The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 22, 1934, Page 1

| North Dakota’s far Oldest Newspaper THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE > \ \ | The Weather | Generally fair at and Fri- day; somewhat colder. ia ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1934 PRICE FIVE CENTS Army Mail Pilot Dies in Fall Admits Kidnap Attempt; Then Hangs FEAR OF DEATH IN ELECTRIC CHAIR IS HELD 70 BE REASON Alabaman Tells Chicago Police He and Accomplice At- tacked Publisher SECOND MAN IS ARRESTED Pair Failed in Effort to Take Victim From Hotel En- closed in Trunk Chicago, Feb. 22.—()—Twelve hours after he confessed an abortive plot to kidnap Emanuel Philip Adler of Dav- enport, Ia., Fred Mayo of Birming- ham, Alt alias Charles Phillips, hanged himself in a Marquette police station cell. Policemen found him suspended by his scarf from the cell bars when they called to take him before Jack Lacy, alias Wyman, his alleged confederate. Mayo was dead. He had taken up- on himself the capital punishment he had feared the State of Illinois would inflict for the crime of kidnaping. The man he had named Wednesday night as his accomplice in the plot to truss the Davenport newspaper pub- lisher and spirit him out of the Mor- rison hotel in a huge trunk, had been captured only a few moments before Mayo was found lifeless. Made Stubborn Denial For hours Wednesday Mayo had made stubborn denial of any inten- tion to kidnap Adler, a 61-year-old bank president and head of the Lee Syndicate of middle western news- papers. Mayo had been nabbed as he stole back to the hotel corridor where he had clubbed Adler and tried to take him captive. He had soon acknowledged # robbery attempt, but not until late in the night had he admitted planning to kidnap Adler and hold him for $40,000 ransom. ‘Then he said he had feared death in the electric chair because of the pub- lic furore against kidnapers. He gave information that brought the arrest of Mrs. Minnie Lacy, who was released as innocent Wednesday after she told where her husband could be found. Lacy was pounced upon while asleep in a South Side hotel room, registered under his own name, J. Lacy. He was rushed before the state's attorney, who then sent for Mayo to confront him. At 10:55 a. m. the lockup keeper at the Marquette station discovered the nert body. Gave Different Names Mayo had given his name variously as Charles or Fred Mayo and Charles Clyde Phillips of Birmingham, Ala. Lacy meanwhile was identified posi- tively as one of the two men who bought the .big trunk found in room 538 of the Morrison hotel, adjoining that of Adler. It was punctured to provide air, and Mayo admitted he and Lacy planne® to knock Adler senseless, tape him up tiferoughly and then cart him away for ransom. David Swesnik, the South State Street pawnbroker, identified Lacy as. one of the buyers of the trunk. He said they paid $7 and an old suit for the five foot sample case on Tuesday, the day before the Iowa publisher was slugged, but broke away. Mayo had tied a scarf around his neck, stood up on the wooden cell bench and knotted the other end around the bars at the top of the cell, Then he jumped off. Before locking him up, the desk sergeant had removed his belt, neck- tie and the contents of his pockets. It was cold, and he was allowed to keep ‘this overcoat. In one pocket was the scarf that gave him a “way out.” Pair Met in Des Moines they decided there to snatch Adler, who is the owner of the Daven- port Savings Bank and Trust com- pany, and head of the Lee Syndicate of newspapers. ‘The prisoner said, “we went to the Adler home last Thursday and learn- ed there that he was in St. Paul, but in this week to at- s°3 egee E Sergt. Kelly later an- nounced that Lacy, told of his com- of his share in the plot against Adler. FORMER PUBLISHER DIES Syracuse, N. Y., Feb, 22.