The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 16, 1933, Page 1

North Dakota’s ~) Oldest Newspaper , ESTABLISHED 1878 Roo Committee Wrangles as CHAIRMAN MATTHAEL CONDEMNS BARRING BANGS AND CONKLIN Majority of Committee, How- ever, Holds Commissioners Ignored Rules CLOSE COMES SUDDENLY Quick Termination of Proceed- ings Is Surprise to Crowd in Court Room (By the Associated Press) Investigation of the commission erecting the new state capitol closed abruptly Thursday morning without calling George A. Bangs, Grand self, as members of the committee, cae “overridden by the other mem- rs.” The investigation closed with a brief announcement by E. R. Sinkler, counsel for the legislators, that Bangs, Conklin and their attorney, George Thorp, Fargo, had failed comply with the rules of the tee that would have placed the stand and the committee cided that further public Were unnecessary, The close came just three weel after the investigation was begun: The first hearing was Jan. 26. Bangs, and Conklin were in the courtroom when the announcement was made. said he would Probably have a public statement to make “in a short time.” Chairman W. E. Matthaei of the investigators said the findings of the committee were being prepared for submission to the 1 . Sink- ler’s announcement f ‘an hour's executive session. Surprise to Crowd to commit- them on, had de- ks THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE wa C $$$ Leading Figures in Sensational Gunplay at Miami PRESIDENT-ELECT ROOSEVELT President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt sat unharmed through # barrage of bullets Wednesday night Anton Cermak, Chicago's World Fair mayor. en eee ee eee MIXED RECORDS OF INGLL PROPERTIES BARED AT HEARING Public Told of Huge Profits While Tax Reports Claim. ed Heavy Losses Washington, Feb. 16.—(#)—Testi- mony that Insull properties were pic- tured to the public as money makers ‘at the same time that tax returns were claiming large losses was put into the Tecord of a senate committee Thurs- ROOSEVELT'S OWN STORY OF ATTEMPT TO TAKE HIS LIFE President-Elect, Relaxing on Train, Gives His Version of What Happened En Route With President-elect Roosevelt to New York, Feb. 16.—(7)— ih day cane the questioning of Samuel it was several minutes after the in- vestigators left their table before they | Crs, realized the hearings had cluded. : Sinkler said that the rules of the been ‘con- ing. Thorp charged cedure was “unfair” and objected to “censorship” of the statements or questions arnenlihed, ING further architects for the building; C. M. Norris, Evanston, Ill, vice president of the Lundoff-Bicknell Construction company, general contractors; John Davis, superintendent of construction; (Continued on Page Two) Detroit Banks Are Open for Business| Detroit, Feb. 16.—(?)}—Some of De- troit’s millions of “money in banks” became “money in. . pocketbooks’ Thursday for the first time since last AB but cos of Daina. Ranke se: opened Thursday, permit only emergency withdrawals. The maxi- may withdraw . Young, chairman of the Work Progresses Satisfactorily After Blizzard, Superin- tendent Says i i i : é i agate : i Eg Hh d ; i i Z ; ge rs z iis i é | myself that I ‘have been trying to think what really happened as I said you must repeat that speech us. I said I would not. He said ‘we Have come 1,000 miles for this.’ I ‘I am very sorry but I can't do it.’ “Having said that, I slid off the 8 5 Es TATE fetter waite al ig flee | z g Ea i i 3 & a ef 3 5 1 5, a8 Mi MAYOR CERMAK ured and one of them may die. recover. Mrs. Roosevelt Resigned To Possibility of Death ‘If They Want to-Get You They Can’ Is Her Attitude To- ward Assassination, Ithaca, N. ¥., Feb. 16.—(?)—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt gave expres- sion Thursday to a fatalistic attitude in regard to her husband’s escape from an assassin’s bullet at Miami, Fla. “If they want to get you they can,” she said, “and so the only thing to do is just to go along and not think about such things any more than you: have to.” Mrs. Roosevelt came here to speak on the farm and home week program at Cornell university because, she said, she has a habit of doing what she has said she will do. Pale and looking tired, she boarded 8 train at New York less than two Mott, in New York, and had sent to, Groton school in Massachusetts a|Holiday telegram requesting that the Roose- velt boys, Franklin, Jr., and John, be assured of a motion Hint Head be lie at Miami, Fla, but one of the pellets struck | Pa.), looking to outlawing the saloon. Cermak has a little better than even |in the constitution. STATE FARMERS 10 MEET HERE SUNDAY | IN SPECIAL SESSION Will Draw Up Relief Program and Urge Adoption of Certain Measures Hundreds of North Dakota farmers are expected to assemble in Bismarck this week end for a joint special meet- ing of the state Farmers Union and Farmers Holiday association, it was announced Thursday by Usher L. Bur- dick, president of the latter organi- zation. ‘The purpose of the meeting is two- ISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1938 Resolution Provides That rati-| fication Will Be By State Conventions VOTE ON MEASURE 63-23 Garner Says House Will Pass It Monday By Necessary Two- Thirds Margin Washington, Feb. 16.