The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 25, 1934, Page 1

f ESTABLISHED 1878 PUBLIC BEWILDERED AS HEIMWERR CHIER ANNOUNCES ‘PUTSGH 4 Resignation of Chancellor Is : Made and Later Official- : ly Denied OPEN CONFLICT PREDICTED One Person Killed, Several Wounded in First Outbreak Early Wednesday BULLETIN Pra, Czechoslovakia, July 25.—(?) —The official Czech (News) Agency announced Wednesday night that Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss of Aus- ~ tria_was dead, quoting as its author- ity the Austrian minister to Czechos- lovakia. A similar report was received in London from the Austrian legation at Praha. An Associated Press dispatch from Berlin said the Austro-German fron- tier was closed Wednesday night. is shown here giving he: tion to Minna, 5 months old, WAVE DEATH [HERES RESOLUTION ==ss: seers TOLL REAGHES 78 RELIEF IN SIGHT, TUESDAY APTERNOON|= ADOPTED BY HOUSE).;2== INABILITY T0 PAY BASIS FOR OLSON'S BROAD MORATORIUM Does Not Bar Collection of Or- dinary Debts, Acting Governor Explains MAY APPLY TO COURTS) Promise Is Made to Have All Phases of New Protec- tive Measure Legal North Dakota's new dirt-farmer governor, Ole H. Olson, Wednesday proclaimed a moratorium on form of debt where the debtor shows: inability to pay. Broader in scope than any mora- torium issued by his predecessor, ousted Gov. William Langer, Olson's Proclamation is designed to protect the farmer against forecolsure, the small businessman, home owners, and. extends even to a suspension of pay- ment on conditional sales contracts. Provision is. made for application to the courts by any creditcr “who! feels himself injured.” ‘The proclamation, Olson explained, does not bar the collection of ordi- nary debts, but where a debtor is in financial distress the moratorium is expected to afford relief. Creditors who Lape by the operation of the mo! lum may, on hearing and subsequent review by the governor, have provisions of the mor- atorium lifted if they do the creditor an injustice. by the Olson faction that a “legal: moratorium” would be given citizens of the state. Proclamation prohibits state, county or township officers, or any persons appointed by the courts, citizen residing in this state.” officers are prohibited furth- evicting persons from their homes or business establishment “for inability to pay, or repossess any ar- les sold on conditional sales con- or contract of sales, nor cancel t for inability of , nor foreclosure of ‘Bible Banging Is | New Court Issue ’ Philadelphia, July 25.—(P}— There is a new issue before the courts—bible-banging. Magistrate Costello says a per- son who bangs a bible is disorder- ly. Attorney Francis M. Smith di and has appealed his $10 fine for losing his temper at a hearing and banging the bible, used to swear witnesses, on the magistrate’s desk. DILLINGER DEATH VERSION RELATED BY “GIRL IN RED’ One of Two Women With Outlaw at Time of Slaying Be- lieved N. D. Woman Chicago, July 25—()—From the “girl in red” police learned Wednes- day more about how John Dillinger walked into the trap that ended with death his career of crime. The “girl in red,” one of the two ‘women who were with the Indiana outlaw just before he was killed by federal bullets, was Mrs. Anna Sage, 42, brown-haired and brown-eyed. Po- lice arrested her Tuesday night at her home just around the corner from the Biograph theatre, out of which Dillinger walked unsuspectingly Sun- day night to his death. Mrs. Sage told police she knew John Dillinger as “Jim Lawrence,” and that he posed as an employe of the Chicago board of trade. “girl in red” after long as Mrs. Roy Keele, 26-year-old divorc- ed wife of a Gary, Ind., policeman— of how Dillinger spent his time just prior to the fatal shooting, and of how he said he went to New York recently “on a business trip.” He was also .reported to have witnessed a Chi- cago baseball game. But it was not learned whether Mrs. Sage or Mrs. Keele furnished the information with which Dillinger was trapped. Both fled from the scene of the shooting, but Mrs. Sage returned, after changing her red dress for another. Mrs. Keele declined to go back to the scene and later went to her mother's home in Fargo, N. D., Mrs. Sage said. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1934 y Austrian Nazis | Face-Saving Session Quits Dollfuss Shot in Capture b : Missouri Slope Must Be Evacuated, Says Mead Dakota ‘First Lady’ Prefers Farm RECLAMATION HEAD. FINDS COUNTRY NOT WORTH CULTVATING Recommends Return of Area to Grazing; Moving Out Thousands WOULD SEED NATIVE GRASS Land Not Suitable for Dirt Farming Unless Water Supply Is Assured Washington, July 25.