The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 12, 1936, Page 1

M THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE (-22:- come te ae ae ; } ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1936 PRICE FIVE CENTS { a Bismarck Building Damaged by Fire Continued Cold Ties All-Time Bismarck Record dst runs se conte — - | POR 33 SUCCESSIVE ME NORRIS LAUNCHES ELECTION, BANQUET + 16 toY Backer Dies ||) son Shies. Away oe ay ae | DAYS MERCURY HAS | aaa FIGHT FOR LATEST | BRINGLUMBERMEN’S “|| From N.D. Politics — SINK BELOW ZERO FARM AID MEASURE) CONVENTION T0 END genet George F. Shafer Delivers Lin- Reade-McGillis Frame Structure Believed Beyond Repair After Noonday Blaze Scores Supreme Court as ‘Con- ; i Frigid Spell Registered in Win- ter of 1887-1888 Was Also 33 Days Long -44 RECORDED AT TOWNER Bismarck Man Carries Fuel to Watford City CCC Camp to Avert Shortage Bismarck Wednesday had tied the all-time record for continued cold in the 62-year history of the federal weather bureau here and Observer O. W. Roberts said he is confident a new mark will] have been established ty Thursday. For 33 successive days temperatures below zero have been recorded here, this equalling the former mark es- tablished from Dec. 24, 1887 to Janu- ary 26, 1888, Only once during the last 33 days has‘ the thermometer showed above zero, but it also got above sero on one or two occasions during the cold spell of 48 years ago, Roberts said. The comparisons, he explained, are of minimum temperatures. If the thermometer reads below zero Thursday, and Roberts is confi- dent that it will, a new mark will have been established and every suc- ceeding day that the cold continues will increase the record for succeding years to shoot at. Towner Is Coldest The coldest place in North Dakota ‘Wednesday was Towner, in Pierce county, with a reading of -44, the lowest ever recorded there in Febru- ary since the weather bureau's sub- station was established in 1892. Absense of wind, however, made the temperature seem comparatively mila in Bismarck, and no suffering was Despite the lohg-continued cold no suffering or serious lack of fuel has been reported anywhere in the state A coal shortage loomed at the CCC camp in Watford City, according -o advices reaching Fort Lincoln, and the camp commander was instructed not to heat any more buildings than necessary. The camp is in an area where small mines are plentiful and there are millions of tons of fuel near the surface 0” the ground, but snow- blocked roads made it difficult to get coal to the camp. It has been possible to reach Watford City, at all times. Fort Lincoln was advised, but a coal! shortage has existed there, too. The situation was improved there Monday night when Robert George. camp superintendent and son of Mr. and Mrs. John L. George of Bismarck arrived from Dickinson with two truck loads of briquettes. George left Bis- marck at 1 p. m., Monday and arrived at the camp at 10 p. m., making the trip from Dickinson to Watford City behind a snow plow. Men at the weather bureau laughec at accusations by their friends that they had forgotten to predict any- thing except “continued cold” saying that was the way it looked and they couldn’t change it. ‘The traffic-tangling white blanket deepened from Montana to Ohio as Canada’s ice-lined Mackenzie river basis tipped new chill down the Rocky (Continued on Page Two) S. D. Farmer Is Held For $2,000 Extortion Aberdeen, 8. D., Feb, 12.—()—Mike Gauer, 31, farmer of Edmunds county, was in jail Wednesday awaiting ar- raignment on a charge he tried to extort $2,000 on a death threat from R. R. Buikema, Ipswich farmer. A confession attributed to Gauer by Werner Hanni, department of jus- the prisoner tice chief here, said sought the money to pay for an oper- ation to “remove the snake from my stomach.” The statement revived Gauer’s story of several years ago that he had swal- lowed a snake which crept into his mouth as he slept in a harvest field. ‘Confused State of Union,’ Hoover Topic Portland, Ore., Feb. 12.—()—Her- bert Hoover rode into Oregon Wed- nesday, bearing a Lincoln day mes- sage on “The Confused State of the Union.” Returning to a state he once called home, the former president will be the principal speaker at & Lincoln anniversary banquet Wednes- day night. In announcing the title of his ad- dress he said he intended to reply to President Roosevelt's recent message to congress. The 30-minute address wilt be broadcast over a nationwide) radio network (NBC) at 9 p. m. cen- tral standard time. Lehigh Miner Killed As Coal Falls on Him Dickinson, N. D., Feb, 12.