The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 2, 1936, Page 1

Fa] ‘ 4 | asi. | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ESTABLISHED 1878 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, APRIL 2,-1936 The Weather Generally fair tonight and Pris day; not qui PRICE FIVE CENTS Dilato MONEY OFFERED FOR Union Chiefs Line |EXTIMATE 40 DEAD Up With President SOIL BUILDING CROPS INNORTHERN STATES Is Addition to Payments for Planting Acreage to Con- serving Crops DOES NOT INCLUDE NW. D. No Subsidy Will Be Granted Un- less Farmer Actually Seeds This Year preparatic North Dakota is in the western Tegion. “These 7 said boone : i HE i For example, it. farmer who participates in the gram has a total of 100 acres in conserving and soil building may receive a maximum of | lar an acre me the total, or However, if he has pee acres in trees this year, he will be see at the rate of five dollars ove, an official continued, who has a total of 100 acres because of Bees hil ise Anti-T. B. Leader ANTE-TUBERGULOSS Dr. Fannie Dunn Quain Relin- quishes Office After Eight Years’ Service The board voted to continue this summer the work of Camp Grassick, children’s health camp at Laxe Isabel near Dawson, giving preference ‘as usual to the “contact child.” This Means that children from families in which tuberculosis is reported will be given first chance to attend the camp, provided they. themselves are not tu- i | bercular in any respect. acres at the new rates specified to- day. These regulations, Wallace said, will permit a farmer to accumulate credit for having maintained acreages of soil building and soil conserving crops in the past. AAA FIXES RATES OF PAYMENTS TO FARMERS Washington, April 2—()—Secretary ‘Wallace Thursday had fixed rates of payment ranging up to $2 an acre for soil building crops sown in the north central states under the new soil con- |’ servation program, Farmers are to be paid an average over the country of $10 an acre for land shifted from soil depleting to soil conservative crops. In addition they may be paid not to exceed $1 an acre for land planted in soil build- ing crops if they carry out new soil building practices. Under the rates announced Thurs- day, farmers would be paid $2 for each acre seeded to alfalfa between Oct. 1, 1935, and Sept. 30, 1936, up to the amount of their allowance for soil building crops. J.B, Hutson, one of Wallace's sien, explained how the “allowance” payments would work. If a Hs had 20 acres in alfalfa last year and plants 10 more, he would have an al- lowance of 30 acres. He could be paid $2 an acre on the 10 acres of newly seeded alfalfa or $20. If, however, he had only five acres last year and planted 10, his allowance would be $15, so he could receive only $15 despite the $2 an acre rate for alfalfa. In the same way, a farmer with 20 acres last year who did not add to his (Continued on Page Two) An Appreciation So many acts of sympathy and kindness were performed and s0 re- > E. Legere cae meager! come it he ea Mrs, Bernard 8. 4 examination of students who are found to be reactors, AMERICAN BUSINESS RAPS NEW TAX PLAN Manufacturers Call It ‘New Share-The-Wealth Pro- posal in Disguise’ National Association of Manufactur- ers, assailed the new $799,000,000 tax program before the house ways and means committee Thursday as “a new share-the-wealth proposal in dis- Noel Sargent, secretary of the or- ganization, suggested that congress postpone action on a “completely un- sound” tax plan that he said would bankruptcies, and in the meantime create a special commission to determine what changes are needed in existing tax policies, “The result of a forced distribution sults, One would, I think, be to in- renee be. nae bankruptcies and reorganizations.’ PROBE PHONE RATES St. Paul, April 2—()—An investi- gation of telephone rates in Minne- apolis, which commission members Soe ee Dien, bee bee ee ed by the Minnesota railroad warehouse commission, it was declar- jed Thursday. | HEADS ELEGT PRAY = strom’ rah aged ‘Labor's Nonpartisan League’ Is Formed to Aid Roosevelt Re-Election Drive Roosevelt and fight his foes in the election campaign. ‘The formation of “Labor's Nonpar- tisan League” and the start of its ==: PRANGE CHALLENGES R PEACE PLANS |S. AS ‘UNACCEPTABLE’ Paris to Insist on Carrying Out of Locarno Signatories’ Pledges (Copyright, 1936, Associated Press) Paris, April 2.—France, challenging AS TORNADOES HIT PORTIONS OF DIXIE Cordele, Georgia, Bears Brunt of Wind and Rain Storms Early Thursday AT LEAST 33 KILLED THERE Twister Destroys Two Schools Just Before Classes Were to Convene Cordele, Ga., April 2.