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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-12-07
Did you know that

Seven of the stars on the Car
negie Tech team were s0pho-
mores. -. But Harpster will not
he back. LON, the California
back, is said to have been the
most valuable player on the Pa.
cific coast Wilbert Rob.
inson may buy the Atlanta base.
ball club. If the Br0oklyns
make it too nasty for him
And Colonel Til Houston, who
owned half the Yanks once, will
back him wherever he wants to
go High Strung and Ro-
guish Eye are the early favor.
ties for the Kentucky Derby ).
Both western horses. High
Strung belongs to Marshall
Field :. and Alderman Cough
lin owns Roguish Eye The
Marquis of Queensbury didn't
invent the prize fighting rules
80. He loaned his name to a
newspaperman who wrote them.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-12-07
Baseball Needs Only
Honesty to Prosper,
Says Diamonds Gar

Toronto, Dec. 7.-(AP)-Commis-
sioner K. NJ. Lands thinks baseball
needs only to be honest to be pros
porous.
Speaking at a banquet given by
the Toronto club of the Information
81 league to delegates to the conven-
ton of the National association of
professional baseball leagues, the
commissioner laid:
Baseball can't be killed from the
outside ard it will continue to pros
per just as long as the clubs and the
leagues do business in q straight
forward and upright manner"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-12-07
Cards Send Pitcher
to Rochester Club

st. Louis, Mo-, Dec. 7.-(R-
Pitcher Carlisle Littlejohn will be
sent to the Rochester club of the
International league to complete the
deal for Shortstop Charlie Colbert,
it was announced by Secretary Clar-
ence Lloyd of the st. Louis Car
dinals today.
Littlejohn was used chiefly as a
relief pitcher last season.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-12-07
Bill KLEIN, Umpire,
Resigns from Game

st. Louis, Dec. 7.-(AP)-W. ].
KLEIN, veteran National League UNI
pire, today telegraphed the Post
Dispatch from Miami Beach, Fla,
that he had resigned.
ut is true I have resigned" the
telegram read, land feel that have
served the game long and faith
fully"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-12-07
BLUE UNIFORMS
AGAIN IN VOGUE

Washington, Dec. 7.-(R-After
more than ten years wearing of the
olive drab uniform, officers and en-
listed men Of the army have been
authorized by Secretary Davis to
wear the blue uniform in vogue be-
fore the World war.
Use Of the blue uniform is en-
tirely optional with the officers and
men except that it may not be worn
with formations Of troops. The ex-
pense would be borne by the indi-
viduals themselves and commanding
officers have been expressly forbid
den to exercise pressure of any sort
or to seek to induce the officers and
men to procure the uniforms.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-12-07
Fights Last Night
(By the Associated Press)


(By the Associated Press)
Davenport, Ia.-RoIeaux Ss-
guero, Cuba, knocked out Carl
Auguettne. St. Paul a.. pet"
JennnigG, Des Moines, L., out.
yofmtea Jenaro Pine, Philip.
plnes (l0). Billy Hoon, Rock
41apd, III, and Eddie Dyer, At.
Hnaoa, kan., drew (l0).
EIem. Pa Young Johnny
klecheu, Chester, Pa, outpoint-
q Joe Basthars, Norfolk, W.
(8).
Wilkesberre, Pc. - : Dick
Q1eary. Cleveland, outpointed
MY Kelly, 6eranton, Pc. (1o).
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-12-07

FROM GRID TO CAGE TOGS
Wilcox. Farroh, Reedquist, Cum
minis and Rogge reported right to the
Iowa basketball squad after they had
turned in their football uniforms.
Wilcox is captain Of the team.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-12-07
BE HARD TO REPLACE

Seven regulars and three reserves
will be taken by graduation from the
Minnesota football squad. The reg
ulars are Hovde, Haycraft, johnson,
ukkelberg, Gibson, Kakela and
Arendsee.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-12-07
ARMISTEAD OFF
SOUTHERN CLUB

