The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 2, 1937, Page 3

! Oy ~ GANGSTER BLASTED \_ @ bit of bone, and a 10 BITS WHILE GIRL IS MAKING ESCAPE) 2 Former Convict and Sweetheart Slugged and Left in Powder Warehouse probably near Sioux attention Saturda: attempting to trail WEATHER FORECAST West snow east pot older sout! er rally fal y ‘or South Dakota: Fair reat, cloudy east, snow extreme east early tonight; colder east and sou! night; Sunday fair. jinnesota—Snow, tonight, colder wave in ei Pe Sunday, snow in north Ing, much colder in sttong shifting winds. WEATHER CONDITIONS Beebe, heavy tonight, with cold ortion; mostly cloudy in east portion, a gangster trio who blasted a member of thelr band| to pieces with five tons of explosives and seriously wounded his woman companion here New Year's eve. An intensive search for the three veered to the Sioux City area after a rented car used by the there, Lee Bradley, South Dakota bank robber, Harry “Slim” Reeves;: ex- convict of Iowa, and William Nes- beth, Siqux City bartender, were the ™men hunted, Helen Sieler, 25-year-old Sioux City | 9 ‘woman, told police the trio were the men who took her and Harold Baker, former California convict, to a powder warehouse just outside the city, slug- ‘ged them with a hammer, and left them to be blown up by 3,300 pounds of dynamite and 7,500 pounds of blast- nad powder after firing shots into their les. Miss Sieler, recovering in a hospital here from eight bullet wounds and frozen legs and feet, identified the trio from police pic! the blast was felt for more than 50 miles and shattered windows in Sioux Falls business houses with approxi- 1 Wherein lay the unconscious body oh Baker after watching a mem- ber “of the band, sought for safe- . cracking, touch off a. sputtering fuse. “Bhe crawled to a nearby ditch where she was later picked up by a farmer, her feet and legs frozen. ‘The explosion blasted Baker to bits. Police had only a ws of flesh, iéce of cloth, “apparently from the dead man’s trous- ers as supposed bits of Baker's body. | p. Harry Falconer, city laboratory tech- nician, identified the human flesh, ‘Two persons besides Miss Sieler were in police custody in connection with the fantastic killings, sald by the Sioux ‘City woman to have been prompted by the fear of other members of the gang | M! that she or Baker would “squawk”| Min about a jewelry store safe burglary in Sioux Falls last week. ‘Tobin and former South Dakota con-| oy vict, was held by Sioux Falls police. His release was expected Saturday », after Miss Sieler failed to identify him ‘as a member of the gang. At Sioux City police held Mrs. Emme Nesbeth, wife of William and pro- prietor of the hotel where Miss Sieler and Baker lived prior to the slaying. ‘The only clue to the whereabouts of T theitrio sought came from Sioux City, Tow#l, Police there found an automo- bile which they said was used by the gangsters in escaping from Sioux Fatis. ‘The machine was rented from # Sioux City garage Wednesday by a man who said he was going to Lyons, Nebr. One large New York morey-lending Institution has $12,000,000 out on loan to 65,000 borrowers, If small indentations are counted, Maine has more than twice as much THE STAR SPANGLED MUSICAL ‘SENSATION! it gang was found BS tures, The concussion of | 5." y Missourl {1s in Mississipp! are low over ins and in the rek station ba: 28.24. Reduced to sea | Sunrise, 5.29 a, m. Sunset 5:08 p. m. WEATHER OUTLOOK Outlook for the period of Jan. 4 to For the Great Lakes region a con- siderable new with temperature mostly bel normal. For the upper M er Missourl ys—considerable snow north and rain or snow portion; temperature mostly below normal, For the northern and central Great Plains—not much precipitation indl- temperature mostly near or normal. PRECIPITATION For Bismarck Station Total ed month to date sippi and low- cated; below Accumulated excess to date NORTH DAKOTA POINTS Low- Hi TALENTED YOUNGER MUSICIANS OP CITY APPEARING SUNDAY |= Coliegians Now Doing Advanc- ed Study in Other Places Are Included The. holiday vacation which has brought many of the Capital City’s most promising young musicians home prompts the complimentary concert which the Mehus conserva- tory of music will present at 3:15 p. m., Sunday in the city auditorium. Everyone is invited