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

ESTABLISHED 1873 Federal Men Track Dillin ¥ North Dakota’s fer Oldest Newspaper +4 PAIN RNR RS Mala CIR oer RNR ReRCIRIN A mma: BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, Reremrciat sy TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1934 sao a serena ‘ SEES TH RO REAVER RES RII ANE t THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE (-k&&= Claim Langer Got $15,006.73 from Leader INDICTMENTS SAY PUNDS WERE USED FOR OWN AFFAIRS Issuance of One Check for $2,- 461.48 to Local Grain Broker Is Alleged ” SPECIFIC COUNTS REVEALED Formal Indictments Mention Instances in Which Laws Were Violated Fargo, N. D., April 24.—(#)—Speci- fic counts charging that $15,006.73 was transferred from the North Dakota Leader fund to Governor William Langer’s personal bank account, and that the governor caused a transfer of $2,461.48 from the Leader account + to that of a Bismarck brokerage con- cern, are set forth in the two indict- ments returned by the recent federal grand jury in Fargo against the gov- ernor and eight associates, it became. known Tuesday following the service + of the indictments upon the accused. The charges are part of volumin- tort funds from federal employees and with conspiracy to block the orderly operation of an act of congress. In the instances alleged, covering al- leged transfers to the governor's per- sonal banking account and to the brokerage account, which it is charged ‘was done at the governor's initiative, the government lays the foundation nor and associates benefited person- ally and politically through the levies allegedly made on employees paid with funds coming from the federal gov- ernment, both in the state highway « department.and in the federal relief office. Charges Are Specific Embraced in the indictments are federal employees for contributions to the Leader. Others cite that work- ers on federal pay were told their er for failure to pay an assessment to the Leader. - In all, the counts included in the indictments cover those activities of sren ‘ af : | Screen Stars Married in New Jersey | NORMA TALMADGE Atlantic City, N. J., April Norma Talmadge, star tage married at the Hotel Ambassador late Monday after keeping the wed- TO FEDERAL CHARGE IN COURT AT MINOT Former Van Hook Banker, Ac-|men cused of Misapplying Funds, Faces Trial sililgetttnt ie 4 § Bismarck, chairman; "| Harold Breen and Roy Small, both of Bismarck, and Chester Boyd, Men- ‘Townships—Rii GEORGE JESSEL 24.—(?)— | ding plans @ secret since last Thurs- of the silent |day, when they obtained a marriage Miss Talmadge recently obtained a Schenck, film company executive. Burleigh Will Organize For Corn-Hog Allotment RIGHT PLEAD GUILTY. District Committees Will Me: Here Wednesday With Agricultural Agent Organization of Burleigh county farmers for administration of the fed- corn-hog _reduction-allotment program will be launched here Wed- with meetings of committee- from four districts, according to H. O. Putnam, county agricultural agent. Chairmen of the four district com- imittees will meet at 10 a. m., in Put- ‘World War building for @ session at 1:30 p. m. Committees for the first, second and fourth districts already have been elected by cooperators in the corn-hog plan while committeemen for the third district were to be named at @ meeting Tuesday afternoon. .| Arrangeme! vey of the county will be made at the meetings We wil} be members of the county-wide ad- ministrative committee. 500 Have Applied ‘More than 500 farmers of the coun- Putnam, but contracts will not work lds and’ production is completed. essential details the corn- is identical with the wheat HE ap Fl i if a i Ip z j H i BISMARGK GETS OFF TO FLYING START IN DSTRICT CONTESTS Jane Smith and Bill Mote Place First in Humorous Read- ing Events 200 BOYS AND GIRLS HERE Entered in Declamation and Music Contests Continu- ing Through Day Bismarck high school students won SLOPE FARMERS WIN $12.40 VERDICT IN FARM LOAN CONTEST Court Holds Fargo Credit Cor- porations Must Live Up to Contracts CASE LASTED THREE WEEKS Attracted Widespread Attention Because of Numerous Persons Involved Judgment for $12,440 was granted first place in two of the first three declamation events completed Tues- day forenoon as and mu- sical contests for the eighth and ninth districts got under way in the World War Memorial building and city audi- torium. Nearly 200 boys and girls from a score of high schools in the Bismarck- Mandan area assembled here to par- ticipate in the various contests. ‘Winners will be eligible to partici- pate in the state-wide contests during divorce from Joseph of North Dakota next month. Miss Jane Smith of Bismarck, re- citing “What William Henry Did,” was awarded first place in the girl's humorous contest. Irene Mandan, cited “The County Pair,” was second. Myron Tendick of the state training school at Mandan won first honors in subject was “The Fixed Eye.” Vernon Richard of Wilton placed second. Contests were to be resumed at 1:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon and will be completed Tuesday evening in a session beginning at 7:30 o'clock. 