The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 2, 1935, Page 1

==) THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1935 ESTABLISHED 1878 Hauptmann Court Drama Opens 4 {Capitol Hill Without Knowledge of New Dealer’s Proposed Plans for 1936 BYRNS WILL BE SPEAKER Democratic Leaders Seek to Change Discharge Rule From 145 Members to 218 BULLETIN ‘Washington, Jan. 2—(?)—Elevation Representative Joseph W. Byrns ‘Tennessee to the speakership was assured Wednesday when house Dem- ocrats nominated him for the posi- ‘The election Thursday will be a AURIS INTEND 10 ULE ON CHALLENGE |BOPORE JANUARY 17 Issues of Fact to Be Tried by District Court Jury Unless Both Sides Waive WILL SUBMIT QUESTIONS Attorneys Also to Name Coun- ties Agreeable to Them for Trying Action (By The Associated Press) By its action, the court paved the 2 Moodie’s Sidelights of ese eee ed HAUPTMANN TRIAL a2 ee 8 & At Flemington) E ‘SAFSIE I8 READY New York, Jan. 2—(?)—Dr. John F. ‘Condon, vouching for his readiness to testify for the State of New Jersey in its effort to convict Bruno Haupt- mann of the Lindbergh kidnap-kill- T | ing, said Wednesday he regards it as| counsel following Meved, the scope of the 1935 New Deal plans will be discussed in detail. Major Issue congress will go to work, with the two old-time trouble- makers, the bonus and the world court awaiting 4t right at thé ‘start. On Capitol Hill Wednesday, there ‘was no legislator who professed con- crete knowledge of the president's The speakership, however, foregone conclusion, with Rep. Joseph ‘W. Byrns of Tennessee slated to be nominated Wednesday and elected ursday. Democratic leaders, seeking to pro- tect the administration program from any revolt, put on # broad cam- change in rules so that ; i t | @ “dreadful ordeal,” but worth while ig it results in expiation of the crime. The 74-year-old retired school teacher, “Jafsie” of the Lindbergh rangom negotiations, withheld his ae tak to whether ayy org re ity, but expressed hope that nearing phy, 10 ting the action, agreed that “for the purposes of this oe is a citizen of the end ‘of: tho tesk the: himself two years and ten months ago. It was then that he entered the abduction case as Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's intermediary, and since i F HH i E i a ih ue ral in | ; i pt [ij 5. i ” 3 i ¢ F g I i E »% i z E eel ER at i NeW YEAR HOLIDAY DEATH TOLL TOTAL IS MORE THAN 475 Automobile Accidents Claim Over 60 Lives; Fires, Qun- play Take 115 TEMPERATURES MODERATE Waukesha, Wis., Infant Suffo- cates When Swathed in Blankets by Mother (By The Associated Press) More than 175 deaths were attrib- |New Year's and the cold wave that | swept across the northern half of the {nation from the Rockies to New Eng- land. Automobile accidents alone account- while fires, gunplay and other mis- haps swelled the total to at least 115. Among the dead was the three- months-old daughter of a Waukesha, Wis., couple, who was suffocated, the coroner said, when her mother left the child swathed in blankets in a parked car during a New Year's celebration. At least’ 11 of the deaths were due to fires. Among the victims were five men burned to death in a blaze that destroyed the main quarters of the Cherokee county home at Gaffney, 8. ©. Four others perished in El Paso, Tex. When smoke from an elevator shaft seeped into the room of a Buf- falo, N. ¥., hotel, Robert Patton went to the ledge outside a window and toppled six floors to his death. He had apparently attempted to leap to an adjoining ledge. : Meanwhile Mother Nature was mix- ing a hodgepodge of the elements. Temperatures were moderating in the central west, while the cold snap hung on in‘northern states along the At- lantic seaboard, with the weather man predicting temperatures would go still lower in parts of the east. PLOWS UNABLE TO FRE:: 250 MAROONED BY SNOW Little Falls, N. ¥., Jan. 2—()— A snowplow was unable Wednesday to free a fleet of buses, trucks and auto- mobiles, in which 250 travelers are marooned in the snowbound Mohawk valley. ‘s Many of ‘the men, women, and children in the party were hingry, but farmers said they were in no ‘The worst blizzard in years roamed down the valley Tuesday night, clos- i if ay gs fe g Li Far ‘ ed for more than 60 of the fatalities,! Numerically, the legal odds in the Hauptmann trial are in favor of the state, six to four. represent the enumeration of attorneys who will meet in the courtroom battle, pictured here enmasse | The figures for the first time. At top are Bruno Hauptmann’s defenders; left to right, Lloyd Fisher, Edward Jay ANGERS T0 LEAVE MANSION SHORTLY ing, Says Wife of De- posed Governor . E a He ge i z. F ? : s t i fF en R g I. Democrats Gain Legislative Control R.1L, Jan. 2—-(P)— reorganized bE i Hes & abeael ue Reilly, chief defense counsel; Fred Pope and Egbert Rosencrans. + |ness between the White Below, the prosecution's strength is revealed; seated, left to right, are Anthony Hauck, Hunterdon County prosecutor; David T.° Wilentz, New Jersey Attorney General and generalissimo for the state; George K, Large, Joseph Lanigan; stand- ing, Richard. Stockton and Harry Walsh. Former President of Southern Pacific Dies San Francisco, Jan. 2.—(?)