The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 8, 1932, Page 1

, a 5 ei e | 4 North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ,ESTABLISHED 1873 Ptomaine Poison Hits 17 Ga Still Missing TAINTED MEAT IS BELIEVED CAUSE OF ~ SICKNESS EPIDEMIC Victims Taken Ill Two Hours, After Eating Sausage Packed in Oil | oe FIVE FAMILIES AFFECTED Girl Is Dangerously Ill; Con- dition of Several Others U P Critical Garrison, N. D., Aug. 8—Approx- bien county authorities Mon- imately 25 residents of the Garrison|day continued a search for the body district are ill wtih ptomai: of E. Joseph Worner, 35-year-old 2 a cee farm laborer, believed to hav: believed to have been caused by taint- drowned when his car plunged int» ed meat bought at a local store. the Missouri river 10 miles south of Many of the Victims are in a se-| Bismarck duly 30. The accident oc- | curred on an abandoned road where ber itecnran the river had washed the road All became iil about two hours af-|the river aeep depot i ter eating sausage which had been aa oe the water. preserved in oil in a metal container. The meat was sold early last week ‘to both residents of Garrison and farmers in the surrounding territory Members of four families are believea ee PROBE ROMANCE OF The sick are being cared for by a PASTOR AND BRIDE Jocal physicians at their homes in the city and the surrounding oat a z e car in le Seek to Learn Cause of First made by a chemist to determine defi- Ms Wife's Mysterious Death Garrison were belicved to be most} Muskogee, Okla., August 8&—(7)— dangerously ill of any of the victims,|A grand jury investigating the death according to their physician. Agnes{by poison of the first wife of a 52- was near death for several days but|year-old minister, was to hear Mon- had shown considerable improvement | day from the county attorney of the Mike Hamilton, local pharmacist, said that at least one person was dan- gerously ill Monday morning and that the condition of several others was regarded as critical. nitely whether the sick ‘were oe othe: of i gag or some r type Last March Joe and Agnes Kirchen, children of John Kirchen, a farmer living near Monday and her physician held out {tangled romance of the preacher rx hopes for her recovery. his 19-year-old girl bride. None of the victims was believed to] Prominent in the evidence which have recovered sufficiently to be out js td Attorney Phillip K. Oldham | of bed. Prepared for the jurors’ exam- Although exact figures as to the|ination were passionate letters and number of persons affected were not| verse which Oldham said the minis- available Monday, it was believed|ter. &. A. Berrie, admitted he wrote that the Kirchens were hardest hit,|to his present wife before the death with eight members of the family ill.) Of his first last March. Others poisoned included members| Berrie was held in jail “for investi- of the Francis Snow family, believed | gation,” but Oldham ordered the girl to have six victims; the Fritz Gif-; Wife released in custody of her moth- fey's, four; the Herman Bratz’s, five;|€T, saying he thought she was “the and the Walter Mattson’s, two. victim of circumstances.” SAFE IN HOSPITAL | FOLLOWING ESCAPE knowledge of the alleged poisoning. Among the li Iltinois Man Lies in Weed Patch, | ines which Oldham said were penned in Berrie’s hand, were the following: “To me no other one can be; For you alone I live. Bound and Gagged, From Friday to Sunday Oh, why can’t we be frec?” blissful happy day” when they could be married. the Cumberland Presbyterian church here; at » Calif.; Ralls, Texas; Fayetteville, Ar Raemer, Tenn., and Searcy, Ark. He founded the {Bethel Tabernacle here in May after {the Cherokee Presbytery accused {him of “teaching doctrines contrary to the Presbyterian faith.” Berrie has appealed his conviction, in Pres- byterial trial, of the charges, and the case is cheduled to come before the state synod at Marlow in October. The first Mrs. Berrie died last Colegrove, president of a defunct March 21 at a church gathering. On bank, lay in a weed patch near here} May 17, the pastor married Miss Ida from late Friday night until early} Bess Bright, a Sunday School teach- Sunday morning when he managed tojer in the tabernacle. loosen the ropes with which he was} The county prosecutor said a state tied. He wandered in to Springfield in| chemist's examination of the body of @ dazed condition, made his way to|Berrie’s first wife, following exhuma- the home of @ friend, and collapsed | tion requested by a sister, Mrs. Clem on the lawn, ‘Troster, of Sentinel, Okla., revealed Meanwhile Christian county offi-|the presence of sufficient poison to cials, where the kidnaping took place,/cause death, were questioning two suspects, one of} Oldham said he had learned Mrs. them a depositor in Colegrove's bank| Berrie swallowed a-capsule, presum- who lost $6,000 when it closed. Cole-|ably containing a headache powder, grove, suffering from exposure and|Wwhich -she habitually carried with the effects of the beating, was too|her, shortly before her death. ‘The weak to attempt their identification.!county attorney also said Berrie told State's Attorney Harry Grundy of|him his wife was jealous and irritable Taylorville, who recently obtained aj from @ long illness and had threaten. one-to-three-year sentence against|ed suicide. Colegrove for accepting deposits when =>=—_—_- Texas Girl Loses knowing the bank to be insolvent, .ob- High-Jump Contest Springfield, Ill., Aug. §.