The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 12, 1930, Page 1

North Dakota's Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1930 Partly ck tonight, possibly snow ‘Thursday. Temperate unchanged. PRICE FIVE CENTS Four Injured In Fights At Wing British- Indian. Conference C O WILL ATTENPT 10 FIND SOLUTION OF PROBLEMS IN ASIA}; King George Tells Delegates He Will Watch Closely and With Confidence MEET IN GORGEOUS SETTIN In Far-Off Hindustan Mahatma Gandhi Watches Events From Prison Cell London, Nov. 12.—(4)—King George, ruler over the mightest empire eed all the Asiatic empire satisfactory to its restless millions. His majesty, expressing anxiety at the course of events in India, told his hearers that he would follow their deliberations with closest attention but with confidence in their success. “It is my hope that the future gov- ernment of India,” he said, based on foundations of mutual obligations and their recognition and fulfillment . Beh give piesa to her honorable Two Killed, One Hurt in Wisconsin Shooting Is New Senator j teak Here is M. Mills Logan, who won election to the U. S. Senate from Kentucky over Senator John M. Robsion by @ substantial majority. Logan sought the long term; his col- league, Ben Williamson, defeated Senator Robsion in the contest for the short term. soa | TROUBLE INDICATED AT GENEVA MEETING Delegates Face Difficult Task in Adjusting Views on Arms Limitation Method Geneva, Nov. 12.—()—The formid- in| able character of the problem of lim- ‘The Indian princes, representing fab- ulous wealth and power, sat about an inner table making a colorful spec- tacle in their ornate oriental head- dresses. Beside the throne was an or- dinary chair for Ramsay Mc! England’s labor prime minister, who, after the king spoke, was nominated and made chairman of the assembly. Two Women One of the most striking features of the spectacle was the presence of (Continued ‘on ntinued on page n nine) E. J. Randel, Once Bismarck Policeman, Dies in Jamestown Jamestown, N. D., Nov. 12—()— Edwin John Randel, special agent for the Northern Pacific allroad since 1922, died Tuesday night trom pneu- monia after an illness of five days. He came here from Bismarck where Boy Dies Instantly In Fall from Horse Napoleon, N. D., Nov. 12—Mike » 13, a son of Mr. and Dee, Nhe remo opinion arose‘among the delegates to, the preparatory disarmament com- mission, on Peg pideccnen i penton to de- the prospects of sereement on this important issue and the drafting of a general dis- armament treaty. The American proposal for a com- Promise which would leave the United Btates free to employ her own meth- od of direct limitation, while per- | mitting others to use the budgetary system, was discouraged by Japan but supported in some degree by France, Belgium and Norway. ‘The debate disclosed that Japan, on one extreme, wanted neither direct nor budgetary limitation; Russia, at the other extreme, wanted a combina- tion of both, while the other states divided on approval of both solutions. The French delegate defended the French asec: for budgetary limita- tion. e American proposal, ad- vanced = Acute Hugh 8S. Gib- son, he regarded as impracticable. Night Club Prices Shock Dry Agents pI a a Lf New York, Nov. 12.—()—Ging- er ale with cracked ice, $7 a bot- tle! Two police detectives testi- fied as to what is charged at the night club where Texas Guinan is hostess. Their bill was $14 just for the ice and two bottles. WILL SELL RAILROAD Chicago, Nov. 12—(P)—A public cera ply secre epoca railroad and all its erty was set for December 11 at Wile bi pppoe announcement to- day by Herbert A. Lundahl, special master for the federal district court. GIVEN OVATION AT ARMISTICE DINNER War Veterans Join Auxiliary and Other Organiaztions in Rousing Get- Together SPIRIT OF FROLIC RULED Songs, Music and Speeches Add to Jollity; Serious Note Also Is Struck Having paid solemn tribute to their dead comrades Tuesday morning, members of the American Legion Joined with the War Mothers, Amer- ican Lion auxiliary and veterans of foreign wars in a genial get-together Tuesday night. ble good nature and a spirit of frolic marked the dinner meeting at the Patterson hotel. Mem- bers of all groups said the meeting and program were the best in the his- kth of ee Day celebrations in preside Her presence and that of other Denn Geet emphasized