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

North Dakota’s Newspaper Oldest ESTABLISHED 1873 Death Toll Mounts as S * PRIGID BLASTS HOLD MUCH OF CONTINENT _ IN THEIR ICY GRIP THE BISMA BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1933 Confesses Kid 27 Men Believed Lost as o+| *, pled Freighter Sinks Off Irish Coast RESCUERS FIND NO TRACE Six Known Dead in Pennsylvan- ia as New Disturbance F; Sweeps Down on State (By the Associated Press) The cold wave from‘the Far North country Thursday continued to hold most of the North American conti- nent in its grip, bringing with it a slowly mounting death list, while the etorm-tossed North Atlantic imper-| led shipping. The weather man held out little hope for relief Thursday from the irigid blast which affected the entire country east of the Rocky Mountains, after recording new lows for this time of the year in various parts of the, Midwest, including five below at Be- midji, Minn, Pennsylvania counted a total of six dead during the last two days, with @ new storm sweeping the northwest- ern section of the state, already bur- jed under a heavy snowfall. Two hunters died in Ohio from over-exer- tion, and the frigid blasts brought suffering to island inhabitants in Lake Erie, caught short of fuel. One Dead in St. Paul One death from exposure was re- Ported in St. Paul. Detroit shivered with eight above zero, and thousands of homeless sought shelter in Chicago, which broke a 50-year record for pit 15, with 10 above zero Wednes- ay While western Ontario dug itself out of the worst snowstorm in two dec- des, sailors on the Great Lakes cast anxious eyes to the bays and chan- nels and hoped the thin coating of ice became ‘no thicker. The list of wrecks and near-wrecks { | i i} | Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt (left) Red Cross Enrolls First Lady Cross Annual Roll Call by Miss Mabel T. Boardman, secretary of Red Cross. The First Lady is honorary chairman of the National Volunteer Committee of the American Red Cross. is enrolled in the American\Red DESPERADO SHOOTS WAY TO FREEDOM IN remained unchanged Thursday. In the past week, one vessel, the tug Florence, has sunk. Another, the D.; E. Callender, is still aground near; Long Point in Lake Erie. Several| others which were stranded have been | pulled off, and the U. 8. Coast Guard Boat 8308, missing since Sunday with & two-man crew, his finally reached! bort after being reported lost. { Low water has congested the lower | St. Lawrence canals and marine offi-/ clals fear the lack of constant move- | ment may permit them to freeze up.| The land storm had assumed grave | Proportions Thursday. In the western! Ontario. areas particularly, heavy) snow has fallen and railway snow plows were being prepared for the first time in nine years. Sinks Without Trace ‘Two vessels reported Thursday they found no trace of the British freight- er Saxilby at the spot where she last was reported struggling against a ter- Titic storm off the Irish coast. Nor, they added in wireless mes- sages to coastal stations, did they lo- cate any trace of the 27 members of the Saxilby’s crew reported to have deserted the stricken freighter many hours before. The vessels which wirelessed from the scene were the Dutch steamer Boschdyk and the Manchester Regi- ment. They said visibility was good| and weather conditions improving. Only a short while before word came from the liner Berengaria that it had given up its search and had proceeded toward Cherbourg. Meanwhile, relatives of the 28 men in the*crew of the St. Quentin, an- other British freighter helpless after @ breakdown of her steering gear in the same stormy region of the At- Jantic, were relieved by word that the ship was in no immediate danger. ‘TWO KNOWN DEAD IN MINNESOTA FREEZE-UP St, Paul, Nov. 16.—(#)—The cold caused a second death Thursday as Minnesota had the most severe tem- pera jure of the season with a low of below sero. A transient identified from letters government rested late Thursday in charged. wiih the N00 kidneping ie \zer, accompanied by a woman and j@ machine gun in his car spattered BATTLE AT CHICAGO Breaks Through Cordon of 16! Policemen With Machine Gun Spitting Fire Chicago, Nov. 16.