The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 18, 1931, Page 1

f % North DaKota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 _THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Weather Unsettled, snow probably tonight and Thursday; little change. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1931 PRICE FIVE CENTS Japs Crush Chinese Army Hoover-Grandi_ Discuss World CONEFRENCE LASTS OVER TWO HOURS IN WHITE HOUSE STUDY Pair Retire to Celebrate Lin- coln Study Soon After Breakfast NO COMMUNIQUE ISSUED Statement of Progress Expect- ed Thursday; Social Whirl Is Active ‘Washington, Nov. 18.—(?)—For. two) and a quarter hours President Hoov- er and his Italian guest, Dino Gran- di, talked over means of world bet- terment Wednesday at the white house. ‘The two devoted the principal part of their lengthy conference to eco- nomic questions. ‘With Secretary Stimson, they went to the celebrated Lincoln study on the second floor shortly after break- fast. They remained there until just discussing prospects for further armament curtailment by the ‘world powers, possible war debt revi- sion, and other subjects of mutual and Individual concern to America’ and her world war ally in southern) in Signora dime hotel—now their headquarters. Grandi’s next formal engagement was a luncheon given in his honor by Secretary Mellon at the latter's Massachusetts avenue 5 It had to be brief cies maior knew, and some were openly worried Jest preparations for the evening function would keep away Signora Grandi, symbol of the social brilliance of their home-land. And, indeed, Grandi had scheduled a great amount of activity. ‘The white house state dinner Wed- nesday night for 75 persons will be, of course, the most elaborate of the Grandi functions. Its importance will call forth the famed gold serv- ice. Tuesday night, at the Pan-Ameri- can Union dinner given by the Stim- son’s, the Italian lady made a stun- ning appearance in black velvet and) diamonds. 7 British Will Have Preference Tariff London, Nov. 18.—(?}—A preference tariff to unite the dominions of the British empire into economic unity, for which Lord bpp ong? noted newspaper published fot for more than a year, seemed assured Wednes- day with the passage-of the govern- ment’s tariff measure through its first stages in the House of Commons Tuesday. Lord Beaverbrook, demanded during the campaign a policy of free trade within the empire as ® means of building up a British economic unity that would be comparable with the United States, between whose states no tariff barriers are known. In the course of his battles over the issue, the 52-year-old publisher has bitterly attacked Stanley Bald- win, conservative leader and threat- ened to “smash” the Conservative par- ‘Canned Heat’ Cause Of Eliason’s Death The death of Gustaf Eliason, 60- ears, " Puneral services were being con- ducted at Baldwin Wednesday after- noon, BAILROAD MAN DIES . Chicago, .—/)—Ernest. F. Rummel, 55, assistant general man- ager of the Milwaukee road, died here Wins Tariff Fight i Photo LORD BEAVERBROOK Indications are that the new national government in England has adopted the “preférence tariff” policy ad- vocated by pect ele pub- er. FARMERS BENEFITED BY HIGHER PRICES IN GRAIN MARKETS Pacific Coast Survey Indicates $10,000,000 Boost in Purchasing Power Spokane, Wash., Nov. 18.—(7)—Of- ficials of the Farmers National Grain corporation and North Pacific Grain Growers, Inc., sald Wednesday Pa- cific northwest sgriculturists “with faith enough to hold their wheat had beneftied by approximately $10,000,- 000 when the price recently jumped 18 to 28 cents a bushel over Aug. 1 quotations. ‘The 40,000,000 bushels still held in Washington, Oregon, North Idaho) and the western one-third of Mon- alljtana constituted about half of the! 1931 crop. Farmers. who sold about 3,000,020 bushels at the peak of the current) market between Nov. 2 and Nov. 12 made $1,000,000, these officials said. Bankers and business men figured that the cash received, added to the encouragement of farmers, would do, much to dissipate economic fears. Hard winter, northern spring and western red wheats netted the grower 70 per cent more since Aug. 1 and Palouse hard federation jumped more than 65 per cent in net price to the farmer during the last three months,| the federal organization and regional cooperatives said, while western white) and soft white boomed nearly 60 per cent. High protein milling wheats were 75 per cent higher Wednesday than on Aug. 1. Pacific northwest wheat prices were from four to six cents a bushel higher than Chicago prices, due chiefly, grain officials said, to the 15,000,000 bushels sale of wheat to China, which cleared the area of all surplus wheat. CONVENTION ASKS IMMEDIATE PROBE OF FEDERAL BOARD Farmers Union Delegates Take - Action at Meeting in Des Moines LIKE IDEA, RAP ACTIONS Other Resolutions Would Boost Income and Inheritance Taxes Sharply Des Moines, Nov. 18—(?)