The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 7, 1932, Page 1

»» ste. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE -2=— Holl EFFORT 10 ESCORT |{_Here With Bana Tax Valuation Put mum | At $1,136,297,539 LIVESTOCK TRUCKS ~ ENDS IN FAILURE More Than 500 Holiday Adher- ents Turn Back Officers Despite Armament SHERIFF MOBILIZES MEN Clash Wednesday Follows Suc- cessful Passage Through Area Tuesday Bioux City, Iowa, Sept. 7.—()— Nearly 100 Plymouth county deputy sheriffs, armed with shotguns, revol- vers, and clubs, were turned back by @ crowd of more than 500 farm holi- day strikers Wednesday morning when the officers made an attempt to escort 22 truckloads of livestock through the picket lines at James, Towa, near here. Sheriff R. Rippey had mobilized the ‘special deputies following reports to him that 1,000 farmers holiday ad- herents were massing at James with the expressed intention of preventing the trucks of livestock from reaching markets here. Monday, at the same place several hundred farmers, who seek higher agricultural prices by keeping pro- duce from being marketed, attacked rivers of 14 trucks and threw scrap iron, clubs, timber, and stones at the machines. Four drivers were hurt then. One report Sheriff Rippey received was that the pickets had poured gaso- line over the highway and planned to ignite it at the approach of the trucks. Is Near Sioux City James is a little town just over the Woodbury-Plymouth county line, not far from Sioux City. Tuesday Sheriff Rippey and his men person- “KEN FITCH Ken Fitch, Fargo, manager of the IN CITY TONIGHT To Play in Streets and At Dome, as Well as Meet Minne- sota Train North Dakota’s famous American Legion and Forty and Eight band, assembled here for its annual trip to the national convention at Portland, Ore., will be king in Bismarck Wed- nesday evening. ally escorted & fleet of trucks trough | juete corpe of the Bismarck post, the this latest trouble zone in. the strike sponsored by the Farmers’ Holiday association. There was no trouble then. With the exception of this highway all roads into Sioux City were clear of strikers. Previously Rippey had warned the holiday workers that any attempts at violence would result in wholesale ar- Meanwhile plans were going for- ward for a governors’ conference here Friday, and most of the roads into Sioux City were open. The farm pleketers had withdrawn to await the results of the zovernors’ conference. May Resume ‘Hostilities County leaders of the Farmers’ Holiday association are preparing meanwhile for a resumption of “hos- tilities” showld such action appear necessary to further their plans for higher prices for farm products, They adopted a resolution Tuesday calling upon members of the association to hold themselves in readiness for furth- er picketing activities. Elsewhere throughout the strike area all was quiet. The ‘newest fronts in the holiday movement were at Toledo, Ohio, and Memphis, Tenn. At Toledo repre- sentatives of several thousand farm- ers met Tuesday to formulate plans for preventing a threatened price band, national champions last year at jthe Detroit convention, will parade about the streets of Bismarck in the business district beginning at 8 o'clock. At 8:45 o'clock the “livest band in the world” will meet the convention- bound Minnesota Legion special train. Passengers on the “Gopher Special” will detrain and march behind the band to the World War Memorial building, where the visitors will be as- signed to automobiles for a sightsee- ing trip to the Roosevelt cabin and ‘Mandan Indian lodge on Capitol Hill. The Minnesota train will leave Mandan at 8:45 p. m. (M. 8. T.). Program at Pavilion Fol this entertainment the band will go to the Dome pavilion, midway between Bismarck and Man- dan, where a benefit dance will be | staged. The band will give a concert at the pavilion from 9:30 o'clock un- dl 10, when the Red Jackets orches- Featuring the dance will be novelty numbers by ;. The band Wednesday evening will feature a new march, “Commander's March,” composed by 8. 8. Boise, commander of the Bismarck Legion’ disruption caused by price cutting by | post. Toledo distributors. At Memphis producers threatened to dump 40,000 gallons of milk into the Mississippi river if milk prices are not increased by Saturday. Four Are Killed in Mishaps at Chicago Chicago, Sept. 7.