The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 17, 1937, Page 2

| none -diapieliedhdiinniatiinnenieitiatat 2 NO ARRANGEMENTS MADE BY VINJE 10 SENTENCE SLAYER Kidder State's Attorney Says) He Is Still Investigating Steele Murder Steele, N. D., Dec. 17.—(4)—State’s Attorney Arne Vinje of Kidder county | declared Friday he had made “no ar-) rangements” to take Keith Craig, 21, confessed slayer of Mrs, Hugh Arm- strong, before a district court judge. “I am still investigating the case,” Vinje asserted, “and I am not pre- pared to say what action will be taken.” Craig confessed to slaying the Kid-| der county farm mother tiary for “safe! over to district cot by Bell at Steele, Dec. 7. Warden A. J. Loudenbeck of the} state penitentiary said Craig has not been given a number and is only te- ing held. for “safekeeping at request | s: of Kidder county officials.” WINTERS FUNERAL * F Neighbors to Act as Pall Bear- ers for Shields Man Who Died Here Wednesday Funeral services for Ray Winters, Shields, who died in a hospital here Thursday will be conducted from St. Gabriel's Catholic church nine miles! Southwest of Shields at 10 a. m. Sat- ov. 30 after | js he was brought to the state peniten- | s: He an State Councillor Is New Swiss President Johannes Bau- mann, a state councillor, who has been _promi- nent in Switzer- land's national af- fairs since 1934, has just been chosen president of the Swiss Confederation for 1938, Herr Bau- mann will serve @ one-year term. J NUB8 x: NEWS! | — Henry John- 10:38 a, m., Marriage Licenses a Jenner, Bismarck, rence Brewster, Fort Loretta and Thomas. Hearing on the application of the Community Telephone company to buy the telephone exchange lines at Maxbass from Theodore P. Clifford and William Clifford will be held. in Bismarck Dec, 23, A communion breakfast was spon- sored by the Pep club of St, Mary's ministry building, the largest and, most handsome structure in the city. ,gunnin; high’school for students of the entire Three hours later it was a smoldering |sleves of ruin high school Friday. Following the 7a. m., Mass, breakfast was served in St. Mary's auditorium. Paul Angell of Wahpeton, graduate urday with Rev. Amandus Bolaris Of- | of the electrical trades course of the ficiating. | |State School of Science, has joined ‘ the staff of the North Dakota Power be peut and Light company in Bismarck as a meter tester. Pall bearers will be Arsemus Volk, Dale Cook, John Brown, Philip Angel, Mike Tishmak and John Hirsch, all of that vicinity. Winters, who had been ill for about eight days before he was brought to the hospital here five days before his/| death, leaves his widow and mother in addition to four brothers and sis- ters. The brothers are Melcher, John, Matt and Sig, all of Raleigh, N. D., and the sisters are Mrs, Elias Volk and Margaret and Agnes Winters, also of Raleigh. Gay, His mother, Mrs. Matt Winters, is also a resident of the Raleigh com- munity. Winters was married Feb. 24, 1937, to Mrs. Rose Blotsky. In addition to members of his own family he leaves two step-children, Isabelle, 6, and Marie, 4. Still Good Seats Left For ‘Candida’ Tonight Although it is practically certain that a packed house will see the Bis- marck Community Players’ presenta- tion of “Candida” in the city auditor- tum tonight, there still are many good seats left for playgoers who plan to buy tickets at the boxoffice, accord- ing to Harrison Monk, president, “Advance ticket sales have been even better than we expected,” Monk declared, “but there still are many good seats left. Those that get there early will be the ones who will get them.” The curtain will go up for the first act promptly at 8:15 p. m. and suit- | Knoll, able entertainment has been provided for between acts, Monk said. ‘ Mrs. P. R. Smyth, 218 Third St., is seriously ill in St. Alexius hospital. Whooping cough and convulsions and Nick Boehm, 405 Twelfth St., came to the aid of Mrs. R. C. Nelson, 816 Main ave., when she slipped and fell while crossing the street between the old college building and Copelin’s ga- rage on Sixth St, and Main Ave. ‘Tuesday evening. Mrs. Nelson was treated for scalp wounds. National Commander Maple T. Harl of the Disabled American Veterans of the World War will speak at 9:45 p. m. today over the Columbia broadcasting system. Interred in Riverview cemetery at Wilton Thursday afternoon was Mrs. Marie Elsberg, 78, who died in