The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 27, 1932, Page 1

= : a 4 ; vid | \ t]* ee ' § eet q 4 ’ ran ] {Sy ’ 4 ul aah A hn ? ’ tie q i ' North Dakota’a Oldest Newspaper | ESTABLISHED 1873 U. S. a SETTLEMENT THERE WILL BE PROTECTED AGAINST JAPANESE 10,000 Chinese Soldiers Are De- ployed to Defend City From Occupation SITUATION GROWS SERIOUS| Hoover Is Reluctant to Order Further American Inter- vention in Affair =s| (By The Associated Press) Two thousand American and Brit- dsh marines stood by to defend the international settlement at Shanghai fednesday as five times that many | Chinese soldiers were deployed to de- fend the city from Japanese occupa- | tion, Word from Harbin told of a battle between Chinese factions near that northern Manchurian city, giving alarm to both Russian and Japanese authorities. Meanwhile, at London, the Britisa government gave serious consideration to the situation in Shanghai as the result, of conversations in Washing- ton between Secretary of State Stim- son and the British ambassador. A possibility is seen at Washington of further action by the United States in regard to Japan's operations in China. Advisers within the :dministration are divided, some favoring @ morc drastic course than heretofore taken, others, including Secretary Stimson ‘urging a policy of conciliation. The decision is up to President Hoover, who has held frequent cabi- net discussions on the subject but is withholding judgment. Some of the high officials con- cerned feel with the developments at Shanghai the situation has become complex concerted action with other powers is advisable, rather than the | Jone hand type of diplomacy so far | cole employed by the United States. (Gontnued os page seven) ~ | Weather Report x FORECAST For Bismarck and vicinity: _Prob- ably local snows tonight or Thursday; not so cold to- night. For North Da- kota: Probably lo- eal snows tonight or Thursday; not so cold _ tonight east and south portions; colder ‘Thursday extreme west portion. For South Da- probably snows; not so cold tonight central and enst, portions, colder Thursday Snow extreme west. For Montana: Unsettted tonight and Thursday, probably light snow ex- treme west portion: warmer southeast tonight, colder east portion Thurs- day, For Minnesota: Increasing cloudi- ness, probably snow in northwest por- tion tonight or Thursday and in east and south portions Thursday; warmer tonight in west portion and in south- east portion Thursday, ‘ % CONDITIONS High pressure areas are centered over the lower Missouri Valley and over western Oregon while lows cov- er the Great Lakes region anti the western Canadian Provinces, This pressure distribution was: accompan- ied by a drop in temperature over the Mississippi Valley and northern Great Plains region while a slight rise oc- curred over the western Canadian Provinces and the southwestern states. Precipitation occurred in the Great Lakes region, middle Mississip- pi Valley and in the north Pacific coast states, Bismarck station barometer, inches: 28.13, Reduced to sea level 29.39. TEMPERATURE At 7am. Highest yesterday . Lowest last night PRACIFTFATION NORTH DAKOTA POINTS 7 a. m, Low Pct. BISMARCK, cldy. ve 4 6 00 Devils Lake, clear 4 4 00 Fargo-Moorhead, cl: 4 4 00 Jamestown, clea: Oo -1 400 ‘Williston, cldy. 14 8 00 Grand Forks, cli a 6 6 00 | GENERA! , Other Stations— Amarillo, Texas, ¢ld: Bolee, Idaho, snow Calgary, Alta. clear. Chicago, Il, eg cl Dodge City, Kans., peldy. Havre, Mont, peld Helena, Mont., cle Huron, 8. D., Kal PS, '0., el Medicine Hat, A. Miles City, Mont Modena, Utah, cidy.. No, Platte, Neb,, clea: Okla, City, Okla.. clear. « PE OES or o0 Sr Pierre, ., old Pr, Albert, Sask., cld Qut. ‘Sask,, c! Raph D., cldy... ty, Roseburg, Ore. cldy, St. Louis, Mo., clear. St. Paul, Minn, Bale Lake Cit is 09 08 nome OES Be Sos +A—t ited — Submari THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1932 | " She May Wed a Prince | The revolution which sent former Russian autocrats into exile, at the same! time broke down barriers of caste. Their engagement (GARRISON PLANS 10 CONSIDER QUESTION =| OF CAPITAL CHANGE M'Lean County City Calls Meet- { Ang to Consider Merits of Jamestown Scheme | (Tribune Special Service) Garrison, N. D., Jan, 27.