The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 21, 1934, Page 1

We Unite dered strike indus retur Tay” presi of L unio chat: nour “v stan this the liftir asf ESTABLISHED 1873 a K kk & Hin SS ie ay CHANCE FOR STRIKE TRUCE BY SATURDAY SHEN AFTER REPORT Union Leaders Well Pleased With Recommendations Made by Mediators __—__. ROOSEVELT BACKS PLANS ee ee Vote to Be Taken by Textile Workers Either Late Fri- day or Saturday Washington, Sept. 21.—()}—Ter- mination of the textile strike by Bate urday at the latest was indicated here Friday as the executive council of the United Textile Workers arranged to meet to act upon the report of the President's mediation board, Strike leaders, well pleased with the report of the president's mediation board, which they characterized a§ “an indictment” of mill owners, ex- plained that the strike could be ended only by instructions from the execu- tive council. A vote to accept the report and end the strike immediately was expected late Friday or Saturday at the latest if manufacturers also accepted the recommendations of the president's board and agreed to take back all strikers without discrimination. Roosevelt Makes Plea President Roosevelt made a person- al appeal for peace. In a declaration made public at Hyde Park, the summer White House, he expressed hope “that all employes now out on strike will return to work and all textile manufacturers will take back employes without discrimina- tion.” His statement formally approved the peace proposal laid before him Thurs- day by the special board of inquiry headed by Governor Winant, of New Hampshire. The spokesman for operators, George A, Sloan, announced he would “con- fer promptly with members of the cotton textile code authority so as to determine what means they will take to ascertain the views of the indus- try.” The peace report, made by a board headed by Governor John G. Winant of New Hampshire and hailed by: President Roosevelt as “excellent”, recommended: Four Recommendations Made 1. A textile labor relations board to protect labor's rights. 2. A survey by government agen- cies to determine whether the indus- try can “support an equal or a greater number of employes at higher wages.” 3. A second board to regulate the stretchout—a system whereby a work- er tends a greater number of mach- ines. 4. An inquiry by the labor depart- ment to aid in settling the problems of differentials between prescribed minimum wages and the wages above the minimum. ‘The board expressed the hope that, on the basis of the recommendations, the United Textile Workers would call off the & ke and that employers; would take back workers “without dis- crimination.” The executive council of the U.T.W. planned to meet Friday to decide. Na- tional strike leader Francis J. Gor- man, who said the report ap- (Continued on Page 7) BRAZILIAN REVOLT GETS PROBE STUDY Investigators Seek to Learn How Revolutionists Be- came so Well Armed tee it. 21.—()—Sena- Washington, Sep! the munitions tors of eae rent Pridey to learn wy Brazilian revolutionists were so well armed in 1932 eben. ad nearly un he government. sented tention before the senate ae mittee is that revolting siemens bought large quantities of Angee arms which were smuggled into Brazil. ith ofticials of ie ited States Ordnance Engineer Company ‘of Cleveland, the committee planned to call William P. the Byington and Company house, and then adjourn vember 19, when the hearing: resumed. es Arout roreign attacks On ee are sald they would delve until No- s will be studied a Chinese ican wheat and cotton, China last year pees et and the money used for anawer, nresten a sald hes 8 con! Sine the contention. ae committee indicated that at ie Be session it would sift reports 1 at | iy of the American cotton was sol fis China to Japanese ne and event way in fi ay toad markels in competition with american cotton products. idna fia y will be. to who they will Farmer-Laborites 4 |would make 8 rc to establish the nished form out | 0 T kk * kk HE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1934 x kek kkk kk & x Mx The Weather Unsettled tonight and Saturday lightly Warmer “tonight, colder ie PRICE FIVE CENTS p Case Solution Near x*k t Hauptmann Made Snatch Over Thousand Dead | Solution of Baby Lindbergh's Kidnaping Believed Near | Is Toll of Typhoon Along Japan Coast Casualties Steadily Mounting, Property Damage Runs Into Millions eee OSAKA IS STORM CENTER —— Called Nation's Worst Disaster Since 1923; Gale Aver- ages 90 Miles an Hour Tokyo, Sept. 21—(P—At least 1,346 Persons were killed and 4,203 injured Friday by a typhoon which swept cen- tral and western Japan, The steadily mounting toll of cas- ualties indicated that hundreds of per- Sons were missing. No immediate esti- mate could be made of the ‘property damage, but it was obvious that it Would amount to millions of dollars. In the city of Osaka, police reported 1,067 persons were dead and 3,057 in- Jured. There also, the police said 181 were unaccounted for. The storm Swept from Angasaki to Nagano. Only a hazy picture of the full sweep of destruction has yet reached Tokyo, | for communcations were badly bat- tered by the wind which in places reached a velocity of 120 miles an hour and carried with it sea floods which | teached tidal wave proportions. | ‘The casualties appeared to have! been concentrated in the cities of| Osaka and Kyoto. The countryside hardest hit was the center of the industrial district. Police reported that in Osaka alone 622 had been killed and 2,114 injured. In Osaka and her suburbs 128 schools collapsed and pupils and teachers were puried under them, .. “ The Kyoto police reported they had} found 203 dead and 858 injured. | Troops patrolled the darkened and} debris strewn city of Osaka as auth-| orities took up the task of feeding and| sheltering the approximately 200,000) homeless persons. The Japanese army is furnishing the supplies. Shipping losses appeared to be com- paratively light. The newspaper Asahi reported that 200 patients of the Sotojima leper hospital at Osaka were missing and feared drowned although 350 lepers survived and were without lights and water. Osaka faced a night of darkness. Her eletcric plants were out of cém- mission; there were no street cars or newspapers. Her waterworks were badly damaged. Thousands of homes) were without drinking water and re- servists began hauling water into the city in trucks, ‘The picture is still fragmentary for communications were disrupted. It is known, however, that the seas swept in with tidal wave proportions, drowning many in the low-lying areas of the costal villages in the prefec-| ture of Osaka. ‘The insane asylum on the outskirts! of Osaka was washed away and its 60/ inmates were missing. The big leper: hospital in Osaka was inundated and! destroyed and it was belived that be- tween 40 and 50 of its inhabitants were drowned. The railways between Nagoya and | Okayama were disrupted. Nine of | their trains were either derailed or} overturned: The worst train wreck | was near Utsu where a passenger train was overturned, killing 10 per- sons and injuring 165. 90-Mile an Hour Gale ‘The central meteorological observa- tory at Tokyo reported that the ty- phoon averaged 90 miles an hour at (Continued on Page 9 Olsness Turns Down Third Party Offer) .d Forks, N. D., Sept. 21.—(?)— Pai: Olsness, state commissioner of insurance, said here Friday that he has refused to become a candidate for office on the Fane leet third A the fall election. oe A. ‘T. Russell of Fargo, Olsness stopped in Grand Forks on the Li to Winnipeg for @ week-end visit. . said his only activity in the prea campaign would ‘be to contribute a few articles to & Norwegian language Pa y many candidates would Asked how mivket, Olsness said he be on the third ticket, ' vas uninformed as did not know, and wa! aE ee he doubted if the meee votes, but would work ay for future campaigns. Ask Police Help in "Finding Local Man ca Friday they had a lookout for 401 13th St., who) Police disclosed been asked to G, Folsom, 40 Ma eared fom penne orneee | ing or early i 3s fo his whereabouts have been Te: ceived, they $4) eae ated years old, ree a in the state regula- PROBE OF $10,000 LOAN 0 SATHRE IS ASKED BY GOVERNOR kota to Attorney General Ordered June 16 DAY LANGER HELD GUILTY Resolution Says Purpose Was to Finance Court Fight in Utility Tax Case (By the Associated Press) Acting Governor Ole H. Olson Fri- day announced he would ask the state industrial commission, of which he is chairman, to investigate @ loan of $10,000 by the Bank of North Da- kota to Attorney General P. O. Sathre to supplement the appropria- tion for the latter’s department. The loan was authorized by an in- dustrial commission resolution to hire special attorneys to aid in defending the state in the 12 per cent gross earn- ings utility tax suit brought against the state by utilities companies. Sathre was out of the city and could not be reached for comment on the matter. Olson err wee at the same, time. that Bi