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

| | “ * « ESTABLISHED 1873 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1935 Generally fair toni The Weather it and Sunday; - warmer Sunday. PRICE FIVE CENTS: Soviet Trans-Pole Fliers Turn Back Mandan Saturday Nighters to Find Clubs Padlocked BERRY ISSUES SEVEN) Masked Mob Lynches Police Chief’s Slayer ABATEMENT ORDERS AGAINST BEER SPOTS Showboat, Dome, Tavern, Cave, Mint, Stag, Log Cabin j Affected by Action KELSCH STARTS CLEAN-UP Operators Temporarily Re- strained from Business Pend- ing Case Dispositions Mandan’s night life dimmed Satur- day as padlocks were ordered snap- ped on seven night clubs as “common nuisances” following raids by the state regulatory department. State's Attorney C. F. Kelsch of Morton county began actions in equity in district court Saturday against the Places, obtaining from District Judge H. L. Berry seven temporary restrain- itd and abatement orders against m. The sheriff immediately served the orders on the asserted operators of the places. In recent raids the state regulatory department confiscated quantities of liquor and various gambling devices. Seven Places Closed Affected by the padlocking proceed- ings are the Showboat, operating on the shore of the Missouri river; the Cave, the Mint and the Stag, in the heart of the city’s business district, and the Tavern, the Log Cabin and the Dome on the outskirts of the city. Named as defendants in the various actions as beer licensees were: Mike Guon, Charles F. Winters, Charles F. Hawley, Irwin T. Young and Vernon Gardner. Kelsch said that under the action the places could be abated as “com- restrained from doing business pending disposi- tion of the cases, and that they be abated. The abatements, Kelsch explained, 1 would subject the offender to con- farm conference at the capitol. Lawless Leads Early Qualifiers at Mandan Tom Lawless of Bismarck led the In Crash at Mohall Mohall, N. D., Aug. 3—(P)—A Win- family homeward bound from Zenge Identified ' Mandeville Zenge Saturday was identified as having been a guest at the same Ann Arbor hotel where Dr. Walter J. Bauer, victim of a mutilation murder, was stop- TENGE POINTED OUT AS MYSTERY MAN IN MURDER OF DOCTOR|=== Denies Knowledge of Mutilation Murder Chicago, Aug. 3.—(?)—Mandeville Zenge Saturday was pointed out as the |the mysterious “T. F, Jones,” who disappeared from an Ann Arbor hotel on the same day that Dr. Walter J. ‘Bauer was kidnaped and taken to Chicago, where he later died of a mutilation operation. Zenge was viewed by Oren J. Guiett, of Flint, Mich., who had the room next to Jones at the Jennings hotel in Ann Arbor. Detectives had Placed dark glasses on Zenge, a8 “Jones” had worn them constantly at the hotel. “That's Jones,” said Guiett. In his dying statement, Dr. Bauer told detectives that the emascula- tion operation was performed by a& fellow guest at the hotel who had kidnaped him and forced him to drive to Chicago. Dr. Bauer also told police he sus- the. man who kidnaped him former suitor of the woman he had married three weeks before, and that Zenge, a childhood sweet- of ser had expressed his either Saturday afternoon or Sunday. Unable to make the stolid 26-year- Zenge would talk when confronted by Mrs. Louise Schaffer Bauer, widow of the slain man. Iowan Killed by Car On Pembina Street Pembina, N. D., Aug. 3.—(#)—Of- Army Men at A. C. to Be Given Promotions Youth Hanged from Pine Tree 12 Hours After Funeral of Slain Officer OVERPOWER DEPUTY GUARD Alleged Killer Named Missing Accomplice as Gunman Before Lynching R. Daw of Dunsmuir, Calif. The lone deputy sheriff on duty in the county jail was kidnaped and a bystander was held prisoner until after Johnson, a white man, was hanged from a pine tree three miles south of Yreka. at 4a. m., left his body dangling from the tree. The young man, a confessed rob- ber from Reno, Nev. and Klamath Falls, Ore., was taken from his cell 12 hours after the funeral of Officer he was accused of Monday morning. EEE [ Johnson's first floor cell. One Mobsman Clarke said he recognized one of the men in the mob as a Dunsmuir citizen, but that he did not know his name. He said he wouldn't recog- nize any of the others if he saw them again. Johnson was lynched for a slaying he insisted he did not commit, Au- thorities said he admitted he was one of two suspected robbers halted early Monday morning by Chief Daw and Traffic Officer George Malone. Officers said he named Robert Miller, 30, as the killer and the man who wounded