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Cooler Eveni 7} < s { North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1930 Mac Smith Assumes WET INITIATIVE PROPOSAL TEST IS RULED OFF STATE BALLOT AS MUCH AS ARMOUR AND HAGEN NEAR END Bobby Jones and Horton Smith, Late Starters, Both Un- der Par at Sixth THE LEADER’S TOTAL IS 145 Last Nine Holes Treacherous to ‘Big Three’ of Profes- sionals in Meet i tl F ref EE FEEEE EES 3 ore i if ll aH BE i if g Le “ik hy i Jones, the defending cham- who shot 71 yesterday, was among the late starters, further de- by back late starter was “Wifty” Cox, the Brooklyn pro, who also had (Continued on page Eleven) " HUSTON SILENCE ENEMIES IN G. 0. P. Party Chairman Says He Will Announce His Status When He Gets Ready Washington, July 11—()—Turn- « ‘ing back his party foes for a second + time, word he will announce his status as chairman of the Republican national committee in his own time—after the senate was the declaration he made late yesterday to officers of the na- Gary, Ind., depicting the ‘Spirit of Greece’ | Is Sunk in Lagoon | pitied 2 vsb tomar duly 11.—()—The float SMALL GAS DEALERS FACING BANKRUPTCY IN COAST PRICE WAR Fire Prevention Chief Warns Citizens Against Storing Fuel in Bath Tubs San Francisco, July 11—()—Bath tubs, Capt. Theodore Trivett, local fire prevention chief, has pointed out, are to sing in, and not for gasoline storage. Motorists have been reported to the fire prevention bureau as purchasing gasoline during the price war and storing it away in bath tubs against the day when prices will again become The specter of bankruptcy loomed for many small war brought quotations ranging from 6% to 16% cents a gallon on the Pa- cific coast. Charles Jacobs, secretary of the In- it Association of Service Sta- tion Operators here, said 25 per cent of the local dealers would close their stations if the war continued anoth- er week. Governor ‘C. C. Young, declined to intervene in the price : Se PAYS WHTHLIRE FOR MURDER AND ROBBERY OF BANK Jake Fleagle, Leader of Gang Which Held Up Colorado Institution, Hanged — Canon City, Colo. July* 11.——)— Ralph E. Fleagle has paid with his Claudius Huston has given| tion a 3 EP whe gee Secretary of State Holds That Petitions Presented to Him Are Inadequate : TO TEST RULING IN COURT Agent for Group Seeking Change Says Validity of Law Will Be Tested — Supporters of a movement to initi- ate @ measure for repeal of state pro- {hibition at the November general election have been given a setback by of State Robert Byrne, who had held the initiative petitions, 20,873 names, were defective. Byrne and Charles Liessman, Bis- marck, deputy, yesterday announced the finding after conferring with members of the attorney general's of- fice who advised them the petitions were not in the proper form. . Completing an examination of peti- tions late today, Mr. Liessman found that although more than the 20,000 signatures required were submitted, there were more than 14,800 which. do not bear affidavits as required by law. Court action to test the constitu- tionalty of this statute appeared cer- tain with announcement by A. Dan- felson, Minot, a representative of the committee of petitioners, that steps will be taken to compel acceptance of the petitions. Danielson stated that the law re- quiring affidavits on each individual Petition hampers and obstructs the operation of the iniatitive act, and therefore is unconstitutional. Byrne said 60 separate petitions bearing 5,300 signatures do not show the date of signing as by law, and 11 copies and eight petitions containing 484 names cover a different subject than to find insufficient, to permit submission the ‘constitutional amendment at coming general election,” Byrne advised Wood. While plans were being made by Danielson to institute court attacking the constitutionality of the statute, a campign was under way by his organization for 10,000 signatures to initiate @ measure for the me- moralizing of congress to modify the prohibition laws. These petitions must be presented the secretary of state by August 6. Danielson said he expected little difficulty in obtaining the 10,000 sig- natures required to initiate a meas- ure for memoralizing congress. He declared efforts would be made to have the petitions conform to law as to affidavits and dates. UTAH HARD HIT BY DESTRUCTIVE RAIN Rivers of Mud, Silt and Boulders Are Swept From Mountains; Railroads Hampered ” Salt Lake City, July 11.