The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 1, 1934, Page 1

North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper TH E BISMARCK TRIBUNE ESTABLISHED 1873 ; BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1934 PRICE FIVE CENTS Roosevelt Devaluates Dollar -Capture Notorious Verne Sankey in Chicago CONFESSES HE TOOK ||___Soesty Loskheed vin Plane is Acrons Northwest | STOGK MART GREETS PART IN BOETTCHER AND BOHN SNATCHES Federal Prosecutor Hopes to Link Captive in Lindbergh Abduction _ ARRESTED IN BARBER SHOP “America’s Public Enemy No. 1° Denies Part in Other Kidnap Cases Chicago, Feb. 1—(P)—After 24 hours ot almost continuous grilling, Verne Sankey, 42, described as United States Public Enemy No. 1, clung persistent- Jy to his denial of any implication in the kidnaping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., while demands for his © custody poured in from many parts of the nation. Sankey, closeted with government investigators who so far have wrung from him without trouble confessions of participation in the abductions of % Charles Boettcher II, Denver capital- ist. and of Haskell Bohn, in St. Paul, ‘Was wanted by at least three states. ,, With reports that detectives work- ing on the h case were en route to Chicago to join in the ques- tioning and that even Col. Charles A. Lindbergh himself contemplated a plane trip to Chicago, Colorado, South Dakota and Minnesota pressed their claims for custody of the confessed per. Kinkead In Chicago County Prosecutor M. F. Kinkead, of St. Paul, who asserted he had evi- dence to link Sankey with the Lind- bergh case, and Thomas E. Dahill, 8t. Paul chief of police, arrived shortly before noon with extradition papers signed by Governor Floyd B. Olson for return of the prisoner to Minne- ‘ota for the Bohn kidnaping. Colorado and South Dakota au- thorities demanded Sankey be tried for the Boettcher abduction either in Denver or Deadwood, 8. D., where he {s under federal indictment for kid- naping. Boettcher, government agents said, was held in Sankey’s Gann Val- ley ranch near Deadwood. The former Gann, 8. D., ranchman and one-time railroad engineer, de- nied he had any connection with the Lindbergh kidnaping, or the abduc- tion of Edward G. Bremer of St. Paul, and William Hamm, Jr., also of St. Paul, but the authorities pushed their grilling of him in the hope of uncov- ering some new light on these “snatches,” particularly the Lind- vergh case. Tn his confession of the Denver and ‘St. Paul kidnapings Sankey told Pur- vis that he had collected the $60,000 ransom for releasing Boettcher and $12,000 for freeing Bohn. Prosecutor to Chicago From 8t. Paul, County Attorney M. 4 T. Kinkead was en route to Chicago to aid in the investigation. It was Kinkead who announced early last month that he had found evidence ‘which he said indicated that Sankey, * long sought by the law, had had some connection with the Sourland Moun- tain Lindbergh abduction in New Jer- ey. Grasshopper Bill Approval Forecast No ty toe’ beam seamamis acl 4committee on an appropriation for eradication in middie Above is shown one of the new Northwest Airways, Inc., high-speed eke High-Speed Planes Inaugurate Service On Lane Running Through Bismarck st sve ese 0 BISMARCK ENJOYS WARMEST JANUARY IN MANY SEASONS Roberts Refutes “Believe It or Not'” Ripley's Statement on Local Weather FRANK HYLAND ARE CONDUCTED AT LAKE Shafer, Hall, Sauvain, M’Kin- non, Davis and Tostevin.... Among Large Throng Devils Lake, N. D., Feb. 1.—()— Funeral services for Frank H. Hy- lend, former lieutenant governor of North Dakota, were held here Thurs- day from St. Joseph’s Catholic church, with many former and present state Officials in attendance. John J. O'Rielly, bishop of the Fargo diocese delivered the sermon. Rev. Father Louis, O.8.B., pastor of the church, was the celebrant of the Solemn Requiem High Mass, assisted by Father Fields of Starkweather, Fether Damien of Fort Totten, and Father Demetrius of Devils Lake. was sounded. Interment was made in the G. A. R. cemetery. Hyland was a first lieutenant of lorth Dakota In- church to capacity. The Very Reverend Bishop O’Rielly paid a stirring tribute to Hyland's a ” 9 | planes which will reduce flying time six hours between Bismarck and Chi- cago. The first of the new ships ar. eee os rived in Bismarck Thursday morning on its regular scheduled trip between which ed all the St. Paul and Spokane. ed ing the ind raveraey eee CHEAP DOLLAR WITH SENSATIONAL RISES Shares Sweep $1 to $4 Higher Under Successive Waves of Purchasing i NEW PEAKS ARE REALIZED: Reaction in Europe, However, | Is Opposite to That Which Was Forecast New York, Feb. 1—()—Uncle Sam's new—and cheaper—dollar made its de- but Thursday amid boisterous ap- plause from the stock market. Shares swept $1 to more than $4 higher under successive waves of buy- groups, putting the industrial average at the highest point since September, 1931, Rails and utilities rallied, too, while some of the largest gains