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

™) q i) ‘tax » the mo \yg 00 Just, which bureaus, 4 commissions * shan FOREIGN LANDS North Dakota’s Oldest. Newspaper TABLISHED 1873 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1932 Weather Report: ght snow tonight or Friday; temperature, ~ y PRICE FIVE CENTS. NINE DEPARTMENTS | LISTED FOR AXE IN LATEST PROPOSALS Mayville Normal Are Plac- ed on Griddle ‘Scheme Would Eliminate Them and Consolidate Duti of Treasurers Fargo, N. D., Dec, 15—(#)—Elimi- nation of nine North Dakota state departments, abolishing the office of county judge, consolidation of Wah- # peton Science school with the North + Dakota Agricultural college and » eHmination of Mayville normal, are _ among the suggestions proposed for submission to the coming session of the legislature by the North Dakota ‘Taxpayers’ association. The executive committee of the association sent the lst to presidents and secretaries of the county taxpayers’ groups, asking each county group to pass resolutions on the proposals. The suggestions include elimina- tion of the following state depart- ments: State securities commisston; livestock sanitary board; commis- sioner of immigration; minimum wage department; state seed depart- ment; grain storage commissioner; motor vehicle’ operating department; motor vehicle auto theft department; state regulatory department. In several instances it is proposed to combine the work of those depart- ments which are considered neces- sary with some other established de- partment. A constitutional amendment would be necessary to abolish the office of county court and it is proposed to ask for the amendment. Duties of the county judge would be divided between the office of clerk of the district court apd_.district court judge. It is believed the saving would average $3,000 for each of the 53 counties in the state, or more than $150,000 & year. Would Join Treasurerships e It also is proposed to amend and reenact chapter 202, session laws for 1931, so as to make county treasurers ex-officio treasurers of all townships, school districts, villages and cities, making it optional with districts hav- ing a population of 5,000 or more. It is estimated a saving of $125,000 &@ year would be made by this change. Another proposal is for extension of the recall provision of the state constitution to apply to county com- missioners, which, the executive com- mittee says, “are among the largest levying and disbursing bodies in state.” Es Another suggestion, considered of special importance by the executive committee, is for a provision that in| all districts having more than one taxing board, the hearings on the = budgets would be held jointly. be A fifth suggestion is for a provi- sion for the serial maturity of state bonds and to require their serial pay- ment. This would prevent the accu- mulation of large sinking funds which are often lost, the committee says. In discussing acts to eliminate “useless bureaus and commissions” the committee says: “There is no specific agreement as boards or are- useless, but among those which Have been suggested for elimination are the following.” Then follows the list suggested for-elimi- nation, Altogether, according to data offer- ed by the taxpayers, the nine depart- ments had in September 102 em- Ployes who received $13,653.57 in sal- (Continued on Page Seven) Christmas Customs | ee, ‘Wahpeton Science School and| hallenge Salary Slash Law axpayers Plan New Government Cost Cuts J/CHILLS RUN DOWN |England Pays War ' Debt Installment ————“~ Ce ES |- Kills Self Rather than return to Colorado Springs and face trial on a million dollar embezzlement charge, Walter Clyde Davis (above),.Colorado bank- er, hanged himself with a necktie in his cell at New. York police headquar- ters. He came to New York from Colorado and aroused suspicion of detectives when on daily walks in Gramercy Park he continually peered backward. When they finally ar- rested him he said, “I’m your man,” surrendered without difficulty and said he had considered voluntary surrender. A few hours later he committed suicide. ‘OPEN HEART DRIVE ENTERS LAST STAGE; PURCHASING STARTS Committee Seeking to Stretch Dollars Given As Aid to City’s Poor The “Open Your Heart” campaign of Bismarck’s American Legion ap- proached, its final.