The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 3, 1937, Page 1

‘General Revision - GRITICS CONSIDER WAYS TO MODIFY, DEFEAT MEASURE Both House, Senate Versions Give Power to Labor Standards Board SESSION NOW HALF OVER Senator Borah Hits ‘Bureaucra- tic Control’ of Senate Farm Bill Washington, Dec. 3.—(?)}—Suppor- ters of the battered wage-hour bill, successful in forcing a house vote this month, began @ new fight Friday to save it from general revision. Almost before the ink dried Thurs- day on the final signature to a peti- tion freeing the bill from the rules committee, critics discussed proposals to modify or defeat it. One group wants to strike all geo- graphical differentials from the measure, a goal which would intensify the already heated North-South con- flict over the measure. Many other changes already have been made in the bill since it passed the senate last summer. It probably will come before the house on Dec. 13. House and senate versions of the measure would empower a labor stan- dards board to fix minimum wages as high as 40 cents an hour and @ work week of 40 or more hours for workers in interstate industries. Session Half Over The first half of the special session ended Friday without approval of any. of the president’s recommendations. Almost two weeks of senate debate had left the farm bill bogged down under prolonged speech - making. Scores of amendments, still were be- ing discussed. Chairman Jones (Dem., Texas,) of the house agriculture committee fore- cast a compfomise on a farm bill amendment designed to aésure dairy-, men that the program woulda not in- crease their competition. ‘The amendment, was approved ten- tatively Thursday. ; (Continued on Page Two) §. §. BOISE NAMED MEMBER OF LEGION EMPLOYMENT GROUP Local Man Is One of Nine on National Committee; Will Conduct Survey Information that he has been ap- pointed a member of the Americao Legion’s national committee on em- employment was received here Thurs- cay by 8. 8. Boise, business manager cf the Quain and Ramstad clinic and 4 former commander of the North Dakota department of the Legion. The committee, consisting of nine members from all parts of the country, is charged with the task of working cout ways and means to help veterans cttain suitable employment. Appoint- ments to the committee were in groups of three, each group to serve one, two or three years. Boise was given one of the two-year terms. SPENCER 8. BOISE the committee is Jack ‘Crowley, Vermont, a three-year man. Cther three-year members are Wm. F. Regan, New Jersey and Joseph W. Hammon, Kentucky. Serving two-year terms with Boise are Lawrence J. Fenion, Illinois, Roy 8. Stockton, California. al are ESTABLISHED 1873 Benner Counts | Reduced to Two | Presiding Judge pda aberdeen dy Judge | George jullivan (above) of St. Paul, former U. 8. district attorney who prosecuted Terrible Tommy Tuohy and_ other is presiding over a few days of the term of federal district court in the absence of Judge J. A. Dono- STRANGULATION ~ LAID 70 AMERICA Two Thrown Out by Judge Sul- livan; Ex-Revenue Collec- — tor Takes Stand Perry R, Benner, former deputy col- lector of internal revenue for the Bis- marck district, took the stand in his own defense as the second day of his trial on accusations of embezzling and converting government monies to his own use continued. Highlight of Friday morning's ses- sion was Judge George F. Sullivan’s orders that two counts of the indict- ment be stricken but denying elimina- tion of another. Count four had charged that Ben- ner had taken a gun from Thomas of Bismarck and Grant county. in supposed compromise on unpaid liquor taxes owing the govern- ment. The judge held that the trans- action was a personal matter and not Harry Lashkowits, assistant U.S. dis- trict attorney, said the United States had learned that certain of the al- lJeged transactions had occurred out- side the jurisdiction of the North Da- kota colector of internal revenue. Only Two Counts Left Of the original seven counts, only WESHESAE i E ef fe Mussolini’s Paper Hits Econo- mic Maneuverings of 3 Great Democracies Milan, Dec. 3—(#)—Premier Mus- selini’s newspaper Popolo D'Italis Priday accused the United States, Bri- tain and France of planning “eco- romic strangulation” of the “have rot” nations. ‘ Tl Duce’s. frequent mouthpiece, in one of the bitterest editorials it has published in recent years, said: “To believe the history of the worl. can be crystalized by defining as ac- tive or potential aggressors the poor Peoples who have the sacred right not to resign themselves perpetually tt the too sharp inequality in the di tribution of the earth’s goods is an effrontery in veritably ultra-demo- cratic style.” The article, generally ascribed to ‘Mussolini’s pen, declared that the only answer to what it termed the pro- gram of “economic strangulation” was ® “timely and whole hearted prepara- tion of spirit and arms.” “To believe that these needy and dynamic (the “have nots”) can be intimidated by the threat of eronomic strangulation is to give evi- “The United States leaves to the two European democracies the task of ccnfronting the totalitarian states on the field of arms,” the editorial said. “Britain never demonstrated out- standing warlike tendencies. “Recently it ‘has expressed reasons for which the English now have de- cided, as it was said, to fight to the last man.” Audit of NDAC to Be Ready Next Week A 350-page audit of the North Da- kote Agricultural college is in final tion and Gov. William Langer next Chernick, authorized Aug. 9 by the port includes statements on virtu- ally every department and branch of the institution. Fargo Western Union Messengers on Strike in 1930 for an offense committed in 1928. Asbridge asserted he had known Benner prior to the time in July. 1935, when he had been served with & warrant of restraint in connection with his illicit sales of liquor. They (Continued on Page Two) ISIX MORE PAROLES GRANTED BY BOARD 90 Clemency Cases Remain on Calendar; Burleigh County Man Paroled i i # £ 88 Rs £3 i i i s : f 3 E si4 H g E & ss Pe 3 4 i 8 i i 282", 8 i Seg aE f i i 8 ni I : s il g< g. i for five years, rape; John Longree, Mountrail, sentenced June 16, 1930 to larceny; Bert Lighc- North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper BISMARCK, N. D., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1937 $25,000 PAYROLL TAKEN IN DARING _DAYUGHT ROBBERY 5 Men Armed With Shotguns Shoot Illinois Postal Clerk, Kidnap Police Chief Lockport, Ill., Dec. 3—(#)—Five men carrying sawed-off shotguns and ma- chine guns executed a well-planned postal robbery Friday escaping with $24,800 in payroll money. after shoot- ing a postal clerk and abducting the chief of police. The robbery occurred outside the Lockport post office as a clerk was transferring from his automobile to that of a bank clerk cash mailed to the First National bank of Lock- port to meet the payroll of one of the |Texas company’s largest oil refineries. ‘The money, which had arrived by|. train from Chicago a few minutes be- Tore the robbery, was only part of the and was insured, G. B. Bogart, superintendent of the plant, said. Less than two hours after the hoki- up the light delivery truck used by the gang was reported abandoned at Ro- meo, a few miles north of here. Lock- pert is about 30 miles southwest of Chicago. Police Chief Fred Lindner, who was ejected from the robbers’ truck after they had carried him a half mile in their flight, said the gang threatened his life and fired twice to frighten him. Get from Train paying | began taking money Money The chief said he, Acting Postmas- ter Sylvester Weierschem and Postal Clerk John West, who was shot in the z| leg during the holdup, went to the train to get the money. They re- turned to the post office and West from his car. Then, the chief related, the truck | Pulled up. In it were five men dressed. as mechanics, Two of them hopped out, brandishing weepons, and seized. the money from West. When he re- the chief, he said. ‘The two other men then joined them with the money, and the truck sped away. Lindner said he was chewing to- bacco and when he turned his head sharply to spit two shots were fired at him but he was not wounded. He was forced from the truck, he said, and was picked up and taken back to the post office by a garage mechanic, TBOUND PLANE STOPS HERE AGAIN Bismarck Is Again On Route of Trip 5, Due Here at 1:20 P. M. Daily All three westbound planes of the Reetiwes Airlines are now hen all new Zephyr planes are in use. was received Friday that the Airlines will extend