The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 28, 1931, Page 1

a“ 7] ‘ t i a & Bismarck Carr Scores Promoters of Capital Removal SAYS CITY HAS SUFFERED North Dakota’s “Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED. 1873 RECOMMENDS THAT. BODY WITHDRAW ITS _ ELBCTION PETITIONS Charges That Original. Idea: Be- hind Movement Was to: Disorganize Politics ° Lieutenant Governor Warns His Fellow-Townsmen Against Prime Movers ™ Jamestown, N. D., March 28.—()—| "In a statement addressed to the peo- ple of’ North Dakota, as well as to! the people of his own. community, John W. Carr, Heutenant Whig oh move the. capital of the state from zira|OX PERSONS BURN interests within Jamestown ‘upon the int the petitions for an election on_ the sub- Saturday scored the Bismarck to Jamestown, that are advocating removal Ject be withdrawn. Asserting that the removal idea is beaten at the outset—that it had no chance of successful culmination—| ‘Mr. Carr asserts that “however the dream may have appeared 80 people early last January, nt to be evident to everyone now, | that further effort will result only. in a bitter, Una Nie aig eilg sone. no one , test, that will Gate oF North and that will do the Dakota, and particularly the people Dakott ‘city of Jamestown, a great deal of lasting harm.” Sentiment on town, said Mr. oval in. James- is far from un- animous, while in the county of Stuts- THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH. DAKOTA, ‘SATURDAY, MARCH ‘28, 1931 , Fargo Reach Finals |[ “Scores Removal IS HELD ON CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT Declare Shortage of $25,404.75 Is Found in Accounts of A. T. Olson Bonds Are Set at $4,000 for De- WAS ARRESTED AT “HOME| 3 Baseball Man Dies..\| ° fendant, Who Is Father of Two Children Minot, N, D., March 27.—(®)—A. T. Olson, cashier of the First National ago, was arrested Deputy United States Marshal Rob- ert Larson, Minot, ona charge of embezzling $25,404.75 fromthe bank. The alleged shortages expos- ed by an auditor the bank’s affairs, following the. recent consolidation of the First National and the Farmers State bank. August Peterson, Harvey, president of the Van Hook bank, restored the entire amount of tHe bank’s short- age this week by a cash payment, placing the capital of the bank intact and increasing the reserve to $40,000, approximately three the amount required by law. Bonds Set At $40,000 Under the United States commis- sioner’s warrant, issued at Fargo and approved by United States District Attorney P. B. Garberg, Olson is re- quired to furnish bonds of $40,000 to keep his freedom pending action by @ federal grand jury. . ‘The arrest of Olson took place at his home in Van Hook about 10 a. m., TO DEATH AS FIRE ~ RAGES WITH STORM Several Business Buildings and Residences Damaged in Wisconsin Town Marshfield, Wis., March - 28—(?)— Six: persons; four of them members of one family were burned to death in a three it} times de of Jamestown is) and several residences early Saturday ttle bee for removal. In-other/in the village of Loyal, 20 miles raed the spats marshal Vaal left Minot _ Channaclineeal ts ‘ fo ontain service pea Olson. atm, ‘ ol upon as quick- ee * * ‘The’ dead’ are: ly as possible. ange tine Hermed Terscheme has| MES Matt Bever, 20, Since the alleged detalations were brought ee ee ie heal : Robert Cbristensen, i es cashier this week. be ies, been ow in ee ree by ‘il of ‘the’ zerv-|~ Merle Chris confined. to.bisshome in a.weakened doe clubs, civic organizations, 4raternht) | arg, Officials said thet" in bringing the anizations, and | the ber Of Jane Christensen, 5. embezzlement charge against Olgor, erce, in 25 years,” he maintains! “405 Christensen and her daughter] %t 18 their theory'that. the money was the “clty ‘and its business interests boycati re is gradually. worse.” Addressing Carr says: “Surely: you people of this commun-. ity, who came here 50, 60, some of you 70 years ago, and built from a wilderness a splendid