The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 5, 1932, Page 1

North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper E STABLISHED 1878 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1982 The Weather Partly cloudy tonight; Wednesda: mostly cloudy and colder. PRICE FIVE CENTS Darrow and Prosecutor Clash Optimism Prevails About GRETA NISSEN WITH HER HUSBAND |PRFCIDENT CHARGES | HIS PLAN. ONLY WAY COLONEL 13: USING PLANE IN ATTEMPT TO GET BABY BACK Major Schoeftel Spends Night in London, Does Not Visit Nurse’s Mother VIRGINIAN CONTINUES BUSY Lindy and Colonel Breckinridge Make Hop Over Martha's Vineyard Island Hopewell, N. J. April 5.—()}—-Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, who won his fame in the air, is using that same element in an attempt to get his stolen baby back. ek sie aw Fees Optimism permeates sourland mountain as the head of the household sage? and goes on sterious airplane journeys. ™pwice in three days he has soared away, apparently seeking a yacht off the Massachusetts coast. The trips are believed to have some unexplain- ed connection with rumors that ran- som negotiations are being carried on with kidnapers who took Charles’ A. Lindbergh, 21 months old, from his crib March 1. Taking «personal hand in the hunt, enfolded in more mystery every day, he has appealed for freedom from questioning about his move- ments. . “Col. Lindbergh feels that. under existing circumstances’ he should be privileged to move without the in- cumbrance.of either check-up or ac- counting,” said a police statement. . Drives Own Auto Driving his own car, the flying col- onel slipped into his estate Monday midnight after his second airplane journey. About 3:30 p.m. ‘Monday jhe and his‘ closest friend, Col. Henry Breckinridge, climbed over a back fence at Newark airport and sped away in a borrowed plane capable of 180 miles an. hour. Later in the afternoon a plane identified by its humber as the. oraft carrying Lindbergh was seen cruising over Martha's Vineyard Island. — It was in this vicinity also that Col. Lindbergh was reported seen flying Sunday, with three other men. Resi- dents of the island said the four had inquired for a small yacht, Sallie. ‘When Lindbergh and Breckinridge started their flight Monday, they carried a suitcase and a blanket. Many conjectures arose as to the rea- son for this, but none was verified. Dr. John Grier Hibben, president of Princeton university, who called at the Lindbergh home, with his wife, said an “air of optimism” prevailed. Mrs. Hibben said Mrs. Lindbergh was bearing up well. , Curtis Away from Home John Hughes Curtis, one of three Norfolk, Va., intermediaries who be- lieve they have established contact with. the kidnapers, was away from his home on another mysterious jour- ney that has lasted since Saturday. ‘There were reports, unconfirmed, that he also had headed for Martha's Vineyard. Developments in the police hunt in this country were absent, so far as the public was informed. In Great Britain Maj. Charles H. Schoeffel of the New Jersey police spent Monday night in London and left his hotel ‘Tuesday for an unannounced destin- ation. He had planned Monday to go to Glasgow. In that city lives the mother of Betty Gow, the Lindbergh baby’s nurse. Inasmuch as police have repeatedly declared they were satisfied with Miss Gow’'s response to questioning, this move was another of the many mysteries in the case. Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf of the state police in his morning bulletin said his headquarters had not re- quested the activities in Martha's Vineyard, and they “are probably an independent investigation by some|t¥pes other department.” The police, he said, have had no contact with the kidnapers and have received no information of any kind about the return of the baby. LEGION POST HEADS SUBMIT REPORTS AT STATE CONFERENCE William -Schantz and Mrs. James Morris, Bismarck, on Speaking Program Jamestown, N. D., April 5.