The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 13, 1930, Page 1

North Daliota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1930 Eielson’s Helmet Found in Plane Wreckage FARMERS’ CREAMERY |SHAFER ADVOCATES COCKPIT AND ONE OF WINGS DUG FROM ICE AS HUNT SPEEDS UP Joe Crosson Reports Searchers Plan to Continue Clearing Away Tundra Snow HOPE TO FIND BODIES SOON Digging Operations Directed Toward Spot Where Plane \ Hit Lagoon First Motorship Nanuk, North Cape, Si- beria, Feb. 13—(#)—Encouraged by the finding in the wreckage of his plane of the helmet worn by Pilot Carl Ben Eielson, Hatton, N. D., American aviator lost Nov. 9, work- men searching for‘the bodies of Elel- son and his mechanic, Earl Borland, resumed their labors with renewed vigor today. The wreck was found Jan. 25 in an icy lagoon 90 miles southeast of here. Pilot Joe Crosson, who reported discovery of Elelson’s helmet on his yestel A a of also had been recovered from the ice and that the workmen were digging around one of the wings torn off the plane. Crosson said the searchers planned to continue clearing away the snow toward the spot where they believed the plane first hit the Tundra, sev- eral hundred feet from where the cabin of the plane was found. He said they expected to have all the wreckage dug out within three days, provided favorable weather contin- ued, and that they hoped to find the bodies soon. The plane was almost buried by snowdrifts when located. Eielson and Borland were lost while attempting a flight to the Nanuk, a fur trading ship icebound here. They - took off from Teller, Alaska, JUNIOR BIRDZELL AND ROBERT KASPER WIN NAVY ESSAY PRIZES Burleigh and Morton School Children Write on U. S. Navy and Roosevelt Junior Birdzell, Bismarck, and Rob- | ert Kasper, Mandan, are winnérs of two essay contests conducted among school children in Burleigh and Mor- THIRD ASIATIC INVASION BASIS - nn | North Dakota Still © | Land of Opportunity i ° | Minneapolis, Feb. 13.—(P)—North Dakota, whose agriculture and indus- try have measured mighty strides in recent years, is still a land of oppor- tunity and its millions of acres “will pay big dividends to those who will | work ‘them with industry and intelli- gence,” Lyman E. Wakefield, presi- dent of the First National bank in Minneapolis and vice | of the First Bank Stock Corporation, said @ radio address yesterday. INBISMARCK AFTER Refuels With Prairie Snow, Leaving Jack Frost to Tune Up Overheated February H Bf ie i i if Fa E weather bu- reported after an interview with Fi ton counties this wintér and each will cold receive @ $10 prize, it was announced today following.completion of judg- ing. ‘The Bismarck boy won with his es- say entitled “The Relation of the U. 8. Navy to North Dakota,” which was open to seventh and eighth grade students, while the Mandan boy took Bis- er’ |Legs Blasted Off by Bomb, Reporter Dead Neri, reporter who lost both legs in a bomb explosion which Monday night a ie i g E ai E z § FOR ANTI-FILIPINO RACE RIOTS PLIGHT FROM POLE z= Trieste, Italy, Feb. 13.—(?)—Guide Mob Violence, Bombing and Death on Pacific Coast Has Economic Background CHINESE, JAPS PRECEDED Frugal and Celibate Brown Men Compete With Thousands of Unemployed Whites by reports that a Filipino club em- ployed white girl entertainers. Jap and Chinese Earlier Three times have Asiatic laborers thousands of nese imported to work the gold fields (Continued on page eleven) Bismarck Hardware Man Speaks in Fargo Rargg,:.N.-D., Feb. 13—()—Busi- ness done at the North Dakota Retail Hardware Dealers convention by wholesalers who have exhibits in the | Fargo auditorium has been on the whole, better than anticipated, acord- ing to officials of the association who have made an informal check. rell, Bismarck, and A. O. Gunnerud Silva, Acceptable to Japan London, Feb. 13—()—The Japan- ese delegation in a statement given out this afternoon, declared that Ja- statement, which iy seme in view of the Brit- announcements American of pet Boy rg redfeset arr yey ready to agree the life of battleships from twenty all ae , 4 2 i i E g t d i i E I i E H i i - aS [ft if He : ; i s i : i if f i E F [ i - : le: ; fli E i i i i on the islands they could: not be revealed until after fur- there exploration. . ‘Three sea lions and four giant tor- toises. taken by the McDonald party for Chicago 200s, sick and were left behind yacht docked at Miami, | 3 t ijregion was tion Also Advocated as Bliz- zard Cuts Attendance Stecle, N. D., Feb, 13—(#)—That of a farmer’s co-operative creamery residents who attended the farm busi- ness conference at Steele yesterday. the night was effective in keeping most of the farm people from return- ing for today’s sessions. Cold and snowblocked highways, made automo- bile transportation difficult. How- ever, 50 were present at noon, as ses- sions resumed. A wider use of the duckfoot culti- vator in the growing of wheat in or- der to control weeds and to conserve soil moisture was advocated this morning. A moderate increase in the acreage of flax was deemed advisable. Faith in Kidder county as a dairy , many farmers declaring that conditions here were admirably suited to dairying. 