The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 17, 1933, Page 1

North Dakota’e . Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, JUNE 17,.1933 Weather Report Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday; cooler Sunday. PRICE FIVE CENTS Guns Kill Eight Men in Midwest St. Paul Millionaire Held for Huge Ransom _ THREATEN DEATH 70 WILLIAM HAMM IF _ RANSOM 15 UNPAID $100.000 Asked for Release of Brewing Magnate in Myste- tious Affair POLICE ARE CALLED OFF Officials Abandon Case so as Not to Hamper Negotiations For Return St. Paul, Hamm, millionaire president of 4 brewing company, Saturday was the Prisoner of kidnapers, who demanded payment of $100,000 under threat of death. Police, after making a preliminary June 17.—(F)—William | 4 | | | | t investigation of the abduction, with-j drew from further efforts to find the kidnapers at the urgent request of the missing man’s family. They hope‘ their action would facilitate negotia- | ations for his release. Hamm was seized some time Thursday afternoon and the first word of his capture was telephoned ty the abductors to William Dunn, a business associate at 5 p. m. Dunn had last seen Hamm at 12:20-p. m. when the latter started home for lunch, “We have kidnaped Mr. Hamm, you, will hear from us later,” said a voice over the phone to Dunn. Friday morning Dunn received a note asking that the money be delivered in de- nominations of $5, $10 and $20. Ef- forts to get in touch with the kid- napers failed and efforts to trace! Hamm's movements after he lef home apparently were futile. Authorities had turned to a search for Verne Sankey, already wanted for two other similar crimes, after his Picture had been identified by a tax!- * cab driver as the man who sent a note to William Dunn, manager of the Theo. Hamm Brewing Co., of which the kidnaped man is president and treasurer. Dunn had received the first word of the abduction in a phone call Thurs- ; day when a man said Hamm had been seized and instructions to gain his re- lease would come later. Driver Identifies Picture The taxi driver brought these in- structions Friday in a note he said had been handed him by a man who give him $2 to make the delivery From pictures, the driver later identi. fied this man as Sankey, now wante: for kidnaping of Charles Boettcher II fn Denver and for a simltar crime here! a year ago in which Haskell Bohn was the victim. Payment of the ransom for the re- lease of Hamm, the kidnapers direct- ed, was to be effected through use of | one of the company’s beer trucks, to be driven by one man, and of an opel type so the interior would be clearly visible. Police did not disclose the time or place the payment was to be made. Hamm, who is 39 sears old, is & member of one of St. Paul's oldest families. His kidnaping was the fourth in St. Paul in a year and a half. Besides the one involving Bohn, son of a St. Paul manufacturer, the other abduc- tions were of Morris Rutman and Lecn Gleckman. The wife of Sankey, Mrs. Fern San- key, was acquitted of complicity in the Bohn Ridnaping by a jury in dis- trict court here Thursday. She is be- ing held in connection with the Boett- cher case. Wanted in Born Case Sankey, sald by authorities to be wanted in Canada for bank robbery, was named by Ray Robinson, now serving a prison sentence for the Bohn kidnaping, as @ participant in that crime. Hamm is the son of the late Wil- Nam Hamm, who died June 11, 1931. In addition to his brewing interests, William Hamm, Jr., is a director of the First National Bank, First Bank Stock Corporation and other business enterprises. ‘The elder Hamm had been president and treasurer of the Brewing com- pany, which had been founded by his father and which bears the latter's name. William Hamm, Sr., left an estate valued at more than $4,000,000, to his widow, William Hamm, Jr. three daughters and four grandchildren, Mrs. Sankey told Sheriff George Moeller in the county jail Saturday she believed her husband had né con- nection with the Hamm kidnaping. “No, it can’t be,” she replied when asked if she thought he might be im- | plicated. AMERICAN PAIR BEATEN Beckenham, Eng., June 17.—(P)— Mrs. Helen Wills Moody and Eliza- beth Ryan, former Wimbledon champions, Sgturday were defeated in the final match of women’s dou- bles in the Kent championships, 6-4, 6-4, by the right ranking English pair of Mary Heeley and Dorothy Round. WATERSPOUT CAUSES LOSS San Sebastian, Spain, June 17.