The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 4, 1933, Page 6

© ' to protect the city’s interests.” ‘| other was that Vold 6 AUDITORS REPORT BARES SCANDAL IN | MINOT FINANCING Improper Transfers and Alleged Mlegal Payments Cited to Comm Minot, N. D., Oct. 4—(#)—A report ‘by a special committee on auditing of the Minot city council, filed with and ‘accepted Tuesday by the council, de- clares O. P. Vold, who has been audit- ing city records, has discovered im- proper transfers of special assess- . Ment funds by the former city com- mission, allegedly illegal payments of a “considerable amount” and “a large #. , number of city warrants which appear to have been illegally issued.” ‘The council adopted two recommen- dations contained in the report. One was that “this entire matter be re- ferred to the city attorney for such action as he deems advisable in order The “immediately , Make a complete and a full report on the results of his investigation and lay the same before the city attor- The report discussed acts of the commission relative to a $300,000 is- } sue of refunding bonds in 1929 and to subsequent transfers of funds. There was a brief paragraph relative to investigation of the waterworks ex- tension fund. Then followed another paragraph dealing with city warrants in connection with the issuance of which it was asserted that “a con- siderable sum of the city’s money has been misappropriated.” May File Claims on Bonds In referring the matter to City At- torney V. E. Stenersen, the council intends that he shall prepare and file claims against the state bonding de- Partment which provided surety on the bonds of the members of the now- extinct commission. In discussing the allegedly illegal warrants found by Vold, the report states: “In many instances they were is- sued upon claims or vouchers which ‘were not actually signed by the party who appeared to be the creditor in the claim, and in many instances the signature which appears in the claim is apparently a forged signature. In * many instances these warrants were no: issued in payment for any services ;, or for any other consideration.” t It is charged in the report that the * city commission cashed $41,550.18 of 4 special assessment warrants which al- Teady had been paid and cancelled, the alleged second payment of the “warrants having been made through Minneapolis bonding houses which handled the $300,000 funding bond is- sue. The report charges the funding bond issue was made approximately $50,000 larger than the amount of the warrants which could properly be funded by the issue. Lutheran Bible School Postponed Four Days A four-day postponement of the Lutheran Bible School which will be; conducted here next week has been | necessitated, it is announced by Rev. A. Adolph Johns, pastor of the First Lutheran church in Bismarck. i Originally scheduled for Oct. 8 to) 12, the conference will be held from Oct. 12 to 15 at the request of Rev. A. W. Knock of the Lutheran Bible In- stitute in Minneapolis, who will be inj charge of the school. | The school is being sponsored joint- ly by the First Lutheran church and Trinity Lutheran church. A program is planned each evening _ at 7:30 o'clock, except Sunday, Oct. 15, when Rev. Knock will conduct the| morning service at 10:30 o'clock at the ‘+ First Lutheran church and will pre- side over a general conference at Trin- ity Lutheran church at 3 p. m. The general theme of the school will be “Life In His Name.” Separ- ate subjects of the program will be “The Source of Life,” “The Satisfy- ing Life,” “The Giver of Life,” “The { Sustainer of Life,” “The Sharing Life” and “The Eternal Life.” Dollfus Celebrates 41st Anniversary 4 Vienna, Oct. 4.—(#)— Chancellor “4 Engelbert Dollfuss, was able to cele- se { brate his 41st birthday anniversary | + Wednesday because an assassin's aim ywas poor, *¢ While police and psychiatrists in- vestigated the political and mental ‘balance of Rudolf Dertil, a one-time army bugler who shot and slightly ‘wounded the little chancellor-dictator ‘Tuesday, Frau Dollfuss, their children, and the nation gave thanks for the! deliverance of the friendly but stub- { born leader. "|. Dollfuss said he expected to return to his office Thursday. . Jewish Contribution To World Discussed ‘The Jewish contribution to the *_ ‘world was discussed by Harry Lash- 1: kowitz of Fargo, assistant U. 8. dis- fict attorney, in an address at the tq Mewish Temple Tuesday night. : He said the Jew believes in the pro- i. motion of peace and amity with his « Neighbors and is seeking a better un- derstanding with them. 1" The Jew, Lashkowitz said, is always advancing and contributing to the Twice a Jakobsson. she was en Wilhelm, youngest son of King Gusta’ tor and star on location iv th Reopened Wednesday Grand Forks, N. D., Oct. 4—P— * With deposits in excess of $2,000,000: | the new First National Bank in Grand | | Forks opened for business Wednes- day, replacing the old bank of similar, | name that has been closed since the | national bank holiday last March. It is a depositor-owned institution with 1,640 stockholders, who common stock out of part of the 50- per cent dividend