The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 13, 1932, Page 1

North Dakota's: Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 ~ . . BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1932 Roads Blocked Taxpayer Group Will Attack {RECORDSBRIKENEY [Secretary Submits GET INFORMATION AT MEETING HERE ENDING WEDNESDAY Réject Governor's Proposal to Join With Survey Body in State Meeting POLITICAL SCHEME SCENTED Consider Suggestion to Bar State From Levying on Real, Personal Property Having accumulated a mass of data regarding the expenditures of vari- ous state departments, members of the executive committee -of the North Dakota Taxpayers’ association left for their homes Wednesday to study it at their leisure. They were not sure where they would begin to suggest state tax cuts or where they would end, but their professed intention was to formulate ment in which the 60-year-old man ‘k program which would markedly cur- tail the state’s iments ot aay: Citing accom} bel ers groups in various counties in the eastern part of the state as indicative of what may be done to curtail state taxes, members of the committee pro- posed to apply the same methods to state problems. ‘Their program will be formulated and presented to a state meeting of the organization to be held early in June, The Spa date and place will be designated later. ‘Although all of the members of the executive committee are or have been members of the I. V. A. faction in politics, they flatly rejected an invi- tation by Governor George F. Shafer to join with him in calling a state meeting at which the association would join hands with his govern- mental ronble peer alison several reasons given ve one that it would. be impossible to obtain a really representative turnout tor such 8. cost. tics Barred It was said privately, however, that the most compelling reason was fear that such an alliance would dimin- ish the effectiveness of the associa- tion’s movement by entangling it in jon, will rbepause of the) Will Retire . me POULTRY EXHIBITS FOR SLOPE'S SHOW Entrance Total of Any Previous Exposition Is Expected to Be Doubled JUDGING NOW IN PROGRESS Variety of Fowl on Display Has Increased 20 Per Cent Over Last Year = ‘With birds still coming in, the total JAMES A. FARRELL i number of exhibits at the Missouri New, York, Jan. 13—(@)—James © | siope Poultry show, in progress here, may approach a figure double that of any previous exhibition, Secretary lof the: United States Steel corpora-| "4y’ cx _ a “ tion, a post, he has held for 21 years.: beambsic pede th epee ci! ~ Announcement: of his retirement | State penitentiary farms was: to be was made at his Fifth Avenue home sent in Wednesday and this will fill last night. It came in simple state-/ all the remaining pens available. O. J. Weisner, South Dakota state college, began judging the entries late Tuesday and Wednesday noon had ‘completed work on the turkey section. He expects to finish his work’ late or early Thursday. Starkle said the variety of fowl on display had increased 20 per cent over last year. Attendance at the show Tuesday was excellent, Starkle said, but in- dications were weather conditions would reduce the turnout Wednesday. Exact Number Uncertain The fact that entries constantly) were being received made it virtually impossible to determine the exact, number of birds on exhibition. At noon Wednesday receipts from entries had ted approximate! $185, which was more by $80 than! \that collected during the entire show last year. Starkle estimated there was an in- crease over last year in number of] fowl registered which would reach Farrell, steel over a period of nearly half a century has few equals in fact or fic- retire April 18 as president gave frank cognizance to his ad- vanced age and the “advisability of establishing the. management upon a foundation composed of younger men.” REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEEMEN T0 MEET HERE JAN, 20 Convention of ‘Real’ Committee | Called By Chairman T. H. Thoresen Despit attendance at the show. Tuesday eve- ning compared favorably with that) of previous years, with several: hun-| dred persons in attendance. Interested spectators followed the judge as he moved along the rows of was called Wednesday by T. H. Thore- sen, Grand Forks. ‘Two republican state central com- mittees exist in North Dakota, but ‘ALFALFA BILL WILL Tax Boost Program| SEEK ENDORSEMENT — 1 New Governor | —_____________— Martin Sennett Connor, farmer, law-' yer and legislator, who gov- ernor of Mississippi Jan. 19, is shown here in his best picturé. He had been ® candidate in three successive elec- tions before he won last August. pone sibs niche shee aseevey made CHINESE FLEE FROM CITY WHEN ANGERED JAPANESE ORGANIZE Nipponese Take Exception to Reference Made By Tsing- tao Newspaper (By The Associated Press) Japanese marines from the war- ships in the harbor patrolled the streets of Tsingtao, China, Wednes- day and thousands of Chinese sought -.