The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 5, 1934, Page 2

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1934 ; - 2 DEMOCRAT LEADERS ABANDON HOPE FOR ADJOURNMENT SOON 1 \ \ } { Score of Important and Con-! troversy-Packed Problem Still Unsettled Washington, March 5.—(4)—Demo-} cratic leaders conceded Monday that ail hopes for early adjournment of! congress had been cast aside in the| face of the hefty Roosevelt program ; pending before two increasingly rest- less chambers. As congress turned into its 10th, Week of the regular session, almost | ® score of important and controversy- packed legislative problems were in| the preliminary stages of enactment. A strong undercurrent of resistance to a number of administration propo- sitions, including veterans and money legislation, lapped around President | Roosevelt's latest request—reciprocal teriff treaty powers. tion of power to the executive and Senator Van- denberg (Rep., Mich.) attacked the, proposal, terming it “so bald a delega- 80 abject a surrender of legislative! prerogatives that it seems to lack} | First “dognaping” case in dogdom’s high society was that of “Kid even the color of constitutionality.” While the senate resumed consider- ation of the half billion naval con- struction bill—with a vote assured ‘Tuesday—the house awaited Monday the big annual supply bill for the var department. Airmail, commodity exchange, cot- ton and sugar control, Philippine in- dependence and tax measures are in the offing, while a house committee digs into army spending. Investiga- tors had word Monday that orders for $5,000,000 of military airplanes were rushed through in the last three days of the Hoover administration. U. S. Leads Field in Florida Boat Races) New Smyrna, Fla., March 5.—(?)}— To a slender engineering student of Northwestern University, Horace ‘Tennes, went all the credit Monday for this country’s two and one lead over its nearest competitor, France, in the international Class X} outboard motorboat races being run in Florida. With three tests of the series com- pleted, Tennes holds two firsts and a second. Jean Dupuy of Paris, dash- ing captain of the French team, broke through into the winners’ circle Sun- day in the last of the international races. The international racers move to Palm Beach next for three races this week-end. ed | Weather Report | Solera elit skate FORECAST For Bismarck and vicinity: Gen- erally fair tonight and Tuesday; colder tonight. For North Da- kota: Generally fair tonight and Tuesday; colder tonight and ex- treme east portion Tuesday. For South Da- kota: Unsettled west, generally fair east tonight and Tuesday; colder central and COLDER Snow and colder tonight unsettled, snow wes: portion. For Minnesota: much colder tonight and Tuesday. GENERAL CONDITIONS A low pressure area is centered over the Great Lakes region and upper Mississippi Valley ‘(Chicago 48) while high pressure extends from the Rocky Mountain region westward to the Pacific coast (Edmonton and Generally fair and | Terrier “Dognaped” Boots Ace,” held for $500 ransom after his “abduction” from a crowded Chicago hotel lobby. of the Western Boston Terrier clu’ but I wouldn't take $10,000 for \Gruesome Stories | Attract London, March 5.—(AP)—The threads of testimony in the sen- sational “Rasputin libel case” were pulled together Monday when the high-powered lawyers | engaged by the litigafits made their tinal arguments. As usual since the case opened, the courtroom was jammed with spectators—many of them fash- jonable society women—attracted by the gruesome histories of the Russian monk Rasputin and his terrible end. Interest was nonetheless keen Monday, despite the fact that neither of the principals, Prince Felix Youssoupoff and his wife, Princess Irena, was in the fore- ground in her $2,000,000 libel suit | He is pictured with Miss Gertrude Koenig, just before he was stolen, after inning the grand prize ib show. “He isn't worth a nickel, him,” said Louis Rudginsky, his owner, of Winthrop, Mass. of Russian Monk Women to ‘Rasputin’ Case against the producers of “Raspu- tin and the Empress,” in which the princess claims she was de- famed. Sir William Jowitt for the de- fense submitted on opening his argument Monday that there was no libel through the eye in the film and libel—if there were any —came through sound and was therefore slander, and. being slan- der, was not actionable without proof of special damage unless it attacked the chastity of the wom- an, “I submit,” Sir William said, “that there is nothing in this film which paints Natasha of the film as anything other than a pure, trusting, loyal and devoted wom- an.” |= seme ONTINUE froma page Cam | To Ickes Saying He | Organized by Erickson | Langer explained ‘The Leader” was organized under the direction of