The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 22, 1934, Page 1

ESTABLISHED 1878 Demand Proof Bremer Is Alive THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1934 Refuse to Recall N. P. Executive Committee ADMINISTRATION 18 TOLD SCHEME WOULD BE ‘BAD POLITICS Resolution of Censure Also Is Rejected as Threat to Desired Peace FEAR DOMINATION CHARGE State Leaders Told Situation Is Bad Enough Without >Making It Worse Chgirmen of Nonpartisan county Political committees, meeting here Saturday, decided not to attempt an ouster of the three members of the State executive committee. ‘The meeting was called with that ac- ion in mind, according to reliable re- ports, but when the committeemen assembled the idea was rejected on the ground that it would constitute bad Political strategy. Instead it was decided to leave the executive committee alone but to begin at once the job of organizing for the coming primary campaign. ‘This will be done in an even more in- tensive manner than has been the case in recent weeks—if possible. Sup- porters of the governor will attempt to get as many workers as possible in each precinct. Arguments used against the proposal to recall the executive committeemen, were not clearly defined. Few of the committeemen would talk and those who did gave varying reasons. Fear Possible Emphasis Some thought it would get the Langer administration “in bad” with the voters to an even greater degree than now is the case, by em, j the charges that Langer is attempi~ ing to place the entire state govern- ment in his own hands. Some said the people look with distrust on such an idea and that it would be even more difficult to dissipate it than now appears certain if the executive committee were ousted. Others were of the opinion that the executive committee would be in posi- tion to do the administration less harm if it were retained than if it were oust- ed and that an effort should be made to heal the existing breach within the Nonpartisan ranks if any kind of com- mon ground can be found. Reports as to the number of county committeemen present at the meeting varied. One report said 45 counties were represented, eight by proxy. An- cther committeeman reported 47 were represented, two by proxy. Official figures were not made public, At Expense of State As was the case with a previous meeting held here, many of the com- mitteemen were brought to Bismarck at state expense, many employes of ; Victim of St. Paul Abduction and His Car Relatives of Edward G. Bremer, kidnaped St. Paul banker, Monday waited for definite assurance that he was alive before they would consent to turn over $200,000 ransom for his return. Bremer is shown above, to- gether with his automobile. Blood splotches and streaks on front cushions and floor of this car aroused fear that Bremer was beaten savagely by his abductors before he was dragged from the machine.- The car was abandoned by the kidnapers in St. Paul's residential section. A note reporting that Bremer had been “bumped off” added to the anxiety of relatives. OFFICIALS SEEKING ‘SUCKER LIST’ USED FOR ALLEGED FRAUD Looks Like Cross-Section of Who's Who, Federal In- vestigators Say Washington. Jan. 22.—(7)}—An ef- fort to seize what legal men called “a sucker list that looks like a cross- section of Who's Who” was planned Monday by federal authorities fol- lowing the arrest of Alfred M. Lay- ton of Washington. . Layton, one of the Heads of the Better Housing Institute, was chai ed with using the mails to defraud in obtaining contributions from scores of the best known men in the country by employing the names of General John J. Pershing and Ma- jor General George C. Squier, retired. Leo A. Rover, U. 8. attorney. said Layton had written more than 15,000 letters, signing General Squier's name, asking contributions to pur- chase and present to the govern- ment a portrait-bust of General Pershing as a national monument. James A. Purcell, attorney fur Squier, Monday disclosed the plan even contemplated having President Roosevelt accept the bust on behalf of the government. Among those known to have con- tributed were Charles G. Dawes, W. W. Atterbury, Daniel Willard, Alfred | Washington. sent a communication to E, Smith, 8. Parker Gilbert, Andrew Se ET Mystery Attacks | With Gas Probed | Fincastie, Va., Jan. 22.