The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 10, 1934, Page 1

ESTABLISHED 1873 SEABOARD SHIVERS AS OLD MAN WINTER SETS UP NEW MARKS 40 Known Dead as Weather Man Promises Lifting of Low Temperatures MISERY IS WIDESPREAD Icebergs Are Sighted Off Cape Cod as Coastguardsmen Rescue Fishermen (By The Associated Press) A cold wave which sent. tempera- tures lower than ever before recorded on the north Atlantic seaboard was grudgingly releasing its hold Saturday ‘The reading in New York City at 4 a. m. Saturday was two degrees below zero, nine degrees warmer than the official reading at the same early hour Friday. Friday's low, recorded several hours later, was 14.3 below. Death and misery accompanied the cold. Shortly after midnight five states had reported 40 deaths. New ‘York was the heaviest loser of life with 17 deaths, nine of them in New York City. Pennsylvania reported 14, New Jersey two, Massachusetts three and Ohio four. Hundreds were treat- ed for frozen ears and hands. Tcebergs were sighted off Cape Cod for the first time since 1917. At the same place five men were rescued by cvuastguard:men after they had aban- duned an ice-coated schooner. The cold sent many scurrying southward, the Pennsylvania railroad renorting the Florida special, which moved in five sections carrying 600 passengers. HEAVY SNOWFALL IS REPORTED IN COLORADO Denver, Feb. 10.—()—The winter's heaviest snowfall blanketed parts of Colorado and Wyoming Saturday, crippling highway travel and slowing up train service. RATIFY AGREEMENT ON MOTOR LICENSES Officials of North Dakota and Minnesota to Observe Recip- rocity Pact ‘An agreement has been ratified by North Dakota and Minnesota trans- pertation officials to end the truck and passenger car traffic “war” threatened between the two states, L H. McCoy, state motor vehicle reg- istrar, announced Friday. Drawn up at a recent conference of Minnesota and North Dakota officials at Moorhead, the agreement is based on transportation laws of the two states. Passenger cars may operate in either state without restrictions for 90 days, after which motorists must obtain “reciprocity” permits. Other points of the agreement pro- vide generally that: North Dakota commission will not molest vehicles carrying persons oF property for hire where vehicles are operated within the two-mile limit of cny city or village. Farmers of both states trucking their own produce may operate with- o.t restriction in the two states. North Dakota truckers however must pay $1 reciprocity fee and cannot hich, unloaded, ex- Toads. trucks, of size, may go into cities and villages of Minnesota contiguous to the North Dakota state line and within such boundaries may deliver or pick up goods, but must pay the $1 reciprocity permit fee. ‘ Minnesota trucks may.go into North Dakota @ distance of five miles from the highways of North Dakota a dis- tance of more than 10 miles without veying a registration tax. The agreement states “the under- standing among the Srateseins that onerator may go a distance not to exceed five miles of the coporate lim- its.” Asked to Identify Alleged Gangster Ben Woehle, formerly deputy war- cen at the state penitentiary, will Jeave Monday for Minneapolis to identify Big Mose Barnett, alleged Minneapoolis gangster, who is being there on a prior conviction "Accompanying Woble will probably A wi te C. B, Thornton, chef at the peni- tentlary; J. B. Heltmes, Steele; and Jim Potter, Lehigh, N. D., former em- prison, being grand larceny in Minot in Dec. 1017. Berane 1. oe Fert of THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1934 Northwest May Lose Airline Record Low Temperatures Recorded in East (Se if Made Huge Profit That he made a profit of §12,- 000,000 from an original air stock investment of $487,119 wat admitted by William Boeing when, as shown here, he testified before the Senate committee in- vestigatirg ocean and air mail contracts. He is chairman of the board of the United Aircraft and Transportation Company. KIDNAPER PROMISES TO BE GOOD BOY AS PRISON DOORS YAWN Last of Famous Gang Hopes For Parole Is He Establishes Good Record Sioux Falls, 8. D., Feb. 10.—()— ‘The Boettcher kidnapers were at the end of their trail Saturday. - Their leader—Verne Sankey, known as America's Number One Public En- emy—who chose to kill himself by hanging in the state penitentiary rather than submit to the law, was in a morgue, while the last of the mob, Gordon Alcorn, was under sentence to spend the remainder of his days in the government's penitentiary at Leavenworth, He was started to Leavenworth Fri- day night after he had pleaded guilty in federal court to his part in the $60,000 kidnaping of Charles Boet- tcher, II, wealthy Denver broker. “I'm going to be a good boy and do what they tell me to,” he said before his departure. “Then maybe Tl receive some consideration,” by which he meant that some day he may be permitted to apply for