The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 2, 1931, Page 1

North Dakota’s _ Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1878 4 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1981 * The Weather Falr Thursday night and Friday; little change in temperature. PRICE FIVE CENTS Suspend New Gas Tax Law Gotham Gives World Fliers Great Ovation Two Are Held on [EAT WAVE MOVES PARADE ABOUT CITY IS LEADING FEATURE OF NOISY CEREMONY —_—____, Post and Gatty Reduce World- Circuit Mark to 8 Days, 15 Hours, 51 Minutes THRONG JAMS FLYING FIELD Police Unable to Hold Back Crowd Which Struggles to See and Touch New Heroes New York, July 2—(#)—New York, | and the millions who are a part of; it, gave to two tired men Thursday the spectacular sort of welcome it re- serves for spectacular guests. Wiley Post and Harold Gatty, back after girdling the globe in less than nine days, found New York at its noisiest and at the peak of its en- thusiasm. Perched on the cushions of an au-j; tomobile they made a circuit of the city which probably was only slightly less exciting than the flight itself. There were crowds all along the route—hundreds of thousands. ‘There was the usual cheering, the usual sirens, the usual ticker tape and torn newspapers tossed from the win- dows of the financial district. ‘They were welcomed at city hall by Mayor Walker who pinned medals to their chests. Landed Late Wednesday Wednesday night, Post and Gatty it their plane down on Roose- velt field, which they left at 3:56 a.m. @ week ago last Tuesday. In 8 days, Washington, July 2—(#)—The magic of dizzying dash around the world opened white hsuse doors to two quiet airmen who six weeks ago passed nearly unno- dispatch- an Harold Gatty, included an invitation t& a luncheon. The fliers’ representatives accepted for |. Monday. 15 hours and 51 minutes they flew 15,474 miles Eaace her Mamie hemisphere. e previous |, 8= tablished by the German dirigible Graf Zeppelin two years ago, was 21 days, 7 hours, 34 minutes. Post, pilot, and Gatty, navigator, left Edmonton at 5:39 a. m. eastern standard time Wednesday and flew 1,600 miles to Cleveland, stopping for fuel at 4:15 p.m. They took off from Cleveland 29 minutes later for their last hop and ended an air tour of 10 tries, Canada, Newfoundland, Ireland, England, Holland, Germany, Polland Russia, Japanese possessions, & & beh 5 Lindberg! dreds the arrival’ at Roosevelt rushed for the latest heroes. next hour the field was the Brae TEED Rgeaeds Gatty pretended to drive New York, but circled 5g 8 E i . i § i s i: i g a i i E gf Z if ie F i eli itp i ee g | Ee £ cag! Ey ef i ge 3 s z i F AD wa f ty ie iid il i ral i : i z ze ti ge 2 i : Robbery Charges Pair Admit Holding Up Bis- marck Taxicab Driver and Robbing Him of $7 {LOUIS KLEIN IS VICTIM Identifies Highwaymen in Line- up at Fort Lincoln; One Admits Guilt of a highway robbery Wednesday night but Thursday he had his ma-| Wan! chine back and two men were in jail charged with the crime. ~ Fort Lincoln. i Klein said the pair hailed him as he drdéve up to the taxicab stand and asked him to drive them to an ad- dress in the northeast part of the/| day. city. As he drove east on Main av- enue, one of the men struck ‘a revol- ver against his back and said “stick ‘em up.” After taking about seven dollars in change, the pair forced Klein into the back seat and drove to a point ap- proximately seven miles south of Mandan, where they forced him from the car. Klein walked to Mandan where he reported the affair to police. Police Chief C. J. Martineson took Klein to Fort Lincoln Thursday morn- ing to identify suspects, and he pick- ed the pair out of a group of 25. Postwood admitted his guilt-in the presence of witnesses Thursday. He was arraigned in police court at noon where he waived examination and was bound over to district court on $5,000 bond. ; i William’s case.was expected to come: up later in the day. Portwood said * Young Communists Held in Contempt Bowbells, N. D.; July 2—(#)—Two young Communists, adjudged in con- tempt of court for having had a part in preparation and circulation of @ defendant in a criminal case here was being. “rail- roaded” to ‘jail, Wednesday were sen- tenced by Judge John C. Lowe to serve 30 days in jail. Ashbell Ingerson and Robert Gila- dinsk were those sentenced, and in addition to the jail term Gladinsk was fined $200 and costs. He must serve an additional 30 days if he does not pay. Committee Hopes to Keep Fort Occupied Bismarck’s Fort Lincoln teryiew Major General Johnson Ha- good with reference to his atittude on the removal of troops from Fort Lin- coln, returned home Tuesdey and Wednesday reported that Gopher Community Aids Drought i mG i | 5 CONSIDER WAYS TO AD FARMER IN DROUTH AREA Hyde Decides to Reopen Agri- cultural Credit Loans; North Dakota Men Satisfied and north- eastern Montana was under consider- loans was decided upon at a confer- ence of Secretary Myde, federal agri- cultural secretary, and state officials and farmers of the two states yester. Governor George Shafer of North after the conference said he was “highly pleased” with its results. “There still is much work to do in Planning the relief, but we have been given assurance‘and we can go aheal,” he