The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 6, 1931, Page 1

ry & e _ Air Armada Reaches Natal After Ocean Hop | A Kiss for a Kidnaped Boy | _ North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 _THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA. TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1981 Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday, ‘Not much change:in tempersture. PRICE FIVE CENTS Freeman Is Elected Speaker 10 OF 42 AIRSHIPS | LAND ON HARBOR AT NATAL AFTER FLIGHT: One of Most Ambitious Flight) Projects in History Is Completed TRIP TOTALS 6,000 MILES 12 Italian Cruisers and Vessels Between Bolama and Na- tal to Give Help (By The Associated Press) | The advance guard of General | ‘Italo Balbo’s trans-Atlantic airplane ; fleet_ swooped down on Natal Harbor at 2:15 p. m. E. 8. T. Tuesday com- pleting the flight from Bolama, West Africa, in 17 hours, 15 minutes. The “Black Squadron” of four ships roared over the port at 2:00 p. m. E. 8. T. and settled on the water. Fifteen minutes later two more planes were in and by 4:30 the entire fleet, with the exception of two ships, one of which was forced down by engine trouble off St. Paul’s Rocks, swung at anchor while the people of Natal cheered wildly. Undeterred by bad weather the planes took off one by one from Bolama, Portuguese Guiena, Africa, at 9 p. m. (E.S.T.) Monday, and in murky darkness began the trip of more than 1,600 miles to the north- eastern tip of South America. Six planes of the fleet passed over the island of Fernando Do Noranha, Brazil, 125 miles from the mainland, at 11:55 a. m., E. 8. T. ‘Three more of the squadron roared over the island a few minutes later. Another of the big ships followed in their wake, as inhabitants on this little island strained their eyes for a sight of the two ships still to come, The eleventh plane sped over at 3:25, nearly an hour behind the first group. Flight Is Longest With a cruising speed of 100 miles; per hour, their commander, Italo Balbo; Italian ‘air minister, hoped to reach Natal in between 16 and 20 hours,-or between 1 p. m. and S p.m. E. 8. T. fe ‘The flight is the longest and most difficult lap of a nearly 6,000-mile (Continued on page nine) PRESIDENT HUFF HAS TAKEN LEGGE'S SIDE Washington Man Declares That J, A. Simpson's Charges Are Distorted Spokane, Wash., Jan. 6.—(P)—Pres- ident C, E. Huff of the Farmers Na- tional Grain corporation, in a letter to the Washington Farmer, denounced attacks made against Chairman Leg- |” Forgets Ticket i The forgetfulness of pretty Sheila i Mannors, Los Angeles artist, caused the sailing of the liner Calawali for Honolulu to be delayed the other day. Miss Mannors, laden with lots of lug- gage, reached the pier just before the liner sailed—and then discovered she had completely forgotten to buy a ticket. So the liner was held at the pier while its officials saw to it that Sheila provided herself with the needed documents. FREAK WIND STORM CAUSES SIX DEATHS AND HEAVY DAMAGE Three Counties in North Caro- lina and Virginia in Path of Storm Charlotte, N.C, Jan. 6—(}—si Persons were dead Tuesday in the wake of a freakish wind storm that Virginia Monday, leaving devastation in its path. Mrs. Grover Henderson was killed in the collapse of a farm house near Boydton, across the state line in Mecklenburg county, Virginia. Near Ridgeway, in Warren county, N. C., four negroes were crushed to death by the falling timbers of their home and a fifth, a girl, was killed in the collapse of a negro farm life school, Two negroes were injured near Yanceyville, Caswell county, N. C., where the storm first struck, and a dozen or more were injured in the’ vicinity of Boydton, Ridgeway and) After sweeping along for 20’ miles in Caswell county, the storm appar- ently lifted and left twa counties un- touched. It struck again near Boyd- ton and a third time near Norlina to ge by President J. A. Simpson of the Farmers Union, as absurd, and political.’ ‘The Washington Farmer made pub- lic a copy of Huff's letter dated Jatt. 3. Simpson charged the farm board | with “deliberately the price of wheat and cotton.” He also quoted a letter of Senator Thomas, Oklahoma, which said Legge as chair- man of the federal farm board ad- mitted to the senate agricultural) committee that “the board has vir- tual control of a monopoly of the American wheat situation.” ence. This report is the basis for President Simpson's charges. In every important particular it distorts misrepresents statements made.” ‘ Bismarck Tribune Offers World Map This is one of the most valu- able publications ever offered readers of The Bismarck Tribune. It is the latest authoritative map Frederic J. ‘Washington, D. C. I enclose herewith 10 cents in coin or stamps for a copy of the. NEW MAP OF THE WORLD. . NAME... ..0-cerecnesereresncoves cut a wath six miles long and several hundred feet wide from Ridgeway to At least four dwellings, two negro churches and the negro school were demolished between Ridgeway and Wise. Other buildings were damaged and trees uprooted all along the storm’s course. Several buildings were blown down or damaged near Yanceyville and Boydton. i DO-X Will Start for United States Jan. 30 Berlin, Jan. 6—(#)}—The Dornier works announced that the big ININDIANA REMOVED Row! te| tom, at his home in Evansville, said ‘dismissals. FOUR POSTMASTERS FOR ‘BUYING’ POSTS Postoffice Department Takes Immediate Action Follow- ing Investigation ROWBOTTOM 1S IMPLICATED Officials at Mount Vernon, Pe- tersburg, Chrisney and Boonville Ousted Washington, Jan. 6.—(?)—Swift action by the postoffice department Tuesday had ousted four Indiana postmasters charged with purchas- ing sh appointments from e mem- ber of congress, All came from the first district, two of the dismissed persons they had contributed to Rowbottom’s cam| fund and another was ac- tive for him in the last election, which saw the representative's de- feat by a Democrat. Evidence in the cases was in the hands of the department of justice for action. Officials would not say whether they had organized their in- vestigation. ‘The discharged postmasters are: Otto A, Weilbrenner, Mount Vernon; ‘William E. Davisson, 3 Mc- Kinley Ayres, Chrisney; and Mrs. Helen Roetzel, Boonville. A rural carrier, Ross Wibbeler, Dale, was the dismissals was instigated by In- diana’s two Republican senators, Wat- son and Robinson. Assistant Post- master General Coleman said they reported gossip prevalent in Indiana regarding payments of money in ex- change for appointments. “A searching investigation,” he con- tinued, “was immediately inaugurated by the inspection division, resulting in evidence so conclusive in its character that these ‘postmasters were dis- missed.” ‘Appointments to replace the four were made immediately. hot he knew nothing of the Mrs. Roetzel said she had paid $200 into the representative's campaign fund, being informed there was a de- ficit. Ayers, who had held his office nine years, declined to discuss the dismissal, Weilbrenner said he had contributed but he refused to name the amount. He was district manager for Rowbottom during the last cam- paign. Davisson was active in Row- bottom’s last campaign also. ‘The department of justice prepared to institute criminal action against the Indiana member of congress charged with accepting money from the postmasters to obtain their ap- pointments. “TRADEWIND’ FORCED TO POSTPONE FLIGHT Returns Because of Damaged Sextant; May Not Take Off Until Wednesday Norfolk, Va. Jan. 6.—(?)—The monoplane ind” rested in a hangar Tuesday while its crew, Mrs. Beryl Hart and Lieut, William 8. seaplane DO-X is scheduled to start | Gay instead of on. her transatlantic flight to America| account of severe weather off the Jan. 30. North American i ? Prin: after near! Lee Bile font Sate irda Tefueling point, the filers fad. thetr rel 5 ome uu iy Plane overhauled Sunday and had St. George’s chapel Windsor, Satur- day morning, it was announced. She died Sunday after a long illness. READ BIBLE DAILY Little Rock, Ark., Jan. 6.—(7}—A juires teach- ers in public schools to read to pupils daily a brief passage from the King James version of the Bible. World Ultimately Will Change Into Ball of Radiation, Briton Declares London, Jan. 6—(P)—A picture of the world ending through a slow change of matter into radi- ation was drawn for the members of the Mathematical association by Sir Arthur Eddington, profes- at Cambridge ‘Monday the radiation becoming thinner and passing into longer and long- er wave lengths. About finally plete disorganisation—a uniform featureless mass in { | OIL TARIFF OPPOSED BY WILBUR BECAUSE OF PRODUCTION ILLS Protection From Foreign Com- , petition Would Result in Overproduction IMPORTS SAID NEGLIGIBLE’ Governors of Leading Producing States Will Attend Meet- ing January 15 | Washington, Jan. 6.—(?)