—A resolu- tion demanding of the incoming con- gress that it order an “immediate and searching” investigation of the fed- eral farm board and its subsidiaries was presented Wednesday to the na- tional convention of the Farmers Un- jon. As chairman of the resolutions com- mittee, C. H. Hyde of Alva, Okla., said it was the feeling of the com- mittee regarding the federal market- ing act that the Farmers Union ap- proved the act, but not its adminis- tration and “that the most ardent aie will admit its shortcom- 3” Similar ideas were expressed at the open meeting Wednesday, when sev- eral state presidents of the Farmers Union addressed the delegates, told of conditions in their states, and asked for greater cooperation among members. Other resolutions, Hyde said, ready to be presented to the delegates in- clude requests for an increased tax on incomes in the higher brackets, “a considerable increase in the in- heritance tax, which would limit an) inheritance to one individual to $500,- 000, repossessing and stabilizing the monetary system,” and “directly op- pose an increase in armaments and the teaching of military training in Among the state presidents who spoke on such matters as pending legistation, conditions in the middle west, and cooperative marketings, was C. C. Talbot of Jamestown, N. D., who called the agricultural marketing act “the first piece of legislation ever giv- en the American farmers.” Beatrice Lantz of St. Lawrence, 8. D, won the $50 declamatory prize; Flora Boteboom of Dore, N. D., won the $50 first prize for an essay on peace and disarmament, and Reese Morgan of Phillip, 8. D., won the $40 second prize. : William Lemke, former North Da- kota attorney general, addressed the convention Wednesday on the Frazier bill for currency inflation to refi- nance farm mortgages at 1 1-2 per cent interest rate. “Declaring that we have less money in circulation than in 1885,” he said that if the farmers’ farm relief bill becbmes a law there would be issued and put into circulation several bil- lion dollars of new money and that {t would again give purchasing power to the people. ‘WIDE-OPEN’ PROBE PLANNED BY SENATORS Washington, Nov. 1.—(#)—Governor Murray of Oklahoma and others who have made charges against the farm board can appear before the senate ture committee November 24. Chairman McNary said Wednesday Northwest prices were 10 cents|the committee will conduct a “wide- higher than Chicago's at the peak of|open” investigation of the board and the wheat market last week. SUSTAINS RIGHT TO BOO charges against it. He also invited J. W. Brinton of Minneapolis, author of @ book attacking the board’s wheat Chicago, Nov. 18—()—The right to] policies, to testify. boo has been sustained. Judge Donald 8. McKinlay dismissed disorderly conduct charges against 17 defendants who booed a policeman. “Our mayor has been booed,” the court observed, | paid then cannot one boo a police- man?” MILK PRICE 18 LOW Buffalo, Nov. 18.—()—Seems like old times when every vacant lot was 8 cow pasture. Milk is selling for six cents a quart, and dealers say it may 0 lower. Man in Moon Has His Face Lifted By New Map Being Made in Observatory New Haven, Conn., Nov. 18— (®)—The sides of the moon's face, now distorted to human sight by the Satellite’s curvature, are be- ing “lifted” just a little into bet- ter view by a new kind of moon map. Man sees fully only a small part of the middle of the moon's ‘face, that part directly in line with his toward the of Washington, Me Roe et slightly different face toward the earth each year. Ordinarily it would take about one lifetime of watching to see all these moon faces. But a new device set up on top of Mount Wilson, Calif., alongside the 110-inch telescope reduces