Atlanta, Ga. Dec. 7.-(P)-First
and second selections for the all
southern football team. compiled by
the Associated Press from nomina-
tions of more than 100 sports writer's
and coaches, are as follows:
First Team
End-Van Sickel, Florida.
Tackle-Speer. Georgia Tech.
Granddaughter, N. Caro-. State.
Center-Pund, Georgia Tech.
Guard-Drennon, Georgia Tech.
Tackle-Tinsley, Louisiana State.
End-Abernathy, Vanderbilt.
Observation-Disclosures, Florida.
Halfback-Mizell, Georgia Tech.
Halfback-Bnaker, Tulane.
Flllback-Snydcr, Maryland.
Second Team
End-Waddey, Georgia Tech.
Observation-Disclosures, Georgia
Guard-Brown, Vanderbilt.
Center-Schwartz, North Carolina.
Guard-Hagler, Alabama.
Tackle-Maree, Georgia Tech.
End-Jones, Georgia Tech.
Observation-Disclosures, Vandblt.
Halfback-Peake, Va. Poly. Ints.
Halfback-McEve Tennessee.
Fullback-Holm, Alabama.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-12-07
MOTT CLASHES
WITH FLASHER
IN FIRST GAME
New Leipzig, Regent, Carson,
and Elgin Are Other Teams
in Loop
ELGIN PICKED TO WIN
L. A. Lone, Regent, Elected
Head of Circuit in Its First
Season
ELGIN PICKED TO WIN

The South Missouri Slope basket
ball conference swings into action to-
night.
The loop, recently organized, is
made up of high school teams at
Mott, New Leipzig, Regent, Carson,
Elgin and Flasher.
Flasher plays at Carson in the
opening game Of the conference race
tonight.
Schedules of all schools in the loop
have been drawn UP and are an
nounced today. All teams but
Flasher and Carson open their con-
ference schedules one week from to-
night.
Each team has q minimum Of
eight conference games in its loop
schedule, New Leipzig and Flasher
each having 10 games.
Regent, Flasher and Carson have
each scheduled several non-confer-
ence games. Regent will play Lem
mon, S. OAK, and home and-h
games with New England and
Gladstone. Flasher will play Man
dan, Dec. Fl, and two games with
St. Mary's, Bismarck, during Christ
mas vacation.
Elgin, with five veterans back, is
favored to win the championship by
critics. Regen. also has q veteran
five. Flasher, New Leipzig, Mott
and Carson have all lost two or more
of last years veterans.
L. A. Lone, Regent, has been elect
ed president of the basketball con.
ference and lev. w. T. Boyd,
Flasher, will be the head of the foot
ball conference which will be insti.
tuted next fall.
The schedules follow:
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1928-07-19
YOUR NEWSPAPER

VXIHERE do you obtain your
w knowledge of current events,
science, politics and the greater
part of ycar education? From the
newspaper.
When your merchants need bus
mess, through what medium do
they obtain it?
When the community and the
churches, schools, and civic well
fare organizations of the commun-
ity need community action and CO.
operation to what do they appeal !?
Your newspaper.
These are some of the reasons
why the newspaper is your news
paper and why communities are
only as strong and progressive
as their newspapers. If there is
one quick cure for community
somnoIence it is "a wide-awake
newspaper.
The first duty of newspaper
a
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1928-07-19

is TO transmit to its readers the
thoughts and activities Of hum
anity at home and abroad but the
value of that other department
of the newspaper advertising
should be overlooked by none. Inc
public anticipates its shopping by
the newspapers and the merchants
anticipate their business by news
paper advertising. Advertising is
a mutual proposition between all
concerned.
Before the rise of present IN
tensive newspaper advertising the
publ. was powerless to plan It's
buying. Money, time, and dissatis-
faction was the price paid. At the
same time the merchants had to
re content to wait for business
and the most of it came Saturday
afternoon and evening, seldom on
Monday and never in the morning.
Newspapers and the universal
employment and appreciation OF
newspaper advertising permits
The public to plan its shopping and
has made business for every week
day.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1928-07-19
HEART BALM,

a New York Judge, sitting in
: : an alienation of affection case
the other day, ruled that it made
no difference whether the wife
who was suing ever had affairs
with other men; even if she had,
she could sue any woman who
stole her own husbands affections.
That is an interesting sort of
rule. and at first glance it hard
" seems right. But, to our mind,
the whole business. of suing for
Animation of affections is a hit
askew anyway. Love isn't any
thing that can be paid for in cash,
and no one who truly loves an
other is going to ask for money
damages if the object of his or
her affections starts to care. for
somebody else. SO the judges new
ruling does not bother us.
What we would prefer is a
Judge who would pitch all alien
alton suits outside and leave them
there.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1928-07-19
LIGHT MAKES RIGHT

