The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 3, 1929, Page 2

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1929 City Commission Fails to Select Any of Three Airport Sites Offered | - Suitors and So iety Must ENA HG | Wait 5 Years for Madame ~ — PORFLYING FIELD, Grading Costs Estimated From $14,000 on Strauss Tract to $22,000 on Lincoln TURN TO EXPERTS AGAIN Government and Transportation Official to Be Asked to Advise on Choice Selection of site failed again. Monday ing of the it hi been expec favor either of a decision in ield or the Lincoln made. | Advocates of both sites were at the meeting. urging their choice. F. E.| $9 confidently had Mme. Jane Weiler, Icft, expected freedom when she Young offered a third tract on capitol hill, but this wa: declared too much Of an incline. An objection to the Li of 199 acres wa: the untd port made on it by Marshall Hoppin. | an airport expert from the commerc came to trial in Paris for the murder c? her husband, that she made so- | Clal engagements and corresponded with men who sought her hand in marriage. But despite the efforts of ber lawycr, with whom she's shown here, she was declared guilty, and «cntenced to prison. By MINOTT SAUNDERS Dec. 3.—(NEA)—Mme. Jane derworld of Paris. She calmly r: up the police and said: department. who recommended a site ie econ “I have wounded my husband; Eis Tioempeon estate { beautiful society woman. re- | 5 cha ou like to send around a dots a visit here last meeh that she will be un- | tor?” and she obligingly gave the ad- aus field inspired because it is but 136 acres im extent and the question of future grea that might be required arose. ‘The Thompson site ts not for sale and the flaw in the airport act passed by the last legislutive session and the lack of funds spiked any thought of condemnation proceedins, Will Seek More Expert Advice City Auditor M. H. Atkinson try to induce the government to m: another survey or recommend one the tracts from blue print specific: tions, as Expert Hoppin did not vie the Strauss tract. Commerc a port lines iso may be asked for @ssistance of their views. Pending the results of this correspondence, the selection of the field will b= allowed 1 to rest. ! The matter came up in the form of |& report from T. R. Atkinson. city en- “ gineer, who estimated that the grad- a of the Lincoln field, which is in “the southeastern section of the city. {12 miles from the business center P would cost $22,000. Grading of the Strauss field, which {s 22 mies from able to fuliiil a number of pressing eagazements, that she has been forced to cancel the rental of a suite in a downtown hotel, thet she Cannot weer all the y clothes she has bought and tar: the various men who asked her hand in marriage will have to wuit The jery ia her trial for the mur der of ier third husband, Rebert, failed to rcturn tise verdict of acquit- tal which the fully expected, but on | Ki After Quarrel the contrary found her guilty and she | But tre reason for the shooting, to five yours in prison. |the woncn later admitted, was a Not Recomrended quarrel. Ifuch of the testimony in The jury even failed to bring in| the tric) wes £9 lurid that spectators & recommendation of mercy, 50 were barzed and depositions taken. has no ope of being freed soon. | Instead of “1 she had written to 3 ail arrangements for of the pleasant life she was to lvave nearly @ year ago. When she appeared for trial she was ‘encouraged by letters of sympathy and marriage proposals. The trial of Mme. Weiler was the sensation of Paris. She killed her handsome husband after a night t in various resorts in the un- Detectives found Mme. Weil- er calmiy powderinz her nose in front of a mirvor. Cn the fcor in the bed- | room was the body of her husband, shot through the head and lungs. As he was lyinv, his wife applied her re- | Volver to his ear and gave him the | coup de grace. “I kilied him out of pity.” she said. “He had always asked me to finish him if be tried to commit suicide.” cress. | against the woman of wealth and so- pected that she would get off on the ground that she had only committ is treated sympathetically by Prench Juries. But this time no mercy was shown. the business center of the city. on the | way to Fort Lincoln, he estimated, | _ is nue . would cost $14,000. In