the part which the wom- en “back home” played in the drama of 12 years ago. spoke for the war mothers, em) ing-thetr pleasure ‘in being”: able to Mary Hauser, unit President, spoke for the local auxiliary and pointed out, that the purpose of that organization is to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the legion in the effort to accomplish better things for the sick, wounded and disabled, the orphans of service men and veterans generally. Brings Diners To Feet It was the speech of A. D. McKin- non, commander of Lloyd Spetz Post No. 1, which brought the crowd to its eee an in respect to the mothers of Bis- maeDiniess one has knelt at the grave of @ loved daughter or son; unless | Ingle one has smiled through the tears which come from a torn and aching heart, he cannot fully appreciate the wonderful spirit and devotion of the war mothers of America,” McKinnon said. “They are entitled to our ever- (Continued on page nine) Bliss to Be Buried program. It American Legion day in Mrs. B. K. Bkeels, vice president, George W. Griffin, assistant treasurer of the L. C. Smith Typewriter com- pany, was arrested in New York City in connection with an alleged $200,000 mail fraud, while his wife, Mrs. Bessie Griffin, of Syracuse, N. ¥., and ‘Tuskegee, Ala., was taken into custody on charges of assault and carrying a gun, Twin Cities and Duluth May ey f Yeggmen Get Bad Checks in Robbery Minot, N. D., Nov. 12.—(P}— ‘The laugh is on the yeggs who robbed the safe of the Loop Motor company at Glenburn. Their bce ye consisted of $60 of worthless eee ‘were. used to..qpen EIGHT INJURED IN CALIFORNIA FIRES Three May Die From Burns Re- ceived in Fighting Blaz- ing Oil Wells Los Angeles, Nov. 12.—(7)—Two oil well fires, one in the new southeast Venice field and the other in the wood district, today had caused injuries to eight persons and $100,000 | ¢, damage. Three of the injured hov- ered between life and death as the flames continued to resist fire fighters, In Washington Today Murra Washington, Nov. 13—()—The honors of a grateful nation were be- stowed in death today upon General Tasker H. Bliss, soldier and states-| wu: man, A soldier's grave awaited him at National ranking officer of the American ex- peditionary force and a member of the American peace commission con- tinued to be received. Funeral serv- ices were arranged at Washington’ cathedral with Bishop James E. Free- man officiating. Colonel Julian ‘Yates, chief of army chaplains, was delegated to conduct the services at the grave. Sailor, Adrift 70 Hours in Angry Sea, Tells Graphic Story of Wreck Winkler of Venice, one of his fire- | of men and three oil workers were in- jured attempting to extinguish it. One Dead; One Dying As Love Feud Flares Baltimore, Md., Nov. 12—(#)—The glare of flames early today in a How- ard county home revealed a fatal duel between Herman Westphal, 70, known to neighbors as a recluse, and Charles Hubble, 40, who had married the Hubble, a farm laborer, was found dead, with a bullet in his head. West- phal had a wound in his left side and physicians at a hospital here said they had little hope for his recovery. Police said the two men have been gether only s short time and then Bie _cuteinad (8 Savors sind, mans ed Wife Tries casie $o tats with the discovery of the burning home. New England Mayor,| Not Candidate, Is New County Officer :|Register Their Unemployed Shorter Working Day Dis- cussed; Kendall Opposes Postal Force Reduction (By The Associated Press) Minnesota’s three largest cities to- day had re them a Te esrualegh saa that at the University of Minnescta. by business and civic representatives of the Twin Cities and Duluth, had sug- gested the election machinery be used to register the unemployed. Under the plan proposed, the un- employed would be classified in three groups, those needing immediate re- lief, those unable to work, and float- ers. Such classification cards then would facilitate relief measures, the committee pointed out in suggesting the voting booths of the three cities be opened either Nov. 24 or Nov. 25 for registration, the cost to be borne by the three municipalities. Registration of the unemployed will be the first step of the group, which will cooperate with Gov. Theodore Christianson’s Minnesota employment commission but is not a part of that organization. Organization of the group was made