The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 14, 1934, Page 1

* ¥ ui e a North Dakota’s ¥ ESTABLISHED 1873 — + SENATE PASSES BIG 4 BILL BY 59-7 VOTE AT NIGHT SESSION Representatives Will Decide Fu- ture Course to Be Fol- lowed Monday AMOUNT IS NEARLY DOUBLED Lower House Had Provided Only For $263,000,000 in Rev- enue Measure Washington, April 14.—()—The tax bill sent out by the house as a quarter- billion dollar baby came back to it Saturday a $480,000,000 adult. , Looking with equanimity on its * boosts to new peace-time highs of the levies on inheritances, gifts and corp- oration, the senate gave the grown-up bill a howling 53-to-7 blessing long , after the dinner hour Priday night. House administration chiefs pur- posely put off a decision on what to N. D. MEN VOTE YES Washington, April 14.—(?)—The vote of northwest senators on the income tax bill included: Minne- sota—For: Schall and rervvegece do about the multitude of senate changes. The chamber was in recess Saturday. By Monday, after consul- tation with President Roosevelt, they will decide whether to send the com- Plicated measure back to the commit- toss it forthwith into tee for studyfor a conferer..4 with the senate to settle|, Giffegéti¢és. Once in conference it + -—will-‘remain at least. a week... While the president allowed for only $150,000,000 in increased taxation in Oldest Newspaper i In Extortion Plot | ————_________—_§_* ‘BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1934 O. P. Van Swe WINTER WAS AMONG An ex-convict turned gospel cen- ter usher, Jack Neely is held in St. Louis on a charge of attempt- ing to extort, by threats, $200,000 from Edward Bremer, recent St. Paul kidnap victim, and Brem- er’s father. Neely is pictured after he was trapped by a decoy package in the mission. He denied any part in ing, saying he just “easy mont INSULL MAY HAVE COMPANY OF WIFE ON HOME JOURNEY Mate of Former Utilities Czar May Boafd Exilona at Sicilian Port 8. 8. Exilona, Bound for the United WILDEST ON RECORD FOR NORTH DAKOTA General Deficiency in Both Rain And Snow Accompanied Warm Weather North. Dakota's 1933-34 winter was among the mildest on record, accord- ing. to O. W. Roberts federal meteo- rologist here. Generally pleasant, the season was in many respects similar to the winter of 1930-31, the mildest of record in North Dakota, Roberts said. ‘Temperatures were moderate at all times except during the last half of December and the last part of March. A general deficiency in bottr-rain THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE $480,000,000 Tax Bill Is Returned to House ty in a I also respectfully urge that automobile drivers give attention to the operation and condition of their vehicles, that accidents may be prevented, and that all churches, schools and public or- ganizations, as well as private citizens, join in this observance and lend it their support. Given under my hand an@ the seal of the City of Bismarck, =a ee ) . . P. Tr, A. LENHAR' President, Bismarck City Commission. Award Highway Contract Totaling $219,3 SARETY CAMPAIGN TO GET UNDER WAY IN CAPITAL MONDAY Local Committee Seeks to Put Bismarck at Top in Na- tional Competition Preparing to launch the most ac- tive safety campaign in the history of 69 Friday Bismarck Contractor Will Pave -506 of a Mile in City Of Mandan The state highway department Fri- day awarded contracts for approxi- mately 75 miles of road construction work at a cost of $219,369.51. Held for further were two proposed projects, one for 1.27 miles of paving in the city of Dickin- son and the other for 0.668 miles pa’ ing in the city of Fargo, the latter held due to @ requested change in routing of U. 8. Highway No. 10 through Fargo. Contracts awarded: Paving Morton county—0.506 miles in Man- dan, awarded to Milton Rue, Bis- his budget for 1934-35, the house pro- vided an estimated $263,000.00 in the bill it passed several weeks ago. tional contest for an award ' ee eee 2 The senate jumped thts to $480,000,- 000 by writing into the legislation higher taxes on large .ncomes, corp- orations and estates, among other things. Both the senate and house bills pro- vide relief for the man with a small or medium income, despite a senate- inserted 10 per cent one-year emer- gency levy on all individual tax re- turns in 1935. The senate pilots also want to sound out the president on the La- Follette amendment requiring all tax zene be subjected to public inspec- ‘There was the question, too, of the three-cents-a-pound tax on Philip- pine cocoanut oil, despite promises in the independence act that no such trade restriction would be enacted un- tii after a 10-year economic transition period. Under both the house and senate bill the small taxpa: consideral year because of # 10-per-cent credit on such incomes, after deductions, up on eight per cent on the excess, America’s No. 1 Vanishing Out- law, However, Is Nowhere To Be Found 14.