7Professor:-John E. -Howard of -the music department at the state uni- versity was here to act as judge of all music contests, Judging girls’ declamation contests was Mrs, H. A. McNutt of Napoleon while judges for the boys’ declamation events were Assistant Attorney Gen- eral Harold Shaft and Thomas J. Burke of Bismarck and A. L. Watt of Mandan. W. H. Payne, principal of Bismarck high school, is manager of the con- =) THORESEN SUPPORTS VETO CANCELLATION Candidate for Republican Nom- nts for a corn-hog sur- for signatures until after concerning average the May Conference at the University be the boy's dramatic reading event. His ne R. L. Baird, as receiver of the First State Bank of Stanton, N. D., and 99 farmers of Mercer county Saturday against the Agricultural Credit cor- poration, and the Guaranty Corpora- tion, both of Fargo, by District Judge R. G. McFarland. The case, which took three weeks to try, attracted considerable attention in western North Dakota. ‘The Agricultural Credit Corpora- tion and the Guaranty Corporation, payment of the notes, including the interest, the payment being made under compulsion contrary to the contract. Facts Not Disputed In up the case the court that the borrowers made the loans claimed, paid the loans and perform- ed their part of the agreement and understanding, and that the defend- ants have 10 per cent of the face amount of these loans, together with the interest, which they have not re- turned to the borrowers of which they have had the use in their own private business and which they still have. ‘The major defense, if any, they have asserted, is that they have performed their contract and agreement in per- mitting these farmer borrowers to invest in their financial institutions —that they paid the claimants and their assignees the sum in which they were indebted to them, by the issuance of stock obligations, certificates for stock which they expressly held as collateral and over which they held absolute eerie and ination Says Conditions Are ‘Impossible’ verview, Burnt Hay Creek, Gibbs, Menoken, Lincoln, Apple Creek, Boyd, Fort Rice, Missouri and Telf. Second district—William Joseph- son, Wing, chairman; Charles Trygg, Baldwin, vice chairman; Deckert and J. J. Scallon, Wing, Ed, Wagner, Arena. Townships—Sum- mit, Florence Lake, Hazel Grove, Can: field, Richmond, Phoenix, Wing, Harriet, district—committee . Townships—Wilson, William Rock Hill, Trygg, Lyman and to be Steiber, FFE ge ult : g : : i z i : I EE i g. i iH : spee il He h | g i Funeral Saturday For D. A. MacLean the license requirements of the North CITY COMMISSION HAS BRIEF SESSION Will Instruct Police to Enforce Ordinance Regulating Traffic During Fire The city commission, in a short session Monday night, approved a few bills for payment and deferred ac- i by reason of his fet, Hal reece : E 5 bites i >. Here is the j first’ photograph made public of the future ruler of Japan, permission for publication just having been given by the imperial household. The picture of the crown prince, known officially as His Imperial Highness Prince Arihito Tsogu-no-Miya, was taken March 23, three months after his birth. Yellow Baby May Rule Over Millions PRICE FIVE CENTS ger SLEUTHS HUNT FOR INDIANA DESPERADO INNORTHERN WOODS Bad Man’s Luck Holds But Net ls Declared to Be Slowly Tightening PREFER TO TAKE HIM DEAD Reports From Chicago and Col- umbus Indicate Desper- ado Near Ohio PRESIDENT SPEEDS NEW MEASURES FOR ANTI -CRIME FIGHT Asks Congress to Hurry Action on Bills Aimed Against Gangsters Washington, April 24.—()—The federal government had its hand clos- er Tuesday to new anti-crime weap- ons, thanks in part to its hated enemy, slippery John Dillinger. Chairman Sumners (Dem., Tex.) called his house judiciary committee Tuesday morning to consider half a dozen administration bills aimed at better federal gangster-control. He actea upon a personal appeal from President Roosevelt. Roosevelt's signal for congressional speed in bolstering the government's anti-crime campaign was clear and apparently altered Sumner’s views. Assistant Attorney General Joseph B. Keenan bristled with the remark that “I hope we get him (Dillinger) under such circumstances that the government won't have to stand the expense of a trial.” The senate had to its credit pass- age of eight of the thirty-odd bills designed to lay a blanket of federal jurisdiction over interstate law- breaking. While awaiting further action on the measures—many of which were drawn by Attorney General Cum- mings—the special anti-racketeering committee headed by Senator Cope- land (Dem., N. Y.) turned its atten- tion to using part of a new $25,000 ap- propriation to investigate juvenile de- Mnquency. Here are the purposes of some of the bills now before Sumner's house judiciary committee, most of which have been given final senate approv- al: To transform into a federal offense the killing of a federal officer, wheth- er on government property or not. To require federal registration of all machine guns. ‘To make bank robbery a federal of- fense. To allow federal control over those fleeing from one state to another to avoid giving testimony in criminal ings. To it federal punishment for permit the interstate comm of kid- nap or extortion demands. Would Prove Driver Of Motor Was Drunk Fargo, N. D., April 24—(P)—At- i of Kindred, driver of the car in which Bakken of Kindred was i i : E Z = fF Fe =i fe & Fit F i 4 Hi i ee ae | iF iH z E k as i PERE Hi bral znbee g ii AL fi Minot Woman Burned to x Death Beneath Motor Car Widow of Former Supreme * Court Justice Is Victim of Mishap Tuesday Minot, N. D., April 24.