The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 29, 1935, Page 1

ESTABLISHED 1873 i "YEAR ALREADY” IN TESTIMONY SEIZED | UPON BY WILENTZ Denies Queries to Make Him mit Money Concealed in Phonograph 4 q VAN ADMITS SPENDING 12 BILLS Appears at Loss When Prosecu- tor Quizzes Him on Cur- ious Use of Words BULLETIN (Copyright 1935 by the Associated Press) Flemington, N. J., Jan. 29—The state presented letters from Bruno | Richard Hauptmann to the family of the dead Isador Fisch Tuesday in an attempt to blast away Hauptmann’s claims that Fisch gave him incrimin- ating money. Toward the conclusion the letter still have two trunks belonging evidence after it was read a Priest. It was written on July 8, 1934. It declared that a power of at- torney given to Henry Uhlig to set- tle Fisch’s affairs 1ALL stand, in answer to a cross-examin- ing question about an intended trip to Germany after payment of the Lindbergh ransom was: “Oh, that is planned for over s year al : Attorney General David T. Wilentz seized a sheaf of kidnap notes and read from two of them, these phrases: “This kidnaping was planned for a ar already.” Penalty for Crime Long, Hard Hike Is Absolutely new in punishment is the penalty which Edward Fos- ter, 16, above, is ped fora grocery robbery. le was sen- tenced by Judge Charles Smith of Anderson, Ind., to carry the 20-pound sack of bricks shown on his shoulder from Anderson to Alexandria and back, 24 miles, daily for 60 days, or to take three years in the re- formatory. Edward chose the hike. WALLACE PROPOSES ‘COURT EXPERIMENT Trial of Plan in One State Sug- gested; Would Pass on Key Questions (Copyright, 1935, of the Associated Washington, Jan. 29.—Secretary i 4 E ze E 8 i ba ‘¥==| THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1985 92 OF 95 HELD FOR RIOTING IN FARGO RETURNED 10 JAIL Judge Thompson Places Strik- ers Under $500 Bond Each; Three Released ‘MYSTERY MAW’ RED LEADER Fargo Labor Assembly Endorses Activities; Condemns Of. ficials’ Action Fargo, N. D., Jan. 29.—()—Ninety- two of the 95 men arrested in the coal strike were returned to the Cass county jail under $500 bond each, an ite of $46,000, Monday after- noon when they were arraigned in county court before Judge M. O. Thompson, Lisbon, called in because of illness of Judge P. M. Paulsen, Fargo. William Cruden, president of the striking unit, Local 173, General Drivers Union, and Richard Morris, Moodie May Appoint Citizens’ Committee Because of Cold Weather to Have Same Rules first Burleigh County Winter| Denver, Jan. Alleged Bigamist Holds Key to Mystery IVAN PODERJAY (right) New York, Pan. 29.—(?)—Police ‘Problem Child’ Born To 13-Year-Old Girl postponed last Sat-|Doe,” Denver's day-old problem child, described 8 a normal, bro’ Europe when he married Miss ‘Tufverson. But before pressing this charge Police want to question the dapper Poderjay about Miss Tufverson. Three of the questions police would like answered: 1. Why Poderjay bought worth of razor blades (200 blades) and @ sleep producing sedative about the time of Miss Tufverson’s disappearance? 2. Why he kept one of his trunks in his stateroom when he sailed and remained in the room until signed “Agnes” to a sister of Miss Tufverson after he reached DAM SITES URGED IN LAND PROGRAM Byrne Points to Need of Water Reservoirs hase of PWA Plans in N. D. Broadening of land classification policies under the sub-marginal land acquisition program, with PWA funds, has been asked of Washington by the tion areas, Byrne called attention to a fifth type of purchase needed in North Da- “Because of our dwindling sur- face water supplies, the impounding of water becomes one of the most im- — “Johnny the stlae if LIEU OF RIVER DAM PROPOSED FOR ND. Nye Says Army Engineers Are Preparing $14,000,000 Water Program TO RESTORE LAKE LEVELS President to Call Conference on State Water Situation in Near Future ‘Washington, Jan, 29.—()—Senator Nye (R-N.D.) long a champion of the Missouri river diversion project, said Tuesday he understood the army engineers were preparing & $14,000,000 Pumping program to propose to the public works administration as a s0- a for North Dakota's water prob- ‘The proposal, he said, probably would follow recent recommendations by the national resources board that ® plan of restoring lake levels by a pumping system was more practicable than the proposal to divert water from the Missouri river through Dev- reg at an estimated cost of $65,- ‘The latter proposal, for which Mis- souri river states have been fightin, for years and which has been the sul ject of a long engineering contro- versy, held by the resources board to be too expensive for the benefits it would provide. Former Governor Weaver of Ne- braska, and a delegation from Mis- souri river cities, called upon Nye and discussed the care what method was used to obtain water so long as it was workable. President Roosevelt, Nye said, had assured him he would call a confer- ence to discuss the North Dakota sit- uation as soon as possible after the administration’s $4,880,000,000 work relief appropriation becomes law. ACT WOULD ABOLISH STATE GRAIN CHIEF Office of Grain Commissioner Refused Appropriation Two Years Ago A bill to abolish the office of grain commissioner was introduced in the ‘North Dakota house Tuesday by Alex Page, both of ; > Ez / [ u 3 if 5 i i i 5 J Bs z i F i : i E i [ il iH ay fy i gE Ee i i id i Ha | gs all 28 i ieliiere Beaplgeidee i Bis 4 ia 2g i ae i th = i 5 & g & e a! ie if Fea ln (u i i pl aH t i : ae i » 3 3 se Eg { Z i tag L H EF i : i & i #5 gEGE ti ? 32nd Poison Liquor N. P. Income for 1934 had net operat. ing income in 1934 of $7,015,200, sn. increase of $1,939,236 over 1933 when bi a inggme was $5,975,973, the reported Tuesday. Victim Is Stricken Increases $1,939,236 St. Paul, Jan, 29.