The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 11, 1932, Page 1

y H cd. 4 f North Dakota’a Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | Jamestown Tryin |< LEYTER FROM PERCY HANSEN TO BUSINESS MEN BARES EFFORTS Men Who Asked That: Removal Attempt Be Dropped Urged to Back Movement PLEADS FOR UNITED FRONT Secretary Says Plan ‘Well Worth While’ Even as ‘Commercial Enterprise’ (Special to The Tribune) Jamestown, N. D., Feb. 11.—Des- perate efforts to rally the fading forces of the Logical Capital City as- sociation, Jamestown organization which is seeking to effect the re- moval of the state capital from Bis- marck to Jamestown, are being made by Percy M. Hansen, publisher of the Jocal daily newspaper and secretary of the association. ‘The effort to reunite Jamestown on the question is a result of the move- ment begun lest spring by a large number of Jamestown’s business lead- ers who petitioned that the Logical Capital City association cease its ac- tivities, withdraw the petition forc- ing the matter to a vote of the people and relieve Jamestown of the censure; which it was receiving in many parts of the state. Hanson and his cohorts refused to accede to this plea but now are finding it impossible to or- ganize a campaign without the sup- port of a large number of James- town’s citizens. Pleads for United Front Because of this fact Hanson has directed a letter to every person who signed the petition asking him to cease his activities in which he re- views the activities of the association and makes a new plea for a united front. The text of one of these letters, dated Feb. 8, directed to a leading Jamestown business. man, follows: “We are writing to you as one of the signers of the petition of April 3, 1931, asking the committee, of which the writer happens to be a (Continued on page Three) FORECAST For Bismarck and vicinity: and colder _ to- night; Friday generally fair. For North Da- kota: Fair and colder, moderate cold ‘wave ex- treme east or= tion tonight; Fri- day generally fair. For South Da- kota: Fair and colder, much cold- er east portion tonight; Friday fair. For Montana: Fe Unsettled tonight wah and Friday, prob- ably snow west portion; little change in_ temperature, Ror Minnesota: Generally fair and much colder, with moderate cold wave in north portion tonight; Friday fair, colder in extreme east portion, CONDITIONS: The Low moved very rapidly southeastward and is centered this morning over Minnesota and (St. Paul, Minn, 29.02), while pressure has moved in’ from the cific Coast and covers the Plateau Region (Roseburg, Ore. 30.20), Pre- cipitation was reported from most stations over the district. Tempera- tures rose from eastern North Dakota southeastward, and fell westward to the Pacific Coast. Bismarck station barometer, inches: 7.59 reduced to sea level 29.42, TEMPERATURE 0 a, m. erday night PRECIPITATION Precipitation Total this month to this month Fair Temp. a Highest Lowest NORTH DAKOTA POINTS K, cla ap Uae Ps BISMARCK, cldy, : Jevils Lake, snow. 12:10 argo-Moorhead, sno’ 24» ‘01 Jamestown, snowing 23 102 Nalley City, snow 18 00 Williston, ‘eldy. 8 100 Grand Forks, sno 21 e Bt ji eenAe Other ations— Temprs, Pre. Te ear. 938 gs) 06 ‘Amarillo, Tex., clear... z Hoise, Idaho, cldy. 28 40 101 Calgary, Alti 101 Chicago, I 62. .24 Denver, Cold. 60° 200 Des Molnes, 60 100 Dodge City, Kai 4 70° 200 Edmonton, ‘Alt 4 8 (01 Fiavre, Mont. snow 8 36. 104 Helena, Mon 34 LOL }luron, 8. D., eldy.. 20 40 , 100 Kansas City, Mo, cldy. 56 76 | :28 Yander, Wyo. clear.... 10 42 00 Medicine Hat, A., snow. -4. 32 100 Miles City, Mont, clear. 10. 38. . :00 Modena, Utah, clear,... 18 42° .01 No, Platte, Neb,, clear.. 62 100 Okla, City, Okla., el 74 26 Pierre, 8. D.. cle 36 (00 pr, Albert, Sask. ; 108 QuiAppelle, 8. clay 36 102 Tapid City, 8." D. 56 10 Jloseburg, Ore., 42 08 Ot. LOUrs, Bae rat of Bz 86 st. Paul, Minn., fossy. a4 4200 Salt Lake City, U., peldy. 26 42-10 .§. Marie, Mich. wou | Winnemucca, N» peldy. 