The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 15, 1929, Page 1

North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1878 \ TAX REDUCTION WILL BE VOTED BEFORE XMAS ‘Hoover Regulars’ Rebel, Join Coalitionists Bp pevigiw is [ERMATINGER DETERMINED TO _| UPWARD REVISIONS 1"" BATTLE BOND CLAIM TO FINISH {'Former Highway Commission INIGATED ON FARN "TARIFFS GENERALLY | Duties on Dairy Products In- 1 creased by Debate-Wearied Senators at Night SCORN ROLL CALL ON RATES New Uprising in Republican Ranks Strengthens West- by ern Republican Group ' Washington, Nov. 15.—()—A new “orce organized to “put pep into regularity” arose in the senate today and served defiant notice on the Re- publican old guard leadership that there would be no adjournment of the special session unless the tariff bill were passed. from the newly elected Republicans out the speoial session for the Hoover urpr! Repul . {Sir Esme Howard, who will retire| it would not free him from the im- Tiler leadetship. wie besenrgregrr early in 1930. His wife was formerly | putation of wrongdoing. Elizabeth Sherman Hoyt of New York. | An affidavit and supporting data, consisting of 16 typewritten pages. ‘ accompanied the letter. In it Erma- | tinger asserts that the Highway Bulle-; , tin, in connection with the affairs of {which the claim against his bond was filed, was operated by him as a pri-; vate publication and is being operated | in the same manner by the “present administration.” out the proportions of this uprising which has split the party into vir- tually three groups. “We are here to put pep in regu- larity,” said Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, one of the spokesmen of the new group, which had the sen- ate working away today without much hope of a week's recess before the regular session begins in Decem- ber. Senator Vandenberg displayed a round-robin petition signed by 24 Republicans pledging them to attend every night session until the tariff bill is passed. jorked It developed today that the “young | Captain Belk Dies Fifty-four Hours After His Pilot guard” which has been silently watching the western Republican- Democratic coalition write the tariff bill has been holding meetings. It was reported they held a dinner on Tuesday ‘night at which ges ag opposition to adjournment while tariff still was under consideration. | session,” explained Senator Vandenberg, “we don't begrudge those who have worked so hard and f alt geeek, i eat ey ali till iii j ie itt | He : i ut ke “CHARGES MALICE AND SPITE Flays Lund and Moe in Affi- to the finish the claim filed against his bond by the state highway com- mission, J. J. Ermatinger, former | commission secretary, today asked the state bonding board to defend the matter on the facts in the case and | not on any technical grounds. , of the bonding fund, Ermatinger said | he noted that the fund might defend ‘the claim on the ground that it was 2 not Lend within oe days after know!- The new organization, recruited /gir Ronald Lindsay, above, has been | send fected was Kirton th ‘ appointed ambassador to the United | ~sege S Who have been voting solidly through- |8'Stes trom Great Britain, to succeed | (av, ‘his oF any other technical de- FOLLOWS HIS CHER TO DEATH'S HARBOR bond was filed several weeks ago fol- ‘lowing receipt by the highway com- | mission of a report of the state e: | James C. Thompson, Mate of aminer’s audit of the highway de-; \partment’s affairs. The claim for | {$1,644.89 is subdivided into $775 {for sal | have illegally drawn as editor of the | ' pulletin; $691.96 in profits accrued to | \the date of the last preceding —_) and $177.93 estimated profit from the time of the iast preceding audit until Ermatinger left the department last James C. Thompson, 71, has fol- iwwed in death the mau winou he ac- in the halcyon days of navigation. late Captain John M. | May. Bismarck pioneer | identical with a report by O. B. Lund, | examiner for the state board of audi- tors, and Ermatinger charres that it was a copy of the Lund report. last The. family has not yet made def- sueeen) secmnmements, owe thal terment will be held on Monday. w:/20,000 FANS WATCH Football Addicts Take a Back ; Football addicts took a back i BE gEE i = sft ine bail g E Et | ay i fl iy GF i i | | § | tif ft + Eb i i fei H li hi i i I lal i | | E i te gE i ; i Fi 8 3 i : . E i il Y Secretary Asks the Bonding Board to Defend Matter davit; Says Bulletin Oper- ation Is Same Now Asserting his determination to fight In a letter to F. E. Tunell, manager Claim Followed Audit | i The claim against Ermatinges’s | lary which Ermatinger is alleged to ‘The state examiner's report was In his affidavit Ermatinger charges «Continued on page nine) NATIONAL ‘SHUCKING’ Seat as Seven State Cham- pions Begin Combat Platte City, Mo. Nov. 15.