The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 14, 1931, Page 9

FARMERS’ INTEREST a ATTACKED IN BILL Charges Effort to Change Hall thsurance Law Would ‘Ham- string’ Department XN Allen Stehman, Becker County, Minn., Wins Valley Spell- ing Championship . Gonvick, McIntosh, Mentor and Winger. Final agricultural meetings for men the Red River valley spelling contest, with Mable Hinze, Wilken, Solons Tangled in Political Mesh as The Prince of Wi 9 (center) and his younger brother, Prince MORATORIUM DRIVE BY RADIO SPEECHES Former Nonpartisan League Leader Makes Plea for Funds in Minot Address Minot, N. D., Feb. 14—(P—A. C. Townley, one-time head of the Non- made a new ples here Friday Midweek i Special music, appropriate for the Passion season, will be rendered a@ each service. : COMMITTEE FAVORS - SMALL LOAN BILL night. He asked for money to enable him to purchase time on a key radio sta- tion to help him in the circulation of Fetitions to have congress declare = five-year Spero against inter- he debt, and stock or corporations which are deny- ing even privileges of slaves to 98 per cent of the American people.” Townley’s appeal ay funds met of currency fell in hats passed among the audience. To those who would cesist in this cause, but had no cash at hand, Townley offered cards on which he requested they pledge the amount they would be willing to con- Provides Maximum Interest Rate of 12 per Cent for Loans Under $1,000 tribute weekly. It would not be for long, he said, as six weeks on air were thought by him to be sufficient George (right), had time for # gal Kingston, Jama! their way to with Lord Edham starting for of golf when they stopped at America. They are pictured If course. Another Week Ends fer FeEGEAET Be In State Senate|” (Continued from page one) echt tea eee rnan te gly you a Ie In .MoKensie county, they did the only Hl agag i hy 8 | F i rE He gs t z e s, Exe : al Eat ; 8 g fe ii iit id a i EE Describing the bill as “uncalled for,| dangerous legislation,” Senator Pat-| /, terson said the innocent would suf- by the law. main aim of attorneys,” he they present. One man in the caucus is sald to Bonzer bill, chaperoned by the affairs committee in the house, not yet come to a hearing, and rate efforts are being mate by e I. V. A. majority to “adjust” its ficulty with the Richland county before he kicks off the lid en- his original statement, Bonzer that only 35 cents of the tax- dollar gets to the roads, the being eaten up by salaries and maintenance charges. date no spokesman for the ad- EE vabeed i | ministration and no Abii ntative of urday, Human Body Compared With Electric Battery by Dr. G. W. Crile, Cleveland Oklahoma City, Feb. 14—(7)— The human body was compared. with an electric battery in an ad- dress by Dr. George W. Crile; Cleveland, director of the Cleve- land Clinic Foundation, here Thursday night. Oklahoma physicians heard Dr. Crile explain his theory of electro- potential as applicable to human cellular vitality. A human cell was explained as endowed with positive and nega- tive electric currents. When there is a zero reaction, the specialist said the cell dies. Dr. Crile said cells had been isolated from the human body COMMITTEE FAVORS MORE SIGNATURES Resolution That 40,000 Names Be Required on Petitions Gets Approval A concurrent resolution, providing for & constitutional amendment re- quiring 40,000 signatures on petitions for initiating an amendment to the constitution, was approved by the senate state affairs committee Sat- The measure, sponsored by Sena- tors P. J. Murphy, Walsh county, F. E. Ployhar, Barnes, and J. P. Cain, Stark, originally provided for 60,000 signatures, but this figure was re- duced by an amendment adopted in committee Saturday. ‘The committee deferred action on a companion concurrent resolution to increase the number of signatures necessary for initiating or referring this) measures. Under this bill 60,000 sig- resented. $ Precinct representation would be on the, basis of one committeeman for all more than 2 38 iE gt i natures would be necessary to initiate & measure, and 40,000 to refer a bill. It would take 60,000 electors to refer an emergency proposal. Under the present law, 20,000 sig- natures are required to initiate a con- stitutional amendment, ‘while 7,000 electors can refer a bill. Thirty- S| thousand ‘elestors are necessary to force a special election. ‘The house state affairs committee indefinitely . postponed a measure which would give the postmaster of any ‘postoffice authority to take ack- nowledgements on applications for gasoline tax refunds. Under the bill, the r could sign the appli- cation for refund, instead of a notary public, ‘The house appropriations commit- tee approved two. appropriation meas- ures, those for the School of Forestry at Bottineau and maintenance of the state capital and grounds. The Bot- tineau. school was voted $93,995, a re- duction of $7,055 from. the budget recommendation. ‘The budget for the capitol build- ing and grounds was raised from $138,580 to $189,107, an increase of $50,527. The rental costs of depart- ments in downtown office buildings and tested, just as a battery is tested, and their electric force measured. "4 Emotions, the speaker asserted, exert a profound effect upon vi- tality, and in many cases are re- sponsible for physical decadence. A cell, still capable of electric reaction, has not lost its potentiality, he said, and can be restored to life through nutritive stimulants, just as a battery can be regenerated. Dr. Crile, widely known for his experiments in the creation of cell life, said his theory had enormous possibilities for the wel- fare of mankind. was given as the reason for raising this appropriation. A bill appropriating $300 to pay L. J. Wehe, Bismarck, for services as an attorney for a special investigating committee in 1919, was recommended for