—Citizens of Garrison were prepared Wednes- day to express their views.on tiie pro- posal to move the state capital from | Bismarck to Jamestown. Although the matter will not come up for a vote of the people until March 15, it was expected that re- solutions. would be passed, at a meet- ing of the Garrison Civic club at + |noon, expressing the views of Garri- son folks on the capital. removal. movement. Indications were «that these. would express support for Bis- marck and opposition to the James- town movement. Other matters to be considered at the meeting had to do with the pro- posed construction of Missouri river bridges south of Garrison and at Elbowoods, for which appropriations were made by the legislature a year ago. Delegations from most of the cities and towns in McLean county and from Minot were expected to attend the meeting. i S. D. and Texas Men On Wheat Committee Chicago, Jan. 27.—(?)—Joseph Thde of Aberdeen, 8. D., and Glen Draper of Darrowzett, Texas, were elected Tuesday to the wheat advisory com- mittee set up by the cooperatives un- der the agricultural marketing’ act. They succeed John Manley of Enid, ELECT RAPID CITY MAN Huron, 8. D., Jan, 27.—(P)—A. ©. Hunt, Rapid City was elected presi- dent of the South Dakota Chamber of Commerce Tuesday. W. C. Lusk, Yankton was renamed chaj of the directors; E. H. Sexauer, Brook- ings, was renamed vice president, and E. R. Heaton, Yankton was reelected treasurer. Chicagoan Goes:to ‘ i __ Sail, Not Hospital Lebchuck, separated from his wife for four years, got such a warm reception:‘when he returned home Tuesday night that he wanted. to 2 a xt Okla, and J. H. Schnitaler of Froid, | 2000- Mont. So now dark-eyed little Mile. Kyra) | Pinajeff,’ above, who used to dance in the Russian Royal Ballet in Moscow, {may wed Prince Vassili Alexander Michailovitch, nephew of the late Czar. has been reported. \Defense Tries to Show Winnie Judd Is Insane |Father of ‘Trunk Murder’ ‘De- fendant Cites Insanity Cases in Family Courthouse, Phoenix, Ariz. Jan. 27. —(@)—Rev. H. J. McKinnell, silver- haired father of Winnie Ruth Judd, testified Wednesday there was in- sanity in his family in an effort to save his daughter from the gallows. | ‘The 72-year-old retired minister in frock coat and clerical collar brought @ look of warmth into the accused woman's face for the first time in the eight days of her trial for the slaying of Agnes Anne LeRoi. + She-blinked her eyes rapidly to keep back tears when the kindly-faced Parent beamed at her from the wit- ness chair, across a corner of Judge Howard C. Speakman’s rostrum. Rev. McKinnell testified to a strain of insanity in the McKinnell line, and named five of its victims. “My father’s mother, living in Scot- land,” he said, “lost her mind—be- came insane. “My father's brother, Joseph, at about 18 or 19 lost his mind, and re- mained insane ‘till death. “My sister's son seemed at times queer. He would run off from school —what he called ‘play hookey.’:” he added that it was generally considered by the family that he died insane. He named, as had his wife, who tes- tifled before him, two second cousins of Winnie Ruth, one of whom died in an insane asylum at Peoria, Ill, and the other of whom was considered by the family to be “queer.” Slowly, and with frequent outbursts of tears, the mother, Mrs. Carrie McKinnell, revealed the erratic career of her daughter, climaxed with the alleged murders. Mrs, McKinnell laid bare family) secrets—the youthful hallucinations of Mrs, Judd that she was a mother, her daughter’s affairs with young men and the fact that there had been insanity within the family, ‘The defense indicated it, would finish its case before Thursday after- ‘The state charges jealousy over J. J. Gack) Halloran, ,wealthy lumber dealer of Phoenix, led Mrs, Judd to slay the two women. Shorter Work Week And Day Are Urged Indianapolis, Jan. 27—(7)—The six- hour day and the five-day week, coupled with regulation by a perma- nent federal commission, constitute the remedy proposed by international VI fl officers of the: United Mine Workers} Iowa. KIDNAP GANG HOLDS | SOUTH BEND CITIZEN FOR $50,000 RANSOM Howard Woolverton, 52, Son of Bank President, Abducted Tuesday Night { WIFE 1S ALLOWED FREEDOM Kidnaping Resembles Holdup, With Abductors Forcing Automobile to Curb South Bend, Ind., Jan. 27.—(?)— Howard Woolverton, 52, local manu- facturer and son of a South Bend bank president, was held for $50,000 Transom Wednesday by two men who kidnaped him while he was on his way home from a theatre Tuesday night. Mrs. Florence Woolverton, 49, ab- ducted with her husband but released two miles from the city, was given & note containing directions for leaving the money in a package on a designated road and setting Wed- nesday night as the deadline for delivery of the ransom. . She remained at the Woolverton home with her daughter Wednesday, under protection of a police guard. Meanwhile police, under direction of Chief of Police John B. Kuespert,| conducted an investigation. Kues- pert declined to make public details of the kidnapers’ note. Certain of Identity Mrs. Woolverton told officers be- fore they released her the men made certain’ of her husband's identity, and| asked him if his father, Jacob Woolverton, is president of the St. Joseph's Savings bank. This fact admitted, she said the men drove away with .Woolverton. | -Woolvertit is . secretary-treasurer) of the Malleable Steel Range com-| pany of South Bend. An occurrence coincident with the | kidnaping report, but on the signifi- cance of which police declined to spec- | ulate, was the “jamming” of the tele- | Phone switchboard in the city hall, through which police calls are trans- mitted. At the time the report was received neither incoming nor outgo- | ing calls could be handed through the regular channels. Auto Crowded to Curb Mrs. Woolverton told police their automobile, in which she and her hus- | band were returning from the theatre | shortly befére midnight, was crowded | to the curb near their home by the} kidnapers’ car. | One of the men leaped to the run- ning board of their machine, gun in hand, said, “this is a stickup,” and told Woolverton to “fallow orders.” Trailed by the other car, she related, they drove across town. On a lonely-road two miles west of South Bend, both cars were stopped, and Woolverton was ordered out. After: giving Mrs. Woolverton the ransom note, they told. her to drive slowly back to South Bend, and under no circumstances to notify police. AD LOCAL WOMAN SUCCUMBS IN CITY Mrs. Sarah L. Dennis Dies at Age of 88; Was Mother of Mrs. G. F. Dullam Mrs. Sarah L. Dennis, 88, mother of Mrs, George H. Dullam, died here early Wednesday from the infirm- ities of age. Mrs. Dennis had made her home with her daughter for a number of ars, ars. Dennis came to Bismarck in 1916 from Olympia, Wash., to make her home with her daughter and had lived here since that time. pore Mrs. Dullam, she leaves a , Stewart, Raymond, Wash., and @ brother, Lester Lake, Hawarden, Funeral services will be held at the Perry Puneral chapel Friday after- noon, Rev. D. Pierce-Jones officiat- ne Sinks With 56 Men nd British Marines Ready at Shanghai Committee Approves if Laughing Matter? | Three Appointments HAWAII GRAND JURY INDICTS: AMERICANS IN ‘HONOR’ SLAYING Defense Will: Ask That Indict- ments Returned After Hes- itation Be Quashed Honolulu, Jan, 27.—(4)—Second- degree murder indictments have been returned by the grand jury against Mrs. Granville Fortescue and three naval men, charging them with slay- ing Joseph Kahahawal, suspected as- saulter of Mrs. Fortescue's daughter. The indictment was returned only after Circuit Judge A. M. Cristy once refused to accept the jury’s prof- fered report and raised the question of anarchy. The defense immediately seized upon the grand jury’s apparent un- willingness to return an indictment, and Attorney Montgomery, Winn prepared to ask the court Wednes- day to quash the indictment. His Plea is based on the contention coer- cion was used to make the jury re- turn the formal indictment. Bail also was to be fixed Wednes- day for the defendants, who include Lieut. Thomas Hi Massie, Mrs. Fortescue’s son-in-law, and E. J. Lord and Albert O. Jones, enlisted |men. They had been held at Pear! Harbor naval base without bail since their arrest nearly three weeks ago. A transcipt of jury proceedings, which considered the case for two days last week and again Tuesday before it returned’ a “true bill,” in- dicated that body attempted to make a report last Friday and that the Judge refused it. Last Friday, the transcript re- vealed, he pleaded with them to “lay aside race prejudice,” to consider crimes as defined by statutes, not as defined. by individuals, le penalty for second-degree murder is 20 years to life imprison- ment. LARSON IS WINNER IN DAMAGE ACTION Jury Decides in Favor of De- fendant; H. O. Saxvik Had Sought $25,000 After more than 30 hours of de- liberation, a Burleigh county jury brought in a verdict for the defend- ant in ¢he~ $25,000 damage suit brought: by H. O. Saxvik, city super- intendent of schools, against John W. Larson, Bismarck contractor. Saxvik sought damages as the re- sult of an. automobile accident two years ago when his 15-year-old daughter, Ruth, was injured in a col- lision with an auto driven by Larson. The girl was riding a bicycle. The case previously was tried In Burleigh county district court in 1930 when the jury was after a disagreement. Testimony was introduced at the trial to show that the girl was severe- ly injured and was unconscious for three weeks following the accident. ‘The case hinged on wherter or not the defendant was responsible for the mishap. To Select New Jury For Marcovitz Trial A special jury will be called to sit in the case of the state against Ben Marcovitz, Bismarck merchant, charg- ed with receiving stolen property in connection with the theft of a con- signment of turkeys from a refrigera- a near Bismarck early in Decem- ‘The case will be brought to trial Feb. 15. vits alleging. prejudice against accused on the part of the present The body will be taken to Olympla for burial. aa. | ™n- They said that Furr had been seen Dawes, Jones, and Couch Re- ceive Favorable Action From Senate Group CONGRESSMEN KEPT BUSY Bills Pertaining to Injunctions, Relief, Six-Hour Day Win Approva! Washington, Jan. 27.