The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 28, 1931, Page 1

LEAGUE MEMBERS Oldest Newspaper THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Weather. iy ary ae ESTABLISHED 1878 BELIEVE CAPITOL RIGHTLY LOCATED) t= Uader ire) Deny Report That Nonpartisans: Will Attempt to Make Polit- ical Football of Bill BLAME TWICHELL FOR DELAY Is Under Fire Say They Assume. 1. V. A. Proe gram Is Covered by Sugges- tions in Shafer Message Nonpartisan members of the North Dakota house and senate are over- whelmingly in favor of keeping the state capital at Bismarck and expect to vote in accordance with that prin- ciple, representative members of the Nonpartisan organization announced following an informal meeting today. Walter A. Jessup, above, president The matter was discussed because of the fact that it had been reported in some quarters thet there was a prospect the League would use the bill to construct a new capitol as a Political football League leaders did not deny that! the possibility had been discussed and admitted that the opportunity exists, but said there is no present a ‘ Ad throw ‘the tira ua chaos by eml bill in. difficulties. Aarpinreday “We assume that the I. V. A. pro- gram for this legislature was laid: down by the governor in his message,” said one responsible League leader. “We also feel we have a right to as- sume that party lines will not be drawn on matters which were not of sufficient importance to warrant the governor in discussing them. While the message was directed primarily to the legislature, we feel that it also ‘was intended to be read by the peo- Ple of the state. That is the reason numerous copies were printed for dis- ‘tribution. Estimate I. V. A. Program “We feel we have rm Sao to an- ticipate that the I. V. A. vole. gy an judgment and wach voting gn any measures may ted and will regard them in ther light of the best interests af the People of the state. “The delay which already hee = curred with re; to the bill for a new capitol building is not (Continued on page nine) SEVEN ARE KILLED IN FLAMING HOME} Father and Six Children Vic- tims; Mother, Son and In- fant Escape Williamsport, Pa. Jan. 28.—(P)— Clyde Smith, 53, and six children ranging in age from four to 17 years, ‘were burned to death when fire de- stroyed their home at Powys, near here early Wednesday. The mother escaped, badly burned, with a two-months-old infant. A son, nine, also made his way to safety. The fire was discovered by a rail- road engineer when his train passed the house. He blew the engine whistle in an effort to arouse the Just as help reached the burning pi house, Mrs. Smith, with the infant in her arms, stumbled from the front door, The son, Howard, aged nine, was with her. The mother’s night Masons of North Dakota Elect at Fargo of Iowa university for the last 14 years, is the object of an attack by Governor Dan Turner, who has asked investigate charge that Jessup is responsible for Iowa’s ouster from the Western conference, for many noted faculty members leaving and for the waiving of $26,762 in interest due the university from the Rockefeller Foundation, ASK LEGISLATURE TO SUPPORT QUICK VETERAN PAYMENT Legion Will: Request North Da- kota Solons to Memori- . alize Congress Fargo, N. D., Jan. 22—(P}—With Payment of adjusted service certifi- cries $b Wu coe bene inthe North Dakota 1 merioralize in, state Legion commander at Bis- marck, “The huge majority piled up in the recent vote on the matter shows icemen are badly in need of imme- diate assistance and that if they realize payment it will allow them to Sel their Giaesf crreey and in that way jo considerable toward eliminating the present business conditions,” Wil- Hams said. Payment would bring approximate- ly Receniandl to North Dakota. the memorial to congerss, which 1 ‘Williams believes will pass the North Dakota legislature without dif- ficulty, sentiment of the state serv- icemen will be carried to Washington Mr. Williams, T. O. Kraabel, state veterans’ commissioner, and C. T. Hoverson, regional manager. of the Veterans’ bureau in Fatgo, will leave for Washington Thursday to attend @ meeting of the national rehabilita- tion committee. They will confer with North Dakota's legislators there and. members of the national veter- ‘ans’ bureau. Delegates also will work for the ‘and 30 more veterans in need of hos- 11 Boys Escape from Reformatory i inN.J. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1931 Bismarck Plans Active Fight WORLD EQUILIBRIUM, “TS MELLON'S CLAIM Says Redemption of Soldiers’ Bonus Would Upset Finan- cial Structure TELLS OF TREASURY DEFICIT Could Not Sell $3,400,000,000 of Bonds Except on ‘Un- justifiable Terms’ of God’ to pai neath Spice iy, Spears Father | —— + economic struct | “equivalent to a capital levy on the holders of- all United States govern- ment. securities.” Destruction of el values. run- nie into hundreds of millions of oenth of the bond market for any other kinds of securities. Destruction of the market for for- eign securities, which, he said, “not only would interfere with the mar- keting of our surplus products—but would also greatly disturb world trade and world equilibrium.” Everwually 4 ‘@ deeper depression than the one from which the world is suffering today. LA FOLLETTE NOW RAILROADS’ ALLY Business Depression Brings About One of Strangest Political Paradoxes Madison, Wis. Jan. 28—(7)—The business depression has »| Accused of stabbing ‘his father with @ fish spear when the latter at- tacked him in a quarrel at their | WI Mount Clemens, Mich., home, Gus- tave Tilchl, 19, shown above with the weapon, was held by police. The father was not expected to lve. CHAIRMAN DECLARES RED CROSS WILL NOT ACCEPT $25,000,000 =: ‘sane? 1%. ~ Robinson Answers That ‘Answers That Govern- | orc ment Will Set Up Its Own Relief Organization Washington, .Jan. 28.—(#)—Re- sponding to a statement by Chair- man Payne of the Red Cross that his organization will not accept govern- ment. relief funds, Democratic lead- e- Robinson said in the senate Wed- nesday congress will set up its own aed for distribution of relief fund, The statement by Judge Payne was in testimony before the house ap- Propriations committee hearing on the senate's $25,000,000 appropriation. for the Red Cross. The chairman re- vealed the central committee of the telief organization had voted unani- mously against acceptance. “If the Réd Cross refuses to mea- sure up to the proper standard in vhis emergency and refuses to re- spond to the ordinary impulses that move human hearts,” Robinson said, “congress will find its own agencies for distribution of such funds as it feels should be used in the emer- gency.” and the Red Cross “implies that there shall be no general measure of relief for unemployment no matter how long it lasts or how great it becomes.” even an “ordinary” regard for the suffering to “repudiate the policy large | which implies a refusal on the part of those responsible to the people as a whole to take any action whatever to relieve the distress.” ‘Wisconsin, (ease ee EE ‘in| Wing Man to Answer to Walter Chrysler Takes $12,000,000 | Insurance Minnesota Charges ‘Waino Hietanen, Wing, arrested by officers of the Burleigh county sher- . | iff’s office at the request of Wadena, Minn., officials, was. placed in the custody of an officer from the Minne- sota city Monday and was taken to Wadena to answer a euheel? charge. Hietanen signified his . willingness to te segocephny the officer and waived New York, Jan. 28—(#)}—The He said the action of the president | He called on all.senators who have | day Vis sit Friend To Consult With Pandi With Pandit Motilal Nehru Regarding Great Britain’s Offer EXPECT FRENZIED WELCOME One Woman Trampled to Death and 31 Injured When Ma- hatma Reached Bombay Bombay, Jan. 28.—(?)—Leaving be- hind him a message to India’s na- tionalist millions that their fight for independence must go on, Mahatma Gandhi Wednesday speeded by train toward Allahabad, central ‘Indian city, where are gathered most of the nationalist working committee. At Allahabad, India’s “City of God,” located on the sacred Ganges, he will visit the bedside of his dearest friend, the aged Pandit Motilal Neh- ru, father of Jawaharlal Nehru, president of the all India national congress, and discuss with him Bri- tain’s offer of an eventual qualified dominion status for India. He faces in Allahabad, when he ar- rives there Wednesday, a welcome probably as enthusiastic and frenzied as that which tens and hundreds of thousands gave him here Tuesday upon his arrival from eight months in Yeroda prison. In the crush sh centered about his frail 96- ind body one woman was trampled to death and 31 persons were sent to hosptals. “We can suspend judgment on Prime Minister MacDonald’s state- ment to the round table conference at London,” he declared just before from Bombay, “but we cannot suspend the activities of the all-India national congress (the organization which