4-H club work was strongly commended. A growing appreciation of sanitation methods in the production of live- stock was evident in the and recommendations made. On Friday and Saturday, a farm business conference will be held in Burleigh county at Bismarck. This will be the third of a series of nine .jcounty meetings, sponsored by the North Dakota Agricultural college ex- tention service. BANK CLOSED AFTER CASHIER DISAPPEARS Girl Who Rose From Switch- board Operator in Three Years Is Sought Chicago, Feb. 13.—(#)—The People's State Bank of Maywood remained closed today as search was intensified for Miss Laverne D. Lindgren, 25- year-old cashier. A warrant for her arrest was issued, but bank officials said they could not |say what the status of her accounts are, bank auditors having reported the books in such condition that they could not interpret them. Elmer Langguth, 35, president of the bank, was released yesterday un- der $100,000 bond. The charge against him is embezzlement. guth, bank officials said, who spon- sored Miss Lindgren in her three year rise from switchboard operator te bank cashier. Miss Lindgren was reported suffer- C ing a nervous breakdown at the home of relatives, but police had been un- able to find her early today. A $35,- 000 home which officials said Miss steps be made toward the formation |dents of North Dakota would benefit Poultry improvement association were | last night in an address at the annual the outstanding recommendations |banquet of the North Dakota Retail made by 200 Kidder county farm|Hardware Dealers’ association. A blizzard which descended during 8nd said the state had developed from PROPOSED IN KIDDER | STATE ASSISTANCE COUNTY CONFERENCE) FOR ALL INDUSTRY Poultry Improvement Associa-|Believes’ Time Has Come for Creation of Industrial Board to Aid Development Fargo, N. D., Feb. 13.—#)—Resi- materially from a speeding up in the ‘and the tion of a ty-wide i noe of North Dakota indu-|. Shafer said SEVEN ‘BIG SHOT’ GANGSTERS ARRESTED IN DEATH-SETTING | EES ERE Names Would Grace Hangman’s| | Star Near Death | en eed Warrant, Detective Chief ; Says at ‘Showup’ 4 ARE O'DONNELL CLANSMEN Flash Light Photographer's Ex- plosion Causes One of Ter- rorists to Faint Governor Shafer traced the 40 years of “progress in North Dakota” since it was admitted to the union in 1889, ® population of 189,000 to 650,000 in that period. 15 Per Cent in Valley Chicago, Feb. 13—(#)—Seven “big shot” gangsters, found behind the drawn shades of a room in which not long ago two others were murdered, were held to the grand jury today as gunmen. Altogether, police took 425 prisoners yesterday, bringing their “crime ari otal for five days to more than “Forty years ago 75 per cent of that | 9 but the ser found in the small population was in the Red River ied pri "fies reeeurant were valley,” he said. “Our agricultural) regarded b: police as far the most development entirely confined to eastward until at the present time the the form of agriculture was grain raising, and that grain was almost exclusively wheat. “Two-thirds of the state then was only grazed by isolated stock ranch- ers. No grain raising has moved westward and stock raising has moved eastwar until at the present time the production of all kinds of livestock is the order of the day in the Red River valley. In other words,'our state has from the colonization period into its second and more permanent stage of growth. is com- pletely diversified and industry of is in the state. “Now I believe the time has come when we should give special thought and study to this matter of industrial development and to that end I have suggested the establishment of an in- dustrial commission. » —_—_—— Early Birds Elect ! By ‘Phone Hook-up Ovington, pioneer aviator who flew the first atrmail from Nassau to Min- eola, N. W., @ distance of six miles, today became president of aviator's unique organization, the Early birds— flyers who won their aerial spurs prior to December, 1916. He succeeds P. G. B. Morriss, of New York. A transcontinental telephone hook- ‘up connecting meetings of Early Birds in New York City and Los les brought to Ovington last night the news of his election there and in re- turn carried his acceptance address. Alexander P. Moore Fights Lung Infection Monrovia, Calif., Feb. 13.