10 ‘Winnines, Man. mow. CALLING A SPADE A SPADE (An Editorial) Enough propaganda now has emanated from Jamestown to show the people of the state the basis upon which they will be asked to support the capital removal movement, sponsored in that city by a small group under the leadership and direction/of Percy M. Hansen, publisher of that city’s daily newspaper. Hansen is an expert propagandist and as long as he stuck to weasel-worded statements and vague claims it was difficult to an- swer his arguments. It was too much like shooting at a will o° the wisp. Now, however, he has got around to using figures. He is mak- ing definite statements and these may be answered. The Tribune proposes to do so, without heat and without abuse but frankly and fairly. It is a duty which this newspaper and the people of Bis- marck owe to the great body of North Dakota citizens who need honest facts upon which to base honest judgment, In an editorial, printed in the Jamestown Sun of February 9, the assertion is made that Jamestown is “more conveniently located for more than 500,000 of the state's 680,485 people.” This is untrue. Figures compiled by statistical experts whose work is accepted without question by such national bodies as the Interstate Com- merce commission and the federal trade commission, show that 52 per cent or 354,039 persons live closer to Jamestown than to Bismarck by highway. Forty-eight per cent or 326,806 persons live closer to Bismarck by highway than to Jamestown. There is a vast difference between “more than 500,000” and 354,039. It is too great to be accounted for by normal differences in methods of figuring. Therefore Bismarck says simply that Hansen's statement is untrue. Hansen says 34 of the state’s 53 county seats are nearer to Jamestown. In previous statements he said Jamestown would be a “more advantageous” location for 35 (not 34) county seats, The fact is that 27 of the 53 county seats are nearer to Bismarck by highway. Taken as the crow flies still more are nearer to Bis- marck. So again we say, simply and without heat, that the James- town statement is untrue. Hansen says in his editorial that “foes of the movement declared the petitions (to bring the capital removal movement to a vote) were not sufficient, Some persons may have done so but insofar as Hansen hints that Bismarck attempted to have the petitions rejected, it is a misleading statement, Bismarck never attempted to do so. Hansen speaks of “Bismarck’s plea that the change would work a hardship on the people who hold state jobs amd have built beautiful and expensive homes in Bismarck.” This is a misstatement, Bismarck has made no such plea. It has asserted that to remove the capital from Bismarck would work hardship and injury to every homeowner in the city. This is true. It would. Bismarck has made no “sympathy plea,” as Hansen has declared in this and other editorials, Instead, it has been censured by some of its friends in various parts of the state, beth publicly and privately, for the unheated attitude which it has maintained toward the removal movement. We have left it to the People of the state to determine whether or not the Jamestown ‘ovement was” tonceived in iniquity ahd"is being carried out by the most accepted racketeering methods, Hansen prates of the “fairness of the fight put on by the Logical Capital City association and through the Jamestown Sun.” Bismarck submits that the whole capital removal idea is un- fair and that untruths and misstatements such as those cited above make mention of truth and fair-play by these Jamestown inter- ests a calumny. The editorial says this attitude has “won the ad- miration of even those who oppose the change.” We can speak only for ourselves, but we doubt if this statement is correct, Hansen says “politics and personalities have not been permit- ted to enter the campaign.” We submit that, on the contrary, Jamestown has made every possible effort to inject partisan po- litics into this situation. It is Bismarck which has kept the matter out of partisan politics. This has been done on the theory that the question is not and should not be a political one. The proof on this point is extensive. It can be furnished to any who may ask for it. Hansen asserts that “the savings to be made through a change in the location of the state capital would save enough in a very few years to more than pay for all state property now in Bismarck, the cost of moving the few records saved from the fire and the entire cost of the new structure in a very few years.” Because it is an assertion of opinion and not a statement of fact, it is difficult to nail this statement down. By way of reply Bis- marck says that the value of property which the state still