Moorhead Daily News (Newspaper) - October 21, 1929, Moorhead, Minnesota DAILY No. 243. DAILY OCTOBER 21, 1929. PER EY ANSON HELD IN TWIN CITES DOPE Believe International Narcotic Ring act. 21 st headquarters of what federal agents termed an international dope rincr wore believed broken up here today with the arrest of five men and woman and the seizure of valued at Russell M. Paul Stearns and Paul all nf whitin wore said to have police were arrested by agents under the leadership of Dr. O. A. De La northwest revenue when investigations of several months were climaxed by raids on several places in the twin 1. it squad broke down the door of an apartment house to make the arrest of Cain and the tl woman and said they uncovered a cache of cocaine and heroin under a they attempted to square with the offer of in marked GETS TRIBUTE OF ENTIRE U. H. S. PEP FEST IS students leading football fans of the city will hold a pep bonfire Thursday mi tlie Moorhead skating which has become an affair on the eve of the game v will be (i by school students who indicated He ir desire to hold the pep fest when offered the opportunity by ii ai A 1'. Diercks at an assembly this program of yells and community singing is expected to start about p. m. eligible for fargo regular guard on the school football today ante eligible for competition in the with Fargo Friday when he passed a condition has been out of the last sanies the Spuds have played of scholastic Oct. 21 Ford's long planned project for a for his old friend Thomas Alva Edison was realized today as 500 noted Americans headed by President Hoover joined in personal tribute to Edison while the rest of the world listened to the celebration by occasion was the golden jubilee celebration commemorating the creation 50 years ago tonight of the inventor's incandescent Arrives The day's program in honor of Edison started at 10 o'clock when President and Mrs. Hoover and Mr. and Mrs. Edison arrived at the old Smith railroad station in Ford's early American village at 60 years ago a train butcher and was running along the Grand Trunk station platform at Smith's Creek to board a moving train with his A kindly baggage man reached down and lifted Edison into his car by the His ear drums were broken and he has been deaf 82-year old inventor has been the guest since Saturday of His recent illness has kept him trom much activity at the Ford Stations in Hookup The broadcasting tonight over the two national broadcasting systems will utilize the largest number of radio stations ever covering one The program honoring Edison will be carried by 140 stations to the United Canada and undoubtedly covering the largest audience ever assembled for any single event in the history of the after Ford's banquet in honor of his Edison will march up to the second story of his old laboratory which has been moved here and while the world listens by radio a description of what he is doing Edison will repeat the experiment of 50 years By his side will be Henry Ford and Francis Jehl who as a youth of 20 helped make the first President Hoover's speech will follow the Ethics Questioned By to Succeed Advisory Board Oct. 21 F. of Fargo within the next month will he named to succeed C. Minneapolis as general of the Northwest Shippers Advisory it was announced here SLOAN Minnie Lincoln 64 years of Thomas R. secretary surer of the Northern Pacific rail veterans died at a. in. today in a St. Paul Tlie body will be brought to Fargo Tin day Funeral services probably he held TO HEAR JUBILEE Oct. 21 the radio Minnesota will join the nation tonight in celebrating the golden jubilee of Thomas A. Edison's invention of the incandescent Theodore Christianson will pay tribute to Edison's great inventive genious in a radio address over station at 6:30 p. m. At the same time new floodlights will be focused on the state capitol here in recognition of Edison's radio stations also will carry the speeches of President Edison and Henry Ford as well as the complete program from the national celebration at May Take Up Bridge Approach Issue Again of a condemnation suit to acquire property of the Gund Brewing company of La on Second av needed for an approach to the new bridge across the Red may be voted by the Moorhead city council council is scheduled to hold an adjourned meeting at 8 p. m. to consider vacation of Tenth av between Fifth and Sixth The vacation has been requested by Concordia The announced that the Gund company had rejected the offer of authorized by the and instead demanded An official of the Gund in a letter rejecting the Moorhead asserted he valued the property at City Attorney F. H. Peterson again asserted today will not hold up work on the for the The on Page 4 3 MOORHEAD MEN HURT IN CAR Hiram Bingham i who admitted before the senate lobby investigating in D. that he had employed Charles L. Eyanson as his secretary