The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 22, 1933, Page 1

‘ee >F& =, ' ‘ North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper bd HE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ESTABLISHED 1878 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1933 PRICE FIVE CENTS North Dakota Casting Light Vote Bold POLICEMAN 1S SLAIN WHEN DESPERADOES ROB BANK EMPLOYES Gunmen Fire on Patroimen When Their Auto Is Wreck- : ed By Collision BELIEVE LOOT WORTHLESS Machine Guns and Smoke Screen Used By Bandits on Jackson Boulevard p is * Chicago, Sept. 22—(7)—Behind a emoke screen laid in Chicago's loop early Friday, five gunmen staged a daring holdup of four federal reserve hank employes and five minutes later shot and killed a policeman after their automobile collided with an- other. The robbery, carefully-planned and swiftly-executed, probably will not net much in the way of loot, an official of the Federal Reserve Bank said. W. C. Bachman, cashier and assistant dep-, vty governor of the bank, said he be- Meved the two bags contained noth- ing but cashed checks from member banks, The poli tellow-officer peradoes’ car about a mile from the fcene of the robbery, not knowing of the holdup, was Miles Cunning- ham, 35. Crawied From Wreckage A moment before, the machine had bank messengers, and Otto Wiznar and their guards,Proc: tor Hale. and John McGillan, they ‘were or. their way from the postoffice to the Federal Reserve Bank when the /@unmen appeared. The messengers were pushing a hand truck on which were the mail tags along Jackson Boulevard, a main thoroughfare. leading to the West «Continued on Page Two) Historical Quebec Cathedral Destroyed Valleyfield, Que, sept. 22.—(P)— Fire destroyed the historic Valleyfield cathedral and a convent Friday with in Quebec Province in the last 12 months, with the total losses set at $2,620,000. Firemen fought the fire four hours ‘but could save only the Sacred Host from. cathedral, A boy's academy south of the con- vent and a nearby orphanage threatened. and con- | President Roosevelt's Signature] Robber ’ Grash Proves 1 Fatal | [rae aE TY hospital since Monday q suffered a severe reaction FOR THOUSANDS OF MINERS IS REACHED, Will Make [It Instrument = of NRA Code pivenstn eet aenee contract wages hundreds of 8 nds ot miners Fri- day needed only President Roosevelt's approval to become an effective in- strument of soft coal’s NRA code. expected. Completion of the soft coal labor agreement which the three signers said was accomplished with the “in- spiring help of President Roosevelt” coincided with the disclosure of NRA plans looking toward a permanent or- Ganization under which industry will regulate itself with the least govern- mental interference, paign—of a permanent set-up involv- ing the shifting of personal and also the merging of as many industries as Practicable under the latest possible number of master codes. In the reorganization work a new policy board was created under Ham- mond’s chairmanship and was expect- ed to provide the nucleus for the per- manent organization. While the re- covery act ends on June 16, 1935, Johnson believes congress will extend the best features of the NRA ‘i 1933 1933 duly 31 211,740,188 131,944,006 robbers, ., | brought: Thi "| passing motorist was halted, his Gangs Strike in Chicago, Kansas Defendants Fight OW) WEST RECALLED | Desperado Gets a Word of Advice WHEN BANK LOOTERS RAID MIDWEST TOWN Cashier Wounded, Marshall Breaks Leg and Bandits Get Away With $3,000 DOZEN HOSTAGES RELEASED| Marauders Change Automobiles | Twice in Wild Flight Across - Wheat State Hays, Kas. Sept. 22.