The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 21, 1931, Page 1

North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1878 THE BISMARCK TRIBUN The Weather Pec es BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1931 PRICE FIVE CENTS N. D. Farmer Stabbed to Death wo Crusaders Are Murdered by | Gangster (fre on SPP SATAN EDITOR OF MAGAZINE AND POLITICIAN ARE VICTIMS OF GUNFIRE Assassinations Bring One of Greatest Manhunts Los Angeles Has Seen PLANNED GAMBLING EXPOSE Wife of Writer Tells Police That Gambling Head Had Threat- PALE ET SLT TEN Speaks for Youth ] | ened Husband Les Angeles, Calif., May 2t—(?) —Police said Thursday Guy Mc- Afee, self - avowed of Charles Crawford, millionaire po- Htical boss, gave the name of a man he believes murdered Craw- ford and Herbert Spencer, news- paperman, in Hollywood Wedn-s- day night. He gave the name on & promise it would not be revealed to newspapers. Los Angeles, May 21.—()—Assass- ination of Herbert Spencer, magazine editor and crusader against organized gambling, and his friend, Charles; Crawford, wealthy politician, started | Police Thursday on one of the great- est manhunts undertaken in Los An- geles. On the eye of a projected expose of gambling by Spencer's magazine, the! editor was shot through the heart and the politician was mortally wounded late Wednesday in the latter's «ffice by an unidentified man whom Craw- ford had received. Officers said the circumstances indicated gangster re-| venge. Crawford died refusing to name the killer, although previously he had indicaied he might talk. The slay- er .cscaped. in an automoodile. Apparently. confident that he would; live, Crawford ‘told detectives before he underwent an emergency operation | that he would tell only “If I’m dur to. (Continned on page Six) 4 EXPLOSION PROVES FATAL 10 INVENTOR Charles E. Vawter, Author 200 Radio Devices, Killed in Laboratory | Philadelphia, May 21.—@P)—Charles | Erastus Vawter, inventor of more} than 200 radio and electric devices, died ‘Thursday of burns received in an explosion at, his laboratory in his home. The explosion occurred while Mr. Vawter, a former professor of physics at Virginia Polytechnic institute, was experimenting with a high-tension ignition system ‘for airpalnes Wed- nesday. His wife, Mrs. Rachel Vawter, was burned severely on the hands when she at.empted to extinguish Vawter’s flaming clothing by wrapping him in @ bed quilt. Mr. Vawter was alone lubricating a motor when a spark from the ap- paratus ignited the oll. Blazing oil was thrown on his clothing by the re- sultant blast. | A member of a family prominent in Virginia educational circles, Mr. Vawter when a young man entered the teaching profession at the insti- tute. About 10 years ago he retired for experimental work in electricity. Three N. D. Youths Enter Guilty Pleas El Paso, Texas, May 21.—(7)— Three North Dakota youths, Guy Murphy, 17, Edwin Jessen, 16, and Merrill Augspurger, 16, of James-| town, N. D., pleaded guilty in federal | lam! court Wednesday to charges of autor} mobile theft. They said they recently beceme in- censed when Murphy was taken off a basketball team for smoking and decided to quit high school to ‘take a trip to California. At Columbus, N. M., they became lost and crossed the international boundary into Mexico where they were arrested by Mexican officers and an automobile they had “borrow- ea” was confiscated. They,were later turned over to the Americin author- ities. Sentence was deferred. | Mentally Deranged Patients Get |Away| Northampton, Mass., May 2. Seven mentally deranged patients of the U. 8. Veterans’ hospital # Leeds, including one who is consider) dan- gerous, escaped Wednesday night. The men. two al nts. After taking keys fro1 they scaled a high wall to flee ‘woods. One made his way to the hime of relatives at North Adams and fe was brought back to the hospital Thurs- day. The other six remained % lib- ert Henry 3. Drisbois, an bre esi was Seared, slightly when overpo' ‘ Education Association’s convention in ‘3 NORTH DAKOTANS the|_ Herschel G. Langdon, Iowa university senior law student, will represent the nation’s college men at the National Los Angeles, June 29, when he speaks on “Youth Views Education.” Lang- , don, who has worked his way through !college as a linotype operator, will ;Staduate with Phi ota Kappa hon- SLAIN IN TRAGEDY AT WINNIPEG, MAN. Children of Family Which Left Cavalier Years Ago Are Killed by Boarder Winnipeg, Man, 2 May 21.