The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 28, 1933, Page 1

had North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Weather Report bo sad colder. ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1933 PRICE FIVE CENTS Architects Fees Are Brough LEGISLATIVE BODY SEEKS INFORMATION ON ESTIMATED COST Also Inquire Into Connection of Grand Forks Man With Capito! Commission QUESTION ANDERS ON STAND Says Bangs Was Only Member Favoring Use of Brick in Big Building Architectural fees of $135,000 and an expense account for architects of| $5,000, together with the connection of Aaron T. Jahr, Grand Forks, with the capitol commission, were studied closely Saturday as the North Da- kota legislative investigating commit- tee continued its questioning of Frank L. Anders, secretary. Start of the third day of the hear- ing was held up while members of the legislative committee conferred A. J. Gronna, attorney general, was Present for the second day, seated at the side of E. R. Sinkler, the commit- tee’s counsel. more than $2,800, a member of the architectural firm of Holabird & Root, Chicago, told him the company probably would never present a bill for the change. Anders said that only Geo. L. Bangs, Grand Forks, chairman of the com- mission, was in favor of brick for the building. Both Sinkler and Sen. W. E. Matthaei, investigating committee member, sought explanations from Anders of the fees architects are to get. Anders said they would get 6 per cent of the general contract of $1,-|of 800,000 or $108,000 and 1% per cent for the mechanical contract or $27, 000, bringing the total to $135,000. | “probability that savings, of which] —_—_—_—_— | Roosevelt’s Economy | — CAPITOL BODY HA SPENT $428,895 $0 FAR, SAYS ANDERS Secretary Declares Contracts ‘Substantially Below’ Build- ing Appropriation North Dakota's new capitol build- ing will be completed on or before Feb. 8, 1934, at a cost “substantially less” than the appropriation, Secre- tary Frank L. Anders declares in his annual financial report to the board capitol commissioners. The secretary says contracts award- ed total $1,920,960 and there is a Anders emphasized the two fees were|the state receives 80 per cent under separate and that the general archi- tectural fee was to be $108,000. Sen. Matthael examined Anders on the connection of Aaron T. Jahr with the commission. Anders was asked if Jahr was “legal advisor” of the com- mission and was requested to read items from the commission's report showing Jahr being paid various amounts for “legal work.” From an- other later report he was asked to Tead the listing of the same items in which Jahr was referred to as a “clerk.” After reading the items Anders ex- Plained that since Jahr did no “4 eaEeE fe pee tite ;|care of only she first two parts of the contracts, may rediice this amount.” The total appropriation made by the 1931 legislature was $2,000,000. Anders calls the commissioners’ at- tention to the fact that causes, oper- ating since the appropriation ‘was passed and since the design the building was accepted, have made sufficient funds for the completion of the structure unavaiable and adds that “funds should be provided dur- ing this session of the legislature that Option C of tne contract can the budget into three Punds available at present PRESIDENT-ELECT SEEKS SHARP CUTS N EPO Reorganization to Accomplish Economy and Efficiency Is Keystone of Plan FRIENDS ARE PUT TO WORK War Debts, Tariff, Currency and Disarmament Also Listed on Program . Program which he has put his friends to work. once if necessary. Dispatching Swager Sherley, an au- thority on government expenditures, to Washington to take charge of the study of realignment and reduction of bureaus, the President-elect told him “we want all the economy we can en All departments of the government are encompassed in the study to be undertaken by Sherley. A three-fold plan is in mind. First reduction of Personnel; second, consolidation of government agencies; third, abandon- ment of unnecessary functions. BODY PLANT STRIKE FORCES FORD CLOSE Motor Magnate, in Reported In- terview, Makes Thrust at Competitors Detroit, Jan. 28.—()—Hope for an immediate end of the Briggs Manu- facturing company strike, which forced a shut-down of Ford Motor pany plants, were dimmed Satur- when the customary hour employes were returning to work. pany officials have indicated to some of Briggs strike, according ie Rae Anna. 6 BAY HER | the gg - : Pett i 8 sine bitty i : iI EE g i 5 i H i ie AI Hy i zt Fy ! be H i I i A Marathoner in Dance of Life things that but he never did quite have time enough to dance marathon until the other day. But he has managed with his partner, Kitty Ross, in a New York Pasquale Camerata has missed in dance marathon. Minnesota Farmers Block Mortgage Foreclosure —___—_______—_—§+ 1” Late Bulletins | ° (By the Associated Press) McVille, N. D.