The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 12, 1931, Page 1

Cy | | North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1878 THE BISMARCK TRIBUN BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1931 Fair, slightly warmer Tuesday ts PRICE FIVE CENTS City Dads Announce Police Plan NEW GOVERNMENT SO FAR TS UNABLE TO RESTORE ORDER 10 Other Religious Buildings Damaged; Monks and Nuns Flee From Rioters SOLDIERS ARE SWEPT ASIDE Early Estimates Put Damage at $30,000,000, Outside of Records, Valuables Madrid, May 12.— (4 —Jeering, cheering mobs which swept police, civil guards and soldiers aside, attack- ed and burned churches and church buildings in the cities of Spain Tues- day as the month-old republican gov- ernment strove with all its resources to restore order. Five churches and convents were burned before dawn in Seville. Mar- tial law was declared and troops were placed on the streets in an effort to control the throngs which ranged the city, destroying monuments which marked the centuries of Roman Catholicism in Spain. Similar conditions prevailed in Mal- aga, where two churches and church buildings were burned during the night; at Cadiz, where four churches and convents were burned; and at Alicante, where four churches and convents were partly destroyed by fire and looting. Mobs at Zaragoza, Cor- doba and Bilbao attacked and wreck- ed church buildings in those cities, but did not them. ii ‘With ca , infantry, tanks and machine gun squads patrolling the * streets of Madrid, the capital, was restored to tranquility during the night, but not before 10 churches, con- vents, monasteries and other ecclesi- astical buildings had been burned to}), ; the ground while the mobs ‘held off firemen ‘and prevented thejr fighting the flames. Nuns Are Respected A nation-wide checkup showed 21 church buildings destroyed by fire, and perhaps 10 more badly damaged but not burned. Inmates of the build- ings in every case fled, and while a few monks and priests were beaten there were remarkably few casualties among them. Nuns in almost every case were respected by the crowd. Estimates on the number of religious workers fleeing Madrid alone ran as high as 50,000. Efforts to estimate the physical damage were mere guesswork, but some calculated it as high as 150,000,- 000 pesetas (normal value $30,000,000). ‘This did not account for priceless manuscripts, church services, paint- ings and vessels which were destroyed or stolen. Police arrested several looters on whom they found gold and (Continued on page six) ANDERSON, LEAGH ELECTION WINNERS W. F. Kunze, Incumbent Mayor of Minneapolis, ls Poor Third in Race Minneapolis, May 12.—(?)— The Farmer-Labor party, which named its first governor in the last election, ap- peared as a new power in this city’s Political field Tuesday. ‘As a result William A. Anderson, its Leach, who was defeated by Mayor Kunze two years ago. Kunze 18,274, Other totals for mayor were: T. J. Caton, 4,114; C. A. Weaver, 3,630; G. A. Powers, 414; Arthur Kasherman, an Violinist Dies ! EUGENE YSAYE ‘BISMARCK-T0-FARCO AIRMAIL-PASSENGER SERVICE 1S PLANNED Flying Schedule for New Serv- ice Not Arranged, Postal Department Says St. Paul, May 12.—(?)—Passengers will be carried over the proposed aire mail route from Fargo to Bismarck, C. G. Chadwick, traffic manager of Northwest Airways, Inc., announced here Tuesday. Establishment of the route is planned June 1. The flying schedule, Chadwick said, is to be determined by the postoffice department and has not been completed. “Our company must conform to the schedule planned by the postoffice department,” Chadwick said, “but it YOUTH ADATTS HE MURDERED COUPLE Ray Wilt, 17-Year-Old Ohio Farm Hand, Captured After Nine-Day Search Canton, Ohio, May 12—(#)—Au- thorities announced Tuesday Ray Wilt, 17, farm hand, has confessed he. killed Edward B. Thomas, 46, invalid farmer and his wife, Ethel, 44. Officers said Wilt who had worked him mad by “holding out part pay for an old suit Thomas gave Wilt, who disappeared nine ago ae Be Thomas farm, arrested Monday near - rollton. He had been sought since the hacked bodies of the Thomases dead about a week. The boy, said by neighbors and fasher to be mentally subnormal, first asserted that a man living near Waynesburg, not far from the Thomas farm, killed the couple 10 mobile, taking a radio with him. MEXICANS THWART REVOLUTION PLOT Luis Cabrera, Former Minister of Finance, Said Princi- pal Leader YSAYE, VIOLINIST OF INTERNATIONAL FAME, SUCCUMBS 72-Year-Old Musician, Who Lost Leg Year Ago, Stricken by Kidney Ailment HAD JUST PRESENTED OPERA Belgian, Who Did Not Win Re- nown Until Late in Life, Decorated by Kings Brussels, May 12.—(?)