The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 7, 1933, Page 1

as i Ba North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Weather Report Light snow tonight or Sunday; warmer. ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1933 PRICE FIVE CENTS Nation Japanese Arm MILITARY LEADERS ANNOUNCE PLAN TO}. ji ATTACK NEXT MONTH Say ‘Chinese Offensive’ May Cause Them to Begin Drive Sooner, However Where Japanese Cross Great Wall BARE ASSASSINATION PLOT Claim Opposing General En- gineered Scheme to Murder Nipponese Commander Changchun, Manchuria, Jan. 7.— (®)—Activities of Chinese troops will determine how soon Japanese occup- ation of the Mongolian province of Jehol will begin, it was disclosed here Saturday at Japanese army head- quarters. Military leaders indicated it was Planned to begin the drive no earlier than late February but that a Chin- ese “offensive” may cause the Ja- panese to act sooner. They said Marshal Chang Hsiao-Liang, North China war lord, was continuing to mass large forces in the province, former summer playground of Chin- ese emperors. At the same time the army head- quarters made sensational disclosure of an alleged Chinese plot to assas- sinate General Nobuyoshi Muto, Ja- pan’s supreme representative in Manchuria, which it said was respon- sible indirectly for the outbreak of the three-day battle this week at Shanhaikwan. Accuse Chinese Chief Tt accused the highest Chinese au- thority in the north, Marshal CHINA'S 400 YEAR OLD of China | Chang himself, of financing the scheme which allegedly included the killing of other powers in the Japanese- fostered Manchukuo government in Manchuria. The Japanese headquarters assert- ed a Korean, Kigyo son, member of the alleged terrorist organization commissioned to carry out the plot, was captured at Tientsin and was being transported to Changchun just before the Shanhaikwan battle start- ed Sunday. Chinese tried to rescue him at Changlin, southwest of Shanhaik- wan, the Japanese said, and failing in this later threw three bombs in the Japanese police headquarters at Shanhaikwan on the Manchurian ‘border. This the Shan- haikwan_ battle. The Japanese said the Chinese thought the Korean was being held at the police headquarters and sought to either rescue him or seal his lips a roel of the Donia: ‘Two other alleged conspirators, whose confessions were said to have led to the Korean’s arrest, were held here. American Money Used The Japanese said money raised in the United States and other coun- tries where Chinese were residents was forwarded to Marshal Chang and used to finance the scheme. Rus- sian and Japanese Communists were reported among the tors. General Muto’s headar reiterated that Japan “localize” the Guns roared new in the Far East as Japan launched a new offensive against the Chinese at Shanhaik- wan. The picture at the top shows Nipponese troops standing at atten- tion on the great wall of China and facing the city of Shanhaikwan, which State Rail Board Wins in Suit to Collect on Bonds CLAIMED BY DEATH Ticket Holders Brings Total For First Week of New Year to 14 in Bis- marck District they later attacked and captured. Below is an “animated” map show- ing the location of strategic points in the harbor area of the Yellow Sea and demonstrating that Shanhaik- wan is a point from which drives could be launched against either The North Dakota board of rail- road commissioners was sustained in all issues of its suit against the wheat growers warehouse company of Min- neapolis and the Maryland Casualty company, it was announced Saturday. The action was brought last spring deaths in local hospitals early Saturday brought the Bismarck the new full plus 6 per cent interest from date of insolvency of the wheat growers company. The Wheat Growers company vol- who untarily turned the affairs of 59 of) its elevators in North Dakota over to the commission as trustee soon after its insolvency on April 23, 1931. The sustaining 5 i ed down by Judge Fred Jansonius Bismarck in Burleigh county district court. . | pre! constitutionality of the act concern- F #8 ? 