The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 19, 1936, Page 1

(S| THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE 4 y The Weather FT tonight "phuradays net 90 fold. ESTABLISHED 1878 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1936 PRICE FIVE CENTS SLIGHTLY BUT STILL RANGES BELOW ZERO Schools Reopening and Rail- ways Send Plows to Clear Way for Coal Trains Montana Counts 10 Dead as Storm Aftermath; Missing N. D. Man Is Found Oldtimers who like to talk about TEMPERATURE IS UP] Feed Shorta ge Is Reported on Slope PARAGUAY’S EXILED HERO RETURNING 10 preumowia ccams woman! HEAD GOVERNMENT Veteran of Chaco War to Fly From Buenos Aires to Succeed Ayala the weather were saying less and less| Asuncion, Paraguay, Feb. 19.—(?)— Wednesday as the record-breaking| Paraguay’s exiled hero of the Chaco cold spell grew longer and longer. war, Col. Rafael Franco, turned Wednesday the old record of 33|/back to his homeland Wednesday, days with below zero temperatures| this time to assume the government had been exceeded by seven days the end was not yet in sight. forecast was for continued cold. and | power. The . The veteran soldier arranged to fly back from his seat of exile in Buenos Tuesday afternoon the thermometer | Aires to head a provisional regime, went +o 5 degrees below zero and resi- | Succeeding the civilian government dents of the Capital City hoped for a/Of Pres. Euseblo Ayala, which was break, but then the mercury\ started overthrown Monday by a swift mili- down again and the minimum during| ‘ary rebellion. the night was -26. The temperature The chiefs of the revolution, ex- of -5 late Tuesday was the highest |Pecting Franco's arrival, momentarily, recorded at the weather roan er said the new government would be since Feb. 3. . Almost Near Normal Conditions were almost back to nor- formed immediately, either as a mili- tary council or a concentration of po- Uiticial forces opposed to the Ayala regime which exiled Franco. mal Wednesday after a two-day siege} ol, Camilo Recalde, one of the during which high winds, intense | jeaders of the revolutionaries in Mon- cold and drifting snow conspired to, keep people indoors. The public school system was again day's fighting before loyal forces sur- rendered and President Ayala re- signed, said ‘9 military triumvirate operating in full swing after a com-| might take over the provisional con- plete shutdown Monday afternoon and the closing of grade schools all day Tuesday. Attendance at ine vari- ous buildings was said to be normal. &t. Mary’s parochial school was to re-open Thursday morning after hav- ing been closed since Monday noon. It has suffered greater losses in at- tendance, Rev. Father Robert A, Fee- han said,‘because it 1s the only Cath- * olic schoo! in the ctty and children come to it from longer distances than is true of the neighborhood public schocis. Railroad service had been or was had LOCAL SPORTSVN CHLLED TOPONDER ‘UHT OF BIRDS one Interested to Meeting Thursday Night The Northern Pacific had opened|7:45 p. m., Thursday at the American he said, it takes a snowplow all day to get only a few miles. H é Legion room in the World War Me- Now, however, the committee purchased a ton of corn from - Tuesday by James W. | Guthrie, president of the Burleigh County Chapter of the Izaak Walton league, who asked farmers to feed birds huddled near their buildings and who also sought money to help pay for the feed. Five Firemen Killed, 11 Injured at Blaze Columbus, O., Feb. 19.—(?)—Five firemen lost their lives and at least Fire-/ignited the gas escaping in tunnels Federal and State Agencies Move to Alleviate Threat to Livestock A serious shortage of feed for live- stock in southwestern North Dakota caused by the unusual heavy snow and blocked. roads, brought state and federal agencies into action Wednes- day in an attempt to alleviate the situation. Although O. W. Roberts, federal meteorologist, said the end of the most prolonged cold wave in the his- tory of the state was in sight with gradually warmer weather predicted, subzero temperatures continued. Receiving word of the plight of a number of farmers in southwestern Old Timers Have Less to Say As Cold Spell Continues HAUPTMANN'S DEATHILIFE INPRISONVENT |\\Welford Endorsed DATE IS FIXED FOR WEEK OF MARCH 30 Only Hope of Further Delay Lies in Second Reprieve, Re- garded as Unlikely GOVERNOR IN CONFERENCE Leibowitz Will Again Attempt to Penetrate Kidnap- Killer’s Silence Trenton, N. J., Feb. 19.—(?)