The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 13, 1929, Page 1

North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ' THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Weather Fair tonight and Thursday. Rising temperature. ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1929 PRICE FIVE CENTS. EADS SUCCESSFUL FIGHT FOR SHINGLES Northwest Opens Fight for California Route Princeton, N. J., at Princeton Students ed last night when a attempted to quell a melee that fol- lowed the annual cane spree between \members of the freshman and soph- Policeman stripped of hi: was s coat, shield and beige coe RIGHT TO COMPETE WITH SOLE OREGON RAILWAY IS ASKED Great Northern Seeks Direct Line to the South Coast by Western Pacific Hookup TEN STATES FAVOR PROJECT Contend It Will Stimulate Pro- duction and Marketing of Goods in Whole Area San Francisco, Nov. 13.—(7)—Rep- resentatives of 11 western states, 11 railroads and about 50 cities, counties and civic bodies lined up here today for an interstate commerce commis- sion hearing to determine whether | the Great Northern and Western Pa- cific railroads shall have the right to link their lines to compete with the Southern Pacific in the Pacific northwest and other territory. i ‘The prize will be the North-Sout transportation business of the Pacific coast and connected regions, extend- ing into Canada on the north, Mexico on the south, and east to the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico. Link Two Systems cific would deliver freight to the Great Northern, chiefly California | fruits and vegetables for the north- west. The Great Northern ba . ' Woman Editor Dies | se Dairy Farmers by Organ- | ization They Can Estab- lish Independence HERD EFFICIENCY IS URGED , Permanent National Marketing Associations Should Be ‘Minneapolis, the senate coalition of insurgent Re- | publicans and Democrats rests the responsibility of writing a tariff bill Repul Part: pledge to agriculture, Arthur M. Hyde, secretary of agriculture, believes. He-is optimistic over the outlook “I am looking hopefully to the coa- lition to promptly write a tariff bill ‘which will relieve agriculture of such Part of its distress as a tariff can cure,” he declared. In an address before the national market closed practically at the bot- tom today after another storm of j distress liquidation had carried scores {of leading issues down Sister of Former Kaiser Dies in| Total stock sales today of 7,761,450, Poverty and Disillusion- ment at Bonn Bonn, Prussia, Nov. 13.—(#)—Frau princess von Prussia, sister of the former Kaiser, and America's greatest the best organized branch o° agricul- said the demand for dairy | products in the United States is in- oe more rapidly than produc- u Increased Tariff Imperative “The dairy farmer eto independence win a place in the sun of economic equality,” said Mr. Hyde, “but an in-| crease in tariff protection is imper- ative to maintain stability and pros- New England Woman Was In-; terested in History of Missouri Slope a pecial Service) New England, N. D., Nov. 13.—Mrs. Connolly, prominent North Da- if send southward over the Western Pa- cific large quantities of goods from the northwest, chiefly forest products, into the southwest. , died Coastwise rail traffic heretofore|night at St. Joseph’ Southern reas, The teerection ‘would bring freight into San Francisco from the Utah-Mon- states, and would link the northwest, Hi ne At Ht ne rapt H i i “tis Hl ; rts i [ E i i i 2 li i ff il | flit fH FA FE a FL 4 § i i | ii i i 4 ai i kota club woman and co-editor of the Hettinger County Herald, New Eng- the gage = County Post, ii ry the hospital the latter part of fob gal -Idaho- Dakota tier hopeless 5 tenant wa it chk gge soe arigshecolag a jptcy proceedings previously had been instituted against her when she failed to meet obligations contracted by At one time she was wealthy in her own name. 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Fe i Ft & i E i i EE tI i ef z i i ! ; efi z it if iH H i a I Es i fh i i i 3 if f ; E s E I Ht E i | 1 i i | [ Hi i g [ | TONEW LOW LEVEL 7,761,460 Shares Are Traded to Set Record for Short Three-Hour Session Exchange Calis Upon Members to File Daily Statement of Their Position New York, Nov. 13.—(4}—The stock $1 to $20 a { share. inactive issues, set a new high record for an abbreviated three- hour session on the New York stock exchange. This compares with total sales of 6,452,700 shares yesterday and wae shares on Monday. were: U. 8. Steel $151.50, off $2; Radio $28.75, off $1.75; General Electric $173, and from whom, a list of stocks rhom, an account of and a list of failed to deliver. ficial explanation of the issued by the exchange, | 9, ‘was understood the action was ponalhie the exact condition the it market, a ile icons tenia year should [or 116,000,000, or about $16 the common stock. Check Since 1917 62,200 shares of Gen- hands in the late . Off $2.75. hange has not sub- h a general questionnaire since April of 1917. fficials would not action, it was un- 3 i Priaiie ee el ml ef na en Bi i ¢ rl z i CAPTAIN JOHN BELK, PIONEER | MISSOURI RIVER PILOT, DIES IN STORM OF SALES Son of Confederacy Who cane Death ids Career to Northwest in 1868, Suc- | cumbs to Heart Failure | CAME TO BISMARCK IN 1681. Rose From Cabin Boy to Boat | Master; Dropped Curtain | | | on Career in 1923 Captain John Middleton Belk, po- lice magistrate and colorful figure of the old Missouri river transportation days, died late Tuesday afternoon at @ local hospital from myocarditis. He had been brought to the hospital in the morning, when a series of ailing | | periods extending over the last three weeks, had shown indications of grow interment were for the body to lie in| state at the Perry funeral home to- | night and tomorrow morning, with | services at St. George's