—(#)—John B. Colegrove, Taylorville, Ill., banker who was kidnaped, beaten and thrown bound and gagged into a weed patch, was safe in a hospital here Monday. tained from the 65-year-old banker 5 one-girl said his ductors put | ambition of “winning tree Olyrapie abduct a his mouth, tied him with| championships, she has not lost a ‘ drove for several|o fher self-confidence. , they tossed i MARCK TRIBUNE ISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1932 The Weather it and A Partly cloudy tonight Tuesday; PRICE FIVE CE (BETTY LEACH STILL |Upward Trend Hits Wall Street Again LEADING; CATHERINE | ANDRIST IS SECOND 61 Girls Had Received Votes in! Merchants’ Popularity Race Monday SEVERAL MORE NOMINATED Ballots Furnished by Business- men to Customers Upon Cash Payments Though Betty Leach, Bismarck, re- mained out in front in the Bismarck |merchants’ popularity race - when votes were totalled Sunday night, jSeveral changes were made in the jDositions of other leaders. Catherine Andrist surged into sec- ond place with a total of 11,900 votes while others came in the following order: Luella Tollefson, Menoken, {9,000; Esther Watson, McKenzie, 18,000; Audrey Rohrer, Bismarck, 7,900; and Madeline Schmidt, Ri- chardton, 7,100. Miss Leach’s Saturday total of 23,- 100 votes was not changed. Twelve new candidates received votes over the week-end, bringing the total of those who so far have receiv- ed votes to 61. Several new candi- ‘dates were nominated Monday morn- jing, including four from Dickinson {and one each from Bismarck, Car- i Son, Steele, Hettinger, Wilton and | Regan. Nominations will close at 6 p. m. ; Wednesday. become “Miss Bismarck,” while the winners in the Bismarck, Mandan, and out-of-town contests will receive free trips to Chicago. Ballots will be furnished custom- ers wit* each cash payment by mer- chants participating in the contest. These ballots, when filled out, may be deposited in several ballot boxes situated in stores and the office of the Bismarck Tribune company. Votes in the contest will be totaled leach evening at The Tribune office until Sept. 15, when the contest closes. Sunday night standings were: Arllys Anderson, Bismarck jCatherine Andrist, Bismarck. Clarice Belk, Bismarck .. ;June Boardman, Bismarck ..... Irene Britton, Bismarck Eula Camercn, Bismarck . \ernestine Carufel, Bismarck Esther Childs, Bismarck Margaret Fortune, Bismarck Isabelle Gordon, Bismarck Elinor Green, Bismarck ... 5 Magdalene Gondringer, Bismarc! 2000 «11900 Others told of impatience for “that |Ruth Gordon, Bismarcix Caroline Hall, Bismarck Alma Heckenliable, Bismarck Berrie formerly held pastorates of | Ruby Jacobson, Bismarck . {Dorothy Johnson, Bismarck {Ruth M. E. Jordi Bismarc! |Betty Leach, Bismarck jAlice Lee, Bismarck Alice Marsh, Bismarc! Blanche Monson, Bismar Betty Manning, Bismarck Marian Morton, Bismarck Luby Miller, Bismarck Elsie Nelson, Bismarck . Eliza Nicholson, Bismarck Nadine O'Leary, Bismarck . Evelyn Omett, Bismarck. Aldeen Paris, Bismarck Jessie Phillips, Bismarck . Elaine Riggs, Bismarck Audrey Rohrer, Bismarck Elizabeth Rasche, Bismarck Margaret Schneider, Bismarck . Francis Slattery, Bismarck Viola Sundland, Bismarck . Fay Smith, Bismarck .. Grace Williams, Bismarck . Marian Worner, Bismarck . Veronica Werstlein, Bismarck Alma Walth, Bismarck Stella Zwaryck, Mandan . Emma Fix, Mandan . Evelyn Farr, Mandan Kitty Gallagher, Mandan Verna Seitz, Mandan Helen Mees, Mandan . 5000 4700 ‘8000 | 000,000 worth of The grand winner will receive a; {free trip to Miami, Fis. and the |{2 oust the rebels from the Parana (OTTAWA PARLEY 10 {carezinho, preparatory to a drive on FADES AS BOLIVIAN FLIER IS SHOT DOWN Military Aviator Brought to Earth While Flying Over Paraguayan Fort Asuncion, Paraguay, Aug. 8—(7)— Prospects for peace in the dispute bé- tween Paraguay and Balivia over the Gran Chaco appeared more remote Monday following the shooting down of a Bolivian airplane over the Para- guayan lines on the frontier. The plane was shot down as it re- connoitered the Paraguayan forts, 20 miles east of Fort Chanr, in the mid- dle of the swamps of Estero Patino. |The two Bolivian aviators were cap- tured. As a result of the incident, the As- sociated Press was informed, Para- guay was preparing to send a new note to the neutral central and South American nations, and to the United States. Military leaders rushed prepara- tions for possible further clashes and there were reports both nations were increasing their forces in the Chaco. General Ayala, chief of staff of the ‘my, resigned and was replaced pro- visionally by Major Arturo Bray. BRAZIL'S GOVERNMENT {IS PRESSING REBELS Rio De Janeiro, Aug. 8.