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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-10-17
STATE ADDITION
IS HELD SUNDAY
FOR 10 ENTRIES
Clara Peltier Among Those
Competing in Contest TO
Find Radio Talent
RADIO LISTENERS VOTE
Judges Decision to Count 40
Per Cent-BallOts of Fans
Count 60 Per Cent
RADIO LISTENERS VOTE

Eleven young women and eight
young men We'd to determine who
has the best radio voice in North
Dakota when the state addition of
the Atwater-Kent foundation was
broadcast over station KGCU at
Mandan Sunday night.
Each contestant sang one sopg and
each was designated only by a let
ter of the alphabet, SO that the
choice might be purely on the basis
Of merit. One young man and one
young woman arc to be chosen and
will be entered in. the midwest dis
trict addition over station WGN,
Chicago.
Judges of the contest, S. p. Orwell.
Bismarck: Mrs w. II. Stutsman and
Earl Prall, Mandan, "listened in" on
the broadcast at q private home.
Their choice Of the winner counts 40
per cent toward the final selection.
Radio ballots of listeners count 60
per cent.
Taking part in the contest were:
Clara Pelticr, Bismarck; Vava Byer-
ly. Mandan; Ernest Grewer, Glen
Ullin; Helen y. Froehlich and Ken
meth Carroll, Dickinson; Marie Les
ter, Robert Johannson, jamestown;
Evelyn Larson, Carston Egge, May
vile; Pearl f. Jellison, Irving Nell
son, Williston; Jeanne Eddy, Hans
Thorgrimson, Grand Forks; Beatrice
Dompier, Towner; Myron Dunnell,
Minot; Dorothy Combellick, Ellen
dale; Verna Peterson, Fargo; Soloma
Leihler, Langdon.
Mrs. A. G. Sorlie was the head of
the STATE committee in charge of the
contests.
Votes are to be tabulated and the
winners announced some time Wed
nesday. Mrs. A. G. Sorlie, wife OF
the governor, is head of the COM
mittec which is to tabulate the bal
lots.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-10-17
FEAR OF KNIVES
BRINGS MURDER
Butcher Slew Wife Because
She Terr0rized Him With I'm
plements, He Says

New York, Oct. 17.-(AP)-Fear
of knives is the reason assigned by q
six-foot butcher for strangling the
woman he loved.
Harry Gilmore was in Jail today.
having confessed that he killed Mrs.
Helen Brandon because she terror
lied him by implements of the sort
he cut meat with every day.
They had come, he said, from
Washington five weeks ago on the
understanding that he would support
her in return for her services in
keeping house for him, Mrs. Bran
don deeerting her husband and TAX
ing her eight-year-old son Billy with
her.
But Gilmore told that the woman
had not lived up to her bargain, that
she had lazily neglected to make his
meals, or wake him in time for
work, and-last of long list of in
dignations, had refused to iron his
shirt.
In answer to his remonstrances,
Mrs. Brandon usually flourished a
knife at him, knowing, said Gilmore,
that he had a fear of knives.
Mrs. Brandon was known as Mrs.
Samuel Young in Washington. Her
husband left Washington to take
charge OF the body here.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-10-17
American Aviatrix 10 Let
Tresses Grow, She An
nOunces - Another Chapter
in Story cs~Hcrcis,.n@ Re-
counted by Co-pilot of Amer.
ican Girl