- | myeane Ofaleaving ‘the. city following | Severely, was & return to Tuesday in which Japanese residents. attacked and wrecked .a Chinese newspaper office and burned the headquarters of the. Kuomintang. ‘Tuesday's clash occurred after the Chinese newspaper Ming Kuo Jih Pao Urges Sales, Super Estate Tax, Income, Corporation, Sur- tax Increases SAYS DEFICIT IS INCREASING Balanced Budget at End of cal Year 1933 Contem- plated in Proposals Washington, Jan. 13.—(AP)—A bal- anced budget at the end of the fiscal year 1934 is the goal of the adminis- tration’s tax increase program sub- mitted Wednesday by Secretary Mel- Jon to the house ways and means com- j mittee. Appearing as the principal witness at the opening of hearings before the democratic-controlied group that will formulate broader revenue raising Iegislation, the veteran cabinet mem- ber of three republican administra- tions said: “We are in the midst of a grave emergency. It is essential to raise additional revenue, not just to cover current expenditures but to maintain unimpaired the credit of the United States government. “This last objective is of paramount importance to every citizen in the land. It is an indispensable step in our progress toward recovery. “The losses that will be suffered by every individual and every industry through a continuation of the de- Pression will exceed many times over the amounts to be contributed in ad- ditional taxes. Sacrifice Is Demanded OF N. D, DEMOCRATS Brother of Oklahoma Governor Here in Interest of West- erner’s Candidacy WILL CIRCULATE PETITIONS Primary Will Provide Test of Strength Between Murray and Roosevelt George , of Berthold, brother of “Alfalfa Bil” Murray, Ok- Jahoma governor, intends to put a bombshell under the Roosevelt candi- dacy for the Democratic presidential nomination. He indicated Wednesday during a visit to. Bismarck to look up the legal requirements necessary to enter his brother in the race for endorsement by this state's Democracy at the presi- dential preference primary March 15. Murray brought with him petitions to be circulated for the 10 men who will appear on the ballot as Murray advocates and said Former Governor Walter Maddock would head the list. The identity of the others was not disclosed. Murray said they have been selected but that their names would not be made public until they have accepted the invitation to run. Murray will attend the Democratic state convention Thursday at Valley City but only as a spectator. He ex- pects it to give rousing endorsement to the New York governor and will make no effort to stop such actions. He feels, however, that his brother will cri more appeal to the common ‘The result of the Murray announce- ment is to throw North Dakota once more into the limelight since it will “It is not only the patriotic duty of all to insure the financial stabil- ity of the government in times such as these, but the sacrifice demanded 4s amply warranted by considerations of individual self-interest.” Mellon said the plan he submitted taxa- ‘ander the 1924 rev act, twice amended since. He estl+ mated it would return $390,000,000 ad- fiscal year beginning next July 1. It would include a selective sales tax, ditional revenue during the current fiscal year and $920,000,000 in the provide, at its early primary, a con- test of strength between Roosevelt, reputed to be strong in the west, and @ western man. Although the num- ber of convention delegates involved is not large, the winner may be corl- sidered to have a psychological ad- vantage in seeking delagates from oth- rer so-called progressive states. Murray said he expects, “Alfalfa Bill” to visit the state and make at least three speeches before the elec- tion and that a group of Chicago men, who know the Oklahoman because of their interest in the oil business, the committee of which Thoresen is : i acetic pied F, had said the recent attempt by a increases in income and corporation are sponsoring his pre-convention tate factional politics. y Members of the committee were : eed fipgetie rately. Weisner announced the prize’ Korean to assassinate the Japanese emperor revealed Korea’s desire for taxes, a super estate tax, and increases candidacy. mittee by virtue of having a majority in surtaxes. frank to say that numerous attempts of ‘regularly elected members. winners in each division as soon as independence. Gather in Valley City hhave been made to embroil the tax- “The purpose of this meeting,” | Judging was completed and ribbons Citing ‘the $903,000,000 deficit Inst Leaders of North Dakota's demo- eduction movement in politics. They reaffirmed their intention of keeping 1t free from such considerations. were attached to exhibits which were given awards. A number of wild fowl have been ‘Thoresen announced, “is to discuss the question of delegates to the republi- Japanese residents, incensed at the| year, and a Prospective deficit of $2,- reference to the’ emperor, stormed’ 123,000,000 this year, Mellon ‘cahimated the building. there would be a deficit of $1,417,000,- cratic party met at Valley City Wed- nesday to outline plans for the state convention which will.set the pace can national convention, presidential Demonstration Is Staged 000 in 1933 despite the increase in Among. methods of reducing state electors and such further and other | placed on exhibition and ere shown ‘Tuesday