—(#)—Two spec- secular accidents took four lives and | M6 caused injuries to 16 persons Tuesday night. Three workmen were killed and six injured when a cable broke, permit- ting a bucket in which they were des- cending in a 185-foot shaft to fall. One man was killed and 10 Sees Happier Days For Business World day, “if it were possible for us to re- duce at one fell swoop the cost of , manager, ‘The band rehearsed at the city au- ditorlum during the day in prepara- tion for the program Wednesday eve- Passengers Will Detrain ‘When the Minnesota train arrives here, passengers will detrain march behind the band to the World ‘War Memorial building. Here they will be picked up in automobiles by members.of the Legion and Auxiliary for a sightseeing trip to the Roosevelt E gueqyeegee tra of Fargo will begin the dance / point: music. t atle. GERMAN ULTIMATUM | ON ARMS EQUALITY IS GIVEN TO WORLD Document Made Public on Grounds That France Al- ready Has Done so Berlin, Sept. 7—(?)—A German ulti- matum, announcing she will quit the world disarmament conference unless the:powers agree to grant her equality in armaments, was before the world From a clear sky Tuesday night Foreign Minister Baron Konstantin Von Neurath published the text of the id | government's aide memorie to France, containing its arms equality demands. The document was handed to the French ambassador more than a week ago. The note also suggested “confident- ial talks between the French and Ger- man governments.” Its publication followed shortly and suddenly a state- ment made at Koenigsberg by defense Minister General Kurt Von Schleich- er who said if Germany is not granted arms equality she will arm anyway. The defense minister, as a power behind thé Von Papen cabin- et, added he meant what he said. Foreign Minister Von Neurath said he published the text of the note to France to dispose of erroneous im- which had gotten abroad and to refute charges was Planning to arm to the pre-war ‘Nothing Surprising’ The aide memorie was intended to be confidential, he said, but France had seen fit to communicate it to oth- er nations. It contained nothing sur- prising, as the text would show, he said, and there was no intent to throw obstacles in the path of a dis- armament treaty among the nations, “Tt i useless to-tell us-to have pa- tience and wait for other powers disarm in the course of time” he said, “and that equality will duly come along, too. We have been waiting more than 10 years to get our claims recognized. : i conference has | come to the point where a declaration about equality can no longer be shelv- ed. -Germany can no longer be ex- Pected to submit to discrimination which is irreconcilable with the honor and security of the nation.” MY Summarized, the nine points of the aide memorie propose; 1, Confidential talks between Ger- many and France; 2. Germany could not agree to the resolution with which the arms con- ference closed on July 23 promising later agreement for arms reductions [because it left open the question of also applicable to whether it was Germany; Equality Is Fundamental 3. Equality as the fundamental 4, Germany always has urged oth- er rs disarm to Germany's status under the Versailles treaty, but there 3 this—German: seems no prospect of has the same right to others; 5 and 6. The application of any discriminatory to Germany mean that she would continue to be a second-class nation. 7. All categories of arms not gen- erally forbidden must also be permit- ted to Germany and she must be given special considerations, especially & short-service militia for the iy security as the protection of her frontiers; 8, The French premier has em- phasized the need of security for France. Germany is willing to dis- cuss any projects serving the end of security for everybody; German; the question of equality can no long- er be left open. 3 Asserts Depression | Is Promoting Health New York, Sep. 7- American Congress Therapy was told Wednesday that “the economic depression has given the people the greatest blessing of. life—health.” ‘The assertion was made by Dr. to | tot Total Is $37,846,730 Under 1931 Total; State to Pay on 50 Per Cent STATE LEVY NOT YET FIXED Equalization Board Will Meet Next Week to Establish Amount to Be Assessed . ‘The assessed valuation of all gen- eral and public utility property in North Dakota, as equalized by the the state board of equalization for this year, totals $1,136,297,539, a reduc- tion of $37,846,730 