The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 9, 1935, Page 2

EDWARD. DOHENY, MULTHAILIONARE “MAS OF OL, DES 79-Year-Old Croesus Succumbs to Ailments and Compli- cations of Old Age Los Angeles, Sept. 9.—()—Edward L , Multi-millionaire Midas of the oil industry, is dead. The 79-year old ruler of an oil em- Pire which once spread over portions of the entire western hemisphere, .Oied at his Beverly Hills town house Sunday night. A chronic invalid for many months, | his death was the result of a com- plication of ailments accentuated by his advanced age. As a man who left a fortune in ex- cess of $100,000,000, and whose phil- anthropies rolled into the hundreds of thousands, Doheny was one of the| - —— a i Prospecting Ends | Edward Laurence Doheny, year-old Midas and one of the leading actors in the Harding ad- ministration oi] scandal, died at his Beverly Hills home Sundi 719- CONTINUED from page one Mobilize Militia to Preserve Order in Louisiana Capital Describing the shooting, public ser- BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY, SEPTEMB Gov. Allen and Lieut. Gov. Noe. It is doubly designed, first to lessen the influence of the “Kingfish’s” Louisiana foes; and second, to ward off any federal influence on Long's state. ROOSEVELT DEPLORES ‘SPIRIT OF VIOLENCE’ Hyde Park, N. Y., Sept. 9—(@)— President Ropsevelt deplored the IAN WINS THRD $00 TENNS TT Bismarck Net Star Defeate! ER. 9, 1935 _ Fewer Wild Ducks - Will Leave Alaska ° Juneau,- Alaska, Sept. 9.—VP)— Forest fires and cold, wet weath- er formed the basis Monday for a prediction wild ducks will migrate BASEBALL TITLSTS Ei AEE Service Club President An- vice commissioner James O'Connor | “spirit of violence” Monday in ex-) Bayard Weist of Jamestown | from ainga gate “outhward nounces Plans for Zone Meet- said: Pressing his “regret” at the attempt Frank Defresne, assistant exe- 61 BULLET HOLES FOUND IN WEISS’ BODY Baton Rouge, La., Sept. 9.—(?)— The dramatic story of the attempt to assassinate Senator Huey P. Long in the $5,000,000 statehouse and the killing of his assailant, Dr. Carl A. Weiss, was related Monday by eye witnesses at a cor- oner’s inquest. The coroner stated that an examination on Dr. Welss’s body showed that it had 30 bullet holes in the front, 29 in the back, and 2 in the head. || _C. E. Frampton, statistician for the state's attorney general's of- fice and a reporter for the New Orleans Item-Trjbune, told how he emerged from an office after hear- ing a shot and saw the senator walking down the corridor, clasp- upon the life of Senator Long of Louisiana, Habeas Corpus Writ Served on Anstrom A write of habeas corpus, ordering Sheriff Fred Anstrom to show cause for holding Charles O'Connor, Negro radio entertainer, was signed Monday by District Judge Fred Jansonius, The writ sets the hearing for 1:30 m., Saturday before Judge Janson- O'Connor, well-known throughout the ‘northwest as Chuck Connors, was arrested here several weeks ago on @ grand larceny charge.. He was bound over to the district court at & preliminary hearing before City Magistrate E. 8. Allen and held in the county jail in default of $1,000 in Postponed Final Lester McLean of Bismarck Sunday| won the championship of the Missouri Slope tennis tournament by defeating Bayard Weist of Jamestown in straight sets, 6-0, 6-4, and 6-2 at Mandan. Rain a week ago Sunday prevented completion of the singles event after McLean had gairied the finals in one racket and two Jamestown youths remained in the semi-finals of the/ - other bracket, Weist eliminated Jackson in & match played at Jamestown Russell of Mandan, had taken the doubles title. It was the third victory for MéLean in the Missouri Slope event, giving him’ permanent possession of the cutive officer for the Alaska game commission, said fires in Bristol bay and Fairbanks areas tended. to decrease the ‘The weather, he said, ped bree FATHER BEATS SON TO CAPTURE TTL last week. McLean, pairing with William | William Kostelecky’ Sr., Is New ee England Champion; Law- less Is Winner supply. handicap- Rugged mountains near Ward, Colo., were searched for Tom L; a ene. ng a pore He .