The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 9, 1932, Page 1

re . i ' im. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE _, ESTABLISHED 1873 : ee Nab Trio in Island Murder: The Weather Ul gress eae aoe Ranead, t0 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1932 ‘PRICE FIVE CENTS ~ WASHINGTON AGOG ({ fe Reston Post —j _ OVER DECISION T0 Following Sudden An- nouncement Friday ‘ MILITANT WAR GRY AT JACKSON DINNER sonians Hear Former Leaders of Party *«Dawes to Resign as Envoy to DEMOCRATS SOUND |[[ BoysRepuaiate Confession | British Restrictions Keep Order in India British Court TO WIN BiG MATCH BOYCOTT BEING CONTINUED NAVAL LIBUTENANT MOTHER- LAW AND TAR ARE. ARRESTED Woman Is Wife of Granville Fortescue, American Sol- SEEK PRIVATE LIFE CULBERTSONS ( AIN ee wee Pesce der and Author Political Speculators Get Busy Harmony Is Keynote as Jeffer- IN RIN AL SESSION Show of Power HONOLULU IS IN UPROAR Case Is Dramatic Climax to Events Growing Out of At- HOOVER NOT MENTIONED COX, DAVIS, SMITH SPEAK). Appears to Be Gaining Although tacks on White Women ‘Battle of Century’ Ends With Civil Disobedience Is on Some Observers’ See in Move Prohibition Question Will Be Lenz and Partner 8,980 Decline Beemer Pasa et a the Possible Bid For Republi- Submitted to National Points Behind ikon bermnai ne ta cera cee can Nomination Convention Bombay, India, Jan. 9—(P}—Not |Grace Bell Fortescue, wife of Gran- Washington, Jan. 9.—(?)—Chariles G. Dawes left politically alert Wash- ington speculating furiously Saturday Washington, Jan. 9.—(?)—Chi- cago Saturday won the Democra- tic national convention. New York, Jan. 8—(?)}—Both Mr. and Mrs. Ely Culbertson were at the top of the bridge world Saturday. The great Lenz-Culbertson test of since the conclusion of the truce be- tween Mahatma Gandhi and the for- mer viceroy, Lord Irwin, has there been such complete order in India as there was Saturday. Overawed by the series of emer- ville Fortescue, American author and soldier, her son-in-law, Lieut. Thomas H. Massie, U. 8. N., and an enlisted man, were held on warrants charg- ing them with the slaying. 4 \dden announcement of re- June 27 was selected as the date rival systems of contract bridge end-| gency ordinances recently promul-| ‘The thr tirement ag ambessador t6 Great CHARLES G. DAWES for the convention to meet. The ed Friday night with Culbertson’s side| gated, the Nationalists are confining| 10-mile chase in which erwerat shots Britain. This is the latest picture of Gen.| Republicans convene there June NES ° 8,980 points ahead. their activities for the moment to the! were fired, police forcing their auto- The simple and tiinpected reeds oe G. Daves ana his ‘upside} 14, Nt es aces E: were In nineteen nights and one after- teulencchiey allen one nuieeraae ested into an embankment. ment of the former vice president /down' pipe, taken as he arrived in New — Albert Reymer, left, and Ellsworth Mowyer, right, are inmates of the Lan-|00n, 150 rubbers and 879 hands Cul- | ordina; le car police found the body En 5 5 D g inces can avail. A ry Cae ee Ceres eeaitied pore cont ieeie val codett beeen Washington, Jan. —(®)— The} caster, Ohio, Industrial school for boys who confessed burning a log cabin|bertson with one or another of five| Civil disobedience and non-pay- bps eater soy — - “* ors leaders and close friends here, who are ever mindful of the approaching presidential carhpaign. Dawes left his anhouncement here, to be given out some time after his departure for Chicago Friday night, in the surprise manner so character- istic of the picturesque ex-army gen- eral, banker and Republican leader. He said he was going ahead as chairman of the American delega- tion to the forthcoming Gevena arms conference but that he would only stay there until the “general work which our government has in mind for me” is completed. He would not remain, he said, to complete tech- bassador to England caused a stir at ‘Washington. TREATY REVISION MAY BE ASKED BY TOKYO GOVERNMENT Japs Say Failure. to Include Dei urday turned to the @ deluge of Jackson Day dinner ora- tory which sounded a militant wat cry for the 1932 campaign, Harmony was the keynote of the session, called primarily to select a city for the 1932 convention, Kansas City, San Francisco, Chicago, and Atlantic City’ were bidding for the privilege of entertaining the party delegates. The troublesome question of pro- hibition, which nearly wrecked the meeting of the committee in March, was headed for convent consider- ation without commit ‘action. near Gallipolis last spring. James White, 40, and seven of his children Mocratio national committee Bat-| Gieq in the fire. Later the boys repudiated thelr confessions and author- jness affairs of the party, fresh from ities are investigating. They are accused of first-degree murder. Reymer is 15 an Mowyer is 17. FORDNEY, AUTHOR OF TARIFF BILL, DIES Former Congressman From Michigan Collaborated With — —_____—__o Strange But True Stories in News d a A USE FOR HAIR Winnipeg, Man.