The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 8, 1931, Page 1

| a North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Weather Mostly fair tonight and Thursday; temperatare. mot much change in ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1931 PRICE FIVE CENTS Pacific Fliers Heading North Liquor King’s [ OilBaron Has Birthday =| JURY CHARGES HER WITH SLAYING OF | TENNESSEE WRITER Say Newspaperman Claimed Her as Bride After Killing Husband in Dispute SON’S EVIDENCE DAMAGING Child Says He Saw Mother and Woman Companion Beat and Shoot Dead Man i} Nashville, Tenn., July 8—(?)—Mrs. | Hadley Moseley, widow ot a liquor! king, was under indictment Wednes- | @ay for the murder of Richard Ack- | len, newspaper reporter and naetiae~ | ger who claimed her as his sweet- heart after he killed her husband in| @ dispute over rum trade territory. { Mrs. Wes Ingram, wife of & con-! victed highjacker and bank robber,’ was charged in another first-degree | murder indictment with procuring’ “the said Mary Moseley to do and commit the murder.” The indictments were returned Tuesday by the grand jury here after an investigation initiated by Acklen’s! ee Col. and Mrs. Joseph H. Ack-| jen. The indictments were based largely on testimony of Mrs. Moseley’s eight- year-old son, Hadley, who said hej saw his mother and Mrs. Ingram beat} OIL BARON os Here are three characteristic poses of John D. Rockefeller, famous wiz- Acklen before a shot ended his lif?’ a1q of Standard Oil, who is celebrating his 92nd birthday Wednesday. Rock-| in the Moseley home on May 9. @ feW | crevjer is in excellent health. days before he was to go on trial on; Ted Vaughan and Gus Kiger, who; investigated Acklen’s death, said he! might have been killed because it was | feared he would make sensational; here. Mrs. Moseley said she believed Ack- Jen killed himself after she bad re-; fused to marry him. The suicide ver-! sion was accepted by the police. BETTER OUTLOOK SREN FOR CROPS | FOLLOWING RAIN! Only Northwestern Section Fac-! ing Difficulty, Says Farmers Union Survey ‘ | i St. Paul, July 8—With the break-| ing of the heat wave and fair rains; in most parts of the northwest, gen-| eral crop prospects have been some-/ what improved in Minnesota, the Dakotas and Montana, the Farmers, Union Terminal association says in} its weekly review. | “Little or no hope for any material! wheat crop is held out for the north-) western part of North Dakota and eastern Montana, “the review says. “However, rains have improved past- ures and filled some water holes, at least temporarily relieving the sertous feed situation for livestock. Further rains are necessary if ‘farmers are to) retain their livestock on farms. “There undoubtedly will be a con- siderable movement of livestock out) of the drouth areas to districts where pastures are available. | “There are a few scattered areas in Montana where conditions have been proved by recent rains. The out-/ jook is much improved around Wolf) Point and Great Falls but at best! only fair crops are anticipated. Most ef eastern Montana will have) Uttle grain. Minot, “Banish, Plaza, Stanley, ‘Williston and other areas have bene-jare secured against aggression, . fited by recent rains, but the mois- ture came too late to materially help wheat. “In sharp contrast to the deplor- for the ite. “We are generally inline for a from Forbes, on the North Dakote.South Dakota boundary in east central Dakota, ‘Wheat, flax, pastures and all viet see _ fl é i ig iH i Hs Ae 3 Be =f g F Li ik 2 i a i i F Ee Ey : i SSE r s 32 2 z | July 17, it was announced Wednesday. 7 = ‘The usual band music, fireworks and distribution of dimes were lacking|of the commission July 1, members charges of murder for Maseley's SI8Y- tor “Neighbor John's” birthday program. Messages of congratulations pour-| | ed in from the world’s leaders in business, finance and philanthropy, but the actual celebration was a family affair. In a birthday message to the world, Mr. Rockefeller said: Pie eval pagregert offer me a eye dy —— opportunity; first, to express} | my gratitude to the many, many friends who not only at this time, but Gisclosures: “shout” the liquor cat throughout the year have shown their kindly regard to me, and second, to { wish them and theirs and all the world a large measure of health and con: | tentment, which are the basis of real happiness” [Reparations Experts ATTACK TREATMENT BY GOVERNMENT OF YOUNG PRISONERS: Wickersham Body Says Juve- niles Get Same Treatment as Hardened Criminals Washington, July 8—(#)—Criticism