The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 16, 1933, Page 1

Zl B| IN i 4 vf North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper - THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Weather Pair tonight and Thursday; not much change in temperature. ESTABLISHED 1873 Grains Dro Ohio IMMINENT ARREST OF ONE VICTIM IS HELD T0 BE REASON Lawyer Sought ‘to Suppress Evidence of Man Who Stole in His Behalf TWO BOYS AMONG DEAD Third Child Escapes Potion Ad- ministered to Family While on Picnic Hot Springs, Ark., Aug. 16—(?)—A Jonfession that he poisoned four members of a family was signed ‘Wednesday by Mark H. Shank, an attorney of Akron, Ohio, and police advanced as a motive the imminent arrest of one of the victims for get- ting papers for Shank from the Prosecuting attorney’s office in Ak- ron in a forgery case against a client of Shank. The police said they found a letter from Shank in the clothing of one of the victims, Mrs. Ethel Colley, ad- vising her and her husband, Alvin, to “keep eyes open, mouth shut” and he would soon join them and “you will all be rich.” Colley and his wife and two sons, 7 and 11 years of age, were found dead and dying of poison on a high- way near Malvern late Tuesday after their car crashed into a fence and Shank fled into the woods. Colley was sought by Wayne coun- ty, Ohio, authorities on a warrant charging him with stealing receipts and other evidence from the office of Prosecuting Attorney Lyman R. Critchfield, Jr. which was- intended for prosecution of Clarence Braucher of Barberton, Ohio, on a forgery charge. Shank was attorney for Braucher. A three-year-old son of the Col- leys, who escaped the poison, told Prosecuting Attorney Miller Halbert of Malvern that’ Shank put some- thing in some grape juice which his parents and brothers drank while they were eating a picnic lunch near Malvern Tuesday. The officers found a jug of juice, some lunch meat and nearby some crystals which were to be analyzed. Shank was arrested in the woods by & posse with bloodhounds about an hour after a farmer, George Clardy, reported seeing the car crash and a man flee the scene. After more than five hours of intensive questioning, he confessed. Chief Akers said he expected Shank to. reveal details and the motive later Wednesday. GOLD HOARDERS TO FACE PROSECUTION Government Is Ready to Act Against Those Who Retain Precious Metal ‘Washington, Aug. 16.—(?)— Gold hhoarders of the United States have about reached the end of the rainbow, for the government is going after their hidden pots of gold. In the justiee department, legal ex- perts are quietly drawing up the case gold hoarders. It would not surprise official Washington if war- rants for the arrest of the hoarders were announced by Attorney General Cummings when he returns from his vacation Thursday or Friday. Before he departed for his vacation, Cummings said that prosecution of gold hoarders who continued to defy the government would be started in two or three weeks. The three weeks expires Thursday. : ‘The treasury and department of justice have completed their investi- gations into a long list of persons who withdrew their gold from banks dur- ing the March crisis. At last reports, there. still were 280 persons holding $845,025 in the metal which they re- fused to give up, while $27,481,498, not turned in when President Roosevelt ordered it cone, had voluntarily been given to the banks after justice agents visited hoarders. In all, justice department agents called on more than 5,000 persons whose names were on the list of those who withdrew their gold. That list hhas been checked and rechecked and finally returned to the justice depart- ment. The ground work ‘has been pre- pared; every hoarder has been in- formed of the law and of the. penal- ties of up to 10 years in prison or a fine of not more than $10,000,.or both, Canadian Exports of Wheat Show Increase Fort William, Aug. 16—(?)—Export clearance of Canadian wheat from all ports last week ttoaled 2,408,153 bushels, constituting practically the whole North American shipment of ‘wheat, compared with 2,342,594 bush- els @ year ago, a government report said Wednesday. Visible Canadian wheat at all points declined by about ® million bushels to 195,118,335 bush- els, compared with 115,910,644 bushels & yeer ago. Attorney Admits Poisoning Quartet BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1933 Pictured above are Sumner Welles, U. 8. Ambassador to Cuba, and Dr. Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, new President of the trouble-wrought is- OVER HALF MILLION SPENT FOR RELIEF IN THREE MONTHS Government Wilf Contribute $171,740.34 For Next Quarter Says Kinzer Over half a million dollars was spent for poor relief in North Dakota during the months of April, May and June, according to R. E. Kinzer, state director in charge of relief work. Ap- proximately one-third of that amount was furnished by the federal govern- ment and the balance by the counties of the state. In April $198,320 was spent for re- Hef from federal and county funds, in May $170,588.57 and in June $146,- 311.64 a total of $515,221.03. Using the expenditures of federal and county funds for those three months as a basis the federal government will al- low $171,740.34 for the months of duly, August and September. The federal government contributed $92,581.99 for poor relief in April and the counties $105,738.83. In May the federal government contributed $94,- 140.03 and the counties $76,574.54 and in June the federal government spent $76,122.24 and the counties $70,189.40. The number of families on the relief rolls was 12,648 in April, 11,550 in May and 9,162 in June. In addition to the families on the relief rolls there were 900 single persons in April, 941 in May and 954 in June. In April 878 tran- sients were granted relief, in May 2203 and in June 5068. “The relief office now. is required to make monthly instead of quarterly. reports as required heretofore,” said Kinzer. “While the amount of money received in the state has been based. on quarterly reports, I am not sure whether relief will be based in the future on the quarterly or monthly has considerably lessened in the past couple of months, I anticipate a con- siderable increase when school starts as we will be required to furnish clothing and perhaps books for some of the children.” Kinzer does not believe the re-em- ployment program will affect relief work until next year. The work af- forded will be only for a short period this fall as it cannot be put into oper- ation much before the middle of Sep- tember. Most of the relief work is highway construction and as winter usually puts a stop to that work about: November 1 he does not believe the number of men employed will relieve the situation much this fall. 24 DIE IN STORM Kingston, Jamaica, Aug. 16—()}— Twenty-four persons were dead and several. houses were washed away a5 the result of a severe electric storm and floods which struck Kingston and St. Andrew last week. The storm was described as the worst in 80 years. WINS MANDAN TITLE William Russell defeated H. E. Rooth in straight sets, 6-2 and 6-1, to win the men’s singles championship of the annual Mandan city tennis tournament Tuesday. TRANSIENT IS KILLED Dilworth, Minn, Aug. 16—)— Caught between two box cars on @ freight train in the Northern Pacific yards here an unidentified transient was instantly killed. EXHIBITS BIG TOMATO Chatfield, Minn., Aug. 16—()—A tomato weighing three pounds and eight ounces is on exhibit at a local cefe. It grew in the garden of Mrs. | Will Durgin. Welles Congratulates De Cespedes 31 Wheat Agents Named In N. D. Reduction Drive land republic. Welles, the tall man, is congratulating de Cespedes upon his selection to head the Cuban gov- ernment. Throw Machinery Into High Gear in Effort to Enlist Farmers For Plan irgo, N. D., Aug. 16.—(7)—With appointment of 31 emergency wheat agents in effect Wednesday, enlisting of farmers in the wheat production control plan of the agricultural ad- justment administration will go into high gear this week in 48 of North Dakota's 53 counties. Following is a list of the new wheat agents with their counties and the cities where they will have their of- fices: Robert Adam, McIntosh, Ashley. J. A. Bartruff, Renville, Mohall. Alfred Bowers, Mountrail, Stanley. M. H. Braus, Oliver, Center. Fred Bruns, Eddy, New Rockford. A. E. Burgum (ass’t), McKenzie, Watford City. Fat reports. While the amount needed |, C. E. Cavett, Emmons, Linton. John Cline, Rolette, Rolla. Neal Coit, Richland, Wahpeton. ©. K. Cline, Mercer, Stanton. Ralph V. Duttee, Sheridan, Clusky. J. A. Elwell, Ransom, Lisbon. E. C. Erickson, McHenry, Towner. S. E. Esser, McLean, Washburn. H. T. Foss, Pierce, Rugby. B. P. Gorder, Adams, Hettinger. William Jackson, LaMoure, La- Moure. ‘ W. J. Lawrence, Hettinger, Mott. Howard