The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 14, 1931, Page 1

North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1878 ~ BOND-CAIN MEASURE WOULD SPLIT N. D. IN " Counties and South Area Would Have 28 OPPOSE ELECTION AT LARGE Many Legislators and Observ- ers Believe Bill Makes Agreement Impossible Senators Walter Bond of Minot and J. P. Cain of Dickinson, both I. Vv. A’s,, tossed a reapportionment bill House Committees Appointe NORTH, SOUTH AREAS North District Would Have 25 | Together Again? 4 e Re RRR TE EREMANERE ATIC TT BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1931 GRONVOLD PROPOSES STRENGTHENING GAS TAX REFUNDING LAW Plan Sponsored by Senator Gives Commissioner Su- pervision Duty HOUSE RECEIVES FIVE BILLS into the legislative hopper Tuesday today. McKenzie county on the west. second. second. The northern district would be comprised of the following counties. Grand Forks, Traill, Steele, Nelson, Foster, Eddy, Cavalier, Pierce, McHenry, Sheridan, Ward, Renville, McKenzie, Wil- Pembina, Walsh, Wells, Benson, Towner, Rolette, Ramsey, Bottineau, Burke, Mountrail, liams and Divide. the counties of Cass, Ric McIntosh, man, La Moure, Dickey, Emmons, Logan, Kidder, Burleigh, cer, McLean, Dunn, Stark, Hettinger, + Adams, Bowman, Slope, Billings, Golden Valley. It would be best, (Continued on page six) ~ |. SHERIFE JUSTIFIED IN SHOOTING BOXER Coroner's Group Decides Dickey Official Acted Within Rights "The proposed enactment would di- vide the state by drawing a line from the southern border of Traill county on the east to the southern Feinhgeod 6 north district could be known as the first and the south district as the Bond and Cain contended that the two districts would have almost equal population. There would be 25 coun- ties in the first district and 28 in the ‘The secorid district would comprise ichland, Sar- gent, Ransom, Barnes, Griggs, Stuts- Sioux, Grant, Morton, Oliver, Mer- and most members of the house and senate had thelr heads full of figures Montreal, Jan. 14.—()—Attorneys were wondering today whether Gen- eral Jose Gonzales Escobar, former Mexican rebel leader, and his wife, shown above, were on a second honey- moon or whether there could be some other reason for their disappearance. She came from El Paso to seek an annulment. There was an affection- ate meeting. .Then they vanished. -_ SIMPSON CRITIGIZED: Bond said the bill was introduced = with a view to avoid election of con- gressmen at large during the 1932 poll. He said that as proposed by the measure the districts are 50 consti- tuted as to take advantage of the availability of railroads and highways. Bond said, to elect congressmen by districts so members in the lower branch of con- BY M. W. THATCHER POR LEGGE ATTACK St. Paul Member of Farmers Union Lauds Action of Fed- ‘eral Farm Board Washington, Jan. 14.—(#)—Sharp criticism of John A. Simpson, presi- dent of the National Farmers’ Union, was voiced Tuesday night by M. W. Thatcher, St. Paul, a member of the organisation. Replying to an attack by Sim ' Monday Night ‘on the wheat and cotton activities of the farm board, Thatcher said: Ellendale, N. D., Jan. 14—()—A|_ “The busted farmers need the turned Tuesday b; investigating the dall, of Dickey county. The verdict supports the sheriff's statement that he was forced to shoot Michaelson in self defense. ) Michaelson had been apprehended with four other men in connection with a store robbery at Merricourt ‘Sunday night, and was being brought to Ellendale when he struggled with the sheriff in an attempt to escape. Fred and Henry Brossart, brothers, captured with Michaelson on Brossart farm, are in the county jail here on a charge of grand + David Brossart, another brother, and cohn Ellingson, captured later, are held on a liquor charge. Fifteen gal- lens of illicit liquor was found in the car belonging to Ellingson, officials say. J. A. Michaelson, Roy's father, oe BY rived here from Boyd, +» his e home folate charge of ine bot “| Affectionate Telegrams Hotel, Restaurant Men ~ Elect Grand Forks Man Bacon, Grand ing keep legislat verdict of justifiable homicide was re- @ coroner’s jury leath of Roy Mich- aelson, Minneapolis boxer, who was shot Monday by Sheriff B. W. Cran- Fargo, N. D., Jan. 14—(P)—J. A. Forks, was elected president of the North Dakota Hotel and Restaurant Men’s association at the closing session of its convention x 0 in touch with affairs of the state ture. © helping hand of the United States government and its cheap credit of millions of dollars instead of cheap Yeadership.’ The controversy grew out of an an- nouncement here by Carl A. Ward, of Kansas, that a special committee of the national union had exonerated .| Chairman Legge of the farm board of charges made by Simpson. Simpson had accused Legge of testifying before the senate agricul- tural committee that the farm board had acted to depres: the price of wheat and cotton. Hearing of the ,| Feport, Simpson issued a statement the | at Falls City, Nebraska, saying the committee headed by Ward had not acted for the national organization. ‘Thatcher, 8 member of the com- group “was duly appointed to repre- sent practically all of the large wheat states in the Farmers’ Union.” Meanwhile, Legge remained silent. he afternoon | TAME Delores ae ae , Shoultz Heads Grand |. ie er sire tne yoursatt | No other . Love and Forks Legion Group) No other superior ; Grand Forks, N. D., Jan. Np ‘Williams, state the =s\INTRODUCE 3 BILLS Bond Would Compel Life Insur- ance Companies to Invest 75 per Cent in State Strengthening of the laws govern- ing refunding of gasoline taxes is provided in a measure introduced Tuesday in the North Dakota legis- lature by Senator F. T. Gronvold, Rugby. Under the bill, refunds for motor than in .automobiles operated on highways would be .placed under the ‘supervision of the state tax commis- sioner, who would audit the claims for refunds and certify them to the state auditor. ‘The state auditor would furnish the: tax commissioner with niformation relating to the collection of such tax, and the commissioner would withhold approval of any refund or repayment until the tax is paid by the consumer. The measure was referred to the com- niittee on state affairs. Five bills were introduced in the house Tuesday, all by Nonpartisan members. The honor of introducing the first measure in the lower branch went to Representatives Peter Keier- leber and Christ Sprenger, of Grant’ county. Same as 8 Their bill is identical with one in- troduced by Senator William Martin, Morton county, in the upper house and seeks to repeal the 1929 act which | placed all of North Dakota in the Central Standard time zone. West-' ern North Dakota formerly was in, the Mountain time zone. Other hills .were introduced by Rep- resentatives T. D. Acheson, Bottineau county, Einar Twete, Divide county, and C. O. Svingen, Bottineau county. Acheson's measure provides for changes in the law governing storing, buying and handling of grain and seeds and provides for changes to be made by public warehouses. Grain would be received, insured and stored for the first 30 days free of charge. After 30 days the charge would be one-sixtieth of one cent per net bushel per day, but not to exceed five cents per net bushel for one year. Twete's bill asks that a sheriff or his deputy be allowed 10 cents per mile, instead of 20 cents, “for each mile actually and necessarily” trav- eled in performance of official duty Shek ts Wae Sopa er Proposes ty (Continued on page nine) FOR APPROPRIATIONS Propjosals Embody Recommen- dations of Budget Board for State Institutions mittee, asserted in reply that the|&l gucen Ee vomratita atthe mittee lor rat the deaf and dumb at s lake, the to Clara Bow Bared in Daisy DeBoe Trial 3 i 8 es RFS i First Reapportionment Bill Is Introduced GOVERNOR RITCHIE RAPS PROHIBITION INRADIO ADDRESS First Man Ever Reelected Mary- land Executive Begins His Fourth Term URGES STATE SOVEREIGNTY OEE led SEITE es t 5 r THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE eS if Out-Talked Men ‘Condemns Idea of ‘Forcing Upon All People Social Precepts Brothers in blood but not in spirit, Victor and Leopold McLaglen will fight a bitter legal battle in the Los Angeles courts soon over the latter's $100,000 damage suit against the famous movie Leopold McLaglen, a 225-pound athletic character and prevented him from ‘The brothers