The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 10, 1934, Page 1

4 ENJOIN STATE FROM COLLECTING TAXES Six Major Utilities Firms and Fruit Growers Express Co. Involved TWO STIPULATIONS MADE; Companies Involved Must Post Bonds, Amount of Taxes Paid Last Year Fargo, N. D. April 10.—(@)—Six major utilities providing light, power and artificial gas in North Dakota, have been granted a temporary in- junction against the state moving to collect 12 per cent gross earnings tax imposed on them by the last session of the legislature as an outgrowth of @ hearing conducted Friday in Min- neapolis before a special court of three federal judges. Two stipulations are made by the court: One, that the utilities post a $1,000 bond with the court guaran- teeing cost of the actions; two, that the: utilities post with the court the amount of taxes each paid individual- ly in 1932 under the general property base in use before the 1933 seasion Provided the gross earnings levy. The temporary injunction holds un- til June 11, when the cases will be tried on their merits before the fed- eral court in Minneapolis. ‘The utilities were given five days to post the $1,000 bond each and 10 days in which to pay the 1932 tax amount to the court—a sum aggregating $490, 000. This money will be held by the court pending decision after the case ts heard on its merits. Utilities” involved are the Central West Public Service Co., Northern Power & Light Co. North Dakota Power é Light Co., and three affil- SS voce Power sag of Fargo; Northern Power ,Co., of Minot and Red River Power Co., of Grand Forks; Otter Tail Power Co., and the Montana-Dakota Power Co. The utilities are expected to post bond and the tax money. Another tax case argued before the three federal judges was a similar action in which the Fruit Growers, Express Co., which leases refrigerator cars in North Dakota, tested the gross earnings levy made against it. As with the utilities, the temporary injunction was granted with stipula- tion the plaintiff post the $1,000 bond guaranteeing court costs and place Y.), Alfred Bulwinkle (Dem., N. chairman, standing, are William W. Arnold (Dem., Ill.), left, and Harold McGugin (Rep., Kan.). BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, House Committee Probes Wirt Revolution Charge UNTIL NEXT HEARING) @ “rain trust revolution” charge made by Dr. William A. Wirt, Gary, Ind., educator, was be- house committee shown here. Seated, left to right, are John J. O'Connor (Dem., Cc), and Frederick R. Lehibach (Rep., N. J.). In the back row, Wirt Indicates His Information Came Indirectly from Rexford Guy Tugwell MEETING TO PLAN GRASSHOPPER FIGHT Township Officials Invited to Conference on Insect Pest War Program wnship chairmen have Tor been call- ed to Bismarck next Friday afternoon for a conference eign a cetceee r ju County, ac- Sorting | to County Agent H. @. Put- nam. 3 Other township officials and citi- are invited to attend $4,500 in taxes with the court pend-| the ing settlement of the action, sched- uled also for hearing in Minneapolis June 11. eaux and Archibald K. Gardner. ‘POLITICAL’ PLOT IS CHARGED BY WOMEN New Prohibition Group Declares Politicians of U. S. and Pal! ocGugin (Rep, Kan.) called the ‘unAmerican.” Europe Conspire Washington, April 10.—(#)—Word of @ “political” designed to bring pig the ‘United States, but unnamed, Le bea i i eI Ed ae t I i } 4 i i i i it 1 f hi H Quotes Three Women and Three Men at Banquet on ‘Com- munist’ Charge BX-CONVICT ADMITS WRITING EXTORTION Washington, April “brain-trusters and poet ae informants,. indicated Tuesday that traces back to Dr. Rexford Guy Tug- well—assistant secretary of agricul. ture—his conviction that a plot exists to “overthrow the social order.” For two sensation-studded hours he recounted his fears to the house in- vestigating committee, while a mas- sed crowd followed his words, Repeated attempts were made to limit Wirt’s testimony to pro-revolu- tion assertions he said he had heard from presidential advisors, but just as insistently he attempted to quote from public statements by Tugwell and Secretary Wallace. Each time| Neely, recently handy man for a ahi are fave, admied otra wats it ‘This gave rise to declarations ave t wrote a let- Republican committeemen that 4 red psigange rind rey palate was “gagged.” Represe! an manded i = tative letter was sent Jan. 31, after Bremer Jack Neely Held at St. Louis in Connection With St. Paul Case St. Louis, April .10.—(?)