—(?)—The federal government pressed a steady stream of troops into its lines on the northern front Monday as the fifth week of the Sao Paulo rebellion op- ened. General Francisco was attempting territory and the district around Ja- Sao Paulo itself. In the meantime, the rebels hand- ed to the consuls of foreign govern- ments at Sao Paulo a request that the governments recognize a staté of bell- igerency, freeing the state from the ban on communications and shipping ordered by the federal government when the rebellion broke out. The rebels contended internation- {al law recognizes such procedure and i the attempt of England to run the north’s blockade of the confederate states during the American Civil war jwas cited as a precedent. The Paul-; {ist rebels have not seceded from the Brazilian confederacy, however. PROCEED SLOWLY IN TRADE AGREEMENTS signed Not to Interfere With U. S. Commerce Ottawa, August 8.—(#)—A prospect that the imperial conference would limit itself to bi-lateral agreements | between the dominions and leave the rest. of the agenda for the coming world economic conference at which the U. 8. will sit, appeared as the ‘conference began its third and per- haps final week Monday. The general belief was that Great Britain would do something to open her doors wider to the products of the dominions, but that in doing so she would be inclined to confine her- self to measures looking to an inter- national revival of trade rather than Monday, the new trade alignments made here will be considered as revi- sions of most-favored-nation treaties rather than an attempt to treat the rest of the world, particularly the U. 8., as competitors. On the average, the U. S. has bought almost $200,000,000 worth of rubber each of the last five pulpwood and news- it paper from Canada as well as 000,000 worth of timber, $80,000,- Malaya PROSPECT OR PEACE | Plan Bi-Lateral Treaties De-! years Mountain Men Guard Setback in First Hour is Follow-/ ed by Vigorous Rally; Prices Rise MOTORS ARE IMPRESSIVE Gains Recorded in Auto Shares; List Average Is Highest Since March New York, Augus: 3—(7)—With a buoyancy comparable to the prosper- ity-mad days of 1929, socks stormed upward in tumultuous trading on the New York stock exchange Monday. Sweeping aside profit-taking and forcing the badly bitten bears into still tighter traps, the market exult- antly stamped its way through all cpposition. The throttle was wide open, and the bulls seemed to have plenty of gas in the tank. By early afternoon hundreds of leading shares were showing net gains of $2 to $8. Profit-taking and pressure by the desperate bears brought a reaction toward the close and final prices were; considerably below the best for the day. The fact prices had appreciated 60 per cent from their June lows and) therefore might normally be facing a t<chnical reaction proved no deter- rent. A setback appeared after the strong opening, but it was only a lull in the storm and traders who sold Short found themselves in a tighter Predicament than ever. Trading dur- ing the early hours was at the rate Of a 6,000,000-share day. Rails roared ahead with the speed of one of their express trains, while the voltage behind utilities jumped in a manner that brought to mind their palmiest days three years ago {When they were favorites of the big bull market. Cotton Leads Commodities ! Commodities boomed, especially cotton. That staple soared $1.25 a bale at the opening in response to reports of important banking as- sistance for eliminating troublesome {surpluses, hut it soared spectacularly {higher after publication of the gov- ernment's crop estimate forecasting a yield of 1,000,000 bales less than had been anticipated, and was soon more than $5 a bale above Saturday’s close. Chicago wheat, New York rubber and sugar, and miscellaneous other mar- | kets made the day's rise virtually! ; unanimous. Tape readers saw Santa Fe rail. jriers with a rise of $8 to a price abov H $48. They saw Union Pacific steam up $7 to $70, New York Central $3.50 to $22.59, Northern Pacific more than} $4 to nearly $20, and Pennsylvania} $2 to $16. American Telephone made another | long distance move of about $4 which | pushed the price to $112. Public Service of New, Jersey, Consolidated | Gas and North ‘American rose $2 