The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 14, 1932, Page 1

North Dakota’s » Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 Plan Four-Power Arms Parle Charge Two Illinois Officers With Murder ROOSEVELT CLAIMS |Report This State — |SAYS\.S. MAKING ~ WARRANTS ISSUED FOLLOWING DEATH IN STRIKE TROUBLE Fatality Is Fourth Since Gueril- la Warfare Began in Mine District THURSDAY WAS HECTIC DAY Adjutant General Rushes to Springfield as Disorder Flares Anew ‘Taylorville, Ill, Oct. 14.—()—War- rants charging two Illinois National Guard officers with murder were in the possession of Sheriff Charles ‘Wieneke Friday as the result of the first fatality on the Christian county front of the Illinois coal miners’ war. The warrants name Col. Robert W. Davis and Capt. Carl J. Meacham, his executive officer. They were ob- tained late Thursday night by Mayor Thomas F. Foster of nearby Tovey shortly after Andy Ganis, a Tovey miner, died reputedly as the result of a bullet wound inflicted by a mili- tiaman. Corporal Russell Meyers, of Peoria, member of company “E,” of the 130th Infantry, was held in the guardhouse as @ military tribunal investigated the shooting. Was Fourth Fatality ‘The fatality—the fourth since guer- rilla warfare fanned through mining areas in the state’s three-month-old mine controversy—climaxed a hectic day for Christian county. Earlier Thursday Hollis Butterfield, a rural mail carrier, was shot in the shoulder as he disregarded sentries’ orders at Langleville, and later three women and six men were injured when a National Guard truck in which they were being convoyed to the county line overturned and burned. As violence flared anew in the coun- ty, Adjutant General Carlos Black rushed here from Springfield to as- sume personal command of the seven National Guard troops on duty in the fear-stricken area. The official report of guard offi- cers and the story of witnesses dif- fered slightly regarding the wound- ing of Ganis. Witnesses said Ganis was standing in the yard at the John Foder home in Tovey when a guard patrol ambled by. The patrol, they said, was halted by Mrs. John Miller, a neighbor, who shouted to the troops to arrest Ganis because he assertedly ‘called her a “scab.” Mrs. Miller’s husband, @ con- stable, was reported to be a member of the United Mine Workers Union under whose contracts the Christian mines have been operating. Ordered Out of Yard One of the guardsmen, Mrs. Miller said, ordered Ganis to walk out of the yard into the street. Ganis stood still. “Tl give you until I count three,” she quoted the guardsman. When Ganis failed to move, she said, the guardsman fired and Ganis fell, struck in the leg. He died later in a hospital from loss of blood. Col. Davis’ preliminary report said Meyers fired the shot only after an unidentified man had fired at militia- men from the Foder porch. Another man stood by menacing guardsmen with a shotgun, the report said. ‘Three others have died as a result of the mine controversy. Two miners have died and a detective was fatally wounded in Springfield recently as he attempted to quell a riot. Two Defendants Deny Youth Was Mistreated Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 14.—(?)—De- nials that prison torture had any- thing to do with the death of Arthur Maillefert, convict who was found strangled in a sweatbox, have been entered formally by the two former guards on trial for his murder. Both Capt. George W. Courson and Solomon Higginbotham testified, as the defense rested its case Thursday that Maillefert brought his troubles on himself in the face of fatherly counsel and that the only hardships he was accorded were normal punish- ments for misbehaviour. Rebuttal testimony was ordered Friday and court attaches said the lengthy case probably would reach the jury sometime Friday. Courson, acting captain at the Sun- beam prison camp when Maillefert, a New Jersey youth, was found dead in @ sweat box with his feet in stocks and a chain about his neck, testified Maillefert was unruly, pretended sick- ness to escape prison routine, disre- garded kindly admonitions and light punishment, refused to work and urged the official to kill him. Higginbotham testified he had told’ Maillefert he would intercede for him if he would promise to go to work, but the prisoner refused. “I didn’t do anything to him I wouldn't have any- one do to me,” Higginbotham said. He testified he provided a shirt and tie of his own to clothe the prisoner after his death. He