The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 5, 1935, Page 2

i FIND INDICATIONS OF CRIMINALITY AT SHERWOOD ELEVATOR Suicide of Former Employe Leads to Investigation of Firm's Accounts Evidence of embezzlement, arson, forgery and other criminal activities have been found in the accounts of the Sherwood Grain company at Sherwood, according to W. J. Austin, assistant attorney general who aided 8. A. Sorenson, Renville county state's attorney, and J. H. McCay, state fire marshal, in an investigation. Warrants had been drawn by Sor- enson for service on Hans Horgen, manager of the elevator since the suicide of Frank Hein, 51, former employe, and on Chris Pudke, as- sistant manager, Austin said he had been informed. Peculations through embezzlement} ‘amounted to approximately $800, Aus- tin said, and investigators found evi- dence that two company checks for $300 apiece had been forged. There also is evidence, Austin said, that someone connected with the ele-| vator had been buying grain without | a license and taking personally ne- gotiable paper for grain owned by the company, the George W. Riebe| company of Minneapolis. Unaccounted for are 4,500 bushels of grain that had been shipped to the elevator to the account of the Rural Rehabilitation corporation for distribution as feed to needy farmers last winter. The grain was the prop- erty of the Agricultural Deficiency corporation, agent for the AAA. The train of circumstances leading up to the investigation commenced with a suspicious fire in June in the elevator, Austin said. On Aug. 24, when investigators had left, Hein locked himself in the elevator office. A short time later entrance was forced ‘and Hein was found dead. It is be- lieved he took poison. He left a note stating he had not set the elevator afire. C ONTINU from page ons Rescue Effected Tn Calm Sea But Sky Is Overcast “Short circuiting caused the lights; to burn out at one time. It caused a small blaze, quickly extinguished by the crew. Several suffered bruises. “Not a soul was hysterical.” As “proof of what we went through,” Brommell told of how the hurricane} damaged the Dixie. Among the ships standing by the Dixie were Morgan liners El Estero and El Capitan, the coast guard cut-; ter Saukee and two United Fruit lin-| ers, The first of the rescue ships to dock at Miami was the coast guard cutter Carrabassett. It carried 24 passen- gers. Three other ships, docking soon; after the cutter, were: The Morgan| liner El] Mundo, with 20 passengers; the Morgan liner El Occidente, with 36 passengers and 14 of the crew, and the United Fruit liner San Benito, with 40 of the crew. Some Sent Up Coast | The United Fruit liner Atenas, with) 20 passengers from the Dixie aboard, proceeded up the coast to Charles- ton and the oil tanker Reaper, with 10; Passengers aboard, continued on to Wilmington, N. C. A message from Captain Sund-j| strom explained the transfer of mem- | bers of the crew before all the pas-j sengers had been taken off: “AS numerous lifeboats are avail- | able, also transferred 54 dismissed commissary crew at a point where Passengers could not be handled.” | The Morgan line held a_ special ‘New York-bound train in readiness in Miami. The bulk of the passen- gers on the Dixie were from the New York Metropolitan area, homeward- bound from vacations. The heroism of the rescuers and the gallantry of the officers and crew | of the Dixie, in the long hours of fear, | were told with words of great praise | by the passengers taken off the liner. Give Vivid Accounts The rescued passengers gave vivid accounts of the force of Monday's hurricane. Rain squalls broke in mid-morning. At noon the ship pitched furiously.) The storm was breaking in all its| fury. Mid-afternoon, there was a slight abatement but by 4:40 p. m., the intensity of the wind was even greater than at noontime. Early in the evening—passengers varied as to the hour, but it was somewhere between 6:30 and 8 o'clock ; —the gigantic waves rolled up by the hurricane struck the Dixie almost broadside. The vibrations and twist- ing were terrific. Iron windows and doors crumpled beneath the weight of the walls of water. ‘Then it hit the reef. 936 PERSONS RESCUED FROM CUNARD LINER London, Sept. 5.—(7)—Two other ships Thursday took 736 holiday pas- sengers off the Doric, of the Cunard- White star line, after its collision with the French freighter Formigny 70 miles off the coast of Portugal. Wireless messages said the Orion of the Orient line had taken off 400 passengers and the Viceroy of India, the remainder. Reuters’ Lisbon correspondent said the 16,484-ton Doric was not serious- ly damaged. He reported the sea calm and the | weather E Di Weather Report FORECAST For Bismarck and vicinity: In- creasing cloudiness and warmer to- night; Friday un- settled and warm- er, Fer North Da- Friday unsettled and warmer, For Montana: derstorms tonight, cooler northwest portion; Friday showers and cooler. Showers and thun- For Minnesota: Fair, not s0 cool hide in west and south tonight: Friday in- creasing cloudiness and warmer. GENERAL CONDITIONS The barometric pressure is low over the Great Lakes region, S. 8. Marie 29.72, and over the western states, Spokane 29.70, while a high pressure area extends from Manitoba