The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 24, 1931, Page 1

/ ' Three Powers ‘Warn’ Good Cheer Rules City as Christmas Nears J/GERMANY UNABLE 10 | ! North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 THE BISMA RCK TRIBUNE The Weather Increasing cloudiness with warm- er tonight; Friday unsettled. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1931 ALLINCOMMUNITY BEING CARED FOR BY BISMARCK FOLK “Good Fellows” Distributing 151 Baskets Containing Food For Needy LEGION CLOSES CAMPAIGN Children Gather at Auditorium for Distribution of Candy and Nuts Bismarck Thursday faced its big- gest community Christmas in a spirit of good cheer. First on the list of holiday events, was the distribution of 151 baskets to. needy families in Bismarck and Bur-| leigh county. Of this number, 97 were handled direct by the city “Good Fel-' lows” committee with Rev. Floyd E.' Logee as chairman and 54 by private groups and individuals. Included among the distribution from the, “Good Fellows” headquarters in the/ ‘World War Memorial building were’ the baskets contributed by the Red} Cross and Salvation Army while the list of private donors included 10 bas- | ‘kets distributed by the American Le- gion “Open Your Heart” campaign. Numerous church groups and social! organizations participated in the ef-} fort. | The average basket contained al peck of potatoes, rice, coffee, canned fruit, cookies, chicken, bread, flour. | celery, cranberries, nuts and other: staple articles, Rev. Logee said, and; the materials was of good quality.’ After a careful check of his lists he expressed the certainty that no fam- ily would go hungry on Christmas day. Distribution was made by vol- (Continued on page nine) ! ' ARRAN MARCOVIZ. ONTURKEY CHARGE Arrested on a charge of receiving’ stolen property in connection with) the theft of dressed turkeys recently, from a Northern Pacific freight car, Ben Marcovitz, Bismarck merchant was arraigned Thursday before Police: Judge E. 8. Allen. guilty and was released under bonds: of $1,000. Preliminary hearing was! set for Dec. 31. i Ed. Ditch, a partner of Marcovitz) in the produce business, and three other men recently were given sen-; tences in the state penitentiary aftr they had pleaded guilty to complicity in the affair. Confessions obtained from Ditch,: Tom Brown, -Douglas Ren j Hugh Caya before they ule: ed} guilty have involved Marcovitz, authorities said. | George 8S. Register, state's attor- ney, said Thursday that Ditch had signed a written statement admittins his own guilt and naming Marcovitz as his partner in a deal to purchase the turkeys, which were known to have been stolen. In confessions on file in Register's, office and at the Bismarck policé sta- tion, Brown, Caya and Renkert, named Mareovitz as the man who helped them unload the stolen birds at the Bismarck Produce com an} Te and who later paid them 138. Authorities withheld details of; Ditch’s confession. Register said he was in possession of facts which linked Marcovitz to the case and which indicated that he was’ equally guilty with his partner, Ditch. William Langer, defense counsel, said Marcovitz maintains he is in- nocent of the charges against him snd that if brought to trial he will be vindicated. ‘The men already under sentence fave namea J. A. Dav:s, @ transient,| i | oe Funeral services were held Thursday! for Joseph Dietrich, Bismarck’s old- est resident, who died of heart /dis- ease late Tuesday. Dietrich came to North Dakota in 1869, CULBERTSON PAIR {S 14,525 POINTS AHEAD OF ‘OFFICIAL’ TEAM Leaders Have Won 48 Rubbers to 38 For Lenz and Jacoby .in Battie New York, Dec. 24.—(?)—Victory in six of eight rubbers at the last pre- Christmas session, ending early Thursday, added 3,280 points to the lead of Ely Culbertson’s side in a test of his system of contract bridge witir that of Sidney 8. Lenz, who has Os- wald Jacoby as partner. When the 87th rubber of the 150- rubber match is started at the re- sumption of play at 2 p. m. Saturday, Culbertson will be 14,525 points ahead with a total of 78,150 compared with 63,625 for Lenz and Jacoby. Culbertson, with Mrs. Culbertson, Waldemar Von Zedtwitz or Theodore A. Lightner as partner, has won 48 Tubbers to 38 for Lenz and Jacoby. Most of the lead has been gained with the aid of Lightner. who was Culbertson's partner at the last ses- sion and who is to be displaced after the holidays by the return of Mrs. Culbertson to play at last 27 rubbers He pleaded not |™ore. A set of 1,400 points on Lenz wher he went down four vulnerable trying jto make one heart was a big factor in increasing Culbertson’s lead. It was the first session at the Waldorf. with Lenz acting as host. Lenz and |Jacoby won the first rubber on a brilliant end play of the last hand by Lenz, but fortune there deserted the host. The big set came soon there- after. Culbertson and Lightner were set nine times compared with four times for the opposition, but kept their ‘losses small and plunged little when KIDNAPERS FAL TO OBTAINREADY CASH Get Only Checks, Which Are Worthless Now, From Abduct- ‘ed Kansas Rancher Colby, Kas. Dec. 24.