The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 5, 1935, Page 3

f; ' | fi te Bi 121 Aoolications for Pardon, |f Pension Advocate Parole or Commutation + Denied at Session 4 From a. total of 169 applications considered, the state pardon pies ‘Thursday announced it had grafted eight pardons, 11 paroles and 20 com- ~ mutations of sentence in a three-day pre-Christmas session, The 121 remaining cases were de- nied cr deferred until later meetings of the board. The case of William Gummer, con- victed in 1922 of murdering a girl in ® Fargo hotel room, which has come before the board at numerous times since 1928, again was deferred. Gum- mer is seeking a pardon on the basis 1 of alleged new evidence, One youth, Eddie Berg, sentenced to one to three years from Ward coun- ty for third degree burglary, -peti- tioned for pardon or commutation af- ter serving less than two months of his term, His petition was denied. Two to Be Deported Two of the communtations included those of Jose Valdez, Burleigh coun- ty, grand larceny, and Homer Jones, Ward county, burglary, both to be de- Ported. Pardons were granted Theodore Gruber and Jacob Hecker, sentenced to two to five years from Morton county for third degree burglary, Sept. 5, 1934; Alvin Walters, one to three years, grand larceny, Richland county, Aug. 30, 1934; Dolliver Rob- erts, one to 20 years, robbery, Wil- ( lams county, May 29, 1934; George W. =. Schaefer, one yeat, embezzlement, Di- vide county, Aug. 28, 1935; Clifford Mathias, and George Smith, 16 months, grand larceny, Mountrail county, April 27, 1935; and Leonard Schuck, one to three years, statutory charge, Emmons county, May 22, 1935, pardon effective March 15. Paroles include Harold Goldsmith, Franklin Elliott, and Georg? Hirsch, Steele county; Earl Templeman, ef- fective March 1; Jake Sivert, Ward county, car theft; John Schmidt, Mercer county, arson. Goldsmith and Elliott were convicted of horse steal- ing; Hirsch, grand larceny. Grain Thief Freed John Prezpoida, convicted of steal- ing grain in Walsh county last year, was granted commutation of sentence effective at once. Commutatidn also was granted Joy Foster, convicted in March in Mc- Lean county for second degree man- slaughter. Others who gained com- mutations. of sentence include Howard Hendrickson, Burleigh, grand larceny; Gottlieb Dutt, McLean, burglar: Fred Lawton, Ward, car theft; B. C. Sullivan, Ward, grand larceny, effec- tive April 1; Clarence Dahl, Walsh county, burglary; Peter Loran, Ro- lette, assault and battery, effective March 20; Peter Martin, Ward, grand larceny, effective April 1; Ray Fergu- son, Grand Forks, convicted in 1932 ‘of assault with intent to kill, effective March 1 if it has the approval of the states attorney; Albert Guimont, Ward, grand larceny, and William ~ Norris, Ward, burglary, effective March 15; John’ Radka, Cass, for- gery. JOSLIN SAYS HOOVER wore, | 39 Convicts Freed | @ By Pardon Board ° W. W. ROYSTER * * * [S “FIGHTING QUAKER’ ‘Wants Nothing for Himself,’ Former Secretary Avers ‘ in Magazine New York, Dec: 5.—(#)—Herbert Hoover's former secretary was the au- thority for an assertion Thursday that the former president “wants nothing for himself” and is not build- ing up a political organization for 1936, Theodore Joslin, writing in the Dec. 7 issue of the magazine, “Today,” said Hoover will intensify his attacks on the New Deal during the coming year, but not with the idea of gaining pub- | lic office. Joslin pictured the former president as a “Fighting Quaker” in 1936, and said, “he will give everything he has to the fight—cold facts, logic, satire, humor, So far as he is concerned, the chips may fall where they may.” ; Welford, Cooney | | Puzzle Reporters ot Chicago, Dec. 5.—(?)—Gov. F. 4. Cooney, of Montana, Demo- srat, arrived here Thursday on \ she same train with Gov. Walter | Welford, of North Dakota, Re- dublican. Said Governor Cooney to Gov- ernor Welford: “The next election? It’s in the dag.” Governor Welford replied: “It will be a landslide.” ; They didn’t specify for whom the landslide was in the bag. ’ Governor Cooney, accompanied oy Mrs, Cooney and Dr. Harry J. McGregor, chairman of the Mon- tana state highway commission, y was en route to Miami, Fla., to a convention of highway engineers. The governor said the depression was over in Montana. Governor Welford hurried to the International Livestock Ex- position. BLIZZARD HITS N. Y. Albany, N. Y., Dec. 5— (®) —Aé “snowstorm of blizzard proportions’ was reported raging near the Can- «adian border Thursday as milder ten- peratures displaced s bitter cold wave 4in New York state. < | Xmas Shoppers Attention! . “SHOP EARLY” People’s Dep't. Store “112 Fifth St.’ ASSOCIATION HEAD WL ADDRESS RAL MEN HERE SUNDAY Engineer Formerly Located Here, to Talk at Banquet in Memorial Building W. W. Royst:’, president of the Railroad Employes National Pension association and a former engineer on the Soo Line here, will be the main speaker at a banquet to be held Sun- day at the World War Memorial building under the sponsorship of the Bismarck chapter. Royster, whose home is at Glen- Wood, Mian., will talk on the efforts of the sssociation in behalf of pen- sions for railroad employes. A rail- road pension act was passed by con- Gress in 1934 but was later declared unconstitutionat by the supreme court. . During the last session of congress the act was changed to meet the ob- Jections of the supreme court and passed again through the efforts of the national association. Its validity has not yet been tested in the courts but probably will be before it becomes effective March 1, Royster was the first nominee for governor of Minnesota on the Farm- er-Labor ticket inthe infancy of the party which now controls Minnesota Politics. For 16 years he was chair- man of the train and engine men’s legislative board for the state of Min- nesota. C. B. Haney, president of the local pension organization, is in charge of the banquet, which will start at 1 p.m, Royster will come here from Man- dan where Saturday night he will ad- dress a gathering of railroad employes at 7:30 p. m. (MST), in Lewis and Clark hotel. From here Royster will go to Minot where he will speak Tuesday and then to Grand Forks Wednesday. The Minnesota man is on the last leg. of a trip that has taken him all over the western half of the United States, TR’s Grandson Held On Assault Charges Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 5.—(#)—Cor- nelius ‘Van Shaack Roosevelt, grand- son of former president Theodore Roosevelt, and a fellow student, were held Thursday for the grand jury on charges of assault and battery with dangerous weapon. Roosevelt and Peter de Florez were accused of dis- charging airpistols at a newspaper- man and two policemen. FOXX SOLD? 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