—(#)—Dr. El- wood Mead, reclamation commission- er, said We the drouth area of the western half of the Dakotas and the eastern slope of the Rocky Moun- tains “must be evacuated.” Tens of thousands of people, Dr. Mead said, must be moved off the stricken land. Dr. Mead returned to Washington Tuesday from a tour of the west. “I never believed we would have he said. “There is nothing left. is gone.” Asked what could be done with the land, if it should be abandoned, Dr. Mead said it could be reseeded to the native bunch buffalo grass and un- doubtedly eventually would make rich range land again. The land never should have been cultivated, Dr. Mead said. It had in- sufficient rainfall to sustain an in- tensive agriculture. The drouth this year, he said, was merely an intensi- fication of a sub-normal rainfall per- fed shat already had reduced the ter- ritory to strained circumstances. a is no use ever permitting a recurrence of this situation,” Dr. Mead said. He said in his opinion if the drouth should be broken, and farming in the area should be continued, another drouth was certain to follow after a few years. Reiterating a stand taken previous- ly, Dr. Mead said the drouth proved beyond doubt that in an arid or semi- arid country, agriculture must de- a 2 Captured by Nazis ° | CHANCELLOR DOLLFUSS Austrian Nazis Wednesday claimed to have captured Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss and his entire cabinet. The nation was in a state of utmost con- fusion. PAPKE DISMISSES — BEER, REGULATORY INSPECTOR CREWS Action Is First Housecleaning Step; Estimated Savings $5,000 a Month North Dakota's 19 beer inspectors were discharged and 25 regulatory in-| ‘spectors were sent notice of dismissal Tuesday by Sidney A. Papke, named Pend upon stored water. Where there are no facilities for water stor- age and irrigation, he said, no dry farming can provide a permanent base for a civilization. Sun Siege Increases Drouth Damage in Middle West to Millions of Dollars real or personal| Mrs. Keele, 26, was known in Fargo ———— leprive any citizen of|before her Rarriage to cpa Keele, MILL CITY STRIKE property or title/Gary, Ind. one-time policeman, as. be a Polly Hamilton, daughter of Mrs. ee FACTION REGEIV Document Assumes to Confer) *"” Authority But Makes No Provision for Expenses “putsch” was launched, Vienna had experienced one half hour of machine- tax of any tax or sheriff’s| Edith M. Hamilton, now a resident of Fargo. Mrs. Keele left Fargo last December, her family said, and her brother, Ercyl Hamilton of Fargo, .|said nothing had been heard from her since the Dillinger . “Tip Off” Stil Secret Secrecy the government agents ‘Th vet alege attained its ’ vere proportions of the summa: Wed.| Here is the text of the resolution nesday, driving the number of deaths }@dopted Tuesday by the state house far above the 700 mark and the/of representatives, assuming to sit as com damage toward billions of dol-/a court of impeachment: “For a complete investigation of the Administration of Governor the method and manner of soliciting his conviction in the federal court; Bis. threw around the affair still persist- ed and it could not be learned wheth- er either woman will make any claim OLSON ULTIMATU ary Intervention Decided Upon Unless Controversy to the $15,000 rewards that hung political contributions for campaign] ine Is Settled Minneapolis, July 25.—(#)—Gov. Floyd B. Olson smashed into the truck drivers’ strike with a mailed fist Wednesday, decreeing military tule of Minneapolis effective Thurs- given the information to Okla 'Nobleevils, Td COL Ma See SOU 112, and Quincy, Til., st 111—Its sev- iy enth successive day above 108, SENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF were prepared to carry out the gov. NORTH DAKOTA, sirtina as 4|G, N, Employe Killed ; : In New York city, where four uu jo IN. sons have died from the heat’ stow.| COURT OF IMPEA 3 now in Minneapolis and its environs, trike = st as mand for (the er. act was : being a part of the Dunninghan, tors) dered by the Ni should be the em- prisoners. ployers and the gov- ge through oTfie issued his sta simultane: shters the i antes vena: were killed, ously with an it from. and the trouble reported to have Father Haas embody- spread as far as Innsbruck and Klag- ing new plans of the enfurt. conf in are the latter President Wil: demai wider i i i i eee a2 4: B rE t Ebged week H ae “4 | i i 2 eg E i t ft y e & i: Ei i : Hi fE ? i i Tuesday over the of- | eastern: ‘was set but was im-|erally poor Ng entire city will be placed under Official Aus- | ported. good. showers 12, that he/trol of the guard, but only that : Rain, he said, and Hankinson, head that/of it which would or might the general | sl! sections. car in his by the strike. Courts c money he|forcements units would i = f ! i i 4 é a , i E i il cal id to head the state