Malone. Miller is still ® fugitive and was the object of the most intensive manhunt this section of northern California has known. JULY CAR SALES 864 OVER YEAR AGO 8,775 New Passenger Motors and 1,847 Commercial Ve- hicles Sold in 7 Months Passenger car and truck sales in him, |North Dakota took s sizeable leap the first seven months of this year, over the same period in 1934, figures com- piled by Commercial Service, Inc., revealed Saturday. car sales for July | | WELFORD SEEKS AID FOR DEBT-TROUBLED FARMERS IN CAPITAL Expect Answer by Monday Say- ing If Credit Rules Will Be Relaxed ASK ABOUT TAX CHANGE Walster Presents Millers’ Sug- gestion Without Making Recommendation Debt-troubled farmers banked Sat- | urday on the influence of overtures to Washington to bring North Dakota a stronger chance to profit from this and the 1936 harvest. Governor Walter Welford’s con- ference late Friday sent two specific That all grain stocks of seed qual- ity held by the AAA be kept off the market and used for the 1936 crop. ‘That government liens on lifted, in emergency cases, mo! the 50 per cent now allowed—t enable farmers to get more income ieee the harvest with which to The inquiry, addressed to Farm Ad- ministrator Chester Davis, had to do with @ proposal by northwest millers that the processing the bushel of wheat to flour. They contended enable them to compete with mills in districts where the wheat and to pay more for the northwest’ shriveled grain, a & E i 'B lege g Li legally possible? What effect would it have on the availability of funds for wheat DEMOCRATIC HOUSE TURNS ROOSEVELT'S TAX DEMANDS DOWN Narrows Graduated Levies on Corporations from Six to One Per Cent FAVOR TAX-FREE DONATIONS Increased Surtaxes and New Inheritance Premiums Ap- proved, However Washington, Aug. 3—()—The pre- ponderantly Democratic house dis- agreed with President Roosevelt Sat- urday on a number of important points involved in the $270,000,000 tax bill, First it narrowed from 6 to 1 per cent the graduated tax on corpora- tion incomes. Then it agreed, against the presi- dent’s wishes, should be allowed to make tax-free charitable donations. Rebuff President It also voted 65 to 12 against the President’s idea of levying a new tax on dividends paid by one corporation to another. Earlier, it had approved new in- creased surtaxes on all individual in- comes over $50,000. Representative McFarlane (Dem.- 'Tex,) offered an amendment to levy ®@ 2 per cent tax on intercorporate dividends, which was rejected 65 to Final Vote Monday Voting down every amendment of- fered except those proposed by the ways and means committee, the house moved swiftly toward the final vote which leaders have promised Mon- day. It approved new inheritance taxes ganging from 4 to 75 per cent, excess pfofits levies of & to 20 per cent and gift taxes from 3 to 57 per cent. Proposals which would have taken benefit payments? Does the history|88 much as 99 per cent of gifts and of noe Prices justify such a pro- Posa! Store Quality Seed Agricultural authorities, Governor Welford advised, indicate it is “desir- able and necessary” that all. available grain stocks, seed of quality held by the AAA, be stored for seed purposes next year. He suggested an inventory ‘and immediate steps to get possession of seed for next year’s crop. “Excessive amounts of diseased and shrunken grain will ruin next year's Prospects,” Governor Welford said. “Farmers are forced to retain and seed light wheat. You should arrange to Provide for exchange of sound seed wheat for shrunken wheat.” The governor’s office said Wash- ington promised a “definite answer not later than Monday” on the pro- posal to expand its policy of lifting crop Hens more than 50 per cent. Editor's Note—In The Tribune’s early edition of Saturday it was incorrectly stated that the gov- ernor’s conference had recom- mended a change in the AAA wheat tax basis. It did not. It merely inquired about the feas- ibility and advisability of such a Jamie Wants Barfuss To Keep Chief’s Job St. Paul, Aug. 3.—()—Suspensions in the St. Paul police department aggregated 20 Saturday. Acting Chief Gus H. Barfuss, learned Wallace Jamie, deputy com- missioner of public safety responsible inheritances above $50,000 were re- jected. 