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THE MINNEAPOLIS MORNING TRIBUNE; THURSDAY DECEMBER 12 1029 'IX Where Ten Lost Lives in Film Fire Kxplorer to (live Lecture Tonight I Amendment Asks Added Slash in Tax Convict Fighting Baumcs Sentence? Completes Five-Year Term Appeals to thu Supremo Court. Jungle Peril Tales Belittled by Explorer Von Hoffman Terms Autos Lethal as Charging Lions. Walker Acts in Inquiiy of Studio Blaze N. Y. Mayor Starts Survey of Fire in Which 10 Lost Lives.

I I it V. fl i i i .1 i I ism. fc jjt'Ufr V.wt Hi 1.11 MMJ The sf.it" Mipreme court vwir.e. day uai asM'd to ileter.nl no. whether Harold Ibs, who vim Fcntend to fHe years' iinj-risoniiK nt for rolw bery, may leave Stlllwal-r prison be.

ihuso bis term Iimh expired, or nhi ther he must serve 3' years tool under the habitual criminal t. Arguments wci to the court in an appeal taken In a decision of Judzo A. P. tolbeig (f Washington county rirt, who twice denied a writ of (it pus for the release of llo. ltoss.

was convicted in Duluth on a charge of first di re; robbery In 1S2.1, and sentnied to Stillwater prison, completing his term latt June. The attorney general was askul by Warden J. J. ISullivan whether Hons should b- released as be bad a previous criminal record. The attorney general advised the warden that, under the law, Koas should serve an additional term of 4i to SO years, which would result in bis Imprisonment for at least 33 years more.

Habeas corpus proceedings were iigaln Instituted for the relen.se Itoss on the ground that tho sentence which bad been itniiosed on him bad lieen served. Judge Pol. berg denied the writ and Ire appeal was taken from the denial. Central Lutheran Choir to Present 'The Messiah The Cent rat Lutheran choir, composed of ISO singers, will present Handel's oratorio, "The Messiah," fsunday at 7:45 p. m.

In the Central Lutheran church auditorium. The choirs are directed by Professor George Hultgren, and Marlon Hutchinson 1 the accompanist. Hotoistsat the production will be Vii tori. Hotichler, soprano; ISr-atrtc Jerde, contralto; Norman R. irlindhauff, tenor, and Kay Moorhouse, bsss.

IMirbon Princes IHe in Paris. Paris, Iec. 11. Associated Pres. Prlncme Kliviia de Jiourbon dii-d today at a Paris clinic at th age of 6H years.

Hh was a daughter of the late Don Carlos and a H-ter of lion Jaime, head of the Hpanifh branch of the house of Hour-bon. Hhe had in ill health for some time. "Diinger as ymi muke if," ChtI von Hoffman, African explorer, Insisted In Minneapolis Wedmday when be asked to tell about some of his adventures In the interior of the. dark continent. "If a person cirr-Vs'ly steps In front of automobile on Fifth ave-line in New York, gets killed just as qui' kly as wben be gets In the way it a charging lion in Africa." Mr.

von Hoffman raid. But you don't hear so much about tho man that gets hit by the automobile." Mr. von Hoffman, who stent most of his life in Africa In ethnological work, will lecture Thursday night before the Dinner club at the Nicollet hotel. "People hear strange talus of Africa," he said, "most of which are not true. Tourists tell about tho terror of the lion's roar.

But I know that the lion roar only when bo has Just completed a big meal and Is no great danger. The time to keep away from a Hon Is when he begins to growl." The fact that Mr. von Hoffman Is a director of the Adventurers' Club of New York and a member of the Adventurers' Club of the World not deter him Wednesday from making an attack on visitors to Africa who bring ba. adventurous stories iiliout their experiences. "I came down from my apartment In New York tho other day to find three men trying to steal my tar," he said.

"I went to the mat with them, capturing two and winning a black eye as well as nx car. That was adventure, but It is Just supposed to be part of our modern civillxatlon now and no one speak of it. Why then think Africa is so much more dangerous than other parts of the world? "I lo not live In Africa to seek adventure but to study the people there." Ill long years of study have led Mr. von Hoffman to believe that white clvillMtion In Africa la doing the native more harm than good. Getting back to tourists, Mr.

von Hoffman laughed at reports that Negro women in Africa paint themselves for beauty like the white women. Is rr i 1 ..4. UU -f ap. a- i 4 f. Nine persons, five men and four women, are known to have been killed and several others are missing I an Inferno of the interior of the small brick building.

