The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 27, 1934, Page 1

|. j { wi —_ ) North Dakota’s fer, Oldest Newspaper THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1934 PRICE FIVE CENTS Father Seeks to Ransom Child Recover $3,000 of Money Paid for Bremer FORMER CONVICT IS NABBED AT CHICAGO IN KIDNAPING CASE Secret Service Men At First Deny Report of Arrest; Confirm It Later OTHER SUSPECTS SOUGHT Government Agents Hear Pris- oner Was in Communica- tion With Dillinger Chicago, April 27.—()—Arrest of « suspect carrying $3,000 of the $200,000 paid for the release of Edward Bre- mer, St. Paul banker and brewer, from kidnapers several months ago was disclosed here Friday. The suspect, William E. Vidler, 34, ® former convict, was arrested in a Chicago gambling establishment and has been held incommunicado by federal authorities since then. After others in his office had denied reports of the arrest for several hours, Melvin H. Purvis, chief of the U. 8. division of investigation here, acknowledged that Vidler was in cus- tody and the money recovered. The money found in Vidler’s pock- ets, Purvis disclosed, included $2,665 in $5 and $10 bills. identified as part of the ransom money. Police said Vidler lived at 5001 North Clark Street, Chicago, and that he had served a sentence of one theft. Federal authorities said they hoped Vidler’s arrest would help to bring about apprehension of other in the kidnaping and perhaps aid in ae eee ment. Purvis said he had information that Vidler had been in communication with John Dillinger and members of his gang. The bureau of investigation chief also said he was seeking another man said to have more of the ransom money in Chicago. It was believed Vidler was attempt- ing to exchange the ransom money, of which the serial numbers were known, for cash not dangerous to to carry, making horse race wagers for that purpose. Bremer was kidnaped in St. Paul Jast January, held for more than three weeks, and released upon payment of the $200,000. Policemen Kidnaped By Escaped Convicts San Quentin, Cal, April 1 ‘Two desperate convicts, heavily arm- ed, Friday held the fate of two kid- ir By ae ge PAT Hal ay AH 5 i itt ie} Fi ‘ : I : a E f geri HELE eoake Ht F ze E i 3 in f z i af "5 E i | Will Visit Here if May 31 and June 1. He is expected to address a mass meeting here, prob- ably the evening of May 31. NATIONAL CHIEF OF DISABLED VETERANS TO VIST BISMARCK Joseph W. M’Queen Expected to! Bring Message on Liber- alized Benefits Joseph W. McQueen of Kansas City,| Mo., national commander of the Dis- abled American Veterans of the World War, will visit Bismarck May 31 and June 1, according to informa- tion received here by E. M. Davis, ad- jutant of the local D. A. V. unit, from Vivian D. Corbly, national adjutant. ‘He will come here from Helena, Mont., and on June 1-2 he will visit Fargo, Members of the D. A. V. through- out the state are urged to attend of the two meetings to be arranged in Bismarck and Fargo for the national commander, who will have a mes- sage of interest to all disabled veter- ans. Davis was instructed by Corbly to make certain that hotel accommoda- tions here for the national comman- der are adequate and to probably will arrange a meet- ing of disabled veterans here for the evening of May 31, at which Com- mander McQueen will be the chief speaker. He is expected to address the veterans in regard to recent changes in veteran benefits secured through liberalizing executive orders and congressional amendments, pass- ed over the president's veto. Commander Veterans since early in 1926, having served the Schu- mann-Heink chapter of Kansas City and the Missouri department in var- fous official capacities. He served a one-year term on the national execu- tive committee and was » candidate| tur’) for national commander at the ver convention in 1927. Last year he was a member of the national finance committee and rep- resented the D. A. V. on the veter- ans’ administration legal advisory Den- i At Mexican Bordéx Enlisting in the Missouri National Commander saw tinuous service during the border troubles in 1916, pA HEH i Hollywood Jail Keys Found on Woman dor EEE ef Hr | sfiral } Eg t be NORTHERN BIDS LOW FOR FARGO-SEATTLE AIRMAIL CONTRACT Offers to Fly U. S. Mails for 28.8 Cents Per Air Mile for 90 Days NORTHWEST'S BID IS 33% North Dakota Capital Has Been Without Service Since Ac- tion in March Northern Air Transport, Inc., sub- mitted the low bid of 288 cents per airplane mile for 90-day contract for carrying U. 8. air mail between Fargo, N. D., and Seattle, Wash., via Bismarck, according to an Associat- ed Press dispatch from Washington, D. C., shortly after noon Friday. Bids were opened