The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 10, 1931, Page 1

North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper THE BISMAR K TRIBUNE ESTABLISHED 1878 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1981 The Weather Partly cloudy tonight and Friday; not much change In temperature. PRICE FIVE CENTS | Pacific Shrouds Fate of Fliers UErS, “ll VF Bism FEARS OF TRAGEDY _ PROVE GROUNDLESS AS BOX IS OPENED Odor of Decaying Flesh Caused Removal to Undertaking Establishment ‘NOSE KNOWS’ THEORY FAILS Anxious Group Lifts Lid to Dis- close Large Quantity of Spoiled Figs Bismarck’s officialdom Thursday solved a “trunk mystery” and proved groundless fears that a grisly tragedy, enacted on the Pacific Coast, was about to be uncovered here. About 10 days ago the trunk which caused so much concern arrived at the Railway Express Agency here. It was consigned from California but to no definite person or address in Bis- marck. No one came to claim it but this did not cause any undue concern un- til Wednesday, when an odor which was described by express officials as similar to that from decayed animal flesh began to emanate from the box. Then the officials got busy. Under the official sanction of George S. Register, Burleigh county state’s at- torney, and Dr. C. E. Stackhouse, city health officer, the trunk was moved to the undertaking establishment of W. E. Perry, Burleigh county coroner, in anticipation that the box might contain the body of a human being. Going on the theory that the nose knows, the officials were more than half convinced that they were about to discover the victim of an atrocity. Such things have been known to hap- Pen before. “Bhortly before noon Thursday the Officials gathered at the coroner's es- tablishment for the official opening of _ leig! : ty deputy sheriff; and W. 8. Smith, special investigator for the Northern Pacific Railway company. ‘The trunk was not locked and the other three officials watched, silent and intense, as Dr. Stackhouse slowly lifted the cover. But the mystery box gave up no human remains. ‘The four officials glared at the con- tents—a quantity of spoiled figs. It was learned shortly after the box was opened, Martineson said, that the figs were sent by a woman, who has not yet arrived in Bismarck to claim them. GRAIN PRODUCTION ESTIMATE LOWERED Put Wheat Yield at 885,643,000 and Corn at 2,715,357,- 000 Bushels ‘Washington, Sept. 10.—()—A total wheat production of 885,643,000 bush- els and a crop of 2,715,357,000 bushels of wheat and 2,775,301,000 bushels of corn a month ago. Last year’s production was 612, 268,000 bushels of wheat and 2,093,- 552,000 bushels of corn. Of the wheat crop, winter wheat this year is 175,180,000 bushels, as compared with 612,268,000 bushels last year; and the forecast of all spring wheat is 110,463,000 bushels, compared with 118,402,000 bushels last month and 251,162,000 bushels last year. Durum wheat production was fore- 90,816,000 bushels, compared with 95,- 340,000 bushels a month ago and 19¢,- 057,000 bushels last year. arck Offi Queen Marie Il FORMER DRY AGENT DIES IN BRAWL AT MINNEAPOLIS HOME Another Man Is in Critical Con- dition As Result of Duel With Guns MET IN NORTH DAKOTA Survivors Says Both.Had Been Engaged in Rum-Running Business in State Minneapolis, Sept. 10.—()}—A form- er prohibition agent died Thursday Associated Press Photo Queen Marie of Rumanta Ie serl- ously ill in Bucharest. Physicians said an operation may become neo eesary. DEATH OF FARGOAN RECALLS DAYS OF FRONTIER SPORTS Clinton H. Smith, Veteran Horse-Shoer and Salesman, Shod Many Speedsters Fargo, N. D., Sept. 10—(#)—Clin- ton H. Smith, 74, for more than 50 years a resident of Fargo, died last night at his home here. He had been Keeping shod the Printed ‘which 1a. wi f bored through Fargd’s boggy streets of the early ‘0's was ofte of the first jobs of Smith, who was one of North Dakota’s. best-known horse shoers and salesmen. In his later years he often recalled laboring in his dingy little shop in Fargo from early in the morning to far after dark. One of the brightest spots in those days of endless labor was the han- dling of some of the fastest colts in the country, which annually were brought to town for the gala racing season. Horse racing in the early days was “the” sport of the frontier towns, and some of the “fast ones” formed here for the benefit of North Dakotans, Mr. Smith remembered. ‘The death knell of commercial rai ing in the