The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 16, 1935, Page 1

WIDOW OF FORMER | 4 {=== ] THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ESTABLISHED 1878 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1935 PRICE FIVE CENTS . TERRITORY OFFICER WAS 87 YEARS OLD Bismarck Settler of 1883 Was Mother of Four Sons Dis- tinguished in Business FUNERAL IN MINNEAPOLIS Followed Frontier From Indiana Birthplace Through lowa to Dakota, in 1871 Mrs. Mary E. Hughes, widow of the late Alexander Hughes and matri- archal head of one of North Da- kota’s most distinguished families, died Sunday in Chicago. She was 87 years old. Puneral services were to be held Monday afternoon in Minneapolis, the city where she had made her home after leaving Bismarck in‘1899. The burial will be in Lakewood cemetery. She also maintained a winter home in Coral Gables, Fla. G Mrs, Hughes was the mother of E. A. Hughes, Bismarck utility operator and capitalist; George A. Hughes, president of the Edison General Elec- tric Appliance company, Chicago; Frank C, Hughes, Glendive, Mont. oii operator; William V. Hughes, Evanston, Ill., oil operator, and Mrs. G. W. Dulany, Jr., Chicago. In addition to her children she leaves five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, The grandchildren are Mrs. Grant Call, Riverside, Ill; and Elizabeth Ann, William, Alexander and Frank Hughes of Evanston, Il. Two Great-Grandchildren The great-grandchildren are Mary ae and Hughes Call of Riverside, Mrs, Hughes was born in Green- castle, Ind., in 1848, the daughter of Major Samuel Higinbotham, a prac- ticing physician at, South Bend, Ind. When the Civil war broke. out her father marched out as surgeon of an Indiana regiment and died in service. Mrs. Higinbotham had died when Mrs. Hughes was an infant. Mrs. Hughes’ maternal grandfather was Judge Eckles of-the Indiana su- preme court and later chief Justice of the supreme court of Idaho tefritory by appointment of President Bu- chanan. Taught in Iowa School Mrs. Hughes lived with relatives ‘until she grew to womanhood and in 1869 was teaching school at Monti- cello, Ia., where she was living with an aunt and uncle. It was there that she met Alexander Hughes, a young attorney and at that time county su- perintendent of public instruction for Jones county. i He, like her father, had served in the Civil war and. was a veteran of 15 important battles and engagements and had been wounded five times. ‘They were married Dec. 24, 1869. ‘The opportunities said to exist in (Continued on Page Two) British Proposals on Navies Being Stidied London, Dec. 16.—()—The interna- tional naval conference shifted its at- tention Monday from Japanese to British proposals for the limitation of the world’s great navies. At a meeting of the heads of the delegations from the United States, Great Britain, Japan, France and Italy, the Japanese recognized that) , Various powers had varying needs for naval strengths. They admitted that, instead of definite tonnage equality, each power should be given the right to different, suitable tonnages. Hoover Expected to Attack Relief Acts 8t. Louis, President. He Monday for what Republican leaders believe will be a scorching attack on New Deal relief measures. The former president was scheduled to arrive here to ‘deliver an address Mon- Dec. ‘day night before the John Marshall Republican club of St. Louis. address, to be broadcast over tional hookup, is to start at 9 p. m, Central Standard Time. ‘ The na: Killed by Madma: Dr. Arthur T. Rowe, native of Casselton, N. D., was slain by an insane former Russian nobleman at Columbia ‘university in New York City. LINDY VETOES PLAN TO CONFRONT BRUNO IN ELECTRIC. CHAIR Dramatic Appearance Hoped to * Obtain Confession From Convicted Killer Kamenz, Germany, Dec. 16.— (®)—Bruno Richard Hauptmann’s mother has appealed to Governor Hoffman of New Jersey to com- mute her son’s death sentence for the murder eof the Lindbergh baby to life imprisonment, it was disclosed Monday. New York, Dec. 16—(#)—The Daily News in a dispatch from Trenton, N. J., said Monday that Col. Charles A. Lindbergh has vetoed a plan to have him appear before Bruno Rich- ard Hauptmann in the electric chair in an attempt to obtain a full confes- sion regarding the Lindbergh baby kidnaping. ‘The News said the plan was con- ceived immediately after Hauptman’s conviction last February and that Colonel Lindbergh was reported to appear before Hauptmann as he was being fastened in the chair with only a few moments more to live. ‘The