The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 9, 1932, Page 1

‘ty North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 oars sear raneaerserecs |e ATA LAAT MNRAS PME THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1932 To Break Ground DATE FOR CEREMONY SET BY COMMISSION AT CHICAGO MEETING Oetails Are Yet Incomplete But Will Be Worked Out in Near Future GOVERNOR WILL PRESIDE Presentation of Histories of Pioneer Women Will Be iy One of Features , Ceremonies of breaking the ground for North Dakota’s new $2,000,000 State capitol will take place at 10 a. m. next Monday, according to a tele- gram received here Tuesday from Frank L. Anders, secretary of the state capitol commission. Members of the commission, George | __ A. Bangs, Grand Forks, chairman; | — Fred L. Conklin, Bismarck, and Ad- jutant General G. Angus Fraser, Far- go, signed the contract for general construction of the new capitol build- ing in Chicago Monday. The capitol commission spent most of last week in Chicago arranging details with the builders and archi- tects. Builders are the Lundoff-Bick- nell company, Chicago, on a bid of $1,463,755, lowest of those received. Architects are J. B. Deremer, Grand Forks, and W. F. Kurke, Fargo, with Holabird and Root of Chicago: as associate architects. Details of ceremonies which will inaugurate work on the structure have not been prepared but plans will be formulated at once and should be completed soon, it was said. Governor George F. Shafer is ex- pected to break the first sod and make a brief address at the ceremon- jes in the presence of high state of- ficials, officers of various state clubs and organizations and other indivi- duals who’ probably will be here to witness the exercises. A part of the program will be the presentation of 50-leather bound books on the lives of pioneer moth- ers of North Dakota to the state his- torical library. The collection is the result of a pioneer mother project carried on by the state federation of women’s clubs and presentation of the collection at the start of the capi- tol building work will mark comple- tion of the ject. The book collection will be pre- sented to officers of the state histor- ical society by Mrs. A. E. Jones, Lis- bon, president of the state women’s clubs, and Mrs. H. W. McArdle, Far- go, chairman of the pioneer mothers project. JAPS ARE ANGERED BY STIMSON TALK; LEAGUE IS PLEASED Secretary of State Outlines For- eign Policy in Address at New York (By The Associated Press) Irritation in Tokyo and satisfaction in Geneva were apparently Tuesday's reactions to the address in New York Monday night at Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson on the Briand-Kel- Jogg Pact. Secretary Stimson, speaking before the council on foreign relations, cited events in the Far East last winter as indicating how effectively the pact may be employed in putting a peace- ful end to hostilities by mobilizing Public opinion against them. He recalled the assembly of the League of Nations supported ‘United States in an assertion it would not recognize a situation, treaty or agreement brought about by means contrary to the covenant and obliga- tions of the pact of Paris and made the remark: “Moral disapproval, when it be- comes the disapproval of the whole world, takes on a significance hither- to unknown in international law.” In Stimson’s re- world was organized and mobilized as never before, eae In Geneva sat ‘was express- ed in League oC Nn ee oe what was described as “a guarantee that in any future call for by the league the attitude of the States will be known in advance and possible cause for embarrassment re-| the moved.” ‘Stimson’: ation between: his government the league in the Sino-Japanese. ajt-/State Novelist Weds Susan Ertz, American novelist, and Maj. J. Ronald McCrindle, Brit- Ish barrister, were married recently In London, INITIATE PETITIONS FOR SIX MEASURES TO CUT N. D. TAXES Proposed Bills Would Cut Salar-| ies and Make Other Changes in Laws Petitions to initiate six new mea-| sures aimed at reducing taxes were filed with the secretary of state late Monday by officials of the North Da- kota rs association. L. F, Lamb, Michigan, president of the taxpa: association, estimated that 2,000 tures in excess of the | necessary 10,000 were