owns in Bismprck is $1,471,058.37, This is a definite figure. The cost of mov- ing would be additional, Bismarck does not contend thag all of this property would be @ total loss. It is an honest estimate, however, that the loss would exceed $1,200,000. This is based on the depreciated value of bulld- ings and real estate and the fact that only office equipment, which is included in the total, could be moved. In all honesty James- town should submit figures to support its claims and assertions— if it has any. Hansen makes much of comparative mileages from various points to the cities of Bismarck and Jamestown by railroad. In this Jamestown unquestionably has a marked advantage. He ignores, however, transportation by bus lines which materially alters the situation. By doing so he either admits ignorance of the fact that Public busses are a common mode of transportation or admits an intention to deceive, . In a table, published at the end of his editorial, Hansen gives a comparison of the distances from the 53 county seats of the state to both town and Bismarck. When compared with the of- ficial highway mileages, as given on the map issued by the state highway department for distribution as of April 15, 1932, many of these figures are erroneous, There may be some significance in the fact that most of the errors favor Jamestown’s claims, This table, together with the figures given by the state highway department, is reproduced below. Hansen gives no authority for his figures. In the absence of further information, Bismarck as- sumes the highway department's data are correct, The map was issued for distribution to the public without regard for either Jamestown or Bismarck. The table is reproduced below, together with figures contained on the highway map: ‘As Given by 5 N. D. Hf'wy Dept. County . County Seat James- Bis- James- Bis- Adams, Hettinger The Weather Fair and colder tonight; Friday generally fair, BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1932 Total Disarmament Urged by Russians Maxim Litvinoff Says it Is Only Security Against Future Conflagration Cage Game Postponed Postponement of the Bismarck- Devils Lake basketball game, scheduled for Thursday night, until Saturday night was an- nounced at noon Thursday by Roy D. McLeod, director of ath- letics at Bismarck high school. SAYS ANOTHER WAR LOOMS Soviet Declaration Regarded as Improving Possibility of Parley Success The Devils Lake team was yo at Minnewaukan Thurs- |, Geneva, Feb. 11.—()—Maxim Litvi- noff, commissar for foreign affairs for Soviet Russia, proposed total and universal disarmament to the world disarmament conference Thursday as the only valid security against war. Litvinoff, chief of the Russian dele- gation to the conference, forecast the @pproach of another world war which, he predicted, would be more terrible than the last, unless disarmament is achieved. His plan for total disarmament of the world, he admitted frankly to the delegates, probably would have slight chance of acceptance by the great Powers and, as an alternative, he of- fered a second project for progressive and proportional disarmament. Then, to the surprise of many of t'e dele- Gates, he assured the conference his government was ready to consider any proposal likely to achieve arms reduction, The Satans are expected to ar- rive in Mandan Friday to fill an engagement with the Mandan Braves Friday night and will play here the following evening at the World War Memorial building. The Satans were unable to get here through a misunderstand- ing as to train schedules, Mem- bers of the team were taken to Minnewaukan by auto Thursday believing they could catch a train. at noon for Jamestown. On their arrival it was learned that the train had left three hours earlier. Unable to get back to Devils Lake because of blocked roads the players will remain in Minnewau- | kan overnight and leave for Mandan Friday morning. SENATORS WORK ON EMERGENCY BILL 10 INCREASE U. §. CASH Democratic and Republican Leaders Lay Plans to Expedite Measure declaration was credited with being marked by moderation and as likely to increase the possibility of success for the conference. an international armed police force under the supervision of the League of Nations after a long analysis of the proposal. It would be unworkable, he said. His plan for proportional disarma- ments included an adjustment of the Percentages of arms reduction so as to give equal security to weaker and more exposed countries. 