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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-17
Red Cross Chapters
Active in So Counties

For the first time since the
World war, every one Of North Da.
kota's So counties has an active chan.
ter of the American Red Cross. &C.
cording to J. p. Hardy, Fargo, field
representative of the organization
for the state.
Hardy was a Bismarck and
Mandan visitor yesterday, checking
up on Red Cross work and the mem.
bership drive now being conducted.
Membership in the North Dakota
chapters will reach $4,000 or 10000
after the 1928 drive is completed, is
Hardy's belief. Hardy said that only
q: 900 had enrolled last year.
The public's realization Of the
necessity Of the American Red Cross
work in peace IS well as in war time
Is advanced by Hardy as the reason
for the expected increase in the en-
rollment this year. The Mississippi
flood and the recent Florida storm
disasters have proved the need pro-
nouncedly, he said.
He said further that the mem.
bership in 1927 was so per cent
larger than that Of 1926.
Hardy left Bismarck last night
for points in Kidder county. where
he will continue hifinspections.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-17
LINK R0THSTEIN
WITHDRUG RING
Dead Gambler Thought
Brains Of $4,0OO,OOO Thefts
in 1920

New York, Nov. 17.-(AP)-Po-
lice today pursued new leads to the
slayer Of Arnold Rothstein after the
name of the slain gambler had been
linked with q $4.OOO,OOO Wall Street
bond theft and an international
narcotic ring.
Announcement that new clues had
been found was made by Police Com
missioner Warren, who, however.
refused to divulge their nature.
The police had been given until
Monday by Mayor Walker to pro-
duce further facts" in the case or
he threatened he would "take &C
tion."
In surrogate's court an attorney
for Alger Gildersleeve, referee in
pending bankruptcy proceedings
against "Nicky" Arnstein, filed IN
affidavit saying Rothstein was sus-
pected Of being "the fountain head"
and receiver Of 1000, 600 in missing
securities stolen from Wall Street
messengers in 1920. For that crime
Arnstein served prison term.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-17
1O4 CANDIDATES
GIVEN DEGREES
BY CONSIST0RY
Great Plains Council, Knights
kadosh, Instituted at
So Reunion

The Fargo consistory, knights
kadosh, conferred degrees from the
nineteenth to and including the thir-
tieth on a class Of 1O4 candidates
yesterday as a feature of the last
day Of the fall reunion of the first
three bodies of Scottish Rite Ma
sonry held here.
The Great Plains council, Knights
Kadosh, was instituted here yes
terday morning by Walter r. Reed,
Fargo, sovereign grand inspector
general in Scottish Rite work for
North Dakota. The degrees were
conferred after the institution of
the Great Plains council of the body
here.
The fall reunion, which opened
here Wednesday morning, was un-
der immediate charge of Mr.. Reed.
J. L: Lyngstad, master of the Lodge
Of Perfection, George F. Dullam,
Wise Master of the chapter of Rose
Croix, and Gilbert Haugen, secre-
tary, were in charge of local ar
, rangements. The convention ended
last night.
A banquet was held at the Ma
sonic Temple at $3.50 p. m. yester-
day. Speakers at the function
speaking for the class which re-
ceived degrees; George F. Dullam,
speaking for the Scottish Rite bod
les; Judge A. B. Guptill, Fargo,
speaking for Fargo consistory,
Knights Kadosh; and Judge A..
M. Christianson, Bismarck, speak
ing greeting message from the
York Rite bodies.
Following the speaking program,
Frank L. Gage, Bismarck, deputy in
spector general for this district in
Scottish Rite work and in direct
charge of the organization Of the
bodies in this district, was presented
with q diamond ring by the Scottish
Rite bodies in appreciation of his
past work and work planned for, the
future.
Major A. B. Welch, Mandan, and
w. S. Ayers, Bismarck, cooperated
in presenting the ring to Mr.. Gage.
Music during the three-day meet
was furnished by . vocal quartette
made up Of George Humphreys, A.
J. Arnot, and Henry Halv0rson, Bis
marck, and Rev. G. w. Stewart,
Mandan. Walter Tostevin, Mandan,
was accompanist.
Officers Of the Great Plains Coun-
Gil, Knights Kadosh, who were
elected last night, follow: L. F..
Smith, Mandan, commander; Harry
B. Parsons, Mandan, first lieuten-
ant; Alfred B. Welch, Mandan, sec
ond lieutenant; Edwin r. Ripley,
Mandan, chancellor; Otto Bauer,
Mandan, orator; Alfred O. Hender-
son, Mandan, guard; Gilbert Hau-
gen, Bismarck, secretary; Frank A..
Lahr, Bismarck, treasurer; John
Parkinson, Bismarck, almoner; and
Thomas McKane, Bismarck, tyler.
Other reunions here Of the first
three bodies Of Scottish Rite Ma
sonry are planned for February, 1t
which time the 31st and 32nd de-
grees will be conferred, and in May,
according to officials.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-17
PRINCIPLE Will,
SOLVE TR0U BILE
IN AGRICULTURE
Thinks Government Could Pro
vide Board for Experimental
Stages
MUST LEARN MARKETING
Says Cooperative Idea Is Sound
in Theory; Offers Best
Solution
MUST LEARN MARKETING

