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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-10-23
MISSOURI BATTLES FOR
CUSTODY OF FLOYD'S PAL

East Liverpool, O.. Oct. 23.-R-
HIS companion In crime dead, Adam
Richetti. wanted for the Staying Of
five men in the Kansas City Union
station massacre last year, Tuesday
was little more than q pawn in moves
tor his custody.
Sheriff Thomas Bash, Of Kansas
City. said he and department OF JUS
tice agents were doing everything
possible to get custody Of the gang
Ster for return to Missouri while a
federal grand jury is considering the
case.
Richetti. who gave up Saturday in
. brush with officers rs he and
Charles Pretty Boy Floyd appar-
emily debated which way to turn in
their flight from the law. said he
would not return to Missouri with
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-10-23
To Chicago
Last 3 Days Of Fair!

Northern Pacific has been asked
to run another tour to the Chicago
Worlds Fair for the final three days.
Here It is:
Leave Bismarck on the North Coast
Limited. Very low rail fare. Three
days IN Chicago for only $3.50. Ask
your Northern Pacific agent for de-
tails and reservations. Advertise
ment.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-10-23

tnat every good citizen should seek
TO tighten 1t in every way possible !"
The other point would make. >,
ne said, rs that none of US wants to
enmlnate the personal factor in TAX
ing care OF human needs. Surely none
OF you wants to centralize the care Of
relief either in Washington or in your
state capital or in your city hail.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-10-23

Wednesday are the five nomina-
tions-generally equivalent to cleo.
tion-for departmental Vice presi.
dents Of the Auxiliary reported out
Monday night by regional caucuses.
The nominees are: .........
Western department: Mrs. Estelle
A. Saxton Of Kayesville. uta:.-:.
northwestern, Mrs. w. Francis Smith
Of Lander, Wyo.: southern, Mrs. Tom
Gamig Of Ponca City, Okla; eastern,
Mrs. Jonathan =. Wheatley Of Cam
bridge, Nd: central, Mrs. Myron MIL
lcr Of Anthony, Kan.
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C. o N TIN U E ID
from paGo On.
Pretty Boy Floyd
Slain by Sleuths
In Ohio COrnfield

corn crib Meantime the officers -
eight department Of justice agents
and police-scrambled from their ma
chimes, guns ready.
Runs Fer Woods
Instead Of staying In hts barricade
Floyd crawled cut and started for the
Dyke machine. Again changing hts
mind, he changed direction and pace
and started for a nearby wooded
ridge.
Haiti" yelled Purvis.
Floyd ran.
"Fire!' ordered Purvis.
Four bullets tore into the Okla
homa bandits body. He went down,
fatally wounded.
Purvis approached him. Deity,
handouts were slipped on Floyd's
wrists.
Here. Floyds vanity got the better
Of him. AS he lay dying. he appar-
emily thought not OF hts own life, or
those of his wife and child.
who the hell tipped your" he
asked.
Purvis began questioning him about
the Kansas City massacre. But Floyd
was tight-lippeG.
But he did admit his identity. X
am Floyd he said. Then: Where
is Eddie?"
Asked for Eddie
Evidently he referred to Adam
Richetti, his partner in crime now
held at nearby Wellsville. Richetti
also is wanted for the Kansas City
Sayings.
Dazed. weakened by loss OF blood,
Floyd thought the officers gunfire
had reached him only twice.
''You got me twice." he said. His
voice choked.
Floyd's last few words are the Sec
ret Of Purvis. The bandit talked, but
Purvis did not disclose what he said
The officers picked up the wounded
fugitive and carried him to the high
way. He died before they placed him
In an automobile.
Floyd and two other men robbed a
bank Of $500 at Tiltonville. O., four
days ago. He was near the end Of his
rope financially On his person was
only $3.50.
His white shirt was dirty, open at
the neck, his hair mussed.
Purvis Ace Sleuth
The man responsible for FlOyd's
death, perhaps more than any other,
was Purvis, whose killing Of Dillinger
was only part of the days work. Pur-
Wis came to Ohio looking for Thomas
H. Robinson. Jr.. the kidnaper of Mrs.
Alice Stoll, Louisville society matron.
Robinson got away from Springfield,
O., before officers could close In. Pur-
Wis came here Sunday.
The body was brought to mortuary
here. Then the parade Of the curious
began.
They got to view Floyd's body In
spite Of the wishes of Floyd's mother,
Mrs. Walter Floyd. who telegraphed
from Sallisaw to the chief of police,
asking that he bar the public. AT
Floyd's head stood Police Chief Hugh
j. McDermott Of East Liverpool.
Meantime conference of officials
occurred at Wellsville where Richetti
is held under i guard Of dozen spe-
cialy-deputlzed citizens armed with
rifles.
George Lafferty, Columbia county
prosecutor. late Monday agreed to
turn Richetti over to federal agents
Tuesday for a grand jury hearing in
the union station massacre.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-10-23
GENERAL CONDITIONS

