The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 26, 1934, Page 1

ESTABLISHED 1873 ¥=e=| THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1934 The Weather Cloudy tonight and Thursday, prob- ably snow; not so cold tonight. PRICE FIVE CENTS Supreme Court U 1 LOSE LIVES IN TRAIN WRECK NEAR HAMILTON, ONTARIO At Least 116 Perish in Motor Mishaps; Christmas Fires Swell Figures DOZEN SUICIDES COUNTED Gun Play Responsible for Sev- eral Deaths; Infant Strangl- ed in Bed Clothes The seven automobile occupants ‘were believed Yo have been workers in the Illinois emergency relief station at Chicago Heights, The crash brought the Christmas holiday death list to at least 170 per- sons. A train wreck near Hamilton, Ont:, resulted in the loss of at least 15 lives while fires, ts, doy row for scores of families throughout the United States. traffic on highways of the fatalities, at Gead perishing in motor mishaps. The auto death toll by states showed: Indiana 3; Pennsylvania 6; Missouri 13; North Carolina 3; Louisiana 5 ‘New York 5; New Jersey 2; Ohio 6; Arkansas 10 (since Sunday); Michi- gan 14 (since Sunday); Texas 5; ‘Washington state 7; Idaho 3; Utah 2; Oklahoma 4; Georgia 3: California 14; abama, Kansas, Maine, Connecticut and Oregon. Fires Swell Toll Ge epeter H Arrested In Moscow following the asseasination. THREE DEATIS DU TO SLOPE MISHAPS (ON CRISTMAS DAY Young Men Killed in Motoring Accidents at Elgin and Near Anamoose instantly killed ff & : i 2 i i I Eee AY - F ret azF bE Bee H - i i E d : i Re He ial i Hi ze Bg fy iH bey ue E i : e 3 [ A i k 3 ik i i iy arranged. JOHN E. ANDRUS DIES Yonkers, N. ¥., Dec. 26.—(?}—John EB. Andrus, “millionaire straphanger,” home at 8 a. m. Wednes- He was in his th year and LITTLE RELIEF IN SIGHT AS MIDWEST MERCURY PLUNGES Weather Bureau Says Temper- atures Will Rise But Only Very Slowly DEVILS LAKE COLDEST SPOT Bismarck Favored as Reading of 22 Below Here Is Sur- passed Elsewhere Despite a reading of 22 degrees be- low vero, Bismarck and the Missouri Slope area was the warmest spot in the state We a Grand Forks -29, Jamestown -26 and Fargo -24. Hail Breaks Heat Wave in Argentina & Christmas day degrees, — of ‘With the temperature at -17 at 10 head of the i ge if A eg2gb S253? sented i ee°22,5 3 | | DIVERSION PROJECT FOUND IMPRACTICAL | BY U. 8, COMMITTEE & Costly for Meager Bene- fits, Planning Agency | Tells Ickes OTHER PROPOSALS FAVORED Report Calls for Building of Low Dams on Sheyenne and James Rivers agency Wednesday to be “wholly im- practicable” and too costly for its “meager benefits.” ‘The Mississippi valley committee of the Public Works Administration re- ported to Secretary Ickes, after a year of study, that the project would divert an insignificant amount of water in comparison with need; that it would be years before any appre- ciable area could be benefited be- cause of the slow rate at which ground waters percolate, especially because the water table slopes toward the lake basin and valley depressions into which it is proposed to discharge the diverted waters. ‘The committee held that the pro- Rosed site of the diversion dam on the Missouri river near Garrison, N. D. was “unsuitable in the judgment of reliable authorities” and that it was unlikely that an appropriate al- ternative site exists. Two other relief proposals, how- deeper water-bearing formations. The committee found merit to a Proposal to check the waters of the ‘Little Missouri river at Marmarth, in the southwest corner, of the state, where the average annual flood loss is estimated at $4350. The con- struction cost of the project was es- timated at $80,000 and the number of Persons affected placed at 721. Reservoirs Lie Deep The committee's study disclosed that water bearing formations which form “great hold-over reservoirs” le deep below the surface in practi- cally all of North and South Dakota a5 throughout most of both states. most localities, it was said, “re- lief can be had by drilling wells into ; i i i E : i An | & s 5 E respect. (Continued on Page 8) Heavy Corn Buying _|f One Out of Five | Boosts Hog Prices|| “Dependent on U. S. | Chicago, Dec. 26—(%)—Buying of - FASHION EXPERTS PICK NATION’S BEST DRESSED MEN . ecreentand, deposing Adolph Menjou. Edsel Ford Holiday Death Toll of Nation Totals 17 WARNER BAXTER; | WILLIAM G. LOEW ‘ Five leading tailors