The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 13, 1932, Page 1

North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 INITIATED MEASURES TO SLASH SALARIES ATTACKED IN COURT State Employes File Suit to Have Taxpayer Proposal Stricken From Ballot HEARING SET FOR MAY 20 Issue Comes Before High Court, Members of Which Are g Not Affected Action to restrain the secretary of state from placing on the June pri- mary ballot a proposed initiated measure providing for reduction of salaries of state officials and ap- pointive officers, was instituted in the North Dakota supreme court Friday. The measure is the second initiated proposal to be attacked in the su- preme court. The other is a measure e providing for a five-year partial 4 moratorium on private debts in North Dakota. A hearing on both actions will be conducted by the court May 20. the state hail insurance department, pa E. J. Helsing, assistant manager of and H. C. Preckel, member of the workmen's compensation bureau, are the petitioners for a restraining order to prevent the salary-decrease meas- ure from being placed on the ballot. They contend that the form of th: Initiated measures is im} r be- cause it contains an insufficient title, does not contain an enacting clause and does not contain the full text of the old law. In the proposed measure salaires of state officials and appointive officers are reduced generally by 20 per cent Judges of the supreme court, however. are rot affected by the proposed bill. ‘The salary measure is one of five Initiated under the sponsorship of the North Dakota Taxpayers’ associatior One provides for changing the basis pf assessment of property from 75 to 50 per cent of the full value; while the others provide for reduction of mile- age fees of county and state officials. and reduction of salaries of county officials. The moratorium measure is one ot three initiated with the support of the North Dakota Farmers’ Union. Attorney General James Morris, who will defend the secretary of state in the action, said he has asked the state Taxpayers’ association to join ir the defense of the measure. Morris salary is one of those offected by the TO} 1. bs ‘The attorney general also has aske? ¥. E. Greene, Jamestown, chairman of the committee of petitioners sponsor- Ing the moratorium measure, to be vepresented by counsel. JUDGE COLE DIESIN FARGO FROM EFFECT OF INJURY IN FALL Judge W. E. Cole, District Court Justice, Was North Da- kota Pioneer Fargo, May 13.—(?)—Albert T. Cole, judge of the Cass county district court for the last Had years, late North Dakota legislator. grain and law practitioner, died ‘Thursday at 6 p. m., in a hospital from compli- cations developed after he suffered & fractured hip Jan. 24 in a fall on an icy sidewalk. : judge Cole first believed Hils injury was nothing worse than a strained back when he fell while returning from court duties. Pulmonary oedema was the direct cause of death The lung ailment developed from weakened resistance after the fall. Born in Avon, Wis., in 1858 of Scan- dinavian pafentage, Judge Cole was reared on & barrens near Bloom- ing Prairie, Minn. Tn 1878 he married Anna Skarton q as town marshal and justice of the as town marshall and justice of the; peace. In 1884, the Coles moved to Ellen- dale, where Judge Cole became engag- ed in the grain-buying business. was at Ellendale that he began the study of law and in 1891 was admit- ted to the bar. Judge Cole was a member of the \ first North Dakota legislature from Dickey county. In 1895 and 1696 he served as state's attorney of Dickey (4 county. In 1807 he moved to Fargo and be- gan practicing law. In 1917 he was elected district judge and had been ‘on the bench continuously since. His | first wife died in 1905, Judge Cole acquired the reputation of being considerate with prisoners brought bfore him for sentence and | . during his long career on the bench } was credited with ameliorating hun- i dreds of family differences “which it have ended in divorce. | me oi Judge Cole remarried. He j his. widow and two adopted ore dead, Funeral services will be held here Sunday at 2:30 p. m. at the Congrega- tional church. Ey THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1932 Striking photographs