The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 11, 1936, Page 1

BT ABLISHED 1873 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1936 REFUSES 10 DEIN (Ethiopian OPEN BOAT AS TWO COMPANIONS PERISH Michigan Man Crawled 7 Miles on Frozen Hands and Legs Over Shore Ice WAS GIVEN UP FOR LOST Thoughts of Wife and Little Girls. Inspired Youth to Heroic Endeavor Charlevoix, Mich. Feb. 11.—(?)— Clayton Brown, 25-year-old fisherman given up for lost with two companions when swept into Lake Michigan Sat- urday before a 40-mile sub-zero gale, came back Tuesday to tell how he refused to die. Brown crawled on frozen hands and legs seven miles across rough shore ice after Claude Beardsley, 51, his father-in-law, and Earl Cunning- ham, coast guard surfman, froze to death in the small boat before it jam- med into a floe and stuck. Brown's life was saved, physicians said, by the ministration of an In- dian family into whose cabin he stumbled early Monday night. In a hospital here Tuesday Brown told his family of the 48-hour strug- gle to keep his companions from freezing and how he stumbled shore- ward after the boat grounded “be- cause I figured I’d just as soon die | days on my feet.” i z Fy t i party of fishermen caught on drift- ing ice. Cunningham saved three of the five in the party, but was swept out into the lake after he got Brown and Beardsley into his rowboat. “We were not afraid at first,” night fell. About dark St ningham began to doze. couldn’t keep him awake Beardsley became sleepy them with a stick I found in “All night I kept it up but Cunningham, the man who life for me, no longer responded. took him in my arms and face and hands, and wra) ® tarpaulin but he died, caked with ice, Second “Beardsley after that. As he died about 11 p. m. Sunday. “After they were both dead, I F ; ; : # steskge i eee i #43 £ girls, Patricia Ann, months. “As soon as it was light started toward the shore. places the ice was so thin I work along on my stomach. to the first cabin I saw. wouldn’t believe me at first id them who I was.” “The Indian, George he had heard we were lost, but didn’t believe we could have survived.” Physicians said they believed Brown's hands had been saved through the first aid efforts of the Andrews, but that they feared it would be necessary to amputate his feet, frozen above the ankles. ALLENE HOLMES IS CLAIMED BY DEATH 18-Year-Old Concert Pianist Loses Struggle Against Multiple Diseases. # itt EF HB hen Disease, complicated by a two-hour exposure to North Dakota's glacial temperatures, Tuesday claimed the life of Allene Lois Holmes, 18-year-old Burleigh county concert pianist. Miss Holmes died at 10:10 a. m., at ‘a local hospital where she was brought Saturday evening by members of her family and the attending physician after a two-hour battle with snow drifts, which blocked the road from the Holmes farm home near Menoken to the highway. Her physician gave scarlet fever as the direet cause of death with a rup- tured appendix, general peritonitis and acute nephritis sted as contri- butory causes. Little hope was held for the girl’s recovery when she arrived at the hos- pital, but she held her cwn through Sunday and Monday. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Holmes, who live a mile west and @ mile north of Menoken. She was born Feb. 2, 1918, at Menoken, Last year she was graduated from the Menoken high school with honors and was awarded a scholarship to been studying advanced piano under Miss Belle Mehus in Bismarck. This winter she has been pianist for the Puneral arrangements are plete. Clou tonight ai The Weather tonight and Mic snow Wed.; cont cold, PRICE FIVE CENTS Orders Americans Freed Missionaries Arrested for Re- fusing to Leave Danger Zone in East Africa (Copyright, 1936, Associated Press) Addis Ababa, Feb. 11—Two North American missionaries who refused to leave the danger zone have been un- der arrest in southwestern Gamo pro- vince. Crown Prince Asfa Wosan was learned Tuesday to have ordered their release. Lack of communications | drifts with the interior made it impossible to determine immediately whether the local chieftain who made the ar- shackled with a dog chain connect- ing his legs. Mrs. Street, and her four children were under guard. The other missionary, the Rev. John Trewin of Toronto, was also under arrest but not shackled. Both Well Treated Both missionaries are members of the Sudan interior mission. Dr. T. A, Lambie, head of the mission in Ethiopia, said both men were well treated. Reporter Gets Story Stuart Emeny, correspondent for the News Chronicle East Africa, sent &@ dispatch from Djibouti, French ‘Somaliland, Ethiopia’s only access to the sea. The it the THREE TAX SOURCES ARE CONSIDERED BY REVENUE SCANNERS Fields May Yield From 500 to 900 Millions, Experts Be- lieve After Study ° fashington, Feb. 11.