The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 27, 1935, Page 3

ACTRESS REPORTED SEVERELY BEATEN JUST BEFORE DEATH "Thelma Todd’s Sidewalk Cafe Is Visited by Non-Commit- tal Jury Thursday Los Angeles, Dec. 27.—(P)—A sen- sational but unverified report that a man figuring in the Thelma Todd death inquiry beat the actress severely a few days before she was found dead of monoxide poisoning Dec. 16 gave a startling turn to the grand jury in- vestigation Friday. Particular significance was placed on the report by Capt. Jess Winn of the district attorney's office because it named a central figure in the current investigation, As a result, the granc jury was ex- pected to summon all the employes of the Todd Sidewalk cafe to testify con- ‘cerning the reported beating. Winn said the report related Miss Todd and a man engaged in a violent argument in her cafe late one night after most of the guests had departed. Climaxing the dispute, the man sud- denly struck the film beauty with his fist, knocking her across a table, and a waiter intervened to prevent further blows. Although silent on whether their} trip had any connection with the ru- mored fight, the entire personnel of the jury’s criminal complaints com- mittee Thursday visited the highway resort. ‘They inspected the second floor of the building, where Miss Todd had living quarters adjoining those of Rol- and West, former film director, and walked up the 271 steps to the garage owned by West's estranged wife, Jewel Carmen, where the actress’ body was found in her machine. ———— + | ‘Jafsie’ Becomes | Vaudeville Star | + New York, Dec. 27.—(?)—“Now available for personal appearances in vaudeville or motion picture theatres... “Most enigmatic, colorful and widely publicized personality in America...” With that advertisement in Variety, the theatrical magazine, Dr. John F. Condon, the elderly “Jafsie” of the Lindbergh kid- naping case, was launched Friday as a vaudeville trouper. 100 ABANDON SHIP Vladivostok, Russia, Dec. 27.—(?)— One hundred passengers have aban- doned the re-stranded Soviet steamer Lozovski and are trekking across eight miles of ice to the shore of the Okhotsk Sea, it was learned Friday. ‘There is no point on the earth where the moon never shines. MEDICATED WITH INGREDIENTS OF Vicks VapoRus Modem successor to old-fashioned cough syrups. venient pensive... lingers longer in the throat. ociety Elisabeth Johnson’s Betrothal Announced Ata family dinner given Thursday in The Cairn, home of Mr: and Mrs. Clell G. Gannon, Rev. and Mrs. N. 8. Johnson of Gackle, formerly of this city, announced tiie engagement and approaching marriage of their daugh- ter, Miss Elisabeth Weir Johnson, to Walter A. Tyler of Mound, Minn, No date has been set for the cere- mony. The bride-elect was gradu- ated from Jamestown college and is principal of the high school at Ber- lin. Through frequent visits here with Mr. and Mrs. Gannon, who are her brother-in-law and sister, Miss John- son is well-known in Bismarck. * % # Rainbow and De Molay Chapters Give Party Red and green streamers creating a false ceiling effect, a canopy in the same colors for the orchestra booth and evergreen trees in the foyer were the setting for the annual Christmas formal ball of the Mandan DeMolay and Order of the Rainbow assemblies held Thursday evening in the Man- dan Masonic temple. Bismarck members of the two ord- ers were invited but did not attend due to their own party coming Friday evening and the regular Rainbow meeting Thursday. Sixty couples at- tended and danced to the music of the Guy-Fudgy orchestra. Robert Swanson and Miss Helen June Pen- nington headed arrangements com- mittee from their respective groups. * *e * Miss Rose Sell, 615 Fifth St., left at noon Friday for Chicago to accept a position with F. A. Holmes of the United States treasury