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ESTABLISHED 1873
Dillinger Gang Holds Up Police
Arrest Reovens Famous Wick Murder Case
WYMfING MAN WILL
FACE CASS COURT
Wl ANCIENT COUNT
Is Accused off Slaying ffor Which
William Gummer Is Serv
ing Sentence
WAS SENSATION IN 1921
Man Being Returned It One of
Two Transients Regis
tered in Hotel
Charged with killing Marie Wick,
for whose murder William Gummer
is serving a life term in the state pri
son here, Arthur C. James will be re
turned from Wyoming to stand trial
in North Dakota.
James, a defendant in the L. J.
Schiller murder at Sundance, Wyo.,
Monday was ordered extradited to
Fargo, n. D., by Gov. Leslie A. Miller.
James is also known as Blackie Mc-
Carter, alias Reuben Lilly, alias The
Kid. alias LilL
Cass county authorities went to
Sundance and Cheyenne, Wyo., dur
ing the week-end to arrange for the
return of James.
By bringing James to North Dakota
to stand trial for the murder of Marie
Wick, one of the outstanding criminal
cases in the history of North Dakota,
will be reopened.
It is alleged James is one of the two
unaccounted for transients who stay
ed at the hotel In which Miss Wide
was killed.
It has been more than 12 years since
William Gummer was sent to prison
for killing Miss Wide, a Grygla, Minn.,
girl, in the old Prescott hotel at Far
go. Gummer was night clerk of the
hotel.
Almost continuously since that time
R. W. Swenson, Devils Lake attorney,
brother-in-law of the convicted man,-
has worked to prove Gummer inno
cent. Swenson has been before the
supreme court and before the state
pardon board but so far his efforts
have failed although he is steadfast
in his belief that it was not Gummer
who committed the murder.
Gummer, likewise, has clung to his
statement that he is Innocent.
Marie Wick came to Fargo the night
of June 7, 1921, planning to leave on
a westbound train the following
morning. Her body was found in the
hotel room the following morning,
marking the beginning of a sensation
al investigation and trial.
Because of the strong feeling in
Fargo, the Gummer trial was removed
to Valley City where he was convicted
by a Barnes county district court jury.
He has been in the penitentiary sinoe.
mWILDBY
MARYLAND SHERIFF
Nabs Negro Accused off Assault
ing Policeman With Dan
gerous Weapon
Crisfield, Md., April 80.—(AV-Sher
iff Luther Daugherty early Monday
captured Harry Flemming, Negro for
whom hundreds of men and boys had
searched woods and swamps since
early Sunday night.
Hemming, wanted for seriously
wounding Policeman Harry Daugherty
with a chisel, was in the hands of a
guard of state police and being rush
ed to Baltimore before the sheriff let
the searching crowd know their man
was gone.
The sheriff, who said he had been
working alone, made the arrest un
aided when he found Flemming at the
home of Joe Spence, near Westover
Crossroads, several miles from the
spot where the crowd believed they
had him surrounded in a swamp.
The crowd, at times estimated at
more than 500 persons, had been
looking for the Negro since about 9
o’clock Sunday night. It had dwind
led to around a hundred early Mon
day morning when the town fire
siren shrieked out to summon more
men to the hunt. It was at that time
that the empty swamp, several miles
from here, was surrounded.
The Negro was alleged to have at
tacked Policeman Daugherty, distant
kinsman of the sheriff, when the of
ficer went to arrest him Sunday
eight. At first it was thought that
he had been shot in the temple and
officers probed for a bullet. Later it
was decided that the attack had been
made with some sharp instrument
that cut through the skull.
Sheriff Daugherty said his informa
tion was that the negro had used a
chlMi
At the hospital Monday it was said
the officer had only a fighting chance
to live.
FALL PROVES FATAL
Tyndall, S. D., April 30.—(AP) —A 80-
foot tell from a cliff near the Missouri
river bank caused the death Sunday
of Arthur Marks, 68, a resident of
Tyndall for about 50 years.