—Three} former ‘North Dakota children are! dead here and John Streib, 45, charged with their «murder, is tu a}1; hospital with self-inflicted wounds. The dead are George, 18, Doris, 12, land Irene, 9, children of Mrs. Lillian! las | Walters, a department store employe. |The Walters came here a number of years ago from Cavalier, N. D., but it was said that the father sub- sequently deserted his family and has not been heard from for years. Police said Streib, who had boarded with the family for the last two years, had confessed to the slayings, accomplished with a gun and a razor. ‘The bodies of the three and Streib, who was unconsiciuos, were found by Mrs. Walters on her return from work Wednesday. Mrs. Walters said she had rejected Streib’s pleas that she marry him. TWO VICTIMS BORN IN_PEMBINA COUNTY Cavalier, N. D., May 21.—(?)—Mrs. Lillian Walters, mother of three chil- Gren found slain in their home in Winnipeg Wednesday, is a former resident of Pembina county and two of the children were born in the county. The youngest of the three slain, was born in Winnipeg about a hiss after the Walters family moved ere, A brother and several sisters of Mrs. Walters living in this vicinity left for Winnipeg when informed of tragedy. rop in Retail Food Prices Is Reported ‘ashington, May 21.—(P)—A de- clige in retail food prices of two per cert during the month ending April 15 and 18 per cent since April 15, 1930, was reported Thursday by the bureau of labor statistics. compilation based upon re- Ports from 51 cities showed declines in prices of 34 food products and in- cranes. 6 = but six. Those costing more Potatoes, onions, hens, "Dork chops, ‘and legs of oranges, fa Hettinger Repo —— | | Record Temperature Pah ail ° Although they ped ,no accurate data, observers -at the federal weather bureau a were in- predicted for tonight might not be noticeable in protected pices. WAR DEPARTMENT TO WITHDRAW MEN PROM LOCAL POST \ Fort Lincoln Listed Among 53) Forts Scheduled for Aban- donment by Army PART OF ECONOMY PROGRAM Administration Hopes to Save $125,000,000 by Cutting Expenditures Washington, May 21.—(#)—Con- gress will be asked to approve com- plete or partial abandonment of some of the 53 military posts the war de- partment plans to dispose of in the administration’s effort to prevent further inroads on the taxpayers’ pocketbook. | And before December, economy} plans will be laid for other govern-| mental departments. At his Rapidan, Virginia, fishing camp this week-end, President Hoover will consider the} postoffice departmént with its pros-) pective $140,000,000 deficit. In the campaign, the president) and cabinet members hope to save from $125,000,000 to $150,000,000. Posts the army now occupies and plans to abandon include: Forts Brown and D. A. Russell, Texas; Eustis and Hunt, Virginia; Camps Marry J. Jones and Stephen D. Little, Arizona; Fort Lincoln, North Dakota; | Miller Field, New York; Fort Mis- | soula, Montana; and Chanute Field,! Mlinois. Camps, landing fields and harbor defense establishments, now occupied by caretakers and suggested for abandonment, include: Forts Dade and De Soto, Key West barracks, Carlstrom Field and Dorr Field, Flor-| ida; Fisherman’s Island and Camp Lee, Virginia; Fort Wade and Willapa Bay, Washington; Fort Morgan, Ala- bama; Camp Upton, New York: | Cal le. Pass, Texas; Camp {y eer a “Mexico, and Park’ Field,/' rainatees’ For partial disposal, Generai Doug-| MacArthur listed Forts Levett,| Maine; Stark, Foster and Constitu-| tion, New Hampshire; Heath, An-/ pretty as little Rudi De Czikann’s, But Rudi’s fine flaxen tresses were ad- judged best in all Hungary, at least, in a contest held recently at Budapest. Rudi is shown here as he posed for the cameraman after being awarded a@ gold medal. Crazed Man Kills Three _and Terrorizes Others IMKELVIE EXPLAINS Wisconsin Man Shoots Wife and Two Daughters; Makes Four Others Captives Met{ford, Wis., May 31—()—Joseph ‘Fletschmann; 35, shot and ‘killed his ‘AMERICAN STAND ON | daughters, another son and three {Soviet Says Its Internal Prob-| adults terrorized while he talked of drews, Revere, Ruckman, Strong, Warren and Rodman, Massachusetts; | Getty, Greble and Wetherill, rill, Rhede (Continued on page ine a ee i | firing deer rifle bullets at them. The three adults, one a Catholic priest, escaped from the Fleischmann | farm home, two miles north of here, amid a burst of bullets from Fleisch- lems Would Make Acreage Reduction Unwise The the Washington, May 21.—(?)