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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-01-08
FRENCH SWINDLER
Turns GUN ON SELF
Operator Of 6ayonns Pawn
Shop Captured at Villa in
Alps Foothills

Chamoix, France, Jan. 8-(R}-6erge
Handsome Alex Stavisky, alleged
$4,000, 900 swtndler. shot himself In
tho head Monday when police sur
rounded him In q hidden villa. He
was at frs thought to have died
instantly but a hastily summoned
physician found a sign Of life.
A battle immediately was begun to
save Stavisky from death In order to
turn him over for trial.
Application Of restoratives brought
an apparent consciousness to the man
who had been sought for two weeks
following the collapse Of the Bayonne
pawnshop, which he founded. Police
charged investors lost $4,000, 900
through purchase of bonds he sold.
Later, however, he lapsed into q
coma and the doctor said he feared
the wound was mortal.
stavisky was living alone in one
room Of 3 villa In the foothills OF
the French Alps.
The secret service traced him there
and its agents entered the unlleated
house. No signs Of life had been seen
about 1t.
One room, later found to be the
only heated quarter In the villa, was
found locked. The agents knocked at
the door. There was no answer.
Convinced that Handsome Alex
must be inside, they smashed down
the door.
Stavisky was there. As the police
burst into his hiding place ne placed
his gun to his head and fired.
So ended q search conducted on q
worldwide scale BY the French gov
eminent directed by Premier Camille
ChautempS himself.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-01-08

Troy, N. T., jan. 0.-lReAc.
cused Of sending poisoned candy
through the mail to her war-dis-
abled brother, Mrs. Sarah o.
Hobart, 62-year.old socially prom.
inent Troy matror1, awaited with.
out emotion Monday extradition
to Philadelphia to answer the
charge on which she was indicted
BY . federal grand jury last Fri
day.
Mrs. Hobart, wife Of an engineer
and mother Of SIX, showed no con-
Germ when arrested Saturday At
her home BY government agents
and state troopers as the climax
to . six.week's investigation. She
was expected to be released on
$4,000 bail Monday preparatory
to leaving for philadelphia for
arraignment on Wednesday.
The brother to whom Mrs. Ho.
bart Is accused Of sending the
candy Is Harrington Fitzgerald. Jr.
"a, q patient In the veterans' hos
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-01-08
Bad Lands Seen as
Big Game Preserve

Interest has been expressed by fed
eral officials In q proposal to convert
the North Dakota Bed Lands into q
big game reserve rs q part Of the gov
ernment's program to retire sub-mar.
ginal lands from agricultural use. ac-
cording to Melvin o. Steen, editor Of
the Western Sportsman.
Steen said he has been In COM
munication with Secretary Of Agri-
culture Wallace who indicated he has
;,een favorably impressed with the
proposal.
The Bad Lands were termed by
Steen. q most ideal big game country"
that could be acquired at q low cost
and retired from agricultural produce
ton.
An appropriation Of $25 ,Ooo, 600 has
been made by the government for re-
tirement of sub-marginal lands
A park on the order Of Yellowstone
National Park and devoted to big
game, is proposed. The Bad Lands,
Steen said, are q natural range and
winter grounds for feeding and shell
tering big game.
With few exceptions. steen declar.
ed, the Bad Lands cannot be profit
ably farmed.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-01-08
Laurel Lund Funeral
Planned for Tuesday

Funeral services for Laurel v. Iund,
56-year-old dhylin township farmer
who died last week, win be conducted
from the Lutheran church east Of VIII
ton IN Ecklund township at ! o'clock
Tuesday afternoon.
Rev. Fred w. Christ Of Wilton viii
officiate. Pallbearers will include v.
L. Anderson, Ole johnson, Fred Wood,
Charles Magnuson, VIII Bachman and
Morris Anderson.
The body will be inferred at Little
Falls. MINI.
Mr.. Lalnd had lived In ohylin town.
ship for n years. He leaves hts widow
and daughter, Lois Lund, living on the
Lund farm, and three brothers in Min
nesota.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-01-08
Wallace Asked for
Process Tax Data

washington, Jan. s.-tPeIhe sen.
ate Monday called on the agriculture
department to report collections and
disbursements Of processing taxes.
without debate the senate adopted
4 resolution by Senator vandenberg
(Rep.. Mich) calling for the informa-
ton.
It directed Secretary Wallace to re-
port the amount collected In process
ing taxes. the states from which COL
jected, disbursements Of the funds
and the cost OF collecting them.
The senate also adopted the Carey
resolution asking Wallace the reasons
for the sharp decline" In hog prices
between October 10 and November 3,
the latter part Of November and dur
ing December.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-01-08
Federation of Labor
Sees Bright Prospect

