The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 16, 1933, Page 1

€ North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1933 _ PRICE FIVE CENTS Given 20,000 More CWA Jobs Wenzel Ouster Case Finally Drags to Close STUTSMAN 1S LAST | WITNESS ON STAND IN SDAY HEARING Voluminous Transcript Is Ex- pected to Be Ready in About Two Weeks GOVERNOR TO REVIEW IT. Defense Expected to Appeal to Courts If Final Ruling \s Adverse The R. E. Wenzel ouster hearing was concluded at 12:30 p. m. Saturday fol- lowing testimony by W. H. Stutsman, former member of the bureau, who took the stand for the defense. About two weeks will be required to complete the transcript of the vol- uminous record of the hearing that ran eight days. A final hearing will then be had before Gov. William Lan- ger, who seeks Wenzel’s removal from the Workmen's Compensation Bureau. Should Langer decide to remove Wenzel, the defense has indicated that ‘Wenzel will appeal to the courts for final determination of the case. Stutsman was on the stand during Saturday's session and the defense rested following completion of his testimony. The state called. State Senator 8. 8. McDonald who testified for a few minutes after which the hearing was closed. Tells of Bond Deal Stutsman testified in detail as to the exchange of $130,000 in bonds held by the Workmen's Compensation Bureau for $125,000 long term bonds, declaring the transaction was to the advantage of the bureau as the per centage of income was a trifle over the market, and it was preferable to have long maturity bonds than short maturity bonds. An attorney general's opinion ap- Proving the transaction was entered. as an exhibit. Stutsman said the fig- ures were worked out by Bank of North: Dakota statisticlans and it was found that it would be necessary to turn over about $5,000 more to equalize the two sets of bonds. Stutsman said the difference in the two sets of bonds resulted because of the different maturities and because some bore a higher rate of interest. Charies A. Verret, assistant attorney general prosecuting the case, inter- rupted the testimony to say that the chief objection of the state to the transaction is that Wenzel, at a con- ference with the other commissioners ratified an exchange of $125,000 in bonds held by the compensation bu- reau, while in the final transaction $130,000 was turned over. Was It Handled ? He said the state does not contend that the $5,000 difference “disap- peared.” The attack of the state has been on the manner in which the records of the transaction were kept, while the defense contends the mat- ter was handled in full accordance with the law. Stutsman, who served on the board unt! last January, when he was suc- ceded by R. H. Walker, testified under examination by George F. Shafer, de- fense attorney, that Wenzel “was an E f words | til the following day. Earns Carnival Queen’s Crown 2 A queen by merit is Miss Violet Davis, above, of Edmonton, Al- berta, who has been ed to reign over the famous Banff winter carnival, Jan. 31-Feb. 4. She has qualified as an all-roun sportswoman, and is described as ' an excellent hockey player, fast skater, expert sk! strong swim- mer, skillful tennis player, and | HOB LYNCHES NEGRO ARTER GRAND JURY ~ BAILED TO INDICT: Tenne: Sheriff Answers Call) To Find Man Hanging from | Roadside Tree Columbia, Tenn., Dec. 16.—(P)—A 20-year-old negro whom a grand jury refused to indict on a charge of attempted attack on an 11-year-old irs lynched near here Friday ‘The body of the victim, Cord Cheek, was found suspended from a tied to the limb of a tree after Sheriff Claude Godwin said he received an auonymous telephone call advising that he would find a “dead negro at the fork of the road” in the Glen- dale section nearby. In response to a request to “come and get him’ the sheriff said he went to the place designated and found the body. Godwin said marks which appeared to have been made by bul- lets were found on the body and that the negro apparently.died shortly be- | fore the hanging. ‘The attempted attack on the girl, an orphan, was alleged to have occurred about a month ago in the section where the negro was lynched. After) the pad dury’s refusal to indict, Cheek was released. Officers nere said they did not) know the negro was in the section until the body was found. He had! been released in Nashville, where he| ‘was taken for safekeeping. | Jailer R. M. McDonald said the girl; identified Cheek as the negro who) attempted to attack her. He said! “feeling ran pretty high for a time,” but seemed to have quieted down. McDonald said search for the negro was started immediately after the! girl named him as the attempted at- tacker, but that he was not found un- With Big Cash Sum Mrs. Chicago, Dec, 16.