— seeming discrepancy between | known to him at the time,” he would Probably most American mothers will think their Junior's hair is just as; jby the state seed department and \farm board’s position at the wheat | conference in London and its oft-toid | tale of depleted export markets for CUBAN DISORDERS the land that its armed forces were pre- DECLARED ENDED Statement Says Government! Confident of Preventing. Further Trouble Havana, May 21.—(?)—The govern- ment Thursday announced that the authorities had suppressed revolu- tionary attempts at Manzanillo andj diguani and some “excitement” man- ifested at Shaparra and Holguin. An official statement issued by se- cretary of Interior Octavio Zubizarre- ta said the government had taken measures to prevent further trouble | pared for any emergency, although “there is no fear that events will be- come more serious.” The statement added that reports from all other points in the republic showed absolute quiet prevailing. It declared that while a suspension of vonstitutional guarantees which the president was authorized to use at his discretion had not yet been resorted & “it may-be necessary to do so if the seditious attitude persists.” ‘The government reports that none were killed and only a few wounded in the disturbances which occurred in the province of Oriente. RAIL STOCKS RALLY -TO START RECOVERY Executives Meet in New York to Discuss Upward Revision of Freight Rates New York, May 21.—(7)—Stocks fi- nally managed a rally in the after- Thursday, advancing American wheat revealed Thursday that aed aor have attendea ‘d’s acreage adjustment cam- [rater jam R. McKelvie, grain member of tne one. told the international par- |ley the United States “emphaticaliy is not out of the world export wheat market.” When this government declined an invitation to attend the wheat con- ference at Rome last March, Mc- Kelvie satd it was because it did not want to lead American farmers to believe they could compete in the world market at current price levels. He pointed to the government-sup- ported spread of about 20 cents a bushel between Chicago and Liver- pool values as indicative of the bene- fit of an American market for Amer- ican products. It was explained at board head- quarters that in the campaign to ad- just dome&tic production to consump- tion the board never had lost sight of the necessity for exporting some wheat. It would be impractical, it was said, to set an arbitrary figure for domes- (Continned on page Six) CROSS DELAWARE AGAIN Washington Crossing, Pa., May 21.— ()—As a stunt modern military has crossed the Delaware where Washing- ton did. New pontoon boats did it in mann’s gun. They called authorities, who arrested the man before he could harm his other children. Fleischmann, an assistant butter- maker at the Medford creamery, was crazed by liquor, Sheriff George R. Baird said. He said Fleischmann had been confined at the Winnebago asylum twice for alcoholic insanity. Wednesday afternoon, the sheriff said, Fleischmann began drinking his own home brew beer. Inflamed, he shot his wife and two youngest sons and talked to himself about taking the lives of his other children. Finally, he telephoned Anton Kum- mer, @ neighbor, and invited him to his home. Kummer walked into the house a short time later and found himself covered by Fleischmann’s rifle. The threats of death contin- ued. Kummer was forced to drag the bodies of Fleischmann’s three victims into another room and cover them with a sheet. Fleischmann then ordered Kummer to telephone to the Rev. Father Gregory Reuter, his parish priest, and ask him to come to the home. The priest arrived shortly with Otto Huber, Medford. ‘They were made captives and with the other four were marched into the room and forced to view the bodies. The crazed man continued to mut- ter threats against their lives. At Kummer'’s suggestion, he, Father Reuter and Huber fled. Fleischmann shot at them as they climbed into the priest’s automobile, they told jig time with the aid of outboard motors. Sheriff Baird. Barton Note Tells of Disappointment in Love and Belief That He Was Insane New York, May 21.—(?)