The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 21, 1935, Page 1

ESTABLISHED 1873 a THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1935 Aged Fargo Grocer Slain in Holdup PRICE FIVE CENTS. : ‘Kid Cann’ Indicted for Murder of Walter Liggett WORKING STARF IN /MUSSOLINI DIRECTS LIQUOR SALESMAN WILL IMMEDIATELY | . PLEAD NOT GUILTY Indictment Returned on Strength of Killing Wit- nesses’ Identifications DRAW ‘JOHN DOE’ TRUE BILL Police Checking Alibis of Two Men Jailed at Minot on Hi- jacking Charge Minneapolis, Dec. 21.—()—Isadore (Kid Cann) Blumenfeld, indicted on @ charge of murder in the death of Walter Liggett, weekly newspaper publisher, Saturday awaited arraign- ment on the slaying charge, set for 2 p. m. Monday. The arraignment will be merely a formality, since Thomas W. McMeek- in, defense counsel, announced an im- mediate plea of not guilty (innocent) will be entered. Whether an attempt to secure bail for Cann will be made was not an- nounced. Acquainted With Courts Cann’s appearance in court will not be his first. Police said he has been arrested on 18 different charges in the last 15 years, His indictment: was returned by the county grand jury on the strength of testimony of Mrs. Edith Liggett, wi- dow of the slain publisher, and Wes- ley Andersch, salesman, both of whont witnessed the slaying. Neither was able to identify the driver of the car from which the killer shot. He was named as “John Doe” in a second indictment returned. Mrs. Liggett, wan and trembling from the ordeal of retelling to the jury the story of her husband's death, was taken to her home after hearing the jury’s report. Two. Held. in Minot... Meanwhile, Minot, N. D., police were holding Harry Goldie and Hymen Al- din, both of Minneapolis, for question- ing in connection with a liquor hi- jacking near that city. A Minneapolis police detective, C. E. McClaskey, questioned the men at Mi- not regarding their movements on the day of Liggett’s slaying. They Of-| raiq fered alibis and McClaskey left for Minneapolis to check them. Goldie told McClaskey that he was working in his Minneapolis cigar! seen holding Harry Goldie and Hymen Ad- lin, both of Minneapolis, for question- grocery store in that city. Pair Face Arraignment The pair face arraignment in Mi- not Saturday on a hijacking charge. Bonds were set at $2,500 each pending their decision whether to demand a preliminary hearing. Fender dents in their car, Goldie and Adlin said, were the result of an accident near Little Falls, Minn., sev- eral weeks ago. McClaskey quizzed them on this point on the theory the car driven by Liggett’s slayers grazed an open door in the murder scene alley. Goldie said he recalled particularly his whereabouts Dec. 9, when Liggett was shot, because a partner brought in his lunch and he remembered it as the day of “this Liggett trouble.” He said he had known Isadore Blumen- feld, indicted for the murder, about 10 years. CLIMBING MERCURY BREAKS COLD SPELL State Gets Respite from Sub- zero Temperatures of Last. Three Days While winter's icy clutch kept the rest of the nation shivering Saturday, North Dantas, 0% respite in Figs erating temperatures, bringing end the sub-zero weather of the last three days. Thermometers at Bismarck re- corded 20 above at the coldest point Friday night and climbed to around the freezing point during the ca: Devils Lake, which reported 22 belo’ Friday, had 6 above Saturday ‘and warmer weather was forecast in the eastern section for tonight and Sun- day. 5 Zero weather cut a Tagged path from the Dakotas to New York and south to Maryland, West Virginia and. Kentucky and 14 deaths were at- tributed to the cold, with winter—ac- cording to the calender—not, due for another day. Snow flurties fell in Texas as Fri- day's country-wide blanket of freez- Ing temperatures shifted off Califor- nia and pushed btiter cold into the east. Snow was forecast for the mid- tonight. - Officials of the North Dakota ries motorists of Succeed GUNWOMAN ADMITS COMPLICITY INBANK ROBBERY AT HUNTER Imperturable Young Woman Sits in Cell Smoking Cigarets Unconcernedly Albert Les, Minn. Dec, 21.