—Wil- lam Sproule, 76, who retired as president of the Southern Pacific company in 1928 after a railroad career of 46 years, is dead. * He succumbed to a heart attack Tuesday night. LONG DICTATORSHIP BAR 7 PHA MONEY ‘Kingfish’ Threatens Fight on Senate Floor as Breach With White House Grows _ Washington, Jan. 2—(#)—The cool- louse and Senator Huey P. Long plummeted to @ new low of frigidity Wednesday after President Roosevelt had served indirect notice that the Louisiana dictatorship probably will have to re- Peal or clarify some of its laws if it wants PWA money. The “Kingfish,” in return, indicated that there would be fireworks on the floor of the senate next week. To reporters in New Orleans, he said: “Tl make my reply to that and/| th similar other matters—you got that? —on the floor of the senate Monday or the first day the senate is in session next week.” Indications that public works ad- ministration loans might be withheld until Louisiana’s debt moratorium law policy of the legislature in respect of enactments for the postponement of the payment of public indebtedness.” ‘TWO DIE, 100 HURT Guns, Pitchforks, Hammers and | Rods Used in Clash Between Nazis and Foes and at least 100 injured in New Year's Day political strife in was learned Wednesday. Guns, pitchforks, hammers and iron zods were used in clashes throughout the territory between Nazis and their adversaries, Half a dozen of the in- jured received bullet wounds. ‘Women were brought into the vio- lent part of the struggle preliminary to the Jan, 13 plebisicte Tuesday night when nine shots were poured into the house of a leader of a Nazi women’s organization ip. Budweiler. Ne one was injured. 5 Although officials of the imterna- tional police force announced “every- thing is quiet,” it was learned that fierce battles had been fought in at least five places in the territory. Re- ports indicated 50 persons had been arrested but police would not confirm em, Geoffrey G. Knox, Saar commisson- er, threatened to dismiss officials who set any news of violence leak out. Two dead were picked up on high- ways Tuesday. One had been near Saarlouis and the other shot near Puettlingen. Cleveland Truckers Halt Food Delivery Cleveland, O., Jan. 2.—(?}—Delivery DY of all produce in Cleveland except to chain groceries was halted Wednes- day when 400 truck drivers, members of the Commission House Drivers’ Union, went on strike. The union negotiating for a closed shop with three commission houses at INSAAR CONFLICTS ee Sane, 0 PRICE FIVE CENTS NINE JURORS TAKE OATHS IN TRIAL OF LINDBERGH SUSPEC? Colonel Sits at Prosecution Table; Mother of Murdered Infant Not Present FLEMINGTON BOOM TOWN State Ends Months of Prepara. tion With Questioning of Nurse Betty Gow (Copyright, 1935, By The Associated Press) Flemington, N. J., Jan. 2—(®)— Jurors Nos, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, were se- lected and sworn Wednesday in the first hour of the afternoon session of the first day of trial for Bruno Rich- ard Hauptmann for murder. The fifth and sixth jurors chosen were Mrs. Ethel Stockton, housewife, Union, and Elmer Smith, Lambert- ville insurance agent. Juror No, 7 is Robert Cravatt, # CCC edugational advisor of High Bridge, N. J. Philip Hockenbury, of Clinton, town- ship, a grey haired laborer. He was quickly accepted by both sides as Juror Number Eight. George Voorhees, a serious looking farmer from Clinton township, wat sworn as Juror No. 9. Among veniremen questioned was Miss Frances Opdyke, a Flemington nurse in whose home Mrs. Haupt- mann is making her residence. Both sides consented to her dismissal after she readily acknowledged discussing the case with the defendant's wife Hearing those who were accepted say they had no prejudice against capital punishment was the stolid Bronx carpenter sitting within a few feet of the famous flier, father of the murdered baby. He stared straight ehead through the questioning of veniremen, paying little heed to Colonel Charles A. i Lindbergh seated nearby at the pro- |secution table. Mrs. Lindbergh, the |bereaved mother, was not present. Another woman, almost lost in the back of the room among @ jamming crowd, listened with intense She was Mrs. Anna jof the Bronx carpenter and of his own infant son, Four Accepted by Noon, At the noon recess 23 had been questioned, four and sworn. The first four jurors |Charles F. Snyder, a | Rosie Pill, a widow; Mrs. der, housewife, and Charles! Walton, Sr., a machinist. Justice Thomas W. Trenchard di- rected guards be sworn for the four jurors already chosen. Justice Trenchard, after telling ti ‘guards to see that the jurors talk to {No one, said: “I want you also to see that they court at 10:09. m.. portant an@ dramatic trial of recent years. Waltpf will be foreman of the jury. “Criminal file No. 2310,” was a moot in the questioning of the pros- jive jurors. This pamphlet, satir- the {veiling the names and circumstances, = widely distributed in Hunterdon county. Most of the veniremen ack- nowledged they had read the piece, but none would say that it had any- thing to do with the forming of an opinion, if he had formed a Colonel Keenly Interested Colonel spective noted each to state or defe! At one point in ceedings the defe! trying to attract thy.” This was when C. i er of the defense staff asked : pective juror if the presence of 80 many state troopers in uniform would influence him. Justice Trenchard al- no manacies dressed in @ neat Col. minutes later front of the ‘The state used the Cleveland food terminal, called | mins the strike at these firms early Wed-