| recently “announced a satrilee, (Associated Press Phots) Ing at New Salem Se Champions of baseball and golf, were feted by members of the Lions club at the regular noon luncheon of the local service club Monday. Special guests of the club were Neil Churchill, manager of Bismarck’s na- tional championship baseball team; Paul Cook, former state golf cham- pion; Neil Croonquist, winner of the Missourl Slope and Minot Interna- tional tournament crowns, and Na- dine O'Leary, a, age RLuert champion, who year Hf catia her Birchmont title at Bemidji Churchill gave a brief resume of the local club's activities during the national tournament at Wichita, Kans, and thanked the city for the support given the team. Excessive heat was a great handi- 5 championship trophy. luring aan Bresident, of the latter concern in | meri saaehkg bas apt Cc 9 NTI NU E D ered Gagchil elated “Rpterting to . ; june, 1922. Roden, a; Sh EBAY 1 “ i layed, Members of the immediate Doheny "sis. oheny married Carrie Esteli || one of Long's bodyguards, and¥Dr. Grand Forks Boy Is irate nis son, Wilasy Rosslcey Lignite Operators tne ciate Oe pare. favorably to that Fam he iow agnter, MI |Betzold of Marshalltown, Towa. Free sirugeiing, “Tuan he, oid Killed Riding Horse|sr., of Dickinson, in maten play, one Th / See creer IGneind Waid 10° Eis children—were at the bedside when) d’Armond, i New englenda’ th olf a : gee age Sts a Ee ai the end came. Still Led Corporations While virtually in retirement, Do- heny was president of the Petroleum Securities corporation, his major, holding, at the time of his death, Doheny landed in Los Angeles with For Bismarck and | Weather Report WEATHER FORECAST vicinity: creasing cloudiness tonight and Tue: day, becoming un- newspaper reporter, was the second witness. “I was standing in the basement of the capitol and saw Senator Long stumbling down the hall, He said to me: ‘Jimmy, my boy, I am shot.’ “I threw my arms under him and TO END LIFE OF HELL Philadelphia Gangster Accused of Eight Killings Admitted Grand Forks, N. D., Sept. 9—(#)}—|New England's third’ annual golf Leonard F. Holweger, 15-year-old son| tournament Sunday. of Mr, and Mrs. John F. Holweger, here, was fatally injured Sunday when a horse he was riding ran away. THe youth was harvesting on a neighboring farm and attempted to ist with a . An entry list of & made this tour- nament one of the largest to be held southwestern North Dakota this Tom Lawless of Bismarck won the living about six miles northwest of|Championship consqlation, ‘William Kostelecky Jr. course par of 600,000 in freight charges, all “con tributing” to tax payments by rail: Hendricks sre mee [roads the sate, Project I Be Halted State officials to whoth the letter over the crop of prospective major: leaguers. \- Meet at New Salem f E. B. Klein, president, called atten- tion to the Bismarck zone meeting which: will be held Wednesday night, starting at 7 p. m., CST, at New Sa- lem. C. W. Webb, international field about $10,000 and a fairly good know!- | settled; warmer/drew a pistol to protect him from ride a broncho from the farm house|in was addressed said they had not re- edge of metallurgy, geology and chem- | tonight. th Da-| anyone else and hollered to several Only One to the field. ‘The horse became] year. ceived their copy yet, withholding of- | Pre Gt tie einetpal cbr istry. During his years of traveling rare North 0a; boys in the highway department. Then ile frightened and ran. Leonard became ficial comment until receipt of the | 2.00) ror Lions club officers will be he ‘also managed to study law and ; I picked him up and took him in a] New York, Sept, 9—(P)—Anthony| entangled in the harness and was ame gain admission to the bar, although he never practiced that profession. ‘The beginning of his career as an| oil operator is connected with an in- | i cident in Los Angeles in the fall of 1892. He saw a negro hauling a