The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 26, 1933, Page 1

BO j fH \o ~ 'Busin > PRESIDENT ORDERS , ? ESTABLISHED 1873 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Weather Eire touienes Woumacdey © ametelod | PRICE FIVE CENTS Cold Wave Grips Contine COMPLETE REPORTS BY SUBORDINATES Seeks Complete Picture as Pre- liminary to Recommenda- tions for Congress ASKS FOR OPINIONS, TOO _—_——— of Numerous Special Gov- ernment Agencies —_— Washington, Dec. 26.—(}—Prest- Gent Roosevelt has ordered up-to- the-minute reports on business and - employment conditions from all in- formed federal agencies. The replies received are likely to be en important factor in determining finally the amount of extraordinary appropriations to be asked of con- gress and in guiding the adminis- tration’s immediate economic plans. The presidential command was un- derstood to have exceeded the usual Statistical data limitations by asking key officers for their personal views or. the national outlook. - _ There were reports, which could not be verified officially, that last Friday's secret meeting of the fed- , eral reserve ksh with reserve bank gcvernors was devoted to preparing a business and industrial analysis for the chief executive. The reserve sys- tem keeps accurate indicators and fssues a survey monthly. Coming at about the time when fihal figures were to be written into od bead oun president's juest was regard as especially qwignificant. Agencies supplying data ‘were many, but emphasis was under- igtood to have been placed on NRA, ‘WA, PWA and the labor depart- ‘ment. While material was being sorted, congressional leaders indicated they _@xpected large appropriations for the 1934 fiscal year. Speaker Rainey used the figure $6,000,000,000. Ordinary expenditures were expect- ed to run about $2,600,000,000. The . PWA and CWA programs were look- ed to for nearly another $2,000,000,000. ‘The RFC was due for a capitalization increase of from $50,000,000 to $1,- 000,000,000, but a large part of this ‘was expected to fall in this year's expenditures and not contribute to the 1934 outl: Hoover’s Secretary Will Eulogize Chief Washington, Dec. 26.—()—A story of the Hoover administration has been | written by Theodore G. Joslin, secre- y to the former president, for pub- ition next spring. Entitled “Hoover-Off-the - Record,” book was described Tuesday in an incement as “an informal me- great variety of problems confronting him, about which the people have lit- ‘tle information.” Airplane Schedules | Delayed by Snowfall Chicago, Dec. 26.—(7)—One plane made a forced landing: and regular transport liners operating in all di- rections out a ene were elon the ground Tue: as a heavy snow that started during the night tinued to fall. Meanwhile, scheduled departures for the east and northwest at 2 o'clock, and for the west at 2:30 o'clock, were cancelled until the storm abates. Planes due from the east and west were halted at Cleveland and Kansas City, airport officials said. $$ ______——_— io (Mrs. Lindbergh Flys, 4 Emphasis Placed on Activities | FRANCES COLEN Indiana authorities have been told by Edward Shouse, re-captured mem- ber of the John Dillinger gang of des- Peradoes, that its members are well- Says Desperadoes nsec " ad EDWARD SHOUSE Shouse was one of the gang which fled from the Indiana prison at Mich- igan City and who was subsequently [Says Desperadoes Ready toShoot It Our | Ready to ‘Shoot It Out’ { RUTH SPENCER & fellow officer’s gun. Captured with Shouse were Frances Colen, 28, Fort Wayne, Ind., and Ruth armed, will-drilled and ready to shoot | recaptured at Paris, Ill, in an affray| Spencer, 24, San Diego, Calif., who captured alive. JOHN CARLSON DIES SUNDAY AFTERNOON Tailor Had Lived in Bismarck 25 Years; Five Children John Carlson of 409 Eleventh 8t.. resident of Bismarck for the last quarter of a century, died at a local hospital at 12:40 o'clock Sunday aft. ernoon. He had -been in the hospital for two a suffering from a kidney ail- ment. 1880, and first came to Bismarck in 1908. He was employed for several years by Bergeson’s, local men's ciothing store, but for the last 11 years had been in the tailoring business with his shop in the basement of the Grand Pacific hotel. He was a member of the local B. P. lodges. O. E. and I. O. O. F. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon from the First Lutheran church here, with Rev. G. Adolph Johns, pastor of the church, officiating. The body will be buried at St. Mary's cemetery. Henry Halverson will sing during the funeral services. Pallbearers will include John L. Peterson, Fred Peter- son, Walter Sather, Arthur Spangler, John Olson and Fred Ohde. Carlson leaves his widow, three children and two stepchildren, all living at the Carlson home. The chil- dren are Harold, Dorothy and John Carlson, Jr., and Kenneth and Donald Flatland. Protest Innocence Of French Spy Plot Paris, Dec. 26.—(}—Another one of ten persons held in connection with a wide investigation of an alleged inter- national spy plot protested his inno- cence before the examining magistrate Tuesday. He was Louis Martin, 43, master of many languages, who worked in a secret code room of the navy ministry. Previously, opening his court inves- tigation of what police described as a vast ring of military tipsters, Magis- trate M. Benon heard two young Americans, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Swits, declare their innocence. Nevertheless, Judge Benon denied an application for their provisional liberty and both were taken back to sons under arrest. N it Butler Gets Medal New York, Dec. 26.—(7)—It was Anne Lindbergh who did the flying, but the Lindbergh ee er hed bean Honor of associa- rl i ts i Brooklyn Resident Killed on Doorstep Brooklyn, N. ¥., Dec. 26.—(?)—David | * Herbst came home for Christmas din- ner just as he said he would. ‘At 10 o'clock Monday night Mrs. Herbst heard her son’s key in the Carlson was born in Sweden Feb. 18,| Policeman, was killed by the fire from [Blind Woman Finds | q Sight at Yuletide | Appleton, Wis., Dec. 26.—(>)— | Mrs. A. J, McMahon, 48, has plenty of reason for happiness this holl- day period. Deaf, mute and blind for four rected a nerve disorder. [Amnesia Victim Found Saturday i A victim of amensia and miss- ing from her home for more than 24 hours, Mrs, Claude Robinson, 56-year-old Bismarck woman, was located at a Capital City residence about 8 o'clock Saturday night. The woman disappeared Friday evening, it was announced at the Office of J. L. Kelley, Burleigh county sheriff, but her husband did not become alarmed about her absence until Saturday afternoon. Kelley and his deputies then began a search for her at the re- quest of her husband. Mr, and Mrs. Robinson at 309 Twelfth St., south. New York Banks Pay Insurance Premiums New York, Dec. 26.—(7)—The first Premium payments to the Federal Deposit Insurance corporation, which reside ay. The National City Bank announced; 498, involving $132,845,426, and that! the first premium was $332,113. The Chase National Bank paid in $229,- 886 to insure 153,054 accounts totaling $01,954,458. of the banking act of 1933 to guar- antee deposits in banks amounting to $2,500 from January 1 to July 1, 1934. After that time the permanent plan for insuring deposits of a larger amount becomes effective. Motor Retail Sales Jump Sharply Upward Washington, Dec. 26.—()—The de- senger automobiles increased 74 per cent in November as compared with Q' it out with police rather than be re-|in which Eugene Teague, Indiana state | joined Shouse in an effort to find the “thrills” of gang life. BISMARCK PIONEER DIES CHRISTMAS DAY Henry George Casper, 79, Suc- cumbs Suddenly While Walking Home Henry George Casper, resident of the Bismarck area for 60 years, dropped dead of heart disease at the corner of Eleventh St. and Sweet av- enue between 5 and 6 o'clock in the sfternoon of Christmas Day. The 79-year-old man was walking to his home at 1810 Bowen avenue following a Christmas Day visit at the home of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr and Mrs. Hugh Caya, at Mandan St. and Sweet avenue. Casper's body was found by Nich- olas Zahn of 307 Eleventh St., south, who called police. The pioneer came here 60 years ago trom Indiana and had been a farmer in this district until his retirement several years ago. Mrs. Casper died in 1920. Casper leaves two daughters, four sons, and one brother, James Casper, ‘ving in Indiana. Sons and daugh- ters are Mrs. Caya; Mrs. A. M. Gallo- way, living on a farm north of Bis- marck; John Casper, in the state of Washington; Arthur Casper, Water- ‘oo, Ia.; and George Casper of Man- dan, Funeral services will be conducted irom Perry's Funeral Home sometime Friday, arrangements not having been completed. The body will be interred in a local cemetery. Bullitt to Select Consuls for Russia Washington, Dec. 26.