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iH I I Sixty-fourth Year. No. 183 NINETY-TWO PACES MINNEAPOLIS, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1930. (11) Price Six Cents in Minneapolis. MAN nrv ATER SLA POLICE QUAD Swedish Ship Sinks Into Sea Thinking Things ver With Calvin Coolidge CAUCUS PICKS SINSDN FOR SPEAKER POST CU1I FLEES KILLING ID ROB 2 MORE PLACES Victim Shot Down When He Walks In on Bandit at Seven Corners.

Northampton, Nov. 22. NEARLY every day the current news 'reports some item that indicates how great this country is and how great are its resources. We are sometimes criticized for put -V 'a t) Xi ting too much emphasis on size. It is true that quality is often more important than quantity.

But greatness in nearly every direction indicates power, and power is capacity for making progress and doing good. Recently it was announced that the banks were about to pay $632,000,000 to the Christmas clubs which make regular saving deposits dur ing the year in order to provide funds for the needs of the holiday season. This great sum is more impressive because it is so representative of the earnings and savings of the people. It would pay many times over the national debt at the end of the revolutionary war. The beneficial effect that will be secured from putting a large proportion of this money into circulation is important.

It will be used for cash purchases. If its owners will buy merchandise currently produced which in the future will require replacement the present needs of business and of. the unemployed will be best served. The reserve power of the people, of which this is a good example, always helps to relieve any situation. CALVIN COOLIDGE.

fopjrlght, IBM. 112 of 131 House Members Pledge Support at Pre-Session Meeting. Slate of Elective Employes Selected Levin Named for Chief Clerk. By Orlin Folwirk. Representative Oear A.

Swenson of Nicollet, veteran member of the state legislature, will be the next speaker of the house of representatives. He was assured his election to the highest office in the house at a eral pre-scssion caucus Saturday in the St. Francis hotel, St. Paul, in wich 112 of the 131 members pledged him their support. The roll call showed 103 members present, all of whom voted for Swenson, while seven unable to attend, voted by proxy.

Although extensive plans had been laid for a fight on his candidacy, not voice raised against him when the nominations were started. The minority group, which had hoped to halt his ambitions, tossed their plan aside and Jumped on the. majority band-wagon, riding with it throughout the caucus. Picks Elective Slate. In addition to the agreement on Swenson, the caucus also picked a slate of elective employes, headed by John I.

Levin of St. Paul, who also received unanimous support for chief clerk, the post he held at the 1329 session. Nine other "third house" employes also were picked, among them a World war veteran whose name was submitted by the Minneapolis delegation for assistant postmaster. He is Brooks Ronald, 2322 Filmore street northeast. Former Representative John A.

Johnson of Preston, speaker of the house for the past three sessions, was placed in the position of postmaster In the nominations. Johnson, who was a candidate for railroad and warehouse commissioner, abandoned ills legislative career this year. From the moment the caucus was opened by Representative Ray J. Qulnltvan of St. Cloud, the conservative group pointed the way.

Departing, from the customs of the past, 'Continued on Page 8, Column 1.) tf. f. MiT" ir Wr'rir- ff fen, me ircijrntrr uviaia snown irom 1 1 fi I 1 Calvin Coolidge is a daily FAILS TO FIND 0 CLUE Mystery Shrouds Slaying of Watchman Search for Motive Also Fruitless. Scene Indicates Killer and Assailant Battled Up Five Flights of Stairs. Baffled at every turn, police Saturday night continued the seemingly hopeless tank of finding the murderer of John watchman slain the night before In the old Ford plant, Fifth avenue north and Fifth street.

They questioned many person andi-- searcherd every Inch of the plant, ut nothing was uncovered to give them a starting point In the hunt. The few tiling that were learned served only to add to the mystery. Discover No Motive, Mont puzzling of all was the apparent lack of motive for the killing. The possibility of robltery was quickly when they discovered that Sivaid's money still w-as In his pocket, But even that discovery complicated the affair when It as leai-nrd that the watchman's keys were missing- From the first day of concerted effort by the homicide squad, augmented by several detect He a aligned to the case, police built up two possible clue both of them admittedly weak, and advanced only because of the lack of anything better, The first of these was that in snaking hi rounds, Sivald had run across a prowler, and that he had been niufdeicd In the ensuing fight. Broom C'aat Aside, The theory that Sivald was surprised by a prowler or by someone lyinn in wait for him was strengthened by the discovery of his broom, apparently hurriedly thrown to the floor.