—(7)—Tax Tuesday for Livingston, . seek extradition of Rudolph Holley, 26, of Antigo, Wis., in connection with a tavern holdup and slaying near here in 1934. Charlie Good for Another 25 Years 4 SEES SE eet Weather Whims By the Associated Press Reports of blocked or “heavy” roads came from most sections of North Dakota Tuesday as highway patrol- men resorted to dynamite to open one route in central North Dakota. Prairie du Chien, Wis.—Jonn Mur- phy, 18, was recovering in a hospital here Tuesday after 40 of his CCC! comrades fought through huge snow- to bring him in while a phy- sician held open a hole in his throat so that he could breathe. Suffering from a throat infection, the doctor cut @ hole in the youth’s windpipe. Chicago.—The snowbound midwest burrowed on through deep drifts Tuesday to free itself of threatened food and fuel famines. The sun came to the diggers’ aid, and the chill was @ little kinder, but thermometer col- umns kept on flirting with zero as the cold wave held its grip from the Rockies to the Atlantic. Paducah, Ky.—Ice floes which have marooned nine men since Friday in @ government work boat between two islands in the Ohio river, 35 miles upstream, began moving Tuesday, of- fering hope they would be able to reach shore soon. London—A northeasterly gale lash- ed the British Isles Monday night, causing several deaths from drowning and exposure and disrupting shipping. ‘With the 100-mile an hour wind came lower temperatures that froze inland rivers and ponds. Ottumwa, Iowa—Dr. Thomas. C. Poulter, Iowa Wesleyan college scien- tist who spent months in the Antarc- tic with Admiral Byrd, arrived here after a tough struggle with drifted roads, “I'll take Little America any day,” he commented. Mankato, Minn. — ‘Fire swept through the Landkamer Furniture company, one of the largest stores in this city, Tuesday, imperiling other Property as firemen struggled to con- trol the flames in 15 below zero weather. The damage was estimated at $50,000. St. Paul, Minn—A_ record of 61 years standing went by the boards here Tuesday as the mercury dipped below zero for the 25th consecutive day. The former record of 24 days was set in December, 1874, and Jan- uary, 1875. Browns Valley, Minn.— Firemen were unable to prevent flames from sweeping through two brick buildings with a loss estimated at $30,000. Burn- ed were the Miller drug store, WPA offices, Interlake Tribune plant, Gail and Fisher barber shop, and second floor apartments. 8t. Paul—Free fuel was a poten- tiality Tuesday for patrons who bought on credit from the Hertle Codl company. All records and office equipment were destroyed in a fire at the company office. Ancona, Italy—Tugs went out Tues- ¢|day in an attempt to rescue the crew of the Spanish collier Rita Garcia, one of three vessels which have met disaster in a snow, sleet and wind storm off Ancona. Elkhorn, Wis.—Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Miller of Whitewater were forced by the blizzard to terminate their honey- moon abruptly in a small hotel here. They were joined by 43 other snow- bound motorists. Chicago—Officials of the Chicago and north western railroad estimated the added cost of the railroads serving the north and west since the begin- ang of the cold wave would be $4,000,- Livingston, Wis.—Less than 12 tons of coal were available to heat homes in this village of 500 and dealers ra- tioned it out by the sackful. There has been no train service for a week. Austin, Minn.—Isolated 70 hours, Austin watched its first train steam in from Chicago Tuesday morning. Bus service also resumed. Albert Lea, Minn.—This southern Minnesota city was without train serv- ice for the fourth consecutive day. Bemidji, Minn.