a ‘commutation of sentence and a sub- ‘sequent parole. Two other members of the gang, Arthur Youngberg and C. W. Peace, were arrested some time ago and al- ready are serving prison terms for their part in the affair. A fifth man, Ray Robinson, who also was connected with the Boettcher abduction, is in the Minnesota state prison, having been convicted for the Haskell Bohn kidnaping in St. Paul, for which Sankey also had been sought. Only one person, Mrs. Sankey, re- mains to be tried in the Boettcher case. She is accused of conspiracy and is held on $25,000 bond here awaiting trial at the May term of federal court at Pierre. Meanwhile Sankey's body—mute evidence to support the old saying that crime does not pay—was.held in GARAGEMAN ASSERTS SANKEY KNOWN HERE Verne Sankey, America’s Public Enemy No. 1 who hanged himself in South Dakota penitentiary while awaiting arraignment in teher kidnap case after confessing guilt, was a frequent visitor to Bis- marck in recent years, a Jocal garage man said Saturday. 2 made overnight stops in RENEWED RIOTING OCCURS IN PARIS; MANY ARE INJURED Unconfirmed Reports Tell of Fatalities as Police and Communists Fight CALL TO DUTY IS ISSUED New Premier Asks. Nation to Refrain from Creating New Disturbances Paris, Feb. 10. — () — Communist |bands which had created a night of terror were cleared from miles of riot- ridden streets just before dawn Sat- urday. Unconfirmed reports told of several fatalities. Shots were freely exchanged. There was hand-to-hand fighting, and pitched battles across burning barri- caces. ‘Thousands of police participated in the drive against the rioters. At dawn the police held the Place De La Republique—a Communist ren- dezvous, Earlier, columns of rioters had split into small bands. There were a hundred or more hot fights simultaneously over an area a mile square in northeast Paris. ‘While the night-long fighting raged, Premier Doumergue ordered procla- mations posted calling upon ail Frenchmen to “do your duty” by re- fraining from rioting. There were no details concerning the reported fatalities but police listed 37 of their own members as wounded, some by gunfire. They estimated the number of rioters injured at 1,000. Hospitals held 140 persons hurt dur- ing the fighting. Wreckage Strews Streets When police finally gained control of the streets, telephone poles were down and dozens of streets were strewn with wreckage. Saturday the premier and the 20 seasoned statesmen hand-picked for his “salvation ministry” concentrated on plans to end disorders and show the world “this country has no need for a dictator to assure its existence.” ie had spoken of his desire tor immediate action on questions of foreign policy. He had pointed to the imminent need of a balanaced budget. But government officials saw in Fri- day night's outbreak a taste of what Monday's 24-hour general strike, called by the French Federation of Labor, might bring. ‘The rioters called their demonstra- tion agains: what they termed a “vave of Fascism.” The cry was echoed in. Socialist quarters support- ing the strike movement. Demonstrations Tuesday were di- rected against the government. It was charged high officials were im- plicated in manipulations resulting in tae failure of the Bayonne municipal pawnshop. Royalists joined in. $100,000 LOSS Is CAUSED BY FLAMES Soo Line Roundhouse at Fair- mount Burns; Two Large Engines Destroyed Damage estimated at $100,000 was caused by a fire in the Soo Line rall- road’s roundhouse at Fairmount early according to information the Boet- |!@*s° ‘Here Are Figures On Airmail Lines Washington, Feb. 10.—(7)— Here are some of the aviation companies holding air mail con- tracts canceled by President Roosevelt, the mileage flown with air mail last year and the amounts they received last year under the subsidies: ‘United Air Lines: $6,611,236 for 11,686,088 miles—a rate of 56.7 cents a mile. American Airways, Inc.: $4,702,- 703 for 9,273,354—a rate of 51.7 cents a mile. ‘Transcontinental and Western Airlines, Ins.: $3,119,613 for 5,- 054,394 miles—at rate of 61.7 cents a mile. New York to Los Ang- $1,765,901 for’ 3,555,322 miles— a rate of 40.7 cents « mile. Northwest Airways, Inc.: $868,- ot for 1,616,380 miles—a rate of Kohler Aviation Corporation: pod aad for $41,563 at 38.6 cents. 