—(?) —San Sebastian was struck Satur- day by a waterspout which caused damage estimated at more than $1,- 000. The house of Paulino Uzcudun, heavyweight pugilist, at Barrio An- tigus, was damaged. Uzcudun rescued several persons who almost drowned. Two of the men who will play an important part in the reorganization ;of the nation’s railroad operations lunder the bill just passed by con- gress are pictured above. Joseph B. Eastmah (inset) has ELECT MINOT GIRL | AS HEAD OF STATE RAINBOW SOCIETY Jean Herigstad Honored at Election Here; Wilma Wen- zel Gets Place } { ' { | | Jean Herigstad, Minot, newly elect- ed grand worthy advisor of the North Dakota assembly of the Order of the Rainbow for Girls, and other elective and appointive officers of the state assembly were installed at services jconducted at the Masonic temple j here Saturday morning during the | final session of the state convention. Margaret Edwards, Grand Forks, retiring grand worthy advisor, was installing officer. Other elective officers installed, named Friday afternoon, were Wilma Wenzel, Bismarck, grand worthy as- sociate advisor; Winifred McGillic, Mandan, grand Charity; Elaine Al- win, Lakota, grand Hope: Marian Hauser, Dickinson, grand Faith; Katherine McCash, Valley City, grand i ; grand, treasurer. | Appointive officers installed. were Dorothy Hergerud, Killdeer, grand | ! son, Kenmare, grand Love; Clarice Olson, Fairmont, Bernice Gilman, Beach, grand Na- ture; Mary Cushman, Bowman, grand Immortality; Margaret Knight, Lans- ford, grand Fidelity; Maxine Hall, Hettinger, grand Service; and Viola Bohn, New England, grand confiden- tial observer. as grand Patriotism, was unable to be present and will be installed later. Retiring Leader Talks During her address as retiring grand worthy advisor, Miss Edwards of Grand Forks presented a gavel for the grand assembly to the in- coming grand worthy advisor, Miss Herigstad, who also was presented with @ corsage of roses from the Mi- not assembly. Bismarck assembly was awarded a gavel as a token of its services as hostess asembly. It was presented by Thelma Hall of Jamestown, a (Continued on Page Three) Business Rise Is Shown by Figures New York, June 17.—)— Statistics appearing during the past week indicated a rise in business according to Moody’s in- dex figures for freight car load- ings, electric power production and steel ingot output. These index figures are adjust- ed for seasonal variation—that is, if the change from the previous week should coincide with the normal seasonal change, the in- ‘igure would be unchanged. Car- Elec- Com- loadings tric Steel bined Latest week 55.7 102.7 51.5 170.0 Prev. week 55.0 100.0 47.7 67.6 Month ago 52.7 96.8 34.7 61.4 Year ago ...49.5 95.6 23.6 56.2 1933 high’ ..57.8 102.7 51.5 170.0 1933 low ...45.6 88.7 15.5 50.5 (182 weekly average—100) Copyright, 1933, by Moody i ! New Chiefs of Nation’s Railroads recorder; and Marjorie Arnold, Fargo, | chaplain; Dorothy’ Pepple, Williston, | grand drill leader; Kathryn Knud-; grand Religion; : Helen McCormick, Stanley, named been appointed federal coordinator of railroads, a new job with wide powers. Secretary of Commerce Roper (right) also will have important func- tions in connection with the reorgan- ization. Spring Flower Show Set For Tuesday, Wednesday Garden Club to Sponsor Annual Display in World War Memo- rial Building Tuesday and Wednesday, June 20 and 21, have been set as the dates for Bismarck's annual spring flower show in the World War Memorial building, it was announced Saturday by Mrs. Herman Leonhard, president of the Garden club, which is sponsoring the event. Mrs, Frayne Baker, general chairman for the show, is directing arrangements. It was decided to hold the show the | | | hot weather is causing blooms to ma- ture more rapidly than usual. Peo- nies, expected to be the main feature of the show, are at their best at the present time, while many other varie- ties will be in full bloom within the next few days. The flower show committee is sug- gesting that choice blossoms be cut now and placed in water in a cool basement or in an icebox until time for the show. Oriental poppies may be preserved for several days by sear- ing the stems in hot wax. Flowers (Continued on Page Three) SERIOUS DAMAGE T0 STATE GRAIN CROP [S SEEN BY EXPERT Trowbridge Asserts Plants Can- not Stand Intense Heat For Very Long Fargo. N. D., June 17.