regulatory depart- ment by Acting Governor Ole H. Ol- It was the first large-scale action to oust appointees named under the/ administration of William Langer, de- Posed governor. i Papke, who has taken over super-| vision of the beer commission after Commissioner O. T. Owen was “fir- ed,” said none of the beer inspectors will be replaced. Of the total 33 regulatory inspectors, about half that number will be used to enforce both the beer act and regulatory laws. It was estimated that by consolidat- ing the beer commission with the regulatory department a saving of approximately $5,000 a month will be effected in the beer department alone. Employment of beer inspectors and numerous regulatory department, inspectors has been the object of considerable political controversy, bitter attacks by Langer op- and ponents. “Under this administration there will be no beer inspectors,” Papke ex-! . “Their work can and will be readily done by inspectors ior the regulatory department. “We expect to cut the overhead materially, but an inspection staff will have to be retained, of course. ‘When reorganization is completed I imagine the entire inspection staff for the two departments will not be more than half as large as the staff of the regulatory department alone has "46 Cars Put In Garage Ge yi Thi ? sey ae ey The Weather PRICE FIVE CENTS LANGER SOLONS T0 RETURN TO HOUSE AT CALL OF CHAIR Committee of 15 Is Named to Prepare Matters for As- sembly Probe GIVEN SUBPOENA POWERS Many Feel ‘Show Is Over’, Chief Difficulty Is Mustering Quorum Members attending the pretended session of the state legislature were on the way home Wednesday with the exception of the special house com- mittee appointed to conduct an in- vestigation into the trial and convic- tion of William Langer and of charges of graft in the state government. The committee was appointed late Tuesday by Mrs. ‘Minnie D. Craig, Speaker of the house, following adop- tion of @ resolution granting it auth- ority to act and to subpoena wit- nesses, books and records. The house then recessed to meet again upon call of the chair, this call to be made only after five days no- tice. The general feeling Wednesday was that the pretension of holding a spe- cial legislative session is definitely , over and that the men who had fos- tered it had taken the best way out to save their faces as best they could. Some members of the house who claimed to know asserted that not more than 40 votes could be mus- tered if resolutions were presented to impeach state officers. Many said they felt “the show is over.” The reason for this belief lies in the difficulty which the legislators had in mustering a house quorum Monday and Tuesday. They failed Monday when 56 was the best they could do, barely succeeded Tuesday when 57 finally were rounded up. -. .. Awe Getting No Pay They are getting no pay and do not expect that any will be available. With the exception of those who were fur- nished transportation here by state officials working for Former Governor William Langer, they have had to bear the cost of getting to the capital themselves—and they will have to pay the cost of going home. As a result, many indicated that they will not come back. Even some Langer supporters admitted that the whole business was @ fiasco and they want no more of it. How many of the committee of 15 remained in town to take up the du- ties assigned to that group was not definitely known. The group met Tuesday night, appointed a sub-com- mittee to decide on procedure to be followed in subpoenaing witnesses and records, and then some departed, leav- ing the sub-committee to carry on. This group, too, may run into dif- ficulties. No money was appropri- ated to finance its activities, and even if there had been they couldn't get it because state officials are re- fusing to recognize the alleged special session as legal. Unless only persons who are willing tn recognize the authority of the com- mittee are subpoenaed, there is the Possibility that a court test may be made of the legality of the whole business. This has been carefully avoided by supporters of William Langer, promoting the session, but has been hopefully sought by friends of Acting Governor O. H. Olson. The Olsonites are confident that, if the matter is brought to issue, they would win despite an opinion by Attorney General P. O. Sathre tnat the house has the right to convene itself to sit as a court of impeachment. Still another factor hcs to do with paying the mileage and costs of wit- nesses. When a subpoena is issued, the witness has the right to demand his mileage to the place of hearing, and he is entitled to witness fees. The law does not contempiate that he shall leave his home and place of bus- iness without compensation.