The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 21, 1934, Page 1

North Dakota’s (SE cic Ne Oldest Newspaper THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Weather ae ee | bagi fair Pot Pitre cad ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA,. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1934 PRICE ‘FIVE CENTS 25 Dead in Eastern Storm Kidnaping Attempt Is Foiled by Publisher JOWA MAN MAN ATTACKED. CWA Had 4100 Projects Under Way IN HOTEL HALLWAY BUT MAKES ESCAPE On Roads ad Public Buildings One Assailant Is Captured by Police When He Returns to Scene of Assault TELLTALE TRUNK IS FOUND Indications Are Victim Was to Have Been Spirited Away in Big Box Chicago, Feb. 21.—(7)—E. P. Adler, publisher of the Davenport, Ia., Times and head of the Lee syndicate of newspapers, was attacked by two men in a hotel corridor Wednesday in an apparent attempt at kidnaping. Slugged twice over the head and ear, Adler dodged the full effect of the blows and ran down the, corridor from his room, eluding his assailants. One of them was captured by police. In the room next to Adler's detec- tives found a large trunk in which air holes had been poked. They said it was apparent the two men intended to lock Adler in the trunk and have him carried out. ‘The publisher was here to attend a meeting of the Inland Daily Press: association and was staying in a cor- ner room on the fifth story of the Morrison hotel at Clark and Madison streets. - The two men had moved from an- other fifth floor room to that ad- joining Adler's. Attacked in Hallway At 7:30 a.m. Wednesday Adler stepped from his room, locked the door and suddenly the two men jumped from the next door and slugged him with blackjacks. So se- vere were the blows that several stitches had to be taken. Neverthe- less Adler broke away from the pair and summoned help. Returning to his room a few min- utes later, Adler and house detectives inspected the adjoining room and found the telltale trunk, apparently a large sample case about three feet high, five feet long and two feet wide, with plenty of air holes drilled. ‘There was a .38 calibre pistol in the room. Bags containing clothing, ad- hesive tape and sponges and a screw driver also were found, further indi- cations of an attempted kidnap. While the inspectors were going over the room Adler noticed a man walking along toward them. Suddenly Adler yelled, “Get that man!” The suspect, whom he recognized as one of the attackers, turned and raced away but was caught by House Detective Michael Colligan. He was ten to the first district police sta- tion. The suspect told the police he and his companion had driven here from New York in a coupe. The trunk bore the initials “B. M. K., Pittsburgh.” NRA Awaits Response To Johnson Request Washington, Feb. 21—(#)—The NRA awaited bales of mail Wednesday as & response to General Hugh 8. John- son’s call for all citizens to speak up about the recovery ‘The NRA also rushed preparations for a public hearing Feb. 27 at which citizens will be encouraged to offer criticism. Then will follow another conference March 5 at which repre- sentatives of 500 industries will gather to voice their ideas about NRA. The whole idea, Johnson told a na- lionwide audience Tuesday night, is fp Bs out abuses wherever they tee rather than conjecture — any earnest complainant—any man with a constructive speak at this crit said. But he lashed at “professional crit- icism” which he said has often “de- generated into scurrilous and personal | late appraisements” of officials. He acknowledged that in some codes “there are many discrepancies, mis- takes and outright blunders to be cor- rected.” He contended, however, that the “important thing is that 3,000,000 people have been put to work, that $3,000,000,000 has been added to their purchasing power.” Former Grand Forks Man Dies in Fargo rks, iN a Feb. 21.