The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 11, 1932, Page 3

\ { { j ARMY STRIVES 10 PROTECT OFFICERS IN ECONOMY MOVE ——$—_____. Hurley Drafting New Proposals Which May Ward Off Congress’ Axe Washington, May 11—(?)—Striving mightily to save the army's commis- Sioned force and the various civilian summer training camp activities from the congressional economy axe, the war department Wednesday drafted @ counter offer of some $25,000,000 in savings. The appropriation bill for the army now before the house plans to reduce the number of\ officers from 12,000 to 10,000 and suspend summer train- ing camps for one year. Secretary Hurley and General Douglas Mac- Arthur, the chief of staff, Tuesday went before the house military com- mittee to oppose these cuts. They gave their consent to other economies amounting to about $9,400,000 ana then set to drafting a new plan of savings. Department officials said Hurley ‘would propose a $10,000,000 postpone- ment in flood control work and a fur- ther $5,600,000 cut in the rations clothing and motorization program of the army. Although officers said the flood control postponement would not be dangerous, nor would it interfere with completion of the program, oppositior. is likely to be strong from the regions affected. The motorization cut also may be in for a fight as one of the chief arguments advanced for the re- duction in number. of officers is that the army at present is overmanned and undermechanized. Suicide Is Climax To Probe of Murder Wooster, O., May 11.—()—The sui- cide of a 19-year-old youth after he was implicated in a murder confes- sion by his brother-in-law, provided a crashing climax early Wednesday to an investigation of the slaying of the brother-in-law’s wife. The accused youth, Harold Young, fired a shotgun charge into his head just as officers arrived at his home, near here, to arrest him. His death came less than an hour after Herbert Meeker, a Wayne county farmer, named Young as the actual slayer of Meeker's wife. Sheriff John Stevens of Holmes county said Meeker also implicated himself. The nude body of Meeker's young wife, Gertrude, was found Monday lying in a creek near Millersburg. She had been killed by blows on the head. Nonpartisans Busy In N. D. This Week Several Nonpartisans will give speeches in various parts of North Dakota the latter part of this week, it was announced Wednesday at state campaign headquarters here. Among the speakers are John Huseby, candidate for commissioner of agriculture and labor; A. J. Gron- na, Williston, candidate for attorney general; William Langer, gubernator- ial indorsee; and A. T. Lynner, mayor of Fargo. Huseby, Olson and Gronna will speak at Rolette Thursday evening while Langer and Gronna will be at Bottineau Friday night and Sanborn Saturday evening. Langer, Lynner and Gronna are scheduled to appear at Cooperstown | | [ ‘Swat Dry’ Bring Hot Protest | New York, May 11 —0e)—Proni-” bitionists have asked postal au- thorities to ban “swat the dry” stamps from the mails. Fred A. Victor, superintendent of the New York Anti-Saloon League told the Kings county W. C. T. U. he had written to Presi- dent Hoover, objecting to a pro- posal by anti-prohibitionists to circulate the stamps through the mail. He said the protest had been referred to the postmaster general. ‘The stamps, which it has been proposed to sell to raise a $5,000,- 000 fund to fight prohibition, car- ry pictures of insects over which is poised a “swatter” labelled “votes.” The basis of the protest lies in the suggestion of violence in the phrase, ‘swat the dry.” CERMAK LAUNCHES BOOM FOR TRAYLOR Chicago Mayor Says Illinois May Support Banker as Second Choice Chicago, May 11.