—()—That serious and widespread damage may be done to wheat and other small grain crops throughout the state with a continuation for a few days of the present extreme hot weather is the opinion of Dr. P. F. Trowbridge, direc- tor of the North Dakota experiment station in Fargo and of substations in the state. “Wheat, barley and oats are cool weather plants and such extreme heat is forcing them, causing them to go into the boot stage much quicker than they should,” Dr. Trowbridge said. “It jis true we haye a good stand of small grains over much of the state, but no small grain plant can withstand such unusual heat as this for many days. “We have reports there has been much damage, particularly through the southern part of the state, and this will spread over all sections of the spring wheat belt if we do not get relief soon in the way of rain and cooler weather.” He declared serious damage already has been done in the south central portion and declared crops in South Dakota have been irreparably dam- aged, according to reports received by him. Corn and flay are withstanding the heat much better than the small grains, he said. He pointed out flax is more of a dry weather crop and corn is at a stage when it does not require so much moisture as do wheat, oats and barley. He said probably more damage has been done to oat fields than to wheat or barley. Many oat fields are turn- ing brown, and farmers of Cass coun- ty report the stools on all small grains fore part of the week because recent; NEW PROPOSALS FOR STABILIZATION NOT ACCEPTABLE T0 U. 8. President Roosevelt’s Views! Transmitted to Delegation At London DETAILS ARE NOT DIVULGED| | This Country Does Not Look | Favorably Upon Any Tem- porary Schemes Washington, June 17.—)—Euro- pean proposals for a temporary stab- | ilization of currencies were said; authoritatively Saturday to be un- satisfactory to the United States. President Roosevelt's views have} been transmitted to the American delegation at the London economic) conference and they are expected to move slowly in the pending negotia- tions. { A full report from the American | representatives on the proposal was received Friday night by the presi- dent and Secretary Woodin. The! chief executive's views immediately! were transmitted to London. I The situation was explained at the} treasury Saturday by Dean Acheson, the acting secretary. It was Pointed | out that the government was willing to listen to any proposals advanced | but it was said that the ones received were not agreeable to this govern- ment in their present form. No Details Divulged Acheson declined to divulge any| details of the plan which was sub- | mitted by the treasury’s representa-j| tive in London, O. M. W. Sprague, but | said it was something from which) negotiations could start. It was said the president had in- delegates could act, but it was in- dicated the United States did not look favorably upon any plan for temporary stabilization. The French ana other delegates from gold-standard countries were rather avoiding the use of the con- troversial word “stabilization” and; employing the more euphemistic| | Phrase “arrangement to minimize} | fluctuation.” Conference headquarters, mean-| while, announced 14 more nations had accepted President Roosevelt's truce! on tariff changes, making a total of | | 33 adherents so far. | List New Cooperators New members of the compact are) Bolivia, Chile, the Dominican Re-| public, Greece, Guatemala, Iceland,| ; Paraguay, Persia, Peru, Poland, Por- | tugal, Spain, Turkey and Uruguay. It was understood a hitch in the} ; Proceedings occurred in connection with the suggestion made Friday by} Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, German min-| ister of agriculture and economics,| for a German colonial empire in Africa. if A memorandum by the German; delegation was delivered to the sec- retariat of the conference for dis- tribution among the delegates, but; before it could be handed out it was! published in the press throughout! the world, much to the surprise andj} consternation of Dr. Hugenberg, who! had not authorized its publication. As a result of this premature pub-; licity he requested the conference to; Postpone distribution of the memo-} randum among the delegates. | Work in preparation for Monday's! commission sessions continued at! conference headquarters Saturday, | but most of the business was sus-; pended. | All the delegates and experts and; members of their parties were cast- | ing aside their labors to attend a garden party being given them by! King George and Queen Mary at) Windsor castle. | —— [President Sets Up | \Government Machine | Washington, June 17.