The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 12, 1935, Page 1

ESTABLISHED 1873 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1935 idey ising temperature The Weather unsettled ht and PRICE FIVE CENTS CRISIS IN EGYPT IS NEW COMPLICATION FOR GREAT BRITAIN King Fuad Signs Royal Decree Restoring Constitutional Government GENEVA WEATHER STORMY Selassie Rejects Terms as Un- acceptable and ‘Reward for Violence’ Rome, Dec. 12.—(}—Thorough- fy reliable sources stated tonight that Premier Mussolini “quite probably” will accept discussions of peace between Italy and Ethi- opia. A spokesman for Mussolini, however, warned the world against “excessive optimism” over peace proposals. (By the Associated Press) A tide of rebellion surged against the Franco-British proposals for peace between Italy and Ethiopia in East Africa Thursday as British di- piomacy sought to allay another crisis tangent to the war. % With London's consent King Fuad of Egypt signed a royal decree restor- ing constitutional government to his nation. The relation between efforts to set- tle the war as quickly as possible and pour oil on the troubled waters of Egyptian politics was pictured in League of Nations circles as due to Britain’s worry over Anti-British dem- onstrations in Egypt which compli- cated the Mediterranean imbroglio. Then, too, those circles said, Down- ing Street is anxious to re-establish quickly the damaged “united, front” erected by Italy, France and Great Britain at the Stresa conference. Fear Storm at Geneva But British diplomacy, given a surprise turn at Paris in the rapid @rafting of the proposals to end the Italo-Ethiopian conflict, apparently was headed for stormy weather at Geneva, Many states represented on the league's sanctions committee of 18, called to consider additional penalties against Italy for having been the “ag- gressor” in the African war, took a firm stand against major concessions to Italy at the price of any impair- ment of Ethiopia’s sovereignty or weakening of the league covenant. Ethiopia itself formally rejected the proposals when Emperior Haile Selassie at his field headquarters in Dessye, said: “We cannot submit to force which we never provoked, be- cause that would be rewarding vio- lence.” Sirong reports circulated in London that King George intervened person- ally with the government to force through the peace plan. They were not confirmed. Would Cut Up Ethiopia The peace terms were understood to embody cession of a large amount of land to Italy by the Ethiopian empire in return for a seaport in Eri- trea, Italian colony, for the land- locked empire of Haile Selassie. Particularly were Soviet Russia and Turkey, which opposed the original league peace plan as too favorable to Italy, ex] to combat openly any plan granting additional concessions to Italy and the dismemberment of Ethiopia. Addis Ababa officials yesterday re- Jected flatly any proposal which would intrude on the boundaries of their nation. Adding to the resentment against Britain at Geneva was the fact that no copy of the peace terms was de- livered simultaneously to the league! lied ling when it went to Addis Ababa and Rome, Fear Great Powers Some delegates saw in the Franco- British program the beginnings of a move to establish openly a definite dominion of great powers, perhaps in the form of a four-power pact with Germany to join France, Britain and Italy. By King Fuad’s decree, Egypt re- turned to the self-government form of the suspended 1923 constitution. On this basis, the cabinet of Premier Tewfik Nessim Pasha decided to withdraw its intention to resign, @ move prompted by persistent na- tionalist, Anti-Britishr pressure. The committee of 18, charged with taking action on the proposed oil em- bargo, met at Geneva but decided the league council would have to take up the matter of peace plans before any action would be possible. Consequent- ly, the committee of 18 did nothing on the oil sanctions and the council meet next Wednesday. will| Thursday, aided by clues provided by —o ey Death Ends Career > ° M. J. VAN SWERINGEN * * * DEATH SEVERS FIRM OF VAN SWERINGENS, GIANTS IN BUSINESS ree Cece Younger Cleveland Railway Ty- coon, Mantis J., Dies From Long Illness