- ; NEAR RRL AT AEN HE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1929 Judge and Girl | He Slew | Judge John W. sistant attorney general and supreme court judge of Texas, is held at Aus- tin in connection with the killing of Lehiia Highsmith, court stenograph- er. Officers claim Judge Brady stabbed her to ok Both are shown above. GRAND FORKS BOY IS LINKED WITH KILLING: panion of Minneapolis Boy Who Murdered Detective |Robert M. Landis, 16, who confessed a long list of criminal activities after being arrested for the murder Tues- day of Roy Fordyce, Spokane police that ee Lund a a ano | detective, turned silent today on the personal malice a - ladvice jtorney. licious and willful libel, perpetrated rege under the guise and cover of the per- | formance of a public duty and also for the purpose of creating political Landis, who said he was the son of peared. a railroad conductor living in Minne-; about an hour later and brought here. ; The four children had disregarded | apolis, yesterday admitted he was! | i the repeated warnings of their school | wanted in Minnesota for robbery, vio- — ' Man Still Owns | Third of Village would sell the town. wre «| NEAR GRAND FORKS | DROWNED IN CREE ‘Ignoring Teacher's ein | ; Four youngsters were dead today, v' Son: of Policeman Was Com-, The Weatlier irtly cl ht and Saturday, wae niaees obser Saturday. PRICE FIVE CENTS Muscatine, Iowa, Nov. 15.—(®)— John Bishop today still owned a third of his home village, Eliza, Ill. = he put up at auction yester- y Dirt roads and rain conspired to keep away the expected crowd and only a handful of bidders appeared. Eliza is on a dirt road five miles from a hard highway. Prior to the auction, Bishop owned {all but four houses in the little vil- lage which his grandfather founded | years ago. After deciding to move to |laconic messages from Nome, Alaska, Aledo, Iil., Bishop advertised that he | served as the basis for the reconstruc- tion of a rescue drama in the wilds \of Eastern Siberia whose cast includ- | ed Carl Ben Eielson, Hatton, N. arctic explorer. in the role of hero, | and five men and a girl stranded in| the ice-bound motor ship Nanuk. “Returned today | face? Ne Yor! Among the property sold were the town's community hall, several houses and lots, a 52-acre tract with the Bishop home, a barber shop, a pool hall, and various other small build- ings and business establishments. The town church and four other buildings not belonging to Bishop were not for sale. FOUR SCHOOL BOYS Youngsters Cross Thin Ice Near Schoolhouse Grand Forks, N. D., Nov. 15.—(>) township, 12 miles from here. ‘The drowned boys are John and Er- ; Johnson,. sons of Gunnus John- ling: journe: son, and Melvin and Clifford Jenson,| From Albert Hersovitz, head of a ‘wholesale fur house affiliated with , The boys, who ranged in age from Swenson company, came details of 6 to 10 years, were returning from the | the voyage of the Nanuk. district school yesterday and were tak- | Seekers Spokane. Wash. Nov. 15—(P'—| ing a short cut across the creek. The | 1 left, Seattle.” he said, “during; Seven Bandits Line Up Buffalo ;the summer, long voyage up the | Selma Jenson, a sister of two ot | iecetny spaciccenpeaai pistes feces | the boys, saw the accident and ran ipering Strait to the Siberian fur | to her home, about a quarter of a/ mile away, for aid, but by the time ; sons of Ed Jenson. ice broke beneath their weight. assistance arrived the boys had dis- The bodies were recovered |teacher, Mrs. Gladys Erickson, lating parole and for shooting a drug - omen ro thin ice of |!t off Cape North. How word of its/Carson, jr., last night, during a pre-|der a scheme similar to the flexible store manager, but refused to answer further questions when A. F. Mc- Kevitt, his attorney, cautioned him against talking. The elder Landis was reported to have left the bedside of his sick wife in order to help his son arrange a defense. Police said they expected young Landis to plead insanity, as