23 WPA PROJECTS, INVOLVING $700,000, WANTING APPROVAL 6,000 FERA Workers Released Friday for Harvest; No Labor Shortage A total of 23 works progress admin- istration projects involving expend- iture of approximately $700,000 have been submitted to Washington officials for approval Thomas H. Moodie, state director, announced Saturday. With 6,000 FERA project workers released Friday for work in the har- vest fields, organization of the works progress setup is being hastened to put the employable persons needing work on projects as soon as harvest demand is over, Moodie stated. E. A, Willson, state FERA adminis- trator, said there were still 3,000 workers of FERA remaining on special projects, and probably would continue for some time yet. No trouble over the reduced wage scale put into effect on FERA pro- Jects has been reported, Willson said, Pointing out that the 30 cent scale is slightly higher than the WPA scale for the investigation disclosures,| will be. wants him to keep the chief job per- manently. Latest were those of suspensions vestigat Patrolmen George F. Pinger and Har-| necessities of life through relief war-| were “laying » accused of drink-/rant instead,” Willson asserted. old D. CHURCH CELEBRATES “If there is any trouble over this scale, those on FERA projects will be on direct relief and obtain J. C. Taylor, federal re-employment. director for North Dakota, began a checkup Saturday of all district of- Valley City, N. D., Aug. 3.—(#)—|fices to determine the demand and ity Lutheran chi Trinity brate the 50th anni urch will cele-|supply of harvest labor. of its|so far no harvest labor He said that shortage has founding in Valley City at festivities} appeared and pointed out the releas- Sunday. The congregation also will|ing '‘@| pay special honor to their pastor, Dr.| ably” handle the situa! J. F. L. Bohnhoff for his 40 years of|been no demand so of FERA rellef clients will “prob- . There has for imported continued service to the local parish. | labor, he said. Murder Ends Obsession of *‘Hexed’ Cleveland Couple é Hii fire é E z eee fir eee at i E Gr “Ee g that corporations! |. | Soviet Fliers Hop for U.S. Via Pole KIDNAPING CHARGES LEAGUE EXPECTED TO AGAINST JOB DONES HANDLE AFRICA ROW DISMISSED IN COURT|ARTER ARBITRATION der Case Released at Re- quest of Sister Jamestown, N. D., Aug. 3—(P)— The kidnaping charge against Joseph Donis of Dickinson dismissed was here Friday by Judge R. G. McFar- land in district court upon the mo- tion of R. D. Chase, Stutsman county state's attorney, on a-written request by Miss Catherine Donis, sister of Joseph, and victim of the alleged abduction. ‘The kidnaping occurred in James- town several months ago when Miss. Donis was alleged to have been taken from the home of Mrs. Blanche Smithberger, Jamestown policewom- an, by her brothers, Joseph and Jerome. She was being held in Jamestown as a state witness in the Gibson murder case. Evidence at the hearing brought out the fact that the brothers went to the Smithberger home and took Catherine in a car to Dickinson. The matter first came before Justice of tely re- arrested and taken before Judge Frank Kellogg. A change of venus was taken to Jerry Morrissey, justice of peace, who bound Donis over to the district court. Catherine was being held here by Stark county authorities as a key witness in the Gibson case as she was in the Gibson home at the time of the murder, Mrs. Gibson was The dismissal because of the final disposal of the Gibson case. Railroad Financing Inquiry Is Planned Washington, Aug. 3.—(#)—Senate tors disclosed Saturday they the groundwork” for public hearings in a railroad financing by culling rec- ords of the large New York banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb é& Co. Leading. Figure in Gibaon Mur-iwnateyer--Happens at Peact Meeting Geneva Council Must Review Acts Geneva, Aug. 3—(?)—Italy's dis- pute with Ethiopia was headed for arbitration again Saturday with all signs ‘indicating strongly that the controversy would be back in the lap of the League of Nations council a month from now. With the adoption of a three-point agreement by France, Italy and Great Britain calling for resumption of ar- bitration proceedings, Anthony Eden, Britain's minister for League of Na- tions affairs, emphasized that the dispute will be up for review by the league council next month. “We insisted upon, and achieved, the understanding,” Eden said in discussing the agreement, “that what- ever happens the league council will meet again Sept. 4 to ‘examine’ the entire Italo-Ethiopian conflict.” If the controversy is settled be- forehand under the plan of arbitra- tion agreed upon by the three pow- ers that will be “well and good,” Eden said, but whether the impending parley succeeds or collapses, the league council