Cleveland, O., Dec. 12—(7)—M. J. Van Sweringen, who with his brother O. P., rose from obscure poverty to build a great rail empire died in a here’ “Thursday after several months’ illness. O. P. Van Sweringen was at his brother’s bedside when he died. Physicians announced the immedi- ate cause of death as hypertensive myocarditis, an inflammation of the muscular portion of the wall of the heart. Partners in every enterprise from | office boy days up, Mantis James Van Sweringen and his elder brother, Oris Paxton Van Sweringen, became out- standing railroad owners and opera- tors before they had reached middle age. . The era of rail consolidations found them in 1932 in control, by means of holding companies, of -21,000 miles of railroads with a total value of nearly $3,000,000,000. ‘Their systems extend- ed from the Atlantic seaboard to the Rocky Mountains at Pueblo, Colo., and south to El Paso, Tex. This industrial empire building reached its apex in 1930 when they acquired control of the 12,564 miles of the Missouri Pacific with its sub- sidiaries, including the Texas & Pa-| cific, the. International Great North- ern and the Gulf Coast road. Divided bilities Then, for the first time, the broth- ers found it advisable to divide their responsibilities. Oris became chair- man of the board of the Missouri Pa- cific, resigning from the eastern roads directorates. This left Mantis at the head of the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Nickel Plate, the Erie, the Pere Mar- quette, the Hocking Valley and al- e8. The brothers were born near Wooster, Ohio, Mantis on July 8, 1881, slightly more than two years ‘after Oris, There was another brother, Herbert, and two sisters, Edith and Carrie, in the family. The father was James Tower Van Sweringen, one time engineer in the Pennsylvania oil fields who had been severely wound- ed at the battle of Gettysburg in the Civil War. At the age of 15 Oris got a job as Office boy for the Bradley Chemical company. -Two years later Mantis (Continued on Page Eleven) Gunman Found Dying On Paterson Street Paterson, N. J. Dec. 12.—(P)—A gangland slaying of Sammy Mandel, known to police as the “sugar king,” sent officers on a wide manhunt @ semi-hysterical woman. Mandel was found dying Wednesday night on a sidewalk outside the woman's apart-1 ment by neighbors who heard two shots and her screams for help. They saw two men disappear in an auto- Father Charged With Fatally Burning Son Jenkins, Ky., Dec. 12.—()—Thomas' Mahan, 9-months-old baby whose father ig charged with having burned and otherwise mistreated him, died in & hospital here Thursday. The. tow-headed, blue-eyed baby was brought here Sunday by his mother. She said the father, Robert Mehan, 25, a coal mine loader, had held it to the fire to discipline it. The hospital physician said two teeth were missing from the child’s lower jaw.and there were evidences of burns. It had RECORD PRICE PAID | FORBARROW AT 4-1 | INSTITUTE IN FARGO | Dickey County Boys Gets $179 ‘for Hog Selling at 50 | Cents Per Pound NEW SALEM GIRLS WINNERS Better Prices for Prize Stock at Exposition Than Re- corded in 1934 Fargo, N. D., Dec. 12.—(P)—A_rec- \ord price was paid for the grand champion barrow at the 26th annual 4-H club achievement institute at N. D. A. C. when bidders massed in the livestock pavilion for the annual auc- tion of prize beef, swine and sheep. The barrow sold for 50 cents a pound, | setting an all time high. Better prices in general were paid than in 1934, H Armour and Company of West Fargo bought both the champion hog and champion steer. Swift and Company took the top lamb. The steer, a 1179 pound animal,! shown by Bernard Johnson of Amenia, Cass county, sold for 29 cents u pound, bringing its owner $314.91. Hog Weighed 358 Pounds i The champion hog, a Poland China exhibited by Elmer Gentz of Dickey county, wejghed 358 pounds and at 50 cents brought $179. The champion sheep was shown by Roger Cossette of Wild Rice, Cass county, and at $3.10 a pound brought him $384.40, Last year the top beef sold for 28 cents; the top hog 40 cents and the top lamb $2.50. Previous high record price for a hog was 42 cents, paid both in 1931 and in 1933. The reserve beef was sold to