—(#)—Val Clou- tier perhaps owes his life to the fact he is not bald-headed. His four-year-old daughter, Lorraine, unable to awaken him by pum- meling with her tiny fists when Partners won 77 rubbers and 122,925 Points as compared with 73 rubbers and 113,945 points for Sidney 8. Lenz and two partners. More than a mil- lion words were wired about the mat- ter from the hotels Chatham and Waldorf-Astoria. A sharp reprimand from the queen of his system stirred the king to un- wonted activity and a grand climax. As the final rubber began Mrs. Cul- bertson, who had started the match opposite her husband at the card table, was a little behind in the plus for the rubbers she had played. The ment of taxes are declining but the boycott against British goods appears to be gaining steadily. Saturday the authorities went even further toward paralyzing the con- gress party by impounding bank ac- counts known to belong to the Na- tionalist leaders. This admittedly will cripple the activities of the con- gress, but it was thought likely wealthy sympathizers with the con- gress movement will contribute sur- Teptitiously, BOMBSHELL HURLED Mrs. Massie last September. His body Was wrapped in a sheet. He had been shot through the heart. Mrs. Fortescue, who is equally. well known in social circles of Long Island, Washington and London, was driving the car. She would make no statement, nor would Massie or E. J. Lord, the enlisted man. The slaying climaxed a series of events which in the last few weeks have aroused Honolulu residents. Following an attack upon a school teacher last week, Governor Lawrence M. Judd ordered all police agencies to “rid Honolulu of vice.” Earlier, Horace Ida, ‘island-born Japanese, co-defendant with Kahahawai in the nical details. : ‘ Rey ‘There was no mention of President} Manchurian. Reservation snk fate Lc ya phere’ McCumber in Act ee oa pealy got him up |! Good Spirits Rule IN B ANKERS’ TRIAL 20% es ant sevecat ene ieee it > ie jackson dinne! m | TET een thas be cona eng Was an Oversight of Friday night, ‘was the ‘definite! sy aaich, an. @ Ch eae At End of Contest broken out in the city. ph ‘ forward “to life as a private citizen of manner in which former Governor . . - 9.— PJ Fiedler lela a san ped prisoner from Chicago.” Republicans in the capital! Tokyo, Jan, 9—(P)—A conference | 28mss M. Cox, of Oblo, and John W.)seph Warren Fordney, member of! int king of weather, plus. the || q,NeW,Yow. Jan. 9-P—Evers- /|Official of Closed Lakota Insti-| beaded ‘guilty to the aliack on the —and Democrats—pondered the idea that the door was open to him so far as the 1982 presidential campaign is concerned. to revise the nine-power treaty, cited by Secretary of State Stimson jn his recent note to.Japan on the Man- churian question, may be sought by Davis took themselves ‘out of con- sideration for the 1932 and the fact that former Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York did not. congress for 24 years and co-author of the Fordney-McCumber tariff of 1921, died at his home here Friday. drone of teacher’s voice, caused @ physician to hurry to West Springfield high school Friday to lose the jaws of a young, girl one ‘was in good spirits when the bridge contest ended. Lenz turned to Mrs. Culbertson. “T'll say this, Jo,” he said, “nev- tution Asserts All Ac- tions Legal Pleaded guilty to the attack on the school teacher. He was sentenced to prison for life, Kahahawai was kidnaped from a courtroom here. ‘Against this politioal-view-of many) Japan, it-was-learned om good” au- |. Taete tree former standard: beat-}He. was 78 years old. student, dislocated when she er have I had. an opponent.so ’ The jury in the first trial atuagreed. was the thought by others close to| thority Baturday, SE Cee noe eee ee een a ence tuet ny cn |" yawned, Jovely-—you almost miake up for || Fargo, Jan. 9.