—()—Police squads ling, died searched Saturday for an expreasjernoon in a hospital here. He was driver who disappeared with $39,000 ine = 3 » cee Rae Beity E & ell 1¢ LINDBERGHS RETURN” a a Wedding ‘Habit’ | Leads to Jail LONG ABRAL TOUR Fly from Dominican Republic| To Miami in Little More Than Six Hours | WATCHERS SEND UP CHEER Began Odyssey of Air Six Months} Ago in Exploratory Voyage Over Atlantic | Miami, Fla., Dec, 16.—(@)—Col. and i Mrs, Charles A. Lindbergh alighted | Failure to pay for four wedding feasts here at 1:06 p. m. eastern standard jin a month caused the downfall of link in an aerial odyssey that began’ more than five months ago. Colonel Lindbergh set his large red hhydro-monoplane down on the waters; police, investigating his neglect, said they found that four different brides had graced the festal board. Peter- son, held on bigamy charges, had T0 AMERICA ARTER |” cee | Jevening, Dec. 15, 1933, the men and|Thomes J. McLaughlin fiddled “Irish {80th anniversary of its building. 4/@ new page was written into the his- time Saturday to complete the last Bror Peterson, above, when Chicago) | Lindbergh circled the base for favor- | | down smoothly. ' ithe North Atlantic islands in' July. ‘Later, completing their mission of rope|technical adviser. ‘The trip was a | zig-zag one, in which they sometimes jMaries, the Cape Verde Islands, Brit- . |injured in an automobile collision Driver Disappears Inear Sterling ‘Thursday, will be con- of the International Airplane base af- 4ro, Dominican republic, in six hours | and 33 minutes. A cheer rolled up from the watch- | ors as the big plane was sighted in the southern sky. Over familiar waters, | ing.wind and then brought the ship; A huge crowd lined the waterfront, with the spectators good naturedly pushing anc shoving others and & po- | lice cordon for advantageous positions | to watch the Lindberghs as they went | vhrough the formalities of customs | and immigration on a barge’ housing | these offices. With the landing, the Flying Lind- | ‘erghs returned to their homeland af- ter a semi-vacation absence that be- | gan as an exploratory expedition of ; surveying for a possible North At- antic airline route, the couple visited | many European countries. HAVE FLOWN 26,000 MILES ON JOURNEY | New York, Dec, 16.—(?)—Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh have flown more than 28,000 miles since leaving New York July 9 on their epochal survey journey. The figure is the estimate of Pan- American Airways, for which Col. Lindbergh undertook the flight as retraced their course. For instance, they flew over the Greenland ice-cap twice, studying flight conditions. They have visited more than 30 countries and their possessions, in- cluding Nova Scotia, Labrador, Green- | land, Iceland, Shetland Islands, Den- mark, Sweden, Norway, Russia, France, British Isles, Holland, Swit- zerland, Portugal, the Azores, the Ca- ish West Africa, Brazil, Trinidad, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Re-! public, RITES FOR STERLING BOY SET FOR SUNDAY’ Joseph Dorson, 17-Year-Old' School Boy, Died from | Mishap Injuries : i | Funeral services for Joseph Dorson, | 1f-year-old student of the Sterling consolidated school, who was fatally ducted at Sterling Sunday afternoon. | Dorson boy, son of Mr. and Dorson, of near Ster- at 1:50 o'clock Friday aft-; Knocked unconscious in the mishap| about 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon | and failed to regain consciousness. He suffered a skull fracture and se- vere cuts. Four other rural children, students at the Sterling consolidated school, |were injured when the auto which | thé Dorson youth was driving, used as @ school bus, crashed into a two-/ ter flying the 900 miles from San Pe- jcstate in Sweden, which proved im- ton truck driven by L. A. Roberts of sta! added the inducement of a rich aginary, to his winning ways, his ac- cusers say. | | | ! | ye ag PROPHECY COMES TRUE t Old Bismarck Building The y_of John M. Quinn, | teaching in William Moore. “In be- written in The Bismarck Tribune for/half of the teachers of William May 9, 1884, that “here the