The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 28, 1933, Page 1

:»» North Dakota Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 %, s THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1933 The Weather Unsettled and warmer tonight and Sunday. PRICE FIVE CENTS ce’ Wenzel Ousted ‘by For M’Lean County Crowned N. D. OSS OUT SARGENT BY HALF A PONT IX NECK-AND-NBCK RACE Southeastern County Had Ap- peared Winner Until Final Compilations Princess Fights Film as Libel | i i | IFRAZIER 1S ‘MIGHTY Farm Strike Fatal Corn ‘JOHNSON RESOLVED GLAD’ FARMERS ARE. «=. To Wisconsin Mani NRA VIOLATORS 10. WILLING TO BATTLE U. S. Senator Praises Militant| Farmers Union and Holi- day Association indar Felland of Dane County, Picketer, Dies of Gun- shot Wound THREE BROTHERS ARE HELD — se | Approves Strike au —O ittle Hope Held for Another RAGE PROSECUTION! ‘Government Abandons Care to Shelter Program From | Court Attack | Champ LEAVES WORKMEN'S ae , COMPENSATION BODY ee ATER LEGAL SETTO Says Preckel’s Vote to Recog- nize J. E. Pfeifer Consti- tutes Restraint LABOR MAN ‘PUT ON SPOT’ Ponders Long Before Voicing Decision to Recognize LAUD QUALITY OF EXHIBITS! HITS WHOLE PRICE SCHEME) pale ite alin [Ta ae ae ee 1 ‘TWO FACTORS IMPORTANT Governor's Action Corn Exceptionally Free From Dise: Dent Display Outstanding with a mere half point to spare to ose out Sargent county, which, up until final totals were compiled, hac appeared the winner, McLean county Saturday was crowned corn-producing champion of the state by officials of the 11th’ annual North Dakote state corn show here. McLean county's total was 61% points compared to 61 for Sargent. Other counties finished as follows: Ransom 43, Morton 41%, Oliver 39, Emmons, the 1932 champion, 26, Mc- Kenzie 19, Ward 18, Dickey 15, Sheridan 9, Grant and Stutsman 3 each, La Moure, Benson, Kidder and Richland 2 each, Pierce and Williams 1 each. A point was awarded for each $1 in prize money in the corn contests only. With alfalfa end clover points add- ed to corn points, Otto Mund of Mil- nor, Sargent county, walked off with individual honors with a total of 57 points: Ed Foss of Hazen was second with 31. Several Others High Other individual high point winners were -E. M. Granlund of DeLamere 24, O. O. Erickson of McLeod 22, Earl Carpentier of’ Williston 19, Arthur G. Knorr of Velva 18, Theodore Haring of Glen Ullin 16, John Schelske of Turtle Lake 13 and J. P. Prante of DeLamere 11. The show, which opened in the World War Memorial building here Thursday, will close Saturday night. McLean county will receive the shield trophy emblematic of the champion corn county of the state while Otto Mund, for his victory in the 10-ear grand championship, in which he exhibited Minnesota No. 13,; will received the trophy awarded by the North Dakota Crop Improvement association. Mund’s exhibits drew the particular praise of Dr. H. L. Walster, dean of agriculture at the state agricultural | Burleigh 17,; i Ban on release of the film “Rasputin” in England will be asked in a London suit by the Russian Princess Irene Yous- soupoff, above, charging the screen play libels her by indi- cating illicit relationship with the “Mad Monk.” She de- clares she never knew Rasputin (CLOSE SUPERVISION OF STOCK AND GRAIN Pre: for Stringent Market Legislation Washington, Oct. dent Roosevelt urge than he did last session, to extend federal supervision of the great se- curities and commodity markets. Speculative price trends have spurred a presidential study of the stock and grain exchanges and have indicated Roosevelt's goal—a curb on violent fluctuations, especially in commodities, Federal exchange supervision was mentioned to the last congress by the chief executive. The press of recov- ery legislation, however, prevented it from reaching advanced stages of consideration. Authoritative sources now say not enly will exchange regulation again be recommended but it will be ac- |companied by @ detailed plan of ac- tion and strong White House pres- sure, While Roosevelt is making a per- 28.—i?)—Presi- college, and E. W. Norcorss, deputy sonal investigation of the subject, a apparently plans to: ins MARTSIS OBJECTIVE = ! lent Apparently Will Ask | { |Ricker, Moodie and Lemke Are! jtion Other Speakers At Willis- ton Convention Williston, N. D., Oct. 28.