The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 19, 1933, Page 1

North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper eee ‘ABLISHED 1873 eling SOLONS CONCERNED + BY FORECLOSURES, © DBLINQUENT TAXES Bumper Crop of Bills Offered to Remedy Situation Before It Is Too Late MORATORIUM IS DEMANDED Hull Would Place Billion in Fund to Retire Rural Mort- gage Loans ——__—__—_________» * | Blopes With Heir |_Elopes | =e Washington, Jan. 19. — (#) — The 9 ‘farmer facing the loss of his home be- cause he cannot pay mortgage install- | ments or taxes is one of the chief concerns of congress. Max! to . The plight of the farmer as told in'sketch all the to dispatches from & score of states prin-|now. An art student, she to cipally in the west and south—has|Porids, heard there were ni given rise to » bumper crop of bills/There she met Harry Gesigned to give him help before it isinephew of the circus too late. elopement has just been reveal Whatever may be {n store for the “domestic allotment” price-boosting bill now temporarily bogged down in ® morass of senate doubts, there is no question of a determination among senators and representatives to act before the present session ends and throw a life line of federal credit into the rural sections. This is regarded ‘8 more imperative, even, than meas- ures to raise the prices of the prod- . ucts the agriculturist produces from i, his soil. Some call for outright “morator-/' ium” on mortgage foreclosures. One of this type has been perfected by Senator Huil (Dem., Tenn.) No Interest on Loans A billion dollars would be placed at the disposal of the Reconstruction Corporation under the Hull measure to be used in paying the farmers’ ponemont ‘of foreclosures “for” two Ponemont of forec! lor two Perch ay ac tags, ete, Wed, of sali, eect For inhalers ie tm the North Dakota house Wednes- Senator Harrison (Oem divest’ the | Representatives H. M. Henrickson corporation to lend the owner of |McHenry county, C. H. Morgan, Ric! mortgaged property—either urban or land, and Christ Sprenger, Grant, a farm—enough money to pay the taxes for two years. A bill offered by Senator George, (Dem., Ga.), would authorize loans up| o¢ to three billion dollars and would have the federal a we over farm mortgages at per cent their original value provided the Mountrail Legislator Would Re- peal Present Statute; Tighten Supervision Regulation and licensing of eleva- tors and “track buyers” with repeal of the present grain storage acts and K. A. Fitch, Cass, introduced the bill to compel collection agencies to | war. Activities were renewed in that BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1983 JEmploy Attorney to Contest Rate Case HEAR 380 CHINESE DIE FROM COLD ON T0P OF MOUNTA MILLIO Force Surrounded By Japs Per- ishes in Trenches, With Rifles in Hands Shanghai, Jan. 19.—()—Three hun- Gred eighty Chinese soldiers were re- Ported Thursday found frozen to death after being besieged for two weeks by Japanese troops on a south- eastern Manchurian mountain top. The report of the tragedy, carried in. Chinese newspapers, turned atten- tion in the Sino-Japanese controver- sy back to the original theatre of the top of Mount Takushan, near the coast between Takushan City and Siuyen, 125 miles south of Mukden. ‘The Chinese were hard-pressed by Japanese troops and made a final stand on the mountain, repulsing sev- eral attacks by the Japanese, the re- there was a The Japanese Mukden-Dairen and Mukden-Antung railroads and the coast. Unlike in the other two military offensives conducted by the Japan- ese in Manchuria in the northwest and northeast, General Tang's troops could not flee across the Siberian border. Siberia was the escape a month ~70 for General Su-Ping Wen and his army in the northwest and again last week for General Li Tu in the northeast. The Russian policy oz refusing to accede to Japanese de- mands for their extradition made those Chinese revolts against the Manchukuo government comparative- ly less dangerous. The Japanese themselves were re- trapped in the region south Saieraens Commission Joins Railroad Board in Freight Tariff Battle NS ARE INVOLVED Class Rates Asked By Railroads Would Cost North Da- kota $5,000,000 An appropriation of $10,000 for spe- cial counsel to be employed at Inter- state Commerce Commission hear- ings on the class rate case has been approved by the state emergency commission, it was announced Thurs- day. ‘The appropriation was made at the request of the state railroad com- mission which has retained Karl Knox Gartner, Washington, D. C., lawyer, to represent the commission during the entire case. North Dakota shippers approximate- ly $5,000,000 In increased rates dur- ing a normal year if the carrier's propésal is approved, special counsel is necessary to act in place of E. M. Hendricks, traffic expert for the com- mission, who will be attending con- ease, considered ‘the. most “important case, considered the it before the commission. Commissioner of Agriculture John Husby and Secretary of State Robert Byrne, who with the governor make up the emergency