The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 4, 1933, Page 1

“ome 4 «mit no one entrance without permis- & THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1933 PRICE FIVE CENTS Alexande | GUARDSMEN REFUSE |; ENTRY TO OLSNESS ._ AND SEVERAL AIDES! Insurance Commissioner Forc- ed to Wait on Examiner as Probe Begins DOOR LOCK IS CHANGED Insurance Chiefs Demand for Representation at Ex- amination Granted With national guardsmen still on duty at the offices of the state hail, department under orders of Governor ‘William Langer, preliminary plans for t@ audit of the department's affairs ‘were agreed upon Monday forenoon by Fred W. Cathro, of the state ex- aminer’s office, and 8. A, Olsness, cgmmissioner of insurance. ° Commissioner Olsness and several of his assistants were denied admit- ance to the hail department offices Monday morning by the guardsmen, who have been on duty since Friday night with the exception of two hours late Saturday, until the arrival of Cathro. The guardsmen's orders are to per- sion of Cathro, who has been instruct- ed to make a “complete audit” of the department. Monday morning's development fol- lowed on the heels of a confession Saturday by E. J. Heising, erstwhile manager of the state hail insurance department, that he had obtained $1,350 from the department illegally through forged warrants, the first of which was perpetrated in 1927 and a second later. Make Working Agreement Following ‘their conference, Cathro ‘and Olsness announced that the au- dit apparently .would proceed with. relations between the examiner's and insurance departments amicable. ‘As the parley opened, Cathro an- nounced that he had had installed @ new lock on the front door of the establishment. He to keep one key himself and turn the other over to Olsness, but the insurance commissioner refused to accept the key, declaring he would prefer that Cathro have possession of the keys 50 i Regulating temporary liquor con- | trol measures for the-government pending enactment of permanent legislation is the responsibility of | Josepb H. Choate (above), New York lawyer, appointed by’ Presi- deut Roosevelt to be director and chairman of the Federal Alcohol Control Administration A close friend of the President, Choate bas been prominently identified with the repeal movement. | BLOODSHED FEARED AS LOUISIANA FOLK BATTLE LONG GANG Ballots Are Burned and Mass Meetings Held in Protest Against Election { | | | Baton Rouge, La. Dec. 4—)—| Ashes of hundreds of burned ballots, -fears of bloodshed: if troops. Officialdom that no intimidation of voters would be tolerated Tuesday at the polls streaked the horizon of Louisiana’s sixth congressional dis- trict on election eve. The election was called a week ago ifor Tuesday by Governor O. K. Allen to fill the vacancy in congress caused by the death last June of Representa- 'tive Bolivar E. Kemp. DRY LAW ADVOCATES jpreme court Monday for decision as/ ‘lating machinery. |the international reform federation, ‘ate ‘called out, and warning from | heard ‘alcohol control committee, largely re- sponsible for the federal plan, con- MAKING LAST STAND AS REPEAL IMPENDS Washington Court to Rule on Appeal by Canon Chase for Injunction BRIEF IS FILED IN REPLY Acting Secretary of State Says Change in Constitution Effective Anyway Washington, Dec. 4—(P)—A last demand that proclamation of repeal Tuesday be forbidden was brought before the District of Columbia su- the federal government applied final polish to its temporary liquor-regu- The court suit was brought by Wil- liam Sheafe Chase, superintendent of who asked that Acting Secretary William Phillips of the state depart- ment be prevented from issuing the Tepeal proclamation. In many in- stances, Chase said, state conventions which ratified the repealing amend- ment were not deliberative as the constitution provides. Phillips, summoned to make oral answer Monday, filed a brief in which he said the suit should have been brought against the states. He added that repcal becomes effective, with- out his proclamation, when the 36th state convention ratifies the 2lst a :. ‘The federal regulatory machinery, which will operate until congress en- acts necessary permanent legislation, meanwhile was being finished. Codes for distillers and importers were in effect; one for brewers went to the president for his approval; hearings were ordered for Monday on another for wholesale liquor dealers while that tinued Monday to consider liquor taxes and permanent legislation. Its proposals will be submitted to con- gress. UTAH IS POISED FOR DRY LAW KNOCKOUT that no one from the department could gain entrance except with Cathro. Declaring that the insurance de- partment is even “more” eager to have The sixth district Democratic exec- utive committee, friendly to Senator Huey P. Long, on that day in New Orleans, disregarded the primary and nominated the widow of the late rep- Salt Lake City, Dec. 4—(?)