under the 1931 to- tal, according to figures announced Wednesday by Iver Acker, state tax commissioner. The board will meet next week to fix the general property tax levy to défray the general expenses of the state government and to pay interest on bonds. Under an initiated measure adopt- ed at the June primary election, the net taxable valuation will be 50 per cent,“instead of 75 per cent of the assessed: value, which will place the net taxable value at $568,148,769, or $313,501,020 under the 1931 net tax- able value. In 1931 75 per cent of the total assessed value was $881,- 649,789. North Dakotas state tax levy last year was set at 3.78 mills to provide $3,332,636 to defray general expenses of the state government and institu- tions and for interest on bonds. The aggregate levy for all purposes of state government, with the excep- tion of interest on bonds, cannot ex- ceed four mills, which would make it possible to levy $2,865,362 for state purposes if the maximum is levied on 50 per cent of the total assessed valu- ation. te Farm Assessments Lower Farm lands were assessed at $669,- 989,195, or 58.96 per cent of the total aasessed valuation of all property. A year ago farm. lands jwere assessed at ete, 1.22" per cettt of the Urban real estate, including lots and leased sites, unplatted industrial business or residence sites, business structures, and residence structures, was assessed at $145,906,455, or 12.84 per cent of the total, compared with $145,429,733, or 12.39 per cent of the total a year ago. Pefsonal property was assessed at $123,454,573, or 10.86 per cent of the | total, while ~ year ago, this class of property was assessed at $144,493,842. or 12.31 per cent. Public utility property was assessed at $196,947,316, or 17.33 per cent of the total, compared with $21,184,975, or! 17.98 per cent of the total a year ago. Contending the board has placed its assessed valuation at too high a fig- ure, the Great Northern railway has requested a re-hearing. The board granted the request and will hear the railway’s case next Tuesday. The Great Northern assessment was placed by the board at $80,095,000, @ reduction of $2,904,997 under the 1931 assessment. The decrease was 3.5 per cent. Officials of the railway allege the reduction is insufficient. —-. EEE ‘Scientists Capture | Six Sober Lizards | —? Washington, Sept. 7.—(7)—The capture of six “perfectly sober” giant lizards was announced Wed- nesday by the Smithsonian Insti- tution. Natives of petitive Gonave Island off the coast of Haiti warned & Smithsonian expedition that the great iguanas could be taken with safety only when in- toxicated, They advised rum, and said that if given an opportunity the lizards would drink them- | selves helpless. But expedition members found | i | ° look like miniatuer copies of the long-exitnct dinosaurs and go to the national zoological, park here. Minot Will Organize For DePuy Campaign * Minot, N. D., Sept. 7—()—Organ!- zation of @ DePuy-for-governor club in Minot is the objective of a meet- ing cailed to be held here tomorrow at 8 p. m. at either the district or county courtroom in the courthouse. The club will work in behalf of the MANDAN TO hcg CLOTH » Linton Man’s Father Will Vote Thursday |; On College Proposal Bismarck citizens Thursday will vote on @ proposal to establish a junior college in conjunction with the local high school. | If two-thirds of those voting favor the proposal, the school board is authorized to take im- mediate steps to establish the col- lege. 4 Citizens may vote “yes” or “no” on the following proposal: “Shall the board of education of Bismarck special school district, No. 1, be authorized to establish and main- tain ir conjunction with the high school of said district a depart- ment of junior college work to con- sist of not more than two years of work beyond a four-year high school course?” The main lobby of the World War Memorial building, on Sixth St. between Broadway and Thayer avenues, will be the only polling place. The poll will be open from 9 a. m. until 4 p. m., according to Richard Penwarden, clerk of the school board, which called the election upon petition of sponsors of the college movement. L. Van Hook and F. J. Wilcox will be election judges while Neil Cameron and Miss Julia Wetmore will be clerks, The ballots will be counted im- mediately and the school board will meet at the high school at 8 P. m. for