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

North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper LOG f y ESTABLISHED 1873 L =| Ps COMMISSION VOTES | ALTER ARCHITECTS ROCONMEND IS US Deduction of $45,000 if Brick, Were Chosen to Be Made Up in Other Ways « ELEVATOR BIDS REJECTED Board Will Re-Advertise With New Specifications; Oth- er Awards Made | North Dakota's new state capitol | building will be faced with Indiana; limestone. | The state capitol commission Wed- | nesday unanimously voted to use; stone facing instead of brick. The! action was taken after architects! submitted a report recommending: the use of stone. Lundoff-Bicknell, Chicago contrac- tors awarded the general contract, allowed a deduction of $45,000 if the building were faced with brick in-) stead of stone. The architects, in} their report, showed where this amount could be absorbed by elimin- ation of certain details in the build- ing. most of the eliminations being of an ornamental nature. A decision on the facing material} was urged by both architect and con- | tractors, who said ihis was necessary; before they could proceed with fur-| ther work on the structure. They; said shop drawings were being held up until a decision was reached! whether brick or stone would be used. | The commission rejected all bids; submitted for elevators and will re-; advertise. Changes have been made} in specifications for elevators to! make a saving, commission members said. Other mechanical contracts were accepted by the commission. These | included the contract for heating i « and ventilating, let to J. P. Riley o! Fargo; plumbing, let to J. W. D@r- tah of, Cedar Rapids, Ja.; and e! tric Wifing, ‘tec-vo-crie Dearborn von struction company of Chicago. Members of the commission had! been studying details of construc-} tion in conference with architects and | contractors since Monday. The com- | mission nlans to meet again Sept. 20. i AUTOMOBILE SALES __ INORBASE IN STATE August Business Marks First, Gain in 29 Months; Trucks | Follow Lead i } Sales of new passenger cars and; trucks August were 25 per cent above the! nounced Thursday by Commercial; Service, Inc., Bismarck. This is the first time in 29 month: that sales of new passenger cars ex: ceeded those of the correspondin: month for the preceding year, #nd/} the first time in 36 months that! truck sales showed an increase. H In January of this year new pas-; senger car sales were 52 per cent un- | der January, 1931. In February the drop was 71 per cent; March 73 per cent; April 60 per cent; May 56 per: cent; June 21 per cent, and July 24 cent. New passenger cars sold in the! state last month totaled 346, com- pared with 278 for August, 1931. There were 109 trucks sold during the month, compared with 86 for August of last year. Cass county had the largest num- ber of new car sales last month, with 76 passenger cars and 30 trucks sold. Grand Forks county was next with 28 passenger cars and seven trucks. In Ward county 23 passenger and four trucks were sold, and in Bur- leigh county 22 passenger cars and five trucks, American Golf Stars Beat British Players Brookline, Mass, Sept. 1.—(P)— American Walker Cup players made ® clean sweep of the Scotch foursome matches with the invading British amateurs Thursday. Jess Sweetser and George Voigt of New York defeated Rex and Lester Hartley, 7 and 6 The American captain. Francis Oui- met, and his youthful partner, George T. Dunlap, Jr., of New York. took the measure of John Stout, British den- tist, and John Burke, Irish oll man, 7 and 6, Gus Moreland of Dallas, Texas, and Charley Seaver of Los Angeles Sprang the big of the day by whip- ping the British champion. John de Forest and Tony Torrance, captain of the invaders, 6 and 5. . Don Moe and Billy Howel rallied last nine, to win 5 ant 4 pier al WNESOTA SAVANT DIES Wales, Fla. Sept. lt G. Lee, 70, of Babson y years head of the Ff biology at te Uni- hnesota, died Thursday ceived in an sutomo- in North Dakota during attention. { Unconscious when taken from the eighth place with 137,100 votes, lead- ies \ \ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1932 The Weather Fair tonight and Priday; little change in tedacaretite, PRICE FIVE CENTS Figures in Political Upset William G. McAdoo San Francisco, Sept. 1.