The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 5, 1934, Page 1

ry ra) BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA,. MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1934 | PRICE FIVE CENTS Lan REQUESTS PRICES BE HELD DOWN AS FAR AS POSSIBLE Invites Fair Criticism, But De- nounces Those Who Are Not Constructive MUST RETAIN COMPETITION Warns That Government Can- not Continue to Absorb Unemployment Burden ‘Washington, March 5.—(#)—Presi- dent Roosevelt asked American indus- try Monday for “immediate coopera- tion to secure increase in wages and shortening of hours.” “It is the immediate task of indus- try to reemploy more people at pur- chasing wages and to do it now,” he declared. Speaking to the several thousand members of NRA’s code authorities, pe a Here Are Proposals Made by Roosevelt ‘Washington, March 5.—(AP)— President Roosevelt in his talk to industrial leaders Monday pro- posed: ‘Wage increases and shortening of hcurs to bolster consuming pow- er and spread employment. Greater adherence by the people to the Blue Eagle symbol to make all “play the game.” Continued enforcement of the anti-trust laws to retain competi- tion and prevent monopoly. Strict adherence by employers to Saw allowing free choice by em- pidyes of representatives to do their collective bargaining. Permanent reorganization of the economic and social structure along the lines already started. assembled in Constitutional Hall for a three-day review of the industrial control program, he warned that the government cannot forever continue to absorb the burden of unemploy- ment.” He called for greater protection of small business, terming the code au- thority “the keeper of your small in- dustrial brother.” He said the anti-trust laws “must continue in their major purpose of retaining competition and preventing monopoly.” 2 He demanded that “every corpora- tion in the United Sttes” give its workers free choice to = selves and emphasized that “those two words ‘free choice’ mean just what they say.” Saying he knew industry with few exceptions would give whole-hearted compliance, the president warned that in these exceptions “the govern- ‘ment itself must and will under the Jaw move firmly and promptly to pre- vent failure.” Must Keep Prices Down He contended that industry must keep to “the lowest schedule of prices on which higher wages and employment can be maintained.” For the future, he said, “the meth- ods and details of .. . reorganization may and will change from year to year but ... the reorganization must be permanent for all the rest of our lives in that never again will we per: mit the social conditions which allow- ed the vast sections of our population to exist in an un-American wa} which allowed a maldistribution of wealth and power.” (Continued on Page Two) French Bank Probe Is Showing Results Paris, March 5.—()}—The war on the terrorist gang attempting to block investigation of the Bayonne banking scandal is beginning to yield results. Police announced Monday that they had uncovered four important clues— all of which they were keeping secret —that practically established the con- nection of the brutal murder of Work Launched on $72, | Construction work on the Ft. Peck dam, $72,000,000 project in northeastern Montana, has been launched and this picture shows driving of the first pilings of the million-dollar railroad bridge needed in the huge building task, The dam will be the largest its upper slope protected by three-foot stone paving. It will be four 231 feet above the Missouri river bed, and will create a reservoir wide, Five years will be required for completion, with 6000 men to get jobs. earth fill barrier ever erected, miles across, with its main fill 175 miles long and 15 miles Flood control, improved navigation, irrigation, and supplying of power are included in its uses. A! 14-mile branch line is being built to link the site with the Great Northern main line. The site, already cleared, is 23 miles southeast of Glasgow, Mont. Swollen Streams Threaten Serious Floods in Several Eastern States PST DY PDS pur mmm SOUTHWARD ON TRIP | Residents Worried T0 CARIBBEAN ISLES Will Study Poverty in Puerto Rico; Also Will Visit Vir- gin Islands (By The Associated Press) Roaring streams threatened series floods in the East Monday. Snow- drifts, melted by rain and climbing temperatures, swelled rivers to the danger point. ‘Two hundred families of Waterford, N, Y., hastily packed their household ‘goods to move to higher ground as the turbulent Mohawk river poured @ huge volume of water into the Hud- son. The town is at the confluence of the two streams. Hoosick Falls, N. Y., rushed work on @ new steel bridge. The structure, Aboard Havana Special with Mrs. Roosevelt, March 5.