The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 18, 1929, Page 3

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1929 CRIMINAL BUREAU DEFEATED IN HOUSE BY INDEPENDENTS Friends of Administration Break Away From Measure Fa- vored by Governor $30,000 COST SCARECROW Leaders Urging Establishment Say Absence in This State Will Attract Crooks Independents in the lower house of the North Dakota legislature broke from the ranks Saturday and helped to kill the administration measure to establish a bureau of criminal appre- hension and identification. The vote stood 52 for and 56 against the bill with five members absent. Attention has been centered on this pill since the opening of the legisla- ture as an out recommenda- » tion of the administration. Governor George F. Shafer urged it in his in- augural message, state’s attorneys and sheriffs in convention here in January supported it and it was thoroughly gone over in committee and by the house as a whole. Each time that it came before the house it created trouble with the op- position gradually increasing. Its de- feat, however, came as a decided sur- prise. Cost of such » bureau has been held against it, the bill proposing $30,000 for maintenance. Nonparti- san league members constantly stressed the added burden it would | Boy bring to the taxpayers. Independent members of the house voting against the measure took mo active part in the floor discussion, registering their opposition only by their vote. Debate Is Short H. F. Horner, Cass county, author of the bill, and L. L. Twichell, Cass county, defended the measure on the floor. J. H. Burkhart, Ward county, and O. E. Erickson, Kidder county, led the opposition. Debate was short. ‘The house kiiled another bill by the closest vote of the session, 53-55, with five members absent. It was a meas- ure to require posting of prices of milk and milk products at cream stations. Seven bills were passed but none of major interest. Sitting as the committee of the whole the house voted for indefinite postponement a bill to give legislators $2 additional pay for services on com- mittees. M. H. Lynch, Richland county, led the attack on the meas- ure, declariag that it was not consti- tutional. He said that the people of the state twice had voted down an increase in pay to members of the legislature. George Aljets, Wells county, pointed out that if legislation concerning appropriations were sub- mitted to the people, little would pass. Erickson began the opposition to the: criminal bureau bill by a motion for indefinite postponement. Recommended by Shafer Horner responded by explaining that the matter was an important one and should not be summarily dis- pensed with. Twichell pointed out | Pa! that Governor Shafer recommended th bill, that state's attorneys and sheriffs supported it and that “they shoul know as much as we do about I.” “If state's attorneys are for the bill, I have a letter here from a state's attorney opposed to it,” Erickson said. He read the letter to the house. “There is no decepticn in our con- tention that the state’s attorneys and sheriffs are behind this measure,” Horner replied. “This is a matter of record and you heve only to go to the convention reports for it. Other states have such bureaus and unless we want criminals to fleck to North Dakota, we need one here.” C. C. Turnex, Stark county, who is a former sheriff, said that the sher- iff's convention in January was unanimously behind this bill. Good Offsets Cost “We can try this bureau for two years and if it fails in its duties, the next legislature can dispense with it, E. P. Bishop, Stark county, asserted. “It is a good measure and will bring more good to the state by far than « its cost.” “Failure to enforce the law is one of. the difficulties of the state and na- a» tion,” F. G. Kneeland, Stutsman ccunty, contended. “Two reasons why the law is not enforced are that criminals are not caught and that evidence is not produced when they do come before the courts. This bill will help strengthen law enforcement | [ iti i @ Plans Flight Across U.S. and Return | ° | , 4 ‘The first transcontinental non-stop flight across the country from New York to San Francisco and back is to be attempted ‘farch 3 by H. F. Mitchell of Wichita, Kans., nephew of Col. William Mitchell, former chief of the army air service. Mitchell is manager of the Pacific Southwest Airways at Wichita and is being backed by a Kansas City business each way in 18 hours, taking Roosevelt Field, New York. supported the bill. C. E. Johnson, Traill county, argued that the bill would work a hardship on cooperative creameries. Burkhart contended that cooperative creameries should follow prices of other creameries. Two representatives of Bismarck Scouts presented the speaker of the house with a Boy Scout handbook and thanked the house for help of the legislators at a scout council earlier in the week. Speaker Traynor re- sponded with a brief talk. He de- scribed scout work as one of the greatest organizations for good in the United States. LINDY CONTRADICTS “HOOVER JOB RUMOR Prepares Survey Hop to Pacific Coast; Lectures News Cam- era Men for Hurry Washington, Feb. 18.—(?)—Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, after a leisure- ly flight from Miami, Florida, was in the capital today, but he planned for his stay to be a short one and he is very busy with matters affecting the Tanscontinental Air Transport com- pany. Before the day is over he will prob- ably be in New York where a confer- ence of company officials is to be held soon. After this conference, Lind- bergh intends to take to the rather the air, again, this fc trip that will carry him to the cific coast over the proposed route be established by the Transport com- ny. He replied to a question about the rumor he was to have a place as un- dersecretary in the Hoover cabinet by saying there was “no authority” for statements to that effect. The Colonel announced that the service of the Transcontinental Air Transport company would be divided into eastern and western divisions. His flight to the Pacific coast will carry him through Columbus, Ohio, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Wichita, Waynoka, Clovis, Albuqu que, New Mexico, Winslow and King- man, Arizona, and Los Angeles, but ifs apd g g Many Precautions Against Diseases Grand Forks, N. D. Feb, 18—Con- tinuing their carefully guarding student health against sick- ness University of North Dakota of- i laa elie i 3 i ; i a ee i E z t é | g Ht tH | a ; Ht i ab | é H" it i i i : i | I Re | | ih FRUIT EMBARGO [S PROVINCIAL THREAT Hoover Tariff on Forest Prod- ucts May Bring Reprisal in British Columbia Vancouver, B. C., Feb. 18.—(P)—A Victoria dispatch to the Province, a newspaper, says: “Definite plans to shut out: United States fruit and vegetables, especial- ly importations from California, ‘Washington and Oregon, in the event of the proposed Hoover tariff closing the United States markets to British Columbia forest products, are being given serious consideration in govern- ental ‘circles, it is learned from establish what virtually amounts to @ provincial tariff to protect her in- dustries. While members of the gov- ernment will not commit themselves, it is known that they have been ad- vised of a means for combating the influx of U. 8. farm products. It is by the simple expedient of placing an inspection fee on cach separate article imported. Such a ‘method of operation, which is in con- trol of the provincial government, would effectually operate without having to await the more cumbersome and slower action of the tariff revi- sion as @ dominion-wide answer to the Hoover tariff increases.” ‘SINGING FIREMAN ON KFYR PROGRAM Howard Melaney, Former North- ern Pacific Employee, Vis- its Here Tuesday A lyric tenor voice, which carried him from a grimy locomotive cab to the studio of radio station WJZ, New + York, in a little more than two years, is possessed by Howard Melancy, in- ternationally famous radio artist. who will sing over KFYR Tuesday evening, March 19. Mr. Melaney hes the sobriquet, “The Singing Fireman pf the North- ern Pacific Railway. A voice, which hi re mellowness and range peculiary adapted to radio, was hidden in the rattling acoustics of a locomotive cab, where Mr. Me- laney was employed as a fireman, until its discovery by @ song writer. The song writer induced Melancy to sing over « radio station at Minne- apolis. A ruddy-faced, callous-hand- ed, awkward fireman lumbered into the radio studio. The announcer pre- THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Deputy Sheriff | When ¢. black- haired, brown - eyed girl walks up to people in Altus, Ok- lahoma, and says “You are under ‘ar- rest,” they stand up and take notice —for she is not joking. Miss Mattye Wilson, young city editor of the Altus Times-Democrat and a 1925 graduate of the University of Oklahoma, has just been appointed by Sam G. Banks, Jackson county sheriff, as the only woman deputy sheriff in Okla- homa. Here she is. Premature Explosion Thwarts Train Wreck Mexico City, Feb. 18.—(4)—El Uni- versal says today that premature ex- plosion of a dynamite bomb thwarted an attempt to blow up a train be- tween Guadalajara and Colima yes- terday. Insurgents, the paper says, placed bomb on the tracks between the sta- tions of Manzano and Nicholas, in the state of Jalisco, but it exploded just before the train reached it. Later information said the train had arrived safely at Colima, capital of sented him as “The Singing Fireman | the state of that name. of the Northern Pacific Railway.” Before Mr. Melaney had concluded two of his songs, the switchboard operator at the radio studio called for help because of the flood of in- quiries and requests for additional numbers. That night Melaney sang again. He continued his work as a fireman, singing over the radio inter- mittently until within a few months the demand became so great that he was booked at other radio studios and was compelled to forego his firing job. He has sung to radio audiences in more than 75 outstanding American cities from New York to Los Angeles and San Francisco, from the Gulf of Mexico on into Canada. Falls and burns caused 60 per cent of the 1,900 accidental fatalities in American homes during one month last year. Canceled Checks Are Only Loot in Robbery overpowered a watchman, at the Pio- neer Trust and Savings bank and fled with two packages early today. It was first believed they had taken @ large amount of currency, but a check up revealed the packages con- tained only worthless canceled checks for $250,000. The watchman, Anton Iverson, said the men overpowered him as he opened the front door. They pinned his arms behind his back, he said, nearly strangling him and then dragged him back into the bank where one of them struck him with a pistol butt, knocking him to the floor. 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