—(#)—Vic- tim of an accident which occurred at the Lehigh Briquetting plant, George Brabec, 23, died of a fractured skull in a local hospital. Brabec was at the bottom of a two-cage elevator shaft when a falling piece of coal landed on his head and crushed the skull. He is survived by his parents. HOOVER DENES THAT JOHN DILLNGER WAS DELIBERATELY SLAIN Shot Down by G-Men After He Had Deawn Gun, Federal Chief at Last Discloses Chicago, Feb. 12—()—A denial that John Dillinger, Indiana desperado, was ambushed and deliberately exe- cuted came Wednesday from J. Edgar Hoover, director of the department of justice federal agents. Hoover declared that when the long sought gang leader was killed outside the Biograph theatre here in July, 1934, it was because Dillinger drew a gun as federal agents and police ap- proached. | ieee ‘The chiét of the federaFagetits gave this official version of” Dillinger’s death in a letter to Charles de Lacy, editor of “Police 13-13,” a trade journ- al distributed to police. Hoover added that it was federal agents—unnamed —who fired the shots that killed the desperado, dispelling reports that the deed was done by Sgt. Martin Zarko- vitch, East Chicago, Ind., detective. Hoover's letter also scouted the theory that Dillinger was captured dead, rather than alive, as a matter of revenge. There was no “shoot to kill” policy of the department in the Dillinger hunt, Hoover asserted. NAZI PERSECUTION OF CATHOLICS HIT BY HITLER'S ORGAN Undisclosed Number of Persons Arrested by Secret Police in Germany i Berlin, Feb. 12—()—The official organ of Adolf Hitler's black - shirt guards, Das Schwarze Korps, issued a sharp challenge Wednesday to charges that the Catholic church in Germany was being persecuted. The fact that the “Catholic church feels itself menaced and persecuted in National Socialist Germany” can be clearly seen in sermons and pas- toral letters, the publication said. In reality, the organ asserted, It was the old story, as “old as the church itself,” which Das Schwarze AE gE RE it. Barber Injured as Customer Achoos | occupant was unin- but Baker was carried home suffering from three broken ribs. tinuous Constitutional Convention’ LAUDS CONSERVATION BILL Borah and Knox to Contest for Republican Delegation From Illinois Washington, Feb. 12—(7)—Senator Norris (Rep., Neb.) declared Wednes- day the supreme court is “for all practical purposes a continuous con- stitutional convention” and added its ‘Taking the floor to defend the ad- ministration’s new farm » the Republican independent made the first speech of the day in the debate that but that it undoubtedly was “the greatest gift since God made salva- tion free.” Conservation Only Hope He said the soil conservation-crop control program may be declared un- constitutional “under existing court conditions,” but that it was “the only Referring to the courts opinion that congress had no power to regulate agriculture production, he said if that decision stood “then a large portion of the laws congress passed in the last 100 years are absolutely unconstitu- tional.” In this group of laws the Nebraskan. listed relief for drouth, the jobless, insect control and even the creation of the bureau of reclamation and the department of agriculture. At the outset the Nebraskan assert- ed that the members of the senate agriculture committee which framed the bill believe that “If it is possible to get something out of the chaos, this bill will do it.” Defends Committee The independent Republican told the senate he had listened “with re- gret and pain” to criticism of com- mittee members for sending the bill to the floor. 3 “I have never known a more honest energetic effort to meet a situation of gravity than was shown by the com- mittee of agriculture on this bill.” With delate on the measure to be limited to bring a vote by Friday night, Norris opened the day’s dis- cussion after the bill had been amended to incorporate authoriza- tion for spending $500,000,000 to ef- fectuate its aims of soil conservation and production control through ulti- mate cooperation with the states. Political Cannons Roar The debate opened as the political picture was further developed by cann on all fronts, the occa- sion being observances of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday anniversary. Republicans seized upon it to make unfavorable comparisons between President Roosevelt and his predeces- sor in office, whereas the Democrats (Continued on Page Two) SHIP RACING DEATH ABOARD NAVY CRAFT Destroyer Racing Doctors to Training Ship Under Fear of Dread Epidemic Balboa, Canal Zone, Feb. 12.