The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 4, 1937, Page 2

Telephone COUPLE WHO T00K (Small Chicago Boy Kidnaped|JAPANESEDECLARE \DESTROYERS HUNT BOY CLAIM TO BE T ESTABLISHED 1878 HIS REAL PARENTS) ‘Admit to Chicago Police They Snatched Child From Fighting ‘Mother’ DENY MAKING RANSOM CALL Investigation Ordered as Claim Is Made Purported Father Was Hoax Victim Chicago, Aug. @ — Thirty months old Donald Horst, reported kidnaped yesterday, was safe Wed- nesday while authorities investigated 8 bizzare contest between two families over the parentage and custody. Mrs. Otto Horst, from whose home the boy was snatched despite her screaming struggle, admitted, Assist- ant State’s Attorney Wilbert F. Crow- Jey said, that Donald was not her son, Crowley and his aids found the boy at the West Side home of John Re- gan, 26, a machinist, and Lydia Nel- son, 25, who first said she was Re- gan’s wife, then admitted they were not married but claimed she was Don- Mr. and Mrs, Regan confessed, Crowley said, they took the child while Mrs, Horst battled to prevent the snatching. opportunity.” Capt. Daniel Gilbert of the state's attorney’s police said he had ordered this men to round up “everybody who ad any connection whatever with the birth of this child.” Crowley said Mrs. Regan told him the child was born at Ewert’s home. A birth certificate for Donald Otto Horst showed the boy was born to Mrs. Horst on Jan. 4, 1935, at an- other residence, home of friends of the Horsts, : Capt. Chey aded another aston- fishing phase fo the case by declaring that “Horst was the victim of a fraud perpetrated by his wife.” Gilbert said that Horst was noti- fied he was s father and found Mra. Horst in bed with a child and was congratulated by friends. Insurgents Move Into New Attack Positions (By the Associated Press) Government battalions were Ported in danger of annihiliation near Campillo, six miles southwest of ‘Teruel, as encircling insurgent forces Severed government communication One Dead of Injuries Received in Explosion ulletins vid B. 5 president of the Brotherhood of Loco- motive Firemen and Enginemen, an- nounced Wednesday that 96 per cent of 360,000 railroad workers, members of five operating brotherhoods, voted to authorize a strike on the nations railroads if their demands for a 20 per cent wage increase were not mét. THIEF STEALS JEWELRY Minneapolis—A tiptoe burglar pieces! through an unlocked and to report to the house and senate Thursday recommenda- tions for closing tax loopholes. | Appointment of New Judge Expected Soon agess TL Et iu Efe ui cry af svRedEE tk A z Pt ‘SLOAN SALARY TOPS | REPORTS FOR 1996 Schenck Heads Film Colony Money-Makers; Actors Rank Near Head of List Washington, Aug. 4—(7)}—Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., chairman of General Mo- ters corporation, ranked Wednesday as the highest paid executive in 1936 among corporations reporting to North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper BISMARCK, N. D., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1937 WHOLE HOPEH AREA ALREADY OCCUPIED Warplanes Blast Defenders From Path of Troops Marching Southward MAJOR ENGAGEMENT SEEN Clash Between Nipponese and Central Government Army Expected Any Time Peiping, Aug. 4—(7)—Japanese au- thorities proclaimed Wednesday that HE BISMARCK TRIBUNE PRICE FIVE CENTS The Weather Fair tonight and Thursday; slightly warmer. rarily Baby Mix-up Investigation Follows Kidnaping ™™smu BODES OF 14 LAST "IN ISSNG PLANE Submarines. Return to Base With Grim Evidences of Clipper’s Tragio End tire FOR PASSENGERS DIES ir Wreckage Found Floating In (Mater Near Panama Where Ship Disappeared continuous bombardments by squad- |; rons of warplanes had routed western concentrations of the Chinese army and blasted a clear path for the southward march of Japanese troops from this conquered Manchu capital. The Japanese statement declared that the Chinese reported to have been concentrated in force at ‘SMASH NANKING,’ JAP SEWSPAPER URGES Tokyo, Aug. ¢—(?)—The influ- sare Pewenener Nichi Nichi urged Japanese sentiment which Japan Is seeking to stamp out of North China. Japan, Nichi Nichi said, hope of Evacuate Chinese The government of China, appre- hensive of the safety of the 8,000 Chinese in have started their evacuation from the island empire. the securities commission. He was| was paid $561,311, including a $411,161 ‘bonus, Consolidated iblications, Inc., but securities of- ficials sald he may have received | War. cther paychecks fromethe score of other corporations that make up his newspaper, magazine, real estate and the few large corporations which not have to report to the 3. E. C. is the Ford Motor company, because its securities are not traded ties exchange. General Motors ‘William 8. Knudsen a contender for top honors with $507,665 and reported $363,755 for Vice Pres. Charles F. Kettering. Nicholas M. Schenck, president of Loew's incorporated, which controls Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pictures, top- the film colony last ‘Indian Recovers Body After All Others Fail Mrs. Philip Aughnay, 72, Passes in Mandan Aberdeen, 8. D., Aug. 4—(P)— A mysterious, native skill which fs the secret-alone of “Indian John” of Stillwater, Minn,, Tues- Japan, was reported to quest ‘The destroyers Babbitt, Taylor and Mehan kept their grim vigil while two submarines returned to their with evidences of the disaster which befell a Sikorsky amphibian of the Pan American-Grace Airways as it neared the end of a regular flight from Guayaquil, Ecuador, , The submarines 8-43 and 8-46 re- Ported they had gathered such mute Teminders of sudden death as an uns tate < VETERAN OF WORLD Kitten Saved From Sea boy owner.. BLOODHOUNDS END LONG SEARCH FOR: CHILDREN TO DEATH) SUSPECTED SLAYER Wife, Stabbed Five Times in Back With Butcher Knife, May Not Live Columbus, Ky., Aug. 4.