—(7)—Wil-'More than half the state's record liam Gibbs McAdoo, member of the | number of 2,665,000 registered vot-! ers participated in the primary Woodrow Wilson cabinet, and young Tallant Tubbs, San Francisco rope Shortridge, Republican. of the state's 10,531, returns from Tuesday's primary indicated defini- tely the nomination of Tubbs, Re- publican, and McAdoo, Democrat, and the defeat of Shortridge, for 12 years California’s junior tion of the 18th amendment from the; constitution. strictly on the Democratic national platform, in which there is a repeal senator. | plank. Farmers Holida y Suspended Samuel M. Shortridge All but one incumbent cot SS= | man seeking renomination appeared | land and sea armaments. manufacturer, will be opponents tnj|safely ahead of opponents and that the November election for the Cali-|one, H. E. Barbour, was only 11 votes fornia senate seat held by Samuel M.| behind Glenn M. De Vore for the Republican nomination by unofficial With only 336 precincts unrecorded | count with one precinct missing. Tubbs is an advocate of elimina- McAdoo is running Wilton Child Jeanette Richard Near Death’ From Concussions; Four Others Injured ! i i} Unconscious for nearly 150 hours, a six-year-old Wilton child lay at her! home in a critical condition Thurs- | day, suifering from concussion of the; brain sustained in an automobile ac- |eldent six miles northeast of wil- Officials Expect Veritable Flood ton last Friday. She is Jeanette Richard, daugh-/| ter of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Richard of Wilton. | | Four other persons injured in the! Polling 31,700 votes Wednesday.| 'accident were Mrs. Richard, Cora p, jRichard, Helen Jean Richard. and third place back into the lead of the! James Crandall of Jamestown, all of whom are recovering from cuts and bruises. The accident occurred when the Richard automobile stalled on a hill,’ backed down the incline and swerved through the railing of a bridge. plunged into a ditch 10 feet belo 1 | landed .on its top. Mrs. Richard was driving when the car stalled. Neighboring farmcrs drove the in- jured persons to Wilton for medical | sales for the corresponding month ot jcar, the Richard child has shown no ing Luella Tollefson, Menoken Jast year, according to statistics an-|improvement since the time of the,had 135.600 in the race for honors} her attending physician’ among contestants from the Bismarck jsaid. The others are well on the'trade territory. accident, ad to recovel To Ask Businessmen To Observe Holidays A letier urging them to cooperate in observance of holidays in Bis- marck will be sent to business and professional men Friday by the re- tail trade committee of the Associa-, tion of Commerce. The association recently took over from the Bismareck-Mandan Credit Bureau the responsibility of arrang-' ing for closing of business establish- ments on holidays. Holidays during which merchants are asked to close for the whole day, as listed in the letter, include New| Year's Day, Memorial Day, July 4,! Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christ-| mas Day. On Armistice Day, merchants are asked to close their establishments during the parade and patriotic’ exercises, | Drug stores are asked to observe Sunday hours on holidays while other establishments which custom- arily are kept open for service to visitors and residents are not affect- ed by the request. i When New Year's, July 4 or! Christmas fall on Sundays, the letter, says, merchants’ are asked to close! jtheir stores the following Mondays. | California Golfer Assumes Big Lead St. Paul, Minn.. Sept. 1—()—This is how they stood at 18 holes in’ the second round 36-hole matches in the national professional golf champion- ship Thursday: Olin Dutra, Santa Monica, Calif,, | 7 up on Reggie Myles, Ashland, Ohio. | Abe Espinosa, Chicago, one up on/ Herman Barron, Port Chester, N. Y. Ed Dudley, Wilmington, Del.. six! up on Henry Picard, Charleston, 8. C.! John Golden, Noroton, Conn., and Al Collins, Kansas City, all gven up.! Bobby Cruickshank, New ‘k, and Vincent Eldred, Pittsburgh, ‘all even. ; Frank Walsh, Chicago, five up on’ Gene Kunes, Hartford, Conn. ' John Kinder, Caldwell, N. J.. one up on Ralph Stonehouse, Indian- | apolis, John Perelli, San Francisco, one up Sunday, He returned a three years *0- , fending 150 Hours After Accident WEDNESDAY TOTALS. PUT RUBY JACOBSON when tabulations were completed at 5 p. m. Wednesday. 