The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 13, 1935, Page 10

16 Liggett Feared He Senet tir Won $12,464 ADDITIONAL, | CAMERA CATCHES STARS TOGETHER PHA OFFER TOAD Would ‘Be on Spot’, |) i — Desire of Racketeers to Press Freedom Behind It All, Editor Wrote (Special to the Tribune) Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 13.—Wal- ter Liggett, slain Minneapolis editor and former North Dakotan, feared the elements which were opposed to him and his vice and political cru- sades would put him “on the spot.” This was revealed here today by examination of his Midwest American, the organ which he used to assail people whom he termed public enemies and which, indirectly, was the cause of his death. At the same time it directed new attention to the various events lead- ing up, not only to the death of Liggett but to that of Howard Guil- | ford, another crusading editor, as- sassinated a year and a half ago. ‘The real motive for the attacks upon him, Liggett said in a recent issue, was the desire of racketeers and racketeering politicians to do away with the freedom of the press, That freedom of the press is not relished by some Minnesotans is evi- dent from examination of the trend ot events leading up to Liggett’s death. Story Goes Back to 1925 ‘The story goes back to 1925 when the Minnesota legislature law which permitted any judge, with- out trial by jury, to suppress any pub- lication which was declared by the prosecuting attorney to be of a “malicious, scandalous or defamatory nature.” Under the law, all a prose- eutor had to do was to present his evidence to the judge and if the judge agreed with him the publica- tion would be suppressed. In 1927 this measure was invoked against J. M. Near, publisher of the Minneapolis Saturday Press, a small newspaper which had made charges that gangs held sway in Minneapolis and the mayor and the chief of police were lax in combating the criminal element. Olson then was county attorney and brought the gag action against Near. An injunction against the publi- cation, specifying that the Saturday Press was a nuisance, was issued. The Minnesota supreme court sustained the injunction, holding the law was valid. In 1938 the American Newspaper Publishers’ association contributed passed aj |$5,000 toward the cost of carrying ; Near’s case to the United States su- |preme court. The Chicago Tribune engaged counsel for Near. In an epochal decision on June 1, 1931, the supreme court ruled that the Minne- scta gag law was unconstitutional be- cause it interfered with the liberty of the press as guaranteed by the 14th amendment to the federal constitu- tion. Editor Slain by Gunmen | The battle against the gag law was | won, but it was only the end of one chapter. On Sept. 6, 1934, Howard |Guilford, once associated with Near in publication of the Saturday Press, | was slain by gangsters in a residen- j tal section of Minneapolis. It had ; been rumored that Guilford was plan- ning to run for mayor of Minneapolis on an anti-chain store platform and that he intended to start a new paper to attack Olson, who had been elected ;Sovernor on the Farmer-Labor ticket. Liggett came back to Minnesota. | his native state, in 1933 after a journ- |alistic career in the east. He had at ; one time been editor of the magazine | Plain Talk for which he wrote articles ;on prohibition drinking by public figures and the liquor traffic in gen- eral. He had been brought before ngressional committees and grand | juries in connection with the articles. | Liggett began publication of the American in Red Wing, Later the paper was moved to Midwest | Minn. Olson and the Farmer-Labor party. Relating the story of his break | with Olson, Liggett had told of the | formation of an “Independent Union {of All Workers” in Austin, Minn., {about July, 1933. The guiding genius jot this movement was Frank Ellis, who later was indicted on a charge , of abduction involving the girl in the | Liggett statutory offense charge. Ellis | iwas a former organizer for |I. w. w. Turned Out as Editor have been editor of the Austin Amer- | ican, the union organ, which was! started in 1934, and he did serve a few weeks in that capacity. Then governor was responsible. Shortly afterward the editor said he had discovered “much evidence of graft in Olson’s administration” and began to reveal it in his typical} lambasting style. The pamphlet in which he traced Olson's political ac- tions, with special reference to the It’s the thing to do. ..take ... give... +e IGA fine qual- ity Candies for Christmas gifts. a girl occurred on March 22, 1934. Lig- he was turned cvf. He declared the gett and Ellis were not arrested until wrote: tion in this country has become @ dangerous job. years ago. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1935 Undeterred by the fact he will be sentenced to death within a week for his part in a holdup which end- ed fatally, John Collins (above) married his fiancee, Anna Downey, in Queens County, New York, dis- trict attorney’s office. (Associated si Photo) governor as prosecutor in the gag law case, was entitled “Radical or Racketeer?” “Olson's ousting can be brought about if there are a dozen members o: the legislature with sufficient cour- age to draw up articles of impeach- the | ment and to demand a_ hearing,” Liggett wrote. “If this is done, I per- sonally will produce enough evidence to insure that Floyd B. Olson will Liggett asserted that he was to/be finished forever as a factor in pub- lic life.” Months Pass Before Arrest Allegedly the offense against the June 23, 1935—fifteen