By nature an orderly man, who knew him well said that under normal cireumtancs he would carefully -t the broom the wall. I In tne dual the investigators found the tiace of an expensive shoe, such a no ordinary t-i a would 1-e likely to wear. When the footprint wm m.c'e. however, could not be d-tuinimd. A they weighed the possibility thnt he murder had teen committed by a prowler, pii- admitted that It waa mitigated by the obvious fact that the building, unused for several yearn, contained little of value that could be carried away.

Little ause For Uglil. They likewise pointed out that there would be little cause for a fight to the death should the watchman have encountered a prowler who entered the building without knowing that thievery would scarcely be profitable. The second theory waa that might have been slain by someone who had a grudge against him. Thai possibility likewise diminished a police questioned friends and neighbors. All who knew him described SI-vaid as a mild-mannered man, who almost invariably stayed at home on Bights when he was not working.

His wife was equally at a loss to ascribe a reason for the killing of, her 66-year old husband. During his life in the United States, since corning from Hungary In 1903, she said, she was certain he had done nothing to incur enmity. Before that he had been a policeman In Budapest, she said, and in Gunman' Breaks Up Last Badger Rally; Gophers Lose, 14 to 0 sinking in the Atlantic, about 1,100 miles off the Ambrose lightship at noon, November 19. Its crew, and one woman and a cat were rescued by the Mauretania, which brought them into New York Friday. The picture below shows a lifeboat with members of the Ovidia crew coming alongside the Mauretania.

The sinking ship is seen in the B. MORRIS DIES Slayer Escapes Under Police Fire and Gets $100 in Other Raids. A swarthy, quick-shooting bandit, with a livid scar on his cheek, set out on a carnival of crime in Minneapolis Saturday night. A theater employe blundered into his attempt to raid the box Office of the New Southern theater, near Sev en Corners, early in the evening and was killed for his temerity. The bandit faded hastily after that, forgetting his loot, and eluded police after a gun-battle among a maze of alleys aong Washington avenue.

Holds I Two More Places. But not a whit alarmed over the hue and cry raised by the murder at the theater, he held up two other places in the loop, a grocery store at Thirteenth and Hennepin, and the St. James hotel at Second and Hen nepln, At each he collected $50, The victim of his gun, engineer at the theater, 1122 Washington avenue south, is. Peter Hofmann, 19-0 Irving avenue north. He died In General hospital early Sunday with out regaining consciousness.

Stepping through a door from the theater lobby at about 8:30 p. the bandit pressed a gun against M. J. Mozis, 2010 Second street south, ticket collector, and ordered him to open the door to the cashier's booth. As the gunman shoved him behind a short partition hiding the door to the cashier's booth, Mozis pro.

tested that he did not have the key. The gunman pounded against the door. At that Instant Hofmann appeared around the other end of the partition. Ilres At Intruder. "What are you doing he demanded of the bandit.

Wheeling around, the gunman fired a shot into Hofinann's ab ri est door he had to pass the wounded man lying on the floor. The first door was locked. With scarcely a pause, the gunman ran the the next door, and out on Washington avenue. The sound of the shot attracted th? manager, J. Tunstall, wh had been on the second floor, and Mrs.

Tunstall, the cashier, who until then was unaware of what was transpiring on the other side of the door just behind her back. Fires at At the same time many of the 300 persons in the theater, rushed out. In a few minutes the wounded man, was in an ambulance on his way to the hospital, and most of the spectators re-entered the theater. As soon as she saw what had happened, Mrs. Tunsitall called police, Tw0 motorcycle officers, Walter Swenson and Robert Bullock, arrived In time to see a man turn to the right on Fourteenth avenue south and run toward Second street, As they swung in on Fourteenth avenue, a half block behind the fleeing man he turned, and fired two shots.

liOse Track of Man. As the shots whistled past their i heads the officers jumped from their machines and started in pur- suit. Firing as they ran, the officer chased the fugitive to Second street south, into an alley, and down the short alley back toward Washington avenue. In the middle of tha block the short alley joins another, running the length of the block between Fourteenth and Cedar avenues, and parallel to Washington avenue. In the darkness of the alleys, the officers lost their man.