SALESMAN DROPS DEAD
Butte. Mont., April 30.—(AV-G. O.
Peterson, a mlosman from Grand
FMfts, N. D.. dropped dead Saturday
'PUbL %
I Dillinger’s Doctor f
Admitting ha treated wounds of
John Dillinger and his chief
aide, John Hamilton, on March
15. and telling to notify author
ities, Dr. N. O. Mortensen, St.
Paul, Minn., health department
chief, above, has been suspend
ed. pending investigation, and
■V tecs a V. 8. indictment.
ASSERTS JAPANESE
WILL NOT TRY TO
CLOSE ‘OPEN Doar
British Foreign Chiof Says Far
Eastern Atmosphere Cloar
sd by Stoteinsnt *
London, April 80.—(JP>—Sir John
Simon, foreign secretary, told the
house of commons Monday that Japan
has fully accepted the policy of the
“open door" for all nations in China.
The foreign secretary’s statement
was made before a house packed with
those anxious to hear the government’s
attitude on the Japanese “hands off
China" doctrine, unofficially stated
April 17.
Sir John said that Sir Hands Lind
ley, British ambassador in Tokyo, had
pointed out to Koki Hlrota, the Jap
anese foreign minister, that the prin
ciple of equal rights In China was very
explicitly guaranteed by the nine
power treaty signed at Washington in
1933, to which Japan was signatory.
He told his hearers that Japan has
informed the British government it
has no intention of interfering with
“the common rights" of other powers
in China and has reaffirmed its policy
of the maintenance of the open door.
He said Japan has given assurance
that she will observe the nine-power
treaty. (The treaty, signed by Japan,
China, Great Britain, France, Hol
land, and other nations certifies the
right of the signatories to carry on
legitimate business in China and guar
antees the integrity of that nation.)
House Is Debating
Stock Control Bill
Washington, April 80.—(*)— I The ad
ministration-supported stock market
regulation bill was thrown wide open
to change Monday as the house open
ed a week of debate.
Democratic leaders were confident
a comfortable majority vote would
send the bill Friday to the senate
where amendments to modify the se
curities act of 1988 are being drafted
as riders.
These proposed changes cannot be
attached now in the house under the
rules. It was indicated authoritative
ly, however, that house leaders will
Accept the proposals when they come
bock from the senate. One of the
amendments would lessen the civil
liability of directions, engineers and
accountants for the accuracy of state
ments made in registering securities
with the federal trade commission.
Another would take the act away
from the trade commission and place
it under a new commission.
Rumor About Guards
At Bank Is Denied
Rumors that the national guard has
been called out to guard the Bank of
North Dakota, were denied Monday
by R. M. Stangler, manager of the
bank.
Another rumor that the bandit,
John Dillinger. was in North Dakota,
was being checked Monday morning
by Police Chief Chris Martineaon. who
said he had been called several times
Bunday by people who claimed to
have Inside information that the
desperado was being pursued by fed
eral secret service men in this state.
The tip to the chief was alleged to
have been given local parties by St.
Paul men.
SUTONB RIMED
nd, April 30.—(ff)—Five
town to have been killed
Mfler leas of life was
/ftSTalSlfite wurk-
HURD MEMBER OF
ZBBEL FASLY IS
HELD FOR SLAYING
19-Year-Old Son Joins Mother
and Brother as Defend
ant in Case
UNABLE TO FURNISH BOND
Youth K«pt In Jail at Fassandan
Panding Arrangements
to Frea Him
Fessenden, N. D., April 30.—(A*)—A
murder charge Monday faces Carroll
Zlrbel, 19, who was named late Sat
urday as co-defendant with his
mother and older brother, Raymond,
the accusation being that they mur
dered Henry Zlrbel, husband and
father of the trio, on March 19.
Unable as yet to furnish bonds of
$5,000. Carroll is held in the county
jail here.