department. Mr. Holmes formerly was in charge of ‘| federal disbursements in Bismarck. Until she left, Miss Sell was employed in one of the PWA offices. * Mrs. Peter Kerner, Medina, is visit- ing her daughters, Mrs. Donald John- son, Mrs. W. H. McVey and Mrs Homer Waters, and her sons, William and Ben Wilcke, all of Bismarck, dur- ing the holiday season. * * * Mr. and Mrs. Frank Boehm, 314 Ninth St., spent Christmas with Mrs. Boehm’s mother, Mrs. Mabel Boehm of Tower City, and have returned home. * yO Glenn Manley and Miss Helena Schaefer made a motor trip to New Rockford to spend Christmas at their parental homes. * ke * I City and County ‘ County Judge I. @ marriage lice! ton John Broeckd, Miss Nellie Regan, Federal Men Make Postoffice Survey Charles F. Feasling, Minneapolis, postal inspector, and J. R. Harrison, Glendive, Mont., federal engineer, ex- pect to, complete a survey Saturday of temporary quarters to be used for the postoffice during the construction of the proposed $235,000 addition to! the building. Complete plans for the new addition have not been drafted. The new structure will adjoin the old building on the north side. Remodel- | ing of the old building will be included in the project. Construction will get underway early next spring. GET PRISON SENTENCES Chicago, Dec. 27.(#)—Gustav Lin- quist, 54, former insurance commis- sioner of Minnesota, and Abraham Karatz, former Minneapolis lawyer, | were sentenced Friday to serve one to five years each in Joliet, Tll., peni- tentiary and fined $1,000 by Judge Judge Burke over- Joseph Burke. tuled motions for a new trial. Silver! White Satin! (Tinted Any Color FREE) Styles Certain to (2 Make You the } Main Attraction ; at any asin @ sale of electric energy in interstate . Davies issued ursday to Wil- McClusky, and Elizabeth Fitzgerald, THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1985 __ (DAM IN MISSOURI ASKED BY BURDICK North Dakota Congressinan Wants $200,000,000 for Proposed Improvement Washington, Dec. 27.—(7)—A $200,- 000,000 power development program *,on the Missouri river, proposed Friday for congress by Rep. Usher L. Burdick, North Dakota Republican, would serve North and South Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Montana. ‘The $200,000,000, Burdick said, would be the minimum expenditure in a project calling for construction of one or more dams to provide the middle- west with cheap electricity and solu- tion to water problems. Burdick’s bill, to be modeled after the Tennessee Valley Authority, prob- ably will provide for a main dam on the Missouri at Garrison, N. D. In- terests in North Dakota long have sought a dam for this proposed site as a PWA job. Opposed by Engineers With such a dam it was proposed to raise the state’s sub-surface water levels, refill receding lakes, and meet, the problem of a diminishing water supply. Army engineers opposed it. Burdick said he would ask congress for a direct appropriation to finance the project instead of an allocation of public works or relief funds. He said Rep. John E. Rankin of Missis- sippi, co-author of the Norris-Rankin TVA bill, had agreed to help push the measure. Possibility for success was dimmed, however, by the fact that the entire matter has been carefully reviewed by government engineers in the past and the further fact that a South Da- kota group is asking for a dam across the Missouri in that state. S. D. Has Plan The South Dakota sponsor is the South Dakota Electric corporation, of which John B. Taylor of Ipswich is secretary, and is asking for only $6,000,000 in federal money. To this would be added $7,500,000 in state money to construct a dam costing $13,500,000. The corporation was created by en- actment. of the last South Dakota legislature at the request of federal officials and is granted broad powers. Taylor's proposal is to sell state bonds to the Reconstruction Finance corpor- ation, a federal agency, and retire them with earnings from the proposed plant. The corporation would operate the plant but would sell the current to distributing organizations already in existence. RAINS FLOOD PORTUGAL Lisbon, Dec. 27.