The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 22, 1933, Page 1

PLACED UNDER FIRE North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ¢ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Weather Rain or snow tonight; Thi partly cloudy re ates Te. ‘ABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1933 PRICE FIVE CENTS BY MOVE SPONSORS Fargo Man Says Idea Is ‘Direct Slap’ At Present Admin- istration’s System | WOULD ELECT ~ OFFICIALS Four Measures Would Effect Sweeping Revision of Gov- ernmental Units Fargo, N. D., Nov. 22—(#)—Plans for initiating three measures and one | constitutional amendment, designed ‘by the sponsors to curb powers vested | in the goverrfor, are under way here.! P. L. Aarhus of Fargo, one of the! Jeaders in the movement, said the proposals are aimed at a “direct slap | at the political patronage system now being grossly misused.” Tentative plans call for circulation ot petitions by January first to place the following proposals on the pri- mary election ballot next June. i 1, A measure abolishing the pres- ent regulatory department and pro-) viding for the substitution of a regu-| latory commission. 2, A measure abolishing the board | ef administration as now constituted, | dispensing with the three appointive inembers of the board, and the substi- tution in their place of one elected etate official. i 3. A measure to provide for a/ oard of industrial control, the board! ta consist of five elected state offi- cials and have absolute authority over : tne state highway department, the Bank of North Dakota, the state mill! snd elevator, the tax department, and tke workmen's compensation bureau. ! 4. A Constitutional amendment | providing that any future state bond asue will be voted on separately by each county and that approval must be affirmed by 48 out of the 53 coun- tes, Sponsors Are Nonpartisans | Originating within the ranks of the, Nonpartisan League, the three init: ated measures and the constitutional: amendment are to be put in their final forms within the next few: weeks and petitions soon will be in circulation. ' Sponsors of the measures are frank (Continued on Page Seven) { t HUNT FOR SLAYERS FOLLOWS NEW GLUE Authorities Told More Than! Two Men Aided in Abduc- tion of San Jose Man San Jose, Cal., Nov. 22.—(?)—The story of a rancher's wife sent police and federal authorities on a search Wednesday for three additional par- ticipants in the kidnaping and slay-| ing of Brooke Hart, son of a wealthy merchant, to which two men already here. The night of Hart's disappearance Nov. 9, she said, a roadster followed :chancellor said he would “willingly do jeverything.” | League of Nations. . Guards on Alert to Thwart Touhy Rescue A powerful guard to thwart any rescue attempts by gangsters is maintained in the St. Paul court- house, where federal prosecutors are asking life terms for Roger Touhy, Chicago gangster, and his three aides, in the Hamm Rernard Anderson, U. S. marshal. the tall man wearing glasses; Sherif? George Moehler of Ramsey county DOOR TO PEACE I$ | WIDE OPEN ASSERTS | FRENGH SPOKESMAN Statement Made in Answer to’ Hitler Plea for Adjustment | of Difficulties ! . Paris, Nov. 22.—(7)—A government Spokesman said Wednesday that the door to peace is wide open; to Chancellor Hitler of Germany if H he cares to enter carrying an olive | branch, i This ‘authoritative invitation was) made as a comment on an interview’ with the German chief by Fernand de Brinon, a close friend of Former Premier Edouard Daladier, published in the newspaper Le Matin. ‘The interview quoted Hitler as of- fering peace and security to France in return for equality for Germany. To give security to France, the anything not involving dishonor or danger to ny country” Would Enter Accord If France desired to add to a Franco-German accord “the supple- mentary security of a defensive alli-! ance with England,” he added, “I! would willingly subscribe to it, for I} have no intention of attacking our, neighbors. Poland now understands; that. But, because Poland is nearer Asia than you, she knows us bet- ter.” | “I am convinced,” said Hitler, “that once the question of the Saar—which is German land—has been settled,! there is nothing, absolutely nothing, | which can oppose Germany to France. ‘It France . . . is willing to find her safety in au agreement freely discus- sed, I am ready to hear everything, understand everything and undertake Nothing could be done, however, he added, if it was France's purpose to found her security on the material ee: of Germany's defending: Despite Germany’s desire to avoid; war, which the chancellor said “would ‘settle nothing and only make worse the state of the world,” Hitler reiter- ated his intention not to return to the It “has aggravated instead of clear- ing up the misunderstandings of the world,” he said, “I am ready to enter; negotiations with these who are will- ing to talk with me.” Landslide Plugs Up River in Minnesota Crookston, Minn. Nov. 2.