The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 7, 1931, Page 1

> ‘ 4. ? North. Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper THE BIS ARCK TRIBUNE The Weather Patr Tuceday night and Wednesdays continued mild temperature, Girl Bismarck Voters Slow Ae BALLOT 1 UGH ° |—_—__meyBecontroacr J PROTEST AND PRAISE a ~ {INDUCED BY RECENT ACTIVITY OF RASKOB: sentence of Year in Jail and IN EARLY HOURS; RUSH IS EXPECTED) | Candidates and Their Friends Working to Get Citizens to Polling Places WOMEN VOTE IN AFTERNOON Male Citizenry Expected to Go to Polls in Large Numbers After Business Hours Fine weather failed to bring Bis- marck voters to the polls in large p. m., however, the bulk of the bal- Jots, particularly of male citizens, was expected to be cast after the close of business and other offices for the day. ‘The vote cast up until 2 p. m. Pel of St. Paul Dispatch) (Courtesy Above is an artist's drawing of the proposed court house and city hall'to be erected in St. Paul, Minn. St. Paul, Minn., April 7.—(#)}—Ap- Members of the North Dakota state capitol commission conferred in St. Paul Monday, with the committee Lies gt ae base having charg is building and obtained ety ideas. which are sxoeciea to be valuable in the v3 a Hi ‘The suggestion frequently has,been made that the new state capitol might profitably be a building designed 3 1 100 500 with ‘an eye to both utility and beauty. This also was the aim of the.8t. Paul committee. 4 Sesh 8 86 350 ms 2 2 3 95° 258 Be i} a 3 |N.D. CAPITOL GROUP TO SAVE TIME ££ BB IMOMALL BOY SHOT [srs seme IGHT OF FAMILY eee i. 385 Three Months by.Confer- seas ia 4) DEAD ACCIDENTALLY) = mssr™ | BURNED TO DEAT proximately three months effort will Billy Willey, Eight, Is Victim of} be saved in: the construction . of « Revolver Bullet Fired by | North Dakota state capitol, members Brother of the capitol commission from that — state said Monday after conferring with the advisory committee in charge of the construction of the Ramsey county courthouse here. ‘The three members of the North Dakota commission are George A. Bangs, Grand Forks, chairman; Fred L. Conklin, Bismarck, and Adjutant General G. A. Fraser, Fargo. went over plans for the St. building Budd and Ral Charles » Members of the advis- ory committee, and C. P. Herbert, ,. in Log Cabin Inferno; One form of government but _Son Survives commission some held their biennial last 7 Voters in those North Dakota cities ‘villages and towns which. retain the councilmanic { form of (Continued on page nine) FUNCHAL IN HANDS OF PORTUGUESE REBELS Expeditionary Force May Have Difficulty Landing on Ma- deira Island Mohall, ‘N. D., April 7.—(®)—1 Willey, eight-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs, Peter Willey, farmers. 16 miles northwest of here, died in a Minot hospital early Tuesday of a bullet wound accidentally inflicted Monday by his brother Thomas, 21. “The older Willey youth was hunting gophers with a-revolver when Billy, who had been sent to call him to supper, suddenly thrust his head through a group of bushes, in direct line of bis brother's fire. The shot entered the lad’s temple. The father was James White, 59. 8 Pry ge 'y Paul ie thef ie Lisbon, Portugal, April 7.—(#)—The test is being exercised over all information coming from Funchal, » which is in the hands of a rebel military junta. ‘A message from Funchal Tuesday from the British consul to the foreign minister, sald Complete order reigned there, that all shops were open and business activity going on normally. expeditionary force headed esday for Funchal may have to fight bitterly in order to land on the dad. ation anywhere but at, Pun- little use, the South Bend, Ind., April 7.—()}— The will of Knute Rockne, drawn Wart 4. 102% was to Be Biaiiip. bro- SOLONS’ COMMITTEE ———— fine building Mayor Hopes to Prepare Formal Defense Before Legislators Get to Work 2 . Its. value will not be deter- mined until inventory is taken later. SCORE RUNS HIGH sf agi | A af ghtEGe i an TH He ig i i I i : : a : i i | Fy FF ee Michael to Be Apprentice, Not Prince, ry ele i a ete He ve fi ber) He 2 ps Father and Seven Children Die| tems,” no matter how vexing. ema party prerogat Gallipolis, Ohio, April 7.—()—A| said, should be left to national con- burned to, death early Tuesday when fire destroyed their log cabin home on Swan creek, 10 miles from here. Knute Rockne Will BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1931 PRICE FIVE. CENTS , Struck by Truck Her Southern Dry Leaders Redouble Efforts to Balk His Home Rule Plan CONDEMNED FOR ‘DICTATING’ Arkansas Committeeman and Louisiana Committeewom- an Favor Proposal Washington, April 7.