The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 11, 1933, Page 2

a 2 LEGISLATION GOING. | INTO EFFECT WILL GIVE FARMERS CASH Will Help Not Only Agrarian But Factory Worker and Businessmen Also Washington, July 11—(#)—To fat- ten the farmer’s slim pocketbook is the aim of extensive legislation now rapidly being put into effect. This is intended not only to help him but to help the factory worker and businessman, too, by restoring the farmer to a position where he cities turn out. The principal law enables Secretary ‘Wallace to use various methods or a combination of them to give the farmer's bushel of wheat or bale of cotton the same power to buy goods it had from 1909 to 1914. It makes it possible for Wallace to reward with cash payments those farmers who reduce their acreage. He can lease lands, sell options on government-held cotton or employ the domestic allotment plan under which farmers are paid “benefits” on that proportion of their crop used for consumption in this country. To provide a fund to pay, he is au- thorized to levy processing taxes, One has gone into effect on wheat, at 30 cents a bushel, while another on cot- ton, probably 4 cents a pound, is to become effective about Aug. 1. These are levied at the manufac- turing plant where the raw commod- ity is first processed. It is designed as a tax on that part of the crop used by U. S. consumers. It can be levied up to a maximum amount equal to the difference be- tween the current average and pre- war average farm prices. It can be levied on seven commodities—wheat, cotton, corn, hogs, tobacco, rice and dairy products. But aid under the act is not limited to growers of these crops. Any basic crops in their raw form sent to foreign markets are free from the tax. Power also is provided farm ad- ministrators to enter into trade agreements with producers, proces- sors and distributors of farm prod- ucts regardless of anti-trust law re- strictions. These agreements can eliminate competitive practices such as price- cutting, the aim being to reduce the spread between prices paid to farm- ers and by consumers, These agreements can cover prod- ucts outside of those lisited as basic and already efforts are being made to draft them for many others. Open Negotiations To Free Americans Madrid, July 11—()—United States Ambassador Claude G. Bowers said he expected a report Tuesday from the consul general at Barcelona re- garding five Americans imprisoned in Mallorca on charges of attacking a civil guard. Bowers made two protests to For- eign Minister De Los Rios after the Americans were jailed June 5, He said “the state and war departments have assured me they are untangling the red tape as quickly as possible” and that he expected to visit Senor De Los Rios again Tuesday. His protests asked release on bail, he added. The prisoners are Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Lockwood and Roderick Mead of New York, Walton Blodgett, of Stamford, Conn., and Rutherford Fullerton of Columbus, O. The Americans were said to have been involved in a dispute and later in an exchange of blows with civil Guards at a hotel in Palma. Believe Convicts in Series of Kidnapings Augusta, Ga., July 11,—(7)—A mail carrier kidnaped by three Georgia convicts in a campaign of robbery and abduction waged since their es- cape from Cobb county prison camp last week was freed unharmed near West Point, N. C., Monday night. The. fugitives kidnaped the car- ter, John C. Lyle of Crawfordville, Ga., in his automobile near his home Monday. They took $7 and Lyle’s car but did not steal his mail. Shortly after their escape, the trio kidnaped a salesman near Dallas, Ga., and later released him in Ten- nessee. Early Monday they robbed ® filling station at Marietta near Atlanta and abducted the station manager and a truck driver. They left their victims tied to a tree sev- eral miles from town and drove on in the truck. Hours later, Lyle was abducted and authorities blamed the same three prisoners, Leo McIntosh, Lester Trip- pe and Paul Jones. BUYS MINNESOTA CREAMERIES Grand Forks, N. D.. July 11—(@)— Roy F. Bridgeman, for 17 years man- ager of the Bridgeman-Russell com- Pany plant here, has purchased the Kiewell Products Co., with creameries fm Crookston, East Grand Forks and ‘Thief River Falls, he announced Mon- can be a purchaser of what hdl THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE _ TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1933 | ; Here’s Huge Appalachian Power Company Plant ee nee Investigation Reveals Trend To- ward Monopoly in Last Decade Clearly Marked Editor's Note: This is the third of six stories on Power, its rise and its meaning as a national is- sue to every citizen. * *% % BY WILLIS THORNTON Washington, July 10.