postoffice department. Northwest Airlines, Inc., successor to Northwest Airways, Inc., which formerly had the airmail contract through Bismarck, submitted a bid of 33% cents per airplane mile. The maximum rate allowed is 45 cents. Were No Other Bidders ‘There were no other bidders for the contract. Other routes on which bids were received include Fort Worth, Tex., to Los Angeles; Detroit to Milwaukee and Newark to Chicago. Bids were opened under the direc- tion of Acting Postmaster General ‘W. W. Howes. Action of American Airlines, Inc., the company reputed to be dominat- ed by E. L. Cord, motor magnate, in submitting bids for two routes which were uncontested was interpreted as putting it in s position to get some of the airmail business apparently lost when its bids for 21 other routes, op- ened last week, were higher in seven Sateen” submit Biatuarek has been wi t a service since early in March, when one| President Roosevelt ordered wholesale cancellation of airmail contracts. Northwest Airways, Inc., which had carried the airmail through here, also abandoned its air passenger and ex- press service shortly after the airmail service was discontinued. Northwest Airways, which recently was reorganized and re-named North- arrange} west Airlines, was established and be- was inaugurated. Here In June, 1931 i & = bi i rE a zs i E at noon by the) “Mt! \3 Bishop Cannon Is Acquitted by Jury Washington, April violate an election law in the churchman's 1928 Campaign against Alfred E. Smith. The jury had been out three and one-half hours. : THREATS OF DEATH FORCED PHYSICIAN TO TREAT BAD MAN Minneapolis Doctor Says He Faced Possibility of Be- ing ‘Rubbed Out’ 8t. Paul, April 27—(#)—Dr. Clayton May of Minneapolis told Friday how he was given the choice of treating John Dillinger for a gunshot wound or of being “rubbed out” with a ma- ine gun. ‘As he told the story, Dr. May nerv- ously paced the cell where he is being held to await the action of a federal under a close guard by a Dillinger outlaw, followed by Green, who later was shot and killed by federal agents, and the woman, ordered him to drive to the home of his nurse and treat him for the bullet wound. The wom- an, later identified as Beth Green, now also is held by the department H | z22 f E 4 : i EE i ae E i i i i Es 1 : [ [ F a i bu AL fe : i Eee i BEB E z az if : EF i Ey 3 le HU vi rl #2 a | i is : : E 4 F : é aa i > Hy f 4 5, i g¢ Sete t a te. tl ik i i E ef i F z i ae | us ai Lilgl i H A ae i i cy FF of justice on charges of harboring Dill Reaching the home of Mrs. Salt, the physician and the wounded man entered the home where the desper- ado laid his machine gun on a table. Then, according to Dr. May, he warned them: “You better treat this wound and keep your mouths shut or else you will be rubbed out.” Dr. May said he was admonished that he would be followed and that if he disobeyed commands would he be killed but that his nurse also would meet the same fate. “I was informed the evening of the nurse prisoner in her own home. When I went to the office I observed that Green constantly folloWed me.” | penny” for his treatment. "| Silver List Fails To Stir Lawmakers ; | I s i ii B de l | i E i iy ; i 5 E 4 i z : i : i ' : il i i i et : | | | | 1 | be Prison Physician Is .| an indictment charging that he forged z ‘BABY FACE? NELSON MAKES ESCAPE FROM WISCONSIN. HIDEOUT Kidnaps Indian as Guide Out of District After Stealing Motor Car ELUDES ARMY OF SEARCHERS | i Dillinger Aide Hid Out in Shack! While Woods Were Being Combed for Him Lac Du Flambeau, Wis., April 27.— (#)—Ollie Catfish, an Indian, was the unwilling companion of a man be- Meved to be George (Baby Face) Nel- son, Dillinger gangster, after he had stolen an automobile near here. Cat- fish, on his return here Friday said he had been forced to give directions to the gangster. The man who answered the des- cription of Nelson is believed to have spent two days in an Indian shack at Fence Lake in the Lac Du Flambeau district. Last night he left the shack and stole the car of Adolph Getz, a Merrill rural letter carrier, who was fishing at a lake near here. Picking up Catfish, the gangster, who the Indian said carried three pistols, forced the Indian to show him the way to highway 70, which leads west to Fifield. Catfish rode with his captor to a junction of the Lac Du Flambeau road and highway 70 four miles southwest of here. There the Indian was forced from the car and walked back to the town where he described his captor as a man of about 40, five feet tall and in an unusually high voice. Nelson turned toward Fifield on That enough time elapsed between Nelson's theft of the car and the re- port of the theft to Price and Vilas county authorities