1t,Catherine Andrist and Alice Lee. al y jf w. | ‘in, fourth places, respectivel; cea eS $00, 417,700 and 406,100 votes. ia Cc twit ‘chants participating in the contest on Tom Oreavy, Albany, N. Y., de-j dishing a knife champion. Unconscious ARITY LEAD, IPL of Ballots in Next Two Weeks ‘uby Jacobson, Bismarck, soared from’ lccal merchants’ popularity race. | She had a total of 422,900 votes | i The shakeup put Frances Slattery, Bismarck. in second. third and with 418,- i Betty Leach, Ernestine Carufel| nd Alice Marsh, all of the Carita!) y. came fifth. sixth and seventh; hh 340,700. 270,000 and 139,200. McKenzie, was in Esther Watson, | who | Derothy Seitz Leads Dorothy Seitz continued to lead the} vie entrants with a total of 25.-| not increased. Young women in places from 10th! to 26th when votes were totaled} |Wednesday were: Veronica Werstlein, | Bismarck. 78.200; Ethel Fisher. Bis- marek, €5.400; June Boardman. Bis- Richardton, 58,100; Elsie Nelson, x Caroline Hall. 54,400; Marian Yeater. 53,700; Betty Haagensen, 47.400; Dorothy Atwood, 43.500; Aldeen Paris, 41,600; Clarice Belk. 37,600; Irene Britton, 31.700: Katherine Brown, Fis- marck, 29,600; Jessie Phillips, Bis- marck, 27.000; Dorothy Seitz, Mai dan, 25,100; Katherine Kositzky, Bis- marck; 24,600; and Ruth M. E. Jor- dan, Bismarck, 18,700. With only two weeks of the contest left and payment of August bills im- minent. ballot boxes situated through - out the business district are expected to be flooded with popularity ballots; from now until the end of the rac’ contest officials said Thursday. Ballots may be obtained from mer- Bis- | Bis- Bis- Bis- Bis- Bis- Bis- Bis- marck, marek, marek, marck, marek, marek, marck, with each cash payment of $1 or more. Rules Are Ex>lained To insure an honest contest. offi- cials said, coustomers must ask for ballots when they make their trans- actions. If the ballots are not re- quested immediately, merchants are 'Disclosure Creates Interest in ;munication to the French govern- ment, her demand for sevision of the: treaty of Versailles to permit Ger-, man equality with the other nations \Challenge communication was dor with a “loose aid memoire.” sultative pact. from the League of Nations’ disarma- ment conférence unless her demands are said to have accompanied unof- ficially the Reich note to France on the subject. ;sailles treaty than what other states demanded for imarck, 62,200; Madeline Schmidt, | security, the statement went on, and i ASKED BY GERMANY INNOTE TO FRANC Paris and Cabinet Ses- sion Is Called | ENGLISH ARE WATCHFUL} | | Are Taking No Part in Discus-: i sions But May Be Drawn in Shortly Germany has renewed, in a com- of Europe in the strength of her German officials explained the | not a formal | note but that the foreign minister merely provided the French ambassa- The disclosure that the issué had/ been discussed formally created deep|ttiumvirate challenged France for interest in Paris. The French gov-; ernment would say nothing about details of the conversation, but the! cabinet was summoned for ‘Thursday /Of the doldrums. afternoon to discuss the develop- ments. Great Britain has been kept fully informed of the negotiations, under | the terms of the Franco-British con- | For the present she; is taking no part in the discussions, | but it was expected she would be drawn in shortly. A threat by Germany to withdraw tor equality in armaments are met The contents of the note were not divulged but the views of Gen. Kurt von Schleicher, Junker minister of defense, were generously quoted on all sides. The general is regarded as the mainspring of the von Papen government. The minister's latest / pronounce- ment appeared in the form of an interview published in the Italian newspaper, Resto Del Carlino, at Bologna. Asked what Germany would do if her claim to equality were rejected, the general told the newspaper: Important to League “The German government will no longer participate in the world dis- armament conference. tI is evident what non-participation means to the existence of the League of Nations. “The German government will then ¢ forced by breaches of promise on the part of the signers of the Ver- to take her national security problem in her own hands, should international solution prove impossible.” Only Wednesday there was pub- lished in the official subsidized Hein- atdienst a Gen. Von Schleicher stat ment nesded, “Germany's securit} which critically reviewed the disarm- ament conference. The general recalled his recent an- nouncement that Germany must re- organize her defense forces so as to modernize them, even if they were He said Germany's claim to equality had been disregard- ed and that humiliating treatment continued to be imposed on her and her former allies. Germany wanted no more nor less She did not desire to enter into arm- ament competition. PENN. R. R. ASKS LOAN Washington, Sept. 1. — (?) — The Pennsyl.ania Railroad company Thursday applied to the Interstate * Stock Brokers See Santa Claus Return | i . F ° New York, Sept. 1.