-phase Thureday ‘with’ the purchasing committee of the organization preparing to stretch as far as possible the dollars at its disposal. Profits from the Charity Ball, staged Wednesday night at the World War Memorial building, were about $75, L. V. Miller, campaign chairman, said Thursday, and this} will be added to the cash donations already received. The entire fund will be used to purchase shoes and MORE CASH GIVEN Three more cash ‘donations brought ‘the “Open Your Heart” fund to $209.80 Thursday. New donors were: Mother's Service Club ..... $ 3.00 W. C. Preckel . » 2.00 A newsboy Previously reported .. Total . seeeeeeee ++ $209.80 clothing for needy children so they may stay in school. A count showed 91 couples at the dance and the grand march was led by Governor and Mrs. George F. Shafer as scheduled. Although the number was below that which at- gave the affair their patronage. He asked that Legionnaires who have sold tickets for the dance but failed to turn in the money report at once in order that a final check may be made, Several fine donations were re- responding generously to the request for assistance, Miller said. The A. W. Lucas company sent several big boxes of children’s clothes and toys and also informed the committee that it will give some children’s underwear. The, Monday club brought in 40 NATION'S SPINE AS MERCURY TUMBLES 7 Man Freezes to Death in Valley Which’ Often Has 120- Degree Weather CHICAGO STRUCK SEVERELY Texas and Oklahoma Pan- handles Covered With Snow; Even South Is Cold (By the Associated Press) Chills ran down the nation’s spine Thursday from Duluth to Dixie. In @ score of middle and western states the temperature: was below zero and the stove boys calculated this was the coldest spell.in quite a piece. The cold fairly crackled along the Canadian border and farther north it was from 8 to 30 below. White River, Ont., produced the outstand- His temperature of the day with 44 Ww. Rice Lake, Wis. was colder than the lake itself with an unofficial 30 below. Duluth, Minn., and Superior, Wis., reported 20 below. South Da- kota basked in 23 above temperatures Wednesday but it was 23 below at Watertown Thursday. There were such figures as 24 below at Thief River Falls, Minn. Some Relief Forecast Some relief was forecast for Fri- day, but prophecies gave small com- Rising Mercury In N. D. Forecast Rising temperatures were in Prospect for North Dakota Thurs- day night while possibly light snow in west and north portions Thurs- day night or Friday and in south- east portion Friday was forecast by weather bureau officials. Temperatures -generally were from 14 to 24 degreés below zero overnight. It was 14 below at Far- go and Williston, 15 at Bismarck, 17 at Grand Forks and Minot, and 18 at Devils Lake. At Jamestown it was 20 below at 7 a. m. and Val- ley City reported 24 below at that time. fort to those suffering from three below and worse in the Chicago re- gion where the bodies of several per- sons were found frozen to death. In Iowa and Nebraska the worst seemed to be over, for a time. Read- ings of 16 below at Humboldt and Charles City, Ia., and 10 below at Sioux City were recorded. Even in Atlanta the chill was felt, with temperatures at the frost point. Louisville, Ky., had 15 above. The mercury struck a snag at five above on the downward trip at Cleve- land, where a heavy snowstorm was in progress. Congressmen were able to walk to. the capitol at Washington in perfect. comfort, with 28 the lowest there and sunny, warm weather prevailing, but much colder anticipated. This was Chicago's coldest weather in two years and 11 months. Ten thousand homeless men took shelter in private and municipal lodging houses. Panhandle Is Blanketed The Texas and Oklahoma Pan- dles were covered with a heavy snow —seven inches of it piled up at Boise City, Okla., but’ the temperatures were not severe. In California a man froze to death in Palo Verde valley, adjoining the Imperial valley, where temperatures of 120 are not uncommon during the summer, Two mining men, Robert M. Ray and Arthur W. Johns, were missing in Holcombe valley since Saturday night, when a blizzard hit new toys which had been used at its Christmas party and numerous in- dividuals also sent in contributions of material. Miller said the demand