The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 1, 1932, Page 1

fe North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1932 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Weather oe cates in temperanare. PRICE FIVE CENTS Senate Enacts New Tax Bill PILOTS ARE GIVEN MEDICAL ATTENTION ~ ON ARRIVAL IN CITY’ Land on Apple Creek Ranch North of M’Kenzie 13 Hours After Start U.S. ARMY BALLOON WINNER Pilot Wilfred J. Paul Lands at Hatton, Saskatchewan, After 900-Mile Hop Two veterans in the national bal-| © loon race who grounded their bag, The City of Omaha. in Burleigh county Tuesday forenoon, left Bis-| marck by train Wednesday morning for their homes. { They were Eddie Hill, Detroit, who/| suffered minor but painful injuries) to his right eye, and Roscoe Conklin, ; Omaha, who received undetermined} injuries to his right. ankle during the storm-tossed ht. ‘They received medical attention in “Most Dangerous” Associated Press Photo Carol Burgeson of Duluth, Minn., was chosen “most danger- ous co-ed” by Northwestern uni- versity students, but she explained that if she told why she won she wouldn't be “dangerous” any more. Maybe. those eyes had something to do with it, her friends hinted. flig! Bismarck Tuesday afternoon ot! NEARLY 2.000 HEAR Conklin postponed an X-ray exam- : )) ination of his swollen ankle until he reaches home. ‘When the pair got out of their bas-) ket at the Apple Creek Ranch at 10:10 a. m. Tuesday, they had been in the air 13 hours and 25 minutes and had progressed approximately 450 miles from their starting point, Omaha, where the annual race start- ed late Monday. Northeast of McKenzie Apple Creek Ranch is in Sibley Butte township, 10 miles north and four miles east of McKenzie. Just before’ reaching the ranch the two balloonists were nearly dumped into Apple Creek, near where Albert} Donald Madland, 11-year-old boy, had drowned less than 48 hours be- friends of Bismarck high school’s 1932 graduates attended the class fore. Army Balloon No. 2, last to.land of night program in the World War transfer it from one department to six entries in the national race, Wed- | memorial building Tuesday evening. On the program were the valedic- nesday appeared an easy winner. | Lieut. Wilfred J. Paul, pilot reports) ed the army bag had conie'to at 11 a. m. (mountain time) Wednes- |Lloyd Murphy; class history by Paul 5 . /Gussner and Doris Tait; class pro- i] itton, * “i es er ae a phecy by Frank Potter and Dorothy Tiedman; class will by Duncan Wal- lace and Marion Morton; class rhyme by George Moses and Abigail Roan; dred miles the previous mark of. 571 /<!8ss, poem by Luby eater during which Robert Edick, senior: the provision for creation of a public katchewan, Canada. ‘ ‘ The flight sct a new-unoffic'tl rec: ord for balloons of 35,000-cubic feet capacity, bettering by ‘several hun- stop it. . “Are we near Regina?” asked one of the bag’s occupants. Informed it lay 158 miles to the west, the army balloonists shot back up into the air and passed from view into the west. At 4:20 in the afternoon, Farmer Wilbert Sampson sighted it as it passed 200 feet above his place, near Limerick, Sask. The _ balloonists shouted they would “stay up two more days,” he said, before getting out of hearing. ‘ One Balloon Shot at ‘The pilots of the Goodyear VII up-} landing told residents that sev- balloon flights for the sport,” Hill said fh Bis- Pd LT Pie if fh jeipal. ‘GRADUATE PROGRAM HERE TUESDAY NIGHT Alumni Banquet and Dance Are on Commencement Pro- gram This Evening Nearly 2,000 parents, relatives ana | dent was left subject to a 60-day veto dy Joseph Wright, salutatory miles, set in 1927 by S. A. U. Ras- traditional mussen. ‘ The winners’ distance was placed at approximately 900 miles. ~ The victory gave Paul and: his-aide, Lieut. J. H. Bishop, possession. of the Litchfield trophy for one year, ana earned them a place on the interna- tional race starting at Basel, Switzer- land, next September. Two Others in N. D. The Goodyear bag traveled about 750 miles. Two others landed in: North Dakota for the first time in! the history of the event. Capt. W. J. Flood, U. 5. Army No. 1, grounded at Sherwood, near the Canadian bor- der, after a 600-mile hop, and Tracy Southworth, Chevrolet Motor com- pany pilot, got as far as Jamestown, 410 miles. Pete Larsen, Omaha junior’ cham- ber of commerce entry, made only 10 miles. | The army No. 2 was sighted late Tuesday about 150 miles southwest of Regina, and later reports indicated it had crossed into Alberta. Two Gull Lake residents reported the bag dropped low enough as it passed over the