State Senator Oscar E. Erickson “and! not a single person on the payroll of | this state that I know of has been | coerced, bludgeoned, or forced in any ; manner to support that paper.” Hun- dreds of state employes, he said, vol- their salaries in exchange for sub- scriptions at $1 a year. The letter to Ickes reads in full: | “Thank you for your public state- It may interest you to know that on Tuesday we will have a state Political convention. You have my Personal assurance that at no time jee 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. “Instead of there being any assess- untarily contributed five per cent of| while I have been governor has there} ly known as “The Leader.” I myself, as governor of this state, contributed | _ five ith cent of my salary. Some of ling my assistants in my office contribut- | Dispatches Letter ed and some did not. Hundreds of employes in the administration have bie not contributed one penny to the Is Victim of Plot. support of the Leader, and ;nave re- itained their positions with’ no de- creases in salaries and with the same ‘privileges given them as those that ‘The newspaper has grown from the circulation of 500 that, it had last July to one of 45,000 per I, as governor, have no con- nection with this newspaper, but I am supporting it in every honest way that I can support it and shall con- tinue to do so as long as I am gover- that some engineers and eight office em- | ployes out of the score of such em- ployees voluntarily, and freely, took subscriptions to that paper. The ones have their jobs. Of the people that did subscribe, there was not a single so-called ‘mis- No one would have been quicker to reject subscriptions or such nature than the publisher, Mr. Erick- did contribute. week. jnor. Investigation discloses |that did not do so still ery worker.’ son. Attack by Opposition opposition. “This purely is an attack of the It is timed to sway the ing manifest errors, for rooting out demonstrated evils... “We cannot tolerate actions which are clearly monopolistic, which wink at unfair trade practices, which fail to give to labor free choice of their representatives or which are other- wise hostile to public interest.” Congratulates Industry ‘The president congratulated indus- try on its understanding of the re- covery program's problems. He described himself “a little amused and perhaps at times a lit- tle saddened” by writers and speakers who proclaim the administration has committed the country to Commu- nism or Fascism and dictatorship. His speech gontained, also, one di- rect answer to criticism: “There are some people, of course, who do not think things through; as, for example, the man who complained in one of yesterday morning's papers that criticism was held to be unpa- triotic. “Let me put the case so clearly that even his type will understand. If we admit that the government has a specific problem to solve and un- dertakes to do it in a specific way, the critic is unpatriotic who contends himself with loudly proclaiming that that way, that method, is no good; that it won’t work; that it is wrong to do this. This critic contributes | nothing—he is not constructive; he is unpatriotic because he attempts to destroy without even suggesting a way to build up. “On the other hand, the critic is patriotic whether he be a business man, a worker, @ farmer or a poli- tician if he says, I don’t like the methods you are using to solve the problem; I believe it would be far bet- ter if we were to use the following al- ternate method, and thereupon out- lines for the benefit of his neighbor and his government a helpful pro- al” Poss poing Splendid Service for Ransom 7@ Bankers Drawing $100,000 Per Annum: 370 Others Received More Than $25,000 Last Year, Sen- ate Is Informed PITTSBURGH MEN HIGHEST Galaxy of New York Executives Included in List to Bank- ing Committee Washington, March 5.—(?)—During one of the most trying years in American bank history, a year in which the nation saw an unprece- dented bank “holiday,” 10 bankers were drawing annual salaries of $100,- 000 or more, and 370 others were re- ceiving more than $25,000. The disclosure of bank salaries for Short-Selling in Stocks Is Probed Washington, March 5.