—(4)—Wall Street brokers who had become complainers of poverty, are ready to believe there is a Santa Claus, after surveying the August volume of business. Trading in bonds in the stock exchange, reaching $340,000,000 par value, was the largest for August in history, and more than $150,000,000 over the previous month. The turnover in stucks, exceed- ing 80,000,000 shares, was some three times that of the previous month, and the largest for August since 1929. AMERICAN AVIATORS SEEK T0 ESTABLISH NEW SPEED RECORD ! \ Supremacy of France in Contests at Na- tional Air Races Cleveland, Sept. 1.—(P—A flying; the speed supremacy of. the world Thursday and jolted American sport- ing aviation out of nearly a decade The trio—Major James H. Doolittle, | James G. Haizlip and James R. We- |dell--took to the starting line three of the fastest racing ships of the country for an official try at the eight-year-old mark of 278 miles an hour set in 1924 by Warrant Officer Bonnett of France. Father Time received his first jouncing at the national air races Wednesday when Dolittle rocketed his supercharged 800 horsepower low wing monoplane over a measured three kilometer course for an unof- ficial record of 293.193 miles an hour. Doolittle’s spectacular straightway dash. although the fastest ever flown in a land plane. will not be recognized by the Federation Aeronautic Inter- nationale because he did not carry'a barograph or file formal notice in ad- vanee of his flight. Thursday, ho’ ever, he had installed two barographs in his ship anf made formal notice of his official attempt upon the world | record. Likewise filing notice were “Jim’ Haizlip, who Tuesday set a new) transcontinental speed record. and} James R. Wedell, veteran pilot and designer of Patterson, La. Doolittle said before his official dash that he expected to extract a 200 mile an hour speed from his racer. Wednesday nigh’ he unshipped the propellor and alled a new one as @ means of gaining the extra “10 or 15 miles an hour” he believed the plane would do. No other adjust- ments were made since the plane handled well in the “practice hop.” Swooping low over the course in the semi-dusk of the sun's eclipse, Doolittle’s tiny barrel-shaped racer was hardly more than a blurr of red on the first lap at a speed of 294 miles an hour. clocked at 296 miles an hour. while the remaining two laps were done in 291 and 290 miles an hour. VON GRONAU PLANS HOP Ochiishi, Hokkaido, Japan, Sept. 1. —(#)—Captain Wolfgang von Gronau, flying around the world from Ger- many, Thursday radioed he intended to hop off from Attu, the Aleutian Islands, at 4 a. m.. Saturday (2 p. m. Eastern Standard Time, Friday). His destination will be Kakumabetsu bay in Paramushiru, northernmost island of Japan, YAK NAMED ‘CLIPSIE" | New York, Sept. 1.—()—Keepers {didn’t have to think long before find- jing a name for a 15-pound baby yak Commerce committee for a $2,000,000 reconstruction corporation loan to aid the employment situation. Chicago’s Secret Six, State’s Attorney Investigate Each Other: Chicago, Sept. 1—(#)—A secret was out Thursday. The Cook county state's attor- ney’s office and the Secret Six. anti-crime organization sponsored by Chicago business men, have been spying on each other. The spying. which included the tapping of a wire into a secret Office of the Secret Six. has been going on for 18 months. Lately, a woman got mixed up in the ot, uired to present the ballots Tater. Tn other words, officials said customers may not return for ballots after forfeiting the right to them by not requesting them when making (Continued on page two) Acauit Chicago Woman Of Murdering Spouse Chicago, Sept. 1.