the O. J. De Lendrecie Company of Fargo for.18 cents,. bringing $218. - The reserve champion hog went to the Gardner hotel for 19 cents, bring- ing $63.84, and the reserve lamb to Weiller and Weiller, commission firm at the Union Stock Yards, West Far- go, for $1.10 a pound, or $119.90. Finke Is Auctioneer H. L. Finke of Minot was aue- tioneer, his assistants being J. F. Mc Guire and W. P. Crestnut of Fargo and Ray Schnell of Dickinson. Amanda Skrede, Grand Forks county, was grand champion for clothing creation, a style show award, while George Strum of Hastings, vet- eran of the International Livestock Show at Chicago, was ranked out- standing club boy of the state. Food contest winners were Ruth Meier, New Salem, and Wilma Mejre, Surrey, while Rosemary Kalinowsky, Crary, took first place in home fur- Genevieve Linster, Berthold, and Trene Josephson, Washburn, won red ribbons, and Helen Jensen, Hettinger, and Nora Schwarthing, New Salem, white ribbons in the food contest. Dorothy Arason, Mountain, was sec- ond and Mardell Litsey, Bisbee, third, in home furnishings. Other Clothing Awards Cotton Dresses—Tina Hovi, Griggs, first; Delores Ward, Ransom, second; Leona Axtell, Stutsman, third, . Informal Party — Jean McDonald, Grand Forks, first; Ruth Hoggarth, Foster, second; Laura Anderson, Barnes, third. Semi-Tailored Sik — Helen Rich- Mildred Russell, Gunyen Carlson, ards, Cass, first; Stutsman, second; Dickey, third. Top beef animal is a cross breed— the product of mixed Angus and Hereford blood, exhibited under the colors of the Angus, but winning over all other breeds in the final contest. The steer, black, with white mark- ings on the face, was exhibited by Bernard Johnson, 16, of Cass county. Reserve championship in the beef cattle class went to Howard Jabs of Fort Totten, for his Hereford steer. The reserve champion sheep was exhibited by Grant Anderson, Wild Rice. It was a Shropshire he had brought up as a “bottle orphan.” The reserve chauipionship in swine went to the Chester. White barrow exhibited by Willard Brakke of Wild Rice. Two Labatt Kidnaping Suspects Are Jailed Chicago, Dec. 12.—(7)—Two sus- pects in the kidnaping last year of John 8. Labatt, millionaire Canadian brewer, were held by department of justice agents Thursday for question- ing at an-‘unannounced place after their capture Wednesday in a street chase at Ottawa, Ill. The prisoners government charged the kidnaping was planned, Arrested with them was Herman sons of checks for more than $20,000. Actors in a Minneapolis assas- sination drama, the second in as many years, are pictured above. . Above is the most recent picture of Liggett taken at a trial Where he was acquitted of a statutory. charge. Mrs. Liggett is behind him taking notes. To the right is Isadore Blumenfeld alias Kid Can, liquor salesman identified by Mrs. Liggett as one of the kill- ers. Blumenfeld calims to have an ironclad alibi. JAPAN DEMAND FOR EQUALITY INNAVAE: TONNAGE REJECTED French Object to Right of Lim- iting Agreement to Three Principals in Assassination Tragedy WARRANT CHARGES Powers (Copyright, 1935, Associated Press) London, Dec. 12—Japan’s demand for equality in naval strength was rejected at the international naval conference Thursday by the four other great naval powers and the British dominions. American, British and Italian del- egates flatly rejected the Japanese proposal, and had the support of the British dominions, while France ex- pressed opposition chiefly on grounds of procedure, The meeting broke up at noon, with the Japanese leaving hastily to sub- mit certain questions to Tokyo. French and Italian opposition to Japanese equality was understood to have resulted from the Japanese statement that they consider a com- mon upper limit of naval tonnage should be confined to the United States, Britain and Japan, because there were no varying interests among those three. The French objected to the idea of limiting a tonnage agreement to the three powers, insisting on their full| rights. Savings Club Money Aids Local Business Bismarck’s holiday trade was given @ short upward push Thursday with distribution to more than 1,000 per- The money was paid out by the First National bank to persons who