The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 9, 1930, Page 1

North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1878 Reduce Rates To Drought A Bank STRANGER DEMANDS _ $10,000 AND DROPS NITROGLYCERIN BAG Two Are Killed and Many In- jured While President Tries to Get Police ‘I'M DESPERATE,’ SAYS THIEF Fort Worth Institution Is Scene ¥ of Tragedy When Man With Satchel Arrives Fort Worth, Tex., Aug. 9—(?}—Fred L. Felton, vice president and cashier of the Stockyards National bank, and an unidentified bomber were killed, several others were injured, and the bank was bodly wrecked today when the bomber dropped a bag containing nitroglycerin after demanding $10,000. L. W. Marshall, assistant cashier, ‘was seriously injured. Clifton Magers, 8, was cut by flying glass. The blast occurred shortly before noon. A man carrying a satchel came to the desk of W. L. Pier, president of the bank, and demanded $10,000. “I’m desperate,” he said. “I want the money quick. There is a price on my head and I don’t care what hap- pens to me. There is nitroglycerin in this satchel.” He warned Pier not to notify police. Police Notified While Pelton, whose desk adjoined Pier’s, engaged the man in conversa- tion the bank president went behind the cages and told the tellers to count, out $10,000 in currency. Then he tele- . ‘the bank and wait for the stranger te go out with the money. Pier said that while he was calling the explosion occurred. Both Pelton and the stranger were id employes escaped however. Money and checks were strewn everywhere. bomber was described as having hair. He was about 5 feet 8 Ml and weighed about 160 Magers boy, son of Mr. and Clifton Magers, was standing in- side the bank. Flying glass cut him the head and body. Marshall re- J ceived a badly cut leg and other in- juries. MINER 1S DROWNED BATHING IN SLOUGH Spectators Unable to Save Sam} Wilton When He Sinks in Water at Wilton (Tribune Special Service) Washburn, N. D., Aug. 9.—Sam Armer, 38, a miner living at Wilton, drowned at 0 o'clock Friday night while bathing in what is known as the “Little Washout,” a slough one sot a half miles south of Wildwood e, Persons nearby saw him sink but efforts to save him were fruitless and the body was not located and taken “from the water until 8:20 p. m. Rescurers worked for two hours in an effort to revive him, but failed. He leaves his wife and one child, « Funeral services have not been ar ranged but they probably will be a held at Wilton. : What! Us Bismarck Robbers? Imagine Our Embarrassment Mahnomen, Minn., Aug. 9.—(?)— - Upon Angus McDonald, heavyweight boxer, three companions blamed their embarrassment today for being mis- taken as the-four bandits who held up and robbed the Dakota National Bank and Trust company of Bis- marck, N. D., Thursday. McDonald, accompanied by Chuck ¢ Golden, another fighter; William L. Wolfson, Mimeapolis tailor, and Eugene Moher, secretary of the Eagles Lodge, Minneapolis, stopped here en route home from Canada. The hotel clerk recalled the de- When the party prepared to leave yesterday they were surrounded by an armed posse. It took 45 minutes of talk and a search of their bags to Prove a case of wrong identification. GETS PROMOTION Hettinger, N. D., Aug. 9.—Gilbert Stoller, employe at the Red Owl store for the past seven weeks, hag been promoted to a mangership of a store in the Same company and left the fore part of the week to assume his managerial duties at the New Eng- land, N. D., Red Owl store. His posi- tion will be taken over by Buster Brown of Hettinger, a graduate of the Bucyrus high school. ! .|the Hope company had 850 men on GAS LINES RAPIDLY NEARING THIS CITY; T0 BE HERE SEPT. 1 Three Miles of Pipe Being Laid Daily by Force of 500 Workmen PUBLIC IS INVITED TO 32s, | Engineer in Charge Urges Pros- pective Users to Make Installations Early Laying of the natural gas line into Bismarck is approaching the last act of the big project which is part of the $4,500,000 development of the combi- nation of companies marketing the) output of the Cabin. and Ash creek | fields in the southeastern part of | Montana, near Baker. | Edward F. Moore, construction en- | gineer of the Hope Engineering com- pany. Mt. Vernon, Ohio, laying the line for the Montana-Dakota Utilities company, and Carl Becraft, district | superintendent of the Montana-Da- kota Power company, the distributing company, were in Bismarck this morning and renewed the assurance that Bismarck would have natural gas by September 1. There remain 25 miles