—P—A disastrous iandslide Tuesday wrecked the hatchery building of the Darkow Hatchery and Poultry farm plant, one of the: largest in the northwest, Old Indian Fighter | by ‘Dies at Age of 79 kidnaping tria' Shown here, with oo Solen Lad Rescues | | Brother From Creek | ————— Solen, N. D., Nov. 22.—(>)— Eight-year-old Edward Stockert ‘Wednesday is receiving a hero's tribute for rescuing his four-year- old brother, Andrew, from drown- ing in a creek on the farm home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Stockert, farmers four miles northwest of Solen. The two children were playing along the creek when Andrew fell over the bank and plunged through the thin ice into about five feet of water. As Andrew became submerged beneath the ice and water his hands went up over his head. His brother clutched the bank with one hand and with the oth- seized Andrew's hands, pulling to the bank of the creek. Andrew was none the worse for his experience. EMBITERED HEN N ~ PRIN START RIT ;Creation of ‘Devils Island’ With- in Keystone Bastile Blam- ed for Trouble / Philadelphia, Nov. 22.—()—Embit- tered over their imminent segregation in a “prison within a prison,” a band 1 75 recalcitrant convicts are blamed for the most destructive riot in the history of the century-old eastern state penitentiary. Running wild during a recreation period in the penitentiary yard Tues- day, the enraged convicts smashed mto and fired prison buildings and destroyed valuable machinery. ‘They wrecked and set ablaze the weaving shop and the dye shop and wreaked destruction in part of the kitchen and the chaplain’s quarters. For two hours they had the peni- lentiary in an uproar—the fourth re- j Volt behind its grim walls within the tast six weeks. Then the guards, reinforced by sev- ral hundred city policemen, detec- lives, state troopers and state high- way patroimen forced them into cells ‘ath the aid of streams from fire hose and shots fired from riot guns ‘ut not aimed directly at the prison- ers. Strong details of extra guards were kept on duty Wednesday to quell pos- Sible new outbreaks. Unrest which seethed through the vrison all Tuesday was believed to have resulted from information reach- irg the prisoners by “grape-vine” that ‘Warden Herbert Smith intended to segregate the group of 75 responsible for the other demonstrations in a sort of “Devil’s Island”—a prison to be created within the penitentiary. Warden: Smith said lack -of space for exercising and insufficient accom- modations were responsible for the re- cent riots. .|Litvinoff to Leave cave-|, Saturday for Home } . Nov. 22.—()—Maxim Buch a development, officials hasten to explain, would indicate no serious to a satisfactory understand- but would result rather from the of material needing study. ‘An important factor in completing Job is the heavy press of new treasury duties which ‘have kept act- ing Secretary Henry. Morgenthau, Jr. from devoting more time to the Rus: sian question. The debts and claims were put in Morgenthau's hands by President Roosevelt. spe ete) Sommer? pow. bane fo eee LOUGHRAN V8, IMFELLILIERE New York, Ber. 22,—(?)—Tommy the guards in the corridor, and beside him, without re at, “GAG RULE’ CHARGED | ‘BY FARMERS UNION EDITOR AT MEETING Ricker Says Reason for Simp-| son's Attack on Wallace Is He Wanted Job Omaha, Nov. 22—()—Charges of “gag rule” were heard at the National Farmers Union convention Wednes- day as President John A. Simpson of Oklahoma City excluded A. W. Rick- ‘er, editor of the Farmers Union Her- ald of St. Paul, Minn., from a closed business session. Simpson announced Ricker’s cre- aentials. were improper. Ricker, . a: member of the Union since 1912, held a card from a Montana Union. | “It's @ plain example of Simpson's vag rule,” Ricker said as he left the meeting. “The whole trouble is that Simpson is a disappointed candidate for secre- tary of agriculture. Wallace beat him ot and Simpson has been after Wal- lace’s scalp ever since.” Ricker id his publication had supported the national administration and its policies, while Simpson had | uttacked them, i Many Rally to Support | Dozens of delegates rallied to the} support of Ricker, indicating to some! jobservers that the national adminis- tration’s farm policy had more friends in the convention chamber than had been indicated. “It’s an outrage,” said C. C. Tal- bot, president of the North Dakota {Union, “and I'l protest it. Ricker has been one of the most respected Un- {ion leaders for many years.” | The Union in