The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 6, 1937, Page 1

The Weather Cloudy tonight, Tues- day; not so cold to- night; colder Tuesday. Civil Service) THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper | Read Abstract of Proposed City BISMARCK, N. D., MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1937 Ordinance, Page 3 This Issue 9 TABLISHED 1878 PRICE FIVE CENTS -Sathre to Take Oath in Court Tuesday “Colonel And Mrs. Lindbergh | Return to America » SUP QUIETLY I INTO NEW YORK SUNDAY; AT MORROW ESTATE Length, Purpose of Visit a Se- cret; Here for Holidays, Says Ship’s Officer WON’T ANSWER QUESTIONS 2 Children Left Behind in Eng- land; Identity Kept Secret Aboard Ship . ds Colonel and ‘wars. bergh are home from a two-' a>road but the guarded how long they will stay. The hero of American aviation and PAPER WON'T REPORT AFF: Westerly Sun announced Monday it would not report the “daily in- timate family affairs” of Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh whilé in this country, because, said its editor, George B. Utter, it was felt this was “none of our business.” The paper wished them a merry and Amotioed” Christmas. his wife Anne, who has shared many, notable flights with him, slipped un- heralded into New York Sunday morning aboard the United States liner President Harding. They had sailed from Southhamp- Here For Japanese Holidays Within Sight of Nanking Early Fall Predicted; British Warship, Two Merchant- men Bombed ton Nov. 27 under the incognito of “Mr. and Mrs, Gregory” for their first trip to their native land since they (By went to England in desperate search of the seclusion they could not tind A vanguard of Japanese troops ap- estate of Mra. Dwight Morrow, Mrs. Lindbergh’s 64-year-old mother, and the only word of authoritative status} thip’s officer who said will be brief. They plan to return abroad immediately after Christmas.” Secret Well-Kept Other than that, there was a bub- bling spring of conjecture in a desert of facts: opinions that the Lind- berghs’ trip might be a prelude to ending the exile self-imposed in an. effort to rebuild the lives shattered by the kidnapping and death of their first-born son, Charles A, Lindbergh, Jr.; theories that he might have come on a mission connected with the ex- pansion of American aviation; even suggestions that he might be on an errand of science connected with de- velopment of the artificial heart of which he is co-inventor. Whatever the purpose that impelled (Continued on Page Two) Leviathan Goes to Britain, Not Japan New York, Dec. 6.—(?)—The mighty steamship Leviathan was headed for the junkyards Monday to scrap iron for British armament after the United States refused to sell her to Japanese interests. Basil Harris, @ vice-president who announced sale of “old Levi” to Metal Industries, Ltd., of London, for “more than $800,000,” said offers of Japanese. ice were rejected. Father and Son Killed in Crash Fosston, Minn., Dec. 6.—()—Double funeral services will be held Tuesday for a father and son, victims of an automobile crash 21 miles north of Deer River. The victims were Henry (Nyhus of Deer River, and his son, iAlfred, 24. CHRISTMAS SUPERSTITIONS Believing it will cause them to live in harmony for the coming year, families in Scandinavia Place all their shoes together at Christmastime. : PRISON EXTORTION PLOT EXPECTED TO we +| Judge Delayed by Snowstorm; the capital was reported occupied. Japanese planes, meanwhile, were reported making heavy attacks on an allegedly bewildered Chinese retreat both from Nanking and Wuhu. Chinese sources reported the 32,720- ton Japanese battleship Nagato sunk by aerial bombs on the lower Yangtse between Tungchow and Fushan. Jap- ‘nese discounted the report. Acknowledges Call Teport on the bombing of a British warship and two British merchant- men a eunaay at Wuhu. of Kuyung, 20 miles ponte of ene evacuated capital, Japanese egmmanders predicted cap- ture of Nanking would be a matter of only a few days. A Japanese spokesman said Japa- nese planes stabbed deep into China’s interior and destroyed four large bombers and 10 smaller planes, all allegedly ef Russian manufacture, at Lanchowfu, capital of Kansu, prov- inoe bordering Tibet. Two Chinese pursuit ships also were reported shot Three Britons Hurt ‘The commander of the British gun- boat Ladybird and two other Britons were injured when Japanese planes raided the