The Bismarck Tribune from Bismarck, North Dakota • 1

North Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 N. D. Loses Million In Road Aid Records Involve Many Public Men POLMMEF, EDITOR AND POLITICIAN ARE IN PAY CHECK UST Chicago Attorney Continues Probe Into Dealings OFFERS TO REPAY, SPURNED Evanston Chief Wrote Letter to Zuta Asking for Loan of S4OO Chicago, Aug. checks signed by the gangster, Jack Zuta, each for 1300 and each made payable to State Senator Harry W. Starr of the thirteenth Illinois district, were taken from the Zuta strongbox today and made public by the attorney.

One check was dated October 5, 1926, and the other October 16 of the same year. Starr was elected to the state senate In November of that year. He is a candidate tor reelectlon on the Republican ticket at the approaching November election. Was on Probe Committee Senator Starr was chairman ot the legislative committee which last year investigated the records of the Chicago sanitary district. The endorsements on the checks have not been Identified as in Stair's handwriting, the attorney said, but Starr has been asked to appear and explain the use of his name on the Zuta papers.

The chief of police of Evanston and the city editor of the Chicago Daily News were added'today to the list of persons who had financial dealings with Jack Zuta. Investigators, delving through the loplous records found in secret late deposit box, found the names Freeman" and They called in William O. Freeman, who has for three years been head of the police department in the exclusive and wealthy north shore suburb. Confronted with a letter asking Zuta for S4OO, Freeman admitted borrowing that amount from the vice overlord. He said he had offered to repay the money, but never did.

Investigators called in John Craig, city editor of the News, and he identified his signature on an uncancelled check for SSO. Craig told of being accommodated by Zuta when he wanted a check cashed at an inn. a month or so I noticed the check did not come through the bank, so I inquired about it from Zuta," Craig related. said the matter was all right. I replied that I did not do business in that way, and I gave him the cash.

asked him for my check and he said he had torn it up." Investigators said they had been told by the bank on which the check was drawn thdt Craig had never had an account there. He explained' the account was in his name but that the bank had honored checks he had signed. Chief Asked for It The evidence placed before Freeman was a letter written on stationery of the Evanston police department. It follows: Jack: am temporarily in need of four for a couple of months. Can you let me it? The bearer does not know what it is, so put it in envelope and seal it and address it to me.

old pal, Bill Freeman. p. let you know the night of the party, so be sure and come." Charles F. Rathbun, special assistant attorney, appointed to investgate the slaying of Jake Lingle, Tribune reporter, said Chief Freeman admitted the signature was his although he could not remember writing the letter. Zuta Was Freeman remembered getting the requested loan, however, not long after he became head of the Evanston police force.

Rathbun quoted him as saying he needed money badly three years ago on account of a judgment returned against him in a suit by a former landlord. He said he attempted to get money from a man in and this man introduced him to Zuta who later gave him the money. The police chief went to Zuta some time later, he told Rathbun, and offered to pay him $175 but the gangster said Freeman quoted Zuta as saying you seem to be poor. Wait a while and get it all together." Freeman told the assistant prosecutor the money never was repaid, but he said never got any favors from me in his life, nor did he ever ask for Zuta, one of the leaders of the Moran-Aiello gang faction, was shot and killed in a Delafield, dance hall August 1. Save Sweetie, Guide and Himself Cambridge, Aug.

Harvey Firestone would save guide, sweetheart and himself from the desert. In a speech he revealed that he had given 100 per cent to the boy who answered quiz in that fashion. of Slain Gangster Involve Police Chief THE BISMARCK TRTBTTNF. Wins in Cross Country Flight Eddie 6chneider, 18-year-oki Jersey Ciy, N. pUot, receiving his father well wishes before taking off from Westfield, N.

airport in an attempt to shatter the Junior transcontinental speed record. SUFFRAGIST PIONEER IS GLOOMY OVER PART IN POLITICS Emily Newsll Blair Says Woman Leaders Took Too Much for Granted After Victory Washington, Aug. Newell. Blair, who campaigned for suffrage ih Missouri back in 1914, is quite discouraged about women in She made this known today in her first pessimistic one a fat compendium of opinions on women and the ballot gathered by the League of Women Voters to mark the tenth birthday of feminine suffrage in America. All these views, gathered from notables of both sexes, are to be published for the anniversary on August 26, of the signing by former Secretary of State Colby of the proclamation that actually culminated the movement am Mrs.