A nationwide campaign Tor pet
: - ter lighting was started sew
eral years ago. Since that time the
progress of street lighting and
general city lighting has been phe-
nomenal.
But to say that street lighting
is adequate or that it does not
need further development is al
together too evidently falsity.
The growth of street lighting in
the large cities has been very clos
ly followed by similar develop
n1ent in the small towns and vii
lagos. Realizing the tremendous
advantages to be had by having
a city or town well lighted, they
lsy, endeavorsd to carry out some
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1928-07-19

sort of campaign in most cases.
There are still hundreds of
towns in the state where street
is either absent, or so far
out Of date as to be practically
useless. Developments in electric
al apparatus are made in the home
and office but little or no atten-
ton is given to making the street
bright and safe at night.
A state so abundant with cheap
electricity as this one has no ex-
cuse for not having every street
in the smallest city adequately
lighted. The money outlay for fix
lures is small commensurate with
the advantages derived form
street lights and power for op-
Grafton of then1 Is nominal.
It should be the policy of every
city and town to constantly work
for Improvement in its lighting
Such campaign would not only
result in more attractive city
but would impress the traveller and
tourist, who may be the towns
future resident and business man
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1928-07-19
MAKING OUR MONEY WORK
A MERICANS are sinking APP
: proximately 81 .OOO. 100000 a

PAOAAAA]cSAy %A,ooV,oVv,0OO q
year a dubious financial schemes.
Furthermore, the people who
are doing this are not the tradi-
tional widows and orphans" but
supposedly wise business men.
These facts are revealed by a
writer in the current issue of
Good Housekeeping who points out
that I'VE have learned how to
make money but not how to hang
on to it and make it work for u.s."
The old rule still holds good; if
you have money to invest consult
your banker. Don't act on tips or
the advice of your friends unless
you are willing to face the possi-
bility Of loss. Your banker will he
glad to tell you where saftey lies.
Let him advise you.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1928-07-19

MANY people who profess to be
" Christians and who keep their
names on church registers engage
in hurtful, worldly practises which
If participated in by their pastors
would cause the former to lose all
confidence in them at once. Some
people sell their religious influ-
ence, if not their own souls, for q
mere pawn-for the fleeing pleas
ures they find in being with the
crowd"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1928-07-19

A British physician says that
since the importance Of sunlight 70
health has been realized, the sum-
mer months are no longer the most
fatal to babies, but the first three
months of the year when there is
least sunlight have the most infant
deaths.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1928-07-19
Aspirations Compared

A noble man compares and esn-
mates himself by an idea which rs
.higher than himself; and mean
man. by. one lower than himseiI.
The one produces aspiration; the
other ambition, which is the way In
which vulgar man aspires.- Henry
Ward Beecher.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1928-07-19

DREACHERS who mix politics
= with their religion and religion
with their politics are deficient In
both, although either preacher or
laymen may be allowed to use his
religion to affect his politics, but
not to use it as a weapon to in
fluence or coerce others.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1928-07-19

VOUR personal friends make
= life worth living. Your business
friends make your work worth
while; they make 1t profitable.
And your fortunate possession OF
both makes it possible to enjoy
the real things in life and such
worldly Joys are worth having.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1928-07-19

, Life may be mirage. Anyway,
some of these mornings you VIII
wake up to find that you don't ex-
ist-Atchiscn Globe.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1928-07-19
HAVE you noticed the school
lawns lately! You should, they


lawns lately? You should, they
are really worth looking at.
A few years ago our school
grounds were mostly sand dry,
hot, repulsive. Today they are
more like park, real campus,
a spot Of beauty. A real miracle
has occurred at the grade school
in the Transformation there.
For the present attractive
lawns and flower gardens great
deal of credit is due Superintend-
ent Warren Hodge, the school
board, and to the patient, untir-
ing work Of Mr.. Byrd, the janitol
and groundskeeper.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1928-07-19

A bright Photographer observes
= = that when a moman gets jeal-
Gus, the devil pricks up his ears
and gets busy" We were under the
impression that when woman Is
jealous it isn't necessary for the
devil to do anything about it. A
jealous woman rarely needs any
help.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1928-07-19

