The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 12, 1932, Page 2

Cr ! oan THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1932 DEEN BA BEER BILL SHELVED AS BINGHAM PAILS 10; FORCE SENATE VOTE, Wets to Launch Battle in Ef- fort to Change Result at December Session Washington, July 1 P}—Uniess there is a special session, beer o: more than one-quarter of one per cent alcohol can not possibly be made legal by congressional action before | mid-winter. The senate, as had been expected, | Monday halted the latest move to; write 3.45 per cent into the Volstead Act instead of the present limitation. Even the most argent supporters of a| change conceded Tuesday that with congress getting ready to adjourn! this week there could not be a suf-/| ficient change before then in votes on Capitol Hill to amend the law. 7 p Wets now hope that between ad-/Kast and over Washington and Ore-|the f: journment and the time congress convenes the first Monday in Decem ber they can change the votes to} overturn the 50 5 vote against! Senator Bingham’'s (Rep., Conn) beer bill. Drys, of course, will work for| just the c site. { Although the Democratic platform includes a plank advocating repeal of the 18th amendment and “im mediate” modification of the Vol ad law. only 11 members of that/ Y voted with the wets. | There were, however, three sena-| tors who changed their previous at- | titudes—Patterson, Missouri Repub-| lican, and Fletcher and Trammel,| Florida Democ | Their ballots motion by Sena’ Robinson ka: s, Demo leade Bingham's bill to the ju mittee. Eleven De Republicans voted tion while 24 Dem publicans were cast against aj 14} this mo- rats and 26 Re- inst the bill and Nye of D NTINUE Co Weathcr Report —+ ‘ | L i FORECASTS For Bismarck and vicinity: Fair tonight and Wednesday; slightly cool- FAIR er tonight. For North Da- kota: Generally | fair tonight and, Wednesday; | slightly cooler to- night south por- | tion. | For South Da-! kota: Generally fair tonight and Wednesday; cooler tonight and in extreme south- east Wednesda: For Montan: Generally fair tonight and Wednes- day; little change in temperature. | For Minnest Generally fair to- night and Wed: iy. € s| tonight in no tonight along Lake: Superior; cooler in extreme west and south portions Wednesday. GENERAL CONDITIONS | A low pressure area is centered over | the Red River Valley and extends | northwestward over Saskatchewan | and vard to California. High | ure areas are centéred over the ght, scattered curred over’ the western generally fair weather pi the st. Temperatu over the Dakotas yest showe! oc- | tates while evails over | were high but cool- er weather prevails over north- | eastern Rocky Mountain slope. | Missi 7a. m. 5.0 ft; uri River stage, change 5 ft. Bismarck station barometer, inches, 8.10. Reduced to sea ievel, 29.82. TEMPERATURE ! At 7 a. m. Aas. Highest yesterda’ Lowest last night PRECIPITATION ! Amt. 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m. + 08! Total this month to date 1.26 | Neamal. this month to date 78 | 1, Jan. 1 to date 10.97 al, Jan. 1 to dat 9.77} | Accumulated excess since Jan. 1 1.20) NORTH DAKOTA POINTS | Temprs. Pre. | High Low Ins. | BISMARCK, pcidy. 96 65 08) Amenia, cldy. .. Beach, clear | Bottineau, clear ge ngton, peldy. . | Cros! 01 | Difficulty” of Enforcing Law | On Feb. 19, 1920, two prohibition 91) without waiting for doctors’ permits. Growth to Bootleg Rings this real beer in their direction be- fore it got de-alcoholized properly. - Grew as Dry Law Experi- | Rise of Gangland j,,Most spectacular of all phases of the illicit liquor business, of course, was the underworld gang. | Most of the large cities developed; booze-running gangs during the first | decade of prohibition. Nowhere, how- ,ever, did the gangs become as strong.) ‘as insolent in their activities or as! incredibly bloodthirsty as in Chicago. ! Chicago, to be sure, has always had! lawless gangs and many murders, Long before prohibition it had cro dl | Police and political leaders working jhand eae with underworld fig-| re ures. 1e advent of the illegal booze ae Sue ia isimply played into the hands of these} % ent (hte effect, that the gentry. They were not long in mak- secrd into the vocabulary of (0g the most of their opportunities. ‘i gi ai {wl ‘y distributing business fell into The illegal liquor industry seems to |the hands of fairly small neighbor- have got under way with no loss of iooq gangs. But organizers were not! ment Continues Se Cee Editor's Note: This is the sec- ond of four stories on the history of prohibition, made especially tumely by the recent action of the Republican and Democratic na- tional conventions, By BRUCE