The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 15, 1932, Page 1

PS | | { Pa « North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Generally a slightly cooler some ost: somewhat Frrioee Pride. ESTABLISHED 1873 ISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1932 PRICE FIVE CENTS /Curtis Will La Will Probe Insull’s Financial Activities ‘IBONUSRESOLUTIN ‘Popularity Race Will End Tonight PLAN INVESTIGATION TO SBE IF CRIMINAL LAW WAS VIOLATED; State’s Attorney Will Try to Still ‘Public Clamor and Insinuations’ TO ABSOLVE OR PROSECUTE Extradition Laws Examined to Determine If Two Can Be Brought Back Chicago, Sept. 15—(P)—State’s At- torney John A. Swanson said today he has started an invesigation into the affairs of public utility corpora- tions formerly controlled by Samuel | Tnsull. “There is much public clamor and many insinuations regarding failure of the Insull companies,” Swanson said. “We intend to make a thorough investigation, with the view of either absolving officers of the concerns or instituting prosecutions.” The prosecutor said he had asked Assistant State's Attorney Euclid Taylor, extradition expert, to review treaties with Canada and France re- garding international extradition. Samuel Insull is living in Paris and, his brother, Martin Insull, in Can-j; ada. i Swanson said no complaints or: charges had been filed with his of-' fice and he was starting the investi-; gation “solely for the public good and with a belief that the entire matter! should be cleared up.” | “I do not mean that I have any cause for action,” Swanson said. “However, I regard it as my duty to investigate in view of the mass of Tumor regarding the case.” Meanwhile, receivers for Middle- west Utilities largest of the Insull corporations, announced they would make public Friday a preliminary audit into the affairs of the com- pany. Edward N. Hurley, one of the! Teceivers, said no disclosures regard- ing the company’s affairs would be made until the report is ready for presentation in federal court. Hurley announced the appointment of Grover C. Neff, of Madison, Wis., chief operating executive of the Wis- consin Power and Light company, as President of the Middlewest Utilities. | INSULL PHILOSOPHIZES ON LOSS OF FORTUNE ' Toronto, Ont., Sept. 15.—(?)—Mar- tin J. Insull, former president of Middle West Utilities company and brother of Samuel Insull, sat in a $20! @ week boarding house Thursday and called himself a man without a fu- ture. Insull, rated recently a millionaire many times over, said payment of his and his wife's board bill was about all! he could “comfortably manage.” | “It isn’t all I've been used to,” hej} told newspapermen, “but it isn't bad. | I get three square meals a day, and; they're pretty good meals, too.” NEW YORK-10-ROME | AIRPLANE MISSING Fear For Safety of Two Men and Woman on Trans- Atlantic Journey Rome, Sept. 15.—(?)—The mono- plane “American Nurse,” carrying two men and a woman on a non-stop flight from New Yorfk to Rome, was missing Thursday. Although due to arrive around mid- night last night, no report of it has been received since 11:50 a. m. Wed- nesday, when the liner Paris reported sighting a plane believed to be the “American Nurse” 400 miles off the the southern coast of Ireland. At 1:16 a, m., Thursday the 43 hours given as the limit of time its gasoline ‘Hurley Asserts Hoover IS Find Her Body to End Strange Case DOROTHY MILLETTE Sacramento, Calif., Sept. 15—(P)}—Search for the woman of the past} in the life of Paul Bern, motion picture ‘director who killed himself, was. believed ended Thursday with the finding of the body of a woman in a} Sacramento slough identified as that of Miss Dorothy Millette. Both Coroner James Garlick and Ed J. Sullivan, clerk at a San Pran-| cisco hotel where the young woman had lived, said there was no doubt oa | body was that of Miss Millette, once known as “Mrs. Paul Bern.” Garlick said she apparently jumped to her death from a river steamer | early in the morning of Sept. 7, less than 48 hours after Bern shot himself in the Beverly Hills home he had given as a wedding gift to his bride, of two months, the blonde Jean Harlow of the films. ' The coroner said an inquest will be held Friday night. ' The body was discovered floating in the slough by two Japanese fisher- | men only a few hours after the film executive's will was produced in Los! pak by He Secretary, Irene Harrison. lo mention was made in the will of Miss Millette, though his relatives sald Bern had contributed to her support for several mara The entire | estate was bequeathed to Miss Harlow who was named sole executrix. 