A news item states that 300
plumbers visited Muscle Shoals
last week; that's an idea; lets
sell the Shoals to them; they
should be able to make the pay
ments.
Miss Earhart says she wishes
people would discuss new air.
planes as they do cars. Well.
Amelia, it is so difficult to make
out ones neighbors thousand
feet up or so.
1t is said that there are three
million children in the United
States who are hard of hearing.
And there are twenty million more
who pay no attention when they
are called.
~
Charley Curtis was baptised a
Catholic and raised a Methodist.
1t is going to be a delicate job
for the Democrats to claim that
neither religious incubation
"took".
From now until November 9Th,
the country will have flood of
claims and predictions which do
not mean anything that was not
covered by the old adage declar-
ing that the wish is father to the
thought.
They make a new whiskey down
in Florida. All you have to do is
to cut a hole in a cocoanut and
pour in a little sugar. In three
weeks you have whiskey. Orders
for cocoanuts in great numbers
are coming in.
Noticing that customs officials
had seized twelve trunks full of
gowns belonging to Mary Pick
ford, wag suggests that Mary
must spend most of her time in
bed.
We hear great deal about Miss
Earhart having "conquering the
Atlantic" All she did was to sit
| in an airplane that somebody else
piloted. A pet cat sould have con-
quered the Atlantic in the same
way.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1928-07-19
Grass Cloth Ancient

The "grass cloth" Of China ha
been used for more than 4.W
years.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1928-07-19
Modern Punctuation

Sir Philip Sidney's arcadia" is
the earliest book with full modern
punctuation.
Evening star., 1928-12-06
GRAND JURY TO CALL
G. 0. P. WARD CHIEFS
Philadelphians Mentioned in Gam
bler's Testimony Will
Be Summoned.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, December O.
George w. Elliott, former director of
public safety; Max Mayer and Edward
Cook, Republican organization ward
leaders, and others named by DR..
Thomas English Tommy Gilchrist,
convicted gambler, in his testimony be-
fore Judge Edwin o. Lewis, probably
will be called before the special grand
jury investigating bootlegging, gambling
and police corruption.
District Attorney Monaghan, who is
directing the investigation, SO indicated
today. Every one mentioned in con-
nection with this investigation will be
subpoenaed," he declared.
Gilchrist testified that Mayer was one
of his nine partners in a gambling
establishment which had netted $902,-
900 in profits in four years after paying
5000 a day for police protection, and
that he had heard Elliott was a
partner of Charles Schwartz and Max
boo Boo" Hoff in a similar enterprise.
Elliott and Mayer denied the accu-
sationS, the former declaring that
these innuendoes come from a noto-
rious gambler who had his first taste
of Jail because of my police work"
Most of GilchriSt's testimony related
to occurrences of three or more years
ago, but the district attorney said he
would seek former patrons of some of
the establishments mentioned as hav-
ing been in operation at time that
would bring them within the two-year
statute of limitations.
Evening star., 1928-12-06
REPORT IS RUSHED
ON CITIES SURVEY
Statistics Prepared by Eff
cheney Bureau to Be Used
in Study of Budget.

Compilation of statistics outlining the
financial affairs of IA principal cities
comparable in size with Washington is
being rushed by the Federal Bureau of
Efficiency today in order to have the
information completed in time for use
by the House subcommittee on appro-
priations when it begins hearings De-
cember 20 on the District appropria-
ton bill.
The statistical tables will form ma
jor portion of the bureaus Forthcoming
comprehensive report on the result of
its exhaustive fact-finding investigation
of the fiscal relations between the Fed
eral and District Governments which
was undertaken last May at the joint
request of the appropriation commit
tees OF the Senate and House and the
Bureau of the Budget.
These tables also will be used to draw
the conclusions TOR the report, which,
bureau representatives indicate, will be
of greater Importance to the District,
perhaps, than its recent report on the
transit merger plan.
VIII Compare Expenses.
What use the committee proposes to
make of the statistical tables in con-
nection with the hearings on the ap-
preparation bill, bureau officials did not
disclose. The data, however, it was
pointed out, will enable the committee
to make a comparison of the cost of
operation and maintenance of the IA
cities with similar expenses in the Dis
trict.
Such comparisons will be made by
the bureau in its finished fiscal rela-
tionS report, but 1t was said that this
would not be ready until about jan
uary l or shortly thereafter.
The tables include such data as the
tax levies In the IA cities, the revenue
raised by the application of the tax
rate, the amount of the total income
used for operation and maintenance and
the amount which goes into public i'm
provementS.
The information being used for the
compilation of the tables was gathered
by Herbert Rapp and v. P. Simmons,
bureau investigators, who made personal
visits to the cities and studied their
financial conditions and methods of
and allocating the budgets.
Most OF the cities visited are east of
the Mississippi Among them are Bos-
ton, Buffalo, Rochester, Detroit, Mil
waukee, Kansas City, st. Louis, Indian
apolis, Cincinnati, Cleveland, New Or
leans and Pittsburgh.
All OF these cities have a population
of more than 100000. Seven have pop
ulations slightly higher than Washing
ton and the other seven have a slightly
lower population. This will permit bu-
reau attaches to strike an average in
formulating the conclusions for the
report.
Bureau officials declare they have not
yet made a study of the information
gathered by Rapp and Simmons, and
are, therefore, unable to even hazard
will reveal.
Evening star., 1928-12-06
MAN SHOOTS SELF
AFTER KILLING TWO
Government Clerk Commits
Suicide Following Murder of
Wife and GrandchiId.