(Associated Press Thoto.) she told Franklin. She stared at him. She is an almost illiterate girl, and Franklin la uneducated. "Remember, Tillar, about that piece of three-twist tobaccer I left In your paw's home that night?" he recited, awkwardly, "remember how I joshed you about the lipstick you had on the night before I But tlll Tillar wouldn't say. The sheriff and his wife asked Tillar to come out with It straight.

"I told the grand Jury I wouldn't say yea or no to nobody about nuth-in" in tho case," Tillar said. Connie now wears a bright new pair of tan shoes, a pair of baggy trousers, a Jacket and a slouch hat. Hi eyes are brown, his hair, except for a few gray one over his right oar, la alo brown. "How old are you. Franklin?" he was asked.

"I'm 23." He looks 10 year older. The questioner ex pressed Surprise. Franklin insisted. Most people in Stone county believe he ig lying about his age. A letter Franklin wrote last January 21 to Dr.

L. R. Brown, superintendent of a Little Rock Institution, the state hospital for nervou diseases, and denying: he was th M. Franklin once an Inmate there, was received by-' Sheriff Johnson from Dr. Brown that tame month, with the suggestion Franklin was not a safe man to have at larg Sheriff Johnson tried to find and ar rest Connie around St.

James then, but couldn't find him. The signature of Franklin in the letter to Brown la the same ag the one he signed to the bond assuring his appearance Monday at the trial -V New Yi'ik, Iec. 11. (Vy AskoI-ateil rres Mayor James .1. Walker today entered Into the to determine the eauso of the tire which yesterday destroyed the Manhattan movie studio in Harlem.

killinc in people anil Injuring a ecore of others. The mayor ordered Fire Comm- nioner Dorman to turn over a preliminary report of his investigation eo far, and etarted a survey of the reports of the fire marshal and fire prevention bureaus. Fire Chief Kenlon laid the Maine for the loss of the 10 lives In the lire to the failure of studio employes immediately to turn In en alarm when the blaze wan discovered. The first fire apparatus arrived six jninutes after the alarm, the chief raid, but by that time the interior of the building was a mass of flume. Had the employes turned In the alarm before they first attempted unsuccessfully to quench the blazo themselves, firemen might have been ablfl to rescue the last 10 persons running; for the main exit who were overcome by smoke before they could reach safety and perished.

The iMilice department anil district attorney's office also are Investigating the fire. No definite rause for the disaster has been determined, but one electrician said he saw a red hot carbon falling- from a high powered arc licht. Ignite a velvet curtain. Officials were unable to verify his version as the electrician who manned the light, Carl Kramer, was one of the fire's victims. Three Members Added to Archer-Daniels Board Three new members were elected to the board of directors of the Archer-Daniels Midland Co.

of Minneapolis at Its annual meeting, according: to announcement Wednes day by Shrev M. Archer, president of the company. They were: George H. Prince, chairman of the First National Bank of St. Taul, and presi dent of the First Bank Stock corpo ration; Thnmn L.

Daniels, who re cently resigned from the United States diplomatic service at Rome to assume an executive post with the company, and Phil S. Duff, head of the Archer-Daniels Midland flax buying organization at the Minne-apollg Chamber of Commerce. Report and discussion by shareholders and officials at the meeting forecast generally satisfactory production and marketing conditions for 1930, In the flaxseed and linseed Industry, Mr. Archer said. Mrs.

Sue Hough Asks City Registration Post Efforts to recreate the position of deputy registration commissioner, abolished by the city council last year, were made Wednesday when Mr. Sue Dickey Hough appeared before the civil service board meeting; and requested thst her nam be placed on the eligible list and that examination be waived. The board refused to waive examination for the job, but voted to certify a list of eligible to City Clerk Charle C. Swanon. Charles J.

Berry, employ in the city engineer' office, fiow heads the list of eligible for the job. The salary of the berth Is 1200 a month. Shelbyville, Rank Robbed. Shelbyville, 111., Dec. 11.

(By Associated Press.) Four unmasked men robbed the Farmers' State bank of Gays, 18 miles east of here late today and escaped with $2,000 In currency. They fired one shot In leaving the bank, climbed Into a waiting automobile and fled. Handwriting Convinces Hill Folk That Returned Farm Hand Must Be Raid fc Victim' "3- HI V. v. In a fire that swept the Manhattan Mucins, in lorK city, tea by films, the flames quickly made lad body of Franklin on their Then, late in November, reports that Connie Franklin was seen down around Humphrey, more than 100 miles south of here, became persistent.

