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

_ North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 Hoover Considers Sweepin TRANSCONTINENTAL JAUNT IS URGED BY POLITICAL ADVISERS [rip Would Take in lowa, Illi- nois, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania PRESIDENT IS ENCOURAGED Special Train Stopped at Dozen Places Between Des Moines and Capital ‘Washington, Oct. 6.—(#)—President Hoover returned to the white house ‘Thursday from a three day trip to the farm belt with some of his friends urging him to make an extended cross country swing in his campaign for reelection. Some of Hoover's political advis- ers urged such a tour upon him in conferences Wednesday night, saying the results of his present tour through Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania indicate the po- litical expediency of a swing across country to the west coast, in addition to the two trips already scheduled as his program. The president himself, over and again, said he was “heartened” and “encouraged” by his reception in the ‘Middlewest. In his last rear platform appear- ances Wednesday night, as his spe- cial train stopped in Johnstown, Pa., the president was urged by some of those in the crowd to make more speeches like the one he delivered at Des Moines. “We heard you last night,” a man in the crowd shouted. “Give us three more like that and it'll all be over.” “Do you want some more?” the president asked. “Yes,” a chorus of voices replied. ‘The train then was moving off and the president did not commit him- self. Stopped at Dozen Places Johnstown was the last of more than a dozen towns and cities stretching from Chicago past Pitts- burgh in which President and Mrs. Hoover made rear platform appear- ances to greet crowds ranging, ac- cording to police estimates, up to 15,000. In one of the first of these appear- ances, at Fort Wayne, Ind., the pres- ident delivered a prepared speech as- serting “widespread personal mis- representations,” which he said had been promulgated through the farm belt, were “deliberate, intolerable falsehoods.” “I shall say now the only harsh word that I have uttered in public office,” Hoover said. “I hope it will be the last I shall have to say. “When you are told that the pres- ident of the United States, who by the most sacred trust of our na- tion is the president of all the peo- ple, a man of your own blood and upbringing, has sat in the white house for the last three years of your misfortune without troubling to know your burdens, without heart- aches over your miseries and casual- ties, without summoning every ave- nue of skillful assistance irrespec- tive of party or view, without using every ounce of his strength and straining his every nerve to protect and help, without using every pos- sible agency of democracy that would bring aid, without putting aside personal ambition and humb- ling his pride of opinion, if that would serve—then I say to you that such statements are deliberate, in- tolerable falsehoods.” Made Few Addresses The president and his wife made other appearances at Chicago, Van Wert, Ind., Lima, Upper Sandusky, Bucyrus, Crestline, Mansfield, Lou- donsville, Shreve, Wooster, Massillon, Canton and Alliance, Ohio; Sewick- ley, Pittsburgh and Greensburg, Pa. At most of the stops, the president. made no formal speeches but told the cheering crowds, “Your own wel- come is the best speech that can be made.” At Canton, the president said: “This is the home of the beloved William McKinley. It was just 36 years ago that President McKinley fought the same issues we are fight- ing today, and he fought under less stress and duress than we are today. “Canton gave President McKinley its full measure of support, and I THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1932 Farmer Pickets Back at Work The Kunnel! 4 | o Miss Mary King Montgomery, above, is a colonel, suh, She's an honorary commander of the University of Kentucky's R. O. T. C. unit, chosen over other co-eds. And Kentucky takes its colonels seriously—when her Picture appeared in a photographer's display an admirer broke into the case and carried it away. WIFE'S BILL BRINGS INTERESTING ACTION INTO GOTHAM COURT Author Would Discourage Firms From Giving Spouse Too Much Credit New York, Oct. 6—(?)—A consider- able number of married men, and their wives, and the merchants where those wives run bills, will follow with interest the action of Clarence Buddington Kelland, the writer, in the matter of a bill of $3,313 which ze Proposes not to pay if he can help The bill is from Hattie Carnegie, Inc., dressmaker, and purports to be for purchases made by Mrs. Kelland between Feb, 27, 1931, and the same day in 1932. Kelland argues in a supreme court} action which the concern instituted that he is not lable for its payment! because the articles purchased were not “necessaries.” But further than that, he sets forth something should be done to discourage firms from permitting women to run large bills in the be- lief that the husbands have the money and can pay them. His fight, he states, is against the practice of “plying” women