The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 19, 1935, Page 3

NEW BILL BOOSTS INSURANCE RATES sian State Fire and Tornado Pre- miums Increased 40 Per Cent, Verret Finds —_ Premium rates on risks carried by the state fire and tornado fund will ‘be increased 40 per cent under terms Of house bill 165, Assistant Attorney General Charles A. Verret said Tues- boy in an opinion describing. effect of the new law. + The act also provides for frée in- surance to political subdivisions ‘which have been in the fund for five Gonsecutive years, until the fund drops to $1,500,000 when an assess- ment would be made. “Most of the amendments made by this act are to clarify statutes cover- ing the same subject and render more practicable and workable the functions of the fire insurance de- partment,” Verret said. “Most important change in the Present law consists in the amend- nd under provisions of which the ‘ate charged on all insurance of public buildings and property through the state fire and tornado fund will be the full rates promulgated by the fire underwriters inspection bureau. “Under the old law prior to this amendment, the rate of premiums to ‘be paid on policies or risks carried by the state fire and tornado fund could not exceed 60 per cent of the Yates. Under this new provision, the Premium rate on risks carried by the pd iteelf will be increased 40 per cent.” Annual Alfalfa Day Celebrated in Wells Fessenden, N. D., March 19.—(?)— Wells county's eighth annual Alfalfa Day program was held here Monday, attended by large crowds. Miss Olive Kro, Fessenden high school students was crowned Queen Alfalfa of Wells county, succeeding ‘Miss Cora Winsness who held the crown last year. A grand march and ball at the au- ditorium Monddy night concluded the festivities. Lenten Devotionals Theme Is Announced A_ Lenten devotional service will be held at the McCabe Methodist Episcopal church auditorium at 7:30) o'clock Wednesday evening when the pastor, Rev. Walter E. Vater, will speak on the subject, “The Suprem- acy of Christ's Love.” Miss Arleen Sanborn and Harold Harris will sing @ duet. The pastor extends an in- vitation to all who wish to atten Se NOTICE TO' CONTRACTO! STATE HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION ees ea eS = SS a =— 1. Proposals for the construction ef a State Highway on U. 8, Route No. 83 Bismarck North will be re- teived by the State Highway Com- missioner in the offices of the De- partment of State Highways at Bis- marck, North Dakota, not later than 9:30 o'clock A. M., April 5, 1935, at which place and time they will be Publicly opened and read. he Proposals must be mailed to or otherwise deposited with the Department of State Highways at Bismarck, N. “ Dak., and shall be seal- ed and endorsed “Proposal for con- structing a State Highway Bismarck Material Road Oil Premixed complete in place 3410 Gal. “M" f. o. b, Plant 5. Copies of. the propoxal blanks may be obinined from the Department of State Hi N. Dak. Plat file in the ision partment of State Highways at Bis- marck, N. Dak. and the office of the Dep't.’ of State Highways at Bis- marck, N. Dak., and also at the office of the County Auditor in the County Furnished hways at Bisma: wherein the project or projects are located. 6. au Bidders are invited to be it at the opening of the pro- e right is reserved to reject any and all proposals, to w: nlcallties, or to peept such iy be determined to be for the best iuter= of the County and State. 8. Bidders must bid on all items contained in the proposal blank. Any bid or bids received for any Sunes of items less than those contained i the proposal will be c lar_and rejected “The attention of ‘ebees. is di- rected to the Special Provisions cov- assigning the ‘of Domestic es i regul 9. ering subletting or contract and to the wi Materials. “The minimum wage paid to all skilled labor employed on this pro- ject shall be not less than eighty (80) cents per hour. “The minimum wage pald to all in: termediate labor employed on prolent shall be mot teas chan sixty five (65) cents per hour, “The minimum wage pald to all unskilled labor employed on this pro- fect shall be not less than fifty (50) cents per hour. “Where board is furnished by the contractor, a deduction in the above rate may be made for the actual cost of board, but wot to exceed eighty cents te minimum wages paid to the following classes. of camp whom the provisior regulating of employment does not apply be as follo Watchmen not less than $15.00 per we Timekeepers not less than $15.00 per week. ‘Clerks ‘not less help to hours shall than $15.00 per week. Hostlers not less than $15.00 per s per week plus board. Cook not less than $18.00 per week plus board Baro boss not less than $15.00 per the minimum rate for truck gl, exclusive of driver's wages, be fl yar “Trucks sl imited to a max- imum load of four (4) cubic yards for hauling # ‘ive cents per cubic I be I surfacing material ‘f1 : 2 North (tate Ald Project, No, 261B- 34) In Burleigh County.” 