The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 30, 1931, Page 1

North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Weather Fair and warmer Saturday night; Sunday partly cloudy, warmer. ESTABLISHED 1873 Cit Rain Delays Start of Famous Automobile Race CROWD ESTIMATED AT 140,000 READY TO VIEW SPECTACLE Billy Arnold, Who Jumped to Fame Last Year, Was Fa- vored to Repeat Victory OTHERS ARE CONTENDERS) Prize Money Totaling $100,000 Lures Drivers to Stage Duel With Death indianapolis Motor Speedway, In-/| tiianapolis, Ind, May 30.—()—Start | of the 500 mile automobile race scheduled for 10 a. m. was delayed due to rain. H A crowd estimated at 140,000 was on hand when the downpourn caused officials to postpone the race, at least} temporarily. It was deemed unwise to start the 300-mile grind over the 21 mile brick track made slippery by the rain. Billy Arnold, 29-year-old Chicagoan who jumped from obscurity to win the American speed championship a year ago, remained a heavy favorite | to repeat his triumph. Arnold will| drive an eight-cylinder front-drive car, using the same machine with which he captured the 1930 classic. While Arnold was favored as strongly as any one driver can be; favored in the gruelling five-hour | speed classic, there were others who; loomed as dangerous challengers. ished second last year; and Russell | Snowberger of Philadelphia. Meyer and Cantlon each will drive 16-cyl- inder cars with Snowberger driving an eight-cylinder stock car. The toal of prize money is $100,000 of which $50,000 will go to the tri- umphant driver, The speedway man- agement has offered $20,000 as first prize but $30,000 will be added to this in the form of bonuses from manu- facturers. of automobile tires and other tire accessories. The second prize wil Ibe $10,000, with $5,000 for third, $3,500 for fourth and $3,00 for | fifth. Ten drivers will share in the rize money. Pine field is rated as the fastest | ever to compete in the American mo- tor classic. TRAINMEN AGREE T0 DIVIDE WORK Would Share Available Labor With Unemployed Members; 11,000 to Be Affected Houston, Tex., May 30.—(?)—The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen today had agreed on a reduction in the members’ working hours, express- ing the belief it would furnish em=| ployment to approximately 11,000 men now out of work. | President A. F. Whitney said the reduction would take effect as soon as the Brotherhood chairmen for the various railways returned home from the national convention and confer- red with rail executives. Under this procedure, he said, the time would be about 30 days distant. tion of the resolution last night. It is equivalent to an order to all mem- bers. By its provisions members in yard service would be limited to 26 days or 200 hours a month. Members in freight service would be limited! to 3,500 miles, or the equivalent monthly, and members in passenger service to 5,500 miles. Whitney estimated the number of men to be thus reemployed at 10,850. At the beginning of the convention about three weeks ago, it was an- nounced that 41,000 members of the Brotherhood were out of work. Slayer Smiles at Sentence of Death Chicago, May 30.—()—Twenty- nine days after slaying Traffic Offi- cer Anthony Ruthy in crowded Michigan avenue, Carl Carlson, alias Frank Jordan, Rock Island, Il., was convicted last night and sentenced to die in the electric chair. Carlson, who also fatally wounded Policeman Patrick Durkin, grinned when the jury. returned its verdict. He was still grinning as he was led out of the courtroom. Group Seeks Action On Waterway to Sea; Fort William, Ont., May 30.—(>)—' Copies of a resolution asking immed- iate appointment of a commission to draft a Great Lakes-St. Lawrence deep waterway treaty between the! United States and Canada were ad-| dressed today to heads of the respec- tive governments. The resolution was adopted last night in the closing session of the on-to-the-sea convention Biraasijar by delegates representing mid-west com- munities on both sides of the border.) jtempted to kiss when the jury was {screamed. The BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1931 y Honors | PRICE FIVE CENTS ts ’ [A Memorial of His Own Making] PRESIDENT ASSERTS | A WREATH OF HALLOWED MEMORIES AWAITS MANDATORY SENTENCE 10 DEATH Riot Occurs in Court room as Policeman Shouts ‘He's Got My Gun’ Mineola, N. Y., May 30.