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

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1933 | The Weather | Rain or snow and colder 5 aat=| urday mostly cloudy pry’ ia Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 PRICE FIVE CENTS Calls Sheriffs to Aid Embargo * Consumers to Carry Billion in Farm Taxes aman Ne OLN == Soca TARMWAR W Beer Resolution Is RROVNGBDS IN sarseram-7 Siem op Gq | GIGANTICRETREAT | ‘NATIONAL SCALE 10 Adopted by County 20/MLESOF ROAD gaye?-yy — FROM BiG SURPLUS | OPEN ON SATURDAY (COMMISSIONERS OF rena ayer tn FORNORTHDAKOTA Refusal on Part of Elevator Men Will Mean Calling Out | ai | tion in Unincorporated of Guardsmen Tribute Will Be Exacted During: Strike Is Proclaimed by Nation- ' Villages Letting Friday Is Third of Ser- Two-Year Period Ending | | al Holiday Association; BOWMAN COUNTY ARE’ ' jes Under National Re- SAYS IT WILL CUT COST in November; 1935 Roosevelt Scored ‘OUSTED BY L ANGERS SIMILAR TO BISMARCK’S, covery Program ‘Latest Wrinkle ts Devised to y Avoid Head-On Conflict DEMAND MONEY INFLATION: 3 License Fees Are Pared Down, ALL CLASSES ARE INCLUDED With Railroads [oS iGovernor Removes Them Pend-, However; Sunday Hours SS ing Hearing on Numerous Different Accusations | a’ PROCEEDS GO TO FARMERS| Governor William Langer Friday ordered sheriffs of North Dakota's 53 counties to take steps to stop wheat shipments in compliance with his em- jembargo proclamation. The governor's instructions to the sheriffs was a demand that they | advise all elevators and warehouses in their jurisdicition to cease accepting Demand NRA Code for Agricul- ture; Condemn Destruction of Foodstuffs Bismarck to: Get Paving and Northern Part of Country to Have New Road Compensatory Levies Are Plan-| ned on Many Items Not | Directly Affected i | | \ | i | A resolution regulating the sale and : ay consumption of beer in the unincor-' ited Leo beets stl nade ee hed of Burleigh county, | | St. Paul, Oct. 20.—7)—A new ag-/ ers have m suspendéd from office! which’ follows closely the Bismarck} pigs were being opened Friday by ricultural “farm war” burst forth|Pending outcome of removal proceed- city ordinance in essential parts. was . ai Friday in the calling of a nationwide |ings against them, Governor William jstrike by the National Farmers Holi-| Langer announced Friday. jday association. The commissioners are 8. H. Ehloe, ‘Washington, Oct. 20—(%)—Ameri- | can consumers will be called on to shoulder a tax load of more than one billion dollars to finance the admin- | SENATOR JAMES COUZENS adopted unanimously by the board of {the state highway department for) §P" Senator James Couzens of Michigan, | "est for shipment and to refrain from shipping wheat already held by them. If the sheriff's orders are disre- |@arded, the governor said, detach- county commissioners at a special/Proximately 207 miles of road con-/mijiionnaire senator, favors doing meeting Thursday forenoon. istructions work in North Dakota to/something about high salaries paid Among villages affected by the or-'be awarded this afternoon. |by corporations to their executives. istration's program for a gigantic re- treat in farm production. Policies of farm adjustment offic- tals. hinge upon collecting such a sum during a period of slightly more than two years, counting from last July 9, when processing tax No. 1 was levied on wheat, until November 4, 1935, when the hog and corn process- ing levies are scheduled to termin-; ate. Most of the proceeds, which may be greatly augmented by compensatory taxes on competing products, are scheduled to find their way into the pocketbooks of American farmers, re- putedly thin and thinning for the last decade. The principal consideration will be that farmers forego planting as much ds in the past. The first to see the color of the government's benefit checks—cotton farmers—got them for plowing up from 25 to 50 per cent of their crop. A substantial portion of the con- sumers’ contribution will go to remov- ing surpluses, particularly in joint purchases by the farm and relief ad- ministrations of surplus crops for the needy. 