The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 2, 1933, Page 1

ry North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 Roosevelt Asks Legion’s Help BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1933 ~ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ® American Is Killed in New Cuban Outbreak Four Are Injured — 20 SOLDIERS DEAD IN BITTER BATTLE AROUND BIG HOTEL Former Army Officers Stand Fast Despite Heavy Fire By Artillery a SPECTATORS IMPERILED Havana Manager for Meat Com- + pany Was Watching Fray , When Struck Down . Havana, Oct. 2.—()—One American was killed, the lives of many others ‘were endangered and an artillery shell struck the Ford Motor company build- ing in a battle which raged about the National hotel here Monday. At least 20 soldiers officially were reported slain along with the Amer- ican, Robert G. Lotspeich, Havana manager for Swift and company. As fire from machine guns, rifles and artillery rained upon the hotel, stray shots entered the America apartment ‘house where many Americans lived. Lotspeich, shot through the chest, was struck as he watched the fight- ing from the Lopez Serrano apart- “ments nearby. Many Not Identified The other persons killed and most of the wounded were not immediately adentified, owing to the practical im- possibility of getting within close range of the battle. Similar difficulty was encountered ‘by those who attempted to learn the extent of the damage at the Ford building. A truce was effected late in the day when the American consulate asked the government to halt the attack un- til Americans could be removed from the danger zone. At its close, presum- ably, the battle will go on. A previous effort to halt the fight- ing had been only temporarily suc- cessful. While two men, displaying a Red Cross flag, made their way to the hotel, the shooting stopped. A short time later it began again. After President Grau San Martin had been informed there were no Americans in the National hotel in which army and navy officers bar- ricaded there have been held virtual prisoners since mid-August, additional soldiers were ordered to join the at- tack. Artillery Ordered Out After envoys had reported to Presi- Gent Ramon Grau San Martin that there were no Americans in the hotel two more artillery detachments were ordered into the attack. Simultaneously, guns blazed from the tops of buildings on the Havana university campus, their fire directed st the hotel three blocks away. Topping off many other reports toncerning the cause of the conflict, was one that shooting began when an | ono, attempt was made to drive two trucks loaded with ammunition to the hotel. Shortly after President Grau San Martin entered office after a coup and @ junta administration last month, the defiant officers entrenched them- eelves in the large, ornate hostelry, (Continued on Page Two) Miners on Strike Despite New Code Pittsburgh, Oct. 2—(P)}—An NRA code for soft coal went into effect Monday, but more than 75,000 west- ern Pennsylvania miners remained on strike demanding union recognition. They turned from dozens of hectic, all-night meetings to picket the mines in which they were expected to resume work after weeks of idleness. No viol- ence was reported. Their move was prompted by an- nouncement at Washington that Hugh ee. 8. Johnson, NRA chief, had failed in a week-end effort to bring operators and pone. representatives into agree- ment. The operators, still silent with res- 60 Exhibit Corn at | Annual Steele Show More than 60 farmers exhibited maize in the annual Steele corn and lamb show, Saturday, according to H. successful in view of prevailing con- ditions. In addition to the corn and lamb show, a Kidder county 4-H club it day program: was staged — Chicago donned its “best bib and tucker” for the national convention of the American Legion. People Mich- igan avenue, left above, with march- ing veterans and you will have some idea of how it will look during the big parade, set for Tuesday. . At the top, right, is President Roose- velt, principal convention speaker, while below him is Col. W. E. East- wood of Dallas, Tex., who made Mus- solini and the King of Italy honorary members of the Legion and wants the organization to recognize the awards. The honor is one which has been ac- corded sparingly. Below at the right is the committee which planned the convention. Stand- ing left to right—Maj. Gen. Milton E. Forman, Frank C. Samuels and C. Wayland Brooks. Seated, National Commander Louis Johnson and Wat- son B. Miller. OKLAHOMA 70 SEEK SENTENCE OF DEATH FOR TWOKIDNAPERS; | Kelly and Bates to Face Serious Charge; Former Again Voices Threats Oklahoma City, Oct. 2.—()—George (Machine Gun) Kelly, shackled in aj county jail cell under the muzzles of the same type of ‘weapon which nick- | name he bears, was reported by offi- cers to have made a new threat against Charles F. Urschel, oil million- aire, with whose kidnaping he is ged. “I wouldn't sell Urschel any insur- ance; he hasn't long to live,” he was quoted as telling Elman-Jester, deputy United States: marshal, when Jester asked him about a threatening note sent to Urschel during the federal court trial in which the oil man was chief government witness and seven were convicted of kidnap conspiracy. “I meant everything that was in Kelly was reported to have said. Herbert K.' Hyde, district attorney, hy Bates, the two identified by Urschél as his actual abductors last July 22. Bates was one of the seven convict- ed under federal statutes which pro-. vides life imprisonment as a maximum sentence. The siate charge carries a maximum penalty of death. Walter Jarrett, abducted with the oil opera- tor and soon released, was robbed of As Kelly and his wife, Kathryn, stepped from the bi-motored trans: port plane which rushed them here from Memphis, Sunday, Urschel, at airport, told Hyde “that’s the Hyde said Kelly and his wife will enter pleas in the Urschel kidnaping ‘Thursday. conspiracy charges has October 9. Trial of the Kellys on the been set for guilty” and wanted a jury trial. Kelly, Hyde said, indicated he would not Plead guilty to the federal charges, despite announcements of Memphis federal agents that ‘he had admitted. implication in the kidnaping after his arrest there. Cooperstown Girl Is Detained in Chicago Chicago, Oct. 2—(7)—A young wo- man giving the name of Miss Ciaryce if Leading Figures and Scenes at Legion Convention _ Virginia Will Vote On Repeal Tuesday Richmond, Va., Oct. 2.—()—Vir- ginia, after an unusually quiet cam- Paign of drys against wets, will vote as the thirty-second state Tuesday on repeal of the eighteenth amendment. The state votes also on substitution of @ liquor control law for its state pro- hibition act. ESCAPED CONVICT KILLED BY CITIZEN Indiana Murderer Meets Death! After Wounding Brown County Merchant Indianapolis, Oct. 2—(#)—A shot- gun charge fired by a Brown county resident whose suspicions of a stranger were justified has reduced! boys the number of convicts still fugitive from. Indiana state prison as the re- sult of last Tuesday's escape. James Jenkins, convicted Greene county murderer, was shot and killed at Beanblossom Saturday night after he wounded a storekeeper when three men cornered him. Search for the eight still missing was pressed with undiminished vigor. Three, who kidnaped Sheriff Charles Neel of Corydon as they fled the prison, were hunted in northwest Indiana, where one or more of them was believed to have spent Saturday night in the Hammond. A into and underwear later identified as prison garments was strewn on the Noor. Five others apparently were hiding in central or southern Indiana. They seized an automobile in Terre Haute Friday night. drove to Indianapolis land escaped after a brush with police. \ James Clark, one of the fugitives, PATIENCE AND FAITH | ASKED OF LABOR BY | FEDERATION LEADER Will Fight for 30-Hour Week But Wants to Give New Deal Real Chance of ASKS FOR CODE REVISIONS Declares Hours Too High and/ Wages Too’ Low to Sus- j tain Recovery cle a ck. 1 | Washington, Oct. 2.—()—Appealing | for patience and “faith in the new deal,” President William Green told the American Federation of Labor jeonvention Monday that unemploy- ment would not be eliminated until a 30-hour work week was established. Opening the 53rd annual convention he opposed “rapid inflation” and said the federatign would press for un- employment insurance, adoption of the child labor constitutional amend- | ment, adequate retirement laws for workers and the elimination of dis- | crimination against workers 40 and 45/ years of age. . Discussing codes drawn under the; recovery act, Green told the 500 dele- gates: | “The hours of labor and the mint- mum rates of pay established in these codes are unsatisfactory. The hours are too high and the wages too low of the recovery act. “In our mature judgment, our hon- if we are to realize the real objective | In Quake T Believe Body That | Of Sanish Victim | A body believed to be that of Sanish girls who drowned in the | ¢ Delores Lockrem, one of three Missouri river last summer while swimming, has been found in the Big Muddy about 20 miles south of Sanish, it was reported to di- vision offices of the Soo Line here Monday. The body, found by Raymond Root, farmer living north of Van Hook, was in a bad state of de- | composition, the arms, feet, and Jaw being missing. Drowned with Miss Lockrem last July 22 were Florence Royal and Ruth Breslin. The latter, 20 years old, drowned when she attempted to save the two younger girls, who disappear- ed when they stepped off a sand bar into 16 feet of water. A Minot dentist, relative of the Lockrem girl who performed some bridge work on her teeth, was on his way to Sanish Monday to at- tempt to identify the body. Only a short time ago parents of the three girls abandoned search for the bodies. Airplanes and boats were used in the search, which extended as far south as Mobridge, 8. D. Rewards were offered to anyone finding the bodies. SAYS 85 PER CENT | est judgment, thr hours in many of these codes are 80 high they will not absorb a single worker. Three million have been taken back to work, but 11 million are still _unemployed. Must Press With Vigor “So labor must press with all vigor in its possession the necessity for re- vising codes until the opportunity to work is givef to all those who want to work. 5 “In my opinion the 11 million will not get back to work until we face FIRST FATALITY OF OF WHEAT ACREAGE IN STATE SIGNED | Extension Director Reports | Progress in North Dakota | Allotment Drive on Coast Seismologist Says Tremor Is! Worst on Record Except That of March if ONE BUILDING COLLAPSES) Many Residents Stay Up All! Night, Fearing to Re-Enter — Their Homes Los Angeles, Oct. 2—(#)—A sharp earthquake of short duration, appar- ently centered in the Pacific ocean or the desert, awakened residents from Santa Barbara to Long Beach at 1:10 @. m. Monday, caused the injury of four persons in Los Angeles and a ght property damage. One death was indirectly attributed to the tremor. Mrs. Siphia Kapanow, 73, became hysterical when it occur- | red and died a few hours later of a heart attack. The telephone companies and rail- roads, three hours after the shock, reported they had no reports of ex- tensive damage or any deaths. The sheriff's office of Los Angeles county, in which the shock may have center- ed, checked all communities through its substations and reported likewise. Dr. Harry O. Wood, in charge of the seismologica] laboratory of the Car- negie Institute at Pasadena, reported the quake the worst he had felt, with the exception of the one last March 10, which resuled IN more than 120 deaths and property damage running into the millions. Of the four injured in Los Angeles, only one, Mrs. Marie Benedict, 57, was hurt critically. She suffered a pos- sible akull fracture when a medicine vabinet in the bathroom of her home tell during the shock and struck her on the head. Police Station Damaged Fargo, N. D., Oct. 2.—)—About 85 per cent of North Dakota’s wheat Only one building collapsed, police veports showed. That was a ‘market building on Central avenue in the southern section of Los Angeles. More | BANS | HUNTING SEASON IS RECORDED IN STATE Williams County Boys Thought Man's Head in Haystack | Was Prairie Chicken Williston, N. D., Oct. 2—(?)—Mis- taken by two boys for a prairie chic-| en as he lay in a haystack, Victor Tronson, 21, Hayfield, Minn., received! fatal bullet wounds Sunday night. His! ‘death early Monday was the first| |huntiug season fatality in North Da-; jkota. | the issue boldly and uncompromisingly and establish in: these codes a 6-hour- day, 5-day-week.” Old jurisdictional problems, plus new ones caused by the NRA, prom- ised to bother the convention, labelled as one of the most momentous since war days. This was the forecast of its officers and President William Green was hopeful a little adept reasoning would induce the approximately 500 dele- gates to lay aside their factional dis- putes and work together in a recovery jwar as they had in the last real war. He and his aides were confronted with a number of major problems, among them the contentions of many that the recovery program is moving too slowly and only a forceful show of strength, possibly through strikes, will bring the desired speed . Already Green had issued an appeal acreage is covered in 76,352 applica-|+nan a ton of bricks were thrown from tions signed by growers in the allot-|the front of the old central police | ment campaign, C. F. Monroe, exten-/| station into the street. sion director at the North Dakota] The quake was felt throughout southern California. Long Beach, ~pyilesaunlaeneaees omnnum eaewrmel Coes Barbara, San Bernardino, jof reports from agents in 49 of the! wnittier and points throughout the ;53 counties in the state reveals. San Fernando Valley reported feeling Acreage involved aggregates 8,603,-|the shock. 216, Slope county has made the most| Many residents, fearing to re-enter | progress so far, 59 per cent of the|their homes or hotels for the night, |farms being signed up, including 98|paraded the streets in their night- to 99 per cent of the wheat acreage |clothes with only # coat thrown over of the county. County associations | them. have been formed in four counties,| The quake was felt strongest in Divide, Mountrail, Ramsey and Stuts- | downtown Los Angeles. man. In residential sections automobiles Monroe has been empowered to ex-|appeared on the streets as residents, tend the time for closing the drive} finding no damage in their immed- from the original date of Sept. 25 upjiate sections set out to see how their to Oct. 15 where necessary on applica- | neighbors fared. tion of individual counties, in many} An occasional window was broken cases he has granted extension until|in the retail district, the lack of dam- Oct. 7 to 10, and in a few cases until/age in th2 principal business section The Weather Generally fair tonight and Tuesday, - not much change in temperature... PRICE FIVE CENTS OUTLINES STAND ON VETERANS ECONOMY IN CHICAGO SPEECH Points Former Comrades to Fight for Recovery and a United America ‘SPECIAL BENEFITS’ Says Service in War Not Enough to Warrant Favors From Government Chicago, Oct. 2.—(AP)—President Roosevelt frankly outlined the eco- nomy regulations for veterans before. the American Legion Monday and then pointed his “comrades” to the recovery battle and a united nation. He told the veterans that the gov- ornment maintained a responsibility for those disabled by war service and hoped to increase these benefits. But, he declared, “special benefits” would not be given to a man “over and above all other citizens becausé he wore a uniform.” Roosevelt added a third principle t¢ the veterans program assurance that the federal government would give the same relief it gives to others in caring for those veterans who are disabled from causes unconnected with war service but unable to care for them- selves. The president, who was second in command of the navy in the World War and who since suffered disability from infantile paralysis, went before ihe convention against the advice of friends to talk over the relation of the veterans to government. Had to Get Going “The car was stalled,” he said in speaking of the spring of this year. “Obviously, the first objective was to get the engine running again. It is true that we succeeded in reopening @ large number of the banks, but this would not have been possible if, at the same-time, we had not been able to restore the credit of the govern- ment. “In speaking of national credit we ‘sre again dealing with real thing, not a theory in books. Industry can- not be restored, people cannot be put back to work, banks cannot be kept open, human suffering cannot be cared for, if the government itself is bankrupt. “We realize now that the great hu- man values, not for you alone but for jall American citizens, rest upon the unimpaired credit of the United States. “It was because of this that we un- dertook to take the national treasury out of the red and put it ino the black. And in the doing of it we laid down two principles which di- rectly affected benefits to veterans— to you and veterans of other wars, “The first principle, following in- evitably from the obligation of citi- zens to bear arms, is that the govern- ment has a responsibility for and to- wards those who suffered injury or contracted disease while serving in its defense. No Special Beneficiaries Alvin and Gus Skurdal told author-'that organized workers use strikes ities they saw only a small speck in the only as a last resort, after taking haystack, and believing they had come'their problems to the new federal on a prairie chicken fired at it. Dis-|agencies—labor boards set up to covering they had shot the youth, the| mediate between employer and em- immediately brought him to &/ploye. But thousands of workers still hospital here and informed the sher-|remain on strike. a ‘The annual report of the federation head, lved about, six hours,” He had |CxCus SyGos wow opereting. must ‘Be ” 73 cove! nm been working with a road crew near Belt to assure higher wages and Williston. shorter hours. It added, too, a criti- netuthorities said an inquest will beicism of delay in the expenditure of {money on public works, ending with ithe statement that “we urge action.” TWO MANDAN MEN ARE WOUNDED IN ACCIDENTS | Will Immunize 600 hunting sosidente in tigsection'aun,| Against Diphtheria day afternoon resulting in injuries to two of the hunters. | Joseph Smith was in the Mandan hospital suffering from severe to the back and leg. Smith was sit- ting on the fender of his automobile and was struck at short range by dis- charges from a gun in the hands of John Stebner, who was emptying the gun preparatory to returning home. In the’ other accident, a discharge from the gun in the hands of Valen- Requests for immunization of 600 |Bismarck school children against |diphtheria have been received in the jelty-wide immunization campaign, it was returned to the prison after he case in federal court here probably; Was captured in a taxicab at Ham-jwere hunting near Bt. mond Friday night. Lamberton, Minn., Oct. 2.—()—The automobile used by a bandit gang that looted the Pipestone National Bank of $1,600 Saturday was found in a cornfield five miles west of here Melvin C. Passolt, superintendent of the Minnesota crime bureau, express- ed belief the bandits are convicts who }escaped from the Indiana prison at Michigan City last’ Tuesday. Lignite Operators To Meet W: ednesday 5558, ber The two men Steckler was not seriously injured. was announced Monday by Dr. A. M.; | mails Oct. 15. agents for those counties not employ- ing extension agents regularly, and the full crew was not in the field un- til Sept. 1. Arrangements for legal printing of the acreage figures by farmers in the newspapers in each county are being made, with a circular letter being sent to newspapers by Thomas Gild- ersleve of the publications department at the college. (SEEKS CONTINUANCE FOR LIQUOR CASES { | District Attorney Lanier Would Wait For ‘Repeal of 18th Amendment’ Continuance until “after repeal of the 18th amendment” of several minor Uquor cases on the calendar of U. 8. Gistrict court here, a jury term of which will open Tuesday, will be recommended by P. W. Lanier, U. 8. district attorney from Fargo. Lanier arrived here Monday to make ready for criminal trials and said disposition of the several minor liquor cases on the calendar can bet- ter be made in line with the federal government's policy after “repeal” of the prohibition amendment. Thirty-one states already have rati- fied the repeal amendment and more than five others will have voted on the amendment by Nov. 8. Ratifi- cation of 36 states is necessary for re- Peal. Among the more prominent liquor cases on the calendar is the action in which Mike Guon of Mandan is charged with conspiracy to violate the federal liquor Jaws. An automobile alleged to belong to Guon and heavily loaded with liquor -was confiscated in Fargo a short time ago. Of considerable local interest will be the trial of James Walsh, young, Bismarck man charged with using the to Walsh was arrested early in defraud, having rented a the summer, postoffice box for receipt of alleged fraudulent peti- bill. Presiding over the cerm will be U. District Judgé Andrew Miller of, Farge ‘ tions for initiation of & state beer | Gooring standing out in sharp contrast to the It was necessary to obtain special|prick and glass littered streets after | last spring’s shock. ROOSEVELT 10 HELP BANKING RECOVERY President Believes Normal Cred- it Channels Should Be i Strengthened Wa: . Oct. 2.—()—President Roosevelt believes banks “should pro- vide the normal credit requirements for business” for “otherwise the re- covery program must suffer.” He presented his views in a letter to Jesse Jones, Reconstruction Cor- poration chairman, approving a re- duction from five to four per cent in the charge of RFC funds advanced to banks through preferred stock pur- chases. Jones made the letter public. The NRA set October 9 for starting a national “Buy Now” camapign, in another contribution to the concert- ed federal effort toward credit ex- of the plan for a one per cent cut in interest or dividend costs, “a bank can afford to increase its capital by issuing preferred stock to the RFC or ats own stockholders and if it is found the added capital cannot be profitably employed, the stock can be retired.” \ “Certainly no class of our citizen- cooperation in restoring settled, livable conditions | ing. for all of our people. “Through participation preferred stock pl be aiding demands of commerce and at the same time strong nation-wide capable of withstanding that may be placed upon it.” intercepted pass, Sentinels won their initial game of the season by trouncing the- Golva. 'N. D., team 36 to 6. pansion. 01 “On this basis,” the president said “The second principle is that no person, because he wore a uniform, must thereafter be placed in a specia} {class of beneficiaries over and above all other citizens. The fact of wearing ;@ Uniform does not mean that he can demand and receive from his govern- ;ment a benefit which no other citi- zen receives. It does not mean that necause a person served in the defense of his country, performed a \basic obligation of citizenship, he should receive a pension from his gov- ernment because of a disability incur- ted after his service has terminated and not connected with that service.” | Seemingly to sense fully the drama of the occasion, the huge assemblage hung tensely on the executive's words, Swelling into applause that rocked the structure. | Speaking in stronger voice than at jany time, the president pointed his | finger at the veterans as he declared: “If the individual affected can afford to pay for his own treatment he can- not call on any form of government “If he has not the wherewithal to‘ take care of himself, it is first of all the duty of his community to take care of him and next the duty of his state. Only if under these circum- stances his own community and his own state are unable, after reasonable effort, to care for him, then, and then