—()—Three kidnapers who muffed an opportunity to obtain ready cash were in flight Thursday without a dime to show for their abduction of Alex Berens, 79, wealthy cattleman of Walker, Kas. Berens, forced to sign several checks during his 20 hours in the hands of the kidnapers, was released here Wednesday night. He was left in his son’s motor car, which the trio as the man who aided Brown tn|had used. breaking into the car and rolling bar- rels containing the turkeys onto the right of way, east of Bismarck. Davis still is at large. Ditch was given until Monday to close up his business affairs before, commencing a sentence of from six months to two years in the state penitentiary. Caya, given from siz Had the leader of the gang. who presented one of Berens’ checks for $512 at the Gorham, Kas., State bank Wednesday, asked for cash instead of a Kansas Oity bank draft he would have received it, bank officials said. ‘The draft was given readily as cat- tle buyers frequently do business at the institution. PRICE FIVE C observed feast in all the world PAY EVEN AT END OF YEAR'S MORATORIUM War Debt Situation Is Clouded By Report of Committee at Basel It is a circumstance to exalt the reaction. For most persons it is WORLD CREDIT IN BALANCE It seems, somehow, that at Washington Awaits Next Step, Which Appears Up to Na- tions of Europe And, as always, this thing of Washington, Dec. 24.—(?)—Doubt blanketed Thursday the whole future of the war debts due the United States from her former allies, but probability of stiff downward revision became emphatic. The Basel report of Wednesday was clear enough in declaring resumption of German reparations payments could not be looked for at the end| ‘of-the present one-year debt holiday. In the eyes of Europe at least, the re- parations are the key to the whole Structure of the world war burden. this spirit, no trusting little face mas spirit of Bismarck’s citizens always brings, that The Tribune everywhere, “Merry Christmas.” will be dimmed by pain because a child was forgotten. MERRY CHRISTMAS (An Editorial) . It is only just and fitting that the most important and widely should be the anniversary of the natal day of a Man who died on the cross that the world might live. humble and to humble the proud, for at no other time in all the year does mankind attain so closely to the ideal which He holds out for us. For some, of course, Christmas is a day in which to revel in material things; to gorge themselves with food and to take new delight in the pleasures of the flesh, but this is hardly the common @ season when they realize anew that it is more blessed to give than to receive; that he who gives the most has the most remaining to him, and that the things of the spirit are most important when finally the scales are balanced. Christmas time we come a little closer to realizing the yearning for a nearer kinship with the simple things of life; a better understanding of the eternal verities which dominate our being. Without our knowledge, even, life takes on new color; new light is given us, We see the world more through the eyes of the spirit than through the eyes of the flesh. The in- fluence of the Child of Bethlehem lays stronger hold upon us. the spirit finds its best expression through kindly works, adequate translation of the lesson which all of us learn from Him whose feast day we celebrate. That this spirit rules in Bismarck is proved by the fact that no family in this community will go hungry on Christmas day. The food which the more fortunate enjoy will have better savor for that reason. In this community. because of the prevalence of will be smirched by tears, no eyes ‘The Christ- has seen to that. The manner in which this pleasant task has been done is a just cause for satis- faction on the part of every citizen, 4 It ds in the realization of the blessings that all of us have received and the renewed faith in the future which Christmas says to its subscribers and friends | That, as a consequence, the obliga- tions due this country will not be paid at the moratorium’s expiration was more, than likely. It appeared in the case” of many nations nearly ington, reflected despite determined refusal cf comment on this report ‘from the Young plan committee, showed clear conviction congress has made it impossible for President, Hoover to take any further step on debts. 