The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 9, 1934, Page 1

s THE BISM. RC TRIBUNE -22/ ESTABLISHED 1873 Sankey Hangs Self in South Dakota Prison |Two Burn to Death . NOTED DESPERADO DIES BY OWN HAND TO CHEAT JUSTICE Stuffs Handkerchief in His Mouth to Prevent Possible Involuntary Cry BOLD, BAD MAN TO LAST Is Only One of Gang Chiefs and Public Enemies to Com- mit Suicide Sioux Falls, §. D., Feb. 9.—(7)— ‘verne Sanky has kept his word to “deat the law.” ‘With a noose fashioned from two neckties and with a handkerchief in his mouth to prevent any involuntary ery, he hanged himself in his cell at South Dakota penitentiary Thursday night. ‘When ther caught him in Chicago last week, with gun muzzles rammed avainst him as he lay in a barber chair, he had no chance to use the poison pills: hidden in his overcoat, but Thursday night, on the eve of his arraignment on a charge of conspir- acy to kidnap Charles Boettcher the serond of Denver, he “beat the rap"— with death, Out of all the blustering company of gang chiefs and “public enemies,” ‘Verne Sankey, called “America’s Public Enemy Number One,” is the only one of national notoriety to die by his own hand. The nearest anal- ogy is provided in the case of the ‘Touhy gangster, Willie Sharkey, who killed himself in his cell at St. Paul, Minn., following acquittal on charges growing out of the Hamm kidnaping Hse, Sankey announced only a few days ago that he would plead guilty to charges in the Boettcher case Friday. Act Plotted Carefully ‘The ex-ratiroad-rancher-bootlegger- kidnaper apparently plotted his death carefully. He waited until the two guards on duty in his cell block were owt of sight. Quickly he knotted the necktie-rope to the bar of the cage, sipped the crude but strong noose ahout his neck, and stepped from his bunk. They found him dead, his body swinging from the bar. Sankey’s brain had engineered schemes that netted him $60,000 in the Boettcher case and $12,000 in the kidnaping of Haskell Bohn, of St. Paul, but it was unable to trick the Jew that snapped its talons on the desperado in Chicago last week and flung him into a pri cell here. Sankey’s mode of dheating justice he'd no lures for Gordon Alcorn, a companion, seized in Chicago a day aiter Sankey. “T'll go into court and take mine that way,” said Alcorn, who is held in a cell close to that which had been occupied by Sankey. Alcorn also was to have pleaded guilty Friday, but an inquest into Sankey's death may alter this plan, ‘With Sankey’s passing, the govern- ment lost its chance of definitely as- certaining if the former Canadian, whose fancies led him to the tinseled honky-tonks and gaming tables of the fashionable resorts in his heyday, had any connection with the Lindbergh baby kidnap-murder that stirred a nation. ne Quizzed in Lindbergh Case Department of justice operatives have declared they believed Sankey had nothing to do with the Lindbergh) crime. Melvin H. Purvis, Chicago, department of justice agent who was here, refused to comment on the San- (Continued on Page Two) Governor of State Gets Wheat Money BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1934 Corn-Hog Setup in Burleigh Announced WECRACKEN DERIES —|cnatmen tor varius Township SENATE; ORDER FOR ARREST IS ISSUED Former Hoover Aide ‘Respect- fully Declines’ to Answer Contempt Charges Washington, Feb. 9.—()}—The sen- ate, intent on its investigation of air mail contracts, ran smack into « fresh challenge of its authority Friday when only three of the four defend- ants on contempt charges showed up pth hkane - sis eee ereupon it promptly ar- rest of the dissenter, William P. Mc- Cracken, Hoover assistant secretary of commerce for air. In a letter read to the astonished and silent senators, he had said “I respectfully decline” to appear on the ground that it would violate his con- stitutional rights. While the house continued Thurs- day's operations on bills of local in- terest and the precedent-making sen- ate events attracted the throngs of the hour, the most outstanding legis- lative move of the day was reserved for late afternoon with presentation of the long-awaited presidental mes- sage calling for stock market regula- tion. Meanwhile validity of the gold hoarding law was challenged in # case that reached the supreme court Friday from New York. While the government hit out else- where at alleged lobbyist influences