The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 26, 1934, Page 1

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1934 oted Desperadoes Captured ‘Democrats Cheered by Political Prospects ii wes “MNT S CT) orm FACTIRDINTS See Sharp Slash in FHDARILOPERATVES' KD © A lon peg ene 7” FORSTATENEETNG "TMA GANGSTERS INTENGFY EFFORTS = The Weather Prdecideh chatge in’ temperature, ESTABLISHED 1873 PRICE FIVE CENTS TO BE GALLED SOON “Missouri River Diversion Pro-| ject Gets Strong Commit- tee Indorsement PARTY HEADS FAVOR PLAN Young Democrats Form Per- manent Organization With Murtha as President ‘ Harmony and enthusiasm ruled a Pre-convention gathering of more than 500 North Dakota Democrats here Thursday as Minot was ¢hosen for the state indorsement convention and groundwork was laid for this year’s political campaign. The time for holding the conven- tion and the basis for determining convention representation was left to the party executive committee. It is expected thet the vote cast in the congressional elections will be the basis for determining convention rep- resentation. Plans for the convention were made ty state ccmmitteemen who adopted » resolution urging abandonment of “petty animosities and political es- trangement,” called for a “new deal” in state government, indorsed the Missouri river diversion project, urged establishment of a state Demo- cratic newspaper and lauded Presi- dent Roosevelt, young Democratic clubs, and the ex-service men and ‘women’s organizations, ‘Young Democrats perfected a per- manent organization with over 200 young men and women attending. A constitution was adopted and Donald M. Murtha, Dickinson, director of the temporary state organization, was eiected president. The Democratic <x-service men’s league meeting con- sisted of a gathering of members of the executive committee which pre- pared plans for a membership cam- raign and {or the state convention. Nothing came before the meetings of the Democratic groups to indicate an attitude toward possible candi- ates, but considerable informal talk among leaders and members of the party was apparent. Henry Holt, Grand Forks, member of the public works board, was most trequently mentioned as a candidate tor governor. Howard Wood, Fargo, and R. B. Murphy, Bismarck, were others. Probe Senatorial Possibilities John Sullivan, Mandan attorney; F. W. McLean, Grand Forks, Demo- cratic state chairman, and Gus Lamb of Michigan, president of the State ‘Taxpayers association, came into in- formal discussions about United States senatorial possibilities. There appeared to be little interest at this time in minor state and congressional candidates, With about 300 Present at an open meeting, the state commit- teemen’s session was devoted princi- pally to choosing a convention city. Bismarck, Minot, Jamestown and (Continued on Page Three) Montana Project Is Given New Impetus Billings, Mont., Jan. 26.—()—En- visioned for 40 years, a vast network of reservoirs to catch and store water Mo BS late "Thureday be moe font when repre- sentatives of state and federal gov- el concluding a six-hour con: ference, pledged themselves to a plan: ned policy for the development and conservation of water resources in Identify Slayers of Windy City Gangster Murtha Is Appointed To Federal Position Accused of stabbing to death Charles J. Wolfert, a jeweler, who she said tried to attack her, Mrs. Millie Prince, 31 N. Y., is shown on tl Long Island City court as her trial for murder opened. INDUSTRY RESUMES FORWARD MARCH AS CONFIDENCE GROWS Dun and Bradstreet Says Every Section of Country Shares Improvement New York, Jan. 26—(?)—The up- ward trend in trade volume and broadening activity in industry were resumed during the last week follow- ing some hesitancy around the mid- die of the month, Dun & Bradstreet reported in their weekly trade review Friday. Virtually all of the reports receiv- ed this week, regardless of the section the country,” asserted the review, ‘emphasized the strength which the upward trend now has attained. “With the continued release of gov- ernmental funds, collections have IN CAGO couRT ‘Face Trembles as He Steps From Witness Stand to Point Out Kidnapers CHIEF DEFENDANT SNEERS Others Look Gloomily at Floor During Dramatic Scene at Abduction Trial Chicago, Jan. 26—()—John Factor |Friday identified Roger Touhy and jtwo co-defendants as the men who jeidnaped him for $70,000 ransom last