The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 30, 1932, Page 1

ot ? vee North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Generally fair alightly The Weather tonight and Saturday; ‘warmer tonight, cooler Sat. ESTABLISHED 1873 34 Seamen Drown FREIGHTER NEVADA POUNDED 70 PIECES ON PACIFIC ISLAND Three .Saved By Their .Own Strength and Heroism of Rescuers RELATE STORY OF HORROR Survivors Taken Off Amtignak Island By President Madison Seattle, Sept. 30—()—Pleces of the battered bulk of the freighter Nevada pounded Friday on a rocky Aleutian island where 34 members of her crew drowned in stormy seas . A] | Only three men survived—saved by! their own strength and daring and wore POLING SPEAKS AT |Return of Insulls Will Be Sought by Attorneys They were taken off Amtignak Island late Thursday by the Presi- dent Madison, in serious condition from exposure and lack of food. They had remained on the island without shelter and only flour to eat, for two sleepless days after secing their cap- tain and shipmates leap into a gale- lashed sea and never appear again. | The three are. James Thorsen, & cadet of Portland, Ore.; Fritz Dewall,; able-bodied seaman, no address; and Lucena N. Decanay, ordinary sea.) man, Manila, P. I. They were so weak when taken’ aboard the President Madison they| could tell only snatches of the horror | they witnessed when their Japan- bound freighter piled on the rocks! and then began to break up. Of the/ officers and crew of 37, they were the only ones to reach shore, fight- ing their way successfully through BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1932 Gunmen Loot Wahpeton Bank | Piling Up Yankee Runs ‘ Lou Gehrig safe at home, scoring one of the five runs piled up by the New York Yankees in the sixth inniny of their first world series game with the Chicago Cubs at Yankee Stadium. The Yanks won the first game, 12 to 6, and the second, 5 to 3, for 10 straight world series victories. They hope to make it 12 straight and clean sweep of the present series with victories at Chicago Saturday and Sunday. a SCHOOL AUDITORIUM ON DRY LAW ISSUE’ Noted Lecturer Defends Prohi-| bition Amendment and Ignors Politics Daniel A. Poling, chairman of the campaigner for Hoover in the cur- rent presidential campaign, gave a non-political speech Friday afternoon at the high school auditorium. Only once did he skate up to the edge breakers which a day later kept 8/o¢ proninition, contenting kimself for small boat of the Japanese freighter Oregon Maru from reaching the un: inhabited island to take them off. After resting and eating as the; President Madison resumed her course for Victoria, B. C., the trio revived. A radio message early Fri- day reported “all well now.” One of! them suffered a cut on the head} while landing in the surf from the) Nevada. The message contained no further details of the wreck of the Nevada in the ships’ graveyard of the north! Pacific Wednesday morning. { Before their eyes, they said, their} captain, T. W. Johansen of Portland, | Ore., and the first Officer, E. T. ‘Wendt, also of Portland, leaped over- board into the foaming surf to dis- appear. Heroism of rescued and rescuers; was told in a laconic message from Captain R. J. Healy of the President Madison, hero of a previous less! tragic rescue in Aleutian waters. He} radioed: | “We have taken aboard the three! survivors of the freighter Nevada.| ‘Rest were drowned in the surf. The | the tariff. ‘led in two songs to open the session | the most part with support of the ; dey amendment to the -coristitut!on, Poling had been scheduled to speak here Thursday night but was delay- ed in grriving by a minor crack-up} added if the brothers failed to reply | nouncing principles in the slightest at Helena, Mont., of the plane in which he started Thursday morning! from Portland, Ore. Following rece‘p: of the ntws here the night meeting was postponed until 12:45 p. m., Fri- day at the city auditorium, but later it was transferred to the high school auditorium, since Dr. Poling wished also to speak to the young people as-| sembled there. His lone reference to politics in his} speech at the high school was a com. ment on the stand of a eandidate| for high office” made in Kansas, with reference to the farm situation and’ It was clear that he re- ferred to the recent speech of Gov- ernor Franklin D. Roosevelt at To- peka. Dr. R. S. Enge was chairman of! the meeting. Rev. Opie S. Rindahl with Miss Marie Lemohn at the Plano. .