CATTON 1 States that had had prohibition acts | of their own knew about the words “bootlegger” and “speakeasy” long be- b an wor time. The federal prohibition en- ids | W@nting, and three or four years after forceme service made its first raids iY on Jan. 17, seizing two stills in De: |Persaaee Erne Sabhedie eos been divided into two parts, each pro: troit | two in Hammond, Ind. In| six months of that year the! t seized 9,533 stills, » first pr A | powerful gang. P } Toten te renbition commissioner |" The North Side was in the hands| 2 decaaia . |of a group of plug-uglies captained by a na ee 8 baila He took |a tough youngster named Dion O’Ban- | : 8 that’ the ion, who ran a florist shop as a blind. law will be obeyed . . . and where it is!rm0 “south Side was controlled by hot obeyed it will be enforced,” add-| sohnny ‘Torrio’s. gang, of which { c that his men would see to it that |\oung’ scar-faced ‘Sicilian named. Al was neither made, sold nor! Capone was chief lieutenant. | sported “on the surface of the | The fight scemed to be about over! arth or under the earth or in the |. the end of 1930, with Al Capone 3 hearts ‘practically supreme and most of his} Then Came Deluge Deere oon nees at the calendar may} various cemeteri year later, how- ever, the federal government struck at| the gangs through the income tax) law, and today Capone is serving time! in Atlanta prison—while Chicago vided with its booze—and all the other! junlawful pleasures it desired—by a gov T was { e_ interesting. | Before the amendment had been in} a month a customs officer was | aining to congress that a ver- e flood of booze was being smug- the borders, and demand- ca an appropriation of $2,000,000 to | new war, or series of wat |of the absent monarch’: Nowhere else did the gang Icaders are shortly to begin a kingdom. gangs ever were arrested for selling out to ra |become as notorious as in Chicago. — lBut every large city had them, and Before spring had come, federal; and every large city | still has them agents had found that certain drug- ts were selling medicinal whisky | has known its “beer wars,” in which the leaders of a rich and flourishing business settle their disputes with |guns because the business has no le- gal standing. By May, federal agents in New York were complaining that the New iedlict i Devils 14| York police didn’t help them enforce OH Hains cleRNeBiite: Shooti a han ibed poe 0S a the federat dis-| 48 the first decade of prohibition Aes Paka cidy H early summer the i a gal liquor trad w ooting « SCHIDE Dunn Center (00 | trict attorney in Chicago revealed that | PASSE, the ae psyched By Coroner’s Jury —_ |Blencale, cles ‘03. the federal court there was congested |ties developed their own sources of > A r. |) 2 cries h prohibition cases, with more/ sunny. Smuggling became less im- To Parties Unknown | Grand Forks, ci 29 500 such cases awaiting trial. ui peut Ue s : rary Jamestown, cldy STi ya _adpticate “dur! ie alee Gass hd Ge She i & early the morning of July 6, was 4/Torimore, ¢ld “to | t9 be duplicated many times during | ened up on the laws which govern ex- witness. She said Libby, clad in neg- | Tisbon, pe (09 | the coming years. Meanwhile, the il” | ports of Mquor from the Dominion. ligee, was taken to a room and that| Max, cldy {00 legal quor industry, was getting its!" Phe government's efforts to cope Walker soon made his appearance. | Minot, cidy 00 ! feet on the ground. | with the traffic changed, too. ie onu a Miss Ethel Shore | Napoleon. cl 00 Smuggling First Source ener! rews, - Thi | Napo! ting First 5 | General Andrews, plain-spoken and night sui said they heard a | Oakes, cl 04 At first, smuggling was the most’ inqustrious, was the first to present a commotion in the room, and investi- 00 | important source. * |really comprehensive enforcement gating. found Libby and Walker | 24) The United States has more than |p ogram—in 1926; and although con- Struggling to arise from the floor. v c 00; 18,000 miles of border. In 1920 to) cress failed to give him the legislative “Oh, my baby. my baby,” Libby was | \yishek, peldy. 1... § Og brevent smuggling along those 18.000 | changes he had asked for, it did, in quoted as saying, and you Ape 00 | iniles it had 1,550 dry agents and 3,000! that year, vote to put prohibition know I'm going to have a baby In reply to Walker's question of what she meant Miss Jenkins id she heard Walker | tell Mrs. Reynolds not to discuss the | shooting before others. | Walker denied he had been makine| love to Libby at the birthday party | for C. G. Hill, where. others who at merrymakers were | ey and “chasing hat Libby William Vaught. of Greer e | d to death GENERAL Other Stations— Temprs. High Low Boise, Idaho, clear ..... 