The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 27, 1933, Page 1

Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 | Stri Diseas ~ BA KNOWN DBAD AND > IN TAMPICO REGION Medical and Food Supplies Sent .From Capital Delayed By Rail Damage — MUCH OF CITY IS IN RUINS Small Towns in District Report Desperate Need; Death List May Grow Tampico, Mexico,’ Sept. 27.~()— Disease, hunger, and thirst threaten- * ed to add their terrors Wednesday to those of floods and storms which four days ago brought death and destruc- tion here. _ An official estimate placed the dead at 54 and the injured at more than 850. It was'feared many more bodies were buried in the city-wide ruins and . that the number hurt may total well over 1,500. ‘The store’ of wheat is sufficient to Toblematical because of disrupted rail service. Much of the city lies in ruins; the harbor, filled with mud and debris, used. Residents have to g i iF EE i a i i ESB li a3 i i 5 warned, suffer- : E A i i Fe pee iy Batt Sets American Glider Record Dipping down unheralded on the Frederick, Md., landing field, Richard C. du: Pont, 22, above, of Wilmington, Del., set a new American gliding record of 122% miles, in a flight from Waynesboro, Va. The previous American mark: was 66.9 miles, established in 4932. Fog pre- vented the young sailplane dev- otee from making a longer flight. RaLLY AOCOPLCE ADMITS HERORT 10 Part of Ransom Money "$73,250 Recovered Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 27.—(?)— John M, Keith, a special agent of the department of justice, announcefl Wednesday that Langford Ramsey, attorney and former brother-in-law of George “Machine Gun” Kelly, con- fessed Wednesday that Kelly sent h'm Charles F. Urschel ransom money, $73,250 of which was recovered near Coleman Wednesday. “Kelly got $75,000 of the $200,000 Albert to Coleman, Texas, to get part of the! the - BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1933 es Handica e, Hunger, Thirst Feared in Mexico INDIANA FARMERS =|Dale Says Interest ORGANIZE POSSES TOHUNT CONVICTS ‘Shoot to Kill’ Is Order to Men Seeking 10 Who Broke From Prison SHERIFF STILL MISSING |Fear Abducted Official May Be Found Dead; Clerk May Die of Wounds Michigan City, Ind., Sept. 271—()— ‘Ten desperate killers and robbers were hunted through small towns and desolate areas of northern In- diana Wednesday by police and sroused citizens with orders to take no chances and “shoot to kill.” ‘Three times the fleeing desperadoes eluded elaborate man-traps, using the same cunning that marked their es- cape Tuesday from the Indiana state penitentiary here. * doubly desperate because their way through any interference. Sheriff Charles Neel of Corydon, Ind., who drove four of the convicts found in some roadside ditch. A prison clerk, Finley P. Carson, was in danger of death from bullet wounds in the abdomen and hip. He too slowly when the prisoners an order as they left the pen- Heavily Guarded be itentiary there was ge . Guards Prison Inside the atmosphi Q Went ta Texas: in Effort-to ‘Got p ey soma or shirts from the ong and two prison officials accom- panying them at pistol point as host- thousand convicts are crowd- A the side. Nine of the felons drove away from in two automobiles— the penitentiary. - Auto Driver Slugged Van Valkenberg was slugged and t/ thrown from his automobile because he would not drive fast enough to (Continued on Page Two) Friendly Divorce’ . Given Film Couple Los Angeles, Sept. 27.— (AP) — The film colony had another friend! divorce to talk about Wednesday, that of Richard Dix, screen star, and the former Winifred Coe, San Fran- cisco. society girl. Mrs. Dix’s attorney disclosed she had obtained a‘decree at Juarez, ico, on the grounds of cruelty last June 29, but, like most recent Hollywood separations, she and her husband issued a feist statement in which they said were parting “the best of friends.’ The attorney declared a substan- tial property settlement was made ‘out of court and the actor had cre- Fund Needs No Levy State Treasurer Informs Industrial Commission in Official Re-| port That Real Estate Bond Fund Will Be Able to Meet All Charges EXPECTS $2,000,000 TO ‘BE COLLECTED THIS YEAR Says ‘Very Littie or No Levy Will Be Needed to Pay Interest Due for Ensuing Year’ Despite Langer's Re- cent Plea to Electorate Despite refusal of the people to enact Governor Langer’s proposal for a sales tax, the state of North Dakota will be able to pay interest on its real estate bonds next year without levy- ing much, if any, in taxes. % The state industrial commission was informed of this fact Tuesday in an official report by State Treasurer Alfred S. Dale in which he outlined the status of the bond interest fund and reasonable expectations for the next year. Dale estimated that approximately $2,000,000 will be col- lected into the fund during the next year without additional taxes of any kind and commented that “very little or no levy need be made to pay interest coming due for the ensuing year.” Interest payments coming due before another levy can be made total $1,810,205.25, including $947,164.91 on Jan. 1, 1934, and $863,040.34 on July 1, 1934. Dale bases his estimate on collection figures of the fund for 1937 and the first eight months of 1933, together with information and knowledge of collections for previous years. He estimates collections for the coming year as follows: farm loan pay- ments, $500,000; tax collections (past due), $200,000; transfer from motor vehicle fund, $1, 200,000; and one-half mill levy, $100,000. Would Need Levy to Pay Off Bank Loan “There is, however, a loan of $2,255,000 from the Bank of North Dakota for which a levy should be made at this t! -| desires to retire these certificates of indebtedness,” he said. , ime if the industrial commission Neither does Dale see a necessity for making « levy for the payment of bonds coming due. The real estate principal 245.04, he points out, whereas bonds totalin, Jan. 1, 1934. “The interest fund has borrowed fund has a balance of §3,325,- ig Only $1,650,000 will become due 000 from the Bank of North $2,255, Dakota at four her cent,” Dale's letter says, “but this office wishes to call your attention to the fact that the real estate principal fund has certifi- cates of deposit in the Bank of North Dakota bearing three per cent in the amount of $2,600,000.” Due to an increase in tax collections from $135,906.60 to $570,718.37 and a transfer of $700,000 from the motor vehicle fund, total collections for the first eight months of 1933 were $1,687,995.50 as compared to $797,125.18 for the whole of 1932, Dale's figures on collections and disbursements show. The treasurer's collection and disbursement figures follow: Bee pene Farm Loan Payments . Tax Collections Motor Vehicle Interest due January 1 . Interest due July 1 COLLECTIONS -:$ 460,573.36 135,906.60 191,645.26 Sete eee e ere eweenleceerereeeeoel $ 797,125.18 DISBURSEMENTS : --$ 879,014.91 1,054,665.34 Total ... 00 81,934,580.25 Miscellaneous . 57,358.34 Total ... $1,991,938.59 Note: Miscell 1933 (To Aug. 30) $ 331,806.55 $70,718.37 700,000.00 85,360.58 $1,687.995.50 1933 (To Aug. 30) | $ 947,164.91 92,207.16 $1,986,537.41 terest on daily balances and on certifisates of deposit, accrued interest on bonds, and interest on sinking fund investment. cates of indebtedness, and administration fee. Miscellaneous disbursements include interest on certifi- ‘TAMMANY WHIPPED LICENSING LAW IS IN BROKER BATTLE PROPOSED BY LABOR New York Political Organization; Would Have All Industries Un- Faces New Menaces to Contin New York, Sept. 27.—(#)—The Tam- many administration, whipped by stockbrokers in what some observers called a game of bluff and others| (, called deadly earnest, faced two new menaces Wednesday. ued Power der Federal Rule to Curb Exploitation ‘ashington, Sept. 27—(#)—Organ- ‘By reason of my being busily and in my work, and in seins a ee, Des, niet she unham » We thought that @ divorce should 5 PRICE CUTTING 10 COME UNDER BAN IN RETAIL AGREEMENT Sales Would Be Prohibited Be- low Cost Plus Margin of 10 Per Cent EXPECT JOHNSON’S FAVOR Oklahoma Inflationist Asks Pa- tience While Roosevelt Tries Own Ideas Washington, Sept. 27.