Respite the fact that lie knew Eyanson was being paid by Manufacturers' Scales Wire Cage in WEATHER forecast for and Partly cloudy to i and warmer possibly cat showers and colder mix Highest st last 31: at 8 a. m. Pharmer Leads Scoring in Big Oct. 21 The great performance of Art star Minnesota in scoring points as Minnesota defeated Northwestern in a brilliant final quarter rally gave him the lead in Big Ten got two two field goals and two points after Purdue's sophomore was not in the Big Ten competition Saturday and dropped into second place with 18 Michigan failed to score as his team lost to Ohio and he slipped into fourth place where his 10 points were two behind Rugs former N. D. who scored once against Minnesota to boost his total to 12. Reorganization of State Grange Sought at Mill City Oct. 21Reorganization of the Minnesota branch of the fraternal organization for farmers which has a national membership of 800,000 is the object of a meeting to be held in Minneapolis Tuesday and Sixteen local Granges already have been after the Civil war Oliver Hudson Kelly of Dayton a few miles south of Elk conceived the idea of a fraternal organization for At the time Kelly was employed by the bureau of and the idea came to him after a fellow Mason living in the who had vowed never to permit 'a northerner to enter his accorded him hospitality because of their mutual fraternal Kelly returned to D. from the he called together six employes of the bureau of and proposed the idea of a farmer's It was met with but little and it I was not until some time later that he organized the first local Grange at N. Grange was established at and when Mr. Kelly returned to he formed a North Star Grange No. 1, in St. Paul in 1868. The next one was established at Elk In the next 10 years tlie organization expanded nationally and claimed a membership of 1,000.000. when the Grange attempted to operate the membership dwindled to 100.000 but during the last 35 years much of the membership has been The organization has no intention of competing with existing farm Mr. Wilde Oct. 21 two companions guarded him from a possible a daring youthful scaled an partition into the locked cashier's cige to rob the Phalen Park State bank of is of the IS LINKED WITH CRIME Oct. 21 New charges were considered today against George a 26-year old highway robbery suspect after authorities said they learned he was married recently to Elsie a 12 year old farm girl of near was reported still in a critical condition in. a Paynesville hospital from wounds received in a gun battle with Arthur a deputy of four central Minnesota and were reported gathering evidence that Day was a member of a statewide criminal 40, captured Moorhead men were injured in accidents while motoring outside this city and three North Dakotans were hurt when their car turned over at Eighth st and Fifth av S 114 Eighth st salesman for Hannaher suffered a broken vertebra in an accident near Lake Park His Nels 901 Second st also was men were driving home from Lake Park when their car caught the flames crackling up through the floor Mr. Gorman attempted to stop the machine and both men jumped before the car was brought to a Mr. Gorman struck a highway guide post and Mr. Overby suffered a hip Horn of Moorhead escaped with minor injuries when the truck he was driving crashed into the rear of a car which was parked on the highway without lights near N. D. Otto Tappen in the parked was knocked unconscious by the crash and taken to a Jamestown His companion was only slightly their machine turned turtle and was damaged three men escaped without injury in the accident at Fifth avenue and Eighth street S. The car overturned after striking a curb of the boulevard in the center of the street HIT BY HOLM AT FUR here he thrust the bundles of currency through a window of the the youth calmly climbed back over te partition and stood brushing his clothing while the other robbers ordered Roy A. assistant and Frank a to lie on the floor of the three men then dashed from the building and nearby shop keepers said they escaped in a motor Pioneer Dies Sunday at Sarah Lizzie Hoag of N. mother of Mrs. C. B. H. secretary of President R. B. MacLean of the Moorhead Teachers died at the home of her son near Hoag was one of Cass county's earliest coming to the Fargo vicinity 5S years Her husband was one of the first commissioners of Coss B. E. Stearns county said Eckstrom was a companion of Day in a Grand Rapids Charges of perjury may be instituted against Day in connection with his He is said to have given the girl's age as over IS when he secured the marriage SUSPECT WOUNDED Oct. 21 Eckstrom was held here today on bery charges while a suspected George lay near death in a hospital from bullet wounds he received while attempting to escape from Arthur the deputy sheriff of Stearns was captured near here Sunday when