to allow Nelson to make a clean break for safety was shown in the story told by Gets to Sheriff Harold J. Getchell of Lincoln county, Getz lives in Merrill. Getz said that fully two hours elap- sed between the time the theft was reported to the Indian agent's office at Lac Du Flambeau’ and the time of the order by department of jus- tice men to Vilas county authorities to patrol the highways. He was fishing near Lac Du Flam- beau, Getz said, about nine o'clock Thursday night when a man stopped him and asked him “is that car on the hill yours?” * When Getz told him it was, the stranger pulled a pistol on him, made him turn over the key and then drove off. Getz walked to the Indian agents office here and reported the incident to a man named Farber. Under-sheriff Dell McGregor of Vilas county said that, at about 10:40 p. m. he was notified by telephone from department of justice agents to send out his men. The Vilas coun- ty patrol worked in cooperation with those of Price county who checked the area about Fifield and Park Falls. McGregor said that if Nelson was traveling by car in the area today it would be practically impossible for him to escape because of the heavy (Continued on Page 3) Held on Plot Charge St. Paul, April 27.—(#)—Dr. W. J. Hewson, assistant prison physician at Stillwater penitentiary for the last five years, has been discharged and fictitious names to prescriptions for narcotics will be asked of the federal grand jury, it was learned Thursday. Dr. Hewson’s dismissal was ordered by the state board of control, it was reported, after he allegedly forged the names of prison inmates to pre- scriptions for dope. Dr. Hewson re- sides in Stillwater and is married. ed they would be called Friday. Funeral for Garrison Woman Set for Sunday i at u i , i fact | ij % | § [ i z 5 iF H é ane : i i i | : i : i i : ‘ ff HH i i é i g E i i i “MOST GLORIFIED BLOND” A lovely Norwegian lass who has shouldered her way to the top among America’s glorified beauties is Ethel Thorsen (above). has been chosen the most beautiful blond in the Ziegfeld Follies. BRITISH GIVE VIEW/COMBINED DISTRICT ON DOCTRINE URGED BY POWER-MAD JAPS Say ‘Asia for Asiatics’ Cannot Be Extended to Parts of Continent (Copyright 1934, By The Associated Press) London, April 27.—(@)—A_ British authority's answer to the “Asia for Asiatics” doctrine came Friday from @ source close to the British Indian administration. Japan, the authority said, may dominate China by force and may gain some influence in Siam through intrigue—though this latter is doubt- ful—but she will never exercise even minor influence in India and other areas of Southern Asia. “Asia for Asiatics” is rapidly be- coming the slogan of all eastern peo- ples, he added, “but only the Jap- nese conceive of this new Asia as be- ing run by Japan.” ‘The authority attributed the popu- larization of the slogan to Japan's rise to power and imperialistic expan- sion. A doctrine of “Asia for Asiatics un- der the leadership of Japan, acting in close collaboration with other Asiatic powers,” has been enunciated official- ly by the Toyko government through Masayuki Yokoyama, consul general at Geneva. No Official Reply Made No official reply, it was made plain, has come from Great Britain, but the answer given the Associated Press was represented as accurately reflect- ing the views of the British Indian administration. The informant described as “utterly fantastic” any possible Japanese aspir- ations to an extension of influence over India and other southern Asiatic Even if ‘independent of Great Britain, India would never permit Japanese influence, he asserted. British leaders can not envison an independent India ‘that would not be steadfastly and perpetually loyal to the British King—as are Canada and Australia. Contending the Indians are dis- trustful of the Japanese, the Associ- ated Press informant said that during the World War — when submarines Paralyzed British shipping—the Jap- ‘anese took over 90 per cent of India’s Yet, he added, months after peace was declared, Ja- Pan's share suddenly declined because her traders lost the confidence of the Indian buyers.” FAVOR STATE POLICE St. Paul, April 27.