still to be laid. This is going down at such a rate as 17,300 feet a) day—a record made this week. Moore has filled the role of field marshal for his company this year. | He has had four line-laying projects | under his supervision and manave-) ment at one time this summer and | three are still uncompleted, one be- ing the Bismarck line, another the line from Shelby to the Canadian line in northern Montana and a third a line from Billy creek in Wyoming through Buffalo in that state into Sheridan. Moore maintains head- quarters at Glendive, Montana. | Becraft has been making inspection of the line as fast as ‘the Hope forces have been. laying the pipe. He for-| merly was superintendent of the Miles City municipal power plant, | which the Minnesota Northern Pawer company bought in 1927 and turned over to its subsidiary, the Montana- Dakota company. Working at New Salem and Mandan Both of the men came ‘from New; Salem, a mile east of which was to- day's advanced point tn the construc- tion of the line this way. The last of the eompany’s camps is maintainec | at New Salem. The other camp of the two left when this end of the operation was reached has given way to quarters in Mandan, out of which ‘two gangs are working on the line. One of the Mandan gangs is laying ;pipe along the memorial highway to- ward Bismarck, the other is ‘aying westward to hook up with the nipe extension from New Salem. The line along the memorial highway will be hooked up in this city complete for service in another ten days Mr. Moore said. 500 Men Still on Job When the work was at the peak, the joo, said Mr. Moore, but this number has been reduced to about (Continued on page fifteen) Serum from Boy May | Protect Physicians Washington, Aug. 9.—(#)—Serum from the blood of a 13-year-old boy, Julian Morris, of Sudlersville, Mary- land, protects two United States gov- ernment scientists, Dr. R. E. Dyern and Dr. L. F. Badger, as they search for a cure for typhus, using guinea Pigs for the experiments. ‘Young Morris, who was ill for about two weeks with genuine typhus, a dis- ease which thus far has baffled sci- ence, came to Washington and gave a half pint of his blood for injection in either of the experiments in case of laboratory accidents. Dr. George W. McCoy. director of the laboratory, of the National Insti- tute of Health, a branch of the public health service, said the danger was very real. There had been riany cases of infection, and several deaths, ° . HE BISMARCK TRIBUN The Weather Generally fair tonight and Sunday. Not much change in temperature. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1930 Flying Westward _ Over Atlantic | - ‘Westward bound across the Atlantic from their native. Germany, Pilots Oscar Weller (below) and Wolfram Hirth (above) are flying by short stages to Chicago. Landing at Ice- land after a° 12-hour flight from the Orkney islands in their small touring plane, the two German airmen were to continue on to North America by way of Iceland, Greenland and Lab- TAX EQUALIZATION HEARINGS PLANNED State Board Has Heard Rail- roads and Telegraph Com- panies Orally Assessments and equalization of various classes of property are being considered by the state board of equalization. Railroads and telegraph ‘companies already have made oral ‘arguments to the board in connection with their assessments and tax levy. The board will meet again August 12, when reports and oral arguments! This part of the exhibit contains | over the country. will be made by representatives of telephone properties. August 13, street railway, heat, light, power, gas and water property will be considered, and, August 19, county and city officials will be heard on personal property valuations. The state levy meeting will be he'd Au- gust 30. In arguments made to thé board, railroad companies indicated their business for last six months of 1929 was about 50 per cent less than that of the first six months of that year. Gov. George F. Shafer is ex-officio chairman of the board, and I. A. Ack- er, tax commissioner, is secretary. 1930 Crop Protein To Average Higher jt: Fargo N. D., Aug. 9.—(?)