The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 21, 1935, Page 1

North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper i ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1935 _THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE PRICE FIVE CENTS | House Delays Moodie Action . Karpis | ARREST OF OUTLAW AT ATLANTIC CITY IS BELIEVED NEAR Women Companions Seized Af- ter Gunmen Escape; Posi- tively Identify Pair FLEE AFTER GUN BATTLE Raiding Squad Armed Only With Pistols; Held Off by Machine Gun (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press) Atlantic City, N. J., Jan. 21—@)— Strengthening the net they were con- fident they had cast about Alvin Karpis, public enemy No. 1, police Monday asked that a warning be broadcast to clothing store operators to be on the lookout for men seeking to purchase apparel. Karpis, wanted as a co-leader of the Bremer kidnap gang, and a compan- ion, Harry Campbell, shot their way out of @ police trap Sunday. Author- itles were certain they were bottled up in Atlantic City because the resort, jes who assisted in the capture of these felons, who made a Authoriti desperate bid for freedom from San Quentin prison, formulated plans to cha them with kidnaping, seeking the death penalty on that ac curation. Left to right: Fred Landers, 27; Joe Kristy, 26; Alexander Mackay, 26, Rudolph Straight, ringleader of the convict quartet that kid. maped the warden and members of the state prison board, died of bullet wounds during a battle with a posse. (Associated Press Photo) PROSECUTIONS CASE AGAINST HAUPTMANN tonneau. The bullet-riddied sedan in which they fled was found Monday on a farm lane in Richland township, in nearby Bucks county. The poltoe Verrned their identities from two women companions seised in the raid on a little hotel. The women were listed as Dolores Delan- ey, 21, and Winona Burdette, 22, also|Defendant Being Coached by ge eee Reilly for Testimony in Own Behalf (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press) Department of justice agents, their roundup of the reputed Bremer band Philadelphia police | paid for Baby Charles A. Lindbergh, guarded bridges and ferries leading | Jr. into those metropolises. State troop-| The state, which accuses Haupt- ers patrolled the intervening high-|mann of kidnaping and murdering the ways. . ‘The gun fight began with startling |driveway near the court, ready to show eur : (etal to the jury if the court permits, the if : bp if included $120 in gold coins found in his home. “This may be of great importance to me,” declared Justice Thomas W. Attorney also brought out from the witness the | testimony that the figure was exclu- sive of any cash loans made cord ghilt ,tTeTE B3F BER ay ES z NEARS COMPLETION Court Adjourns Without Ruling Washington, Jan. 21—(?)—The su- Preme court recessed until February 4 without ruling on the con- stitutionality of gold payment suspen- sion legislation. A decision on that date was gener- ally expected. A direct ruling on the constitution- ality of the national industrial recov- ery act was promised. The agreed to review a decision by Fed- eral Judge W. I. Grubb of the north- ern Alabama federal court hol invalid both the recovery act and ‘The court refused to review the case of Thomas J. Mooney in his latest ef- fort to escape serving the remainder of his life for complicity in the 1916 San Francisco Preparedness Day pa- rade bombing. ARRESTS CLEAR UP KIDNAPING MYSTERY Federal Agent Says ‘Tri-State’ Gangster Confesses Weiss Abduction Philadelphia, Jan. 21.—(7)—A ma- chine-gun guarded caravan was ready to speed Robert Mais and three | $52. alleged members of his gang to Phil- adelphia Monday, as police sought the body of William Weiss, kidnaped night life figure. The arrests of Mais, his pal, Walter Legenza, two other men and a woman last week “entirely clears up” Weiss kidnaping case which has puz- zled police and federal agents for three months, Philadelphia police superintendent Joseph A. Le Strange announced early Monday in New York. “The Philadelphia police,” he said, “will recover the body of Weiss before tonight.” The police chief's statements fol- lowed closely a report in the Phila- delphia Record that Mais and Le- On Gold Clause there END OF COLD WAVE AND SNOW IS SEEN FOR NORTH DAKOTA Promise of Warmer Weather Cheers Bismarck After Frigid Week-End MINIMUM HERE 25 BELOW Flood at Hudson, Wis. Sweeps Away Dam and Power House; $50,000 Loss Promise of warmer weather cheered North Dakotans Monday following the coldest week-end of the winter. The official forecast was for snow and warmer and O. W. Roberts, in charge of the federal weather bureau here, ventured the prediction that the mercury would go above zero Tuesday for the first time in five days. The minimum reading during the cold wave, which went into its fourth a. m., Monday was 13 degrees below zero, ‘Thus Bismarck retained its reputa- tion of being the warmest spot in Fargo's reading the warmest it got there was 14 below. Wind velocity