—(#)—Riv- and ==\HYDE AND LEGGE ia CHARLES AUGUST LINDBERGH, JR. ‘They wouldn't let him be photographed until he had a name, but after they had labeled him with his sire’s Mrs, Lindbergh, permitted the itching photographers to have a peek at It is the first picture taken of BOY, 7, HOLDS PLAYMATE UNDER WATER ‘UNTIL HE DIDN’T MOVE’ Late News » Charles A. Lindbergh, and cognomen, their fledgling eagle. Here is the result. Lad Says He Drowned Three- Year-Qld Child ‘for Fun’; Will Examine Him eontrot channel “until he didn’t move,” was held today for examination by medi- cal authorities. La Verne, police de- clared, said he “did it just for fun.” CONTINUE DRIVE TO CUT ACREAGE Farm Board Chairman Tells Kansas Farmers ‘Biggest Hog Lies in Trough’ Amarillo. Tex., July 11.—(7)—End- ing a two day campaign in Kansas expounding the farm board’s wheat acreage reduction program, Alexander Legge, chairman, and Arthur M. Hyde, secretary of agriculture, today brought their proposals to the Texas Institution $50,000 Kansas Opposi to the curtailment plan at Dodge ty. “The hog,” Mr. Legge told biggest 1,500 southwestern wheat growers, in : | mess.” ENTER WHEAT WRANGLE Wichita, Kans. July 11—(7)}— Max M. and Louis Levand, joint Publishers of the Wichita Daily Beacon, today entered the wheat acreage reduction controversy by calling upon Alexander Legge, chairman of the federal farm board, for his resignation and an ~. spology to Kansas, SEEK BANDITS IN N. D. Lake Preston, 8. D., July 11. (#)—Search for four bandits who robbed the Community State bank | here of $11,000 Tuesday shifted to North Dakota today when word ‘was received that an automobile believed to belong to the gunmen ‘was seen near Tokio Thursday. NOTED AVIATOR INJURED jured slightly today when his new monoplane “Mystery 8” crashed at the Travelair airport. He suf- fered only minor cuts, ay | Discourtesy Costs | Sydney, Australia, July 11.—(7)— Because @ secretary was discourteous @ charitable institution here is re- ported to have lost $50,000. Charles McNess, western Australian millionatre and _ philanthropist, walked into the institution and asked to see the governor “on private busi- “If you can’t state) your business, .|Opposition Hopes 2,000 greater than the state’s Population ten years ago. * you can’t go in,” replied a secretary “Well,” said McNess, “if that’s the| gro way you treat poor people, I might as well tear this up.” He tore up a check for $50,000 and gave the secretary the fragments. To Unseat Tardieu Paris, July 11—(?)—Premier Tar- determined Chicago Welcomes _Habitue of. Poles Chicago, July 11—()—Rear Ad- miral Richard E. ta Ligh habitue of the ‘GIVES CONDITION OF is | Hawken, organizing secretary of the The Weather Probably sh-vers or thunder stormy tonight or Saturday. Cooler Saturday PRICE FIVE CENTS ng Is_ Predic Lead inO neni the noted airman’s first-born. DEPARTMENT REPORT LEADING GRAIN CROPS North Dakota Production Esti- mated at 39,156,000 Durum, 71,321,000 Spring Wheat Washington, July 1.—(?)—The con- dition on July 1 ofthe important. gain crops of important producing states and the indicated production, in thousands of bushels, as announced today by the department of agricul- ture in its report supplemental to that for the country as a. whole, issued yesterday, follow: Corn Pennsylvania 83, 53,541; Ohio 78, 135,014; Indiana 83, 159,300; 84, 351,728; Wisconsin 85, 83,080; Min- nesota 79, 147,492; Iowa 86, 432,900; Missouri 85, 177,660; South Dakota 80, 122,712; Nebraska 77, 240,110; Kansas 17,130,114; North Dakota 76, 26,376,000. Winter Wheat Pennsylvania 86, 20,423; Ohio 70, 25,976; Indiana 77, 24,736; Illinois 76, 32,926; Michigan 83, 15,980; ‘Missouri 80, 19,035; Nebraska 86, 65,675; Kansas 712, 146,688; Washington 15, 19,058; Oregon 81, 16,926; California 80, 13,- 566. Durum Wheat Minnesota 85, 2,746; North Dakota '81, 39,156; South Dakota 81, 14,703; Montana, 63, 261. Other Spring Wheat Minnesota 84, 12,493; North Dakota 81, 71,221; South Dakota 80, 19,987; Montana, 59, 29,495; Idaho 89, 14,445; Washington 64, 20,618. North Dakota figures for other crops were: Oats, 81 and 45,024,000. Potatoes, 81 and 11,000,000. Estimate 162 Die in German Mine Blast Neurode, Germany, July 11.