The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 24, 1934, Page 1

Sun give amma ———_ North Dakota’s . ESTABLISHED 1873 . FUERS FORCED T0 LAND IN WATER AS SHIP'S MOTOR DIES Two Rescued from Atlantic By Navy Destroyer After One Is Washed Into Sea PASSENGER CRAFT MISSING Search Organized for Missing Crew and Passengers East Of Salt Lake City Another army mail pilot went to his death late Friday while en route from New York to Langley Field, Va.. and a passenger plane carrying eight persons between Salt Lake City, Utah, and Cold Springs, Wyo., was missing. Five of the eight were passengers. While planes and vessels searched the sea off New York Saturday for the body of Lieut. George R. McDer- mott, 24, fifth army pilot to die in connection with the army’s task of carrying the mail, a wide search was organized for the missing plane and passengers east of Salt Lake City. McDermott and two other fliers who were en route to Langley Field to pick up mail planes were forced down off Rockaway point amid crashing waves Friday. The other two were saved. A delay of 10 minutes in the arrival of rescuers meant death to McDermott, whose home was in Pitts- burgh, Pa. The navy destroyer, two coastguard boats and a police plane went to the rescue. The police plane found the stricken craft but was forced down and had to taxi ashore when the con- trols froze. Five hours elapsed before the destroyer located the plane. Ileut. McDermott twice lost his grip on the ice-covered wing of the wreck- ed plane and slipped overboard. The first time he managed to grab a wire- Jess antenna and pull himself aboard. ‘The second time a wave struck him and carried him away. Ten minutes later a searchlight of the destroyer Bernadou picked up the plane and the two remaining pilots were taken aboard. Destroyer to Rescue ‘Those rescued by the navy destroy- er, Bernadou, and taken to the Brook- lyn_naval hospital are Lieuts. William &. Pocock of Detroit, and James H. Rothrock of Washington, D. C. They were reported in “fair condition.” Frank Caldwell, operations man- ager of the United Air Lines at Cheyenne, Wyo., said Saturday the search for the company’s missing Plane, carrying eight persons, had turned to the blizzard swept country just east of Salt Lake City. Five of of the eight were passengers. Caldwell said it had definitely been determined the ship had not been seen nor heard from since it passed Frawley's Canyon, about 18 miles east of Salt Lake City, soon after it took off for Cheyenne at 2 p. m. (M.S.T.) Friday. The plane, carrying five passengers and a crew of three from Salt Lake City toward Cheyenne, Who., failed to reach there on schedule late Friday. Officials said it must have come down Jast night, probably somewhere near Rock Springs, Wyo. ‘This belief hung on the report of a Japanese foreman who said that te plane, frantically calling for direc- tions, passed over his shack at Emery, Uteh, at 3 p. m. Friday. Fuel for Five Hours ‘The huge craft had departed from Salt Lake City for Cheyenne at 2 p. m. Friday. Officials said it would have been impossible for it to remain aloft more than five hours. The passenger list: J. J. Sterling, Benton Harbor, Mich. Bert McLaughlin of Perry, Iowa; ‘W. B. Bergland of Boone, Iowa, and M. Zinsmaster of Des Moines, Ia., fly- ing from Los Angeles to Des Moines, ‘The crew: Pilot Lloyd Anderson, Cheyenne, Co-Pilot J. Danielson, Cheyenne. Optimism Shown in Business Reports ‘Washington, D. C., Feb. 24.—Opti- mistic versions of the business States Department of Commerce. of revenue freight for the ilway association in the week end- ing Feb. 17 ware 06008 cars, an in crease of 26,392 over preceding week, 81,367 above the same week in ba a 26,631 above 1932, over January, 1933, and more than destroyed @ country home near w Oldest Newspaper THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1934 Figures in Abortive Kidnaping Attempt Shown above are two of the lead- ing figures in the unsuccessful ef- fort to kidnap E. P. Adler, (left above), Iowa publisher and banker, from a Chicago hotel. The bandage At the right is Charles Phillips, who confessed the abduction plot, then jcommitted suicide in a jail cell. Below are Detective Edward Purdy and Police Lieutenant Arthur Patten | examining the huge trunk, punched on Adler's ear covers ® wound in-/ full of airholes, in which it had been fiicted by a blackjack, with which his, assailants tried to stun him. intended to xemove Adler from the hotel. (. 