Lewis, Foster, Carrington. H. A. McNutt, Logan, Napoleon. Gilbert Moum, Griggs, Coopers- town. R. L. Nelson, Trail, Hillsboro. Fd Olsen, Steele, Finley. Theo Olsen, Grant, Carson. John R. Pederson (ass’t), Cass Fargo. | Walter Sales, Dunn, Manning. Leonard Severson (ass't.), Williams, Williston. Hal Stefanson, Botti- neau. Stutsman, George, Bottineau, Bot-| tineau. S. M. Thorfinnson, Sargent, For- man. Strange But True H | ! News Items of Day | “(By The Associated Press) | Pia i id CAR COLOR CONTEST Seattle—The municipal street rail- way decided to paint its orange cars red and green. Citizens set up such @ commotion for and against the color scheme a committee from the Seat- tle Art Museum ‘is to pass on the matter. Mc- Bottineau, NO IMMEDIATE NEED Portland, Ore—While Portland sizzled in a temperature of 103, the hottest August day ever re-* corded by the weather bureau here, somebody broke into J. C. Pederson’s store and stole a sec- ond hand tobogga: JUST A MISUNDERSTANDING San Francisco—Joe Giordani was arrested, charged with operation of a still. “Hah,” he said to prohibition agents. “You can’t arrest me for this. Cali- fornia repealed prohibition two months ago.” A U. 8. commissioner straightened the situation out in Giordani’s mind by fixing bail at $2,000. ROCK A’ BYE BABY Wilmington, Del.—Truck driv- ers are snoozing along Delaware's highways, but it’s due neither to the depression nor the recovery program. State police are stopping trucks and, whenever they find the driv- ers or helpers have been working more than 16 hours, the troopers compel them to sleep. Confisca- tion of drivers’ licenses for eight hours assures compliance. The action comes as a result of three fatalities within an hour POLICE SEARCHING — WISCONSIN FOREST IN KIDNAPER HUNT Believe Desperadoes Are Some Who Eluded Trap Set For | Them Tuesday ] GET FEDERAL ASSISTANCE) Fugitives Escape From 300 Chi-; cago Police After Run- ning Gun Battle Chicago, Aug. 16.—(?}—Fifty police | with machine guns and rifles were rushed from Chicago into southern Wisconsin Wednesday in an attempt to corral a band of suspected kid- napers. Police said the desperadoes sought probably were members of the same gang as the two fugitives who eluded 300 officers after a gun battle in Chi- cago’s western outskirts Tuesday. The exact destination of the mo- bilization of police was secret, but it was known to be in the Wisconsin summer resort region in territory bor- dering on Lake county. ‘The notorious Touhy gang, four members of which have been named as the $100,000 kidnapers of William Hamm, Jr., St. Paul brewer, are known to make its headquarters in the re- gion. George “Bugs” Moran, gang leader dethroned by the killing of seven followers in the St. Valentine's day massacre, also has operated there. The police mobilization into the nearby state was led by Lieut. Andrew Barry, in charge of the kidnap divi- sion of the Chicago police depart- ment. Authority for the expedition was given by the federal government. Gang Hideaways Found Detectives under Barry were said to have investigated in the district for weeks, disguised as farmers and tour- ists. Several hide-aways of gangsters and suspected kidnapers were report- ed to have been found. Factor Under Guard Protected by a heavy guard about his hotel, Factor insisted he had no part in the police trap, but that po- lice had tapped his telephone wires and thus learned of the ransom de- livery plan. Factor was kidnaped several weeks ago and the money arranged to be delivered yesterday was part of the ransom agreed upon. The bogus Package contained $500 in marked money. “Factor could tell us the identity of the kidnapers, but he won't,” said Chief of Detectives William Schoe- maker. “I don’t blame him much. He probably would be killed in an hour if the kidnapers believed there was any danger of his doing so.” Three days of preparation, the blue printed scheming of city, county and (Continued on page two) PRESIDENT SILENT ON CURRENCY ISSUE Future Use of Powers Depends on Conditions, White House Asserts Washington, Aug. 16.