paper said, however, that acti- vities of the last few weeks, culminat- ing,in the revelation of Gov. Harold G. Hoffman's midnight deathhouse visit to Hauptmann, have caused Lindbergh and his advisers to aban- don the idea. The aviator is said to feel that his appearance might be construed as an admission of doubi as to Hauptmann’s guilt. GE OFFICERS 10 BE INSTALLED TODAY Bismarck Masons Raise French and Other Brothers to New Stations at 7:30 P. M. Officers, elective and appointive, of Bismarck Lodge of the A. F. and A. M. will be installed at ceremonies in G. Groves, junior warden; “Theodore W. Sette, senior deacon; Otto Con- vert, junior deacon; Wesley Sherwin, senior steward; Harold Brelje, ji will be @ program by chorus under the direction of Ralph IG’ EXPECTED Dec. 16.—(#)—Belgium, . HOSPITAL MUSICIAN DIES Jamestown, N. D., Dec, 16.—(#)— ud, attendant and Peace Critics Set Condition of Local Woman Is Critical Mrs. Peter L. Gronhoy, 308 Fif- teenth St., Monday remained in criti- cal condition at a local hospital where she was taken Saturday after being struck by a car at a street intersec- tion, CLEVELAND CHOSEN ROR REPUBLICANS’ CONVENTION IN °36 $133,387 Balance in Party Fund Is Reported With Un- paid Broadcast Bill Washington, Dec, 16.—(?)—Repub- licans Monday chose Cleveland for next spring’s party convention to nominate a 1936 presidential candi- Cate. The decision was made by the national committee. The vote of the 99 members of the national committee was: Cleveland 54; Chicago 39, and Kansas City 6. The case for Cleveland included a guarantee of $150,000. George F. Getz, committee treas- urer, reported a balance in the party's funds of $133,387 as of Nov. 30. He said, however, the organization still Protests Against Plan Increase; Ethiopians Have Italians on Defensive (By the Associated Press) A counter-attack on critics of the Anglo-French plan for ending the Ttalo-Ethiopian war is in preparation by the British government. In receipt of a crescendo of pro- what sharpshooters ot the plan contend is a formula for dis- membering the kingdom of Haile Sel- assie, Prime Minister Stanley Bald- win, informed sources sald Monday, is collecting material for presentation to the house of commons. The British cabinet, in token of the seriousness with which Britain has received the storm of criticism at Geneva and in various European capitals evoked by publication of the Paris scheme for ending the war, met in an emergency session. News of a distinctly different flavor came meanwhile from the southern front, the area in which Premier Mussolini would garner many thou- sands of square miles of territory if the Franco-British plan were ac- cepted without reservation—that ‘t will not be was regarded as a fore- gone conclusion. Italians On Defensive There, where Gen. Rudolfo Graziani @ few weeks ago was pushing per- sistently northward in a strategic move to establish an Italian corridor between northern and southern Ethi- opia, the Fascist army conceded it had ken the defensive. owed $42,000 to a broadcasting com- pany for 1932 expenses. W. B. Bell, president of the Ameri- can Cyamamid company and finance committee chairman, reported head- quarters had been established in New York and Chicago. SAINTS CHALLENGE DEMON BASKETEERS Grafton Will Contest Devils Lake’s Right to Enter State Tournament 8t. Mary's of Bismarck and Graf- ton are the two Class B teams that have challenged Class A clubs for the right to compete in the Class A bas- ketball tournament to be held at the close of the season, Supt. L. A. White of Minot announced Monday. 8t. Mary's will dispute the right of Glenn Hanna’s Bismarck high quint and Grafton has hurled a challenge at Devils Lake, Superintendent White said in an Associated Press dispatch, Several other teams, which last year challenged the Class A schools, were effected by the new ruling which extends the division to include all schools with an enrollment of over 250 students. Among these were Dickinson, Williston, Wahpeton, and the Walsh County Agricultural school at Park River. The deadline for withdrawal of challenges has not been set, but a te will probably be agreed upon at @ meeting of the board of control in Fargo Jan. 2 and 3. Sunday was the last day for filing the challenges. Late News CHAPUT ON STAND Solicitation of funds from em- ployees in the state highway and state emergency relief office in 1933 for support of the Leader, weekly political newspaper, was testified to Monday afternoon by Oscar Chaput, principal government witness in the conspiracy trial of William Langer and three associates. FIND KULM MAN DEAD From Dolo, the Associated Press correspondent dispatched via courier to Mogadisco, Italian Somaliland, a report that Italy's weary southern forces were braced for an attack ex- pected momentarily from a mass of 40,000 Ethiopian warriors under Ras Desta Demtu. ‘This would constitute the first ma- jor Ethiopian offensive. The Ethiop- jan army consists of three main co!