The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 18, 1930, Page 1

I «we. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ESTABLISHED 1873 Americans Confer With Br King Winter Freezes Smiles of Sunny South BUZZARD’ LASTS. (= ers en, | FARMERS ATION, "ice a] POLE SOUTH, NORTH |"sssrcxcese-seran| GRAIN CORPORATION * ANDINMIDDLE WEST} =: Intensifies Suffering in Indiana and Mississippi Valley Flood Areas From $1.18 to $1.20 to PLANNING CORN PURCHASES NORTHWEST IS FORGOTTEN Temperature Records of Dec- ades Tumble; Death Claims { Federal Farm Board, Kel- } Lives of 14 Persons (By The Associated Press) * loge Explains MINNEAPOLIS POLICE Chicago, Jan. 18—(4)—The Farm- er's National Grain corporation today increased its bid for wheat in the QUESTION MAN HELD DEEL HEA ore It was learned, also, the corporation has been buying corn at Kansas City rs for some time. General Manager Kellogg said the organization planned to buy in the northwest corn markets within the Grill Two Youths and Woman| Sis’ No’ siauiced con te tele pee Companions Concerning Fa- {chased at 13 cents and under Kan- King winter today ruled the north, middlewestern and sevéral of the southewstern states and had made his influence felt throughout the tal Shooting in Home cents under Kansas City May. and Des Moines, Iowa, which record- . ed 26 below. In Chicago, the temper- | detention if two suspects, Captain of | higher. ature was 15 below and still lower in ‘Use Board Values A blizzard slowly making its exit apolis, St, Louis, Omaha, and Chicago wheat marts, the co-op planned to take similar action regarding corn, acgording to Mr. Kellogg. Using the loan values fixed by the ptain federal farm board, the grain corpor- indicated this man and his compan-| tion yesterday entered the foregoing available on the amount of purchases. Loan prices established and uséd asa basis of trading in the cash markets are: No. 1 durum at Duluth, $1.12; ‘No. 1 northern at Minneapolis, $1.25; and No. 1 hard winter at Oma- generally was two cents lower. ite Other Mart Prices Other markets and prices ioe winter, $1.18; at Chicago: 10 below today as against $1.25 at St. Louis; hard winter, $1.25 Friday night. Hibbing, which had 34 7 at ; and hard winter, | >. while Grand Forks, reporting 8 below, Cooperative grain marketing or- "Hiasted to numbness, the central 100,000 BUSHELS OF CORN BOUGHT IN KANSAS CITY Kansas City, Jan. 18—(4)—More than 100,000 bushels of corn has been purchased here for the Farmers’ Na- tional Grain coeporation, by the Equity Union Grain company, which is storing the ain in local houses. Norris Believes Procedure Would | ,.7ne, company has arranged for stor- as age space ,000 bushels in Kan: sas Speed Up Work of Fed- City. The basis of purchases has been 1: a gh er apis oor gee ity May option quotation. All purchases arc hedged in the futures market. Notification has been received from Farmers’ Union Jobbing association where necessity requires, is!to place bids here, for country run by Chairman Norris of the| No. 1 hard wheat at $125 a bushel, and No. 2 hard wheat at $1.13 a Kansas Girl Scores | In Revival of Opera | years Chicago last night heard again ‘ Ludwig Van Beethoven's only opera, “Fidelio,” with a voice from Wichi- | ta, Kan., contributing to the per- formance’s success. Critics of this morning’s papers had good things to say about Miss Kath- Jeen of the role of to have F 3 ui ta! records decades fell. in a states and Approximately 50 be- were leved marooned snow drifts dumped over the north by the most ti if aga Ht at | 1 ies ig fr ef F Hl Late News Bulletins TO SPEED ‘DRY’ LAWS Los Angeles, Jan. 18.—()—Having it seems, isn't the wizard he was re- won'a divorce by testifying {did not care to compete against the four well known pasteboard ns for the affection of her husband, actress Clarke, former stage ' a tuber of isdan's divatte coma, a& memt ’s divorce colony. Increases Chicago Market Offer | * Sasseccrsamcont’s divorce colony. vaudeville actor and brother of Fannie Brice. Miss Clarke testified her husbad apparently be- Stimulate Price came infatuated with cards and often remained away from home all night. “After he started gambling he told me that any queen in the deck was better than I,” she testified. Using Loan Values’ Fixed by NORTHWEST FUTURE BUSINESS AND FARM OPTIMISM IS VOICED fication as Basis for Bright Outlook Lew_ Brice, Reratific crease in the tariff on the cheap- er class of wool felt hat bodies, but refused an additional duty of 25 cents apicce on blocked hat bodies and finished hats, Washington, Jan. 18.