for bed- Story From Winnie's that section. Three residents of Los Angeles at- tributed their survival in a 24-hour Edison Medal His | ——_______________» N Bancroft Gherardi bove), vice president of the American Telephone and Telegraph company, awarded the Edison medal for 1932 for his contributions to electrical communication. SUB-ZERO WEATHER PROVES NO BAR TO CAPITOL WORKMEN Story Thursday; One More ‘Hoist’ Planned Place. has been| Sub-zero temperatures proved no bar Thursday to the steelmen working on the tower for the new state capitol building. They expected to work all day, raising the derrick to the 14th floor and putting additional steel in $95,550,000 in Gold Bullion ‘Ear-Marked’ to Credit of United States FIVE OTHER NATIONS REMIT Administration Silent About Possible Consequences of French Default Washington, Dec. 15.—(#)—The United States Thursday collected war debt payments from six nations - While five, unable to pay or deter- mined not to, went into default. Great Britain was first to have its transfer announced, Secretary Mills Teceiving official word the Bank of England had ear-marked $95,550,000 of gold for Amercian credit and had instructed the Federal Reserve bank of New York to remit to the treasury. » Ferdinand Veverka. Czecho-Slo- , Vakian minister, later presented Sec- ‘retary Stimson with a formal noti- fication that Ozecho-Slovakia. will a its war debt payment of $1,500,- The minister telephoned to the National City bank in New York im- mediately instructing the bank to make the payment to the Federal Reserve bank in New York. Through the same New York agen- cy the treasury expected to get Italy’s $1,245,437; Finland’s $186,235, and » Latvia's $148,852. Five Do Not Pay Not officially in default until the treasury books are closed for the day, nevertheless France, Belgium, Poland, Esthonia and Hungary let their opportunity to pay go by and Derrick Being Lifted to 14th the treasury was prepared to record the $26,212,511 due from these coun- tries as unpaid. Another nation, Greece, Nov. 10 failed to meet a $444,920 payment and Thursday it was indicated she {also would pass up a payment due ‘There was no indication what the default of these nations would do to their credit standing or to their re- lations with the U. S. Secretary Mills HOUSE COMMITTEE DRAFTS BEER BILL IN GLOSED MEETING Not Disturbed Over Secretary Mills’ Low Estimate of Probable Income HEARINGS ARE COMPLETED Collier Bill Probably Will Legal- ize 3.2 Per Cent By Weight Beverage Washington, Dec. 15.—(?)—Actual drafting of a beer bill for presentation to the house for action before Christ- mas was undertaken Thursday by the house ways and means committee. Shoving aside for the present Secre- tary Mills’ urgent demand for a gen- eral manufacturers’ sales tax as 2 budget-balancing measure, the group, dominated by Democrats, set about fulfilling the incoming administra- tion’s pledge of Volstead law modifi- cation. As it considered the Collier bill which has been the basis of hearings this week and last, the committee did not appear disturbed by Mills’ low estimate of possible revenues from legalized beer. ‘The treasury head estimated the $5 @ barrel levy would provide $125,000,- 000 to $150,000,000 the first year in contrast with testimony of brewers’ representatives that it would exceed $200,000,000. At present the tentative measure provides for beer of 2.75 per cent alco- holic content but indications were this would be increased to 3.2 per cent by weight, the maximum most committee members believe is consti- tutional. Some revision of the wine provision and the method of collecting the 20-cent tax on each gallon ap- peared certain in view of Mills’ state- ment that its administration would be “impossible.” The $5-a-barrel levy on beer probably will be retained. The committee was called irlto ex- ecutive session by Chairman Collier to consider the changes deemed necessary in view of conflicting testi- mony of wet and dry witnesses during said the outcome was “purely specu- lative” and no other official would venture anything more definite. Mills said normal relations between this Work was halted after an hour and country and those which do not pay @ half Wednesday when several men need not necessarily be disrupted. froze their faces and had to