The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 3, 1935, Page 1

| ¥2e| THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [-2= | ESTABLISHED 1878 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1935 PRICE FIVE CENTS Weyerhaeuser Kidnap Suspect Nabbed ‘Receding Floods KNOWN DEAD TOTAL 140 WITH DAMAGE OVER 12 MILLIONS Lack of Communication Makes Check Difficult; May Be Week Before Total Is Known LIVESTOCK LOSSES HEAVY New Worries Assail Western Nebraska as Platte Rivers Continue to Rage MISSING NEW FLOODS SWEEP WIDE AREA |MMi)TIQN T() REHEAR Torrents of rain that followed a cloudburst In Wyoming, Colorado and other nearby states sent flood waters raging down streams and rivers, taking a toll of lives and driving hundreds from thelr homes. Many were reported missing. This bridge near Denver withstood the pounding waters, although a derrick wae toseed against the structure. (Associated Press Photo) IRETAIL MERCHANTS [Public Works Offices PLAN BUSY SESSION |Are Moved to Bismarck had Texas 5, Kansas 9, and Colorado Wyoming 7, Missouri (Continued on Page Six) O’Connor Is Leading Fort Lincoln Fight Assurance that he would continue IN CITY JUNE 12-13 Changing Conditions, NRA, Sales Tax, Other Problems _ “Will Get Attention lows a talk by state president J. Nor- man Ellison of Minot and a report by ‘Walter D. Powell of Fargo, secretary- treasurer, Will Tour Two Cities In the afternoon the retailers will tour Bismarck and Mandan, stopping to attend a meeting of the North Da- .| kota Taxpayers association for ad- dresses of Governor Welford and J. P. McConnell, president of the Cen- tral Taxpayers association. Following an address by U. 8. Sen- ator Gerald P. Nye, L. O. Isaacson of Perth will lead a round table discus- sion in the question of “Japanese Merchandise.” There will be short talks by H. 8. McIntyre, Commercial Bulletin editor; E. B. Moon of the St. Paul Association of Commerce; and John K. Kennelly of Mandan, vice commander of the American Shafer Will Speak Former Governor George F. Shafer will speak on the “United States 6u- preme court decision on the gold case” at the annual dinner meeting. The mittee, will discuss work of the latter organization. A luncheon meeting has been ar- ranged for dealers in dry goods and women’s wear. Preceding the final business meet- ing and windup of the convention, a session will be entirely devoted to a consideration of the new two per cent retail sales tax law. There will the tax schedule Commissioner Lee J. J. Weeks, attorney for , answering questions. Odd Fellows, Rebekahs Meet at Devils Lake Devils Lake, N. D., June 3.—()— A department council meeting the Patriarch Militant and Al ‘ today will precede annual state convention of Fellows and Rebekahs in Devils o> ERGE ay Ba EF i B onl H 48 Workers, Including Five Families, Are Brought to Capital by Change acting state director. The new federal office, which will thus centralize in Bismarck the vari- ous agencies aligned with the recov-, -lery effort, will be located at 117 Third 8t., & storeroom in the Prince hotel building which now 1s vacant. Although the local offices were slated in the formal announcement at Devils Lake to open on June 3, the business of moving had not been com- pleted and it will be a day or two be- fore the incoming workers are in- stalled and ready for action, accord- ing to Lloyd Dahl, assistant to Knud- sen, The change will bring a total of 18 to 20 workers to Bismarck, of whom five have families. Ten of these have been employed at Devils Lake and will come here to live. Two others have arrived here from Washington and others will come from Washington in connec- tion with the general plan of decen- tralizing the Washington public works staff, Dahl said. The public works office is expected to play a leading part in the new work relief effort, as it did in the one under a previous appropriation, ‘The change to Bismarck was made because of the fact that the more central location will facilitate trans- action of public works business. BURLEIGH PIONEER CLAIMED BY DEATH David Sullivan, Who Came Here in 1879, Succumbs Sat- urday at Arthur, N. D. Information was received here Monday of the death at Arthur, N. D., Saturday of David Sullivan, 78) county eer. The body will be brought here and funeral services will be held at ‘ 30 Pp. m., Wednesday, at the Westmin- ster Presbyterian church in Stewarts- dale, Rev. H. M. Gulson officiating. Born at St. Stephen, New Bruns- wick, Canada, Jan. 10, 1857, Mr. Sul- livan emigrated with his parents to Massachusetts while still a small boy. Late News Bulletins APPROVES CREDIT ACT ‘Washington — President Roosevelt approved the farm credit act of 1935 providing for a reduction in interest on all federal land bank loans through national farm loan associa- tions to 3% per cent for the one year period beginning July 1, 1935, and to 4 per cent for the two year period beginning July 1. 