The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 19, 1930, Page 1

‘ North Dakota’s ‘ Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1878 __ TELLS NEWSPAPER * LOCATION OF BODY © OF LATEST VICTIM However; Taunts Police SENDS WARNING LETTERS ‘Says 'Find the Woman, Old Man, and You've Got Me’; No Clues Found + New York, June 19.—(#)—Search Man Will Preside at State : Convention : Order of the Dakota will open i ini He ii Hf ey i he 4 3En88 [islet A 2s ry jell i ig age sbi; Free Litt ile N. Dy June 19.—(?)—The aj 2-38 ek THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE _— Veteran of ‘Wooden Ships Takes to Air 2 a. OMAN FACES TRIAL FOR KILLING UNCLE, HER CHILD'S FATHER Native of Germany Tells Story of Brutality Regarding Life With Relatives Plentywood, Mont., Juhe 19. a : i ge rf u E i g oeiathpeere Hi fray He AUR finn ; i aynee sf oh i $ 5E Ei pe He etre i Fees ie ila igte ita g 4 3 lt 5g iy i é z ; gaeie tie pik HED ag i ‘wit which he pai Ih Be i retin Na tHe ot? : ¥ it sf F Sint Hine i HH H wit ane sig SrTEE ‘el [: i it Hf E ta | iF i E e 5 N. A. Wheeler Refuses to Tell * Authorities Reason for His Strange Action Lakes, Minn., June 19.—(7) ankle either broken or and otherwise cut and bruised, N. A. Wheeler of Minot, N. it patient in a hospital ee & Ese Fe Fe ERnd - See 9 z 38 Admiral Byrd, returning from the South Pole, says ‘hello’ to America. 2,000 ATTEND OPENING OF Events Are Run in Full Daylight; 1°, Free Exhibitions Add to Entertainment % CLOSE FINISHES ARE RULE Runaway of One Horse and En- try of ‘Shorty’ Cook From Wing Thrill Crowd a Bismatck’s big race meet got off to @ good start, Wednesday evening, both’ in spirit and at the gate, through whith about 200 cars and 2,000 persons flowed to enjoy the tests of speed, the shows and the ride con- cessions. ‘The first card consisted of the 2:11 Pace, purse $350, and a half-mile run- ning race, purse $75, the North Da- kota 2:24 pace being postponed. The two events were run fn full daylight, with free exhibitions of thrilling spectacles and trained dog perform- ances between the heats. It was @ typical race meet setting. A throng race of fans that occupied about two-thirds of the grandstand and two other big crowds that banked up against the track enclosure, watched the huddle of pacers jockey off from the tape, maneuver for po- sition as the track was rounded and then come down the homestretch in @ mad dash for the wire. Keyed Up By Races and Comedy Keyed up to high pitch of excite- ment by three close finishes in the pace, the track throngs broke into re- peated salvos of applause, for the races “went over big” with the on- lookers. Every moment had a thrill. There was an exhibition not cn the card when the running entries were for the half-mile dash. Comedy was lent to the running rire HN = erased aah Jockey, iH snatches of (Continued on page 19) . {LACK HITS No. 19 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1930 The Weather Generally fair tonight and Friday. Not much change in ‘emperature. PRICE FIVE CENTS New York Launches Search for M [aw vet nw oe DETR KDNUPER CONFESS, INVOLVING MEN IN HIGH PLACES Lawyer and High Police Official Said to Be Members of Extortion Ring TELL OF TORTURE, MURDER Hundreds of Thousands of Dol- lars Collected; Expose Methods Used Detroit, June 19.—(}—Detroit po- lice today announced they had ob- tained confessions involving a high Police official and a prominent attor- ney from Joseph (Legs) Laman, con- victed kidnaper, and other of Laman’s gang of kidnapers and Ca man told @ detailed story of the kidnaping racket in Detroit almost ten years’ reign of terror which culminated last year in the kidnaping and murder of David Cass, son of Gerson Cass, wealthy retired real estate man. Hundreds of thousands of dollars ransom money was collected by the gang. Laman said he decided to tell all he knew after he found he was “double- crossed” by the police official in the kidnaping of Harry Cohn, retired fur- niture dealer. Laman said $20,000 ran- som money was left in an automobile and taken by the police official. Cohn was freed, but Laman received none of the money, Confessions were obtained from Stanley De Long and his wife, Flor- ence, after they were threatened with execution in the electric chair in Ohio for murder of an unnamed man in or near Taledo. Andrews, who serving prison, at Jt Begeman, » raped ‘Wyandotte boot- legger. Four ‘Confessions Agree Police said the confessions of La- man, Andrews and the De Longs agreed, even to minute details, and in- volved Mrs. Doris O'Reardon, arrested early this week and held in $150,000 bail on a kidnaping warrant; her husband, Joseph O’Reardon, alias “Red” Reardon, whom police are seek- f held Four or five years ago, Laman said, he, together with Luke Hartman, An- drews, the De Longs, “Dude” Manuel and Joe Mariano, rented a house in Dearborn, Detroit suburb, to establish a base for kidnaping operations. Begeman and Cohn were (Continued on page 19) CHICAGO PHYSICIANS ATTACK DRY STATUTE Retiring and Incoming Heads of Medical Society Join Hands in Movement Chicago, June 19.