—()—De- claring he was “mighty glad that farmers are willing to go on strike to protect their own rights,” U. 8. Sen- ator Lynn J. Frazier told the North Dakota Farmers Union convention Priday “what we need is a real fight- ing, militant farm organization such as the Union and National Farm Holiday association.” He told of efforts made by farm leaders to obtain a fair “cost of pro- duction” plan for farm products, de- claring “our whole price system is wrong.” to the strike called by the National Farm Holiday association, Frazier said “why shoultin’t they fight for their homes and protection for their families?” He said farmers were discriminated against in the last ing that “we want and are going to get inflation of the currency.” Criticize Relief Set-Uj Criticism of the present set-up for farm relief was voiced by editor A. W. Ricker of the Farmers Union Herald, who in an address before the conven- 4 opinion the farm board plan was better because some of the members had been farmers and were sympathetic toward agriculture. _ “This board was scrapped,” he said, “and in its stead we got Mr. Morgen- thau from Wall Street or somewhere in New York. We certainly gained nothing but lost a lot.” “Tt is our job as an organization” he declared, “to chisel out of an ad- ministration all that we can chisel.” Ricker said that out of the farm board and its half-billion dollar fund they had been able to “chisel” 15 or 20 million dollars with which had been set up a marketing machinery ex- tending from the Atlantic to the Pa- cific. “But it is tough chiscling when you attempt to chisel anything out of Mr. Morgenthau, but that’s our job,” he added. Ricker told of having gone with a by Pickets (By the Associated Press) A Dane county, Wisconsin, farmer, picketing a highway near Madison for the cause of farm relief, became the first fatality of the current strike for! cost of production. i The victim, Gundar Felland, was: shot down Friday night by one of two men who were occupants of an automobile apparently acting as con- voy for a truck. Three brothers, one from Madison and two from Marsh- field, were detained for questioning. At Marshfield, physicians held lit- tle hope for the recovery of jore Weber, 29, beaten by pickets when; he sought. to drive a truckload of fence posts through a picket line. SENATOR FRAZIER Minnesota i} i | reports of minor clashes resulting in) injuries to a dozen or so persons. Creameries and other milk plants Leads; N. D. Teams Tie — continued to close, some voluntarily and some under pressure of strikers University of Minnesota's improv- ares bes oeericatad ee sit teas ing football team held a 7-0 lead ie im comm Claire, Wis. and representatives of over Iowa and North-Dakota Univer- milk distributing plants were polling sity and North Dakota State were}farmers of Eau Claire to determine tied at 7-all as the first halves of {strike pelts It was fares er strike woul recognized ed Cy ere et handlers of milk if ied Lenten a a derance of favorable senti- Minnesota was outplaying Iowa by|ment a wide margin, making more than 10} At Council Bluffs, Iowa, an agree- first downs in the first half. ment was reached between represen- North Dakota U scored in the first |tatives of the farm holiday move- t and the Southwestern Iowa quarter but State came back early rackert association for a cessation in the Pit i second period to tie the caunt.lof’attempts by pickets to stop live-| h took a 7-0 Icad Over! stock trucks. Notre Dame by scoring a touchdown| Three brothers were in jail Satur-| in the second quarter. Other scores: | day as a result of the slaying of one Third Period man and the serious injuring of an- Ohio State 12; Northwestern 0. other. i Army 14; Yale 0. ‘Later Sheriff Fred Finn detained | Rutgers 13; Lehigh 0. Second Frank McCorison, 31, of Madison, Period and his brothers Sat and Har- North Dakota U 7; North Dakota j vey, 26, both of Mi f State 7. Witnesses told the sheriff the Minnesota 7; Iowa 0. truck sped through a spotlight fol- Pittsburgh 7; Notre Dame 0. lowed by a coupe containing two Michigan 14; Chicago 0. men and that when it reached the; Fordham 2; Alabama 0. Madison limits it returned to the Navy 6; Penn 0. seene accompanied by