—(4)—Mayor An- ton Cermak of Chicago, a leader of Illinois Democrats, has revived the “Traylor-for-President” boom which ‘Banker Melvin A. Traylor himself hushed to a whisper a few months ago. Cermak announced Tuesday he be- lieved the state's entire delegation of 58 would back the internationally known financier as its second choice for the Democratic presidential nom- ination after doing all it could to support Illinois’ favorite son, U. 8. Senator James Hamilton Lewis, in early balloting at the national con- vention. As for the prediction of State Dem- ocratic Chairman Thomas F. Dono- van that “after a ballot or two” Gov. Roosevelt would receive most of the Illinois delegate votes should he show “real strength,” Cermak had this to say: “I am very much surprised. I don't know how all the delegates feel about it and neither does Donovan. I don’t know how many ballots will be cast for Lewis and neither does Donovan. But if there is a switch I thing it will be for Melvin Traylor.” A few months ago presidential booms for Traylor were launched in states where he formerly lived, Texas and Kentucky. But the banker squelched them with an announce- ment he was not a candidate and did not intend to be one. City Jail Had 200 Overnight Lodgers Two hundred persons, mostly trans- ients, spent overnight in the city jail during April, according to the month- ly report sent to the city commission by Police Chief C. J. Martineson. Three juveniles were committed to the state training school after being arrested for lical thefts, Martineson reported. City police recovered three automobiles stolen during the month. Thirty-six arrests were made during the month. They were listed as follows: Drunk 6, disorderly conduct 3, speed- ing 1, speeding and disorderly conduct 1, petit larceny 2, driving a motor ve- hicle while intoxicated 2, burglary and robbery 1, issuing worthless check 1, juveniles for theft 6, drunk and disorderly 2, vagrancy 2, reckless driving 1, grand larceny 2, assault and battery 2, juveniles to be returned ‘Wednesday evening. Townley Speaks to Minnesota Students Minneapolis, May 11.—(#)—Un- grammatical in spots but emphatic all the way, Arthur C. Townley, for- mer president of the Nonpartisan League, declared at the University of Minnesota Tuesday the U. 8. should issue $15,000,000,000 in currency to break free from depression. If not this, then the nation should issue bonds to the same amount, a step which Townley said would be “a more reasonable and easier to under- stand remedy” than the one “if I had my way.” Talking to the student forum at- tended by undergraduates and facul- ty members, Townley discussed the ills of depression and said it was caused by institutions operated only for profit. Devils Lake Boy to Compete in Contest Fargo, May 11—(#)—George Holt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Holt of Devils Lake, N. D., a high school senior, will leave here today for Kan- sas City, where he will represent North Dakota and the other unor- ganized territory in the midwestern zone in the national semi-finals of the national oratorical contest on the constitution. The project is sponsor- ed by newspapers throughout the country, The zone event takes place Friday night. Holt won second place in the North Dakota state contest last year. He competes at Kansas City for a trip to Europe and the right to enter the national finals, Forgery Defendant Waives Examination Waiving preliminary examination on a charge of third-degree forgery, J. E. Haag, Elgin, was bound over to Bur- leigh county district court Wednes- day. Haag was arraigned befpre 5. 8. Al- len, police magistrate and was return- ed to the county jail upon failure to furnish $1,000 bonds. He is accused of forging signatures to several elevator checks, which he 4s charged witn having stolen, and cashing the checks with Bismarck business men. He was arrested for local authorities at Huron, 8. Dak. =——————s— Two for the price of one —Tires, golf balls, .22 Ta 10 for 69c. GAMBLE STORES knives. Rub- 10c; dish towels RT et A tn ER lS aS lon bch AI ah AS Bo P-L a to their homes at New Rockford 2, peddling without a license 1, and au- to theft 1. Scout Troops Will Entertain Parents Two Boy Scout troops will conduct “parents’ night” programs in Bis- marck Wednesday evening. Troop No. 9, sponsored by the American Legion, will hold its pro- gram at the Wachter school while Troop No. 11, sponsored by the Elks club, will have its session at the Roosevelt school. Fred_Sorkness and Secretary of ‘State Robert Byrne are scoutmasters of Troops 9 and 11, respectively. The programs will include speech- es by scoutleaders, demonstrations by the scouts, a playlet by members of the Order of the Arrow, and the showing of films of Camp Chan eee, Boy Scout camp at Wildwood Jamestown Scofflaw Sentenced to Prison Milwaukee, Wis., May 11.