—(7}— The United States navy destroyer Tatnall raced into the Pacific Wed- to the ship California State which appealed for assistance against an outbreak of itis, by gE 5 | | g Hi bottom. The present supply of city officials said, will last not than a few days. coin Day Address at Final Business Session DELEGATES VISIT CAPITOL Work Toward Reduced Cost in Home Construction, Speak- er Advises Builders Delegates turned their attention to the election of state officers here Wednesday afternoon as the two-day convention of the North Dakota Re- tail Lumbermen’s convention drew to @ close. The annual salesmen’s banquet to be given in the Silver Ball Room of the Patterson hotel tonight will wind up the entertainment program. Election of officers and the business session were to have been held Wednesday afternoon, preceding @ Lincoln Day address by George F. Shafer, former governor of North Da- kota; and an open discussion on “What I Learned About the Lumber Business in 1935.” The lumbermen visited the state capitol building in the morning pre- paratory to taking part in a luncheon served in the Memorial building by the local lumber dealers and the As- sociation of Commerce. The luncheon was served in cafe- teria style, the guests taking their plates from the kitchen to the lower gymnasium where they ate at lang tables. More than 400 were served. The banquet tonight is listed by the committee in charge as something extra special with “blue points on the half shell,” imported from the Atlan- tic coast, as the first course and other items to match. It will be served in the Patterson Silver ballroom. Plates for 600 have been ordered. ~~" entertained at Smoker Despite snow-blocked roads hund- reds of visitors were on hand Tues- day night for the smoker, first enter- tainment feature of the meeting, which was held in the lower gym- nasium of the World War Memorial building. Chief among the entertain- ment features was a series of boxing bouts between local mitt-slingers. Opening the convention Tuesday afternoon, President J. L. Odette of Minot called attention to the tremend- ous market for new farm buildings, remodeling and repairing which exists: in North Dakota and urged lumber- men to be ready to meet it when in- creased buying power makes it effec- tive. R. W. Bellis of Minneapolis said the greatest duty of the lumber in- dustry is to work toward reduced cost and increased value of homes and farm buildings. He asserted that ap- proximately 75 per cent of the people cannot afford to own their own homes unless the cost is less than $2,000. Hopes for FHA Continuation The federal housing act was ex- jplained by W. Ray Reichert, state director of the FHA, who said he “hoped and believed” that title one of the national housing act, dealing with governmental modernization loans to home owners, would be con- tinued Gptiaial heag ela April 1, the resent ex! 5 en new system of home financing, up to 15 years, he said, has been de- vised under title two of the act, elim- inating the “grief” which existed un- der the old system of short-term home of three to five years. W. H. Martin, of the Northwest Re- tail Coal association, Minneapolis, pointed to the need of carrying an adequate stock of coal to be able to take care of consumers during ex- First Bank Stock’s Dividend Increased Wednesday dividend of 20 cents # share, an in- crease of five cents over the last di- vidend of Oct. 1, 1935. The new dividend is payable April 1 to stockholders of record March 20. ‘The directors Tuesday re-elected C. T. Jaffray president and Richard C. Lilly and Lyman E, Wakefield vice presidents. SURY STILL OUT Minneapolis, Feb. 12. — (#) — The fury in the Carl H. Predlund trial on Monte Ne, Ark., Feb. 12.—(?)