the automo- | Carnegie 0; W. and J. 0. bile. Brandishing a revolver one of Colgate 8; Lafayette 0. the men got out and fired into the Princeton’6; W. and L. 0. From other parts of the state came| crowd, striking Felland. Syracuse 3; Michigan State 0. Georgia 6; New York University 0. Duke 7; Kentucky 0. Dartmouth 0; Harvard 0. Decision to delay participation in the strike until following the confer- ence of governors at Des Moines Mon- day was reached Friday night by di- rectors of the South Dakota Farmers j country-wide Holiday association following a meet- Administration Officials Scrap Some Provisions of Re- tail Code Washington, Oct. 28—(P)—A stern decision to prosecute conspicuous vi- olators appears to have supplanted NRA’s long-exercised care to shelter its industrial program from court at- tack, From the signing of the industrial law until now, Hugh 8. Johnson has Picked a course calculated to lead around the pitfalls of legal action. |Attempts at vigorous enforcement have been mild, with a clearly indi- cated policy that an easy attitude would bring most results in the first objective of getting American indus- try and trade under codes. But Friday's outright pri prosecution if and when H Ford should be found to be vioiating the automobile code signaled a nev read- iness to face a constitutional test of the industrial law. This determina- of tion, coupled with a rigorous exclu- | sion of Ford from government con- tracts, was backed by President | Roosevelt. It was also accompanied by @ statement from Johnson in re- gard to another code: “That’s all right, we are not afraid of anybody taking anything to court.” Two Essential Factors | Close observers saw two essential attitude. the “blue eagle—to use the current NRA slang -—from a roadhouse, a market, a lit- tle shop headed for bankruptcy and a beauty parlor. Johnson was dis- turbed at this haul of small fry. He is known to feel that after all the Promises that chiselers would be disciplined, he could not face the public so long as any big and con- spicuous firm or group challenged the new order. This feeling applies to Ford. Even more important has been a mounting impatience at the white house with the laxity of control in the industrial program. It led to the compliance machine} now created. | President Roosevelt's determina-| tion that, barring interference by the| comptroller general, the government| would not buy products from Ford: or any other manufacturer not under factors underlying the new HELEN FODNESS Presiding over festivities at the) University of North Dakota’s home-! coming Saturday was Miss Helen! Fodness, 20, blonde senior at the uni-! versity. She was crowned as a queen | between halves of the Sioux-Bison, football game. FOUR GREAT STEEL FIRMS ACCUSED OF PRIGE CONSPIRACY. Government Attacks Firms for) Bids on First-Class Steel Rails Washington, Oct. 28.—()—Four | great steel companies Saturday were! bluntly sccused-by-the administration | of collusion in fixing the price of first- | class steel rails for railroads, for) which funds were to be advanced by | | | | | ployment. The companies were told in strong terms that they must reduce to $35 a ton or submit their booxs for inspec- tion of government accountants. Otherwise, Joseph B. Eastman, co- | ordinator of transportation, speaking | for President Roosevelt, said the Bov-| ernment would refuse to advance money to more than 50 railroads, which have signified their need of a the public works board to provide em-*4 Yielding to what he construed as ¢ “superior showing of force.” R. E Wenzel vacated the office of com- missioner of the state Workmen's Compensation Bureau Saturday morn- ing and was succeeded by J. E. Pfeifer of Amidon, an old cohort of A. C. Townley. Wenzel said he would “turn over but not surrender” the keys to his office after W. C. Preckel, represent- ing labor on the boar, voted with R H. Walker to recognize Pfeifer as Shifts Made Quickly | By New Commission | Hotfooting down the stairs fol- | lowing R. E. Wenzel as he left the offices of the workmen's compen- sation bureau Saturday was D. E. Shipley, appointed about a month ago as claim clerk. I am through” said Shipley. “I @m not coming back. I wouldn't work there a minute after that.” His place was quickly