Horta, Island of Fayal, Oct. II.
-fP,-Ruth Elder is through with
bobbed hair.
The American aviatrix who start
ed on flight from New York to
Paris with a pastel-tinted bandcau
over her rebellious brown hair, was
introduced to the barber yesterday
by her co-pilot of the lost "Amer-
lean Girl" George Haldcman, who
had decided she needed her hair
trimmed.
In spite of the barber's willing
ness to accept the honor of being
the first to bob Miss Elders hair
after her thrilling rescue at sea by
the crew of the Dutch tanker Barren
drecht, the aviatrix refused his
services. Haldeman tried to per-
suade her, but Miss Elder insisted
her hair must now grow.
Shows Heroism
Another chapter in the story of
Miss Elders heroism was added
during q day Of receptions and
laudations. Before their descent to
the sea $50 miles from land last
Thursday, her courage was tested
in a breath-taking manner. The
flyers had been driving through q
sleet storm. The tail of the plane,
on which q heavy coating of sleet
had formed, became too heavy for
the machine to be kept on even
keel.
Something had to be done to right
this. There was some gasoline
stored in the tail of the plane - a
reserve supply to be used in an
emergency. Haldeman and Miss
Elder consulted each other as to
what should be done. They decided
that the reserve supply of gasoline
would have to be jettisoned.
They then took turns at the stick,
while one or the other crawled along
the. icy fuselage Of the plane, then
flying over the tossing Atlantic, and
threw overheard some. Of the re-
serve supply.
Ruth took her turn at crawling
along the fuselage without tre-
NOR, it was related, and this chore
accomplished returned to do her
shift at the stick.
Wear Plus Fours
Although Miss Elder wore her
plus-fours, cricket .irt, plaid
sweater and socks to match, most Of
the day, she exchanged these once
for Z Paris !, ywn loaned her by Mrs.
George F. Mackay, wife Of the traf-
fic director of the Western Union
Cable company here. at whose home
she was a guest. She appeared at
dinner in this gown. which had to
be tucked in at several places owing
to her being more slender than her
hostess.
Miss Elder and Haldeman had
luncheon in the cable company's
mess rodn, where the American
residents kept them so long telling
Of their adventure that the flyers
were prevented from accepting the
invitation Of the B itish consulate
to have tea there. Heavy rains pre-
vented them from touring the island.
The Portuguese mail goat Lima ie
expected to arrive at Lisbon. Portu-
gal, with the flyers Wednesday. The
flyers will journey overland from
Lisbon to Paris. according to pres
ent plans.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-10-17
TARIFF MATTER
Is AT IMPASSE
American Officials Fail to
Agree on Proposals At.
tached to Note

Washington, Oct. 17.-(AP)-
Proposals contained in the French
tariff note received Saturday night
are unsatisfactory to state depart
ment officials so far as their exam
ination Of the document has pro-
ceeded.
The department did not make pub
lie any summary Of the note today,
but it was indicated that conditions
attached by the French government
to concessions as to the customs
status Of American goods during
commercial treaty negotiations do
not satisfy Washington officials.
The specific character Of these
conditional concessions was not re-
vealed. It was indicated that the
French communication would have
to be studied in conjunction with the
tariff commission and the commerce
department before the American
answer could be prepared.
Some doubt existed whether the
conditions were to be regarded as
inseparable from the grant Of con-
cessions. In that event, it appeared
certain that new deadlock in the
tariff controversy was impending.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-10-17
CLOSED BANKS
ARE AIDED BY
COURTS ACTION
Thousands of Dollars Added to
Assets Of InSOlvent Insti-
tutiOnS

Thousands of dollars will be added
to the assets of closed state banks
by the decision of the supreme court
today in the case Of L. r. Baird, re-
ceiver Of the Williams County State
Bank VS.. the First National Bank
of Williston.
Although the amount involved in
the suit was $6,783.47 the principle
Of law applied by the court will give
the receiver power to collect many
items for the benefit of creditors of
the closed banks which he is admin
istering.
In the decision the court held that
a banking corporation differs from
the ordinary commercial corpor-
alton in that it has no right to prefer
its creditors. Previous decisions,
bearing on the powers of corpora
tions generally, had held that cor
poratiOns had such a right under
the common law. The decision re-
affirmed the general ruling as to
the right of corporation to
prefer it's creditors but held that
banking corporations fall into a diff
ferent classification because of their
nature and the statute governing
their operation.
According to the record as review
ed in the decision, the First National
Bank collected from the First State
Bank $6,783.47 in cash to cover
paper which it had accepted from
the state bank for clearance. The
action was taken after the national
bank officials learned that the state
bank would not reopen it's doors but
before the public knew the state
bank had become insolvent, the
record shows.
Baird, as receiver, contended that
the First National Bank had been
placed in the position Of a preferred
creditor and brought suit to recover
the money.
The case was appealed by the de-
fendant from the Williams county
district court which overruled the
defendants demurrer to the com.
plant.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-10-17
LEVINE PLANS
NEW EXPLOITS
Transatlantic Air Passenger,
Back in u. S., Considers
Another Project

New York. Oct. II. (AP) -
Charles A. Levine, the only transat-
lantic air passenger, came home to-
day.
He announced on his arrival that
he would fly the reverse journey,
from Europe to America, next sum-
mer, and that within two years he
would have in operation an ocean air
mail service carrying letters to Eu-
rope for so cents apiece.
Levine was taken from the Lcvia-
than at Quarantine on the city tug
Macon, which carried the mayors
reception committee hea d d by
Grover Whalen and relatives and
friends of the flyer. Clarence Cham
berlin, Levine's pilot on his ocean
hop, was not on the Macon and no
reason for his absence was given.
Levine accorded reporters a
lengthy interview on the Macon as
it steamed up the bay, but friends
stopped all questions dealing with
in which the air passen.
ger became embroiled during his four
and half months in Europe.
"How about the fight you had
with an American on the street in
Paris?" was the first question of
this type asked. Levine opened his
mouth to answer but a friend inter-
rupted.
"There is no truth in that report y
he said. eve won't talk about
that"
Tells Of Stealing Plane
In like manner Levine was asked
and prevented from replying to ques-
tions about his differences with the
French pilot he hired to fly him
back to America. He did, however,
talk some about the time he "stole''
his own plane at Paris and flew it
to London.
ut was the first time I had ever
been in plane alone" he said with
2 smile, "and some of the journey
was very amusing. When / got
over Croydon airdromc I had to
laugh. to see them run out the am
bulante for me-"
Levine was cheered by crowd Of
several hundred when he stepped
ashore. Because Of the early hour
there was no parade TO City Hall,
Levine proceeding with his wife and
daughter to hotel under police es-
cort. The formal reception at City
Hall was scheduled for noon.
Z In his interview Levine would
barely sketch his plans for future
air enterprises.
1--WE got all kinds of plans," he
said. "But let other people do the
talking. Ill do the flying"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-10-17
KANSAS DEAN
SHOOTS SELF
" Official Gives No Reason
For Suicide-Watchman
Finds Body

Lawrence, Kan. Oct. 17.-(AP)--
Dean Perley F. Walker, Of the school
of engineering and agriculture at
the University Of Kansas. shot and
killed himself in his office early to-
day. The body was discovered by 4
watchman.
Several letters to friends were
found on his desk, including one to
Chancellor Lindley, which expressed
the hope the chancellor would not
think l am too much Of q coward"
He was recognized as an authority
on water supply and had acted rs
consulting engineer for many munic-
ipalities.
OF his immediate family. only the
widow survives. Two children are
buried here.
Mrs. Walker said the dean appar-
emily was in good health and that
she knew of no motive for his act.
Dean Walker was born in Embden,
Maine, So years ago.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-10-17
PAIR IS SLAIN
IN AUTOMOBILE
BY TAXI DRIVER
Are Thrown to Street as Car
Speeds on With Dead Man
Still at Wheel
TAKES PLACE IN CHICAGO
Sudden Fit of Anger Believed
Motive For Deed-Revolver
Found in Car
TAKES PLACE IN CHICAGO

Chicago, Oct. 17.-tF-Two az
ycar-old girls were shot to death
early today and then thrown from
an automobile which sped on for Z
block before skidding to = stop
against the curb, with a dead man
at the wheel.
The driver, a bullet through his
right temple, was Wilfred Winters.
%, one-time taxi driver but recently
unemployed. The girls who were
killed were Catherine Stadler and
her chum, Margaret Martin, both
high school graduates of last year.
The triple shooting took place on
Rhodes avenue, on the south side.
The neighborhood was aroused by
the roar Of rcvolvcrs about / q. m.
At least two householders living on
the street went to their windows and
looked out in time to see the bodies
of the two girls pushed from the
automobile.
Revolver Found on Floor
The car zigzagged ahead and final.
ly struck the curb, bounding back in
to passing automobile which it
struck on the rear bumper. Winters
body was hanging over the edge of
the car. A revolver was found on
the floor board near his feet.
A block back, lying face down on
the pavement where they had been
thrown, were the bodies of the young
women. The Martin girl had been
shot twice in the back. One bullet
fired at Miss Stadler entered her
body under the right arm and lodged
near her heart.
Winters had been casually atten-
tive to Miss Martin for several
months, her father said, but he did
not believe the .wo were in love.
Winters, according to the girls faith
er and to his own relatives, had been
in poor health for some time. He
only recently returned from the west
where he had gone in the hope his
ailing would be benefited.
Anger Believed Motive
Mrs. William J. Martin offered the
only suggestion as to a possible mo-
tive for the shooting Of her daugh-
ter. She said she believed Winters
had killed Margaret because she
would not marry him, and that, in
a moment of anger or unbalanced
mind. also had shot the Stadler girl
and then himself.
Winters lived next to the Martins
while attending high school and was
we'll known and liked by the girls
family, police were told.
Winters, his friends told officers,
was industrious and quiet, though
he was said to have been morose
of late, because of his health.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-10-17
MANY INDICTED
IN KHAN CASE
FlOggings Attributed to II
Men-Warrants Out For
% Others

Luverne, Alabama, Oct. 17.-E-
Seventeen men, including Ira B.
Thompson, alleged exalted cyciops
Of the local Klavefn of the Ku Klux
Klan, were held today under bonds
totaling $4,000 in connection with
flogging in Crenshaw county.
Men were charged in 66 indict-
ments with kidnapping and assault
and battery.
Twenty-eight persons named in
similar indictments had not been ar
rested but officials announced that
all would be taken into custody.
The il r1ictments were the result
of the most sweeping investigation
into masked violence ever undertake
en- in Alabama. Attorney General
Charles G. Mccall who conducted the
Investigation seized records and
paraphernalia Of the Luverne kla-
vern of the klan and attributed d.
rectly ITO the evil leadership in the
Ku Klux Klan, at war with all con-
stituted authorities, the barbarian
terrorism in Crenshaw county"
Trial Of the men will probably be
held November 81, Mr.. Mccall said.
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borough, pulled the wire which
dumped 260 gallons, almost q third
of the load, into the air where it
sprayed back in a great white cloud.
The first word of Mrs. Frances W..
Grayson as she stepped from the
plane was to Captain Harry M.
Jones': 1--WE must have 26O gal
Ions of gasoline at once. We will
shift SO gallons aft to give her q
better balance ahd try it again."
They still had almost two hours
before the tide would block the at
tempt.
Faced by the fact that all of the
needed gasoline was not available,
and that much time was necessary to
load it, it was decided after a con-
ference that the flight must be post
poned from this tide. Since the next
low tide tonight will be after dark,
tomorrow morning will be the first
opportunity.
The Sikorsky amphibian had risen
easily from the beach after a run of
less than a mile. Scarcely had the
nose been pointed toward its Eu-
ropean goal, however, when it was
seen that she was rapidly losing the
altitude gained.
The plane was barely 20 feetAbove
the water when the gasoline was
dumped. 1t took less than a minute
to ease the plane of the contents Of
the two tanks which streamline the
motors, just below t c upper wing.
Comes Back
The ship then climbed as though
an anchor had been cast off and was
nearly lost to view over the ocean as
it sped east past Prouts Neck. Then
the cry went up from the hundreds
of watchers on the beach: "She is
coming back"
Mrs. Stultz and Mrs. Goldsborough
were standing on the sands. Never
q word did they say during the criti-
cal moments before the gasoline was
dumped. Only when the plane was
again over the beach did Mrs. Colds.
borough exclaim:
Didn't they drop that gas quick.
lly?"
After circling about to the south
ward, Pilot Stultz brought the Dawn
down to perfect landing and came
to a stop in front of the hangar,
where the plane had awaited its
chance for exactly a week.
Navigator 0oldsborough said that
the plane took the air in So seconds.
The dumping of the load, which
saved the ship, took 40 seconds. AL
though all three flyers were obvious
ly disappointed at the false start,
Goldsborough said:
ut was of much value as a test
flight, for everything functioned
beautifully. We will correct the bal
ance and, feel sure, will make it
next time. We hope that will be to-
morrow morning."
Mrs. Grayson, through this latest
difficulty kept up her cheerfulness.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-10-17
Kansas City Host
to Medical Meet

Kansas City, Oct. 17.-(N-Sever-
al thousand physicians and surgeons.
many of them internationally fam
GUS, were here today to attend lee
lures and clinics and otherwise par
ticipate in meetings OF the Inter-
state Postgraduate Medical associa-
tjon Of North America and the Kan
xas City Southwest Clinical society.
Many revolutionary discoveries IN
the field Of medicine have been an
nounced at it's meetings and its con-
vertion sessions are watched closely
throughout The world.
Among those high in the medical
nrofcssion who will address the
meetings is DR.. Charles H. Mayo,
Rochester, Mimi.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-10-17
CONSPIRACY IN
LEASE CHARGED.
BY GOVERNMENT
Conviction Will Entail Prison
Term of Up to Two Years
For Men
CASE DELAY Is LONG
Teapot Dome Scandal Precipi-
tates Trial-Many Wit
nesses Called