community—a community proud ‘of its schools, churches, and other educational in- stitutions, and of the- splendid citi- zenship of its pioneers, do not want to see this community torn apart by bitter internal strife that time will never ‘entirely heal. Surely you do not want the wrath and the resent- ment of the people of the rest of the state directed at you for many years to. come. fro Dealing with the subject of wis ing that they can't be withdrawn, 8N/ Christensen was in Madison, and was would settle the 1eg@l/not expected home until Saturday attempt todo so question,” says Mr. 9 Sees Great Expense Forecasting expensive litigation, the; possibility of attempts to refer the removal: issue. f it is not, stands Beige? nn Mr. Cart, for t may be- Mr. Cai any or capital J COMMUNIST GROU Leader, Says: He Will. Starve Himself to Death’ When He ‘: Is no Longer Needed : lu = = himself -particularly to the people of his own community, Mr. ‘Fen oe 5 z at a hospital here. With ’ all.of the Christensen family the: exception of the father, became victims of the tragedy. The fire. was believed to have started from an explosion in the Christensen living quarters above a drug’ store. Fanned by a brisk wind the flames spread quickly. taken to bolster Olgon’s private en- terprises. ‘ It was J. D. Rempel, audjtor fora line of hanks owned by Mr. Peterson, who discovered the shortage in the Van Hook ‘institution. Upon discovery of this fact, the National bank examiner was notified i if had fer, Upon the arrival of a bank ex- aminer, the findings of Rempel were verified. Max Man Appointed National bank of Max. been in the employment the last 15 years. He family to Van Hook escaped, when aroused by the crack- Hing slants ‘and: shouts of rescuers. TAKE TO LIFEBOATS “ASSHP GOES DOWN S.:0. S.°\Message from Ship WhichWas Not Named Tells of Accident UTAH MURDER CAS New York, March 28.—(P}—A fleet of ships Saturday was searching off the New Jersey coast as result of 8. O. 8. messages which indicated a ship had sunk and its company taken to Ife boats. casting. .was halted. Three coas: guard destroyers and a freighter put out’ from New York; three power boats were out from the New Jersey Attorneys Prepare Arguments for Delivery Monday in Jean Dayle Trial XN Salt Lake City, March 28.—(P)— a cm in| ployed. at the state penitentiary as @ guard. " Besides his children he leaves three NEARING COMPLETION i a. re BAN JOHNSON PIONEER HERE SINCE 1878 IS CLAIMED BY DRATHFRIDAY NIGHT llness of a Year Fatal to D. R. MacDonald, Who Came to 1 County 53: Years Ago | came to Burleigh county as.a‘home- Steader in 1878, died Friday night at 9:07 o'clock following’ a year's illness. MacDonald, who retired from active service as a guard at the penitentiary 10 years ago, had been suffering from @ bladder complaint for the last year. ‘Three sons, and two daughters were at his bedside when the end came. They were Grant, William ‘and David, and Catherine MacDonald, all of Bis- marck,’and Mrs., Stanley Francis of Aberdeen, 8. D. Another daughter, Mrs. O. L. Nordquist, Underwood, will arrive in the olty. Sunday to attend the funeral. =‘ Duncan Robert MacDonald was) born in New Glascow, Nova Scotia, Aug. 15, 1850, He’ was educated in the schools of that city. and in 1878 he came to Burleigh county. to take up & homestead. In 1691 he married Elsie Anna Landgrebe who died Oct. 19, 1920. He moved to Bismarck 25 years ago’ and for 11. years was em- ; Cea The Weatlier * coud Saturday night, auaday cloudy. PRICE FIVE CENTA VAN HOOK CASHIER 4Two of Baseball’s Prominen t Men Die Ban Johnson, Who Built Game Up, andE. S. Barnard, League Head, Succumb DEATH FEW HOURS. APART Grief Prevails Throughout World of Sports as Funerals are Arranged Grief prevailed throughout the baseball world Saturday over the sudden deaths of Ban Johnson, 67, former American League president, Saturday morning, and Ernest 8. Barnard, president of the American baseball league, Friday afternoon. Johnson who built