of the federal government for alleg- edly dealing with its youthful law breakers on the same basis as older jand hardened criminals was launched Wednesday through the white house by the now-disbanded Wickersham commission. A formal report on “child offenders in the federal system of justice” as- serted the government lacked proper equipment to mete out this type of |justice and recommended that the treatment of juvenile delinquency be relegated almost entirely to the states. No explanation was given at the white house for an apparent switch in the commission’s line-up, whereby ‘this report was published ahead of a study of the deportation of aliens from the United States. The docu- ment was the fifth published by the commission but was numbered as its sixth report. That upon the deporta- tion of aliens was to be numbered five. Doak Enters Objections Prior to the technical dissolution {said a lengthy letter objecting to parts of their report on deportations had been received ‘from Secretary |Doak, who is charged with this duty. After a flat declaration that the concept of juvenile delinquency is “unknown to the federal penal code,” the commission estimated that 2,243 boys and girls under 18 years of age | were held in jail for violating various Board Refuses to Curb Cooperatives Philadelphia Firm Claims Land Widow Indicted for Murder | : Fliers, Plane and Proposed Route Wholesale Dairy Distributors| Are Told Farm Body Will Not Halt Price Cuts MINNESOTA GROUP ACCUSED o’ Lakes Organization Is Harming Business ‘Washington, July 8—(#)—Private wholesale dairy distributors were ad- vised Wednesday the farm board would not attempt to prohibit price reductions by competing cooperatives. Explaining the board “recognizes it it inevitable that some private busi- nesses will be injured” through the agricultural marketing act, W. F. Schilling, a member, informed Sen- ator Davis of Pennsylvania, that pri- vate wholesalers have no other alter- native than to meet the lower prices. Schilling added the only interest of the farm board in the business of cooperatives was that they conduct their business so as to reasonably in- sure repayment” of loans made to them by the government. That attitude was expressed in a letter addressed to. Davis in answer to a complaint of the P. E. Sharpless Company, Inc., Philadelphia dairy wholesalers, filed against the Land O'Lakes Creameries, Inc., of Minne-| apolis, Minnesota. Subsidy Charged | Charging the government, in effect granted a subsidy to the Land | O'Lakes cooperative through loans under the marketing act, M. 8. Brad- ley, president of the Philadelphia firm, accused the cooperative of “indiscriminate price cutting’ and extension of credit to “unzertain credit risks,” in an effort to increase \federal laws during the six months ending December 31, 1930, z ‘Although the offenses charged ranged from violations of the Mann e e . Will Meet in London Bini tse te witnarcote ost First Sessions Will Be Held July 17; Leading Powers to Be Represented don, July 8.—(#)—Experts who will examine the Young plan in rela-| on to the Hoover Moratorium will) hold their first meeting in London on Originally Great Britain wanted the meetings to begin next Monday; but France wanted to delay until after Bastille day, July 14. The United States, Germany,| France, Italy and probably other countries will be’ represented and: it is taken for granted that Col. Henry L. Stimson, the American secretary of state, now in Italy, will come to London if his presence is considered necessary. Great Britain wants the meeting to begin Monday, but if France wants a delay until after Bastille day July 14, the conferees might get Friday of next week. | The scene shifted from war debts) to disarmament Wednesday as offi- cial France awaited the visits of rep- resentatives of the United States and Germany to discuss problems perti- nent to world economics. Secretary of State Henry L. Stim- son is expected from Rome next week and while he ostensibly is on & vaca- tion it is believed he will take up the connection of armaments with world- wide depression. French officials are expected to tell him they will cooper- ate in disarmament -providing they n, Chancellor Heinrich Bruenity Foreign Minister Julius Curtius prob- ably will come for an informal con-| ference at the conclusion of the Anglo-German meeting in Berlin. The betterment of Franco-German relations, tariff barriers and accords and general economic uplift are ex-. pected to be co! . Bankers to Aidin Drouth Relief Work Jamestown, N. D., July 8—(#)—The executive council of the North Dakota Bankers’ association Tuesday consid- A. ©. Torgerson, Berthold; Guy Book, New Rockford, and John Bishoff, Zealand. { Lindy is Hurtin | | One-Point Landing | duly ina the report asserted they “were inno had killed his the car. vived. Here Jul: court house July 25. to’ attend. ly 25 Coldwater, Mich., July 8.