The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 17, 1934, Page 1

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Weather Somewhat unsettled tonight and Thursday; colder Thursday. | ‘ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1934 PRICE FIVE CENTS -CWA Payroll Hits New Peak _!Plan Adequate Hearings on New Mone ~ 4 HOUSE COMMITTEE ARRANGES PLAN FOR HANDLING MEASURE Will Talk With Morgenthau First, Then Hear Repre- sentatives of Public ROOSEVELT NOT WORRYING Threatened Attack on Constitu- tionality of Scheme Brings Pert Reply ‘Washington, an. 17.—(#)—Eager to speed along the presidents’ devalua- tion bill, the house coinage committee ‘Wednesday abandoned its separate study of the “advisability of stabilizing the dollar on a metallic basis.” At the call of Chairman Somers, the committee went into executive session to plan how it would handle the re- valuation measure, referred to that committee Tuesday after a dispute with the banking committee over jurisdiction. “It is my hope,” Somers said, “to ask the secretary of the treasury to discuss the bill with us at his conven- tence. Then we will have, I expect, some further, and open, hearings. “The Republicans have been urging adequate hearings. It is my inten- tion to let them give us a list of per- sons they think we should hear—and then hear them.” President Roosevelt was represent- ed as well satisfied of the constitution- ality of his monetary program. He has an opinion from Attorney General Cummings supporting it. This was made plain at the White House in response to inquiries re- sulting from an investigation into the constitutionality of the plan ordered by a senatorial committee. Has Oral Opinion ‘The president received an oral opin- ion from the attorney general at the time this country went off the gold standard that the government had the right to take over the gold held by individuals and banks. A written opinion along the same line since has been made. Roosevelt smiled and withheld com- ment on the reaction to his newly announced plan to fix the value of the dollar in terms of gold at between 50 and 60 per cent of the present content. White House aides left no doubt of the general satisfaction there at the Proposal’s reception by the country. A defense of the activities of the farm credit administration in reliev- ing pressing farm debts was made by Albert 8. Goss, land bank commis- sioner. “The comment is sometimes made that you cannot save agriculture by lending the farmers more money, meaning, no doubt, that lending money will not raise. farm prices,” Goss said in a radio address. However, he added, “our job is to help farmers get out of debt, not to lend them more money. Over 90 per cent of the money we lend is used to refinance existing debts, and therein we are rendering a much- needed service.” Closing Loans Rapidly The farm credit administration, the commissioner said, is closing loans a* farm mortgage act last May is ap- proximately $270,000,000. President Roosevelt Wednesday (Continued on Three) MORE STRIFE LOOMS IN CUBAN TROUBLE =" Powerful . Secret Society Op- poses New Regime; Gen- eral Strike Called | ||LEMKE’S EFFORT 10 {PRODUCTION CREDIT i just what they did in Washington, D. FIX NEW PRICE FOR SEEK FEDERAL HELP, Enforcement of New Agreement] Becomes Question as Ar- bitrators End Work Chicago, Jan. 17.—(e)}—The arbitra- | CHICAGO MILK: MAY Firemen to Rescue of Baby ‘Born Dead’ : You've heard the expression, “Fire- ie Avent Mrs. et Souder’s baby to the baby’s lungs; then the fire res- ” o ug! was born without breath man, save my child!” Well, that's ang heart beat. Dr. Henry Hadley| And here Baby Souder tells the world fanned @ spark of life by blowing in- cue squad's oxygen tanks did the rest. her lungs are functioning dandy. OE SST {Fecundity of Pigs | Too Much for Bill + ee Washington, Jan. 17.—()—Rep- tesentative Lemke (Rep. N. D.) doesn’t think the agricultural ad- justment administration's pig Program has been so effective. Criticizing crop and pig-reduc- tion methods of helping the farm- er, Lemke held up for the house to see a newspaper photograph of 22 little pigs and their mother which he said was taken since the pig-production program was in- stituted. tion board chosen to fix producer prices for dairymen of the Chicago milkshed looked Wednesday to the federal government to aid in enforce- ment of the new price. In a report to Mayor Edward J. Kelly, who intervened and asked strik- ers and distributors to arbitrate when the recent strike of the pure milk as- sociation curtailed supplies, the board Tuesday night fixed the price at $1.85 per hundred pounds for