filled, the new board announcing Saturday @fternoon that it had appointed P. A. Timboe in Shipley’s place and J. P. Axt of Sheridan county, to take the place of F. E. Diehl as Tate clerk. Both Timboe and Axt were ousted at the time Shipley . appointed. | and Diehl were i j At the same time the new board announced that Jane Whittey, Bismarck, had been replaced as as- sistant statistician by a Miss Mor- ser of Bowman and that Betty Jane Moulbert, secretary of the bureau's minimum wage division, had re- | Signed, effective Nov. 1. H member of the board in Wenzel’s Place. This climaxed a succession of movef to get Wenzel off the job, directed by C. A. Verret, assistant attorney gen- eral. Wenzel was advised during the Proceedings by Former George F. Shafer, whom he has re- tained as his attorney. After the session, at which Wenzel total of about 800,000 tons of rail. |was physically ousted from office, All Bids At $37.75 | Shafer said a court action to test the The steel companies, responding toj legality of the whole proceedings @ letter from Eastman written after | would be started soon and that Gov- the executives had conferred with the|ernor William Langer, who ordered president, Secretary Ickes and East-| Wenzel’s suspension, would be made a man, all fixed a base price of $37.75; party to the action. a ton for first quality rails. The base Walker, elected as chairman of the seed commissioner, show judges. The; judges lauded Mund for his ability in| Special administration peatroherges un- Picking prize-winning specimens ‘and! der John Dickinson, assistant secre- | exhibiting entries year after year. (‘ary of commerce, is preparing a re- Exhibits In Large Shows port on ways and means of supervis- delegation from 15 wheat states to Wi to see how much could be “chiseled” out of the government for jthe = “The allotment plan was not ours,” ing enlightened by long distance tele-| NRA, was viewed as sealing the ad- plione conversations with Gov. Tom | ministration’s attitude on discipline. Berry at Pierre. Reopen Old Differences As the Ford controversy reached a ‘new peak, farm administration offi- price originally had been approxi-| workmen's compensation bureau after mately $40. | Wenzel left, had nothing to say re- The price schedules all were filed | garding Policies or possible changes with the American iron and steel in-' in the office personnel, but indicated 26 ARE MISSING ON They pointed out Mund was the only | North Dakota to win corn money at the recent World Grain Show at Re- gina, Sask. and called attentien to the fact the Sargent county farmer ing the exchange. In a personal conference this week ‘with Richard Whitney, president of the New York stock exchange, the chief executive asked for special fig- won honors at the International Hay and Grain show at Chicago last fall. | The judges also commented on the! exceptionally high type of corn dis-| played, considering adverse weather; conditions during the growing sea-| son, and said the state made a “great; showing” in standardized types of, corn best adapted to North Dakota. | Exhibitors refrained from showing much unusual variety corn, Dr. Wal- ster said. Corn on exhibit was exceptionally free from disease, they declared, which is characteristic of North Dakota corn. The display of dent varieties parti-| cularly was commended by the offi- clals, who said the exposition proved North Dakota can produce good dent FLINT AND Dakota white or similar—Ed. of Haven, first; Arthur G. Knorr of Velva, second; G. J, Foss of Hazen, (Continued ures on stack exchanges. He wants to find how many are of an invest- ment nature and how many purely speculative. - Data submitted to the administra- tion from other sources represented the grain exchange as 80 per cent speculative, with 135,000,000 bushels involved. vere said to own 25,000,000 bushels. Ask Burleigh County Farmers to List Seed for sale will be asked to list it on blanks to be furnished by E. A. Will- son, director of stock feed distribu- tion for the federal government relief department, according to County Agent H. O. Putnam. When department has the available feed in the coumty listed the department and the county agent will get farmers needing feed and those having it for sale together, Putnam