—Tests of 113 samples of hard spring wheat re- ceived from county extension agents in 23 counties of North Dakota show an average protein percentage of 14.9 per cent, according to C. E. Mangels, agricultural college chemist . Addi- tional samples are being received from labaratory experimentation in| daily. typhus, he said. Young Morris’ blood is also being used in experiments on protection from typhus. Dr. McCoy estimated that, if properly kept, it would retain some of its protective value for about &@ year. “The protein content of the 1930 crop will from present indications average higher than the 1929 crop which was considered high in pro- tein,” Mr. Mangels stated. “This was to ve expected, considering the hot, dry weather that prevailed in July.” Risking Life for Others? Shucks! It’s Just Another Good Scout Deed|""S= ==,2. 7. song, = Excelsior, Minn., Aug. 9.—(#)—In the eyes of three women, Donald ‘Stixrood was a hero today but to him his life to save theirs eloped he twirled the starter 250 yards from shore on Lake Minnetonka! Flaming-gasoline on the water en- circled the boat as Donald, badly burned, shouted for help. Mrs. O. L. Stixrood, Dorothy, 11. and Mrs. Opal Manney, Chicago, added their shouts to his as a boat put out from: shore. The fire had narrowed the area of safety on the Stixrood’s craft and the young scout, ding the flaming water about, leaped into the lake to give the women more room. He swam about until the rescuer’s boat succeeded in taking off the three women, then darted closer and fished him out of the water. A moment later the Stixrood cratt disappeared. A physician said the burns Donald received yesterday were not serious but Donald didn't think of that today. “IT was scared to death,” he said. “that something would happen to mother, Dorothy and Mrs. Manney.” “PRICE FIVE CENTS 1. [STATE'S PRODUCTS GFF ON MISSIONARY FAIR EXHIBIT TOUR Commissioner Devine Sending Tent With Grain, Grass, Vege- tables, Fruit, Coal, Brick AIM IS TO SET N. D, ARIGHT J. M. Buttree Will Renew His Is Blown Up; Bandit and Cashier Killed - In Bismarck Bank Holdup Efforts to Induce People to Drop the Idea of Cold Forty years of misconception and some misrepresentation about North {Dakota are about to be attacked ‘again with facts, in the form of its jproducts, in communities where the ‘its case and drawing settlers in out ‘of the younger generation. ‘The attack will be launched in the |form of the annual state exhibit at ‘fairs through Minnesota and Towa. ‘state has the best chance for in out | iThis again is being sent out by J. iM. Devine, commissioner of immigra- ‘tion on its fourth display this time. {J. M. Buttree of Valley City and Wil- ‘Ham M. Jackson, agricultural instruc- {tor at the state school at Ellendale, were preparing the exhibit at the As- , saciation of Commerce rooms the last |two days and were loading it on a ;truck this.morning for departure to Rochester, Minn., where the first stop jwill be made next week, in connec- tion with the county fair there. | Buttree Dispels Climate Error Besides Rochester, where the exhibit iu set up ifs tent, its tables and its | blackboards include Eldon, Waverly, Mason City and Perry, Iowa, Zum~- |brota and Madison, Minn. This means [a seven-weeks trip for Buttree and | Jackson, and they will be joined by Senator John Van Arnim, of Kin- dred, as soon as recovery from a re- cent operation will permit him to join the other lecturers. If the $3,000 fund at the disposal of the exhibit permits, it will be shown at the cattle con- gress in Waterloo, Iowa, about the be- ginning of October. Buttree has developer an additional line of informative activity in Behalf of the state. He is stressing the:mild- ness of {ts climate, compared with the mis¢onception which has grown up about it, largely as the result of the word “North” being associated with its name. That word makes people think in terms of cold, he says. They will think of Canada without ever as- sociating the idea of coldness with it, yet the moment their thoughts stray (south over the boundary line, tne :m- pression of frigid climate is in their \mind. He advocates changing the name of the state to something that will convey the idea of balminess, as Springoria or Floriana or something {like that. Field Gathered Large Part ‘The exhibit of grains, grasses, vege- tables, fruits and clay, wood and lig- nite products ,which Buttree and work of Wilbert Field, living six miles grains and grasses from fields in Bur- ileigh, Morton and Emmons counties. Marquis, Ceres and Hope wheat, tame and wild wheat grass, timothy, red | top, bromes, bluejoint, sweet clover (Continued on page fifteen) ‘LAWYERS WILL SEE IF BANKS PRACTICE LAW Attorneys of First Judicial Dis- trict Form Organization at Fargo Friday . F .N. D., Aug. 9.