The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 26, 1933, Page 3

NOTED HUMORISTIS CLAIMED BY DEATH ~ ARTER LONG SIEGE Ring Lardner, Who Made Mil- lions Laugh, Is Tubercu- losis Victim Father Bernard Hub- bard, famed as the “glacier priest,” is}: | shown arriving in | San. Francisco with | | two of the husky | . dogs that accom- panied him this sum- mer when he climbed two active Alaska volcanoes on a daring scientific venture. New York, Sept. 26—(7)—Ring Lardner, who once noted that there wasn't much difference between his native Niles, Mich. and his adopted New York because both begin with an “N”, has lost his long fight against tuberculosis. ¥ The lean, six-foot humorist who made you and me know Al and who became a ranking figure of American literature, died suddenly at his East Hampton, Long Island, home Monday, night in the forty-eighth year of an active, interesting life. For 10 years Ringgold Wilmer Lardner had fought the disease. Dur- ing those years his humor flowed on, bringing laughs to the faces of those who saw on the stage “Elmer the Great” and then “June Moon,” and to other tens of thousands who read his “Story of a Wonder Man,” “Love Nest”, and other stories. Heart disease, complicated by other ailments, was given by his doctors as the immediate cause of death. Only, in the last few years has the Lardner typewriter gone on short hours. His doctors ordered him to the southwest and he remained there many months. When he returned to New York several months ago he was reported much better. Pain Vanquished Humor His days of quantity production, however, were over. He did a column on radio in the weekly “New Yorker” —a humorous, critical column that carried a sting for those artists, those sponsors and those stations which he felt were not serving the public need for entertainment. The sweep of the humor that filled “You Know Me, Al,” “Gullible’s Travels,” “Own Your Own Home” and the hilarious, “How to write Short Stories” was gone. Oc- casionally it flashed on those last published writings, but the spontanei- ty and wit of “Treat 'Em Rough,” “The Young Immugrunts” and “Symptoms of Being 35” were not MANY SCHOOLS HAVE LARGER ENROLLMENT creases in Attendance This Year (By The Associated Press) All Sections of State Report In-| THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1933 a ‘Glacier Priest’ Back From Alaska {FIRE AND CHEMICAL HOSE PURCHASED BY LOCAL COMMISSION Minneapolis Firm’s Bid Accept- ed; Widening of Sixth St. to Begin Soon A contract for 1,000 feet of fire hose and 250 feet of chemical hose was awarded to the Eureka Fire Hose company of Minneapolis by the Bis- marck city commission at its regular business meeting Monday evening. ‘The Eureka company’s bid was $1.20 per foot for Paragon fire hose, with couplings every 250 feet, and 24 cents per foot for the chemical ‘hose, with couplings at each end. . Five other firms submitted bids, in- cluding the B. F. Goodrich Rubber ‘company of Akron, O.; Hewitt Gutta Percha company of Buffalo, N. Y.; Corwin-Churchill Motors, Inc., of Bis- marck, representing the American LaFrance Foamite company; W. 8. Nott company of Minneapolis; and the Bi-Lateral Fire Hose company of St. Paul. The commission decided to adver- tise for bids for coal to heat the city water plant and street shop during the winter. Bids will be opened the evening of Oct. 9. City Auditor My- ron H. Atkinson estimated about 250 tons of coal will be needed. All oth- er city buildings are heated by city steam or gas. Action on three applications for abatement in taxes was delayed until the commission can donfer regarding them with the board of Burleigh county commissioners. — Applicants were F. E. Young, Sam Sloven and Mrs. Anna Mann. O. W. Roberts, member of the citi- zens committee to assist highway of- ficials in the program to widen city streets which are parts of federal ‘FREEZING WEATHER ARRIVES IN STATE Frost Reported Throughout State Overnight; Mon- tana Has Snow ments for bids for widening of Sixth 8t. will be out during this week He said he had discussed the proposal of widening Main avenue with high- way officials and that the prospect is bright for such an improvement. So MtY aeaneeae ea. One objection to widening Main ave- Frost-covered buildings and trees ‘nue, he said, is the fact that automo- greeted Bismarck and North Dakota ;biles are allowed to double park on highways, reported that advertise-) Played Fife at 9 in Civil War Acomparative youngster among the veteran’ attending the 