to; $3, while in the industrials there was} Tange of advances for U. S. Steel common, American Can, Allied {Chemical, and American Tobacco} "J. I, Case, favored because of its close association with “farm country” prosperity and rising com- modity prices, rallied more than $5. {| Motors Get Play | General Motors turned over in enormous volume, adding more than $100,000,000 to the market value of its 43,500,000 shares with a gain of bet- ter than $2. Automobile stocks, re- cently neglected because of poor cur-| rent earnings and business were all substantially higher. Meanwhile, Wall Street brokers beamed at the enormous increase in commission business. Many houses had called back employes recently laid off and began ‘the week with augmented clerical staffs to take care of the heavy volume. The boom also brought to the doors of the New York stock exchange office building | & long line of men looking for work on the theory that the exchange, too, would need additional help. So heavy was the volume of trad- q cedure followed only in boiling mar- kets. Frequent flurries of profit- taking rolled over the list, but re- actions quickly caught buying orders that had been placed “under the market” and prices maintained their buoyancy. Their Ginseng Farms Blue Ridge, Ga, Aug. 8—(P)— Guards, armed with the rifles their fathers once used to stand off “reve- igy Sign Contract for New Cap rrison Persons itol CONSTRUCTION WORK PLANS NEW STRATOSPHERE TRIP ° P. C. Remington, Sr., Dies of Gunshot Wound Sunday Citizens Invited to Hearing on Report will consider the annual report of the Bismarck water department at their regular weekly business meeting in the city hall tonight, beginning at 8 o'clock. ‘The report, covering the fiscal | year ending last June 30, was pre- | pared by Myron H. Atkinson, de- | partment manager, and shows a net operating profit of $46,535.21. Citizens interested in the report and who may have suggestions for operation of the department are | invited to attend the session, ac- cording to Atkinson. YOUNG WIDOW GIVES ‘SELE UP TO FIGHT CHARGE OF MURDER Mrs. Reynolds Surrenders to Of- ficials; Prosecution to Grant Bail Wentworth, N. C., August 8.—()— ibby Holman Reynolds, missing torch-singing widow of the late Smith Reynolds, surrendered to North Carolina authorities here at 2:50 p. m. Monday. Solicitor Carlisle Higgins said he did not believe he would oppose bail for Mrs. Reynolds. Higgins made this statement an hour before the former Broadway torch singer gave herself up. Benet Polikoff, Mrs. Reynolds’ at- torney said she would immediately appear before Judge A. M. Stack and seek her release on bail. She is un- der indictment in the fatal shooting of her young millionaire husband here a month ago. Ab Walker, indicted jointly with Mrs, Reynolds was released Saturday under $25,000 bond. Polikoff is one of two Winston- Salem atte: by Alfred Reynolds, to represent his daughter. Superior court adjourned here last week and Judge Stack and Solicitor Carlisle Higgins transferred to Went- worth, where a term of Rockingham county superior court began Monday. Since the state, at the Walker hear- ing, said it did not have evidence enough to prosecute the youth on a first-degree murder indictment, a sirsilar step was looked to at the hearing for the young widow. The two were indicted jointly and were principal witnesses at the inquess into the death, first classified by the ‘county coroner as suicide. The solicitor, however, -has author- fies it and it is brought to light between now and the time the two go ‘on trial. {Otherwise they would face second- will face trial is undetermined. Hol- man said he was anxious for it to be soon. Leibowitz, New York criminal ‘Winston. Prof. Auguste Piccard, who rose nearly 10 miles into the strato- sphere last year in a balloon, is preparing for another ascent at Zurich, Switzerland. He is shown here in Belgium as he tested a gondola which was built for the latest flight. (Associited ‘|| Heart by Bullet While on Members of the city commission: | ‘| Linssen told ‘them to start out and/ .|E. Perry, Burleigh county coroner. TO GET UNDER WAY IN NEXT TWO DAYS Associated Press Dispatch Says Details of Job Finally Arranged FAST ACTION IS PLANNED Wachter Says Dirt Will Fly at Once If Local Firm Gets Sub-Contract With the contract for general con- struction of North Dakota's new state capitol building signed in Chicago at 1:30 p. m. Monday, construction of the 18-story building is expected to begin within the next two days. Members of the capitol building commission signed the contract with the Lundoff-Bicknell company, con- tractors, Holabird and Root, ae ate architests, and other 9 firms, according to an Associated Press dispatch. Members of the commission are George A. Bangs, Grand Forks, Fred L. Conklin, Bismarck, and