3 g et i i : tif | ‘} E ti i 7 F} br 3 F e° ef Hy F nese in the Russo-Japanese war a ing the insolvency of grain warehouse- a men. Tientsin or China's old capital at Pieping. -; below the Hoover budget—received | Port Arthur, captured by the Jal peace, eat See lence late Friday in New York City generation ago, is at the right in this picture, across the Yellow sea from Shanhaikwan. TAX COLLECTIONS IN COUNTY FALL 14PER CENT IN LAST YEAR $769,813.52 Collected in 1932 Compared to $895,408.71 Year Before j ‘The other Democratic piece—an| ON SELECTIONS FOR POSTS IN CABINET Will Confer With Stimson Soon to Obtain Insight Into Foreign Affairs GARNER REMARK SURPRISES President-Elect Says He Is Leaving Details of Economy Program to Congress Hyde Park, N. ¥., Jan. 71—(P)\— President-elect Roosevelt, after mak- ing it clear that he is satisfied with the Democratic program for this ses- sion of congress, is turning again to the task of forming a new govern- ment. Foreign affairs are to receive at- tention at a meeting between Mr. Roosevelt and Henry L. Stimson, President Hoover's secretary of state. The date has been fixed for this con- ference but has not been made pub- lic. ‘Whatever rowing may go on in congress over the details of new tax- es to balance the budget, the Presi- dent-elect is satisfied that as a re- sult of Thursday night’s parley in New York between himself and the party pilots of Capitol Hill a determined effort will be made to make govern- ment costs and income for next year meet. The news that Speaker John N. Garner, Vice president-elect, was talking about “less painful” levies than the proposed income tax boost, brought an expression 6f surprise here and a reply that the President- elect was leaving the details to con- gress. Garner and Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas, the Democra- tic floor leader, were the spokesmen of Thursday night's meeting who an- nounced to newspapermen the pro- gram for raising income taxes to help out the estimated $492,000,000 deficit. Separate Beer Enactment of the 3.2 per cent beer bill with its revenue provision is an- other part of the Democratic attack on the deficit. However, this pro- position is going to be sent along to President Hoover as a separate pro- position for a veto or approval. Like- wise, the Democrats are determined to put up to the president their “parity plan” farm relief measure; now before the house, and in this/ they have the apparent support of | Mr. Roosevelt. t additional $100,000,000 in economies between the President-elect, Senator James F. Byrnes of South Carolina, and Professor Raymond Moley, eco- nomic adviser. Byrnes is a member of the special economic commission of the senate. Leaving the busy New York City home at 4:30 Friday afternoon, Roosevelt motored up the Hudson river valley to his estate here, near Hyde Park. ‘This week-end and the next will be spent here. A visit from Gover- nor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, Republican Independent, is on the program here. Roosevelt says this meeting does not involve politics. Sandwiched between all the con- ferences of the President-elect are frequent and very secret discussions about the makeup of his cabinet. In this connection the appearance of Swager Shirely of Kentucky at the jclement weather and in winter he lived in the city with Arthur Van {ago. At the time of his death, Phil- | brick was residing at the Patterson * en # a * & **# & * *# & John French Philbrick, picturesque Bismarck resident for half a cen- tury who came here in 1882 as a brilliant young attorney and in his last ‘years sought solitude among the trees and birds of the Missouri river bottoms, living in a small hut about seven miles south of the Capital City, died in a local hospital at 1:15 o'clock Saturday morning. Cancer caused the death of the 77- -year-old pioneer. He had been ill for years but did not enter the hos- pital until Wednesday. In his 50 years as a resident of Dakota Territory and North Dakota, Philbrick spent about 30 years as a practicing attorney, served as an as- sistant attorney general of the state for 12 years, as deputy Burleigh county auditor, judge of probate court, commissioner of the state board of insanity, and as chairman of the Burleigh county Republican central committee for 12 years. Colonel C. B. Little, president of the First National Bank and life- long associate and friend of Phil- brick, described him as a “lovable! friend, brilliant attorney, accom- plished musician, and a scholar.” ‘Were In Same Class Little and Philbrick were graduated in the same class from Dartmouth college, Hanover, N. H., in the spring of 1881. At, college, Colonel Little said, Philbrick played the pipe organ while Little sang in the college choir. Philbrick also sang and played the cornet and violin. Philbrick followed Colonel Little to Bismarck at the latter's suggestion, he said. Colonel Little Saturday was await- ing word from Philbrick’s brother, Eliphalet Philbrick, Boston manager of the American Surety company, before making definite arrangements for funeral services. Philbrick never married. During the summers of his last 10 years of life, Philbrick spent much of his time alone in his river bot- toms hut, communing with nature, cultivating small vegetable and flow- er gardens, and reading. In in- Horn, architect, who died a few years CONSIDERING WIDE RANGE OF MEASURES Seven Groups Ponder Propos- als Ranging From Poor Relief to Beer Washington, Jan. 7—(?)