2 | 2'The sole aim of the Soviet.govern- Washington, ‘Feb. 11.—()—With | ent,” Litvinoff said, “is building up {unprecedented unity congress put its; Socialism in the Soivet Union. In the forces Thursday behind an emergency face of the successful accomplishment jmeasure to increase greatly the of our first five-year plan, which in- amount of cash available to American cludes colossal achievements in every banks and business. At the urging of President Hoover,|the Soviet delegation that what has Democratic and Republicau leaders |been obvious from the beginning must laid plans to expedite the bill througn ;now ‘be clear as daylight to all and both houses on a strictly non-partisan |sundry—that the Soviet requires nei- basis. It was being completed for in- |ther increase of territory nor inter- troduction Thursday by Senator Glass ference in the affairs of other nations (D., Va.) and Chairman Steagall (D.,/to achieve its aim. tee, with the assistance of Republi-| military aviation or all other forms of can colleagues. armed forces.” ‘ In international quarters the Soviet | He rejected the French proposal for} sphere of economic life, it seems to| It could, there-} Ala.) of the house banking commit-/fore, do without an army, a navy or| What the measure will do is to re- eve the pressure on small federal re- serve banks, which have exhausted their discountable paper, by permit- ting the federal reserve system to re- discount other sound securities of these banks which are not now technically eligible. It will make all the assets acquired by the reserve banks under present. law available, for one year only, as collateral for federal reserve notes, up to 60 per cent of the latter. At present, for lack of .other eligible collateral, the reserve system has in the treasury almost double the 40 per cent gold required to be deposited against its notes. This change will Purposes. It is not proposed at this time to issue new currency against this gold, however. It is to be used rather for handling the paper which the new bill will make discountable. The measure will supplement the ef- forts of the reconstruction finance ‘corporation, as both are designed for relieving the frozen condition of the nation’s credit system, but the ad- ministration is hopeful the present plan will get even faster results than loans. TWO BEACH MINERS KILLED IN CAVEIN Third Escapes Unharmed When Overhanging Ledge in Mine Gives Way release, it is calculated, nearly a billion ; in free gold, available for all credit! {cause of especial anxiety to Russia, he \said, because of Russia's geographical ‘nearness to the scene, the existence af lanti-Soviet propaganda and a mobil- {ization of forces of Russian migres. 36 ARE ARRESTED IN KENTUCKY CLEAN-UP \Dozen, Including 11 Writers, Released and Accompan- ied to Border | Pineville, Ky., Feb. 11.—(#}—The busiest day for Bell county. officers since coal field troubles began saw \the arrest of 36 persons and the re- lease of 12 of them, including 11 (writers, upon their consent to being escorted to the state border. Alan Taub, New York attorney, and 11 writers who brought food and sup- plies to Bell county miners, the state line early Thursday after are in sight for the corporation's |4. exciting “hour during which they were arrested in their hotel rooms, charged with disorderly conduct, ar- raigned in police court, had the charges dismissed, packed their bags and motored out of Pineville accom- panied by officers. Behind them the writers left two of their group in jail. They were Harold Hickerson and Dorts Parks, arrested on open charges when they addressed @ mass meeting of striking despite warnings of County Attorney Walter Smith. Others arresteti! during the day and night were 19 men charged with dis- orderly conduct after a raid on the headquarters of the National Miners Union and three youths arrested in & raid on a house where communistic escaped unharmed Wednesday when ‘an overhanging ledge caved in. caped when the more than 100 tons of: coal and dirt buried him only to his armpits. The cavein occurred shortly after the three men had entered the mine, which is‘on the George Stecker farm, nine miles north of Beach. Victor Olson of Beach, at the mine entrance