Mrs. Agnes Zlrbel, the widow and
mother, and Raymond, aged 21, were
arrested on March 80, charged with
the murder of Zlrbel, whose body,
bound with wire, was found on the
side of a burning strawstack, a little
more than two miles from the farm
home, on the evening of March 19.
The Zlrbel home is near Chaseley.
Decision to place a murder charge
against Carroll was reached by State’s
Attorney J. W. Schmidt, of Wells
county and Assistant Attorney Gen
eral J. A. Heder of Bismarck follow
ing a report from Dr. O. A. Abbott,
chemist at the University of North
Dakota, that he had confirmed his
previous conviction that there was
strychnine poieon in Zirbel’s body.
MINNESOTA YOUTH
HELD-FOR-SLAYING
ST. CLOUD POLKEMAN
Mystery Surrounds Cold-Blood
sd Murdsr of Officsr
Standing on Strsst
St. Cloud, Minn., April 30.—(**>—A
32-year-old youth, who gave his name
as Walter Hornstein of Bemldji, was
held In the city jail here Monday
believed by police to have been res
ponslble for the slaying of Patrolman
Fred W. Nolan, 44, who was shot down
without apparent motive Sunday.
Questioned by Police Chief Ed Brick,
dose personal friend of the slain po
liceman, Horsteln refused to reveal
much.
He was found crouched beneath a
railroad bridge four blocks from the
scene of the shooting, his hair and
clothes disheveled, and carrying shells
«lmtiar to the one which killed Nolan,
a member of the force only six weeks.
Police, meanwhile, searched the
banks of the Mississippi river for the
weapon from which the fatal bullet
is believed to have been fired. Chief
Brick said Horosteln asserted he
threw the weapon away when he
reached the railroad trestle.
The slaying occurred in the heart
of the downtown district while a cele
bration of the Eagles lodge was at its
height a few blocks away.
Nolan was standing at the inter
section of Bt. Germain street and
Seventh .avenue when his assailant
walked up behind him, placed his
hand on Nolan's shoulder and fired.
Hie bullet penetrated Nolan’s heart,
causing instantaneous death.
Ernie Davis, proprietor of a news
stand a few feet from where the
shooting took place, said the slayer
paused momentarily over the police
man’s body as if deciding whether to
fire again, then fled northward on
Seventh avenue.
Mandan Beer Parlors
Are Raided Saturday
A score of officers raided 21 estab
lishments in Mandan Saturday night
and were drawing up complaints
Monday against at least eight of
them on charges of violating the
state liquor laws.
Included in the raiding parties were
officers of the state beer department,
headed by Owen T. Owen, commis
sioner, some federal men and James
Buckley, chief of polioe of Mandan.
Among those against which com
plaints will be drawn, Owen said, are
Albert Heins, Kopp’s Place, John
Sann's Street Car, the Smoke Shop,
the Mint, the Log Cabin, and H. F.
Schafer.
itoMiwf part lei previously visited
11 maces in Bismarck and several
in Mandan.
CAB STOLEN HEBE
A second hand Chevrolet car was
stolen from in front of the neck Mo
tor company garage Saturday night
or Sunday according to a report made
to the Bismarck police department
Monday. The car is a green 1938
coach. The motor number is 4898513.
BLUE JAYS BEAT HILINERS
Valley City, N. D., April 30 j—(F)—
Jamestown high schqil won in track
and field events 8314 to 5414 but
divided honors in wqpie and golf in
a dual meet with iby City here
vntey ib| ssteida*
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BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, APRIL 30,1934
High School Plans
Continue Uncertain
Chicago politician
CONFESSEDTOPART
IN KIDNAPING CASE
Admits Possession of $54,000
in Ransom Money; Facet
Court Trial
Chicago, April 30.—(A>)—John J.
“Boas” McLaughlin has confessed
handling $53,000 of the ransom col
lected from Edward Bremer, St. Paul
banker, the federal bureau of inves
tigation disclosed Monday.
