The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 6, 1932, Page 1

North Dakota’a Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1878 \ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1932 The Weather ‘Partly cleety fae ae PRICE FIVE CENTS -American Missions Attacked Belfield Has Dream IPs TOKYO IS PREPARING EXPLANATION ABOUT SHANGHAT SITUATION Will Pledge to Withdraw Rein- forcements When Object Is Accomplished WILL BE REPLY TO POWERS *You Can Lead a Horse to Wa- ter But You Can’t Make Him Drink’ Is Attitude Tokyo, Feb, 6—(?)—The gov- ernment ‘formally announced to- night it has decided to send a military force to Shanghai to “put an end to the menace of the Chi- nese armies to relieve in- habitants of all nationalities from the strain of fear.” Tokyo, Feb. 6.—(7)—A pledge the military reinforcements being sent fram Japan to Shanghai will be withdrawn as soon as their object 1s ‘accomplished will be contained in an explanatory statement by the Jap- ‘nese government which will be pub- lished in London, Paris, Geneva and Shanghai tomorrow, it was stated on good authority here. . The statement which originally was intended to be issued today but which was delayed for some reason, possibly because of the chance of a reduction of the number of troops to be sent, will attempt, it was understood, to remove misgivings of the powers and/ to explain the reason which led to the sending of the reinforcements. It is being issued as a. result of action of the British and American govern- ments, which were understood to have conveyed “expressions of disappoint- ment” to Japan on learning of her in- tention. Attitude Is Explained The attitude of the Japanese gov- ernment on further and more drastic action by the League of Nations on the Sino-Japanese problem will be that “you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink,” a; government spokesman said. Instructions bake sent. sell during the day to Naotake J anese spokesman. at the league coins. cil at Geneva, ordering him to oppose to the utmost the application of Ar- ticle 15 of the league covenant against Japan, as requested by the Chinese representative, W. W. Yen. One of ‘Drastic Action’ Article 15 is one of the “drastic ac- tion” provisos of the league covenant. It does not call for economic boycotts, as Article 16 does, but it opens the way for submitting the entire question to the full assembly of the league. Un- der it the league council may make a decision after commanding state- ments of the case from both sides of the controversy. Although the newspaper Asahi said the foreign office informed Sato Ja- pan would resist the application of “Article 15, even to the extent of with- drawing from the league, the foreign office decliried to confirm this state- ment. It was learned on good au- thority, however, Japan at least will refuse to participate in any steps in- cidential to the application of the ar- ticle and will decline to submit. a tement of her case. st Ofticials expressed the belief that Japan could short circuit any attempt to apply the article simply by re- fusing her participation. Movies Stunt Flier Is Killed in Crash van Nuys, Calif, Feb. 6.—(P)}— Only three of the movies’ four prem- jer stunt men were alive Saturday. Leo Nomis, the fourth, fell to his death Friday while making his.plane simulate a craft shot down in battle. The plane struck the earS; with great force, the motor being buried eight feet in the ground. Nomis, 38, and a native of lowa, with Frank Clark, Roy Wilson and Dick Grace, have provided nearly every major aerial thrill. for movie- goers, generally doubling for stars. Nomis was an aviator in the World war and has been a stunt filer for the movies since 1917. He also raced motorears for movie scenes. Grace was a resident of Bismarck when his family lived here. Boosted Intrastate Rates Are Suspended tariffs proposing increased freight rates on intrastate shipments of carload lignite coal were ordered suspended for 120 days by the North jission Saturday. ychiatrist Fears BRACKISH WATER IN His Life in Danger | Wri), WHICH BURNS VETERAN EDUCATOR FROM MANDAN DIES FOLLOWING ILNESS C. L. Love, Former Superinten- dent of Schools, Succumbs Here Friday C. L. Love, 61, Mandan, veteran North Dakota educator, died in Bis- marck late Friday following a pro- tracted illness. In poor health for more than a year, Love became seriously ill sev- en weeks ago and was brought here for treatment. Death regulted from cerebral thrombosis, physicians said. At the time of his death, Love was manager of a Mandan dairy concern. During most of his life, however, he was engaged in educational work, coming to Mandan in 1911 to be- He continued in that capacity until 1924 when he resigned to become as- sociated with the dairy concern. He came to North Dakota from) Towa, where he was superintendent of