The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 11, 1930, Page 1

North Dakota’s - Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1878 Bannon Says Haven BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1930. Three Boys and Girls Honored at NEW SALEM YOUTH OUTSTANDING CLUB MEMBER FOR YEAR Mrs. P. P. Bliss, Burleigh Coun- ty, Wing Woman Club Leader Prize LIVESTOCK UP FOR SALE Burleigh Woman's Costume Wins; Kidder Man Ja Out- standing Club Leader the annual party. is the chief attrac- tion tonight. Stunts will be staged ibs. Top animals at the highest prices in the associ- ation’s history. Several hundred Fargo business men, representatives of the railroads, Armour and Company of Fargo, the Northwest Fair, Minot, several service Delay Consideration Until Ses- sion a Year Hence, Swan- son Advocates fi al aE ats —____—____—_—____- I May Be Premier | CONGRESS FORGETS HOOVER'S CHARGES AND RESUMES WORK Robinson Joins in Condemnation of President, but Asks Unified Work PRESENTS HIS OWN DEFENSE Senate Seeks to Pass Public Works Bill; House Consid- which | regard to leadership. AMERICANS 10 KILL MILITARY MONSTER = Famed Father of Relativity) Theory Lands in New York for Visit Here New York, Dec, 11.—(P)—Albert Einstein, father of.s scientific theory. ‘The physicist’s wife translated his address. “Your country, through its peace and labor, has reached ers Drought Relief Washington, Dec. 11—()—Rem- nants of the inter-party cooperative movement in congress dragged on to- day toward enactment of relief legis- lation in the wake of a Democratic The senaté sought to pass the $110,- work by all groups in passing legisla- tion for the welfare of the country. party ey FN grum! Ince election pledge of Satan a told. what was contained in ‘corre- Borah of the foreign relations com- mittee will bring it up at the regular session of the group next Wednesday, with the intention of reporting it soon after the holidays. Other Republi- cans want it held off until the next session, and apparently no one sees a chance of action at this brief term. we Jan. 2. They fear, however, a 15-day vacation is to be expected. Presentation of the world court is- sue, by the president's necessary supply bills have passed, was made the occasion for another - tion of the court by Senator Republican, California. Plant Collaborator - In State Is Named Laue eaee Deena, eee Prof. H. L. Bolley, now in South Presented First Time in Chicago Chicago, Dec. appearance with the world premier of The cht i. jazz made its last night “Camille.” BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Weather | Mostly fair tonight and Fricay. No decided change in temperature. PRICE FIVE CENTS Child Killed 4-H Meeting Santa Claus Reported Lost|MATERIAL BEING In Wilds of Frozen North Frantic Efforts to Locate Him Prove Unavailing; Left Fort Nelson, B. C., Yesterday and Then Disap- peared; Hear Blizzard Raging ‘Santa Claus apparently was lost today somewhere in the wilds of British Columbia, Northern Alberta or Saskatchewan. Frantic efforts by The Tribune to locate the jolly old Saint, en route here for a visit with children of this area, resulted only in advices from OPENING OF MORGK TRIAL IS DELAYED INDISTRICT First-Degree Murder Case Held Up by Damage Action; To Start This Afternoon Delay in completing trial of the © | case of L. G. Knowlen vs. ‘the Lahr n has been to complete this afternoon 50 of evidence can ‘The state has subpoenaed 25 wit- nesses but State's Attorney George 5. Register said only 20 of them may be placed on the stand. So far as the record indicated to- y, only Mrs. Morck has been a witness for the de- her children have been cared for by the county. Breiung Case May Go to Jurors Today T. B. Elton, saint whom Bismarck and Missouri DISTRIBUTED 10 NEEDY OF COUNTY American Legion Begins Work of Parceling Out Goods Donated by Public of FAMILIES ARE OUTFITTED (Continued on page seven) vig e Warns Capper Plan Might Hurt Wheat Prices Criticizes Proposal That 40,- 000,000 Bushels of Wheat Be Distributed Washington, Dec. 11—7)—Chair- man Legge of the farm board warned the senate agriculture committee to- report on the Capper resolution. GOVERNMENT SALE OF LIQUOR BACKED Is Answer to Demand of Pro- hibitionists That Solu- tion Be Offered Cooperate With Red Cross in Relieving Suffering; Need More Goods, Says Rue ‘With material pouring into the Main Avenue headquarters and packages being sent out to the needy and unfortunate, the American Le- gion’s “Open Your Heart” campaign was beginning to “click” today. “We have now gotten into both the distribution and collection phases of the work,” Milton Rue, general chairman, said. “The public is re- sponding handsomely to our appeal for money and material to carry on the work. The support which mem- ‘bers of the Legion are giving work also is noteworthy.” Yesterday, Rue said, several fami- lies