The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 4, 1931, Page 1

m Es ips we . ye * SY ~fr “y ao i ra Fa ¥ co i { , \ ‘ < a *y ayi f [ J North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Weather Fair Thursday night, Friday; con- tinued cool; possibly local frost. ESTABLISHED 18738 Gas Tax R Wilkins to Leave Soon for Unde SUMBARINE 0 TAKE OFF FOR ENGLAND I TWO OR THREE DAYS To Cross North Pole, Most of Way Under Ice, From Spitz- bergen to Alaska BOAT CHRISTENED NAUTILUS Vilhjalmur Stefannson, Fotnae| North Dakotan, Com- mends Adventurers Provincetown, Mass., June 4.—(P)—/ ‘The Nautilus, lean and grim old navy submarine reconditioned and equip- ped to rest against arctic ice, was off Cape Cod Thursday for final tests before stacting on as strange an ad- venture as the fictioneers ever re- corded—the under-ice conquest of the North Pole. . With Sir Hubert Wilkins and a group of scientists aboard she will nose out in‘ the Atlantic in two or three days, *pound for England and thence to the north. Some time this summer she will glide out from Spitz- bergen to cross the pole to Alaska, traveling most of the way beneath the northern ice-cap. Some experts—notably English navy men—have attacked the Wilkins pro- ject as a prize bit of foolhardiness. Others—notably Vilhjalmur Stefanns- son, explorer—have declared it to be an eminently practical way of deter- mining what goes on at the top of the world. % } The trip starts with the benediction of Jean Jules Verne, grandson of the} novelist whose imaginary undersea vessel set a mark for investors to shoot at. ‘Verne came to the United States in March to attend the christening of} the Nautilus at Brooklyn navy yard. ‘The name of the. vessel in his grand- father's. “Twenty. Thousand Leagues ‘Under the Sea” was bestowed on the submarine by Lady Wilkins, who dumped a couple of gallons of cracked ice on its bow. | One of the chief problems that had} to be solved when thé’U-12 was made/ over was the question of providing air required for recharging storage batteries. ‘This was done by means of ice-cut- ters; there are three of them on the ship's back—one atop a conning tower that can be thrust up through 13 feet of ice, the others, placed aft, which can bore their way through 100 feet of ice. ‘The ship is equipped with radio and with 2 full complement of scientific devices for recording the life and times of the North Pole. IDENTIFY VICTIM AS SILAS JOHNSON Body found in Missouri Near Washburn Returned to Wil- liston for Burial Weshburn, N.~D., June 4—()— Found about 200 miles from the place | where he drowned last March, the body of 8! Johnson, 41, was re- turned to Williston Wednesday for burial. The man’s name was first reported to be Cyrus Johnson, but on arrival of dah hg identity was river while visiting his brother, Caleb Johnson, south of Banish. He went to the river to draw a pail of water but fell into an airhole, while a friend looked on. Efforts to recover the body at the time failed. ton, four children, six brothers two sisters. His wife died some time ago. 500 Attend State A. 0. U. W. Meeting | Head of the senior class at Oregon State college in scholastic standing| Far _——————— Se ar Ty TD | f Heads Seniors this year is Nori Shimamura, above, American-born Japanese girl. She BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1931 “)LINDBERGH PLANNING FLYING TOUR OF FAR (EAST IN NEAR FUTURE Lone Eagle Will Be Accompa- nied on Asiatic Flight This Summer by Wife DATES ARE NOT DETERMINED Although No Long Water Hops Are Involved, Colonel to Take Precautions Washington, June 4.—(#)—Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh will leave with- in a month for a flying tour of the East, making the trip by air across the north Pacific. Mrs, Lindbergh will accompany Teceived a perfect grade in each of | him. her four years. CANADIAN TARIFF 10 COST UNITED STATES $25,000,000 A YEAR Commerce Heads Make Esti- mate on Restriction of U. S. Exports to Dominion \ Washington, June 4—(7)—A com-| adian tariff revision forecasts that the higher duties may result in American concerns losing $25,000,000 annually in exports to the Dominion.