The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 17, 1931, Page 1

- ve a RENTERS TT AAS THES 8 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE North Dakota’s The Weather Oldest Newspaper Gomewhat enctttiog Friday night ant — ab As, . Saturdays cooler Saturday. ESTABLISHED 1878 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1981 PRICE FIVE. CENTS Spanish Unity Seems Assured Stimson Announces U. S. Nicaraguan Policy DELEGATION FROM NEW GOVERNMENT AMERICAN CITIZENS WARNED TO MOVE T0 COAST COMMUNITIES Secretary of State Says United| | States Will Not Send Its Forces Inland ADMINISTRATION CRITICIZED State Department Announces It Still. Plans to Withdraw Marines by 1932 Washington, April 17.—(4)—Secre- tary Stimson Friday gave notice to American citizens in Nicaragua that the American government could not undertake general protection of its citizens in that country. The notification, sent through the : legation at Managua and the con- sulate at Bluefield, recommenacd that “all Americans who do not feel secure under the protection afforded them by the Nicaraguan government through the Nicaraguan National Guard withdraw from the country or at least to the coast towns whence they can be protected or evacuated in case of necessity.” “Those who remain,” the official notice said, “do so at their own risk and must not expect American forces to be sent inland to their aid.” Marine aid for insurgent - threat- ened Americans Friday concentrated in three Nicaraguan towns as the ad- ministration’s policy toward thc Isth- mus country was criticized severely in Washington. Boats Under Orders ‘The cruiser Memphis was under or- ders to go to Puerto Cabezas and the gunboat Sacramento to Bluefivids. It ‘was possible the Memphis would re- lieve the gunboat Asheville, already at Puerto Cabezas, so the latter could go to Cape Gracias a Dios, the scene vf more recent insurgent. activity. As these defense efforts Representative Fish, New York Re- oe ERRATA TY RET Pastor-Slayer | of DEMOLAY DELEGATES MERT IN CITY FOR ANNUAL CONFERENCE Registration, Business Meetings and Dance Feature First Day's Program Approximately 100 delegates from DeMolay chapters in all parts of the state gathered in Bismarck Friday for the opening of their tenth annual Scat sib cet Test when group. will meet in A few delegates arrived Thursday night but the majority were here Fri- day in time for registration whith oc- publican, attacked the administra- (Continued on page Nine) MONTANA MAN'S SKELETON FOUND Ernest R. Vater, 74, Livingston, Apparently Slain and Robbed in 1926 Thedford, Neb., April 17—(#)—The skeleton of Ernest R. Vater, 74, Liv- ingston, Mont., who disappeared here in February of 1926, was found Friday in a shallow grave three miles south of here. A bullet hole in the skull led authorities to believe Vater had been murdered with robbery as the motive. Identification. was made by means of partly decayed personal effects of Vater, a retired business man, to Missouri to undergo for Missouri. Shifting sands had revealed the body in its grave. It was found by two ranchers. SENTENCE OF ND. cupled the delegates in the forendon. Among the early arrivals was.a dele- gation of 15 from Willistcn as well as @ number of delegates from James- town, Minot and Devils Lake. A business meeting to be neld at the Magonic temple in the afternoon, will be followed by group conferences. On the program are addresses by State President. Frederick Swanson of Mandan and Judge A. M. Chris- ‘tlanson, chief justice of the state su- Preme court. John Zuger, state scribe, will make a report of the or- ganizations activities. ‘The conclave ball will be held in Mandan tonight. Selection of new officers and next year’s meeting place is on -schedule for Saturday's sessions. i A banquet to be held at 7 p. m. at Bismarck Saturday evening will ter- minate the conclave, i 20 ARRESTED IN CRIME SYNDICATE Police Say Ring Dealt in Mur- der, Arson, and Robbery Like Retail Men New York, April 17.—(4)—Twenty Persons were under arrest Friday as members of what: police said was a crime syndicate that dealt. in murder, pep and robbery much as a grocer in pota' toes. New York and Newark detectives, who participated in the roundup, said the gang was responsible for three killings, MAN IS ARPIRMED sevens Ser Eddie Norris to Serve Five Years, But Lee Dillage Sen- tence Is Reversed St, Louis, April 17.