McLaughlin wss held in SIOO,OOO
bond Saturday for removal to St.
Paul for trial under the “Lindbergh’’
kidnaping act.
His arrest followed the recovery of
$2,665 in $5 and $lO bills identified
as part of the ransom money. The
“hot" currency was found on Wil
liam E. Vidler, a gambler, last Thurs
day.
Melvin H. Purvis, chief of the Chi
cago office of the bureau of investi
gation, announced that McLaughlin
had made a full confession of his
part In the disposition of portions of
the $200,000 ransom paid for Brem
er’s freedom after 23 days a captive
of kidnapers.
Four men are in federal custody—
McLaughlin and Vidler already ar
raigned, and two others awaiting the
issuance of warrants charging them
also with conspiracy.
Site Is Recevered
Purvis said the government had re
covered $3,400 of the ransom. They
found SBS of it Saturday on young
Jack McLaughlin, 17-year-old son of
the erstwhil' West Side political boss,
Purvis said. Still more was found in
possession of Philip Delaney, whose
arrest in, McLaughlin’# home a$ the
same time the “boss’* was seised be
came known only Monday.
Delaney, the fourth accused of con
spiring in the disposition of the ran
som, is alleged to have handled $24,-
000 of the money that passed through
McLaughlin’s hands.
The government is hunting two Ok
lahoma ex-convicts, Arthur Barker
and Alvin Karpis, as the actual ab
ductors of the St. Paul banker.
Meanwhile, officials probed a re
port that the same gang which kid
naped Bremer had duped Martin
Wunderlich, St. Paul contractor, out
of $50,000 In a wire-tapping scheme.
Wunderlich, at his home in Jeffer
son City, Mo., refused to comment
but it was reported that two men had
been arrested in connection with the
case.
Started in South Bend
The government theory is that the
swindlers met their victim about a
year ago in a South Bend, Ind.. ho
tel. The leader of the confidence
men told him of an acquaintance who
had won large sums on horse races by
wire tapping.
The swindlers and the victim al
legedly “won” approximately $900,000
before the supposed bookmaker asked
for evidence that they could have
paid, if they had lost. The victim la
supposed to have called upon Bremer
in St. Paul, obtaining $50,000 which
he carried back to South Bend. That
was the end of the money, as far as
he was concerned.
Agents said that then the swind
lers passed along word that Bremer
had money and the kidnapers seised
him Jan. 17. He was released after
payment of $200,000.
The authorities said they believed
a connection exist ted between the
kidnapers and a “hot money" ring op
erating in several cities. .This ring is
suspected of disposing of ransom
monies, stolen bonds, securities and
specie to an estimated total of $50,-
000,000.
Income of Railroads
Shows Sharp Upturn
New York, April 30—(/P)—The sharp
upturn in business and industry dur
ing the past several months is exem
plified by estimates that the net op
erating income for March of all Class
1 railroads, based on the reports of
the first 58 roads, will show an ag
gregate of approximately $61,900,000
or 392 per cent above the 1933 month
and 59 per cent over the correspond
ing 1932 period.
♦■■ 1 •
‘Laboratory Babes’
Are Latest Wrinkle
♦ —♦
New York, April 30.—(F)—La
boratory babies, in a broad sense
of the word, have become a fact,
it became known Monday upon
the birth of twins to a couple liv
ing in Long island.
Dr. Frances Seymour, woman
.obstetrician, confirmed the moth
er’s claim to her “test tube” ba
bies and said there had been
eight successful deliveries in New
York City since experimentation
in this line of scientific endeavor
was started two years ago by
herself and Dr. Alfred Koerner.
Thirteen successful artificial
Inseminations have been made,
she said, eight of them deliveries
so far. Eleven, she said, were ac
tually the offspring of the hus
band and wife concerned and dif
ferent only in that impregnation
was BdenUfte.