—(4)—Dorothy Pollak was acquitted by Chief Jus- tice Harry M. Fisher today of the murder of her husband, Joe Pollak, whom she slew with a pistol bullet duly 27. Her vindication followed the dra- matic recital by the comely widow of an unhappy wedded life with ‘poor Joe,” culminating in the pisto) shot as he advanced upon her bran- She pleaded celf- defense. secret investigations and, ere long, the secret was spilled. Whether she was responsible for the fact that the secret was no longer a secret remained undeter- mined, however. ‘Three men, one an investigator for State's Attorney John A. Swanson, were seized and later released by detectives assigned to the Secret Six. They were Gor- don White, the investigator; James H. McQueeney, detective agency owner; and Frank “Cock- Eyed” Carroll. It was admitted by these three —and State's Attorney Swanson— that wire tapping had been en- gaged in but the state's attorney declared his men thought they had located the headquarters of a blackmail ring, and did not know the office was connected with the Secret Six. 4 born at Central Park Zoo during the jeclipse Wednesday. They promptly jmamed him “Clipsie.” Alexander Jamie, head investi- gator’ for the Secret Six. then made known an investigation of the state's attorney's office his agency has been onducting was, unlike Swanson declared the wire tapping to have been, intentional. “I have been investigating the state's attorney's office for eight- een months,” Jamie said. “Lat- terly it has been an intensive drive. I have made satisfactory Progress and have found that a political-criminal cabal exists.” State's Attorney Swanson said the existence of a cabal was a secret to him and that if Jamie desired to continue his investiga- tion of the office he would aid him in any way possible. Col. Robert Isham Randolph, former president of the Chicago Association of Commerce and head of the Secret Six, didn't take much stock in the two in- vestigations. “This is a joke—that the State's Attorney and the Secret Six are “ICLOUDS RUIN WORK | {important radio discovet ;sclentific feats, and some queer human lof more than half the largest expe- land white when it passed the stands | The return dash was! Adopt Stone Facing for Capitol Buildin [ARMS EQUALITY IS Actress Umprey ’ OF MANY OBSERVERS AS MOON VEILS SUN, One Important Radio Discovery | and Queer Experiences Are Recorded TWO PERSONS FRIGHTENED Cows Come Home For Milking} in Some Areas, Excited Birds Go to Bed i (®) — One| . Several new Boston, Mass., Sept. 1 experiences summed up Thursday the accomplishments of the 52 total} eclipse expeditions. | Clouds completely ruined the work ditions, but. a few had perfect views. ‘Two persons were reported so fright- ened at Island Pond, as to require medical attention. A disgusted sightseer at another big eclipse expedition camp, where clouds dimmed the corona, dropped his eye shield and worked a cross word puzzle | during “totality | The “cows came home” for milking ; ata number of farms, Flocks of birds | got wildly excited. then calmed down and dived from sight, evidently put-| ting up, bird-fashion, for the night. The radio discovery throws new light on the invisible layer of electri- fied air—the Kennelly-Heaviside layer —which reflects radid waves back to earth. As the sun passed completely from sight, radio reception on special setups changed abruptly to sunset con ditions. Then for the minute and a half} while the sun was completely dark-| ened, the test radio waves behaved almost precisely as if it were night.| Their action showed that in the dark-/| ened sky the waves were ascending much higher before being reflected! back to earth. It was announced this | EVA TANGUAY Abo.> as she appears today and be- low as she looked when in her prime. Hollywood, Sept. 1—(#)—Eva Tan- guay, former stage actress, was re- ported out of danger Thursday al- showed the invisible layer had ab-/though her physician, Dr. Lucius B. ruptly retreated much higher under|Faires, said she would be confined cover of darkness. to bed for several weeks to recover from a combination of ailments. Miss Tanguay’s illness became known last Friday when her sister, Reappearance Brings Change When the sun reappeared, the ra reception changed back to daytime) bs : conditions, as it does at sunrise. The| Mrs. Walter Gifford, said the actres it aver apparently had been forced! at one time reported worth nearly anaibalone Goieacth | $2,000,000 was in financial straits. INNE-DAY RESPITE | GAULED BY LEADER WEDNESDAY NIGHT ‘Tense Air Prevails in Many Sections, However, Despite News of Truce ORDER IS ISSUED BY RENO | | | | Will Await Action By Confer- ence of Governors Called For Sept. 9 BULLETIN Des Moines, Ia., Sept. 1.