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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-04-11

hours ending at 7 a. m. today, local
time.
WEATHER FORECAST
For Bismarck and vicinity: Mostly
cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Slightly
colder tonight.
For North Dakota: Mostly cloudy
tonight and Tuesday. Slightly colder
tonight.
WEATHER CONDITIONS
The pressure is high over the nor
thern states and low over the South
west. Precipitation occurred over the
Mississippi Valley. Plains states and
over the middle and southern Rocky
Mountain, region while generally fair
weather prevails over the extreme
Northwest. Warm weather prevails
over the Mississippi valley and south
ern Plains States while colder wealth
er prevails over the Northwest.
0RRlS w. ROBERTS.
Official in charge.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-04-11
Weather Report

Temperature at Z a. m. ......... 80
Highest yesterday ....@...... IS
Lowest last night ...... "a
Precipitation to a. nj. .. .O9
Highest wind velocity ...... ~
Weather conditions at North Da-
kota points for the - hours ending
~ n N, tnAac.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-04-11
WEATHER FORECAST

The above record is for the 4S
hours hour ending at : a. m. today, local
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-04-11
wEATln FORECAST

Mostly cloudy tonight and Tues.
day. Slightly colder tonight.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-29
MOVE TO THWART
FURTHER ESCAPES
City Prison Rules to Be
Changed Radically.

With Alfred Henderson, Negro,
of Jackson, Mich, the second pris-
oner to escape from the city prison
in five days, still at large, Claude +.
Johnson, police chief, today an
nounced radical changes in the
methods of handling prisoners would
be inaugurated.
Henderson, held on vagrancy
charge under $4,000 bond. obtained
his liberty by palming himself off
on the turnkey and a Negro bonds
man, George Abrams. as William
Johnson, Negro, of 73S Indiana Ave,
who was held on a minor charge
under 800 bond.
Chief Johnson said he intends to
hold a conference with the municipal
court judges to decide upon details
Of the new system. Prisoners will
be guarded more closely while in
the courtroom and all prisoners
will be brought into tho court at
once and disposed of severally as
their cases are tried. When taken
from the city prison to the Marion
County Jail, prisoners will be hand
cuffed to a long chain.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-29
ASPARAGUS ON
MARKET STANDS
New Product Sells for rs
Cents a Bunch.

White asparagus was received at
the city market today. 1t sold at
% cents for small punches and 81
for large ones.
The new pears received recently
were less plentiful and had advanced
to rs cents a pound. Cucumbers
were cheaper, selling at Is cents
each or two for 25 cents. Spring
chickens dropped cents on the
pound, now 50 cents.
Red button radishes sold at u
cents bunch. Watercress was 10
cents and parsley 10 cents a bunch,
lemons 80 cents a dozen, and arti-
chokes 20 cents each.
Kumquats sold at As cents a
quart; bananas 80 cents dozen, egg
plant rs to 35 cents each and eel
cry 10 cents a bunch.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-29
BLOOMINGTON VISITED

BIZ Times Special
BLOOMINGTON. Ind, March 20.
Representatives Of more than thir-
ty indianapolis wholesale firms were
entertained here today upon their
first spring courtesy trip, being Ia
ken under auspices of the Indian
apolis Chamber of Commerce whole
sale trade division.
Lionel d. Edie. bureau of bust
ness research director of Indiana
University, welcomed the body at
luncheon served at the Phi Gamma
Delta fraternity house. William j.
Mooney Jr., responded. Bedford
was the next stop.
French Lick will lodge the cour-
tesy men for tonight, and on
Wednesday they will go to West
Baden. Paoli, Orleans, Mitchell and
Martinsville, and returning to In
dianapolis. The body is travelling
in six automobiles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-29

IS QUESTIONED
Dearth Names Road Boss
Jury Commissioner.