3 An certified check. for 5%, ton gether with a bidder's bond in the full amount of the gross sum bid, must accompany each proposal, Ali certified checks shall be drawn on N. Dak. Banks, and will be cashed by the Commissioner, and said cash will : be returned to the successful bidder upon the filing of an approved con- tract bond. 4. Contemplated work consists of 12.082 ‘miles of Oil Mix Stock Pile road improvement involving approx- Seante! ye 4d. “A certificate of compliance on rescribed form which will be hed fe that purpose shall be 4 submitted by al idders, ce with ‘Executive ‘Order sue by the President on Oni; accom- cept: eres to whom award ip ‘mage require subcontractors and dealers turnisl juipment, materials, and ‘ign similar certificates be! maki awards to or pur- chases from such subcontractors or dealers, copies of Ler shall be tur- uished to the conti officer.” STATE HIG! sie “DI ARTMENT Ole H, Olson, tate Fries iad Commissioner. Date Bek altsiie. 6,500 Acres of Public School Lands Leased Forty-six descriptions of state school lands in Burleigh county, gregating itely 6,500 acres, were leased at a meeting held Mon- day at the court house here. Rev- enue received from the leasings to- taled $1,201.15. The greatest demand was for hay lands with only a few leasings of tillable land being made, Ernest Elness, county treasurer, re- ports. Directing the leasing were #H. B. Hanson, state land commis- sioner, C. G. Derby, county auditor, and Miss Dorothy Blunt, assistant in the treasurer's office. San Haven Incurables May Be Transferred Members of the state board of ad- ministration Tuesday had under con- sideration a proposal to move incur- able patients at the state tuberculosis sanitorium at San Haven to a pri- vate institution at Northwood. ‘The proposal would enable a number now on the waiting list at the sanitori- um to enter the institution, and would make way for cases pending which are not in the incurable stage, Nelson Sauvain, chairman of the board, ex- plained. The board expects to make an in- ‘spection tour into eastern North Da- kota probably next week at which time the Northwood ris me will be inspected, Sauvain said, to determine desirability of carrying out the proposal. Municipal Bond Bill Is Upheld by Verret New legislation empowering cities and villages to issue general obliga- tion bonds to refund outstanding spe- cial improvement warrants is consti- tutional, Assistant Attorney General Charles A. Verret told Gov. Walter ‘Welford Tuesday. Verret made his ruling in an opin- fon asked by the governor's office. “Eliminating the question of fair- ness to the general taxpayers of the city or village to be compelled against their will and without an opportunity to express their wishes in the matter to liquidate an indebtedness that was incurred for the immediate benefit of ‘a few, which question is not within the Province of this office to express an opinion upon, I know of no prohibi- tion in our constitution against the enactment of this measure.” The measure was House Bill 292. “The question as to who may be made to pay the indebtedness of a city or village provided the burden is placed equally and uniformly on all residents involved, is a matter within the province of the legislature to leg- islate upon, and I can see no legal ob- Jection to the measure,” he stated. N. D. Legion Praised For Trophy Winning Grand Forks, N. D., March 19.—(7) —State and national officers of the American Legion congratulated the 35 Posts of the second North Dakota dis- trict Monday night on their share in bringing to this state three of the six national legion membership trophies. Approximately 400 Legionnaires at- tending a conference here heard Mylo J. Warner, Toledo, O., national vice commander, predict that congress will pass the Vinson bill paying the adjusted service certificates in full immediately. Warner also offered to “bet a dollar against a good doughnut that the President will not veto the bill.” Other speakers were John K. Ken- nelly, Mandan, also a national vice commander; Lynn J. Stambaugh, Pargo, state commander; Jack Wil- liams, Fargo, state adjutant; T. 4 Kraabel, veterans’ commissioner, Hoverson, head of the veterans’ ad. le ministration, elso of Fargo; Ed Kib- Jer, Bismarck, veterans’ placement of- ficer; Theodore Martell, state com- missioner of agriculture and labor, and Joe E. Rabinovich, Grand Forks, national Americanization committee- man and past state commander. Business Is Better, Says Auto Executive Confidence that business in the United States. will continue to im- Prove was expressed here Monday by J. E. Pields, president cf the Chrysler tech: Bal A former North Dakotan, Fields is second in the Chrysler organization only to W. P. Chrysler and has charge of the Chrysler, Dodge, De Soto and Plymouth plants as well as of the sales organization, He was returning to Detroit after a 4,100-mile jaunt around the country, Partly in his own car and partly by THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. BOND HOLDERS AR WARNED 10 COLLECT Local Banks Notified Option to Purchase New Issues Ex- pires March 27 Notice that only a week remains in which holders of called Fourth Liberty {Loan bonds may exchange them for new treasury bonds paying 27s per [Pot interest was