—(4)—The Unit- ed States circuit court of appeals, in an opinion by Circuit Judge Arba 8. Van Valkenburgh, Friday affirmed the ‘of Eddie Norris to five years Palma, | AMERICAN LEGION PLANS FOR PUBLIC GOLF COURSE HERE Committee of Veterans Body Will Recommend Project to Organization Soon SEVERAL SITES IN VIEW Scheme Is to Use Technical Men in Group Where Possible to Keep Down Expenses Decision to recommend that the American Legion sponsor a municipal golf course in Bismarck was an- nounced Friday by Dr. J. O. Arnson, chairman of a committee appointed to recommend a constructive activity for the veterans organization. ‘The committee will report to the main veterans body next week and, in the meantime, is making the ne- cessary preliminary surveys and ac- quiring data upon which immediate action can be based if the scheme meets with the approval of the legion membership. “After reviewing the situation as it exists in Bismarck and making an honest effort to determine how the Legion can best maintain its record Service to public, the commit- that a public golf Arnson said. be successful. From the reports which have come to this committee, it would prove popular with the pub- lic and would be liberally patronized by persons who would be willing Pay a small fee.” A sub-committee of the Legion or- ganization appeared Tuesday night before the park board and discussed the matter of a site with that body. it developed that there is no space available for a golf course in the present park aystem but it is regard- s Government Beats Conservative Motion of Censure by 54- Vote Margin London, April 17.—(#)—The govern- ment of Prime Minister Ramsay Mac- safely entrenched in office as at any time in its nearly two years of life after beating a Conservative motion of censure with a majority of 54 votes. The Tory leader, Geerged Baldwin, i up 305 for the government, agal ‘The ministry was aided by the votes of 23 liberals, less than half the Lib- erals in the commons. Ten Liberals voted against the government, and abstained. Sir Oswald Mosley and the six members of his “new abstained but the Laber left Illinois Slayer Is Declared Sane ‘Wheaton, Il., April 17.—(#)—John E. Preston, convicted of the slaying of Agnes Johnson, a stenographer, was found sane by a circuit court jury here Thursday night. He there- fore must die in the electric chair Us. lind S« lar Finds Gotham a Babel, City of Endless Canyons and Rumble New York, April 17.—()—Halv- King of Siam Speeds Toward Portal, N. D. Aaa SAPS | Dempsey Friend ‘ Asiatic Monarch Leaves Liner Empress of Japan After Pacific Trip 1 — | SUFFERS FROM BRONCHITIS = Says He- Is Sorry He Could Not Receive Cana- dian Officials | Victoria, B. ©., April 17.—(®)— King Prajadhipok of Siam, suffering from an indisposition ship's physi- cians described as a slight attack of bronchitis and malaria, was’ sailing toward Vancouver, B. C., Friday for 8 visit to the United States. The liner Empress of Japan brought him and his queen across the Pacific ‘ in record time, arriving here Thurs- Jack Dempsey has been reported as|4ay night. The king is en route to escorting the dashing Mrs. Elizabeth | New con where he will undergo an urch, above sburg! rorcee, | ¢¥e operation, aod in Mina whee pip tose The monarch canceled/all official heavyweight champion has gone to| ¢ngagements here, but the royal party file suit for divorce against Estelle} #5 received by Dominion and Prov- Taylor, movie actress. Mrs. Church incial officials aboard the vessel. They id R. Chi were met by Queen Rambaibarni and Tet eee man | Prince and Princess Svasti. The BRING N. D. DIVORCE Stat INTO SUIT TO BREAK $12,000,000 LEGACY The queen was presented a basket 1 Estate’s Division May Hinge on of roses from “The Rose City of Vic- toria,” and. received the delegation Separation Granted in Wahs peton in 1898 with a speech. J. A, Lemaire, clerk of the privy council, spoke on behalf of Premier Bennett. Prince Amoradat Krida- kara, Siamese minister at Washing- ton, D. C., presented the Canadian party. Owing to his indisposition, the king was obliged to cancel all official engagements and remained aboard ship. The royal party will leave for New York at midnight Friday night from~ Vancouver on a special a which will enter the United States at Wahpeton, N. D., April 17—(P}— ‘With the hope of throwing some light | WISCONSIN BREWER IS FOUND UNHARMED BUT TIRED IN HOTEL Had Been Held by Kidnapers for Week in Lieu of $150,- 000 Ransom Money ABDUCTORS FRIGHTENED Victim Himself Telephoned His Business Partner He Was Safe and Free Monroe, Wis., April 17.