—(7}—A series of stealthy attacks with gas on widely-stattered homes in this section—made by a person whose identity is a mystery—was baf- fling officers of two counties Monday. The “gasser” has released a nauseating gas in at least six homes, caused illness to several Persons, and given the residents of this mountainous section a case of “nerves” during the last month or more, 4 A woman 1s believed to be link- ed with the attacks. Investiga- tors have found the imprint of a woman's foot in two instances, But that is all the officers know. Even the motive and the exact nature of the gas used form part of the mystery. REFUTE RUMOR THAT DIVERSION DROPPED Holt and Nye in Washington Deny Engineers Have Dis- approved Proposal ¢ | | + Devils Lake, N. Jan, 22.—(P)}— Denying rumors that army engineers hed disapproved the diversion plan, Henry Holt, secretary of the North Dakota public works board who is in she board chairman, 8. J. Doyle of Devils Lake, stating that the “Mis- suri river diversion dam project is Loree | progressing satisfactorily.” various departments and institutions | prominent having been dispatched to bring the county political leaders here in state- . | ne resolution A to pass a resolution cen- suring the executive committee was not adopted. At Fargo, John Nystul, chairman of the state executive committee, term- ed the action of the meeting as “a i i E i ag2 28 Ht HL i i 5 ® | : $ & ile i i i ry eH E i | i i il yet Hold Scout Training Course Monday Night ‘The third session of the elementary. {cederahip training course in scouting be held Monday evening st the Precinct meet executive committee has not on the demands, loses. Kykaar, mitted suicide by throwing himself :n front of a New York subway train. Hit-and-Run Driver Injures Local Man Clinton Westbrook, 29, who lives at Twenty-fourth Street and Thayer Avenue, was seriously injured Satur- day night when struck by a hit-and- A telegram received by 8. R. ‘Thompson, Devils Lake, president of the diversion association, from Sena- tor Gerald P. Nye at Washington said: fter a conference with Colonel faite and the Mis/ssippi valley com- mission Saturday, am prepared to di- vise that there is emphatically no ‘commission report submitted to the are | portion of destroyers technically ‘Westbrook | is in prospect, the senator said. cranking| Order Armed Men for In Wynekoop Action Criminal Courts Building, Jan, 22—(P)—A mistrial in the of Dr. declared B, David. continuing the trial would tute. e very. real danger to the fendant’s life.” Louisiana’s Primary ‘New Orleans, Jan, 22—(#)—The city Democratic primary Tuesday will be held under the surveillance of a pa- uz dg 8 i be g s 8 . i 2 j z i i A i] nite U.S, NAVY.NEAR 0 TREATY LIMITS 18 SUPPLY BILL'S PLAN |Measure Appropriating $284,- 747,000 Is Reported by House Committee Washington, Jan. 22.—(7)—A Unit- ed States navy near London treaty limits upon completion of its present vrogram was pictured Monday by the house appropriations committee in re- Hash 1S & $24,747,000 naval supply ill. Taking issue with statements by Admiral Wiliiam H. Standley, chief of naval operations; that the condition of the fleet was not satisfactory, the committee reported construction un- der way which “upon completion, will bring us current with treaty lmita- tions in al! combatant categories, completely discounting over-rage ton- nage.” Increase of 3,800 The commttee provided for an in- crease of 2,800 enlisted naval, and 1,000 marine personnel. The measure is $23,922,000 less than the current appropriations and $1,- 585,000 below budget estimates. Trans- fers of unused funds totaling $9,085,- 000, however, will bring the actual wash withdrawals from the treasury tor the navy to $293,833,000. Admiral Standley urged the com- mittee to increase navy enlisted per- sonnel to 85,000, although saying he realized President Roosevelt had ask- ed for only 82,500 men. Tf the U. 8. built up to the Lon- don treaty requirements, he said, the annual maintenance cost would be $458,535,000. At the end of the fiscal year 1935, however, he asserted, the U. 8. on the basis of 90 per cent complements, would be short 10,025 cnlisted men and 12 ships, not includ- ing replacements of destroyers and cubt 5 In its report, the committee said: Over-Age Ships Useful “While we may have a large pro- over age, those operating with the fleet, ‘Messenger of God’ Murders Two Sons CHANGES INMONEY MEASURE WILL BE | = Younosters SOUGHT IN SENATE CLAIMS “VISION FROM GOD! Is Charged With First-Degree Murder; Mental Examin- ation Planned | the Devils Out of’ His Youngsters Overwhelming Victory Scored by Roosevelt Bill in House | Saturday Seattle, Jan. 22—(7)—A 37-year- old fisherman, Oskar Hestness, self- styled “messenger of God,” Monday ‘was charged with first-degree mur- Roosevelt's revaluation bill was dis-|der for strangling his two little sons, closed Monday, despite pleas from the}, Chief of Detectives Luke 8. May, administration that the measure be|said Hestness gave as his motive a enacted unchanged. “vision from God” ordering him to Hair-line committee votes on a pro-|“choke the devil out of” the boys. Washington, Jan. 22—(7)—A drive within the closely-divided senate banking committee to alter President 37-Year-Old Fisherman ‘Chokes| Touhy Sheds His ‘Terrible’ Tag “Terrible” Touhy shows no sign of the ferocity which gained him his fearsome nickname, .