The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 18, 1934, Page 1

¥==| THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ESTABLISHED 1873 WwW U. S. Hunts ‘Terrible’ Touh BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1934 SOUGHT AS ‘BRAINS’ |{==terine toc} SCHOOL CHILDREN IN BROOKLYN RAD, IND. PRISON BREAK Michigan City Civil Employe’s Confession Gives U. S. Information SEEN OFTEN WITH BURNS Indiana Official Said to Have Posed as Gangster to Un- cover Secrets Chicago, Dec. 18 —(7)—A report that investigators had uncovered new sec- rets of the underworld Tuesday sent ™manhunters on a new public enemy drive which made “Terrible Tommy” Touhy the most widely hunted man in America. Back tracking the trail of the late declaring any Lee eae aaa SOO a Tae fe. Touhy, the investigators said, had frequently visited Burns at the apart- ment where gee E Ee fet saree Pi il i i eaztanl; pleaite £ | PRATER ASKS U.S AID FOR NEW PLAN 10 (MUZE LGNTE Helopore Laboratories Claim Process to Make Coal More Combustible ‘Wyoming and which consisted bituminous. In addition, he said, a considerable amount of sub-bitumin- cH gisee 2 356 EREE i TO REAP BENEFIT IN CHARITY DRIVE ‘Open Your Heart’ Committee to Extend Aid to Needy in Rural Districts INFORMATION 1S ASKED Persons Who Need Help But Are Not on Relief Asked to Notify Veterans Members of Bismarck’s American Legion “Open Your Heart” commit- tee Tuesday turned their attention to the task of seeing that no Bur- leigh county child goes to school without warm clothing. major portions of outfits for 37 chil- dren, 15 more having been given clothes Monday. This activity will be continued in the city of Bismarck under the direc- Cash donated to the American Legion’s “Open Your Heart” fund mounted to $73.50 Tuesday. The position of the fund is as fol- lows: Mrs, William Noggle ©. T. Solberg purchasing com- . committee will purchase necessary articles of clothing as are not contained in the “stock” donated by residents of the city and count ty. At the same time arrangements were made to begin immediately a survey of children in the county NORMAL AS REVOLT SCARE DIES DOWN Tension. High Since Band of Armed Men Raided Plant of Newspaper (Copyright, 1934, By the A. P.) Havana, Dec. ee for dis- , | suthority. GANG When Phil: William Weiss, Philadelphia night arsenal of underworld pari rnatia that included virtual; ill End Governorshi The Weather Generally fair tonight and Wednes- day; colder tohigite warmer Wed. y As Gang Leade PRICE FIVE CENTS p Fight ARSENAL LACKS A CANNON leiphia police swooped down on a house in search for life figure, they found a veritable ery kind of weapon except a cannon. This picture shows the weapons eeized— pistols, automatic shotguns, ammunition, cable cutters, an axe and a Jimmy. (Associated Press Photo) Plans Laid for Burleigh Winter Sp COMMERCE VOICES VARIED REACTIONS TO RECOVERY PLAN Hint of Industrial Lobby Noted at Conference to Promote Cooperation White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., Dec. 18.—(#)—American industrial leaders, meeting to promote cooper- ation with the administration, re- ceived Tuesday with mixed opinions the plan for @ nationwide network of federal lending agencies. Some members privately expressed doubt of the practicability of the plan, recommended to Secretary Mor- genthau Monday by special treasury department investigators. They de- clined to be quoted; however, ex- plaining that the meeting itself may take up the subject. ‘There was informal comment that individual banks should become more active immediately in lending money, with opirion divided as to whether there should be a cessation of government lendinz. was evinced by the 90 business executives, meeting as the “joint business conference for recovery,” to end what is regarded as &@ period of exile from government councils. The basic principle—that there should be @ continuing committee to represent all business—underlay the study for a permcnent piaison in the capital Lag various business or- ganizations, which could voice effec- tively the views : commerce before the administration and congress. ‘The executives were careful to avoid the implication they are setting up ® lobbying organization. * C. B. Ames, president of the Texas company and chairman of what he describes as an “epochal” conference, | admitted past divergence of business! opinion has weakened the cases of those who have opposed administra- tion proposals and that only unan- business legitimate imity can give t iekee se S BRSSkSE ¢ iy la i i aH ir ak fl A ak orts