The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 20, 1935, Page 1

% North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 ‘ E BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1935 PRICE FIVE CENTS. | Senator Schall, Hit by Car, Near Death — | Peace Plan’s Death Raises Fresh European Crisis Open Your Heart BRITISH PLEDGED 10 CONTINUE POLICY OF COOPERATIVE ACTION Eden, Halifax, Chamberlain Are + Candidates to Succeed Sir Samuel Hoare LAVAL PREPARES DEFENSE Italy Expected to Lay Blame for Peace Collapse on London’s Doorstep Geneva, Dec, 20. — (7) — The suggestion was advanced in in- ternational circles Friday, follow- ing the lead of Prime Minister Baldwin of Great Britain, that asking league members to contribute fighting units to a league military force. (By The Associated Press) The possibility of a fresh European crisis replaced Friday the British do- mestic problem rising from rejected proposals for African peace. With the British government re- stored to confidence and pledged to continue a policy of collective security, efforts.to halt the war in Ethiopia had been stalemated. League of Nations circles at Geneva hailed the breakdown of the British- French peace suggestions with en- thusiasm. An atmosphere of peace prevailed where before had existed agitation and despair. League delegates opposed to impo- sition of further sanctions on Italy for its officially undeclared aggression against Ethiopia were happy because such discussion had been postponed at least until mid-January. Take Heart in Result Others, unwilling to support the Peace proposal for its concessions to Italy in Ethiopia territory, saw in the rejection a heartening demonstration of the strength of opinion. " The British ministry turned its thoughts to selection of a successor to Sir Samuel Hoare, resigned foreign secretary who emerged from the crit- ical house of commons debate on foreign policy with cheers from the benches. Prominently mentioned to succeed the man who, with French Premier Pierre Laval formulated the unpopu- lar suggestions to end war, were An- thony Eden, minister for League af- fairs, Viscount Halifax, lord privy seal, and Sir Austen Chamberlain, former foreign chief. Laval Prepares Defense Premier Laval returned to Paris from Geneva to prepare his defense to expected fire from, the‘ French chamber of deputies over the Franco- British recommendations. Despite the collapse of the peace plan, Premier Mussolini of Italy called the Fascist grand council for a ses- sion Friday night to frame a reply to the suggestion. It was predicted the council would pass to Great Britain the responsibility for the death of the Anglo-French peace plan. On the actual battleground, spirited fighting of three days was halted as 2,000 Askari warriors celebrated vic- tory dances in the Mai Tinchet val- ley near Asmara. Casualties of the Ethiopian flank attack and the resultant Italian coun- ter attack were set at more than 1,000, heaviest since the start of the yet undeclared war. In the fierce hand-to-hand fighting, the Ethiopians lost more than 600, and the Fascist dead numberéd near- | trip. ly 300. Ruptured Appendix Is Fatal to Steele Boy Warren C. Calkins, 14-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Calkins of Steele, died at 5:30 a. m., Friday at a local hospital. Complications of a ruptured appendix caused his. death, the at- tending physician said. Warren Calkins was born Jan. 17, 1921 at Steele. He attended the Steele schools and was a sophomore in high school this year. He was stricken with appendicitis just three days after the winter term opened and was brought here Sept. 21. Puneral services have been tenta-| "8S tively set for Sunday. The body will be: taken to Steele Saturday where sid of Bugene, Ore, Two Officers, Bandit Slain in Shelby Fight Shelby, Mont., Dec. 20:—(#)—Two peace officers were wounded fatally Wallet Becomes Governor William Elmer Holt (above), one. time cowboy, became governer of Montana upon the unexpected death of Gov. Frank H. Cooney. Holt had been president of the Montana sen. ate. (Associated Press Photo) MONOXIDE MURDER THEORY DEVELOPS _AVACTRESS DEATH Kidnap Threat Against Waiter Who Directed Lupino Par- ty Is Puzzle Los Angeles, Dec. 20.