—Secre- ; tary Wilbur Tuesday declared him- | Self against a tariff on oil. | Such a tariff, as proposed from time to time by some of the leading producers and recently by E. B. Reeser, president of the American | Petroleum institute, would be of little Relatives of little Adolphus Busch Orthwein of St. Louis, who was kid- naped by a negro prowler and then released unharmed 20 hours later, are overjoyed at the boy’s return. The kidnaped boy (at the left) is getting a brotherly kiss of greeting from his younger brother, Jimmy. Thousands of Workers Are Returning to Jobs NEGRO KIDNAPER OF YOUNG ORTHWEIN IS SAID APPREHENDED Charles Y. Abernathy Turned ‘Over to Sheriff by News- paper Reporter St. Louis, Mo. Jan. 6.—(#)—St. Louis county officers announced Sheriff Alfred Lill Tuesday arrested Charles Y. Abernathy, kidnaper of Adolphus Busch Orthwein, 13, in Kansas City and was returning with him to the county jail at Clayton, a suburb. Abernathy, @ negro, was turned over to the sheriff by a St. Louis newspaper reporter who previously had interviewed him. No details of the arrest were available at the sheriff's office. Meanwhile Harry Troll, attorney for Percy J. Orthwein, father of ‘the boy, announced the Busch and Orth- wein families would assist county au- thorities in prosecution of the kid- naper. The lad was taken from the Orthwein family chauffeur New Year's eve while en route to visit his grandfather, August A. Busch, presi- dent of Anhauser,Busch, Inc, and was returned the next day. Troll said the families would rec- ommend the release without prosecu- tion of the kidnaper’s father, Pearl Abernathy, and Pearl's niece, Frieda Robbs, both charged with kidnaping. Troll explained the families were Railroads, Automobile Factories and Others Are Reen- gaging Men (By The Associated Press) ‘The return to work of many thou-; sands of workers was noted Tues- day in dispatches coming from va- tious sections of the country. Rail- way shops and automobile factories were chiefly affected. - In Chicago Vice President Frank Walters of the Chicago and North- western announced 7,000 men were returned to work Monday on a three- day-a-week basis, while from Detroit came reports that automobile plants in Michigan had’ reengaged 22,000 employes. The rouge plant of the Ford Motor company recalled 6,500; the East Windsor Ford plant 5,000; the Cadillac company 6,000 and the Buick company at Flint 4,500. Closed Since Dec. 24 ‘The men reengaged by the Chicago and Northwestern are being used in the car and mechanical departments, closed since Dec. 24. Between 600 and 800 shopmen on the Monon lines were returned to work on a temporary basis in Chi- cago, and reports from other sections told of additional good news for rail- way shop workers. These included the return of 2,800 men by the Nor- folk and Western at Roanoke, Va.,; 1,200 by the Missouri Pacific at Sedalia, Mo., 1,000 by the New York Central at East Buffalo and Depew, N. Y¥., and 850 by the Southern Pa- cific at El Paso, Tex. From Moline, Tll., word came that the trend toward better employment| conditions in Moline and Rock Island, IlL, and Davenport, Iowa, known as the “Tri-Cifies,” had been accelerated by a report of one company that its normal factory force was at work and. that others are planning in- convinced they had no guilty part in| creases, the kidnaping and were merely try- ing to right @ wrong committed by the younger Abernathy when they arranged to return the lad to == 400, METNG AT DICKINSON OPENS Agricultural Agents From All Over Missouri Slope Gath- er for School (Tribune Special Service) Dickinson, N. D., Jan. 6.—County agents from the Missour! Slope coun- here Tuesday for ‘wool and to be held during North Dakota. try were gathering the first of four Valley and Burleigh counties. pocond of ths eaniaretees 19 £0 be his | railroad, -, Grant, Adams, Stark, Morton, | of office Pacific States Helped J. H. Dyer, vice president in charge of operations of the Southern Pacific , announced in San Francisco the return of 8,500 employes from Part-time work to full time payroll. Of these 7,500 are in railway shops and cy as maintenance. Cities from Texas Oregon are affected by fered ae r a pel of curtailed ‘a tions, 750 men were returned to work Monday at the Ford Motor company agents. Plant HS pearer. nm varied Cleveland industries have added 1,347 employes to their Payrolls in the last 10 days, All were ag a employes a dae been laid some time or the other during the depression. At the same ti atures indicated tie December would show the first upturn in the employ- ment index since last May. Warren E. Green Is NewS. D. Governor