—(7)—Amer- | ‘ean consulates to expedite new Rus- sian-American business and protect the interests of Americans in the Soviet are likely to be opened in four of the chief commercial and industrial etties when Ambassador William C. Bullitt’s assignment to Moscow be- comes permanent. Bullitt, now in the Soviet capital, will return to Washington in January to report and then return to his new Post as soon as possible. President Praises Secretary of State Montevideo, Dec. 26.—Cordell Hull, secret States, received the congratulations their cells—pending further examina- partment of commerce said Tuesday |of his president Tuesday for his work. tion of their papers and of other per-|the value of retail sales of new pas-|as head of the delegation to the sev- enth Pan-American conference. Healy some of the gang’s precau- tions to elude capture, ity betty! Es gt bag & - rs Fae f ss, Employment Conditions Pr obed 933 WAS STORMY YEAR FOR POLITICS IN NORTH DAKOTA Stirring Developments for June and November Presaged by Developments LANGER SEEN AS BIG ISSUE Split Between Governor and Those Who Elected Him of Major Importance (By The Associated Press) | Politically, 1933 brought to North Dakota one of the most stormy years in its history and ends with the state's dominating political faction, the Nonpartisan League, a house divided. Events of the year presage stirring Political developments for 1934 as nes are drawn for the impending battle in rext June’s primary and/| the November election. In an inventory of political hap. Penings, Gov. William Langer stands | cut as the storm center of a year's activities unique in many respects. From the day Langer, on a hospi. tal bed after a whirlwind campaign, took the oath of office as North Da- \kota’s chief executive, he became a target for attack not only by poliitcal foes, but later by many who had as- | sisted in electing him. Brought to a head during the year was the split between the governor and state officers elected with him in the Nonpartisan League landslide election in November, 1932, with the faction’s executive committee leading the anti-Langer forces. Most of the state officers are now pletiged to re- fuse nomination on the same ticket as Langer. |“‘Leader,” administration newspaper, and the sales tax campaign with sub: Sequent defeat of the law in the Sep» tember special election, were topica around which the political battle raged almost continuously through out the year. Dissension Began Early Dissension in the party broke out €ven before Langer took office, as the Nonpartisan League executive come mittee, headed by John ‘Nystul of Fargo, publicly challenged the gov- ernor’s political appointments. The cont begun then has widened to such an extent that leaders on doth sides see little hope of healing the split. The feud gathered momentum early and before the legislature ended some members affiliated with the league Were definitely “off the reservation” 8s far as support of Langer was con- terned. The , however, held control throughout the session and only in a few instances were his re- Developing during the session of the legislature, the attempt to re- move members of the state capitol commission led to the first major break among legislators. State Sena- tor W. E. Matthae! of Wells county, fong active in the Nonpartisan League, refused to support the Lan- ger group on the investigating com- (Continued on Page Two) ‘Boy Craziness’ Is_ Held Fear Complex | ee Chicago, Dec. 26.