town early Tuesday so they could grasp its ropes and “peace pipe” president, presented the pipe to Jack/| Andrews, president of the junior class. Banquet Dance Tonight The alumni banquet and dance, at which the graduates will be guests of honor, are on the program for Wed- nesday evening. The banquet at the Terrace Gardens in the Patterson hotel will begin at 6:30 o'clock while the dance, in Patterson hall, will be- gin shortly after the banquet pro- gram ends. Members of the class of 1927 are in charge of the function, with a committee’ of Miron Rierson, Marian Melville, and Louise Sween in charge of ticket sales. Assistant Attorney General. Harold D. Shaft will deliver the principal ad- dress during commencement exercises beginning at 8 o'clock Thursday eve- ning. 4 98 to Get Diplomas Diplomas will be presented to the 98 graduates by E. B. Cox, president of the school board, and the Knowles award, given annually to the valedic- torian of the class, will be presented by W. H. Payne, high school prin- Two of Ipswich Bandit Gang TO SENATORS WOULD SAVE $238,605.00 Provides Government Salary Ciit and-Presidential Reor- ganization of Bureaus REDUCES VACATION PERIODS ; Executive is Given Wide Author- ity to Eliminate, Merge or Revamp Departments Washington, June 1—()—Restored from the ravages inflicted by the ing $238,605,000 of savings in year’s government operation. The measure, reported Tuesday night by the appropriations committee during the final stages of work on the tax bill, provides a flat 10 per cent cut. in all government salaries; cut in half the present vacation allowance of 30 days; greatly widens the authority granted the president in the house bill to reorganize government bureaus and cuts by some $50,000,000 various al- lowances to veterans and pensioners. The salary cut, figured at $121,050,- 000 was the largest individual saving recommended by the special economy committee which redrafted the bill. It replaced a $9,000,000 provision by which the house cut 11 per cent of all salaries in excess of $2,500, Only en- listed personnel of the armed forces are excepted. Would Cut Vacations The reduction of vacation periods, proposed as a permanent measure, ‘was second item in size, being figured at $22,109,166. The reorganizing power of the presi- right of congress, but the committee extended it by allowing him to abolish any agency by executive order or ianother, instead of merely recom- mending such action to congress, as wided, by the. housge Rutiber ai thority, nof being subjec' approval] by congress, was given him for con- solidating public health activities, ex- cept veterans hospitals; personnel ad- ministration; merchant marine; con- servation; education and any purchas- inig activities of the war and navy de- partments. The committee struck out entirely; works administration. Lowers Interest Rate It added provision for reducing all interest on claims payable by the gov- ernment from six to four per cent, for a $5,250,000 annual saving; and temporarily reduced fees of witnesses and jurors in federal courts to $3 and $1.50 respectively, from $4 and $2, for a saving placed at $775,000. A lengthy section of the bill, replac- | jing the veterans’ savings rejected by | such time as new general elections are the house, cut $13,315,000 off present benefits by withdrawing these entire- ly from all veterans with a net income of $1,500 if single and $3,500 if mar- ried, with exception of those over 65 years old or whose disabilities are di- rect results of service. It reduced to $29 compensations to veterans in sol- diers’ homes and hospitals, with pro- vision that dependents would draw all now accruing to them above that sum; for a saving of $5,370,000. It cut by $3,386,000 the emergency officers’ retired pay by withdrawing it from some 3.200 officers now on the rolls whose disabilities were not contracted $51,000,000 saving in the line of duty. An additional Music during the exercises will be presented by ‘he Bismarck concert orchesira. Formal dedication of the high school yearbook, “Prairie Breezes,” will be made at the last general as- sembly in the high school auditorium at 10 a. m. Friday. Awards for ath- letic and scholastic achievements will be made ahd report cards will be giv- en out at this program also. The class night program Tuesday evening was one of the most colorful ever: presented by a local high school Likens Life to Drama proposed stocky, Socialist Legions, by the economy committee in keeping disability allowances from veterans not more than 50 per cent disabled, except where incurred in PHILIP RAY REINHOLD ENGEL Here are two members of the bandit gang which robbed the Bank of house, the national economy bill came | Ipswich, 8. D., and later confessed to two-score bank robberies in the before the senate Wednesday garry- middlewest during the last seven years. Engel, 47, was said to have been the leader and “brains” of the gang. Labor Federation Favors Garner’s Relief Program HITLER STANDS IN PATH OF PROGRESS FOR REICH CABINET Former Army Corporal is in Conflict With Generals of Old Imperial Army Berlin, June 1.