67th annual encampment of the G A.R. at St. Paul, Minn., was Lewis H. Easterly, above, of Colorado, who at 81 is called “the baby of the Civil War.” When his- father and uncl went to war from southern Miinois, Easterly, 9, went, too, and played a fife on the battle: Ids. Federal J udges Deny there. Lardner was born in Niles, Mich., March 6, 1885. As he put it, he was Baby” week. In comparing Niles and New York later he said there was little advantage either way, as the New York Central born during “Have- tracks ran through both places. Throughout many of Lardner’s ‘writings the home-town pride is not- ed. His youth was spent there and his first job on a newspaper was in South Bend, Ind., just 10 miles away. His journalistic experience was de- voted almost entirely to the sports page—South Bend, Chicago, St. Louis, He travelled with the baseball clubs, the ‘White Sox and the Cubs, in the days Boston, and back to Chicago. of “Doc” White, fingered) Brown, Mordecai (Three: of Chicago's heydey of baseball. Was Baseball Authority Frank Chance, Tinkers, Evers, and the many others A tendency toward greater enroll- ment in North Dakota schools was noted in reports from scattered com- munities following opening of the fall term. Flasher, with 72 pupils in its high school, has the largest enrollment in its history, according to Superintend- ent Carl Hagen who said the grade enrollment is about the same as & year ago. Enrollment at Finley exceeded all previous records, said Supt. E. A. Jer- de, There are 97 pupils in the high school and 108 in the grades. The opening public school enroll- ment at Devils Lake showed an in- crease of 96 over the same time @ year sgo, The total enrollment of 1,175 in public schools is the largest in the last four years. Supt. F. H. Gilli- land attributed the increase to a greater number of rural tuition pupils residents Tuesday morning as they, the street, which tends to indicate awoke to experience the first freez-jthat it is “wide enough for normal ing temperature of the year. traffic.” Progress also is being made, Mercury dropped to 30 degrees, two| Roberts said, on the proposal to have below freezing, in the Capital City|the new state capitol building plaza overnight and most other points in|paved at federal expense under the the state reported freezing or sub-|emergency highway construction pro- freezing temperatures. gram. The federal weather bureau fore-| Sixth St. will be paved with # con- crete base and ashphalt layer top, cast calls for possibly light frost again Tuesday night, with weather |Such as that which already is in, the committee spokesman said. generally fair and not quite so cool Automobile Firm at temperatures are predicted for Wed- nesday. Kidnap Defense Plea 8t. Paul, Sept. 26.—(?)—Bail reduc- tion and separate trails were denied Monday to Roger Touhy ard three others by two federal judges who sat in @ machine-gun guarded courtroom and called kidnaping “one of the gravest crimes we have on the books.” | Shattering federal court precedent ; in Minnesota by leaving their quar-| ters to make unnecessary street trans- | fer of the four held for the William Hamm kidnaping, the judges, J. W. Molyneaux and M. M. Joyce, ordered that the bail figure remain at $100,000 for each, and also denied other de- fense motions. One was to set forth more clearly the charges in the federal indictments returned here against the quartet. ‘The other asked suppression of cer- iain evidence relating to guns, am- munition and moriey seized when the cefendants were arrested in Elkhorn, Wis. after their automobile sheared off a pole. McIntosh Only County To Approve Sales Tax (Tribune Special Service) Ashley, N. D., Sept. 26.—McIntosh was the only county in North Dakota to favor the referred sales tax mea- aie, in the special election last Fri- lay. Complete unofficial returns showed that McIntosh county voted in favor ‘of the measure by 1,126 to 879, it is announced by G. A. Bietz, county au- itor, Tabulations show that this county voted in favor of both constitutional amendments, all three referred mea- sures and the initiated beer bill but rejected by a two-to-one margin the initiated measure to permit Sunday movies. Complete returns included: County officers amendment—yes 1,619; no 414. | Reading legislative bills amendment j—yves 1,346; no 698. Administration of insolvent banks— yes 1,295; no 746. Sales tax—yes 1,126; no 879. Workmen's compensation law—yes 11,260; no 702. Beer bill—yes 1,767; no 274. Sunday movies—yes 10 