commission, met with the railroad board and approved the appropriation. The governor was unable to attend because of illness. Previously Gartner was employed to appear before I. C. C. examiners and his fee of $1,500 and $500 ex- penses was paid through an appro- Priation allowed by the emergency commission. It was then decided to The commission's resolution states that “it is a matter of paramount importance to the people of North Dakota that sufficient funds be ob- tained to insure continued employ- ment of Mr. Gartner to the conclu- sion of this case.” The case may be pending for a year and will require attendance at numerous hearings, preparation of exhibits, briefs and exceptions to the proposed report and oral argument before the I. C. C. in Washington, the resolution says. . The class rate case involves less- than-carlot rates on all commodities and numerous important carload rates, including farm implements, THE BISMARCK TRIBUN PRICE FIVE CENTS ° 0. LEONARD ORVEDAL O. Leonard Orvedal, Rugby, took under Alfred 8. Dale, state treasurer. He has been superintendent of schools for Pierce county for the last five the University of North Dakota. SAY NEGRO ADMITS MURDER OF FORMER RESIDENT OF STATE Man Arrested in Boston Clears Year-Old Mystery of Ils- ley Slaying Boston, Jan. 19.—(#)—Police an- nounced Thursday that George Crawford, Negro, had made a com- {plete confession of the murder of Mrs. Agnes Boging Iisley, Virginia Society woman, and her maid. Mina Buckner. The confession was announced after Crawford had been questioned three hours. John Galliher, commonwealth at- torney from Leesburg, Va., previously had said Crawford had made “a par- tial confession.” Galliher said Crawford made im- portant statements while he was be- ing questioned for several hours by him and Sergeant John McCardle of moment to give further details. He said he was in a hurry to get to the state house and confer with of- ficlals regarding Crawford’s extradi- tion. ss Mrs. Iisley, Mrs, Buckner were found slain in a uble Congress {Dept Reeurr ASSERT MRS. JUDD [ the Boston police but declined at the }Said she had gone to the apartment HAS UNSOUND HIND INACCESORY CASE Counsel For Wealthy Lumber- man Files Charge After Hysterical Scene NERVES BADLY SHAKEN Woman Slayer Sobs as She Re- lates Story of Double Slay- ing in Open Court Phoenix, Ariz., Jan. 19.—()—Coun- sel for John J. Halloran Thursday challenged the competence of Winnie Rancher Honored ! JOHN LEAKEY John Leakey, pioneer McKenzie years and previously was in the bank-|S°ry to the crime of murder,” on, ing business. Orvedal is a graduate of | grounds she is of unsound mind, un- | night. able to comprehend the oath and! not a voluntary witness. It was the second technical objec- tion raised by counsel for the wealthy lumberman, the first having to do with testimony by Miss Maud Mar- shall, school teacher, who occupied rtment next to Mrs. Judd’s in the fall of 1931. Miss Marshall testified she heard some one drive up to and enter Mrs. Judd’s apartment the night of Oct. 16, 1931, the night Mrs. Agnes Anne Leroi and Miss Sedvig Samuelson were slain, but she could make no Positive identification in connection with the incident. The blonde Mrs. Judd was convicted of the Leroi slay- ing. In an emotional storm of tears, screams and angry cries, Mrs. Judd, Wednesday, sobbed out her story of the killing of two women as a wit- ness in the preliminary hearing. When counsel for the wealthy lum. berman resumed a cross-examination \and led her through the details of the double murder of Agnes Anne Leroi Mrs.'and Hedvig Samuelson, her hysteria mounted until the court ordered a recess. The blonde young woman, sentenced to die on Feb. 17 at jprison for the murder of Mrs. Leroi, told, with tears pouring down her face, how she had fought with the two women in the apartment here on the night of Oct. 16, 1931, and had slain them when they attacked her. Invited For Bridge On the night of the slaying she iu response to an invitation from Mrs. Leroi to make a fourth hand at “bridge, but when she arrived Evelyn Nace, who was to have played with them, had left. a wealthy widow, and| Halloran, who, she charged, planned the disposition of the bodies and eided her escape to Los Angeles, the Arizona !porly contact with his fellow men, Office this week as deputy treasurer|Ruth Judd as a witness against the|county cattleman, has been designat- lumberman at his preliminary hear-|jed as one of Nogth Dakota's master ing on a charge of being “an acces- | farmers and his portrait will be hung in the hall of fame at the state agri- cultufal college at a ceremony Friday MKENZIE RANCHER WINS RECOGNITION AS MASTER FARMER John Leakey, Who Came From South With Trail Herd, Has Helped Build State Fargo, N. D., Jan. 19.