They expressed tlie opinion that after leaping over a gate separating the short alley from the long one, he turned left and made his way safely to Cedar avenue. Aided by several detectives, tha officers searched the length of the alley and a number of buildings in the block, but found no trace of tho gunman. Grocery Store Robbed. A few hours later, while pollc were still hunting along Washington avenue, ha turned up at th grocery of Richard Hipp at 1328 Hennepin avenue, taking $50 front the cash register. This time with two guns, the bandit entered and asked for a bot tie of pop.

After drinking It, he confronted Hipp and a customer, Jim Sea lien, 11 Spruce place, with the two guns. Herding them toward tMe rear of the store, the bandit noticed tho safe. He ordered Hipp to open It. Hipp said he did not know tho combination, whereupon the bandit tried to turn the combination, carefully covering the dial knob with handkerchief. Being unable to open the safe, ho espied the cash register, from which he quickly scooped $50 In cash nl fled.

Robs Hotel, Shortly before 1 a. m. the same man walked Into the lobby of th.0 St. James hotel, 12 Second street north, He stepped up to the desk and asked the clerk, Alfred Peter son, if "Harry Smith" was registered. Peterson thumbed the liok and told him no.

The man sauntered out, A moment later he was bark, this time with a gun. Addressing himself to cvri lodi er who loungit about th lobby, ix lined them VP 4 1 7 1 m. -4 jfnu ,1. 1 .11. tne necx or tne swwiy FOUR INTERS DIE AS CANOE UPSETS Boat Overturns as Party Tries to Escape Heavy Waves on Duluth, Nov.

22. (ZD-Four persons were drowned In Crane Lake, 32 miles north of Orr In northern St. Louis county about 2 p. m. today when the canoe In which they were crossing the lake overturned, Deputy Sheriff W.

H. Mitchell Informed the sheriff's of- flee here tonight. The party was en route to hunt In the vicinity of Namakan lake near the border. Three of the persoi.s he said, had bee-n Identified as Lee Foreman, Sr. and Lee Foreman, of Deer River, and the third as Lawrence Strand, 20, of Elbow Minn.

A fourth, the deputy said, is believed to be William Forsman, 21, who was with the party. The tragedy was witnessed by a hunter from the shore of the lake one quarter of a mile away. The witness, whose name was not learned, told authorities the party headed out into the lake in the canoe and attempted to turn back to shore when the lake became too rough. As the party was turning the canoe about, waves struck the craft broadside and hurled the four occupants into the The witness said he was unable to reach the drowning men, BLIMP LOST IN FOG HITS TREE ON MOUNTAIN TOP Piedmont, Nov, 22. (P) The Goodyear blimp Vigilante became lost In the fog while cruising over this section shortly after noon today and crashed Into a tree atop Oakey mountain, three miles east of here.

The pilot, I. W. Crosier, and the two members of the crew escaped without injury. Turn to Tage Four Second News Section and find how easy it is to win your share of $300.00 in Cash Prizes for playing 12 Simple Bridge Hands Watch for this feature Every Sunday in THE TRIBUNE City Officials Seek to Make Registration Complete-Use AIL Media. Registration Blnvk Prig? 5.

With the city-wide registration of unemployed set for Tuesday, city officials Saturday were making use of every medium to insure a full registration. Through the co-operation of radio stations and motion picture theaters, appeals wilt be broadcast during the remaining days so that unemployed persons can be reached and urged to register at the precinct polling places. A special appeal is being made to women to register as the result of a petition filed with the council Saturday calling attention to the fact that very few women have registered in the poll Which has been In progress at the city police and fire stations. 1 The petition was signed by a group of women, headed by Mrs. Stanley R.

Caton and Included Mrs. Kristian Egtlsrud. Mrs. E. C.

En- body, Mrs. F. A. Kingsley, Mrs. Carl Lewis, Mrs.

C. It. Nelson, Mrs. G. B.

Sanborn, Mrs. Carolyn Storlie and Mrs. Phil Sundby. Arrangements Complete. "As unemployment seems commonly to be spoken of in terms of male workers, we believe that female workers have not understood that they also may register.