will consider the situ- ation and decide what shall be done. The three points agreed upon by the powers are: 1, Resumption of arbitration by setting in action peace machinery of the Italo-Ethiopian friendship treaty of 1928. A fifth, neutral member will be added to the conciliation com- interstate commerce committee in-| missioi mn, 2. England, France and Italy will confer soon in France to consider wide inquiry into} possibilities of broad political set- tlement of the Italo-Ethiopian dis- ute, . The League of Nations council ‘The investigators also announced/ will consider the entire subject Sept. the Pacific, by J. P. Morgan & Co., and the financial background of the Chicago, Milwau- kee, St. Paul and Pacific. Both rail- roads are in process of reorganiza- tion, The Milwaukee is financed Prince’s Burial Set; Baroness Unconscious KANE LECTURES AT ‘U’ Minneapolis, Aug. 3—(#)—Thomas F. Kane, former president of the Uni- versity of North Dakota, will open a they were looking into the books of|4th. j| The pilot and probably will be held’ Saturday night. Ten Escape Death as Big Airliner Crashes Albuquerque, N. M., Aug. 3—(?)—| ot co-pilot of an east- bound transcontinental airplane were injured and the ship was wrecked but the er= plane alg ied = oa early Saturday. ‘The injured are Cliff Abbott, pilot, and Bill Jones, co-pilot. POPS INTO FRYING PAN partridge h pane of the kitchen of the home of County Agent H. A. Patten. It went right into the frying pan. BAKER STORES LOOTED Baker, Mont., Aug. 3.—(?)—Police Saturday broadcast descriptions of missing guns and jewelry taken by burglars in raids on two business places here. The Bride Hardware company lost $100 in guns and knives. series of six lectures on educa-|The Proctor Jewelry company lost tion at the University pete five diamond rings end other mer- jnext week, bepinging Wednesday. chandise, including watches, RUSSIANS ROAR OUT OVER ARCTIC BOUND FOR SAN FRANCISCO Trio Leaves Moscow on 6,000- Mile Hop Over Barren Root of the World HOLD SPEED OF 108 MILES Reach Barents Sea and Head Out Over Unexplored Wastee of Ice and Sea Moscow, Aug. 3—(?)—The crew of the Soviet polar plane aban- doned their projected nonstop flight to San Francisco Saturday night because of oil trouble and turned back. The craft was near- ing the north pole when the trouble was discovered. Ejection of lubri- cating oil from the feeding tank caused excessive consumption of oil, it was explained. They headed back across the Kola peninsula towards Leningrad. (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press) Moscow, Aug. 3.—Climbing the roof of the world, three Soviet airmen purred over the icy Arctic ocean Sat- urday in the first projected nonstop flight across the North Pole from Moscow to America. Their radio sputtered frequent as- surances that all was well as Pilot Sigmund Levaneffsky and his two comrades sped over the trackless Barents sea. “We necessary altitude (about 1,640 feet) in ice forming on the wings,” wirelessed. The three fliers completed the important stage of their journey, from Moscow to the Barents sea, in eight hours and 22 minutes for the approximate 900 miles. If Pilot Levaneffsky should con- tinue his speed’ to the open sea, he would reach the North Pole about 4 a. m. Sunday, Moscow time, (8:00 p. m. CST.) The only land the filers will sight from now until they reach the Amer- {can continent will be Franz Josef island unless they discover new ter- ritory in the unexplored Arctic sea. The plane was reported humming perfectly and the fliers apparently were in good spirits. Reach Frisco The Canadian press estimated the plane would reach Canadian terri- tory—the north coast of Prince Pat- rick island—about 4 a. m., OST., Sun- day. From there they were expected to roughly follow the 120th meridian south over Banks island, reaching the Canadian mainland in the vicin- ity of Darnley Bay somewhat before noon Sunday, (EST.) Their first large city would be Van- couver which they should reach nob long after Sunday midnight. Reduced Wage Scale Causes FERA Strike the given ha a for the labor and there weren't jobs available anyhow. City Planning Bodies Okay as WPA Sponsors Municipal planning commissions established in North Dakota may qualify as sponsors for W; Prog- ress Administration a; ‘tions, the state planning board announced Sat- urday. DAM WORK PROGRESSES LaMoure, N. D., Aug. 3.—(?)—Work is expected to be completed by Oct. 1 oa oy ee aren tan pace ee James river. on the inclosed ares of the beasts ya Py 4 i