The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 27, 1929, Page 8

a eT ee ae EO \ PAY POLIGYHOLDERS Stockholders Will Be Given Fair Payment, Possibly Par, Counsel Says * Chicago, April 27.—()—Counsel for | the Old Cojony Life Insurance com- pany, against which a liquidation suit was instituted yesterday, has an- nounced the 37,000 policyholders will be paid in full and that stockholders will be given a fair payment, possibly Three in One ar. “ The petition, introduced in circuit court by Attorney General Carl- strom and Leo H. Lowe, state direc- tor of trade and commerce, reported assets of $4,200,000 and liabilities of more than $4,500,000. The difference was said to have been uncovered in an examination of the company's records March 1. Lowe said he or- dered the company on April 4 to make up the deficit by April 21 and this had not been done. The Old Colony Life is a $4,000,000 firm with policies having a face value! of $36,000,000 in force. Frozen assets were blamed for the company’s fi- nancial condition by its attorney. The firm was interested heavily in Florida; real estate and Chicago building! projects. 6,000 SEE ENGINEER) WORK AT UNIVERSITY Norris Fitch, Bismarck, Mem-/ ter cf Committee in Chargs of Arrangements Grend Forks, N. D., April 27—()— Tive thousand rcons viewed the work of enginesring students at th: University of North Dakota yesterday at that department's open house for visitors, according to. James R. Tay- lor. Cando, who was in charge. Exhibits were in charge Of students from cach department. Titese stu- dents were Norris Fitch, Bismarck; Fenry Iverson, J. Walton Taylor, and Arnot Lee, all of Grand Forks. The annual enginecr’s ball tonight will complete the program. John K. Walsh, Makoti, is in charge, assisted by Burke Bair. Bowbells; ‘Torval Kittelson, Roletie, and ‘George Chartier, Langdon. North Dakota Men Assemble to Fight Grain Rate Boosts (Continued frem page >ne) said, “but will ask representatives of the North Dakota Farmers Grain Dealers association, the Farmers union, the state bankers’ association, and representatives of other organ- ications and agencies to sit in a gen- eral conference to study the situation and see what action, if any, should be taken to back up our state railroad commission in fighting this increase.” United Fight Planned Kansas City, April 27.—(#)—Plans for formation of a united front against @ suggested freight rate increase es- timated to cost grain growers of the middle west more than $12,000,000 an- nually were discussed yesterday by representatives of seven states in the region. Further development of an old idea by Towa State College agricultural engineers produced the above ma- chine which plows, disks and harrows all in cne operation. The farm im- plement is pulled by a tractor and power to operate the disks is also re- ceived from the tractor. In perform- ing its triple operation, it is said to aid in the extermination of the corn borer through the complet: chopping up and coverage of corn stalks. ! reads. Some 30 persons have availed themselves of the privileges. Identi- fications by the American Founda~- tion for the Blind is necessary. Pro- fessional beggars are barred. HARDY ACQUITTED IN IMPEACHMENT CAS Voted Innocent of Four Charges in Connection With Aimee’s Activities Sacramento, Cal., April 27.—(7— Acquitted of charges of official mis- conduct by advising and eiding Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson, Superior Judge Carlos S. Hardy today was free to return to his bench in Los Angeles. Whether the last of the McPherson kidnaping story has been heard, re- mained unknown, however. Judgé Hardy was voted innocent of four charges by the. state senate in its final sitting as a court of im- peachment yesterday. ‘The charges which the senate re- fused to sustain were that Judge Hardy violated the state constitution in accepting a $2,500 “love gift” from the evangelist; that he illegally acted as her counsel in advising her on church affairs and while her kid- naping story was under investigation; that he attempted to prevent Mrs. he attempted trying to intimidate a potential -wit- ness against her. VETERAN MILLER DIES Milling Co., died here. The states represented at the con- DUFFY 1S CONVICTED ference were Kansas, Missouri, Okla- | homa, North Dakota, Nebraska, and Minnesota. The conference was called by Governor Clyde M. Reed of Kan- sas, who was elected chairman. The meeting grew out of a report made last Saturday in Washington by examiners for the interstate com- merce ion recommending in- creased rates on grain and grain prod- ucts shipped to primary markets. The report was made following a scries of hearings held during the last two years. Millers Favor Plan Before closing their one-day session the grain representatives heard E. H. Hogueland, president of the South- ‘yest Millers’ league, declare his or- ganization would not oppose the fight | against the suggested rates. ‘Those present agreed to encourage additional investigation to determine more definitely what the proposed rates would cost the shippers of the various states. This data would be od “by John E. Benton, general counsel of the National Association of Commissioners, of Washing- ton, to be used in the general fight against the increase in rates. A hear- ing before. the interstate commerce commission will be held the week be- ginning May 27. f Additional Markets DS seen a nila acai BISMARCK GRAIN (Putnished by Russell-Miller Co.) Bismarck, April 27 No. 1 dark northern tenced Monday. BERR: uf McPherson from being brought to trial for alleged conspiracy; and that to abstruct justice: by Peters, Fla., April 27.