—(AP)— Even-if President Roosevelt had not earned a vacation with all the work done during the past three months, he would have rated one after Friday. Signed, with ceremony, the in- dustrial control law; the Glass bank act, the railroad reorgan- ization measure. Signed, with- out frills, three appropriations totaling more than four and a quarter billions, and other minor legislation left over by congress. Signed commissions for: Hug! 8. Johnson, administrator of in- dustrial control; Donald H. Saw- yer, administrator of emegency public works; Joseph B. Eastman, federal railroad coordinator; Ewing Y. Mitchell, assistant sec- retary of commerce in charge of reorganized marine and aviation division, with five assistants. Detailed two cabinet commit- tees: first, an industrial recovery board to assist Johnson, composed of Secretary Roper, chairman; Attorney General Cummings, Sec- retaries Perkins, Wallace and Ickes, Director Douglas of the budget and the chairman of the federal trade commission; sec- ond, @ public works board of the same cabinet members with Sec- retary Dern added and Secretary Ickes as chairman. Approved Secretary Wallace's plan for imposition of wheat and cotton processing taxes. \ | | | are beginning to show the effect of the Dlistering heat. Approved construction of 32 ships by the navy cloudy weather Saturday night and | ‘Thursday | price of bread was 6 cents a pound. n ee, | Mercury at 3 P. M. || 9? COOLER SUNDAY IS WEATHER FORECAST | BY FEDERAL BUREAU Comparative Records for 59 Years Broken; See Relief At Nightfall Having established new extreme} dicated the limits within which the} heat records for the 14th, 15th and| reduction in acreage of the growing 16th of June over the last 59 years.) the mercury got off to a flying start Saturday morning and indicated it would set up a new record for the 17th also. At 10 a, m. Saturday the Bismarck temperature was 87 degrees, or high- er than for the same time Friday,/ when heat reached a maximum of; 102 degrees in the afternoon. Humidity was lower Saturday than Friday, however. No immediate relief is promised by the forecast, which calls for partly Sunday, with cooler weather through- out North Dakota Sunday and in the; northwest portion of the state Sat-! urday night. 1 Temperatures here for the last) three days as compared with highest previous temperatures for those dates! follow: } Highest Temp. Previous 93 91 99 95 Friday. .. seseee 102 98 The highest previous temperature for June 17 is 99 degrees, according to Frank J. Bavendick, temporarily in charge of the federal weather bu- reau here. Indications at 10 a. m. were that this level would be exceed- ed Saturday by from three to five} degrees. | The all-time high temperature rec- | ord for June here is 107 degrees, es- tablished June 30, 1921, Bavendick; said. | Temperatures throughout the state | Friday generally were 100 degrees or higher, ranging from 90 at Pembina to 105 at Napoleon and 106 at Oakes. | Of 26 stations throughout the state reporting to the weather bureau; here, 17 had extremes of 100 degrees or more. SEE SLIGHT RISE IN BREAD PRICES Peak Says Wheat Tax Will Not All Be Passed on to Ulti- mate Consumer Wednesday | | | | | i Washington, June 17.