The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 23, 1931, Page 1

i \ we North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1931 The Weather Partly cloudy tonight and Thurs- day; not much change in temp- PRICE FIVE CENTS: enate Passes Moratorium Oldest Resident of Bismarck JOSEPH DIETRICH | STRICKEN AT HOME TVESDAY EVENING Elks Lodge Will Have Charge of Funeral Services Thurs- day Afternoon HAD LIVED IN CITY 61 YEARS Heart Disease Fatal to Octo- genarian, Former Friend of General Custer Joseph Dietrich, 85, died at his home in Bismarck at 7 p. m. Tuesday to bring to # close the career of a man who came up the Missouri river in a river steamboat 61 years ago to help bring civilization to a country which then was little more than a wilder- ness. He was Bismarck’s oldest living resident. | In robust health during his long life, | Dietrich was stricken with a heart at- tack Sunday which rapidly sapped his strength, death coming less than 60 hours later. Physicians had held out little hope for his recovery because of his ad- vanced age. Besides his widow, he leaves two, daughters, Mrs. P. E. Byrne, Bismarck, ' and Miss Mable Dietrich, Los Angeles, | Cal.,and three grandchildren, William | Byrne, St. Paul, and oseph and Janel Byrne, Bismarck. ! Funeral services will be held at! Webb’s Funeral Parlors Thursday | afternoon at 2:30 p. m. The Elks lodge will have charge of arrange-| ments. Dietrich’s relatives requested Fridas | that no flowers be sent for the rites. First as an ambitious young adven- turer seeking his fortune in the fron- tier northwest and later as @ merch-/ ant in a thriving young city, Dietrich | had been a widely known figure in| Bismarck ‘since the first rude shack ‘was built here more than half a cen- tury ago. Was Friend of Custer The early life of Joseph Dietrich ‘was surrounded with the glamour gen= erally associated with frontier days of the old Northwest. General George Custer and many of the soldiers of his command were among the acquaintances of young; Dietrich, who had already been in the; territory six years before Custer’s col- | umn started on its ill-fated journey to the Little Big Horn. Dietrich had already applied for a post as assistant guide to the expedi-| tion, when Charley Reynolds, famous | frontiersman, believing the risk too great, prevailed upon him to give up the. idea. Reynolds was killed a few weeks later in a skirmish between Major Reno's command and a band) of Indians. Born in New York state in 1846,/ Dietrich came up the river by steam~; boat from Sioux City, Ia., in 1869. A! young man of 25, he had elected to} cast his lot with those who found ad- venture in braving the hardships of the wilderness under constant danger | from attack by hostile Indians to seek their fortunes in a new country. He landed at Painted Woods, a steamboat fueling station, a few miles north of where Bismarck now stands. He remained there until the spring of 1870 working with a few others cut- ting timber for fuel for boats that plied the Missouri. Built River Boat | | A few months later he built a river boat which he piloted down the Knife | River to the point where the village | ‘of Stanton now stands, to establish a; fueling station of his own. Here he worked alone in a district where the (Contirued on page seven) VETERANS CLOSING HEART CANPAIN Baskets Main .Item Still to Be Done i \ i ! j Members of the American Legion Wednesday were preparing to write “finis” to the public service effort ot, the veteran’s organization for ‘his, year. ! Milton Rue, chairman of the “Open Your Heart” campaign, said most of | the Christmas boxes which will be} sent out have been packed and 4/ large number already are on their) way. Only a few clothes remain of} the vast stock given to the campaign | ‘by the public for distribution and all! of these will be disposed of by the; the headquarters losed | Thursday, Rue said. | ‘The main effort Wednesday was, being centered on the preparation of | v0 Christmas basekts which the Le-' gion will distribute as its part in the; city’s “good fellowship” effort. { Donation of $17 in cash Wednesday | brought the total of money gifts to|* $639.36. The list of new donors fol-| lows: A Friend . -$ 1.00, John B. Be! 3.09 A. J. Arnot . 