1 Authorities said the will, dated July 29, 1932, a few weeks after Bern's; marriage to the actress, supplanted what they described as two “wills of a/ sort” found in the film producer's bank safety deposit box. The latter documents each provided an annuity of $2,500 for Miss Millette. | i Successfully Piloting U.S. Wilton Child’s Death ‘Credits President With Saving! | eet. } Millions of Dollars For | { Agricul RESULT OF MISHAP or | ee & | Secretary Hurley Thursday said President Hoover is “successfully pi- ‘oting this nation through one of the greatest economic storms in history” and credited him with saving “mil- lions of dollars” for American agri- culture. In an address prepared for deliv- ery before the South Dakota state fair, the secretary of war declared| Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic presidential candidate, | “has no plan to break the depression | or to put men and women back to} work.” Ends 500-Hour Fight | Death wrote “finis” Wednesday to | a six-year-old Wilton child’s valiant | 500-hour fight to rally from the coma resulting from a head injury sustained in an automobile accident nearly three weeks ago. She was Jeanette Richard, who succumbed to concussion of the brain after 20 consecutive days of unconsciousness, Except for a few brief moments! The war secretary lauded adminis- of semi-consciousness, the child had |tration steps that he said had kept lain at her home in a stupor since the United States “firm, solvent and the cme Rod accident, gradually pon aeny of the future.” He also er. told this northwest farming section The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ted| the Democratic house passed “bills Richard, Jeanette was injured when | that would have more than doubled a car, driven by her mother, stalled | the cost of the federal government on a hill, backed down the incline, |iz they had not been stopped by the and plunged through the railing senate and the president.” @ bridge into a ditch 10 feet below.! Secretary Hurley. dealt at some The accident occurred six miles length with the agricultural market- northeast of Wilton. |ing act, under which the farm board Besides her parents and grandpar-! was set up, inland waterways devel- ents, Jeanette leaves several uncles | opment and the president's efforts to! and aunts, all living in the Wilton | aid banks as they affect the farming vicinity. 5 sections. Funeral services were to be con- Fostered Marketing Act ducted at the Richard home Thurs-| «To aid agriculture,” Hurley said, day at 4p. m. Burial was to be in|the president fostered the enact- supply could’ last had passed, offi- cials at the Ciampino airport here, where lights were kept burning through the night, expressed concern over the fate of the fliers. ‘They are William Ulbrich, pilot, of Mineola, N. Y.; Miss Edna Newcomer, 28-year-old undergraduate nurse of Williamsport, Pa. and Dr. Leon M. Pisculli of Yonkers, N. Y., command- er of the expedition. The chief anxiety was that the plane's gasoline supply might have given out over the Mediterranean area. Reports of ships which sighted her Wednesday over the Atlantic in- dicated the plane was steering a rea- sonably true but northerly course. While the flood lights were dam: ing at the Ciampino airport, those ai other fields were turned off to pre- vent the plane going astray in the vicinity of Rome. An eclipse of the moon over Italy during the night caused extreme darkness, prohibiting possibilites of sighting the plane at night. The ship carried no radio. BUT SHE LOVED HIM Mrs. Joseph Gevirtz couldn't see her husband go to jail. Gevirtz refused to pay a fine of $10, and was sen- tenced to jail. His wife's kind heart the better of her judgment, and dug down and forked over the for him. the Wilton cemetery. ment of the agricultural marketing Ke aS 4, *jact. Despite criticism from uni Heirs to Estate formed sources, this act during this In Germany Sought . 4 crisis proved a blessing to the inter- ests os perenne, ; ee “When the Liverpool! market, sqpicendants of Marie Hermine | hich for years controlled the price married a certain Robert Krause Vn ger paar ae are eligible to of wheat, had dropped to a new low level, the price in Chicago was 10 to share ite of their other, Marie Dorothea 25 cents higher per bushel. Time grandm Louise Schleu, it is advertised by and again, the market for the farmer was sustained and millions of dollars the lower court of Hamburg, Germany. An advertisement to this ef- were saved to American agriculture. “Under the agricultural marketit fect is published in The Trib- une today. act $500,000,000 was appropriated. Descendants of Marie Hermine Then came an additional $45,000,000 for seed and drought relief. An- other $200,000,000 has been. made available by the reconstruction fi- nance corporation. Still another $125,000,000 has been provided fed- eral land banks to assist farmers who own mortgaged farms. “By the time all the reconstruction projects of the president haye come to the aid of agriculture, about a bil- lion dollars will have been made available