—(}—Will| the price of bread be increased by the 30 cents a bushel processing taxes soon to be imposed to finance the/ wheat relief program? | George N. Peek, chief administra- tor of the act, believes the rise, if} any, will be slight. Representatives of organizations of bakers at a meeting called by Peek recently pledged they would “pass on” to the consumer “no more and no less than the tax,” and it would not “be made an excuse for boosting prices.” Peek, however, said that the entire} tax need not be passed on to the’ consumer. “In the pre-war period,” he said, “hard winter wheat was selling at 95 cents a bushel at Kansas City, flour) sold for $4.38 a barrel and the retail “But in 1932, when wheat at Kan-/} “WILL LEVY WHEAT \“frankly experimental in nature.” |another month Wallace expects ad-( , swing. {for this week announcement of his: |lace specifies, he will be paid two- ion it will be bearish. TAX IN JULY POR ALLOTMENT PLAN 30 Cents a Bushel Held Prob-| able Rate But It May Be Higher or Lower SHARP ACREAGE CUT ASKED Wallace May Seek 20-Per-Cent/ Slash in Return for Cash Benefits | Washington, June 17.—(P)}—Maxi- | mum processing taxes will be levied, | beginning early in July, on all wheat | ground into flour by American mills. | To finance efforts to reduce the na- | | tion’s production, these taxes will be} about 30 cents a bushel on the basis} of present relationships of current and pre-war prices. They will be higher if wheat declines in price; lower if it increases. Secretary Wal-! lace will fix the tax within a short} time and hopes to keep it as stable as possible. It will become effective | between July 1 and 15. Wallace will ask farmers of the wheat belt to agree to reduce their acreages for harvest in 1934 and 1935 by as much as 20 per cent. In return he will offer them cash bonuses and he plans to distribute $150,000,000 of these, most of it by September 15. Wallace expressed strong faith in his plans for applying the act which President Roosevelt has described as In ministrative activity will be in full} | Secretary Wallace has postponed, cotton program calling for a sharp, crop and levying of the maximum processing tax of about 4 cents a) pound. i" Uses Allotment Plan The wheat, plan is based on the vol- untary domestic allotment plan. The exact amount of acreage reduction will be determined after negotiations have been completed at the world wheat conference at London. Wallace said the program provides the United States with machinery to fulfill any international agreement! for acreage reduction that may be made at London, but in case the con-/| ferences fails to reach an agreement, @ separate reduction program will be| employed in this country. The plan contemplates fixing al- lotments of wheat for each state and country in the wheat areas, on the basis of average production in the last five years. Each farmers’ allotment within that will be based on his pro- duction for the last three years. If a farmer agrees to reduce his acreage in line with the amount Wal- thirds of his bonus in cash. The other third will be paid after evidence of fulfillment as to acreage planted this fall or next spring. The actual amount of this bonus remains to be determined. The plan contemplates no inter- ference with the free marketing of wheat. Special efforts to market sur- pluses will be made, Wallace said, Particularly by cooperation with ex- isting agencies to facilitate export movement, partially also in relief channels such as the Red Cross. MILLERS DIVIDE ON OPINION ON RESULT Minneapolis, June 17.—(7)—The Journal said Saturday millers are divided in their opinion as to the ef- fect of the wheat processing tax al- though the majority are of the opin- It said there is a feeling on the part of many that the tax, which is 30 cents a bushel on wheat, when it is processed into flour at an additional cost of $1.50 to $1.60 a barrel, will bring lower wheat prices since there will be a tendency to absorb some of the expense in this way rather than to pass it all on to the flour consumer. There are so many factors entering into the wheat and flour situation, such as the national inflation move- ment and the weather conditions af- fecting the crop. That some feel the tax may have little effect on the farmers’ price for his wheat. Canadians Launching War on Grasshoppers Winnipeg, June 17.