—(#)—The senate Thursday adopted, 63 to 23, the Blaine resolution for repeal of the prohibition amendment, with pro- tection for dry states from liquor im- Portations, ratification to be by state conventions. The resolution now goes to the house. ‘Thursday morning Speaker Garner Predicted that, if the resolution were adopted by the senate in the form) that it finally was, it would be ap- proved by the house under suspension of the rules on Monday. The senate vote on the 13-year-old 18th amendment was marked by ten- ston, the floor being crowded by members of the house of represen- tatives. Before the final vote, on which two- thirds was required, the senate by decisive majority votes rejected one after another attempts by Senators Glass (Dem., Va.), and Reed (Rep. By 46 to 38 it turned down Glass’ endeavor to substitute the whole of the Blaine resolution with one by him to make the federal government and the states concurrently responsible for outlawing the saloon. Frazier and Nye, North Dakota, voted for the resolution. Langer to Name Governor William Langer announc- ed Thursday that the appointment of @ “one-man” highway commissioner will be made within a week or two. He said that there has been no ap- Pointment, made, either temporary or otherwise, but that in the mean- time the old commission will func- tion. The governor said he has ordered an audit of the highway commission books, to be completed before the new one-man commissioner is ap- pointed. The audit, he said, will be made incident to “checking in” the fold, Burdick said; to shape a program. for agricultural relief for submission to the Roosevelt administration and to urge upon the state legislature Passage of certain bills now before it. Nationally-prominent speakers will be here, according to the Holiday as-! soctation head, including John Bosch, | Atwater, Minn., secretary of the na-| tional Farmers’ Union; A. W. Ritker.| editor of the Farmers Union Herald, St. Paul; Milo Reno, Des Moines, Ia., national president of the Farmers association; and A. C. Town- Jey, one-time organizer of the Non- Partisan nts, meeting originally was called ers Union, Burdick said, the association later was invited to participate. Sessions begin Sunday after- noon and adjournment is expected londay night. Streich has announced the meeting will be held in either Patterson hall or the Burleigh county courthouse. after shooting presi- dent McKinley, said: “I have done my duty; I am proud of it.” Charles J. Guitéau, disappointed of- fice-seeker who murdered President Corer aue: “I did it and will go to Woman Kidnaper Is Undecided on Plea new highway chief. CHICAGO ANXIOUSLY AWAITS NEWS FROM CERMAK’S BEDSIDE or|Uiscount Theory of Gangland] Plot; Continue Cleanup For World's Fair Chicago, Feb. 16.—()}—Shocked by the news that its anti-gang crusading and “world’s fair’ mayor had been| shot down in Miami by a would-be assassin, Chicago awatied Thursday the outcome of Anton J. Cermak’s condition with anxiety and hope for his recovery. The first reports that the mayor had been shot by the gunman who failed to take the life of President- elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, were fol- lowed by speculation that a gangland plot might have been responsible be- ‘cause of Cermak’s determination to drive all hoodlums out of Chicago be- fore the world’s fair opens in June, only to be discounted later by of- ficials. And while the mayor lay gravely wounded in s Miami hospital the po- lice continued the anti-gang drive or- dered by the mayor some time ago. Chicago's 59-year-old mayor, who Tose from the lowly position of an im- migrant breaker -boy in an Illinois coal mine to the mayorship of the country’s second largest city, went to last from » Feb. 16. of 6,016 national banks: on last December 31/the window ition to $23,310,974,000, an in- $74,979,000 since September| but a decrease of $1,351,312,000 since December 31, 1931. Deposits at the end of 1932 aggre- gated $18,518,107,000, an increase of takped since —(P)—Aggte- | sot, Has No Regret for Attempted Murder Miami, Fla., Feb. 16.—(7)—Giu- seppe Zangara, his bulging eyes di- lating as he talked with interro- gators high up in the Dade county jail, Thursday said he had no re- Grets for his attack on President- elect Roosevelt. Speaking in broken English, the Prisoner answered questions read- ily. Sheriff Hardie, something of a linguist, helped carry the conver- sation. Here is Hardie’s account of the examination: “Why do you want to kill? Did you want to kill the policeman who caught you?” “T no care to kill police,” he re- Plied. “They work for leeving. As @ man I like Meester Roosevelt. As a president I want to keel him. I want to keel all presidents. In Weather Report Partly cl it and 3 wr ae i PRICE FIVE CENTS sevelt Escapes Assassin apitol Probe Ends'ww-un Prohibition Repeal Passes U. S. Senate IS UNHARMED