—()—Inquir- ites Wednesday at the white house on President Roosevelt’s policy for in- flation and a managed currency brought the response that there has been no change and that future ac- tion depends on conditions. ‘This was interpreted to mean that Roosevelt will only employ the in- flationary powers in his hands as is necessary to maintain the steady and regular upward swing in prices, which he wants. So far, Roosevelt apparently is sat- isfied with the pace upward. His charts have shown a general leveling off between prices and wages with the average of 1910 to 1914 now pre- The level of about 1924 to 1926 is the goal. Roosevelt gave indications he would pull the levers as he sees fit to reach that standard in prices, wages and living. Under the inflationary provisions of the farm relief and mortgage re- financing act, President Roosevelt has the power to inflate the currency by three methods, including the is- suance of currency, deflating the value of the gold dollar and the is- suance of bonds. Four Are Injured in Crash at Underpass Valley City, N. D., Aug. 16—(7)— Four persons were injured, one ser- iously, when the automobile in which they were riding crashed into the center pier of the Northern Pacific Railway underpass a mile west of Eckelson early Wednesday. Walter Stewart, 47, Three Forks, Mont., is in critical condition with a broken back. Others in the hospital here are Jugo Pjescich, 47, broken nose and arm; Gladys Nashka, 18, severed artery in shoulder and Ilene Webster, 20, broken leg, all are from Minneapolis. Pjescich is an uncle of recently, each blamed on a doz- ing driver, the two girls. They were en route to “Minneapolis. .|@ special judge in the matter. PRICE FIVE CENTS Codes Planned for Titans of BANK ACCOUNTS OF MACHADO FOLLOWERS ARE INVESTIGATED New Cuban Government Plans; Embargo on Wealth of Political Enemies Havana, Aug. 16—(#)—Bank ac- counts and properties of the deposed President Gerardo Machado and his followers were investigated Wednes- day with a view to requisition by their successors. Secretary of the Treasury Joaquin Martinez Saenz, a leader in the ABC secret society, began the probe as Provisional President Carlos Man- uel De Cespedes’ administration weeded out persons suspected of profiting by the Machado regime. It was reliably reported that em- bargoes are planned on fortunes and Property of the Machadistas. The De Cespedes government has let the Machadistas know they can expect to pay for any sins commit- ted while in office. Criminal charges of misappropria- tion of public funds, frauds and le- gal exactions, falsities and swindles, homicides, murders, personal at- temps, and use of firearms have been filed against Machado and five of his adherents in the Havana instruc- tion court, which is expected to name ‘Will Shield No One Almost simultaneously Dr. De Ces- Pedes issued a statement in which he declared the government would not Industry Steel, Oil, Coal and Automobiles Are Lined Up On Door- step of NRA LABOR RAPS STEEL CHIEFS Myron Taylor and Charles M. Schwab Confer With Administration Washington, Aug. 16.—(4)—Vexing difficulties in formulating trade codes for the four titans of American in- dustry—steel, oil, coal and automo- biles—Wednesday were shortening the Present stride of the NRA toward its goal of enfolding all business under work-spreading, pay-raising agree- ments. Administrator Hugh 8. Johnson and his aides were told by organized labor that steel was flaunting the recovery machinery's efforts to compose dif- ferences. Johnson, bringing all NRA faculties to bear on the four major industries, sent word to them that codes must be agreed upon quickly to provide mini- mum wages and maximum hours. His action bore full approval of President Roosevelt. Both were eager to bring in these four basic trades, which employ 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 per- sons. NRA officials had judicial approval in principle of their machinery from Justice Joseph W. Cox of the District of Columbia supreme court. In an opinion Tuesday, he denied an injunc- tion against sections of the law per- mitting federal regulation of oil pro- duction challenged as unconstitu- tional. Refiners Led by Texan A group of oil refiners, led by F. W. Fischer of Tyler, Texas, had sought lend “consent or aid” to municipal or provincial officials under Machado who were seeking to escape justice. The administration's firmness against letting political offenders es- cape complicated the problems facing ‘United “States” “ATbassidor Sumner Welles, who, as a mediator in Cuban }politics, is held responsible by some Machadistas for their safety. It was indicated that Welles, who helped obtain safe conduct for Ma- chado on Saturday and for General Alberto Herrera on Monday, is will- ing to intervene as a friend in cases where it is demonstrated life is ac- tually endangered, but will not act in cases where accused persons seek to evade responsibilities under the law. The new president, who is making his entrance into politics, has among his other difficulties, the general strike which, while practically set- tled in Havana, continued in parts of Camaguey and Oriente provinces. ONE-CROP ECONOMY FOR CUBA IS CONDEMNED Washington, Aug. 16.