| Assistant Secretary Klein, a lead- ing authority on foreign and domestic commerce, in announcing the find- ings of the study. Wednesday’ night, said exports, equaling approximately four per cent of the 1930 shipments to Canada would be “imperiled” by the changes. Last year Canada absorbed Ameri- can goods valued at $650,325,000, while United States’ total exports amounted to about $3,500,000,000. Klein made his statement after Secretary Stimson announced no pro- test would be made to Canada over the revision because this country / considered tariff as a domestic ques- tion exclusively. { Canada, Klein suggested, made the; revision in an effort to alleviate its) unemployment situation. | ; He added it was obvious the do- minion was “putting herself in a fa- vorable position” for conferences on reciprocal tariffs among the British dominions next fall. American investments in Canada, | he noted, amounted to between: $3,600,000,000 and $3,900,000,000, while | those of British interests amounted) to about $2,300,000,000. The statement did not designate all commodities affected but it was re- called that anthracite coal, hitherto on the free list, was assessed 40 cents a ton as compared with 35 cents charged on British coal. Other government experts pointed out that during the last seven years Great Britain had increased her anthracite coal business with Canada to more than 1,000,000 tons annually. Russia also has been selling some anthracite to Canada. VICTIM OF AUTO CRASH SUCCUMBS H. J. Pearson, Northgate, Sask., Dies of Broken Neck in Portal, N. D. following Northgate, N. D., Monday, when broken. was , ‘Mrs. Pearson, who sustained a brok- en arm and body bruises in the same ia The exact date of his departure has not been determined, but at his re- quest the state department is asking the Japanese and Chinese govern- ments for permission for him to land in those countries. Although the trip across the north Pacific will not involve any long water hops, Colonel Lindbergh is taking every safety precaution. His Lockheed monoplane will be equipped with pontoons and he will make fueling arrangements at. neces- sary points. State department offi- cials said that if it was necessary for Lindbergh to land on the Soviet ter- ritory of Siberia he would secure per- mission privately as other fliers dc when planning flights over Soviet territory. Purpose To Tour Orient purpose , Lindbergh | merce department study of the Can-| so ene ee ns ‘pur ns His present plans call dl Orient. an air tour of two or three weeks around China and Japan, The Lindberghs will not take with them their young son. Plens for the return trip from the Orient have not been arranged, Lindbergh stating that he had not determined whether ‘he would return: by~boat-or by the northern air route. The announce- |ment of the proposed flight was made (Continued on page six) CAUGHT NEAR MOTT Men Who Escaped From Jail in Rochester, Minn., Sunday, Are Captured Mott, N. D., June 4—(%)—Two men, wanted for breaking jail at Rochester, Minn., were taken into custody near here Wednesday by Sheriff Kaspar Neiderkorn of Het- tinger county. The men are William Peters and George Williams, who with Lester Richards, escaped from the Roches- ter jail Sunday. Peters and Williams said that Richards left them at Rochester, and that they did not know his where- abouts. Authorities from Rochester are on that city. The men told, Sheriff Neiderkorn) that they did not break jail, but they merely walked out when the door was left open. Hettinger county authori- ties said their information was that the men had picked padlocks on barred windows and then made their escape. One of the men had relatives in this vicinity, and Rochester police telephoned the sheriff to be cn the lookout for the men. Sheriff Neider- korn investigated when he saw a bearing a Minnesota )icense, oan of state’s office. sodins Noronha ce Mee Maat aee:| mans, me coer, —_— - , June 4. Citi- + Jerusalem, June 4.—(P)—Former | courses be offered by the state nor-|zens State bank of Twin Valley has King Hussein of the Hedjaz died at/mai schools at Madison, Springfield | been closed by its directors to con- | dawn Thursday at Amman, Trans-/and Spearfish. The other would tax| serve assets, J. N. Peyton, state com- Jordia, after a long illness. Three Of | butter substitutes 10 cents a pound. | missioner of banks, announced Thurs- his sons were at the bedside. ‘The petitions will be referred to At-|day. The bank had deposits of $103,- Another, King Feisal of Irak, w8S/torney General Sharpe for orinions| 000, capital of $10,000 and surplus of unable to come here from. Bagdad. |o¢ their validity. $4,000. ‘The funeral cortege left shortly after His death for this clty where burial oem: z y mR = Treasurer of United States Signs ion Victims C > Bxplosioved to Recover, But One Check, Hoover’s, a Month Minot, N. D., June 4—(®)—Three| «Wi June 4—(/)—Wal- Another duty of the treasurer persons who suffered serious burns) ter O. Woods, treasurer of the is supervision of the daily state- following an explosion Tuesday which/ United States, signs just.one.gov- ment-on governmental finances. . caused the death of a two-year-old) ernment check « month. It's ‘This shows the condition of the baby, will recover, physicians attend-| President Hoover's pay check treasury and expenditures by the ing them at a local hospital say. Although directly holding the month and year to date, and "The explosion occurred when Theo-| purse