said, and an exchange will be arrang- ed if possible. The county agent's of- fice already has a fairly complete list of farmers needing feed at present, but Putnam urges every farmer to fill out blanks furnished him Prema his Fire Department Is Called to 504 Ninth ‘The fire department was called to the home of Mrs. Mary Dixon, 504 | Of this big block 20 men it out to for public works in which i} willingness to — ‘give relief and cited Morgenthau’s aid Burleigh county farmers having feed’ he said, “it already had been made but the committee sought to raise the bonus to 60 cents per bushel.”, Attacks Capitalist Plan The declared all depressions | have been due to the capitalist system and that this must, be climinated or at least modified to prevent a recur- depressions. he president asked for and re- ceived power to do everything, he said, except to issue greenbacks. This, he! said, should have been done, paying | the fourteen million idle men of the country could be hired making it un- necessary to support them. Senator Frazier paid tribute to the of the administration in preventing foreclosures and his of- fer to stop future foreclosures if farmers would: telegraph him show- ing such aid was needed. ‘Thomas H. Moodie of the state pub- lie works board, spoke of the Eemnend- ous importance of the Missouri river diversion project and thanketl the convention for its endorsement. Con- i ? ea iy & Fusesce ; Hl pall ay ‘Fy al i SLET-LASHED LAKE ATLANTIC. TORI | WARNINGS. SSUD Cold Weather Predicted for East; Scattered Snowfall Is Forecast Crews and Passengers Have Been Out on Lake Winnipeg for Fi i Selkirk, Man., Oct. 28.—(#)—The anxious relatives of 25 missing men peered with wavering hope Saturday out upon the sleet-lashed waters of Lake Winnipeg. Somewhere out there were two boats which had been missing five days with their crews and passengers. All were of Selkirk. One .was the Luberc. With a crew of six and 15 fisherman, she left for winter fishing stations 250 miles northwest of here less foe 48 haar winds and snow up navi- ee “ north and northwestward, The other was the Question’ Mark, HS iieg by winds of hurricane propor- rrying a crew of three and two = engers. . il | The middle-Atlantic seaboard states | Airplanes zig-zagged over the lake were due for more cold weather Sat- Saturday in the hope of finding the|urday, the weather man said, after boats. So severe was the storm that in- “(By the Associated Press) Mother nature apparently was brew- ing additional weather disturbances the grim business of trying to deter- mine the fate of 26 persons aboard two vessels in Canadian waters. Meanwhile there were warnings s- sued to craft off the north Atianiic coast to beware of a disturbance of tropical origin which was 200 miles east of Cape Hatteras Friday night, enjoying a moderation of low tem- peratures that prevailed earlier in the week. Snow and rain were threaten- ed in some sections of the middle- west, with a prediction of somewhat higher temperature readngs. Snow were Lake rior after a premature bliz- zard » Which paid ee Chg forcing freighters to remain Ste. 4 because . of The Luberc, built at a cost of $28,000, is owned by the Leke Manitoba Fisheries com- ny. a Question Mark is a 50-footer, owned by the Selkirk Navigation com- : 40 miles an hour. Ohio State Play ers Rain was forecast for parts of New Attack Announcer]. with colder weather on Sun- Columbus,’ ©., Oct. In the southwest it was fair and ‘alumni streaming into Colum- warm, State ena Ae eerie! in’ ferment cer the North Dakotans Will the campus in a ferment over the 8 i football coaching situekon and the! Pray for Diversion Saturday while searchers went about | jclals decided to scrap some of the , major provisions of NRA’s retail code tin drafting the companion charter |for the Ford and grocery end of the industry. This reopened old differ- ,ences between the two recovery agen- cies and put a final decision up to! President Roosevelt. | Farm officials opposed the mini- | ‘mum mark-up plan on retail prices | ‘and now are equally opposed to the retail provision that selling prices (“should include an allowance for ac- | tual wages of store labor, to be fixed |and published from time to time by the trade authority.” This was the chief provision to which farm officials objected in the |mew retail code. They do not want ‘to go beyond authorizing a prohibi- \ tion against sales below invoice costs. | Until the codes are harmonized, a merchant selling both dry goods and food would find himself operating junder two sharply divergent price | schemes. | | TO FIGHT BREACH SUIT New York, Oct. 28.