filed. The peti- tions.were signed by persons in all parts of the state, he said. Briefly, the measures propose: 1, Repeal of the law providing for the appointment of a tax supervisor for each judicial district. | LIBBY HOLMAN GETS BAIL; THEN SPEEDS BACK T0 OBSCURITY Dashes From Little Country Ho- tel at 2 A. M., Disappears Into Night ASKS TO BE LET ALONE Says Nothing as Attorneys Tell Court Her Desire Is to Prove Innocence Reidsville, N. C., August 9—()— Her surrender completed and her bail arranged, Libby Holman, Broadway torch singer and alleged marticide, speeded back into obscure retirement at 2 o'clock Tuesday morning. Wearing dark glasses and accom- panied by two unidentified young men, the singer dashed from the lit- tle country hotel here, stepped into a or hint of her destination. waiting automobile and left no clue} The Weather cloudy tonight and Wed- aay: not so warm Wednesday. PRICE FIVE CENTS for Capitol Next Monday Reynolds at Winston-Salem, N. C. With her arrival here Monday | night following the habeas corpus hearing in Wentworth, which baal ed in her immediate release on of $25,000, every effort was Bei ry convey the impression that ‘she would remain for the night. Her father, Alfred Holman, departed for Winston-Salem early in the evening and the lights in her room were ex- tinguished. They blazed on again shortly before 2 o'clock. A few minutes later Miss Holman and the two young men appeared in the lobby. “Is anybody around?” one of them inquired of the clerk. The ,hotel employe replied in the negative and Libby led the way to the automobile Immediately after her surrender Miss Holman was taken, along with a writ of habeas corpus, before Judge A. M. Stack in Wentworth. It was Sheriff Scott who refused to accept the coroner's first verdict to the ef- fect that young Smith Reynolds, to- bacco heir and husband of the act- ress, had committed suicide following @ party at the Reynolds home in Winston-Salem on July 6. Was Heavily Veiled In court she wore a thick, black 2. Shortening notices of sale of/ veil, and she spoke no word as at- real estate for delinquent taxes and for filing and posting lists of such taxes with the names of owners and descriptions of the land upon which taxes are delinquent. 3. To reduce the fees to be paid newspapers for the publication of all; legal notices and proceedings provided | for by law. Cut Judges Salaries 4. Reducing the salaries of the Judges of the supreme court hereafter appointed or whose terms of office pay es after this act takes effect, from $5,500 per year to $5,000. 5. Reducing the salaries of dis- | trict judges hereafter appointed or whose terms of office commence after this act takes effect, from $4,000 to peek em year, and providing for of their actual traveling ex- | penses. 6." Reducing and fixing the salaries or compensation of certain elected state-officials and reducing and fix- ing the salaries or compensation of all appointive state officials, members of all appointive state boards, bureaus and commissions provided for by law, and reducing and fixing the salaries or compensation of all deputies, as- sistants, secretaries, clerks and em- ployes of all state officials, boards, bureaus and commissions. A seventh. petition, bearing a num- ber of signatures, was left with the secretary of state but was not intend- ed to be filed or go on the ballot. H. B. Nelson, Rugby, association secretary, told the Associated Press over the telephone that it was left with the secretary of state as a clari- fication of the sixth petition listed. Intended As Clarification ‘The question had been raised as to whether the petition would require the salaries of institutional heads, in- structors and other employes of state the | institutions to be not more than the salaries paid to board members. The seventh petition would have made this stipulation but Nelson explained that it had been left without suffi- cient signatures in order to make it clear that the petition covering re- ductions in state salaries was not to be so int 5 Secretary. of State Byrone indicat- that he by ar review the suffi- ciency of all se en peehione but that ze | the seventh grist be be reject- Decision on acceptance of the petitions is expected soon. torneys went through the formalities necessary to