—If Pennsylvania and Ohio repeal con- ventions function on schedule, the’ knockout blow to prohibition will be the departmena’s affairs audited than the examiner's department, Olsness said that nevertheless he would de- mand certain “ " and “rel resentation” during the audit, poit {resentative for the position. Thereupon a storm of protest with open threats of “revolution” swept the district and centered Sunday in the | the state will be the 36th and decisive delivered on the second floor of Utah's $2,000,000 statehouse soon after noon (mountain standard time) lay. Utah officials, who fervently hope ing out that neither he nor the de- partment, but rather only one official, had been “impeached.” Names Aslakson-LaFrance He proposed that the deputy insur- Court injunction, issued to restrain | the printing and distribution of the tallots and applying to nine of the 12 parishes, were set for hearing Mon- jone to ratify repeal, have announced the ratifying convention will be con- ducted in a spirit of orderliness and decorum in keeping with the dignity of the occasion. ance commissioner, A. R. Aslakson, and the accountant of the hail insur- So eager is Utah to be the 36th ance department, E. Everett LaFrance, be the only persons having knowl- edge of the combination of the vault. Cathro agreed to this . In view of the fact that several knew the combination to the vault, Olsness suggested that the combina- tion of the vault be changed and that Aslakson and LaFrance be the only persons invested with knowledge of the new combination. This sugges- tion also was acceptable to Cathro. jday in the judicial districts. The injunctions were obtained by) {citizens leading the fight against ‘Tuesday's election and in favor of a primary election called for December 27 by their mass meeting last week at Baton Rogue. Molten Lava Surges In Hawaiian Volcano _ Hilo, Hawaii, Dec. 4.—)—Molten {State ratifying the 21st amendment, it was suggested the convention de- lay its action if it appeared Ohio and Pennsylvania, whose conventions are on the same day but in an earlier time belt, were stalling along seek- ing the honor. Some the race for the honor might be delayed 80 long that Maine, whose convention meets Dec. 6, might emerge the win- ner. Franklin Riter, chairman of the committee making arrangemen' for the convention, and Secretary of Cathro demanded the right to ex- ~gamine all of Heising’s to the suspended manager of partment correspondence. of a “public” nature, declaring that after examination he will be willing to return all private mene i ae i i L i Dec: 3. i lava surged and spouted in the Moku- Block $22,000,000 it 3 g 5 3 ty 3 3 d I i i State Milton H. Welling have com- pleted an elaborate program, includ- ing an address by Governor Henry H. 11-Year-Old Beulah Girl Succumbs Here Freda Miller, 11-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John P. Miller of! Beulah, died in a local hospital at Funeral services will ‘be conducted at Beulah Tuesday, it was re] at Perry's Funeral Home here. ——— | Brothers Cool Off In Hlinois Lockup —____—______+ TH i | Film Star Weds 3 tte{ 7080s. grand.champian steer will. be ALICE WHITE Magdalena, Sonora, Mex., Dec. 4.— (@\—Alice White, film actress, and Sidney Bartlett, writer, whose mar- riage here climaxed an off and on engagement: of several years, were soneymooning Monday at the Mex- jean ranch of Antonio Proto, a friend. PRIZES AWARDED IN FIRST COMPETITION AT LIVESTOCK SHOW Man From Argusville, N. D.,| Shows Winning Sample of Sweet Clover Chicago, Dec. 4.—(#)—The interna- tional livestock exposition’s annual tournament of beeves from which the chosen got under way Monday. ‘The beefsteak competition, in which prize meai animals of American herds narade before Judge Walter Biggar, will last for two days. Swine and sheep judging started simultaneously snd first awards for Percheron and Shire draft horses. will be made Mon- day. From North Dakota came the show's winning sweet clover, the exhibitor being E. J. Madson, Argusville. Harry Hege, of West Point, Ind., became the national 4-H club, meat! animal champion. Ohio Stute University’s judging team won the intercollegiate livestock judging contest. Nels Linden of Wetaskiwin, Al-! berta, was chosen barley champion of | the grain show. He submitted a sam- ple of trebi, six rowed. C. Ivan Gustaf- ‘son, of Victor, Mont., won the reserve championship with six rowed barley after winning in region one. LAME DUCKS MISSED IN NATIONAL SCENE Operation of Amendment De- CRIMINAL CHARGES PILED AGAINST SIX IN COURT AT MINOT Former City Commissiorters Are Defendants in Com- plaints Filed by Void i LOCAL MAN NAMED IN LIST Commissioner, Is One of Group Accused Minot, N. D., Dec. 4.