The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 29, 1934, Page 1

ESTABLISHED 1873 Farm et M WILLIAM R. EBELING |[B8dine Bachetorhood}|HUNDRED GET CALL | FEDERAL ACTON ON] a NAMED ACTING CHIEF DURING SUSPENSION Suspended Police Head Charged With Insubordination, Neg- lect, Malfeasance PETITIONS ARE CIRCULATED Formal Charges Against Vet- eran Department Chief Are Filed by Commission Suspended as chief of police of Bis- Chris J. Mar- and began preparations for resisting removal from office in a hearing be- fore the city commission, set for 7:30 p. m. Tuesday, Sept. 4, in the city hall. In six iphs of charges filed with the city auditor late Tuesday by the board of city commissioners, Martineson was charged with neglect and refusal for three or more months last past to attend to his duties as chief of police; with failure, neglect months past to force; with failure, neglect and re! to carry out directions and the board of city commission the police commissioner as & police officer because of his sical condition. In a resolution adopted last Sai day forenoon by the city board, ity charges chief and A. P. Lenhart, president of the city commission, ordered rehired son suspended pending a hearing, ap- Pointed Police Captain William Wbeling to act in his place and set the Sairiesta ae Tuesday evening. Specifi le commissioners charge “that at various and diverse times he (Martineson) has changed cr had changed under his orders and direction, police slips made upon ar- rests of various and tee F Le THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA,, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1934 erg PRINCE GEORG! London, Aug. 29. — () — England welcomed the news Wednesday that her Prince George would desert in bachelorhood his elder brother, the Prince of Wales, artineson Hearing T0 APPEAR BEFORE MUNITION PROBERS American Makers of War Sup- plies to Be Asked to Tell Seorets of Trade HOLD SIR BASIL LETTERS Principal Witness May Be frenee Du Pont of Vast Chemical Enterprise Chicago, Aug. 29.—(7)—A hundred officials of American cotssrere ae gaged in selling war su are un- der subpoena, it was disclosed Wed- nesday, to tell their secrets to the first American investigation of this They will be asked to tell what prof- its are made in explosives, armor Plate, airplanes, poison gas and other implements Announcement that George, 32-|calk year-old fourth son of the king, Princess st | Sathre Contends Entering Into Stipulation Would Bind State Megally Proferred stipulations in the 12 per cent utilities tax suit pending in fed- eral court, by which monies held by the federal court register would be released to counties were refused Tuesday by Attorney General P. O. Sathre. Sathre refused to enter into the agreement which would set the 1933 tax levy arbitrarily on the 1932 basis. “Such an agreement would be il- legal,” Sathre said. “We cannot bind the state to such an agreement. The state would stand to lose by it in some ER ER il = 8 F AG Hi i i E i ? : E E i i ad il al il i | Fs ! i i i i = 4 AAC called abroad the “secret internation- al.” Senator Gerald P. Nye, (Rep., N. D.), beeches of the recog nec which open hearings eahing- ton, September 4, confirmed reports firms. 4 Reports have been that the witness of the nation’s largest ‘The so-called “war lobby” in Wash- ington will come under scrutiny, said Nye, who heads the committee; and it will go into charges that munition makers have made collusive bids to the it, “and we will look into rumors that guns are being sent into the Chaco in violation of the president's embar- said. He left Chicago for Washing- ton Tuesday. SCHOOL TAX LEVIES INCREASED IN VOTE OF SEVERAL CITIES Fargo, Grand Forks, Lakota Give Boards Power to Exceed ae i mT DIVERSION PROJECT IS BELIEVED NEAR Survey of James and Sheyenne Seen as Forerunner of Mis- souri Work CONGRESSMAN OPTIMISTIC Sinclair Ventures Opinion Engi- neers Will Find Expansion Necessary Washington, Aug. 29.—(?)—Friends of the Missouri river diversion project viewed as an encouraging sign Wed- nesday Secretary Ickes’ allocation of $20,000 for a survey of the James and Sheyenne rivers in North Dakota with & view to determining the feasabiilty of impounding flood waters of the the army engineers, following a hasty reconnaissance of the two rivers con- ducted by the engineers in surveying the Missouri river. Ickes said the PWA wanted to know whether a series of reservoirs, constructed along the two streamis, would help solve the state's water Problem, judged serious enough by the administration for a presidential tour of the drouth area. ‘The Mississippi valley committee of the PWA recommended the survey af- ter viewing the hasty study of the en- gineers. The committee found the reconnaissance justified further in- vestigation. track the Missouri diversion pian, Representative Sinclair (Rep., N. D.), Was encouraged by the announcement. Sinclair predicted the study would vindicate the claims of proponents of the Missouri river plan that the James and Sheyenne would not provide a sufficient water supply to meet the state's needs, “The army engineers will learn something about the James and Shey- enne,” Sinclair said. “They will learn they cannot get water there. Then they will be forced to go to the Mis- said there had been practically flow in either the James or Shey- ‘nne this summer. Sinclair ventured the opinion the PWA might have authorized the sur- vey to “supplement some other scheme € A spokesman for the Mississippi Valley committee explained the sur- vey would investigate the cost of im- pounding waters of the two streams, water that could be annually impound- ed and determine how much could be stored. Authorization for the study was viewed as the first move of the ad- ministration to carry out the promise of President Roosevelt, made at Devils Lake, N. D., early this month, to “do someeing’ for the drouth ridden The President said he was “deeply be | $2,800,000,000 “profit” the government H Hf HE .