—?)-The United States ambassador to Poland, It - {Alexander P. Moore, 63, recently ap-} ples Tans pointed by President Hoover, today | clare, they signed warrants for their ‘was fighting for his health in a sani- tarium here. He is suffering from an infection of the throat and lungs. Mr. Moore has been in Southern alifornia for an extended visit, and when his name was submitted to the senate to fill the Warsaw post he was ‘sojourning at Palm Springs, desert re- Lindgren recently built in Riverside | sort. according grandmother, Langguth said that “not one cent of the bank's money went into that house. Bank officials were unable to state how much money was missing. Federal Court Jury . Gets Narcotic Case this Fort. Myers, Fis., Feb. intl : Z 3 Bei fF ie ¥ 28 Killed, 16 Injured In Soviet Mill Blast Rostov-on-Don, U. 8. 8. R., Feb. 13.—(?)—Twenty-eight persons were killed and 16 others injured seriously in an explosion at the state grain mill here last Monday. The casualties Were officially announced only today. Wreck Train Interior — Cami je, Mass. Feb, 13.—(®)— T.0 Harvard students who celebrated a hockey victory on a sub- returning from Boston breaking | Hammering Her Guest continued ing that the former chief justice spent a “very restful night.” Edisons and Firestones Have ‘Great Fun’ Spending Moneyat County Fair at uF 2 4 a 13—()—Earle |” important of all. In presenting them at last night's “showup,” at which suspects are pa- raded across a small stage before the victims of recent crimes, Chief of Detectives Egan said: “Their names would grace a peni- tentiary roster or a hangman's war- rant. They are of the O'Donnell gang. Two O'Donnell Brothers. Two of them were O'Donnell brothers, Myles and Bernard. (There is a third and better known O’Don- nell, called “Klondyke.”) ‘There was “Three-fingered Jack” White, once convicted of murder; George (Red) Barker, known as a labor terrorist and | once charged with murder; Mike Quirk, Edward Sirnek, and John O'Connor. With the seven was arrested Frank Lacey, concerning whom police have no previous information. Five minutes after the “pinch,” eight lawyers were demanding that the men be promptly booked so that bail could be arranged and the men freed. They were successful only in the case of Myles’ O'Donnell, whom Flash Frightens 'Donnell During the questioning a photog- rapher set off a flash light behind him, and O'Donnell fainted. When he was revived he said he thought he | had been shot. The room in which the arrests were made is partitioned from the cafe. It was here, police oah Bi Hollywood, Calif., Feb. 13.—(7)— Noah Bee otion picture bad man, today in real life was waging a des: perate battle againgt the death he has so ably portrayed in numerous vil- lainous roles on the screen. At the Hollywood hospital where the film “heavy’ yesterday under- went an operation for appendicitis; his condition was described as dan- gerous. Operating physicians said a gan- grenous condition of the appendix ‘was found, and that it yet was too early to tell whether the infection had -spread, Beery’s physicians said he was able to talk a little when he came out from under the influence of ether late last night, and that his condition was as good as could be ex- pected. ISMARCK MASONS | PLAN ANNIVERSARY . Lodge Reaches Half Century of Existence; Will Celebrate ‘Event March 31 Masonic bodies here are preparing to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the local lodge—Bismarck No. 5— March 31. The celebration will be in said, that two other well-konwn west | side hoodlums, William Clifford and Michael Reilly, were killed. The bodies of Clifford and Reilly were taken to the back yard of Al (Scar-| A. P. Lenhart will be chairman of titigation. face) Capone's home, where they were j found. Police say Clifford and Reilly's; deaths were the squel to the slaying in Cicero last year. The O'Donnells, {blaming Clifford and Reilly for the shooting, reprimanded them, saying such unprovoked killings “gave Cicero @ bad reputation.” When Clifford and Reilly inquired, “Well, what are you going to do about it?” police de- own death warrants. | Alcohol Referendum Forced in Australia Melbourne, Australia, Feb. 13.