and two house committees dug deeper jegations that a lobbying ring had sought to deal in millions in connection with the army motorization program, Harry Woodring, assistant secretary of war, was asked to testify before the house ‘military committee on the purchase of airplanes under his di- rection. The house committee had before it Friday a governmental audit show- ing that private contractors had made Profits as high as 90 per cent on army airplane orders. This figure was credited to the Boeing Airplane com- pany for its 1932 contract work. Not far away, a house naval com- mittee continued its research into the navy's airplane contracts, figures for which have shown sizeable profit to- tals for some companies and heavy losses for others, ‘Word came Friday from persons in @ position to know that the grand jury investigations being conducted several blocks away from the capitol building into the army's motorization der way a search for a missing wit- ness. ——_———————_———-_+ Strange But True News Items of Day . (By The Associated Press) RINGS TO COST MORE ae all Ue had un. |T ‘Merton; Tyler Esterville; ,| Neon, Grass Boards Selected at Sep- arate Meetings TO HAVE CHARGE OF WORK Representative Farmers Also Are Included in Membership of County Board Chairmen for the township boards lof the Burleigh county hog-corn al- lotment were announced Friday by H. ©. Putnam, county extension agent. The township chairmen were named at recent meetings by the members of the county corn-hog group. The chairmen are B. N. Lein, Lein township; William Deckert, Harriet; Ed Wagner, Phoenix; George Mc- Intyre, Hazelgrove; Lester Larson, Glen View, Art Lenihan, Crofte; Fred Schroeder, Cromwell; D. E. MacLean, Poyd; Charles River View; William Morris, Burnt Creek; Arthur . H. ipstein, Menoken; Ralph Ishmael, Telfer; M. M. Dralle, 3 Charles Lake; ‘Tay Ecklund; Joe Warmka, Eetlundy axel Stenquist, Painted Woods; Johns, Florence Lake;. James Novy, Summit; Steve Nemets, Rock Hill and ‘Louis Oion, ‘Tryge. Members of the county board who are appointed through the extension civision of the agricultural college at Fargo, are the following: i Oscar Erickson, Wilton; Alfred Arneson, Arena; Milan Ward, Bis- marck; Paul Schonert, Moffit; Charles Anderson, Moffit; Paul ewera reed emake; Tyler Johnson, ferling ; iam J hson, " William Rosvold, Drisool ls led on Bismarck; and William Uhde, Deputy Is Shot in Attempt to Escape Moorhead, Minn., Feb. 9. Fred Jewell, 23, Minneapolis truck driver, shot and wounded Deputy Sheriff Peter Jesten in an attempt to escape from the Clay county jail ‘The sheriff's office said Jewell had ‘Willmar. His companion, Kenneth Albright, 22, Minneapolis, who also brandished @ gun and attempted to escape from the deputy’s custody after he and Jewell were arrested for stealing gas- jadelphia—Jewelers have served |oline, also confessed, authorities said, Announce Dates for at Hospital Legion Convention Feb, 9. of July were announced here 1934 convention at ie sie rifle |#0"088 Scandinavia during the night .| suns and injuring scores. Strong Man in French Crisis GASTON DOUMERGUE Paris, Feb. 9.—(?)—Gaston Doumer-| Pedestrians were searched by police gue, 7l-year-old premier-designate, | for concealed weapons. turned his back on youthful enthus-| With Socialists and Communists fang, | iasts Friday afternoon to name a cab- calling for demonstrations Friday */inet of experienced veterans banded |night against a government of “par- together by the crisis threatening |ties and + | France. the Fascism,” the premier sped _ organization of a new ministry. Some half a dozen premiers were| The government was showing less named in the ministry which Doumcr- ‘concern over riot threats than it was gue planned to present later in the over the 24-hour general strike called day to President Lebrun for approval. by the federation of labor for Mon- Two of the strongest political vet-'day. One of the most serious aspects erans in France—former Premiers of the strike was seen in the an- Andre Tardieu and Edouard Herriot agreed to serve in this time of need servants would join the walkout. as “ministers of state” without port-| The civil servants, angered by pay folios. ‘cuts, include employes of transporta- Street disorders as a prelude to the ‘tion, communication, water, electrici- general strike called for Monday ty and gas public service units. again