this “lifetime” to a few ae hh of the moon's A tograp! face is projected like a movie “still” upon a screen which is a round, white, ball, about half the size of an automobile hood. This ball represents @ miniature, arti- ficial moon. By use of some unique devices the ph can be varied to produce exactly the same views on this moon screen as would come from flying about the moon to look straight down from angles a few degrees to one side of the center. ‘The resulting map will be the first exhibiting accurately all the information available from the views which have been visible at one time or aonther to man’s eyes, but which never have been put into one complete picture before. ‘The work is in charge of the commiteee on study of the si face feature of the moon, pointed by Dr. John C. Merriam, president of Carnegie Institution of Washington. filles from thei of work. “ON A BICYCLE BUILT They “couldn’t afford a carriage,” so Elmer Hahn, 22 (the pilot), and Francis Baker, 17, pedaled this old-fashioned tandem bike 2,600 FOR TWO” sociated Press Photo home town of Kenosha, Wis., to Los Angeles in search Betterment TEMPERATURESHIT NEW LOW MARKS. IN NORTH DAKOTA Mercury Falls to Near Zero Tuesday Night; Williston Has Minimum SNOW IS HELD PROBABLE Weather Bureau Forsees Little Change in Thermometer Readings Mercury dropped to new low levels for the season in western North Da- kota during the night as the ap- Proach of winter was felt throughout the western part of the United States. A new low temperature for the season in Bismarck—15 degrees above zero—was established during the night. Grand Forks also had a new low, 21 degrees, Tuesday. Williston, the coldest point in the state during the 24-hour period end- ing at 7 a. m. Wednesday, recorded @ minimum of six degrees above. It, was 18 above at Devils Lake. Unsettled weather with snow prob- able and little change in temperature was forecast for North Dakota to- night and Thursday. Below Zero in Canada Sub-zero temperatures continued to prevail in the Canadian provinces north of here, according to the fed- eral weather bureau. With snow storms over the week- end on the Pacific slope and Rocky Mountain regions indicating the $550 for Unemployment Relief Netted by Shows Money Will Be Expended For Public Work to Give-Jobs to Men Here Approximately $550 for unemploy- ment relief in Bismarck was realized from the benefit motion picture shows presented in the Paramount and Capitol theaters Tuesday night. A check-up Wednesday morning indicated that about 1,100 tickets at 50 cents each were sold by more than 30 women over the week-end for the benefit shows. The general committee in charge of the benefit presentations, of which J. P, Wagner is chairman and B. F. Lawyer is secretary-treasurer, will decide how the money shall be used to furnish employment for jobless men in the city. About 800 persons attended the Paramount Tuesday night while al- | most. 300 were at the Capitol. Both’ shows began at 11 o'clock. The thea- ters were to show pictures scheduled for Wednesday, but the Capitol failed is receive its Wednesday picture in time. In order to fulfill obligations to| those who purchased tickets but did not attend the Capitol because they already had seen the picture, the Capitol will stage another benefit ‘show at 11 o'clock tonight. Benefit tickets may be used for this show. Benefit tickets also may be used by \children for matinee shows at both theaters Wednesday and Thursday. Employes of both theaters donated their services for the cause and per- formed their usual duties without remuneration. Almost 200 bought tickets when they arrived at the theaters, the rest being sold beforehand by women who) Participated in the sales campaign. The money realized for the fund will be used to promote types of work which will benefit the public, accord- ing to the plan. Tax Law Revision Urged at Meeting Kansas City, Nov. 1—(#)—Tax laws must be revised to spread out the burden of taxation, Gov. Dan Turner of Iowa told the national association of commissioners and secretaries of agriculture here Wednesday. He favored adoption of income tax laws by the various states, provisions for selected sales taxes, and urged that government be put ona business basis and that all unnecessary ex- penditures be eliminated. “Our laws must be revised if ade- quate reduction is