Carnival First Annual Event to Be Held January 19; Jacobson Named Chairman Preliminary plans have been made and committees named to handle ar- rangements for the first annual Bur- leigh County Wint<: Sports Carnival which will be held here Saturday, January 19. Contestants fror a‘! parts of Bur- leigh county and surrounding terri- tory will be invited to compete in the varied sports program being planned, according to Ben Jacobson, general chairman. A pet parade, beginning at 12:30 p. m., will launch the sports program which will continue throughout the afternoon and early evening. Cli- maxing the day's entertainment will be @ hockey game between a picked Bismarck sextet and an outside op- ponent, as yet unnamed. The game will be played under the flood lights | i.. on the skating rink north of the high school. Tentatively scheduled sports events planned on the program include a float and torch parade, fancy skat- ing demonstrations, skating races for both boys and girls, relay races, jumping contests, dog races, novelty stunts on skates, & snow fight and a treasure hunt. Awards will be made to the winners in all events. Sponsors of the Sports \ Carnival are the local Association of Commerce and a number of fraternal and ser- vice organizations of Bismarck. Committees named to handle the arrangements are: A Program—Myron Anderson, A. C. Van Wyk, John Moses, Mrs. Themar Simle and Clarice Belb. Decorations—Seorge Schaumberg and Dorothy Petron. Awards—C. W. Leifur, E. B. Klein, Roy Neff and G. A. Dahlen. l Parade—Ferris Cordner, L. U. Mil-/ ler and Elmer Bensei. Judges—Neil Churchill. Publicity—W. H. Payne and Paul Netland, MES. JARDINE HONORED Fargo, Dec. 18.—(7)—Mrs, John Alexander Jardine, Fargo, president of the National Federation of Music clubs, was honored by Fargo and Moorhead residents, who joined with the Amphion chorus, Fargo and Moorhead’s singing organization, at @ reception here Monday night. 1,500 Mile Trip to See Sick Son Is CCC Boys’ Gift to Local Woman Little Rock, Ark., Dec. 18.—(?) —The Christmas gift of 211 boys at the Fiar Park civilian con- servation corps camp here Tues- day brought a.mother 1,500 miles from North Dakota to see her son, critically ill with pneumonia, For five weeks campmates of! Edwin R. Cook, 19, have given him blood transfusions in an ef- fort to save his life, Twenty- five boys volunteered as donors, A message was relayed from his nurse to Captain Charles J. Craig, camp commander, that the boy, who had never been away fmm home until he joined the CCC jast July, had ssid) that Christmas wouldn’t mean any- thing because he couldn’t see his mother. This was in turn given to his campmates. A fund was started, to which the boys, camp officers and state CCC officials contributed. A ticket was wired to the mother, ee. O. B, Cook at Bismarck, N. She took a train at Bismarck Saturday after driving 35 miles from her home to the railroad and arrived here Monday night. Tuesday, physicians said the boy had a chance to recover, after having shown noticeable improvement since the arrival of his mother. PRESIDENT REJECTS POWER APPEAL FOR COURT TEST OF TVA McCarter Submits 5,000-Word ‘Memorial’ Charging ‘Strangulation’ ASKS U. S. COOPERATION Federal Commission Gets Re- port, Drafting Reply to Objections Washington, Dec. 18—(#)—The “war clouds” began to gather again Tuesday around the power issue after the Roosevelt administration, turning thumbs down on a plea that it co- operate in putting its power policies to a quick, final test in the supreme court, demanded that the industry “clean house.” The answer came only a few hours after Thomas N. McCarter, president of the Edison Electric Institute and @ leader in the attack on the Roose- velt plans to use such power experi- ments as the Tennessee Valley au- thority as “yardsticks” to force down Tates, called at the White House. He had brought with him a 5,000- word “memorial” which spoke of “strangulation” of private enterprise by government competition and sug- gested that it was better for the gov- ernment and power interests to co- operate to preserve the “soundness of existing investment.” “I respectfully urge,” it said, “that parties interested and the government unite in taking such proceedings as will bring about a decision of the highest court in the land upon the question (the constitutionality of TVA) at the earliest possible mom- ent.” That was late Monday. Forthwith President Roosevelt turned the me- morial over to Frank R. McNinch, chairman of the federal power com- mission. The electricity consumption at the commission's