The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 10, 1933, Page 1

— i os y ) North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper + ESTABLISHED 1873 House Favors D Mercury Rises But Stron FIFTH SUCCESSIVE DAY OF BLIZZARD SETS NEW RECORD Temperatures Are Above Zero But Northwest Blast Hits 30 Miles An Hour FORECAST IS DISCOURAGING Continued Wind Through Unset- tled Night to Be Followed By New Cold Wave With higher temperatures amelior- ating his sting, Old Man Winter Fri- day blew harder and held North Da- » Kota for the fifth successive day in what probably is the most severe bliz- vard in the state's history. Temperatures rose above zero for the first time in five days, but a gale from the northwest swept into Bis- marck at a velocity of 30 miles an hour, whipping up loose snow to make visibility the poorest of the week in the Capital City and frustrating all attempts to clear drift-choked high- ways, There was no e: t in the official weather forecast. The pros- pect is for continued wind until night- fall, unsettled weather Friday night but fair Saturday, and a moderate cold wave over the week-end. Parents of small school children became considerably alarmed Friday morning, according to H. O. Saxvik, superintendent of public school. The suddenness with which the high wind developed caught many children on their way to school and parents called school authorities unceasingly. Janitors Make Search Fortunately, Saxvik said, the wind Jet up for a few minutes to enable all children to reach the school safely, a check-up showed. Janitors of schools had been sent out in search of any children who might have become lost, but found none. Fargo to clear highways forced to turn back, roads with drifts behind the plows in short order. He reiterated his warning to motorists to stay off of all roads. Arrival of seven carloads of coal in the Capital City overnight, Prospect of more arriving in the af- ternoon, assured Bismarck of an ample coal supply, fuel dealers said. Northern Pacific passenger trains still were running late and divisional offices of the Soo Line here dared not send its passenger train north to Max. ‘The Soo Line, however, sent two snow trains and a coal train northward Friday forenoon. On one of the snow trains was a wire expert, sent north in an effort to reestablish the rail- and Max wich have been Incopeci x, WI ve - pted 48 hours. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1933 | Blizzard Brings Beauty A of beauty. famed across the nation, bringing suffering to thousands. But at Niagara it paints a picture Falls in its mantle of ice and snow. Mist from the roaring left adds a new lacy pattern for Niagara’s winter tourists to admire. [Laying of Cornerstone Is | JAPS ARE EXPECTED Brought Under Spotlight 1 pry [LEAGUE IN THREE MEN SOUGHT FOR DARING HOLDUP OF POSTAL WORKE Investigating Committee Told Souvenir Hunters Have Damaged Monolith The expense of iaying the corner stone for the North Dakota state cap- itol and the express charge for ship- Ping the one-ton piece of stone to k were scrutinzed by the leg- Bismarc! Robbers Get $325,000 In Neat-|isiative investigating committee Fri- ly-Timed Raid At Los An- * geles Postoffice Northwest Airways, .Inc., sent its} Sacramento, Calif, Feb. 10—(P)— Many Though temperatures mi throughout obtained by it the nation, the number of | Victims of the night raid—W. E. Wil- Not even the license number of their motorcar was the Seaths attributed directly or indirect-|liams, clerk-guard and Claus Swan- ly t6 Friday had passed 50, 5 were: marck 11 above, Devils Lake six above, the storm increased rapidly and|#0n. truck driver. Wiliams’ pistol also was taken. i 5 a Fargo four above and Williston two |earlier. . Lander, Wyo., was the coldest spot it, with a ratie fo ee Ge ee ings included Rapid -City, 8. D., below, Huron, 8. D., 14 below, 8. D., four below, and 8t. Paul, 10 below. Retired Farmer of Emmons s County Dies bd i i [ : i i : i g 3 f - i g i F E : i 3 4 i f He Hi 4 i i a. Bree valued i Corporation Drs. from the Reconstruction Ful 0. arate, North Da | was prevented Pray to snate com Under examination of W. J. Flan- nigan, member of the committee, John M. Davis, construction superintendent for the general contractors, said though the stone was not laid where had damaged the stone beyond ‘Tepair” after the ceremonies and it/ cial could not be used now. The architects ordered him, he said, to prepare for the ceremony. Davis was on the stand throughout the day’s hearing, testifying further “rental costs,” contracts, em- OP Long Romance Is | Ended by Death | Rev. Herbert Brown, Steele, will Officiate at the final rites. ‘Mrs. Stewart died last Nov.-28, E [ 3 g i Stewart at Sterlinx, his sister, Mrs. William Smith, St. Croix Falls. Wis., six and two t-grandchildren, - | MANCHUKUO DISPUTE | ;Government Spokesman Says Answer to Proposals Will Be Emphatic ‘No’ Tokyo, Feb. 10.