—)— Harry Rayback was driviug his automobile home to Detroit Tues- day, unaware that monoxide gas three-year-old daughter, Ellie Lou, in the rear o. He discovered her pody, when he stopped for gasoline. Three of his other children were found’ near death, but were re- The fumes seeped through the floor board from the exhaust, which had been punctured by a EXPRCT THOUSANDS FOR DEDICATION OF ana! | Invitations have been sent to coun) ty commissioners and county officers throughout the state and many ae them have signified their intention’ +. tederal industrial reformatory in Tentative arrangements have been taid made for a number of way more scrious than the average jrun of juvenile eases.” pits sales in the Philadelphia area. | HO predicted “tremenrtous losses from ‘bad debts” would follow as a result. | Recalling a recent statement by {Chairman Stone of the board, Brad- |ley quoted him as saying the market- ling act “specifically prohibits loans for the purpose of competition.” He| charged Land O'Lakes with violating ——————* Monoxide Gas Kills |; «the great majority of juvenile of- lfenders against the federal laws are Child in Automobile || typteal delinquency cases,” the report ee “It is only by accident that, | said. \they have fallen within the federal | jurisdiction. i tany state would apply to them the |? ‘usual technique of juvenile delin- iquency. Yet the federal government ‘classes them with adult criminals {and moves against them with the jsame machinery which it uses in jdesling with hardened offenders.” | “The federal government is not lequipped to serve as a guardian. To \the delinquent child,” the report \serted. “Nor should it assume this |task. Whenever a child has broken a jfederal law, his local community has; {failed in its responsibility to furnish ‘adequate parental guidance. This i duty is local, not national. "tt is desirable from every point of jview that the federal government be empowered to withdraw from the ‘prosecution of juveniles, where such | withdrawal will be in the public inter- have this effect.” Say Discipline ‘Harsh’ In some instances, the report said, of exhaustion, “torture” positions, shackling, and water have been in vogue. Chilicothe, Ohio, the report t, and to leave the treatment of |it in the agricultural marketing act/ NEW COURT HOUSE 2 cases to the juvenile courts or that sesociations 2. ) anion, it jase other welfare agenices of their own ley mI nagement ant jstates. The commission recommends | business policies of such character as {the passage of legislation which will Ceremonies Are Planned by, Commissioners to Be Held ‘The report to the president de-|ercise a paternalistic control over the scribed “bits of harsh disciplinary treatment” accorded minors and as- serted many Lan in hicgon hind se ‘Thousands of Burleigh county resi-|XePt, Present “a situation of filth an dents, many of them early pioneers, |™USerY. impossible to convey. are expected to be present at the dedi- are expested to be present at the ded 'nocging is not infrequent. wnile in Set For Thursday others cabisthenic drill to the point , drenching with streams of| will give # concert at the Riverside cold water, and confinement on bread| Park south of the tourist camp. at At) 7:30 p. m. Thursday, according to confinement to the guardhouse for Speakers tO\even minor offenses was frequent 95 the law in setting up distributing agencies in duplication of existing! private marketing facilities. Schilling recalled the purpose of the marketing act to place agriculture mn “an economic parity with indus- try” and said that while some busi- jnesses would be hurt “the board be-| lMeves no private distributor of agri-; cultural products has very much to/ worry about if he is performing a necessary service at a cost as low or jlower than that service is being per- |formed by the competing coopera-; tive.” Are Really Loans “The loans made by the board to cooperatives,” he added, “are, in fact, loans and do not in any sense consti- tute a subsidy. “While I would not, at this time, care to enter into a discussion of the methods and business practices of} |Land O'Lakes Creameries, Inc., you |may rest assured that the board is | fully aware of