The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 18, 1932, Page 1

North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 Roosevelt Picks Chief Adviser Bare Two Extortion Plots.at Grand Forks "NEWSPAPER EDITOR ({— ei Hoeitat7|VANDENBERG JOINS AND MERCHANT ARE INTENDED VICTIMS Details Withheld From Public While Police Laid Traps For Perpetrators CRIMES SAID ‘AMATEURISH’ Don Whitman and W. P. Davies Threatened With Death in Lieu of Money Grand Forks, N. D., Nov. 18.—(P)— Extortion attempts against two prominent Grand Forks men—Don Whitman and W.P. Davies—in which the two victims were threatened with death unless they paid the extortion- isty a total of $2,500—were revealed late Thursday. The homes of both men have been under police guard since Tuesday night, the would-be extortionists having escaped two traps set by po- pi ice. Whitman, manager of the J..C. Penney company store here, was met at his home Monday evening by a masked, armed man who compelled Whitman at the point of a gun to drive him about the city while the extortionist delivered his demand for $2,000. Davies, editar of the Grand Forks Herald, received two demands through the mail at his home, one letter mailed early last week and the other Monday of this week. Both notes instructed Davies to place $500 in a box and leave it at a designated place on University avenue and threatened death if he did not comply. Followed Instructions Whitman followed the instructions of the masked man, but was not given a “signal” to deliver the pack- age of money on the road “past the cemetery” as his assailant said he would. He returned the package to the city. Police deposited a box in accord- ance “with the instructio.# conjsined in the second letter to Davies, but no one called to pick it up and it was brought back to police headquarters. Information regarding the two ex- tortion attempts was withheld until Thursday night in order to allow the police more time to work and in be- lief that the perpetrators might ap- pear again, Chief of Police Henry Knudson ex- pressed ‘opinion the two attempts were made by different men. The Davies attempt appeared to be the work of a crank, while there were said to be a few professional touches to the assault on Whitman, although the entire operation was amateurish. Wore Knitted Hood The masked man approached Whit- man about 6:30 p. m. Monday as he stepped from his car at his garage. He wore a knee-length sheeplined coat and his face was covered by @ knitted wool helmet with holes for the eyes. Covering Whitman with a gun concealed in his pocket so that the pressure of the muzzle showed through the cloth, he ordered Whit- man into his car. When Whitman said he was “not in the habit of being ordered in and (Continued on page Nine) ADVANCED DEGREES EXEMPLIFIED HERE Impresssive Ceremonials Mark Final Day's Activities of Scottish Rite Bodies Impressive Masonic ceremonials were exemplified here Friday by Bis- marck-Mandan consistory, Scottish Rite Masons of the Missouri Slope, in the final day's activities in the ninth annual reunion of the Valley of Bis- marek. Candidates and members of the Scottish Rite bodies throughout the district were to gather at the tradi- tional banquet at the temple at 6 o'clock tonight. Pinal degrees were exemplified Pri- day after three days of ceremonials presented by the Bismarck-Mandan Lodge of Perfection, Bismarck-Man- dan Chapter Rose Croix, and Bis- of advanced degrees. Acting / with|. him were Supreme Court Justiées W. L, Nuessle, prior, and L. E. Birdzell, preceptor. Special entertainment features will be presented in connection with the banquet Friday evening under direction of Judge Christianson. The reunion BISMARCK,’ NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1932 U. 8. Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota’ was in a St. Paul hospital for several days recovering from injuries suffered in an accident in which his automobile was wrecked near Hudson, AGED PRESENT OF CHRMANY IS FACING POUTICAL TANGLE Von Hindenburg Seeks Succes- sor to von Papen Accept- able to Reichstag Berlin, Nov. 18.