The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 1, 1933, Page 1

s1 North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper sESTABLISHED 1873 Accused Kidnap LR. B. Mellon D ISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1933 _THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ———_$ -___.__.__. PRICE FIVE CENTS er Hangs Self ies in East; Once Lived Here (WILLIE SHARKEY IS | FOUND DEAD IN CELL | INGAIL ATST. PAUL | Uses Neckties for Noose in Early sg NI INDUSTRIAL CHRR | Es res Fee 4 AL SMITH ATTACKS AND BANKER HELPED | PUBLIC WORKS AND Arrange Meetings To Sign Contracts SPENTFIVE YEARS | IN BISMARCK: HAD | | Death Ends Career > ___——______—__¢ Bl . BUILD BIG EMPIRE C In Company With Brother Rul- ed Over Far-Flung Busi- ness Enterprises AC HAD MANY PHILANTHROPIES lon Pit m. Pry, nk Donated Money to Research Work and Helped to Found Big University Pittsburgh, Dec. 1—()—R. B. Mel- lon, president of the Mellon National bank and brother of Andrew Mellon, died Friday at the\age of 75. *The multi-millionaire banker and philanthropist had been in failing health for a month and last Wednes- day his condition took a turn for the worse. Richard Beatty Mellon, younger brother of the former secretary of the treasury, helped to build the vast Mellon empire centered around Pittsburgh and though always quiet and unassuming was prominent in philanthropic circles. His last appearance in the public was just three weeks ago, when he ~ asked the federal government to re- examine his income tax report for 1930. A payment of $18,951 was in dis- pute. The petition disclosed that the banker had an income of $3,598,931 for the year in question. Had Many Interests Richard Beatty Mellon was a mem- ‘ber of the noted family of business men and financiers whose activities were known in all parts of the world. Like his brother, Andrew W. Mellon, secretary of the treasury under Presi- dents Harding and Coolidge, he was a banker, but his interests reached out in many directions, taking in busine: civic, railroad,’ educational, huma! tarian and other projects. Throughout his active life, Richard Mellon held to his father's theory of banking—extension of financial aid to industrial, mining and commercial ‘projects. Of a quiet, reserved man- ner, he never sought public position, but Pittsburgh as a whole knew of the burdens he shouldered and credit- ed him with responsibility for the pros- perity of many of the industrial and mining projects of the district. 4 1858, Mr. Mellon's interests centered in that city for the most part. His first business venture was out- side banking circles, for he turned his attentions to the lumber industry. | Soon hearing the call of the banking world, however, he. entered the firm of T. Mellon & Sons from which grew * the present Mellon National bank. During his early years as a banker he took @ leading hand in the construc- tion of the Ligonier Valley railroad. Supported Researches University of Pittsburgh which, with the Mellon support, grew into one of the greatest universities of the day. Richard supported also many denomi- national and civic bodies. “When his brother Andrew became secretary of the treasury, Richard took ‘over active control of the Mellon in- terests. He was president of the Mel- Jon National bank, was identified with , other financial institutions of Pitts- burgh, and was a director of the Guar- anty Trust company of New York and of the Federal Reserve bank of Cleve- land. {can be no middie ground. It was not Born in Pittsburgh on March 19,/Necessary for all the alienists to make ; \ ' R. B. MELLON LIBERTY OR DEATH WILL BE DEMANDED | BY WOMAN DOCTOR Lawyer Scouts Suggestion of! Insanity in Wynekoop Murder Mystery Chicago, Dec. 1.—()— Complete Hberty or death Friday was indicated as the demand the defense will make | for Dr. Alice Wynekoop, accused of murdering her daughter - in - law, Rheta. Dispelling the belief held in some| quarters that Dr. Wynekoop might ‘ave @ plea of insanity made in her kehalf if she is tried for Rheta’s death, ‘Frank Tyrren, her attorney said that such a thing “is the further- 9st from her mind.” “Dr. Wynekodp,” ne added, “would not taint her family with the blemish | of insanity. A woman with such a brilliant mind and with such an ex-! cellent family would have no such | thought as that. “We wan’ complete liberty or we want death. Dr. Alice wants it, There tneir studies.” Dr. Wynekoop, who is suffering from hardening of the arteries, is con- tent to remain in jail while she re- Perates her health, Attorney Try- rell said, indicating however that he would renew his fight for her release on bond as soon as she shows signs of physicial