are shown here, with Victor at the left. Laglen has defamed hig directing in the movies. star on a charge of slander. Captain instructor, asserts that Victor Mc- and 6 Tariff Commissioners Confirmed by Senators HOOVER'S CAMPAIGN POR 1983 LAUNCHED BY G.0. P. DIRECTOR Appeals to Party Leaders to ‘De- fend President’ Issued by Robert H. Lucas New York, Jan. 14—(P)—A letter from Robert H, Lucas, executive di- rector of the Republican national ‘ecommittee, te Republican. - precinct jeaders of the nation, launching President Hoover's campaign for re- ection in 1932, was published by the New York World Wednesday. In the letter, dated Dec. 24. 1930, Mr, Lucas appeals to party aides to “defend the president” and join the hational committee in conducting “an aggressive, active, determined cam- paign from this day until the polls close in 1932.” Lauds Hoover Regime “President Hoover, experienced in ways of business and expert in han- dling big things, in spite of the world- wide depression and unemployment, has sustained the Ametican scale of wages, maintained the American standard of living, prevented a na- tionwide money panic and kept thou- sands of men and women at work in every community who would other- wise have beer listed among the un- employed. “The past year, however, has dis- closed 8 well-laid plan by the Demo- crats to embarrass the Republican administration and to discredit the president of the United States. And there has been no Jet-up in Raskob's ‘Smear Hoover’ campaign. To win in 1932 the Democrats must destroy the Republican leader. By suitable in- nuendo and insidious propaganda, which is being carried on by Raskob’s organization in every communtiy in the United States, they hope to break down the people's confidence in Her- bert Hoover and thereby elect a Dem- ocrat in 1932. Appeals to Leaders “as precinct leaders you can give great assistance to your party and your administration if you. will keep your precinct organization active throughout the year. Talk to your neighbors. Stand up for your party. Defend the president. party in your precinct.” Accompanying the letter was an en- closure suggesting that precinct lead- ers arrange for meeting on Lincoln's birthday to hear President Hoover's speech over the radio, Minneapolis Firebug Starts Another Blaze Republican Leaders Optimistic Over Chances to Get Ap- proval for Meyer Washington, Jan. 14.—()—Feelli distinctly better about the outlook, the Republican senate leaders sought Wednesday to follow up the confir- mation of the six tariff commissioners with quick disposal of the last impor- tant controverted nomination. They were confident approval would be won for Eugene Meyer, New named by President Hoover as York, chi of the federal reserve board, just as soon as they can obtain consideration. Yet, they must over- come the determined opposition of Brookhart, Republican, lows, and Fletcher, Democrat, Florida, Brossad Vote 45-36 The contests on the tariff men were disposed of in a protracted session Tuesday. The senate voted 45 to 36 to al Edger B. Brossard, Re- publican, Utah, and then without dissent confirmed Lincoln Dixon, Democrat of Indiana. The other four members ran the gauntlet the pre- ceding day. Meyer's nomination was a standing order for consideration Wednesday, but a motion to reconsider the $30,- 000,000 battleship modernization bill had the same status. The latter also bore an agreement for a vote by 4 o'clock Friday. Despite the intensity of opposition Meyer's foes expect to muster, there was no prospect. of a coalition bloc such as fought the Brossard appoint- ment. Support for Meyer has been promised by both Senator Wagner, New York, and Senator Glass, Vir- Calendar Far Off Even at that, the legislative calen- dar containing the steadily growing number of necessary bills awaiting the senate action is pretty far off, and its consideration ran the chance of being still further delayed if Chair- man Jones of the senate conferees on the drought loan appropriation decid- ed to seek disposition of his report of a@ disagreement with the house at Wednesday's session. The roll call on Brossard Tuesday showed ‘eight Democrats lining up with the regular Republicans who had stoutly defended the Utahan against charges of being to close to sugar interests and attacks on his “official integrity.” The 26 opposing Democrats were joined by nine Re- publicans and the Farmer -Labor member. MICHIGAN DRY LAW SKIRMISH IS BEGUN Representative Would Legalize Manufacture and Sale of Beer. and Wines Lansing, Mich, Jan. 14—()—The promised biennial legislative skirmish over prohibition was before the house double-barreled at- of Some’ Annapolis, Md., Jan. 14.