occur- red in metal stocks. High confusion ruled in the foreign exchange market. Dollars, opening fairly steady against the leading cur- rencies of Europe, soon began an ad- vance which was contrary to what cago and Spokane Opened by Northwest Airways A new era in airplane transporta- tion service was inaugurated Thurs- jday morning when the first of the jnew Lockheed Orion high-speed |Planes of the Northwest Airways sped through Bismarck on their first trip tween “St. Paul and Spokane. The plane, which left Spokane at ‘7:30 a. m., was to arrive in Bismarck at 2:50 p.m. Passengers, airmail and air express will be carried on all services from Chicago to Billings, Mont. Passeng- ers and air express only will be | ried from Billings through to Seattle! and Tacoma. ‘The new service makes possible 12- hour service between the Twin Cities and Spokane. Carl Leuthi piloted the first speed ‘plane. He carried in the plane 188 pounds of air express and 24 bags of air mail. Two passengers were to be picked up at Minneapolis and two more {n Bill- ings, Mont., all four scheduled to go to Spokane. A plane was to start from Spokane for the Twin Cities at 7 a. m. (Pacific time) also. The service will make possible 16- hour service between Chicago and Spokane. Stops for lunch are sched- uled at Billings for west-bound planes and at Bismarck, N. D., for east-bound. Night service will be established, officials said, upon completion of a lighting system, probably by next fall. The officials asserted the new route at the Bismarck airport by approximately 200 persons, including Mayor A. P. Lenhart, City Auditor tkinson and business an‘ sald the plane otherwise. were favorable flight to Bill- ie2ee2 Aine numbering cloudy days 9. HEARING IS POSTPONED railroad commission ‘Thursday announced postponement ‘a hearing on a complaint brought by the state mill and elevator association and the Greater Grand Forks Traffic association against the Farmers Grain and Shipping Co. and other carriers for lower rates on lignite screenings. earing, scheduled for was postponed to a date to be later determined, The |The he Regardless of broadcasts by “Believe It or Not ” Ripley and erroneous infor- mation derogatory to North Dakota weather, the winter of 1933-34 has so far been one of the most pleasant on record since the Bismarck federal weather station was established in the fall of 1874 according to Orris W. Roberts, veteran federal meteorolo- gist here, January, 1934, has had an average temperature of 19.8 degrees, to make it one of the five mildest Januaries the Slope territory has known since offic- jal recordings have been made in the state. The highest January average recorded at Bismarck was in 1931, with 246 degrees; the next in 1919 with 24.4; January, 1891, had an average of 23.8 degrees, and in 1908 the month was registered with a 21.4 average. The highest temperature reached during the month just passed was 49 degrees on Tuesday of this week; and the lowest was 11 below on New Year's Day. Roberts calls Ripley's attention to that fact. The greatest daily range of temperature (difference between the highest and lowest readings of any Gay) was 38 degrees on Jan. 25; the least was 7 degrees on Jan. 4, Roberts announced the total pre- cipitation for the month at .08 of an inch, or .37 below the normal, one of the lowest of record. One-half of this amount occurred as rain. Rain fell cn four days during the 30-day period. Winds during the month had an average hourly velocity of 89 mph. ‘There was more than the usual cloud- iness, Roberts stated, with clear days seven, partly cloudy 15, and state Senator Huey Long Is Menaced Again ee Py : BEATIN eee * Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley Is Irate mig:.t have been expected. Exchange dealers attributed dollar strength partly to European demand for American securities. It was point ed out that imports of gold would tend to hold down the dollar’s premium, which at Thursday's rates would have made foreign gold buying by New ‘York banks highly profitable. The president's announcement, made an hour after New York markets had closed Wednesday, caught Wall Street ‘& bit off balance. Stocks had declined under heavy profit-taking. But the decision to reduce the dollar’s gold ~| Value to 59.06 per cent of former parity made the unit slightly cheaper than ‘Wall Street had anticipated, and huge buying orders poured into commission houses over night. The opening recalled some of last summer's busiest days, for it took blocks of 1,000 to 10,000 shares to handle the accumulated transactions. | Traders scrambled to take profits and [stocks lost about half their opening rise. Then they came back strongly, surging above the early tops. By early afternoon quotations for representative leaders were: U.S. Steel $57.37, up $1.25; Westinghouse $45, up /$1.75; American Tobacco “B” $79.75, up $2; General Motors $40.75, up $1.25; American Telephone $120.75, up $2.75; American Can $101.50; up $2.50. Homestake