fs Portland, Ore. Hereto- fore the lines have operated only be- tween Chicago and Seattle. The Weather Snow probable, begin- ning tonight or Satur- day; colder Saturday. PRICE FIVE CENTS Bomb Hurled at Jap Victory Parade Looms for Wages and Hours Bill U. S-DERENDED AREA | 3 Slayer, oe Keith Craig, 21, above, has confessed the murder of Mrs. Hugh Armstrong, Steele farm woman, shown with her husband and: two of the three children in the family (right). and Victim With Family SEIZED, ABANDONED FOLLOWING INCIDENT Japanese Yield to Spirited Pro- test of American Marine Commander in Shanghat CITY DANGEROUSLY TENSE American Businessman Hit in Face; Grenade-Thrower Is Shot Dead Shanghai, Dec. 3 —(P)— Japanese tzoops yielded Friday to spirited de- mands by Col. Charles F. B. Price, commander of the United States Fourth marines, and withdrew from the American defended sector of the International Settlement. The Japanese had encroached upon American-defended streets when they took over a part of the International Settlement after explosion of a small hand grenade tossed at a victory parade of 6,000 Japanese troops. They erected barbed-wire entangle- ments, blocked all traffic and pre- vented Americans and foreigners from teaching their hotels and homes. Price reminded the Japanese com- mander that Japanese troops had ad- vanced three blocks into the Amer- ican-defended sector, which could not be tolerated. GERMAN AMBASSADOR TALKS WITH CHIANG Nanking, Dec. 3—(#)—Reports of German efforts to mediate in the Chinese-Japanese conflict were strengthened Friday when it was learned that Dr. Oskar Trautman, Attics, Cellars Ransacked For Open Your Heart Drive TPUNERAL OF SLAIN KIDDER WOMAN T0 BE HELD SATURDA Keith Craig, Confessed Slayer, to Be Arraigned on Murder Count Next Week Funeral services will be held Satur- day afternoon at Steele for Mrs. Hugh Armstrong, Kidder county farm wife and mother of three children, whose bullet-torn body was found in @ burning haystack Tuesday night. Rev. Roy McClure of Steele will of- ficiate at services in the Methodist Episcopal church at 2 p. m. Burial will be in Woodlawn cemetery at Steele, Pallbearers will be George \Hughes, Floyd Bruso, Doc Roherty, ‘Mark Holt, Dale Fisher, and Fred Shipley. Keith Oraig, 21-year-old confessed slayer, is being held in the state peni- |,| tentiary and will be arraigned on s first degree murder charge next week, according to Sheriff John Sackman' and State's Attorney Arne Vinje. ‘Craig tearfully faced his grieved father, Robert Craig, Thursday night, asserting his signed statement is “the, truth.” The son denied he used liquor or drugs. He told authorities Mrs, Armstrong “tried to poison me and her children,” according to Chief. C. A. Miller of the state bureau of criminal identification. LaGuardia Puts Self In Presidential Race New York, Dec. 3.—(#)—Mayor Fi- orello H. La Guardia’s apparent na- tional political ambitions—perhaps the presidency—floated aloft Friday on an unmistakable trial balloon. Before a completely urben audience La Guardia—who in the Nov. 2 city election became @ local history-maker ‘as the. first man ever to beat Tam- Many and allied Democratic organiza- tons here twice in a row—put farm relief as the biggest: American neces- sity. He spoke at the 25th anniversary Survey new, crying out: “We must belance the population— E oid le when you've balanced the’ this Republican Tegistered formally about a month ago, it turned out, with speculation he might have. ¢, tid s party national movement in mind. Check Lists of Gifts for Needy Will Be Called for By Scouts Saturday Bismarck housewives were exam- ining their attics, cellars and other storage rooms Friday as they sur- veyed their possessions to determine what they may properly give to the ‘Cpen Your Heart campaign. They had before them a check list distributed Thursday afternoon by Boy Scouts to every home in Bis- marck, It asked for donations of all kinds of usable material for distribu- tion to the poor as a major part of the community Christmas cheer ef- fort. Lists of articles for men, women and children were printed on the cir- cular to refresh the memories of those wishing to give and to them was added the statement that the Open Your Heart will be glad to get “anything usable.” Under this heading the