—(#)—Fred J. Blumer, president of the Blumer Products company, near beer manu- facturers, who was kidnaped April 9 end held for $150,000 ransom, was found in a Decatur, Ill., hotel Friday. He was unharmed, but suffered from nervous exhaustion. His captors had fled. roe by automobile Friday afternoon. With him will be his brother, Adam, Sheriff Myron West, of Green coun- ty, and F. B. Lutzinger, president of the National Bank of Monroe, who found him in the Hotel Orlando shortly before 5 a. m. Archie E. Wells, secretary-treasur- er of the Blumer company, in an- nouncing the missing man had been found, said no money had been paid for his release. The only expense in- volved, Wells said, was that incurred in the trip to and from Decatur. When found, Blumer showed the strain of the nervous tension he has been under for more than a week. He was unshaven, his clothes were badly in need of pressing and he was des- perately tired. Blumer himself sent out the first word that he was alive and unhurt. At 9:20 o'clock Thursday night he tel- ephoned Wells from the hotel. Fear- ing a hoax, Wells had Lutzinger ls- (Gontinued on page Nine) CHARGES EFFORT 10° Blumer was to be returned to Mon- | on the fight which Mrs. Ida C. Cook proposes to make in an effort to break the will of her late husband in leaving $12,000,000 to the University of Michigan, attorneys here Friday delved into 33-year-old records of Richland county. They found that in the June term of Richland county district court, 1898, Mrs. Cook received the divorce American officials at Portal. The journey east includes stops at Minneapolis and Chicago. From New York the regal party will go to Wash- ington where it will stay two days. In Washington the incognito under which the king and queen now are traveling will be dropped and they will be entitled to the recognition ac- corded rulers. ‘The Empress of Rapan established HIT SMALL BUSINESS Railroad Board Official Opposes Effort by Railroads in Fruit Case the | had offered his wife both money and @ new unofficial record of seven days 20 hours and 16 minutes . between Japan and Victoria, having reduced her former time by seven hours and two minutes. King Prajadhipok, a product of Eaton and Oxford, is one of the two remaining absolute monarchs in the werld, the other being the King of Abyssinia. The King of Siam has sole control of his 11,000,000 subjects (Continued on page eleven) BOARD ATTEMPTING PO PICK SECRETARY Capitol Commission Meets Here to Review Long List of Ap- plicants for Job from her husand, which she had asked, but not in answer to her suit. Mrs. Cook charged her husband with “desertion, non-support and abandonment” in the action which she filed here. Mr. Cook answered with a counter claim making similar allegations and contending that he @ home but that she had refused all such offers. No detailed court records were kept here in 1898 but the musty documents of the clerk of court show that Judge W. 8. Lauder, then presiding, handed down a verdict for Mr. Cook, finding that all of his allegations had been correct and at the same time Judge Lauder dismissed the action entered by Mrs. Cook. Mrs, Cook was represented by the late Senator W. E. Purcell and Mr. Cook »y the firm of McCumber and Bogart, all of whom are deceased. Judge Lauder still lives here, but | for the last year has been paralyzed so badly that he is unable to speak. emory also has been affe 5 Mrs. Ida E. Lacy, a pioneer resident this city, recalled Friday that Mrs. Cook came here in February, 1898, and made her home here until the court decision in June. Mrs. Cook recalls. E Members of the North Dakota Cap- itel Bi commission Friday be- gan the job of boiling down a long lst of applicants to one appointee for the commissio: Meeting here Friday afternoon, they plunged into this detail of their task and were frank to say they did not ag make his home with Mrs, Cook's par- ents. UNIVERSITY WILL FIGHT FORMER WIFE Ann Arbor, Mich., April 17.—(?)— ‘The University of monere pad to carry on a cot up- had the will of William Wilson Cook, which left an estate of $12,000,000 or more to the institution. : Mrs. Ida C. Cook, 71-year-old divorce but even this wife of the generous alumnus, in-| was uncertain and depended upon the tends to sue for half of the estate. outcome of the among Henry M. Bates, dean of tbe law| commision ‘school, said that the legal staff of the The secretary's job, the prize for university is prepared to act as soon| which a long list of persons has ap- as ® bill of particulars is filed, He/ plied, pays $4,000 e year and is ex- indicated that he possesses Capek 9 pected to last about three years. showing that Mrs. Cook filed a divorce in Nofth Dakota in Hold Auction those | rad Olson, general attorney for the Charges that old-line fruit houses are attempting to obtain cancellation of privileges now extended by the railroads to small dealers