emphatically de- nied mistreating Maillefert or ever threatening to kill him. ee ‘ DIES AT AGE OF 111 Dundalk, Northern Ireland, Oct. 14. —(®—The Honorable Katherine Plunket, said to be Ireland’s oldest in- habitant, died at her home here Fri- day. On Nov. 9 she would have been 112 years old. rHE BISMARCK TRIBUNE an CaaS [2 Years—Then Reno! jAfter 12 years of marriage to James B. Regan, Jr., Alice Joyce, above, has established residence in Reno, Nev., preparatory to suing for divorce. She refuses to tell why. The former film star is the mother of two davighters. Her first husband, Tom Moore, was. the father of one. Regan, father of the other daughter, is a wealthy New Yorker. POLITICAL ATTACKS BEING CENTERED IN EAST, MIDDLE WEST Drumfire Is Continuing . Ener- getically, However, Along All Fronts Washington, Oct. 14. — () — The presidential wars of 1932 are entering their last phase with the drumfire continuing energetically all along the line, but with the heaviest artillery moving into position for one. final, concentrated bombardment on two important salients in the East and Middle West. During the present week the action has been scattered and various, and only a foretaste of what is to come. Governor Roosevelt has spoken from Albany, outlining his views on relief. Former President Coolidge, in Madi- son Square Garden, asked for the re- election of President Hoover. Former Senator James A. Reed, chosen by the Democrats to reply at Des Moines to! Hoover, asked for the election of Roosevelt. Take Stock of Situation All of this time, in the politica! dug-outs further back, the high com- mands of the two parties were taking planning in detail the last head-long awaited turn of mid-October, and planning in deaail the last head-long dash toward their Nov. 8 objective. Enough of these plans now are known to indicate with some definite- ness where the pressure will be ap- plied from nowon. They point especi- ally to the eastern states of New York New Jersey and Massachusetts, and to the mid-western states of Ohio, In- diana and Illinois. President Hoover will speak Satur- day night in Cleveland. His plans beyond that are not definite. Governor Roosevelt leaves Albany Tuesday for his second extended cam- paign tour. Former Governor Alfred E. Smith. is expected to put much of the Dem- ocratic emphasis on the east during the last days of October. Tentative plans route him through New York, New Jersey and New England, start- ing early next week. Garner Will Speak Speaker John N. Garner speaks Friday night from New York in his first major address of the campaign. He plans to deal “in a general way” with criticisms of Democratic con- gressional leadership that have been voiced by President Hoover and For- mer President Calvin Coolidge. All of this indicates that so far as the chief figures of the campaign are concerned, the west must now be lef: chiefly in the hands of local talent. The two vice presidential nominees’ will be heard west of the Mississippi, but the two sectors further east will have the first attention of the poli- tical managers. In the eastern group around New York and in the central states more than one election has been won and lost. It is difficult to figure how any party which loses both of these sec- tors can expect to win a national vic- Olsness to Speak at National Convention 8. A. Olsness, commissioner of in- surance, left Bismarck Thursday for Dallas, Texas, to attend the annual national convention of commission- ers of insurance, which opens there Oct. 17 for a four-day session, part of which will be at Dallas, with the final day's meeting in Galveston. Olsness will speak during the con vention on “the evil of investments by, life insurance companies in in- terlocking holding companies and the remedy.” He will be away about two weeks BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1932 GOVERNMENT MUST GIVE AlD 10 NEEDY Declares It Public Duty in An- swer to Questions Re- garding Relief DISCUSSES PUBLIC WORKS Says He Always Has Favored Compulsory Unemploy- ° ment Insurance Albany, N. Y¥., Oct. 14.