The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 6, 1932, Page 1

North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1932 President of France Is Shot: Committee Compromises on New Tax Bill ejected By Committee President Scores | Congress’ Actions REVERSES DECSIN Bonus Bill Is R NEW AFTER MILLS TELLS OF HOOVER'S VIEWS High Income Levies, Approved Thursday, Are Scaled Down Sharply OTHER CHANGES ARE MADE Rubber Import Levy Added and Taxes on Automobiles Are Increased Washington, May 6.—(#)—The sen- ate finance committee Friday adopted @ compromise tax bill. Confronted with a warning from Secretary Mills that it had dealt a disastrous blow to public confidence and with word the president was about to issue a statement calling the attention of the country to his views for a prompt balancing of the budget, the committee accepted a compromise program presented by the administra- tion. Calling for modification of the high income rates, it was advanced by Mills and was accepted 13 to 4. The surtax income rates were modi- fied from a maximum of 55 per cent to 45. It again changed the income rates to provide for normal taxes of 3 per cent on the first $4,000; 6 per cent on the next $4,000 and 9 per cent on income over $8,000. Rubber Is Taxed A new levy of five cents a pound on rubber imports was added. The automobile tax was raised from 3 to 4 per cent. Previous rates of the committee on radios, telephones and telegraphs were kept. Mills emphasized that the treasury had no program, but he urged the committee to “get together with us and let the treasury put its blessing on the bill.” He asked elimination of “atrocities” and included in this classification the new surtax schedule with its 55 per cent maximum, and the added levy on consolidated returns. He suggested a lowering of the ex- emptions on the 10 per cent admis- sions levy to include 10-cent tickets. A 10 per cent increase in the tax on cigarettes also was suggested. The increase in the automobile levy was taken as an alternative to a 10 per cent boost in the tobacco levy. Boost Is Considerable The new income taxes compare with an existing 114 per cent on the first $4,000 and 3 per cent on the second $4,000 of income. Exempt from in- come is the single man’s first $1,000, and the married man’s first $2,500 (except that if the latter’s taxable income is above $2,000, the exemp- tion is only $2,000). Senator Connally (Dem., Tex.), offered the substitute income tax schedule with the 1921 rates. He es- timated it would raise the $100.000,- 000 lacking to make the revised rev- enue bill meet the budget require- ments for 1933. There was some speculation over this point so Secretary Mills wat called in to give the final word. By an 8 to 7 vote the committee added a provision to the bill imposing 2 tax of 80 per cent on bonus salary payments to corporation executives. Tires Are Excluded It was announced after the com- mittee session that the new automo- bile schedule calls for taxes of four per cent on passenger cars, three per cent on trucks and two per cent on accessories. Tires were excluded from the accessories tax in view of the new tax on rubber. Grape juice and carbonated water went out of the bill, in the elimination of the lev- ies on soft drinks. It was decided to have banks col- lect from accounts the two-cent charge on bank checks. The committee then voted to ac- cept in full the program outlined by Mills. It included: Elimination of the 1 1-2 per cent added tax on consolidated returns of corporations. Reduction of the exemption on ad- missions to include 10 per tickets in the 10 per cent tax. Approval of the committee's rates on stock and bond transfers of four cents. Approval of the increased postal rates on first and second class mail. A rate of four cents a gallon on lu- bricating oil. Levy on Bank Checks Approval of two-cent levy on all bank checks; 3 per cent tax on gum; 15 cents a gallon on brewer's wort; 2 per cent on automobile trucks; 3 per cent on oil pipe lines. The corporation rate of 14 per cent agreed upon by the committee was re- tained. The house estate and gift tax schedules previously adopted by the committee were retained. Mills voiced no views on the four tariff items and these were still in the bill as the committee neared the end of