- Outlining his views on the prohibi- Allied Forces for Prohibition and/ Hope to Question Two Brothers | in Regard to Utilities Empire Chicago, Sept. 30.—()—The return of Samuel Insull from Paris and his | brother, Martin J. Insull, from On- | tario will be sought, it was an- nounced by one of the attorneys for investors in the nanxrupt Insull Util- ity Investments, Inc. Attorney Lewis Jacobson, who; made the announcement, said he and! his associates would seek to have sub- poenaes issued- for the brothers, whoj jmarking politics from a discussion ' Jett the country shortly after the col-| lapse of the Insull utility empire. | outside of the jurisdiction of the court in which they were issued, but ; to them, other steps might be taken. | ; At the same time Jacobson said he} would seek to stop the annual pen-/} sion of $18,000 which Samuel Insull is receiving from three operating Chicago utilities. | Jacobson made his statement Thursday during Federal Judge Wal ter C. Lindley’s inquiry into the ai-) fair of one of the bankrupt Insull investment companies. | State's Attorney John A. Swanson} also indicated he would like to ques-| tion the Insull brothers, as well as/ Samuel Insull's son, Samuel, Jr., still| vice chairman of the three Chicago operating utilities, who left Satur- day to visit his parents in Paris. Swanson questioned former Insull officials and learned, he said later, Martin J. Insull withdrew several sheafs of stock from the portfolio of | the Middlewest Utilities company, | huge holding concern of which he) was president, to safeguard his own POPE PIUS RENEWS PROTEST AGAINST MEXICAN STATUTE Issues Encyclical Policy of ‘Formal Cooperation’ Rome, Sept. 30.—(?)—Pope Pius XI met what he called the new and “le- Jacobson said, however, the sub-|gal persecution” of the church and: poenaes would not be enforceable iCatholics in Mexico Friday with an encyclical announcing a ‘policy of “formal cooperation” without re- degree or withdrawing past denuncia- tions. Instead, he renewed his protest, di-| rected particularly at the varied ap-/| plication of the laws number of priests in each state to from one for each 33,000 people to one for each 100,000. “To approve such an_ iniquitous law, or to give it spontaneously a true and real cooperation,” he said, “is un- doubtedly forbidden and sacriligious: | But absolutely different is the case of | he who subjects himself to such an unjust prescription only against his will and protest and who does all he can to diminish the unhappy effects es of the unhappy law Under this plan of formal coopera- tion, the Pontiff permits the priests to asx the Mexican government for per-| mission to exercise their ministry. This conduct, he said, “is therefore, not much different from that of the man who, having been despoiled of Announcing; “At the Fargo meeting the farm- jopportunity to hear his message if; {he has any i y ral limiting the |Bames County Farmers Union, of- | ten is expected to be present, and re- When Boat Is Wrecked PROPOSAL FOR MASS MEETING AT LOCAL FETE DISCOURAGED, Express Doubt That Idea Sug- gested By Moe Would Be | in Good Taste j Suggestion Friday by I. J. Moe, Val- | ley City, publisher of a weekly news- paper in the Barner county seat, that a mass meeting should be held here by farmers Oct. 8 when Vice President | Curtis lays the cornerstone for the new capitol building, aroused no en- thusiasm here. Both political and civic leaders doubted that the demonstration would be in good taste, if for no other reason because of the nature of the occasion. Moe's suggestion was that farmers; of North Dakota, Minnesota and Montana hold mass meetings at Fargo, October 7, and at Bismarck, October 8. to impress on Vice President Cur- tis the plight of American agriculture. Commenting on the Curtis appear- ances in North Dakota, the newspa- per said: “This would be a splendid oppor- tunity for the farmers of Northwest~ ern Minnesota and North Dakota to} jimpress upon Mr. Curtis the serious- |ness of the agricultural condition and jalso the fact that the farmers of | the Northwest are determined in their effort for a small profit on their | product. |ers of northwestern Minnesota and eastern North Dakota should stage a demonstration before Vice Presi- dent Curtis and at Bismarck, October | 8th, the farmers of central and west- ,ern North Dakota and eastern Mon- tana should stage a like demonstra- tion, It would not only give the farm- | (ers an opportunity to drive home their proposition to the vice presi- Gent but it would also give them an; hing for them. . . . “Editor Moe of the People’s Opinion | is taking the proposition up with Charles Stevens, manager of the! fering to aid him in getting the Barnes county farmers to join in this movement of a trip to Fargo or Bis- | marck, | “This is the time for action and the | best opportunity this fall to impress | one of the higher-ups. The Iowa/ farmers are staging mectings with Hoover and Roosevelt, why not North Dakota farmers? Let's go.” Among those doubting the advis-| ability of the demonstration was; john Nystul, Nonpartisan campaign chairman. | “To stage a demonstration such as is evidently planned has always in it the possibility of defeating the very ends for which it is planned,” Nystul said. “Everyone knows the farmers and other people in this Inch-by-Inch Fight ‘Seen for October jthe Mississippi, Presidential Drive Will Center in East During Decisive | Month | FARLEY SAYS WEST IS WON, Hoover to Launch G. O. P. Counter-Thrust in Agri- cultural Area Washington, Sept. 30.—()—The | presidential campaign passes into the usually decisive month of October with the activities of both major poli- tical parties centered temporarily in the w but with plentiful signs an inch-by-inch struggle also is to fol- low in the east. The Democratic drive for the In- surgent Republican support west of led by Governor Roosevelt, has received increasing at- tesition in the closing days of Sep- tember. It will be followed almost im- mediately by a Republican counter- thrust, led by President Hoover. That western sector is destined to see still further stubborn dispute, but the thoughts of both party commands already are turning toward the east- ern seaboard and the mid-west for the real windup of the campaign. After Governor Roosevelt's exchange of friendly words with Republican Senators Johnson in California, cut- ting in New Mexico, and Norris in Nebraska, Chairman Farley of the! Democrats, returned to New York an- nouncing that the West was won, andj; took up a study of the Eastern war maps. Farley's conclusion was dis-| puted by Republican Chairman Sand- ers. The prospects are, however, that neither party will neglect either East or West in its plans for future action. Hoover will make his first out-of- town campaign speech next Tuesday night at Des Moines, Iowa. | Vice President Curtis already is/ moving westward on a swing all the way to the coast. Secretary Mills of the treasury, much relied on as & campaigner for Hoover, is headed in! the same direction. i Even while the western Republican offensive is developing, the Demo- crats will be setting off their first real fireworks of the campaign in the east. Governor Roosevelt will end his western trip just in time to attend the New York state Democratic con- vention next week. Alfred E. Smith ports multiply he will have something important to say. ‘There is no indication the Democra- | tic managers, however much atten-| tion they may be devoting to other; things, have abandoned their original | plan for an intensive attack on the) northeastern bloc of states. In Roose- velt’s own State of New York, espec- ially, they intend to make the strong- est campaign of which they are saa | able. In other words, Chairman Farley is | not content to rest on any hope of electing his nominee, as Wilson was reelected in 1916, by western and southern strength alone. It is his idea, if possible, to keep the Repub- licans fighting all along the line, and this the Republicans intend to do. rescue work by our officers and crew was magnificent.” During rescue attempts in gale and high seas, a small boat of the Oregon Maru was lost and several men were} tion question Dr. Poling said he res-| pected the views of those who do not| agree with him but that differences| Ge opinion should not result in divi- | sion of purpose on the part of right- thinking injured. Food was thrown over the side of the Japanese freighter in hope it would float to shore where the trio was marooned. i One of those aboard the ship was) ® passenger, Portius D. Berry, 26, of! Seattle, who was making a trip to the! Orient for his health. The cause of the disaster to the ship, owned by the States Steamship company of Portland, had not been revealed in radio messages as its radio went silent after its first SOS late Tuesday night. Socialist Outlines His Farm Program Minneapolis, Sept. 30—(?)