threatened Paris. | Friday the school teachers’ union Soldiers were moved toward the joined the strike movement with an workers suburbs in the eastern part'order for the closing of all schools of the city in anticipation of Com- | Monday. munist demonstrations. | Troops were stationed everywhere. |in Wednesday night's rioting died Many public courtyards were filled Friday. This brought the total dead with bivouacking soldiers. in Paris’ two-day disturbanee to 13. At Local Postoffice, Figures Show The year 1933 produced more revenue than any other in the history of the Bismarck postoffice, Assistant Postmaster Harry Lar- son said Friday. Receipts for the year were $220,964.85 as compared with $213,- 283.91 in 1929, the previous peak. That the tendency is continuing is shown by January receipts, which were $3,212.86 above those for January last year, Larson said. A comparison of 1933 with 1932 showed an increase of $22,751.87, he sald. 3 Receipts by quarters for the last three years were listed by Lar- son as follows: 1929 $71,049.29 $49,712.77 $51,385.00 $41,136.55 1932 54,527.08. 42,432.12 54,558.00 46,695.63 1933 59,021.07 50,130.50 70,740.90 41,072.38 Larson, who has been a civil service employe in the postal de- partment 34 years next June, has scen the local postoffice develop from an $8,000 a year establishment and an office force of three to @ business of $220,000 a year with 28 employes. Northern Europe Is Aarhus Dismisses Hard Hit by Storm; Suit Against Owen Berlin, Feb. 9.—(7)—A near-hurri- cine swept Germany and roared An action seeking to enjoin State Beer Commissioner Owen T. Owen from spending state funds for salar- jes and expenses of beer inspectors has been dismissed in Burleigh coun- ty district court on motion of P. L. Aarhus, Fargo, the plaintiff. and early Friday killing several per- It was one of northwest Europe's worst storms in years. Three were known to be dead in ad- dition to an undetermined number of sailors drowned when the fishing ves- sel Condor sank with all hands on board in the estuary of the Weser river. Baltic and North Sea shipping was diiven to harbor by the storm. Wide- spread damage was caused along the seashore. Hamburg, Breslau and Stettin all the action against Owen, alleging the commissioner was exceeding his legal authority by employing inspectors motorists inj by debris}and purchasing 26 automobiles for hurled into the streets before they|them. It also was alleged in realized the seriousness of the situ-|‘omplaint, Owen failed to obtain a & ‘PAYROLL INCREASE Rouncement that 800,000 French civil| Kidder One of the more than 200 injured| Alfred 8. contained ir. a letter sent by Gov, Wil- ;Ransom 1933 Was Banner Year for Revenue’ In Woodworth Fire Explosion of Overheated Stove ls Blamed for Tragedy Near Jamestown FOR CWA IS NOTED BY N. D, SECRETARY Cash Requirements for Week Put at $368,783; Number Employed Is 34,677 CHILDREN TRAPPED IN HOME Father Overcome by Fumes At-| tempting Rescue and Is | Saved by Mother Jamestown, N. D., Feb. 9—(#)—Two children were burned to death near Woodworth today when fire destroy- ed the farm home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Moser. Explosion of an over heated stove caused the fire which quickly spread to all parts of the frame structure. The dead are Dolores, four years old, and William, nearly two years old. After taking four other children of the family to school in the morning, Moser went to the barn with his wife to milk the cows. A loud noise which they described as sounding like thun- der, brought them out of the barn to see their paper-covered home in flames. The father was overcome by fumes when he attempted to rescue the chil- dren and was saved by Mrs. Moser who pulled him out of the building. Mr. and Mrs. Moser lost a 12-year- old daughter a year ago when the child and a girl companion were drowned in Chase Lake township. Funeral services for William and Dolores will be held from the Con- gregational church at Medina Sunday }jafternoon. Burial will be made there. CHARGE FAVORITISM AGAINST CWA PLANS National Body Looses Blast’ But Senators Support President's Move Estimated cash requirements for civil works administration activities in North Dakota this week have been set at $368,783, approximately $40,000 more than ‘the amount used last week, John Williams, executive secretary of the federal CWA in North Dakota, said Friday. Last week’s relief work in the state employed 34,677 men who earned a total of $329,074.84. In addition to certain federal proj- ects, the work and funds was distrib- bra by counties last week as fol- ws: Men Golden Valley Grand Forks . Grant . Mountrail Nelson Oliver . Washington, Feb. 9.