The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 22, 1928, Page 8

— u { PAGE FIGHT | ‘CARRIER’ COMMITTEE T0 HEAR BANKERS, a | New York, Chicago and Bos- ton Financiers Summoned With Their Records Washington, Feb. (AP) —A number of New York, Chicago and| Boston bankers were summoned tv- day to appear tomorrow before the senate Teapot Dome committer’ which is sceking to determine how much of the Liberty Bond profits of the Continental Trading company Was used to pay off the Republic e deficit in 1 ed to come with books| were William H. Gilks, tant cashier of the Continental al Bank and Trust company, assistant : Jonn Prentice, esahier of th ional bank, | New Yor ey, cashier | of the nk, " York, and p. "D. Dlaisdell, cashier: of the First National bank, Boston. In following the devious trail of the Continental bonds, the commit- tee now has established that at least $75,000 of the $3,080,000 total reached the Republican national committee and were used by Will H. Hays former chairman of the committee to pay off a “committec note at the Empire Trust company, New York. Harry F, Sinclair has been shown) to have participated in the Conti-; nental profits, he having been one} of the moving spirits fn its organ- izaation. Hays has testified that the lessee of Teapot Dome gave the Republican organization $75,000 War-time Commander of Negro Artillery Units Quits 40 & 8 Boston, Feb. 2 (AP) —Briga- dier General John H. Sherburne,! ‘war-time commander of negro ar- tillery units in France, has re- signed from the 40 and 8, honorary eociety of the American Legion, in protest, he said, ugainst the clause in the national constitution of the organization which prohibited mem- bership of negro veterans. General Sherburne announced his action here last night before a meeting of the Boston branch of the Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People. He de- clared he had not known of the re- striction barring negroes when he was initiated in the 40 and 8 | In his address he deplored racial discrimination and praised the valor of the negro troops of his command. Installation of new equipment to improve long distance telephone communication in the Northwest was announced here today by the Northwestern Bell Telephone com- pany. je new equipment will make it ssible for four conversations to @ carried on over one pair of wires instead of one as at present. This will be accomplished by the use of carrier current which operates much the same as the wave length in radio. The different wave lengths will be separated by devices FOR FISCAL YEAR 1927, TOTALED Slight Increase Over Per Cap- ita Cost of $12.68 For 1926 and Large Boost Over $5.78 Per Capita Cost in 1918— Jury to Try Hiram Total Receipts $30.30 Per Reed Is Completed} capita Ottawa, Ill, Feb, 22.—(4)—The Washington, D. C., February 22.— The Department of Commerce an- nounces a summary of the financial statistics of the state of North ford, the teacher, Was completed this | Dakota, for, the fiscal year ending morning and the state immediately utes for 1927 are based on a popu- began its opening statement. Following a conference with the eae ot pare as of the state attorneys, Judge Frank Hayes an- Expenditures nounced court would be adjourned] ‘The payments for operation and until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, | maintenance of the general depart- when opening ststements would be| ments of North Dakota amounted to made. It was believed sre inenta it Sepilialey be heard at that time ag| oer or OF MASE. Deri copita. to admissibility of Reed's eontesinal jury to try Hiram Reed, La Salle county farmer, on a charge of bomb- ing a school house in an effort to ill his sweetheart, Miss Iola Brad- THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE CURRENTS MAKE POSSIBLE SIMULTANEOUS LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE CALLS ON ONE PAIR OF WIRES cy FOUR CONVERSATIONS Sq TRANSMITTED SIMULTAN- EOUSLY OVER ONE PAIR OF WIRES BY CARRIER METHOD known as “electrical filters” which will operate the receiving apparatus in such manner that each of the four talking circuits will be dis- tinct from the others. One of the three new circuits will be used for long distauce calls be- tween Minneapolis and Regina, Sask., while the other two will pro- vide ‘additional facilities between Minneapolis and Bismaick and Min- neapolis and Minot The elevation of the voice cur- rents to different high frequency ranges is accomplished by vacuum OPERATION OF STATE GOVERNMENT ENDING JUNE 30, $13.14 PER CAPITA This includes $1,490,788, apportion- ments for education to the minor civil divisions of the state. In 1926 the comparative per capita for oper- ation and maintenance of general departments was $12.68, and in 1918, $5.78. The payments for operation and maintenance of public service enterprises in 1927 amounted to $5,235,518, which amount was largely for expenses of the Grand Forks mill and elevator association; in- terest on debt, $1,632,457; and out- lays for permanent improvements, $3,792; 278. The total “payments, therefore, for operation and main- tenance of general departments and public service enterprises, for in- terest and