—(#)—John 4. Drake, former U. 8. consul at Kiel, Germany, and at one time a news- paper publisher in Aberdeen, 8. D., died here Wednesday. He was 88. Self [_____Mail Goes Through as Probe Continues HERO KING BURIED While the senate continues its, probe of airmail cohtracts with Wal- ter F. Brown, former postmaster gen- eral, on. the stand, the mail is going through on the wings of army planes after a poor start, due to bad weath- er, At the top, chatting in a senate YOUNG DEMOCRATS LAUNCH ATTACK ON LANGER’S COHORTS Say Governor Failed to Cooper- ate; Sought Selfish Ends in Relief Work jcommittee room, are Warren Glover, former second assistant postmaster geaeral; Senator 8. D. Fess of Ohio; Brown and Arch Coleman, former first assistant postmaster general. While they chatted, Lieut. Herman A. Schmid (below) was taking off in an open-cockpit plane with mail from Chicago to Omaha. Air Passenger and Express Service Resumed in Capital PRESIDENT ‘TAKES POSITION: AGAINST PAYMENT OF BONUS Storm Brews in Senate as Sol- ons Prepare to Vote on Veterans’ Benefits ‘Washington, Feb. 22.—()—A pos- sible veto—the first of the Roosevelt regime—was foreseen Thursday as re- volt brewed in the senate on the sub- Ject of veterans’ benefits. A Republican-Democratic bloc, en- couraged by a successful uprising ‘Wednesday against the economy act, Pressed forward in an attempt to loos- en treasury purse strings in veterans’ matters. Two presidential compromises have already liberated benefits for the ex- soldiers but the bloc wants more, By a vote of 41 to 40 Wednesday, the senate overthrew provisions in the economy act for federal pay slashes. During the hours before the senate session, administration leaders worked to press regulars into line behind the latest presidential compromise, put seman by Senator Byrnes (Dem., Under this plan veterans “pre- sumed” to have disabilities connected with service would be restored to the Tolls, until their cases can be settled by the board of appeals. Each would get 75 per cent of the compensation allowed before the economy act of last March. Offer Free Hospitalization The compromise also would write into law a provision for free ital- ization for needy domiciliary care for the permanently disabled. But Roosevelt's concession left un- touched Bis Soe point in an Amer- Pension World War widows and or- ORDERS BUREAU TRANSFER Washington, Feb. 22—(#)—Presi- Gent Roosevelt THursday ordered the bureau of mines transferred from the department of commerce to the de-|ter; are married and live near Her-|Mining tied. partment of the interior. Northwest Airlines Says Public Demand Justifies Confi- dence in Move St. Paul, Feb. 22.—(#)—Daily pas- senger and air express service to |Billings, Mont., was re-established Thursday by Northwest Airways. | A Lockheed Orion left St. Paul at 9:35 a. m., Minneapolis at 9:45 and was to arrive at Fargo at 11:10 a. m. From Fargo a five-place travelaire ship was to leave at 11:25 a. m., going through Bismarck at 1:45 p. m., and arriving at Billings at 5 p. m. The eastbound plane left Billings at 9:30 a. m., going through Bismarck at 2:15 p. m., Fargo at 4:15 p. m., and arriving in the Twin Cities in the eve- ning, Minneapolis at 6 p. m., and St. Paul at 6:15 p. m. The six-place Hamilton ship makes connections to and from Winnipeg on a daily sched- ule. This ship is on sktis. “There has been such a demand by the public for a resumption of the Passenger and air express service that the officials of Northwest Airways, Ine., feel they are justified in' afford- ing this fast service to the traveling public,” said a company announce- ment. “In this western run there will be stops for passengers at Valley City, Jamestown, Dickinson, Glendive, and Miles City. There is no change being made in passenger fares which were recently put into effect preceding the termination of all air mail contracts.” PROMINENT EMMONS COUNTY FARVER DES == ex-soldiers pengen Jacob Fuehrer Succumbs in Lo-| tions.” cal Hospital After Short Illness; Burial Sunday Jacob Fuhrer, 52, prominent Em- mons county farmer, died at a local 8. D., leaves nine children, four sons and . A son and two daugh- Grand Forks, N. D,, Feb. 22.