— | have rand Fo: (abe willare Cc. * nae Doren, a. for many years a business in in Grand Fork died Teseney it in Fargo, friends Prominent in civic and lodge ac- tivities, Van Doren was manager of the investment department of the Northern States Power company. He was a past exalted ruler of the Elks lodge. In the Masonic order he was s member of Kem temple command- » Royal Arch Masons and Acacia ie y 3 and is, Van Doren moved to Pern recently, epee fanarel Shere, eerie im Grand Forks. ILLINOIS bom early Wednesday ® railroad Mine 47, at Harco, scene eee ene EMPLOYING 35 Editor’s Note: ‘This is the second of a series of articles on the work of the CWA and other federal relief agenices active in North Dakota. The third will appear in an early issue of ‘The Tribune. ® Forty-one hundred projects, em- Ploying 35,077 persons as of Jan. 18, were under constrction at the peek of CWA effort in this state, according to. figures given out by Harris Robinson, chief engineer of the CWA. The pay- Toll for that week was $517,208 which improvements to school buildings, city halls, jails and other public buildings, | graveling of some federal and state} Toads, construction of small dams, and other improvements designed to g'v: employment to men who would other- wise be on the relief rolls. The men are furnished by county re-employ- ment bureaus where possible. The engineering Copavteect; of which Robinson is in charge with Reuben Stee as his protierier has 45 employes, among whom are 10 field men, mostly engineers, who are su- pervising construction work. Several dams, most of which are| comparatively small and of dirt con- struction, are being built, the largest of these are at Bathgate, Walhalla, and .Hankinson. At Bathgate the Great Northern railway is cooperating with the department and the local au- 077 WORKERS thorities by furnishing rock for dam, which is being hauled free of Gia wat tae , Minn. This County Mast Approve Subdivisions desiring projects must first make an application to their material and the money necessary for the work is allocated to the | Job. The county, city or political sub- GRAND JURY PROBES LOBBYING CHARGES IN QUIET SESSION; Indictments Hinted as Results of Activities in Army Mo- ‘ tor Purchases Washington, Feb. 21.— (AP) — Pushing quietly ahead without the fanfare that has marked the airmail contract hearings, a grand jury is inquiring exhaustively into lobbying —if such there were—in connection with huge army contracts. One report circulated Wednesday was that at least five persons may be indicted before the grand jury ends its investigation. Underway for more than two weeks, grand Sarors fv have taken tes- timony from more than a score ef| Prominent men, including a majority of the mATINY ’s high command now on duty here. Officials have consistently refused to discuss it. Apparently, however, the inquiry has dug deepest into matters surrounding the army's $10,000,000 motorization pi Reports have never been officiall denied that a group of men, incl: ing at least one man inent with- in the American Legion, approached certain automobile manufacturers with a claim that war department specifications could be influenced and that a sum once mentioned as The a jury temporarily. baek to the Hoover ministration. Frederick H. Payne, former assistant secretary of war, was asked to testify Wednesday on jpeidents during his regime and ‘scene. of Tevent aroeess 15 nS Eaetinnal piles Weis share the ag ABDUCTION STORY IN CHICAGO COURT Case Against Touhy Gang Bol- stered by Confessions of Two Gangsters Chicago, Feb. 21.—()—John Factor, wealthy speculator, began the story of his $70,000 kidnaping heared before a new ‘rry re-trying Touhy gangste @ for the Abduction.” Factor exprersed satisfaction over the turn which developments in the last. two days had given the case, now bolstered by the confessions of two of the Touhy gang’s members. “Still, it always looked like a clear case to me,” he said. EXPECT PRESIDENT TO ACT ON OCEAN MAIL PACTS SOON Prospective New Polk New Policy Adds Interest to Brown’s Sen- ate Testimony THREE PROBES UNDER WAY Commerce Secretary Talks With Roosevelt; Promises ‘In- teresting Program’ ‘Washington, Feb. 21—(7)—A virtual certainty that President Roosevelt will take some action on ocean mail contracts added interest Wednesday to a senate committee's questioning of the man who made many of them. Walter F. Brown, quiet-spoken postmaster general of the Hoover ad- ministration, has a thing or two to say about these ocean Whether he would reach that point in his tes- timony before the mail committee Wednesday was problematical. President Roosevelt Wednesday sat on the receiving end of three separate investigations into the ocean mail question. He himself says he would like to change the present