—(®) |p —A compulsory referendum will be held on the question of prohibition of alcoholic liquors in the state of Vic- toria March 29. Melbourne and some of its suburbs already are dry, and an intense campaign is being made by both sides to extend or present ex- tension of the prohibition area in the rest of the state. Lehigh Briquet Plant As Sued for $30,270 |. Fargo, N. D., Feb. 13—)—Trial of an action in which I. B. Whitman, Minneapolis, is suing the Lehigh Bri- due as commissions for selling stock, was begun in the Cass county district court here today. Hostess Is Held for Fargo, N. D., Feb. 13.—(#)—Mrs. ain, oe DRE: Hawley-Detroit Lakes | Fargo, N. D., Feb. 13.—()—Laying of concrete on Minnesota highway No, 2 between Hawley and Detroit Lakes, will conjunction with the regular masters’ night of the fraternity. the general reception committee. There will be a number of sub-com- mittees of the general committee, as follows: Refreshments, Worth Lumry, chair- man; L. V. Miller, J. H. Wiley, L. S. Diehl, Le A. French; historical, J. L. Bell; program, A. J. Arnot, chairman, G. L. Spear, L. K. Thompson, John Parkinson, F. N. Orchard; publicity, Archie Johnson, Jess Melton. To these, composing the remainder of the general committee, are added A. L. Fosteson, worthy! master; John A. Graham, past master; A. G. Brainard, senior warden; H. J. Taylor, junior warden; Henry L. Reade, George F. Dullam, W. A. Casselman, R. Berge- son, W. E. Parsons, Oliver Lundquist, . F. Skinner, Gilbert Haugen, H. 8. Lobach. J. L. Bell is compiling a history of the lodge from such records as are extant, some of the earlier lodge archives having been lost in a fire. It is possible to piece the gap from other sources, so that the history will be fairly a full story of the organization and existence of the lodge over the half century just ending. Women Demand Vote On Prohibition Act Washington, Feb. 13—()—A-group of outspoken women demanded of congress today that prohibition be Placed squarely before the voters of the nation and that the count of the ballot boxes decide whether America shall continue dry. One after another they appeared voters themselves should be upon to settle. c K ames from Candle the death last night of Mrs. Mary Siliken, 55 years old. x and re Mostly mp tr ‘Priday. PRICE FIVE CENTS Nye and Glass Attack Hughes cONRRNATION NOW DOUBTFUL AS VOT DELAYS INCREASE Nye, Reciting Jurist’s History. Points Out Case Belief on Property Rights HAD CORPORATION BUSINESS Ballot May Not Be Reached To« day as Opposition Among Democrats Appears Washington, Feb. 13—()— Chairman Norris of the senate judiciary committee gave notice to the senate today he would move to recommit the nomination of Charles Evans Hughes to be chief justice of the United States i to the judiciary committee. Washington, Feb. 13—()—Con- yfirmation of Charles Evans Hughes as chief justice of the United States by the senate went into the doubtful ‘age today as his friends conceded! ‘big inroads” by the opposition over j night. Senator Watson, of Indiana, the Republican leader, predicted a mar- gin of 17 votes for the nominee as the fourth day of debate was resumed. with Senators Glass, » Vir=! Sinia, and Nye, Republican, North Dakota, carrying on the attack sgainst Hughes. ers who were busy checking the situation early today agreed there was. beginning to be doubt on the outcome with decision depending on the final attitude of the Democrats. Senator Norris, Republican, Nebras-' |ka, who opened the attack on Hughes on Monday, said today “he will be| confirmed” ‘but he smiled broadly’ when asked by how many votes. Glass Expresses Doubt Senator Glass was of the opinion that the result was in di a All senators in the doitful class ‘were the center of attention on the floor and in the cloak rooms as lead- ers anxiously sought to determine the ap? lines today. After asserting the senate would not set a precedent by rejecting the nomination and had “a right and reason to consiger the environment. ; training and probably sympathies” of candidates for the supreme court, Senator Nye read lengthy extracts from a history of Hughes’, record up to 1912. It listed several power cor- Porations as among the clients ot Hughes’ law firm and said the nom- inee started out\as a young lawyer in {the “lucrative field” of corporation Cites Property Case The history from which Nye read gave considerable space to a New York wire case in which, it Hughes’ firm lost an attempt to vent the city from head wires as‘a The court in this case, continued, held the LAST OF CROSSING VICTIMS IS BURIED Hundreds Attend Services for | Miss Bernice Johnson Stewartsdale crash, were ly | Stewartsdale church, W Several