—(P)— Reports of district deputies were read at Tuesday morning's. session of, the jNorth Dakota -American: Legion post jofficers’ conference. District. deputies who reported are Edward Kraus, Fargo; Herman Ren- dal, Langdon; Dr. H. 8. Kreidler, | Wahpeton; Fred Seeba, Harvey; E. R. |Manning, Donnybrook; and Roy Dow, {Mandan. William Schantz, Bismarck, ad- dressed the gathering on the “Forty and Eight,” of which he is grand chef de gare for North Dakota. S. O. Dun- das, Watford City, on membership; Frank Talcott, Fargo, on aeronautics; Clarence Jensen, Kensal, on junior’ baseball; and Lynn Stambaugh, Far- go, on employment. Welcomed to Devils Lake Fred Mann, Devils Lake, welcomed the group to that city for the 1932 convention. Mrs, James , Morris, Bismarck, brought national greetings to the con- ference. She is one of the national vice presidents of the Women’s Aux- iliary. J Mrs, A. G.' Porter of Edgeley was to speak on the Women’s Auxiliary at Tuesday afternoon's session. and the convention will close with an address by Frank Brooks, vice commander. of the national organization. A service “school” at which Legion problems were discussed featured Mondays’ session of the conference. Kraabel in Charge T. O. Kraabel, service officer, was in charge of the school. Mrs. Pearl Por- ter of Edgeley, department president of the Legion Auxiliary, greeted the group, and Mrs. Ruth De Puy, James- town, department secretary, spoke of the necessity-of caring for war or- phans. aie, Dr. H. D. Shapiro, médical consul- tant of the Legion’s national rehabili- tation committee, told of how certain of cases were handled by the committee. C. T. Hoverson, of the U. 8. Veterans’ Bureau office at Fargo, talked on hospitalization and insur- ance. Other speakers included W. K. Trueman, Grand Forks, chairman of i Today in Congress th TUESDAY. te Senat Weighs motion to reconsider re- jection of Charles A. Jonas as federal attorney for western -dis- trict. of North Banking and currency subcom- mittee studies Glass banking: re- vision bill. i} Agricultural subcommittee con- siders Gore‘ bills to regulate ‘fu- ture sales of farm board wheat and cotton. Heflin-Bankhead and Pritch- ard-Bailey contests before elec- tions committee. Committee on wild life conser- vation continues hearings on wa- ter fowl ee oe problems, Considers the Kuns-Granata Illinois election contest, Interstate Commerce committee considers repeal of the railroad recapture clause. a Banking committee considers national bank taxes, ue Pesnrraccsin Se HELENE LUBITSCH ENGAGED April 5.—(?) — Mrs. x wife of tion chairman. Visitors were guests of the local Le- gion post at dinner and Monday night they attended a boxing program. Minnesotan Poisons Two Sons and Self — Tabor, Minn., April 5.—(?)—Resida La Jambe, 35, and his two sons, Wal- lace, four, and found dead in Greta Nissen, film actress who has become the wife of Weldon Hey. burn, actor, is shown with him just before thelr departure from Holly. wood via airplane to Tia Juana, Mexico, where they were married, Believes ‘Lost’ Explorer Went on Voluntary Exile Man in Washington Says He Met Col. P. H. Fawcett in Jungle in Brazil Washington, April §.—(?)—Telmo Araujo, who believes he saw Col. P. H. Fawcett, “lost” English explorer, in the Brazilian jungle about 1927, | Tuesday said the colonel may be a voluntary exile from civilization. A meeting in the jungle with an Englishman who said he was “not going back” to civilization was de- scribed by Araujo, son of a Brazilian rubber exporter and now a resident of Washington. The region where he says he. me the mysterious white man is near that in which Stephen Rattin, a Swiss \trapper, recently reported meeting} 'Faweett.and receiving\from him a message asking to be rescued from} “Indian captivity.” Araujo said he led an expedition into the Matto Grosso jungle looking for rubber. ‘Walted For Meeting “One afternoon I was walking through the jungle,” he said, “when I saw a white man coming toward me. When he saw me he stood still and waited for me to approach. He was about 50 years old, of medium height, » blond, a touch of gray in his hair, with blue eyes and a long beard such as all white men grow in the jungle. His khaki shorts were tattered, his shirt falling to pieces, and on his feet were native rubber shoes. “I went up to him and asked him who he was and if he were lost. “‘T am an Englishman’” he said, “and I am not lost.’ “I said to him, ‘don’t you want ever to go back to your home? and he ‘Said, ‘never. I hate that life.’ Looked Straight At Him “I looked straight at him and said: ‘Are you Col. Fawcett?’ “‘Never mind about that,’ he re- plied. ‘I am not going back.’ He car- tied no gun but was armed with a belt knife. Later “he got up and walked away in the jungle. I saw he wanted no one to follow him, s0 I, too, went my way. “Returning to Manaos, I told my story, and everyone there said the na- tive rumors exactly agreed with it; that the Indians believed Fawcett never wanted to reach home again.” Fawcett disappeared in the Matto Grosso region, a vast unexplored jungle area of Brazil, seven years ago. It was generally believed he was lost in the jungle or killed by Indians. 1990 FARGO SLAYING REMAINS A MYSTERY Man Who Claimed He Was Eye Witness Was in Training School at Time Fargo, April 5. — () — The Leif Erickson murder near the Fargo fair grounds Jurie 29, still is a mystery. Fred Thompson, 18, TO SECURE ECONOMY Outlines His Plan in Detail in Answer to Congressional Attacks on Him WANTS TO BALANCE BUDGET Speaker Garner Says He Will Guarantee Passage of ‘Specific Suggestions’ Washington, April 5.—(?)—Answer- ing congressional attacks upon his economy suggestions, President Hoo- ver said Tuesday that without the creation of a joint congressional- administration committee to consider the question ‘he could “see no way by which there can be a maximum re- duction in expenditures.” Only a short while before, Speaker Garner had told newspapermen if the President sent to the capitol specific suggestions for cutting federal cash outlays, the house would approve them and do it quickly. Hoover, at his semi-weekly press conference, outlined “three general directions” in which he believes fed- eral expenses may be reduced by as much am $200,000,000 in an effort to balance the budget in conjunction with the new tax bill. Recommended Seven Times Referring to one of these, reorgan- ization and consolidation of govern- ment functions, he asserted he had recommended such a step seven dis- tinct times but that “the action rec- ommended has not been taken.” The other two directions were di- rect reductions of appropriations and alterations of existing laws to Teduce | Present unnecessary furetions. In the senate, Chairman Jones of the appropriations committee intro- duced legislation to carry out the , !Presidential suggestion for a commis- | sion to go into the question. Speaker Garner, in guaranteeing. House action on specific administra- tion proposals, said “if Mr. Hoover has nothing to recommend, that is a Huge Farm Measure Is Introduced ‘Washington, April 5—(4)—Creation Of a $2,000,000,000 corporation, similar to the reconstruction corporation, for loans to refinance agriculture was Proposed in a bill introduced Tues- day by Senator Wheeler (D., Mont.). The corporation would have a capi- talization of $500,000,000 from the treasury and would be authorized to issue securities to bring its total up to $2,000,000,000. Wheeler told the senate a recent investigation of conditions in the west had convinced him that the re- construction corporation has been of no benefit to the farmers, Farmers cannot borrow from the banks even if their farms are free from mortgages, he said, because “the word has gone out to the chain banks that they should loan no money to farmers.” “The farmers need refinancing more than bankers and railroads,” Wheeler said. “We are not going to} have prosperity unless we begin at} jthe bottom rather than at the top.” EXPECT HOOVER 70 ’ | VETO PHILIPPINES INDEPENDENCE BILL Hare Measure, Calling For Change in Eight to Ten Years, Passes Congress | Es Washington, April 5.—(P)—A veto) apparently waits at the white house for legislation to grant independence {to the Philippine islands. By an astonishing margin—306 to 47—the Hare bill under which in- dependence would come after eight jor 10 years, passed the house Mon- ‘day. Later this session, perhaps in. different matter and it is mighty late in the session for him to try to get anything done through a commis- sion.” The Jones resolution ‘was referred to rest a while in view of Democratic disinclination to the move. Senator Jones would have the com- mission report on @ national economy program within 30 days. Would Include Nine The commission would be composed of nine members, three to be named by the president, three by the vice president on behalf of the senate, and three by the speaker to represent the house. ‘The Jones proposal was read to the senate and sent to the committee on executive expenditures without com- ment. After the submission of his special message Monday, the president ws criticized in the senate by Democratic leaders as “shirking responsibility” i the matter of suggesting specific re ductions. Tuesday he asserted that too many cOngressional committees and too great a number of departments were central group. “What I have asked for,” he said, “ds not a commission but merely that the senate and the house should each delegate representatives to sit down with representatives from the admin- istration and endeavor to draft omy bill, covering the second and third areas of possible reduction in expenses.” Japan Will Replace Units in Manchuria Tokyo, April 5.