The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 21, 1931, Page 2

BISHOP CANNON ASKS | TOMAKE STATEMENT Sends Open Letter to Senators/ Pleading Judgment Be Withheld i Washington, Dec. 21.—()—Without | waiting for the Nye committee to re- port, Bishop James Cannon, Jr., has! asked the senave to withhoud judg- | ment on the results of the investiga- | tion into the use of funds against Al- fred E. Smith in the 1928 presidential | election. | In an open letter to the senators! the bishop Sunday asked that action | be taken to secure him opportunity | to make a sworn statement, after the | courts have passed on his case, for | OUT OUR WAY ZF FZ: Ger most OF MY HOME OUT OF BOOKS ~— THaANW HEANENS “THEY CANT USE THE FURNITURE FOR BOOK MARKERS. \\ WMA MW ifelusion in the records of the cam- Paign funds investigating committee. | The report is to be presented by | Chairman Nye sometime this week. ; The bishop did not testify in the=in- ; quiry, nor did he ask to. \ His aides { -Tefused to testify. Ih the open letter he complained | he had received no reply to letters written the committee about making | @ sworn statement; that he had de-/| cided not to make this answer until} court action was settled. and: “... . I positively affirm that there is not a single item of testimony (in the com- mittee. record) which cannot be ex- Plained to the satisfaction of any! fair-minded person.” i Bishop Cannon is under indictment | by a grand jury for failing to report certain campaign contributions. The case is now pending in the District of Columbia supreme court. o Se 1 AT THE MOVIES | —$—$_— oe PARAMOUNT THEATRE Many personalities and a score of Hollywood's most beautiful actresses | appear in the cast, of Paramount's Picture drama, “Working Girls,” the ‘screen feature at the Paramount The- atre beginning tonight. Paul Lukas, who heads the cast, plays the part of a romantic scientist who becomes interested in a pair of small-town sisters seeking careers in New York. Judith Wood, 1931 ‘Wampas -star, has her biggest role ‘since Paramount signed her to a con- tract, as one of the sisters. Charles “Buddy” Rogers portrays a Broadway Play-boy. Dorothy Hall, the original Schatze of “The Greeks Had a Word for It” on the stage, plays the part of the other sister, and Stuart Erwin has the featured comedy characterization. Frances Dee, another Wampas se- * lection who played Sondra Finchley in “An American. Tragedy,” has Part of “Buddy” Rogers’ wealthy fi- ancee. Joined with the featured act- resses are Frances Moffett, Alberta Vaughn, Gretta Gould and others, who portray the working girls. Dorothy Stickney, who played Molly in “The Front Page” on Broadway, '* makes her first bid for screen honors in “Working Girls.” She, with Mary Forbes and Claire Dodd, play the principal character roles. CAPITOL THEATRE Lew Ayres’ supporting cast in “Heaven on Earth,” in addition to Miss Louise and Miss Patterson, in- cludes Harry Beresford, Slim Sum- merville, Charley Grapewin, Lew Kelly, Alf P. James, Harlan Knight, Francis Ford and many other noted character actors, who are seen as “steamboaters” or as “whjte trash shanty-boaters.” A motion picture “set” with three actors before the cameras and more than 100 technicians “behind the This is the record created in a series of scenes which form a pert| of “Heaven on Earth,” Universal's colorful Mississippi River drama now Playing at the Capitol Theatre. The acenes consist of closeup views of the bank of the Mississippi River during @ flood, with rickety “shanty-boats” in the water and dilapidated shacks on the adjacent shore. Though the = AED. Ui, 8, PAT. OFF. Tax Collections in State \Held to Be Good This Year Survey By Greater North Dakota Association Discloses Receipts Are Only 10 Per Cent Below Last Year; Changes Made in Amounts of Levies \Fargo, N. D., Dec. 21.—Ridiculous tales of North Dakota farmers walk- ing off their farms in default of taxes have gone far enough. The Greater North Dakota association definitely answered this statement Monday with a state-wide survey which shows the tax collections for this winter to be but 10 per cent below those of a year ago. Agriculture has been dealt a fearful blow by way of demoralized mar- kets and drought conditions over the state this year, but nowhere are land owners permitting their properties to become endangered where it is hu- the | ™&nly poesible to promptly meet the annual levies. From 42 reporting coun- ties, out of a total of 53, the percentage of tax collections reported by county treasurers, is .832 per cent this winter, compared with 937 @ year ago. This year’s receipts went toward .an increased. levy, too, the total demands for these 42 counties this year being $22,536,116.78 as compared with $21,754,361.16 for 1930. Collections reported were $20,389,509.85 for 1930, and $18,760,119.81 for 1931. 