0. P. CONGRESSMEN TOWNLEY PRESENTS ARE TRYING 10 PUT DETAILED PROGRAM SANDERS ON al FOR NEW FACTORIES; Will Conduct Campaign This; Bismarck Would Get Central Fall Without Benefit of National Committee Washington, Feb. 24—(7)—A quiet effort to shelve Everett Sanders as chairman of the Republican national committee was read Saturday by po- litical observers into the unprecedent- ed decision by senate and house Re- publicans to fight next fall's campaign “on their own.” Chairmen of the house and senate Republican campaign committees an- nounced Friday that they would com- bine to conduct the campaign togeth- er, wtihout the help of the national committee. In the decision, many an observer thought he could see the political finger of McNary of Oregon, the sen- ste Republican leader. For months he has been trying to prevent a bitter factional row in the party ranks from breaking into the open over the national committee chairmanship, Many of the politically-minded be- Meved that, in order to prevent this. McNary and the two committee chair- men—Senator Hastings of Delaware, and Representative Bolton of Ohio— had decided to let Sanders hold the title of national chairman but to con- a their campaign independently him. Republican leaders have made no secret of friction betweeen many on capitol hill and the party headquar- ters. The congressional chiefs pri- vately have criticized the committee's statements attacking the administra- tion. They contended that was poor | Politics at this time. Bar Montana Area From Despoilation Missoula, Mont., Feb. 24—()—Two) grist mills, hundred and forty thousand unspoil- river, has been declared a primitive area and will remain untracked by road and unmarred by human habita- Hunters and fishermen may enter by foot or horseback. GRAIN MAN DIES Pierre, 8. D., Feb. 24.—(?)—Carl U. Somers, 49, assistant general manager of the National Atlas Elevator com- Storage Plant Under New Industrial Scheme Washington, Feb. 24—(?)—A group of North Dakota representatives, headed by A. C. Townley, Nonpar- tisan League leader, prepared Satur- day to present to the public works ad- ministration a formal application for @ loan of $4,384,286 to finance a pro- gram of state-owned industries. ‘The application is signed by Gov. William Langer and by H. B. Hanson, chairman and secretary, respectively, of the state recovery committee. Townley said arrangements were being made to file the application ‘Monday. ‘The program calls for: Four woolen mills to be located at Dickinson, Jamestown, Minot and Langdon. Two central storage plants at Bis- marck and Minot. One clothing manufacturing plant at Fargo. Fifty-one produce storage plants in several counties of the state. One general cannery in the Yellow- stone irrigation basin to. be supple- mented by home cannery 5 Two shoe factories. ‘Three tanneries. One linseed mill. ‘Where Money Would Go The application sets forth the fol- lowing estimated money requirements per month: first month, $438,428; second, $876,857; third, . $876,857; fourth, $876,857; and fifth, $1,315,287. Costs of the estimated as follows: proposed industries are ‘Woolen mills, $188,650; manufactur- ing unit to convert yarn into clothing, $200,000; cannery, $236,850; plants, $1,078,500; shoe factory, $597,- 707; ", $525,000; linseed oil mill, $137,500; briquetting plant $655,129; $280,000. Townley's visit to Washington is his second in recent weeks to urge federal approval of the industrial pro- gram. Last time he brought some 50 delegates from all parts of North Da- kota, This time pe was accompanied by what he a “committee-at- large” consisting of a half dozen fol- ‘lowers from North Dakota and an men’s par for the 14 holes played. storage |Burleigh Farmers to NEW TRIAL DESPITE HIGH COURT RULING TWikeat Chesks Range Decision by Illinois Tribunal Was Thought to Give Them New Hope GUARDS WATCH COURTROOM Three Convicted Men Hurried To Penitentiary After Brief Session Chicago, Feb. 24—(7)—A motion for a new trial for Roger Touhy, Al- bert Kator and Gustav Schaefer, con- victed early Thursday morning of the $70,000 John Factor kidnaping, was denied Saturday by Judge Michael Feinberg. | Twelve squad cars were drawn up near the criminal courts building to take the three convicted kidnapers to Joliet prison when legal formalities are completed. Their guards said they would be heavily shackled for the 40-mile trip. A few minutes after he had denied the three another trial, Judge Fein-| berg denied a motion to hold up their; commitment to prison and pro- nounced sentence upon them. It was a sentence of 99 years each, in the penitentiary, fixed early Thursday hy the second jury to try them. Roger Touhy, the jaunty leader of | the Touhy gang and chief of the’ three defendants, went weak as the; judge read out the sentence. Overcome by nausea, as he was when the jury came in with its ver- dict, he jammed his free hand against his mouth. i Nearly 50 armed guards surrounded | the trio as they stood before the’ bench. i ‘Not Final’ Says Judge | William Scott Stewart, the defense attorney, cited in his argument for @ new trial the decision, handed down by the Illinois supreme court Friday, holding that the customary manner of selecting Cook county grand juries is not proper. Judge Feinberg said: “The supreme court's decision is not final, and consequently it is not bind- ing upon this court. There is hope now that the supreme