announced their choices for the nation’s best dressed men and agreed unanimous!; on William Goadby Loew, New York broker, as No. 1 man, citing his gray derby, which hele shown wearing, as the “most aristocratic hat in the world.” Conde Nast, magazine publisher, was listed, second, and E. T. Stotesbury, Philadelphia financier, was commended for his “leisure clothes” In being named third. Warner Baxter, never foppish but always correct in dress, shared with Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., the top honors in was acclaimed for bis business clothes. (Associated Press CONGRESS’ ACTIO Program Expected to Mark Def- inite Swing From ‘Dole’ to Work Relief Washington, Dec. 26—(P)—Presi- dent Roosevelt, approaching the moment when decisions of tremen- dous import are to be made public, worked Wednesday on & program which, among other things, is ex- pected to mark a definite swing from the “dole” to work relief. While the president labored on the message he will deliver—perhaps in Pperson—to congress on Jan. 3, Demo- cratic leaders on Capitol Hill cocked @ wary eye to what, for want of a better term, is called “the left.” They strove to forestall any rising which might spell a major up- other legislators, Father Char- les E. Coghlin of Detroit, representa- tives of Money League, the Committee for the Nation and of farm groups are listed among those nd. The aim, Thomas said, is on a “rational” inflation plan. : The question what the budget will be and how soon it will balance is attracting wide interest. |shows, total collections during the L, A. Warnken, 72, of Grand Forks, Dies Grand Forks, N. D., Dec. 26.—(®)— L, A. Warnken, 72, resident of Grand Forks county since 1891, when he |moved here from Winona, Minn., |died unexpectedly late Tuesday in a Grand Forks hospital. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Mr. Warnken lived at Emerado, N. D., near here, from 1891 to 1916 and had lived in Grand Forks since the latter year. He leaves his widow, two daughters, Mrs. R. L. Benner, Milwaukee, and * |Blanche Warnken Scott, Grand Forks; a brother, Barney W. Warnken, Long Beach, Cal., and a sister, Mrs. Ida Scheve, Winona. PAPKE 10 DISMISS Economy Move in Regulatory Department Due to Fall in Winter Income Dismissal of eight inspectors as an economy move, effective January 1, was announced Wednesday by Sidney A. Papke, “state regulatory depart. ment chief. Papke said the dismissals were to be made as a result of seasonal de- crease in income, which would “not merit” continuance of additional ex- e|pense of the eight men at this time. Slackness in the flow of income from licensing drops during the win- ter months, Papke said, in announc- ing the changes. At the same time, Papke revealed an analysis of operations in the beer department covering @ period since establishment of the depart- ment. Under Owen T. Owen, former com: missioner under deposed Gov. Wil- jMam Langer, total cost of collections during the nine-months period of October 23, 1933, to July 25 of this year, was $84,232.44 or 26.3 per cent of the total collections. During the four months period from July 25, us— |1984 to December 1, of this year, wu der his direction, Papke said cost of collections totaled $10,200.20, or 44 per cent of all collections. Total collections during the nine- months’ period under Owen's direc- tion were $319,405.48, while under Papke’s administration, his report Papke, was the purchase of beer cars for inspectors totaling $17,178.55, and fun pore and fixtures totaling $3, 511.91. ‘Under the Owen administration in- come was derived from: A $1,000 ‘legislative appropriation; wholesale beer licenses $28,800; retail beer li- censes, $118,550; sale of beer stamps, $170,836.34; insurance and postage, $104.89. and miscellaneous, $114.25. During the Papke rule, collections were made as follows: Wholesale censes, $24,200; retail licenses, $103 200; sale of beer stamps, $103,908.10 and insurance and postage, $83.46. A total balance of $456,869.40 is on hand in the state treasury, represent- ing @ $235,173.04 balance during the nine-months period under Owen's operation and @ $221,606.36 balance derived under Papke’s direction, the EIGHT INSPECTORS). IBOSTON ECONOMIST. SEES BRIGHT 1995 Filene Warns at Same Time Need to Cooperate With New Deal Plans Under Way Boston, Dec. 26.