The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 26, 1937, Page 3

Bree FOR Ve WILL ‘BE ERECTED AT 215 MANDAN ST. BY JAMES HOLKUP fwo Other Building Permits Is- sued at City Hall During Last Week A 15-room, 2-story apartment cost- ing $13,000 is going to be constructed at 215 Mandan street. James Holkup is the builder, J. C. Beattie the con- tractor. Permit for*its construction was tak- en out at the city hall during the last week. Two other building permits were issued@at city hall during the last week. They are: Marcus Satler, alter frame dwell- ing at 417 Eleventh St., So., estimated cost, $1,200. O. H. Hagen, construct garage in biock 74, original plat, estimated cost, $500, John Sloan, contractor. CUSICK COULD TELL RIGHT FROM WRONG, PHYSICIANS STATE Fargo Doctor Declares Defend- ant Suffered From Delir- ium Tremens Cando, N. D., July 26.—(%)—Two physicians took the stand Monday as the state. gave rebutal arguments in the trial of Daniel Cusick, Bot: tineau dry goods merchant, for mur. cer of a fellow-townsman, Dr. Frank Remde. The state examined seven witnesses Monday with Dr. John Crawford of New Rockford, and Dr. Royal C. Gray, Minneapolis who examined Cusick at the start of the trial testifying that he was not suffering from amnesia, Asked if they thought that the de- fendant was able to distinguish right from wrong, both physicians declared they thought he could. After the defense rested its case Saturday night, the state resumed ex- amination this morning, placing Ben Leum, Bottineau mechanic on the witness stand. In Right Mind Leum’s testimony tended to show the defendant was able to know what he was talking about the night of the shooting. After observing the activities of “Friends of New Germany” in the U. S., Rev. L. M. Birkhead, above, of Kansas City, has asked for a special visa to visit Germany and organize branches of the “Friends of Democracy” there. He wants the privilege of “marching through German streets carrying the Stars’ and Stripes and shouting the slogans of Jeffersonian democracy, of setting up semi-military camps on Nazi soil, and of carrying on secret. and open propaganda against Nazism.” NEW VIOLENCE Is REPORTED IN C10 CLEVELAND STRIKE 20 Injured in Clash Between Police and Picket at Re- ! public Steel Gate Cleveland, July 26.—(#)—Steel strike violence broke out anew Monday. At least 20 persons were injured in riot- ing at Republic Steel corp.’s Cor- tigan-McKinney plant in Cleveland; 11_were arrested. Clashes occurred when police broke through CIO picket lines. Tom Glowacki, 51-year-old picket, suffered critical injuries when he was run down by @ car containing four men trying to enter the plant. Two policemen were hurt. Some 1,000 strikers and sympathiz- ers, witnesses said, massed around one THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY, JULY 26, 1937 15-Room, $13,000 A RGED IN PLACE OF ‘ ‘ | IJ Business Leech STATE CANE CHER People’s I Forum Editor's Note—The Tribune wel- comes letters on subjects of inter- est. Letters dealing with contro- versial religious subjects, which attack Individuals unfairly, oF which offend good taste and fair play will be returned to the writ- ers. All letters MUST signed. If you wish to use udonym, sign the pseudonym nd your own name beneath it. eserve the right to delete such parts of letters as may be necessary to conform to this policy and to re- quire publication of a writer's name where justice and fair play make it advisable. Letters must be limited to 600 words, A FINE, LARGE BRICKBAT Editor, Tribune: Now, that the strike is off and lost for the workers, it could possibly be of interest to try to analyze this queer affair. And queer it has been —and not least the part the Tri- bune had in it “on behalf of the taxpayers.” This writer had no part in it. He was merely an Argus-eyed observer on the fence. The Tribune has always been ready to brag about “the high wages and of the high standard of Amer- ican living,” but it never bothered to add, with a sigh: “But, alas, not in our vicinity.” And when it had a chance to do some brooming in front of its own doorstep it looked like it had lost all interest in; its “high wages and standard of living.” We were informed that the men had from 20 to 30 cents an hour. $1 60 to $240 a day. That was to provide for the “high standard of living” in Bismarck, probably the most ex- pensive of all North Dakota’s cities to live in! Some of the men must have had to work from 10 to 14 days to make up for the rent alone! The Tribune noted some of the men wanted to continue to work at that