The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 27, 1933, Page 1

uae \Confessed Kidn be 'ABLISHED 1873 : “KING YOUNG MAN » ARE VICTIMS OF MOB Determined Group Storms San Jose Jail and Seizes Thurmond, Holmes “JOFFICIALS FIGHT | IN VAIN ‘Efforts to Protect Prisoners Is Fruitless Before Deter- mined Attack San Jose, Cal., Nov. 27—()}— ‘Thomas H. Thurmond and John M. ‘\ Holmes, confessed kidnaper-slayers of | * \Brooke Hart, were lynched here Sun- day night by a mob of 100 men who; smashed their way into the county jail after a two-hour battle to seize the pair. é A whooping, cheering crowd esti- +, mated at 6,000 persons, looked on. , Thurmond, first to confess, was un- , conscious when dragged to St. James - Park, 100 yards from the Jail, partially stripped and hanged to a tree. Holmes, a powerful man, fought for his life in vain. Twice he wrenched his hands free and lifted the noose from his head, but the third time it 7 was put there to stay and, still kick- ing, he was yanked into the air. In the glare of torches and flash- lights the bodies dangled for half an hour or so—a macabre picture for the ,, thousands who had assembled swift- % ly after the news of the lynching movement had spread through the city. Then the lifeless forms were cut down and there was no further attempt to interfere with officers. Thurmond’s body had been ed ly burned -by flames from blazii newspapers held up by the mob pe torches during the hanging, Hart's Body Recovered The lynching, occurring only a few hours after the torn body of young Hart, son of a wealthy San Jose merch- ant, had been taken from San Fran- » cisco Bay, climaxed a spectacular bat- tle between officers barricaded in the jai: and the determined mob. The muttering throng began gath-| ering about the jail about 9 p.m. The jail had been prepared against the possibility of a lynch movement but was unable to withstand the impro- vised battering rams of the ttack- ers, Two shots, fired from the crowd) as a signal, started the first attack A barrage of rocks ‘clattered against | % the jail walls, Officers within the jail let loose with three tear gas bombs. Blinded and weeping, the attackers fell back. By this time some 3,000 persons had gathered to watch. The 35 officers in the jail building sent out a call for more tear gas. All lights in the build- ing were extinguished. Renewing the attack, several of the attackers took from the postoffice | building a piece of steel pipe 8 inches} in diameter and about 20 feet long and used it as a battering ram, smashing in the jail door. Officers turned loose another bar- Tage of tear gas, momentarily stopping the assault. The mob stormed ahead once more, playing a fire hose on the building as it advanced. A second group seized another ae and joined the attackers. The steel doors of the Jail gave way and the mob poured in. Sheriff Knocked Cold Sheriff William J. Emig, whose quick action had resulted in the ar- (Continued on page four) Firemen Will Stage Ball Thursday Night Thanksgi Day ball e Thursday night, it is announced by the committee in charge. The ball will be staged in the audi- te of the World en beginning at o’ page TUEners OTETONED Fal Sip benches, sate Moe. a smouldering fire in her storeroom| after having derailed the train near showed that Scherwin in March. nd Glen Uilin high’ school Cagera were after a crash in with the: by the Lykes gp tirport operated THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1933 A petite, auburn-haired clerk Priscilla Wittl, was revealed Wynekoop murder case. Earle a Chicago department store, Miss the “other woman” in the wel Wynekoop admitted that e with her the evening before bis wife's body was found in the bi nt surgery of his mother’ as she told police, ea ad 1 NEW DIFFICULTIES BOTHERING CABINET . OF FRENGH PREMIER Protest Meetings and’ Work- Bred Demonstrations Cast Gloom Over Scene Paris, Nov. 27.—(®)}—A fast-empty- | ing treasury, widespread protest meet- ings and miners’ “work and bread” {demonstrations greeted the new cab- inet of Premier Camille Chautemps Monday. ome. Miss Wittl, 23, is shown above were sweethearts. I didn’t know married.” ‘WALLACE ATTENDING RECOVERY MEETING AT GEORGIA RESORT Heads of Three Big Phases of/ National Campaign Are Visiting President ‘Warm Springs, Ga., Nov. 27.