partici- pated in its st. annual Christmas Club saving program. Under the plan the depositor sets aside a definite sum each week or each month during the year and receives it back at Christmas’ time to finance holiday expenditures. E. T. McCanna, bank vice president, said the initial test has proved popu- lar here and that the Christmas Club for 1936 would be opened at once. 1t is his hope, he said, that the amount to~be distributed next year will be at least $30,000. The first checks were placed in the mail Tuesday night, McCanna said, and all should be in the hands of club members by Thursday. Merchants said a number already hhave been cashed and that the resul:, is-a sharp upturn in the volume of business. t| Barnet Is Mentioned For Cuba Presidency Herbst, Joliet, Ill, former bootlegger. ORDER NEW TRAINS Omaha, Neb., Dec, 12.—(?)—Carl R, Gray, cific been expected to recover, but pneu- monia developed. Mahan denied the charges. each of 10 cars, for service between Chicago and Denver. - ‘3 id, 8c OESCH WITH KILLING Son-in-Law of Murdered Dickey County Farmer Is Quarry of Law ‘The state bureau of criminal iden- tification Thursday issued a descrip- tion of William Oesch, son-in-law of Henry Kaphingst, Dickey county com- missioner killed Wednesday on his farm near Ellendale. Oesch, against whom a warrant for, murder has been issued, is 38 years old, 5 feet 8 or 9 inches in height and weighs 170 pounds. He has brown eyes, dark hair, turning grey, and small scars on his neck, one arm and a knee. When last seen he.was wearing high leather boots, chamois skin jacket, and hunting cap with earlaps tied on top. He also might. have been wearing overalls and jacket and may be carrying a .16 gauge shotgun of Belgian make, according to C.. A. Miller, state crime bureau superin- tendent. Miller, who is at Ellendale, reported the search for Oesch was still un- successful up to noon Thursday. Reports said Oesch left his Northfield, Minn., farm job, inform- ing friends he was to visit his mother in Minneapolis, U.N.D. Winter Sports Building Bids Called Bids for construction of a proposed $30,000 winter sports building at the University of North Dakota will be opened here Friday afternoon by the state board of administration. The structure, to house curling and skating rinks, a warming house and other sports facilities, would be financed by a $13,500 grant from the public works administration and $16,- 500 in funds already available at the ‘hool. Only one bid had been received by the board Thursday, but officials said they expected to receive additional Donatio Asks Use of Trucks to Pick | Up Items Offered DRIVE GATHERING SPEED \ Expect Gifts of Food by Chil- dren to Fill Baskets; Staples Are Wanted ; Calls for help in collecting the items | offered to it for distribution among {the poor were issued Thursday by | Walter J. Brophy, general chairman of Bismarck’s annual Open Your Heart campaign. At the same time he said that a jlarge number of persons had listed material which they will give but had failed to note their names and ad- dresses. As 8 result of this condition, Brophy said, trucks will not call at the homes of many well-meaning persons be- cause they will not know where to find them. In order to meet the situation thus created he asked that persons who Here’s First List of Santa Claus’ Helpers The first list of persons who have contributed cash to Bis- marck’s sixth annual Open Your Heart campaign was announced ‘Thursday by O. T. Forde, found treasurer. The total of $140.85 must be greatly increased, cam- paign managers said, if the ob- jectives of the campaign are to be attained. Every resident of Bismarck is in- vited to contribute. Here is the list: Bismarck 40 and 8 (Ameri- can Legion honor society).$ 50.00 A Friend E Collection at 40-8 meeting ‘Wednesday night . . 