occasions amined him yesterday said he ap- peared sane, Detective George Bradley. Fordyce’s partner in the fatal gun battle, swore to @ murder complaint against Lan- i i bandwagon today as art of the bang. monopolized gathered itch the ty A Ey § Pi rt ig li al talks Esl Fi i é i [ i f : i if dis. Charles Dawes, of Gtand Forks,’ N. D. Landis’ companion, was charged with being an accessory. lied after he and was Bradley had trailed the two youths erate: eh AT i the creek which passes near the school house. Recently she had pun- | Te er eee ee rent |for Sir Hubert Wilkins on his arctic ings. Several children have fallen flights in 1927. In the following year through the ice on the creek since it froze and had been repeatedly warn- ed to keep off, residents of the dis- Joint funeral services for the four | ‘boys will be held at the Bygland Lu- theran church Sunday with Rev. G. Lee officiating. Burial will be made in the Bygland cemeie: SOUND OVER PARLE and American Failure to Approve Ratio Toyko, Nov. 15.—(P)—Although of- {ficial comment was withheld author: | K. C. Nelson, auditor, taken in con- | Mection with those for the previous | stage has been reached in months of the year, and for years! Past indicate that the total losses of ‘the enterprise for 1929 will be by far the lowest in its history. during made a profit of $29,108.14 after de- fons for bond interest and de-|‘be Kitehen. tative quarters today intimated conversations with Great Britain and to the London | Preliminary naval reduction conference in Janu- ary. Premier Hamaguchi, Foreign Min- ister Shidehara, Naval Minister Taka- , and M. Wakatsuki, who will be delegate at London, conferred. ‘was believed their conference Pay i i given to Ja- 10-10-7 eight- Ls il E E ; : cS Sua? Seay at Sa { i | i i £ REPUBLICAN HOUSE LEADER CONFIDENT § ONSPEEDY PASSAGE y Tilson Finds No Objection to Course of Action in Confer- ence With Hoover Carl Ben Eielson Cast As Hero In Rescue Drama of Icy Siberia —¢|North Dakota Polar Flyer Saves] Lives of Six Imprisoned in Ice-Bound Ship Writer Called in | Capital Rum Quiz | ae |IS FOR 1 PER CENT SLASH oj) | BRINGS BACK VALUABLE FUR, |Melton's Plan Simple and Ine volves No Material Change in the Revenue Laws Pilots Ski-Fitted Plane Over 450 Miles of Frigid Wastes to Reach Marooned Washington, Nov. 15.—(4)—Repre- {sentative Tilson of Connecticut, the Republican house leader, ‘after a call at the white house today that the treasury tax reduction pro- New York, Nov. j { posal would be passed by the house | before the Christmas holidays. Tilson said he canvassed the possi- # i ) bility of early passage of a tax bill with the president and was confident no objection would be interposed in the house to this course. The treasury proposal is for a one Per cent reduction in the individual and corporation rates. The house leader said he had held conferences with various groups ir the senate and felt little difficulty would be met there. “The plan of the secretary of trea- sury is simple and involves no mater- | caw Wet Is Washington?” was the SoG ee Dae gece eee title of a azine article write! t ‘1 Ported that with him from the ship; py walter W. ‘Liggett, former ‘North he brought the first of the ice-bound| Dakota newspaper man and author, voyagers and part of the vessel's mil-| and that's just what a District of | Columbia Grand Jury Postpones So Liggett was Still later he advised his superiors} and ts pictured above after he had testifies where he got information | for his survey of the liquor situation jin the capital. He was expected to| accord in sanctioning Secretary Mel- be {1on’s plan of lopping a full 1 per cent. |from all normal schedules of income from flight to, After fur and; for Swenson Fur com- ‘k,” Eielson telegraphed | jyesterday to the Aviation corporation, jParent organization of an aeronautic group of which he is the Alaskan rep- | “Have five more trips | {to make. Leaving tomorrow on scc-/ n bseq sage, he re- ok — a He added a resolution to carry out the reduction would be referred to the ways and means committee as soon as the December session con- | jlton dollar cargo of furs. Agree With Mellon Factional spokesmen of both houses, save only those of the western inde- Pendent Republicans, were in virtual that bad weather necessitated post Ponement of the second flight. Officials of the Aviation corporis tion today said the messages mea