The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 13, 1934, Page 1

’ ki , ay ! # ibe " | B: THE BISMAR TRIBUNE “| ESTABLISHED 1873 - ARTILLERY SHELLS BLAST STRONGHOLD OF REBEL FORCES Women and Children Believed Killed in Battle Around Apartment House ENTIRE NATION IN ARMS Forces of Chancellor Dollfuss Struggle to Put Down Bloody Uprising Vienna, Feb. 13.—(#)—Women and children were fed to the flames of civil war Tuesday as government ar- tillery smashed the Karl Marx apart- ment building housing 2,008 Socialist families, i No one knows how many were kill- ed but unofficial estimates ran all the way from 500 to 2,000 and the fighting was continuing everywhere throughout the nation as night fell. The howitzers apparently smashed the third and fourth floors of the greatest apartment building in Eur- ope. The middle arch collapsed. The shelling of the $4,000,000 struc- ture was only one corner of the aspect of Austria Tuesday while the forces of Chancellor Engelbert Doll- fuss struggled through bloody streets to put down the rebellion of the So- clalist party. Apparently at least 200 have been killed. Battles raged at Steyr, Graz, and Linz as well as Vienna. At Steyr, sharp fighting broke out again early Tuesday morning when Socialists stationed machine guns on top a hill commanding the town. Hold Munitions Plant Other forces of Socialists were in) possession of the great war-time munitions plant. Government forces charged the plant repeatedly in a@ desperate attempt to take the posi- tion. The battle at the Karl Marx build- ing was as horrible as any of the veterans who fought had seen in the days of the World war. Machine guns blazed upon the win- dows of the homes of laborers at the soldiers who sought to enter. The government forces found ma- chine guns, hand grenades, and tear gas insufficient to batter down the stubborn resistance. So they unlim- bered howitzers. The big shells ripped into the con- crete structure. Cement dust rose in the air. Whole corners of the guilding disappeared. Following up the artillery attack, government forces swarmed into the courtyard. Socialists continued their firing from machine gun nests. Rifle fire also was directed against the attack- ers, Hand grenade fighting developed as the combatants came to close quar- ters. The dead were estimated at nearly 200 as fighting continued. Undfficial reports indicated far greater casual. ties. Tuesday's most savage conflicts flamed in Vienna. Army leaders claimed to have gain- ed control of the situation after vio- lent clashes at Linz, capital of up- per Austria, and at Graz, in south- eastern Styria province, but fighting continued at both points. jundreds Known Hi Dead Unconfirmed reports indicated the number of dead on both sides might run into the hundreds. The death toll in southeastern Styria province, where fighting cen- tered around Graz, was estimated as high as 59, At least as many were believed dead in upper Austria. Most of the casualties resulted from Monday's opening struggle at Socialist head- quarters in Linz. In Vienna, it was believed more may have been slain than in either Graz or Linz. Twenty-two soldiers ay policemen officially were report- Pre! 37 had been estimated slain in fighting at Eggenberg. Heavy fighting broke out again, after hours of comparative tion of - surrender|Rose Croix Will Give BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1934 A plea to President Roosevelt that Army Officer Denies Charges of Divorcee San Antonio, Tex., Feb.” 13.—(7)— Emphatically denying Blanche Ralls’ claim that he had attacked her, Lieut. John H. Murrel Tuesday had intro- duced in federal court records his version of what took place the night of the alleged offense against the 28- year-old red haired Birmingham, Ala., divorcee, Testimony by Dr. 8. H. Taylor sup- |Ported the former West Point foot- ball star’s assertion of innocence. Dr. Taylor testified he examined Miss Ralls the day after the alleged attack last October. and found no bruises on her body and “only a few superficial |Seratches on her hips.” He said he | found no evidence of an attack. |_ Lieut. Murrel, attached to the Ninth [Infantry at Fort Sam Houston, testi- fied after Miss Ralls: had told her story and the state had rested. Lieut. Murrel said Miss Ralls was takén into his car after she had been refused permission to ride in another automobile following a party Oct. 22. He testified he was unable to learn Miss Ralls’ address, s0 he drove her to Fort. Sam Houston with the inten- army post, he said, she and he helped her out of the car, which began to roll down an incline. As he ran to stop it, he said, she fell to the ground. Putting her back in the car, where, he said, she revived, Lieut. Murrel testified that she was able to tell him her address and he took her home. oe pe * Russians Happy at | Events in Europe | ———— | o Moscow, Feb. 13.