—(#)—Arguing that the eighteenth amendment had by its own terms become invalid, Representative Laquardia, Republi- can, New York, today raised a point of order against appropriations for ; Prohibition enforcement included in the pending treasury-post office sup- ply bill. The New Yorker contended the amendment had never been properly ratified, basing this assertion upon the third section of the amendment which says the amendment “shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the con- stitution by the legislatures of the several states, as provided in the con- stitution, within seven years from the date of the submission thereof to the states by the congress.” This section, he said, came into force when the amendment as a whole was first ratified by 36 states. Coming into force at rie veh erhls j terpreted it as stipulating then that it must again be ratified by 36 states or at the expiration of the seven-year period the entire amendment became inoperative. Ten states, he said, had gone through what he saw as the necessary procedure of a second rati- fication. SHIRES MUST QUIT Shires, Peck’s'bad boy of baseball and his own big boy of boxing, appeared before M. that he elther must quit boxing or forsake the national Shires emerged with the lacon! comment that “It looks like I'll have to quit the ring.” as Minneapolis, Jan. 18—(7)—A mes- sas City May and No. 2 mixed at 101% | sage of hope and optimism, as to bus- iness and agricultural prospects in bueectneiee, CN sony in fed the northwest, during 1930 and other icago mi " loge 2 “We | years just ahead, was voiced by Ralph Minneapolis, Jan. 18.—(#)—Witn | merely decided the price should be | Budd, president of the Great North- ern railway, in an address at the an- Pre dinner mes oe Minnesota Editor- ¥ association last night. the surrounding suburbs. Having already entered the Minne: ‘Mr, Budd emphasized the results of the northwest’s swing of recent years toward profitable farm diversifica- in minimizing the caused by the excessive dry weather of 1929. He pointed out that North Dakota last year hiegashe tins of 000, value ton went to the Getchell home to| Markets although no figures were | 808 Soommated with loss eaittney the loss was offset to well over half its extent by an increase in the mar- keting of dairy foods and other prod- ucts of diversification, In OKAY POISON ALCOHOL Washington, Jan. 18.—(?)—The house today rejected, 107 to 27, an amendment to the office supply bill to Placing of rea in al by government make it unfit for beverage pur- PASS DRY FUND three or brush it aside as meaning- less,” Laguardia said "we cannot ac- cept the theory which some will urge, that it had reference to the ratifica- tion. postoftice ment supply bill for the SPEARS TO OREGON ie force or effect.” ha, $1.15. The price-on No. 2 grades | said, with the same rules of construc- tion applicable to other sections of the amendment. The mere fact, he | continued, that the section described {the method of “re-ratification to be ee of newspaper t People in tl story of Minnesota ee eae, according to Lawrence A. itor of the Grand Rapids view and president of the associ- ation, who presided as the toast- master. More than 600 were present. Speakers at the dinner, in addition 1 to Mr. Budd, were Governor Christianson Steiner of Grinnell colicge, Grinnell, Towa. Special guests who were intro- iced to the editors were W. B. are: White amber, $1.25 st Seattle; hard | Sreatest stitution limiting the life of the eighteenth amendment unless certain contingencies in the future shall have taken place.” BRIAND IN LONDON Minister Briand of France and a Nority of the French {ginal amendment, now section three, | Was offered in the senate by the late Senator Harding of Ohio, providing a date before which the amendment ago, and Norman B. Black of Fargo, roust be ratified. N. D., publisher of the Fargo Forum. FAMILIES MAROONED | BY INDIANA FL000S Vincennes, Ind., Jan. 18.