Washington. Jan. 8.-lR-Business
year prospects for 1884 were pictured
Monday by the American Federation
OF Labor Is brighter" but 'oversha-
dowed by . danger which may destroy
all progress made-inflation by fiat
money"
Fear Of initiation Is the chief Oh.
stacle to restoration Of confidence at
present." the Federation said In an
annual review.
The labor organization estimated
1000 persons had been put to work
largely Is . result Of government
measures, but added that In November
1870 1900 workers remained unem-
ployed.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-01-08
CWA Workers Express
Tribute to Roosevelt

Albert Lea Mimi. Jan. 8.-M
Grateful CWA workers have.
erected . 70-foot flag pole near
the scene Of their activities Just
outside this city.
The pole. where = flag Is raised
each morning and lowered each
night. bears an inscription ex-
pressing gratitude Of the workers
to President Roosevelt and his
administration. Il was paid tor
By Wcrkerg' contributions.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-01-08
UNIvERsity Head II
University Head to
Sit on Rail Board

Warrington, Jan. 8-(R)-President
Roosevelt Monday nominated Walter
N. W. Splawn, former president Of the
University Of Texas. 70 the interstate
Commerce commission.
The president also advanced VII
liam W. Howes Of South Dakote TO be
first assistant postmaster general and
named Harllee Branch Of Georgia to
succeed him g second assistant post
master general.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-01-08

flee, tho Louisiana senator pulled from
his pocket q typewriter statement
which read:
IT you want to know how does 1t
happen that I am here at the White
House, then all know IL what hear
and somebody told me that Baruch
and Morgan and his partners, and
Woodin and Eugene Meyer and Ras-
kob had gone from this house and
wouldn't be back soon.
IT that's 80. then maybe there Is
room for them to take In q boarder
like me-"
Inquiries at the White House dis
closed Senator Long asked for the ap-
pointment.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-01-08
ONE CENT A DAY PAYS
UP TO 500 "A MONTH

The Postal Life 4 Casualty lngur.
ance Co, STA Postal Life Bldg, Kan.
sas City, Mo-. = Offering . new acci.
dent policy that payS up to 800 :
month for - months for disability
and 100000 for deaths costs. less
than lc . day-$3.50 q year. More
than 10000 have already bought
this policy. Men, women and chill
dren eligible. Send no money. Simply
Sand name, address. age, beneficiarys
nanne and relationship and they viii
send this policy on 10 days' FREE
inspection. No examination Is re-
quired. This offer Is limited, 30 write
the company today. --Advsrtissmsnt.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-01-08
Wife of Chicagoan
Dies From Beating

Chicago. Jan. 8.-(R-one more
Staying was added to the two to which
tho polics said John Piotrowski, a.
year.old CWA worker confessed, when
his wife, Anna, Is, died In q hospital
Monday from the effects Of a beating
her husband. allegedly gave her.
The two other victims we're Betty
Ann, their three -year-old daughter
and John, Jr.. q son, age 10 months
The attack occurred last Wednesday
afternoon.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-01-08
Lodge Of Perfection
Will Meet Wednesday

Members Of tho Bismarck. Mandan
Lodge Of Perfection will attend m
election meeting at the Masonic Tenn
pie here Wednesday evening.
Officers for the Consistory viii Be
chosen.
disqualification OF the 18th decree
tor . class Of nine will follow election.
The meeting viii open with . din.
ner 1t Sis o'clock, according to the
announcement made BY John O.
LWgstad, venerable master.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-01-08
Leeds Fire Causes
Damage Of $780, 600

Leeds, N. D., Jan. S.-(R-lfre Of
undetermined origin caused an esti-
mated damage Of between $4,000 and
$4,000 to the Cities Service oil station
and grease rack here Monday. Two
automobiles and the contents Of the
station were destroyed.
A messenger boy noticed the flames
on the roof Of the station Monday
morning and gave the alarm. The
volunteer fire department fought the
blaze for over two hours.
]. o. Jorgenson Is operator.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-01-08
GATES Asks HELP
FOR POOR Indians
Former Sioux Sheriff SAYS Only
900 Properly Cared for
on Reservation