—()—Spring wind and rain storms killed an esti- mated 40 persons in the southeast ‘Thursday, and caused more than $1,000,000 property damage, with the major loss centered at this South Georgia city of 6,880. “At least 33 were killed in Cordele,” City Manager John Brown said, “eight were white persons and 25 Negroes.’ Rescue agencies swung into action immediately proceeding to the scene by train and over rain-drenched high- ways, Seven storm deaths were Georgia, elsewhere in and South Carolina. A new baseball stadium, dedicated only Wednesday amid shouts and cheers of a throng, was converted into a hospital to take care of those unable to find room at other Cordele hospitals. Find Bodies in Homes R. L. Delke, an undertaker, seid seven bodies had been taken from splintered homes. “Ambulance, trucks and other motor vehicles are being pressed into ser- vice to bring in the dead, injured and “From the appearance of the mang- led victims, it is amazing that the death toll is as low as it has been.” Two infantry companies. and five doctors of the Georgia National Guard were dispatched to Cordele by orders of Gov. Eugene Talmadge to perigee . and:alq: the, estimated by Biewn to to have been killed here, other deaths were reported as follows: Lee county, Whitefield county, Ter- ell county, one each; Wilkes county, two; near Hampton, 8. C., one and (Gordo, Ala. one. Fine Homes 58; Headliners in Hauptmann’s Second Escape From Chair Bruno Richard Hauptmann was being snatched from the shadow of death when this picture was taken, showing Col. Mark O. Kimberling (in center), principal keeper’of the New Jersey state prison, reading to Newspaper men an announcement that he had postponed for at least 48 hours the stolid German car- penter’s march to the electric chair. MRS, STELLA MANN TAKES CONTROL AS "TRIBUNE PUBLISHER Name Is Elevated to Masthead of Newspaper in Place of Late Husband's Mrs. Stella Irene Mann, widow of ©. A. Pound of the Cordele Dis-|George D. Mann, Thursday became patch, after a tour of the finest resi- publisher of The Bismarck Tribune by dential section, said 25 of the best homes were “splintered by the wind, just as if a big charge of dynamite had been exploded in them.” City r Brown estimated the injured at “between 300 and 400 per- Adolf Hitler's peace proposals as a | S008.” “cunning plan” to split the Locarno powers and make Der Fuehrer dicta- tor of Europe, moved Thursday to op- pose the German program for liquida- tion of the Rhineland crisis. Premier Albert Sarraut and Foreign Minister Pierre-Etienne Flandin, met to decide upon steps to frustrate the reich move by preserving a united the] front of the Locarno nations. They arranged to submit their pro- gram for counter-action to the French cabinet Friday or Saturday. Insist on Reunion Official sources, declaring Hitler's Proposals “unacceptable” to France, looked for the government to insist upon an immediate reunion of Bri- tain, France, Belgium and Italy, sig- natories to the Locarno pact violated by Germany’s remilitarization of the Rhineland. Officials said Foreign Minister Flandin asked the British to ar- range for such meeting Saturday or | **' Monday at Brussels. The French government also was expected to insist upon an exchange of Fan aal aeaivanen SEreemete Lee vided in the original London plan of the four Locarno countries, on the basis of Hitler’s rejection of this pro- gram in his counter-proposals. See War in Program Hitler’s program, if carried out, un- doubtedly would “plunge Europe into blood and fire,” the noted foreign af- fairs expert Pertinax wrote in an in- terpretation representative of the bulk of informed French comment. original stand that Germany must be punished first for its treaty violation before new negotiations may be un- dertaken. The Austrian decision to call every able-bodied man between the ages of 18 and 42 into federal service, inter- preted here as a re-introduction of conscription, brought further worries to.the French government. $130 Quota Reached In Flood Campaign Having Pecad te quota of $130, | Te! the Burleigh county Red Cross Thurs- day discontinued its appeal for money persons of relatively small means. Among these was a gift of 25 cents sent in by ll-year-old Allan Wal- of Hereford, 8. D., who said “I am sending this money for the people who are suffering from the floods.” “Both the $40,000 senior and junior high school buildings were practically destroyed,” he said, “but luckily the blow struck before the hour for schoo) to start. “The twister hit the southwestern toward the northwest. There was prac- tically little damage in the business section, the tragedy having taken its major toll in the residential areas. The tornadoes came with heavy tains which raised southeastern riv- ers to threatening proportions, Borcherding Is Ill in Dickinson Hospital ago. New England, N. D., April 2.