—(P}— Despite official orders declaring a nine-day truce, activities con- tinued Thursday on at least two fronts in the farmers’ non-sell- ing campaign seeking higher prices for their products. Des Moines, Sept. 1—#)—The farmers’ war for higher produce prices was Officially suspended for a nine-day period Thursday, but an air of tenseness still hung over the af- fected areas as news of the truce per- meated the midwest. Some farmers picketing highways in an attempt to keep all farm pro- duce off the markets were evidently inclined to accept the suspension. Others continued at their posts and {stopped trucks trying to run block- ades. The order for the truce was issued Wednesday night by Milo Reno, pres- ident of the National Farmers’ Holi- day association. It stipulated activ- ity should cease until after the con- ference of midwestern governors at Sioux City, Ia. Sept. 9. Plans for the conference, which will seek to arbitrate differences between pro- ducers and buyers and plan legal methods of increasing farm prices, were going forward Thursday. | Shafer Planning to Attend Conference | | | i | \| 1 \| Governor George F. Shafer Plans to attend the conference called by Governor Warren Green | of South Dakota for Sept. 9 at Sioux City, Ia. to discuss legal methods of increasing farm prices. The governor said he plans to || telephone Gov. Green to deter- mine whether any set program has been prepared for the con- ference. OR AEC AEE EEG director of the Cornell university ex- Pedition, stationed at Newport, Vt., in the midst of hopelessly thick clouds a small hole appeared for two minutes. And in that hole was the total eclipse. R. C. Williams of Cornell forthwith made the first test of a new process he developed with G. B. Sabine of} Cornell. He evaporated chromium to; produce a special mirror for observing | spectroscopically the invisible ultra- violet light from the corona. Fate was kindest of all to the Jap- anese expedition from the Tokyo im- perial observatory, under Prof. Okuroh Oikawa. Tney came the longest dis- tance of any expedition and selected Bartlett, N. H., for their site. But bad luck prevented them from! reaching Bartlett, so they settled) down at Alfred, Me. There the see-! ling was perfect, while Bartlett was jin the middle of the cloudy belt where numerous important expeditions had jtheir hopes wrecked. In a brief {statement after the eclipse the direc- \tors described the Japanese work as “eminently satisfactoi H Find ‘Puddles’ in Air Evidently there are “puddles” in the air, Some astronomers reported the ‘shadow bands” were entirely miss- ing while others sighted them clearly. These bands are shadows rippling over earth during a total eclipse, as- cribed to action of the atmosphere on | light similar to that of water when shadows can be seen flitting across a; sandy bottom. At Portland. Me., John O. Lunt, of | the weather bureau, said he not only saw but measured the bands. They! were wavy lines, one-quarter to one- jhalt inch wide. He caught them on a sheet. Two eminent astronomers charged the “celestial express,” the moon's shadow ,was late. It was two or three seconds behind schedule, said Dr. Frederick Slocum of Wesleyan uni- versity, observing at Center Conway, \N. H. It was ten seconds late, said Dr. Philip Fox, director of the Adler plan- etarium, Chicago, who observed at Is- land Pond, Vt. Something must be done about this tardiness, in the opinion of astronom- ers, for extremely refined accuracy about the moon's motion is the basis of practical calculations used by man, and particularly of the tide charts used by sailors. Two South Dakota Banks Are Held Up Bandits raided two banks in South Dakota Thursday. At Flandreau they slugged a bank customer, stole $2,000 and kidnaped a girl clerk, Alma Weide, whom they released a short distance from town. Five men were in the gang and they were armed with machine guns. At Whitewood, in the Black Hills, three bandits seized W. Guy Bailey, bank cashier, forced him to go to the bank and let the robbers in and to PROPERTY INN. D. | | i Railroad Evaluations Al- lowed By Board Public utility property Dakota, as assessed by the board of equalization for this year, missioner, aggregate public utility last year, utilities inereased in assessed value, while railways, telephone, telegrap! street railway and sleeping car pro| | erty showed a decrease. 