—(4)—Kidnap threats and a new report that Thelma Todd was seen alive after the time an autopsy indicated she had died com- plicated the grand jury’s investigation of the death of the glamorous screen actress Friday. A woman, who identified herself only as “Mrs. Kane” telephoned police headquarters she saw Miss Todd tele- phoning Sunday afternoon, nearly 12 hours after the time autopsy surgeons at first believed the actress died. She placed the time at 4 o'clock, the moment at which Mrs. Martha Ford, intimate friend of Miss Todd, said the actress was telephoning her. Waiter Threatened A kidnap threat against the head waiter of the Hollywood club where Miss Todd suddenly from gaiety and left a party td go to her death threw a sinister riddle Friday on the heels of a hint the actress may have been slain. The waiter, Alex Hounie, told po- ce two men shouted kidnap threats at him after crowding his automobile to a curb Thursdey night. Earlier in the day, he said, he re- cieved a postcard bearing the words clipped from a newspaper: “Withhold testimony or kidnap “Hounie worked at the Trocadero Saturday night- when Miss Todd was there,” said Police Captain Blaine Steed, “but he knows nothing about the case, and has nothing to con- Had Charge of Party The head waiter took personal charge of Stanley Lupino’s party at, which the actress was the honored guest, His report of the kidnap threat came as the grand jury investigation turned to a theory the blonde com- medienne may have been a victim of “murder by Xe Foreman George W. Rochester an- nounced he had gathered evidence which B senoely, indicated Miss Todd body, slumped behind the steer- Her murdered.” a “Di Cicco left here for New York "Divorced in 1934 The wealthy sportsman was di- vorced from the actress in 1934 after marriage. The sinister aspects of the case in- cluded - extortion threats which had Is Empty Fund.‘In Red’ as Result of Pur- chase of Food for Christ- _mas Baskets “Bismarck’s Open Your Heart cam- paign was “in the red” Friday and hopeful that donations and activities between now and the close of the campaign would clean it up. It was incurred when the purchas- ing committee stepped out and bought food for the baskets which will be dis- tributed on the Tuesday preceding Christmas. Purchases will be sup- plemented by the food which has been donated to the charity effort. ‘The committee got some bargains and some donations but was required to spend more than the organization has on hand to fil the baskets. The number to be distributed has been pared to 200, Chairman W. J. Brophy said, the investigating com- mittee having selected those families where the need is greatest. Each basket sent out will be designed for the family receiving it, those with numerous children getting more than the other. : Mostly Staple Foods They will contain mostly staple goods with one or two luxury items, the average basket being listed as follows: 2 pounds of rice, 4 of beans, 4 of sugar, 1 of coffee, a can of con- densed milk, one large head of let- |tuce, one can of peas, 3 pounds of | prunes, 2 of candy, 1 of butter and 1 of popcorn. In addition there will be a can of condensed milk, one of peas, a sack of salt, a package of cereal, a peck of potatoes, a quart of milk and one chicken. If the family «Continued on Page Two) Open Heart Fund Mounts to $750.63 Cash donations to Bismarck’s Open Your Heart fund reached $750.63 Friday with announce- Ment of new ‘donations totaling $99. Names of new donors and the position of the fumd follow: . 63 E. B. Sayler Office Dept. and Labor a Juvenile Degree of Honor.. Mrs, J. P. Hanson, 506 8th St. ... Mrs, Thomas H. Moodie. Mrs. John A. Hoffman John H. Fleck. Bertha Baker Clifford Johnson Daughters of Union Veter- e888 828: ese 33 Tancreed Commandery, Knights Templar 5 pear . Mr. and Mrs. gohn 8. Burckhard, Bison, 8. D... W. H, Johnson, Minot, SANTA CLAUS COMES TUESDAY AT 2 P.M. Junior Chamber of Commerce ahd Community Players are Aiding Association Santa Claus will pay his annual of- ficial visit to the children of Bismarck at 2 p. m., Tuesday, when he will at- tend in person the annual Christmas Program sponsored by the Association of Commerce. Figal arrangements for the tradi- tional entertainment are being com- pleted by a committee composed of sist by enlisting members to act as Rev. Gilbert W. Stewart, pastor of it Presbyterian church, MINNESOTA WOMAN, WANTED FOR RAIDING N.D. BANK, CAPTURED Cornered on:‘Blind’ Road After Robbing thstitution of $700 in Cash IN HUNTER, N. D. LOOTING Was One of Two Women Who Shot It Out With N. D. Posse in 1932 Albert Lea, Minn. Dec, 20.—(?) —Refusing to plead when she was brought into justice court for ar- raignment on a bank robbery charge, Mrs. Mary Ryan Moore, 27-year-old ‘Lakeville woman, Fri- day was held in jail without bail pending the calling of a special srand jury. 8t. Paul, Dec. 20—(#)—The gun- woman who was captured 15 minutes jafter the holdup of the Twin Lakes state bank late Thursday, is wanted with her husband fer complicity in the holdup of the First National bank of Hunter, N. D., Sept. 3, 1932, by a bandit quartet, Melvin C. Passolt, superintendent of the state bureau of ba apprehension, disclosed Fri- By. Passolt said the woman, 27-year-old Mary Ryan Moore, and her husband, Robert Moore, had been sought as the remnants of the gang that figured in the gunfight that followed the Hunter bank raid. Esther Ruh, one of the bandits who ‘was wounded in the leg, and her com- Miss