improvement, The state was still undecided what to do about the doctor's son, Earle, who was accused of being an acces- sory in the mysterious death of his wife, whose body, with a bullet wound in the back, was found on an operat- ing table in Dr. Wynekoop's basement surgery a week ago last Tuesday. A request for a continuance of case in felony court by Assistant State's Attorney Charles 8. Daugh- erty, was indicated. “ Montana Youth Is Accused of Murder nouncing he had obtained a stete- ment from Jessie McDonald in which the youth admitted shooting his step- father, Mose Woolsey, Bay Horse rancher, later burning the ‘ body, ‘Sheriff Claude Anderson of Powder in 1897 he married Miss fannie Fargo Woman Killed By Hit-Run t fr ee Hf i g g £3 g. 5 i re 2 F i z E i | 4 | ! ; q H E H 52 Ele i i é i i f | i i . 3 River county Thursday preferred McDonald y" found Monday in the smouldering ruins.of his cabin in an isolated sec- fault of bail. Code Violators Are Miles City, Mont., Dec. 1.—()}—An- ‘ PROPERTY IN CITY Col. C. B. Little, Capital City Banker, One of His Best Friends WAS HERE IN OCTOBER, 1932 Came Here at instigation of Alex M’Kenzie; Built ‘Bus- iness College’ | R. B. Mellon, world-famous bank- | er who died Friday morning, not only lived in Bismarck for five years when @ young man but leaves a host of friends here and his estate includes considerable property in the Capital City district. Melion’s best friend here was Col-/ onel C. B. Little, president of the First National Bank, and in Ogtober 1932, Mellon came to Bismarck “to see my old friend, Col. Little,” spending two days in the city. That visit, he said at the time, was his first real visit here since he left in 1887 after five years as a banker in the then Dakota Territory Many of Bismarck’s “old-timers” will remember the Mellon brothers, R. B. and George N., and some of more famous brother, Andrew W. Mel- lon, who recently served as secretary of the U. 8. treasury and also as em- bassador to the court of St. James. The story here is that the two Mel- lon brothers were. sent west by their father with a “a million dollars apiece” to make their mark in the world. Knew Alex McKenzie | At Duluth, Minn. R, B. Mellon said on his last visit here, he ran into jAlexander McKenzie, famed ‘political ‘leader, who “painted such a glowing |picture of this town out here on the end of the railroad line that I came ‘out to see what @ wonderful place it was. Mellon liked it here and that same) year, 1882, met Colonel Little, who/ had come from New Hampshire. “Both | of us came out here to grow up with | the country,” Mellon said here on his last visit. Five busy years in Bismarck were/ terminated with the death of his! brother, George, at Denver in 1887. The brothers had operated the “Mellon Brothers Bank” here, located in a building where the Hoskins-Mey- | er store now stands. The Mellon brothers built the build-| ing now known as the “Business Col- Hlege” building at. the corner of Sixth si and Main avenue. It was built as hotel, according to John Peterson, veteran hotel man here, and later was used as a hospital. | The property on which the World War Memorial building stands was Purchased from the Mellon brothers! and considerable other property in the city and district, including a sec- tion of Missouri river bottom lands south of Bismarck, still is owned by the Mellon estate. ie one thing,” he added. vault in Pittsburgh and put my hands on_bonds valued at $116,000,000.” | Dit aeclioo ao ih reposted ‘0 hare) been instrumental yo sandy Fyencent McKinley pardon Alexani ° zie from prison in California after McKenzie returned from Alaska fol- picted in “The Hi i 8 Hf gee them recall visits paid them by their, , (industries “brightens the horizon.” |P. Warburg, of New York. 2|Big Coal Purchases ‘SENTENCE NOLANTO LIFE IMPRISONMENT IN SNEESBY SLAYING Jury in Federal Court at Fargo Holds Accused Man i Guilty of Murder Fargo,, Dec. 1.—(?)—“Finis” was written in the Charles Sneesby mur- der case in federal court here Friday when Judge Andrew Miller sentenced George (Goldie) Nolan, convicted by a jury Wednesday, to life imprison- ment in a federal penitentiary. Sneesby, Devils Lake night patrol- man, was slain June 26, 1924, during on attempted robbery of the Devils Lake postoffice. The sentencing of Nolan was brief. The defendant maintained his inno- cence despite his conviction. IMPART NEW VIGOR TO GOLD PURCHASES POLLOWINGHOLIDAY Third Successive Boost in Price of Newly-Mined Metal Announced Washington, Dec. 1.