—(#)—Gover- nor Roosevelt Friday had added to his views on the obligations of feder- al government, the declaration that when communities and states are un- able to meet the unemployment re- lief needs “it becomes the positive duty of the federal government to step in to help.” Answering Thursday night a ques- tion propounded by welfare workers, “Do you favor a substantial increase in federal relief outlays during the economic emergency?” the Democratic candidate for presidency said: “I am very certain that the obli- gation extends beyond the states and to the federal government itself, if and when it becomes apparent that the states and communities are un- able to take care of the necessary re- lief work.” Comparing the action he sponsored to provide unemployment relief in New York’ with the record of Presi- dent Hoover's administration, Roose- velt reiterated a passage in his mes- sage to the state legislature in 1931, which read: . “In broad terms, I assert that mod- ern society acting through its gov- ernment owes the definite obligation |to prevent the starvation or the dire want of any of its fellow-men and women who try to maintain them- selves but cannot. To these unfor- tunate citizens aid must be extended |by the government; not as a matter of charity but as a matter of social duty.” Goes Step Further Continuing, Roosevelt said: “That principle which I laid down in 1931, I reaffirm, I not only re- affirm it; I go a step further and say that where the state itself is unable successfully to fulfill this obligation which lies upon it, it then becomes the positive duty of the federal gov- ernment to step in to help.” Roosevelt asserted he thought it “fair to point out that a complete program of unemployment relief was on my recommendation actually un- der way in New York over a year ago,! and that in Washington relief funds in any large volume were not pro- vided until this summer, and at that they were pushed through at the de- mand of congress rather than through the leadership of the president.” Taking up another question which asked if he favored “substantially in- creased public works appropriations to aid unemployment,” Roosevelt said. “There are two ways of paying for public works. One is by the sale of bonds. In principle such bonds should be issued only to pay for self-sustain- ing projects or for structures which will without question have a useful life over a period of years. The other method of payment is from current revenues, which in most cases means added taxes. And we all know that there is a very definite limit to the increase of taxes above the present limit. Favoring Roosevelt Literary Digest Straw Poll Shows Democratic Candidate Has Big Edge Over President. Hoover; Returns Indi- cate Greatest Upset in State History REPUBLICANS OF 1928 ARE DEMOCRATS OF 1932 Tremendous Shift Would Give Roosevelt Majority of 100,000 This Year as Compared With Hoover Margin of 24,- 793 in Election Four Years Ago North Dakota will give Roosevelt a majority of about two to one in the coming presidential election, according to first| tabulations from this state in the Literary Digest poll, made public Friday. The latest count shows 11,493 votes cast from this state of which Roosevelt received 6,979, Hoover 3,829 and other can- didates 685. Norman Thomas, Socialist, leads the minor as- pirants with 379. Reynolds gets 8, Coxey 45, Upshaw 93, Fos- ter 69 and there are 91 miscellaneous votes. “Of the Roosevelt vote, 3,431, almost a majority, are former Republicans while 2,623 were Democrats in 1928 also. Of the persons who did not vote four years ago 918 favor the Democratic nominee. Hoover's support came from 3,183 persons who voted Republican in 1928 with 203 who voted Democratic four years ago and 441 persons who did not vote in 1928. A very significant fact in the compilation from this state is that the Hoover vote this year may be less than half of what it was in 1928. His inroads into Democratic ranks have been negligible while of the 6,614 who reported they voted Republican four @ majority. years ago, Hoover gets 248 less than Means 100,000 Majority If this trend is borne out by subsequent reports in the poll and by the vote in November, it means that Hoover will get about 65,720 votes this year as compared with 131,441 four years ago; and that Roosevelt will receive approximately 172,000 as compared with 106,648 for Smith in 1928, a majority of 106,280 and a shift of If the trend indicated by the Digest is borne out, it will mark the most | 131,073 votes in four years. tremendous turnover in public sentiment in the history of the state. A factor which may reduce the majorities indicated, however, is the! apparent increase in the vote for candidates other than those backed by the major parties. In the nation at large, Roosevelt continues to pile up an impressive lead! in the straw balloting. With nearly 2,000,000 votes tabulated he is carrying! 