—(AP)—At- mneys from the first judicial dis- trict organized a district bar asso- ciation, with Herbert G. Nilles of Fargo, as president yesterday. Thirty-one attorneys attended the session, Other officers elected are Dewey Pierce, Fargo, vice president and secretary and P. O. Sathre, Finley, treasurer. Gale Rohn Hanchett, Valley City, is the vice president from Barnes county; Theodore Kaldor, Hillsboro, Trail county, and Pierce, county. The vice president in Grand Forks, Griggs and Steele counties will be appointed later. ij The question of whether banks throughout North Dakota are prac- ticing law, directly or indirectly, was brought up.’ It was decided to investigate the matter. Committees al in each county to investi- gate and report at the next meeing Lacey. and _ Charles Barnes county, Benjamin Tufte. M. W. Duffy and Oscar Thompson; Grand Forks county, Phillip z8, H. A. Libby and 0. T. Owen; Steele county, P. P. Sathre, E. T. Meldahl and William Barclar; Trail county, C. E. Leslie, McLean Johnson and Charles Lyche. No Cash, Minot Lets Two Policemen Out Minot, N. D., Aug. ¥—()—Two Minot policemen will be discharged | Jackson are taking east is in part the | was set today for the fourth and last east of Bismarck, who collected the itirm supposed to have handled hun- japolis broker, and R. |W. Hampton, from left to right, they are: J. P. bank's vault; Miss Tena Toftner, Helen Baker, assistant cashiers. THEY SAY DEALT IN STOLEN SECURITIES Expect to Have Fourth Mem- ber of Band Handling Stolen Papers Chicago, Aug. 9.—(#)—A police trap member of a bond theft “brokerage” dred of thousands of dollars worth of securities taken in big robberies all Three suspected members of the ring were arrested yesterday and $15,500 in stolen securi- ties was recovered. The police, naturally, refused to reveal the name of the fourth man or to say where they expected to catch him. It was variously reported the trap was laid in Chicago and in Kan- sas City. ‘The three arrested yesterday, all of whom have served sentences in Leavenworth, were Leo Mergen, a for- mer bank cashier of Beloit, Kan, Stanley McCormick, former Minne- Indianapolis. Hampton was arrested first as he attempted to pass an alleged forged letter of credit. Information gained from him led to the arrest of the other two. On Mergen the arresting | officers found $15,500 worth of se- curities which they said had been) stolen. Merger served part of a five-year sentence on charges growing out of the wrecking of the Union Nationa! Bank of Beloit of which he was cash- fer. He pleaded guilty to charges which included embezzlement, mis- application of funds and false reports. He was paroled after serving a few months. McCormick was also paroled ‘rqgm Leavenworth penitentiary after serv- ing more than two years of a seven: year term for possession of matter stolen from the mails. Among the securities he was charged with hand- ling were some of those taken in the $1,500,000 Gerald Chapman mail truck robbery in New York. Hampton's sentence was for coun- terfeiting. These three arid their accomplice are believed by police to have oper- ated a clearing house through which passed the loot of many of the targer robberies of recent years. The three men were released under $5,000 bond. Fore, Officer, Round The Links to Jail Great -Neck, N. Y., Aug. 9.—()—A mental hazard is a mere stimulant to Arthur “Ducky” Yates, Syracuse broker, former state amateur golf champion and one-time Yale football star. About to tee off in the state tournament, he was arrested on a grand larceny charge in conrection soon due to decreased budget allow- ance for the vear. The department will function with ea personne! of 13.| with a stock deal. With the detec- | yesterday. tive as a companion he went around the course in par and won his mateh. | cer” instead day by armed bandits who obtained $23,364 in cash and a large sum of non-negotiable securities. Above are shown the employes of the Dakota National Bank and Trust company who were held up Thurs- rea LOWERED FREIGHTS AUTHORIZED BY LC. COMMISSION Body Declares That an Emer- gency Exists and Farmers Must Have Relief RAILROADS ASK PERMISSION President Calls Governors of Several States to Consid- er Relief Plans Washington, Aug. 9.—(?)