smaller towns was sound- ed with the advent of the automobile. into Fargo and Moorhead from dis- tant parts of the state, it also was a call to the gamblers, Smith often re- marked. From the twin cities, Chi- cago and eastern parts the gamesters came, their pockets filled with money to back their wagers. Born April 30, 1857, at Livingston- ville, N. Y., Smith went with his par- ents to Austin, Minn., at an early age. From there his father continued op to the frontier town of Fargo, and began operation of a blacksmith The son, electing to go to the cities, became known for his of racing horses and his father pre- vailed on him to come to Fargo and join his business. Smith was married in Austin July 28, 1878, to Miss Alice Tubbs, who accompanied her hus- band to Fargo in’ March of 1880. After working with his father a few years, the younger Smith opened his own establishment. That structure was destroyed in the Fargo fire of 1893 and a brick build- ing was erected. At a later date he also operated the Village Forge, which was long a town landmark. This business was continued until 1901 when Smith entered the employ of a wholesale hardware firm as a traveling salesman. Later he was as- sociated in a similar capacity with of Minneapolis, covering a wide ter- ritory in North Dakota and northern ‘Minnesota. Smith served one term as s mem- ?|ber of the Fargo city council. was'a member of the various Masonic bodies and also was a member of the Elks lodge in Fargo. Surviving are his widow, ‘one brother, Hezekiah Smith of Scranton, a., and a niePce, Mrs. N. E. Morgan, Fargo. N. D., Sept. 10.—Assem- Dickinson, N. D., ie & bled Sunday at their annual banquet, which marked the cilmax to @ guc- cessful baseball season, the Dickinson Cowboys agreed to play a picked team in a baseball game to be sponsored Sunday by Associated Charities to raise funds for relief of the poor. —————————— - —__——__—_——_o f Plan Color Movies | | Of Northern Lights o- New York, Sept. 10.—(7)—Au- rora borealis is to have a film try- primary object of the trip is to find out what, if any effect, the surore has.on radio signals | and telegraph lines. per-; Foshay dedicat terprises. the collection around ° Hollywood, Barbara with four bullets in his body and an- other man was in a critical condition following a fight in an apartment Wednesday night. Dwight Rains, 37, who six years ago resigned from the federal prohibition force here, died with two bullets through his chest, another in his ab- domen and one in his arm. Danny McLeod, formerly of Fargo, N. D., was in a critical condition with two bullets over his heart. He told an incoherent story of the gun duel in which Rains was killed and he was wounded. Several witnesses were being ques- tioned by police. According to McLeod's story, Rains, Emil, and he were together in the afternoon. They had been drinking and were to keep an appointment at an apartment. “It was a dead steal to murder me,” McLeod said in a statement to detec- tives. “He tried to hijack me and wouldn't stand for it,” Rains told de- right there,” he said. Later, the three went to another apartment. “We were going to meet some girls. He invited mein,” Mc- Leod’s statement said. “‘and what do we do?’ I said, he said ‘you Scotch so-and-so you are in a trap now.’ I realized he was nuts. “He pulled a gun and shot me twice, I fell -I had the gun I had taken away from him at the other apartment and I pulled it.” The statement was not signed. McLeod said he went to the apart-| ment of Mrs. Julia Ford after &e shooting. He told Mrs. Ford to @ doctor and the police. Mrs, Ford said McLeod came in and put a gun on the table. ‘The caretaker of an apartment said he heard someone say “we're still friends, aren’t we?” then two shots rang out. In a few seconds four more shots were fired, he said. McLeod denied he had hijacked or attempted to hijack Rains. He said he met Rains in North Da- kota where he said both engaged in liquor running. s They met in Minneapolis again a few days ago, he said, and agreed to go on a drinking party. SAY EXTRAVAGANCE RUINED INVESTORS Government Claims Foshay Company Put Up ‘Front’ to Deceive Public Minneapolis, Sept. 10.