The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 10, 1935, Page 2

THREE STEELE BURN BEFORE BLAZE IS STEMMED Business District Imperiled as Flames Spread from Meat Market Steele, N. D., Sept. 10.—(#)—Steele business men started a check Tuesday of their loss in Monday night’s dis- astrous fire which threatened the en- tire business district and was halted after destroying three buildings only by concentrated effort of fire depart- ments from three towns. Damage was estimated unofficially at more than $10,000 although no of- ficial report had yet been made. ‘The Grand Pacific hotel was saved by firemen from Dawson, Tappen and Steele. The remainder of the busi- ness district would have been de- stroyed had the flames swept the ho- tel, firemen stated. The fire started in a meat market owned by M. Hoehn and Chester Martinson, then swept to the Bailey jewelry store and the Roberts Beauty shop, destroying the three struc- tures. ‘ The market was a total loss includ- ing the equipment and stock, while some equipment was saved at the Roberts place, and sdme jewelry sal- vaged at the Bailey store. As the window casings became scorched on the hotel, roomers fled with their belongings. Water was poured over the roof and sides of the building, saving it from destruc- tion and checking the march of the flames through town. Although the fire started at 7 p. m., firemen guarded the burning embers of the three buildings until early ‘Tuesday against sparks spreading to nearby structures. CONTINUENH from page ons Senator Passes at 4:06 a. m. With His Family at Bedside At the bedside besides Mrs. Long and the children, Governor Allen and Christenberry, were the senator's sis- ters, Mrs. W. M. Knott and Mrs. Stewart Hunt and their husbands; his brothers, Dr. G. S. Long, Julius and Earl and the latter's wife; his father, Dr. Roy Long, and several cousins. The marriage of Long and the for- mer Rose McConnell followed a courtship typical of the speed of the senator's life, Long’s Alibi on Scrape ‘They met in Memphis. Long, trav- eling agent for a packing firm, was promoting a cooking contest. Mrs. Long won the prize. A few months later, during a visit to Shreveport, she was instrumental in exonerating Long, who was charged with partic- ipating in a minor shooting scrape. She produced seat stubs as proof he escorted her to a theatre the night of the shooting. The fifth blood transfusion which the physicians attempted to adminis- ter to Senator Long was never com- pleted. At 3 a. m., Dr. E. L. Sander- son announced there no longer was any hope. “He is dying,” he said. The end was only little more than an hour away then and the physicians had abandoned their battle against death. Allen Announces Death Governor Allen made the official death announcement. His voice was husky and barely audible. “This marks, with the death of Huey P. Long, the passing of the greatest builder of economics in the history of Louisiana in 225 years,” he said, “It also marks with the death of Huey P. Long the passing of the greatest hero for the common right of all the people of America.” While Long and his physicians fought for his life, the roads around the hospital were barred by troops and police who swarmed over all Baton Rouge, a multiplication of the guard which failed to save him at the state- * house. The legislature met Monday and ground out the senator's bills. One of them gerrymandered the political bailiwick of District Judge B. H. Pavy, the assassin Weiss’ father-in- Jaw. Guards searched all for wea- pons, The senate met briefly Mon- day night and sent the bills to its finance committee after a minister implored a deity “too wise to err” to save the senator. May Adjourn Inquest The parish coroner started an in- quest into the death of Dr. Weiss, but postponed it because only two witnesses testified. He said he might have to closé the inquest because he was powerless to make the sena- tor’s guards, slayers of the assassin, appear. ‘There was much speculation on the possibie effect of Senator Long's death on the political empire which because of his control of finances and Patronage, many of the district lead- ers in the old line Democratic organ- ization, Now with Long gone, Walmsley is in & strong position to rebuild his New Orleans organization. Other Puzzles Too But there was more to puzzle the “share-the-wealth” units built by the senator and his organization? They while Long was fighting for his life, the St. Louis unit announced it would soon open offices for “Long for presi- dent in '36.” It was a tense night vigil about the hospital as Long’s strength