court will make | @ second decision on this subject and will realize the dire effect its ruling will have otherwise in Cook county, where some 700 indictments are now Pending and would be undermined.” Cases involved, in addition to that of the Touhy gang, include the in- dictments pending against Samuel and Martin Insull, the Bain bank fraud cases, the Illinois Life Insur- ance company fraud case, the Sani- tary district “Whoopee” case, the “TNT” racket case, the Wynekoop murder trial, and the Gail Swolley and Frank Souder kidnaping case. The supreme court’s ruling was in the case of Jack Lieber, convicted of robbery... The supreme court held that the grand jury must be composed of the first 23 men whose names are drawn from the jury list. The practice in Cook county has been for the jury commissioners to draw from 60 to 100 names from the list, submitting these to the chief justice of the criminal court, who selects the jury from the larger group of names. Nearly Loses Sight In Strange Accident Roger Smith, 11-year-old son of| Mr. and Mrs. Mal C, Smith of Sanger, ik i BERS Ey eeeee git gate A ! Wage War on Gophers Burleigh county will begin its fight gophers against cording to County Agent H. O. nam, This week letters were sent to chairmen of township and township clerks asking for estimates on the amount of poison oats the ivy) “lie ‘Wie equaled fl From .75 to $1,101 ‘Wheat allotment checks received this week by Burleigh county farmers ranged from 75 cents to $1,101, according to County Agent HH. O. Putnam. Larger aggregate amounts were received by some farmers in the county, but these eceived more than one check. J. J. Broste, Arena, was the first Tesident to receive allotment money. The work of distributing the checks was begun Monday and completed Thursday night as a result Burleigh farmers are rich- er by approximately $113,000. Farmers in the county still have between $40,000 and $50,000 due them for promised reduction in wheat acreage and the balance will be received soon, county of- ficials expect. The county agent said farmers would be notified as soon as the checks arrive and will be informed where and when the checks will be given out. When Burleigh farmers this summer fulfill the terms of their contract to the government, they will receive over $40,000 in final payments. SIX KILLED AND 25 INJURED WHEN BUS GOES OFF HIGHWAY Crashes Over Embankment in Arizona When Warning Light Fails to Function Wickenburg, Ariz. Feb. 24—(7}— Six were killed and 27 injured early Saturday when a warning light at a highway detour failed to function in the rain, sending a Celifornia-bound Mormon church passenger bus crash- ing over an embankment near Aguila, 35 miles west of here. The bus was en route to Home Gar- dens, Cal., after a four-day pilgrim- age to the Mormon temple at Mesa, Ariz. The dead, as identified by Bishop George F. Price of the Mormon church, who came here from Phoenix to take charge, were: Elizabeth McArthur, 50 years old, Southgate, Cal. Genevieve Scadlock, 35, Southgate. Mrs, Eugene Gower, 34, Lynwood, Cal. Sarah Crawford, 34, Southgate. Mrs, Frank Riggs, 30, Hungington Park, Cal. Rea Hi two years old, daughter of Pearl and Dave Haws, Southgate. Bishop Morris R. Perry of Home Gardens, in charge of the party, said nearly all were asleep when the crash came. Don't Know What Happened “We really don’t know what hap- pened,” he said. “We came to the end of the pavement, and I felt the bus lurch. Somebody said ‘there she goes!’ and we went over. Almost all of us were asleep. My wife and I were among the fortunate who were in the front part of the bus, and we were thrown clear. After that everything was. confusion.” ‘The victims were crushed in their seats when the top of the bus was shattered. The high-backed seats of the vehicle saved some from being pinned in the wreckage, but guarded only a few from injury. The steering wheel was snapped off as the bus dis- integrated under the impact. Parts of the sides and top of the vehicle over a wide area. flagstop, was the ‘ickenburg. A blood-spattered youth, clothing torn, speech almost incoherent, bang- ed on the little Aguila station’s rain- smeared window to give the first alarm. He hasl run from the wreck- nearly five minutes before he intelli- gently could tell Young what had happened. ee, { Boy Naturalist Has An Item for Ripley Ripley should know about the large purple and gray butterfly which emerged from its cocoon. Friday evening and now is flying around the Oscar Lovin residence at 909 Seventh St., making itself very much at home. Oscar Lovin, Jr., 7, found the cocoon on 8 plum tree in the Santa Fe railroad |Postoffice airmail task. He sat| The house postoffice committee was Brown Avers He Was Misunder- stood With Reference to ‘Personal Remark’ FARLEY SAYS SAME THING Senators Try in Vain to Get at Bottom of Queer Mixup on Postal Deal Washington, Feb. 24.