an official canvass. The subject to be decided is an important one. Every Bismarck citizen should go to the polls and cast his vote in order that the matter be decided by a truly rep- resentative declaration of opinion. CITY SCHOOL BOARD ISSUES STATEMENT ON JUNIOR COLLEGE Says it Has Taken No Active Part in Campaign For or _ Against Plan Declaration that the proposed Bis- marck Junior College will not be es- tablished by the school board unless it is self-sustaining, even if the voters approve the project at the school elec- tion Thursday was contained in a Pretanaal issued by the board Tues- lay. The statement asserted that: “In view of the many misappre- hénsions which appear to exist with reference to the election to be held tomorrow upon the question of the establishment of a Department of Junior College work in connection with the local high school, the Board of Education makes the following statement solely for the purpose of | clarifying the issues: “The election has been called at the request of a large number of citizens; interested in the project, over 1,000; having petitioned the Board to take this action. “Chapter 236, Laws of 1931, pro- vides that the School Board of any special district having a population of more than 10,000, when authorized by a two-thirds vote of the electors voting thereon to do so, may estab- lish and maintain, in conjunction with the high school of such district, a department of Junior College work to consist of not more than two years work beyond a four year high school course. “A two-thirds majority is necessary to give the Board authority to estab- lish the department. If such author- ity 4s given, the Board will have the to establish the Departmen:, but will not be required to do so, The election simply adds to the powers of the Board. “No provision is made in the law; for levying additional taxes beyond the present 18 mill limit for this de- partment. “Should the Board be given author- ityto establish the Department, its policy will be to establish and main- tain the Department of Junior College work only if it can be made entirely self-sustaining. The Board will fur- nish quarters in the high school building and conduct the college courses during \the hours after the high school work is over. All extra expense of the Department will be made up from tuition. “Tt is planned to charge a tuition of approximately $50 per semester. It enough students cannot be secured on this basis to sustain the department, it will not established at this time regardless of the of the ‘Dies dt Age of 100 Red Wing, Minn., Sept. 7.—(7)— Lawrence J. Hastad, widely- known Roscoe Center farmer and a resident there 64 years, died Tuesday at the 7-1) slleaprerdapebeny 101 are nine chil paint ck Deputies ywood Mystery Deepens Iowa Farm Strikers Turn Ba (CONFLICTING TALES NEW YORK'S MAYOR SLASHES PAYROLL 10 CLOSE SPENDING ERA Cuts Own Pay $15,000 and Sets $12,000 Maximum For Other City Offices WILL SAVE BIG SUM YEARLY Employes Receiving $2,000 a Year or Less to Be Immune From Reduction New York, Sept. 1.—(#)—Joseph McKee, mayor for less than a week, pulled tight Wednesday the purse istrings of “six years of spending,” as he called it, slicing $15,000 a year from his own $40,000 salary and set- ting a $12,000 a year maximum for other offices under his control. By these salary slashes and allied economies he said an annual saving Of $2,000,000 a year would be effected. City employes receiving $2,000 a year or less are to be protected in their present incomes, he said. In some cases the pay cut amounts to more than 50 per cent. That is true of the corporation counsel and superintendent of schools, each of whom now receives $25,000 a year. Dr. William Schroeder, Jr., chairman of the sanitation commission and per- sonal physician to former Mayor Walker, will be reduced to $12,000 from his present $22,500. The heads of the police and fire departments will'be reduced $3,000 a year to get within the $12,000-a-year maximum. Fifty city magistrates now receiving $12,000 may be cut to $10,000, the mayor said. The salary of the chief magistrate, $15,000, will be cut $3,000. The city payroll was found to have increased 48 per cent since 1926, Gen- eral pay increases have been effec- tive since September, 1930. The bill providing for the increases was sign- ed by Mayor Walker on the first day of his second term—the term from which he unexpectedly