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

North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper The Weather Bovey took; peobabiy rein arm ESTABLISHED 1878 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1935 PRICE FIVE CENTS N. D. Budget Cut to $4,764,000 Olson Refuses. to Quit As N. D. Road Chief MAXIMUM SPENDING FOR EACH OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FIXED LABELS REQUEST BY ‘State Track Meet (SON GIVES THT GOVERNOR WELFORD _To Be Held Here AS POLITICAL MOVE)? tien and Mouse in — _ Will Fight Ouster Effort "Launched by Welford; Ignores Time Limit HURNING MAY GET POST Executive Leaves for East But Is Believed to Have Left Orders Behind Him Governor Walter Welford late Sat- urday asked Highway Commissioner Ole H. Olson to resign “not later than 5 p. m. Monday.” Bring Legionnaires From All Parts of Area AS NGHT CLUB I DESTROYED BY FIRE Panic - Stricken Patrons Trapped in Rush to Single Narrow Exit Chicago, March 25.—(#)—The Gay Club Rendezvous, jammed with a hun- dred merrymakers, was converted into @ flaming inferno that left six dead and 16 seriously burned Monday—aell Overflow crush of fear the club's height early & remodeled suburban Morton Grove, r ii | Speculation as to Ex-Presi- dent's Plans Flares Again After New Deal Attack 4 EB S ! i E Fi i 4 fi f itu | i i i be i ge ge > Bgsg teal qit H fe ei Ht Ht int G Fe iE i i a i si if i ! | | | | i a ii i & i J et “il th il ! | i z ? E f & i it i I ihe Competition Will Have Sante Status as Annual Affair ‘at University EXPECT BETTER RECORDS Schools’ Athletes to Be in Bet- ter Condition as Result of Later Date OF REFUSAL LETTER TO PRESS OF STATE Quotes Federal Road Head as Not Asking His Removal From Office ILLS ARE ANCIENT ONES Asserts Trouble in Department Goes Back to Laxity of Vogel's Regime Ole H. Olson, former governor and that you, as acting governor, are be- ing dictated to by some sinister force that you cannot resist. “It appears to me that the sole purpose of the letter from the federal bureau was to acquaint you with cer- the Thinks Government Would Be Justified in Taking Over Plant ‘this statement after Francis P, Fenton, representatit American Federation Daniel F. Hurley, chairman Soop _comepliies. of i fl i z 5 i ie Ef & 8 i i all F i lg g i f ! a, i z i i 1 ii aa fit HY i | : : Cf ii i i 3 g é fell nA pee atl EERvea iy that this state did not appropriati any money to properly maintain roads, rE i i I E i ? i ty z w tH ti ik Headliners in Legion Convention Here HOMER CHAILLAUX Pictured herewith are the war veterans who will be headliners at the convention of the fifth dis- trict of the American Legion, to be held here Wednesday. Ap- Proximately 500 war veterans from all parts of the district are expected. Challiaux, who will be the prin- cipal speaker, is Americanism director for the national organ- ization. Stambaugh, Fargo at- torney, is department commander and Williams, also of Fargo, is department adjutant. Boise, a Bismarck resident, is a fifth district deputy. Kraabel, a Fargoan, is veterans service offi- cer for North Dakota. T. O. KRAABEL outhwestern States Pray for Rain to Check Drouth Damage HITLER INSISTS ON NAVY ONE-THIRD AS Statistician Says Some Color- ado Lands to Be Useless for Next 100 Years TSPER CENT FIKED AS MAXIMUM BOOST Governor Creates ‘Need Sur: plus’ of $236,000 for Next Biennium SETS LIMIT FOR SCHOOLS No Additional Monies to Be Al- lowed Except by Execu- tive Order Creating a “need surplus” of $236,- 000, Governor Walter Welford by ex- ecutive order Monday directed all in- stitutional and departmental heads of the state to keep their total ex- penditures for the next biennium down to $4,764,000. He set up provisional maximum ex penditure limits for each of the insti- tutions and state departments beyond which no spending will be done with- out conference between the officials and the governor. The need surplus created by his order will result from a balance over the expected revenue of $5,000,000 department and every institution was affected defin- itely by the order which declared: Governor's “Whereas appropriation bills were cated deficit of approximately $574,< 168.67; LARGE AS BRITAIN'S}"°"*- cor rawone seen) | WHEAT ACREAGE Desire Larger Fleet for Protec- tion Against Soviets on Baltic Sea (Copyright, 1935, By the Associated Press) Berlin, March 25.