—(?)—The senate banking committee Wednes- day reported favorably the nomina- tions of Charles G. Dawes, Jesse H. Jones, and Harvey C. Couch to be directors of the reconstruction gor- poration. Chairman Norbeck said the nom- inations probably, would lie over a day and come up for senate con- firmation Thursday. The senate judiciary committee ap- proved the Norris bill restraining federal courts in the issuance of in- junctions in labor disputes. By 11 to 5, the measure providing far-reaching revision of the federal statutes governing labor disputes and contempt proceedings was sent to the senate. Considers Relief Bill The house labor committee directed @ sub-committee to begin immediate consideration of the La Follette- Costigan bill to make a §375,000,000 federal contribution for relief work. ‘The house adopted the Crosser re- solution directing the. Interstate Commerce commission to investigate feasibility of a six-hour day on rau- roads. Republican leaders decided to de- mand important revisions in the Glass banking bill and to press for early action on the administration measure for relief of persons who have funds tied up in insolvent bank deposits. ‘The bill by Senator Glass, (D., Va.) secretary of the treasury under Presi- derit’ Wilson; aims to make important changes in the federal reserve and national banking systems and is di- rected particularly at curbing use of their facilities for speculation. Part of Report Deleted. Herbert D. Brown, chief of the féderal bureau of efficiency, told a senate committee the National City Bank had deleted critical parts of a report on the financial status of the Panama government. Brown was the first witness as the| SOW. senate finance committee resumed its investigation of the flotation of for- eign bonds in this country. The domestic independent oil in- dustry united in a plea for an excise import tax on oil in testimony be- fore the house ways and means com- mittee. Wirt Franklin, of Oklahoma City, president of the Independent Pet< roleum Association of America, said every gas and oil association in all the states and most of the mem- bers of the American Petroleum in- stitute favored a move to equalize the domestic oil industries costs with those of foreign oil. ARREST IS MADE IN MRS. ISLEY SLAYING 53-Year-Old White Man, Whose Clothing Blood Was Found, Held By Police on Middleburg, Va., Jan. 27.—(?}—Po- lice Tuesday made their first arrest in the slaying of Mrs. Agnes Boeing Ils- ley, native of Minto, N. D., and her maid, and continued their search for George Crawford, a negro ex-convict, who had been in the Ilsley entploy. Claude Furr, 53-year-old white man, was arrested on a warrant him with aiding and abetting in the double slaying. Officers said they had discovered blood on Furr’s cloth- ing and that no satisfactory explana- tion had been given by the arrested in company with several negroes the night of the murder. Mrs, Isley and Mrs, Annie Buckner, her maid, were found beaten to death on the morning of Jan. 14. Since there Royal Arch Masons ‘Meeting at. Fargo —_—$ $$$. From her smile you wouldn't guess that little Annie Ainsworth, baby star of the English films, had just lost a $1,000-a-week contract. It was can- celled when British authorities de- creed that it is a violation of child labor laws for any child to appair before the camera for more than a minute at a time. PROPLE IN DROUGHT AREA NOT BROODING, FAIR MANAGER SAYS Depicts Drought as ‘Godsend’ For Cementing Feelings in Northwestern N. D. Fargo, N. D., Jan. 27.—(4)—People in northwestern North Dakota are not sitting brooding over adverse conditions caused by the drought, and their morale is not broken, Henry L. Finke, manager of the northwest {air at Minot, told the Northwest Land- owners conference in Fargo Tuesday. “There are more country meetings, more social functions in that area, this winter than even before,” Finke said. “It seems rather harsh to say, but to my way of thinking these exper!