1936. ASSASSIN FAILS Montevideo, Uruguay — Wounded slightly in the leg by an assassin, President Gabriel Terra was little the worse for the experience. A man identified by authorities as Bernardo Garcia, a former Nationalist deputy, fired upon the party as it was entering the buffet Sunday at the Maronas race course. KING GEORGE V, 70 London—King George V, astride @ gentle bay horse, rode with his four sons at the head of a column of crack cavalry and foot soldiers in the ancient ceremony of troop- ing the colors as a mark of his completion of the Biblical span of three score years and ten. All the British empire celebrated the king’s seventieth birthday anni- versary as a holiday. * DEFICIT $3,133,471,295 Ww ‘The treasury for. the first 11 months of the year ending this month went “in the red” $3,133,- 471,295. It was far behind the deficit estimated for the period by President Roosevelt—$4,869,418,338—as made in his annual budget message to con- gress. FCA LOANS $2,379,063,000 ‘Washington — The nation’s farmers were shown in the second annual report of the farm credit administration to have received s total of $2,379,063,000 in loans through that agency from May 1, 1933, through December 31, 1934. ‘The report said that the rate at which loans were made rose sharply during the first half of 1934, but declined during the last half of the year. BANCO CASE DELAYED Moorhead, .—Because the LANGER CASE FILED IN CIRCUIT COURT A. W. W. Woodcock, Special As- sistant U. S. Attorney Gen- eral, Makes Request MORE EVIDENCE PREPARED Action Was Reversed by Trib- unal Which Held Evidence Was Insufficient St. Louis, June 3.—(P}—A motion asking a rehearing of a United States circuit court of appeals decision re- versing conviction of former Gover- nor William Langer of North Dakota for conspiracy to misuse federal relief funds, was asked Monday by A. W. ‘W. Woodcock, special assistant United States attorney general. Co-defendants with Langer are Oscar J. Chaput, Frank A. Vogel, for- After the five men were convicted was sentenced to 18 months in prison and fined $10,000, the decision was ap- pealed to the eighth circuit court of appeals. Last May 7 the circuit court held evidence was not sufficient. The charges grew out of alleged so- Ucitation of political contributions from state workers paid with federal government to point it court all evidence -day trial. He asserted there was sufficient evidence for reargument. “The case is of vast importance,” the motion recited, “not only to the appellants, but to the people of the United States and to the government in this time of unprécedented public - ” In elaboration of the plea for a re- the petition declared “if it has not other result than to reaffirm the court in the correctness of its Position it is- worth while in the in- terest of public justice because of the vast importance of the question.” “The court has said that counsel of the government has called their at- tention to no direct testimony of the unlawful conspiracy,” Woodcock as- serted, continuing with the statement that “the United States of America asks for an opportunity to do that in rehearing of this case.” STATE TO PAY LAST MOELLRING TRBUTE Pallbearers Named for Funeral of Former State Supreme Court Justice State officials will pay last tribute to Judge George H. Moellring at fun- eral services to be cond at 2 p. m., Tuesday at the McCabe Meth- odist Episcopal church. Judge Moellring, former state su- preme court and district court jus- tice in North Dakots, died here Fri- day from trichiniasis. He was assist- ant attorney general at the time of his death, Members of the immediate family who are here for the ceremonies are two sisters, Mrs. Mathilda Banton, Quincy, Ill, and Mrs. John Glaeser of Trenton, Ill.; two brothers, Phillip and Frederick Moelring, Wild Rose, N. D, and his daughter Mrs. Kent |Ph Whitlock, St. Paul. Other out-off-town persons will in- clude Mrs. Phillip Moeliring and two sons of Wild Rose; Kent Whitlock, St. Paul, and his mother, Mrs. E. F. Whitlock, Brainerd, Minn., and dele- gations from the Odd Fellows and Rebekah lodges at Williston. Active