to attend the musicale in which all performers will be present or former students of the conservatory. List of Performers Those who will be heard inclt Ethel Sandin, Mrs. Margaret Narum, | Sign Paul Ytreeide, Rachel Johnson, Char- lotte Sathre and Earl Benesh, vocal- ists; Paul Halloran ‘and Mary Flora ‘Wood, violinists, and Jane Watson of Mandan, Robert Kling, Alice Knowles, and Erma Weinberger, To Help Legislators In Finding Quarters Legislators arriving in Bismarck early next week will find ready for them at the Association of Commerce a list. of - rooms and apartments available during the two months of the legislative session. This list was through the efforts of Mrs, D. E. Shipley, city hostess. The association's office will be giad to give names to legislators them either over the telephone or at) the office, and also will be glad to give other aid to them in getting set- tled here. AIN AND ITALY SETTLE TROUBLES IN MEDITERRANEAN Gentlemen's Agreement That Recognizes Closer Co- operation as Necessary Rome, Jan. 2.—(#)—Great Britain Two of the performers who havejand Italy Saturday signed a gentle- nj been. heard much in choir work but/man’s agreement, an official com- not so much in recital are Mrs. Nat-| munique announced, guaranteeing the um and Miss Johnson, the latter s member of the Sterling public school faculty, Both have sung with the Trinity Lutheran choir, Miss John- gon sings del Riego's “Slave Song” status quo of the Mediterranean and drawing the two great powers to closer co-operation. Only a brief communique was pub- to announce the important lished and Mrs, Narum “None But the Lone-/ news that friction between England ly Heart” by Tschaikowsky. Kling Plays Grieg Work and Italy, which at this time last threatened to burst into open year An outstanding piano offering will conflict, had been settled. be the first movement of Grieg’s “Concerto in A Minor” to be played| announced, will be by Kling with Miss Belle Mehus pro-/ day. | viding the orchestral accompaniment BISMARCK, saewing Devis Lake, snowing Williston, clk Jamestown Fargo, snow Grand Forks, WEATHER AT one POINTS > Hil Pet. Calgary, Alt Chicago, 1 Denvel, Colo. pe erconscaestacn: Som te Seco cntece a: Helena, Mon: Huron, 8. Da Kamloops, B Kansas City, Los Angeles, Ca! City, Mont. clear -12 wrens sesne oror D 8. clear Roseburg, Ore, cldy .. St. Louis, Mo., fog . 3! Slat Lake City, U., snow 10 Santa Fe, N. Me: 8. 8. Marie, M. ao Seattle, Wash. cldy . Sheridan, Wyo. peldy. -10 Sioux City, I 24 Spokane, » Cldy .. 6 Swift Current, Ma WORRoMSwr ones Om. Reread [ Additjonal Churches FIRST CHURCH jay” Seventh at Rosser Wm. Lemke, Minister ae! rvice, nday School, Mrs. tblie worahig. pastor: “A Motto for A si deven minute message iven for the children. wats De MOK EYR, presenting the rt Hour.” m.—Christian Arthur Haar, leader. m.—Evening Evangelistic e. Sermon by the pastor: Making & Life. ‘We will cooperate with the other Endeavor protestant churches of Bismarck for | ¢, the week of prayer services. Wednes- day evening at 8:00 £, m. the services wilt be held in the First Evangelical church with Rev. Walter Vater of the McCabe Methodist church preaching on the subject “The Love of God.” North Dakota has 61 libraries in 41 counties. STATE Theatre TONIGHT ‘AND + SUNDAY ‘ISLE OF FURY” BOGART -LINDSAY- WOODS Also Comedy - News and Tailspin Tommy 7 and 9 p, m. 10e and 21c admission Starts Sunday (tomorrow) Sunday Shows 2-4-7-9 Mirth and Melody in a Joy Jamboree! “College Holiday” 3) arranged for second ¢ Vy turut ¢ work makes demands it plano. This|Galeazzo Ciano, for exception | foreign affairs, and Sir Eric Drum- The text of the agreement, it was published Mon- Meeting in the Chigi Palace, Count Italian minister for al tone quality and endurance which | mond, the British ambassador, have been outstanding qualities of |the document, this young soloist, Kling now is con- tinuing his music studies at the Uni- versity of Wisconsin. fs also plays for Miss Johnson. Leo Halloran, whose violin per- formances are of virtuoso quality, will play de Beriot’s “Ninth Concerto” with 0 | Mrs. Arthur Bauer at the plano. Charlotte Sathre, called one of the 5 singing “Hom- y del Riego. Benesh’s num! ‘Myrra” by Clutson. and theory of music, cert Etude in D Fiat” by Lisst, | Knowles, who has made