The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 13, 1932, Page 2

N. P. Tax Bill in 1931 Was|| $1,000 Each Hour in Representative of Railroad Tells of Carriers’ Present-Day Problems The Northern Pacific railway's tax bill in 1931 on its operating property, | its lands and its subsidiary company’s | property was $1,000 for every hour of the entire year. F. W. DeGuire, executive assistant of that railroad, in Bismarck Monday, referred to the heavy taxes railroads | pay in discussing the problems now | confronting the steam lines. He! pointed out that his railroad's total | tax bill on operating property last | year was $7,783,000, on its lands $644,- 000, and $302,000 on the property of the Northwestern Improvement com- | pany, a wholly-owned subsidiary, making a total of $8,729,000. Again, he said, the Northern Pa- cific in Bismarck-Mandan in 1931 av- eraged 385 persons on the payrolls, to whom a total of $697,700 was paid, and in Burleigh county the railroad sportation in this country today is in excess of consumption and, to a large extent, the ills of outstanding transportation agencies are traceable to that fact,” DeGuire continued. Cannot Scale Down “Under conditions which now exist, transportation is unable to scale down its operations to the level of the busi- ness available. “Because there is too much trans- portation, a new era in that field of business is dawning. This new era will place in its proper relationship each of the agencies of transporta- tion—the railroads, the common car- riers on the highways, the airplanes, the pipe lines and even the private highway carriers. There is definite place for all of them, but salient facts stand out: “The railroad continues to be the sential carrier and no substitute has e yet been devised. “To handicap a railroad with heavy burdens, unsound regulations and subsidized competition is to handicap also the territory the railroad serves. “Unless unfair burdens now im- posed upon the railroads are removed, business generally will continue to be depressed because an excess of trans- portation, some of it subsidized, will impoverish the essential carriers. “Every community served by a rail- road is certain to be impoverished if its railroad is impoverished. “Railroads are essential, not only because they provide the backbone of the transportation industry and no other form of carrier could begin to move the volume that is handled by the steam lines, but also because they fre inextricably tied in with Amer- ica’s trade and industries. Backing up into many great industries is the railroads’ vast consumption of basic materials. What the railroads buy is based upon their earnings and ability to pay. “Even in these slack times, the rail- roads employ more than 1,000,000 per- sons at an average annual pay of $1,228; the yearly payroll is approxi- mately $1,348,000,000. $1,000,000 a Day “Railroads in 1931 paid $328,443,192 in taxes—more than $1,000.000 for every working day. Today the gov- ernment units take away from the railroads in taxes more than half the earnings after meeting only operating expenses. In the first five months of this year, for instance, the net oper- ating revenue of Class I railroads was $273,928,324, which was the amount available before deductions for any taxes or interest charges, while taxes levied total $124,941,177 or 45.6 per cent. In 1913 the percentage was only 12.6; in 1929 it was 22.4 per cent; in 1930 it was 25.9 per cent and in 1931 it had climbed to 31.7 per cent. “Bringing the tax problems of the railroads closer to home, the com- parative figures for the first halves of 1931 and 1932 are even more start- ling. For the three northern trans- continental systems—the Northern Pacific, Great Northern and Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific—the| railway operating revenues in the first Year nesota, shot and killed himself at a downtown hotel Monday night. He had been ill. WOMEN GOLFERS IN MANDAN COMMENCE DRIVE FOR DIADEM Mrs. Paul Shannon, Tourney Medalist, Is Favorite in Race For City Title Mrs. Paul Shannon's low medal score of 89 marked her as a favorite to win the Mandan women's title as play in the annual women’s city golf tournament went into the second day Tuesday. Next to Mrs. Shannon was Mrs. George Steinbrueck with a qualifying 95 for the 18 holes. Trailing 17 strokes behind the pace-setter were Mrs. A. R. Weinhandl and Mrs. J. A. Tim- merman who tied for third place. They