- umns, driving forward on a front 30 miles from Dolo on the frontier of Ethiopi and Italian Somaliland. The Italians, however, planned a drive of their own if the Ethiopians did not act soon. Blames Henry Ford The Italian corhmander on the southern front attributed to Henry Ford, the American automobile manu- facturer, “private sanctions” which, he said, has held up his northward ADDITIONAL FUNDS RELEASED T0 CARE FOR EMPLOYABLES Emergency Apporpriation Found Necessary by State Pub- lic Welfare Board FERA LIQUIDATION BEGINS Counties Ordered to Cut Per- sonnel to Skeletonized Or- * ganization at Once Funds to take care of approximate- ly 10,000 persons needing immediate relief, most of them farmers, were re- leased to counties in North Dakota Monday by special order of the state public welfare board. ‘The emergency appropriation came as the board assumed full control over direct relief, superceding the federal emergency relief administration in the state. Although no specific appropriation was set, funds to be released to the county welfare boards throughout the state for this purpose during Decem- ber will not exceed $250,000, it was estimated. This will be in addition to $100,000 previously allotted to take care of unemployable persons only, and medical and hospitalization ex- pense, To Aid Employables The funds released Monday will be used for relief of employable persons who have not yet been taken care of by federal agencies, or who have not yet received their WPA or resettle- ment administration pay checks and are in unfortunate circumstances. As FERA went out of active con- trol, orders were wired to county FERA bureaus to cut administrative Personnel down to a skeletonized or- ganization, The state welfare board previously voted to accept charge of liquidating the affairs of FERA, Liquidation of the FERA personnel in Bismarck bureaus was awaiting the return of E.. A. Willson, state admin- {strator and secretary of the state welfare board, who is now in Wash- ington, 1,000 Checks a Day The resettlement administration is sending out relief checks at the rate of 1,000 a day, but relief must be fur- nished to about 10,000 farmers during @ portion of December, Frank Mil- hollan, vice chairman of the board, stated in announcing the emergency drive. Ford, he said, failed to deliver 800 calerpillar tractors which had been contracted and paid for. In a secret consistory, where he created 20 new cardinals, Pope Pius purposely avoided discussion of the pending peace proposals because, he said, any observation he might make “would not be well understood, or would be deliberately misconstrued” in many places. His Holiness did, however, “pray to God fervently for peace with justice, the truth and with charity.” Junior Association’s Meeting Set Tonight Bismarck’s Junior Association of Commerce holds its regular December meeting in the World War Memorial building at 7:30 p. m., Monday. Kelley Simonson, president, urged a 100 per cent attendance declaring im- portant business and a discussion of future projects confronts the member- ship. The business will com- mence at 7:30 p. m. with the informa- tive and entertainment program to begin at 8:15 p. m. C. L, Young, Bismarck attorney and student of international affairs, will discuss the background of the Italo- Ethiopian situation, and five members of the Community players, William Smith, Bruce Doyle, Ed O'Neill, Wil- lard Dunham and Glen Kennedy, will stage a one act farce, “Kitty, Kitty, Kitty.’ Gov Of M appropriation. “A large number of persons employ- ed by WPA will not receive their first check for 10 days or longer,” Milhol- Jan asserted. “A considerable number of persons who are employable, will not be taken care of by either agency during the current month. “The December allotment made by the public welfare board previously, was for the purpose of assisting coun- ties in taking care of unemployable Persons only and to take care of me- dical and hospitalization expense. No funds are available to meet this emer- gency from any source except through the public welfare board.” County welfare boards were author- Dies in ‘Chica O Textile Magnate’s Offspring Kidnaped Caleb J. Milne, 24, Hunted by New York Police and Washington G-Men New York, Dec. 16.