received by local bankers Tuesday. The Fourth Liberty bonds will be called April 15 but the last day for exchanging them is March 27. On that date holders may cash the bonds but will have no option as to reinvest- ing the money. Interest on the lib- erty bonds will stop on the date for which they are called. The advantage in making the ex- change, according to F. E. Shepherd, vice president and cashier of the First National Bank, is that it offers a safe investment for the money at a higher interest rate than can now be ob- tained from other government bonds, most of which are selling at prem- jums, Some local bondholders, Shepherd said, are due for a sad awakening when they attemt to cash the coupons on government bonds which already have been called by the treasury de- partment, some of them as long as a year ago. These coupons are worth- less after the date the bonds are called for payment, he explained, but some persons have continued to hold the bonds, either through ignorance or neglect, despite the fact that they are getting no interesst. The high price of government bonds and the low interest rates at which the government is able to borrow money. he attributed to the excess of uninvested capital. Money isn't being put to work in commerce and indus- try jhe said, and those who have it are investing it in bonds which can easily be converted into cash if busi- ness again gets brisk. Local banks are paying 2 per cent interest on savings, he sald, but are not making much on the money and are turning down offers of deposits from points outside the Bismarck ter- ritory every day. This service is be- ing limited to Bismarck people, he said, because the banks are full of money which they cannot loan. TIRED OF SISSY ROLE Chicago—Maurice Chevalier says he is through with “sissy” roles. Stop- ping off en route to Cannes, France, he said he intended to sun himself ‘there until a moving picture producer decided to give him “the kind of a part I want.” He said the producers had wanted him to “laugh, kid and play all the time,” while he wanted to ‘do something differen located at eg op eg Stopping off here to visit Corwin- LUCKIES USE ONLY Woodrow Wilson Aide Silent on Hitler Act New York, March 19.—()—The treaty that bears his signature and the imprint of his work hangs in the balance, its military clauses denounc- ed by Adolf Hitler, but Col. Edward M. House continues his silence of years. The aged confidant of Woodrow ‘Wilson is the only survivor of the American signatories to the treaty of Versailles, the last of Wilson's close aides at the 1919 peace conference. Germany's denunciation once more brought “the colonel” into the fore- front. “Newspapers in Europe called me by telephone, quite a few of them,” he said. “They all wanted to know what I thought of Hitler's action, whether it was right or whether it was wrong. I cannot say anything about it.” Pictures Scanned in Mellon Tax Hearing Pittsburgh, March 19.—()—Some 300 pictures of bridges, giant factories and waterways projects, including the Panama Canal, were scanned in Andrew W. Mellon's tax hearing Tuesday as evidence of the rapid and romantic growth of the McClintic- Marshall Construction company. The photographs were put into the record by Mellon's counsel as part of the attempt vo show that in 1913 the “baby” compaay which started with $250,000 capital, of which Mellon con- tributed 30 per cent, had grown into @ fabricating giant with the finan- cier's share then worth $4,603,000. The government alieges that $1,- 000,000 of the $3,000,000 it claims due from Mellon for 1931 should have been paid on the transaction whereby Bethlehem Steel took over McClintic- Marshall in that year. Jamestown Physician Dies of Heart Attack Jamestown, N. D., March 19.—(>)— Dr. A! J. Lang, a widely known figure in medical circles of the state, died suddenly at his home here Tuesday morning as a result of a heart at- tack. Dr. Lang, who has been having heart trouble for some time told John Osbey, who lives with him, that he felt better Tuesday morning but when Mr. Osbey returned from ‘his breakfast he found Dr. Lang dead on his couch. A physician was summon- ed immediately but he reported that Dr. Lang had been dead for several minutes. Dr. Lang practiced medicine in Sanborn for 28 years and in 1926 ‘came to Jamestown. Mrs, Lang pass- jed_away November 20, 1933. Puneral arrangements je not been completes UESDAY, MARCH 19, PREDICTS GROWTH IN LIGNITE POPULARITY E. M. Hendricks of State Coal Association Speaks to Kiwanis Club Confidence that North Dakota lig- nite eventually will win over a major Portion of this state's coal business was expressed in a short talk before the Bismarck Kiwanic club Tuesday noon by Earl M. Hendricks, secre- tary of the North Dakota Lignite Operators’ association. Hendricks pointed out that at Present North Dakotans are spending more money for coal from outside the state than for North Dakota's own native fuel, despite the fact that “North Dakota lignite is more effi- cient and economical for consump- tion in this state.” The secretary said that lignite al- ready has won over the major portion of the