obtained on the farms, homes and other visible prop- lerty,” he said. “It is imperative that we find new sources of taxation— otherwise the constant mounting bur- den of taxes will discourage people |from owning their own homes.” |Hickey Reelected By A. A. Club Owners Chicago, Nov. 18—()—Thomas J. Hickey Wednesday was reelectea president of the American Associa- tion of professional baseball clubs for ‘a one-year term. Hickey won after a two-day dead- lock, which found the vote on the usual three-year term tied at four- all. Minneapolis, St. Paul, Louis- ville and Columbus opposed his re- election while Toledo, Kansas City, Indianapolis, and Milwaukee voted for him. After failing to break the deadlock, he was given a year’s term by @ unanimous vote. e LABOR FEDERATION | SAYS BUSINESS IS | ON UPGRADE INU. § proved Great Deal During Last Month Washington, Nov. The federation’s monthly review tors returning. to the capital that, business is on the upgrade. Some unfavorable factors were cited, among them that “business| activity has not moved upward” but it followed this by noting optimistic developments. “The upturn in prices is impor- tant,” the survey said, “for @ con- tinued general price rise is the signal for expanding activity.” ‘The all-commodity price line was' described as climbing by Nov. 13 to 2.1 per cent above the June low point. Difficulties still unsolved, the fed- eration warned, may swing the bal- ance downward again. Among them were mentioned the building situa- tion, the European debt question and the railroad problem. Placing unemployed at 6,200,000, the survey said the major problem is: to adjust work hours to the actual work time needed in industry. A de- cline in average work hours, the fed- eration said, makes an adjustment to} bring about the six-hour day, or five- day week imperative. MORGAN HOPEFUL ON ENGLISH CONDITIONS New York, Nov. 18.—()—J. P. Mor- gan, back from Europe, is optimis- tic concerning conditions in England. He granted one of his rare inter- views to ship reporters Tuesday as the liner Mauretania waited for the fog to lift sufficiently for her to come up the harbor. “Things are looking a good deal better'in England,” he said. “It was @ marvelous election and it looks as if the Nationalist government will be in for a long time. No party has ever had that majority before. The gov- ernment is stable.” “Ig't unemployment in England! decreasing,” he was asked. “Yes,” he said, “I think that is the He declined to comment on world| cooneenle conditions or American af- Hold Two Suspects | In Minnesota Raid Cologne, Minn., Nov. 18.—?}—Two suspects of the State Bank of Cologne robbery were in jail Wednesday and the $2,361 stolen from the institution had been recovered. Otto Strand, 30 Minneapolis and Lawrence Owczarzak, also of Minne- apolis, were held for arraignment at Chaska in connection with the rob- bery, followed in less than eight hours with the capture of Strand in his stranded automobile and the arrest of Owczarzak in Minneapolis. coming of winter, other sections of the country Wednesday noted signs of colder weather approaching. Tornadic winds swept Oklahoma Tuesday in the wake of heavy rains. The southwest was drenched by general precipitation, and autumnal, downpours that freshened grass and Fired By Japanese Associated Press Photo Chang Hsueh-Liang was governor of Manchuria until the Japanese deposed him when they seized th southern part of his country while he In a hospital at Peiping. LEAGUES ALARMED AS JAPANESE DRIVE INTO RUSSIAN AREA See It as Evidence of Aggres- sive Military Spirit of Nipponese Paris, Nov. 18.—(?)—News that the Japanese army had occupied the Manchurian city of Tsitsihar aroused. alarm in league quarters Wednesday as evidence of an aggressive military spirit and contrary to the concilia- tory attitude of Japanese spokesmen and their government. | provided needed moisture for wheat. ‘Snow or rain forecast for: upper Michigan, Minnesota, and South Dakota Wednesday. Rainfall Tuesday extended to the Great Lakes region and to eastern Tennessee, Skies Are Clearing These manifestations came as "| clearing skies came back to the greater part of the Pacific coast re- gion after storms which piled snow Finds State of Mind Has Im-|high in the uplands. rrigation farmers wil benefit from the heavy fall, which ranged as deep “/as 56 