The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 12, 1934, Page 1

_ North Dakota’s yet Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 - SAYS CANCELLATION 1S SEVERE BLOW 10 COMMERCIAL FLYING Declares No One Will Object to Action If Guilt Is First Established FAIR TRIAL IS DEMANDED President Told Stand Is Such as to Place no Premium on Honesty 2? New York, Feb. 12.—()—A protest from Col. Charles A. Lindbergh against the cancellation of air mail contracts, as condemning “the largest pertion of our commercial aviation w'thout just trial,” was before Presi- dent Roosevelt Monday. Col. Lindbergh, himself a pioneer sir mail flier, told the president in a telegram mace public Sunday that the “condemnation of commercial aviation by the cancellation of all mail contracts and the use of the army on commercial air lines will un- When Daddy Finally Came Home necessarily and gteatly damage all American aviation. “No one can rightfully object to @rastic action being taken,” the tele- gram said, “provided the guilt implied is first established, but it is the right of any American individual or = ization to receive fair trial. Your present action does not discriminate Detween innocence and guilt and places no premium on honest busi- ness.” Col. Lindbergh flew the air mail ‘between St. Louis and Chicago in 1926 for Robertson Air Lines, the first air- mail line to be flown by a private contractor. He has been identified w:th aviation for the last 12 years, and since his famous flight to Paris in 1927 has devoted virtually ell his efforts to the promotion of flytng. He is technical adviser to Transconti- nental and Western Air, one of the companies whose ai? mail contracts thas been cancelled by the president. The protest of the famous flier and others brought no open reaction Mon- day and no arrangements have been made for a hearing such as the avia- tion concerns are seeking. ‘There were intimations that the ad- ministration is considering a com- Plete revised governmental policy for transporting ocean and air mail and that congress will be asked to adopt it. Officials pointed out several pos- sible courses. ‘The subsidy system could be partial- ly dropped and the government could operate the routes not let to private companies. The old system could be completely scrapped and mail carried on a system of weight charges. NORTHWEST CHIEFTAIN EXPRESSES RESENTMENT St. Paul, Feb. 12—(AP)—Shreve Archer, president of the Northwest Airways, one of the lines affected by President Roosevelt's order last week canceling airmail contracts, expressed Tesentment at the order here Mon- day, but said the line may continue operations on a skeleton basis, He previously had been quoted as saying holdings of the company would ve liquidated if the cancellation order ‘were carried out. Defending his company against the general charges of fraud and collusion on which the cancellation was based, Archer said that Walter F. Brown, former postmaster general, simply “directed the airlines as to what they shoul do.” there were apparent irregularities, ne asserted, they frequently operated against the He Prarng for having the army ins for start flying the air mail by negt Mon- reported Mon: day were unofficially - day to divide the country into three Soars, SED A AY Seer on Plan would place of Langley Field, 5 of the eastern sec- tor, with neadquarters at the Newark, New Jersey, airport, and with plane service quarters at Mitchell Field, The reported Major B. O. Jones vi charge the family of Edward Bremer, St. Paul banker, when he finally home after being released by kidnapers who collected $200,000 ransom. Pictured at the top is Bremer as he told his father, Adolph Bremer, of his experiences. Below are his wife and daughter, happy now that the strain of “Daddy's” long absence from home is ROOSEVELT DESIRES {PIONEER OF WFLEAN ~TOCCONTINUE PROBE? COUNTY DIES SUNDAY Fletcher to Seek Extension of| Lars August Carison Had Re- Life for Group Making sided Near Wilton for Stock Mart Inquiry Over 50 Years Lars August Carlson, 78, died at his home, eight miles west of Wilton at 10:45 a. m. Sunday, after an illness of four days. He was born at Orebro, Sweden, Oct. 12, 1855, and came to the United States on May 14, 1882, He lived at Bismarck for nine months and then Ww . Feb. 12.—()—Presi- dent Roosevelt wants the stock market. investigation “kept active and alive,” Senator Fletcher of Florida said Mon- day. The senator, who is chairman of the committee which has been turning the senatorial searchlight on New York stock exchange practices, quot- ed the president as being desirous of continuing the Feb, 12.—(7)—Admin- | ing. senator feels, would be to have a sen- ate committee ready, even though were in adjournment, to jump, development. S6-HOUR WEEK IS HELD REAL AIM OF - NATIONAL LEADERS Persons Close to NRA Say Sup- port of 32-Hour Idea Is Merely a Decoy MARCH WILL SEE ACTION *| Subject to Come Up for Discus- sion When Code Author- ities Assemble Washington, Feb. 12.