—Police Tuesday said Jack Neely, an ex-con- vict arrested here Monday, has ad- mitted writing extortion letters de- manding $200,000 from Adolph Brem- er of St. Paul, father of Edwin G. Bremer, who was kidnaped Jan. 17. Procedure “1 ! had been held two weeks. He was re- ‘The story started with an account/leased on payment of $200,000 ran- of @ dinner, attended by Wirt, two|s0m. 2 men and three women The assistant U. 8. attorney Tues- with the administration, and the rep-/4ay issued a warrant against Neely, resentative here of the Soviet news| Who has denied any connection with . the kidnaping. He is quoted as say- ing he wrote the letters because he knew the family was wealthy, and he wanted to obtain money to build a home and set himself up in business. Bond for Neely was set at $15,000. The warrant issued was under the Cochran act, which provides a max- imum penalty of 20 years in prison ,|and @ fine of $10,000. ly | SAID PLOT INVOLVED THREAT OF KIDNAPING their satellites” TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1934 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Ci: Wa Bie 8 “Grand Jury Convenes at Fargo _ Gross Earnings Taxes Suffer Court Setback THREATEN WALKOUT IN VITAL TOOL AND DIE INDUSTRY SOON Mediators Anxious After Settle- ment of Automobile Workers’ Strike GET 10 PER CENT PAY BOOST Mechanics Educational Society Questions Auto Labor Board's Rights Detroit, April 10—()—A, key strike that threw 23,400 automobile work- ers out of their jobs has been set- Hed but mediators looked anxiously Tuesday toward a threatened walkout in the vital tool and die industry. William Collins, American Federa- tion of Labor leader, announced Mon- day night that striking employes of the Motor Products Corporation had agreed to return to work Tuesday morning at a 10-per-cent increase in wages. This dispute involved 1,000 strikers and 4,600 others laid off be- cause of the walkout. In line with the agreement, the Motor Products employes filed back to their benches Tuesday morning. There was no disorder. Edward F. McGrady, NRA repre- sentative of Gen. Hugh 8. Johnson, Played a prominent part in this set- tlement, which was regarded as a dis- tinct step toward peace in the motor car industry. The strike in the Motor Products Plant, which makes auto parts, had thrown 18,000 men out of work in the Hudson factory Monday because of inability to get materials. The Hud- son factory was expected to resume work late Tuesday or Wednesday. A threat of a strike of tool and die- makers who want a 20-per-cent wage boost became the next hurdle for the ice-makers. The Mechanics Edu- cational Society of America ‘may call it, Pontiac and Flint if the job shops in which they are employed re- fuse to meet the demand. The Mechanics Educational Society is not affiliated with the American board, of which Dr. Leo Wolman is the neutral membe-, to intervene in its wage dispute with the manufac- turers. Conferences Tuesday were expected to determine whether this dispute would reach the walkout stage. . 8 for the Motor Products Corpora- tion strike, the only apparent hitch in the resumption of full activity Tues- day was the insistence of the union that its 200 men invulved in that dis- pute be made the subject of a special agreement. BISMARCK 10 HAVE ONE-HOUR PARKING Special Policeman Will Be Em- ployed to Direct Traffic and Enforce New Law St. Paul, April'10.—()—Melvin Pas- | ing solt, chief of the state crime bureau, manding livery of the money in St. Louis. contact was made through publication of a want-ad in a St. Paul newspaper. ine i ; z I : He | | i i ficer during the summer months to enforce the new ordinance, assist vis- Claim Frazier Bill Passage Is Averted Congressman Lemke Still Needs 13 Names on Petition to Force Issue STRIKE EIGHT SIGNATURES Congressmen Withdraw Names at Insistence of Speaker Rainey, Byrnes ‘Washington, April 10.—(#)—Demo- cratic leaders believed Tuesday they had averted, at least temporarily, house passage of the Frazier farm mortgage refinancing bill with its possibilites of a minimum currency expansion of $2,500,000,000. ‘When the house met Monday there were 133 of the 145 necessary signa- tures on a petition to bring the bill up on the floor, although it had not been acted upon by the agriculture committee. A re-check showed one member had signed twice, leaving 13 to go. Representative Lemke (Rep., N. D.), who filed the petition, went to work. But so did Speaker Rainey and Rep- resentative Byrns, of Tennessee, the house Democratic leader. Lemke talked eight additional members into signing; Rainey and Byrns talked eight members who had signed into taking their names off. So 13 signatures were still needed Tuesday and Rainey told newspaper- men “we've got it beaten.” But to make sure, he asked Chair- man Jones (Dem., Tex.), to have the agriculture committee report the bill adversely if possible. That would void the petition and prevent the threat- ened vote until a new one was signed up. Signatures are being obtained to a Petition to force the bill out of com- iney said “he received his author- ization Monday night from the White House to make the president's posi- tion clear. The bill contemplates government issuance of securities for refinancing farm mortgages at 1% per cent on principal and 1% per cent on inter- est. . The petition has 130 of the neces- sary 145 signatures to force house consideration but leaders hope to head off the movement. CALL RAIL WORKERS TO STATE MEETING Expect to Endorse Candidates for U. S. Senator and Congressmen A state convention of North Da- kota railroad men has