—(@)—Bank carrying machine guns, to this college town of 5,000 the same swift activities experienced when desperadoes rode horses and Wild Bill Hickok ruled as marshal over the frontier outpost. Twelve hostages were subsequently released; the loot was $3,000; the bank cashier was wounded and the| city marshal received a broken leg under the wheels of a car in which he attempted pursuit. The four rob- bers, who wore soiled overalls and masks, were believed in hiding after eluding National Guardsmen, hastily recruited posses and airplane observ- ers, 8. W. Arnhold, cashier of the Farmers State Bank, was beaten over; the head when he refused to open the vault and later was wounded in the leg while standing with other host- ‘ages on the running-board of the Tobbers’ car. Two, of the eight hostages seized at the bank escaped as the flight be- gan and five others were freed in the excitement attending a collision! of the bandit machine and another) near the edge of the city. Commandeering passing car, the) robbers fled with Miss Hilaria’ Schmidt, 22, as) their prisoner. town, Alex Weltz, city marshal, drew | near in another machine, which halt-| ed when the robbers opened fire.' Weltz dodged behind his car only to be run over when’ the-.excited driver backed up inadvertently. ‘The robbers added three more host- ages, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Wagner and their baby, at @ farm near Vincent, Kas., where they changed to Wag- ner’s truck. The hostage list grew to five when car tested but found unsuitable, and he was placed on the truck. Near Holyrood, Kas., hostages and truck were left behind after the rob- bers stole a new car, owned by an oll well attendant. That was the last point at which they were re- ‘ported. Woman’s Relief Corps Elects Minot Woman St. Paul. Sept. 22.—()—Old friefids came to the parting of the ways for another 12 months Friday as the boys in blue attending the 67th annual en- campment of the Grand Army of the Republic turned homeward. For some it probably was their last convention. Death snatches about 2,- 000 a year. from the meager ranks. The comrades had their leaders’ Promise to “carry on” as, with falter- ing hands raised, the officers headed by Commander Russell C. Martin, 86, Los Angeles, solemnly swore allegiance to the G. A. R. and the United States of America. Luncheon and an inspection of the Minnesota soldiers home in Minnea-| Polis, was the concluding event Fri- i Toledo, counselor; Mrs. E. Paige, Minot, N. D., instituting and installing officer; Mrs. Annie Poole Atwood, Wollaston, Mass., patriotic instructor; Mrs. J. M. Sanders, Scran- ton, Pa., press correspondent, and Mrs, M. D. Monahan, Peekskill, N. Y., senior aide. Minnewaukan Girl Is Auto Mishap Victim _ Devils Lake, N. D. Bept. 22—()— 4,000-VOTE TOTAL In the tightest spot of $79,000,000 RELIEF PROGRAM LAUNCHED IN TWO DIRECTIONS; Will Aid Farmer and Unemploy- ed; Widespread Purchase of Food Planned Washington, Sept. '22—(@)—A $73,- 000,000 program promising aid simul- taneously to the farmer and the un- employed Friday was directed by President Roosevelt to help bridge the gap between surplus supplies and con- sumption. At the president’s order, the. agri- cultural adjustment and federal re- lef administrations prepared to pur- chase quantities of foodstuffs and staples for distribution to the desti- tute on relief rolls. “Through his action much of the oversupply of important foodstuffs and staples will be placed in the hands of the destitute unemployed who are living on the short shift of public un- employment relief,” said the white house announcement, which President Roosevelt discussed with newspaper- men. The plan, as outlined personally by the chief executive Thursday night, “will add to and not replace items of relief already provided.” Under consideration for handling in a manner similar to the 100,000,000 pounds of cured pork recently distrib- uted by the relief administration were such products as beef, dairy and poul- try products and products of cotton and cotton seed. Officials estimated $75,000,000 would be expended on such Purchases but this figure was not final. “The president said he considered the program arranged between the ag- ricultural adjustment administration and the federal emergency relief ad- ministration one of the most direct blows at the economic paradox which has choked farms with an abundance of farm products while many of the unemployed have gone hungry,” the white house statement said. “There are approximately 3,500,000 families now on relief rolls throughout the country ... the amounts of food and clothing given the destitute still are inadequate.,... “A real effort to bridge the gap be- tween supplies and consumption will be made. In this way to major ob- Jectives of the recovery program will be promoted—feeding and clothing the unemployed more adequately and hastening the agricultural recovery.’ Consumer Buying Is Peg for Optimism New York, Sept. 22—(7)—Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. in their weekly trade review Friday, said that “over- shadowing other trade news of the fie ul te 2 g i 5 a downtrend.” i ‘The review asserted clarification of lurid career, Harvey J. Bailey, the coun- | try’s'‘No. 1 Bad Man,” is pictured right in whispered conference with one of his attorneys, James Mathers, as the federal govern- ment piled up evidence against him and 11 others on trial at Okla- homa City for the kidnaping of Charles F. Urschel, millionaire oil operator. I. C. C. Examiners Urge Cut in Rail - Lake Rates 2": Ransom ed as Recipients of Mark- ed Currency BANK MANAGER TESTIFIES |Prosecution Claims It Has $1,- 500 Which Was Part of Ransom Money timony relating to the disposition of part of the $200,000 with which Charles F. Urschel was ransomed was |edmitted over strenuous objections of counsel for seven Minneapolis and St. Paul defendants in the kidnaping |conspiracy trial in federal court here | Friday. A. M. Carey of Minneapolis, attor- jney for the seven, sought to rule out ithe testimony as concerning a matter | trat occurred after the conspiracy had |been closed by return of Urschel. “Your point has effect only as to the actual abductors,” sald District Judge Edgar S. Vaught. Ralph Hagen, manager of a branch jpank at Minneapolis, told of inter- ccpting part of the ransom at his testimony brought the | Minneapolis and St. Paul defendents |-Isadore Blumefield, Sam Kozberg, ‘Sam Kronick, Pete Valder, alias | Hackett and Nelson, Edward (Barney) ; Berman, Charles Wolk and Clifiord | Skelly—into the trial by name for the (first time. ! The prosecution has $1,500 obtained in the Twin Cities which it identified 22.—(7\—Two as part of the ransom for return of North Dakota Among Western Destination Points Which | Would Benefit |. Washington, Sept. aminers Friday recommended to the! kidnaped July 22. commission that freight rates by rail- road and water across the Great |BARE ALLEGED PL. Lakes be revised, in a majority of in- TO ABDUCT DOHEN stances downward. | Los Angeles, Sept. 22.—()—An al- The railroads, acting under the di-|!eged plan to kidnap E. L. Doheny, rection of the commission in connec- | California oil magnate, and Jesse L. ition with recent revisions of rates in | Livermore, New York stock broker, en- eastern, Illinois and western trunk | tered Friday into the investigation of line territories, filed rates for combt-|the slaying of Buell Dawson, youthful ration rail-lake hauls which were gangster, aboard the gambling ship protested by many cities in the west |Johanna Smith, anchored off Long and middlewest. | Beach. Examiners William J. Koebel and| James Walsh, former convict who Arthur 8. Parker, to whom the case| federal agents claim has confessed was assigned, Friday recommended a/| hursday’s slaying of Dawson, alleg- complete revision of the rates, which | €dly told the investigators the killing would bring reductions of from three | resulted from a dispute over the plans to 10 cents per 100 pounds from New | for kidnaping Doheny and Livermore. York and New England points to Du-| The federal agents, however, were iuth, Marshall, Minneapolis and St.'inclined to discredit the story and Paul, Minn.; Eau Claire, Wis.; St.|sOught another motive. Louis, Mo.; Bemidji, Minn.; Fargo,. Dawson was shot while 200 persons Devils Lake, Bismarck and Williston, | Were aboard the pleasure ship, drink- N. D., and Aberdeen, Lemmon, Sioux |ing, dancing and gambling. Falls; Mitchell and Rapid City, 8. D.; and in some instances from one or; WOULD LINK BAD MAN more eastern points to other western | IN 12 MURDER CASES cities, | New York, Sept. 22—(7)—On the The examiners also recommended 'inunched shoulders of Leonard Scar- the commission divide the eastern!nici, young bad man, police sought section of the country into zones for | Friday to place the guilt for 12 mur- making rates including lake hauls, |ders, with some variation between the in-| The indications were that Scarnici dividual zones. | would go first to Troy to face