Thomas Beale Miskimon, 81, of $40
Eleventh street southeast. placed the
muzzle of revolver in his mouth and
killed himself yesterday after shooting
to death his wife, Mrs. Leola Miskimon,
43, and his 5-year-old granddaughter,
Norma Midkiff. The double murder
and suicide are thought to have oc-
Cured about noon. Mrs. Myra Midkiff,
stepdaughter of Miskimon, told police
her stepfather had been drinking heav-
lily for the last two days.
Believe Child Died Seeking Help.
The three bodies were found lying in
a front room on the second floor. A
bullet had passed through Miskimon's
brain. The woman and girl each were
struck by two bullets. All but the child
appeared to have died instantly. A
trail of blood was found on the floor,
where she. evidently had tried to crawl
from the room for help and had COL
lapsed at the door.
Nothing of the tragedy was known
until shortly after 7 o'clock last night,
as the reports of the gun were not
heard by neighbors.
fLetuTulllS llOiilC lhct CNCAIAAAS "|c~S
$50 o'clock, Mrs. Midkiff found the
front door locked. and supposed her
mother and stepfather had taken her
daughter out for walk. She went
to the home of Mrs. Marion Kidd, 35l
Eleventh street, next door, to wait for
them.
Becoming alarmed when the family
did not appear, Mrs. Midkiff, accom-
panied by Mr.. Kidd and James Beach
of 200 South street, Alexandria, Va. a
visitor at the Kidd home, went to the
fifth precinct. after finding all the
doors and accessible windows locked.
Mother Faints at Scene.
Lieut.. o. T. Davis and Precinct De-
tective Fuller Arlington returned with
them and broke in the cellar door. The
first hint of the tragedy came with the
discovery of a jagged hole in the ceiling
of the parlor, made by bullet.
The party rushed upstairs. When Mrs.
Midkiff saw her little daughters body
she screamed and tainted.
Both Miskimon and his wife were
lying face upward and the mans head
was pillowed on the woman'S arm. She
had been shot twice through the
breast. The child was shot in the ab
domen and through the head. An
empty clip was found on the dresser
and .45-caliber automatic was
clutched in the mans hand.
Police say he evidently einptied the
Continued on Page 2. Column A.
Evening star., 1928-12-06
Man Is Shot Dead
While Phonograph
Rasps Out Melody
Youth Says He Killed
Farmer as Sunset
Tune Is Played.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOGAN, Ohio, December 6.-As an
ancient phonograph rasped out the
strains of when the Sun Goes Down."
Jacob Konchler, farmer-recluse in the
Hooking County hills, was shot to death
at his own request, according to pur-
ported confession made to police here
today by Ray Featheroff, 19-year-old
neighbor.
Since Konchler's body was discovered
Monday night, authorities have searched
for the slayer and they stumbled on his
trail when they apprehended young
Featehrof on charge of hunting with
out license.
According to Featheroff's alleged con-
fession, he was hunting near Konchler's
cabin last Friday when he chased up a
rabbit near the place.
Konciller, the confession said, asked
FeatheFOff to come in and bring his
gun.
When I went into the parlor, y
Featheroff is said to have told police,
"Konchler told me he was in debt and
tired of living and he wanted to die
He said could have his farm if I'd
shoot him.
Then he walked over to the phono-
graph and started up the record, When
the Sun Goes Down. While he was
standing there I shot him in the back
of the head. I didn't stop to look after
I pulled the trigger"
A year ago Featheroff was arrested
on complaint of Konchler, who ac-
cused him of having stolen watch and
gun case. The youth was released
after questioning.