the parometrlc pressure Is low over
the Plains States dodge City % 68)
and over the north Pacific coast
Seattle. 1866 while Highs overlie
the eastern states and the western
Plateau States (Winnemucca 1929.
The weather Is somewhat unsettled
In all sections and precipitation has
occurred IN the southern Plains States
ana over the Far Northwest. Some
what colder weather has appeared
over the Rocky Mountain region, but
moderate temperatures prevails over
the Plains States and Mississippi
Valley.
Bismarck station barometer, inches:
26.O8. Reduced to sea level, 1886.
Missouri river stage at q. m. OF
It. "a hour change. 90 #.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-10-23
GANDHI RErIREs

Bombay. India. Oct. 23.-(P)-The
Mahatma Gandhi announced Tuesday
ne had definitely decided to retire
from leadership Of the all India Ma
tionalist congress. D
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-10-23

wednesday gener :
ally fair an d
somewhat warmer.
For North Da-
kota: Partly clou-
dy and slightly
colder toni G h t:
Wednesday gener-
ally fair, some
what warmer west
and north por-
tons.
For South Da-
kota: Partly clou-
dy and slightly
colder toni 6 h t;
vXY~l =
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-10-23

ally fair. with warmer west portion.
For Montana: Unsettled tonight
and Wednesday, showers west por-
ton; warmer southwest. colder ex-
treme east tonight. warmer east and
extreme south portions Wednesday.
T0r Minnesota: Partly cloudy
Tuesday night and Wednesday, prob
ably showers In extreme east por-
ton: somewhat colder in west por-
ton and in east and south portions
Wednesday.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-10-23

Save on shoes for men, wo-
men and children at the Peo-
pies Department Store.
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PRECIPITATION

EOf BISMARCK station:
Total this month to date ..... .86
Normal, this month to date -. ~
Total, January LIST to date -, TAI
Normal. January LIST to date :. 1893
Accumulated deficiency to date 7.57
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Weather Report
FORECAST

For Bismarck and vicinity: Partly |
cloudy and slightly colder tonight:
Evening star., 1934-10-21

Miss Minnie Fox, sister of John Fox, still
lives in the rustic cottage built by Fox in
Big Stone Gap and devotes most Of her time
to attending q pack Of valuable dogs and to
dreams of more af1uent days when the Fox
family was q power in the community and in
the State. FRITZ Scheff, divorced actress-wife
of the romantic novelist, recently was reported
to be poverty stricken in New York, all but
forgotten by the thousands who once acclaimed
her on the American stage. The girl. June.
who was real person and a mountain char
acter still lives, but John Fox withheld her
name and who are we to desecrate his trust
and confidence?
The only other living character of the book
Is Lonesome Pine. Now, unless the Bureau
of Plant Industry can stay the hand Of the
fast-enveloping death, Lonesome Pine soon
win 60 the way Of the man who flashed the
name Lonesome across the roseate skies Of
romance and put its name on the lips Of
millions. Probably no other tree in all of
the Old South has become more romantic
or more famous than has Lonesome Pine.
Although wondering at the interest of the out
side world in the old tree, the simple mountain
folk, many of them reputed to be pure strain
of descendants from the followers of Daniel
Boone and George Washington, hold the old
tree in supefstitious awe and watch its slow
death with misgivings, although few Of them
ever heard OF the novel. The Trail of the
Lonesome Pine"
Lonesome Pine is about half dead now, the
blight creeping slowly down from what was
once its majestic green crown. If the plans
of the United States Forest Service to buy
several hundred thousand acres of land in
the section for a new national forest unit ma
terialize, Lonesome Pine will be within the
boundaries and new incentive viii be created
for its salvation. Representatives, of the Forest
Evening star., 1934-10-21
False Liquor Seized

