The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 22, 1931, Page 3

=? Mrs. George Shafer To Speak at Annual Federation Meeting Mrs, George F. Shafer, first lady of North Dakote, will appear on the pro- gram at the 35th annual convention of the. .North Dakota Federation’ of ‘Women’s clubs in Fargo, according to Mrs. R. A. Thomson, Lisbon, a mem- ber of the program committee. Mrs. Shafer will give her impres- sion of the Passion Play, which she saw last year at Oberammergau, at the formal opening Monday evening, September 14. As one of the convention features, a trip to the U. 8. Veterans’ hospital at Fargo is planned in order to give clubwomen an idea of the rehabilita- tion work carried on through the hospital. The federation maintains contact with the hospital through its special committee for cooperation with war veterans, headed by Mrs. ‘Lynn Williams, Grafton. ** # Miss Floy Kitchen and Mrs. Mabel May, 600 Main avenwie, will leave Sat- urday for Minneapolis to be the guests of friends for 10 days or more. * % * The Misses Alma and Evelyn Beadle, Hope, N. D., are spending a few days in Bismarck with Mrs. Min- nie ‘Bowen, 924 Fourth St. 7 xe & Miss Lillian Cook, secretary of the state library commission, has left for Minneapolis, where she will spend about 10 days with her sister, Mrs. Thomas DeLancey. *# * # Miss Lucille McGrath, Fargo, is here to spend a week as the guest of her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. 8. W. Fraser, ae See st, ** Gerald Reuter, Garrison, is here to spend a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth W. Simons, 811 Mandan St. He is a nephew of Mrs. Simons. * * # Mr, and Mrs. H. P. Goddard, 808 Mandan ‘St., accompanied by their daughter, Miss Katharyn Goddard, New York, left Friday by car for a motor trip to Spearfish and other points in the Black Hills. * # # Mrs, W. J. Dobson, 222 West Main avenue, has as her guests over the week-end Mr. and Mrs. George John- son and .sons, Alfred and Donald, Parker, 8. D. Mr. Johnson is an uncle of Mrs. Dobson. They will visit other relatives before woe for their home. * Miss Anette Leibole, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Leibole, 111 Ave- nue C, will leave Sunday for New York City, where she will continue ther musical studies at a New York conservatory. x * * Miss Edna Mae Harris, Neenah, ‘Wis., has left for her home after a visit with Mrs. F. E. Diehl, 809 Sixth St. In company with Mrs. Diehl she visited friends at Dickinson and/ Bowman, where Miss Harris former- ly taught, * %& * | Mrs. Laura C. Sterrett of the Bank of North Dakota staff has returned to Bismarck from Seattle, where she visited her son, H. A. Sterrett. She also visited with friends at Tacoma and. Everétt, Wash. She was away two weeks. * * % Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Diehl, Aber-; deen, 8. D., are here to spend the week-end with Mr. Diehl’s parents, Mr, and Mrs. F. E. Diehl, 809 Sixth St. They are returning to Aberdeen after a vacation trip through the! Black Hills and to Denver and Color- ado Springs, Colo. i * * # Mrs. R. A. Russell and Mrs. Carl Toliver entertained 20 women at a handkerchief shower Friday evening in honor of Mrs. William Brooker. The party was held at the Russell home, 700 Twenty-first St. Games were played during the evening and, refreshments were served by the.hos- tesses, assisted by Anna Velinsky * %* # In honor of Miss Marie Irish, Chi- cago, and her sister, Mrs. Walter Hobe, St. Paul, who have been visit- ing in the city, Mrs. E, H. L. Vesper- man entertained a few friends at a breakfast Thursday morning at her home, 410 Avenue B West. Garden flowers were used in the table decora- ee Mrs. H. S. Russell, Mandan, enter-| Uday tained Friday afternoon at an infor- mal party complimentary to Mrs. Herman Tavis, Inglewood, © Calif. Guests were 12 old-time friends of Mrs. Tavis who formerly lived in Mandan. Bouquets of garden flowers Luncheon Honors National. Officer Of War Mothers Several Bismarck women were ‘among the guests when Mrs. Anna Stark, Mandan, entertained a group of War Mothers at a luncheon Thurs- day afternoon at her home, for Mrs. V. H. Stone, Lander, Wyo. Mrs. Stone, who is national historian for the American War Mothers, is a candi- date for the national presidency of the organization. She is accompany- ing her husband, Judge Stone, on a trip to North Dakota offices of the Midwest Utilities company. Late summer flowers were arranged in the rooms and bouquets in pastel tones were used for the table where Places were marked for 22. Mrs. Stone spoke during the after- noon on War Mothers’ work and fu- ture plans of the organization. ‘Those - attending from Bismarck were: Mrs. John Burke, state presi- dent of the American War Mothers; Mrs, W. A. Falconer, president of Fort Lincoln chapter; Mrs. L..M. Parsons, past chapter president; and Mrs. B. ae state corresponding secre- . Mrs. Stone was entertained by the Bismarck ‘chapter members a. few weeks ago. oe # Mrs. Roy Riggs and daughter Ruth, 425 Sixteenth St., left