proud- | Moore,” she said, “I welcome you most spirited sons and daughters of Da- cordially and thank you for your pres- kota will mature into the highest type jence here tonight.” Mrs. Casselman of intellectual manhood and woman- | was chairman of the entire program. hood” was proved true when Friday; A foot stomped here and there as women who had attended William | Washerwoman,” “McLeod's Reel” and Moore school returned to celebrate the “Soldiers Joy” to accompaniments {played by Miss Ruby Wilmot, city With this anniversary celebration, | School music supervisor. |W. A. Falconer, who spent much tory of North Dakota schools for the _ in compiling a history of Bis- William Moore school is the first to! marck’s early school days, turned back have achieved this unique distinction.|the clock to Territorial days. “The When the doors opened at 7:30)year, 1883,” he said, “was an eventful o'clock, the first’ of the large assem- one for Bismarck. Many acts of im- ‘bly poured in and began an inspec- portance affecting the growth of the tion of the pictures of William Moore city were passed by the 1883 Terri- and old Bismarck high school grad- | sortal Legislature. The most impor- uates, which line the classroom walls.|tant was the Capitol Removal Bill, “There is my grandmother and there|whereby the seat of territorial gov- fs my mother,” one young woman, jernment was changed from Yankton who had attended William Moore her-, to Bismarck. At the same time a bill} self, remarked as she viewed the pic-| was passed to locate the penitentiary tures. | at Bismarck, with an appropriation of And then women started to arrive $50,000 to complete the same. An- ‘in the elaborately flounced, tucked,|other bill was passed, entitled ‘An |lace-trimmed and be-ribboned frocks ' Act Authorizing the City of Bismarck, in which they became “sweet girl Dakota Territory, to issue bonds for EXPECT CONGRESS AND TREASURY 10 graduates.” There were lace shawls,'the Purpose of Building and Furnish- ‘pale blue hair ribbons, ruffles, in-|ing a Schoolhouse.’” jsertions and tucked net trimmings on | Broke Ground in August ithe graduation dresses which were! Ground for the new school, accord- |worn, in some cases, decades 80.'ing to Mr. Falconer, was broken in ‘Mrs, Richard Penwarden, Sr. W8S august, 1883, and school opened in |wearing the class ring of 1889, the September, 1884, Mr. Palconer briefly |third graduating class, and there were | outlined the North Ward School his-; many others wearing the cherished tory, giving the names of all its prin- REACH AGREEMENT Chairman of House Group Says Differences on Revenue Bill Not Important Washington, Dec. 16.—(#)—Chair- man Doughton of the house ways and means committee predicted Friday a. general revenue bill could be drawn that would suit both legislative and executive departments despite wide differences in plans proposed by the treasury and a house sub-committee. Discussing the new suggestions made and the exceptions taken by Acting Secretary Morgenthau to the ways and means sub-committee's 39 Proposals to tighten existing law against tax dodgers and simplify its papermen he did not regard the treasury’s counter proposals as a bar to an agreement. “These are not serious differences, he said. “We invited the treasu ing a bill intelligently. “Our views, of course, were subject to change. We didn’t expect both to agree.” One new treasury suggestion was to require husbands and wives living together to file single income returns. This was aimed at cases like that of Charles E. Mitchell, former chair- man of the National City Bank, who was recently acquitted of tax evasion charges srising out of sales of stocks to his wife. Asked how J. P. Morgan and his partners could be reached if the treasury recommendation against dis- allowing partners to charge off part- individual incomes were followed, Doughton said: “I am sure when we get tl with this bill a condition of the kind disclosed by the banking investiga- tion will be made Smpossible.” Foreign Purchases Washington, Dec. 16.