—(?)—An official statement that Japan will reply with an emphatic “no” to a League of Na-| tions’ request for a statement of Jap- an’s attitude toward discontinuance of: the present Manchukuo government was partially qualified later Friday. “Our negative reply is almost a foregone conclusion but we must pro- ceed with the utmost prudence,” said & government spokesman. Foreign Minister Yasyua Uchida instructed Yosuke Matsuoka, the spe- Japanese counsel at Geneva, to submit the draft of his reply to the league. committee of 19 to Tokyo be- fore handing it to the league officials. Hence, Japan’s answer is likely to be postponed two or three days while the cabinet studies the matter. Japan stands irrevocably for main- taining the Japanese-sponsored gov- ernment in Manchuria, a government ry OF STATE HELD IN COAST KIDNAPING Alleged Woman Leader of Gang Went to School At Harvey and Valley City CONFESSION IS CLAIMED Police Say Questioning About Abusing Old Lady Brought * Results Los Angeles, Feb. 10—(P)—A de- tective’s soft-voiced but persistent lecturing of a suspect about “treating | an old lady so roughly” provoked a! confession early Friday, police said, which cleared up the mysterious kid- | naping of 65-year-old Mrs. Mary B. Skeele. Police said the confessions were made by Miss Luella Pearl Hammer, 35, and W. P. Hoard, 39, her “hired | man,” identified by officers as 9 par- oled ex-convict from San Quentin Prison. ‘The detective said Howard then told a complete story conforming to facts already unearthed by police, and Miss Hammer, confronted with Howard's statement, also confessed. The pair also confessed, Taylor said, to an attempt to abduct Miss Isobel || Smith, Pasadena school teacher. Mrs. Skeele was kidnaped last Sun- day night and a note demanding $10,- 000 ransom was found. She was re- leased near her home the next night, shortly before time specified for pay- Ment of the money. Detectives quoted Howard as saying the ransom note first was intended for use in the kidnaping of Miss Smith but when the attempt failed, because the teacher became suspici- ‘ous, Miss Hammer suggested they ab- duct Mrs. Skeele. Sought Mortgage Money Officers quoted Howard as saying they wanted the money to raise a on @ house owned by Miss Hammer, a graduate of the music college of which the victim’s husband is dean. Miss Smith formerly was president of the student body of the music col- lege, of which she is a graduate. Her father, the Rev. Merle Smith, Pasa- dena Methodist pastor, is a trustee of the university. Detectives Friday took Mrs. Skeele to the Hammer residence and she identified several things indicating it was the place she was held captive. Later @ portable typewriter was found hidden in a bedroom closet of a house formerly occupied by Miss Hammer. Police experts said it was the machine on which the ransom notes were written. Mrs. Skeele also partially identified Howard's voice. She was blindfolded most of the time she was held. ‘The accused pair denied they had any accomplices. They were booked on charges of kidnaping. Miss Hammer, detectives reported, was inclined to view her predicament and events leading up to it as some- thing of a joke. She said, however, she wanted to apologize to Skeele. Planned To Marry Both Miss Hammer and Howard explained to officers, the latter said, that they planned to be married but could not do so until the house mort- gage was lifted. As Taylor quoted Howard, the lat- spokesman said. He declared further |ter said he contrived plans for a ser- that Chinese soverignty in Manchuria |ies of abductions and Miss Hammer is ended forever, notwithstanding re-| was to single out the victims. They ports that the league proposes to in-| believed their first intended victim, sist on Chinese rights to exercise this | piss Smith, would net them suffi- sove! rignty. Winds Continue ___|]FORMER RESIDENT |278 Die in Attack On Mutineer Ship Right of Rebuttal Granted in Probe A typographical error in two edi- tions of The Tribune Thursday made it appear that members of the capitol commission had been denied the right of rebuttal in the legislative investigation of their affairs. Senator C. G. Bangert, in point- ing to the error Thursday night, said such an attitude on the part of the committee would have been ‘absolutely un-American.’ ‘The text of the committee atti- tude on the point was contained in & motion by Senator Bangert, which was carried unanimously. The motion follows: “I MOVE YOU, that the Attor- ney be instructed to advise the Membets of the Capitol Building Commission that if they have over- looked any questions they wish to ask witnesses who have already been on the stand, that they sub- mit such questions in writing for the consideration of this Commit- tee, and that if they desire to offer any rebuttal on any points under consideration, and upon which evidence has been offered, or if they desire to offer any evidence not in rebuttal, but which will give this Committee information with teference to the matter under in- vestigation, the attorney advise them to submit to this Committee in writing a statement in the na- ture of an “Offer of Proof”, so that it may be considered by the Com- mittee.” FAVORABLE REPORT ON WATERWAY WILL BE SENT T0 SENATE \| Sub-Committee of Foreign Re- lations Group Favors Treaty With Canada Washington, Feb. 10.—(P)—A fa- ‘vorable report on the treaty with Canada for construction of the gigan- tic St. Lawrence waterway and power Project was voted Friday by a senate foreign relations subcommittee. The treaty, signed with Canada last summer after years of negotiation, ‘was approved 5 to 2, after federal and New York state engineers recom- mended that New York's share of the cost should be fixed at $89,000,000. The subcommittee added a reserva- tion, understood to be acceptable to Canada, to prevent the Aluminum Company of America, a Mellon com- Pany, from obtaining a permanent right to diversion of water at Mas- sena. The two members against the treaty were Glenn, (Rep., Ill.), and Wagner, (Dem., N. Y.) Glenn is opposed because of the imitation of 2,500 cubic feet per sec- ond diversion of water at Chicago. Senator Walsh (Dem., Mont.), indi- Mrs. | cated he would ask for early consider- ation by the full committee. DAMAGE AT WATER TANK PUT AT $700 cient funds in ransom to enlarge A league request as to whether | their kidnaping plans. Japan would not to extend The immediate cause of the deten- Howard its military operations into Jehol/tion of Miss Hammer and Province brought a forceful it | was the talkativeness of neighbors comment in the Japanese wir office that “it’s | who told police of “mysterious going- Many Die In Blast Neunkirchen, » Feb. 10.— on” at the Hammer home. The house is two blocks from where Professor Skeele was to leave the ransom money. "*\fiss Hammer was born at Moun- tain Lake, Minn., Sept. attended the Harv school, the Normal school at Valley City, N. D., and the Pasadena Junior college. Germany, (®)—The biggest gas tank in the Saar| LIVING AT HARVEY region, with a capacity of 120,000 cubic} Mountain Lake, meters, Friday Wooden Casing, Designed to Keep Pipe Warm, Catches Fire From Salamander It's not often that water tanks catch on fire—but that’s what hap- pened on Capitol Hill Thursday af- ternoon. Before firemen succeeded in extin- the blaze the tank was in- in operation to maintain water pres- sure in the remodeled part of the old capitol building and the Liberty Me- morial building. E.G. Wanner, secretary of the board of administration, estimated the loss at $200 but Harry A. son, chief of the fire H he thought it would run between $600 | observ: Fy and $' The eight-inch metal pipe, extend- ing 60 feet into the air to the stor- age tank, had frozen and burst this week and all the water had leaked according to Thompson. ERSEEY BETTE, gH 85 25 Others Are Wounded When Bomb From Airplane Is Dropped on Deck SURRENDER COMES QUICKLY Damaged Craft Proceeding to, Port Under Command of | Rightful Captain Batavia, Java, Feb. 10.—(?)—Eight- een men were killed and 25 injured aboard the rebellious Dutch cruiser De Zeven Provincien when a naval fighting plane dropped a bomb on the ship’s deck Friday, forcing the mu- tinous native crew to surrender. The dead comprise three Europeans and 15 Javanese natives. One Dutch officer and one young Dutchman were slightly wounded. The dramatic end to the mutineers’ career came at dawn off the south- west Sumatra coast when a concen- tration of Dutch naval and air forces bore down in the fleeing quarry and ordered her to surrender within 10 minutes. The rebels, defiant to the last, flashed a reply: “Don’t hinder us.” They iailed to show a white cloth on the deck awning, as directed, in token of unconditional capitulation. ‘The attackers’ reaction was decisive. As soon as the brief period of grace expired, a warning bomb was dropped alongside the De Zeven. As there was no further signs from the mutineers, down went a 100-pound bomb from a half dozen planes in an attacking air fleet. It exploded on the deck of the rebel craft, bringing death to 18 members of the crew and wounding 25 others. - That was enough for the mut@eers, who had been running wild for five days on the Indian Ocean with eight of their Dutch officers held prisoners. | The natives signalled their surrender and then took to boats as a fire broke jout aboard the cruiser from the ef- fects of the explosion. The fire aboard the De Zeven seem- ; ed to have done little damage as her wireless continued to work and her rightful