—(#)—Spurred on by a tailor’s story and the growing belief of relatives that Caleb J. Milne, 4th, had been kidnaped for ransom, officials Monday intensified their search for the mysteriously missing 24-year-old scion of one of Philadel- phia’s first families. The youth's grandfather, Caleb J. Milne, Jr., retired textile magnate, reluctantly agreed with the kidnap theory. He had previously scoffed at abduction reports. While federal G-men joined New York state’s “Scotland Yard” in the search for the handsome young actor, J. Schwartz, whose tailor shop is across the street from the modest Murray Hill apartment of Caleb and his brother, Frederic, told how a strange man accosted: them last Mon- day night. Receives ‘Ransom’ Note It was to Frederic that a “ransom” note indicating Caleb was kidnaped when he disappeared last Saturday night, was addressed. “Your brother he isn’t in Philadel- phia, we got him out in the country,” the letter postmarked Poughkeepsie, N. Y., said, “but he will returned liv- ing if you will follow the letter we will send you. “Available cash must come from New York. Keep in touch with your grandfather and phone. The letters will be signed Zwittler.” The note was written in newspaper JAPANESE EXTENDING NORTHCHINA CONTROL Swift Coup Gives Invaders Pow- er Over Vital Railway Yards Inside Great Wall (Copyright, 1935, Associated Press) Kalgan, Chahar Province, China, Dec. 16.—The Japanese army extend- ed its sway deeper into North China Monday, incoming troops armed with bayonets and machine guns taking Posts around the railroad station of this interior gateway city on the Great Wall. > A virtual state of emergency exist- ed. All city gates were closed. The Populace feared an extension of the hostilities in Eastern Chahar to this strategic inland section of the pro- ized to furnish “minimum” relief re- | vince. quirements to WPA and resettlement clients needing immediate aid. Russia Probes Death Of Sailors in Storm Moscow, Dec. 16.—(7)—An official investigation was ordered Monday into the deaths of four sailors in a lifeboat in the Caspian sea, when tt was alleged the captain of a tanker ordered them to the boat in a raging storm. The victims were members of the crew of a motof vessel which was being towed by the tanker but broke loose and ran aground. The captain was charged with or- dering the four men to set out in the lifeboat to investigate the tanker’s grounding, despite their protests that the lifeboat could not weather the rough sea. Frank Cooney ontana Is Dead “Vearifice for. The swift coup by the Japanese ap- Parently gave them control of the vital railway yards here. It accom- panied seizure by armed forces of the Japanese-supported East Hopeh auto- nomous state of Tangku, strategic. seaport and railway center 200 miles tw the southeast. Student demonstrations against es- tablishment of a semi-autonomous government for Chahar and Hopeh provinces broke out again in Peiping, Hopeh province. Chinese reports said hostilities were renewed in eastern Chahar province between Chinese Chahar troops and forces of the northern, Japanese-advised state of Manchukuo. A Reuters (British) news agency dispatch from Peiping said 10 stu- Aged M’Lean Woman Dies, Burial Tuesday Mrs. O. F. McGray, a resident of North Dakota for nearly 50 years, died Sunday at Garrison to word received by friends here. She was the widow of O. F. McGray, Pioneer McLean county merchant who died several years ago. Mrs. McGray was in her late seventies and death was due to ailments incident China Premiership Is Assumed by Kai-Shek | i i i ; & E cape | iit not type pasted in brown wrapping paper. It was wrapped around a Christmas card of the ten cent type showing a man and a woman in a sleigh with a winter background and bore the legend “Greetings to You.” Thinks He Was Abducted In Woodstock, N. Y., Miss Anita Smith, aunt of the missing boy, said she was sure because of her nephew's habits, that he had been kidnaped. She said he left for New York sev- eral weeks ago after living for a while with his mother, Mrs. Frederica Milne, for a while in a modest Wood- stock house. Clarence D. McKean, New England chief of department of justice agents, said at Boston federal men had been called in. Their investigations were conducted in the utmost secrecy and federal authorities here refused to discuss the case. At