upon recommendation of James C. Lawrence, assistant to President Coff- man of the university and aide to Col. Arthur Woods, chairman of Pres- ident Hoover's committee. One member of the Tri-city group said Lawrence would attempt to ob- tain funds from a nations] founda- tion for maintaining the committee, Maintain Postal Force Representative Kendall, Repub- ign Pennsylvania, ranking member the house postoffice committee, asked President Hoover today to “cancel all surveys in metropolitan ne ana consolidations of rural 80 that no positions in the might be canceled dur- of unemployment.” Carine which might be effected through curtailment of postal service and consolidation of routes, the Pennsylvanian told the president, would “not revert to the people” but would be spent by some other gov- ernmental agency “serving a limited number of the population.” Shorter Day Discussed A shorter working day and unem- ployment relief came under discussion today at a meeting of general chair- men of the five priiecinal railway trainmen unions throughout the Uni- ted States and Canada. The five organizations which sent representatives to Chicago in answer to @ general call by David B. Robert- son, president of the Brotherhood of Locome and thefiremen and engine- The meeting was private and be- hind guarded doors. Officials of the .@ | unions declined to discuss the agenda, New England, N. D., Nov. 12.—Har- vey J. Miller, New England’s mayor, has been elected Hettinger county's state’s attorney without trying. but this morning’s session was ex- pected to be mostly concerned with organizing the meeting. Alvaney Johnson, of Cleveland, grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, said before the The | meeting it undoubtedly would spend much of its time Proposed federal legislation for a six-hour day tor railroad trainmen. He declined to amplify his statement. The same unions now seeking a six-hour day, years ago, sponsored the movement which resulted in the Present eight-hour day. Major crops in Minnesota this year will total 406,882,000 bushels, accord- ing to the federal statistician in St. WAR MOTHERS ARE WOMAN AND THREE MEN FAIL 10 GET HIDDEN TREASURE Believe Slayings Were Part of Effort to Obtain Hoard of Wealthy Farmers GUNMEN POSED AS HUNTERS Fire at Close Range When One of Victims Moved as if to Get Weapon Boscobel, Wis. Nov. 12.—(7)}—A fashionably dressed woman and three young men left behind them today two dead men and the buried trea- sure, if any, that is hidden on the re- mote farm of 60-year-old Cornelius Horrigan, 17 miles from here. Posing as hunters, the three men, accompanied by the woman shot to death Horrigan’s brother-in-law, Pa- trick Gorman, and the latter's son, Paul, 18, and escaped without making any effort to find the money Horri- gan and his brother, Stephen, 57, are reported to have secreted about the farm because of their distrust of banks. Stephen was wounded. ‘The would-be robbers invaded the home of the Horrigans as they sat at dinner with their sister, Ellen, 75 and the Gormans, who recently came from their home in Huron, 8. D., for | @ visit. The holdup woman asked for a drink of water. The aged Miss Hor- tigan went for it. As she left, the men drew pistols with the command: “Hands up.” Stephen moved as if for @ weapon and the men fired. The Gormans were killed instantly, and the elder Horrigan fell, bullets through his jaw and one arm. At the hospital here it was said that un- less infection sets in, he would live. His left arm hit by a bullet, Steph- en ran into an adjoining room for a pistol which he fired twice as the intruders fled to their automobile. One shot shattered the windshield of their car. Posses failed to find any trace of them. Neighbors said the stories of buried treasure on the Horrigan homestead were many. Last summer, neighbors said, three men and a woman were routed from the farm while digging, presumably for the supposed buried treasure. Gorman and his son, from Huron, 8. D., had been visiting their rela- tives for about a week, Recommend Reed for Place on n Power Body Washington, Nov. 1 12.—(?)