ceremonies also saw the oath given to 10 other Republican state officials, and started the 22nd ‘state legislature on a 60-day session. William $e, South Dakota’s value to the small producer, the sec- | retary asserted. i “The chief result,” he said, “would be that the big companies, which now have many wells shut in and not in operation, would open them up, ad- ding to the production. Overproduc- ! tion is the basic ill of the industry. Imports Are Negligible “Besides this,” he added, “our im- ports of petroleum are negligible, | forming only about 10 per cent of the production. Our exports account, for 15 per cent of the total produc- tion.” The secretary, who is chairman of the federal oil conservation board, | said in his opinion America should import most of its oil, and save its; own supply for some future day. “In the future,” he asserted, “the | country with the oil will dominate civilization. In it will be centered | the wealth. America must conserve | her supply!” | Utilization of oil fields, if adopted | several years ago, he said, would) have solved many of the problems of | the industry. | Governors of the leading producing | states have been called to meet inj Washington Jan. 15 by Governors | Holloway and Reed of Oklahoma. and | Kansas, to ‘seek relief for the in-| dustry. Governors of Texas, Louis- | iana, Arkansas, Colorado, Wyoming, | New Mexico, Montana and Califor- | nia have been invited. Board Lacks Power ' Although the oil conservation board intends to assist the governors wher- ever possible, Wilbur pointed out it lacked power to take authoritative steps. He called attention to the ac- tion of “same governors” at the Colo- rado Springs oil conference called by President Hoover in June, 1929, in rejecting his proposal for an agree-; ment between the states on strict en- forcement of conservation. “The governors will be reminded of that when they assemble,” Wilbur said. “Uniformity of conservation laws, | stability of them, strict enforcement | and felxibility of administration to meet changing needs, is the most) feasible means of accomplishing an | effective conservation policy. WISCONSIN MAN WINS HEADACHE CONTEST | Theodore Roberts, Lake Geneva, Gives Mother. Part of Credit for Winning Chicago, Jan. 6—(?)—Prepared to put a lot of pains into his work, Theodore Roberts, a 23-year-old elec- trician from Lake Geneva, Wis:, Tues- day was ready to take up his duties at the University of Ilinois Research: and Educational hospital. He was selected out of 750 appli- cants as having the worst migraine} headache, which the hospital doctors | want to study with the idea of find- ing the cause and @ cure. All he has to do is deliver a few good headaches @ month and submit to laboratory tests for which he will receive $50 a month, with free board and lodging. “I believe,” said Roberts, “that my headache is the oldest and splittingest in existence. I’ve had it since I was 11 years old, every two weeks for one or two days uninterruptedly. It’s so bad that when it hits me I'm com- pletely incapacitated. “Of course I don’t feel that I am entitled to all the credit. “My talent for headache-having was inherited from my mother, who used to have most extraordinary head- o—_____—_ Becomes Dictator e- —o i { A virtual dictatorship has been es- tablished in the little principality of Monaco by Prince Louis, above, as a means to end recent rebellious riots. After a conference with French gov- ernment officials, he dissolved both legislative councils and replaced them with committees of his own choosing. NORRIS-LUCAS FIGHT IN SPOTLIGHT AGAIN AS PROBE CONTINUES Nye Investigating Committee Wants Details Concern- ing $50,000 Spent Washington, Jan. 6.—(#)—The Norris-Lucas Rumpus was spotlighted again “Tuesday. The senate’s special campaign funds investigating com- mittee called officers of the Repub- lican national committee to its wit- ness stand. The Nye committee wanted from Robert H. Lucas, executive director, and Joseph R. Nutt, treasurer of the Republican organization, details on both origin and disposition of a $50,- 000 special account maintained at a Washington bank. It was this fund} that figured as security for Lucas'| personal financing of literature for use against Senator Norris, Nebras- ka’s Republican Independent, in the last election. Besides these two, on Tuesday's witness list were James B. Reynolds, vice president of the Commercial Na- tional bank of Washington, where the account was maintained, and Ralph