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

North Dakota’s ESTABLISHED 1873 { WOMAN QUESTIONED, F ADMITS OWNERSHIP, | DENES KNOWLEDGE Ruby Clarke, 36, Arrested by Police on Charge of i Homicide WORKMEN MAKE DISCOVERY Suspect Remains Calm Under Questioning; Past History Traced New York, Nov. 21—(#)—Discovery of the bodies of three infants in a , trunk which had been checked in a Brooklyn warehouse on July 15, 1932 was disclosed Wednesday in the line- up at police headquarters. | The discovery led to the arrest of ® woman who identified herself as traced ownership Brooklyn, | 8 i : a rE i a iF : charge of homicide, brought against her by the district attorney’s office Tuesday night. * i MOODIE AT CAPITAL TO MEET HOPKINS Governor-Elect Hopes to Ex- pedite Movement of Feed Into Drouth Areas Washington, Nov. 21. ‘Thomas Moodie of Ni i i a i f g E 8 5 = i z BE i z & g | GM Oldest Newspaper . {Menace Not So Great But Wide- |mendations for an annual grasshop- jfor that purpose, were made in resol- posed | utions adopted by the second annual E EY : i “8 | ‘ [ E a FE pl il i 1 E ee g é a E : i Lg : ! Candy Girl In Opera From candy girl te the footlights the story of Anna Turkei ts (above), who made her debut as Santuzza in “Cavalleria Rusticana” at the Chicago grand opera. She once sold chocolates at the Metro politan opera house in New York (Associated Press Photo) CONTINUED HOPPER |=: CAMPAIGN MAPPED | AT FARGO MEETING spread Infestation Still Needs Control Fargo, N. D., Nov. 21.—(#)—Recom- per egg survey by the federal gov- ernment in cooperation with the var- ious states, with an adequate appro- priation to the bureau of entomology conference on the grasshopper sur- vey concluded here Wednesday. The conference held grasshopper infestation was not a state problem but @ national problem, and went on record as of the opinion a grasshopper scientists, government rail- Toads and others who have aided in helping them fight pests and solve other problems. Evans declared there have been de- pressions, drouths, pests pesti- lences since the earliest history of i ' THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1934 Warehouse Trunk 37 ROAD CONTRACTS FOR $500,000 WILL BE AWARDED NOV. 23 Projects Include Grading, Grav- " eling, Oil Mix and Con- crete Paving FOR COMPLETION IN 1935 Earth Excavation for 6.263 Miles South and East of Wilton to Be Let ‘Thirty-seven road contracts, all to BUTLER'S CHARGES OF ‘RASCIST’ SCHEME DECLARED FICTION House Committee on Un-Amer- ican Activities to Continue Probe, However ‘PLOT ALLEGATION DENIED MacGuire Called to Testify; Me- Cormick Does Not Di- vulge Details be completed in 1935, with the excep-| New York, Nov. 21—(#)—Behind peered oa ‘one an te approxi-|@ thick veil of secrecy, the congres- mat i e let by the/ sional committee on un-American ac- fate highway department Novem-| tivities called Gerald C. MacGulre, a Grading, gravel surfacing, land-| Wall Street bond salesman, to testify scaping, concrete paving and oil mix are included in the projects. Counties in whith contracts are to be let include: McKenzie—3.834 miles, on state Toute No. 58, Fairview north. Bowman—7.073 miles on 8. R. No. 16, south of Marmarth. Dunn—09.426 miles on state route No. 8, north and south of Halliday; 11.131 miles on 8. R. 22, Killdeer, northwest. Graveling ‘Henry—10.504 miles, Kongsburg, Stutsman—3.390 miles northeast corner, 5-142-67, thence south. Ward—5.203 miles, including grad- ing, south ot Minot on U. 8. No. 83. Richland—11.551 miles on 8. R. 18 north of Wyndmere. Mercer-McLean—1.536 miles on 8. R. 8 southwest of Elbowwoods. Adams—-16.226 miles on 8.'R. 8, north of Haynes. Amidon Slope—16.236 on U. 8 86, southwest. Rolette—13.329 miles Dunseith north and spur to San Haven. Barnes-Stutsman-{.aMoure —22.309 miles on 8. R. 46, northeast Adrian. Ward—11920 miles or 8. R. 23, Ryder to Douglas. Grant—10.200 miles on 8. R. 49, north of Elgin. Ransom—4.255 miles south of Butz- ville; 3.043 miles north of Elliot. Emmons—6.712 miles west of Stras- burg; 9.058 miles Kintyre south and {Braddock south. Pierce—2,910 miles Selz west; 4.041 miles, southeast corner Sec. 152-72, thence north; 5.741 miles, Orrin east. Traill—7.124 miles Clifford east and west; 0.097 miles including grad- ing, paving and structural on U. 8. 