schools at Grundy Center and New | Hampton. Born June 15, 1870, at West Bur- ington, Iowa, Love received his early education in the Burlington schools and was graduated from the teachers college at Cedar Falls, Ia., in 1900 and later from Coe College jat Cedar Rapids. He was one of the organizers of the North Dakota High School Ath- {letic Board and served as a member of that body for many years. He was an instructor in the first summer school at Dickinson Normal in 1918. He was a yeoman of the Knights tof Pythias and a member of the Ma- sonic bodies. Mrs. Love is:a past president, and organizer of the P. E. O. suaigchont, and.is setive in Jodge He leaves his widow and two sons, Dr. Harold B., Bismarck, and Rod- ney, Mandan. Funeral services will be held at 3 p. m. Sunday at the Kennelly Fu- neral parlors at Mandan. Burial will be at West Burlington, Iowa. ‘SAME SKATERS WILL COMPETE IN FINALS Results of First Preliminaries Are Not Changed as Event Is Run Over Olympic, Stadium, Lake Placid, N. Y., Feb. 6—(?)—The same eight speed skaters, Irving Jaffee, Ed Schroeder, Valentine Bialis and Ed Wedge of the United States; Frank Stack and Alex Hugd, of Canada; and the Norwegian aces, Bert Evensen and Ivar Ballang- rud, qualified again Saturday for the finals Monday of the 10,000 me- tres Olympic championship. The two heats, first four in each to qualify, were ordered raced over Sat- urday after @ series of protests and disqualifications Friday. After Alex Hurd of Canada won the first heat just as he did Friday, and Ballangrud, Bialis, and Wedge qual- ified behind him, the order of finish changed slightly in the second heat. Irving Jaffee, already the 5,000 me- tres Olympic champion, sprinted home ahead of Frank. Stack, Canada, in a finish so close that Bert Evensen and Ed , Who tied for third, come city superintendent of schools. | pu: were less than five feet behind the . In "s_ second heat Snowstorms Might Block N. D. Ro Highways in eastern North Dakota were threatened with a tie-up Sat- urday as the result of a snowfall which brought several inches of snow in some sections. Roads were open Saturday morn- ing, because of the absence of wind, ported. marek .11-inch, Devils Lake .01 inch; Dr. Joseph Catton Demands Husband of Winnie Ruth Judd Be Searched NO WEAPONS FOUND ON MAN Claimed He Had Been Threat- ened For Part in “‘Trunk’ Murder Trial Court House, Phoenix, Ariz., Feb. 6. —()—Dr. Joseph Catton, San Fran- cisco psychiatrist, insisting he feared for his life, demanded Saturday that Dr. William C. Judd, husband of Winnie Ruth Judd, be searched be- fore being allowed to enter the court room for the 13th day of Mrs. Judd’s trial for murder. Sheriff J. R. McFadden, complyin; with the state alienist’s demand, found no weapons concealed on Dr. Judd. The accused woman's husband smiled broadly when informed by the sheriff of Dr. Catton’s suspicions. Authorities dismissed as a hoax a irported threat against Dr. Catton, rane he declared he received Friday The alienist, testifying for the state, brought into evidence the name of J. J. Halloran, wealthy lumberman, as the cause of asserted jealousy which resulted in the slayings last Oct. 16 of Agnes Anne LeRoi and Hedvig Samuelson. He quoted Mrs. Judd as having told him “I love Jack Halloran with all my heart and soul,” there would not have been any “Ruth Judd case with- out Jack Halloran,” and “nobody. but Halloran took a drink” at the apart- ment of Mrs. LeRoi and Miss Sam- uelson the night they were slain. Weather Report ‘. FoRmCAST For Bismarck and vicinity: Partly cloudy and colder: onight;., Sunday unsettled,” For North’ Da- 2” Parti and colder tonight; Sunday unsettled. For South Da- kota: Local snows and much_ colder tonight; Sunday cloudy,’ colder south portion. or Montana: Unsettled tonight and Sunday, prob- ably snow’ west portion; colder east ef Divide to- ight, For Minnesota: Cloudy and much colder, preceded by snow in extreme east portion tonight. Sunday mostly fair with colder in south and extreme east portions. e CONDITIONS Pressure this morning is High over the central Canadian Provinces and the Plateau Region (Boise, Idaho 30.10; Pr. Albert, Sask. 30.08) with relatively low pressure over the bal- ance of the district. Moderate to heavy precipitation was general over the Pacific coast, southern Plateau and Rocky Mountains, the southern jortion of the central Canadian prov- inces and North Dakota. Tempera- tures fell over North Dakota, Mon- tana and western Canada, while else- where temperatures rose. Bismarck station barometer, inches: 28.00 reduced to sea leved 29.86. Weekly weather outlook for the period beginning Monday, Feb. 8. For the region of the Great Lakes: Mostly fair and rather cold beginning of week; snows about die wit! slightly ‘warmer, followed? by colder near end. For the RAT Mississippi and low- er