—(#)—Calls of “corruption” and “political favoritism” against the four-million-man civil Pembina 467 3,870.10] works program were put forward Fri- Pierce 428 3,993.30| day by the Republican national com- Ramsey . 829 8,783.20| mittee as congress speeded final touches on a measure to clink $450,- Renville 5 | 000,000 more into nearly empty CWA Richland coffers. Rolette House and senate conferees hoped Sargent for Asteement before nightfall on the Sheridan administration's bill, passed Thurs- Sioux . 20] day night by the senate, to appropriate Slope 80] the $950,000.000 for CWA and relief Stark Steele . Stutsman work. Meanwhile, the house expenditures committee framed questions to ask Harry L. Hopkins, civil works admin- istrator, who was requested to testify before it on where civil works money is going. The Republican committee's criti- cism of civil works policies in a pam- Phlet, “CWA scandals”, came along soon after Republican independents in the senate had been overwhelmed on Proposals to raise the CWA-relief ap- Propriation to a total of $2,500,000,000. The committee asked that CWA be “liquidated” as soon as possible. Before adopting the CWA-relief ap- Propriation, the senate accepted, 42 to 19, an amendment calling for appoint- ment by the president and confirma- tion by the senate of all state relief and civil works director: Conoway Re-Elected 10,795.04 Poisoned Apples | Are Seized in Bismarck Fargo, N. D., Feb. 9.—(#)—Deputies from the United States marshal’s of- fice went to Bismarck and Mandan Thursday to seize 25 boxes of apples which have been condemned for con- sumption by representatives of the federal food and drug department. The apples, it is claimed, contain arsenic, believed to have soaked in- to them from an insect spray used while the apples were growing. ‘The 25 cases of apples are said to be part of a shipment of 640 cases from Washington. The balance of the shipment was inspected and passed. The apples were discovered in two fruit and grocery stores in Mandan Devils Lake, N. D., Feb. 9.—(#)—C. H. Conoway, Starkweather, was re- elected president of the North Dako- ta Grain Dealers association at the and Bismarck. cestaaen, of Ee three-day state con- _ vention here Thursday. Bismarck Interests Other officers elected ae ,t. & Rapped by Governor |Gnia rurts, soretay tS TP Minot was selected as the 1935 convention city. "Rast Has Severest Weather of Winter | (By The Associated Press) Recommendation that the Ben Etfelson airport east of Mandan be established as a joint Bismarck-Man- dan port for air and mail traffic is ee Langer to federal officials at As Head of Grainmen t The weather bureau, celebrat- ir defeat establishment of the joint air- He 10 per cont discount in purchasing|oort which he belleves would be to] ‘New'vurx Gity tees tie seamest Several cities reported wind veloc-|the machines. the best interests of the two cities. weather ever recorded in Febru- ity of 63 mises an hour. et federal approval and f!-| ary with the mercury at an un- etait Ko, Mamie Holiday Group to nancial ipport of the Mandan field. official 13 degrees below ero, The = = mperature equalled |-time New Credit Group| _ 5Ponsor_Newspaper/Prominent Kidder iot7 ‘which, however, was’ snot. Pui Jamestown, N. D. Feb. .—P—-| County Woman Dies ‘ Minit, MD, Tat, §—(8) Perea Publication peg, as the men ‘The lowest February tempera- ently organized with . Moor! official organ North Dakota! Steele, N. D., Feb. 9. — Mrs. ture ever officially recorded in the of Anamoose as president and Henry| Farmers’ Holiday association will | Waters, 45, who had lived in Scidder city was 68 degrees below Feb. J. Sorlein of Bergen as secretary and| start soo@ as part of the Dunn Center county since 1907, died at the home of| 5. 