wage. Perhaps I can explain it. |“The taxpayers will provide!” If they actually needed anything — doctor, medicine and hospital—the taxpay- ers of Burleigh county have had, have and will continue to foot the bills! The other men wanted to make living wage, pay their own way and become independent again. Per- haps even the Tribune will admit that prosperous firms which refuse to pay their workers a living wage but let the taxpayers make up the deficiency are hardly of much value to a community. ; These two firms are exporting firms. The economic conditions in Bismarck and Burleigh county are of no consequence to them except when buying and with reference to wages paid their labor. A business man is not a speculator. Scrap iron “I said “hello, Dan’ when he passed | of the approaches to the plant’s main | always in demand and is sold ex- me, and he replied ‘hello, Ben,’ Leum declared. R. F. Dahl, Mrs. Wilma Gorder and Walter Gorder, all of Bottineau, also testified. Mrs. Gorder testified that about 5:55 p. m. the night of the shooting, Cusick was working and seemed “ner- vous but no more than normal: Her husband corroborated this testi- mony. __The defense was expected to bring in several more witnesses this after- noon, Cusick is charged with “wil- fully and knowingly” shooting the Physician June 17. Cusick Saturday testified his mind was a “blank” and he did not remember anything from June 15 to June 21, three days. after the shooting. The dry goods merchant asserted he had been drinking and was pre- ceded on the stand by Robert Ost- field of Fargo who asserted Cusick was suffering of delirium tremens. INDIANA MAN DIES Washington, July 26.—()—Charles Alexaader Korbly, 66, representative in congress from Indiana from 1900 to 1915, died Monday after an illness of several weeks. From 12 to 16 tugs are required to dock the Queen Mary, British liner, in New York harbor. _—_—_—___——_—_—_——— PLUMBING “By Men Who Know How” Consult us on all Plumbthg, Heating, Gas. Appli- ance, Air Conditioning, Radiant- fire Heaters, Fire Extinguishers, Sewer Tile Requirements, Com- H. A. THOMPSON & SONS Plumbing - - eee Gas 205 Seventh St, Phone 64 CALL French & Welch Tin Shop PHONE 141 500 PATTERNS TO CHOOSE FROM entrance, About 100 officers, many on horses and on motorcycles, attempted to clear a path. At first only boos and cat calls came ; actly as an elevator sells wheat. Bones also are always in demand. They make a very valuable fertilizer. Wool, skins and hides are exporting trom the crowd, but as more cars car- | @rticles. The tens of thousands of ying non-strikers passed through the line rocks flew from the strikers, po- lice said. : In melees which followed, Mounted Patrolman Rowley Oker was hit in the back of the head. He remounted and charged a crowd of 300 on the sidewalk, witnesses said, bringing his night stick down on the head of a striker, Matibida Mnauos, 35, who col- lapsed under the blow. After the violence, first here since Republic reopened its Cleveland plants July 6, the strikers marched on city hall in.a mass protest against police action. Their ranks swelled and the milling crowd was estimated at al- most 5,000 persons. A committee of 15 carried a protest <0 Mayor Harold H. Burton. News Guild Will Hold Member Referendum New York, July 26—(7)—The Amer- ican Newspaper Guild Monday had | ing granted the first membership refer- endum since its organization—a ref- erendum to test whether the guild will remain within the CIO’s ranks. The board also adopted unani- mously a resolution banning from participation in the referendum bal- lotting all members who joined the guild since June 1, a week before the opening of the St. Louis national con- vention which voted for CIO affili- ation. This resolution affected especially business office, circulation and other department employes who would share membership with the editorial workers under the CIO's vertical union plan. Fred J. Hessinger PLUMBER 410 Tenth Street Phone 1603 PROMPT GUARANTEED SERVICE No job too large—No job too emall FOR Insurance of every kind SEE Obert A. Olson 106 ra st. Bismarck PHONE 250 when you redecorate with IMPERIAL WASHABLE WALLPAPER Com r beautiful assortment of new pat- terns. inane Caria” how inexpensive they are. rabbit skins exported from Bismarck, to be made over into “Silver fox,” “Hudson seal” and what not, have undoubtedly made a very handsome Profit. And that explains probably why the firms refused to open their books. This business is based on the farmers. With some intelligent co- operation and leadership the farm- ers could easily