Blair said, suffragists have made the same mistake as the temperanbe group. Both of them thought that with their victory they had only to defend their position; and so, just as the Christian Temperance Union stopped its educational work for temperance and devoted Itself to claiming the eighteenth amendment worked, so the suffragists stopped their educational work of convincing people that women had a right to equality and devoted themselevs Jo other Mary E. Woolley, president of Mount Holyoke college, in responding to the query, said: granting of the suffrage to women has not brought about the millennium, but it has meant a decided step toward better government There are indifferent citizens among women as among men, but the addition of women certainly has meant a large Increase in the number of citizens who are both conscientious and Said Newton D. Baker, former war secretary: years of experience under the nineteenth amendment are not enough to enable me to express any positive judgments as to the use which women in general have made of their suffrage HAVELOCK SCHOOL REMODELED Havelock, N. Aug.

consolidated school is being remodeled and the seats and desks are being refinished. The local school has four teachers, E. E. Rossing being principal. Total enrollment last year was 100.

Too Bad Oyster Hen; She Lays Half Million Eggs in Single Year New York, Aug. efforts of the Atlantic coast oyster to preserve her race were described today. She produces from 15,000,000 to 115,000,000 eggs during one spawning reaction, lasting from 36 to 70 minutes. Since each oyster may spawn flvfc or six times during a single season, the annual egg production of a single oyster may approximate half a billion. The feat was reported to a gathering of biologsts of international repute, civic, state and federal health authorities and shellfish commissioners from several states at the convention of the National Association of Shellfish Commissioners and the Oyster Growers and Dealers association of North America, Inc.

It was cited by Dr. P. 8. Galtsoff of the U. S.

bureau of fisheries as a mere commonplace In the life of an oyster. Even the poorest layer, he said, set down an average of 15.090.- 000 eggs in about an hour, or Press Photo PROHIIION AGENT IS UNDER SUSPENSION Administrator at Albany, N. Charged With Misconduct; Others Disciplined Washington, Aug. Golding, prohibition administrator at Albany, New York, was under indefinite suspension today on charges involving personal misconduct, which, if sustained will result in his dismissal from the service. Prohibition Director Woodcock, who announced yesterday he would punish illegal personal behavior of agents, said Golding was charged with misconduct with several stenographers in his office.

The charges, brought by the girls themselves, are on file with the civil service conpnission which has power to oust the administrator from the government service. Woodcock said the charges were first made last July 15, and that a thorough investigation had been made which led him to believe the girls were in "no way to blame." Two other agents, Robert F. Myrtle, of Milwraukee, and Basil N. Quinn, of Washington, D. were given fiveday suspensions yesterday for their behavior in quarrels With motorists over traffic rules.

Myrtle, the di-' rector said, attempted to arrest a motorist and drew a gun when asked to show his authority. Quinn was said to have struck a driver and taken him to police station, exceeding his authority. Acknowledging the penalties to be mild, Woodcock said, he sought through these punishments to check abuses and promised more stern measures if necessary. The dry chief refused to go into details of the Golding case. He said the administrator's record on the whole appears to be good.

CAR HITS BRIDGE Grand Forks, Aug. Olind, Oslo. is in serious condition in a hospital here, the result of an automobile accident near East Grand Forks. The car, driven by Theodore Hoff, Oslo, hit the side of the bridge when the driver was blinded by dust. Olind suffered internal and other injuries.

000 a year. One purpose of the meeting was to learn why so few of these myriad oysters reach dining tables. One reason is that other epicures besides humans like their oysters, the starfish, for instance. But remedy for starfish desruction has been found. Miss Louise Palmer of the U.

S. bureau of fisheries said. It is a copper sulphate dragged in bags over the oyster beds at the beginning of flood tide. She said as little as 15 ounces in 2,000 gallons of water kills adult starfish in a few minutes. Although oysters are now taboo for human consumption during the four months without the traditional science has found a way and summer oysters were predicted by J.