81, Hillsboro. Mountrail—0.958 miles, north of Plaza; 10.204 miles south of Ross. Sheridan—3.385 miles Lincoln Valley, east. Dickey—0.966 miles from south- west corner section 19-131-66, thence east. Pembina—6.360 miles Backoo south and Hensel east. McHenry—6.771 north and east of Simcoe; 8.337 miles west and south of Upham. ‘Walsh—15.651 miles, between Park River and Grafton. Concrete Paving Ramsey—0.522 miles on U. 8. No. 2. Devils Lake. Oil Mix, Paving and Incidentals —0.704 miles on U. 8. No. 2, in Granville. Adams—0.685 miles on U. 8. No. 12, in Hettinger. Landscaping Mountrail—0.157 miles on U. 8. Reute No. 2 in Stanley. vation Burleigh—6.263 miles on 8. R. 36, one mile south of Wilton, thence NEW DEFIGUTIES PACE NAVAL PARLEY ‘Outside’ Questions Dominate Conference, Now Hope- lessly Deadlocked further Wednesday in connection with General Smedley D. Butler's pur- Ported charge of a “Fascist plot” to create a United States dictatorship. While General Butler maintained @ close silence in Philadelphia over the contents of the story given to the committee Tuesday, the cl was “perfect moonshine” and “amazing” by various prominent men whose cames have been drawn into the activities among workers of the fur trade industry. Remains Silent Chairman John W. McCormick of the committee did not divulge de- tails, but !t was understood the com- mittee planned to look into the or- ganization of fur workers and past worker activities. Recently, an organisation of fur workers left the. American Federation of Labor to affiliate with the needle trade workers industrial union, of which Ben Gold is national of | The move was understood to be @ left wing shift. The assertion that Butler's story was ® publicity stunt came from MacGuire who was named by the former marine corps head as the man who urged him to head the Fascist army. “Our attitude is that it’s all a joke, @ publicity stunt by Butler,” said Mc- Guire. “His statements are untrue. There never was such a plot. Any- thing he says must have been made up out of whole cloth, out of his own mind.” Col. Grayson M. P. Murphy, head of the brokerage house employing Mc- {Guire, chazacterized the charges as “silly.” General Hugh 8. Johnson. former NRA aministrator, com:nenting on & report that Butler had told friends in Philadelphia that Johnson was scheduled to be dictator, said: “He had better be pretty careful. Nobody said a word to me about any- thing of the kind, and if they did, I'd throw them out the window. I know nothing about it.” MORRIS HIGH MAN IN COURT CONTEST Former Attorney General to Get 10-Year Term if Mar- gin Is Retained James Morris, former state attorney munity Day oO. C, committee make charge dubbed “a publicity stunt,” “silly,” tain aspects” of allege? Communist FIGURE IN GALAPAGOS ISLAND DEATH MYSTERY The Weather Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday; Cold Wave tonight. PRICE FIVE CENTS ‘4 Die as Lake Ships Collide Infants’ Bodies Found in STEAMER SINKS IN LAKE HURON; SECON? VESSEL IS CRIPPLED 14 Survivors of Crew Taken Aboard Loomis, Proceeding to Coast Guard Station VISIBILITY IS STILL BAD Collision Occurs 30 Miles South by East From Thunder Bay Island Alpena, Mich. Nov. 21—(#)—Four membres of the crew of the steamer W. C. Franz were lost early Wednes- day in a collision 30 miles south by east of Thunder Bay island, Lake Huron, between the Franz and the Edward E. Loomis. A mesage from the steamer Reiss Brothers, standing by, verified by O. When word was flashed from a fishing boat that bodies of two persons, victims of thirst and starvation, had been found on a lonely and waterless island in the Galapagos group in the mid-Pacific near the equator, attempts were made to learn their identity. That one of the bodies might have been that of Mrs. Arthur Wittman at right, left to right: (Associated Press Photos) SUT CHARGES HUGE FRAUD BY MORTGAGE PRN IN NORTHWEST Owatonna Man Alleges Bond- holders Induced to Take ‘Worthless Collateral’ Owatonna, Minn., Nov. 21—(7)—A charge of fraud, alleging bondhold- ers of six northwest states were in- duced to dispose of a major portion of a $3,500,000 bond investment at a heavy loss or to exchange gold bond security for “worthless collateral,” is contained in a complaint filed in dis- trict court here Tuesday by Dr. L. W. Scott for himself and in behalf of all |other bondholders of the Guaranteed Mortgage Co. The suit will be tried in Steele county district court unless the United States district court orders transfer of the case to federal juris- diction because of its interstate en- tanglements. There are bondholders in Minnesota, North and South Da- kota, Wisconsin, Iowa and Montana. The Guaranteed Mortgage Co. a Delaware corporation licensed in 1926 to operate in Minnesota, has been en- gaged in the general mortgage busi- ness, loaning cash on both city and farm property secured with first mortgages. The complaint states funds totaling approximately $3,500,- 000 were subscribed by residents of the northwest states who were given gold bond support of corporations listed in the action, other than the Guaranteed company, as the com- pany’s first mortgage collateral. In June, 1933, according to the complaint, bondholders were inform- ed that corporations underwriting the project were no longer stable and that a refunding and refinancing plan was necessary to prevent a collapse of the Guaranteed Mortgage Co., and subsequent heavy loss to stockhold- ers, The plan, the complaint contin- ues, prevented bondholders