ebbed. Traflic was diverted. Now and then an attendant or a nurse dropped a word to indicate how things were going. The first real alarm among the watchers came at 7 p. m., when a serious sinking spell was reported unofficially. Reported Holding Own An hour and a half after the sink- ing spell was reported one of the doctors said: “The senator is holding his own.” But shortly later the alarmed phy- siclans ordered blood tests for an- other transfusion. An oxygen tank was rushed in and it was learned an oxygen tent had been taken in earlier. The transfusion was completed at midnight. A little while later the senator be- came delirious and then intermit- rite unconscious. He was sinking fast. Word came out of the sick room that there was no longer any hope, Then the physicians gave up. They sat back and awaited what they knew was inevitable. Rises From Cotton Patch Rising from cotton patch to na- tional prominence as United States senator and dictatorial boss of Louis- jana, Huey Pierce Long attained the highest degree of state control ever recorded under America’s democratic form of government, He was a psychological enigma to many and a political phenomenon to virtually all experts. He conceived and did things which none but he thought possible and which none of the “old line” politicians ever tried. His followers called him “genius,” “friend of. the poor” and “champion of the people's rights.” An army of enemies, whom he re- pulsed again and again at the polls or in the courts, dubbed him “dema- Bogue,” “madman,” “destroyer of constitutional government” and worse terms running the gamut from “elec- tion thief” to “political racketeer.” He called himself “Kingfish.” It was a term applied originally in sar- castic vein to an opponent. Long once assumed it jocularly for himself, found a ready publicity response and thereafter clung to it. Became Salesman at 16 From the time he shook from his heels the dust of a Hillside cotton farm in Louisiana's Winn parish as @ tobacco-chewing youngster of 16 to become a traveling salesman, until a subservient legislature in 1934 and 1935 passed laws which transferred control of the state's every activity to & serious threat. Recently Long—in | his long fight with the Standard Oil his fight against his arch-foe, Mayor | company. T. Semmes Walmsley—had won over, Pipe Lines Ruin Long spread across the nation. Monday,, ents. In Shreveport he built a ¢ he said. Long manipulated a finding favor- able to the independents through the public service commission and later the legislature declared the pipe lines public carriers, When elected governor in 1928, Long went after his political foes, March, 1929, when he called a spe- cial session of the legislature to enact oil, the storm broke. were accusations that he had at- tempted to bribe legislators, used the appointive power to influence the { that he had participated in a scan- dalous “studio party” in New Orleans, Senate Minority Saves Him Long defeated the impeachment proceedings in the senate. A two- thirds vote was necessary to convict and he got 15 senators, one more than one-third, to sign a statement that j they would not vote for impeachment {because the articles were faultily drawn. All 15 were rewarded by po- {litical preferment. Long ran for the United States senatorship in 1930, won a closely contested Democratic primary and was elected in November without formal opposition. In the same elec~ tion bond issues of $68,000,000 for toads and of $5,000,000 for Louisiana’s 33-story capitol were approved. Ordinarily Long would have taken March 4, 1931, but he had fallen out with the lieutenant governor, Dr. Paul Cyr, and decided to hold on to the governorship until he could be as- sured that no political foe would suc- ceed him. Dr. Cyr finally went be- fore a notary and took the oath of governor, filing an ouster suit against Long. The latter, declaring that Cyr of Meutenant governor, caused A. O. King, president pro tempore of the state senate, to assume that post, then went into court and personally argued a victory against the ouster suit. K, Allen through the gubernatorial primary of January, 1932, the whole majority of his nominees for the leg- isiature winning also, Then he en- as acting governor until eléction formalities in November gave the of- fice to Allen. Also he formed a law Partnership in New Orleans. and pur- chased a home on Audubon boule- vard in that city, shifting his re- sidence from Shreveport. the political machine which he dom- inated, Long was a law unto him- self. In the national field he launched a campaign to restrict big