to the farmer. “It is well to keep those figures in mind when the administration is as- sailed for coming to the aid of the rich and ignoring te farmers.” a During the Hoover administration, he continued, more money has been spent on development of inland streams than in any similar. period. (Continued on page eleven) instructed at the Hamburg court not later than Nov. 30, 1932, and to prove their descent by documents, otherwise they will not be taken into consideration in connection ph distribution of the States Jan, 9, 1917, and was legal- ly. declared dead Dec. 17, 1931, by the Hamburg court. Her last known residence was at Stanton, where it is believed she intended to marry Krause. | Expeditionary GETS HUGE VOTE AT LEGION CONVENTION Prohibition Repeal Also Favored By Overwhelming Major- ity of Veterans WAR DEPARTMENT IS HIT ment on B. E. F. Brings Action From Floor Auditorium, Portland, Ore., Sept.! 15—(AP)—A resolution favoring immediate cash payment of the sol- dier bonus was passed at the closing session of the fourteenth annual na- tional convention of the American! Legion Thursday. The vote was 1,268 for to 109 against. All northwest state delegations voted solidly for the bonus payment. Outright repeal of the prohibition laws was recommended in a resolu-; tion adopted by a vote of 1,144 to 133, By acclamation the convention censured the war department for dis- tributing to delegates in franked en- velopes a statement by Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley on the use of troops in evicting the bonus march- ers from Washington. An attempt to have the organiza- tion censure President Hoover for use of troops in evicting the Bonus} Force from the na- tion’s capital apparently had failed. } | | Would Be “Deadly Blow at Wel- | j Distribution of Hurley’s State-; HOOVER REITERATES STRONG OPPOSITION TO BONUS PAYMENT’ fare of Nation” Is Presi- | dent's Claim Washington, Sept. 15.—(#)—In Pres- ident Hoover's opinion, immediate cash payment of the bonus would “be | @ deadly blow at the welfare of the nation.” | “I have consistently opposed it,”! Hoover said Wednesday. “In the pub- | lic interest I must continue to oppose | it.” He gave his position in a 700-word | statement to the press which he said| was “due to the country and to the) veterans.” It was directed at the) American Legion convention in Port- | land, Oregon, and was issued after the convention legislative committee had | jrecommended adoption of a resolu- tion favoring full and immediate pay- ment of adjusted service certificates. |.."I have the duty not alone to see | that justice and a sympathetic atti- tude is taken by this nation toward | the 4,000,000, veterans and their fam- ilies, but also to exert myself for jus- tice to the other 21,000,000 families; to whom consummation of this pro- posal at this time would be a cala- mity. The resolutions committee shelved| “Cash payment of face value of cer- the “censure” resolution. Supporters of the B. E. F. resolu- | tion asserted they could muster suf-| ficient support to pass it if a way | N. D. Band Third in National Tourney Portland, Ore. Sept. 15.—(?)— | The Chicago Board of Trade American Legion Post Rand won | the 1932 national convergon band contest and the $1,000 first prize Wednesday. The Jacob E. Miller Post Band of Beaver Dam. Wis.. won second prize of $500 and the North Dakota 40 and 8 Department Band placed third and won $250. | The North Dakota organization, j | led by Miss Audrey Houglum was agein designated as the national promenade band of the 40 and 8. | the second successive year it has won this honor, could be found to bring it up on the floor, but the committee's rejection seemed to offer no parliamentary j loophole. Selection of a national commander | to succeed Henry L. Stevens, Jr., was! the other major item before the an- nual convention on its last crowded day. Those running included Ear! Clift, | Minnesota. Mrs. 8. A. Blackburn, Versailles, Ky.. was nominated for the presi- dency of the American Legion Auxil- jary. Nomination is tantamount to election. Nominees for the vice presidency of the five divisions, all without oppositton, include Mrs. A. C. Corbin, Poplar, Mont., northwestern division. | AIRMEN STOP HERE DURING TEST HOP Northwest Airways Officials/ Make Speedy Flight From Helena to St. Paul Flying a proposed air route from} Helena, Mont., to the Twin Cities, Col. L. H. Brittin, vice president and! general manager of Northwest Air-/| ways, Inc., stopped in Bismarck from| 1:01 p. m. to 1:45 p, m, Wednesday. ! With him were Walter R. Bullock,| operations manager and pilot, and Joseph Quigley, Twin Cities aerial! photographer, according to L. M. Kuhnley, Northwest operator here. | The group made the test flight fol- lowing its visit to North Dakota’s Bad Lands last week with Horace M. Albright, the national park