—Temperatures here have been below zero for 28 consecu- tive days. “I’m good for another 25 years,” said Charles L. Hanson, 1400 Thayer, as he observed his 75th birthday anniversary Monday with a few close iriends beside only 70 candles on it. “I hope my friends didn’t think I was ‘fudging’ on my age,” the Danish-born man who “has been a resident of the Capital City since 1889. Charlie left his home in Odense, Denmark, when he was 14 years old and sailed before the mast on the seven seas of the world from 1875 until shortly before he de- cided he woudl like to bes land- Sarles Spent Three - Days on Stalled Train Minneapolis, Feb. 11—(#)—Among passengers on the Chicago and North- western train which arrived here Tuesday morning, three days overdue from Omaha, was Earl R. Sarles, project manager for the resettlement administration of North Dakota. The train had been halted at Alton, Iowa, because of impassable drifts farther along. Z CARRUTH RECOVERING Rochester, Minn., Feb, 11—()—Ed- win C. Carruth of Havre, Mont.,. di- rector of the Home Owners Loan cor- poration in Montana and a member ot the state board of education, was recovering Tuesdey from an operation in s hospital here. BONDING BOARD TO CONSIDER CLAIM ON ~ BOND OF Cd MYERS Will Investigate to See If Hall Department Employe Paid Claim Illegally | LANGER ANSWERS HOPTON Says Politics Is to Blame for In- surance Chief's Sensa- tional Charges (By the Associated Press) Action by the state bonding board on claimed irregularities in the state hail insurance department, awaited the return Tuesday of Attorney Gen- eral P. O. Sathre, as @ probe ordered by Governor Welford continued. Sathre was en route here from Grand Forks and, as a member of the board, will attend the session | called to consider a. $2,340 claim! against the bond of C.J. Myers, dis- charged Monday as assistant manager ot the department, Myers was ousted by Insurance Commissioner Harold Hopton who severed his fromer alliance with one- time Governor William Langer at the same time. Formerly Hopton was an active supporter of Langer. Hopton charged Langer with “in- fluencing” Myers in connection with the re-instatement and payment of an assertedly illegal claim. Langer contended the claim was legal and denied influencing Myers, Hopton Monday called the bonding board together to consider the claim against the $10,000 bond of Myers and “any other act the board might deter- mine. Members of the board are Hop- ton, Sathre and Adam Lefor, state bank examiner. Could Ask Prosecution The board, should it so determine, has the power to recommend that criminal action be instituted. Meanwhile, the political situation, simmering for weeks, boiled up vig- orously as a result of Hopton’s ac- cusations against Langer and the lat- ter's counter thrust. Until now the two have been political allies. Now they are in an open war. Welcoming the “fullest” investiga- tion of his dealings with the depart- ment, Langer indirectly attributed Hopton’s charges to his refusal to (Continued on Page Two) DICKINSON SAYS NEW (FARM BILL JUST AS INVALID AS OLD AAA |Republican Leader McNary | Concedes Measure Probably Will Pass, However Washington, Feb. 11.—()—Senator Dickinson (Rep., Ia.), was on the war- path Tuesday against the administra- tion farm bill but Senator McNary of Oregon, Republican leader, conceded it would pass. In a speech Monday night, Dick- inson called the bill “just as un- constitutional” as the invalidated AAA. “The delegation of power to the “He may spend the money in whatever states he Ikes—such as those listed as political- ly ‘doubtful’—or he can discriminate between individuals, between states, or whole sections of the country.” The bill provides for federal pay- ments to farmers who withdraw acre- age from ¢ommercial crop production jor take certain other steps for “eco- nomic use of land.” The bill is before the senate for debate, but progress has slowed be- cause the chamber recessed Monday in honor of the late Charles Curtis, former vice president, and because many senators have gone out of town for Lincoln day speeches. McNary sought postponement of final action until these senators re- turn. But he acknowledged that when the roll call comes, some Republicans may vote for it. A measure repealing the Bankhead cotton, Kerr-Smith tobacco and War- Ten potato control acts became law late Monday with President Roosevelt signing the repealer without cere- ‘mony. Captain Disappears Off Bridge of Ship) | San Francisco, Feb. 11.—(?)—Mrs. Louise de Pue McClellan, whose hus- band, Capt. Edgar 8. McClellan dis- appeared Monday from the army transport Republic, said Tuesday she was positive the veteran ship com- mander did not commit suicide. The pajama-clad captain walked from the bridge of his vessel after leaving instructions to be called when the ship stood seven miles out from the Golden Gate. He has not been seen since. A search of the vesse: '. Fisherman Returns Safely From Battle With Death LUMBERMEN FLOCK INTO CITY AS N. D. CONVENTION OPENS J. L. Odette of Minot, Associa- tion President, Sounds Meeting Keynote VISIT TO CAPITOL PLANNED Smoker and Salesmen’s Ban- quet Included on Enter- tainment Program Lumber dealers from all parts of