system, probably along direct subsidy lines. Secretary Roper promised an “in- teresting program” along this line. ‘The commerce department head went over the contracts one at a time with Roosevelt Tuesday, delivered a pre- orld report and indicated more to postottoe inspectors have been at similar work for months. The com- mittee headed by Chairman Black, which Brown is facing, probably will continue one of its own. Brown caused a ripple among late with. Black promptly informed him that none of his committee investi- gators had done such a thing. Meanwhile Congressional quarters decided Tuesday to go to the bottom of reported “profiteering” on army Plane contracts. MANDAN STATION 10 FOR CURRENT YEAR House Committee Favors Dry Land Experiments and Hopper Control Washington, Feb. 21—(#)—It ap- Peared Wednesday that congress would intercede to save 19 dry land experiment stations in western plains states despite failure of the director of the budget to include them in his expenditures for 1934-35. Representative Sinclair (Rep., N. D.), said the house appropriations committee, of which he is a member, opposition to the fund. For almost 25 years the sta- tions have been conducting experi- ments in raising crops suited to west- ern_arid regions, : The last congress appropriated $220,000 for the stations. $2,000,000 For Hoppers An appropriation of $2,000,000 for jopper contro] in eight middle- MONEY EXPANSION AGAIN THREATENED BY HOUSE ACTIONS Bonus Bill to Come Up for Vote Soon; Lemke Is Urging Frazier Bill DEMOCRAT CHIEFS PUZZLED Don't Know What to Do About Insurgent Efforts to Print More Currency Washington, Feb. 21.—()—A new! threat of currency expansion develop- ed Wednesday in the apparently bonus-bound house of representatives. In the wake of a vote-forcing peti- tion on the Patman $2.400,000,000, greenback-bonus bill, pressure was ap- Plied for a ballot on the Frazier farm Mortgage-currency expansion meas- ure. Democratic leaders saw no chance to do anything about it in the house. The expansionists are using the same method which assured consideration of the bonus measure on March 12— GET APPROPRIATION the petition. Representative Lemke (Rep. N. D.) early Wednesday had 96 of the 145 necessary signers to bring the Frazier bill to a vote, and said he was “quite confident the petition will go over.” But to make sure he, with Senator Thomas (Dem. Okla.) and Frazier (Rep. N. D.) and Representative Swank (Dem. Okla.) called a mass meeting for Wednesday to discuss the measure. At that meeting, Lemke asserted, he will present a petition from 65,000 Iowa farmers asking that the Frazier Dill be passed. FARMERS ARE ASKED TO OFFER LAND FOR GAME CONSERVATION State Body to Cooperate With Federal Government in Waterfowl Plans Outlining the types of land to be considere dfor migratory waterfowl considered or migratory waterfowl department Wednesday urged North Dakotans to submit to the state de- partment any proposed projects which they consider feasible for the program. In a letter from Thomas H. Beck, chairman of the president's commit- tee on wild life restoration, Thoralf Swenson,’ state game and fish com- missioner was asked to forward an ad- ditional number of projeets to be con- sidered by the committee. Swenson said Projects for- warded to his department will be sub- mitted to the federal committee to be added to the list of tentative projects already compiled by it. ‘Types of land to be considered for | ¥"' waterfowl conservation, as outlined by Swenson, are: Natural nesting marshes now made useless by ine and mowing, Marsh drained and under profitable ese Grazed or cyltivated lands on the shores of lakes or rivers used by breed- ing birds, Low-valued flat lands subject to damming for artificial lakes and adapted to nesting. Drained lakes and marshes which will require dam construction for restoration. Heavy alkaline lakes, subject to duck sickness, which must be fresh- ened or drained. River bank areas suitable for the creation of artificial lakes by dam- | Belgium’s Bereaved Royal Family _ Pictured above are the members of Belgium's royal family, bereaved by the death of King Albert I. At the top are Crown Prince Leopold and his wife, the former Princess Astrid of ‘Sweden. Leopold will be crowned king on Friday. Below are Queen Elizabeth and her daughter, the former Princess Maric Jose, now the wife of Crown Prince Humberto of Italy. BUROPE’S ROYALTY 10 ATTEND RITES FOR BELGIAN KING Great Assemblage of Titled Folk and National Rulers Not- ed at Brussels Brussels, Feb. 21.