3.00 J P. Spies Marie Huber W. H. Stevens E. A. Greenwood 5.00 | marek Wednesday served to quiet Toys Awaited Murdered Girl Wondering . . . longing . . . fearing's degenerate, is shown above in the, ... Mrs, Mildred McLean, mother of child’s playroom as she waited with little Marion McLean, six years old,/the Christmas toys for news of their) who Tuesday was found dead after |little mistress. The inset is a new she had been criminally attacked by|snapshot of the slain child. Police Intensify Search For Slayer of Young Girl SANTA SENDS WOR HE WILL ARRIVE IN; —————_ where the matilated body~of~six- year-old Marian McLean was found Tuesday, returned Wednesday. Earlier the day police had been asked by his father to aid in his search. The boy was found by a policeman near the home of a friend. Meanwhile police intensified their search for the slayer of the McLean child. The Hamilton county grand jury; has returned a first-degree murder indictment against the unnamed slayer of the McLean child. The indictment s returned solely to speed bringing the girl’s slayer to his fate, should he be found. It charged murder in com- mission of criminal attack, and mur- der alone, both offenses bearing death | or life imprisonment as penalties. Meanwhile police questioned three; men. j One was Charles Bischoff, 45, Pudgy Shoemaker who found the girl’s body in his cellar, Another was James Devenny, 40, his brother- in-law, who lives at the address from which the Hornsby boy dis- appeared. A third was Dennis Del- aney, 44, accused heretofore of mo- lesting young girls. Prosecutor R. N. Gorman said the grand jury returned the “John Doe” indictment for two reasons; first, if Marian’s slayer was apprehended in another state it would pave the way for easy extradition; and sec- ondly, if the kidnaper was caught here he could be arraigned directly in common pleas court, saving the time required in a preliminary police court hearing. , PARENTS GUILTY O MSTREATINGCHLD Mr. and Mrs. Harry N. Riley Sentenced to Two Years Imprisonment | ‘Fear That 11-Year-Old Cincin-; nati Boy Met Same Fate Is Set at Rest Community Players to Present Holiday Play Christmas Afternoon A light snowfall occuring in Bis- the fears of those who had believed that Santa Claus would be unable to get to Bismarck for his scheduled appearance at the Christmas pro- gram at the city auditorium Thurs- day afternoon. The committee in charge of the! affair has received a telegram from Santa himself, saying that there is plenty of snow between here and the north pole and his reindeer will have no trouble in g2tting him here. It is believed that Santa will leave immediately after the program on a tour of the world to deliver toys to boys and girls of every nation. After Saint Nicholas is introduced, every child in the audience will be presented with a bag of candy. Judge A. B. Burr is chairman of the com- mittee instrumental in bringing Santa here. Harold Shaft is chair- man of the program which will commence at 2:30 p. m. To Give Program The program follows: Music—High school band under direction of Clarion Larson. Christmas Carol, “It Came Upon the Midnight Clear”—children led by Otto Bauer. Solo—Mrs. W. J. Targart. Christmas Carol, “Jingle Bells”— children. Address—Rev. Ira. E. Herzberg. Solo—Lorenzo Belk. Christmas Carol, “Silent Night (Continued on page Seven) Chicago Banker Is _ Slain in His Office Chicago, Dec. 23—(P)—John Jacob; Visser, 35, vice president and trust of- ficer of the Kimball Trust and Sav- ings bank, was found slain: late Tues-! day Washington, Dec. 23. (AP) — in his office on the third floor of Mr. and Mrs. Harry N. Riley were the bank building. {sentenced to two years imprisonment Police said they believed the bank! and fined $250 Wednesday for cru- official shot and killed himself after! eltv to th -year-old child, Fdith. an unsuccessful attempt to kill An-| Justice F. D. Letts imposed the tonius Van Worden. 