—(7)— | Secretary of Agriculture Wallace join- ed the recovery council talks Monday at the “little White House.” | Wallace arrived unannounced by No sooner had they officially enter-! motor ed office than Finance Minister]... ee iy “DREAS, Pn venkd the: Georges Bonnet told Bank of France |™Ain purpose of his visit was to take cfficials that the government could {UP with the president the problem of meet its debts only until December 15. To meet the situation, the cabinet | peal. began preparing a program contem- Plating saving 6,000,000,000 francs! nim (about $400,000,009) through economies jand tapping new resources to raise more funds. At the same time, it was made known |the cabinet planned to demand a de- cree of power to cut the pay of func- tionaries—a matter which has been @ bone of bitter contention in the chamber of deputies. It was upon a similar program that the two previous cabinets fell, the last one after only four weeks in power. Meanwhile, economists were warn- ing that inflation threatened, and new difficulties developed as a result of hundreds of farm meetings Sunday at which better prices were demanded. These meetings were matched in Northern France by so-called “work and bread” demonstrations in which 30,000 miners marched, urging official scaen to improve employment condi- The new cabinet, differing little from the one it succeeded and appar- ently with lttle more hope for a lengthy survival, was formed in the early hours of Monday. The ministry, rallied by Chautemps after the overthrow last Friday of the cabinet of Albert Sarraut, bore unmis- furnish | takeable gs Ti _The dispatch aiep anid many of the paper control after prohibition re- oe his arrival, Roosevelt had with Monday the three heads of the recovery campaign. General Hugh 8. Johnson, industrial administrator and Secretary Ickes, public works administrator, remained over Monday for further talks with the chief ex- ecutive. There is nothing in prospect in the; way of new recovery moves. Rather, the president appears to be checking up on the situation and at the same ity of the agriculture adjustment act and probably under supervision cf this “You can say for me,” said Morgenthau, acting sec- retary of the , took over the ‘commodity dollar Bileant tea: toioves ia poenect i, Sonn Sg aye od it] a vaca here also a rest for his important official borg itigheg olan AC signs it are Be eg he ae ery act and further development of the works program to jobs are the points occupying presi- dential attention. Aa) N. Y., Nov age Aaron brought charges agairet another at- torney, alleging that the sttorney had struek bim in the face. LEADER SEES GAIN INU.S. EMPLOYMENT Asserts Situation Improving Despite Apparent Lag in Latest Figures AVERAGE WAGES INCREASE Total Buying Power of Workers Rises, .Despite Higher Living Costs i ‘Washington, Nov. 27.7)—A slight increase in American Federation of ‘Labor unemployment totels last month was attributed Monday by William Green to reports that more men were seeking work. The federation president said pre- liminary reports showed 10,076,000 out of work in October, a figure 11,000 higher than September's total. Then he added: “This slight increase is due to the fact that, although employment gain- ed a little in October the gain was not enough to absorb those seeking work for the first time.” He warned that “cooperation of our entire citizenry” wilh be needed dur- ing the worst months of winter and asserted that the “NRA program is keeping the employment situation un- der better control than is usual at this time of year.” Ordinarily, he said, October shows a decrease of about 450,000 in the number of men at work. He found, too, that average wages increased 1.4 per cent from September to October; that the cost of living rose only ‘a of one per cent; that the total buying power of all workers went up 2.2 per cent, even after deducting higher living costs; that all workers’ “real buying power is now 23.1 per cent above March.” Asserts Opposition Hampering Waterways St. Louis, Nov. 27.—()—Unemploy- sand organized labor brought con- struction of inland waterways almost \to @ standstill this year, Col. Robert lTsham Randolph said in his annual {report Monday to the Mississippi Val- ‘ley association, of which he is prest- ident. i Funds totaling $58,000,000 which congress had appropriated for river jwork and flood control, were diverted to reforestation by President Roose- velt. The railroads, Randolph said, be- came increasingly active against riv- er and harbor projects, insisting on cessation of all waterway development | and discontinuance of the operations) of the Government owned Inland Wa- terways corporation. ‘When the public works bill was! passed, he related, organized labor op- posed waterway projects on grounds they did not furnish sufficient man- ual labor to warrant inclusion in the public works program. “We have dragged over a lot of | snags,” he continued, “but we are stall | afloat and still in the channel.” Kentucky Convention To Cast Repeal Vote, Frankfort, Ky. Nov. 27.