31 of the 38 states reporting, the only ones listed in the Hoover column being the six New England states and New Jersey. If this basis is fol- lowed in the vote, Roosevelt would get 356 electoral votes to 57 for Hoover. The Roosevelt lead is increased slightly over his margin of a week ago. Of the 1,983,634 votes tabulated, Hoover receives 781,431, or 39.39 per cent, Roosevelt 1,062,087, or 53.54 per cent, and Thomas 106,352, or 5.36 per cent of the total cast to date. 18 New States Report Eighteen new states are reported in the current returns. The only one of these in which Hoover is leading is Vermont. Roosevelt is shown cap- turing the other seventeen—Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Idaho, Towa, Kan- sas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming. Hoover is indicated gaining strength in California, Mlinois, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island in all of which states he shows increases over his last week's ratio. Re- turns from Massachusetts this week show a decrease in his Percentage of the total vote there. In an analysis of “how the same voters voted in 1928” Roosevelt ap- (Continuea on page two) Two New York Men Speak At Presbyterian Meeting FARMERS GRANTED FURTHER LENIENCY Loans Executed in 1930 and 1931 Will Not Become Due Until 1933 Minneapolis, Oct. 14.—(P)—Another $4,000,000 was made available for “I am confident that the federal government working in cooperation with states and cities can do much to carry on increased public works and along liries which are sound from the economic and financial point of view.” Favors Compulsory Insurance A question regarding compulsory unemployment insurance brought from him: “This is no new policy for me. I have advocated unemployment insur- ance in my own state for some time, and indeed last year six eastern gov- ernors were my guests at a conference which resulted in the drawing up of what might be called an ideal plan of unemployment insurance.” Roosevelt said he favored continu- ing the “fine work” of the children’s bureau of the labor department. “Attempts have been made to cut the appropriations for child welfare work,” he continued. “It seems to me this is the last place in which we should seek to economize.” He declared he favored keeping chil- dren in school until they were 16. In closing, Roosevelt made a plea for charity. TO STABILIZE FINANCES a Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 14.—(P) —Plans for a 60-day moratorium in Sao Paulo to aid in stabilizing finances in the southern state, whose rebel government recently collapsed, were announced Friday. The federal gov- ernment’ also announced rebel cur- rency, issued during the three-month Civil war, would be redeemed with Sao Paulo 30-year treasury bonds at seven per cent. 14 MOSLEMS SLAIN Simla, India, Oct. 14—(#)—Four- teen Moslems were killed and 11 ser- jously injured in an affray between Jats (Punjab Hindus) and Moshems in the Budhalda Hissar District of the Punjab following the theft and slaughter of a number of cows be- engine to Jats of the Sikh persua- northwest farmers Friday by exten- sion to next year of the seed loans of 1930 and 1931. This action by the department of agriculture, announced in a supple- mentary order, brings the total re- lief to farmers in two days to $21,- 15,000. A total of $17,455,000 in loans was turned back to 113,047 farmers Thursday from their 1932 grain crop when the government issued an or- der to the Minneapolis seed loan agency to accept payment of 25 per cent of this year’s seed loans and ex- tend the remaining three-fourths for payment from the 1933 harvest. Notice of this action was received from the department of agriculture by Lawrence J. Paulson, manager of the northwest agency. Now the government has decreed that all outstanding seed loans exe- cuted in 1930 and 1931. which were ta have been paid from this year's crops, are to be carried over also to 1933. The old loans outstanding to- tal about $4,000,000. When the Min- neapolis agency took them over from the Grand Forks organization that made the seed loans of 1930-31 they amounted to $4,654,878, es MILLS SCORES ROOSEVELT Chicago, Oct. 14—(#)—The Repub- lican barrage designed to blast Chi- cago's votes into the Hoover camp was officially under way Friday. Ogden Mills, secretary of the treas- ury, fired the first shot in the Coll- seum with an address charging Gov- ernor Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Democratic presidential nominee, is “completely silent” regarding methods to cure the depression—an issue Mills described as “the most vivid, the most. complete, the most living” of the cam- Paign. ARREST MINOT SUSPECT Aberdeen, 8. D., Oct. 14.