The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 20, 1933, Page 1

North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 PUBLISHER, HOTEL ‘MAN FATALLY HURT WW AUTO ACDENT Believe Wind Swerved Machine in Which He Rode Alone Near Crookston LIVED IN STATE 50 YEARS Operated Dacotah Hotel and For Years Was in News- paper Business Grand Forks, N. D., Sept. 20—(7)— J.D. “Jerry” Bacon, 68, pioneer resi- Gent of Grand Forks and one of North Dakota's outstanding citizens, was killed Tuesday when his car crashed into a ditch and turned over three-fourths of @ mile east of Crook- ston, Minn. Bacon was riding alone. Investigation of the accident re- vealed that it was unavoidable, said Dr. H. E. Nelson, Polk county cor- oner, and no inquest will be called. -Bacon was taken from the wreck- age almost immediately but was un- conscious. His skull was fractured and he was otherwise injured. An ‘ambulance took him to a Crookston hospital, where he died without re- gaining consciousness. The accident occurred at 3:45 p. m. Members of his family went to Crookston immediately and returned ‘Tuesday night with the body. Plans for funeral services had not been completed. Was on Business Trip Bacon was on a business trip when the accident. occurred. He was travel- ing east out of Crookston and had just passed a grove of trees when it is believed a gust of wind caused his car to swerve off the pavement. ‘The right wheels caught in the edge of the pavement as he tried to return it to the road and the car sud- denly leaped’ across into the ditch on -the other side, where it struck a concrete culvert and overturned. -. Bacon was born in Waverly, Iowa, June 24, 1865...He came. to North Dakota when 17 and: settled on a farm 10 miles west of Grand Forks. Five years later he moved to Grand Forks and opened a livery stable. ‘When the Dacotah hotel was de- stroyed by fire in 1897 he consrtuct- ed the present hotel, which he ope- Tated at the time of his death. “Bacon owned 2,500 acres of land Just outside the city, which became femous over the northwest as the Lilac Hedge farm. His purebred Hol- stein ‘cattle. won fame throughout the country. Bacon also owned 5,000 acres of land in North Dakota and northern Minnesota. He was a staunch Republican and ‘was active in politics and city affairs. He served eight years in the state legislature and 20 years as a member (Continued on Page Two) Montana Governor Warns Oil Operators Helena, Mont., Sept. 20.—(#)—Gov- ernor Cooney has declared gasoline dealers. in Montana must “reduce their prices very materially,” or he will carry out provisions of a law, de- signed to put the state in the gasoline and ofl business. “I have no desire to do this,” said the chief executive night, “but as governor of Montana I feel it is my duty to protect the people who a The price of the standard grade 26% cents a gallon in most parts of the state. ‘The 1933 legislature enacted & measure appropriating $100,000 for the ting, purchasing to Sa eats mune ad wraiaaie ene retail within the state. Threshing Is Nearing Completion in State ‘Threshing was reported to be near- ing completion in North Dakota, ac- cording to the federal corn and wheat for this state cover- Tuesday. ‘Jerry’ ‘ected me to the office T now hold” biows, Fae WS ABER Ss SRL OO RN, YRS ERE HE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1933 | | | did to the DIGKINSON FARMER SEVERELY INJURED. BY HANMER ATTACK Man Arrested in jismarek ‘Tues day as Suspect in Vicious i Assault Dickinson, N. D., Sept. 20.—(?)— Jack ‘Walker, alleged to have attack- ed Walter Hewson with a hammer, was being held without charge at the Stark county jail Wednesday pending outcome of. Hewson’s injuries. State's Attorney Theodore Kellogg said Walker would be charged with assault with intent to kill and rob- bery if Hewson recovered from the serious head wounds. Until Hewson is out of danger the formal charge will be delayed. Physicians reported Wednesday Hewson would recover. One of the fingers on his hand was crushed by the blows of a hammer with which) he was attacked and may have to be amputated. Walker was taken into custody at Bismarck as he alighted from s bus. He was said by authorities to have given the name of William Baker, but was identified here as Walker. As Hewson leaned over to go under a fence, he was struck over the head with the hammer Walker carried, po- fingers were so badly cut amputation may be necessary. Hewson’s scalp was badly lacerated. Before losing consciousness Hewson said he saw Walker leaving in a northeasterly After the at- tack Hewson crawled 200 yards to about five feet seven inches, and about 28 years old. Conner said a bus passenger here who an-|been made to e1 ae Gale Leaves Trail of Wreckage on Atlaritic Coast , The tropical hurricane that lashed the North Carolina and Virginia coasts was stiil going strong when it reached Manasquan Beach, N. J. And this picture shows what a combination of heavy seas and high winds Manasquan Fish and Gun Club—first undermining, then tossing it into the water. Overwhelming Majority of New York Exchange in Favor of Movement New York, Sept. 20.