—()}—The senate banking committee side- tracked the stock market control bill temporarily Monday to inves! gate whether an official “leak’ brought on the heavy short selling in avintion stocks just before the cancellation of the airmail con- tracts. * Richard Whitney, president of the New York stock exchange, was subpoenaed Monday to unfold the names of all short-sellers for a two-week period before the cancel- lation in six leading airline stocks listed on the big board. ‘Then, he added, the “average American is doing splendid service by coming back at the captious critic and saying to him, ‘Well, old man, and what do you suggest?” “One thing is very certain,” he de- clared, “we are not going back either to the old conditions or to the old methods.” ‘The president said that NRA and the entire new deal are fundamen- tally democratic, conceived for the greatest good of the greatest number, adding, “The real truth of the matter is that for a number of years in our country the machinery of democracy had failed to function. ... the opera- tions of government had fallen into} the hands of special groups. Some of them vociferously lead by people who undertook to obtain special advan- tages for special classes .. = Roosevelt said the great majority of complaints assembled by NRA was not directed against the act or the codes “but at errors and omissions in what has been done under codes.” More Than 4,000 Present More than 4,000 men representing 600 industrial groups were on hand for the opening of the three-day code authority assembly. Constitution Hall, scene of the pres- ident’s address, did not hold enough seats to go around, and late comers were directed to the adjoining Conti- nental Memorial Hall, to hear the chief executive through amplifiers. Bespeaking the importance of the occasion, seats on the president's plat- form were given to his cabinet, the heads of emergency governmental agencies and advisory boards and the congressional leaders, not only Demo- cratic but Republican and independ- ent as well. Boxes were set aside for officials’ wives and women members congress. ‘The code authority members set. themselves for a long grind of work upon the extended reform program al- ready outlined by Hugh 8. Johnson. Another meeting of major business importance also was in progress dur- ‘The stocks under inquiry were: United Aircraft, Aviation Cor- poration of America, North Ameri- can Aviation, National Aviation, Douglas Aircraft and Wright Aero- nautical. the year ending last June was mi Monday by the senate banking com- mittee. Names of the officials were includ- ed in a bulging report submitted to the senate by the federal reserve board in response to a resolution adopted last spring at the request of Senator Costigan (Dem., Col.) H. C. McEldowney, president of the Union Trust Co. of Pittsburgh, and ‘W. W. Aldrich, chairman of the gov- erning board of Chase National Bank, ‘were the highest-paid bank officers in the United States, the report in- $120,000. Aldrich’s compensation, meanwhile, was rising. He received $151,744 dur- ing the year, but at the end of the pe- riod his salary rate was $175,000, mak- ing him the highest-paid banker in the United States. year, was paid to Gordon 8. schler, president. He received $125,- 000 plus a bonus of $5,550. Other bankers who drew $100,000 or more during the year included: Charels 8. McCain, chairman of the board, Chase National Bank, salary $128,488; bonus $2,040. Solution to Previous Contract Problem | BY WM. E. McKENNEY (Secretary, American Bridge League) hand contains five and one-half tricks, but before making an original two bid, let’s count the losers. Duplicate—N. and 8. vul. Opening lead—y K. French Lindbergh Safe in Germany CONTRACT EXPERTS PLAY IT See Today's Contract Problem South has the contract at five clubs. West cashes the king and ace of spades and then leads the jack of dia- monds. How should declarer Play the hand? @s5 K863 A 842 Qs3 ry (Bitnd) (Blind) ACES @AKSC6542 Solution in next issue. Three Race Drivers "Are Killed in Pileup 5.—( (p}—fThe Imperial, Cal, March 500) "ior heck flag has Enc aes, the “blonds terror’ of eed 2 6 special event at the Imperial Mid-Way fair Sunday, Trip? Jett was injured fatally in a pileup Ms racing cars which brought death her men. Geers ‘Bwede” Smith, 35-year-old veteran of Portland, Ore., died a5 ht racer crashed into Jimmy Wilkeson’s led car.on @ turn. pe nap” Happerly, Hollywood tate chante, ran across the track to extri- cate him from the wreckage and was killed by Triplett’s speeding, plano Roaring into the turn abreast his greatest rival, Al Gordon, the “blonde terror’ swerved His machine in a futile attempt to avold striking the mechanic. Triplett’s car rocketed. into the fence, ricocheted, grazed Gordon’s racer and then hurtled into the air, catapulting the driver clear. ——— Old Political Foes © Match Wits in Court N. Y., March Lelong duels wat in politics a decade al had ar oounverpatl in court Monday with Daniel P, O'Connell, @ powerful Democratic chieftain, _ testifying against the alleged kidnaper, Manney Strewl, whose couusellor is Daniel P. Albany, his! Prior, old-time Republican leader and dordor. Rotert W, Bingham has re- turned from his holiday in the United States more convinced than ever that America is making rapid strides to- ward recovery. The improvement has foe of the O'Connell