The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 26, 1930, Page 1

North Dakota's Oldest Newspaper SIOUX COUNTY MEN FACE BANK ROBBERY CHARGES SATURDAY Louis H. Connolly, Prosecutor, Is Assisted By State Senator Cain SEEK WOMAN’S ASSAILANTS Gates, McDonald Last Week Offered Alibis Tending to Prove Innocence New Senator _————— " Frank ©. Partridge, 60, Montpelier business man and lawyer, was named to fill the seat in the United States senate left vacant by the death of Frank L. Greene of Vermont. FIVEDAY WERK T0 RESTORE BUSINES BALANGE IS URGED Senator Joe Robinson Says Better Times Depend Upon. Cooperation ry #8 i z F g é , | Publican. Break Up ‘Crime and Politics’ Ring Assume Gangs Can't Be Annihilated didate for the Republican today with a platform in Which he Promised to break up it he termed = between “crime and poli- c8.” Judge Lyle, who as a jurist on the municipal court bench has gained widespread publicity by his treatment rett, chairman of the county board of tax review, and any other candidates who may enter the contest before the February primary is held. Thomp- son and Barrett already are in the race. The announcement from Judge Lyle was made without awaiting the decision of various political factio®’s which have been seeking a candidate on whom they could unite in opposi- tion to Mayor Thompson. Neither did his statement indicate whether he would seek the support of these Groups. Among political leaders with whom Thompson has broken is Ber- nard W. Snow, chairman of the Re- “ Cook county committee, Re! to erring gangsters and their bands of followers, Judge Lyle said in his statement that it was “ridiculous to assume that all these officers (Cook county), cannot sup- iy annihilate _— the:substitution of machin- Jabor is tionizing A tut tions and throwing mil- out of employment.” “Manifestly, it ts difficult to be brought crisis like the present and that it, like the pro- posed establishment of reserves for Permanent rath- than temporary character. circumstances,’ id the » “indicate that mere tempor- ‘ary measures will be insufficient. Al- though, of course, they first must be He added the $116,000,000 appropri- ‘ted by congress for speeding up pub- works “appears inadequate.” “There are some signs of general business improvement, but the recov- Fl “eB BE i i nh we 393 Be E iv agency vate must cooper- to minimize the Long term advances to municipali- ——_ ties and states to enable them to Republican Senator Under Fire|carry on pean public ees Fee Asked to Take Helm of “there are difficulties in the way New Group Leg and See DAYLIGHT ROBBERY STAGED IN MINOT Bold Bandits Loot Drugstore of More Than $4,000.00 Wednesday ry thinks I will vn’ movement.” “The Nebrasks lup ever : aT g restegt After Death of Wife = Se aa oS Rede ts el Where They Found fees eee ee er oes — i ; not| Mo. severe enough death, Dr.| The boys refused to divulge the pea a ad m3 Ipcatien tf ete vache Clayde The husband said his wife at Chapman, @ railroad station -taken a poison tablet, agent here, said bis son was one ‘home | Press and almost total them.” decided to become a candidate.” ef every public building in this city.” PAY VETERANS NOW, Meet Prevent the neces-iThe House Democratic Leader Democratic leader of the house, Rep- resentative Garner of Texas, today was championing legislation for pay- ment to veterans of the present value of their compensation ceftificates. eran option to turn in his certificate now and receive the original settle- ment value plus four per cent inter- est, or to hold it to maturity. perpe: the Saunders | Jers, Garner contended, which he said “ treasury »“No:egndidate-for mayor,” tie ‘add: ed, “can hope for the votes of the good citizens unless he defines in un- mistakable terms his position on the issue of divorcing crime from poll- tics, and unless the language of that declaration accords with his record of public service. “I have hesitated because of the work I already am doing in the effort to purge Chicago of the criminal gangs that infest the city. The may- oralty office is the one spot in Chi- cago where all the lines that touch crime and racketeering converge. With this in mind, and believing that as mayor I could promptly and completely finish the work that I have been engaged in as judge, I have The judge declared that “with a club in one hand and a gun in the other, officers should run them out GARNER IS URGING Champions Legislation Pro- viding For Scheme ‘Washington, He advocated a plan giving the vet- It would cost about a billion dol- They Found Them TWO ALREADY ENTER RACE Lyle Says It Is Ridiculous to THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Weather Mostly fair tonight and Saturday; somewhat colder Saturday. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKO’ FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1980 _Murphy Quits Stat Martineson Will Testify At Holdup He MILITANT JUSTICE +(More Than 200 Killed in BLAME PROHIBITION FOR CONGESTION IN WILL ENTER MAYOR Christmas Day Accidents BATTLE IN CHICAGO) Judge John H. Lyle Promises to Sweetheart { Chicago, Dec. 26.—(7)—A new can- mayoralty nomination, Judge John H. Lyle, mil- itant foe of gangsters, was in the race All the boys on the campus of Kan- sas State Agricultural college, at Manhattan, sing “Let Me You Sweetheart” when they see Vera Smith walk by. Vera, shown here, was recently chosen the “Kansas State Sweetheart” by the college yearbook staff, A new song, “The Sweetheart of Kansas ee has been dedicated her. HOLIDAY QUAKES IN ARGENTINA KILLED 38 AND INJURED 70 Large Cracks In Earth's’ Sur- sofage. Praved Graves, For Andean Villagers”, Salta, Argentina, Dec. 26—~7)— Thirty-three dead and more than 70 Persons injured were counted today as the toll of earthquakes over the holidays which destroyed La Poma, small Andean village. A relief expe- dition arrived in the little mountain town Christmas day after a 24-hour. méarch and found the survivors of Wednesday's quakes, terror - stricken by six rew tremors, camped among the debris of their homes. Survivors said the earthquake which Saturday knocked down the village houses and caused most of the dam- age was accompanied by a sound that commenced like distant thunder from beneath the earth’s surface. Its cre- scendo increased until at one time it sounded like the greatly amplified galloping of many horses. As the masonry fell and plaster was thrown from ceilings the inhabi- tants of the village fled to the open fields where they wandered about un- til dawn when they returned to their fallen homes, enshrouded with clouds of dust. Two huge cracks in the earth’s sur- | © “| automobiles, running in many sec- Northwest Has 17 Death Vic- tims and Many Were Critically Injured TRIO IS BURNED TO DEATH Six Members of One Family Are Killed In Crash At Lomira, Wis. , U.8, COURT SYSTEM Association Against Prohibition Amendment Publishes Statistics SCORES HOOVER ASSERTION Dry Law Cases Now Account For Two-Thirds of Federal Criminal Cases Washington, Dec. 26.—()—Upon the dry laws the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment today heaped the blame for all federal court congestion and for the entire increase in the number of federal Prisoners since 1920, A statistical pamphlet released by the association estimated the number of prohibition prisoners now in fed- eral, state and county penal institu- tions at 50,000. It contended prison and penitentiary statistics did not give a measure of the crime problem for “only @ small proportion of those convicted are given felony sentences.” It termed “an example of misinfor- mation” and assertion made last year by President Hoover that only a small Proportion of felony cases could be attributed to the eighteenth amend- ment for, it added, “88 per cent of the Prohibition violators sentenced in fed- eral courts prosecuted as misdemea- nors and not felons.” “Prohibition cases now account for two-thirds of all criminal cases in the federal courts,” said the association, adding the total last year was 56,455. The increase in civil cases with the United States participating, since 1920 ‘was set at 347 per cent but excluding Prohibition actions the gain was counted as only 117 per cent. “From 90 to 95 per cent of all the criminal convictions secured in prohi- bition cases are on pleas of guilty,” said the association,” from. eight. to ten thousand pending prohibition cases a year have been ‘nolle prossed,’ yet in spite of this wholesale weeding out of inactive cases, pending cases still number between 18,000 and 21,- ‘Two hundred or more deaths marred Christmas joys yesterday as ac- cidents took a heavy toll from coast. to coast. Fires, drownings, hunting tragedies and polsonous liquor cost lives, but tions on slippery roads, were the greatest agent of destruction, causing more than two-thirds of the deaths. In the middlewest about 80 of the fatalities were ied ge trapped lodgers in a room! ouse at Whiting, Ind., and seven men died. Gun fights claimed five lives in the south. One victim was a woman. Poison liquor wae five and 10 lives in New Yor! | In California three were believed to! have drowned when @ launch cap- sized. In Missouri two died when a bridge collapsed. Two children were fatally burned in Montgomery, Pa., when their father poured gaso- line on the kitchen fire. A man froze to death in Indiana and another in Pennsylvania. Hundreds were injured in accidents. Seventeen persons lost their lives