night the Japanese for the nation in bringing presiden- taxes under consideration by the questions as may properly come be-/|in a separate section, -- ‘began a more threatening demonstration. revenue, tial candidates into the open. Coming somewhatas asurprise to the committee is one to eliminate entirely the power of the state to levy. against real estate or tangible personal prop- erty, reserving that. right to local taxing districts. {The problem here js to find other sources of mtb to finance the state government, apparent idea being adopt excise, sales and other levies to replace funds which the state now gets from property taxes. Members of the as- sociation were frank to say, however, that the state will not need as much in the future as it has in the past if their plans are accepted. Other measures considered were thase to reinforce the present con- stitutional limitation on the rate of tax levy by one limiting the assessed valuation of nroperty. The taxpay- ers contend the levv limitation has Weather Cuts Attendance A’ number of farmers from the; gastern part of the state, who had expected to enter poultry, were un- able to do so because of adverse ‘weather conditions and poor condi- tions of the roads, 0 to A. L. Nordquist, superintendent of the show. Entries were from as far east as Lisbon. ‘The show is wider in its acope than in previous. years, Nordquist said, with nearly every section of the state, west ‘of the Missouri represented. Particularly gratifying to show of- ficials, he said, was the number of entries received from farmers living) fore the convention touching the wel- fare of our party.” . At the organization meeting of the republican state central committee split, each set- recognition of the national headquar- ters at Washington, and therefore PS enpraad the real state organiza- ‘The meeting date was set by the executive committee of the state cen- tral committee. Officials of the cen- tral committee are, besides Thoresen, tative. Minnie D. vice farmers further north than Under- ‘wood, Several thousand of them formed aj|committee parade, waving Japanese flags and demanding further action against the newspaper, declaring they con-| sidered the offending article disres- Pectful to Japan and to the emperor. After the paradé, several hundred Japanese again swooped down on the newspaper's. offices, wrecking and) burning the building and then burn-/ = the Kuomintang headquarters Chinese newspapers at Tientsin, commenting on a transfer of Japanese troops from Tientsin back to Shan- haikwan, said the situation about Chinchow is growing acute for the it Chinese militia bands “all over Manchuria” are renewing “warfare.” members, the treasury tion is determined, with your coopera- on June 30 next in urging the in- balanced in 1934. To Reinvigorate Credit of the country. fiscal secretary announced “the administra- tion, to arrest this borrowing process creased taxes in order to prevent an increase in the public debt. The ad- ministration has been borrowing hun- dreds of millions the last three years. In addition, he recommended that the new taxes be terminated at the end of two years, when the budget is “This is essential not merely for maintaining unimpaired the credit of the government, but also for rein- vigorating the entire credit structure “The greater part of the present year has already elapsed and it The democratic state central com- mittee, composed of 49 members, Wednesday had before it preliminary details incident to the state cofiven- tion which convenes Thursday. was regarded as certain of the en- dorsement for the presidency by the Party convention. H. H. Perry, Ellendale, chairman of the state committee, said 27 counties which reported the action taken at county democratic conventions were unanimously for the endorsement of Roosevelt. ‘The central committee and the state convention will take up primarily the presidential situation, with a view to advancing the party's preference at the March 15 presidential in North Dakota. ‘Will Endorse Candidate (Continued on page three) is impossible to avoid a large deficit The convention will endorse @ can- for this year. To cover, for the bal- didate for the. presidency, name dele- gates to the national convention, and WHITE WILL PLEAD INIOWA SATURDAY Suspect Faces Charge of Rob- bing Calumet State Bank, on dune 24, 1930 HATTIE CARAWAY END. WOMAN . NAMED 70 SENATE IS BRUTALLY. SLAIN Mrs. Spencier lisley and Maid Found Beaten.to Death at Middleburg, Va. sas Is First Woman Elect- Little ‘Rock, Ark., Jan. 18.—(AP)— mother whose life R i States i Mrs, Hattie W. Osraway, widow of Bi Gateval, Teday ‘ditented. tro eng” candidates in a iy 3 Es & ial 5 E ih aft ai rel Wife of Late Senator in Arkan- ~~ Ceremonies ance of this fiscal year, all expendi- (Continued on page three) Union Heads Confess Kansas City, Jan. 13.