Missouri Valleys and the north and central Great Plains considera! cloudiness with occasional precip! tion, mostly in the form of snow moderately cold beginning of week; rather cold towards end. TEMPERATURE At 7 a.m. Highest yesterday Lowest last night PRECIPITATION NORTH DAKOTA POINTS 7 a. m. Low Pet. BISMARCK, cldy. 1 all Devils Lak. ue Jamest wil Grai Minot, clea: Valley City, snowin, GENERAL Other Stations— Temprs. Low High Amarillo, Texas, cldy. "4 Boise, Idaho, cldy... 28 Calgary, Alta. veldy. Ii, cl Col | SPURS IMAGINATION Paul Matteson, Discoverer, Has Locked Pump and Will Not Break Silence SAMPLES ARE EXAMINED Folks Recall That Geologist Once Said There Might Be Oil in Vicinity (Tribune Special Service) Belfield, N. D., Feb. 6—Folks here- abouts are having dreams of great wealth to come from the soil. Usually they hope for profit from agriculture and stock-raising, the principal industries hereabouts, but this time it is oil. They hope to lo- cate black gold and thus to start a new era of prosperity for this area. It all began when Paul Matteson, local man, noticed that the water in his well was becoming brackish. Fin- ally it became unfit to drink and Mr. Matteson was peeved. ‘He had to carry water for his family. It was just another cross to bear for the father of a family. But determination to meet his own problems in his own way ruled the Matteson breast, so the story goes, and he decided to pump the well dry, hoping that a cleaning out would re- store the well to its pristine purity. Odor Assails Nostrils But when he began to pump an un- usual odor assailed his nostrils. The water was worse than he expected. In addition he noticed a large amount of foam on top of the water. Matteson’s nose knew something ‘| was wrong but it took a match to ascertain what it was. When he applied the flame to what he assum- ed was water the stuff began to burn and Belfield’s greatest modern dis- became & fact. At first Matteson thought the sub- stance came from the storage tanks of an oil station about 300 feet away but investigation showed the tanks had not been leaking. Then Matteson came to the conclusion that mother nature had placed the ofl in his well. Samples of the liquid were sent jaway by Matteson as well as by other persons for laboratory examination. Matteson has a report but refuses to disclose what it said. The others have received no word as yet. Pump Is Locked There is a lock and chain on the pump now and Matteson refuses to allow anyone to come near the well. Meanwhile he maintains strict silence regarding his discovery but all Bel- field is speculating. Dreams are be- ing dreamt. Folks hereabout are recalling that @ geologist once said there appeared to be an anticline in this vicinity which might produce oil. There's the story as it is being cir- culated in Belfield. Thére are doubt- ers, of course, but to say that the town is interested is putting it mildly, mildly. The last “big” discovery of gasoline in a water well in North Dakota was at Robinson, Kidder county in 1926. A. C. Townley subsequently appeared on the scene and promoted the drill- ing of a well in that area. On @ sunny Sunday in May thou- le |sands of persons gathered there. They saw the drilling bit lowered into the hole and brought back up reeking with crude oil. Thousands of dollars were invested in the project but no oil ever was produced and the project long since has been abandoned. There have been no reports of oil in water wells at Robinson since that time. ¢| Minot Trio Facing Charges of Arson Minot, N. D., Feb. 6.—(#)—Charges of arson Saturday were placed against Mrs. Mattie Handy, James Morrow and C. E. “Eddie” Minot, as the out 5 itgrowth which early Friday did $5,100 damage to the Home Hotel here. ‘The charges were prepared after admissions were said by authorities to have been obtained from Mrs. Handy, the owner, and. Morrow, the Tooming house. 0 | Fargo penitentiary to begi serving yea sentence for violation of the li- | quor laws. luron, 8. amloops, B, C., c! Kansas City, M Lander, W; 8. ‘Ore., eldy... 38 Mo, peldy...» 38 Sev snow i . elay... -26. 00 PRetial ea FAWCETT HEARING DEFERRED —— | Tries Comeback i After several years’ retirement follow- ing success in silent flapper roles, Madge Bellamy, above, is back in Hollywood and is reported to be at- tempting a comeback in the movies. COXEY CLAIMS IT’S EASY TASK 10 WIN PRESIDENCY RACE Massillon Mayor Stops at Min- heapolis on Way to Points in North Dakota I Minneapolis, Feb. 6.—(?)—“It’s just. @s easy to become president as ayor.” aces With that comforting .thought in mind, “General” Jacob 8. Coxey, lead- er of the famous march on Washing- ton in 1894 and now mayor of Mas- sillon, Ohio, passed through Minne- apolis Saturday on his way to enter) the North Dakota Republican presi- dential primary. He was bound for! Jamestown. 