the mandate laid upon! to reasonably insure the repayment of the loan. “The board does not attempt to ex- associations to which it loans money {but it does, nevertheless, consuit with them regarding their operations.” ‘Band Concert is | Bismarck’s Juvenile Concert Band Clarion E. Larson, director. Originally set for last Friday, the event was postponed because of the prevailing rains and cool weather. (GERMAN FIRMS JOIN otis og Pacifie Ocean N SEATTL Reg L. Robbins, left, and H. 8. Jones, right, Wednesday were attempt-/ ing a non-stop flight from Seattle, Wash., to Tokyo, Japan. They plan to! refuel their plane over Alaska. Shown above are the plane which the airmen are piloting and the route which they propose to follow. Seattle Man Is Accused of Embezzling Millions of | Prosecutor Says Official | Loan Companies Will Plead > Quilty to Shortages Seattle, July 8—(#)—Charged with Ee cI | Justices Seek to | Boost ‘Business’ Evanston, Ill, July 8—(?)—Five — justices of maga will perform marriages without charges until Labor Day. ‘That's /¢mperlements thal, | may _ exoced not all. They will pay taxi fare {1 000.000 {tom Mand en affiliated fi for out-of-town couples from the | LOBR, SSi ene Pierce, : station, The idea is to get busi- inancial firm Ira E. Pierce was at 1 ness from rival Gretna Greens. erty under $10,000 bail here Wednes S |day. He was arrested Tuesday. ~ Prosecutor Robert N. Burgunder said Pierce, vice president and gen- eral manager of the loan association and president and treasurer of the Washington Loan and Mortgage Corp., had confessed and would plead guilty. Pierce is charged with making il- legal withdrawals for the past 14 years. Helen’s Rights Fade Under Carol’s Hand IN BIG EFFORT 10 STABILIZE BUSINESS Thousand Banks, Industrial and Shipping Firms Unite in Giv- ing Guarantees royal prerogatives, Wednesday saw her personal rights fading under the hand of King Carol. Shortly after her chamberlain an- nounced she would spend the sum- mer at Constanza with Crown Prince Berlin, July 8—(?)—A thousand of Germany’s strongest banks, industrial firms and shipping concerns, owning properties valued at many billions of dollars, stood ready Wednesday to guarantee with all their assets the reich’s business credit abroad. Wednesday morning the govern- ment issued an emergency decree es. tablishing the legal liability of the in- dustrial, shipping and banking signa- tori les. A drastic decision of the nation’s industrial and financial leaders to undertake a joint guarantee of indi- vidual foreign credits was announced by Hans Luther, president of the reich’s bank, at midnight after it had denying the truth of the statement. His words were taken to mean the boy father. nouncement was in doubt. subject of much comment. continued strong despite the signing of the Hoover plan. Technically, their action was to place at the disposal of the German gold discount bank a collateral guar- antee of 500,000,000 marks (about $125,000,000) for which the signers, each of whom has assets of at least 5,000,000 marks, are responsible. Actually, the mere fact the nation’s greatest firms have united to under- without a reason being given. President Hopes For high and to the northwest. hoof is about 525 miles north of Seat- tle. stop, tle at 3:57 a. m. (Pacific standard time) exceed | Bucharest, Rumania, July 8.—(P)— Queen Helen, already shorn of her} Michael, Carol issued a proclamation The t effe x east fies ot te racial Sony | Power Wright motor and has a cruis- rate, it produced an unfavorable im-/1N& speed of about 95 miles per hour. pression in society circles and was the Queen Helen was not included in a list at guests for the buries of Incess Ileana and Archd' Anton become apparent during the day that at Sinaia on July 26. All other mem- the demand for foreign currencies | pers of the royal family have been invited but her name was omitted,|Struments, blankets, life saving rub- Washington, July 8—(P)—A long ' chocolate. stride toward world disarmament was viewed by the administration Wed- nesday as a possible outstanding re- [ROBBINS AND JONES LEAVE SEATTLE ON TRANSOCEAN TRIP Monoplane Gets Off Ground After Second Sprint Down Runway at Western Field TO REFUEL OVER ALASKA Aviators Expect to Reach Des- tination Friday After 55 Hours in Air Vanderhoof, B. C., July 8—(P)— ‘The trans-Pacific plane Fort Worth passed here at 9:35 a. m. (Pacific flying Vander- standard time) Wednesday, The projected 65,100-mile non- refueling flight from Seat- to Tokyo got under way Wednesday when Reg L. Robbins and H. 