load | cloudiness southeast and Tuesd coming unsettled; warmer east and south tonight and tonight Tues- day; cooler Tues- lay, be-/ car to the hospital.” Dr. Weiss was immaculately clad in white linen, As he drew the pistol from his shirt front, John B. Fourney, a justice of the state supreme court, Cugino, Philadelphia gangster known as Tony the Stinger and accused of Sai cartier eae himself in his or lore midnight to “end this life of hell.” ae dragged. He died in a Grand Forks hospital. Puneral services will be Tuesday in| tion. the Evangelical church south of Em- er Z BOOZE CARGO Cape British at anchor here May, N. J., Sept. 9—(P}—The oll Popocatapetl, lay under close guard with a $200,000 load of whiskey held preceding the banquet in the day’ north west grabbed at the gun and deflected it.| A suicide note left for his wife, f Olson was program ‘chairman. of black, tarry stuff, which the negro ortion. Paul Votier and Murphy Roden, and | Frances, tende r i Third—Torly Kostelecky, Dickinson; {*"4 brandy. the called “brea” and said it was to be Pre Boul Das! other boas puards With the <oReMtO? , tended to confirm a rumor|22 Bismarck Lions to my Kostelecky, Dr. F. B. Strauss announced used as fuel. Knowing that “brea” was an oil exude, Doheny leased a vacant lot at Patton and State streets, kota: Fair cuovoy—— and tanight Tuesday; opened fire with automatic pistols. Had 40 Wounds that his arrest was brought about by tip from a girl he jilted, denied geven of the slayings Visit New Salem Club W. D, Coolidge, Scranton; Arvid Wik- um, Hettin- TREES FOR SHELTERBELT coming fiftieth anniversary celebra- tion of St, Alexius hospital and the joint luncheon of the three local ser- Valley City, N. D., Sept. 9—(7)— Approximately 4,000,000 young trees planted on @ 30-acre tract near here will be used in the federal shelterbelt warmer east and central portions to- ee and east portion Tuesday. | Weiss slumped face downward -on the floor, blood flowing from about 40 wounds. Senator Long, holding his hand to his side, staggered down the basement step, while crowds swarmed around of which he was ‘accused, but admit- ted the killing of Patrolman Charles Stockberger in a payroll holdup. Roosevelt May Talk vice clubs, Thursday, Sept. 19, at which Archbishop Murray of St. Paul will be the main speaker. A program . will follow on the hospital lawn. E. O. Bailey is the Lions club member on the arrangements committee. New Salem, N. D., Sept. 9.—(P}— Lions club members from 14 Migfouri Slope communities will attend the a zone meeting here Wednes- lay. Chief speakers will be A. M. Kuh- Fourth—Sam Schierba' ger; Pat Whelan, Scranton; N. Smith, Reeder. Fifth—Harley Sackett, Reeder; A. Zollner, Regent; E. W. Colgrove, Re- gent Sixth—Charles Potter, New Eng- near where the negro had loaded his tr Montana: Unsettled tonight, ‘wagon. ; Warmer eas' 3 = He drove a shaft to a depth of 150 lers and oe ee ee feet and struck oil in small quantities.| For Minnesota: Fair, not so cool in That operation has been referred' to |northwest, frost, mostly light, in east as the first and last time that oil ever it; Tuesday partly cloudy in has been “mined.” A well driven 75 “yer deeper yielded oil in paying quan- Field Booms toni, north, er. over the Plains States and » fair in south; somewhat warm- GENERAL CONDITIONS The barometric pressure 1s high Weiss’ body. Upstairs, Governor O. K. Allen— The senator's friend from his boy- hood—rushed out of his office. “Give mea gun”, he shouted. Before Legionnaires Hyde Park, N. Y., Sept. 9. President Roosevelt was invited Mon- day to speak before the American Le- feld, Beach, district governor; and C. 'W. Webb, field director of Lions In- ternational. F. H. Ellwein, head of the local club, will preside. es land; Paul Fincher, New England; c. E. Knutson, Hettinger. ; Seventh—William Hamilton, Dick- inson; F. J. Timland, Scranton; Auer, Mott. L “4 Now You Can Wear FALSE TEETH Within two years, more than 200 central) “Somebody give me @ gun.’ E. O. Bailey, president of the B: Eight—Henry Otterson, New Eng- Real Rocky Mountain states, Denver, 30.26, ..| gion convention meeting at St. Louis} _E. O. Bailey, 2 seth Pn " With Comfort Shore than 2300 wells hee’ been dritied {While low pressure areas overlie the| At the hospital, placed on an oper-| Rept. 23 to 26. It was regarded as a| Marck Lions club, sald 22 members of |land; Art Chase, Mott; H. Brown, FASTEETH, a new, pleasant pow- Mee ith Leelee at Dee Acaeiee {Western Canadian’ Provinces, Prince ating table for an emergency Opera-/ strong possibility that Mr. Roosevelt the local organization had Dickinson. der, Keeps. tecth firmly set. Deo- within | albert, 29.86, and over southwest, |tion on his wound, Long said: would accept the invitation, their intention of attending. Ninth—Henry Paulsrud, New Eng- dorizes. No gummy, ity Doheny turned to Mexico, after his California interests were established, confident of discovering and opening up virgin oil territory not suspected by anyone. Indian guides led him and his associates through an almost impenetrable jungle and they made their first strike on the Tampico coastal plain. Of the corporations through which wealth poured to him, “Mexican Pete” —the Mexican Petroleum company— wag the greatest. That represented hisMexican holdings, developed’ from: the first of] strike in the Tampico fields. From “Mexican Pete” radiated concerns controlling refineries, stor- age plants, pipe lines, railroads, tank steamers, and great distributing sta- tions, far flung along the seashore— in Mexico, Panama, Brazil and the United States. Nerve Aids Old Age ‘The calm nerve that carried him to success through the hard living ‘days of the of] frontier of a generation ‘go, stood him in good stead when he reached the age at which many men retire. He was well past 60 when the oil scandals of President Harding's ad- ministration centered around the group of which he was a member and Phoenix, 28.82, General ern Rocky Temperatures are quite low 28.40, Re Missouri river stage at 7 ft. .24 haur change, -0.1 ft. PRECIPITATION For Bismarck Station: Total this month to date ... Total, January Ist to date Normal, January 1st to dat Accumulated excess to date BISMARCK, clear Beach, clear .. Carrington, cle: Crosby, clear .. Dickinson, clear . Drake, clear .... Dunn Center, clear Garrison, clear Jamestown, cle: Max, clear .. Normal, this month to date .. WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA High- Low- It Pet, | Welss was quoted as saving: showers have occurred from the Great Lakes region southwestward to the south- Mountain’ region. The weather is generally fair from the upper Mississippi Valley westward and southwestward to the Pacific coast states. Skies are mostly cloudy in the western Canadian Provinces. in the northcentral states, but readings are somewhat higher over the far west. Bismarck station barometer, inches: educed to sea level, 30.20, a.m, 25 “Nobody is to give any statements.” Physicians informed him the oper- ation was necessary. Mrs, Long Answers Mrs. Long arrived two hours later from New Orleans with the three chil- dren. “He told me: ‘I may not come back, but I'll die fighting’” she sald. On the way to the hospital, O’Con- nor disclosed, Long quietly said, in the taxicab: “I wonder why he shot me.” Weiss’ relatives also pondered this question. Going to the home of the slain repre> man’s father, Cal Abraham, 7 senting the Baton Rouge State- Times, said he arrived there shortly after the elder Dr. Weiss had left. Abraham said he asked for a picture of the dead man, not knowing the person to whom he spoke was the mother. Told of her son’s death, Mra. Mother Cries Out “Oh, God, we've been opposed to | Long but I did not think he would do @ thing like that.” When it became known Long would 00 have to be given a transfusion, hun- dreds of persons offered to submit ‘00 | samples of blood. After a test, it was his name was carried to a sweeping | Minot, clear found the blood of Lieutenant Gov- Position of attention before the |Parshall,-clear