Episcopal | church at 3 o'clock Thursday afters noon. The body then will he taken; to Yankton, 8. D., for interment in| the family plot in a cemetery there. | Captain Belk had been a resident | here since June, 1881, with the excep- | tion of two winters, one spent in Call- |’ fornia, the other on a boat fragen in | at Sioux City, Iowa. Rrior to com-! ing here he had lived in Yankton from 1873: until 1881. The career of Captain Belk as pilot *Jand captain on the Missouri river boats—where he came in contact with Mark Twain and many other notables in business, the army and Indian lifc —cast a glamour over the life of the aged survivor of those romantic days. here knew him, and his on the streets was a familiar one. ; A fal) in‘‘early life had dis- located one-hip and he walked with itch and cane, but otherwise he of health until several weeks | go. He was @ source of much in- | formation on Northwest history as he had come in contact with it during his river service between St. Louis and Fort Benton, Montana, to which the river boats ran with army and mining supplies, bringing down gold miners and carrying buffalo hides to (Continued on page nine) 6 PUBLIC OFFICIALS "INNORTHERN IDAHO { ~INDRY AGENT'S NET | | 140 Persons Involved in Secret Indictments; ‘Just Mat- ter of Politics’ | | Moscow, Ida., Nov. 13.—(?}—Round- ; up of more than 40 persons accused in | secret indictments of violating the | prohibition law had resulted today in | arrest of six public officials and two ; of northern ‘ Most of those indicted are believed | to be residents of Shoshone county, | center of the Couer d'Alene mining ; district. | The mountain communities, officers tnd taken to the hospital for observation i ef if " i ? i id i C2 eo Old Man River, the Mississippi-Mis- souri, today is lapping out a dirge for one of the last of colorful figures | who plied(pis way up and down its ise for 50 years. Captain John ik, grizzled riverman a! North- west pioneer since 1868, is dead. The Bismarck boatman died suddenly yes- terday afternoon from heart failure. SECRETARY OF WAR GOOD SERIOUSLY ILL FROM APPENDIGITS Emergency Operation Reveals Gangrenous and Perforated Intestinal Condition Washington, Nov. 13.—(#)—Secre- tary Good underwent a difficult ope- ration for gangreneous, perforating appendicitis at Walter Reed hospital today and his condition was described as extremely serious. Secretary Good was at his office working on his annual report when the attack began. He was induced to call a physician who advised him to go home but further examination re- sulted in his being sent to the hos- pital. The secretary's heart and pulse were said to be holding up well under the anaesthetic. The operation was prolonged con- relia by the complicated condi- ti Publican national politics, had charge of the western campaign for Presi- dent Hoover in the last election, with headquarters at Chicago. He was elected to the house of representative: | from Iowa in 1909 and served until | 1921 when he resigned to take up the | practice of law. Secretary Wilbur of the interior de- ago Secretary but he was released when no extreme- i ie hid | i UPHOLDS ACTION OF COMMITTEE WIPING OUTBOOST INDUTY Says Closing of Mills Due to Fire Prevention and Agri- cultural Depression ANSWERS DILL AND JONES Findings Show Production Costs Are Lower in Northwest Than in Canada Washington, Nov. 13—(?)}—Sen- ator Jones of Washington, the acting Republican leader, said to- day he was about ready to pre- Pose an adjournment of the spe- cial session on November 23, a week before the regular session, in response to appeals from both sides of the chamber, Washington, Vv BP Retention of shingles on the free list was voted today by the senate. The vete was 48 to 30. ‘The senate in so acting sus- tained the recommendation of tts finance committee. The house had proposed a 25 per cent duty. A contest was waged n the senate floor by members from the Pacific northwest to ob- tain a duty on the product. They contended it was neces- Sary to meet import competition Principally from Canada. It was further argued it would regulate the lumber industry so that it would assist conservation ef fer- ests by permitting the working out of a reforestation program. Washington, Nov. 13.—(?)—The contest over the proposed tariff on Shingles was renewed in the senate today with Senator Nye, Republican, Independent, North Dakota, leading ® drive to uphold the action of the finance committee majority in wip- ing out the 25 per cent duty carried | -” in the house bill. Answering arguments by Senators . Jones, Republican and Dill, Dem- ocrat, both of Washington, who favor a shingle levy, Nye said the closing of shingle mills in the north- west was not due to lack of a tariff it to many other causes. »" He gave these as a decreasing de- mand for the type of shingle pro- duced in Washington and Oregon; city ordinances prohibiting the use of wood shingles because of fire ha- zards, and depression on the Ameri-/ can farm. Another reason why a duty should | not be levied, Nye said. was shown in 4 tariff commission findings that pro- duction costs in Washington and Ore- gon were lower than those in British Columbia across the northern border. The roll call vote was demanded by Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montana, after Republican, ‘Washington, had secured by @ divi- sion vote approval of a Place a 10 per cent duty on the ar- ticle. The roll call vote included: For free shingles: Frazier, and Nye, North Dakota, McMaster and Nor. beck, South Dakota, and Schall, NEW YORK FURRIER FRE OF KONAPERS Tientsin, China, Nov. 13.—(%)— Aaron Brenner, New York furrier, ar- rived here today after nearly a week's | captivity in the hands of believed to be Russians. He was in highly nervous condition and un- able to give a coherent account of