—(7)—With an overwhelming majority of the mem- bership of the New York stock ex- change having accepted t new exchange announced Wednesday that it had decided to put its plan into effect. Howard Froelick, chairman of the committee, in a statement said that the committee had received 924 ac- ceptances from members of the ex- change, and “in view of this over- whelming response the committee has determined to put the plan for the organization of the Jersey stock ex- change into effect.” “An executive committee,” contin- ued the statement, “has been ap- pointed to enter into a contract for the location of the exchange.” Memberships in the new exchange, Froelick said, will be available only to members of the stock exchange. Officers and the governing commit- tee of the exchange have been invited to accept similar places with the new! with a revolver, in a stalled car with- organization. proposal to establish a market in New Jersey, the committee on organization of the Take Definite Steps to Establish New Stock Exchange in New Jersey SEEK NERVOUS MAN Officials Press on For Clues in Probe of Young Woman's Burning Death Devils Lake, N. D., Sept. 20.—()}—A state-wide hunt was begun Wednes- day for “an extremely nervous man” wanted in connection with the death of @ young woman, burned on a strawstack pyre neat Webster shortly efter midnight Friday. The body, burned beyond recogni- tion, was said by authorities to be that of a young woman. Efforts to identify the victim have been unsuc- cessful. Ramsey county officials, developing a new clue in the mysterious slaying, said they sought a man described as| imusually nervous. He was reported; seen four miles from Penn, ut license plates on Highway No. 2 William Freiday, member of a stock shortly after midnight Saturday. exchange firm and a leading sponsor of the projected national stock ex+ change in New Jersey, said Wednes- day. that his group had decided to abandon plans and support the Penn Man Stopped An approaching motorist, Delbert Johnson of Penn, reported he stopped at the car and was asked by the man where oil and water could be obtained movement of the Froelick committee. |r. nis automobile. 85 C. C. C. Men Are Coming Back Home Notice that 85 men who left Bis- marck last June to serve with the C. C. C. in California are being re- turned here, presumably for dis- charge, was received Wednesday at Fort Lincoln, Advices from Sacramento, Calif., were that more than 500 C. C. C. workers were en route east from that point, of whom 170 were destined for Fort Lincoln and Fort Snelling, Minn. The others were traveling via the Southern Pacific to Camp Dix, N. Y. Captain George M. Conner, ad- jutant at Fort Lincoln, said he as- sumed the men being returned here pounds, wearing a blue suit, pang There were 198 men in the company which left here dnd the re- 113 are expected to stay in . maining puty Sheriff Fred Anstrom of |Cslifornia, at least temporarily. arrangements have nroll C. C. C. mem- enlistme! i for another beginning 30 and that all of those from seventh corps area will be kept in district during the second enlist- it. During the winter, he said, probably will be stationed in the thern section of the district, which tends into Arkansas. men returning from the west due here Friday, he said. MAN AND WIFE SENTENCED Minn, Sept, 20.—(P)— and his wife Mildred, given sen- respectively ieee geee ss Johnson said he noticed the man was nervous. He offered to assist the stranger, and pushed the car to a ‘illing station several miles down the} bighway. Johnson said that in reply to his inquiries as to the man’s name and residence, he received no reply. He told authorities he observed the man ‘was armed, and made no further in- terrogations. Johnson said that when he and the stranger arrived at the filling station, the attendant, Bruce Gessner, was (Continued on Page Seven) STEEL RATIO TEES ONES WALLACE WARNS OF DANGERS LURKING IN AGRICULTURAL PLAN Output Must Be Balanced With Consumption to Assure Continued Success FARM PRICES MUST GO UP Says Foreign Debt Situation| Prompts U. S. to Become Nationalistic Chicago, Sept. 20.