numerous re- and who now at Terre dowsky’s “Alt-Wien.” ‘Miss Weinberger, who had her early musical’ education here and with Bertha Hagen of Fargo and who has judying in cobary | to give Evier. ‘The list of works to be offered and of performers assures music lovers that the afternoon will afford much! at the high school It was considered probable the ac- cord would assist in an eventful reg- Miss Mehus|Ulation of the Spanish civil war as & danger to the status quo of the Med- iterranean. Informed sources have reiterated however, that Italy does not intend to desert the Spanish Fascist insurg- ents. plementary. The accord was understood to be ber [strictly bilateral and does not con- template the entrance of other coun- tries—for example, France. It was believed, however, the French foreign office would issue a state- IS SLATED TONIGHT Bismarck basketball fans will have @ chance to compare Glenn Hanna's 1937 club with the Demons of former years tonight in a game to be played gymnasium, that is worth while musically. The| ing at 8:15 p. m. number of the. young people will be| the 1934 and 1935 Bismarck A quint composed of players from a high returning to their schools on the late| school teams has been picked to give prove lof the UAWA in widespread strikes V.F.W. Groups Plan Instruction Schoo BISMARCK TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1987 HOUSEWIFE-MAYOR FIGHTS GOVERNOR'S ORDER FOR OUSTER Bayonet-Backed Demand of Florida Executive Defeated By Court Command Daytona Beach, Fla,, Jan, 2—(P}— Defiant Mrs. Irene Armstrong clung to her mayor's job Saturday under summoned 200 guardsmen Friday to enforce the executive order seating a new city administration but the sol- diers were sent home soon after Judge Herbert Frederick Lien the “Nothing can be done before Mon- day,” the adjutant general said in dispersing his soldiers. The writ is returnable for argument in Judge Frederick’s court Monday afternoon Meanwhile, a detail of city police remained on guard in the city hall. Put Cots in Office Mrs. Armstrong and other officials named in the ouster retired to their homes after they had provided their offices with cots. ‘The housewife-mayor orally pro- urday as @ second New Harry Wilcox, designated by the Sholtz-named commissioners a5 , said “our appointments most ly will stick. This is an eman- cipation for the tax-payers and citi- zens. We are going to return the gov- ernment of Daytona Beach to the people. Wilcox Denied Entry Wilcox was denied entry to the city hall after the adjutant general Fri- day night declared him the highest civil authority in the city. Governor Sholtz is to leave the gov- ernor’s chair next Tuesday and will be | ¥ succeeded by Fred P. Cone. Before becoming governor, Sholts lived at Daytona Beach. ‘The removal order charged the Arm- strong administration with malfeas- ‘ance in office, neglect of duty and in- competency. Mrs. Armstrong recently was named mayor by the commissioners, succeed- ing her husband who r say- ing he believed Sholtz intended to re- AUTO UN AGN WILL MEET SUNDAY Coughlin Calls for Industrial Peace in New Year's Day Broadcast Detroit, Jan, 2—(#)—Homer Mar. the latest communication of the Gen- eral Motors corporation until after the general conference of U. A. W. A. start-| representatives at Flint Sunday. Union delegates from 10 cities will confer Sunday on a collective bar- gaining proposal to be submitted to General Motors, the principal target which closed seven of the corpora- tion’s plants and left 30,000 workers the coming encounter with Dickinson | idle. on Jan. 9. i Members of the alumni quit will Elfred Elofson, and Neil Department leaders of the Vet-|include Jim McGuiness, center; Ollie erans of Foreign Wars and Auxiliary will assist local unit officers in con- ducting a school of instruction, 0} Il members of the two organiza- tions, here Sunday. The school will follow a 12 o'clock luncheon in the Croonquist, forwards, and Bud Kens, | make Biliy Owens and Evan Lips, guards. Bud Beall in the fore court, Bob Ta- Grand Pacific hotel, for which reser- | Vis at center and Glenn Enge and Bob vations can be made with Bere Peterson Sherwin, Harry Bernstein, V. ind Mrs. Malvin son, auxiliary president, joine urday in urging that there be a attendance of local members. ‘FLU’ KILLS 521 commander, Sat- large