coal business in the power and industrial field in this state, point- ing out that these larger concerns have figures on their operation which Prove the advantage of lignite over eastern coals, Home Owner Difficult Convincing the small operators and home owners of the efficiency of lignite is far more difficult, he said, because of the prevailing impression that eastern coals are more economi- cal, “Our main task,” he said, “is to Prove the relative values of coal to} small consumers.” Pointing out that the tonnage of coal in the United States is estimat- ed at 3,214,898,000,000, Hendricks said North Dakota has about one-sixth of the nation’s coal tonnage, the esti- mate being 516,000,000,000 tons. North Dakota mined 320,000 tons: in 1908, 1,057,000 tons in 1922 and 2,- 022,000 tons in 1934, Hendricks said. The mining industry has been a great help to some of our western counties, he said, during the depres- sion and drouth. Though mining is ranked second to agriculture in Nortl Dakota, he said, in one respect it is superior to agriculture in that “the crop never fails regardless of the weather.” Found guilty of a “high crime” during February, for which he was both “indicted and impeached,” W. J. McDonald, club member, was placed under probation by the club presi. dent, James Guthrie, after a hear- ing in which the defendant was examined in mock trial by P. E. Byrne and George F. Shafer. Will Quartet Sings Musical entertainment of the pro- gram was presented by the Will school quartet, including John Gun-| ness, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Gui ne: LeRoy Mitchel, son of Mr and 1935 | Mrs, Charles Mitchell; Earl Benesh, son of Mr. and Mrs. Emil Benesh; and John Lyngstad, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Lyngstad. James Shunk was accompanist and Miss Ruby Wil- mot, school music supervisor, direct- ed the group as they sang “O Sus-lover T’ve Seen,” and “Nelly Was a Lady.” Serving as chairman of the pro- gram was Jesse H. Melton. Guests Hendricks, McClusky; L. C. Tschudy, inspection engineer for the bureau of engineering of the U. 8. Department of Agriculture; and Attorney General P. O. Sathre, Bismarck. Double Funeral Held Jamestown, N. D., March 19.—(?)— Monday afternoon for Blanche, 22, and Duane, 18 months, oldest daugh- ter and youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Carter. Blanche died last Fri- day as a result of shock following the death of her brother, Cameron, 9, who died earlier in the week from intestinal infection. Duane’s death was caused by pneumonia following a weakening illness from infection sim- ilar to that which caused the death of Cameron, Gladys, 4, and Winifred, 6, two of the Carter children still suffering from an infection of an undetermined nature, are reported as “slightly bet- ter” by attending physicians Tues- lay. A preliminary report from the lab- oratory at the University of North Dakota at Grand Forks has been re- ceived by Drs. Joseph Sorkness and T. L. DePuy, attending physicians, Stating that the tomato juice test is negative and that, so far, no bac- teria has been found but that pod examination is not complete. theory of botulism, which was re- ported in news stories but never se- riously considered by the attending Physicians, is scouted. Report French Fliers Lost in Jungle Dead Brussels, March 19.—()—A mes- sage to the colonial ministry Tues- day reported the finding of the nec in which Edouard Renard, of French Equatorial ‘Africa, and his party had been missing, with all its occupants dead. With Renard were his wife, promi- nent socially in Paris, and five co- jlonial army officers. ‘The plane was forced down in the Congo jungles last Thursday. NURSES’ EXAMS SET Examinations for the registration of nurses from Minot, Fargo and Bis- marck will be conducted here April 2 and 3, it was announced Tuesday by Miss Esther Teichmann, member of | 15 Billions in Work Plans Being Sorted ministration engineers $15,000,000,000 worth of from, which some will be the drive to put 3,600,000 relief included E. C. Moore, Mandan; A. A.|gra For Carter Children|"7 Funeral services were held at Medina |. Senator Hayden (Dem., Ariz.) Mon- day, is that the proposed a tion is not dangerous to the nation’s credit, and that the expense can easily be met by taxation when more Prosperous times return. Sauvain Acts to Sell Beer Commission Cars Nelson Sauvain, chairman of the state board of administration, Tues- day took the first steps toward ulti- Mate sale of 18 cars purchased by the state beer commissioner under former Gov. William Langer’s admin- istration. Mexican Carboset New Discovery poems LIKE PRECIOUS eat ‘His action was in accord with a leg- islative act empowering the board to sell the cars at either private or pub- The/lic sale. The cars which have been stored pels be placed on exhibition, Sauvain said, A number of state institutions have indicated their desire to purchase some of the machines, Sauvain stat- ed. Two of the cars were sold to the state mill and elevator at Grand Forks by Sidney A. Papke, former head of the regulatory it. 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