campeign has received in the past such items as baby layettes, baby buggies and cribs, flower pote, rugs, articles of furniture and numerous other items, all.of which have been put to service. “Preliminary indications are that the this year will be good, as it always has been in the past,” said G. A. Dahlen, chairman, “Many persons have told me that they have formed the habit of saving things to give to the Open Your Heart campaign and will donate an- other year’s accumulation of items which they no longer need but which can be put to good service by persons less fortunate than themselves.” In anticipation of gifts similar to those received in the past, Dahlen Priday was making preperations to restore and repair such items as may need reconditioning when received. Among these are shoes, of which the Open‘ Your Heart accumulates a con- siderable stock each year. If the tops @re good arrangements are made to repair the soles and heels and to do such sewing of rips as may be neces- sary. Several organizations probably wil! participate in the work of repairing and repainting toys which will be dis- tributed to children whom Santa Claus otherwise might overloox. Among these, he said, are the me- chanical classes at the high school, which are expected to donate several new toys as well as repair old ones, the National Youth Administra‘ ene he. recreation division of the Negotiations also are under way for the repair and remodeling of some donated garments by the WPA sewing room. ‘This phase of the work will be under the supervision of the American Le- FAVOR LABOR INQUEST JURY HEARS LABOR BOSS TELL OF BEATINGS, THREATS Attorney Has Photostatic Copy of Document AFL Leaders Termed ‘Damnable Lie’ The entire city was dangerousty tense tonight. (Continued on age Two) \__ State Official | Minneapolis, Dec. 3 —()— Walter Frank, labor leader Friday told a coroner’s jury investigating the slay- ing of Patrick J. Corcoran, union head, that he was attacked and badly beaten on one occasion, received num- erous threats over the telephone, and kad steel shafts thrown through the windows of his home. Frank, financial secretary and business agent of the Lathers Union . 190, an AFL affiliate, testified he eved the attacks and threats came from the enemies of labor and their business agents who don’t like to see the trade union movement pro- gress.’ George Cole, regional director for ihe CIO in Minnesota, who came here from Denver, Colo., May 15, preceded Prank. He testified concerning cor- respondence he had with the CIO regional director in Seattle, Wash. concerning that he was offered $! 000 by an AFL official to “get” west coast maritime leader. Has Photostatic Copies Photostatic copies of the document termed a “damnable lie” by AFL of- ficers here Friday were in the pos- setsion of William Compton, assist- ant Hennepin county attorney con- ducting the examination of witnesses, and he planned to submit them to members of the jury for further scrut- iny. ‘The inquest was adjourned at 11:35 a, m. Dec. 22 to permit some jurors tw keep business appointments in the east. Detective Captain James Mullen seid police sought a 38 calibre gun of Spafiish manufacture as the weapon which fired the shot the night, ©: Nov. 17 and killed Corcoran two doors from his home. Ray Harrington, identification expert, has completed tests of the shattered lead pelle: fcund in the brain and said it came fom a gun of foreign make. Ex-Minot Man Named G. N. Traffic Chief St. Paul, Dec. 3—()—Appointment of Burwell 8. Merritt of San Francisco as western traffic manager of the Great Northern railway was announc- ed Friday by W. P. Kennedy, presi- dent. Merritt joined the Great Northern et Wiliston, N. D., as agent. Lae later represented the road in Mi- Burdick, Lemke Sign Petition A et Chicago, Dec. 3.—(7)—A majority of 14388 lawyers participated in American Bar referendum Friday favor dealing with child labor problems by constitutional amend- C. A. Miller (above), head of the North Dakota bureau of criminal identification which has been operating without funds since July 1 because of a legislative error, is being prominently mentioned for a post in the business admin- istration of the state hospital for CHRISTMAS SUPERSTITIONS | al worship of the Great Spirit. Shopping 7 18 “riers