strings in business involy- | gives comparisons with the same dore Zieman, 35, farmer near Makoti,| ing more than three billion doj- Periods in the previous year. Poured kerosene on @ fire. Burns to| lars annually, quiet Mr. Woods ‘Woods is credited with having Donald, two-year-old son, proved; actually applies his pen only on thwarted gamblers who sought fatal s few hours after the blast| this draft for $6,250 toward the | advance information as to what while Zieman, Marvel, his six-year-| $75,000 yearly salary of the presi- some daily balance figures would old daughter, and Mrs. Flora Zic-| dent. be, on which they were accepting man, 74, mother of Zieman, were con- ‘He does have his name on fed- bets. He put safeguards around fined to a eral paper money, however, His Peemeeeians $e suatemant, 99 Zieman was to hurry s fire} signature is to’ be seen on the while the data are assembled in 8 coop to warm baby chicks which) lower left side of the front of by many employes only a trusted he feared would become chilled fol-| each bill. ap Fale few know the result prior to an- lowing a hailstorm. retary Mellon, is on right, nouncement, eee their way here to return the men to! efere Sally Into Matrimony? =® “just good friends, | Sally Phipps, of movieland, shown above in her latest,portrait, and Benedict Gimbel, Jr., heir to a department-store fortune, have but persistent rumor has it that their engagement will ; ba announced soon. The screen star, whose real name is Byrnece Bentler, { recently was drafted from the movies to appear on a Broadway stage. declared that they were FIRST RETURNS ABE ANNOUNCED IN BOY ‘TWO FUGITIVES ARE | SCOUT BALLOT RACE Duncan Wallace Takes Early Lead; Some of Contestants Not Yet Represented Duncan ‘Wallace jumped into an early lead in the Boy. Scout Popular- ity contest on the basis of first re- turns availaple Thursday. He had 48 votes as compared with 6 for ROb- ert John Gussner, 2 for Clarence Finlayson and one for Howard Byrne. How long this lead will last as the votes pile up is problematical, how- ever, for the other boys and their friends are known to be canvassing the city ior the ballots which are printed each day in The Tribune. The fact that no ballots have been cast for some of the boys makes it appar- ent that they are saving up blocks of votes which will be registered later. The winner of the contest will be given a free vacation trip to the Yel- lJowstone National Park as the guest of The Tribune and the Paramount eee: joint sponsors of the con- st. A ballot box has been placed in the lobby of the Paramount theater and all ballots must be placed in it or sent to the Contest Manager, Paramount Theater, by midnight of June 9, the day the contest ends. There is still Plenty of time in which the boys may canvass the great family of Tribune readers for votes and it is expected (Continued on page six) Referendums on S. D. Measures Proposed Pierre, 8. D., June 4.—(A)—Refer- endums on two more laws passed by the 1931 South Dakota legislature were asked Wednesday in petitions Presented for filing at the secretary if Two Minnesotans Drown |_in Wind and Hail Storm, St. Peter Men Drown After Boat Upsets While Wives Watch From Shore St. Paul, June 4—(#)—The severe wind and hail storm that swept parts of southern Minnesota late Wednes- day caused .wo deaths. Heavy rain fell in some sections. Two St. Peter men, Carl A. Carlson and Sydney Lindholm, both about 24 years old, drowned when the storm upset their Loat in Lake Washington, Le Sueur county. Carlson and Lindholm, who had been fishing, drowned within sight of their wives, who were on shore helpless to assist them. The two couples had gone to Lake Washington for a picnic and fishing trip. While the women prepared the lunch, the men rowed out te fish. The storm broke so suddenly they could not reach shore and the boat was swamped. Carlson was taking post-graduate work at Gustavus Adolphus college at St. Peter and would have received his master’s degree next week. In another mishap attributed to the storm, Ernest Boardman, Indianapo- lis, was probably fatally injured when his automobile was swept beyond con- trol near St. James and overturned. Although gardens were damaged and basemeats flooded in the Twin Cities and vicinity, farmers in other portions Thursday hailed the preci- pitation as a boon to crops and pas- tures, St. Paul, with 1.12 inch, received the heaviest precipitation in Minne- sota while 1.02 inches fell in Minnea- polis, At Worthington, where the mercury ascended to 91 degrees, .38 inch fell. * Other points in Minnesota report- ing rain were Park Rapids .12, Winne- bago .08 and Duluth .06. In the Twin Cities three persons were overcome by the heat Wednes- day. They were Michel Helminiak, 47, and Zorach Harris, 72, St. Paul, and Harry Schowe, 55, a patient