The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 24, 1936, Page 1

ESTASLISHED 1878 | Flo a B® 23 YEARS FOR DEED Trembling Hulk of Man Hears Jury Find Him Guilty on 10 Counts DAUGHTERS IN COURTROOM District Attorney Declares That Underworld Chief Armed, 4 Financed Raid Minneapolis, March 24.—(7)—Tom- my Touhy, convicted mail robber, F was sentenced to 23 years in Leaven- be worth penitentiary Tuesday by Fed- we eral Judge Gunnar H. Nordbye. Touhy, now an invalid in a wheel chair, once was known as “Terrible ‘, Tommy,” during the heyday of the ‘Touhy gang in Chicago. He was con- victed Monday night on 10 counts in participating in the $78,000 rob- batt of government mail here Jan. 3, ¥ . 3 He was sentenced to five years each ‘on three counts of robbing the mails and a penalty of one year each on the other six mail robbery charges was imposed by Judge Nordbye. A two-year term was decreed on the t conspiracy count. Judge Nordbye a Y ordered all the sentences are to be q consecutive and not conourrent. ‘ Roach, Chicago, counsel for Touhy, said they were undecided whether an appeal would be taken. They 5 have five days in which to file this request. Touhy's two daughters, Eleanor, 21, and Mrs, Edward Ryan, together with her husband, all of Chicago, were in the courtroom when sentence was imposed. ae alty‘ of-five years and the. conspiracy count two years, Ends Gang Roundup ‘The conviction of Touhy ended the government's roundup of the gang of eight men. who participated in the holdup of the mail shed of the Mil- waukee railroad depot here. Touhy, once known as “Terrible Tommy” of the Chicago underworld, was accused by the prosecution of manning a ma- chine gun during the holdup.’” Two of the gang members, Willlam Barry and Leon Epmeier, have plead- ed guilty in the robbery and are awaiting sentence. Both testified for the government against Touhy. Four others, Gus Schaefer, Robert Kator, “Silent Jim” Ryan and Frank Mc- Kee, are serving prison terms. While Sharkey, the eighth member, commit- ted suicide in a St. Paul jail. The charged that the gang, traveling in two cars, cowed clerks at the depot in a daylight hold- up and fled with several pouches of mail, without firing a shot. The pouches contained cash, negotiable se- curities and jewelry. Sullivan, U. 8. district at- torney, told the jury that Touhy di- rected the movements of the gang. He also said that Roger and Tommy Touhy furnished the guns and “fi- nanced the job.” Assails T ‘estimony - . Joseph Roach, of counsel for the defense, assailed the testimony of and Barry as “flimsy fabri- cations.” In his instructions to the . jury, Judge Gunnar H. Nordbye referred to Touhy’s illness and said the “physi- cal impairment” should not be taken into consideration in the deliberations as to the guilt or innocence of the de- fendant. ‘Witnesses for the defense, includ- and defied Gasing of Fargo Union Hall Again. Described i Fessenden’s Alfalfa Celebration Delayed) Melba of Hurdafield gatherings bech yest, was scheduled. for y. ‘Sympathy’ Theory For Twins Proved Support for the theory that twins hav~ a “sympathy” for each other not known by singly-born persons .is found by officials of Bismarck’s school system in the story of Verna and Vernon Rad- spinner, 16, son and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Radspinner, 415 Seventh St. Three weeks ago Verna was taken to the hospital for an appendectomy. Monday, the day she returned to school, Vernon was rushed to the hospital for a similar operation, BREACH THREATENS RELATIONS BETWEEN FRANCE AND BRITAIN Paris May Refuse to Negotiate Further If Hitler's Propos- als Are Considered (Copyright, 1936, Associated Press) London, March. 24.—The League of Nations council, without waiting to hear directly from Reichsfuehrer Hit- ler, voted Tuesday to adjourn with- out taking further action on Ger- many’s violation of the Locarno trea- ty. The council members, decided they would reassemble at fa whenever their president, Stanley M. Bruce of Australia, called them to meet. A breach appeared to threaten the Anglo-French’ sectori of the Locarno front Tuesday. Paris advices that ign Minister: weye considered, inform: ed sources said, placed British. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden in an awk- ward Position. Eden, in joining the diplomats of Prance, Belgium and Italy for, the Locarno program to quiet the Euro: Der g pected to be a rejection of ent Locarno program, framed GRAHAM NEW HEAD OF BISMARCK ELKS Lodge Officers for Ensuing Yea to Be Installed at Cere- mony, April 3 4 trustee for four years; Obert A. Olson, trustee for three years; J. C. Taylor, trustee for two years, and Walter A. Sather, holding s one year term. key, N. D. : BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1936 Traffic on 27 State Roads at . Standstill as Strong Wind Piles Up Drifts Snow fell in eastern North Dakota Tuesday while the western section worked to dig itself out of drifts whipped up by a 24-mile-an-hour wind, which accompanied Monday night’s five-inch fall of snow. North Dakota highway department officials reported 27 U. 8. and state roads blocked at various points, but No. 10 was open in this district: and the buses came through from the east without trouble. Advices to the federal weather bu- reau said it was snowing at Devils Lake and Fargo at 7 a. m., and that the weather at Williston was cloudy. It also was snowing in Bismarck at that time but the precipitation stop- ped soon after the official observation was made. It also was snowing at Minot and Jamestown. The snow was accompanied here by @ northwest wind which reached a maximum velocity of 24 miles an hour and whipped the downfall into drifts. Transportation in the city was ham- ea but not halted by this condi- ‘Warmer Weather Foreacst Indications are that the snow will be on the ground only « short time, the official forecast being for warmer weather Wednesday. . The Missouri river, after a sharp drop over the week-end, coritinued to * homes. The stage at 7 a. m., was ne 8. M. Brown, maintenance engineer, opened Tuesday since it still was snowing hari at. Btinot and no smow- plows were working.) No. 281—Rock Lake to Cando and Niles to Brinsmade. State Highways Blocked (Continued on Page Two) «| MINNEAPOLIS PLANT WORKERS SIT DOWN 300 Employes Refuse to Work and Remain in Factory Throughout Night i E -|Deadlocked Lamson [&e] THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE WITHOUT MEANS OF | UNDERGO HOFFMAN'S “OBTAINING MONIES) QUIZ INN. Y. HOME Clashing Rules of FCA and RRA Leave Large Group of Needy Helpless © FALL INTO TWO CLASSES Way Out of Impasse Is Being Sought to Aid North Da- ‘kota Quickly Approximately 10,000 North Dakota farmers will be unable to get seed loans from the government farm credit set-up of seed from the Rural Resettlement administration unless the rules now in effect are changed, a survey by The Tribune disclosed Tuesday. For purposes of obtaining help in getting proper seed, farmers fail into two classes, The first is those who have received help from the RRA. The second is those who have not. The first class, however, is divided into two groups and it is with one of these that the trouble lies. If a farmer has been accepted by the RRA as a rehabilitation case he 10,000 Are Out of Luck they can get help from neither the RRA nor the Emergency Crop and ‘have are barred from farm-credit.loans for seed and feed under the rules of the latter set-up. How many.of the.10,000 will need seed has not been deter- mined, but the proportion will be because of failure of the wheat ministration at the World War Mem- orial building here. He is authorized to make loans up to a maximum of $200 to any farmer, taking lien on the crop to insure payment. If s farmer has received sid from the RRC he should apply to that or- ganization. Federal officials have been work- ing on the problem created by the ap- parent conflict in rules of the two federal farm-help agencies for sev- jeral days. Robert B. Cummins, director of the federal emergency cotincil for North Dakota, said Tuesday that he expects the matter to be worked out within a few days so that every farmer who needs seed will be able to obtain it. DULUTH FIRM GETS GRAFTON CONTRACT St. Paul and Fargo Companies Have Share of Constructing "Hospital. Dormitory Contracts totaling $193,252 were awarded Tuesday by the state board of administration for construction of @ girls’ dormitory at the State School for Feeble Minded at R. J. McLeod & Co., Duluth, was given the general contract on a bid of $159.540.. There were six other bids. and heating contract 2 Jafsie Questions Governor's Good Taste in Privately Probing Case SEEK HEARING FOR BRUNO Rumor Heard Enough Evidence Uncovered to Warrant Asking Clemency ‘Trenton, N. J., March 24.