—)—Vouch- ers showing detailed costs of fur- nishings and equipment for two floors in a 32 story building erected by W. B. Foshay were offered as evidence Thursday by the government in his trial on charges of using the mails to “efiocked by objections Wednesday Fred Horowitz, special assistant at- torney general, contends they are evi- | pla; dence that Foshay “sought to keep up appearances” to aid in the sale of se- curities when his enterprises were no longer financially secure. Both floors were retained for Foshay’s business ‘and personal use. 5 From E. J. Bouchard, former assist- ant treasurer of the W. B. Foshay Co., parent concern, came testimony ‘Wed- nesday that Foshay was kept fully aware of the status of his projects daily financial statements tends the enterprises ble financially 18 months before they went into voluntary receivership Nov. ument, was months before the collapse of the en- ira In his suite, Foshay had Foshay. him on the same charges have been mentioned frequently. They served as officers of his companies. Pictures from the flooded area of central China show (above) refugees, who escaped with a few belongings, camped along thi river. Below Is a flooded section of Hankow. Heavy floods ha' proximately 360,000 Chinese recently and left millions the deaths of facing starvation. Launch Probe of Riot In Utah Penitentiary ATTENDING SCHOOL REPORT DISCLOSES Census Bureau Finds Sharp In- crease in Number Enrolled In Classes Washington, Sept. 10.—(?)—As mil- ‘ions of children throughout the coun- try Thursday answer the toll of school bells for the fall term the census bu- reau Thursday reported more young- sters in classes than a decade ago. The bureau found, in its 1930 count, that of 38,387,032 persons betwcen five and 20 years old, 26,849,639 or 69.9 Per-cent were attending school. Ten years ago, 21,373,976 or 64.3 per cent of 33,250,870 between the same ages were pupils, An increase in older children at- tending classes over the number ten years ago was shown. The largest increase in older stu- dents was reported in the 21 and over division, which showed 1,034,762 in school, against 344,789 ten years ago. The total of eligibles in this division was not given. Girls and boys were about equally divided in the total school citizenry. Of the 19,112,883 girls, 13,327,871 were in school, while 13,521,768 of the total of 19,274,149 boys were enrolled. Of the urban population between 5 and 20, 72.3 per cent were in school; rural farm districts, 66.4 and rural non-farm or villages, 69.3 per cent. The bulk of students 21 and over came from the urban areas, accounting for 738,193; 143,283 in the rural sections, and 156,217 in the villages. The report recorded 97.5 per cent of foreign-born while children be- tween 7 and 13 in school, and 87.3 per cent of the negroes. The number in the age groups of foreign-born and negroes likewise declined as the chil- dren grew older. AUTHOR SUCCUMBS Los Angeles, Sept. 10.—(7)—Eugene W. Presbrey, 78, author of the stage y “Raffles,” “The Right of Way,” “The Barrier” and several other suc- cesses of years ago, died here yester- day after a prolonged illness. Minot, N. D., Sept. 10—@)— Oscar Benson, aged 44, of Col- umbus, N. D., is going back to the North Dakota penitentiary for a second time and, if he is to be believed, he is happy about it. He pleaded guilty in district here We to a burgla! manslaughter in co! wit the killing of a man in a drunken brawl. Benson told the court that several weeks ago he decided he wanted to go back to prison where he could be assured of meals a day. | Columbus, N. D., Man Is Happy at Prospect of Returning to Prison Associated Press Photo Officials Seek Details of Outbreak Galt Lake City, Sept. 10—(7)—Five ‘eonvicts were in solitary confinement Wedtiesday as officials investigated a riot at the state penitentiary in which one prisoner was killed and several guards and other convicts were in- jured. ‘Warden W. E. Davis quelled the out~ break by refusing to bargain with the mutineers as policemen, deputy sher- iffs and firemen swarmed the walls to beat down any wholesale attempt by the convicts to escape. ‘The warden expressed the opinion six or seven other prisoners were im- Plicated. The group was armed with knives and crude bombs made of sec- tions of pipe. Only one bomb, how- ever, exploded. ‘The men held as the ring leaders are Robert H. Elliott and Delbert Webster Pfoutz, serving life terms for slaying an officer in a jail break at Moab, Utah; Raymond Underwood, F. C. Hertel, described by authorities as the “brains” of the plot, serving a term for assault with a deadly weap- on and robbery; and George Day. Elliott and Pfoutz, accused of at- tacking a guard, face death under the wording of the state law if they are