—The legis- lative halls of congress were silent Saturday in tribute to Calvin Cool- idge, but senate committees plunged into the busiest day's work of the ses- sion. Seven meetings were held on sub- jects which ranged from the constitu- tonality of beer to unemployment re- lef. There were not sessions of any kind on the house side. House members, however, surveyed Prospects for passage of the domestic allotment farm relief bill on whid a| final vote probably will be had by lat: jnext week. Progressive members pledged virtually unanimous support, county’ Roosevelt meetings on finance, is re-' but Democratic leaders were not cor- yin ums ie pe garded significantly. He is a former) tain of the large eastern city vote be- below those of the previous year, ac- A total of $769,813.52 was received from taxpayers in 1932 compared to $895,408.71 in 1931, the treasurer re- Ports, the decrease being $125,595.19. Receipts in 1932 were 22.66 percent below total collections in 1929, which were $994,141.96. Collections in 1930 totaled $931,664.18, Derby's total In only one month did 1932 collec- tions exceed those for 1931. Collec- tions in July, 1932, totaled $10,716.45, compared to @ total of $9,505.06 for) +.’ July, 2091. total fons for each month in ¢ 1931229 78.93 effort to bring the nation’ of the house a committee and is believed to rank high up among the possibilities for secretary of the treasury. INCOME TAX SCHEME 8 DIFFICULTY ee Drepared by Derby showing! tions ;cause of the taxation features of the measure. Nevertheless, Jones of Tex- as, its author, was confident it would be passed and sent to the senate. Hearings on the constitutionality of the house 3.2 beer proposal began at 9:30 with six hours to be devoted to prohibition and anti-prohibition sup- Porters. A new group of witnesses appeared before another committee in behalf of the $500,000,000 LaFollette- Costigan federal bond issue proposal for outright grants to states. Representatives of banks were summoned before a spe- cial meeting of the banking committee Ste/to state their opposition to branch banking provisions of the Glass bank- ing reform bill now before the senate. quick to say that higher income levies would be pushed only as a peccie Approve Amendment North Dakota joined the prod Dwellers in Valley Returning to Homes WAS BRILLIANT ATTORNEY Led Picturesque Life in State **# #@ * 2 & * *# & ** & Annex hotel. Philbrick nad a background of New England culture and ancestry, being a distant blood relative of Daniel Webster, great American Statesman and orator. He was bom at Pittsfield, N. H., June 9, 1855, the son of Richard N. and Olive J. (Green) Philbrick, of English and Irish ancestry. He grew up in New Hampshire, at- tending the common schools of Pit! field. He spent one year of his early youth in Illinois and attended school; at Collinsville. From 1874 to 1877 he was a student in the Penacook Normal Academy in New Hampshire | and taught a district school in his native state in 1877. In the same! year he entered Dartmouth, and while at college served as principal during the winter terms at Pena- cook Academy in 1878, 1879 and 1880. Shortly after leaving Dartmouth he moved to Chicago, and during 1881-1882 studied law in the office of John P. Altgled, who 10 years later was instituted in 1883. At college he was a member of Psi Upsilon, nation- al collegiate social fraternity. Moving to Bismarck, he completed his legal education in the office of George P. Flannery and John T. Wetherby, the former now living in Minneapolis. He was admitted to the Dakota Territory bar in 1885. Built Lucas Building Philbrick acquired considerable property in his business days, hav- ing owned the property and built the building in which the A. W. Lucas company department store now is housed at the corner of Broadway avenue and Fourth St. He was deputy county auditor from 1885 to 1887 and judge of pro: bate from 1889 to 1891. sistant attorney general from 1895 to Bows at Coolidge Bier y Prepares to Invade Jehol ROOSEVELT WORKING)! John Philbrick, Pioneer, Dies IPAYS LAST HONORS TO OTH PRESIDENT AT SIMPLE SERVICE Friends and Neighbors, High and Lowly, Join in Pay- ing Respects PRESIDENT HOOVER THERE Huge Crowd Stands Silent Un- der Chill, Grey Sky As Services Proceed Northampton, Mass., Jan. 7.—(?)