obtain her release. The bail which Judge Stack allowed was the same as that fixed for Albert |“Ab” Walker, life-time chum of Rey- eens who was indicted jointly with rr. After the hearing her father and brother, Alfred Holman, Jr., brought her to the hotel here, a distance of seven miles. They refused to say where she had been hiding before her surrender. Miss Holman, herself, issued a brief statement through her (Continued on page three) REMINGTON DEATH DUE 10 ACCIDENT IS JURY'S RULING! Testimony at Inquest Late Mon-; day Shows Hunting Mis- hap Caused Fatality P. C. Remington, Sr., prominent Bis- marck business man who died Sun- day from a gun shot wound, “came to his death accidentally while removing @ rifle from an automobile,” a coro- ner’s jury ruled in a verdict returned im an inquest here late Monday af- ternoon. The “accident occurred Sunday Holta, 618 Seventh St., were prepar- ing to shoot rabbits on the farm of Remington’s ¢on-in-law, Dr. L. A. Shipfer, 11 miles south of Bismarck. Holta testified he was about 150 or Testimony indicated that the corn |con: had become wedged between the trig- Sp raputticleny nutuper (ger fad guard, causing the rifle to as Remington attempted to which provided employes could not be paid more than| part of hte body, entering the main officials employing them, would limit | blood stream. Dr. P. M. Owens and compensation of state institutional| Dr. F. B. Strauss, who performed an employes to $2.400, G. F. Lamb of] autopsy, said that death probably oc- Michigan, president of the committee said Monday that never had been the | dent. intention of the association, and that be ‘on the measure, of the measures, members p4 petitioners’ committe said, is in with the mandate: of the tion meeting | al uation were interpreted as a basis for/at Devils Lake recently. cooper: “Members of the petitioners’ com- | lohnson. Watford): @ few minutes after the acci- on the Schipfer the vic- Paul Linssen, comments on the cooper-/46 count anizations, each of| E. 8, Allen conducted the inquest. : re which ent a representative to the jErivase. fonerat ‘servions Were hala Taxpayers’ associa the Remington ‘Tuesday with Rev. D. B parcedones Monday to Sheriff Transou Scott,/ morning while Remington and George] in Lilpfert. JUNIOR COLLEGE IN CITY PROPOSED BY School Board to Consider Plan Tonight; Say Taxes Would Not Be Higher A proposal to establish a junior college in Bismarck will be laid be- fore the city school board at a meet- {ing in the high school building at 8:30 o'clock this evening, according to H. O. Saxvik, superintendent of schools. Under the plan, Saxvik said, there would be no additional tax burden. The junior college would be financed entirely through tuition fees. The proposed college would make use of the high school building and students would be required to fur- nish their own text books and sup-) plies, Saxvik said that neither he nor the school board is behind the movement view of the fact that no additional’ tax burden would be necessary the school board might be friendly to the! proposal. Decision to lay the plan before the board was reached Monday evening! by about 30 Bismarck and Mandan’ {parents at a meeting in the World ;War Memorial building. These parents have started the movement in view of the fact they will be unable to send their children away to colleges or universities this year, whereas they could afford to jhave them enroll in a junior college ere. Saxvik said that of 97 graduates from Bismarck high school last {spring, less than 10 have asked for transcripts of their credits so that} they may matriculate at institutions of higher learning. In other years,! he said, an average of 35 students from Bismarck matriculated each fall at out-of-town institutions. Should @ junior college be established here, he believes at least 25 students from | Mandan would enroll. Should the school board decide in favor of the proposed college, Saxvik said, a special election for its ap- proval would be called in the near future. Approval of the plan by two-! thirds of the voters is necessary. colleges is given school boards in rgicfl passed by the state legislature No such colleges have been estab- lished yet in North Dakota, Saxvil said, though they are numerous in other states, partioulariy 3 