tossed a coin, Mrs. Weinhandl winning the toss to go into the cham- pionship flight and Mrs. Timmerman leading the first flight. Thirteen women opened play Mon- day. Pairings were made at the end of a week's qualifying rounds which ‘placed the women in two flights, eight in the championship flight and five in the first flight. Matched in first-round play, cham- |pionship flight, were: 1 Mrs. Shannon vs. Mrs. L. C. Bro- derick; Mrs. C. F. Ellis vs. Mrs, A. C. Rausch; Mrs Steinbrueck vs. Mrs. Weinhandl and Mrs. H. A. Alm vs. Mrs. Albert Rossbach. First flight: Mrs. B. S. Nickerson vs. Mrs. E. A. | Horrobin; Mrs. C. P. Stone, Mrs. G. \H. Spielman and Mrs. Timmerman, byes. Board of Directors Plans Budget Drive Plans for the annual budget drive for the Mandan Chamber of Com- merce were discussed by the board of directors at a meeting Monday night. Campaign details were worked out following a dinner at the Lewis and} Clark hotel. The drive was ordered by the di- rectors to meet current expenses and to finance several organization proj- ects, Ordinarily conducted in the |Spring, the drive this year was post- Poned until fall in the hope that con- ditions would be improved. Funds will be raised under an as-! sessment system. High School § Student | | Injured in Accident, Benjamin Singletary, 16, Mandan | high school student, is suffering from a broken ankle, sustained when he was struck by an automobile Satur- | day. Singletary was injured when he was | jknocked down by a car driven by G.| |P. Hoffman. He was playing football | lin the street at the time of the mis- |hap. | His ankle bone was fractured in two ‘places. MANDAN NEWS | Mammoth Whale to Be Exhibited Here This Week-End | i \ i i ! ADAMS COUNTY FOLK SEEK NEW HIGHWAY Want Road South From Het- tinger and Good Connec- tion With State System Members of the Adams county| club conferred with the members of; the state highway department Mon-! in an effort to secure construction of a stretch of road! four miles south of Hettinger, to the South Dakota line and the survey this fall of No. 8 in Adams county with which they plan to connect that county with their first all weather road reaching to the North) Dakota all weather highway system. Recognizing the fairness of the re- quest of the Adams county delega- tion for a connection with the rest of the state highway system, A. D. McKinnon, chairman of the highway | commission, advised the visiting | group that his department would Possible in an effort to secure the: immediate construction of the short} stretch of road south of Hettinser and the survey this fall of the 16- mile gap remaining between No. 12 in Adams county and the Hettinger county line. Plats of the survey of the four, miles of road south of Hettinger went forward to the county com-; | missioners of Adams county Tuesday} and construction on this project will be begun as soon as the necessary right-of-way can be purchased. The, construction work will be done with! the road machinery of Adams coun-! ty with the highway commission! renting any machinery it is able to spare. The survey of the uncompleted gap north of No. 12 will be started as soon as a surveying crew can be’ sent to that section, with completion of the survey scheduled before snow flies this fall. Present plans of the highway department call for letting of the contract for the construction of all or a portion of this road this ect before July 1, 1933 in order that | Club Women Will | Gather in Mandan’ | Major projects for 1933 will be dis- |cussed at a meeting of the project) leaders of Morton county Homemak- | ers’ clubs Tuesday, according to R. C.! Newcomer, county agent. | | Miss Julia Brekke, extension worker ' the project may be completed with| federal money. Sees U.S. Entering | Big Engineering Era! Fargo, Sept. tive era in which scores of big en-! gineering feats will be undertaken as part of the every-day working pro- tion, six months of 1931 totaled $124,073,- | from the state agricultural college at gram of the nation, in the opinion of! 570, while in the first half of 1932 they had dropped to $87,381,179. These} Approximately 15 leaders are ex-'the interior, who passed through three transcontinental railroads’ op- erating expenses in the first half of 1931 were $104,591,157, which figure had been reduced to $81,536,557 in the first six months of 1932. net operating revenue for the three lines in the first six months of 1931, $19,482,413, while for