duly. { His face trembling, Factor three ; times stepped down from the witness istand, walked dramatically across the courtroom and pointed—first to Gus- !tav (Gloomy Gus) Schafer, then to | Albert (Polly Nose) Kator, and final- ly to Touhy, the chief defendant. | In turn, the four defendants ap- ipeared to pale, they slouched down in itheir chairs, and all except Touhy gazed gloomily at the floor. Touhy looked squarely back into Factor’s face | SOU! with a sneer. Factor said Touhy was the man who stood before him, partly shielding him- self with a blanket, and commanded him to write a letter to be used in mak- ing ransom negotiations. He said he saw Kator while “the only kidnaper who was kind te me” was changing the bandages on his eyes the first night of his captivity. Shafer, Factor said, was one of the gang or squad of four men who act- ually took him prisoner. Factor made the identifications at various points in his narrative of the kidnaping—a story of mental and phy- sical cruelty’ duting which the kid- mapers cursed him, threatened to “blow out your brains” and to “cut off an ear and send it to your wife as a souvenir, Came As Si His identifications came as a sur- | prise to the courtroom. Upon his testimony the state based its principal hope of sending Touhy and his three reputed associates to the electric chair or to prison for the abduction. The prosecution said it had been informed that the Touhy gang would stop short of nothing to prevent Factor from getting his ver- sion of the affair before the jury and Police guarded the courtroom as Fac- tor testified. Heretofore Factor’s story has never been told in full, but he had declared that he would identify the defendants ‘as his kidnapers. Thus far no other witness has identified any of the de- fendants, although Willie Sharkey, who committed suicide in a St. Paul jail, has been named by three persons as one of Factor’s abductors. Treasury Issue Is Given Good Support Washington, Jan. 26.—(?)—Secre- Friday the benefited and many accounts are be-/ times, ginning to get straightened out for) the first time in years. “After the unevenness which char- more vigor. Since the first of the current month sales have been ris- ing each week by a wider percentage above the February, 1933, level, and Government Figures yee erie i Public Work Payroll HOTEL MEN GATHER ‘IN CITY TO REVIVE OLD ORGANIZATION Divorce Selves From Restaur- ant Men Because of Dif- ferent Codes Hotel operators from throughout the state assembled in Bismarck Pri- day for a two-day meeting, the most important business of which is to re- vive the North Dakota Hotel Men's association and interpret the NRA hotel code. < For the last few years the hotel operators have included in their or- ganization operators of restaurants and the name has been the North Dakota Hotel and Restaurant Men's association. | In view of the fact that hotels and restaurants must operate under se- Parate codes, however, the executive committee at a recent meeting in Jamestown decided to divorce the ho- tel operators from the restaurant Pp. A committee of five Friday morn- ing was named by Harry K. Peyton of Williston, acting chairman of the meeting here, to draft a new constitu- tion and by-laws, which would con- form with NRA demands, for submis- sion to the convention Friday after- noon. On this committee were F. Urban Powers, and C. P. Stone of Fargo, Keith Bacon of Grand Forks, Mrs. Carl Sheaf of Kenmare and H. J. Young of cage Postpone Proposal Consideration of a proposal that the North Dakota association affiliate with the Northwest Hotel Men's as- soctation, primarily to get organiza- tion, legal and NRA interpretation as- sistance available through that or- ganization, was postponed until con- sideration of new business is in or- der Saturday forenoon. H. C. Fulton, secretary of the James- town chamber of commerce, Friday afternoon was to discuss the hotel NRA code and hotel problems in general. At 7:30 o'clock Friday evening, the hotel operators will attend a Dutch Lunch in the private dining room of the Grand Pacific Hotel. R. E. Wenzel, removed this week by Governor William Langer as a com- missioner of the state workmen's com- pensation bureau, Saturday morning at 9:30 o'clock will give an address on when state and NRA code laws pre- vail and will answer questions re- garding the minimum wage and com- pensation laws of the state. The con- vention will close