each instance five runways were proposed. The, b] of these, the engineer mated, would cost $7,280 on the Lin- | coln tract, while the grading of the Proposed runways on the Strauss | tract would cost 210,000. ‘The length a sca aisoasaail possible on the Lincoln | t be 14,334 feet, of those on | the cost of gradia.g before turning it : the Strauss tract, 13.143 feet jover to the city—assuming that the /‘Bugs’ Moran, Rival Leader, teas Other Renewed | city has no funds for the grading. ©. W. Roberts. H. F. O'Hare and; Estimate vn Purchase Costs Rises to Power, but Profits laces Baker favored the Lin- rehase of the Strauss field it coln tract, while R. B. Webb, as vice | estimated ‘would involve an ex- Ni Are Sli president of the Association of Com- penditure of $12,000; of the Lincoln ow e Slimmer merce, appeared for that body and | ‘Tact. $23,000. With the necessary was inclined to favor the Strauss improvements to be provided to make tract, a5 the directors had recom- |@ither one available for airport use, ‘SCARFACE’ LOSES MILLIONS mended its purchase at a meeting | '¢ was estimated that a bond issue Nov. 7. He was supposed to make an inet rte tagengtts pained oe _— Eee yrcperea epee fusiness meh | be approved cn submission to a refer- World's Third City No Longer Happy Hunting Ground for Tease it to the city, but City Auditor Atkinson explained that this plan wa: endum of the taxpayers. By BRUCE CATTON CAPITOL THEATRE Chicago, Dee. 4—-Al Capone, who Wien the best known and most Ws one of Chicago's most noted and loved American personality is both .Yowerful citizens for years, is just non the screen, then it bout through. — surely may be called an event. Yes- _ When Chicago's “king of the under- ~ | terday Will Rogers, the quaint philos- | World” comes out of a Pennsylvania © opher and the naive wit who is equally Prison some time this winter he will + | the friend of royalty and the common | enter a world that has changed rad- © | People, came to the Capitol theatre in ‘cally since he last moved about in it. {his first Fox Movietone starring pic- From his standpoint, it has changed 1% ture, “They Had to See Paris,” and it for the worse. Was surely an eye and ear treat. To begin with, Capone has not a Millions of people who have ex- &teat deal of money left. Millions of {pressed a wish to hear the Rogers dollars have passed through his hands. | Wilticisms from his own lips, but For a long time no man could sell |have hitherto been denied the treat, barrel of beer, open a gambling house j now are having the pleasure. or promote any other form of com- “They Had to See Paris” fits Will mercialized vice in Chicago without \' Rogers like a glove. It starts in his siving Capone his cut. He became im- ”} home town, Claremore, Okla., where | mensely rich. | We find Will happy dnd contented | But there isn't so much money left, ith his wife 4Irene Rich) and his 4nd the Chicago income Isn't what it ‘|son and daughter ‘Owen Davis Jr,‘ used to be. Extravagance, graft pay: » | and Marguerite Churchill). Oil gushes |Ments and attorneys’ fees got much on their land. They become rich, and |f the huge bankroll. The Chicago authorities are clamp- bug. They want to go to Paris and|ing down on vice and gambling. absorb culture and other things. venues from these two Rogers qualifies as a highly emo- comedian. gestion that he had made | yey py mt Gangsters’ Rackets forthe Auoca'on of Commerce a: | AT THE MOVIES | es rectors and which Mr. Webb, in con- | ® @ i sequence. had investigated. Colonel Baker renewed the offer of the Lincoln site owners to lease the tract to the city on a 6 per cent basis ‘on the valuation of $110 an acre, plus | heard and s i Weather Report Temperature at 7 a.m... Highest yesterady Lowest last nig ie all-important to the © lodena, Utah, cien rhead, Minn. th Pla Nel | 5 cnnaustuntetus Bower ne BSS: SQSRSSuxSS: - pie RR oa mountai, be! “ @ the lower Missin: oh cenieet pre: | eastward to the ‘The prensure in itoba , eastward, r, beevalln ‘rom ‘the in high authority. The gangs were | willing to pay that much to get their old privileges back. There is another matter that doubt- has been marked for death if he ever teturns to Chicago. Capone's rival is a beer baron known as Bugs Moran. Bugs, accord- ing to information reaching the