the first six months of 1932 the net operating rev- enues had been reduced to $5,844,622. The three railroads’ tax charges in) the first six months of 1931 were $12,- 617,646 and in the first half of 1932 they were $11,369,188, so that in the first half of 1931 the tax charges were 64.76 per cent of the net operating revenues, while for the first six months of 1932 they were 194.52 per cent.” Former Cass Deputy Arrested in Minot Minot, N. D., Sept. 13—(7)—G. A. Stevens, Tower City, who said he is a former special deputy sheriff of Cass county, waived preliminary hear- ing here Monday before Justice L. K. Ellithorpe on a charge of engaging in the liquor traffic. Stevens was arrested Saturday with Thelma Rude, who was made a co- defendant with him. She was not arraigned. After Stevens waived a hearing, State's Attorney Paul Campbell called to the witness stand Police Magis- trate Carl N. Cox of Minot, who was with Stevens when the latter was ar rested. Cox said he had not been drinking, but said that two other men seated in the same room ‘rank home brew beer in his presence. He said one of these men had summoned him to the apartment by telephone. Btevens, the magistrate testified, twice in recent weeks had been ar- rainged before him on liquor charges elty ordinance, and had i E taking of testimony was en- state's for Stevens. counsel for Cox in removal procsd- instituted against him by Camp- Pog trial of which is scheduled to be- POLITICIAN KILLS SELF Paul, Sept. 12.—()—William J. an attorney of St. Pau! and in Democratic politics in Min- frequent clashes between attorney and F. J. Funke, The latter is irendered tracks unsafe. Fargo, will preside. } | pected to be present. | SON IS BORN | | Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Cummins are | | Deaconess hospital. { | i Japs Are Silent on ‘Espionage’ Charges' Tokyo, Sept. 13—(P)—It has been! three days since U. S. Ambassador Grew asked Foreign Minister Uchida to exonerate the National City Bank | from charges of espionage growing | out of photographs made for an ad- vertising campaign, but so far there | has been no official action. | Meantime some of the newspapers ;continue to make much of “Ameri- can spy” stories. One of them gave some prominence Tuesday to a Hong Kong dispatch alleging that the American air force in the Philip- Pines has been greatly enlarged. The Teito Nichi-Nichi, one of the Papers which published the charges about the National City Bank, car- Tied a headline today reading: “On sea, land and air America provokes Japan.” Kodak Man’s Estate Valued at $25,561,641! Rochester, N. Y., Sept. 13.—(?)—An estate of $25,561,641, or approximately $5,000,000 more than the estimates at the time of his death, was left by George Eastman, Kodak magnate, ac- cording to the transfer tax affidavit filed Tuesday. Of the total estate, $8,319,553 was in cash. Eastman com- mitted suicide by shooting himself at ag home here last March 14. He was A gross value of $24,403,748 in per- estate is shown. The University of Rochester is the residuary legatee and benefits from Eastman’s will in the sum of $19.187,- 143. The second largest beneficiary is the Rochester dental dispensary, which receives $1,028,438. FLOODS HIT MEXICO Mexico City Sept. 13.—()—Nation- al railway reports said Tuesday rail traffic was interrupted or temporarily suspended practically all over north central Mexico because of floods which have washed away bridges or | under way, sonal property and $1,157,892 in real | Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, secretary of” Fargo Monday. 1 LAWYERS PREPARE TO SEEK $500,000 IN SUPREME COURT Half Million Dollars Is At Stake An appeal to the North Dakota su- preme court in a case involving half ‘@ million dollars in state hail insur- ance department refunds was being prepared by a battery of attorneys from various parts of the state here ‘Wednesday. The decision will hinge upon the high court’s interpretation of Chap- ter 172 of the 1931 session laws, which provides for various classes of re- funds on hail indemnity tax pay- plaintiff suffered no losses through the hail taxes since these sums were included on their bids in the fore- closure actions, that the plaintiff paid the hail taxes voluntarily and “not under compulsicn,” and that there are no funds from which to make the refunds. E. B. Cox, Bismarck, has been re- tained by the state as a special as- sistant attorney general to assist in the litigation. Among law firms interested in the Grand Forks; Kelsch and Higgins, Mandan; Hoopes and Stevens, Car- rington; Clyde Duffy, Devils. Lake; and Lee Cummings, Carrington. SUCH DETECTIVES! Stockton, Cal.