The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 15, 1930, Page 1

_ Naval Agreement Said Reached Voters Act on New Court House i } NY ’ | 1 North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper rere THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Weather day. Nt mach Changs tn Cenionutey ESTABLISHED 1873 COST IN TAX SLIGHT TO GIVE THE COUNTY NEW PUBLIC BUILDING Corporations Will Pay Fifth on Small Levy of Mill Annu- ally for 20 Years MINOT IS SPENDING $500,000 Great Fire Risks Involved in Storing Records Would Al- most Equal That Here Pronouncements in favor of the proposed new courthouse were made public today by Lloyd Spetz post, No. 1, American Legion, calling on all its members and those of the auxi- lary to support the project Tuesday at the polls, and by George Will on behalf of the board of county com- missioners, voicing unqualified ap- proval of the project. The plan for building a new court house here on @ $250,000 ‘bond issue, to run 20 years and be paid off from @ sinking fund raised by small annual tax levies, seems a modest proposal for the capital city of the state. ‘Ward county is spending $500,000 on @ new county building at Minot. ‘When finished, it will be one of the handsomest court houses and county buildings in this section of the North- west. Fargo has an old but artistic court house and one which seryes the needs of Cass county well. Grand Forks also has a satisfactory county building jail. Hettinger, in Adams, last year opened @ new court house of pecul- jarly fine appearance and well ar- ranged accommodations. ‘What Burleigh county can have and what it needs in contrast to what it has but doesn’t serve its needs any longer, is to be seen from the pic- ture of the existing building and. 2. suggested building sketched for the use of the county commissioners in their campaign to present the pro- posed new building to the taxpayers at next Tuesday's election. Picture Argees for Action Now ‘The campaign committee sponsor- ing the court house project feels that this contras of the present ram~- shackle struture and the suggested type of bujding is an argument in itself in bmalf of building now. The of building is well tak- (Cqftinued on page six) CONMUNTS CURB IT-GOD ACTIVITY To/Vigorous Anti-Religious and Socialization Work Is Prohibited Moscow, Mar. 15.—(#)—The central ap ee a det curb upon Agorous anti-religious and socializa- tion activities. Severe punishment ‘was threatened to those violating the order of the committee, which formu- lates the policies of the Russian gov- i BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1930 ___ PRICE HIVE CENTS Plan Tuesday SEWARD LEGIONNAIRES HOLD RITES FOR EIELSON, BORLAND Back in U.S. [ ° | Star of the golf links and tennis courts, Mary K. Browne is shown above as she returned to New York from Europe. She has been rein- stated in this country as an amateur golf player. MURDERER-ROBBERS ELUDE COPS DURING Bodies of Two Arctic Flyers Taken to Public Hall to Lie in State FUNERAL PARTY INCLUDES 9 Ship Carrying Remains Is Due in Seattle March 21 Afer Long Trip Seward, Alaska, Mar. 15.—(P)— Members of the Seward American Le- gion last night conveyed the bodies of Carl Ben Elelson and Earl Bor- land from the train which brought them here from Fairbanks to a pub- lic hall where they will lie in state attended by a uniformed guard of ex- service men until placed aboard the steamship Alaska Sunday morning for Seattle. Puneral services will be held here for the flyers who were killed last November when their plane crashed while on 8 flight from Teller, Alaska, to the icebound fur trader Nanuk at North Cape, Siberia. The bodies were brought from North Cape to Fairbanks by plane. Accompanying the bodies were Ole Elelson, father of the pilot, Mrs, Earl Borland, and her two small sons, and five aviators, two Russians and three Canadians, who participated in the search for the missing aviators. Borland will be interred in Seattle while Eielson will be taken to the family home in Hatton, N. D., for burial. The ship is due in Seattle March 21. EIELSON MEMORIAL DAY FOR SCHOOLS SUGGESTED A H Suggestion that an Elelson memor- WILD 200-MILE D, |ial day be observed in the public : | Colorado Desperadces Elude Organized Posse After “ooPlundesing,-Baric : Cheyenne Wells, Colo., Mar. 15.