quit, ac-} None of the $98,722,910 being paid cording to John Davis, superintend-, Thursday will come into the treas- ent. He explained that wind is con- ury in the form of bullion for the siderably worse than low tempera- present. Payment, officials explained, tures, both because of the danger of un- balancing the men and the fact that it intensifies the danger of freezing is at this time just a bookkeeping entry. Herriot Sends jthe hearings. Representative Rainey of Illinois, Democratic floor leader, said that in view of Mills’ “failure to declare for or against the bill, I velieve it is tl legislation we should pass.” He said “there are enough votes in the com- mittee to get it out on the house floor for an early vote, probably next Tues- day.” Efforts of Senator Blaine (Re| |Wis.), meanwhile, to get the senat judiciary subcommittee together to paige eee Brains and Beauty i OO q Beauty, brains, and athletic and mu- sical ability all are combined in Lu- cille Eising, University of Wisconsin senior medical student. Besides sur- passing in hockey, basketball and baseball, Miss Eising stands in the first five in class work, and has paid almost her entire way through col- lege by singing in a church choir. FAMOUS FUGITIVE FROM CHAIN GANG IS UNDER ARREST Author of Book on Which Film Was Based May Be Return- ed to Prison Camp Newark, N. J., Dec. 14—()—Robert. Elliott Burns—“I am a fugitive from a chain gang”—is no longer a fugitive but a prisoner in @ police cell. Burns, who attained nation-wide | Prominence by his book and the mo- tion picture based on his experiences | was arrested quietly Wednesday night. A member of the Georgia prison com- mission said at Atlanta the southern tate would make an effort to return {Burns to that state at once. | Counsel for Burns, however, prom- ised a fight to prevent extradition and word was awaited from Governor A. Harry Moore to learn what action he faces and noses. One more “lift” of the huge derrick which swings the steel beams into place will be made, Davis said. After being raised to the 14th floor today it will be lifted again to the 16th floor and from there will be able to put the top steel of the 19th story in place. No concrete has been poured on the job since the beginning of the pres- ent cold wave and contractors ar: before resuming work. Frank Anders, secretary of the cap- itol commission, returned Tuesday from St. Paul where the capitol com- mission met for several days to ex- amine material and decide other de- tails of the structure. Stone and travertine, heat control and ventilat- ing systems and other items which enter into the fil of the struc- ture were inspected, along with vari- ous types of windows, acoustical ma- terials and other details. The new telephone building at Minneapolis and the new Ramsey ‘county courthouse and St. Paul city hall were visited to examine the equipment installed in them. The commission was particularly interested in methods of sound con- trol, since they desire silence in the new capitol wherever it is possible to for the acoustical treatment of some parts of the structuré-and the com- North Dakota Youths Vie for Scholarships Husband Must Wait}, spotenc, wash, Deo. 15. — um — it young men, the pick Wednesday by refusal of authorities|60n and Washington. The dozen at the Sort ‘U. 8. Veterans’|COmpeting here were chosen from hospital to grant @ furlough. (8toups of five in their respective The physician's‘ wife, Winnie Ruth| states. tons: Judd, awaits execution Feb. 17, next,| Were given Wednesday, with the finals for the murder of Mrs. LeRol. ed be sgl: pens if In Denmark. the Christmas tree emg t Sees te. the es FS -cdivertae ‘Sunderlin, Seat- Js not disclosed to the children | that slaying. ‘The women were mur-|tle, University of Montana; " Armin until they scamper home from | dered in their Phoenix home and|Hill, Drummond, Montana State col- vesper services on Christmas Eve. | both podies shipped to Los Angeles| lege. Then for an hour they dance | in trunks, ‘North Dakota—G. W. Stewart, ‘about the tree with thelr elders, ‘When Dr. Judd learned the su-|Mandan, University of North Dakota; singing carols before opening preme court of Arizona had dénied)D. E. Baich, Dickinson, University of the presents the Gnomes have | his wife a new trial he said he was|North Dakota. brought. “going to do now what I should have ago,” . go . +}-done- months "and would go to) DIES AT MINNEAPOLIS Phoenix to “tell all” to Sheriff Mc-| Minneapolis, Dec, 15.