—The merging, consolidating and interlacing of pow- €r companies speeded up after the war, and as it grew, the cry against the “Power Trust” ‘grew louder. “Nothing like this gigantic monopoly has ever appeared in the history of the world,” cried Gifford Pinchot. After years of congressional speech- making, the federal trade commission was ordered to investigate. It did so, vovering the situation up to 1924. Re- sults were inconclusive, and Martin J. Insull (then president of Middle West Utilities) exulted on viewing the report, “The Power Trust must, there- fore, remain a myth...” But the late Senator Tom Walsh and Senator Norris were not satis- fied. They sought a new investigation, which power interests tried desperate- ly to block. The federal trade com- mission began this in 1929, and has not yet completed it. Some 74 com- panies have been looked into, but 23 others have not yet been touched, in- cluding Commonwealth and Southern, and Stone and Webster, among the largest. The investigation has cost more than a million dollars, and its completion is threatened by budget cuts. The evidence, therefore, of a single ‘trust,” is not conclusive to date But though it shows no nation-wide monopoly under a single ownership, it clearly shows a strong drift in that direction, and proves that many states, communities, and whole re- states through its Public Utilities Con- trol of power. The unraveling of these crazy skeins of holding company within holding company, was found a painful and al- most impossible task. But a plain example of how it works is shown by Senator Norris’ recounting of the alight of a citizen of Lewiston, Me., ~vho wanted to find out during the Insull era who owned his local light company. He knew his electricity came from the Lewiston-Auburn Electric Light Co., because there was where he paid his bill. “But,” continues the sena- tor, “the Lewiston-Auburn Electric Light Co. was owned by the Andros- coggin Electric Co., and the Andros- coggin Electric Co. was owned by the Androscoggin Corporation; the An- droscoggin Corporation was owned by the Centra! Maine Power Co.; the Central Maine Power Co. was owned by the New England Public Service Co.; the New England Public Service Co. was owned by the National Elec- tric Power Co.; the National Electric Power Co. was owned by the Middle West Utilities Co—and that was Samuel Insull!” Mazes, Good and Bad 5 That sort of maze was found to be, and still is, common throughout the utility industry. Some of the holding companies and management compan- fes which control many operating RECOMMENDS CONSOLIDATION Washington, July 11.—(#)—Exam- Iner Haskell C. Davis Tuesday recom- mended the Interstate Commerce Commission approve consolidation of the telephone companies serving Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. Strange But True News Items of Day (By The Associated Press) | RESCUE TWO MORE New York, July 11.—(7)—Capt. John Connelly of the United States Volun- teer Life Saving Corps has rescued $wo more persons from the East fiver. One was @ 16-year-old boy, the ‘was another rescuer. Connelly them both up until a coast guard came along. “I get tired some- ” said Connelly, who lost count the number of his rescues after Passed 90. “What I need is a About a $50 one would be swell.” STEALS DEAD CANARY ‘Waukesha, Wis.—There was a Surprised thief here Tuesday— the package he took off the seat a e pete surenebne contain- hing but'a dead canary destined for = taxidermy shop. « units have been of unquestionable benefit in bringing expert manage- ment, modern procedure, pooled equipment buying, to their subsidiar- ies. A national benefit has resulted from plant improvements, broad-scale power hookups, and extension of serv- ice. But the other side of this picture | shows many combines which seem Clearly aimed at inordinate control | with little investment of real money, and corporations created for no a) Parent reason beyond making mate- rial for further regroupings or sim- ply beclouding and mystifying both’ investing and consuming public. The very year in which most of the | biggest utility holding companies were being, formed saw the collapse in bankruptcy of the W. B. Foshay