captain, Commander Eiken- boom, went aboard. He had been left behind in port when the natives ran away with the cruiser in protest/ against a wage reduction. Eikenboom took command after quitting the government steamer Era- dinus, in which the had been follow- ing the cruiser since Sunday. A navai i escort was bringing him and | cruiser here. Pe i MORTGAGE AID BILL APPROVED IN HOUSE Std Measure Extends Redemption| Period on Year; Provides Other Benefits The house Friday passed a senate bill for a moratorium on mortgages. extending an extra year the period for redemption. The vote was 89 to 19 with the emergency clause car- ried. Questions of constitutionality of | the bill were brought up by several members with R. E. Swendseid of Mountrail county, an attorney, say- ing he would “leave the constitution- ality of the measure up to the courts.” The bill now goes to the governor. The bill extends the time for re- demption from mortgage foreclosures and one. to two years. The emergency clause provides “the measure shall take effect and be in force for a pe- riod of two years only from and after its passage and approval and the pe- riod within which 2 mortgage or ex- ecution debtor may redeem real estate from a sale thereafter made! shall be governed by the laws now! in effect.” Boy Scouts Postpone Out-of-Doors Events Out-of-doors events planned by Bismarck Scouts Friday and Boy Saturday as part of their week-long ance of scouting’s anniversary have been postponed, it is announced by_W. G. Fulton, local executive. Fulton said the hikes, outings and other out-of-door events were called real estate execution sales from |), Weather Report ‘Unsettled tonight, with general! fair Saturday; colder, with Soderate cold wave. PRICE FIVE CENTS Law Repeal MINORITY REPORT IS ADOPTED AFTER TWO-HOUR DEBATE Advocates of Change Muster 61 Votes to 51 Supporting Opposition ARGUE EFFECT ON YOUTH Each Side Says Its Aim Is tq Provide Good Conditions For Young People A minority report recommending Passage of a bill to repeal state pro- hibition laws was adopted by the North Dakota house Thursday night, after two hours debate in which both opponents and proponents pleaded the cause of the young generation. The vote to adopt a majority re. port of the temperance committee Tecommending indefinite postpone- ment was defeated 61 to 51, and the Teport for passage then adopted by a viva voce vote. Action on a companion bill to set up a beer commissioner and regula- tions, if and when congress repeal: the 18th amendment, was indefinite- ly postponed. Standing room only was available in the assembly as the session open- ea with Rep. W. J. Godwin of Mor- ton county, author of the bill, urging his measure be adopted. It closed wtih Rep. R. E. Strutz, Stutsman county, emphatically urging indefi- nite postponement. “The eighteenth amendment is the outstanding crime of all ages,” God- win declared. “When we passed the law we thought that in 10 years we would have an ideal situation, but in- stead we have the opposite with our youth being debauched. No one neec apologize for making a mistake, bui we do condemn those who ask us to go blindly on with what we are doing now. Rep. Strutz then said it seemeé tc him a disgrace that a legislative b: should place such “importance o: booze and beer as we are doing.” Rep. George Aljets of Wells coun- ty, who said he came to North kota 30 years ago, declared “I thou, North Dakota really was a dry state but then they. passed the 18th amend Harms Younger People “Liquor and the liquor traffic «r« harming the younger people, not p:o ple of my age.” He added this was the fault of prohibition. Rep. Ole Ettestad of McHenry cou: ty, said he came to North Dakota 7 years ago and found a “blind pig in every town and everyone has b trying to drink North Dakota ever since. “The Missouri river will be dry i: ie middle before it is dry on either side.” Rep. J. M. Thompson, Burleigh, J. E. Stoa, Ward; E. A. Hill, Cavalier; and M. T. Lillehaugen, Walsh; urged the enforcement laws should not be repealed until congress repeals or | ment. | Modifies the 18th amendment. Voting on the dry side were: Arne- son; Anderson of Logan; Anderson of Sargent; Brunsdale; Carlson; Ditt- mer; Espeland; Flaten; Puglestad; | Hagen; Hanson of Barnes; | of Benson; Hill; Holte; Homnes; Jar- dine; Jodock; Jones; Larson of Nel- son; Larson of Ransom; Lavik; Lille- haugen; Lofthus; Lund; McGinnes; Morgan; Mostad; Muus; Nelson of Dickey; Nelson of Morton; Nelson of legs Peters; ; Rathbun; Rindy; Sannes; Shurr; Smith; Solberg; Steedman; Stoa; Strutz; Svingen; Swendseid; 8 ymington; Thor Twicheh; Wright, and Speaker Craig. The others, except McManus who was absent, voted for the report rec- ommending passage. groce! ing about the assembly. Since passage of the bill by the house is regarded