— William Hope (Coin) Harvey, 85, economist and politician who drafted the Democratic party's famous “16 to 1” free silver plat- form plank before the turn of the century, is dead. Stricken with peritonitis following intestinal in- fluenza, the veteran champion of bi-metalism, foe of modern fi- nance and one-time presidential candidate of the Liberty Party succumbed Tuesday night at his Ozark Mountain home here. MRS.LIGGETT SAYS. “SHE WAS WARNED OF BRIBERY PLAN Told Minnesota Attorney Gen- eral of Purported Offers to ‘Fix’ Cann Case Minneapolis, Feb. 12—(#)—Mrs. Walter Liggett Wednesday declared in an interview she had been told by friends that an offer had been made to “fix” the case of Isadore (Kid Cann) Blumenfield, being tried on & murder charge in the assassination of her publisher-husband. The widow said she immediately told Hary H. Peterson, attorney general for Minnesota, of the purported of- fer made to Kid Cann’s friends by & third* party. The unidentified person, Mrs. Lig- gett said she was told, offered to take the stand in Kid Cann’s trial and dis- credit her identification of him as her husband's slayer the night of Dec. 9, last. | For $5,000, Mrs. Liggett explained, the third person would swear he talk- \ed with her immediately after the killing and quote her as saying she “didn’t know whether she saw Cann in the Liggett death car or not.” And More For $10,000 If $10,000 was paid, Mrs. Liggett said she was informed, the third person “would see to it that neither Mrs. Liggett nor Wesley Andersch would positively identify Cann as the killer in the trial.” Andersch, 36, a mechanic, claimed to have seen the crime and identified ‘Mrs. Liggett’s disclosure came after | Meyer Shuldberg, president of Cheas- iapeake Brands, Inc., liquor concern | for which the Kid is # salesman, testi- fied before the grand jury Tuesday that two men “representing” them- selves as policemen, had offered to “fix” the Kid Cann case. The “fixing,” Shuldberg said the two men told him, would be done by (Continued on Page Two) Mother Leaves Baby To Visit; Blaze Fatal Miles City, Mont., Feb. 12—(7}— Trapped in her burning home, Pa- tricia George, 2-year-old daughter of Robert George, Custer county treas- urer, died either from suffocation or burns Tuesday. The girl was alone in the house while the mother visited @ neighbor. Five-Floor Jumping Monk Has Medical School Jittery Boston, Feb. 12—(7)—A monkey which thinks nothing of leaping from & fifth-floor window to the ground gave Harvard medical school profes- sors and students the “jitters” Wed- Tuesday from the fifth escaped y He floor of the school. Pursurers he had landed safely five floors be- monkey get shape sien beste stale, Witt Sot slept for 90 climbing drainpipes. Later a posse organized by Dr. Carl W. Walters, head of the school’s surgery depart- purposes. sent back the minute we the doctor, who has hours, ernment; Refused to Bind Himself to Anyone Former Gov. Ole H. Olson Wednes- day apparently had removed himself from the political picture as a candi- date for public office this year. In a statement at Fargo he said he is “interested only in clean govern- ment.” He said he is opposed to the suggest- ed candidacy of William Langer for governor but refused to “bind him- self” to any candidate. Olson, who took over the duties of governor upon the removal of Langer by the supreme court in 1934, has been urged by various groups of friends to become a gubernatorial candidate this year. There has been considerable talk of his entering the Democratic primary as a pro-Roosevelt candidate, supporting the administration farm program. Others would have had him enter the Republican primary. Grateful For Backing In some sections of the state Olson- For-Governor clubs long have been active in their advocacy of his becom- ing a candidate. Olson expressed gratitude to his friends who have advanced him as a candidate, but “No, No, that can’t be,” he said. “Farming may not be so good right now, maybe, but that’s where I'm going to stay. I'l get by and I'm not discontented. Langer, he said, “will never be gov- ernor.” He will throw whatever weight he may have against Langer at any time, he pledged. Asks Question “I don’t want to mix myself up in this right now,” he said, “but if Lan- ger controls the Nonpartisan League convention March 3, and if those in the league who now think as I have thought for several years will come to me and admit that the Valley City Teague convention. in. March, 1934, was wrong—that they made a mis- take, I am ready to go into any sort of an open convention and deal with them.” He said he was ready to consult with the circle around Gov. Walter Welford—“and anyone else who feels as I do that Langer must not again governor’—in any open conven- Olson has several times been ap- Proached on one “deal” or another with respect to the forthcoming con- ventions and campaigns, he revealed. Wants Honesty “I don’t want to make any ‘deals,’ ’ he said. “I don’t want to be bound to this group or that group. I'm tired of being told that we must ‘preserve the Nonpartisan