—(#)—The iformality of making Kentucky the 38rd state to ratify repeal of the 18th; i | vention here Monday the 18 delegates | elected November 7 ahs more than 145,- 000 majority over the prohibitionist slate. The delegates were not pledged for repeal in order theoretically to make ‘the convention a deliberate body and | irene | in the range fitat two [APPOINTS DEPUTIES 0 AID IN DRIVE ON ce re d Prison Experimenter Makes New Discovery Folsom Prison, Calif, Nov. 27.—(P) —Working in an improvised prison laboratory, a convict has developed a system of making hydrogen at a cost experts estimate at one forty-fifth the present commercial production Engineers who Sunday witnessed a | ‘demonstration by the convict, James ®. Burke, said his method may revo- lutionize the hydrogen industry. ‘Using four salad dressing jars, a single dry cell and other home-made equipment, Burke made hydrogen in &@ small room off the office of War- den Court Smith before W. H. Schnei- der of Berkeley and Charles 8. Knopp of Oakland, engineers for the Pacific Gas and Electric ace BEER LAW VIOLATORS; Owen Providing 20° 20 Men With! Automobile Transportation in Enforcement Effort and tax stamps total $113,000, Beer ‘Commissioner Owen T. Owen reported ‘Monday as he announced plans to put 20 men in the field to curb violations | of the beer act. A drive against gambling devices, sale of “hard” liquor and other vio- lations was outlined by Owen with violators to face revocation of licenses. Since the beer law became effective tail and 100 wholesale beer licenses | have been issued by the beer commis- sioner, whose office is still rushed with the work of handling additional applications, Receipt from retail licenses total $71,800, while $21,400 have been col- lected for wholesale licenses. Tax stamps have brought $16,709. Owen said the demants on his de- partment have been so great that it has been necessary to add“new in- spectors to the present force. Plans to keep a close check on the entire state through six inspectors are not Producing the desired result, Owen said “as numerous law violations of time.” May Add More Inspectors stop unfair and illegal sale of beer,” he said, “I have planned to put 20 men in the field doing inspection spectors will be provided with suit- able automobile transportation so that they can get quick results. If 20 men cannot do the work quickly andj} five weeks ago, approximately 300 re-' i} @ serious nature are going on all the | “To curb the law violations and; — ; Murder of his wife, Rheta, and was Collections for state beer licenses! i |chair,” had been re-established. work for the time being. These in-' |to the southwest by automobile with MURDER CONFESSION |" ia-charer IS REPUDIATED BY WOMAN PHYSICIAN Says Words Were Put in Her, Mouth by Policeman, At- torney Declares SON IS FORMALLY ACCUSED! Police Spurn Confession by Youth, Made in Effort to Save His Mother through her attorney, \Monday repudiated her confession ithat she shot her daughter-in-law af- ‘er chloroform had made the girl ; senseless, “The words were put into my mouth by those policemen,” Attorney Frank Tyrell quoted the 62-year-old woman as saying. Her son, Earle, was formally charged with helping to plot the locked up in the county jail. Earle Wynekoop was arraigned in felony court Monday on a charge of accessory before the fact in the mur- der of his wife. The charge was substituted for the | formal murder charge lodged Satur- day against the youth, whose “confes- sion” that he killed the girl was spurned by the police as an effort to save his mother from conviction. Dr. ‘Alice Wynekoop is being held for , rand jury action on a murder charge. Held Without Bail Judge Jay A. Schiller remanded young Wynekoop to the custody of Police without bail pending a hearing December 4. Hearing on a habeas corpus writ was continued by Judge Joseph B. David until Friday, when a similar hearing for Dr. Alice has been set. Assistant State's Attorney Oharies S. Dougherty said he would go before the grand jury Tuesday or Wednes- day to ask the indictment of the mother and her son—Dr. Wynekoop on a charge that she-fired the pistol bullet the state contends killed Rheta, and Earle on the allegation he had advance knowledge of the doctor's al- laged purpose. This course of action was an- nounced after the police said that the alibi Earle sought to destroy “to save my mother from the electric ‘The alibi—that Earle was en route Stanley Young at the time Rheta died on an operating table in the basement surgery of his mother, Dr. Alice jefficiently, then I will double the; jnumber until the’law violators are, ‘driven out of business. I have prom- ised the people of North Dakota that | Wynekoop—was found to be sound, the police said, establishing that a : “confession” Earle made and later re- tracted, was untrue. amendment brought together