Washington, Nov. 17.-(AP)-
Widespread adoption of the coopera.
tive principle by the agricultural in
dustry is advocated by President
Coolidge as the most effective means
of solving the farmers marketing
problems.
Speaking last night before the an
nual convention of the National
Grange, the chief executive defined
the cooperative system as q ''move-
ment to unity all agencies of pro-
duction, distribution and consump-
ton. so that they can function as q
coordinated whole which will sell at
the right place and at the Fight
time" To help in the advancement
of the movement, the president said
that the government might we'll pro-
vide an administrative board
equipped with sufficient funds to
demonstrate the soundness of the
principle in it's experimental stage.
In addition, Mr.. Coolidge reviewed
the development of American agri-
culture. citing two great periods Of
depression. in the wake of the civil
war and the world war, detailed the
steps that the government has taken
to relieve the latter and again ex.
pressed his opposition to any at.
tempt at governmental fixing Of
farm produce prices or the estab.
llshment OF q governmental subsidy.
Declaring that the farmer appar-
emily had become we'll schooled in
the art of production, President
Coolidge asserted that the lesson Of
marketing had not been 50 well
learned.
"One Of the greatest handicaps Of
agriculture is overproduction," he
said. "The world is hungry to
consume all that the farmer ever
raises. His difficulty arises from
attempting to sell at the wrong time
or the wrong place. The most sue
cessful method of meeting thia. az,
ficulty has been through cooperative
associations. They have enabled
agriculture in a large way to take
better advantage of all agencies of
distribution, the bankers, the car
riers, the commission merchants, the
packers and the millers."
Mr.. Coolidge said that cooperative
marketing sometimes had failed
through lack of management. hut
added that it was "sound in theory
and when conducted in a business
like way offers the most promising
solution" for the farmers market.
ing problems.
1T avoids any attempt at price.
fixing or putting the government in.
to business, both of which would be
fatal to the independence of the
farmer and in the end would bring
disaster" he said.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-17
Six Indictments Are
Made by Grand Jury

Six indictments were returned by
the Burleigh county grand jury. in
session here, yesterday afternoon,
according to Fred Jansonius, district
Judge.
Frank Moll, Bismarck, was indict.
ed on charges Of statutory offenses.
He was arrested immediately by
Rollin Welch, and Is now in the
county jail in lieu Of $1,000 bonds
awaiting district court action.
Bonds were set by Judge Jansonius.
Other indictments will Be an
nounced later, according to jan
yonius.
The jury has bee1 in session five
days since It convened Tuesday after
. recess Of one month.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-17
Railroads Paralyzed, Da m S
Threatened by Tremendous
Downpour