—(#)—John Dillin- ger, desperado wanted as the leader of a band of Indiana bank robbers, vahished Thursday after a daring es- cape from a carefully laid police net amid a fusillade of shots. Sixteen Indiana state policemen and Chicago detectives chased Dillin- | miles | nother man, for several | tarough the northwest section of the city Wednesday night after “bottling” up his automobile in front of a phy- stelan’s office. In the erd police were forced to treat in confusion as bullets from windshields of the cars of his pur- suers, Shots from police guns proved ineffective against the bullet-proof glass of Diliinger’s car. Dillinger came into prominence as! 4 dangerous character last October | 12 when men identified as escaped vonvicts from the Michigan City, Ind., Penitentiary delivered him from the Allen county Ohio, jail at Lima after slaying Sheriff Jess Sarber. Since then police have credited him | with leading outlaws in a number of Indiana bank robberies. They have also been identified as the gang that raided two police stations in Indiana and fled with guns and ammunition. ‘Wednesday Indiana state police traced Dillinger to Chicago. When Dilitnger’s car drove up in: front of a doctor's office three squads of local. police and one from Indiana were stationed nearby in four ma- chines parked so as to head him off when he drove away.” But Dilinger failed to drive south, 8 expected. He backed his car up and headed east. More Power at Sea Sought by Japanese | ‘The payfoll is said to be near the ‘igure ‘of two years ago, since which time the railroad service was substan-. ally ne [it clear | Buttz Hears Argument on Wenzel’s Plea for Relief Question Presented Is Whether Governor Has Power to Oust Commissioner BULLETIN * Arguments in the case of R. E. Wen- zel, seexing reinstatement as work- ;men's compensation commissioner, were completed iate Thursday. Judge Buttz indicated a decision would be made before Monday, when a heating on the charges against Wenzel is to start before a special commissioner. Arguments on whether Governor William Langer has authority to sus- pend and remove R. B. Wenzel as a member of the North Dakota work- men’s compensation bureau were heard Thursday by Judge C, W. Buttz of Devils Lake in Burleigh county district court. Former Governor George F. Shafer, attorney for Wenzel, who has been suspended by Langer pending out- come of a hearing on charges against him, argued for the issuance of a writ of certiorari to review the proceedings; so far. He contended the statute un- der which Langer was proceeding does not provide authority for re- moval of Wenzel or other state of. ficlals, Charles G. Verret, assistant attor- ney general, and 8. E. Ellsworth, Jamestown, special assistant attorney general, resisted the motion for issu- ance of the writ. The statute under which Wenzel ‘was suspended and the removal pro- the___| emergency 19,750 MEN TO BE TRANSFERRED T0 FULL-PAID JOBS Civil Works Program Contem- plates Employment of 2,- 000,000 in U. S. PLAN EFFECTIVE Relief Officials Here Marking Time Pending Receipt of Instructions A toal of 12,750 North Dakotans will be transferred from work relief to full-paid, 30-hour-week jobs within the next four days under the new civil works program, it is hoped by Harry L. Hopkins, federal reliet administrator. | relief officials marked time Thurs- inite instructions as to how to pro- ceed under the new plan, which was evolved Tuesday and Wednesday at a conference in Washington of relief officials from throughout the nation. Attending the conference were Su- |Preme Court Justice A. M. Christian- \son, chairman of the North Dakota relief committee, and John E.. Williams, secretary. Under the plan, the government hopes to transfer 2,009,000 relief men to full-paid jobs. Hopkins’ list of the number to be employed in the various states on population basis included Minnesota 55,500; Montana 13,500 ard South Dakota 17,250. Situation Explained The situation, as explained by those in charge of the program, was this: Four hundred million dollars has been made available to Harry L. Hop- kins as civil works administrator for jexpenditure in the next four months on many kinds of projects by local civic works he intends to hold responsibl The object is to provide 4,000,000 jobs in four months, the general pub- lic works program taking up the slack then. ‘The federal government will retain; money calculated to provige 1,000,000; Jobs on federal projects. The balance | will be allotted to states. on the basis) of a quota of the number to be put to work in each state. These quotas.. AT ONCE! , North Dakota and Burleigh county; day forenoon pending receipt of def- | CK TRIBUNE Poets, Poetesses ' Are Seeking Code Washington, Nov. 16.