—The business sec- tion of this city was being threatened by fire Saturday afternoon. The flames, which broke out in the Nels Brakke Drug Store, were confined within the tin walls of the structure but if these failed to hold, five other business places were threatened. The| water supply had been exhausted and @ strong wind from the southeast made the situation precarious. About 250 men were recruited from Lakota, Pekin and Tolna to aid in the fight. | COMING TO BISMARCK St. Paul.—Amelia Earhart Put- nam, famous flier, came here Sat- urday on the first lap of a trip to survey the route of a proposed northern transcontinental airmail route. From here she will go to Bis- marck, now western terminus of Northwest Airways. She is to leave here tomorrow. WOULD LIQUIDATE BANKS Washington.—As a step to ease the agricultural credit situation and pre- vent foreclosures on farm property, Senator Dickinson (Rep., Iowa), Sat- | urday introduced a bill to provide for holding companies to take over joint stock land banks and liquidate them. ENGLISH EDUCATOR DIES London. — George Edward oa ue ine | with no indication that the; Saintsbury, 87, one of England’s foremost educators and a well- known writer, died Saturday at his home in Bath. BOTTLERS ELECT WHITMAN Prt City.—W. 8. wasn. Crane was elected prsident o! North Dakota Bottlers’ association at closing session of the annual con- vention here Saturday. He succeeds Frank Bailey of Valley City. H. H. Williams, Mandan, was named secre- BANS JOB HUNTERS Droperly. Peruvians Determine To Uphold Nationals League of Nations in a telegram Sat- urday that his government consid- ered Colombia's expedition up the Amagon river as a threat to Peruvian t0 | believe in e1 ties Where Sales Had Been Advertised Madison, Minn., prevented mortgage foreclosure sales day. ; More than 2,000 gathered here for the scheduled sale of three proper- ties. Sheriff A. G. Smaagaerd, say- ing attempts to dispose of the farms would be futile, announced indefinite Postponement. At Montevideo, 30 miles from here, 400 farmers cheered Sheriff N. A. Pederson’s announcement of indefi- Crowd Helps Bank Bandits in Escape Madison, Minn., Jan. 28.—(?)— Four bandits, one flourishing two pistols and all with a week's growth of beard, robbed the Klein National bank here of between $7,000 and $8,000 Saturday after forcing four employes and a patron to lie on the floor. They fled in a car driven by a fifth man. The robbery took place while many automobiles were coming into Madison, bearing farmers whose presence later caused the sheriff to postpone three mortgage foreclosure sales. nite postponement of a sale. He waited 45 minuthe but received no bids, and later said the farmers ap- parently had agreed that no bids were to be presented. At Granite Falls, 35 miles from here, sale of a tract owned by O. J. Olson was postponed for the time being to permit the parties concerned to discuss a settlement. Sheriff M. F. Fitzner took this ac- tion after 300 farmers visited his of- fice and assembled near the court- house. John A. Bosch of Atwater, presi- dent of the Minnesota Fa: ' Holi- day association and of the national holiday group, was present, as he was a week ago when 1,000 farmers gathered at the Willmar, Minn., courthouse to prevent a fore- closure. “Do you want these farms fore- closed?” he asked farmers who jam- med their way into the sheriff's of- fice. “No,” came the reply. Later he told newspapermen “the purpose of these protest meetings is to create enough of a demonstration so that the national government wake up. The farmers need help. We don’t believe in mob rule and don't ncouraging people not to pay ee aan ie the farmers must have . A representative of the mortgage holder on one of the three farms said he considered “great * had been shown before institution of fore- proceedings and that failure make payments made sale neces- 400 cheered Pederson’s announcement cd indefi- nite postponement @ foreclosure sale. He waited 45 minutes but re- Action Is Taken in Three Coun- Jan. 28.—(P)— Farmers, estimated by newspapermen to number between 2,000 and 3,000 in three Minnesota counties Satur- LANGER TO REQUEST FEDERAL FUNDS T0 RELIEVE N. D. POOR Will Apply Directly to R. F. C.! for Money to Be Used in February | COMMITTEE IS APPOINTED Group Will Prepare Data, Con- trol Expenditures; Brant Is Secretary Demands for relief funds from a number of North Dakota counties have prompted’ Governor William Langer to apply directly to the recon- struction finance corporation for funds to be used in February, he re- Ported Saturday. He said this method has been fol- lowed by governors of about 40 states and it will supercede the plan under which a few North Dakota counties have received money by pledging their, own securities. A state emergency relief committee to act as his agent in preparation of data for the application, to control expenditures and to develop procedure necessary for use of federal funds has been named with E. H. Brant, Linton, | as executive secretary. Members of the committee are Su- Preme Court Judge