The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 2, 1931, Page 1

¢ » placed on tne first out-going airmail. \¥ 4 | | Bos Pe 1 { - \ Ad ¥ t , 7 \ “ ‘office, he said, and letters coming in TWO CHANCES LEFT North Dakota’s’ Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1878 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Weather Showers or thunderstorms Tuesday night or Wednesday; cooler, BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1931 ‘ PRICE FIVE CENTS Bismarck Man Kills Youn BAST-BOUND PLANE TAKES 303 POUNDS ON INAUGURAL HOP 500 Persons From Bismarck- Mandan Area See All-Metal Monoplane Leave POSTMARK FANS ARE BUSY| First Incoming Mail Was Sched- uled to Reach Capital City at 12:38 p. m. Bismarck and western North Dako- ta enjoyed their first airmail service Tuesday. Taking off promptly at 9:30 a. m. from the site of the proposed joint Bismarck-Mandan airport in the riv- er bottoms west of the Liberty Me- Morial Bridge, Pilot C. L. Smith nosed his big all-metal monoplane into the air, “waggled” his wings in goodby to the crowd which had gathered to See him off, and disappeared over the Eastern horizon. About 300 persons from Bismarck and Mandan were on hand to watch the initial flight of a service which brings the twin cities of the Missouri hours nearer the eastern centers than they ever have been before. The plane carried 303 pounds of mail of which 179 pounds came from the postoffice at Mandan and 134 Pounds from the postoffice at Bis- marck, Smith’s records showed. A large percentage of the pay load from each city represented letters which had been sent by souvenir hunters to the postmasters of the two cities to be A large number of persons, accord- ing to Harry Larson, assistant post- master at Bismarck, have a hobby of collecting initial airmail postmarks. From Foreign Countries Some of the letters received from postmark fans came from foreign countries and South America. In all, it was estimated that letters left here ‘Tuesday for at least a dozen differ- ent countries. ‘The first incoming mail was sched- uled to arrive here at 12:38 and it al- 60 will be landed at the site of the proposed joint airport. Larson said special arrangements have been made to speed it to the postoffice here and to hurry i:s distribution. This will be a routine practice with the post- on the airmail generally will be in the boxes within half an hour after the plane's arrival. The main celebration of the inau- gural flight of the new service was held at Bismarck following the arri- val of the west-bound plane from Fargo. Col. L. H. Brittin, vice presi- dent and general manager of the Northwest Airways, Inc., and Chad- (Continued on page seven) ALBERT FALL HAS Opportunity for Presidential Pardon or Suspended Sen- tence Remain 1 Washington, June 2.—(P)—Failing to obtain relief through the supreme court, Albert B. Fall Tuesday had two narrow avenues of escape from a year in prison and a $100,000 fine remain. ing. The intericr secretary in Harding’s cabinet was refused a review by the highest tribunal Monday of his con- viction of accepting a $100,000 bribe from Edward L, Doheny, wealthy oil man, leasing government oil lands. If Fall receives a presidential par- don, he will be relieved of the entire penalty, but if that fails there re- mains the hope of his friends the pri- son sentence will be suspended be- cause of his age and ill health. At the white house it was sald no appeal on behalf of Fall had been re- ceived and if one were made, it would follow the usual course and be sent to the justice department for recom- mendations. Fall's friends found little comfort in that, but the recommendation of the trial judge at the time of his con- viction led them to believe his chances for a suspension of the sen- tence good. Justice Hitz, the trial judge, sald then if Fall were to come before him for commitment the jail sentence would tok imped because of II's cal condition. ee remain be- led. Few legal formalities fore the question is sett! Kidder County Woman Succumbs sin Bismarck Miss Mathilda Spitzer, 29, Dawson, @ied in Bismarck late Monday. She was brought here Sunday for treatment. She is a daughter of George Spitz- ¢r, Dawson. |farm. No motive for the action was ascribed. Referendum on Gas Tax Filed Here! Petitions bearing 9,146 signa- tures, asking a referendum vote on the four-cent gasoline tax law enacted by the last legislative ses- sion were filed with Secretary of State Robert Byrne late Tuesday. The law requires 7,000 signatures beg a referendum issue on the One result of the filing, if the petitions finally are approved, will be to withhold operation of the law until it can be voted upon next March. Byrne said they have been “tentatively accepted” but