direttor, U. S. Senator Gerald P. Nye and oth- ers interested in establishment of a national park in the Bad Lands, Despite seven Flops enroute, the trio made the trip from Helena to St. Paul in nine hours and 15 min- utes, according to an Associated Press dispatch from St. Paul. {shortly before noon Wednesday when tificates today would require an ap- Propriation from the treasury of about $2,300,000,000. No matter how or in what form the payment to the | veterans is imposed it will come out | |of all these families, but of more im- ‘portance, it will indefinitely set back any hope of recovery for employ-' ment, agriculture and business and)| will impose infinite distress upon the; whole country. . “I know the courage, the secrifice of our soldiers. But there are mil- |Wons of others in the same circum-| | Stancés. . . . Their employment and/ {their farm recovery, as well as that} lof the veterans, can be secured only jby the restoration of the normal) jeconomic life of the nation, . . . .! janything that stands in the way must! ‘be opposed.” {| Hoover said the money required| {was not available. He added: | “It cannot be raised by adding to ithe crushing burden of taxcs. It/ jeannot be borrowed without impair- ;ment of the credit of the national; government. “It is unthinkable that the govern- ment of the United States should re-| sort to the printing press and the is- suance of fiat currency as provided in the bill which passed the house at) the last session of congress under the Headership of the Democratic vice | presidential candidate. | “Such an act of moral bankruptcy | would depreciate and might ultimate- ly destroy the value of every dollar in the United States.” ROBBERS OF HATTON BANK MAKE ESCAPE Police Find No Clues to Pair! Who Raided Trail County | Institution Hatton, N. D., Sept. 15.—(AP)— Two bandits who terrorized Hatton | they raided the Farmers and Mer-} chants bank and kidnaped three bank ; officers, apparently had made good their escape Thursday. Sheriffs forces in all parts of east- ern North Dakota, informed of the robbery and kidnaping immediately after the raid, had only a few clues to work on in their search. The gunmen, in their dash from the city, took with them C. F, Ander-| son, president of the bank; H. N.| Nash, cashier, and G. M. Olson, as- sistant cashier, the only persons in the bank when the holdup occurred. The kidnaped men were let out of the bandit car a few miles south of the city and, with the bandits’ m: chine gun trained on them, were or- dered to run toward Hatton. | Traill county officials, a member of the Burns Betective Agency, and M. H. Skoien, finger print expert of the Grand Forks police force, came here to obtain clues. Skoien obtained photos of finger | Brittin said he made the flight to demonstrate the practicability of regular service between the two points. The route is that proposed by the airways company to the post- office department for an airmail line between the Twin Cities and Helena and is one of three under con- sideration. } Besides the Bismarck visit, the trio made stops at, Billings, Miles City] | and Glendive Jamestown Mont., and Dickinson, Valley City, N. D. JAMESTOWN MAN KILLED Breckenridge, Minn., Sept. 15.—(?) —D. J. Jones, 30, Jamestown, N. D., was injured fatally and John Bock- haus, 22, Clintonville, Wis., was bad- ly hurt, when their car plunged into @ ditch two miles east of Tenney ‘Thursday. prints of one of the bandits and co) ies will be sent to various agencies in an attempt to identify him. A checkup of the loss showed the loot amounted to $2,000 instead of Lag as first reported, Anderson 8 ¢--——_—_—_-—- _—.-~ A . | Maine’s First Lady | Will Learn Bridge PPR eA cs Seas pil st Lewiston, Sept. 15.—(#)—Mrs. Louis Brann, who will be the “first lady” of Maine when her husband, elected Monday, takes office, doesn’t play bridge, but supposes she'll have to learn. She has no hope, however, that her governor husband will be her bridge table partner. “He won't ever learn,” she exp! e [Alice Lee Remains Ahead of Field as Last Day of | Contest Begins RUBY JACOBSON IS SECOND| Betty Mackin and Luella Tol- lefson Lead in Battle For Chicago Trips Alice Lee, Bismarck, was in first place in the Bismarck merchants’ popularity race with an advantage of 141,200 votes Thursday morning as vd thrilling contest entered its last lay. Miss Lee had a total of 1,849,400 votes when ballots were totaled at 5 Pp. m, Wednesday. In second place was Ruby Jacobson, also of the Cap- ital City. with 1,708,200. The next five in order were Cath- erine Andrist 1,687,600; Frances Slat- tery 1,470,500; Ernestine Carufel 1,-; 224,900; Alice Marsh 225,500; and Veronica Werstlein 182,100. All live in Bismarck. Betty Mackin was leading Dorothy Seitz 60,700 to 46,300, in the Mandan contest while Luella Tollefson, Me- noken, maintained her