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

ai |€84 North Dakota’s fe’ Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1878 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1934 “The Weather Increasing cloudiness and not quite so cold tonight; Sunday cloudy, warmer. PRICE FIVE CENTS \Floridans Hold Lynching Bee ‘} Administration Breaks Ties With Sinclair DEMOGRATIG FRONT |eton Resor OVER 9 PER CONT IN CALIFORNIA IS SPLIT WIDE OPEN Creel Withdraws Support of ‘Epic’ Candidate "After White House Visit FLAYS ‘END POVERTY’ PLAN Former Socialist Strikes Back, Declaring Primary Oppon- ent Broke Faith Washington, Oct. 27—(#)—The Roosevelt administration, it developed down on Upton Sinclair. Whereupon a violent quarrel shook California Democracy and dealt what many con- sidered a severe blow to the former Socialist’s bid for the governorship. George Creel, war-time chief of pub- licity, and Sinclair, the author who captured the Democratic nomination from Creel in a sensational “end pov- erty” campaign, fell to hammering away at each other, their ostensible united front split wide open. ‘The shooting began Pridey when Creel, who recently visited President Roosevelt, withdrew his support from Sinclair. In a letter which he said ‘was dated Oct. 18, he accused Sinclair of breaking faith with the Democratic state platform. He said Sinclair's “epic” plan was “unsound, unwork- able and un-American” and that his) promise to end poverty in California within four years was “ car- would withdraw from the porcronngy “under any circumstances whatever,” he dispatched a wire late Friday night from San Francisco to New York, where Creel is. “I have loyally kept every agree- ment with. you,” it.said. “Z. have feavelied up aad Swe oe tate read- ing passages from Democratic’ platform to audiences be) praising it to them. I have urged them to vote the Democratic ticket. I have even’ gone so far as to urge them not to vote for me unless they vote the Dem- ocratic ticket straight. “You now publicly charge me with breaking faith. It is.you who have broken faith with the Democratic party of California and with the New Deal, which we support. You have, done all in your er ee am re- Republican. re.” The Republican he referred to is) Acting Gov. Prank F. Merriam, lead- ing a strenuous campaign to turn back the Sinclair bid. His supporters were said to be jubilant over developments. Although the White House officially maintained its “hands off” policy, an unmistakable impression went abroad that high officials do not care to see Sinclair elected. It was bolstered by the confusion of sending form letters to many states, it was said, a minor employe sent this one toa Sinclair! supporter an error. 3. Requests for administration sosakers fo partion 10 :soe-Gieialr campaign have met no response. 4. Senator McAdoo of California, Bocasrelt. anapor nes, seid he enle 9 be able to make clair. Creel insisted his withdrawal from. Sinclair did not result from confer- ences with President Roosevelt and) other high Democrats. President Roosevelt, he said, is “having noth- ing to do with the California fight.” The president, in his press conference Friday, also reiterated he was keep- ing hands off state contests. Farm Debt Act Abuse By Attorneys Alleged speeches for Sin-|). gun i Sart feo a juietly in a Surr Tb éyee treated rake cialis He has given no indication of his future plans mor’ has he made any official remarks ebout abdication. His secretary said the first he knew about the latest abdication rumor from the Straits Settle- ments was through inquiries made of him. VOGEL'S POLITICOS PAID FOR CAMPAIGN WORK, AUDIT SHOWS Diehl Charges Reports ‘Plainly’ Indicate Money Spent for Politics Operation and administration of the state highway department under Former Commissioner F:ank A. Vogel Saturday was criticized by Lester 8.|Teady Diehl, state accountant, in his audit report of the division. asserted emoioyes under Vogel charged the department for “salaries and wages” while ir. political activity He claimed re- ports of workers “plainly” showed the nature of the charges. that time, Salisbury has resigned to be succeeded “From June 1, 1933, of this audit, there Pe as (Continued on Page 4) OF U. 8. FUNDS USED FOR ACTUAL RELIEF Administration Expense of FERA and CWA Slightly More Than 5 Per Cent REPORT MADE BY R. S. SEE Examination of Books Is Made as Request of Governor 0. H. Olson More than 94 per cent of all FERA and CWA funds since October 1, 1633, have gone for actual relief, a Teport of R. 8. See, Deputy State bank examiner, revealed Saturday. See made the examination of re- 1st NODAKS {] BISON N. D.