—(#)—Cuba's one-crop economy was likened Wed- nesday by Dr. John Lee Coulter, sugar member of the tariff commission, to that of the Dakota-Minnesota wheat belt before farmers there were per- suaded to diversify their qgops to pro- mote more prosperous conditions. Sugar men have been meeting day and night since Friday in an effort to agree upon a quota plan for sta- bilizing the domestic market. It would give Cuba 1,700,000 tons. Before the depression Cuba was producing well over 5,000,000 tons annually. It appeared to responsible observers Wednesday that return by Cuba to such production was not @ part of President Roosevelt's an- nounced program for helping the island republic. Commenting upon what Cuba's economic future might be with a limitation of 1,700,000 tons, Dr. Coul- ter said that country might find that self-sustaining farms were the real cure for her economic ills. The tariff commissioner was called to head the sugar section of the ag- ricultural adjustment administration drafting a plan for the: sugar indus- try. He was the author of the “Coul- ter plan” for improving conditions in the Minnesota-Dakota wheat belt. oo | Skeleton Is Taken | | From Youth’s Life | ee eee o Chicago, Aug. 16.—(#)—Gone Wednesday was the skeleton in the closet of 25-year-old Paul Maxim and he was free once again to pick up the threads of his life that became tangled last week when he was sent back. to Ohio to complete a reformatory sentence. Known here as J. Paul Faraday, a name he said he had assumed upon his escape from an honor camp of the Ohio reformatory at the age of 19 while serving a sen- tence for stealing high school class rings valued at $100, Maxim had risen to the position of ad- vertising manager of a paint com- pany, then his true identity was discovered and he was returned to complete his sentence. ‘Tuesday Governor George White of Ohio handed him a pardon and Maxim said Faraday was dead forever, but that Maxim would carry on. “I decided several days ago that I wanted to go back to my old name,” he said. In Chicago it was disclosed that Robert E. Reardon, head of the paint concern for which Maxim was employed, and one of his staunchest supporters, was ill in & hospital. an injunction to keep Secretary Ickes from enforcing orders prohibiting the interstate shipment of oil produced in violation of state regulations. Without directly discussing the con- stitutionality of these orders, issued under the recovery act, Justice Cox ruled: “In the law, it is recognized that necessity confers many rights and privileges that without the necessity might not be conferred. It is said that self-preservation is the first law and this principle, in some degree at least, seems to extend to governments. “There is another maxim that ‘the safety of the people is the supreme law’ and all these must be considered in dealing with emergencies. “Congress has declared that a great national emergency exists and has in- vested the president with extraordin- ary powers to meet that emergency. Consequently, Cox said the Ickes orders “look as if they are the means of the secretary carrying out the ex- ecutive order of the president” and denied the plea for the injunction. The latest industrial enrty in the campaign was newspapers. For them, Johnson approved a modification of the national reemployment agreement, submitted by the American Newspaper Publishers association. Effective pending consideration of @ permanent code, the plan prescribes, with exceptions, a 40-hour week and minimum salaries of from $12 to $15, among other things. A conference Wednesday with rep- resentatives of the coal industry, em- broiled in a labor wrangle, was look- ed to hopefully to start smoothing out their difficulties. A hearing on the automobile code proposed by the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce opens Friday. (Continued on page two) Action to Prevent ‘Dumping’ Planned Washington, Aug. 16.—(?)