—(P)—Ac- cused by his wife of slashing their be four dren to death with a butcher knife and stabbing her, W. J. Morse, 7-145, was rushed away from a crowd of threatening neighbors late Tuesday night. The wife, Mrs. Jane Morse, 42, was Reatiea aa ee pack tire ines ene physician who exa! r \- picked up the passengers live, its flight northward to M nesday said she might not live. The JOHN 1, ENRIGHT'S MOTHER DIES HERE Body of Mrs. Ella Enright Will Be Taken to Wisconsin for Burial Thomas Jefferson as a possible for the capital of the United States. Mrs. Morse said her husband be- came enraged because she remonstrat- ed with him over his treatment of the children, She said Morse grabbed the knife, ran to a bed and slashed the throats of their son, James Theodore’ 5, and their daughters, Inez, 3, and Margaret Elizabeth, 1. She said he next plunged the blade into the back of the oldest child, Billy Lee, 8, five times. The child ran from the house and was found dead later about 100 yards away. Town Marshal Charles Burton and Sheriff H. A. Hicks were summoned by neighbors who heard Mrs. Morse’s screams. The sheriff said Morse sur- rendered and told him, “I don’t know why I did it, just crazy, I guess.” Sheriff Hicks said Morse iad suf- fered from shell shock dur.ng the World War. There was no mob, thc sheriff declared, but neighbors were talking excitedly and to be eure the man would not be molestei, he sent him to jail at Mayfield in an adjoin- ing county. Former Chief Decries Forest Service Shift Washington, Aug. 4—(7)—W. B. Greeley, former forest service chief, urged a senate committee Tuesday to withhold authority, for the president to transfer the service from the de- it of agriculture. Greeley testified the administra- tion’s government reorganization bill would give the president power to shift the service, abolish it altogether or “dismember it like Poland and scatter its fragments about the gov- ernment generally.” Breitbach Gives Up Jamestown Franchise ., Aug. 4 —(P)— The Tuesday éaid A, J. which resulted in young Speuld- ing’s death Saturday, had poin' out the approximate spot of the Waving aside profferred assist- ance BROOKS SERVICES THURSDAY Minneapolis, Aug. 4.—(?)—Funeral services for Anson 8. Brooks, promi- nent northwest lumberman, who died Tuesday, will be conducted at his bome here at 10 s. mi, Thureday. Track Quary to Earth in Woods Near Albert Lea; Quick Justice Seen Albert Lea, Minn., Aug. 4—()— Quick justice appeared likely Wednes- day for Jens Thompson, triple slay- ing suspect, routed from soggy brush by bloodhounds and captured in the desolate hill country 100 miles south- east of here late Tuesday. A special district court grand jury convened Wednesday as the 34-year- old farmer sat in a county jail cell while only a handful of curious per- sons gathered about the closely guard- ed courthouse. County Attorney Elmer R. Peterson expressed no fear His hands and face scratched and his and jagged rocks during the 12 days that eluded possemen, Thompson till pronounced in good physical condition” by phy- sicians, Talks Glibly ‘Thompson, quoted by Sheriff Arthur Brown of Houston county and others of his captors as talking glibly about the rifle slaying of the three Lukes brothers, Louis, Joe and Anton, the afternoon of July 22, said he slept in tree tops and barns. He lived mainly by eating green corn, wild berries and hazelnuts while hiding in the rattle-snake. infested backwoods country and, according to authorities, recalled many narrow escapes before finally tracked down by_bloodhounds. Sheriff Brown said Thompson told how he slid down a 30-foot cliff once to elude his pursuers, how another time he stood within 100 feet of posse- men as they swept by and how once he watched from a hayloft of a barn while men, armed with machine guns and rifles, searched the ground floor and nearby woods. His face freshly shaved, Thompson told his captors he bought a razor in Houston, four miles from the scene of his seizure, Tuesday forenoon a few hours after a fresh tip that he had asked directions at a farm home sent possemen out again into s near cloudburst. Late in the afternoon, site | of trouble. he was Toad. Decided Not to Shoot Bob Dunn, Eau Claire, Wis., police reporter, who with Brooks, La Crosse, bloodhound actually effected the capture, i Fg i TENDERS SERVICES UNTIL PERMANENT PLAN IS ARRANGED Seven Discharged Members of Staff Await Hearing Be- fore Board U. S. AWAITS EXPLANATION Undersecretary Hints Aid May Be Withheld From College at Fargo (By the Associated Press) Dr. John C. West, president of the University of North Dakota, Tues- day night announced he had accepted an appointment as head of the North Dakota Agricultural college “pending the formation of more permanent plans.” In a written statement, he advised the board of administration that “I am not able to accept a regular ap- polntment at the agricultural. col- ee.’ The announcement came after two days devoted to discussion of the sit- peiion by the board of administra- lon, Dr. West's statement to Chairman Jennie Ulsrud of the board said: istration that I am not able to accept @ regular appointment at the agri- cultural college. Tenders “At the request of those legally in charge of the institution, my profes- last Saturday, awaited a hearing be- fore the board. No charges have been made against the seven, other than a statement by Mrs. Ulsrud that the dismissals were made because “in the opinion rough clothing torn by brambles | tural NORTHGATE WINS SERIES OPENER North Dakotans and Lead Will Resume Series Here Sat- urday, Not Friday eves EER old ue if 3 5