—()—The retiring and incoming presidents of the Chi- cago medical society joined, in ad- dresses last night, in denunciation of Prohibition and of what one of the speakers called “racketeers of right- Maniac Killer LEGGE SAYSFARMBOARDTO | STAY OUT OF WHEAT MARKET Outlines Policy at Meeting of the Transmissouri-Kansas Shippers’ Board Salina, Kans, June 19.—(P)—Agri- culture today had the word of Alex- ander Legge that the federal farm board would not attempt to stabilize the wheat market unless an emetg- ency exists. The farm board chairman made this clear in outlining the policy of the board et the transmissouri-Kan- sas shippers board meeting yesterday when he expressed hope the price of wheat for the present crop would never drop so low as to create an emergency. He said there would be no purchas- ing of surplus wheat again until an emergency was declared and ex- plained efforts of the board to stabil- ize the price for last year’s crop were purely an emergency measure. Asked how low wheat prices would have to go before an emergency was declared, Legge replied: “How low does wheat have to go before these blessed Kansas farmers will realize it is unproductive to plant such large acreage?” Tt was suggested wheat could be raised on $20 an acre land in Kansas cheaper than in other states. “Go ahead raising it then,” Legge said. “But stop kicking. Perhaps you will find there is a limit eventu- ally.” The only effective way to get farm- ers to curtail their acreage is through organization and dissemination of in- formation, Legge stated. He said the farm board had no in- tention of destroying present methods of the grain trade. “We have nothing better to offer,” he added. “The greatest trouble with the farmer now is the lack of confidence that has been instilled into the situa- tion,” he said. ‘The agricultural de- pression is no greater than the de- pression in most other lines.” McKELVIE ASSERTS BOARD SOME SUCCESS McCook, Neb., June 19.—(7)}—Belief that the federal farm ‘board has at- tained “a measure of success” in pre- venting a grain price collapse was expressed in an address prepared by Samuel R. McKelvie, member of the board, for delivery here today before members of the Farmers Equity Un- jon Elevator association, a coopera- tive. ‘ “Without stating how much grain the Grain Stabilization corporation has at the present time,” he said, “I may say that at one time or another it has owned more whedt than was ever grown by the state of Nebraska. “Had the burden of that volume been left to play freely on the market and in the hands of speculators, it is reasonable to believe that the prices of wheat and other grains would have been much lower than they have - A NEE Little Baby Law Locked Out Will 4 Become American —_—_—_ —_—_—_- Chicago, June 19.—(?)—The little baby the law locked out can come to America now, for its mother, after long years, has become an American. Nine years ago Fred Spears, in the navy, found a young woman lying wounded in the streets of Vladivostok, in whose harbor his ship was at an- chor. He carried her to @ hospital and, weeks later, was married to her. But the marriage was without the authority of his superiors. His ship bore him away and left the bride be- It was the second attack on the law | hind. in Chicago during the day, the city] council earlier having adopted a reso- lution attacking the prohibition laws as an “abuse of the lawmaking pow- er.” Both the new president of the med- ical society, Dr. James H. Hutton, and the retiring president, Dr. Charles B. rst for toon of te ey te to fight for of W. Dr. Hutton said that American medicine should start an organized national resistance to any further re- form laws and work for the repeal of existing 1 of that kind, as the shortest cut to eliminating a large Part of present crime conditions. “The total collapse of prohibition due not only to the fact that the law is inconsistent with the political, so- ey iw sic ieee ta iene racy, 5 » immoral it is definitely wrong and to deny the individual his right to choose in a matter that is entirely his can pursue in comfort their own pur- gatorial pleasures.” Spanks Woman Driver After Auto Collision Hanford, Calif, June 19.