—(#)—Poison guns of departments of agriculture in two western provinces Saturday open- ed their spring barrage on millions of destructive grasshoppers. Im- promptu poison plants swung into operation in Saskatchewan and Ale berta with the sudden appearance of the jumping pest over a wide area. Reports from Limerick, Sask., said large sections of growing crops were being destroyed. So severe is the plague that farmers believe green- growing crops will be wasted acreage this fall if the situation is not remed- ied. More than 1,500.000 acres in Alberta are menaced by the hoppers. sas City was 46.9 cents a bushel and flour was $3.85 a barrel, bread sold) there at 6.7 cents a pound. In other) words, while wheat prices fell more than 50 per cent, bread prices rose! 10 per cent. Such a spread suggests/ at least part of the processing charge | be absorbed in the spread bettreen! the producer and consumer.” OSTFOLDLAGET MEETS Alexandria, Minn., June 17.—(#)— Members of Ostfoldlaget from Min- nesota, North Dakota, and South Da- kota opened their annual convention here Friday and heard an address by Waldemar Ager. vice president of the Lag and Eau Claire, Wis., editor. She May Become King Zog’s Queen Baroness Franziska’ de Janko (above), prominent leader of Al- banian society and well-known in German and Austrian social cir- cles, is betrothed to King Zog of Albania, according to Continental rumors. Reports from Vienna say a definite announcement will be made in the fall. LIVING WAGE, SHORT HOURS 1S SLOGAN OF RECOVERY PROGRAM Aims of Industrial Administra- tion Indicated in Roosevelt Statement Washington, June 17.—:\—Presi- dent Roosevelt intends to put all the immediate emphasis of tne industrial control program on reduction of working hours with payment of a “living wage” for the shortened labor week. ‘This purpose was indicated clearly in a public statement, issued just be- fore starting on his New England va- cation, in which he coupled the de- claration the bill's purpose was “to put people back to work,” with an urgent request industry forego quick profits and devote itself to increasing the country’s purchasing power before raising prices. Limitation of working hours and Job spreading is to be an integral part of the industrial codes under which the government will let related businesses cooperate without inter- ference from the anti-trust laws. Eventually the president said he wants to use the law “to plan for a better future” but the first, emer- gency job is going to be “to get many hundreds of thousands of the unemployed back on the payroll by snowfall.” “The idea is simply.” he continued, “for employers to hire more men to do the existing work by reducing the work-hours of each man’s week and at the same time paying a living wage for the shorter week.” In a statement at Pittsburgh, Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, industrial adminis- trator, said “We are at a critical stage of this depression because prices have risen so much faster than wages. There is a real danger of relapse un- less purchasing power is enhanced.” Commenting gn the shorter week with living wage, Johnson said: “This cannot be done without ruin to many unless all competing indus- tries do the same thing and about the same time.” Johnson, en route to Chicago in an army plane, had been forced down here by bad weather. Watchman at Chicago Survives Wild Night Chicago, June 17—(?)—John Dwyer, 67-year-old watchman, lived through a harrowing experience Saturday when two thugs overpowered him in the plant of the Taylor Trunk com- pany, tied him to a pile of trunks and then set fire to the building. Bound in such a way that if he at- tempted to free himself the trunks would come crashing down upon him, Dwyer said he yelled himself hoarse for several hours while smoke curled up through the floor from the base- ment below. A passerby saw smoke issuing from open windows. Firemen rushed to the scene and rescued the white-hair- ed watchman. Dwyer said the men told him their motive was “union trouble.” Freight Car Loadings Show Sharp Increase Washington, June 17—(?)