- Kansas City. Nov. 17.-(P-
Colder weather today followed Sc
hours Of nearly continuous rainfall
in Kansas, Missouri and northern
Oklahoma to add to the suffering of
many persons threato,ei
creasingly menacing floods in tho
tri-state area.
While the drenching torrents con-
tinued unabated, the thermometer
slipped downward into the sos here
as fresh reports Of foundations,
washouts and marooned persons were
received. Many persons, especially
in southeast Kansas lowlands and in
west central Missouri, were prepar-
ing for or experiencing the worst
floods in local distory following
the unprecedented November down.
pours, ranging in places up to nine
inches.
Rain Blinds Motorists
Three deaths already have result
ed from the storm, while two per-
sons were seriously injured here by
rain-blinded motorists. An unidenti-
fled motorist drowned when his
automobile was swept into q flooded
stream at Paola, Kan, yesterday.
The body was not recovered. c. E..
King, a driller, was electrocuted at
Mulberry, Kan, when he slipped on
wet planking. Hugh Reave was
killed here last night when his stalled
car was struck from behind by an
other automobile during a downpour.
Ten feet of water stood over three
railroad lines entering Kansas City
today, and train service was par
TALLY paralyzed, following five
inches of rain. A railroad bridge
was washed out. Many persons
along flooded sections of the Blue
river were driven to higher ground.
A cavein of q clay bluff here COW
cred 100 feet of street car track.
30 Persons Marooned
Thirty persons who fled their
homes in low sections of Augusta,
Kan, were marooned knee-deep in
water in the Santa Fe freight depot
there early today. The water was
rising steadily, and there was little
hope Of an early rescue because
rowboats could not navigate in the
swirling flood current.
FL Dorado, Kan, residents, follow
ing nine inches Of rainfall in that
vicinity, fled to the uplands after
the town was flooded.
Nearly so families were driven
from their homes about Ottawa.
Kan, by steadily rising waters of
the Marais des Cygnes river.
A hundred volunteers battled last
night to save dam at Harrisonville,
Mo-, which impounds Lake Luna.
source of the city's water supply.
Great damage to the town and pos
sible loss of loss was threatened if
the dam gave way.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-17
Racketeers' Guns Pump
Death Into Union Leader
Boss of Cleaners, Dyers, Chauf-
feurs Target of Stealthy
Gangsters

Chicago, Nov. 17.-(AP)-Guns
OF the racketeers, mute since they
dealt death to Big Tim Murphy in
midsummer, pumped eight bullets
last night into the body Of John G.
Clay, boss Of the laundry and dye
house chauffeurs' union.
Killers never had a better target
than "the 69-year-old secretary-treas-
urer of the chauffeurs' union. He
was seated at his desk, facing q
front window Of the Unions head
quarters on South Ashland avenue.
Bathed in the bright light of his Of
flee, Clay was perfect mark for
the gunmen who crept up on the
porch which runs by the window and
sent the fire of machine gun and
a shotgun blazing through the glass.
The sound of running feet, the
roar of motor, the red tail light
of curtained automobile vanishing
down the street, and the slayers had
escaped.
Seven stewards of the Union were
in a room adjoining Clay's when
shots were fired. They ran into the
street too late to catch more than a
fleeting glimpse of the machine in
which the slayers fled.
Clay, according to police investi-
gators, held the key position in the
Chicago cleaning and dyeing "rack-
ct" as they call it.
The cleaning racket" is reputed
by police and by other investigating
business groups to have taken mil
lions of dollars from Chicaroans.
The warfare between rival groups
seeking to control the business has
been marked with many bombs and
sluggings.
It has always been the police
theory that Big Tim Murphy's as
sassination was attributable to his
efforts to muscle in" on the clean
ing and dyeinr "racket."
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-17
WOUNDED MAN
SEIZED, HUNG
BY THREE MEN.
Alleged Won an Attacker
Dragged from Hospital and
Lynched