3 Many Levies in Sight But while processing taxes cannot be levied on other products, many are subject to provessing taxes in cases where they compete with basis com- modities. More than two score products al- ready face these compensatory levies but none have been ordered into ef- fect and prospective. income from them remains undetermined. ‘The pork tax hearing will be held October 30, and compensatory levies on cattle, sheep, fish, oils, poultry and eggs will be considered. There is @ strong prospect of a levy on cattle with a program under consideration calling for its expenditure to cut down the surplus of -beef animals in an ef- fort to bolster low cattle prices. There is les slikelihood for a tax on sheep. Sugar is listed as a competing pro- duct of corn whose rivalry for the favor of housewives will be consider- ed November 2. Wallace already has suggested the possibility of a levy of one-tenth of a cent a pound on cane and bete sugar to finance the pay- ment of bonuses to domestic produc- ers. He estimates this levy would produce $12,000,000. Compensatory levies on jute, silk, rayon, linen and some types of paper, competing with cotton and oleo- margarine. competing with butter, are others already considered at hear- ings ' Announce Conversion Factors A definite idea of the cost of pork products to consumers as a result of the processing taxes on hogs was given with establishment of conver- sion factors by Secretary Wallace. The highest will be for boneless ham, cooked, dried and canned. For this product the conversion factor is 340 per cent of the initial tex or 1,7) cents per pound. This means t:. x00 erodes later processing tax reaches $2 a hundred- weight, the increased cost of bone- less ham tp the consumer will be 68 cents per pound. i z For most of the pork products the conversion factor ranges from 100 to 150 per cent of the tax. The factor for fresh pork loins— per cent. This means that on the floor stoct:s this tax will amount to 1.8 cents per pound, and if the tax is passed on directly to the consumer after the processing ‘tay reaches $2 pe: hundredweight, the additional cost for pork chops will be $4.32 cents ‘The conversion factor for cuts from . which bacon is produced is 191 per | 907. cent, or slightly Jess than four cents to the consumer. when the full tax rates becomes effective on swine. Roosevelt Will Talk With Russ nounced he has invited a repre- sentative of the wnrecognized _Boviet government, to confer with ' EDOUARD DALADIER In addition to its troubles with Ger- many over disarmament France is facing a new cabinet crisis as the re- sult of Premier Daladier's insistence that the budget be balanced by mak- ing economies and raising new taxes. Adherence to the gold standard is held to be at stake. DALADIER BATTLES OF FRENCH CABINET: Threatens to Resign Unless Budget-Balancing Pro- gram Is Approved ourd Daladier fought desperately for the life of his cabinet Friday, fearful that overthrow would destroy his plans for balancing the budget. and deal the franc a damaging blow. As a possible last resort in his bat- tle for passage of his legislative pro- gram, he considered a direct appeal to the chamber of deputies to vote on his budget-balancing measures. His cabinet was thrown into a pre- carious position when the chamber's finance committee announced it would be “impossible” to pass the Deladier Program within the week as he asked. But the premier, reiterating his as- sertion that the chamber must accept his complete plan or find another mininstry, unrelentingly carried on in the struggle for a new majority. As things stood Friday, the opposi- tion had no uniform plan of action and it was considered possible Dala- dier might get variously composed} majorities for separate articles. The premier, in his appearance at the opening of congress, stated plain- ly the budget must be balanced or a new government found. His pro®ram, in part, contemplated raising 8,000,000,000 francs (about taxes. - Sunday Movies Lost By 782-Vote Margin) permit Sunday movies in North Dako- ta was defeated by 782 votes. ‘The official canvass of returns of the September 22 special election Fri- | day showed 82,235 voted in favor of; the proposal, and 81,453 against it. Action of the state convessing board today made the results of the election official. Figures approved by the board show for the six other issues voted on in the special poll: 4 Insolvent bank law—Yes 58,746; No, 130. } Sales tax law—Yes 41,241; No, 113,- Workmen’s compensation law—Yes $0,819; No 94,429, : Beer bill—Yes 116,420; No 48,731. Consolidation of county offices, con- atitutional amendment—Yes 84,207; No 62,945, ' Reading of legislative bills, consti- 61,987. 