67, a retired’ maximum'‘penalty after describing tie business man who had placed his evidence in the case as “revolting to property, in trust and named Visser the common sense of justice.” ag his heir. | The Rileys were convicted Thursday; The theory was Van Worden es- of treating their child cruelly over a caped after Visser had beaten him! period of years. It was testified they with a piece of gas pipe and shot him ‘kept her confined in a dark closet in the mouth. four years and otherwise mistreated Van Worden was in a serious con- her. dition Tuesday night. j 1 Van Worden said he had gone to; Farm Borrowers Have in a trust deed covering $35.000 of his | Returned $11,934,253 i property. Under its terms. he said./ he was to receive $125 a month from, Visser, but at his death the estate, was ts become Visser's property. ¢-—___—_--_____-— | Today in Congress ;| ? Washington, Dec. 23—(4)—The gov- ernment’s farmer-borrowers have re-/ ‘turned $11.934.253 to the treasury tills from funds advanced last spring to} plant new crops after the 1930; drought ! More is coming in daily as the | farmers sell fall harvests on which) Sonat, the government took liens In many Stands adtourned until Jan. 4. ‘eases where scttlement now would) Banking subcommittee under Chair- work a hardship. time extefisions are; san Cary of ¥,yoming ope ss wc2r- velng made. 1 ngs on proposals to fnerease land! The agriculture department loaned | ‘canks’ capital. japproximately $45,000,000 from the WEDNESDAY . FORNER SHERIF OF SUK COUNTY HELD IN JAL AT LINTON John Gates Is Charged With Ob- taining Money Under False Pretenses INVOLVES CHECKS CASHED M’Lean Authorities in Emmons City Investigating Wilton Bank Robbery Linton, N. D., Dec. 23.—(AP)— John Gates, former sheriff of Sioux county, is held in the Emmons county jail here on a charge of ob- taining money under false pretenses. Arraigned on the charge he wi bound over to the district court. Gates, a year ago, was charged with the robbery of the Farmers and Merchants bank of Hurdsfield, pester with three other men, but subsequently all four were released. The charge against Gates here is the outgrowth of the cashing of &l- legedly fraudulent checks by two men in this community recently. Authorities allege that the men’ who cashed the checks were brought to Linton by Gates. The former} sheriff then continued on to the Cheyenne Indian reservation in South Dakota, where he was taken into custody, it was claimed. He was allowed to return to his home at Fort Yates later but Tuesday was brought to Linton to face charges. On St. Paul Bank The checks cashed here were said Sheriff A. J. Loudenbeck, came drawn on the “Midwest National Bank of St. Paul,” a fictitious name. State’s Attorney Charles Coven- try, Emmons county, said the al- leged companions of Gates gave the names _of George Gordon and Ar- thur E. Stone, and have not been apprehended. Warrants have been issued for their arrest. According to Coventry, Gates did not issue. any of the checks but is charged in the complaint with vouch- ing that the checks were good. MEAN OFFICIALS PROBING ROBBERY Seek Information in Emmons! County About Wilton Bank Bandits Linton, N. D., Dec. 23.—()—Mc- Lean county authorities were in Lin-| ton Wednesday investigating clues in connection with the robbery of the First National Bank of Wilton on Dec. 8. Came From Washburn State’s Attorney G. A. Lindell and and Sheriff A. J. Loudenbeck, came here from Washburn Tuesday. Their investigations have been veiled in secrecy. Gunder Osjord, head of the state bureau of criminal apprehension, who came here on another case, con- ferred with the McLean county au- thorities. Several of the victims of the Wil- ton bank robbery were called here, but declined to discuss the purpose of their visit. Emmons ¢ounty authorities said they had no knowledge of the pur- pose of the McLean county officials’ visit to this community. i The First National bank of Wilton was robbed by three men who es- caped with about $500 cash the after- noon of Dec. 8. The trio escaped in an automobile and were traced to the western bor-j ae of the state, where the trail was; lost. Dec. 23.