south- 3,844; Approximate acreages in other counties were: Billings, 2,208; Slope, 6,540; Bowman, 24,788; Sioux, 8,673; Adams, 40; Grant, 800; Morton, 78; Dunn, 10,080; McLean, 712; Bur- leigh, 1,100; Emmons, 1,085; McIntosh, 200; Logan, 880; Kidder, 970; Dickey, 317; Sargent, 560; Richland, 116; Wells, 120; Sheridan, 490; Divide, 900; Burke, 445; Mountrail, 766; Ward, 155; Renville, 200; Bottineau, 100; McHenry, 850; Pierce, 1,750; Cavalier, 110; Pem- bina, 40; Grand Forks, 40, and Benson, 1,400, ward over the Mississippi Valley, Kansas City, 30.06. Light precipita- tion has occurred in the western oO Canadian Provinces, but elsewhere | the weather is generally fair. Cool) prevails from the Great Lakes region to the Plains States, but readings are somewhat higher over the Rocky Mountain region. Bismarck station barometer, inches: 28.19. Reduced to sea level, 29.98, Missouri river stage at 7 a. m., 2.8 ft, 24 hour change, -0.1 ft. PRECIPITATION For Bismarck Station: Total this month to date . Normal, this month to date Total, January Ist to date . Normal, January 1st to date Accumulated excess to date . WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA NTINUE from page one Proposal to Build Gas Pipeline Put taken over here by the proposed “pipeline company” and delivered at city gates for distribution to munict- Palities. H. C. Knudsen, acting PWA di- rector for the state, said the project would be submitted for “legal inter- pretation” before any action is taken by him. The State or “pipeline company” gen HS re peagere would transmit natural gas to city BISMARCK, peldy. .... 66 34 .00|eates for commercial and residential Beach, clear .... 67 39 .00|use and would sell gas direct to in- Carrington, clear 68 24 .00/qustrial customers, the application Sitio aay 3.3 stated, such as the Valley City Power Drake, Are ee 6438 jcompany, Fargo Power plant, Grand Dunn Center, clear . 65 33 Forks Power plant, West Fargo pack- | CO! Garrison, clear ... 33 ing plant, Jamestown power plant, Jamestown, clear . Max, clear Minot, clear Pars! East Grand Forks sugar plant and \the state mill and elevator. See Heavy Income According to the application, esti- mated gross income from distribution of gas would total $1,573,460 annually. to be distributed as follows: 30 per cent or $452,038 to the municipal dis- .| tributors; $157,346 to the gas produc- 00] tion company, and $964,076 to be di- vided between the state or “pipeline company” and the Montana-Dakots Power company on a mileage basis east of Mandan. The division would give the Montana-Dakota concern 47 per cent or $453,115.72 and the “pipe- line company” 53 per cent or $510,- 83333338338 Devils Lake, clear Grand Forks, cidy Hankinson, clear Lisbon, clear .. Napoleon, clear . Oakes, clear .. Wishek, clear . MINNESOTA POINTS High- Low- est est Pet./ 960.28. Minneapolis, clear - 60 46 .00| Work would be started in about 90 Moorhead, clear .. 60 38 .00/days if plans are approved. Repayment to the federal govern- SOUTH DAKOTA POINTS _|ment would not be started until the est est Pct.|third year, and then on a 20-year Huron, clear .. 66 40 .00|/basis during which time the princi- Rapid City, pel 68 44 .00/pal and interest would total $3,377,782. Sees Lower Rates would not Midwest Util. .. McGraw El. ... bly will be incor- ti Se since the homesteader proved up on his land. warmer tonight; More than 145,000 acres of land still remained open for home- Friday unsettled, steading up until last Nov. 1 when the U. 8. land office at Wash- showers north, ington ordered the lands closed to settlement. warmer south, Under the new land resettlement program now being developed Soars “ehhh by the national government, these lands probal Ot sth Da- porated with the acreage now being purchased for use as grazing kota: — Increasin, areas and in the other programs being developed by the rural re- cloudiness an settlement administration, Bertsch declares, warmer tonight; McKenzie county had the largest share of unclaimed land when the homestead tracts were closed, there being 50,320 acres from which title had never passed from Uncle Sam. Smallest tract of homestead land in any county was .12 of an acre lying within nine miles of Fargo along the banks of the Red Golden Valley, only Labor Group Opposes cations that sharp protests might be filed by them with the state industrial mmission. CHICAGO STOCKS (By the Associated Press) “result in lowered rates, but would create a great indus- try for North Dakota.” “If the project meets approval,” he said, “other cities where natural gas is now distributed also would profit, as rates would be lowered there ac-|as outlined by T. Up to PWA Leader cordingly.” MONTANA POINTS High- Low- est est Pet. Havre, cldy. . 78 46 00 Helena, peldy. 78 .52 «99 Miles City, cleat 12 46 = «.00 States,” John F. Sullivan, NEVER AGAIN will I be satisfied with the old “paper layer’ type of sanitary napkin. The new Modess is s0 much softer, fluffier . .. more comfortable. And it’s safer, too. It has longer tabs that can’t pull loose from the pins. It can’t strike Approval of the proposed state- municipal natural gas pipeline pro- ct submitted to PWA would result in “lowest gas rates in the United Mandan attorney, asserted. |Salt Lake City, U., clear 88 54 ee br tied sl Sullivan, representing “clients” in est est Pct,|Southwestern North Dakota where it Amarillo, Tex., clear . 