The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 25, 1935, Page 1

ih ; | i North Dakota’ Oldest Newspaper THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1935 PRICE FIVE CENTS ‘Tornadoes Hit Three States WAGE DISPUTE SEEK} North Atlantic Mounts! SISTERS EXPLAINED SUPPORT OF PEOPLE Floods of Telegrams for and Against McCarran Amend- ment Expected SEE APPEAL BY PRESIDENT A. F. of L. Exerts All its " Strength in Behalf of Prevailing Wage Washington, Feb. 25.—()}—The work relief struggle became Monday @ quiet contest by opponents seeking to apply mass pressures for and against the McCarran amendment calling for prevailing wages on pub- Tie_works. First returns from the country, as assembled in senatorial Monday were represented as about evenly divided on the wage issue which has deadlogked the bill. ‘That was the verdict of early morn- ing letters to senators who voted for and against the prevailing wage re- quirement which President Roosevelt opposed. So far, most found the coun- try’s attitude had not been reflected in a greatly increased mail. A mobilization in behalf of work relief “that will make the bonus army look like a Boy Scout parade in com- parison” was foreseen by Paul V. Betters, director of the United States conference of mayors. At his Hyde Park home, President Roosevelt watched silently for na- tional reaction to the 44 to 43 senate vote which attached the prevailing ‘wage amendment against his wishes and forced Democratic leaders to re- turn the bill to the appropriations committee. ‘ May Ask Reconsideration There was some belief Mr. Roose~ yelt may, at a later day, ask the sen- ate to reconsider the bill. Betters said that “telling 3,500,000 workers they can not work, regard- Jess of the reason, is to foment social unrest which will be unparalleled.” He added: “When it is considered that three and a half million workers represent close to 15 million dependent family members now on federal relief, this congressional sentence is more severe and serious than any action taken by any government in the history of the world.” Meanwhile this 74th congress, far more prone than its predecessor to debate and criticize administration measures, approached its third month with practically all the big controver- sies unsettled. The pace of major legislation through committees was proving so slow that both houses had only relatively minor business to do Monday. As administration leaders strove to Te-assert control after the defeat on the prevailing wage amendment, the capital wondered whether President Roosevelt would make another of his fiveside chats to the nation soon in behalf of his fight for “security ‘wages. Administration strategists, who had the $4,880,000,000 work and relief bill sent back to the committee after the McCarran amendment had been tacked on to it over White House op- Position, watched Monday for what they hoped would be a tidal wave of telegrams and letters in behalf of the administration's plan of $50-a- month wages. (Continued on Page Two) No Solution Seen in Somaliland Dispute thousand more soldiers and hundreds of tons of war materials, “There's no indication on the Em- spokesman said, maliland frontier and to pay no in- cemnity for the Italian troops killed| the in attacks at Ualual and Afdub.” Monty Bills for AC, Cass University Approved lee for thelr handling ‘Two appropriations bills, providing $1,076,220.27 for strikers and ac-/touched off plans teiaes of tee Dnbeacaty teen Dee lution. [Join Dead Lo ° Letters they left to their father, Coert du Bois, United States con- sul general at Naples, and their mother, explained the suicide leap airplane Elizabeth from an of (below) and Jane du Bois (top). The two girls were heartbroken over the deaths of their lovers, fying joer vrs oped pe ote it, “Ace which crashed two weeks ago. ATTEMPT 10 PROBE FARGO RIOT BEATEN Clincher Move Beaten; Godwin Threatens to Revive De- mand for ‘Facts’ A resolution demanding a house of Tepresentatives investigation of the “facts” concerning the Fargo strike and the incidental arrests was voted tally 49 to 39. The clincher attempt brought the retort from Godwin of Morton coun- ty that “you will need more than a clincher to keep this from coming up ‘The resolution would have