| Authorities were to study the: posal to mit operation of the $2,000, ieati's ‘mental ‘contittion, 000,000 stabilization fund proposed in] Im words including many religious the measure to March 1, 1935, were |references, the strong-handed fisher- authoritatively forecast. An effort/man described the killings. The vic- vill be made in the committee also Berd Papa ire only children, John, 10, to limit the powers of the big fund. id Henry, 4. Senate Democratic leaders conceded! “I killed John first. Last Tuesday shere would be many fights on pro-|he came from the Pentacostal Tem- posed amendments when the measure |Ple, and I asked him who sent him. reaches the senate floor, but asserted |He wouldn’t answer. Then I asked they had sufficient votes to shoot the | him, ‘Who is in you?’ : measure through. Few foresaw, how-|_ “He said, ‘The devil is in me.’ ever, quite such a topheavy final vote ‘Then God appeared to me and he as when the house passed the bill un- ae to choke the devil out of He added that he killed Henry Wednesday. The bodies were found in the Hest- ness small four-room home Sunday. after the parents had been under arrest the previous night. Rev. ©. L. Haavik. of the Ballard First ‘Lutheran church, had found them in his garage, in possession of his car. Hestness demanded that Rev. Haa- vik turn over the keys to his auto- “The Lord has told me to take’ the car, Iam the second Elisha. I pave ee way for the second Christ,” ne vocates reported Sunday night they had evolved a compromise silver plan and would offer it as an amendment to the revaluation measure. The silver matters, The senate had in the off- ing the house-approved measure to gege bonds and the Bt. ce Seti) way pact ratification. The house, after receiving a bulky naval appropriations bill, was to take up the elections contest between Mrs. Bolivar E. Kemp and J. Y. Saunders for a Louisiana house seat. One of President Roosevelt's prin- cipal money advisors, Prof. George F. Warren, told the senate committee that home owners, farmers and debt- ors would realize “the greatest bene- fit” from the administration’s mone- tary program. He expressed his views while Presi- dent Roosevelt went over the silver program at a White House conference. Indications grew that an effort would be made to attach silver legis- lation to the dollar-devaluation bill passed Saturday by the house, ‘The Cornell professor was question- ed sharply about his contentions that the price of commodities was deter- mined to a considerable extent by the price of gold. tunately it is impossible to say that ARAKI RESIGNS AS VAP WAR MINISTER iis "sens'tea ni won The two were jailed at the minis- oie request for a sanity examina- in. “The next day (Wednesday) the devil got into the house again. I tried to close the door on him, but I failed. So I took Henry on my knee. He held his hands over his eyes and wouldn't look at me. I knew that the devil was in him, too. . “When I was through, I laid the body beside that of his brother.” Bullitt Is Accused of Spreading War Rumor Tokyo, Jan. 22.—(P)—A speech by the American ambassador to Russia was cited by a foreign office spokes- man Monday as an example of prom- inent statesmen spreading the idea of the danger of a “Russo-Japanese war.” (in a speech in Philadelphia Wil- Nam C. Bullitt asserted that “unfor- Russian non-aggression pacts as evi- dence of the Soviet government's de- sire for peace.) ‘The spokesman charged Monday in a statement that Soviet leaders were issuing “provocative statements” which were entirely responsible for the Return of Anti-Militarist Mov: ment Forecast; Hayashi +. » Will extend well beyond the arbi- trary treaty life of 12 years.” An extra allotment for fuel was made by the committee in view of the visit to the Atlantic coast the U. 8. fleet is to make during April in order that President Roosevelt may review it in New York harbor. While $238,000,000 was allotted under the recovery act for