cotmissioner of agriculture Lad the | bor, voiced criticism of the loan, and questioned the legality of the trans- action. Olson, Husby and Sathre compose the present industrial commission. The loan attacked by Husby and sub- ject of the proposed investigation was made under the administration of ousted Gov. William Langer. Made on June 16 Records of the industrial commis- sion show the loan was approved June 16, with Langer and Sathre the only members present. Husby is listed as absent. Olson since then has re- Placed Langer as governor and chair- man of the industrial commission be- cause of Langer’s federal court con- viction the night of June 16 and re- moval from office a month later. Olson said he would ask that in- vestigation be made both of the loan transaction itself and of disburse- ments out of the $10,000 fund which, according to Husby, has been depos- ited in the Bank of North Dakota. Husby charged expenditures from the fund were being made by per- sonal check of Sathre, and that the fund “was not disvursed through offi- cial channels.” Present at the meeting, at which the {loan was approved, minutes of the industrial commission show, were Langer and Sathre. The resolution provided that: Text of Loan Order “Whereas, there is pending in the United States district court for the district of North Dakota, certain liti- gation by utilities companies against the State of North Dakota to enjoin collection of taxes provided under Chapter 252, Session laws of 1933, and| “Whereas, the attorney general's department has not sufficient funds left from its appropriation with which to hire special attorneys trained in tax procedure, “Now, therefore, be it Resolved, that the Bank of North Dakota is hereby directed to loan to the attor-' ney general's department the sum of $10,000 and to take the note of P. O,| Sathre, attorney general of the State of North Dakota, for that amount, which note shall be payable February 18, 1935, and shall draw interest at the rate of four per cent per annum until paid.” Minutes of the meeting further] reveal that following passage of the resolution no further business was transacted and the meet ad- journed. e Husby questioned the “practice of paying out of public funds with per- sonal checks,” and said he “under- stood the loan had been obtained on the personal note of Sathre.” No Check on Spending “what check can the state have against disbursement of the funds,” Husby asked. “I question the right’ of Sathre to exceed his appropria. tion by the legislature, and I ques- (Continued on Page 9 Fall Business Shows Improvement Already New York, Sept. 21.—(7)—The fall season already has succeeded, said the Dun & Bradstreet Weekly Trade Review Friday, in making a more fa- vorable trade showing than appeared likely from early estimates, despite poor weather and a nation-wide strike, ‘The improvement thus far has been confined to distributive branches of been employed oe ae ae tory ao 4 assistant director | Scout band. No} for his disappearance ena be given by his friends. trade, the Review says, as a feeble start toward industrial revival became discernable after @ recession of a month and a half. Advance by Bank of Nortly Da- DR. JOHN F. CONDON *-* * The closeup (top) of little Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., was taken when the child was 20 nursery crib on March 1, 1932. He would have been a little over four years old had he not been killed by fiends responsible for his abduction. Above is Dr. John F Condon, mediator for Colonel Lindbergh, who threw a sack con- taining $50,000 in ransom money over a graveyard wall. At the right are Baby Lindbergh's fa- mous parents in a pensive pose. EARLY DECISION ON DEBT ACT I URGED Cummins Declares Case Should | Be Disposed of as Soon as Possible Washington, Sept. 21.—(#)—Attor- ney General Cummins declared at his weekly press conference Thursday he | believed the Frazier-Lemke farm mortgage moratorium act should be brought up for decision by the supreme. court as soon as possible. . His statement followed the decision of United States District Judge W. Calvin Chestnut at Baltimore, hold- ing the act unconstitutional. The decision does not make the come @ government one yet, Cummings “The department of justice is, of course, interested in it,” he added. earliest opportunity.” Frazier-Lemke act gives farm- ers the opportunity to postpone pay- ment of mortgaged indebtedness on their property and retain possession of 16 oF. pasion OF 8 roees 1 Shey Ae unable to reach a suitable agreement with their creditors. Youth Confesses to | Extortion Attempts Crookston, Minn, Sept. 21—(#)— Howard Johnson, 17, Erskine, high confessed school senior here Thursday before a juvenile judge he sent a ser- at the The On instructions fror: officers, Croon-| quist left a dummy package at a desig- nated spot Tuesday night.. A youth appeared and when the beam of a flashlight was cast on him, fled, los- CHARLES A. LINDBERGH, Jr. COL. AND MRS. CHA RLES LINDBERGH Perfect Case Hauptman (MOODIE STRESSES -WETHODS OF RELEP Suggests Transfers From Mar- ginal Lands in Talk at Lisbon Thursday * Lisbon, N. D., Sept. 21—(?)