The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 9, 1935, Page 1

‘¥ac| THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ESTABLISHED 1873 FINANCIAL MARKETS DECIDE WORRY OVER COURT ACT USELESS Governors of Stock Exchange Favor Keeping Market Open On Ruling Day SEE CONFUSION TEMPORARY Return to Old Dollar, Worth $1.69 in Present Terms, Not Involved BULLETINS Washington, Feb. 9—(#)—President Roosevelt and Attorney General Cummings mapped out a program of action in event of an adverse gold decision by the supreme court in a two-hour conference Saturday. Washington, Feb. 9.—(®)—The long suspense over the gold clause cases appeared to be near an end Saturday as all surface indications led observ- ers to believe the supreme court prob- ably would announce its decision Mon- day. New York, Feb, 9.—(#)—Wall Street thas come to the end of another week. of waiting for the gold decision in a much calmer frame of mind. This is not to say that the financial community is any less intent than previously on the momentous decision of the supreme court as to the con- stitutionality of the government's seizure of all gold in the country, or its abrogation of both its own and private contracts to pay in gold dol- lars of specific weight and fineness or their equivalent. But after mature consideration of the problem, several important quar- ters in Wall @eet have come to the conclusion that the forthcoming de- cision will, at worst, do no more to the nation’s financial nerve centers than give them a temporary flurry of confusion. If necessary, financial markets can and probably will be closed until the flurry passes. Governors of the New York stock exchange are reliably re- ported to favor keeping the market open, if the decision should be made during trading hours, with close su- pervision of transactions. Two or three weeks ago, Wall Street let itself get worked up into @ pretty bad state of nerves over the gold cases. Talk was heard that an adverse decision might even bring about a return to the old dollar, worth about $1.69 in terms of the present dollar, But legal experts point out that a return to the old dollar is not involved in the cases before the court, and that congress specifically has the power to regulate the value of money. The cases involve several actions, and obviously the decision may up- hold the government in some and re- verse it in others. PROGRAM FOR N. D FRATERNAL RALLY IS ARRANGED HERE Harold Hopton Will Give Main Talk on Program at City Auditorium Monday Announcement was made Saturday by M. D. Anderson of Fargo of the completed program for the North Da- kota Fraternal rally which will open at 8:15 p. m., Monday, at BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1935 ‘Hauptmann Case Evidence Ends Wall Street Recovers From Gold Case Fear Clarence Frechette (left), 25-year-old truck driver of Kalamazoo, Mich., was arrested at a lonely police outpost near the California-Nevada boundary and admitted, according to Capt. Joseph BI: ce of the Califor. nia highway police, that he had killed Robert Brown (right), Kalamazoo trucking contractor, in a quarret over a girl. Blake quoted Frechette as saying he put Brown's body in the trunk of a car and drove west with it. Frechette, imitting he was an ex-convict, said he was imprisoned in 1928 because of attempted murder. (Associated Press Photos) Dealers See Banner Year Ahead In Plans for ’35 Auto Show Here SETH PARKER SHIP WITH 43 ON BOARD IN MIDST OF STORM Schooner in South Seas Asks No Aid But Reports ‘Ex- treme Danger’ BULLETIN San Francisco, Feb. 9—()—The American four-master schooner Seth Parker, which sent out calls for as- sistance Friday night during a heavy storm approximately 300 miles north of Tahiti, apparently had weathered the blow Saturday. The naval radio station at Hono- lulu picked up @ message from the craft at 6:02 a. m. (11:32 a, m, EST) saying “Situation improved slightly.” San Francisco, Feb. 9.—(?)—One of the strangest calls for aid the Pacific has known sent a British cruiser with the third son of King George hurrying to the aid of an American entertainer aboard the four masted schooner Seth Parker in the South Seas Saturday. The schooner, carrying 13 men, in- cluding Phillips Lord, sent out con- tinual calls throughout the night that she was in “extreme danger” and high seas were hurling solid walls of water over her decks. At 7:10 a. m. (10:10 a. m. EST) the ship sent a No SOS was sent and no damage ito the ship or injury to its crew was reported. The Seth Parker re] winds of near gale force but all near- .