to buy goods they “"elland wants wants to know by what line of reasoning a firm could be- lieve that his financial condition at. any time would justify a character- ization of hose at $6.50 a pair, dress- es at $225 and $250, perfumery at $25 and a cloth coat at $420 “as nec- Cores a my wife.” le said that in the period covered by the bill he gave his wife $7,000, which seemed to him sufficient for her needs. Mrs. Kelland, supporting her hus- band, stated the purchases were made with the understanding she was to be billed, and not her hus- band. She added “she thought at the time” she would be able to make payment, but “events have altered conditions.” She said efforts to ar- range payment by installments had been unsuccessful, Kelland fought a suit in 1930 on somewhat different grounds. The Salon de Trousseaux, Inc., sued to recover $4,650 for linens. At that time the author said his wife had placed a small order and that the firm had delivered very much more. | $80. An effort by Hattie Carnegie, Inc., to have summary judgment given against Kelland was denied by the court Wednesday, and the case was set for later trial. Bonus Committee to ‘Call on President TAMMANY PLANS T0 CHOOSE CANDIDATE COMMAND INTEREST Contradictory Rumors Fill Tense Air As Meeting Draws Near SMITH IS FIGHTING WALKER Court Rules That Mayoralty _ Election Must Be Held This Fall New York, Oct. 6.—(?)—The gleam of Tomahawks in and out of the Tam- many Wigwam set political scalps tingling Thursday as Democrats pre- Pared to meet in vast. pow-wow Thurs- day night to pick a candidate for mayor. There were many reports as the huge melange that is New York poli- tics bubbled furiously. The Herald- Tribune was informed Ex-Mayor James J. Walker, riding the high seas homeward from Europe, probably would decline nomination on the grounds of poor health. The Daily News said Alfred E. Smith, who has donned his brown derby and fighting demeanor, was de- termined to put a coup de grace to any mayoralty comeback by Walker, and that in this enterprise Smith would have the backing of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lieutenant Governor Herbert H. Lehman. Rumblings, too, were heard in the Bronx, home of Mayor Joseph V. Mc- Kee, a Scot with an economy program. He became mayor when Walker re- signed. On leaving office Walker an- nounced he would look to the people for vindication from charges of un- fitness. McKee, who contends that under the law there should be no election next month and that he should serve until 1934, predicted a court battle to contest the validity of any mayoralty nomination at the city convention. He contends the election law requires such a nomination be filed not later than Oct. 4. The Times said there was every indication the Bronx group of dele- gates, 7,000 strong, would remain away from the convention. The Court of Appeals decided Thursday a mayoralty election must be held this fall. ‘ More than 32,000 delegates were summoned to assemble in Madison Square Garden. There was no indication whether jto collect the amount of the bill,|John F. Curry, sparse, graying, “Big Chief” of Tammany Hall, would hold out for the nomination’ of Walker. Curry, who fought a losing fight against the nomination of Lehman for governor at Albany early this week, faces a threat against his lead- ership. Reject All Bids for Emmons Courthouse Emmons county commissioners Wednesday rejected all bids on a combined courthouse and memorial building and decided to submit to the electors on November 8 a proposal to issue $40,000 worth of bonds to fi- nance the structure. It had been the original intention to plan for an $80,000 building now but to construct only as much as the funds on hand would pay for, leaving the rest until later. The county has approximately $40,000 in cash, of which $30,000 is in the World War memorial fund and $10,000 in the general fund. Objection by World War veterans to spending the money for this pur- pose, however, and a counter proposal that the entire structure be built now, led to the bond issue proposal. Although the lowest bid received on the proposed complete structure was $81,300, it was said by Ira L. Rush, architect of Bismarck and Mi- not, that alterations could easily be made so as to erect the structure for Fi coins rn auisiandicg tn debtedness now, he said. Bankers Insist Upon Cut in Expenditures Los Angeles, Oct. 6.—(?)—The de- mand of the nations’ bankers for a reduction of public expenditures be- president and Mrs. Hoover appeared Agent Will Valley City to Vote On Sewage Plant Plan Valley City, N. D., Oct. 6—(P)—A Proposal to establish a sewage dis- posal plant heré at an estimated cost, Of $65,000 will be voted on by the citi- zens of Valley City Nov. 8. Decision to place the proposal be- fore the voters was reached at a meeting of the city council. Recently the Civic and Commerce association Planned to circulate petitions for the same purpose but was unable to se- cure necessary information within the legal time limit and as a result no petitions were circulated. Several persons living along the) Sheyenne river south of Valley City urged building of the proposed plant to alleviate the unsanitary conditions which they claim now exist along the river. Burnie Maurek, state game and fish commissoner, appeared be- fore the meeting in favor of the proj- ect, pointing to the harmful effect of contaminated water on fish and fish hatcheries. Roosevelt Pleased By Lehman Victory Albany, N. Y¥., Oct. 6.