—()—Fran- cis Crowley, 19, convicted of murder- ing a Long Island policeman, today was in jail, awaiting mandatory sen- tence Monday to the electric chair. District Attorney Edwards posted a strong guard at the jail because of excitement in the courtroom when police, fearing the 103-pound killer was trying to escape, pummelled him after the jury returned its verdict vertenay. Policeman pulled him a from his foster mother, whom Re at- dismissed. He was handcuffed to a deputy sheriff at the time. Crowley, angered by the treatment, lunged at the policeman. Mrs. Crowley and her daughter guard, thinking Crowley's hand was against his pistol, yelled, “He's got my gun.” A dozen Policemen who had been guarding the door and windows rushed to the spot. Crowley was thrown to the floor and beaten. Finally the deputy sheriff insisted the policemen leave Crowley in his care. Judge Smith had gone! to his chambers when the excite-' ment started. Crowley, still chewing gum, was led away to the Nassau county jail through a subterranean passage. An extra guard was ordered immediately, to remain until Crowley is removed to, nounced Monday. Execution will await review of the case by the court| of appeals. i The jury which tried Crowley was impaneled Tuesday and testimony, was completed yesterday. The jury| was out 25 minutes. H Crowley was captured in a Manhat-| tan apartment house after 150 police- | men ised machine guns and tear gas| in a siege. He shot Patrolman Fred-| erick Hirsch of Nassau county, in North Merrick, three weeks sgo,|coaches on their sides, leaving the | fused, hesitated. ‘Two shots rang out. when the patrolman was investigat-| ing his parked car. | ‘With Crowley, when arrested, were Helen Walsh, his 16-year-old sweet- heart, who testified against him, and} Rudolph Duringr, Ossining truck driver, now on trial in the Bronx for the murder of Virginia Brannen, dance hall hostess. Miss Walsh was in the parked car with Crowley. These were Louie Meyer, Los Angeles, | Tats cat srt NEW YORK SLAYER |Two North Dakotans Killed in Accidents Youth Meets Death When Oil ¥Truck-Upsets; Child Crushed“ Under Auto's Wheels, Two North Dakota residents were killed in automobile accidents Friday, according to Associated Press dis- patches. Clarence Allen, 21, son of Mrs. I. E. Allen, Churchs Ferry, was killed near Churchs Ferry last night. He was riding in an oil truck, driv- en by Ben Olson of Churchs Ferry, and was crushed when the truck tip- Ped over. Raymond, two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Melcher, died Friday from injuries received when he was run over by an automobile in the yard of the Melcher residence near Wildrose. The auto, driven by Allen Swan- son, Alamo, was backing up when the child umexpectedly came into its Path. FARMERS SAY THREE STORMS HIT TRAIN Saw ‘Funnels’ Converge, Then Swoop Down on Luckless ‘Empire Builder’ (ONE DEAD, ANOTHER [INJURED AS BANDITS | RAID POKER SESSION | Victim Killed by Quick-Shooting Minnesota Bandit When He Fails to Raise Hands Lake Park, Minn., May 30—?)— Failure to raise his hands quickly cost | one man his life here early today and; resulted in thé wounding of the town; constable, as the climax of a poker game robbery. Helmer Anderson, 35, Audubon, ; was killed when he walked in on the, holdup which netted two bandits $500 and Severt Ebeltoft, 55, town constable, was shot through the shoulder when he came running to; see what the shooting was about. | The two masked men dashed out of | town unmolested after they had dropped the town’s lone police of- ficer. No trace of them had been found. Twelve men were sitting around) two tables in the local cream sta- tion. They suddenly were confront- ed by two masked men. All were| (are born new insights, new sympath- lined up against the wals. | Then the taller of the two men took; the revolver from his companion and) with a gun in each hand covered the; victims while the shorter bandit first} ,.N. D. May 30—()—Three | Hi ‘The president announced the adop-|Sing “Sing after sentence is’ grec| tornmioes are believed to have eon-|t2OK the money, amounting to about; verged on the 12-coach Empire Build- er, flung from the rails five miles southeast of Moorhead, Wednesday, Great Northern officials said here. Interviews with farmers for 10; miles in all directions are believed confirmatory of the triple-tornado phase. Several storm eye-witnesses asserted they saw the three “funnels” come together, bounce over the prairie from the Red river east to the right-of-way, dip and toss the locomotive undamaged on the rails. The body of Andrew Anderson, un- employed laborer from Montesano, Wash., crushed to desth in the wreck, was sent to his mother at Brooklyn, N. Y., yesterday. Twenty passengers injured in the wreck remain in Fargo and Moor- head hospitals. All were reported in good condition. Texas Guinan and 30 Broadway Blondes Are Barred From France Paris, May 30.