The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 30, 1935, Page 1

North Dakota’s ¥ Oldest Newspaper THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ESTABLISHED 1878 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1985 Bandits Raid Second N. D. Bank Rails Denied Horizontal Rate Increase ICC PERMITS ROADS T0 ADD EMERGENCY CHARGES, HOWEVER Will Apply to Large Part of Freight Traffic Over Coun- try June 30, 1936 FARM PRODUCTS EXEMPTED Decision Is Reached by Vote of 5 to 4; Dissenters See Ceiling Reached Washington, March 30.—(?)—Amer- ican railroads were denied the right to make a horizontal increase in freight rates Saturday but at the same time were authorized by the in- terstate commerce commission Decision Voted 5 to ¢ The decision was reached by a vote of § to 4. Commissioners Meyer, Mc- , Lee, Mahaffie and Splawn took the view that the railroads are i 4 i ; i aif : ff iT es i i E aaee 3 i g i li i is z i H i i i a iit ise g i : A Be Fs i [ | I! | ity 3 i aH 3 hi ii gE it a5 z i > & 2 ag E & i | if ef i & § 3 3 i i i F E . i i | i TD i i ef | | i i ii | i gE Hig il & z el i i 3 Es HH | i 4 i i oH I H il i i | E i i i a i & tt # ii s i a i oe 3] pane ee th eH i i ! ll vE Af i i Pit s i a3 it Bs Fi3 i COAL WAGE CRISIS Threatened Walkout Mentioned In Urging Immediate Ac- tion on NRA Bill i i i ; | Bs al et i [ i A z 5 wie i z E ; | ag fl | | a ee Fi i 5 i E t 1 i é i : | E i 32 a i j g ¢ Ld 2 : i i ite 5 8 3 2 a z F ¥ 5 i g if a z | ge i iz HE il F | SOVIET ORGAN HITS |Residential ISOLATION POLICY MAINTAINED BY U.S. ‘Writer Expressing Official Views Declares America Bound Up With Europe Estimates of New Homes to Be FAR EAST PACT PLANNED Eden and Litvinoff Conclude Conversations on German the money or can get it. High as 50; Survey Shows Bismarck Underbuilt; Over 100 Families Living in Basements Building Spurt Seen for City) ACTION MAY BRING Built Here This Summer Run as Bismarck will have at least @ modest residential building boom this agencies interested in such a development agree this is so, in- Cluding those which, for one reason or another, inclined toward Estimates of the number of new homes which may be built this sum- mer run as high as 50. Another guess is 30. Some say they don’t know, but this much is certain: at least 20 persons who can be designated by mame are thinking and talking about building. Most of these 20 have » are pes- ‘The reason for this Rearmi ind encouraging eben velopment is the fact that Bismarck is underbuilt. Several thousand per- , March 30.—()—Under the!sons have come here to live during the last few years and there has been very little new building. They have Moved into whatever was available. ‘Approximately 100 basement apart- ‘ments have been opened during the last three years. The number of {0TH ANNUAL AUTO, STYLE SHOW COMES Bismarck is vastly underbuilt. the basis of its present popuation it needs at least 100 new houses. ‘These things, coupled with the per- jsistence of the home-owning Capt. * Anthony Eden of Great Britain late Saturday finished his i : i H prt ie z i g i Ge g i f E Ez 25, a8 3 Hd | FLERE i 8 ge & & home be assured. In the backs of their heads the lending agencies keep in mind what they can (Continued on Page Three) aif i § FF Halt Fs Desperadoes Leave Prentiss) Hostages Locked in Stolen Car at Memphis HOUSING PROJECTS FLOOD, EROSION CONTROL WHITE COLLAR PROJECTS RURAL ELECTRIFICATION New Attendance Mark Predict- ed as 1,200 See Friday Night's Performance Bismarck’s tenth annual automobile and tga Myarcvhicomgeed Same ae night and present ications are that a new attendance record will be set by the 1935 event. A crowd estimated at 1,200 persons was present Thursday night to mit: Persons ness the second day's new spring fashion styles for women. Several hundred others spent con- siderable time during the day in view- ing the 28 models of new automobiles }.|Parsnick, Thelma King, Viola Sund- land, Jane Byrne, Winnifred Dohn and Ruth Neste; for Robertson’s—Mrs. (Colin Cary of Mandan, Arllys Ander- son, Ruth Hanson, Auvurne Olson, Louise Sween, Mrs. Gud Kaline, Mrs. Trousseau Displayed An extravagantly beautifully gown- ed bride! party aie the ERSFEEE we TO CLOSE. TONGHT i: | (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated . Press) BELGIAN MONETARY END 10 DEPRESSION Money Experts Visualize Im- portant Turning Point in Gold Bloc Rift SEE REVIVAL OF CREDIT Conclusions Presuppose Begin- ning of Chain of Con- structive Steps | i (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press) New York, March 30.—(#)—A ray of hope—bright, or flickering, depending upon the point of view—is seen in the rift in the gold bloc nations of j It may be, according to the more optimistic money experts, that an im- Portant turning point was marked by the action of Belgium in giving up the struggle to preserve the pre-depression Parity of her currency, It is possible, they suggest, that the tension in world monetary affairs is ‘about to relax, that serious maladjust- ments between principal currencies are about to be corrected; that the world scramble to hoard gold will Pass; that the monetary base is about to be put to efficient use; that money and credit will become plentiful. ‘This frankly presupposes the be- ginning of a chain of constructive steps. It presupposes that an international contest at currency depreciation will be avoided, that the race to rearm is but @ passing phase, and that the in- tense nationalism so conspicuous in Germany and elsewhere will not go to further extremes, LEADERS 10 APPEAL TO ROOSEVELT FOR WORK BILL ACTION Poll Shows Only Presidential Pressure Can Avoid Further Delay PREMIER VICTORIOUS IN MONETARY POLICY Brussels, March 30.