PWA Asks Bismarck to Increase
Bond Issue From $203,-
000 to $218,000
NO REASONS ADVANCED YET
Alternatives Would Be Special
Election or Revition of
Present Plan
Despite the fact the PWA loan and
grant of $308,700 to the Bismarck
school district for construction of s
proposed new high school building
has been announced as approved,
there still hangs over the situation
a cloud of uncertainty, George F.
Will, president of the board of edu
cation, revealed Monday.
Clouding the enterprise is the
PWA’s recent request that the city
of Bismarck raise Its bond issue from
$203,000 to $218,000.
This request was relayed to the
school board here by H. C. Knudaen
of Devils Lake, state PWA engineer.
Knudsen told the Bismarck board
that he did not know the reason for
the requested increase in the Capital
City’s share, but has communicated
with the PWA administrator in re
gard to it.
Will said the board here still enter
tains a hope that the PWA loan and
grant will be allowed under the pres
ent setup, adding that Knudsen ex
pects to hear from Washington re
garding the matter some time this
week.
Would Require Election
To increase the bond issue. Will
said, it would be necessary to have
another election, not only for ap
proval of the additional $15,000 in
bonds asked, but also for approval
from the voters to exceed the statu
tory limit for bonds.
The $203,000 bond issue approxi
mates the statutory limit of five per
cent or wtsrvsiuatton, Wnr skldr to
view of the fact that taxable valua
tions were reduced by one-third In
June, 1932.
An alternative to increasing the
bond Issue, Will explained, would be
to reduce the total cost of the pro
posed high school building.
Such procedure, however, might
entail a complete revision of the
plans and indefinite delay because of
the fact that, due to rising prices of
materials, so many of the original
features planned for the building
have been eliminated as to make fur
ther eliminations impractical for the
building as now planned.
All hope of beginning construction
of the new structure before July 1 at
the earliest has been abandoned by
the Bismarck board of education, Will
said.
Following final approval by the
government on the project, the local
school board must advertise for 30
days for bids on the bonds. This ad
vertisement is necessary despite the
fact the government probably will
take over the bonds, which would be
the case in the absence of better bids.
Bequire Two Months
Following the sale of bonds, the
board then would advertise for 20
days for construction bids. These
two advertisements would require two
full months, making it impossible for
construction to begin before that
time. Will said.
Rttterbush Brothers of Bismarck,
architects, estimate that a full year
would be required to complete the
structure, precluding the possibility
that the building could be used be
fore the fall of 1935.
Under the original plan,.the city
was to supply $278,000 of construction
and furnishing costs while the fed
eral government was to supply SIOB,-
000, or 30 per cent of $361,000, the
estimate for labor and material costs.
The city has $75,000 in a special
building fund, which, added to the
$203,000 bond issue approved last
Bept. 14, brings the city’s total to
$278,000.
It is estimated about $30,000 addi
tional will be required to furnish the
building.
Democrats in 35th
Endorse Candidates
John Dobbert of Robinson and
Theodore Hansen of Denhoff have
been endorsed as Democratic candi
dates for the state legislature from
the 35th district (Kidder and Sheri
dan counties), according to John
Hlnkel of Tuttle, chairman of the
Kidder county Democratic central
committee, who visited in Bismarck
Monday.
Dobbert was selected by the Kidder
endorsing committee while Hansen
was named by the Sheridan endors
ing group.
No action has been taken yet on a
candidate for the senate, but Hlnkel
said there is considerable talk of an
effort to recall the holdover senator,
Oscar E. Erickson, publisher of The
Leader, administration newspaper
published in Bismarck. i
Dobbert and Hansen are funning
on the “new deal” platform, pledging
themselves to fight “corruption” in
government. s
Members of the* ’endorsing commit
tee in Kidder county included Hlnkel,
Georgs'Elliott of Tuttle, Levi Landin
of Btese, Carl Thompson of J Tappen
and Joan T. Buck of Tuttle, ill mem
bers ofvthe centra] committee; Verne
Wp?ls lohltmon; FreA FreQe, Pettt
boero*' ft t ■*, Montgomery, Tappen;
Lu n? >?. Dawson; and John C.