—()—Reichsfueh- rer Hitler, in intimate consultation with Sir John Simon, British foreign secretary, was reliably reported Mon- day to have insisted that Germany needs an adequate army and a navy capable of controlling the Baltic, with European civiliza- tion from invasion by Russian Bol- shevism. Hitler was said to have claimed that Nazi Germany has saved Europe from Bolshevism. He went into conference Monday morning with Sir John and at 5 p. m., 6% hours after the meeting began, the discussions were still continuing be- hind tightly closed doors. Meet Again Tuesday It was eight hours after the meet- had included s two-hour lunch, endea. ee Seeneeenen a ovate aan Se Sir John entered the chancellery t | wide variation in the event of more rain Farmers in Hardest Hit Sec- tions Begin Exodus; Public Health, Imp: Kansas City, March 25—()—South- western drouth damage, embraced in abandoned homes, half starved herds ‘and dust smothered crops, ran high in the millions Monday as weather- beaten farmers prayed for a general rain to check ravages of sun and wind. “Many millions of dollars,” was the nearest authorities would come to estimating the losses. However, Hubert L. Collins, Den- ver statistician for the United States department of agriculture, said thou- sands of acres of southeastern Color- ado land would be useless in farming and grazing for 100 years or more and other crop experts pointed to the dust toll in the blowing wheat fields. Collins predicted, on the basis of the present outlook, “the most com- plete crop failure in the history of the western plains region.” He .said he referred to eastern Colorado and ‘Wyoming; western Kansas and Ne- braska and the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandle sections. As the “black blizzard” continued, farmers, beaten by the prolonged storms after four years of drouth, be- gan an exodus from the Colorado counties of Baca, Bent and Prowers Oklahoma crop authorities said wheat would te 50 per cent jor normal, with the figure subject to » Crop in said|Sunday, promised fy | ‘heat’ and plenty ; ; i i E fe i i E f | il | f ever i i F i § i i Limitation Decided on to Make Possible Compensating Cut in 1936 Washington, March 25.—(#)—Offi- cials of the AAA said Monday spring wheat farmers taking advantage of the new ruling permitting increased plantings for this year would be lim- ited to an increase of not more than 75 per cet above the acreage they in- tended planting before the order. ‘This limitation was decided on, they said, in order to make possible the compensating cut which may be asked for in 1936. As first drafted, the ruling would have allowed any amount of 5 Under the contract provisions, farmers would have been required to hold their planted acreage down to 90 per cent of the base acreage—the five-year average planted to wheat. The new. rulings permit the planting of the 10 per cent and any additional amount up to 75 per cent over the acreage allowed in the contract. ‘Thus a farmer with 500 acres who would have reduced production to 450 acres may increase his 15 per cent of 450 acres for a total of 787 acres. Chicago Prosecutor Opens War on Gangs of it.” “The war is on,” he declared a few hours after several fleet car drew abreast sedan and opened state were set with the following maximum of expenditures: Oe ails of North Dakota, €525,< State Agricultural college, $380,000. Gratton state school, $86,000, Ellendale Normal, $65,000. Mayville Normal, ‘$95,000, ss7500, = : (Continued on Page Two) WELFORD APPOINTS TAX SURVEY BOARD Commission Is Designed to Set Up New Permanent Struc- ture of Levies Plans will be submitted to the next session of the legislature.