16.35 George D. Mann.. Investors Mortgage Secur- ity Co. Ed Trepp . G. A. Dahlen O. T. Forde .. Charles F. Martin Henry Hanson .... Kenneth W. Simons . . Leonard Brauer and family W. J. Brophy ... Mrs. M. O. Steen . Mrs. John C. Spare. Mrs. H. Bernstein... Total to date.... have listed material they wish to do- nate call the Open Your Heart head- quarters, telephone No. 521, if the ma- terial is not called for within the next four days. Taxi Firms Offer Help Improvement of the system for getting the material collected will be effected by contribution of two local taxi companies of one cab for an hour each day, Brophy said. The 57 and 393 firms have made such an offer in response to appeals for help and ‘others are expected to follow suit. There remains, however, a very real Problem of calling at residences to obtain goods which have been offered and anyone who can do so is invited trucks for such periods as they are not needed for ordinary business, Brophy said. can use some of the money being con- tributed to it in hiring trucks to do| this work but the committee wishes to use all of this money in the pur- chase of clothing for children who must brave the weather in attending school, Brophy said. ~ $140.85 in Cash Listed Meanwhile the first list of cash|Scoutmaster of the new troop and donations was issued by O. T. Forde,|Roy C. Wildfang and H. C. Morgan treasurer. It showed con-| Were announced as members of the troop committee. cam tributions of $140.85. ‘Open Your Heart Committee | Kenzie’s new Boy Scout troop, No. 67, was installed here Tuesday night at ceremonies Wildfang, chairman of the troop com- marck public schools was the main enh ne the program. The instal- lation of the Scouts and troop com- to offer the services of a truck or mittee and the presetitation of the charter was in charge of Paul O. Net- fend, area Bonus el executive. scouts of new troop partici- The Open Your Heart committee pated in the program which opened with an accordion solo by Mr. Habeck. Scouts of the new troop are Merlin Wildfang, Lloyd Wildfang, Glenn Wildfang, Eugene Struwing, Orville Habeck, Leland Scott, Howard Wild- fang, Richard ns Sought ea ic are Park Rangers Get ‘ Revenge on Moose {Reais cies Jp ainda o Yellowstone . National Park, Wyo. Dec. 12—(?}—The young bull moose that chased park Rangers Walter Gammill and Ro- bert Beal for 30 hours last week was served piping hot Thursday. Gammill killed the animal in a second encounter this week and the meat was auctioned to resi- dents of Jackson, Wyo. The rangers, unarmed in the first brush with the charging an- imal, were kept clambering up trees to safety in sub-zero weather without food or sleep for 30 hours until finally they managed to es- ENTHRONEMENT OF ARCHDUKE OTTO 1S STARHEMBERG AIN Austrian Vice Chancellor Chal- lenges Hitlerism in Ad- dress to Nation Vienna, Dec. 12.—(#)—Prince Ernst von Starhemberg, uniting the destinies of Austria and its former ruling house of Hapsburg, challenged Hitlerism Thursday with a call for Austrian leadership of central Europe. Apparently clearing the way for restoration of the Hapsburgs, the vice chancellor proclaimed there was no obstacle to enthronement of Archduke Otto, as long as he accepted the pro- gram of the assassinated Chancellor Engelbert Dollfus for a powerful, sovereign Austrian nation. The prince, who has become virtual dictator of Austria, asserted in a speech Wednesday night to the patri- otic “Fatherland Front,” that Austrian ideals ultimately must prevail through- out the Germanic nations. His words took on added significance as a@ realization spread that the oc- casion of his address had been ad- vertised as one in which the funda- mental principles of now-republican Austria’s government would be pro- WKENGIE SCOUTS RECEIVE CHARTER C. W. Leifur Is Principal Speak- er at Installation Pro- gram Tuesday McKenze, N. D., Dec. 12.—(?}—Mc- presided over by Lloyd Principal C. W. Leifur of the Bis- ‘Liggett Machine Gunned to Death Nations Rebel Against Franco-British Peace Proposal Aid in Collecting MINNEAPOLIS CRIME PROBE IS PROPOSED BY STATE LEADERS Mrs. Liggett Spurns Schall’s Help Saying, ‘Why Did He Wait Until Now’ WIRES ATTORNEY GENERAL No Move Yet Made to Have Lethal Lead Examined by Ballistics Expert Minneapolis, Dec. 12—(P)—Gov. Floyd B. Olson and State Attor- ney General H. H. Peterson Thursday asked U. S. Attorney General Homer C. Cummings to aid in solving the slaying of Walter Liggett. j.. Minneapolis, Dec. 12.