from get- ting full principal and interest, in- duced some to sell outright for 65 per cent and others to exchange their gold bond stock for other worthless security. Named as defendants in the action |in addition to the Guaranteed Mort- | gage Co., were its officers, E. R. Price, Ethan A. Howell and R. 8. Zumberge and other underwriting corporations, including the U. 8. Fidelity & Guar- anty Co. the Associated Mortgage companies and the Business com- pany. ‘The complaint requests that the plan of the bank, and that the defend- ants be restrained from continuing efforts to obtain any undeposited bonds of the Guaranteed Mortgage Co, 11-Year-Old Regan Boy Succumbs at Hospital Wallace McAllister, 11-year-old son Tuesday at a local hospital. arrangements have not been com- pleted, Wittman (third from left at right), who with eight other person: was indicated by the finding of a packet of letters signed by Baroness Eloise Bonsquet de Wagner of Vienna (left) Or. Frederick Ritter; Capt. G. Allan lived on the old convict island of Charles, Others living on the island included the who disappeared last June, and the group with Mrs. Hancock, and Mra, Wittman’s son. Death Mystery FEAR PHILADELPHIAN On Bleak Isle Still Unsolved Los Angeles, Nov. 21.—()—First accurate descriptions of the two bodies found Saturday on a waterless rock of the Galapagos Archipelago established Wednesday with ap} ent certainty that the strange “em- press” of Charies Island — Baroness Eloise Bonsquet de Wagner—was not one of the victims. A radio message to the Associated Press from Captain Manuel Rodriguez SLAIN IN DEFAULT OF RANSOM MONEY Agents Have Definite Suspects in Mind; Refuse to Give Out Information of the tuna clipper Santa Amaro,| Philadelphia, Nov. 21.—()—Search who found the bodies, gave a descrip- tion of the smaller body which fitted Alfred Rudolph Lorenz, of Paris. Lorenz's passport was found near the bodies. He was an estranged companion of the Baroness de Wagner, brought by her to the old convict Isle of Charles about two years ago. Doubt that the second body, larger of the two, was any of the nine known inhabitants of the convict isle, which fs 160 miles south of the scene of the tragic discovery, was expressed here by a man familiar with all the figures | trail. there. The second body was reported by Captain Rodriguez to be six feet tall, with head bald in front and a slight tuft of brown hair in back. LOCAL TRAINMAN DIES AT GLENDIVE Leo Blank, Bismarck Resident Since 1915, Succumbs at Montana Hospital Word has been received here that Leo Blank, 56, Northern Pacific train- man and formerly a Burleigh county farmer, died at 5:30 p. m., Tuesday at the Northern Pacific hospital at Glen- dive, Mont. Funeral arrangements hhave not yet been made. Mr. Blank has been a resident of North Dakota since 1915, coming here with his family from Burlington, Ia. He farmed a tract of land 6% miles east of Bismarck for five years after coming to the state and since quitting farming has been employed by the railroad. He was affiliated with the First Evangelical church here. He was born in 1878 at Burlington. He leaves his wife and one son, George, both living at Buffalo, Mo.; one sister, Mrs. Kate McKibben of Peets, Colo., and three brothers, Otto, George and Dennis Blank, all of Burlington. A. C. Small, a brother-in-law of Mr. Blank, went to Glendive Wednesday to ac- company the body here. pins alae ene ‘ Skin Turns Purple; | | Physicians Baffled | ° Kansas City, Nov. 21.—(7)—An ailment which caused a woman's skin to turn purple puzzled physi- cians here Wednesday. Mrs, Edith Perry, 32, became ill last Friday and her fair skin turned a light bluish color. Her physician ordered her to a hospital after he was unable to stop the change in color. The tint has gradually deepened since the pa- tient became ill. Physicians attending a Jackson County Medical society meeting ‘Tuesday night viewed the patient but were unable fo determine the cause of her condition. for the kidnapers of William Weiss, night life character whose disappear- ance was kept secret by his family for 24 days, narrowed down to defi- nite suspects Wednesday amid mounting fear that he was slain in default of $100,000 ransom. While 16 “ace” investigators of the U. 8. department of justice combed the underworld for clues, R. George Harvey, justice department head here, disclosed he was following a definite Asked if he had any particular suspects in mind, he replied: “Yes, but I would rather not an- swer that question more fully at pres- ent.’ “Considerable progress has been made and we have some general idea as to whom we are looking for.” As to the growing belief that Weiss was killed by his “snatchers,” Harvey would say only “that’s something we always consider as a possibility in a kidnap case.” Tuesday J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the bureau of investigation, said at Washington it was an underworld case and that he would take personal charge of it. Fifty men were reported ready to join the hunt if Weiss was not found soon. After a conference with U. 8. At- torney Charles 8. McAvoy, Harvey denied he had asked grand jury action but said McAvoy promised close co- operation, DRASTIC MERCURY DROP IS FORECAST! 