—()—New vig- or in applying the administration's gold buying policy was indicated Fri- day by three swift boosts in the RFC Price for newly-mined metal. ‘Friday's quotation of $3401 an ounce was 8 cents above the pre- Thanksgiving figure of $33.93. Since the level of $33.76 on last Monday, the government had pushed the price up- ward 25 cents. London's gold price Friday was $32.57 on an opening sterling quota- tion of $5.20!2 to the pound. Neither at home nor abroad has the RFC acquired much gold since its first offer of October 25. Only a small portion of the $50,000,000 ac- count for this purpose has been used. Exact figures were withheld on the Reconstrauction corporation's actual outlay for the newly-mined domestic metal and gold bought abroad, but in official quarters the expenditure was described as “not anything like” the $50,000,000 originally set aside. Un- official sources put the correct figure at well under half this amount. At the same time, the American Federation of Labor added another element to the situation with state- ments in its monthly review of busi- ness that “uncertainty over the dol- lar's future and fear of fiat money retard business advance” and that “the president's method of devaluing the dollar by stating the gold price daily differs greatly from inflation by fiat money.” The federation also found that “the beginning of improvement” in the basic construction, steel and lumber Senator Borah, who replied recently to critics of President Roosevelt's gold Policy, sponsored the latest demand of the silver bloc in a letter to James Warburg has favored a return to a modernized gold standard. A new RFC gold price Friday was @ task to be accomplished by tele- Phone. President Roosevelt was in ‘Warm Springs, Georgia, Acting Secre- tary Morgenthau at his New York home and Jesse Jones, head of the RFC in Washington. Planned by Hopkins Washington, Dec. 1. — (#) — Ten} million tons of coal are to be pur- chased by the federal surplus relief corporation for needy unemployed. L. Hopkins, a| tons of tons of a gst az ga i #5 {Was not even known in the Burleigh Farmers Urged to As-; semble at Strategic Points Next Week | { | SS eas RO Pea | WANT SIGNATURES AT ONCE Plan Sessions at Bismarck, Baldwin, Arena, Wing and Regan | A series of six meetings Hroasions | Burleigh county next week to make it easier for farmers to sign their wheat allotment-acreage reduction contracts | immediately has been arranged by H.! © Putnam, county agricultural agent. | The first session will be held in the | World War Memorial building in Bismarck from 9 a, m. until 5 p. m./ Monday. From 9 a. m. until noon| Tuesday another session will be held in the Capital City. | Tuesday afternoon, from 1 o'clock until 5, farmers in the Baldwin dis- trict are urged to report at Baldwin, where contracts will be available for signature. Wednesday, from 9 a. m. until 5 P. m., the contract “crew” will be at Arena. All-day sessions likewise are plan- ned at Wing Thursday and at Regan Friday. Putnam has appealed to farmers to get their contracts signed without de- lay in the hope that the first bonus checks may be received in Burleigh county around Christmas time. Not until 60 per cent of, the Bur-|; leigh signers have affixed their sig. aa will checks start coming, he In cases where the farmer is a tenant, the landowner also must sign the contract. The contract will be sent to the landowner after the ten- ant has signed. EVERYTHING READY © FOR LEGION AFFAIR Annual Two-Day Carnival and, Entertainments Opens at Memorial Building Everything was in readiness Friday | for the opening tonight at the World’ War Memorial building of the annual American Legion carnival and enter- tainment. Approximately 60 members of the’ veterans’ organization are to take part in the various activties and, in addi- | tion, numerous local artists are sched- | uled to appear in a seven-act enter- | tainment program. i Announcement was made by the! committee in charge that numerous | errors in English and spelling were | deliberately placed in the program for | the entertainment and that a prize will be awarded to the eprson who presents the most complete list of these to a committee. i Everyone is urged to come the open- | ing night and obtain a copy of the | program so they may have opportun- | ity to study it. Bare Huge Profits Of Movie Magnate Washington, Dec. 1.—(#)—Senate stock market committee records dis- | closed Friday how Harley L. Clarke | turned a small stake in the movie| business, estimated at about $1,000,000, | Into a $65,000,000 paper fortune with- | in five years. But his remaining holdings, if he has any, are worth only a fraction of that now. Clarke, a Chicago utilities Operator, movie world in 1925. His only interest in the industry was ownership of a small |? projector manufacturing company. By 1930 he had become fi ICKES DEFENDS IT ‘Crazy and Top-Heavy’ Says Former Candidate in Mag- azine Editorial ‘SOUR GRAPES’ IS REPLY |Interior Secretary Says Resent- ment Is Running Away With Judgment a | Washington, Dec, 1.