—(4—Ed- ward M. Holton, described by officers as a widely kriown liquor runner, was convicted in federal court here Wed- nesday on a transportation charge, He was sentenced to serve one year and fined $500. He was traced to his home in Jamestown, N. D., officers said, af- ter his automobile, filled with alcohol, figured in an accident at Weyauwega, Wis., last July. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY THE CALIFORNIA WAVE NOOK specializes in waves, spiral tops with ringlet ends. Com- plete, $3.75 and $5.00. 102 3rd 8t.; Bismarck, N. Dak. Phone 782, FOR SALE—Used 5 column Burroughs adding machine $35.00, Phone 820 Rubber Stamps We Make Them Commercial Service, Inc. Hoskins Block Phone 400 Get Ready for a Good Time Next Tuesday Night. Watch this space for future announcements, THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1932 Stamps |/PIONEER DESCRIBES BARLY DAYSIN CITY IN TALK TO ROTARY W. A. Falconer Says Bismarck Never as Black as ‘Some People Paint it’ Intimate sketches of Bismarck in:the Fargo Chamber of Commerce; H. its infancy were given by William A./E. Dixon, Grand Forks; C. L. Kjer. announced that 24 members of the;j_ club are attending the district con- ference being held in Minneapolis. Members of the Bismarck club at- tending the Minneapolis meeting are A. J.-Arnot, R. M. Bergeson, M. G. Blackstun, R. E. Bonham, N. O. Churchill, Dr. G. M. Constans, F, A. Copelin, George Duemeland, G. F. Dullam, J. P. French, George Hum- phreys, Clarence Larson, J. A. Lar- son, Roy Logan, Rev. Floyd E. Logee, | P, J. Meyer, Frank Murphy, Carl Nelson, Supreme Court Justice W. L. Nuessle, Theodore Quanrud, B. K. Skeels, L. K. Thompson, Dr. R. 8. Towne and James Trimble. Guests at the luncheon meeting in- cluded W. P. Chestnut, secretary of Falconer, pioneer, in a talk before the|stad, president of the state teachers Rotary club at its luncheon meeting college at Dickinson; and Lt. Col. Wednesday. “Bismarck then was a wide-open: frontier town, with all classes of peo- George W. Harris, commandant at Fort Lincoln. Ple,” Falconer said, “but it never was; TL as black as some people painted it. BONU ADV It is true that there were many; saloons, gambling places, sporting houses and public dance halls, but the people conducting these establish- ments always kept their places.” Falconer came to Bismarck in the summer of 1874, when the village had about 600 inhabitants and about 200 buildings of various descriptions. He was 15 years old. It took all day to come .from Fargo by train, with a! stop of one hour being made at Fort} ‘Seward, now Jamestown. There was but one stopping place between Fort Seward and Bismarck, called 17th Siding, now Crystal Springs. Camp Hancock, U. S. army garri- son under Captain Charles E. Clarke, was important in the life of the com- munity at that time, the soldiers tak- ing part in local social functions and giving a minstrel show each winter. Camp Hancock was located where the U. 8. weather bureau now stands. Gold in Black Hills Bismarck residents became consid- erably excited in 1874, the pioneer said, when gold was reported in the Black Hills by General Custer, who had been sent to explore the coun- try. Bismarck was the nearest rail-. TRY FOR DECISION , Effort to Force Vote on Measure at This Session is Deem- ed Hopeless Washington, May 11—(7)—A final attempt was launched Wednesday to “secure a house vote at this session on legislation to cash the soldiers’ bonus certificates. ; Representative Patman of Texas and other bonus sponsors besought ,the rules committee, which maps the house program, to a! @ resolu- ‘tion giving the bonus bill a place on the calendar. chance of their succeeding but the action might make it possible for’ them to employ a discharge petition to force out the bonus bill. This would be effective only if con- Toad point to the Black Hills at that’ gress is compelled to return to work time. Bismarck merchants did a large business during the Black Hills gold Tush, allowing customers $20 an ounce for gold in trade. ‘after the political conventions, as no time remains now for the long- drawn-out procedure involved before the June 10 deadline when the mem- bers have to be off to their political The old McLean and MacNider ‘duties. store, where Falconer worked for 10 years, was a general headquarters for