—()—Six for- mer Minot city commissioners and former city treasurer are named as| defendants in criminal complaints: signed Monday by O. R. Vold, Minot, before Justice C. B. Davis, who issued warrents for their arrest on charges| of embezzlement, the allegations be-| ing that they “willfully unlawfuly and. feloniously converted to the use of: “otaaha Public moneys of the city of It. Named as defendants are A: H.| Kurth, H. E. Buck, Nap La Fleur, V. A. Corbett, E. J. Thomas and A. J. H. Bratsberg, all former city commis- sioners, and A. J. Brunner, former | city treasurer. Of the six defendants. | Kurth, Buck, La Fleur and Brunner now live in Minot. Thomas ix at Bismarck, where he is division engi- neer for the state highway depart- baad and Bratsberg resides at Seattle, ‘ash. Engeseth Also Accused In addition to the complaints | ‘against the former city commissioners and the former treasurer, a com- Plaint against Martin J. Engeseth, present city assessor, charging him with an omission to perform an offi- cial duty, also was signed Monday by Vold. This charge arises from | Engeseth’s work as a deputy state; examiner, in checking the office of 165 MEN GET JOBS Agree on Plans for Hail Department Audi U. S. Liquor Czar ONROAD PROJECTS APPROVED BY CWA Bismarck Making Plans to Put Others to Work on Muni- cipal Jobs 18 PROJECTS ARE OKAYED Highway Engineer, One-Time | Swimming Pool, High School and City Auditorium Will Be Improved One hundred sixty-five men went to work on 11 road projects in Bur- leigh county under the civil works Program Monday morning and city of Bismarck officials were completing Preparations to put other men to work on three CWA projects in the Capital City. The 11 road graveling and grading projects were among the 15 proposals placed with the county CWA admin- istration last week. ‘These 15 projects, as well as the three proposed by the city, have been approved by the state and federal civil works administrations. ‘The road work was resumed where it left off under the old direct relief program, according to M. H. Cher- nich, county surveyor who is in direct charge of the The men will receive cash wages for their work. Myron H. Atkinson, city auditor, said it was probable that work would get under way on three city projects late Monday or Tuesday. ‘These projects are painting and re- decorating the city auditorium and high school building and concrete work on the city swimming pool as well as painting and rédecorating the Pool’s dressing house. All materials must be purchased by (the city but labor costs will be paid by the federal’ civil works adminis- that he filed an official report of his examination “which report was fect false and-untrue in this, that/ said report showed that the books; and accounts of the said office of register of deeds were in all things) regular, whereas, in truth and in fact, | said books and accounts were not regular.” \ Before giving his approval to the complaints, States Attorney Robert | W. Palda conferred with the attorney, general’s office at Bismarck about them. Vold, as 2 special deputy state ex- aminer, recently audited records of the city of Minot and also of the office of Ward County register of Each of the five separate embezzle- | ment complaints charges wrongful use of city funds. Two of them charge wrongful diversion of money from certain funds to pay insurance on city | employes carried by the state work- | men’s compensation bureau. The) other three covered payments to firms | and individuals. | Drop in Pork Price | Worries Producers Chicago, Dec. 4—()—Keeping @ sort of wake over the six millions pigs that died in the AAA plan to raise hog prices, the pork industry, noting the current hog price is only 55 cents! above the 1932 low, anxiously awaits lays Usual Opening of Con- gress Until January | Washington, Dec. 4.—(?)