—(P)— Vigorously condemning North Dako- ta’s officeholders at Bismarck and at Washington for lack of ‘ cooperation with the national administration, young Democrats of North Dakota are sending over the state copies of a resolution urging young voters to or- ganize for elections this year. Alvin Purcell, Grand Forks, chair- man of the resolutions committee at the Young Democratic convention in. ‘Bismarck recently, releaséd the reso- lution here Wedriesday night. The committee was authorized by the con- vention to draw up the resolutions along lines described by the meeting. Other members of the resolutions committee are William Schantz of Bismarck and Joseph Stevens of Mi- not. Other resolutions made public were one of sympathy sent to the widow of the late J. Nelson Kelly of Grand Forks, former national Democratic committeeman, and another indors- ing and supporting the policies of the national administration, sent to Washington. The resolution which Purcell sald is being mailed to Young Democratic clubs over the state follows: “Whereas, an economic crisis now exists throughout our nation and state. “And whereas, the people of North Dakota are in full accord with the national recovery program of Frank- lin D. Roosevelt which is so rapidly bringing relief to thousands of farm- ers and other residents of our state. Charge Noncooperation “And whereas, our national repre- sentatives and senators, and state of- ficlals have’ sought to thwart and embarrass the national administration at almost every turn, contrary to the jdesire of their,constituents. “And whereas, our state executive has contributed nothing toward the national recovery program but has at- tempted to convert to his own political interests the recovery and relief ma- chinery set up in this state by the na- tional administration, going so far as to broadcast over the state the im- pression that he personally had the Power to dispense federal relief, and then attempting to bludgeon the state into fulfillfhg his pledges, all of state into fulfilling his peldges, all of \which action distinctly impeded the relief work. “Therefore be it resolved, that the Young Democratic clubs of North Da- kota seek the support and allegiance of the 100,000 young men and women of North Dakota, regardless of pre- vious political affilation, in our strug- Ne To Rule on Plea for Injunction in March commission pursuing its investigation of the cor- Poration’s stock sales. Circuit Judge J. W. Woodrough of Omaha and District Judges M. M. Joyce and Gunnar H. Nordbye, Min- at the hearing, RECOVER FOUR BODIES Charleston, W. Va., Feb. 22.—(7)— Rescue workers Thursday recovered Sait cates rae t in an Rogers mine of the Raleigh Wyoming company in Wyoming county, iabout 60 miles from Charleston. AS BELLS TOLL AND GUNS ROAR SALUTE Active and Future Rulers of Many Lands Walk in Pro- cession to Grave VETERANS PAY RESPECTS One Person Killed as Throng Breaks Through Guard In- to Palace Grounds * Brussels, Feb. 22.— (4) — Belgium buried her king Thursday—Albert the valiant, Kings and commoners walked in the funeral procession. A hundred guns salvoed and church bells tolled. Behind wooden barriers crowds that. in places were backed to a depth of 200 yards watched the solemn march, Active and future rulers of many of the world’s remaining monarchies, high officials of democracies and leaders of the allied armies escorted the king’s coffin as it was taken from the grand palace to a crypt at the little grey church near the royal cas- tle at Laeken. Once more on the march, but this time without arms, between 30,000 and 40,000 Belgian war veterans who knew the dead king as their leader against the armies of Kaiser Wilhelm, marched past the coffin before the Procession started from the palace. True to Belgian custom, no women took part in the ceremonies. As the procession left the palace for the church, the huge crowd broke through the cordon of guards and swarmed into the palace grounds. It was several minutes before order could be restored. One person was tnfured by @ fall and several were injured. when they were crushed iy the melee. ‘The broken and widowed Queen Elizabeth and the future queen, Prin- cess Astrid, remained in seclusion at Laeken castle, while Crown Prince Leopold and his younger brother, a followed their father’s body At 7:30 o'clock Thursday morning, the Belgian war veterans—12 abreast —began their march past the coffin. They paraded silently through the court for nearly three hours. Many Uniforms Glittered Amid this resplendent gathering, the somber dark coat of