Ruh was released from prison to Passolt. Has Criminal Record gave her name to Freeborn county authorities as Mary Lyon, lived at Lakeville, Minn., where her father is employed in a bank. He said she has @ criminal record, including the serv- ing of a 90-day term at. Ellendale, N. D., on a bad check charge. Mrs. Moore, who apparently oper- ated alone Thursday, was arrested by i «Continued on Page 1wo WARM WEATHER I$ FORECAST FOR N. D. All State Highways Expected to Be Cleared of Snow by Nightfall Sub-zero temperatures were general Friday in central and eastern North Dakota where state highway patrol- men worked with snowplows to re- move drifted snow from several high- ways but the weatherman forecast a respite. At the federal weather bureau sta- tion here where the thermometer dropped to 9 below during the night, the murcury had climbed back to 20 above at noon Friday with a steadily rising .temperature forecast for to- night and Saturday. The mercury dropped to 24 degrees below zero at Jamestown while Grand Forks reported below and Devils Lake only one degree warmer. Sat- urday’s prediction for the state was “warmer in the extreme east and someroat colder in the extreme north- west.” Freezing weather blanketed the na- tion Friday from California to Maine killed in automobile accidents as snow spread across the east into New Eng- land and south into Kentucky. North Dakota highway workers ex- pected to have state route 45, blocked from Cooperstown north, and highway 9, blocked near Kensal, open by to- night. The blocked stretch on high- way 15 east from New Rockford will be open this afternoon. All United St highways were open in the Gi Forks district and all state highways in Pembina, Cav- alier and Walsh counties were open except No. 17. Winter reigned even in Texas where Texas where temperatures were down to 30 degrees above ramento, Calif, where. stood at the freezing point. M’Donald, Chaput to mercury panion, Mat Clocksin of Orchard jare making. Grove, Minn., were subsequently cap- tured and sentenced to prison terms. in November, 1934, while Clocksin still is serving a 10-year term, according Passolt said the -Moere-woman, who jand south to Texas, and nine were | Face Judge Miller SOLUTION OF MILNE KIDNAPING NEAR AS -MEN PRESS HUNT Deserted Dwelling in Farming Country Is Focal Point of Search WAS SNATCHED BY 4 MEN Philadelphia Gang and Karpis’ Name Heard as Quarry of Detectives Doylestown, Pa., Dec. 20.—(?)—De- partment of justice agents, hunting for the kidnapers of Caleb J. Milne,) 4th, will interview the young actor again Friday to have him repeat the story of abduction and torture he told for the first time Thursday night. The meagre information they were jable to get from the nervous, narcotic- sickened youth in a hospital Thursday, jsent the score or more picked opera- tives into the Wrightstown farming district to a place Milne described as the hideout of the four men who lured him into a car in New York last Sat- urday. H Milne, ill of shock, exposure and the effects of narcotics injected into his right arm, was reported much better Friday and G-men hoped he would be able to give them further assist- ance, Look for ‘Break’ Sources close to the investigation continued to insist another “break” in the mysterious case could be looked for before midnight, but investigators declined to discuss the progress they The deserted two and one half story dwelling in the Wrightstown farming country became the “Key” spot in a coast-to-coast hunt for the abductors. Milne was found, drugged, trussed jand gagged, on a highway Wednesday night. . “4 * The departmént of justice has an- nounced the four kidnapers fled with- out collecting ransom they demanded from the grandfather, Caleb J. Milne. dJr., wealthy Philadelphian. | A hat and coat believed to have {been worn by Milne the day he dis- appeared from New York were found behind a school house near the spot where he was picked up by motorists. | Fed Once in 4 Days Milne was quoted as saying they slapped his face and injected nar- cotics into his arm with needles, taped his eyes and lips, trussed his arms and fed him only once in the four days he was held captive. “They struck the first needle into me Sunday,” the agents quoted Milne as saying. Hospital physicians re- ported they found 25 hypodermic needle marks on Milne’s right arm. There were unconfirmed reports that the federal men were hunting a Philadelphia gang for the kidnaping. Other reports brought in the name of Alvin Karpis, fugitive killer. OESCH SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON Has No Remorse for Murdering His Father-in-Law, He Informs Judge LaMoure. N. D., Dec. 20.—(?)