inches at Norden, Calif. The United States weather bureau said there would be more snow in the 18,—() — The} Sierra Nevada mountains of Califor- American Federation of Labor finds| Tia and rains in far western Wash- the business state of mind has im-|!ngton. proved s good deal in the last month, | Coast is ahead of the average to date of} in numerous places. conditions met reinforcement for its] One more fatality was attributed to conclusions in a $36,000,000 favorable|the weather. Nick Calivakia of Eur- trade balance for the United States|¢ka, Calif, was killed at Red Bluff in October and assertions by legisla-| When a tree, blown over by a wind, Seasonal rainfall on the struck the tent in which he was sleeping. No. 13 Blamed for i: Mishaps to Grandi ata ae t icaiea Washington, Nov. 18.—(7)—Two modern marvels failed to do their stuff for Signor and Signora Grandi, and now it seems there were a couple of thirteens mixed up in it. Signor Grandi didn’t get his Promised flight with Lindbergh. And Grandi frankly grieved. Signora Grandi couldn’t com- plete a trans-oceanic phone call to her children. Signor Grandi reserved for his party 13 rooms at the Mayflower hotel. Signora Grandi went sight-seeing with Mrs. Stimson in @ car numbered 113. . TUNNEY HAS HEIR New York, Nov. 18.—(?)—A son was’ born today to Mrs. Gene Tunney, wife of the former heavyweight, boxing champion, who before her 1 was Miss Polly Lauder of Greenwich, Conn. Mother and son were reported ‘doing nicely.” In many quarters fear was aroused that Soviet Russia might be drawn into the Manchurian dispute. ‘The league council went into pri- vate session with both the Japanese and Chinese delegates present. Uni- ted States Ambassador Dawes did not attend the meeting. The meeting was brief and there will be another this evening at which the Chinese and Japanese represent- atives will be heard. A hope had prevailed in interna- tional quarters that Tsuneo Matsu- daira, Japanese ambassador at Lon- don, who to a great extent has been replacing Ambassador Yoshizwa as Tokyo's spokesman, might be able. sometime Wednesday to announce new and more conciliatory instruc- tions from his government. General Dawes remained again at ‘his hotel, but his conversations with league statesmen during the past 48 hours was understood to have done much to dissipate a feeling which penvaliod govt that the United Was ni posed to su; firmly the council's peese-mneing| program. The impression which existed Wed- nesday was that the American gov- ernment is maintaining its tradition- al policy of the open door in Man- churia and will associate itself with @ concerted international move to re- store the status quo in the disturbed area although at the same time do- ing everything possible to avoid wounding Japanese feelings. “We appreciate Russia’s position on the Chinese Eastern railroad, of course, and realize the interest of Moscow. Japan has no present no- tion of occupying any place in north Manchuria permanently,” a Japanese spokesman said at Tokyo. “Any oc- cupation of Anganchi or Tsitsihar would be a purely temporary mili- tary measure.” IT WAS TOO MUCH Cleveland, O., Nov. 18.—(?)—Mrs. John Carlo was not displeased when her former husband serenaded her on his harmonica until he burst forth with “Among My Souvenirs.” Then she called a policeman and had John arrested. Menoken Farmer Has Ring-Side Seat As Leonid Meteors Stage Spectacle Elmer Lundquist, farmer living north of Menoken, witnessed one of the universe's greatest shows, the appearance of the Leonid meteors, from start to finish early Tuesday morning. Lundquist was driving a team | and wagon north toward Baldwin during the night to get a load of coal. | About 2 a. m., he said, brilliant- hued stars began falling “from all directions.” At 3 a, m. he no- ticed one larger and brighter star shooting in a tion, flare in front and a blue streak at its tail. In its path it left a sort of mist, which prevailed for half an hour before ultimately disap- pearing. Shooting of the stars continued until about 7 a. m., he said. Lundquist said that many farmers, awakened by the glare created by the falling stars, mis- took the phenomenon for light- a ning before finding that it was a metoric spectacle. The Leonid meteors, which appear every 33% years, appar- ently have preserved their bril- lance despite the