Evening Star Newspaper, December 21, 1936, Page 7

DEATH OF NORBECK MAY SEAT BERRY [ G. 0. P. Senator May Be| Succeeded by Retiring Democratic Governor. By the Assoclated Press. REDFIELD, S. Dak., December 21.— The death of United States Senator Peter Norbeck, who rose from penni- less well driller to become the first na- tive-born Governor and Senator of his State, intensified political complica- tions in South Dakota today. The Republican Senator, who was | 66 years old, died at his home here yesterday of a heart disease compli- | cated by a cancerous condition of the | tongue and jaw. Berry May Be Successor. Prominently mentioned as a possible successor was Gov. Thomas Berry. Democrat, who will retire from office in | two weeks. Gov. Berry, asked whether he plan- ned to resign from office and have him- self appointed to fill Senator Norbeck's unexpired term, declined to comment. He did, however, arrange a conference with Herbert E. Hitchcock, Democratic State chairman. Lieut. Gov. Robert Peterson, DemoJ crat, who would become Governor if Berry resigned, was himself ready to | resign today. He was arrested Satur- day on an embezzlement charge and Federal Deposit Insurance officials said there was a $170,000 shortage in the First National Bank of Centerville, of which he was president. His attor- ney said Peterson's resignation would be handed to the State Legislature at a special session today. Gov. Berry sald he would name a successor to Peterson. Leslie Jensen, Republican, who de- feated Berry in November, will take office as Governor on January 5. Son of Minister. Senator Norbeck was born August 27, 1870, the scn of an immigrant Norwegian Lutheran minister. He went into business as a well driller when 25 years old and developed the firm of Norbeck & Co. into an im- portant concern. His death ended a political career that began with his election to tae State Senate in 1908. He served six years in that body, then was elected Lieutenant Governor and became | Governor of the State in 1916. e was the first native-born South Da- kotan to become chief executive and United States Senator of that State. | He was elected to the latter post in| 1930. Terming himself a “Theodore Roosevelt. Republican,” Senator Nor- | beck frequently found himself in | disagreement with the leaders of the | Republican party, and came to be re- garded as leaning toward the in- surgent group that included Senators Norris, Frazier, Shipstead and John- son. It was through his drilling opera- tions that Norbeck became acquainted with people in all parts of the State, a factor that was later to become of | considerable advantage when he en- | tered a political career. Champion of Agriculture. In the United States Senate the South Dakotan was an outspoken champion of agricultural relief meas- ures. One of his bills, which failed of passage, would have reimbursed farm- ers for losses suffered as a result.of Government price fixing during the ‘World War. Norbeck was chairman of the Sen- ate Banking Committee during the last years of the Hoover administra- tion and his committee handled the first banking legislation developed by the depression. His committee also launched the 1932 stock market investigation and the South Dakotan was instrumental in employing Ferdinand Pecora as committee counsel. Illness frequently prevented his at- tendance at Senate sessions in recent years and at one time he was absent | for more than a month. He was un- able to be present at the close of last session. Never regarded as an orator, Nor- | beck spoke infrequently from the floor, but at times his remarks were | animated. He spoke with a pro- hounced Norwegian accent. Norbeck was credited with obtaining establishment of Custer State Park in the Black Hills of South Dakota, where he had a Summer home. Funeral services will be held to- morrow. The body will lie in state In a funeral chapel at Redfield from 1 to 3 pm, with services at Our ' Senator Dead I SENATOR NORBECK. .| pm. Burial will be at 1:30 p.m. Wed- nesday at the Old Bloomington Church Cemetery, 7 miles southeast of Platte, the Senator’s former home. Surviving besides the widow and son, Harold, are three daughters, Sally, who is in Norway; Mrs. Nellie Wagner .of Pierre, S. Dak., and Mrs. L. Jennings of Sioux Falls, S. Dak. B. & 0. OFFICIAL HEADS TRANSPORTATION CLUB G. M. Campbell Elected by Dis- trict Organization—Other Of- ficers Are Selected. G. M. Campbell, assistant general freight agent of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, has been elected president of the Washington Transportation Club, it was announced today. Elected to serve with Campbell were: C. W. Nickless, freight and passenger agent of the Norfolk & Western Rail- way, first vice president and secre- tary-treasurer; J. G. Nettleton, gen- eral agent, Pennsylvania Railroad, first vice president, and F. F. Crabbe, general agent, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, assistant secretary. The following were elected members of the board of governors: R. B. Armstrong, vice president, Los Angeles Steamship Co.; George L. Bryson, district freight and passenger agent, Central Vermont Railway; Henry H. Godfrey, in charge freight transportation, United States Marine Corps Frank E. Greenip, trafic audi- tor, Navy Department; William E. Hayghe, chief Federal Traffic Section, Procurement Division, Treasury De- | partment; J. A. MacDonald, general agent, Missouri Pacific Lines; C. J. Shaffer, secretary-treasurer, George C. Shaffer, Inc, and former presidents of the club. e Yule Mass at Ardmore. 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LOUIS, December 21.—Red- hajred Mrs. Nellle Tipton Muench, 44-year-old former society matron and sister of a State Supreme Court judge, and three others convicted with her in another episode of Missouri’s lonc- drawn “gift of God” baby pinned their hopes todsyonlnlplml ::n escape possible 23-year prison sen- ices, With little show of emotion the glamorous key figure in five sensa- tional trials within the last 14 months said sharply, “If the worst comes to the worst, I can take it.” Mrs. Muench, her husband, Dr. Ludwig O. Muench; Wilfred Jones, an attorney, and Mrs. Helen Berroyer, a friend, were found guilty of mail fraud by a Federal court here Sun- day. The Government charged they used the malls in an effort to extort unspecified sums of money from Dr. Marsh Pitzman, wealthy bachelor physician, by duping him into believ- ing he was the father of & child Mrs. Muench claimed she had borne. The case went to the jury in the twenty-first day of the trial, and a verdict was returned after four hours and 45 minutes’ deliberation. ‘The defendants face maximum pen- alty of five years in prison and fines of $1,000 on each of five counts. Fed- eral Judge George H. Moore gave them until midweek to file a motion for a new trial. Sam M. Wear, Springfield, Mo, member of the defense counsel, said an appeal will be taken. Neither Mr. or Mrs. Muench test- ifled. The Government's chief wit- ness was Mrs. Grace Thomasson, nine times married, who testified she had onoe been a party to the baby hoax and asserted it was Mrs. Muench’s intention, with knowledge of her hus- band, to obtain $250,000 from Dr. Pitzman through the baby. While waiting for the verdict the defendants appeared gloomily recon- ciled to a verdict of guilty. “I might as well be spending my time in the penitentiary as sitting around courts listening to all this junk,” Jones asserted. 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