—(7)—And now a code for the poets and poetesses, It was filed with the NRA by Earl A. Cuevas of Washington, president of the Poet Laureate League. It would keep the poet from working the Muse more than 35 hours a week. The poet, not the Muse, would be guaranteed a minimum weekly wage of 8100; if the vhymes were syndicated, | the minimum would be $200. ASSERTS 6 00 MEN COULD BE ENPLOYED INND, TH WINTER ; Six thousand men could be em- ‘ployed in North Dakota during the |winter on county roads or construc- jtion of dams, according to a recom- mendation made to federal officials jby A. D, McKinnon, technician in charge of engineers for emergency jconservation work. McKinnon also recommended that |between 7,000 and 8,000 men be made |servation work in the spring. McKinnon’s recommendations are jin connection with the government's |plans to transfer 2,000,000 men from | work relief to full-paid 30-hour-week Jobs. An expenditure of $400,000,000 would be made by the federal civil works administration for this work. The engineer recommended to Robert Fechner, regional ‘orestry service director at Milwaukee, that ~be-taken~from—tie “relief: rolls and be placed on county road construction, but that if this plan was not adopted the men could be used for constructing dams during the winter months. McKinnon suggested that, instead of limiting employment to youths from 19 to 24 years old, the! upper bracket of the age limit be. eliminated. Wants No Winter Camps For the winter work on dams, Mc-; already tentatively fixed, were com- | puted 75 per cent on population and |25 per cent on the number of fam- ies on relief rolls. are to be transferred, beginning Thursday. to full-time employment. the additional expense being met Jointly where possible. Money allocations for approved pro: | jects. such as street or highway con- struction, sanitation or health pro- ington approval of each project necessary. Wages are to equal minimums fixed by the $3,300,000,000 public works ‘ administration. : | Politics Is Taboo In explainyving this plan to 500 gov- Kinnon has recommended no camps |be established, but that the men be |recruited from the vicinity in which the work is to be done. In the spring, Men now working a few hours & he said, 38 camps could be established | week on relief jobs, financed by local and the 7,000 or 8,000 men be dis- | a |funds or jointly with the government. tributed to these camps, with hund- | iaw school and received his LL. B, de- ‘reds of sub-camps to be set up around | the individual projects. Should the federal government pprove the project for building dams luring the winter, McKinnon said, |6,000 men could be put to work im- mediately. However, he believes the Jects, are to be disbursed by federal’ men would be more valuable on) Killdeer, N. D. ‘officers in each state without Wash-| county road construction during the! ; winter. | Winter work would consist of con- struction of dams, reveting all streams, with timber to be removed along the streams to eliminate fire! hazards, and removal of dead timber in streams as a means of flood cor:- ceedings instituted, Shafer argued,|ernors, mayor, public officials and re- |trol, applies only to certain county and lief workers, President Roosevelt said: This law states |that the governor may remove for that. icause county, village and city offi-itrying to gain political. advantage | municipal officials. cers, including custodians of public funds, except the state treasurer. it Does Law Mean? Verret contended that the reference to the state treasurer indicates the statute applies to all state officials who are custodians of public funds, except the treasurer, while Shafer claimed the reference to the treasurer, and failure of the la Specify’ state officials, indicates the law does not contemplate that state officials come under its provisions. Judge Buttz remarked at the pro- ceedings that the crucial point in the case appears to be whether workmen compensation commissioners are cus- todians of public funds. Shafer argued that Wenzel could not be considered a custodian of pub- lic funds, while Verret and Ellsworth claimed workmen compensation com- missioners are such custodians. Shafer declared that if Verret’s ar- guments concerning workmen com- He argued the workmen compensa- tion law. specifies that the state treas- urer is the custodian of its funds. Verret told the court he believed workmen compensation com- of public Ly 7 il E i A e 45, ¥ ate | tothe country. These provide that un- t to tell you, very, very simply ir national government is not “y one way or the other, out of the needs of human beings for relief. We ex- |pect the same spirit on the part of every governor of every one of the 48 |states, and on the part of every mayor and every county commissioner and of every relief agent.” Hopkins set minimum wages under his fund for three sub-divisions of { skilled labor in the. southern zone shall be paid not less than 40 cents, with a 45 cent maximum in the cen- tral zone and 50 cents in the North. Skilled labor which may be neces- sary on the projects will be paid $1 an hour in the southern zone; $1.10 in the central zone and $1.20 in the North. For rates, Hopkins, the civil works admin- istrator, outlined