The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 1, 1933, Page 1

North Dakota’s Newspaper Oldest SABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1933 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Weather Clot tonight and Thursday; aii colder tonight. PRICE FIVE CENTS lear Gas Used to Halt Pranks overnors LAY PROBLEMS F PARMER IN LAP F MATION CHIEF slution Asks Speedy Fixation| of Minimum Prices for Farm Products WARENCY INFLATION URGED| de for Agriculture and Quick. ening of Loans Are Other Recommendations Des Moines, Ia., Nov. 1—(4)—The ems of the Hite farmer are be tossed into ip of President It for a solution. ‘This decision was made Tuesday ght by five governors from middle states and the authorized for four others, who rec- id to the president these Tepresentatives of Indiana, Illi- Kansas and Nebraska, drafted eir recommendations after a two- y conference with leaders of the 's chief farm organizations. Will Go to Ws The five governors plan to carry Program in person to President osevelt Thursday. They were to in Chicago Wednesday, prepar- to the Washington trip. Commending the president for “his nest efforts to find an effective just solution of the farm prob- John Porter Mystery veils the third tragedy in- volving Mrs, Nan Patterson Moore- land, 30, Ironton, O., found dead in her beer flat, with John Porter, 37, Lawrence county, O., prosecuting at- torney, eyes shot out, lying in the same room. Police are investigating two |theories—that Mrs. Moreland shot Porter, then killed herself, and that Porter, known to have bought a gun on the day of the shooting, first shot Mrs. Moreland and then himself. Mrs. Moreland’s husband first killed a |rival suitor in a clash over her af- Mystery Veils ‘Charmer’s’ Death PUBLIC WORKS BODY 10 HEAR DIVERSION ARGUMENTS FRIDAY; Governors of Three Northwest/ States Expected to Aid in Presentation Washington, Nov. 1. — (®) — An-! noyncement that a hearing on the Missouri river diversion project will; be held before public works officials Friday was made Wednesday by Sen- jator Nye (Rep., N. D.) after a con- ference with Secretary Ickes, public works administrator. Nye said he would be informed lat- er Wednesday whether the public works board itself, or its board of Home Owners Loan Corporation Arrives on Scene in Nick : of Time WAS UNUSUAL PROCEDURE Mortgagee Had Threatened to Take Over Property At 5 P. M. Tuesday Its first piece of emergency rescue work was completed by the Bismarck | Office of the home owners loan cor- Poration late Tuesday when a cash. Joan in the nick of time saved a home for an elderly Steele woman and her husband. ‘With the mortgagee, a woman more than 60 years old, having ordered the [ROOSEVELT PLEASED IN RECOVERY DRIVE’ Increases in Employment and! Total Wages Paid Declar- i ed Good Sign | | i ' | { | { [PERKINS FILES REPORT! i ‘Recession From July Peak Held Normal Because of Previ- ous Over-Production Washington, Nov. 1—(?)—President | | Roosevelt was said in highest quarters | | Wednesday to be feeling that the re- jcovery program is getting along well, lafter study of charts he has just/ | received showing increases in employ- {ment and the total wages being paid. | Secretary Perkins reported to him! Kidder county sheriff to take posses-'that the average hourly wages have sion of the $4,500 home at 5 p. m, risen from 42 cents to 51, while the; ’, average hourly work week has de- Tuesday, officials of the home loan oy d from 42 to 36 hours. First Fatality In Farm Strike First death victim in the na- tional farm strike was Gunnar Felland, Burke, Wis., above, slain near Madison, Wis., when he, with 30 other pickets, at- tempted to halt a milk truck. Felland was unarmed. Three brothers, Frank, Jack and Har- vey McCorison, were arrested in connection with the shooting. from Midwest to Visit Roosevelts:nous Rescue Home for | Couple at Steele|BY PROGRESS MADE, " WITHGANGOF BOYS NEAR HIGH SCHOOL |24-Year-Old Man Arrested for Breaking Glass in Sher- iff’s Automobile |pov SHOT BY IRATE WOMAN — Manning, 17, Woundea | in Affair Near Bismarck Business District | One boy was wounded, police au- thorities used tear gas bombs and |eartridges to disperse a large crowd {of pranksters, and considerable prop- jerty damage was caused here Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning {in one of the wildest Halloween uights in the history of Bismarck. Seventeen-year-old George Mann- ing, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Mann- ing of 2100 Avenue A, suffered several minor wounds on his legs from a shot which he told police was fired by an jirate woman not far from the busi- jness district technical review, will hear presenta- office came to the rescue with 15) tion of the $65,000,000 