pallbearers will be W. J. Aus- tin, Milton Higgins, Charles A. Ver- coming or "| that nobody sat Reveal More Death, Destruction Suspects in Weyerhaeuser Kidnaping ALVIN KARPIS As authorities pressed their search Monday for the kidnapers of little George Weyerhaeuser, they were particularly interested in the ar- rests of the three fugitives above, Alvin Karpis, notorious gang leader, Harry Campbell, and Vol- ney Davis, also wanted in the Bremer kidnaping. Davis, arrest- ed in Chicago, pleaded guilty in St. Paul to conspiracy in the Bremer kidnaping. HOOVER ADMONISHES STUDENTS 10 FIGHT ECONOMIC SLAVERY Former President Tells Drake Graduates to Beware of Bureaucracy Des Moines, Ia., June 3.—(?)}—Her- bert Hoover viewed 178 Drake Uni- versity seniors in his native state Monday and confessed himself “trou- bled” about their future. What troubles him, he said, was “what the forces of government may impose on you that will limit or de- stroy your inspirations, your incen- tives and your opportunities.” He voiced this warning: “You should be suspicious of any that asks you to forego the rightful exercise of your muscles and might, of any governmental action which Hmits your opportunities to work and produce. ‘Warns Against Bureaucracy “gome people would like to mobilize you into @ political bureaucracy to run this civilization,” he said. “But some of us hold that the jobs should go to those who win them fairly by merit.” “will government permit you to breathe -pure air of liberty in the spirit of the bills of rights?” he queried. “That is the thing that you have need to look out for. For in this matter you enter life at one or the most crucial periods of American his- tory.” Hoover said he disagreed with “ex- ponents of the:new social order” who “would dim some of your hopes by telling you. . . that hope, new adven- ture and new opportunity have de- parted.” “Our forebears who settled this state inherited little from their forebears but a covered wagon, the sod, their character, their religion, self-govern- ment and the freedoms enumerated in the bills of rights,” he declared. Cites Pioneer Philosophy “These God-fearing people builded this state under freedom, not under a political bureaucracy that coded their daily actions, limited the prod- ucts of their factories and their farms, that told them. they could or could not start a new enterprise. They fought the enemies of freedom from both the right and the left.” “Necessary emergency measures of war or depression” and “the necessity of stronger foundations of social growth” were not included in his dis- cussion, the former president em- asized. i$ “It is true old age and misfortune deserve protection and that the haunting fear uf poverty should be driven from among us,” he told the seniors, Hoover compared Iowa farm life to- nights with about that. Worrled Little Over Prices “The times were harder sometimes than others and it was well known that they would be harder if the De- mocrats won an election.” Price changes in Chicago or Liver- pool markets affected only 20 per cent of the farm income, the speaker worrying VOLNEY DAVIS RED RIVER CONTROL KARPIS AIDE PLEADS GUILTY 10 PART IN BREMER ABDUCTION Federal Agents Capture Long- Sought Outlaw in Chicago Hideout Saturday DELIVERED RANSOM NOTES Brought to St. Paul by Plane Early Monday; Sentence ing Is Deferred BULLETINS St. Paul, June 3—(?)—Federal of~ ficials here, who declined to permit the use of their names, said late Monday they were convinced Volney Davis was not connected with the ‘Weyerheauser abduction. They added that Davis was known to have been in the Chicago area the entire week of the Weyerheauser kidnaping and that they were not working on any phase of the west coast crime from this end. 8t. Paul, June 3—(4)—Gripped hard by the law he had dodged so long, Volney Davis, one of the Barkers Karpls kidnap mob and suspect in the abduction of George Weyerhaeuser, pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in connection with the $200,000 Breme er kidnaping Monday. Arraigned before Federal Judge M. M. Joyce, the fugitive gangster lse tened to the indictment in the same courtroom in which his erstwhile pal, Arthur (Doc) Barker, recently was convicted of kidnaping Edward G. Bremer, wealthy St. Paul banker last year. At the conclusion of the was carefully guarded. Captured in Chicago Saturday Bremer, 37-year-old bank president, was kidnaped Jan. 17, 1934, and ree leased after 21 days of imprisonment in a “hideout” at Bensenville, upon payment of $200,000 ransom. rather unkempt, Davis answered the affirmitive when the court ISAM OF MEETING = Three Northwest States Parti- cipate in Session Opening at Fargo Monday Fargo, N. D., June 3.