—Six-year-old Claude Gray had the whole town frantic looking for him. Scores of neighbors, a deputy sheriff and a deputy con- stable searched for two hours for the |boy. At last the searchers gathered in the Gray home to discuss the Appeal Hail Claim Case in Which , oot ‘Mcintyre and Burtness, |child’s disappearance. What is said to be the world’s larg- est embalmed whale will be exhibited on a specially constructed steel car on the Northern Pacific tracks near the depot here next Friday and Sat- urday. The whale is pictured above. “Colossus,” as this huge mammal is called, measures 58 feet in length and its weight is announced as slight- ly over 72 tons. This whale, which was captured last December, 60 miles off the coast of Catalina Island in the Pacific ocean, battled for eight hours after he was hit by the harpoon before he succumbed, and during that time it lead the crew of the whaling vessel a merry chase up one roller and down another. It required thirty to its present state of preservation. Accompanying the exhibit is a crew day afternoon and Tuesday morning! of 10 men headed by Captain George immediate | Clarx who followed the sea, for 53jof dissolving the parliament. years. Captain Barnett devotes part of his time to rooms and to biology classes, as the attraction is classed as an educational and biological exhibition. Lecturers on the car explain to the visitors all about the whale and other deep sea denizens. In addition to Colossus, which is the main attraction, there is a 15-foot octopus. Then there is the little 12-inch pilot fish that rides the whale to its feeding grounds and warns it when danger approaches. Star fish, “blubber,” the Harpoon gun and harpoon, whale bone, Am- lend Adams county all cooperation | hergris and other unusual features are | to be seen in this rare exhibit. COMMISSION DEFERS ACTION ON HEAT BIDS: Will Make Final Decision Next Tuesday; Five Coal Com- panies Bid Action on bids for heating Bis- marck’s municipal buildings will not be taken until the evening of next Tuesday, Sept. 20, it was decided by the city commission at its regular ; weekly business meeting Monday eve- ning. Bids were received from five coal dealers in the city previous to Mon- day’s meeting but no bid from the winter with completion of the proj-| North Dakota Power and Light com- pany for city steam heat had been received. A bid from the Montana-Dakota Power company, distributors of na- tural gas, had been submitted to the commission during August. Several fuel dealers attended the , meeting but after a short considera- ‘ion of the bids and opinions from 13—()—Americans | f : the attorney general's office regard- jare about to enter a great construc- iing the type of heat for public build- ings as demanded by statute, the com- mission announced it would defer ac- The commissioners decided that the statutes does not require cities to burn North Dakota coal in their public buildings. The commission received August Dr. Wilbur, who as a boy resided ;reports from Chief of Police C. J. at Jamestown, N. D., and earned hisiwartineson, City Weighmaster F. J. first nickel picking box elder seeds in This left as | Parents of a son born Sunday at the! the James river bottoms for sale to: settlers, was en route west to inspect} federal projects in prospect or now including the Hoover { Such projects as the Missouri river diversion proposal, designed to turn part of the flood waters of the Mis-. souri into the headwaters of the! James and Sheyenne river valleys, are | going to be part of the program of activities which Dr. Wilbur predicts. Hedstrom Made Head , Of Kittenball League, Approximately 50 players in the Bismarck Commercial Diamoridball circuit gathered at the Grand Pa- | cific hotel Monday night for a ban-, quet held in connection with the closing of the local d-ball season. | At a meeting following the ban- quet, Paul Hedstrom was elected’ president of the league for 1933.! Clement Kelly was named vice presi- dent and John W. Reel, secretary and treasurer. The executive com- mittee will be composed of George Hay, Don Tracy, George Allen, and Kelly. | Speakers were Robert Byrne and Dr. J. O. Thoreson. Byrne drew at-| tention to the development of sports- manship within the league since its organization four years ago. Thore- | son, who has been an umpire in the circuit for the last two seasons, also’ commented on improvement in in-! ter-team relations. | Tracy acted as toastmaster. j Await Millikan at | Ellendale Station: Ellendale, N. D., Sept. 13.