|by ships and island points reported : cyclonic At H executives of pute i had propristion for an air base in Hawaii, fair weather. Cyclonic Depression to West The only exception was from the Australia which reported @ depression west of the r. The cruiser turned aside her course to Fiji, where she taking the Duke of Gloucester toured Australia oh be- crown, to speed to the ‘iia Parker, 300 miles Australia was expected to pull the little schooner Satur- Shortly before 5 9. m, (8 a, m. EST) the Seth Parker sent out s message, “Things the same,” Fargo Pedestrian, Hit by Truck, Dies Feb. 9—(P}—Struck by Tetired salesman, died Friday night. . Annual Capital City Event Will , Be Held at Memorial Build- ing March 28-30 IS CHAIRMAN Preliminary Arrangements for Spring Exposition Made at Meeting Friday A. E. BRINK In an atmosphere of optimism over prospects for a banner year in auto- mobile sales throughout western and southern North Dakota this year, Bismarck’s automobile dealers met Friday evening and selected Thurs- day, Friday and Saturday, March 28, 29 and 30, as tentative dates for the Capital City’s 1935 automobile and spring style show. Meeting in the Association of Com- merce offices at the World War Memorial building, the automobile and accessories merchants selected A. E. Brink of Quanrud, Brink and Rei- bold as general chairman of the 1935 show and made other preliminary ar- rangements looking toward the spring exposition. Though it originally had been plan- ned to invite merchants in other lines ‘of business to display their products also on the floor of the auto show rooms of the Memorial building, this plan was revised in view of the fact that display space has been curtail- ed this year by establishment of tem- porary federal agency offices in the main auditorium. In view of this situation, it was tentatively agreed that there would be enough room for automobile dis- plays only. Style Show Planned Nevertheless, the annual spring style show in connection with the ex- Position was decided upon, and this feature is expected to become more elaborate even than in the past. Special decorations for the auto show room are in the offing and automobile men were tentatively named to various committees to look after arrangements, with the pos- sibility that merchants in other lines of business will be invited to mem- (Continued on Page Seven) Six Bills Receive Welford Signature North Dakota had six new laws Signed by governor 8. B, 12—Prohibiting marathons, lands. 8. B. 31—Provides for appeal sy ed of justice court. ‘MEASURE T0 ALLOW TAX OF STATE LAND BEATEN IN SENATE Upper House in Recess to Give Committees Time to Clean Up Work A resolution proposing a constitu- tional amendment to permit taxation of state-owned lands was indefinite- ly postponed Friday in a flood of oratory as the North Dakota senate recessed until Monday to allow com- mittees to “catch up” with scores of measures referred to them for study. By r » the senators “ear- marked” an entire legislative day — Saturday—for committee work. With numerous committee meetings sched- uled over the week-end, most of the legislation already was ex- pected to be recommended onto the floor of the upper chamber at Mon- day's session for final action Tuesday. Besides the resolution, four other proposals were hurled aside Friday by indefinite postponement and one measure was withdrawn. Two ap- Propriation measures were passed. Among ten new pieces of legisla- tion offered were: Three measures to clarify and ial transpor. majority for passage and the mi- nority for indefinite postponement. Proponents the ition oe , state commissioner, @ measure before the legislature to divert $2,000,000 hail insurance 4s unconstitutional, PERSONAL PART IN WORK RELIEF FIGHT Seeks to Have ‘Prevailing Wage’ Amendment Stricken From Bill DEFEATS PURPOSE OF ACT De: 4 Compensation Above Dole Scale, Less Than Private Industry ‘Washington, Feb. 9—(?)—Watching the intense struggle over the admin- istration’s $4,880,000,000 work and re- Nef bill, the capital heard a report Sat- urday that President Roosevelt had can to take a direct hand in the ight. Some senate circles understood that Presidential intercession to have the “prevailing wages” amendment strick- en from the bill was a possibility. While Chairman Glass (D., Va.) and Senator Byrnes (D., 8. C.), in charge of the bill in the senate ap- Propriations committee, said they had not been informed of it, one member of the bill-framing group said he un- derstood President Roosevelt was dis- patching a communication to the committee requesting that the wage Provision be eliminated on the ground it would defeat the purposes of the measure. This senator was not sure his in- formation was correct, but he said he - |understood the communication was to be read to the committee when it re- sumes consideration of the legislation Monday. The amendment, pushed by Senator McCarran (D., Nev.) and approved by the committee Thursday on a 12 to 8 vote would require the payment of Public works wages equal to the scale Prevailing in private industry in each locality. ‘The president, in his message to congress January 3, said compensa- tion on emergency public works “should be in the form of security payments, which should be larger than the amount now received as’a Telief dole, but at the same time not so large as to encourage the rejection of opportunities for private employ- ment or the leaving of private em- Ployment to engage in government NRA TO REPORT ON ALUMINUM INDUSTRY Charge of Monopoly by Mellons One Phase to Be Revealed By Research Ws Feb. 9.