—The portrait of John Leakey, McKenzie county incher and cattleman for more than 0 years, will be hung in the Saddle and Sirloin club “hall of fame” dur- ing the Master Farmer recognition services at the North Dakota ricultural College, Friday evening, Jan. 20. In appreciation of his accomplish- ments in raising cattle and in neigh- Saddle and Sirloin club members and North Dakota Livestock Breeders will Pay tribute to this pioneer cattleman. |The recognition services are part of jthe Farmers and Homemakers week Program. M. B. Johnson of Watford City will act as toastmaster at the banquet. Born Sept. 23, 1873, at Leakey, Tex- as, a town named in honor of his grandfather, Leakey spent the first years of his life working for cow out- fits from Texas to New Mexico. His Parents died when he was 15 years cld and at 20 he hired out to accom- pany a trail herd from Clayton, New ported ot Manchuria during their campaign small cottage they occupied on the where she was captured, was to have Mexico, to the Yellowstone River in plified. 3 Not Certain of Favor Even then, they added, a favorable thing is a “sham battle” couse cf the wesmaral Eavat that dent Hoover would a Chairman McNary said he planned |storage to have the committee determine morrow the extent of the public hear- ings to be held as well as the number wae. e Two Slope Women Are Honored at College N. D., Jan. 19.—()—Mrs. F. of Amenis, Mrs. Jesse May Kline £25 WF iis z é i Dakota Ag- i : i i jl 5 E l i ! i i E 8 < 8 § : é pi a g64.2% uit afl ral i 88 Bg i against General Tang. Seventeen Japanese were reported slain east of ‘Tashikkiao, a Mukden-Dairen railway station, when 40 of them were sur- rounded two days by a Chinese force. , |The survivors cut their way to safety. This was only about 25 miles from Mount Takushan, where the Chinese were surrounded. It was in this region that Japan made its first military advance into "|Manchuria in September, 1931, pre- tating the league of nations’ in- panese quarrel were dicating that possibly 20 escaped. DEVALUED DOLLAR SEEN AS REMEDY Farm Editor Says Action Would Give U. S. Whip Hand in Werld Economy St. Paul, Jan. 19—(#)—Henry A. Wallace, editor of Wallace's Farmer, Des Moines, Ia., Thursday suggested Present economic distress. In a talk before the Farmers’ and Homemakers’ short course at Univer- ge f i 5 é q g i ba ul RHEE if ee | a J d i i gE 3 I i | i machinery, goods, trucks and automobiles. The railroads desire to restore the preferential adjustment to the Twin Cities and Duluth, which commission members said was torn down after a five-year fight by the state commis- sion under the leadership of Hend- ricks. The new rates became effec- tive Dec. 3, 1931, and the railroads Isley estate Jan. 13, 1932. Craw- ford, who was arrested here for housebreaking under the name of Joseph Taylor, had been discharged from her employ some tme before the murders. Galliher said he would return to Virginia tomorrow and two officers would arrive here Saturday to re- turn Crawford to Leesburg. Hi seen her that night but she telephon- ed him she could not see him and went instead to the apartment. An argument started, she said, when Mrs. Leroi asked her if she knew how Halloran had become ac- quainted with a certain girl and she replied she had introduced them. ie said} 4nne upbraided her, she said, and now propose generally to go back to|the Boston police planned to arraign|When she attempted to pass it off the rates prior to that date, accord- ing to the state commission. Assistance is being given the North Dakota commission by Fargo and pinnae Forks Sattic — who are ping prepare class case. Hendricks is now preparing ex- hibits and other data for the grain rae nanan, one of which will be Minneapolis Jan. increased rates asked by the The the importance of case, they said, makes it mandatory that Hendricks devote his full time to it, while Gartner will be occupied with the class rate case, L ©. C. REFUSES PLEA ‘TO DISMISS GRAIN CASE Washington, Jan. 19.—()}—The In- terstate Commerce Commission today refused the petition of the Chicago Board of Trade and nine middle west- ern terminal grain market organiza- tions asking dismissal of the western grain freight rate case. ‘The order overruling the motion did not set forth reasons. portion the nation-wide inquiry into freight tion ordering the commission to x- Crawford in court Thursday on a breaking, entering and larceny charge and would ask that it be nol prossed to make the way clear for Virginia. 100 ARE HERE FOR HOLIDAY MEETING Farmers Considering State and National Legislative Re- lief Proposals More than one hundred members of the North Dakota Farm Holiday association assembled in Bismarck Thursday to consider state and na- in the agricultural areas. A program for financing of seed- ing operations this year was foremost ‘of | #mong the problems to be considered at the afternoon session, to Usher L. Bu o, state presi- eg irdick, Fargo, presi. i p if z lightly, Mrs. Leroi threatened to tell her husband, Dr. William C. Judd. “I told her that was a lie and that I knew too much about her,” Mrs, Judd said she replied. She turned and went into the kitchen and sud- denly found “Sammy” facing her with a pistol and saying, “‘you say anything about Anne and I'll kill you.’ ” Mrs. Judd said she reached for the weapon and they struggled over it. She saw a bread knife and seized it, stabbing Miss Samuelson twice. “Sammy”, she said, discharged the weapon and a bullet wounded her in the hand. Anne screamed, “shoot! Sammy, shoot!’” Mrs, Judd said. They fell on the floor and as they plunged down | iza she twisted Sammy's hand and the ‘weapon was discharged again as it (Continuea on Page Seven) To Probe Hollywood’s Foreign Screen Stars Hollywood, Calif., Jan. 19—(P)— Hollywood's collection of counts. dukes, barons and others of foreign birth who have found places in the varied employment offered by the film industry, has been under investi- gation by a spec’ Order Brings Fire Berlin, Jan. 10.—()}—Farm relief measures decreed Wednesday eastern Montana. Instead of returning to New Mexi- co he drifted to Dickinson, N. D., in 1893. There he began working for the OX outfit which was running 20,000 cattle north and west of Dickinson. After eight years with the OX and the W Bar outfits, Leakey establish- ed a small ranch in the southern Part of what is now McKenzie coun- ty. He later moved farther north Senate Defeats Cloture Rule uent Farm Mortgages Tro LEGISLATIVE JAM LIFTED, HOWEVER, UNDER AGREEMENT Voluntary Limit ‘Is Placed on Debate After Drastic Mo- tion Loses LACKED NEEDED MARGIN 58 to 30 Count Was One Short of Required Two-Thirds; Party Lines Split Washington, Jan. 19—(#)—The leg- islative Jam in the senate over the Glass bank bill was broken Thursday when an agreement was reached to voluntarily limit debate after a dras- tic cloture motion had been rejected. Defeat of the attempt to limit de- bate through the severe cloture rule was lost by the slimmest possible margin, 58 favoring the rule and 30 being opposed, which meant failure tclind two-thirds was required to in. - A change of a soli vote would have clamped on the pent Cloture was defeated on a» vote of 58 favoring and 30 opposing the rule. Nine Democrats broke with their party leadership and voted against the petition, together with 20 Repub- licans and the lone Farmer-Laborite, Shipstead, of Minnesota. Thirty-four Democrats and 24 Re- publicans vote¢ to apply the in- stil used cloture, le nine Democrats who bolted Party leadership included Mrs. cuss way, colleague of the Georgia, Long of Louisiana, Reynolds of North Caro- lina, Russell, the new senator from Georgia, Thomas of Oklahoma, Trammell of Florida, and Wheeler of Montana. Senator Gore, Oklahoma of Senator Thomas, one ot the file busterers, voted present. Senator Dill, Democrat of Wash- ington, was paired against the cloture Petition. The vote for cloture included: Republicans: Schall. Republicans: Blaine, Prasier, Mor- publicans: Blaine, beck, Nye. : Three efforts to end the wearying, legislation-paralyzing filibuster by Henener rd failed Wednesday and the vote on the cloture motion was for Thursday afternoon, o 'ROOSEVELT LEAVES ON SOUTHERN TOUR President-Elect to Talk War Debts, Disarmament, Eco- nomics With Hoover New York, Jan. 19.—(7)—Quick ac- tion by the incoming administration in an attempt to soothe the world’s headache seemed in prospect as Pres- ident-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt got ready Thursday for another meeting with President Herbert Hoover. and located on the west bank of the Little Missouri River, building his Present home. Here he has carried on ranching operations continuous- ly since 1910. From a humble beginning of a few scres of land and a small herd of cattle, Leakey extended his ranching operations in 20 years to 5,000 cattle and 50,000 acres of owned and leased land. ‘The last 10 years Leakey has been a member of the executive commit- tee of the American National Live- stock association and at present is a member of the General Council of that organization. He has been pres- ident of the Western North Dakota Livestock association since its organ- ition. At Leakey’s ranch he has main- tained the traditional hospitality of the old west where all his friends from town and country alike are welcomed and urged to return. Birth Controllers Want More Babies New York, Jan. 19.—(?)—More ba- Dies among people who are fit for parenthood—that was the idea em- phasized Thursday as the American Birth Control League opened its an- nual convention. Fe Fese Uotae? ee riage Roosevelt, leaving on a trip to the south, was to talk with Hoover at the white house Friday. Imminent steps by the approaching administration on the complicated scheme of war debts, world economics, tariff and disarmament were believed to be foreshadowed. The President-elect himself spoke lightly of Friday's meeting, saying it concerns things in general and no specific subject in particular. Norman H. Davis, former Demo- cratic under-secretary of state who has an order from both administra- tions to help prepare the agenda for the forthcoming economic parley, was going to Washington with Roosevelt. So were William H. Woodin, an in- Roosevelt was to confer Thursday afternoon in Washington with secre- tary of state Stimson. Stillman Called to Answer Love Action New York, Jan. 19.—(#)—Decision on a motion asking the appearance of James A. Stillman for examination before trial in a contemplated libel