—The in- terstate commerce commission today issued an order authorizing reduced freight rates by railroads in drought stricken areas, The commission asserted an emer- gency had been created by the long dry spell and that all interstate car- riers were authorized to lower tariffs “on live stock, feed and water and up- on suh other articles of traffic as may be found necessary to and from stricken areas,” without observing the usual requirements as to publication and notice on rate changes. The au- thorization expires October 31. Rallroads Ask It The commission had been informed that a number of raflroads, eastern and western, intended to petition for special permission to disregard the usual requirements and make emer- gency rates. In view of that*and the proposals President Hoover has made, the com- mission took quick action to give blanket authorization for such action. By the authorization railroads will be able to make the schedules effec- tive on one day's filing, will not have to publish. full copies for all points of emergency tariff; and will be able to disregard the long and short haul Provision of the commerce act and charge less for hauling relief ship- ments over long distances than they charge for hauling regular shipments over shorter distances onthe same line and in the same direction. The commission authority has been exercised on this emergency basis in Reading fagner, cashier, who was forced at the point of two pistols, to open the per; Miss Martha Nottveit, another bookkeeper, Al Mayer and Miss , With three customers, were forced to lie face-down on the floor while the bandits worked and later were locked in the vault. The other picture shows the bank building and the door through which the robbers entered and left the bank. POLIGE ARREST TRIO |HEAT WAVE HANGS ON IN MID- WEST BUT RELIEF’S Searing Temperatures Prevail in Numerous Sections, In- cluding Far Northwest Chicago, Aug. 9.—(P)—Heat and high humidity ruled jointly over most of the nation today. Parts of middle America were wilt- ed. The searing scourge even skipped far into the northwest, across the continental divide. In Idaho, Orofino was “burning up,” experiencing a high yesterday of 111.5. Couer d’Alene had 105 and Lewiston 103. Temperatures in most of the northwest ranged upwards from 90 degrees. Only slight damage to the late wheat crop was reported, however. In southern Illinois and Indiana, in the valleys of the dwindling Ohio and Mississippi rivers, the intense heat hung on and the forecast offered no relief. For the fifth successive day, Evansville, Ind. yesterday roasted with the thermometer at 105. At Washington, Ind., it was 106. Mercury Hits 111 At Carbondale, IIL, it was 111. John- ston city reported 110. The latter town broadcast a report that a setting hen deserted her brood a week ago because of the heat; yesterday the eggs hatched. To the west, in Missouri and Kan- sas, the heat wave continued unabat- ed. Lamonte, Mo., reported 110% Kansas City had 103. Farmers felt concern for their stock due to the shortage of water. The Kansas City weather bureau held out hopes for a rain by Monday. Six died from the heat in St. Louis yes- terday and today. The Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri rivers, and their tributaries, are rapidly approaching a state where navigation will be impossible, river men said. The U. 8. towboat Thorpe, upbound with four freight barges, was ground- ed in the Mississippi yesterday at La IN SIGHT Crosse, Wis. At this point, river men said the water was the lowest in 20 years. A decided fall in the Missouri was seen at Omaha, Sioux City, Bismarck and Pierre. Fire Situation Dangerous In scattered sections of the Great Lakes area, small bits of woodland were ablaze, adding a new menace to the midwest drought. 8. E. Schoon- over, regional forester in Milwaukee, characterized conditions “extremely dangerous.” Cooler weather was the forecast by nightfall for Minnesota, and the Dakotas. One death from the heat was reported yesterday in St. Paul. It was also somewhat cooler in North Dakota. In Nebraska, new hopes for a good corn crop were expressed, due to the recent showers and extremely high humidity. In New York City it wasn’t the heat but the humidity. The maximum yesterday was only 85, but the heavy atmosphere dashed hopes of physical relief. The same condition existed in Chicago and Philadelphia, where the mercury rose to 96, The government weather predic- tion for the coming week holds out some hope of relief. A period of cooler weather with showers is ‘in- dicated by their observations. ——————— Rockefeller Estate | | Hit by Drought, Too ————— ne Tarrytown, N. Y., Aug. 9.—(#)—The drought has hit the Rockefeller es- tate. The nine-million gallon reser- voir at Pocantico Hills is almost dry and among curtailment measures the large fountain in front of the man- sion has been shut off. The estate ‘uses more than 100,000 gallons of wa- tera day. Permission to tap the ‘Tarrytown municipal system has been granted. Navy Men Object to Coolidge Saying Best Air Engines Are Made Abroad Washington, Aug. 9.