Oak- land, Calif, Sunday, Rev G. W. Stewart, pastor of the First, Presby- terian church of Mandan, officiated. John Barth, 58, long time Mandan resident, was laid to rest Friday morn- ing in Mandan after funeral services in St. Joseph's Catholic church with Rev. Hildebrand Eickhoff officiating. Pallbearers were John Fiterer, Frank Adam Fleck, Joseph Kautz- Schafer and J. K. Fer- man, Chris derer. First Church of Christ, Scientist Bismarck, North Dakota Announces a F; 'ree Lecture on CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Entitled: “Christian Science, the Law of God” ‘By Paul Stark Seeley, C.S.B. OF PORTLAND, ORE. Member of The Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass, —in COURT HOUSE, FRIDAY the— EVENING, DEC. 17, 1937 Eight-thirty o’Clock THE PUBLIC IS CORDIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND ‘This lecture wil} be radiocast over Station KFYR, Bismarck, 550 Kil. TURKEY SATURDAY 25c_ —— Scott’s 5 and 10c Store Santa Here All Day Saturday Bring the Kiddies OPEN EVENINGS DINNER THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1937 D SUPREME COURT 70 CONSIDER PREJUDICE MINNESOTA MAN, - MISSING SINCE OCT. 10, FOUND John Crom, Blooming Prairie, Held in Mississippi; Body Was Found in Car . mysterious disappearance of John Crom, Blooming Prairie, Minn., live- stock buyer, after an unidentified burned body was found in his aban- doned car, appeared answered Friday, Police held a man they said was Crom for questioning by Missouri au- thorities. A man’s embalmed body was found in a car listed to Crom, Oct. 20 near Edina, Mo. A nationwide search had failed to reveal the Min- nesota man's whereabouts. Crom disappeared about Oct. 10 after leaving with @ load of horses for Meridian where his wife said he had planned to sell the animals he bought in South St, Paul, Minn, INTERESTED ONLY IN DEAD MAN’S IDENTITY Edina, Mo., Dec. 17.—()—Prosecut- ing Attorney W. Stewart of Knox county said Friday he was interested only in identifying ti embalmed body of a man, found Oct. 20 in & burned automobile belonging to John Minn. NTINUE CONTINUED Eye-Witness Tells of Flight From Nanking, ! wild cries of Chinese, rifle fire, and deafening explosions. Japanese ar- tillery batteries pounding steadily in Defense Is Futile At sunrise I saw the remaining city wall defenders 200 yards away, en- gaged in a futile attempt to halt the Japanese advance, Later in the morning I found that the Japanese had reached Nanking’s northeastern entrance, “the gate of claimed the life of Dolores Elizabeth, | penevol ” 14-months-old daughter is ME. 5 eyoient peace, Mrs, George D. Zander of Mandan. | agnese scouts 1 through @ breach Funeral services were held Wednes-| in thie (pate Pehle the Rising Sun I got there just in time to see Jap- flag to a mast. Monday Japanese were mopping up remnants of Chinese troops inside the walls, Tuesday, 13, Japanese destroyers and gunboats arrived at the water- front and strafed Chinese hiding across the river in Pukow. Encircle- ment of the city was completed. - Chinese losses during the four-day fight in and around Nanking were about 5,000. Several hundred more were shot or trampled in the rout. Jap- anese since then have shot another thousand Chinese soldiers and sev- eral hundred civilians, I had no way of knowing the ex- tent of Japanese casualties, SORENSON TO DULUTH Minneapolis, Dec. 17 —()— The board of regents of the University of Minnesota Friday accepted the resig- nation of Herbert Sorenson, associ- ate professor of education so that he may become president of Duluth Teachers college. Weather Report | WEATHER FORECAST For Bismarck and _ vicinity: tonight and Saturda: no change in temperature. For North and South Dakott erally fair tonight and Satur decided change in temperature. For Montana: Partly cloudy, and south, probably snow fiur: northwest portion tonight and urday; little change in temperaturi Minnesots Partly cloudy night and Saturday; no decided change in temperature. WEATHER CONDITIONS The barometric pressure is low over the Mississippi Valley and from the northwestward inches, Valley and in the Pacitfi throughout prevail in ail sectioi 28.09. Reduced to sea level, 2! Sunrixe, 8:2: Sunset, 4:59 p. m. PRECIPITATION For Bismarck Station: Total this month to date Normal, this month to dat Total, January 1st to dat Normal, January lst to di Accumulated excess to date NORTH DALOT A FOLNTS BISMARCK, clear Devils Lake, Minot, cldy. Williston, cle WEATHER AT ocnEr POINTS 8 Wi Sheridan, W; Sioux Cit; Spokane, Switt Curre som reree Secescccoen en! Meridian, Miss., Dec. 17—(?)