The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 25, 1935, Page 1

ESTABLISHED 1873 xx«k Recover Bodies Of 14 From Sea; Toll May Be 47 Sunken Ward Liner Located by Coast Guard Under 20 Feet of Water; Talisman Limps Into Port Without Survivors Shortly Before Noon 116 RESCUED WITH 32 MISSING AT MIDAFTERNOON ] Captain of Freighter Blames Mohawk for Collision; Charges Vessel Veered Across Bow; Seaman Tells Of Gear Going ‘Haywire’ (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press) New York, Jan. 25.—Fifteen bodies were recovered late Friday, 14 of them from the sea, giving grim emphasis to the fear that loss of life in Thursday night's sinking of the Ward liner Mohawk off the Jersey coast might reach as many as 47. There were 163 persons—58 of them passengers—aboard the Havana-bound Mohawk when she collided under clear skies and in a fairly smooth sea at 9:30 o’clock Thursday night with f the freighter Talisman. At 3 p. m. Friday these persons were accounted for in this manner: Bodies recovered, 15. Missing, 32. Rescued, 116. Captain Edmund Wang of the Talisman in a statement late Friday placed the blame for the collision on the Mohawk. He charged that the liner suddenly veered across-his bow. ls The cause of the collision, however, remains to be offi- cially determined by a federal inquiry which will begin taking testimony here Saturday. The automatic steering gear “went haywire” one seaman of the Mohawk related. Men were sent below to connect the hand steering gear. Before this could be done the collision occurred, aries 2 shortly before noon. Up to the time of her arrival it had ie rir ND. NATE URGES = CONGRESS 70 PA VETERANS’ BONUS located lying under 20 feet about eight miles southeast of Sea you The Talisman, with a damaged bow, limped into port BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1935 HAUPTMANN GIVES CONFIDENT ALIBI TO MURDER CHARGE Resumes Recital Friday of Rea- son Why He Could Not Not Be Guilty STATE READY TO QUIZ HIM Reilly Intimates Surprises to Come; Promises to Tear Down State Case = nursery of Colonel “I did not.” “And from the nursery ‘Charles Lindbergh, Jr.” “I did not.” ‘The snapped. “On the night of March 1, 1932, did you leave on the seat Colonel Lindbergh's nursery a note?” “Well, I wasn’t there at all.” “You never saw baby Lindbergh in your life, did you?” “Never saw it.” Reilly called his attention to the original ransom note left in the nur- sery and asked him; THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Weather Partly cloudy and colder tonight; snow 5 ‘and not po cold Saturday PRICE FIVE CENTS kkk +U. S. Will Probe Sea Disaste ‘Moodie Evidence Is Completed kk * x*wr Surging waters of the Mississippi river, far out esr Memphis, Tenn., as a rescuer in a rowboat ‘whom are seen perched on the roof. of its banks in southern states, pounded at this home Rescue Comes in Nick of Time; Floods Sweep South | arrived to take off the marooned residents, two of ‘With levees menaced and rivers fer above normal stage, the eouth is threatened with @ flood which may equal in devastation that of 1913-1914. Cold Wave Breaks in Northwes As Storms, Floods Sweep Sout 25 Dead, 18,000 Made Home- less as loy Waters Rage in Mississippi BATTLE TO SAVE LEVEES Colonel Damage to Towns Estimated at $1,500,000, to Railroads $1,000,000 (Copyright, 1935, By the Associated Press) icy floodwaters raced madly with fam- Of | ine and disease through the rich delta pe atid Marks felt the brunt of the flood Girt Light. ‘ “You never saw it except in the} Volunteers and a hundred convicts . san renee ie eae 8! Approves Eight Bills Including] courtroom?” gave up a three-day bettie to save the bodies a few miles from the scene Measure Prohibiting “Did you write it?” through. of the collision, Walkathons “I did not.” As the water retreated from Tun- “Did you leave it in the Lindbergh |ica and Tate counties it struck Sledge 2” ‘and Darling in Quitman county and (By the Associated Press) a si tee Seanad. Neasiens, 5ep Seas, is ‘ Immediate payment of World War Tells of Fisch thteatening further destruction veterans adjusted compensation of Fisch calling at his/rich Tallahatchie basin below. certificates is urged in a resolution|house in December, 1933, the night| overflow section varies in width from adopted Thursday by the North Da-|before Fisch sailed for Europe never|5 to 15 miles. ii ii kota, senate. to return, but to die of tuberculosis, $1,500,000 Disaster Story in : he quoted Fisch as caying as he rif i 4 The assembly approved eight bills.) 2.4eq over @ shoe box: ‘The damage has already been esti- Wireless Flashes including @ measure prohibiting en-/""“r teave it, I leave it something,|mated st more than $1,500,000 while — durance contests, and sent them tolie you don’t mind. Keep care of it|F#llroads expect @ loss of more than 5 : $1,000,000 through washed-out tracks Passed quickly day, and a senate joint resolution set- ting the new compensation scale was approved after suspension of the rules. Five other bills and one concur- that arieniiare ahd Neier aL recognized ot a labor; the other by ve Senator John guard: vivors being Lope picked 11:30 P. M—Naval tions 2 “Moha\ i ‘ I | it | ! vk EEE f Bf i mm L Ht it Hl 8 J i z g i | H ei é E Sse zee EE i | Ly . i She ape it He i 4 i i i i €< i pul efi be ee if i i Z24, Agi i He i} iL if i 4 KILLED INSTANTLY WHEN HIT BY GAR Bismarck Man on Way to Work Friday’ Morning When Accident Occurs — ‘W. H. Williams, 46-year-old la- instantly when he 41 Liquor Arrests in Cleanup at Moorhead t E f sk § 2 [ lit it id at Hf is H W. HL. WILLIAMS, 46, Bitter Cold Still Prevails in Snowbound East; Some Moderation Seen * * Court Hearing Final Argument This Afternoon Morning Session Marked by Attempt of Prosecution to Call Wit- ness to ‘Impeach’ Governor’s Testimony in Violation of Stipulation ALIEN CHARGE NOT