The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 19, 1934, Page 1

North Dakota’s pee Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1984 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE : The Weather Increas!: Rcatae tie and warmer night; lay cloudy and colder. PRICE FIVE CENTS Burleigh Wheat Checks Arrive -Belgium Mourns Albert I, Her Hero King Battles Develop at ~ MONARGH IS KILLED BY ACCIDENTAL FALL TO FOOT OF CLIFF Gained Fame During World War When He Stood Off Inva- sion by Germany PLAN FUNERAL THURSDAY Prince Leopold to Be Crowned Ruler After Taking Oath of Allegiance Brussels, Feb. 19.—(AP)—Belgium mourned Monday her hero-king and prepared for the coronation of his Sorrowing son. Albert I, king of the Belgians and + the commander-in-chief of their army, when, ragged, ill-fed and suffering, it stood off the forces of Kaiser Wil- helm during the World War, was kill- , ed late Saturday in a fall while mountain climbing. It was his favorite sport and he was an expert, but a bit of frost-bit- ten rock broke in his hand and he plunged 36 feet to death. They found him where he had fallen, 10 hours later. Death must Belgium Created by Revolution in 1830 (By the Associated Press) Only three kings have ruled Bel- gium since she won her independ- ence 103 years ago. Leopold III will be the fourth. In 1830 the Belgians revolted against the king of the Nether- Jands, under whose rule they had been placed earlier in the century. The revolt was a success and the powers, conferring in London in 1831, decided that Belgium should be a neutral, independent state. Leopold I, then a German prince of Saxe-Coburg, was made king. He died in 1865 and his son became Leopold II and reigned for 43 years. Leopold II had no son, so on his death in 1909, the throne passed to his nephew, Albert I, who became the “hero king” during the dark days of Belgium's martyrdom. * have been instantaneous. At all events the 58-year-old king did not suffer. ‘His skull was fractured. ‘With all the pomp of royal cere- mony the state funeral of Albert I will be held Thursday. Within 2¢ hours of the obsequies, Crown Prince Leopold will become, at the age of 32, the fourth king of the Belgians— Leopold III. A Communist declaration, calling on workers to refuse to : Leopold IIT, as king and inviting them to rise up against the government, left other political factions, even op- Prince Leopold and the princess were vacationing at Adelboden, Swit- * gerland, when word of the king’s death reached them. The prince, tired ci ceca [Loved Monarch Dies | Rentini bch KING ALBERT King Albert of Belgium, a monarch loved by his people and one of the heroic figures of the world war, was killed Saturday in a fall while moun- tain climbing. 10 WATCH EFFECT ed by Johnson in Set Up to Aid ‘Little Man’ Washington, Feb. 19.—(#)—A board to observe the effect of NRA codes upon small enterprises, nominated by Senator Nye (Rep. N. D.) and includ- ing in its membership Samuel Seabury, noted New York investigator, and Clarence Darrow, the Chicago lawyer, ‘was created Monday by Hugh 8. John- son. To be known officially as NRA's “re- view advisory board” it meets Mon- jaay, February 26, to organize in time for participation in the ensuing pub- lic hearings and. code authority meet- ings on reorganization of NRA code policy. Besides Seabury and Darrow the board is to include: Samuel C. Henry of Chicago and Washington, former operator of Phila- delphia drug stores and until last year publisher of a retail druggists journal; Fred P. Mann, Sr., of Devils Lake, N. D., former owner of the largest retail store in that state and former direc- tor of the chamber of commerce of the United States; W. W. Neal, Marion, N. C., hosiery mill operator, @ pioneer in the southern hosiery business, who served 10 terms in the North Carolina state legislature; John F. Sinclair, New York attorney, former banker and authority on financial and economic Bailey. (Dem. N. C.) and the rest by Nye. Johnson's invitations to these men to join the review board were second- by a day of skiling, was sound asleep | Tecovery when there came a pounding at the door, urgently summoning him to the telephone. Hurry Back to Brussels He went at once to the quarters of his consort and broke to her the news. They started for Brussels iately, arriving here early Monday. ‘The crown and princess, the former Astrid of Sweden, 28 years old, hurried to the royal castle urban Laeken. guarded, grilled fence, while @ throng milled soberly about outside. ‘The first important ceremony dur- (Continued on Page Two) Small Fry Netted In Oklahoma Raid Okla, Feb. 19.