—(#)—Adolf Hitler, blue-eyed former Austrian army corporal, backed by his National] stood Wednesday inthe path of swanking generals of the” KafSer’s “old” friperial” aeiny “and threatened to block their efforts t form a cabinet. Hitler's National Socialist head- quarters announced Tuesday night the Nazis would not support a cabinet {formed by Franz von Papen, forme: officer of the general staff of the im- perial army, selected Tuesday by President Paul von Hindenberg, for- mer field marshal, to succeed Dr. Heinrich Bruening as chancellor. Later, however, it. was indicated mind. Later counsels in the Nazi camp tended toward a policy of neutrality toward a Von Papen cabinet until most convenient. As @ result, the Von Papen cabinet seemed to have a chance of govern- iag Germany, at least for a short time. If von Papen should form a cabinet, Hitler could defeat it on a vote of non-confidence in the Reichstag by gathering 177 votes to join with his 107 Nazi members. To furnish these 177 votes he would have 143 Socialists, 77 Communists and 68 Centrists to draw upon, Von Papen was military attache at. the German embassy in Washington during the early part of the World war and was recalled by the Kaiser at the request of the American govern- ment for his military and naval ac- tivities. Failure of von Papen’s attempt to form a government, it was stated in political circles, would leave several actual service, was taken out by the| possible second choices to the veteran full appropriations committee. ‘The bill was attached propriation for the expenses of con- gress and its dependent agencies, it: self cut to field marshal president. to the ap-| He might invoke article 48 of the German constitution, which gives him automatic power in an emergency. ‘$18,508,000 from $20,214,-/and rule without the Reichstag. Or 000 approved by the house. Last year|he might order new general elections, it totalled $28,217,000 while the esti-/with their attendant internal strife, mates for this year were $22,531,000. Kentuckian Hanged Joseph Wright likened life to a long drama in his address. “The period from the first grade up the seventh and eighth grades may be called the prologue of this drama,” he said. He compared ‘of [2h high school year to an act and said that after high school comes the epilogue—“future life.” “The little players are trained in graduated courses of work,” he said -\in describing the prologue. “The first act of this great per- sonal drama began in early Septem- ber, 1928,” the valedictorian contin- ued. “The players hardly realized that their contracts held them to four whole years of work—that their mi- - (Continued on page three) {Says Grasshoppers Reduced in Number ¢ By Lynching Party Princeton, Ky., June 1.—(?)—Walter on ae a Rt county jail by a mob y night, and his body was found Wed- nesday hanging from a tree three miles away. The lynching party ‘en- tered Jailer Curt Jones’ room, bound him, took his keys and departed with the prisoner without arousing any citizens. Merrick was to have been tried June 13 on a charge of dynamit- ing the store of M. O’Poole near here last February. Former Cowboy Is Sentenced to Prison on the eve of the Lausanne confer- ence on debts and reparations, in which Germany has much at stake. Hitler was inclined to change his! ] Spokesman Asserts 16 Million Persons Are in Dire.Cir- | cumstances Washington, June 1.—(#)—The American Federation of Labor Wed- nesday endorsed the Garner $2,309,- 000,000 relief program in testimony before the house ways and means committee by W. C. Hushing, its leg- islative representative. Hushing said “excluding white col- lar workers, there are more than 8,- 000,000 men out of employment.” “The American Federation of Labor does not favor a dole, but during such an emergency as now exists, with so many persons out of work, we favor direct rélief.” The witness estimated that with 8,000,008 men out of work, and with the average man having two depend- ents, between 15 and 16 million per- sons are in dire circumstances. Hushing said his organization had donated large sums to help