—(P)—After putting the automobile controversy into the headlines again with a criti- cal study of conditions in that busi- ness, NRA prepared Saturday to Publish @ report on the aluminum in- dustry. Meanwhile President Roosevelt took the position that the auto code, un- der fire by American Federation of Labor leaders, will stand until June 16, the. expiration date of the present. NRA. He added at his press confer- ence, late Friday, that further studies would be made in the meantime with a view to making any necessary cor- rections. In renewing the code the president “reviewed” before the next producti period in the fall. The aluminum code must be re- newed before June 16. When it was érica, in which purgh are heavi monopolized the port is to make at View of Heaven Promised Cites Problems as Public Wel- fare, Good Government, Productive Effort CALLS FOR COOPERATION Terms Tax Structure Obsolete; Real Estate Not Indicative Of Ability to Pay Governor Walter Welford Friday eo on the people of the state to Pledged himself to a solution” of the financial ills of North Dakota. Calling for the cooperation of citi- zens of the state, Welford declared three classes of problems face the state, “public welfare, good govern- ment, and productive effort.” “The answer,” he asserted, “to one Problem or any problem is always found in terms of money. The answer to the money question is found only in a determination of the ways and means to secure legally sufficient funds to continue our state govern- ment and educational institutions in @ manner that will react to the credit of the people as a whole. ... “We must secure these funds under an equitable distribution of the bur- den to all classes. Each class must contribute in direct proportion to the benefit it receives, “With one-third of our people de- Pendent upon the state for the ordi- nary necessities of life, it is incum- bent upon the whole to assume a dif- ferent attitude than ordinarily ex- Tax Structure ‘Obsolete’ He termed the present tax struc- ture “obsolete” and asserted that “at this time no good will come” from a general levy of tax on real estate or Personal property alone. “It is absolutely impossible for real Property or personal property to pro- duce any wealth at this time,” he said. “Real estate is no longer a jcless of property by which you are capable of judging a person's ability to pay. It seems to me that taxes must come from wealth or money as it may pass through our hands in our daily normal transactions.” “Best minds” in the legislature are studying the problem, he said. “I have been in consultation with all factions, political and otherwise, meetings have been held with mem- bers of the legislature who come from every walk of life. Committees in both houses are holding daily meet- ings, calling in witnesses, and deter- mining the most workable way to raise money,” he continued. Promises Some Solution “I promise you some manner of sat- isfactory solution. We have to this time made a considerable stride in putting underway the program of the Nonpartisan League adopted at Val- ley City. Resolutions have been Passed calling upon congress and other states to do away with tax ex- empt securities. Studies are being made to try and find a, means of stabilizing and adjusting the present existing obligations of counties, mu- nicipalities, and school districts. Something will possibly come from this. “We are making an honest en- deavor to find a way to permit any- one who has lost his home or farm to regain possession through some system of purchase. We will con- tinue to function in the interest of depressed and care for the weak first, even though we lose strength there- by. “During past time, of more or less greater dependency, we have become servants of our national government to a degree which cannot continue. It is fundamentally necessary that the state must retain some form of control or supervision over the citi- zens within the state. State Must Assume Task “We have rapidly approached the point where state government might be removed, and if continued we will all become direct subjects of the na- tional government. The burden of control must be shifted back from the federal government to the state gov- ernment, “I am only sorry that up to this time we have come s0 close to fed- eral paternalism that we cannot overnight return to a system of self- government. The economic and drouth conditions have made us prac- (Continued on Page Seven) Described by Man Physicians Brought Back to Life Journal declared all those present in the operating theater believed the patient was dead. Dr. G. Per- cival Mills H “T slipped under his stopped. to The been ition heart of and fraid” as hel; “satisfactory | | by Welford * Called | 6 | Grandmother MRS. DWIGHT MORROW The prosecution in the trial charging Bruno Richard Haupt- mann with the murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., Saturday called on the dead infant's grandmother, Mrs. Dwight Morrow, to give tes- timony intended to exonerate Violet Sharpe, English maid who committed suicide shortly after the kidnaping and is alleged by the defense to have had a hand in the abduction. New Jersey charges Hauptmann alone car- ried out the plot. BFFORT TO COLLECT PERSONAL TAXES I ORDERED IN COUNTY Public Payroll Are Among Worst Violators Scores of Capital City residents, in- cluding about 200 former and pres- ent state employes, are