—The agricultural program of the Socialist Party was outlined and attacks were made on Gov. F. D. Roosevelt and President Hoover in a series of ad- dresses in Minneapolis and St. Paul Thursday,by Norman Thomas, Social- ist candidate for president. Thomas urged a moratorium on farm foreclosures and abolition of farm tenantry. He favored sociali- zation of farm machinery manufac- turing, packing houses, grain eleva- tor and dairy companies. Increased pay for worker, Thomas believes, would result in better farm pon through Power to Thomas said this The program he outlined included a five-day week and six-hour day, unemployment insur- ance and maintenance relief. IRISH SOCIALIST ANGRY Belfast, Ireland, Sept. ‘Members of the parliament of north- ern ireland stood aghast Friday while John Beattie, only Socialist ‘in the house, picked up the mace, emblem of authority, and threw it the room, declaring it em- blem of hypocrisy.’ an- gered at a ruling of the speaxer. - ONTARIO HAS SNOW. Ont., Sept. 30—)—The snow on record. fell in this district Thuraday, the coun- teyside. was “only an ” Beattie was t people. i} All Recognize Problem All agree, he said, that the liquor | problem is one which should be sol-j ved gince there is a liquor traffic even now, when it is outlawed. Assert- ing that it was liquor which brought the 18th amendment to the constitu- tion, Poling said the cause still stands first and that efforts must continue to be directed toward that end. “We must go on with and from the 18th amendment,” he asserted. Before prohibition was written in-; to the constitution by reason of the! liquor _traffic’s obvious need for a curb, Poling said, everything else was tried. Mentioning the first temper- ance society organized in America, in 1808, he said one of its by-laws provided for @ fine of 25¢ upon any member who got drunk except upon Sundays or legal holidays. The move- ment only became national, he said, ont tee force the stages count le gic Prohibition. Pee Mie “We cannot afford to forget,” he pega 5 bikers pal the quer traf- was e 18th amendm into the constitution.” ae sie Admitting that there are grave abuses of the law, Poling .said he: agreed with the president of the Uni- ted States that there is statesman-j ship enough in the nation to the question effectively. - me age Than Before Frequently asserting condi- tions at their worst Samet ee in- bevel better than they were at their before prohibition, Poling cited | Three women, two from Minneapolis New York City and Portland, Ore- gon, as examples with which he was ecg aa He is connected, he said, of citizenship, ; individual must .| 9 Chicago. | more than $700,000 which should be {secretary of the late President Wood-| {Caught fire, and was destroyed. Fur and friends’ stock accounts and ban‘: loans. ! Much interest was created by the introduction into evidence at the bankruptcy hearing of a roster of 250} names—many of them nationally-) known in political, financial, and in-| dustrial circles—comprising a syn- issue of 600,000 shares of common) stock of the Insull Utility Invest- ments, Inc., in 1930. | Lawyers said introduction of the! list did not indicate that the forma-| tion of the syndicate was irregular! or dishonest, but, that they believed it still owed the bankrupt concern figured among its assets. The syndicate was formed in) August, 1920, to buy 115,000 shares of stock. | The syndicate was disbanded last February with a 20 per cent loss,! about $6,000,000. Among the 250 names were those of | sundry Insull companies, individual and investment concerns identified with them. The names of individuals included those of Mayor Anton J. Cermak; Joseph Tumulty, private| tow Wilson; Owen D. Young and Gerard Swope, chairman and presi- dent, respectively, of the General Electric company; George M. Rey- nolds and George Woodruff, Chicago bankers; and Melvin L. Traylor, prominent Democtat and banker. j Mandan Woman Hurt | In Automobile Crash Rochester, Minn., Sept. 30.