here Sunday was 20 miles an hour, accentuating the cold. Devils Lake continued to be the coldest with a minimum of -32 and a maximum of -16, while Williston teported -28 and -18. Snow Plows Busy Snow plows were busy in the Devils Lake and Grand Forks areas as mov- ing snow blocked many of the roads Blocked in the Devils Lake region were state highways Number 1, La- kota north and south; number 20, Glenfield north and south, and No. 29, Callo, norh and south, the state highway department reported. Most roads in the Grand Forks vicinity were blocked this morning with plows sent north on Number 81 and west on Number 2. A severe north wind that swept the dis- trices Sunday moderated Monday morning. Lack of reports from other sections of the state indicated roads were department said, were the roads open, the highway .| though indications were not in good condition for travel. Northwest Airlines planes resumed operation Monday after being ground. ed Saturday and Sunday during which time trains and other means of trans- portation were running behind sched- ules due to the bitter cold. No N. D. Deaths Fumerous fatalities. Mercury was down from the Pacific coast to the lower middle west with the center of report the minimum temperature of- ficially reported was -54 at Battle- ford, Canada, In the face of this situation, floods 000. Officials of the power company said the river began its havoc shortly after midnight, eating through an aperture in construction work on the dam. the | Joe genza had confessed the abduction thelr erops. department before any was reported. The total loss has not beep estimated SNOWPLOW IN MOUNTAIN RESCUE a This rotary en 1, gnawing through drifts as deep as 12 feet, pushed its way up dangerous mountain slopes to reecue 14 passengere and four crew members of a Denver and Rio Grande narrow gauge train, which was snowbound in 10-foot drifts for many hours. (Associated sain DEMANDS TO RABE SOCIAL SECURNY ANTE CONSDERED Administration Insists on Huge Work Relief Program Without Changes f ps Girls Get Chance \ In Open Proposal Sydney, N. 8, Jan. 21.—(7)— dark, 45 in Nova Scotia who will give me a nice home until I secure a good job,” said Charles Gorman in @ newspaper advertisement. After he gets the job—and the shelter—he'll square the arrange- ment by maintaining the home. ‘Washington Jan. 21.—()—Demands from Capitol Hill that the govern- ment raise its ante on social security brought a reply from one administra- tion quarter Monday indicating that the door is not closed to changes con- sidered feasible. The administration, however, ap- parently was determined to press through congress without change another gigantic measure—} iding $4,880,000,000 for relief and public works. With critics of the “lump sum” appropriation acknowledging privately that they were helpless, house leaders drove Monday to this resolution through their branch iby Tuesday night. They planned to ularecernnnail resort to so-called “gag rule” to do ‘The ticket eales campaign for the|it. second annual President's Birthday} The remarks on social security Day Ball to be held at the World War|came from Dr. Edwin 8. Witte, ex- Memorial building Wednesday, Jan- | ecutive director of the Economic Se- uary 30, will be launched this week |Curity committee which drew the ad- under the direction of Joe Glaser,|ministration plan. Before going be- chairman of the ticket sales commit-|fore the house ways and means com- tee. Cooperating in the city-wide drive | resident's attempt to cope with the will be ae Fe all local} “vicissitudes” of life, Dr. Witte said service clubs, Lorenzo Belk is chair- x comalivee expected congress to man of the committee designated to | mi some changes. canvass the state capitol building.| Witte opposed as “impractical” both Assisting him will be G. L. 8 and & 8. McDonald - Pensions, and the Lundeen social in- Harry Turner's 12-piece orchestra surance bill. Neither, he said, could will furnish the music for the dance,|be managed under the present econ- order, for they would cost too PRESIDENTS BALL TICKET CAMPAIGN WILL START SOON Joe Glaser to Direct City-Wide Canvass for Funds to Re- lieve Diseased was that no single individual Id be picked, but a board. Re M’Lean Foreclosure | __ Stopped by Moodie | (Special to The Tribune) speech of President Franklin Roose- velt will be broadcast. Decorations for the ball are being handled by Max Netzbandt. Pointing out that this year 70 cents of every dollar raised in the ticket Z oF Albanian King Bids For American Bride Beauty alone will not be a key to the ‘The Jan. 21.