The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 8, 1935, Page 1

) ae ¢ Investigation Made at Direction ¢ “rather dark picture” of the industry gac| THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Mos! no The Weather af tonight Saturday; cided tama tn temapecaaars, ESTABLISHED 1878 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1935 PRICE FIVE CENTS Hauptmann Rests His Defense ‘NRA Report May See Auto Code Reviewed ' ‘DARK PICTURE’ OF Showdown Sought in LABOR CONDITIONS | Relief Bill Conflict GIVEN WASHINGTON —" Byrns Hopes to Rally Enough Report Charges Spies Keep Strength to Defeat ‘Pre- vailing Wages’ Watch Over Plant Work- ers ‘Night and Day’ HIGH DEGREE OF UNREST| Rudy Too Attentive | To This Loveliness 2 DEFEATS OBJECT OF ACT President Advocates Pay High- er Than Dole, Less Than of President; Recommends Private Industry 40-Hour Week Washington, Feb, 8—(?}—-The Roo- sevelt forces in the senate sought an- other showdown Friday on future pub- llc works wages, an issue which finds administration and the A, F. of L. leadership atrayed against each other. Senator Byrns (Dem. 8. C.) who is seeking to steer the $4,880,000,000 work and relief bill through the appropria- tions committee, said he expected to rally enough strength to delete the “prevailing ” amendment the ‘committee tacked on to the bill Thurs- day, by & 12 to 8 vote. ' i ‘Treasury experts had contended the amendment, calling for at least “pre- vailing wages” for 3,500,000 “employ- ables” the administration has an- nounced it will put to work, would “de- feat the very purpose of the bill it- self.” They contend it would cost six or seven billion dollars instead of $4,880,000,000. Plan $50 a Month The president has taken the stand Washington, Feb. 8—()—Expec- tation that the controversial automo- bile code would be reopened near its expiration date on June 16 was dis- Painted in a NRA reseafch report recovery board in renewing the code with but. one of NRA’s recommended changes for helping labor, some officials said tpy believed he still intended to night” and that men are forced to quit work at the age of 40, Insecurity Creates Unrest “Labor unrest exists to a higher de- gree than warranted by the depres- sion,” the report prepared by the Blue Eagle research and planning division “The unrest flows from inse- Chargethat Rudy Vallee allowed his attention to stray to the golden loveliness of Alice Fay. above, more often than a datifu husband should is expected to be lodged by Fay Webb, Vallee's wife, in her court fight for an increased wance, sirls who appeared with tl crooner's orchestra also may be named, CONTEMPT CHARGES AGING MONTANANS IN FEDERAL COURT Attempt to Intimidate Jurist Follows Action in Auction Sale Case Minot, N. D., Feb. 8.—(?)—Federal Judge Andrew Miller in Minot Friday directed United States District Attor- ney P. W. Lanier to take immediate steps to bring before him a North three Montana men to direction of President Roosevelt. The president, in extending the automobile code until June 16, overruled NRA sug- gestions on working hours and a labor board. He approved one to) spread wor! The long awaited report, signed by Leon Henderson, recommended a max- imum 40-hour week, with a 48-hour maximum permitted for not more than eight weeks in a year, and time and a half pay for all work over 40 hours. ‘The code, as amended and extended by the president, provides for time and a@ half for all work over 48 hours. It retains the clause saying the work ‘week shall average no more than 40 hours through the year. FEDERALS CAPTURE KIDNAPING SUSPECT Enmity Between Women Believ- ed to Have Forced Jess Doyle From Hideout . Kansas City, Feb. {in favor of an amendment | Miller held that the instrument was The shooting, which faulty, but declared there were suffi- Tu night, put officers onjcient grounds on which to hold the Doyle's trail, leading to his surrender|defendants for action by another wages should be higher than the dole, but lower than the pay in private in- dustry so workers would not be dis- from taking private jobs. Its plan is to pay an average of $50 a month, Backers of the fight for prevailing wages, which was led Thursday by ‘Senator McCarran (Dem. Nev.), reply that to pay less would tear down the wage scale in private industry. The American Federation of Labor