BIZ Times Special
MUNCIE, Ind. March 29.-Legal-
ity of Judge Clarence w. Dearth's
appointment of Charles II. Guthrie
as new jury commissioner was ques-
toned in some circles here today.
Guthrie is county road superin-
tendent and his appointment as
jury commissioner makes him hold
two county offices, it was pointed
out.
Guthrie is road supervisor Of Lib
erty Township, and his appointment
as jury commissioner makes him
hold two county offices, it was
pointed out.
Guthrie Immediately came to
Muncie and, with Jacob D. Cavau-
augh, Democratic commissioner, took
10S new names from the tax dupli.
Gates and placed them in the jury
box. Ali the old names were taken
out.
Among the charges filed against
Dearth was that jurors, who were
not freebolders and whose names did
not appear on tax duplicates, had
been permitted to serve in his court.
Guthrie succeeds Miltohn Ct. Davis,
who resigned March 1 to become
tax assessor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-29

of happenings that befell a queer
race of little people called the
Tinymites.
The youngsters ate it up. So
one day it occurred to Hal that
what his children liked, other
children would like, too.
Accordingly, he called Irving
KnickerbOcker, one of the NEA
staff artists, into conference and
outlined the scheme. Knicker-
moclSer did the sketches and Hal
wrote the stOries-and the stunt
made an instantaneous hit.
just to dress the stories up a
little Hal puts them into verse.
This isn't as hard-for hjm-as
you might think, as he has been
writing light verse for newspapers
for many years.
Hal, incidentally, Is about as
busy a mortal as you'd care to
meet. All of the comic strips sent
out by NEA Service pass through
his hands, subject to any correc-
tiOns or changes he may Sc fit to
make. And that, if you care to
ask, keeps him busy.
But every morning "The Tiny
mites" is his first job.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-29
TWO HELD UP BY
ARMED BANDITS
MotoriSt Halted - Turns
Over Watch and $215.

Two daring hold.up men escaped
police Monday night, after staging
filling station and roadside robberies.
Pete Stevens, 20 S. West ST., told
police he was driving near Thirtieth
st. and Lafayette Rd. when a ban
dit car swerved in front of his auto
and forced him to stop. Running to
his auto with a drawn revolver, the
bandit, Stevens said, ordered him to
get out of the auto and walk short
distance down the road. There he
was relieved of $215 and a watch val
uel at SOS, he told police. The ban
dit ran back to his auto and drove
toward the city.
Albert Workman, attendant at the
Standard filling station at Virginia
and Woodlawn AYES, ran out to
serve a customer who drove in the
station about closing time, and faced
a revolver.
Give me your money and none
of that funny ng-back-into-the-
station business goes" the bandit
said as he took the $40 handed him
and drove away.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-29

specifications unless the- bear the
signature of the engineer.
The fight reached Mayor Shank.
Elliott finally declared he would re-
sign and tell the world why if the
board persisted. Shank sat on the
fence for several days. Then the
late Mrs. Sarah Shank, who welded
more actual power than any woman
ever in Indianapolis politics, sided
with Elliott. The mayor stood by
him.
Armitage and the board gracefully
retreated and all was peaceful for
quite a while. At the end Of that
summer. Bill announced he had
thrown up his job as Trinidad agent.
lie carried the check for his sum-
mer's commissions around with him
as a souvenir for several weeks.
The check was for only $3.50. Only
one street. a section of Washington
Blvd, was paved with Trinidad.
a year and a half later some one
discovered that Elliott had borrowed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-29
Story About the Big Asphalt and Concrete Men

$4,000 from Armitage for private
business venture. Elliott frankly adj
mitted it and asked what of it,
wasn't he paying 1t back, with in
terest, in small sums out of his
salary? Criticism followed and FL
lott resigned.
Shank named Lingenfelter to sue
coed Elliott, rounding out an odd
cycle. Elliott had been Lingen-
felter's assistant during the Jewett
administration and Shank had ousted
Lingenfelter to make way for Elliott.
No one heard of friction between
Lingenfelter and Armitage during
the rest Of the Shank administration.
What business Bill was in was
quite a mystery. He announced he
had sold his poolroom and he good
naturally denied that he was the
power behind another man who was
agent for a certain kind of street
curbing, a story which kept bobbing
up. Quite lot of this curbing was
used,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-29

Leslie took the blame because a
Senate budget bill amendment CIV
ing the organization $1,000 did not
appear in the bill as signed by the
Governor, saying the amendment
was held out because the organiza-
ton was not incorporated
Investigation in records Of the
office of Secretary of State Freder-
lex E. Schortemeier at first bore out
this testimony.
But H. ID. Brown and f. c. Cay
lord, Lafayette, and Ivan Morris,
Terre Haute, officials of the organiza-
ton, appeared before the Senate
Monday and presented documents
showing that application had been
made for incorporation papers as a
non-profit organization and the GER
tifcate of incorporation signed by
,Schortemeier on Jan. IS, 1926.
That convinced the Senators.
Cravens and Senator Alonzo II.
Indy (Rep) Kingman, farm bloc
leader, found the records. Repre-
sentative Frank Wright, employee,
who had sought them before, ex-
planned that he had been looking
for the Indiana Vegetable Growers,
rather than Indiana State.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-29
MAIL ROBBERS
FACE TRIAL HERE
ChiCagoans Implicated in
Mail Theft Charge.