has sponsored the nationalist Civil disobedience movement. “Even if after our conference with the delegates coming home from the round table conference it is found the prime minister's statement af- sufficient - | for--the-con- ground. gress to suspend its non-cooperation movement, the party cannot abandon its right to picket lquor shops and drug shops and those selling foreign | y, cloth, nor can the right of India’s starving millions to make their own salt be given up. “The execution of these three fun- damental rights is not intended to register the resistance of the Indian nation to British rule. It is intended to achieve these ends for all time, re- gardless of the outcome of the forth- coming peace conversations.” But even after the government has accepted this program the end of civil disobedience and non-cooperation de- pends, Gandhi added, upon settle- ment of India’s other grievances, OLSON OBJECTS TO CHRISTIANSON MEN Minnesota Governor Hopes Sen- ate Will Hold Up Nomina- tion Confirmations Weakness of Lightning Comcored To Man-Made Electricity Shown NATURAL GAS FIRM TO GET FRANCHISE FROM COMMISSION City Votes 3,142 to 3,140 to Give Natural Gas Com- pany a Franchise | VOTE RECORD ESTABLISHED City Commission Probably Will Meet Next Tuesday to Approve Figures Minot, N. D., Jan. 28—(7)—By a’ margin of two votes, Minot citizens at @ special election Tuesday favored granting of a franchise to the Mon- tana-Dakota Power company to dis- tribute natural gas here. The vote was 3,142 for and 3,140 against. The total vote set a new high mark for elections here, exceed- ing the June, 1930, primary by 1,089. ‘The city commission probably will meet Feb. 2 to approve the figures. Because of the closeness of the vote, figures on the poll books were checked twice. ‘While no announcement has been made by interests opposing the granting of the natural gas franchise, indications are the election’s outcome will be contested when the city com- mission canvasses the vote, probably next Tuesday. From the time the polls opened at 9 a. m. until they closed at 7 p. m. there was a steady stream of voters. Fleets of cars representing the’ op- posing interests added to the number of voters by circulating through the residential districts urging citizens to go to the polls. The special election was the out- growth of the refusal by the city commission, divided three to two, to grant a franchise to the Montana- Dakota Power company. The com- mission voted to postpone action un- til next May 31. “Boon after the postponement was ordered, petitions were circulated to which sufficient signatures were ob- tained to require calling an election to the question of the passage of the franchise. ALFALFA SEED IS STOLEN IN CITY 1,100 Pounds in 50- and 25- Pound Sacks Taken From O. H. Will Warehouse Eleven hundred pounds of alfalfa seed was stolen Tuesday night from the warehouse of the Oscar H. Will ‘company on south Seventh St, after thieves had gained entrance to the building by forcing a padlock on the front door. Sheriff J. L. Kelley, who is con- ducting the investigation, said Wed- nesday that the marauders evidently had used a light truck to remove the seed, as officers had discovered their tracks, it is assumed that the truck was & light one. Telegrams have been dispatched to out for the stolen seed. 2-Vote Margin Decides Minot Election PLAN WOULD AFFECT |Gandhi Leaves for ‘City $$ —__________—— ig Expensive Princess | A new automobile, a large silk flag and 48 ponies were the price paid for Lorene Wood, above, 16-year-old Osage Indian princess who became the bride of Elmer Pryor, 15-year- old son of Chief Fred Lookout of the Osage tribe at Pawhuska, Okla., re- cently. Bride and bridegroom are full-blooded Osages, and their wed- ding was the first in three years at which the complete Osage ritual was Entertainment of the 1000 guests cost $10,000. VENGEANCE THREAT SAID MADE BY MAN Captain's Brother Charged With Threatening Life of Coast Guard Captain New York, Jan. 28.