—(P)—It’s a meterologi- Chicago, topsy-turvy country, cally speaking. Winter arrived promptly on time at 1:30 p. m. Tuesday, but you'd never realize it because it bumped into a pre-Christmas “heat wave.” Down in Indiana, near Kendall- ville, the bees were buzzing around, just like they do in the good old summer time. Cuba, IL, will be able to serve Claus with strawberries visits that Henderson i i i | Santa and cream when he neighborhood. Lon picked ’em Tuesday. And the sap is running out of the trees in Geuga county, Ohio, Lynn Hosford, a Chardon, O., farmer, tapped 800 trees and got 20 gallons of syrup which will help some “when winter comes.” Up in Milwaukee young couples, lured by the spring-like temper- atures, were parking their auto- mobiles along the shore of Lake Michigan, watching the waves come in. The mercury was up to 53 Tuesday. Pipestone, in southwestern Minnesota, had a temperatue of 47 and the folzs in that section House | $67,000,000 appropriated by the last In adjournment for Christmas. lecongress for relief purposes. 1 reported ungraveled roads were virtually impassable because of \opponents grossly underbid on several | Unprecedented Warm Weather Marks Opening of Winter in United States Succumbs at 85 Churches Arranging Christmas Services, CULBERTSON PAIR 10 °*s2sce foes 9” START SECOND HALE, Se=tonennst {0,705 POINTS AHEAD)® A" Peca. se hildren to Take Leading Parts in Religious Tributes to Leading Bridge Team Lost 415 t New-Born King Points Tuesday Night in Long Session Preparations were being completed aniecalelipeiibciaammibians, Wednesday for the observance of Christmas in Bismarck’s churches. New York, Dec. 23.—(?)—Ely Cul-| Seven church is bertson and Theodore A. Lightner Christmas Ele “IRIE SLES il move to the Waldorf Wednesday confine their observances to the na- night, 10,705 points ahead. For the tal day of the New-Born King. second half of a 150-rubber match be-| ‘Those which will open the holiday | tween a team representing the Cul-; with Thursday evening services are | bertson system of contract bridge and the McCabe Methodist Episcopal, First Sidney S. Lenz and Oswald Jacoby, Evangelical, Zion Evangelical Luth- Playing the Lenz system. eran, German Evangelical, First Bap-} Second best in the matter of pen- tist, St. George's Episcopal and St. alties in the 11th and final session at Mary’s Roman Catholic. the Chatham, ending early Wednes-| With the exception of the services at ; day, Culbertson: and Lightner lost 415'St. Mary's, waich will consist of the! points and five of nine rubbers. The traditional midnight Mass, and at St.) rubber standing of the series became George's Episcopal, all of the cere-; 42 for Culbertson’s side and 36 for monies are scheduled for early ‘Thurs- | Lenz and Jacoby, the points 70,255 day evening. and 59,550 respectively. Special music and religious tribute Culbertson and Lightner were pen-|to the Child of Bethlehem will fea- alized 2,600 points during the session ture all the observances. In many compared with 2,200 for their rivals. | cases children will take a leading part One set of 900 came at once against | in the services. Culbertson, another of 600. Lightner McCabe Methodist Ceremonies at the McCabe Metho-) dist Episcopal church will get under | {way at 7:30 p. m., Thursday with a song, “Joy to the World,” by the con- gregation. Evelyn Coats will give a scripture reading and Kathleen Spohn will lead in prayer. The Sunday School will sing: “There's a Song In the Air” and David Nye will give a se- lected recitation. Betty Cre will re- cite “Long Ago on Christmas Night” and Jean Pickles will tell “The Christ- mas Story.” The Sunday School will sing “Silent Night” and six girls will present an exercise, “Christ is Born.” Elizabeth Ritterbush and five small girls will be “The Stars of Christmas” while four second-grade boys will serve as porters. Betty Jean and Paul Christianson will sing “Sleep, Baby, Sleep” while the Sunday School will sing “The Christmas Manger Scene and Away in a Manger.” Spencer Boise, Jr., Paul Gilbert and Earl Garrison will sing “Three Kings of The Orient.” Afterward there will be presentation of gifts by each Sunday School pupil at the church altar. These will be distributed to