—(#)—Torrential rains, regarded as the worst Portugal has experienced in the last 25 years, brought death to five persons Friday. ORDER RATES FILED ‘Washington, Dec. 27.—()—The fed- eral power commission Friday ordered all companies owning facilities for the commerce to file a schedule of rates. During the World War it was the Practice, of some pilots to cut away parts of the fabric of their planes to enlarge their field of vision. | Weather Report WEATHER FORECAST For Bismarck and vicinity: Snow probable tonight and Saturday; little change in temperature. For North and South Dakota: Local snows prob- able tonight ae Saturday; md temperature east pone ion tonight, Montana: oe ool and Saturday; warmer northeast portion tonight. For Minnesota: able tonight and temperature tonight and in southeas! portion Saturday, Local snows prob- Saturday; rising WEATHER R G@NDITIONS The high press peomine: area, with its = compat cold weather, overlies he Aesisalp pi Valley, St. Louis, 30. ee a low’ pressure area, Socom ied by warmer weather, exten Colorado northwestward to ihe north pained Seattle, 29.64. eee tem ures were Mishssippt Valley and in the immedi ate surrounding territ is falling in the upper Mis pot vale Vale ley and in the pores Great and heavier precipitation has occurred in the north Pa Bismarck station barometer, inches: evar! net to sea level, 30.14. fic coast states. 229 a. Mm, S100 p. m. Sunset. PRECIPITATION For Bismarck 8t Total this month a date . + 3B Normal, this month to date ... AT Normal January 1 yo te eta a si late .. Accumulated excess to date .. 1.53 NORTH DAKOTA pesreee cx, moving BISMAR: snot ree Devils Lake, cldy. .... -12 -2 00 ‘Williston, snowing . 2 10 1 5 01 00 Minot, cldy. T INTS est Pet. Idaho, raining hicago, <a Gets Kidnap Threat A police guard was furnished Oscar Focke (above), Dayton, O., meat packer, following receipt of a letter in which he was threatened with kidnaping unless he signed “that paper.” He could give no hint as to what was meant by “that pa- Messe \gbead nea ELETYPE BRIEFS#s:iss Lexington, Neb.—An 18-year-old Lexington waitress who was abducted by two gunmen was released Friday near Alma., Neb., after they robbed her companion of his automobile, $25 and a watch and left him bound in a schoolhouse. The young woman, Miss Marjorie Boggs, was given possession of the stolen automobile and told by the gunmen to drive home. St. Paul—Joseph E. Sullivan, secret service agent, reported to Grady L. Boatwright, secret service chief here, that three persons held in Daven- port, Iowa, had agreed to return to St. Paul and plead guilty to charges of passing counterfeit money. They are Joe O'Neill, Marian Adams, alias Mazie O'Neill and Clinton Schoultz, all of St. Paul. Philadelphia—Jim Mullen and Nate Lewis, Chicago fight promoters, Fri- day wired Al Ettore, Philadelphia heavyweight, an offer for a fight with Joe Louis in Detroit Jan. 30. Washington—President Roosevelt's concentration on his annual message to congress and his 1937 budget rec- ommendations will thrust other White House news into the background for the next few days. Washington—Senator W. J. Bulow, (Dem:;, S. D.) appealed Friday to Harry L. Hopkins, works progress ad- ministrator, to relax, in farm regions, his ruling barring men from WPA jobs unless they were on relief be- tween May and Nov. 1. Washington—Automobile fatalities this year are running neck-and-neck with 1934’s, For the 51 weeks ended Dec. 21, the commerce department re- ported 8,794 were killed in automobile accidents, compared with 8,799 in the same weeks