po- lice, has sworn to fill Capone with machine gun bullets, and officers say that he probably will do it if and , When Capone comes back. | |. The rivalry between these men dates | back a long Moran has always believed that he had a perfect right to distribute beer, | handle gambling concessions and un- dertake other underworld ventures; without paying the prescribed per- | centage to Capone. | Moran ‘Muscled In’ ] He came by his opinion honestiy His predecessors on the north sid had the same views, and died for | i them. First there was Dean O'Banion, shot down as he stood in his floris! shop. O’Banion was followed by H: mie Weiss, shot down in front of Chi cago’s Catholic cathedral. Moran succeeded Weiss, taking up the fallen leader's mantle. For a long time he did things on a small scale. About a year ago, however, he grew ! bold, and his beer distributors, in th quaint language of the underworld, | began to “muscle in” on Capone's ter- : ritory. ,, Capone was not the man to stand | for this. On St. Valentine's day of this | year a squad of gangsters gave Chi- | cago its most breath-taking episode to | date by entering a north side garage and coolly machine-gunning seven | men who were using it as a beer-; distribution base. Despite the seven deaths, howeve1 the expedition was not a success. It had been aimed at Bugs Moran, and! its leaders had thought that Moran himself was in the garage when the: descended on it. | Moran instantly vowed vengeance and let it be known that Capone was going to “get his” in short order. Ca. pone, finding the territory too hot for him, fled to the east; and in Phila- | delphia, seeking a safe hideout, he! became a victim of misplaced confi- | ; dence. Expected Shorter Sentence | He was arrested for carrying con- | vinning the sympathy cealed weapons and sentenced to a wit! | of the public and jury, feeling turned | year in prison. | ‘Capone,” says Patrick Roche, spe- | pay it and go to jail for maybe ten! {days or so. Then. when things had | a ‘crime of passion,” which usually quieted down a bit he'd pay up, get | unfavorable out of jail, and come back to Chicago. | “But the newspapers made such a; fuss when he was arrested that it | wouldn't work. Instead of getting a fine he got a year in prison. And by | that time it was too late to do any- | thing about it.” ; So Capone stayed in prison, and! i rere if he returns to Chicago at/ ! all, "Underlying the whole thing, how- | ever, is the fact that the fundamental | situation in Chicago bas changed. | Chicago is no longer the happy hunt- | ing ground for gangsters that it used | to be. The police and the state's at-/ torney are clamping down and the | gang leader's power is diminishing. ; So Capone is not expected to come | back. His winter home in Florida; probably will become his permanent | residence—which is nobody's bad luck { but Miami's. Milton Sauer Heads Washburn Calf Club | ‘AIR MAIL EXPENSE | re less worries Capone. He not only has; | @ more serious rival now than at any | time since he came to power, but he : | OF. 0. DEPARTMENT Government Trying to Adjust Rates Paid Contractors so as to Increase Routes TOO MUCH FREE SERVICE! Postmaster General Analyzes Sources of Loss, Largely Due to Franking Washington. Dec. 3—i?:—How the romantic duties of the pony express have finally devolved upon the air- plane was set forth in cold figures, today, by Postmaster General Brown in reporting to President Hoover that most $11,250,000 had been expended st year in sending mail by air over nearly 10.250.000 flying miles. But the deficit which has ridden jthe back of the Postoffice department for decades also touched this new method of transporting a share of the; postal bag. Congress had appropri- | ated $12,430,000 for hiring private | lines to do the work which was begun several years ago by the government. The expenditure was $11,207,957.07, and the mileage was 10.212.511 up to June 30 last. Nevertheless it was es- imated that the cost of the service/tual friend. “He commanded ‘as $7,000.000 more than the postage revenue. Adjusting Air Mail Costs Postmaster General Brown said the demands for new routes were far above the that the department had followed a conservative but progressive policy ith regard to this service. He in- formed the president in his annual report that. while the expenditures for the air mail were above the esti- paid air mail contractors to square t. r from making both ends meet for In fact the burden of 461,176.24. For the previous year the by the postmaster general as having been duc to expenditures ordered by pay. free mailing privileges, ocean Free Mail For Blind It was shown in the report that the will be a bad life insurance risk.