20 PERSONS INJURED IN TRAIN COLLISION Two Slowly-Moving Soo Line Trains Strike Head-On at Lowry, Minn. Controlling Importance The congressional declaration, in- corporated in the moratorium resolu- tion so as to register unalterable op- pesition to further revision, thus ac- quired a controlling importance. If, as the result the United States can do nothing to justify non-pay- ment, there is ample possibility of default by apr pnine of eae] nations, a critics low to wor! hs credit structure. Some, who have the ~C#enwood, Minn. Dee, 24-1 privilege under existing agreements,\TWenty persons are known to have doubtless will invoke the right to been injured, one seriously, in a head- Aloe certain payments Md DED: on collision of two Soo Line passen- cipal and interest, amounting ‘ger trains at Lowry, eight miles west spout beat oa rinaiieieuii of Glenwood, at 3:30 a. m. Thursda: From the Washington angle it was The trains carried about 200 persons, clear the next step in the situation ls most of them en route home for the up to the European flations. Some Christmas holiday. The trains fig- ey ation bes: ne eee atiae: ae uring in the crash are local, running sibly on war debts also, but prospect between Enderlin, N. D., and the of American participation was dim. Twin Cities. ef a No Official Notice '_ Among those myu was ian Suggestions advanced the debts to Boesjolie, Leal, N. D., who suffered the United States be paid in terri- Possible abdominal injuries. Al- tory have met with no official notice. though a physician advised her to re- All this prospect of uncertainty main for hospital treatment, she re- precipitated itself just as congress had fused to stay since she wanted to get finished with the moratorium and the home for Christmas. president had given it the final touch R. E. Hern, Wyndmere, N. D., re-| of legality by signing the resolution ceived a slight cut over his eye. of approval. He commented the debt Sone ae holiday had “averted a catastrophe, Continue Search for the effects of which would i: 3 . reached to the United States and Body in Library Ruins would have caused the American peo- pee Ay ple a loss nany times the amount in-' vatican City, Dec. 24—()—The ,Volved.” search was resumed for the body of | In the light of the Basel report Sen- the fifth victim of the collapse of the ator Hiram Johnson of California, Vatican library Thursday morning. It chief of the moratorium opponents had been halted for an hour after commented that ratification of the workmen believed they had found the latter was @ “pyrrhic victory.” last body. What Roel coun boy: Young Plan Near End ever turned out to be a portion of one | At eel enters regarded the re- of the other bodies, previously uncov- port as the beginning of the end of ered. , the Young plan which they believe to have been rendered inoperative in some degree by the economic events ‘of the years since it was adopted. {| Germany called it satisfactory and better than had been expected but Chancellor Bruening said it fell short of being a broad scale solution of the interantional debt problem. In France, those who commented, described the report as a valuable source of information and intimated that adjustments might be made if a study of the full text indicated that Germany cannot cover the uncondi- tional reparations payments. London newspapers reported the” adoption of the committee findings under big headlines but there was lit- tle editorial comment. Such as there was indicated an agreement that the report will make the work of the forthcoming international debts con- ference easier. s ‘The same sentiment was expressed at Geneva in League of Nations quar- ters. ip ! Santa Has Been Good to et , anan atin n wen. AMilies in Drouth Area Sun Shines Both Literally and Figuratively as Christmas | Approaches Minot, N. D., Dec. 24—(P)—As {Christmas neared in the drouth area of North Dakota Thursday, the sun shone, literally and figuratively, on jthe thousands of residents who have 'been victims of unparalleled weather freaks, For days the warm sun has con- served the store of coal.’