—(#)—The cabinet approved Tuesday the proposal of Minister of War General Sadao Araki to send two army brigades to Man- churia to replace units from garrisons in Korea now serving there. The new brigades will give Japan five divisions in Manchuria and ad- jacent Korea. News dispatches received from vari- jous Manchurian points told of fresh battles with the Chinese rebels. They said Japanese troops entered | Fangcheng after a fierce battle ‘and that a Japanese expedition, advanc- ‘Chinese were killed. Rose Coghlan, Noted Actress Once, Dead to committee where it seems destined | concerned to secure unanimity of ac-| a! comprehensive, general, national econ- | a month, this bill or a substitute for jit will be taken up in the senate, with {fair chances of passage. It may, | therefore, be up to the president to jmeet this long-standing issue. The |two members of his cabinet most concerned in the question, are def- linitely and sharply opposed. | The house action, taken under the {most stringent rules invoked since the ‘Democrats took control, - followed jreading a letter from Secretary Stim- son in which turning loose the islands |was condemned strongly. It preceded |by @ short time a jaunty; “just giving |President Hoover something else to) |veto,” uttered by Secretary Hurley. |He qualified this remark under ques- ‘tioning, however, by observing it was i“very hard” to determine what the) ipresident would do, meantime pre- idicting “fireworks” in the senate, APS SAY DOMINATION ;OF ISLES ‘LIABILITY’ Tokyo, April 5.—(#)—Possession or idomination of the Philippines “would be as great a liability to Japan as it has been to the United States,” a Devils Lake Man Will Be One of Leading Candidates For Governor Race I. V. A’S MEET WEDNESDAY Control of State Industrial Com- mission is One Argument to Be Brought As Burleigh and Morton county delegates left Tuesday for the I. V. A. state convention which will open ‘Wednesday at Valley City, it became apparent that Frank H. Hyland, Devils Lake, would be one of the lead- ing candidates for the gubernatorial endorsement. The arguments which will be urged on behalf of the Devils Lake man were indicated in a first-page edi- torial appearing last Friday in the Devils Lake Journal. ‘In addition to citing Hyland’s personal and political qualifications for the endorsement, it emphasized a belief that Attorney General James Mortis and Commis- sioner of Agriculture and Labor Jo- seph A. Kitchen could be reelected to their present posts, thus insuring con- trol of the state industrial commission to the I. V. A’s without taking a chance upon the election of a gover- nor. The argument was interpreted here a8 one against the candidacy of Mor- ris for the governorship, for which he has been mentioned, Supporters at Work Convention delegates from the west, and north, passing through Bismarck on the way to Valley [ity, dropped the word that some state gasoline has been burned during the last week on behalf of Hyland. This suggestion, coupled with the fact that L. L. Twichell and others were recent visi- tors here, may indicate that the well- known “word” has been passed for Hyland. From the western part of the state, however, comes information that the Hyland candidacy 1s looked upon with Jaundiced eye by friends of James P. Cain, state senator from Stark coun- ty and a candidate for endorsement as Heutenant governor. Both men are members of the state senate and Cain's friends feel that endorsement of Hyland for the gov- ernorship might operate against his being the candidate for lieutenant governor. The result may be to force Cain in- to the gubernatorial race. His friends say he has just as much right to this endorsement as anyone else. The contest may become a sectional bat- tle with the odds in favor of the stronger delegations