North Dakota were flocking into Bis- marck Tuesday for the opening ses- sion of the 29th annual convention of the North Dakota Retail Lumber- men’s association, Registration and visits to the ex- hibits at the housing show in the World War Memorial building occu- pied the morning session with the first business session getting under way at 1:30 p. m., in the city audi- torium. Music by the Bismarck Juvenile band was followed by the address of welcome by Mayor A. P. Lenhart and then came the address of cee | J. L, Odette, Minot. Gov. Walter Welford was in Devils Lake, unable to reach Bismarck be- cause of blocked roads, and his ad- dress probably will be given at the|~ ‘Wednesday session. Minneapolis Men Talk The remainder of the program was taken up by the addresses of R. M. Bellis of the Weyerhaeuser Sales cor- poration, Minneapolis, and of W. H. Martin, Minneapolis, secretary of the Northwestern Retail Coal ‘Dealers association. A smoker in the lower gymnasium of the World War Memorial building tonight will be the first entertain- ment feature of the gathering. Ad- mission will be by ticket and registra- tion badge, the committee in charge specifying that both are necessary, v Banquet Closes Meéting Wednesday's program includes & visit to the state capitol building in the morning, a free luncheon in the World War Memorial building at noon and the closing business session in the afternoon. Officers will be elected at that time. The two-day meetings will close ‘Wednesday evening with a banquet at the Patterson hotel at which sales- men _ representing manufacturers of building material will be hosts to their customers, Many salesman were on hand Tues- day both to explain their products and show new wares to the lumber retailers and to the general public, which is invited to attend the Bis- marck housing show, which is both a convention feature and an attraction to the general public. Public Gets Opportunity The public is invited to attend each afternoon and evening of the conven- tion and all day Thursday. Building material manufacturers and sales firms represented at the convention are cooperating to make the housing show the biggest and best ever held in North Dakota and their sales or- ganization will be on hand at each of the 41 booths to answer any question which may be asked. The show constitutes for the uni- nitiated observer a complete course in home building, the various exhibits showing not only what materials to put into the building of a home but dad to put in the home after it is Persons intending to buy, build or remodel a home will find the con- struction exhibits particularly inter- esting. In addition the latest ideas in household equipment are being demonstrated, ‘HEART STARTER’ I§ NEW LIFE RESTORER Electric Needle Is No Cure But Can Successfully Stimulate Stopped Organs New York, Feb. 11.—()—Science added a new type of “electric heart starter” to its list of tools Tuesday. crediting it with a startling ability to restore life, in some cases, to persons officially “dead.” The starter—an electric needle, the size of an ordinary hand flashlight— was announced Monday night for use in cases of angina pectoris, coronary thrombosis, electrocution and shock. Albert 8. Hyman, M. D., described the instrument. The needle is a de- velopment of the “pacemaker” needle Dr. Hyman announced three years ago. Between 150 and 200 sufferers of angina pectoris and coronary heart trouble, cause of death for many in- dustrial and governmental leaders, have been restored to life after the heart had stopped, Dr. Hyman said. The treatment should be applied within a few minutes after the heart action stops, Dr. Hyman said, but once the beat is restarted it may keep going for months or years. SEEK RIVER WORK FUND Washington, Feb. 11.— 5S was asked Monday to appropriate $28,000,000 for new work on the Mis- souri river and $2,639,004 for mainte- [failed to reveal # trace of him, |nance during the 1937 fiscal year, TENNIS STAR WEDS ACTRESS olice Sought $10,000 to ‘Fix’ Case SHULDBERG INFERS ‘UGaer’s WIDOW | WASOPEN'TO BRIBE Would Change Her Identifica- tion of Kid Cann, Liquor Dealer Testifies INFORMATION GIVEN COUNTY State Balked Attempting to Un- cover Defendant's Past in Prohibition Era Minneapolis, Feb. 11.—(7)—~ Lester R. Stoefen, 22, former national tennis doubles champion, * and Ruth Moody, 18, olond film actress, are shown at the Hollywood chape! in Hollywood. Cal. after their wedding (Associated Press Photo) State Department Avoiding Wrangle Holds Aloof as Japan Bears Brunt of Defense Advo- cate’s Attack Washington, Feb. 11.