}—The the Crom, stock buyer of Blooming Prairie, | tant states, Elsewhere the western districts the weather is gen- erally fair. Moders temperatures Bismarck station barometer. inches: CONTINUE from pebe one. Apology Before Protest May Be Thought Enough States vessel as she steamed along- side the flagship Augusta, ending her 220-mile trip down the Yangtze. On board were the bodies of Store- keeper Charlé L. vivors, 15 of them wounded. A naval court of inquiry boarded the Oahu down the Whangpo at Pootung. |. How Japanese warplanes machine- t gunned the small boats carrying wounded men ashore from the Panay —causing more wounds—was told in detail in Shanghai tonight by sur- vivors of the disastrous alr attack, They confirmed earlier reports— idenied by the Japanese. : Hear Planes Overhead J. W. Geist, engineer officer from, the Panay was anchored at noontime Sunday 28 miles above Nanking. After heard overhead, “Without warning, 'said. at about 7,000 feet came over afid deep. “We were all stunned by the initial blast. The concussion was so great it bent shields on numerous guns and rendered them unfit for action. Neces. “We got the boats down and put overboard and swam. days someone called ‘they are dropping bombs,” Geist/charged with “Three heavy bombers flying | amounts for a highway right of way. WRITS IN FEW DAYS Counsels to Submit Briefs in Cases Involving Ward, Minot Officials Validity of affidavits of prejudice against Judge W. K. Kneeshaw, pre- viously designated to hear cases based on grand jury indictments of Howard W. Garrison, former police chief .of Minot, and E. A, Donnelly and Bertel preme court, within a few days. At the conel iLocal Men to Report On People’s Congress) Four Bismarck delegates to the People’s Congress for Peace and De- mocracy in Pittsb » '. will report on the activities of the con- gress at a meeting in the city auditor- jum here at 2:30 p. m. Saturday. | Delegates to the convention were | O, E. Johnson, representing the North Dakota Farmers’ Union; L. C. Miller, 1epresenting the Nonpartisan league, and H, J. Roberts:and Adam Voight, representing Bismarck labor groups. No admission will be charged but a free-will offering to defray the cost of the auditorium will be taken. Minnesota Fowl Take Home Honors in Valley City, N. D., Dec, 17- FARGO GIRL ON Duluth, Fargo, N. D., girl, government witness cases. being tried Friday, collapsed twice on the stand Thursday as she testified how two men brought her here for im- Immoral Purposes sinn., white siave ‘traffic . known as Delores Appel, req medical attention one time, and court attendants aided her the other. She testified in cases against Ar- —()—A'thur Hancock and James Wilson, Jacobsen, Ward county commissioners,|single comb white leghorn cockerel,)charged with conspiracy to violate will be considered by the state su-lexhibited by R. W: Mullen, Alexan-|the white slave laws. The men are dria, Minn,, won the grand champion- | alleged to have transported Miss Ehl- Marie Birkedahl, Fargo, lusion of oral arguments | ship chicken ribbon at the 44th annual] ringer and North Dakota Poultry show, judges | here for immoral purposes, Thursday night, Chief Justice A. M. Christianson allowed Milton Higgins, assistant attorney general, and E. R. which to submit briefs. The issue hinges on when the af- The two commissioners were paying excessive Higgins’ supplementary affidavit }loosed explosives. One hit the bridge, asserted Kneeshaw was “highly fa- igen geld iemeas: . Reread ea vorable to the defense and Sppored ea close Dp. walls | the position of the state,” ase of the craft and allowing water to|by Jadge Kneeshaw's remarks to the|0! future planes will dwart any now pour in. Quickly the water was knee| jury when the case against the two commissioners was dismissed. LAWYER, WIFE SHOT Quitman, Ga., Dec. 17.—(#)—Lee W. Branch, former president of the “After the three big bombers went/Georgia Bar association and one of over, six small planes came and power | the state's outstanding attorneys, and |™ dived, bombing as well as machine-|his wife were shot to death in their |9:80 a. m. (CST), ap) gus. Their shrapnel made|home Friday. Patrolman Grady Mar- | tim the light armament of the|able said the two were killed by Liv- | stound. fe Panay. The engine room was torn to|ingston Snow, Mrs. Branch’s Throughout the night I heard the /P! ‘the injured in them, heading for the} Fargo, N. D., Dec. 17.