The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 24, 1932, Page 1

c wg North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1932 House Re The Weather Unsettled tonight and Friday; not quite so cold tonight. PRICE FIVE CENTS Tornado’s Toll in Southland Mounts to 358 HAND OF MERCY IS \Fargo, Devils Lake. To Meet for Title EXTENDED TOWARD VICTIMS OF STORM Survivors Work With American Red Cross and Legion to Bury Dead Persons APPEAL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS General Medical Advisor of Red Cross Reaches Birming- ham to Aid in Work Birmingham, Ala., Match 24.—(%}— Relief agencies and neighbors of the stricken lent a hand of mercy to the -south’s tornado victims Thursday as the list grew to 358. Survivors worked with the Ameri- can Red Cross, the American Legion and other organizations to bury the dead, care for the injured, house the homeless and launch a program to rehabilitate the devastated regions. The Red Cross established felief headquarters here and authorized eight centers of operations over the storm area after the arrival of Dr. William De Kleine, general medical advisor, and C, Wade Downing of the Washington office. Representatives at Work Field representatives Pe ae the less accessible communities - ed flat by the freakish winds of Mon- Gay night to survey damage and de- termine the amount of aid needed. ‘An appeal for contributions was broadcast Wednesday night after re- lief workers conferred and estimated from $150,000, to $200,000 would be required for immediate needs of the storm victims. ‘Thursday the death list by states showed: Alabama 298; Georgia 37; "Tennessee 18; South Carolina entucky 2. ee GOTernor B. M. Miller of Alabama | began a personal survey of the torna~ do-swept regions of his state and Governor Richard B. Russell, Jr., as- sured Stone J. Crane, general field representative of the Red Cross, who has begun organization of relief work th Georgia, of fullest cooperation in that state. Supplies Distributed While some of the rescue workers searched wreckage for additional dead Thursday, others turned to with survivors and neighbors of victims in the repair and reconstruction of homes. Hospitalization of the in- and jured continued and cots, blankets, ' tents, food and clothing were dis-| tributed. Colonel Sumter Smith of the Ala- bama national guard made an aerial reconnaisance of 4 portion of the storm-struck county and said it look- ed as though a titanic drag’ had been lowered to the ground to sweep it clean. “I have never seen destruc- tion to equal it,” he said. DEMOCRATS WILL MEET APRIL -28 Will Lay Plans For First ‘Kill in Many a Moon’ at New Rockford Convention Fargo, March 24.—47)—Their ap- petites whetted by what. they ‘con- sider: a real taste of blood in the March 15 primary, North Dakota Democrats will pitch camp for their state convention in New . Rockford April 28, set for their first lkely- looking political kill in many a moon. In full cry on.the trail of victory, the pack will emerge from the con- vention hall with a platform singing praises or condemnation for many, a measure, and confident that interest voters displayed toward things Demo- cratic nationally a week ago may be diverted to the advantage of state in- dorsees as well. . The Democratic. state. executive committee, meeting here’ Wednesday, fixed April 28 for the convention, but the candidates and platform commit- tees, which were to have met, did not for absence of a quorum and will gather in Jamestown in the near future. At/Wednesday’s meeting were H. H. Perry, Ellendale; Fred McLean of Grand Forks; William Glotzbach of Andmoose; P. W. Lanier of James- town; Alvin Purcell of Grand Forks; proxy for George E. Duis, also of Grand Forks; and W. L. Johnson of Ashley. Ka . Minnesota Youth Named Editor at U Grand Forks, N. D., March 24.—(>) —Wesley Meyer of Detroit Lakes, Minn. was named editor of the Da- kota Student. University of North Da- Kota newspaper, by the board in con- trol of student: publications, it was announced Wednesday night by Lau-, ra Christianson, president® of rd. Selection of a business manager was postponed until March 31 because there was only one applicant, Harvey! would’ report to Gunderson of Grand Forks, for the position. Further applicants will be called for, she said. ¢€ es Where Tornado Hit | : ° Circling through four southern states and striking in widely separated sec- tions of Alabama, Kentucky, Ten- nessee and eastern Mississippi. a tornado demolished homes and build- ings and left a death toll estimated at more than 300 killed. 