incomes ana “spread the wealth” by making every person in the United States free or debt and giving each individual $5,000. This followed Louisiana state enact- ment of a debt moratorium law. Long was born Aug. 30, 1893, on a 320-acre farm which became part of the town of Winnfield, La., when the coming of a railroad transformed the fields into city lots. He,.was the seventh child in a femily of nine. He attended Shreveport high school, but did not finish the course. His college work was confined to three months in the law department of the University of Oklahoma and about seven months of intensive cramming in the law school of Tulane University. Then he passed a special examination for admission to the bar and was ad- mitted to practice in May, 1915. Alibi Witness Becomes Wife When he was 19 years old, he was arrested at Shreveport, accused of be- ing involved in @ shooting scrape. An vibi cleared him, Miss Rose McCon- rell testifying that he had escorted her to a theatre that evening ana producing the seat stubs as proof. The next year they were married. They became the parents of two sons and a daughter. Long began his political caree. early. At 25 he was elected to the state board of railroad commissioners. He ran unsuccessfully for governor when he was 30 and attained that office four years later. Defeating an attempt to impeach him, he consolidated his political power and won the 1930 federal sen- atorial primary and election from the veteran Joseph ©. Ransdell. Finding that his foes planned to acquire the governorship, he retained that office until Jan, 25, 1932, when he took his seat in Washington. That same year he helped his close political ally, John Overton, win Louisiana’s other sena- torial post from Edwin S. Broussara. Thereafter he shuttled between the national and state capitals, defending and reinforcing it until his personal power virtually was absolute, while in spotlight by bitter attacks upon the national. administration. Dubbed Acts ‘Claptrap’ his pet measures “claptrap” or worse -|and sought to discredit him by piti- Jess exposure of personal scandal, he went blithely on his way. He had J f EREREGE bet it his state organization against attacks |proved his contention. ‘Washington he kept himself in the|senate floor to read. to .| Clothing half-jests behind which lurked Although Long's opponents dubbed |of conviction, Long said two undisputed talents as a shrewd law-| At that conference, he yer, always rewarded his adherents|threats against his life and waged incessant warfare. against unidentified “voice’ his foes, but chiefly he relied upon a rare Kingfish Heard. in Senate The senate custom that new mem- to the red-haired Huey. He declaim- ed Ris “share-the-wealth” project Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Ar- kansas, for “compromising” with the Republicans. In one of his early speeches he became so personal in his comment upon fellow senators that he was forced to stop. In February, 1932, Long was back in New Orleans, had himself named {Democratic national committeeman and supervised selection of a delega- tion to the party’s national conven- tion in Chicago. Before that body met he came out in favor of the Roo- sevelt candidacy for the presidential nomination and when his delegation’s credentials were challenged won @ majority vote in the convention, hail- ed as the first test of Roosevelt strength, jed in Arkansas for Mrs. Hattie Cara- way, who won the Democratic sena- |torial nomination, Then he canvassed Louisiana for Overton and thence took his sound trucks and literature distributing automobiles to the Da- kotas in advocacy of Roosevelt's elec- tion to the presidency. ; Down in Louisiana Gov. Long's ex- bloodshed narrowly was averted. hearing was conducted. inside of machine guns and bayonets Long claimed after it that he On Aug. 9, a month before Baton Rouge shooting, Long what he said was a plot on to Plot some of his remarks QB i i Bs Fix . SE a UP Weather Report WEATHER FORECAST clearing them out of various state of- | cloudy by lor fices and arousing bitter enmities. In) nesday; and vicinity: Partly ay” tonight aha Weel a tax of 5 cents a barrel on crude| * cloudy The house of representatives pre- et Meret ins sented articles of. impeachment con-| northeast tonight taining 19 charges. Among themjand east and For South Da- ler diclary and flaunted the constitu- | Kole: Fait, coo tional limitations on the governor-| tonight; ship, that he had told a bodyguard day partly cloudy to kill an o) ition 1 d}and coloer, . aid pat rik areas For Montana: Showers tonight and Wednesday; cooler