—(#)}—NRA’s retail trade code plans assumed big Proportions in the federal recovery drive Wednesday upon indications that some ban on extreme price-cut- ting would be approved. Both the master retail code and the retail druggist recommendations con- tain important price provisions. The Tetailers would prohibit sales below a price representing wholesale cost plus 10 per cent: The druggist would bar sales of trade-marked goods at'a dis- count of more than 21 per cent below the maker’s fixed price. Final approval still must be obtain- ed from Hugh 8. Johnson, but friends of the plan recalled the general once told the retailers publicly that “ruth- Jess competition and price cutting does not assist prosperity.” Johnson’s continued absence from his office because of an infection did not interrupt his studies of the re- tail charters and other NRA develop- ments, including soft coal. : Coincident with President Roose- velt’s departure for his Hyde Park home, advocates of currency inflation were urged by Senator Thomas (Dem., Okla.) to stand back long enough to permit a full trial of Roosevelt's credit expansion program. While Thomas personally predicted failure of the credit efforts, a number of government agencies were doing their utmost to create easier credit with the desire of boosting farm prices and assisting NRA indhstries. The public works» administration found actual outlays of cash progress- ing 80 slowly however, that some offi- clals felt Roosevelt would have to make a personal demand for speed. More than a billion and a half dol- lars of public works funds have been allocated but less than $100,000,000 spent. Doctors Are Source Of Trouble in Cuba Havana, Sept. 27. — (AP) — More 4) than 250,000 members of Spanish so- $1,894,330.25 cieties in Cuba planned to assemble Wednesday to protest a government decree forcing ‘all practicing physi- cians to affiliate with the National Medical federation. Virtually all commercial activities in Havana and other important cities ers to participate in the nation-wide demonstratoins. Speculation went the rounds as to whether the closing of business would be for just one day, or would continue, The trouble started when 3,000 federated physicians went on strike and demanded the societies discon- tinue admitting: persons of means to membership at the same low rates as peas persons. lembers of the societies get free medical attention. Physicians main- tained the organizations were pre- venting them from building up a legitimate practice among richer Persons. Four Are Injured in Steamboat Collision Poughkeepsie, N. 'Y., Sept. 27.—(P)— Two hundred passengers on the Hud- son river night line steamboat “Rens- selaer” were imperiled and four in- jured at 2 a. m. Tuesday when the Swedish freight lp Roxena collided with the river vessel in a dense fog. A hole was torn in the side of the passenger boat. The screams of two women, trapped in the wreckage of their port side stateroom, excited some passengers who quickly found life preservers. One lifeboat was lowered but was not used when the steamboat found she could reach'a stone barge, which was moored to the west bank of the river at Highlands. Sunday Movies Now 443 Ballots Behind F N. D., ‘Sept. 27.—(AP)— Possibility of approval of the Sun- head day mate pro] voted ‘on Fri- vanished day, Mov 'y as pay Pee $6 preci were ted pers of the meazure holding My Ms in counties after county rechecked figures. night 80,897 inst’ the 78, Wor. proposal ‘{amounting tp several million dollars. were to halt at noon to permit work- |. Matrimonial } O Mothers in eastern society circles have designing lorgnettes fixed on Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Jr. (above). He became the matrimo- nial “catch of the season” when, just the other day, he simultaneously at- tained the age of 21 and a $7,000,000 inheritance. His father, of the famed New York family of Vanderbilts, was drowned when the Lusitania sank. PUBLIC WORK BOARD CONSIDERS APPEALS FOR FEDERAL MONEY State Chairman Says Every Ef- fort Is Being Made to Speed Projects Devils Lake, N. D., Sept. 27.