—(#)—The ' arrival of Dr. Robert Millikan, emt-! nent scientist from the Mount Wilson delayed Monday as his advance guard of assistants awaited his presence. : Dr. Ida F. Bowen, his assistant, said, Dr. Millikan should arrive Tuesday to, begin study of the upper regions through the use of balloons. Aluminum is more abundant throughout the world than any othe: other metal. It forms about eight per cent of the earth’s crust. { observatory at Pasadena, Calif., was! McCormick and the city bacteriologist. A total of 336 loads was weighed on the city scales during the month, McCormick reported. The loads were described as follows: Coal 168, ice 53, hay 11, cattle 23, hogs 14, barley 6, sand 17, gravel 4 and miscellaneous The board also considered the pro- posal of W. R. Glitschka to build a filling station on Sixth St. immediate- ly south of the library. They decided to instruct Glitschka to devise a plan for his station which would prevent automobiles being serviced from park- ing across the pedestrian walk. Decision to stop the city’s free gar- bage hauling service Sept. 28 was reached. Coal bids were submitted by the Oc- cident Elevator company, Lomas Oil company, Peter Baker, Jr., Washburn- Lignite Coal Mining company, and Knife River Coal Mining company. They ranged from $3.14 a ton for lump lignite delivered to bins to $3.50 for lump and screened six-inch c SOVIET ARMY LARGEST In army strength, Soviet Russia heads the list with 1,180,000; France comes second with 340,637, Italy third Sits Hee: and Japan fourth with 233,786. VON PAPEN CABINET 1S ‘SITTING TIGHT Says Democracy Has Broken Down in Germany; Reich- stag Plans Appeal {_ Berlin, Sept. 13—(4#)—Chancellor Franz von Papen and the German board of commissioners and a dele-; two hundred gallons of special em-|Junker cabinet sat tight Tuesday, gation of Lions from the Hettinger|balming fluid to bring the monster backed by the army and the police, jthough the Reichstag overwhelmingly voted no confidence in them Monday while the chancellor was in the act Announcing that democracy had lecturing in school! broken down in Germany, the chan- jcellor gave every indication that he \intended to continue to hold the reins lunder the slogan: “With von Hin- |@enburg for Germany.” In the meantime plans proceeded \for taking to the supreme court the jissue of the legality of the chancel- Jor's decree of dissolution, which the opposition contended was presented out of order while a vote was being | taken. “The government of the Reich,” the chancellor said, “is of the opinion jthat the system of formal democracy |has broken down and is incapable of {resurrection.” He earnestly begged | private employers to “read the signs \of the times aright,” declaring if they jdid not they would find themselves “ruthlessly swallowtd” by those whose jaim was state Socialism. _ Every state and territory of the ‘United States except Nevada has a | National Guard or militia. ———— TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY HARRINGTON’S SUPERCULINE live steam permanent, no electricity, natural waves, real comfort, done in two hours, $5.00. 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Though the court is not expected to rule on the appeal before Octo- ber or November, the attorneys were rushing work on the appeal that they might file it with the high court in the near future. Chapter 171 provides for a refund to hail tax purchasers and persons paying hail taxes for which they were not liable and designates the funds from which payments shall be made. ‘The test case in which the appeal will be made is an action brought by the Old Line Life Insurance com- pany of America against 8S. A. Ols- ness, state insurance commissioner. The action was dismissed in Bur- leigh county district court Tuesday by Judge Fred Jansonius, who said that one of the reasons for his dis- missal order was to enable the plain- tiff to lay its case before the supreme court immediately. - The action involves claims for re- funds made by the plaintiff for pay- ments of hail taxes on property on which the plaintiff held mortgages and foreclosed. 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