1 «t don't see why we can’t capture; ithe Republican organization all over ithe United States just as we did in jmy home town,” he said. “We over- jeame all sorts of obstacles in my mayoralty campaign and won by nice 'pluralities. It will be no more diffi- ‘cult to win the presidential nomina- |tion.” “General” Coxey declined to discuss the chances of other candidates for ithe nomination. Instead, he devoted the few minutes his train stopped in ithe city to a discussion of his plat- jform, which in the main is a proposal ito set up an international non-inter- {est bearing bond exchange to liqui-| date the international debts. “International credit has weakened |to the point where it is ready to | ibreak,” he explained. “In the United States we have got to the point where; we shall have to issue money to re- Place the weakened credit.” The proposal would begin with; Germany's debts totaling $11,000,000, he said. Germany could issue that jamount of money and recognize it as legal tender, paying off its debts to France and England which in turn would recognize it. Class Freight Rate Hearings Postponed Three hearings on intrastate class! freight rates, scheduled to be held at/ Minot, Grand Forks and Fargo next week, were ordered postponed Satur- day by the North Dakota railroad commission. ‘The new dates for the hearings are Minot, Feb. 15, 10 a. m.; Grand Forks, Feb. 17, 9 a. m., and Fargo, Feb. 19, 9 a.m, Postponement of the hi luth, the U. he day in reversing federal district |20, previously confessed to the killings | ALLEN TELLS HOW HE FATALLY SHOT SISTER'S FIANCE Young Pennsylvanian Denies Homicide Intent and Pleads Self Defense Norristown, Pa., Feb. 6.—(?)—Eddie Allen's own story of the shooting of Francis A. Donaldson, third, in which he denied intent to kill the fiance of his sister, Rose Allen, and said he fired in self-defense was the high light in defense testimony before the jury Saturday. The 23-year old horseman declared he meant only to scare Donaldson off when he fired his shotgun in the foy- er of his apartment last November. Donaldson was approaching him in bat threatening manner, he testified, and he believed his life in danger. He related in detail how Donaldson, an amateur pugilist of note, assault- ed him earlier that evening. He has claimed Donaldson had betrayed his sister. His story and forlorn appearance brought tears to the eyes of many spectators. When District Attorney Stewart Nase conducted his cross-ex- amination later the audience gave vent to its sympathy. They hissed and booed the prose- cutor. And, when Allen eluded a trap, they broke out in open hand- clapping which brought a rebuke from the bench. “This is no show,” said Judge Har- old G. Knight, “if a demonstration occurs again I'll clear the court room.” Eddie's story started with a conver- sation he had with his sister the af- ternoon of the shooting and included the ensuing events until he was tak- en to the police station. The case was given to the Saturday. TRAIN IS DERAILED jury Mandan Man Loses Two Fing- ers Following Freight Train Mishap Friday New Salem, N. D., Feb. 6—(P)— Sixteen freight cars were derailed Friday three miles west of here on the main line of the Northern Pa- cific railway. Loss of a wheel on one car caused the wreck. Trainmen escaped unhurt as 11 of the cars were ditched and five tele- scoped on the track, but one suf- fered serious injuries while working to clear the debris. Frank Kock, Mandan, the injured man, is in a Mandan hospital, where two fingers of his hand were am- putated. Train crews from Mandan and age. Transcontinental trains were delayed about 12 hours, A _west-bound passenger train was held at Mandan and an east-bound train west of New Salem until the track was cleared. James Bannon Files Appeal With Court An appeal from his conviction on a charge of complicity in the murder of ; six members of the A. E. Haven fam- ily near Schafer was filed by James F. Bannon with the North Dakota supreme court Saturday. He is serv- ing a life term in the state peniten- Bannon’s appeal is based on alleged errors and insufficiency of the evi- dence. His motion for a new trial was denied in the district court. Bannon, 55, was found guilty by a jury in Divide county district court at Crosby June 27. His son, Charles, and claimed his father was innocent of any complicity in the crime. Charles was hanged by a mob which tg from the Schafer jail Jan. The specific charge against Bannon was that he killed Albert E. Haven, husband and father of the slain fam- FORKS TAXPAYERS ORGANIZE ee Hoover Is Target ‘ Of Bill Lemke Pun NEAR NEW SALEM Glendive, Mont., removed the wreck-| ¢, of Oil Possibilities Recommends 25 Per Cent Disarmament Definite Program of Proposals Laid Before Parley By Robert Cecil FRENCH PLAN IS ATTACKED Armament Limitation, Aboli- tion of Air and Chemical Warfare