—(AP)—Mrs. Franklin D; Roosevelt sped southward two-thirds complete, is endangered by rising waters. Automobiles were smashed at Wassaic, N. Y., as an ice jam in Turkey Hollow Brook broke and smashed down on the village. Chenango Bridge, a little town near Binghamton, N. Y., was cut off by flood waters and plunged into dark- ness Sunday night by falling electric light poles. Delancey, N. Y., and other also were isolated and Bain- bridge was without power. ‘The Monongahela, which joins with the Allegheny at Pittsburgh to form the Ohio river, was a rushing yellow sea. Water crept toward the flood stage. Thirty barges broke away from @ dock near Uniontown, Pa., and one smashed over a dam. Floods also threatened Wheeling, W. Va. +] In the South the Cumberaind river at Nashville, Tenn., was above flood -|stage and threatened to inundate homes of 200 families. The river passed the 40-foot flood stage this week-end and a possible 45-foot crest was predicted by Wednesday or ‘Thursday. THIN EXTORTION CAUSE OF MURDER Eli Daiches, Wealthy Advertis- "ing Executive, Slain in Chicago Monday, headed for the first over- the-ocean flight ever taken by @ pres- ident’s wife. On this first day of her second year as first lady she’s bound for Puerto Rico and its poverty prob- lems. “First hand information” is her aim. After visiting Puerto Rico, she also will pay a call on the Virgin Islands before returning to the White House. She is accompanied by Miss Lorene Hickok, of the federal relief admin- istration, sent to report on con- ditions, A group of newspaper women also are along, prepared to swim, ride into traveling togs from cade inaugural ball gown | worn at Sunday night's cal celebrating the first anniversary of New Dealism. Mrs. Roosevelt -obably will find on the same seaplane with her from Miami to Puerto Rico on Tuesday morning, Professor Rexford Guy Tug- well and his party of experts. They if conditions LOI IONE WACKER DES HERE SNDAY DESPERADO SOUGHT IN SIX STATES AS PROBES ARE BBGUN Hear Rumors That ‘Fix’ Figured in Sensational Getaway of Dillinger f Crown Point, Ind., March 5.—(?)— Evidence that John Dillinger had been in constant communication with mem- bers of his outlaw gang while con- fined in the Lake County jail was un- covered Monday as five investigators went forward into his amazing es-|1¢signed cape from the jail with the wooden pistol last Saturday. Jail attaches identified pictures of Elaine Burton, sweetheart of John Hamilton, as a woman who posed as Dillinger’s wife and visited him sev- eral times in his cell. Hamilton is the only leader in Dillinger’s notorious band who has not been captured. She visited Dillinger a number of times, jail officials said, and some- times talked with him outside the presence of guards. The slippery desperado, who sur- prised everyone, especially his woman custodian—Sheriff Lillian Holley—by bluffing his way to freedom, remained a jump ahead of the law while a triple investigation was under way to de- termine how he managed to escape. Rumors that “fix”. might have entered into his sensational get- ‘way were heard. County Prosecutor Robert G. Estill of Lake county, Ind., announced that the results of inquiry by him would be turned over to the grand jury. Paul McNutt of Indiana, also is in C. Barge and Hullett, an investigator, in charge. Plans Inquiry no ry was undertaken by Judge William J, Murray before whom Dillinger was to have been tried for slaying Policeman Patrick O'Malley in an East Chicago, Ind., bank holdup. A state investigation, ordered by | North NORTHWEST STATES ‘TO HALT CWA PLAN IN COMING 10 DAYS North and South Dakota Will Abandon Civil Works Plan Entirely March 15 DIRECT RELIEF iS PLANNED Job of Supplying Work Left to. States; May Ask for Fed- | eral Relief Money | St. Paul, March 5.—(7)}—A home. made relief plan, entailing an experi- Ment in six north central states which ultimately may be utilized nationally, was evolved Sunday when representa- tives of those commonwealths decided to discontinue the CWA system in their areas March 15. Embracing distribution of work re- lief and direct relief on the basis of need instead of, as under the CWA. on the basis of unemployment, the plan was formulated Monday at a confer. ence between representatives of the state involved and T. J. Edmonds, Washington, representing Harry L. Hopkins, national relief administrator. The CWA is being gradually de- mobilized until May 1, when it will have been abandoned nationally. However, relief representatives from Nebraska, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Kansas decided Monday to discontinue the CWA systems in the drought areas only of their states March 15 and to abandon the CWA entirely throughout all of North and South Dakota on that date. In Form of Employment From that date on, in those areas, relief will be administered directly and ‘in the form of employment; employ- ment on projects to be determined individually by the states or their political sub-divisions. Finances will be contributed by, both the.states and the federal government. | If the plan, in line with President Roosevelt’s reshaped relief program as announced last week in Washing- |ton, works out satisfactorily, it prob- j ably will be adopted nationally in sup- planting the CWA, Governor Floyd B. Olson, Minnesota, said. To the states will be left the job of supplying work programs to afford employment with the privilege of calling upon the federal government, for financial assistance. Although re- lief will be given directly in the form primarily to avoid a dole system to the extent of giving those who want it, the opportunity to do work of a public character in exchange of cash or grocery orders, the plan is ‘adminis Opponents of Langer Plan Militant Drive 100 Gather at Valley City for] Extortion Gang’s ‘Fight to Finish’; Pay. | Threats Defied rollers Are Busy COMMITTEES ARE APPOINTED Real Business Scheduled for Af- ternoon With Langer Men Barred From Hall By E. E. MAKIESKY Valley City, N. D., March 5.