its ‘ork. The committee knocked out the $1,000 exemption for tions but modified the bill to allow corporations to carry over fr one year. net losses. Mills estimated the compromise measure would raise $1,025,000,000 in 1933. The secretary emphasized that econ- omies in government would have to be made for the measure-to balance the pudget next year, however. The following excise rates in the use revenue bill were eliminated in the compromise program: \Fur, toilet articles, boats, refrigera- td:s, sporting goods, evas, fra soft drinks, produce ex~ change, and safe deposit boxes. , fire arms, cam-|- The Weather Cloudy tonight; Saturday fair and alighily warmer, PRICE FIVE CENTS PULITZER AW. Among Pulitzer award winner: (upper left) for his biography, “Thi ARD WINNERS Associated Press Photo ‘3 for 1932 were: Henry F. Pringle eodore Roosevelt”; Walter Duranty (upper right), Moscow correspondent of the New York Times, for one of the two best examples of newspaper correspondence: Pearl S. Buck (lower left) for her novel, “The Good Earth,” and Geor; 8. Kaufman (lower right), who with Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin wrote “Of Thee | Sing,” a musical comedy, which won the award for the best play. Economy Bill Would Cut Pay of 14 Local Workers GREAT NORTHERN 10 IMPROVE ITS TRACK Railroad Will Spend About; $600,000 in State Between dune and September Minot, N. D, May 6.—(®)—The Great Northern Railway company will spend $600,000 in the next few months, making improvements on the Minot division with employment pref- erence, so far as possible, being given to men of this city, Supt. M. L. Gaetz of the Minot division announced Fri- day. Thirty and one-half miles of 110- pound rail are to be laid betwee: Verendrye, in McHenry county, and Aylmer, in Pierce county, and there also wil be bank widening and bal- lasting done between the two towns. The 110-pound rail will take the place of present 90-pound rail. Bank widening and ballasting also is to be done between Saxony and Bedford, both in Cass county, a dis- tance of 23 miles. The projects will result in approxi- mately 400 men being put to work on track improvements. The work will start about June 1 and will be com- pleted about September 1. Since May 1, the Minot diviston al- ready has put 100 section men to work, Supt. Gaetz said. Fargo Labor Seeking Two Red River Spans Fargo, May 6.—(7)—Fargo laboring men favor the daylight savings pian and would like to see two new bridges span the Red river. of the north this year. veThe Fargo trades and labor as- sembly meeting Thursday night al- most unanimously favored institution of the daylight savings plan that Fargo may get one more hour of sun- shine outside of working hours for home ‘and recreational benefits. On the bridge proposition, the as- sembly passed a resolution declaring it is of the opinion there has been ‘unnecessary delay on the part of the North Dakota highway commission in taking necessary action to con- struct two bridges .across the Red river in Cass county. iM Home-Run Knocks | Woman Unconscious} Buffalo, N. Y., May 6.—(AP) —Buzz ‘Arlett; whe was playing baseball, made a grand slam and Mrs. Ida Moore, who was play- ing bridge, was put out at home. To unscramble: Arlett, playing with the Orioles, hit a home run. The ball went through a window and’knocked Mrs. Moore uncon- scious at the bridge table. Survey Shows Total Federal Salary List in Bismarck is $137,020 Only 14 salaries paid to Bismarck iresidents would be affected should the proposal to reduce by 11 per cent all federal salaries over an exemption of $2,500, as approved by the house in the economy bill, become law. The total reduction of these salar- jes would total $1,205.50. Sixty-eight federal employes who reside in Bismarck draw annually in salaries a total of $137,020. Only 14 of these draw salaries exceeding $2.