—()—The NRA’s ambition, so far as its “cut-the- hours” drive is concerned, is believed to be a 36-hour rather than a 32-hour week. General Hugh 8. Johnson’s repeat- ed urging of the shorter work week was explained by persons close to NRA Monday as sort of a decoy. A delib- erate overshooting of the administra- tion mark is believed designed, in part, to give the administration a margin with which to work for s compromise at the 36-hour figure. The official word on the subject probably will not be heard until March 5. The code authorities meet here on that date in the first assembly of industrial government to consider re- vision and improvement of the NRA program. The 36-hour week, it is understood, would be accompanied by a 10 per cent increase in minimum pay. Em- ployees now working 40 hours at 40 cents an hour would receive 44 cents for 36 hours or approximately the same total wage, with more men on the payroll. ‘The NRA took steps Monday to meet, @ growing enforcement problem for local enterprises. It dispatched to the governors of all states a “model” state industrial recovery act, which would ner code violations a breach of state ws. President Roosevelt will open the big code authority mass meeting March 5 with a speech summarising the first year of his administration. M'CRACKEN PUT ON TRIAL BY SENATE; JUDGE ISSUES WRIT Paid $100 for Contempt of Court When He Asked Judge's Help Too Soon Washington, Feb. 12.—(7)—Willlam P. McCracken confronted the senate on trial for contempt Monday after- noon, while a justice of the District of Columbia supreme court granted a second writ of habeas corpus for free- dom of the accused former assistant secretary of commerce. Tt was slow going in the senate pro- cedure, routine reading of lengthy documents delaying the examination. > | i i g 3 5 B f THE BISMARC BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1984 Many Killed in Austrian Riot Lindbergh Scores Annulment of Contracts MILLION ON STRIKE AGAINST DICTATOR IN FRENGH CRISIS Federation of Labor Sponsors Protest Movement to Warn Government SOLDIERS CALLED TO HELP Take Over Gas, Water, Electric- ity and Communications Services in Paris — Paris, Feb. 12—(7)—An army of one million workers struck Monday against Fascist methods in France. Amid reports that Premier Dou- Mergue would ask dictatorial powers, the French federation of labor called Sunday midnight a 24-hour general strike of protest against any resort to Fascist control. A. shutdown of virtually every in- dustry was sought by the federation, = ‘by Socialists and Commun- ‘The walkout is a protest against at- tacks on parliament by what the strik- ers term “Fascist forces and partisans of fallen regimes” who, it is asserted, are ready to pursue their aim to “sul stitute a dictatorship for a democracy. Nearly 500 were arrested for ob- structing traffic and for violent pick- eting and some window breaking. Most of them, however, will be released from jail Monday night, police said. The government rushed in soldiers ‘and sailors from the technical corps ‘to take over Paris public service plants to assure gas, water and electricity and to help maintain at least a skel- eton telephone nad telegraph service. Interrupt Communications A dispatch from London Monday morning stated that wire communica- testing “that the was tive in that part of its plan. Com: munication between New York and Paris was broken at about the same time, preventing a full account im- mediately of the situation there. Other military forces were held in readiness throughout the nation to police and soldiers were on duty in’ Paris, where 100,000 laborers were affected. Out- ‘breaks were feared in meetings of So- cialists and Communists. The movement is intended as a sol- to the new government cities Sunday. Albert Sarraut, minister of the in- instructed the police to try good natured persuasion before re- to their clubs but, nevertheless, a small army of mobile guards soldiers in reserve and detach- around railroad sta- train service operated edule. ‘His ministry reported that the Cit- roen automobile factory was working - F EE : Fes 4 id r-) a a £ i ie Ht aiff if Ee i is Blond Wins Mardi Gras Crown | A blond who scoffs ut precedents—Miss Laura Fenner, above petite, blue-eyed, golden-haired sportswoman—will reign as queen of New Orleans’ 1934 Mardi Gras, hitherto has gone to one of The city’s highest social honor @ season's debutantes, but Miss Fenner made her bow last year. Her father is a New Orleans Qnancier, NOTED DESPERADOES CAPTURED IN RAID AT-BALTIMORE, WD. Are Alleged to Be Members of| Touhy Gang and Aides in Factor Kidnaping Baltimore, Feb. 12.—(?)