5 Stock Exchange Will Provide Information |.Among the first to endorse the pro- | | AGAINST OVERTHROW Paris, Oct. 20.—()—Premier Ed- | Pl $440,000,000) through economies and holiday Officially, the initiated measure to |= tutional amendments—Yes, 17,077; No’ | The strike proclamation, setting jmoon Saturday as the hour when jfarmers again will begin to withhold jtheir products from market, sharply , criticized the national administra- ‘tion, listed many grievances and out- (lined the course to be pursued. | The decision to protest actively ‘against low prices for agricultural products was reached at a secret con- jference Thursday of officials of the Holiday association which says it has } 2,000,000 members in 24 states. The proclamation stated “after months of patient waiting,” farmers were “fast losing confidence in the administration” and in “its program to provide agricultural relief.” But despite the criticism directed at the administration, the farmers said they still stand ready to support it in “any program that will recognize the farmers’ fundamental right to ask for and receive the cost of production.” ‘The strike will continue, the procla- mation declared, until “our farm pro- ducts bring the cost of production and until we are refinanced under the terms of the Frazier bill.” Langer Favors It | strike was Governor Willigm Langer of North Dakota, whose em- bargo on shipment of wheat from that state took effect at 12:01 a. m. Thursday. Langer’s decree was ap- proved by the farm holiday officials who said they would ask governors of other wheat-producing states to take a similar step, although the sugges- tion has met with unfavorable re- sponse in six states. | An NRA code for agriculture was; demanded by the Holiday association | instead of the administration’s plan | for reducing acreage and food sur-| juses. Establishment of minimum prices to insure cost of production for farm products and a national moratorium on foreclosures and dispossessions were demanded of the national ad- ministration, which was accused of “sparring for time to bring us needed relief.” In the proclamation, mailed to all state and county units of the associa- tion, farmers, were called on to re- fuse to sel] their products and pay no interest-bearing debts unless they re- celve cost of production, pay no taxes or interest until they have first cared for their families; but only necessities; and remain in the homes they now occupy. List Their Own Ideas It was agreed that farmers exchange their products for those of labor or unemployed on a production cost basis. The farmers listed proposals for bringing about agricultural recovery. Foremost in the demands was one asking for “reflation” of currency— @escribed as increasing “the amount ot money {n circulation to our normal standard.” of the Frazier refinancing bill was described as escential by leaders, who accused “racket- eers” of operating machinery to refi- nance mortgages. The farm administration's plan of make * (Continued on Page Three) Morgan Is Cautious About New Bank Laws New York, Oct. 20.—(?)—J. P. Mor- gan, America’s most noted banker, was in @ quandary about the new banking laws as he returned; on toc Friday from a sojourn of John Reimer, and C. E. Bergquist. They are charged with “neglect, in- competency, malfeasance, miscondt ‘and crime in office.” commissioner to take testimony in the case. J. K. Murray, Mott, has been named prosecutor. for introduction of further testimony, The governor announced case has been requested. missioners temporarily suspended. LOCAL CHURCH WILL STAGE ANNIVERSARY Birthday Saturday and Sunday Saturday night and Sunday will ob- serve formally the 50th anniversary of {be organization of the church. Programs are planned at the church at 8 o'clock Saturday evening, 10:30 o'clock Sunday morning and 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon. A feature visitor here for the pro- gram will be Rev. Anton Lundin of Minneapolis, traveling evangelist of the Minnesota conference of the Au- gustana Synod, who. will preach the communion sermon Sunday forenoon. One of the features of the Saturday