THE return Of legal alcoholic beverages has
] brought an added task to the Federal Food
and Drug Administration. Washington was the
scene of q number of seizures of beverages
found not to live up to the statements on the
labels. Altogether, in this and other cities, the
inspectors found apple brandy lacking in both
volume and alcoholic content pomace brandy
labeled as real brandy, domestic wines indi-
Gated to be of foreign origin and vermouth with
misleading labels and short content.
The administration has also undertaken q
campaign to prevent the shipment Of filthy
cream and butter made from filthy cream.
Twenty seizures were made in Louisville and
Cincinnati which had been intended for ship
ment to butter factories, while in number Of
other cities cream intended for the fluid trade
was taken and destroyed.
In Maryland. Pennsylvania, New Jersey and
Maine 80 shipments of blueberries found to
contain maggots were destroyed.
Many falsely labeled medicinal products also
have fallen afoul the law recently, particularly
q remedy guaranteed to give fashionable
figure. Apparently the formula for the medicine
must change from time to time as does the
fashionable figure.
Evening star., 1934-10-21

Service already are at Norton, only a few
miles away from the pine, making surveys Of
the land with the view Of buying it.
It was through the section where Lonesome
Pine still guards the trail between the two
States that John Fox tramped untold miles in
search Of local color for his novels. He be-
came acquainted with, and became the friend
of the mountain people who were to play
roles in his romantic novels. ANY one who has
lived among these rugged, simple mountain
people can and will tell you that q stranger
within the gates in those early wilderness days
was fair game every time he wandered afield.
1t is to this day the breeding and broiling
place of feuds, and the mountaineer stin keeps
his rifle ready for '.revenoors." To the true
mountaineer, every one with store boughten"
clothes is a suspect and potential enemy.
man in city clothes or riding "britches" and
boots is, to them, either a "revenooer" or an
officer looking for some member of one Of the
numerous clans.
John FOX resolved to make friends with
~ the fridge runners" He went fearlessly
into the mountains and became one of the
mountaineers, but he took his life in his hands
every time he roamed through a new "holler"
rode up to q strange mountain cabin. But
he gained this confidence and he never be-
trayed the confidence of a moonshiner q
clan member who was hiding out from the law.
Then, as always, once the confidence OF the
mountain folk of the section is won, they are
generous to fault. Once you have broken
corn pone' with them svilled "drinkin'
hkker' from the ever-present brown jug or
fruit jar. they will fight for you as readily as
they would have fought against you the
The Little shepnerd q Kinasd0ama King daa come" alsa
Evening star., 1934-10-21

had its scene in this section Of the Kentucky
Virginia mountains.
Foxs death was the result Of trip into his
beloved mountains. He developed pneumonia
on one of his jaunts and died two days later
at Big Stone Gap. His workshop in the rustic
cottage which he built at Big Stone Gap re-
mains as 1t was when he died
Down through the Gap still roars the rush.
ing, tumblng waters of the once clear and
beautiful Powell River, skirted on either side
by the two railroads which serve the coal
fields, their train smoke still SETTLING low
along the sides of the mountains" and their
shrin whistles howkng ghostlike through the
great cash In the mountain chain. But the
trains are fewer and tell their own story Of
the dying Of the industrial giant which has
held a lofty, but temporary, place in the hills.
Far in the distance is Bald Knob. where an
af1uent community once built its palatial
country club and planned a new world, as told
in the novel But Bald Knob is really bald
now, all evidence of civilization wiped from
its domefike crest.
Poplar Hill, where Fox's romantic characters
strolled under the mountain moon, and once
the town Of Big Stone Gaps finest residential
section, has fallen into bad days. Fine old
homes still stand arrogantly on the hill, but
Just 10 years have taken their toll.
And when one looks of toward Lonesome
Pine in the blue distance of the hills, one
wonders at its prophetically withered and bare
limbs reaching toward the Southern skies.
It was there when coal and iron were first
discovered 1t probably was strapping young
ster when Columbus set sail for the New World
and proved to a doubling world that the uni
verse did not revolve around the feet of Isa-
bella. It has looked on the green-clad hills
and valleys at its feet when only the wild
animal roamed the forests and fields. 1t has
seen the coming of prosperity and was at the
he.ghth of its growth during the days of the
boom when money meant little because Of ITS
plenty.
Evening star., 1934-10-21
"Ben-cuy" lifts that
heavy load. =. goes right
to the trouble spot I