saw the cavein, and called for help.. Moye than 300 Beach men responded. Bodies of Ulfers and Stecker were found crushed. Ulfers leaves his widow and two small children, Stecker his widow and one son. Mahlon Stecker owes his life to the fact that he jumped against the wall of the mine the slide to go allowing in front of him. It fell in‘such a|water, the fashion as to permit him a. small breathing space. literature was found. Writers included in the exodus were Waldo Frank, AM. Garrison Bridge Bill Is Signed by Hoover Washi D. C., Feb. 11. president’ Hebver Thursday vigbed a bill for a frée highway bridge across the Missouri river at Garrison, N. D., and one. aut and ithorizing North Dakota to construct and oper- ate @ free highway across the Red river at Minn. The Sino-Japanese conflict is aj | Four-Hour Truce Is Arran to Rally ading Forces BU JOAN . CcLAvVTON ELLEN ROSSITER Pictured above are two principals in “The Dime-A-. \ beginning in this edition of The Bismarck Tribune. LARRY HARROWGATE ince Girl,” serial serial story is written by Joan Clayton. CHAPTER I A milk wagon rattling along Pine street brought Ellen Ros- siter wide awake. The Rossiter apartment was five floors above the street, but Ellen thought irritably even in the mo- ment of waking that the clanking below was sufficient to wake the dead. It was going to be another scorching day. The girl’s face, rosy from sleep, was faintly damp and her thick tawny hair | was live and beautiful with heat curls. She was conscious only | of discomfort as she thrust it back and rolled over hastily to look at the clock. Only 20 minutes to seven. Twenty blessed minutes more. | Ellen stretched luxuriously, assured herself that the alarm was set for seven, and snuggled down again. As she was closing | her eyes she noticed that the adjoining bed was empty. Myra | had already risen and slipped quietly from the room. Ellen had sleepily decided that her sister intended to bathe before leaving for the library when she heard from the kitchen Myra’s voice ‘raised high in expostulation. Something was wrong again. ; Ellen did not know quite what, but that particular note in Myra’s voice always meant inevitably a difference of: opinion | between Myra Rossiter and Molly Rossiter. { Ellen sighed, tossed back the sheet and in one leap was out of bed. She grabbed a green cotton crepe negligee and streaked for the bathroom. The door was locked. Michael, aged 12, was inside. The one male of the family, the adored and spoiled j little brother, he had special prerogatives and was not timid in enforcing them. “I’m studying,” he called out. “In the bathroom!” H “In the tub.” | He added plaintively, “I'll get out if you want me to. Only | it’s so cool in here and I’m always being interrupted no matter where—” “All right, darling. Stay where you are for 10 minutes. But after that I’ll have to rout you.” Ellen Rossiter was three days past 20 on that morning in late July— three days past 20 and already beginning to be afraid that the wild and careless dreams of her teens would not be fulfilled in her twenties. It was | money, of course. The Rossiters had more than their share of good looks, from Molly Rossiter who had once been Molly O'Reilly, the prettiest girl in the whole of County Cork, to baby Mike, but they had nothing else. The three children—Myra, the eldest, and Ellen and Mike—had from their father their thick, copper hair and wide, thick-lashed blue eyes, and from their mother their creamy skin. The peculiar, arresting way, they walked and stood, the nervous movements of their hands, the confident, arrogant ‘ease with which they faced the world—all those were Rossiter ways, as Molly, who was a Rossiter by marriage, said so often. The un- conscious air of distinction that was shared by all of them was from their father too. It was. Charles Michael Rossiter who had given them an un- mistakable look of race. There once had been money. Myra at 26 could remember surroundings quite different from the down-at-the-heel Brooklyn apartment, could, with @ pang in her heart, remember the glorious years before her father’s death, the soft spoken servants, the gleam of candlelight on old silver (sold long since), and rugs so deep that all sound of footsteps was lost in them. Charles Rossiter had met Molly ;———_—__ impossibility of marriage between the O'Reilly on a trip to Ireland. He had fe fourth son of Lord Harmstead and a married her before his father and| tenant farmer's daughter. mother and many brothers and sis-| They had never forgiven him that. ters could rush in to point out the (Continued on page six) <au|Mussolini and Pope Meet for First Time HIGHWAYS BLOCKED BY WIND AND SNOW North Dakota Motorists Warn- ed to Refrain From Travel in Open Areas Closeted Alone For Full Hour, Sealing Peace of Church and State (Copyright, 1932, by The Associated Press) Vatican City, Feb. 11.