persons in need or given to the Mandan Deaconess Hospital. Candy and nuts will be given to chil- | Scores Bridge as | Well as Whistling New York, Dec. 23. — (AP) — Charles Gray Shaw, the New York University philosophy pro- fessor who recently stirred a storm of protest by asserting whistling was a noise emanating from empty heads, has now turned his attention to the Lenz- Culbertson bridge match. “The worse feature of bridge,” he said, “is its tendency to weaken the function of natural emotion; it is anemic in its general effect. It takes its devotee out of life and keeps ‘him, boti*while at the card table and long, after the game is over, from participating in experiences of the actual world of men and. women.” The professor conceded bridge playing ‘might require brains but insisted the quality of. gray. mat- ter developed at the bridge table was not worth cultivating. also went down 600 in a lump. Ina futile effort: to save the ‘last: rubbe-! of the session the side lost 1,250 points in three sapere Mealy times during the lon Culbertson} gervices at the First Evangelical was more than 13,000 points plus. = church will begin at 7:45 p. m. eee Says Lenz Underbid {bers of the program committee are Lenz remarked that his opponents | irs, A, C. Baulke, Mrs. William were fortunate in not being vulner-| Schwartz and Mrs. A. W. Heldinger. able when they stepped out. Culbert-|They have been assisted by MrsaA. C. son congratulated himself that his!smai and Mrs. R. E. Drew. Merrill loss was not greater. He thought his ‘Larkin, Sunday School superintendent, will preside, with Mrs. Baulke at the piano and Rev. Ira E. Herzberg in charge of the worship program and oftertory. “Silent Night’’ will be sung by the Sunday School as a processional and songs and recitations will be given by the Little Beginners group, and the | primary and junior departments. of the exercises. First Evangelical Church occasions through the faults of their | system. | (Continued on page Seven) Five Supper Clubs In New York Raided! New York, Dec. 23.—(?}—Five rich-! (Continued on page seven) - ly appointed supper clubs faced con-/| ee eee fiscation of thousands of dollars! | Late Bulletins fi worth of equipment and furnishings | ¢-————_—_-______ eee ‘Wednesday under the revenue act of | NIGHT MARSHAL WOUNDED 1866 as the result of a series of raids} Lime Springs, Iowa, Dec. 23.— by prohibition agents. (#)—Resisting a gunman’ who at- ‘The raids, in which 65 agents par-| tempted to kidnap him, Emil Vo- ticipated, were the first in New York| gel, 50-year-old Lime Springs in which the revenue act was applied} night marshal, was shot and since it was recently upheld by the) wounded seriously early Wednes- supreme court as an instrument) day. Physicians said he is ex- | against prohibition law violators. | pected to recover. | ‘More than 100 persons were arrest- | ed, among whom were seven held for immigration authorities for illegal entry. WOULD CUT FEDERAL Washington, Dec. 23.—(?)—Reduc- tions of 10 per cent in all federal sal- aries above $2,000 was advanced Wed- nesday by Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho. VOTE SUBSIDY TO FARMERS Madison, Wis. Dec. 23.—(P)— Wisconsin's progressive assembly, the frost coming out of the ground, New York had one of those old fashioned summer-time thunder- showers, with a gloomy fog that made ship movements difficult, and Pittsburgh reported an elec- trical storm and heavy rain. Roses were blooming in Louis- ville and the Chicago weather man had to go all the way back to Dec, 22, 1875, to find a temper- ature to equal Tuesday's 57. Cleveland had 59, an all-time record. The southwest was warm too. So was the Rocky Mountain sec- tion. Tennis courts and golf links were doing a rushing bust- ness in Denver. On the Pacific Coast the weather was mostly sea- sonable. And Christmas {s just around the corner. In contrast to the summery winter of other arcas, be-ween 800 and 1,000 wild horses were starv- ing to death on the San Luis Yal- ley, east of Manassa, Colo. be- cause the rangeland was covered with snow. Attendants worked to keep the | subsidy to the state farmers. If the income of a farm does not pay its operator at the rate of 30 cents for an eight-hour day and time and a half for overtime it is proposed that the state reach into its treasury and pay the farmer the difference. i BACKS PROSPERITY BONDS Washington, Dec. 23.