—(P)}— With 31 projects before it, the state public works board this week bent its energies to perfecting and forwarding to the federal administrator at,Wash- ington proposed public works projects Chairman 8. J. Doyle said every ef- fort is being made to speed consider- ation of the applications for projects. Four communities and representa- tives of labor and contractors appear- ed at Tuesday's session. J. W. McCormick, Phillip Blank, E. F Moltzen, and C, N. Cunningham, New Salem, presented a project for a waterworks system. It was referred | ack for correction as to financial | data. The same disposition was made of a project for a waterworks system at Carson, presented by Dr. R. H. Lea- vitt, J. C. Bell and T. R. Atkinson. ! Need Financial Data Representing the village of Bow-/ bells, C. A. Masters, H. M. Westrum, Cc 8. Summers and E. O. Nehring, were before the board: in connection with Bowbell’s waterworks project. Financial data in the application! tnust be corrected. The application of the village of Velva for a waterworks project was | referred back for a second time for a decision as to technical detail. W. E. Lillo, William Hanson and Jo- seph Clark presented an application for funds for a new high school at Larimore to cost $85,000. It will con- vain a community hall. Chairman Doyle announced that if necessary more engineers will be add- ed to the staff of the local office to speed consideration of the projects. Plan Long Session s The board will be in session here until Saturday. Representatives of labor unions and contractors appeared before the board Tuesday. Roy Arntson, Bismarck, president of the state Federation of Labor, declared the scale of wages set for semi-skilled craftsmen at a conference between contractors and representatives of labor unions at Fargo Saturday is not satisfactory. It will be taken up with the national la- bor board. Contractors appearing before the board were notified that bids for tions before winter weather sets in. Confessed Slayer Oo eo The Weather settled; not much change {n temp | PRICE FIVE CENTS ing NRA MEDIATORS SETTLE SOME DISPUTES AS OTHERS BREAK OUT Government Officials Disclaim Worry; See It as Normal Development 100,000 OUT IN GOTHAM . Many Other Cities Report Indus- trial Strife and Budding Quarrels (By the Associated Press) Capital-labor strife continued- te Put kinks in the nation’s economic sinews Wednesday. NRA mediators, settling some disputes, saw others break out into new strikes. The government disclaimed worry about the situation. Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper, speaking in New York Tuesday, said such dis- putes are “only natural” in a transi- tional stage and should not “serious. ly disturb” the recovery program, From New York, where newspapers estimated 75,000 to 100,000 were on strike, to a long list of smaller com- munities, walkouts tried the skill of mediators. High spots of the situa- tion were: Detroit: Auto tool makers on strike, Their leaders place the number of strikers at 8,000. ‘ Chester, Pa.: Several thousand Ford workers out. Washington: NRA sends mediator to settle auto strike of Buick, Chey- rolet and A. C. spark plug workers at Flint, Mich. Hartford,’ Conn.: Truck drivers, whose strike paralyzed truck trans- portation, agree to return and let NRA arbitrate. Paterson, N. J.: Silk strike con- tinues, although workers of one con- Phin ne i retura. iphia: Bread wagon drivers, who overturned wagons Tuesday, con- tinue strike. Bread deliveries re- stricted. Clairton, Pa.: 500 coal miners marched into town Tuesday to urge 6,000 workers in the Carnegie steel Plant to strike. ROOSEVELT CONFERS. WITH MONEY CHIERS ON EXPANSION PLAN Advisers Feel He Soon Will Make Known Scheme for Loosening Credit New York, Sept. 27.—()—President Roosevelt turned toward home Wed- nesday, obviously confident of the national recovery drive and ready tc lay down the terms for putting credit to work to make success assured. A series of talks with financial leaders convinced his advisers he was about to make known his desires for expanding credit through regula: channels as the alternative to out- right currency inflation. Welcomed home to his adopted city by a crowd that swarmed over his route from Pennsylvania station, Roosevelt re- mained last night and early Wednes- day at the family residence at 49 East Sixty-fifth street with his own Held i for Officials murder Chief