Friday’ on a' Wo weeks vacation trip to Superior, ee #” Major and Mrs. Harold Sorenson, 1014 Fifth St., and Captain and Mrs. Forrest Skinner, 209 Thayer avenue, left Saturday morning for a week-end motor trip through the badlands near | Medora. x ee lal Mr. and Mrs. L. 8. Gray, 505 West, Thayer avenue, have as their’ guests ‘Mr. Gray's parents, Mr. ard. Mrs. Homer Gray, San Francisco, who ar- rived this week. * * # Mrs. Don Short (Edith Whittemore) has arrived from Medora to spend a week or more with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Whittemore, 714 Sec- ond St. ** * George 8. Bird, Dedham, Mass., father of George F. Bird, 711 Second St., who has been visiting at his son’s home for the last three weeks, expects to leave Sunday for the east. * ee Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Harris, son Jack and daughter Jean, 828 Fifth \St., left Saturday morning by car for Sharon, N. D., to spend several days. Later they will motor to Warren, Minn., for a visit with relatives, They will be away about a week. * * * Mr. and Mrs. R: E. Gustaveson have left for their home in New York city after a visit nere with Dr. and Mrs. W. E. Cole, 210 Park St., and with Mr. and Mrs. Arthur A. Jones, 409 Seventh St. Mr. Gustaveson is a brother of Mrs. Cole and Mrs. Jones. * * % Mr. and Mrs. Albert E. Jones, Lis- {bon, and Mr. and Mre. H. W. Me- Ardle, Fargo, were visitor's in Bis- marck Saturday while Mr. Jones was attending to business matters. They came here from Minot where they have been attending the district Ki- ; Wanis convention. * * # Mrs. J. B. Smith and children Jane and Jack, 805 Fifth St., are back from @ 10-day outing at the Minnesota jlakes. They visited with Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Bush, Fergus Palls, for. mer Bismarck residents, at their cot- tage on Ottertail lake and were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Knight, Fargo, at their summer home at Edgewater Point on west Cormorant lake. * *e * Mrs. William Furness, Jr., Bis: marck. @ recent bride, was compli- mented at a bridge party given ‘Thursday evening by Mrs. E. M. Ten- neson, Mandan, and the Misses Lily Miss Willfred Simpson, Detroit, Mich., who is visiting with her mother in Mandan, was @ guest of honor at a bridge party given Bed after- automobile at 10:30 o'clock Saturday: forenoon for Grand Forks, where they A. O. U. W. Picnic For members and their fam- ilies Sunday, Aug. 23, south of Fort Lincoln, A. 0; U. W. sign: lunch, ‘Ice cream and coffee, free. Games and races for - the children, OLSNESS PROTESTS CHANGES MADE IN | STATE HALL LAWS Insurance Commissioner Says Department Doomed Under Existing Conditions ‘Unless collection of hail insurance Premiums is given the status of an j department “must face ultimate ruin,” S. A. Olsness, commissioner of insur- ance, said in traysmitting the 12th annual report of the department to Governor George F. Shafer, Olsness called the governor's atten- tion to recommendations in the com- missioner’s report of last year, ui the legislature to make listing mine surance optional instead of compul- THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE serve for uncollectable indemnity tax] and the reserve for future abatements, totalling together over $475,000 repre- sents a loss to thi nity left unpaid by mortgagees, con- stitute a serious problem and the only remedy is to give the indemnity tax the same status as the general taxes.” Bootlegger Held as Bondsmen Withdraw Minot, N. D., Aug. 22—()—Two bondsmen for C. E. “Eddie” Norris of Minot, under a five-year sentence to Leavenworth penitentiary for vio- lation of the federal prohibition laws, and who is appealing his case to the United States supreme court, with- drew Saturday and Norris was taken into custody. Norris ,was convicted in federal court at Grand Forks more than a year ago, in connection with a liquor truck seizure at Fargo and was sen- tenced to serve five in prison and pay a fine of $10,000. Convicted at the same time was Lee Dillage, Lig- nite, who was sentenced to serve two and one-half years and to pay a fine sory and giving the premium the] of go, status of an absolute tax. “While the legislature incorporated the feature of optional listing, the tax amendment was defeated,” the re- Port says. “This is truly regrettable since it deprives us of the automatic and expedient method of acquisition enjoyed under the old law and denies the department any effective means of collecting premiums.” Law Promotes Fraud “As the law now stands,” Olsness said in reiterating a recommendation contained in his 1929 report, “it pro- motes fraud and invites the unscru- pulous mortgagee to take his hail in- surance without paying for it, thereby increasing the cost of such insurance to honest farmers correspondingly. This injustice has grown to such an alarming degree that unless stopped, it threatens to ruin the usefulness of the enterprise. It is to be hoped that the next legislature will take due recognizance of these fact Olsness called