|American people bought $527,706,- | 790.28 worth of postage stamps and that other sources of revenue brought the total receipts up to $696,947.577.69. ‘The expenditures 753.93. In the maze of big sums set down in the report, it was disclosed that the department spends annually more than $50.000 in handling free mail for blind persons. This sum was the smallest listed for non-profitable services. ‘The others, when added to- ‘taled $31,232,906.52, which. if paid for, , ‘would reduce the ‘actual deficit to/ | $56.752,934.61. ‘The postmaster general listed other items contributing to the deficit as jincluding handling and transporting Washburn, N. D., Dec. 3.—Miltcn second class matter free within coun- Sauer was elected president of the 'ties of origin $8,781,590.83 and dif- Washburn Community Boys’ calf | club for the coming year at a recent | of the on. | Other officers are Ross Josephson, | vice president; Harland Josephson, | secretary; and Irwin Dalbotten, treas- | (urer. ©. L. Nordquist, Underwood, | ferentials favoring vessels of Amer- ican registry under the merchant ma- lrine act $8,787,843.91. Mr. Brown frankly said that he did not like the idea of having the Post- office department charged up with the cost of handling free mail and was reelected leader of the group. {recommended that legislation be Members of the club present at the | meeting, in addition to the elected Officers, were LeRoy Evans, James | T Leonard Hanson, Donald ; Nordquist, Marvin and Elmer Riser, , and Edward Giedd. Paul Parks, and | { Elmer and Earl Keel, other members, | were not present. } Washburn Mason Body | ‘Names Burgum Master | i . t i i i i et ie passed appropriating $9.931.240 to the deaprtment to cover such cost. Large Totals Handled A total of 276,773,736 pieces of mail, weighing 35,998,676 pounds. was by other than the Postoffice department, on which no postage was paid. The revenue which would have been derived from such mail would have totaled $8,169, 170. In addition members of congress franked 37,273,270 pieces of mail which would have brought @ revenue Washburn, N. D., Dec. 3.—G. B.|of $957,964 had postage been paid Not content with setting down as- figures about stamps and If you are paying royalties, they are one of the items that a Use and Occupancy policy in the Hartford Fire Insurance company covers until the wheels once more start produc- tion. Be Insured Right Call ‘on this agency to go over your plant and consult with. you as to the proper in- protection against loss. You are under no obli- gation to buy in bring- ing your problems to this Hartford agency. MURPHY . “The Man Whe Knows ee a ‘annual appropriations but /@d and. that he now stood before mated revenues, steps were being | aken to adjust equitably the rates home ” th existing legislation on the sub- | were $782,408, ' surance you need for sgund| : TOOK HIM 11 YEARS TO DELIVER THIS MESSAGE—BUT HE DID IT! Springfield, Mass., December cor | (NEA)—More than 11 years ago a3 / a thin line of American doughboys | |advaneed over a shell-scarred bat-| , tlefield, in France, a runner was dis- | ;Patched with a field message—and | now, he has just delivered it. |, Private James D. O'Neil, of M | pleville, R. 1., has iocated Lieuten- | ant Colonel James G. Rivers of this city, to whom he was sent with the message while the 104th Infantry Regiment was attacking near Bel- ,leau Wood. They met at a reunion ir. Northampton. | The me: contained the terse \command, “Move to the left 300 jyards.” It was signed by Captain E. H. Phillips, battalion command-; er, who was killed a few minutes; | later. H O’Neil’s outfit was attacking on; July 20, 1918, when Captain Phil-| lips discov that machine gun fire had wiped out a section of his! command. Hurriedly he jotted down! the message and gave it to O'Neil. | Breaking into a run, O’Neil head- ed for his destination over the soldier-strewn