—()—Swan Padden. Holmquist, 75, resident of Minneapo- But the veterans’ hospital, where) lis 10 years, died at the home of his DAYS UNTIL |e has been 0 since ‘eariy|son, John . Holmquist, 8908 Grand ‘ this year, would not|allow him to|Avenue, Tuesday night after » short STMAS: leave. Physicians at the hospital in-[ilineas,” He Teaves two sons. and two | Sicated i caight be enveral Gare be-| daughters, Ons of Whbex'ls DEsshlide ‘fore they Jet Dr. Judd go. ‘| Holmquist of Fargo, i vy mission would like to extend this idea to the entire structure if it is able to do so, Anders said. Members of the commission ani some other local persons have received Ambassador Claudel called on Sec- retary Stimson at the state depart- ment to hand him a note from Pre- mier Herriot. Its text was kept pri- vate temporarily, but it was under- stood to carry formal notification that the fall of the cabinet had tied the government's hands on making the debt payment. Minister Veverka of Czecho-Slo- vakia, giving Stimson notice of his waiting for the weather to moderate Country's payment of $1,500,000, pre- {sented a note asserting that the re- mittance “constitutes, in the utmost self-denial of the Czecho-Slovak peo- ple, their final effort to meet the obligation under such extremely un- favorable circumstances.” The Polish ambassador and the Lithuanian minister were handed this country’s second refusal to ex- jtend the debt moratorium in their cases, and a similar note was mailed to the Esthonian consul general in New York. The Lithuanian minister then jcalled at the treasury, varying the | process of remittance followed by other paying nations, by presenting & check for $92,386 drawn on @ local HERRIOT REFUSES TO FORM NEW CABINET i Paris, Dec. 15.—(#)—Premier Her- new cabinet Thursday afternoon and President Lebrun immediately called in Camille Chautemps, minister of the interior, as his next choice. Herriot said he previously had pela not attempt to form a new cab- handsome invitations to attend the dedications of the courthouse and city hall at St. Paul, to be held soon, An- | Chasitempe is one of the prominent leaders of the radical party to which | Herriot bel ders said, but he doubted if anyone from Bismarck would attend this ceremony. Young Woman’s Temperature of 110 Degrees Amazes consider a prohibition repeal proposal were to be renewed Thursday, but Prospects for early senate action on the proposition appears to be fading rapidly. RAILWAY WORKERS MAKE CONCESSIONS Offer to Extend For An Addition- al Year Present Reduced Wage Scale Chicago, Dec. 15.—(?)—Union rail- way labor suggested in a counter pro- posal to employers Thursday that the present agreement for a 10 per cent year past its expiration date of next Jan. 31. . The railroads had suggested that the present agreement be extended for six months and the question of wages then be negotiated under the railroad labor act. Either side could during the month obtain it. Provision has been made riot refused a commission to form ajof January, 1934, make suggestions for changes in the basic rate of wage. Although refusing to discuss the Possibility of future changes in the basic wage rates as hinted by the railroads, labor made two large con- cessions. It offered to double the six-month period of pay reductions suggested by the carriers, thereby agreeing to take cuts aggregating $200,000,000 in wages longs. —- | Chautemps told President Lebrun : during the coming year, and it offered to continue the cuts in effect for an | ified he would try to form a new govern- | ment. Medical Attendants lil sax ii cee ie i rt sk HI ste it & i E Hoover Overlooks Rebuke From Senate Wwe [f i ef is Ba: . | : i i g E - reduction in wages be extended one | 4! would take. He previously was quot- ed as telling the fugitive he would aid him when and if it were necessary. No Effort To Hide Burns had made no apparent effort to hide, and although he was known to have been in New Jersey over two years there had been no request for his arrest. Burns came here from Pittsburgh Sept. 7, 1930, only a few days after he escaped from the Troup