PILLSBURY BILL FOR
$6,800 IS HELD UP
BY CAPITOL GROUP
Commissioners Deny Disposi
tion to Pay Without Get
ting Full Facts
SHAFT RENDERS OPINION
Attorney General Aeked for Ad
vice Before State Parts
With Money
A bill for $6,500 for professional
services claimed to have been render
ed to the state capitol commission by
the Pillsbury Engineering company,
Minneapolis, has been held up by that
body pending the receipt of additional
information, it was disclosed Monday.
At the same time, Major Frank L.
Anders, secretary, and Nelson A. Sau
valn and Mrs. Jennie Ulsrud, mem
bers of the commission, denied a re
port published earlier in the day that
Sauvain and Chairman R. M. Rish
worth last week had pressed for im
mediate approval and payment of the
bill.
Their denial was supported by An
ders’ minutes of the meeting of the
board last Monday, April 23, which
showed that the board had decided
to ask the Pillsbury company for more
detail and itemized statements re
garding expense and service which
the Minneapolis firm had rendered.
The decision to ask the Pillsbury
firm for more details followed receipt
of an opinion from Assistant Attor
ney General Harold D. Shaft, in
which the assistant attorney general
expressed an opinion that it would
not be essential that the Pillsbury
firm recite in detail the exact serv
ices performed by each individual, as
they were being paid for professional
services consisting of many duties in
volved in examination, investigation
and supervision of work, but that the
statement of expense incurred must
be fully itemized as to rooms, meals
and transportation in accordance with
law.
Want More Details
A motion that the Pillsbury firm
be asked for more details before any
action was taken by the commission
on the bill was made by Commission
er John Husby and seconded by Sau
vain.
The itemized statement asked for
arrived here Monday morning but no
action has yet been taken on it since
it was not brought up at the com
mission's regular weekly meeting
Monday. No definite date has been
set for consideration of the bill, Sau
vain and Anders said Monday after
noon.
The Pillsbury company was re
tained as consulting engineer's to the
cspitol building commission, Anders
and Sauvain explained, to assist in
Inspection of the entire building, par
ticularly the mechanical features, in
cluding electrical, heating and ven
tilating, plumbing and gas-fitting
work.
In asking the Minneapolis firm for
the itemised statement, the commis
sion also sent the Pillsbury company
a copy of Assistant Attorney General
Shaft’s opinion and asked for evi
dence showing Just what had been
accomplished by the consulting engi
neers, month by month.
Auto Accident Fatal
To Bismarck Pioneer
Mrs. Nellie Lindsay Call, a Bismarck
pioneer, died at Altadena, Calif., Sat
urday from injuries received in an
automobile accident several weeks ago.
Mrs. Call, who was 75 years old, went
to Altadena from Bismarck two
years ago.
Mrs. Call and her husband, the late
Frank J. Call who died in the West
many years ago, came to Bismarck
in 1873, shortly after their marriage.
Their 10th anniversary was celebrated
here in 1883. Mr. Call became a
prominent businessman, engaging in
the lumber business.
A well-known musician, Mrs. Call
taught a class of several young peo
ple here in the 70’s and 80’s, among
them Mrs. William A. Falconer, 202
Avenue E. She was a member of the
Presbyterian church and is remem
bered as always being actively inter
ested in church affairs.
Mr. and Mrs. Call were the parents
of four children, Harry and Catherine
who live in California. Grant who
married Miss Marie Hughes of this
city and who lives in Chicago, and
Howard who died in childhood and
was buried in Bismarck. The former
home of the Call family was at 323
Avenue A West.
Both Mrs. Call and her daughter,
who made her home with her, were
injured in the * automobile accident,
which was the third they had experi
enced. In a letter received during the
Christmas holidays by Mrs. E. L.
Faunce, 802 First St., Mrs. Call said
that she had gone to the mountains
because ’of her poor health and that
all her children were spending Christ
mas with her.