—(P)— history Fel the gory NYE NAMES BOARD = OF NRA ACTIVITES Senator's Nominations Accept-| Precinct Meetings INSIDER’ TELLS OF FACTOR ABDUCTION IN CHICAGO COURT Former Member of Touhy Gang Accuses Three Men in Kidnaping Plot 1933, the month) before Factor was , and cast his fortunes with ceived during a rabbit hunt near liam Moser family whose two chil- dren were burned to death in the Moser home February 1. E. D. Willett, Stutsman county coroner, had not determined Monday whether an inquest would be held. Langer’s Payrollers Turn Out in Force to Express ‘Will of the People’ MANY FIGHTS WERE CLOSE Prize Affair Was That at Cook's Garage Where M'Don- alds Led fight Langer’s “payrollers” controlled Most Nonpartisan precinct meetings in Bismarck Saturday and elected delegates to the county convention to be held in the court house in Bis- imarck Feb. 27. Anti-Langer forces elected rival delegates in most pre- cinects and will either hold a county meeting of their own or make a fight to seat their delegates on the ground that several of the Langer delegates have never before been known as Non- partisans or that the precinct meet- ings were rigged with non-residents. Employes in every Langer-controll- led office were given printed or mi- Mmeographed slips with the names of the delegates they were told to vote for printed on them. Some depart- ment heads were polite in telling em- |“ ployes to go to the precinct meetings, but most of them bluntly ordered them to do their stuff—or else. Only the janitors held the fort at the state capitol building as most of the em- Ployes went off to the political wars. Same 8 Elsewhere itery ‘Ward county reported that friends lof the Langer administration claim they elected all but one delegate at the precinct meetings. State Sena- tor G. A. Jones, aligned with the anti- Langer faction, was among the del- [ae oe Seen | Raps Stock Sale Act ’ —_—____—____— RICHARD V. WHITNEY ‘Washington, Feb. 19.—(#)—Richard 'V. Whitney will tell congress on Thursday his objection to pending bills for federal regulation of stock exchanges. Chairman Rayburn of the house interstate commerce committee made the announcement following a tele- Phone conversation with the presi- dent of the New York stock exchange in New York. - Although Whitney arranged to tes- tity before the house committee ‘Thursday, he will be called to the senate committee stand also for pres- entation of the evidence which is to wind up the current Wall Street in- juiry. “Mr. Whitney said he would like to appear before the committee,” Ray- burn said. “I told him we would be glad to receive any information he or &@ representative of his might give the ‘committee. He said he preferred to appear personally.” Hearings are to be resumed by his committee, Tuesday. HOOVERITE ASSERTS egates selected at the precinct meet- ings. P. G. Miller, chairman of the Ram- sey county Nonpartisan League exe- cutive committee, said wide support for Gov. Langer was manifested at the Precinct meetings. Miller said that while complete returns from the Precinct meetings are not available, he believed there was little question that the Langer forces will be in con- trol at the county convention. In Grand Forks, Langer - forces claimed a complete sweep of the coun- ty precinct meetings. Two commit- tees, each claiming to be the Nonpar- tisan League executive committee, have functioned in that county, but the anti-Langer group announced they would hold a separate county convention Feb. 27 and elect delegates to the Jamestown convention. C. C. Snyder, Fargo, claimed for the administration all but eight precincts in the city of Fargo, Cass county. Quieter In Country Reports from country precincts in- dicate that in some of them the an- ti-Langer forces refused to take any Part in the meetings and stayed away. which was run by Joe Gulderman, em- Ploye of the Game and Fish depart- ment, Clifford Cleveland, son of H. B. Cleveland, er; and Mr. and Mrs. Emory White- @ highwi Roth are employes of the anti-Langer (Continued on Page Two) Four Men Killed in Minnesota Accident on the payroll of the Lead- | 4 LAW WAS OBSERVED IN AIRMAIL BIDDING Tells Senators No Evidence of Wrongdoing Was Sug- gested by Anyone Washington, Feb. 19.—(#—Walter F. Brown, postmaster general in the Hoover administration told senate in- vestigators Monday that in awarding domestic air mail contracts “every re- quirement of law was observed and no evidence whatever of collusion be- tween the bidders thereon or the hold- ers of any other air mail contract ap- peared or was ever suggested by any one.” ‘Appearing before the senate airmail investigating committee after charges that collusion and conspiracy had en-| gin) tered into the awards, Brown testified that only three out of 34 domestic tfice. Just prior to his voluntary appear- ance, the former postmaster general issued a statement denying any wrong loing in awarding contracts and say- ing it was “inconceivable” that Presi- dent Roosevelt with all the facts be- fore him would “sanction such a colos- ‘sal injustice” as the cancellation of all contracts. Brown's appearance split interest Monday with a disclosure that the senate investigating committee has been checking up on Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's income tax returns. Ap- parently it has discovered nothing amiss. The flying colonel, America’s No. 1 project In Tuttle seven attended the meeting conieaces were let during his term of PLANS 10 ABANDON PRICE - FIXING IDEA FORMULATED BY NRA Aim Is to Prevent Sales Below Cost and At Same Time Halt Profiteering WOULD GET ‘AVERAGE’ DATA Code Authority Would Continue Control of Industry Under New System (Copyright, 1934, by the Associated Press) ‘Washington, Feb. 19.