}—Wil- liam Oesch, farm hand, confessed slayer of Henry Kaphingst, Ellendale farmer and Dickey county commis- sioner, was sentenced to life imprison- ment Thursday by District Judge Wil- liam H. Hutchinson on Oesch’s plea of guilty. Oesch, Northfield, Minn. farm worker, claimed he shot Kaphingst, his father-in-law, because of & “grudge,” asserting he had not been “treated right.” He was appre- hended Tuesday near Ellendale. Kaphingst was shot down by slugs from a shotgun Dec. 10 while doing his chores at his farm. Oesch stole a shotgun at a farm near Northfield and came in North Dakota several days be- on the Kaphingst farm. Oesch and his wife were separated, and the couple have no children. Brought before Judge Hutchinson, Oesch stoicly entered his plea. “Have you any feeling of remorse for your act?” the judge asked Oesch. “No,” replied. the prisoner surlily. Judge Hutchinson then sentenced Oesch. to life imprisonthent at the Einar Twete Dies In Highway Crash Former State Legislator and Bank of N. D. Agent In- stantly Killed Williston, N. D., Dec. 20. — (®) — Einar Twete of Crosby, former North Dakota legislator from the 40th dis- trict, met instant death Thursday night when his car collided with a Montana cattle truck. Two companions, Leroy Smithers of Noonan, member of the Watford City CCC camp, and C. A. Hess, for- mer Noonan banker, suffered injuries while the truck occupants escaped unhurt. The Twete sedan was stripped of its top. Hess was unable to explain the crash. Hess said their car, traveling about 35 miles an hour, passed three other machines before colliding with the truck, driven by Guy Richwine of Medicine Lake, Mont. Physicians at Mercy hospital said the condition of Smithers, who suf- fered a fractured leg and cuts and bruises, was not serious, Hess suf- fered minor facial cuts. It was the fifth traffic fatality this year in Wil- liams county. Twete, about 50, was a representa- tive of the Bank of North Dakota and had lived in Divide county for about 30 years. He was a homesteader here from Nelson county and served two terms in the legislature. Surviving ‘are the widow, @ son, Wendell, and two daughters, Eleanor and Vivian, BURGLARS RAID TWO HIGH SCHOOL SAFES; $75 IN GASH TAKEN Tools From Manual Training Department Used in Break- ing Combinations Identity of burglars, who Thursday night looted the two safes at the Bis- marck junior and senior high school buildings and escaped with approxi- mately $75 in cash, baffled city police and school officials Friday. The burglary was discovered by Supt. H. O. Saxvik sometime after he entered his office Friday morning. Combinations on both safes had been broken off and entrance gained in this manner. A hammer, two screw drivers and a wrecking bar used in opening the safes were taken from the manual training department ‘in the junior high building. They were found be- side the safe in the new builing. Both burglaries were committed sometime between midnight Thursday when the Community Players con- cluded practices in the junior high School and 7 a. m. when Superintend- ent Saxvik entered the building, po- lice said. Police are of the opinion the yeggs hid in the junior high school building when the players group were holdin2| ¢ the practice. Entrance to the junior high office was gained with a skeleton key, police believe. A night lock on the outside door permitted them to escape without leaving the door un- locked. The burglars pried open a window in the new high school building witn the wrecking bar and escaped through the same winow after looting the safe. Approximately $38 was taken from the junior high and about $37 from the new building. Chief of Police W. R. Ebeling said that appearances indicated the burg- laries had been committed by some- body familiar with the schools but]! had no clues on which to work. Called to the’ high school by Saxvik he in- vestigated the scene and looked for fingerprints. Winter Wheat Crop Is Larger Than Year Ago Washington, Dec. 20.—()—Report- ing a total of 47,529,000 acres planted in winter wheat Dec. 1, the agriculture yields per tion of winter wheat in 1935 was 433,- 447,000 bushels: and the average of 1928-32 was 618,186,000 bushels. Pa era Se Automobile Victim i Dinka anh thro Senator Thomas’ D. Schall of Minnesota was near death Friday, the result of being hit by an au- tomobile near his suburban home out of Washington. THREE INDICTMENTS IN LIGGETT MURDER ARE ASKED OF JURY Effort Made to Steal Records in Case From Attorney Gen- eral's Office Minneapolis, Dec. 20.