—(#)—Secretary ‘Wallace Wednesday told the Grain Dealers association that he still fav- ors controlled inflation. Along with this, President Roose- velt’s secretary of agriculture criti- ‘clsed high tariff psychology and warn- ed that attempts to fix prices “with- out control of production is doomed _ }to failure.” “If the pur- chasing power of farm products does tionists will have great power in con- gress this coming winter and there will be legislation which will ‘make the agricultural adjustment act seem ex! conservative.” Explaining his attitude on infla- tion, Wallace said that recent views he expressed on the subject have been misinterpreted. | “For a number of years prior to {March 4, 1933,” Wallace said, “I urg- { “In view of the progress already in that direction, it was deem- opportune to-explain-to- farmers what some of the results might be, es- to point out that if the previ- ous price level is restored farmers would face the continued neces- sity of balancing farm output more nearly in line with demand conditions. ‘Unfortunately, this attempt to clarify i given rise to the mistaken impression that I have changed my views. My position with respect to controlled in- flation has not chi Be: Secretary Wallace said he looked jfor “decidedly higher agricultural :Prices within a few months” but that «Continued on Page Two) State Workers Loose Flood of Propaganda Bismarck was flooded Tuesday night with propaganda for the state sales tax by a band of young women, all employes of the Bank of Dakota. 10 workers was divid- some of them were city in a motor car doorsteps. Another event in the closing hours of the pre-election campaign was a debate scheduled for Wednesday night at Rolla between State Senator W. E. Matthael of Wells county, an state highway department, who is supporting it. | 70 Million Gallons of Hard Liquor To Be Available Following Repeal New York, Sept. 20.—(#)—More than 70 million gallons Uquor will be available United States i 304 He & é . H E A g g 3 é ; Le Estee cn HE : i i : ag i s s & e. 5 i : | ' i g 3 5 g I fe i i Ege é i : i E i E any place ' age. distilleries, he declared, place large amounts of their newly-made stock in govern- Jectives eventually are attained, has/ North | k to facilitate their | |Soldiers, Students and Work- | didate of Tammy Hall, won a walk: Fund Transfer Unconstitutional Bacon of Grand Forks Dies in Mishap MALARIA AND CIVIL WAR ARE ADDED 10 TROUBLES IN CUBA men Seek ‘Cuban Sandino’ in Camaguey Havana, Sept. 20.—(?)—Widespread outbreaks of malaria were added Wednesday to the burden of suf- fering Cuba. Many towns in the island reported numerous cases of the disease, and conditions were especial- ly bad at Cienfuegos. This new affliction came as the government headed by President Ra- mon Grau San Martin was doing its utmost to hold power against an op- Position determined to oust it, and as that opposition movement crys- talized into virtual civil war. Various and conflicting reports came from the hill country of Cama- guey province, where soldiers, stu- dents and workmen were attempting to stamp out the rebellion headed by Captain Juan Blas Hernandez, the “Cuban Sandino.” Near Las Cuevas Blas Hernandez, a doughty cam- paigner against Gerardo Machado, was reported some place near Las Cuevas, in Camaguey province, with a force of 500 men, all as firm as he in the conviction that Grau San Martin should resign. On their trail 600 soldiers, com- manded by Sergeant Mazorra and armed with 12 machine guns, and a group of students and laborers. There were many rumors about the |movement. One was that the troop- Idaho, New Mexico Join Repeal Group Bring Count to 31 to O For; Striking Out Prohibition | Amendment VIRGINIA WILL VOTE NEXT Eight More States Will Vote Be-| fore Nov. 7; Only Five More Needed (By The Associated Press) The score card in the fight over repeal Wednesday read: Repeal 31, prohibition 0. Idaho and New Mexico, voting Tuesday, approved the proposed 21st amendment, which would strike the 18th from the constitution. This placed the repeal forces in a position where they can spot the pro- hibitionists three states between now and Nov. 7 and still have national prohibition out of the constitution in December. The next state to vote is Virginia, on Oct. 3. Florida votes on Oct. 10 and six more—North and South Carolina, Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsyl- vania and Utah—on Nov. 7. The anti-prohibitionists need only five of them to obtain the 36 states needed to amend the constitution. If they get the five, they expect the formalities of ratification to be concluded in December. New Mexico joined the repeal pa- rade by virtue of a three-to-one ma- jority. The state also voted to abolish the 15-year-old bone dry statute. Only two of New Mexico's 27 coun- ties voted against repeal. Returns had been compiled from 257 of the state’s 785 precincts. The unreport- ed precincts, however, represented only 20 per cent of the estimated