trial on The examiners recommended ana charge of the murder of a detective arbitrary charge of 30 cents be added |in a robbery. of the Bank of Rensse- to the rates recommended to and /laer last May. from Duluth, on freight from the east | He was seized Wednesday with four te St. Paul and Minneapolis, and that |cther men and two women in connec- between the Twin Cities and the /|1ion with the kindnaping of John J. docks at Lake Erie points on traffic |O’Connell, Jr., of Albany, whose po- an both directions the following arbi- | litically-powerful family bought him traries be charged: Buffalo-Erie, | back for $40,000 ransom. $1.29; Cleveland, $1.24 and Detroit; Called a killer-for-hire and de- Seven Twin Cities Men Reveal-| Oklahoma City, Sept. 22—()—Tes- | Interstate Commerce Commission ex- | Urschel, Oklahoma City oil millionaire OR70 PER CENT IS INDICATED IN CITY Sales Tax Proposal and Beer Measure Attracting Most Attention Testimony Sister Aimee Goes on Stage SEVEN ISSUES ON BALLOTS Sunday Movies, Compensation Bureau and Bank Receiver Bills Are Up Reports from all parts of the state Friday indicated that only a light vote was being cast at the special State-wide election. Initial reports came from the cities ind all reported the same general tendency. How the people were cast- ang ballots in the rural precincts was not definitely determined but initial reports indicated that the number go- ing to the polls there also would be below normal. In Bismarck 1,606 persons had vot- ed at 2 p. m., indicating a total vote of approximately 4,000 or 70 per cent of the registration. At 2 p. m., on Nov. 8, last year, when jthis city cast a record-breaking vote, 13,003 had voted. | The stream of persons visiting the | Dolls moved more rapidly during the jafternoon than had been the case in the morning, however, and a late a week, Almee Semple McPherson Tush was expected to increase the is shown as she arrived in New total. York to bexi ries of personal | | Q@ppearances on the vaudeville | "TWO REBELS KILLED IN FIRST CONFLICT fed Launching herself on a theatrical career, at a guarantee of $5.000 For Beer, Sunday Movies Deductions of persons in the polling places, based on chance remarks of citizens, were that all proposals on the ‘ballot would be rejected here with the exception of the initiated measures |tor the beer bill and Sunday movies. The vote in the various city pre- ‘eincts at 2 p. m., follows: Abe = Precinct Vote 1 123 IN CAMAGUEY AREA : > 8 i 1 3 87 | 2 1 139 | = 2 123 \ 2 3 96 Cuba Sits on Tinder Box of Re- 3 s in bellion and Hunger Watch- (a 3 2 ing Developments ‘b me bee 16 1 109 . 2 154 Havana, Sept. 22—(?)—With out- ward calm this capital Friday sat on Weather a tinder box of rebellion and hunger.’ throughout mon Tau vi odds with its political foes, but was|fali election’ hor 102, Most poutioa expected to reply negatively to the observers predicted an out-tumn of panes Heats demands for his resigna- aah 140,000 to 180,000. Soldiers still had trouble with rebel’ Re prea pegs. the me forces of Juan Blas Hernandez, veter- | several weeks, Probably as intensive a an campaigner against former Presi-| campaign as any waged in North Da- dent Machado, in Camaguey Province. | kota on a referred measure, is regard- And, as available stores of food- card 3 stuffs dwindled, residents of Havana balosae: zroliccaming: = checked their supplies as warehouse- % men continued on strike and estimates} Other eee of suf- were made that the capital would g0 ficient variety to stir the average hungry if the strike continues anoth- | voter, The bill to legalize beer, orig- er week. ‘Generate tages {inally initiated with the thought of ~ tr rahe catident ai | presenting it at a special election, has a again ves 8 - student di-/held the interest of citizens who will ilar iets lers patie a titra decide whether North Dakota is to factions, 'Y | join the neighboring states of Minne- night and early Friday with Miguel |sota, Montana and South Dakote Mariano Gomez, leader of the Mar- permitting sale of beer. a party one of the five leading iiss) Should the beer law be approved, There mere. Faia s below the | legalizing of ithe beverage becomes iar ane piri pet 5,000 | °ffective in 30 