—(#)—The full weight of Germany's domestic crisis fell upon the aged President von Hindenburg Friday as he set out grimly to attain his cherished ideal of a national concentration govern- ent tolerated,.at least, by-the dead- locked reichstag. The president started out alone on the difficult road he has charted for himself as a result of the resignation of the junker cabinet of Franz von Papen. That government stepped failed to give it a working hold on the reichstag. Only the president's secretary was called to accompany the president at conferences with various party lead- ers—each in private. Selected for these talks Friday were Alfred Hugenburg, the nationalist party leader, Eduard Dingledey, the German people's. (populist) party chief, and Dr. Ludwig Kaas, acting for the Catholic centrist party. Saturday the chief executive will! see Adolf Hitler, leader of the most! powerful single group in the reichs- tag, the National Socialist, and Dr. Schaeffer of the Bayarian people's Party. ' The socialists were not invited be- cause of their brusque refusal to meet the resigning chancellor, von Papen, Tuesday. Nothing was said, either, | of the communists. The president's idea of a national concentration government was said to be a cabinet appointed by him and responsible primarily to him, but sup- ported, or at least tolerated, by the reichstag, ‘which itself has no single group or coalitio a ma- jority. : Among several suggestions for the chancellorship appears the name of Dr. Heinrich Schnee, who recently re- signed from the people's party, whose leader was designated one of the president's conferees Friday. Snowfall Is General In Red River Valley (By The Associated Press) A light snowfall was general over the eastern half of the state Friday ‘as moderate temperatures prevailed. It was snowing at Grand Forks, Devils Lake, Fargo, Valley City, Jamestown and Bismarck-Mandan for @ short time early Friday. Devils Lake received .12-inch precipitation, Grand Forks .10, and Fargo .08-inch while only a trace was recorded at the oth- = Ler communities in the 24-hour period ending at 7 a. m. Colder weather was in prospect for Express Rates Are - Reduced Further dressed poultry from all North Dakota points to many eastern points were to be effective Friday, it is announced by Johnson, Fargo agent of the Railway Express company. GROUP DEMANDING DRY LAW CHANGES Michigan Senator Says Voters At Last Election Gave Mandate to Solons SAYS ENFORCEMENT AURT Would Preserve Federal Cooper- ation in Protecting Self- Elected Dry States * Washington, Nov. 18.—(#)—The drive for a change in federal liquor laws gained impetus Friday from an announcement by Senator Vanden- berg, Michigan Republican, that he favors immediate submission of a prohibition repeal amendment and li- beralization of the Volstead law. Vandenberg’s announcement, made in a formal statement, came as anti- prohibitionists in the house were seek- ing to have the ways and means com- mittee draft a beer bill in time for Presentation when congress convenes. Chairman Collier agreed to refer to committee members a suggestion from Representative O'Connor, of New York, leader of the Democratic wet bloc, that the group meet before con- gress convenes to draft a beer mea- sure, Majority Demands It Vandenberg said he was in favor of “immediate resubmission of the 18th amendment” because “a just regard for the rights of majorities and the validity of law enforcement demands it.” The Michigan senator voted last session against the proposals for legal- izing and taking beer, but on the last day of the session, after the party conventions, voted with the senate majority to consider the resolution of- fered by Senator Glass (Dem., Va.) to repeal the 18th amendment and substitute a ban against the saloon. The vote in Michigan repealing the state prohibition act, Vandenberg said, demonstrates two out of three ‘vaters “demand a change.” He char- acterized the result as “an undeni- able mandate.” Are Entitled To Right Officials B PROPOSE CHANGE IN HOUSING PLANS FOR 1933 LEGISLATURE Would Divide Big Hall in Me- morial Building to Form Two Chambers Both the house and senate cham+ bers for the twenty-third legislative assembly, which will meet here next January, will be located on the main floor of the World War Memorial building under a plan to be presented to members of the state board of ad- ministration and representatives of the two legislative branches in the near future. The proposal is to erect two sound- proof walls in the great hall from east to west, with a hallway between, thus providing two separate cham- bers for the conduct of legislative dis- cussions, Each hall would have a bal- cony to which access could be had without entering the chambers and advocates of the proposal contend that the cost of the proposal would be less than if the arrangements made for the: 1931 session were duplicated again. Two year8 ago the city auditorium was used as a house chamber with the speaker's desk on the stage. In order to provide room for the desks of members it was necessary, to re- move every other row of seats and to build special desks with the front legs longer than the back ones in order to accommodate the equipment to the slope of the floor. Committee rooms for both house and senate were located in what are now the American Legion clubroom, the dining room, and other parts of the