington, Nov. 20—(—A more | [optimistic psychology, induced by the | | Prospect of easier credit conditions and extensive railroad, shipyard and | t governmental construction, was fore- | ‘seen today as the first product of President Hoover's program for in-; creasing and stabilizing American ! prosperity. | Those close to the administration | looked forward to a prompt and ben- | eficial reaction from the chief execu- | tive’s conferences with the presidents of the great eastern railroads and ; bankers from all sections of the na- tion and from assurances of large | | orders for railway and marine equip- ‘ment that have grown out of Mr. | Hoover's campaign. | Laid aside that the president might | {pay his last respects to the late Sec- retary James W. Good of the war de- partment, the chief executive's schedule of conferences with the lead- (ers of American economic endeavor will be resumed tomorrow with a dis- cussion of what the manufacturing and industrial field can do to advance his plans, attended by a group of men prominent in that phase of the nation’s business. | Shipyards To Hum | Through the operation of mail con- i j tract awards and loans from the} $250,000,000 fund established by the! Jones-White law to assist in the ex- | pansion of the merchant marine, the | administration expects the shipyards {to be humming with activity within the space of six months. Plans to bring this about were an- nounced late yesterday by Postmas- | ‘ter General Brown, speaking for the ‘inter-departmental committee on ocean mail contracts. Plan 40 Fast Vessels Contracts will go to the lowest , bidder. Mr. Brown said, and the con- | | struction of a total of 40 new vessels, | large and fast enough to compete | with any on the seas, is planned by companies which have indicated an intention of submitting bids. He re- | vealed that new liners for the North | Atlantic service estimated to cost ap- | Proximately $25,000,000 are planned. BSWARCK SHIVERS AS MEROURY DIVES Grand Forks and Devils Lake! Are Coldest in Northwest, With Subzero Weather keep their radiators from freezing. Answering question, O. W. Roberts, federal here, th Cape: ‘believed to be later than that re- w x PLANE SBEN FLYING OFF SIBERIAN COAST, ACCORDING TO RADIO $ North Dakota Aerial Explorer ? Had Good Supply of Food, Sleeping Bag, Stove FRIENDS ARE NOT ALARMED PPPeeas Point Out Daring Aviator Cheat- ed Death on Ice Floes in ‘1927 Mishap Nome, Alaska, Nov. 20.—()—A radic report saying the plane of Carl Ben Elelson, noted Arctic aviator, of Hat- ton, N. D., had been seen flying in the vicinity of North Cape, Siberia, re- vived hope here today that he would be heard from soon. The report, although meager, Was ceived here Monday saying the wreck- age of Eielson’s plane had been sight- ed by natives in the vicinity of the ieebound ships Nanuk and Stavropol ten days ago. Eielson and Frank Darbandt, a fellow pilot, have been moving pas- sengers and furs from the Nanuk, a vessel belonging to the Swenson Pur company, to the Alaskan mainiand. Each has made one trip to the Nanuk and return, and Eielson was making his second journey to the Nanuk when the report that the wreckage of his Plane had been sighted was received from the ship's radio. Planned Crew Rescue The two flyers planned to rescue the crew of the Stravopol, a Russian ice-breaker, as soon as they completed the Nanuk job. In the initial trip to the Nanuk they brought back six of her passengers and valuable furs. On their second trip toward the Nanuk Eielson and Dorbandt were forced down at Teller, Alaska, but re- sumed the trip from there Nov. 9 Dorbandt encountered a storm and returned to Teller, but Eielson con- tinued his flight. Eielson was well supplied with food and had a sleeping bag and a small stove. Dorbandt expressed the belief his ion was safe somewhere near North Cape and that he would be in little danger for some time. ‘SCAPE ‘FROM DEAT! TH WILKINS Detr, Nov. 20.—()—Recalling the couragecu; and successful fight he } made against the Arctic elements in | 1927 when he was forced down while flying out from Point Barrow, Alaska, i] Car! B. Eielson’s friends here are not | RECA! alarmed for his safety. ‘When Eielsori accompanied Captain «Continued on page nine) ae Hoover Scribbling | | | Offered for Sale , a ERR New York, Nov. 20.—(#)—An auto- graphed Mosaic of triangles, circles, Parallelograms and spiders’ webs pur- porting to be by President Hoover ~ is on sale at a dealer's. The presi- 4 dent has a habit of scribbling such | designs on waste paper when listen- ing to callers. As explained by the ty Named to Meet in Bis- marck on Nov. 26 Meeting of a Nonpartisan committee to prepare a draft a platform which will be presented to the League state convention in Feb- ruary, will be held at Bismarck, Mo- vember 26, R. W. Frasier, Crosby,