—(7}— Mrs. Mary Moore, 27-year-old con-} datory sentence of life imprisonment. Puffing away on « cigarette in her cell Saturday, Mrs, Moore was re- luctant to discuss her plight with anyone, although she gave a written statement to Peterson, who refused to make public any of the details with ND. LIGNTE FIRMS BATTLE GUFFEY ACT Injunctions Sought to Restrain Collection of 15 Per Cent ! Excise Tax Fargo, N. D., Dec. 21.—(?)—Actions were on file in federal court Satur- day in which several North Dakota lignite firms challenge the constitu- tionality of the Guffey coal act. Federal Judge Andrew Miller set a hearing Dec. 27 for petitions for in- junctions restraining H. H. Perry, collector of internal revenue, from ex- erting the 15 per cent excise tax pro- vided for in the act. The Truax-Traer Lignite Coal com- pany and the Knife River Coal Min- ing company each brought an indi- vidual action. In a third suit, Bau- kol-Noonan. company, Dakota Colliers company, and Zap-Colliery company are plaintiffs. Bringing the fourth action were the Quality Lignite, Verzatt Coal, Super- for Coal, Dunn Center Coal, P. H. Becktold, and Roberts Coal companies and Colton, Albert Vix, Garfield, and Schueler coal mines, alla IEE SS | Charity Fund Hits | _ 87 Saturday 1 Hoopes Elected to Keitzman Carrington Attorney Runs Far Ahead of Thatcher and Mc- Manus in’ Vote W. E. Hoopes, Carrington attorney, Saturday was elected a member of the Nonpartisan League executive committee by county chairmen com- prising the organization advisory council, Forty-five of the 46 county chair- men present voted, council officials said. Hoopes fills the vacancy on the committee created by the death af Fred Keitzman, who was killed in an automobile accident several months ago. Hoopes was reported to have recelv- ed 35 votes on formal balloting of the chairmen. State Senator William Thatcher of Bottineau, regarded in political talk surrounding the meeting as the can- didate backed by forces of Gov. Wal- ter Welford, received seven votes, it was reported. Three other votes were scattered, McManus Gets 2 Votes Allan McManus of Grand Forks, credited with the backing of A. C. Townley, early League organizer, re- ceived 2 votes in informal balloting, later dropped from the voting, in- Gividual delegates said. George Allmaras of New Rockford, who pre-meeting talk said, was to have been a favorite for the position, was reported to have stepped from the race because of press of farming interests. Organization work in preparation for the coming Nonpartisan League convention, March 3, at Bismarck, was to occupy the delegates at the afternoon session. Appointment of a platform com- mittee, to draw proposed platform of the league in the 1936 campaign for submission to the delegates at the state convention was to be made late in the day by Roy Frazier, Crosby, Chairmen Present 4 Present at the meeting were: Adams county—Elmér Hokensen, Hettinger; Barnes—R. A. Kinzer, Valley City; Benson—John M. Anderson, Oberon; Billings—Elko Polaniuk, Belfield; Bottineau—William Thatcher, Bot- tineau; Bowman—C. A. DeFoe, Rhame; Burke—E. J. Marks, Flaxton; Burleigh—W. D. Falconer, Bismarck; Cass—George Schoenberger, Cassel- ton; Cavalier—E. L. Haaven, Lang- don; Dickey—8. I. Coffel, Ellendale. Divide—Roy W. Frazier, Crosby; Dunn—H. M. Zon (proxy), Halli- day; Eddy—F. F. Almers, New Rock- ford; Emmons—Math Dahl, Hazel- ton; Foster—William Roaldson, Car- ington; Golden Valley—Z, Vlassoff, Beach: Griggs—Otto Bruns, Binford; (Continued on Page Four) ASK SUPPORT FOR LIGHTING CONTEST = Civic Leaders. Unite in Praising Initiative of Junior Com- mercial Group Support for Bismarck’s Christmas lighting contest, sponsored by the Junior Association of Commerce, was voiced Saturday by Mayor A. P. Len- hart, Dr. H. A. Brandes, president of the Association of Commerce, and Kelly A. Simonson, president of the junior commercial organization. Lenhart commented that Bismarck has always had a fine appearance at Christmas time and urged the citizens to “keep it so.” He urged each resi- dent to take pride in his neighbor- hood and do his bit toward. improv- ing its appearance. The contest, he said, should provide an incentive for many effective and beautiful dis- | Plays. Brandes pointed out thet merchants and businessmen have worked hard to introduce the spirit of Christmas into the decorations in the shopping dis- trict and that extension of the spirit to the residential area will give this city “the most beautiful Christmas in "Interest