Pennington, N. NJ. Nov. 17.-{R
Lynch law, formerly an effective
deterrent Of thievery in western
states, yesterday was practiced by
three masked men on Rafael Bena-
vides, Mexican sheep herder, who
was kidnapped from q local hospital
where he lay critically wounded.
His body was found q few hours
later swinging from q locust tree
two miles outside of town.
Physicians said gunshot wounds in
Benavides' abdomen, received when
he resisted arrest by q sheriff's
posse Thursday, would have caused
his death within "a hours.
The Mexican was believed by 20.
lice to have been the man who early
Wednesday attacked and seriously
injured Mrs. Charles Lewis, wife 81
. prominent sheep man Of Aztec. n.
NJ, then left her unclothed IN !
canyon near her home.
Upon regaining consciousness
Mrs. Lewis staggered back to her
husbands ranch and notified au-
thorities. A sheriff's posse was OF.
ganized and Thursday came upor
Benavides, who resisted arrest and
was shot down. He was brought to
q hospital here.
About noon yesterday 4 mar
called the hospital and asked Il the
Mexican was guarded. A nurse re.
piled in the negative, and shortly.
afterward the three determined men
appeared, hastily dra1red Benayidee
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-17
2ARRESTED0N
SWINDLE COUNT
Said to Have Defrauded in
Diamond Racket Have
More Than $500

]. e. Gerhart and w. r. Johnson,
who say they reside in Detroit,
Mich, are being held in Bismarck
Jail on charges Of fraud, accord
ing to Chris J. Martineson, chief Of
police.
The two men are said to have
swindled persons in the Bismarck
district out Of hundreds Of dollars
in q diamond selling market"
johnson had over $4,000 in cur
rency on his person, and Gerhart
over $500 when they were arrested
by city police and the sheriff this
morning. They are driving = large
sedan, according to the police chief.
They are said to have made dia-
mond sales upon exhibiting good
stones as samples, collected down
payments, and delivered flake"
stones in place Of diamonds.
The men had several diamond
rings in their possession when ar
rested.
A preliminary hearing has not yet
been set.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-17
BROKEN HEART
CAUSES WOMAN
TO SHOOT SELF
Created Sensation by Con.
Tossing Murder of Husband,
Woman

Philadelphia, Nov. 17.-(AP)-
With two self-inflicted bulle t
wounds near her heart, DR.. Virginia
Alvarez Hussey, who last July
created . sensation by "confessing''
that she had slain her husband, Lind
ley M. Hussey, novelist, and "the
other woman" was in q critical con-
dition today at the Misercordia hos
pital.
After the police had found Hussey
and 1.-THE other woman" Mrs. Grace
Tetlow Sauveuc, wealthy divorcee,
alive 1T an artists colony near
Sergeantsville, N. J., DR.. Hussey
was pronounced mentally unbal-
anced and committed to the Norris
town state hospital. She was re-
leased two months ago and friends
said she and her husband had be-
come reconciled, although they were
not living together. At legal pro-
ceedings closing the incident Mrs.
Sauveur denied having been friend
" with Hussey.
DR.. Hussey, . graduate Of the
women's medical college Of this city
and . daughter Of former minister
Of war Of Venezuela, was found un-
conscious in her room last night by
Mrs. NJ. Cherriere, who conducts the
apartment house. Two bullets had
pierced her breast and q 32-caliber
pistol was tightly grasped in her
hand. On . desk nearby was this
note:
ITO whom it may concern:
"Nobody is responsible for my
death. Hussey has been nice and
good to me, so he is not responsible
for my death. ! am just broken
hearted and do not want to live
any more"
The note was signed virginia
Hussey."
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-17
Rainfall Kills
Three, Floods 3 States
Crime Career Ends
for Pencil Bandit