—()—Protest, praise and discord Monday followed Chairman Raskob’s prohibition poll of Democratic national committee- men. ‘What would happen was problem- atical. A number of southern dry leaders however, redoubled efforts to forestall convention approval of the national committee chariman’s home jfule plan. Others saw his proposition ‘as a solution to prohibition questions, Kelly Does Not Fear Party Split Grand Forks, N. D., April 7— (®)—J. Nelson Kelly, Grand Forks, Democratic national com- mitteeman for North Dakota, Monday expressed the opinion that no danger of a split in the party ranks exists as a result of Chairman Raskob’s plea for a clear stand on prohibition and his proposal that liquor control be left to the states. “There is no reason for think- ing the south has gone wild over Mr. Raskob's views,” Mr. Kelly said. “A few people in the north as well as the south will refuse to be reconciled to a change in the liquor laws, but I think the perrentage is not large enough to “imperil, the party's unity.” while at least one committeeman urged the party commit itself to a teferendum on the 18th amendment. pies, interpreted the poll as an effort to make prohibition a “paramount is- sue, which automatically would, for an indefinite numbers of years, ex- clude serious or deliberate consider- ation of all other issues and prob- Another outstanding southern dry leader, former Governor Byrd of Vir- ginia, reiterated his pelief the na- tional committee should not establish policies. ‘ That tive, he Reason Chairman Raskob had attempted to anticipate this objection in his letter to committeemen. He said the last national convention instructed the tion.” His proposals, and the poll, he said,.were in line with that direction. But Mrs. Charles J. Sharp, national committeewoman for Alebama, as- (Continued on page nine) King George Said Bronchitis Victim Windsor, Eng., April 7.—(?)—Eng- land got something of a shock at noon Tuesday. when it was learned from the issuance of an official statement that*King George V, who the country believed was only suffering from a slight cold, actually was a victim of bronchitis. The statement: said the attack was of a “sub-acute” nature, and that the patient was progressing satisfactorily, though slowly. ‘The statement was not issued in the bulletin form sed in the case of seri- ous iliness and was not signed by any doctor, but was, nevertheless, an offi- cial announcement. : Dr. Henry Martin, one of the king's , has been at Wiiidsor cas- While He Is Learning to Be Mechanic self. “He is an apprentice and not 8-prince while with you and serve himself, ap al gs = & Fine of $100,000 Affirmed Monday by Court MAINTAINS HE’S INNOCENT Counsel Would Delay for 45 Days Time Former Secretary Must Go to Jail Three Rivers, N. M., April 7.—()— Albert B. Fall, former secretary of the interior, was’ debating Tuesday the advisability of appealing from a de- cision of the District of Columbia court of appeals affirming his con- viction of taking a bribe in the Cali- fornia naval oil lease transaction with Edward L. Doheny. Mr. Fall said it was “remotely pos- sible” but not probable he would ap- peal to the supreme court. He said his decision would wait until he re- ceived a copy of the court's action. He awaited it at his Tres Rios ranch home. ‘The apellate court upheld the sen- tence of one year imprisonment and $100,000 fine against Fall, who served in the cabinet of President Harding. “I am a poor man,” he said, “and Ihave no money for further legal defense. Certainly I cannot pay the heavy fine.” “I am an old man, and ‘for the last eight years I have known little but trouble. In many respects the de- cision is a welcome relief, for the weight of suspense has been heavy.” “I am not guilty,” he said, “and the great masses of people who put me in positions of trust long before I became secretary of the interior do not believe me guilty.” ASK THAT START OF TERM BE DELAYED Washington, April 7—(?)—A _deci- sion to file a stay, extending for 30 days thie time-of-invoking the court mandate which might send Albert B. Fall to prison for a year, was an- nounced Tuesday at the office of Frank J. Hogan, counsel for the for- mer interior secretary. The District of Columbia court of appeals Monday affirmed the decision’ of a lower court, which sentenced Fall to a year in jail and a fine of $100,000 for accepting a bribe from Edward L. Doheny, oil operator, for signing a lease on the naval oil reserve at Elk) Hills, Calif. Hogan called his office from Europe, suggesting the stay. Since 15 days is allowed before the mandate to send Fall to jail is invoked, the stay would give him 45 days more of certain free- dom. DEATH PENALTY IS BEATEN IN MICHIAGN Proposal Backed by Governor Wilber M. Brucker Defeated Overwhelmingly Detroit, April 7—(P)—A proposal backed by Governor Wilber M. Bruck- er to reestablish the death penalty for murder in Michigan was defeated overwhelmingly in Monday's spring election. ‘The death penalty was abolished in the state 84 years ago, with life im- prisonment remaining as the most severe punishment for murder. There has not been an execution in the commonwealth for 100 years. Treason is the only offense punishable by death. The proposal that an electric chair be set up in the state prison at Jatk- son was defeated in a statewide ref- erendum by. a majority which prob- ably will reach 55,000. With 1,771 precincts out’ of 3,407 reported, the _— was: For 138,573; against 163,- In contests for state office, Repub- lican candidates won over their Dem- ocratic opponents by large majorities. Hoover May Not Fergus Falls, Minn., April The possibility that President Hoover would spend his summer vacation in Be escent appeared remote Tues- Lawrence Richey, secretary to’ the president, has written ‘the Fergus Kiwanis club that “it dces not 91-Year-Old Resident Of Wimbledon Is Dead Visit Minnesota th 1.—(P)—- | basin. | Siam’s Royal Pair ‘ ! Welcomed in Japan | Tokyo, April 7.