301. T ‘Chicken Shack’ Here Is Raided by Officers Following # raid on a “chicken shack” north of the city Saturday eve- ning, it was expected warrants for the arrest of two Bismarck-Mandan men would be issued sometime Tuesday af- ternoon by A. E. Shipp, justice of the peace, The raid was conducted iby federal prohibition . authorites, assisted by members of the Burleigh county sher- iff’s force. Officers claimed they confiscated a slot machine, a gallon of alcohol and five pints of Canadian whisky, but did not touch a quantity of 3.2 per cent beer on hana. Several employes and guests were in the “chicken shack,” about two miles north of the city, but neither of the two alleged owners was present. The raid was staged early in the evening. Lindberghs Receive | Honors at Moscow} Moscom, Sept. 26.—(AP)—Colonel and Mrs. Charies A. Lindbergh began a three-day round of sightseeing Tuesday. in which an inspection of! Russian aviation was an important Part. . A unique demonstration in their! honor at the Moscow opera Monday night indicated the extent to which the red capital has taken the famous| American flying couple to its heart. An unidentified man rose in a box during an intermission and shouted in Russian “Hurrah for Lindbergh!” thereupon the entire audience in the large theater stood and applauded for Several minutes. Increasing cloudiness and higher Parshall and Sanish were the cold-| New Salem Is Robbed est points! in the state overnight, ac- cording to the corn and wheat sta- tion summary issued by the federal weather bureau here. Both reported temperatures of 23 degrees, nine be- low freezing. Hankinson was the warmest corn and wheat station re- Mandan, N. Bept. 26—(P)\—A Morton county deputy sheriff left for New Salem Tuesday to investigate the robbery of the Slope Auto Co., of New Salem Monday night. A small amount of cash was taken from the cash and Indian pupils, Nearly 3,000 pupils started school in Minot the opening day with indi- cations of an average attendance ex- ceeding that of last year in high school and a marked increase in at- tendance at junior high school. 1,000 at Valley City He became a recognized authority on the game, loving it for its sport and for the humanness of its players. From this experience he drew the ma- terial for the development of his best known character, the egotistical, bumptious, lovable and dumb bush- leaguer, Jack Keefe, who told of his porting with a minimum of 33. Several state points reported rain- fall for the last 24 hours, including Grand Forks .54, Napoleon .18, Max -14, Devils Lake and Minot .04, Dickin- json .11, Drake .10, Pembina .05, Sanish Beach and Bismarck .02 of an inch. Montana experienced a chilly night The favorite type of private air- plane in England is the small two- seater which does about 20 miles to “Turn experiences in the big league by means of letters to “Al.” The success of the “You Know Me, Al” stories brought Lardner many of- In_1919 he resigned from the Chicago Tribune and devoted himself fers. With more than 1,000 students en- rolled at Valley City public schools jumped up from 975 last year. Enroll- rent at the Jamestown public schools outnumbered any other year for the opening day, more than 1,800 being to literary work, also doing a syndi-| registered. cated feature, widely circulated. to East Hampton. In these later years the full power of Lardner as a short story writer flowered and he received for the first time serious consideration by the cri- tics. It was in this second phase of his career that he wrote his classic “The Champion” and “Haircut” which many critics have held are without peer in contemporaneous’ American literature. ‘They say that Lardner, who earned 8 fortune with his writing, died vir- tually broke because of poor ‘business. ventures and his inability to say “no,” to a hard luck story. Light travels 186,264 miles a second; sound travels 1088 feet a second. Light is constant while sound speed speed often varies with the temperature. NEGLECT OF COMMON CONSTIPATION IS A SERIOUS MATTER Prevent This Condition With Kellogg’s ALL-BRAN The first question your doctor asks is whether you are constipated or not. He knows that this condi- tion may cause headaches, loss of appetite and energy, sleeplessness. 