a resolution urged ‘members to “consider seriously the \methods and efforts of the National Farmers Holiday association to arouse public sentiment to the injustice to agriculture.” | Other resolutions adopted would: ;_ Limit the amount of inheritance at 1 $500,000. Put all manufacture and distribu- tion of intoxicating liquor in the \nands of the government to “remove lin the Hquor traffic. | Remove the fed line. Oppose compulsory military train- ing especially in tax-supported in- stitutions. Oppose large ‘appropriations in preparation for war, Inflation Strongly Endorsed Resolutions strongly endorsed in- flation, supported the Thomas bill which would pay national debts by issuance of non-interest bearing cur- Tency, endorsed the Frazier, Swank- Thomas and Wheeler bills, and pro- posed paying all running expenses of the government by tax on net in- comes. The delegates Tuesday night heard Gov. William Langer of-North Dakota tax on gaso- said “no one can call off the farm strike,” and Gov. Charles W. Bryan of Nebraska, who likened the admin- istration’s farm program to a “shot in the arm which makes you feel better and look forward to something better.” Reno sai in 1] when I'm call it off. MINNESOTA BOARD | |the purpose of manipulating the profit which is the biggest element Prar|for them, #Plan Measures to Curb Governor’s Power SUSPENDS SALE OF CHAIN BANK STOCK Issues Order to First Bank ’ Stock and Northwest Ban- corporation Chiefs WILL PROBE OLD DEALS) Emphasizes That Solvency of; Institutions Is Not Ques- tioned in Any Way St. Paul, Nov. 22—(#)—The commerce commission Wednesdi ordered temporary suspension of in Minnesota of stock of the Nor west Bancorporation and the First Bank Stock corporation, Minneapolis holding companies. Officials of the two corporations, which have more than 300 member banks in several states, were ordered to appear before the commerce com- mission on December 4 to show cause | why the temporary ban should not be; made permanent. Elmer A. Benson, state commission- er of banks and a member of the com- merce commission, said the action “should not in any way discredit or in any way be construed as to cause any question as to the solvency of the member banks of the two corpora- tions.” The action, taken at a meeting of the three-man commission late Tues- day, followed a probe into sale of the stocks made at the request of Gover- nor Floyd Olson. The state house of representatives at the last session of the legislature adopted a resolution | suggesting the inquiry. Manipulation Is Charged The commission, in its order against the Northwest Bancorporation, says it appears the Northwest Bancorpora- tion has used large sums “wrongfully and for the purpose of misleading and deceiving the purchasers or dealers” in'shares of the common stock and “for market.” The commission charges the First Bank Stock corporation Sold 50,000 shares of common stock to the First Minneapolis company and the First St. Paul company, subsidaries, under an agreement to repurchase, at the same price, receiving in payment un- Secured promissory notes. The commission charged the stock was repurchased when it had de- preciated in value. This sale, the commission said was “fraudulent and fictitious,” and “may have worked aj fraud on other purchasers,” of the stock. The order against the Northwest Bancorporation is effective at 3 p. m. Wednesday and that against the First Bank Stock Corporation as soon as notice has been served on officers of the corporation, 8. Paul Skahen, state securities commissioner, and member | of the commerce commission said. The orders, Commissioner Skahen asserted, prevent any and all brokers or dealers from buying, selling, trad- ing or dealing in the shares of com- mon stock of the two corporations in Minnesota until further orders from the department of commerce. Traded on Two Exchanges Stock of the Northwest Bancorpo® Seek Development | Plan for Missouri $2,500,000 ASKED TO FINANCE FIGHT -ON HOPPER HORDES Committee Declares 13,000,- 000 Acres Need Protection From Pest Plague Fargo, N. D., Nov. 22.—(?)—Asking that $2,500,000 be made available by the federal covernment not later than Jan. 1, 1934, to fight the menace of grasshoppers in eight north central ; | States where entomologists find 13,- 000,000 acres will need application of Poison bait, the conference of repre- sentatives of these states went on record Wednesday for a definite pro- gram of ‘hopper control.’ The eight states and the number of acres heavily egg infested in each are: Idaho, 120,000; Minnesota 83: Montana, 3.587,316; Nebraska 200,000; North Dakota, 5,477,520; South Da. kota, 2,567,389; Wyoming, 841.000; ‘Wisconsin, 320,000. Speakers at the Tuesday confer- ences brought out the following points. The grasshopper population has built up to a point and the nature of the hoppers has changed to an extent that this is no longer a local problem affecting a few states, but is an international menace of the grav- est portent. Control Held Possible Grasshoppers can be controlled by effective use and by cultural methods. Minnesota, Manitoba and perts of North and South Dakota and Mon- tana have control campaigns which have meant the saving of millions of bushels of grain. Business men should be as deeply concerned and give the matter as much attention as the farmers, and there is just one source of relief, the federal government. Many speakers stressed these points in the reports and in. addresses. Speakers on the afternoon program included: John H. Haw, development was chairman; Ruggles, R. H. Tro- vaaten and T. L. Aamodt, Minnesota entomologists; F. Paul Smith, Amenia, who talked from the farm- ers viewpoint; R. P. Woodworth, Min- neapolis, president of the Northwest Crop Improvement association; Wal- ter Conway, attorney general of South Dakota, who spoke as the per- sonal representative of Gov. Tom Berry; H. E. Wood, assistant exten- sion director of Manitoba. Dr. Walster was chosen toastmaster at a banquet which brought the Tues- day conference to a close. Wednesday the committee named to plan the program of procedure will report. FLIES T0 DEATH IN BORROWED AIRPLANE ation is traded in on the Chicago and Minneapolis stock exchanges. First | Bank west ished “false and misleading” finan- cial statements and that the Corpor- | ation listed its stocks on the Minne- | apolis stock exchange “for the pur- pose of establishing and maintaining @ fictitious market quotation” to aid in manipulating sales of the stock. Common stock, the commission fur- trer alleges was sold pursuant “to a fraudulent plan or scheme” aimed to “mislead and deceive prospective pur- chasers as to the “true value” and "bona-fide market price” of the shares. “It further appears,” the commis- son order recites, that pools or syndi- cates were organized to manipulate the market price of the shares to mis- lead purchasers as the public demand The commission alleged also that Northwest AG eet ult tion continued | 5, Stricken Woman Chooses Strange Method of Com- mitting Suicide Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 22.—P)— Restless waters of the broad Atlantic Wednesday apparently formed a grave for Mrs. Louis Truck Stanton, who borrowed a ‘plane and flew seaward to meet death whenever the craft's fuel ran out. The 30-year-old junior leaguer had recently lost her husbagd in_an automobile accident. In notes left behind she asked that it not be called suicide—for “I par- ticularly dislike the word suicide”"— and explained she just wanted to go “out into space and find out what it’s all about, and if there isn't anything— that’s O. K. too.” It was hours after she flew eastward | | u agent of the Northern Pacific, who! Norris to Offer Bill for Valley; Authority Similar to That in South WOULD INCLUDE NW. 0. DAM/ Power, Navigation, Irrigation and Flood Control List- ed as Benefits | Washington, Nov. 22.—()—Senator {Norris (Rep. Neb.) moving spirit for lyears in the Tennessee Valley develop- ment plan, said Wednesday he would introduce a bill when congress meets to accomplish the same ends for the Missouri river. Norris made his announcement to |newspapermen upon his return to Washington from the west. He said his plan, together with Cove Creek dam on the Clinch river in Tennessee, would harness enough water to “control the flood waters of the Mississippi.” Norris believes he can get adminis- tration support for the bill he is now framing and recalled that when President Roosevelt signed the Ten- messee Vallev-Muscle Shoals bill he said this was but the beginning of a nationwide system to develop power, improve navigation and provide irri- gation and flood control. Asked if his measure would call for creation of a Missouri river authority, the Nebraskan said inasmuch as irri- gation would be the primary aim it Probably would be administered by the reclamation bureau in the depart- ‘ment of the interior. The huge Fort Peck, Montana, dam, for which the public works adminis- tration had allocated large sums, he said, would be part of his Missouri river bill. The proposed diversion dam in North Dakota and dams in Nebraska and Kansas also would figure in the Plan, he added. Norris likened the idea to the Ten- 'nessee Valley project except that the Missouri would not have a fertilizer Phase. FEDERAL ENGINEER WILL VISIT N. D.; PLAN RALLY Major Philip B. Fleming of Wash- | ington, D. C., as @ personal repre- senative of Harold L. Ickes, public works administrator, is scheduled to errive in North