—() —Still at large today after a wild 200- mile dash for liberty that led them into eastern Colorado and back into Kansas, a trio of desperadoes who robbed the Menter, Kas., State bank yesterday, killed one police officer, and wounded three others, was sought by organized posses in widely separ- ated sections of this wild Arroya country. The robbers, unmasked, entered the schools before the term ends in the spring has been made to county sur perintendents by the state department. of public instruction. Further suggestion is made that children contribute from one to five cents each and teachers from 10.to 25 cents each to the Eielson memorial fund. The number of contributions is more important than the total given, the letter said. HIDE DUTY PROPOSAL. REJECTED IN SENATE bank about noon yesterday, held up employes, customers and members of the school board who were holding @ meeting in the bank, took $4,000 and fled in a motor car toward the Colorado line, 10 miles away. The bandits found the territory they penetrated warned of their ap- proach. At Eads, Colo. Deputy Sheriff Charles. Hickman was killed in a running gun fight when he sought to head the bandits off. His , Deputy Sheriff Bill the leg. bat oe Vote Was 49 to 24; Senator Walsh Had Offered 10 per Cent Rate » Mar. | 15.—()—The today rejected a proposal for of 10 per cent on hides, now free list. The vote was 49 to wi senate a duty on the 24. The 10 per cent rate was offered by mocrat, Massachu- valorem. Walsh then proposed 15 per cent on green hides. La Al Capone Will Leave For Home Following Release from Prison Philadelphia, Mar. 15.—(#)—Within ‘9 few hours after his release from the to be homeward-bound. sentence of @ year in jail for led Judge Curtis D. Wilbur (left) of San Francisco and Judge John J. Parker of Charlottee, N. C., were mentioned as possible successors to the late Justice Edward T. Sanford of the United States supreme court. Normal Heads Open Attack On Peik’s Teacher Proposal | DRY GROUP PLANNING| Posen sin sete ASWASHING FINSH TO! ° rrveneas AMENDMENT DEFENSE SUMMER SCHOOL NEEDED House Judiciary Committee Will Resume Prohibition Probe Reasons Listed Why University Next Wednesday and A. C. Should Not Have Monopoly 15—(®)—Dr¥| presidents of five state normal schools .and teacher's. colleges today launched ‘an attack on recommenda- week of the house judiciary commit- tee's hearings on ppopesals: that -the eighteenth amendment be repealed. ‘The inquiry is to be resumed Wed- . ‘The drys have two and one- half days left of the seven allotted |them for presentation of their testi- mony. university atid agricultural college, made by Dr. W. E. Peik of the Uni- versity of Minnesota in a recent su vey of North Dakota’s institutions of higher education. Declare Plan Impractical ‘The normal school heads also op- There has been no intimation of| posed the idea of going immediately what beg sssoal pr iegierergen erage into a four-year course for elemen- present ron e fact "y | tary teachers, declaring it impractica- have statements from Irving Fisher, | ble. ‘ professor of economics at Yale uni-| They supported the idea of increas- versity, and Dr. Clarence True Wil-| ing the requirements for teachers in son, general secretary of the board of; the common schools but declined to temperance, prohibition and public/ advise discontinuance of the 12-week morals of the Methodist church. summer schools now offered. At pre- An effort to have the Fisher state-} sent teachers can obtain an elemen- ment read into the Record was ended] tary certificate after 12-weeks of by Chairman Graham of the com-jsuch work. If the 12-week course is mittee, who ruled it inadmissable| abandoned, thereby barring high since the author was not present for} school graduates from teaching in gross-questioning. elementary schools the next fall aft- The Wilson statement was to have|er a summer school course, the board been similiarly presented, but advance | of administration must take the re- copies which had been distributed to/ sponsibility for “overriding the legis- the press were withdrawn after the | lative intent” the normal school heads Fisher ruling. said. They suggested that the change Announcement was made last night | Should be made through revision of that Mrs. William Tilton of Boston, | the law by the legislature rather than had filed with Chairman Graham, on| by executive action of the board of behalf of the Unitarian Temperance | #dministration. society, a statement asserting the Miss Bertha Palmer, superintendent ministers of that faith were three to|f public instruction. said she felt it ‘one in favor of national prohibition. (Continued on page six) SF TORY OF PLANES ‘| ROBBERY ADVANCED T Loyd Spetz Legion Post Asks Support *!| Of New Courthouse r That Plane Was Plundered een its executive committee, and Burned and Pilots Killed Is Growing if 2 g Hadi oe ‘My Word!’ London, Mar. 15.