The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 16, 1934, Page 1

i TABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1934 PRICE FIVE CENTS Langer Jurors Ask Advice -| Congress Is Driving Toward Adjournment LBCISLATIVE MILL |{Premosst Accented {/STERL INDUSTRY |[At Parting of Wavs]\Codes Defended at NRA Birthday Party WHIRLING RAPIDLY IN HECTIC SESSION Housing Bill Passes Senate Un- changed; Labor Measure Is, Big Issue MONEY MEASURE APPROVED Enactment Carrying Public Works and Relief Funds Gets Final OK Congress drove furiously forward Saturday in the hope of ending the Present session Saturday night. The close was expected to come between 10 p. m. and midnight unless unfore- seen difficulties developed. Two major problems faced the sen- ate as the day opened. One of these was the administration housing bill. ‘The other was that giving the presi- dent power to settle labor disputes: over collective bargaining. The housing bill was passed early in the afternoon, after rejecting Repub- lican attempts to modify the meas- ure. Other bills passed by the senate in quick succession were the huge defi- clency appropriation bill, money for public works and relief; the railway pensions bill, and the bill for compulsory control of tobacco pro- duction, The major legislative jam was in the senate, the house having its af- Siete better shape. Sand- between its most pressing business, however, was a resolution to drop further inquiry into petitions to oust Senators Long and Overton of Louisiana, attacked by residents of their home state. Adopt Conference Reports Conference reports adopted by the | road. senate were those on bills giving In- dians a greater degree of self-govern- ment, the railway pension bill and the bill providing federal control of grazing on public lands. The house has yet to act on the latter two. Th farm bankruptcy bill, permit- ting farmers to live on their places six years after the foreclosure of mortgages, passed the house 133 to 18 and was sent to conference com- mittee to adjust differences with the senate. It provides that any farmer who fails to obtain an adjustment of his debts may be adjudged a bankrupt and must pay one per cent upon the appraised value of the debt within a df such property.” Agreement by the senate is expected. The aim of the bill is to help farmers recover farms | ated lost through mortgage foreclosure. A $200,000,000 fund under his juris- diction, to insure 20 per cent of losses by private lending institutions in ad- vancing funds for “installment’ buy- ing” of home repairs and improve- ments. Provides Insurance Fund A mutual mortgage insurance fund, also under the administrator, to in- sure first mortgages on homes and second mortgages on low-cost housing Projects. It will apply to mortgages up to $16,000, amortized over a 20- year period, and representing not more than 80 per cent of the valua- tion of new homes or 60 per cent of old ones. Authority for creation under the administrator of $5,000,000 national mortgage associations manner similar to the way the fed- eral reserve system discounts com- mercial 5 A savings and loan insurance cor- poration with a capital stock of $100,- 000,000 to insure accounts up to $5,000 {n savings and loan associations, com- Parable to the insurance of bank de- housing by the senate, went back to the house for peeine on minor. senate amend- ments. The speed with which the senate acted on the measure. set a near record for # bill of such importance Saturday morning and lasted only about four hours. It swept through on a 71 to 12 vote. : MINOT MAN KILLE IN MOTOR MISHAP |; NEAR CAPITAL CITY Nels 0. Johnson, Building Con- tractor, Dies; Companion Nels O. Johnson, Minot contractor, Farmer Groups Ask Amendment to A.A.A. | ose ii EEESS Hl i g i Ee ut i ui 1 i i i HEE 4 i H ! | : j E E 3 : i I E i i & Ey e é i 2 & E - = iy iz 5 : 2 E% ff Ae iy ag ! i | LOOKS TO ACTION FROM WASHINGTON Strike Threat Halted as Work- ers Await First Steps by President GREEN PROPOSAL ACCEPTED Labor Leader Asks Roosevelt Appoint Board to Arbitrate Disputes. AA aa. vn i i : Qt they ended their special convention late Friday night, after two days of discussions, speeches, proposals and call if the proposal “is not accepted by the president and the iron and steel in- “with authority to order and hold fection and supervision” rection and . 3. All grievances and complaints which cannot be settled by the elected H, ©. Putnam, county agent, issued three separate . No cattle may be shipped until len holders have signed waivers, but cattle may be marked with @ branding iran or clipped Hi ie nip oi e its Bae iW af gill me 7 i CURTIS DALL On her way Saturday to the famous te! divorce market, Roosevelt Dall, daughter of the presi- dent, confirmed rumors that she was contemplating a divorce from her broker husband. It will be the sec- ond divorce within the year in the president's family. Elliott was di- vorced at Minden, Nev., last July. DAUGHTER 10 GET SECOND DIVORCE IN ROOSEVELT FAMILY Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Dall Set- tles at Reno to Begin (Copyright, 1934, By the A. P.) » Neb. June 16.—(?)