Wuhu waterfront Sunday. Two British river steamers were hit. The 3,770-ton Tuck-Wo, belong- ing to the Indo-China Steam Navi- gation company, was set sflame and ‘was believed to be a total loss. Officials of the company said they (Continued on Page Two) THREATEN HENNEPIN COUNTY PROSECUTOR Goff Told to ‘Lay Off’ Prosecut- ing Two Chicago Labor bese he “lay off” prosecution of three Chicago men, two of nite fought with Patrick J. Corcoran, Min. Nespolis labor leader, a few days be- un? was slain Nov. 17. Adie i $ E i & BESS hi Case Involves Opera Stars, Lewd Pictures Delayed by a snowstorm at Huron, §, D., Federal Judge James A. Dono- hoe of Omaha was unable to take his eeat at the U. 8. district court term in Bismarck Monday and the seasion was postponed to Tuesday. The jurist, called to O'Neill, Neb., by the death of a relative was relleved bf duty by Judge George F. Sullivan who has returned to St. Paul. Both Judges served in the absence of Judge Andrew Miller, Fargo, ill. Four persons were scheduled to come for trial when court reconvenes Tues- day at 9:30 a. m. in connection with an alleged extortion plot directed at four opera stars. Recessing after a jury Saturday exonerated Perry Benner, former de- puty collector of internal revenue, of at embezzlement charge, the court was to reconvene Tuesday afternoon with the extortion case slated first. Presiding is Federal Judge James A. Donohue of Omaha, also has be- fore him the task of sentencing ap- proximately 18 persons who pleaded guilty to various charges last week. charged with planning to extort money from opera stars Rosa and Carmela Fonselle, Lily Pons and Lucrezia Bort iby selling them faked pictures of them- selves, which appeared as though they had been in the nude. The pictures were made in the North Dakota prison bertillon room Ly Theodore Larson, life-term prison- er, who took pictures of the four sing- ers, superimposed them on lewd pic- tures allegedly smuggled into the pri- fon by George Schultz, 71, guard, and then photographed them again, pri- (Continued on Page Two) NEW YORK CABLES GIVEBRITAIN FIRST REPORTS OF VISIT London Papers Proud Lind- berghs Have Found Desired Seclusion in England PREDICT EARLY RETURN Stories of Cars Blocking Roads About Morrow Estate Prom- inently Displayed London, Dec. 6—(7)}—British new: Papers broke their months of com- parative silence on the doings of Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh Mon- day in New York dispatches announc- ig their arrival in America. Some of the newspapers expressed pride that the Lindberghs had found in England the peace and seclusion they had been “unable to find” in their native land, They displayed prominently New York accounts asserting that “scenes of enthusiasm like those when Lind- bergh returned after his Atlantic flight” marked the arrival of the Lone Eagle and his wife. These dispatches added that hundreds of automobiles biocked roads about Englewood, N, J., where the Lindberghs were stayin and that special police were posted ebout the Morrow estate. ‘There were confident predictions oT | that the couple would return shortly to the country which had been their unobtrusive host for nearly two years in order to take up again their seclud- 4 life with their children. ‘The fact that their two sons—Jon, 5, Governor Langer Names Sathre Attorney General P. O. Sathre, left above, said his appointment to the North Dakota supreme court, to fill the vacancy caused by the death last May of Justice John Burke, came as a “complete surprise.” The appointment was made Saturday following a meeting of the pardon board. Langer and Sathre are shown together here. {ITH GHICAGOBABY (Cash Needed for Legion Campaign VICTIM OF MYSTERY INTESTINAL MALADY 19 Stricken Since N Since Nov. 23; Tracing Possible Sources of Infection Chicago, Dec. 6.—()—The death toll end seven-months-old Land Morrow|in the mysterious baby epidemic at —were left behind was taken as anigt, Elizabeth's hospital stood at 11 indication that the surprise visit to|Monday. tneir homeland would Des # brief one..