of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., 20-month-old son of Colonel and Anne Lind- bergh who was abducted March 1 and found dead Thursday near his home at Hopewell, N. J., and his Baby Lindbergh's latest picture is shown at the upper left. He is peer- ing over the railings of his crib. He was just learning to walk and talk when he was snatched from his nursery room on the second floor of the Lindbergh home. parents of the dead child. Accustomed to flying together, the Lone Easle, the first to fly across the At- Four generations of the family of Anne Morrow Lind- berg, mother of Baby Lindy, are shown in the pictu-e ‘at the lower left. In the photograph, left to right, are Mrs. Dwight Morrow, grandmother of the Lindbergh scion; Mrs. Charles Long Cutter, great-grand- mother, Mrs. Anne Morrow Lindbergh and the baby. months old. At the lower right is nearest kin are shown above. lantic ocean, and his wife are in aviation togs. NONPARTISAN HELP SOUGHT IN EFFORT T0 PASS AID BILL Plan. Now Is to Apportion $1,- 500,000,000 to Assist Na- tion’s Unemployed Washington, May 13.—()—In vig- orous effort, congressional leaders Friday sought to win from both Re- publicans and Democrats solid, non- partisan support for a $1,500,000,000 federal relief program. The huge outlay would be distribut- ed by the reconstruction finance cor- poration, the funds being raised as needed through sale of corporation debentures, with no issue of govern ment bonds. The money would be used both for relief and to provide cepey nro through new construc- This compromise plan, framed in a meeting between President Hoover and Senator Robinson, was discussed in party conferences until late Thurs- day night but received only tentativ- approval, It was probable some fur- ther compromise would be necessary Even with the backing of President Hoover, the proposal must have great ‘support in both parties if it. is to be passed within the brief four weeks re- maining before congress quits work. Robinson and Senator Watson, the Republican leader, called the steering groups of their respective parties into separate meetings Friday to push the matter to a conclusion. After the Democratic steering committee met. with Robinson Thursday night, ho re-! Ported “general sympathy” for the Proposal, but no conclusions. Administration Republicans on the senate banking committee. iat . met in a meeting described ous” and which apparently yield-d general approva}, (Continued on page two) | | (Tribune Special Service) The picture was mother of th? slain infant. At the upper right are the grief-stricken Mrs. Evangeline Lindbergh, mother of Colonel Lindbergh and grand- taken when the child was six Hull Is Host to Emmons Play Day Hull, N. D., May 13.—Two hundrea and fifty rural schood students fron: the southern half of Emmons county gathered here Friday to participate in play-day athletic contests. Students from the northern half oi the county had their athletic contests at Hazelton Wednesday. with 200 par- ticipating. according to Curtis L. Jen- kins, county superintendent of schools. Music and declamation contests for rural students already have been con- ducted at Westfield and Braddock, Jenkins said. NEW JERSEY FLIER Takes on Fuel at Harbor Grace, Repairs Stabilizer Broken in Landing Harbor Grace, N. F., May 13.—(P)}— Lou Reichers hopped for Dublin, Ire- land, at 8:30 a. New Foundland daylight ‘time (6:! m. eastern day- light time) Friday affecting re- pairs to his stabilizer, broken in land- ing on his hop from Newark, N. J., to Harbor Grace. Harbor Grace was the Arlington, N. J., speed fiter’s first scheduled refuel- ing stop on a three-hop flight from Newark, N. J., to bor Grace he pro} Un, Ireland, where he second supply of fuel and Co) Paris. It was at first believed Stabilizer he had. broken would hold him but mechanics began work on the a repairs to a as “harmoni-! plane was refueled in record time. Reichers made the hop from although it was an-| Newark, N, J., to Harbor Grace in *. Jaix hours and 22 minutes. EN ROUTE TO PARS to] man of the state game and fish com- PUBLISH TEXT OF RANSOM MESSAGE New York Newspaper Discloses Contents of Note Left by Kidnapers New York, May 13.—(?)