evening program will be the reading of a history of the church by Miss Mabel Olson. Dr. James Moody, for- mer pastor of the church, will give 8 talk on “Reminiscences.” Instrumen- ‘al numbers will be presented by the Melville orchestra, and a male quar- tet, including Edward Nelson, H. A. &wenson, Henry Danrot and O. N. Nordlund, will sing. C. C. Larsen will be program leader. Refreshments will be served in the church parlors following the program. Binging hy a male trio, along with Rev. Lundin’s sermon and communion retuals, will be the features of the Sunday morning program. Rev. Lundin will give the anniver- sary address at the afternoon pro- gram following a Bible reading and tor of the church. Edward Nelson and O. N. Nordlund will sing s duet. ‘The public is. invited to all of the golden jubilee programs, it is an- nounced by Rev. Johns, Achievement Day Is Arranged for Nov. 3 Burleigh county’s annual 4-H club Achievement Day will be held in Bismarck Friday, Nov. 3, it was announced Friday by H. O. Put- nam, county agricultural agent. been going on in his =a move obviously leading to- recognigion of that gevern- first | be Club boys and girls, guests of the ‘club at the ‘annual |" Clubs are instructed to notify Put- {mam by Oct. 30 how many another | which are of record prior to said Oct. hearing will be held November 1 at|23, 1933." The city of Bismarck regu- Dickinson. Previously testimony hadjlates sale within its limits. Outside been completed, but reopening of the jof these two classifications, Register The Bowman board is composed of three commissioners and their sus- pension places the task of appointing @ new board on the county treasurer, county judge, and county auditor. They have been notified by the gov- ernor to name successors to the com- First Lutherans to Observe 50th Members of the congregation of the First Lutheran church of Bismarck dinance are Sterling, Moffit, McKen-| i . i ¢ ing, as sola The letting, third of a series under | His remedy is to tell the public the| ments of the national guard will be tie, Driscoll, Arena, Still, juct|snd Menoken. The main differences between the ‘A hearing has been set for Novem-jcounty and city regulations are in ber 7 at Bowman. Fred J. Graham,|license fees, in which county assess- Ellendale, has been appointed special|ments are lower, and Sunday hours | oi mix and paving. during which sale of becr is per- mitted. oe State’s Attorney George S. Register| Still pending are removal proceed-jtold the commission that the county ings against county commissioners in|has no power to regulate except in Stark county. Their case, however,|“unincorporaed villages in Burleigh was ordered reopened by the governor |county, which villages are in existence .|prior to Oct. 23, 1933, the plats of said, the state beer commissioner will have power to regulate. Must Issue License | Whenever the state beer commis- ‘sioner“issues a license, the state's at- | torney said. the county also must) issue a license. has the right to revoke such a license | for cause. Revocation is the only Penalty set up in the resolution. which became effective as soon as it was passed. The resolution distinguishes be- tween off-sale (where beer is not con- sumed on the premises where sold) and on-sale (where it is consumed on | premises) but makes no provision that for on-sale permits $25 additional. | year, however, up to Dec. 31, 1933, were set at $3 for off-sale and $5 for cn-sale. far as is known, do not now have lodges or clubs affiliated with na- tional organizations which operate set up for licensing such establish- ments should they come into exist- ence. vided in such cascs. Maximum Is $110 porated villages will not be more tha more than $40. til 12 (noon). hearings in such cases. Establishment hibited. owned establishments. way, ‘hibited. streets is pri On Main Floor Only the national recovery highway pro- gram under which North Dakota was talloted nearly $6,000,000 for highway work, includes 113.872 miles grading, {87.748 miles surfacing, and 5.513 miles | j ) projects: Oil-Mix and Paving Burleigh county—0.556 miles in Bis- marck. Billings—4.957 miles on U. 8. No. 10, Medora east. |full facts since these corporations 80) qisnatc! jto the public for money to finance | Qupatced to enforce ie. as rations. |. The governor said he decided to {first place enforcement of his em- ACCELERATE ACTION the embargo ‘entire strength ef the national guard. |He said he believed the sheriffs could jhandle the situation effectively. It is the duty of sheriffs, he said, |to enforce the embargo as it was de- Surfacing Divide—5.368 miles on 8. H. No. 42,/ south of Crosby. Divide—5.033 miles on S. H. 42, north of Corinth. Divide—0.502 miles on 8. H. 42,! south of Crosby. Towner—11.822 on 8. H. 29, Egeland, east and west. Towner-Pierce—5.503 on 8. H. 11, west of Cando. Dunn-McKenzie—17.226 on 8. H.! But the county board 25, west of Killdcer. Stark—8.064 on U. 8. 