Washington, Oct. 17.-(P)-After
nearly three years Of delay sought
first by the defense and then by the
government, Albert =. Fall and
Harry F. Sinclair were called to trial
in the District Of Columbia supreme
court today on a criminal charge,
conviction upon which would entail
q prison term Of up to two years.
The former interior secretary and
the multi-millionaire oil operator
and race horse owner, are accused
by the government Of conspiracy as
a result Of the lease. of The Teapot
Dome naval oil reserve in Wyoming
to Sinclair's Mammoth Oil company
made by Fall serving in the Hard
ing cabinet.
To prove their case, Owen j. Rob-
erts, and Atlee Pomerenc, special
government counsel, are relying up
on more than three score witnesses.
The defense also will summon a
large array, but whether the prin-
cipals in this new act of the oil
drama will takc the witness chair
is problematic.
Did Not Testify in Dome Case
Neither Of the accuse testified
in the civil suit involving Teapot
Dome, which recently was ordered
returned to the government by the
United States supreme court on the
groun that the lease was illegal
and resulted from "collusion and
conspiracy" between Fall and Sim
clair.
Government counsel said they
would present substantially the
same testimony as was adduecd in
the civil trial.
Two important witnesses sought
by the government both for the civil
case and the present trial will not
be present. They are Harry M.
Blackmer, former chairman of the
board of the Midwest Refining COM
pany, and James E. O'Neill, former
presiden. of the Prairie Oil and Gas
company, both Of whom have been
living in Europe since the oil cases
were taken to the courts.
Blackmer was served in Paris, but
American consuls abroad rever were
able to locate O'Neill. BY his fail
ure to respond to the subpoena
served by consul, Blackl,er is ia
bic to a contempt fine Of 100000
to be collected in proceedings
against his property in this coun-
try.
In the battalion f government
witnesses are a former cabinet Of
ficer, Harry M. Daugherty, several
members, past and present, of the
senate and house, government Of
fcials, bank employees and oil men.
It will be at least one day and may
be two or three before any Of them
take the stand, however, as some
difficulty is expected in drawing the
IL men who are to decide the guilt
or innocence of Fall and Sinclair.
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Weather Report

Temperature at z q. nl......... III
Highest yesterday ........... 66
Lowest last night. $50. n
Precipitation to z q. m........ Q
Highest wind velocity. 10
WEATHER FORECAST
For Bismarck and vicinity: Fair
tonight and probably I Tuesday,
Slightly warmer tonight.
For North Dakota: Fair tonight
and probably Tuesday. Slightly
warmer tonight an' southeast por-
tion Tuesday.
WEATHER CONDITIONS
A high pressure area covers the
upper Mississippi Valley and Great
Lakes region while = Low" is GEN.
tered over Alberta. The weather is
generally fair in all sections except
in the' north P.cific coast states
where showers occurred. Cool
weather prevails throughout the
high pressure area, but tempera-
lures are considerably, above the
seasonal normal over the North
Ns'''' oRRls Y. ROBERTS.
Official in charge.
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Miners Fail to
Obtain Review

sWashington, Oct. 17.-R)-The
United Mine Workers Of America
and its president, John L. Lewis,
were refused reviews by the su-
preme court today in twelve cases
in which the federal district court
for southern West Virginia granted
ipjunctions to West Virginia coal
mining companies, restraining the
union and It's officers from certain
acts in their efforts to unionize coal
mines in West Virginia.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-10-17
Ruth Elder Is Thr0uQh
With Her Bodied Hair
Pioneer in City
Dies at Seattle

Horton s. Emerison. -. ss;;.s7jA
clerk at the old Sheridan House
here in early days, died in Seat
tic September 10, according to
word received here today.
Emerson was partner Of ].
ID. Wakeman here in the hotel
business for some years and
then went to Seattle, where he is
supposed to have accumulated
considerable prOpert.
He was a member of Stevens
Pct, GAR. Funela services
were held Thursday at z p. m.
At his own request, flowers
were omitted.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-10-17
PLANE CRASHES
ON WAY WEST
English Airman's Craft, En-
Route to New Zealand,
Falls in Nevada


Elko, New, Oct. 17.-(AP) - The
biplane Wanda, piloted by Captain
Frederick A. Giles, British .airman,
crashed here today shortly after re-
suming it's flight from Detroit to
New Zealand. Giles was only slight
ly injured.
Giles jumped 20 feet to the ground
as the accident happened but the
plane, travelling fast, headed in a
deep ditch. The flyer declared his
only injury was bruised left arm.
The plane was not damaged except
the lower left wing, left wheel and
propeller, Giles said. The motor was
undamaged.
Giles said he would announce his
immediate. plans later today.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-10-17
Ban Johnson
Has Resi- g1ed

Chicago, Oct. 17.-(AP)-The
resignation Of Byron Bancroft john
son, founder and president of the
American League for q years, was
accepted today by the leagues board
Of directors.
Frank Navin, vice president Of
the league and head of the Detroit
club, said he would take charge Of
the leagues affairs until a meeting
could be called and Johnson's success
sor elected.