building. The senate chamber was located in what now is the lower gymnasium. “One of the difficulties encountered at the last session was that‘of heating the auditorium, with the doors con- ‘stantly opening. Under the proposed arrangement cammittee rooms would be provided “For two reasons,” he continued,/under the balcony of each house, the “it should be validated at once. . First: whole layout being the most compact Citizens who have spoken so convinc- {ever devised for a legislative session aside Thursday after two elections had | ingly are entitled as a right of popu-!in North Dakota. lar government to the earliest oppor- tunity to complete their conception | of ordered temperance. “Second: Pending this conclusive The modern heating facilities in- stalled in the new building are declar- jed ideal to meet the need for comfort on the part of,the state's lawmakers, action there is an interlude of chaos/ fans being located in each corner of which injects infirmity into all law enforcement, precipitates new disputes over federal and state cooperation, shatters morale, and encourages law- less and untaxed liquor latitudes. Vandenberg said the repeal proposal the great hall to drive warm air into it. Mailing and bill rooms would be lo- cated in the lobby of the Memorial building and all other legislative faci- lities would be housed under the should “preserve federal cooperation | same roof. in protecting self-elected dry territory from wet invasion, favored state ac- tion to continue to outlaw the saloon,” and said he would vote for beer leg- islation that “stays within the consti- tution.” SAYS AGRICULTURE NEARING PEASANTRY f= Minneapolis Publisher Says In- ter-Governmental Debts Are At Bottom New York, Nov. 18.—()—Frederick E. Murphy, publisher of the Minne- apolis Tribune, pictured American ag- riculture as “steadily sinking to the Tow level of peasantry” and told the Academy of Political Science Friday “inter-governmental debts are at the bottom of the difficulty, and the fun- damental cause for the stoppage of international trade.” “Inter - governmental debts have forced all the debtor nations on a buyers’ strike,” ‘he said. “The debtor nation obviously must sell more than it br The tariff is the device by which the debtor nations seek to gain @ favorable balance of trade in order to meet their debt requirements ‘When every nation refuses to buy and strives only to sell, we have &n eco- nomic stalemate, reminiscent of trench warfare. “And thus it comes about, that the American farm are ‘The suggestion, however, would pre- vent basketball games from being held on the main floor of the building dur- ing the winter and these conflicting interests must be harmonized if the proposed plan is adopted. ‘The proposal and the alternate pro- vided by the previous arrangement will be considered at a joint meeting of the board of administration, legis- lative representatives and the board managers of the World War Me- morial building to be held in the near future. Mayor A. P. Lenhart who, together with George F. Will, chairman of the board of county commissioners, com- prises the board of managers of the building, said the attitude of the board will be to make whatever arrange- ments the legislators prefer if it is physically possible to do so. North Dakota Stock Wins Further Honors Kansas City, Nov. 18.—(?)—New champions and grand champions of the livestock world were named at baer Pe acne tesluded e jonship awards included: Cattle (milking is): Se- nior champion bull—Marshall Butter- cup, owned by Olsen Bros., Hanna- ford, N. D. Dairy cattle (milking) Shorthorns: Senior and grand champion female— Rockrose Helen Divine, Dwight Smith and Sons, Bozeman, Mont.; junior champion female—Hillcreek Camilla, Olsen Brothers, Hannaford, N. D. usy on Balancing of Budget and War Debts Tangle Occasion Conferences TAX RETURNS DISAPPOINT Opposition to Extension of Mor- atorium General Among Party Heads Washington, Nov. 18—(?)—A med- ley of official talk and conferences Friday encompassed the pressing is- sues of war debts and a balanced budget, subjects of two momentous white house conferences next week. At the first, President Hoover and President-Elect ‘Roosevelt will discuss informally Tuesday afternoon these and other matters of vital national interest. An advisor, Secretary Mills in the president's case, will attend each. The second, scheduled for the next morning; will give the chief executive an opportunity to survey the foreign debt problem with congressional di- rectors of financial legisaltion. This parley will include thé three ranking Democratic and Republican members of the house ways and means com- mittee and the senate finance com- mittee, These plans were announced by the white house