—(?)—Mrs. Louisa Goss, Minot, widow of a form- er supreme court justice of North Dakota, was burned to death Tuesday forenoon when an automobile in which she was riding went into a ditch and caught fire. Mrs. V. E. Stenersen, Minot, Repub- lican national committeewoman for North Dakota, the only other occu- pant of the automobile, escaped with- ‘out serious injuries. She was unable to extricate Mrs. Goss from the burn- ing automobile. Word of the tragedy was telephon- ed to Minot at noon Tuesday, as soon as Mrs. Stenersen reached a tele- phone in Towner. Mrs. Goss and Mrs. Stenerson were on their way to Devils Lake to attend the independent Republican conven- tion to be held there Wednesday. Dr. O. C. Craise of Towner, McHenry county coroner, after visiting the Scene of the accident, announced that an inquest would not be held. Mrs. Stenersen, dazed and shocked by the accident, was unable to explain how the machine, which she was driv- ing, happened to go into the ditch, but some persons who visited the accident scene expressed belief a tire had blown out, causing her to lose control of the machine. The auto, which had been headed east, wound up in the ditch on the north side of the highway, tipped over es on its left side and facing west. Mrs. Goss was the widow of Judge E. B. Goss who died’ in California in March, 1930, and who had served on the district court bench in northwest- ern North Dakota and also was a former justice of the North Dakota supreme court. Having always maintained a deep interest in governmental affairs, Mrs. Goss for many had been active in the affairs of the I. V. A. organiza- tion in Ward county. She leaves her daughter, Miss Mar- ion of Minot, her mother, Mrs. Olive Wright, and a sister, Miss Mabel Wright, both of Seattle. A sister in Alberta and a brother, Leslie Wright of Chinook, Mont. ‘Mrs. Goss was 60 years old. Farmers Petitioning For New Money Bill Washington, April 24.—(”)—Farmers from four midwestern states called up- on their representatives Tuesday to urge support of the Frazier-Lemke bill providing for the refinancing of farm mortgages at 1% per cent with new money. The group, representing the Farm- ers Union, came from Ohio, Indiana, to prove that Carl Otterson | , John Dillinger —cop-killer, bank robber, highwayman and jail fugitive —still was on the loose Tuesday. He was hunted in the wooded wilds of the north country, freshly. white with snow, while reports from Chi- cago and Columbus indicate he might be nearing Ohio. Advised that a maroon sedan, bear- ing Minnesota license plates and be- lieved to carry members of the desperado's gang, had been seen near Fort Wayne, Ind., the Ohio state highway patrol’s radio station broad- cast a state-wide bulletin to police to be on the lookout. Motorcycle Policeman William Hoth of the Cook county highway force was wounded in the shoulder Monday night several miles north of Chicago by gunmen who he believed were in connection with the in- vestigation, was released from the North Dakota penitentiary last Feb. 17 after serving four and one-half years. The government had nearly 100 picked men on the job in Wisconsin. Some of them were drafted Points as distant as Philadelphia and Washington. Many airplanes dropped. from the skies, bringing reinforee- nta,. ssid =< ney department of ‘justicé men. a esta under orders to ee to kill. sentiment was openly expressed that Dillinger dead would be more desirable to the forces of law than Dillinger alive. Will Take No Chances The memory of the outlaw’s latest victim—a government agent slain as Dillinger blasted his way from a tav- ern near Mercer, Wis., Sunday night —was not calculated to encourage the officers to take any chances with the heavily-armed desperado and his gang of criminals. Dillinger was believed hiding Tues- day either in this northwoods coun- rested by Minneapolis police in a raid Dillinger Minneapolis and St. Paul. The casualty lst from Sunday night's two gun fights remained two dead and four wounded, with the coeae of one of the wounded men The belief that Dillinger may be in one of the Twin Cities arose the skirmish which three men Monday with three deputy sherifi St. Paul Park, a suburb of St. One of the men is to been Dillinger. The deputies, who had been: ing the roads in the search Dillinger mob, exchanged they encountered the trio automobile bearing Wi! Plates. Here again fortune maa Dillinger it was. Lucky A lumbering truck, @ side street, delayed the machine just long enough to the trio to escape. One of ty e Z nm i Ey F cE Ef i i Ui ] panne: Se: ae res that r gang, which apparently split into two groups, after the (4 night gun fights near Mercer, man in the gunfire in the ‘Wisconsin woods. The rumor had it that the victim’s body had been car- Hed -anay in. the which i F : il dat beet i