and several others are in critical con- dition as the result of automobile ac- cidents in the Northwest during the Christmas holiday period. Of a family of five, the father, Ed- ward Roberts, Holcombe, Wis., is the sole survivor of an automobile-train crash. The mother and a three-year- old daughter were killed while two other girls, 5 and 7 years old, died in & Chippewa Falls hospital Christmas day. in-a-coliston. ef twe-machines near Barnum, three persons were burned to death after one car caught fire while the driver of the other died in & Moose Lake hospital. One was hurt tically. ate members of one family were ‘killed an an sutomobile-train acci- dent near ioc pipe A woman unidentified man were num- roid paolo the dead in accidents in 000. This brief summary x x x indi- ‘cates the whole process is futile and costly.” The pamphlet presented an esti- mate of the cost of “adequate prohi- bition enforcement” totaling $100,000, ee caesar: 000 a year with abolition of jury trials Eugene Nelson, 25, Duluth, near/in all dry law cases and $350,000,000 Barnum. with jury hearing. “Apart from war time cases, based on the espionage act and selective draft as well as prohibition,” it sald, “the increase in normal criminal cases from 1930-1929 is shown to have been only 3.9 per cent—less than half the rate of “increase in the population of the United States.” ITALIAN AIR ARMADA READY FOR LONG HOP Edith Larson, 21, near Barnum, in ew oe = lelson Min ‘Bdweed Woberts, Cada, ee George Schultz, 42, Lomira, Wis., face, which oozed hot water, were left by the quake, a number of persons cracks and disappeared. Neighboring mountains emitted smoke during the INVESTIGATE CLOSE OF NEW YORK BANK Communists and Short-Selling Brokers Suspected of Starting Run were said to have fallen into the|g, Edwin Schultz, 13. Esther amas. ® 12 Planes Set to Strike Out nee, "schultz, 72, father of Across Ocean For Natal, Brazil Mico ge eget eptane rm He ie Rea ane Nodak End to Play In East-West Tilt A University of North Dakota foot- Bolama, Portuguese Guinea, Dec. 26—(P)—A fleet of 14 Italian seaplanes coe ready for their great adven- jure, As soon as all preparations are made and weather conditions are right 12 of the planes will strike out across the open ocean for Natal, Brazil, on the first transatlantic flight of such @ large air squadron. Natal they will fly to Rio de Janeiro and possibly to Buenos Aires, The distance of about 1,800 miles is to be patrolled by a number of Ital- ian destroyers and other naval ves- sels which will be ready to race for any locality where one of the planes’ wireless may indicate the ship is Fred “Nip” Felber, end on the Nodak eleven, was chosen as ® result of his fine work against the Los Angeles Firemen Christmas day, according to an Associated Press dispatch received here. Felber is a junior at the North Da- | ‘school been a regular) The planes flew here yesterday wots Nodak varsity aquad. for two| from Villa Cisneros, Rio de Oro, The years, and was given an end berth onj take-off for Natal is not exp-cted the North Central conference honor-| until next week. ary grid team this year. Win Brockmeyer, captain of the University af Minnesota team in 1930, is to play on the western team. Start New Thriller In Today’s Tribune Past action, real thrills and a Jacob Spoer, Hebron man, who is a visitor in Bismarck today, recounts the story of just an- other one of those “miracle” acci- dents in nisin no one was hae. According to Mr. Spoer's story there is a war veteran in Hebron who has been subject to epilepsy as a result of having been gassed in the World war. It seems that last week he de- cided to drive his car to Dickin- son, deeming himself to be quite safe from an attack of his trou- ble inasmuch as he had just re- covered from an attack. Just as he was leaving Hebron, traveling at a high rate of , he was stricken with a fit that rendered him unconscious. His car, maintaining its tre- mendous speed, veered from the road, crashed through a fence and crashed head-on into the side of @ frame dwelling house, So great | ° From Hebron Man Drives Auto Through Parlor and Bedroom But No One Is Hurt | aring B. Murphy, for nine years a mem- of the state board of administra- tion and its chairman for almost sev- en years, has resigned from his post. Appointed to office March 13, 1922, he will end his tenure July 1, 1931. PROMINENT INDIANA NEWSPAPER ARTIST DIES UNEXPECTEDLY Kin Hubbard, Creator of ‘Abe Martin,’ Stricken By Heart Disease Indianapolis, Ind. Dec. 26.