"We auk that you take action to provide wide publicity of the fact that female workers of every age and clufs, whether clerical, domestic, industrial or otherwise, who are seeking and cannot obtain employ ment in any gainful occupation, are expected to register, also please advertise the time and place of registration," This point will be stressed In the radio appeals and by means of motion picture slides which will be shown at the various motion picture theaters. Hours of the registration are from 1 to 6 p. m. Tuesday at the 3n0 polling places of the city. Every unemployed person in Minneapolis Is expected to register wMth the exception of those who have registered at police or flre stations in the previous poll conducted by the city.

Will Be Classified. "Arrangements to handle the registration were virtually complete Saturday with clerks appointed for all the precincts. Owners ol polling places have donated their use for the registrations. Clerks will receive In struction and supplies at a meeting at 7:30 p. m.

Monday in the mayor's reception room at the courthouse. The Instruction will be given by a representative of the Tri-Clty Employment Stabilization committee, which is sponsoring the registration as a part of the national program for unemployment relief. The registration will be tabulated and classified by Professor W. H. Stead of the University of Minnesota.

Classifications will result in placing the responsibility of attempting to provide jobs on one definite group. Certain of the registrants are expected to be the responsibility of the state, others of the city and others of the federal government. Under the general scheme of relief worked out by the committee each of the three divisions of government will attempt to assume Its share of the burden by providing public work and encouraging the cooperation of private business In creating jobs. PRINCE GEORGE LEAVES FOR NORSE CELEBRATION London, Nov, 22. W) Prince George, youngest son of King George sailed today for Oslo where he will represent the king and queen st ceremonies celebrating the twenty- fifth anniversary of King Haakon' accession to the Norwegian throne.

Anniversaries United States November 23 In 1804 was born st Hillsborough, Franklin Pierce, fourteenth president of the United States from 1SB3 to 1857; In 1863 tbe battle of Chattanooga jegan. Minnesota November 23 In 1910 Pennington county was established, named for the president of the Mlnne. ipolls, St. Paul Bault 8te. Marie Railway Co.

Ceerrlshl, I MO. Ben W. flmr. URGE JOBLESS 10 FILE NAMES WILDCATS LOSE TO NOTRE DAME; WOLVERINES WIN Notre Dame pushed over two touchdowns on Northwestern to win, 14 to while Michigan was downing Chicago, IS to 0, to go Into a tie with the Purple for the Big Ten championship. In other conference games, Ohio State defeated Illinois, 1 to 9, and Indiana came from behind to take a one-point victory from Purdue, 7 to 6.

Harvard did the unexpected, and wsut the aid of a sensational passing attack. C.ive Vale a decisive beating, 13 to 0. Full details of the games are printed In the sports pages. SIX KILLED 13 WIND 5 Scores Hurt, Brush and Forest Fires Add to Unestimated Property Loss. Urn Angeles, Nov.

22. Six persons were killed, scores were injured, brush and forest fires broke timated property damage was caused today by a terrific wind storm that swept Southern California. In I Angeles, the fire department answered SO alarms and at a late hour a threatening die started on the slopes of Mount Wilson. Just at dusk the wind, somewhat abated, from its S3 mile an hour speed, demolished the old Mack Ben nett motion picture studio, one of the first in Los Angeles. Small boats moored off nearby beaches were endangered and a coast guard cutter was sent to sparch for three men reported missing In a small boat off Redondo beach.

In many Instances automobiles were literally blown from the highways. Several brush fires were raging at various points, one a seri ous blaze In Waterman canyon. Wind damage at Pasadena and Alta Dena wns estimated by police and flre officials at $250,000. STORMS IX WEST CAUSE 15 DEATHS Denver, Nov. 22.

Fifteen lives have been claimed and sevn nersons still were unaccounled for tonight as frigid winter gave way to sunny skies In western United States. CLIFO contributor to The Tribune. Squads Rush Off Field Half Minute Before End of Contest. By Milt Davis. Madison, Nov.

22. These gunmen it seems are shooting up everything. One of them pulled the trigger of his trusty weapon here! Saturday afternoon and brought down a perfectly healthy football game that had a half minute of life left in Its kicking carcass. Ther the field it expired In as strange demise as ever a fray has hi the long annals of the sport. With the game died the 1330 season heart failure, no doubt, superinduced by shock.