—(?)—Gov. Harold G. Hoffman declined comment Tuesday on charge of Dr. John F. (Jafste) Condon, Lindbergh ransom intermediary, that his activities in the Bruno Richard Hauptmann case showed @ lack of good taste, sincer- ity and impartiality. The status of Hauptmann, mean- while, remained unchanged. The court of pardons met and denied the clemency appeals of Charles Zied, Philadelphia gangster, under sen- tence to die with Hauptmann a week from tonight. It did not consider Hauptmann’s case, since the expected application for a second hearing had not been filed. Dr. Condon, the ransom intermed- jary in the Lindbergh baby kidnap- Shelterbelt Monies Approved by Senate Washington, March 24.—(#)—The senate Tuesday passed the $05,000,000 agriculture appropriation bill carry- ing $1,000,000 for continuing the big midwest, “Shelterbelt” and sent it to conference with the house. An amendment by Senator LeFo!- lette. (Pro., Wis.), was accepted add- ing $7,728,000 to the allowance for pcan Bangs disease among cat- ° re slaying case, said early Tuesday he had telegraphed the governor he would “permit” Hoffman to question him at the Condon home in New York. Hoffman, who has expressed the opinion there are. unsolved aspects of the case whicl Dr. Congdon could help clarify, possibly will accept Jafsie’s invitation Tuesday and begin the questioning shortly afterward. Dr. Condon said his telegram ac- cused Hoffman of. “unfairness” and questioned the governor’s good taste, sincerity and impartiality in private- ly investigating the case. Jafsie’s announcement, came only a few hours before the beginning of an attempt by counsel for Hauptmann, under sentence to die in the electric 3, to; win-him -a ‘seoond bearing by the court of pardons. Authoritative sources said Monday night the governor believes he has found enough new evidence to ask for clemency for Hauptmann. ‘These sources said the -governor conferred last week with the attorney general ai’ suggested Wilents join him in @ request for commutation of Hauptmann’s sentence to life impris- onment. The governor is presiding officer of the court by virtue of his official position. The governor did not disclose the nature of the evidence, the sources said, and Wilentz was non-committal. N.D. PLUMBERS TOUR NEW STATE CAPITOL Elertions, Reports of Commit- tees Will Bring Two-Day Session to End A trip through the capitol occupied delegates to the state master plumb- ers’ convention here Tuesday morn- ing with the election of officers and reports of standing committees slated to wind up the two-day sessions this afternoon. Oscar Lunseth of Grand Forks, vice president of the North Dakota Association of Master Plumbers, talk- ON JOB AS USUAL WITHOUT TOOLS “Hah,” said the elevator attend- ant disgustedly, “just as I suspect- ed—no tools.” visiting The delegation of plumbers attending the state con- vention here was forced to stand for 10 minutes in the crowded vator until the attendant {i and climbed up to freedom to con- tinue their inspection of the build- z s" Bae aera cdest: Hughes of- Minneapolis, representative of the National Plumbers’ Associa. tion, Henry Clausen’ of Milwaukee, Safe on a Safe in Flood Area Only sign that a Pittsburgh coal compa: office ever stood on this site is the safe, on which Mary Glagola, an employe, is working the combination as her sister Anna sits atop the strongbox. There was @ good reason for all this interest in the safe, as it contained more than $4000. ‘Sonny Boy’ Not Mordoffs’ Child BISMARCK POSITION ASSTRATEGIC POINT -GIVENRECOGNITION Associated Press to Locate Here Apparatus for Send- . ing Pictures by Wire Purther recognition of Bismarck’s strategic position in the northwest came Tuesday with the announcement that the Associated Press, greatest of the nation’s news distributing agencies, will locate here equipment Mrs. Fletcher Wins Conditional Sole Custody of Her 3- Year-Old Son Chicago, March 24.—(7)—Mrs, garet Mann Fleteher, who won a finding Monday. that. she was Boy's” mother, Tuesday was tionally awarded sole custody. of the 3-year-old baby over the rival claims of Dr. Gorden Mordoff, Chicago, phy- sician, formerly of Hettinger, N. D. The award, with which Circuit Judge Rudolph Desort settled a pro- longed courtroom debate over the blue-eyed child, was subject to an in- vestigation now being conducted, the Judge said, by social workers. Dr. Mordoff, manifestiing obvious eppainanant, stalked from the "Declines to Name Father Mrs. Fletcher, married a week ago, declined to name the father of her for transmitting photographs by wire.|chiid, but testified she paid Mrs. Mor- Since entering the business of dis-/doff $5 a week for keeping him. tributing news pictures seven years} Dr. Mordoff claimed the child was ago, the Associated Press has kept in|elivered by Dr. John Taft of Minne- the forefront of that business and|&Polls, several years ago began the distribu- tion of photographs by wire. This service has been available only in the larger cities, however. Under its expanded program Bis- marck will be one of 25 cities in which the new equipment will be placed as fast as the machines can be fabricat- fits easily It could be used by a photo- scene of an event. It works with equal facility on telephone and telegraph circuits. Dr. Taft died last year and Mordoff died last month. Mrs. Mordoff's sister and brother, supported Mrs. Fletcher. Dr. Mordoff’s children, ag 1%, and Gordon, 21, sided with Mrs. Fairchild testified Gordon, Jr., in the Associated Press laboratories:|°%® of the Mordoff children, was ob- tained from a foundling home here. “My sister,” she said, “came to.... where I was living 22 years ago and ~|told me she had lost a baby in Min- neapolis. She was heartbroken and said she couldn't go back to North Dakota without a baby. She asked me in sending pictures direct|!f I would go to a home with her. Wanted Brown-Eyed Baby “Bhe asked for a baby with brown eyes,” Mrs. Fairchild’s testimony con- A unique feature is that a small|tinued, “and Dr. Woods, said by Mrs. picture, 4x5 in dimension, is automa- tically in size to 8x10 dur- Fairchild to have been the director of the foundling home, said he had one two days old. Gordon was brought The first was during the flood at Pittsburgh |lighted. last week when. it was flown to that of that. difaster. Two Butte Men Die, Three Hurt in Crash Dorian Bae Mi ee Two. it Butte, Mont., resi- dents were still in critical condition here Tuesday following wrecking of an automobile, Saturday night which claimed the lives of two other men. ‘The injured men are Dr. H. D. Kist- ler, head of the Murray hospital at Butte, and Walter Hansen, Butte Packing company official. A fifth victim, Frank Riordan, also of Butte, was removed to a San Francisco hos- pital for treatment. Howard Pierce and Alex Loiselle, both. of Butte, lost their lives when their automobile left the road. Retired Lidgerwood Business Man Is Dead Lidgerwood, N. D., March 24.—(?)— Frank Jahods, 7i-year-old retired business man, who took Jahods left a note saying he was W.| “lonely”. because of the death of his wife several years ago. Coroner L. E. Lester said no inquest would be con- ducted. Jahods leaves four sons. ELECT TEACHER MAYOR Helena, Mont. March 24—(P)— Albert J. Roberts, former principal of Helens elected high school for 28 years, was mayor Monday. wv “She wired her husband immedi- child in my home. She stayed with me two weeks and then went back to Hettinger, N. D.” Mrs. Fairchild said she did not know whether Gordon was ever legally adopted and she was under the im- pression Dr. Mordoff was never told of the circumstances. Reckless Girl Driver Given Jail Sentence Fargo, N. D., March 24.—(7)—Plead- ing guilty Monday to a charge of reckless driving as the result of an accident Sunday, Eleanor Shinn, 20, Fargo, was sentenced to serve 60 days in the city jail and to pay a fine of $50 or serve 40 additional days. She also is prohibited from driving a car for 90 days. The girl was driving a borrowed car and struck Frank Johnson, who was riding a bicycle. She admitted she had a few drinks of beer. Johnson is in a Fargo hospital with head lacerations and other injuries, not believed to be serious. Gordon Aamoth Wins Honor at l University Grand Forks, N. D., March 24.—(?)— Gordon Aamoth, Fargo, was an- nounced yesterday as the winner of the Blue Key award for the University of North Dakota senior athlete with the highest scholastic average. The announcement was by Edward Hal- lenberg, Niagara, president of the University chapter of Blue Key, na- tional collegiate service fraternity. Mar. court “onde | 8 Mrs. Mary Fairchild and John Quinn, |ginia, Ohio and Kentucky. ‘PRICE FIVE CENTS od Death List Mounts to 177 /Tommy Touhy Convicted of Mill City Mail Looting CHICAGO GANGSTER |Five-Inch Snowfall 10,000 NERD SEED {CONDON WILLING TO GIVENSENTENCEOF | Blocks N. D. Roads OHIO RIVER SWEEPS ONWARD INTO LOWER REACHES OF VALLEY Belt Engulfed by Roaring Wat- ers Begins to Dig Out of Muck and Debris CONTROL CONGRESS CALLED Portsmouth Dike Success in Foiling Stream Inspires Preventive Efforts With storms increasing the death toll in midwest, southern and eastern states, the fury of the flood-rampag- ing Ohio lessened Tuesday as the river swept over more lowlands down- stream from Cincinnati. The death list, after a week of wind and flood, mounted to 177. The Ohio neared its crest at Cin- cinnati but, unlike the inundation at Pittsburgh and Wheeling, failed to reach the business district. This was true, also, in river towns nearby Cin- cinnatt. Upstream, the river was cither levelling off or receding. Downstream, it was at flood stage along the Indiana boundary. Scores of families, given ample warning, left lowland homes. Rivermen expected no widespread loss, as compared to 1913 or other years. Open Flood Congress To control future floods in the Ohio valley, businéssmen from Pennsyl- vania, Ohio, Kentucky and West Vir- ginia opened a flood control conzress in Gallipolis, Tornadic winds and storms sweep- ing up the Mississippi valley took five lives, four in Missouri and ong in Memphis. Hail and wind wrought considerable damage to crops and property. Heavy rains in the middlewest and east brought new fears of flood, but lower temperatures allayed fears somewhat in the middlewest. In New York, the Oswego river was swelling above record stages around Syracuse, In the week of devastation by flood and storm, the death lst by states 10, New York 2, Pennsylvania 115, West Virginia 14, Maryland 4, 4 North Carolina 2, 2, Tene nessee 1, Ohio 5, and 4 and the nearby area in advance of the muddy tide that had brought ca- tastrophe to Johnstown, Pittsburgh, Wheeling and other communities in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, Red Cress on Job ‘The American Red Cross long since had thrown its entire force in the field to relieve suffering and ward off pes- tilence, Besides immediate government aid, ‘communities inspired partly by the sf success of Portsmouth, Ohio, in curbing the springtime rages of the broad Ohio, sought conferences which contemplated a vast flood-control scheme for Pennsylvania, West Vir- Portsmouth, by @ great protected Margaret |wall, hummed with ind , though much of its area was far below the with approximately 80,000 refugees prevented from returning to their homes before sanitation measures were taken, concentrated on preventing spread of disease and lawlessness a3 it pushed the herculean task of re- building. . Troops Guard Hartford In Hartford, Conn. severely af- fected by high waters, 1,200 national guardsmen and militiamen helped en- force stringent safety and health measures. Johnstown, Pa., still was caring for regained their (Continued on Page Two) SIX CCC SOIL CAMPS TOLOCATE IN STATE Bismarck Quarters Will Be Re- occupied by Unit From Western N. D.