east tonight and dnesday. lostly cloudy in north, in sou aa ht and in extreme’ northwest tonight. GENERAL CONDITIONS 1 Dodge City, ° 3020 and over Saskatchewan \iberta, monton 30,18, while low pressure ex- tends along the Pacific coast, 8 kane, Phoenix, 29. sh moderate temperature sectio: ns, = tt dechour change 00 feo? 24-hour cl +O. Bismarck station barot 14, Reduced to sea level, 29.90. Missouri river stag PRE( vy For. ares Station: his seat in the federal senate on | Ni , Jan, ist to date .. Norman, Jan. 1st to date ...... lated excess to date .... WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA High- Low- by his action had vacated the office Di His next move was to engineer O. Sey eee Williston, clear EASTERN NORTHD seeeeesesssses? Long slate for state offices and aj. Devils Lake, ptcidy Grand Forks, ptcldy clear trained for Washington, leaving King eosenssgs eeeeeset MINNESOTA PO! Hi Minneapolis, clear . Moorhead, ptcldy . SOUTH setae POINTS bers listen and learn meant nothing and denounced his party's leader, Rapid ‘City, clea Havre, . Helena, ane 5 Miles City, clear WEATHER AT OTHE! 8385 fot After the convention he campaign- | Kansa: Louis, Mo., clear . Lake City,’ clear penditures of $79,000,000 in the year Sante Fe, N. 1931 reacted into a state treasury crisis and in 1932 an extensive pro-| Sheridan, gram of fresh taxation was put/Sioux City, through. It started a revolt which climaxed in January, 1935, when the Square Deal association, organized | Win nem) by anti-Long people, assembled in| winnipeg, Baton Rouge to demand that Gov. Al- Jen summon the legislature in spe- cial remedial session. Senator Long hurried there. Many of the Square Dealers were armed and the militia and state police were called out. One citizen was wounded and extensive) steele, N. }. Marie, M., Seattle, Wash., cl a, Clear ... 74 ane Wash, pecigy a Pas, Min, "cldy 64 cca, Man., ptcldy 66 Kidder Pioneer Is Buried at Steele SSSPSSLASSSSSSSTSSSssaassss Saseesssssseesgessesesnsssssss Coincidentally Long opened @ per-| county, sonally conducted court inquiry into) and was buried here, with Rev. Shir- an alleged plot which he said his/tey, enemies had formed to kill him. The! the 5 qi ile mee if, SESTSHEE Bers ald 3 i THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, _ TUESDAY, SEP ;|{ Adiitional Society] measures. He related in his autobiography | vious ones lasted 12 hours, in an at- that as a Winnfield attorney he had/tempt to prevent a joint session to acquired stock in several independ-jhear the Roosevelt bonus veto mes- ent oil companies, either as fees for!sage; and nearly 16 hours against legal work or by purchase from cli-|NRA extension. After adjournment house 000 home and was “in a fair way to|revealed plans for an investigation becoming a millionaire” when the|of the Long regime in Louisiana un- big companies, controlling the pipe) der a bill giving wide powers to a spe- Ponticai world than Louisiana. What |lines, refused to take ofl from in-| cial committee. will become of the hundred of | dependent wells. “My shares became Legion Auxiliary to Open Program Frida tice, will speak on “The Constitution,” @ subject appropriate at this time be- the occurrence of Long dared the investigators to{iitary worth less than 40 cents over night,” | “come on.” year are not being mailed but will be given to the members at this time, Execu- tive board members, including Mmes. Spencer 8. Boise, Henry ‘Hanson, Ray Robinson, Earle ©. Peck, George Smith and Carl E. Knudtson, will be hostesses, se % Lieutenant Liessman Leaves for. Station June from West Point Military acad- emy and who has spent the summer here, left early Tuesday morning for Fort Warren, Cheyenne, Wyo., where he reports for duty Thursday. He was accompanied as far as Dickinson by his father, who is returning to the city immediately. Last week-end Lieutenant Leissman and his sister, Miss Thelma Liessman, returned from an eastern trip during which Lieutenant Liessman was best man for his West Point roommate, Lt. Burnis Mayo Kelly, Evarts, Ky., who married Miss Consuelo R. Storey of Freeport, N. Y., at the West Point Catholic chapel Saturday, Aug. 31. Lieutenant and Mrs. Kelly left im- mediately after their wedding for a visit with his parents, after which they are to be stationed at Jefferson Barracks, 8t. Louis, Mo. Before attending the wedding, Lieutenant and Miss Liessman passed three days at Atlantic City, N. J., and rt 47\were the guests of friends living on Long Island for a few days. ee & Miss Julia Wetmore, 813 Rosser avenue, will leave within the next few days for Fargo