. From castern North Dakota has come a generous response in food and now in the form of a Christmas pack- age for all families. In Ward county alone, 2,000 chil- dren are being remembered in the ral districts with toys. i In the city of Minot, not a child nor @ family will be missed. Members of , the Minot Lions club and other agen- cies are providing feod and toys for 1,000 children, Thursday 50 men sang at their work on a ‘made-job’ project in Minot in which they have been given employ- ment. Members of the city commission ate noon lunch with workers Thursday {and members of the Business and ; Professional Women’s club added ci- gars to the coffee and doughnuts {which they are providing daily. The Minot city police Thursday night will forget to lock the jail for all petty offenders. Fear Tug and Crew Are Lost in Storm Port Angeles, Wash., Dec. 24—(7)— ; While United States and Canadian | patrol boats searched heaving seas off | Cape Flattery for her, the tug Roose- ;Velt escaped the fury of a storm and reached shelter in Neah Bay safely Thursday. Nothing had been heard from her since she messaged “For | God's sakes hurry!” Wednesday night. Children in Mining District Will Get Gifts From President’s Family, Washington, Dec. 24—(P)—A circle of green leaves and red ber- ries hangs on the white door of the president’s house. The age-old wreath of Christ- mas manifests a sentiment that stirs the white house family, just as it lifts the nation’s citizens from blue-shadowed slopes far- thest north to quiet boyous idling toward the southern seas, The capital, ready for a russet- brown snowless Christmas, be- came a scene of Christmas eve symbols as two little children claimed the attention of the chief executive, and’ foreign officials brought reminders of their home- months to two years for grand tied larceny, was to be taken to the prison MINNESOTA MAN DIES Thursday. Brown, who was given! Winona, Minn., Dec. 24.—(P)—A from one to five years for third-ac-| heart attack Thursday brought unex- gree burglary, also was to start his;pected death to Paul Watkins, 67. sentence Thursday. Renkert’s sen- tence of one year for grand larceny president of the J. R. Watkins com- pany, distributor of household sup- ‘Was suspended. Plies. He was found dead in bed. land observance into the Amer- ican celebration. Recognizing the solemn back- ground of this year’s economic stress, President Hoover's family collected toys instead of distribut- FUNERAL TRAIN WRECKED Foggia, Italy. Dec. 24.—(#)—Two assengers were killed, six were in- ‘ured, and a score of others returning from the funeral of Arnaldo Musso- lini, were badly shaken Thursday when the Bologna express jumped the track near here. ing them at the first Chirstmas party of Peggy Ann and Peter, the Hoover grandchildren. Thurs- day the dolls and tops are en route to less fortunate children in | @ mining district. | But the spirit of the season transcends these considerations. A whole series of parties will keep | the white house merry. The | cheer of the day will be broadcast | by the President and Mrs. Hoo- ver to the radio audience when | an outdoor Christmas tree is lighted in a public square at 5 Pp. m. The Columbia Broadcast- . ing system was to carry the words of Vice President Curtis from the . celebration. Earlier —from 1:30 to 2 p, m. Representative Rainey, benevolent white-haired leader of the house Democratic majority, was to talk at a Christmas party likewise broadcast. Friday will be largely a day of homes and children. But Mrs. Hoover will leave the white house to distribute toys to children in a big local theatre. GATES CLAIMS ALIBI ~ POR DEC. 8, DAY OF ROBBERY AT WILTON William Langer Will Resist At- tempts to Implicate Former Sheriff QUESTIONED IN LINTON JAIL Former Sioux County Official Held With Two Others on Check Charge William Langer, Bismarck attorney, said Thursday John Gates, former sheriff of Sioux county, held on a charge of obtaining money under false Pretense at Linton, has been ques- tioned regarding the robbery of the First National bank of Wilton. Langer, who is defending Gates on the charge for which the former sher- iff is held, said that if any effort is made to connect Gates with the rob- bery, an “airtight alibi” will be of- fered to' show that Gates could not have been in the Wilton vicinity on Dec. 8, the day of the robbery. McLean county authorities who have been at Linton for the last two days, denied they were there to investigate the Wilton robbery. They said they came here from Washburn, seat of McLean county, on an entirely dif- ferent matter. Langer said that efforts to obtain any information from the McLean county officials as to whether they sought to connect Gates with the rob- bery has failed. He said, however, he had reliable information thet Gates has been questioned, but