created conde! county officials and Fargo po- of the strike. it =e ie conviction of the 16 vers | ——— Earthquakes Along Eastern Mediterranean Shores In- crease List of Dead ITALIANS BROADCAST SoS Freighter Oakman Loses Rud- der North of Azores; Coast Guard Cutter Sinks (By the Associated Press) A howling gale that for three days has swept north Atlantic shipping lanes and battered the coasts of Biscay, added Monday to its mounting toll of lost lives and dis- rupted shipping. In Tow the . | Forbes Bea‘ clly, INFAREWELL NOTES Visualized Leap From Plane as ‘Corridor’ to Dead Airmen They Loved ASK PARENTS’ FORGIVENESS Letters Read to Coroner's Jury; Joint Verdict of Suicide Is Given Romford, Eng., Feb. 25. — () — Elizabeth and Jane du Bois, who plunged from an airplane to death last week, visualized their suicides as ®& “pretty straight” corridor to the dead men they loved. A coroner's jury Monday returned & joint verdict of “suicide while of unsound minds” after it had heard the contents of two letters which the girls had intended only for their father, Coert du Bois, United States consul general in Naples, and their ‘mother. ‘The father, tight-lipped and white- knuckled, attended the inquest. The mother stayed alone at a hotel, still unaware of the complete details of her daughters’ plunge from a com- mercial shi transport ship. In their letters, the two beautiful American girls told of their grief for deaths of flying officer John A. C. and Flight Lieutenant Henry L. Beatty, who were killed at Messina, Sicily, two weeks ago when their Royal Air Force flying boat, “Ace of Dia- monds,” crashed into a hillside. Letter Reading Protested The letters were read publicly over the protests of Franklin C. Gowen, United States’ consul. Gowen argued the letters should be submitted to the jury privately as OCoert du Bois, father, of the two young women, had hoped that their contents might not be made public. The father, Gowen said, wished later to read the communications quietly to j | his wife. Each girl had written alternate par- agraphs in the letters, one of which was addressed to the father and the other to the mother. The letter to du Bois, beginning “Darling Coert,” read: “We never explained things to you as we should. There's been so much coubt and worry. You've been kind to us and forgiven us and you'll forgive us this as you must feel a little of what we did when we heard of the flying boat cracking up. Were to Have Married “Do you remember Charles (Flying Officer John A. C. Forbes, one of the two aviators killed in the crash at Messina) telling about the corridors? The one before us seems pretty straight. Charles was engaged to (Continued on Page Two) To ine ali i f ip Zz inet Hy B2 SHIPPING SUBSIDIES FIGHT IS PREDICTED \- Mass Pressure to Force Work Relief Action " BOTH FACTIONS IN Toll of 3-Day Gale on |SUCDE PLUNGE OF | GOLD ARGUMENT STIRS DEMOCRATIC isonet NEST between two factions of Democrats. Senator Carter Glass (left), Virginia conservative, per money and shouted, “We are on a fiat currency basis. ion, Senator Tom Connall: pa ing the administr: gold standard. Meanwhile, Ss A statement by ex-President Hoover, titular head of the Republican party, - . « Gold has been demonetized.” ly (right) of Texas declared the government already was on a Secretary Morgenthau (center), the new deal’s urging a return to a gold standard, thrust the gold issue to the forefront of national politics and Precipitated a hot senate debate waved a piece of leading spokesman on mone. tary questions, accepted the gauge flung at the administration by the former President, and said he was “perfectly satisfied with the way our monetary policy has worked out. . Ing It.” (Associated Press Photos) FINANCE SOLUTION HEADS PROGRAM OF |* LEGISLATIVE WEEK Assembly Works on Measures to Make Up Total Deficit of Nearly $7,000,000 An attempted solution of North Da- kota’s government financing problem will be sought by the legislature this week with possible action on several revenue producing measures. Faced with an estimated total deficit of nearly $7,000,000 for the next biennium beginning July 1, in- cluding $1,500,000 additional funds needed for schools and $1,000,000 to augment federal relief monies, the legislature has a number of bills be- fore it which proponents claim would provide the necessary funds. Pro} Revenue Bills Included among the proposed reve- nue measures are: The Traynor - Odegard - Hill bill, H. B. 339, passed by the house Satur- day and now awaiting senate action, which would allocate more than a million dollars to the schools through refund of hail insurance surplus funds. Two per cent retail sales tax meas- ure, 8. B.