Thursday after a tele- Phone conversation between Hoover and Roosevelt, and during a series of conferences in budget matters be- tween the president and such aides as Secretary Hurley, Postmaster General Brown and J. Clawson Roop, director of the budget. Deficit Over $709,000,000 Available for the president's fiscal studies were latest treasury figures showing @ deficit exceeding $709,000,- 000 Nov. 15. Also at hand were tax data showing that despite improve- ment in October, collections for the first four months of the 1933 fiscal year were_only_$358,108,065. as com- pared with $455,144,328 in the same period a year ago. Activity on capitol hill was parallel- ing the white house consideration of debt and budget matters. For one thing, the house appropriations com- mittee started on its annual job of trimming down budget figures, spurred by Chairman Byrns’ forecast) as the first supply measure was tack- Yed that this year's allowance for the treasury and postoffice department would drop “considerably” below last year's of $1,056,000,000. Also, the legislator continued to ex- press determined views on the request of Belgium, England and France for |a,further moratorium while their vast |debts are re-examined. Representa- tive. Rainey, the Democratic leader, who immediately accepted Hoover's invitation to confer Wednesday, ques- tioned whether a moratorium pro- jposal would get “a single vote from the present house.” Other examples of congressional ex- pressions, on debts included: Opposition General Senator Bingham (Rep., Conn.): “I am absolutely opposed to laying a further burden on American tax- payers.” Representative Britten (Rep., Ill.): “If the 10 principal European nations can not jointly pay us the insignifi- cant sum of $123,641,398 Dec. 15, then we should hold them in default until they do pay.” Senator Ashurst (Dem., Ariz.) : “Un cle Sam cannot reclaim the spen thrifts of Europe by filling their pock- ets with money.” Senator Norbeck (Rep., 8. D.): “I voted against passing the debts over last time.” Representative McFadden (Rep. Pa.): “Mr. Hoover's moratorium has just been repudiated at the polls.” The treasury’s most recent tax sta- tistics, of utmost importance in gaug- ing all budgetary plans, showed that between July 1 and Oct. 31 the gov- ernment had collected $632,879,258 and had spent $1,341,977,000. October's total collections of $89,- 849,895 exceeded, for the first month this fiscal year, last year’s correspond- ing month, which came to only $72,- 356,032. But continued declines in old taxes largely were off-setting small increases returned by the new levies of the emergency billion-dollar 4tax law. being sold in diminishing quantities in Europe, and at prices which will not sustain the American farmer. “., . the fear of another war, un- doubtedly plays a part in this deter- mination of Europe to attain a food self-sufficiency. It follows inevitably that the removal of these causes for suspicion and hatred will rebound to the benefit of the American farmer. Unless the United States adopts a Policy of isolation, which includes a system of bounties, sufficient to in- sure the American farmer a fair ex- change basis for his prod Spinster Sisters Who Closed Doors On World 30 Years Ago Found Dead Toronto, Ont., Nov. 18.—(#)— has struck and Amelia Richardson, spinster sisters for whom time stopped at ae peel E F of pills, as though she had felt herself growing faint and misun- the cause. Miss Emma, mentally .ill et g i g geFeee é 8 é : i : He alr i HE : E i 4 be i Hu i : : i : - THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [BREAKS HUSBAND'S |? Held in Slaying 7 Several Problems| LONDON-CAPETOWN | PLANE SPEED MARK Miss Amy Johnson Negotiates Hop Down Length of Af- tica in Record Time MADE FOUR STOPS ON WAY Flight Took Four Days, Six Hours and 55 Minutes For Daring Aviatrix Cape Town, Union of South Africa, Nov. 18—(#)—Amy Johnson landed here at 1:30 p. m., Greenwich time (6:30 a. m., E. 8. T.), Friday, beating the speed record for a flight from London established by her husband, J._A. Mollison. Last March Captain Mollison made the trip in four days, 17 hours and 19 minutes. His wife's time was four days, six hours 55 minutes, or 10 hours and 24 minutes faster than the record. She brought her small monoplane, “Desert Cloud,” down to a skillful landing to the accompaniment of shrieking motor horns and the cheers of 2,000 persons waiting to greet her. The crowd gave the police some trouble as it rushed to surround the flier. Miss Johnson covered the 6,250 miles from England with only four stops. She was very tired. When Mollison made the flight the strain was so great he cracked up at the finish. He explainted later he had had so little sleep during the