—(>)}— ‘The death toll in the explosion which ‘Wednesday imprisoned most of the crew of the Wenceslaus coal mine near here, below ground, continues to Ww. New calculations today on the number of lives lost indicated 162 miners who Wednesday went down into the shaft to work did not re- turn, Ninety-two bodies have been recovered. FIRES RAGING IN MONTANA Missoula, Mont. July 11—()}— Fifty-eight forest fires, started by lightning, were burning in this dis- trict today. In the Bitter Root val- ley 41 fires were reported. —____ —____—_+ | Stage Lover Given | Rebuff in Real Life > New York, July 11—(7)—It was Muriel Kirklend’s task, as the demure but eager southern girl in “Strictly Dishonorable,” to encourage her opera singer acquaintance, TullioCarminati, offstage, to make ardent love to her. He became too ardent, Miss Kirk- land said today, and she has resigned from the leading role of the comedy, ranking long-run play of Broadway. TWO MINERS DIE, O00 ESCAPE FROM “3D. MINE BLAZE Homestake Gold Workings at Lead Scene of Disastrous Fire; Loss Is Heavy Lead, 8. D., July 11—()—Two min- ers were killed in the fire which de- stroyed three buildings at the Home- stake gold mine here last night, it was learned this morning. The men, Alex W. Eastman, 32, and Charles H. Wellman, 32, are believed by officials to have been caught in a cage in a shaft. The cage plunged deep into the mine when intense heat melted the cable. Hoisting engineers, who helped more than 500 escape from the under- ground workings of the mine, made every effort to bring the cage to the surface but intense heat and spread of flames made it impossible. A bulkhead thrown over the shaft 90 feet down, with water played over it, prevented flames from spreading underground and officials surveying damage today estimated it would be much less than the $500,000 figure they set Thursday night. The fire is believed to have ori- ginated when oil exploded in the compressor room. ‘The hoist was the principal one of the company proper- ties and one of the largest in the country. ‘The miners were at work under- ground when the fire started, but were brought safely to the surface through other hoists. The force of the air coming out of the shaft prevented the fire from Spreading downward into the lower workings. The fire was the most disastrous in the history of the Homestake mine. NORTHWEST RAINS CAUSE WHEAT DROP New Low Levels Are Established at Chicago After Early Upturns Chicago, July 11—()—Advent of needed rain in the northwest sent wheat prices down to new record levels today after an upward start. July wheat touched 85 7-8 cents a bushel, the bottom since 1914, and then closed at 86 1-2, September de- livery reached a low of 89 1-4 and cloged at 89 3-8 to 5-8, while Decem- ber equaled the previous minimum of this season at 95 1-4, closing at 95 1-4 to 3-8 cents. The net loss for the day was 1 7-8 to 2 3-8 cents. Aviator Ready for. Transpacific Dash Los Angeles, July 11.—(#)—Harold Bromley, Tacoma, Wash., aviator, who has lost three planes in two years of preparation for a non-stop flight from Tacoma to Tokyo, today had a fourth ship ready for the 4,778 mile transpacific dash. Bromley prepared to leave here to- day or tomorrow for Tacoma with Harold Gatty, 27-year-old Australian navigator, who will participate in the 4,778 miles flight. PRINCESS MAY WED Amsterdam, July 11.—()—Reports were circulated here today that Prin- cess Juliana, only daughter of Queen Wilhelmina, is to be betrothed to Prince Sigvard, 23 year old son of the Swedish crown ptince and grandson of the Duke of Connaught. Spiritualists Set Stage for Reappearance of Conan Doyle London, July 11.