3 ROOSEVELT WINS 28 | | MORE DELEGATES IN | GBORGIA’S ELECTION Judge G. H. Howard of Atlanta | {| Is Overwhelmed in South- ern State Primary Atlanta, March 24.—(#)—Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt won Georgia's 28 convention votes in Wednesday's Democratic presidential preference primary by overwhelming Judge G H. Howard of Atlanta, who advocated the candidacy of Speaker John Garner. The New York executive had a popular plurality of approximately 10 to’ one on the latest tabulation and 308 of the possible 410 county unit votes had been placed in his column Roosevelt Fails to Effect Compromise Boston, March 24.—(#) — The Boston Traveler Thursday said a reply from Goverior Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York to an in- quiry several days ago for a de- finite statement of his position in the fight for Massachusetts pres>. idential delegates, indicates he would have been willing to have compromised with the forces: of ‘former Governor Alfred E. Smith. Last minute efforts to effect a compromise between the Roosevelt and Smith forces were unsuccess- ful. with. five counties missing. Judge Howard was leading only in Catoosa county, and newspaper correspond- ents there said complete returns would give the county to Roosevelt. Latest returns. gave Roosevelt 51,- 071 popular votes to Howard's 5.717 If he captures ‘Catoosa county's two unit votes and wing inthe fite mis- Fast-Breaking Midgets in Di- rect Contrast With Giant Satan Team GAME TO BEGIN AT\10 P. M. Fargo Noses Out Jamestown 28-26 While Lake Trounces Mandan 36-18 Fargo and Devils Lake will meet tonight to decide North Dakota high School basketball honors for 1932. The championship game is sched- uled to get under way-at 10 p. m. will go into action at 8:45 and Man- dan and Jamestown will fight it out for third and fourth place in the tourney in a game at 7:15. start at 3 p. m. with Minot meet- ing Reeder. Grafton will face Wil- liston an hour later. Devils Lake advanced handily, 36 to 18, over a smaller, faster Mandan aggregation in the closing semi-final Thursday morning. The tall Devils Lake team gathered seven points be- Will Fete Players At Banquet Tonight Recognition to the team win- ning the North Dakota state high school basketball championship will be given at a dinner follow- ing the tournament in the dining room of the World War Memorial building tonight: Members of competing teams, coaches, tournament officials, and the state board of athletic control will be present. A plaque, bearing a bronze fig- ure of @ basketball player, will be Presented to the winner as emble- matic of the championship. Simi- lar trophies, smaller in size, will be presented to second, third and fourth place winners. > Players on the champignship and runner-up teams will receive miniature gold and silver basket- balls while men placed on the coaches’ all-tournament first and second teams will get watch charms. All-tourney teams were to be selected at a meeting of the North Dakota State Coaches association following games Thursday after- noon. fore being scored on and was never in danger of being overtaken. Fargo, on the other hand, was forced to battle it out to the last ditch to turn back Jamestown and Eric Peterson, its one-man scoring machine. Finalists Are Contrasted Tonight's championship game will see a conflict of two distinctly op- posite types of game. Devils Lake, with its crew of giants whose short- est man is as tall as Casselman, Far- go's center, plays a deliberate type of game, allowing its opposition to set its defense before opening scoring ef- forts. Fargo, in contrast, relies on a swift breaking offense, following the ball closely, and attempting to gather setups for points. On the defense, Devils Lake has displayed a superb ability to gather the ball off the board while Fargo has had some trouble in games with Jamestown and Reeder in taking pos- session of the leather. Devils Lake plays Forrest: Weaver, its six-foot four-inch center, at the free throw