E.ing! That fatal shot. Ha, not another redskin, but two whole football squads bit the dust. The crowd, to be sure, lingered for some rather bewildered obsequies but gunpowder had done Its lethal work. Wisconsin, which was no particular beneficiary by this violence won 14 to 0. Not Even An Arrest.

Moreover, though the slaying was, done in the open before some 37,000 eyewitnesses, almost the whole police force of Madison, not an arrest ws made. In fact, only a few clues were followed in a desultory way. The crowd seemed too surprised to raise jbe hue and cry. But, as some of the best sleuths re-constructed the capital crime, It hap pened something like this: The afternoon was nearlng Its official close, the sun's rays were trained on that part of the field where was soon to mark the spot. Wisconsin, already leading by two touchdowns, had stopped a Minnesota rally and gained possession of the ball.

It had some waggish notion of pushing over one more score by way of good measure. Minnesota was doggedly opposed, Kehlinlz Makes Gain, Russell Rebholz broke away for a 17-yard run to the Gophers' 10-yard line. Sam Behr flitted a dangerous looking pass to Rebholz that was just knocked down. Wisconsin stands were wildly clamoring. Time pressed.

Excitement was intense, somewhere among the Minnesota bandsmen sat a youth nervously fingering a pistol at whose staccato cues the musicians' maneuvers be tween halves had been run off. The strain was too much. That youth clutched the pistol. If he Is ever brought tip for trial, his defense will be perfect he didn't know It was loaded. Bang! He fired the shot heard round the Big Ten circuit.

Its echoes, no doubt, wilt still be alive when the rulesmakers hold their next meeting to amend the laws and ordinances. Rule No. 99,999 will provide for frisking spectators and bandsmen at the gates. Those with (Continued on Page 7, Column 1.) proceeded to climb down Into the hole. This he successfully did and managed to keep himself above the two feet of water at the bottom.

When he tried to climb out, he found the footing too slippery. So his pal shouted for help. Lieutenant A. Carlson of Engine Co. No, 8 dropped Joseph a rope, he fnstencd It beneath his arms and took a fast ride to the surface, Then went scooting home.

carrying ouc nis ouues nugni )n several sections and unes- Nash to Testify in Robbery Case Mr. and Mrs. William M. Nash will leave Sunday evening for Toronto, where they will be witnesses In the trial of a hotel employe charged with the theft of luggage belonging to them. The trial is set for Wednesday.

Mr. and Mrs. Nash were robbed of property valued at $2,000, while returning to Minneapolis from a European trip on last September 12, The luggage was stolen'in transit between a railway station and a hotel. Because of the absence of Mr. Nash, the bribery trials of Al derman J.

Russell Sheffield of the eighth ward and Don Green, a fire appHMtus salesman of Chicago, both of which are set for Monday, prob- nbly will be passed until early in December. BAD WEATHER KEEPS DO-X AT ANCHOR AT SANTANDER Pantander, Spain, Nov. 22. iff) Bad weather along the "graveyard of the Spanish peninsula" kept the German seaplane, DO-X, at anchor here tonight. No one could tell when she would resume her flight to Corunna or Ferrol.

Her owners said today that they had practically abandoned their plans to fly to America this year and that they would probably keep the plane at Ferrol for some time. MICHIGAN AIRMAN WINS MITCHELL TROPHY RACE Selfrldge Field, Mt. Clemens, Nov. 22. Lieutenant Louis A.

Vaupre of the Thirty-sixth pursuit squadron, was adjudged unofficially the winner of the Mitchell trophy race for the army's first pursuit group held here Joday. His home Is In Kalamazoo, Mich. EMPTY BOTTLES RULED VALID LIQUOR EVIDENCE Oklahoma City. Nov. 22.

UP) --Empty bottles, the Oklahoma criminal court of appeals held today, are competent evidence to support a verdict of guilty in a liquor case. The opinion was given In affirming a 30 fine and 30-day Jail sentence of John Sherood, Payne county. WOMAN FOUND SLAIN IN BURNING FARM HOME Baltimore, Nov. 22. (ZP) Mrs.