-A. C. Homecoming Game 2nd 3rd Ath F & 8 10] SB 8 HUEY FINANCES lef administration books on request of Gov. Ole H. Olson, and covers the period from October 1, 1933, to ig corned 30, 1934. Wotal figures as computed by See show $13,921,009 expended for actual relief purposes, and $790,235 for ad- and distribution of the funds. “In other words,” See explained, “94.64 percent of the funds was spent for relief purposes and 5.36 per cent for administration, in which was in- cluded salaries and traveling ex- pense of executives and other em- Ployes and office furniture equip- ment and expenses.” $14,711,355 Disbursed Of the total $14,711,355 disbursed, See said, $13,785,077 was contributed by the federal government, a total of 95.06 per cent, and $926,257, or 4.94 Per cent, was contributed by local subdivisions. See explained he was unable to show details in connection with ex- Penditure of local funds as distin- guished from federal funds with re- lation to segregation into different classes of relief. ss “The ‘fetotds in the reliet offices do not have these funds separated,” Bee said. The report was divided into six types of expenditure: drouth relief, General relief, educational, care of transients, special programs and ad- ministrative. A total of $3,542.978 was spent int drouth relief; $4,007,952 in general relief; $418,283 in educational work; $108,058 in care of transients and $151,315 in special programs, under FERA. Administrative costs of FERA were $285,237, local expense and $270,971 state expense. Expended by CWA for general re- |Hef was $4,792,511, with administra- tive costs of $225,026. E. A. Willson, federal relief admin- istrator, explained that included in (Continued on Page 4) Gophers Take lowa, 34 to 0 Towa City, Oct. 27.—(#)—A powerful Minnesota eleven, its reputation al- established nationally, opened yz ons ited Press Photo.) the Louisiana State-Vanderbilt football game. FOOTBALL TRIP! shown as he passed out hundreds of dollars cash to Louisiana State university students who nearly mobbed him them be would “Jextd them”. money to. accompany him. . (Ass0- JAPAN TO INSIST ON NAVAL DEMAND Yamamoto Declares He Will; Stay Year If Necessary to Get Satisfaction London, Oct. 27. — () — Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese seadog delegate to the three-power conversa- tions, said Saturday he will stay here @ year if necessary to get a satisfac- tory naval agreement. That was the outspoken admiral’s reply to reports the Japanese were) peony up a situation which would: enable them to walk out on the Eng- lish and Americans. Ambassador Tsuneo Matsudaira ar- ranged a golf engagement with Nor- man Davis to discuss the situation and; iron out difficulties which have arisen during the week. Admiral Yamamoto believes the Japanese proposals for a new naval constitute an epoch-making plan for ending all aggression and bringing about real peace. He said acceptance of the idea of abolishing offensive ships would make @ thing of the past. Coun- seling patience, Yamamoto said the agreement cannot be written in a day ‘and declared the empire is willing to accept any mutually-satisfactory com- Promise. LOST AND LIKES IT New York—Seven-year old Tommy Blanc is lost and he likes it. For two weeks, since he was found In a moving van, Tommy the time of his life . headquarters. though, faced with the finding Tommy's family, is story that he is from Boston, his yard are dead, and that " lost etter a sister brought lew Xe = 38 LOWER PRIGES ON LIQUOR PROMISED Forecast by Distillers Based on Increase in Storage Supplies” Washington, Oct, 27.—()—Cheaper prices for better liquor were promis- ea Saturday by the nation’s distillers. James M. Doran, supervisor of the distillers’ code authority, predicted that by the year’s end liquor mellow- jed in the keg for a 12-month would jbe available at about the same prices | charged for month-old stuff last January. His forecast was based on the fact that considerable new whisky flow- ed into warehouses last January, and some of it still is there. Since repeal, the distillers have been trying to build up depleted stocks of aged whisky in addition’ to meeting \ered by the alcohol control adminis- tration indicates they have increased DOMINION MINISTER QUITS Ottawa, Oct. 27.