line, hoping to get him into the clear for one hand, overhead pitches. On this type of play Thurs- day morning, Weaver gathered six field goals and five free throws, mis- sing five other gift tosses. Allow Four Goals Saunders and Spielman of Man- dan, pitching from well out in the court, found two field goals each, the best they could do against the Ram- sey county giants. * Jamestown’s last quarter stand against Fargo, after they apparently were soundly whipped, was another classic exhibition of sheer determina- tion and stamina. Eric Peterson, who ‘Wednesday turned an apparent. Minot victory into a last minute triumph for Jamestown, again was the leading sing counties as his supporters have predicted, he will score a grand slam with 410 county unit votes and have the unanimous approval of the state convention. ars Georgia was the first southern state to hold a preference primary. It is the adopted state of Governor Roosevelt who visits Warm Springs regularly for his health. Richardson Back in Capital to Report Washington, March 24.—(?)—As- sistant Attorney General Seth W. Richardson returned to his ‘Wednesday with voluminous material for a report to the 4enate on law enforcement in the territory of Hawait. He went to Honolulu when the sen- ate commended an investigation, fol- lowing a series of assqult ‘cases cul- iminating in indictment of prominent the | Americans for the killing of a native accused of attacking Mrs. Thomas Massie, wife of a navy lieutenant. Officials said Richardson probal Attorney General Mitchell in a few days. The justice department chief has said he will rush his report to the senate. performer, pitching four times from deep in the court in the second half, Opinions as to tonight’s title win- ner are about evenly divided, Fargo's supporters claiming it is a fast travel- ing outfit that will turn back the giants, while Lakers reply with the old hunting adage of ‘You can’t hit ‘em if you can’t see ’em,’ claiming Fargo will be fortunate to gain pos- session of the ball. * f Games in Detail ‘ FARGO—JAMESTOWN: First quarter—Fargo took the tip desk} and Doherty counted from under the basket in the first seconds, Aamoth, Ingstad, Charbonneau, Graham Doherty all missed free throws after Ingstad ave Jamestown its first point ® free toss. Casselman . popped in.a rebound and Jamestown ¢alled for time. West- by was substituted for Schimidt in the Jay lineup. It was Westby Wed. nesday who gave the Jays their tory punch. Casselman counted a bly | free throw to end the quarter scor- ing, with the defending champions ahead, 8 to 1. Jamestown held Fargo on even * «Continued on page nine) Winners of the consolation rounds |, Consolation games were slated to| ge intensified by their elusiveness. \d; Norman Sch’ Wedding Daze in the Army the ceremony. ert Finkenaur. And cigars were in SEARCH FOR LINDY'S CHILD MIGHT LEAVE N. J. POLICE BROKE Unprecedented Expense Involv- ed; Clues Continue to Lead | Only to Blank Walls | i Hopewell, N. J., March 24.—(?}—| |The great Lindbergh baby hunt, un- | | successful after 23 days, threatens to ileave the state police broke. \ Unprecedented expense involved in trying to find kidnaped Charles A. | Lindbergh, Jr., amounting in its na-| ition-wide phase to probably hundreds | |of thousands of dollars, has hit the law enforcement facilities of New | Jersey particularly hard. So hard, in fact, that Col. H. Nor-| man Schwarzkopf, state police head, jtold the budget commission his de- partment’s funds have been “sadly depleted.” The police expenditures started leaping upward the moment} Col. Lindbergh phoned for aid after he found the child’s crib empty March 1. Night and Day Duty Scores of troopers went on night and day duty, eating in restaurants. Thousands of costly messages were sent. Here and elsewhere police took many trips of investigation. The total cost of the search quickly mounted far beyond the sum of the $50,000 ransom demand said to have jbeen made, Now Col. Schwarzkopf is curtailing costs. Food for the troopers 1s cook- ed at @ police barracks and some of the many telephones have been re- moved from , headquarters in the Lindbergh garage. An emergency ap- propriation may be asked. | New Jersey and New York police pressed their search Wednesday for Harry Fleischer, former