- 500, the exemption now allowed in the economy bill. Salaries paid to officers and enlist- ed men at Fort Lincoln are not in- cluded, since the post is outside the city limits. With salaries paid to 24 employes totaling $54,300 annually, the pestof- fice is the biggest single federal de- partment in the city. The Indian school, with a payroll of $27,380 for 19 employes, the bureau of public roa¢s, with salaries to five totaling $15,800, and the weather bureau, with seven salaries totaling $13,780, are next in order. “Other federal departments which partment of internal revenue, bureau of animal industry, land office, pro- hibition enforcement bureau, postal inspection office, national guard in- spection, property and disbursing of- fice, and deputy clerk of federal jcourt. Salaries paid to Bismarck residents range from $4,600 to $150, a survey by The Tribune reveals. The §2,100 salary is by far the most common, 17 lemployes here drawing that much annually. The Tribunc’s survey covers only regular employes. Employes on part-time and commission bases are not included. The U. 8. commissioner here is paid on a commission basis. A table of salaries paid to federal (Continued on page two) Austrian Premier and Cabinet Quit Office Vienna, May 6.—(?)—The Austrian cabinet, headed by Premier Karl Buresch, resigned Friday. The resignations, presented to Pres- ident Miklas by Chancellor Buresch. were accepted, but the Chancellor consented to the president's request that he continue in office until a new government is formed. The resignation followed a clamor for dissolution of the parliament and a call for new elections as a result of the provingial voting on April 24 in which the fascists showed spec- tacular strength, ACCEPTS PAY CUT Hollywood, Calif., May 6.—(AP)-— Warner-First_ National Film studios have announced George Arliss, fa- is stage and screen actor, has ed voluntarily to a “substantial” salary reduction. His contract has two years to run. have residents here include the de-j MONEY PLANS ALSO DISCARDED BY VOTE OF 15 10 10 Action Means House Will Have no Opportunity to Vote on Proposals | RAINEY SAYS THEY’RE DEAD Only Course Open to Measure’s Advocates is to Adopt Special Rule Washington, May 6.—(4)—All plans for cashing the $2,000,000,000 soldiers’ bonus were rejected Friday by the house ways and means committee on a 15 to 10 vote. The committee further voted to re- port the new-money bills to the house adversely. This action creates a parliamentary situation that will delay any effort to force a house vote through a dis- charge petition. Representative Patman (Dem. Tex.), chief bonus advocate, has op- posed the committee action making an unfavorable report to the house. Under the rules, Patman says, June 13 would be the first day on which a vote could be forced through a peti- tion signed by 145 members. Representative Rainey of Illinois, the Democratic leader, was designat- ed by the committee to make the ad- verse report to the house. The course now open to bonus ad- vocates is introduction of a special rule to give the bonus bills a pre- ferred legislative status. Such a re- solution would go to the rules com- mittee and should this committee {fail to act after seven days a dis- charge petition would be in order. Rainey said that, in view of the forthcoming adjournment of congress in time for the national conventions, the committee action definitely killed any opportunity for a house vote on the bonus issue. ‘JASON WAIT FOUND DEAD IN HIS ROO |51-Year-Old Bismarck Man Ap- | parently Was Victim of i Heart Disease Jason E. Wait, 51-year-old Bismarck man, was found dead on the floor of jhis room at 911 Sixth St. about 11 jo'clock Friday forenoon. W. E. Perry, Burleigh county cor- oner, said Wait apparently died of a heart attack while in the act of wash- ling his hands and face when he was about to retire last night. An autopsy | will be performed Saturday, Perry said. The coroner said Wait’s room was j orderly and his clothing was folded neatly. Prominent in the city as a pianist and organist, Wait was a member of | the local Elks lodge and Rotary club. jcome organist at a local theater, which position he left several years ago. An artist and designer, he had an office at 106 Third St., at the time of his death. Wait leaves a sister, Margaret, in St. Paul, his only known near rela- jtive. Funeral services are tentatively |planned for St, Paul's Church On the | Hill (Episcopal) in St. Paul. Wait had been organist of St. George's Episcopal church here. He was born at St. Paul 1881. Wait had played pipe organs in churches and theaters in many parts of the United States before coming to Bismarck and took considerable pride in his voluminous musical library. Wait was a Jaw graduate of the University of Minnesota and also had Studied music for several years under a private tutor. Feb. 23, Japanese Beginning Shanghai Evacuation Shanghai, May 6.