—Post- master H. A. Borcherding is seriously ill in the Dickinson hospital where he has been receiving treatment for Whe Dest Waa fox A Uver silnens 80d Borcherding, a member of the De Democratic State Central com- mittee, has been in poor health for much of the past winter. INDIANS TO GET MONEY Washington, April 2.—(?)—Senat Burton K. Wheeler, (Dem.-Mont.) in- troduced a bill Wednesday authoris- ing the secretary of the treasury to distribute to the Indians of the be ace feet reservation in Montana | virtue of her position as vice presi- dent of The Tribune corporation.. In this issue her name is elevated to the top of the newspaper's mast- head, @ place long occupied by the name of her. husband. Affairs of The Tribune will con- tinue to be in the hands of Archie O. Johnson as business manager and Kenneth W. Simons as editor, men whom Mr. Mann selected for his as- sistants many years ago and who have directed its affairs during most of the last three years when Mr. ¥}Mann was unable, because of illness, to give the newspaper his personal ay sage The job printing department will continue under the direction of Frank Milhollan. No change in the policy of the newspaper is contemplated. It will continue to be an independent publi- cation in line with the policy laid down by Mr. Mann when he first be- came publisher a score of years It will continue to fight for the in- terests of Bismarck and of Western North Dakota and for the same ideals and principles which its late pub- Usher espoused, LEGION ENTERTAINS 125 New England, N..D., April 2.—The local post of the American Legion was host to 125 men‘ of the community at its third big whist party of the sea- son Monday night. EARLY BILL ACTION SEEN Washington, April 2.—(?)—The Norris-Rayburn bill to set up a $410,- 000,000 permanent rural electrification funds| program was assured of early house allowed by the court of claims against | action Thursday when the rules com- the federal government. mittee agreed to its consideration. Nye ‘Itches’ to Get Into N.D.Campaign Washington, April 2—()—An early adjournment of congress was hoped for Thursday by Senator Nye, who said he wanted to hurry back to North Dakota and help “rid the state for all time of Former Governor Langer.’ While Nye declared his intention of peescctay Gov. Walter Welford for the three other North Dakotans on Capitol Hill indicated they would maintain a hands-off pol- tions. Frazier, who campaigned with two years ago, said he was to make a statement as to stand. Burdick said he out of the gubernatorial support whichever candi- nominated. Observers close ion have Frasier should take part in the fete betel; 8 King Edward Will Be Crowned in May, 1937 London, April 2—(#)—Prime Min- ister Baldwin announced to the house of commons Thursday that King Ed- ward will be crowned in May, 1937. |He said the exact date for the coro- nation ceremonies would be an- uriced ater." SPECIAL OPERATORS WILL RECORD VOTE HERE SUNDAY NIGHT Local Musicians May Appear on National Program as Bis- marck Is Honored “All right. All right. The tele- phone number in Bismarck is 8000 and in New York, Murray Hill 89-933.” Thus will the genial Major Edward Bowes intone over the radio Sunday night between 7 and 8 o'clock, and his voice will carry into thousands of American homes where rests the fate of the Major's stage-aspiring ama- teurs. Interest in Sunday night's program 1s especially strong in Bismarck, chosen as the honor city for April 5. Special operators and vote tabulators will be on duty at the local North- western Bell Telephone exchange as Bismarck takes its place with leading cities of the United States to be fea- tured on radio's currently most popu- Jar program. A direct open wire to New York will carry -the results of the voting here straight to the Radio City Music hall, where the early results are broadcast twice during the one-hour program. 