to enroll at the North Dakota Agricultural college. Miss ‘Wetmore has’ been employed as sec- retary in the Burleigh county agent's Office for mare oe Mrs. R. B. Albrecht, 718% Mandan St., is home after a 10-day vacation trip to Minneapolis, St. Paul and Grand Forks. At the latter place she visited Miss Louise Sherman. She passed most of the time in St. Paul and Minneapolis visiting relatives and was accompanied there by the ters of Mr. Albrecht, who were re- Albrecht is a nurse at the Midway hospital and her sister is attending a beauty academy. * eK Mr. and Mrs, Albert D. Cordner, received definite instructions regard- ‘00 | ing his new location. CONTINUED) from page ene’ Seek Implications Behind Slaying of Louisiana Dictator Removes Candidate Long’s death removed one of the largest question marks from the 1936 presidential race. Official Washing- ton expected he would be an inde- pendent candidate. Calls for law and order in govern- mental affairs were widespread. “It is seriously disturbing to learn of a resort to unlawful violence as a Political weapon anywhere in Amer- ica,” said Secretary Morgenthau. ‘Detestable,” Says Norris “Detestable” was the word used by Senator Norris (Rep.-Neb.) to de- scribe the slaying. “There will be some bad effects from it,” he added, “It was unjus- tified.” Norris said “there was lots of good in Huey Long” and that “his heart was right although his method wasn’t.” “It is intolerable and unthinkable and outrages all decency when people have the ballot and could have given the senator a supreme test by that means within a few weeks without resorting to taking up instruments of murder,” Senator Bone (Dem.Wash.) said. the same thought, Fath- r|er Charles E. Coughlin, Detroit priest, id at Albany that “our motto must ways be: Bales. not bullets.’” Plan Varied Program At Townsend. Meeting |s<ordims sn4 sera oA James Morris, supreme eourt: jus-|Frontiersman, Trader, Rancher “Was One of State's First -levening at the Burleigh county court| 0 ins state. room. Mrs. J. H. Sleight, secretary, tin, Ent s7| General Inspects CCC here, He was 78 years old. Halil journeyed with his parents ta, Laramie, Husband of Former Resident Here Dies Musical Troupe Will Play in Slope Towns PLAYERS FROM GERMANY, James Collins’ Rites Set at Sauk Center Fargo, N. D. Sept. 10—(2)—Fu neral services will be held at Sauk Peters Tyroler Concertina Troupe At Miller's Hall, Napoleon, Wed., Sept. 11. At Kulm Hall, Friday, Sept. 13. At Sweet Briar, Saturday, Sept. 14. Admission: Children 10c; Adults 30c legislator, who died in a McVille, N. D., hospital following a stroke. Misses Esther and Lila Albrecht, sis-| Mrs. TONIGHT! “xr Swift Studio Pasty Ps sonpEne's turning to St. Paul after visiting at| tinea .|their home at ‘Temvik. Miss Esther | # Two Fargoans Held For Theft of Auto 413 Thayer avenue, are leaving| Scobey, Mont. Sept. 10.—)—Ac- Thursday or Friday for Fargo, where] cused of automobile theft, two men Mr. Cordner has been called by the/booked as Lester Benton and Peter Gamble “Robinson Fruit company| Kellar of Fargo, N. D., are in the Dan- headquarters to receive an assign-|iels county jail awaiting trial. ment to a territory in the eastern The pair, police said, stole a sedan section of the state. Mr. Cordner {8/ trom Selmar Nelson, farmer, after a being transferred from the Bismarck | coupe they were driving was office of the company and has not/in a collision with a truck near here Featuring SIGMUND ROMBERG, America’s DEEMS TAYLOR, renowned as musical critic, com and commentator; famous as a wit and raconteur; asa Master of GEORGE BRITTON, Barisne HELEN MARSHALL, Soprano MORTON BOWE, Tenor chorus of 12... ensemble of 50! The fist of folly and faulty brakes—a : slippery pave- ment — and one auto smashes another. Watch the other fellow as Orches: tra... studio setting. You'll list the Swift Studio Party at the top! here Tuesday. The Tousisting of four sausiclans by the group Camps in Minot Area of absence. : rs City and County J es Foster of the law day morning for Fargo on & trip. Mr, afd Mrs. Martin Magnus of Sterling are the parents of a boy born at 2:35 a, m., Tuesday at St. Alexius hospital. Rudolph Richter and Miss Marcella it | Theresia Nieters, both of Wing. S greatest including such hits as “The Song Bee ime” ies who’s different! ig entertainment ...in a gay he may swerve or skid into you. ‘There’s always some samege done to one or both Safeguard yourself against financial loss. with enough automobile insurance this agency of the Hartford Fire Insurance Company. 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