member of |Detroit's “Purple gang.” They have ja “tip” he has been hiding with a gunman from Manhattan's east side. Detectives, it was disclosed, raided houses in Greenpoint, Long Island, on inférmation the gangsters were lying low there, but the raids came to noth-| ing. if . Meet Blank Walls | Everywhere authorities coftinued | to run against blank walls. On a tip a man in Brooklyn knew something, detectives sped there. They. found Thomas La Salle, a cripple who is taking a detective course by mail. He what they should do. | Police concentrated their efforts) Thursday in a search for twe “known | kidnapers” who have disappeared | since the child was stolen, The pair are Harry Fleischer, De- troit Purple gangster, and Abie Wag- ner, an alleged associate. Raids in New York City and Long Island failed to trap them but the hunt has only “Abie Wagner, recorded as a known Ikidnaper, was alleged to have been seen around central parts of New Jersey shortly before the kidnaping,” Superintendent of State Police H. said in Thurs- day's official bulletin on the case. “Harty Fleischer, also a known kid- naper and involved in the Price kid- naping.in Connecticut, has been un- An unsubstantiated report associates ‘Abie Wagner with Harry -leischer.” MELLON 77 YEARS OLD Pittsburgh, March 24.—()—Andrew W. Mellon, newly appointed ambassa- dor to Great Britain observed his T7th jbirthday quietly with his family "Thuraday. lChestnut Named’ President of Commercial Body, Goddard Vice President SEEK AID IN RATE FIGHT Water Conservation Projects Also Given Scrutiny at Meeting Here i W. P. Chestnut, Fargo, was elected president of the North Dakota Asso- i {elation of Secretaries of Chambers of | ;Commerce at the closing session of Maybe it isn't wedding etiquette for the bride to light up a cigar just betore But the “bride” in this instance is Cadet Gerry Culver (left) of the United States Military Academy and the “bridesmaid” is Cadet Rob- Wives of West Point,” the academy's annual show. Roosevelt’s N. D. Margin To Exceed 20,000 Votes ire. Mii ccmeiine ace “Dakota Democratic presidential pref- jthe New York executive will be in | plete returns. H. H. Perry had 28,- explained he merely had written Col. |} Schwarzkopf and others suggesting | 0 order between acts of “The Merry | William H. Murray Carried Only} Seven Counties; Democrat | Poll Over 80,000 | Gov. William H. Murray of Okla-| homa, in his recent contest with |Chamber of Commerce, it was pointed Franklin D. Roosevelt in the North) erence primary, carried only seven; counties, and the official majority of| last re- | excess of 20,000 when the H maining precincts, of which there are) about 50 unaccounted for, are report- ed in the official canvass. With these few precincts missing, | Governor Roosevelt has exactly 50,-' 000 votes, while Murray has 30,375. | The counties carried by Murray ar Barnes, Burleigh, Divide, McHenry, Mountrail, Ramsey and Ward. { H. H. Perry of Ellendale, for Dem- | ocratic national committeeman, had a lead of 6,495 on the virtually com- 895 votes, with 22,400 for J. Nelson; Kelly, the third candidate, Charles D.! Perry, of Crosby, enlisting the sup- port of 15,846 voters. J. Nelson Kelly of Grand Forks! carried only 13 counties against the Ellendale Perry. Kelly piled up ma- jorities over H. H. Perry in Adams, Barnes, Bowman, Cass, Cavalier,| Grand Forks, Logan, McLean, Nelson, Ramsey, Steele, Traill and Walsh. Charles D. Perry led the field in his own. county, Divide, and he outran| Kelly in Bottineau, Burke, Dickey, Divide, Eddy, Mountrail, Oliver, Ren-| ville, and Ward. The detailed vote by counties fol- lows: County , It Adams 456 Barnes 5 Benson 146 Billings (59 133° 58 Bottineau 887 921 389 Bowman 219 392 252 Burke 810 496 «= 303 Burleigh 1800 1689 885 Cass 1197 12842 1440 Cavalier 379 1124 553 Dickey 225 1538 112 Divide 540 332 120 Dunn 196 601187 Eddy 232 479143 Emmons 324 860 268 Fostay 220 799 | 160 G. Willey 91 225 103 G. Forks 559 3052 2258 Grant 473 1005 334 Griggs 292 604 196 Hettinger 322 608 264 Kidder 432 608 «237 LaMoure 325 505 224 175 Logan 346 «680 «339194372 McHenry 938. 