—(#)—Edward A. Filene, widely known Boston merch- ant and: economist, Wednesday de- scribed the outiook for 1935 as “at the same time very bright and very du- ‘bious” and pointed to several “two-way Filene warned that if business and the supreme court failed to cooperate with the president, the country might be “compelled to turn to Socialistic measures. “America has - decisively endorsed the New Deal.” he said, “thus ending that uncertainty which constituted such a drag upon recovery in 1934. In 1935, however, the supreme court ‘may rule that certain vital parts of the New Deal are unconstitutional, thus demolishing our half-built ture of recovery and forcing a new beginning under most difficult cir- cumstances, “Business is pledging cooperation with the president, and there is un- doubtedly a more widespread und standing that prosperity, both for consumer goods industries and dur- able goods industries depends basic- ally upon-the buying power of the ‘masses. There is no telling, however, how far this promised cooperation will go, and we can not expect rapid im- provement until business general; acts upon this new understanding. “Congress will arrange for nation- wide unemployment insurance and probably for old age insurance—thor- odghly sound business measures—and millions of Americans will begin to spend money which they have not dared to spend before, satisfying their long accumulated wants and immedi- ately stimulating business, and pro- viding more employment and more buying power. On the other hand, congress may more than undo all this good work by flirting with unsound radical legislation, particularly cur- rency inflation. “Bome industries, such as the auto- mobile industry, are already leading the way to recovery by courageously setting out to supply the long-re- pressed demand for consumer goods, and their success is sufficiently mark- ed so that we may expect many other industries to follow suit, On the other hand our exports are still but a frac- tion of their former volume and all at- failed.” Wife Hires Husband Chicago, Dec. 26.—(P)—A old youth and Mrs, Ann collect insurance money. BUSINESS OUTLOOK pholds Moodie ISSUE CERTIFICATE TO GOVERNOR-ELECT IS-JURISTS’ ORDER Also to Assume Jurisdiction for Declaratory Judgment in Quo Warranto Action ATTORNEYS WILL CONFER Indicate Case May Be Sent to District Bench for Ruling on Course to Take Governor-elect Thomas H. Moodie ‘Wednesday won the first round of his battle in supreme court when a decis- fon of that body was announced up- holding the lower court in vacating a restraining order enjoining the secre- tary of state from issuing him certif- icate of election. The court also held it could assume jurisdiction for the purpose of a decla- tory judgment in a quo warranto pro- ceeding against Moodie. Among the requirements of the court were that Walter Welford, Re- Publication lieutenant-governor-elect, should be made a party to any action to be brought by the attorney geenral of North Dakota. ‘The court determined it could take jurisdiction “at this time,” determin- ining the issues by a declaratory judg- ment in @ quo warranto proceeding. This determination by the court was unanimous. ‘The court also indicated that it might send the case to a district court for hearing. and asked attorneys to lagree on and submit what the ultimate facts not in dispute would be. would require that Welford be made a party to the action. Attorneys for Moodie explained that they did not believe the issues to be “in shape to proceed as speed- ily as we had hoped.” Cc. J. Murphy, one attorneys, indicated delay of several shape. We are not going to proceed as speedily as NYE GT SUPPORT OF PRESENT FOR CONTNUED INQURY Senate Chairman Announces White House Backing for More Probe Funds Washington, Dec. 26.—(?)—Presi- dential support for continuation of the senate investigation into the mu- nition industry's profits was an- nounced Wednesday by Chairman Nye of the senate committee. ‘Leaving a lengthy conference with President Roosevelt, the senator said: “We had a very nice visit, discuss: ing the munitions investigation. tempts to retrieve this loss have so far ‘Shot for Insurance 19-year- Ericksen, 43, were in custody Wednesday after police said the youth confessed the slaying of Mrs, Ericksen’s husband to| January 8. James Senese, 19, told them, police