in home decorations, at ebb tide during the last few years, is _| being revived by the Junior Associa- tion’s contest, he said, and urged citi- z E tf fe E EE s pak i ae BE a8 cf ze ages f i Eis i fl ! al | g » i 4 g 4 i d z t ‘th a Liquidation of Administrative Forces to Be Speeded, Will- son Says FEW PROJECTS INCOMPLETE Clean-up Work Expense Will Not Cost State One Penny, Director Avers Administrative relief forces remain- ing from the FERA will be liquidated at least 50 per cent within the next 30 days, E. A. Willson, executive sec- retary of the state welfare board, de- clared Saturday. Willson said the cut would be a minimum of. 50 per cent “and pos- sibly more” before another month has Passed. Liquidation of FERA, he ex- plained, would be sped as rapidly as cleanup of details is completed. Engineering forces of the FERA setup have been cut from a large staff to a group of four persons who will remain until completion reports on 7,000 projects have been made to. Washington. Balances of FERA funds, Willson explained, were transferred to the state welfare board Dec. 15, “with definite agreement existing commit- ments would be paid from those funds,” Willson said. To Wind Up Affairs At the same time, the money was transferred with the definite agree- ment with the federal government that “sufficient personnel would be maintained to wind up the affairs of the federal setup.” A gross balance of approximately $2,000,000 was turned over to the state welfare board Dec. 15, from the fed- eral government, Willson said. e it this amount there was an estimated $1,500,000 in commitments —relief orders and similar expendi- tures prior to Dec. 15. There must be‘paid“out of that money, under the agreement. “For example—out of the final $415,000 allotment made’ to the state —which goes to the state welfare bard, the federal government ear- marked $15,000 for completion of a rural research project which the gov- ernment desired. That will not be completed until June 30 of next year.” Welfare Board ible Willson pointed out the state wel- fare board now is responsible for cer- tification of relief clients to rural resettlement administration and works progress administration in North Dakota. Sufficient personnel must be maintained to effectively finish this work, he said. Willison emphasized that “every cent that comes from out of the re- tail sales tax will be spent on relief. Not one cent of it will be spent for administrative purposes here. “The counties may have to use some of their allotments for administrative costs, but if they do, it will be be- cause the county welfare boards say they must. That’s up to the county “The state welfare board was given an appropriation of $25,000 for admin- istrative expense; we consider that is our administrative appropriation, and we will not expend more than that for this purpose. Paid With Federal Funds “all expenditures in connection with speeding the cleanup of FERA come out of funds, not derived from the sales tax—but from the balance turned over under definite agreement, by the federal government. “A portion of the monies turned over. were defi- nitely earmarked for administrative costs. It was distinctly understood the $1,500,000 would include both ad- ministrative costs and commitments prior to Dec. 15.” * First checks were issued this week, bearing the title “State Welfare Board.” “Holdover” employes re- ceived their salaries from a fund in the Bank of North Dakota, Willson said, while those definitely on the state welfare board payroll receive pay vouchers through the state treas- urer’s office. Only five now are on the state wel- fare board payrolli—paid from the state appropriation, Willson ex- plained. Chimps Are Baltimore, Dec. 21.