—Ralph Barton’s remorse over failure to appreciate “a beautiful lost an- gel” was revealed Thursday in 2 note written béfore he took his life in his Penthouse apartment. The note identified the “Angel” as “Carlotta,” referring to the caricaturist’s third wife, now mar- ried to O'Neill, _play- wright. Mr. and Mrs. ” O'Neill seonnihy 8 ssxived, in New York from Fran Headed “obit, ” the note said in “I ‘have had a few real difficul- ties. I have had, on the contrary, an_ exceptionally glamorous life, as life goes; and I have had more than Dy ee? of affection and apprecia' iy “I have. always had excellent health, but since my early child- “It le prevented my getting anything like the ‘ull ¥ value out of my talent, and the past three years has made work a torture to do at all. Ihave run from wife to wife, from house to house and from country to country in a ri- diculous effort to escape from myself. “In particular my remorse 1s bitter over my failure to appre- ciate my beautiful lost angel, Carlotta, the qnly woman I ever loved and whom I respect and ad- mire above all the rest of the hu- Car! Severi x’s followed, the only sig- nature. ‘A year or 80 ago Barton re- | eee ea Mrs. Bennett Spuzell, Formerly DICKEY COUNTY MAN DISAGREE ON FACTS IN BOARD QUARREL College President Refutes Ac- curacy of Statement by Board Chairman OFFERS VIEWS AT FARGO E. M. Gillig, Seed Department Chief, Says He ‘Prefers Not to Comment’ Prof. J. H. Shepperd, president of the state agricultural college, and Nelson Sauvain, chairman of the state board of administration, were in sharp disagreement Thursday with re- gard to the facts of a dispute center- ing around the finances of the state seed department. In explaining his vote on May 11 to force the college to finance the seed department's work, as it has been d¢ing for nearly two years, Sau- vain erted that “since President Shepperd has expressed himself that this would not have taken place had the record of September 11, 1929, been support the motion to have the agri- cultural college continue to finance the state seed department, even though the latter received an appro- Priation of -$60,000 from the recent legislature. Sauvain’s assertion that Shepperd was favorable to the board's recent action in directing that the college continue to subsidize the seed depart- ment was hardly borne out by a statement made by Shepperd at Fargo Thursday. The Associated Press story says Shepperd feels the work of the state seed laboratory should be financed quotes him as follows: “The experiment station's funds are short about $10,000 from anticipated Pisecels due to the slump os values of farm products raised on the experi- ment farms ‘Sat sold’ to help in its support. Further, when E. M. Gil- lig, state seed commissioner, was named to his post in the summer of 1929, replacing Prof. H. L. Bolley it placed an.extra burden on the ex-! periment station as the station was called upon to provide new office equipment and go to other extra ex- Pense because of the change. Legislature Was ‘Generous’ “When the last legislature gener- cusly provided the seed department with $60,000, available in March, we felt it should take over the support oi the work of the seed analyst, Prof. O. A. Stevens, and so recommended to the board of administration. “The board put through an order to that effect. Now, it appears, Mr. Gillig is not agreeable to that change (Continued on page six) ADMITS KILLING ONE {CONFESSES SLAYING 4} NEPHEW WITH KNIFE George Rustschke, 25, Is Slain Following Dispute Over Straying Stock RESIDED NEAR MERRICOURT [ Vallee’s Type Fight Between Relatives De- clared Outgrowth of Feud Lasting Many Years Ellendale, N. D. May 21.—(P)—A dispute Wednesday between an uncle and his nephew over trespassing of stock on their adjoining farms led tc an affray in which one was stabbed to death with a pocket knife. George Rustschke, 25, was killed and his uncle, Fred Rustschke, 52, is held in the Dickey county jail on a | to be held here this weekend. Tenof the {troops will come into Bismarck Fri- Students at Colorado college, Colo- 1ado Springs, Col., took Rudy Val- lee’s word that lovely Miss Nadine Kent, above, is the prettiest co-ed on the campus. She is a home town girl and a freshman besides. ANNOUNCE PROGRAM FOR AREA JAMBOREE PLANNED BY SCOUTS Boys Scheduled to Arrive in Bismarck Friday Afternoon and Evening Twenty or more troops of the Mis- souri Valley Area Council Boy Scouts of America are expected to take part in the first real Jamboree of the Area day afternoon and will camp with the Bismarck Scouts on the City Ball Park grounds. Each troop wil) come prepared to camp at the grounds un- til Sunday afternoon and to cook its own meals at the grounds. The program of the Jamboree will be under the direction of W. H. Payne, who is to be assisted by the| Events Committee, headed by John Karasiewiscz; the Prize Committee, headed by H. O. Saxvik; and the Ar- rangement Commitee, headed oy Kel- ley Simonson and J. H. Roherty. Waldo Erickson is in charge of the equipment necessary for the events. A. C. Van Wyk, Bismarck, and C. J. Bakken, Mandan, are securing the AND WOUNDING TRIO {Laborer Who Went on Shoot- ing Rampage in California Says He Was Drinking San Diego, Cal., May 21.