—(?)—Great Bri- tain’s queen knows considerably more day than she has ever known before. 3 ti GH re Bese Tilt jet | reek 5 é g i] i ge ae As Mother Tells of Her 13 Children will be up Monday, and res- have been made for him, it of beer, bartenders, and bar-rooms to-|,,, Jellicoe | mation president of the $250,000 , Mar. saying: Believing in the need of a new courthouse for Burleigh county, in 15.—()—Of- ere is a possibility the property and taxpayer of this county, executive committee of Lloyd i theory was elicited from the officials when it became known the Nevada State Journal of Reno today ‘was Publishing a story the carried Walter Hagen Defeats Joe Kirkwood Two Up inthe Springfield, Tll., Mar. 15.—(?)—Alex jae today pi Gtoted by accla: sly United Mine gE Workers of America. were to be elected later. \ d i iu : ag 5 aFegG ot} i fi Es E q 8 : e FS i I i ; i | f i f i ‘by Townsend Pool Hall Operator Margaret Kelly | DELIBERATED TWO HOURS Defendant Was Charged With Shooting Victim in Helena, Mont., December 2 Helena, Mont., Mar. 15.—(P)—Nick Jancu, Townsend poolhall operator, last night was acquitted by a jury of | @ charge of murdering Margaret | Kelly, who was shot to death ip her | apartment here the night of Dec. 2. | The jury was out nearly two hours. | The case went to the jury at 6:10/ Pp. m. under instructions of the court | that they must find the poolhall pro- prietor guilty of first degree murder or acquit him. Miss Kelly was shot to death be- tween 5 and 10 p. m. the night of Dec. 2, being found with a builet in her back. Her companion in the main street apartment where they lived jhere, Jean Mills, was shot twice in| the head, but the injuries did not prove fatal and she was the principal | witness for the state, claiming Jancu | did the shooting. | Jancu claimed in his defense et Ee was in his place of business at Townsend all that afternoon and night. Miss Kelly was born at Gar- rison, N. D., and lived for a while at Marmarth, N. D. ——— || Women Could Not | Keep Mouths Shut | Eras Ago, Either Birmingham, Ale., Mar. 15.—(P)— Dr. Walter B. Jones, state ‘geologist, says “women haven't changed .much in the last 10,000 years or so.” “Of approximately 600 skeletons unearthed during excavation work near Mounadsville, Ala.,” Dr. Jones ob- served in an address last night, “all the woman had their mouths open while the mouths of men were char- acteristically shut.” Ancient burial grounds are being examined by the Alabama museum of natural history of which Dr. Jones is | the director. Cleared of Murder of |” | | eens | JANCU ACQUITTED OF KILLING ONE-TIME NORTH DAKOTA GIRL ——————————— | In Love Suit | Charging he was jilted after being promised marriage, Michel Rosen- burg, a Paris real estate man, has sued Mrs. Doris Mercer Kresge, above, former wife of the American five and ten-cent store magnate, for $500,000, in New York. Their wed- ding, Rosenburg charged, was to have taken place in the French cap- ital last January. CONSTANCE, ATLAS ‘SUGGESTED ASNANE. PORNEWEST PLANET 2382-22! orn | Ninth Body of Solar Sys- | tem Taken Up suggestions for a name for the newly discovered ninth planet of the solar system were before the astronomers at the Lowell observatory at Flag- staff, Ariz., today. SHAFER, PALMER TO PICK ‘BRIGHTEST BOY’ | Governor and Superintendent| Will Do So at Request of =| Thomas Edison. Governor George F. Shafer and su-| Perintendent of Public Instruction} Bertha Palmer will attempt to seiect | “North Dakota's brightest boy” again | this year. | The attempt will be made at the request of Thomas A. Edison who ts conducting another contest this year to select an outstanding American | boy for special training in scientific | work. | ; Rules for the state contest will be announced later. The nominations will be restricted to boys in the senior class of high schools giving four years of work. Character, scholarship and personal achievement in the fields of science or mechanics will be the de- terming factors in the selection. Miss {Palmer said. Last year Louis O’Brien, Wahpeton, was Nerth Dakota's entry in the national competition. He was selected from 42 entries. Texas Representative In Critical Condition Washington, Mar, 15.