—(f)—A “bombshell” | a faked warrant, folded to appest ef Dawes that he really has intended coming back to his bank for more than a year. They also point out he dg vitally interested*in the approach- ing celebration to be staged by Chi- cago—the century of progress exposi- tion. With it all was the constant re- minder that Dawes is a prominent Republican and was viewed as a po- tential presidential candidate in 1928 when his close friend and political * associate, Frank O. Lowden, of Il- linois, was a candidate against Her- bert Hoover for the nomination. FARM CHIEFS AGREE |, The purpose, it was sald, would be to secure a mote clear definition of the term “administration integrity” 8 used in the treaty. A spokesman for the government said that at the time of signing the Kellogg pact, the Japanese govern- ment should have made a reservation eal Manchuria but it neglected to do The cabinet of Premier Inukai de- {clded to remain in office en bloc Sat- urday after its resignation, presented after a bomb attack on Emperor Hi- rohito Friday, had been discussed. The government's: reply to Secre- tary Stimson’s note will be forwarded to Washington late next week. Meanwhile, the foreign office has decided the Stimson note is a formal ‘They combined to heap denuncia- tion on the tariff, the farm board and the Hoover: ition as a whole. Advocates Unemployment Aid Smith went further and laid out @ platform for the relief of unem- | ployment after characterizing the ad- ministration policy in this regard as ; “defenseless.” He advocated a great governmenta: bond issue sold as were Liberty bonds direct to the people and the use of the money for permanent public im- provements needed in the operation of the government. Cox and Smith assaulted prohibi- tion. Cox, his voice pitched ‘high, called on southern Democrats to “send back to their pulpits political attack of erysipelas, which develop- ed Sunday. He had been in virtual Tetirement since 1923. Entering congress after two years as city alderman at Saginaw, where he built up a fortune in the timber business, Fordney, during his 24 years | in the lower house at Washington, ; jcame to be known.as one of the most | ardent “protectionists” in the nation’s ry. A conservative republican always, his name is remembered in connection h the Fordney-McCumber bill of 1921, which he drafted in collabora- tion with Senator Porter J. McCum- ber of North Dakota. Fordney con- sidered the bill, enacted shortly be- | fore his retirement from congress, a monument to a determined tariff REMEMBERS THE TREASURY Media, Pa—(?)—If there were more like Walter Hallahan the United States government would have little trouble balancing its budget. The will of the million- aire shue. manufacturer left $31,- 007 to the U. S. treasury. DANGER OF BREAKS IN LEVEES LESSENED Rising Waters Hold Menace For “Now, Sidney,” sald she, “don't that.” “Oke, Jo,” he answered, “I'll say you more than made up for him.” “Above everything,” Culbertson said, “this match has proven that the greatest of bridge experts are human, perhaps too human. Wom- en will be glad to learn that a hus- band and a wife can play under terrific strain and before the world kibitzer without an acrimonious word exchanged or a disapproving gesture—that in public, and, be- lieve it or not, in private. In fact my wife stated to me that through- out the match I was so consider- ate that at times she even doubted I was @ husband.” Culbertson’s bets, which are to be was thrown Friday into the state’s case against R. C. Chisholm, C. W. Lewis and James D. Gronna, former officers of the closed Farmers and Merchants State Bank of Lakota, charged with making a false report to the bank examiner, when C. F. Ferris, state's witness, testified under cross-examination none of the de- fendants ever had taken a dollar from the bank illegally. Ferris, who has been on the stand almost continuously for three days, testified none of the defendants ever had placed a fake or “dummy” note in the bank in any form in any of the farm transactions. During the trial, Judge Fred Jan- sonius ruled the notes which had fre- quently been referred to by George Bangs, Grand Forks, assisting the ficial, police said, was used to lure him to an automobile, in which he was carried away. A police search for the car led to the arrest of Mrs. Fortescue and her companions. Searching Mrs. Fortescue’s home, Police found blood on a bedroom floor and a sheet, such as was wrapped around the Hawaiian in the automo- bile, was missing. At the residence a naval enlisted man, Al Jones, was taken into cus- day. snainiinieaiapiaias communication and requires a reply, {ecclesiastics so that the people may s is u >A as . :, (ON CONGRESS PLEA sis pst > Sn ate ts | oe ther nat poise |S tne Me eine) Tartory in Louiniana, || PSY SS ne Baty eet aces ee DAVES Resigns Post aid not invoke the nine-power pact|" Baath, with sme extended, asked a es However 1.000 to 00 with Jacoby. | ity memorandum notes and cautioned As Philippine Chief i aespeeniaerentines s “ hb 5 Jacoby. oe ‘ oblige saan. ee ee in chee sean oan Prohibi-| of his life in Congress. As repre- 200 to 200 Jacoby. remedies is futher tal of the Washington, Jan. 9.