advantage over Esther Watson, McKenzie, for premier honors in the Bismarck trade territory outside of the Capital City and Mandan. Miss Tollefson has 247,000, compared to 230,500 for Miss Watson. & ——__________ --________» Will Visit Here 1 y Reena lb 2h dBi ee BES ERS SEIN, VICE PRESIDENT CURTIS Charles Curtis, vice president of the United States, will be the principal guest of honor at the cor:g ‘stone- laying ceremony for the new state capitol building, set for October 8. COOL GREETING IS GIVEN HURLEY BY PEOPLE AT HURON No Bands or Cheers Greet Se- With Thursday the last day for; casting ballots, a flood of votes was| expected by contest officials and a! battery of accountants was prepared | to work far into the night in an ef- fort to complete final tabulations by { Friday forenoon. | cretary As He Arrived For Political Speech By GEORGE D. MANN Huron, 8. D., Sept. 15.—Into the dis- Announcement of the winners will be made in Friday's issue of the Trib- une and will not be disclosed prior to that time. No information as to the standing of any candidate will be giv- en out Thursday night, the contest manager announced. Accountants In Charge Tabulations are conducted under the direction of the W. M. Schantz accounting firm. The contest will end at midnight tonight, according to contest officials, and positively no ballots will be ac- .;cepted which are not in the Tribune office by that time. Ballots in the postoffice but not delivered to the Tribune by midnight will not be in- cluded in the final totals. Ballots are obtained from mer- chants participating in the contest when cash payments are made. For (Continued on Page Seven) FOUR ARE WOUNDED AS CHICAGO POLICE j contented and somewhat belligerent jeom belt states, Patrick Hurley, se- cretary of war, swooped down on a barren stretch of prairie in a gorgeous Stinson Detroiter deluxe airplane Thursaay morning to keep a date with |midwest farmers. Not a flag was waved at the local airport. Neither was there a strain of music from fire or drum as the lean, alert distinguish- ed looking secretary of war stepped from his cabin on the giant air liner in this little city of some 11,000 where Republicans are wont to sound their political kepnotes. Not a cheer resounded from the small crowd which shivered as a chilly breeze swept eddies of dust across anything but a picturesque landing field. The local committee was solemn and dignified and the se- cretary of war was whisked away to @ suite in a local hotel in a car, a funeral sort of a limousine - which probably, when not used to welcome distinguished guests heads the local corteges. Where Is Red Fire Where is the fire and fan fare of the campaigns of yesteryear? Has all babbitry departed from our presi- dential pow wows. Where was the DUEL WITH BANDITS) Young Hoodlums Escape After) American Legion drum and fife corps? It is reported that the fair committee has signed an armistice with the local beaters of drums and Motor Truck Blocks Pur- suing Squadrons Chicago, Sept. 15.— (AP) — Fifty thousand persons, homeward bound, were thrown into a panic Wednesday as three police cars with screaming | sirens roared through loop streets exchanging machine gun fire with six youthful hoodlums who aban- doned their car and escaped after it was rammed by a truck. Of the thousands imperiled by the gun fire, which occurred in the midst of the evening rush hour, four by- standers were hit by bullets. One of| the injured, shot in the left lung, is in a critical condition, The clash was precipitated by the hoodlums’ mistaken notion that a squad of policemen, whose car drew up behind their’s on Michigan boule- vard as they stopped for a traffic! signal, was after them. The gunmen, not waiting for a go-} signal, immediately shot forwar The police car, assigned to the acci dent prevention bureau, followed and} the chase was on. Down Michigan Boulevard, west on Jackson and then in and about the loop went the hoodlums’ car, the police squad, aided by two others which joined in the chase, in close pursuit. Above the roar of elevated trains and the street cars was heard the screaming of sirens, the barking of machine guns, and the cries of ter- rorized thousands as the speeding au- tomobiles, zigzagging through traf- fic, careening around corners and speeding through “red lights” raced on at 50 miles an hour. A coal truck, bearing down on them, hit a rear wheel of the bandits’ car as it zigzagged. They continued for a few blocks until a rear wheel came off. The police cars, intercepted by the truck which stood across the street after the collision, lost enough time to per- mit the gunmen to abandon’ the car and flee. Blood stains in the abandoned car caused police to believe one or more of the hoodlums had been shot. DEATH HALTS ESCAPE Sacramento, Calif, Sept. 15—(7)— Carl Reese, convict, escaped from Folsom