}— The nation he served paid its last honors Saturday to Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the United States. Friends and neighbors, the leaders in public life where he once walked, the high and the lowly, joined to pay their final respects in a brief and simple funeral service, such as he would have wished. President Hoover, who took up the burden Calvin Coolidge laid down in Washington not quite four years ago, the vice president, the chief justi of the Unived States, others in the national government and the chief executives of states of his native New England were here. In the congregation that filled the few hundred seats of the Jonathan Edwards Congregational church, were also Mrs. Frankiln D. Roosevelt and James Roosevelt, the wife and the son of the man who, in a few weeks will take the office Calvin Coolidge once held as president. Crowd Waits in Street Outside, in the street, beneath a chill, grey sky, a crowd, unable to gain admittance to the church, stood silently, heads bowed as the service moved to a close. They parted to form a reverent lane, through which the casket was borne later to the motor hearse in which it began the 100-mile drive northward to the old homestead at Plymouth, Vt., to be laid at rest in the family burial plot. 1907 and was chairman of the Repub- lican central committee from 1890- | 1904. Philbrick was one of the organ izers of the first lodge of the In-| dependent Order of Odd Fellows here, St. Elmo Lodge No. 4, which was instituted in 1883. A’man of literary tastes, at one time he was credited with possessing one of the most extensive private libraries in North Dakota. ‘COMMITTEES BUSY New Feature For Women Beginning next Tuesday The Tribune will offer a new feature of particular interest to its wom- en readers. It is a series of quilt patterns which has proved popular else- where in the country, and a needlework service which should be of real assistance to women who sew at home. Each day The Tribune will pre- sent a new quilt pattern or needlework article. The illustra- tions will be small to conserve space but will give a clear idea of what the design is like. Accom- Panying articles will describe the full-size patterns for making the various objects which may be ob- tained from The Tribune. Watch for further details re- garding this new service, which will start next Tuesday. LUMBERMAN T0 FACE ACCUSER IN COURT Action By Judge Makes Meeting of Halloran and Mrs. Judd Probable Phoenix, Ariz, Jan. 7.—(?)—Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd may realize her often expressed wish within the next few days to come face to face with John J. Halloran, the man she impli- cated in the “trunk” slaying case for which she is under sentence to hang. | placed Possibility of the meeting developed when Superior Judge Howard Speak- man sustained a demurrer to the Mrs. Coolidge, with her only son, John, and his wife at her side, sat through the service in a front pew. With her, in the same pew, were President and Mrs. Hoover. Directly | before them, and below the flower jbanked pulpit, stood the casket. | The former president's widow wore {20 mourning veil. She was pale, bug j her face was calm and serene. | . Vice President Curtis and Chief Justice Hughes occupied seats in & Pew to the right of Mrs. Coolidge and the president. Behind Mrs. Coolidge, Mrs. Roosee velt and her son occupied a pew and nearby sat Secretary of State Stimson- and others high in the national gov- ernment. In the congregation, too, | were representatives of foreign gov- ernments, the French ambassador and others. It was a few minutes before 10:30, when the service was to begin, that the President and Mrs. Hoover entered. As they walked to their pew, the or- ganist played the soft movement from the “new world” symphony, through which run the strains of an old Ne- gro spiritual, “Going Home.” Mrs. Coolidge had asked that it be played. Rise As Widow Enters The president sat with his head bowed, rising with the congregation, as Mrs. Coolidge entered the audi- toyium. The Rev. Albert J. Penner, youth- ful pastor of a very old church, took his place in the pulpit. He uttered a brief invocation and & quartet sang “Lead Kindly Light.” Prayer said. tion, as well. |. “We thank Thee for the life of him whose death we now mourn. We thank Thee for what his life has meant to the country and the world. We thank Thee for the devotion which he showed to the dise charge of all his public duties. We thank Thee for the faithfulness with which he served his town. “We thank Thee for the measure of dedication which he brought to the service of the commonwealth. And, above all, do we bless Thee for the consecration with which he served his country in the highest office within the gift of the people. He kept ig which the people “... may we not begrudge him, whose loss we so deeply mourn, the rest with Thee which he has so richly deserved, knowing that by the mercy and grace he finished his course, having kept the faith.” As he rose to begin his prayer, the Seoecesation. of ie ee