an at- tack on their validity and the sufficiency of the signatures is TWO CHANGES MADE IN NAMES OF BOYS ENTERED RAGE Errors in.Listing Troop Nomi- nees Forces New Start in Scout Popularity Contest Nominating the most popular boy in each of the 10 scout troops of the city is a more difficult task than it appears to be, members of the con- test board managing The Tribune- Paramount Scout Popularity Contest learned Tuesday. Nominations of the most popular scout in nine of Bismarck’s 10 troops was made by the boys themselves and the names were reported to the con- test board by officials. “ Following publication of the names in Monday's issue of The Tribune, however, two errors were discovered by scout officials and the board Tues- day decided to start the contest all over again with a new and distinctive ballot. As a result of the recount of ballots cast by troop members, Ralph Rand replaced Robert Edick as the nom- inee of Troop 2 and Richard Schmidt replaced Richard Griffin as the nom- inee of troop 8. The new change from Edick to Rand was made on advices from A. D. Cordner, scoutmaster of Troop 2, (Continued on page seven) Triplets Graduated oS President Edgar D. Lee of Christian college, Columbia, Mo., had a hard time deciding which was which—or should we say who was who-—when he presented diplomas to Mary, Julia and Martha Wickizer at graduation exer- cises the other day. The sisters are triplets and hail from Bucklin, Mo, Prominent Brooklyn NORTH DAKOTANS VICTIMS OF GUNS Deaths of Farmers Near Lankin Blamed on Accidental Shoot- ing and Suicide Lankin, N. D., June 2—(?)—Trag- edy descended on this village Sunday when two farmers living near here met, their deaths within a few hours of each other, the victims of gun wounds. John H. Larson, 47, disappeared after leaving his home Sunday fore- noon, supposedly on a hunting trip, A searching party discovered his body near a coulee south of his home. He had a gunshot wound in his temple. P. M. Anderson of Evans, Walsh county coroner, declared that death was the result of accidental shooting. was could be shot simply by pushing the hammer, he said. Emil Schwartz, 24, committed sui- cide after he left a Memorial celebration at Kosabur Hall, near here, early Sunday. Searchers found his body in the hayloft of an old barn on his father’s Doctor GASPARRI HOPES 10 PRESERVE PEACE OF VATICAN AND ITALY: Signer of Lateran Treaty Be- lieved Making Way for New Negotiations Rome, June 2.—(#)—Cardinal Pie- tro Gaspari, who as Papal secretary of state signed the.Lateran treaty in 1929, is believed to have taken a hand in the new crisis in relations between the Vatican and the Italian govern- ment which has resulted in dissolu- tion by Premier Mussolini of all the Catholic youth clubs in Italy. It is understood the Cardinal is laying the ground work for official negotiations to prevent what appears to be a new parting of the ways be- tween the church and the state. He is one of :hose, it is said, who regard this situation as one of the gravest in recent times and threatening both the Lateran treaty and the concordat between Rome and the Holy See. American interests still are involved for permission extended unofficially Monday for reopening of playgrounds operated by the American Knights of Columbus has not been approved by the premier. Papal Count Edward Hearn, in charge of the playgrounds, already has filed a protest at the American embassy and now he will urge the ambassador to file his owg with the Italian government. Pontiff In Dark At noon Tuesday the pontiff had received no word from the Italian government in reply to his note of regarding the dissolution of the Catholic societies. Officially he still is in the dark and actually, it is said, he is ignorant of Mussolni’s real intentions. ‘The decree of dissolution, signed by the premier Sunday night, the pope's (Continued on page seven) Think Men Drowned Escaping Flames New York, June 2—(?}—Three homeless men were rescued 1nd oth- ers may have drowned early ‘Tuesday day| when fire partly destroyed the aban- doned Munson Line pier on the East river. . The men, police said, were asleep on the pier when the flames cut off their escape. Most of them jumped into the river. ‘Big Game’ That Roamed Montana 15 Million Years Ago Will Be Hunted The animals lived in the Mon- ) Is Murdered | | Specialist’s Skull Is Crushed by Mahogany Ball Torn From Bed Post New York, June 2.—(#)—Dr. George Edward Deely, prominent eye, ear, nose and throat specialist, was found murdered Tuesday in his home in a fashionable residential section of Brooklyn. from a bed post. and no windows were open. Servants slept on the floor above. They said they slept through the night undisturbed. Near the bed on which was found his body, clad in pajamas and dress- ing gown, wes an overturned rocking chair. Police believed he was sitting in the rocking chair when he was at- tacked. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lindars had been in Dr. Deely’s employ less than a week. They retired early Monday night to their room on the top floor, leaving the doctor, they thought, in his living room on the second floor. They said they did not hear any sound in the night, although there were evidences that Dr. Deely had struggled with his assassin, whom he had apparently admitted to the house himself. His room was in disorder, with the chair overturned, a telephone beside the bed knocked over, and curtains at one window torn down. Police said the room was so heavily carpeted, however, that persons sleeping directly overhead might have heard nothing. The murder was discovered when Mrs. Lindars went to the doctor's room to call him for breakfast. The | door was locked, and there was no; answer when she and her husband / pounded on it, Finally Lindars call- | ed a policeman. An ambulance sur- geon said tne doctor had been dead for some ‘ime. Dr. Deely was about 54 years old and had been practicing in the Col- umbia Heights section of Brooklyn, | overlooking {ower Manhattan and New York Harbor, for 20 years. The district has for many years been the home of conservative and wealthy Brooklyn families. He was @ bachelor. Hoffman Rites Will Be Held Wednesday Funeral survices for F. E. Hoffman, Bismarck, wno died here Monday noon from a throat infection, will be conducted from St. Mary's church Wednesday at 8 a. m., Rev. Father John Slag officiating. A requiem high mass will be cele- brated, and the male choir will sing. Active pallbearers will be C. J. Mergens, J. B. Smith, Paul Halloran, J. N. Roherty, D. A. Dodds and Fred Peterson. pallbearers will be Ralph Mayer, R. A. Tracy, James Blunt, J. L. George, A E. Brink, and E. - He had been stabbed, and his skull) 9 ton under the new rates. Last year crushed by a mahogany ball torn} Canada imported $28,000,000 worth of Dr. Deely, apparently had been at-| the United States. The rate on. bi- tacked by someone he knew and did} tyuminous coal was increased from 50 not fear, police said. The door to his| cents to 75 cents a ton. There is a bedroom and the outside doors of his| Grawback of 99 per cent on bitumi- four-story brick house were locked,] nous coal used for smelting. ‘BOOM PINCHOT FOR WALL BOOSTED BY PREMIER BENNETT Imports Sent in Greatest Quan- tity From U. S. Have In- creased Duties CALLED PROTECTION STEP Anthracite, Automobiles, Or- anges, and Steel Plates on Revised List Ottawa, June 2.—()—Increased tariffs were in effect Tuesday on 200 commodities, many of which Canada imports in the greatest quantity from the United States. Coal, steel, automobiles, oranges and corn are among the items im- Ported into Canada from the United States upon which Premier R. B. Bennett declared increased duties Monday in his budget speech before parliament. In addition to the schedules which became effective with their an- nouncement, a duty of 15 cents per pound to become effective July 1 was announced on magazines. Canada cannot afford to be unpro- tected against the competition of countries protected by high tariffs, Premier Bennett said. He added his government stands or falls by its Policy of protection to Canadian in- dustry. Anthracite Has Tariff Anthracite, which was on the free list, is subjected to a tariff of 40 cents this fuel, most of which came from The rate on coke, which was on the free list is fixed at $1 a ton. Charcoal was increased to $7.50 a ton. Automobiles are divided into three classes, Cars costing $1,200 or less are admitted under the former rate. An increase from 27% to 30 per cent is provided for cars costing more than | $1,2000 up to $2,100. For cars over $2,100 the rate is increased from 27% to 40 per cent. The former rate on parts of cars was 30 per cent with a drawback of 25 per cent for manufacturers of cars using such parts. ‘Under: the new schedules 100 dif- (Continued on page seven) PRESIDENTIAL RACE Friends of Pennsylvanian Sound Out Sentiment Among West- ern Senators Washington, June 2.—(?)