—()—Possibil= lee that Walter Liggett, slain publish- er was assassinated with a subma- chine gun, was adavnced by Chief of Police Frank Forestal Thursday. One of the death bullets, said the chief of police, had been examined by Ray Harrington, superintendent of investigation and identification,- and Glen Northrop, both members of the- department. Both men said the pel- FUND WILL BE RAISED TO AID WIDOW New York, Dec. 12.—(#)—Editor and Publisher will announce in its forthcoming issue plans for a fund to aid the widow and children of Walter Liggett, weekly newspaper publisher, who was slain in Minne- apolis Monday night, Arthur T. Robb, managing editor, said Wed- nesday night. Robb said Editor and Publisher had been requested by a large number of newspaper executives to establesh and manage such a fund. let had been fired from a submachine gun. Northrop is a graduate of the Northwestern School of Criminology and majored in ballistics. “I am hampered by circumstances and conditions,” Chief Forestal said, “and I have sent the bullet to the de- partment of justice at Washington. If they say it was fired from a subma- chine gun, I have urged that they step into the case.” Opens Way to U. S. Probe The machine gun angle would sup- ply the federal government with grounds for taking charge of the in- vestigation, authorities pointed out, since the possession of such a weapon is a federal offense. Police rechecked the alibi of Isadore (Kid Cann) Blumenfeld, identified by, Mrs. Liggett, as her husband's slayer. And Chief of Detectives James Mullen said Thursday “it was all there.” Authorities meanwhile turned their attention to an automobile stolen shortly before Liggett was slain Mon- day night and recovered Wednesday night. Two shotgun shells were found in the vehicle and the owner said they did not belong to him, Little signif- ieance was attached to this develop- ment in most official quarters. Widow Writes Olson Gov. Floyd B. Olson, at whom the dead publisher had aimed persistent barbs from his pen, announced Thurs- day he had received the widow’s let- ter appealing for a spécial prosecutor and investigators. He said he would consult with State's Attorney General H. H. Peter- son, who already has assigned two men to the case. He is “in accord” with any proposal “which will lead to the capture and conviction of the Slayers,” the governor added. As to an appropriation to finance the investigation, Governor Olson de- clared “the attorney general should be given such financial and other assist- ance as he needs.” Federal authorities in St. Paul said they knew of no legal grounds on which they could enter the case, To Offer $2,500 Reward Efforts to solve the assassination were encouraged in the state legis- lature Thursday when a bill was in- Much more is needed. Brophy said,} Reverend Torgerson pronounced the if the need for shoes, stoc! , une| benediction at the end of the pro- kings, derwear and warm clothing is to be|gtam. Bob Brandenburg of Bismarck Most of these items must be| Was trumpeter and Everett Velzy sang purchased new and, while merchants|® vocal solo as a part of the program. are cooperating by selling them to the committee at cost, there will not be enough to accomplish the aim of the movement, which is to have ev child properly clad and in school. Brophy also placed emphasis up- Dillinger Gang Money Changer Called Thief Chicago, Dec. 12—(#)—A former on the fact that donations of food to| convict named by Police Capt. Dan- be made by school children Friday |iel Gilbert as a Dillinger gang money | $50,000 with some are being counted upon to substan-| changer and six other men were held tially reduce the smount of food Nieagd suspected of kidnaping which must be purchased in filling baskets, Proposals before the deadline Friday.| Christmas Polygamist Planning To Appeal Conviction Kingman, Aria, Dec. 12—(@)—Ad- troduced for a state reward of $2,500 for apprehension and conviction of The proposal was sponsored mainly by liberal lawmakers. A group of conservative senators meanwhile were continuing consideration of plans for @ state investigation of underworld activities in Minnesota, particularly in Minneapolis, on the theory that Lig- gett’s death by gunfire climaxed his publication's drive against vice Cone 5 , eae according agency, created especially for the , hand- ling the work, suas