—(#)—Newly- mined domestic gold again was worth $34.01 an ounce Saturday as the gov- ernment pushed its expenditures for the metal past the $50,000,000 mark. Approximately $15,000,000 of this sum has gone to the domestic mining industry. But the rest, as shown by figures issuing from the White House and R. F. C., apparently has been spent in foreign markets in further- ing President Roosevelt's plan for was “dipping into” the new money. The original allotment was $50,000,- 000.. The second was $25,000.000. Of Hunt Charges Charges of having deer meat in their administration, Doughton told news-| views and they are essential to writ-/ nership losses against their ordinary! hrough |ized expenditures under the public Of Gold Revealed |%<,,°%4 rings of other classes. cipals and many of the teachers. ! Mra. Casselman Speaks Through Falconer's efforts, there | Mrs, W. 8. Casselman, a William was secured from the Minnesota State |Moore teacher for 23 years, who later | Historical society, two excerpts from lin the evening was to be called “the the files of The Bismarck Tribune | finest teacher of them all” by her| which were read by Mrs. Florence H. former pupil, George F. Will, opened | Davis, librarian of the North Dakota the program at 8 o'clock, telling the | Historical library. “Piles of The Bis- Harge audience that the 23 happiest |marck Tribune from its beginning | years of her life were those spent in| (Continued on Page Five) | ASK $4034207.84 CONVICT CRAWFORD VIN FEDERAL FUNDS OF ILSLEY KILLING | - POR PUBLIC WORKS; TN VIRGINA COURT Jury Finds Negro Guilty of Murdering Former Fargo Woman in 1932 | ' 68 Projects Submitted to North: Dakota Board Would Re- i quire That Amount | Leesburg, Va., Dec. 16.—(#)—George Crawford, negro, was convicted today by a jury of white men of murdering Mrs, Agnes Boeing llsley, Middleburg, Va., sportswoman. The jury imposed a penalty of life imprisonment to end the five-day trial which resulted from the slaying of Mrs. Isley and her maid, Mrs. Mina Buckner, at Middleburg on January 13, 1932. Defense counsel said they planned to appeal to higher courts on the ground that negroes were barred from the grand jury which indicted Craw- ford and from the list from which the trial jury was elected. An hour and 45 minutes was re- quired to reach a verdict. Two Skating Rinks Ready in Bismarck Two skating rinks in Bismarck are in shape for use this week-end and two others will be ready in the near future, it was announced Saturday by officials. north of the hight school, and. the hy of the high sc! " [project would nj other is at the corner of Sixteenth St. ition of public works funds in North! cha Rosser avenue. The latter 1s not completely frozen but there is enough ice to take care of many skaters there, it is announced. The other two rinks, planned for ;|the use of children, will be at the corners of Front avenue and Eleventh “| St. and Hannafin St. and Avenue A. A hockey rink has been set off on the large rink at North Field, board walls having been established to sep- arate the hockey space from the re~ ting | mainder of the rink. Devils Lake, N. D., Dec. 16—(P)\— Sixty-eight projects seeking loans to- taling $4,034,207. from federal funds \have been presented to the state pub- jMe works office here, Harry Knudsen, |state engineer, said Saturday. Forty-four of the 68 projects have been forwarded to Washington, where ;seven have been approved and 30 are jpending. Seven small projects have |been withdrawn and in some cases jassigned to the civil works adminis- tration. | Sixteen projects are in the hands ‘of state public works engineers at the present time. Six additional were filed Friday and will be added to the 68 projects previously presented. Estimates now are that total author- works projects in North Dakota will ‘be well. over $6,000,000. This sum is ‘exclusive of the $5,000,000 allocation jto the state highway department, jmoney allocated to civic works proj- jits application { i BE i 2 E i for the remainder of the rink to per- of loans for| mit night skating. its at James-| Hockey players are urged to meet that|at North Rink at 2 o'clock Sunday than 4,000; afternoon, at which time plans will than] be completed for the beginning of city league play, according to Mike Jundt, vice president of the circuit. Montana’s New Law Worries Bootleggers ageea? i rH ig i etl z i t I : ; ~ Lone Student i | Nourse, 14-year-old now acting for Universal pictures a whole school by herself. She's the only pupil | attending the private school on the Universal lot. and the pro- | ducers have to keep it open, = | even if only for her, because | the law says so. NRA T0 CONTINUE BIUE EAGLE UNTIL. CODES ARE DEVISED. Industries Not Under Agree-| ment Expected to Observe | Present Pact i (Copyright 1933, By Associated Press) | Washington, Dec. 16.