The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 13, 1931, Page 1

North Dakota’s - Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1878 Start 1932 Political Campaigns of Minnesota U Liquor Affair Ordered | J Probe SENATE RESOLUTION FOLLOWS SUSPENSION OF SENIOR STUDENTS Fellow - Seniors Threaten. a ‘Walkout? Unless 13 of 17 Are Reinstated SIEGEL ASKS INVESTIGATION Lack of Supervision by School’s Administration Is De- clared Cause St. Paul, March 13.—()—An inves- tigation into the suspension of 17 stu- dents of the University Farm school was asked in a resolution presented by Senator * George L. Stegel, St. Paul. ‘The senate appointed a committee of four to confer with representatives of the university faculty regarding the suspensions. The committee was given specific instructions to obtain a release on the ban instituted by the university to make possible graduation for the its. Siegel's resolution reads “Whereas, it appears Daily Press that indulgence in intox- icating liquor by. students attending the Minnesota university farm school has been permitted in dormitories for supervision: Jack of proper 3 and 117 Seniors Suspended 2 “whereas, 17 senior students have been suspended for indulging in the drinking of intoxicating liquor on the eve of their graduation; and “Whereas, it is claimed that more than 100 seniors in the University of Minnesota. farm school have threat- ened to walk out of the baccalaure- “from ‘the ed for drinking, are gradual “Whereas, it is claimed that par- ents of students egg assert: k su] nm school ‘that lacl Cyclon pyablasss Je for the conditions have existed for a long THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, ‘NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1931 A Canadian officer who served with distinction in the World war, Major William Duncan EDWARD E. DENISON WINS ACQUITTAL ON POSSESSION CHARGE] Jury Deliberates but Short Time in Trial of Former Congressman time past and that’ more than 300 his office. students who reside in dormitories have indulged more or less in the practice of drinking intoxicating liq- uor in the said dormitories; and “whereas, it is claimed that numer- ous raids have been conducted by the said guttonive in en about the University of Minnesota farm campus, that such conditions have frequently in the past been called to the attention of the university ad- ministration authorities; and Said Manifestly. Unfair “whereas, it is claimed it is mani- festly unfair in view of the past pre- to investigate forthwith the con- ditions ‘and affairs of the University of Minnesota farm school in connec-. tion with the alleged claims of open and notorious indulgence of the drinking of intoxicating liquor by the student body; and the suspension of said students. bs As h cam iae 80 a suc! pointed be authorized and directed to ask forthwith shd to witnesses if necessary to be WOUNDED DAWSON. BOY WILL RECOV Physicians Say Robert John- ston, Shot in Back, Now Is Out of Danger ! ‘ [ i i i ye i E i i E g 5 ie i | fa E : i ple aa i ty te i é secretary, nine or 10 years efter they married. a He said it’also was strange that the pect to the dishes and that’s all you've got,” Sirica said. Unemployed Father Of Several Killed LOCAL TALENT FOR FEATURE BROADCAST Will Be on Air With Gala Pro- gram From 6 o’Clock Until Midnight Saturday TO HEAR CHAIN PERFORMERS Stars of Radioland to Partici- pate in Welcoming Dakota Stations to NBC Radio entertaining talent from Bis- marck and vicinity was being mar- shaled Friday by managers of KFYR, »| Bismarck radio station, for presenta- tion Satvrday night in connection with the program marking the affil- jation of the local station with the NBC chain, Although the national program, to be broadcast by the NBC in honor of KFYR, its gala event. Time not taken by the chain broadcast will be filled in by local artists, Belle ‘Mehus Studio of Music; Jackie Sherman, ning Stars; Address by Mr. P, J. Meyer, president of the Meyer Broad- casting company and an address by orchestra under Jack Little, the Salon singers, The Sisters of the Skillet, the Pickard family, Abbi Mitchell, negro soprano, Al and Pete and Amos ’n’ Andy. * Graham McNamee will act as mas- ter of ceremonies for the program from the New York studio while Wallace Butterworth will do the hon- ors from, Chicago for the last half of the festiva' hour. ALEXANDER REVELL DIES IN LONG FALL Prominent Furniture Dealer Leaps or Falls From Ho- tel’s Ninth Floor Chicago, March 13.—()—Alexander H. Revell, one of Chicago's leading Condition of Runaway furniture dealers, leaped or fell to his death Friday from his it on the ninth floor of the Drake hotel. His « ife, who was in the apartment with him, was hysterical when hotel Victim Is Satisfactory)‘ ="*"¢ Calvin Huber, 14-year-old Garrison | youth who We was dregged by s runaway horse, apparently suf- fered no internal injuries, attending said Friday. Complete List of Bills Is Announced- i Fy HG 24 Alexander Pantages (left), theater magnate, John P. Mills, (upper right), an Diego ol] man, and William Jobelmann, theatrical press agent, are in connection with the operation of a 0s Angeles “love market” which omc Saves young girls on call for - -ek- el ie | Two Suspects Held in Virginia Brooks Case cise (GANDHI IS INVITED among those who face c! TO ATTEND LONDOR INDIAN CONFERENCE Second Round Table Meeting to Come Next Fall Announced by Premier McDonald London, March 3.