—(P)—A brief interlude of state business is occupy- ing Governor Roosevelt's attention be- fore he sets forth on the last big drive in his oampaign for the presi- dency. Pleased at. the outcome of what his staff feels was the last big problem of his campaign, the nomination of Herbert H. Lehman for governor, Roosevelt Thursday was making rapid progress with the pile of correspon: ence and other state matters thi accumulated during his recent west- ern trip. He was preparing also to receive his With Hoover.on Vote Tour Answering the challenge of the farm belt, President Hoover began his speaking campaign in the middlewest by traveling to Des Moines, Ia. Here is the president as he appeared before a crowd at Altoona, Pa. The on the platform when their special train stopped at Harrisburg, Pa., and Chicago, and in Iowa at Daven- ort, West Liberty, Iowa City and Newton. Proposal to Drop County -Go on Ballot Burleigh Citizens to Vote on Proposition at General Election Burleigh county November 8 on the question of wheth- er county agent work shall be aban- -doned or retained. Decision on this point was made Thursday by county commissioners who ordered the measure placed on the ballot by a vote of four to one. Commissioners Swanson, Soder, Fricke and Moynier supported the motion while Chairman George F, Will cast the lone opposing vote. Action followed arguments by L. J. Wehe, representing the petitioners, and H. F. O'Hare, who appeared for County Agent H. O. Putnam and E. J. Parizek, assistant county agent leader from the state agricultural college at Fargo. The latter claimed that the peti- tion was insufficient for lack of legal signers and presented g counter peti- tion which asked that the issue be kept off the ballot. The latter was signed by 248 names and it was alleged that those signing the second petition also signed the first. In addition 148 names were challenged as being im- properly signed or having been signed by non-voters. Under the law petitions for a vote on continuing county agent work must contain the signatures of 20 per cent of the persons who cast votes for gov- ernor at the last preceding election. Since the total vote for governor ini Burleigh county two years ago was 5,749, a total of 1150 signatures was necessary. The petition as filed con- tained 1,384 names. PENNSYLVANIA HAS SNOW Johnstown, Pa., Oct. 6.—()—The first snow of the season fell today in Cambria and Somerset counties. The running mate, John N. Garner, ex- pected to visit Albany this week. On board the President’s Spe- snow followed an inch of rain. The temperature was 23 degrees above zero, Return Trip Gave Mrs. Hoover Chance To Visit Home Town of Her Ancestors Lustily oters will ballot) 1, INSULL PROBE HITS SNAG WHEN COUNTY BOARD REFUSES AD! | State’s Attorney Balked Twice in Effort to Get Prosecu- tion Funds NEXT MOVE IS UNCERTAIN Intimates That Inquiry Into Sit- uation By Grand Jury May Be Started Chicago, Oct. 6—()—An intima- tion that unless the Cook county board vote funds for expenses of ex- tradition of Samuel and Martin In- sull, an inquiry may be started by the grand jury was given Thursday by State’s Attorney John A. Swan- Balked twice by refusal of the board to grant him funds to push ex- tradition, Swanson telephoned Em- mett Whealan, president of the county board, asking the board be called into session to vote $10,000 estimated necessary for extradition proceedings. “The grand jury voted these in- dictments,” Swanson told Whealan,| “and maybe the members of that jury are interested in seeing the cases prosecuted.” Swanson refused to elaborate his conversation and did not announce what his next step would be in the event the board again denied him funds, The Insull brothers were indicted on charges of larceny and embezzle- ment as a result of the collapse of the Insull utility chain. Martin is in Canada and Samuel in France. The governor refused to ask the federal government to proceed with extradition until the county gave as- surance it would foot the bill. (pibeipe sieny, has two of his aids in Canada seeking apprehension of Martin Insull, sleiads UNABLE TO LOCATE SAMUEL IN FRANCE Paris.—Samuel Insull and his son, Samuel, Jr., still had not returned to their hotel shortly before noon Thurs- day when an attempt again was made to reach the elder Insull for comment on his indictment in Chicago. They left the hotel early Wednesday orning. Mrs. Insull, Sr., notified the man- agement she no longer needed her son's room. She continued to remain. at the hotel, however, Wednesday night she said she knew nothing of her husband’s affairs, “I am sick and annoyed,” she said. MARTIN REFUSES TO WAIVE EXTRADITION Toronto.