—(4)—Thomas L. Clark, 73, former: head of the Clark Milling Co., Minneapolis, and for 25 years connected with the Pillsbury Minneapolis, April 27—(7)—James F. Duffy, North Minneapolis. poli- tician, was convicted by a jury of a charge of extortion and will be sen- STATE JONES ‘LAW ARRESTS MADE Gladstone Pair, Tom Morill and John Fieller, Haled in Federal Court | Fargo, N. D., April 27.—()—The | first ‘arrests In North Dakota for ,vio- | lation of the Jones law were made |Friday, when John Fieller and Tom |Morill, alias Dominick Morel, farm- {ers residing near Gladstone, Stark lcounty, were taken into custody by Deputy U. S. Marshal Jacob Roths- jchiller, Fargo. {| Arrest of the men is the result of a ‘raid miade by federal prohibition 'agents 10 days ago, when approxi- {mately 500 gallons of alleged moon- {shine were seized on their farms which are about two miles apart. At the time of the raid the men were not arrested. Criminal ' informations ‘charging violation of the ‘Jones act were filed by the prohibition agents. When arrested Friday the men were taken before U. 8. Commissioner |W. B. Dickson at Dickinson, waived {preliminary examination -and were released on $1,000 bond each, for ap- pearance at the next term of federal court at Bismarck. ‘Polly With a Past’ Is Well Given Play “Polly With a Past,” given by the Junior Playmakers of the Bismarck ; high school at the city auditorium last evening, was attractively staged and very well portrayed by the differ- ent members of the cast. Miss Cyd Hill, as Polly Shannon, | wao in order to arouse Myrtle’s jeal- ousy, impersonates a naughty French actress, discovers that a “past” may be @ very unfortunate thing in the “present.” Tom Boutrous, as Harry Richard- son, friend of Rex Van Zile (Ralph Wenzel) amused the audience with his efforts to get Rex out of a diffi- cult situation. In this he was ably assisted by Robert Larson as Clay Collum. A character part well portrayed was that of Stiles played by Marvel Kjel- strup. Some parttcilarly good work was done by Thelma Amundson as Mrs. Van Zile, and Lucille Coghlan as Mrs. Davis. Maxine Burnsides as Myrtle Davis gave a pleasing imper- sonation of the girl who is interested in reforming sinners. is Others who did their part to make the play particularly enjoyable were John O'Hare as Prentice Van Zile, Virgil Luyben as Commodore Barker, Guy Larson as Valdemir - Petrowski, and Claire Koffel as Parker. Airplanes will have to fly high to miss this skyscraper. For the Bank of Manhattan building, which is to rise 63 stories a'swve New York's famed Wall Street, will be the tall- est in the world. Eight hundred end forty feet high, it will be built in a year's time. Faith Is Keynote of Writer’s Own Epitaph London.—(#)—Like his famous fel- low playwright, William Shakespeare, the late Henry Arthur Jones selected his own epitaph. In his will, recently published here, he asked that at his grave should be placed a stone inscribed with his name, the, dates of his birth and death, and the words: “Then I have said I have laboured in vain, yet surely my judgment is with <he Lord and my work with God.” The plaswright left the armchair “in which I always sat to write” to his daughter, Jennie Doris Thorne. Among other bequests was $250 to his nurse. j His estate totaled $100,720. i France Strengthens Between the acts piano numbers were furnished by Marguerite Ken- nedy and Esther Wilson. A trio com- Posed of Dency Dickinson, Isabel Humphreys and Lillian Boepple, ac- companied by Madame Scheffer Frontier Garrisons Draguignan, France. — (#) — Addi- tions to the local garrison are sched- sang two selections, and Miss Marian|Wed to arrive in April, nearly Santin, accompanied by Miss Mar. {doubling the force which has been garet Bates, sang two vocal solos. The play was directed by Miss Pearl here since the war. There are two unofficial explana- Bryant, English instructor, assisted | ions for the movement of troops. The instructor at the high scheol. CLEARING HOUSE STATEMENT New York, April 27—(#)—The | weekly statement of the New York clearing house issyed tedsy shows: Total surplus and undivided profits unchanged. . Total net demand deposits (aver- age) $17,503,000 decrease. Time deposits. (average) $2,532,000 increase. Clearings week ended today $7,250,- 830,374. Clearing week ended April 20, $7,933,831,341." Clearing this day $1,318,359,243. by Miss Cecelia Champeau,: French | first is that the French government | | | | has determined to man the frontier gun for gun with the Italians, who have established several new encamp- ments recently. The other is that the recent breakdown in communication services .due to the severe weather forced the general staff to put soldiers where they could be used at any moment. ‘ : Five times last winter the Riviera was isolated from the rest of the world, Notice: Dump wagon for ash a rubbish hauling. Wachter Transfer Co., phon 62. - THE RISM4 TRIBUNE SENATORS REACH NO DECISION ON MELLON Washington, April 27.