last year in the 86 cities which report weekly to the depart- ment. Los Angeles—“Duke” York, film actor, said Friday he and a wrestler appearing in Hollywood as “Lord Landsdowne” were the guests Thelma Todd planned to take to a cocktail party Sunday afternoon, Dec. 15. Washington — Edgar J. Cook, Chi- cago attorney, announced after a con- ference with Senator Borah Friday that the Liberal Republicans Voters League of Illinois would put up a slate of Borah delegates'in the Illinois presidential primary regardless of whether the Idahoan formally enters »| that contest. London — Responsible sources ex-| pressed belief the move to impose e embargoes on oil and certain other raw materials to Italy was dead and| will not be revived. New York—A general broadening | of intramural sports programs was| suggested Friday at a joint meeting of the National Collegiate Athietic association and the Physicial Educa- tion society. Speakers dwelt upon’ the advisability of making a certain number of sports compulsory for all students, The world contains more than four million lepers. Todd Case Witness Margaret Lindsay (above), screen actress, was expected to appear be- fore the county grand jury in Loa Angeles to tell what she knows of Thelma Todd's death, She the any Beg’ of Pat di id’s former husband, the rest (BEVERAGE GLASSES SPREADING DISEASE Trench Mouth Increase Due to Insufficient Cleansing at Nation’s Bars New York, Dec. 27.—(?)—A warn- ing that trench mouth is spreading {because of insufficient washing of the {rims of cocktail, highball and beer jglasses was given to the Society ot American Bacteriologists here Friday Despite the fact that alcohol is an antiseptic, it has little effect in bev- erage glass rims on trench mouth germs and the spirochaetes which carry some diseases even more dan- gerous, Don Chalmers Lyons of Jack- son, Mich., made the report: “This study,” he said, “was carried out with the cooperation of Doctors W. L. Mailman and W. L. Chandler of the Michigan State college. A pre- vious study of beverage glasses had re- vealed the presence of high numbers of bacteria on rims of glasses cleansed by the usual methods in vogue in taverns, eating establishments, etc., where alcoholic beverages were dis- pensed. “This study revealed a surprisingly large percentage of borrelia vincenti (trench mouth germs) and other spir- ochaetaceae on beverage glasses and suggests the necessity of better con- trol of methods of glassware cleans- ing in such establishments.” C ONTINUE from page one: Farmer Is Found Frozen to Death In Benson County 83, 52, and 85 are open and inj fair to good condition throughout the by noon Saturday. {FROST BITTEN N. D. . | WOMAN IS IMPROVING Jamestown, N. D., Dec. 27.—(P)— Mrs. Anton Antonowitz, farm woman of near Fried, who had her arms and legs severely frozen in the blizzara Tuesday night, is improving, accord- ing to attending jhysicians. Physi- cians hope amputations will not be necessary. Her husband was frozen to death in the storm. arp of highways 10, 281, 2, 12,{ state; secondary roads may be open! ~ Marks Si Silver Jubilee Croesus of the world’s money kings—his wealth surpassing even the fabulous fortunes of the Fords and Rockefellers—the Nizam of Hyderabab has ordered a thousand oxen and 10,000 sheep slaughtered and roasted for festivities attending his silver jubliee next month, (Asso-! ciated Press Photo) eH \ Additional Markets ! NEW YORK BONDS New York, Dec, 27.—(?)—Bonds close: Great Northern 1's of 1936 103. GOVERNMENT BONDS New York, Dec, 27.—(?)—Govern- ment Bonds: Treasury 4%'s 115.5, Treasury 4’s 110.30. i pena ees | INVESTMENT TRUSTS (By the Associated Press) (Over the counter in New York). Maryland Fund, 17.61; 19.04. Sel. Inc. Sh. 4.36; No. WATFORD WOMAN HURT Grand Forks, N. D., Dec. 27.—(?)