in the back court. Community Players Meet, Monday Night A variety program and a business session will make up the January |¢ Chicago, Jan. 2—(7)—Dr. Herman| meeting of the Bismarck Community N. Bundesen, Chicago health com- Players missioner, reported Saturday that 521/ their little theatre quarters in set for 8 p. m., Monday, in persons died of influenza and pneu-| World War Memorial building. monia in Chicago last month, in De-| usual an invitation is extended to cember, 1935, the same disease took| persons interested in dramatic 330 lives, work, A change from the second day of month is being made John Starnes, junior forward, shot| ruling that another time will be chos- the first basket of this season for|en when the regular date the Alabama cage team. CAPITO Saturday. Last Times Today SEE THE BEST! “Gold Diggers of 1937” More stars, songs and girls than ever before. STARTS SUNDAY SHOWS AT 2- 4-7-9 — 25c to 7:30 If you enjoyed “Theodora Goes Wild” While the automotive factories re- mained shut down for the New Year's holiday week-end, the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin emerged from retirement to a New Year's day radio plea for “industrial peace.” The Royal Oak priest called upon laboring men to be “sensible Chris- tians” and upon industry to let Jesus Christ “sit as chairman of the your board of directors.” He expressed the fear that industrial strife “threat- ens our prosperity with a new furore.” CONTINUE AN | 52) cama [| BOLITICS By PERTINAX is under no obligation to keep the assistants employed under Harold itgoing commissioner. Hagan is under no obliga- 1 Nu2s=. NEWS Births Daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Sundby, 2123 Main Ave. at Friday, St. Alexius hoxpital, Daughter, Mr. and Mrs, “John W. Meisner, 402 Fourteenth St., at 8:17 p.m, Eriday, Bismarck hospital, Agaton 2p. m, Written oaths of office were filed with Secretary of State James D. Gronna Saturday by T. H. H. Thore- sen, leutenant governor; Attorney General P. O. Sathre, and Oscar E. Erickson, state insurance commis- sioner, , Purchase of complete stock of the Dickinson Theatre company by F. E. Wetzstein and J. K. Kennelly, both of Mandan, and F. G. Hallowell, Jamestown, was announced Saturday | Rindahl, by the new owners, Wetzstein will be president of the company, Ken- Nelly, vice president and Hallowell, secretary-treasurer, who will move to Dickinson to take over active man- agership of the two theaters. H. N. Jenson, supervisor of adult education classes for the WPA, an- nounced Saturday that all classes will resume work Monday on the usual schedules. They were dismissed this week because of the holidays. GIVES OUTLINE OF 1937 PRAYER WEEK Six Pastors Will Preach Ser- mons in Bismarck Churches Next Week Bismarck pastors will outline to their congregations Sunday plans for this city’s participation in the 1937 nation-wide week of prayer, which officially starts Jan. 8, according to William A. Lemke, new secre- tary-treasurer of the Bismarck Min- isterial The o! 1 opening in Bismarck will not take place until Monday when there will be inaugurated a series of 8 o'clock sermons which will continue throughout the week. The public is invited to attend all of the exercises, which will be held accord- meee the following schedule: poner First Baptist church, Rev. R. E. Smith speaking on “The Reality of God”; Tuesday, “First Presbyterian church, Rev. Ellis L. Jackson, “The Wisdom of God”; Wednesday, First Evangelical church, Rev. Walter E, Vater, “The Love of God”; Thursday, German Baptist church, Rev. F. E. Logee, “The Suf- ese of eae Friday, McCabe Methodist Epi ppal church, Major Herbert Smith, “The Saviorhood of God,” and Saturday, Salvation Army citadel, Rev. Benjamin Schlipf, “The Kingdom of God.” General theme for the 1937 obser- vance is “The Gospel of God,” Rev. Lemke states. The new secretary-treasurer and “other officers of the association en- tered upon their duties with the first day of 1937," The others are Rev. resident, and Major Smith, vice-president. The retiring leader is Rev. Logee. Formal, installation of the officers will occur at the January session at 2 p. m., Tuesday in the Bismarck hospital nurses’ home reception room. CONTINUED from page one: Gresham Machen Dies of Pneumonia siclan persuaded him to abandon