85, south of Belfield. ‘ Ward-Mountrall—11.835, on 8. a a No. 23, cast o! 4 | Mercer—8.185 on 8! H. 49, south of /fPeedinig up = study of spectal plans Beulah. Cass—6.010 on 8. H. 18, north and! south of Hunter. irading Cass—10.222 on S. H. 26, west of expressed sympathy with farmers but {a vendor who desires on-sale also} Gardner. | must have an off-sale permit. | Cass-Ransom—0.237 bridge and ap- ‘The regular annual fee for off-sale proaches on 8. H. 46, east of Ender- jpermits was set at $15, with the feelin, i | Mercer—11.185 on S. H. 49, between | ip Spr e The fees for the remainder of this Glen Ullin and Beulah. | Eddy—1.038 on U. 8. 281 in Newjextension plans for wheat and corn Rockford. Griggs—10.359 on S. H. 65, east of commodity credit corporation. | Though unincorporated villages, as | Binford. { Williams—6.007 on 8. H. 40, south /‘s the extension of loans of eight andj of McGregor. | Starx—8.518 on 8. H. 8, north of farmers who agree to join the admin- their own club rooms, provision was|Richardton. Barnes-La Moure—17.143 on 8. H.| for next year. | 46, east and west of Litchville. An annual fee of $15 is pro- Register pointed out that maximum total fees for vendors in unincor- $110, declaring the federal assess: ment $20. the state assessment not more than $50 (with a minimum of $15 provided) and the county fee not Glen Ullin. Morton—7.068 on 8. H. 49, south of One section of the resolution per- | mits-sale of beer on Sundays only between the hours of 12 (noon) and 6 p.m. The Bismarck city ordin- ance prohibits sale from 3 a. m. un- of _ beer-vending ; business places within 300 feet of churches, schools or hospitals is pro- A license will permit sale of beer at only one location and can be issued only to owners of the busi-| nesses where beer is to be sold. This provision is aimed at chain store and Sale or consumption of beer across prayer by Rev. G. Adolph Johns, pas-'any street, sidewalk, alley or public , or upon or within any automo- bile or any other vehicle upon the Sale will be permitted on the main floor only of the business establish- cases of hotels, which Hannover. McKenzie—4.532, on S. H. 25, east of Grassy Butte. McKenzie—5.927, on U. 8. 85, south of Grassy Butte. Burleigh—13.258, on S. H. 36, south- east of Wilton. Morton—7.068 on 8. H. 49, south of Glen Ullin. New Salem. Bridge Painting Burleigh-Morton — Missouri river bridge on U. 8. 10 between Bismarck ‘The county prohibits sale to minors,/ and Mandan. incompetents, Indians, and drunkards and, similar to the city of Bismarck, provides a list of several causes for revocation of licenses, providing for| | To Take Applications For Feed Loans Soon Announcement that applications will be taken in the near future for live- stock feed loans in Burleigh county was made Friday by H. O. Putnam, county agricultural agent. are received here from Fargo, he said. A committee of three, to be headed said. The two others will be named soon. The feed loans are being advanced State Delegation to Oliver—8.974 on 8. H. 31, south of} Morton—9.404 on 8. H. 31, south of | A period for making applications will be announced as soon as blanks livestock, he must cut 2 | |Sympathizes With Farmers But Says ‘Fundamental Adjust- | ments Essential’ | Washington, Oct. 20, — >) — The, (farm adjustment administration Fri- |day took recognition of reports of al strike movement in the central porthwest and announced that it ts ito contribute to agricultural recovery. Taking special notice of the central {northwest movement, George N. Peek, ifarm administrator, in a statement | lasserted that fundamental adjust-| ‘ments in agriculture are essential be-, ‘tore extensive relief to farmers will! {he