—)—J tt Hi ik E fi ur ify j Ese iil gEz8 BE : iH id i : i : ! & The Exilona is holding cabin ac- commodations open so that Mrs. In- sull may embark at Catania, Sicily, if she can make arrangements. She now is in Athens. It was understood Mrs. Insull’s party would number six. The book- ing, however, was indefinite. The Exilona, nosing through the Aegian Islands at 12 knots, is expected to reach Catania late on April 16. ‘Turkey, true to its word, turned the a -—- | ae [ E al Bae peg FES z i ! A i i iit Bg as e i th a g : E = 5 i ge i ? fh be | E E I i : i } i 3 i y i i a i F e i BF G if i 3 : é £ x8 itp ae i af i made annually to cities best safety records, the commit! bending every effort to obtain the operation of all residents in order He , | Bismarck may win this distinction. at} man EPEREE AE AG FUGITIVE WOUNDED IN DARING ‘BREAK Federal Prison Guards Beat Through Timber in Search Hf 5 i i i li il fe fa 7 ! a, : Hy Fy i ig ty i | ies i i ax \ i | i 5 g Ar i i l i ik eee Ey 4 E Hl i | if E : at ies & i i i Eg. & I : FE Bs i he 8. R. 29, A. J. McKibbon, Lancaster, Minn., $20,827.01. Richland—4.960 on 8. R. 18, Lidger- wood north, W. H. Noel Co., James- town, $10,780.72. Mountrail-Ward—12.826 on 8. R. 50, Coulee east and west, W. H. Noel, $42,980.10. Bowman—7.014 on U. 8. 8, Bow- * iam Schultz, Fergus Falls, Minn., $19,863.09. Stutsman—1.601 on U. 8. 10, east ‘William of by Collk, Grand Forks, $10,799.31. Logan—8.290 on 8. R. 3, Napoleon north, M. B. Monson, Grand Forks, $17,814.85. McIntosh—11.600 on.8, R. 13, west of Wishek, M. B. Monson, $27,243.40. Burleigh—1.417 on 8. R. 36, Arena north, A. J. Jackson, Jamestown, $5,374.10. Kidder—7.895 on 8. R. 36, Lake Wil- RUIN TOTS FUNERAL Throw | Into Confusion Last Rites for Two-Year-Old WHEAT COMMISSION. APPROVES SYSTEM OF MINIMUM PRICES Program for Improving Export: Market Will Be Urged Upon Governments VOTE COMES AS SURPRISE Argentina Joins in Approval in Spite of Its Previous Opposition Rome, April 14—(#)—The world wheat advisory commission Saturday approved a system of minimum wheat export prices as a method of improv- ing the export market. The system will be recommended to the governments represented here. ‘The vote came as a surprise to the delegates, who believed they would be occupied in studying a report un- til Saturday night. The opening discussion Saturday morning, however, revealed that the delegates in the great majority had thoroughly digested the report on ex- port prices Friday afternoon and did not desire to argue over it in detail. Argentina joined with the other nations in the favorable vote, despite its previous opposition. Her delegates evidently had been won over by those of other countries. The commission made no changes “s the report which provides in effect lor: System Is Far-Flung A far-flung system of minimum ex- port prices and export quotas for wheat, with four men having the powers of economic Caesars sitting in London to open and close the floodgates of grain— ‘That is the plan which a subcom- mittee has proposed to the world wheat advisory . Without attempting to stipulate minimum prices, the group merely called for a committee of experts to meet in London May 4 to draw up a schedule. However, the subcommittee did Suggest that the first schedule be an increase of five or 10 per cent of the present price of Manitoba No. 2 wheat and other types of wheat in Proportion to the export quotas. Will Not Interfere Further, it said the adjustments made in London so fixed as to keep the supply strictly in accord with de- mand and thus not interfere with the minimum price system. The most interesting feature of the subcommittee’s report is the proposal for a price committee of four experts to sit in London and meet at least once a month. It would study wheat export movement in relation to quotas and raise or lower minimum prices of individual exporting countries should they be selling too much or too little wheat in relation to their quotas. This is described as a method of controlling quotas through prices. The subcommittee also recom- mended that exporting countries whose domestic price is lower than the export minimum to be agreed up- on raise that price to a new level partly through reducing their stocks. The new system, which promptly struck a snag in the commission, should go into effect on June 1—or as soon thereafter as possible—the group said. MERCHANTS WARNED IN BAD CHECK CASE Bismarck-Mandan Credit Bu- reau Finds Man Is Bilking Many in This Area : E i H if i s Hd i i i Boy Problem oo PRICE FIVE en Is Indicted RAILROAD KING AND ASSOCIATES FACING FALSE ENTRY COUNT Charged With Engineering Pas per Transaction to ‘Dress Up’ Trust Firm HAS CONFIDENCE IN COURT Baffling problem of punishment for George Rogalski, 13, whose kidnap victim, 2 - year - old Dorette Zietlow, died from ex- Posure, confronts Chicago au- thorities. The shown here smiling at police questioners, will be given a sanity test. If found sane, he will face a mur- der trial and possibly electrocu- tion. THORESEN WOULD GIVE MORE POWER TO LOCAL OFFICERS Gubernatorial Candidate Raps Beer Inspection Set-up in Campaign Talk Grand Forks, N. D., April 14.