with a mass visit to the new state capitol building. A. P. Lenhart, president of the Bis- marck city commission, Friday morn- ing gave an address of welcome as the convention opened and Bacon res- Subject to $500 Fine On the convention program it was pointed out that the NRA hotel code now is a federal law, with violators subject to a fine of $500 for each of- fense. Sessions of the meeting are being conducted in the dining room of the World War Memorial building. Early registrants for the conven- tion included E. F. Underhill, Paul R. Bambury and Clarence E. Olson of Mandan; Harry K. Peyton of Willis- ton; A. J. Breitbach and C. W. Pel- Increased Business Is Noted in Report Washington, Jan. 26.—(7)—A trend nzt only toward higher wholesale Forks Hockey Team _ Victor in Tourney Payroll Estimates Drop From $524,140 to $350,000 for Current Week PLAN REDUCTION IN HOURS Men in Rural Districts and Towns Under 2,500 Cut to 15 Hours Weekly ‘Wages of men employed under the Civil Works Administration program in North Dakota will be cut almost in half by reduction of their working hours, John Williams, secretary of the federal emergency relief committee, said Friday. ‘The payroll for the week ended Sanuary 18 totaled $524,140 while esti- mates for this weeks’ payroll placed the figure at about $350,000. The work-relief program in the state provided employment for 35,088 men last week, or 3,681 men more than the allotment for the period. The reduction in funds will be | da: carried out through reduced working hours for the men rather than a re- duction in the number of men work- ing, acording to Williams, who said that in towns under 2,500 population snd in the “open spaces” men will be restricted to 15 working hours per week and in cities over 2,500 the men will be held to 24 working hours. Counties that had their full allot- ment of men at work last week will be allowed to keep all of them, but counties which did not will not be per- mitted to increase the number of men. to make up the full allotment, Wil- liams said. Payroll by Counties County Total Payroll Adams $ 5,826.20 15,351 Benson Billings .. Bottineau 4,742.05 5,149.70 7,221.12 19,011.62 7,565.80 18,604.43 é Highway Conditions Improving in State Officials of the sate Bighmes. de- Allotment Contracts Sent to Washington Fargo, N. D., Jan. 26.—()—Cass county's first big batch of signed wheat acreage adjustment which 000 in to the days, was naw moms HER Sleuths Hard at Work as Brem- er Family Awaits Ran- som Instructions NEW NOTE IS RECEIVED Anonymous Missive Examined to See If It Is From Gang- sters or a Crank St. Paul, Jan 26.—(?)}—Federal op- eratives intensified their work Fri- day to trap the kidnapers of Edward B. Bremer as his absence from home lengthened into nine days. While the Bremer family awaited final instructions for keeping a rende- vous with the gang and paying the $200,000 ransom, department of jus- tice agents mapped new strategy at a secret meeting in Minneapolis Thurs- y. ‘Whether that meeting at an undis- closed place was the result of three developments in the case was conjec- tural. The authorities’ latest work had gleaned the stories of two unnamed women eye-witnesses and another anonymous note. ‘The note was to be compared with other similar missives received in the Twin Cities since the owner and pres- ident of the Commercial State Bank ‘was abducted Jan. 17, in an effort to determine if it is the work of a crank or emanated from the gang concealed im their hideout. One of the women witnesses claimed to have watched the seizure of Brem- er from a distance of 20 fect and re- called having seen Bremer and two of the gang scuffle, she said, as the lat- ter invaded the banker’s automobile later found profusely blood stained. The other woman gave authorities the license number she said the gang’s car bore. Communications from the band soon after Bremer'’s abduction gave pre- liminary instructions for contacting the kidnapers but the family so far has not received word for completing the negotiations. Hennepin county deputy sheriffs from Minneapolis rushed to Medicine Lake out side of that city on the re- port of residents there that a dazed man had been wandering about the vicinity. Believing he might be Bremer, county authorities were summoned but they were unable to find the wan- cerer, MILL CITY LAWYER IS FOUND IN TEXAS Amnesia Victim Recalls His Name When Shown Tele- gram From Wife