-No. 313, estimated to raise $4,000,000 during the next two years, recommended to pass Saturday by senate committee on taxes and tax laws. Senate Bill 294, boosting rates of the present state income tax, ap- proved by committee and estimated President Expected to Send Message to Congress Some Time This Week i | fz | g : 5. i zg i ‘ 5 two other pap Els i f i st to produce some additional money. Senate Bill 189, tightening cigarette, tobacco and snuff tax law enforce- ment, which sponsors claim may add $400,000 to state funds over the bi- ennium. Bills introduced in both houses amended to set up a unicameral leg- islature instead of the present two houses, to consist of not over 50 mem- bers. Another important measure, await- ing senate action and passed by the house, is House Bill 7, providing for weighing and grading of livestock at ers and graders. Eliminated temporarily at * Half Pint Carries | 18-Month Wallop | Minot, N. D. Feb. 25.—(?)— For having a half pint of alcohol in his possession, William Nowski, 47, of Minot, has been sentenced to serve 18 months in the state Penitentiary. After imposing the sentence, District Judge John C. Lowe told Nowski that he hoped that in 18 months “you will sober up and quit drinking.” : ‘The prosecution of Nowski on a felony charge is as much an ef- fort on the part of authorities to attempt to cure him of continu- ous drinking as it is to punish him, they declare. HOUSE WILL FINISH CALENDAR OF BILLS IN SESSION MONDAY Total of 26 Bills Remain for] action. Action After Disposal of 29 Measures Saturday | With its first midnight session out of the way, the house reconvened Monday in recessed meeting to fin- ish its long calendar of bills which were uncompleted Saturday. With 29 bills either killed or passed Saturday, the house still had remain- ing on its calendar for the recessed session a total of 26 bills, Among them were senate appro- priation measures for the state tuber- culosis sanitorium at San Haven, for the attorney general's office, state board of pardons, Bank of North Dakota and University Public Health Laboratories. Also to come before the house in committee of the whole was the house bill legalizing sale of lquor, in the state through private lquor stores municipally controlled, and taxed by the state. ‘The house liquor bill was near the foot of the general orders calendar for the lower assembly. To Act on Liquor Bill Fourteen measures awaited action of the committee of the whole Mon- day also, with the most important measure being the liquor bill. The house Saturday night worked until 12:15 a. m., passing six appro- priations measures for state higher educational institutions. In addition to appropriations made for Minot, Valley City, Dickinson (Continued on Page Two) New Chapter in Lindy Kidnaping Disclosed Chicago, Feb. 25.—(@)— As death least | turned the last page for a former Ca- through indefinite postponement, are}pone gangster, Frankie Rio, a new taxing measures,!chapter in the Lindbergh kidnaping Proposed the chain store and theater tax pro-|case came to light. i 5 e incident, the Chicago The strang tion measures for the| gang lord’s hay to enter the Rio in @ manner unusual for gang- land's badmen—he died of heart dis- ease. Rio, trusted Meutenant of Capone, appeared at Hopewell shortly after Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., was ab- ducted March 1, 1932, and offered his and Capone's services in the search for the child. He asked an audience 2 and see no reason for chang- ¢ | SENATE 10 FINSH WORK ON 50 BILLS IN SESSION TODAY Measure to Provide Chancellor of Education Meets With Postponement Indefinite postponement of a bill providing for appointment of a chan- cellor for all institutions of higher learning in North Dakota was voted | o¢ Monday as the senate launched into its first session since