Chicago, Nov. 17.-R-Frank
Swasthout, %, came from Detroit
yesterday, and one Of the first things
he did was to borrow a pencil from
Detective Sergeant Dan Kenny. With
the pencil he wrote:
"Dear Sir or Madame: This is
to inform you that you are being
robbed. Don't holler, and give me
the money"
Still carrying the sergeant's pen
Gil, Swarthout entered a candy store
at Wabash and Lake streets and
presented the note to the cashier,
producing a revolver to show he
meant what he wrote.
Sergeant Kenny took the gun
away from him.
"You crookw Kenny said, snap
ping on the handouts. "Giye me
my pencil!"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-17
10 DIE, SCORES
HURT ASGALES
STRIKE EUROPE
Enormous Damage to Property
Occurs in England, Wales
and France
SHIPS CANCEL SAILlNGS
Ramsey acDonald, Princess
Marie, Near Death from
Wreck and Glass
SHIPS CANCEL SAILINGS

London, Nov. 17.-(AP)-The
death toll of a southwesterly gale
that swept over Wales, England,
France and Belgium yesterday stood
at 10 today with several scores of
persons injured.
Princess Marie, sister of former
King Constantine Of Greece who
died in Exile, was cut by flying glass
while walking in Paris.
Former Premier Ramsey McDon-
aid and Sir Arthur Steel Maitland,
minister of labor, had narrow es-
capes when trains on which they
were riding in England ran into
fallen trees.
Damage to property in England
and Wales was enormous and wide
spread. Thirty families were home-
less today, their dwellings having
been wrecked by the gale. Roofs
were swept off several large build
ings.
Two hundred and eighty trunk
telephone and telegraph lines out of
London were down. As a result 80
towns were either cut off from COM
munication or were able to commun-
icate only by roundabut routes. Sew
cnteen broadcasting stations were
isolated. There were several narrow
escapes from disaster on railroads
owing to fallen trees. A train on
which the labor minister was travel
ing from London to Birmingham
escaped derailment because it was
going slowly when it bumped into
a fallen tree. The engine was dam
aged and the train stalled.
Mr.. Macdonald travelled from
London to Ipswich on a train which
was held up by fallen trees three
times. One of the trees stretching
across the rails nearly proved dis
astrous.
A passenger steamer from Calais
to Dover took four hours for the
crossing which normally lasts an
hour. The passengers were roughly
shaken up. Most channel steamers
suspended service. Many fishing
boats were sunk along the shore and
several lifeboats had terrific time
in answering calls of distress.
The big Cunard liner Alaunia post
poned her departure from South
ampton. The coasting steamer Edith
crawled into Liverpool with her fun
mel missing. The funnel had been
swept overheard during q battering
by heavy seas on a voyage from
Creetown, Ireland. The crew had
been without food for two days and
was forced to crouch in the stoke
hold because cabins and galleys were
aWash.
A man was killed ut Bethune,
France, by a falling chimney, Prin-
cess Marie was saved from serious
injury in Paris by an umbrella. She
was walking in the Place Vendome
when huge plate glass window was
shattered by the wind. Pieces of
glass fell all around her but only a
few went through her umbrella and
she escaped with slight cuts.
A plane which left LIE Bourget
for London was forced to alight at
Deauvis and overturned. It was
wrecked but the passengers escaped
injury. All other air service from
LIE Bourget was suspended.
The harbors of Brest, L'Orient, st.
Nazaire and Cherbourg were filled
with craft which sought shelter
from the gale.
One person was killed at Antwerp,
Belgium, and numerous others were
injured. Chimney and tiles were
blown down and much damage done
in the countryside,
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-17
Lee Spends Restless
Night; Is Unchanged

After spending . restless night in
which he had very little sleep, J. J.
Lee, warden at the state peniten-
tiary. was reported as unchanged by
hospital officials here today.
Physicians state that within two
or three days it may be possible to
determine the outcome Of the war
den's illness. Kidney complication
following m operation for hernia 10
the cause Of Lees critical condition.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-17
Smith Reaches Gulf
for Vacation Golf