—()—To Alfred | X% Smith, the public works adminis- | tration is a “failure;” to Harold L. Ickes, Smith is “nourishing a grudge as the result of disappointed ambi- tons.” They said so Thursday night, the vormer New York governor in an edi- torial in the New Outlook and the PWA chief and interior secretary in on answering statement. Smith, 1928 Democratic presiden- j tial candidate, held that the new $400,000,000 civil works administration {s being created to do the job-provid- ing scheduled for PWA, a “crazy, top- heavy structure choked with bureau- cracy and red tape.” “Without a complete reorganization of the public works administration,” he ontinued, “there will be no more public works under way on iE to absorb the civil works than there are today to absorb the relief workers. . The civil ‘works program will cer- | tainly afford an alibi for the incompe- ,tents in the public works administra- tion.” To which Ikes replied: | “Mr. Smith is permittting his re- | sentment against the administration | to run away with his judgment. He -S apparently under the illusion that the coining of sarcastic phrases... . will-be misunderstood by sober-mind- ed citizens, ... “The public works administration has functioned effficiently to date in spite of Mr. Smith and will survive! this latest outburst. The civil works administration was a logical develop- ment of the public works program.” OFFICIALS HUNTING FOR MILLER SLAYERS South Dakota Desperado Found With Head Beaten in Ditch Near Detroit Detroit, Dec. 1.—(4)—Two blankets which were wrapped about the body of Verne Miller and a few none too promising “tips” were the only clues held by federal agents and Detroit |police Friday as they continued their| search for the slayers of the gunman who, officers say, figured in the Kan- sas City Union station killings last summer. Also at a virtual stalemate were the investigations of four other slayings committed in and about Detroit this week. Miller's body was found in a road- side ditch on the outskirts of the city Wednesday. His head had been beaten in. In their efforts to trace the blan- kets found with the body, detectives hoped to determine with whom Mil- ler had been associating in Detroit since he arrived in the city Oct. 28. The search for the slayers of Abe Axler and Eddie Fletcher, two mem- bers of the purple gang who were found shot to death early Sunday, iff Roy Reynolds of Oakland county said, were seen with them in a Pon- tiac beer garden late Saturday night. Claim 1,250,000 Men * Have Received Jobs: f | | Is Clue to Robber | —————— —_————<_ Chicago, Dec. 1—(#)—Through & doctor's pill box police Friday claimed they had solved an $1,800. Friday turned to two men who, Sher-| | i | Death Thursday ended the career) Hours of Friday; Insanity Suspected ‘STIR CRAZY’ SAYS LAWYER Victim of Own Hand, Acquitted in Hamm Case, Faced Trial in Chicago St. Paul, Dec. 1—Willie harkey, one of four Chicagoans awaiting: re- moval to that city for a kidnaping trial after being acquitted in one here, committed suicide in jail Friday. Using two neckties he tied together after failing in an effort to use his of Federal Judge James A. Lowell at| ‘Newton, Mass., and also brought to a} close impeachment proceedings which | had been brought against him as a re- | sult of his decision in the case of | George Crawford, Virginia Negro, ac- cused of the murder of Mrs. Agnes Boeing Isley, former resident of! Fargo, N. D. | FEDERAL JUDGE WHO FREED ACCUSED MAN IS TAKEN BY DEATH James A. Lowell, Leading Fig- ure in Crawford Case, Succumbs Thursday Newton, Mass., Dec. 1.—(#)—Fed- eral Judge James A. Lowell, 64 died at his home Thursday after an illness of 10 days. This death brought toa close- Peachment proceedings brought; sgainst him in the national house of Tepresentatives because of his decision on the extradition of George Craw- ford, a Negro, to Virginia to face a/ murder charge. Crawford had been arrested in Bos- ton chargea with slaying Mrs. Mar- garet Boeing Ilsley formerly of North Dakota, and Mrs. Nina Buckner, her maid, at Middleburg, Va. Gov. Ely granted a request of Virginia for Crawford's return. Judge Howell, however, issued a writ of habeas corpus which freed Crawford. The judge issued the writ on the; ground it was useless to return Craw- ford to Virginia for, he said, if he were convicted the conviction would be nullified by the supreme court be- cause Negroes were not permitted to Serve on juries in