the automobile in which he was fleeing arrest left the highway was Both he and who was captured by after a gun have been identified as the bandits in a Grand B. F. Stearns of 500,000-gallon steel tank water reservoir completion and equipment purchased for new system of pumping water by electric services will be held at 2 p. m. Tuesday from the Harwood Con- j ty Burn I bo at Deputy Sheriff gained statewide recognition recently addition to Mrs. two j he captured Joseph Hendricks and three Clean Up Campus at of the freshmen class at Concordia were called this afternoon by Dean Paul Rasmussen for their annual task of raking the campus in preparation for Homecoming Fjelstad served them with lunch in the college dining hall following the completion of the C. bandit deposits in all | banks here increased ing last three Law Convictions Drop as Arrests Oct. 21 cases instituted by the federal government in the fiscal year 1929 which ended June 30, aggregated 56,786, a the justice department obtained declined to 47,100 or 1,720 less than in the preceding Total fines collected for dry law violations were an increase of from that for 1928. Oct. 21 Scathing references that touch od practically every Minnesota state official reportedly connected with the case Governor Theodore Christiansen were heard here today as the trial of Albert A. president of the defunct Ten Thousand Lakes Fur Farm corporation opened in Nicollet county district court of a jury promised to consume most of the opening day session when four out of five salesmen by The only prospective woman juror to be called was rejected by both state and A. head of referred several times during the questioning of witness to the asserted connection with the fur farm corporation of Mike secretary of and G. W. state game and fish Holm and McCullough were present in the court room and issued blanket denials to ever having received profit from the They were subpoenaed as witnesses for Qie A. B. Gislason at the opening of the trial recognized J. A. Nicollet county and G. B. the state securities commission as the state when interviewed in ihe court room charged that the fur farm case was revived by a who is to revive his my Holm state office holder ever was even remotely connected with this Mr. Robbins was ready to enter a plea of guilty when Regan grabbed up his we think of political footballs I feel we must call attention to Regan's actions in this is charged with defrauding northwest investors of more than through the sale of unregistered securities consisting of unit shares in his muskrat AID ADMITS HE GOX I Forgot About Former Secretary ct. 21 memorandum to show that two Connecticut manufacturers were informed of the progress of secret deliberations of the senate finance committee was thrust before Charles L. Eyanson of the Connecticut Manufacturers association at the senate lobby investigation today by Senator Thomas J. repeatedly has denied any knowledge of such a and the one he was asked to examine today was a reported The information is said to have been sent the manufacturers while employed as secretary to Senator Republican of was sitting in the committee to memo was addressed to Eyanson by J. E. of the Manufacturers was dated August 30 and read as telephone conversation from Mr. Crescent Fire Arms and Mr. Warner of the Davis and Warner Arms both of 1 informed these two gentlemen that Senator Bingham met with very strong opposition to the 10 per cent duty on rough bored shotgun barrels from the Savage Arms company et al and three influential members of the senate finance Senator Chairman Reed and Edge and that Senator considered it a decisive victory to have held the duty where it now stands in the house at 10 per cent in face of very strong effort to raise it to 30 Denied lost memo which Walsh produced from some unknown source considered of striking importance bj the committee in view of denial that he was a manufacturers spy or lobbyist honestly forgot about Eyanson told Walsh after it had been didn't remember witness could not recall having given the secret committee information to IN CAR HIT BY FOOTBALL SPECIAL Oct. 21 hundred happy football from Evanston where they had seen Minnesota defeat Northwestern plunged into near despair near here when their special the struck an auto and killed its four members of the Gopher gang and others whose lips rang with cheers and songs of victory on triumphant Sunday return over the Northwestern railway poured out of the coaches and saw the the dead were of River apparently came instantly to On the pilot of the locomotive when the train was brought to a stop was the body of a small white dog which had ridden on the running board of the alias Eddie of sentenced in federal court by Judge John Sanborn to serve a term of eight months and pay a fine of for a liquor law aas been sent to the Clay county jail to serve his