—()— and one from Mandan, N. D., narrow- ly escaped death near here Friday! when their automobile overturned, coats of all three women, traveling bags and purses containing currency burned. & tire blew out on the car driven by Mrs. John F. Sullivan, Mandan and the machine turned over twice. jMrs. Mary E. Warner and Mrs Wal- ter Gooch of Minneapolis, her com- panions, and Mrs. Sullivan, all slight- ‘The three women wer2 on their way All were treated at St "8 hos- dicate which under-wrote part of an at jis not much different from that which |in order to administer the sacraments. pital here and expected to return to ‘Minneapolis Friday afternoon. his possessions, sees himself forced to ask the unjust despoiler to grant him at least the use of his possessions.” The Pontiff charged the Mexican government with “acting against the spirit in which the Modus Vivendi was concluded” in 1929, i This agreement regulated the oper- ition of the church, but, he said, many Parts of it have been violated by ex- pulsion and imprisonment of bishops, priests, and the faithful, and by fail- ure to recall all bishops from exile. The Pontiff urged the episcopacy and the faithful to continue to pro- test against the limitation laws. He likened the Mexican situation to that of Russia, “We wanted to sum up briefly the principal points on the grave situa- tion of the church in Mexico so all those who love order and the peace of Peoples, seeing that such unheard-of persecution, especially in some states, ; burst upon the unhappy regions of: Russia, may draw from this evil the coincidence of the intenitons of the new inspiration to dam up the flood overthrowing every social order.” Urging the priests to swallow their pride and continue requesting the! privilege of performing their duties, the Pontiff reminded them of the ex- ample of the early Christians. Scrip- ture relates, he said, that the priests of that day requested permission to visit the early martyrs in the prisons, even offering money for the privilege, Falls Under Tractor, state, in common with Americans} everywhere, have cause to protest present conditions, but such an or- ganized protest might do the farm- ers more harm than good. “It might offend the sense of Propriety of many who are actively | and sincerely working for the best interest of the farmers {n these most) trying times. “Mr. Curtis comes here as a guest! of the state to lay the cornerstone! of North Dakota's new capitol build-| ing, an event in which everyone, re-! gardless of political affiliation, is in-| terested. Nothing should mar that} occasion, historical in its signific- Brown Outlines His | Farm Relief Program| _ St. Paul. Sept. 30—()—A farm re-| lief program embracing lightening the} burden of mottgage debts, reduced taxes, and cessation of land dumping! Was submitted to Minnesota voters Thursday night by Earle Brown, Re- publican gubernatorial candidate, in his keynote address. The speech officially opened his campaign for the office of Governor Floyd B, Olson, although he has been speaking throughout the state for the last few weeks. Promising a $5,000,000 economy pro- gram, Brown said “the supreme issue in this campaign is whether we shall continue to have loose and extrava- gant expenditure of the People’s | money or whether we shall adopt) Is Crushed to Death Valley City, N. D., Sept. 30.—(7)— Rudolph Nord. 21, of Wolverton, Minn., was ‘instantly killed when he was crushed under a tractor while at work in a gravel pit near Sanborn Thursday. Striking a hole, Nord. was tossed from the driver's seat in front of the tractor. The machine passed over his body. ‘The body will be sent to Wolverton for burial, BEGINS LIFE TERM Hedstrom, : farmer late Thursday was sentenced to life imprisonment at Stillwater on his plea of guilty to a second-degree murder charge for the slaying of 42, | rigid and careful economy He endorsed President Hoover and emphasized, among others, these points: Making the proposed income tax @ replacement tax, elimination of politics from the department of agri- culture, and the rooting out of crime and stopping racketters. The Farmer-Labor party was ac- cused of drafting a program contain- ing “schemes for spending new mil- lions on various new adventures” INDIANS TO GREET CURTIS Pawhuska, Okla., Sept. 30.—(AP)— Oklahoma Indians will don tribal paint and feathers and salute a dis- insman—Vice President The Kaw tribe, of which Curtis is a member, will be joined by the Osages and ‘The Democrats want New York be-} cause they argue Hoover cannot be reelected if he loses New York. The Republicans want — Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, because they argue Roose- velt, if he loses the East, can not win without one or more of this Midwest- ezn trio. BISMARCK RESIDENT DIES OF PNEUMONIA Alexander D. Logan Succumbs Here Following Illness of Three Days Alexander D. Logan, 43, a resident of Bismarck since his birth in 1889,! died here at 10:40 a. m. Friday, a vic- tim of pneumonia. His death came only three days after he contracted the illness. A son of pioneer Bismarck parents,| Logan was well known in Bismarck and Burleigh county and was known! familiarly as “Alec.” { At the time of his death he was assistant manager of a grocery con- cern founded by his father in the early days of the city. Logan was educated in the schools of Bismarck, graduating from the local high school in 1907. Later he attended the Dekota Business College at Fargo. He leaves @ brother, Roy, Bismarck, and three sisters, Mrs. Theodore Tay- Jor, Wilton, and Charlotte and Irma of Bismarck. Funeral services will be conducted at the Perry Funeral Parlors at 2 p. m. Sunday with Rev. F. E. Logee of the Presbyterian church officiating. Burial will be in the family lot at Pairview cemetery. Millers Beat Bears To Lead in Series Newark, N. J., Sept. 30.—(AP)— Home runs’by Joe Hauser and Fos- Pawnees in welcoming the vice presi- dent when he arrives for a campaign James G. Herney, federal prohibition agent, last Priday. speech. A parade, barbecue and stomp dance are on the program. & In Missouri Politics Mrs. Gladys Berger Stewart, at- Mo., and a repub- lican, will be the only woman nom. inee for the Missouri legislature in the November election. (Associated Press Photo) ROOSEVELT SCORES ADMINISTRATION AS ‘GREATEST SPENDER’ Can't See ‘Adequate Return’ For Money Being Spent in Washington Aboard Roosevelt Special, En Route to Milwaukee, Sept. 30.—(#)—Gover- nor Roosevelt Friday crossed Iowa, the birthplace of President Hoover, his rival for the presidency, whose administration he accused in a Sioux City speech “of being the greatést times in all our history.” candidate, on the last lap of its 8,900- mile journey through the Middle and Far West, was scheduled to reach ‘Not Too Dumb,’ Says Democrat (Special to the Tribune) Sioux City, Ia., Sept. 30.—Direct | reference to Vice President Curtis was made by R. F. Mitchell, who introduced Franklin D. Roosevelt to a tremendous audience here Thursday night. Mitchell, Demo- cratic national committeeman for Towa and candidate for a place on the supreme court bench, said: “The people of the United States realize as never before that public office is a public trust. They realize that party leaders are re- sponsible for the acts of the party administrations. They demand leaders who will carry out party pledges. “Iowa is proud that Franklin Roosevelt selected this state as one of the states in which he would deliver one of his principal ad- dresses. The people of Iowa are interested in government prob- lems. They can and do understand them despite the utterance of Vice President Curtis in 1928 to a farm- er that he was “too damn dumb to understand.” “The people of Iowa understand that they and the people of other states have, through Republican Yeadership, been forced down in the depression. They now are looking toward Democratic leadership to jlater Roosevelt will be in Chicago for bring them back to better times. “I might appropriately introduce the speaker this evening as the Democratic candidate for presi- dent; I might introduce him as a great governor of a great state; I am going to introduce him as Franklin D. Roosevelt, our next president.” Milwaukee at 1 p.m. Eight hours the last week-end before he returns to the New York state capitol. Roosevelt, speaking at the Stock- The special train of the Democratic! a) PRICE FIVE CENTS WOMEN KIDNAPED BY ROBBER GANG HIT BY BUCKSHOT Hostages Used as Shields as Bandits Make Getaway With $6,000 POSSE ORGANIZED QUICKLY Cashier Who Released Burglar Alarm ts Knocked Unconscious Wahpeton, N. D., Sept. 30.