baseball to its commanding position. as a national pastime, died at Bt. John’s hospital ia St. Louis at 8:10 p. m. Friday from Giabetes and complications. Barnard was the victim of a heart attack at the Mayo Brothers’ clinic at Roches- ter, Minn. The death of Johnson, the stal- wart, and at times stormy, old figure of baseball, ended a six-year quest of health in which Johnson went from hospital to hospital and sani- tarlum to sanitarium in search of re- lief from his dread enemy, diabetes. In Bed All Winter Ban Johnson’s final illness had kept him in a hospital bed in St. Louis since. last. September, except for a few weeks in January when he apparently was on the road to recov- ery and was able to go to Hot Springs, Ark. ‘There. he. suffered a relapse and physicians advised amputation of a leg because of infection. He re- turned to St. Louis, Amputation was avoided but a blood —— was resorted. to February 19. For a day or two after the transfu- sion, Johnson's condition seemed im- proved, but both oe his iodo clans. soon ‘gave Up for A He was unconscious and del Lirias ft time before the end.” "a fobmson tede baseballs big ollar ‘stadia, $75,000 players snd Sick league clubs valued at $50,- 000,000. He originated the world series. He chose the presidency of the American League in 1900, at a $2,500 annual salary, in preference toe half inter- est in the Chicago White Sox, znd he made himself a $40,000 executive by applying: business methods and strict discipline. to a ‘sport which,. when he and and to eliminate the rowdyism which kept: spectators away, he put the ire H ae : (Continued on page eleven) Child Falls Into , Hot Water and Dies t Alarmed Over Demands of'Dem- IMINOT AND DEVILS LAKE DEFEATED IN HARD SEME-RINALS Demons Win Their Game 27 to 24 While Midgets Grab 18 to 13 Verdict GAME SET FOR 9:30 O’CLOCK ’ O CHILDREN FREEZE TO DEATH WHEN BUS IS STALLED IN SNOW 18 Other Children are in Serious Condition and Driver [In Death Case Is Missing I Rally of Magicians in Last Four eke | Minutes Cut Big Capi- OCCURRED THURSDAY NIGHT) tal City Lead Those Who Survived Colorado Tragedy are Being Cared for on Farms Tournament Facts Given at Glance FIRST ROUND SCORES Holly, Colo, March 28—()—Five children were frozen to death in a school bus stranded in a blizzard 45 miles northeast of Lamar. Eighteen other children, occupants of the bus, were in a serious condition Saturday. The storm swept the region Thurs- day. Bismarck 30, Crosby 10. SECOND ROUND SCORES Fargo 18, Devils Lake 13, Bismarck 27, Minot 24. SATURDAY NIGHT SCHEDULE Consolation finals at 7:30 P. gm. Minot vs. Devils Lake st 8:30 Pp. m. # Bismarck vs. Fargo at 9:30 p. m. Dinner for ret ction coaches and officials after last game. News of the tragedy, which occur- red late Thursday night, reached here Saturday morning as the bodies were brought from the prairie country near Towner, Colo. The dead: Evelyn Stonebarker, Orlo Unteidt, Robert Brown, Kenneth Johnson, and Mary Miller. The children range in age from eight to 14 years. Carl Miller, driver of the bus and father of one of the children, had not, been found Saturday morning. His bus stalled in the snow. Miller left in search of help and became lost in drifts which ranged from 10 to 12 feet deep. The 18 children who survived are’ being cared for at farm homes. The southeastern Colorado farm. territory was hard hit by snows of Thursday and Friday. Parents of the 23 children, alarmed at the failure of ‘the school bus to ar- rive, organized a search late Thurs- day but it was not until late Friday night the bus was found stalled in Bismarck will meet Fargo at 9:30 ee pra night for the high etball championshi North Dakota. Pe go Demons, defending cham) » went to the last round by defeating Minot, 27 to 24, Saturday morning, while the Midgets advanced by beat- ing Devils Lake, 18 to 13. The Bismarck-Minot game was hardly as close as the score would in- dicate, the Magicians coming ‘with a tush in the final minutes after