—()—H. H. Stev- ens, minister of trade and commerce in the dominion government, has re- signed from the cabinet, it was ences of opinion in the cabinet over Stevens’ actions in connection with the mass buying and price spreads investigation. Paid Fans, Off It was the excursion to the Louisiana State University-Van- and an im- The uniformed L. S. U. cadet army of 1.500, the 125-piece school band, hundreds of students, male Hiehed ‘on the end of the “white” Kingfish, With 125-Piece Band and learned Saturday, because of differ-| any ACQUITTED BY JURY Trial Ends Famed Case of $60,- 000 Abduction of Wealthy Denver Broker RETURNS TO RANCH HOME Receives Verdict With Smile; Sister, Facing Same Charge, Also Released Sioux Falls, 8. D., Oct. 27.—(H)— Irs. Fern Mae Sankey ‘had been freed Saturday of complicity charges in the Charles Boettcher II kidnap- ing case in which her husband, the late Verne Sankey, played a notori- ous role. After deliberating more than four hours, a federal court jury here re- turned a verdict of acquittal Friday night. Mrs. Sankey’s sister, Mrs, Al- vina Kohler, against whom similar charges are pending, was released on her own recognizance. The trial, a ghost of that evolving from the kidnaping in 1933 of the wealthy Denver broker by Verne Sankey, virtually ended the famed case and its ramifications. Officials’ indicated little evidence was avail- able against Mrs. Kohler, and her case probably will be quashed, Smilingly Mrs. Sankey received the verdict, a contrast to her semi-hys- terical condition at the opening of the final trial session Friday. It was the second time Mrs. Sankey had faced the ordeal of a jury’s decision. She was tried with Mrs. Kohler at. Pierre last May, but the jury failed to reach a verdict after 28 hours’ de- liberation. Mrs. Sankey indicated she would return Saturday to her ranch home at Gann Valley, 8. D., with her two ., young children. Boettcher was held, captive on the ranch by Sankey and his henchmen after his abduction Feb. 12, 1933. Sixty thousand dol- lars ransom was paid for the broker's release. Three men are serving prison terms for their parts in the kidnaping. They are Gordon Alcorn, who was the government’s star witness against Mrs. Sankey, and Carl Pearce and Arthur Youngberg. Sankey, arrested in Chicago and brought here in con- nection with the case, committed suicide in the state penitentiary while awaiting a hearing. SETTLEMENT SEEN POR DYERS STRIKE Tentative pemenant Reached Hour Work Week Paterson, N. J., Oct. 27.—(#)—Set- tlement of the three-day-old strike of 30,000 silk dyeing workers in the Paterson and the New id metro- politan area was expected Saturday. A committee of the Federation of Silk and Rayon Dyers and Printers of America was discussing a tenta- tive agreement, which, if accepted, would send the workers back to their jobs on a 35-hour week. The agreement was reached Friday in Washington, at a conference of union leaders and employers with the national textile labor relations board. The terms were not made public, from an authoritative source it was learned the agreement calls for the establishment of an impartial board which would insure the workers’ right ing industry in the Passaic Valley area. The board, it is understood, would hear complaints by the ynion against violations of the employers’ pledge not to interfere with unioniza- tion activities. From an authoritative source it was. also learned that the workers would receive the same basic rate of pay, $23, for the 35-hour week as they have been getting under the 40-hour week on Roman Holiday '** Whooping and yelling, cutting capers like @ six-year old, bowing uf iday. was Long’s show for himself godfather of 1 8. U. He expenses of the band and and advanced seven head to hundreds of its who cidn’t have 258 = 3 3 g 5 it ey sank eEoS ir ; i Zipees z E : BE Fargoan Jailed for Fargo, N. D., Oct. 27.