office leaped as MeNinch and his aides worked into the night preparing the answer, re- cognized as the official one of the administration. Threatens Court Test “In all the history of the Ameri- can people,” it said, “no parallel for such a proposal can be found.... The call is not for the government to halt, but for the industry to catch step and move forward along pro- gressive lines.” “The Edison Electric Institute has, of course,” it continued, “a legal right to promote litigation to test the act creating the Tennessee Valley authority or any other statute, but it will make no substantial progress toward placing the industry on a sound and permanent basis until it cleans its own house, reduces exces- sive rates to consumers and elim- inates the malpractices and abuses which are responsible for its present condition.” ‘Those who hoped for a comprom- tive peace” the power industry drew little com- fort from this latest development. There was no immediate announce- ment as to whether leaders in the institute, a large association of power @ threat to states’ rights and vate investment and enterprise, Late News | Bulletins (By The Associated Press) Suet tieneeccenteeiee Jackson, Mich.—Discovery of two elaborate escape plots, one of them involving the use of a pistol of dead- ly accuracy manufactured within the prison walls, inspired Michigan state prison officials to take extraordinary measures toward plugging every pos- sible avenue of freedom. Washington — President Roosevelt appointed William Dawson of 8t. Paul, Minn., to be minister to Colom- bia. He is now minister to Ecuador. Washington—Frank N. Belgrano, commander of the American Legion, believes that “nothing could do more to hurt the ex-service men’s cause than & march on Washington” to adi vocate payment of the bonus. Washington—Total value of farm crops this year was reported by the department of agriculture as $4,782,626,000, compared with revised figures of $4,114,265,000 for last year and $2,882,195,000 for 1932, Early Grand Forks Settler Dies at 86 Grand Forks, N. D., Dec, 18.—(?)— Ole H. Brenna, 86, one of the earliest settlers of Grand Forks county, died Monday night at the farm home in Brenna township qbere he had lived since 1879. r | In Latest Manhunt Recsdle schrieb “TERRIBLE’ TOUHY JOSEPH BURNS Tommy Touhy, brother of Roger Touhy who is serving a 99-year sentence as the kidnaper of John Factor, Tuesday became object of ® manhunt, which promises even greater sensations than that which ended in the slaying of John Dillinger. - “Terrible”. Touhy is credited with being the leader of the $427,000 Brooklyn robbery which authorities say was one of the most perfectly planned as well as the largest in history. He is also said to have engineered the Michigan City, Ind., prison break. Below is Joseph Burns, escaped “lifer” and Dillinger aide, whose seizure in @ Chicago flat gave authorities the clues which may solve the Brooklyn robbery. BILLIONS FOR U. §. INLAND. WATERWAYS IS DERN PROPOSAL Secretary of War Declares Pro- gram Would Employ Thou- sands, Help Recovery Wi ton, Dec. 18.—(#)—Pictur- ing a United States with “the most magnificent system of improved in- land waterways in the world,” Secre- tary Dern announced Tuesday that the army engineer corps is spending $43,274,000 on them and has plans to spend $8,000,000,000 more if ap- proved. A descriptive travelog of the improvements was given in Dern’s re- port on civil activities of the engi- neers. He reviewed projects which he said ‘would provide a nationwide network of ‘waterways employing thousands, help business recovery, and make cheaper transportation possible. The $343,- 274,000, he said, is being spent on 126 Projects. An actual expenditure of $153,149,- 798 om river improvement work was reported for the 1934 fiscal year. The department has studies, Dern said, providing for 1,600 over projects to cost $8,000,000,000 if and when ap- proved. The work, he said, also means navi- gation and flood control improvements ‘which will be of continuing benefit to the economic life of the nation.” He said the funds expended in 1934 provided employment for 176,623 per- sons directly and over 200,000 indi- rectly. : Among the $8,000,000,000 in projects proposed for future work Dern in- luded the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence waterway. A comprehensive survey of 200 trib- utaries of the Mississippi river, in- volving navigation flood control, pow- er development, and irrigation is prac- tically completed, and the war depart- ment has plans ready for work on a Ust of projects