—The New York American published Friday what it said it had learned from reliable sources was the text of the ransom note left by the kidnapers of the Lind- bergh baby. It read as follows: “Dear Sir—Have $50,000 ready, $25,- 000 in $20 bills, $15,000 in $10 bills, and | — $10,000 in $5 bills. Have them in two! packages. Four days we will inform you to redeem the money. “We warn you for making anything public or for notifying the police. The child is in gut care. “Identification for letters are sig- Rev. The Weather Fair tonight and Saturday; cool- er Saturday. Fargo Pastor Heads Evangelical Church Great Bend, N. D., May 13.—(P)— Cc. A. Bremer, Fargo, was re- elected district superintendent of the natures. Answer three fold. (1-3-2-4).| Bvangelical church at the state con- Two rings in blue ink, with centre ference of the church Thursday. He ring of red. A blue ink line of the|was stationed at Fargo again for a blue circles on the outer edge of the/term of four years. red. A hole on the outer edge of each| Rey, a. W. Heidinger, holdover dis- dark circle and one in the centre of | trict superintendent, was stationed the red. “Don’t publish this letter.” Rev. 8. B. Lehner of Martin, N. D., Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, head| yas elected conference secretary and of the New Jersey state police, how- ever, early Friday said the ransom pe ae Rev. | note was not available and the “prose-|wishek ‘and Rev. G. H. Burns ot cuting authorities have classed it 88|tro1mes as assistants. - important evidence and have ordered it shoul press.” REFUSES TO RESIGN Helena, Mont., May 13.—(AP)— Thomas N. Marlowe, Missoula, chair- mission, has declined to abide by the. request of Governor J. E. Erick- son that he resign. 7 ROADS ARE GOOD All completed portions of the-state highway system are reported dry and in condition generally, ac- cording to the weekly road conditi report highway department. president of ion issued Friday by the state Mrs. people. id not be made a‘ailable to the Me th odi st Women Reelect Officers Cando, N. D., May 13.—(#)—Mrs. J. G. Moore, Grand Forks, was 1wnamed of the North Dakota confer- PRICE FIVE CENTS Press Search For Slayers! Of Murdered Lindbergh Child HERE’S LINDY’S BABY AND RELATIVES WHO MOURN HIM Six Men Killed in Ohio Factory Blast Franklin, O., May 13.—()—An in- quest was opened Friday into the ex- plosion which late Thursday killed six men, injured eight others and de- stroyed the plant of the Cheney Pulp and Paper company here. The cause of the explosion, which reduced a two-story brick building to ruins and shook houses for blocks around, was attributed to too much steam pressure in a rotary rag cooker. @ boiler affair, in which rags were prepared for manufacture into paper pulp. Howard Cheney, owner of the plant, estimated the loss at $125,000. REUNION AT LARIMORE Grand Forks, N. D., May 13.—(7>)— Grand Forks county’s Washington bi- centennial play day and former serv- ice men’s reunion will be held at Larimore Friday, drawing thousands of school pupils and war veterans the Women’s Home Mission- secretaries reelected was Eimer Duden of Hettinger, young from all parts of the county, U. 8. MEETS MEXICO New Orleans, May 13.— (AP) — The United States Davis Cup tennis Intermediaries Are Quizzed to Find New Clues Remains Are Hardly More Than Skeleton But Identification is Made Positive by Clothes and Blond Hair; Spot is Five Miles From Estate PARENTS WILL NOT VIEW BODY BEFORE BURIAL Will Always Remember Lost Son as Handsome Little Chap With Yellow Curls and Blue Eyes; Hoover Orders Federal Agents to Join in Pursuit Hopewell, N. J., May 13.—(AP)—The Lindbergh baby is dead; brutally murdered. They found the body—it was hardly more than a skeleton —late Thursday afternoon. A Negro truckman, pushing his way through thick brush of the Sourlands—not five miles from the Charles A. Lindbergh estate—made the discovery. Police were called. Identification was confirmed. A baby hunt, cautious and painstaking, was ended; a man hunt, wide- flung and intense, swept forward in its place. Two “intermediaries” of the baby search, men who for weeks had been moving in and out of the background, their movements carefully guarded for fear of endangering the child’s life, were called to give an accounting of their