The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 5, 1931, Page 1

North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1878 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA. ‘THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1981 The Weather Fair tonight; Friday possibly snow. No decided change in temperature, PRICE FIVE CENTS Plan Vote Today On Capitol Bill St. Paul Postmaster Is Assailed In Congress CHARLES J, MOOS IS CHARGED WITH - MAKING A ‘STEAL: Building Lease Flung by Representative Maas 1S DEMANDING RECOGNITION Congressman Challenges Post- master General to Make Public Findings of Probe 5.—()—Post- chal- Jenged Thursday in the house, by Representative Maas, Republican, Minnesota, to make public an inves- tigation of charges by Maas against Charles J. Moos, St. Paul postmaster. Demanding recognition of his rec- ommendation before house Repub- licans hold their caucus Feb. 27, Maas said Moos was linked directly with s St. Paul postoffice lease now under investigation with about 6,000 others by a special senate committee. He said Brown had “forgiven, ex- cused or condoned” Moos after an in- vestigation thet “substantiated” the charges. Asking an explanation, Maas inquired: “Can it be that they are afraid of ‘Mr. Moos?” The representative said the ‘post- master had been serving more than ‘@ year overtime, without reappoint- ment, and that a demand to the ad- ministration for replacement hed ————————— HOUSE GROUP PLANS LANE DUCK SESSION Rules Committee to Consider Long Controversy Over Ab- olition of Session peat) Washington, Feb. 5.—(#)—The Jong stonding “controversy over abolition ‘Thursday was to be first time be Fea before the house rules committee. Legislative right bs i+ was soap ropose consti Pec can be had in Republican been Position similar to she Gitford measure now bales hg coapeniine adopted by the senate. as pecgenator Norris of Nebrasks, house action as an al- ternative to an extra session of the |" mew congress. ‘Besides eliminating the short ses- gion in which defeated house and senate members remain in office for four additional months, the resolution would set Jan. 4 for the convening date of the new congress, only two months after the November elections. Now, unless called in special session, ~'a new congress does not convene un- til the first Monday in more than s year after election. tler Charges Not se To Be Made Public NO CAUSE FOR ALARM jismarck has the fight that it faces, and any political alignments would impair that position. 4s favored almost unanimously as the govern- ment by.the members of this legislature regardless of factional strife. ‘When some politics are ironed out the bill should go through as planned. Until that time citizens of Bismarck must be patient and foster the friendly attitude now present. GGE SAYS WHEAT sity, Convinced Botulism Caused 12 Deaths Grafton, -N. Feb. 5.—(7)—Sam- ples of soll in the garden at the Ed- win ite (ner to slabbes Drought in Middle West as ‘were grown, sent jal - tories. to. be tested. for botulinus Important Factor germs, State's Attorney T. I. Dahl Thursday declared wheat was “entirely drought continues. a sh possible” Legge cited last year’s carryover as only 40 per cent of normal as a con- iting factor. z ‘The drought has affected wheat the middlewest, but he loo- | 8dvisement. the result of the house. 1fo doubt that wi left the white house. | Los Angeles Leaves Germ Trages SHORTAGE POSSIBLE Farm Board Chairman Cites Washington, Feb. 5.—(?)—Chair- man Legge of the Farm Board ortage of if the Farmers Warned In Legge Letter pons | Sends Hoover Penny] » above, bread and butter and and candy, for the little boys and girls who a hungry?” Accompanying her note, received at the white house, was half dollar for the Red Cross. OPPONENTS HOPE T0 ELIMINATE GAG LAW FROM STATUTE LIST Minnesota House Approves Measure Calling for Repeal by 68 to 58 Vote Renter Here is a big bank,” wrote some| re St. Paul, Feb. 5.—(#)—Minnesota’s newspaper suppression law, target of an attack before the United States supreme court and criticized by news- paper heads throughout the country, off the statute books, its opponents said Thursday. ‘The first major step in that di- tection was taken late Wednesday by the state house of representatives, which passed a bill to repeal the law. The vote was 68 to 58, ‘The bill now. goes to the senate, where Senator George H. Lommen, Eveleth, one of the authors of the original measure which was passed in 1925, is sponsoring repeal. Gov. Floyd B. Olson will sign it if finally approved as he recommended the ac- tion in his inaugural address to the legislature a month ago. ‘The lon law was designed to apply to newspapers which regu- larly published “malicious, scandal- ous or defamatory matter.” Courts were empowered to restrain such publications by injunctions. While the law was aimed primarily at“ sheets,” newspaper edi- tors of nation professed to see in it a potential danger to the legiti- | mate press, One weekly paper in Minneapolis, by court order, appealed to the United States supreme court, which recently heard arguments for and against the constitutionality of the law and took the matter under The Minnesota state supreme court had ruled that it is constitutional. » Senate Continues Attack on Smith ‘Washington, Feb. 5.