—(P}—A. L. Farr, Fargo, was ordered committed to the Cass county jail Friday by Judge Daniel B. Holt as a means of forcing him to pay a $500 fine imposed by a jury which last May convicted him on a charge of manslaughter. Farr will serve one day for each $2 until the fine is paid. Farr was convicted as the result of an automobile collision west of Fargo in which Mildred Bakke, Kindred, a passenger in a car Farr was alleged to have struck, was killed. ‘The jury, in its verdict, provided fine which has not been paid. to show Farr was without means to pay the fine. The lawyer argued that to commit Farr to jail would be in- creasing the punishment. The state's attorney argued that placing Farr in jail is not adding to the punishment but is merely @ means provided by law for enforcing pro- visions of the jury's it. MRS. VERNE SANKEY, | is! WIFE OF KIDNAPER, nc Freed by Jury MBS. VERNE SANKEY After deliberating more than four hours, a Sioux Falls jury late Friday returned a verdict of ac- quittal for Mrs. Verne Sankey, charged with aiding her husband in the kidnaping of Charles Boettcher II, wealthy Denver broker, Feb. 12, 1933. APPROVE PROJECTS TOTALING $62,480 FOR 2 COUNTIES for complete unionization of the dye-| pending Failing to Pay Fine): for no jail sentence but imposed thecal, Farr’s counsel presented evidence|” Burke Gets $11,904 Allocation for 39-Week Project in Sewing New and amended projects in 21 counties totaling $62,480, were ap- proved Saturday by State Federal Re- lef Administrator E. A. Willson. A sewing project to extend over a 39-week period in Burke county was Set largest, with an allocation of $11,- mnie approved were: Benson—Impark township, gravel- ing between blocks in town of Fill- more $1,000; Brinsmade school district, digging basement, building and cis- tern and general repairs, $2,140. Billings — County, re-employment office, clerk, $780. Burke—County, sewing project, 39 weeks, $11,904. Burleigh—County, amended project, surplus cattle program, $1,610; state department of public instruction, vo- cational rehabilitation, $9,600, retro- active to June 4. Cass—Veterans’ service committee, clerk, $450. Dunn — Germania school district, No, 12, moving school house, digging basement, constructing concrete foun- dation, general repairs, $645. Emmons — Rural rehabilitation, amended project, $2,550. Grant—County, grading and gravel- ing, amended project, $1,615. Logan — Wiegal school district, amended project, building additional barn, $240; Grenz school district, building and painting barn, $77; Co- kato school, painting and repairing, amended project, additional $100; Gutschmidt township, amended proj- ect, reconstruction of highway and Sraveling, $1,700. Mcintosh Graveling Okayed McIntosh—County, amended proj- ect, graveling, $1,360, adding one mile of graveling. County, amended proj- ect, graveling, additional, $1,965. Morton — Highland consolidated school district No. 14, amended proj- but |ect, repairing and improving, $150. Nelson—City of Aneta, leveling and grading of grounds, $1,084; City of Lekota, digging wells and reservoir, $4,710; approval of materials withheld, receipt of financial state- ment from city: provision that wells be situated on land owned by city. Pembina—Amended project, surplus cattle project, $2,300. Ransom — Supplemental project, surplus cattle program, $624; Bole township, amended project, graveling, $140. Rolette—City of Dunseith, excavat- ing and completing cistern $1,580; Wolf Creek school district No. 18, painting and repairing, amended provided ine contract which expired | project, $460; City of Belcourt, repair- ing and painting interior of schools and hospital, $5,850. Richland — County, supplemental project, surplus cattle program, $1,- 40. Sargent—Shuman school, amended project, $180, repairing. Stark — Dickinson, repairing shoes for relief persons, amended project, $390; community garden, amended project, $300; Dickinson recreation project, supervisor for recreation, 12 weeks, $221; county, subgrade prepa- ration and surfacing, $2,970. Ward — Surrey township, amended project, widen cuts, graveling and Grading, $1,630; Carpio school district, alamended project, construct and de- velop water supply, amended, $170. Wells — County, amended project, gardening program, sewing and cleri- DUMMY IS VICTIM Pittsburgh, Pa.—Well, it’s Hal- loween time, officers philosophized atter they returned from Saw Mill boulevard, where motorists said they saw the body of a man lying at the roadside. The “victim” proved to be a dummy suit of clothing stuffed with news- paperr GOOD TIME 1S H HAD BY ALL AS NEGRO IS PUT 10 DEATH Body of Colored Man Who At- | _ tacked White Girl Strung From Tree Limb INVITATION AFFAIR ‘Killing Takes Place Near Home of Parents Whose Daugh- ter Was Victim PARTY BULLLETIN Marianna, Fla., Oct. 27.