William j. Fahy, former Chicago
postal inspector, and James Murray,
former Chicago politician and beer
runner, now serving twenty-tive-year
sentences in the Federal penitentiary
at Atlanta, Ga, for implication in
the Rondout Qll.) mail robbery, are
to be brought to indianapolis soon
to answer charges made at the Fed
eral grand jury here.
They were alleged by Joe and
Jessie Newton. Chicago, to have
been involved in the $3.50 robbery
of mail messenger at Indiana
Harbor, May 10. 1924.
Certification of the grand jury in
dictments were prepared here Mon
day and sent to Atlanta, holding
Fahy and Murray for trial at ex-
piration of their terms.
The effort for early trial. as re-
ported in dispatches from Chicago,
is to block a move to parole the pair
long before their sentences expire,
Federal authorities believe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-29

They wondered a bit at city hall
today whether they should see Bill
or George.
The suspicion that William II.
Armitage, maker and breaker of city
hall folks in the Shank administra-
ton, was regaining foothold grew.
Chester C. Oberleas, dismissed as
city civil engineer by Mayor John l..
Duvall with no explanation Monday,
declared that Armitage was re-
sponsible.
bill Armitage and his gang were
after me-" said Oberleas.
ut was simply another concrete
against asphalt war"
Oberleas thought he had the back
ing of George V. Coffin. Republican
county chairman, hitherto known as
the boss of the city hall. Coffin had
u long conference with Duvall i'm
mediately after the mayor gave out
the dismissal of Oberleas, but today
the announcement that Frank c.
Lingenfelter would assume the $8, 500
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-29
GENERALIZATION,
DRY LAW WORK,
REEDS TARGETS
Missouri Senator Impas-
stoned Speaker Before
Michigan Democrats.
BIZ United Press

BIZ JHited Press
DETROIT. March Ex-senator
James A. Reed, Missouris fiery
Democrat who has waged his battle
as chief counsel in the Ford-Sapiro
libel suit here in leisurely, calm
manner, appeared before 200 Michi-
gan Democrats with an impassioned,
three-hour attack on Capitalization
of national power and dry law en-
forcement.
Concentration of power means
concentration Of tyranny and cor
ruption," he said, referring to the
prosecutions of former Attorney-Gen.
eral Harry M. Daughety and Albert
b. Fail, former secretary of the in
terror.
"Daugherty has been lobbyist
and corruptionist all his life.
I'm the face Of a. our disclosures,
in the face IF the Senate's demand
for Daugherty's resignation, Presi-
dent Coolidge sat as mum as an
oyster and with about the same
countenance."
II say that the people Of this State
can better be trusted to run their
law enforcement business" the Sen
ator said, speaking of prohibition,
than Wayne B. Wheeler, or any set
Of men down in Washington"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-29
CHINA CONS|DERS
USE Of BOYCOTT
IN WORLD TRADE
Even Removal of Chief Port
From Shanghai Studied
by Leaders.
BIZ L nited Press

BU CHttcd Press
WASHINGTON, March 20. -
China, according to diplomatic infor-
nation today, is about to open an
economic war to compel the powers
to accept the nationalist program for
treaty equality.
The massed navy and marine
forces of America, Britain, Japan
and France in China are likely to be
countered by the best organized eco
nomic warfare the world has yet
known, unless the leading nations
try soon to tranquilize Chinese
opinion, according to well-informed
Chinese quarters.
The weapons of this war, they say,
will be twofold: First, the deliberate
shifting of population and COM
merce from present ports to other
cities; second. the systematic com.
mercial boycott.
There are indications that Chinese
leaders, as an extreme measure, have
already contemplated possible shift
of Chinese trade from Shanghai to
a point on Hangchow Bay. This
plan is said to have originated by
the late Sun Yat-Sen. Hangchow
Bay is said to possess natural adj
vantages over the present harbor Of
Shanghai.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-29

Christian Ministers Want Scouts
Kept Free From Military Influences.