—(P)—A board of inquiry investigating the shelling of the Canadian rum-runner Josephine K by the coast guard Saturday night was informed Wednesday that one member of the crew threatened ven- geance for the killing the master, Captain William P. Cluett, who was slain by a coast guard shell. The threat, the board was told, came from Alfred Cluett, cook aboard the Josephine K and brother of the captain. Benett Walker, cook of the coast guard cutter 161, which arrived at the scene of the shelling in the wake of cutter 145, the boat which made the capture, told the board the threat wag made while Captain Cluett was being taken to a hospital on Staten Island. “If our captain dies, your skipper will die too,” Walker quoted the brother of the mortally-wounded captain. Walker was the first coast guards- man aboard the Josephine K. He was equipped with a revolver, he said, and so far as he could tell there were no firearms aboard the rum-runner. He added to evidence introduced at Tuesday's session seeking to establish that Karl Schmidt, boatswain in com- mand of cutter 145 and the man who fired the shot that killed Captain Cluett, was sober. Coast guard records Produced as evidence showed the Josephine K had been inder suspicion as a rum-runner since 1928. She was trailed by pa- trols 20 times and twice, the records said, was seen by guardsmen in the act of transferring liquor. Both times she got away. Minneapolitan Named Comptroller by Olson St. Paul, Jan. 28—(?)—Edward J. Pearlove, Minneapolis, federal inter- nal revenue agent, was appo! state comptroller by Gov. Floyd B. Olson Wednesday. Pearlove succeeds Henry Rines, whose term expires Saturday. Two Capitals Await Butler - Explanation Washington, Tan. 28.—(7)}—-Two capitals Wednesday awaited for‘a fighter and orator, Major General Smedley D. Butler, of the marines, to explain his recent speech in Phil- adelphia. ‘Washington wanted it to give the explanation to Rome and if remarks attributed to the marine officer are FROM JOSEPHINE K inted | . PRICE FIVE CENTS CITY COMMITTEE _ ARRANGES DRIVE TO KEEP CAPITAL Full and Complete Data Bearing on Situation Promised for Near Future a LEGISLATURE IS FAVORABLE Canvass of Lawmakers Show Friends of Bismarck in Overs whelming Majority Announcement that representativd citizens of Bismarck have decided to Jaunch an active campaign to inform the people of the state of all the facts relating to the effort to remove the capital to Jamestown was made Tues< day by F. L. Conklin, chairman of @ Bismarck citizens committee. Mr. Conklin’s statement follows: “The citizens of Bismarck have carefully refrained from launching an active fight against the Jamestown Proposal to move the capital to that city. We have done so in the hope that the attitude of the citizens in alt Parts of the state would, in itself, be enough to discourage this movement. We know this attitudé to be definite- ly in favor of retaining the capital here. Expressions from individuals in all parts of the state indicate that the sentiment is overwhelming. “We have canvassed the legislature and find that members of the North Dakota house and senate, irrespective of poiltical affiliations, feel that the capital should remain here. This is their personal feeling and, barring Political complications, it will remain Editors Are Legion “The sentiment of the oo of the state has been overw! ly in favor of keeping the capitol in Bismarck. Editors throughout North Dakota recognize the movement for just what it is, and have so expressed, themselves. “It has been our hope that, in the face of this situation, the effort to move the capital to Jamestown would die of its own weight; that common sense, reason, and fair play would prevail. “It would seem, however, that Bis- marck’s attitude of restraint has been wrongly interpreted in some quarters as one of indifference. ‘This is not the case. As good citizens, both of Bismarck and the state as a whole, we have not wanted to contribute to the feeling which a matter of this kind necessarily engenders, We do not want to do so now. “But in the face of this attack, which amounts to an attempt to sabotage a city. we want the people (Continued on page nine) ROAD BOND ISSUE IS DECLARED ‘INVALID’ lowa Attorney General Cites Er- rors in Proposed Constitu- tional Amendment Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 28.—()—- Attorney General John Fletcher in an opinion to the Iowa house of rep- Tesentatives Wednesday held that the Proposed constitutional amendment for a $100,000,000 primary road bond issue was invalid. The amendment was passed Tues- day by the state senate and the house was to consider it Wednesday. ‘The proposed amendment was Passed by the 43rd general assembly and if approved by this legislature would be submitted to the votes of nine different subjects while the con= stitution itself provides that only one subject can be submitted to the voters at one time. Read Booklet Aboat Presidents, Wives f