—Finger- prints on a beer bottle reached out, ‘Monday to snatch two long-hunted men to prison. ‘The prints, police said, are those of Basil Banghart—“The Owl” —and Isaac Costner, arrested here Sunday and wanted for kidnaping and high- way re Banghart is regarded as one of America’s cleverest criminals; a Caro- lina mountaneer with a trail of ar- .|rests and indictments stretching from the Carolinas to Chicago. He is wanted in Chicago as a member of the notorious Touhy gang in connec- tion with the kidnaping of John (Jake the Barber) Factor. The beer bottle fingerprints, how- ever, reached for him Monday not, from Chicago but from Charlotte, N. C., where on last Nov. 15 a mail truck was robbed of $105,000. At an apartment in Charlotte where the ‘mail robbers lived a bottle was found. On it were the’ fingerprints of Bang- hart and Costner, and of two other men, Charles (Ice) Connors and Lud- wig (Dutch) Schmidt. Auto Plates Were Clue , Costner and two women After Banghart caped arrest while trying to trade an automobile several weeks ago, detec- tives learned that a set of license BISMARCK SELECTED AS SITE FOR STATE BASKETBALL CLASSIC March 16 and 17 Chosen as Dates; Class B Tournament Goes to Valley City Fargo, N. D., Feb. 12—()—Valley ‘City will be host to the class B state high school basketball tournament again this year, it was decided by the board of control of the state high school league at a meeting here Sat- urday night and Sunday. Jamestown and Valley City were the only two cities extending an in- vitation for the affair. Bismarck was awarded the state class A event. The class A tourna- ment will be March 16 and 17 with the class B event the following week, March 23 and 24. Three teams elected to challenge class A teams in the district tourna- ments this year, the board announc- led. Wahpeton high school will meet Fargo in a district event for the right to enter the class A state meet. St. Mary's parochial school at Pismarck has chalienged Bisnaick in it dis- trict and Dickinson challenges Man- dan’s claim for the right to compete ‘with class A schools. Officials also were named for both the class A and B events. F. BE. ‘Wyttenbach and Cy Holgate, both of Aberdeen, will officiate at the Bis- marek tournament, and Dick Holzer, Moorhead, and J. R. Nichols, Minne- apolis, were selected for the class B event. ‘The board in its discussion on track, decided to hold a state meet at Grand Forks this year with C. A. West, ath- jletic director at the University of North Dakota, as manager for the |® board. Winners of certain places in various preliminary meets will be al- lowed to take part in the state meet. Trophies for the two basketball signa tournaments also were purchased by {the board at the session here. Board members attending the ses- sion were President B. C. B. Tighe, Fargo; M. B. Zimmerman, Grafton, vice president; L. A. White, Mandan, secretary-treasurer; Leo Dominick, ‘Wahpeton, and C. L. Roberts, James- town, directors. DrawChecks SOCIALISTS CLASH WITH GOVERNMENT IN MANY CENTERS Linz Is Scene of Bloody Battle in Which Artillery Is Called Into Use {MANY REPORTED WOUNDED Official Communique Asserts Dolfuss Forces Retain ‘| Control of Nation Vienna, Feb. 12.—(#)—The political powder house of Austria blew up Mon- day with a Socialist general strike and government reprisals which cost up- wards of 50 lives as bloody fighting raged in Vienna, Lins, Graz and fin- ally spread to the munitions centers of Steyr, Bruckandermur and Eggen- berg. At least 10 were killed in street fighting in Vienna. From 31 to to various unofficial estimates—lost their lives ugly pons mounted for stayed on duty with orders to keep the peace at all costs. Martial Law Declared Martial law, denying every citisen the right, under penalty of death, to possess a gun, ruled in Vienna Lins. Even the famous Vienna, with their were surmounted with guns of government these precautions, street claimed 10 lives before Tt was a dusk of terror. tions of the city were lights. Candles were houses. Although other public disrupted the water untouched—for the ‘The street car service was A large number of persons were re- Ported wounded and it 60 of these at least might their injuries. The deaths in Linz came pitched battles. In the first, E & & i 2% iel iit EF Eg ti i! i Hil reported killed. Field artillery late Monday began shelling a public school building in Linz in which Socialists had barricad- ed themselves, said an official com- munique. “But in general,” the statement added, “order has been restored in the Ling district. Troops Are Mobilized The government mobilized every available military force to suppress |the uprising. ‘The authorities captured the So- cialist building at Linz after a me- chine gun company had raided a hai! jof bullets through the windows. The embattled Socialists fought with hand grenades and rifles. The fighting began when police ap- “Continued on Page 7) District Home Loans Average Five Daily An average of five loans a day is home