were outfitted with wearing ap- parel from the donations received by the Legion. Each family contained several small children. All of the re- Mef distributed was on recommenda- tion of the local Red Cross. ‘Today three big packages of goods were sent to families in the Burleigh county rural districts. These cases (Continued on page seven) SHOW IS HALTED BY ACCIDENT IN BOOTH eee ee! Patrons of Theatre File Out Quietly Following Projec- tion Room Mishap Approxtmately 200 patrons of the Capitol theatre missed part of the second show last night and were giv- en return tickets as the result of an accident in the projection room. As in all modern theaters, two ma- chines are used in projecting the film upon the screen. One machine had been turned off and another was working when a small strip of film in the idle machine took fire. ‘There was no danger to either the audience or the building because of the fire-proof construction of the booth and the fireproofing in the theater, but operator Arthur Bauer, in his haste to grab a fire extinguish- er, broke a window and the crowd be- came aware that something had hap- ed. Pomme theater management advised the crowd that the accident had oc- curred and that they would be given by | tickets: for another performance. The national constitutional conven- tion for the solution of the prohibition question.” Dr. F, W. Buck, executive secretary of the federal dispensary tax reduc- tion league, said the resolution was the demand by prohibi- liquor gue to Die Jan. 12 Harrisburg, Pa., Dec. 11.—(7)—Jan- 12, 1931, was set today by Gover- for the execution of W. Dague and Irene Schroeder in Penn., S. Brady near i Sco ea Legion’s Christmas Fund Is Increasing Fr ° i Elssees ie; F | z 4 | | ! ! audience left in an orderly manner and without confusion. Some patrons objected to having the show stopped and wanted it to continue, Mr. Wingreene said today, but he decided to cancel the remaind- er of the show because of possible uneasiness on the part of some per- of the theater, which is located in the Patterson Hotel building. ‘The walls of the theater are of . Wingreene said. The is of steel and is by another concrete wall so fire originating in it would toil fire destroyed only about a doz- feet of film and no damage was used, Mr. Wingreene said. Today's performances were going ahead as usual. Dry General Staff Planning Strategy Washington, Dec. 11—(7)—A fresh alignment of the dry organizations’ general staff was ready today to take over planning of strategy for the 1932 Presidential campaigns. ‘The National Association of Organ- izations supporting the eighteenth amendment concluded its annual ses- sion last night by appointing a com- bined committee on unified strategy, containing a dozen leaders drawn from the 35 groups which compose the association. At the head of them Takes Stand j - se MAJOR CHARLES A. SHEPARD After a day spent listening to wit- nesses relate in open court how he showered Miss Grace Brandon with flowers, jewelry, a motor car, & canary bird, and expressions of love, Major Charles A. Shepard today took | .; the stand in his own defense in Kan- sas City. He is being tried for pol- soning his wife in Fort Riley, Kans. MISS BRANDON SAYS MAJOR SHEPARD HAD PROPOSED MARRIAGE Stenographer Testifies Against Army Surgeon in Poison- ing Trial Kansas City, Kans., Dec. 11.—(?)}— Miss Grace Brandon, young steno- grapher of San Antonio, Tex., who figures as the “other woman” in the murder trial of Maj. Charles A. Shepard, charged with the poison murder of his second wife, took the stand today as the govérnment’s star witness and wept as she related what Shepard had told her regarding his relations with Mrs. Shepard. “He said he and his wife had not been getting along well the last five years,” the girl testified, “and that they had kept up congenial appear- ances as social functions because of his rank in the army.” Miss Brandon recovered her com- Posure as government counsel drew from her the story of. the love affair with her which the prosecution con- tends provided the motive for the al- Jeged fatal poisoning of Mrs. Shepard at Fort Riley, Kans., in June, 1929. She related she had met Shepard about Nov. 1, 1928. At that time she said he was taking a flight surgeon's course at Brooks Field, San Antonio. “Did you know Major Shepard was married?” she was asked. was Mrs. Ella A. Boole, of the W. C. T. U. “Yes, I did know. I asked him if his wife objected.” The testimony did not bring out what Shepard’s reply was. “He asked me, if he got a divorce, whether I would marry him.” “Was there any understanding that you were engaged when he left San Antonio?” (This was in December, 1928, approximately nine months be- mae Mrs. Shepard's death.) “No.” “There was no real understanding,” she explained. “He asked me if I would write to him and I told him I would.” Miss Brandon said she correspond- ed with Major Shepard after he re- turned to Fort Riley. Guard Against Future Unemployment Sought Washington, Dec, 11.