}—Bruno WILL FACE RIVAL OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN Application for Second Bonus Proves Downfall of Man Arrested 17 Times HAS ASTONISHING RECORD North Dakota Convict May Be Jailed for Life as Habitual Criminal by U. S. Life imprisonment may face “Dr.” counties, Thedore Martell, state com-|Richard Hauptmann’s. electrocution |Frank S. Fowler, self-styled physi- missioner of agriculture and labor,| Was set Wednesday for the week of|cian, forger and Canadian war vet- and Howard Wood, federal resettle- {March 20. ment administration director for the| The warrant was signed by Su-|lect # bonus twice from the state for state, and representatives of the|preme Court -Justice Thomas W. eran, as result of an attempt to col- World War service, state officials farm credit administration and pro-|Trenchard as he sat in a chair in his|Claimed Wednesday. duction credit groups sought methods | sick room. of getting feed to thé farmers af- fected. To Make Feed Loans It was the third time an execution date has been set for the convicted murderer of Charles A. Lindbergh, ‘Wood obtained immegiate auth6ri-! jr, ‘The first date was the week of zation from regional résettlement au-| March 18 last, set on the night of thorities at Lincoln, Neb. to make| Feb, 13 by Justice Thomas W. feed loans to farmers in the territory,|Trenchard, within a few minutes of without delaying until farm plans had | his conviction. been completed. He said he has been informed clients of the Farm Credit adminis- Execution was automatically stayed when the defense appealed the case. Appeals failed and Justice Trenchard tration and of the various production | on Dec, 13 fixed the week of Jan. 12, credit groups would also extend emer- gency aid to farmers. “We are not’ so worried about ob- taining money for feed for Saved By Reprieve On Jan. 16, twenty-nine hours be- these | fore Hauptmann was to walk to the farmers, as we are with the problem |chair, Gov. Harold G. Hoffman an- getting the feed to them,” Wood|nounced he was reprieving Haupt- Wood explained that he learned through telephone conferences that roads were blocked generally, making it “virtually impossible” at the pres- mann until Feb. 15. Virtually his only hope of a further delay in the execution lies in a second ee evenacds tile ereen iene er” ely. Fowler, part Indian, whose tribe name is Frank White Eagle, early this month applied for a $350 bonus as a private in the Canadian army during the World War. Capt. H. A. Brocopp, recalling a similar application which had been paid on misrepresentations, began checking. He learned Fowler was a convict in the North Dakota state penitentiary, serving a year for forg- ery. Astonished, he referred the claim to Assistant! Attorney General Cc J. Austin, Austin began his check and an equally astonishing criminal record, attributed by authorities to Fowler hwas revealed, Arrested 17 Times Seventeen times, Austin claimed he learned, Fowler had been arrested or convicted of various offenses. Questioned at the state peniten- tiary, Fowler at first denied he was the same Fowler who received s $725 ent time to distribute feed from rail| The reprieve granted Jan. 16 Was) state bonus in 1932, while he was a. power on reef which might be uti- lized to open country roads for “both feed and fuel.” He state @ feed shortage existed in Slope, Bow- man, Adams and a small part Grant counties. SIX-BLOCK AREA IN UNIGA THREATENE BY GAS EXPLOSIONS 4,000 Kept Away From Offices as Men Work Frantically to Stifle Menace for the announced purpose of carry- tf Haupt i ssaege a ices, but. if, Hauptmann plices, nb ‘new evidences spparently has been developed to indicate elther that Hauptmann had no part in the crime, or that anyone else save hintself was involved. A short time before the warrant was signed it was learned the gover- nor and two defense figures had met in a Brooklyn conference which lasted from 8 o'clock Tuesday night until midnight. Heard in Halls The governor met Chief Defense Counsel C. Lloyd Fisher and Samuel 8 Leibowitz. Their discussion, it was reported, could be heard “all over the | hall” of the ‘hotel. The governor and Leibowitz, who Nas been asked to join the defense, were said to have disagreed over the manner in which further questioning of Hauptmann should proceed. Leibowitz, noted New York criminal lawyer, was represented as wanting direct action. The governor, the re-|is ports said, thought a milder approach would be more effective. Leibowitz tentatively planned to visit the condemned slayer again Wednesday afternoon in the (Continued on Page Two) Palmer Gets 12 Years For Cigaret Stealing Fargo, N. D, Feb. 19.—(?)