establish similar businesses of their own. In the beginning of the strike the firms stated that they were satis- fied with the situation. “They were money ahead.” Later one of them came with a threat, a puerile bluff, to move to’South Dakota. They could not operate their plant in Bis- marck! The “money ahead” bluff had suddenly been forgotten. They were “to be protected” in South Da- kota, a protection they had refused to accept in Bismarck. Neither the firm nor the Tribune cared to point out that no protection can hinder a strike. And the firms conduct dur- this strike would undoubtedly be kept in memento in South Da- kota—as it would be here. If Anstrom was correctly quoted: “ready to receive the strikers with machine guns,” it will probably be to the future regret of the sheriff. If a few tongue waggers had expressed such silly bravado as to storm the county jail, exaggerated on the wings of gossip, it had hardly been worth a smile. A peace officer must, above all, keep a cool head and add oil to the fire with that sort of remark. Those men are probably among the most willing workers in Bismarck, consider- ing the kind of work they are per- forming. I am afraid the sheriff will have future reason to regret that re- mark, As for.the shooting, the Tribune hardly wrote on behalf of the taxpay- ers when it expressed its satisfaction with the acquittal and its tip to the state’s attorney. I have seen “taxpay- ers” shake their fist in indignation when arguing it. The man must have pulled his gun while still in the cab, but, by the grace of God, nobody was killed. A job may be precious but hardly worth murder—yet. If the “nine old men” should need & tenth, it is not likely The Tribune will be able to point him out. On the other hand, the party who merely performed some tongue wagging acro- batics got 60 days. A queer justice. However, it might be a lesson to labor in Bismarck that outside agitators and leaders will not be appreciated. It was not merely the laborers who lost the strike but businessmen of Bis- marck and the taxpayers of Burleigh county as well. I want to point out and to repeat: Convictions Are Object of Drive Dewey Carries Against Racketeers Editor's note: A remarkable drive against rackets is underway in New York City. The Tribune today presents the first of a series of four dramatic stories, telling how America’s No. 1 “racket buster” Thomas £. Dewey is carrying on his cam- paign. By ROGER D. GREENE New York, July 26—()—“Guilty! ++» Guilty! ... Guilty!” One hundred and eighty-two times, the voice of Jury Foreman John M. Heaton called out the verdict. on the seven men at the bar—defend- ants in New York's $2,000,000-a-year restaurant shakedown racket. Slowly, their cynical smiles faded. Their heads trooped. “, .. Guilty!... Guilty! .. . Guilty!” At the end, they sobbed. They shouted hysterically. “I'm not a racketeer! I’m a respectable business man. I’ve gota wife and family!” They tried to shield their faces, swore and struggled. Bailiffs- bore them to prison, That was last March 26. The city applauded another climatic triumph in 35-year-old Thomas E. Dewey’s career as special rackets prosecutor} in the city of New Rork. Has Guarded Office Quietly, Dewey went back to work. In his sound-proof, closely-guarded headquarters on the 14th floor of the Woolworth building, in downtown Manhattan he directed his staff of 40 aides in gathering new evidence. Then he “cracked down” again and etait fresh terror into the “invisible empire” of organized crime—aimed not alone at the flashy gang-type criminal but also at the mild-appearing racketeers who like to think of themselves as “respectable” and not as blood-sucking leeches preying on legitimate business to the tune of more than $100,000,000 a year in New York City alone. i ae ipapesnillgh at devil” in his father’s country newspaper shop in Owosso, Mich. then a graduate of the University of Michigan, claas of '23, Tom Dewey came to New York un: decided whether to be a singer or a lawyer. The law won. He~ entered Columbia university and two years later emerged with a bachelor of law degree. In 1931, - he was appointed assistant United States attorney, and that same year saw him plunge into the investigation of & $100,000,000 ring of realty racke- teers who milked victims from coast to coast. Watches ‘Dutch Schultz He was taking an interest, too, in the financial affairs of Arthur “Dutch Schultz” Flegenheimer. Investigating the Dutchman’s in- come and tax payments, Dewey found the beer baron had deposited $856,- 000 in the last six months of 1930—at the rate