—(#)—The NRA has created a new price formula, ex- pected to lead to eventual abandon- ment of absolute price-fixing. The new scheme, as set forth in an official memorandum not yet re- ard price provision for codes. It would Permit an industry to determine “reasonable” costs in an “emergency” where destructive price cutting might endanger the maintenance of a code. The new price formula was describ- ed as based on the idea of selecting the cost of plants of average efficiency ‘as standard “reasonable cost” for an industry. The new standard provision is as follows: “When the code authority deter- mines that an emergency exists in this industry and that the cause thereof is destructive price cutting such as to render ineffective or to seriously en- of this code, the code authority may cause to be determined the lowest rea- sonable cost of the product of this in- |dustry, such determination to be sub- Ject to such notice and a hearing as the administrator may require. “The administrator may approve, disapprove or modify the determina- tion. “When it appears that conditions |have changed, the code authority, up- on its own initiative or upon the re- ;quest of any interested party, shall , cause the determination to be review- Urges Ratification Of St. Lawrence Pact Washington, Feb. 19.—()—Senator Nye (Rep. N. D.) said Monday he had received a letter from John A. Simpson, president of the Farmers Union, “demanding” senate ratifica- tion of the St. Lawrence waterway treaty. “I am glad to reaffirm the long- established position of the Farmers Union in support of this project,” ipson wrote Nye, “I may add that since the seaway has culminated in a treaty pending before the senate, the Farm-' ers Union now joins with all other organizations in & unanimous de- mand that senators of both parties ze and redeem the plighted faith of their political organizations) in their 1932 platforms. “Both parties went before the peo- ple with a solemn pledge to. ratify the pending treaty. Nothing less can be expected of representatives of either party who hope to enjoy any public faith in such pledges.” Nye said hee Farmers Union en- “into the struggle against the pork- barrel-power-trust combine in the senate which is seeking to block rati- fication.” .|State PWA Advisory Boards Are Retired Washington, Feb. 19.—()}—Out of funds, the public works administra- tion has terminated the services of St. Paul, Feb. 19.—(4)—Federal pub- lc works officials from the fourth region comprising six northwest ‘states, were here Monday for a con- ference with Colonel H. M. Waite, PWA deputy administrator. Public works projects, authorized, underway and pending in the district, were to be revived at the meeting, at- tended by state advisory boards and state PWA engineers from Minnesota, Towa. Nebraska, Wyoming, North Da- | kota and South Dakota. BEATS STRANGE DISEASE leased to the public, proposes a stand- |! danger the maintenance of provisions || if To Defend Actions WALTER F. BROWN Testimony regarding the letting of airmail contracts will be offered to a senate committee by Walter F. Brown, postmaster general under Hoover. ‘Brown, appearing at his own request, is expected to defend charges of col- jusion and fraud recently levelled at TOUHY GANGSTER IS “WITNESS FOR STATE “IN-CHIGAGO TRIAL | Costner Points to Three Defend- ants as Participants in Abduction Chicago, Feb. 19.—(?)—Isaac Cost- ner told a jury Monday that he helped Kidnap John Factor for $70,000 ran- som—and pointed out Roger Touhy and two other gangsters on trial as members of the kidnap band. Costner, a little man who came to Chicago from Tennessee to be a gang- ster, testified in a soft drawl that he and a dozen other Touhy followers kidnaped Factor last July 1 and held him for 12 days. Talking with apparent frankness, | Costner declared Touhy planned and ‘directed the abduction and that the {other defendants, Albert Kator and | Gustav Shaefer, took leading roles in |the crime. | His own part, Costner said, consist- ed of carrying a shotgun at the time of the kidnaping and of guarding Fac- tor thereafter. Heaping one damaging statement upon another, Costner testified that Touhy, Kator and Shaefer, along with the late Willie Sharkey and others, performed the actual kidnaping, seiz- ing Factor as he left a roadhouse ear- ly on July 1. Costner confessed to playing a prin- cipal part: admitting he drove the car which Factor was carried off, drove Factor from the first prison to the second, after the first day, and stood guard over him for 11 days more. He told how Factor wrote a long letter to his wife, urging her to hurry with the ransom, and identified the letter when it was handed him. Boston Girl Slain In China-Town Area Boston, Feb. 19.