M. Lemon, of the U. S. bureau of fisheries. has been he said, oysters can be rapidly frozen and placed in storage for several months without any detrimental effects upon the teste, color, digestibility and food BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1930 LAWYERS HEAR SELVES RAPPED; KIND WORDS FOR PRISONERS French Bantam Car To Invade America Detroit, Aug.

19. UP) Another automobile of foreign origin soon is to make its appearance, in the American market. William C. Durant, noted automotive financier, announced today that Durant Motors, has contracted to manufacture 100.000 of the Mathis cars now built in the E. E.

C. Mathis factory in Strasbourg, France. Durant announced a reorganization of personnel of Durant Motors, that brings him again Into the active presidency of the company. PASSENGERS COffi WITH VENTURA TO AMERICAN PORT Majority Will Proceed While Crew and Few Others Will Remain at Pago Pago Pago Pago. Aug.

liner Ventura was due at this American naval base at 1 p. today (5:30 p. P. 8. with the 317 persons rescued from the British steamer Tahiti, which went down in the south Pacific yesterday after being in distress for three days.

Of the 317 persons rescued, 149 members of the Tahiti's crew and sixteen passengers will disembark here. The other passengers will continue to San Francisco aboard the Ventura. Meanwhile the Ventura reported Bound from Wellington to San Francisco, the Tahiti lost its starboard propeller about 460 miles east of Rarotonga, Cook Islands. A leak developed and holds and engine room became flooded. Ships in the vicinity of the disabled vessel rushed to its assistance.

WILL NOW HAVE TO STAY YEAR Seattle, Aug. Seattle school teachers may be forced 6 remain for a year on island of Rarotonga as a result of the sinking of the liner Tahiti. The teachers, Miss Jean Lane and Mrs. Irene Lansing, planned to return to the United States on the Tahiti. This liner stopped at Rarotonga once a year and was the only transpacific ship calling there.

She sank while approaching the island. Miss Lane and Mrs. Lansing cabled relatives of their predicament. The government may be asked to provide special transportation for the teachers. RESCUE BY VENTURA IS THRILLING ONE Wellington, N.

Aug. First stories from passengers of the ill fated Pacific passenger liner Tahiti reaching here today from Pago Pago indicated masterly, seamanship on the part of the captains of both the Tahiti and the rescue ship Ventura prevented an appalling disaster. Twice before the Ventura arrived, when there seemed no hope of rescue at hand, the Tahiti's captain gave orders for passengers to take to the lifeboats. All aboard the Tahiti were grateful for what appeared to be their deliverance when the freighter Penybryn hove above the horizon and made her way to a point near the distressed Tahiti. But although she stood by and was willing to do all possible to succor the disabled and sinking craft, the Penybryn lacked equipment to transfer the company.

Fear ruled the Tahiti for three days but throughout their harrowing experience, the passengers were orderly and obedient to the dictates of wiser minds. When the great good fortune of rescue came to them the woman passengers first were transferred, then the men and finally the crew. When all hands were aboard the Ventura an attempt was made to save the mail in her holds. With some of the bags already taken off. ship's boats were returning for more when the Tahiti lurched and took another roll.

The waves swept over he bows, which failed to rise again. Then the doomed liner straightened on an even keel, her stern rose and she disappeared in a boiling white whirlpool. Charge Three Boys With Office Theft Wahpeton. N. Aug.

Charged with grand larceny, three Hankinson youths were held in the Richland county jail today. Police said they had obtained confessions to theft of a cash register from a motor company here early yesterday. The three are Arthur Mendenwalt. 24. John Cox and Duane Mac Queen.

both 23. The trio was arrested at Graceville, Minn. Of the $156 in the cash register when it as taken from the garage here, but $56 was recovered. The register was found in a ditch along the roadside near Campbell. Mmn.