county, Ga., prison camp. He worked on a New- ark newspaper until it stopped publi- cation. Then he found a variety of other Jobs, among them that of a dynamiter at @ copper refinery in Chrome. After that, he decided to write his exper- fences and the book and motion pic- ture dealing with the Georgia prison system followed. Now he operates a small store in East Orange, and before his arrest was a familiar figure in down-town Newark, where he was taken into cus- ly. Interviewed by a local newspaper only last Sunday, he expressed the hope of obtaining a pardon. Returned To ‘Gang’ John Moore, with Burns and a third man, held up a grocery in Atlanta, G., in 1921. The trio was captured and Burns was sentenced from six to 10 years. He escaped in 1922 and was free until 1929 when, according to his story, a woman brought about his return to the “chain gang.” After his first outbreak, he chose Chicago as a place to live and became @ success as &@ magazine publisher. He married but later fell in love with (CASE IS PRESENTED 10 DISTRICT COURT BY FOLK ON PAYROL! More Than 2,000 Persons and Christmas Pay Checks Are Involved in Case MEANS $5,000 TO BISMARCK Four Different Counts Urged Against Statute Enacted By Voters Last Month Challenge to the constitutionallts of the salary-reduction law enacted by the voters in November has been filed in the Burleigh county district court and now is scheduled to be gued at 4 p. m. Thursday. The case involves more than persons on the state payroll an forts are being made to obtain cision before Christmas in orde! Persons affected may know the sult before that time. Unofficial timates indicate that it may the state payroll in Bismarck to the extent of $5,000 for December. The petition, in which the state North Dakota is plaintiff “on rela- tion of John Gammons” as of the state industrial was presented to Judge R. G. McFar- land in district court last Saturday. Judge McFarland later signed an alternative writ of mandamus, di- recting the state auditing board, named as defendants, to either pay Gammons the salary which he has ‘previously drawn or show cause why it should not do so. Argument on this action, with At- 5 frydeet McFarland. Plaintiffs Seeking Speed The plaintiffs Thursday were press- ing for all possible speed lief that, regardless of the the district court, the taken to the supreme decision. Gammons, as secretary of ite industrial commission, alleges that he is entitled to $233.34 as salary for De- cember but that the auditing board, acting under the initiated salary-re- ducing measure, allowed him $197.21. He alleges that the statute is null and void because in contra- vention of four different sections of the state constitution. The case is frankly designed as @ test of the new law and the precedent established in the Gammons case will be followed in writing other pay checks. Meanwhile it developed Thursday that those employes who operate un- der the direction of non-salaried boards probably will receive no pay- checks until the case is settled. The initiated law provides that employes shall receive no more than members of the boards which employ them. The capitol commissioners receive nothing and employes of that body will re- ceive nothing unless the law is held invalid. State Auditor John Steen has not yet issued warrants to em- Ployes in this department. The four specifications of unconsti- Latina made in the complaint fol- low: t & ‘halienge . “That said pretended statute wholly fails to comply with the re- quirements’ of Section 64 of the Con- stitution in that said section purports to be an amendment of other laws of the state of North Dakota and, fails Section 61 of the Constitution, in that the said initiative measure fe its igetpeng it embraces more an one subject which is not express ed in its title. 3. “That said pretended statute vi- olates section 11 of the constitution in that the said pretended statute purports to be of a general nature and will not and cannot have a uni- form operation in that where the said statute refers to were employed by the state of North Dakota in the month of January, 1932, and does not include persons employed subsequent to that date, the same is not uniform in its opera- tion as to persons employed by the state of North Dakota, and if to HH lh arsed i cy i Inia