John Gates, former sheriff Of Sioux
county. has advised Gov. william
LANCER that Of $500 Indians on the
Standing Rock Indian reservation on.
~ 900 are being properly cared for,
and has appealed to the governor to
urge the federal government to assist
needy indians.
The governor wired y. 3. Senator
Lynn ]. Frazier to seek governmental
aid, informing the senator there Is
suffering and want and these Indians
must have immediate help"
Gates came to Bismarck q Q rep
resentative Of 200 Indians who sign
ed . petition asking for assistance
from the federal government. Gates
and william s. Claymore Of South
Dakota will 90 u Washington this
month to present their plea before
officials In the Capitol City.
The former sheriff said the Indians
seek direct relief In the form Of "a
lions and also are asking that work
be made available for them.
He said that patent fee indians,
who are no longer under government
supervision, are suffering especial
hardship, declaring they have been de-
MED federal farm loans because they
are Indians and are unable to receive
other relief because they are no long
er wards Of the government.
Gates charged that inspectors Of
the indian commission, In making q
tour Of the reservation. are shown the
homes Of well fixed" indians, and
not those Of needy Indians. Gates
said he win place this information be-
fore the secretary OF the interior and
Indian Commissioner In Warrington
and II necessary would seek IN au-
dience with President Roosevelt.
He also charged that claims Of many
Of the indians remain unpaid.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-01-08
Long Is C0cky as He
Enters White House

washington, Jan. 8.-(ReSenator
Huey Long reversed the usual order
Monday and issued . prepared state
ment as he walked into the White
House to keep an appointment with
President Roosevelt.
As he strobe into the executive Of
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-01-08
FORKS PIONEER DIES

Grand Forks, N. D., Jan. 0.-(R)-
James Coulter. 81. resident Of Grand
Forks county for more than SO years,
died Sunday at the Chicago home Of
his daughter, Mrs. Foster Robson,
according to word received here.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-01-08
AUTO CHIEF Is oPrIMIsT

New York, Jan. 8.-(R-F. w. A.
vesper. president Of the national au-
tomobile dealers association, told a
large gathering of dealers Monday that
President Roosevelt has the car in
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-01-08
high on the right road, headed toward
the finish"

Paper money. IN one, two and flye-
dollar denominations, usually becomes
worn and ready for retirement after
being In circulation from SIX to nine
months.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-01-08
CONSTIPATION s YEARS.
TROIIRIE NOW CONE

John ]. Davis had chronic consti-
patton for six years. BY using ADJ
lerika he soon got rid of 1t. and feels
like q new person. Adlerika Is quick
acting safe. Halls Drug Store
Advertisement.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-01-08

In 1880, foreign-born whites in the
United States totaled l3,266,39S.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-01-08
sTONEHOUsE LEADS DOW

Miami. Fla. Jan. 8.-(F)-Carding
SO. one over par. Ralph stonehouse OF
Indianapolis had . two stroke lead on
Willie Dow OF Miami at the half way
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-01-08

Approximately 100000 people In
the United States are receiving relief
aid.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-01-08

mark In their plsyoff for the Miami
open championship Monday. Dow
had %.
The Omaha guide., 1934-12-15

MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE HOLDS
SPECIAL SERVICE

The INSTRUMENTATION Minister
al Alliance of Omaha and Council
Bluffs, viii hold a special service
Thursday evening, Dec. 10Th, q. 500
T. M. at Clair Chapel M. E. Church.
22nd and Miami Sts., honoring Rev.
Jas. H. Dotson, pastor of Pilgrim
Bapti;t Church for the past five years
and president of the Ministerial Al
lance for the past three years, who
has recently been called to the pastor
ate of the Calvary Baptist church of
Muskogee, Okla. Rev. Dotson has
also served as a member of the Ex-
ecutive Committee of the Council of
Churches for three years, and Rev. O..
j. Burckhardt who is retiring after
having served fourteen years as a
pastor in Omaha, and nine years as
Secretary of the Alliance. He is now
Dix riot President over the work Of
the Church of Christ, in Missouri, Ne
bra ika and Kansas.
These ministers have served their
churches well and the community at
large. They will be greatly missed.
The Omaha guide., 1934-12-15
Set Up Form of Govt
In Father Flanagan's