woodland. But in the excitement he never found his’ man. He was told that the lieuten-| ant had illed. After the battle O'Neil was trans-' ferred to another sector. { When surviving members of the 104th Regiment held a reunion re- cently, O’Neil attended. He was in-: troduced to ay Lieutenant ‘Colonel of the Massachusetts Guard. | you remember Lieutenant ivers, O'Neil,” said a ~ jurel; i Colonel Company in France.” . _ Above, Lieutenant Colonel Rivers O'Neil stared at the man in holding the ficld message that was On bang assured, however, that Pichia abe. pitied Lieutenant Rivers had not been ki issn: Nic enel Rivers received this field mes- say ee: “Commanding Officer, First Bat- talion, at Point of Woods, July 20, {him in flesh, O'Neil told of the field message he still had in his posses- 8 ‘That’s 11 years fain ose test avis hich | 2OGR) ‘ulfilling that last mission on wi | . . "i Captain Phillips sent me if 1 mail |c,,r,commanding officer of B that message to you when I' return “Move to the left 300 yards. (Signed) H. Phillips.” And that is how Lieutenant Col- now.) ify |1218—hour 15.55 (3.55 in the after. Bowman 8th Grader Wins Essay Contest | Bowman, N. D., Dec. 3.—Amyl Nor- man, student in the eighth grade won first place and a $15 prize Derby, third; ‘Thiegs, fourth. Judges E. James, W. Ray Reichert, Welker. essays were written high—Max- | | | |Burns, Phyllis Mills, Lillian Giannon- jatti, Eva Hook, and Charity Eide: junior high—Laura Lorenz, Mary Jane Watson, Donald Stewart. Violet Ommodt, David Stewart, Marjoric Clark, Fern Steig. '16 Criminal Cases in Emmons County Court Linton, N. D., Dec. 3.—Fourteen | criminal and 27 civil cases are on the calendar to be tried at the ular December jury term of as county district court, which convencs here tomorrow. Judge George M. McKenna. Na- poleon, will preside. Jurors havc been instructed to report at 10 a. m. tomorrow. | A list of the defendants and the criminal charges they face follow ; John. M. Bickler, embezzlemer John Krum, statutory charge; An- | drew Bosch, Jr. statutory charge: John Merkel, gtand larceny; Howard Smith, issuing check without funcs in bank; A. P. Gilbert. statutory charge and issuing check without funds in bank; Garry O'Callaghan. grand larceny; Anton Ibach, stati tory charge; Frank Schlosser, Clem- ens Schuck, and Peter Bosch. statu- tory charge; Peter Serr, engaging in liquor traffic; and George Jochim. statutory charge. LIGHTNING RINGS BELLS Paris—The good people of the Beaumont-Hague parish were aston- ished when the bells of their church near unusual time. Investigation showed that the steeple. struck by lightning. had fallen and set the beils to ring- | Ject. Hl é The department. on the whole, was | deficits the postmaster general turned | cial position whd could go on such cial investigator for the state's at- | fai ak nie and informed parties. She appeared in court dress- torney’s office here, “figured that he'd ‘the year. €q in the latest fashions and fully ex- , just get @ fine. He would refuse to/deficit grew noticeably heavier, the had been a total of 17.863.751,272 dis- n and outgo exceeding the income by $85,- , tr | mathematical again President Hoover and congress there redistributions - of Pieces, exclusive of registered mail, by balance was $32,121,- {railway postal clerks. 095.80. The difference was explaincd | The vast extent of the postoffice | jbusiness had no better yard-stick jthan the fact that the motor-vehicle ‘eongress, such as inereased postal /Service purchased more than 10,000,- 000 gallons of gasoline during the { jmail contracts and other such items. | Year, to say nothing of oil. \Linton High School Juniors Elect Play. Linton, N. Dec. 3.—Students in the junior class of Linton high school | j will present their annual play, “Fix- ing It for Father,” sometime in Jan- uary. is Members of the cast are George | Cold Won't Bother Brooks, Doris Fergus, Maxine Wagher, | "paso TBs Wrnten! Isaac Blore, Esther ee | Dockter, Banyor Blore, and’ Sophia | Some men throw off a cold within a } Larvick. ‘few hours of contracting it. Anyone Mrs. L. D. Berg has been chosen |can do it with the aid of a simple director. ‘compound which comes in tablet form, has your head all stuffed up: remember Pape’s Cold Compound and be comfortable.—Adv. to ring st an -