—(?)—The navy department which not so long ago took Calvin Coolidge’s slightest word as law, today was on record with an objection to a pronouncement of the former president. In a recent syndicated article by Mr. Coolidge dealing with aircraft there occurred the sentence: “A navy office reports that the best engine is made abroad.” The navy has long prided itself that it has the best airplane engines ever made and two of its high officials— Acting Secretary Jahncke and Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, chief of the bureau of aeronautics—were quick to say so after reading the Cool- idge article. A typographical error, however, may be responsible for the conflict. little cause for complaint on the part of the navy, for one of its officers— Lieutenant T. W. G. Settle, noted balloonist—recently observed in an | article that a German engine was the only dirigible power plant so far fully tried and developed. The Coolidge article started with a reference to the flight of the R-100, though it dis; cussed aviation in general. The aircooled engines which the navy helped develop, said Mr. Jahncke, “are without superiors any- where in the world, and are produced in quantites by several American air- craft manufacturing concerns.” Moffet said ther€ were only two ex- ceptions to American aircraft engine superiority. The German Maybach lighter-than-aircraft engine and some airplane motors or more than 1,000 9 bape tt ee instances, the most re- ent of which related to the Mississip- Pi floods. sie " No Protests Expected It is not believed any protests will be filed against any action of car- tiers or government to lay down tem- Porary rates that will help regions threatened with disaster even though the temporary rail service offered them will cost far less than like serv- (Continued on page fifteen) Avers He’s Innocent Of Robbery at Lehr Ashley, N. D., Aug. 9.—(?)—Jack Fremont, 24, Minneapolis, today was charged with bank robbery in the first degree in connection with the holdup of the Lehr, N. D., bank. Fremont was returned here yester- day from Minnewaukan, where he was held following his arrest at Leeds @8 @ suspect in the robbery in which five men participated. He has main- tained his innocence since his arrest, according to Sheriff Oscar Pudwill of McIntosh county, who signed the complaint against Fremont. Travelers’ checks said by police to bear the same serial number as those stolen from the bank were found in Fremont’s possession. Fremont claims he was hired by a man to drive an automobile to Leeds. He said a rifle found in the car was there without his knowledge. Police, sald they found about $3,000 in trav- elers’ checks, and three revolvers in Fremont’s room at a Leeds hotel, Five men robbed the Farmers and Merchants State bank at Lehr on duly 14, and escaped with $3,208 and about $3,800 in travelers’ checks. —$—___ "8 | Steal Machine Gun | From Police Vault | eee Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug. 9.—()—Some- body has stolen or borrowed one of the machine guns at central police station. Reporters and detectives were ialk- ing about the guns last night. “Now these two babies here—” one of the detectives began as he moved toward the vault in which the machine guns are kept, but he stopped short. There was only one gun there, "i Police were sure it was there yester- lay. Husband and Wife Hurt While Haying Goodrich, N. D., Aug. 89—Two people were injured in a haying accident Monday on the August Felchle farm. Both Mr. and Mrs. Felchle are laid up ep will be unable to work for some e. While the couple were on the top o! @ high haystack, the rope on the hay- stacker broke while a load of hay was being lowered and the heavy lift fell. Mr. Felchle was underneath and re- ceived some serious injuries, a leg being thrown out of joint and broken and his back being severely bruised. Mrs. Felchle jumped from the stack’ to avoid getting hurt and the fall of about 10 feet Grew er. knee Ove: 6 font. - Felchle was on the ground for some time before help could b: obtained te take him to his home. FREE WOMAN IN SHOOTING Duluth, Minn., Aug. 9.—County au- thorities absolved Viola Reely, 21, Spencer, Iowa, from all blame in the If Mr. cool intended te say “offi- of “office” there would be horse-power developed abroad as a result of Schneider cup competition.