Towa. Will Start Story Of Border Romance Replete with hard-riding, hard- Keune and _pulse-stirring emotionai flicts, “The Gay Bandit of the Border,” new serial story, will begin Thursday in The Tribune. Adela Morales is the attractive and lovable heroine of the story. A prod- uct of the border country, where! women are expected to be as brave] soft into the tale. Adela’s beauty, like that of Helen of AB WALKER GOES FREE ON BAIL This Associated Press telephoto shows Ab Walker (left), who was freed on bail following his indictment for the death of Smith ESTHER WATSIN i CROUPOR PARENTS) MPOPULIRY RAC jamong the pace-setters wi jing: {Madeline Schmidt, Richardton, 18, for the college, but declared that in| Clarice Belk, Bismarck, ‘those having received votes to 73. Authority to establish such Jiniloe | and loyal as men, she brings feminine | =#ine Riggs, With him is his attorney, Bailey PACING FIELD AGAIN M’Kenzie Girl Passes Betty Leach, Bismarck, With Votes Cast Monday Esther Watson, McKenzie, bounded back into first place in the Bismarck merchants’ popularity race when votes were totaled at 6 p. m. Monday. The McKenzie miss had a total of 41,200 votes while Betty Leach, Bis- marck, was in second place with 29,- 600, . Several leaders appeared ith the lat- est tabulations. After the Misses} Watson and Leach came the follow- Ruby Jacobson, Bismarck, 26 000; Ethel Fisher, Bismarck, 20,800: new 300; Alice Marsh, Bismarck, 15,600 Luella Tollefson, Menoken, 15,100; Ernestine Carufel, Bismarck, 12,100: Catherine Andrist, Bismarck, 11,900. 11,000 and Frances Slattery, Bismarck, 10,100. Eleven new candidates received \votes Monday. bringing the total of Nominations of new candidates will close at 6 p.m. Wednesday. All nom-/ inations for the contest must be in the office of the Bismarck Tribune; company by that time, officials oa nounce. All candidates wishing to wihdraw| from the race must submit their withdrawals in writing to the Tribune after nominations close, it is al nounced. The grand winner of the paniset| will become “Miss Bismarck” and will! be awarded a free trip to Miami, Fla.! Winners in the Bismarck, Mandai | and out-of-town contests will receive free trips to Chicago. Ballots for the contest are furnish- ed by merchants participiating in the contest to customers with each cash ‘payment of $1 or more. The contest ; Will continue until Sept. 15. Standings Monday evening at 8) c'cipck were: Catherine Andrist, Bismarck. ...11900 Clarice Belk, Bismarck. . |June Boardman, Bismai \Irene Britton, Bismarck. &\Esther Childs, Bismarck .. Margaret Fortune, Bismarck. Isabelle Gordon. Bisrack. Elinor Green, Bismarck . Magdalene Gondringer, Bismarck ‘an Ruth Gordon, Bismarck .. Caroline Hall, Bismarck Alma Heckenliable, Bismarck . ‘Ruby Jacobson, Bismarck. . \Dorothy Johnson, Bismarck. |Ruth M. E. Jordan. Bismarck. Betty Leach, Bismarck. {Alice Lee, Bismarck. Alice Marsh, Bismarck. Betty Manning, Bismarck Marian Morton, Bismarck Luby Miller, Bismarck Elsie Nelson, Bismarck Eliza Nicholson, Bismarc! Nadine O'Leary, Bismarck. Aldeen Paris, Bismarck “26000 + 6500 + 6300 29600 8600 I j fiscal year came suggestions from tax- | Spokesman for the water department 4 | 21. i Street; Grain Prices Alone 600 | sessions, THREE SUGGESTIONS TO CUT COSTS MADE AT WATER HEARING Consumers Want City to Slash Rate For Boulevards; Change Billing Method RAP SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS Propose Change in Financing so City Will Pay For Exten- sion of Mains Out of the city commission's hear- ing Monday evening on the report of the city water department for the last. Payers for three changes in the oper- ation of the plant. They were: That the commission seek some substitute for the special assess- ment plan of paying for distribu- tion mains and fixtures. sent out That statements be quarterly rather than monthly. That the commission devise a scheme whereby consumers will be charged no more than cost for water which they use on boule- vards, which are property of the city. The first two suggestions came from William Barnecx, 612 Ninth St., while the third was made by E. W. Herbert, 813 Avenue C. 40 Taxpayers Assemble Forty-odd taxpayers assembled at the city hall for the meeting, at which the city commission considered the report on