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gives positive relief. Be sure you get
the genuine 'Ben-Cay"-none Of its
imitators has its quick, sure power.
Evening star., 1934-10-21

THE Gap, spoken of in the Fox novel, Is
] Big Stone Gap, and it lies in a beautiful val
ley along the North Fork, or Powell River, in the
extreme tip of Southwestern Virginia. The
two railroads which "crawled like sluggish
worms along the mountain sides" are still
there, both passing the town mile away
either side. The dummy line, which met all
the trains at the two stations equidistant from
the town, and upon which June and John
rode when she returned from the East, where
he had sent her, long since has given up the
ghost and now beautiful State highways follow
its meandering course around the bases of the
hills and mountains which hem the town.
Big Stone Gap. or the Gap, is a typical
boom town and with the passing of the first
wave of prosperity is fast being reclaimed by
the wilderness. Massive buildings of stone
and concrete. erected in roseate optimism years
ago, now stand untentanted, many of them
crumbling back to the dust from whence they
came.
The novelist who dragged the old pine out
Of centuries of obscurity to bask in the mellow
glow Of unsophisticated romance died in 1919.
His brother Horace, thought by many to be the
John Hale of the novel, also is dead.
Evening star., 1934-10-21
BY G.. WINFIELD HURD.

HE Lonesome Pine is doomed!
Deterioration has set in on Lone
some Cove, spreading to the Gap
and even to the crown Of Lonesome
Pine, even as 1t was prophesied by
John Eoy ir in hic rornance of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-26

exposure of the reality behind the NRA and its,
Section IA, which hailed by the A. F. of l..
and Socialist Party leaders as "a new charter for
Labor
The shooting of workers is to enforce the prn-
cipes of the Roosevelt Green auto settlement and
establish this pact the standard for all indus
tries. The A. F. of L, signed this pact The workers
forced to face gun-re to protect their right to
organize. because their leaders sold them out be-
trayed them-that is the second lesson.
But the workers - conservative backward"
Americans fighting with heroism that is
rousing the whole working class to admiration and
emulation, That is the third lesson-that the Amer
lean working class will not surrender, that it
not be enslaved by N.R,A, misleaders of A. F. of L.
and S. P combined with employers and State
The workers go into battle the heads of
their leaders. great wave of struggle, largely
spontaneous, sweeps their ranks Great masses go
into action in solidarity strikes to support their
brothers who are attacked. Thousands of new lead
rising, simple workers, out of the class bat
ties.
Already in Toledo and Minneapolis votes are
being taken Local General Strike to win the
right to organize Such general strikes will occur
and they will move in the direction of National
General Strike. II is the duty of every class
conscious worker to give more and conscious
leadership to this rising general strike
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-26
Protest Action
Delays Murder of
Framed N.C.NegrO
Gov. Forced to Order
3O-Day Reprieve for
Young Edwards