—(7)}—The state department pointedly held aloof ‘Tuesday from anti-Japanese criticism in a congress where advocates of a stronger army and navy are demand- ing quick action to bolster national de- fenses. Soon after Senator Pittman (Dem., Nev.), had charged and Japanese spokesmen had denied that Japan’s policy is a threat to American in- terests, Secretary Hull stressed that his department was not responsible for the Pittman speech, in which the chairman of the senate foreign rela- tions committee advocated increased naval and air strength. Meanwhile house backers of a peacetime record appropriation for the army sought to obtain a vote by Tues- day night. The measure, providing total military expenditures of $338,- 782,232, including funds to strengthen western defenses, was introduced ‘Monday. Representative Blanton (Dem. Tex.), who recently returned from a visit to Hawaii, said in opening de- bate on the bill: Wants Biggest Guns “I want to see enough 16-inch guns on our coast and in our so that if one of these $50,000,000 mod- ern battleships comes within 27 miles of our coast with design against us we could blow it out of the sea—and that’s what we expect to do.” Other developments bearing on Peace and military affairs: 1, Several house members expressed disappointment that congressional ! leaders apparently had scrapped plans for permanent neutrality legislation now because of legislative deadlocks. 2, The senate munitions committee drew forth testimony that the Navy League, advocate of a larger navy, numbered steel manufacturers in its Membership and sought contributions from ship owners. 3. The United States fleet was at sea off the California coast beginning battle exercises clothed in greater secrecy than any such movements in the past. See Maximum Tonnage 4, At London authoritative sources said it was probable that the four- power naval conference would agree upon a 35,000-ton maximum for bat- tleships. The United States had in- sisted upon this maximum, while France and Italy demanded a smaller one, Taking cognizance of Senator Pitt- man’s assertion that Japan intends to close the door of China on America “even if war is necessary to accom- plish it,” Japanese Ambassador Hiroshi Saito declared his country has “no in- tention of closing the door of com- merce in China to the United States or any other nation.” The envoy laughed when newsmen told him of a speech by Senator Lewis (Dem., Ill.), predicting a Russo- Jap- anese alliance to control Asia and bar Americans. In Tokyo, newspapers played up the Pittman speech. Python Gets Whiff of Minnesota Air, Dies, St. Paul, Feb. 11—(#)—Frank Buck's 27-foot Malayan jungle python got a whiff of Minnesota's arctic weather Monday and died. “It probably got just one whiff of this iy air and died within a few minutes,” Buck said, collapses a tropical snake’s lungs [death is almost, instantaneous.” “Real cold air: ENDORSEMENT OF FARM BILL GIVEN FDR BY FARMERS Another New Measure Offered in Senate by McNary and Drawn by Peek Washington, Feb. 11.—()—En- dorsement of the subsidy-soil conser- vation farm bill was given President Roosevelt Tuesday by leaders of the American Farm Bureau Federation as the plan was attacked and defended ‘on the senate floor. Edward A. O'Neal, president of the federation, and Earl C. Smith, pres!- dent of the Illinois Agriculture Asso- ciation, called on the president with Secretary Wallace. No changes were recommended by the federation lead- ers, A new farm bill was introduced in the senate by Republican Leader Mc- Nary providing for increased tariffs, Payments to farmers based on the domestic allotment plan and use of customs receipts to encourage produc- tion of new products to find new markets. The measure was offered “by re- quest.” McNary said George N. Peek, who resigned recently as the admin- istration export trade advisor, had drafted it. Shortly after its introduction, Sen- ator Hastings (Rep., Del.), attacked on the floor the Smith-Bankhead soil conservation-subsidy bill as a proposal to “control the farmers themselves and to give jobs to the thousands of Democrats who were emplyed under the AAA.” Demcratic Leader Robinson inter- rupted Hastings to assert the last Re- publican platform declared for con- trol of agricultural production and the pending AAA replacement bill came within the bounds of the su- preme court decision invalidating the adjustment act. PROMINENT BEACH DRUGGIST IS DEAD Dr. H. L. Rice, Former Game Commission Secretary, Succumbs to Disease (Special to The Tribune) Beach, N. D., Feb. 11—Dr. H. L. Rice, 60, prominent Beach