—Iliness of many months’ duration caused the death early Tuesday of Eugene Ysaye, world famous violinist. He was 12 years old. Ysaye in 1929 underwent amputa- tion of a leg. A year ago his condi- tion was thought to have improved so he was past the danger point, but an aggravated kidney malady soon caused him to take to bed again. ~ His death succeeded by two months one of his greatest triumphs, presen- tation of his opera, “Peter the Miner,” written in Walloon dialect. Queen Elizabeth went to Liege to hear it and arranged @ broadcast so that Ysaye from his bed might listen to it also. ‘Ysaye's first public appearance after amputation of his leg was as honor guest at a dinner given by King Al- bert at the Royal Palace at which President Doumergue of France was present. The French conferred upon him the honor of commander of the Legion of Honor. About a year before Queen Eliza- beth of the Belgians decorated him with the cross of a grand officer of the Order of the Nile, which King Fuad of Egypt conferred upon him when he visited Belgium. Unknown In Youth Although he made his’ first public @ppearance as a violinist.at the age of seven, Eugene Ysaye as a youth did. not attract much attention. great masters of the latter half of the 19th century and from two of them he received encouragement and as- sistance. There was some difference of opin- ion as to whether the young musician Possessed ext ability and talent. Opinion still was divided aft- er Ysaye appeared for the first time before Joseph Joachim, often called in his time “the greatest of living vio- linists.” Ferdinand Hiller, celebrated pian- ist, recognized genius in Ysaye, mtro- duced him to Joachim, and arranged to have the young man play for the great master. Hiller accompanied his Protege. Joachim listened in silence and when Ysaye concluded, his only remark was “I never heard the violin Played like that before.” It was an ambiguous comment, but whether it was tinged with praise or blame it was regarded as illustrating the salient feature of the art of Ysaye—his originality in technique (Continned on page Six) WOUNDED YOUTH HAS CHANCE 10 RECOVER Wilford Rorvig, 18, Rothsay, Minn., Doesn't Know How He Was Shot g E was 5 » is still a matter of conjecture, by officers to have the explain being met with the answer: “I don’t know.” was employed on @ farm Rothsay, Sheriff Archie Whaley SRE TEE gees ‘ E 3 Fe g Gunman’s Girl May Hold Fate Helen Walsh, above, girl friend of Francis “Two-Gun” Crowley, is expected to give testimony that will help New York police send the 20-year-old gun- man to the electric chair for two killings. She was caught with him and Rudolph Duringer when 100 policemen besieged an apartment with machine guns and tear gas bombs. Crowley is accused of shooting a policeman and another man. Officials say Duringer admits killing Virginia Brannen, “dime-a-dance” girl. U. S. Army to Abandon From 20 Bic POSTAL DEFICIT PREDICTED IN TALK ° BY POSTAL OFFICIAL | Assistant Postmaster General Expects $40,000,000 Ad- dition to Shortage Laredo, Texas, May 12.—()—A pos- tal deficit of about $140,000,000 at the close of the present fiscal year was predicted Tuesday by Assistant Post- master General Tilton in an address before the convention of Texas post- masters. Tilton said this deficit would repre- sent an increase of more than $40,- 000,000 over the $98,000,000 loss for the last financial year. “The constantly increasing deficit in the postal receipts as compared with the postal expenditures has been the cause of grave concern,” Tilton said. Explaining that’ while part of this deficit should not be charged against the postoffice department because it was due to the franking system, he Pronounced: the present . total so enormous as to defy adjustment for years to come unless postal rates should be raised. Neither congress nor the public in general, Tilton said, had approved Postmaster General Brown’s proposal of a 2% cent first class postage rate, but he. contended this method the “most simple and positive” to over- come the deficit. He also advocated a parcel post rate adjustment which would in- crease the revenue by approximately Commerce month, he said. Blind Widow Leaps Nine Floors to Death to 30 Posts President Hoover Announces General Staff Is Seeking * = to Cut Expenses! Washington, May 12.—(#)—Presi- dent Hoover said Tuesday that the general staff of the army planned to abandon between 20 and 30 army posts in various parts of the country. Post concentration, the president said, was necessary if the army ob- tains the maximum use of its facili- ties and operates in the most econo- mic manner possible. The army, he said, has abandoned 13 posts during the last two years. Mr. Hoover said he would appoint a committee from the army, the justice department, agriculture department, and the veterans bureau to investi- gate the possible use of the abandon- ed_posts by those departments. This, he said, should effect econo- mies in the work of those depart- might be of great value to the states bard institutions, educational or other- Such use of the posts he believed would relieve the feeling of depriva- tion which local communities have when army posts or other government: activities are moved elsewhere. Youth Found With Wound Near Heart Fargo, N. D., May 12.