11 Counties Reduce Levies Counties which decreased their 1930 levies included Barnes, Billings, Bowman, Burleigh, Golden Valley, Kidder, LaMoure, Nelson, Ramsey, Slope and Steele. The following sought increases: Adams, Burke, Cass, Dickey, Divide, Dynn, Emmons, Foster, Grand Forks, Grant, Mettinger, Logan, Mc- Lean, Mercer, Morton, Motintrail, Oliver, Pembina, Pierce, Renville, Rich- land, Rolette, Sheridan, Sioux, Stark, Towner, Traill, Walsh, Ward, Wells and Williams. Dickey, Sioux and Foster counties actually hed greater tax collections this winter than a year ago. In the 10 counties which bore the brunt of this year’s unprecedented drought, Divide, Burke, Renville, Bottineau, Ward, Williams, Mountrail, McLean, McKenzie and McHenry, tax collections are off only 16 per cent) this year. Data covering tax collections in the leading counties of the state and those in the Missouri Slope area follow: Taxes Paid ‘Taxes Paid 1929 Levy Nov. 1, 1930 Pot amies $ eagoaet oy dams ..... $ 368,263.70 $ 292,620.41 + 1,018,406,90 875,364.42 85 976,223.93 788,396.12 126,914.73... Prrrrreryy 121,635.20... . 11.53°* 260,518.25 .. 8.87°* 250,021.16 .. + 248,027.47 205,258.14 83 244,039.41 180,630.11 ~ 2,295,215.71 2,570,488.69 91 2,808,130.55 2,396,619.63 + 338,660.63 284,897.97 84 401,937.04 235,503.23 474,629.66 389,845.59 86 482,813.36 330,001.64 272,482.20 77 380,290.91 302,457.89 225,679.14. 11.80°* 205,793.35 1,636,819.11 104 1,579,955.26 1,361,602.51 832.41 & 2 58 8 2 5 long shots of this stirring action were taken on the river “location” where filmed, these closeups were made at * TTT Mountrai Universal studios, on account of the necessity of having the turbulent wa-| Oliver 189,184.64 162,705.91 185,518.76 139.416.38 tere sctually under the control of the| Piisya""*” 1006 68625 S06R42.7T 101804783 854,877.33 % = Sheridan .. 304,159.48 223,163.02 360.84 205,350.11 NEW SALEM CLUB ELECTS | Sloux ...... 143,711.00 92,001.00 aorsa00 LITabAas nee SD ee hini| Bee oc 3 guar Mann Cu ham was elected pret of the New Salem Lions club for the next | Ward eat 1,250,407.95 year. Other officers named were P.| Wells 96534556 rick W. D. Toes. third vice ee ' it; William Be! jum, secretary- treasurer; John Tellman, lion tamer; Iiiness Is Fatal E. H. , tail twister; and L. A. + Iibrccht, director, To Wilton Woman es Free Again 8 — Mrs. John Law, 37, & resident of the Wilton vicinity for the last eight years, died in Bismarck at 8 p. m. Sunday following a period of ill health that began two years ago. ° ' and Mary Ella, 22 months. Her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Boettcher, live at Oxban, Sask. Mrs. Law was born at Gettysburg, 8. D., Nov. 21, 1894. In 1918 she mar- ried John Law at Northgale, Sask. ‘The couple moved to the Wilton vi- cinity in 1923, Fishermen Fight to Safety in Lifeboat! San Francisco, Dec. 21. — (®) — Through heavy seas, lashing winds and driving rain, four men made their way to Rockaway Beach in a frail life. boat Sunday night after the fishing trawler Abraham Lincoln, of which they were captain and crew, caught {fire about seven miles off-shore. | Placing their injured captain, Frank Sanfilippo, in the vessel's only life- : * _ |boat, the crew members rowead away Mrs. Avonne Taylor Manville, above,/from the Lincoln as the fire, caused former “Follies” beauty, is free again}by an explosion of the galley stove, after a marriage of less than a year|crept toward the fuel tanks. te Thomas F. Manville, Jr., heir to! A shower of burning timber rained © $10,000,000 share in the $23,000,000\on them when they were about a estate of the late founder of the!hundred yards from the vessel. The Johns-Manville corporation. Mrs.!blaze had reached the tanks. Th> le wr her meade Buta at;burning hulk ‘soon sank. ~ , Yucatan, Mexico. lan-| Joe Carral, unele of Sanfilippo and ville has been divorced three times,|2 member of the crew, also was in- span appearance. and repairing to us. ing plant. 311 Main Avenue Nothing adds so to. the good impressions one séeks to gain socially as spic and Send those garments that need cleaning, remodeling ‘We operate our own clean-~ MASTER CLEANERS & DYE! ZZ oRMILLAMS cay @ 1091 By wea sevice, me, (221 Says Farmers Union Trusted by Commission St. Paul, Dec. 21-(7)—Only one man was assigned to the double du- ties of weighing and sampling grain im elevator M during last April, be- cause “The Farmers Union Terminal association was trusted,” Edward Johnson, deputy chief inspector of grain in the Minneapolis office of the railroad and warehouse commission, said Monday he testified as hear- Ings on removal proceedings against members of the commission were re- sumed before Governor Floyd B. Johnson explained the welghing hi lepers in elevator M were un- usut One man was believed sufficient he said because “we had no reason lo believe that any employes of the Farmers Union Terminal association ‘would tamper with samples.” Gopher Cagemen Will Meet Pittsburgh Team Minneapolis, Dec. 21—()()}—Uni- versities of Minnesota and Pittsburgh will clash in basketball in the next two seasons, athletic heads of the former announced Monday. Pittsburgh will play here during the 1932-33 season with Minnesota travel- ing east in 1933-34. Dates for the games have not been set. Athletic Director H. O. Crisler plans at least one intersectional game annually for Minnesota Cagers. Ne- braska furnishes competition here De- cember 29 and will be met at Lincoln next season also. _—_—_—————— MOTORISTS ATTENTION! Your patronage will be appre- ciated by The Main Street Service Station, Corner Seventh and Main, ‘Opposite Bank of North Dakota. Sinclair Products. 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