1 assessed at $172,966,217, a decrease o! $15,177,489 under the 1931 assessmen| of $188,143,706. Telephone property, valued 080 under the 1931 assessment of $6,; 784,505. Telephone property, valued year at $6,700,425, is assessed at $84, 080 under the 1931 assessment of $6, 700,425. $921,758, or $52,481 under the 193! assessment of $947,239. Street railway property was cu! placed at $121,383, $134,820 a year ago. Sleeping car property was reduce year's assessment. $472,651, pared with $600,073 a year ago. Electric, gas, heating and wate: utilitie: 1931, was assessed this year at $15, 762,522, an increase of $1,194,220. Among electric, gas, heating an water utilities assessed, com Power company, Fergus Falls, Minn. pany’s assessment $854,969 over last year. was Pl compared with $3,583,365 a year aj $1,857,246, jassessment of $1,508,354. investigating each other.” Col. Randolph said. “State's Attorney Swanson originated the Secret . He fotned it for his extra- “legal activities. He is its father. It was supposed to be working for him.” -Jopen the vault when the time lock permitted. They got about $2,500 and bout crease of $99.94. the was locked ‘n his own machine three miles north of the cit; their own machine. M8, 0 S98 AEC. ve IS ASSESSED LOWER Decrease of $15,177,489 in| in North }nesday night. state has a total value of $196,947,956, ac- | cording to figures announced Thurs- day by Iver Acker, state tax com- The figure is $14,257,689 below the | assessment | Electric, gas, heating and water | Railway property in the state was} this year at $6,700,425, is assessed at $85,- this | Telegraph property assessment was $13,437 with this year's assessment compared with $124.422 under last year's figure. This assessed at $14,568,302 in the North Dakota property of the Otter Tail had the highest valuation, $5,114,760. ‘This was an increase of $311,947 over last year's assessment of $4,802,813. The Northern States Power com- increased For 1932, the roperty was assessed at $4,438,325, Property of the North Dakota Power and Light company was as- | Fer! sessed at $2,002,647, an increase of $145,401 over the 1931 assessment of The Montana-Dakota Power com- pany, was assessed at $1,504,677, a re- duction of $3,677 under last year’s The Montana-Dakota Utilities com- pany, assessed last year at $1,317,287, fled, taking Bailey with them. He'was cut to $1,217,343 this year, a de- The Minot Gas company was as- bandits continuing their dlight injsessed at $125,000, the same amount | v | i | | Fifteen governors have been invit- jed at the,instance of Gov. Warren \Green of South Dakota. Thus far |Gov. Olson ef Minnesota and Turner ‘of Iowa have indicated that they ; Will attend or be represented but no announcement has been made by Gov. | . Bryan of Nebraska. | Seeks Strikers’ Safety | Declaring that he did not wish to |Jeopardize the safety of farmers in |clashes with armed groups, Reno, al- though sick in bed with a bad c6ld, ued his statement shortly after ov. Turner announced the high- j 's of the state would be kept open and that “mob rule” would not be ‘tolerated. { Two clashes between farm picket- jeers and truck drivers occurred Wed- At Omaha Sheriff C. B. McDonald and 40 deputies escort- ed several trucks through the block- ade west of the city under difficul- ties. Pickets sought to halt their pro- gress by throwing tree trunks in the jtead and hurling sticks, stones and planks at the drivers. At South Sioux City, Neb. a crowd of picket- ers estimated at 400 turned back 22 livestock trucks from Wayne county, Nebraska. after a brief clash in which & number of men slightly. wee ee Previously one picket camp near Omaha had indicated its members would follow President Reno's orders and there was little activity at others. Strikers in Pottawattamie county, Iowa, immediately east of Omaha had not indicated their reaction. At Clinton, Ia., in the northeast- ern corner of the state, a crowd of farmers obtained the release from the county jail of five of their num- ~iber imprisoned for Picketing activ. jitfes. Bonds were furnished by friends. ee Hoover—Hyde Talk ie strike was believed been discussed at a white bousd ec. ference Wednesday between the presi- dent and Arthur M. Hyde, secretary of agriculture. When questioned specifically Hyde reported they had talked “about many things.” Harry B. Cordell, president of the Oklahoma state board of agriculture, Wednesday predicted an attempt to organize the Holiday movement in that state “will fizzle out” in Okla- hose and will not succeed in Iowa and Nebraska. “It is ¢ and Nel not practical, The newest from$ in strike movement Thuraday a "eae, Minn., where Dairy Producers associ- ation ordered enforcement of a milk strike after dairies yesterday refused to meet demands of farmers for high- Producers demand f 4 1 id r id er prices. The $1.75 a hundredweight for milk. an movement. Seventy-five armed deputies were (Continued on page nine)