The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 24, 1934, Page 2

2 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1934 Senator Kidder Solon Has Leading Role) in Production Called Oh, Oh, Oscar LOUDLY DEMANDS JUSTICE) ‘Take Back Them Words, Var- let’ Is Cry of Well-Known State Payroller Comedy and tragedy mingle in a new political playlet introduced to the People of North Dakota in this issue of ‘The Tribune with State Senator O. E. Erickson of Kidder county in the Yeading role. There are no dancing girls in the Production and no theme song but the piece deserves a title and, for ‘want of a better one, it might be called “Oh, Oh, Oscar” in euphonious alliter- ation. However, anyone may supply his own name if he chooses. Supporting the star of the piece are @ leading citizen of Kidder county and various off-stage effects, such as the clash and rattle of political musketry end howls of injured innocence. The Tribune acts merely as produc- ‘ing agent. Let the Curtain Rise The curtain rises in the office of the North Dakota Leader, of which Sen- ator Erickson, in addition to his other duties, is publisher. ‘The lawmaker, seated in a luxurious chair cushioned with five-per cent receipts from the state payroll, un- folds his copy of North Dakota's old- est newspaper and there, horror of horrors, he sees an item concerning himself. It is headed “That Kidder County Grindstone” and it reads as follows: Add to the indictment being prepared by Kidder county folks against State Senator Oscar Erickson, who also is publisher of "The Leader and ..n employe of the Bank of North Dakota, the charge that he is playing with the I.V.A.'s, @ foul crime in the eyes of many in that district. ‘The charge first was heard when Erickson campaigned for Hoover in 1932. ‘a ‘It was renewed when farmers in the county formed an association to deal with the federal land bank im refinancing their mortgages. ‘There had been three or four such associations in the county be- fore but all were moribund and the farmers wanted a new one. Erickson was working elsewhere when Governor Langer heard about it and ordered him into the county to see that his old IVA friend, the same man who had managed the previous loan asso- ciations, became secretary of the new layout. By the time Erickson got on the job, Lynn Sherman, bright and aggressive ycung attorney at law, had been pretty well settled on as the man for the place. Erickson tried to upset the ar- rangement, And was there a bat- tle? Into the fray came John Sherman, Lynn’s father and old- son lost the battle, obtained some new political scars in the process. It was the second time he had rushed back to tell the home folks what to do—the second time he was ignored. ‘The first was when he tried to make the Steele Ozone, Kidder county newspaper, support the sales tax. All of these things constitute a fine grindstone upon which to sharpen political axes. Is it Hero Is Indignant Our hero's eyes flash fire. His lips work in suppressed fury. He strikes his breast in firm resolution, eecises his trusty typewriter and in- dicts as follows: Bismarck, N. D. . January 16, 1934. Bismarck Tribune, Bismarck, N. D. Dear Sirs: Demand For Retraction Your attention is called to your mewspaper of date January 13, 1934, of the last edition on page eight under a headline of e Searchlight Behind the Current Scene” and a sub-head of “That Kidder County Grindstone.” The paragraph relates to the ‘undersigned and is false and ma- licious. Senator “Oscar Erickson” whose initials and name are O. E. Erick- gon, never did play with the IVAs. Mr. Erickson was not in Kidder county when a new Fed- eral Land Bank Association was formed. Governor did not order Senator Erickson there and Sen- time. The senator did not try to ‘upset any arfangement and there ‘was no “battle” to win or lose con- cerning any secretary of any loan in which Senator Erickson took any part. The senator obtained neither scars nor laurels because he did - ticipate in any battle of that kind. ‘The senator never did rush or go leisurely to Kidder county to tell the home folks what to do. THE SENATOR DID NOT TRY TO Erickson Stars i Gait Lo. a Cond Aetiner tee Bs ‘The above notes are written in what appears to be Senator Erick- Sth nath Doha a Pi Se 1933 mee che Nala Jax war afbrured ae oc aes Ond Purth ence + Un frosted 43 ard Ah fhwrtd nie Len Srrnna, te son's own handwriting. The signatures are identical with that on the letter demanding retraction. editor of the Steele Ozone. ‘Tribune comes said varlet. With a flourish he presents the letter from the high command. It is accepted with thanks. But the happy scene does not last long. There is another spasm of hor- rifie cogitation. i ‘The decision is immediate and firm. ! If wrong has been done it must be fully corrected. Such are the ethics of ® strange profession in which some | ¢! people do not believe in five-per-cent, methods. The neighbors have talked, but the neighborhood gossip may be wrong. A check-up must be made at once. The honor of no good man must be impugned. Study is are, the demand of our i & s FE rig? age f | § ry o Hl i i i ty d : Ey [ E i t i i | rt F s 2 f ue fs 7 “Friend Mc” is the manager and Prepared. With a flourish our new hero—or is it villain?