Naturally, lawyer and relatives of the defendants became eager to find him. Connie was afraid to return here, there can be no doubt. He was warned to stay away. But, with five men charged with murder, his presence in Stone county became imperative. Last Sunday he appeared at Mountain View in company of Crick Greenway, lean mountaineer, father of Herman Greenway, one of the defendants.

Sheriff and Mrs. Johnson brought Connlo into their home and confronted him with Tillar. She was among a dozen girls, he picked her out unhesitatingly. She shrank back. "Don't jou remember that favorite song I used to sing you, he said.

1 1- picked tip a French harp, as they call mouth organs here, and played "The Trail of the Lonesope Pine." Then he sang it. Tillar was still puzzled. "Stand back, I'm smothering," ATT 1 I Ml (f I AIM www ii v- from mr. a' Couzeiis Urjres Reduction in Capital Gains and Loss Levy. One Tor Cent Slash Bill to, Come Up in Senate on Friday.

I Jv 11 Py Pre- i Adthti'iral tux reij- In the ot a rrmarK nt fJt from ll'-j 30 ir rent in the capi- I tal firs and tX was today by Senator Jputli- can, Michigan, an amendment to the rff.Iutlm I a s'ath on income taxes due next year. The resolution will he l.roucht til on Kri-lay in the -null indications pointing to early nloption. Hoping to ol'tain artion on tlie resolution in the form it passed the house, aer.ato leader heM rut hepe tonight for the Oiuzms proposal. The resolution provides for slashing one per rent off exist in? rates on the individual and corporation levies. The rut would apply to incomes of this calendar year.

PirusinK his amendment, Senator Couzens, hn in a member of the finanee committee, explained that it would not Ko into effect until next year and would have no effect on the 1930 income of the treasury. "There Is a large body of puhllc opinion." eaid Cotirmf, "that believe there would he freer exchange if the capital pain tax is not 80 larpe. It la contended that there, is much frozen real eatate and 5tock which the owner would like to sell but decline to because cf the large capital gains tax." 2,500 Hear Aksel Bohler, Norse Tenor Crowds Fill Central High Auditorium See Norway Film. Rising- from the Job of railroad fireman to the position of heir.fr a tenor who on several occasions sijr.g for the king and queen of Norway at their special command, is the unusual career of Aksel Bohler. Norwegian tenor, who Is making a tour of the Vnited States.

"Wednesday night Mr. Bohler sang r.is way into the hearts of an audience of approximately 2.500 persons who filled the Central high school auditorium to hear two perform ances by the noted Norwegian. Mr. Bohler made hli first appearance In the northwest under the auspices of the Norwegian Singers of Minneapolis, who sponsored the program. The program 'Wednesday night consisted of two features, Mr.

Bohler singing in conjunction with the showing of the moving picture, "See Norway," a picture of Norwegian life and customs which vu seven years In the making. Mr. Bohler' program wag arranged especially for the showing of the films, the songs he chose being folk songs which depicted, in'music, some of the many scenic spots of Norway. Mr. Bohler was accompanied by Dag- Kristofferson, soloist with the Philharmonic orchestra in Oslo, Norway, The program which was presented Wednesday night has been ofTared in New Tork, Boston and Philadelphia previous to the performance Jn Minneapolis.

Mr. Bohler and Gunard Lund, producer of the film offering, and manager of the troupe which is presenting the programs, will spend several days in Minneapolis prior to the next performance which will be given In Los Anseles and the west. Mr. Bohler was born in Oslo, and received a musical education in Oslo, Vienna and Milan. Richard Duntley Rites Set Todav Funeral and Burial for Veteran Resident to Be Held at Lakewood.

Funeral services for Richard H. Duntley, 61 years old, who died Tuesday night at the home of his sister, Mrs. Dan "Wheeler, 3348 First avenue outh, will be conducted at 12:45 p. m. Thursday at Lakewood chapel and burial will be in Lake-wood cemetery.

Mr. Duntley had been ill for about six weeks. He was born in Cedar, and came to Minneapolis 60 years ago. Besides Mrs. Wheeler, he is survived by two other sisters, Mrs.

Robert Miller and Mrs. Fred Stabler, both of this city. SISTER VICENTIA. MORE THAN 50 YEARS, DIES. Elster Vicentia, a nun in the order of St.

Joseph for more than 50 years, died Tuesday at St. Joseph's hospi tal in Et. Paul. Sister Vicentia was formerly Johanna Sullivan. Surviving her are three sisters, Mrs.

g. J. McDonough and Mrs. M. P.