—(#)—The cap- ital of Communism watched avidly events in Austria and France and, through the columns of the Communist party tries. Their activities, it was explain- ed here, a @ fight against the Fascism. for a “united front” of countries, the Degree Wednesday Bismarck-Mandan chapter of Rose Croix will present the 16th and 17th worked once before in Bismarck. Luncheon will be served after the de- gree work. he pardon Grover Cleveland Berg- | doll, notorious draft dodger living in exile in Germany, has been made by his family, shown here for the first time outside their German home. Pictured with Mrs, Bergdoll are her children, Grover, Jt., 7; Emma 6; and Bertha, 3. ———_—_____—_——@ " Bulow Holds Mark | if For Senate Silence | Washington, Feb. 13. — (®) — Taciturn Senator Bulow (Dem., 8. D.), made a speech Monday, but not before the senate and not about Abraham Lincoln. In fact, it was @ short speech, delivered before a luncheon of feminine Democrats. “What was it about,?” Bulow was asked. “About fifteen minutes,” he re- plied. “What cid you say?” “Well, nothing in particular,” he reflected. “I saw the audience ‘was made up of Democrats. I fig- ured if they were Democrats al- ready, I didn’t have to convert them. And if I said too much I might change their minds.” Bulow still holds the non-speak- ing record in the senate, having made no speeches during about three years of membersip. Brewing King Kills Himself in St. Louis| St. Louis, Feb. 13.—(#)—August A. Busch, Sr., 68, president of Anheuser- Busch, Inc., and head of the interna- tionally known family of brewers, shot and killed himself Tuesday at his home in St. Louis county. Busch had been seriously il! for jliday, Hell, Judson, Killdeer, Leith, jing. jor five room house. Consumers, he ELECTRG RATES IN BSMARCK DISTRICT REDUGHD BY BOARD Railroad Commission Approves Schedules Which Will Cut Costs $35,000 MANY COMMUNITIES BENEFIT All Cities and Towns Served by Local Power Company to Benefit From Slash Reduced commercial and residen- tial rates for the 35 towns on the lines of the North Dakota Power and Light company were approved by the state railroad commission Tuesday, and will effect an estimated saving to consumers of approximately $35,000 ® year. The company serves Mandan, Bis- marck, Dickinson, Beulah, Glen Ul- lin, Hazen, Hebron, New Salem, Mott, Almont, Belfield, Bentley, Burt, Car- son, Center, Dodge, Dunn Center, Elgin, Gladstone, Golden Valley, Hal- McKenzie, New Leipzig, Regent, Richardton, South Heart, Stanton, Sterling, Taylor, Werner and Zap. Savings to consumers are based on present consumption, Commissioner C. W. McDonnell said. The larger consumption expected to result from the lower rates, he said, will bring bout a proportionately larger sav- The commercial rate makes a re- dyction in practically all instances, McDonnell said. The residence rate, which is an optional rate, makes little or no reduction in the case of a four suggested, should be sure that the optional rate will result in a reduction |in their bill before asking to be billed under thai rate. Eliminates ‘Room Count’ The optional residence rate does away with the “room count” which often brought complaints to the com- mission by occupants of six or seven room houses who used a comparative- ly small amount of lighting service. The three members of the commis- sion, Fay Harding, president, Ben Lar- kin and McDonnell, said the rates have been the subject of several con- ferences between representatives of the power company and the commission, extending over a considerable period. The new commercial rate for Bis- marck, Dickinson and Mandan for ordinary lighting service in commer- cial places of business, exclusive of that classified as residential, is eight |: Hundreds Are Slain in Austrian Civil War Family Asks Pardon for Bergdoll + Foil Prison Break; Nine Men Are Dead TAKES FIRM STAND Plans to Show World Nation Can Care for Itself at Home and Abroad Paris, Feb. 13.—(?)