flight that in the last landing he misjudged his distance. He was not hurt and the plane was not badly damaged. Between Benguela and Mosamedes Thursday Miss Johnson's plane devel- oped trouble in the oil line and it looked for a’ while as though she would have to quit. She adjusted the feed line, however, and lost only a little time. It it a dangerous flight down the whole length of Africa, with stretches of jungle where a forced landing might be fatal. Miss Johnson had weather trouble too, for along a 1,000 mile stretch there was torrential rain, which made it impossible for her to see much more than the line of breakers marking the coast. She flew along that line, occasionally pulling up sharply to get over the cliffs that appeared suddenly through the rain and fog. When Mollison came down here nearly eight months ago Miss John- son was one of those who welcomed him. “TI think you're wonderful,” she told him then, and four months later they were married. Two months after that Mollison made the first solo flight from east to west across the north Atlantic. FOUR SKATING RINKS NOW READY FOR USE’ Winter Sports Program to Be! Carried On in All Parts of City This Year Four skating rinks now are avail- able for Bismarck’s winter sports en- thusiasts and all will be in excellent condition by Sunday, according to John W. Reel, city recreational di- rector. The North rink at Seventh St. and Avenue E has been enlarged and pro- vision has been made for ice hockey to be played there. South of the rink a sled slide for ll children, from. 350 to 400 feet long, been provided in order to keep the children off the rink and protect them from danger. The East rink at 15th and Thayer is the same as last year and the Roosevelt rink at Hannafin and Avenue A has been somewhat en- larged. The South rink at 11th and Front streets will be the same size as last year. Because of the difficulty of flood- ing it and maintaining it in good con- dition, Park lake will not be used as @ recreation spot this year, Reel said. No provision for warming skaters has been made at any of the rinks but a windbreak will be erected at the North rink. This is the only rink at which the playing of ice hockey will be encouraged. Children with sleds are asked to stay off of all the rinks so as not to interfere with skaters and to prevent possible injury to themselves. No charge will be made for the use of any of the rinks. Reel asked that any persons with criticisms or suggestions for improve- meat call his office and present their Roads in Southern North Dakota Good Highways in the southern half of the state are clear of snow and in good general condition, according to Weather : Generally fair tok ee much colder moderate wave. Fresh northerly winds, PRICE FIVE CENTS PROFESSOR CHOSEN TO ACCOMPANY HIM T0 HOOVER PARLEY Raymond Moley, of Columbia University, Reaches Albany For Conference Ted Wells, 26, (above), of Beatrice, ! Neb., is held in the Nebraska peniten- tiary pending the filing of charges for the slaying of Chester Mason, a fed- eral prohibition agent who was born and reared in North Dakota, a grad- uate of the state university of Grand Forks. Police said Wells shot Mason, who will be buried at Carpio, N. D., Saturday. LAND OWNERS TOLD JOBLESS FAMILIES ARE SEEKING FARMS Railroad Men Declare Unem- ployed Are Satisfied With Bare Living From Soil Fargo, N. D., Nov. 18—(P)—A mighty tide of unemployed is begin- ning to move from the cities out into the country districts, representatives of the development departments of Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Soo Line railways told the fifth annual land owners conference, which opened here Friday under auspices of the Greater North Dakota association. Already this movement has reached such proportions that suitable cut- over lands of northern Wisconsin and northern Minnesota are becoming filled up and scarce, Harry S. Funs- ton of the Soo Line declared. John W. Haw, director of develop-! ment work for the Northern Pacific, said that as yet this movement is largely an effort on the part of the unemployed man to get a small piece | of land where he may be assured of at least @ bare sustenance. Haw said a recent survey of condi: tions and prospects in industrial cen- ters brought to light the widely-held| opinion among industrial leaders that} even should demand for manufactured products reach the high point of 1929! there is little hope that industry could absorb all of those now out of employ- ment. Many of the unemployed sense this situation, They realize that there is not going to be a place in industry for many of them. They are turning to the country. “Many of them have taken small tracts of land near the larger indus- trial centers, some place where