— Mrs, C. C. Jackson of Watford City was recovering Friday from a frac- jtured ankle suffered when she fell downstairs Christmas eve at the Dr. W. A. Liebeler home here. DR. OHAGE DIES St. Paul, Dec. 27.—(P)—Dr. Justus Ohage, 86, former city health officer, died Thursday of old age infirmities. “I certainly "made Clarice angry at her wedding yesterday. I delayed the start of her honeymoon a whole hour.” “Is that so? How did you do it, 7 my de: “I kissed the groom.” One of the features of the “China Clipper” is double-deck berths. WOMAN FOUND DEAD IN HER UNHEATED HOUSE St. Paul, Dec. 27.—(7)—Finding, in her tiny unheated house, of the body tof Mrs. Mae Blye, 56, Friday raised Minnesota's toll in the current cold wave to four. Police also found an- other woman, Mrs. Hattie Lessard, who lived with her, in serious condition in an IDES ENC room, ONTINUE D C from page one Benson Appointed To Schall’s Seat nounced appointment of Robert D. Beery, chief examiner in charge of the liquidation department, to suc- ceed him as state banking commis- sioner, Informed of his appointment, Ben- son said he planned to leave for Washington Jan, 1. Neither he nor the governor, who had announced before Schall’s death that he would be a candidate for senator at the regular election, would comment on reports Benson would be a candidate to succeed Olson as governor. SCHALL DIED ‘WITH ARMOR ON,’ PASTOR SAYS Minneapolis, Dec. 27.—()—Senator Thomas D. Schall was gone to his re- ward Friday as @ crusader, the fun- eral sermon said, who “died with his armor on.” Family and friends buried Senator Schall late Thursday on @ snow- covered hillside in Lakewood ceme- tery after Rev. Charles Fox Davis of the Methodist Episcopal church beg- ged answer to “Why wasn’t he spared?” NYE ON AIR TODAY Senator Gerald P. Nye, North Da- {kota Republican, will be heard over KFYR, local broadcasting station, at 6 p.m, today. He will talk on “Neu- trality” over a WJZ-NBC network from New York. BURNS SAVING BOOKS McGrath, Minn., Dec. 27.—(?)—Au- gust Fenske, 20, St. Paul college stu- dent home for the holidays, died in the flames of his home here when trapped as he tried to save school books and papers. FRIDAY - SAT. MATINEE —i— ° “Paradise Canyon” — ADDED — COMEDY - NEWS SPORTREEL - ‘SEEING STARS’ SAT, NITE - SUN. - MON. Bette Davis —and— Franchot Tone pata “Dangerous” Not all insects destroy plants. Some prey on the harmful species. STATE FRI. - SAT. - SUN. New Sensations from the jungle! Unbelievable, until you see ite Plus—John Wayne Cartoon - - News Drama of Youth’s First Temptations! AH WILDERNESS! A SENSATION ON BROADWAY'S STAGE! It captured the heart of ARMY AVIATORS TO. [8 BOMB LAVAS PLOW se Hilo’s Water Supply Threaten- ed by Creeping Stream From Mauna Loa fasmnedy which the Hilo, Hawaii, Dec. 27.—()—The United States army pitted its explo- sives against the volcano Friday. Twelve bombing planes were or- dered to blast molten lava from Mauna Loa out of the course which threatens Hilo’s water supply and or eventually reach the city it- att the aerial barrage fails, a de- tachment of 50 men from the Third! sets of teeth. om CLAIRE RALPH ‘evee sc . “BELLAMY The Woman’s Side of the Navy—Set in Sun-Kissed Hawaii It Goes Straight to Your Heart! Thrilling . Exotic! NEXT ATTRACTION DA A OUNT SAT. - SUN. - MON, THE GREATEST HEART STORY OF OUR TIME! AN EVENT OF THE SCREEN “YOU'RE A MAN NOW .and...well...there are a certain class of women...! mean girls, like thot one and lots of them jore pretty...and.:.” fee Pictere EUGENE O'NEILL'S great drama of youth's first temptations .'.. now a screen masterpiece of CLARENCE BROWN ALINE MacMAHON ERIC LINDEN -CECILIA PARKER : A Saga of an American Family that might be your own! PICTURE, WALLACE BEERY as “UNCLE SID” Much in His Cups Brings You a Score of Real Laughs! FILLED WITH THE PUNCH OF LIFE! 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