—(#)—A great as- |semblage of titled and elected leaders {of nations, close guarded against pos- sible attempts at violence, was gather- [ing bese Wednesday for the funeral of aking. Prince Humbert of Italy, said some, already had arrived secretly, among the first here for Thursday's cere- monies over the body of King Albert lof the Belgians. ‘The kings of Denmark. Bulgaria and far-distant Siam were expected mom- entarily; so, too, was President Lebrun of neighboring France. The Prince of Wales, representing George V of Great Britain, is to fly here from England, according to pres- ent information, with a squadron of bombing planes as his escort. The exact time and place of arrival of the titled mourners and other dig-| - nitaries were not divulged. Extra precautionary measures taken by the police are ascribed to general unrest throughout Europe. Rumor said Thursday that a demonstration by radicals who favor establishment of a Republic may be attempted Friday at the time Prince Leopold is made King Leopold III. Such a demonstra- tion was whispered as planned for last Monday, but did not materialize. Problems of Farmer Discussed at Meeting Fargo, N. D., Feb. 21.—(AP)— Flax, grasshoppers and what to do with land removed from production under the agricultural adjustment administration concerned members of the Northwest Farm Managers association Tuesday on the first day of their three-day winter meeting here. Wednesday the group turned to livestock problems. Some of the topics scheduled were “Livestock Production as Affected by AAA,” by William Gray of Amenia; “Gen- eral Effects of the Reduction Pro- gram,” by Kenneth McGregor of Page; “Horse Production and Its Opportunities,” by J. W. McNary of St. Paul, and “Sheep Production and Its Opportunities,” by D. F. Wanner of Pingree. | fp er Se Bits of News From + nesota; PUONEER BURLEIGH COUNTY WOMAN DIES Mrs. Mary Aylesworth Sperry) Had Lived in State Near- ly 50 Years Mrs. Mary: Aylesworth Sperry, 82,) widow of the late E. H. Sperry, and a resident of Burleigh county for nearly half a century, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. E. H. Sellens, north- west of Bismarck at 9 a. m. Wednes- day. She passed away on the home- stead where she and her husband set- tled in April, 1885. Mrs. Sperry was born July 14, 1852, at Warren, Pa. She married E. Sperry at Mayville, N. Y., Jan. 7,} 1874. Coming to North Dakota, she lived on the original homestead with her husband until 1917, when they retired and moved to Bismarck. Mr. Sperry died in November 1930. Mrs. Sperry was the last child of a family af seven. She leaves her daughter, Mrs. Mabel | Sellens, one son, Former State Sena- tor Lynn Sperry, and four grand- children, Mrs. Clara Borman, Min- Eugene Sperry, Bismarck; WORST BLIZZARD IN MANY YEARS BRINGS MISERY AND DEATH Many Towns Still Are Isolated as Transportation Sys- tems Are Tied Up GALES IMPERIL SHIPPING Mercury Plunges Downward Over Area Glazed by Coat ing of Ice and Snow (By The Associated Press) Cold that knifed to the marrow staggered the east Wednesday as it strove to shake off paralysis caused by the “worst blizzard since °88.” At least 25 persons lay dead, struck down by the storm. Many towns still were practically isolated, transportation systems crawied at a snail's pace in numerous Spots and whistling winds imperiled shipping. The mercury plunged to- ward zero, and the cold glazed the land with ice, hardening snowdrifts that impeded traffic. No immediate relief was in sight. The frigid wave extended as far south as Florida. New England, hardest hit by the slashing 60-mile gale, still was buried in many places under snowdrifts 6 to 12 feet deep. There were at least nine dead there, 10 in New York city, and six in Pennsylvania, New York city will spend $2,000,000 to dig out of the snow that marooned ay edt in their homes and fore ie stock exchange to nm an hour laté Tuesday. oi pose Highway traffic till is tied up in a knot in many places, but most traing were moving, although regular sched- ules were largely disregarded. Schools, courts and businesses were reopening hem Suspending because of the