1918. treasurer, the Minot Production Credit | Journal, Usher L. Burdick, state presi-| Mrs, Helen Heaton in Steele Feb. 2. An incessant flow of cold winds ‘association soon will establish offices|dent of the holiday group, announced |#uneral services were held from the| from the north started mer- here and will be prepared to handle| here Thurdsay. Presbyterian church here Feb. 5. In-| cury down throughout the north- ‘applications of farmers for short term) The new newspaper will be owned/terment was made in Woodlawn cem- east Thursday and with the com- credit production loans, and published by the defense councilje’cry, She leaves her husband and| ing of night the mercury’s drop ‘The Minot offices, td be in charge of of the Holiday association. The an-|one son Willie, and two daughters} was accelerated. Secretary Sorlien, will serve the coun-|nouncement said the paper's policy| Genevieve and Mrs, Ralph Robin- Traffic on the Hudson river ties of Ward, McHenry, Mountrail,| will be to discuss principles fearlessly,|son of Dawson; her mother, Mrs. M.| Was at a standstill with 14 inches Burke, Renville, Bottineau, and the/and that it will not be s temporary |z. Coker, Mandan, and three brothers, of ice reported by rivermen at Beis halt oo sens expedient to further the ambitions of /Ciarence and Pred of Mandan, and| Tarrytown. That was mere skin association capitalized for} any individual for political advance-| wayne of Los Angeles and sister} ice, however, compared to Lake qu00a00, Myrtle Cober of Los Angaies{telit. | . Onelda’s 43 inches, PRICE FIVE CENTS FEDERAL OFFICIALS SEEK ABDUCTORS IN ITY SAYS REPORT Other Widely-Scattered Cities Mentioned as Hounds of Law Take Trail WOULD KNOW WALLPAPER Abduction Victim Looked at Al- most Constantly for Many Days, He Asserts Kidnap Gang Is Hunted Here Hot on the trail of the gang which abducted Edward Bremer and held him for $200,000 ransom, police and federal operatives Friday were report- ed to have spread their search to Bis- marck and other points far removed from the Twin Cities. The nature of the investigation re- ported at St. Paul to be under way here and at Sioux City, Ia., and Mem- phis, Tenn., as well as at various Southern Minnesota towns was not disclosed. There was no surface in- dication of ‘any investigation under way here. Wallpaper in # kidnapers’ lair of- fered a fresh possibility to law en- forcement agencies as they pressed their hunt. The 37-year-old banker, held 22 days in a darkened room, told Chief of Police Thomas Dahill that he thought he might be able to identify the hideout if it was found, by the wallpaper in the room where he was held, with two guards constantly watching behind him.’ ‘Through drab days of imprisonment, he said, he stared almost constantly at the walls and the figured paper was impressed upon his mind. Co- incidently, police went over the route followed by Walter Magee, intermedi- ary, when he paid the ransom to the captors. Follow Ransom Route Chief Dahill and Magee drove south on highway No. 1 through Farming- ton, Northfield and Faribault, tak- ing @ cross road out of the latter town. This was the route followed by Magee Tuesday night when the money was passed. Whether the trip was productive of any clues was not revealed. Authorities disclosed Bremer told them he would have been freed 10 days. earlier had it not been for a published report that 200 federal department of justice operatives were in the Twin Cities working on the case. He overheard the gang talking about the danger of detection and declared they failed to move after that report until the captive’s father, Adolph, is- sued his appeal almost a week ago in which he promised cooperation and secrecy. Victim Is ‘The banker was “very much improv- ed” Friday, Dr. H. T. Nippert said after a short visit with him. “Edward had a two-inch cut on the top of his head but it is healing nice- ly,” said Nippert. “A head wound usually bleeds profusely and this prob- ably accounts for the blood in the car. Bremer lost about 15 pounds dur- ing his confinement, Nippert said, estimating his weight had dropped from 170 pounds to 155. The gang “forgot” to feed him two or three times when he was a captive, Nippert said. When Bremer tried to block the closing of his car door when the kid- nee seized him, his leg was in- jured. “His leg is pretty badly bruised back of the knee, but it will be all right,” said Dr. Nippert. “There are several bruises about his head, too,” Nippert continued. “It has been more than three weeks since he was kidnaped and if there were bruises most of them would have dis- appeared by now. “I don’t recall that Mr. Bremer’s hands were bruised. You see, he is & pretty husky fellow and inclined to