his return east and enter the hospital. Head of Seminary Dr. Mechen was head of the Wes! minster Theological seminary in Phil- adelphia, and one of the founders of the Presbyterian Church of America, organized last June. 7 He was elected first moderator of the new church and served until the second general assembly in Philadel- phia last November. Dr. Machen, a prominent theolo- gian, was at one time on the faculty of Princeton Theological seminary, Princeton, N. J., but left his position there in 1929 to found the Westmin- ster seminary. by Assembly Si ‘He was one of several Presbyterian 8 the suspended by general assembly of the Presbyterian church in the U. 8. A. last spring at Syra- . | cuse, N. Y., for refusing to resign from labor. in the highway department and the state land department are under the control of boards of which the gov- leading member go easy probably expectation is Hist the highway department mill and elevator but post until the the term the independent board for Presbyter- fan foreign missions which he had helped organize as a protest against policies of the mission board of the Dr. Machen and his followers re- signed from the Presbyterian church in the U. 8. A. and established the new church, in what he termed a protest against the “modernism” of the parent church, Dr. Machen was born in Baltimore, July 28, 1881. He was educated at Johns Hopkins and Princeton univer- sities, and ordained into the Pres- byterian ministry in 1914. He served on the faculty at Princeton Theologi- cal seminary from 1914 to 1929. MURPHY DROPS DEAD Valley City, N. .D, Jan, 2—(F}— John Murphy, 55, section hand many years, dropped death while shoveling snow on the depot platform here Fri- day, (4. LORD, PIONEER BANKER OF STATE, 1S DEAD AT CANDO Towner County, Business Man Was Long Prominent in Civic, State Affairs Cando, N. D., Jan. 2—(?)—Curtis J, Lord, 75, pioneer Cando and. North Dakota banking figure, died of a paralytic stroke at his home here Wednesday. A past president of the North Dakota Bankers association, he had ‘served as assistant cashier of the North Shore bank of Devils Lake in 1886-87, cashier of the North Dakota bank of Churche Ferry in 1887-88. In 1888 he organized the Towner County bank of Cando, and was cashier un- til 1898, when he was named presi- Gent, serving until 1901. At the time of his death he was president of the First National Bank of Cando, which he formed in 1901. becoming its president then. He was also vice president of Thompson Realty company. ' Prominent in civic and state ai fairs, he served four: years as state railroad commissioner and was on the first board of the North Dakota Tuberculosis sanitarium. Lord also was @ member of the Cando city council four years, and mayor six. He was a pioneer Mason. Before starting his banking career he was assistant postmaster of Shak- opee, Minn., where he was born in 1862, Leaving the postoffice he went to Devils Lake and was assistant postmaster there in 1885-86, Funeral services will be in the Con~ gregational church, of which he was @ member, Sunday at 2 p. m., with Rev. G. E. Denison officiating. Survivors are one son, Vine of Cando; two sisters, Mrs. Salome Simar of Cando and Mrs. Sadie Simpson of Minneapolis, and two brothers, Clinton D. Lord of Park River and Harry Lord of Cando, STEEL RECORD SET Cleveland, Ji 2.—(AP)—The magazine Steel in a statement aturday world output of steel in 36 “topped the 120-million-ton mark, thus exceeding all prior rec- ords in the history of steel making.” North Dakota had 27 flour mills in 1932. McCabe Methodist Episcopal Church Corner of Fifth Street and Thayer Avenue Sunday, January 3, 1937 Walter E. Vater, Pastor Morning Worship, 10:30 2. m. Sermon Subject “The Untried Way” Special music at both services. Evening Worship, 7:30 p. m. Sermon Subject “A Rash Resolurion” A hearty welcome awaits you., STARTING /937 A 5-Day Sale of Cheering fresh: 1937) | Vaaltuos Getotitoa rash tartin 1937 by making de Purses, at Owl. ones and thin ones, will “cheer” All ‘ for these money-saving Food Values.Comein. -, i RED OWL “ALL PURPOSE” FLOUR 49 Bag $1.99 High Quality Guaranteed—2%-lb. Beg 97 i PRUNES «85.99% “OUR FARIBAULT’—WHITE SWEET CORN 372! CEREAL 33° 17% ' TANCY CRISP WISCONSIN PACE. 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