—signs it under oath. The statement is published in jcolumn five of this article. Further investigation is made. Little Pieces of paper come to light. They were written at the time the sales tax was before the people of North Dakota. They seem to tell a story of tor takes the retraction. They are reproduced on this page under the heading “just some little notes between friends.” a 4y Atvatnra ang OAC a. Ond /iddu- n Political Comedy Just Some Little Notes Between Friends | Neighbor Plays Villain in Pro- duction Staged by Folks in Nearby County PROVIDES TRAGIC TOUCH Throws Some Light on Ques- tion of Who Tried to Act Like the Big, Bad Wolf ‘State of North Dakota) \ ss County of Kidder )d John Sherman, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is and for meny years last past has been a director of the Steele Ozone and Kidder County Farmers Press, a newspaper of general eirculation, pub- lished in Steele, North Dakota. That prior to the election held September, 1933, at which the rax was voted upon by the people of k North Dakota, Oscar E. Erickson, otherwise known as O. E. state senator from the 36th legislative district, comprising the counties of Kidder and Sheridan, did attempt to induce the management of the Steele Ozone and Kidder County Press, of which he was and is a director, to support said sales tax and induce the people of Kidder county and subscrib- ers of the newspaper to vote for said sales tax. That said Oscar E. Erickson did cause to be passed by the board of di- rectors of said newspaper, at a meet- ing not called in the regular manner, a resolution directing the editor of said newspaper, B. G. McElroy, to sup- port the sales tax in such manner and to such extent as would be most ef- fective in causing the people of Kid- der county and subscribers of said TRACED BY SPEAKER |KFYR Engineer Tells How In- dustry Developed From Swaddling Clothes Era How radio has developed from a eg 4 a influence in the every- of many persons was ex- plained to members of the Bismarck Rotary club at their luncheon meet- ing in the Grand Pacific hotel Wed- engineer it. Experiments with radio as we now know it began in 1910, he said, while wireless Three-Finger Jack | White Gang Victim RADIO HISTORY S 44-Year-Old ‘Gangster and Ex- Convict Slain in Oak Park Apartment TWO SOUGHT AS SLAYERS Broken Book Case Doors and Overturned Chairs Indi- cate Struggle Chicago, Jan. 24. —(P)— Police searching for the slayers of William J. (three-fingered Jack) White, pub- lic enemy, Wednesday ordered the ar- rest of William (Klondyke) O’Don- nell, gang leader of suburban Cicero, ‘and his pal, Joe Chernik. Fear that White had “squealed” to government men was advanced as the most like motive for the slaying of of persons! the ex-convict in his apartment at Steele Ozone to have faith in and sup- bea port said sales tax. That subsequent thereto, this af- fisnt engaged in a discussion with said ©, E. Erickson, the result of |which was that the management of ews Ite: TURKEY KILLS COBRA Worcester, South Africa—A turkey saved the life of a small boy here by attacking and pecking to death a deadly yellow cobra which was about ‘to strike at the lad. The boy's father (John Pinenaar, was awakened from | an afternoon nap by his son’s screams and saw the cobra swaying before the boy. The turkey, sitting on its nest nearby, rushed to battle and killed the ee before the father could reach son, PLAN FORMAL OBJECTION Palo Alto, Cal—The boys who do all those clever stunts with the colored Cards at Stanford's foot- ball games are tired of footing the bill for the privilege. With a hint that unless the expense burden is shifted, rooting stunts next fall may be confined to a few hearty cheers, they've appointed three student body members to find out why the board of athletic control doesn’t stand the cost. —_— —_—_—_______ i Around the World | (By The Associated Press) QUAKE TOLL HUGE said newspaper ignored such resolu- tuon and failed to act upon it. (Signed) J.C, Sherman. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 16th day of January, 1934. Archie O. Johnson, Notary Public, Burliegh County, North Dakota. (Seal) My commission expires Sept. 20th, 1936. tion is made. There are more than 220 applications on file with the county auditor and it was pointed out by the board the Cass count; allotment for pensions likely will amount to only about $4,300. Strong Forces Move To Battle Hoppers Strong forces moved Wednesday to obtain a federal appropriation for fighting grasshoppers in the north- west next spring and summer. At Washington Senator Wheeler, (Dem., Mont.) introduced a joint res- olution to appropriate $2,354,983 for grasshopper control work in cooper- ation with the states and a similar bill was expected to be pushed in the house. Meeting at St. Paul, feed relief di- rectors from the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Montana, Nebraska, Mich- igan and Iowa passed a resolution asking congress to assist in the effort. Representing North Dakota at the meeting were E. A. Willson, seed and feed relief director; former Governor Walter Maddock, a member of the Calcutta—Reports from the district of Monghyr in northeastern India Dlaced estimates of deaths in the re- cent earthquake at 25,000 in that re- gion alone INSULL MUST LEAVE Athens—Samuel Insull lost his appeal to the supreme state coun- cil from a government order that he must leave Greece Jan. 31. ray five children with a hatchet. Then he hanged himself. NAZIS IN DEMONSTRATION Potsdam, Germany the 23nd anniversary ‘ations calculated to impress the true Prussian spirit upon youth. CAMPBELL ‘8 GOLD London—Sir Malcolm Campbell will eave for the Kalahari desert on an aerial search for gold. [1 national wheat allotment committee and C. C. Talbott, president of the Trial of Touhy and Three Aides Started Chicago, Jan. 24—(#)—A defense threat to blow the lid off “all alleged politico-criminal alliance in Chicago” ‘Wednesday hung over the trial of Roger Touhy and three of his alleged henchmen for the reputed kidnaping * John Factor, the market specula- William Scott Stewart, the defense ment Tuesday that the case against his clients was part of a plot inspired by the syndicate founded by Al Ca- Pone to exterminate its rivals and that its ramifications reached into “government forces, the police de- aoe ent, and the state's attorney's St. Joseph Youth Is Victim of Pneumonia Andrew Glasser, 10, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfonse Glasser of St. Joseph, N. D., died at @ local hospital at 7 o'clock Wednesday morning of pneu- North Dakota Farmers Union. Experts at the meeting reported that the work of controlling grass- hoppers should be thoroughly organ-| dea ized before the middle of April in or- der: that poison mash might be ready for the young hoppers immediately after they are hatched. ‘Western Minnesota, practically all of North Dakota and eastern Mon- tana were reported to be most ser- fously affected by the anticipated plague. Demand Resignation Of Harry Woodring uesday ‘Woodring, assistant secretary because of a magazine article in which he proposed organization of “economic storm troops” federal relief administration. ‘The declaration was made in a let- incidentally ‘The retraction as to whether or not} he will be on the lookout for a sult-|ter signed by more than 200 educa- an effort was made to induce. the} able runway for an attempt to beat/ tors, which Steele Ozone to support the sales tax the curtain falls. Two other points remain to be cleared up—or retracted. One is whether our hero did ever “play with the LV.As.” not he actually did try to influence the selection of a secretary for the Kidder County farm loan group. The other is whether or Bis automobile record of 272 PENSION DEMAND LARGE a D., Jan. 24.—(AP)—No oct of the last Io ay the county was made public here. They termed his suggestion “to or- a % “Not even a thinly-veiled advocacy of the German Nazis dictatorship Dry Land Agriculture Campaign Continued .| the hour of distilled water that Newly snlutely pure has no taste. Senne 2 thorough investiga- i monia. He was brought to the hos- pital Tuesday a! by his fathe: nha ws ab en the time of his ‘He leaves his parents, five brothers, State of North Dakota, County of Burleigh, ss. In County Court. IN THE MATTER OF TH! TATE OF MARY E. THOMPSO! CEASED. Lyman Greene Thompson, Petitioner, vs. Rachel J, Greene, Hattle, B. Greene, Norma Greene, Bap- tist Church of Darlington, Wis. Girls’ Scholarship Fund of Muskegon, Mich., Helen Kather~ ine Thompson s Minor, Barbara Yan Hook Thompson, a Minor Daisy Van Hook Thoripson. and Cc. H. Layne, 1 Guardian for the Minors, Respondents, THE STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA TO THE ABOVE NAMED RESPOND- You and each of you are hereby clted and sequired to appear before this County Court of the County of Burleigh, at Bismarck, North Dakota Ne on the 7th dey of February, 1934 at en (10) o-clock' A. M. to why EB- i, DE- show cause, if any you Petition of Lyman Gri for the probate of om { ‘Muskegon SISTER PEA arek, Rep. tale 7h D. 1986. the Court, Judge of the Count e Cor vege