police headquarters, Milne was listed only in the missing persons file. Left Note for Brother Frederic, when he reported his brother missing to the police Sunday gave them a copy of a note left for him by Caleb saying he had gone to Philadelphia because his grandfather had sent for him. The text of the note: “Fred— “A note just came from a Dr. Greene who has been called in con- sultation to see grandfather (Under- scored) who wants to see me (under- scored)! I am to drive over this morning with him. It must be ser- fous or it could wait ‘till Xmas. The letter says we'll drive back this eve- «Continued on Page wo) Open Heart Needs Additional Money Christmas Baskets May Be Skimpy Because Clothes Come First Says Chief UNDERWEAR IN BIG DEMAND Many Items Must Be Bought; More Than 200 Are Out- fitted Saturday Need for additional cash if Bis- marck’s sixth annual Open Your Heart campaign is to achieve its goal of warm clothing for every needy child and a basket of food for every needy family is to be achieved was stressed Monday by W. J. Brophy, general chairman. Generous contributions of food by Cash Donations Up To $211.35 Monday Cash donations to the Open Your Heart campaign, Christmas charity effort sponsored by the American Legion and cooperating organizations, reached $211.35 Monday. The position of the fund fol- lows: . 50 - 50 Fred - 40 Ga. W. - 50 Luther . 50 La. - 100 Rev. Ellis + 100 Alfred 8. - 100 Total ......0cseeee0 oes $211.50 school children are far from enough to meet the demand for food, Brophy said, and if the baskets are to be filled in even a fairly sal way it will be necessary to aE EE t Witness Identifies Kid Cann As Killer ‘Mrs. Mary Hughes, Pioneer Dakotan, Counter-Attack on MISSING ONLOOKER AT WGGETT DEATH IS FOUND IN HIDING Wesley Andersch Positive in Identification of Man Named by Widow DODGED ASSASSIN IN ALLEY Grand Jury to Begin Investiga- tion of Murder in Minne- apolis Tuesday Minneapolis, Dec. 16.—(#)—Peter 8. Neilson, assistant Hennepin county attorney, Monday quoted Wesley An- dersch, eye-withess to the slaying of ‘Walter Liggett, publisher of the Mid- west American, as saying Isadore (Kid Cann) Blumenfeld fired the shots that killed Liggett. Andersch’s statement was taken by Frederick A. Pike and Roy C. Frank, state assistant attorneys general, in Neilson’s presente. Mrs. Edith Lig- gett already had identified Blumen- feld, in custody since shortly after | Liggett was killed last Monday night, as her husband's slayer. Authorities made every effort to guard against any possible leaks of information Andersch might give, or Miss Dora Isaacson, in whose apart- ment Andersch was after the shoot- ing. They were kept in the county jail. Trailed to Farm Andersch was trailed Sunday to a farm three and a half miles from Kimball, Minn. Miss Isaacson was with him. Both had fled from Miss the city workhouse with Kid Cann. Andersch, who comes from a fairly well-to-do family, served eight in jail last year for defrauding an keeper. Locate Women Witnesses Meanwhile, detectives had two women witnesses absent days since they were been nearby at the killed at the rear door of ment. The women were Miss Leola ler, a resident of an apartment there, and Miss Betty Paymor. Neither is presumed to have been eye-' to the actual killing, however, police sald. inn- & | local bar associations to designate some of their “most brilliant minds” to take over an investigation of the Liggett slaying, according to an an- nouncement by the league. Avoided Being Run Down Andersch was walking in the alley as the killer's automobile started up. He avoided being run down only by leaping into a nearby doorway. Chief Forestal said Andersch got a good look at the car's occupants as the vehicle slid by slowly. Andersch had been seen frequently in the neighborhood of the apart- ment,” behind which Liggett was slain, Residents knew him as “Mr. Isaacson.” Monday the Andersch family resi- dence was apparently closed. Shades were drawn and no answer came to telephone calls and door bell ring- ing. The Andersch Hide and Pur Plant also was closed as the witness’ family sought to avoid notoriety. Clings to Identification Mrs. Liggett still clung to her identification of Isadore Blumenfeld (Kid Cann), Minneapolis liquor of- ficial, as one of the two assassins. She denied she had identified a picture | (Continued on Page Two) OWA WPA STRIKE CALLED FOR JAN. 2 Support of Labor Federation, Unemployed Organizations Sought by Leaders protest against the state. J.C. tion of labor at the 2