—Hugh Palmer pleaded guilty and was sen- tenced to 12 years in a federal prison Utica, N.Y. Feb. 19—(P)—A new|here Tuesday for theft of $1,600 gas explosion sent flame spurting|worth of cigarets from boxcars at through a street in Utica’s deserted | Dawson, N. D., and other points along business district Wednesday, and Fire|the Northern Pacific railway. Sy eee omen Sullivan, seit these might be more. If there are, they will be less in-|shows Palmer is investigated Plosions which injured two men and] in 1932 and 1933 he was associated in caused hasty evacuation of the busi-|the liquor business with Mrs. Verne ae section Tuesday, Chief Sullivan) Miller, widow of the late notorious Bullivan refused* to let business houses open their doors, and National|the Minnesota Guardsmen gangster, at Huron, 8. D. Herman Janzen; now serving life in penitentiary for the and police ordered all|siaying of a school superintendent curiosity seekers out of the business}during » robbery at Hewitt, Minn., had named Paimer as his accomplice. In spite of their escape from the} Janzen also admitted his part in the last explosion, six telephone linemen |slaying of Don Lesmeister, Harvey, went back into their tunnel to find, {f possible, the small gas main which | was believed to have been responsible: Quench One Blaze Firemen early Wednesday succeeded in quenching an ‘ underground blaze that had raged nearly 24 hours, and utility company laborers plugged tem- porarily the five mains which had fed the flames. 3 But the menace of the gas remain- ed, and 4,000 persons were kept away from work in the danger zone. In addition to the gas peril was the danger of extensive damage from freezing water pipes and the possi- bility that another water main might burst und, _ 4 workman's pick, swung ‘n repair- ing a broken water line, was believed by police to have struck a spark that and sewers. Recks 15-Story Block Evidence of anvther explosion in- dicating that the underground :nen- ace may extend over a wider area than at first supposed, was discovered early Wedneeday. This blast, a bluck from the “busy corner,” was of sufficient strength to affect the foundation of the city’s tallest building, the 15-story First National Bank block. ‘The manager of the building from which all employees had been evacu- ated, returned to check conditions in the sub-basemert and found thou- sands of picces of crockery thrown from shelves to the floor, N. D., during an alcohol hijacking ard named Palmer as his accom- plice. Funeral Service Held For Dr. Helena Wink, Jamestown, N. D., Feb. 19.—(P}— Wednesday morning Jamestown peo- ple, old and young, paid tribute to Dr. Helena Knauf Wink, who since 1883 has cared for the ills of the peo- ple of this community. Funeral ser- vices were held at 10 o'clock at St. James Catholic church. conyict in the Atlanta, Ge., federal penitentiary. He. denied..ever having served time in any of the, penitentiaries, other than that at Atlanta, then finally ad- mitted he received the bonus in 1932, and that the criminal record was correct. Under federal laws, Austin said, a “three-time” offender may be com- mitted as an habitual criminal to a Ufe term in federal penitentiary. Detainer Placed on Him With revelation of Fowler's latest attempt, Austin said, federal officials have placed a detainer on him as a parole violator. Austin said he would action be taken by the U. 8. district attorney's office to commit Fowler as an habitual offender. “Fowler's record reveals he first was convicted of being absent with- out leave, larceny. and unlawful dis- posal of property while he was in the United States: army in 1916,” Austin said. “The remainder of his record forgery, charges of false pretenses, passing worthless checks, imperson- ating a government officer, and using the mails t6 defraud. Obtained $725 Bonus “His latest attempt to collect a sec- ond bonus, swearing he never before obtained a bonus, when he had in fact obtained a $725 bonus, by mis- representing his length of service, and. claiming the rank of captain, is in Ine with his criminal record. 1 recommend he be committed as an of ical school in 1913-16, Austin said he had been informed by authorities there that the medical school of the university was not organized until 1926. Wheat Exporters Get Indemnity for Losses Washington, Feb. 19.—(?)—Comp- jtroller Genera! McCarl Tuesday ap- proved a $450.000 expenditure under the agricultural adjustment act to indemnify exporters for losses incur- red in flour shipments to the Phillp- pines from the Pacific northwest. Secretary Wallace had explained that the northwest millers had virtu- ally lost the Philippine market be- cause they could not compete with foreign exporters while paying domes- tic prices for wheat for milling oper- ‘ations. It was estimated that about 1,500,000 bushels of wheat could be ex- ported, with an indemnity of not to ‘exceed 35 cents @ bushel. Doctor Stands Cut Off Crane Lowell, Mass., Feb. 19.