—/)—Texas Guinan and her “gang” of 30 Broadway blon- des cannot enter France for business or for pleasure. } ‘The director of the surete generale, responsible for policing France, told the Associated Press today that the French government had refused ad- mission to the American night club) hostess and that the decision was final. Officials of the French Line tele-; phoned from Havre that they had! received instructions from the gov-/ ernment to send the party and its: white horse back to the United! States on the first boat. They will, probably sail on the liner Paris Wed- nesday for New York. Le Guinan and her “pals” will be; allowed to remain in the water-tront! emigrant hotel in which they were quartered last night. She said yes- terday she might take the girls on a world tour to broaden their viewpoint or to some port on the Mediterranean. ‘The official reason given was that the party left New York with tourist passports which specified the period for which they could remain, whereas, in order to work, they should have 'been given special visaes by the! French consulate general. Tt. was understood also in official circles that information telling of gay parties aboard the Paris on the trip across the Atlantic had reached the police. ‘These stories and reports that ‘the British government had re-, fused them entrance, were believed on good authority to have entered into the decision. $150, from the tables and then; searched every man. This netted $350/ more. i Just as the robbers finished the; job, Anderson, who was killed, and/ Hjalmer Beaver, 32, walked in the) back door. The bandit with the guns stepped into the doorway of the room 50 he could command a view of both) {the hallway and the poker room. “Put up your hands,” he shouted: jto Anderson and Beaver. Beaver} |complied instantly. Anderson, con- | Anderson dropped dead with a bul-/ fet through his neck and another through his abdomen. 2 “Come on, let’s go!” said the gun-| man to his accomplice who was stuff-| ing the money into his pockets. ‘They dashed out the rear door. Meanwhile, Constable Enbeltoft, about a blogk away, heard the shots. He ran up alley and was about 20 feet away when the banfiits left the Ebeltoft has not been able to talk but some of the victims assert they heard him order the robbers to halt. There was @ shot and the constable fell to the ground. Sheriff H. L. Johnston, Detroit Lakes, was here to take charge of the bandit hunt. He expressed belief the robbery was committed by men who had played in the pokeregame which, he said, had been conducted for some time. | Unfavorable Winds Postpone Ash Flight |_ Samushiro, Japan, May 30.—(7)— | Unfavorable winds caused Thomas Ash, Jr., to postpone his takeoff to- flight across the Pacific, but after consulting villagers he tentatively de- cided to start between 4 and 6 o'clock row morning (2 to 4 p. m., Sat- urday, eastern standard time), % COUNTRY IS FACING NEW VALLEY FORGE Says Depressions Bring Trial! to Nation; Asks Coopera- tion of Everyone Valley Forge, Pa., May 30.—(?)— President Hoover Saturday portrayed @ United States in the midst of an- other Valley Forge of depression which can be overcome only through the “inventiveness, the resourceful- ness, the initiative of everyone of us.” On the ground where George Wash- ington and his men suffered bitter) privations in‘ the winter of 1777-78, the president said, in a Memorial day | address: “The American people are going through another Valley Forge at this time. To each and every one of us it is an hour of unusual stress and trial. You have each one your spe- cial cause of anxiety.” But he expressed the conviction that no one who reviews the past “can doubt that this, like a score of similar experiences in our history, is but a passing trial.” Warns Against Panacea He warned, however, against the “rosy path to every panacea” as a way out of depression and scouted the claim that “the source of all wisdom is in the government.” The revolution, of which Valley Forge “was the darkest but perhaps the most glorious moment,” was fought not alone for national inde- pendence, he said, but also to retain for the individual an independence from “the deadening restraints of government.” “We are still fighting this war of independence,” he asserted. “. . . we know that the source of wisdom is in the people; that the people can win anew the victory.” Out o fthe Valley Forges of indi- vidual and national careers, he said, jes, new