in immediate danger of losing varying amounts of |their personal belongings unless de- linquent personal property taxes are paid at once. A resolution passed Thursday by the Burleigh county board of com- missioners directed the sheriff to pro: ceed at once to collect delinquent taxes from all “persons able to pay” in accordance with the provisions of the law. The law authorizes the sheriff to make such collections and clothes him with the power of distraining the and holding it for sale in the event the individual fails to pay. Records at the office of the county treasurer reveal that thousands of dollars of unpaid personal property taxes are delinquent. The delinquent taxes are for periods of from one to five to three hundred dollars. Farmers Pay Up Well In passing the resolution the com- missioners concurred in the opinion that “all persons working for the state, county and city are drawing their salary from taxes and it is not fair that those who fail to pay their taxes should receive a good salary out of the taxes paid by others.” ‘The commissioners pointed out that in the last 27 months $32,544 have been paid on personal property taxes and estimated that 85 per cent of this money was collected from farmers who were compelled to pay the taxes from the government. The order to proceed with the col- lections was transmitted to Sheriff Fred Anstrom Saturday. Commis- sioner W. F. Cameron introduced the resolution and it was passed unani- mously, Text of Resolution ‘The resolution reads: dollars of delinquent unpaid personal Property taxes in the county of Bur- leigh and especially in the City of inh 5 z Commissioners Find Many on; 14 years and range in amounts from | before they could negotiate loans} PRICE FIVE CENTS VIOLET SHARPE 1S CLEARED OF CRIME BY MRS. MORROW Grandmother of Slain Child Exonerates Deceased Maid Accused by Defense DIRECTED VERDICT DENIED Reilly Offers No Sur-Rebuttal Witnes: Summations to Begin Monday (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press) Flemington, N. J., Feb. 9—(P}— Testimony came to an end Saturday in the trial of Bruno Richard Haupt- mann for the kidnaping and murder of baby Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., with the baby’s grandmother, Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow, giving testimony to clear away defense insinuations against her maid, Violet Sharpe. Mrs. Morrow was a rebuttal witness for the state. The defense offered no sur-rebuttal. A renewed motion for a directed ver- chad of acquittal was promptly de- nied. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, bereaved mother of the slain baby, was in court to hear her mother testify. She held back tears as Mrs. Morrow related that Violet Sharpe was in her home, serv- ing dinner, as late as 7:45 p. m. on the night of March 1, 1932, when the baby was kidnaped. A defense witness had said Violet Sharpe was in a restaurant at Yon- kers, N. Y., with a gray blanket over lher arm at 7:30 p. m. that night, Summations Monday Court adjourned at 2:37. It will re- sume for the beginning of summa- tions at 10 a. m. next Monday. Mrs. Morrow said she saw her maid again between 11 p. m. and midnight on the kidnap night. A man had tes- tified for the defense that he saw s woman resembling Violet Sharpe car- rying a baby in the early hours of March 2, getting on a street car in New York at the 42nd street ferry. Much of the defense case, which was rebutted on every point, was built to- ward casting suspicion upon Miss Sharpe and Isador Fisch. Both are dead. The maid committed suicide just before she was to be questioned for the fourth time in the kidnap in- vestigation. Fisch died in Germany : of tuberculosis in March, 1934. He lefk | this country in December, 1933, and. Hauptmann claimed he gave him a, |shoe box for safekeeping, the contents, ' unknown to him, being the $14,600° Lindbergh ransom money which police found in Hauptmann’s garage. Both Sides Rest There was ® whispered conferenca {between attorneys as Mrs. Morrow left the stand. The defense consented to the introduction of a photograph, dee Picting the gate of a Bronx cemetery to evidence, and Attorney General |David T. Wilentz turned to the cours, (Continued to Page Seven), LEGION LAUNCHES FIGHT 10 OBTAIN MORE GCC CAMPS War Veterans to Ask That North Dakota Be Given Full Quota of Workers | | Bismarck’s American Legion Saturday launched an effort ren that a CCC camp is located here this summer and to make sure that North Dakota gets her full share of CCC projects. Action was taken by the war vet- erans Friday night as the result of reports that the deadline for COC jcamp assignments would be reached |February 15 but that, as yet, the num- ber of companies allotted to this state jis far below its quota when based on & population standpoint. A committee was appointed to co- operate with A. D. McKinnon, state technician for the CCC and a member of the local Legion post, in an effort to get more camps assigned to this state than is the case at present. It is expected that representations kota “Whereas, the records in the office E. F. Trepp, Henry Rosenthal, R. J. Dohn and Chris Yegen. Milton Rue, chairman of the Le- gf 3