the watér department for the year ending last June 30, submit- ted by Myron H. Atkinson, manager. Following the hearing A. P. Len- hart, president of the city commission, said the suggestions will be given careful consideration. Other citizens who made remarks or asked questions about the report in- cluded H. J. Duemeland, 103 Avenue B west; Charles L. Hansen, 1400 Thayer avenue; S. S. McDonald, 711 Ninth St; W. Berwman, 404 Tenth St. Frank G. Ackerman, 91 Sixth . Mrs. W. E. Perry, 523 Second St.; Miss Bertha H. Varney, 408 Second St., and Dr. N. O. Ramstad, 824 Fourth St. Atkinson and Lenhart served as ind city commission in most in- stances. The session opened with Atkinson reading and explaining a condensed statement of the report, which show- ed a net operating income of $46,535.- When McDonald inquired about economies contemplated for the new) year, Atkinson said that salaries and; wages have been reduced for an esti- mated saving of $2,300 annually and that the charge to the city for rental of water hydrants has been reduced from $5,000 to $3,000. “In other words,” McDonald asked, (Continued on page three) COMMODITY PRICES HOLD WELL DESPITE REACTION TUESDAY Bulls and Bears Battle in Wall Are Weak (By The Associated Press) Securities and commodities took a rest Tuesday on the steep price grade \they recently have been climbing so rapidly. All but cereals got a fair foothold for the stalemate trading Cotton, after slipping back a dol- 409 {lar from the $5 tise made Monday, recovered the lost distance and even nosed a trifle higher. Wheat and its allied grains lost 500 | Virtually all the ascent of Monday, and could not gather enough strength {to renew the climb. Butter, eggs, and wool easily main- ; tained the heights attained since the |upward movement started a few weeks ago. Livestock, which pioneered the steep upward path, did likewise. In the stock market there was a revolt by bears, who have been prod- ded unmercifully up the hill by de- termined bulls. Some of those who opposed the rise were said to have lost heavily. At times stocks touched Monday's closing figures, but the higher ground proved slippery, although recessions were not violent. 100 Katherine Kositzky, ‘Bismarck 200 Jackie Malek, Bismarck. 1809 1500 “5100 Grace Valder, Mandan. 100 (Continued on Pagé Seven) 4500 etfort to temper depth the metal has plumbed in 300 years. While some Wall Street bank- ers were advising caution in an the market's the newly converted bulls, cheerful as the bears ic a few weeks ago, take a chance on prices farther ahead. In brokerage Silver rose a cent an ounce to make | here 600) total 8 cent gain from the lowest Si _ eee __Making Recovery August 9.—(P)— Taylorville, ‘Two men held for the kidnaping of John B. Colegrove, aged president of a defunct Taylorville bank, face the possibility of death in the electric I, chair. They have been charged with kidnaping for ransom, a crime pun- ishable by death in Illinois. The new charge was placed against the prisoners Monday after the bank- er, recuperating in a Springfield hos- pital from the beating administered by his captors and the effects of ly- ing bound and gagged for 36 hours in a weed patch, had told officials $30,000 had been demanded of him. Previously the prisoners, James Gammaitoni, who lost $6,000 in the closing of Colegrove’s bank, and Amelio Puzzouli, had been charged with assault with intent to kill, kid- naping and robbery. Colegrove told officials four men had participated in his kidnaping. G. 0. P, COUNCILLOR IS TAKEN BY DEATH: AT WASHINGTON, D. ¢. James Francis Burke Dies Shortly After Conferences With Hoover | Washington, August 9.—(4)—The death Monday night of James Fran- cis Burke of Pittsburgh, generai counsel of the Republican national committee, leaves a maine vacancy to be filled in the . previously nearly « completed party | organization. The 65-year-old committee officer died only a few hours after he had conferred twice with Presi- dent Hoover. In announcing his death, the white house said that the president no- ticed Burke ap- peared ill and di- rected his phy- sician, Dr. Joel T. Boone, to attend yaMES FRANCIS him BURKE Removed to the hospital at Dr. Boone's orders, the committee coun- Sel died before midnight. The cause of death was given as coronary thrombosis. He had planned to join Mrs. Burke and sail from New York Tuesday for | Germany Swings Mailed Fist CONTINUED RIOTING = CAUSES GOVERNMENT = */T0 ANNOUNCE STAND | Will ‘Brutally Wield’ Its Author- ity to End Political Disorders VON PAPEN CALLS MEETING Chancellor May Invoke Death Penalty to Restore Order to Nation Berlin, Aug. 9.