—Senti- ment among west senators over the prospects of Governor Pinchot, Penn- sylvania, becoming a candidate for the Republican presidential nomina- tion next year is being sounded out by some of bis friends here. While the senators receiving the overtures have declined to divulge the names of the Pennsylvanian’s friends, the approaches precipitated much conjecture at the capitol. The sen- ators would not discuss the matter openly. Previously speculation involving Pinchot and other Republican inde- pendents has been circulated. This, however, appeared to be the first in- dication that a candidate may enter the field against President Hoover since former Senator France, Mary- land, announced his candidacy. Republican independents from northwestern states have not ap- @ number of the administra- have been urged by Senator Brook- hart, Iowa, to enter the Republican presidential race in 1932. He also aueweeted Pinchot as a possible candi- date. Find Missing Girl Near Fort Snelling! Holmes, Brandeis, Stone Replaced as ‘Dissenters’ ___Woman, Fatally Wound Bismarck Airmail Service Is Launched! in Same Gas OANADIAN TARE ILA MOFFIT REV. C.F. STRUTZ TO BE PASTOR OF JAMESTOWN CHURCH ‘Nestor’ of Bismarck Clergy- men to Leave City After 13 Years’ Residence Here Rev. C. F. Strutz, described by his friends in the Bismarck Ministerial Association as the nestor of the city’s evangelists, will leave Wednesday for Jamestown where he will make his future home. Rev. Strutz has lived in Bismarck 18-years ‘vhich is believed to be a longer period than any man now ac- tive in the ministry here. years he was pastor of the First Evangelical church and for the last four years has been presiding elder of the Bismarck district. At Jamestown he will assume the | Pastorate of St. Paul's church. Members of the ministerial asso- Evangelical ciation gathered at the Prince Hotel | Monday noon for a luncheon honor- ing Rev. Strutz, who was one of the organizers of that body. Short talks were given by Rev. W. A. Vater of the McCabe Methodist church, Rev. Floyd Logee of church, Rev. E. L. Jackson of the First Baptist church, Rev. Opie 8S. Rindahl of the Trinity Lutheran | church, Rev. Emil Benzon of the Swedish Lutheran church and Rev. Ira Herzberg of the First Evangelical church. Rey. Strutz gave a brief re- sponse. The departing cleric said he 1s sorry to leave Bismarck because of the pleasant associations and close friend- ships he bas enjoyed here. Never has be knewn a finer body of minis- ters or men than those in the local ministerial association, he said Tues- day, and nowhere is there a city with more pleasant business people or finer citizens than Bismarck. One advantage in moving to James- town, Rev. Strutz said, is that the change will enable him to keep his family together during their college years. Miss Marion Strutz, who has attended North Central college at Mapleton, 131., for the last two years, will matriculate at Jamestown college next fall as will Miss Goldie Strutz, his youngest daughter. Rev. Strutz will be succeeded as presiding elder of the Bismarck dis- trict by Rev. A. W. Heidinger, Alice, N. D., who is expected to arrive in Bismarck Wednesday or Thursday. Four French Fliers Are Killed in Crash Metz, France, June 2.—()—Four French army fliers were killed when @ bombing plane crashed to earth Monday night about 25 kilometers southeast of here. INJURED IN RODEO Pierre, 8. D., June 2.—(#;—Tex Slocum, Bromide, Okla., cowboy, was in a hospital here Tuesday with con- cussion of the brain, suffered when his horse fell during a rodeo. Al- though his condition is serious, doc- tors said he probably would recover. Now these three often are in- clined in the majority, while Jus- tices Van Devanter, Sutherland, MeReynolds and Butler generally Tender dissenting opinions, s Self LA MOFFIT AND LYLE TRAMP ARE BULLET VICTIMS 22-Year-Old Employe ‘of Hoskins-Meyer, Operators of Radio Station, Is Shot Twice by 25-Year-Old Suitor, Enraged With Jealousy VICTIM’S ROOM-MATE MAKES ESCAPE WITHOUT INJURY Girl Had Refused to Go Out With Her Slayer Since Last Christ- mas; Killer Is Declared to Have Been Sub- ject to ‘Crazy Spells’ Llye Tramp died at 2:58 p. m., Tuesday, officials at the Bismarck hospital, said. lla Moffit, 22, employe of a Bismarck radio station, is deaa and Lyle Tramp, about 25, lies near death in a Bismarck hospi- ay as the result of a shooting affray shortly after noon Tues- jay. The girl was known to thousands of radio listeners in the Northwest as Aunt Sammy, whose programs had been a regular feature of the local radio station. Tramp, an employe of the North Dakota Power and Light company, is said to have been insanely jealous of the girl and to have threatened her several times since she broke with him For nine} the Presbyterian ; last Christmas time. protestation. she said. | spells” and was afraid of him. | @ pistol, a long-barrelled automatic. beside the door as they struggled. rushed downstairs. Miss Chorley broke a heel of her) shoe as she rushed downstairs and called for help. Other residents of the house said they heard a fusillade of shots and there are no witnesses to what hap- pened in the apartment after Miss Chorley left. Police Chief Called Police Chief Christ J. Martineson was called and a dead