fluid milk, $1.07!s for milk used for cream; and ing butter and cheese, at the price of butter fat plus 3 cents per hundred- weight. At the time of the strike producers received $2.10 per hundred for fluid milk and $1.45 for class two milk. resenting producers; W. D. Hunnicutt, representing distributors; and Fred prices but said that distributors ent price. REPORT 2,000 DEAD IN INDIAN TEMBLOR; Say Whole Cities Reduc- ed to Ruins leaped into four figures Wednesday. rvative estimate of those’ killed in Sargent, president of the Northwest- |Servative esi of those ern railroad, non-partisan, made no|Monday’s catastrophe. The paraly- recommendation regarding retail |S!8 of communication lines made ac- agreed |curate information difficult to obtain. that delivered milk should retail at 10| Officials were confining their state- cents a quart, one cent under the pres- | ments to the list of known dead, still BiG AREA STRICKEN set the price of milk used for process-| Aviators Flying Over Provinces ‘The board composed of Clifford V.| Calcutta, Jan. 17.—()—The esti- Gregory, farm publication editor rep-|mates of India’s earthquake dead standing at 112; but reports from avia- tors flying over parts of the s! area were much more en WOMAN PHYSICIAN WS SERIOUSLY IL | AS TRIAL PROCEEDS Attorney for Dr. Wynekoop Says She May Not Last Through Court Ordeal Criminal Courts Building, Chicago, (Jan, 17.—(#)—Dr. Alice Lindsay Wynekoop was “very sick” Wednes- day, her attorneys said, as she listen- ied to gruesome testimony about the ‘death of her daughter-in-law, Rheta. “She's very sick. Her condition is extremely poor,” said Defense Attor- ney Frank Tyrrell. | “tn tact she ts so ill {t would not surprise me if she passed away right in_the courtroom.” W. W. Smith, another defense at- torney, this afternoon declared Dr. Wynekoop’s physician had said she “might die any minute.” Dr. Catherine Wynekoop, young daughter of the defendant, asserted she was very much afraid her mother Tiare Doorn sey coin wan ethe ial. The operating table which was the death bed of Rheta was trundled into ccurt again Wednesday to play an important part in the trial. Shows No Emotion While the 62-year-old defendant watched without outward show of emotion, Policeman Walter Kelly de- scribed in minute detail the appear- ance of the slain girl as she was found on the night of November 21. The defense showed special inter- est in the position of two pillows horrifying. Hundreds were reported killed at Muzaffarpur. Some said the streets there were littered with corpses and that the town lay in ruins. (The correspondent of the London Daily Mail cabled his newspaper that fliers who had viewed Muzaffarpur DISCLOSE AIRMAIL, - FILES ARE ISSING sie et Senate Committee’ Told Gloverjed standing, the airmen seid, and ter, from fissures in the Ordered Destruction Before |carth’ hed crested a, wide flood ares. Leaving Office which were under the girl’s head, and directed Policeman Kelly to indicate their exact position. Kelly was placed on the stand fol- lowing a stormy scene in which Mil- ton Smith, one of the defense attor- neys, completed his cross-examina- tion of Policeman Arthur R. Marsh. ‘The policeman Tuesday identified blood stained undergarments worn by Rheta, sheets and blankets, the oper- ating table and described the con- dition of the operating room in the basement of the Wynekoop home. “Did you get a receipt for the clothing when you turned it in to the coroner’s office?” asked Smith. “Lieutenant Peterson and I did,” replied Marsh. “You both reached out and took the receipt, did you?” Smith inquired sarcastically. Judge Speaks Sharply Judge Joseph B. David interrupted Neighboring towns of Katcheri, Riga, Motihari and Barrah were in ruins, the airmen told the Mail's correspond- North Dakota Butter Improving in Quality Butter samples from all parts of the He ee: found 10 ember r were {John said Clover also hed destroyed |show a higher percentage in full com-|with a demand that Attorney Smith 1925, when he was third pliance with requirements of the law| stop asking foolish ware from 10al te ‘assistant thered than at any previous period in years,| “I'll ask what I want,” i This Nas oe up with | Sccording to @ bulletin issued by Cul-| Smith. Woshington, Jan, 17—W—R. L. John, formerly personal secretary to [3 Hi : d aed I i Elly Fe i E 1 & i 8 3 i z a 5 i i 2 HE 3 Hl 5 E E E g F | A i ‘by the na- id sentatives in The room is that used onal house of re; historic congress JAPANESE ARE ACCUSED Peiping, China, Jan. 17.