that any ef- fort to connect Gates with the robbery would be resisted. Gates was arrested at Fort Yates several days ago on the charge of ob- taining money under false pretense, which grew out of the cashing of trav- elers checks at Linton by two men. He was lodged in the Emmons county jail here, and the other two men were returned Wednesday night from Huron, 8. D., to face similar charges. Gates’ connection with the cashing of the checks, according to Emmons county authorities, was that he vouched for the men. Gates denies that he had any knowledge that the checks may have been spurious, as charged by Emmons county officials. WOMAN SELECTED - GENEVA DELEGATE Mary Emma Woolley Is Named by Hoover; Hugh Gibson to Be Named Also Washington, Dec. 24.—(#)—The suc- cess of American feminism stood at new heights Thursday through the se- lection of Mary Emma Woolley, presi- dent of Mt. Holyoke college, to repre- sent the United States in the Geneva disarmament conference. Never before has any woman served as a delegate to a parley between na- tions of such tremendous significance. Never before has an American woman held a governmental position in any way comparable. Her selection, announced by Presi- dent Hoover Wednesday, was hailed immediately by the organized woman- hood of the country. Women, more- over, do not expect her to be anything like a “rubber stamp” in the United States delegation, for the Massachu- |setts educator is a vigorous advocate of peace, member of many active or- ganizations which have’ striven for years to prevent future world con- ict. Hugh 8. Gibson, ambassador to Bel- gium and head of America’s delega- tions to the preparatory disarmament commission, will be selected by Presi- dent Hoover as a delegate to the Gen- eva conference. Hoover may choose a Republican senator to go with Ambassadors Dawes and Gibson, Senator Swanson, Woolley. Lost Infant Found By Hoosier Police Hobart, Ind., Dec. 24.—()—Davia, Mrs. Clarence Piper, is home again ance, When Piper came home from work Tuesday he found his wife uncon- could offer no explanation. Early Thursday @ policeman re- turned with the baby. Where he was recovered was not made known. ena nen Under Fire Again Paths tri Aa > Japanese | 1 U.S, APPREHENSION OVER SKIRMISHES I EXPRESSED IN NOTE Text of Notes From Great Bri- tain and France to Be Published Soon ‘ JOHN GATES SOCIAL LEADER AND FINANCIER COMMITS SUICIDE IN CHICAG Col. Knowlton Ames, Sr. Shoots Himself in Temple in Automobile Chicago, Dec. 24.—(7)—Col.._Knowl- ton Ames, Sr., 63, social leader, fi- nancier, former newspaper publisher, and chairman of the board of Booth Fisheries, shot and killed himself Wednesday night in his automobile. The family said he had been near @ nervous breakdown because of busi- ness worries, and that he had been unable to sleep for a week . His wife was hurrying back to Chicago from the family home in Florida at the time of his death and was due to ar- rive Thursday. Mrs. Walter W. Ross, wife of a prominent attorney and sister of Col. ames, said Ames apparently was’ troubled over financial matters, most of them imaginary. He had been absent from his office for more than & week. Col. Ames had dined with the Ross family Wednesday night and ap- peared, they said, to be in a better frame of mind than in recent weeks. He left shortly after 8 p. m. for the Ambassador Hotel, where he lived. Arriving near the hotel, he sent the chauffeur to a drug store on an er- rand. The chauffeur heard a shot as he returned and was joined by a po- liceman in running to the automo- bile. They found Col. Ames lying in the tonneau, a new .38-calibre pistol just slipping from his fingers. " There was a bullet wound and pow- ‘der marks 6n his left temple. He) died a few minutes after arriving at a hospital. Two sons, Knowlton L., Jr., presi- dent of the Chicago Evening Post and John D., publisher of the Chi-, cago Journal of Commerce, arrived at the hospital shortly after his death.| A daughter, Rosemary, is a stage star in London, and the youngest child, | Emily Anne, five, is with her mother. Col. Ames was publisher of the JAPAN DEFENDS ACTIVITIES Say Operations Aimed at Dis- turbing Elements, Not Chinchow Itself Tokyo, Dec. 24.