—(P— Ralph Sinohui, 35, laborer, was cap- tured Thursday and confesed, police said, that he killed Eddie Gallardo, 19, and wounded Gallardo's sisters, Lupe, 13, and Laura, 15, and Mrs. Louise Mazon, 45, at Escondido Wed- nesday night. Sinohui said he had been drinking. ONCE N. D. WOMAN KILLED IN CRASH} of Kintyre, One of Two Collision Victims Mondamin, Iowa, May 21—(}—Two young women were killed ard two men companions were injured early necessary judges. The complete program is as follows: Friday night at about nine o'clock at the Ball Park—Camp-Fire. Program with each troop partici- pating—W. G. Fulton, leader. Saturday 7 a m-—Reveille and Setting-Up Exercises. 7:30 a. m.—Troop Cooking under competition. 9:00 a. m.—Inspection of Troops and their quarters. 9:30 a. m.—Individual Contests in Puzz Stick Whittling; Whittling Con-' test; Fire by Friction; Axe Throwing; Archery, Signal sending, Signal re- ceiving, Individual Scouts Pace, and} Bugling. 4 (Continned on page Six) _ Late News Brigts | —— VALLEY CITY WINS Grand Forks, N. D., May 21.— (®)—Valley City high school re- peated its triumph of last year in the opening Junior Playmaker event of the annual high school contests at the University of North Dakota Thursday. The winning presentation was a one- act play. RUTH CLOUTS ANOTHER Cleveland, May 21.—(#)—Babe Ruth connected with his fifth was on the mound for Cleveland. one of the burning structures. murder charge. They were neigh- bors on a farm near Merricourt in the western part of Dickey county. Authorities said Fred Rutschke ad- mitted stabbing his nephew, but claimed he did 60 in self defense. State's Attorney C. A. Whipple, El- lendale, said Fred Rutschke would be given a preliminary hearing Friday afternoon. The uncle was brought here following the death of his nephew. George Rutschke died from a wound inflicted near his heart from @ pocket knife, which authorities said belonged to Fred. The dispute culminated a several years’ feud between the two families, Mr. Whipple said. At one time a court action was instituted as a re- sult of the trespassing of cattle from one farm to the other. Authorities said the two men en- gaged in a dispute when a horse on the Fred Rutschke farm strayed intc George's meadow. Mrs. Fred Rutschke went after the anfmal on horseback, and after reaching the horse tied her animal to @ post. Post, when his uncle, Fred, ap- peared and cut the rope with the horse was tied to the was said to have used his pocke! knife in severing the rope. ‘The two men engaged in & and a tussle between them Fred received several lacerations the affray, but none is serious, He counted to authorities the details the dispute, but contends that he was forced to defend himself during the tussle with his nephew, . Both men were married and lived on farms which adjoined one another. The uncle is the father of several children, EXPLOSION FATAL 70 WISCONSIN FIREMAN Falling Wall Kills Chief; An- other Is Injured and Eight Are Rescued Spring Green, Wis., May 21—)— Fire Chief Milford Graham was killed, another man was injured, and eight firemen were rescued Thursday when an explosion blew out the front wall of a burning building. The fire destroyed two nusiness buildings and caused damaged esti- mated at $50,000. Chief Graham and Nels Dodge, 65. were operating a water pump in front of the Lins and Hood hardware store, An ex- plosion on the second floor, hurled the front wall into the street and buriec the fire chief under debris. Firemen worked for an hour before recovering Graham's body. Dodge wes struck by flying bricks. Eight firemen on the roof at the time were carried into the blazing structure when the roof fell bu~ were rescued before any were injured. 6th District First In Legion Membership Fai N. D., May 21.—(@—The sixth district of ‘the American Legion, North Dakota department, of which Theodore Martell of Carson is district deputy, led all other state districts in the membership campaign recently concluded, it was announced at Le- gion headquarters here Thursday. That area had a membersnip stand- ing of 129 per cent. The fifth district had 122 per cent; fourth, 121 per.cent; first 120 per cent; third, 118 per cent, and second, 115 per cent. Deputies of the various districts are fifth, Charles Divine of Williston; 9 ton Golf Ball Cause