in con- | they ithe new beer law will be enforced to| ‘the fullest extent and I will leave! nothing undone along this line if it | can be helped.” Owen called attention that it is| bsolutely necessary” to investigate | all applicants for licenses personally | 0 that only fit and proper persons jor firms secure the right to sell 3.2 shoals and scraped over a lot Of | beer. T have been informed,” he said, |“that many gambling devices, includ- slot machines, are in evidence. Gambling with cards also is carried! on, contrary to the regulations of th:| state beer commissioner. Reports have reached me repeatedly that hard liquor is being sold in places where beer also is handled. We must in- |vestigate these reports to find out if are true. Whenever investiga- tion by the beer department reveals jthe fact that such violations are going on, any license granted to the law violators will be immediately revoked. Es i EE iH pans gue | ie BY ; E a | fh “| I bee sz vB a 1 FH af 2 E B E i it : ae i na nee a & E i i i i = F i gE i i 3 : {0 and Duns a Ly H £ When a license is revoked, no license, | wound although three exploded shells | were found. |university students now serving life | sentences in the state prison at Joliet. Wanted to Save Mother “I wanted to save my mother from the electric chair,” Earle was quoted jas having said. The alibi was but one of several de- velopments in the most sensational death mystery Chicago has had since the “thrill murder” of Bobby Franks py Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, One was the circulation of a news- Paper report—which was quickly de- nied by Prosecutor Dougherty—that Dr. Wynekoop had made a new “‘con- fession,” admitting she killed Rheta to free her son of a loveless marriage tle. Another development was an an- nouncement by Dougherty that Earle had shown him several blank car- wridges for the pistol with which Rheta or her body was shot, which explained, Dougherty said, one of the most puzzling angles of the case—the fact that there was only one bullet A statement attributed to Dr. Wynekoop, supplementing her original “confession,” was made public by Po- sce Captain John Stege. In it she was represented as ‘saying the reason she was named beneficiary in an in- surance policy taken out on the voung woman was because Rheta her- self had suggested it. Mrs. A. W. M’Carl of Driscoll Dies Here Mrs. A. W. “Mecas, 20-year-old Driscoll woman, died in a loval hos- pital at 9:45 o'clock Sunday morning. Her death was caused by complice- tions following premature child ain conducted from. the church at Moffit, former home of Mr. McCarl, at 2 o'clock ‘Wednesday afternoon, with Rev. O. E. Kingzler officiating. ‘The body will be interred in the Hazelton cemetery, near the grave of Mr. McCarl’s mother. CUBA OBSERVES MOURNING Havana, Nov. 27.—(?)—Political ac- tivities were dropped throughout Cuba Mooeey Se sue seuley Deteed foe 8: parce day of mourning on the sixty- of the death of eas students executed by Spaniards. mare | —— | | In In Church Battle smiaieratme te | BISHOP LUDWIG MUELLER Berlin, Nov. 27.—(#)—The long- threatened schism in the German Protestant church was believed by many churchmen to be definitely nearer Monday. While Nazi Christians in Thuringia were demanding a policy more radical than ‘that previously enunciated by leaders, the rumble of opposition to the Nazi Christian program also gath- ered volume. Many pastors in Bavaria and ‘Wuerttemberg announced their seces- sion from the Nazi Christian move- ment. Then, three well-known pro- fessors of theology pulled away from the Nazi Christians. Reichsbishop Ludwig Mueljer declared his intention to continue a policy of unyielding ad- herence to Nazi principles. PRIEST SENTENCED FOR REMARKS FROM PULPIT Essen, Germany, Nov. 27.—(?)—The Rev. Fr. Karl Klinkhammer, a Cath- olic priest, was sentenced to six months in jail Monday on a charge of having made derogatory remarks from his pulpit which were “calculat- ed to disturb public peace seriously.” CHICAGO LIVESTOCK TRADE IS HELD UP: BECAUSE OF STRIKE Suppiies Coming in As Usual But Workers Are Not on Hand to Unload Them Chjcago, Nov. 27.