—(#)}— Assignment to local authorities of many of the inspection and regula- tery duties now performed by the state regulatory department was advocated by T. H. H. Thoresen of Grand Forks in @ pre-campaign rally of the Thore- sen-For-Governor club here Friday night. Thoresen also advocated elimination of duplication of higher educational functions by a conference of the heads cf the various institutions and devel- opment of farm-to-market roads rath- er than the through tourist highways in future planning. John Nystul, Fargo, state executive committee chairman, made a short address. The gubernatorial candidate began by attacking the tendency to increase commissions and bureaus in both the state and national government. He said the last legislature established the regulatory department on the theory that the number of inspectors would be decreased, but “if there has been a decrease, no one has noticed it.” Raps Beer Inspectors Referring to the recently formed beer department, he said there are more than 20 inspectors with high- Priced cars. “I believe these departments should be consolidated under one head,” he said. “Technical duties such as tax work and dairy inspections and other specialized duties should be handled by the department having direct “I further believe that the inspec- tion and regulatory duties should be assigned to local enforcement author- ities, such as sheriffs, nes AEREDATE, These should work under the direction of the regula department with only enough preyed Spectors to serve as contact men.” He recommended that all fees, taxes end charges collected should be turned into the staie schoo) fund under From this would first 2 328. Fi ‘ f i E : i iin 5 i ‘I Feel No Concern Over’ thg Outcome, Transportation Chief Declares Cleveland, April 14.~-(?)—O. P. Van Sweringen, railroad king, and twa banker friends indicted with him, dee nied Saturday that they engineered 9. $10,000,000 “paper” transaction te dress the front window of the Unio Trust Co., now defunct. “Perhaps I am a little old-fashion- ed,” Van Sweringen said in answer te! is accused of abetting them. They pleaded not guilty when are raigned Saturday and were released under bonds. if I still believe we are living in a gove ernment of law and I feel no concern determined in the unbiased, consider= ate judgment of the court, where all motives, save those in pursuit of juse The jury returned indictments Pri- Gay against Van Sweringen, Joseph R. Nutt, former chairman of the bank's board and former treasurer of the Republican national committee, and W. M. Baldwin, former president of the institution. The charge is that the bankers made a false entry in the books and gave a false report to the state banke ing superintendent. Van Sweringen is accused of abetting them. Prosecutor Frank Cullitan outlined the transaction as follows: Van Sweringen visited the J. P, Morgan offices in New York on Sept. 29, 1931, “on another matter.” Ushers ed into another room, he found Nutt, who previously had asked if Van Sweringen could sell the Cleveland bank some bonds. Papers were whereby the railroad man sold the bank $10,000,000 in government bonds, which he had left with the Morgan company for ‘ safe keeping. The Van 8 deposit account in the Cleveland bank was credited with $10,112,540, repres, senting the market value, plus ace; crued interest. i On the same date, the Union Trust; Co. statement showed the bank held; $10,112,540 in bonds and interest.’ Nige days later the transaction was, reversed, and Van Sweringen bought the bonds back. The securities them~ selves remained in the Morgan vault throughout, and Prosecutor Cullitan quoted Van Sweringen as acknowl- edging that no money had changed Van’ Sweringen said “these were open and shut purchases and sales of property for cash.” Lemke Needs 14 More Signers to Petitiow Washington, April 14.—()—Signas tures of only 14 more representatives are required to force a house vote this session on legislation to refinance farm mortgages through issuance of new money. One hundred thirty-one had signed ® petition Saturday morning to take the Frazier-Lemke bill from the house agriculture committee and bring it ta the house floor for a vote. Lemke (Rep., N. D.) expressed bt- lief that a sufficient number of sign- ers will be obtained. Speaker Rainey checked the came paign for signatures recently when he administration enough would to bring the bill to a vote April 23. SIGNS PROBE RESOLUTION