President Albert Lebrun of France and the similar attire of the American am- bassador, Dave Hennen Morris, con- trasted sharply with the glittering uniforms. ‘The funeral service was one of sol- emn grandeur. The ceremonies at St. Gudule end- ed, @ group of petty officers carried E the coffin down the stairs and placed it upon the gun carriage. Headed by detachments of cavalry artillery, with a band playing a solemn march, the procession moved again—this time toward the final destination. Prince Leopold, Prince Charles and Prince Umberto of Italy, as the broth- er-in-law of the future king, led those who formed the solemn line of march ‘behind the gun carriage. Next followed President Albert Le- brun of France; the prince of Wales; King Boris III of Bulgaria; Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf, heir to the Scandal’s Aftermath Paris, Feb, 22.—(7)—The pawnshop scandal that wrecked two Giant Shark Strikes Terror to Chileans Coquimbo, Chile, Feb. 22.—(7)—A nt shark struck terror to beaches voured a soldier who fell sen accidentally and disappea ‘Stories were spread that the gigantic fish had damaged several boats by attacks. Authorities posted guards to warn bathers. Because of Holiday Practically all markets except those for livestock were closed ‘Thursday because of the Washing- ton’s birthday holiday. BURLEIGH COUNTY FACED BY SERIOUS SHORTAGE OF TAXES Court Actions by Railroad and Utility Companies Hold up Usual Receipts Refusal of railroad and utility com- pantes to pay all or part of their 1933 taxes pending the result of court ac- tions, will create a serious situation for Burleigh county, school districts and other political subdivisions, according to County Treasurer Ernest Elness. Unless farmers use at least part of their wheat allotment checks to pay taxes the county will be unable to) meet its obligations in a short time, he fears. Utility companies, it is understood, will challenge in court, Chapter 252 of the 1933 session laws providing for @ gross earnings tax of 12 per cent in Heu of all other state, county or school taxes formerly assessed against utilities. The gross earnings tax pro- vides for distribution of the amount collected from the companies as fol- lows: 20 per cent goes to the state equalization fund for common schools, 10 per cent to the counties and 70 per cent to the taxing districts with- in the county in the proportion that, the" value of the operating prop= erty within the district bears to the book value of the operating property within the county. The amount of taxes collected under the old law from the public utilities in Burleigh county in 1932 amounted to $16,299.73. The Soo Line refuses to pay any taxes until the courts decide whether the assessment set by the state board of equalization is legal. The Northern Pacific has tentatively agreed to pay 70 per cent of its taxes pending the result of a similar action. The Northern Pacific paid $70,707.71 into the county treasury in 1932. For 1933 its assessment was raised to $81,- 739.42, The railroad is asking for a reduction of 30 per cent from that amount but will pay 70 per cent of it the first of March. ‘The Soo Line paid $13,202.47 in tax- es in 1932 and is assessed $17,584.19 for 1933. It is asking for a reduction of 54 per cent from this figure. Failure to collect the railroad and utility company taxes will hit the school districts of the county harder than other sub-divisions. Some dis- tricts along the main line of the rail- Toads receive as much as $800 from this source and it is a welcome source of revenue at this time of year, Elness said. NO CHANGE SEEN IN GAS TAX COLLECTION Estimates for 1934 About Same as Receipts of $2,760,- 000 Last Year North Dakota will collect $2,760,000 from the state gasoline tax in 1934, according to budget estimates by the state highway department. Of the total anticipated collections, payments to the highway department are expected to amount to $1,210,000. These figures are approximately the same as the collections and payments in 1933 which the highway officials reported as $2,763,617.25 in total col- lections, with $917,036.91 in refunds track|and $1,210,000 payments to the high- way de| te Collections and refunds by months in 1933 were: Collections Month + Refunds $154,512.37 $126,209.21 132,137.62 65,073.67 ++ 101,915.06 36,440.41 70,248.44 26,502.33 137,796.96 November 110,291.20 Order Restored in Argentine Province Mendoza, Argentina, Feb. 22.