—Gover- nor Clyde M. Reed, of Kansas, has been recommended to _ President Hoover by Senator Allen, Republican, Kansas, for appointment as chair- man of the federal power commis- sion. The president expects to send nominations for the full commission personnel to the senate early in De- cember. Girl Love Pirate Faces Prison Term New York, Nov. 12—(7)—A girl who offered her hand in marriage for $1,000 faced a five-to-ten-year prison sentence for fraud today. A Queens county court convicted Sally le Blanc, whose parents live in Oxford, Miss., yesterday. She ad- vertised to wed anybody who would give $1,000 to her “aged and infirm mother.” The girl used the name of “Ruth Miller” and a young Japanese, Suekzi Suzuki, head her arrested at Bedford, Mass. after she vanished with his deposit of $750. The 21-year-old blonde blamed Jack Madeson and his wife, convicted with her, for her plight. All will be| Fred sentenced Nov. 21. Reports from Montevideo said that rumors were plentiful concerning an impending revolution in Uruguay. President of the republic, Juan Cam- pisteguy, is shown above. FREIGHT RATE CUT ORDERED BY 1. C.(. IS ERPECTIVE JAN. New Rates on Grain and Grain Products Will Save Ship- pers Huge Sum Washington, Nov. 12.—()—Notice was given yesterday by the interstate commerce commission that it would require railroads to put in effect on Jan. 1 a general revision of rates on grain and grain products which are estimated to entail annual reduc- tions of between $15,000,000 and>-$20,- 000,000 in freight charges on the to- tal traffic. The requirement will be made in spite of protests filed by western eastern and southern carriers against the reductions, ‘The decision was in general a re- duction of rates but both increases and reductions of specific rates throughout the states west of the Mississippi river were ordered. In addition, rates west of the Mississip- pi river were ordered. In addition, tates to the east from the west were affected and nearly all the important railroads in the country have an in- terest'in the controversy. GRAND FORKS PLANS TO BUILD ELEVATOR Grand Forks, N. D., Nov. 12—(>)}— Plans for erection of a storage eleva- tor here with a capacity of 1,000,000 bushels of grain were announced to- day by Judge H. A. Bronson, attorney for the Grand Forks Terminal asso- ciation, following a decision of the interstate commerce commission or- dering @ general revision of grain rates effective January 1. An elevator and conditioning plant, according to Bronson, would cost about $250,000 and steps for speedy construction are under discussion to- day. It is planned to have the plant ready for the 1931 crop. Leupp Defeats Pulles In Close Mercer Race Stanton, N. D., Nov. 12.—Paul Leupp defeated John Pulles in a close battle for Mercer county auditor in the gen- eral election last week. The vote was: Leupp 1,315, Pulles 1,249. H. O. Chilson defeated L. G. East- man 1,265 to 1,102 in another close contest, that for coroner. Other successful candidates were: Jack O. Riedel, superintendent; Otto Poschadel, sheriff; Walter Bohrer, treasurer; O. A. Schreiber, clerk of court; H. J. Giffey, register of deeds; John Moses, state’s attorney; Henry Sagehorn, judge; C. W. Kanthack, surveyor; J. E. Novak, commissioner; Winmill, assessor; and Golden Valley American, official newspaper. Scientists Find Remains of Mother Mastodon and Unborn Babe in Desert Peiping, Nov. 12.—(4)—Millions of years ago a mammoth shovel- toothed mastodon, about to be- come a mother, bogged with a herd of her kind in a mudhole in the then fertile Gobi desert. ‘Trapped in the Gobi quickstands. she and her companion masto- dons died before she could give birth to a baby mastodon. The Central Asiastic expedition headed by Dr. Roy Chapman An- drews found the bad hole and remains of the herd, among the most perfect of the skeletons be- ing that of the mother mastodon, still carrying the smaller bones of the infant pachyderm, Walter C. Granger, chief paleontologist of the expedition, removed the foetus from the rest of the skeleton, and is bringing it back with other finds to the New York museum of natural history, which now will have a ete age sees of iho shovel-toRted mastodons, technically known as platybelodon. Dr. Andrews regards the collec- tion of fossils made this year as a record result since operations were begun in 1922. Explaining the expedition’s failure to discover any trace of primitive human remains, Dr. An- drews pointed out that these have invariably been found in caves, where they have been sheltered from the wind and weather, and that Mongolia has no caves. “When men died in