they) at least have shelter and food and/ may make a bare living for them- selves and families from the soil. “Many of these have a small amount | of money, perhaps $1,000 or $1,500. They want to conserve that fund. They believe they may do so ona small tract of land but they seek that jand near the city, expecting and at first hoping to get back on the job in factory or mill. They find they like this country life. It is healthier, @ more wholesome place to raise a family and many of these already are seeking larger tracts of land on which to make permanent farm homes. “These men are not thinking about whether this is a wise move from an economic standpoint. They do not care that they may be going out into an industry which is itself already over-crowded. They know only that in the country they can at least keep out of the bread-lines and that is their first consideration.” Attorney General to Move to Jamestown Attorney General James Morris, who retires from office in January, will take up the practice of law at Jamestown, he said Friday. Morris has obtained an office at Jamestown and to move his family to that city Dec. 1. He will remain in » however, until the completion of his second term as attorney general. He came here from Carrington, where. he had practiced law and served as Foster coun! ‘state's attorney from 1921 to 1925. GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY President-Elect Makes Plans For Meeting in Washing- ton Next Tuesday Albany, N. ¥., Nov. 18—(?)—His Plans complete for visiting President Hoover at Washington next Tuesday, Franklin D, Roosevelt has summoned to the executive mansion Raymond Moley, the Columbia university pro- fessor who will go to the white house conference on war debts and other matters as Roosevelt's only adviser. Prof, Moley arrived in Albany late Thursday night, several hours after he had been named by the president- elect as his counsellor for the meeting with the president. He went directly to the executive mansion, where he planned to see Roosevelt Friday. Between now and 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, when the president-elect will meet Hoover for an informal con- ference on “the whole situation,” close associates of the governor's believe he and Prof. Moley will go over thor- cughly the matters they expect to come up at the meeting. Roosevelt's choice of Moley, Colum- bia _university’s soft-spoken professor of public law, was announced shortly after the telephone call Thursday in which the president-elect informed President Hoover he was nearly ready to start south for his visit to Wash- ington and a two-week vacation in |Georgia. Since Roosevelt was elected gover- |nor in 1928, Proefssor Moley has been |one of his frequent advisers, and dur- he ing the presidential joften was at the candidate's side. He helped Roosevelt prepare his ac- ceptance speech and other fmportant utterances in the campaign in which he dealt with governmental problems, economic questions and other similar matters on which the professor is considered an authority. Friday the plans of the president- elect, who is fully recovered from the mild attack of influenza which con- fined him to the executive mansion since last Friday, took him to the state capitol for one of the few re- maining occasions in which he ex- Pects to sit in the executive chair. Leaving Saturday for Hyde Park, he will go on to New York Monday evening, and the following morning will begin the southern trip which will keep him away from Albany un- til early in December. He yields his office Dec. 31 to Herbert H. Lehman. governor-elect, MOLEY AUTHORITY ON GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS Albany, N. Y., Nov. 18—(?)}—Pro- fessor Raymond Moley, the economist | whom Roosevelt has asked to accom- pany him to his conference with President Hoover, is recognized as an authority on numerous governmental matters. Frequently called upon by individ- uals and governmental agencies for advice and research, he was one of Alfred E. Smith's counsellors in his Presidential campaign in 1928. Stockily built, 46 years old, he lives in New York and lectures at Columbia university, Barnard college and other colleges. He is a vice president of the American Political Science Associa- tion, a writer, a former Ohio school teacher, and a student of law. Seven Counties Will Share Relief Money A telegram received by the office of Governor George F. Shafer Friday stated the Reconstruction Finance Corporation has authorized $50,680 in loans to North Dakota, but how the amount is apportioned to the appli- cants was not stated. The wire said a letter will follow and this is believed to contain what amounts were granted to the seven counties that made applications for un