powers and new skill. “Sirens still sing the song of the easy way for the moment of diffi- culty,” the president, said, “but the cOmmon sense of the common man,| the inherited tradition of an inde- Pendent and self-reliant race, the his- torical memories of Americans who glory in Valley Forge even as they glory in Yorktown—all these tell us the truth for which our ancestors fought and suffered, the truth which echoes upward from this soil of blood and tears, that the way to the na- tion's greatness is the path of self | reliance, independence, and stead- fastness in times of trial and stress.” He attacked as “specious” what he {termed “the alluring substitute” of | government assistance found in the belief that “everybody collectively owes each of us a living rather than an opportunity to earn a living.” Seen As Moral Victory ‘The victory won at Valley Forge he | saw as a moral one which kept alive the spark of liberty in the lowest hours of the revolution. “Without such victories,” he ex- claimed, “the life of man would de- scend to sheer materialism.” Lacking tite inspiration of such ac- tion, he said, mankind could claim, “no distinction higher than the beasts of the field, that sing no songs, dream no dreams, inspire no hope and grasp | no faith.” | He said that if the nation meets its present trouble with the same firmness and far-sightedness as did Washington and his men, it will mean that the people of today have written the introduction to “a yet more glor- ious epoch in our nation’s progress.” “If, by tne grace of God, we stand steadfast in our great traditions through this time of stress, we shall insure that we and our sons and daughters shall see these fruits in- creased many fold.” Halvorson to Head | Northwest Lawyers! Minot, N. D., May 30.—(?)—Halvor |L. Halvorson, Minot, representative in. the North Dakota legislature, is the newly elected president of the North- west District Bar association, which held its annual convention in Minot Friday afternoon and evening. He succeeds to the office. which has been held by Judge John H. Lewis, also elected as secretary and treasurer, re- spectively. 400 Persons Afloat In Open Life Boats early Saturday, said all her 400 pas- sengers had been put out in life boats, but that the boats had been ordered not to land because of the danger of craft had sent out an SOS. Harvard, a vessel of about 800 day on a projected non-stop solo| recent j capital today paid another tribute to | seilles, the graves of the war dead of .| women who made the sign of the Air Armada Looks for No Diffi- culty Despite Threat of Rain in East HOOVER AT VALLEY FORGE) Thousands Attend Religious and Public Celebrations at Washington Washington, May 30.—(#)—The the soldier dead. Despite a threat of afternoon rains here as throughout the east and in the middle west, the army's air armada looked for no unusual diffi- | culty as it tlew overhead while thou- sands joined in the Memorial Day observance at Arlington cemetery. Band and bugle corps were assem- bled to swing through the capital while officials honored heroes great in peace as in war. With President Hoover speaking at Valley Forge and Vice President Curtis at Gettysburg, to other government leaders went the privilege of decorating the resting Places of Woodrow Wilson, Admiral Dewey, Major Peter Charles L'En- fant, who laid out the Capital City; and James Hogan, designer of the white house. At the National cemetery on the Potomac river 22 veterans’ organiza- tions memorialized the soldiers of all the nation’s wars. Ten thousand flags, placed ny Boy Scouts yesterday, waved over the graves in Arlington. ‘There James A Drain, a former na- tional commander of the American Legion, and Representative Royal C. Johnson of South Dakota, chairman of the last nouse veterans’ committee, were invited to speak. Throtgh auiet streets thousands moved to religious and public celebra- tions set for almost every hour of the day. Along residential Sixteenth street, they walked under an avenue of trees, each planted’ in memory of @ soldier who died in the World war. Wreaths brightened the small con- crete markers bearing bronze tablets with the names of the dead. Secretary Doak was selected as speaker at an afternoon celebration at the battle ground National ceme- tery and Senator Brookhart of Iowa, was ready to lead observances in the cemetery of the old soldiers’ home. Spanish and Indian war veterans Joined World war survivors for a par- ade up Pennsylvania avenue and through ‘he business section. At the tomb of the unknown soldier Greco-Americans joined in a tribute. C. Simopoulos, minister of Greece, was among the representatives of the American Hellenic Educational Pro- gressive association who presented a bronze memorial tablet for the white Sepulchre. DECORATE GRAVES IN FRENCH CEMETERIES Paris, May 30.