in- terests of Minneapolis, which in addi- tion to many other interests had con- trolled 73 utility companies in 11 States through its Public Utilities Con Solidated Corporation. The tragedy of Samuel Insull, for- mer co-worker of the great Edison himself, is all too well known, His Pyramid was built on Middle West Utilities, and it became so intricate that perhaps Insull himself did not quite understand it. Economies and grewth on which Insull counted did not materialize; service in the 5,321 Buck hydroelectric plant of the Appalachian Power Company on New River, Va. . . power plant and spillways are clearly shown in this remarkable air view. . . . river are the challengers of Uncle Sam’s right to regulate power. ee ee Utility Combines Grew Rapidly Following War: | sainiatinitles in 32 states which he served fell off in the depression years. | | By the time diminishing profits fil- {tered up to the holding companies at |the top, there was not enough left ;to keep them going. And 185,000 | stockholders in three giant corpora- tions were utterly wiped out. Insull |suns himself in Greece. The physical | properties he built still stand, most of them still operating, some at a profit. Titan of Titans Many of the utility holding com- panies are still profitable and appar- ently economically sound. There are no two alike, and it is a mistake to lump together indiscriminately the Promotional and the really economic byramids, The greatest of them all, for in stance, the Morgan United Corpora- Uon, was still able to show profits of 76 cents on each of its 14,531,198 com- mon shares in its latest report, in addition to regular dividends on 489,- 065 shares of preferred. Organized in 2929 by J. P. Morgan & Co., Drexel & Co. and Bonbright & Co., this giant serves an area in which live nalf the people of the United States. Tt specializes in controlling other util- ity companies, and has an interest in about 23 per cent of the entire electric power production of the U. 8. It owns part of Electric Bond and Share, itself a huge holding and ope- | rating-management company with assets which have risen above a bil- jion dollars. Bond and Share's net income for 12 months ended March 31 was $12,009,396, or 68 cents for each of its 5,267,147 common shares. The North American Co., which on March 31 listed assets of $894,337,253, is a typical example of grouping into regions for operating purposes. It controls four distinct groups and-ser- ves more than a million people. Group No. 1 operates in Missouri, Illinois | and Iowa; No. 2, Wisconsin and Michigan; No. 3, Cleveland and vicin- ity; No. 4, District of Columbia and nearby Virginia and Maryland. Its broperties were generating nearly two million kilowatts in 1931. Cities Serv- ice, in addition to its oil and gas in- terests, has immense power proper- ues, and so have less-known firms like Commonwealth and Southern, Stone and Webster, Byllesby Engin- cering, and others. These utility giants make up a huge total of electric Pro- | duction which is certainly more than 15 per cent of the total for the entire country. ! All this has come from the original company, incorporated in 1880 in New York with capital of a million dollars and named the Edison Electric Ilu- Pittsburgh Aerial Surveys Photo. . The reservoir, The company and this minating Co. By 1931 the industry showed investments of 13 billions and had gross revenues each year of more than two billions. It has taken its raps lately, like all industries, and suring the last three years there has een a decline of about 25 per cent in the total number of kilowatt hours produced, The recent upturn in in- dustry has raised this somewhat to 1,493,923,000 kilowatt hours as com- pared with 1,425,151,000 at the same time a year ago. —— 2 | Weather Report | FORECAST For Bismarck and vicinity: Fair and cooler tonight; Wednesday fair. For North Da- kota: Fair and cooler tonight; |! Wednesday fair. | For South Da- kota: Partly cloudy and cooler, thunder showers. this afternoon or tonight southeast portion; Wednes- day fair, slightly cooler southeast portion; Wednes- day fair, slightly pote southe ast rtion. Poror Montana: Generally fair to- night and Wednesday; slightly cooler tonight extreme east portion. For Minnesota: Partly cloudy, cool- er in west, showers in extreme east portion; warmer near Lake Supeior, tonight; Wednesday probably fair, not so warm in south portion. GENERAL CONDITIONS ‘The Low has moved eastward form- ing a trough from