—Action to bar from this country importations | of products found to be dumped from | abroad, probably will be taken soon by the treasury. In the long list of goods now before the treasury for decision are included | steel from Germany; canvas-top rub- | ber soled shoes, electric light bulbs, and carbide from Japan; stearic acid from Holland; rock salt from Canada; woven wire fencing, sulphide paper, | and binder twine from England and | thumb tacks from Holland and Ger- many. All of these, American producers have charged, have been dumped in the United States—sold in this coun- try without regard to, or for less than, the price the same articles bring at home, There has been no intimation from the treasury as to what the decision in each case would be. Where the government finds dump- | ing exists, it will apply the law which levies an additional duty of about 50 per cent. Watford City Man Chemist to Be Awarded Medal Dr. Richard Willstaetter, above, of Munich, will receive the coveted Willard Gibbs medal at the eighty-sixth meeting of the American Chemical Society in Chicago, Sept. 13. He is an organic chemist and a former Nobel prize winner. BRITISH WEAKEN AS GANDHI THREATENS PAST UNTIL DEATH Offers to Meet Conditions Spec- ified By Indian Leader, Now Held in Jail © Poona, India, Aug. 16.—()—After the Mahatma Gandhi had announced at noon Wednesday that he was start- ing a fast until death, the government came forward with an offer which, it was expected, would impel him to abandon the plan. The government was willing to pro- vide the Nationalist leader with fa- cilities enabling him to continue, un- der certain conditions, his campaign to better the status of India’s most lowly caste, the Untouchables. Thus far the Mahatma has not ac- ually missed any meal and it was ex- pected he would eat as usual this eve- ning. The little Nationalist leader, who was arrested August 1 at the outset of a new disobedience campaign and committed to Yeroda jail here for a year because he refused to obey a command to cease political activities, threatened to start the fast unless he was given full rights as a state or po- tical prisoner. Is Denied Privileges At present he is treated as an ordi- nary prisoner and certain privileges have been denied him. He had writ- ten the inspettor-general of jails ask- ing for rights he enjoyed previoulsy. Thus he would be enabled, the Ma- hatma indicated, to conduct a cam- paign for the regeneration of the Un- touchables as he did while imprisoned up to May 8 when he started a three- weeks’ fast In protest against “Un- touchability.” It was believed that the Mahatma’s new fast was due to the fact he has been unable to supply his usual ar- ticles to the press this week. “I might as well be dead if I am not allowed to proceed with my work, which is my very life,” said the Ma- hatma in a statement he sent to the Bombay government after his im- prisonment. At that time he asked several con- cessions and delivered an ultimatum threatening @ fast if they were not granted. This request was ignored, so ue determined to carry out the threat. It was stated authoritatively that Gandhi had been offered facilities to continue his campaign against Un- touchability under certain conditions. Whether these conditions were a ceptable to him was not immediately |made known. Dickinson’s Record Shows Batting Punch In seven consecutive games, the Dickinson Cowboys, who will play Bismarck here next Sunday after- noon, have piled up 118 runs while their opponents were chalking up only nine. Seven members of the Dickinson team are batting better than .300. The Cowboys have two classy hurl- \ers—Kenneth Olson, speed-ball artist formerly with Brainerd in the North- ern League, and J. F. Smithson of | Sioux City, Ia., southpaw spit-baller. Injured in Mishap) | Alliance, Neb., Aug. 16.—(?)—Oscar | W. Hagins, Watford City, N. D., was! injured seriously en route here Tues- | day afternoon on the annual western | Nebraska potato tour. | A large artery in his wrist was sev-| ered when his arm was forced through | the side glass in the door of the auto- | mobile in which he was riding. R.| Hastings, deputy seed commissioner, | trom Fargo, N. D., who was driving, | had slowed suddenly for a sharp turn in the road. Hegins Was given emergency treat- [ment end brought to a hoepital here. Recent victims of the Cowboys in- clude Glendive, Mont.; Broadway Clowns. Fort Lincoln, Mandan, Beach, Bowman and Minot. A large delegation of Dickinson fans is expected here for the con- test. DIES IN WATER Kalispell, Mont., Aug. 16.