—(P)— | Acting under orders of President Jus- to, General Juan Roman Jones with federal troops Thursday began re- storing order in San Juan province, following a revolt Wednesday which overthrew the provincial government. Rebels Wednesday night burned the it building. Order was re- parliament . stored when General Jones took charge. Leaders of the revolt said this meant federal rule, which was their|siso was Lady aim, 5 birthday. ‘ Towns Are Isolated By Eastern Drifts | Most Markets Closed ||Road crews Redouble Efforts to| Reach Communities Cut Off by Storm CHESAPEAKE ICE CLOGGED Conditions on Maryland's East- ern Shore Held Worst in Last 30 Years (By the Associated Press) Road crews redoubled their efforts Thursday to reach communities ‘till isolated following the North Atlantic seaboard’s worst storm of the win- ter. On the eastern shore of Maryland conditions were the worst since 1900. Many schools were closed and most of Chesapeake bay was still ice- locked. The fourth cold wave of the month was expected. In Massachusetts many small towns were cut off by snowdrifts as deep as 20 feet. Stalled snowplows and au- tomobiles dotted the roads. All rail lines were open but trains were be- hind schedule. Warmer, cloudy weather was predicted. Conditions on the mainland of New York state were almost normal. Main highways were open and the mercury was slowly climbing. Long Island still was in the grip of huge drifts, however, with rail and automobile traffic fighting to get through with food and fuel to communities cut off from New York city since Sunday. In one community 15 families had been without food for 30 hours. More snow, predicted for Thursday, would, it was feared, place thousands of sub- urban dwellers in danger of hunger. Connecticut ted Vege yoke In both Pennsylvania and New Jer- sey highways were open. SUBURBAN NEW YORKERS TURNED TO PIONEERS New York, Feb. 22.—(?)}—Suburban New Yorkers, who had found the milk and the morning paper on their door- steps for so long they had come to accept such conveniences as an “act of God,” Thursday still were dig- ging their way out of the “worst bliz- zard since 1888” with a dazed look on their faces. The first shock came Tuesday morning when they pushed doors open to find neither papers nor milk in the snowdrifts outside. By the time a wild, windy day had ended they still were “taking it” but be- ginning to like it. All the conveniences of metropoli- tan life, accepted as a matter of course these many years, were taken away by the prolonged blasts of the storm king. He blew down telephone lines, piled snow eight and 10 feet high on railroad tracks and roads and nipped with icy glee at toes, ears ‘and fingers. One little Irishman, as much of| and by New York as Al Smith, wrap- ped himself in newspapers, burlap bags and his wife's fur coat, sallied forth nto his yard and chopped down a tree for fuel when electricity went off and shut down his “erl boiner.” Most suburbanites, suddenly trans- formed into frontiersmen, took it in good humor, however. Russell Owen, the Pulitzer prize- winning reporter with the last Byrd expedition to the South Pole, made an attempt to fight his way through the drifts around his Connecticut home and then phoned his office that “Little America was never like this.” Overshoes and boots which had gathered dust on suburban store shelves for years, were sold out be- fore the doors had been open five minutes and woolen mufflers, heavy mittens and gloves of any color or shape were in hot demand. |. a Strange But True | News Items of Day | s (By The Associated Press) BAR BULL FIGHTING Chicago.—Just imagine pillows on Picador’s lances and boxing gloves on the bull's horns! Even if this were done the South Park board of commissioners won't F-rmit bull fighting et the coming session of the world’s fair. “It could be done so as not to shock the Americans” proposed Senor Man- ue’ Arias, but the commissioners were | Press adamant. CAPTURE SEA PIG Honolulu.