—(#)—A sur- geon, standing on the swaying tip of an extension ladder, performed an amputation Wednesday on John Mc- Coy, Lowell Gas Light company worker, whose arm was jammed be- tween the control cab of a traveling ¢rane and a steel girder 50 feet above the ground, He was conscious throughout the operation, Dr, N, Gillmor Long, the surgeon said. He was in a critical condition at @ hospital: ‘McQoy was operating the traveling on Ladder to): Worker’s Arm crane when it jumped its track, 80 feet above the ground. The car fell 20 feet to a steel girder. McCoy was thrown out and his arm was caught between the car and the girder as he fell. He swung by the jammed arm for ar: hour, while workmen and firemen tried to free him. Dr. Long climbed a fire department extension ladder and amputated Mc- Coy’s arm st the shoulder after at- tempts to pry the worker from the wreck failed. : By Lynn J. Frazie Senior Senator Sees Governor’s A Nomination as Best Way to Insure Peace SAYS HE HAS DONE WELL ! Qutlines Views in Letter to Sal- isbury, Benson County League Leader Minnewaukan, N. D., Feb. 19.—(7)— Indorsement of the gubernatorial can- didacy of Gbvernor Welford by Lynn J. Frazier, North Dakota's senior ‘United States senator, was claimed Wednesday by Bert Salisbury of Min- newaukan, former state highway com- missioner. Salisbury, who is prominent Benson county Nonpartisan League and Farm Holiday association circles, said he had received a letter from Senator Frazier in which the latter stated that “Welford heading the ticket would mean’ practically a united front of the progressive forces of the state for the coming campaign.” Senator Frazier’s letter, made pub- le by Salisbury, follows: “I have been thinking a good deal about the political situation in North Dakota and know that the Nonpar- tisan League convention will soon be held. It is to be hoped that our Pro- gressive forces can get together this year and indorse candidates that will unite our forces. “Judging from reports that come to me it would appear that Acting Gov- ernor Walter Welford has made a pretty good record. I know it is a hard post to fill, especially in these hard times, but I believe he has done the best he could. He probably has made some mistakes but that is only in “It also seems to me that Welford. heading the ticket would mean prac- tically @ united front of the Progres- sive forces of the state for the com- ing campaign. I hope that your coun- ty will send a good, substantial set of delegates to the state convention.” EFFORT 70 INSURE BASEBALL FOR CITY IS ANNOUNCED HERE Association of Commerce to Sponsor Three-Year Plan; Will Sell Stock Appointment of a committee to take over the job of giving Bismarck a baseball team this year was an- shall |ounced Wednesday by the Bismarck Association of Commerce. Members of the committee are J. P. Wagner, chairman; H. P. Goddard, secretary,, and George F. Shafer, Action was taken following the ap- pearance before the association direc- tors of Fred Peterson and W. 8. Ayers at a meeting in January. Monday the committee met with Peterson, Ayers and John A. Larson and outlined a three-year program for baseball in Bismarck which will be Presented to the public for its en- dorsement and support in the near future, The plan is to sell $5,000 of stock in the Bismarck Baseball association, subscribers to be given the option of paying one half on April 1, 1936, one fourth on April 1, 1937 and one fourth on April 1, 1938. Mohn Organization Permission to sell the stock will be asked of the state securities commis- sion and as soon as this is granted the work of seliing it will start. Unti the stock is sold and the association is formally organized its affairs will be in the hands of the Association of Commerce committee. At the meeting Monday Walter “Babe” Mohn was named temporary manager and asked to undertake the detailed work of assembling a team, begin the booking of games and mak- ing other preliminary arrangements. e CELE cae a seni venEn enor beng Helena Bishop | oO REV. JOSEPH M. GILMORE ees SMELTER WORKER'S SON ENTHRONED AS BISHOP OF MONTANA Rev. Joseph M. Gilmore First Priest of Western State to Win Elevation Helena, Mont. Feb. 19.—(P)—A smelter foreman’s son from the “side- walks of New York” was enthroned here Wecnesday as bishop of the Helena diocese of the Catholic church. From the ponderous peaks, ramb- ling rangelands, the forests and In- dian reservations along the contin- ental divide came Catholics and non- Catholics to see the very Rev. Joseph M. Gilmore consecrated as the fifth head of the diocese Father Peter De Smet and other valiant pioneer mis- sionaries helped to carve out of the wilderness. Three archbishops, 19 bishops, 11 monsignori and over 200 priests par- ticipated in the two and a half hour service at which the Irish priest was elevated to the bishopric—the first time the church ever conferred the high honor on a Montana