—(P)—A tale of death with the memory of a grin- ning killer, so unnerved Mrs. Walter Liggett during her appearance be- fore the Hennepin county grond jury Friday that she was overcome with emotion and taken to the county at- torney’s office to be revived. Mrs, Liggett, widow of the slain publisher, was one of the first wit- nesses before the grand jury, report- ed to have before it, three prospective indictments, one of which the attor- ney general's office said, named Isa- dore (Kid Cann) Blumenfeld. He has been identified by Mrs. Liggett and Wesley Andersch, a@ salesman, as the machine gunner who killed Liggett Dec. 9. Andersch, brought from the county jail to tes- tify, was pale and nervous. He main- tained a stony silence while he wait- ed his turn to go before the jurors. Only ‘Kid’ in Custody The two other indictments, if vot- ed, will name persons known only as “John Doe.” Only Kid Cann is in custody. Other witnesses this morning were Dr. Gilbert Seashore, coroner, and policemen. Preparation of the case for the grand jury was followed by a dis- closure that a prowler had entered the attorney general's office at night, apparently, said Peterson, with the intention of stealing records in the ase. Peterson said the lock on a side door had been sprung and the office searched, but the Liggett file had been placed in a vault and was not dis- turbed. TWO HELD IN MINOT FACE QUIZ IN LIGGETT CASE |" “Minot, N. D., Dec. 20.—(?)}—Harry Goldie and Hyman Adlin, who face a charge of engaging in the liquor traf- fic as the outgrowth of a hi-jacking in Minot, will be questioned here Fri- day afternoon by Detective Clarence L, McClaskey of Minneapolis in con- nection with the Walter Liggett mur- Minot authorities planned to ar- raign Goldie and Adlin sometime Fri- day afternoon, a continuance of an arraignment begun after police and county officials had decided to place the liquor charge against the pair. The two men were arrested 8. P. Nielsen of the a ment and Deputy Sheriff V. T. Thursday after a hi-jacking had Teported at @ local garage. An automobile regis name of Adlin was BLIND MINNESOTAN LIES UNCONSCIOUS INCAPITAL HOSPITAL Secretary Seriously Injured as Pair Step Into Path of Maryland Auto . *| DRIVER BOOKED BY POLICE Acid-Tongued New Deal Enemy Was on Way to See Friends Off for Home Washington, Dec. 20.—(%)— Senator Thomas D. Schall cen- tinued in a coma at 3:30 p. m, Friday, 21 hours after he was in- jured in an automobile accident in nearby Maryland. Washington, Dec. 20.—/?)—Thomas D. Schall, 58, blind senator from Min- nesota and New Deak critic, lay in a critical condition in Casualty hospital Friday, knocked down by an auto- mobile almost on the eve of reconven- ing of congress. | Fifteen hours after the accident he remained unconscious, injured inter- nally, his skull fractured and his left leg crushed almost flat below the knee. His secretary, Orell Leen, 39, also was injured, but not critically, when an automobile struck them near Schall’s home at Berwyn Heights, Md., near Washington. Six physicians in consultation dur- ing the morning reported Schall’s con- dition was “critical.” George W. Cal- | ver, capital physician, issued a bul- letin saying: “Senator Schall is in the Casualty hospital suffering from a skull frac- ture, fracture of both bones of the left leg, and internal injuries. He has been unconscious since the accident. His general condition is critical. Although Leen suffered scalp injur- lies, leg bruises and a possible con- cussion of the brain, his condition was not considered grave. Hit on Highway The accident occurred at Cottage City, Md., a few miles from the cap- ital. Dick Schall, the senator’s son, said his father was on his way to ‘two Minnesota friends off for 5 Schall, Lee, and the friends, William Laughlin and H. Berkson, started from the senator’s home, “Wyne- crest,” by automobile. En route, the senator and Leen left the car to go to a store. The store was closed and they started back. The senator’s son (Continued on Page Two) COMMERCE BUREAU | APPROVES HANGAR Project Calls for $24,268 Fed- eral Expenditure at Bis- marck Airport The proposed new hangar and ad- ministration building for the Bismarck Municipal airport was a step nearer reality Friday with announcement from Washington that the bureau of air commerce had approved the proj- ect for development with works preg- ress administration funds. The approved project calls for « federal expenditure of $24,268 to be supplemented by a city appropriation. Approval of the WPA authorities has already been received. The bureau's approval means that the projects are satisfactory from a technical standpoint in so far as aer- onautics are concerned, and is required by the WPA before any project can be listed as eligible for a féderal al- lotment. Notice of the approval was received by City Auditor Myron Atkinson some. days ago and plans for construction are being pushed forward as rapidly as possible. In addition to the construction of the hangar and administration build- ing, other improvements include the surfacing of runways and levelling the field. The PWA allotment provides funds for the labor with the city to stand the cost of building materials. der present plans the hangar and of the most modern landing the Northwest. Last year federal project, the field was according to regulations of the DAYS TL C WRIST AAS