A. M. Christian- son, Bismarck; R. M. Stangler, Bank of North Dakota; Mrs. Minnie D. Craig, speaker of the house; A. E Thompson, state superintendent of schools, chairman of the committee, and Lee Nichols, county auditor, Mandan. R. W. Frazier is handling Preliminary survey work. Governor Langer said that the funds from the corporation could be used only in furnishing relief and work relief. “The act of congress provides,” he governor bear interest at the rate of three per cent and are repayabieto the federal treasury by means of de- approprfations beginning with 1935.”; Sherwood Ewing, representative of} the reconstruction finance corpora-| tion, who was here recently, will re-j {turn to Bismarck Monday for a con- jference with the committee. | He reported six counties and one; icity already have had applications for loans approved. The total for them is $57,000. i Williams county has applied for a; $13,100 loan, and Mountrail for $7,120. Loans already received include: Mi- not $10,000; Ward county $40,000; Divide $7,700; Bowman $4,000; Burke | |$6,160; Mercer $4,000, and Burleigh | $8,100. Allen A. Twichell Dies at Tower City Tower City, N. D., Jan. 28.—(®)— Allen A. Twichell, 59, Tower City at- ;torney, died here Friday from influ- enza and complications. He had been ill about a week. Since 1902, a few years after his said, “that funds made available to a! ductions annually of. one-fifth of the: total of such funds from federal road |Northeaster in recent years roared ——______—___—_ | Expects Death — Oo. The world is watching the fate of this Japanese statesman, Yukio Ozaki. Former mayor of Tokyo, former min- ister of justice, Ozaki expects to be assassinated for his pacifistic utter- ances in the United States and in Europe. A champion of disarmament, he now isen route to Tokyo from Lon- don. “My death warrant has been signed,” Ozaki said as he left Lon- don. He hoped the assassination would come, if it must, as he spoke against “my nation’s militarism.” ——_—_——_____ NEW ENGLAND COAST S BADLY BATTERED BY TERREAG STOR Vessels Run for Port Before Sweep of Violent ‘North- easter’ | Boston, Jan. 28.—(?)}—Bare-sticked i schooners and battered ocean grey- hounds beat their way to storm-shat- tered ports Saturday as the worst down the New England coast. Many sections of Cape Cod were cut off from communication with the rest of the world and scores of fami- lies along the Massachusetts coast abandoned their homes to the early morning tide. In Winthrop, the pounding of the surf against a broken sea wall could be felt a mile inland and huge rocks were thrown hundreds of yards by the angry sea. A hundred families moved from their homes in the dark of early morning as high water time ap- Proached. Several hundred cellars were flooded and scores of house fronts were crashed in by flying rocks. | The Nantucket lightship was off its station. The lightship, farthest east- ern outpost of the North Atlantic and first landfall of every vessel inbound to New York from Europe, was just about holding her own 30 miles south- southeast of her post. She broke adrift Friday and her engines were just able to keep her nose into the storm. At regular intervals the naval radio station at Newport, R. I., and the op- gradaution at the University of Min- nesota, Twichell had practiced law in Tower City. He also operated exten- tive farm lands. Active in civic af- fairs, he had served as village clerk and last year was a deputy district game warden. He was the brother of Treadwell Twichell of Mapleton and L. L. Twich- ell of Fargo. His widow survives. Funeral services will be held Sun- | day at 2 p. m., in the Presbyterian: church of Tower City. Money for Dry Law Enforcement Is Cu Washington, Jan. 28.—(7)—Without @ record vote, the house Saturday; again approved a reduction to $8,- 440,000 for prohibition enforcement and agreed once more that none of that could be used to tap wires for obtaining evidence. 1 In a quarrelsome mood, the house had gone over most of the ground’ covered by debate on the dispute Fri- day. ‘When the bill came up for final! passage, the amendment reducing the ; prohibition allotment in the justice; department appropriation medsure will; ¥a8 approved along with several others. Wilton Man Named To Succeed Walker Fargo, Jan. 28.—(?)—Appointment of A. E. Anstrom, Wilton, as deputy United States marshal to succeed R. H. Walker, was announced in Fargo Friday by Osmund Gunvaldsen, mar- Anstrom was sworn into office Police officer at Wilton, as a deputy sheriff of Bur- leigh county and special investigator for the state's attorney general's of- erator aboard the lightship warned vessels that the dangerous Nantucket shoals were unguarded. FAR WEST STILL IS BESET BY BLIZZARDS San Francisco, Jan. 28.—(?)