— Transfer of farmers from marginal lands to lands capable of supporting Persons above the poverty level was stressed by Thomas H. Moodie, Dem- ocratic nominee for governor, in a campaign address here Thursday night. He pointed to a non-political gov- taxation. ing a leather jacket between the brush and Erskine. Confronted later by Croonquist, he confessed he wrote the notes. | congress, stressed benefits of fairness in North Dakota through the New Against n, Says Chief German Alien Denies Knowl- edge of Kidnaping, ‘Friend’ | Left Money With Him | New York, Sept. 21.—(#)—During questioning of Bruno Richard Haupt- {mann concerning the Lindbergh ran- som money, Acting Chief Inspector John J. Sullivan declared Friday in Police lineup: “We have a perfect extortion case against this man.” “I understand this man,” Sullivan said. “We have a perfect extortion ‘case against him. There is no doubt in my mind that he will have to an- swer @ more serious charge. There is not @ bit of doubt in my mind about this man.” |" As Sullivan fired questions at him, |Hauptmann blinked in the strong glare of the spotlight, focusing his gaze on the floor. He seemed to have difficulty in hearing his inquisitor |who frequently had to repeat his _ |Peaper ran swifty to a close Friday. Believe German Guilty of More Serious Charge Sullivan Declares Extortion Case Against Man Perfect, Hints Actual Abduction May Be Count When Court Action Is Finally Taken TESTIMONY GIVEN BY Police Characterize Explanati ‘Friend’ as Fantastic; ‘Bad Boy’ in ALIEN 1S CONFLICTING jon of Ransom Money Left by Record Shows He Was Native Town BULLETIN Washington, Sept. 21—(AP)—The Washington Evening Star said Friday three tiny pin holes were the link by which federal authorities were definitely connecting Bruno Richard Hauptmann with the actual ki Augustus Lindbergh, Jr. idnaping and murder of Charles In a story, by Rex Collier, who has followed federal efforts to solve the crime from the outset, the Star said: : “Handwriting comparisons and other means of identifica- tion may be questioned—but when the writer of the 13 ransom letters received after the kidnaping drew two mystic inter- locking circles at the bottom of each missive and punctured them with three tiny holes, he gave convincing, incontrovertible proof he was the actual kidnaper. submitting later a piece of clot! He clinched the proof by h positively identified by Betty Gow as part of little Lindy’s clothing. “Even the strange symbol of blue-ink circles, with their overlapping portion filled in with red ink, conceivably could have been duplicated by an im poster—but no person on earth other than the man who wrote the note found pinned to the baby’s nursery could have duplicated those holes, investigators declare.” more serious charge” than ext case. ed Thursday night by Governor a more serious charge.” UAPSIE'S LONG HUNT FOR RANSOM JOHN’ BELIEVED NEAR END Strange Teutonic Symbol on Letter Led Dr. Condon to Deliver $50,000 New York, Sept. 21.—(P)—Jafsie’s | quest of the Lindbergh ransom A strange Teutonic symbol, marked on a letter, led Dr. John F. Condon into the Lindbergh kidnaping case and duped him into tossing $50,000 cver a Bronx cemetery wall to a man known as “John,” even while the baby was dead. From that‘time, the 74-year old retired educator pursued the kid- napers on his own initiative, scan- ning hundreds of faces, meeting as many disappointments, but never losing confidence that one day he would again meet “John.” Thursday night he faced Bruno Richard Hauptmann, an unemployed German carpenter from his own Bronx, and Police Commissioner O’Ryan announced the man was identified as the one to whom the ransom money was paid. Hopes to Identify ‘John’ The aged educator saw Hauptmann at the police station Thursday after- noon and again at the Bronx county courthouse Thursday night but it was learned that he had not identified the man as “John.” Neither had he said positively that Hauptmann was not the man to whom he gave the Tansom money. Only two weeks ago, Dr. Condon In U, 8. 