Who will be mayor Of Boys Town
Nebr.?
On the tlzeory that when a town
has q postmaster i. should also have
a mayor and other governing officials
tia 200 homeless boys at Father
Flanagan's Boys Home are going to
hold an election Only recently a
postoffice was establi he'd e. the home
and given officially the name of Boy
Town, Nebr.
Announcement hat Boys Town will
soon be ruled by a complete city gov
eminent set-up, composed of the bows
themselves, wac made Saturday by
Father E. J. Flanagan, head of the
home which is now celebrating its
seventeenth anniversary.
Simultaneous with the announce
ment by Father Flanagan came the
announcements Of at least a score of
candidates for the office of mayor. But
they were all unofficial and they will
continue ITO be classified in that cate
CORY until it is definitely decided by a
board of strategy what form the city
government of Boys Town will take.
Pointing to the fact that the people
Of Nebraska have voted for a n
house legislature and that in Douglas
county the manager form Of govern
ment has been approved, several of
the leaders of the political juveniles
have formed a bloc to insist on the
city manager form Of government.
Others are just as injistent that the
City commission form be adopted
while still another group would en-
dorse the old councilmanic system.
The first mass meeting of the i'm
pending election campaign will be held
this week to decide:
1-What form the city government
viii take.
2-The date Of the primary and the
election.
3-Qualifcations of candidates.
methods Of campaigning.
"There will be plenty Of stump
speeches and probably two or three
torchlight campaigns and all Of the
ballyhoo 50 familiar to American poll
tics" Father Flanagan said. cts
going to be a great campaign and a
great education for our boy"
The Omaha guide., 1934-12-15
Quizzes r. r. Gar On
Shelving of Negro
Clerks

New York. Dec. Joseph B. East
man, Federal Coordinator Of Trans.
portation. was queried this week or
the shelving of five Negro statistical
workerl in keeping with the alleged
nohcy OF the I~nter,tate Commerce
commission not to employ Negro
cierkes IN the Washington office.
line letter from the National Asso-
clatlon for the Advancement Of Color
Cd People Stated that the colored
workers had charged instructions had
from Eastman's office in Wash
lngton, d. C. that no colored am
ployees are to be included among
tnose listed for transfer there follow
ing the closing of the New York of
nee at 90 Hudgon Street "Out of
some eighty statistical workers.. the
letter states, "a list Of fifty most eff
ncient employees wals sent to Wash
ington from which a selection was fl
De made. We are informed that the
names of none of the five Negro ste
tlstlcal workers who were among the
most efficient in the office were in
GUIDED because of word that no Ne
groes were to be sent"
Mr.. Eastman was urged to explain
this fragrant color discrimination.
The Omaha guide., 1934-12-15
Archie Alexander To
Speak Al youth"
Meeting

Archie Alexander, president Of che
Alexander Repass Company Of Des
Moines. Iowa. will be the keynote
speaker at the opening of North Side
"Y" Boy and Girl Forum meeting on
January Is, 1884. In addition to be-
ing a successful business man. Mr..
Alexander has shown interest in COM
munity development as pertains to
different aged groups. and will no
douhi give a sound as well as inspir-
ing talk.
The Committee has planned special
music. Members of the 1934-35 Com
mite are: Ada Lee Walker, Irene
Harold. Katherine Wheat. Rachel
Covina on, Evelyn Lucky. Mary H.
Virgins. Mary Green, Allan Gordon,
Walter Rhode e, Robert Myers, Car
lette Lewis, Willie Potts, and Ned
Moore.
The Omaha guide., 1934-12-15
COL. WESTBROOK ADDRESSES
COLORED LAND-GRANT
COLLEGE PRESIDENTS