vote. The count stood: For Repeal, 31,666; Against Repeal, 9,842. The vote from 251 precincts on the State prohibition law was: For Re- peal, 29,570; Against Repeal, 10,621. jers surrounded the rebels near the soldiers and rebels exchanged shots near Tamarindo. But friends of “the Cuban Sandino” agreed that he will not surrender. On the Havana front a less drama- tie but no less important episode was being enacted in what the executive described before 5,000 hearers as “a duel to the death,” in which he and his followers were “sworn to main- tain the free country of which our fathers dreamed.” Continues in Defiance Grau San Martin had not answer- ed demnds of his leading opponents that he step down, but there were indications that he would continue to defy them. There were unconfirmed rumors of revolutionary activities or prepara- tions in Santa Clara and Oriente provinces, which, with Camaguey, form the eastern half of Cuba. Plagued by strikes, which have put. much of the Cuban interior in a fer- ment of unrest, the government played its ace card to settle labor troubles by decreeing the eight-hour working day obligatory on all employ- ers, effective 30 days hence. employes were on strike and no one | was permitted to enter or leave the property. A number of Americans were reported virtual prisoners, with food supplies running short. In Oriente province 15 sugar mills were sald to be in the hands of workers. Disturbances occurred in several places. O'BRIEN WINNER IN GOTHANES PRIMARY Will Face Fic > H. LaGuardia For Mayoralty in Nov. 7 Election New York, Sept. 20.—()—Mayor John P. O'Brien, the number one can- away nomination for mayor in Tur day's Democratic primary election. de- feating Congressman Loring M. Black and Assemblyman Jerome G. Ambro by approximately three to one. In the scalping of Black and Ambro, however, the Tammany braves lost some head feathers. Theif principal disappointment was accomplished by Frank J. Prial, who won nomination as controller. Prial defeated the Tam- marked » especially in the 14th (Yorkville) beer garden was wrecked by strong- arm men who ripped out the bar, smashed furniture and broke mirrors. contest’ except for the fight of Sam- uel 8. Koenig to retain his chairman- lican committee against Charles Mel- jhe other states that previously had eclared * for amendment. i Returns from 568 of the state’s 819 precincts, in 43 counties of the 44, gave a totai of 50,643 for repeal and 27,743 against. The vote of many of the counties reporting was complete or nearly so. In only 11 of the state's 44 counties was the vote against repeal. Boise and Pocatello, the two largest cities in| the state, voted for repeal. CAMPAIGN TO CURB DIPHTHERIA PLANNED Local School Children Will Be Immunized Under Non- Compulsory System Announcement of a campaign to At iron mines near Santiago 2,000|immunize Bismarck school children! from diphtheria, to be launched at once, was made Wednesday by Dr. A. M. Fisher, city health officer. Cards are being distributed to school children which parents who wish their children immunized are ssked to sign. When the acceptances of the officer have been received the work of administering the anti-toxin will begin under the direction of Dr. city school nurse. Dr. Fisher stressed the fact that the treatments are not compulsory, but shat the effort is in line with the modern practice of preventing disease rather than attempting to cure it af- ter it develops. Children given the anti-toxin treat- ment are immunized from diphtheria for eight or nine years or more and this usually carries them past the dan- ‘Gisease most likely to prove fatal in said thousands of tests have proved tnat there are no harmful effects from the immunization treatments. When parents have signed the cards, the treatments will be admin- istered to the children at the grade school building, probably beginning next week. A charge of $1 will be made for the treatments but in cases where the parents are unable to pay the work will be done free. 695 Hunting Licenses Hunters had taken out 695 licenses bly district. of Manhattan. Aj up to noon Wednesday in Bismarck, according to records at the county hha innued 168° and 890 had ‘boca is ‘The Republican voting was without] sued at the French & Welch hard- ware store. (COURT'S DECISION By a vote of approximately five to; small town of Zayas. Another saidjtour Idaho ranged herself alongside repeal of the 18th] Fisher and ‘Miss Esther Teichmann, ;gerous period, since diphtheria is a early childhood. The health officer 3 a possibly showers, warmer. PRICE FIVE CENTS INVOLVES $500,000 STATE HAIL FUNDS Legislature Contemplated Switch of Half Million For Bond Interest |N. D. CAN BORROW, HOWEVER Insurance Department