The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 24, 1934, Page 1

¥==| THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE » ESTABLISHED 1878 ——$—$—$—$—$—$—$—$— BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1934 B Merry Christuas Cloudy to 4h tonight, “cold aes PRICE FIVE CENTS Mad Woman Kills 6 in Family Tamp BOOKLET SENT 10 JURORS MAY CAL FOR EXTRA PANEL Satire Meant to ‘Poke Fun at’ Police and Court System as a Whole AUTHOR SCOFFS AT CHARGE Both Defense and Prosecution Contemplate Demand to fall = Wallace Signs Agreement for Commercial Distribution At Fixed Rates Merry Christmas. From Tribune Folk mas at home with their families, there will be no issue of this news- JUDGES POSTPONE RULING IN MOOD Fail to Announce Decision Ac- ge Ab EFREFy ge aT; ge Ui | ti it i g f | i fe i i E é “4 Ht 3 e SF ak i H { i E i g E 5 E 8 g z i [ ings to Nation Over Ra- dio Late Monday i 25 ge gige g sf 5 aba 8 & Z Be i i F i : re i | F | pret gigs 3 i Bye HH F a5 BE q g | Friel i ; i PE: CITY BUSTLING IN LAST-MINUTE RUSH OF CHRISTMAS EVE Scores Leave City, Others Re- ~ turn to Spend Holiday With Families STORES CLOSE AT 6 P.M. Merchants Report Largest Bus- iness Volume Since Peak Year of 1929 i i i = a fal Fi ul E 3 [: BFE Hit SEE if F g im : ¥,5 43 Bae it “il a E i i i § = gak saekl & great ovation. ring With Hauptmann Jury Charged oe a TE | Smee fare | z if Thanks Public for Help ‘Sleeping Beauty’ te Join Christmas Fete Continued Cold in Prospect for Christmas Day; Mercury Hits Zero Here North Dakota motorists were warned by the state highway depart ment Monday to avoid fast driving Chairman Asserts No One Will Suffer Hardship During -Holiday Season for the support accorded people . of Confidence that everyone will have a Merry by reason of Bis- marck's ty was expressed R. R. Nelson, drive chairman, who Pronounced the| as icy stretches made speed danger-/made particular comment on the benediction and the children received keeper to Death After Robbery Sunday ous, ‘The mercury tumbled to sub-zero - Continued cold Christmas Day. Northwestern North Dakota report- ith Wil- zero the large number of toys received over the week-end. “Immediately following our appeal ‘sleds, wagons and a large number of other toys and it looks now as though we will have enough to give every child some- thing. We are continuing with our work of seeing that school children DEVILS LAKE LEVEL DESCRIBED BY DERN “Indeterminate Benefit” Is At- tached to Report of Project by Army Engineers ESTIMATE OTHER PROJECTS Two Heart River Proposals for Flood Protection and Irrigation Listed Washington, Dec. 24—(7)—Three pumping plans for raising the water level of Devils Lake were described by Secretary of War Dern in his an+ nual report as of “indeterminate benefit.” One proposal called for pumping the report Another proposed pipe line from the Missouri near Washburn to pump sufficient water to maintain the pres- jent level, at an estimated cost of $6,- and damages. The third proposed to pump from a veservolr on Sheyenne river sufficient water to maintain the present ‘at an-estimated cost of $660,000. ‘These projects were included in a Mst of several hundred which have been surveyed and studied by the army engineers ar‘ which Dern em- phasized had not necessarily been rec- ommended. The tabulation, he said, showed the scope of plans available tor improvement of navigation, de- velopment of water power, and flood trol. Estimated Project Benefits North Dakota projects included in the report and their estimated cost benefit follow: river and Saskatchewan Velva, N. D.—Souris river, levees for protection of 870 persons. Estimated Cost $35,000, ratio of benefit to cost 1 to 2.76. This project, it was ex- MOTHER ONLY ONE OF HOUSEHOLD 10 Grief-Crazed Woman and Her Sister Also Dead in Multi- ple Yule Slayings ein EXPLAINS MOTIVE D jeath Makes Frequent Intru- sions on Holiday Scene; 11 Disasters Listed Pittsburgh, Dec. 24.—(4\—The pa Per bells and tinsel garlands thet made Walter Dempsey’s home ready for a happy Christmas grace a house of tragedy Monday, for all but one of the family of six are dead; slain, Police say, by a woman driven mad by the death of her own son. In addition, the woman herself ana her sister are dead in the multiple Yuletide tragedy. .. Death made frequent intrusions on the holiday scene Monday as report: of airplane disasters were added to .| formidable list of accidents and trag- Francois Pietri (above), France’s minister of the na rmed the Washington naval treaty “intoler. able” but asserted France was “al- | ways ready for the limitation of | armaments” as the treaty argument found France prevaring to give notice that she would consider the treaty at an end after 1936. (Asso- ciated Press Photo) NCHBERG SETTLES ROW WITH JOHRSON OVER POST STORES Flays Publication for Making Public His Letter; Praises Former NRA Chief greeting. Richberg, director of the national . precipitated the exchange by writing the Saturday Evening Post that he would hold it .