silence pre- vailed in the apartment house as he approached the door, a small crowd of onlookers at his heels. He unlocked the door and pushed it open and simultaneously there came a shot within and the sound as of a body slumping to the floor. Mar- tineson found Tramp’s body lying in @ pool of blood on the bathroom floor. He had shot himself in the head. Miss Moffit’s body was lying in the apartment living room near the en- trance door. She had been shot twice and apparently one of these shots was fired after she had slumped | to the floor. The first shot entered over her heart. The second entered the top of her shoulder and penetrat- ed downward, coming out the small of her back, hospital attaches said. Martineson had not completed his investigation of the apartment but at 3 o'clock had found four empty shells. Five loaded shells remained in the pistol, including one which had jammed in the breach and prevented its further operation, he said. Had Threatened Before ‘The background of the tragedy was provided by Miss Chorley, who said, she had been told by Miss Moffit that | Tramp had threatened her on several) occasions. He had followed her around town after she had refused to go out with him further, Miss Chor-/ ley said, and had expressed the wish} to report him to the police for bother- | ing her. She failed to do s0, Miss! Chorley said, only because her rela-| tives and some of Tramp’s relatives were intermarried and she had no wish to make trouble in the family. Just what the family interconnec- tion was between the Tramp and Miss Moffit and Tramp were engaged in an argument. she heard Tramp say: “I’ve got one for you and one for me,” Simultaneously there came a shot, | tered Miss Moffit's body and caused her death. Miss Hazel Chorley, an employe of the state railroad board, who roomed with Miss Moffit and Alma Blumer at 408 Second street, witnessed the beginning of the tragedy. The girls had eaten their lunch and Miss Chorley was wash- ing the dishes when Tramp entered their apartment, she said. He engaged Miss Moffit in conversation and Miss Chorley paid no attention until she heard Miss Moffit raise her voice in She then came from the kitchen and saw that Then Miss Chorley said she knew Tramp was subject to “crazy She announced that she would \have to get back to work. Tramp stared at her and said in a harsh voice, “You stay right where you are,” she said. It was not until then that Miss Chorley noticed Tramp was armed with Frightened, she stood nearby while Miss Moffit pleaded with the man “not to be crazy.” Miss Moffit and Tramp grappled and sank to a daybed Tramp had been standing in front of the door and Miss Chorley took | advantage of the change in his position to make her escape. ‘As she stepped into the hallway of the house she shouted for help and apparently one of the two which en- apartment building, said she had been told by Violet Fetcher and Mathilda Welo, with whom Miss Mof- fit roomed until recently, that Tramp had been bothering her and that she could not go anywhere without run- ning into him. Miss Fetcher and Miss Welo are teachers in the local schools and it was because they had left on their vacation that Miss Mof- fit, Miss Chorley, and Miss Blumer joined in renting an apartment. Employes at the North Dakota Power and Light company said that Tramp appeared rational Tuesday morning and that they had never noticed anything peculiar about him. Killer Had ‘Wild Look’ Mrs. J. O. Varney, who answered Tramp’s inquiry as to where Miss Moffit lived since leaving the apart- ment formerly shared with the two teachers, said the man had “a wild look” in his eyes when she saw him but that he gave no hint of the im- pending tragedy. She said Tramp and Miss Moffit had gone out regularly together until early last winter but that since that time Miss Moffit apparently had tried to avoid his attentions. Police Chief Martineson remarked @ peculiarity about the situation in which he found the fatal pistol which he is trying to solve. When found the man was un- conscious, Martineson said, but the pistol, a weapon with a barrel nearly a foot long, had been tucked inside the man’s belt at the left side. Martineson said he could not account for this fact other than that the gun, held in the man’s right hand, fell into this position as his body slump- ed to the floor. Came Three Years Ago Neighbors said Miss Moffit came to Bismarck three years ago to take @ position with the Hoskins-Meyer company and had been in its employ since that time. Her parents live on a farm near Wahpeton. At the time she came to Moffit families was she did not un-) 7), derstand, Miss Chorley said. Mrs. M. Z. Plath, who lives in the It was not until recently, how- on Supreme Court} csr