Georgia Shipley, 42, was found shot to death In the burning home of her estranged husband, Robert T. Shipley, BO. late today at Alpha, Howard county and Shipley was believed to have met death In the flames. WOMAN FLIER REPORTS BEING FORCED DOWN Pittsburgh, Nov. 22.

WV-Mrs, J. Keith Miller, who left here today en route to Jacksonville, on a proposed one-stop flight to Havana, Cuba, advised her backer liei- lut that aha hntt linen DF MONOXIDE GAS Body of Pioneer Advertising Man Found in Garage at Minnetonka. William B. Morris, regarded as the dean of advertising men, was found dead late In the garage at the rear of the summer home of Senator Thomas D. Schall, Mefidville Lake Minnetonka.

Coroner Gilbert Seashore said dentil was caused by carbon monoxide g.is poisoning. Mr, Morris, S3, appurently had run his automobile Into the senator's garage, near his own summer home and then closed the doors. When found, the body was lying with the face near the exhaust pipe vent. The switch of the car was on and all gasoline was gone from the tank. The victim had leen missing since Friday.

He was last seen at 11:30 a. m. Friday, when he left his home at the Windsor apartments, 2011 Third avenue south, to drive downtown In his car. He had an appointment at a downtown garage and also a luncheon engagement at a Rotary club meeting, neither of hich he kept. When he failed to return home Friday night a report was made to police and their aid asked In finding him.

Fred Dassett, 3128 Hennepin avenue, a friend to Mr, Morris, went to the advertising man's summer home late Saturday afternoon and, after searching about the place, finally discovered him dead the Schali garage. One of the city's leaders In patriotic work during the World war, Mr. (Continued on Page Column 6.) ROY AMMEL REPORTED RESTING COMFORTABLY Panama, Nov. 22. (P) Captain Roy Annuel, Chicago aviation enthusiast, was resting as comfor tably as possible tonight In a hos pital here, while physicians an nounced ho had not been so seriously injured as was at first feared when his plane cracked up yesterday at the start of a flight to Chicago.

He was suffering from sev ere shock and many contusions, but an X-ray disclosed there were no broken bones. ETHEL BARRYMORE ILL, MISSES PERFORMANCES 22. (VP)-Ethel Bar-rymore, stage star, was taken 111 this afternoon In her dressing roirtn at a local theater where she was phying In "Scarlet Sister Mary." Her physician said she was suffering from laryngitis and conjunctivitis and would not peymlt her to go through with the matinee and evening performances, J1 made an enemy who satisfied a long standing hatred by slaying her hus-i band. 1 Old Hat Disappears. Besides the Inability to establish a motive, the police were faced with two more mysterious circumstances.

One of these was the disappearance of the black, felt hat with most of the rim cut away that Slvald was accustomed to wear while at work. When M. G. Bleed, watchman who came to relieve Slvald at midnight, discovered the dead man In an elevator on the fifth floor the hat was lylnir nearby. The top waa slashed as though with a hatchet.

Bleed said. When police went to pick up the hat, however, It had vanished. Not far from the placj where the hatwas supposed to be they found an old, tattered cap. Another puzzle was presented by the manner in which body was lying in the elevator. 'er pitching" the watchman into the shaft on the tenth floor, the killer apparently had come down, entered the elevator, through the roof which the body had crashed, and laid it out on the floor with the hnnds folded over the chest.

Signs Of a Fight. Although his duties ordinarily would not take him to the tenth floor, signs of acuffllng and a trail of blood proved that it was there that Sivald'a head had been crushed before he waa hurled down the ahaft to the elevator on the fifth floor. Along the atalrwaya leading from the fifth to the tenth floors, dust had been brushed from the walls and steps gave evidence of a strug. da. From this Investigators concluded (Continued on Page Column ,) WEATHER FORECAST Increasing cloudiness today; Monday rsln turning to snow and colder.

Additional weather on page 6 section 12, Boy, 8, Explores Well; Firemen Play Rescuers As an explorer, 8-year-old Joseph McDanlel certainly has daring a-plenty. But that ability did him no good when he found himself at the bottom of a 25-foot cistern Saturday. The fire department had to hoist him out. Joseph, who Is the son of Benjamin McDanlel, 2539 Twenty-fourth avenue south, joined hands with a playmate to tear tha top from an abandoned cistern. And then Joseph forced down at Charleston.

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