9023 458 381 659 McIntosh 131 632 222 92 394 McKenzie 388 472 «171 «146 = 310 McLean 920°'1099 617 418 614 Mercer 202 1004 280 262 470 Morton 678 2272 $15 569 1140 Mounti] 1096 655 372 414 504 Nelson 407 665 351 218 325 liver 18¢ 339° 87 «140180 Pembina 245 1101 402 228 598 Pierce 670 591333 254 455 Ramsey 1010 737 647 379 696 Ransom’ 351 208 261 257 337 Renville . 581 621 237 271 404 Richland 439 1936 603 511 931 Rolette 195 402 140 108 28 Sargent 148 674 151° 146 313 Sheridan 205 523 172 141 477 Sioux 142. 175° «104 883A Slope 222 32% 4131 «122 «15 Stark 413 1589 437) «419792 Steele 254 377 220 153 162 Stuts'an 1315 3352 831 769 2459 Towner lit 159 (80 (60 9 ‘rail 374 658 378 202 870 Walsh 543 2366 1335 479 «730 Ward 3742-1697 1056 1445 1748 Wells 634 1183 «389 «380 69) Williams $78 1218 611 460 617 fol, Bil cad te eh BOWE 30375 50000 22409 45846 28895 Petrolle Weighs 139 '’ And Battalino 135 Totals |the meeting. He said determination; {velopment of the state. jmade on a joint basis, giving the Twin , fort to have the rates placed on a fair jare greater for the Twin Cities and| |the attention of the opening session 47 \of 3 | elation plans an intensive study of 84) sarticipate in determining practic- | $'!pakota’s representatives and con- jin Washington, showing that further 8|sion of U. S. army engineers. 5 {outlined current, 4 |firm for taking of soundings along 7 |will require about two months, and their annual meeting here Thursday. H. P. Goddard, Bismarck, was named | vice president and C. E. Arnold, Man-! dan, secretary. The need for concerted opposition by North Dakota cities to a proposal for increased freight rates made by the railroads and backed by interests in the Twin Cities and Duluth, was em- phasized by Chestnut in an address to of the issue on a favorable basis means thousands of dollars to North Dakota industries. and distributors! and will do much to promote the de- Under the old basis, rates were Cities and Duluth preference. Under @ recent ruling, now in effect, how- ever, the rates are equalized*so that North Dakota jobbers and shippers Lauds Railroad Board Chestnut said the state railroad board and Ben C. Larkin, its presi- dent, have cooperated splendidly with North Dakota interests in fighting the proposed increase and in the ef- and equitable basis. } In a statement by N. E. Williams, | traffic commissioner for the Fargo out that new rail-lake-and-rail rates will become effective :n the spring! which carry out the changes already | made in the all-rail rates. These pro-| vide some increases but the boosts Duluth than for any North Dakota points. From New York to Duluth the pres- ent rate is $1.29 but under the new, rates it will be $1.62, a difference of | 33 cents. The boost to the Twin; Cities was from $1.55%2 to $1.82. Fargo | is raised from $2.14 ‘0 $2.24 and) rand Forks from $2.22 to $2.33 but Bismarck drops from $2.81 to $2.60,! Jamestown from $2.58 to $2.40 and Minot from $2.94 to $2.64. In addition to seeking increases in} inter-state rates from the Interstate) Commerce Commission, the railroads! are asking a 35 per cent increase in| intra-state rates from the state rail- road board, Chestnut said. He assert-) FARGOANIS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF STATE SECRETARIES GROUP of Wants Husband | | pore Rah jects Sales Tax Plan REVENUE. PROPOSAL BEATEN 298 10 153 WHEN PARTIES SPLIT Fierce Debate Precedes Action; Democrat Leaders Take Opposite Sides ROSA PONSELLE New York, March 24.—()—Rosa Ponselle, 34-year-old prima donna of the Metropolitan Opera company, is seeking the missing link in the charmed chain of her life—a hus- band. “All my girlhood was a bat- tle between career and marriage,” she said, “I have the career, I must now have a husband. If the right man came along, I wouldn't hesitate a moment.” ATTORNEY GENERAL DENIES CONTENTION VOICED BY FRAZIER Morris Believes Hoover-Pledg- ed Delegates Have Right to Back President James Morris, state attorney gen- eral, in an informal ruling ‘Thursday, said he believed nine of the 11 North Dakota delegates to the Republican national convention elected in the March 15 primary, are bound to Pres- ident Hoover. U. _§, Senator Lynn J. Frazier, (R., N. D.), in a statement at Washing- ton last Saturday had asserted this state's Republican delegates must Support J. I. France of Maryland, who won the presidential preference vote in the primary. Senator Frazier said the result of preference vote is