—(?)—From the im- posing cemetery of Romagne-Sous- Montfaucon, where sleep nearly 15,000 former wearers of the olive drab and forest green, to the humble and iso- lated tombs of the blue-denimed stevedores near Bordeaux and Mar- the American expeditionary force throughout France today were decked with flowers and flags. At the same time the last resting Places of four veterans of the Civil war, “Uncle Abe's” bluejackets of the U. S. 8. Kearsage, killed in action off the French coast in June of 1864 after @ memorable contest with the Con- federate raider Alabama, were sim- ilarly decorated near Cherbourg. Consul Samuel H. Wiley of North Carolina, one of the former Confed- erate states, performed this act of homage on behalf of the nation. At the five war-front cemeteries— Aisne-Marne, Meuse, Argonne, Oise- Aisne, Saint-Mihiel, and Somme—Old Glory was run up on the flag-staff at daybreak. Then followed, a minute and careful decoration of each indi- vidual plot with a palm wreath and bouquet of poppies. At 11 o'clock in the forenoon, corresponding to the signing of the Armistice on November | 11, 1918, the memorial services began. A British airplane route running the length of Africa from Cairo to Cape Town, 5,750 miles apart, is scheduled to commence operation Rouen, France, May 30.—(?)—In honor of St. Joan of Arc, the girl in her teens who liberated fifteenth cen- tury France, and who was burned at the stake for heresy, the high clergy of the Catholic church and the lead- ing civic and military authorities of France today united in a pious pro- cession of atonement. For the first time in a quarter of a century, since the separation of church and state in this country, 60 ranking prelates, each -by two Canons, trod their solemn way through the streets of Rouen in full; ecclesiastical regalia, before crowds of men who bared their heads, and cross. After them came the representa- tives of the central government, the . | aunictpality, , the “constituted 18 cope” Capital H onors | Nation’s Heroes (CLARA BOW SURFERS ‘SNAKEBITE VICTIN. French Prelates and Officials Join Peasants in Honoring Saint haere pore | IF Collapses | pia i earner kal : : | CLARA BOW | NERVOUS COLLAPSE; | CAREER NEARS END Film Executive Says Retirement Is Contingent Upon Re- lease From Contract Los Angeles, May 30.—(?)—Clara | Bow is in a Glendale hospital recov- | ering from a nervous collapse. { SAYS NOTED ACTRESS MAY LEAVE MOVIES Denver, Culo., May 30.—(7)—B. P. Schulberg, production manager for | Paramount pictures, has expressed, the opinion that the screen career of Clara Bow is nearing termination with her immediate retirement con- tingent upon her release from a con- tract with Paramount. The executive, who discovered the actress, revealed last night that she had informed Paramount executives of a desire to quit the movies and that her request to be released from her contract was under advisement. Schulberg was here for a conference with New York executives of the com- pany. “There js no question the girl, for two years, in my opinion, the great- est actress on the screen, is in poor Physical condition and there is a big chance she will never make another Picture,” Schulberg said. Schulberg said that behind Miss Bow’'s collapse was a series of diffi- culties, climaxed by the trial of Daisy De Bee, her former secretary, on charges oi grand theft. “It was one of the most tragic things I ever witnessed,” Schulberg said, dis- cussing the hearing. “Why, it actual- ly developed into a trial of Olara Bow.” HAS LEFT HOSPITAL, Breien Farmer Recovers From) ‘Rattler's’ Venom in Less Than a Week oldier Dead VETERANS OF TWO WARS MARCH SIDE BY SIDE IN PARADE Steve Welch, Lone Civil War Veteran, Is Guest of Honor; Rides in Auto THRONGS LINE SIDEWALKS Christianson Lauds Nation's Heroes in Speech at Audi- torium Ceremony Bismarck today paid tribute to its soldier dead. Hundreds lined the streets to watch the Memorial Day parade as’ unit after unit swung by to the strains of martial music. Veterans of two wars walked with measured step in memory of com- rades who one day walked with fear- less tread to a rendevous with death. The last surviving Bismarck Civil |War veteran, Steve Welch, 92, unable to walk in the parade, rode in an automobile. Bog Scout and greying veteran marched side by side, the warrior