—(#)—Legis- lation to prevent future unemploy- ment was demanded today by Sena- tor Wagner, Democrat, New York. Addressing the senate, he criticized President Hoover for not presenting ® permanent program for controlling the effects of slack “One of the most clearly legible ex- Pressions to be found in the election returns,” he said, “is widespread pub- Ue disapproval of the administration's method or, rather, lack of method of | SU! dealing with unemployment.” The New York senator quoted the president as saying in his annual message, “it 1s yet too soon to con- structively formulate” permanent leg- islation and said, “this plea for delay is) peso apology for previous LINDY PREPARING FIELD Princeton, Dec. 11.—(#)—Colonel, Lindbergh has 25 men at work clear- ing away tree stumps and rocks and plowing some of his recently-acquired property in order to make a landing field. Shooting Sawdust and Chipped Wood Into Synthetic Lumber Is Explained New Orleans, Dec. 11.—(7)—An un- usual synthetic lumber process was explained here at the American Insti- tute of Chemical Engineers by Robert M. Boehm, of Laurel, Miss. It consists of “shooting sawdust and chipped wood from guns.” ‘Waste material is packed into can- non-like cylinders about 20 inches in diameter and five feet in length. A steam pressure about 1000 pounds per square inch is applied for a few sec- onds. The hydraulic valves are then are refined, and compressed and insulation boards. ‘William A. Mason, a former asso- ciate of Thomas A. Edison, perfected the process and spemen Ht tn Mage: | sippt. STATEMENT IS MADE DURING CONFERENCE, PROSECUTOR STATES Watford City Man Charges Mother Murdered Three- Months-Old Girl SAYS BURIED IN REFUSE HEAP Throws New Light on Investi. gation Into Case of Miss- — ing Family - Watford City, N. D., Dec. 11— (®)—The body of a child was found in a refuse pile on the A. E. Haven farm, near Schafer, by searchers this afternoon. Watford City, N. D., Dec. 11—(P}— State's Attorney J. 8. Taylor, of Mc- Kenzie county, this afternoon said that Charles Bannon, who is being given a preliminary hearing here on charges of embezzlement in connec- tion with the disappearance of the members of the A. E. Haven fam- ily, claims that Mrs, Haven killed her three-months old daughter before the family disappeared. It was alleged by Bannon, accord- ing to Taylor, that the child was bec in a refuse heap on the Haven farm near Schafer. Sei ad ties immediately left eietiees Mother, Clergyman Present Bannon is alleged to have made the statement at a conference of his attorney, A. J. Knox, his mother, ahd @ clergyman, according to Taylor. The state's attorney was not present at the conference, As court recessed for lunch, Ban- non, his mother, his attorney and the cle went to the rear room of Taylor's office. They conferred for some time, after which Knox reveal- ed to Taylor the statement made by Bannon. Bannon’s declaration came as a sudden surprise in the case which hag attracted wide attention because of the connection with the mysterious disappearance of the Haven family. Bannon has contended, on the wit- yee stand, that he -knows little about disappearance of the Hav- ens except that they left on the morning of Feb. 10, ostensibly for the. ‘west coast, and that he took over the farm as a tenant. 3 To Continue Testimony Bannon has been submitted tc rigorous examination on the stand by Taylor since yesterday. He was on the stand when court recessed at noon, and plans were for him to con- tinue his testimony this afternoon. ‘The case was halted temporarily while @ search of the farm is con- ducted and an investigation made of Bannon’s story. Bannon previously testified that Haven feared authorities would com- mit Mrs. Haven to an asylum because of her mental condition, and it was the tenant's belief that this caused the family to flee from their farm, Wrigley Company Will Purchase 1930 Wheat Dec. 11.—()}—William Wrigley Jr. company, limited, has decided all money owing to it in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta from Dec, 12, 1930, to May 1, 1931, is to be accumulated to Hoss president of the company at: 1 company stat- ed tonight He said the company proposes to take wheat in exchange for its pro- ducts. Col. Ross said the company believes wheat at 64c a bushel is cheap and the company will make money by holding it indefinitely if necessary. The firm believes the plan will relieve to some a Toronto, Martial Law Set Up By Cuban" President Havana, Dec. 11.—(7)—In the face of increasing unrest throughout republic President Machado at jarantees and establishing a prac- tical state of martial law throug! Cuba. | comers T Think Forgery Ring t Active in Bismarck eee Belief that a ring of youthful