man- datory upon all the delegates. Attorney General Morris, com- menting Thursday on the Frazier statement, told the Associated Press he saw nothing in the preference law Hoover delegates to France. Have Gone Unchallenged precedent, delegates supported candi- dates to whom they originally were pledged, and that hitherto had gone unchallenged. Morris declared he considered the vote for the Hoover delegates as an expression of preference for Hoover. ed the result of such action, if the ap-| plication is granted, would be to force! more traffic to truck lines and put| North Dakota distributors under new) handicaps as compared with their! Duluth. ! Want Fair Rates H Chestnut asked every secretary to; business men and shippers in their home cities to the end that trey will end their influence to the work of; getting fair freight rates for North | Dakota. t Water, its utility and conservation) las related to various development possibilities in North Dakota, held the association Wednesday. B. E. Groom, chairman, agriculture committee, and M. O. Ryan, acting secretary of the Greater North Da- kota association, disclosed the asso- small dam projects in streams and lakes over the state, looking to a maximum amount of feasible water conservation. City water engineers and surface and ground water authorities will ability of local projects. Ryan submitted reports from North gressmen in Washington, and from: the association's legislative committee; promotion work on the Missouri river diversion project must await com- pletion of a field survey and sound-} ings now under way under supervi- Baker, Anders Talk Colonel Frayne Baker of Bismarck and Major Frank Anders of Fargo developments in studies of navigation, conservation and impounding of water on the Mis- souri and other streams and lakes in North Dakota. ‘The war department recently awarded a contract to a Minneapolis the Missouri river at suggested dam sites. Field work on these soundings subsequent study another two months. Reports of these investiga- tions will ba included in findings of army engineers to be prepared for congress. Col. Baker, in his talk on possibil- ities of navigation on the Missouri, New. York, March 24—(?)—Billy Petrolle, veteran North Dakota light- weight, weighed in with a four-round advantage ‘Thursday for his 12-round bout with Christopher “Bat” Bat- talino, former. featherweight cham- pion, in Madison Square Garden to- night. Petrolle weighed 139 pounds, Battalino 135. pointed out how in coal, for inst this state might extend its competitors in the Twin Cities and j eral take an active part in interesting | TWO tance, marks |a No formal request for a been made. Sopa President Hoover did not file for the Republican presidential prefer- ence vote in the March 15. primary. nce and Jacob S, Coxey of Ohi both of whom had no delegate: sought the vote, and France won. Sets of delegates sought election the Republican convention, one supported by the Independent faction of the party in this state and the other by the Nonpartisan wing. The Independent group elected nine dele- gates pledged to Hoover, while the onpartisans won two delegates, both uninstructed except that they should vote for a “Progressive” for president. Larson Has Some Idea E. G. Larson, Valley City, member of the state executive committee of the Nonpartisan League and one of the Nonpartisan delegates, said he considered the preference vote as not binding on him to support France. Arthur W. Fowler, Fargo, state chairman of the Independent faction of the Republican party, said the nine Hoover delegates will vote for the president because they were expressly Pledged to him and conducted their pre-election campaigns on that basis. In 1924, six Nonpartisan-sponsored delegates to the national convention supported the late Robert La Follette for president, although Calvin Cool- idge had won North Dakota's presi- dential preference contest. The re- Was ‘Joke’ Preference Larson said: “I don’t feel that I’m bound to sup- port France. The Republican voters of this state had no real chance to express themgelves in this election. Had Hoover been named on the ticket and France defeated him, then I would feel that I should opcose Hoo- ver at the convention. It was @ joke preference.” : egate, said he has not decided how hs will vote at the nationa: conven- “The convention is a long way off and I havent given the matter any consideration as yet,” he said. INDORSE NONPARTISANS Morris said that, as a matter of; mainder of the state's delegates were} \peeee to Coolidge and supported WAS BASE OF BIG MEASURE 2.25 Per Cent Levy Which Was to Have Yielded $595,- 000,000 Removed Washington, March 24.