80 52 Calgary, Alta., 44 Chicago, ML, cl 60 Denver, ‘Colo. 64 Des Moines, 64.00, Dodge City, 70.00! Kan., Edmonton, Alta., c 00 Havre, Mont.. peld: | Helena, c . 64 10 Huron, S. D., clear .... 96 00 | Kansas City, Mo., clear 88 00 | Miles City, Mont. 84 00 lecngress reorganized the Coast Guard, sponte under civil service, to separate It soon developed that this combined | tne prohibition bureau from the in- force was hardly adequate. ternal revenue department, to in- Booze came in by auto and truc crease the prohibition bureau's appro the Canadian and Mexican bor-|pyiations and to build new boats fo! At sea, especially along the|lhe Coast Guard. lantic coast, there sprang in- | to nce the famous “rum rows"— Burleigh Reports 12 Cases of Disease lines of liquor-laden ships, safely an- | chored or hove-to outside of territorial | | For a time this went on in amaz-| A dozen cases of communicable dis- ing proportions. By 1924, however, |€ases, 11 of which developed in Bi county during June, according to the monthly report of the bureau of pre- waters, which transferred their loads to smaller boats for the trip ashore. | gress reorganize the Coast Guard,| Marck, were reported to the stat spent §15,000/001 health department from Burleig! ing garish coffins in| hears ominous rumors that the lesser} for control } ventable diseases. One case of mumps was reported) ‘Prohibition Brought Big |(RANDFORKSPOLICE | NAB MOTOR THIEVES: Arrest Trio on Charge of Steal- ing Articles From Parked Machines Grand Forks, N. D., July 12.--()— With the arrest of three men. Grand Forks police believed they had broken up a ring of thieves who have been breaking into parked automobiles and stealing their contents for the last several weeks here. Salesmen staying at hotels here “racket,” losing valuable goods when they left their cars parked on streets over night, officials said. Numerous city residents have reported the loss of gasoline and articles from their| cars. After having arrested nearly 30) suspects during the last 10 days, the lice department, working on a ip,” seized Earl Bjerke, 28, and Emil Hotin, 24, transients who gave their |addresses as Duluth and Pine River,| Minn., respectively, and Ralph Orcutt} of East Grand Forks. | Bjerke and Hotin confessed that on July 2 they broke open a car park- | ed here and took pipes and tobacco alued at $135. The car was owned B. E. Engen, a salesman. The men told H. G. Owen,’ state’s attorney, they took the loot to Or- cutt, told him where they had stolen it and left it with him to be disposed Bjerke and Hotin will be arraigned Tuesday in district court here before Judge M. J. Englert on charges of grand tarceny. They are expected to Plead guilty, Owen said. Although he denies his part in the crimes, Orcutt will be turned over to Polk county authorities for prosecu- tion on_a charge of accepting stolen | goods, Owen said. | Most of the loot has been recoy- jered. Hotin and Bjerke have admit- |ted one other theft from a car here, jbut have refused to admit the other \ thefts, according to the state's attor- \ney. jney \Fargo Padlock Action | Promises Legal Fight |_ Fargo, July 12.—(®)—District Judge | Daniel B. Holt Monday ordered Frank j1. Temple, Cass county states attor- ney, to file briefs within four days {citing legal authorities on the ques- tion of abating property under the |nuisance laws, following a hearing on |® motion to set aside an order under which El Patio cafe, near West Far- ;80, was closed last Friday. |_ Francis Murphy of Fargo, attorney |for the cafe operators, challenged the {right of the state to close the place jon the grounds that it was ordered \locked up without due process of law and that the closing was not carried {out according to the injunctional or- {der issued by Judge Holt Friday res- training the owners and operators from maintaining a nuisance. A. J. Manners, deputy sheriff, tes- | tified he searched the place when he served’ the order but found no liquor. Mandan Boy Injured | In Highway Accident William Pope, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Pope of Mandan, was re- overing Tuesday from a broken leg, ‘scalp injuries and cuts and bruises jSuffered in a bicycle-automobile ac- cident near here. The youth and a companion were have been the major victims of the| \through Mayor Ray T. Miller. husband recently was bu: No. Platte, Neb., clear.. 96 00 | as he lay in a batht their home | Oklahoma City, O., clear 94 ‘00 | spent $13,000,000 to equip 20 old navy when it was de: apparently | Pierre, S. D., clear 100 ‘00 | destroyers for its use, and built & were engaged in a drinking contest at | Rapid City, S. D., clear.. 