mining, climbed $9 at the opening and then added a dollar, which made the quotation $320 a share. ——_— —__________—_ (By The Amstiated Prew) HEARS OF BALLOON DIS- ASTER Moscow—An amateur radio operas tor disclosed a message he received Tuesday, ostensibly from the strato- sphere balloon which carried three Soviet baliconists to death. It told of the tragic fight against adverse weather conditions, HITLER CALLS POLICE OFF Berlin — Chancellor Hitler stepped into the German Protest- ant church fight, ordering police not to interfere on either side. ORGANIZE AGAINST NAZIS Innsbruck, Austria — Provision was made for the appointment of special officials to concentrate on combatting ‘Nasi activities in the Tyrol. PRAY FOR 49 DAYS \ and his associates in ceremonial supplications in behalf of the Dalai Lama's spirit. The latter died in December. STALIN RETAINS SUPPORT Moscow — Joseph Stalin was given the unqualified support of the 17th All-Union Communist party congress in his program, foreign as well as do- it of Feb. 26, G IN PROSPECT : Jury Is Selected to Hear Langer Action SAYS JAPANESE IN NO FRAME OF MIND FOR RUSSIAN WAR New Minister Also Has No ‘Be-/ lief in Future Japanese- American War’ Tokyo, Feb. 1—(#)—There will be no Russo-Japanese war “unless the war is carried to us by the other side,” General Senjuro Hayashi told the As- sociated Press Thursday in the first interview since his appointment as war minister succeeding General Sadao Araki. At the same time, Hayashi said he was “incapable of conceiving any Japanese-American differences justi- fying a belief in a future Japanese- American war.” “We are making no preparations for war with Russia,” the general said flatly. “Our dispositions in Manchuria are merely aimed at fulfilling our treaty obligations to defend Manchukuo. “We are out for peace,” Hayashi continued, declaring that “charges made by Soviet leaders in speeches that the Japanese army is plotting the seizure of the Russians’ maritime prov- ince of northern Saghalien is absurd. “No responsible officer in the Jap- ‘anese army harbors any such designs or ambitions.” ‘The war minister expressed the opinion that the enthronement of Henry Pu-Yi and the inauguration of an empire in Manchuria will, “I am confident, prove a stabilizing factor in the promotion of peace in the Orient.” Pu-Yi, present chief executive of the Japanese-assisted state of Manchu- kuo, is to be enthroned in ceremonies scheduled for March 1, Of relations between Japan and the United States, Hayashi said: “I am incapable of conceiving any Japanese-American differences justi- fying any belief in a future Japanese- American war. “When the Japanese navy insists on increased ratios, Americans should understand that does not mean prep- arations are being made to fight America. “We are merely trying to fill the gaps in our national defenses.” SOVIET HAS PRODUCED MUCH WAR EQUIPMENT Moscow, Feb. (®)—The Soviet Union produced “many more tanks. heavy artillery and machine guns in 1933 than in 1932,” Ordzhonokidzie, president of the supreme economic council, told the all-Union congress of the Communist party Thursday. Then using the term applied by Stalin to those cherishing warlike aims against the Soviet Union, he added: “If those swines’ noses compel our industry to mobilize in order to arm our red troops, I think we will do it with more strength and more suc- cessfully than we have ever done any- thing before. Radio Operator Hears Message From Balloon Moscow, Feb. 1.—(#)—An amateur radio operator's log told Thursday what was believed to be the story of the tragic death plunge of the balloon in which three bellonists ascended Tuesday to a record altitude. The bodies of the three men were found in the wreckage of the gon- dola Wednesday. They died trying to land near Potiskyostrog, 155 miles from Moscow. Officials said the radio amateur had intercepted a message, presumably from the balloon, which said: “Attention, SIRIOUS (the balloon’s call letters) calling. We now in zone of heavy moisture. We helpless and being covered with ice. We fall down- ward. Two of my comrades feel very bad. I am ending this message.” Moscow was in mourning for the trio—Pavil Fedeseinko, Andrey Vas- enko and Iya Usyskin—as an in- vestigation progressed. Before their radio began flashing messages which told of their alarm at unfavorable weather conditions, the N. D. Engineer Opens Highway Conference|#™= ‘Constructive Fraud’ Charged to Governor in Suit by | Crippled Youth i LAWYERS IN HOT DEBATE Defendants Raise Technical Points to Halt Offering of Evidence | BULLETIN Action brought by James Buck- ley, crippled boy, against William Langer, C. D. King and the Mu- tual Health and Accident Aseo- clation of Omaha, Neb., was dis- missed in district court late Thursday afternoon by Judge C. ‘W. Buttz, Devils Lake. Grounds for the dismissal were that the complaint, filed in Buck- ley’s behalf by Attorney F. E. Mc- Curdy, was not properly drawn to constitute a cause of action. The complaint named Langer as attorney for the Insurance com- GOVERNMENT PROFIT OF $2,700,000,000 ON PAPER REALIZED Unprecedented Move Expected to Have Reverberations in Europe |PRICES EXPECTED TO RISR United States Declared to Bq on ‘International’ Stan dard Now Washington, Feb. 1.