4 FEDERAL BUILDING AND LOAN COMPANY APPEARS ASSURED Bismarck Business Men Sub- scribe Over Half Amount Necessary—at- Meeting Prospects for organization of a fed- eral building and loan association here brightened considerably Friday when @ number of Bismarck business men subscribed over half the amount nec- essary for establishing an association. The following were selected as a temporary board of directors to per- fect the organization: A. W. Mundy, J. E. Davis, Harry E. Hanson, F. A. Lahr, J. A. Larson and W. 8. Gra- ham. A petition for the charter will be sent to Washington as soon as re- quirements in share subscriptions have been met. Forty citizens of Bismarck must subscribe at least $50,000 before a charter can be obtained, and these requirements can be met within a very short time, according to John Nystul, 5 field organizer of the Federal elt titer. Wart ni the civil mocks acs and Loan Division for North South Dakota. “Judging from the enthusiasm so far manifested,” Nystul stated Saturday morning, “the situation in Bismarck | seems favorable from the govern- ment’s standpoint for the formation of a federal savings and Joan associa- tion. There is a strong probability that such an institution would be fin- ancially successful and its creation would assist, rather than inflict in- jury upon, any existing savings or home financing association in this area. Gets Good Coo; “I am delighted with the coopera- tion and encouragement which I have had already from prominent citizens individually, who appreciate the nec- essity of establishing such a home credit organization and who realize the advantages to be gained by secur- ing a federal charter. I might say, in that regard, that the privilege of se- curing dollar for dollar participation from the United States treasury in preferred stock in such an institution, up to $100,000 is only one of the strong features of the association. The rules and regulations which these associa- tions must follow represent a selection of the soundest features that have been developed in more than a cen- tury of American experience in home loan finance. These regulations give maximum protection to the investor or shareholder and to home owner alike. For the investor there is likewise the safeguard of uniformity and ‘federal supervision in regard to accounting methods, loaning policies, collections, and every other basic aspect of home loan finance, while the amortization plan of lending followed by such insti- tutions has tested and proved by its ability to weather the stress of the last few years.” Three Arrested in Attempted Extortion Mitchell, 8. D., Feb. 10—(P)—Three men were taken into custody and for examination “Daddy” Browning’s Daughter a Bride Dorothy (Sunshine) Browning, 17-year-old adopted daughter of Ed- ward W. (Daddy) Browning, millionaire realtor, is pictured with her husband, Clarence Hood, 20-year-old laundry proprietor of Dunn, N. C., after their marriage in New York. MANY DEPARTMENTS OF STATE ALREADY LOCATED IN CAPITOL Few Remain in Old Quarters But These Are Expected To Move. Shortly--- ! With 21 state departments already | moved into the mew state capitol jbuilding, the remaining state offices are expected to be located in the completion date which general con- tractors are attempting to beat in finishing the structure, Originally the completion date was ‘set for March 15, but a workers’ strike and some minor delays allowed ap- proximately a month’s extension in time. Departments most recently moved from downtown offices and the north wing of the old capitol building were the state treasurer and the state ministration workers moved to the junfinished 17th floor of the new |buitding, but later, with other fed- eral relief and civil works workers, will occupy the 15th and 16th floors, Some Still Downtown Among offices still downtown are the state livestock sanitary board, regulatory department, beer commis- sioner’s office, health department, fire marshal, and secretary of state. Of- fices remaining in the Liberty Me- morial building are the governor, the supreme court, and the attorney gen- eral’s office. Departments located in the new capitol are: Ground floor—Adjutant general. Third floor—State auditor, state treasurer. Fourth and fifth—Highway depart- ment. Sixth—Commissioner of agriculture ‘and labor, state land department. Seventh—State tax department, the mine inspector, state printer. Eighth—Insurance, bonding hail departments. Ninth—Workmen's compensation bureau, secretary minimum wage. Tenth—Board of administration, child welfare, state supply depart- ment. Eleventh—Superintendent _ public instruction. Twelfth—Railroad commission. Thirteenth—Motor vehicle and game and fish departments, weights and measures. Seventh—Part of CWA offices. Eighteenth—Board of state capitol commissioners, secretary's office. ‘Young Desperadoes Are Held for Trial Moorhead, Minn. Feb. 10—(#)— Identification of the U. 8. Army rifle found in the possession of Fred Jewell and Kenneth Albright, Minneapolis youths who attempted unsuccessfully to shoot their way to liberty at the y county jail in Moorhead Thurs- and . W. A. , a& one stolen from. an oil station 4 vod | on; cemetery. Minn,, in a holdup a by 8 E structure by April 18, the approximate | FRESH CLUES GIVE OFFICERS NEW HOPE IN ABDUCTION CASE Five Persons Believed to Have Seen Automobile Used in Bremer Snatching ONE SAW VICTIM SCUFFLE Place Where St. Paul Banker Was Kept Prisoner Not “ Located, However St. Paul, Feb. 10.