NO TRAFFIC WHISTLES New York. Aug. whistles are to be abolished. The idea is to help make the town less noisy. Denver Attorney Says New Type of Criminal Is Responsible for Prison Riots Chicago, Aug.

words for prison Inmates and harsh ones for lawyers were spoken yesterday at the preliminary conference of the American Bar association which formally its 1930 convention tomorrow. At a group meeting of attorneys, Justice Royal A. Stone of the Minnesota supreme court told of attending a play where the audience showed audible approval of a character statement: I had a son preparing to be a lawyer. kill him." wasn't the saying this "that disturbed me particularly," Jus- tice stone said, was the marked approval of the audience that botherad. No profession is put on a lower plane than ours.

answer is Intensive, efficient local bar associations. Let us put our profession so high in ethics and efficiency that no other can equal New Criminals Unruly William W. Grant, Denver attorney. told the criminal law section of the association that idleness and overcrowding of convicts and the evolution of a new type of criminal were responsible for prison riots. Grant, chairman of a committee appointed by Gov.

William H. Adams to investigate the Colorado prison outbreak a year ago, described the old criminal as who took his medicine, who served his sentence often in idleness, occasionally on the rock pile, and who submitted to ill treatment In poor quarters. He regarded it as part of the The new type of criminal, Grant said, is not only different in himself but the rest of the prison population with discontent, resentment against any kind of discipline and an unscrupulous disregard for the rights, feelings and obligations of the rest of the world, that, so far as I know, has never been duplicated in prison history." Idleness Breeds Mischief The things of immediate Interest to a convict. Grant said, are where he is to live, what he is to wear aftd eat, what work he is to do and what opportunity for recreation is afforded him. In the Colorado state prison, the attorney said, there are cells for 580 men.

in which more than 800 live. Nowhere, Grant said, is the maxim devil finds mischief for idle hands to do" so true as in the penitentiary. practically all of the institutions at which riots have taken place, there has not been sufficient work to keep Inmates busy." NEGRO LYNCHED BY NORTH CAROLINA HOB Is Hanged and Riddled With Bullets After Jail Is Entered by Ruse Tarboro, N. Aug. Moore, 29, negro, charged with criminally assaulting two small white girls, was taken from the Edgecombe county jail by 200 masked men, hanged to a tree and his body riddled by bullets.

After gaining admittance to the jail on a ruse, the mob carried the negro to his home, approximately 100 yards across the line in Wilson county and 15 miles from here. Then they strung him to a tree and fired scores of bullets into his body. Deputy R. O. Watson, who lives with his family at the jail, had retired when he heard a voice calling hkn early today.

Believing it to be an officer with a prisoner, he went to the door and called, you got a man for Someone in the mob answered affirmatively and Watson unbolted the door. As he did he saw the crowd of masked men and made an effort to throw the bolt. The men rushed through, forced him into his office and took all the keys from a peg on the wall. The men unlocked cell after cell until they found Moore. The negro apparently realizing his fate, went to his death without a word.

Sheriff W. E. Barden, notified as soon as the men drove off. went in search of the lynchers. He reached the negro's home after the mob had dispersed and found the body.

Watson said none of the men in the mob had been recognized. This was the first lynching in North Carolina since 1921. Wealthy Girl Dies In Her Own New Car Newport, R. 1., Aug. Mary Pope, 17-year-old daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. John Russell Pope of New York and Newport, ts dead here, the victim of her own automobile, a recent gift of her grandmother. A prospective debutante in the fashionable summer colony, she was fatally injured last night when her machine collided with another car. She suffered a fractured skull and died before reaching a hospital. HAVE NEW LUNCH ROOM Havelock, N.

Aug. the hotel at Havelock having gone out of business, Rudy Johns has established a lunch room to accommodate local and transient patrons. Feminine Enoch Arden Mrs. Catherine R. Packard, who disappeared a year ago, has reappeared, after her husband, George, identified a body as hers and remarried.

She Is shown on the courthouse steps at Springfield, with authorities who are trying to straighten out the strange tangle. BOY OF 18 SETS NEW HYING RECORD ACROSS UNITED STATES LOCAL WOMAN IS MIRED IN FIRE Mrs. W. P. Knott Suffers Cuts on Arm Following Explosion in Home Mrs.