—Hustle, and bustle m the capitol, marking, every first Monday in*December since | 1788, was absent Monday from the | national legislative halls. The open- |. ing ofthe annual session of congress | had been deferred until January 3. That was due to the new twentieth. or “lame duck,” amendment to the constitution. Lack of activity Monday was one of the first visible evidences of the new. amendment’s effect. - It’s pro- visions call for one unlimited session | of congress each year beginning Jan- uary 3, thereby the short seastons which had come about each second year, lasting from December March 4, In those short seasions, many mem- bers, defeated for re-election in the previous November, sat for three months and voted on important meas- ures. They were the “lame Because of delay many and 1 i E 5 4 Ba g i i i i E 2 i i ad F ; ale i # e new year. i During the two months period since pig slaughtering campaign of the | overnment ended, the price of hogs reached a high of $5.55 a hundred, equalling last year’s best figures. | However, as that two-month period ended Qec..1, the price had slumped in Chicago, the nation’s largest mar- | ket, to $3.55 a hundred. The year’s low, Jan. 2, was $3.10. 4 the pig slaughtering last fall and other costs of the price-raising cam- Ppaign. They say competition from untaxed foods has made inroads for ‘pork demand. tration. In| 300 ARE AT WORK ON MORTON COUNTY PROJECTS Mandan, N. D., Dec. 4.—(#)—Three hundred Morton county men are at work on a $211,000 county road pro- ject under the civil works program. Fourteen stretches of road work vary- ing from one to six miles in length make up the project. It is the sec- ond CWA project in the county, the first being a $17,000 park im- provement project in Mandan with 50 men at work and additional men expected to be employed later. YOUTH LOSES FOOT UNDER N. P. FREIGHT Son of Mandan Dentist Is Vic- tim of Accident at Ninth Street Crossing Gordon C. Rowley, 20-year-old Bis- marck youth and son of Dr. B. D. Rowley of Mandan, suffered loss of his right leg just below the knee and four toes on his left foot when he was run over by a Northern Pacific freight locomotive in the raijroad yards here Saturday evening. His doctor Monday forenoon said amputation his right leg further up on the limb probably will be ne- cessary. The youth’s condition at a local hos- Pital was not as good as it was Sun- day, the doctor said, some infection having developed in the right leg. ‘The surgeon said efforts are being made to save the large toe on the left foot, though the other four, mangled pre locomotive, have been ampu- The youth suffered some loss of blood and great shock when the mis- hap occurred about 8 o'clock Saturday evening at the Ninth St. crossing here. Rowley was the tracks from the south and apparently did not see the locomotive of west-bound freight train No. 1723, which was en- gaged in switching box cars during its stop here. ‘The youth was taker to the hospi- tal shortly after the t.. accident Rowley resides at 816 Main St., Bis- marck, his parents live at 407 Third Mandan, War Leader Dies ALEXAN! TOWNLEY PROPOSAL UNDER DISCUSSION AT MEETING HERE Highway Workers Furnis hl Transportation for Many Delegates at Session BULLETIN ! On motion of W. J. Godwin, Man- dan, state representative from Mor- ton county, the convention of Town- ley adherents voted to send Governor William Langer and a delegation of 100 to Washington to ask federal sup- port for the Townley program, leaving rot later than December 9. Several hundred persons from throughout North Dakota, brought here by employes of the state high- way department, according to reliable reports, assembled in the Bismarck city auditorium Monday to decide on a “plan of action” designed to carry lout A. C. Townley’s proposed indus- trial program. A road maintainer from Burke county, speaking from the floor at the morning session at the request of Townley, said that all highway de- partment employes in his county had een supplied with Townley “resolu- tions” by the chief engineer at Minot with instructions to distribute them for signatures and to bring them to the meeting here Monday. Ask Federal Money The resolutions call upon the fed- eral government to advance North Dakota sutficient money to launch a state industrial program, including tanneries, cheese factories, woolen ‘mills, and machinery factories. The former Nonpartisan League or- kanizer explained his proposal, and announced the conference would be asked to vote on the program Monday afternoon. He said Gov. William Lan- ger would address the gathering. R. H. Walker, chairman of the workmen's compensation bureau, pre- sided over the conference. In reply to questions from the floor, Townley said he proposed to have the veople of North Dakota ask the fed- eral government