8. Jones, Texas airmen, hopped off in quest of a $25,000 prize offered by @ Japanese newspaper. Their snow-white monoplane, Fort Worth, loaded with 300 gallons of jSasoline, took to the air after their second sprint down the runway of Boeing field. Robbins, at the con- trols, got the plane up by “giving it the gun” at the end of the runway. jad it failed to rise at that moment there might have been a crackup. By refueling from their tri-motored mother plane over Fairbanks, Alaska, and again over Siberia, immediately after crossing the Bering sea, Rob- bins and Jones expect to reach Tok- yo by Friday morning, Pacific time, jor about 55 hours after their takeoff, + Heads Directly North The plane headed directly north- wi or an inland course over Brit~ ish Columbia and Yukon territory on the way to Fairbanks. The refueling plane waited at the latter place. Manned by J. J. Mattern and Nick Greener, also of Texas, the tri-motor- ed craft will fill the tanks of the Fort. Worth and then follow it across Alaska to Solomon. There the moth, er craft will pick u> gasoline and strike out toward Siberia to make the last scheduled refueling. Weather conditions along the first jPart of the route were said by gov- ernment meteorologists to be ideal. {Two courses have been routed on the Siberian side. If the fliers find favorable weather they will skirt the coast of the Kamchatka peninsula and then fly over the Kurile islands jto Japan. Otherwise they plan to Pew around the Gulf of Anadir and then fly down the coast, but {keeping inland about 100 miles. Robbins and Jones figured it would take 15 to 17 hours to reach Fair- banks and about six more to get to Nome. May Fly Back Again Robbins and Jones will not be eligi- ble to win the $25,000 put up by Se- attle business men for a non-stop air trip between Seattle and Tokyo as they will be refueling outside a radius of 50 miles of the two cities. They said they might, however, install ad- ditional flying tanks and try flying would remain in Bucharest with ie Oe again, non-stop, for the Seattle ize. The Fort Worth has a 225-horse The machine is not equipped with H Jones will do the navigating and Robbins the piloting, but the naviga- tor will take the controls occasionally to rest Robbins. Food, water, charts, navigating in- jber jackets, fishing tackle and a rifle were stored in the navigator’s com- partment. The aviators’ food supply consisted :, ,0f fried chicken id World Disarmament (es oe ere eines ir cluding beans, rice, tea, bacon -nd Robbins and Jones, are gamb! against death for different = readiness to function. board of county stair rail Shafer will “county offices ge ae at exerc! F. Will, chairman the commissioners. Work on the building is now vir- wally completed. The ornamental not been installed, talk at the dedicatory exercises and| Governor’ George °F. ‘& diesiplinary tenses. make the main address. It is expected that at time lon ° tnd vieitors will have an opportunity | Baptist Young Feople's assembly of to see the building with offices in RELIGIOUS GROUP MEETS Jamestown, N. D. sion ‘at Jamestown college. J., William Dugan was alive and well Wednesday. For nine hours Bienes a “he ve » al- Make Tour of Nation) sna'coua. ; — i He was in blankets New York, July 8&—(#)—Wiley Post; lined with hot water bottles, was and Harold Gatty, round the world) given frequent hypodermics and filers, are to make a nation-wide tour| “inhalators were used. Finally he im their plane, the Winnie Mae. sighed and opened his eyes. duly 8.—(P)— Opening with a reception tonight the pected to play. Ample North Dakota will begin a 10-day ses- vided for those wishing to attend in Tentative arrangements for # con- cert next Saturday night have been made, Larson said. The Citizens Military Training Camp band is ex- write where necessary the foreign loans of individual banks is expected to restore the con- fidence of foreign lenders in the sol- e85. parking space has been pro- Philadelphia Boy, Snatched From Brink of Grave, Tells Experience After a great effort I opened my eyes.” He had a feeling of “oblivion vion and 8 fi f thereby ease the world’s they will cease calling their 1 capital will flow into stead of out. Overcast Skies Are sult of the one-year moratorium on bts. wing armies, navies and fortifications and} economic Reasons For Gamble For Robbins, one time endurance |flight hero, it is a business proposi- tion, the $25,000-purse offered by the newspaper Asahi. Jones’ greatest love is adventure, any kind, just so there is a thrill in flier Aid to Firefighters