—(P)—A fear ? | o Fight Four ee ee # ea 8 Overheated chimneys and furnaces were responsible for three of four fires in Bismarck Saturday and Sun- day, but Bismarck residents, appar- ently out of respect for Santa Claus, took special care that there were no fires in the Capital City during the benevolent saint's nocturnal visit nor during Christmas Day. The necessity for heating homes after the arrival of the cold wave Saturday is blamed by Fire Chief H. A. Thompson for the spell of fires. Firemen were called to a residence at 321 Eighth St., about 11:45 o'clock Saturday night to extinguish a minor chimney fire which caused no dam- age. The house is owned by Martin Bourgois but is occupied by another family. A similar fire occurred at 1 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the home of John Ditt, 109 Front St. Fires Here Over Week - End SHOW RESPECT FOR SANTA Guard Against Flames ee ee 8 Christmas Day o'clock Sunday afternoon at the home of Dr. H. B. Love, 917 Sixth St. A family which“ had been renting the house had moved out the previous day and Dr. Love, whose room is in jthe basement, was not at home when the flames broke out from an over- heated furnace, according to Thomp- son. The floor was badly damaged by flames before the fire department was able to extinguish them. The fire had a good start before neigh- bors noticed the smoke and put in a fire alarm. A fire at the Patterson Hotel An- nex at 8:40 o'clock Sunday night caused little damage. The blaze start- ed in a partition between the ceiling of the second floor and the floor of the story above. The fire probably was started by a cigarette or match, the fire chief said. Firemen chopped The only fire which caused any appreciable damage occurred at 5:40! Four Persons Killed In Northwest Flood i Water Sweeps Away Farmhouse! as Natural Dam in Canyon Gives Way CITIES ARE THREATENED} Northeastern Washington, Northern Idaho Face High- est Water in History Portland, Ore, Dee. 26—(%—A Christmas Day tragedy, in which four Persons lost their lives in mud and rocks hurled down a canyon by flood water still menaced parts of the re- gion Tuesday. ‘Those killed when a natural dam gave way at Clatskanie, Ore., wreck- ing a farm home, were; Milo Allen, 50, and his three sons, George, 30, Robert, 12, and Donald, 7. Mrs. Allen and two other sons, El- don, 17, and Clifford, 8, were pulled out of the wreckage. The mother’s condition was critical. Meanwhile, the mud-laden, riot- ous floodwaters were still endanger- ing northeastern Washington and northern Idaho, including the Spokane and Wallace areas. They were reced- | ing in central and western Washing- ton, with the flood dangers well past. Hundreds of workmen spent Christ- mas Day attempting to hold back the waters of Lake Coeur D'Alene, at Coeur D'Alene, Ida. The water was 12.55 feet above normal or higher than during the great flood of 1894, in which great property damage oc- curred. ‘Twenty thousand sandbags were thrown up in the city park to protect the city’s most exclusive residential region. To the southwest, residents of Wal- lace, Kellogg, Kingston, Evansville, Rose Lake and other towns began the task of rehabilitation after a week of! the worst floods in their history. i Losses were set at several million dollars. NINE KNOWN DEAD IN PHILIPPINE FLOOD Manila, P. I., Dec. 26.—(4)—Floods sweeping down the sides of the inac- tive volcano Bulusan in Sorsogon prov- inc: drowned at least 9 persons Tues- day while a typhoon, tidal wave and torrential rains caused heavy damage in the eastern and southern Philip- pine Islands. Early reports that Bulusan, which last erupted in 1918, was again active were denied by a parish priest living nearby. Father Bayano telegraphed the Manila weather bureau there was neither quake nor smoke from Bu!"- san's one, but Faas floods Pater down sulphurous mud, toppl ra huts of the natives into the Irosin river. The town of Irosin was the chief sufferer, with bodies of nine of its residents recovered and a dozen others | reported missing and feared drowned. ‘The weather bureau said five or s:*/ inches of rain has fallen daily in that Police That Dillinger Gang etree Dies Battle for Freedom) '" Crookston Monday Shelley Charles, operator of the roll- er skating rink in the Dome pavilion, midway between Bismarck and Man- dan, for several years, died about 9 o'clock Monday evening at Crookston, Minn, ‘Word of Charles’ death was receiv- ed:here by J. A. MacLachlan of the section of the Philippines with the ‘water seven to ten feet deep in sections of Capiz province. The Mayon volcano, located near the Bulusan crater, erupted with dis- :Teconstruction corporation reported to ; Men who allegedly participated in the & hole in the floor to put out the flames. R. F. C. Is Holding Washington, Dec. 26—(%}—The @ senate committee Tuesday that it NORTH DAKOTA HAS INO WEATHER DEATHS BUT U. §. COUNTS 180 Minimum of 23 Degrees Below Zero Is Recorded Here