indefinite postponement by a ma- jority of the appropriations commit- tee, while a minority will turn in a report favoring passage. A bill revising the entire schedule of rates of state income tax and pro- viding for extensive increases, was voted for indefinite postponement by the house tax committee. The bill extending the capitol tax levy of one-tenth of one mill from 1936 to 1940, an additional four years, was recommended for passage by the tax committee; as was @ senate bill Umiting the aggregate amount for general village purposes to ah amount not exceéding that raised by a 10- mill levy. Wishek Man Succumbs In Bismarck Friday) John Vosler, 63-year-old Wishek man, died here Friday after being brought here for treatment about three weeks ago. Details as to relatives and funeral arrangements were indefinite Sat- urday, Relatives were expected to arrive some time Saturday afternoon. King Carol Has Not Visited Queen Helen Bucharest, Rumania, Feb. 14—(7)}— Only King Carol of all of the royal family of Rumania has not visited the bedside of Queen Helen, who is suffering from influenza. Carol, definitely estranged from Helen, has taken no official notice of her ill- ness. Persons in authoritative position deny emphatically that the queen up- |- on her recovery will marry a Ruman- ian officer, Colonel Skeletti, as re- ported in London newspapers Friday. DWIGHT POSTOFFICE BURNS Dwight, N. D., Feb. 14—()—Fire Gestroyed the A. Sjoquist general store building, which housed the Dwight postoffice, with loss estimated at $40,000. Postoffice records and personal papers of many local citiz- ens, in a vault, were destroyed. TEST, FLIERS’ RADIO GUIDE" to arouse public interest in the cir- culation of the petitions. The meeting had not been exten- sively advertised, but the circulation of handbills had resulted in a good- sized crowd. Townley reported he had at no time failed to obtain a good audience since he opened his tour in Nebraska 10 days ago. “God is with me this time,” Town- ley said. “At no place in the Bible is interest mentioned except in terms where it is condemned.” Someone in the audience wanted to know whether any country ever de- clared moratogium such as he pro- “Old Rome did,” he answered. “In- terest is the creature of man-made law and is in contradiction to the laws of God.” : RIVER PROJECT WILL BE DISCUSSED HERE Kansas City Man Will Meet With Local Men to Discuss Navi- gation on Missouri George J. Miller, Kansas City, executive secretary of the Missouri River Navigation association, will be in Bismarck Feb. 16 to attend a meet- ing to discuss the plan for making the Missouri river navigable from Sioux City, Iowa, to Williston, N. D. Delegations from Fargo, Devils Lake and a number of other North Dakota cities will be present at the meeting ag well as ex-Governor Weav- er, Nebraska; Adjutant General G. A. Fraser, Governor e F. Shafer, Senator Frank H. Hyland, Sivert W. Thompson, and A. V. Haig, Lake. E, M. Hendricks, of the state board of railroad commissioners, will present the traffic: data. The meeting will be open to the public and will be held in the As- sociation of Commerce rooms at 10 a. m. Tuesday. An invitation has been extended to the general public to attend. Committee Approves Milling Bonds Bill ‘The house state affairs committee "| saturday recommended for passage 8 bill providing that no further milling bonds of the state be issued. Under the act relating to the state mill and elevator at Grand Forks, authority was granted by the legis- lature for the issuance of $2,000,000 milling bonds. Oldest Graduate of Yale Is Dead in Ohio Cincinnati, O., Feb. 14.—(?)—Bd- ward P. Bradstreet, oldest graduate of Yale and member of the Ohio bar, died at his home here early Saturday. He was 100 years old. The aged barrister, who until the last year or two had maintained his law office and took a prominent part in-civic affairs, had failed gradually for some time. Reoently he was critically ill, but managed to rally. iS a ey To Represent Luther passage by the committee, EXPRESS TAX BIL PASSED BY SENATE School, Marriage, Vending Ma- chine, Potato Grading Measures Pass Also The senate Friday passed a bif Providing for a tax on gross receipts of express companies. Governor George F. Shafer, in his message to the legislature called at- tention that express business is care ried on in the state by the Railway Express Agency, Inc., an agent for the railroads. Doubt has been raised whether the company can be on its intangible or franchise value, and a gross tax was urged in an ef~ fort to collect @ substantial tax from the company. Under the bill, sponsored by Sen« ator A. W. Fowler, Fargo, every fore eign express company would annually Pay @ tax on its gross receipts of ong and one-half per cent. “ Other bills passed include mease ures: Fixing the school year at sevem months and providing for discontin= uanee of school where attendance ig less than four pupils for 10 consecue tive days; requiring ministers to file their credentials before being authore ized to perform marriages; making it ® misdemeanor to operate automatic vending machines, telephone or slot machines by means of slugs, estab= lishing a standardized system of poe tato grading. The bills now go to the house. Former Napoleon Girl Will Be Buried There Funeral services for Lorraine Core inne McElroy, 11, who died recently at her home in International Falls, Minn., will be held at Napoleon at 2 Pp. m. Sunday in the German Luther- an church. She had been in i® health for two years. She was a former resident of Nae poleon, living there with her parents until they moved to International Falls three years ago. She leaves her parents Mr. an@ Mrs, D. H. McElroy and a sister, Iong Mae, aged nine. Death Claims Kidder County Woman Friday, League at Conference|"™ began at Gustavus Adolphus college at St. Peter, Minn., Feb. 11, and con-