outlays were $19,087,801. The totals include all payments for the year, whether made from cur- rent revenues or from the proceeds of bond issues. Of the governmental costs ported above, $4,393,811 was re- for SPRG Miho yes $691,371 being for main- tubes of the same principle used in radio receivers and these also per- form other important functions in! the system. The filters act as traf-| fic cops, directing each voice cur- rent over the proper coute through the system. A member of The Bismarck Trib- une editorial staff was the first person aside from the telephone cf- The new transmitting apparatus will be officially opened for use on Friday, F. H. Waldo, manager of the local exchange, said today. This is the first telephone carrier current apparatus to be installed in North Dakota, E.G. Fowler and 0, Ortiaad, Omaha, engineers of the maintcn- ance department, and Richard Sat- ficials to converse with Minneapolis,| terlee, Minneapolis, of the General Almost too loud aud Melt the voice; Electric company, of the Minneapolis traffic sounded in the receiver and could be heard distinctly four feet away. tenance and $3,702,440 for struction, con- Revenues The toal revenue receipts were $19,428,280, or $30.30 per capita. This was $4,132,757 more than the total payments .of the year, exclu- sive of the payments for permanent improvements, and $340,479 more than the total payments including those for permanent improvements. This excess of revenue receipts is reflected in purchase of investments and cash balances, not shown in this summary. Property and special taxes represented 23.3 per cent of the total revenue for 1927, 27.8 per cent for 1926, and 31.7 per cent for 1918. The increase in the amount of prop- have becn in- man| stalling the receiving and trausmit- ting apparatus at the local ex- niaiebialestiauentaatnil! vallieel es dee teeatien eet hrdaini tllied seit lito dettigaiee ts Oh aa a et constituted 13.7 per cent of the total revenue for 1927, 14.0 per cent for 1926, and 12.5 per cent for 1918. Receipts from business licenses consist chiefly of taxes exacted from insurance and other incorporated companies and from sales tax on gasoline, while those from nonbusi- ness licenses comprise chiefly taxes on motor vehicles and amounts paid for hunting and fishing privileges. The sales tax on gasoline amounted to $1,080,154 in 1927 and $705,231 in 1926, an increase of 53.2 per cent, which was due to an increase of one cent per gallon in the tax rate. Indebtedness The total funded or fixed debt out- standing June 30, 1927, was $32,108,- erty and special taxes collected was | 500. 220.4 per cent from 1918 to 1926, but there was a decrease of 11.8 per cent from 1926 to 1927. The per capita property and special taxes were $7.07 in 1927, $8.02 in 1926, and $2.54 in 1918, Earnings of general departments, or compensation for services ren- dered by state officials, represented 7.5 per cent of the total revenue for 927, 7.0 cent for 1926, and 23.4 per cent for 1918, Business and nonbusiness licenses The net indebtedness (funded or fixed debt less sinking fund assets) was $4,519,097, or $7.05 per capita. In 1926 the per capita nei debt was vee and in 1918, $0.69. Assessed Valuations and Tax Levies The assessed valuation of Property in North Dakota subject to ad valor- em taxation was $998,180,492; the amount of state taxes levied was $3,842,995; and the per capita levy, $5.99. In 1926 the per capita levy was $6.57, and. in 1918, $2.18, made to the state’s attorney. The jury is composed of two la- borers, two truck drivers, four farm- ers, a retired business man, a con- tractor, a salesman and a painter. Tola Bradford, whom the state charges young Reed tried to kill by placing dynamite in the stove of the school where she taught, said she was glad the preliminaries of the trial were over. She has sat, both days of the trial, at the side of the state’s attorney. Both she and Reed have ignored each other. The young farmer promised to marry her the night before he is al- leged to have put the dynamite in the stove. Miss %3radford, about to become a mother, was seriously in- jured when the dynamite exploded as she attempted to light a fire, Werner Cage Tourney Will Start Thursday) a - =o Werner, N. D. Feb. 22. = basketball teams ie = towns along the north branch of = the Northern Pacific Railway out of Mandan have entered the annual North Branch tourney that will be held here on Thursday and Friday, Drawings will take place Thurs- day morning and the tourney is ex- pected to start at 2:15 p. m. W. G. Fulton, director of boys’ work in Bismarck, and George Heidt, crack Mandan high school athlete, will referee and umpire all ‘games. D. A. Fisher, superintendent of @chools at Halliday, is the district Manager of the tournament, JEWELRY STORE ROBBED Cincinnati, Oho, Feb, 22.—(AP) — Diamond rings and watches valued at between $40,000 and $50,000 were stolen by two men in a robbery at the Ideaal Loan & Jewelry Co. here today. The robbers trussed two/ ¢ clerks in a rear room with a win- dow sash cord, looted the show] % cases and carried off three trays of| $ diamond rings. 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