INVOLVED IN ‘THIS’ ACTION Christianson Incensed at State’s Methods, Demands to Know From Francis Murphy If Intent Is to Observe Agreement BULLETIN Claims of Governor Thomas H. Moodie that he never in tended to forfeit his North Dakota residence, drew fire from Francis Murphy, special assistant attorney general, in oral arguments before the state supreme court Friday afternoon. Murphy, striking out at defense contentions of Moodie’s intent, opened final argumets in the action to disqualify the governor on grounds he fails to meet the five-year state con- stitutional residence requirement. The attorney sought to tear down Moodie’s claim of “intent” to retain residence in North Dakota, arguing that Moodie’s acts while living in Minneapolis showed he did not regard this state as his residence in 1930. Taking of evidence in the Moodie disqualification case was completed in the state supreme court at 11:03 a. m., Friday DEATH TOLL TOTALS 170)™orning amid a flurry of verbal passages between the justices 30,000 Men at Work in New York Digging Citp Out of 17.5-Inch Snow at (By the Associated Press) e breaking for the time being Friday, but the death list mounted steadily as the storm spent its fury along the Atlantic seaboard, and southern flood water swirled destructively. At least a score of the dead perished in the southern flood sector which embraced parts of Mississippi, Ten- to] Nessee and Arkansas. Fifteen of the ..| fatalities occurred in Mississippi, four in Tennessee and one in Arkansas. Red Cross officials feared an even larger loss of life would be disclosed later. Estimates placed the homeless at approximately 18,000 persons. Bitter cold still prevailed in the snowbound east and New England but the weather man saw indications of some moderation. It had warmed up the middlewest, although there were predictions that the tempera- tures were ready to sag again Satur- day. Of more than 170 deaths attributed directly or indirectly to the storm’s fury, @ dozen were reported in New York, where 30,000 men were Put to work to dig the city out of a snowfall of 17.5 inches. Three others died in up-state New York where bit- ter cold prevailed. Three others per- ished off the Delaware capes in a gale that tore the barge Pattie Morrissette from her tug. A recapitulation of week's fatalities and Francis Murphy, special assistant attorney general. It involved what Justice A. M. Christianson branded as “another attempt” on the part of the prosecution to upset the terms of a stipulation under which the case was being tried to the court, After Governor Thomas Moodie, agreed upon as the only witness, had completed his testimony on direct examination, cold wave appeared to be! cross-examination and re-direct examination, Francis Murphy attempted to call as a witness one Theodore Moen of Williston for the purpose, he said, of “impeaching” Moodie’s testimony on 8 certain point. Violation of Stipulation : C. J. Murphy, Moodie’s lawyer, leaped into the breach with the assertion that it was a violation of the stipulation and that, if the case were to be thrown open to other testie mony, he wanted the privilege of calling additional witnesses for the defese to cover the point in Moodie’s testimony which Francis Murphy sought to refute. Justice Christianson, obviously incensed, asserted that Murphy’s effort was only a repitition of what has happened before in this case, mentioning that previous stipulations had been upset by changes in the attitude of the prosecution. He recommended to the court that the witness and any other wit- nesses be heard in order to get everything connected with the case before the court. “This is the same kind of thing that has occurred before in this case,” snapped Christianson. ‘Let's have it all.” Burke Asks Wishes of Attorneys Chief Justire Burke inquired if the attorneys wished to observe the stipulation into which they had entered. C. J. Murphy reiterated his demand that if any additional witnesses were called by the state that he be given the same privilege and Francis Murphy, facing the pointed stare of Chief Justice Burke who had asked regarding his intention, retracted his effort to call Moen as a witness, saying he wasn’t that im- portant. Justice Burke commented, “You needn’t go any fur- due to floods, fires, accidents and ex-| ther.” posure showed these figures by states:| Thereupon Judge Christianson, still Montana 3; Iowa 13; Minnesota 5; | apparently ‘Wisconsin 4. SURPRISE WITNE IN DILLAGE TRIAL Telttale Capsules Placed in Smuggled Wool, Young Farm Hand Relates Minot, Jan. 25.—(®)—Springing @ surprise in the wool smuggling trial in federal court here of Lee Dillage, a i R H E which had begun st 10 incensed, demanded to jin the Richland County Farmer wher know what of the claim that Moodie |he sold that paper in 1927, the prose- is not a citize: cution attaching significance to the n. He was told that, for the purposes of this action, it had been stipulated that Moodie is a citizen, Francis Murphy To Bismarck In 1928 emphasizing the word “this. It then was brought out that Moo- Christianson again pressed to know |die left Wahpeton six weeks after if the state meant to abide selling the newspaper, going to Mo- hall for a week or 10 days, to Bis- - {marck for a day and then starting for California on Oct. 5, 1927. He said he went to Long Beach for four or five Phrase “California straight ahead’ |with which it closed. Justice Burke, Tr, land, which had been closed. He was that this matter had been taken care Francisco from November to of in the stipulation and the subject / march, he said, and then returned to Closed ‘This done, the taking of evidence, 8. closed at 11:24 a. m., and the directed that argument on the case be started at 2 p.m. intend to return to Mohall but that he was seeking s location elsewhere Dakota. fe uid i 1 i it ate, 3 ay ee