The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 16, 1936, Page 7

_THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, Cauvion Is Natural to Landon Took Boat Along to Swim Lake Editor's note: | This is the first of a series of stories on Alfred M. Landon, G.OP. candidate for president. ‘The next will appear in an early issue. By WILLIS THORNTON NEA Service Staff Correspondent The last 30 of Alfred Mossman Lan- don’s 48 years, his whole productive lifetime, have made him a true Kan- ean. He embodies all the best traits of cuss respectable prairie citizen who has “done right well by himself.” But he is not a native Kansan. Ver all his life is the shadow of the Methodist parsonage in the tiny crossroads town of West Middlesex, which nestles in the green rolling hills of western Pennsylvania. That, and the memory of a carefree boy- hood in small towns around Marietta in the river district of southeastern Ohio. West Middlesex has a sign up now, telling the world of its connection with Alf Landon, and Molly Reed Baird, 85, the nurse who attended Alf’s birth, sits knitting a woolen throw rug to send to the White House if the baby she remembers as “12 pounds and bright as a dollar” is its tenant next March. * ke * Landons in America Since Pilgrim Days But there was no thought of all this on September 9, 1887. Anne, daughter of the Rev. Herman Moss- man, had come to her father’s par- sonage from Elba, O., where she was living with her young husband, John Manuel Landon. She wanted to be near an uncle who was a physician. Her baby, whom Nurse Baird later described so graphically, was Alfred Mossman Landon, he who is today the Republican candidate for the presidency. As soon as mother and child were able to travel, they were back in Elba, and the childhood of young Alf, most of which was spent in the Ohio River district about Marietta, was ‘aunched. Marietta is the earliest “The PRIZE | VALUES at every price!”’ says Public Experience. Andthat’swhy we Goodyear | Dealers sell the most tires by millions! { ier example— LOOK! | © $4.95 SPEEDWAY Husky! Big! Handsome! With Spier Niel Manion safety features: j| riage. N The boy who became one of Destiny’s recalled by playmates as “quiet, casy to know and likeable.” settlement in Ohio, and people with the same background as the Landon: and the Mossmans are no novelty there. Both were old American families. The Landons first came to America from England only 10 years after the Pilgrim Fathers landed in 1620. They were from Hertfordshire, the tal fr just north of London. THUMBNAILING LANDON’S LIFE BORN: West Middlesex, Pa., Sept. 9, 1887. Now “rising 48,” as Kansans say. MARRIED: Twice. To Mar- garet Fleming (died 1918) and to Theo Cobb (1930). CHILDREN: Three. Margaret Anne, 19, daughter of first mar- John Cobb, 2, by present wife. BELONGS TO: church. Phi Gamma Delta. Phi Delta Phi. Elks, American Legion, HE IS: Five fect nine. Black- About 170 pounds in weight. old hats. Fishing and horseback riding. Bridge. Baseball and football. Ministers, Reading. The family branched out fast. One ;member, Joshua, was a victim of the tragic Wyoming Valley massacre in Pennsylvania when British-led In- dians wiped out a militia company. ; Thomas Landon served throughout ithe Revolution with Washington in a unit of a New Jersey continentals. Thomas, Jr., then marched with the expedition against Ft. Niagara in the War of 1812, His son, Manuel, mar- ried into a Pennsylvania Dutch fam- ily. And his son in turn, John Man- uel, became the proud father who amazed everyone with his keenness and vitality at the Cleveland con- vention. eRe Mother's Family Arrived in 1709 The Mossmans came to America in 1709 from Scotland. The inter- married with a family of Houstons, one of whom was on Washington's staff