attention to hail in- surance statutes of Alberta and Sas- katchewan in Canada, and South Da- kota and Colorado which grant the collection of hail premium tax as any other taxes are collected. Faces Ultimate Ruin “I see no reason,” he added, “why it could not be legalized in North Da- kota. Until this handicap is over- come our North Dakota hail insur- ance department, the dean of all such enterprises in the United States, de- spite its magnificent start, must face j ultimate ruin.” Martin 8. Hagen, manager of the hail insurance department, in sub- mitting his report for 1930, states that the insured acreage for the year in- creased over the previous year while the number of losses reported de- crease. “This condition, in itself,” the re- port continues, “indicates a success- ful year and as such compares fav- orably with 1929. However, the sta- tus of the hail indemnity tax was not improved by ‘the last legislative as- sembly and therefore the uncertain- ty of collection of such tax remains as an obstacle to complete elimination of loss to the hail fund.” Indemnity tax rates for the year ral from 2 cents an acre to 43 an acre for $7 an acre protec- tion, Hagen’s report says. The $7 an acre coverage exceeded by 576,358 acres that of the previous year and the $3 additional insurance: increased 118,118 ‘acres, Thirty-four per cent of the cropped acreage was insured by the state, representing an. increase of nine per cent over 1929. The report shows there were 6,486, 952 acres insured at $7 in 1930, 273,010 insured for $3 additional Fund Reaches Limit ‘The hail fund has reached its le- gal limit, the report states, but the $4,000,000 reserve is not all in avail- able cash. The cash balance,on hand in the hail fund and the operating account fund on January 31, 1931, totalled’ $1,749,907, the balance of the assets! consisting mainly in uncollected hail taxes. “The statutory limit of the fund has been wisely set in view of the fact that the same now provides a suffi- cient cash reserve for the payment of land insured by the department in re- cent years. “Attention is called particularly to the abilities of the fund and the re- serve set up thereunder. The re- San Francisco standard in every detail, 1140 miles a day. by nearly 36 hours. its roadability. rience for yourself the performance which made this phe- nomenal record possible, ‘a| ©: 4+ Livesay, Jamestown, was chosen : -CROSS-CONTINENT RECORD SHATTERED. BY NEW PLYMOUTH and return in 132 hours— On this record-breaking trip a New Plymouth Sedan, average speed of 47.52 miles per hour and more than nental mark, set between Los‘ Angeles and New York, by 934 bours—the San Francisco-New York record ‘These marks were formerly held by cars costing several times the Plymouth price. No greater example can be given of the astounding | ruggedness, endurance and stamina of the New Ply- mouth, No finer proof can be offered of its perform- ance, its power, its handling case, its safety and Take a ride in the New Plymouth. Expe- 535 500. Both Norris and Dillage carried ap- Peals to the United States circuit court at St. Louis, where Norris’ con- viction was affirmed and Dillage's re- versed. Band Concert Is Set For Sunday Evening Bismarck will hear a concert by the Twin City concert band in front, of the World War Memorial building at 7:30 o'clock Sunday evening, it was announced Saturday by Clarion E. Larson, director of the Bismarck high school. band. Ralph Law, conductor of the Man- dan municipal band, will direct the band, which is composed of 40 musi- cians from Bismarck and Mandan. Sam Kontos, Bismarck, will play ‘a saxophone solo, the serenade from | Drigo’s “Les Millions D’Arlequin,” as jOne of the concert features. Larson directed the band in a con- cert at Mandan Friday evening. Several hundred chairs will be fur- nished for auditors at the Bismarck concert. |Disabled Veterans Reorganize Chapter] Disabled World War’ vetetans of Bismarck and Mandan Bismarck-Mandan Chapter No. 3 of |Disabled American Veterans at a meeting held Thursday evening at Barbecue ranch, north of Bismarck. Officers elected were: John Spare, Bi k, commander; H. C. Mc- Cready, adjutant; Jake Seigel, Man- dan, chaplain; Harry Bernstein, Bis- marck, historian; Andrew Froelich, Mandan, sergeant-at-arms. Roy F. Dow, Mandan, and Scotty O’May, Bis- marck, were named members of the board of trustees. The group will devote its time to working out a program for disabled veterans’ welfare and obtaining leg- islation of benefit to ex-service men. Veterans who have not been con- tacted are urged to send in their names to the adjutant from the commander Lisbon Man to Head Horticultural Group Jamestown, N. D., Aug. 22.—(?)