on their deposits in the old bank, which became avail- able Wednesday through the new bank. i R. F. Bridgeman is president, M. W. Murray, and Fred Orth, vice pre: dents and Carter Jackson, cashier. In addition to $100,000 common stock and $50,000 surplus subscribed by de- | poscitor stock holders, the reconstruc- tion finance corporation has taken} an issue of $150,000 of preferred stock | in the bank. There were very few withdrawals in the early hours. indicating that | Practically all the dividend payments ! will remain on deposit. With the opening of the new bank. there was released a dividend of 99 per cent on the nearly $3,000,000 of kr a plane was damaged almost beyond repair Grand Forks Bank Is “posits in the old ban eredit in the new institution or avail- able hank, purchased | jng | congressman-at-large Rogers of Norman. __THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, e Around the World—To This! Veteran of two history-making ‘round-the-world flights, without serious mishap, Wiley Post’s famous =| Winnle Mae is shown here after it crashed Into trees near Quincy, IIl., when the engine failed. The left wing, sheared,off. lies tp the foreground. Post was vot seriously injured. “Aliss Sweden” Works for a Prince |Two ‘The prettiest, and possibly the luckiest, girl in Sweden {s blonde Miss After winning the beauty title ina nation-wide con ged to act in a movie production directed by Prince y. Here you see the royal direc- € Stockholm archipelago. . payable in for withdrawal through that rn Strange But True | News Items of Day | (By The Associated Press) I BLIND ™ Oklahoma City——A blind man, hown to thousands of Oklahomans. anounced his intention to enter race for Democratic nomination for against Rep. He is Ernest L. Reno, for years oper- ‘ator of a cigar stand in the lobby of | the Oklahoma capita! Gore of Oklahoma City also is blind. Senator T. P. TOO MANY ‘DEADHEADS’ Chicago—An estimate that there are nearly half a million men, women and children riding “dead head” on the nation’s railroads was made to the American Rail- way Association’s safety section by T. E. Pratt, of Chicago, chief special agent for the Burlington. “Recently,” he said, “a man and his wife and their three weeks old baby in a basket were found on top of a refrigerator car.” Tv Is Excess Baggage to NRA Boss JohnsTon is the name, not Johnson, even if Gen, | Hugh § of the NRA does the tts, So ‘3 sander Johnston. Tul- r, Hugh's bro er, shown here at 1 shipping board desk in Washington amet The Reelected as Directors of Chest Mrs. 8. W. Corwin and Préd Peter- son were reelected and B. O. Ref- vem and J. N. Roherty were named new members of the board of direc- tors of the Bismarck community {chest at an election meeting Tuesday | evening. | Retiring board members are Mes- | dames Ray V. Stair and P. J. Meyer. Members of the community chest budget board, as announced by the | board of directors, are Miss Henricka Beach, Mrs. F. R. Smythe, W. B./ Couch, R. Worth Lumry, J. C. Tay- lor, L. K. Thompson and Theodore Quanrud. A special campaign committee to supervise the annua] drive for funds, | which will be held early next month, {is composed of Migs Beach, 8. 8, | Boise, M. C. Blackstun. Robert Byrne, |Henry J. Duemeland, A. Helmer | Pearson, J. N. Roherty, J. C. Taylor jand E. F. Trepp. ‘Labor Troubles Hold | Steel Makers Down New York, Oct. 4.—()—“Iron Age” |said Wednesday that “labor troubles; in the plants of both steel makers; {and consumers are now threatening! | to impede progress of the industry.” | The steel operating ratio this week is 42 per cent of capacity, a rise of one point from last week but “Iron Age” said the larger consuming in-| idustries “are generally. curtailing: \their requirements and give promise | of little sustained improvement dur- ing the next two months.” ** & ** & TORN BY EXPERIENCE “*# # * Tell of Death’s Wild Ride | Los Angeles, Oct. 4.—(®)—In voices low from exhaustion, sorrow and Shock, the men who lived told Wed- nesday of the men who died in death’s ride on a wind-born firebrand across the canyons of Grififth Park. Only the terrible sight of humanity burned to an almost unrecognizable mass surpassed the stark, homespun drama of words that fell from their lips, blackened, scorched and swollen by the death-dealing heat from which they had escaped. They and those 50 or more who were to die had gone down into the canyon to put out a blaze which was believed to have been started by a carelessly discarded cigaret. All of them were poor. Their jobs, road work, had been supplied by the county in its efforts to relieve the burdens of unemployment.. Their foremen saw the fire. “Go down and smack it out with your shovels,” was the order. They went. Involuntary Suicide Involuntary suicide was the way |two fire officials regarded the instruc- | pers. “The flames cut off my view of tions to plunge into the canyon. ‘As the vanguard went down the canyon, “hell broke loose,” one sur- vivor said. The wind suddenly seem- ed to spread the fire in all directions at once. Others, coming down, blocked the Survivors of Holocaust WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1933 __ ADMINISTRATION IS DISSATISFIED WITH LABOR DISCUSSIONS Want-no More Arguments Be- tween Workers and Employ- ers Under New Deal en **2 # see se * could smell the seared flesh, the acrid smoke, the signed hair. “My arms began to hurt. I didn’t iknow then they were burned. The man next to me I pulled him to his feet and we began to run, stumbling, praying, we found a side | trail, I fainted.” ) Bodies Dotted Ground Wilfred Singleton saw the ground Cotted ‘with bodies and heard the piercing shrieks of men who fell and |couldn’t get up. “Sometimes I tripped and I would put out my hands to break my fall and I would feel the hot clothing of a |dead man.” iA blistering heat told Noel Gregg that ‘lots of the fellows had | trapped.” ‘Washington, Oct. 4—()—Prank administration dissatisfaction at con- tinuing arguments between groups of ‘Wagner ee that some jt aon Witte arguments have run on and on ° “On the ground I saw three men, reason their heads down,” he sald. “The|Ut What he considers # sound remot flames were getting them. My tongue /io¢ be ‘compromised, President William Green of the | began to swell a I Hee my eyes would pop out of my head.” ollow- "ist there were splitting shrieks, |feccration has urged that his tote |R. C. Hill sald. ‘Then they became!to the labor board before striking. |hoarse and finally it was just whis-| while many delegates a new plan not yet officially offered, there was.a strike in the capital caus- ed by -@ dispute over whether iron- workers or carpenters should con- struct the enclosures in which radia- jthem and I knew they had come to jtheir end.” One by one the men dropped, W. R. Woods related. “They would crawl a little way and then lie still. Then the fire would catch up with them.” When: the fire had passed those $53 for which firm members had paid ee eo Great publicity\on the operations of banks and corporations was recom- mended my Dillon as a protection to the investing public. - Disclosing that his company is.con- ments, the would be in a better position to judge the value of securities if corporations would give out more of their busi- ness statistics. return of the first who went and they | whose turn it had been to live look- found a narrow cow path their only ed back. Few of them cried. They avenue of escape. The flames belched| were past that. They stood on the upward. leanyon top, brains numbed by trag- “I still can hear them yelling and jedy, and looked down the slope. On shouting for help,” said G. B. Catr./the blackened, ash covered ground, “Tt was an oven-hell. Everything was | they saw what was left of the men red. As I staggered on I began to, with whom only a few minutes ago Watch this newspaper next week for date of showing of the new Studebakers ‘described in this week’s issue of The Saturday Evening Post. count the bodies. One, two, three— when I finished I had counted 32. I |they had shoveled dirt and swung Picks, Baldwin By MRS. FLORENCE BORNER Mr. and Mrs. Herman Meyer are wearing happy smiles because of the two fine grandsons which arrived the paSt week. A son was born Sunday to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Coleman and the following Tuesday a son was born to/| Mr. and Mrs. Herman Meyer, Jr. Mrs. Coleman was formerly Miss Elsa Meyer. Both mothers and their bab- ies are being cared for at private homes in Bismarck. Mrs. Carl Landerholm and Mrs. Arthur Meyer were among those who attended the homemakers project leaders lessons which were given in Bismarck Tuesday. They represented the Crofte Star homemakers club. Mr. and Mrs. Julius Westling of Carson were overnight guests at the Fred Kant home Wednesday. Mrs. George Whittid and children. Stephen and Florence have returned home from a few days visit with rela- tives at Aberdeen, South Dakota. Mr. and M Arnold Rupp were easantly surprised lay evening } | | i f Tune in the Stude- baker Parade of ‘Champions, Columbia Coast-to-Coast Net. work, 9:15 P. M. East- ern Time, Oct. 3rd, @ Athand Sth | when a group of friends and neighbors {gathered at thelr home, the occasion | \being their 25th wedding anniversary. Dancing was enjoyed and a midnight {lunch was served. John Risch and son Robert of Price |are spending some time here on busi-' ness. Chas. Duberry will leave soon for his home in Flint, Michigan, after spending the past year here. The Presbyterian Ladies Aid will meet with Mrs. G. G. Rupp Wednes- day afternoon of this week. | s Trainload of Cattle | To Move From Sanish) A trainload of cattle, valued at more than $100,000, will be loaded at Sanish Thursday for shipment to South 8t. Paul and Chicago markets, it was an- nounced Wednesday by division of- fices of the Soo Line In Bismarck. |} The train will include 60 cars, each to hold 22 cattle averaging about 1,400 . pounds in weight. 2 The Soo Line expects to set @ rec- ord time for transporting the live- stock to St. Paul and Chicago, local officials of the railroad saic Th STU Si artling NEW DEBAKERS that’s why Luckies draw So easily t You've noticed it'and you've burning quality that is so much a part of Luckies’ chare ‘ actet .:.-. Round and purem. - That's why Luckies draw ge rv j ) | | \ : eaten