—Anna Roosevelt Dall, daughter of the presi- dent, sped Saturday toward Reno and In an exclusive interview on her train, the blond matron who has been & resident of the White House with ber father and mother, confirmed re- A ze beets Hie ‘LAD, 10, TELLS OF DROWNING GIRL IN CLEVELAND RIVE Body of 3-Year-Old Child Found Floating in Stream Satur- day Afternoon Cleveland, June 16.—(#)—The body of three-year-old Peggy Young was found floating in muddy Cuyahoga river Saturday afternoon, a few hours after Floyd Ranker, Jr., 10, told the police a weird story about how he pushed the child into the river Fri- day. Jose Skrovons, a ferry operator, ob- served the body and fished it out of the stream, turning it over to the coast guard. The discovery appeared to lend truth to Floyd Ranker's tale of the child's last trip down the river bank with him Friday. He said he lured her to the bank, and asked her if she could swim. Up- on being told “No,” he said he pushed the child in. He watched her strug- gle, he said. Picked up by police on the street after the girl had been reported miss- ing, the boy sat calmly in a@ police car at @ precinct station and declared he and a 14-year-old companion were responsible. “We went to the river,” he said to police. “We made her lie down on the cinders close to the river bank. Then we all walked to the river. “My pal asked Peggy if she could swim. She said she couldn't. Then I pushed her in the water. She came up right away, kicking her arms and legs. “My pal picked up a half brick and threw it at her. It hit her in the stomach and she went down and didn’t come up any more.” A short time after the boy had told his story last night, the lad he named as his pal,” accompanied by his par- ents, appeared at a police station and denied any knowledge of the girl's dis- appearance. Speaking Schedule For Cain Announced The speaking schedule of Senator James P. Cain, Independent Republi- can gubernatorial candidate, complete to election eve, was announced Sat- urday by campaign headquarters here. Cain speaks Monday afternoon at Tioga and in the evening at Stanley. ‘Tuesday he speaks at Bowbells in the afternoon, Kenmare, evening; Wed- nesday, Towner, afternoon; Rugby, evening; Thursday, Harvey, afternoon, and Streeter, evening; Friday, Ender- lin, afternoon, and Fargo, evening. Saturday, June 23, he speaks at Ellendale in the afternoon, Ashley, evening. He will speak at three pic- nics, Sunday, June 24, addressing the Burnstad Old Settlers at 11 a. m., the Ashley Old Settlers, 1 p. m., and the Hazelton Old Settlers at 4 p .m. Monday, June 25, he speaks at Strasburg in the afternoon and at Linton in the evening, winding up the campaign at Bismarck where he speaks over radio station KFYR at 9 Pp. m., June 26, Licensing Power of NRA Codes Expires Washington, June 16.—(#)—Time Saturday ticked away the most dras- tic power of NRA. Just five minutes before noon a year ago President Roosevelt signed the recovery act. At that hour Satur- Johnson Assails Darrow Board As Communistic; Flays Other Critics ASKS FAIRNESS OF PRESS Administrator's Speech Feat- ures Blue Eagle Fete in West Virginia Charleston, W. V., June 16.—()— Hugh 8. Johnson Saturday assailed the Clarence Darrow review board as communistic in purpose, accused part of the press of falsifying NRA news and attacked “partisan politicians” aligned against the recovery unit. His reply to critics featured this State's holiday celebration of NRA's first birthday. Declaring “much of the press is in the hands of political opposition anx- jous to regain office” and that “to get a squere deal from these papers for NRA is impossible,” he said: “I can understand the communistic Purpose of the Darrow board as an openly avowed assault on our whole system in favor of the semi-barbaric atrocities of half-civilized Russia, but the betrayal of a great public trust by ‘@ newspaper to accomplish a partisan end in utter disregard of the present and future security of the wage and salary-earning element of our pop- ulation is quite another matter.” Assume No Responsibility “And again I ask,” he continued, “what responsibility do they assume in risking and inviting the return of child lator and in deliberately in- voking a new epidemic of price and wage cutting and the certain sink- ing into a new degredation of the liv- ing standards of American working People of all classes? “Is there no price too much for these people to pay for political ad- vancement? Is there no state of hu- man misery that is worthy of their sympathetic, unselfish and honest support?” Assailing “partisan politicians” who are “enemies” of NRA, he said: “I know men who have opposed NRA and who are actuated largely by an avowed desire to maintain a de- Pressed condition among workers in their own constituency. . . . I some- times wonder if they never shiver at the record they are writing in the great Doomsday book. “I know what is going on under NRA,” he said. “... I know it has raised employment 37 per cent and payrolls 72 per cent. No power of attack—no disingenious news story— no collateral assault can ever take that saisfaction away from us.” Raps Darrow Findings Of the Darrow board, Johnson said: “I know men who have opposed NRA and who are actuated largely by the Darrow board. “It has investigated not one single code. It has refused to consider any data on any code. It has suppressed testimony from any side but one. It, is guilty of deliberately false and un- supported statements. Its findings