—(%)}— Spanked after her motor car collided with a man’s, Mrs. Nerle Fitting has caused the arrest of John Sorder. In the Philippines, months later, Spears was joined by his wife and was a new ceremony; but the baby was left in China because the law said it could not be brought into Spears had qualified for citizenship Papers, and within 30 days their baby —& baby no longer—will be on th way to America. STORM DAMAGES ONTARIO Thamesville, Ont., June 19.—(P)— A wind and hail storm caused dam- age running into thousands of dollars yesterday to property and crops over 4s) wide area near here. SEEK POWER CASE REHEARING Washington, June 19.—(7)—A peti- tion for rehearing of the Flathead River Power case was filed with the fedetal power commission by Walter H. Wheeler of Mineapolis. Chicago, June 19.—(P)—Four of the six children of Mr. and Mrs. Benja- min McKittrick have died from a baffled physicians and scientists. ‘A fifth child rallied slightly today from a blood transfusion, undertaken as-a last-minute it. While the father yesterday submit- ted to the transfusion of blood, the mother atténded the funeral of three of the children; Raymond, 2; Evelyn, 5; and Paul, 10. A few hours late, Donald, 3, died. Commissioner Ar- ‘s| Led by Health |nold H. Kegel, some of Chicago's best * Four of Six Children in Chicago Family Die From Mystery Poison EE ee {Salesmanship Needed| To Sell Old-Time Bar| eee New York, June 19.—(?)—Anybody desiring to get rid of an antique up- Byrd Gets Roaring Welcome HERO OF ANTARCTIC AND HIS FELLOWS RECEIVE OVATIO: Ship City of New York Reaches Quarantine as Dawn Breaks in East on the use of which there are legal {T's GOOD TO GET BACK’ restrictions might take a tip. A bar that once was a busy spot in the Hotel Belmont and cost plenty was put up at auction. The first offering | Famous Flyer Broadcasts Greet- was $2. Then an empty gin bottle, @ seltzer bottle and two glasses were placed upon it. All were knocked down for $27. NEW POLICE CHIEF ings to City From Room on Municipal Tug New York and America today roar- ed “welcome home” to one of its greatest heroes of the air. Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd and tic, arrived in New York harbor as his intrepid conquerors of the antarc- ATTEMPTING TO RID | ise" e's Later in the morning they were ac- corded one of the greatest reception CHIC AGO (F A N New York ever has given a returning hero. It was exceeded, possibly, only by that accorded Col. Charles A. Lindbergh on his return from Paris. Awaiting the Byrd ship city of New Also Seeks to Purge Police De-| york at quarantine was the Eleanor partment; Says One of- Bolling, the other vessel of the an- ficer in Five Is ‘Crooked’ Chicago, June 19.—(#)—John H. Al- | pa: cock, the “iron man” who has been tarctic expedition, which had arrived last night. A host of craft gathered to escort the two barks of the explor- ing party on a gala procession up the Y. Airplanes banked and shuttled made acting commissioner of police, | OVerhead, private and commercial wa- today swung a two-edged sword that aimed at gangsters without the law and dishonest officers within. tercraft flanked the Byrd ships in irrggular rows, and from the lower tip of Manhattan the official welcoming squadron of the City of New York, The new commissioner had this in- | including on this occasion the muni- Junction from Mayor Thompson: cipal boats Macom, Riverside and Manhattan, started down the bay “Your first, job is to capture every! with bands blaring and flags waving gangster in Chicago. Your second is to get evidence that will send every one of them either to the penitentiary or to the electric chair. You have a free hand. You will not be inter- fered with.” Alcock. then named. Lieutenant John W. Norton to be chilef of de- tectives and appointed Captain John Ryan to be assistant chief of detec- tives succeeding Lieutenant John Egan. Norton has had charge of a supervisory squad at the detective bu- reau while Ryan has been serving as @ relief captain. The new detective chief has been in the department 39 years and is 62 years old. His reputation for track- ing criminals earned him the sobri- quet of “Nemesis” Norton. Alcock himself anounced -his interi- tion of purging the polic department of crooked officers. The Herald and Examiner today quoted him as saying to certain friends that one out of every five men in the police depart- ment is or has been on the payroll of racketeers. The ratio, he was quoted as saying, prevailed in every tank, from patrolman to captain. The murder of Alfred (Jake) Lingle, Tribune reporter, will have a Prominent part in the investigation of gangster-politico alliances, Alcock said, for authorities believe