OLDEST MAN IS ILL
Istanbul, Turkey, April 30—(AP)—
Absolute quiet was ordered Monday
for Zaro Agha, who claims to be the
oldest person in the world.
The Turk, who says he is 180. is in
the national children'* hospital to
[which he whs taken Saturday suiter
[tag from Bright's disease.
] Kidnap Victim [
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JUNE ROBLES
June Robles, six-year-old Tucson,
Arts., girl, is the latest kidnap victim
in the United States. She had not
been returned home Monday despite
negotiations begun by her family with
kidnapers to obtain her release.
FAMILY OF MISSING
CHILD APPEALS FOR
HERSPEEDYRETURN
Aged Grandfather Back From
Mystery Trip Which Had
Worried Officials
Tucson, Ariz.. April 30.—(AP)—Ber
nabe Robles, aged grandfather of
kidnaped June Robles, returned at
noon Monday from a mysterious er
rand in the Interior of Sonora, Mex
ico, and spokesmen for the family
appealed publicly to the abductors,
declaring money to meet the $15,000
ransom demand “will be ready” when
a contact is arranged.
The grizzled former cattle baron's
sudden reappearance after his unex
plained Mexico trip of a night and a
half a day was almost simultaneous
with the first public overture to deal
with six-year-old June’s abductors.
The circumstances gave Impetus to
reports that definite arrangements
for an exchange were being made on
the part of the family and that final
details, including the preparation of
the ransom money, had awaited only
the grandfather’s return.
Meanwhile, agents for both the
United States and Mexican govern
ments were active in the case.
United States department of jus
tice agents already have taken a
hand in attempts to effect the safe
return of the brown-eyed girl who
was kidnaped last Wednesday. They
were understood to have expressed
approval of the mission of the elder
Robles, at whose wealth the $15,000
ransom demand was directed. Reli
able reports said that his mission was
for the purpose of contacting the
girl’s abductors, perhaps personally.
One rumor, upon which authorities
failed to comment publicly, was that
the abduction was the work of John
Dillinger henchmen in retaliation for
the capture of the midwest desperado
and three companions here several
months ago. At that time they
threatened to return and revenge
themselves.
North Dakota Slow
In Highway Spending
Washington, April 30.—CAP)—The
bureau of public roads Monday ad
vised Secretary Ickes that 85 per cent
of the federal-aid highway program
for which $400,000,000 of public works
money was allotted, was under way or
finished.
Among the 16 states which reported
road awards below the average were
the following:
North Dakota 55.6 per oent.
Minnesota 69.8 per cent.
Missouri 74.4 per cent.
t Mountain Canaries
| Disturb Montanans
♦ *
Alberton, Mont., April 3,.—(AP) —
The rangers have come, the bur
ros are gone, and the midnight
air is no longer rent with sleep
disturbing brays.
So annoying were the nocturnal
songs of the Rocky Mountain
“canaries,” Mayor W. A. Best
wick, with the interests of his
populace at heart, summoned the
forest department to remove their
13 burros, wintered here.
“They are afflicted with insom
nia.'’ he complained, “they don’t
go to sleep by night, but come
peering into people's windows,
devouring sweet peas and vegeta
bles, and they sing all night—how
they sing—please come and get
them.”
PRICE FIVE CENTS
CHASE IN CHICAGO
SUBURB CLIMAXED
BY BOLD MOVEMENT
Pursuers Are Threatened With
Machine Guns When They
Catch Quarry
FOUR OFFICERS DISARMED
Desperadoes Get Clear After
Sensational Maneuver at
Filling Station
Chicago, April 30.—(AP)—Four gun
men climaxed a two-mile chase with
a hand-to-hand battle with polioe in
suburban Bellwood early Monday and
the officers said one of the four, all
of whom escaped, “looked like” John
Dillinger, the hunted killer.