—()—Fresh clues— meager, but still holding possibilities —ave police and federal investigators new hope Saturday that they can bring to justice the gig that “snatch- ed” Edward G. Bremer for $200,000 ransom. ‘The names of at least five persons who are believed to have seen either the kidnapers’ automobile or its oc- cupants were in the possession of the police and department of justice agents. One of them, Mrs. Cressens Deh- mer, a widow, told the investigators how she had seen the scuffle in the victim's car when his abductors slug- ged him with pistol butts. She was regarded as the most important of the witnesses. Another—also a woman—whose name was not divulged, reported that she had taken a note of the license number of an automobile she believed was the one the kidnapers used. From an oil station attendant the authorities heard a story that he had seen three men in a car resembling the gang's machine the day of the abduction, January 17, and that a man in the rear seat was wearing a tan coat. Hideout Still Mystery But the lead the investigators were hoping to get more than any other— the location of the gang's hideout, where Bremer languished in a dark- ened room for 22 days, was still a mys- ry. Meanwhile the mark the kidnapers had left on the victim was one that will take many days for him to forget. Greatly unstrung and assailed with recurring headaches, after 22 days as captive of the gang, the president of the Commercial State bank will be forced to forego business for probably @ week. “He still is very nervous and re- quires sedatives to put kim to sleep,” said Dr. H. T. Nippert, personal friend and family physician. j_ “His leg (severely bruised when the kidnapers slammed his automobile door on it as Bremer tried to prevent them from closing it) still makes it difficult for him to walk and he needs several days of rest and recuperation.” Details, sketchy in parts, were re- cited by him Friday in his home. Very nervous, and once, almost swooning, he told of his experiences from the time he was slugged 15 or 20 times on the head until blood blinded his eyes when his automobile was stopped the morning of January 17. Bremer sobbed several times dur- ing the recital and frequently his voice broke when he recalled the harrowing experience. PIONEER OF KIDDER COUNTY DIES FRIDAY Mrs. Johanna Noonan Had Re- sided Near Tappen for 47 Years; Funeral Monday Mrs. Johanna Noonan. 75, resident of Kidder county for 47 years, died at her home three miles north of Tap- pen Friday afternoon. Mrs. O'Donnell was born Feb. 18, 1859, at Durham, Ont., Can. She came to Dakota territory in 1887 and was | married to John Noonan Jan. 8, 1888 at Windsor, N. Dak. She moved onto a homestead near Tappen with her hus- band, where they lived for 27 years, when they moved into the village of Tappen, where she had made her a I To Command Fleet || ea aly Slated to succeed Admiral David Foote Sellers as commander-in-chief of the United States fleet is Admiral Joseph M. Reeves (above) of San Raphael, Calif. He will be the first qualified naval aviation expert to hold the post of commander-in-chief. MANY FARMS SAVED BY FEDERAL LOANS APPRAISERS TOLD Commissioner for District Granted $1,449,000 in Emer- gency Aid to State During 1933, North Dakota farmers recevied $1,449,000 in loans from the land bank commissioner, appraisers for the federal land bank were told at their conference here Friday by Wayne Weiser, contact man for the bank in this territory. The commissioner's loan, as Weiser explained it, was instituted by the ‘United States congress as an emerg- ency measure for farmers. The Joan can follow a second mortgage, and is made to prevent the loss of farm homes by foreclosures. The commissioner's loan is much more lenient than a regular federal bank loan, and property, real or per- cenal, can be mortgaged at 75 per ont of its value, Weiser said. The commissioner's loan was so named when congress appointed the national farm loan commissioner in charge of distribution of $200,000,000 for fore- cicsure emergencies. H. R. Danielson, specialist at the North Dakota Agricultural college in farm management, spoke to the ap- preisers in Friday afternoon's session. Summaries of the discussions covered during the conference Thursday and Friday were given by Roy G. Wilde, ascistant chief appraiser and man- ager of the meetings, and by Henry O'son, assistant reviewing appraiser. Among the more important talks given at Thursday's meeting was one by Wilde. He told the appraisers that loans totaling $4,736,500 were made by tie federal bank to North Dakotans daring January, 1934, and that in 1933 loans aggregated $6,753,900. Those in Attendance Appraisers registered for the con- ference, which has been held at the Grand Pacific hotel, are H. W. Ness, Gascoyne; C. B. Nupen, Bismarck; V. W. Garske, Fargo; W. B. Choppell, Watford City; N. C. Lewis, Bismarck; 8. B. Bagne, Lakota; Clayton Rust, Fargo; George