—(7)—Twenty- one guns boomed a salute of wel- come Tuesday to the king and queen of Siam when they arrived United States, whence the king will consult an eye the railway station waving Siam- ese and Japanese flags. RECORD MAYORALTY VOTE EXPECTED AS CHICAGOANS BALLOT Estimate 1,250,000 Would Reg- ister Choice Between Thomp- son and Cermak Chicago, April 7.—(?)—Unpreced- ented numbers of early voters, quiet- ly registering their voice between Wil- lam Hale Thompson and Anton J. Cermak for mayor, presaged the larg- est mayoralty vote in Chicago's history Tuesday. ny, and the thousands who filed through the booths in the first few hours caused election officials to re- vise their estimate and predict a total of 1,250,000, a quarter of a million more than in the last election. For the most part the balloting was as quiet as it was heavy. There were some disorders, mostly personal fights between election judges, fights that were halted quickly by police. Election ‘officials removed the en- tire staff.of judges and clerks at the 16th precinct in the 27th ward and replaced them because of charges of fraud. In this district, reported to have a large “floating” population, no suspect notices had been filed by the judges. Attorneys for the election commis- sion said the books in this precinct. revealed many persons had voted twice, that many who had voted in the primary had never registered and that many dead persons were listed as having voted. The precinct of- ficials were dismissed after it was found they were guilty of negligence but not of criminal intent. In the presidential election of 1928 the total Chicago vote was 1,313,680, but the highest ever cast in a mayor- alty contest was 999,741 in 1927. The present registration is 1,412,135. The extensive organization work that had been noticeable throughout the campaign continued up to the very end. Thompson’s Republican followers and the Democratic organ- ization backing Cermak had watch- ers, workers and advertisers at every (Continued on page six) ASKING SERIES OF DAMS IN MISSOURI Montana Farmers Gather to Consider Steps in Secur- ing Irrigation Three Forks, Mont., April 71—(?)— Representatives of commercial or- ganizations and farmers assembled here Tuesday to consider steps to- ward securing construction of a series of dams in five southwestern Mon- tana counties for flood control and irrigation purposes. The meeting is 000 acres of land could be with the water.. Tt was an ideal day, warm and sun-|"" Dies in Going to Polls Fall Probably Will N ot ‘Continue F ight Automobile Was Driven by Ed- CAROLINE HAIDER Is PATALLY INJURED IN FORENOON ACCIDENT ward Tibesar, 18, a Friend of Victim POLICE INVESTIGATE AFFAIR Eye-Witnesses Say Car Was Not Going Fast and Girl Be- came Confused A motor truck which she saw a moment too late claimed the life of Caroline Haider, 17-year-old St. An- thony girl, in Bismarck Tuesday fore- noon. Miss Haider died in a hospital shortly before noon after she had suf- fered a severe fracture of the skull when struck by the machine at the intersection of Thayer avenue and Tenth street at 8:55 a. m. Tuesday. She was taken to St. Alexius hos- pital immediately after the mishap and was given medical attention. She failed to regain consciousness before her death. ‘The girl, a junior in St. Mary’s high school, was struck by a truck driven by Edward Tibesar, 18, son of Louis Tibesar, local machine shop operator. Chief of Police Chris Martineson said Tuesday morning that two stu- dents at St. Mary's school, witnesses to the accident, said the driver was not driving at an excessive rate of speed. An official version of the tragedy cannot be obtained until a See interrogation of eye-witnesses Say Girl Was Confused One story is that the girl became confused when she saw the oncoming vehicle and attempted to run back to the curb only to be struck before she could reach it. According to the statement of a friend, the Haider girl and the driver of the car were close personal friends, Police Tuesday began an investi- ation of the case and indicated that they would make public their find- ings Wednesday. They are having the brakes of the truck tested by me- chanics, The girl was carried to the hospi- tal by Tibesar and two St. Mary's School boys immediately after the ac- cident. _ A report that she had died immed- iately after being taken to the hospi- tal was erroneous. The girl made her home here with «Continued on page six) FLOGGING ACTIVITY IN FLORIDA PROBED Authorities Believe Professional Whippers Are Working in District St. Petersburg, Fla., April 7—()— The police theory that expert whip- Ping for a few was being carried on in this area by a band of profession- al floggers was strengthened Monday by the beating of Owen Jackson, a barber, ast week six were atrested for a flogging in this (Pinellas) and Holls- brough counties. Jackson's flogging, it was revealed Monday night, took Place Friday night by a gang that abducted him to a place in Hernando county, beat him, and gave him “10 Gays to leave town.” Jackson declined to give some de- tails of the whipping and officers said they had not learned why he had been beaten. He told them he was whipped with a strap or belt by four men and afterward walked 14 here. A two-county investigation is un- der way into the flogging about two years ago of a Tarpon 8} and about a month tersburg man: Minnesota Farmer Is Burned to Death iprings man, ago of a St. Pe- -