Manitoba south- ward (The Pas, Man. 29.60; Okla- homa City, Okla. 29.78); while the High on the Pacific Coast now covers the Rocky Mountains and the High also continues over the Lake Region. FAIR | Light scattered showers were report- ed from the Central Canadian Prov- inces, North and South Dakota, Min- |nesota, Nebraska, and Kansas, with locally very heavy rains being report- ed from some points. Temperatures have moderated from North Dakota north and westward, elsewhere changes are of little consequence. Missouri river stage at 7 a. m. 3.5 ft. 24 hour change, -0.2 ft. Bismarck station barometer, inches: 28.13. Reduced to sea level, 29.85. PRECIPITATION REPORT For Bismarck station: Total this month to date Normal, this month to da’ Total, January Ist to date Normal, January Ist to date .... 9. Accumulated deficiency to date .. 1. NORTH DAKOTA POINTS High- Low- est est Pct. BISMARCK, clear . 97 68 ..03 Beach, clear ... 97 55 (10 Carrington, clear 92 6 «(418 |Grosby, clear .. 91 59 (00 Devils Lake, clear 92 64 02 Dickinson, clear 99 56 05 Drake, clear . 89 61° 50 Dunn Center, 99 56 00 Grand Forks, clear 93 70 21 ca THE NEW BACK OPENING! PATTERN 2596 Revel in the new feminine mode ... in this charming afternoon frock with its graceful flares and furbelows. 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CATALOG AND PATTERN TOGETHER TWENTY- FIVE CENTS. Address all mail orders to The Bis- marck Tribune Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York City. Hankinson, clear 95 56 00 Jamestown, eldy. 91 63 410 Lisbon, clear . 94 «67 «(04 Max, clear . 88 58 20 Minot, clear .. 88 57 «02 Napoleon, clear . 9 64 15 Oakes, clear 96 68 .03 Parshall, clear .. 91 58 = .00 Pembina, clear . 94 68 .00 Sanish, clear . - 91 60 00 Williston, clear . 00 Wishek, cldy. . 00 SOUTH DAKOTA PO} High- Low- est est Pct. Huron, clear. . +98 74 00 Pierre, clear 102 74 «48 Rapid City, cle: 102-72 ~=«—00 Moorhead, clear St. Paul, rain ... OUT OF STATE POINTS - High. Low- est est Pct. Amarillo, Tex., peldy. ++ 102 82.00 Boise, Idaho, clear. 86 58 00 Calgary, Alta., pcld: 4 46 00 Chicago, Ill, clear 80 68 .00 Denver, Colo., peldy. .. 909 70 01 Des Moines, Ia., clear.. 92 74 .00 Dodge City, Kans,, cldy. 100 70 58 Edmonton, Alta. clear. 62 40 .04 Havre, Mont., clear .. 54.00 Helena, Mont., clear. 54 00 Kamloops, B. C., cldy.. 52.00 Kansas City, Mo., peldy. 90 78 .00 Lander, Wyo., clear .... 56 00 Medicine Hat, A., cl 524 Mont., 66 «00 ah, cldy. 62.00 No. Platte, Neb., 70 = .06 Cit 80 Pr. Albert, S., cldy. 540: Ne cles 52.00 , » 56.00 St. Louis, Mo., clear. 90 74 00 Salt Lake City, U., clear 94 70 04 S. S, Marie, Mich., clear 78 54 00 Seattle, Wash., cldy. .. 66 60 .00 Sheridan, Wyo., clear.. 100 56 00 Sioux City, Ia., peldy... 92 76 00 Spokane, Wash. clear.. 76 58 .00 Swift Current, 8. peldy. 80 48 01 The Pas, Man., cldy. 7% 60 10 Toledo, Ohio, clear... 80 60 .00 Winnemucca, N., clear.. 92 54 06 Winnipeg, Mi clear.. 92 70 18 168 MISSING AFTER WRECK Tokyo, July 11—(®)—Rengo (Ja- panese) news agency reported from Dairen, Manchuria, Tuesday that 168 persons were missing and believed drowned when the Chinese steamer Tunan sank off Shantung peninsula after colliding with the Japanese liner Choshun Maru Monday. TAKEOFF POSTPONED AGAIN Reykjavik, Iceland, July 11—()— The departure of 24 Italian seaplanes for Cartwright, Labrador, the next hop on their flight to Chicago, was postponed Tuesday probably because or difficulties with the gasoline sup- Ply. CHILDREN GUESTS AT FAIR Fargo, N. D., July 11.—(4)—Chil- dren trooped to the North Dakota state fair at Fargo Monday as the exposition swung open for a week’s run. Children were special guests of the fair management. An admittance charge has been, again dropped this year, Rheumatism causes 45,000 deaths annually in Great Britain, The first Pullman car was built in 1859. CROP CUTTING PLAN CONTINUED DESPITE {903 GRAIN FAILURE Nature’s Method of Curtailing Production Unsatisfactory To Wallace Washington, June 11.