—(?)—Tak- ing the oath as governor of Maryland for the fourth consecutive time. Al- bert ©. Ritchie, the first ever to be reelected to that office, Wednesday made an attack on the national pro- hibition and federal centralization and called for a return “to the vir- tues of a larger measure of self-help and localized government.” He declared business must realize the problem of unemployment “is its own and not the state’s,” and that “government itself has helped create the present crisis.” Governor Ritchie, often mentioned as a Democratic presidential possibil- ity, made his address over # national radio hookup in the house of dele- gates after he had been sworn. Predicts New Era “I believe the country is entering @ decade which will see a new eco- nomic and political dispensation in which the ideals and principles in- carnate in our Maryland traditions and institutions will find fulfillment,” said Governor Ritchie. Governor Ritchie rapped the “in- flationary statements and actions which incited, or at least intensified, the crash of 1929,” and said that “before the debris from that could be cleared up, the federal government followed it up with unsupported and misleading statements promising an early, if not immediate, return to prosperity which has not yet mate- rialized.< “There has also been developed the conception that law is no longer @ barrier protecting the rights of the individual but that it is a scheme of social control to regulate human con- duct and relations by forcing upon all the people the social precepts and ideas of some of them. “The high water mark of all this was national prohibition as imposed by the eighteenth amendment, and no maver what the findings of the Wickersham committee may be, they cannot end, nor can they minimize the injury to the cause of reasonable temperance, the unhappy temptations to the youth of the land and the (Continued on page nine) HOUSE COMMITTEE OKAYS NAVAL BIL Measure Would Provide $74,- 030,000 for Proposed Nacy Construction We » Jan. 14—(P)—A $74,- 030,000 naval construction bill was, approved Wednesday by the house naval committee. Approval was not accorded, how- ever, to Secretary Adams’ recommen- dation for authorization of $16,605,000 for a six-inch gun cruiser, of the type over which there has been consider- able dispute. Chairman Britten said it was not included because the committee was disinclined to use up cruiser allowed under the London treaty) without first determining whether a) new “flying deck” cruiser would prove satisfactory. The bill authorizes expenditure of $27,650.000 on a 13,800-ton airplane: carrier, $20,780, cruiser with a comple planes, $17,600,000 for four submar- ines, $5,000,000 for 130 airplanes and $3,000,000 for experimentation with Diesel engines. QUADRUPLETS ARE BORN- Aberdeen, 8. D., Jan. 14—(P)— Quadruplets were born to Mrs. F. A. Scheuse, farmer's wife of Aberdeen, in a hospital here. There were two boys and two girls. New York, Jan. 14—(%)—The dressed ie Oe ree OE en's. wear, Almost dress. Pajamas May Become Style for American Women at All Hours} 2>.cicrs A woman can out - talk a man—and attractive Clara Critchfield, above, is ving proof of it! She is the first girl who ever has won the annual orator- ical contest for freshman students at George Washington university, Wash- ington. Her home is in the capital, too, where oratory abounds. DEATH OF INDIANIN SIOUX COUNTY BEING PROBED BY OFFICIALS Thomas Iron Shield Struck by Auto and Left to Die, Cor- oner’s Jury Says Fort Yates, N. D., Jan. 14—(P)— Sioux county authorities Wednesday were investigating death of Thomas Iron Shield, an Indian, who was found dead on a highway near’ Breien. John Murphy, Breien, was arrested: and charged with selling intoxicating liquor to Indians following the in- stitution of the investigation. Sioux county authorities began their probe into the death when a coroner's jury held Iron Shield came to his death from injuries suffered when he was struck by an automobile and allowed to remain on the road. The jury also held that the Indian had been intoxicated at the time and was struck while walking along the road, Exposure to the cold also was held to have contributed to his death. , _E. D. Mossman, Indian agent here, together with a federal agent, raided Murphy's home following Iron Shield’s death. Mossman said other arrests may follow. The driver of the automobile by which the Indian was struck has not been apprehended. Breien is in) Morton county, near the Sioux coun- ty line. The body was found, how- ever, in Sioux county and authorities of that county undertook the in- vestigation. HOPE FOR FLYERS NEARLY ABANDONED Near Island Unfounded, In- vestigation Shows Horta, Island of Fayal, Azores, Jan. 14—(?)—A British cruiser engaged in gunnery. practice off Sao Miguel Island, Azores, Sunday night, unwit- tingly gave rise to a false hope of clue to disappearance of the airplane Tradewind on its flight from Hamil- ton, Bermuda, Saturday. ‘The cruiser sent up several rdckets. One of these which disappeared into the ocean about 20 miles off Mos- teiros Point, Sao Miguel, was mistak- en by some for the Tradewind falling into the sea, and a radio station there is said to have broadcast an appeal to ae to keep a lookout in the vicin- Meanwhile the steamer Nuolja and others are continuing the search for the Tradewind ‘and its two occupants, Mrs. Beryl Hart and Lieut. Belief That Tradewind Landed zB PRICE FIVE CENTS LV.A.MEN GIVEN CHARMANSHPSOR IMPORTANT GROUPS Bodies Are Selected by Speaker Freeman MINOT MAN GETS BIG POST, Halvorson Heads Committee Which Will Consider Redis« tricting Legislation Dominated by L. V. A. members, 34 standing and eight joint committees were named in the North Dakota house today by Speaker C. Vernon Freeman, Grand Forks. Appointment of committees in the house completes organization of the legislature. Senate committees were named Monday. I. V. A. men hold all committee chairmanships in the house, and control most of the com- mittees. Representative D. L. Peters, Pi county, retains the chairmanship of the important appropriations com- mittee, while L. L. Twichell, Fargo, continues as head of the committee on state affairs. H. L. Halvorson, Ward, was named of the apportionment com- mittee, composed of 49 members, one from each legislative district. Repre« sentative H. M. Pfenning, Morton, was chairman of the apportionment, group two years ago. With redistricting of the state's Congressional and legislative districts looming as a major issue, the appor- tionment committee is regarded as among the important ered this session. presentative M. H. Lynch, Lidg- erwood, heads the committee on high- sige joa ke which will consid- inding proposals the state highway conatructisa ‘pron Pro- ago was held by Joseph MoGeurean eld by McGauvran, Cavalier county, who mem- ber this year. edisa pr encamped follow: ure—Gibbens, Montgomery, Shurr, Holthusen, Keierleber, Olson of Burleigh, Kapfer, Boe, Crowley, Holte of (Cass, Acheson, Mostad, of Kidder, McOcil, Lamb, Van Berkom, Hamilton. ‘ Apportionment—Halvorson, Olaf- son, Stoa, Boe, Johnston, Steedsman, Veitch, Johnson, Freeman, Twichell, Holte of Cass, Smith, Worner, Lavik, Mau, Northridge, Carlson, Hamilton, McDowell, Anfinson, Craig, Traynor, Gibbens, Rulon, Opdahl, Frojen, Erickson of Kidder, Cox, Svingen, Pfenning, Bishop, Treffry, Montgome- ery, Niewoehner, Kapfer, Timm, Lynch, Hanson, Wilson, Twete, Sax, Peters, Sundby of Renville, Butt, Hendrickson, Scholl, Kelerleber, Crowley, Wigen. Appropriations— Pet Rulo utt, ison, Anderson, Veit dahl, Thompson, Henrickson of ie Banking—Fulon, Wigen, ‘Gibbens, Sai i ie egg og 3 Worner, Dahl, Lunde. Delayed bills—Holte of Dickey, Herman, Bishop, Indergaard, John- son. Drainage and irrigation—North- (Continued on page nine) Offering Booklet on Famous Love Affairs 8. MacLaren, but with almost no hope | fluence of finding them.