the unem- ployed. He predicted the $100,000,000 proposed by Speaker Garner for direct ‘relief would be “totally inadequate un- less congress plans to appropriate Urging that the building and wa- | terway construction not be rushed so employment may be prolonged, Hush- ing said work should be limited to 35 hours a week by curtailing work days and hours. Had Given Up Hope “We had about given up hope of getting any relief legislation enacted until about two weeks ago,” Hushing said, adding that since Speaker Gar- ner had gotten behind the move “we have some hope.” needed,” Hushing said, “we have been telling congress for two years that the purchasing power of the so-called masses has decreased eleven billion dollars a year.” The ways and means committee lat- er heard opponents to provisions of the Garner relief program for im- provement of the upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers and the authority for the reconstruction corporation to advance money for the sale of sur- plus cotton in foreign markets. R.-H. Aishton, chairman of the executive committee of the associa- tion of railroad executives, declared additional transportation facilities were unnecessary in this country, par- ticularly subsidized waterway trans- portation in competition with rail- roads and other carriers. Dameron H. Williams of Gastonia, N. C., representing the American Cot- ton Shippers association, asserted “there is no place on earth today in which present surplus stocks of cot- ton can be disposed of on any bases which will not displace a like amount of cotton moving in the normal course of commerce.” Question of Where Feeble-Minded Is Puzzle to Court Woman Lives Minot, N. D., June 1—-?)— District Minot Wednesday took under ad- visement the question eet wheth- ger to Ward county. Mrs. Widger was brought to Grand Forks county May 11 by Sheriff R. W. Kennard of Ward acting under Judge 's order, and while county officials declined to formally ac- | Ject. At Lowe signed an order tronsferring trial of the.case from Ward to Grand Forks the State's Attorney Henry G. Owen was decided to be Burlington, in and City Attorney O. T. Owen of Ward county, in a court order is- Grand ‘Forks. “ sued at Grand Forks. The case involves a dispute ‘Widger, formerly Mrs. aver which county shall support Bachman, was an inmate of the Mrs. Joyce Bachman Widger and feeble-minded institute at Graf- her minor child. ton and answered a matrimonial Shuttled back and forth be- advertisement that was followed tween Minot and Grand Forks by her marriage to E. C. Widger, several times in the last year and an lunatic from’ the Fer- now. being cared for at the Grand gus insane - Forks county poor farm, Mrs. ing to State’s Attorney Owen. A from| Wit Tegal residence is the of the s born at been in- controversy between the . counties, i ‘Widger died last fall. more funds at its December session.” | Balloonists Injured in Fall.Near Bismarck | |BCONOMY BILL SENT ‘aaa SEABURY MAY ASK WALKER'S REMOVAL ‘Jimmy’ Held Stock in Favored Company Held Ground For De- thronement in Past New York, June 1.—()—Samuel er committee Wednesday introduced testimony indicating that Mayor James J. Walker had owned bonds of contract. Seabury declared that, in for the mayor's removal from office. “I say the mayor of this city has no has a city contract,” Seabury said, “and I say it is grounds for removal and has been so hela and is 80 pro- vided in section 1533 of the city char- ter.” * Seabury said 10 bonds of the Re- lance Bronze & Steel Co. were in- cluded in $26,500 worth of securities that witnesses have testified the mayor company was interested in the promotion of a taxicab company. Walker had testified the securities represented his profits from a pool he was invited to join in 1929. He denied the securities came from brought profits of $1,000,000 a year to's brokerage house was interested. standards. City Paid $43,556.40 Rosenbloom dards were required. |ceived the $26,500 in securities—in- |cluding, Seabury said, to Mrs. Walker. jWere deposited. by the mayor. “The record shows,” replied Sea- bury, “that coupons, up to the date I have mentioned, were deposited by the meeg tp his personal account. He says he turned those bonds over ; ved |to Mrs. Walker, where they now are.” ment, also negotiated by Edge, savec Senator John J. McNaboe, Demo- crat, inquired if it was Seabury’s con- tention that “the mayor can not buy stock in any corporation.” moval under the city charter. | Is Measure of Love eee Chicago, June 1—()—-One an- swer to the age-old question “What Is Love” has been found. It’s love when the