—The American Railway association an- nounced Saturday that loadings of revenue freight for the week ended June 10 were 564,546 cars, an increase of 56,312 above the preceding week and 62,861 over the same week last year. All commodities showed an increase for the week over the corresponding week last year with the exception of less than carlot merchandise FIVE SLAUGHTERED AT KANSAS CITY'S RAILROAD STATION Missouri City Gangsters Mow Down Five Officers and Convicted Crook THREE DEAD IN CHICAGG Four May Die at Lafayette, Ind., Following Duel in Business Area (By the Associated Press) Guns blazed on four mid-western fronts Friday, leaving behind them a record of eight dead and nine wound- ed, some probably fatally. A wholesale slaughter was enacted at the entrance to Kansas City’s un- ion railroad station when gangsters turned sub-machine guns loose on a party of state and federal police and @ prisoner, killing five and wounding one. é The death list comprised four of- ficers and Frank Nash, one of the last of a notorious band of train robbers. Three deaths occurred at Chicago and at Lafayette, Ind., two alleged bandits and two policemen were wounded in a gun battle, all perhaps fatally. The Kansas City killing was the biggest gang massacre since the fa- mous St. Valentine’s Day killing in Chicago several years ago. It occurred as the officers, escort- ing Nash, entered an automobile at the door of the union station. The dead: Frank Nash, the federal convict be- ing returned to Leavenworth. Raymond J. Caffrey, agent of the bureau of investigation. W. J. “Red” Grooms, city detective of Kansas City. Frank Hermanson, city detective of Kansas City. Otto Reed, chief of police of Me- Alester, Okla. The wounded: F. J. Lackey, agent of the federal bureau of investigation. Killers Flee in Auto The killers, believed to number four, fled in an automobile with their sub- machine guns barking after surpris- ing the officers and deliberately shooting them down as they were en- tering their car, preparing to drive to Leavenworth with Nash. Nash was reported to have been the first one killed, although one witness said he apparently had given the sig- nal for the attack by raising his man- acled hands. : Many officers expressed the belief the object was to deliver Nash from his guards. But some reasoned that Nash may have had information om gangs which his associates feared he might disclose to authorities and they decided to “rub him out.” R. E. Vetterli, chief of the United States bureau of investigation for Kansas and Western Missouri, ex- changed shots with the slayers and escaped injury, as did Frank Smith, a department of justice investigator. A motorcycle patrolman, who rush- ed from the station, fired three shots at the fleeing car. Smith, Lackey and Reed arrived at the station shortly after 7 a. m. with Nash, captured Friday in Hot Springs, Ark. Nash escaped from the federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth in 1930. They were met by Vetterli, chief of the United States bureau of invstiga- tion for Kansas and western Mis- souri; Caffrey, an investigator for the bureau; Grooms and Hermanson. The seven escorted Nash, handcuffed, through the station to Caffrey’s car, waiting near the parking lot. Four Die on Spot Three of the officers and Nash died on the spot. Caffrey died in a hos- pital. (Continued on Page Three) Aged Menoken Man Injured Seriously Charles Snyder, 76-year-old Meno- ken man, was in serious condition in @ local hospital Saturday with chest injuries suffered in an automobile accident near Menoken Friday fore- noon. His doctor said that, though X-ray pictures have not been completed, it is likely Snyder suffered several broken ribs, apparently having been thrown against the steering wheel of his car. Snyder's condition is serious be- cause of his advanced age. He told his doctor he was forced off the highway by an approaching motorist. ‘Though the mishap occurred in the forenoon, the elderly man was not brought here for treatment until Friday evening, entering the hospital at 6:15 o'clock. Charles Stroud, 60-year-old Baker, Mont., man who suffered similar in- juries in an automobile accident near here Thursday, was making good progress toward recovery Saturday, his doctor said. Stroud suffered a crushed chest. several broken ribs and a fractured clavicle. | | Iowa Preparing to Vote on Repeal Law Des Moines, Ia., June 17.—()}—Iowa is getting ready to decide whether to vote for or against retention of the 18th amendmebt. Motor cavalcades of repealists anc prohibitionists are roaring up and down the state in attempts to collect votes for their respective causes in the election Tuesday. Towa will vote for two slates of 99 delegates, one from each county, to a statewide convention. One list is for ratification; the other against. The slate getting the most wins—and the ,convention becomes a formality,