—H. B. Thompson, Lisbon, was named president of the North Dakota Horti- cultural society here Friday night. vice president and A. F. Yeager, Far- 80, secretary. Visitors and officers as well as many local persons attended a ban- quet at which H. H. Hirschy, Lisbon, judge of the gladiolus show held here in connection with the horticultural meeting, explained the different va- rieties of gladiolus and how to know and grow them. ‘The 1932 meeting place of the so- clety will be chosen by the executive committee. BOWMANS LEAVE FOR WEST » N. D., Aug. 22—Mr. and Mrs. J. 8. Bowman, pioneer residents of Grand River township near here, left this week for Stanwood, Wash., near Bowman 23 years ago. They ‘were accompanied by their daughters, Stella, Clara, Mary, Esther and Jes- sie, Their two sons will remain here in charge of the Bowman farm. to New York covered 6287 miles at an AND UP, ¥.0.3. FACTORY SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1931 GRENORA ROBBERS GET CLEANLY AWAY No Taces Found of Five Ban- dits Who Held Up Bank in Williams County Minot, N. D., Aug. 22.—(%)—Five men who Friday afternoon robbed the Northwestern State bank of Grenora, in Williams county, of between $1,000 and $1,500 in silver and currency, Sat urday had apparently made a suc- cessful escape. It is believed the quintet fled north and east out of Grenora in an auto- mobile which was stolen several days go at Rhame, N. D. There was a possibility that the five escaped into Canada, which is 35 miles north of | Grenora. E. 8. Lee, cashier of the bank, said Saturday the loss has not been defi- nitely determined, the arival of insur- ance company representatives being awaited before an effort is made to check the amount of loot obtained. He was of the opinion it would amount to between $1,000 and $1,500. Lee, W. R. White, @ patron, and C. L. Lien, assistant cashier, were in the bank when three of the five ban- dits walked in and in a polite tone of voice told them to get down on the floor, which they did. As the ban- its walked into the bank they closed the front door behind them and snap- ped a lock but did not pull down a curtain. Two accomplices in an automobile Net by an p Webster Aart. Abbe iach Mr. and Mrs. Harold Madland of Menoken are parents of a son’ born Friday at the St. Alexius hospital. California Tennis Newport, R. I., Aug. 22—(#)—Ells- worth Vines, America’s outstanding tennis youngster, Saturday won the British Davis cup star, 6-2. It was the Briton’s first defeat in his United States campaign, for in less than two weeks he accounted for six of the nation’s first 10 players. His steady play, however, had but little effect on the 19-year-old Cali- fornian, who is ranked eighth. Many Are Dead in Havana, Aug. 22.—(7)—Fighting in the hills around Gibara cost the Cu-jtural, and the Smith-Hughes home| bog army four dead and eight wound-! economics courses. ported Saturday. H Forty-three rebels were killed in} the first engagement and thirty more! died in Guerrilla fighting afterward, the army casualty list showed. The indicated victory at strengthened the belief of the Mac- hado adherents the revolt is nearing City-County News ‘ Arraign Fargo Man On Forgery Charge CAPITOL Daily 2:30 - 7:00 - 9:00 Adults 35c¢ until 8 TONIGHT Arraigned in justice court on; charges of forgery, William Green, Fargo, Friday was bound over to dis-/ trict court after he had waived pre- liminary examination. Green is charged with having forg-' ed the name of a Sterling merchant; to @ cream check. The check * was to have been stolen from a pad, ich was kept in a Sterling store. He was committed to the county jail in default of $1,500 bond. He was arrested in Hazen Thurs- day night by Burleigh county sheriff's officers. Star Beats Briton wport Casino singles championship overwhelming Frederick J. Perry, 6-2, 6-4, 6-8, Make no mistake— this is one of the great ones—an epic of the human heart to equal “The Big Parade” and “Ben Hur.” Don’t miss it! | New England, N. England schools wil E. O. Morstad, superintendent, announced. A staff of 14 teachers for the high school and grades have been hired and special classes inj science and public speaking are being} jarranged. In the high school three {general courses will be offered: \classical, the Smith-Hughes agric Cuban Revolution the army information office re-! Gibara worship. service ‘The Shepherd of Captive end. drove to the front of the bank soon after the three who had walked down ic while the others obtained the loot. After the bandits obtained the Money, they required the three men to get off the floor and marched them into the vault, where they locked them in. The prisoners freed them- selves in about three minutes. A Grenora boy, who noticed the two men sitting in an automobile'in front | of the bank, and had seen the other three previously enter the building, made a mental note of the license number, which he furnished to au- thorities. Lee said that the bandits overlooked about $400 in silver and currency and $3,000 in bonds. British builders have delivered to supposed to be the largest boat in the ‘world, TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY ATTENTION—We have an opening for an ambitious young man look- ing for a permanent position. Must, be neat and honest. Ask for Mr. Btaltz, Patterson Hotel, Saturday evening. 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