72 54 .00)!S proposed natural gas fields would BGStON | cane occ 68 60 .86|be developed, asserted such a project Boise, Idaho, clear through. That’s why it’s called “Certain-Safe. Official Advises Florida Governor Of Great Disaster ‘Washed out bridges’ hampered res- cue workers on the upper and lower Matecumbe keys, where most of the veterans were camped, and held them back from lower keys, leaving the fate wise few residents in the latter in Few Are Found Alive Only-a dozen veterans. were found alive in Camp No. 5, where 185 were on the roster. Of 243 enrolled at Camp No. 3, 23 were reported on fur- lough and 133 were accounted for. The fate of the remaining 87 was not known. A private yacht brought 52 of the injured veterans to Miami for hos- Pitalization. . Impaired communications still left the casualty toll in doubt at Rock Harbor, a temporary camp for the veterans on Plantation key, where by means of shouts across the water res- cue workers heard that 75 were dead. Camp No. 1 on upper Matecumbe was demolished. Burleigh WPA Project Proposals Approved Proposed Burleigh county projects R. Atkinson, county engineer, and Gordon Moore, FERA work director, were approved for sub- ‘The proposal is in direct conflict! mission to the district WPA offices with @ resolution adopted last week-| at the organization meeting of the end by the state federation of labor/ county planning board Wednesday at its convention here in which it} night. condemned “any contemplated” con- struction of natural gas pipe lines| dent; Lester Larson of Baldwin, vice and protested the use of federal funds| president, and George F. Register, for this purpose. The resolution was| state’s attorney, secretary. The meet- frankly designed to support the in-|ing adjourned subject to the call of terests of the lignite coal mining in-{ the president. dustry and railroad workers transport- ing that fuel. Lignite operators refused to com-|the number of employed women, ment Thursday but there were indi- George F. Will was elected presi- Poland ‘leads all other countries in 12 Months to Repay 3 Loaning Plans CO-MAKERS COLLATERAL AUTOMOBILES Calgary, Alb., cldy. Chicago, Tll., clear Denver, Colo., peldy. Des Moines, Iowa, clear 68 46 Dodge City, Kans., pcldy. 76 56 Duluth .. 8 o Bi 46 Edmonton, Al rain . 78 52 Kamloops, B, C., clear 92 56 Kansas City, Mo., foggy 72 50 Los Angeles, Cal., cldy.. 80 64 Miami . 84 33 Bee bese eeeeees Modena, Utah, clea 52 New Orleans .... a New York ..... 68 No. Platte, Neb. clear.. 72 48 Okla. City, O., cldy. .. 76 60 Phoenix, Ariz., clear 100 74 =. Pr. 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In the files of the U. 8. land office here, Chris Bertsch, register, points out more than 7,000 patents that never have been called for _THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1985 Here 52 Years Ago Fifty-two years ago Thursday the eyes of the nation were upon Bismarck, On the barren hill north of the town thousands of persons had assembled to see the nation’s great and near-great lay the cor= ner stone of the Dakota Territory capitol, the building that burned Dec. 30, 1930. Five special pullman trains digorged hundreds of prominent Persons from all over the world. . But the cynosure of all eyes were Gen. and Mrs. U. 8. Grant, for- mer Secretary Karl Schurz, Mayor Carter Harrison of Chicago, Henry Villard, president of the Northern Pacific railway and Gov. Nehemiah G. Ordway. And circulating through the thousands was Sitting Bull, selling his autograph at $1.50 per scribble. TRAINING COURSE ENDING Grand Forks, N. D., Sept, 5—(?)}— A month training course for men ‘and women desiring to teach federal emergency courses will end Friday at the University of North Dakota, Six- ty women and twelve men were en- rolled in the classes, Thousands Gathered ||C © in favor of Ethiopia and opposition to N T I N U E D Italy's geression against a small and from page one’ weak nation, Italy Asks Halt in BELIEVE BIRD FOOLED Grafton, N. D., Sept. 5—(?)—Three golf balls, carefully placed by ® wild game bird in a nest on the Grafton golf links, were discovered by golfers. ‘The bird, apparently believing there to be eggs, had carried them to its nest. League Discussion pute and prepare a plan of settle- ment. Labor May Take Hand Word went out that the executive committee of the International Fed- eration of Trades Unions, meeting here tomorrow, would discuss how or- ganized labor can paralyze Premier Mussolini’s Ethiopian enterprise if ithe league fails to preserve the peace. ‘The federation represents most of the organized labor unions in Europe as well as many others overseas. Its executive committee is expected to discuss the possibilities of workers’ boycotting the handling of all goods shipped to and from Italy in case of wat, Some circles suggested that Italy's Jong list of accusations against Ethio- pia, claiming the African empire to be barbarous and slave-holding, might be met by the appoinment of an in- ternational police force which would operate in Ethiopia under authority of the league. 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