The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 31, 1936, Page 1

cs Fyednesdayy Ut The Weather cloudy tonight and little change i teeny. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1936 PRICE FIVE CENTS Hauptmann Doomed to Follow Lindbergh Baby Into Oblivion Mann to Sleep on High Coteau LAST RESTINGPLACE [Bussiness Ignores OVERLOOKS VALLEY) QObstacles in Rise HE LOVED IN LIFE Scores Gather to Pay Their Final Mead of Homage at Simple Services Today RITES AT HOME, IN CHURCH Rev. Walter A. Vater Is Paying Verbal Tribute to Commun. ity and State Leader g age g i : veglie pill With Zero Over N. D. Mercury in thermometers over the etate still flirted with the zero point partly ‘Wednesday; not sue 80 cold north- ‘west portion tonight Sugar Beet States’ Solons Seek Monies Wosnipeion. 3 March 31.—(F)}—Con- sugar beet states for means to in- “ | With Long Tongues Denies Guilt Paul Wendel (above), former lawyer, repudiated a purported “con- fesaton” that that he kidnaped the Lind. bergh baby, Attorney General David T. Witentz said after questioning him at the Mercer county jail in Trenton, N. J. where he was held on an embezzlement charge. (Asso elated Press Photo) May Reach It From Milwaukee Via Lake Water Milwaukee, March 31.—(?)—An epi- demic of stomach disorders that has caused two deaths and attacked an estimated 120,000 persons was de- scribed Tuesday by health officials as having struck its high point. “We have had outbreaks similar to this before, but never so widespread,” Dr. John P. .Koehler, health com- missioner, said. “I think the peak has been reached and the case load will diminish rapidly.” The second death attributed to the disease that has been reported to authorities was that of Henry Zjbel, 48, who had complained of illness early Sunday and was stricken Mon- day aboard the steamer Nevada on which he was working. The term “intestinal influenuza” by which the malady has become ga) is not truly descriptive, Dr. ler said, but is used only for lack ofa better one. urging residents to continue . said was not causing the wave of Dr. Koehler talked by telephone with Chicago officials who he said feared the disease might reach that city through Lake Michigan, source of drinking water for both cities. Dr. Koehler said he did not consider the situation extremely serious, found both of the attacks briefs and mild,| from and based his estimate on the number affected in the city by the fact that one of every four of his acquaintances was afflicted. Marilyn Miller Near Death in N. Y. Hospital New York, March 31.—(#)—Marilyn Miller, stage and screen actress, was Teported Tuesday by her physicians as semi-cosncious in Doctor's hospital and “not likely to live through the day.” Miss » who walked into the hospital two weeks ago for “a rest,” developed “a toxic condition | the during the night” and her tempera- ture at one time rose to 106 degrees, one of three physicians attending her said. Wants Hairy Bees N. ¥., March 31—()— i etesciona nts Tuesday intended to si further his breed of & Guggenheim foun- dation fellowsbip. Be. ‘Watson an- he would try to develop Best Spring in Six Yea in Six Years Seen as Recovery Leaps Hurdles of Man and Nature (Copyright, 1936, Associated Press) New York, March 31.—America’s economic recovery has forged ahead in the quarter of 1936 ending Tues- day, leading business analysts gen- erally to anticipate the best spring in six years. Despite an exceptionally severe winter with storms blocking the ar- teries of trade, regardless of spring floods tying up railways and wreck- ing industrial equipment in a num- ber of eastern manufacturing cities, in face of fresh Legrteny and eco- nomic tension abroad, and uncertain- ties incident to Nee! legal and legis- lative decisions in Washington, com- merce has continued to expand. Steel production, reflecting in part the accumulation of demand during the flood interruption, has just risen well over 60 per cent of capacity for the first time since the summer of 1930. Relief Roles Ominous Unemployment and relief roles still lines of employment, which account for most of the remainder, lag pend- perity. Automobile production, according to present estimates, ran well over 1,000,000 units in the first three ee ee ares The fact that it has falledt about 3 per cent under the first quarter iegiobgeon attributable ge ne coo was started in October rather than December. The effect of new manufacturing was notable ‘during the first quarter of the year in use of electric power, which set a new high record, some 10, per cent over 1935, and all of 13 per cent over 1929. Building made pronounced strides. Total residential contracts during the first quarter, latest statistics in- dicate, were well above 60 per cent more than in the same months of 1935, and almost 200 per cent over 1933. Yet they were still less than a quarter of the total for that period in 1929. ‘The movement of freight appears to have gained about 5 per cent over the first three months of 1935. Capital has continued to pile up in the investment markets, forcing gilt- edge bonds up to new high prices since the turn of the century. Stocks Steadily Climb During the first two months of the year, the stock market advanced al- since the summer of ae as measured by the Associated Press average of 60 representative issues. The stock market developed hesi- tancy during March but failed to ex- perience anything in the nature of a serious reaction. Unemployment, according to the latest estimate of the national indus- trial conference board, still hovered around the 10,000,000 mark. Soldier Bonus Bonds In Mill City Vaults Minneapolis, March 31.