W. P. Knott, 1404 Thayer today was recovering from the effects of shock and cuts on her arm which resulted from an explosion in her home Monday night. Mrs. Knott was washing clothes In her basement when the laundry stove exploded.

Mr. Knott said the cause of the explosion had not been determined. The stove was between Mrs. Knott and the cellar steps and she was trapped by the flames which followed the blast. She escaped, however, by leaping upon a nearby table, pushing out the glass in a cellar window and crawling through the window to the outside.

Her arm was cut in the effort and three stitches were necessary to close the wound. Mr. Knott said this morning that the injury was not serious and that Mrs. Knott, was recovering from the shock of her narrow escape. The flames were extinguished by the fire department after the house had been damaged by smoke.

WATCHED COMMUNITY GROW New England, N. Aug. 19. Jacob Bender, farm machinery dealef, has been a resident of New England 27 years. There were only two buildings in the town when he arrivedone owned by Asa Gardner, the other by W.

C. McKenzie. Dickinson was the closest rail point at that time. Scientist Prophesied 58 Years Ago Where Population Center Would Be Washington, Aug. prophecy made 58 years ago concerning the spot at which the 1930 center of population of the United States would be found was pointed to today by Clarence E.

Batschelet, census geographer. as the most accurate estimate available at this stage of the computations. Undertaking, on the basis of announced returns for the entire country, to trace the movement of that mythical balance point from its 1920 resting place, Batschelet said at this point of the calculations he could not improve on the old figure. In 1872, he said, a brilliant but Uttle known mathematician, Julius Erasmus Hilgard, estimated the center of population would cling close to the thirty-ninth parallel of latitude, and would move 126 miles westward between 1875 and 1900 and an added 88 miles between 1900 and 1930. Hilgard further prophesized this hypothetical point will be about 30 miles east of St.

Louis in the year 2000. This, he forecast, woul4 be just about its ultimate and the country could thereafter be depended on to maintain an approximation of equilibrium. with St. Louis as olvotal point. In the 1872 population prophecy, published in Monthly, Hilgard made the first reliable computation of the center of population of the United States.

The census bureau followed two years later with official computations for all census Associated Press Photo Eddie Schneider Cuts Off More Than Four Hours From Old Junior Mark Los Angeles, Aug. slight, eighteen-year-old Jersey city youth, Eddie Schneider, today held the junior record for the fastest westward crossing of the United States. Landing at the Municipal airport at dusk yesterday, the young flier completed his transcontinental ciossing in a total flying time of 29 hours, 41 minutes, just 4 hours 22 mintues less than required by the former record holder, the late Frank Goldsborough, of New York. Schneider left Westfield. N.

August 14, filing only during the day time. He said he experienced much stormy weather along the route and damaged his plane slightly once when he struck a tree in landing at Altoona, Pa. Schneider first landed at Long Beach Municipal airport. Uncertain where he was, the young flier asked an airport attendant and was told he was at Municipal The answer led Schneider to believe he had reached his destination. Several minutes later he discovered his error.

Upon reaching Los Angeles Municipal airport Schneider took no chances of making a similar mistake. To fifty enthusiasts who ran out to meet him he shouted: I want to know for sure before I cut off my motor, is this the Los Angeles Municipal He said later he was undecided when he would start back in an effort to beat the eastward record of 28 hours, 18 minutes, also set by Goldsborough. years up to that time and each succeeding census has been tabulated as to population center with scientifc accuracy. From 1870 to 1900. the period in which Hilgard said the population center would advance 126 miles, he missed it by but 7.5 moved 199.5.

He bared his prophecy not on the statistics at hand, but on a mathematical system he evolved Hilgard then argued in this fashion: The geographical center of the United States map is just below the middle of the northern boundary of Kansas. Owing to the comparative infertility of the territory lying west of that meridian, is certain the center of population, when a permanent ratio of distribution shall have been reached, cannot be far west of the Mississippi And, since there is no great disparity of northern and southern zones it will be near the middle latitude of 39 degrees, placing it not far from tne city of St. Louis. He then took a tentative point near St. Louis as ultimate and moved the center of gravity toward it at a rate based on the movement in a decade he considered normal.