1t is often. the starting ‘point of disease. in serious cases, If not Awt-BRAN as'a cereal, or ‘use in cooking. Get the red-and- green package at your 8. la’ ‘by Kellogg in Battle Creck. KS It was at that time that he moved to New York, settling at Great Neck, Long Island, where he maintained his home until moving three years ago this way, see your doctor. | Sharp increases in enrollment were shown by Bismarck’s public and parochial schools. New Leipzig’s high school opened with a record enroll- ment of 60 students and heavy enroll- ment was reported at Hazen and New England. ‘The largest enrollment ever record- ed for the Killdeer grade and high school was reported the opening day. Increases at Hatton high school were 10 per cent over that of last year due to increased rural registration, Gains also were noted at Carson and Na- Enrollment in the freshman class of Jamestown college was 40 per cent larger than on the opening day a year ago and registration in all college classes increased 22 per cent. Early registration at the Bottineau school of forestry indicated a larger enroll- JAMESTOWN FAVING ANRUVERSARY PARTY Golden Jubilee Celebration to Last Three Days; Many Events Planned t ; Hany, ui pervaded as men, women and children dressed.in costumes of a half s 3 f 2 - ae re traying the historical event. and mus- je organizations will be seen, jamestown, N. D., Sept. 26.—(®)—| workers, announced Tuesday that = curtain went up Tuesday on a/strike of all tool and die makers in ba people. jpokesmen. jfor the Mechanics Education Soctety, Sunday with snow and frost dotting its weather map Monday. Livingston had five inches of snow, some of which remained on the ground throughout Monday. The fall broke many tree limbs. Yellowstone Park received four inches of snow and there were light falls in the higher elevations of the state. Alleged Moonshiner Rescued by Gunmen Collinsville, Tl, Sept. 26—(7)—A prisoner arrested by five federal pro- hibition agents who raided a still near here late Monday, was rescued by an automobile-load of gunmen, but only a few details of what happened had been made public Tuesday. One of the agents was struck on the head with a shotgun and robbed of his pistol while another, Joseph Renfro, emptied his revolver at the gunmen’s car as it sped away. In a barn in the rear of a vacant house the agents found three men allegedly cooking mash. Two escaped, but the other was seized. While four of the agents searched for the fugitives, six men drove up in’ an automobile, slugged the agent 577 Phone us for advice or information when any of your insurance policies come up for renewal. We might show how your pres- ent insurance can be made over as protect your property com- pletely. ¥ MURPHY “The Man Who Knows Insurance” guard and held him at bay with a machine gun while the prisoner en- tered the car of his confederates. As they fled, the gunmen disabled the agents’ with bullets. Motor Mechanics at Detroit Plan Strike Detroit, Sept. 26.—(#)—S| an organization of skilled automotive Bismarck 218 Broadway Phone 577 Detroit, whether members of the s0- i ciety or not, had been voted to take effect at noon today. Jay J. Griffin, chairman of the stock committee, said the strike would be called in support of striking mem- bers at Flint, Mich., auto plants, who charging units of the tion | General Motors Corporation there are not conforming to the wage and hour membership of a} It is not affiliated with the American Federation of Labor or any other or- ganization. {| Birmingham, Eng! to every 48 inhabitapts; in some sec- tions there are more stores than there know. to the SECTION” “Most everybody does, But there are prob- ably a few of you who may not have discovered what all these others know—that my want-ad section is filled with bargains and opportunities.” “Turn to them Now’’ “And don’t forget to use this valuable section when YOU have something to sell or have lost something or for any of a hundred other pur- poses. When you want to place an ad just phone 32 and my ad-taker will give you ex- pert help.” ME I BISMARCK TRIBUN: WANT-ADS | Music Leaders to Meet in Bismarck Minot, N. D., Sept. 26—(?)—John E. Howard, president of the North Dakota Federation of Music clubs, in Minot Tuesday announced that the annual fall board meeting of the federation will be held at Bismarck Wednesday, October 4 Mrs. J. A. Jardine of Fargo, presi- dent of. the National Federation of Music clubs, is to be a special guest at ing, Howard said, been chosen so that possible for her to seeE, present, CAPITOL —s= THEATRE o— TONIGHT - WED. 25c Until 7:30 Now youcan see him in the role that waited all these years r “one man’s sOURTEY” A Dreme of Devotion LJ NEWS FABLE and COMEDY THURSDAY Century of Progress ‘ ‘