—()—Offi- cers Friday prepared to take Fred Kroger, Lennox, to Minot, N. D., where he is wanted in connection with an oil station robbery. Representatives of Board of Na- | tional Missions on Friday Program Here Addresses by two representatives of the Presbyterian board of national missions, Dr. Graham Wilson and Dr. J. M, Somerndike. both of New York, and a report on national mis- sions given by the state chairman. Harry W. Gill, Portal, N. D., were) outstanding features of the Friday morning session of the Presbyterian Synod of North Dakota, in session at the First Presbyterian church. Dr. Wilson, who is chief secretary of the board of national missions, outlined mission work in the United States, while Dr. Somerndike, who is contact officer of the board for this Synod spoke particularly of mission activities in the northwest. Rev. C. W. Snider, Fargo, synodicai executive, presented his report, and this was followed by a report of the committee on Christian education, YOUNGEST AND OLDEST Youngest and oldest of the Pres- byterian church families partici- pated in a serivce Wednesday eve- ning, when Dr. J. P. Shell, 88, of Minot, oldest minister in the Synod of North Dakota, officiated at the baptism of Mary Lou Logee, infant daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Logee. given by Dr. B. H. Kroeze, president of Jamestown College, who spoke on the progress of Christian education in the state. H. M. Taber, James- town. chairman of the board of trus- tees of Jamestown College, reported. Committees to Report Selection of a place for next year’s meeting, reports of the resolutions and other standing committees, to- gether with items of routine business, were to occupy the attention of con- vention delegates at the final session this afternoon. A pageant, “America Grows Up,” by young people of the Bismarck Presbytery, will be presented at 8 o'clock this evening. Like other ses- sions of the Synod and Synodical, it will be open to-the public, Speaking at a joint session of the Synod and Synodical Thursday eve- ning, Dr. J. E. Detweiler, St. Louis, secretary of the board of foreign mis- sions, told his audience that one of the most potent reasons for continu- ing to maintain missionaries in for- eign fields is our moral obligation to those people in foreign lands who have adopted the Christian religion. Our work for missions, our contri- butions for this work, he pointed out, (Continued on page Nine) COLOSSAL FAILURE INTIS GOVERNMENT Texas Congressman Tells Bar ‘We Have Jazzed Off Into the Jungles’ LAWYERS URGE TAX CHANGE Attorney General Advocates Bill Enabling Revision of Procedure Washington, Oct. 14.—()—Repre- sentative Hatton W. Sumners of Tex- ‘as Thursday told the American Bar association that in the operation of “our economic and political govern- ment, as a people we are making a terrible mess of it, a colossal failure.” “There is no mystery about why we are in the condition in whieh we find ourselves,” the chairman of the house judiciary committee said... .. “We have jazzed off into the jungles. We have lost our way. “In working out our economic and governmental difficulties we must re- turn to fundamental principles, to obedience to the laws of nature, the laws of God which govern govern- ments.” Sumners and Paul Reynaud, French statesman representing the Paris bar, were the principal speakers of the third day of the annual meeting. Fri- day night the delegates will hear Marquis Reading, war time British ambassador to the United States. The general council Friday nomin- ated Clarence E. Martin of Martins- burg, W. Va., for president of the as- sociation. Nomination is tantamount to election. John Henry Wigmore, Dean Emer- itus of the Northwestern University law school, was awarded the Ameri- can Bar association’s 1932 medal for the “most outstanding contribution to American jurisprudence.” He is the author of many legal texts. The organization went on record \Thursday to decrease dependency for federal revenues “on taxes on net in- comes and to secure forms of taxes less susceptible to sharp fluctuation.” | The proposal was submitted by Robert E. Coulson of New York, who said it was not the intent of the federal taxa- tion committee to place the associa- jtion on record for a sales