May Loan From’ Fund With Certain Restrictions A 1933 legislative act transferring and loaning to the real estate bond interest payment fund $500,000 from the permanent hail surplus fund was held unconstitutional by the North | Dakota supreme court Wednesday. In its opinion, however, the court pointed out that under existing |statutes the state treasurer is author- |ized to borrow sufficient funds by is- suance of certificates of indebtedness jfor payment of interest due on real estate series bonds or any interest payment date if there are insufficient j{unds to meet interest payments. Calis Attention To Law Attention is called to the law au- thorizing sale of certificates of in- debtedness when necessary to replen- ‘sh funds for payment of interest. ‘The certificates may be purchased by the state treasurer, with the approval of the commissioner of insurance, out of any funds in the state hail insur- ance fund not necessary to meet the current expenses and losses of the hail insurance department. The court held that the transfer of funds provided by chapter 65, of the 1933 session laws, “is a diversion from the fund created to insure the owners of growing crops against losses by hail, and such act violates section 175, 177 and article 24 of the amendments to the constitution of the state of North Dakota.” | | | Article 24 Definite Article 24 and section 177 authorizes enactment of legislation providing for the levy of a tax on lands to insure owners of growing crops against hail losses. A 1921 law authorizes the levy of a tax to create a permanent sur- Plus in the hail insurance fund to be {applied in paying losses more prompt- iy. “Such funds cannot be diverted or used for any purpose except as di- ea by the constitution,” the court id. Section 175 of the constitution pro- | vides “no tax shall be levied except in {pursuance of law, and every law im- posing a tax shall state distinctly the object of the same, to which only it shall be applied.” The supreme court tuled the fund provided by the 1921 law is raised by @ tax, is appropriat- ed to pay hail losses, and “any other use of the fund violates section 175 of the constitution.” Points To Language The supreme court called attention to the language of the statute trans- ierring the $500,000 that the money is |to be “paid back to the permanent | hail surplus fund on or before Jan. 1, | 1939.” { | This does not require the repayment (Continued on Page Two) HOLD BROTHERS FOR “TORTURE? ROBBERY | Arthur and Clifford Johnson Ar- rested in Kansas For N. D. Officials | Towner, N. D., Sept. 20.—(#)—Two ‘brothers sought in connection with a | “torture” robbery in 1929 of a farmer jand his son near Karlsruhe have been apprehended in Kansas, Sheriff Joe Strong said Tuesday night. Following the robbery, first-degree |robbery charges were placed against Arthur and Clifford Johnson. Arthur is under arrest at Hutchinson, Kans., and Clifford is held at Wichita. Ac- cording to advices from Hutchinson, | Terry Jerome, alias Hazen, now is | had served more than three years of i@ 20-year sentence after being con- victed by @ jury in Towner on a charge of being implicated in the rob- Zimmerman is at Hberty under p2- role. He was released a month ozo Jerome had been ap- Iss prehended in Seattle, Wash., and ad- ued at Noon Today mitted his guilt to absolve Zimmsr- Local Women Golfers In Mandan Tourney A number of parties were prepar-| Women’s ship of the New York county Repub-| ing to leave before noon for the day's Chickens are plentiful this shoot. | 4s repealed, approximately 30 dis- |len, Jr. Incomplete returns early] year, ding Jones, i 1, accor to B. local | tilleries in. New ‘York, Penneyl- | Wednesday indicated that Koenig’s| aporiaman, whs has tade'a survey of vaina, Kentucky, Maryland, Ili- | 22-year leadership of the party had|the territory surrounding Bismarck] Six nols and Massachusetts will be | been broken. and Mandan. in the Teady. to operate. As a result of Tuesday's vote ver-| It should not be at all difficult to| O'Leary; | ie chris! wala that 1634 plane dict will go into the Nov. collect the limit of five birds this)D. | calls the turning out of 180,- {7 election backing Mayor O'Brien! year, he said. Mrs. + 000,000 considerably more | against a fusion ticket headed by ——__—__ Hughes. then ‘anticipated consump- | Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Republ FIRE RAZES CLUBHOUSE (|&. | tom. Before the high- | Whose nomination Tuesday, Fargo, N. D., Sept. 20.—()—Fire|nandl, Mrs. B. | et year was'1911, | with that of a slate having fusion’ destroyed the chub house at ©, Rausch, Mrs. i + 132,000,000 ° - , Were | Committee approval, was ® quiet for-|the Fargo country club at 2 a. m./Paul Shannon, \ . | matey hs ;