in the lower Mississippi valley which would require $800,000,- 000 expenditures. During 1934 Dern reported that the engineer's chief work was devoted to improving the navigability of the Mis- sissippi and Missouri rivers, and push- ing work on the Fort Peck, Bonneville, and Grand Coulee dams in the Far West. (Continued on Page Two) ATTORNEYS AGREE TO SEEK DECISION ON RIGHT TO SERVE Will Abandon Legal Technical: ities and Go to Heart of Controversy STIPULATION AGREED UPON Arrangement Made for Moodie to Receive Certificate and File Oath Fargo, N. D., Dec. 18—()—Counser for Governor-elect Thomas H. Moo- die and the attorney general's office Tuesday agreed to stipulations look- ing to determination of Moodie's eligibility to serve as governor before Jan. 1 providing for dismissal of tha action involved in the matter now be- fore the supreme court. Announcement of the agreement was made by M. W. Murphy, chief of Moodie's counsel. 1, That the injunction now in the supreme court will be dis- missed. That the certificate of elec- tion will be issued to Moodie. 3. That Moodie will file his oath of office. 4. That the attorney general and the defense counsel will join in « written stipulation requesting the supreme court to issue an or- iginal writ of quo warranto to determine on the merits the eligi- bility of Moodie to take office as governor. 5. That the parties of both sides waive all questions of juris- diction so that the supreme court can determine before Jan. 1 whether Moodie will be governor. 6. That the parties of both tides request a hearing on the merits be held at Bismarck at 10 & m., next Saturday. Supreme Court Acts Earlier in the day the supreme court had set the case for hearing Thursday at 10 a. m. The court announced the date of hearing following conference on an application by Moodie attorneys wha urged that the court hear the case aa soon as possible, declaring an early determination is necessary “for the Public peace of mind and orderly conduct of government of the state of North Dakota.” Oral arguments were scheduled ta be heard by the court Thursday, with briefs to be entered by both sides be- fore the hearing opened, The action before the court ts an appeal from the Burleigh county dis- trict court, where Judge Fred Jan- sonius vacated a temporary restrain- ing order which prevented Secretary of State Robert Byrne from issuing an election certificate to Moodie. The action was based on the contention that Moodie does not fill the state constitutional requirement that a gubernatorial candidate be a resi- dent of the state for five yeara Preceding his election. The questionin= of Moodie’s right to the governorship is not complete under the present action, it was ex- Plained, for it would not finally de- termine the status of Moodie, but ‘would result only in @ decision on the ' action of the lower court in dismiss- ing a restraining order against the secretary of state, which prevented Moodie from receiving his certifi- cate of election. TRANSFER EDMONDS TO COAST DISTRICT Hunter Assigned FERA Work in. Minn. and Mo.; No Announce- ment on N. D. Area Chicago, Dec. 18—(#)—Howard O, Hunter, regional administrator for the FERA with headquarters in Chi- cago, has been assigned the states of Minnesota dnd Missouri, it was said at Hunter's office Tuesday, relieving T. J. Edmonds. Edmonds will be stationed on the west coast. Heretofore, Hunter has directed the federal emergency relief administra- tion’s work in Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, West Vir- ginia and Kentucky. Edmonds has been in charge of North and South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota and Missouri. By the new assignments, Hunter will turn FERA affairs in Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky over to Charles Stillman, now in charge in Tennessee and adjoining states. Edmonds’ new territory will include Alaska and Hawaii. The states where he will administer the direct federal relief activities of the FERA are Ore- gon, Washington, Idaho and Mon- tana. a Hunter said he will maintain hia headquarters in Chicago. No announcement has been made concerning the other states in Ed- monds’ territory—North and South Dakota, Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska. MILNOR GRANT INCREASED Washington, Dec. 18—(?)—The Public Works administration Tuesday announced several increases in prev- fous grants including: North Dakota: Milnor, loan ana grant of $16,400 for a combined jail and fire house and @ municipal au- ditorlum increased to $17,050 because of increased costs is