—(?)—Hoping to develop a unified and comprehen- sive program for the development of the watershed of the Red river of the north, including control of floods, wa- ter levels and stream pollution, of- ficials of three states and the Domin- fon of Canada are conferring here Monday. Floyd B. Olson, governor of Min- nesota, Walter Welford, governor of North Dakota, John Queen, mayor of Winnipeg, engineers, health officials and other officials of Minnesota, North Dakota, Soyth Dakota and Manitoba are participating in the day-long session. Gov, Tom Berry of South Dakota was unable to be present but is rep- resented by O. H. Johnson, director of the South Dakota game and fish department. Governor Welford welcomed the delegates, and the response was by Governor Olson. Speakers at the forenoon session were Prof. Frederick Bass, vice presi- dent of the Minnesota state board of health; Dr. H. E. Simpson, North Da- kota state geologist; E. Lium and W. P. Tarbell, city engineers of Grand Forks and Fargo respectively; E. V. ‘Willard, Minnesota commissioner of conservation; C. A. Gewalt, president of the Minnesota-Dakota Municipal Water Conservation association; B. E. Groom, chairman of the Greater North Dakota association development, committee; Frank Shaw, U. 8, sani- tary engineer; H. A, Whittaker, direc- tor of the Minnesota sanitary divi- sion; M. D. Hollis, North Dakota state sanitary engineer; Dean E. F. Chan- dler, University of North Dakota; Lou Benshoof, editor of the Detroit Lakes Record at Detroit Lakes, Minn.; Maj. D. F. Johns and F. H. McCorry, U. 8 engineers; Ambrose Fuller, director of the Minnesota League of Municipal- ities; M. W. Murphy, Fargo city at- torney; and Fred J. Frederickson, president of ihe North Dakota League of Municipalities. Probation Officer Is Appointed by Miller Fargo, N. D., June 3.—(?)—Roy L. Humphreys, former athletic director for boys’ activities at the Fargo Y. M. C. A., was appointed federal proba- tion officer for North» Dakota by Judge Andrew Miller Saturday, effec- tive immediately. He is the first fed- eral probation officer in the state, Miller having handled the work himself in the past. GOLFER GETS BIRDIE Westfield, N, J.—Billy Rohrbach was playing golf at the Echo Lake country club. He drove a high, sizz- toward the sixth green but it didn’t get very far. The ball struck a wild duck in mid-flight it instantly, state prison lifer, were sentenced to life terms following conviction in the Bremer kidnaping while five othera are awaiting sentence. Sentencing Is Deferred On motion of George F. Sullit U. 8, district attorney, sentencing Davis was deferred, without = def inite date being set for it. It was ine dicated, however, that sentence might be passed Friday or Saturday. Davis is a possible suspect in the kidnaping of nine-year-old George ‘Weyerhaeuser at Tacoma, Wash, last week, but Harold E. district chief of the department of justice here, refused to discuss that phase, Definite identity of Davis, who wag arrested in Chicago, was announced by Andersen after he had « telephone conrecantion oe J, Edgar Hoover, ead of the department of justice, a8 Washington, Davis is accused by the government of being the man who delivered the various ransom notes during the kide naping ee Bremer, bruary Davis, while being transferred by plane from Kansas City to Chicago, escaped from federal agents at Yorkville, I. He slugged one of the government agents, while * Davis, twas said by , HG was Police, was ong of the participipants in a double bank robbery, staged simultaneously, ad Okemah, Okla., several months ago, Andersen was reluctant to discuss any phases of Davis’ capture, merely asserting that he was arrested in Chicago last Saturday, KIDNAPERS SOUGHT THROUGH NUMBERS ON RANSOM NOTES Tacoma, Wash., June 3—(7)—Dee partment of justice agents began dis tributing pamphlets listing the nume bers of 20,000 currency ransom notes here Monday ss they sought to picl up the cooling trail of the kidnapery of nine-year-old George Weyere haeuser, ‘Weyerhaeuser case, merely it as “a kidnaping case.” Operatives refused to comment (Continued on Page Six) DEAF HONOR TEACHER School for the Deaf, Saturday evee ning, was the presentation of a lounge chair by graduates and former stu. dents of the school to Thomas dan, teacher for 27 years of the North Dakots pits »