sl Le Sailors Stick to Ship Through the night 30 sailors stuck to the collier Northern Sword, which jammed ashore off Winthrop Head, near Boston. Coast guardsmen with breeches buoy stood ready to take them off if smashing seas started to break up the vessel. The storm gave three doomed slay- ers in Boston a few more hours of life. The executioner, Robert Elliott, was snowbound somewhere between New York and Boston, and so Her- man Snyder, John A. Donnelion and Harry C. Bull could not be electro- cuted at the appointed hour early ‘Wednesday. Here are some high spots of the storm's havoc: A Boston train due in New York at 6:35 a. m. Tuesday arrived at 5.45 P. m., the first to get An expectant mother, Mrs. E. D. Mellier of Westbury, Long Island, ——|Started for the hospital in a doctor's car. It got stuck. Then a tractor was hooked onto the car. Mrs. Mel- lier reached the hospital in time to , birth to twins. teen trains carrying 3,000 or 4,000 persons were snowbound in Connecticut and Rhode Island Tues- lay. National Guardsmen delivered newspapers to snow-imprisoned fami- ies in Danbury, Conn. School chil- dren of Augusta, Me., unable to get home to the suburbs, spent Tuesday night in town. It looked like a Har- vard-Yale day in New Haven, Conn., as stranded travelers clogged the Four Hurt in Wrecks ‘Two minor train wrecks in North Easton and Revere, Mass. injured four persons. The fishing vessel Hope Leslie was towed into Woods Hole, Mass., leaking after barely es- caring seas that tore away her rud- er. In Brooklyn, N. ¥., John Cook, am- \town. H,|ateur wireless fan, sent word to his boss through the ether that he couldn't jreport for work. The boss said “O. K.” A milk famine threatened on Long Island, where many communities were isolated. Farmers on snowshoes brought food to villages, Fire Island, off Long Island's south |shore, was completely cut off and no jone knew the condition of its 200 in- habitants. Spencer Smith, fireman of Wayne township, N. J., spent twe hours inside a cake of ice and sur- vived. Knocked down by a hose { scured his view. He had been drink-| west and western states also was in- | ming. | \| Frances Sperry, teacher in the train-|While firefighting, he was found two Baiph 7. O'Neil, former national /ing on duty, he sald, and couldn’t| cluded in the agricultural bil Nesting areas on which drainage'| Throughout World |/ing school at Mandan and Mildred|hours later coated thickly with tce. Commander of the American Legion. tet whether or not a light was burn-| ‘The sum was approximately $247.- |projects are now being promoted. (By The Associated Press) ||Sperry who lives with her parents| And— . t - di issod thee as is 1] | 8 in the Touhy home. 000 Jess than asked by the president} Nesting areas where food was abun- . ——— @ | northwest of Bismarck. Up in Ketchikan, Alaska, straw: Pain ees t Plans £0 call | ‘Walter A. (Buck) Henrichsen, one|in a recent message to dant, now lacking, but which will : She was a member of the Women’'s|berry Plants are budding and the iets ‘Leal GC” Carnetti, United |time beer wagon ctmauffeur and body-| ‘The money is designed for an eradi-|come back if water is restored. WOULD HALT ROMANCE Relief Corps of which she was vice /Povs are paddling in the old swimming fest by © so Carnetti, United | guard, testified Tuesday jped|cation program in North Dakota,| Watered areas where food isscarce| London—Scotland Yard was called! commander, and had ‘attended all |hole. f tes attorney, to secure a prelim: |Coitect the $10,000 ransom that bought |South Dakota, Minnesota, Wyoming, |but can be restored by planting. |into the search for Prince Sigvard of | | meetings until recently, being quite macy Siarement trom Nim. John Factor, international specula-| Wisconsin, Idaho, Montana and Ne-| Dry lakes in areas which may be|SWeden and the blonde German | sctive until about two weeks ago. She|Lumbermen Di: tnile Will be questioned, among other {7° "back frocs captivity. ’ ‘ restored by artesian wells: ‘The work |movie actress, Erika Patzek, whoee | died peacefully of ailments incident to| “Uuermen DISscuss nee: Ceti, engwiedge of a Te- | "this surprise testimony was Inclusion of the fund in the appro-|ineludes ‘construction of dams and|tarriage the Swedish royel family gia age, Code at Convention en New Yorks “trader? to exchange |!