Another of them, said Police Lieu
tenant Joseph Hagemeister, resem
bled George “Baby Face” Nelson, the
little gunner of the Dillinger gang,
and a third bore a likeness to Henry
Fox, another Dillinger aide.
The chase ended when the hood
lums disarmed the officers. One of
the men hit Policeman Harry Whalen
over the head with a machine gun
before speeding away into the dark
ness with his companions.
Whalen and two other officers,
Lieut. Joseph Hagemeister and Police- '
man Gus Mendze, began the chase in
a police car when the gunmen’s ma
chine failed to halt at a red light.
The police caught up when the
other machine pulled up at a filling
station for gasoline.
Two of the gunmen jumped out.
One, armed with a machine gun,
forced the three officers to give up
their weapons and struck Whalen.
The other two men, remaining in
their car, held machine guns on the
officers.
Make Clean Getaway
The four then resumed their flight,
eluding Forest Park policemen who
attempted to intercept them.
The gunmen’s car, a new dark se
dan, was believed to have been stolen
from Dr. Merles Sweeley at Melrose.
The skirmish came as a nttntt* of
Dilllnger’s death was gaining circula
tion. This report had it that the
desperado may have been mortally
wounded when he and his pals Mused
their way out of the Little Bohemia
lesort country near Mercer, Wla* a
week ago Monday morning.
The rumor, heard several times
since the greatest manhunt of tha de
cade began, received office notice
Sunday night. Melvin H. Purvis,
chief of the Chicago office of the gov
ernment's bureau of investigation,
made the terse announcement that
federal officers had been “unable to
verify reports that Dillinger is deed
in Wisconsin.”
“We are still looking for him,” he
added:
“All poppycock” was the comment
of Tom McGregor, sheriff of Vilas
county, where last week’s gunplay
cost the lives of a federal officer and
a private citizen.
Federal investigators at St. Paul de
clined to discuss the report, but con
tinued to push their investigation, be
gun eight weeks ago after DUUnger.
with his wooden gun, bluffed his way
out of the Crown Point, Ind., jail.
Rumor Crop Is Heavy
There was the usual crop of reports
on the whereabouts of Dillinger.
Northern Minnesota meanwhile was
the hunting ground in the search for
Nelson, also reported “seen” at Marsh
field, Wis.
Authorities established definitely the
Identities of the three young women
caught in the Little Bohemia resort
and since held in Jail at Madison,
Wis. They named one of them aa the
wife of “Baby Face” Nelson and the
other two as friends of Tommy Car
roll and Homer Van Meter, hench
men of the Indiana desperado. Van
Meter was identified through photo
graphs, the leader of a band of bank
bandits that looted a bank in sub
urban Villa Park last Friday of
18.000.
The authorities said that Carroll’s
girl friend comes from St. Paul, that
her name is Delaney, and that she is
the sister-in-law of Pat Riley, for
mer St. Paul American Association
baseball club mascot now sought for
questioning in connection with the
Dillinger search. The agents accused
the third girl—Van Meter’s friend—of
making arrangements for the rental
of an apartment used as one of the
gang’s hideouts in Minneapolis.
A warning was sounded by District
Attorney Randall Elmer of Montlcello,
Wis., that Nelson might try to liberate
the women. He said he believed he
had sighted Nelson in a car between
Monticello and Madison and told fed
eral agents and the sheriff at Msdl
(Continued on Page 7)
N. W. Bancorporation
Quiz To Be Continued
Washington, April 30.—LAP) —Tb*
supreme court Monday permitted t&d
securities division of the Minnesota
department of commerce to resume
immediately its investigation into the
affairs of the Northwest Bancorpor
ation, which owns the stock of 125
banks scattered throughout the north
west.
The court refused to restrain the
commission from going ahead while
the question of the validity of the in
vestigation -was being appealed.
SET TOURNAMENT DATE
Jamestown, sN. D., April 30.—(AP)—
Jamestown’s annual invitational getf
tournament wfll be held June 19, It
was anomuped by USE KMH, ctub
prota&vuu. , . .