—(#)—The van- guard of what remains of the power- ful Japanese army at Shanghai, es- timated at 30,000 men, Friday began evacuating the area about the city from which it drove the Chinese in the last fierce battle of the “war.” ‘The evacuation, which is in accord- ance with the truce agreement signed Thursday by Japanese and Chinese officials, is slated to continue increas- ingly cach day until the entire Jap- anese force has retired to the areas assigned it under the tryce. The movement is expected to be completed within one month. Reports emanating from Japanese sources said the Japanese government probably would move for a round table conference here to settle all Sino-Japanese issues, including the problem of Manchuria and the anti- Japanese boycott in China, MANY DIE IN TYPHOON Saigon, French Indo-China, May 6. —(#)—Many deaths were reported in the wake of a typhoon which swept southern Annam during the night. Communication lines were down and details were unavailable. | He came to Bismarck in 1924 to be- | GASTON B, MEANS IS | HELD FOR HOAX IN SEARCH FOR INFANT Notorious Figure Alleged to Have Gotten $100,000 From Washington Woman Washington, May 6— «>? —The| bulky, jaunty Gaston B. Means, no-| torious figure for a generation, plump- | ed himself sensationally into the| Lindbergh case limelight Thursday and into jail. The one-time justice department! linvestigator and ex-convict was charg-| led with obtaining $100,000 from Mrs. Edward B. McLean, wife of the pub- lisher of the Washington Post, by falsely representing that he could re- turn the missing Lindbergh child. An extraordinary tale was unfolded by attorneys for Mrs. McLean and by two men who assisted her in negotia- tions through which Means allegedly got the money, led the prominent j Woman on a fruitless chase to Aiken, South Carolina, and to the Mexican border, and then failed to return either child or money. Means would not tell his side of it. He was arrested by agents of the de- partment of justice after a secret in- vestigation. Before a United States | commissioner he pleaded not guilty bond was set at $100,000. and on fail- ure to post it he was jailed. Prelim- ay hearing was set for next Tues- lay. Means Not Surprised “T wasn't surprised,” he told new: papermen, “I had been told they were! discussing taking me.” “The warrant answers that.” he |said with a grin, when asked if he had been negotiating in the Lind- bergh case, but he would not elabor- ate. “A good many people have saic| |@ good many things about me, but you | | will always notice I always stand pat! jand I never break a confidence until} | they do—then I do, quick.” | The story told by close associates | ‘of Mrs. McLean, is this: |. Mrs. McLean originally approachei | Means early in Match to find out if} ,he knew anything about the kidnap- | ling. He said he thought he knew who did take the child as a former cell- |mate at the Atlanta penitentiary had, j just before the child was taken. pro- | posed that Means join him in kidnap- \ing a prominent baby. Means then |sald he had verified this connection and that the kidnaper demanded $100,000. Conferred With Two Men After conferring with Captain Em- jory 8, Land, U. S. Navy, who is a cou- sin of Colonel Lindbergh, and the Rev. Francis J. Hurney, a Catholic priest, she turned over the $100,000 in $100 and $50 bills to Means, in the jPresence of Father Hurney. In mid-March Mrs. McLean with a nurse, Miss Elizabsth Nelson, and three servants, went to Aiken. Means joined them and said he was in con- (Continued on page nine) Indict Ex-Jurist in | Oklahoma Oil Fraud Oklahoma City, May 6.—()—-Ou: of the federal government's scrutiny of oil stock operations has come an |indictment charging a former chief {justice of the Oklahoma supreme jcourt—Charles W. Mason—with mail | fraud. The indictment grew out of activi- ities of the C. C, Julian Oil and Roy- {alty company, in connection wit? | which Julian and others already face | federal prosecution. Mason served as |trustee of the company for about two months last year. The former chief justice asserted today he had “done no wrong.” He | sald he was “ready for trial tomorrow upon the facts without taking advan- ‘tage of any legal technicalities.” \Minot Man Dies of Accident Injuries Minot N. D., May 6.