—Sea Lions, Sea Ele- phants, Sea Cows, even Sea Serp- ents they had heard of, but a sea pig was something new to three army sergeants from Schofield barracks. A mile and a half off- shore fishing, they saw an animal struggling in the water. Upon investigation they found a wild pig that unaccountably had gone to sea. Primarily the sergeants were after fish, but pork also has its uses. SCOUT FOUNDER ILL London, Feb. 22.—(#)—Lord Baden- Powell, father of the Boy Scout move- ment, Thursday celebrated his 77th) Basically, their Distodey 10.5, Dompiial where be 1s joa recovering from a serious iliness. BLAME FOG, SNOW AND LOW CBILING FOR PATAL CRASH Two Other Pilots Narrowly Es- cape Death on Midwest’s j Hazardous Skyways PARACHUTE IS USELESS Faithful to Last, Airman Threw Out Mail Before Last Plunge Occurred Cleveland, ©., Feb. 22—(%—Ons army mail pilot flew to his death Thursday and two others narrowly side-stepped fatal accidents as fog, snow and a low ceiling spread across the hazardous flying trails of the middle west. Lieut. Durward O. Lowry, flying the mail from Chicago to Cleveland, was killed when his plane, miles off its course, plunged into a woods near Deshler, O., and buried its nose in the bank of a creek. Alert to the last, Lieut. Lowry tossed out the mai) sacks as the flane dropped. Lieut. Lowry was the first army Pilot to lose his life since the army actually started to carry mail. Three other army men were killed in plane crashes as they were flying to thet: air mail stations. Shortly before Lieut. Lowry crashed to earth, his parachute dangling use- lessly, Lieut. C. P. Hollstein, taking the mail from Cleveland to Wash- ington in thick fog, landed in the trees on Chestnut Ridge, a few miles from Uniontown, Pa. Badly cut about the face, Lieut Holistein walked to a farm house telephoned his superior officers in Cleveland and went back to remove the mail from his plane. Meanwhile, a Lieut. Schlater, flying from Cleve- land to Chicago, brought his plane down in a snow storm at Goshen, Ind., and forwarded the mail to Chi- cago by train. rere al nts 2 i spparensly a out, & knot in the: parachute cord: ie believed to have caught in a part of the plane and trapped him. Marks in the woods showed that the plane struck the ground, went forward some distance due to its momentum, and then nosed into the bank of a creek in the woods. Residents of the vicinity said Lowry apparently had trouble with his mo- tor and had circled the vicinity in search for a landing place. SANDINO I SLAIN DESPITE PROMISES | OF FORMER ENEMIES One-Time Rebel Falls Before Treacherous Guns of Ni- caraguan Guards Managua, Nicaragua, Feb. 22.—(>)\— Gen. Augusto C. Sandino, famous reb- el, was killed with his brother, Soc- rates Sandino, and two friends by national guardsmen at midnight on the outskirts of Managua, a govern- ment communique indicated. The government statement read: “The government officially states that the action of the guardia nacional in killing Sandino was contrary to the instructions of President Sacasa to guarantee the lives of Sandino and his followers while they were in Man- agua. “The president severely reproves these acts of some. individual guards- men and has ordered an immediate in- vestigation and is requesting congress to give him the necessary facilities to maintain public order.” All outgoing messages were censored. Reported slain with Sandino were a Generals Umanzor and Es- 2. By the terms of the peace pact signed by President Sacasa and Gen- eral Sandino, February, 1933, the lat- ter laid down his arms with the ex- ception of keeping 100 former follow- ers who were to retain their arms for one year. With these 100 men he was engaged in cooperative farming on the Rio Coco. Sandino came to Managua from his Rio Coco colony last week to term- inate arrangements for the final dis- arming of his followers. He was reported to have declared Privately and to have intimated to the that the national guard was un- constitutional and this fact apparent- ly irritated members of the guardia nacional. Beet Growers Score dministration Bill Washington, yo. 22.—()—Com- Feb. plaints of western growers against re- strictions on domestic sugar