months later. Liggett declared that on the day the offense was alleged to have taken place Ellis, not he, brought the two girls from Austin. (Ellis since has been convicted on the abduction charge.) Liggett met Ellis in the Rtz hotel in Minneapolis, he said, and was in- vited to the latter's room. After talking there for about fifteen min- utes, the editor said, two girls entered | and they sat drinking beer for a time. iggett then went to his own room. Ellis, he said, registered the girls in a separate room. They were not mo- his arrest, Liggett “Exposing political corrup- lested, Liggett asserted. Concerning It cost Don Mellett, the Canton, O., editor, his life a few Then Jerry Martin, the Detroit radio announcer, was shot to death in a hotel because he told the truth about the hookup between po- lice and gangsters. Previous Victims Cited “Judge Ben Lindsey was almost de- AAA CHECKS ARRIVE Notices Being Maied to Farm- ers as Soon as Payments Are Received A second batch of AAA wheat checks, 135 in all and totaling $12,- 464.40, were received at the offices of County Agent Henry Putnam this week and are being distributed to the farmers as rapidly as notices can be sent out. Approximately 70 per cent of all wheat checks due Burleigh county farmers have been received and the rest are expected to arrive before the Christmas holidays, Putnam said. The recent checks bring the total of last 1934 and first 1935 payments to $146,653.61 in Burleigh county. No- tices are being mailed out as rapidly as the checks arrive so that farmers will not have to make unnecessary trips to Bismarck. A second meeting of the county corn-hog allotment committee, to de- termine by what methods the pro- ducers’ yields are to be figured, will be held here Saturday. Members of the committee are Axel Soder of Wing, president; O. W. Brostrom of Wilton and Tebbo Harms of Menoken, One of two methods, historical or estimated, is used in figuring the yields and the committeemen decide which will be used for each individual contract. Twenty. supervisors have virtually completed the compliance work in connection with the corn- hog program. Reports on the com- Piiance are necessary before the sec- ond corn-hog benefits are paid. Press Photo) TOMATOES No. 2 cans, Standard pack ripe tomatoes, 3 CANS —__— ~ PEAS Med. tins. Country Kist, sweet and tender. . Each 10¢ CORN CANDY PTs. 23¢ Candy Display at your IGA Store. Johnston's. “ Tastry, lb. pkg. 23¢ Johnston's Daisy Soda 2-lb. pkg. Crackers ..... 1%c Laundry IGA Reg. Bars Soap, 5 for... .15¢ 18K in syrup, No. 2% cans Sweet Potatoes 18c California Figs, 8 oz. pkg. 9c IGA Pitted 8-oz. pkgs. Dates, 2 for. . .25c Fargo 1%-Ib. pkg. 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I have been marked for destruction by the power- ful and unscrupulous Olson All-Party gang because ever since last Septem- ber my paper has been publishing devastating exposes of the corruption and favoritism of the present state administration.” Japanese to Increase Forces in North China Tientsin, Dec. 13.—(?)—High Jap- anese officers formulated at a confer- ence Friday their “policy” toward North China involving a sharp in- crease of Japanese army forces in this area and close collaboration with the new, semi-autonomous regime. MISLAYS DYNAMITE Muskegon, Mich., Dec. 13.—(P)— Leo Larsen has mislaid 100 sticks of dynamite. He found the explosive, stolen from a warehouse while hunt- ing in a swamp. But after he'd told officers about it, he couldn’t remem- ber the way back to the cache. The continents of the earth vary in age. Asia is the oldest, Europe and Africa come next, North America is of middle age, and South Ameriea is young. 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VALLEY AUDITORIUM Loan of $55,000 and $45,000 Grant Advanced for Mun- cipal Project An offer to assist in the financing of a $100,000 municipal auditorium through a loan of $55,000 anda grant. of $45,000 was forwarded to Valley City officials Friday by H. C. Knud- sen, acting state director of the pub- lic works administration. The proposal, involving erection and equiping of the auditorium and purchase of the site; was one of four offers made by the PWA to assist in financing various projects estimated to cost approximately $160,000. Knudsen also announced approval of contract awards on a project at Arnegard, school district No. 11. Luscious plum pudding—the very essence of Christmas eral contract, Huston and Mack- a Minot, bid $18,087; electrical, Home Electric company, Williston, $565. The contract for plumbing and heating was not approved. Other Offers. ef Aid Knudsen said offers also were be- ing‘ transmitted to ees in financing Mowing projects: mms urtalo sono} istrict No. 38, Cass county, an offer of a grant of $8,181, to construct a project estimated to cost $18,181 with the additional funds necessary to be raised by the appli- cant through bonds sold privately. Whitaker school district 20, Divide county, construct and equip one-room tural school, loan $3,000, grant $2,454, estimated cost $5,454. Dresden school district No. 9, Wales, N D., Cavalier county; erect and equip school building replacing one now condemned; loan $20,000, grant $16,364, estimated cost $36,364. “MOHALL BEATS TOLLEY Mohall, N. D., Dec. LT their opening game of the season, Mo- hall’s Yellowjackets defeated Tolley high school cagers 32 to 10. joy! Tender, tasty pies, cakes and bread! All your Christmas baking will taste etter, if you use Dakota Maid Flour, famous for its yniform, high quality. 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