The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-17
ATTEMPT MADE
|. BY BURGLARS TO
ROB JEWEL SHOP
Football Ransacked-Far-
COS First Experience
With "Lightless Night"

II One attempted burglary Of q
Jewelry store and the entrance Into q
poolroom, which was ransacked, fea-
tured Fargo's first experience with
''ightless nights" and brought q
statement from chief of Police Louis
Dahlgren this morning that the fed
eral fuel administrations order Of
fers no protection whatever to the
police officers.
. Special Agent George d. Mcdowell
Of the Northern Pacific, in the Fargo
police station when Chief OF Police
Z Dahlgren made the statement, added
that 'IightIess nights" will be duck
soup for criminals"
| Il felt 1t in my bones as soon az
I / read the announcement in the
Saturday afternoon newspaper" said
4 Chief Dahlgren. The chief stated
that he would take the matter up
with the fuel administrator, Robert
B. Blakemore.
One Man Under Arrest.
! Patrick Kelly, transient, was ar
rested at the rear of the Bolles &.
Rogers hides store at 300 Broadway
between $3.50 and 10 o'clock Sunday
night by Patrolman William WEIGH.
Kelly is being held at the police sta
ton while the matter is being laid
before Assistant States Atty. Will
liam G. Green.
Police believe that an attempt was
frustrated by Officer WEIGH to rob
the Levin jewelry store in the same
building as the hide company, and
that Kelly was standing guard in the
alley while a pal ouerated somewhere
in that vicinity. According to the
police, q door connects the hide store
with the jewelry shop on the main
floor, and once inside the hide house,
the burglars would have had no
difficulty in getting into the jewelry
department. The other man escaped.
Kelly told the police he was wait
ing in the alley for bottle of whisky
which was to be delivered TO him by
a second person.
Poolroom Ransocked.
A pooIroom located at 216 Front
street was ransacked during the
evening, a photograph, several rec
ords and cigars being taken. En-
francs was gained into the place aft
err one of the basement windows was
broken.
The federal order as put into eff
feet by the Fargo fuel administrator
Saturday afternoon does not demand
that all the lights be extinguished In
the stores. 1t clearly states that on
not open for business must not show
more inside light than is necessary
for safety" 1t was limited today that
many of the business men did not
interpret the order clearly for in
some of the stores all the lights were
discontinued completely.
The official order as served on the
Union Light, Heat & Power Co., and
as mailed TO the householders to get
their cooperation follows;
The Official Order.
Effective today Saturday all
signs of every kind, including mer-
chants signs, theater signs, also dis
play lighting on buildings and else
where, hotel signs and advertising
signs are ordered discontinued COM
pletely on Thursday and Sunday
| nights of each week.
"On these nights stores not open
! for business must not show more in
side light than is necessary for safe
ty. municipalities with cluster
/ lights or other bright lighting fol
! white way effect must reduce or
| Thursday and Sunday nights to show
such lighting only as is necessary
for safety.
These nights will be called light
less nights Have your local news
papers urge householders to observe
these nights with as few lights in the
homes as possible. The spirit OF the
order is that there shall be no mor'
lighting than Is absolutely essentta
for safety, for streets, passage and
danger spots on Thursday and sun
1 day nights"