96 ‘00 | large fleet of small, fas} boats armed the par | St. Louis, Mo., clear .... 88 00 | with one-pounder rapid fire guns and Libby's testimony s! ld remem. | St. Pal inn., cl 84 00 machine guns. | e cou ber nothing save th 1s between 11 p. m ernoon of July the evidence giv tinued heavy ¢ for several di One Lucid Interval | During her one 1 ri the time of the mental scribed, Libby id kill himself, Throughout her derwent an struggle with } hooting | e aft-| s coupled with July 4 and 6, e de- she s eynolds | u marriage make her She told of which she her love fi tertain an affair w bullet | hat a suf-| had been jury like- | the SOF and left the case | open f ay fu vestigation au-| thorities might wish to make. Walker testified he had seen noth-| Ing out of the ordinary pass between | young Reynol and the brunette! torch singer tl fatal night, al- though he admitted Smith had told, him a night or two before that he| had begun to question his own sanity. | Drank Selves to Sleep At this time, Walker said, he and) Reynolds went to a hotel and drank} themselves to sleep. | Walker said that later, at the par-/ ty, Libby threw her arms around him! and cried: “Smith doesn’t love me.” Walker said she was “very tight” at| the time, but denied she kissed him. Leaving the boathouse, where sev- eral rounds of drinks had been served Walker said Libby entered the house about 11 p. m., Tuesday night and re- tired. At the time, he quoted Reynolds as saying “she is probably seaming] around the woods.” An hour later, he said, Reynolds entered the house and was joined by his wife. Entering Walker's room the witness said they remained about 15 minutes, when Libby ran out, fol- lowed by Smith. Walker said Smith returned to the reception room in a few minutes, the young millionaire saying he was going away and not coming back. “I’m going to end it all,” Walker quoted Smith as saying following an- mouncement that a trip around the ‘world he had planned was “off.” As | Spokano, 00 Ip Lake Cit Seattle, Wash Sheridan, Wyo. Sioux C 08 00 Swift Current, S. 7 00 | |The Pas, Man., clear.. 70 22) Toledo, Ohio, clear 82 00 | Winnipeg, Man., peldy. 64 56 16 | ‘RED’ MEBTINGS ARE BARRED IN ST. LOUIS | Four Are Injured as Police} Clash With Mob Demand- | ing Help From City | \—Public sin St St. Louis, July 12 of Communi Le 118 | ov rioting at the city hall Monday vhich four men were wounded | fired by police and more than! @ sc injured by clubs, bricks and | other missiles. | | The disturbance started after a! crowd of approximately 3,000 unem-| ployed attempted to storm the city hall to demand relief. Police reserves | | attempted to disperse the crowd with | tear gas bombs after bricks had been thrown through doors and windows of the city hall. i Retreating to a vacant lot across the street, members of the crowd arm- ed themselves with bricks, ciubs, and cther weapons and hurled them at} police. Some of the tear gas bombs} were picked up and thrown back at the police. As the fight grew hotter, police began firing their revolvers to force a retreat of the demonstrators. After a 15-minute battle, the crowd was dispersed. Thirty-two persons, including seven women, were arrest- ed as leaders of the crowd, which had | gathered under auspices of the unem-| ployed council at St. Louis, a Com- munist organization. Some of those arrested had been injured in the me- lee. Seven policemen were injured, none of them seriously. Two of the four men struck by but- lets were seriously wounded. Slope Wool Growers Close Sale Contract Dickinson, N. D., July 12—()—The Slope Wool Growers association ac- cepted a cash bid of seven and a half cents a pound for this year's clip, made at a wool pool sales Monday by Cordingley and Co., Inc., of Boston. The bid was the only one made, al-! though representatives of several| eastern firms were present. Ap- proximately 600,000 pounds of wool will be shorn. Last year’s price was 13 cents a pound and two years ago 22.5 cents. he made suicide threat he pitched his pocket to Walker, told him to ‘wait and went upstairs. A moment later came the sound of ‘@ shot. Use the Want Ads ;|mear-beer, you first make real beer the state department | ties with such foreign government Great Britain, France, ; Germany, I and Holland by which its revenue cutters were permitted to stop and search suspected liquor boats anywhere within one hour's) sailing distance of the coast. oo This proved much more effective,| and rum row lost a lot of its promi-| nence. Neverth in 1925 General Lincoln C. Andrews, prohibition com- missioner, told the senate that only about 5 per cent of the smuggled li- quor was actually being