—()—Ameri- can farmers face the prospect of their smallest grain and corn harvest in decades, but farm administrators were going right ahead Tuesday with plans to make smaller crops the future fash- ion. * ‘ The worst crop weather in 50 years —provided by droughts, excéssive heat, storms, grasshoppers and in- sects—is responsible for what in many areas will be a total crop failure with yields lowered through most of the grain and corn belts far below aver- age. But nature’s method of curtailing production is unsatisfactory, says Sec- retary Wallace. It brings tragedy to some and higher prices to those who are lucky enough to raise something. He made this plain after reading a estimates of the crop reporting board forecasting the smallest wheat crop since 1893, one of the four smallest corn harvests in 32 years and the lightest crop of oats since 1897. He said that the exceedingly short grain crop, while solving to some ex- tent the surplus carry over from last year “can easily cause both farmers and city people to lose sight of the fact that we are still planting more acres to grain than can be consumed in this country or sold at a fair price abroad.” George N. Peek, chief administra- tor, said that the small crop in no way will affect the determination of farm administrators to continue in effect the 30 cents per bushel wheat process- ing tax which became effective Sun- day. The board’s estimates indicated an aggregate crop of wheat, corn, oats, barley, rye and flaxseed, of 3,783,204, 000 bushels, a total of 1,408,996,000 be- low last year. Details of the various crops follow: Corn Wisconsin, area planted, 2,206,000 acres; condition July 1, 88 per cent of normal, indicated production, 80,519,- 000; Minnesota 4,750,000; 87 and 161, 500,000; Iowa, 11,020,000; 82 and 413,- 250,000; North Dakota 1,432,000; 80 and 34,360,000; South Dakota 4,450,000; 74 and 80,100,000. Durum Wheat Minnesota, acreage 121, condi- tion 53 per cent of normal and indi- cated production 1,210,000 bushels; North Dakota, 2,185,000; 44 and 15,- 295,000; South Dakota, 150,000; 20 and 675,000; Montana, 44,000; 61 and 396,- 000. All Other Spring Wheat Minnesota, acreage 1,132,000; condi- tion 51 per cent of normal and indi- cated production 10,188,000 bushels; Set to Take Off , on World Flight ES Encouraged by the success of his robot pilot in a test flight over New York, Wiley Post, above, was prepared to take off next week in his Winnie Mae on an attempt to lower his own globe-circling record of 8 days, 15 hours, 61 minutes made with Harold Gatty in 1931. He was depending on this automatic control to relieve him of much of the strain on the flight. North Dakota, 6,320,000; 41 and 37,- 920,000; South Dakota 986,000; 19 and 3,944,000; Montana 3,071,000; 58 and 27,689,000. Stocks of Wheat on Farms Minnesota 3,121,000; North Dakota 11,787,000; South Dakota 8,114,000; Montana 8,898,000. NEGRO PHYSICIAN IN. ANOTHER SKIRMISH Husband of White Woman Sued Man Who Married Blonde Follies Beauty Los Angeles, July 11—(7)—Dr. Eu. gene C. Nelson, the Negro physician who. married Helen Lee Worthing, Follies actress, faces a $100,000 aliens ations of affections suit by the huse band of another white woman. But close upon the heels of the » damage suit by Leo F. Desmond, Long Island, N, Y., oil machinery salesman, Mrs. Desmond said of the doctor, “but lution of her marital ties. “T knew he was of Negro blood,” 4 Mrs, Desmond said of the odctor, “but ~ it made no difference. I loved him sa much that I was afraid of losing him. “I never loved by husband. I tried to but I couldn’t. We separated two weeks after we were married. I wend back to him, but it couldnt’ last. My husband knew that Dr, Nelson and E were going together. I met Dr. Nels son in May, 1932, and went to for him six weeks later.” Only a few weeks ago Dr. Nelson's affairs were in the public prints be- cause Miss Worthing, one time ravish- ing bloride of the New York stage, re- fused to go to New York. Found several days after Dr. Nel- son had put her aboard an east-bound train, she explained sHe had returned to effect a more equitable financial settlement with her former husband. Several days later Miss Worthing announced an agreement had been reached. limits and From Bismarck to— One Way R. T. $9.00 ie Interstate Transportation Co. Now Transcontinental Bus Service Daily Attractive one-way and round-trip fares with liberal time —RATES— Westbound—Read Down Eastbound—Read Up 1:00 P.M. Chicago 3:55 P.M. 7:30 A.M. Minne) 11:45 P.M. Fargo, N. D. 3:15 P.M. Jamestown 12:45 P.M. Bismarck 9:45 A.M. Minot 6:00 A.M. Dickinson 5:05 A.M. Spokine, ‘Wash, 0 BME 8; 3 ,. * 1:30 A.M. 11:30 P.M. stop-overs ' With me...my cigarette is - a personal, intimate thing T suppose, men would call my reason for liking Luckies just a feminine whim. Maybe it is, but it’s a whim that I love to indulge... for I am of feminine daintiness. Certainly, Luckies Please! 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