Adjutant General G. Angus Fraser, Fargo. After signing the contract, the commission announced that construc- tion would begin “immediately.” Eugene C. Wachter, of the Wachter Transfer company, Bismarck, which is bidding for the sub-contract for ex- cavation work, said that if his firm secures the sub-contract, work could be started within a few hours after receiving notice. ‘A Wachter in Chicago Paul A. Wachter, of the transfer jeompany, was in Chitago Monday oe with the general contrac- tors. The Lundoff- Bicknell company submitted a bid of $1.463.755, the low- est of all received, here last month. The capitol commission spent most of last week in Chicago going over details of the contract with the build- ers and architects. When details were completed, Conklin returned here Thursday night with the pro- posed contract for review by Attorney ;Gencral James Morris. With the de- tails approved. Conklin returned’ to Chicago Sunday. With the commission in Chicago is Major Frank L. Anders, Fargo, secre- tary of the commission. Not Altered Appreciably The contract is not altered appre- ciably from that contemplated by the Lundoff - Bicknell company's bid, {Conklin said here over the week-end. | He said many changes in plans might be made even after construction has begun, this being possible under the “guaranteed maximum cost” type of contract. The Lundoff-Bicknell company, ac- cording to Conklin, will select as many North Dakotans as laborers on the new building as possible. The new skyscraper structure will replace the me capitol dine, which was razed by fire late in = pe Oe en caesar cember, 1930. Part of the old capitol Remington and Holta drove to a {fas been remodeled to care for some state offices, but. most of the state the pie eine euaider the plans of |cetices since the fire have been lo- e pair, Ho! was walk throug! cated in downtown business buildings. the underbrush bordering the clear- .| The new capitol is expected to be ing in an attempt to frighten rab: pleted wi 18 monn. bits out. Holta began his walk through the underbrush and when he had proceeded probably more than Hoge get, eo BUILDING. PROGRAM SUBJECT OF SPEECH Remington on the ground near the A. D. McKinnon Outlines Feder- auto. Returning to Remington, he said, al Road Program at Meet- ing of Lions w globular css Photo) Local Businessman Struck in | | Hunting Trip P. C. Remington, Sr., 65, promi- nent businessman and banker in western North Dakota for more than 40 years, died about 11 o'clock Sun- | day forenoon of a gunshot wound. The shooting occurred as he pre- “pared to hunt cottontail rabbits on| !the farm of his son-in-law, Dr. L. A. |Schipfer, near Twin Buttes about 1i \miles southeast of Bismarck. {On the rear floor of his automo- | bile Remington had two guns, one a .22-calibre for hunting rabbits and | the other a 25-20 with which he had planned to practice target shooting, oe to his son, P. C. Remington. rr. The two rifles were covered with two or three dozen ears of corn which had been picked at the farm a short time before. Remington and George Holta, 618 Seventh street, had motored to the| farm a short time before. Arriving there, they talked to Paul Linssen, renter of the farm, and the trio then went to a nearby cornfield and picked some corn, which they tossed into the rear of the car. Invited to join the hunting party,; Holta noticed the rear door of the machine was open and the barrel of Ge high-powered rifle was protrud- is. Remington was dead. The bullet had entered the central part of his} body, taking an upward course through the heart. Holta and Lins- tee pariened to the city with Rem- ston e was dead upon their arrival at a hospital. thes has not |_ Operation of the federal relief pro- been able to determine the nature of |8'am under the Federal Relief the wound and had thought his life|2mergency act was discussed by A. might be saved. D. McKinnon, state highway com- An inquest will be conducted late|M™issioner, in an address before the Monday afternoon, according to W.|Lions club here Monday. Members of the coroner's jury will be John Peterson, Burt Finney and F. A. Knowles, Paul Calvin Remington was born at Tiskilwa, Il, March 5, 1867, the son of William and Adeline U. Rem- ington. He was educated in the pub- le schools at Wabasha, Minn., and also attended Shattuck Military aca- demy at Faribault, Minn., in 1886. Came Here in 1889 He came to Bismarck in 1889 to become manager of a local flour mill. He was married to Miss Odessa Mur- phy at Chicago in 1892. ton then went into the drug busi- ness, having stores at Bismarck, Richardton and Wilton. In 1902 he went into the bottling (Continued on Page Seven) Three “Are Held in sen ob whut apsearalin ee Cook, both of, fended state golf championships last here! week, were special guests at the meet- ing.