—()—Na-~ tional guardsmen’ were ordered intc Marianna by Gov. Dave Scholtz Sat- urday afternoon as a mob stormed the county courthouse in search of & Negro, after one Negro was lynched Friday night and his body strung from a tree here. | Marianna, Fla., Oct. 27.—(@) — Negro accused of killing a white ire an met death at the hands of a mob during the night after a crowd of ‘several thousand had gathered to see the lynching. The body of the Negro, Claude Neal, shot and mutilated with knives, was brought into the courthouse _ | square here early Saturday and strung from the limb of a tree. He was slain in a woods on the banks of the Chipola river and his body dragged several miles behind an automobile to the Greenwood home of George Cannidy, whose 23-year- old daughter Lola was attacked and slain last week. There a dozen or more shots were pumped into the jbody and it was further mutilated by knives. Send Out Invitations Neal had been taken from the jai. at Brewton, Ala.,early Friday and held captive near here, while word was spread for “all white folks” to come and see the lynching. During the early part of the night, several thou- sand people gathered at Greenwood. The crowd was so large that its leaders decided not to kill the Negrc immediately. The mob then began to break up. While hundreds of persons dingered at the Cannidy home for the Negro to be brought there, how- ever, others slipped him into the woods and killed him. Whether the Negro was shot to death and mutilated afterward or whether he died in agony from his wounds could not be determined. After the body had lain in the Cannidy yard for some time, it was dragged into Marianna and hoisted in the square. The sudden appearance of the body ended a night of suszense and excite- ment for this county seat of Jackson county and the little town of Green- wood where the farm girl was attacked and killed. No officers were identified in the crowd. Earlier J, P. Newell, executive secretary of Governor Dave Sholtz had called Sheriff W. F. Chamberliss, who declared he capable of taking care of any situa- tion that might arise. Governor Authorizes Troops The governor authorized the es calling out of the National Guard if officers thought such a move necessary after the Florida Cougeil of the Associa- tion of Southern Women for the Pre- ve-tion of Lynching and the Nationa Association for the Advancement o1 Colored People appealed for troops. The crowd swelled until in late aft- ernoon several thousand persons were Present. Political leaders addressea the crowd to kee: it quiet and the “lynch committee of six,” members of which said they represented the mob, declared the Negro would be brought to the Cannidy home for the family to do with as it wished before he should be lynched at a pigpen a half mile away where the body of the girl was found hidden under freshly-cut Pine boughs. The crowd slowly dwindled during the night until only a few were left but the promise to lynch the negro at the scene of. the crime was not made good for suddenly his body was dragged in front of the Cannidy home and left in the yard. ‘DONE HIM WRONG’ FATHER SAYS; WANTED FIRST SHOT (Copyright, 1934, by the Associated Press) Greenwood, Fla. Oct. 27.—(P}—A bent little old man aSturday stood on the porch of his simple farm home and said a mob “done me wrong” be- cause it killed the negro accused of attacking and killing his 23-year old daughter after he had been told it would let him “have the first shot.” George Candidy, his red beard be- lying but his stopped frame attest- ing his 60-odd years, wept openly at every mention of “my girl” as he told how Miss Lola Candidy, his daughter, left her farm home last week to be killed at a pigpen, a half mile away from the house in the midst of a cotton patch. Claude Neal, young Negro whe Officers said confessed to the killing, was shot numerous times Friday night, his body mutilated with knives and taken to Marianne, the county seat, where it was strung by the neck from a tree limb in the court- house square. “They done me wrong about the killing,” said the aged father as he wept, “They promised they would bring him up to my house before they killed him and let me have the first shot. That's what I wanted.” 19 SPANISH REBELS KILLED Oviedo, Spain, Oct. 27.—(?)}—Nine- teen rebels were killed in a clash Sat- urday with Spanish troops near Brien- mes, The insurgents were remnants of forces defeated during the recent revolt. a ee believed he was’