RALEIGH, N. c., May 25.-Barely
a few hours before he was to be
electrocuted, the militant action of
a group of Charlotte workers rep
lesenting the Edwards Defense Com
mittee wrested John Lewis Edwards.
young Negro worker from the cleo
trio chair and forced a 30-day re-
prieve after this day been originally
denied. Execution is set for July 6.
These Negro workers, among them
the boys mother, were at first barred
from presenting their demands to
Gov. Ehringhaus. They we're adj
mitted only after militant insistance
on their right to lay before him the
facts proving the case a vicious
frame-up,
Workers and farmers organiza-
lions. churches, lodges, ETC., are
urged to send protests at once, de-
handing the immediate release of
Edwards, to Gov. Birmingham and
Parole Commissioner Gill, both at
Raleigh, N. G.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-26

police and fascist gangs rushed thru
the streets of downtown Toledo,
guardsmen infested the area with
drawn bayonets, but the workers
held a great demonstration only one
block from the point around the
plant where the national guards
men had slaughtered at least two
workers yesterday and wounded
many with their rifle fire.
All night long the workers kept
up their mass picket lines around
the plant. in the face of another
rifle attack of the national guards,
whose guns wounded number in
the night attack on the picket lines.
This afternoon. the parade OF
strikers. showing the strikebreaker
before them. passed directly in front
of the police station At the CEN
trail station the strikebreaker was
rescued by police and national
guardsmen, who surrounded the
station with fixed bayonets. Five
workers were arrested late this
afternoon, and taken inside the
Continued on Page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-26
Mr.. 4. Now Speaks With Bullets
movement, to take hold of it, to organize it, to
lead it to victory. That is che fourth lesson.

movement, to take hold of it, to organize it. to
lead it to victory. That is the fourth lesson.
Out of these preliminary battles the workers are
already gaining economic and political victories.
After year of N.R.A. which drove down their real
wages the workers are now, by heroic battles, be-
ginning to force substantial concessions They
begin to break down the terror by mass actions
in Alabama, San Francisco, Toledo and Minneapolis
the workers have already shown they can win vic
tories and overwhelm the company union employers,
their thugs and troops, and the A. F of L. leaders,
by mass action. That is the fifth lesson.
A great light of understanding of class relations,
of class policies, is thrown upon the United States
by these struggles Every worker engaged in these
battles is prepared to understand the Manifesto of
the Communist Party, issued by our Eighth Ma
tional Convention, which shows the relation of
fighting for and winning immediate demands with
the revolutionary way out of the crisis The battles
open the minds of millions of workers to the pro-
gram of Communism. Wherever we work SYSTEM
atcally now, and make mass distribution of the
Manifesto, of the Daily Worker, and recruit into
the Party, there the Communist Party is becoming
strong and the workers gain more victories. Wit
ness Alabama. That is the sixth lesson.
The rising wave of class struggle confirms the
correctness of the decisions of the Eighth National
Convention of the Communist Party. These dec-
sions must be carried into life into action, into
organization and struggle These the first steps
to a working class solution of the crisis.
Communists must everywhere be in the fore
front of these struggles. They must he the best
organizers, the best fighters the picket line.
They must be the leaders of the mass defense of
the workers against the bloody attacks. They must
be the unifiers of the ranks of all workers in these
battles. The hundreds and thousands of workers
everywhere rising leaders must be for
the Communist Party.
There are tens of thousands of fighting workers
in Toledo, Minneapolis, Alabama, San Francisco,
who tomorrow will be Communists if every men,
Der every unit fraction and committee does its duty
Only the iron army of millions of workers steeled
by the experience of hundred battles, led by
Communist Party, in the ranks Of which are the
trusted leaders of the masses, defeat the grow
ing vicious attacks of American bosses and bosses
government Only Communicated workers. millions
strong can lead the country out of capitalist anar
chy of growing bloody fascist terror, to America
ruled, not by bankers and their gunner, but by
the working class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-26
AFL auto Union Head
Deserted Strikers
Facing Rifle Fire

NEW YORK. - Thomas J.
Ramsey. business agent of the
Automotive Federal Union "a. F.
of L., openly attempted to stem
the militancy Of the striking To-
ledo workers at moment when
the embattled strikers were
facing the rifle fire of state
troops, according to United Press
dispatches in the World-Tele-
gram yesterday. The dispatches
also showed that at the critical
moment Ramsey deserted the
workers and crawled behind the
militia lines.
The World Telegram story
states that Ramsey tried to
argue with the mob" He was
jeered.
There's going to be more
trouble" he told a companion.
Lets get out
They sought safety behind a
line of troops" according to the
U. P.