| two camps have been billions of dol- Prices Nearin J —==—<—$— Dorothy Thompson, noted writer and wife of Sinclair Lewis, the novelist, has left Germany at the invitation of Adolf Hitler's government, which cited unfavorable articles about Der Fuehrer, written before his rise to Power, as the circumstance making her an undesirable visitor. MORGENTHAU SHOWS COST OF NEW DEAL ONLY HALF BILLION Expenditures Heavy But Assets Increased, Secretary Tells Nation Washington, Aug. 20.—(}—Secre- tary Morgenthau's view that the cost of the New Deal in its first 16 months may run as low as $505,000,000 is ex- pected to be a talking point in the fall campaigns. There appeared no doubt that the figuring the treasury head did before @ nationwide radio audience Tuesday night would be acclaimed by friends and assailed by at least some foes. President Replies To Inflation Talk Hyde Park, N. Y., Aug. 29.—(P)— President Roosevelt emphasized Wednesday at his regular press conference here that it is only the “ultimate intention” of the gov- ernment to use the gold profit from devaluation of the dollar and he laughed away inquiries of infla- tion by immediate use of this fund. ‘The president spoke in response to questions about the speech Tues- day night by Secretary Morgen- thau stating the purpose to employ the $2,800,000,000 gold profit event- ually for retirement of the public |} debt. Mr. Roosevelt called attention to |) the word ultimately and said that meant a time pretty far in the fu- ture. The gold profit fund, he add- ed, is a nest egg and would be so regarded. Estimates of New Deal costs by the lars apart. Morgenthau’s statement that the reaped by its gold policy eventually would be applied to reducing the na- tional debt also aroused much inter- Be ‘Moving in’ to Terrorize Northwest 1S SEEN AT VIRGINIA, MINN. Nelson Surrounding Himself With Picked Men, Including Karpis and Barker St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 29—()—As- Suming the desperado’s mantle once worn by John Dillinger, George “Baby Face” Nelson, an associate of the dead gengster, may be “moving in” to ter- rorize the northwest states which not so long ago were Dillinger’s “stamp- ing grounds,” authorities believe. The dapper and slight statured Nel- sen, wanted for the killing of W. Car- ter Baum, federal department of jus- tice agent, when Dillinger made his sensational escape from a Little Bo- hemia, Wis., resort, last spring, is as Geadly with his trigger finger as Dil- linger was, federal agents claim. The Dillinger gang has dwindled down to Nelson and possibly John Hamilton, if the latter is alive, but the federal men believe Nelson has surrounded himself with a picked cae of desperados, to prey on soc- As evidence of the organized gang, euthorities point to a report that Homer Van Meter, Dillinger lieuten- ant, met his death from police bul- lets here last Thursday as the result of-a tip by his own associates who feared Van Meter's associations with aega would endanger plans for new raids, Planned Series of Raids According to the report Nelson and his gang had planned to stage a sen- sational series of raids on Northern Minnesota banks. Nelson was recently reported seen in a city in the north- err section of the state “eyeing up” a benk at Virginia, Minn. A Duluth bank also was included in the propos- ed raid, it was reported. Other members of the gang said to be connected with “Baby Face” in- clude Alvin Karpis and Fred Barker, fcr whom authorities are searching in connection with the $200,000 kidnap- ping of Edward G. Bremer, St. Paul banker, and Arthur “Doc” Barker, a brother of Fred. There are six other members of the gang, federal agents elieve. That Nelson and company may now b> hiding out at a Minnesota or Wis- Consin resort may be possible, authori- ties believe, waiting for the “heat” of the Van Meter killing to subside be- fore carrying out plans for raids. The wife of Nelson, alias Gillis, captured at the Little Bohemia resort with two other women but later par- oled at Madison, Wis., may have re- Joined her husband, authorities say. Although Hamilton has been reported killed the federal agerts are inclined to doubt this and believe he is now a Nelson gang lieutenant. The state bureau of criminal ap- prehension and local authorities are keeping @ close watch for possibilities of a raid, while the federal agents are continuing their constant search for the man who is charged with the kill- ing of one of their force. QLD AGE PENSION ADVOCATE TO