Washington, D. Colonel Law
renee Webrook, assistant administra-
tor of the FERA in charge of rural
rehabili alton, outlined last week the
governments program to The seven
teen colored presidents of Land Grant
Colleges in the United States presen.
a Howard University.
"The plan has been effective, said
Colonel Westbrook, Gin making self
supporting citizens again OF. of the
people whom circumstances have
forced to become wards of the State.
It will rebuild lost markets and re-
duce taxes. Tax consumers will be-
come tax payers.
"Our civilization can not stand on
the foundation of a destitute, parasite
population. Our State can not live
infested with prasitesD whether those
parasites r living on unearned pri-
vate income at the top Of the struc-
ture or on Government doles at the
bottom"
Colonel Westbrook pointed out that
it took $4,000 men ten years ago in
Akron, Ohio, to furnish the neces-
aary manpower for the rubber manu-
facturers. Today, the same job can
be done by 1000 men and nothing
oo- oh--~z %hfG co04 H. III TL4-1
stranded white and colored workers
mus be given a chance at self-support
"The basic requirement for a stable
and enduring state is economic secur-
ity for the individual citizen" Col.
Westbrook declared. Constructive
thinking and doing are impossible to
any of us in an air of fear and I'M
certainty. You know that in the final
analysis men must have ~ssuranc of
being able to set shelter and food for
their families and themselves. You
know that without this assurance in
a tangible and understandable form,
they struggle aimlessly and desper-
ately, and they become potential re-
cruits for the foolish, and fantastic
schemes of any designing demagogue.
Either this, or they sink to such a
stage of degradation that they are
indifferent to any fate.
AHThe two elemental essentials for
human life are shelter and food. Not
knowing that they will continue to
have these two simple essentials, mil
Continued on PAGE p
The Omaha guide., 1934-12-15
SURVEY OF NEGRO INDUSTRIAL
PROFESSIONAL WORKERS
APPROVED
J. Harvey Kerns Director; Mrs. Robbie
4. Davis Supervisor; "a Workers
To Be Employed from FERA

A State wide Survey of Negro In
dustrial and Professional workers has
just been approved by Washington
authorities and the State Emergency
Relief Commissioner that should be
under way in a week. The study which
will be directed by j. Harvey Kerns.
executive secretary of the Omaha Ur-
ban League-Mid City Community
Center and supervised by Mrs. Robbie
T. Davis will employ "a workers from
FERA.
The study will include house to
house canvass, visits to plants where
Negroes are employed and a study Of
all records and documentary material.
The Survey will employ workers as
Investigators, clerks, stenographers,
coolers and statisticians. $5,825 has
been appropriated for the project
Other cities to be included in the
Survey r Lincoln, Grand Island.
Norfolk, Fremont. The Statewide
project will be directed from the Ur-
ban League-Mid City building. 221s
Lake Street.
The Omaha guide., 1934-12-15
To Study Auto Industry


President Roosevelt, in a letter to
Chairman S. Clay Williams, has d.
rected the NIRB to make a study Of
the possibilities of regularizing en-
ployment and otherwise improving
employment conditions in the auto
manufacturing industry. The study
should be impartial, the President
said, and suggested that the work be
undertaken by the Division of Re-
search and Fleming in collaboration
with the Bureau of Labor Statistics
and other Federal agencies. Ample
time will be allowd all interested par
ties to consider the findings and to
present their views.
The Omaha guide., 1934-12-15
Wholesale Whippings
In Florida Letters
Report

New York, Dec. 7-Communiea-
tions from Florida received. by the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement Of Colored People reveal
that mob terror and police brutality
IS rife in that state, following upon
the urspeakable torture Staying of
Claude Neal at Marianna on October
Goth.
One pitiful letter from a colored
girl in a small town to her mother
reads.
"Dear Mother: You see ev-
erything is al yet bad and they have
stats ed out here where j am now. The
Ku Klux's are getting men out of their
beds and carrying them on the other
side of our school and whipping them.
They say that they lay them across
logs and ever more whip them.
Mother, if it want that l just had
to work | would leave this place be-
cause | am scared. 49,.
"One night they (some white men)
went to the mans house that they had
whipped and he was in bed with big
gashes on him and that was the Sec
ond time that they had whipped him
and each time in the same place, lay
the men across the log and get a
rope and wes it and double it and
they ever more whip them Ind they
dare them to tell who did it. At
night people leave home and go stay
with other people we are
afraid to go to Sleep.
The name and address of the cor
Respondent is withheld for fear Of
sure reprisals. The person who for
warded the letter to the N. A. A. G..
P. wrote in comment:
"All the white maniacs in the whole
region around and near to Mariana
and its lynch mob took advantage Of
the situation and terrorized and beat
up and attacked colored people whom
they did not like; whom they envied,
or had any grievance against,-or
whom they had some old real or fan
cied aus of feeling agaimt".