—Deep in snow from more than 10 days of storm, the highlands of the Far West, where life and property damage has steadily mounted, hoped for clear skies Saturday but was promised more whirling flakes for Sunday. Discovery of the body of Virgil Johnson, 45, in the mountains of |Southern California, brought the | known loss of life from the snow and j cold to eight. Fargo Man Suffers Broken Leg in City Bert Felver, Fargo salesman, was in @ local hospital Saturday with a broken left leg. Felver suffered a fracture of the bone just above the ankle as he slip- ped when stepping to the running- Doped of his automobile, his doctor The mishap occurred Thursday jevening but Felver was not taken to a hospital until Friday afternoon at 1 o'clock. He is expected to return to Fargo shortly after a cast is placed on his broken limb. Four Held at Lake On Robbery Counts Devils Lake, N. D., Jan. 28.—(P)— Charged with a series of robberies, four men in jail here have been bound Wright and Har- Crary and Walter Daniels and Elman Karyala of Devils Lake. The arrests were made fol- French, German Cabinets Fall t Under Probe POLITICAL LEADERS STRUGCLE 0 FORY NEW GOVERNMENTS Taxation Issue Spells Downfall of Paul-Boncour Regime at Paris VON SCHLEICHER QUITS Chancellor of Reich Resigns When Hindenburg Shows Lack of Confidence Political leaders in both France and Germany were struggling to form new cabinets Saturday as the result of the downfall of the government at Paris and the resignation of Gen. | Kurt von Schleicher as chancellor of the Reich, according to Associated Press dispatches. The French cabinet quit after the chamber of deputies had defeated the Paul-Boncour government on a taxa- tion issue. Von Schleicher resigned when President von Hindenburg re- fused to invest him with authority to dissolve the Reichstag, which con- venes next Tuesaay. Von Schleicher headed the 20th cabinet since the establishment of the German republic and resigned after governing only 56 days. This period was shorter than that of any predecessor except the last imperial chancellor, Prince Max von Baden, who served 30 days before the revolution swept him into the dis- card. General von Schleicher realized from President Paul von Hinden- burg's refusal to invest him with power to dissolve the Reichstag that he no longer enjoyed the confidence necessary to steer the ship of state solely on the president’s authority in the face of a hostile Reichstag. Von Papen May Reappear The resignation of the von Schlei- cher cabinet was accepted by the president after he had refused the chancellor's request. Baron Franz von Papen, preceding chancellor, was charged to report on whether a ca- binet could be formed! on a» parliae mentary majority, or other basis if the majority was unobtainable. At Paris President Albert Lebrun called for immediate consultations with party leaders in an effort to select a new French . The Paul-Boncour cabinet fell at dawn, fighting for a balanced budget, with former Premier Edouard Herriot vainly trying to rally support. The vote was 390 to 193. The fall of the 40-day-old govern- ment, Finance Minister Henri Cheron said, would cost the country $50,000 an hour and on Tuesday Paul-Bon- cour, who will carry on current busi- ness, or his successor, must ask for February credits on the basis of a million and a quarter dollars daily | deficit. Calls Consultations President Lebrun summoned the Presidents of the senate and cham- ber, Leon Blom, leader of the Social- ist party which caused the overthrow, ; Herriot, and other leaders for con- sultations. The 59-year-old premier, who had been war minister under his pre- decessor, Edouard Herriot, lost his post because the party with which |he formerly was affiliated, the So- |clalists, deserted him. ‘They broke up the Radical Socialist and Socialist combination, which had sustained his cabinet as well as that of Herriot for six months, by refus- | ing to accept @ 5 per cent increase on income and other general taxes. Edouard Daladier and Camille Chautemps, ministers under both Herriot and Paul-Boncour, and Jules Jeaneneny, president of the senate, ; Were considered likely to be called upon by President Lebrun to form a new government. There seemed Mttle chance that Herriot, who made a last minute plea for the taxation measure, would re- ceive an invitation. again. He has declared in unequivocal terms that he will not resume the office until France has to make the month overdue debt interest pay- ment to the United States. Paul-Boncour’s cabinet will con- tinue to conduct current business of the French government until a new premier completes organization of a new cabinet, Andrews Is Named as Secretary to Hoidale John Andrews, former Fargo news- Paper editor, publisher of the Lidrer- Wood, N. D., Broadaxe, for many years and later active in political affairs in North Dakota and Minnesotz, has been named secretary to Einar Hoi- dale, Minneapolis, elected to congres+ from Minnesota at the last election and the only Democratic congressman from that state. In a statement made at Minneapo- lis Hoidale said: “I believe I will be able, with Andrews experience, to give efficent service to the Democrats of the state on patronage and other matters.” |