TALK Adviser to Townsend Act to Dis- cuss ‘Salary’ Plan at Audi- ieee gF 3 ff ad E Le torium Saturday month pension for all persons over 60 years of age is the Townsend Old Age Revolving Pensions plan that will be reviewed here Sat- .,|Olson has no power to remove sum- Program. Arrangements for a meeting at 8 P. m., Saturday at the city auditorium were completed Wednesday by J. Wil- fred Corr of Pasadena, Calif., director of the lecture division. Corr stopped in Bismarck long enough Wednesday ‘to talk to a local service club and out- Hine the proposed program. Briefly he summarized the Town- Plan as permitting the retire- 5 teed ‘Baby Face’ Believed Mobilizing New Mob —— —_———? Dillinger’s Right Hand Man May|, Mobsters’ Molls | MARION CONFORTI One woman suspected of aiding a Dillinger gangster is under arrest and another is sought, following the slay- ing of Homer Van Meter in St. Paul, Minn. Opal Melica, also known as| Mulligan, is held in St. Paul, on a; charge of harboring Van Meter. Marion “Mickey” Conforti, who is al- leged to have met the gangster in St. Paul, is being hunted, to be grilled! about whereabouts of members of the! Bang still at large. THIRD OUSTER MAY GET ATTENTION OF STATE HGH COURT ‘Battle of Writs’ to Be Staged First Before District Judge Jansonius For the third time, a court battle involving state officials in the ques- tion of power to remove, may move into state supreme court, it was in- dicated Wednesday in the “battle of writs” between Acting Gov. Ole H. Olson and J. J. Weeks, tax commis- sioner. Olson seeks to remove Weeks, and has appealed to Burleigh County dis- trict court to aid him through writ of mandamus. Weeks refuses to be removed and also has turned to the court for a writ of certiorari, holding marily. Attorneys for both sides—Charles Verret, assistant attorney general, appearing for Weeks, and C. Leibert Crum, counsel for Olson. said they Planned to carry the litigation to supreme court for decision, if District Judge Fred Jansonius held against either side. Verret also maintains Oison is with- out power to remove Weeks without The Weather Partly clo and wi $ Tusedey unseeded ose PRICE FIVE CENTS g¢ Parity Next Tuesday Night musa WITHIN PER CBNT OF PRE-WAR FIGURE RIGHBERG DECLARES Income For 1934 Likely to Ex- ceed 1933 by About 19 Per Cent, He Reports BENEFIT PAYMENTS HELP Aggregate Is 5 Billion as Com- pared With Less Than 4 Bil- lion in 1932-33 Washington, Aug. 29.—()—Donald R. Richberg reported to President Roosevelt Wednesday that farm prices have risen to within 5 per cent of the famous “pre-war parity” which the administration has been straining to reach. The head of the president's execu- tive council made plain that his fig- ures include benefit payments re- ceived by farmers through the AAA. He also stressed that the drouth slashed some major crops and “‘there- fore the high prices do not mean a fully corresponding increase in farm income.” He warned that for complete farm recovery “it is essential that there be more of a revival in industrial pro- duction and more extensive re-em- ployment.” In his first report, last Sunday, Richberg claimed marked in- dustrial gains, and in particular, the re-employment of 4,120,000 persons. ‘The report also declared: 1, Farm income for 1934 appears likely to exceed 1933 by about 19 per cent. 2. Rental and benefit payments made to farmers totaled $311,000,000 between August, 1933, and June, 1934. 3. Farm income aggregated $5,063,.- 00,000 for 1933-34 as compared with $3,881,000,000 for 1932-33. 4. Surpluses of major crops have been cut to about normal but the drouth has laid the basis for new sur- Pluses, Control of crops should con- tinue. 5. Richberg agencies now sold more than 25 per cent of all farm debt as compared with 12.1 per cent at the beginning of 1930. Richberg first noted that the AAA is “the agency charged with responsi- bility of restoring the equitable bal- ance between the price of things the farmers sell and the price of things the farmer buys.” CALIFORNIA VOTERS ENDORSE. SINCLAIR Erstwhile Socialist Wins Demo- cratic Nomination For Governor San Francisco, Aug. 29.—(?)—From a vote-gathering raid deep into the ranks of California's democracy, Up- ton Sinclair, erstwhile Socialist, Wed- nesday emerged with the party's nomination for governor under his “epic” banner for abolishing pov- erty. Against the Sinclair challenge, de- cried by old-line Democrats as a blow at the party’s existence, the Repub- licans, on the basis of incomplete re- turns from Tuesday's primary elec- tion, named Acting Governor Frank F. Merriam as their choice to con- test for the executive post in Novem- ber. Gathering the bulk of his strength from Los Angeles county, Sinclair swept far ahead of his nearest Demo- cratic rival, George Creel, author and propaganda director for the United States government during the World war. The “epic-plan” candidate's vote from more than half of the state's 10,703 precincts, exceeded that given Acting Governor Merriam in the Re- publican primary. The Democratic vote from 6,370 complete and incomplete precincts gave: Sinclair, 273,788; Creel 147,419; Justus 8. Wardell, old-line party lead- er, 21,140, and Milton K. Young, the party’s nominee in 1930, 12,457.