—(7)—Vaults of oe Minneapolis federal reserve bank Tuesday held the northwest’s first shipment of soldier bonus bonds, $10,000,000 worth of them, in readi- ness for ‘payment to veterans next June. Gov. John.N. Peyton of the bank said no bonds will be paid out, matled or delivered before June 15. eal shipment, first to be received ‘Washington, represents about one-eighth of the total of $83,000,000 needed to pay bonuses to the esti- mated 167,000 $0 eligible ‘World War vet- erans in the ninth federal reserve dis- trict. They will receive an average of $500—10 of the bonds. North Da- kota will get about $8,000,000; South Dakota about $11,000,000, and Mon- tana about $10,000,000. Funds Favored for N. W. River Control Washington, March 31.—(P)—Flood jtiphs projects tentatively added by commerce committee Monday to the original list selected by the war department, sysitog the measure Soe ere ieee to $85,000,000, in- Red River of the North: Reservoir, | Lake Traverse and Bois de Sioux river, and vicinity, GLASGOW HONORS BOLIVAR Glasgow, Scotland, March 31.—(7)— In Glasgow's new | od directory STRENUOUS FIGHTS TO SCRAP TAX PLAN BEGUN IN CONGRESS Ohio Solon Would Increase Present Corporation In- come Tax Rates ATTACKS FDR’S PROGRAM Revenue Chief Invites Experts to Draw on Other Addi- tional Sources Washington, March 31.—(#)—Stren- uous fights to scrap the $799,000,000 tax program appeared certain as the house ways and means committee headed Tuesday into further hearings on the proposals, Representative Lamneck (Dem., Ohio), in the vanguard of the opposi- tion of the administration’s money- raising suggestions, said he would attempt to force through a plan of his own. He would increase the present corporation income tax to yield $500,- 000,000 and pick up $270,000,000 by re- Ppealing provisions exempting corpor- ation dividends from the normal in- come levy. ‘The plan before the committee con- templates getting $591,000,000 from eccording withheld from distribution; $100,000,- 000 from a “windfall” tax to recapture part of unpaid AAA processing taxes, $83,000,000 from temporary continua- 7 = capital stock and excess prof- levies, and_ around, $25,000,000 from. @ tax On torporation dividends des- tined for foreign shareholders. On the house floor Monday, Lam- neck branded these proposals as “rev- olutionary.” More opposition testimony was on the agenda Tuesday. Although Guy T. Helvering, inter- nal revenue commissioner, invited the committee Monday to consider draw- ing on additional sources for tempor- ary funds because the program does not comply completely with the presi- dent's revenue commit- tee members said they doubted if they would accept. BRITAIN'S CABINET IS REPORTED SPLIT OVER RHINE CRISIS Plan for British, French and Belgian Military Conversa- tions Is Feared (Copyright, 1936, Associated Press) London, March 31.—Great Britain's cabinet, awaiting Adolf Hitler's final reply to the Locarno power program for a Rhineland settlement, was re- ported seriously split Tuesday over the plan for military. negotiations with France and Belgium. LINDY LOSES SELF IN REVIVIFICATION IDEA AS HAUPTMANN DIES Works on Mechanical Heart and Lungs in Secluded Manor of South England NO STATEMENTS EXPECTED British Papers Follow Bruno's Last Minutes Without Lindbergh Mention (Copyright, 1936, Associated Press) London, March 31.—Work on a mechanical heart and lungs was Col. Charles A. Lindbergh’s chief interest, The Hon. Harold Nicolson, one of the colonel’s closest frfiends in this country and now his landlord, said Lindbergh has spent most of his time working on this scientific instrument since his arrival in England more than two months ago. Nicholson said the Lindberghs “will certainly refuse to say anything when Hauptmann is executed,” as he is condemned to be Tuesday nigtt in the state prison at Trenton, N. J. For the last several weeks, the Lindberghs and their second son, Jon, have made their residence at the 14th century home, “Long Barn,” at Weald, Kent, which they rented from Nicol- son, The family has been away fre- quently, however, on motoring trips in England, Scotland and Wales. The work on the mechanical heart and lungs device, understood here to be a valveless pump, was begun by Lindbergh, in cooperation with Dr. "Rockefelter long before his arrival here. All London newspapers published lengthy dispatches from. Trento® Tuesday, describing Hauptmann’s “last hours,” but not a single line appeared in print about the Lind- berghs or coms icicle activities, SOLONS THREATEN | Lrenton Prison Is TO OVER-RDE FR} Lure for Morbid SEED LOANS’ VETO Western Lawmakers Demand That Farmers Be Allowed Cash From Special Fund Washington, March 31.—(?)—The senate was faced Tuesday by » threat of western solons to override the president's veto of the $50,000,000 emergency seed loan bill unless farm- ers on relief were permitted to obtain loans from the president's special loan fund, Senator Wheeler (Dem., Mont.), served notice of the group's attitude ‘at a conference of senators with rep- resentatives of the Farm Credit and Authoritative sources said Prime|to break a deadlock between the two Minister Stanley Baldwin's govern- ment reached a tentative decision to agencies as to which should make start next week the Anglo-French-|8ed loans to farmers on rellef, Belgian defense conversations, pro- peed tn oe eoeaene acto whic Hitler had offered objections. With Der Fuehrer’s formal counter- were reported to view with misgivings the parallel plan for British, French and Belgian army general staff con- ferences. ‘The Daily Mail said there was dan- &. of a “cabinet crisis” over the ue, METHODISTS GAIN Manila, March 31.—(7)—A net in- crease in membership of 4,451 was re- ported to a recent joint session of the Philippine and North Pholippine con- , chairman of the confer- ator Murray (Dem., Mont.) after Gov. Elmer Holt telegraphed him restric- ference of the Methodist Episcopal|tion upon eligibility of relief farmers church. The church’s membership in|to obtain loans was a “matter of the islands now totals about 88,000, |serious concern” in Montana, Fearing Blindness, Girl Drinks Poison in School Onaws, Iowa, March 31—(P)—A, . |grief-stricken family Tuesday be- reaved the dramatic death of 18-year- ;{old Ruth Hathaway, brilliant high’! school student, who drank a glass of poison in the high school locker room crumpled to the floor. In a few min- utes she was dead. I Bill clutched in her hand were four One was addressed to the fe ee eet Saas, Tee - lor '. Another was addressed to the fac- Before « group of incredulous clas-| uly, thanting net instructors. A’ mates, “Watch me commit suicide,” class- feales ues Dar 85 SAT: Te eerrecese to" he crponation teacher. was addressed to her The fourth the glass containing the) mative. Its contents were not di- poison tober ie Her classmates, vulge Terry, Rosina Junger and/ . Vingles, county Phyllis Smith, looked on with Un| oftiaity 2 coroner, pronounced her death s sul- » motivated by a fear she was) to blindness. * ee * * * * 2 8 FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE “a i ? — to ‘putiishiment, these four pictiires trace “the crime of -erimé the century” from the crib in the Sourlanfs mountains heme from the Lindbergh baby was stolen negrly four years ago to the ling brick deathhouse of the New Jersey state prison, where thé convicted kidnaper, Bruno Richard Hauptmann, stoic to the end, goes to his doom in the electric chair tonight, CITY FATHERS DEFE ACTION ON PROPOSED PORT SEWAGE PLANT City Attorney Instructed to Pre- pare Amendment to Zon- ing Ordinance The board of city commissioners at their regular meeting Monday night deferred action on the proposal to construct a sanitary sewage treatment plant at Fort Lincoln, The proposed construction would be made under a works progress administration grant. City Attorney Charles Foster was instructed to prepare an amendment to the present zoning ordinance for submission to the commissioners at the next meeting of the board. Create Sewer, Water District Ordinances creating sewer district No. 28 and water main district No. 30, both to serve the Park Hill addition, were passed by the beard, and the Ack’s Radiator shop was granted per- mission to move a wooden structure temporarily into the limits of the fire zone. T. R. Atkinson, city engineer, was instructed to submit to the board fig- ures on the estimated cost of discon- necting building mains from the sani- tary mains and connecting them with the storm water mains, The question of licensing delivery trucks in the city was referred to Foster. The board also instructed Myron Atkinson, city auditor, to re- fuse permission to use the auditorium to the League Opposed to War and Fascism. Will Buy Motor Grader Bids on the motor grader to be used by the street department will be opened at 8 p, m., April 13, the board decided. ‘The board approved the sale of lots 7 and 8, block 88, Williams Survey addition to David E. Johnson for $150; lots 1, 2 and 3, block 38, Flannery and Weatherby addition to R. A. Hoff, 911 Sweet St., for $75, and lots 9 and 10, block 68, McKenzie and Coffin addition, to A. G. Bahmer, 926 Seventh &t., for $75. Action was deferred on the offer of | T. C. Casey and FP. E. Young to pur- chase lots 1 and 2, block 40, Flannery and Weatherby addition. The Febru- ary report of Dr. health officer, was GRANT NETS $1,983.15 Carson, N. D., March 31.—Grant peopl netted $1,983.15 as result of the leasing here of 58 quarters of state .| and school lands. Highest price paid for a single tract of land was $90 and the low was $15. ” | bingy Section Crowde Crowded With Reporters and Curious Come to See Bruno Die Trenton, N. J.. March 1, N, J, Mareh 31. —(B)— Down through the lower end of the city the curious and the idle moved fel oo look upon the Srraniicn: where Bruno Richard arene an alt die tonight—unless the unexpected happens. It stands in a cheerless neighbor- hood of old brick and frame houses, of vacant lots and factories. Across HOFFMAN THREATENED Newark, N, J., March 31.—(P)—A telephone threat that Governor Harold G. Hoffman was going “to be bumped off” was received at police headquarters shortly before last midnight, apparently from a crank, the way from the entrance lie the dark silent waters of the old Delaware and Raritan canal. Today the place seemed drearier than ever. Police came out this morn- ing and roped off Third street to) keep back traffic. The street is to be patrolled all day and into the night, and only those with passes may enter the lines. In a dingy little store and tavern on a corner near the prison, telegraph keys clicked. Working men leaned against the bar or sat at bare tables looking through the smeared windows, watching the high brown walls, the barred windows, the towers where guards stood with riot guns. Soup Eater Growls A man ate a bowl of snapper soup and growled out noisy opinions about, the case. No one gave him much attention. There wasn’t much talk in the tavern, not much talk about Haupt- mann anyway. Now and then someone would drop a remark. Back in the grand hotels of the town, in the taprooms, the lobbies, the rooms of the guests, the prepara- tions went on for the trip down to the and the execution. Some thought of Mrs. Hauptmann and felt a kind of numbing dread. In a big empty garage, across from | the prison the press headquarters have been set up for tonight—telegraph keys, typewriters, tables and reams of paper. This in addition to the tavern quarters, The official witnesses will come to the prison at 7:15, hear a brief on how (Continued on Page Two) REVOLT PROBE BEGINS San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 31. —(@)—The United States grand jury began its investigation Tuesday into the cases of Pedro Albizu Campos and } force, Gangster Precedes Hauptmann notl sisted, Bronx. boy. Gor conspiring to overthrow the United| Hauptmann’s States government in Puerto Rico by| this second re: COURT OF PARDONS AND GOVERNOR DENY FUTHER CLEMENCY Bruno Denies Rumor That He Sent Word to Wife He Might ‘Talk More’ WENDEL CASE IS UNDECIDED Few Brief Minutes of Life Are Kidnap-Killer’s Because of Extra Execution Trenton, N. J., March 31.—(P)— The iron nerve of Bruno Richard Hauptmann cracked Tuesday— only a few hours before the ex- ecution he “broke down and was weeping freely.” (Copyright, 1936, A. P.) Trenton, N. J., March 31.—~ Bruno Richard Hauptmann, who had a mad dream he could kidnap a baby and capture a fortune, finally faces death to- night. Unless another of the swift, bewildering events that have punctuated his case should de- velop in the few hours that re- main, the obscure Bronx car- penter who became the most famous prisoner in the world, will pay with his life for the $50,000 ransom collected for the murdered Charles A. Lind- bergh, Jr., four years ago. The execution chamber at the state prison is ready. 8 chair has been tested, the wit- Nesses summoned, the execus tioner engaged. After 18 months of desperate legal struggle to slip from under the crush- ing weight of the ransom money found in his possession, the man from Kamenz, Germany, apparently has finally exhausted every weapon of escape, Hauptmann The hour set for his execution & 8 o'clock, but a Philadelphia gangster- “there will ‘Hauptmann’s strongest advocate be fore the pardons court was definitely committed against any further intere May Talk close to the Gol. and. Mrs, Chaties'A, 2Aeienay were in England. Dr. John F. Condon, wi known everywhere as sJutsler who paid the $50,000 ransom money in & Bronx cemetery to a man he later said was Hauptmann, was at his home in the Attorney General David T. Wilentz, the Russian-born attorney general who prosecuted Hauptmann, planned to remain at his home in Perth Am- Hoffman Available vernor Hoffman, whose in delaying Hauptmann’s execution prieve was explained by him as being due to his desire to Col Mark 0. Kimberiing, prison ware Col. Mark O. 5 ware den, that he would be constantly available during the day and up to the execution hour to take any action developments might warrant. ‘The prisoner’s wife spent the night in a Trenton hotel, i |