—(?)—A bul- let hole in his body, just below the heart, Wilford Rorvig, 18, Barnesville, Minn., is in a local hospital. Offi- cers Tuesday sought an explanation ments, Some of the posts, he added, | ADVOCATES OF WAR DEBT CANCELLATION GRITIGIZED BY DAVIS Pennsylvania Senator Charac- terizes Men Who Suggest It as ‘Gimme Boys’ Says Speeches ‘Boldest Affront of Their Kind Ever Of- fered to Nation’ Coatesville, Pa. May 12.—(%)— Classing as “Gimme Boys” Interna- tional Chamber of Commerce speak- ers who asked revision of the United States war debt and tariff policies, Senator Davis said Tuesday these de- mands were the “boldest affront of their kind ever offered to our nation.” The Pennsylvania Republican spoke at services dedicating the new Veter- ans’ hospital here. After summariz- ing the costs of the World War, and referring to President Hoover's state- ment to the International Chamber of Congress that five billion dollars was being spefit annually to maintain armament, Davis said: “The effect of this militaristic per- fection prevailing in many quarters of Europe already has intruded itself in the internal affairs of the United States, as was disclosed recently at the conference of the Internutional Chamber of Commerce, when spokes- men for leading world powers flatly and bluntly demanded the United States reduce or eliminate its tariff safeguard so that our home markets may become a dumping paradise for 1e products of Europe. Furthermore, they insisted that the United States should cancel the war debts owed to it by European nations. Offer Small Market “As bait they offered our country a small foreign market in exchange for wide open door into our home mar- “These economic demands voiced bY foreign spokesmen constituted the boldest affront of their kind ever of- fered to our nation or any other na- tion not in the vassal class. No pirate of the Spanish main nor any racket lord was more audacious in their ruthless edicts. “My opinion of these foreign ‘Gimme Boys’ can be summed up in no better manner than in the words. (Continned on page Six) AGED TURK HAS NOT RETURNED HOME YET Wife and Great-Great-Grandson of Zaro Agha Are Worried in Istanbul Istanbul, Turkey, May 12—(P)— Where, oh, where can my sesqui- centenarian be, is the worry haunt- ing Mrs. Zaro Agha just now. The old man is gadding about’ Europe and does not come home. His 65-year-old wife and aah serene grandson expected him | bul in time for the annual mutton festival and sacrificed a big ram in preparation for the homecoming, but Zaro failed to turn up. Now they are really worried. Amer- of the shooting. ica was to them a land of milk and He was found in a car near Barnes- ville on highway 64, unconscious, & honey where their old man was safe. So many people are hacked to pieces rifle by his side, by Nar McGrath, postmaster at Barnesville, who brought him to Fargo. SUN | has glimpsed enough by motor cars and water buffalo in the streets of Istanbul that even Zaro’s misadventure with New York traffic did not seriously bother them. But Europe is a different and wick- ed matter, and even veiled Mrs. Zaro, of European ways in Istanbul to judge that it is not the right life for a 157-year-old Kurd. The great great grandson goes day after day to meet incoming trains and boats but he has no luck—Zaro has not appeared and Mrs. Zaro is be- to appear more angry than anxious. Zaro Agha,.who claims to be 157 years old, came to the United States SUPPORTS TARIFF POLICY| | Spanish Mobs Burn 21 Catholic Churches RAR’. VREREE SF RATE | Farm Queen d Students of the Missouri College of Agriculture at Columbia, Mo., gave Rebecca Stepp, above, the Horn of Plenty and set her up as queen of the 26th snnual Farmers’ Fair. She rode at the head of a collegiate farm- ers’ parade a mile long, Her home is Trenton, Mo. CONVICT-LAWYER BULLET VICTIM ON NEW YORK STREET Roy H. Sloane, Who Acted as Own Lawyer in Winning Freedom, Is Killed New York, May 12—(P)—Roy H. Sloane, 30, ex-convict who acted as to get out of Sing Sing, was killed in front of a cafe early Tuesday by shots from a passing automobile. Sloane, at first identified as John McDermott, dragged himself along the streets 150 feet before he co'lapsed at a policeman’s feet. He died in the Jewish hospital without regaining consciousness. A man and woman in the cafe told police that four men drove up-in a large sedan, shot Sloane, and dashed away again before they could obtain the license number. Sloane, police said, stole automo- biles to obtain tuition for coilege. He