90-Minute Voting Period Voting may be done here between 7 and 8:30 p. m., or one-half hour after the program's end. Louis Shields, New York representative of the spon- sors, who is in Bismarck this week making all preliminary arrangements, said that persons should not be dis- couraged if they get a “line’s busy” signal because practically all can be accommodated before the 90-minute voting period is up. Louis pointed out that individual members of the family must vote sep- arately but that 10 or more persons in a party may vote together if the person making the call gives the op- erator his or her name and address. Organizations must vote in groups of 25 or more or may send their com- bined votes to radio station KFYR. Two to Get Auditions ‘Two Bismarck persons have made applications and were slated to have auditions before the Major this week, but whether or not either would ap- pear during the Bismarck night had not been ascertained Thursday. Jeanette Weinstein, concert pianist, now studying in the Curtiss Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and Ches- ter Johnson, sousaphone soloist, who won the amateur contest conducted by the Bismarck Men's chorus, are| crease the two Bismarck youths having au- ditions this week. Shields said that if an order came through from New York to employ -| 40 special switchboard operators it ‘was generally an indication that per- formers from the honor city were scheduled to appear. Otherwise only 25 operators would be required. in| Thursday Louis had not been in- in) structed on how many girls to hire. Letters to all surrounding Missouri Legh Slope towns, urging residents to par- ite in the voting, went out from the Association of Commerce offices this week. LIFER, SIX YEARS IN PRISON, SEEKS NEW TRIAL FOR MURDER Cust Reinholt Charges Confes- sion He Killed Son Was Obtained Under Duress After serving six years of a life sen- tence for the confessed murder of his 8-year-old son, Gust Reinholt, former Stanton farmer, is seeking a trial for the crime on the grounds that his guilty plea was forced by “fear and intimidation” by Mercer county au- thorities in 1930. Reinholt’s attorney, C. L. Crum of Bismarck, appeared before Judge H. L. Berry of Mandan with a motion to withdraw Reinholt’s guilty plea and set the date of trial. Berry senten- ced Reinholt to life in the state peni- tentiary here April 21, 1930, In his motion Crum cites alleged intimidation, beating and threats of mob violence and death allegedly made by Henry Klindworth, then Megeer county sheriff, to obtain Rein- holt’s confession and plea of guilty. Supporting the contention, is an affi- davit by Otto A. Schreiber of Stanton, at that time Mercer county clerk of district court. The motion for withdrawal of the guilty plea cites six formal causes for the request, including claims Reinholt was not in a competent mental con- dition and had no attorney at the time he made the plea, and that the body of the boy allegedly drowned in the Missouri or Knife rivers has never been found and “no proof can be advanced that the boy is not alive.” Direct evidence of corpus delecti is required to establish a mur- der charge, Crum claims. Left Home With Son Early in April, 1930, Reinholt left his home near Stanton with his son Teddy. He had in his car also a gal- Jon jug of manufactured whiskey, He first went to Beulah, where he spent several hours drinking and talking. Then, still accompanied by the boy, he went to Ree, a town on the Missouri river about 18 miles northwest of Beulah. There Reinholt visited and drank with a family named Starr for sev- -eral hours, returning to Beulah late in the afternoon. He is unable to re- member whether the boy accompanied him back to Beulah or not, Reinholt states. He returned home late that night, dazed by liquor and unable to answer his wife's questions intelligently, af- fidavits state. The next day he ac- (Continued on Page Two) Grafton Voters for School Tax Increase Grafton, N. D., April 2.—()—Graf- ton voters, casting the largest vote in school election history, Wednesday ap- proved by 663 to 115 a proposal to in- the school tax levy from 18 mills to 22 or 23 mills. It is expected an additional $5,000 will be raised to provide for operation of the schools the remainder of this term, the 1936- 1937 term and the 1937-38 year. FDE FISHING DEEP Miami, Fla. April 2.—(#)—The heaviest fishing tackle aboard the U. 8. 