During Week-End EASTERN U. S. SNOW-BOUND Tuesday Morning Storm Cen- ters Over West Virginia, Hits Wide Area Though gripped in a sudden cold wave over the Christmas holiday, North Dakota had no serious injuries or deaths directly attributable to the weather while the nation as a whole counted more than 180 week-end deaths, most of them due to motor car mishaps Snow, heavy and driven by a slash- ing northeast wind, descended Tues- day over almost all of the eastern half of the nation. ‘The storm started in the early hours of the morning. It centered its in- tensity over West Virginia, spread over all of the Ohio Valley, reached be- yond Chicago and lashed the Atlantic ne from Maine to North Car- olina. Ten inches of snow was piled up in New York seven hours after the start of the storm. Insull Securities|==:e. Chicago Has Six Inches Chicago traffic was slowing in the face of 6.3 inches of snow with a tem- Perature of 10 above at 9 a. m., and holds several million dollars of Insull securities and German bonds back of tral Republic bank and Trust com- pany, the Dawes bank of Chicago. Members of the senate committee investigating RFC loans said the re- Amout $60,000,000 of the original $90,000,000 loan still is outstanding. Chairman Fletcher said the com- mittee probably would meet this week to consider the report. Meanwhile he would not make it public. Committee members said, however, the report showed the RFC holds securities of the Insull companies val- ued at eight or nine million dollars and several millions of German bonds. The loan was made to the Chicago bank shortly after Charles G. Dawes retired from the RFC chairmanship to oe direction of his banking insti- ution. FEUD GUNS ROAR IN HILLS OF ARKANSAS National Guardsmen Called to] Quell Outbreak After \ Street Battle | Marshall, Ark. Dec. 26—(?)—Na- tional guardsmen called to this north | Arkansas mountain town to prevent) ®@ new feud outbreak after a street battle Christmas eve, were withdrawn | Tuesday following the arrest of seven | gun fight. ‘Those held under bond are: Jack, Alf and Nobe Henley and Ted Switz-| er, while at Little Rock, City Marshal | J. H. Barnett, who was wounded slightly in the face during the battle | in a hospital in technical custody and | his two sons, Oscar and Robert, were in jail awaiting return here. All are, cseed with assault with intent to; Sheriff G. M. Robertson was not) hopeful of a peaceful settlement of the long standing fued between the| Henley and Barnett families which is | blamed for at least two slayings in recent years. “It's an old and bitter feud and may break out again any time,” said the} sheriff. However, he said he antici- Pated no trouble at the preliminary hearing for the men, set for Wednes- ‘The sudden battle that marred the a2 3 E i ‘ i i lr Aree Z ig H ae i i Be : the loan still outstanding to the Cen- sto! which raged for several minutes, was | M&S | Predictions of 10 eh and continued the ‘Tuesday night and Wednesday to re- sult, possibly, in one of the heaviest snows of record. Conditions over the affected area before noon were: ed. Cold wave forecast. Cleveland—3% inches of snow. Tenmt= perature 20. ith depths ranging from one inch in with dej one the southern section to four inches in the northern regions. &t. Louis, Mo.—Two inches of snow. Temperature 22. a to four inches snow. Pennsylvania—Heavy snow general. ‘Temperatures mild. Pennsylvania—Heavy snow general, Temperatures mild. Portland, Me.—Extremely cold, snow threatening. Few pl in them it threatened; among these ‘was Colorado where temperatures were below those of the snow-covered areas. The Salt Lake region had clear and moderate weather. ter Tuesday. | Southwest was without snow, but ex- tremely cold. Parts of Missouri caught the storm and in St. Louis the snow was two inches deep. (Continued on Page Seven) Christmas Joys Are Followed by Sorrow * Battle Creek, Mich., Dec, 26.—()}— Grief today replaced time in the home 47, whose blind wife daughter were burned night when straw spread as part of traditional yuletide mene was ignited, apparently from & stove. The child died shortly after the fire was Mrs. Mary Britvec, 42, the mother, died this morning. She had been blind for several years. St at olan eae ol a Britvec and four older c! at- tended a 8 Says Baer Jilted by Woman He Would W: