The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 25, 1932, Page 1

= North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE - The Weather Fair, unsettled tonight, Tuesdsy; ite change in temperanure Will Sta Empire Delegates Turn At | H ere’s Bird’s-Eye View of New Federal Tax Program TRADE CONFERENCE VIRTUALLY GIVES UP WHEAT TARIFF PLAN South Africa Joins Australia in Plea for More of British Meat Trade BRUCE BEHIND DEPARTURE Tariff Would Have Little Effect on Wheat Price, Subject to World Level Ottawa, July 25—(#)—Delegates to the empire trade conference had practically given up Monday the no- tion of an inter-dominion wheat tar- iff preference and were centering their attenton on meai. South Africa has joined Australia in a plea for a larger share of the British meat trade, only 51 per cent of which is now with the dominions most of other 49 per cent is with Aagentina and the United States. “Geographically,” the South Afri- can delegation pointed out in a‘state- ment, “there is no reason why the union of South Africa, together with Southern Rhodesia, the protectorates and Southwest Africa, should not pro- duce a sufficient number of good quality cattle for the regular supply of chilled beef to the British mar- ket.” Inter-empire trade in minor com- modities now supplied by the United States and Argentina also figured prominently in the schedule for this week's work. More Than It Consumes In the case of wheat,~the empire produces more than it consumes and any tariff treatment would be likely to have small effect in a commodity subject to a world price level. South Africa, Australia and New Zealand virtually decided over the week-end that more advantage could be gained by centering on meat, fruits, and other produtes of whicn the empire produces less than it con- sumes. By readjustments ‘In’ crop ’produc- tion in these items, their represent- atives urged, the empire might be made self-sustaining and the sur- Pluses of other crops neutralized. The departure was initiated by Premier Bruce of Austraila who dropped the major crops of wheat ‘and wool to discuss development of Australia’s meat industry as replac- ing British purchases abroad. Can- ada is highly interested in a larger share of the British meat, fruit and dairy products market but had come into conference, as Premier Bennett said, prepared to make concessions to Britain on the theory that the great basic industrias of both countries gould be the ones selected for prefer- ential treatment. Possibility Still Exists On the welfare of the major indus- tries, he said, depended the welfare of the countries themselves. This was taken to imply that Canada wanted the conference to make some disposition of her annual wheat surplus problem. The possibility has not passed, however, that the London government may still attempt an em- pire wheat solution. A virtual demand has been mace that the British markets boycott Russian wheat and take empire grain in its place. Foreign countries get an annual average of more than $1(0,000,000 of Great Britain’s total outlay for beef. Australia now is Britain's most im- » portant source of beef within the em- It is said that all of the dominions could materially increase their yields of one or more of the deficient prod- ucts if given preference against for- eigners. te unofficial view of the British delegation was that Senator Borah’s offer to support an international conference to deal with war debts in- volved the success of the conference here. Canadian Officials Are Seeking Slayer Medicine Hat, Alta., July 25—()— A posse of farmers augmented mount- ed police searching southern Alberta @ Monday for two gunmen who killed & farmer of Comprey, Alta., and crit- igi wounded his hired man Satur- MA The Montana boundary is only eight miles distant from where Pete Bor- genes, 43, was slain by the pair, one of whom knocked him down while the other shot him thrice, The two men came to Borgenes’ door and asked for Louis Borgenes, brother. When Pete explained his brother was asleep one of the gun- him Leth- men knocked . Arden gard was wounded. Police from bridge, Medicine Hat and other di- visions poured into the town of Com- prey. ? Big Shipment of Wool .. Consigned from Slope by Pool, scooting. to Paul Mann, man- ‘ager of the pool. The shipment includes most of the clip for this year and was shipped from Belfield, Sentinel Butte, Me- dore, Hebron, Hazen, Beach and Kill- i BIS! Tribune Starting Series Explaining Details of New Federal Tax Program NEARLY $2,000,000 ALLOTTED 10 STATE FOR ROAD PROJECTS 3,000 Men Will Be Employed to Build 500 Miles of High- way, Chief Says An advance of nearly $2,000,000 of emergency relief aid funds for high- way construction in North Dakota will result in the employment of more than 3,000 men to construct about 500 miles of highway, A. D. McKinnon, chief highway commissioner, said Saturday night. Apportionment to the state of $120,000,000 provided under the relief bill for federal and highway work was announced in Washington Saturday by Secretary Hyde. North Dakota gets $1,933,901; Minnesota $3,368,599; Mon- tana $2,525,071, and South Dakota $2,004,573. McKinnen said, in anticipation of the funds, arrangements had been made for additional men for drafting Plans, and vacations of present em- Ployes have been cancelled. Since the money is advanced by the federal government on the condi- tion that construction be completed by July 1, 1933, it will be necessary to work at high speed to complete plans, the commissioner said. The commission will concentrate chiefly on gravel surfacing, and will replace a number of small bridges which were left in place after com- Pletion of certain projects. Plans are available for about 100 jmiles of oil mix and these will be carried out with the federal emer- gency funds. Contracts which were to be let July 29 will be let under the emergency funds, McKinnon said. On Aug. 12, another letting will be made for oil mix, construction and some graveling. Under the federal bill providing for the money, a minimum wage of 25 cents an hour is set for laborers. At present about 3,200 men are em- ployed in North Dakota highway con- struction. This force ultimately will be nearly doubled as a result of the emergency fund, McKinnon said. Boy Shoots Father Who Beat Two Girls New York, July 25.—(#)—Eighteen- year-old Tony Centanni of Paterson, N. J., sat morosely in a police cell Monday, charged with shooting his father to death. “I have just killed my father, who was beating my sister,” he tel Police Sunday night. “I will wait un- til the police come.” Detectives rushed to the home of the father, Alphonse Centanni, 49, in Long Island City, and found him dead of several bullet wounds. They ar- rested the son on a charge of homi- cide. ‘The youth told authorities he was éver his father’s treatment enraged been | of his two sisters, Helen, 16, and An- te, 15. the quarrel that followed the , and fired one shot at him. EEE Average Citizen Called Upon to Pay Uncle Sam 25 Times Each Day (Copyright, 1932, NEA Service, Inc.) Every day and in almost every way, whether you realize it or not, you are paying taxes to Uncle Sam to help him raise the $1,118,500,000 in ly enacted revenue act of 1932 is de- signed to produce for balancing the federal budget. This total represents, on the aver- age, about $10 a year in increased taxes for every man, woman and child in the United States—or $50 a family. These taxes have been in effect for several weeks, but it is probable even now that many persons do not rea- lize the multitude of ways in which they claim toll from American pock- etbooks every day. The reason for this is that many of the new levies are “manufacturer's sales taxes,” in which the tax must be paid origin- ally by the manufacturer and is therefore concealed in an increased sale price for the article. A clear way to show the multipli- city of these new federal taxes (but by no means all of them) is to take an average day in the life of an aver- age man. You will see that he may be called on to pay taxes to Uncle Sam 25 times a day: 1—He arises and takes his morn- ing bath—with toilet soap, on which there is a tax of 5 per cent. 2—He brushes his teeth with a den- tifrice—on which there is a tax of 5 per cent. 3—He shaves and powders his face —5 per cent tax on the shaving cream, 10 per cent tax on the tal- cum powder. 4—He has coffee and toast with his breakfast—3 per cent tax on the electricity consumed by the electric toaster and electric percolator. 5—He glances at his watch to see if he is late for work—10 per cent tax on the watch, if it cost more than $3. 6—He drives to work in his auto— 3 per cent sales tax on his auto if it is new, 1 cent per gallon tax on his gasoline, 1 cent a quart tax on his lubricating oil, approximately 11 per cent tax on his new tires and 15 per- cent tax cn his new tubes. 7—A spark plug fails on his way down and he stops at a garage for @ new one—2 per cent tax on auto accessories and parts, &—Arriving at his office, he sends a telegram—5 per cent tax on tele- grams. 9—He makes a long distance tele- Phone call—10 cent tax on messages costing between 50 cents and $1; 15 cents on tolls between $1 and $2; 20 cents on tolls of $2 or more. 10—He lights a cigar—tax of 2 cents per 1000 on matches of wood, (Continued on page three) Veteran in Aviation Succumbs in Brazil Rio de Janeiro, July 25.—(?)—Al- berto Santos-Dumont, known in South America as the “father of avi- Wright brothers in the early experi- ments of the 1890's, is dead. The veteran filer of balloons, di- additional revenue which the recent- | FORMER ND, MAN IS- SHOT FROM AMBUSH NEAR FERGUS FALLS Sniper Fires 10 Bullets Into Body of August Grage, 70 Years Old Fergus Falls, Minn., July 25.—(P)}— A sniper fired 10 bullets into August Grage, 70-year-old recluse, as he emerged from his farm home three miles north of here Sunday. He died a few minutes after he was found by a nephew. Robbery was not the motive, in the opinion of Sheriff O. J. Tweten of Fergus Falls. Grage had been married twice, having been divorced recently. He lived previouly at Willmar, and at Sheyenne, N. D. It was the second killing in Otter- tail county within a week that has mystified authorities. The other slain man was Mons Jacobson, aged recluse who lived on a farm 20 miles north of Fergus Falls. Jacobson was tortured before he was slain, but the motive in that case apparently was robbery. The slayer, according to Sheriff Tweten, was hidden in the brush 150 feet away from the house. He had used a deer rifle and fired bullets into the recluse’s stomach, back, arms, legs, and hips. The crushed grass in the ambush where the killer waited and a bullet casing from a deer rifle, found in the brush, were the only clues auth- orities said. Unconscious and dying, Grage was found by a nephew, Edwin Haarstick, who lives in the neighborhood. Be- fore help could be summoned, the aged man died. The nephew had come to take his uncle to dinner. Grage’s living quarters had not been ransacked and a pocketbook with $3.95 was found in his overall pocket, but the vest he wore had been removed. Grage had lived alone on his 80- acre farm house on the Ottertail lake road the last few years. He has a son, ae Grage, living at Sheyen- ne, N. D. A car bearing North Dakota license plates was seen in the vicinity of the Grage farm Sunday, it was reported to Sheriff Tweten. The sheriff is in- vestigating to determine whether the strange car had any connection with the slaying. Another theory of officers was that Grage probably was slain by a de- mented person. Robbery was not the motive they believed and, so far as| {7 could be ascertained, Grage had no enemies. Doolittle Streaks Away from Capital Washington, July 25.—()—Major James H. Dolittle and Miss Anne Madison, Washington, on a dawn-to- dusk flight covering the trails trav- eled by George Washington, streaked ‘away from Washington Hoover air- port at 8:15 a. m. Monday after a re- fueling stop in the national capital, | MARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, JULY 25, 1932 rt Work on Ca Against Closure 1,000 ARE EXPECTED AT LEGION-AUXILIARY CONVENTION AT LAKE Annual Drum and Bugle Con- test, Colorful Highlight, Comes Monday Night Deviis Lake, N. D., July 25.—(}— Thumping drums and blzring bugles resounded throughout Devils Lake Monday as the North Dakota depart- ment of the American Legion opened its 14th annual convention. Preliminary sessions were held Sunday when the Legion and its women's Auxiliary held joint memo- tial services, Outstanding on Monday's program ‘was a parade by all veteran organiza- tions present, with the drum and bugle corps contest scheduled for Monday night. Leaders in this com- Petition generally were regarded as Bismarck, Fargo and Grand Forks, the latter the defending champion. Three men were prominently men- tioned for state commander to suc- ceed Joe Rabinovich of Grand Forks. They are Dr. H. 8. Kreidler, Wahpe- ton, now deputy for the third dis- trict; Lynn Stambaugh of Fargo and Lee Cummings of Carrington. Williston prepared to make a strong bid for the 1933 convention, with indications that Fargo, which had itended to issue an invitation, might withdraw, Registrations for the convention ; Passed the 700 mark, while additional registrations are expected to bring the number above the 1,000 mark. Kansan Is Speaker Harry Colmery, Topeka, Kansas, chairman of the American Legion national legislative committee, was the leading speaker on Monday morning's program, He reported on the ‘advance made in veterans’ leg- islation by congress, and on other congresional session. Indications were the bonus ques- tion may be raised at the convention i Prospects of debate on the sub- ject. Mayor A. V. Haig and Sanford C. Haggen, commander of the Devils Lake Legion post, welcomed the del- jegates, with H. M. Pippin, Killdeer, {responding. An address by Governor |George F. Shafer, greetings from the Minnesota Legion commander, Oscar Youngdahl, reports of department of- ficers, and brief talks by C. T. Hover- ;Son, Manager of the veterans bureau jat Fargo, T. O. Kraabel, Fargo, vet- erans service commissioner, and Charles W. Stevens, secretary of the Legion rehabilitation committee for area D, took up the remainder of the ession, Commander Rabinovich, reporting on the year's activities of the Legion, listed as an outstanding achievement the organization's efforts in behalf of northwestern North Dakota. aviation, Americanism, child welfare, foreign relations, legislation, mem- bership, national defense, necrology, rehabilitation, hospitalization, and | unemployment. Mrs. Porter Reports Reporting before the women’s Aux- iliary, Mrs. A. G. Porter, Edgeley, de- partment president, told of the work done by Auxiliary units in aiding the drought victims and the unemployed. Eleven units, she said, have active junio: organizations, with the largest membership at Bismarck. She recommended that the safety Program be enlarged and that every unit sponsor a school patrol, calling attention that “there were more peo- ple killed in accidents than were killed in the World war.” Shortly after noon, the Auxiliary presidcat’s parley was held with Mrs. Arthur Knauf, Jamestown, presiding. Mrs. A. C. Carlson, Willmar, Minn., national child welfare chairman, re- porting to the women at the after- noon session, ities, legislative, educational and di- TOR ceeeetel Tater. ni of trophies and awards was to be made the Auxiliary ean Monday. © “40 and 8,” Legion honor s0- ciety, staged its annual wreck at Camp Grafton near here Sunday night, with members of the Bismarck voiture in charge of the ceremonies. Kraabel Describes Review Kraabel, in his report of the re- habilitation work in the state, said adoption of the national plan for re- Of disallowed claims, recom- Stambaugh, dey it" employ- ment officer, carrey ol the’ jocks Ployment campaign, said 3,724 per- sons obtained employmet in the state through activities of North Da- Jamestown ‘Wahpeton fifth activities of the Legion at the recent of needy persons in the drought area} He outlined the Legion's work in} Ordered to Admit Grain Corpo- ration to Privileges or Lock Doors HIT ‘HOOVER JOB-HOLDERS’ President Carey Says Recourse to Courts of Law Will ' Be Exhausted Chicago, July 25.—(#)—The Chicago board of trade Monday began a de- termined battle to the last legal ditch against federal closure but was unde- cided as to the course to follow if it should lose. Whether to lock its doors for 60 days or to surrender by admitting the Farmers’ National Grain corporation to trading privileges will not be dis- cussed until recourse to courts of law has been exhausted, President Peter B. Carey said. He blamed the closing order, issued Saturday by three cabinet members, on “president Hoover's job-holders who naturally would not decide against the subsidiary of the presi- dent's pet farm board.” Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, Sec- retary Lamont and Attorney General Mitchell said their order would be ef- fective Aug. 8. George S. Milnor, general manager of the Farmers’ National, said Mon- day the government-sponsored coop- erative had been granted clearing privileges in “every other important trading mart in the United States.” “In all their hue and cry about be- ing closed up,” Milnor said, “Presi- dent Carey and others of the board overlook that part of the govern- ment’s decision that would set aside the closing order if the Farmers’ Na- tional were given clearing association privileges. Through the Hall-Baker Grain company, a subsidiary, the Farmers’ National has clearing association fa- cilities on the Kansas City board of trade, and has, in itself, been ad- mitted to such clearing membership in the Minneapolis, Duluth, Seattle and Portland exchanges, Milnor said. “It seems,” Milnor added, “that the Chicago board was the only one out of step.” THREE BOYS ADMIT SETTING FIRE HERE Confess to Starting Blaze Which Destroyed O. H. Will Corn Crib Three Bismarck boys, all under six |years, have confessed to setting a fire |which destroyed a corn crib belong- ing to the O. H. Will company, dam- aged two barns and a garage, and de- stroyed a section of telephone cable in the alley in the rear of the Will greenhouse at 319 Third street Sun- day, according to Frank Barnes, de- puty state fire marshal. The boys also have confessed to starting two other fires in the same neighborhood in recent months, Bar- nes said. The blaze was reported shortly after noon and the fire department had it under control a few minutes later. The two adjoining barns and the garage also caught fire but fire- men succeeding in preventing the spread of the flames before any great damage was done. Telephone com- munications in the neighborhood were interrupted until a crew repaired damage to a cable strung in the alley. Although no estimate of total dam- age had been made Monday, Harry Thompson, chief of the fire depart- ment, estimated that it would run between $1,000 and $1,500. Barnes was called in to investigate the cause of the fire after it was learned that it had started under sus- Picious circumstances. The boys were seen leaving the crib a few min- utes before the flames were discover- _|ed and were questioned in the result- ing investigation, Because of their extreme youth, no legal action against the youngsters is contemplated. Their parents have been interviewed and will be held re- sponsible for the actions of the three in the future, Barnes said. High Temperatures Prevail in State High temperatures prevailed in North Dakota over the week-end with 14 of the states’ corn and wheat re- gion weather stations reporting pre- cipitation. Slight change in tempera- ture was forecast. Five stations reported the mercury reached 100 degrees or more, with the highest, 102 degrees, at Hankinson. Oakes had 101, and Carrington, Fes- senden and Napoleon 100. The rest of the state experienced temperatures in the 90's. tention to Mea |Board Will Fight Unanimous yy Without a dissenting vote Jane Emerald McHale, 17, auburn beauty from Placerville, Cal. won the title of sweetheart of the Salinas, Cal., rodeo, (Associated Press Photo) MA FERGUSON LEADS GOVERNOR STERLING IN TEXAS’ PRIMARY Run-Off Between Two at Aug. 27 Election Believed Nec- essary, However Dallas, Texas, July 25.—(#)—Mrs. Miriam A. “Ma” Ferguson, once gov- ernor of Texas, again basked in the limelight Monday as she led Gover- nor R. 8. Sterling by 73,000 votes on returns from Saturday's Democratic primary. The Democratic nomination in Texas is equivalent to election, but the votes polled by six other candi- dates were expected to necessitate a run-off between Mrs. Ferguson and Sterling at the Aug. 27 primary. They were the leading candidates two ‘years ago, Sterling winning at the second primary. “Ma” and her husband, James E. Ferguson, also a former governor, who was impeached after election to @ second term in 1916, had nothing to say “at this time.” Ma's campaign largely was con- ducted in the columns of the “Fergu- son Forum,” a weekly newspaper. It was featured by attacks on reputed extravazance of the Sterling admin- istration. A proposal that congress be peti- tioned to submit repeal or retention of national prohibition to the states carried two to one, but less than half the Democrats had expressed them- selves on the issue. Speaker John Nance Garner, Dem- ocratic vice presidential nominee, was renominated without opposition in the 15th Texas district. © congressmen seeking new terms appeared sure of victory with the possible exception of Thomas L. Blanton of Abilene in the 17th dis- trict. Last returns gave him 19,998 votes to 18,703 for his opponent, Joe Jones. {0 PERSONS DROWN AS BOAT OVERTURNS American Legion Picnic on Cali- fornia Coast Marked by Sunday Tragedy Eureka, Calif., July 25.—()—Ten persons were believed drowned when ocean breakers overturned a 26-foot speed craft carrying a picnic party as the motor died at the mouth of the Eel river near here late Sunday. Five bodies had been recovered en were reported rescued. Coast guardsmen and patrolled the shore line search of other bodies. The disaster brought tragedy to the annual Humboldt county Ameri- can Legion picnic, whose merrymak- ers witnessed the accident. Those in be ag were members of the picnic Though verification was lacking, the list of dead reported was: Ivor F. Torrney, Sacramento, state depart- ment of agriculture, inspector of volunteers Bae Barks. . for the state department of agriculture; Heney, Becker and PRICE FIVE CENTS pitol Soon (LUNDOFF - BICKNELL AWARDED CONTRACT BY COMMISSIONERS T. P. Riley of Fargo Receives Contract for Heating and Ventilating GENERAL BID IS $1,463,775 Type of Facing Not Yet De- cided, Though Figures for Brick Are Used The Lundoff-Bicknell company of Chicago, with a bid of $1,463,775, late Saturday was awarded the general contract for construction of North Dakota's new capitol building. The T. P. Riley company of Fargo received the contract for heating and ventilating with a bid of $142,560. Construction work is expected to begin within the next two weeks. Contracts for the remainder of the work, electric wiring, plumbing, ele- vators, sewer and water connections, will be made soon by the commis- sion. Lundoff-Bicknell’s original bid was $1,575,000, the lowest of the 13 sub- mitted. From this was deducted $134,635 for accepted alternates. The Riley bid was $147,750, from which $5,190 was deducted for alternates. Although P. J. Gallaher and Sons of Faribault, Minn., was the low bid- der for heating and ventilating, the Riley company, by virtue of being in the state, was given the three per cent preference as provided in the capitol commission act. E. A. Moline of Jamestown was second low for the general contract, but after deducting the three per cent preference, his bid was still higher than the Chicago concern. Total Cost $1,761,485 Should the remaining contracts be let to lowest bidders, the total cost for construction of the capitol build- ing would be $1,761,485, which allows $88,820 for electric wiring, $71,320 for elevators, and $5,685 for sewer and water connection. A deduction of $50,000 is included for savings on al- lowances. Had Moline been given the contract the total cost of construction would have been $1,794,937. This figure. fiirnished by the commission, ts based on an award of $1,659,434 for the gen- eral contract, the amount bid by Moline. From this would be deduct- ed $142,395 for accepted alternates, leaving the bid at $1,517,038. By per- mitting Moline a three per cent pre- ference, $43,211, that firm’s bid could be considered at $1,473,827, or $33,453 above the Lundoff-Bicknell bid. Deductions made for alternates in the capitol commission’s figure for the general contract includes savings, wherever any were offered, in the 31 alternate items. As the figure now stands, it con- templates use of brick, for whcih a reduction of $45,000 was offered by the Chicago contractor if this mate- rial is used instead of stone. Mem- bers of the commission explained, however, this is merely tentative, and that a decision as to material for facing will be made later. Great Savings Possible They called attention that in speci- fications on which the contractors bid were included many items that can be eliminated and thus a sub- stantial saving made. In addition, a saving is contemplated in letting sub- contracts over which the commission has absolute authority. (Continued on page three) FATHER SAYS LIBBY HOLMAN MISTREATED Scores North Carolina Officials For Subjecting Her to ‘Inquisition’ Winston-Salem, N. C., July 25.—( —Alfred Holman’s bitter accusation in | has of “self-seeking motives” on the par! of officers investigating the shooting of Smith Reynolds and his charge his daughter, Libby, widow of the tobacco fortune heir, was subjected to an quisition of the “middle ages” left North Carolina authorities not at all excited Monday. Sheriff Transou Scott said he ¥ tain home at Sparta. Holman, an attorney of Cincinnati, made his charges in an acrid tele-