—(#)—The sales tax was rejected by the house Thursday after fierce debate which split both parties and brought an open dispute on the floor between Democratic leaders. The vote, on a count by tellers, was 223 to 153. As the house was in committee of the whole, no roll call vote was taken. In the closing moments of debate two of the Democratic leaders, both house veterans—Rainey of Illinois and Byrns of Tennessee — arrayed themselves on opposing sides with Rainey advocating and Byrns oppos- ing the tax. The Republican leader- ship held firmly for the tax. The ways and means committee in @ final gesture to save the tax had written into the bill sweeping exemp- tions which covered food, clothing and a long list of necessities. The action removes the 2.25 ver cent levy that originally was slated to yield $595,000,000._ The provision formed the base of the measure de- signed to return sufficient revenue to balance the 1933 federal budget. Now another search for revenue to balance the budget will begin. Three Weeks of Debate Action came after nearly three weeks of bitter debate and spectacu- lar scenes in a strife torn house. Bi- partisan opponents ran rough shod over their party leaders. The vote was on the amendment offered by Representative Doughton (D., N. C.), a member of the ways and means committee that drafted the bill. Opposition to the sales tax was led by Doughton, Rankin of Mississippi, Democrats, and LaGuardia of New York, Republican independent leader. It was the first victory of its kind in years. The leadership of the house was crushed. Speaker Garner, Rainey as the Democratic leader and Rep- resentative Snell of New York, the Republican leader, were unable to muster enough bi-partisan support to put the controverted provision over. It means that if the house is to pass a bill to meet, the deficit, addi- tional revenue amounting to $600,- 000,000 will have to be raised through that would in any way bind te levies offered as substitutes. The sales tax opponents won after boosting income and surtax rates, estates and disallowing credits to Americans for taxes paid to foreign governments. They sent the surtax their actions:© the war-time rates with a 65 per cent maximum and raised the maxi- mum normal income tax rate to sev- en per cent. Raised 45 Per Cent The estate taxes were raised to a 45 per cent maximum on estates in excess of $10,000,000 and lowered the exemption from $100,000 to $50,000. In the senate, Harrison of Mis- sissippi argued that enactment of the tariff bill, previously passed by *|the house, would go far to stabilize such legislation hereafter. The meas- ure would transfer from the presi- dent to congress the right to pass on changes recommended by the tariff commission. A house committee approved a bill for leasing Muscle Shoals to private linterests, with government operation as an alternative if a lease could not be obtained. The vote was 13 to 8. Before another house committee, Representative Disney (D., Okla.) ace cused former Representative O'Con- nor of having told a “deliberate, das- feed. lie.” ey appeared before the committee hearing a Sentaes oeed jby O'Connor, Oklahoma Republican. A group of bankers appeared before @ senate committee to criticize feat- ures of the Glass banking reform bill. One of the witnesses, Wilson W. ‘Mills, Detroit banker, said the meas- ure would be disadvantageous to the banks and the country. Norris-LaGuardia Bill Is Made Law {based on recommendation of Attorney i bargain collecti should the stream be developed and made navigable. Anders Traces Efforts Eft bereft: caret}. saghonp oar organizations in promoting state-wide development projects, and’ declared that to date, everything pos- (Continued on page Nine) % ‘trict and R. R. Lofthus, McVille, 0. H. Larson, Whitman, as state resentative. Fred Keitsman, was elected secretary for two and Norman Johnson, Tolna, as retary-treasurer, .