convicted. This provision applies in cases of convicts serving life sen~- tences, Louis Deathridge, known to police as a former St. Louis gangster, who with Underwood dashed to the prison wall and started up @ crude rope and cloth ladder, was shot to death by L. W. Mctavish, tower guard. Under- ros was injured slightly by another Their fate, officials said, broke the spirit of the rioters who ohly a few minutes previously had lured C. L. Christensen and D. L. Rees, guards, and Deputy Warden Wilford M. Giles, into the cell block and demanded that they instruct the wall guards to throw away their guns. All three were injured by the con- victs when they refused to comply. Christensen, suffered a head injury and @ stab wound. solved and evolved another. He told some friends he was going to rob a couple of stores in Columbus. The next night he did. The sheriff investigated. His friends told the sheriff what Benson had said. The sheriff looked for Benson but didn’t find him and left town leaving word with deputies to apprehend him. Benson, who had been waiting in a shack all day for the sheriff to arrest him, sauntered down town and learned the officer had been looking for him. He arranged a telephone call which reached the sheriff before he got home to Bowbells and the officer returned and got Benson who told of his crimes and asked for assurance that the sheriff would help get him into prison. “I wonder how many of the boys are still there?” mused Benson after the court had im- posed sentence. “It’s going to seem good to meet them sgain. T'll tell them how lucky they are not to be out in these kind of times.” CAPITAL CITY MAN HURT SERIOUSLY IN J. B. Crawford Receives Crush- ed Chest and Lacerations of Hand and Face MISHAP ON PAVED HIGHWAY E. R. Prachel, Also of Bismarck, Suffers From Shock, Bruises, and Cuts J. B. Crawford, 48, 219 Fifth street south, was in serious condition in a local hospital and E. R. Prachel, 306 Griffin street, was suffering from shock and multiple cuts and bruises Thursday following an automobile accident on the Bismarck - Mandan highway shortly after 11 p. m. Wed- nesda y ‘The right side of Crawford's chest was crushed and he suffered lacer- ations of the face and left hand when the car which he was driving toward Mandan, and in which Pra- chel was the only other passe! 4 crashed into a machine ahead of it and overturned at the side of the pavement. The car into which Crawford and Prachel crashed was occupied by George Boehm and his son, Mandan. The elder Boehm told Morton county authorities that the Crawford auto was traveling at a high rate of speed, and struck his rear fender, causing it to overturn. Prachel Thursday morning said the Boehm machine had no tail light. Prachel was thrown clear of the machine and knocked unconscious for about 15 minutes while Crawford was buried under the wreckage of the car, according to Prachel’s story. Prachel, after becoming conscious assis| Boehm and his son in lifting the wrecked car and removing Crawford from under it. A passer-by brought Crawford to the hospital here. Crawford has been conscious only at intervals since the accident, ac- was demolished. Crawford is a local automobile-me- chanic while Prachel is employed by the Cities Service Oil company here. The accident occurred about mid- ;way between Bismarck and Mandan. HOPE OF NABBING KIDNAPERS FADES Victim Fails to Identify Mem- bers of Group Arrested in Minois Chicago, Sept. 10.—(?)—Hope that the perpetrators of a series of kid- napings had been captured went glimmering Thursday with the fail- ure of James Hackett, Blue Island roadhouse proprietor, to recognize any of five men as those who took $75,000 for his ransom. Hackett had gone to Decatur, Ill. Wednesday to attempt identification of the pisoners. The fact that Fred J. Blumer, Monroe, Wis., brewer, and Ralph Wehrenberg of Springfield, Ill., had been released by their kidnapers near Decatur had made the ies of the band there seem plausi- ‘Wednesday Patrick Roche, chief in- vestigator for the state’s attorney here, announced that Hackett had identified Moore as one of his cap- tors, Roche further he had information that unnamed police had accepted @ $50,000-bribe from the kidnapers. It developed Thursday that Roche's announcement was erroneous. Neither Hackett nor Lieut. William Cusack of the Chicago detective bureau was per- mitted to see the prisoners at Deca- tur. Arriving here, Hackett looked at the men and could not recognize them. Roche has not disclosed the source of his report of the alleged bribe. o_O | First Snow Falls | On Idaho’s Slopes oo Boise, Iaho, Sept. 10.