—()—Billy Beilke, nine-year-old son of Mrs. Blanch Beilke of Waterloo, Iowa, died Monday afternoon at the Glen- wood tourist park at Whitefish Lake, while in bathing. The water was only waist deep. and heart failure. he was reported to have died toe) p On All Markets ! WHEAT, CORN, OATS SLUMP TO BOTTOM LIMIT AT OPENING Trading At Chicago Is Desul- tory After Few Purchases on Initial Drop NO BIDDERS IN SIGHT Prices Are Above Those of a Year Ago But Far Under Peaks of July Chicago, Aug. 16.—()—Wheat, corn jand oats slumped the limit of their daily price fluctuations Wednesday coincident with the removal by the Board of Trade of minimum prices for all grains. ‘Wheat, rye and barley closed five cents a bushel lower, corn four, and oats three, with provisions off 50 cents a hundred pounds. The minimum prices were establish ed right at the opening of the mar- ket and trading thereafter became desultory with no bidders in sight. Compared with a year ago, Wednes- day's prices were from 25 to 26 cents higher, but nearly 40 cents off from the highs established last month. September wheat Wednesday was 87, corn 34%. Oats 33%, and rye 63. Directors of the Chicago Board of Trade met Tuesday but took no action to rescind a previous announcement that “pegged” prices based on the av- erage close of July 31 would be re- | moved. | Under a previous ruling a fluctua- tion range of five cents a bushel eith- er way for wheat, rye and barley, 4 cents for corn and 3 cents for oats was continued. The required margins were in- creased 1 cent a bushel making them 5 cents a bushel in the case of wheat. KANSAS TREASURER REFUSES 10 RESIGN. Man Involved in Huge Bond | Fraud Declares He Is Inno- cent of Wrongdoing Topeka, Kas., Aug. 16.—(?)—Refusal to resign as state treasurer of Kansag} ;was Tom B. Boyd’s answer to Gov, | Alf M. Landon’s request he relinquisit his duties in the light of develope ments arising out of the state’s mil- lion-dollar forged bond scandal. Following his arraignment Tuesday on a charge of embezzling state funds, the treasurer made public a letter he had sent to the governor in which he declared he was guilty of no wrong do- ing and advised the chief executive he did not believe “the circumstances warrant your request and I decline ta resign.” The governor said he was willing “to leave the entire matter up to the legislature and the courts.” Boyd's letter expressed belief the | governor's action in posting national guardsmen in the treasurer’s office “was unwarranted, without precedent and, I believe, without authority and as soon as you cease making my office |@ camping ground and a show ground, I shall return and resume my duties.” National guardsmen were ordered to guard the treasurer’s vaults night jand day after an investigation shows ed some of the forged bonds there. The specific charge against Boyd accused him of “feloniously and wil- jfully” converting $150,000 of state funds to his own use and to the use of Ronald Finney, a bond broker and |market speculator, now under arrest 1 charges of having uttered forged jonds. Orders Rate Cut on Gasoline Shipments | Washington, Aug. 16—(#)—The Ine terstate Commerce Commission Wed= nesday held unreasonable the rate om gasoline and other petroleum products jin carloads from the Mid-Continent |Field to Minnesota, The commission prescribed a new scale for the future and awarded |sarge sums of reparation on past shipe | ments, | The roads involved were ordered to establish on or before November 9 |rates not exceeding 40 cents per one jhundred pounds from Group 2 in the Mid-Continent Field; 42 cents from Group 3, and 445 cents from the ‘North Texas Group. Present emerg- lency increases may be added. | The roads also were ordered to ap- ‘ply to transportation of fuel oil and other low grade petroleum products taking the same rates, to the same points, charges not exceeding 80 p7r cent of the contemporaneous rates on gasoline. | Uncle Sam’s Pocket . Filled With Money | Washington, Aug. 16.—(P)— Uncle Sam had more cash in his pocket this morning than at any previous time except during the war. There was $1,247,389,348 of | spendable money in the treasury. It got there through the sale of ‘ $1,189,901,650 of bonds and notes. This netted $389,755,150 to be spent on the administration’s recovery program after deduct- | ing refunding operations and ; payments of interest on the pub- | lie debt. There already was a balance of. $757,634,198,