8. Potomac was hauled out ‘Thursday by President Roosevelt. is anxious to find just what kind of fish inhabit this hole in the At- lantic—a thousand fathoms deep. The spot is about 280 miles southeast from here, “moonshine” or home- |! ry Jury Raises Bruno’s Hopes New Emoluments Offered Farmers for AAA Work/iwnnust ANOTHER ‘LAST FULL DAY’ IS COMMENCED FOR BABY KIDNAPER Kimberling Will Postpone Death Again If Grand Jury Is Still in Session WENDEL ARREST IS PROBED Lawyer’s Future Is Fulcrum or Which Hauptmann’s Life Is Balanced Trenton, April 2—(7)—A high state official said Thursday that an arrest was expected shortly of a member of the abduction gang which allegedly wrung a “con- fession” to the Lindbergh baby killing from Paul H. Wendel, dis- barred Trenton attorney. Trenton, N. J., April 2—(P}— Anna Hauptmann, after spend- ing almost an hour with her hus- band in the death house Thurs- day, expressed confidence she would again see him alive. She will not be permitted to see him again unless something intervenes to set back the execution date, as prison rules forbid family visite on the last day. Trenton, N. J., April 2—(P)— Col. Mark O. Kimberling, prison warden, said Thursday that if the Mercer county grand jury de- layed action in the Paul H. Wen- del case beyond the end of this week he would seek “legal advice” as to whether to stay the electro- cution of Bruno Richard Haupt- mann. (Copyright, 1936, Associated Press)’ Trenton, N. J., April 2—The Mer= cer county grand jury, now so deepe. ly into an investigation of the Lind= bergh baby murder that it may bring another death-hour execution stay for Bruno Richard Hauptmann Frie. day night, heard Gov. Harold G. Hoft- man and Attorney General David T. Wilentz Thursday. It appeared more and more likely that they would carry their inquiry into the morrow. ‘When the attorney general camé from the room where the grarid jury is considering whether to indict Paul H. Wendel for the Lindbergh baby murder he said there was “no basis” for an indictment “in this county, even accepting Wendel’s ‘confession’ as true.” “The confession claims the child died a natural death, that it fell from bed after it had been kept here for four weeks,” the attorney general said. “That doesn’t spell murder in this county.” Governor Hoffman, who was in the jury room more than an hour pre- ceding Wilentz, did not comment, and the nature of his testimony was not disclosed. Heard Three Witnesses When the jury recessed for lunch shortly after 2:30 o'clock this after- noon, it had heard three witnesses, the third having been Dr. Carroll T. Jones, superintendent of the hospital for the feeble minded where Wendel spent several weeks prior to his be- ing brought here late Saturday night and charged with the baby murder. With the statement by the attorney general that the jury did not appear near completion of its inquiry, the belief that Hauptmann would again escape the chair Friday night was greatly strengthened. Expect Jury Decision The jury, at whose request the Hauptmann execution was halted Tuesday night by Warden Mark O. Kimberling, ts expected to reach @ decision on an indictment before the 8 o'clock execution hour Friday. Should the jury still be considering the Wendel case when that hour comes, Colonel Kimberling intends to postpone the execution again, utiliz- ing to its fullest extent, if need be, his authority to execute Hauptmann any time during “the week of March 30.” Whether that authority extends itil midnight Saturday or midnight Sunday, Colonel Kimberling is not certain. If the circumstances make it necessary to delay the execution to the limit, he will ask for legal advice to determine when the “week of March 30” ends. The Wendel case was the principal pin on which Hauptmann’s hopes were hung. Parker Questioned Detective Parker, whose success in solving scores of murder mysteries in the past 40 years has been accome plished, he explains, by “just figgere ing things out,” was ready to answer any further questions the grand jury might ask. He testified at some length at Monday’s 11-hour session, Erwin Marshall, the Mercer county prosecutor who was opposed to hasty action on the Wendel case, had seve eral witnesses of his own, It was ene tirely within the jury's pore. 2 bors ever, to disregard the prosecutor, it has done from the outset of ‘the Weasel inquiry. The political angles of the case were receiving more and more atten- tion, although Governor Hoffman has insisted there never has been any po- litical purpose in his activities in seeking a eres solution” of it. ae grand eens THES. yerad by ams ‘Trenchard, He ns case LAS judge, is cone posed of 12 Republicans, nine Demo- crats and two members with no party affiliations. The foreman, Allyne Free- a He| man, is 8 Republican and a friend of the governor, who is a Republican. Prosecutor Marshall, whose leader- ship the jurors heve elected to dis- regard, is a Democrat, as is Wilents, (Continued on Page Two).