at the United States veterans hospital. The latter fell down a flight of stairs and suffered a fractured skull after he collapsed. PRICE FIVE CENTS BISMARCK 18 HOST T0 350 ATTENDING LUTHERAN MEETING Delegates to Church Conven- tion Pleased With Capital City, Say Officials OPENING SESSION THURSDAY Enderlin Pastor Says Changes in Modern Outlook Is Devel- oping New Crisis proximately 350 delegates to the state convention of the Norwegian Lu- theran Church of America—and all voted it one of the cleanest and most, beautiful cities in North Dakota. Rev. Opie S. Rindahl, pastor of the Trinity Lutheran church, host to the convention,. said he was pleased at this fact, since this is the first time the convention ever has been held here and many of the delegates have never before had occasion to visit the Capital City. Both laymen and ministers are at- tending the convention, about 560 congregations being represented. Un- der the convention rules, each pa: torate is entitled to two lay del gates, but some of the 165 pastors {serve more than one congregation, {according to convention leaders. Approximately 400 attended the joint communion services of the church convention and the Women’s Missionary Federation, held at Trin- ity Lutheran church at 10:30 a. Rev. A. M. Buslee, Starkweather, gave the confessional address while Rev. O. J. Lutness, Enderlin, gave the op- ening sermcu and Rev. Rindahl was liturgist. At the afternoon session T. G. ; Plomasen welcomed the delegates on ‘behalf of the Trinity Lutheran Con- | gregation and Mayor A. P. Lenhart extended a welcome on behalf of the city. The rest of the afternoon was taken up in the presentation of re- ports, the organization of convention business and the appointment of committees. The Women’s Mission- ary Federation will be in charge of an evening meeting with Mrs. H. A. (Continued on page six) OKLAHOMA BANK | ROBBER IS SLAIN Brother of Victim, Who Also Par ipated in Holdup, Wounded in Ambush Mounds, Okla., June 4.—()—Guns | Of a citizens’ posse stopped two rob- bers in their flight from the Bank of Mounds Thursday. One robber was killed and the other wounded. The men were identified as George Carver, 34, and Tom Carver, 40, brothers. George was killed at the steering wheel of an automobile in which the pair sought to escape after emerging from the bank with $600. Tom was wounded as he ran after jumping from the car. Physicians sald he would recover. The men aroused suspicions of townsmen on entering the bank. As the robbers emerged from the bank, they forced Frank Crum, cash- jer, and H. C. Crews, assistant cash- ier, ahead of them as shields against the bullets of the posse which lay in wait. However, members of the posse were so stationed that they were able to fire on the robbers without hitting the bankers. ‘The loot was recovered. It was the second robbery at the bank within a few weeks. A month ago a lone robber obtained nearly WOUND FATAL TO SLAYER OF GIRL 38-Year-Old Man Dies 25 Hours After He Was Shot by Girl He Kidnaped Wabasha, Minn, June 4—()— by the 15-year-old girl he killed after an abduction from her home, Roy Ashley, 38 years old, Beaver Dam, Bismarck was host Thursday to ap- | > \ To Die in Chair —— $< RUDOLPH DURINGER New York, June 4—()—Rudolph Cc. Duringer, 25, Ossining truck driver, was convicted early Thursday of murder, first degree, for the killing jof Virginia Brannen, dance hall hos- tess. Justice Ahn said he would pro- nounce the mandatory sentence next Monday which will condemn Dur- linger to the electric chair in Sing {Sing prison in his home town. ringer was calm when he heard the verdict. Miss Brannen, who came io New ; York from Bangor, Me., was shot during an automobile ride in the Bronx, April 27. Another member of the automobile party was Francis Crowley, now in the Sing Sing deathhouse for the slaying of a Long Island policeman. ENGLISHMAN AND ARGENTINE LEAD Henry Cotton and Jose Jurado on Top of Pack With 36- Hole Scores of 147 Carnoustie, Scotland, June 4.—(P)— An Anglo-Argentine entent of Jose Jurado and Henry Cotton led the “| field at the end of the second round of play in the British open golf cham- ‘ pionship Thursday with 36-hole scores of 147. In second place was the Scottish- American, Tommy Armour, with 148, and Johnny Farrell, the smiling Irishman from Quake Ridge, was fourth with 149. Grouped within five strokes of the leaders were four other Americans, Joe Kirkwood and Gene Sarazen at 150, Willie Hunter at 151 and Mac- donald Smith, 152. +4 IN BRITISH OPEN endum Attacked r-Ice Voyage IBATTLE IN SUPREME COURT THREATENED BY FARGO ATTORNEY .