priest. Parents See Consecration From a front pew in capacious 8t. Helena’s cathedral, Mr. and Mrs. John J. Gilmore of Butte, Mont., saw their son consecrated by the Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicog- nani, of Washington, Apostolic dele- gate, with Bishops Joseph F. Mc- Grath, of Baker City, Ore., and Edwin V. O'Hara, of Great Falls, Mont., as co-consecrators. Bishop Gilmore succeeds Bishop Ralph Leo Hayes, of Pittsburgh, Pa., who was transferred to Rome last October as rector of the North Am- erican college. Bishop Gilmore was born March 22, 1893 in New York City, the son of John J. and Mary Hanrahan Gilmore. The family moved to Anaconda, Montana, when he was five yéars old. His father took a position as an ore smelter foreman and remained in the mining business for years. Freighter Abandoned After Daring Rescue New York, Feb. 19.—(#)—Coast guard craft searched the wintry North Atlantic Wednesday for a dere- lict Greek freighter—adrift and a menace to shipping—after its crew of 33 was taken off in a dramatic rescue by the City of Newport News. ‘The Newport News, commanded by Capt. Robert H. Wright, accomplished the rescue in heavy seas late Wednes- day about 500 miles off the Virginia Among players who have appeared | coast, with the Bismarck team in the past and to whom contracts will be sent this year are Satchel Paige, Radcliffe, Haley, Desiderato, Morlan and Mossman, stars on last year’s national championship semi- professional team. Local players also will be given ar opportunity to try out for the ciub. The aim, members of the committee said, is to insure the continuation of high-class baseball for Bismarck and the movement is being launched now that nearby cities interested in base- ball may be assured that Sismarcz will have a teain in the field. FACES CHECK CHARGE Aberdeen, 8. D., Feb. 9.—(7)—A bad check charge Wednesday confronted L. Holton of Fargo, N. D., brought here after his arrest in a snowbound bus Tuesday at ‘Webster. The Greek ship was abandoned. Consolidated School Cage Meets Postponed Des Lacs, N. D., Feb. 19.—(P}—All basketball tournaments of the Con-|, soldated High School league of North Dakota have been postponed, I. E. Solberg, secretary, announced Wed- nesday. County tourneys originally were scheduled to be played at many points this week-end. The state tour- ney will be held at Carrington March 20 and 21, Solberg said. HALSTAD LEADER DIES Halstad, Minn.,' Feb. 19.—(®)— Christen L. Sulerud, 70, business man, farmer and public servant, died Tues- “day in his home, Kid Cann Acquitted of Liggett Killing JURY DELIBERATES ONLY 90 MINUTES | TO RACH VERDICT Minneapolis, Feb. 19.—(?)—Promise of “appropriate action” if any fur- ther angles are uncovered in the slay- ing of Walter W. Liggett, Minneapolis publisher, came Wednesday from H. r Olson Announces State Will Push Hunt for Assassins of Crusading Editor WIDOW LEAVING MILL CITY ‘If | Went on With Paper, I'd Be Killed,’ Penniless Mother Declares Minneapolis, Feb. 19.—()—Mrs. Walter Liggett, widow of the as- sassinated newspaper publisher. Wednesday disclosed what she claimed was an attempt on her life in the early stages of Isadore (Kid Cann) Blumenfeld’s trial, which ended in his acquittal. The attempt was made Jan. 29, last, when unidentified persons in an automobile tried to'run her down aan crossed a street near her office. . H. Peterson, state attorney general. A day after Isadore (Kid Cann) Blu- menfeld was acquitted in the case. Another aftermath of the verdict freeing Blumenfeld was announce- ment by the publisher's widow she planned to leave the state, fearing for her life if she continued his crusading Midwest American. In the weekly publication Liggett had attacked vari- ous city and state officials and alleged vice and crime condi z county grand jury indict- ment is ended,” the attorney “It the ‘state or local officials three and one-half hours, but deliber- ated only 90 minutes before taking time out for dinner, Informed of the verdict, Gov. Floyd B. Olson said every available state agency would be used in an effort to locate the slayers of the publisher, who was killed the night of last Dec. 9, as he stepped from ap automobile t the rear of his apartment. : Responsibility for pursuit of the in- vestigation was delegated the state attorney general's office by County Attorney Ed J. Goff. ‘State Has Not Rested’ Governor Olson, who frequently was the target of editorial attacks by Lig- (Continued on Page Two) EXPENSE ACCOUNTS OF STATE WORKERS ARE BEING AUDITED Welford Orders Investigation to Set at Rest Rumors of Ex- cess Charges Governor Welford Wednesday an- nounced he has ordered an investiga- . filed by That, however, does not mileage, railroad fare or other similar expense ve ¥