—Fast and firm action to show the world that France is thoroughly able to take care of her- self at home and abroad was planned by the new cabinet, after mounted guards early Tuesday rode down riot- ers in several provincial cities. After a day of comparative tran- quility during the 24-hour general strike Monday in which laborers demonstrated against Fascism, disor- ders were quelled at Marseilles, Nantes, Toulon, Lille, Roubais and Muthouse. One was known dead and upwards of 150 wounded and injured as a re- sult of the strike and accompanying violence. Forty were arrested at Marseilles after a furious pistol bat- tle between police and @ local mob. A firm attitude toward Chancellor Hitler of Germany to see that Aus- tria is protected will be taken by the cabinet of Premier Gaston Doumer- gue, it was indicated. Likewise, the government let it be known it was not afraid to make trade reprisals against Great Britain, following the opening of # trade war with that country. 40 Hoodlums Arrested Forty were arrested at Marseilles after a furious pistol battle between Police and hoodlums. Police swarmed into the streets. Running gun fights ensued. One man was killed before the terrorists were routed and captured. Six of the rioters suffered gunshot ‘wounds. Fourteen were in- jured. Wrecked stands and embers of burned benches littered the streets Tuesday where the fighting raged. Knives, fists and bottles were used by rioters when police attempted to disperse Nantes mobs. Firemen joined in the affrays at Roubaix after. street gangs fired on private automobiles and stoned men who attempted to extinguish the fismes. Amid these disorders, duplicated in cents per kilowatt hour for the first 100 KWH per month; five cents for the next 300 KWH per month, and three cents in excess of that. The minimum bill is $1, with prompt pay- ment required and no discount. For residences the two optional rates for Bismarck, Dickinson and Mandan are: Lighting, general use of appliances, pees of electric cooking, all serv- 5 1 of appliances, ciuaing etre coking ‘all served Ts about six weeks, The shooting occur- red in his bedroom at the palatial Busch estate known as Grant Farm. On a night table beside Busch’s bed was found an unsigned note, written with pencil on a plain sheet of paper. It read: “Good-bye precious Mom- mie and adorable children.” He had been suffering from heart disease, gout and dropsy and on his last visit to the brewery here a week ago he expressed discouragement, de- claring he had little hope of relief. Lignite Operators Discuss Code Here The board of directors of the Lig- nite Coal Operators association of North and South Dakota met in Bis- marck Monday to discuss matters to be presented before the meeting of F the coal optrators code meeting to be held at Washington, D. C., Feb. 21. a s i g E y : g s : : # : i E : | i by 4 BE ii ji | 1 i i i i - A [ 2 & ; it i Hl = f & 5 4 5! : 4 8 3 i “s g fl j a ¥ esrlier outbreaks in Paris, five more persons, wounded in last week's anti- government rioting in Paris, died. ‘These fatalities brought the total dcad in that siege of terror to 31. A few minor disturbances were re- ported in other cities, but generally there was little trouble. ‘The strike was called by the French Federation of Labor in opposition to a “wave of Fascism.” State Electricians Meet Here Tuesday A number of applicants for state censes wrote examinations Tuesday Journe} aminations include 3S. A. Nelson, Wil- ton; Jack Kittock, Grand Forks; and i £23 Hi gE it i i : ge & 4 ly FRENCH GOVERNMENT Warden of Washington Institu- tion May Charge Survivors With Murder IN NATIONAL GRISTS|mvestication taunch eo Guards on Walls Shot Down Convicts as They Staged Dash for Freedom Walla Walla, Wash., Feb. 13.—War- den Amos M. McCauley sought the death penalty Tuesday for ringlead- ers in Monday's bloody prison break attempt, in which eight men were killed, seven of them convicts shot down from the walls. “Several of them had given trouble in the past,” he said. ‘While a rapid investigation was un- derway, he disclosed that he con- templated lodging first-degree mur- der charges, with the death penalty Tequested. Meanwhile, slight chances for their recovery were held out for two of the convicts, who were mowed down un- der a withering fusillade of bullets from the walls. Six prison employes, five of them turnkeys and one a guard, suffered from murderous knife wounds in- flicted by the conv.ctsi The dead: Wallace Turcott, 21; Paul Krouse, 22; Gerald Hill, 18; H. R. Clark, 22; James R. De Long, 25; Ernest De Boer, 28; H. Robert Parks, 29, and H. L. Briggs, assistant chief turnkey, who was stabbed to death. ‘Warden McCauley, who has been in office less than a year said: Alonzo Ware, 27, convict shot in the attempt to escape, died of his wounds Tuesday. No Advance Signs “There was no indication in ed- vance that the break was planned. “We have learned, however, that the men made their knives in the plate shop where the license plates are manufactured. They evidently buried them in the prison yard, dig- ging them up Sunday, which is ‘yard day.’ The planned prison break, which nded in mid-afternoon with the bul- ‘let-torn bodies lying about the prison and with turnkeys suffering knife wounds inside the cell blocks, began shortly after the lunch in the office of F. W. Jackson, iv. and Frank Butler, another prisoner, walked in and 4 F yy |in southwestern Iowa. —_—_—___________—_*4 \, Aerial Pessimist | Perish tenderer | Bismarck Forced Off Airline NORTHWEST SYSTEM NOT MENTIONED IN PROPOSED SET - UP Government Says Additional Lines to Be Established Soon, However Declaring that the “country’s air defenses are in a deplorable state,” Brig. Gen. William Mitch- ell placed the blame on profiteer- ing private interests when, as shown here, he testified before the House Military Affairs Com- mittee investigating profits made on army aircraft. CLAIM HIDEOUT OF BREMER KIDNAPERS IS FOUND IN IOWA Federal Investigator Says, How- ever, Bremer Will Not Inspect It at Once Des Moines, Feb. 13.—(#)—Until more definite information is obtained, Edward G. Bremer, St. Paul banker, will not be asked to come to Iowa to aid in a search for the hideout to which he was taken by kidnapers, Harold Nathan of the federal de- periment of investigation said Tues- sy. Nathan said a further check will be made of the suspected hideout near Creston, located by Park A. Findley of the Iowa bureau of criminal inves- tigation. The kidnap hideaway, according to Findley, is nine miles from Creston, If the in- formation proves accurate, it means that the kidnapers, when captured, may be prosecuted under severe fed- eral statutes. Bremer has said he can identify the place in which he was held despite the severe restrictions that were Placed upon him during his three- week captivity. He believes the wall- paper of the room in which he was held will enable him to make posi- tive identification. Information Checked The wealthy St. Paul bank presi- dent conferred secretly with federal agents ‘for three hours in St. Paul Monday and again Tuesday, pre- sumably looking over many photo- graphs in an effort to identify the ;|men who seized him January 17. Still limping from a leg injury suf- fered when he sought to prevent his abduction, Bremer made two trips to the St. Paul postoffice building, ac- companied by agents who carried bundles of pictures. An admission that Catholic priest helped to establish contact be- tween the family and the kidnapers was made Monday by Adolph Bremer, father of the banker. Efforts to identify the Rev. Father John Deere of Prior Lake, Minn. as the inter- mediary were unavailing. The Min- Meapolis Tribune, however, said the final contact which resulted in Brem- er’s release at Rochester, Minn, was England and France Open Trade Conflict (By The Associated Press) Britain and France Tuesday for a trade war of serious proportions. At midnight an extra duty of 20- per-cent was clamped on most French imports by Britain. The duty was in retaliation for French paring down of quotas in British imports to France. dust before the duties became ef- fective, Frence got in another blow denounci not be greatly affected. Sedan Is Damaged in made at Prior Lake through the Rev.| was Deere. Collision W: ith Truck TO ELIMINATE SUBSIDIES Present Plan Is to Pay Only on Volume of Mail Actually Transported Here Are New Plane Routes, Schedules Washington, Feb, 13, — _ When the army starta fying the mails February 19 it will operate over the following routes: Chicago-Jacksonville .. 8 130 Washington-Cleveland. 10 130 Planes, 200 offi 324 men. ania: Additional routes will be estab- ‘48 soon as possible oneting ere after the 15 ‘Washington, Feb. 13—()}—An air mail map temporarily sliced from 27,000 to 11,000 miles was spread Tuesday before army fliers who wil! Spread-eagle it Simul M’Cracken Is Prisoner Though legal actions whistled around its head, the senate quietly twirled Tuesday the hotel key that made William P. McCracken its pris- oner, The key fitted the room of a fash- jonable hostelry. In that room Mec- Cracken slept and breakfasted in comfort as the prisoner of the sen- ate’s sergeant-at-arms, Chesley Jur- ney. Jailer and jailee, Jurney and Me- Cracken occupied the suite in the Lines were drawn between Great|three