The actual distance moved from 1900 to 1920 was 49 miles, leaving 31 to go in the present census bureau calculations. Until complete check is made, the bureau experts are content to let this estimate stand as probably within a few miles, possibly five or six, cf correctness. The Weather Probably showers tonight and Wednesday. Not much change in temperature. PRICE FIVE CENTS STATE LACKS FUNDS FOR NEW HIGHWAYS NATION CANNOTI! North Dakota Unabie to Match U.

S. Allotment of 841; Loses Money 50,000 SHEEP ARE COMING Secretary Hyde Named by President as Chairman of National Drought Relief Work Indications are that North Dakota will lose a large portion of its federal road aid because of lack of funds for new highway construction, according to officials of the state highway commission The state has been allotted 841 for new construction, but must match this amount if the federal funds are to become for road work. Previously North Dakota received approximately $1,200,000. Officials believed it would be difficult to match the old allotment, and that it would be practically impossible to take advantage of the 000 increase granted by the federal government this year unless some action is taken by the legislature to obtain additional revenue for building new highways. May Try It Again There has been a heavy drain on state highway fundo for maintenance purposes, ofycials said.

Defeat of the proposal to increase gasoline tax from three to four cents at the June primary was a setback to the commission which had hoped to derive additional revenue in this manner. Although no definite plans have been made, it is believed probable that an effort will be made before the legislature to obtain legislation of either increasing the gasoline tax or the motor vehicle registration fee as a means for obtaining new revenue. Unless some action is taken to obtain more money for highway construction. however, the state stands to lose as high as one million federal aid. Rain Helps State Rains in practically every section the state today brought much needed moisture to parched farm lands.

It was the most general rainfall since the beginning of the record breaking heat wave nearly two months ago. The showers were heaviest in southeastern North Dakota, and extended into eastern South Dakota. Ellendale received the heaviest fall in the state, with 2.99 inches for the 24-hour period ending at 8 a. m. today.

Napoleon recorded 2.05 inches, Oakes 1.01, Bismarck 1.02, Drake .15. Jamestown .28. Lisbon .34, Mc.x .23. Minot .07 and Portal .01. Beqch which received 3.08 inches rain during the week-end, reported .14 inch additional today.

The moisture will greatly alleviate damage done to forage lands and will aid in putting tilled soil in shape for fall plowing. MONTANA SENDING 50,000 SHEEP HERE Helena, Aug. are under way to send 50,000 Montana feeder lambs into North Dakota and 30,000 into southern Indiana for feeding in those states as a result of drought in this state. This was made known by M. E.

Stebbins, secretary of the Montana Wool Growers association. Railroads have granted a half-rate to shippers if the lambs are returned to Montana. If the animals are sent direct to market from the North Dakota and Indiana feeding grounds, the reduced freight charge will not be available, Stebbins explained. NAME SECRETARY HYDE RELIEF BOARD HEAD Washington, Aug. Hyde was appointed by President Hoover today as chairman of the national drought relief committee.

The head of the agriculture department has already moved to assure that farmers will get the benefit of reductions made on freight shipments of grain in various sections, having instructed county agents in affected regions to watch the report on the situation. The national relief committee is to coordinate federal activities for cooperation with the groups being set up in stricken states. The movement of feed for livestock into drought-stricken areas will receive immediate attention The agriculture department agents have been charged by Mr. Hyde to look to the interests of the farmer in watching application of the reduced shipping rates. Other members of tne national committee will be Chairman Legge of the Federal Farnf Board; Paul Bestor, federal farm loan commissioner; Roy A.

Young, Governor of the federal reserve board; John Barton Payne, chairman of the American Red Cross; R. H. Aishton, president of the American Railway association; Ogden Mills, under Secretary of the Treasury, and Henry M. Robinson, president of the First National Bank of Los Angeles. President Hoover announced the Hyde appointment, saying approximately 300 counties were now embraced within the drought region where conditions are regarded by relief officials as serious.

The real burden confronting the stricken farmers, he said, was not expected to be reached before next winter. His statement said latest reports continue to show the drought was severe and that rains had improved i conditions only In non-acute areas..