—(>)—Spiritualists have set the stage for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's reappearance before them during a memorial service to be held Sunday at Albert Hall. ‘The author's favorite chair will oc- cupy the center of the platform, to the lay eye empty, but to his devotees occupied by the spirit of the man who created Sherlock Holmes and who died Monday. Lady Doyle, his widow, will sit at the left side of the chair, a place she always occupied during her hus- band’s lectures. She was said today to regard this as the last public dem- poereton that she would attend with At Lady Doyle's request, Frank spirit memorial service said, a demon- stration of clairvoyance will be given. She supports Sir Arthur's view that dl is a religious rite. “We expect it to be the largest at-' ”, tempt at clairvoyance ever made, but whether Sir Arthur will be able to demonstrate sufficiently yet for the medium to describe him is problema- |. Even if he should it is doubt- ful if the evidence would be accepted by the skeptics, but we who have known Mrs. Estelle Robberts, who will pe the clairvoyant, have no doubt at all.” With the utmost simplicity and scarcely a visible sign of mourning Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was huried today in the garden of his country home in Sussex, A Union Jack, flying at half mast above the club house on the golf course nearby, was virtually the only conventional token accompanying the Placing of the body of the noted au- thor in its final resting place. Assistants on the Doyle place at- tended the burial in their working clothes and only 2 few of those pres- ent wore black neckties. cted en Tournament indbergh’s Fledgling Eagle LITTLE INDICATION OF RELIEF DURING DAYTIME, ROWEVEs Death Toll Continues to Mount as Midwest Swelters Un- der Blazing Sun HUMIDITY IS HIGHER HERE Mercury Expected to Pass 100 Mark This Afternoon for the Second Consecutive Day Bismarck, relieved somewhat today by a light wind from the east despite continued heat and higher humidity, looked forward to another cool eve- ning tonight such as that which last night gave the city its first night of comfortable rest in several days. At 3 p. m. the thermometer stood at 93 degrees with: slight indication that it would go much higher before nightfall brought relief. Weather bureau officials ventured the opinion that it would be a “little cooler” to- morrow. They promised cooler evenings dur- ing the remainder of the heat spell, but saw little indications of relief during the days. Humidity this morn- ing was 84 per cent compared to 70 yesterday. Suicide Blamed On Intense Heat Omaha, Neb. July 11.—~p— —John R. Ringwalt, 73, retired in- surance man and father of Ar- thur Ringwalt, an American vice consul at 8] shai, committed suicide at his home here early to- day after informing his wife that he “couldn't stand another day of such weather.” Ringwalt’s body, with a bullet his heart and a revolver Clutched in his hand, was found in the basement by a son. The veteran insurance man is survived also by his widow and three sons. A prediction of probable loca! show- ers or thunderstorms tonight or Sat- urday was made this forenoon at tht federal weather station. Meanwhile, the rest of the midale and Northwest continued to suffer under even higher temperatures. Twenty-four were dead in the North- Beach yesterday reported a temper- ature of 101, Amenia having an even (Continued on page Eleven) Cromwell Descendant Will Fight for U.S, descended from Oliver in the ninth generation, has been made a second lieutenant in the officers’ reserve corps. New Machine Tests Drinks on the Spot Newark, N.-J., July 11.—()—Fed- eral prohibition agents have been testing drinks on the spot. Into suis- pected restaurants they have been taking a violin case, opening it, tak- ing out a device called an ebuliome- ter, and treating it to beverages. It shows forthwith what the alcoholic content is. Two Germans Plan Transocean Flight Kirkwell, Orkney Island, July 11.— @)—Two Germans, Wolfram Hirst and Oscar Veller, informed Fred Buchanan, German vice consu) here today that they intend to undertake @ flight some time this month from Kirkwall to North America, by way of Iceland and Greenland. PSS RS Ss ca Tribune Observes | 57th Anniversary i ee 2