Normally, the discharge petition could have been employed on the army officers, steamboat men, gov- bonus bill earlier, but the ways and ernment contractors, freighters and’ means committee, instead of pigeon- Indian scouts, among whom were Lonesome Charlie Reynolds, fornia Joe, Texas Jack, Buffalo Bill and Yellowstone Kelly. holing the measure, reported it to the Cali-' house disapproved. The complicated house rules left the bonus sponsors no means but the More than 30 steamboats made reg-' roundabout procedure invoked now, ular trips from Bismarck to Fort} Benton on the Missouri river during the summers of 1876 and 1877, Fal-! coner said. Feller Was First Farmer Mike Feller, known as “Dutch Mike,” was the pioneer farmer in Burleigh county. He raised 250 bushels of potatoes on one and a quarter acres in the river bottoms. Louis Notmeyer, Henry Suttle, Fred Edgar | and Jake Houser were other early residents who had crops and vege- table gardens on the bottoms, the pioneer said. The first church fair was held in the Presbyterian church by the Ladies Mite society in the fall of 1874. Bismarck had no train service dur- ing the winters from 1872 to 1876. Falconer described the first mass of the Catholic church here in June, 1875, with Rev. Father Genin of- ficiating. In the remainder of his talk, Fal- coner dealt with early residents, including George Peoples, Louis} Aagard, John W. Plummer, Dr. Bur- leigh, Dr. Slaughter, Asa Fisher, John W. Proctor, E. A. Williams, John A. Stoyell, W. M. Pye, Mark! Kellogg and Judge Carvelle. Falconer was introduced by John! Peterson as the “first manager of} organized baseball in Bismarck.” | Pay Tribute to Wait Tribute to Jason E. Wait, member of the club who died last week, was paid by the club. The piano on; which Wait had played accompani- ments to Rotary songs was closed! and on it was a mourning wreath. H. J. Duemeland gave a short talk in tribute to Wait and the club re-j mained silent for a minute in tribute! to him. In addition, no music was included on the program. fi John Hoffman, presiding in the absence of President Ray Bergeson, Democrats Back Plan To Aid Unemployment Washington, May 11—(?)—A Dem- ocratic plan for economic recovery \ealling for a $2,000,000,000 public works program and $300,000,000 for loans to states and municipalities for |relief of suffering resulting from un- employment, was presented to the senate Wednesday by Senator Robin- json, the party leader. ‘The financing would be by bond {issues. | While the senate listened to him, 'Senator Davis (Rep., Pa.) proposed jlegislation to authorize the recon- ‘struction corporation to loan $500,- | 000,000 to cities and states for unem- | ployment relief. In presenting the program to an intent senate, the Democratic leader placed foremost in importance the balancing of the federal budget. Sulphonated oil is recommended by the University of Wisconsin as a pro- tection against the damage of trees and shrubs by rats and mice. SOAP Most excelle! the bath. price, 3 bars --- Priees sf 2 outstanding USED CAR values reduced BOVISO 1931 Buick“8” Sport Coupe Was over $1,400 new, now only $745” 1930 PontiacSpecial Coupe Only 4,500 miles, special low down payment $149” Fleck Motor Sales, lac. Buick - Oldsmobile - Cadillac - La Salle - Pontiac M. Trucks fe 100 West Broadway Bismarck, N. D. Phone 55 People’s Forum let o1 terest. Let tere “ae alal lo ubjecta which attack Individate ‘unteiriy, or which offend good taste and fair ed to the play will return: writers. All letters MUST be signed. If y.u wish to use a pseudonym, sign the pseudonym first and io own name beneath it. We will re- spect such requests. We reserve e right to delete such parts of letters as ma: y be neces conform to this Dolley. ANSWERS L, E. R. Wing, N. D. May 5, 1932. I read with interest the letter by L. E. R. of Wilton, concerning my letter on land limitation. His first trouble seems to be about the sale of the large acreages thus far acquired. His idea is that they would flood the land market if a imitation law was But I doubt it that a law forcing the sale of the land thus far acquired Son geen as because the constitu- ion fort ie passing of ex-] facto laws. So the distribution of the lands thus far acquired would have to be left to nature or the will of the owner. By this I mean that the sale of the land would be left to the owner, except that the law would limit the amount he could sell to one .. | Editor, Tribune: buyer. Nature, in this case, means death. The law would determine the amount of land one person could in- herit, the rest of the land would go back to the government, The govern- ment would distribute it to home- seekers in somewhat the same order as the free homesteads. Then, concerning his proposal of regulating the size of machinery by a tax law, I think that would be a very unfair law, for I have noth- ing against any person’s individual eS. There was no great/tasti There are some people who love to handle horses. There are others who ‘are afraid of them, while others don’t like the work connected with them. So I don’t think it would be quite fair to try and force them by taxes to use them on their property, to accommo- date their neighbors. I would no more support a law to determine the kind of motive power a person uses than the color he paints his barn. And another thing is that motive power is an increasing and decreas- ing thing in the hands of all people. But land is an unmovable thing, the increase and decrease of which is con- trolied by nature. Therefore I still believe that land limitation is the best way to conserve the farm homes, just as bag and sea- son limits are the best way to con- serve game. AR. J. FOOD FOR THOUGHT Bismarck, N. D. May 9, 1932. Editor, Tribune: In a recent advertisement in The Tribune we noticed the statement that merchants, bankers and other creditors were accepting good grades of wheat at one dollar per bushel from farmers who owed them. ‘We were very much interested in this statement, for we have always felt that some such plan would prove of great benefit to debtors and creditors alike, once it were adopted. Could The Tribune give the names of all creditors sponsoring this plan? ‘We think it would be a good idea for them to adopt as their slogan: “Pay Your Debts With Dollar Wheat.” While in Bismarck recently, we heard a little about this proposal but do not know exactly to whom to apply for further information. Farmers could deliver the wheat to their nearest elevator and turn the storage tickets over to whichever creditors they wished to pay. It would cer- tainly help farmers and business men alike. Some years ago the slogan: “Buy a Bale of Cotton” saved the Southern farmers from bankruptcy. North Da- kota and other states could take a profitable lesson from their friends in the south. A CITIZEN. Editor's Not The only case which has come to the idtor’s knowledge/are the Republic and the Renown, of the plan suggested above being/and each has a speed of more than operated in this section is that of/31.5 knots. the International Harvester company which has fixed a price considerably above the present market value for grain used to pay for new farm ma- chinery. SEES INJUSTICE Baldwin, N. D. May 9, 1932. Editor, Tribune: It is manifestly unjust to compel farmers to tie up a good part of their money while waiting for their gas- tax refund. It seems as though some method could have been devised do- ing away with all this red tape. Doesn’t it cost more to collect the small amount due than it is worth? Meanwhile, the farmer, who is hard pressed for funds, is compelled to wait juntil he gets the refund before he can ‘buy more gas. This is causing in- convenience and delay in putting in the crop. Farmers are indignant over the way they are used when they apply for this refund. They must answer a long string of questions aside from the subject and are treated like suspects or criminals. Personally, we think farmers should be permitted to buy fuel gas delivered in quantity without being compelled to tie up three cents per gallon tax. The gas salesman could make a note of the amount purchased and turn this in. It would be interesting to know exactly how much cold cash the state is getting out of all this extra bother.’ NORTH DAKOTAN. MAGIC SLEEP SMOKE Boston—Lee Wee, Chinese laundry- man, will be suspicious hereafter of jal persons who enter his shop smok- ing. Two men visited him recently and, while they talked to him, blew dense clouds of smoke in his face. Presently Lee fell into a peaceful |Sleep. 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