of $32,900 a week or about $5,500 a “working” day—without pay- ing Uncle Sam a nickel. Dewey was also appearing in court against Jack “Legs’ ‘Diamond, who at that time had already survived three gun-fire attacks and had gained the soubriquet of “the clay pigeon of the Underworld.” The youthful prosecutor won & four-year prison term conviction against Diamond, but “Legs” wrote his own doom by appealing and gain- ing freedom on bail. The furtive little gangster died in a blast of Tommy-gun slugs in Al- bany, Dec. 38, 1931. In 1933 Dewey turned the heat of income tax investigation on Dutch Schuitz, Waxey Gordon, Ciro Ter- ranova, the “artichoke king,” and Terranova’s successor, Joe “Muskie” Castaldo, who harvested more than $9,000,000 in three years by cornering the artichoke market. Gordon Indicted He got an indictment charging Gordon with defrauding the govern- ment on taxes on $1,626,890 for the two-year period 1930-1931, Waxey fled into hiding, and Dewey | light was confronted by a series of death- silenced witnesses—no less than four men murdered to seal their lips from pasted against the fugitive Gor- It was apparent that when the last witness had been “rubbed out,” Waxey would calmly reappear and laugh at Dewey. The only way to stop the murders was to get Gordon. Dewey got him, capturing him at his Catskill hunting lodge — a ludicrous figure, snoring open-mouthed, with a revolver. under his pillow. The jury convicted Gordon on four counts of conspiracy and evasion of federal income taxes. He was sent- enced to 10 years in prison. The underworld now bean to get jittery about this young prosecutor. Death threats bombarded him. Dewey laughed. The Gordon conviction “mad Dewey's reputation, and in 1933 he became chief United States attor- ney. Lucrative offers him. The underworld breathed easier when he retired to build up a $50,000-a-year Private law practice in the next two yers—then only 33 years old!—until, in 1935, stirring events called him back into public service once more. (Tomorrow: fighting terror with ) firms who tefuse to pay | terror. Prosperous their labor a living wage but prefer to pass the buck to the taxpayers are fl | of little value to s community. Fred Knudsen. Editor’s Note: The Tribune took no sides in the struggle. It mere- ly reported the news accurately and—it thought—fairly. N. P. INCOME IS UP St. Paul, July 26.—()—The North- ern Pacific railway Monday reported net income for June, after allowing @ credit of $1,042,107 as a result of the amendment of the railroad re- tirement act, of $1,684,088, an increase of $1,139,100 over June, 1936. Wild Life Association and Izaak Walton League to Spon- sor New Law Jamestown, N. D., July 26—(P)—A bill providing for a state game and fish commission of six members to re- place the present one-man commis - sion will be initiated and placed be- fore the voters of the state at the next general election, it was decided at the joint session of the North Da- kota Wild pera aarp an ee Walton league here ie The matter was introduced by E. H. Mattingly, Jamestown, who attacked the state administration for playing Politics with the game and fish com- mission. “How long are the sportsmen of North Dakota going to allow this.im- portant office to remain a political football and the governor to use it to pay a political debt?” Mattingly de- manded. About 80 sportsmen attended the banquet at which the action was taken and which followed a tour of the Arrowwood lake game refuge Project, Stone Is Re-elected Howard L. Stone, New Rockford, was re-elected president of the Wild Life association; Dr. J. R. Pence was named vice president; and J. G. Owen, Kindred, secretary-treasurer. The following eight men named on the board of directors: Fred Dewey, Mott; Myles Ronzheimer, Rogers; J. E. Campbell, Jamestown; B. E. Pederson, Stanley; H. G. Schiefer, Kenmare; 8. R. Livergood, Wilton; Ed Leiby, Ellen- dale, and 8. Viasoff, Beach. Four additional directors will be named by the executive committee after an in- vestigation of the districts not rep- resented by nominations or present Girectors. fi To Survey Game Conditions After a discussion of game condi- tions, it was voted to leave the mat- ter of open season suggestions to the board of directors, who are to send out questionnaires in their respective districts and confer with the state game and fish commissioner in the same manner as this question was decided last year. Reports from va- rious parts of the state as to game conditions were for the most part pessimistic, but it was explained by Commissioner Hulterstrom and others that it is still too early to judge the number of game birds in the field. Bernie Maurek, director of the fed- eral biological survey, and Commis- sioner Hulterstrom were among the principal speakers at the banquet. The election of the Isaac Walten league was to be held Monday. {1 ARE KILLED IN NORTHWEST STATES Automobile Accidents, Drown- ing and Lightning Send Death List Upward Minneapolis, July 26.