—(7)—NRA’s blue eagle will continue to fly after December 31 and a program soon will 4e announced to extend the presi- dent's re-employment agreement for the trades and industries which do not have codes in effect on that day. The blue eagle agreements were sent out in August. Millions of busi- | nessmen signed their names in a} promise to comply with the higher! wage, shorter hours requirements un- ‘il the last day of the year when the | agreements expire. They promised also to help get their trades organized for code purposes. Saturday, many of those business- | men are under permanent codes. ! ‘Thousands more probably will be by; the end of the year. But there will) vemain a residium of uncoded indus- tries, groups with codes pending but not approved, or not even in formu- sation, The administration has no intention of letting these slip away from the re-employment rally for a possible QUOTA IS BOOSTED T0 37,000 AS MOVE IN DROUGHT RELIEF Increased Employment Is Limit- ed to Areas Affected, Wil- liams Announces ARE RESTRICTED TO ROADS Allotments to Counties Not Made Yet and Will Be An- nounced One at a Time North Dakota's quota of jobs under the civil works program has been boosted from 17,000 to 37,000, accord- ing to an announcement in Washing- ton Friday by Harry L. Hopkins, fed- eral CWA administrator. The increase in jobs permitted is limited to drought areas in the:state, according to John E. Williams, sec- retary of the North Dakota civil works administration here. The additional jobs will not be granted in all parts of the state, he said, being allowed only because of an emergency created in certain areas by drought and snow. The new jobs also will be restricted Sao road projects, the secretary said. Allotment of the jobs will be made gradually, a county at a time, ac- cording to Williams. Increases in CWA jobs also were approved for South Dakota, Minne- sota and Montana. South Dakota's quota was boosted from 22,000 to 47,- 000, Minnesota's from 74,000 to 79,000. ‘Under the new program, all men formerly receiving emergency relief are given jobs at regular cash wages rather than being paid in credit for necessities. Counties considered in the drought area, Williams said, are Bowman, Adams, Sioux, Grant, Morton, Em- mons, McIntosh, Dickey, Sargent, Bottineau, Williams, Burke, Renville, McKenzie, McLean, Dunn, Bi illings, | Stark, Slope, Hettinger, Burleigh, and e Kidder. Some townships or certain areas in the remaining counties have drought conditions in spotted sections and also will come under the increased quota. ANNE WEISENBURGER OF BISMARCK DIES 23-Year-Old Woman Had Been Wl for Four Years; Plan Funeral Sunday Miss Anne Weisenburger, 23-year- old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Philipp Weisenburger of 400 Eleventh &t., Bismarck, died at 12:45 o'clock Fri- day afternoon. She had been ill for four years. Miss Weisenburger was born Jan. new competitive reduction of wages. | Further, and despite the “chiseling” | going on, for which blue eagles now | are being ordered down daily, officials | insist the emblem of cooperation has | real trade value. | They cite as evidence two principal | recent occurrences; a big candy store | vhain was deprived of the eagle for paying waitresses hardly more than half the required rate. It appealed for reinstatement the same day, and ater agreed to pay back wages to all hands for a month. Before the eagle was ordered down from the store of a “chiseler” in a small eastern city, more than 1,000 people signed a peti- tion asking that the merchant be dis- ¢ 5 Half a dozen smaller merchants who had been deprived of the went to great lengths to get it back again. | ‘The plan for continuance is not yet | clearly formed. The simplest method 1s to proclaim, by regulation and pub- Me announcement, that continued dis- Play binds the employer to stick to the agreement terms, either until his Cummings Prepares For Steel } Mill Fight e node becomes effective or for a period | fixed by the president. | 12, 1910, at Berlin, N. D., and moved to Bismarck with her family when she was three years old. She was educated in Bismarck schools but be- came ill about two months before she was to have been graduated from Bismarck high school with the class of 1930. Besides her parents, she leaves two sisters and five brothers, all but John Weisenburger of Mott, living in Bis- marck. Other brothers and sisters are Miss Kathryn and Miss Marcella Weisenburger and Henry,