Virginia. The cir- cuit court of appeals overruled the Boston judge, however, and Crawford eventually was returned to Virginia to stand trial. The judge's action led to his im- peachment in the house of represent- atives and a house committee came here recently to investigate the case. At the sam? time they included an in- quiry into Judge Lowell's handling of several cases which grew out of the distribution of poisonous ginger fluid © southwestern states and which caused scores of deaths. Benton Is Appointed |_ Fargo, N. D., Dec. 1—(}—Dr. A. H. Benton, specialist in marketing and rural organization at the North Da- kota Agricultural college since Sep- tember, 1922, has been named an as- sistant to Chester C. Davis who is in charge of agricultural production Problems in the agricultura) adjust- ment administration, of which George N. Peek is head. | Dr. Benton has asked for a year's! leave of absence from the agricultural college and he will leave about the middle of this month for Washington to take over his new duties. For many years a student of the flaxseed industry, largely centered in North Dakota and neighboring states, Dr. Benton's new work will) deal principally with flax but he will) assist with the general crop replace- ment program of the A. A. A., he was informed in a telegram received from Davis Friday. Lake Shippers Rush Deliveries of Grain Ont., Friday to push out into Lake Superior and deliver 3,000,000 bushels of grain be- fore winter halts shipping. First extension of insurance at in- creased rates goes into effect at mid- night Friday, but shipping 1s expect- ed to cease December 5. Between now and then, the port here and at Fort William will see greater activi coarse gratns. . (goog re Panna Iemma: | Initial Corn Tax =| Put at Five Cents | im=+) laughed at the idea of « To Government Post! ity in moving wheat and helt, which broke under his weight, the 39-year-old alleged associate of Roger Touhy took his life in a cell be- tween 5 a. m. and 6 a. m., Sheriff George H. Moeller said. He, with Touhy, Gustav Schafer and Eddie McFadden, were acquitted in federal court Tuesday of responsibil- ity for the $100,000 kidnaping of Wil- | Death Threat Sent To Foreman of Jury Kenyon, Minn. Dec. 1—()}— Death threats contained in an un- signed letter were received Friday by T. O. Sundry of Kenyon, fore- man of the federal court jury that last week acquitted four Chicago men of kidnaping William Hamm dr., millionaire St. Paul brewer. Sundry, 2 69-year-old farmer, said he received Friday six letters and @ post card postmarked at Minneapolis, one at Red Wing, Minn., one at Appleton, Wis., and | one at St. Paul. | All were critical of the jury ver- | dict and were abusive, Sundry said. Sundry said he was not con- cerned and that “an honest man | never has to be worried.” He: and | for | and planned to give the letters Post card to federal officers investigation. | liam Hamm Jr. wealthy 8t. Paul brewer, in June. Held in separate cells as far apart as possible in the Ramsey county jail, Sharkey and the other three were to have a hearing Saturday on re- moval to Chicago for trial on charges they kidnaped John “Jake the Bar- ber” Factor, for whose freedom $70,000 | Was paid last summer. Attorney T. W. McMeekin of St Paul, who helped defend the quartet, revealed Friday he had asked Judge M. M. Joyce, during the trial here, for an examination of Sharkey be- cause he appeared mentally unsound Lawyer Not Surprised He said he was “not surprised” at the suicide., William Scott Stewart of Chicago, chief defense attorney, at |one time during the trial called Shar- ikey “stir crazy.” | ‘The examination was ordered by Judge Joyce and made by a physician. | There was no interruption in the trial |@8 @ result of this examination and Proceedings went on as usual. The |Physician refused Friday to discuss the |examination. | Jailer Edwin Davis, making his ‘rounds at 6 a. m., found Sharkey dead jin his second floor cell. One end of his necktie was fastenea to a cell bar, |the other to his neck. |, Davis made his usual hourly second floor call at 5 a. m., and said Sharkey appeared to be asleep. Several hours earlier, the sheriff said, Sharkey ‘complained of a headache and asked for tablets to relieve him. On the floor of the cell lay Shar- key’s belt. split down the middle. The sheriff said he had attempted to take his life with the belt before using the (Continued on Page Two) GLADSTONE CAGERS WIN Gladstone, N. D., Dec. 1—Glad- stone high school’s basketball team defeated New England 34 to 23 here Wednesday evening. days of Herod the kin he Christ Child was born. And Mary, bis mother, wrapped him in swadiling clothes. and