| The latest victim was 12-day-old ie ean wiphie ‘Marshalled it while the British press and public. As he wished, the Lindbergh family has been left strictly alone. SLAYER WILL BE ARRAIGNED ‘SOME TIME THIS WEEK’ Craig to Be Bound Over If He Waives Examination, Says Vinje Steele, N. D., Dec. 6—()—Without naming the day of Keith Craig's ar- raignment, State's Attorney Arne Vinje asserted the confessed slayer of Ms. Hugh Armstrong, Kidder county farm mother, “indicated he will waive preliminary examination.” Vinje parried questions on the sta- tus of the case and said “we are in no hurry. Craig will bs arraigned on a first degree murder charge at Steele some time this week. “If he waives preliminary exam- ination,” Vinje asserted, “he will be bound over to district court.” Craig was hustled to Bismarck shortly after he surrendered to of- afflicted with an intestinal malady. Nineteen babies have been stricken with the disease, diagnosed as enteritis, BABY’S PARENTS OFFER BODY TO SCIENCE Chicago, Dec. 6—()—The youth- ful parents of 12-day-old Daniel Ennesser offered the body of their first born Monday so that medical science might seek the cause of the intestinal outbreak. John G. Ennesser, the father, said he and his wife, Angeline, 26, “thought it. would help the other little babies” if doctors performed an autopsy on their child. jar acute epidemic diarrhea, since Nov. 23 when the firat death occurred. Death of the Ennesser baby came ‘a time when scientists worked desper- ‘ately to find the exact cause of the alady which has puzzled medical men for years, Exhaustive laboratory tests were made to discover the source of the scourge. Dr. Richard H. Jaffe, direct- ‘or of the pathological institute of the ‘Cook county hospital, who performed autopsies on two victims, said he be- lieved the disease was caused by an unfliterable virus. ~ Every possible source of infection was traced. Physicians underwent blood tests. ‘Throat smears were taken from every- lone in the hospital. Eight baby specialists have taken up residence at the hospital. fioers and is being held in the state! Dr. Herman N. Bundesen, president penitentiary for safekeeping. Vinjelof the board of health, said similar said there was strong feeling against | outbreaks occurred in recent years in Craig when Mrs. Armstrong's bullet- Yorn body was found on # smoldering straw pile last Tuesday. In his confession, Craig declared before C. A. Miller, chief of the bu- New York, Toronto, Memphis, and other cities as well as in France and Scotland. INSURANCE EXECUTIVE DIES NB ft Eat RY ©! Catt to ‘complain Of his treatment by lite forces to save sever! other infants | , Federal Judge James A Donohoe “of Omaha was expected to return to Bismarck Tuesday to resume charge of the term of U. 8. dis- trict court here. He had been called to O'Neill, Neb. by the death of @ relative and in his absence Judge George F. Sullivan of St. Paul was presiding. Both judges acted in the absence of Andrew Miller of Fargo, ill for the past month. Judge Donohoe was prevented from returning to Bismarck Monday by a snowstorm in South Dakota. Pen Fund to Aid Criminal Bureau The state board of administra- tion approved a recommendation late Menday to pay salaries and e of the bureau of crim- inal identification from peniten- tiary funds, Chairman Jennie Ulsrud said a four-member vote was unanimous in adoption of the recommendation made by Prison Warden A. J. Louden- beck. NEGRO BISHOP DIES Jackson, Tenn., Dec. 6.—(#}—Death reau of criminal identification and| 8st. Paul, Dec. 6.—(#)—Henry Samuel] ended Sunday the long and colorful Assistant Attorney General T. A. Mills, 71, financial scribe of the career of the Rev. Isaac Lane, Negro ‘Thompson, that he “felt safer” in the|Samaritan Life association for the|who rose from slavery to a bishopric penitentiary than in the Kidder) past 12 years, died at his home after}in the Methodist Episcopal church county jail at Steele. a three-months’ illness. South. He was 103. N. D. Fertile Field for Irrigation, Page Decides After Seeing Projects Reclamation Chief Pledges Help pale in Getting Water on Land at Meeting Here Belief that North Dakota has real rs opportunity for successful irrigation |and was ¢: here Sunday By son commissioner of ciamation, after a tour of the Muusourl river valley north and south of Bis- raarck. Although warning that it will be] to cautiously and Pion, Page said North Da-|& and the water and at a relatively low essential, he said, “twilight gone” for Washburn, the Stout project 35 miler ith of Bismarck and the Missouri river bottoms immediately south of kere, on all of which irrigation proj- ects are ufder consideration. Steps to organize irrigation districts aiready have been taken on the Stout and Painted Woods