League organization. that is all well and good, but I am not for preserving anything unless it carries with it the absolute assur- ance of honesty and right doing. Clean government is more importan: than any party or factional ideas. “My position is pretty clear in my own mind. I might want to get into the fight if Langer is endorsed. If | Welford should be endorsed by the league convention I do not see why I should bind myself or ask anyone else to bind himself to one candidate or another. I do not want to get into it. “As between Langer and Welford of course—well the choice there 1s clear. My stand on Langer hasn't changed. Nothing is going to change it” CCC BOY DIES FROM RUPTURED APPENDIX Drifted Roads Prevent Friends From Taking Him to Hos- pital Until Too Late Minot, N. D., Feb. 12.—()—Palmer Sevde, 22-year-old Minot youth, died of peritonitis Tuesday in @ hospital here where he had been brought by CCC buddies Monday evening after a 25-mile drive over snow-filled roads in a camp truck. Stricken by appendicitis late last week at the Foxholm camp, No. 1769, the camp doctor administered aid in so far as possible, but drifted roads Prevented bringing the youth to a ital. Sevde’s condition became worse Monday, and a detachment of boys and the physician pushed their way through snow with the thermometer at 30 degrees below zero, bringing him here in the evening. The appendix had burst, however, doctors said, and fan operation did not save him. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Sevde of Minot. A brother, Jerome, is employed in Grand Forks, and three sisters, Hazel, Bernice and ‘Mildred, live in Minot. Funeral serv- ices were held here Wednesday. Pope Pius Celebrates Ascension to Throne Vatican City, Feb. 12—(}—Pope Pius celebrated the 14th anniversary of his coronation Wednesday by at- tending a pontifical mass in the Sis- tine chapel. The entire papal suite, including members of the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See, crowded the chapel imony, for the cere- c VERNER R. LOVELL, PIONEER ATTORNEY, IS DEAD AT FARGO Fomer Mayor and Recent U. S. Bankruptcy Referee Dies of Heart Disease Fargo, N. D., Feb, 12.—(#)—Verner R. Lovell, 73, prominent Fargo attor- ney, mayor of the ctiy in 1911 and 1912, died here Wednesday from heart disease. Born at Hastings, Minn., May 8, 1863, he later moved to Iowa, gradu- ating from the University of Iowa in 1886. That year he came to Fargo and began the study of law, being ad- mitted to the bar in 1888. For some years he resided at Casselton, serving as mayor and in other official ca- pacities. In 1898 he came to Fargo, founding one of the city’s, important law firms. He was named federal referee in bankruptcy for this district in 1926 and was serving in that capacity at the time of his death. He was long active as one of the leading Democrats of North Dakota. In 1894 he married Miss Bertha F. Taylor, a native of Ohio, and three children were born to them. They are Virginia Lois, Mrs. W. R. Hag- gart of Fargo, Doris, Mrs. Gordon 8. Mayo, Kansas City, and Lieut. Royal Lovell of the United States navy. Mrs. tavelt is residing at the family home ere, Lieutenant Lovell is stationed at San Diego, but it is believed he may be somewhere at sea with his ship. Funeral arrangements will be delayed pending word from him. Mr. Lovell was & member of various Masonic bodies, the Elks and Knights of Pythias. New Trial Is Ordered For Convicted Slayer Cheyenne, Wyo., Feb. 12.—()—The state supreme court Tuesday ordered @ new trial for James Vines, whom lower court convicted and sentenc- ed to hanging for the murder of Louis J. Schiller, aged recluse, the night of Sept. 14, 1933. Vines was to have been the last man in Wyoming to die on the gal- lows since the last legislature sub- stituted the lethal gas chamber for hanging. He was convicted in April, 1934, The supreme court held testimony of an alleged accomplice was “dis- credited by almost every means known to law.” Minneapolis Woman Died From Exposure Minneapolis, Feb. 12.—(?)—Miss Florence Cogswell, 30, whose body was found in a park near her home Tues- day, died from exposure, Dr. Gilbert Seashore, county coroner, announced. Authorities had at first feared foul play. They questioned and released @ man with whom she had attended night school classes and spent part of the evening. Puneral services for the former teacher in Cavalier, N. D., will take place Thursday. Abe Heard Better Oaths in Cabinet Mercer, Pa. Feb, 12.—(7)— George A. Hamilton, 91, recalled Wednesday his favorite story of President Lincoln and the days of the war between the states, in which he fought, Four mules drawing the presi- dent's carriage plunged into a mudhole, Hamilton said, and the army driver released a flow of profanity that ceased only when the carriage reached dry ground. “I never heard better, except from one of my cabinet mem- bers,” Hamilton quoted Lincoln as saying. THREE OTHER PLACES HIT Firemen Almost Blinded as Frost Forms on Eyelashes During Subzero Weather Eight Bismarck families were driven into the street in subzero temperature Wednesday when fire seriously dam= aged the Reade-McGillis building, a three-story frame structure at 120 Sixth St. ’ In addition, three business places were seriously damaged by smoke and water. They were William Brown's IGA grocery store at the corner of Sixth St. and Broadway; Bert Nis cola’s poolroom and beer parlor and Charlie Wong's coffee shop. The fire started about 11:50 a. m. in one of the apartments on the north side of the building and spread rap- in through the old wooden struc- ure. It crept between the joists and par- titions and firemen had great diffi- culty in extinguishing it. All fami- lies living in the apartments lost their household goods and some per- sonal effects, Families Suffer The families driven from thei? homes were the Craig, Zeisler, War- ner and Dan -Kuehn families, living in the north half, owned by D. J, McGillis, and those of Walter Jenkins, - Mrs. Stella Way, Albert Hintz and Mrs. Esther Todd, living in the south half, owned by H. L, Reade, Damage to the building and con- tents could not immediately be ascer- tained but is expected to be consid- erable. Whether or not the building will be worth repairing will be determined by an examination. It is one of the old- est business structures in Bismarck, having been erected in 1883 by Pat Malloy, who later became the owner of the north side of the structure and. operated ® feed store there. I. P. Hunt and H. P. Foster owned the south half and ran a grocery store. Later Reade bought the south half and McGillis the north half. Firemen Hand! Low temperatures handicapped the firemen, just as they did when they were called out to fight the blaze which destroyed the Dacotah Seed company’s office and warehouse at Main Avenue and Ninth St., early Sunday morn- ing, although the cold was not quite so intense, Frost formed on the eyelashes of the firemen as they directed four streams of water into the burning structure, making it difficult for them to see. The fire was halted before it could reach the Wong and Nicola estab- lishments on the ground floor but they were flooded with water pour- ing down from above. The Brown grocery, adjoining the building on the north, also was damaged by smoke and water. D. J. McGillis, one of the owners, is the father-in-law of Fire Com- missioner H. T. Perry, who assisted Fire Chief Ryder Hamro in directing the work of fighting the blaze. FDR SIGNS BILL 70 TOPAY UP ALL AAA CONTRACT SIGNERS President Sharpens Economy Axe as He Hunts for Ways to Curtail Spending Washington, Feb. 12.—(?)}—Critics and defenders of present government, spending eagerly awaited Wednesday the results of a threeway search of fiscal ledgers ordered by President Roosevelt, The chief executive said Tuesday night he had directed Daniel Bell, acting budget director, to conduct a triple quest for possible places to cur- tail spending. The purpose, he said, was to deter- mine what cuts can be made in (1) appropriations or authorizations that affect the public debt; (2) appropria- tions affecting next year’s budget; (3) authorizations for government bor- rowing and lending. Officials studying the subject talk~ ed of limiting the tax bill to $50,000,~ 000 this year. The president signed Tuesday night deficiency appropriation bill carry~ ing $296,000,000 to pay farmers for crop control contracts carried out prior to AAA’s death. Checks will go out this week, officials said. In the face of opposition from some Republicans and Democrats, senate leaders were pushing Wednesday for @ vote by Friday night on the new farm bill. The senate adopted Tues- day an amendment by Senator Byrnes (Dem., 8. C.), authorizing a $500,000, 000 appropriation to finance the plan. No method of raising the money is specified. Oakland, Calif, Feb. Nancy Lee Vogt, Oakland’s celebrated 15 ounce “mite baby” was reported ‘Wednesday by physicians to be prue gressing “nicely” toward normal de- velopment, Ny \