—John Hampton, assistant state’s attorney of Cook county, Il- linois, arrived here Thursday and an- nounced he would apply for a pro- visional fugitive warrant for the ar- rest of Martin Insull, under indict- ment in Chicago. He said Insull re- fused to waive extradition. Discover Plot for Prison Delivery Detroit, Oct. 6—(#)—Three guards at the Michigan state prison at Jack- son Thursday were ordered held for questioning following the discovery of what is believed by officials here to have been a plot to liberate prisoners by biasing the prison walls with amite. The guards, Archie C. French, Ken- neth Watson and Ernest W. Stanton, were to be questioned by Detroit po: lice and prison officials, Police said French has admitted smuggling let- ters from the prison and conveying money to prisoners from their friends, but has denied any knowledge of the Purported escape plot. Mary Cross, a sister of Edward Cross, serving a 15 to 30-year robbery sentence, and Mrs. Agnes Schoon- maker, a friend of James Hall, alias Overstreet, who is serving a 35 to 60- year robbery term, already were in custody, They were arrested in De: born, a Detroit suburb, after exp! sives, guns and ammunition, and let- ters referring to a plot to liberate Cross and:Hall, had been discovered. Four Thought Lost As Freighter Sinks g Speaking Tour Japan at Fault j The Earl of Lytton (above), former Viceroy of India, was chairman of the League of Nations investigating commission which, by formally con- demning Japan's military occupation of Manchuria, hurled a verbal bomb- shell into the world of diplomacy. TESTIMONY BEGINS IN FLORIDA PRISON CAMP MURDER CASE Doctors Says Autopsy Showed Young Man Died of Strangulation Jacksonville, Fla.. Oct. 6—(?)—The death of Arthur Maillefert, young ‘New Jersey convict, was formally as- signed to strangulation — probably caused by a chain about his neck—as the state Thursday sought to convict former prison camp officers of mur- der for placing him in the sweatbox where he died. The first witness was called by the State against Captain George M. Courson and Solomon Higginbotham, the guards accused, here Wednesday. Maillefert died June 3 in a “sweat- box,” @ solitary confinement cell at the Sunbeam prison camp near Jacksonville. Dr. R. R. Killinger said his exam- ination of the convict’s body showed he had nothing to eat for at least 12 hours and probably 24 hours before death. Dr. Killinger said he judged from Maillefert’s body that the convict was in a weakened condition, that there was congestion in the lungs indicat- ing a mild condition of pneumonia and that there were numerous bruises about the body, legs and neck. The neck bruises, he said, apparently were caused by a chain. The state charges Maillefert died of strangulation in the prison sweatbox. chained by his neck to an overhead beam and with heavy wooden stocks on his feet. Courson and Higginbo- tham explained at previous court hearings that they had placed Mail- lefert in the sweatbox because he at- tempted to escape on several occa- sions and because he was unruly and refused to work. The defense contends the convict committed suicide by swinging his weight on the neck chain rather thar. serve his sentence of nine years for @ robbery in Daytona Beach. He was 19 years old. Maillefert’s mother and his brother, who came here from Westfiled, N. J., were among spectators at the trial. William Roberts, a convict, related how Maillefert, naked, had been locked in a sweat box, his arms con- fined by a heavy barrel placed over his body and fastened from the shoulders by boards and straps. “I heard Higginbotham say that he would rather kill Maillefert than eat,” Roberts continued. War Debt Revision Is Key, Says Farmer New York, Oct. 6—P)—A. new deal on what he described as the “pesky war debts,” was held by C. C. Isely, PRICE FIVE CENTS (ARMISTICE BROKEN AT MANY POINTS ON MIDWESTERN FRONT Northwestern lowa, Southeast- ern South Dakota, Min- nesota Seething SHOOTING IS INVESTIGATED First -~ Degree Manslaughter Charges Will Be Filed Against Father, Son Des Moines, Ia., Oct, 6—(P)—The farm war armistice has been broken, After resting up a while, farmers in Towa, Minnesota, and South Dakota were back on the highways Thursday, attempting to stop farm shipments to improve prices. Their activities were concentrated in northwestern Iowa, southeastern South Dakota and southwestern Min- nesota, scenes of the most vigorous disputes during August and Septem- ber. The traditional weapons of the striking farmer—heavy planks, logs, machine belts studded with spikes, and clubs—were their accoutrements. Tension was noted among some of the groups as the result of the killing of Nordahl Peterson, 25, farm picket, Farm Pickets Help In Loading Cattle Farm picketers who recently pre- vented the shipment of 53 care loads of cattle from Sanish fol- lowing a round-up in that terri- tory, Thursday were helping to load the animals for transporta- tion to market, according to infor- mation received at the offices of the Soo Line railroad here. Walter J, Maddock, former gov- ernor and now vice president of the state farmers union, and two other men were