M. Johnson, bookkeeper for the Independent Publishing company. ‘The publishing concern, with which Lucas contracted for $4,000 worth of literature, of which $800, he testi- fied, went to the anti-Norris cam- paign, also issues the Fellowship For- um, pro-Klan publication, The in- vestigating committee was interested in discovering whether any link might exist between this Norris op- position and the Klan. The Nye committee may go to Montana about the middle of the month to study rumors that $100,000 was “promised Republican leaders of the state” to contest the election of; Senator Walsh, Democrat. Chair- man Nye announced Monday these reports had been brought him. Four Held in Omaha’s Poison Liquor Deaths Omaha, Neb. Jan. 6.—(?)—Four men were under arrest Tuesday as a result of investigations into 12 deaths from drinking. County Attorney Henry Beal ‘said he had evidence to support a con- tention that a druggist had switched brands of rubbing alcohol, causing 10 deaths within the last four days. 17-Year-Old Gunman GRAND FORKS MAN BEATS NONPARTISAN BY VOTE OF 57-83 Followers of Bismarck Man Be- lieve He Might Have Won Despite Twichell LOOK TO CAPITOL PROBLEM Selection of Employes for Both Branches Placed in Hands of Committees By a vote of 57 to 53, Representa. tive C. Vernon Freeman of Grand Forks was elected speaker of the North Dakota house Tuesday after- noon. : His name was placed in nomina- tion by Representative Gordon Cox, Bismarck, who withdrew from the speakership race leaving Freeman the only independent can- didate. O. E. Erickson, Kidder county, Nons partisan nominee for the honor, drew the first applause of the session when he moved to make the vote unani- mous. Outside of a mere hint of friction between L. L. Twichell, house major- He secret and T. D. Acheson, Bot- ineau, Nonpartisan, the was without incident. — Twichell referred to Freeman as having been a farmer until two years ago. Acheson suggested that a man still living on the farm was a better can- didate than one who was merely a former farmer. Gottlieb Isaakson of the Dunn Mercer-Oliver district voted with the Nonpartisans, although he took part in the I. V. A. caucus Monday night. Freeman and Erickson refrained from voting and Rep. Wolf, Non- Partisan, was absent. The division of the house was, therefore, 58 to 55 with the I. V. A’s in control. The roll call on the speakership Was: For Freeman—Baseflug, Bish Bittner, Boe, Bohnsack, " Brunsdale, urns, Correll, Cox, Crowley, Dol Fitch, Frojen, Gibbens, Halcrow, Balt verson, Hamilton, Hausmann, Hele bling, Henrickson of Ransom, Her= man, Holte of Cass, Holte of Dickey, Holthusen, Jardine, Johnson, Johns- ton, Kneeland, Lamb, Lehr, Lundé Lynch, Mau, McDowell, Montgomery, Morgan, Muus, Nelson, Northridge, Olafson, Olson of Burleigh, Ostrom, Peters, Pfenning, Plath, Rulon, Smith, Steedsman, Steenson, Thompson, Timm, Traynor, Twichell, Veit Wigen, Wilson and Worner. For Erickson—Acheson, Akan, Al- jets, Anderson, Anfinson, Asleson, Butt, Carlson, Carothers, Craig, Crockett, Dahl, Dilland, Dyer, Erick son of Benson, Flannagan, Hanson, Henricfvon of McHenry, Hill, Ider- saard, Isaak, Kadell, Kapfer, Keier- jeber, Lemke, Lavik, Levin, Lofthus, Martin of Bottineau, Martin of Wil- liams, McCay, McColl, McManus, Mostad, Niewoehner, Olson of Adams, Owings, Opdahl, Qualey, Sax, Savre, Scholl, Schurr, Sprenger, Stoa, Sund- by of Renville, Sundby of McLean, Strutz, Svingen, Swett, Treffry, Twete, Van Berkom. Having postponed one battle which (Continued on page seven) SENATE AND HOUSE IN CONFLICT AGAIN Conference Is in Prospect to Arrange Drought Relief Differences Washington, Jan. 6.—()—Without losing a bit of time, the senate and house Tuesday had got themselevs in- to conflict again. A conference was in prospect to arrange differences between the two resumed its holiday-interrupted work. Administration leaders expected the $15,000,000 for food loans added by the senate to the $45,000,000 appropri- knocked out in quick order by the _ Confesses to Murder Independence, Kas., Jan. 6—(P)}— Admitting the slaying of John Siebel, 26, Tyro, Kas., filling station oper- tor in a holdup Dec. 5, Everett Hal- diman, 17-year-old gunman, Tuesday faced life imprisonment at hard i'we-| Swanky Bond Street Shop Reveals “| — Tobacco Tastes of English Notables labor. He pleaded guilty Monday. ‘The Prince of Wales plays no favorite in the matter, smoking Mexico resentatives ation for other drought loans would be rejected by the house and then ti h] io