druggist and forxmer member and secretary of the North Dakota Game and Fish commicsion, died here Sunday after an illness of a few weeks’ duration. The cause of death was erysipelas and complications. Dr. Rice for many years was cor- oner for Golden Valley county. Re- cently he had owned and operated a drug store here. ij Well-known throughout the state as a sportsman, Dr. Rice did much to further a program of city beauti- fication and was active in the estab- lishment of the city park system. He was @ charter member of the Beach Lions club and was also a member of the Masonic lodge. Funeral arrangements are incom- plete. He leaves his widow and two sons. Peter S. Neilson, assistant county attorney, said Tuesday one of the two policemen named by Myer Shuldberg as having offered to “tix” the case of Isadore Blumen- feld, charged with first degree murder, for $10,000 was known to the county attorney’s office. The officer, Neilson said, “is at the top.” Minneapolis, Feb. 11.—()—Meyer Shuldberg, president of a Minneapolis liquor concern, Tuesday charged two city policemen had offered “to fix the case of Isadore (Kid Cann) Blum- enfeld, on trial for the slaying of Walter Liggett, newspaper publisher, for $10,000.” Shuldberg is president of Cheasa- peake Brands, Inc., for which Blumen- feld, alias Kid Cann, is a salesman, The information, Shuldberg said, had been turned over to the county attorney's office. The county attor- ney’s office refused to discuss the matter. Shuldberg said two policemen. whom he refused to identify, came to his home Christmas day with “a proposi- tion.” Could Fix It. “They said they could fix it so Mrs, Liggett would change her identifica- tion of Kid Cann,” Shuldberg claimed, “if I would pay $10,000 to another party.” Shuldberg was a defense witness for Blumenfeld, who was ident on the stand by Mrs. Liggett as the ma- chine gun slayer of her husband the night of Dec. 9, last. This development came as the state had almost concluded cross examina- tion of the defendant. Blumenfeld re- iterated his denial of the slaying and his alibi of being in a barber shop a mile and a half from the scene when the crime was committed remained unshaken, Fred Pike, in charge of the case for the state, brought out that the de- fendant met Liggett in the hotel apartment of Mrs. Annette Fawcett, former wife of William Fawcett, mage azine publisher. Claimed Liggett Drunk The defendant claimed at that meeting that Liggett was “drunk and intoxicated” and had “made a pass” at him. The meeting, Kid Cann said, ended in a “friendly way” however. The state was balked by a court ruling in its attempt to show that Blumenfeld was connected with “other conditions of crime and vio- lence” during his admitted activity as & bootlegger in the prohibition era. Bluemfeld was on the stand testify- Pike and Thomas qi counsel for the defendant. “Who were some of the men en- gaged with you in _ bootlegging?” asked Pike on cross-examination, when McMeekin jumped to his feet and protested vigorously. Dismisses Jury District Judge Arthur W. Selover then dismissed the jury while counsel for both sides argued the point in question. “This defendant is charged with a very serious crime and it is apparent the sole purpose of this is to resurrect and dig up acts of the defendant years ago solely for the purpose of prejudiced this jury,” McMeekin said. After brief rebuttals from both sides, during which McMeekin assert ed he had no objections to the state going into every act and occupation of the defendant since his association with Chesapeake Brands, a liquor concern for which he was salesman, Judge Selover upheld the defense ob- Jections. Pike's first query, after the inter- ruption, was: “Without mentioning the names of other persons, will you state whether or not your operations in bootlegging were conducted by yourself alone or in company with other people?” “By myself,” the Kid answered. MEXICANS ABDUCT AMERICAN MINERS Consul Requests Troops Be Held Until Ransom Negotia- tions Are Completeu Etzatlan, Jalisco, Mexico, Feb. 11. (@)—A band of Mexican kidnapers fled into the mountains of northern Jalisco state Tuesday with two Amer- ican mining men, seized in @ surprise Jassault on the Ampara Mine com- pany office. The b-dits carried off Samuel O. Saneuss, assistant manager of the company, operators of the Mazata mine, and Paul W. Avery, an engineer. George H. Winter, American con- sul at Guadalajara, said he requested Mexican military authorities to with- hold troops from a pursuit of the bandits until ransom negotiations Jcould be undertaken.