Mongolia milions of years ago,” he said, “they died on the plgins, in rude shelters, or under the lee of a bank. Very often predatory ani- mals must have eaten even their bones. “The mere fact that we have not yet found primitive man does not mean that he is not there somewhere. It is simply a matter of looking for a needle in a bundle of hay and we have not et found the needle,” a3 pens t in London 8 Wow0sm PROVE FATAL 10 DEPUTY SHERIFF [Cera amore] Rumored ||Claim Town Blaokemith At —— tacked Him With Heavy « Skinning Knife ONE MAN IS HELD IN JAIL Charles Fraser Is Accused of Cutting Elevator Man Dur. ing Argument One man may die and three others are suffering from wounds as the re- sult of a series of shooting and cut- ting affrays at Wing Tuesday night. The trouble today was ascribed by some of the participants to the fam- ily difficulties of John Holmes, Wing blacksmith. ‘The man whose life is feared for is George Piepkorn, Wing, a deputy sheriff, who was wounded in the per- formance of his duties as a peace officer. Between the time that Holmes car- tied his grievance in an argument with his wife into the home of Au- gust Anderson, next door, at 6 o'clock and the shooting of Holmes through the right knee at 11:30, Piepkorn and Ben McClusky, both elevator men in Wing, had been stabbed, Gus Anderson, the town harnessmaker, was shot in the right arm and Holmes was wounded by a shot fired by Grant Hubbel, one of a posse trying to restore law and order. Has 50-50 Chance Piepkorn was said to have a 50-50 chance for life. A heavy skinning knife penetrated his abdomen with such force that two left lower ribs were cut through, his intestines were perforated and the diaphragm appar ently gashed. Surgeons were pree paring to operate on him this fore noon, when the nature of his wounds could be more definitely established. All the victims are in a Bismarck hospital. ‘Was Not Drinking Affair Holmes, arrested at 1:30-last night and brought: eters by Repities Albin Hedstrom, Fred Anstrom and Coroner E. J. Gobel, is in the hospital under guard from the sheriff's office, while Charles Frazer, his stepson, is locked up in the Mandan jail, accused by Ben McClusky of stabbing him in the shoulder. A dozen Wing residents were in Bismarck today in connection with the case. Told How It Happened George Anderson, a merchant, and Dr, Thelan, of Wilton, who gave first aid at Wing, brought Plepkorn—ac- companied by his wife—McClusky and Gus Anderson to the hospital this morning about 6 o'clock. They all agree in their stories of what hap- pened. Holmes is reported to have com- Plained to callers at his shop about his stepson, Frazer, living off of him. Subsequently, the Anderson neigh (Continued on page nine) Armistice Day Fire Causes $13,000 Loss To Richardton Store (Tribune Special Service) Richardton, N. D., Nov. 12.—Fire of unknown origin destroyed the Home Store here at 1 a, m. Armistice Day. Martin Eskestrand, manager, said that the store's $16,000 stock was damaged about 85 per cent, Damage to an adjoining pool hall, owned by Anton Kline, was placed in the neigh- borhood of $1,000, In the absence of wind, firefighters had little trouble in confining the flames to the burning structures. The Properties are partly covered by in- surance, it is reported. Legionnaire Came to Death at Sanish in Undetermined Manner Stanley, N. D., Nov. 12.—(—A coroner’s jury here returned a ver- dict that Herman Winjum, 34, came to his death near Sanish on Oct. 18 in an undetermined manner. Win- jum’s body was found at the foot of a high cliff near Sanish after he had been missing for several days. Criminal charges have been filed against David Rendall, 20, and John Breslin, 21, both of Sanish, as an out- growth of Winjum’s death. They were with Winjum until a short time before he disappeared, bu‘ have de- nied knowledge as to how he met death. Breslin is charged with driving an automobile while intoxicated and with ing intoxicating liquor. Ren- dall is charged with in- toxicating li-juor. Both Breslin and Rendell waived preliminary hearing on the charges and were bound over to await trial. They are at liberty under bonds. Minnesota Priest | Tolls Bell for Aid Mendota, Minn., Nov. 12.—()—For home with buckets of wat finally drove him outside tolled the church bell unt rived. The blaze was by the St. Paul fire Damage was estimated at = 2 w