asserted. Senator Gerald P. Nye, North Da- kota, another member of the group, said “There, of course, will stlil be g need. But we feel that Mr. Hyde has promised everything within his power and that a threatened calam- ity to the farmers has been avoided.” JUNE WAS SECOND HOTTEST ON RECORD Weather Bureau Says Average Temperature Was 69.6 De- grees; 1921 Warmer Bismarck experienced the hottest June in a decade this year, according to weather bureau reports released ‘Thursday. The mean temperature for the month was 69.6 degrees. ! It was the warmest June on record | with the exception of 1921 when the mean temperature averaged one de- ‘gree higher. Sunday was the hottest day of the month, the mercury soaring to 104 in the shade to bring the mean temper- ature for the day to an average of 88. Only slightly cooler were Monday and Saturday of last week with mean tures of 86. June 4 was the coolest day during the month when the temperature av- 56. ipitation during the month to- .68 inches most of which fell Ramsey Bond Issue BAST AND SOUTH; MIDWEST RELIEVED Storms in Western Edge of Seo- tion Creep Into Illinois, In- diana and Kentucky ATLANTIC STATES SUFFER New York and New England Are Hard Hit; Chicago Has Record Temperature (By The Associated Press) Relief came into the middlewest Thursday as the summer's first heat ‘wave moved into the east and south. Storms over Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, Missouri and other north- ern and far middlewestern states, crept slowly into Illinois, Kentucky and Indiana. By Thursday night weather men predict the lower mid- dlewest will have found cooler, more normal summer temperatures But the east and south continued to swelter with the center of the vor- tid wave moving slowly across Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Storms broke over several sections of Kentucky and Missouri Wednes- day, but the mercury went down for only a few hours—then bounced back up again. Michigan had temperatures rang- ing from 98 to 100 with no relief in The maximum was reported official temperature of 97. Throughout Pennsylvania and ‘West Virginia temperatures continued to soar. The southern states, excepting Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma, got some relief with the temperatures go- ing down to 90. New York and the New England states began: to feel the nip of the heat in earnest by sharing with Chi- cago and Illinois the hottest July 3 in history. Deaths throughout the United States, attributable to heat and in- cluding drownings of the last 24 hours were estimated at 248, bringing | the grand total to about 1013. Convict Is Charged With Prison Break: George Arnot, Minot, whose term | expired at the penitentiary Wednes-: day, was taken into custody by Bur-| leigh county authorities on his release | and will face charges of escaping; from prison. | Arnot, who was serving a term for! grand larceny, escaped from pison! December 15, 1929. He was recap-| tured two days later near Mandan, |nard Scherer, Francis R. Seccombe, ° Scientist Dies f ee \STERHEN M BABCOCR =| Madison, Wis, July 2—()—Dr. | Btephen Moulton Babcock, world famous dairy scientist, died at his home here some time during the night. He was 88 years old. Babcock invented a test for deter- mining the butterfat content of milk which is believed to have added mil- lions to the income of dairy farmers. | Fargo Because he wanted it to be widely used and as cheaply as possible, Bab- cock refused to patent his invention, even though it would have earned millions of dollars for him. PROMOTIONS MADE AT STUDENT CAMP Eight Commissioned and 17 Non-Commissioned Appoint- ed Wednesday Appointment of eight commission- | ed officers, three first sergeants, nine sergeants and eight corporals was announced at the Fort Lincoin Citi- zens. Military Training camp Wed- nesday. They were made effective immediately. First lieutenants appointed were: Guy T, Reeves, Edward E. Heath, Malcolm J. Brumwell, and Frederick W. Medbery. Second lieutenants were Anthony P. Lord, Delbert E. Loeffler, Floyd L. 5 d Baldner, Harry P. Billo, John R. McNulty and Walter E. Will. First sergeants named were Ber- and Roland D. Bachelor. | Those elevated to rank of sergeant | | Americans Give French (CHANGE IN PLANS I’ ANNOUNCED, BY CAPITOL BUILDERS Will Meet at Grand Forks and Fargo to Discuss Selection of Architect A change in the original plans for meetings of the capitol building com- mission at Grand Forks and Fargo ‘was announced Thursday by Frank L. Anders, secretary of the group. The commission will meet at Grand Forks next Tuesday, July 7, and on the following day will convene at Fargo previously the commission planned to hold the first meeting at and the second day’s meeting at Grand Forks. Both sessions will start at 9:30 a. m., when architects within the state have been invited to appear before the commission. Members: will seek the architects general views on the proposed capitol building and will discuss plans and specifications and answers to questionnaires submitted by the commission to each applicant. ‘The Grand Forks meeting will be held in the office of George A. Bangs, chairman of the commission, while at Fargo the session will be in the chamber of commerce. A tabulation of plans and specifi- cations submitted’ so far by archi- tects are represented, 10 being from North Dakota and the remainder from various sections of the United States. CLAIMS RECORD FOR ~ STATE EFFICIENCY Local Branch of International Harvester Company One of Best in Country After two years of operation, first place among the leading Service Sta- tions of the country in point of equip- ment is claimed by J. C. Taylor local .