ernor James Noe was perfect for the American people. He was indicted |Sanish, clear .. purpose and it was asked, in 1926. . villiston, cheen Dy. Weiss graduated from Tulane ly and sorrow stalked him, In the heat of the oil litigation, his only son, E. L. Doheny, Jr., was murdered by @ servant. He saw his old friend, Albert B. Fall, Harding's secretary of the interior, declared guilty of bribe | taking. Back through the span of the years, he and Fall, many times, as prospectors, had tramped together be- hind the flapping ears of a pack mule. Devils Lake, clear .... Grand Forks, clear Hankinson, clear Lisbon, clear .. Bepolecn. clear es, clear Wishek, clear’: medical school in 1927, Among the bills Senator Long was .| steering through a docile assembly 00| was one aimed at the Roosevelt ad- MINNESOTA POINTS ministration, which he frequently has opposed and criticized. This measure was called a “state's rights bill” and was aimed at giving him authority to stop federal school spending in Louis- jana. HEARING CONTINUED Hearing in the case of Ellsworth Finlayson of Bismarck, who faces a federal charge of receiving stolen Personal property of the United States government, was continued until Sept. 26 by U. 8. Commissioner 8. A. Floren Saturday afternoon. Pbece pitied OFF TOWNS attle, » Sept. 9—()—The entire southwestern corner of Pacific county, including Ilwaco and other towns at the mouth of the Columbia river, was cut off from the outside world Monday by a fire reported to have threatened the town of Chinook. Bottineau Man Killed As Car Rolls on Him Hallock, Minn. Sept. 9.—(AP)— George Lawrence of Bottineau, N. D., was killed in an automobile accident eight miles east of here Monday when the car tipped over. Lawrence, riding on the running board, lost his balance and grabbed the steering wheel of the vehicle through the open window, wrenching it from the driver. The sudden move caused the car to swerve sharply and roll over upon him, His chest was crushed, land; Glenn Elliott, New Ted Marks, Hebron. England; Tenth—Ted Eide, Buffalo Springs; L, V. Skoglund, Reeder. Merey Fliers Hurt in Crash on-Plane Hunt Bteele—Steele schools open Sept. 16 with’ the following faculty members: “Manufacturer's In the ramifications of litigation, Controls New Orleans civil and criminal, that followed leas- High- Low- Senator Long a short time ago suc- ing of government oil lands by Fall, Minneapolis, pcldy. a = aR ceeded in getting control of the New an alleged $100,000 bribe given Fall by |Moorhead, clear .. 76 36 .90|Orleans city government in his long a r a ll C é Doheny occupied a key position. It SOUTH DAKOTA POINTS fight with Mayor T, Semmes Walms- was for that act that Fall was gn: ley. victed, But Doheny was acquitted. Hi pe ean Last July martial law was dls- Motivated by Patriotism TS -!pensed with in East Baton Rouge He insisted at all times he was Bore ae ae 2 a parish. It was ordered earlier in the motivated by patriotism, not chance . year after 100 or more armed of possible profit, in taking over the naval oil reserves. He asserted he had MONTANA rounms Havre, clear Helena, clear . Miles City, cle: 76 The above record is for 48 it ah He il 42 00 hours. men clashed with militamen at the Baton Rouge airport and one man was shot. Heayily armed guards stood at the 00] doors ‘of the Louisiana house of rep- resentatives. Men with sawed off shotguns and rifles were in front of the governor's office where Long was wounded. Persons entering the building were searched for arms. State highway po- 4e |lice were ordered to shoot down any ho! caught making pictures Pree ereuind the eapitl or Hospital." Seasion to Go On each mattress mean Come in temerrow. . Pay $1.00 Down Innerspring MATTRESSES That's how we got these fine mattresses to sell at this amasing low price. We have an entire carload piled high on the floors of our three bedding departments right now, But if savings up to $12.55 on anything, they'll sell ent. quickly. 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