- ences are a Godsend in disguise. Peo- ple are-learning how dependent we are upon one another. Barriers be- tween country and city are breaking “These conditions also have done more to cement the feeling between the eastern and western parts of North Dakota than all the propagan- da or education of years could have accomplished. Finke reported a total of $4,529,- 169.32 in cash or the equivalent of cash, has been taken into the drought area for relief work in addition to great quantities of clothing the value of which has not been estimated. Gov. George F. Shafer was to ad- dress the more than 50 land owners at the conference Wednesday. It is estimated the land owners here rep- resent more than 2,000,000 acres of tilled lands. Tuesday B. E. Groom, agricultural development agent of the Greater North Dakota association, outlined the program of that organization for 1932 except the out-of-state land ad- vertising policy, which is expected to be established Wednesday as out- gtowth of discussion at the confer- ence. Proof that farming can be made to} Pay, even under present conditions, was placed before the conference by Gordon W. Randlett, field man of the Greater North Dakota association. He gave the results and a detailed analy- sis of a survey which he made last year of 131 North Dakota farms. J. W. Dowell, president of the Do- ‘Well agricultural service of Cham- paign, Ill, also gave evidence that “even in times just past, plenty of in- stances can be found where the up-to- date farmer has forged ahead and made money.” Officials Confer on S. D. Stock Situation Pierre, 8. D., Jan. 27.—(?)—The Red ‘Cross and governmental agencies com- bined Tuesday to devise means of sav- ing South Dakota’s domestic animals rant starvation, ee acuteness . feed shortage in the state was revealed by a tele- sent by Loyson G. Troth, state Secretary rng SO aecae | PRICE FIVE CENTS RESCUE, RESOURCES OF BRITAIN'S NAVY ARE SENT 10 SCENE Exact Location of Boat, Believ- ed in Dead. Man’s Bay, Not Ascertained DISAPPEARED AT PORTLAND Men Could Be Expected to live Only 48 Hours; M-2 Dis- appeared Tuesday Portland, England, Jan. 27.—(7)— The rescue resources of the British navy battled treacherous tides Wed- nesday, trying to save the lives of 56 men in the Submarine M-2, believed to be lying disabled 17 fathoms deep in Dead Man‘s Bay on the floor of the English Channel. ‘With more than half of the 48 hours, the men might be expected to live in the sunken ship, elapsed since it divea Tuesday and failed to appear again, no word of reassurance had come from attempts to establish contacts and efforts were spurred to reach the ship before the sweeping tides of the channel could carry it to deep water. The workers were not even encour- aged by a certainty the object they detected on the channel floor was the submarine. Throughout Tuesday night destroyers, mine-sweepers and other naval vessels swarmed around the place of hope, and played their searchlights upon it) while arrange- ments were rushed to send divers down. All the rescuers knew was there was something on the bottom there that gave forth a metallic ring when it was struck by drags. On this evidence the navy pinned what faith it had in @ rescue. Along the shore, a crowd strained anxious eyes watching the circles of flickering lights three miles out on Dead Man's Bay. Wives, mothers and sweethearts of the submarine’s crew, most of whom live here or at Ply- mouth, were among the watchers. The submarine went down at 10:30 a. m. Tuesday, during routine prac- tice exercises. The M-2 is a sister ship of the M-1 which was lost in No- ‘vember, 1925, off Start Point, Devon- shire, with a toll of 68 lives. The British admiralty announced at 1:30 Wednesday afternoon the sub- aaa had not been located at that e. “No communication has yet been received from the M-2,” the admiralty statement said, “and ih consequence great anxiety is now felt for the safe- ty of those aboard.” Wives of all the men aboard the M-2 received telegrams Wednesday signed by the commanding officer of H. M. 8. Dolphin, reading: “I regret to inform you that your husband is missing and feared drowned in the submarine M-2 which is believed to have sunk off Portland Tuesday.” INSANE MAN KILLS BANKER AND SELF Four Others Injured as Lansing, Mich., Man Shoots Up Bank Lobby Lansing, Mich, Jan. 27.—(P)—-A five-year-old grievance of a man driven insane by business reverses was the motive given Wednesday for the brief reign of terror which brought death to two men and in- He drew s pistol, shouted, “this town has given me a dirty deal; Shere, is the ie ee Pa aaron The eight shots he f using once to feload his plstokeiett BW Torch Murder Solved By Confession of Man Seminole, Ogle. pore 21.) —The