—(#)—Zero : weather carried on the wings of a sharp north wind, brought added misery to marooned families in the flooded district of the Wabash and Wine "Wabash haa dropped four The Wal inches here this morning, the reading 249. The threat of danger here appeared over, but blocks 1 of ice were appearing in the channel, and may cause damage ta bridge The crumbling of 100 feet of levee on White river five miles south of afternoon esterday Poured a torrent of flood water over | +. Chicago, Jan. 18—(P)—After 35 | 20,000 acres of farm land in, south- ‘The road of water passing through the broken dike could be heard for from North Cape, Siberia, Writes ‘Goodbye’ Note, Then Committs Suicide Winnipeg, Jan, 18.—()—Writing a note of farewell in a shaky scrawl, M. E. Stevens, 60, committed suicide last night in a hotel by drinking poison. Stevens, who registered at the ho- fe Is Filed Against Trio Phoenix, Ariz, Jan. 18.—()—With, their preliminary hearing | uary 20, Irene Schroeder W. Va., Walter Glenn Dague and Ver- , also known as Joe were held in default Los Angeles, Jan. 18.—?)—With| Psittacosis, dread parrot responsible for one death BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1930 DRY AMENDMENT TERM MAKES ACT INVALID, SAYS LA GUARDIA New Yorker Contends Provision Never Properly Ratified by States Seven Years, by Third Section ‘Joker’ ‘ Mertes ion Required Within |ducks came from a near-by slough ee at. he said, it is only fair that it should pay for the grain they consume. Their greed made the difference be- tween profit and loss on his farm, he said, and he served notice that if the state doesn’t do something about it he will constitute himself a menace to the ducks in whatever manner is open to him next spring. HAZELTON TEACHERS ‘Can't Crush It Aside’ Asserting “we cannot ignore section of the amendment and has now ‘The section must -be coristrued, he Laguardia described how the ori- Doubt At Time of Vote “There was great doubt,” the New| ffer to become McKenzie county Yorker said, “in the senate as well as | *8ticultural agent, with headquarters . | at Watford City. in the house as to the force and ef: Deaths has already the article must again be rati- means fied as therein provided in the period therein provided, or else become in-} leaves a widow and a two-year-old operative as therein provided.” financial : Army and Navy Pilots the hotel who knew him alghty.” - Dread Parrot Fever Graham, ‘a Is Blamed for Death |io_<2 rein covered castern Nevade since Jan. 10, today became the ob- ject of a search intensified by par- Hunt Air Mail Flyer Vegas, Nev, Jan. 18—(@)— veteran western the besides ! meaning | Superintendent Dietrich and Princi- £3 such should the amendment be rat- | Pa! Hendrickson, are Margaret Olsen, ified. Congress voted for it with its 'eyes open. The amendment was sub- mitted to the states under the pro- visions of the constitution as it then existed. If this particular amend- ment had not been ratified within seven years there was nothing to pre- vent the states from ratifying it lat- r. “So that, to say it is applicable only to the date or time of original sub- mission, has no force, for the states were not bound to any such limita- tion until section 3 became a part of | Arthur Link, 26, was crushed to death the constitution itself. That being 80, it cannot be said then it is appli- | overturned, catching him between the cable to something that happened. Section three necessarily = === Chicago Bonds and Tax Warrants Are : B i ph i ‘BTEBs o Farmer Asks State | To Pay Duck Raids | Mike Mertes, who has. lived in the Bowhbells territory for 31 years, wants | the state to do something about the ‘MUST BE APPROVED AGAIN’ |zu" @ucks which ate his grain last In a letter to Governor F. Shafer, complained that hundreds of Since the state protects the ducks, RESIGN APTER TPS WITH SCHOOL BOARD Superintendent and Principal Included in Group Mak- ing Ultimatum (Tribune Special Service) Hazelton, N. Dak., Jan. 18.