this slay- ing may provide the key both to gang domination and to police scandal, The commissioner, following his conference with Mayor Thompson, met with members of the civil service commission, which is in charge of trials of police officers against whom charges are made. He intimated there might be many such trials and he wanted assurance that he would get full cooperation and that political influence would not be permitted to protect any accused officer. In Alcock’s opinion, 500 crooks cause virtually all the criminaiity in Chicago. Anthony (Red) Kissane, well known gangster who, when arrested for carrying concealed weapons, was as demanding freedom on to greet the explorer and his party in the name of the city from which they departed almost a year and a half ago for the antarctic, Rear Admiral Byrd was aboard the municipal tug Macom, escorted by two other city tugs, a private yacht, three city patrol boats and a host of gaily decorated smaller craft. Following them up the harbor were the ice-scarred veterans ofthe Bay of Whales, the barque City of New York and the supply ship Eleandt Bolling. Admiral Byrd broadcast his greet- ings to the city from the recently in- stalled radio telephone aboard tne Macom. He said: “It's good to get back again. | It’s good to have this reception. It's good to have Grover Whalen greet me here a third time. This is a good chance to express my appreciation for the send-off New York gave me.” ‘hree Really Interested Awaiting the admiral at city hall were three who really had a personal interest in the proceedings. They were Richard E. Byrd Jr., and the ad- miral’s two little daughters Evelyn and Katherine. They were fairly dancing BSS sete aso iy Greeting The aerial conqueror of both ends of the earth set foot again today at (Continued on page 19) ELKS PLAN 70 AID CRIPPLED CHILDREN Program at Dickinson State Convention Given Over to Or- ganization of Movement Dickinson, N. D., June 19.—(®)—A Program given over to the organiza- tion of a movement for the aid of “ crippled children occupied more than the Cas psa ely PO ay 500 members of the Elks lodge at the faces a maximum sentence of a year in jail. In an interview outside the with a Tribune dren movement, state convention here today. Plans were discussed to divide the state into areas for the crippled chil- an area to reporter, o M assigning Kissane denied ever mentioning | each of the 10 lodges of the state. Lingle’s name or of ever “working” for the newspaperman. FLORIDA BANK CLOSES Drs. J. C. Swanson, and B. K. Kil- bourne, orthopedic surgeons, and Harold Bond, superintendent of the North Dakota children’s home at Far- St. Augustine, Fle., June 19.—| go, spoke at today's session. (AP)—The Bankers Trust company Bond declared that all expense for of St. Augustine, failed to open for treating crippled children need not rei business today. A notice on the door ad: “Due to unfavorable business pe Borne oe jolagelicg spirale og ¢ conditions and to the fact that the| which the children reside. He urged local business support has been in- the Elks to take up the movement so sufficient to warrant our continued operation, the directors have voted eas. Fecal Binley called to to close this institution and liquidate its affairs. in Election of officers and choosing of next year’s convention city were scheduled for late today. The three-day convention opened yesterday with Elks present from field near their home yesterday by . every section of the state. Seventy dynamite explosion which tore the “fawns” were initiated into the order clothing from James Cadenski with- | 1st night. out injuring him. Members participated in the dedic1- tion of the Dickinson airport yester- day. Fifteen planes arrived for the ceremonies. After the business session today, a trap shoot and rodeo is scheduled for the entertainment of members. To- night a banquet will be held. known physicians and scientists have! Upham Farmer Dies tried to solve the poisoning. They were convinced it resulted from bac- terial organism but were unable to Commissioner Kegel began a check today of food the children had eaten and to learn if Played in Following Accident had any mud puddles or been swimming | day, died at a hospital here Wednes- water. day. A in contaminated The infection is believed to have originated in the nose and throat and neighbor riding with him jured. then spreading through the body, de-| and his body was mingled as a result stroying the red corpulscles in the| of the accident 12 miles west of Bot- blood. tineau. Authorities said there would Only the McKittrick’s infant child| be no investigation. poisoning. escaped the Three sons survive,