tax. No action was taken on a commit- tee report containing a bill to modify the anti-trust acts and provide for advance submission of contracts to the attorney general and the federal trade ,commission. Attorney Genersd Mitchell advocat- ed before the delegates reforms in criminal procedure to expedite jus- tice. He said a bill now before con- gress to empower the supreme court to make rules of criminal procedure “promises sweeping reforms in the in- terest of speeding the final disposi- tion of criminal cases.” The 1,500 delegates and their com- Ppanions were guests at the white house Thursday night, where Presi- dent and Mrs. Hoover held their an- nual reception for the judiciary. mba) secen non tetsthe dado | Hurls Tots From | 16th Story Window | Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 14.—(P)— Thrown from a window on the 16th floor of a downtown hotel by their aunt, two small children met death in the street while hundreds of workers and shop- Pers were on their way home. The woman responsible for their deaths, Mrs. Aurelia Lorenz, 31-year-old divorcee and former wife of a wealthy Milwaukee con- tractor, then ended her own life by leaping after them. She left a note, blaming mis- treatment by her brother, Ru- dolph Libo, for her act. Her vic- tims were: Vivian and Milton Libo, aged 5 and 4 respectively. In the note Mrs. Lorenz left be- hind in her hotel room she ac- cused her brother of having mis- informed her as to the serious- ness of an ailment from which she had been suffering, and charged that her relatives were fonder of their pet dogs than they were of her. “And so,” she wrote, “I have no future. That's why I am going to end it, but not alone.” Lanier Accuses Nye Of Straddling Fence Grand Forks, N. D., Oct. 14—(®)— P, W. Lanier, Democratic candidate for the U. 8. Senate, in a political address here Thursday night charged his Republican opponent, Gerald P. Nye, with “straddling the fence” on the greatest political question before the American people by refusing to state his position in the presidential race. Repeating an assertion that “Nye was too smart not to fence, because by staying on the fence he expects to receive the Nonpartisan and I. V. A. votes this fall,” Lanier declared “if your idea cr smartness in a United States senator is the ability under times like this to ride the fence through an election, then leave me out. I am no fence rider.” All through his speech, Lanier urged the support of Roosevelt and the Democratic state ticket. “Give Roosevelt, whose election is assured,” he pleaded, “a congress that will sup- port him in his efforts to give agri- culture a new opportunity.” ‘!slashing the annual budget of the Inspires Gridders Virginia Kilbourne, pep leader at Louisiana State university, demon- strates how she helps cheer warriors of the gridiron on to victory. (Asso: ciated Press Photo) BETTER CONTROL OF CLERGYMAN SUPPLY SOUGHT BY CHURCH United Lutherans Slash Budget By $400,000; New York- er Reelected Philadelphia, Oct. 14.—()—Formu- lation of some plan for better control of the supply of candidates for the ministry was urged Friday upon dele- gates to the eighth biennial conven- tion of the United Lutheran Church of America. Need for such a plan was stressed by the church board of education in a report submitted as the convention entered its third day. Statistics compiled for the United Lutheran Church on the supply of ministers revealed the church this year has 3,374 ordained clergymen. In two active sessions Thursday, delegates acted upon a program of financial matters which included ! church by $400,000, bringing the fig- ure for 1933-34-35 to $2,000,000. Dr. S. G. Trexler, president of the ‘| United Synod of New York, told a meeting of Lutheran women Thurs- day night the present economic stress can reclaim for the church men and women who formerly had been “too much occupied with the elemental matter of making a living.” Prior to consideration of financial matters, the convention reelected the Rev. Dr. Frederick H. Knubel of New York, president for his eighth term. The delegates also reelected E. Clar- ence Miller, Philadelphia, treasurer. A secretary to fill the post made vacant by the death last March of the Rey. M. G. G. Schrerer was not elect- ed, although one ballot was taken. None of those voted for obtained a majority necessary. Further ballots were to be taken Friday. Considerable debate was evoked over a proposal to have the conven- tion ratify publication of an official edition of Luther's small catechism. Dr. Paul Roth of Milwaukee, Wis., joined Dr. Charles M. Jacobs of Mt. Airy, Pa., in opposing such action. While considering the budget, the delegates also approved reductions in appropriations for three of the church’s charitable institutions, the national Lutheran home for aged, Washington, D. C., the Tabitha home, Lincoln, Nebr., and the Lowman home, White Rock, C., $1,800. President’s Hand Is Bruised by ‘Shaking’ Washington, Oct. 14.