hidden activities. One of these men was Dr. John F. Condon, the 72-year-old educator of New York city who, negotiating through the news- papers as “Jafsie,” established contact with a man to whom, later, $50,000 of Col. Lindbergh’s money was paid on the promise — never fulfilled —that the child would be returned “alive and well.” 4 The other was John H. Curtis, one of three Norfolk, Va., “intermediaries,” whose recent information has sent him into the coastal waters near Long Island where, it was hinted, con- tact was to be made with the kidnapers. _ “These men are being questioned now and will be ques- tioned later in the day by the prosecutor,” said Col. Norman Schwarzkopf, head of the state police. They are not, however, under arrest.” -* _ Battered Little Body Will Be Cremated The Lindbergh boy’s body will be cremated at Linden. Colonel Lindbergh visited the undertaking establishment at Trenton, where the autopsy was performed, but it is not known whether he viewed the body. It had been announced that neither the colonel nor Anne would view the body as they wished to remember the child as he was before the slaying. As President Hoover in Washington was ordering the fed- eral law enforcement agencies to begin relentless and unend- ing pursuit of the slayers, state and county officials gathered in Trenton to plan concerted action. It has been reported that both Jafsie and the Norfolk in- termediaries turned over to the Lindberghs articles of clothing or pieces of cloth which convinced them contact with the kid- napers had been established. Thus the theory had to be con- sidered that the kidnapers killed their victim immediately, stripped off the sleeping suit, and set about obtaining ransom. et ay Pee aen a aetch ee Erwin Marshall said nothing ‘© implicate Jafsie had been found and tha % revimied to New York. i investigation into the Norfolk angle was started but of- ficials said the probe would not involve th ioni intermediaries. e questioning of the ear Admiral Guy H. Burrage, Norfolk, wo statement and Rev. H. Dobson-Peacock, another Pipe 5 nediaries, said it was hard for him to believe the child was lead. Discovery of the child’s skeleton was made by Willi Allen, Negro truckman. His truck, driving the Nopeaell saat Risse highway, had halted, and Allen had left it to enter the woods. Brush and undergrowth blocked his Fi pushed it aside. ae wath, He stnonel aut eneath the brush, underneath a layer of rottin iy. the body, ct Charles ugnatue Lindbergh, Jr., pis kn pe e, daughter of the late Senator i Chet ite Dwight W. Morrow, and. ___,__ Weather-worn Flannel Clings to Body Clinging to the decomposed body was weather-worn flannel that had kept the baby -varm that night of March 1 when his nurse tucked him into his crib. These shreds of baby clothing were identification enough; these, and the matted, curly blond air. Thursday, a horror-kin i i hunt for Ne iecieaee ire lactase Tac teame fences pais ‘the balers safety no longer held. It was no | i xtreme care. Murder had been done. Richman a: «3 A compound fracture of the skull caysed death. was done very soon after the hignaplne aerate ithe ty preter no4 man apparently, muscled either by an intense hatred or an overt wering fear, nertuick the sald =. Bey td described it as a “terrific” blow. veapon has been found. Abilis “bal had been Mae wpeany oe a Sorte sited Pome. (ae Se Police of New Jersey, who have been in di: search for the baby since the night, 73 days eens wien ibe ee ot or Lindbergh over a telephone said, “M; baby has been kidnaped,” made the Bee eae of eid body. A physician added confirmation. Later Miss A “qui ; eee ee br eg said she was “quite certain” the body was The parents themselves remained ane reece completely in the background while Mrs. ight Mo oe Dwig row, were ai their greatest ti dy was bei written in black headlines ae Hepavell estate: Col. Lindbergh ras ngaged y hunt the world. ol. with Curtis, the Norfolk “interme- Col. Lindbergh Was Absent Mrs. Lindbergh and her mother, er He returned early Friday PIONEERS TO MEET JUNE 14 Close friends said Mrs. who another’ bay accepted team Friday opened its campaign against Mexico's representatives, confident of advancing into the fi- nal round of the North American