—(7)—Dwight Agricultural Leaders to Unite in| officials said after further conaid-| "7 ting sitio | Sentative of the eighth Michigan dis-| Glendora, Miss; Jan. 9.—(P)—The 1,000 to 500 Antoine Lefeb- || case. F. Davis resigned Saturday as governor aca eration of the note they determined | $100;00.000° In, a apresing, vuntieas | trict, he was re-elected 11 consecutive | danger of breaks was lessened over rue, San Fran- || Ferris testified that at no time had| general of the Philippines and his Request For Legislative {t contains nothing sterling and a | $100,000.00 in senseless, useless.) times. In only one campaign was the the water-logged Mississipp! delta manne any of the defendants asked him to | Successor will be Theodore Roosevelt, threat of drastic measures’. Te was ee ieettess attempt to enforee pro-| result of his race in doubt. Saturday but rising streams in nortn- 500 to 250 F. E. Schluter, || falsify any record. He declared the |NOW governor of Porto Rico. Changes interpreted as Deine aleceauek the. hibition.’ A protective tariff on lumber was/ern Louisiana held @® menace for New York. defendants never knew when the| After conferring with President - Same lines as the Wilson: Bryan notes cays yrtoa sane the 1028 campaign one of his planks in his first congres- | territory farther south. 200 to 100 Alexander bank examiner was coming to the|Hoover, the governor general said { of 1915 and the note of 1921 regard- | croc” on, Al,” greeted his an-| sional campaign in 1698, and Fordney) Tributaries of the Ouachita, river Marahall, bank and that on occasions when| there was no understanding ss to \ Washington, Jan. 9.—(P)—Organ-| ing saghalien, that is to say, “a mate | ner, continued his battle for protection of | siready have made refugees of sev- 500 to 250 T. A. Obst. the bank examiner did go over the| When this resignation took effect. ized agriculture has agreed on the de-| ter of record.” beds The pleas of the two, however, ap-| American industries to the end. He! eral hundred families. 300 to 100 Chico Marx.- || records of the bank nothing was con-| He planned to visit his wife and mands it will make of congress to to have no effect on the na-)believed.in a tariff high enough to| Farther west, the Atchafalaya,|} $9,200 to $3,150 Total. cealed and that every document, in-| daughter, Alice, in Paris soon. The better the farmers’ lot. The three national farm groups—the Grange, the American Farm Bureau federa- tion and the Farmers’ Union—have drafted finally a legislative program ITALY EXPECTED TO SUPPORT U. 8. ACTION Rome, Jan. 9.—(?)}—It is believed in diplomatic circles Italy has de- cided to support the American action which includes: Authority for the farm board to use the export debenture, equaliza- tion fee or “any other method” of controlling crop surpluses. Increases in upper brackets of per- sonal income, corporation and estate taxes, levying of a gift tax and oppo- sition to general sales, automobile, gasoline or bank check taxes. A monetary program including lib- eral federal reserve open market poll- cies, é Adequate tariff to enable American farmers to retain home markets and immediate revision of tural schedules to make them equal with industry. = Prohibition of short selling on commodity and other exchanges. Philippine independence “so that in. Sarokin ie nine-power pact in BRITISH TO FOLLOW ‘HANDS OFF’ POLICY London, Jan, 9.