—()—Never having regained consciousness, Eu- gene R. Riordan, 25, died here Thurs- day, approximately 93 hours after a portion of his skull bone was broken out and he lost a part of his brain when his motorcycle crashed into an automobile in this city. Riordan’s ability to live, in spite of his injuries, had aroused widespread interest in his case and the hospital where he was a patient was the recip- fent of many inquiries daily about his condition, Nurse Is Slain by Criminal Attacker Toledo, O., May 6.—(AP)—Stran- gled to death and criminally assault- ed by an unidentified man, the body of Miss Winifred Rafferty, 22, diet- ician at the Robinwood hospital, was Uses Sharp Language to De- mand That Lawmakers Bal- ance Budget at Once POLITICAL CIRCLES STIRRED Democratic Leaders Bitter as They Accuse Hoover of Campaign Speech BULLET! Washington, May 6.—(AP)—Pres- ident Hoover is going to carry to the country the drive he opened Thursday on congress for prompt balancing of the budget. Washington, May 6.—(?)—In em- Pphatic and sharp language President Hoover Thursday demanded of con- gress that it enact an effective bud- get-balancing program without fur- ther ado. Enumerating specific acts, he ac- cused the Democratic-managed house of representatives of undermining public confidence and undoing the beneifts of the reconstruction pro- gram. By contrast with the usual lacka- daisical reception of presidential messages. this one sent both branches of congress into an immediate fury, evoking from the Democratic leaders bitter words of blame for the presi- dent and his aides, drawing from ad- recriminations. Boiled down, what the president demanded was that an adequate anc equitable tax bill be passed: that ex- penditures be reduced by $700,000,00C or more, partly through cuts in ap- ropriations, mainly by giving him legal authority to reorganize the gov- ernment with a free hand. He de- manded the appropriation cuts be accompanicd by authority to shift amounts between bureaus to prevent popular morale by its destruction of the origina! tax program, its passage passing the veterans’ widows and or- phans pension bill while refusing to sanction cuts in allowances for ex- soldiers as provided by the economy bill; virtual destruction of the latter measure; failure to make possible adequate reduction of government bureaus and commissions; passing a bill ordering the federal reserve boara and the treasury to peg the value Of|Dakota Taxpayers’ association, will! the dollar; and the threat (througt|be voted on at the June 29 primary |the bonus or other pending legisla-| election. tion) of enacting laws looking to un- controlled inflation. Democrats Reply floor leader, Rainey of Illinois, jump- ed up with the charge that this was (Continued on page nine) N. D. Persons Bought 644 Autos in April North Dakotans bought 644 auto- mobiles during the month of April, according to statistics compiled from motor vehicle registrations by Com- mercial Service, Inc., Bismarck, There were [0 passengers and 84 commercial cars sold in April. Last month's sales bring to 1,507 the total passenger and commercial cars sold in the state the first four months of this year. During the same four- month period of 1931, sales totaled 4,141. Persons in Cass county purchased 139 commercial cars while in Grand Forks county there were 43 sales in April, Burleigh 34, Richland 29, Ward 27, Stutsman 22, Barnes 18, Morton and Ramsey 13. Cass county with 18 sales took first place in number of commercial cars sold, Burleigh was second with 7, Stutsman and Ward tied for third with 6, and Grand Forks had 5 pie .— a cleat ’ | Spectator’s Role | | Gets Man in Jail | o—__—__________¢ Chicago, May 6.—(AP)—Mor- ris Irgang tried a new role. He went to court as a spectator. But it didn’t last. He was haled before the bench for loud talk- ing. Then a court attache rec- ognized him as a more or less regular defendant with 143 ar- rests and 33 fines on his record. Now he is serving out his 34th fine, $50 for contempt of court. Former Bismarck Man Succumbs in Chicago Edward Rowan, 45, a former man- ager of the Patterson hotel here, is dead in Chicago, according to the Associated Press dispatch. He also had lived at Minot, leaving there for Chicago in 1919 after re- turning from France where he served with the Y, M. C. A. during the World war. He was born on April 27, 1886, in Philadelphia. ELECT COOPERSTOWN BOY Fargo, N. D., May 6.