—(?}—The body of Victoria David. 14, blood-covered and spparently murdered, was found Mon- day morning in a parking space in the south end, near Boston’s China-town. The girl, who had not been seen since 9 o'clock Sunday morning, was reported missing by her family at 11 o'clock Sunday night and the police were asked to search for her. ‘The girl apparently had been dead several hours, the police said. They expressed the opinion she had been beaten to death. ‘The mystery closely followed the un- solved and apparently motionless slaying of another girl in a south-end bakeshop which occurred while bakers and other employes were at work in another section of the bakery plant. Former Resident of Valley City Is Dead Minneapolis, Feb. 10.—(7)—Frank J. Marquart, 73, a Minneapolis resi- dent 27 years, died Saturday evening at his home. Born in Ohio, Mr. Mar- quart later moved to Valley City, N. D., before coming to Minneapolis. He was engaged in the real estate business at the time of his death. He leaves his widow, a son and one daughter. Funeral services will be conducted 9:30 a. m. Tuesday at the home and at 10 a. m, at the Ascension church. Interment will be in 8t. Mary's cemetery. $113,000 WILL BE DISTRIBUTED HERE WITHIN FEW DAYS 2,000 Warrants, Received Mon- day, to Be Given Out From Local Headquarters MUST AWAIT NOTIFICATION Farmers Also Asked Not to Fold’ Warrants Because It Clogs Machinery Burleigh county's wheat allotment checks were received here Monday and will be in the hands of farmers who signed allotment contracts within the next few days. County Agent H. O. Putnam said 2,000 checks calling for payment of $113,000 were received and were feing distributed to headquarters of districts in the northern part of the county Monday. Farmers will get them from their local headquarters. All who sign- ed the allotment contracts are asked to wait for formal notification, which will be received by mail, before call- ing for their checks at their district office. Distribution in the southern part of vied county probably will begin Tues- lay. Persons receiving checks are asked not to fold them, since to do so will interfere with the method of handling them by machinery which has been mri ee by the government, Putnam said. Amend Proposed Law For Sale of Liquor Fargo, N. D., Feb. 19.—()—A change in the proposed law permitting the sale of intoxicating liquor in North Dakota has been announced by the sponsors, under which the state schoo! equalization fund would share in the Proceeds. The cities and counties in which taxes are collected still would receive 30 per cent each, and the unexpended balance, over cost of operation, would go to the school equalization fund to be distributed as provided in the lew passed by the last session of the legis- lature creating such fund. Half of the school fund would go to the districts on the basis of school enumeration, and the balance would be distributed on the basis of need by local districts. ‘Busted’ Cities to Get Government Aid Washington, Feb. 19.—(?)—Presi- dent Roosevelt wants congress to do a good turn for cities “gone bust.” Specifically, he has made known to congressional leaders that he would like to see the Wilcox municipal bank- Tuptcy bill passed this session. The bill involves lightening that big bundle of debts under which the little Mr. Taxpayer of the cartoons bends his puny back. The bill would provide a forum where distressed cities (as well as counties and minor political subdiv- isions) could get together with credi- tors in federal court and effect an “adjustment of their indebtedness.” Last spring the house passed this bill. The senate judiciary committee has it now. Illinois Arsenal Is Destroyed by Flames Springfield, Il, Feb. 19—(}—The Mllinois state arsenal is a mass of ruins Monday, wrecked by a fire which set off thousands of rounds of ammuni- tion. Authorities said the entire structure would have to be rebuilt. The roof and floors crashed in and one wall fell. The loss was placed at $850,000. Machine gun and rifle ammunition exploded crazily, driving firemen away. High explosives, kept in a cement vault however, did not explode. Kansan and Two Sons Frozen in ‘Blizzard Hays, Kans., Feb. 19.—(#)—Adam A. Pfeifer, and two young sons, attempt- ing to reach shelter after their motor- car stalled in a blizzard, were found frozen to death near here Sounday. Tpe sone were Wer, 14. and Ces, Review Is Denied in Wheat Growers Case Washington, Feb. 19.—(AP)—The North Dakota Wheat Growers’ asso- ciation Monday was denied a review by the United States supreme court Coal Haulers Strike Chicago, Feb. 19.—(?)—With near- zero weather prevailing over the Chi- cago region, coal teamsters through- out the city walked out on strike Mon- As Chicago Freezes) senator 825000"