—()— In a militant mood, over 100 opponents of the administration of Gov, Wil- liam Langer today gathered here and laid the ground work for a strictly anti-Langer conference at which a& “fight to the finish” for control of the Nonpartisan League endorsement con- vention is expected to be set under way. A number of administration sup- Porters were in evidence as State Sen- ator John L, Miklethun, Valley City, chairman of the “committee of 100,” anti-Langer league faction, opened the meeting to outline procedure. Miklethun was named chairman of the conference and State Senator E. E. Green of Jamestown was chosen secretary over Nelson Mason, Bis- marck. former secretary to U. 8. Sen- ator Lynn J. Frazier. The vote was 60 to 34. Green, however, was absent, and Mason was named to act temporarily. A procedure committee was named to consist of Ole Knutson, Thomson; R. O. Lageson, Grafton; C. N. Lee, Bismarck; Dewey Baert, Marion, and C. Liebert Crum, Carson. A subse. quent motion was adopted to permit this committee also to act as a cre- dentials committee. Strict precautions will be taken, Mikelthun said, to deny admittance to the conference, set for 2 p. m. Mon- day, of Langer supporters. Miklethun explained that this after- noon’s conference will be “strictly an anti-Langer meeting and no Langer men will be allowed.” Lee told the gathering “there are dozens of Langer men here and we don't want them at this meeting.” Anti-Langer leaders charged that many employes of the administration were here “spying” on their activities and seeking to convert some of the delegates to their cause. Among em- Ployees of the Langer administration in Valley City are W. C. Mills of the regulatory department, P. H. Miller, ‘Washburn, game and fish departme! I. Sanford, tax commissioi Flouting an extortion demand for $25,000, under threat of death if he refused, H. F. McElroy, above, city man- ager of Kansas City, Mo., was unharmed when he spent the “deadline” night alone in his home, unguarded. He then reported: the case to police. ‘His daughter, Mary McElroy, was kidnaped in 1933 ‘and seed for $30,000 ransom. $279541,000 WAR DEPARTMENT BILL REPORTED IN HOUSE ‘Hard-Boiled’ Measure Would Provide for 12,000 Offi- cers, 118,750 Men Washington, March 5.—(#)—In language almost as hard-boiled as that used by a drill sergeant, a $279,- 541,000 war department appropriation bill Monday was reported to the house. It would provide for maintenance of an army of 12,000 officers and 118,750 enlisted men during the fiscal year 1935. As the outgrowth of a controversy over army airplane buying, it pro- vided $15,000 to fill the vacant post Griffith, Lignite. Although not unmindful that an overwhelming number of the delegates for relief. ‘Work Not Compulsory However, it will not be compulsory for those receiving relief to work in exchange for aid, Edmonds said. ‘Wages to be paid on such work projects will be left fcr each state to decide, except that a minimum of 30 cents an hour will be fixed. Hours of labor will be adjusted to permit farm- ers to gain employment while at the same time allowing them time for at- tending to their regular farm work. In effect, the program will relax existing relief rules and allow the states to legislate their own policies. It will will also liberalize regulations to the extent that applicants will not have to prove themselves virtually paueers before becoming eligible for relief. Among those attending were Gov- ernor Tom Berry, South Dakota; Gov- ernor Olson, Minnesota; Judge A. M. Christianson, relief administrator for Dakota, and J. H. Dance, drought relief director, Wisconsin. Roy! Defense in Wynekoop Murder Trial Rests Cricinal Courts Building, Chicago, ‘March 5.—()—The defense in the trial to Tuesday's league indorsement con- vention are pledged to support Lang- er, leaders of the opposition indicated they will urge that their forces attend th2 convention and make a strong bid for control. John Nystul, Fargo, chairman of the state Nonpartisan executive com- mittee, which has repudiated Langer, is scheduled to open the session. The “antis” hope to have a well formulated plan for a “stop Langer” movement before Tuesday's conven.