— (AP) — found early Friday in an exclusive Toledo residential section, Police blamed a maniac for the attack. They said the woman was killed after a terrific struggle. Gerald Garlid of Cooperstown was elected ministration supporters equally shara| |° To this indictment the Democratic } uation. resident of Sigma Tau Delta, national honorary English society, at the North Dakota agriculti college here last night, é ) jot inhuman discharging of thousands of| jgovernment employes. He accused the house of damaging | mitts, or $103,011. Sey L Assassin’s Victim || PAUL DOUMER Paul Doumer, president of France|} and former president of the French senate, Friday was shot four times by an assassin. LOWER VALUATIONS WOULD CUT CITY'S LEVY 25 PER CENT! | Bismarck Property Taxes Would be $26,035 Below Those AGED STATESMANIN SERIOUS CONDITION WITH TWO WOUNDS Assassin is Identified as White Russian; Doctors Hold Some Hope BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS MADE Formal Statesment Says Assail- ant Appears ‘Not in Pos- session of Faculties’ Paris, May 6.—(?)—President Paul Doumer, 74-year-old head of the French republic, was critically wound- ed Friday by an assassin identified as a “white” Russian. Two blood transfusions and a tre- Paning operation were performed im. mediately and the doctors held out some hope the president might re- cover. The police hammered at the assas- sin until they learned his name is Paul Gouguloff, that he had come here from Monaco especially to com- mit the crime and that his motive was revenge for the French refusal to intervene in Russia against th Bolsheviki. i Z Friday evening the ministry of the interior issued this statement: “Today at three o'clock President Doumer, during a visit to an exhibi- tion by war veteran writers, was the victim of an attempt on his life by a Russian anarchist who appears to be not in full possession of his faculties. “The president was struck by a bullet in the head and another in the shoulder which caused a flesh wound. He was taken to Beaujon hospital where he received the attentive care of leading surgeons.” Accompanied By Author M. Doumer had come from the of Last Year i i Bismarck’s general tax levy this, year would be 25.27 per cent iess than | in 1931 under the proposed initiated} law for reducing the taxable valua-j tion of property from 75 to 50 per} cent, figures compiled from records tion in 1931 was $8,247,457 and the} tax levy for general purposes 12.49} The taxable valua- | tion on the 50 per cent basis would) be $5,498,305. A maximum levy of 14/ of a $132,000,000 road building bill: | mins on this valuation would net $76,- | 976, or $26.035 less than in last year. | Should the taxable valuation of} property be reduced as proposed, aj majority of North Dakota munici-; palities would find their general tax! levies from 20 to 40 per cent less than | in 1931. | The proposal to change the basis of valuation, sponsored by the North) | i 19 Cities Not Affected | Of 107 North Dakota cities, 19 would} not be affected by a reduction in val-| Of the 88 municipalities affected, nine would reduce their general levy less than 10 per cent; 12 cities would] reduc> from 10 to 20 per cent; 23) cities from 20 to 30 per cent, and 39, cities from 30 to 40 per cent. i In the 10 largest cities in the state, | all with a population above 5,000, re-/| ductions of from 13.5 per cent at Man- dan to 36.59 per cent at Devils Lake} would be necessary. The aggregate legal rate in mills for all city purposes, except payment} of debt obligations, is 14 mills. The) figures on which the compilation, showing the effect of the proposed | law is based, show the 1931 aggregate levies for all purposes, except for pay- ment of bonded debt obligations, judgments, and deficiencies in spe- cial improvement projects by general taxation. Based on Assumption The proposed reduction in levy, as compiled from the tax commission records, is based on the assumption that