| “legally responsible” if it published Heart river — Irrigation of 8000 acres; esimated cost $020,000; benefit doubtful. Hazen — Irrigation of 5,230 acres; persons; estimated cost $60,700; ratio of cost to benefit, 1 to 1.08. = ISCORE STANDS 6-2 FOR FARM DEBT ACT Final Test of Law's Constitu- tionality to Arrive When Supreme Court Acts Washington, Dec. 24—(7)—On the ro . morning.Jare warmly clad and, in addition,|eve of a new congress, the court Minot had nine below as the coldest’ have received some items which will )Score on what was probably the most week-end of this winter was Gan i serve to create Christmas cheer, “The Girl Scouts have given us a large box filled with packages of cook. jes, wrapped in cellophane and rian church sent down a big: carton filled with small boxes of candy. In addition we have received additional clothing contributions. who + eee Gg s | ge ii te i ‘ “89 itt ¥e gf 8 if | | [ : i i i t i i iH HE [ controversial bit of legislation that passed last session—the Frazier-Lem- ‘ke bill—stood 6 to 2 in favor of the sier and Representative Lemke, Re- publicans, meantime were preparing to reintroduce their plan for the re- financing of farm indebtedness through mn of the currency. Almost without exception, oppon- ents of the Frazier-Lemke mortgage moratorium measure ted that it was unconstitutional. The legisla- passed in the closing days , provides a five- debt-harassed tain an ae consti- arrive until the | the case was one for him. anything reflecting on his reputation. Exchange Greetings In explanation, Richberg Monday issued the following statement: “I had not the faintest intention press in writing to General Johnson's I have been libelled spapers. I have never brought suit for libel and do not expect to. “I, of course, am at @ loss to un- derstand why & private letter to a publisher should be made public. “At the same time General John- gon telegraphed me that there was nothing personal or scurrilous in his book and wished me a Merry Christ- mas. “I replied to General Johnson that I could not understand the publica. tion of a private letter, or statements reportedly attributed to ihm because I had consisently praised his great achievements and never discredited his motives. I reciprocated his holi- day greetings. “T trust this will terminate the in- cident.” Holds Post Responsible Richberg had written the Post on December 14: “Many of the charges which Gen. eral Johnson has loosely made in pri- vate conversatoin regarding me and my activities can be completely dis- proved by documentary evidence and the testimony of a large number of credible witnesses. “If you take the responsibility of publishing the statements by General Johnson derogatory to me, and obvi- ously designed as destructive of my personal and professional reputation, you must accept the full legal respon- sibility... .” General Johnson retorted: “Donald is a high official. If he thinks there is libel in this narration, why doesn't he stand on his legal rights in @ suit for libel and not at- ition to threaten ing all the dead cats that any one had to throw I never squealed or tried to scotch them tion. The split started when John- son was head of NRA and Richberg his nominal subordinate as counsel. edies. Besides the Pittsburgh tragedy, the stories of death were: Death Toll I Heavy Elko, Nev.—A pilot and his- Passengers, two girls and a boy, were sought after their plane disappeared in fog and snow. Rescue parties faced frozen drifts and icy winds in their search. Wilmington, Calif—Lost in a heavy fog, Elmer R. Hunt, 29, drove his car off a pier, his wife and two children drowning. Lincoln, Neb.—An automobile, crashing into a truck, brought death to four. Pittsburgh—Four persons died when a bus, carrying- travelers home for Christmas, was in a collision with <n automobile. Delaware, O.—Two fast trains, bearing Christn.as passengers and mail, crashed, killing three mem- bers of the locomotive crews. St. Louis — A student pilot's Christmas present to his room- mate, his first airplane ride, end- ed in death for both when the ship crashed. Sunbright, Tenn.—An air mail pilot, Russell Riggs, was found dead in the burned wreck of his plane atop Jig Pilot mountain. Mazatlan, Mexico—Hope was abandoned for seven persons aboard a plane which fell into the Gulf of California. Carlsbad, N. M.—Fire which destroyed the Carlsbad Inn brought death to four persons. Nairport, O.—A fishing tug, wrecked by an explosion, burned to its water line. Coast guards- men said they believed the two men aboard were blown over- board and killed. Five Dempseys Die Coming to the suburban home of Dempsey, her brother, Mrs. Kathryn Schoch, 37, of Dunkirk, N. Y., a trained nurse, made the family merry with gifts for all, but in the night shot them with a pistol and ended her own life with poison. Five of the Dempsey family died in the shootings Sunday. The mother alone still lives. A pitiful note, telling how she could not have her little seven-year-old son with her to enjoy Christmas happi- ness, was found by police who said it held the explanation of the motive for Mrs. Schoch’s act. It_read in part “O dear God, it’s hard to do all this but I just cannot go on any longer. Not to feel my darling boy's arms around me nor hear his precious voice fakes living unbearable.” Sister Also Victim At Mrs. Schoch’s apartment in Dun- kirk, police broke in and found her sister, Mrs. Ruth Dempsey Hughes, dead of a bullet wound. They said she possibly had been slain by Mrs. Schoch before the latter left for Pittsburgh. Besides Mrs. Hughes and Mrs Schoch, the dead are: Walter Dempsey, worker. Robert, 12; Thomas, 8; Walter Jr., 10; and David, aged 15 months, all sons of Dempsey. Mrs. Clara Dempsey, the mother, is in a hospital with a bullet wound in the head. Physicians said she has a chance for recovery. The father and three of the sons were killed as they slept. Walter Jr. died in a hospital several hours later. The baby, David, was shot while he slept in his crib by his parents’ side. Reconstructing the tragic affair from notes left by Mrs. Schoch and @ statement from Mrs. Dempsey, police arrived at the theory that grief over the death @ month ago of her son (Continued on Page 9 42, a welfare