| The sternly-worded report also tion opens. This plan was expected |Tapped at the army's procurement of to come out of Monday afternoon's |®irplanes. Referring to statements by Major conference. Langerites Claim Control General Benjamin D. Foulois, chief Should they fail to make any pro- the air corps, during hearings on gress in the indorsement convention, bill, that Harry Woodring, assist- (Continued on Page Two) secretary of war, ordered changes SALESMAN SLAIN IN MINNEAPOLIS PARK Gang of Five Men in Car With California License Plates Is Sought of assistant secretary for air. The report, accompanying the bill, drafted by an appropriation sub-com- mittee headed by Representative Col- the $22,000,000 from the CWA were expended on projects most needful from a national defense standpoint.” Raps Airplane Plan “These matters are under investi- Policies of the air corps, the committee provided the funds for an assistant secretary for air. This post has been vacant since the Hoover administration, but the report pointed out that it still was authorized by law. ‘The bill carries $22,591,000 for the air service in the coming fiscal year, in addition to the PWA allotment of $7,500,000 for new aircraft. Attacking the allotments of the PWA and CWA for the army, the re- Minneapolis, March 5.—()}—A gang of five men trailed Theodore Kidder, 35-year-old paint salesman, out of Minneapolis late Sunday night and shot him down at Excelsior boulevard specifications for airplanes to be; Collins wrote: ger Anticipates Arrest Soon President Asks Industry for Higher Wages 000,000 Ft. Peck Dam DISPATCHES LETTER TO ICKES SAYING HE 15 VICTIM OF PLOT Declares Federal Action Is Merely Attempt to In- fluence Convention ASKS PROBE BY GRAND JURY Says He Is Innocent Though: ‘Corrupt Politics’ May Blacken Character Branding the federal government's order removing him as head of re- lief activities in North Dakota as “purely a desperate attempt to sway 141 delegates to a political conven- tion,” Gov. William Langer Monday wrote to Secretary of the Interior Ickes that “knowing the character of the opposition here, we expect the arrest not only of myself but of many of my subordinates.” The governor referred to the Non- partisan League state convention at Valley City Tuesday when an over- whelming number of delegates pledged to support him will convene. The governor said he welcomed a grand jury investigation, recommend- ed by Ickes. “We want it submitted and we are entirely satisfied that when it is sub- mitted, the testimony will show that out of the millions spent in North Dakota that less than $200 in over a year has been taken in subscriptions by the relief workers and the admin- istration office. “If there has deen embezzlement or graft in the administration of relief funds,” Langer said, “we want it brought before a grand jury.” Confidence in Outcome “While our characters may be blackened in the name of corrupt Politics,” the governor told Ickes, “the outcome, in my judgment, will definitely show that no law has been violated and that the entire affair is simply and purely a desperate at- tempt to sway the 141 delegates to Political convention in the hope that candidates may be nominated who, if elected, will not be fearless and will not be friendly to the state-owned industries so hated by the opposi- tion.” The federal government's removal of Langer as head of relief activities in North Dakota is understood to re- sult from allegations that his admin- istration collected contributions from Telief employes for support of “The Leader,” administration newspaper. The governor denied that any as- sessment had been made on any re- lef workers at his direction. “You have my personal assurance,” he wrote, “that at no time while I have been governor has there been a levy, assessment, or charge of any description made upon any CWA worker, either directly or’ indirectly, or in my behalf, either directly or in- directly.” He detailed the fight alleged to have been carried on against the state-owned industrial program, de- claring that “there is no charge that during my tenure in office there has been any graft in connection with a single one of these industries.” (Continued on Page Two) (99410 BE BANNER YEAR FOR BUSINESS Dun & Bradstreet Review Pre- dicts Best Year Since 1930; i Employment Increasing Indications that 1934 will prove to be a banner year for business general- jly are made by the weekly review of jbusiness by Dun and Bradstreet for |March 2. Some sweeping changes jbeing made in the NRA structure which will remove the few remaining ob- stacles hampering unfettered progress will assist materially, the review says. and railroad traffic, and the ice pave- ments which made it difficult for pedestrians to get about in eastern and Brookside Avenue in 8t. Louis Port said that because of the emer- Park. He died a few moments later.| tency legislation making them poasi- Young Daughter of Mr. and/*uth, Mrs. John P. Wagner to Be Buried Tuesday Morning E eae ged 8F E i ga i Z ] ble “much of the normal appropria- tive functions of congress was trans- her | £et7ed to the executive branch of the government.” The bill, it added, was intended to return these powers to Cities, retail trade held up remarkable well. With only a month until Easter, many wholesalers are being pressed on all sides for deliveries, definite dates for which cannot be set, the re- view reported. An unusually active