is in- sisting on prevailing scales. “ Senators McKellar (D-Tenn.) and Tydings (D-Md.), arriving back from @ mission to the Philippines, were ex- ected to attend Friday's committee session. Administration forces ex- bected them to strengthen the bill's defenses as the amendment is called up for reconsideration. Despite the onslaughts by critics seeking to change major features of the bill, Senator Demo- cratic leader, expressed the belief the measure would be ready to be taken up in the senate Monday. Contracts to Low Bidders Another amendment, suggested by the National Association of Master Plumbers, was adopted Thursday. It provides that all work requiring 10 per cent skilled labor be performed by contract and awarded to the low- est bidder. Another, by Senator Mc- Carran, provides that “full advantage shall be taken of the facilities of pri- vate enterprise.” A clause previously stricken out was restored. It gives President Roose- velt authority to acquire property by purchase or the right of eminent do- main, Senator Glass (D-Va.), chair- man of the committee, said this was re-inserted at the request of Senator Norbeck (R-8.D.) to permit the gov- ernment to acquire land for its west- ern shelter belt of trees. Answering a letter from the Na- tional Civil Service Reform League, President Roosevelt recorded Heat Provid! that the civil service merit system be applied in the work relief drive. Senator Adams (D-Colo.), leader of @ movement to cut the bill down to a $2,880,000,000 dole, said he probably would move for @ reconsideration on it Friday. It was defeated Wednes- day by & 10 to 10 vote. 4{ DISTRICTS SHOW Reductions Due Primarily to Decrease in Combined State and County Rate Forty-one of Burleigh county's 57 taxing districts show a decrease in the 1934 tax levy, to Ernest El- ness, county treasurer. The reductions are due primarily to @ decrease of 1.89 mills in the com- aE BOE i tH i i y EF | Hl gee i 3 8 ve iH i zE Be S Hy iF 14 8 & 3 z z E pee if 5s g : Es LOWER TAX LEVIES = RRC REPLACES FE ASN. D. AGENCY FOR DISTRIBUTING FEED Tindall Appointed Manager, As- sistant Treasurer of Re- habilitation Setup HOPKINS ORDERS CHANGE Inventories Being Taken to De- termine If Feed Supplies Are Sufficient ‘The North Dakota federal emerg- ency relief administration, in accord- ance with orders from Harry kins, federal administrator, continued purchase and sale Inventories are being taken of the supplies of livestock feed now on hand NORTH DAKOTA MAY LOSE SERVICES OF MANY C. ¢. C. UNITS Immediate Action Needed State Is to Get Its Share of Work If Unless immediate action is taken Friday. Bismarck, particularly, should be interested because the CCC camp here will be vacant this summer un- ‘at |commission, FESS E ae aeg% 3 E H 4 H Ped i ‘ i i fe | 1 g >= ‘| B st | | } (Gi at mil cel iit Sisee e | | i i E i g j BE E } i E 3 i ! i i #8 rn I i e E ; F Fy af i E lit rE PRESIDENT DEFENDS RICHBERG IN AUTO CODE ROW BONALO RICHBERG After William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, and John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, had attacked the stand of Donald Richberg, new deal coordinator, on renewal ot ‘the automobile code, President Roosevelt took a step regarded as a defense of Richberg. The chief execu- tive made public a letter in which he told the American Federation of Labor counsel that is for the President to determine” whether the automobil demanding that this board be scrapped. Lewis the automobile industry to deceive the Presi “smacked of fascism.” Richberg hotly denied the charges. (Associated Press Photos) lent and bludgeon labor” a labor board should be continued. The federa‘ rted Richberg had “secretly conspired with leaders ot had been ind Green contended his attitude VAST GREAT PLAINS PROPOSED BY LEMKE Bill Given Congress Calls for Ultimate Expenditure of Millions Washington, Feb. &—(P)—A vast Program of conservation for the mid- continent states, involving water control, power development, and re- habilitation, was proposed to congress Thursday by Representative Lemke (Rep., N. D.). The program, modeled after the ‘Tennessee Valley authority, would involve ultimate expenditure esti- pees at hundreds of millions of dol- ars. Unused and uncontrolled waters east of the Rocky Mountain slopes, Particularly in the drouth-ridden states, would be impounded to pre- vent floods and soil erosion and provide water for irrigation and re- forestation of semi-desert lands. A directing body of five members, known as the Mid-Continent Reclamation commission, would be granted exten- sive powers to ,enerate and sell elec- tricity under a bill Lemke intro- duced. 