drought relief Project for the Dakotas and Minne- sota. The governors of North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota will reach Washington in time to partici- pate in the hearing. General Edward M. Marxham, chief of army engineers, Nan Patterson Moreland fections and then was slain by his victim's brother three months later, & crime for which Porter was pre- Paring to prosecute the slayer. GOLD-BUYING DRIVE PUSHED IN ATTEMPT TO AlD PRICE LEVEL and: Lor-progress. “thus far) Effort -Continues-to Avoid Open .” the midwestern executives d their belief that “certain im- diate action, supplementary to ac- a taken by the national adminis-| ition, is imperative.” | ‘This immediate action, the execu- es asserted, includes: An NRA code for agriculture—au- ig federal determination of Fight With British on Money Exchange Washington, Nov. 1.—(#)—The ad- ministration busily made ready Wed- nesday to speed to the support of num prices for basic commodi~ | eakening commodity markets with to allow cost of production plus Teasonable profit; regulating mar- ting to encourage ultimate control Cooperatives and to “eliminate the eeulative sale of farm comimodi- determining the amount of; lucts to be sold on the domestic; its price-propping device of buying gold on European exchanges. Althougi the American government still awaited official British reaction to its program, involving operations ‘bearing directly on the relation of the dollar and the pound, it made known ust? Providing for Neensing |, determination to begin purchasing Producers, processors and dealers farm commodities. Fixing Recommend Price Pending adoption of the NRA code, the precious yellow metal as quickly as possible. Probably will sit with public works Officials at Friday's meeting. Meanwhile, Frank W. Murphy, re- gional public works adviser for that |area, continued his discussions of the {Project with Colonel Henry M. Waite, ‘SCHELL TO GET JOB | ON BENCH IN SIXTH deputy public works administrator, sion project's significance from the standpoint of raising water levels in drought areas of the Dakotas and Minnesota “probably was not touched upon in previous reports of army en- gineers which termed it not econom- jically feasible.” His statement was made after a jconference with Senator Nye (Rep. Dickinson, N. D., Nov. 1.—(#)—The N. D.) and other diversion proponents sixth judicial district Wednesday in se they aise he pees jclaims to have the youngest judge in ‘Status of the project for which they the state as a result of the appoint: Shir ernanyarede tromiea spun ment of R. R. Schell, Beach attorney, | He said past reports of the army jto fill the vacancy left by the death of eine: which nate oe regarded as le obstacles to the program's ee is Bical aa : pe er a “did not deal with the Sears old, one year particular case or the particular ob- jyounger than A, J. Gronna, who Te- ‘jectives as they now appear.” isigned as attorney general to accept Drought Not Considered ithe appointment as fifth district “Those reports, I believe, dealt with | judge succeeding George H. Moeliring, the Garrison. N. D., dam project sole- | Williston. ly as a flood control and navigation Beach Attorney Will Be Young: est Judge in North Dako- ta, Is Claim Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, special | Born at Norwalk, Wis. Nov. 11, 1898, Proposition. They did not take into minutes to spare, saving title to the home for Mrs. Effie Munn with an advance of $1,177.37. ‘The cash loan, an unusual advance since most loans are required to be made through regular cl covered a $968.45 payment on the Mortgage and $208.92 in taxes. Had Three-fourths Equity Despite the fact Munns was jobless and the couple had paid more than three-fourths of the appraised valua- tion of the home, the mortgagee was adamant in her plans to take over the property, officials said. Because there was not sufficient time in which to obtain a loan! through regular channels, in view of the fact that the mortgagee refused to accept home owners loan corpora- tion bonds, P. E. Byrne, manager of the Bismarck office, wired Fred W. ‘McLean, state manager of the corpor: ation, who chanced to be in Wash- ington. { McLean took care of details speed- jily at the Washington end and, with an emergency check, Byrne and sev- eral associates sped by automobile toward Steele with less than two hours remaining before the deadline. | Bank’s Vault Under Lock Upon their arrival at Steele, they found the bank's vault under a time lock and could not obtain the cash. But the mortgagee agreed to accept the cashier's check and the dispos- session was forestalled. With Byrne at Steele were Do: ald M. Murtha, newly-appoint: counsel for the corporation in south- western North