—(—The senate judiciary committee failed to- day to reach a ‘decision on the right of Secretary Mellon to hold office and adjourned until Monday after two hours of discussion on the report of Chairman Norris’ ruling against the secretary. The committee voted unanimously, however, that President Hoover had {a right to retain Mr. Mellon in his cabinet without resubmitting his nomination to the senate. It also held the secretary could not be .|regarded as having violated an old *|statute forbidding a revenue officer from engaging in the whiskey busi- ness, The report of Senator Norris declaring that Mr. Mellon as a stock- holder was illegally holding office because of a 100-year-old law‘ for- bidding the secretary of the treasury to be" interested in carrying on trade or commerce brought a close division in the committee ranks. After con- siderable discussion, in which some Republicans stood by the recent opin- ion of Attorney General Mitchell that Mr. Mellon was legally in office, a decision was postponed until Monday. Hardy Hackberries F'curished Aeons Ago Pittsburgh.—(?)—Fossil seeds found in Phillips county, Kansas, more than 40 years ago have been identified as hackberry sceds 15,000,000 years old. The seeds were found among the bones of a rhinoceros classified as roaming the American plains that long ago. For years the secds and the bones have been in Carnegie museum here. Recently Betty Watts Brooks, head.of the department of botany of the Pennsylvania College for Women, has been studying the seeds in a search for causes of arrested vegeta- tion in Pennsylvania. It was her work which identified them. Zogu Starts Fight for the government will match this with an equal sum J will have for his assist- t in i Dr. Lewis THREE MSONAREES MRED GN New York, April 27.—(7)—The Rev. Linus Monohan, rector of St. Mich- ael’s Monastery of Union City, N. J., announced today he had received a cablegram from Hankow, China, stat- ‘ing that three missionaries had been slain by Chinese bandits. The three more, &nd Rev. Walter Covelyou. The latter's address is unknown. He is from the middle west. The cable- gram said the missionaries had been killed April 24. ‘ A. 0. U. W. Ball Team Going to Play Ft. Rice On Sunday Afternoon The A. O. U. W. baseball team will open its season, Sunday, with the strong team at Fort Rice. Fort Rice seored a victory last season and the local team is out to even up the ac- count Sunday. x The probable lineup: F. Hummel, L. Klein and Johnson, pitching staff: Kelley probably behind the bat; in- field, M. Hummel, Rex Fogarty, Erickson, B. Klein, and L.. Wyickala; outfield, Patera, Roehrich, F. Kelley, Baldwin and W. Schneider. Any members of the Jodi with cars that can go to Fort Rice are asked to be at the A. O. U. W. hall campaign, and the Albanian at 12:30 Sunday. A POOR JOB: Brown: I’m a self-made man. Jones: That's what comes of em- ploying cheap labor.—Life. Notice: Rich black earth for sale. Wachter Transfer Co. Phone 62. On Malaria Scourge Tirana, April 27—()—With the aid of the Rockefeller Foundation, King Zogu has begun a nationwide campaign to cleanse Albania of ma- laria, a plague which has scourged the country for centuries. The Rockefeller Foundation, it, is understood, will advance $500,000 Lima Lake district had today-with livestock, and many people in Bg River in itindis Was Expected + to Reach. Crest of Its Stage Today Quincy, Il, April 27.—()—The levees 170,000 acres of te : : : g i E g g ged its red FF 5, i & BE q fy i z | 4 ni i : H i i i £ H 7 g Se 5 5 rf g 2 f i j 14 feet at Quincy. Nor can the farmers in the bot- toms count their troubles even if such a drop should occur, because they have yet to face the an- nual late spring rise, which ordit begins about the middle of May or early in June. This ts usually the year’s big flood F in the,territory Charles Griner, sergeant of the guard house at: Fort Snelling, Captain Harvey T. Jenson, provost marshal at Fort Snelling, and Rufus B. , special agent for the department of justice. ‘s Bank Guards Vaults . With Nervous System New York—()—The larger finati- period. Overnight, all dikes managed to withstand the continued strain. In the a Lake-Hunt sec- tion, extending from Warsaw, Ill, to about 10 miles north of here, water was above the crown of the levees but was held back by more than 20,000 "Levees Are Weak _ Levees were in poor condition in the Gregory district of Missouri, di- rectly across the Mississippi from the the country are solving the safety “nervous Quincy with engi- souri. Patrols still watched weak | neers of the treasury department and spots in the large Sni district to | oe federal reserve banks. 7 these . 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