150,000 20-Acre Farms Creation of 750,000 self-sustaining farm homes, of 20 acres each, would be possible under the bill, Lemke said, and 15,000,000 acres not now under irrigation would be supplied with water. States in which projects might be established following a survey by the include the Dakotas, Wyoming, Nebraska, Col- » New Mex- jurveys If the measure should become law, ary|the Midcontinent Commission would F He Fl a 5 : / ch f f ee a i e i i i E i I E E [ i il : i q- il i uu : é il i gk 3 | f i EF | ! CONSERVATION PLAN SIDEALER WILL HEAD; 7 *Solons Want Real Butter on Popcorn po Representatives Gus A. Schauss and Carl Keidel of Morton want real butter on their popcorn—or | else. The “or else” part of their pop- | corn philosophy hit the floor of | the house in the form of a bill to compel all vendors of popcorn who use any other lubricant beside butter on the confection to tell the world about it. Their bill would make manda- tory posting, in the room in which Popcorn is being sold, a sign “which may be easily seen by the Purchaser, and in letters not smaller than one half inch high and one half inch wide, giving the name of the oil or fat used on said Popcorn.” And if they didn’t do that, the vendors would be punished by “a fine of not less than $25 or more than $100,” if convicted. BERWICK HARDWARE >| STATE ASSOCIATION Devils Lake Selected for 1936 Convention at Closing Business Meeting O. S. Hilmen of Berwick was elect- ed president of the North Dakota Re- tail Hardware association at the cl ing session of the twenty-ninth an- nual convention here Thursday after- noon. P. I. Dahlen of Williston. HH, A. Meddaugh of Westhope was elected first vice-president and Peter of Minot was named second vice-president. After voting an amendment incor- Porating the secretary and treasurer's duties into one office, the delegates unanimously elected Miss Louis J. Thompson of Grand Forks, secretary for the past year, to the combined posi- tion. Directors re-elected were A. O. Grunnerud of Silva and Howard Con- nolly of Devils Lake. New directors are H. M. Ulvick of Aneta, Ted P. Heis- ler of Mandan and George J. Boley of Carrington. Devils Lake was selected as the 1936 convention city. In a resolution adopted at the clos- | ing business meeting, the association pledged itself to cooperate with whole- | salers in a joint demand for “fair play” in manufacturers’ price policies and to aid in minimizing the difficul- ties caused by underpricing of hard- ware by mass distributors. The association also made a plea for an equitable tax distribution which in its opinion could not be accom- Plished through a retail sales tax in which “the tax is of a necessity passed directly to the consumer.” Other resolutions adopted deplored “the federal government's continuing encroachments upon private enter- prise,” the recent expansion of mer- activities by farmers’ co- operatives, and the growing sale and distribution of hardware merchandise by Dubie wHity companies and drag "ISTATE-OWNED AND {ment, by a jury which reported to OPERATED LIQUOR STORES PROPOSED Senate Committee Studies Leg- islation Intended as Rev- enue Measure The state would become a liquor salesman under plans for state-owned. liquor stores contemplated by a sub- committee of the senate taxes and tax laws committee, it was disclosed Fri- day. A compromise of the laws now in operation in Washington, Utah and Montana, the proposal being drawn by the sub-committee on hard liquor revenue laws contemplates handling of liquor by stores operated by the State which would buy the liquor and Sell it at a profit, according to Harry Peterson of Mountrail, member of the committee. Other members of the group are J. P. Cain of Stark and Ole Ettestad of McHenry, the latter also chairman of the senate temperance committee. Peterson said the plan being stud- ied limits the price at which hard liquor would be sold in an effort to climinate bootleggers. No tax on the liquor is planned. but revenue would be