C. Kadlec, Beulah; F. E, Diehl, Bismarck; C. H. Plath, Het- tinger; L. D, Bishop, Buffalo; F. W. Mees, Mott; I. L. Fenelon, Pollock, (8. D.); W. E. Peterson, Pollock, (8, D.); David H. Jones, Forman; Odin L. Olson, Glover; A. R. Schleuker, Goodrich; Wayne Weiser, Brecken- ridge (Minn.); H. P. Holms, Valley City; Karl F. Gutsche, Bismarck; Mathias Grewer, Bismarck; James E. Chapman, Fargo; Karl Klein, Wash- burn; P. P. Bliss, McKenzie; C. A. Semands, Hettinger; H. M. Pf fi Mandan; John I. Rovig, Mandan; J. A. Hagel, Selfridge; Luther Van Hook, Bismarck; E. E. Simes, Mott; Theo- dore R. Taylor, Wilton; C. A. Conlee, home ever since. Mr. Noonan died Dec. 30, 1932. One son died in 1908. She leaves two daughters, Mrs. Richard Gallagher, Jamestown, N. D. and Mrs. Dan Keily, Tappen; a sis: ter, Mrs. James Keenan, Duluth, Minn., and. a brother, Thomas O'Donnell, Carrington; 18 grand children and one great grand child. Puneral services will be held Mon- day morning et 9 o'clock from the Catholic church at Tappen. Inter- ment will be made in the Tappen Sweet Briar; and E. V. Lahr, Bis- marek. Olson and Wilde of St. Paul and J. E. Chapman, and Danielson of the thet territory. The meeting follow- ine, at Grand Forks, will be the last for this season. Speaking Contest Is Opened at Moorhead Moorhead, Minn, Feb. 10.—(#}— Debate teams representing seven col- opened ACTION TO CANCEL PRESENT CONTRACTS IS POSSIBLE BLOW Army Aviators Will Fly Routes But Which Ones Has Not Been Determined MANY PROTESTS RECEIVED Hearing Asked by Firms Affect- ed Who Say Change Will Bring Them to Ruin Possibility that Bismarck may lose its present airmail service loomed Saturday as a result of President Roosevelt's action in cancelling all contracts with present operating companies. At the time the cancellation was announced late Friday, effective Feb. 19, it was said army aviators would fly the present airmail routes, but. late Saturday further Associated Press stories from Washington in- Santis that all but the most impor- ant lines may be abandoned, temporarily. penne Such an eventuality was hinted in the statement of Harllee Branch, Second assistant postmaster general in charge of airmail, that a skeleton map of the routes on which the army will begin carrying mail will be ready within two days. “The department is working out what it considers the primary and Most essential lines in order to have them operating immediately when Present contractors cease service,” Branch said. He was not ready to indicate what the primary lines might be, but they were considered certain to cover cities in which federal reserve banks are located. Face Further Handicap A further handicap to operation of northwest lines by the army was seen in the statement of St. Paul airmen that no hangar space would be avail- able there for army planes, all the available room now being taken up by the craft of private companies and of the army and navy air reserve. They also called attention to the dif- ficulty of winter operations in this climate with open-type army bomb- ing ships. Demolition with a single pen stroke of the airmail subsidy structure was accomplished on grounds of collusion in the obtaining of the contracts. Operators of airlines holding airmail contracts were quick to deny any col- lusion. Some frankly said that loss of the contracts might force them out of business. Many demanded that they be given a hearing before the contracts were taken from them. Barred From Bidding Under the formal order cancelling the contracts, issued by Postmaster General Farley, it was indicated at the ‘White House that none of the concerns stripped of their contracts would be able to bid on new air mail contracts for another five years. The president, ordering the army and department of commerce to co- operate with the postoffice depart- ment for the period of the “emer- gency,” indicated that some time would clares before new contracts will be let. Meanwhile, the war department gave evidence of more bustle than for months as it prepared to take over the huge air mail system. Orders were flashed to aviation squadrons in all | Sections of the country. General Douglas MacArthur, chief of staff, asserted: “We will start flying the air mail a week from today and there will be no cela, no difficulty and no interrup- ion.” About 1,700 planes are available, he said. At the outset probably only about 900 big observation and cargo planes will be oa with 100 of the army’s speediest bombing planes held in instant readiness to join. Enthusiastic Both Secretary Dern and Mac- Arthur were enthusiastic, incidentally, poy the opportunity given to the Richard W. Robbins, ident Transcontinental and Western ‘ain, ine., telegraphed President Roosevelt (Continued on Page 3) Frank Gage Injured In Auto Accident ments narrowly escaped serious in- jury in an automobile accident near Beach Thursday night, according a leberee received by friends in Bis- i eli eG gke