of yesteryear with the soldier of tomor- row. Under a mantle of flowers, placed on their graves by reverent hands, lies the shadowy legion of those who once served their country and who have now passed into the great be- yond. A detachment of national guardsmen will fire a salute over their graves this afternoon as a trumpeter sounds “taps.” In all history no other nation has conceived a memorial day based on the same principals as this American national holiday, Judge A. M. Christ- janson told a throng that packed the municipal auditorium at public cere- monies in honor of the soldier dead. Other nations have set aside days in which to celebrate either the be- beginning or the successful conclu- sion of some war, the judge stated, but no other nation has conceived @ memorial day in which the ideal of love and tolerance was set. up as aus hatred and intolerence. “Memorial day is a li testimo- nial of the inherent sical igrenanael of the American people; he asserted, Analyzes War Motives In analyzing what had motivated the American people in going to war, the speaker took for his authority Presidents Washington, Lincoln and Wilson. He said that in the last an« alysis Americans had been asked to take up arms for only one cause, the Preservation of the national consti- tution and American free institutions. There are voices today which are lifted against the efficacy of free in- stitutions, the judge said, and many are advocating the establishment of dictaterships as a solution of eco- nomic problems. He stated that in (Continued on page eleven) MAKE FINAL PLANS FOR AIR INAUGURAL {All Citizens Invited to Attend Dinner Which Marks Open- ing of Airmail Service Announcement of final plans cele- brating the opening of the Bismarck- Fargo leg of the new airmail service which will start Tuesday was made Saturday by H. P. Goddard, secretary. of the Bismarck Association of Com- merce. A joint luncheon, to be attended by all service clubs in Bismarck, will be Apparently none the worse for his | experience, John J. Weisz, Breien, vic- | tim of a rattlesnake's venom, was dis- | charged from a local hospital Friday. Weisz, who says that he has been killing rattlers for 20 years by pick- ing them up by the tails and snaping { their heads off with a flick of the; wrist, was brought to Bismarck Sun- day after having been bitten by @ diamond-backed rattlesnake. Local physicians injected anti venom serum into the patient and he was released in less than a week's time After having been bitten, Weisz was forced to ride horseback for more than two miles before he could pro- cure an automobile to bring him to Bismarck. Three tourniquets which he placed on his arm prevented the spread of the poison, physicians said. such as the inagistrates, generals, ad- mirals, mayors of nearby townships, and patriotic societies. Six Cardinals, in “Cappa Magna” | or ceremonial capes, led the line of march, Asa crowning touch came the Pope's own legate, Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster and pri- mate of British Catholicism. After speeches by the mayor of Rouen, and other dignitaries the pro- cession wended its way to the Boiel- dieu bridge by the side of the Seine. Great bouquets of the May flowers of Normandy were reverently thrown into the river—the grave of the martyred maid—to atone for the scattering of her ashes by the execu- went twilight, the “sacred flame” be Al t, the “sat ” be- low Joan’s moenumen* was rekindled: by Rouen school children. rk, jheld at 12:15 at the community din- ing room in the new World Memorial building in honor of prominent of- ficials who will attend the inaugura- tion of the service. About 150 are expected to attend. A cordial invitation is extended to all who are not members of service clubs to attend. Urging that all who Possibly can attend the luncheon Goddard sadi that reservations can be secured at the Association of Com- merce rooms until Monday night. Officials who will be honored at the luncheon include Earl B. Wadsworth, superintendent of airmail of the U. S. postal department Ben F. Meyers, Chicago, assistant superintendent of contract airmail for an area extend- ing from the Rocky Mountains tc Gleveland, Ohio, and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico; Col. L. H. Brittin, president of Northwest Goddard. that sou- venir folders issued by the Bismarck Association of Commerce be sent en- th letter. 5 the Fargo airmail line, also was made by Goddard urged for the plane on Bismarck local send Goddard could field ness The at Bismarck rooms, CRASH KILLS were the dey sa Pads Ft TARE