—(#)—The North- Pacific railroad at FEE Hl ue lons Considering Sales Tax Proposals! rele o_o | Defies ‘Kingfish Sheriff Robert L. Pettit, above, is in a hot spot as result of the Square Deal uprising in his | East Baton Rouge, La., parish, in which the courthouse was seized by 500 armed men, re- suiting in troops being rushed to the scene by Huey Long. Pettit recently defied Long by reap- pointing his deputies, contrary to a Kingfish edict. COMMITTEE STUDIES PROPOSAL 10 CLOSE FOUR. D. COLLEGES Senate Tax Group Seeks Econ- omical Means to Care for Overflow at Asylums Appointment of sub-committees to draw up sales tax and liquor bills, and to study feasibility of closing four state educational institutions was au- thorized Tuesday at a meeting of the senate taxes and tax laws committee. The committee discussed possibility of closing state teachers colleges at Valley City and Mayville for a two- year period, and using the Ellendale Normal and Industrial school and the Bottineau School of Forestry as branches of the state hospital for the insane and for the San Haven Tuber- culosis Sanitorium, respectively. | Appointment of a chancellor over all state educational instutions, to take ! steps to eliminate duplication in courses, also will go before the sub- committee for consideration. Liquor Committee Named A liquor law will be drawn by a sub- committee composed of Senators J. P. Cain, Stark county, Ole Ettestad, Mc- Henry county, and Harry Peterson, Mountrail. The other sub-commit- tees are to be named. Discussions in committee brought before the members the Washington state liquor law as a possible model for a North Dakota proposal. This law provides for state-owned liquor stores, with bars prohibited. Also considered was the attachment of a provision outlawing road houses. In addition to the group charged with drawing a sales tax law, a sub- committee will be named to revise the state income tax statutes. In discussions, committee members suggested that the overflow from the insane hospital could be diverted to the Ellendale school, while 60 chronic cases could go to the Bottineau insti- tution. Members called attention that of 85 students at Bottineau, 45 are taking high school work. It was suggested that students now enrolled there could be taken care of at the Minot Teach- ers college. Would Transfer Students While it was pointed out that the Valley City and Mayville schools are land grant colleges, the suggestion was advanced they could be closed for two years by failure to provide a legisla- tive appropriation. {Continued on Page Two) Theodore Hochhalter Funeral Is Arranged The Weather iy ee eee ia 3 Warmer tonight. PRICE FIVE CENTS Probe Missing Million Mystery Hauptmann Trips on Phrase in Kidnap Note PUMPING PROVECT I WALLET CONTAINING $1,450,000 SOUGHT BY POLICE, AGENTS Messenger’s Wallet Vanishes From Table in Wall Street Brokerage Office NO CLUES FOUND IN HUNT U. S. Treasury Notes Were Be- ing Delivered to Banks by Trusted Employe New York, Jan. 29.—(#)—Federal agents joined police Tuesday in an attempt to solve the mystery of the disappearance of $1,450,000 in U. 8. treasury notes from a Wall strect brokerage office. Authorities spent hours questioning financial messengers as they sought to learn how a wallet containing the securities could vanish from an eight by ten foot room as the man who had charge of them stood only a few feet away. Besides the treasury notes, wallet contained $6,000 in bonds. All the securities are negotiable and are insured, said O. G. Alexander, assistant vice president of the bank of the Manhattan company to which they belonged. The disappearance occurred Monday in the messenger’s room of the brok- erage office of C. J. Devine & Co. George Blossfield, 65-year-old messenger of the bank of the Man- hattan company, had left the bank with $2,300,000 in securities to be de- livered at four places. The Devine office was his first stop and he de- livered $850,000 in treasury notes there. It was learned, however, that addi- tional securities were to have been sent to the brokerage firm, so Bloss- field sent his guard, John McCarthy, back to the bank to find out about them. Blossfield said he placed his wallet on a table and then waited until Mc- Carthy returned with the additional securities for the Devine firm. Blossfield handed the window and then turned table to find the wallet gone. He ques: tioned other messengers in the at the time, but none saw the wallet disappear. McCarthy, who was waiting in an outside room, also said he saw no one leave with the wallet. PROPOSES RICH PAY SOCIAL INSURANCE Alabama Senator to Offer Amendment to Wagner-Lewis Security Program the Washington, Jan. 29.—(?)—Senator Black (Dem., Ala.) proposed a major change in the Roosevelt social secur- ity program Tuesday in what he termed an attempt to make the well-to-do pay for unemployment in- surance. The Alabaman announced he would offer, in the form of an amendment to the Wagner-Lewis bill, a plan to pay the cost of the insurance out of general taxation. His aim is to pro- vide the additional revenue through higher income, inheritance and ex- cess profits taxes. His was the first major alteration offered in the senate to the Roosevelt Plans. The Wagner-Lewis bill would raise money for the insurance by taxing payrolls. Black contended that this would make the worker foot the bill even when the tax was on the employer, nd thus would reduce purchasing Power. Black's plan will be followed by scores of proposals for changing the administration program. Many al- ready have been made from outside congress, and in the senate Hastings (Rep., Del.) has tentatively proposed @ change in the old age pension sys- tem. He would divide the cost of pen- sions equally between state and fed- eral governments, instead of paying for it through @ payroll tax. Meanwhile a group of senators seeking changes in the broad powers the $4,800,000,000 work and relief bill Hi gee BEE i s E H i i i k i f Auction Fraud Counts Face Four Montanans