—(#\—Jesse L. Livermore, once “the boy plunger” of Wall Street. served notice Saturday he would fight a $250,000 breach of {promise suit. The suit, brought by Miss Naida Krassnova, was disclosed. Friday. Livermore said he would en. ter a general denial. He was mar- |from other companies. stitute, the fair practices code au-! that some “resignations” might be in thority. order. The letter from the U. S. Steel; Began About 10 A. M. corporation said its counsel advised The proceedings leading up to the it would be a violation of the steel, physical retirement of Wenzel from code to quote a price not in accord-, the office of board member and chair- ance with the filed base price. Simi-' man began with the arrival about 10 lar assertions were made in letters A. M., of Verret at Wenzel's office. Participating in the conference was Shafer, as Wenzel’s attorney. Wenzel said he did not intend to give up the office unless he was forced to do so by “a showing of su- All the letters and telegrams bore the date of Oct. 20. Referring to this | in his letter written jointly to Myron C. Taylor, chairman of the U.S. Steel corporation; Eugene F. Grace, presi- perior force” or until he received an dent of the Bethlehem Steel corpor- order he regarded as legal. He also ation; L. E. Block, chairman of the | reminded Verret that, at a conference Inland Steel corporation and Arthur Friday, the latter had said he was Oreder, receiver for the Colorado Fuel | prepared to use force in ousting Wen- & Iron company, Eastman asserted zel. that: | Verret replied “it’s only a fooi Common Date, Price that never changes his mind. I told “The facts that these letters bear| you what we could do; not what we @ common date, that they name an/| would do.” identical price for first quality rail, | The assistant attorney general F. O. B. mill, and that this price is| asked Wenzel if he were refusing te the odd figure of $37.75 point unmis- i turn over the property of the bureau takably to the conclusion that the|to the bureau proper, and Wenzel re- letters were the result of consultation, torted he considered himself a mem- and collusion.” \ber of the bureau, in legal possession. Eastman recalled that in his let-|and would not surrender his keys un- ter of Oct. 3 asking competitive bids he had stated that at a conference with President Roosevelt an agree- ment had been made that prices would be arrived at independently. and added: “Clearly what has been done is not, derstanding ried for the third time last March|in accord with this un | der such circumstances unless forced to do so. He emphasized that he would resist “no legal process.” Verett. said there would be ne “showing of force” and that, as lont ;@8 Wenzel refused to surrender the property of the bureau that was all he was interested in “at the present —_—_—_ OF || French Make Good | to Miss Harriet Metz Noble, opera singer of Omaha. | On Lindy Request | ie : | which of his stay largely will It was thought. however, the Zhe yEER u 22 Moreover there is nothing in the code | time. of fair competition which made ne-| After that, Wenzel, Verret an¢ cessary such a deviation from this: Shafer sat quietly for a while and understanding. FOOTBALL FATAL TO GIRL Helena, Mont., Oct. 28.—(P)—In- jured two weeks ago while playing football with neighborhood children at Towsen, her home, Wilma Kelly, 13, died in St. John’s hospital Friday. Physicians said the girl suffered a nasal fracture and that death was due to an infection. DROP IN THE BUCKET Washington, Oct. 28.—(?)—Albert H. Wiggin’s $10,000,000 profit from trading in Chase National bank stock the said Saturday by senate investigators to represent only a small part of his dustry Saturday had pledged its co- operation with the farm adjustment administration in carrying cut the lat- Lindberghs would be ready to leave Paris by Tuesday. | ter’s $500,000,000 corn-hog production control program,