—(AP)— | president of Chinese authorities in Chahar prov-|sentatives of ince charged that Jay Admiral i s Et “ zi gs | i i i i [ [ E F the United E ae g i i Rge te PUSH FRAZIER BILL THWARTED INHOUSE Fight Goes to Senate When Wis- consin Solon Is Ruled Out of Order SEEK SIGNERS TO PETITION Will Get Measure to Floor If Enough Congressmen Put Names on Document ‘Washington, Jan. 17.—()—Blocked Tuesday in their attempt to incorpor- ate the principles of the Frazier- Lemke bill in the administration's plan for re-financing farm mort- geges through a federal farm mort- gage corporation, friends of the Fra- aier plan said Wednesday their fight would be carried to the senate. Senator Frazier (Rep., N. D.), has introduced in the senate the same measure Representative Lemke (Rep. N. D.), is sponsoring in the house and advocates of the in both ranches will seek to attach it to the administration bill when it reaches the senate. Representative Boileau (Rep., Wis.), Jed two unsuccessful attempts in the house Tuesday to bring the Frazier- Lemke bill before that body. In both ae was held out of order by the chair. ‘There still remains the hope that a sufficient number of signers may be obtained to @ petition to bring the ‘ill to the floor. The plan calls for refinancing of farm mortgages at 1% per cent in- terest and 1% per cent principal, not ny the issuance of bonds but by issu- ance of federal reserve notes. During Tuesday's debate Lemke attacked the administration plan, known as the Jones bill, as “a guarantee plan for the coupon clippers,” and said it ‘xould make room for appointment to key positions fo several more “Repub- licans, and financial manipulators such as Jaffray of Minneapolis, and additional busted Republican bankers and brokers with here and there a lonely Democrat for dress parade, with a sprinkling of overeducated scholastic economists used for window dressing.’ Lemke suggested if the administra- tion really “wanted to do something for the farmers,” it appoint John A. Simpson, president of the Farmers Union, as president of the federal farm corporation, and name as direc- tors C. C. Talbott, F. H. Taber, Wil- liam Settle, and Cal Ward or other prominent farm leaders. COMPLETE JURY FOR $5,000 ACTION HERE Plaintiff Alleges Conspiracy Against Him in Building Mandan Span A jury was completed in Burleigh fore- UNIT IS ORGANIZED | AT MEETING IN CITY Will Make Short-Term Chattel Loans to Farmers in | Five Counties PLAN CAPITAL AT $100,000 Mandan Wins Headquarters Af- ter Close Contest With Capital City Incorporation of the Mandan Pro- duction Credit association, sponsored by the Production Credit Corporation of St. Paul to finance short-term chat- tel loans to farmers, was effected at a meeting in Bismarck Wednesday. Headquarters of the corporation will be at Mandan, the Morton county city winning by a vote of 13 to 12 in a con- test with Bismarck. Twenty-five men from Burleigh, Morton, Oliver and Mercer counties and the southern part of McLean county are the incorporators. The corporation will have a capital stock of $100,000 and will receive its charter from the governor of the farm credit administration through the St. Paul district corporation. The Mandan association is a unit in a permanent cooperative credit system to meet the production credit needs of agriculture under the terms of the farm credit act of June, 1933. Will Lend to Farmers ‘The association will lend money di- Tect to farmers and stockmen for gen- eral agricultural purposes, including loans for the production and harvest- ing of crops, the breeding, raising and fattening of livestock and the pro- duction of livestock and poultry pro- ducts. Class A stock will be purchased by the production credit corporation and by private investors in an amount equal to about 75 per cent of the total capital. Class B stock, representing about 25 per cent of the local associa- tion’s capital, will be bought only by farmer-borrowers and persons eligible to become borrowers. This part of the association's capital will be paid in as loans are made, for each borrower is required to own, at the time the loan is made, Class B stock equal in fair book value (not to exceed par) to $5 for every $100, or fraction thereof, bor- rowed from the association. (Continued on page five) FARM YOUTH ADMITS PART IN RAIDS ON | MINNESOTA BANKS | Former Mohall Man Expresses Desire to Plead Guilty and { ‘Get It Over’ | ee | Marshall, Minn., Jan. 17.—(?)—The confession of a 25-year-old farm youth that he participated in two bank jholdups revealed Wednesday that he “didn’t know much about guns and that he doesn’t know what a machine look like.’ Ernest Vanderhoef of Mohall. N. D., and Summit, S. D., told County At- torney P. M. Meehl of Marshall he is “anxious to get it over with and plead GARY LEON Rudy Vallee’s marital suit, alleged by his wife to be a triangle, became @ quadrangle when Vallee filed coun- ter charges that his wife was “sweet” on Gary Leon, adagio dancer. MINOT STORE AND CREAMERY SUBJECT OF VANDAL ATTACK Tenants in Building Owned by Proprietor Warned to Leave Quarters Minot, N. D., Jan. 17.—(?)—Coming close on the heels of a visit to the chain grocery store last Saturday by about 50 persons who were identified as being members of the Farmers Holiday association and of the Minot Milkmens association, someone Mon- city creamery and the chain grocery store, and left unsigned notes in the building. typewriter on brown wrapping paper, said: Tt might be blown up.” Dave Levich, who with Herman Diamond is proprietor of both the creamery and the store, regarded the ‘'stribution of the notes as an at- tempt to get his “goat” and to fright- en tenants into moving out of the building. There are five apartments above the store. Although it is believed that the notes were left in the mailboxes of tne tenants some time Monday night, discovery of them was not made until shortly before noon Tuesday. Spray Liquid With Gun At both the creamery and the store, | which are only a short distance apart, a hole had been bored through a door jand ® pressure gun apparently had | been used to spray kerosene into the linterior. Levich said that about 200 pounds of butterfat in the creamery ‘were destroyed and it will be neces- |Sary to do considerable work before |the odor can be removed from the building and machinery. ‘The damage was slight in the store building. The group which appeared in the ¢enain grocery last Saturday afternoon and which also visited the Minot Food Market, both on Second street north- west, indicated they objected to the retail price of bottled milk being charged by the merchants. vandalism and the distribution of the notes which inferred a possibility of violence first came to the attention of the police, then the sheriff's office and finally a postoffice inspector. ‘The inspector is communicating with his headquarters office in 8t. Paul to ascertain whether the depart- ment can join in the investigation by virtue of the notes having been put into the mailboxes. They were not sent through the mail. Rua a {Slayer of Father ih Tells Queer Story 2B od Hi Jamestown, N. D., Jan. 17.—(P)}— y Bill [In Love Quadrangle | 5 tac if TOTAL TO DATE PUT AT $1,641,420 BY SECRETARY WILLIAMS Estimates Wages and Salaries for Coming Week at High of $510,000 32,478 WORKERS EMPLOYED Many Government Projects Are Included Among Those Providing Labor With 32,478 men employed last week, the civil works administration payroll in North Dakota reached $455,191.51 to raise the total paid to date for wages and salaries to $1,- 641,420, John E. Williams, secretary of the federal emergency relief com- mittee, announced Wednesday. This is in addition to expenditures other than wages and salaries, which , amounted to $163,000, including team hire, Williams said. The secretary estimated that ex- penditures for wages and salaries in the state this week would exceed the half million mark or approxi- mately $510,000. The figures include 538 men who worked last week for $8,886.78 in \salaries and wages on various fed- eral government projects. These include work at Fort Lincoln, the U. S. weather bureau and Indian school, Bismarck; Turtle Mountain Indian reservation; Fort Berthold; Indian school, Wahpeton; Standing Rock Indian reservation, and the Fort Totten reservation and men em- ployed on the state administrative, state engineer, and county adminis- day night sprayed kerosene into the| County smailboxes of the tenants in the store | Adams .. The unsigned notes, written with a|Benson . “This place is bad. Please move.|Bowman .. ) The investigation of Monday night's trative set-ups. ‘The weekly payroll report, in part: 32 ig ag cae ag i 3 22 fa s- Z g 4 qe bg a5 sa 5s GE 25 $5,168.20 $ 6,500 Barnes .. 1076 12,991.80 16,000 356 «5,342.45 6,000 Billings . 11L— 1,416.87 1,000 Bottineau 621 9,858.60 12,000 420 8,000 Burke . 4,067.50 17,813.58 Montana Officials Face Impeachment Helena, Mont., Jan. 17.—(AP)— The Montana house of representa- tives acts Wednesday on the request of its speaker pro tem, Herbert Haight, that Gov. Frank H. Coos and Secretary of State Samuel W. Mitchell be impeached, The speaker submitted the im- peachment motion Tuesday. i- ously the house, with a Democratic majority, had adopted a resolution censuring the governor and secretary of state, both Democrats, for their activities as members of the state