|branch manager of the International Harvester company for their Motor Erwin F.| Truck Sales and Service Station lo- Mittelholtz, Bernard A. Stratmoen, | Garvin and Hollis F. Sheldon. Corporals appointed were Bernard F. Schmidt, Reuben A. Kludt, Ray} Bendorf, Joseph H. Reinertson, Wood- ; row W. Louden, George A. Wengler, | suffering from exposure. He was arraigned in justice court | Wednesday where he waived exam-/ ination and was bound over to dis-| trict court. | He is being held in the Morton county | Under the law, prisoners escaping from the penitentiary are guilty of a felony in Burleigh county. | It is the practice to rearrest them on release from the institution and try| them in the courts of this county. i Victim of Collision Succumbs in Mandan’ ‘Victim of an automobile ccllision | several miles west. of Mandan last Sunday. evening, Fred Morris, Massa- | chusetts man who had been in Great | si y. | Morris suffered four fractured ribs near the spine and internal injuries. He was injured when his automo- bile collided with one driven by Don- ald Icenagle, Mandan, in which there te i Se were five other passengers. Th Mandan perty suffered only minor injuries. is ing | marth. jvarlous. townships in Slope county jduring recent weeks at which tax ‘problems were discussed, | A general invitation to all interested ‘citizens of the county has been ex- Arnold E. Melby, and Joseph Tibor. Amidon Ready for Taxpayers Meeting Amidon, N. D., July 2—A meeting of the taxpayers of Slope county has been called at Amidon for 10 o'clock in the forenoon on Tuesday, July 7, it was announced Thursday by J. C. Hart, New England, a member of the committee named at the joint meet- of taxpayers of Slope and Bow- man counties last fall. The board of county commissioners of Slope county will be in session at Amidon at the time, working on the levies and budget for the coming year and it is the purpose of the taxpay- ers to urge upon the county officials the greatest economy, to the end that the tax burden of Slope county farm- ers be not made more burdensome, Hart said. Other members of the county committee are F. R. Cook, Scranton, and M. A. Tripp, Mar- Several meetings have been held in , Hart says. tte. cated at Broadway and Mandan street. ‘This building is the embodiment of ideas gained by the company's con- struction specialist in the erection of more than 183 buildings of similar nature in as many different cities. The Mandan street entrance to the structure leads into a sunny sample room, where models of various trucks sold by the company are on display. This room, 39 by 75 feet, has direct connection with the parts depart- ment, which carries the largest stock of motor truck repairs in this part of the country. The entrance to the truck repairs department is gained through the door on the north side of the build- ing. Here the driver with his truck in need of mechanical attention is admitted through the . automatic doors to the receiving room where he is met by the shop foreman, C. E. Finkle, who fills out a requisition specifying what he wants done to his truck. Every department is in charge of experienced workmen, thus making ones and precision posstble on all wor! Warning Tell Paris Government Rejec- tion of Hoover Plan May Stop German Payments FRANCE STANDS TO LOSE Continued Refusal to Join in Moratorium May Cost Gauls $111,000,000 Washington, July 2—(#)—From the delicate moratorium snarl there emerged today an unmeshed strand carrying clearly the American warn- ing that failure of President Hoover's plan would cost France about §111,- As negotiations were resumed in Paris, France had a firm but friendly note from the United States holding that miscarriage of the president's of- fer to help the world by helping Ger- many probably would bring a declara- tion of a moratorium by the chief Payer c: world war obligations. “We must assume,” the American memorandum said, “that with the present situation in Germany and the failure of the American proposals, then Germany will unquestionably give notice for the postponement of all conditional reparations, as provi- ded in the Young plan, and this por- tion of inter-governmental payments will not } forthcoming.” If all nations but France agreed to @ suspension, and Germany declared @ moratorium on her conditional pay- ments to France, the note said, the Tesult would be this: France would collect $105,000,000 from Germany in unconditional an- nuities; she would pay $106,000,000 into the bank for international settle- ments as a guarantee fund; she would be required to pay to the United States and Great Britain about $110,- 000,000 on her war debt. Thus France would be approximately $111,000,000 ‘in the hole. Somewhat conciliatory was the American attitude toward the French contention that