organization. Prior, an adroit cross-examiner, ar- gued to the jury that he would show that Dan O'Congell “pushed that boy (Strewl)” into the negotiations inci- dental to the refease of Dan’s nephew, John J. O'Connell. Strew! turned over $40,000 to the kidnapers. ‘The defense attorney claimed the evidence against Strew! was “manu. factured.” The officials “picked up one boy and decided to make a case,” Prior declared. —$—$—$———$— $2? Strange But True | News Items of Day | o | | (By The Associated Press) DRIVER DIES IN CAB Kansas City—Mrs. Harry Bisbee, on her way home from the Union Sta- tion, told the taxicab driver, Charles A. Wills, to turn west. The cab turn- ed east. Puzzled, she repeated the instructions. Then she grabbed the wheel just in time to prevent the cab from crashing into another machine. Stopping the cab, she turned to the driver, He was dead of heart disease. NAMED ‘MISS NEW DEAL’ Chicago—A baby girl found abandoned in a hallway and tek- en to orphanage was named “Miss ‘New Deal” in honor of President Roosevelt's completion of his first year in the White House. MOTT MAN HEADS BODY Mott, N. D., March 5.—R. A. Grant of Mott was elected secretary-treas- urer of the Hettinger County Credit Production association here last week. John J. Bader, New Leipzig, was elected president and Frank Hugpler of Bentley, vice president. The - dent and D, V. Wheeler, Solen, and and/O. C. Olson, Hettinger, were named THE A.O.U. W. of NORTH DAKOTA @ Financial Condition as of December 31, 1933, Reported to the Various Insurance Departments and Verified by the Order's Finance Committee members of the loan committee. Kamloops 30.20). ee precipitation occurred at most places from the Great Lakes region and Mississippi Valley northwestward to the north Pacific coast. Temperatures are moderate in all sections, although somewhat colder weather prevails over a meee. marck station barometer, inches: 28.08. Reduced to sea level, 29.91. delegates to the convention Tuesday. It is a purely political propaganda. We like your suggestion that this matter be submitted to a grand jury. ‘We welcome the suggestion. We want lit submitted and we are entirely satis- fied that when it is submitted, the testimony will show that out of the millions spent in North Dakota that Jess than $200 in over a year has been taken in subscriptions by the relief workers and the administration office. A few engineers may have contribut- ed approximately that sum. Men and women in North Dakota are still free American citizens. They still have the right to support a progressive weekly newspaper if they care to do 0, The Republican party still has a right to support progressive papers and the Republican party, while I am governor, is going to stand up on its hind feet and demand justice in the courts and newspapers of this land. ing the day. Governors of the 12 ASSETS federal reserve districts met with treasury officials to outline plans for an intermediate banking system to make longer term loans to the capital goods and other industries. ‘Between now and Wednesday night Johnson expects to gather from five separate meetings devoted to as many | $5,735. subjects every thought of importance that industry has to contribute to- wards his program. tl Industry's own voice was not to be heard until Monday night. At 8 o'clock Monday night, in five meetings, the businessmen will be heard in 15-minute speeches. This program will continue until the finale ‘Wednesday night. CONTINUED) from page ons’ Opponents of Langer Plan Militant Drive) "ricnara’c. tty, president $31,500, anti-Langer forces plan to g0 to here for the conference Monday after- Jamestown Thursday and there draw | oon. Snsurance| Cneomiloate 5. A. up an anti-Langer ticket. ness was una attend because Of the 141 delegates to be seated in the indorsement convention here, forces claim that all but 15 ment upon ‘those who are in misery’ LIABILITIES or any collection of ‘misery money’ the only misery there exists is on the Part of chain banks, the railroads who are in court trying to get their taxes reduced, the utility corporations who also have taken their taxes into court, crooked politicians and rene- gade political outlaws of various fac- tions. | “As you likely know, North Dakota leads every other state in state-own- ed industries. These industries have 7 | been a success under my administra- tion. If I continue to be governor, which depends upon my endorsement on Tuesday, it is my belief that these industries will continue to be success- Ttul. There is no charge that during |my tenure in office there has been any graft in connection with a single one of these industries. There has Low- High- been no charge, in the administration est est Pct.