Thursday. Approval of the report of the com- mittee on education for indefinite Postponement of the bill was one of the first actions taken on scores of committee reports pouring into the upper chamber as the result of three days of concentrated committee work. The solons acted on only 14 com- mittee reports Monday morning be- fore recessing to 1 p. m., but reports on scores of other measures awaited Late Session Expected After action on these reports the senate was scheduled to begin a ses- sion that will last as late into the night asds necessary to complete final action on approximately 50 items of legislation already awaiting final ac- tion. Introduced by Senator A. F. Bonzer, Jr., of Richland, Senate Bill 93 would have directed the state board of ad- ministration to appoint a chancellor over all state educational institutions and eliminate, presidents of the sep- arate institutions. ‘The proposal contemplated elimina- tion of “all unnecessary duplication of | “ courses as may be found between the institutions and coordination of courses of study” by the chancellor. Also indefinitely postponed was the Vinje-Thatcher bill for a drivers’ li- damages for negligence re- iting in loss of human life, injury Persons or property. Money Bills Advanced ‘Among proposals which advanced to the senate calendar for final action with the adoption of committee re- ports Monday were four appropria- ling $446,780. They were for: ‘The agricultural college experiment station, $62,759 after $2,800 had been cut from the budget recommendation of $65,559. The agricultural college extension division, $10,000. Expenses of the motor vehicle reg- istrar department, $113,340, after $33,- 284 had been cut from the original figure of $136,624. Expenses of the state penitentiary, $260,681, after slicing $3.400. 8 Also ai were committee re- Ports recommending passage of bills setting at 100 per cent the valuation of @ mt FOUR KILLED, 130 INJURED AS STORM SWEEPS SOUTHWEST Dust, Snow, Sleet ard Rain Present Baffling Weather Hodge-Podge Over U. S. IOWA DIGS OUT OF DRIFTS Heavy Property Damage Caus- ed by Winds in Kansas and Missouri Sunday Kansas City, Feb. 25.—(#)—Bliz- zards, tornadoes and dust storms—a strange weather mixture — marked their passage with death in the mid- west Monday. Four persons were killed and more than 130 injured by storms which struck between the Mississippi and the Rockies, Tornadoes ripped over a narrow triangular course from Wichita, Kas., to Commerce, Okla., and Joplin, Mo., Sunday night, leaving damage esti- mated unofficially at more than $200,000. Mrs. Ellen Teague, 69, was killed in a tornado which swept the mining communities of Commerce and Dou- that, Okla. Ruby Reiff, 16, Ordwar, Colo., died with the overturning of her motor car in a highway sand drift, Two women were killed in traffic accidents attributed to a wet, blinding snow. Dust, snow, sleet and rain storms presented g baffling hodgepodge over western Kansas, eastern Colorado and the Panhandle country as a norther pushed rapidly toward the Texas gulf coast. | Temperatures Plunge Trains, busses and motor cars were delayed by the heavy veil of dust. Planes were grounded. Temperatures —spring-like for a week in much of the area—fell toward sero. Forecasters predicted one of the ‘worst snow storms of the winter for northern and central Illinois, High- way maintenance crews worked throughout the night in Iowa, eight inches of snow. Funnel-shaped clouds which moved with express train speeds, carrying away homes and buildings, struck Wichita, Independence, and Baxter Springs, in Kansas; Joplin and Webb City, in Missouri and Commerce, North Century, and Douthat in Okla- homa. Over twenty houses were wrecked at Independence, and property dame age was estimated at $100,000. At Jop- lin, & tornado cut a swath about 100 Yeet wide and three blocks Jong | through @ residential district, - COLD WAVE SWEEPS THROUGH NORTHWEST St. Paul, Feb. 25.—(P)—A cold wave Toared through the northwest Mon- day on the wings of high winds that brought badly drifting snow to many However, the federal weather fore- cast for Minnesota, North and South Dakota was not so cold and fair. For Minnesota, the weatherman 18 below zero at Winnipeg, Man., and Sask. 1 lel i ut