—(?)—The mountain slopes of Boise national forest have, had their first cover- ing of snow. An inch of snow covered Land Mark and West Mountain near Cascade. It melt- ed rapidly under the September sun. Chilean Mutineers Face Court Martial Santiago, Chile, Sept. 10.—(#)—The ringleaders of the naval mutiny were being ferreted out Thursday by a mixed army and navy court with in- structions to mete out the death pen- alty. Communists and other radicals par- ticularly were sought by a special board that was empowered to extend its activities abroad for trace of for- eign influence, It was expected some Chilean embassies would be called on to aid in this work. AUTOMOBILE CRASH! only slightly but the Crawford car| cials Solve Trunk Mystery CHINESE FLOOD PICTURES | Economist Dies ‘ e. & LUJO BRENTANO Munich, Germany, Sept. 10—(>)— Lujo Brentano, German economist, died Wednesday. He was 87 years) old. A stout champion of free trade, in an age when tariff walls were rising in every country in Europe and be- yond, Brentano stood out as a firm believer in trade unionism and the eight hour working day. In the knowledge of the intricacies of political economy and social science, Brentano was pre-eminent. Aggressive by nature albeit a theo- rist, he fought vigorously when Bis- marck, the “Iron Chancellor,” pur- sued his policy of imperialistic cap- italism. He disputed with the Man- chester School, the German agrarians and the heavy industrialists with zest equal to that with which he combat- ted Karl Marx and Ferdinand La- salle, the fathers of Socialism. He fought consistently for social ideals which, considered radical at their inception, had become commonplace in his own lifetime. esl SNOWDEN DEVISES WAY FOR BRITAIN TO BALANCE BOOKS Leaning On Canes, He An- announces Program To Eng- lish House of Commons London, Sept. 10—()—Great Britain hhas devised a scheme to balance her accounts in what is probably one of the most desperate financial crises in the nation’s history, Philip Snowden, chancellor of the exchequer, an- nounced in the house of commons Thursday as he introduced his emergency budget. Leaning on his two canes, he out- lined the devices by which he pro- Poses to overcome a deficit of ap- proximately $850,000,000 in next year’s budget and an estimated deficit of more than $370,000,000 this year. When he sat down the Conserva- tives, the Liberals and a handful of the Labor members raised a great cheer, but on the other side of the house the bulk of the Labor members booed the man who is one of those chiefly responsible for creation and growth of their party. He struck out as few treasury chiefs have dared to do. He faced the hostile Labor benches, crowded with his former colleagues, and announced measures which meant a-10 per cent cut in the dole. He announced that the income tax would be boosted up to five shillings ‘on a pound, which amounts to 25 per cent of the net income of every citi- zen who pays the tax. He told them the duty o beer would be increased one penny a pint, ef- fective tomorrow, and that the cus- toms duty on imported leaf tobacco would go up eight pence a pound. The gasoline duty is to be increased two pence a gallon. Policemen’s wages will be cut on a sliding scale running upward from five shillings ($1.25) a week, and school teachers’ salaries will be re- duced by 15 per cent. ‘Easy Money’ Hope Blasted by Arrest HAVE LITTLE HOPE OF LOCATING TWO DARING MEN ALIVE Sound of Plane Heard Near Dutch Harbor and Untraced Report Offer Hope COAST GUARD JOINS HUNT Officers, However, Assert Ef. fort Is Practically a Hope- less One fi With Don Moyle and C. A. Allen, American fliers, lost somewhere in |the vast reaches of the Pacific ocean, little hope was held late Thursday for finding them alive, according to As- sociated Press dispatches. Two lone rays of hope pierced the gloom surrounding the fate of the two airmen. One was a report from Dutch Harbor, Alaska, that a drone which sounded like an airplane engine was heard there Wednesday night and the other was an untraced radio report that the pair had landed on a lonely island off the coast of British Columbia. Fog shrouded the Dutch Harbor area when the sound was heard. North Pacific coast aviation circles believed it possible the sound might have been the missing plane. It it was, it indicated