—Premier Paul ‘Van Zeeland won # smashing victory in the chamber of deputies Saturday on his. policy of suspending the gold standard and devaluating the belga and immediately turned to the senate to learn the fate of his program. The chamber upheld the new pre- mier by a vote of 107 to 53. The cabinet decided to demand a vote of confidence Saturday in order. to push ahead its bills devaluating the currency by 25 per cent and pro- longing the government's special Powers. ‘The cabinet planned to resign if it was defeated, Sixty-seven Socialists of the 70 it, 30 of the 60 Catholics and 10 of the 2¢ Liberals combined to give the chamber's endorsement to the government program. Van Zeeland answered his critics with repeated references to President (Continued on Page Three) RELIEF CONTROLLER GETS POST IN OHIO Transfer of Eric A. Thorberg May Be Followed by Oth- er FERA Changes Here i Washington, March 30.—(?|—Oon- | Gressional leaders planned to ask President Roosevelt Saturday to use his influence in an effort to end the controversy delaying final action on the $4,880,000,000 work relief bill. They said only presidential pres- sure could settle the dispute touched off Friday by Secretary Ickes’ ob- fection to requirement that one- third of the $900,000,000 set aside for loans and grants to states and po- litical subdivisions be spent directly for wages. Some house leaders believe that unless there is a change in the senate situation by Monday, the house will accept the bill including the limitation objected to by Ickes. Chairman Buchanan of the house conferees on the bill reiterated that “it is up to the senate.” Wanted 50 Per Cent Clause ‘The senate conferees, a house leader said, “wanted to require that 50 per cent of the money be spent for work, but the house conferees beat them down to 33 1/3 per cent.” “I understand they're trying to put the pressure on the senate conferees ap- pointed purchasing agent for the fed-|minds and agree to strike out the eral relief organization in Ohio, E./33 1/3 per cent,” this leader added. A. Willson, state FERA administrat Informal polls by Democratic lead- announced Saturday. ers indicated that house and senate will leave for his new post Ickes, the public works adminis- trator, was said to feel that compell- “ing states and communities to spend be acceptable, however, if its lane guage were changed to specify the one-third be spent for “direct or i z & ayhageye ae i ga President, at 2 p. m. Satar- UNMASKED OUTLAWS ROB FARMERS STATE AT SHELDON FRIDAY Officials Say Two Men Mem- bers of Quartet in Nome Holdup Tuesday SLUG ASSISTANT CASHIER Get Between $300 and $400; Hold Off Workers, Custom. ers at Gun Point Sheldon, N. D., March 30—()— Two unmasked bandits robbed the Farmers State Bank here at 3:40 p, m. Friday of between $300 and $400. Officials said the two men may have been members of the quartet which looted the Nome State Bank Tuesday. Slugging Assistant Cashier Omdah! with a gun, the bandits held six bank workers and customers at gun point while gathering up money. The bandits went north and then jeast from Sheldon. No license num- ber was obtained. The car had a broken bumper in the front. Both bandits were well dressed. One was tall and dark complexioned; the other about 5 feet 7 inches tall, slender {and sandy complexioned. Omdahl ssid one of the robbers took part in the Dec. 7 holdup of the bank here in which more than $900 was obtained. Others in the bank besides Omdah! were Miss E. B. Greene, president; T. E. Wiper, cashier; R. E. Pratt, G. \O. Pratt and Louis Howell, custom- ers. Omdahl was ordered to open the safe but refused and one bandit cae him. He was not seriously urt. Miss Greene said she and others |could identify the men. W. D. Noice, sheriff, was in Valley City Saturday conferring with Barnes County Sheriff Theodore Hedstrom on the supposition the Sheldon bers were the same gang which ed the Nome bank, 25 miles north- west of here, and fled with more than. $1,200. Trail of the bandit car was lost northwest ef here within five miles of town. SOPRANO AND BASS WIN FIRST PLACES IN STUDENT CLASS All Winners in State Contests Will Be Heard In Concert Saturday Evening Tob- raid- Barbara E. N. Rieshus, lyric s0- Prano, of Valley City, and William » bass, of Fargo, were awarded first places in the student musician competition at the eleventh biennial state contests of the National Fed- eration of Music clubs for their per- formances Friday night and will ad- i announced by |, Grand Forks, fed- to see if they won't change their|first places