prison, but lost his life doing it’ He had a makeshift diving suit and apparently hor-d to walk away under water. The suit, however, was deficient. Guards found his body. x Pa) jblowers of bugles so they will give Secretary Hurley a rousing reception this afternoon when he addresses }some 12,000 people before the grand stand at the state fair, the gate re- ceipts of which are reflecting badly what Garret Garret once called, “the pain in the northwest.” I collared Senator Bulow, pictur- esque junior solon of this state who was wearing a conspicuous Roose- yelt, button, as he left his box fol- lowing the fireworks at the evening show last night. “Are you going to carry South Dakota for Roosevelt?” was the usual salutation. “Most assuredly,” he said, “with the smile and handshake which have got Bulow a long ways in South Dakota Politics. “What majority”? was the next question. “Just wait till the votes are counted” retorted the canny Bulow, who has a “Coolidgian” re- pugnance to verbal expressions. “South Dakota likes him much be- cause he talks less than most politi- cians, Green Seems Safe Then I encountered, Gov. Green, Republican, who was leaving the grand stand just as the lights on a big picture of him, in a fire works set up, were dying low. He did not talk Politics, but Republicans say that despite a drift toward Roosevelt in this state, they will save Green who is a dirt farmer and considered a safe and conservative force in South Dakota. duce Secretary Hurley, as near as he has gotten to the Hoover campaign 2 F ry ote a BE z E R i i i 3 Hq i lf i é ies i y Cornerstone VICE PRESIDENT 70 BE CHIEF FIGURE IN CAPITOL CEREMONY Definite Assurance That He Will Attend Received By Fargo Politician PROGRAM BEING ARRANGED | Local Committee to Meet With Shafer and Other Officials to Plan Details Vice President Charles Curtis will be the principal speaker here Oct. 8 at the program marking the laying of the cornerstone of North Dakota's new $2,000,000 state capitol building. Definite assurance that the vice president of the United States will be here for the dedication was re- ceived Thursday by William Stern at Fargo, Republican national commit- teeman for North Dakota, who is in charge of the state Hoover-Curtis headquarters. Selection of the date for the pro- gram had been held up pending word from national Republican headquar- ters at Washington, D. C. A large committee of state officials and Bismarck persons will meet with Governor George F. Shafer, probably Friday, to formulate plans for the Program, no other details of which have yet been arranged. May Be All-Day Affair Whether it will be an all-day or just an afternoon program has not been decided. Neither has it been decided what special features, if any, will be staged in connection with the celebration. Thousands from all over the state are expected to attend the ceremony and the committee hopes to present 8 program appropriate to such an occasion. Members of the state capitol build- ing commission are expected to ald in arrangements. Any date between Oct. 1 and 15 would have been suitable for the pro- gram, according to O. F. Bryant, sec- retary to Governor Shafer, but those arranging the ceremony held up all arrangements pending word regard- ing Curtis, since it was desired that some ae Official of the nation be Nearby states are expected to send their governors or other representa- tives here for the program and dele- gations are expected from the Cana- dian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Contractors assured the capitol commission that the program could be arranged conveniently any time during the first half of October, ac- cording to Bryant. Concrete work on the structure is expected to begin next week, accord- ing to George Kandrie, of the Hola- bird and Root architectural firm. Await Steel Shipment With excavation work completed ‘Wednesday forenoon, further construc- tion is being held up until the arri- val here of reinforcing steel to be used in the concrete work. The rein- forcing steel is expected here this week-end, while the first shipment of structural steel for the 18-story tower is expected to reach here about Oct. 1. The first shipment of sand and gravel to be used in concrete work will reach Bismarck Friday and will be sidetracked on Northern Pacific spur line near the federal weather bureau, according to T. P. Allen, Northern Pacific agent. The sand and gravel is being furnished by the Riverside Gravel company, Mandan, from its pits about 20 miles south- West of Mandan, near St. Anthony. Removal of the gravel from the sidetrack to Capitol Hill is not con- templated before next Monday morn- ing, since it will not be needed un- til then. Meanwhile, contractors are pre- Senator Norbeck is billed to intro-| paring for the sinking of footings the skyscraper. -— - Bandits Rob Parshall Bank