—)— Kin Hubbard, humorist and creator of the character “Abe Martin,” died suddenly early today; Death was attributed to heart dis- ease. Mr. Hubbard was born in Belle- fontaine, Ohio. He came to this city while a young man and entered news- Paper work here. In 1904 he created the character of “Abe Martin,’ a mythical whose habitat was the hills of Brown county, Indiana. “Abe has been a regular feature of the Indianapolis News since his cre- ation and in recent years he had ap- peared in a number of other news- pers throughout the country. Hubbard leaves his widow, Mrs. Josephine Hubbard; a son, Tom; a e Post PRICE FIVE CENTS _—_— SUCCESSOR HAS NOT BEEN NAMED YET BY GOV. GEORGE SHAFER Former Grafton Man Board of Administration Member Nine Years PLANS TO REMAIN IN WN. D. Appointed to Position March 13, 1922; Will Retire July 1, 1931 Resignation of R. B. Murphy as a {member of the state board of admin- istration was announced today by Governor George F. Shafer. |. The resignation is effective July 1, 1931, and Governor Shafer said a suc- cessor will be named at a later date. Mr. Murphy's resignation follows closely that of J. E. Davis, chairman of the board, who resigned last week and was succeeded by Nelson Sau- vain, Devils Lake. Mr. Sauvain has been elected chairman of the beard, “I have by appointment served since March 13, 1922, a record for length of service on the board of ad- ministration, and, I believe, on pre- vious governing boards of state insti- tutions,” Mr. Murphy said in a state- ment issued today. “During nearly seven years of this timeIhave carried the additional bur- den of the chairmanship. I have served under four governors—all of opposing political faith — another unique record, I believe. I feel the Physical need of a change of work. “I am proud of the development our state institutions in this period of time. Both in the matter of per- sonnel and in material equipment, our institutions rank high, and compare favorably with those of neighboring states. I sincerely hope to see this high standard of efficiency main- tained in the years ahead of us. “I intend to remain in North Da- kota, and shall continue to be interest= ed in the welfare of all our splendid institutions.” Mr, Murphy said he planned to ree main in Bismarck after he jeaves the ‘board, and that he was to Bismarck political followers. It has been an open secret ever since Governor Shafer took office that he would feel politically happler; with Murphy off the board. While Murphy and the have never clashed openly, it is known that some of the governor’s close advisers are among Murphy's bitterest enemies. Another factor has been Murphy's apparent unwillingness to accept the (Continued on page seven) daughter, Virginia; a brother, Horace K.; and’a sister, Adah Hubbard. The brother and sister both live at Belle- fontaine. He was the son of Thomas ‘and Sarah Hubbard. His father for- merly was postmaster at Bellefon- taine. His death was unexpected. He was in his office at the Indianapolis News on Christmas eve. He failed to ap- Pear at the office yesterday, however. It was the first time in many years that he had missed a Christmas day at his desk. Mr. Hubbard's full name was Frank ‘McKinney Hubbard, but he preferred the shorter name of “Kin.” He was @ close friend of Will Rogers and Chic Mr. Hubbard's death occurred at a new home he recently built here. He always was reticent as to his age and it was not until after his death that reposed on the Atlantic waters herejeven his close associates learned he| their homes. ‘was 62 years old. T Nurse Holds Dying | Mother in Her Arms Berkeley, Cal., Dec. 26.—(P}— Miss Charlotte Gay, 18-year-old student nurse, had to work Christmas day. “Another automobile accident,” @ doctor commented as a woman patient was brought to the hos- pital. “Hand me those bandages, Miss Gay.” As the nurse reached for the she looked at the pa- tient. It was her mother. An hour later Mrs. Henrietta Gay, 48, died in her daughter's arms. o was the car’s momentum that it cated from the wreckage, was unscathed although still uncon- scious, ‘When workmen later attempted to remove the automobile from the house it was found that the hole in the wall had to be en- larged to enable them to remove _ the wreck. ‘ CLUBMEN ENTERTAIN 63 BOYS AT DINNER Lions Bring: Guests to ‘Den,* Serve As Waiters At An- nual Celebration Sixty-three Bismarck boys had their fill of turkey and “trimmin’s” £6 Sieeks 0f the I Aona chin Sh name y- The clubmen took the addresses of their little guests as furnished by the Red Cross and called for them at, Between 25 and 30 members of the Lions participated in the affair and served as waiters to make sure their small charges received first-class at: tention. The boys ranged in age from. 9 to 12 years. ittonholed on the street by a club member and in- vited in to see what a real appetite could do, pera Man Sentenced for * Extortion Attempt