—(?)—The British government is extending an invita- tion to Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian nationalists,.to come to London shortly and participate in further negotiations looking toward penis qualified dominion status to) India. Concluding debate on India in the house: of commons Thursday night, J. Ramsey MacDonald, prime minis- ter, announced that a second round table conference would be convened) in London in the fall, and that prior to that time the federal structure committee of the first conference) would meet here. 5 “It is hoped and expected,” Mr. MacDonald said, “that members of the Indian nationalist congress will come as delegates.to the earlier meet- ing, and that Mr. Gandhi will be one of them.” The prime minister's announce- ment was made after the attitude of the opposition parties toward India had been considerably clarified by Stanley Baldwin, conservative leader, who e himself and his work- ers to strive by every possible means 2 work out @ solution of India’s prob- lems, Philip Snowden Has A ‘Very Bad Night’ Tilford, England, March 13—(7)— Philip Snowden, British chancellor of the exchequer, passed a “very bad night”. and was not so well Friday. He is suffering with cystitis and a minor operation is contemplated. Mite Japanese Princess Is Christened Yori Atsuko in Ancient Imperial Rites Tokyo, March 13.—(?)—Japan's California Sheepherder and Oklahoma City Man Ques- tioned in Murder San Diego, Cal., March 13.—(7)— With. two suspects held in widely separated cities and criminologists arriving from’ Sacramento and Los Angeles, officers Friday their efforts to find the slayer of 10-year-old Virginia Brooks. The shop in which a tire on the killer's automobile had been retread- ed was found and an effort was being made to trace all tires handled re- cently by the shop. The design used checked with a plaster cast made of an imprint at Camp Kearney Mesa, where the school girl’s dismembered, body was found in a sack Tuesday. Jetry L. Davis, 21, sheepherder, sentenced at Salinas, Cal., for burg- lary, was questioned closely after he had. urged his speedy transfer to San Quentin prison. He said he had herd- ed sheep on the mesa where the girl's body was found. A lock of hair was forwarded here for com! with strands found in Virginia's left: hand. Gerald Davidson, 60, was rearrested in Oklahoma City after officers here asked comparison of his finger prints with those of Gerald Dorsel, a sus- pect in the girl slaying. Police there reported the fingerprint classification was the same and descriptions of the prisoner and Dorsei were similar. Colder Weather Is . Seen for ' Week-end &t. Paul, March 13.—(?)—Snow and rain fell in many parts of the north- west Friday while a cold wave which Swept western North Dakota moved eastward and was expected to reach Minnesota Friday night. More than 2% inches of snow fell in Williston, N. D., where the mercury from a maximum of 16 above Thursday to zero this morning. Devils Lake had a light snowfall, with the thermometer registering a minimum of 22 above. At Bismarck it was 15 above and Jamestown 20 above. Grand Forks and Fargo each had 36 above. The government weather observer Predicted colder weather for Minne- sota and the Dakotas tonight and Saturday. read in stentorian tones a increased | 4 MOTHER DECIDES FATE OF SON FACING EXECUTION IN CHAIR Says Boy Should Accept Life Term Rather Than Risk Death in Trial COMPANION IS CONVICTED Detroit Youth, Claiming Inno- cence, Charged With Death of Railroad Man | Bardstown, Ky., March 13—(?}— Whether her son will plead guilty and take a life sentence or go to trial and risk death in the electric chair was put up to Mrs. Agnes Piotrowsky, Detroit. She decided on the piesa of guilty and a life term. Her son, on trial here under the {name of Anthony Peterson, had his) j attorney telephone her Friday asking what to do, following the conviction and sentencing to death Thursday night of his companion in the slaying of Carl B. James, Louisville and Nash- ville railroad official. Young Peterson and his counsel,’ David Sessmer, conferred Friday as’ court opened here on an offer by) Commonwealth's Attorney E. W. Creal. to recommend a life sentence if the, Detroit youth pleaded guilty. “Tl do whatever you think best,” the youth told the lawyer. “You know TI didn’t kill anybody and I am not guilty. If you think this is the best way out (pleading guilty and taking @ life sentence) I'll stand by what- ever you say.” “Then I propose that I call up your mother on the telephone and ask her what she wants me to do,” replied the Ja wyer. Peterson then told his lawyer to tell his mother the facts in the case, as she has not been able’ to attend the trial, and added “tell her every- thing is all right; tell her not to wor- {ry, but. ask her to tell me what to lo.” Then the voice of the youth who, with another Detroiter under 20 years of age is accused of having slain James and stolen his car, ended in an outburst of sobs. ‘PROBING BURNING DEATH OF ‘SMITH Insurance Companies Not Sure Body Is That of Man Hold- ing Policies Perry, Ia., March 13.—(?)