—()—The United States, British and French govern- ments were understood Thursday to have expressed to the Japanese gov- ernment what Tokyo considers a “warning” upon the new Japanese military operations in the Chinchow region. The apprehension of the United States government was understood to have been conveyed to Premier Inu- kai Thursday afternoon by W. Camer- on Forbes, American ambassador. At the same time the agency said warning notes were re- ceived from Great Brtiain and France and that the text of these is to be published soon, with the Japanese reply. Forbes Visits Inukal Ambassador Forbes called upon Premier Inukal in mid-afternoon. He was understood to have expressed Washington's apprehension and to have declared arousing of American Public opinion might follow a new infact ae clash, it was the first expressiin of Wash- ington’s attitude to the new govern- ment. The ambassador's last con- ference Chinchow was with Baron Shidehara, former foreign min- ister, just before the fall of the Wakatsuki cabinet. The Japanese reply to the French and British notes, the Rengo agency report said, will stress the claim there is little difference between “regular” end “irregular” bandits in the Chinchow region. The Japanese government is un- derstood to consider the present mili- tary operations entirely within the realm of the anti-bandit drive held here to have been recognized by the eee of Nations resolution of Dec. 10. A formal reply will probably be sent to Washington, Paris, and London Saturday. Hard to Distinguish The premier informed Ambassador Forbes personally one of Japan's dif- ficulties is to distinguish bandits from regular Chinese troops and that there- fore the Chinese should withdraw south of the Great Wall in order to avoid a clash, is : This point probably will also be stressed in Japan's reply, Tokyo also Pointing out it has devolved upon the imepancse army to restore law and or- ler. A foreign office spokesman expressed the opinion that the three capitals Perhaps placed too much confidence in press reports and also reports of neutral observers at Chinchow whose communications, he said, have been based on the situation in that immedi- ate region while the observers had lit- ied or no knowledge of bandit activi- les. “We have absolute proof.” he said, ‘that many so-called bandits are nothing more nor less than Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang's regulars dis- guised as brigands and creating dis- turbances to place Japan in an awk- ward position—egging us on, as it were, with full knowledge neutral ob- Journal of Commerce until a few years ago, when he gave the paper to/ his two sons. During his college days at Prince-. ton Col. Ames was one of the great-| est football players of his day. | Dentist Acquitted Of Murder in Reno Reno, Nevada, Dec. 24.—(?)—Dr. servers are staying at Chinchow while Washington and other powers show much concern.” Search for Slayer Of Girl at Impasse Cincinnati, O., Dec. 24—()—Inquiry into the brutal killing of six-year-old Marian McLean reached an impasse Thursday. Democrat, Virginia, and Mary Emma) the four-month-old child of Mr. and; after a brief mysterious disappear-/ Carl Pierre Andre, young West Vir-' A week to the day after she dis- ginia dentist, was acquitted Thursday appeared police found themselves with of the murder of his former fiancee, Virtually every clue exploded, the iden- Mrs. Martha Hutchinson, by a jury tity of her degenerate slayer still un- which deliberated one hour and 13 known, the scene of the cruel attacks minutes. aeen her still’not found. The verdict was reached after sev-' Police continued their efforts to eral ballots principally to decide Jearn the identity of a man reported whether Dr. Andre was guilty of in- to have carried a bundle to the tene- ‘voluntary manslaughter. The de- ment cellar where the girl's mutilated body was found. Questioning of sascr sores Sreeted by cheers 170M Charles Bishoff, who lived in that building and who found the body, was Mrs. Hutchinson, a 21-year-old widow, was killed the night of Sept, Continued by allenists. 13 in a fall fi Dr. Andre’: 0 ae er UR mg ignce | Sutomobile on the outskirts of Reno.'| Tribune Won’t Be Published Friday The prosecution charged Dr. Andre velther shoved her out of the machine or caused her to fall by reckless driv- ing. ,| No editions of the Bismarck an \| Tribune will be published Friday, DAWES TO COME HOME Christmas Day. scious and their baby missing. They, i | London, Dec. 24.—()—Ambassador ‘Charles G. Dawes will sail for the ‘United States Dec. 30 on a rush trip |to consult with President Hoover and | Secretary Stimson before the opening Employes of The Tribune com- pany will enjoy the holiday visit- ing with relatives and friends and participating in the usual yuletide festivities, Publication of The Tribune will of the world disarmament conference at Geneva, at which he will be head of the United States delegation. 1 be resumed Saturday. NTE