bride's blood Pressure rises and the bride- groom's declines during the wed- ding ceremony, if the “lie detec- tor” at the crime detection lab- oratory at Northwestern univer- sity can be relied upon to tell the truth. -They tried it out at the mar- riage of Miss Harriet Berger of Chicago and Vaclav Rund of Riverside, Il, Tuesday. Miss Berger's heart almost stopped beating when the judge asked the bridegroom: “Do you take this woman?” and the chart showed the same reaction when he said, “I pronounce you man and wife.” Film Firm Is Facing Receivership Action AS GOTHAM MAYOR Offers Testimony Showing VIOLATES CITY CHARTER Inquisitor Says it Has Been Seabury at a hearing of the Hofstadt- the Reliance Bronze and Steel cOm- | ceived $246,000 profits without in- pany, which received a $43,556.40 city his opinion, this constituted grounds | right to hold stock in a company that received from J. A. Sisto, while Sisto’s | Sisto and he testified he vetoed a taxicab control bill that would have to the taxicab company in which Sis- | Harry J. Rosenbloom, treasurer of the Reliance Bronze & Steel Co., testified Wednesday that on Jan. 9, 41931, the company was awarded a {city contract for 104 bronze traffic The original estimate for the standards, he said, was $41,558.40. testified the contract was signed Feb. 3, 1931, and in the| lend the city paid the company $43,- |States most-favored-nation treatment | 1556.40 because five additional stan-!on importations now curtailed by the Seabury called to the attention of the committee Mayor Walker's testi-.| Ambassador Walter E. Edge who has mony that some time after he re-;been working on it for some time. j the 10 Re- | vineing representatives of the Frencn! jliance bonds—he turned them over He then introduced documentary evidence indicating that on Decem- ber 29, 1930, 10 coupons of the Re- Nance bonds, valued at $30 each, were deposited in a bank account belong- jing to the mayor and Mrs. Walker in land that, subsequently, 10 more Re- | sultation than has been the case in “There is no doubt that relief is|/!ance coupons of the same value als0iican importations into France. ; Assemblyman Louis A. Cuvillier of the Democratic minority on the com- mittee protested there was no proof; jthat the bond coupons were cashed! +t, united States business interests. Seabury replied the mayor can not hold stock ina company having a city contract and it was grounds for re- ge. ania olinckance | France will grant increases to Amer- | Say Blood Pressure Hea on many important products. | about 20 per cent and radio tubes 5 @ |per cent. os | * $246,000 Friend a Testifying before the Hofstadter ‘committee in New York City, Paul Block, publisher, said he had opened a joint brokerage account for Mayor Walker from which the mayor re- vesting anything. Block, who is shown on the stand, said the money was just a friendly gift. “When I told my son Walker earned $25,000 @ year, he asked, ‘Can-he live on that?’” Block testified. “It was at that moment I made up my mind to do something for Jimmy.” TRADE AGREEMENT EXPECTED T0 HELP AMERICAN EXPORTS} Pact Gives U. S. ‘Most-Favor- ed-Nation’ Status With French Government | | Paris, June 1—(7)—An important trade agreement which ‘s expected Shortly to increase the amount of American goods that may be import- ed into France was reached Wednes- day by the United States and French governments. { The agreement grants the United: French system of quotas. The agreement was achieved by The ambassador succeeded in con- government that the present quotas are unfair to American shippers. The accord took the form of a de- on signed by Preimer Andre Tar- leu. It provides a method of establish- | ing quotas in the future by more con- the past with those handling Amer- Gen- jerally speaking, it bases importation | limits on the levels of 1931. | American business men here de-} clared it would give much satisfaction | ‘The recent Franco-American agree- {ment eradicating the double taxation burden carried by American houses with branches in France paved the way for the new accord. This agree- American concerns millions of dollars in taxes. American trade had been restricted under the quota system approximate- ly $2,500,000 a year. Several hundred commodities, shipped from all sec- tions of the United States, were af- fected. When the quotas are renewed Radio sets will have an incerase of Other imports given relief jae tools, patent leather, dynamos, other electrical machinery, paper and lumber. It was estimated American busi- nesses would be benefited over $500,- 000 a year by the new agreement. ‘The agreement, which was the last; important. act of Premier Tardieu'’s administration will stand until a gen- eral commercial treaty is negotiated Say Firebugs Active In Manitoba Forests Winnipeg, Man., June 1—()—Fire- bugs believed moving through Mani- toba forests applying the torch to val- uable timber were hunted by rangers Wednesday after one major blaze rag- ing over the Porcupine mountains burst beyond control. The mountain fire was the most serious of several. Wisconsin Aviator Wanted in Mandan TURNS DEAF EAR 10 HOOVER'S CALL FOR - MANUFACTURES LEVY Add to Revenue by Taxes on Gasoline and Power and New Income Rates RAISES $1,115,000,000 End of Long Battle Comes at Close of Dramatic Session Lasting 14 Hours ‘Washington, June 1—(?)—The, hugs new tax bil, bulwark of financia! stability for the American nation, was passed Wednesday by the senats and speeded immediately to the con- cluding formalities which will make it law. The measure, designed to raise $1.- 115,000,000 of revenue, was passed 20 minutes after midnight, at the con- clusion of a 14-hour dramatic session without parallel in recent congresses. Responding to a suddenly planned and personally delivered plea of President Hoover, the senate swiftly built up the bill by $280.000,000 with the 11th hour addition of taxes on gasoline and electricity and increased income rates. It turned a deaf ear to the presi- dent’s call for a manufactures sales tax, defeating this by the decisive margin of 53 to 27 just before passing Will Confiscate Criminal Incomes Washington, June 1.—(#)—In- voking the age-old axiom that the power to tax is the power to de- stroy, the senate wrote into the revenue bill Tuesday night a 100 per cent tax upon all incomes ob- tained by crime>—~ ee If this outright confiscation of the literal wages of sin remains in | the bill, the gangster, bootlegger, | narcotic distributor and gambling | syndicate will be at the mercy of | she federal government's most ef- | fective weapon for crushing the | power of the underworld. | |the bill by the even wider margin of 72 to 11. It beat down in rapid order a whole succession of attempts to strike out tariffs and revise previous decisions. Dispatched To House The bill was dispatched to the house for a conference to adjust many differences, none of which were ex- pected to prove dangerous. The pros- pect was it would be ready for the president's signature by the middle of next week. After the terrific grind, the senate was weary and short-tempered at the final vote. It heard a last rush of de- bate in which two Democrats, Glass of Virginia, and Tydings of Maryland, argued the bill would fail to balance the budget. To this Reed of Pennsyl- vania, administration spokesman, sharply answered that with the $238.- 000,000 economy bill, the aim woul be certainly accomplished. This economy bill was ready to take the tax bill's place immediately the senate reconvened at noon. As it now stands, the tax bill is the largest. revenue-raiser ever adopted by this government in peace time. Its income tax rates are equal to the im- mediate post-war levies, beginning at 4 per cent on the first $4,000 and swiftly mounting. Higher Postage Rates It imposes higher postage rates, be- ginning with three cents for each let- ter. It places a range of new taxes (Continued on page three) Three Are Drowned In Rampaging River Blythe, Calif. June 1.—(#)—Swol- len to the highest stage since 1921, the Colorado river was on a rampage today. At least three persons, all negroes. have drowned, seven other negroes are missing and more than 20,000 acres of rich farm land were threat- ened with inundation as the flood wa- ters poured through a break in a levee six miles northeast of here. Every available man has been sent from Blythe to the scene of the levee break to save the farm lands on which approximately 2,500 persons reside. The levee is 12 feet high and nor- mally is about a mile from the, bank of the river but the Colorado now is several miles wide. Waters pouring through the levee were being im- pounded in an area which formerly was levee land. Unless the hole in the first line of levees is soon patched, the basin will overflow, causing the rich farm land to be flooded. Lutheran Delegates Gather for Meeting lis, June 1.—(4) —Dele- Milwaukee, Wis., June 1—(?)—Ray ,| Zuelke, 28, local aviator, posted $2,000 bond Tuesday pending a hearing June to Mandan, N. D., to Hamilton, Ont. June Minneapo! gates from approximately 3,000 con- gregations, & member- representing ship of half a million in the United States and Canada, where present as Lutheran Church of, ee