projects and a cr-operative organisation of land own- ers has done considerable work on the bottoms here. Sunday noon Page and a number of others interested in the work were grests oe John W. Haw, Northern | those n | Pacific railroad agricultural agent, on @ railrosd business car at Mandan. Haw, who is g recognized authority on irrigation, arrived here with Page Sat- urday night and was instrumental in inducing the reclamation commission- er to stop off here en route to Grand pry. Coulee where additional contracts for werk under way there will be let this night, Page promised his utmost co- operation to get water on North Da- kota land but warned that all of the western states are clamoring for water development and that appropriations are limited. In view of the obvious «conomic need here, he said, he will try to see that North Dakote gets its full share of work to be done by the teclamation bureau. Page asked numerous questions of rigating farmers who spoke and was. ir. turn, asked Siriaas questions ee present. All pertained to the possibility of financial support by the government for irrigation work here and the conditions surrounding it. Face Long Battle The reclamation chief warned those present that they face a long and continuing battle and said the real danger to the movement will not come | te: until North Dakota again has normal rainfall, Former Governor George F. Shafer, president of the Bismarck Association cf Commerce, and Judge A. M. Chris- tianson were keynote speakers. Sha- fer, born and reared on s ranch where his father carried on irrigation for many years, said he would not con- sider farming in this area except upon land where an artificial water supply Was assurred. Judge Chris de- tailed the steps for the promotion of itrigation by public agencies with which he long has been connected. Farmers Talk Trrigating farmers who spoke briefly, telling of their operations, were R. B. Millhouse and Jay Grantier, McKenzie county. M. O. Ryan, Fargo, secretary of the Greater North Dakota association and ene of the sponsors of the meeting, announced that he had misinterpreted @ telegram from Washington with re- tard to the “Williston project” and had assumed that the Trenton-Buford {urigation project, huge irrigation en- ‘erprise in Williams county, had been approved. He later learned, he said, that the telegram referred to the Lewis and Clark project, also near Williston, which ts to be constructed jointly by the WPA and the North Dakota water conservation commission. Must Buy Some Items | Some Items in Char- ity Drive, Explains Open Your Heart Chairman Cash as well as clothing, food and toys are necessary if Bismarck’s needy are to have a comfortable and pleasant Christmas. This was the appeal Monday of G. A. Dahlen, chairman of the Open Your Heart campaign which annually takes the place of Santa Claus for hundreds ol Bistharck’s needy families ‘and for | in: thousands of school children in Bur- leigh county. “Every penny contributed will go to the purchase of absolute necessities,” Dahlen said. Anything anybody can give is welcome but cash also is nec- essary if thousands of children are to be spared from acute privation.” ‘The reason, he explained, is that donations of underwet stockings and shoes for children al are insuf- ficient to meet the need that this condition prevails again this year. Must Buy Underwear Explanation for the lack of dona- tions of such items, he said, is that children wear them out even in well- to-do families. Hence, if children of the poor are to have underwear and similar items they must be purchased. ‘Through the co-operation of local} similar merchants, Dahlen said, such things always are purchased at a discount, hence the money donated to the Open ‘Your Heart campaign is stretched far- ther than it ordinarily would go. In keeping children warm, Dahlen said, good underwear is more valuable than any other single article of cloth- ing and in maintaining their health, (Continued on Page Two) SHELSO MAY FACE FORGERY CHARGES Checks Totaling $210 Written by Minneapolis Man Here in Hands of Police Chages of forgery or embezzlement may be preferred against Leonard H. Shelso, Minneapolis, arrested here Friday night, according to Chief of Police W. R. Ebeling. Shelso was picked up by Bismarck police when he passed allegedly worthless checks in several Bismarck business places. Police said other checks had been passed