to loan the money to the state to establish numerous factories to convert raw materials produced in the state into finished products. Would Pay With Profits He said the loan would be sought at the lowest possible rate of interest and while it is proposed to re-pay the government through profits derived from the enterprises, the loan would be an obligation of North Dakota's state government. He said it would oe “bad psychology” to ask for the money as a gift. In announcing Monday afternoon's meeting Townley said the decision to be made there would be “momentous.” The state meeting follows seven dis- trict gatherings billed as “Nonparti- san League district conferences to consider and take action to put into immediate operation the industrial by A. C. Frazier.” Walker and Highway Com- missioner Frank Vogel signed the call for the meetings. Tt also is proposed to choose a del- egation of 100 to be headed by Gov. Langer to go to Washington to make @ plea for @ federal loan to inaugu- r Legge Succumbs t HEART DISEASE IS | FATAL 70 ONE - TIME , FARM BOARD LEADER Was Director of War Industries Board During World War; Wilson Adviser KNOWN AS HARD FIGHTER Shrewdness, Despite Lack of Education, Won Him High Business Place Chicago, Dec. 4.—(#)—Death from @ heart attack has ended the career of Alexander Legge, 67-year-old presi- dent of the International Harvester company and former chairman of the federal farm board, who was known to his friends as “the iron man.” | Mr., Legge, called “the iron man” |because of his seemingly tireless ef- forts, died suddenly Sunday at his {home in suburban Hinsdale, where he jhad been working in his garden. | During the war he was director of the war industries board. He was tthe second important figure in the nation’s wartime affairs to die with- in two weeks. The other was his close friend, Edward N. Hurley, head of the war-time shipping board. At about 10 a. m. Sunday he corh- Plained of feeling ill and servants summoned a physician. He died with- |in an hour, No immediate relatives are living. Mrs. Legge, in whose honor he had erected a woman’s memorial at Hins- idale, died about 10 years ago. Came From Farm Legge, a farm boy, went to the city ‘and made good. He became a suc- cess largely because he was a red- haired fighter, a shrewd trader and knew farmers. Legge always dealt with farmers. He started as a collector and rose successively until in 1922 he became president of the Internationa] Harves- ter company. But he took time out to serve the tillers of the soil in another way. President Hoover drafted him as {chairman of the farm board—one of the government's greatest economic experiments. It required of him the full powers of his expert mind and some of the reserve in his six-foot- three, 200-pound body. For 20 months he bore the brunt of criticism, always fighting back, never yielding to his critics. When he re- signed to go back to his jcompany, he was called “hard-head- ed, hard-boiled and astute.” Once before he was in his country’s service. In World War days he served as director of industrial mobilization, a dollar-a-year man. He was thrust into international prominence when he became chairman of the war in- dustries board, in charge of all muni- tions shipments, both to ,\merican and allied forces abroad. At Versailles, Legge was President Wilson's economic expert. ‘The next youngest of four children, he was born on a farm in Dane coun- ty, Wisconsin, January 13, 1866. The only systematic education he had was three months in a grade school at the county seat. School Was ‘Infrequent’ He once said his school was “in- frequent.” His education came by hard knocks and experience. In 1881 he went to Nebraska and for ten years worked from farm to farm. He came to know farmers intimately. Then he went to Omaha. He went ahead rapidly with the McCormick company. In 1899 he was brought in- to Chicago as manager of the cpllec- tion department. In 1902, when the International Harvester Company was formed by merger of the Mc- Cormick and the Deering and other interests, the farm boy became assist- ant manager of domestic sales, From then on his rise took him |through the offices of assistant gen- eral manager, general manager, vice president and, on June 2, 1922. presi- dent, succeeding Harold F. McCor- mick at a reputed annual salary of $100,000. Offers A Suggestion ‘When congress Agricul- tural Marketing Act in 1929, setting up (Continued on Page Four) But the angel of the the shepherds, Be bring you tidings : Unto you this day is bora, in the « city of David, a Saviour, whi 7: