The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 28, 1936, Page 1

[dts | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1936 The Weather Cloudy and much colder with Severe cold wave; peta A PRICE FIVE CENTS Bruno’s Fate in Hoffman’s Hands Hitler Carries Election Fight to Rhineland Rostrum RELIGIOUS ASPECT IS GIVEN CLIMAX OF ELECTION CAMPAIGN Operas and Theaters Closed So Nation Can Hear Final Cologne Address ENTHUSIASM RUNNING HIGH Der Fuehrer Hears Latest News From Locarno Powers Without Comment (Copyright, 1936, Associated Press) March Mott, Northwood Quints Elim- inated in Semi-Final Round at Valley City Valley City, N. D., March 28.—La- kota and Maddock Aggies will battle (t out for the championship of Class B high schools in the finals of the state basketball tournament tonight an early lead and led 9-2 at quarter time. Northwood drew up 11-10 at the intermission but Lakota went ahead in the third to lead with E E "4 is ag H ie _Confess Slaying Chicago Doctor Yvonne Clambers Out of Bed Alone —Yvonne Dionne celebrated her 23nd month of life Saturday by climbing from her bed and awak- climbing 5 four sisters watched with interest and it was no time at all before all five were banging at their nurses’ doors. CHECK OF SLAIN TRANSIE Jamestown Still Holding Ross Johnson Without Charge in Death Mystery . D., March 28.—(?)— A check of fingerprints sent to Wash- Almost three months of detec- tive work came to a swift cli- max early Saturday in the con- fession of four young desperadoes that they had committed one of Chicago's most baffling crimes— the slaying of Dr. Silber C. Pea- cock. Capt. Harry O'Connell disclosed that Robert Goethe, Durland Nash and Emil Reck, each 19, and Michael Livingston, 17, had ad- mitted they slew the widely known pediatrician in a robbery that netted them $20. Dr. Peacock was lured from his fashionable a it on & spurious sick call on the night of Jan. 2. In the Associated Press photo above, airmailed to The Bismarck Tribune, left to right, are Blair Varnes, assistant state’s attorney; Durland Nash and Robert Goethe. CAMPAIGN PLANS OF BORAH ARE PUZZLES FOR G.0.P. CHIEFTAINS Views Toward Various Rivals in Race for Nomination Mystify Leaders Washington, March 28,—(?)—The campaign: plans of Senator William E. Borah, of Idaho, are rapidly be- coming a big question mark in the Republican presidential race. terances for views toward various rivals for the Repub- lican nomination and what course he might follow if he should be turned down by the Cleveland convention. “Would Borah bolt, after all these years of party regularity?” leaders are asking. “Would he stay in the party, but sit on the sidelines? Would he support Governor Landon, of Kansas, Col. Frank Knox of Chicago, Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, or anyone else?” The Idaho senator has answered ington was awaited Saturday by/none of their questions. He has Stutsman county authorities in an'clearly, however, refused to make an effort to identify a man totaled $3,045,396. fatally in- it. advance pledge of support of the Re- Publican nominee without knowing said, Blown Off by Bomb Cuernavaca, Mexico, March 28.—(#) —Unidentified bombers Saturday threw explosives, apparently home- made dynamite bombs, into a church in the town of Tepetates, during =| Boy Hopes Arm Grafting SENATE APPROVES |FUNERAL SERVICES | Weather Stimulates — Northwest Business $100,000 10 STUDY NORTHWEST'S COAL Government Would Seek Fur- ther Uses for Lignite By- products With Funds MEASURE SENT TO HOUSE Frazier Says Gas Derivative Is Usable as Fuel to Propel Generators Washington, March 28,—(?)—Advo-. cates of cheaper fuel and electric power for northwest states looked hopefully Saturday to the house for passage of asenate approvedresolution appropriating $100,000 for govern- ment experimentation in the use of lignite and sub-bituminous coal. The measure cleared the senate Fri- day. It calls for a three-year study by the bureau of mines, with $40,000 to be expended the first year and $30,000 for each of the next two years. Senator Frazier (Rep., N. D.), who introduced the senate bill, said an ef- fort would be made to obtain early consideration of a similar house measure, introduced by Represent- ative Martin (Dem., Colo.). Frazier told the senate 60 per cent of the United States coal supply is in the form of lignite and sub: bituminous in North Dakota, Wyo! ing, Colorado and Montana. Be: cause of excessive moisture, he said, it is not practical to ship it great dis: tances. ‘The proposed experiments, he ‘said, would center around carbonization of the lignite. The experiments thus far have progressed to the point of com- pressing the lignite fuel into fuel bri- quets, with a view to making use of gaseous byproducts for generating electricity. Frazier said engineers have con- tended the gas which is eliminated during carbonization process could be to motors to generate electricity. If this is correct, he said, communi- ties in the lignite coal states could ob- tqain light and power from local plants, which “would work very well with the rural electrification pro- gram.” IRED NAZIS SPIT ON WIFE OF AMERICAN Husband Denounced Reich While on World Tour; Forced to Stay in Cabin Manila, March 28—(?)—Alvan T. Simonds, Boston manufacturer, changed his mind Saturday about protesting to Philippine High Com- missioner Frank Murphy concerning the alleged conduct of fellow pas- sengers aboard the German liner Reliance. He said he will withhold complaint until he reaches the United States. Two police guards were assigned to Simonds and his wife at their hotel here, after their arrival on the world touring. liner Friday, when he ex- pressed fears of being attacked after criticizing the Nazi government in an interview at Singapore. Following the interview, Simonds , German passengers carried their insults to the extent of spitting on his wife. He said the situation in which he and Mrs. Simonds found themselves was so threatening they remained in their cabin “about five days, eating. only canned food.” North Dakota Youth Gets Greenhouse Job Courtenay, N. D. @ recent graduate of the greenhouse department of the State School of Forestry here, has been placed in charge of two new greenhouses re- cently built by a Great Falls, Mont., floral firm. For the last two years every graduate of the greenhouse practice course at the school has been placed in a position before leaving school. The local institution is the only one in the northwest giving this type of training. . Plane Crash Among Mountains Kills 4 Operation Will Succeed os Nutley, N. J., March 28.—(?)—Six: “I’m all set,” said the young patient, teen-year-old John Seeley’s hope for | “I’m just hoping I won't have to miss artificial restoration of the arms he/ any time in school.” Jost last November under the wheels As the surgeon described the opera- e 4 of @ train rested Saturday on ap-|tion, a flap of the patient’s skin is of a 66-year-old surgical | drawn into a tube and inserted under the muscle. This operation will be performed twice on each of their lives. . A two-day search ended Friday when a range riding cowboy found the ship dashed to splinters against @ canyon wall in the rugged Galiuro mountains, 26 miles east of here. ‘The victims, all Phoenix, Ariz., busi- Douglas for a flight ednesday. FOR GEORGE D. MANN TO BE HELD TUESDAY Private Rites at Home to Be Followed by Ceremony at Methodist Church EMPLOYES TO BEAR BODY In Keeping With Late Publish- er’s Request Services Will Be Simple Funeral services for George D. Mann, Tribune publisher who died Thursday at Orlando, Fla., will be held in Bismarck Tuesday afternoon. A brief private service will be held at the residence, 232 Avenue A, west, at 2 p. m,, and a. public service will follow at 2:30 p, m., at the McCabe ‘Methodist Episcopal church. Rev. W. A. Vater, pastor of the McCabe church, will officiate at both services. As requested by Mr. Mann before his death, the rites will be brief and simple. Employes of The Tribune, which he gave the best years of his life in building, will act as pall- bearers. Others will serve as ushers at both the home and the church. which were favorites of Mr, Mann will be sung by Ralph Warren Soule. ‘They are “Abide With Me” and “Going Home.” Miss Ruth Rowley will be at the organ. Tribune employes who do not act as pallbearers or ushers will attend e services in a body. Mrs. Mann will arrive home with the body at 7:45 tonight, and it will be taken to the Webb funeral home to await the funeral. With Mrs. Mann will be E. A. Hughes, a long: time friend of Mr. and Mrs. Mann, Mrs, Mann's sis- ter, arrived Friday night from Grand Forks, She was accompanied by her children and by her mother, Mrs. 0. 8. Hilleboe. They will be at the Mann residence upon Mrs, Mann’s arrival. Further details and the question of whether The Tribune will be pub- lished upon the day of the funeral will be determined by Mrs, Mann after her arrival. SONNY BOY FINALLY AWARDED MOTHER Judge Stipulates Dr. Mordoff and Daughter Can See Child Once a Week Chicago, March 28—(?)—The legal tribulations of Mrs. Margaret Mann Fletcher and her 3-year-old love child Sonny Boy were at an end Sat- Mary Margaret Mordoff, 17, will be permitted to visit the baby one day each week. Judge De Sort ruled last Monday that Sonny Boy, whose mother calls him Reginald Arthur Mann, was born out of wedlock to the then Miss Margaret Mann. Dr. Mordoff had claimed the boy was born to his late wife, Maggie. Roosevelt Reports Ocean Fishing Good Miami, Fla, March 28.—(?)—Good fishing was hailed by President Roose- velt and his vacation party Saturday for the first time since he started his cruise of southern waters. Off Caicos Island, the president reported, per- haps modestly, “we” caught big game fish—Barracuda, Kingfish, Groupers and Mackerel. He did not specify just who made the big haul of the day. Leave of Absence Act For Settlers Passed Washington, March 28.—(?)—The senate Friday passed a bill granting a leave of absence for all or of the current year to settlers on lands who find migration necessary in order to make a living. The measure provides that an entryman holding un- perfected entries on ceded Indian lands may be released from residence Tequirements but not from making the agreed payments. for to adjust or waive irrigation charges on projects on Indian reser- vations was passed Friday by the sen- ate and sent to the house. Bank Debits Indicate March’s Gain Will Equalize Febru- ary Losses Minneapolis, March 28.—()—Mild weather early in March stimulated a business volume in the ninth federal reserve district, the Minneapolis Fed- eral Reserve Bank reported Saturday, that indicates a recovery of losses sus- tained during February from extreme cold and heavy snows. Bank deposits based on weekly re- ports from 17 cities during the first half of March, the bank said in its monthly report, are “likely to be the highest since the recovery movement started.” “Country check clearings for the first half of March,” the report con- tinued, “also indicate that that in- dex will have fully recovered from the February decline.” The adverse weather in February was responsible for a sharp drop in business from the January lewel in the district, with the exception of depart- ment store sales. The ninth district includes Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Montana, and sections of Wisconsin and Michigan. Despite cold weather losses, how- ever, volume of business in February this year was greater than for the same month in 1935. CONGRESS LEADERS PUSH INVESTIGATION OF TOWNSEND PLAN Movement Has .Collected Al- most Million Dollars Since Its Inception Washington, March 28.—(7)—With an eye on rapidly-approaching pri- mary elections, congressional leaders Saturday pushed for further dis- closures about the Townsend $200-a- month old age pension plan. Members faced with op- pesition from candidates pledged to the Townsend program were under- stood to be urging speed in the house investigation of the nation-wide movement. The investigation com- mittee will reopen public hearings next Wednesday. Chairman Bell (Dem., Mo.), other committee members and their coun- sel, James R. Sullivan, are checking testimony given by R. E. Clements. who recently resigned as national secretary of the Townsend organiza- tion after a split with Dr. F. E. Townsend. Not Entirely Satisfied The committee received testimony that receipts of the Revolving Old Age Pensions, Inc., (the Townsend organization) totaled nearly a mil- lion dollars since its inception. They indicated, however, they were not en- tirely satisfied with details of the evidence. The committee studied Clements’ statement that Townsend receipts from Jan. 1, 1934 to Jan. 1, 1936 to- taled $771,964.09. They indicated they wanted more definite information on his estimate that a total of $180,000 had been taken in the first three months of this year. The $951,964.09 estimated total was than some members antici- Sullivan indicated he would fur- ther develop his assertion that Cle- ments’ $12,565 income from the Town- send organization last year was “velvet” since the national secretary also received his expenses. The committee received a tele- gram from Edward J. Margett, San Francisco area manager of the Town- send movement, taking issue * with Counsel Sullivan. Sullivan had said Margett received monthly commissions ranging from $1,800 to $2,100. Clements testified he received $350 salary from the Townsend National Weekly in 1935 and his dividends from it amounted to $6,500. i Dust Bowl Helps f | Rain Bowl Needy | © Killdeer, N. D., March 28—From a former dust bowl of the nation to the rain bow! of the nation, a modest individual’s personal check for $10 has been forwarded to the American Red Cross to help defray the costs of rehabili- tating flood sufferers of the east. The Dunn county Red Cross chairman reported receipt of the check from an unidentified resi- dent of Oakdale, tiny settlement in the Killdeer mountains where for six years farmers prayed for rain from 1929 to 1935, FAMILIES EVACUATE HOMES IN OHIO AN MISSISSIPPI VALLEY Midwest Streams Again Begin to Swell With Flood Warn- ings Broadcast (By the Associated Press) Rising rivers drove scores of fam- ilies from their homes in the lower Ohio valley and the south Saturday. Approximately 100 persons evacu- ated their dwellings in Pope county, Illinois, as the overburdened Ohio continued to swell. Observers warned &@ 46-foot crest next week would cover the Golconda, Ill, waterfront to a five-foot depth. Thousands of acres along the Ten- nessee river were flooded. Many resi- dents of the menaced area took to the hills. The Cumberland river also expanded to threatening proportions. ‘The upper Mississippi slowly swelled. A huge. ice, field swept away- 2 -396- foot pontoon bridge» utilized by a railroad at Reads Landing, Minn. The Ohio was above flood stage from Pittsburgh to Cairo, Ill., but no. new rampage was indicated. Evansville, Ind., looked for a stage of 45.5 feet Monday, but the rise had, virtually halted above Cincinnati. Further upstream, rehabilitation work was pushed. Meanwhile, the house banking com- mittee approved @ measure to au- thorize the Reconstruction Finance corporation to lend up to $25,000,000 to persons and corporations in the stricken areas. MONGOLS APPROVE TREATY WITH SOVI Further Border Raids B in Making as Japs Concen- trate Forces Moscow, March 28.—(?)—The Outer Mongolian republic proclaimed its ap- Proval of @ mutual assistance agree- ment with the Soviet Union Satur- day, just after Soviet advices said three Japanese invaders were killed in renewed fighting on the Far East- ern frontiers. Under the terms of the virtual mili- tary alliance, Russia's huge army would go to Mongolia’s aid in the event that threats of a Far Eastern invasion, attributed to the Japanese, were fulfilled. Japanese forces were reported in Soviet press advices to have been concentrating near the Norin Lake sector of the boundary between Out- er Mongolia and the Japanese-spon- sored state of Manchukuo, leading to a Soviet belief that further border raids were in prospect. The Soviet Union’s army was ex- pected not to be called, however, un- less a major invasion were launched. RAISE DISCOUNT RATE Paris, March 28—(#)—The Bank of France Saturday raised its discount rate from 3% per cent to 5 per cent. Merchants Jailed in Lieu of Peace Bon New England, N. D., March 26. Climax of along dispute between merchant partners of 25 years’ stand- ing, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Gloss of New land were lodged in the Het- dg fed jail here for failure to post $500 peace bonds each. Imposition of the peace bonds fol- lowed an alleged attack by Mrs. Gloss upon the person of Nathan Butnitsky, for more than 25 years a business partner of the Glosses in the clothing businéss at Garrison, Carson, New England and other western North Dakota points. ‘When the business of the two part- ners was thrown into receivership to adjust a business dispute, the con- ciliator stipulated the Butnitskys should have the right to retain living quarters in the rear of the building in which the business had been con- J ducted here, Mrs. Gloss is alleged to have taken umbrage at the Butnitskys using the front door of the establishment, claim- ing that by terms of the agreement the Butnitskys were to keep that door locked and use the rear entrance. On Friday the 13th of March, Mrs. Gloss is alleged to have entered the Butnitskys’ quarters and to have as- saulted Nathan Butnitsky after an exchange of words. The Butnitskys appealed to the county court and the peace bond requirement followed. The court refused to release the Glosses under their own recognizance although the Glosses claimed they have no resources. The court declared the Glosses able to post such bonds, asserting the receiver has cash, wheat and other property under seal in their names. The Glosses declared they would stay in jail unless friends came to their help. BELIEF GROWS THAT HAUPTMANN AGAIN IS ASSURED OF MERCY Some Surmise Governor Will Wait Until Late Minute Hop- ing for Confession WILENTZ ATTITUDE.IS SAME Prosecution Clings to Early Statements All Legal Res- cues Are at an End (Copyright, 1936, Associated Press)’ Trenton, N. J., March 28.—Gov. Harold G. Hoffman Saturday declar- ed he had no intention of granting Bruno Hauptmann another reprieve. He declined, however, to commit himself as to what he might do in the event of a confession or some other unusually important develope ment which would justify prolonging the life of the convicted Lindbergh baby slayer. There also is an opinion in at least one high source that unless the court of pardons intervenes Monday, Haupt mann stands little chance to escape the chair. This source said: “The chances against Hauptmann are 100 to 1. The one possibility would be either a confession from the prisoner or some other very impor- tant development which would justify extraordinary action. Must Admit Guilt “There is little hope that the court of pardons will intervene Monday, since this body holds it is a clemency and not a trial court. Any convict appearing before it must admit guilt and appeal for mercy. Hau refuses to admit his guilt and has shown no sign of breaking or chang- ing his story.” The governor restated his intention not to extend Hauptmann’s life as & feeling spread in some quarters in Trenton that a second reprieve would be granted: He reiterated that when he an- nounced the first stey in January he said there would be no second unless Attorney Genera? ‘David T. Wilentz, who prosecuted Hauptmann, consented, He did not indicate he now had any hope that Wilentz would agree to a reprieve nor did he comment in ree ply to the question: “If there is some development which, in your opinion, justifies ex- ceptional action on your part, will you act regardless of what the posie tion of the attorney general may be?” Defends His Action ‘The governor, in the interview with the Associated Press, talked for more than two hours, spiritedly defending his action in the Hauptmann case. Attorney General Wilentz, who prosecuted Hauptmann in the trial at Flemington, took issue with the gov- ernor’s that the trial “reeked rid enlaknan: passion and preju- ice.” In a statement issued from his Perth Amboy home Saturday, the at- torney general said: “We dispute the right of the gover nor to place the prestige and weight of his office behind his latest accue sation that the case ‘reeks with une fairness, passion and prejudice.’ He usurps the functions of the courts... “During the trial not even Haupt mann made any claim of unfairness, ‘and defense counsel in his concluding address to the jury stated: ‘I think we have played so fairly, so nicely in this trial that we can continue to go along that way.’” Hicks checked on a report that Isi- dor Fisch, friend of Hauptmann now dead, had offered to sell in Havana some “hot” money—presumably part of the $50,000 Lindbergh ransom. If substantiated, the story would bolster Hauptmann’s contention that the ransom money found in his possession came to him from Fisch. Governor Hoffman also received word from Secretary Ickes of the de- partment of interior, that Arch W. Loney, department wood tester, had his to continue investiga- tions in the Hauptmann case, but “strictly in a personal, private ca- pacity.” G-Men Out of Case At the same time the department of justice at Washington made clear that so far as that branch of the fede eral government was concerned, the Lindbergh case was closed. Waits on Hoffman ‘The attorney general said he un- derstood the governor might ask his views on further reprieve. He said he would not volunteer his opinion on ‘the legality of such action until asked. He is understood, however, to plan #0 take no action should the governor sign such a repleve, Robert W. Hicks, a Washington criminologist, returned by plane Sate urday from Havana, Cubs, where he has been investigating certain phases (Continued on Page Three) Fargo Slayer Taken To Insane Hospital Charles Marratto, sentenced to life imy it for the recent slaying of Peter Stewart, Fargo grocer, has been transferred from the state penile tentiary to the state hospital for ine sane at Jamestown, Warden Dell Pat~ terson announced Saturday. Warden Patterson said the transfer examination, Marratto will be cone fined to the dangerous ward at the Jamestown stated, and will be placed under con- stant guard. ?