—()—A plea} for a $5,500,000,000 issue of “prosperity bonds” for immediate expansion of federal, state an local building was made Wednesday by Senator La Fol- lette who introduced such a bill last} night. | INFANT IS SOUGHT Hobart, Ind., Dec. 23—(P)— David Piper, four-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Piper, was sought Wednesday by Lake county authorities following a re- port of the baby’s disappearance from his home. | WOULD BOOST BANK FUND land bank bill, designed specifically dren of the Sunday School at the close} {and received only a small fee for SALARIES i |to marry the daughter of one of in a tumultuous session, voted | employes, told Lapidus Tuesday, jkill you if it's the last thing I ever \tervened, and Tuesday told the man i Washington, Dec. 23.—(P)—An ad-| dition of $25,000,000 to the $100,000,000 | Free at 83 W. A. “Dad” Warn, 83-year-old life-| termer at the Texas State peniten-| tiary at Huntsville, is free. Governor Ross Sterling granted him a full pa- role as a Christmas present after the aged man had been a model prisoner for five years. His beard has not been cut in 50 years, he says. FOUR SENTENCED IN TURKEY THEFT CASE BY DISTRICT JUDGE Ed Ditch, Tom Brown, Hugh Caya, and Douglas Ren- kert Plead Guilty Four men arrested for complicity in the theft of 4,300 pounds of dressed turkeys from a moving railroad car a few miles east of Bismarck pleaded guilty in district court late Tuesday ‘and were sentenced to penitentiary {terms. Ed Ditch, Bismarck produce dealer, charged with receiving stolen prop- lerty, was sentenced to six months to two years; Tom Brown, third-degree burglary, one to five years; Hugh Caya, grand larceny, six months to two years, and Douglas Renkert, grand larceny, one year. Renkert’s sentence | was suspended. Ditch, Caya, and Renkert, all have lived in the city for several years. Brown is a transient. Authorities obtained confessions from Brown, Caya, and Renkert to implicate Ditch as the man who purchased the turkeys, whose whole- sale value was estimated at $1,500. Brown confessed that he had broken the seal in a Northern Pa- cific freight car and secreted him- self there. After the train moved to a point several miles east of the city he rolled the barrels containing the birds out of the car onto the right of way, he said. Caya admitted having helped transport the stolen goods. Confession of Brown and Caya indicated that Renkert was hired to transport the turkeys in his truck |his services. He stated that he be- llieved that he had been hired to haul a consignment of liquor cached near the city. Omaha Police Seek Slayer of Lapidus Omaha, Neb, Dec 23—(#)—Police Wednesday sought a solution of the killing of Harry Lapidus, wealth Omaha business man and’ a leading figure in Nebraska politics, in the tangled love affair of an employe’s daughter. Lapidus was shot and killed in his ‘automobile near his home shortly be- fore Tuesday midnight. Detectives |learned a New York man, who ee ‘TH } do.” | Lapidus, police were told, was ap- pealed to by the girl's father, after |the man had come from New York ‘four times to see the girl. Lapidus in- he must not press his attentions on the girl. The girl, Rose Nepomick, 19, and her father, Ben, told the story to au- thorities. CPPING “xe Te Gps to allow the banks to be lenient with delinquent borrowers, was suggested Wednesday at a senate committee | hearing. roads open through General | Grant Park in the Sierras, where | winte.: had laid a thick covering of snow. | | | HOOVER'S PROPOSAL, MINUS AMENDMENTS, +| APPROVED BY 69-12 Signature of Plan’s Sponsor Is All Needed to Put Debt Holiday in Effect JOHNSON FIGHTS TO FINISH Congress, However, Is Opposed to Cutting Down or Can- cellation of Debts Washington, Dec. 23—(4)—The one year inter-government suspension of war debt and reparations payments Wednesday bore its final official sanc- tion