—()—Endorse- ' MASONIC CONVENTION HELD HERE THURSDAY Lodges From Six Towns in 14th} and 24th Districts Repre- sented at Meeting The annual convention of the com- bined 14th and 24th district constit- uent lodges of Masons was held in Bismarck at the Masonic temple Thursday afternoon, with delegations Present representing lodges from Bis- marck, Steele, Linton, Mandan, Hazen and Flasher. Following reading of reports of in- dividual lodges by the worshipful mas- ters, a reception was tendered dis- tinguished visitors including John W. Robinson, Garrison, past grand mas- ter and personal representative of the grand master; L. K. Thompson, senior grand warden, and John Moses, grand pursuivant. Community singing, led by Leon- ard Orvedal, featured the dinner at which 125 members of the Bismarck and visiting lodges were present. Musi- cal numbers were also given by the Masonic male chorus of Mandan. Fol- lowing the dinner short talks were given by John W. Robinson and L. K. ‘Thompson and Moses gave an ad- dress on “Grand Lodge Activities.” The district convention endorsed the action of the Masonic Lodge of Steele in sponsoring the collection of funds to be donated to the North Dakota Anti-Tuberculosis association to assist in carrying on the activities of the association at Camp Grassick. The delegates voted to hold the next Joint convention of the 14th and 24th districts at Mandan in 1935. A resolution of condolence and sym- Pathy was extended to Grand Secre- tary Walter L. Stockwell of Fargo, on the recent death of his son, who was killed in an accident in California. In addition to about 40 Bismarck men and members of the Mandan male chorus, the following Masons attended the convention: W. T. Boyd and W. A. Davis, Flasher; E. H. Heitbump, Timmer; Charles G. Hughes, Dr. A. O. He: ment of a system of state police was made at a meeting of the executive the Minnesota law and order league, at St. Paul Thursday, ac- 2 cording to an announcement made Friday by Walter E. Olson, executive secretary. TAKE IS CALLED OFF 10 AID NEGOTIATIONS Deputy Sheriff Says Contact Made With Abductors of Arizona Girl AGREE TO PAY $15,000 Grandfather Represented as Having Money Ready to Pay for Return Tucson, Ariz., April 27—()—A Pima county deputy sheriff, who declined to allow his name to be used, said Friday he understood a contact had been made during the night with the kidnapers of six-year-old June Robles. The contact, if it was made, was be- lieved to have followed a temporary withdrawal of official and volunteer seachers at 2 a. m. by request of the Robles family. No immediate confirmation of the negotiation report was forthcoming. Members of the family were quoted by investigators as saying they de- sired to negotiate direct with the ab- ductors, if possible, fearing the little dark-eyed girl's life would be forfeited if the search continued much longer without result. ‘The unverified report said that Ber- nabe Robles, reputedly wealthy grand- father of the child, had agreed, in communication with the abductors, to pay the $15,000 ransom demanded. The order which checked the widespread manhunt was issued by Undersheriff Colby 8. Far- rar aftet Fernando Robles, father af the dark-eyed girl, and Carlos Robles, her uncle, said they were willing to |meet the ransom demand. “The safety of the child comes first,” Farrar said. “I don’t believe anyone will deny that it is of primary Tea that June Robles be found ive.” Main Object Is Safety “The main object in the case,” said Carlos Robles as spokesman for the family, “I believe, is to have the girl returned safely to her family. For draw from the case in order to per- mit us to negotiate with the kidnap- ers in the hope that we may have the girl returned safely to her home. The officers have been kind enough to ac- cept and have agreed to withdraw.” While the hunt was under way a second note was received and branded as. false by Farrar. That note re- duced the ransom demand from $15,- 000 to $10,000. Farrar said no direct word had come from the abductors since the first ransom demand was delivered to Fernando Robles two hours after June was seized Wednes- Gay as she was returning from school. Farrar expressed hopes of an early contact with the kidnapers, though he Gave no reason for his optimism. So intense is the feeling over the crime that it appeared early Friday the effort to call a halt to the kidnap hunt would not be easy. Hundreds of quick-shooting cowboys rode the des- ert and scores of older volunteers, re- trieving long-abandoned weapons from backroom closets, had offered their services in the manhunt, MINORITY PLANNING STOCK BILL REPORT Would Attack Control Measure as Not Essential to Na- tional Recovery Washington, April 27—(P)—A new attack on the stock market control bill in the form of a minority report, took shape Friday within the senate bank- ing committee. The minority statement was being drawn in reply to a majority report which held that the projected federal regulation of markets was “essential” to sustained prosperity. Senator Walcott (Rep. Conn.) dis- closed that the minority report was under draft but said it had not been definitely determined whether ARMY OF SEARCHERS. the decision that the officers with- ~