in several cities between here and Minneapo- lis, including Little Falls, Minn., and Fargo, Valley City and Jamestown. How many checks were passed in Bismarck is not definitely known, but 10 had found their way to the police station Monday, They were for amounts of He $15, $20 and $25 and totaled $210. Pardon Board to Reconvene Monday The North Dakota pardon board was to reconvene Monday afternoon to consider other clemency petitions of state penitentiary inmates. Secretary James E. Bothne ATTORNEY GENERAL RESIGNS OLD POST AFTER APPOINTMENT New North Dakota Supreme Court Justice to File Oath Monday Afternoon SUCCESSOR YET UNNAMED Believes Assistant Attorneys General Will Hold Offices ‘indefinitely’ Attorney General P. O. Sathre re- signed his post Monday and will file his oath as North Dakota supreme court justice at 4:45 p. m. in the secretary of state's office, preliminary to publicly taking the oath of office in court Tuesday. Sathre said his resignation will not become effective until the oath is filed late Monday. He will sit in the pardon board session Monday afternoon to “help out on a few cases” at the request of Gov. William Langer. Asserting he had no discussion with Gov. Langer on the retention of office personnel, Sathre said he be- lieved his assistant attorneys genera) would remain in the department “in- definitely” and that there would be no “sudden changes” made by his yet ufnamed successor. His appointment to the high court, termed “surprising” by many, came late Saturday ending speculation of « successor to the late Judge John Burke who died nearly seven months ago, ‘Great Surprise’ Under the constitution, Sathre wil) serve until “the next election.” Greatest surprises in my life.” expressed his sincere appreciation of the honor conferred upon him by Gov. Langer and “hoped that neither the governor nor people of the state would have occasion to regret the pais tment.” “Just , before made,” ‘Sethre x legislature, one term as representative iu 1923 and after a year as first as- sistant, he was appointed attorney Beneral by Geae panes r Nov. 1, 1933. graduate of ie Unit of North Dakota law school ae ferved as Steele county state’ cee ney at Finley for 10 years. Sathre stepped up to the supreme court bench on a move which was very to one which originally Irocuied him from first assistant to head of the attorney general's office. Named in 1933 That occurred in 1933 when Justice L. E. Birdzell resigned his post. On series of appointments Gov. Langer then named the late District Judge George Moellring to fill the unexpired J. Gronna to Moelising’s district po: ne, "8 district po- pie and raised Sathre to stiorney ne native of Minnesota, Sathre came to North Dakota when he was four years old, his parents filing on a homestead near Finlay in 1884. Fifty-seven years old, he-is mar- tied and has two children. With Sathre’s assumption of the post of justice, ‘the supreme court will be back on a five-man basis, starting Tuesday, after operating nearly seven months with only four justices. Dis- trict Court judges were from time te time called in as the “fifth” member of the high court. Post Involves Offices - State officials centered their in- terest on possible successors to sone in view of the importance of that pos: jand the fe frapostent ex-officio poste i ‘t ‘commands, including membership on the industrial commission, pardon, board, board of university and schoo! lands and the state board of auditors. Among names discussed as replacements were those of Henry Owen, Grand Forks; Francis Murphy, Fargo; J. K. Murray, legal counsel for the unemployment compensation di- vision; Tax Commissioner Owen T. Owen and P. B. Garberg, former U. 8. district attorney. Man Hangs Self as Second Admits Guilt St. Paul, Dec. 6—)—James P Crumley, former St. as said the board was preparing to clear its on entire calendar by Tuesday night. Birthday Desire Columbia, 8. C., Dec. 6—()— Prank P. McGowan, Jr., told his parents he wanted to entertain a fire chie! police chief and a railroad conductor at his third birthday party. The desired guests, Fire Chief A. McMarsh, Police Chief H. W. Rawlinson, and Capt. J. E. Gleston, conductor on the Southern rall- way, walked in, attired in uni- forms aglitter with brass buttons, just as the cake was cut Langed himself in a cell in the Ram- sey county jail. Light Fall of Snow Occurs sin Bismarck reported snow at 10:30 a. m.