at Sanish and were assumed to have adjusted the difficulty, but no details of the arrangements made were available here. near Canby. Tuesday night He was the first direct causalty in the Holi- day movement, alth & special deputy was killed at Council Bluffs in August by the accidental discharge of a riot gun. Ole Anderson, 57, and his son, Leonard, 19, were said to have cone fessed they were responsible for the killing of Peterson. Authorities indicated first-degree manslaughter charges would be filed against both. |_ The shooting had a moderating ef- fect in Pipestone county, Minnesota, where leaders of the Farmers’ Holi- day association announced they would abandon picketing. At Willmar, Minn,. however, 200 officers and delegates of the Minnesota branch of the Nation- al Farmers’ Holiday association voted unanimously at a state-wide meeting to continue “peaceful picketing.” The father and son, held in jail at Granite Falls, told authorities they “wanted to scare the pickets,” so de- cided to “shot over the heads of the Pickets.” The group appointed a vigilante committee to have charge of picket- ing which would seek to withhold all Products except dairy supplies and e Bes. Activities of South Dakota picket- eers were concentrated in Minnehaha county, where they had promised to lay down an airtight embargo on grain and livestock shipments into Sioux Falls Thursday. In Emmet county in northwestern Iowa a peaceful picketing campaign was in progress. Milo Reno, national president of the association, was reported en route to Canby, Minn., Thursday to inves- tigate the slaying of Peterson, MILK RECEIVING PLANT IN WISCONSIN BOMBED tt merchant-farmer of Dodge City,|of 10 blocks of the plant. Kan., to be the preferred road of the} About an hour later, John Eisen- whet farmer to economic improve-| bart, 55, the watchman, appeared at ment Having ip iting the committee for| building. the study of intergovernmental debts,| The men set two bombs, he said, and Isely delayed his return to the wheat then rushed him to their automobile they joined in their Uniontown, Pa., Oct. 6—(7)}—With|came more insistent Thursday with ter song. the nation’s capitol as its next ob-|another session of the 58th annual The president shook hands with] jective, the Bonus Expeditionary |convention of the American Bankers’ another candidate for president,| Force prepared Thursday to select a| association being devoted to @ consid- Jacob 8. Coxey, running on the| new staff of officers and wind up its|eration of the problem. Farmer-Labor ticket, at Massillon,| first’ national convention. Paul Shoup, vice chairman of the where the famous leader of Coxey’s| As the delegates assembled in the|Southern Pacific company, was to Army is now mayor. warehouse convention hall, however,| add his voice to the denouncement of As night came, the president's} interest in the election was over-|taxes by delivering the principal ad- party ran into rain, but the crowds| shadowed by the hurried prepara-|dress, ‘“Over-Taxation—A Business still surrounded the train at every/ tions to send a committee to call on| viewpoint.” stop. President Hoover. ‘The convention already has gone on “I certainly appreciate your com-| Eight men and two women chosen|record as demanding a reduction of ing here on a cold wet night like this/ in Wednesday's storm session will de-| public expenditures and discontinu- to greet me and give me this encour-| part for Washington as soon as the| ance of the present high rates of tax- agement,” the president said at|convention is adjourned. They will ation Greensburg. carry with them resolutions adopted] Despite the pessimistic attitude “They've been waiting for three| with thunderous applause, demand-|taken so far by the bankers on the hours,” a policeman replied as train pulled out. i laration that “for the first time dur- ——_—_—_—__ ing this long depression we are able SEEK MYSTERY MAN to record definite signs of business Chelsea, Mass., Oct. 6—()—A tall, improvement.” ELKINS, W. VA., HAS SNOW am _ greatly encouraged by the cial, Oct. 6.—()—Most of the way warmth of your welcome today.” back to Washington from the Iowa ovation, Mrs. Hoover shared in stations cheering for the pres- ident, but at Wooster, O., the president shared honors in a col- lege yell given for Mrs, Hoover. At all the stops but Wooster, President Hoover made the speech and Mrs. Hoover smiled and waved. At Wooster, Mrs. Hoover Alma Mai “This is my college tune,” Mrs. Hoover smilingly explained to the resident. “I am so proud that I bek you I am to bal oe Again Thursday to tell ag ead bey his feet and etails. with ro a wil his belief that the U.) him. e ee ee Dunkirk, N. ¥., Oct. the Canadian freight steamer John J. Boland, Jr., which sank in less than four minutes Wednesday with ee z 3 an and i H fe Ba ive The, resolution also mig im- mediate payment of adjusted compensation certificates. CRACKSMEN UNSUCCESSFUL Cracksmen Who used five charges of nitro-glycerine an attempt - Elkins ter the vault of the Pirst State Bank | ing po r children |of Lake Lillian succeeded only the interior of the bank,