Dakota Thursday to obtain information regarding the Mis- souri river diversion project, accord- ing to word received here by Sivert ‘W. Thompson, Devils Lake, head of the diversion association. Fleming will be accompanied by F. ‘W. Murphy, Wheaton, Minn., regional public works advisor. The two will arrive Thursday morning at Fargo and are to be guests at a noon lunch- con to be given by the Lions and other service clubs. Gus Lamb, pres- ident of the North Dakota taxpayers association, has asked taxpayers in Cass and other counties in that sec- tion, to be present. From Fargo, Fleming and Murphy go to Devils Lake where Thursday night a state wide meeting will be held to show the demand for the Project. On the trip from Fargo to Devils Lake, the men will go through the Sheyenne river area affected by the proposed diversion porject. From Devils Lake, Fleming and Murphy will go to Garrison, where a huge dam is proposed under the diversion pro- ‘Thompson expressed the hope that “25,000 persons would rally to the Devils Lake meeting Thursday night to impress Major Fleming with the tremendous sentiment prevailing in favor of the project.” If possible, he said, a similar rally will be arranged at Jamestown Sat- urday night, if Major Fleming plans to spend that much time in North M. H. Atkinson, secretary of the League of North Dakota Municipali- ties, Major Frank L. Anders and J. N. Roherty, state highway department Deputies Named by Beer Commissioner i iH af Hh E é i Hi elief Jobs Apportioned Here STATE. CONFERENCE MAKES. ALLOTMENTS 10 ND. COUNTIES |Burleigh to Place 402 Men on Paying Work Under New Government Plan |DETAILS ARE EXPLAINED Both Men on Relief and Unem- ployment Lists Will Be Given Perference With more than 300 relief admin- istrators here from counties and cities throughout North Dakota, state relief and reemployment officials Wednesday outlined details of the ambitious civil works ‘am. Under the plan 13,000 needy North Dakotans will be put to work as soon 48 possible on approved public works at regular cash wages, Allotment of jobs to North Dakota's 53 counties under the wide Program was announced by the state emer- gency relief committee as the session opened. This allotment was as follows: Adams county 100 men; Barnes 329; Benson 232; Billings 53; Bottineau 453; Bowman 140; Burke 231; Bur- leigh 402; Cass 784; Cavalier 260; Dickey 278; Divide 248; Dunn 234; Eddy 130; Emmons 175; Foster 100; ariaenee 70; Grand Forks 480; rant ; Griggs 103; Hettinger 158; Kidder 152;/LaMoure 215; Logan 119: McHenry 325; Meintosh 174; Mc- Kenzie 224; McLean 321; Mercer 132; Morton 384; Mountrail 260; Nelson CWA Administrators Responsible to U. S. | — | A statement that the North Da- | kota emergency relief committee, as administrator of the new civil works program in this state, is responsible directly to the federal government was made before the | conference of relief adm! here Wednesday by A. E. Thomp- son, member of the state emer- gency relief committee. | No other groups outside of the | state and county relief administra- tions, which act as civil works administrators, have any authori- ty over civil works projects in the state, he said. : The state government and indi- | \ vidual state officials, as such, have | nothing whatsoever to do with the | Program, he said. 266; Oliver 64; Pembina 230; Pierce 134; Ramsey 285; Ransom 191; Ren- ville 269; Richland 385; Rolette 204; Sargent 329; Sheridan 110; Sioux Slope 85; Stark 266; Steele 1: Stutsman 468; Towner 147; Traill 187; Walsh 311; Ward 631; Wells 205; Williams 445. Allotment Is Explained The allotment, it was explained by Supreme Court Justice A. M. Christ- janson, chairman of the state relief committee, was based 75 per cent on Population in the counties and 25 Per cent need (acording to relief and reemployment registrations). This is the same scheme which was fol- lowed in ulloting 4,000,000 jobs for needy men to all states in the nation, Judge Christianson explained. The first 50 per cent of men for |the jobs will be supplied from the re- Nef lists while the remaining 50 per cent will be recruited from those registered for re-employment, it was explained. No persons who joined the relief lists after Nov. 7 are eligible for jobs from relief lists, but must register for reemployment with reemployment di- rectors and secure jobs through that medium. In connection with the general con- ference, three sub-conferences were Planned. Reemployment managers |from all counties were to confer with James C. Taylor, reemployment di- rector, in regard to details of their work. Relief workers, chairmen of relief committees, representatives of boards of county commissioners and feed relief managers from the coun- ties were to confer local