—()—Great Britain is not following the Jead of the Unit- ed States in invoking the nine-power pact in Manchuria, a foreign office statement said Saturday. While the British ent stands by the polcy of the open door for international trade in Manchuria, the statement said, it has not con- sidered it necessary to present any formal note to Japan, since that country recently reiterated its adher- ence to the open door policy. Congress Is Pushing peared tional committee officials. John J. chairman, suit every American producer, and in narrow, treacherous and, even under , and former Gov- Raskob, ernor Harry Flood Byrd, of Virginia, vice chairman, agreed before Satur- unrestricted distribution of positions to those faithful to the party. The former he considered the keystone of normal conditions, swift, was on the rise and likewise the Red and Black rivers, A steady rise this month of first hand of the last rubber was Passed out because Culbertson, with good cards, refused to bid, saying he prohibition refer- his policy; the latter he believed vi- all four has been predicted by the tal to the perpetuity of the party. could not then. lose the match. . weather bureau. ition. After the dinner he told Seen tionalism in his speech and served notice he would have more to say turday. Davis turned his fire on the Smoot- Hawley tariff bill. He said “Not one}! Born in Blackford county, Indiana, on November 5, 1853, Fordney lived on a farm with his parents until he was 16 years old. When the family moved to Saginaw in 1869, the youth became interested in the timber busi- ness, the chief industry of the region. After his marriage at 20 to Miss Kath- erine O'Hearn, he obtained the back- ing of a capitalist and eventually added lumber mills and yards to his holdings. He was considered wealthy when elected to Congress. After serving on the powerful ways nd means committee, Fordney believ- Refugees at Glendora were put to work on levees Saturday, earning wages as they strengthened the weak- ened barriers, that others’ homes may not suffer like theirs. Several hun- dred worked here and at nearby levees, relieving convicts sent in by the state several weeks ago. ‘Unless there are additional rains in Mississippi, indications were the Tal- lahatchie and Coldwater rivers will cease to rise. Overflows of their levees have caused unestimated dam- “Ely,” said Mrs. Culbertson sharp- ly. “I think that is ridiculous and un- Pardonable.” Goes Down One So stirred was she that she tried to make game herself on the second and was set one. Then Culbertson came to life for his favorite partner. In a contract for four hearts he made five, having 100 honors. On the next and last hand of the series he con- tracted for five diamonds and took 12 tricks. As a result, Mrs. Culbert- son, who had entered the night's play cluding the memorandum notes, were turned over to the examiner for in- spection. He testified that, as far as he knew, no report or book of the bank ever was falsified. It was stipulated by attorneys for both state and defense that a report which it is alleged was false, is a correct reproduction of the balance in the bank as shown on the general hand of the rubber at three’no-trump | ledge! r, Two other state witnesses were placed on the stand, E. H. Lowden and Dwight Jones, both of the closed bank department. By these witnesses the state hopes to show there were numerous unse- cured notes in the bank for debts due the bank for a number of years for ed he had reached the zenith of his with a plus of only 155 points for the career when he was made chairman Red Cross and local relief commit- 82 rubbers she had played, finished dollar has this tariff dropped the pocket of s single American of that body. In that capacity he had tees at Charleston, Glendora, Webb with a lead of 365 points for 88 rub- illness of Mrs. Davis was one reason gi nie egret for resignation was ex- Pressed at the white house on behalf of President Hoover. At the same time, talk of Dawes as in 5 tone of final fens nothing te finality. “There's te it. I won't even discuss it.” ofticials| Five Men Are Hurt former ambassador to Great » and 1924 candidate, describ- much to do with the framing of laws during the first session of congress under the administration of President and Sumner were taxed as at nojbers. Lenz and Commander Winfield Lig- In Fire at St. Paul the American market can be pre-l President’s Program| the farm board as a mad adven-| Farding P ‘ we inheea titi Goer nate served for the American farmers: era: it had taught aoe Cee aac ee ctkers| vantage of their possibilities tig-/ Injured in Collision Sedeuny Railroads Will Cut Washington, Jan, 9.—(P)}+-The ad- gold brick) Well-Known: Lawyer | trom submerged plantations. Gott, who entered the match when Ds- gin zit 5 g i ia i Succumbs in St. Pau) Father of Hensler id Man Dies in Fargo|icx He had been active in affairs of the old Nonpartisan League and national William Spielman, 16, member of the Carson high school basketball team, suffered gashes about the knees, face and hands in a head-on automo-