BUT SIX ARE INJURED Mayor Cermak of Chicago, Shot in Abdomen, Has 50-50 Chance to Live WOMAN LIES NEAR DEATH Crazed Gunman Says It Is Hig Purpose to Murder All Public Officials Miami, Fla., Feb. 16—()—A gun- man who “hates” all government tried to assassinate President-elect Roosevelt Wednesday night and failed as the five shots he fired struck six other persuns, and Thursday five of them lay in hospitals. One of the wounded was Mayor Anton Cermak Italy ten years ago, I want to keel the king, but I cannot get to heem.” “Are you an anarchist?” “I do not belong to any society. Cam not an anarchist. Sometimes I get beeg pain in the stomach, too, and then I want to keel these Presidents who oppose the working men.” There is a deep scar on the ab- domen of the assassin. He speaks to the officers without apparent realization of what he did. Occa- sionally he grows bitter. He said he came to Miami two months ago, “because they tell me it will help these pains in my stom- ach.” He has been in America for about nine years and is understood to be @ naturalized citizen. LEGISLATURE FIGHTS OVER PROPOSED CUT IN STATE SALARIES Wages Recommended Are Low- er Than Those Provided By 20-Per-Cent Slash Recommended lower wages for state employes in the legislative, ju- dicial, and executive departments of North Dakota upset the calm of the house of representatives Wednesday as they took up amendments to the budget bill for those departments. The measure, as presented to the committee of the whole, recommend- ed a slash of $142,865.72 from the $1,- 242,200 requested by tne budget board. It 1s $60,456.76 below the governor's recommendation and included a $60,- 000 emergency fund. After prolonged ‘and heated debate the committee ap- proved the amendments to place the bill on the calendar for Thursday. A terse warning to members of the house was given by Speaker Minnie D. Craig as the debate over wages | continued. “When you came here,” she said, “you were told there was no money even to pay you, and arrangements had to be made to pay your salary. If you continue as you have been go- ing, you will come back here to get the state out of the biggest muddle you ever saw. You have taken the Penalty and interest off of taxes. You have taken every leverage off to enforce the payment of taxes. “Do you think you are going to get any more taxes from these laws than you got before? What are you going to use to run the state and these in- stitutions when you have no money? I have never seen anything run yet without @ little money to pay the bill. It is time for you to think and think seriously. In the remaining days of this session you have a crisis to face and sentiment has no place in facing that crisis.” id] ge ae B of Chicago. With an old fashioned .32 calibre Pistol Guiseppi Zangara shot wildly into ‘the crowd gathered about the automobile of Roosevelt in the pic- turesque Bay Front Park just as the next president had concluded a brief speech. Mayor Cermak, standing just be- hind the Roosevelt car, was among the first hit. A bullet lodged in his abdomen and an operation was con- templated as physicians he had a little better than a fifty-fifty chance to live. Shocked and startled by the gun Play, Roosevelt waited to pick up the Chicago mayor and sped to the hos- Pital with him. He remained there to visit the other victims and can- celled his train departure for New York until Thursday. Firing blindly into the throng, the assassin made each of his five shots good, although he missed the mark for which they were intended. The other wounded are: Mrs. Joe Gill of Miamt, shot in ab- domen. Mrs. Joe Gill, Miami, shot in abdo- men, serious. Mis Margaret Kruis, Newark, N. J., shot in hand, not serious, William Sinnott, New York polices man, head wounds, not serious, Russell Caldwell, Miami, head wounds, not serious. Robert Clark, secret service man, hand grazed, scratched by bullet, ‘Wound slight. Most of the victims were said tay Few Crank Threats Received in Mail New York, Feb. 16.—(}—Col. Louis Howe, confidential secretary to the ee expressed great sur at news of the shoot- ing in Miami in which President- elect Franklin D. Roosevelt's life was endangered, “The President-elect’s mail has been especially free of any crank me or threats of any kind,” he saic have a “fifty-fifty” chance for re- covery. Confusion prevailed for a few min- utes as the crowd milled about. Secret Looking velt waited for Cermak to be lifted in- to his car, waved reassuringly to the crowd and told those near: “Tell them I am all right.” Returning to the yacht of Vincent Astor from which he had just landed after a fishing cruise, the President- elect early Thursday issued the fol- lowing statement: “I am deeply moved by the serious injuries inflicted upon my friends to- night and I am remaining in Miami to learn in the morning of their con- dition. I am entirely unharmed.” President Hoover immediately com- municated with Mr. Roosevelt by wire. He said: “Together with every citizen I re- Joice that you have not been injured. Cermak Glad It Was Himself Who WasHit