—()—Striking em- lployes of the Chicago Union Stock Yards Monday caused a virtual cessa- tion of operations. About 800 men were on strike, seek- ing 1929 wages, but they were the key men of the yards, the handling crew. Train and truck loads of livestock were pouring in as usual but there ‘was no method of getting them un- loaded, except for the few head that salesmen for commission houses were able to drive out of the-cars. The main entrance to the yards at Halsted street was picketed by sev- eral hundred strikers. Inside the |, yards, great numbers of trucks were parked in all available space, filled with livestock which could not be un- yoaded. Officials of the Livestock Handlers Union, which called the strike, claim- ed 7,000 other workers were out in sympathy. Government livestock au- thorities, however, said only about 800 were out. Employes of the big packing plants were not affected, but operations were limited to the few head of livestock in the pens Saturday, because no hand- lers were available. The strike was voted Sunday and was followed by the walkout of 300 stock handlers working on the night shift Sunday night and the posting of pickets. By midnight between 200 and 300 farm trucks loaded with live stock were waiting to be unloaded and of- ficials of the striking unions said the city’s meat packing industry would | 5! labor board of the NRA took immedi- ate steps to prevent the strike and} members said Senator Robert F. Wag- ner of New Yors, chairman of the national labor board, had attempted by long-distance telephone to prevent the walkout. ‘They said Senator Wagner had | culverts. union heads negotiate with employes and that the latter would submit their claims to the local board before striking. Acting Postmasters Are Named by Farley we master Pointed the following acting masters: North Dakote—James R. Turner, Fort bch 3d James F. See ee | Reeder. Two « GANGSTERS GANGSTERS SLAIN Detroit, Nov. 37.—(?)—Police search- Detroit area and surround- Cloudy and colder j_Unsettled, with rising The Weather t; Tuesday PRICE FIVE CENTS Urge 18 CWA Projects in County . -Slayers Are Lynche SUBMITTED 10 N. D. CIVIL WORKS BOARD FOR CONSIDERATICN |neproved ‘hy Cianty ¢ County Group at Special Session Saturday Afternoon OTHER PROPOSALS COMING Three Bismarck and 15 Bur- leigh Road Jobs Are In- cluded in List Eighteen proposed civil works pro- dects for Bismarck and Burleigh coun- ty, carrying approval of the county administration, Monday were sub- mitted to the state civil works admin- . istration here, Included in the list, which was ap- Proved Saturday afternoon by the county administration, were three new projects proposed by the city school board and city commission and 15 road grading, graveling and cul- vert projects included in the county telief program. The three Reed th iced flied eh! boards are for painting and redecor- ating the city auditorium and high school building and concreting the city swimming pool and painting the ral of the swimming pool build- Work on some of the county road relief projects already had begun un- der the former relief set-up, but men were withdrawn from these jobs by M. H. Chernich, county spel when the civil works program was set up to replace the relief plan. Other local projects, including park improvements, paving repairs and painting and redecoration of oth- er schools in the city, are expected to be presented to the county adminis- tration in the near future, One state project here, which has been suggested but not submitted for approval, is connecting the state pen- itentiary here with the city sewage system to eliminate the prison's in- dependent sewage disposal plant. Members of the county CWA board are James W. Guthrie, Myron H. At- Herman and Projects approved Saturday by the county group follow: Gravel Cemetery Road No, 1—Subgrade and gravel Rosser avenue at end of pavement to &t. Mary's cemetery, 1.25 miles. No. 2—Grade, gravel and culverts starting at northeast corner of south- east corner of Section 35-143-78 south one-half mile, west to railroad crossing and five blocks in village of Regan. No, 3—Gravel, starting southeast jcorner of Section 15-138-80 east one mile. No. 4—Grade, gravel and culverts. End of pavement on Front avenue west to park, south one mile and west park drives. No. 5—Grade and gravel east end park drives from Avenue B and Thirteenth St. and from Avenue F rie Thirteenth St. through Hillside No. 6—Grade, gravel and culverts. Start south section line on Highway Section 24-139-81 north three miles. No. 7—Concreting around outside edge of municipal swimming pool, four inches thick, and painting inside a municipal swimming pool build- "No. &—Painting and redecorating inside of municipal auditorium, No. 9—General repairs, painting and repairing of roofs on public school building located in the cit; Bismarck. No. 10—Grade, gravel and culverts. Starting at southeast corner of Sec- tion 17-137-76 west two miles. Improve Wing Streets No. 11—Gravel, grade, gutters and culverts. Twenty-four blocks in cor- porate village of Wing and one-half mile east. No. 12—Grade, gravel and culverts. Starting southwest corner of Section 18-141-79 east six miles. No. 13—Grade, gravel and culverts. : Start southeast corner of Section 14- of tion 15-142-75 south five miles. No. 15—Grade, gravel and culverts.