new construction, the bill carried $33,619,000 for work lotted for procurement. The number | J; of planes to be bought in 1935 is 142, which, the committee said, will leave 297 to be obtained by July 1, 1936, to round out the 1,000-plane aviation ex- pansion program, Senator Nye Issues i ,fRge3 Hane ud Appointed apparently world-wide uneasiness with regard to the prospects of a Far Eastern clash. “Despite Soviet provocations,” he said, “Japan is following a policy of peace. Although the Soviets have con- centrated an army along the frontier of Manchukuo, Japan has not rein- forced its troops in Manchuria. eseimenesisecv sel ‘U.S Salaries Cut sequiesced| | By $32,000,000,000 | _By $32,000,000,000 Washington, Jan. 22.—(P)—A shrinkage of around 32 billion dol- Jars in the income received by all the nation’s workers in 1933 as © Seenpered mi 1929 was the sad story to the senate Monday by the commerce department. figures, tabulated at the bey Former Grand Forks Woman Dies in West Grand Forks, N. D., Jan. 23.—(7)— | as he sits in a Chicago court, shown here, during his with three aides on a of kidnaping John the Barber” Factor. ROOSEVELT 10 ASK SCOUTS T0 PERFORM NATIONAL SERVICE Nature of Project Will Be Re- vealed in Radio Address Feb. 10 Boy Scouts of the Missouri Valley Area council will assemble at strategic onints throughout the Slope ares Feb. 10 to receive via radio an assignment to national service from President Roosevelt, according to Paul O. Net- land, area executive. Points at which the scouts will as- Pg will be announced later, he Plans for the mobilizations will be under the direction of Executive Net- land and Commissioners W. F. Mc- Graw, Wesley Sherwin and A. C. Van Wyk of Bismarck; M. B. Steig of Gien Ullin; F. W. Perry of McClusky; ny Arthur Berquist of Lemmon, 8. The presidential broadcast will go on the air over both the NBC and Columbia systems at 11 a. m. (C. 8. T.). Eagle Scouts will be with the president at the White House, to- ecther with Walter W. Head, presi- dent of the Boy Scouts, and Dr. James E. West, chief scout executive. The president has let his advisors know that the great national project which he wil ask the boys to perform will be in the nature of a service of relief, but the exact nature of what it is to be is solely within his keep- ing. He has asked Federal Relief Director Harry L. Hopkins to suggest several lines of activity among the many things which yet need to be done. From the director's suggestions one task for the scouts will be selected and they will have the following two weeks in which to carry out the task. From Feb. 8 to 14 the scouts will observe the 24th anniversary of the founding of the scout movement. The The Weather Generally fair Tue- *rtduys colder vonlghts PRICE FIVE CENTS FAMILY TO REFUSE $200,000 ADVANCE: WITHOUT ASSURANCE Despair Reigns as Relatives Await Work From Kid- napers of Banker ABDUCTED SIX DAYS AGO St. Paul Police Chief Says Vic- tim Is All Right, no Need for Worry St. Paul, Jan. 22—()—Despair crushed waning hopes Monday for early release of Edward G. Bremer, kidnaped for $200,000 ransom, as the Bremer family determined to refuse to barter a fortune for his safe return unless they first receive assurance he is still alive. A message from the kidnapers and signed by the 37-year-old Commercial State Bank president and owner, which would give such reassurance, was vainly awaited over the week-end but was not forth- coming as the 113th F hour passed with- — out word from the abductors. Blood, scrawl, threat and a mys- terious note declar- ing Bremer had been “bumped off” intensified alarm for the man who last was seen be- tween 8:20 and 8:30 a. year. Betty, at the exclusive Summit school for girls. ' A suspicion that Bremer might be dead, close friends of the family said, led to their determination to turn/ $200,000 ransom, was impending. Walter Magee, wealthy contrac- tor and friend of the Bremers, could not be found and as to the whereabouts of the man who received the first and only note from the kidnapers shortly after Bremer was seized about 8:30 a. m., last Wednesday elicited re- Plies of “I don’t know” at his home and office. At the Jacob Schmidt Brewing company, of which Adolph Bremer is principal owner, the telephone Ine of the personal friend of Pres- ident Roosevelt was kept clear by the company’s operator. over no money for his freedom until they received a message signed by him. phatically denied by the family, Po- lice Chief Thomas Dahill in a terse statement Saturday said that “ ives : | a fa! < ates