of ‘Burleigh Co. N. Johan A, Layde. Attorney for Petitioner, nden, ND. lawyer, charged in his opening state- | ulding : Suburban Oak Park Tuesday night. At the federal building Wednesday it ‘was learned that Oliver Kempster, a state highway policeman assigned to tife office of the federal bureau of in- vestigation, had gone to White's apartment late Tuesday to seek in- formation. White had been indicted with 16 others in connection with the alleged trucking and transport exchange racket, known as the TNT, but al- though his whereabouts was said to have been known to certain author- ities, he had not been placed under arrest. ‘The alain racketeer was known to be a bitter enemy of the Roger Touhy igang, whose leader and three of his cohorts are on trial for the kidnaping of John Factor, stock’ market specu- lator. “Had Valuable Information Police pointed out that White prob- ably was in a position to give infor- mation valuable in the prosecution of | bring either case., Q ‘His body, partially unclothed, was found Tuesday night after tenants of the building heard a series of rap- id shots and saw two men flee from the building and jump into a waiting automobile and drive away. That the gangster had put up a desperate struggle was evidenced the overturned furniture in the well- furnished living room in which his bullet-marked body was found. glasseq found on the premises it was evident that White and his visitors had en- gaged in a drinking bout before he ‘was slain. 3 Early Wednesday two women, one of whom identified herself to police as White's wife, and ® man were tak- en into custody when they drove up to the apartment in an automobile. All denied knowing anything of the killing until informed by the crowd that had gathered in front of the Brother and Friend ‘The others gave their names as ‘Miss Dinah Anderson, 29, of Sterling, Tll., who said she had been visiting the Whites, and James Kelley, 28, a brother of the widow. In 1925 White was accused of the slaying of Policeman Edward Pflaume of suburban River Forest, and he also’ was arrested, but never brought to trial, for participation in the $80,000 roupery ot the International Har- WORE REDUCTION -WHBAT AGREAGE S ~ SHEN ASNEGESSARY United States Must Cut by 15 Per Cent Under Interna- tional Pact Washington, Jan. 24.—(?)—Addi- tional activity in reducing wheat acreage next spring is in prospect a8 farm administration officials survey jthe possibility of winter wheat pro- duction exceeding the figure ex- ted. pected. They are faced with the threat that the full acreage reduction of 15 per cent will not be achieved in the production control program now un- der way. Production control figures checked with the crop reporting board showed that only 77 per cent of the reduction expected in winter wheat plantings had been secured. ‘Under terms of the international wheat agreement the United States agreed to reduce both production and exports by 15 per cent. Officials Wednesday attributed the failure of the reduction to reach the level expected to farmers who did not sign the production control contracts, increasing their plantings. Only about one-fourth of the discrepancy was due to failure of contract signers to iy their obligations, they de- Many contract signers who did not make the full 15 per cent reduction called for in their contract will make up for it in cutting their sowings of spring wheat, officials added, and de- clared that unless the contract was fulfilled in full in this manner farm- ers would not receive their second benefit payments. Hope is held for a heavy winter killing of wheat to assist in cutting production by the full 15 per cent for the country and reports from west- ern Nebraska indicate damage in that section to date has been heavy. Should the climatic damage and reduction of spring plantings by con- tract signers prove insufficient to production down to the re- quired level, the administration plans to follow one of two courses—either conduct an additional sign-up cam- paign, or ask contract signers tomake an additional reduction on their con- tract acres, paying them an added benefit for so doing. Conrad Dohn Given 30 Days, Fined $100 Conrad Dohn was sentenced to pay & fine of $100 and costs and serve 30 days in jail Wednesday morning by - Police Magistrate Edward 8. Allen. Dohn was convicted of being drunk and disorderly, being arrested on com-, plaint of the management of the Sweet Shop. It was alleged that he refused to pay for a glass of beer Monday night and upon being evicted from the cafe kicked the plate glass of the front door in. Judge Allen told Dohn in passing sentence that if he paid for the dam- age to the cafe, he would take it into consideration on a motion to suspend his sentence. 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