—()—Police Wednesday day night in the lobby of the Mid- quor, © > Gi cont explosives. a ov: | Mexicans Hold Funeral and Burial For ‘Dead City Charter’ They Planned Bombing kdlling Frank Alexander, convict, to place the bomb under a seat in the theater belcony, under the impression the package contained ll- will choose a national committeeman and committeewoman. Resolutions also will be considered. Selection of a state ticket is not to come before the convention. The state slate, Perry said, will be con- sidered at a subsequent state conven- tion, for which a date may be set at the sessions here. Among those present at Wednesday afternoon’s meeting of the central ‘Wells county, A. G. Kennedy of Crete, W. J. Kitzman of Willow City, and W. E. Glotzback of Anamoose. Reports The two unidn officers’. declared jeq at the meeting, bearing on platform ssple was unaware the peckage/ details, and a state ticket. Governor Shafer Has By Big Sto State Budget I Admits Slaying $$ —e Charles Bischoff, 45, who has been held in jail in Cincinnati since Dec. 22, confessed the murder of six-year- old Marian McLean after days of questioning. Bischoff signed a detail- ed statement of his actions during the five days which followed little Mar- ian’s kidnaping Dec. 17. Franklin D. Roosevelt, democrat, | ng, No Comment on Ruden| : SOLONS CONSIDERING MANY PROBLEMS OF VARIED DESCRIPTION Impeachment, Taxes, Hoover Program, Labor, Agricul- ture Are Prominent Washington, Jan. 13.—(7)—New problems pressed forward in congress Wednesday while the main legislative work remained the program for help- ing business. Secretary Mellon and his assistant, Undersecretary Mills, detailed the administration plan for increasing taxes to the hepa house com- mi ~, 4§, going .to..originate the new ‘ = The house looked ahead to passage of the reconstruction corporation by. Thursday. The senate again debated the bill for bulworking the federal land banks. President Green, of the American Federation of Labor, told a house committee congress should look into charges of conditions approaching slavery in southern flood control work camps. On Impeachment Hearing While Mellon sat before one com- mittee, another began hearings on| the Patman resolution for impeach- ment of the treasury executive. Other gatherings of senators and representatives dealt with varied gov- ernmental activities, including the farm and shipping boards and the vy. A favorable report on the Norris resolution calling for an investigation into activities of the farm board was sent to the senate by the agriculture committee. The committee asked that the re- port be sent to the audit and control committee which will pass on the|change $50,000 asked to finance the inquiry, which the senate agreed to. The resolution was amended in committee to that the in- quiry go into interstate and foreign marketing operations of private or- ganizations or cooperatives borrow- ing from the board. It also was changed to direct speci- fic investigation into the organiza- tion and operation of the stabiliza- tion corporations or subsidiary or- ganizations set up by the board. Investigation of all exchange in the: United States dealing in commod- ities over which the farm board holds Jurisdiction and the relation between the exchanges and operation of the directed. resentative Snell of New York, the | minority leader. ‘Whe Weather ee rm (HEAVY SNOWFALL IS REPORTED AT MINOT, DICKINSON Williston Area Also Is Hit Hard; Wind Delays Plowing Operations MERCURY DROPS SHARPLY Weather Bureau Forecast is For Mark of 20 Below Zero Wednesday Night Gripped by a heavy storm Tuesday night, many parts of North Dakots were digging out of the snow Wednes- day., Bismarck received only an inch of snow and highway traffic was unin- terrupted in this ares. West and north, however, the precipitation was heavier and roads were blocked. At noon the federal weather bu- eau here said the storm was over but. that the thermometer would continue to drop. The lowest mark in the last 24 hours was 2 below zero at noon and indications were that a mark of 15 or 20 degrees below bero would be Big Storm? ‘Pooh’ Says Weather Man ©. W. Roberts looked at the rec- ords jWetlnesday and said “pooh, at Tuesday night's.storm was a wyor on Jaists, 1688, the wind ron Jan. the blew 54 miles an hour the snow into. huge drifts, a seiehwrie of’ snow fell but was a to @ previously fall and the result was a ee storm in the history of the weath. er bureau. And it was cold, ‘The age for January of t year 16 degrees below » the point being 37 se e g ver: ‘was low fan. 14, i 30 and 40 homes were destroyed. Other tornadoes killed two persons and injured 17 in Southeast Texas and a flood was threatened by an ice- jam in the San Juan river, Shiprock, N, M. The Rocky Mountain and Canadian Provinces were affected by the same ‘storm which swept into North Dakota and Lisgar Taylor, 16, froze to death near his home at Glen Ellen, Sask. bringing the death total in the na- tion to 12. North Dakota's weather was a sharp from the near 50 degrees. Wi they were near or below sero. The drop here was 39 degrees in 2¢ hours, the maximum Tuesday having been 37. A survey of the state showed high- ways closed between Bismarck and Dickinson was buried beneath deep drifts of snow. Snowplows were to go out as soon as the wind subsided. Tha barometer reached the lowest mark. in 15 years there Tuesday as a fore- runner of the storm. Some stags lines were trying to operate but their 7 it in aie ppt 4