—(@®)—The German government, goaded by two months of rioting, bombing, shooting and knifing, prepared Tuesday to swing its mailed fist and “brutally wield” its authority to put an end to politica! disorders, Returning from a holiday to find the local bloodshed and sabotage still going on, Chancellor Franz Von Pa- pen called his cabinet together to map @ campaign to use the sternest meas- ures, possibly including the death penalty, to restore peace throughout the Reich. The text of the emergency decree, which the cabinet considered in a session which began at noon, called for the death penalty in extreme cases. It also provided for specia! “speed” courts to deal with a whole series of crimes denominated as ter- roristic, including gun toting, flood- ing, arson. bombing, and attempts to tamper with the railways, regardless of whether loss of life were involved. President von Hindenburg approv- ed the decree late Tuesday. Nazi's Want Recognition Meanwhile, speculation on the part. the Nazis might play in the new gov- ernment was upset by a vehement editorial in the Nazi Berlin organ, Der Angriff. demanding the Nazis be given “a decisive influence in the government's course.” This was interpreted as meaning the more radical members of the par- ty had prevailed upon Hitler to chal- lenge Von Papen for the chancellor- ‘ship, which was contrary to Hitler’s joriginal intention. “If we are denied the leadership,” the editorial concluded, “there is only one answer—a ruthless fight.” As he prepared to go into action, Chancellor Von Papen, whose manner jusually is nearer breezy than belliger- ent, assumed a new role. In a brief semi- official communique issued Monday night after riots had taken {two more lives, he declared the gov- ernment would take the most drastic jmeasures and added: “Our authority must be wielded brutally.” Since his government took office June 2, well over 100 have been killed and nearly 1,500 seriously injured in | political battles. Tuesday's action followed urgent pleas from every part of the Reich, seeking relief from the reign of ter- jror. In the press Tuesday, however, there were complaints that the relief had come too late. New bombings were reported from Gleiwitz, Silesia, where the homes of a Commuinst alderman and a Socialist were attacked. Gun shots also were exchanged at the Nazi headquarters at Waldenburg and at the Nazi lead~ ers’ house at Dittersbach. A Nazi newspaper at Coblenz was three days for abusing the national colors. GARRISON PERSONS AFFECTED BY GERM PHYSICIAN ASSERTS Dr. R. H. Ray Says Food Poison: ing Was Apparently Due to Bacillus Europe, but the trip was cancelled on Dr. Boone's advice. A successor to the Pennsylvania Republican, who had served four years as committee counsel, will be chosen by the national committee. Definite plans for the funeral were not announced, pending the arrival of Mrs. Burke and a son, who started for Washington Monday night. Burke also leaves a daughter, Mrs. Burke Rodgers of Pittsburgh. Stone Is Favored Chicago, Aug. 9.—(7)—The new North Dakota state capitol building probably will be faced with limestone, architects who ee the contract He The Capitol Building commission and the architects still are undecided definitely whether the structure will be of stone or brick. tains a provision of brick. but quarters it was stated a number of “sold out bulls” had been waiting for a sizeable reaction, and none having come, were bal now supplying some of the additional power. Fresh market influences which ap- peared to center speculation largely in the railroad stocks grew out of several meetings of railway executives sched- tuled for this week. For Use in Capitol] N. D., August 9.—(?)—Dr. Garrison, who is attend- ing most of the 25 persons of the Garrison, R. H. Ray, “They are ill trom food brought about by a germ that ably got into sausage they ate prob- ‘ While many had paeele a preserved airtight ie they are all expected to