A resolution opposing any attempt
to militarize the Boy Scout move
ment in this city" was adopted by
the Christian Ministerial Association
Monday.
eve believe that it would be most
unfortunate for this movement to
be in any way associated with or
influenced by any military organiza-
ton" the resolution read.
f. o. Belzer, Scout executive here,
replied in a statement: mo one
group of outside organizations ever
has, does now or ever will dominate,
dictate or influence in any way the
definite and decisive policy of the
Boy Scouts of America to promote
and develop in the minds of our
youths anything other than the
highest and noblest conceptions of
character and citizenship"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-29
Arm and
System Approved

The present arm and whistle traf-
fic direction method on downtown
corners is working fine and the
board of safety will be asked to
make the system permanent, Police
Chief Claude +. Johnson said today.
Two weeks ago the board, on rec
ommendation of Johnson and Traffic
Captain Lester E. Jones, suspended
use of semaphores except at corners
where there are more than two
streets nitersecting, in order to give
the arm system a thirty-day trial.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-29
SAYS ALL HAVE
DESIRE FOR GOOD
Paul HarsCh, Toledo, Ohio,
Lectures at Keith'S.

Paul A. Harsch, c. S. B., of Toledo.
Ohio, member Of the board of lecture.
ship of the mother church, The
First Church Of Christ, Scientist,
spoke today noon, at Keith's. The
lecture was under auspices of the
Second Church of Christ, Scientist,
indianapolis. Lester f. Lewellen in
troduced the speaker.
He said in part:
deep seated in the heart Of every
one of us there dwells a desire to
know more about good, a yearning
to attain to the secret place Of the
Most High, to that point of under
standing whereby good may be
brought more largely and more
specifically into daily experience and
there retained and used.
Primary, the desire for good
for the guidance and control of all
intelligent mind, God must exceed all
other desires. The seeker for divine
good must be able to say with David,
AS the hart panteth after the water
brooks, so panteth my soul after
Thee, o God Such desire is prayer.
A prayer that is always answered
There are no exceptions"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-29
TRUST FUND Is SOUGHT
Friendly Suit Planned to Obtain
$1,000 for COlOred Orphans Home.

County commissioners today
planned friendly law suit to obtain
$40, 900 held in trust for the Colored
Orphans Home by trustees of the
Indianapolis Asylum for Friendless
Colored Children, to be used for
erecting a chapel at the Colored
Orphans Home. Announcement Of
the plan was made following a con-
ference Monday between Thomas II.
Harrison, trustee and commissioners
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-29

a year title of city civil engineer Fri
day still stood.
This appointment was one of the
things that city hall folks who re-
member their political history Won
dered about. This and the fact that
Armitage used to make 'em and
break 'em-and Bill never has re-
linquished the little office in the
Castle Hall Bldg, across the alley
from the city hall. This was where
folks went when they wanted some
thing during the Shank regime. They
recalled that Bill was promised
something for delivering the Fifth
and Sixth wards-Negro districts
for Duvall, despite the mayors Ku-
KluX Khan, affiliations.
Bill modestly disclaimed response
bility for ousting Oberleas.
az wish to gosh it was true" he
said, but it isn't. This fellow Du-
vail and I don't team together. But,
say, he did pick a good man in that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-29
Eddie Diggins Not Accident
Victim, Coroner
Holds.
BODY FOUND AT CLUB
Lloyd Hamilton, Film Come
dian, Present.

BIZ United Press
LOS ANGELES, March 29.-Scan-
dial rumors were revived in Holly
wood today with the verdict of a cor
oner's jury that Eddie Diggins,
movie stunt man and former boxer,
was stabbed to death. His body was
found early Saturday in the Crescent
Club. a tearoom by day and alleged
barroom at night. When police
broke into the establishment, Lloyd
Hamilton, screen comedian, was
holding Diggins' body in his arms.
A few feet away was the uncon-
scious form of Charles Meehan.
Broken glass and furniture were
scattered over the room.
Shock Over Report
The film colony members received
the coroner's report with something
of a shock. Both the district attor-
ney's office and the police depart
ment had put down Diggins' death
as the accidental outcome of hi
slipped and fell on a sharp silver Of
larious party"
The police theory thaC OlSSlnS
glass during a "free-for-all" fight
seemingly was substantiated by
pieces of broken glass in his cloth
ing. The coroner's jury held, how
ever. that Diggins met death by a
sharp instrument"
Tells of Phone Call
Police today were attempting to
verify telephone call received from
an anonymous woman late yester-
day. The woman called Mrs. Marion
Diggins, young widow of the dead
movie man. Mrs. Diggins quoted her
as saying:
IT krow who killed Eddie, and l
will tell you in n week if the police
don't get him before then"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-29
FORD COLD TO SHOALS