was sent to Sing Sing for theft, stu- died law in prison and by legui tech- nicalities obtained a new trial He won himself an acquittal but before the case was decided prison keepers found brass knuckles in his possession. He was sentenced to seven years more for an attempt to escape from prison and demanded release on grounds that he could not have tried to escape from prison, when he was illegally incarcerated. The court of appeals granted him a new trial, arguments being made by a regular lawyer retained by his mother, Mrs. Anna B. Sloane, author and lecturer. The escape case was then dismissed and he received a suspended sentence for possession of concealed weapons, which meant his freedom. Two months after his release, he &nd Jack Giller were arrested in a Fifth avenue building, where they had attempted, police say, to steal $25,000 worth of diamonds. He was out on bail in that case when shot. at Columbia university and Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, BRIAND FAVORITE 10 WN ELECTION Veteran French Foreign Minis- ter to Oppose Paul Doumer for Presidency Paris, May 12—(%)—Aristide Bri- and, veteran French foreign minister, .| Tuesday seemed slated for election to the French presidency by the nation- al assembly upon the first or second his, own, lawyer in successful efforts | Sloane at.one time was a student} DENY REQUESTS 10 | PUT FULL CONTROL | INHANDS OF CHER Bismarck Dads Declare They Will Supervise Department’s Work Closely TWO ARE NOT REAPPOINTED Petition Signed by 250 Persons Presented at Commission Meeting Monday Formal statements of its policy with regard to the Bismarck police depart- ment was made by the city commis- sion Monday night following present- ation of a petition which, in effect, asked that the commission adopt a “Hands-off” policy and place com- plete control of the department in the hands of Chief Chris J. Martin- eson. The statement contained a refusal of the request contained in the peti- tion and made it clear that the com- mission would closely supervise the department's work in the future. Other developments disclosed later that Policemen W. I. Franklin and David Smith will not be reappointed and will end their service on the po- lice force May 15. The commission will meet Thursday night to select their successors. Although definite confirmation was lacking Tuesday, it is expected that | William Ebeling, former member of “the force,” will be named police captain and will be second in com- mand to Martineson. The statemenc made it clear that there is no present intention of removing Martineson as chief. Rumors Cleared Up ;_.The petition and the answering istatement by the commissioners (brought to light a situation of which Tumors have been heard in Bismarck | for many weeks. The text of the petition, signed by 250 persons, follows: “We, the undersigned taxpayers, representing more than two million dollars worth of property, and citi- zens and residents of the city of Bis- |marck, do hereby respectfully state jthat we deplore the present police situation; that it appears that there is a lack of harmony in the police de- partment. It appears that certain {employes have been removed and jothers substituted against the wishes lof the chief of police. This can mean jbut one thing, that the general public jcannot expect or hope for the degree jof police protection which they are | (Continned on page Six) ‘UNABLE 10 IDENTIFY SIX MEN AS SLAYERS Hope of Connecting Gang With St. Valentine’s Day Mass- acre Fades Chicago, May 12.—(®)—The possi- {bility of finding in the capture of six ‘suspected members of the Fred Burke gang a solution of the St. Vaientine’s day massacre of seven George Moran gangsters in 1929, faded Tuesdey. Three witnesses who viewed the suspects found themselves unable to identify any of the sextet. Held over the week-end at Morri- son, Ill, following their arrest Friday in East St. Louis, the six were brought here Monday. ‘Thomas P. O'Connor, one of them, was identified, police said, in connec- tion with the robbery of the First State Bank of Plano, Ill. The police reported that he also was identified with Howard Lee and John Britt, his associates, of participation in the $2,800,000 robbery of the Lincoln Na- tional Bank and Trust company at Lincoln, Neb. Edward O'Hara also was suspected with O'Connor, Lee and Britt, in the Lincoln robbery, but since the connec- tion was somewhat vague, police de- jcided to turn him over to officers of Terre Haute, Ind., where he is wanted for two slayings. Meanwhile the trio wanted in Lin- pus Judge John P. McGoorty Tuesday. County Attorney Max G. Towle. Lin- coln, representing Nebraska, said he had several means of preventing their release and expressed hope of having the men started back to Nebraska by ‘Wednesday. ergeeet | Kills Self When Her Cooking Is Criticized