—(7)—America went to work Thursday with its dok lars devalued by 40.94 per cent of ‘neir former gold content, while the treasury jingled a $2,770,000.000 profit in its pockets and watched for jiggles in dollar levels abroad. President Roosevelt had at his com. mand Thursday a stabilisation fun@ Commodity Prices Expected to Rise pany. The judge held that if this were 20, and there was any irregularity in the handling of money, only the insurance company had the right to sue Langer for its recov- ery. As to the insurance company, he held that it had paid the money and that the plaintiff, in his complaint, ratified the pay- ment. As to King he held that he, as guardian ad litem for Buckley, is accountable to Judge Fred Jan- sonius, who appointed him, as an officer of Jansonius’ court, and that any action against him must be filed there. McCurdy asked for several hours in an effort to revise the complaint, asserting that his cli- ent is too poor to finance an ap- peal to the supreme court or to spend much money in pressing the ation. He asserted he would like to keep the case in court so that the evidence might be presented. Judge Buttz granted him a half hour. No evidence had been taken when the judge ruled on the pro- test of the defendants. Having selected a jury to try the case of James Buckley vs. William Langer, C. D. King and the Mutual Health and Accident Association of Omaha, Neb., a suit which is expected to develop some sensational angles because of Langer’s prominence as governor, attorneys Thursday turned to legal phases of the question. In an effort to prevent the presen- tation of evidence, lawyers for all of the defendants advanced hnical grounds as to why tie case should be thrown out of court, Judge Buttz, Devils Lake, presiding at the trial, was to rule on those later in the day. Jurors finally selected, after a blow-up late Wednesday, were Ray Havzelgrove. Arena; M. H. Sidener, Bismarck, Nils Tosseth, Wilton; Mrs. E T. Beatt, Bismarck; J. A. De Long, Baldwin; Mike Sch: jismarck; Gil- bert T. Haugen, Bismarck; A. J. Weinberger, Bismarck; William Fal- coner, Lincoln township; Adolph Giovonnonoi, east of Bismarck; Syl- vester Halverson, Regan, and Einard Juhala, Wing. The jury was selected only after at- terneys for both the plaintiff and de- fendants had exhausted the six chal- lenges permitted them by law Technical Objections Urged The suit, involving a payment of $3.100, alleged to be due Buckley, a cripple, on an insurance policy, was challenged by attorneys for the de- fendants on various technical grounds, crief among them being the fact that five years have elapsed since the time of the alleged wrong. Buckley sdmits that the insurance company paid $5,000 in settlement of the suit but asserts it never paid a cent to Buckley, the money going to one or more of the other defendants. Langer is said to have been attorney for the insurance company and King was guardian for the boy, who was under age when the settlement was made. He admits getting $1,900 but says he got that from Langer or King, not from the insurance company. In arguments on technical phases Washington, Feb. 1.— (AP) — The-man-on-the-atreet with a dol- lar in his een needn't look at it any differently because of its revaluation at 59.06 per cent of a former gold equivalent; the ef- fect should be looked for else- where. Prestdent Roosevelt hopes the devaluation will be shown first in the list of commodity prices. That is, that the same dollar wouldn’t buy quite as much as it did before; the theory being that higher gold prices mean higher commodity prices. Meanwhile, if the man-on-the- street would feel better by hav- ing his dollar changed into Beers nies he still would get 100 of the coppers. Or if the weight bothers ae the dollar is still worth 10 limes. made up of $2,000,000,000 of his new money. But early official indications Were that it would not at once be wielded drastically. Further, the United States was de- clared to be on @ sort of “modified gold standard” or rather on an ‘ine ternational gold bullion standard.” By his unexampled steps Wednes- day, Roosevelt held that until “fur-; ther notice” the dollar was revalued | at 59.06 per cent of its gold content j and that the treasury would offer $39: (Continued on Page 2) DECISION IN PAYNE INJURY SUIT UPHELD Trial Court Has Discretionary Power in Denying Change of Place of Trial The supreme court Wednesday af- struck by a car driven by W. H. Payne, Bismarek high school princi- pal, at Velva several years ago. The case was dismissed withous g $ é t of ge i il ef i i 1 : E i a iJ 3 ui eg re | BE i ui i gEEE é i : : I l fag i 5 z i 5 z g Te E | F g t i 8 i H 8 Ered THis SEE sé 4 i z i I | gf F Ww i [ i H iW s 3 e i oF i ist |