three zones, they include: Northerh zone—Maine, New Hamp- shire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Indiana, Wisconsin, Minne- H Purposes of determining wage The winter work would continue until February 15, and later if more federal funds become available. crews are working under | McKinnon making surveys for dams ito be constructed by citizens conser- {vation corps workers expected to re- |turn to North Dakota fn the spring. McKinnon recommended, however, if ithe ©. ©. C. crew is to be enlarged lin the spring beyond the 1,500 men jalloted to North Dakota this yea: that 10 survey crews be put to worl in the state. His recommendations will be placed before federal offi- ‘cials in Washington by Fechner. \British Attempt to | Revive Arms Parley London, Nov. 16.—(#)—The British Four Pharmacists Are available to North Dakota for con-| Given State Licenses| *7% ps Nation TRAILL COUNTY MAN DIES WHEN STRUCK BY HIT-RUN DRIVER McLain Johnson, States Attor- ney, Is Victim of Mishap on Highway | Peseta GOING HOME FROM FORKS \ ‘Hit by Passing Machine as He| Finished Road-Side In- spection of Motor | i Grand Forks, N. D., Nov. 16—()— George McLain Johnson, Hillsboro, state's attorney for Traill county for five years, was struck and almost in- ‘tantly killed by a hit-and-run driver }on Highway No. 81 south of Grand; | Forks Wednesday night. | ‘The acctdent occurred when John- ‘con, passenger in a car driven by Deputy Sheriff P. C. Balkan of Hills- ‘boro, got out of the car to examine |the motor, as he stepped from in |zront of the auto to enter it again, a car headed north toward Grand Forks struck him, | The driver of the other car slowed jonly slightly, then sped away, accord- jing to Balkan and Assistant State's | attorney Walter Backstrom of Hills- |poro, the other occupant of Balkan’s lear, Balkan and Backstrom rushed to {Grand Forks with the accident vic- tam, but before they reached the Dea-/ ;coness hospital Johnson was dead. Meanwhile, a passing car was | stopped and its driver ordered to pur- sue the auto that caused Johnson's aeath. The pursuit was unsuccess- ;ful, however. | Search Is Grand Forks county and city au- |thorities immediately beyan a search for the hit-run driver, but were han- | d'capped because neither Balkan nor ‘Backstrom was able to furish a de- scription of the car. Johnson was 39 years old and had been elected states’ attorney of. Traill county three times. He was promi- nent in local circles. Born at Grandin, N. D., Feb. 18, 3894, Johnson attended school there and obtained his high school training ut the University Model High in Grand Forks. Later he began higher studies at the university. He enlisted in the National Guard at Hillsboro in September, 1917, and served overseas for 19 months of the | World War. Returning from France, he enrolled in in the university, entered the The accident victim leaves his idow and two children at Hillsboro; nis parents, Mr. and Mrs. John 8. | Johnson, and two sisters, all at Gran- ;din; and a brother, Tom Johnson, Increase Shown in Canadian Plantings Ottawa, Ont. Nov. 16—()—The srop report issued Thursday by the ,dominion bureau of statistics placed ‘the fall wheat acreage in Ontario this ear at 631,000 acres. Practically all all wheat grown in Canada Is in the Frovince of Ontario. This is an increase over the crop wn last fall of 36,000 acres, or 6 per nt. The total acreage last year was 15,000. The area estimatéd as sown to fall rye in Canada for 1934 is 422,100 acres, | {a decrease of 50,300 acres, or 11 per nt. By provinces the acreages are 300); Montana 34,400 (37,800); Sas- atchewan 240,000 (264,000); Alberta 91.400 (114,300). The condition of fall wheat in On- jtarlo on Oct, 31 was reported as 96 \per cent of the long-time average yield per acre, as against 98 at the came date last year, while that of fall ;tve was as follows with last year’s fig- | ures within brackets: Ontaria 98 (96); |Montana 93 (91); Saskatchewan 89 (96); Alberta 87 (97). Embargo Handicaps N. D. Warehousemen ‘Warehousemen in North Dakota, as William ae ely | Cabinet Substitute re HENRY MORGENTHAU JR. Advocate of the commodity dollar ‘and one of the leading financial ad- visers of the Roosevelt administra- tion, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., will be acting Secretary of the while William Woodin takes an in- definite leave of absence in an effort to regain his health. RUMOR THAT WOODIN Morgenthau Takes Reins Friday OPPOSED GOLD PLAN DENIED AT CAPITAL PRICE FIVE CENTS naping, Murder torm Swee ——___—_— ND. | SAN JOSE LAWYER DRCLARES SUSPECT KILLED YOUNG MAN Second Man implicated in Alleg- ed Death of California Merchant’s Heir BODY WAS THROWN INTO BAY $40,000 Had Been Asked for Return of Youth Following His Abduction San Jose, Calif Nov. 16.