—(#)—Three huge female chimpanzees escaped from their quarters at the Johns Hopkins medical school Saturday and during a period of liberty spread havoc-on the campus. . Swinging along with ease an grace of jungle ea they first entered a c! False 2 sf 5. & Fes F FERA WILL BE CUT | TROOPS'0 ADVANCE IN HALF BY JAN. 21] ETHIOPIA CONQUEST Chamberlain Sounds Martial Appeal for League to Resist Any Attack RESUME ECONOMIC BATTLE Defeat of Blackshirts in Bloody Fight Six Days Ago Is Reported (By The Associated Press) Premier Mussolini of Italy directed his Blackshirt troops to proceed with their campaign of conquest in Ethi- opia Saturday, and Great Britain again took up the challenge to “sanc- tionist” nations with a war-like ap- peal for aid. The Italian dictator, scorning to re- ply to the now dead Franco-Britisn proposals for peace, posed his “un- shakably united” people against the “disorganization and contradictions” of the nations seeking to penalize him for taking up arms against Ethiopia. At Birmingham, England, Neville Chamberlain, chancellor of the ex- chequer who has been mentioned widely as a possible new foreign sec- retary, told an audience of conserva- tive party workers: Urges Resistance “I trust that the nations of the League will show that they are pre- pared to make themselves resist any attack which may be made on any one of their number.” Thus were the lines drawn taut for @ resumption of the explosive-filled economic battle between the League of Nations, under British leadership, and Italy over the question of aggres- sion in East Africa. ‘The headlined declarations in Rome and Londoh‘tere*an aftermath to the failure of'tie. Fyench and British at- temtpts to bring peace to Italian and Ethiopian arms with a plan provid- ing immense concessions to Mussolint. Ethiopians Retake Town Troops were busy at the front. An Ethiopian government’ communique issued at Addis Ababa said the van- guard of Ded Jazmatch Ayelu's troops on the northern front recaptured Enda Silasi, 30 miles west of Aksum, and Dega Shah, from the Italians. “The Italian losses were consider- able,” said the communique. “Our troops captured 10 tanks.” The ac- tion occurred six days a, The two villages are about 35 miles northwest of the Takkaze river site where a bit- ter three-day battle was waged early this week. Italy’s northern army concentrated on.cleaning up “trouble spots” in that, sector, from which Ethiopians were reported withdrawing. Aerial bomb- ing squadrons, said word reaching Rome, and ground scouting parties co- operated in pursuing the natives. Italy Is Confident In token of Premier Mussolini’s de- termination to defy the League—which means Great Britain in particular— the Fascist grand council issued a communique after a meeting with I) Duce asserting Italy is confident of victory. Mussolini dispatched 4,000 additional militiamen and 800 work- men to East Africa. Diplomatic sources in Paris said the British move to shape a League police force to support sanctions, if neces- sary, may be launched at a special session of the League council about Jan. 10. France, it was added, was ready to help Britain. THREE TRAINMEN DIE Auburn, Wash., Dec. 21. — (®%) — Three Northern Pacific trainmen hurt in a freight train collision Thursday night died Friday night in 2 hospital. They were Charles Bryan, 52, fireman, Centralia, Wash.; Wal- ter Boyce, 52, engineer, Tacoma, and Richard Gilbert, 60, brakeman, Ta- coma. : AP EXECUTIVE DEAD San Mateo, Calif., Dec. 21.—()}— Paul Cowles, retired executive assist- ‘ant to the general manager of the As- sociated Press, died here Friday night. Champs at Making Chaps Chumps Ripe Wert si sage hwy saamch at an unnamed instructor in anthro- pology as -he attempted to lure her with food. The instructor, just in time, fled. Sous tr hi el ee ‘an apple extended as a aint Thine it violently at’ the giver. A third wrested a movie carers, fee. the Dens Os antics one hurled it to the HE oTRpLE RESCUE WEALTHY KIDNAPED CUBAN a millionaire, ts rescued from kidnapers who h: jown with soldiers shortly eld him for ransom. Six persons have beep killed iw the aftermath of the abduction. (Associated Press Photo) Sunday Musicale Will Aid Charity 2% Christmas sien eh Program Will Be. Given at. 2:30 P. M. in Auditorium Main interest in Bismarck’s sixth annual Open Your Heart campaign Saturday was centered on the Christ- mas musicale, first of its kind in the history of the city, to be presented at the City Auditorium at 2:30 p. m., Sunday afternoon. Participating organizations will be the Juvenile band and the new Mu- nicipal chorus. Interest in the chorus and the nature of the occasion, coupled with the fact that no admis- sion will be charged, is expected to result in a capacity attendance. H. M. Leonhard is chairman of the affair and will introduce the speaker, Mrs. James Morris, who will give a 15- minute talk on the Open Your Heart