Dakota; Dorothy M. Johnston, chief clerk of the Bismarck office; and Chris Bertsch, who drove the automobile. A special report by government jeconomists asserts that the reaction in production in some of the major in- dustries is a result of overproduction between March and July and is not |due to a lack of demand. In other words, the report said, this \recession from the July peak was to be expected. It was between March and July thet the national recovery administration to control production and hours of work was being organized. The president credits the NRA with the increase in work wages and the decrease in working hours. From day to day and week to week he has been tracing the course of his |Program through statistics and charts garnered and traced by expert advis- ors. The latest chart shows that the prices received by farmers for their Products has increased from the spring up to October 11 from an index fii ure of 40 to 52 while the prices paid by farmers increased from the index figure 68 to 77. The index figures are based on the level of 1926 as a parity of 100, This level has been represented as the ad- ministration’s goal. \WORKS BODY MOVES | ON POWER PROJECTS s Actively Stimulating Public Plants in Opposition to No complaint had been made | WARNS BUSINESS 70. ~ MAKE OWNREFORMS Swope Says Government Will Take Over Job If Price Leadership Falls Washington, Nov. 1.—(?)--Warning jthat the government will undertake stricter supervision of industry if it INDUSTRIAL CHIEF ;mated about 300 boys against the woman at noon Wednes- lay. The »oy’s wounds, apparently caused by shot from a .410-gauge gun, were not serious, his doctor said. Fired At Sidewalk The woman said she fired at the sidewalk and that the shot ricocheted upward, the boy told Policeman Peter Reid, adding that he and a group of his friends were across the street from the woman's residence when the shot was fired Assisting members of the city police force in maint order near the high school building, where it is esti- had assembled, members of the Burleigh county sher- liff's force exploded two tear gas bombs and fired several tear gas car- tridges in an attempt to disperse the mob. does not. do so itself, Gerard Swope boys had moved several old ~The | automobiles, apparently secured at a The industrial leader, as chairman aoe ‘@ considerable amount of {of the business advisory and planning /nther rubbish onto the steps of the |council for the department of com- j@ “national chamber of commerce and industry” which should be an en- largement end development of the) {present Chamber of Commerce of the! : United States. | The recommendation of NRA’s in-| dustrial advisory board that five of its 13 members step out to make place | for new advisors selected from the! Planning council was taken up for); action. | Swope—of General Electric—along| with Walter C. Teagle, chairman of ithe advisory board and president of Standard Oil of New Jersey, and three | merce, proposed the creation here of | aigh school building. Called At 10 O'clock Policemen were called shortly after 10 o'clock. In the group of authori- ties were City Patrolmen William Cleveland, Ryder Hamro and William Ebeling, Sheriff Joseph L, Kelley and Deputies Fred E. Anstrom and A. H. | Helgeson. They succeeded in dispersing the crowd and restoring order but Hal- toween pranks, some of them causing damage, continued in other parts of the residential districts until about 1:50 a. m. A window in Sheriff Kelly's auto- mobile was broken as the mob ,other members are leaving. tempted to turn the machine over, re- Governors recommended that the 7epresentative of the British terasury, | shell came to Beach, N. D., with his|consideration the raising of water| Byrne said the procedure in the Private Utilities enment immediately fix prices for farm commodities “ restore | to whom were given American assur- ances the coming operations were not farm commodity price index to timed at undermining England's po- same level as the all-commodity rhe index,” inflation “under proper safeguards control,” and payment of the th Liberty Loan in new currency seeks d of refunding with another st bearing bond issue,” were t Speed farm mortgage refinanc- |sibly ruinous battle for control the governors suggested applica-|exchange rate of Ms for farm loans be accepted with- Payment of application . fees in nee; that reappraisals be ordered | the appraiser. has recom- less than 75 per cent of the, counds Value of the land as a basis A loan, and that “if necessary, es be made in the person- | uncertainties, sition in world trade, had an appoint ment at the White House. The cl executive, while deter. mined to go ahead with his gold plan, to avoid antagonizing the British. prisals and pit