—()—Denials were the order of the day Saturday at the senate airmail committee's hearing. First, Walter F. Brown, postmaster general under Hoover, denied he had told the committee Friday that James A. Farley, present postmaster gen- eral, recently had made a “personal remark” about Senator Black (Dem., Ala.), chairman of the committee. Then Farley denied the same thing. Farley further denied he had made a statement of a personal nature about any member of the committee. He went on to deny that there had} been any collusion in airmail con-} tract affairs since he took office, that | there had been any talk of “hitting below the belt” at his conference with Brown, or that he had made a state- ment he had no sympathy for po- litical investigation. “Let me say,” Farley said, “that I} didn’t enjoy Mr. Brown's confidence | and he did not enjoy mine. | “I would be unwise, to say the! least, to make any remark such as| has been inferred.” } Hearers ‘Inferred’ It ~~~ Brown Friday testified Farley had made to him “a personal remark,” the testimony being given in such a way that listeners inferred the remark in question was about Black. | “I did not so state,” Brown empha- sized Friday. The senatorial investigators tried in vain to find out what the “personal remark” was. i Pressed for his “exact” reply to| Brown when the latter claimed he was being treated unfairly, Farley shook his head to indicate he did not recall. He said he did not ask Brown not to repeat anything, as Brown had testified. Questioned by Senator Austin (Rep., Vt.), Farley said airmail contracts in- volved $19,000,000 when he entered the cabinet, but when congress reduced the airmail fund to $15,000,000 these had to be reduced. As to the fact that the operators had been called in to distuss the re- ductions when this was held by the comptroller general not to be neces- sary, Farley said he regarded the meetings with the operators and the contract reductions as entirely proper. Regarding the later wiping out of the contracts, he testified the con- tracts were adjudged “a violation of the law and not in order.” The acceptance by Chas. F. Adams, Hoover secretary of the navy, of an invitation by the house naval com- mittee, placed two past-administra- tion men simultaneously in a new administration spotlight. Adams Enters Denial In Adams’ case, also, a denial en- tered. House committee testimony that he had owned 500 shares of Douglas Aircraft company stock : hile in office had been termed by Adams as false. Word circulated at the capitol that President Roosevelt was swiftly shap- ing @ still-concealed plan for rebid- ding on airmail contracts. Private industry under it would again take ‘over the job. The house was called into session ‘an hour earlier than usual, with lead- ers determined to dispose quickly, if Possible, of an emergency airmail bill that would ease the present army- House Pushes Bill Brown, on the witness stand for the fifth day Friday, told of going to Farley's office to deliver “missing” official records. He quoted the pres- ent postmaster general as saying there about the Black investigations: “You know I haven't any sympathy with these political investigations anyhow.” Brown said he couldn't repeat the “remark of @ personal nature” Far- ley then made because Farley “asked me not to,” but he would if Farley gave him permission. Makoti Man Dies in Bismarck Sanitarium Peter Knirsha, 52, of Makoti, N. D., died at a local sanitarium at 9 o'clock Friday night. Funeral services will be held at Makoti Tuesday and the body will lie in state at the Perry Funeral Parlors until Monday morn- First of Army Mailmen to Die First pilot killed since the army took over the airmail, Lieut. Durward Lowry, Milwau- kee, Wis., above, died whcn his plane, carryins a capacity load on the Chicago-Toledo route, crashed near Deshler, O., far off {ts course, in a snowstorm. Crashes of planes en route to airmail stations cost the lives of three pilots before the army be- gan carrying the mails. NEW BELGIAN KING FACES HARD JOB OF UNIFYING COUNTRY Monarchs Required by Preced- ent to Appear in Every Town and Village (Copyright, 1934, by The Associated Press) Brussels, Feb. 24.—(P)—Leopold II and Queen Astrid Saturday faced to- gether the historic responsibility of all Belgian monarchs—the task of keeping two nationalities under one flay eg. Their first important duty as the new rulers of the compact little coun- try is to make an appearance in every town and village in Belgium. This nation-wide tour may re- quire several months, but three times before in the 100 years of Belgian independence, it has been required of the new sovereigns. They alone symbolize the unity of the Flemings and the Walloons. The comparative privacy Leopold and Queen Astrid, former princess of Sweden, have known during the few years of their married life, was over forever Saturday as a result of their enthronement. Now they will take up residence in the royal castle at suburban Laeken, quitting their cosier chateur nearby. Their simple and direct way of meeting people in Friday's inaugural celebration already has won them the devotion of their subjects. Also political groups of all hues are talking enthusiastically of the sur- prising revelation in the enthrone- ment ceremonies that young Leopold speaks Flemish as perfectly as he does French—the Walloon tongue. He was required to use both languages in taking the oath, The coronation of King Leopold and Queen Astrid is expected to be held in six months at the end of the period of court mourning for the late monarch. Two Rescued From Blaze at Wahpeton Wahpeton, N. D., Feb. 24.