from the eastern part of the state. Into this situation steps the figure of R. A. Nestos of Minot, one-time governor and long an important figure in the I. V. A. ranks. Whether Nes- tos would accept an endorsement for the governorship is not known but there loomed the possibility that he would be a compromise choice. There has been 10 pre-convention campaign for him, so far as can be learned here. Mention Williston Man From Williston came word that Democrats of Williams county are |government spokesman said Tuesday. jcommenting on Secretary of State Stimson’s suggestion that withdrawal jof American sovereignty would result tion without the appointment of 2/in the domination of the islands by!at New Rockford. Sponsoring some foreign power, “probably either Ching or Japan.” | IBURGLARS OPERATE IN BURLEIGH COUNTY Seek Men Believed to Have At- tempted. to. Rob South Dakota Bank Two men thought ‘to be responsible for four burglaries in Burleigh county Sunday and Monday nights are be- lieved to be the same men who at- tempted to rob a bank in South Da- kota Friday, J. L. Kelley, sheriff, said Monday. ‘The description of the two, who were seen in the county during the time of the burglaries, tallies with that sent out by South Dakota au- thorities, Kelley said. suggesting John Bruegger, old-time Democrat, for endorsement as a can- didate for the governorship at the Democratic state convention April 28 the candidacy is the Williams County Farmers Press, which makes it clear, however, that Bruegger has not an- nounced himself as a candidate nor has he authorized anyone to offer his (Continued on page Seven, WOMAN WHO KILLED SELF WAS DERANGED Mandan Man, Student in Cali- fornia, Exonerated of Any Blame in Affair San Francisco, April 5—(#)—Evi- dence Evelyn Chay » Stanford medical student who committed sui- cide here in the apartment of her friend and fellow-student, James A. Cary, Mandan, N. D., once before had attempted to take her life and had been despondent over a love af- fair last summer, was presented: at the coroner's inquest Monday. ‘The jury held the girl committed suicide while mentally deranged. It also recommended passage of a fed- eral law governing the sale of fire- Lindbergh Home Hyland Convention Support Is Strong ° isi abla in cle a ae oe q Keynote Speaker { Menwienhd Aeh det t dybce eC SENATOR BARKLEY Chicago, April 5—(#)—A supporter of Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York—Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky—has been named to sound the keynote for the Democrats when they meet here June 27 to select their presidential candidate. Senator Barkley who but recently withdrew ‘a8 @ possible “favorite son” presiden- tial candidate to support the Roose- velt campaign, was selected as the party's national convention tempor- ary chairman Monday by the Demo- cratic arrangements committee. Jouett Shouse was recommended for the permanent chairmanship. The selection of both a temporary and a Permanent chairman was viewed as @ compromise between Gov. Roose- velt's supporters and their opponents on the committee. AL CAPONE AT WORK IN POLITICS DESPITE HIS IMPRISONMENT Rumors Say Gang Chieftain Will be Big Influence in Next Week's Election Chicago, April 5.—()—"Scarface Al” Capone is in jail but the city that breathed with relief at its riddance when his ll-year sentence was pro- nounced once more finds itself em- broiled in as bitter a political strife as it ever was in the gang lord’s heyday. The figure of the overlord of crime, it is charged, has risen from within the walls of Cook county jail, where he is confined, to blight the hope of @ peaceful primary election next Tues- Hare with terrorism and violence of old. Rumors Capone was trying to strengthen his political influence to escape serving all or most of his sen- tence for income tax evasion have been vaguely heard for some time but now they have come out into the op- en. A special grand jury investigation was ordered Monday by Circuit Judge Michael Feinberg, himself a candi- date for the Republican nomination for state's attorney, to determine to what extent if any Capone and his hoodlums are employing terrorist tac- ties to force unfavorable candidates to withdraw and control the primary. And from a prominent civic worker, President Fred W. Sargent, of the Chicago & Northwestern -railroad, came a statement that