seized. Industrial alcohol also was proving a problem. Certain plants had per- mits to make alcohol for industrial | uses, and it soon became evident that a lot of this finding its way into various beverages The government tried various formulas to make this) alcohol unpalatable, but the bootleg-} gers had their chemists, too, and they; were able to counteract practically all of these formulas. Some of the near-beer plants fur- ther complicated things. To make In addition, negotiated tr and then de-alcoholize it; and the | bootleggers were not long in finding ways of shunting large quantities of “Isn’t it fine that your son’s on the team?” Fond Mother: “Yes, he’s one of the drawbacks.” No matter what your position may be, an acci- dent or a fire will certainly be a drawback. Get com- plete, dependable insurance from this agency of the Hartford Fire Insurance company. MURPHY “The Man Who Knows Insurance” 218 Broadway BISMARCK Phone 577 from the county. The other cases, allj riding their bicycles and, as an auto- in Bismarck, included diphtheria 3,! mobile driven by W. H. Ordway of pneumonia 2, smallpox and tubercu-| Mandan started to pass them, Wil- losis 1 each, and typhoid fever and | liam’s companion fell from his bi- Vincent's infection, 2 each. cycle. William tried to avoid striking Cases reported from throughout the | his companion and in doing so fell state were listed as follows: chicken-| into the path of Ordway’s car. pox 83, diphtheria 7, ! lethargica 4, impetigo 3, influenza 1, measles 134, meningitis 3, mumps 3, pneumonia 13, poliomyelitis 1, r fever 26, smallpox 7, tuberculosis 13, typhoid fever 11, Vincent's infection | 36 and whooping cough 62. Gee, I knew Loretta Young when she was making 100 bucks a week. And she’s making plenty now. 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She ‘was always ercky, Tired. ‘Gloomy. “Now,” she says, “everywhere 1 ie tell me how much better Piedilike dancing forjoy alhkeeeon a 7 P Dry Eas E Fil Lnc VEGETABLE COMPOUND STELLA WALSH TORN BETWEEN | LOVE OF POLAND AND AMERICA, | At the Movies 1 sp PARAMOUNT THEATRE Lee Tracy and Ann Dvorak, two young screen players of note teamed {| together for the first time, have the leads in “The Strange Love of Molly Louvain,” coming to the Paramount Theatre Wednesday. Tracy's work heretofore has beer confined principally to the New York} stage, where he carried off top honors in such outstanding plays as “Broad- way,” “The Front Page” and “Loude: Please.” In “The Strange Love of Molly Louvain,” for the first time| since “Front Page,” he has an oppor- tunity to portray a role similar to thai of Hildy Johnson, fast-talking, fast- working newspaper reporter who typi fies the cynical but hard-working metropolitan news-gatherer. Ann Dvorak will be seen in her first role since her highly successful one in “The Crowd Roars,” one of the mos: The Cleveland offer was contingent lauds 1 pictures of the year, in oft v. s. ceaenahie AUR Sea alsh | yhich she shared honors with James Girl Runner Must Decide Soon For Which Country She } Will Perform Cleveland, July 12—()—Torn be- tween love for her native land, Po- land, and for her home of adoption, jthe United States, Stella Walsh, jworld’s champion woman sprinter, attempted to decide Tuesday for {which country she will run in the \coming Olympics at Los Angeles. The deciding factor, however, will be a job, the youthful Cleveland ispeedster has decreed, and in com- pliance with this demand, represent- atives of both countries have put in their bids. A position inp ublic recreation work in Poland was offered by the Polish consul in New York, while Similar work was offered by Cleveland Eyes Examined Glasses Prescribed . | Cagney. The eye is an organ you turatization hearing sometime Tues- | Cagnt Me acd tb aneIbS f HE JAIL Miss Walsh applied for citizenship TAXI! TOT several months ago but recently twice| Knoxville, Tenn—He was drunk, Dr. H. J. Wagner and Henry Dean knew it. He reason- ed that the best place for a drunken man is in jail. He called a taxi and was driven to the county jail. He walked in, asked for Sheriff Hackney, and was told the sheriff wasn’t in. Dean insisted he be locked up, so Chief Deputy Seaton Garrett complied | with the request. refused to go through with the pro- ceedings, after losing her job with the New York Central railroad. Holding it imperative she be a Optometrist Offices Opposite the G. P. Hotel since 1914 Phone 533 Bismarck, N. D. wage-earner, the slim-figured athlete masked her face in a characteristic bland expression and let it be known that her citizenship will go to the highest bidder. 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