and co- operative associations with regard to deciduous fruit shipments were made Friday by E. M. Hendricks, traffic jexpert for the state railroad board, before Edgar J. Smith, examiner for the interstate commerce commission. The hearing is being held in the fed- eral courtroom here and indications were that it would end Friday, after- noon. The case before the examiner in- volves the stopping in transit of de- 'ciduous fruit, shipped from the north- | west, to part unload at a point other | than its final destination. | The matter has been before the in- terstate commerce commission several times, the last being a year ago when the ppeetin of the In the hearing Friday, the railroads were supported by H. W. Bishop, traf- was re- apolis fruit houses. Cross-examining R. E. Smith, as- sistant general freight agent for the Northern Pacific railroad, Hendricks sought to prove that the “line” fruit houses sought cancellation of the privilege as a means of increasing their-own business. He contended that elimination of the privilege, as proposed, would force small-town merchants to buy all their fruits from the distribution houses maintained by the larger concerns. Others at the hearing were Con- Northern Pacific railroad, and W. D. O'Brien, agent, Great Northern railroad, Heavy Curricula of Modern Charged With Harming Student Health [Separatist Leader | g a —, Col. Francisco Macia, above, was the leader of @ group of separatists in Catalonia which proclaimed a Span- ish republic at Barcelona. BILLY THE KILLER’ SHOT BY POLICE IN RUNNING GUNFIGHT Two Women Companions Un- der Arrest in Ohio and An- other Man Is Sought Bowling Green, O., April 171—(P)— Willis “Billy the Killer” Miller, known to police of a number of middle- western cities as an all-around bad man, was dead, two of his girl com- panions were under arrest, and a sec- ond gunman was hunted Friday as the aftermath of a gunfight with police. Miller was identified by finger- prints as the man slain when he lived up to his boast that he would never be captured alive and shot it out with Police Chief Carl Gelliher and Patrolman Ralph Castner Thurs- day. His companion escaped after critically wounding Castner. One of the two girls, who gave her name as Beulah Baird, 20, Kansas City, divorced wife of Walter Ash, slain in Kansas City a month ago, was picked up near Miller's body with a bullet in her skull, She was in a critical condition. The other girl, believed to be her sister, said she was Ruth Saunders, 23, Kansas City, but each gave dif- ferent names for the other and po- lice were uncertain of their identities. The second gunman, listed here as. Clarence Saunders, Kansas City, was suspected by police of that city as be- ing Charles Arthur Floyd, a pal of Miller’s wanted in connection with the slaying of Wallace and William Ash. The Ash brothers were believed to have been killed because of their tivalry with Floyd over the two Baird PONANAN PIL INJURED IN CRASH Prince Bibesco, President of In- ternational Air Group, One of Four Hurt Bombay, April. 17.—(?)—Prince Bi- head of assistant general freight | ministe: VISITS BARCELONA Situation Said ‘Ironing Itselt Out’ by Minister of State Lerroux UPPER HOUSE IS ABOLISHED, Business Dull and Markets Una certain in Spain Because of Trouble Madrid, April 17—(®)—A cabinet delegation from the new Spanish Re- Public went by airplane to Barcelona Friday to negotiate with provisional President Francisco Macia concerning the relationship of the Catalonian ie to the central government in At the conclusion of a cab- said that the situation was ironing itself out, but that the Madrid government, would not have hesitated to use force France Recognizes . Spanish Republic Paris, April 17. — (®) — The French government officially rec- ognized the new Spanish republic Friday, being the first major Power to do so. in preventing the possible secession of sheng and the dismemberment of ‘Abolition of the upper house of the cortes has been decreed. This consist- ed of life members appointed by the king, or those enjoying senatoriai tank by virtue of their station in life, such as cardinals, grandees, captains general of the army and navy and the President of the supreme court. Publish King’s Manifesto King Alfonso’s manifesto declaring fhe was not abdicating but was mere- ly suspending his power temporarily to await the final verdict of the peo~ « on page nine) ARREST ALLEGED THIEF AFTER CHASE Man Accused of Stealing Hogs Arrested by Grant Sheriff Near Mandan After a 75-mile automobile chase. AUTO CRASH FATAL TO PLAZA RESDENT John J. Linde, 60, Killed In- stantly When Car Over-