that Elelson, probably flying alone in a ski- fitted open biplane, ic- hopped across more than 450 miles of | tims of thin ice that broke beneath | {rigid wastes from Nome to where the {their weight and plunged them into |50-foot Nanuk is held fast by arctic | the cold waters of a creek in Bygland ae off extreme Eastern Siberia. Then, with his passenger and the, furs he flew back on the long, cold | PRE-NUPTIAL DINNER GUESTS ARE ROBBED OF $400,000 IN G Party, Strip 18 Persons of Precious Jewels It is manned by a crew of said Aboard as passengers ; went a Mr. Pollister, fur Seattle man, ; and his daughter. Phat gscare Alterations Proposed jut while there was virtual unison ward of $35,000 if taken alive and | y the Mell posal, it. “The Nanuk was making its way | $70,000, if dead, was offered today for leant cety | catpen ae back to its home port in September seven men, who armed and masked, when an early arctic winter overtook |raided the suburban home of John L.| administration to alter tax rates un- _ Buffalo, N. Y.. Nov. 15.—(Pi—A re- treasury suggestion tha‘ legislation be enacted to permit the {we do not knot Eielson first achieved fame as pilot trict declared. Two other boys were fall Eielson went with Wilkins to An- on the ice at the time the four went |tarctica, where they performed fur- hrough. ther exploits in aerial exploration. MIL AND ELEVATOR SHOW SLIGHT GAN | Was Achieved by October Profit, Audit Shows ‘The most valuable item in the list worth between $250,000 and Mrs. Philip Metz, wife of one of the Ose stalls {business executives of the Buffalo Evening Times and a daughter of | Norman E. Mack, estimated the value of her jewelry taken by the bandits Miss Eleanor Cameron, of Waco, | Texas, who with her fiance, Cou! land Van Clief, was the guest of hon- or at the party. also lost jewels valued Miss Cameron and Van Clief are to be married Nov. 20. When the bandits burst in upon Lone Juror Voting Steas Conviction Keeps the Jury Out for 22 Hours dapan Discouraged Over British | at a high total. Grand Forks, N. D., Nov. 15.—(?)— | Reduction of previous losses con-/the dinner party. the guests at first ‘tinued during October at the state thought it was all a prank by friends | mill and elevator, . but after two of them, a po Elk River, Minn., Nov. 15.—@— | + # SAD a 1, 19, was ac- Figures for the month prepared by woman, had been felled by blows of Alice Hul Minneapolis, ac fists or revolver oo peg! submitted The verdict was returned at 10:1: with Great I elt Rak i eri s i i i iy i : i f 5 vill i ~ REESE $ a iy aT i i i i a 4 t 3 i ! : § — ta: & ° predicted apne GR, emneeeemeserereoe Senate Democrats agreed, too, but. held out the Possibility of demanding |an ever greater reduction than it | advanced by the treasury, condition- jing their full approval upon more definite information as to prospective federal needs and revenues than is | now available. i independents were {noncommittal, although it was ind’- |cated they would raise no serious ob- | jection. Their position has been that {treasury surpluses should be applicd {to a reduction of the national debt, on the theory that this results in de- j creased federal disbursements for in- terest and indirectly permits lowered to the mainland | nuptial dinner party in honor of a| provisions of the present tariff law prominent young couple. failed by far to evoke the same degree Lining the 18 guests and half ajof unstinted commendation. dozen servants against a wall, the! Secretary Mellon's new proposal for robbers stripped them of jewelvy|reduced taxes is intended to came their historic non-stop hop|valued by the guests about $400,000.| temporary effect. It is planned trat Point Barrow. Alaska, across |They also obtained a small amount} the changed rates be embodied in a the polar wastes to Spitzbergen. Last ,of cash and fur wraps from an upper] joint resolution of congress, which floor. could be adopted without the delay that would arise from a general re- | jof stolen jewels is a triple string of | vision of the revenue laws. The reso- | mat Pearls, owned by Mrs. Ray|lution would be applicable only to Van Clief, said by one of the guests|taxes on incomes of the present cal- MINNEAPOLIS GiRL I ACQUITTED OF COUNT ly for be of | quitted of a charge of receiving stolen a August 9. The jury deliberated 22 ‘The guests were seated in the din-| hours. cle ing room when the robbers