and recommendations are not worth the paper on which they are written.” Johnson said that a year ago the law insisted ‘on what Mr. Darrow calls savage, wolfish, competition. “It is precisely this savage, wolfish competition which has blighted this country for our whole population for more than four years and there is only one method of escape from it now or in the future. “That method is to substitute for it the benefits of NRA—codes of fair competition under blue eagle agree- ments throughout all industry—to maintain wages and working hours so evenly that none has reason or oc- casion to impair them—industrial self-government under federal super- vision. “This miracle has actually hap- Pened under Franklin Roosevelt in the 12 months ended today.” No Saving by Langer Is Thoresen Charge i i F i Be ae Heel Pg it Fregtte z Fad i Ea g Mi i ! : i i H : E i Z ; il i i t ay — } | She Is as Pretty | AsHer Picture | MOVE DESIGNED 10 SHATTER DEADLOCK ON FINAL VERDICT Seek Specific instructions on Seven Overt Acts Charged To Defendants COURTROOM NEARLY EMPTY. Voted by the Austrian press as the finest exhibit at the recent Durer Bund art show in Vienna is this An- ton Filkula portrait of Mme. Dollfuss, beautiful wife of Chancellor Engel- CONGRESS DEFIES WALLACE. REQUEST Solons Give Secretary of Agri- culture Powers He Did Not Want Washington, June 16.—()—Secre- tary Wallace received powers he said he didn’t want and has failed to get authority he wanted badly from the congress which Saturday neared ad- journment. Wallace said he didn’t think the time was ripe for compulsory crop reduction. Congress forthwith slap- ped a 50 per cent sales tax on all cot- ton produced over 10,000,000 bales. Wallace is to fix the quotas. The secretary and his assistants Pleaded for amendments to the agri- cultural adjustment act which would strengthen enforcement provisions. The house responded with prompt Passage—but such loud and long op- position developed in the senate that the amendments appeared likely to fail. Opposition to the amendments centered on “section two,” which would provide for licensing of farm- ers when their products entered the channels of trade. Murder Scented as Sea Gives Up Body New York, June 16.—(#)—Police sought Saturday to identify a woman's body, washed ashore from Long Is- land Sound as that of Agnes Tufvet- son, missing since shortly after her marriage to Ivan Poderjay, Yugoslav adventurer. : Poderjay, who already had a wife in Europe when he mar:ied Miss Tuf- vertson, 43, successful corporation lawer of Detroit and New York, is under arrest in Vienna for question- ing about Miss Tufvertson’s disap- pearance. ‘Thomas Rogers, keeper of the Ford- ham morgue, to which the body was. taken after being found June 7 by two canoeists, reported to police last night that features of the dead wo- man bore a “striking resemblance” to those of ie Tea. as shown in her photographs. ‘Poderjay and Miss Tufvertson were married December 4 at the Little Church Around the Corner following Williston Airport Is Given Approval Williston, N. D., June 16—(P)— Williston’s new airport received the approval of the inspecting who declared it has ample LHe phe nnd © z <5 Beg a5 g : Fe Par gsses kas phil afl jittet ane Hil Judge Says He Will Comply With Request ‘Insofar as He Can Do So’ Having deliberated 51 hours without reaching a decision, the jurors in the conspiracy case against Governor William Langer and four co-defendants asked for new instructions from Federal Judge Andrew Miller at 3:15 p. m. Saturday. They specifically asked that he repeat his instructions on the seven overt acts which the government charges were de- signed to obstruct the opera- tion of an act of congress. The judge convened the court to do so. Present in the courtroom were the defendants and their attorneys, George Thorp and E. R. Sinkler and Federal Dis- trict Attorney P. W. Lanier. Aside from these the court- room was empty as the jurors sought new advice in their ef- fort to adjust their differences of opinion. Judge Andrew Miller opened the session by saying: “Gentlemen of the jury, I received some communications from you and in so far as it can be complied with I shall comply with them. The first request is the reading of the seven overt acts.” The court then referred to the re- Seti for his charge on the seven overt act The court stenographer was ordered to read this matter. Answers Further Request On completion of the reading of that material, the court referred to a further request of the jury, telling the stenographer: “Read that part of the charge with reference to the number of defendants that must be found guilty or not guilty,” and “that part of the charge covering conspiracy and violation of state laws as it may relate as a continuation of a conspir- acy in violation of a federal law.” The stenographer read those portions of the judge's charge. The court then ordered the reading of additional matter requested, com- prising that portion of the charge in which he illustrated conspiracy bery. The judge refused to answer twe of the questions asked because, he said, they called for an expression of opinion on his part. In reply them, however, he did elaborate on his previous charge as to the basis of @ conspiracy. s atEhPRtlE Ni ft #e i i g i iat | iy il isk H F } et 3 ! Uy i my f