—()— Four bandits who shot their way out of Wahpeton Friday forenoon after robbing the Citizens National Bank of about $6,000 carried with them two Wahpeton young women as human shields against the bullets of pursuing Possemen. The women were dropped from the bandit car 20 miles away, both wound- ed by buckshot fired at the robbers. Seized as hostages were Miss Ruth Whipps, teller in the bank, and Miss Doris Stock, Hankinson, deputy Rich- land county superintendent of schools. They were dumped off the bandit car at a deserted farm house 20 miles southeast of Wahpeton on the Minne- sota side of the river in the course of the desperate flight from a sheriff’s Posse, which at J p. m. Friday still was on the trail. The girls were badly wounded, pep- Pered by shot from guns of Wahpeton residents who fired at the bandits from second-story windows during the quartet's daring race though town. They are expected to recover in the hospital here. Entering the bank about 10:05 a. m., the quartet, one man armed with @ submachine gun, three with re- volvers and one an iron bar, deploy- ed themselves about the bank, cov- ering all vantage points. One of them approached B. P. McCusker. cashier of the bank, and informed him that a holdup was in progress. Profane In Orders Profane and brutal in their lan- guage, the other three approached other corners of the building, order- ing all employees of the building and patrons to the floor. One bandit was well dressed. S. H. Murray, the cashier, who was spending administration in peace) sugged by the raiders, was not ser- jiously hurt. He was dazed tempor- arily. The bandits whirled out of town, firing as they went, and soon were being pressed by a posse headed by Sheriff D. S. MclIlwain of Richland county, and Chief of Police Henry Sweizer of Wahpeton. About a dozen employes and pa- trons were in the bank when the rob- bers entered and whipped out fire- arms. “This is a holdup and no fooling, either. We mean business.” That was the order of the bandit leader. As soon as the victims raised their hands, they were ordered to lie on the floor. While one of the gunmen stood guard, the others proceeded to rifle the drawers in the cashier’s cage and loot the vault. Burglar Alarm Sounds Then, as the raiders were looting the bank, the burglar alarm sounded. It_was touched off by Murray. The bandit standing guard slugged the cashier on the head and knocked him senseless. He recovered con- sciousness in a few moments. Hurriedly gathering up all the avail- able cash, while the alarm sounded, the bandits ran through a rear door and got in an automobile parked ia the alley. They made no attempt to lock their victims in the yault. As they sped from the alley, a volley of shots was fired. They headed to- wards Fargo, taking highway No. 81. When they were a mile out of town, they still were shooting. Officers from the sheriff's office in Fargo joined the pursuit. The Citizens National Bank was held up two years ago. Mortgages Parley In Closing Session Chicago, Sept. 30.—(AP)—The con- ference of financial and industrial leaders, convened at the urging of President Hoover to seek a solution of the farm mortgage situation, en- tered its final session Friday with expressed hopes of arriving at a def- inite plan of aid. The conferees would not disclose what would be evolved, but Henry M. Robinson, Los Angeles, chairman of said “I'm fairly certain yards Baseball park Thursday night in Sioux City, discussed taxes, the tariff and mortgages and their rela- tionship to farmer relief. return for the money we are spend- ing in Washington,” the nominee de- clared. The administration, he added, “has piled bureau on bureau, commission on commission, and has failed to an- ticipate the dire needs or reduced Continuing, Roosevelt said: “I that the president is at work plan to consolidate and federal bureaucracy. Four series Friday. Newark’s only run was Yun by Charley Hargreaves. a that today’s session will see a com- prehensive plan developed to help the mortgage-burdened farmer. It will cover mortgages issued by all agen- “We are not getting an adequate] “les.” He would not comment on reports that some form of moratorium on farm loans was being considered.