resigned last » | week, The board of elections Wednesday unanimously received the certification of City Clerk Michael J. Cruise that @ vacancy exists for the office of ma- yor and passed a resolution to make the necessary preparations for elec- tion on Nov. 8 to fill the vacancy. DIGGING OPERATIONS FOR STATE CAPITOL NEARLY COMPLETED Superintendent Says Concrete Work Will Be Started Next Week wean eps mes] IN POPULARITY RACE new state capitol building nearing completion, concrete work on the structure is expected to start next week, according to J. M. Davis, gen- eral superintendent for the Lundoff- Bicknell company. Davis said steam shovel work will continue for two more days, when men will begin further digging operations jby shovel. The hand shovel work will be for footings and foundations, preparatory to the building of forms and shafts for the pouring of concrete. Sand and gravel for the structure will be furnished by the Riverside Gravel company, Mandan, from its pits southwest of Mandan, Davis said. This material will be brought to Bis- marck by train and will be hauled to Capitol Hill by truck from a spur track near the federal weather bu- reau. Expect 100 To Work One hundred men are expected to be employed for concrete work. Near- PUZZLE POLICE IN -| DEATHOR PRODUCER Film Beauty Unable to Under- stand Meaning of Note Left By Spouse f Dies in England SERVANTS ARE QUESTIONED ‘Frightful Wrong’ Mentioned in Note Appears Central Item in Case Los Angeles, Sept. 7.—()—Conflict- ing stories of week-end events which preceded the discovery of the body of Paul Bern, film producer and hus- band of Jean Harlow, platinum blonde screen star, confused police in- vestigation of the apparent suicide Wednesday. David A. Davidson, head of the po- lice homicide squad, said he was dis- satisfied with the progress his men have made in the case and, pending the inquest ‘Thursday, he would again question domestic help of the pro- ducer. The inspector of detectives said the servants’ accounts differ as to the events of last Saturday and Sunday. The unclothed body of Bern, 42, was found by John Carmichael, but- ler, Monday in the dressing'room of his home. A pistol, one chamber dis- charged, was gripped in Bern's right hand and a bullet wound was in the SIR GILBERT PARKER HEART ATTACK 1 FATAL TO PANOUS BRITISH NOVEUS Sir Gilbert Parker Succumbs at; Age of 69; Had Lived in America London, Sept, 7.—()—Sir Gilbert Parker, 69, noted British novelist and for 10 years a member of the famous Motion Picture Writers’ colony at Los Angeles, died from a heart attack ‘Tuesday night. For more than 30 years his name figured from time to time among the best sellers and in the U. 8. he was best known, perhaps for his novel, “The Right of Way,” the motion pic- ture production of which he also His first literary sensation was “The Seats of the Mighty” which sold more than 100,000 copies in 1896. He was born in Camden Ease, Ont. Nov. 23, 1862. Two years ago he was still enth siastic over plans for continued wri ing, of which he could visualize no end. He had a year’s work on his memoirs, he said, and other plots in his head. Surviving Sir Gilbert are a sister, Mrs. Beaumont Jarvis, Toronto, and two brothers, Harry of St. Paul Minn., and Arthur, whose whereabouts are unknown here. LEADERS SHURFLED BY TUESDAY TOTALS a “frightful wrong” Jay near a pic- ture of Miss Harlow. Chauffeur Tells of Drive Carmichael said the producer dined with Miss Harlow, his bride of two months, Saturday evening, but Harold A. Garrison, chauffeur, told police his employer left the film studios in Cul- ver City and drove to the Ambassador hotel a few minutes after 6 p. m. Garrison further declared Miss Har- low was at the home of her mother both Saturday and Sunday evenings. Miss ‘Harlow was questioned by po- lice Tuesday night after they had been forced to wait for more than 24 hours due to her hysterical condition. “I can’t understand why this terri- ble thing should have happened,” she said. “As for the note left by Paul, I have no idea what it meant. This ‘frightful wrong’ he apparently be- lieved he had done me is all a mys- tery. I can’t imagine what it means. “Paul often talked to me of suicide 88 @ general topic, but never once did he intimate that he himself contem- plated such an act. There was noth- ing between us that I can think of that | would have caused him to do this,’ A cryptic telegram