—()—The sen- ate Thursday requested the district attorney here to institute legal pro- ceedings testing the right of Chair- man Smith, of the power commission, to retain office. The resolution of Senator Walsh, For Guatanomo, Cuba (Tran was well on the way to being wiped |Sust Says Acreage Must Be Cut or Stabilization Corporation Will Abandon Effort REVIEWS WORLD SITUATION Russia and Southern Hemi- sphere Countries Are Flood- ing World Market Prospect that the grain stabiliza- tion corporation must abandon its artificial maintenance of the domes- tic wheat market unless American growers sharply reduce screage was advanced today to Governor Shafer by ce Legge of the farm ‘oat Since mid-November the corpora- tion has held domestic prices above the world level. ‘The chairman reviewed in a letter an ever-increasing world production to more than 20 per cent in recent years without a in- crease in consuming demand. ‘Unless American growers can ser their way clear to production of wheat on a scale permitting disposi- tion of prospective holdings of 120,- 000,000 bushels of farm board wheat at the end of this marketing season, Legge wrote, stabilization efforts “will have to be abandoned.” Pointing to the large production increase in the southern hemisphere this year and that in Russia, where the prospect is for a 19 per cent in- crease for 1931, Legge asked, “Why should a farmer continue to grow 8 hundred acres at loss when he could raise eighty at a profit?” INJUNCTION AGAINST MINOT COMMISSION Order Had Restrained Officials From Considering Supple- mentary Poll Returns RESULT REMAINS CLOUDED Montana-Dakota Firm Indicates It Would Not Contest De- cision Against Itself Minot, N. D., Feb. 5.—(?)—Dismiss- Judge Swenson said he al of & temporary injunction against the Minot city commission restrain- ing it as the exofficio board of can- vassers from considering mentary returns from the gas fran- chise election of Jan. 27 was ordered Wednesday by District Judge P. G. Swenson of Grand Forks. supple- was of the opinion that election boards in vari- ous precencts, after having counted the votes, publicly declared the result of the election and filled out and signed certificates and adjourned, had no authority to reconvene and make supplementary or amended re- It is evident, however, the court de- clared, that if there are corrections they must be made before the can- Legge said also that the Liverpool | an, market at 60 cents on March delivery is the lowest price there since 1593, and that 65 cent July wheat at Chi cago would work back to forty cents or less on North Dakota farms. Did Not See Future Legge’s letter reviewing the situa {tion follows in part: ‘Ag we aed it, the American ‘got into this deplorable position on ‘wheat rather unconsciously without realizing just what was taking place. "The records show that for fifty-on threaten or desire to do,” the court said. “The court further declared that under-the law the canvassing board has a right to require election pre- one othens to apepar before them correct, any--qmisston or mis-. ‘take in returns. . If the canvassing board should rule that the franchise was defeated, representatives of the Montana-Da- kota Power company, which has been consecutive months, that is from AU-| seeking it, intimated Thursdey they 1926 until November of last year, | will not go into court seeking to prove the visible supply of wheat, both on| that the franchise was approved. our domestic basis as well as world The commission began a canvass stocks, showed @ constant increase.|of the votes but completed work on every month during that period|only three precincts before adjourn- showing was on of the year. The surpris @ larger visible supply than! ment. hand during the same month} When complete unofficial returns -| first announced the franchise was ing part of it is that the breakdown | shown approved bya majority of two. didn’t come sooner. ... ‘The commision has divided, three to “All of which leads us to the con-| two, against the franchise. clusion that whatever your farmers wheat pro- duction will be a step in the right di- rection. They are certainly justified in trying something else, as until we get back to a domestic basis there seems to be no hope of the farmer getting a reasonable price for his wheat. do- may do toward replacing “at the present moment the mestic market is being (Continued on page nine) RELIEF AGREEMENT SENT TO PRESIDENT Plan Acceptable to Both Parties Would Add $25,000,000 to Drought Fund ‘Washington, Feb. 5.