—(P)—Premier A warning was issued to motorists by the state highway department here Thursday to refrain from travel in the face of @ prospective general DRINKWATER IS London, Feb. ‘11—(?)—John Drink- chia] influensa, was described Thurs- much ged INON-CONBATANTS 10 MOVE OUT OF CHAPEL SECTOR OF GING Father Jacquinot, French Priest, Is Credited With Arranging Period ARRANGE FOR NEW BATTLES Jap Admiral Apologizes For Bombs Which Endanger Lives of U. S. Marines (Copyright, 1932, by The Associated Press) Shanghai, China, Feb. 11—(P—A four hour truce from 8 a. m., to noon tomorrow to permit foreigners to take non-combatants out of Chapei was arranged by a French priest as both the Chinese and Japanese continued to dig in for a major engagement along the Chapel-Woosung battle line. Hostilities in Chapei will come to halt to permit 30 foreigners bearing {White flags to get into the Chinese (native city. Under a Japanese escort they will carry out women and chil- dren and wounded found trapped in that shell-torn no man’s land. Father Jacquinot of Saint Francis Xavier's college was credited with ef- fecting the truce, the first cessation of hostilities in the zone. It was be- lieved many citizens still were trapped there, survivors of the almost two weeks of constant bombardment. The French priest lost an arm at Verdun and holds a medal for hero- ism in that World war engagement. Save for that one gesture of mercy, preparations in the international set- tlement and all along the 20-mile Chapei-Woosung front were for re- newed and bloodier hostilities. Americans Move Up U. 8. soldiers of the 3ist infantry moved up into the front line of set- tlement defenses today, occupying one of the most strategic sectors along Woosung creek. They relieved three companies of Shanghai volunteers, fone of which was made up of Amer- Meanwhile sporadic outbursts _oc- curred today both at the Chapei and ‘Woosung ends of the battle zone. Fresh fires were set near the inter- national settlement by Japanese bombers and the invaders also loosed aerial projectiles on the Chinese air- drome at Hunojao, five miles west of Shanghai. The raiders dropped some 50 bombs, the Chinese said, tearing lup the ground around the hangars land shaking the countryside. Al- though many British and American residents lived near the hangars no casualties were reported. The Chi- nese removed airplanes from the han- ars. S*parller in the day almost e score of U. 8. marines narrowly missed death from a Japanese aerial bomb in the international settlement. - Admiral Shimada Apologizes Rear Admiral S. Shimada, a mem- ber of the Japanese command at Shanghai, visited U. 8S. marine head- quarters immediately after the bombing and expressed his regret there as well as to Admiral Taylor of the U. S. Asiatic fleet. Describing the bombing as a mis- take, the Japanese commander an- nounced reparations would be made for the killing and wounding of the Chinese and for property damage. Shimada said the airmen did not know they had struck the settlement until they returned to the Japanese airport when they discovered they were “short” two bombs. An appar- ently faulty release mechanism was blamed. The admiral said mistaken aim could not have occurred and that all Japanese aviators have strict in- structions against flying over the settlement. Vice Admiral K. Nomura, in su- preme command of Japanese in the Shanghai district, instructed aviators to keep safe distance from the set- tlement boundaries as a result of the incident. He said newly-arrived fli- ers had been unable to distinguish the settlement limits. Five planes participated in today's Chapsi raid, concentrating on the Shanghai-Nanking railway line. Sev- eral direct hits were observed and two women were among the killed. Three Women Hurt In Coasting Crash Beach, N. D., Feb, 11.—Three wom-