to Louis B. May- er, general manager of the film stu- dios where Bern was associate pro- ducer, from Dr. E. B. Jones, Bern's Personal physician, now in Honolulu, only —— to the mystery of the case. It re Text of Message “Understand motive. Will leave at low if necessary.” Miss Harlow, hysterical and deliri- ous at the time, attempted to throw herself from a small balcony within the home of her mother Tuesday aft- ernoon. She was restrained by friends. Coroner Frank A. Nance set the in- quest for 10 a. m., Thursday, and said one of the jew Pace-Setters in All Four Contests Appear With Latest Tabulation Tuesday’s tabulations in the Bis- marck merchants’ popularity race Produced new leaders in the Bis- marck, Mandan and Capital City trade territory contests as well as a new pace-setter in the battle for “Miss Bismarck” honors. Catherine Andrist, Bismarck, led the large field with 572,800 votes at 5 p. m. Tuesday, while Frances Slat- tery, also of the Capital City, was second with 570,900. Betty Mackin polled 19,700 votes Tuesday to take the lead in the Man- dan race from Dorothy Seitz. Miss Mackin had 35,600 votes to 25,200 for Miss Seitz. Principal lines of inquiry would be to determine why, when Bern's body was found shortly after 11 a. m., Monday, the authorities were eve notified until nearly three hours Tr. Bern’s death was due to a “suicide wound,” Frank R. ‘Webb, autopsy surgeon, reported, with in- dication the gun had been held close to the right temple. Police sought an explanation of a car that drove away from the vicinity of the secluded Bern home about 3 ly 40 have been working day and night with two steam shovels, trucks, and teams for the last month at excava- tion work. Steel work will begin about Oct. 1, Davis said, when the first steel be- gins arriving here from the American Bridge company, Chicago. Erection of the steel structure will be rapid, Davis said. Good weather would permit the steel work to pro- gress unretarded until the entire 18- story tower structure is up. One derrick will be used in hoisting the steel to two riveting crews of eight men each working on the struc- ture. Air hammers will be used in riveting. When building rhaterials begin ar- riving, work will be accelerated considerably and the next several weeks should see the building rise several stories in the air. Eemove 50,000 Yards Fifty thousand cubic yards of dirt have been removed from Capitol Hill during excavation operations, accord- ing to L. K. Lewis, supervising arch- itect for the Holabird and Root archi- tectural firm. The excavation is 400 feet long, from east to west, and 100 feet wide, from north to south. The hole for the will be sunk eight to 10 feet deeper. The hole for the west wing of the building, in which will be located as- sembly halls for the state senate and house of representatives, is only 10 feet deep, Lewis said. officials said, construction | Boardma: Esther Watson, McKenzie, again was ahead of her chief rival in the Bismarck trade territory, Luella Tol- le‘son, Menoken. Miss Watson had 156,500 votes to 155,700 for Miss Tol- lefson, ' Alice Lee, Bismarck, leader in the grand race over the Labor Day week- end, was relegated to third place in the Tuesday shuffle. She had 561,400. After the three grand leaders came the following: Ruby Jacobson, Bis- marck, 543,800; Ernestine Carufel, Bismarck, 512,000; Betty Leach, Bis- marck, 394,500; Alice Marsh, Bis- marck, 177,200; Miss Watson, 156,500; Miss Tollefson, 155,700; Veronica Werstlein, Bismarck, 118,900; June in, Bismarck, 68,500; Ethel Fisher, Bismarck, 65,400; Marian Yea- ‘Continued on page two! od PO oe os No oN | Law Lays Hands on | | English Clergyman ! in Blackpool, Eng., Sept. 7.—(P)— The law laid hands Wednesday on the Rev. Harold Davidson, rector of Stiffkey, who recently was convicted of immorality by a church tribunal. The rector has been sitting in a barrel here for two days on ex- hibition at three cents a look. He ‘was served with a summons Tues- day night and charged with “aid- ing and abetting the obstruction of a footpath.” The rector smiled at the “Bobby” who served the summons | promised “an original de- SECOND WOMAN IS BROUGHT INTO CASE in 8 sanitarium a woman with whom he lived many years before his mar- riage to Jean Harlow. “She had a nervous He said Miss Harlow knew of it, Burns Are Fatal to Casselton Resident once to testify for you and Miss Har- fense.