Edgewater Gulf Hotel, Miss,
Nov. 17.-(AP)-Governor Alfred
p. Smith Of New York arrived here
today to spend . few days playing
golf and resting up from his cam
paign for the presidency.
On account Of the early hour ct
which he arrived there was no crowd
to meet him and 1t $50 IL was still
asleep In the private car in which he
made the trip.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-17
CHICAGO GUSTS
MACHINE THAT
DISGRACED CITY
Aroused Voters Smash Strong
Thompson.C Grove Clan by
Huge Majority
ELECT LAW-ORDER MEN
DR.. Bundesen Seen as Candi-
date to Oppose Big Bill
in 1881
ELECT LAW-ORDER MEN

Chicago, Nov. 1.-THE good peo-
pie Of Chicago, having started q big
job at the primaries last April, are
congratulating themselves upon
having brought it to q successful
conclusion at the recent election.
Chicago is no longer in the grip of
the machine that disgraced it.
The Grove Thompson machine,
which ruled or misruled, if you
prefer - Americas second city for
nearly two years, has been COM
pletely and everlastingly smashed.
In all the columns of election day
figures, there is not one grain of
comfort for the machine leaders.
Not one candidate backed by the
Grove Thompson outfit survived.
New Figures Arise
Out of the wreckage which lit
ters Chicago's political field today,
two figures emerge triumphant,
rising in a way that leads many Chi
cagoans to believe that they will
become nationally known in a few
more years.
One is Judge John A. Swanson,
elected to succeed Robert Grove as
states attorney-the man on whose
shoulders will fall the major part Of
the responsibility for making Chi
cago q clean, law-abiding town.
The other is DR.. Herman N.
Bundesen, former health commits
sioner. DR.. Bundesen was elected
to the comparatively unimportant
office Of coroner; but the thing
that draws attention to him is the
unheard of size of the vote he
polled. Running against the in
cumbent, Oscar Wolff, who had
the Grove Thompson backing, DR..
Bundesen won more votes than
Cook county ever gave any candi-
date in its history-1,O74,985. Hi.
plurality over Wolff was 1854,
more than 25O,OOO above the
record breaking Coolidge plurality
of four years ago. s-.--------------,--ss
DR.. Bundesen is q Democrat, and
already the local wiseacres are
claiming that he is the logical man
to run against Mayor William Hale
Thompson in 1881, when Thompson
comes up Tor feeIecLlOn.
Party Labels Meaningless
Party labels meant nothing at
all; Bundesen is a Democrat, Judge
Swanson is a Republican. The
voters apparently concentrated on
defeating the candidates known to be
favorable to Thompson and Grove.
In the race for states attorney, both
Judge Swanson and his Democratic
opponent, Judge William J. Lindsay,
pledged themselves to drive gun
men, racketeers ant gangsters out
of Chicago and break the under
worlds grip on government, and
both were recognized as men of in
tegrity and ability; but Grove Gen.
tered his fire on Swanson, who had
beat him in the April primaries, and
that fact seemed enough to win for
Swanson.
Never before did Chicago see such
an orgy of ballot scratching. The
same voters who gave DR.. Bundesen
his unparalleled majority of 1864
votes turned around and elected
CONTINUED on page two)
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-17
Mounted Police Deny
Killing Two Robbers

Regina, Sask., Nov. l7.-(AP)-
Mounted police here today denied re-
ports from Malta, Mont, that two
robbers were killed, two captured
and one wounded in = gun fight with
Canadian police near Climax, Sask.,
Thursday.
"There 10 nothing to IT," police
heads said. IF there was, we would
have details long before now."
A posse lost the trail Of the band
its who held up . Turner, Mont,
pool hall, near Shaunhayen, Sask.,
Thursday. One man was killed in
the Turner holdup.