derived entirely from individual liquor permits granted con- sumers at a price ranging from 50 cents to $2, and the profit derived from the sale, which is to be limited to probably 25 per cent under present plans. Forbidden would be drinking on the premises of the liquor stores or con- signment of liquor to anyone in the state except the liquor board. Con- trol of the stores would be in the hands of the state board of adminis- tration with one paid secretary in di- rect charge. a Employes of the liquor stores would be directed to discourage rather than encourage sale of hard liquor. Peterson anticipated passage of the proposed bill. Lee Dillage Guilty Of Wool Smuggling Minot, N. D., Feb. 8.—(#)—Lee Dil- lage, Lignite, was convicted on three counts under a wool smuggling indict- Judge Andrew Miller in federal court in Minot shortly before 11 a. m. Fri- lay. The jury found Dillage guilty of smuggling a truckload of wool into the United States from Canada on July 7, 1933, of concealing this same wool, and of concealing on June 15, 1934, at his farm in Burke county, some other smuggled wool. PROSECUTOR BEGINS IMMEDIATE ATTACK ON BRUNO'S ALIBIS Seek to Refute Testimony of Witness Who Said He Saw Fisch in Graveyard DEFENSE USED 53 ON STAND Claim of Innocence’ Principally Based on Home Party Night of Crime BULLETIN ‘ Flemington, N. J., Feb. 8—(?)—The dead Isador Fisch’s own sister, who came all the way from Germany, took the stand Friday in the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann to rebut defense implications that Fisch got the $50,- 000 Lindbergh ransom money, (Copyright, 1935. by the Associated Press) Flemington, N. J. Feb. 8—After surprise testimony that the Lindbergh kidnap ladder was on the back of an automobile near Hopewell 20 hours before baby Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., was kidnaped and slain—and that a man in the auto was not Bruno Rich- ard Hauptmann—the defense rested Friday in the trial of Hauptmann for murder. The state immediately launched tts rebuttal attack on the defense’s alibi and other witnesses. A New Jersey state policeman iden- tified a photograph he said he made on March 8, 1932, of the famed “rail 16,” a part of the kidnap ladder, and which showed four nail holes. This was to refute testimony of an ex- pert for the defense who said there was only one nail hole in the rail when he examined it on March 13, 1932. The state had charged the four nail holes Proved the rail was ripped from the flooring of Hauptmann’s attic. 4 Nail Holes On May 23, 1932 Harold 8. Betts of the United States forestry service testified he saw four nail holes when he examined the rail on May 23, 1932. Alfred Budreau of Yonkers came to refute the story of Mrs. Bertha Hoff who testified for the defense that he was with the late Isador Fisch wher the latter called on her late in 1933 at Bayside, L. I, carrying bundles, The defense implication being thas Fisch had the Lindbergh ransom money and was trying to get rid of it. Budreau said he never knew Fisch and never called on Mrs, Hoif, though he knew her. Budreau denied on cross-examinae tion that his fainting spell in the cours Thursday was due to epilepsy, Implications left by the defense that Fisch had part in the kidnaping were attacked through the testimony of Joseph Levenson, Bronx real ese tate man, who said he saw Fisch at the {home of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Young on the kidnap night. Lumbermen Testify Last The defense also used two practical lumber men to dispute the testimony of a state wood expert that part of the kidnap ladder came from Hauptmann’s Bronx attic. | One of these was the last defense |witness. Edward J. Reilly, chief de- |fense counsel, waited for the polling of the jury after a brief recess, then announced loudly: “The defense rests.” ‘The state immediately began rebut- tal with Joseph J. Farber, a New York |insurance man, on the stand. His tes- jtimony sought to refute that of a j defense witness who said he saw the dead Isador Fisch leap over a Bronx (Continued on Page Two) 400 IN NEW YORK CRIMINAL ROUNDUP Detained Under Law Making It Illegal to Congregate in Public Places the police brought them in under the er wae anes it a crime for men with crim: records to congregate in public places. So great was the rush that police