Minneapolis, Jan. 2%6—()—J. J. ‘Truax, Minneapolis attorney who has been missing since Nov. 26, was found late Thursday more than 1,000 miles away from the scene of his disappear- ance, in the little cattle town of Ter- rell, Texas. ‘The identity of the man was estab- lashed definitely after a series of com- munications between Melvin Passolt, head of the Minnesota State Crime bureau and Zed Henry, deputy sheriff of Kauffman county, Texas. Mrs. Truax, wife of the missing man, informed of the developments, left her home for Texas by train to bring Dfficers at Tucson Arizona Sur- | prise Bandits After Tip \ by Fireman RAPPED LEADER IS COOL he 1934», om 3 sr com ‘ED Individual Front Wh |— bs ork Although they had sworn not to be eaptured alive, John Dillinger and three companions were captured in a police round-up at Tucson, Ariz., Thursday. Dillinger and his gang have been rated as the most desperate and daring bandits to harry the American scene in recefit years, TREASURY CHIEF IS GIVEN POWER OVER STABILIZATION FUND President's Proposal Upheld, 54 to 36; Nye and Fra- tier Against It ‘Washington, Jan. 26.—(?)—The sen- ate voted Friday to give the secretary of the treasury sole jurisdiction over the $2,000,000,000 stabilization fund Proposed in the administration money bill, rejecting an amendment to place @ board of five in charge of the cur- rency operations. The action came suddenly, after Reed (Rep, Pa.) and Robinson (Dem. Ark.) had clashed on the wisdom of the monetary measure as a whole; and Borah of Idaho had advocated re- monetization of silver. Little hope for a final vote before Saturday was apparent, but there is always a chance for rapid and un- expected decisions in the senate. Friday's first vote was a triumph for the Roosevelt forces. ‘The tally was 54-36. Senators Nye and Frazier of North Dakota voted for the amendment. Sen- ators Shipstead of Minnesota and Bu- low of South Dakota opposed it. An accusation of “dishonesty and essential immortlity” was aimed at the bill by Senator Reed (Rep. Pa.). This drew a quick retort from Sen- ator Robinson, Democratic leader, that tho Pennsylvanian only to of the Hoover administration. The exchange between the two party followed a declaration by Senator Bailey (Dem. N. C.) that the bill was designed to protect the United States in “monetary war” and that it was necessary to correct an “impos- aible” debt situation. Russians Worried By Japan’s' Attitude back her husband who, according to/| toward authorities, has been suffering from amnesia. ‘Truax first turned up in Terrell Tuesday. He seemed to be in a dase, according to deputy sheriff Henry. He could recall neither his name nor fo, 3| Was leaving immediately to complete the identification and bring her hus- band back. That wire was shown to Truax in his father and a few details of his life ie Minneapolis. Postpone Hearing on Bank Investigation Minneapolis, Jan. 26. ‘on the petition Corporation for jstate’s inquiry into the stock tution has of the orig: Postponement hearing, - inally slated for this Saturday, was ordered by the United States court Fight and He Is Subdued } by Wallop on Head Tucson, Ariz, Jan. 26—(%)—John Dillinger, midwestern desperado, and three henchmen were drawn into s oa net and captured late Thurs- ye Officers, working swiftly and calm- ly, found the men unprepared for. battle. Not a shot was fired, al- though two of the four attempted the use of pistols. A hotel fire, the keen eyes of two firemen and the remarkable mem- ory of @ policeman for a “soft voice,” were responsible for the arrest of the quartet, wanted for a long series of crimes, including murder, robbery,, prison breaking and jail delivery. Pardon Me’ Fails To Impress Police Tucson, Ariz. Jan, 26.—()—If John Dillinger, leader of @ mid- western outlaw band, had read the newspapers he might have es- caped capture. Three hours before he was ar- rested Tucson newsboys were call- ing extras telling of the arrest of three of his henchmen. Dillinger walked innocently into the same house where Russell Clark had been overpowered. “Pardon me,” Dillinger said cooly, “I am in the wrong house.” He started back, unruffied, but the officer had seen his face. “Oh, no you're not.” Dillinger’s hand slid toward the inside of his coat but a sub-ma- chine gun was suddenly leveled larry Pierpont. Clark offered fight as he was prised with a woman continue the “laissez-faire” policy |ly fi f i f | s # i