been called here for next Sunday to endorse a U. 8. senator and two congressmen from the several candidates chosen at the various political conventions. ‘The call for the was an- nounced Tuesday by L. E. Bordwell, Mandan, secretary of the committee of railroad men sponsoring the con- vention. Other members are Charles ,” the railroad men |, “this call is made state- wide for a meeting of all railroad employes.” The call states that the meeting will be held for “the specific purpose North i “It would be an idle fancy to feel that this will not have far newspapermen had told|tn Chicago—scene sometimes of elec- /Westervelt was| tion police took, also testified Kneeland deal,” generally pm fog nrg ok Ny Mochi © tet nicanea econ Dp in the 10th con- é Bulwinkle (Dem, into the Set ee: zy i | Hs i ll in i § £ cy sire HI I i { Plea affair in in confusion. Vanishes After Crash; Innocent in an auto crash March 28 near Troy, N Y., John P Leland, 21, above, of Mechanicville, N. Y, student at Syracuse uni- object of a na- He ts be- Neved to have been dazed by the accident and to be laboring under the delusion hi re sponsible for the cr A band: ver his right may. to identify him. MINISTER M'DOWELL DIES IN IRELAND AT PEAK OF HIS CAREER' ‘Butte, Montana’ “Were ta Words He Said Before Toppling Over Dead Dublin, April 10—(?)—The capital of the Irish Free State went into mourning Tuesday for William Wal- lace McDowell, 67-year-old American minister to Dublin, who died at the climax of his brilliant career at a dinner in his honor Monday night. A memorial service will be held Wednesday. Afterward, the body will be sent to the United States on the first available steamer. Burial will be in Montana. Rising Monday night at a banquet given in his honor by Irish executives, he started to make acknowledgement of the enthusiastic greetings that had been given him. The words, “Butte, Montana,” came to his lips, then trailed off as the minister slump- ed forward, dead of a heart attack. Montana was the minister's adopted state. He was born in Tennessee. McDowell's cheerfulness, his love of Ireland and a break with tradi- tion he made in presenting his cre- dentials on March 27 to President Eamon de Valera—rather than to King George’s representative as cus- tomary—brought him unusual popu- larity. President de Valera, sitting at Mc- Dowell’s left, was one of the first to reach him when he faltered while Paying tribute to the Irish and Ameri- cans and fell between his chair and ,|the table. It was then about 11 p. m. Others sprang forward. Medical id was summoned speedily, but the -|minister was dead. The dinner—a pleasant, light-heart- Dublin Castle—broke up . President de Valera, a close friend of the minister, was deep- ly distressed. Richard Washburn Child, represen- tative of President Roosevelt, who had accompanied McDowell to the dinner, accompanied the body as it was borne to the American legation. There it rag, Soeetas an autopsy would be Pri was Mt. Moncy Rach, wie ot tl PEE rad SCORES OF PERSONS CALLED 10 TESTIFY BEFORE PROBE BODY Many Bismarck Office Forces Depleted as Employes Are Subpoenaed SEE ‘LEADER’ INVESTIGATION Judge Andrew Miller Stresseq Importance of Leaving Politics Out Fargo, N. D., April 10—()—Wit® the corridors of the federal building here lined with witnesses, an investi-< gation was launched by a federal grand jury Tuesday into alleged mise Use of federal funds appropriated and allocated to North Dakota for relief purposes. Before swearing the jury, Judge Andrew Miller, in a lengthy charge, warned the jurors aj mixing po- litics with the investigation and toolg every precaution to see that no ate government money and may require you to inquire into the duties of cer= tain state officials. “It has been rumored that thiq investigation has political signifie cance and from these rumors it may appear that it has. But this is now true, and there is no definite basis for such rumors. Jurors Are Warned “Rumors have come to threaten or in any way it would be your duty communicate any such the court.” At this a attem Miller took a instrutted jurors to report to him in bers if any such attempt had beer: made. None of the “With reference to those funds, understand (I have no facts as “In order to see that the funds ap Propriated would be spent for relief Purposes only, congress passed cer- tain laws, sections 208, 209, 210 and 211 of the federal criminal code.” Judge Miller gave a brief summary of these laws, which prohibit the soli- citing of any federal funds for politic cal purposes and prevents the dis- charging, promoting, demoting or im any other way changing the rank of any persons receiving these funds for refusal or failure to contribute to any political fund. “The purpose of this investigation, is to determine whether any of the provisions of these laws have been vio- lated,” the judge said. “Funds allocated to North Dakota for rgief purposes were for the ree lef of the destitute and for that pure pose only. 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