during the Revolution. Others fought with Commodore Perry at the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812, These are the families which united when John Manuel Landon courted Anne, daughter of the Methodist minister of his home town of Con- neautville. John was a tool dresser A. C. ISAMINGER Candidate for (Pol. Adv.) Nancy Josephine, 3, and || Methodist | Masons. Odd Fellows. |. haired, but beginning to gray. |; vorite children—Alfred M. Landon, ‘Where the growing Alf Landon at- tended Sunday school . . . the First Methodist church, Marietta, 0. who had made his way up in the oil fields to be a manager for the Union Oil Co. at Elba. Soon he was trans- ferred to Marietta, and it was there young Alf Landon went to grade and {preparatory schools. Young Alf had a carefree and happy boyhood, whose only major sorrow was the death of his only sister. He learned to swim in the Muskingum River, and frolicked with the other boys in deep water off “The Rocl mile north of town. * ew Caution Shown Even In Swimming Adventure Quiet, easy to know, and likeable— so he is recalled by the other mem- bers of a club organized by the town boys. A former teacher, Frank P. Wheeler, remembers that Alf was quiet and studious, worked and play- ed hard, but recalls especially that {he “was always neat and clean,” and that “his grades were good—above average.” He went regularly to the Methodist Sunday school at the church which his parents attendea. He raised chickens at a time when the “chicken craze” swept the coun- try. Chicken fanciers, however, will Theodore R. TAYLOR Candidate for County Treasurer 40 years in Burleigh county Brother-in-Law of Roy Logan Primary Election June 24, 1936 Your consideration and support solicited. (Pol. Adv.) THE GOODYEAR MARGIN OF SAFETY with center-traction for quick-stopping THICK, TOUGH, LONG-MILE- | ace Goodyear non-skid treads - BLOWOUT PROTECTION in EVERY PLY (built with SUPERTWIST cord) Come in — let us show you your size Corwin-Churchil! Motors, Inc. Bismarck, N. D. Chrysler - Plymouth dis- VOTE FOR Chris J. Martineson tributors for western Da- kota and eastern Mon- For Sheriff (Burleigh County) Peace officer nearly 30 years. Member Bismarck police force quarter century. Your vote and support will be appreciated at the primary elec- tion, June 24. (Pol, ‘Adv. »A ) VOTE FOR James C. (Jim) Meisner Candidate for Burleigh County ‘Treasurer. Born and raised te Bitrieigh gt 5 hetatse Bazperience. earn lifted. TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1936 however, and so is the fact that he took the precaution to have a com- rade follow him in a boat. The boy’s grandfather, Rev. Moss- man, had been one of the originators of the Chautauqua idea, and summers were spent there listening to the lec- ture and entertainment programs, or at nearby Conneaut lake. * ke * Broken Shoulder Halted Athletic Career In 1904 young Alf entered Marietta academy. Here a promising athletic career was ended when the 114- pound end for Marietta broke his shoulder in a tangle with a Parkers- burg high school backfield man. The shoulder did not mend properly, and ended competitive athletics for young Landon, though it has never handi- capped him in business or ordinary life. Father and son were unusually jelose, and trekked together to St. jLouis to see the World's Fair of 1904. listen to Bryan's futile appeal to the Democratic convention, for both were interested in politics. The idol of the | Semen hit Cini, Ginfaee kik 16-year-old boy. at that time was descended of fighting pioneer stock, she became Alf Landon’s mother. Bryan, too. It was that same year of 1904 that two-mile-wide Conneaut lake is true,| . They sat together in gallery seats to} ‘ |Theodore Roosevelt, but he admired |the family moved to a state of which “Twelve pounds and bright as & dollar”... that’s nurse’s description of this baby—Alfred M. Landon. their son was one day to be governor. take with a grain of salt the yarn about the boy holding a hen on the the elder Landon was named super-; nest until she laid the 12th egg need- intendent for the Kansas Natural) ed to make a dozen. Gas Co. at Independence. The cur-| The one about the boy swimming tain fell on an Ohio boyhood when | NEXT: A college boy who came back and paid the bills, and a lawyer who did not choose to practice. UNNECESSARY UNDER PACT, COURT HOLDS Application for Writ of Habeas Corpus Denied Renville County Felon A defendant is entitled to trial by & constitutional jury of 12 unless he affirmatively waives {t with the ap- proval of the state’s attorney and sanction of the court, the North Da- kota supreme court ruled Tuesday. The ruling was made in a decision denying the application of Clarence Kortgaard for a writ of habeas corpus. He is serving an indeterminate term of not less than two and one-half years in the state penitentiary on conviction of a felony in Renville county. During the trial in July, 1935, one TRIAL BY JURY OF 42! court for a ‘wrt of habeds: corpus which was denied. He then filed 6 petition for a writ in the supreme court. The defendant contended all pro- ceedings relating to the waiver of hit trial by 12 jurors were void and that @ trial by a jury in a criminal action cannot be waived under the consti- tution. “If the constitutional provision, preserving the right of trial by jury, was intended as a part of the frame of government and not as a guaran- tee to the accused, the accused could only be sentenced upon the verdict of a jury, and every law authorizing a plea of guilty would be unconstitu- tional,” the supreme court decision declared. “It is not necessary that the right of trial by jury should be more than a guarantee to the accused, for so long as it is guaranteed it remains inviolate. No power can take it away from him, He is not required to de- mand it. “He is entitled to it when he re- mains mute, but it may be to his advantage to waive it and plead guilty; it may be to his advantage to waive the constitutional number of jurors and continue with a less num- of the jurors became seriously ill and ber. His doing so does not establish all parties, including the defendant,! a dangerous precedent for his waiver affirmatively agreed that the trial! affects only himself and it is not 8 should continue with the remaining | 11 jurors. After his conviction, Kortgaard pe- ,titioned the Burleigh county district precedent for any other case.” Malaria annually takes more than 000 lives throughout the world. CERTIFICATE OF NOMINEES In accordance with the provisions of Section 921 of the Compiled Laws of 1913, notice is hereby given that the following persons, together with their post. office addresses, have filed petitions for nomination for public offices as provided by law to be voted on at the Primary Election to be held on Wednesday, June NO-PARTY COUNTY OFFICES 24, 1936. j | | REPUBLICAN DEMOCRATIC ! | Name of Office | Name of Candidate P. O. Address ' Name of Candidate P. O. ‘Address Representative in Congress USHER L. BURDICK Bismarck a CARL A. BERG Minot | WILLIAM LEMKE Fargo | HENRY HOLT + Grand Forks | P. J. IVERSON Fargo | E. A. JOHANSSON Raub | | |_J. J. NYGAARD+ o Jamestown Governor | WILLIAM LANGER Bismarck , JAMES F. MORROW Wolford WALTER WELFORD Pembina | JOHN MOSES+ Hazen ie i‘ ¥ OLE H. OLSON New Rockford Lieutenant Governor | W.M. CROCKETT Wales P. H. COSTELLO ¥ Cooperstown i T. H. H. THORESEN Grand Forks | MARTIN STANLEY Kintyre Secretary of State | JAMES D. GRONNA Lakota | MARY A. FENELON Devils Lake |_H. M. PIPPIN Halliday State Auditor __ BERTA E. BAKER “Glenburn E. A. LILLIBRIDGE Dickinson State Treasurer | GEORGE ALJETS Sykeston | PHILIP HEILING Valley City | | JOHN GRAY Bismarck 0. L. SVIDAL* Starkweather |Attorney General | OWEN T. OWEN _ Grand Forks | WILLIAM T. DePUY | Grafton \ , P.O. SATHRE Finley Commissioner of Insurance | 0. £. (Oscar) ERICKSON, Tren ~ Tappen S. A. OLSNESS | Sheyenne | OSCAR H. ERICKSON, Bismarck) Bismarck | WILLIAM H. ap lesiaicsden Williston |_ HAROLD HOPTON A Bismarck | | Commissioner of Agriculture and | JOHN N. HAGAN | Deering | WM. KANE Minot Labor THEO. MARTELL _ | Carson ROBERT T. McBRATNEY | Flasher Commissioner of Railroads | 0. A. HALL Fargo M. S. HYLAND | Fargo | S.S. McDONALD Bismarck | |_C. W. McDONNELL |_ Kensal {State Senator | MILTON RUE | Bismarck JAMES W. GUTHRIE | Bismarck 27th District | WM. B. FALCONER i Bismarck Hl Members House of Representatives— JOHN A. MacLACHLAN Bismarck | RICHARD DAY Moffit 27th District EARL MOWDER ) Regan | J. M. THOMPSON ! Wilton JACOB E. SWENSON ' Bismarck JOSEPH D. BYRNE oF) Bismarck OTTO E. ANSTROM Wilton | ' ALEX E. ASBRIDGE Bismarck | i JOSEPH M. GLASER Bismarck H \ NO-PARTY | Name of Office Name of Candidate P.O. Address Name of Office ; Name of Candidate Nees: { Judge Supreme Court JOHN BURKE - Bismarck | Superintendent of Public MARTHA E. BRATCHER | Mott | Instruction ARTHUR E. THOMPSON }-| Washburn Judges District Court— | | | First Judicial District DANIEL B. HOLT | Fargo | Second Judicial District | G. GRIMSON | Rugby P | Third Judicial District | W. J. AUSTIN Kulm | | WM. H. HUTCHINSON LaMoure . Fourth Judicial District | R.G.McFARLAN! Jamestown Fifth Judicial District : JOHN C. LOWE Minot Sixth Judicial District = | FRANK T.LEMBKE | Hettinger | ° | Name of Office Name of Candidate P.O. Address | Name of Office Name of Candidate | P.O. Address i County Superintendent ' MARIE HUBER + Bismarck |County Surveyor ' T. R. ATKINSON | Bismar of Schools | LAURA L, LITTLE Bismarck | Sheriff | FRED E. ANSTROM Bismarck {County Coroner | L. W. LARSON | |_ CHRIS J. MARTINESON ¢| Bismarck ; |_ Bismarck County Auditor i CLAIR G. DERBY Bismarck |County Commissioner— | C. A. SWANSON m | FRANK C. ELLSWORTH Bismarck Second District CHARLES A. ANDERSON | Moffit | ERNEST ELNESS: Bismarck | A. C. ISAMINGER Bismarck : i - { County Treasurer \ ART BENSON Bismarck |County Commissioner— | TEBBO HARMS ‘Menoken 4 : JOHN P. BOREN Bismarck Fifth District | VICTOR MOYNIER Bismarck JOHN P. DANROT+- Bismarck | LYNN W. SPERRY Bismarck JAMES C. MEISNER Bismarck {| | WALFRID TRYGG Bismarck » LUDVIG QUANRUD | Bismarck ' W. G. WORNER+ Bismarck | THEODORE R. TAYLOR Wilton | | | Clerk of District Court | CHAS. FISHER | Bismarck | Justices of the Peace H. R. BONNY} Bismarck | : Z | A. E. SHIPP Bismarck Register of Deeds FRED SWENSON Bismarck , [Constables - !. G. E, BRENNISE i | CLARENCE HANSON i OLE F. A. ROBERTS Bismarck State’s Attorney | FE. McCURDY Bismarck | Official Newspaper THE BISMARCK CAPITAL | Bismarck — |. GEORGE 8. REGISTER} Bismarck . THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. Bismarck County Judge lI. C, DAVIES-- Bismarck | ; | G. OLGEIRSON Bismarck : : | SPENCER SELL Bismarck | I, Clair G. Derby, County Auditor of Burleigh County, North Dakota, do hereby certify that the persons whose names appear on this certificate have filed ‘petitions for nomination as candidates for the office under which they have been designated in conformity with law governing Primary Election and that their names will appear upon the official Primary Election Ballot to be voted at the Primary Election to be held in all the Precincts of Burleigh County on June ‘24, 1986. At said election the polls will be opened at nine o’clock a. m., and closed at seven o'clock p. m. on said day. Dated at Bismarck this 15th day of June, 1986.