Flaherty of St. Paul, and Mrs. Owen Gorey of Veblen, S. and four brothers, Patrick and John Sullivan of tvn-atchee, and Timothy and James Sullivan of Humboldt, Canada, funeral services win be held at a. m.

Friday in the chapel of the provincial house of the order of St. Joseph, 190 Randolph street, St. Paul, and burial will be in Calvary cemetery. MARGARET HOLI.ENRKCK RITES FOR TODAY. Funeral rvlce for Margaret Hoi-lenbeck, tt year old, who died Tuesday, will Uk place Thursday at 10 a.

ra. from the Jonea-Harrlson home, 1700 Cedar Lake avenue. Fisher Die In Ice. Browns Valley. Dee, 11 George Mollenhoff, ong time resident of Brown Valley, died today in a fish house on Lake.

Traverse. His upright body was found in water up to his neck. It is not known untuier nm mas sirieKa.n nciore tir Carl von Hoffman. Bandit Convicted in Bank Raid Denied New Trial Austin, Dec. 11.

Attorneys f'r Louis Klass, convicted of being one of tiie who robbed the Spring Valley bank nearly two years ago, notified today that a motion for a new trial was denied by Judge Albert 11. Knersnn. The motion was male on the basis of an affidavit by Lisle Hamlin, president of the bank, who is not certain now in Identification of Klaj as one of tho bandits. Klass Is under sentence but free undr bond. The case will be appealed to the supreme court.

Noted Danish Authoress Paying Visit to Chicago Chicago, Dec. 11. (By Associated Press.) Miriam Xleideman Krarup, recognized as one of the leading contemporary Scandinavian-American poetesses and artists, la In Chicago (a "absorb metropolitan atmosphere" for fresh literary venture. She is the wife of Eilar Krarup, son of Sir Jens Krarup, Denmark's foremost educator( I Having inherited my father' business (L. Jacob), I pledge my greatest effort to civ Minneapolis the finest values and service within my power.

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Mountain View, Dec. 11. (NANA.) The hill people of this re. glon, confronted with a mystery, have learned that the eye and the ear can deceive one, but the fingers do not. So it is that Marrlon Connie Franklin, man believed dead and for whose death five Stone county men are in Jail charged with murder, has appeared again, very much alive abashed and utterly lacking In pretension.

So it is that the persons who said their eyes told them, on a night last march, that Connie Franklin was being burned to death on a brush pile In Charlie Chltwood's clearing or thereabouts, have looked ujion the returned man and have been confounded. Signature the Same. No, they related defensively, this couldn't be the man. "He Is some heavier than the Connie we knew around Dry Creek last winter. His skin la darker and his clothes are different.

Nor is his voice quite like the Connie's who courted Tillar Ruminer, Charles Ruminer's 16-year-old girl, at the pie socials and spell ing bees. Impossible that this could I be the man we told tTte grand jury, under oath, was mutilated, dismembered and burned, and some of whose (rmes Sheriff Sam Johnson believed he had found in an ash pile near the clearing." But Connie Franklin It is, for his fingers sign his name exactly the same way today as they did to let. tors written before he disappeared. There can be no reasonable douht. He sings the same old songs he sang to Tillar last winter, and In the same voice.

He recalls acquaintances by name, without prompting. Many persons who knew him In March but who did not ace him burped, identify him without equivocation. But there is an etement in Stone county which attempta to lay down the law outside the courts. Hay. wood Burns and his wife were whip, ped in the summer of last year.

It seemed that Mrs. Burns and Mrs. Alex Fulks. who- lived on Dry creek in the St. James district-where also occurs the Connie Franklin drama quarreled.

The Burneses were taken out one night and whip. Ped by a band of men and List May, Alex Fulks, one of the five men ac- in tne rranKiin case, was fined for participating in that whip-ping. Koss Younger, relative of Bill C. Younger, another of the live men accused, also was fined in this en. and so was Baxter Canard, distant relative of Hubert Hester, another of the five Franklin defendants.

The am night, March in, this er. when Connie Franklin disappeared, Charlie Ruminer, father of the girl Connie wa engaged to marry, and Owen Ford, nephew of Mrs. Ruminer, wero whipped. AVhj- Because, explained a lawyer at Mountain View, tnatter-of-fuctly, "The Rumlners were no account peo'-ple." Reported Hint Alive. Tillar did not need to nay that he saw Connie slain or laid 0n a burning brush pile; others did that after hi disappearance on th Way Ruminer and Ford were whipped.

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