()—John|Montkoy died on the gallows at the north bank of the river, Some jumped | A. Oleen, 38, secretary of the United] C‘ty-county building here Friday, two Benevolent Society here since Sep- “There was no doubt the Japanese | tember, 1933, died here Thursda: knew we were American. CONTINUE Frank Will Head Republican Group announced are Col, Theodore Roose- velt of New York; Cecil B. DeMille, motion picture producer; Edward M. Duffield of New Jersey, president of the Prudential Life Insurance com- pany; Frank E. Gannett, New York newspaper publisher and Mrs. Ogden oe ee ob einen ore meee, une, ‘ Invitations to serve as chairmen were sent Former President Herbert Hoover; Alf M. Landon, G.OP. presidential candidate in 1986; Col. Frank running mate, and Charles G. vice-president. Mounced by Hamilton include: Montana—Frank Hazelbaker, Dillon, Stockman, and Mrs. Gladys Henrich, Helena, vice chairman, Republican state committee. ‘ South Dakota—Dwight E. Camp- bell, Aberdeen, former chief justice of the state supreme court. North Dakota—Former Gov. George Shafer, Bismarck lawyer, and Thomas Whelan, St. Thomas, farmer. ‘Temper Policies,’ SWOC Tells Chiefs Pittsburgh, Dec. 17.—(#)}—The Steel ‘Workers Organizing committee, end- ing its first national congress in this ‘steel capital, gave ite officers instruc- tions Friday to temper the policies they will pursue in forthcoming con- tract negotiations with 446 companies, announced Thursday. is Charge Grand champions in various classes} James Van Patter and Walter Carl- Sinkler, Minot, defense counsel, two/included American, white rock cock|son, former..cab drivers. who a jury conspiracy to place .17-y old. el & 17-year. Altoona, Pa., told the Associated Press| fidavit in the Garrison case compiled | shang cockerel, owned by Arthur Elu-|in # house of ill fame, pleaded guilty with a state law fixing time for filing, !cas, Montevideo, Minn.; Mediterran: charge of and whether a supplementary affi-/ean, white leghorn cockerel owned lunch call had sounded, planes were)davit filed by Higgins constitute / yar. Mullen and English, dark cornish | and Superior, Wis. grounds for naming a new judge. owned by Mr. and Mrs. Ward Stephan, Minn,, Asiatic, white = hen owned by Mr. Klucas. Army Planes in Air in the air, aviation officials said Fri- day on the 34th anniversary of the first airplane flight by Orville and ‘Wilbur Wright. Observing the anniversary of the Wrights’ flight, now national aviation. day, the army ordered all its avaflable military planes into the air at or near proximately e Orville Wright first left HANGS FOR ATTACK Covington, Ky., Dec. 17—(?)—John and one-half years after the young Negro was convicted of criminal at- tack on a white woman. Drama storms from the’ screen .« Straight te your heat... in the exciting story of two Today +. one from a castle, one from & Sat. Capitol the gutters...who come fighting through! Not since “Captains Courageous" such a soul thrill! FROM THE SA ME STUDIO THAT GAVE YOU “CAPTAI COURAGEOUS’’A NS ND “DEVIL IS A SISSY’! ‘DONT CRY. | convicted day by - | to of the same by | girl across state lines between Duluth ‘Willie E. (Little Willie) Foreman, Duluth, and Harlan Rippatee, Fargo, were given penitentiary sentences Fri- Judge M. M. Joyce for viola: tions of the white slave traffic la) To Honor Wrights) "te tnam “who ‘pleaded guilty. to Washington, Dec. 17.—(}—The alse treffie for Admission 10c & 2c 411 Broadway Bismarck, N. Dak. Corona Silent” Typewriter With “Touch Selector” i: Maroon - Black - Green i Terms: $5.00 Down—A Year to Pay peel | Walter W. McMahon. i Cororia"Standard, Sterling and “Silent” Portable Typewriters At the DOME Tonight at 9 Brought to Duluth for ‘Dec. 17—(P)}—A interatate immoral purposes, got 3%-year term and Rippatoe, plead- ing guilty to conspiracy to violate the Mann act, was given a 13-months penitentiary term. Two others in the white slave cases were sentenced Friday. Sally Law- rence, Superior, convicted of conspir- acy, received @ six-months county jail sentence and Willie tne Foreman’s wife, the | Alice, received term, four months jail Today - Sat. & Sun. Also Selected Short Subjects SMARC acanin, ano Ravry! 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