—A theory that the burned body of a man bur- ied here Feb. 3 as John M. Smith, farmer-labor candidate for governor in 1930, was not that of Smith was being investigated Friday at the re- quest of insurance companies with which Smith carried $50,000 worth of Policies. The body of the man, burned be- yond recognition, was found under the wreckage of a motor truck near Denison, Iowa, and was identified by Mrs, Smith. When exhumed Thurs- day and subjected to an autopsy it was revealed, Coroner L. H. De Ford said, that it had been embalmed be- fore it had been burned. The.author- ities were unable to identify the body. Meanwhile a search for Smith was under way on the theory that he is still alive. ji Dentists testified that their work on Smith did not correspond with that, in the mouth of the burned man. The Perry man was the owner of the Farm Disintone company, man- Officials said they had no indica- tions regarding the present where- abouts of Smith, the identity of the boar. a Perry, or where it was ob- Board Starts Work On Capitol Repairs’ Miss Dolly Arney, 16, above has filed & $150,000 breach of promise suit in Independence, Kan., against Glen W. Dickinson, Kansas City, Mo., theater owner. Miss Arney, who has won many bathing beauty contests at Kansas City, and who competed last year for the national beauty crown at Miami, claims that Dickinson prom- ised to marry her, and then failed to do so, being already married. YOUNGSTER’S DEATH WASNOT CAUSED BY BACTERIA 1S CLAIM Bacteriologist Finds No Malig- nant Bacteria in Viscera of Norman Broehl ‘One factor that might have caused the death of Norman Broehl, two- year-old victim of poison here last Friday was eliminated when A. W. Ecklund, state bacteriologist, an- nounced Friday that no malignant bacteria that might have caused death were found in the viscera or the stomarh content of the child. There remains only the report of the state regulatory department who are conducting tests for chemical pol- sons to complete the investigation. Local authorities ordered analyses of the stomach content and viscera after an autopsy had failed to reveal what type of poison might have caused death. Samples of colored easter candy eaten by the child a few hours before he became ill also are being analyzed in an effort to determine whether Friday 24 hours after becoming ill. A completed report of all analyses will be made within the nex: few days, authorities said Friday. MINNESOTA YOUTH VICTIM OF CAVE-IN Body of Marchiniak, 20, Rice Lake, Not Yet Removed From Well Cavern Duluth, Minn., March 13—(%)}— George Marciniak, 20-year-old Rice Lake farm boy, buried ‘beneath tons of dirt and rock following a cave-in in a well 40 feet below the surface Thursday afternoon, was dead Fri- day, but his body had not been re- moved from the well. Rescue work- ers noon Friday. After working all night scores of men early morning had suc- ceeded in the body near the surface, but a fresh cave-in again engulfed the lad. The Weather’ bre) Friday Be vlag lg Saturday. PRICE FIVE CENTS ——<——===3 —_—_———- THREE GROUPS ARE GETTING READY FOR DRIVES NEXT YEAR Democrats, Republicans and Progressives Made Strides in Defining Issues CANDIDATES ARE MENTIONED Have Hoover Stands Alone in G. 0. P, Ranks; Democrats Appear to Have Multitude was underway today, propelled second conference of political leaders in as many weeks. “Progressit day Progressive conference over whic! se eaae dea miesil e unusually early of political phenomena has occurred in the three distinct groups—Democrats, even raat and Independents. It as gone far already in defining issues and developing candidates, Prohibition, power, unem} and the tariff stand out as issues projected from the early swirl of con- ferences and maneuvers, As for candidates, President Hoover, titular head of the Republican party, is unchallenged so far within the reg- ular ranks and the na- tional committee has centered its coe in support of his administra- Attacked The Progressive conference leaders centered their attacks upon President Hoover and made it plain he was not preted as a plea to Democrats for a candidate of “progressive” stamp. His declaration that “we need an- other Roosevelt in the white house” stirred prompt gossip, but Norris, with a smile, later said he had not “thought” of ee elated Roosevelt, Democrat, New York, in making that statement. Democratic activity is centered on the platform Chairman Raskob pre- sented to the national committee and on which he will ask a decision in December. Its recommendation for state liquor control in place of na- tional prohibition drew criticism from Senator led the fight against the Raskob pro- hibition proposal, has been advanced by his state legislature as a presi- dential candidate. Ritchie Is Mentioned Governor Ritchie of Maryland like- wise has been put into tho Demo- cratic race by his legislature. He is prohibit! —with Alfred E. Smith, the 1928 nom- inee, ente: the discussion along with Senator Glass, of Virginia; Newton D. Baker, James M. Cox, and Senator Bulkley, of Ohio, and a number of others. Republicans have stood aside as the Democrats and then the Progres- sives met. However, Chairman Fess the organization will get into “high gear” before long (Continued on page fourteen) Offers Book On Modern Manners The workmen were hampered con- |i). tinuously by the numerous cave-ins, and hope for the lad’s life was aban- doned Thursday night. Marcinisk was preparing to leave the well by way of e ladder Thurs- day afternoon when the cave-in oc- curred. i Fire department equipment from Duluth was sent to the farm, about 14 miles from Duluth, to aid in the $$ ——_—_—__—_—_—__———e oe Man at Fessenden al | Has Big Appetite