—Declar- ing they cannot agree with certain Policies of the local school board, nine of the 10 teachers in Mazelton’s pub- lle schools, including the superintend- ent and high school principal, have Emil Dietrich, superintendent, re- fused to discuss the objectionable Policies this morning, while Mrs. Joe Chalfin, president of the school board, declared that the resignations came 88 asgurprise and that she had heard nothing of any objectionable policies. Only one, Earl Hendrickson, prin- cipal of the high school and Smith- Hughes instructor, has left already however, the other eight having agreed to remain until the end of the Present school year. Rudina Appert is the only teacher of the present staff who did not resign. The community has become excited over the situation and guesses peing Made in gossip as to the probable causes of the friction are many. All but Mr. Henderson resigned in a group at the regular meeting of the school board last Tuesday evening, according to Mrs. Chalfin, and stated merely “that they did not care to re- turn to Hazelton next year.” Mr. Hendrickson resigned who resigned, The Weather Mgunday Colder Sunday. PRICE FIVE CENTS itish: STIMSON PREPARES TO END SUSPICIONS OF FRANCE, ITALY Will Repudiate Rumor U. S. and Britain Have Perfected Entente Cordial HAVE AN IDEAL IN COMMON Will Not Make Initial Effort to Pacify Troubles Between Two Nations London, May 18—(®)—The full American delegation to the naval dis- armament conference headed by Sec- retary of State Stimson was received by Prime Minister MacDonald at No. 10 Downing street during the noon hour today. Charles G. Dawes, American am- bassador to Great Britain, who is a delegate himself, accompanied the party to the premier’s official resi- dence for their formal visit. Secre- tary Stimson had a three-hour talk with the prime minister 5 The meeting developed into some- thing more than a formal call as it lasted for an hour and a quarter dur- ing which the entire American dele- gation for the first time conferred - with the entire. British delegation Arthur Henderson, British secretary of state, and A. V. Alexander, first lord of the admiralty, both members of the British naval delegation, re- mained through only part of the meeting. Meanwhile the preparations of the other delegations, both through dis- cussions among themselves and con- versations with other delegates moved with a rapidity which filled the en- tire day. Expect Immediate Call The pressure of duties in the final Tush of preparations became so heavy that most of the officials concerned cancelled the week-end plans previous- ly prepared in order to hold them- selves in readiness for immediate call. Prime Minister MacDonald himself even abandoned the plan to spend Sunday resting at Chequers in antiei- pation of the double burden of the naval conference and parliament both opening the same day. The head- quarters of the various delegations a; well as No. 10 Downing street showed constant activity all morning as the (Continued on page Eleven) RAYMOND DAVIDSON GETS URE SENTENGE Valley City, N. D., Jan. 18—(7— Raymond Davidson, 20-year-old farm- er youth who was found guilty of the first-degree murder of Stephen Esther Eirart, Jeannette MoGee, Mil- | tiary. dred Hage, June Barckley, George Puschinsky, and Anne Moe. Members of the school board are Mrs. Chalfin, E. F. Weiser, Peter eee Bred Schirmeister, and Frank word. Farmer Killed When Coal Load Overturns Devils Lake, N. D., Jan. 18.—(P)— last night when a sled full of coal sled and a high snow bank. The ac- cident occurred as he and Joseph Minette were returning from this city to their homes near Webster. He daughter. Chain Stores Theme Of Sermon by Vater “Dividing the Inheritance” is the title of a sermon Rev. Walter E. lying on a drafty floor. Johnson is being held pending further im i State's Attorney Romanus J. Downey said. John L. Larson Is Reelected Head of State Contractors Fargo | meeting, Jan. 16 and 17. peton, of the executive © was selected for the 1931 * salaries unpaid list, includes 6,1'