|of millions of dollars of money in|tf there has been graft, if there has clear 26 43 .03/ state affairs that one dollar has been | been dishonesty, if there has been em- ” 40 : . bezzlement or crime of any sort in the administration of the affairs of this state, or if any money sent to this state by the federal government has been misappropriated, we want it brought before a grand jury. As gov- ernor, I have repeatedly challenged enemies of my administration in this state to point out any violation of the law in the administration of state af-| Will support the governor, of the 15 fairs in North Dakota. These delegates they allow the opposition, liticians have sneaked to Washington, | they claim all but six will: abide by there filed some affidavits, and in-| the convention decision, which admin- veigled outstanding men into issuing | ‘stration supporters are confident will the statements made without any in-|be overwhelmingly for indorsement vestigation by themselves personally, | of Langer for renomination. Knowing the character of the opposi-| Support of the Langer faction will tion here, we expect the arrest not |be given to Attorney General P. O. only of myself but of many of my Sathre arid State Auditor Berta E. subordinates, and while our characters | Baker. John Gray, deputy tax com- may be blackened in the name of cor-| missioner, is regarded as practically | my rupt politics, the outcome, in my judg-| assured of. endorsement for state ment, will definitely show that no law treasurer by the Langer forces. has been violated and that the entire) , Ludvig Pederson, manager of the affair is simply and purely 4 desperate |State mill and elevator, is expected to attempt to sway the 141 delegates to a|find ® place on the Langer ticket, political convention in the hope that|With his name mentioned both for candidates may be nominated who, it|*Sllroad commissioner and commis- elected, will not be fearless and will|Soner of agriculture and labor. Dr. not be friendly to the state-owned in- | "ving Lavine of the University of dustries 90 hated by the opposition.” | North Dakote eng! college, and dack Patron, mayor of Sint, CONTINUE fp |onmnione: sal anc! A frems page ene- State Senator A. F. Bonser of Requests Prices Be Held Down as 4 comm Far as Possible} ot the seven state _—_ repudiated Langer and his So far, he said, “we have been tol-| tration, State Treasurer Alf erant of certain misunderstandings| Commissioner even when they resulted in evasions| Labor John Husby, and missioner Pa: New York, salary $2,882, Charles H. Sabin, $100,000; Bonde— it, Seate, County and Public Util- ities. -~-92,997, 941.97 eer ed or Degadin in Boake. nut True 122,128.00 Leans a: Automate Froniam Loans, “Spe seect8 Reinaurance Indebledaown.- 1,365,000.76 }10,605,356.00 ef HI a i Ai res Ly i i i ais i 181,876.71 i 8 # PRECIPITATION For Bismarck Station: Total this month to date ...... Normal, this month to date ... ‘Total, January Ist to date Normal, January Ist to date .- Accumulated deficiency to date NORTH DAKOTA POINTS ¥ i ta Ey : ; Death Claims Due and Un- Minneapol Bank and Trust Company, L. E. Wakefield, president, $40,000; J. 8. fe 1,938,238.25 Valle o ' pA Mage My a me Jamestown, clear WEATHER IN THE NATION 67,116.77 ‘mms 28,786.22 BPeARCK, N. D., Amarillo, Tex., cidy. Tdaho, “rain. soil 15,569.50 “Dally newspapers of the state are solidly opposed to the operation of these state-owned industries. Six- +00 teen years ago we had two daily news- ‘00 | papers and 53 newspapers in favor of 00 |this practice. The opposition, the {00 |leading paper of which is edited by .00| Herbert E. Gaston, now secretary to 00 | Henry Morgenthau, Jr., ® member of President Roosevelt's cabinet. “By threats, by intimidation, and other such means these papers were put out of business and all of those that remained, with the exception of two small weeklies, were opposed to these industries, and the small week- ly newspapers were left to fight their fight alone. Farmers had spent over & million dollars to support these pa- pers and with no more money avail- able, they were simply unable to con- tinue the struggle. “The Republican party of this state had the chairman, elected by the rank and file of the Republican 899,171.56 88 06 37,682.29 32,266.27 Mc snow 2 Minneapolis, Minn., cldy. Modena, Utah, clear... Moor! , Minn., clear No. Platte, Neb., pcidy. Okla. City, O. 4 * @ Some Interesting Facts Regarding the A. O. U. W. ‘The man, by insurance 81,414, 990.13, It has served the West and Northwest for over eve cater aoe we arven ara based on Standard Life Ineurence taal ANCIENT ORDER _ UNITED WORKMEN SBiBSSRSRsRsRSERSERS58! & vEeEEEL 2 2 ef i Fi i i i fete. Beal f Serving Nineteen States law,” but “. . . we have arrived at/ Secretary of - {the time,for taking: stock for correct- Lieut. Gov. Ole H. Olson were : / a ° | te z z i wapaper which is official-