—)--.” Louis O'Neal, prominent San Jost attorney, announced Thursday a sus- Pect named Thomas H. Thurmond had admitted participating in the kidnaping here of Brooke Hart, 22, and had confessed killing the young man shortly thereafter, The announcement was made after O'Neal had appeared early Thursday in the role of intermediary for the missing youth's father, Alex J. Hart, wealthy San Jose merchant. Two Suspects were arrested in a burst of Police activity here. Thurmond, one of the two men ar- rested, named Jack Holmes, the other Suspect, as his accomplice. He said they threw the body into San Fran- cisco bay. The first demand for $40,000 ransom came in a telephone call from San Francisco and since then the Hard Jamily has received many other de- mands, purportedly from the kid- napers. RUSS NEGOTIATIONS and Will Support Roose- velt Unwaveringly Washington, Nov. 16.—(7)—A new cabinet officer who says he will give unwavering support to President Roosevelt's gold-buying plan, and who modity dollar advocate, takes full con- trol of the treasury Friday. But officials continued vigorously that the designation of Henry Morgenthau, Jr., as undersec- retary and the unlimited leave of absence granted to William H. Woodin, Secretary, meant any schism be- tween the latter and the president. The explanation remained that Woodin needed to go to Tuscon, Arizona, in search of rest and health; that Dean Acheson, who had been undersecretary, resigned simply to let Morgenthau take the second-ranking position in the treasury so he could ‘assume charge while Woodin was on leave, Woodin asked to resign, giving health as the reason and adding that “every policy” of the president Tesignation, proposed the leave, and said, ‘we need you back again.” Some Are Doubtful Despite this exchange, there were those in the capital who saw the developments as meaning there was a rift between the secretary, who once is a close friend of a leading com-! to deny" “has had and still has my devoted | Roosevelt turned down the/ - BELIEVED NEAR END; ~ PROBE WHEAT ISSUE |White House Expresses Hope That Agreement May Be Reached by Friday Washington, Nov. 16.—()—Fresh hope for a solution of the American- Russian negotiations by Friday nigh! j Was expressed at the White House ai President Roosevelt and M. Litvinof? eaeeee for another meeting Thurs- jday. | Prospects of a long-term loan ts finance sales to the Soviet dwindled when Secretary Wallace expressed disapproval of such a proposition, so Jong as the American tariff wall is | maintained. He voiced the view it would not be sound to lend money abroad so long as the tariff is maintained, on the ground that it would be impossible for the foreign countries to pay back the loans through trade. The agriculture secretary made it (clear he had not been discussing this {Phase in the present American-Soviet ‘conversations and was merely render- ing his own personal view. Eelief was expressed by officials \that the negotiations between Presi- dent Roosevelt and Maxim Litvinoft exhibited a 5,000,000 German mark note when asked about inflation, and the president. These same individu- als added that inflation would be slong soon. Morgenthau, now head of the farm credit administration, is a close friend of Professor George F. Warren, an originator of the present effort to force commodity prices up through government purchases of foreign and domestic gold. President Roosevelt Thursday desig- nated William I. Myers, deputy gov- ernor of the farm credit administra- tion, to succeed Morgenthau as gover- nor. Morgenthau is sworn in Friday as the undersecretary of the treasury. Myers, a former professor of agri- cultural economics at Cornell univer- sity, was brought to Washington by Morgenthau as his first assistant. Raleigh Farmer Dies Myers will take office as soon as/ 1, may have an important effect upon the meeting of the advisory commit- \tee of the international wheat con- {ference in London late this month. Soviet Exports Light Figures compiled by the agriculture department show that Russia export- ed only 10,840,000 bushels of wheat this year between July 1 and Nov. 4, normally the period of heaviest ex- Port. : | | American wheat experts believe this figure shows that the quota of 37,000,- 000 bushels offered to the Moscow government, and rejected by it at the vonference earlier this year, was in Possible Russian exports for toe sar from July 1 until June 30, all the wheat-growing nations wil) eventually find. it possible to limit Production as well as exports. At the conference last Of Recent Injuries uns ine, Sask. Nov. 16.—(}—Inti- I | nation that a oaemllie dela United. States government may im-