Capone “has a candidate for Ward committeeman in the primary in every ward of Chicago. “Capone,” Sargent said, “has s0 gained control of law enforcement in Cook county that government is breaking down.” Capone derives his power, he declared, from revenues that 10,000 saloons and 1,000 gambling houses bring him. Candidates for ward committeemen have withdrawn hurriedly in recent days and told of being threatened. A Precinct captain who refused to stop working for a certain candidate was shot to death last Sunday and others have been beaten and fired upon. The special grand jury inquiry was Prompted by a request of two residents of the fashionable Gold Coast colony, tion of committeemen to work for his Frank J. Loesch, aged crime crusa- ordered Cireuit jury by it Judge Michael Feinberg to investigate of gangland terrorism. VETERAN LOSES HS FIRST SKIRMISH 10 YOUNGER OPPONENT Selection of Jury For Trial of Four in ‘Honor Slaying’ Moves Slowly LIEUTENANT BITES HIS LIPS Defense Counsel For Americans Endeavors to Show Jur- ors -Prejudiced Honolulu, April 5—(®)—Having lost an early legal skirmish in the trial of the sensational Kahahawai murder ‘case to @ youthful assistant prosecu- tor, the veteran Clarence Darrow, noted criminal lawyer, returned Tues- day to the task of selecting a jury = panels composed of a medley of A dramatic clash between Darrow, bent with age and slowly patient, and relentless young Barry 8, Ulrich end- ed in victory for the assistant prose- cutor and the seating of a juror Dar- row tried to show was biased. Shortly before that court fight, the ‘74-year-old Chicagoan lost a point to John C. Kelley, newly-appointed Pub- lic prosecutor, when the court ruled that whether Joseph Kahahawai was arte vine ae of an assault upon lassie had no bearing the case, rs Four Are On Trial Mrs. Massie’s mother and husband, with two sailors, are on trial for the lynching of the young Hawaiian. The mother, Mrs. Granville Fortescue, sat during the first day of the trial on the same bench as Kahahawai’s father, mother and sister. Nearby, Lieut. Thomas H. Massie bit his lips as he watched Darrow carefully sift the minds of the jurors. Darrow’s persistence in questioning veniremen aroused the ire of Ulrich early. The assistant prosecutor shout- ed angrily “the defense counsel is put- ting words in the juror’s mouth” when the gray-haired leader of the defense continued, despite objections, in his efforts to show Henry Beckley, Ha- hoa already had formed an opin- ion, Continues Questioning Circuit Judge Charies 8. Davis per- mitted the veteran “defender” to con- tinue his penetrating questioning. But Darrow’s triumph lasted no long- er than his examination of Beckley. Tuesday Beckley was, as Ulrich wished, among the six tentative jur- ors—two Chinese, two Americans, a Japanese and a Hawaiian. For the rest of the week, Darrow indicated, he will maintain his en- deavors to select an unbiased jury— a tedious task in the face of the wide- spread publicity the lynching has re- ceived. ‘When 12 men are seated (women cannot be jurors in Hawaii) each side may exercise 24 peremptory chal- lenges. ‘ Darrow thought the question of whether Kahahawai was involved in the assault upon Mrs. Massie last ‘September might have an important bearing on the second-degree murder trial. Kahahawai was awaiting re- trial with four others when he was abducted and shot Jan. 8. DEMOCRATIC GROUPS CONSIDER PLATFORM Long List of Candidates Avail- able Is Prepared at James- town Meeting Jamestown, N. D., April 5.—(P)— Optimistic over campaigns in North Dakota, two state Democratic com- mittees gathered here Monday adopt- ed a tentative platform for action at the state meeting at New Rockford April 28 and listed material available as candidates for state offices. Besides the 14 committee members, there were present some 30 Demo- crats from various parts of the state, all of whom professed confidence the large Democratic vote in the presi- dential primaries was an indication of @ large vote in November. Contents of the platform were not made public but it was indicated a Included in those leading in the discussions were P. W. Lanier and Peter Zappas of Jamestown, R. B. Murphy of Bismarck, 8. J. Doyle of Fargo, F. W. Mclean of Grand Forks, Grand Forks, Charles Otto of Valley City and W. E. Glotzbach of Anna- moose. Bottineau Man Is Found Dead in Auto