days, or on Oct. 22. a a es pecan pal: | Another initiated law on the ballot, rg puters rit i — San | Permitting Sunday movies, has sev- Te © oF Ore San ‘eral times been in the spotlight, ef- Martin and fights, in which one man| was critically stabbed when he dis- [sorts in the legislature had been made and road conditions he state were good but not expected to approach $1.19, For freight to be delivered within the boundaries of any lake seaport |seribed by a police inspector as “per- aaps the toughest man in my experi- ence,” Scarnici also is wanted in agreed with another in the crowd. The first actual conflict between the government's soldier-student army on several occasions to repeal the law Prohibiting operation of theatres on Sunday, and in 1930 an initiated the examiners recommended an arbi- trary charge of three cents per 100 pounds from the docks to the delivery point. ‘Woodbridge, Conn., for a filling sta- tion robbery in which two men were murdered. a Scarnici, and two of his seized com- On dairy products, which the ex-|panions, Anthony Reino and Charles. aminers treated separately from other | Herzog, were accused of the Rensse- types of freight, the recommendation |lear robbery and killing. that the rate on minimum car-| Police also sought to connect Scar- loads of 20,000 pounds be 60 per cent |tici with the murders of William of the: corresponding class one rates.|Price and Edward Flanagan, found bound in sacks in Brooklyn, and the Erickson Trial Is kidnaping of Fred Lilienthal of New- Postponed to Monday ark, 000 ransom. Due to the absence from the city of Asks Mayors to Speed site's Atiomey George 8. Up Fund | Applications on a@ charge of striking Chicago, Sept. 22.—(4)—President Knowles over the head with a bottle at Wing Wednesday evening was post- Bees Ed 1:30 p. m. o'clock Monday Erickson was arraigned before Po-| lice Magistrate Edward 8. Allen: Thureday and was released upon his own recognizance until Monday after- noon, The president’s message was read at a crucial moment at the United States conference of mayors. Just as Mayor John F. Dore of Seattle had’ finished a declaration that the Pacific northwest was slipping deeper into depression because of delay in allo- = pe ps, relief Lscgng a “The impetus.of recovery is collaps- »” Mayor Dore had said. “The rea- son is that we can’t get help from the public works fund. I don't believe’ the ——_———_— You Are Invited to Our Election Party nounce the returns from a window _ of The Tribune office as.they are received from Burleigh county and other parts of the state. ‘With thé polls closing at seven’ ——_—————— P. m., and only a short ballot to ROBBERS SECURED $12,990 count, initial returns from the || St. Paul, Sept. 22—(#)—Eight ban- city should be avaijable by 8 |/dits who carried away two Railway Express Agency,"Inc., money chests here Sept. 11, obtained between $5,000 and $7,000 In ee about $80,000 measure to legalize Sunday shows was defeated, the act outlawing oper- ation of theatres on the Sabbath was Placed on the statute books in 1911. Of particular interest to the poli- tically minded are the three referred measures—the sales tax, the law abolishing the office of state receiver of closed banks, and the measure em- and the rebels occurred at Las Cuevas in Camaguey, and, reports said, two of Blas Hernandez’s followers were | killed. Several members of the gov-| ernment’s forces were said to have| been wounded. The rebel-soldier fight lasted a few minutes and followed an unsuccessful effort of troops to conduct a peace Parley with Blas Hernandez. After- wards the rebels went deeper into the hills, where soldiers could not track| them. | The meeting of the student direc- missioners without cause. These pass- ed the legislature as administrat measures and the vote on them will be scanned closely by those who de- sire an interpretation of the attitude A student spokesman told the Asso-|°f the electorate toward the adminis- ciated Press that “Gomez is with this | tration. ana, the Pected to sh the cruiser troyers Simms and Sturtevant. er Ports, and the battle- ship Mississippi remained Pee Cae. 4 ny persons were arrested throughout Oriente legedly ie San Martin remain with his powers