campaign and its importance to the community. He also will ‘introduce Chairman W. J. Brophy and others who have taken a leading part in the Christmas community effort. Uniformed members of the drum corps of Lloyd Spetz Post No. 1, Amer- ican Legion, will act as ushers and will take up the free will offering, pro- ceeds of which will go to the Open Your Heart fund. The entire program will be limited to an hour and 15 minutes, with the band appearing first in a concert of music appropriate to the season. Main numbers on its program, Leader Clar- fon Larson said Saturday, will be “The Persian Market,” Ketelby;“ Lon- donderry Air” and “Songs My Mother Taught Me,” Dvorak; “Trailing Ar- butus” and several marches. Miss Ruth Coghlan, drum major, will ap- (Continued on Page Four) Beware of Fire Is Warning by Hamro Warning to all citizens to beware of fire during the Christmas holidays was issued Saturday by Fire Chief Ryder Hamro. He, urged. everyone to inspect their Christmas lighting and other electrical equipment to see that it is in safe condition and to take Funeral Service for Einar Twete Sunday HH SCHALL REMAINS IN UNCONSCIOUS STAT CONDITION 1S GRAVE Excellent Physique Aids Blind Senator in Fight Against George W. Calver, capitol phy- Washington, Dec, 21.—(#)—Senator Thomas D. Schall, unconscious since the hour his skull was fractured by an autemobile Thursday night, re- mained in a grave condition Friday at Casualty hospital. listed the blind Re- publican senator's condition as “un- changed,” but it was noted that his temperature, pulse and tion remained within “satisfactory limits.” The 58-year-old legislator suffered the head injury, internal hurts and fractures of the left leg as he crossed @ highway at Cottage City, Md. O. R. Leen, of his. poneteral staff, was less | 5, Fugitive S Slayer of 2 hunt ranged along the Canadian border Saturday for the gunman fu- gitive from @ fight in which two po- lice officers died. ay gp eg tg Be Chief Edward’ STUTTERING CONVICT HELD FOR KILLING OF PETER STEWART, 74 Succumbs to Wound in Hip at Hospital After Giving Po- lice Description FUGITIVE FOUND IN BOXCAR Theft of Clothing from Train Leads to Capture of Armed Canadian Fargo, N. D., Dec. 21.—(P)—A stut- Fargo of Peter Stewart, 71, Fargo grocer, during a holdup Friday night. Dissatisfied with the small amount of money in the till, the man shot the aged grocer in with a sawed-off 12 gauge shotgun, then escaped. Stewart was alone in the corresponds man held and died at 6 a. m. day. Captured Hour Later An hour later a Northern Pacific switch crew at Dilworth, Minn., few miles east of here, missed cloth- ing from a caboose. near- by, two of the men found the ex- convict, Charles Marratto, hiding in @ boxcar and wearing the ae clothing. He was @ struggle in which he was tmnable to to use his gun as it was strapped to his side underneath his Bound with rope, he was delivered Fargo . abled Sepettiog. the Ste up, Marratio sald, “Til t-t-talk when the t-t-time comes.” P3 Refuses te Admit Crime Questioned throughout the fore- J} noon, the prisoner told of = long crime record but stubbornly refused. to admit any connection with the gg eed prisoner @ piece of scrap tale ipeper wiles one side torn out, and the piece of paper handed Ste- wart during the holdup was of the same Co! am al . and the jagged edges of the tear fit- ted perfectly. Faint fingerprints were apparent in the note. It and the plece of paper taken from the man are being sent to the Minnesota state bureau of iden- tification with request a recently developed iodine fume method be a et Om ts. months for possession of stolen prop- erty. He gave his father’s name as Charles Marratto. He said he was sent to a Canadian reform school when he was 16 years of age, to San Quentin penitentiary in 1928 with a five year term for bur- Prac-|ocratic ideals and American An inquest was to be held Jater in the day, also a warrant was to be issued charging first degree murder. Stockwell Dedicates New Grafton School Grafton, N. D., Dec. 31—(?)—Wal- ter L. Stockwell, former Grafton school superintendent, Friday dedi- cated the new $144,000 school build- ing here to a “continuation of dem- the ppm der the law.” Stockwell advocated Gn efficient educational aystem to act against the influence of dictatorships. Agnes Powers, 41, >