—(?)—Presi- dent Hoover, after retiring early from | Jj @ white house reception Thursday night with more than 1,000 people still waiting to shake his hand, Friday made an early morning appearance with his right hand ban Dr. Joel T. Boone, the white house physician, said he was feeling fit, but had suffered a bruised hand in greet- last night,” Reed said, “but found that, he was getting blood on the white Gloves of some of the women guests.’ The Weather Showers tonight; probably some rain or snow and colder Saturday. PRICE FIVE CENTS y DECISION REACHED BY MACDONALD AND PREMIER HERRIOT England, France, Italy and Ger- many Are Expected to Participate ANOTHER DEADLOCK SEEN Meeting Will Be Held at Geneva; May Be Objectionable to Germans London, Oct. 14—(4)—Great Brit- ain and France have agreed to hold a four-power emergency disarma- ment conference at Geneva, it was announced Friday at the conclusion of a conference between Prime Min- ister MacDonald and Premier Her- riot. Italy already has accepted an in- vitation to participate, but thus far Germany has not agreed to holding the meeting at Geneva. Germany's attitude indicates an- other deadlock, but her objections were described at No, 10 Downing Street as “temporary.” This special conference would deal with Germany's demand for arms equality and would attempt to get her back into the world disarmament conference from which she retired when the other powers declined to concede her equality claim. When the British government first suggested a four-power meeting sev- eral weeks ago Germany accepted London as a place for the confer- ence, The task now facing the other Powers is to get Germany to come to the parley at Geneva. The interest with which Geneva awaited the results of the London con- ference was indicated Thursday when Arthur Henderson, president of the disarmament conference, which has been adjourned since last July, an- nounced Geneva was waiting on Lon- don and he hoped the Herriot-Mac- Donald parleys would be sufficiently successful so the arms conference might begin work again next month, He announced the conference bur- eau would be re-established Nov. 3 and he hoped the general committee could meet Nov, 21. One of the principal matters to come before the Geneva conference when it reassembles is President Hoo- ver's proposal for a flat one-third re- duction of armaments. When the conference adjourned in July it was unable to agree upon the American Proposals. The conference bureau finally de- cided to ask Sir John Simon, British foreign secretary, to draft an adjourn- ment declaration along these lines: 1. Tribute to the Hoover proposal as a valuable contribution. 2. Recognition that parts of the plan dealing with effectives and naval forces required considerable time for study. 3. An announcement of sundry points on which the conference was virtually agreed. The conference finally adjourned July 23 with a promise that an agree- ment for substantial reductions would be made after it met again. FORMER PRISONER HERE IS CONVICTED Dale Garver Will Serve 40 Years At Stillwater For Bank Robbery Detroit Lakes, Minn., Oct. 14—(7) —A sentence of 40 years in Stillwater Penitentiary was given Dale Garver, 28, former North Dakota convict, by Judge Don M. Cameron of Little Falls here Thursday. It was pronounced a few hours af- ter Garver had been found guilty by a jury in Becker county district court of robbing the Audubon, Minn., state bank last June 13. Judge Cameron could have commit- ted the defendant to a life term. A Plea for mercy was made by Francis C. Schroeder of St. Paul, state ap- Pointed defense counsel. Garver’s only statement in regard to the case was the one he has oft repeated: “I am not guilty.” Questioned by the court before the Penalty was imposed, he refused to give the name and address of his mother. His father is dead, he said. He said he was born in San Fran- cisco and that he had no education beyond the fourth grade. As county officials planned to take him to prison they announced search