passing of time. Astronomers throughout the west are unanimous in their opin- ion that this year's shower of the Lenoids was the greatest since the historic display of 1866. From airplanes and land obser- vations, students of the makeup of the universe watched the un- usual sky display. Dr. Paul W. Merrill, of the Mt. Wilson obser- vatory, said he counted 134 shoot- ing stars in one hour and 57 min- utes from the window of an air- plane which took him above the desert near Las Vegas, Nev. A group of duck hunters on the Salton Sea of Southern California reported that out a cloudless sky meteors flashed and were reflect- ed on the glass-like surface of the lake. They said it appeared much like a barrage in war time. SMASH FORWARD IN Bla OFFENSIVE TO CAPTURE TSITSIAR Leader Says Drive Will Con- tinue Until Native Troops Are Exterminated ‘SELF-DEFENSE’ IS CLAIM Attack Carries Invaders Into Sphere Dominated By Russian Interests (By The Associated Press) China’s Manchurian army, fleeing through a blinding blizzard, broke in- to two scattering sections Wednesday and moved northward from Tsitsihar in a retreat which appeared to have turned into a rout. The retreat followed a smashing of- fensive by the Japanese army on the Nonni river which captured Tsitsihar and Anganchi and which was admit- tedly to sweep General Mah Chan Snah’s Chinese army from the area. Tsitsinar is 18 miles north of the Chinese Eastern railway, a line under the joint control of China and Soviet Russia, Thus the Japanese forces have penetrated into Russia’s sphere and fear was expressed in some circles that this advance might bring Soviet Russia into the Manchurian dispute. Military headquarters at Mukden and the Japanese war office at Tokyo said the attack was provoked by Gen- eral Mah and was ordered in self de lense. It would continue, it was an- nounced, until the Chinese army is crushed and permanent peace estab- lished. . ‘The League of Nations council met in Paris at noon to consider privately the results of Tuesday's individual discussions. The Japanese and Chi- a representatives were again ab- sent The attitude of the United States at Paris was said to be a desire to maintain its traditional policy of the open door in Manchuria and to asso- ciate itself with the international move to restore the status quo, at the same time doing everything pos- sible to avoid wounding Japanese feelings. Chinese government circles at Nan- king were pessimistic over the prose pect of firm action by the league to- ward forcing Japanese evacuation of Manchuria, Japanese officials said their troops, crossing the Russian-owned Eastern railway at Anganchi, would make every effort not to disturb Rus- sian interests. ENTIRE JAPANESE FORCE IS ENGAGED (Copyright, 1931, by the Associated Press) Mukden, Manchuria, Nov. 18.—(7) —The entire Japanese military force in the Nonni river area was launched against General Mah Chan Shan’s Chinese army Wednesday in a smash- ing offensive which the Japanese hoped would end the conflict in Man- churia, By noon the Japanese force had gained distinct success. Its cavalry had completed an encircling move- ment around the Chinese right flank and the Chinese had failed in an en- gagement with the Japanese right flank. ‘The cavalry movement opened the way for an infantry attack which broke through the Chinese first line and pressed on northward despite stubborn resistance. A bitter northerly blast swept across the battlefield out of Siberia, seri- ously handicapping the Japanese air attack, Fight to Finish ‘The announcement of the opening of the offensive was made by Gen- (Continued on page two) Search Is Continued _ For New Leipzig Girl A search for Freda Freisz, 14-year~ old New Leipzig farm girl and her abductor, launched in three states by Grant county authorities, was being continued Wednesday. Freda disappeared from her home Nov. 2. She is said to have driven off with a man descrited as be- ing abopit $4 years old in a tan Lin- coln automobile, lice have been asked to conduct search for th- couple. charging i with kidnaping has been sworn ae ee nts, . Mrs. Sam Friesz. letter found in the Freda’s older sister purported to be from a man in Bloomfield, who sug gested that Freda could have a “real good time” if she came to Bloome field. Police have been unable to the name or business of the abduction, i