possible, Meanwhile, other officials author-/ ‘zed a statement that special credit | |are being studied by the newly created | The corporation's first assignment | ten cetns a pound on cotton held by) {istration’s production control program It was said that the credit plans for | noth wheat and corn are still in a) ‘semi-nebulous” state. “All these people are trying to do |3s to save their homes,” Peek said. “I, too, would fight to hold my home. “We have been warning the east for 12 years that things like this would happen unless the incomes of farmers were increased. Want Permanent Recovery 1 | “we have been fighting to raise farm proces and also to hold down | supply so as to support higher prices |and bring permanent recovery rather than merely invite new surplusses and new disaster. “Every experiment ever made to) boost prices without continued surplusses has ended in} greater depression for agriculture. “The loss of our foreign markets for wheat and pork with resulting low prices are unpleasant facts, but nevertheless they are facts which we must have courage to face. “We are moving with varying plans as rapidly as it is humanly possible. But it shquld be recalled that the de- pression did not come overnight. It was years in developing. “Complete and substantial recovery can not be brought about by the wav- ing of a magic wand.” It was reported that the wheat loan under consideration contem- plates advancing farmers a sum of grain equal to “parity” prices for the grain less the amount of the present tax of 30 cents a bushel. Burleigh Allotment Committee to Meet Members of the county-wide com- admin: Fey ofthat Sie di “If the sheriffs orders are disobeyed the officers will call on the adjutant zercral and detachments will be sent out to enforce the law,” Langer de- clared. ON RECOVERY PLANS =i s iw pasted by Ue fas Sarles Is Ready Adjutant General Earle Sarles, ad- vised by the governor of his action, ‘said he stands ready to use the na- tional guardsmen where wheat is leaded and shipped in violation of the governor's embargo. Decision on the new course of ac- tion was made Friday afternoon after it was apperent that the railroads would stand pat on their refusal to recognize the embargo order as valid if applied to them. It also was con- ceived as a possible means of avoid- ing entanglement with the federal law and to place the burden of at- tacking the order in federal court upon firms or individuals less power- ful than the carriers. Langer and Sarles Confer Langer and Adjutant General Earle Sarles held a long conference Thurs- day afternoon, after which it was an- nounced thet means of enforcing the embargo were “under consideration.” Behind the delay, however, there was more than mere distaste for “zet- ting tough.” The real deterring fac- tor was fear that the government inight “get tough” in its own turn Into the conversation came such dis- quieting things as references to the Leavenworth federal prison and sim- lar grisly subjects. The upshot of it all was that North Dakota had an embargo which wa: not an embargo and the gesture te stop wheat shipments from the state seemed to have been stillborn. Not Enough Soldiers The view of some persons close t tne governor was that the only way tc enforce the embargo without runnin: foul of the federal government, woulc be to prevent farmers from taking their grain to the elevators. As soor as it is in the elevator, according te a decision of the U. 8. supreme court it is in interstate commerce and thr state government could not legally in: terfere with putting it in freight car: Teference tO; ana sending it out of the state. Even if the latter course were adopted, the governor is known t have been informed, the only way ts obtain effective enforcement would be to put a national guardsman ir every elevator in the state. | This would be a physical impossi- bility since there are about 1,800 ele- yators and only 1,300 guardsmen. Such things as halting trains anc (Continued on Page Three) Will Meet Boy Scout Executive. at Fargo Several scout leaders of the Mis- Dakota. Supreme Court Justice A. M. Chris- tianson, leading scouter of the slope council, will direct one discussion group, assisted by West. Many other leaders will participate in the parley. of State Robert Byrne, chairman of the area attendance