—(P)— Tescued two persons trapped jon the third floor of the Merchants hotel Friday when flames destroyed the 50-room structure with loss of $50,000. Frank Grossman, day clerk, and Frank Keene, a guest, were carried down ladders from a third floor win- along|dow. Flames had blocked every other egress. Although hampered by @ strong wind and 10-below-zero weather, fire- men prevented the blaze from spread- ing to adjoining buildings. Ed Swanson is proprietor of the hotel, owned by the McAllister fam- ily of Morris, Minn. It was built 55 years ago and was Wahpeton’s lead- ing hostelry. Boy Hurt When Cap on Toy Pistol Explodes Robert Woodmansee, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Woodman- see, 614 Fourth St., suffered possible injuries to his eyes and a badly burned face when a cap on a toy pis, toy exploded Thursday. face; The extent of injuries to his eyes nas not yet peen determined. ON ELIGIBLE LIST PRICE FIVE CENTS Slose of Stock Probe Delayed Mail Pilot Dies; Passenger Plane Missing TOURYS ARE DENED [Denials Entered At Inquiry on Airmail PROPAGANDA CHARGE AROUSES INTEREST Head of New York Stock Ex- change Takes Exception to Recent Charge oe OVER STRONG FOR ‘FREE SPEECH’ Senate Investigators Point to $1,000,000 Spent in Pub- licity Drive Washington, Feb. 24—(M)—A rag- ing controversy over “propaganda” charges delayed Saturday the windup of the senate's two-year investigation of the stock market. Richard Whitney, head of New York's “big board,” issued Friday night a sharp denial that the ex- change is flooding the country with “propaganda” against the Fletcher- Rayburn bill for government control of the exchange. If his efforts to defeat the measure are propaganda, he said, then the constitutional right of free speech is dead. In reply, senate investigators point- ed to fresh testimony that the New York exchange spent $1,000,000 in less than five years for publicity pur- poses, ‘The senate committee had intended to close its inquiry—temporarily at least—with Friday's session, but the |“propaganda” controversy spoiled | that plan. | To Quiz Publicity Now | More pages will be added on Mon- | day to the 5,000,000 words of testimony ;When George U. Harriss, of the ex- change’s publicity committee, returns to tell more of how the million for publicity was spent, including distri- bution of a book on short selling to members of congress. Then Whitney himself will take the stand, facing Ferdinand Pecora, in- vestigator-counsel, at the formal jopening of hearings on the Fletcher- | Rayburn control bill. ; It was Chairman Fletcher of the senate committee who leveled direct charges of “propaganda” at Whitney. Whitney, in an interview, replied: “I think the charge is unfounded. \I summarized the provisions of the bill and asked the presidents of cor- porations having stock listed on the New York stock exchange to give the matter their personal consideration.” As a result of the hearing Friday, senate investigators felt their case for regulation had been strengthened. From leaders of big busigess they had evidence indicating that a small group of large corporations was net- ting several million dollars a month at the height of the 1929 boom by lending money to finance speculation. NORTH DAKOTA GIVEN $1,000,000 FOR FEED Will Care for Needs of Farmers Who Are Entitled to Relief, Willson Says With a cash grant of $1,500,000 al- lotted to North Dakota Friday for feed relief for livestock by Harry L. Hopkins, federal emergency relief di- rector, farmers in this state who are entitled to such relief will be well cared for, according to E. A. Willson, head of the feed distribution for the federal emergency relief committee. The above amount is part of $5,- 000,000 allotted to nine states Friday to enable farmers to purchase feed. director to purchase feed where nec- essary to meet emergencies, Willsop Order Accused Man Returned to State Los Angeles, Feb. 24.—(%)—Al “Dutch” Otto, indicted in Fargo, N. D. on charges of theft of rifles and machine guns from the Wahpeton armory, was ordered returned to North Head. Otto, arrested by department of jus- tiee lea at rigs Monica, there was another man of that name in North Dakota. Otto also allegedly was involyed in bank robberies in Minnesota and North and South Dakota, federal in- tors said. 4 \