—(7)—Violence took the lives of 11 Northwest resi- dents over the week-end, William Hanson, 53, 8t. Paul, was Killed when he was struck by a car. Etnest J. Eggers, Des Moines, was killed when his car struck a tree near Morristown, Minn, Harold Rockwell, 37, of Elysian, Minn., died in the same accident. his car crashed into a ditch north of Minneapolis. Thomas P. Carroll, 33, Cloquet, Minn., drowned in the St. Louis river, Bogart, 23, Ashland, Wis., died from injuries received when his car struck a bridge. Henry Pakkala, 50, farmer living near Wadens, Minn., was killed by itning. An unidentified man, about 70, was killed last night three miles east of. Eau Claire, Wis. when struck by a car driven by Charles Emanuel of Fall Creek. Nancy Bedeau, 36, Chippewa Indian woman, struck and fatally injured by an automobile near Walker, Minn. > | Today’s Recipe | —___________—__¢ Graham Cracker Pie Shell Seventeen graham crackers, % cup sugar, % cup melted butter. ‘With rolling pin, crush crackers to fine crumbs. Add sugar. Then work in butter and mix thoroughly. Pat this cracker paste into pie pan. Run ito moderate oven (360 degrees F.) for about 14 minutes. Cool, with fresh fruit mixture and BISMARCK PAINT & GLASS CO. WIN CUP DOUBLES Beat British Pair in 4 Sets; Final Victory Tuesday Is Likely Wimbledon, Eng. July 23—(P}— Overcoming surprisingly stubborn re- sistance, Don Budge and Gene Mako whipped C. R. D. Tuckey and F. H. D. Wilde in the doubles Monday, 6-3, 7-5, 7-9, 12-10, and gave the United States a 2-1 lead over Great Britain in the Davis cup challenge Injuries Prove Fatal To 2nd Crash Victim Faribauit, Minn, July 26—(>)— Harold Rockwell, 37, of Elysian, died early Monday at St. Lucas hospital, the second fatality resulting from an auto crash four miles southwest of Elysian Sunday. Ernest J. Eggers, Des Moines, died shortly after the crash. Earl 8, Kay, 41, Des Moines, another victim, was reported as still in a critical condition suffering from & severe brain injury. Rockwell Ported slightly improved Monday but still in critical condition from skull fracture in an accident 12 miles north of Faribault on the Lyndale high- way Sunday afternoon. round with two more singles matches yet to be played. With that one point advantage,| According to statistics, the right American supporters now are confi-|rear tire of an automobile is the one dent Budge will whip Henry Wilfred | Most frequently punctured. (Bunny) Austin in the final singles matches Tuesday for the clinching point even if Frankie Parker bows to Charles Edgar Hare in the opener. Budge and Mako, the All-England champions and conquerors of Ger- many’s crack combination of Gott- fried von Cramm and Heinrich Henkel in the interzone finals, gave their followers many anxious mo- ments before they finally pulled the doubles match out of the fire. After sweeping through the first two sets in rapid style, the Califor- nians appeared headed toward an easy triumph. But with the veteran Tuckey performing brilliantly in sup- port of the untried Wilde, the Brit- ish came roaring back to win the third set and almost snatched the fourth as well. FOR Plumbing O. H. Hagen Plumbing Heating and Gas-Fitting Phone 589 Political experts attach great significance ‘to the fact that Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley has named Senator Sherman Minton of Indiana, above, as his assistant. Their leadership of the Senate Demo- crats, it is said, greatly reduces the power of the southern Old Guard, which hitherto has al- ways _ controlled Democratic Senate majorities. Fauntleroy’ Model Dies Rescue Hero New York, July 26—(P)—“Little Lord Fauntleroy” is dead—a hero. Vivian Burnett, who spent a life- time proving he was not as “sissy” as the fictional character port- rayed in the famous novel by his mother, Frances Hodgson Burnett, died after helping save four per- sons from drowning in the choppy waves of Manhasset bay. Burnett, 61, collapsed at the helm of his yawl Delight III Mon- day after maneuvering it so that others on the boat could haul from the waters two men and two women whose sailboat had cap- sized. 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