Moyle and Allen made a forced landing and suc- ceeded in getting the ship into the air again, as their fuel supply was suf- ficient to keep them in the air not later than 3 p. m. (E.S.T.) Wednesday with continuous flying. Locate on Island Dutch Harbor, on Unaslaska island, is about 2,500 miles from Samushiro Beach over the route plotted by Moyle and Allen, and about 2,000 miles from Seattle. Had the fliers a to schedule, they should have Dutch Harbor about 4:30 p (ES.T.) Tuesday. The fact that sound heard last night at Dutch - bor died away to the northeast would indicate that whatever it was, % was not heading in the direction of Se- attle but toward the Alaska mainland. Meanwhile ships of the coast cruised south of hte Aleutian Thursday hunting Feel Ag i but officers of the z 3 & §¢ Three coast guard Northland, Chelan and ed searching along the storm scourged islands late day on orders of Capt. H. D. ley, division commander. The cutters were ordered to cruise to the western extremity of the island chain and make a thorough search of the water and the coastline for the ite Task Nearly Hopeless “It is almost @ hopeless task,” said Captain Hinckley. “We'll do the best we can—but I’m afraid that will not be enough.” A check of radio and telegraph sta- tions along the British Columbia coast last night failed to reveal a trace of Moyle or Allen or the source of the report that a plane similar to the one flown by the airmen had been seen along the coast. As hours passed with no reports of the airmen, even the most optim- istic began to lose hope they would be found alive, although some be- lieved there might be a duplication of the experience of Major Frederick L. Martin, one of the army round- the-world fliers of 1924. Major Martin was lost for 11 days after his plane crashed into a moun- tain peak on the Alaska peninsula, despite organized efforts to find him. He finally reached a cannery equipped with a radio station and sent out word of his safety. Thomas Ash, Jr., world war avia- tor, who gave up an attempt to fly the Moyle-Allen monoplane over the route this summer, expressed the opinion the airmen were lost some- where off the Aleutians. Ash arrived here Wednesday from the orient as a member of the crew of the liner President Madison. Thinks Motor Failed “I believe the motor blew up before they reached Dutch Harbor, Alaska,” said Ash. “They had equipped the Plane with a super-charger which stepped up the motor from 425 to 525 horsepower and I believe the Strain was too much.” Ash, who plans another attmpt to span the Pacific in a new plane next May, said the left wing of the Moyle- Allen ship was warped and “you had to fight it all the time.” He said the ship used about 25 gallons of fuel an Washburn, N. D., Sept. 9.—()—His hope of easy money blasted by arrest before he could carry out his plans to rob a bank at Mercer, Albert Schneider, 21, Lodi, Calif., Wednes- day night told authorities he would Plead guilty to a charge of carrying concealed weapons in a vehicle. The charge, conviction on which carries a penalty of one year impris- onment, is to be lodged against him Thursday, McLean county authorities said. The youth, who has been working as @ laborer in this section for the last two and one-half months. was taken into custody at Mercer Tues- day when his actions aroused sus- Picion. SWENSON NAMED AUDITOR Devils Lake, N. D., Sept. 10.—(7)— H. W. Swenson, Devils Lake attorney, Wednesday night was appointed city auditor by the Devils\Lake city com- mission to succeed Martin Olsen, who ‘Thursday took over his duties as act- ing postmaster. Last year Swenson was the I. V. A. candidate for state insurance com- [paiesianer: hour, instead of 22 as estimated by Moyle. Ash said changes the two fliers made on the ship before they started the flight cut down their cruising radius several hundred miles, al- though it made the plane easier to handle and somewhat faster. One person refused to admit the men were lost. Miss Frances Bresson, Riverside, Calif., Moyle’s fiancee, who came here to greet him when he completed the flight, insisted they would be found. PAIR CONFIDENT BUT PREPARED TO DIE Tokyo, Sept. 10.—(#)—Confident as they were of safely reaching Seattle, Don Moyle and Cecil A. Allen prepar- ed for death before taking off from Samushiro, Japan, for America Tues- day morning. ‘They left with newspapermen and friends certificates to prove they taken off on a Transpacific plifying the liquidation of their