|Judge Fuller Acts for Group Whose Identity Will Be Made at ‘Proper Time’ CLAIMS PETITIONS INVALID Fargoan Hints at Appeal to Higher Court in Letter to Secretary of State Acting for a group whose identity, he said, “would be made known at the Proper time,” Judge H. G. Puller, Far- go, Thursday brought the proposed referendum of the four-cent gasoline tax law under fire. In a letter to Robert Byrne, secre- tary of state, he asked that the issue be denied a place on the bailot at the election next March and indi- cated that, in the event Byrne failed to accept his point of view, he would take the matter to the supreme court. Fuller, member of a Fargo law firm, claimed the petitions are invalid be- cause they do not comply with the constitutional requirements relating to ballot title. In his letter to Byrne, Fuller said: “In behalf of certain citizers and taxpayers we respectfully object to the legal sufficiency of referendum petitions on Senate Bill 100 and sub- mit for your consideration that the ballot title in the petition does not fairly represent the subject matter of the measure to be referred as re- quired by the constitution, article 2, section 25. Former 8S. D. Judge Judge Fuller formerly of the South | Dakota supreme court bench, said one {section of the constitution, a portion of article two, section 25, reads: “Each measure, initiated by or re- ferred to the electors, shall be sub- mitted by its ballot title, which shall |be placed upon the ballot by the sec- retary of state and shall be voted on—.” The section of the gas tax petition involved reads: “The ballot title of the measure Shall be ‘referendum of senste bill 100,’ providing fora tax of four cents Per gallon upon motor vehicle fuels and for the distribution of the rev- enue derived from said tax.” This is contended by the Fargo lawyers to be inadequate in that senate bill 100 of the last legislative session not only provided for an in- crease of one cent per gallon in the gasoline tax but also amended and Teenacted scctions two, three, and five of chapter 166 of the session laws of 1929—which fact is not mentioned in the ballot title that the bill repre- sents more than an enactment, but (Continued on page six) SAILORS CHARGED i ! At 150 also was W. T. Twine, the! young Kent professional who shared! the lead Wednesday with Cotton and/ Farrell. At 151 were Marco Churio, another Argentine, Arthur Havers, open champion in 1923, and Abe Mitchell, the British veteran. Percy Alliss, Germany, was tied with Mac Smith at 152. Horton Smith trailed the other Americans with 156 while Joe Turnesa and Tony Manero were eliminated from the final two rounds by their scores of 160 and 162 respec- tively. Only the high 60 and ties will play the final 36 holes Friday, FORMER RAY WOMAN IS SHOT BY HUSBAND Mrs. Joseph Ormson in Critical Condition in Hospital at Missoula, Mont. Missoula, Mont., June 4.—(?)—Mrs. Joseph Ormson, whose husband wounded her last Monday and killed himself, still was in a critical condi- tion at a hosptal here. J. 8. Ormson, who arrived from Se- attle, said his brother telephoned him Sunday afternoon and said he was going to shoot himself. He ssid he knew his brother was drinking tut didn’t believe he would commit sui- cide. Mrs. R. Parker, Ray, N. D., mother Mrs. Ormson, also has arrived here. AWARD WOMAN DAMAGES Hackensack, N. J., June 4—(?)—A jury of seven .men and five women, all of whom informed trial counsel Twenty-four hours after he was shot|that they were happily married, has awarded a verdict of $4,250 to Mrs. Marion Grimshaw Fisher against Mrs. Ida Clark Fisher for alienation. WITH KILLING MAN Two Men Held in Connection With Death of Minneapolis Man Wednesday Night Minneapolis, June 4.—(?)—Sheriff ; John Wall announced Thursday he 'had solved the murder of Guy Gor- don, Spring Park resort owner, and has the slayer in custody. Sheriff Wall said one of two men held and believed to be members of @ gang of swindlers has been named by two eye-witnesses as the slayer. { Gordon died after a battle result- ing from a drunken argument over money owed him by the two men, Sheriff Wall said. Dr. Glenn Strat- ton, Minneapolis dentist, named the slayer, the sheriff said. Gordon's body was found on the | highway be‘ween Orono and Wayzata Wednesday night. The skull was crushed. A check at Gordon's resort reveal- ed he left there about 6 p. m. accom- panied by two men dressed in sailor uniforms, who had been selling furs. and rugs. Gordon, for the sake of friendship, offered to take them to several prospects in the neighborhood and introduce them, they said, Gordon took them to a Spring Park lumber dealer, who purchased a rug from them, investigation revealed. Later Gordon demanded his money, and the sailors became ugly. A fight started, acrording to Dr. Stratton, who saw them at a resort, and one of the sailors hit Gordon on the head with 8 whiskey bottle. The men captives admitted they saw Gordon but denied any knowl- edge of the slaying. They were held without charge. Two women arrest-