5 Degrees Above Zero Weather Predicted for North Da- kota Wednesday Winter's threat, hovering over the state for the last two days, will ma- terialize Wednesday night with a drop in the temperature to 5 degrees above zero, according to the forecast of the U. 8, weather bureau here. The forecast was “partly cloudy Wednesday night and Thursday; cold wave Wednesday night, with temper- ature about 5 degrees above zero.” Slightly colder weather for the north- ern part of the state was predicted. Cloydiness was general over the state Tuesday with many points re- porting rain. Precipitation was light, however. Devils Lake and Williston reported snow, ALCOHOL CAR FUEL Stockholm—(#)—Gaso.ine sold in Sweden must be mixed with alcohol, in the ratio of one fourth alcohol and three-fourths gasoline, according to a new law. The new ruling is de- signed to help the cellulose mills, the K. Falor, operator of a radio station at Rogers City, said the Franz sank and that 14 survivors of its crew had been taken aboard the Loomis, which was proceeding south under its own Power, with considerable water in its forward hold. The Franz had a crew of 18. Radio Messages said the Loomis was badly damaged in the forward collision, The sea wag moderate, the messages said, but visibility stil! bad. The collision occurred in th: early morn- ing hours in a heavy fog. The exact location of the collision was given as 30 miles south by east from Thunder Bay island, or 171% miles east by southeast of Sturgeon Point light. Information Still Lacking The W. C. Franz was a steel screw steamer of 2,429 gross tonnage owned by the Algoma Central and Hudson Bay railroad. Her captain was Alex McIntyre. The Loomis is a Great Lakes Transit corporation vessel. The Franz left Port Colborne, Ont., for Fort William, Ont. A message from the Reiss Broth- ers said the Loomis was heading for Harbor. Beach, Mich., where there is @ coast guard station. The names of the four crew members lost were not available, nor could it be learned the exact extent of the damage to the Loomis. It was reported, 4 that the Loomis’ crew had the pumps et work and had the situation in hand. The Franz, a freighter 346 feet long, was built in 1901, and was reg- istered in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, The Loomis is in command of Cap- tein Alex McKenzie, a lake veteran. The chief engineer is Harold Fla- herty. She carries a crew of 31 men and has a gross tonnage of 4,279. The ship was built in 1900 and Buffalo is her home port. The Franz had delivered a cargo ot wheat at Port Colborne, Ont., and was up-bound for another load of GOVERNORS SUPPORT ROUSEVELT'S PLANS Unemployment Insurance and New Relief Program Oc- cupy President Warm Springs, Gi (AP)—Unemployment new relief plans are occupying Pres- ident Roosevelt, who has called for fullest cooperation by the states. The federally-fostered state con- trolled unemployment insurance pro- pos! of the administration was put fore the governors of the south- eastern states Tuesday night by Mr. Roosevelt. He also disclosed definitely that the administration is formulating a new relief plan aimed at productive work for men and diminuation of direct grants. Details were withheld. The governors, in apparent co- operative mood, told newspaper men that “no opposition was expressed” to Oe unemployment insurance pro- posal. Mr. Roosevelt suggested the closest relations between the federal and state governments. He endorsed heartily the regional meeting of gov- ernors such as just held by the ex- ecutives of the southeastern states and proposed a liason with the na- tional government to permit more complete cooperation in the recovery campaign. The president has definitely de- clared unemployment insurance a part of the administraticn program for next session. October Revenue for Liquor Up $3,000,000 Washington, Nov. 21.—(?)—Octo- ber’s liquor drinkers paid the govern- ment $3,000,000 more in taxes than September's, but internal revenue as a whole dropped off. Most of the decline from $379,737,- 000 in September to $209,697,000 in October was in income tax collec- tions. Fourth quarter payments in September boosted this item to $171.- 176,000, but in the next month it dropped back to $19,188,000. SOVIET DIVERS RAISE SHIPS Odessa, U 8. 8. R.—(?)—Members of “Epron,” the divers’ trust, have raised the steamers Altai and Silach and two schooners from the bed of the Black Sea and now are salvaging which . was “liquor” by-product of which will be (used in the mixing, the steamer. Patagonia, sunk in 1914, .