and needed only the signature of its sponsor, President Hoover, to come into effect. The last step was taken by the sen- ate Tuesday night. It approved the house resolution of ratification by a majority even greater than the one mustered by its companion chamber. Despite two days of fiery argument against it, 69 senators approved and only a dozen opposed. The payments already have been suspended. First installments to the United States under the moratorium were due Dec. 15. Congress could not ratify by then but the administration informed the foreign governments they could count on the approval which now has materialized, one week to the day after the payment date. The suspension will continue to July 1. Next Dec. 15 the payments, barring an extension, will be resumed, Senators who voted against the moratorium were: Republicans — Frazier, Johnson, Norbeck, Norris, Nye and Schall. Democrats—Bulow, Caraway, Con- noally, Dill, McKellar, Thomas, Against Cancellation One important element of the sit- uation as it now stands, however, is that the approved resolution recorded the congress as utterly opposed to any scaling down or cancellation of the war debts due this country. That is a declaration of its present will, back- ing up widespread individual asser- tions by prominent. legislators. It was called forth by that message of President Hoover on foreign affairs, which recommended re-establishment of the World war foreign debt com- mission to weigh in the light of changing conditions the ability of na- tions to pay—in other words again scale down the war debts. This congressional declaration, how- ever, is made in the face of wide- spread conviction, expressed by the president, Secretary Mellon, outstand- ing financiers and others that some further remission appears inevitable. “It is useless,” said President Hoo- Mott “to blind ourselves to an obvious fact.” Amendments Defeated In approving the resolution the sen- ate defeated a group of little related amendments running from morator- iums on farm loans to be requirement for revision of the Versailles treaty. There was not even the semblance of party lineup in the division. Six op- ponents were Republicans, six Demo- crats. Chiefly the show was that of Sena- tor Hiram Johnson of California, This arch-opponent of the Hoover foreign policy, whose hat has hovered near the ring of presidential candidacy, made one remark Tuesday night which immediately was seized upon by those who have sought him as an op- ponent to Herbert Hoover next year. Outlining his demand that the gov- {ernment drop European troubles and think of distress at home, he assert- ed: “I am ready to stand before the American people upon a proposition such as that advanced here today.” Begin 12-Day Vacation Fifteen days the new congress has labored and the leaders are well pleased with the progress their forces have made. Wednesday the members began a 12-day vacation, a lull preceding the really serious grind on important legislation which will occupy them until next June. There will be a good bit of oppo- sition in the path of the Hoover do- mestic program, some of it impor- tant. The big question mark of in- creased taxation finds the Demo- cratic forces still shrinking from a decision on making a program of their own in place of the stiff boosts which the administration recom- mended even in the face of a presi- dential election next November. Many Issues Near Prohibition, farm relief, Muscle Shoals, Veterans’ cash and pension demands, cash outlays for unem- ployed, and all the other everlasting sources of struggle and friction, are just around the corner. This is what congress has accom- plished to date: Passed a $200,000,000 appro- priation for the veterans ad- ministration, and some addi- tional items for employment services. Pushed consideration of the $500,000,000 reconstruction cor- poration in committee to the point that it can be brought out for action soon after recon- vening. The house and sent to the senate a bill to make $100,- 000,000 available for farm land bank loans. The senate confirmed numer- ous nominations and initiated several new inquiries.