BU United Press
WASHINGTON, March 29.-Henry
Ford, motor magnate, was reported
today to have given Muscle Shoals
development advocates here to I'M
derstand that he does not intend to
submit a new bid for the great Ala
bama water-power works nor to at
tempt to get action on his previous
bid unless Congress asks him to
do so.
His present indicated lack of in
terest in the devopment was re-
garded here as tending to strength
en- proponents of Government op-
GRAFTON, though at this time there is
no sure sign as to what Congress-
temper on the subject will be when
1t assemblies in December.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-29
DENY KNOWING PLAN
DillOn-Read Claim No knowledge of
Durants Motor Project.

BU tnfCd PreSS
NEW YORK, March 29.--Oh-
Gals of Dillon, Read & Co. today
denied they knew anything about
William C. Durant's reported plans
to link important motor manufacture
ers in a huge merger with Durant's
interests.
The banking firm issued a state
ment which said:
Dillon, Read & Co. have had no
conversations with Mr.. Durant with
reference to a merger of automobile
companies, nor have they any infor-
nation concerning any such under
taking by Mr.. Durant.'
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-29
Scandal Talk Trails Stunt Man s Death.
PARTY PLANS THWARTED
Ninty-0ne Quarts of Beer Seized by
Police in Home Raid.

Six gallons of alcohol and equip
ment were seized by police who
raided the home of Edward Byers,
1916 n. Harding st. He and John
Fullen, $50 w. Wilkins St, were
straining alcohol through a chamois,
police said.
Sergeant Barge spoiled the setting
for a beer party at the home of
Robert L. Ford, 12S w. Twelfth St,
when they raided the house Monday
night, they said. Seventy-one quarts
of home brew and still were taken.
Three men and a woman who were
drinking beer, were questioned.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-29

are your" Come on ashore" wee
Copy yelled, land then you soon
will know"
And so the three men came ashore.
To watch them made the TIMES roar.
They clamored from the funny tub
as clumsy as could be. Then Copy
said, We're Tinymites, just running
round to see the sights, and watch
ing you within that tub was really
great to see."
"Ho, no! Ha, ha" The men
laughed loud. Were glad to meet
your little crowd. 1t must be fun
to run around, with nothing else to
do" "And who are you?" wee
Scouty cried. and then, one of the
men replied, THE butcher, the baker
and the candle-stick maker, too"
And then he offered them a ride
They reached the tub and crawled in
side. 1t floated from the shoreline
and went bobbing all around. The
TIMES splashed and some got wet.
The funny tub was near upset, and
shortly they were mighty glad to be
Dack On the ground.
The three queer men had disap-
peared and so the TIMES way was
cleared to journey onward through
the woods to find adventure new.
Not far away they found a house,
and crept up quiet as a mouse. Then
Clowny said, TITS empty, and the
door is open, too"
So in they went, to be surprised
for suddenly they realized that dear
old Mother Hubbard lived within the
coy place. She and her dog were
! there alone. The dog was begging
for bone. Though in the cupboard
Mother looked, of food she found no
trace.
The Tinymites get scare in the
next stOry.)
| DOWNRIGHT. 1927. NEA SerVica. Inc.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-29
ROLE UPHELD


BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, March 29.-The
right to portray women in question
able professions upon the stage was
defended today in General Sessions
by Norman p. S. Schloss, counsel
for Mae West and twenty-five other
members of the cast Of the play
Sex" declared by police to be
obscene.
immortality among women of a
certain type has a place on the stage
and in fact is being depicted in al
most every successful present-day
play" Schloss said in his opening
statement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-29
WRIST BADLY CUT

Eli Conan, SO, 52S w. Maryland
St. employee at the Armour Packing
Company, suffered a severe cut to
his left wrist this morning when a
meat cleaver fell from hook. He
was taken to the Methodist Hospital.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-29

Three members of the Indiana
State Vegetable Growers Associa-
ton appeared bfore the executive
session of the Indiana Senate late
Monday and dispelled all doubt in
the solons' minds as to whether or
not theirs is an incorporated organ
1zation.
Speaker of the House Harry G.