—()—For the |forms approached a decision Monday on Mooney’s long fight for re- fom prison, fashington, in kingdom, done to the 15 cars stored there. |second time in 17 years the supreme|made it known during the J celebration of the tenth jul YW versary of his reign that he 4 mittee as the No. 1 witness on the |peachmé caucus. the Townsend plan for $200-a-month |ly they Shoots Way from Police Trap Postponement Is MAY FACE HANGMAN’S NOOSE Result of Buttz Request on Case District Judge Slated to Hear Disqualification Proceedings Ree quests High Tribunal to Take Charge of Trial on Residence Issue FINDS SELECTION OF IMPARTIAL JURY IMPOSSIBLG Supreme Court Expected to Again Take Jurisdiction; Decision May Come Late Monday; Probably Will Be- gin Hearing Action Thursday Members of the house majority held up further action on the impeachment of Governor Thomas H. Moodie Monday and this td were that it would be definitely killed in the near uture. Meanwhile, the case involving Moodie’s right to office, in which his opponents contend he cannot meet the residence re- quirements of the constitution, either was back in the suprema court or on its way back there at the request of Judge C. W. eed Devils Lake, to whom the matter had been assigned for trial. It was confidently expected that the court would again take original jurisdiction in the matter. A definite decision on this point was expected late Monday afternoon, the court hav- ing been in conference on it most of the day. Probably Open Thursday In this event, trial of the action on whatever basis the court determines probably would begin Thursday and the case would be pushed to an early conclusion. There are no actions now pending before the court and it will not begin hearing its February docket until the fifth of next month. Reasons for the action of the Langer-controlled house ma- jority were two. One was that, by taking the case back into the supreme court, the argument against legal delay, a big one in caucus arguments for voting impeachment, was invalidated. The other was that some house members friendly to Lieutenant Governor Walter Welford had begun to wonder if they should go through with it. Welford, himself, was reported as none too enthusiastic for the move and this cooled the ardor of those house members who were induced to vote for itnpeachment of Moodie on the ground that by doing so they would be support- ing Welford. 35 Controlled by Langer ‘ A count of the 60 who supported the caucus decision to impeach Moodie last Friday, showed 35 controlled by Langer, 17 friendly to Welford but against Langer, and the status of the other eight doubtful. In addition, some house members began to sense a bad reaction to the impeachment move, Meanwhile, Governor Moodie, sticking to his original dee laration of principles, reiterated his statement that there would be no political trading of any kind in so far as he is concerned. Rumors were current that numerous political manipulations had been suggested by both political friends and opponents, but Moodie, like General Grant, determined to fight it out on the line originally adopted. Says Impartial Jury Impossible Buttz, in a telegram to the supreme court, said, “Intense feeling, dissension and turmoil throughout the state caused by impeachment proceedings” make it “practically impossible to get an entirely impartial jury anywhere at this time.” He recommended that in the best interests of the state and all get parties to the case, the supreme court take charge of it for im- mediate trial without a jury. Impetus was given the impeachment move originally be. cause of the delay in deciding the disqualification action, as leaders expressed impatience with the court’s delay. Calling of jurors and selection of a jury to try the issues of fact were expected to take at least several weeks, with the case then to go before the supreme court for final determination The ee sansa ess im- T Text of = 5 ent was consid some of the majority group following ms | ext co - rt ruling that the house must act fur- ther before “completing” impeach-|@-——-—-— ——-— o ment, spoke before the Sunday night| Here is the text of Buttz’s com- » Faction leaders said definite-| munication to Justice Burke of the did not plan to pursue the|supreme court: “On January in 1935, the supreme court made an order in this case that the issues of fact be sent to the dis- trict court of Ramsey county for trial and designating me as the trial Judge to preside at the trial. I was notified of the entry on the same lay. thereafter I was in- formed that the attorney general might file an application for a change of place of trial. On the same day I communicated with him and re- quested that if such application were plans for impeachment of Sathre further. Because of Sathre’s ruling Moodie could not be suspended from office until further legislative action is supporters indicated they court action contesting the of the house proceedings. taken. Moodie ay being Reports of impeachment plans IN ASSEMBLY SATURDAY (By the Associated Press) House Appointed @ board of five managers to draw bill of im- peachment against Gov. Thomas H. Moodie. Passed, over protests, the house employes’ wage scales. Again heard itself commended and criticized for its impeachment action. Referred to various committees seven bills and two resolutions. that time. Counsel for both sides Were present at Fargo and an appli- cation for a change of place of trial