suspended German payments should be refunded in five years instead of 25 as the United States wants. The note said that “we do not believe that it would be im- Possible to reach an agreement on this point provided the other ques- tions could be disposed of.” Then it added, as an inducement for acceptance of the American plan: “But, of course, the same length of time will apply to the payment on account of the American debt.” Hopefully, the American note con- cluded: “The world will not escape from the present depression without sacrifices by all. ....31n the light of this ma- jor objective the American govern- ment hopes that the French govern- ment, whose cooperation is so essen- tial, ‘vill find a method to reconcile existing differences so as to permit @ concerted effort by sll in the carry- ing out of the president's program ” Send Body of Slayer To His Former Home Linton, N. D., July 2.—(#)—The! body of Steve Ogburn, 26, who com- mitted suicide after slaying his wife here Monday, Thursday was sent to his forme home at Kewanee, lll, for burial. Funeral services for Mrs. Ogburn, | 21, were conducted at Temvik, the home of her parents. i Ogburn, who came here about 18! months ago from Kewanee, was/ charged with stealing a load of cattle The couple was married shortly after he came here. He fled last March after charges of | theft were preferred but returned; Monday in an effort to persuade his; wife to join him. She refused to do so until he could prove his innocence, causing a dispute which led to the shooting. Will Give Concert At Riverside Park i HIGH COURT RULES PETITIONS OFFERED WERE NOT INVALY Statute Is Suspended After Only One Day of Opera- tion; Oil Firms Gain REFUND IS HELD POSSIBLE hose Who Paid, However, May Have Difficulty Getting Money, Says Byrne qT North Dakota’s four-cent gasoline tax, “on” Wednesday, was “ P ~ iy. Yy, ‘off again’ The statute became effective Wed- nesday morning and gasoline pur- i Paid the additional cent of Late Wednesday the su Tuled that the \ secreeiey ioe? mate should have accepted petitions to re- fer the law and thereby suspended its operation after only one day. The Status now is the same as though the law never had been passed, Secretary of State Robert Byrne said he assumed that persons who Paid the tax Wednesday would be en- titled to a refund but that it might be difficult for them to collect it. Un- ae refunds are made, oll companies will make Profit of about $2,000 on ‘Wednesda; ays business. They are estimated to have collected this sum in extra gasoline taxes but will not have to pay it over to the state, which has no Tight to it under the supreme court's decision. This suspends operation of the four- Cent tax law until it is voted upon by the people at the presidential pri- rid election in March, 1932. € court's order issued to Byrne, reads: “The court having heard the arguments of the respective Parties to this Proceeding and the argument Presented in behalf of certain tax- — ive seek to in- j tervene therein; and due considera- tion having been given to the vari- Ous questions presented for deter- mination, and it appearing to the Satisfaction of the court that the referendum petitions are not rendered insufficient by the defects claimed to exist therein, and that the decision of the secretary of state holding such Petitions to be insufficient is incor- Tect, it is therefore ordered that the secretary of state be, and he is hereby required to accept and file said peti- beri Heenan to law. A formal ion Wi re reece Prepared and filed State Auditor John Steen, on advice of the ati eel that petitions for a referendum were defective, had advised gasoline deal- ers to collect the four cent tax. Fol- lowing the supreme court's decision, he wired gasoline dealers to cease eae of the additional one-cent tax. Attorney General James Morris said he believed the law could not be considered as ever having been in ef- fect, as the supreme court’s decision holds the petitions should have been accepted by the secretary of state in the first place. By acceptance by the Secretary of state of the petitions to refer a law, the act is automatically Suspended its status will be determin- ed by vote of the people at a subse- quent state-wide election. The petitions were filed with the Secretary of state June 2 and were rejected June 18 On June 26, the committee for the petitioners brought the action against the secretary of State. Attorney General Morris ruled before the proceedings were brought that the ballot title of the petitions Was “fatally defective in form and Substance,” and defended his stand before the supreme court when he appeared in defense of Byrne. The voters, at the March primary, will express their sentiments on a four-cent gasoline tax for the second time in two years. A law was ini- tiated and subsequently disapproved at the June primary last year. While this act provided for an increase of one cent in the tax, it called for ap- Portioning one fourth of the increase to the counties, and the reminder to the state. ‘The referred act would have divid- ed the cent increase equally between state and county; and would have of their returns against state and federal aid projects. New Board Fails to Open Power Offers