Bis- marck had amassed a big lead. The score by quarters tells the story. ~ Bismarck had trouble in: get- ting started. and failed to score a field goal in the first quarter, which ended with Minot leading, 5 to 3. In the second quarter, however, Bismarck ran its score to 15 while Minot made onl: two additional points. The third quarter ended 23 to11 and Bismarck rang up four more at the start of the fourth quarter before Coach George (Baldy) Hays, sent in three substitutes to fin- ish the game. Minot seemed to take a new lease on life at this point and was coming with a rush when the game ended, Dunnell dropping in two. long field goals with less than a minute to play. Hays, in the meantime, had sent Dohn back into the game in an ‘effort to stop the rush. Fargo had ea harder time with Dev- ils Lake, although its margin at the end was larger. The Satans looked good in the first quarter and scored eight points to Fargo's six. The Gate City crew pulled up to even terms at the end of the first half, which ended 9 to 9 and each team scored two points in the third quarter to maintain the deadlock at 11 to 11. The Midgets, who are midgets in name only, got going in the fourth Period, however, ‘and Devils Lake seemed to sag When the bruised body of Verna Russell (above), 22-year-old student nurse, was found alongside a road near Tiverton, R. I., a police search was launched for Elliott R. Hathaway (below), former basketball star and son'of'a Fall River, Mass., state rep- resentative. Hathaway was reported to have been the girl's companion on an automobile ride on the night she was killed, apparently by strangula- tion. He surrendered to police in a few. hours. BJORNSON HEARING IN WAHPETON 10 BE CONDUCTED MONDAY Postponement Is Granted Upon Request of Counsel for Wahpeton Youth Wahpeton, N. D., March 28.—()}— Gordon Bjornson, 23, Wahpeton youth, charged with the kidnapini and extortion of $25,0000 from O. A. Leach, Wahpeton. banker, was raigned at 2 p. m. Friday. On request Bjornson’s counsel, his case was Roads were impassable Saturday, making the search for Miller difficult. REPUBLICANS WORRY ABOUT COMMITTEES | FOR COMING SESSION ocrats for Greater Repre- sentation tinued to 2 p. m. Monday. Request that he be remanded to the Richland county jail without bond also was granted. Francis Murphy, Fargo attorney, and R. G. Forbes, father of Arnold C. Forbes, Richland county state's attor- Rey, were named special assistants to aid in prosecution of the case. It is understood Mr. Murphy plans to seek an order from Judge Washington, March 28.—(%)—Re- Publican independents may extend their balance of power from the sen- jate floor to the all important com- mittees which frame legislation. Democrats are demanding a larger Proportion of committee assignments because of the close party division in the new senate. Republican leaders, fearful of turning control over to the Democratic-Independent Republican Coalition, are resisting the demands, The prospective line-up in the new senate is so close that ition leaders have no hope of guiding sen- | *! ate floor activities when there is a as Weibeler, star for~ i] combination between Democrats and | for Independent Republicans. Their only. hope for keeping con- trol of controversial legislation is in the committees, in most of which |f they now og the majority of votes. Democratic Leader Robinson has |“! ? written Chairman McNary of the Re-| “Gordon' may have something to publican committee on committees, | S#y after the however, asking the margin between Democrats and Republicans on the but. ‘{fouled Agre, who opened the scoring with a free throw. Minot missed a Minot’s center got the opening tip Bismarck got the ball. DeMots one. McNary is holding out for the pres- ent committee divisions. 4 5 session, At that time Republican Inde- pendents demanded, and received, larger representation on this commit- tee. Senator La Follette, Republican, ‘Wisconsin, was appointed. Participant in Toledo Mail Robbery