American and Englis! millions against each other in * Pe the dollar and ind. fa ‘to Buy Pound, Sell Dollars To pay for the gold that is bought aboard, the government must buy and sell dollars on foreign ex- change. That Banke er tive at present, due current Eas Pana ‘a large offering of various land banks as will|uollars, economists say, would serve carry out the inten- and the policies of Roosevelt and Governor Langer submitted a min-| to depreciate the dollar in its relation w the pound. ch a result, it is held, would! nardly be acceptable to the British. The London government Is already y ition ity report at the conclusion of the equipped with a huge equaliza' Pilerence asserting his belief that, embargo on farm products should ' Report Is Early | Langer's came created to protect the pound, fund, ind its millions could quickly be | shrown into the contest. elt is hopeful that the Brit- at eettiar his assurances that the we is dictated by the internal sit- pee {he conference before the formal move | sad by no means by interna- the until those {n authority have | ouyin Minimum prices at a point | % parity shail have been stiained | Following 1s the minority report in The farmers of the United States Waited for years for a square M for agriculture, Their patience, eaWalting for the redemption of | nal animosity, will permit a reason- able degree of dollar depreciation, ‘At the same time he hopes to in- rease the price of gold abroad. Sim- the government will be new product of domestic fixed yg By ius price of the metal, induce ties. is mines at heh increasing the President Roosevelt hopes to a rise in the price of gold at London a $31.52 an \idea how tired I was.” ! Vat of Hot Water £—<—<———— parents Mr. and Mrs. John G. Schell levels and alleviation of drought. The in 1916, He received his degree as Project as explained now is directed doctor of laws with Order of the Coif Lead naa lines. It is a real diver- honors at the University of ‘sion project. Babee in 1928, / sae “We shall begin immediately to look He served as. state’s attorney of into this project in a preliminary way Golden Valley county for two sueces- and be prepared to report on it if sive terms ending January 1, 1933./Public works officials request it,’ He was married to Jessie Crawford of Markham added. ‘Dickinson August 15, 1931. | Senator Nye was to confer Wednes- | Schell was in Dickinson Tuesday to day with Secretary Ickes, public lact as commissioner in the reopened | works administrator, and expects to jhearing for three Stark county com-ihave the secretary set a date for a {missioners removed from office by{hearing on the project which has ;Governor William Langer. His formal!drawn neerly o score of prominent ‘appointment to the sixth district North Daketans to Washington to {judgeship wiil follow the conclusion of appear in its behalf. the hearing the latter part of the! Others attending the conference week, |with Markham include J. N. Roherty, \of the North Dakota highway depart- ment; M. H. Atkinson. of the North Insull Pleased by Victory in Court ‘Dakota League of Municipalities; | Representative Sinclair (Rep. N. D. Athens, Greece, Nov. 1.—()-~Again State bank examiner; Dr. Howard free from the reach of the long arm Simpson, state Becton: ane. ees of American law, Samuel Insull, fug- Sullivan, representing Governor Lan- itive former pangs one Varo moar ger. dressed in a a | Wednesday as he sat in a comfort- | SUPPORT arn able lounge at the Grande Bretagne| VOICED BY zmN hotel and received the congratulations! St. Paul. Lath ae Sind of friends, and scquaintances on hjs and their representatives from - escape from extradition. dlewestern states in attendance at the Insull, worn and exhausted at the farm conference in Des Moines sent end of the ordeal of the hearing on! the attempt to extradite ‘him to face charges in connection with the col- lapse of his utilities, tumbled into bed Tuesday night without, he said, “any the Capitol Commission; ! Zap Man Falls in | \VES FRANCE Maren Saye TRAN. foreign commissar, Balled ‘from Cherbourg, Wednesday on the Berenzaria en route so. Wee sng ton for his conversations with Presi 1 tent Ressevelt concerning Ruselea! recognition. | Having fallen sine a vat of bell: ai in itcher shop in an ey aeaident, Roland Oster, ure of Indiana; Thomas 8, Allen, 23-year-old Zap miner, was recov- | of Kansas, icLaughlin of Tili- ering in & local hospital Wednes- . J, Beamisch, secretary ar ania, representative Oster and beg of his fellow- miners ts i in the said, Steele case shows the value of the corporation but pointed out that or-| Washington, Nov. 1.—(}—Encour- | Probably will become chairman. dinary loans must be secured in the regular fashion, which requires con- siderable more time. It was Byrne's last official act as manager of the Bismarck branch, since his resignation became effective Wednesdey. He is succeeded by W. Ray Reichert of Bowman. Al Smith Is Puzzled By Some NRA Aspects New York, Nov. (®) — To Al | Smith, some aspects of the NRA are ‘very puzzling.” In an editorial in the November is- sue of the New Outlook Magazine published Wednesday, Smith set forth certain features of the govern- ment's program which he recovery Mi Frank L. Anders, secretary of | believed inconsistent or bordering on| oy Adam Lefor, |sliegality Smith questioned the constitution- ality of certain state laws passed ir. conjunction with the NRA and which |°° ployes of private businesses, except railroads, had to come. under NRA vodes while government workers were exempted from the “benefits of short- European political entanglements. Under this heading come consulta- tions between states and the constitu- tion of @ permanent disarmament 2% DIE IN FLOOD jagement of publicly-owned power | Plants, even where they compete with | those privately operated. is being closely followed as a policy of the! Roosevelt administration. | Through the public works adminis- | tration, every effort is being made to stimulate public plants, both those de- | veloped as federal enterprises and those as municipal or community pro- . i A second governmental agency, the | Tennessee Valley authority, is itself | ientering a vast power field in the de- | velopment of the Tennessee river and | its tributaries. | A third agency, the federal power commission, is perfecting its organi- zation to begin an intensive survey \looking toward a plan of power de-| velopment for the entire country. The commission also is studying, and expects to have a preliminary re- | Port ready shortly after congress Meets, on the costs of distributing wer, | This study is designed to provide a! yardstick, and many in official circles | claim the commission's findings will result in pressure on some private ground their claims as to cost of dis- | tribution have been unduly high. | The public works administration is actively encouraging its state advisory boards to speed up consideration of spplications from municipalities for loans for public plants. Farmers Are Paying Debts to Government i ii figure. Regional Agricultural Credit jations have made loans since organization a year ago of $209,000, of which repayments to date aggre. 32 jared industries. companies to reduce their rates on the | ¢y, gate $61,000,000 with a large volume |¢ Robert E. Lund, president of the/culting in the issu: disorder! National Manufacturers association. | Boley complaint. Fae moe ‘old man. He is James Wolfer, em- Three Main Divisions ;Ployed on the capitol construction Swope's proposal for a super-trade | project. organization visualized three main di-' In the northern part of the city a visions. Picket fence 150 feet long was torn The first, for commerce or trade.|qown and spread over a street. Sev- would head up the various codified eral windows were reported broken, national retail and wholesale distrib- | police said. uting associations and those of kin- ae Pranks included the usual ‘The second would be at the top of windows, scattering er een of {industrial or manufacturing groups, | other things to irk residents. including the textile institute, the Boys refrained from causing much jAmerican Iron and Steel Institute. trouble in the business district, how- and ly also the present National | eyer, Association of Manufacturers and the | National Metal Trade association. Bismarck was not the o1 i The third division would cover as-/the northwest which had "plalioteen socations representing local or ge0-| troubles. graphical divisions. | Fargo reported a dwelling was set Swope also proposed that there be’ sfire by youthful vandals, traffic was Other Cities Troubied jereated in this national chamber an blocked, windows were broken and economic and statistical bureau. jhouses, porches, fences and au- Swope advocated the super business |tomobiles were damaged. organization should become the actual) At Minot three boys-were under guyana agency of codified indus-| summons to appear in juvenile court He suggested the new national | chamber be governed by a board) which would elect officers and execu- ‘Farmers, Workers’ Will Meet Friday A mass meeting “for hungry farm-| } and workers” to “discuss and pro- @ plan of united action to raise standard of living for all needy” | S® be held in the Burleigh county iday afternoon, it is an- gs Be dslPeegee "This Big Bad Wolf nymore. ‘The big bad wolf is dead. He fell into an abandoned well on the H. A. Olfert farm near here and died of starvation. Olfert collected a bounty of $24.50 on the B. B. W. ‘