13 Years “How long have you been in this icountry?” asked Sullivan. - “Thirteen years,” Hauptmann re- plied. “How did you get in this country?” “I was a stowaway.” “What port did you come in to?” “New York.” “Who did yo know in New York?” continued Sullivan. “I didn't know anybody.” Hauptmann said he lived on Need- eventually would be exempt/nam avenue, moving to his present| were returned. address from there. ‘What is your business?” Sullivan asked. “Carpenter.” “Did you ever work in Lakewood, N. J., a8 @ carpenter?” “Yes,” “Did you work in some big house lover there (Lake' ye | ontinued #H Page Nine) had viewed a suspect at his home. Ts was not “John.” It was the last time the doctor confronted a sus- ect before he saw Hauptmann. A serles of Doctor Condon into the Lindbergh case as an intermediary and brought him into contact with persons estab- lished to be the actual kidnapers. It was soon after the kidnaping that Doctor Condon, aroused by the crime, announced through the Bronx Home News that he would add $1,000 t» the ransom mgney if the child He received @ mysterious telephone call from a man who told him the child would be returned, and asked him to act as intermediary. His suspicions aroused, the doctor told the man to write him a letter. Reads Letter to Lindbergh The letter came, and enclosed was New York, Sept. 21—(AP)—Bruno Richard Hauptmann, mild mannered German, fidgeted under the glare of spotlights on the police lineup platform Friday and heard Assistant In- spector John J. Sullivan declare he would “have to answer a ortion in the Lindbergh kidnap A short time later it was disclosed that a warrant for Hauptmann’s extradition on a charge of homicide had been sign- A. Harry Moore, of New Jersey, where the Lindbergh baby was kidnaped and slain. Sullivan told detectives assembled at the lineup that the police have “a perfett extortion case against this man,” and added “there is no doubt in my mind that he will have to answer Hauptmann Has Alibi His statement came at the end of an extensive questioning of the drawn and tired Hauptmann, whose unshav- en face added to his wan appearance. During his questioning Hauptmann gave Sullivan an alibi to explain his possession of $13,750 of the Lindbergh ransom money found in the garage at his Bronx home. A friend, he said. Isadore Fische, formerly his partner in the fur business, had given him the money. Police have ascertained that ee died in Germany last Decem- r. Lindberghs to Fly Back to New York Los Angeles, Sept. 21—(#)—Col- onel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh were reported Friday preparing to fly back to NewYork where Bruno Hauptmann was held in connection with the kidnaping and death of their first son. The Lindberghs were in seclus- fon. Secrecy has surrounded their movements since they flew into Los Angeles Monday at the end of @ leisurely cross-country flight. It was said they knew in advance that an arrest was expected. One of their intimate friends who has entertained the famous couple here, said they would have nothing to say except to authorities. He added that they were getting ready to return to New York. Police characterized his explanation “fantastic.” They are attempting to strengthen their case against him by @ comparison of the handwriting of the Lindbergh ransom notes and that on Hauptmann’s application for his automobile driver's license. They also were reported comparing it with the writing on the note left in the Lind- bergh nursery the night of the kid- naping. Rushed to West Farms Court in the Bronx, the prisoner was held without bail until Monday on a charge of ex- tortion of the $50,000 Lindbergh ran- The Bronx district attorney an- nounced: Testimony Is Conflicting “In the course of our investigation of the Bruno Richard Hauptmann case, we took a long statemant from Hauptmann in which. while he did not confess to being the receiver of the Lindbergh ransom money, he made some damaging and conflicting statements. “Dr. John F. Condon, who made the ransom payment for Col. Lindbergh, did not identify Hauptmann as the man to whom the payment was made.’ Meanwhile, the labor department in Washington disclosed Hauptmann’s |record showed he was a “bad boy” in @ letter to Colonel Lindbergh. Doc- § om Page 3) his native town of Kamenz, Germany, (Continuyg 90 Base, i cc sabaosemsar cami