Urged Geneva, Feb. 6—()}—Viscount Rob- ert Cecil, president of the Interna- tional Federation of League of Na- tions societies and known as the “grand old man of disarmament,” laid before the disarmament confer- ence Saturday a definite program of Proposals included in which was a 25 per cent reduction of world armament expenses. The proposals also called for an in- crease in national security by the ex- tension of the League of Nations covenant and arbitration treaties, internationalization of aviation, and prohibition of chemical and bacteri- ological warfare. “We lay down,” he said, “thas equality in disarmament between the victors and vanquished in the World war should be recognized in principle and that steps in that direction should be taken by the present con- ference. in Program in Three Parts “With this object, we make three definite recommendations: “First, acceptance by all signatories of the disarmament treaty of the Principle of budgetry limitation, that is, limitation of the amount spent every year on armaments by each nation. “Second, we propose prohibition for JAPANESE FORCIBLY ENTER TWO HOUSES AND RANSACK THEM Presbyterian and Methodist Episcopal Establishments Are Complainants AIR WARFARE IS CONTINUED Force of 1,200 U. S. Soldiers Land at Shanghai From Transport Chaumont Shanghai, Feb. 6—()}—Two Amer< ican mission houses in Shanghai were attacked this afternoon while a fleet of airplane bombers roared overhead, battering for the second time today the flattened sector of Chapel. Japanese bluejackets forcibly en- tered and ransacked the American Presbyterian mission on North Sze- chuen road, well within the area oc- cupied by the Japanese. They forced their way into the building in spite of an official notice of the American ee nailed on the entrance. je American Southern Methodist Episcopal mission in Hongkew, which last week was ransacked by the blue- from the light artiley gas gi lery in - pei during the ous all nations of those kinds of arma-| flare again ment which now are forbidden to the vanquished powers. “Third, we recommend the estab- lishment of the same system for in- ternational supervision of the arma- ments of all countries.” “We urge, on the naval side, that there shall be built no more ships of more than 10,000 ton size... next we desire the abolition of submarines... as to land armaments, we wish the abolition of tanks and large land “If the conference would agree to the abolition of military aircraft it would not only render offensive mili- tary operations more difficult but it would abolish what is surely a most barbarous form of warfare, and would, in one important respect, equalize the armament conditions of the vanquished and victorious powers in the late war.” Saturday the 59 delegations were plunged into heated arguments over the merits of the French govern- ment’s plan to make the league a world policeman, fully equipped to keep the nations from fighting by dint of force. French Get Jamp Andrew Tardieu, French minister of war and head of the French dele- gation to the conference, got the jump on the chiefs of the delegations of other big powers by his unexpect- ed move in proposing the internation- al armed force and gained for France unchallenged leadership in the con- ference, The Italian delegation, through an unofficial spokesman, immediately denounced the French plan as a pro- posal for another armed state—“in- deed a super-armed state.” The Ger- mans and British could find in it no word about disarmament, they said. The Russian delegation scorned it and called it a means of increasing international insecurity. The Amer- iean delegation stood aloof. Many veteran observers, however, expressed the conviction this hostile reaction is exactly what Premier La- val of France wanted. Attacks upon the French plan, they said, should be likely to drive the French left parties into the arms of the government and strengthen the French nationalist de- mand for an increase in national means of defense instead of a reduc- tion of armaments. Trial of Americans In Honolulu Delayed Honolulu, Feb. 6.—()—The trial of four Americans, charged with slaying an Hawaiian, may not be held until spring. Judge A. M. Cristy Friday placed the case on the court calendar sub- ject to call after pleas of “not to second-degree murder charges had been entered by Mrs. Granville Fortescue, her son-in-law, Lt. Thomas H. Massie, U. 8. N., and A. O. Jones and E. J. Lord, navy en- Usted men. charged in oO. They are connection with the slaying last month of Joseph wal, sttacker At 4:30 p.m. a the Japanese filers anti-aircraft were 10 Japanese continued loosing a help- man, plunging the bay- onet into tue him until all movement in Americans expressed the belief the bluejackets had taken away all the servants, whose fate may ha’ been the same as that of the they saw,