—(P)—Repre- sentative R. Q. Lee, of Texas, in a critical condition from the effects of live through the day. Roger Lowell Putnam, of Spring- field, Mass., a member of the observ- atory board of trustees and a nephew of Dr. Percival Lowell, founder of the obseravtory. said Atlas was the best suggestion that had come to him. He also suggested Thenae of Con- stance, in honor of Dr. Lowell's widow. Constance, he said, was a ‘name jcasily translated into all languages and connoted the firmness of Dr. Lowell's conviction that the planet eixsted. Dr. Lowell “discovered” the ninth planet 15 years ago mathe- matically through computations of the peculiar influence being exerted upon the planet Uranus. Mrs. Lowell, whose home is in Bos- ton, said that she thought the new planet should be named Percival in honor of her late husband. Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard observatory, through whom the announcement of the new planet | was made, suggested it be named Kronos, after the mythological ter of the six principal Greek gods. Final choice of a name rests with the staff of astronomers of Lowell observatory, who, it is believed. will consult the American Astronomical society for suggestions. Strangling on Piece Of Corn Bread Leads Man to Fatal Mishap); Arma, Kas., Mar. 15.—(?)—Strang- ling on a piece of corn bread indirect- ly led to the death here of James Mathes, 62. Gasping for breath aft- er choking on the food yesterday, he rushed from the dinner table, fell out of the back door of his home and struck his head on the bumper of a motor car parked there. He died from @ fractured skull. Millions Keeping Appointment With Uncle Sam as Tax Returns Are Due However, the collapse of the stock market late in the year and the flat reduction of one per cent in the rate of Sexesin were regarded as the sources of radically lessened returns officials hel ‘ 4 ae i | ei 1 i i | i H t i : i ue U.S,, GREAT BRITAIN AND JAPAN APPEAR INHARMONY ON PLAN Approval by Home Governments Declared to Be Only Step Not Yet Taken AWAIT TARDIEU’S ARRIVAL Crisis Surrounding France and Italy and Next Move Re- mains, However By DEWITT MACKENZIE London, Mar. 15—(P)—A 100 per cent agreement among the United ; States, Great Britain and Japan was said in naval conference circles today to be an accomplished fact as far aq | the delegations are concerned. Approval by the home governments of the American-Japanese settlement which closed yesterday was said to be the only thing remaining to enable these three delegations to write finish to their naval conference difficulties, Agreement Completed Circle For days these delegations have been so close to agreement that there was said to have been little between them. A provisional American-Jap- anese agreement, achieved by Senator Reed and Ambassador Matsudaira, is’ understood to have been the ong thing needed to complete the circle. Observers said what this amounted to was that if this agreement is ap-: proved by the home governments, the United States, Great Britain and Japan will be in a position to sign a three-power pact at any minute if this should seem desirable. There remains the crisis surround- }ing France and Italy and the next |move would seem to be up to these | two. i Tardieu Is Awaited The conference today was more or | for a conference with Prime Minister MacDonald tomorrow. Upon this im- Work of Selecting Title for portant conversation may depend the (outcome of the naval conference as | far as @ five-power pact for limiia- | tion is concerned. | The report of the American-Jap- | anese settlement produced something New York, Mar. 15—(7)—Numerous | Of @ sensation here when it became ; known. Just what this settlement is | no one in authority was prepared to ! state at this juncture. Report had it | a compromise had been effected along | the lines that Japan would consent to reduction in her claim for a 70 per cent ratio of 8-inch cruisers and would receive in exchange a higher Percentage of destroyers and sub- marines than she had expected. [FINNEY DECLARES HE ‘REVOKED FALL ORDER Mech iFormer Secretary Would Have Had Navy Department in Charge of Leases Washington, Mar. 15.—(?)—Under, j cross examination today, E. C. Fin< ney, government witness.in the brib- Finney, assistant secretary of the | interior at the time Doheny is charged | with giving Fall a bribe of $100,000 | Said Fall's order that all oil contracts must be negotiated by the navy was made in November, 1921. Cross examined by Frank Hogan, Doheny’s chief counsel, he said he | revocation in December and added ; navy handle the oil contracts, Other testimony given by Pinney | related to the details leading up to! | the awaed of he ik His Bere ae reserve a company. He testified yesterday that while it wes customary for subordinates in the interior department to handle ait contracts that Fall personally handled ised Elk Hills and the Teapot Dome leases. Kaye Don Sends Auto 144 Miles an Hour in Preliminary Trials his powerful racing car i aeear