—(P)—An agree- ment on the relief controversy ac- ceptable to both Republican and forwarded Thursday to Hoover. What attitude the Scientists Hope to Pry Off Cover Of Box Holding Universe Mystery covers the gravitation and electro-magnet- ism and offers a clue to the mys- esident will He has MINNESOTA HAS. ANOTHER ROBBERY Fourth Postal Theft in Four Days Occurs in Gopher State at Marshall Marshall, Minn., Feb. 5.—(?}—The fourth Minnesota postal robbery in as many days occurred early Thurs- day when a pouch containing letters to this community was stolen from a truck while the night depot attendant was busy with a customer. ‘The pouch was brought here on a train running between Sioux City, Towa, and Willmar and contained let- truck, the pouch was gone. Urges $27,000 for ' Plant in Montana Miles City, Mont., Feb. 5.—(#)—The included in the - [SWENSON DISMISSES | BREAKS RECORD Daytona Beach, Fia., Feb. 5— ptain Malcolm Campbell, i t QUAKE DEATH TOLL IN NEW ZEALAND | “PLACED PAST Frightened and Evacuation Work Is Hampered Napler, New Zealand, Feb. 5.—(#)}— Frightened by new tremors which toppled standing buildings about the heads of rescue squads, authorities Thursday speeded up complete evacu- ficials at Wellington to provide the rolling stock necessary to take refu- gees from this city and the surround- ing country to camps where they can be cared for until sanitary conditions can be restored here. With every hour the death toll has mounted, and Thursday night Red Cross officials said the number of dead in Napier, Hastings, and sur- rounding villages stricken by Tues- day’s quakes would mount well past 1,000. Thousands are injured, and vir- tually everyone is homeless. Desire of the stricken citizenry to make last visits to the shambles which were their homes is complicating evacuation. Many have insisted upon returning to their former residences and searching the ruins for valuables, EMERGENCY CLAUSE LEFT IN MEASURE AS BALLOT NEARS Effort to Strike Out Proviso in Committee of Whole Falled Wednesday PARTIES SPLIT ON ISSUE All but Two I. V, A. Members Favor Speed; All but Two Nonpartisans Seek Delay, ‘The house Thursday afternoott decided to defer a vote upon the capitol construction bill for one legislative day. Final action on the capitol building bill was scheduled for the state house of representatives for Thursday afty ernoon. Before packed galleries Wednesday, when the house considered the mat- ter in committee of the whole, Bis- the centered their attack on the emer- gency clause. The effort to strike the em clause from the bill failed by a vote of 55 to 58 and the measure will come up for final passage with the emer- it to conference with every prospect that the bill, as finally approved, will carry the emergency. ‘The division on party lines showed two I. V. A’s and two: Nonpartisans from the Stutsman county delegation voting against the emergency clause while 51 other Nonpartisans support- ed their stand,..makipg the totul strength 55. At the same time they voted against the emergency clause, however, every Nonpartisan who’ spoke, with the exception of the two from Stutsman county, emphasized that he favors Bismarck as the capi- tal site and will support this city's Position in any election which may be held on the subject. Erickson Favors Bismarck Chief among these was O. E. Erick~ son, minority leader, whose motion to (Continued on page seven) CONFEREES AGREE TO PAY HAGERMAN Will Strike Amendment Stop- ping Salary of Indian Work- er From Supply Bill Washington, Feb. 5.—(#)—House and senate conferees have agreed to eliminate from the interior depart- ment supply bill the amendment which would have stopped the salary refhcrelvadd J. Hagerman, Indian com= er. Representative Cramton, Repub- lican, Michigan, in making the an- relics, and the like. The authorities have clamped down on this as danger- ous and as liable to result in further casualties. The sewage sysems have all been destroyed, and if any great number of people remain in the devastated zone much longer pestilence may be expected. Rescue squads have confined their activities principally to digging out nouncement, said a speech he made Wednesday that evidence developed by the senate Indian committee had Hagerman Cramton is one of that group. The amendment was sponsored by of tration had been made against the Indian commissioner for the south- west. It concerned specifically his bodies from the debris. Thursday night two women were found alive in @ ruined house and extricated. They had been imprisoned since Tuesday morning. Premier Forbes Thursday designated Sunday as a national day of mourn- ing. Churches of all denominations were asked to arrange appropriate services. | Caused Welch Death activities with Navajo Indians. United States Map Is Made Available