there would be no change in the assessed valuation of property in 1932 and that the taxable valuation would be one-third less than last year's tax- able value. By vote of 60 per cent of the elec- tors, cities may increase their levy to 21 mills, but the list of city tax levies shows only a few had excess levies for 1931. i The effect of the proposed bill on other cities would be as follows: Fargo: Population, 28,619; taxable valuation, $27,468,865; tax levy for general purposes, 11.20 mills and $307,651.29 in 1931; taxable valuation on 50 per cent basis, $18,312,578; max- imum levy possible on 50 per cent basis, 14 mill limit, $256,376. Neces- sary reduction in general levy under 1931 levy, $51.2705, or 16.67 per cent. Grand Forks: Population, 17,112; taxable valuation, $13,055,010; tax levy for general purposes 12.87 mills or $307,651.29 in 1931; taxable valu: tion on 50 per cent basis, $8.703,340; maximum levy possible on 50 per cent basis, 14 mill limit, $121.84: neces- sary reduction in general levy, $51,- 275 or 16.67 per cent. Minot Cut 20 Per Cent Minot: Population, 16,099; taxable valuation, $10,804,178; tax levy for general purposes, 11.75 mills, or $128,- 006.59; taxable valuation on 50 per Elysee Palace with Claude Farrere, a noted author. Together they entered the grand hall of the Baron de Rots- child Foundation near the palace. Farrere walked with him up the ‘and staircase where the president paused to sign a copy of a book by a contemporary author. Then the president moved over to a the state tax commissioner show. |table and stood talking with The Capital City’s taxable valua-| : =a and Madame Farrere. Suddenly a man sprang, seemingly out of nowhere, leveled a pistol at the President and fired five times. M. Doumer’s knees crumpled. He sank ta the floor. There appeared te be bullets in the front of the head, in the head behind the ear and in the chest. Farrere sprang forward. The assassin’s pistol was still smok- ing in his hand. He raised it and fired twice. Farrere stopped with a bullet in the arm but lunged forward again and grappled with the man. Paul Uichard, director of the Paris police, ran forward. The assassin fired again, The bullet struck Guich- ard in the arm. By this time a dozen police sur- rounded the man and a crowd gather- ed about them. As the crowd grew it became an in- furiated mob. The police had diffi- culty in protecting their prisoner. At police headquarters he identified himself as Paul Gouguloff, a Russian physician. Someone heard him shout as he fired: “Die for the fatherland.” Meanwhile, back in the exhibition room, Farrere and others bent over the president. Mumbles Few Words He was nearly unconscious, but. mumbled a few incoherent words as they lifted him, placed him on a stretcher and carried him to the Beaujon hospital. The doctors there performed an operation immediately. One of the surgeons said he had ex- amined the president and discovered no bullets had penetrated the brain and that he expected M. Doumer might recover. The president, he said, was heard to whisper “pas possible.” (Continued on page nine) Deadline 4:50 p. m. For Eastbound Mail Mail for east-bound train No. 4, leaving here at 5:53 p. m, should be in the postoffice before 4:50 p. m. each day, Walter A. Sather, Bismarck Postmaster, said Friday. Sather said east-bound mail brought to the postoffice after that time may not leave Bismarck until the follow- ing morning. The new deadline is necessitated by the change in the Northern Pacific train schedules, Postal employes collect mail from the state capitol, Bank of North Da- kota, and Bismarck hotels each af- ternoon in time to make this train, but other residents and business men must keep the deadline in mind if they expect rapid service, Sather said. The volume of east-bound mail each afternoon makes it necessary for pos- tal employes to have an hour for handling it, the postmaster said. Recommend Local Man at Convention Dr. W. E. Cole, Bismarck, has been cent basis, $7,262,785; maximum levy possible on 50 per cent basis, 14 mill Umit, $101,679; necessary reduction in (Continued on page two) SHOUSE’S MOTHER DIES Omaha, Neb., national executive committee, died at 1 o'clock Friday at the home of her daughter, Board of Dental Examiners, it was announced here Friday.