¢## sensational than the previous|priation for carrying on work of the |dikes; excavation and blasting; food| was desperately attempting to pre-|° puneral services will be held from Phare suppl: oe Seen for | Statements of Isaac Costner, who put agricultural department for the com- and land clearing, etc. vent. the Perry Funeral home at 2 p. m.| Fargo, N. D., Feb. 31.—()}—More 2 rn plies y $8,000,000. the finger of accusation directly on year will bills asking a| Other lands also will be considered Friday, with Rev. F. E. Logee of the| than 259 salesmen and lumbermen had pe + befo: Ha Ty grand jury | Touhy and his two fellow defendants, |slightly larger sum, introduced by |for upland and game birds and song BATTLE OVER FISHING First Presbyterian church officiating. | registered Wednesday for the 27th an- egg in ‘ ‘Albert Kator and Gustav Scheefer. |Representative Lemke, (Rep., N. D.),|birds, Swenson Tokyo—Tokyo and Moscow were | Pallbearers will be Milan Ward, Roy|nusi convention of the North Dakota Mote areas ae Se ot t's | ‘The prosecution said Wednesday| and Senator Wheeler, (Dem, Mont.) ~ | confronted with a new diploma- |Logan, John P. French, John A. Lar- minent men. General that it now has given the jury acom-| Sinclair led the fight in the appre Taxpayers’ Directors tic tit as a result of controver- |son, John Flanagan and Albert Bur- 5 asia, Bs, Oe of staff, ond pe her acne | Gane plovane of Fopiar sbduction last ogeint coanealises Ca ae ot Hol ding Meeting Here ged oe grounds in the sai. faiecment will be Hay the family ion ccorsotion. ends Secpanyy: luded. Maj be agricult Pacific. Pl . Mary’s cemetery. with a program of speeches, tral John, Det former guarier: avian, whe Grave 8 ese truck path not Leg ogo crea awa ae nae EL A Re : iter three Touhy fore amount was willing to accept a vit - TRA’ MAND jumbermen fro) Peas wtnecel, has, appeared demoted to the roof Job of guard-|reduction from the sum originally infttivities and poi psinned ics Se ee. Cristobal, C. Z—Marine men re-|Federal Workers to Tein’ ee The award of automobile contracts |ing Touhy’s two children, testified that | asked to make certain some provision |ing of the board of directors of the|marked upon the passage through Receive Pay Raise meanwhile has been suspended. he collected the ransom money along| was made for control. North Dakota Taxpayers’ association |the canal of unusually large ship- — with the late Jim (Troubles) Tribbles.| If concress and the president make/at » meeting at the Patterson hotel|ments of nitrate. which is usable in barged DECLARE jULAR DIVIDEND & Touhy man, was slain in/the sum available, it will be used to] Wednesday afternoon. The meeting|high explosives, bound for France,| Washington, Feb. 21.— () — The New York, Feb. 21—()—Directors| what police called # sortie by the gang|finance spreading of polson on sp-|is the first the board has had in|England and Russia. senate overrode administration forces of the Telephone & Tele-jagsinst a Chicago union they were|proximately 13,000,000 acres in the|1934 and it is expected that the at- — Wednesday and voted to restore one- measures voted on at the pri- nna—] said that they |ruary ve back the share, payable April 16 to stockhold- ona DOUG WHS wn eae P NY pet aa for el. gros will be mre being swamped with offers {15 per cent reduction effective July 1. 5 average 5 5 ie at . cooperation ‘sts em- bapa acetate one salary of 16,500 Methodist ministers in (tive leaders, working quietly to pre-| Members of the board in session Dlttered by last week's civil war BUILDING PRICES RISE | BRIDGE BOMBED STEEL OPERATIONS GAIN __|the United States last year was $1,-|vent -|Wednesday included G. E. Lamb, — Washington, Feb. 21.—(?)—Indica- > il, Feb. 21—(P)—A| New York, Feb. 21—(@)—The steel | 606, a decrease of only $7 from 1932, |ture of their plans, pressed | Michigan, t; Andrew John-| TO TAX FOREIGN WAGES _|tions of a revival in the market for nea" Peabody [sent of canacly" ins wee. up 4 |aettost Epsopa church was ie tdependenes psn ihat tay bring ous hugh: asec ceete 3g hate Dr ce, ae on fo. sale and construction mera were | baton Er ssc ee eae ate ete wn ia a el ma Ryegate ome cece, cid ree Me taaany ea 1983, “Iron Age” reported Wednesday. the Wewes-Custing independence lew. |Srrace’ Garnett, home 2 tereek es eens ae he eee ee ™