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I a ee ee ee eee a An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Bstablished 1873) State, City and County Official Newspaper —$< $ $$ — $ $< Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- ‘arck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck ‘as second class mail matter. George D. Mann President and Publisher ©. Johnson Kenneth W. Simons Becretary and Treasurer Editor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) . +. 1.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside of Bismarck) . 4 Weekly by mail outside of Nort! year . Weekly by mail in Canada, per year. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are Blso reserved. a Inspiration for Today He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.—8t. John, 8:7. . If you cultivate piety as an end and not a means, you will become a hypocrite. — Austin OMalley. ehind the Scenes in Washington WITH ROPNEY DUTCHER More Embarrassment Faces J. P. Motgan in Railroad Quiz ... Congress Afraid of Itself as Law Arbiter eee ching Bill Defeat May Be Costly to Demo- crate. Washington, May 17.—Mr. J. P. Morgan, who be- came famous when 8 midget sat on his lap, may have two more dates with Senate committees before the year is up. Testifying before Senate committees bores Mr. Mor- gan. He says so himself. But the Nye committee in- vestigating the munitions industry is going through his firm’s war-time files and expects to want to see him later. And Senator Burt Wheeler will almost surely be investigating railroad financing, in’ which the Morgan company is involved up to its neck. The railroad investigation is temporarily held up for lack of a $25,000 appropriation. It has been desper- ately fought by Wall Street bankers and some of their controlled officials of railroads. ! Sponsors are admittedly cracking at Morgan-Van Sweringen attempts to control reorganization of the Van Sweringen railroad empire, which was picked up on @ “shoestring” basis after the investing public had put about two billion dollars. ‘into it. BLOCKED BY TYDINGS For a month, the grant of $25,000 has been blocked by opposition of Senator Milland of Maryland, @ member of the Senate's four-man audit and control committee, which must approve it. Townsend of Delaware, the Republi rn | Painfully Obvious Few political manipulations are more obvi- our or more unfair than that action of Dela- ware’s Senator Hastings in hinting that the and that he doesn’t want it. The Senate interstate commerce committee voted for the investigation and most of its members believe Tydings’ obstruction is such a barefaced usurpation of power that he can’t get away wih it. ee PERILS MORGAN REIGN demonstration by midwest farmers in Wash- ington was inspired by the Roosevelt admin- istration. Had Senator Hastings had the nerve to say frankly what he seeks to prove by his proposed investigation it would be much fairer. As it is, he tries to leave in the minds of the, people of the east the idea that the administration had marshalled the farmers in an effort to maintain the Agricultural Adjustment Act. In view of the fact that Hastings and his ilk have been telling their constituents that the farmers were not really in favor of the system it is easy to understand that the sena- tor was embarrassed by the demonstration held in the national capital on Tuesday and ‘Wednesday. Meanwhile, one wonders a little if the Dela- ware solon feels that the farmers have no busi- ness appearing in Washington to express their desires; that such practices should be left to the industrialists who have been gumshoeing through the capital for years, lifting tariffs on all sorts of items to the detriment of our farm population. All that the farmers who visited Washing- ton were asking was a continuation of the farmers’ tariff. Unskilled in lobbying, they adopted the only method they know, that of direct appeal to their congressmen and sena- tors. North Dakota, dependent on farm prosper- ity for its progress, feels that its basic indus- try has as much right to tell congress what it wants as do men in any other line of business. It resents the implication by Senator Hastings that its citizens have to be “lined up” by any political group to defend their own economic interests. As for insinuations that the allotment pay- a ments are un-American or wrongful in any other way, the farmer has ready an answer ‘which is more than adequate. The very people who squall loudest about government aid to the farmers are the ones who have had their hands in the federal till up to the elbows—but under another name. The People Do Rule How completely the brand of government one gets from public officials is dependent upon the character of the average citizen is illustrated by New York City's experience with its March grand jury. In the older states, it should be understood, grand juries are called every so often to consider whether per- bons Accused of criminal offenses should be indicted and to inquire into such other matters as seem fitting. Here grand juries are called only rarely and for the putpose of considering cases which a state’s attorney may not ‘want to handle under the broader powers granted him by our laws. There as here, however, 8 grand jury has wide pow- ers. It can inquire into anything which strikes it as inimical to the public welfare. It can investigate any- i. phe it chooses. Considerable talk has been heard in New York Charles A. Beard of the Missouri Bondholders’ Committee; “The Van Sweringens owe the bankers $48,000,000. The importance of so huge a sum to bankers headed by J. P. Morgan & Co. may be gauged from the fact that the amount now due the bankers from. the Van Swer- exceeds the total net worth of J. P. Morgan & Co. at the time of the railroad reorganization statute on , 1933... . “The wiping out of the Morgan share of the huge banking loan to the Van Sweringens’ corpora- tions might have been. seriously embarrassing to J. P. Morgan & Co., even to the point of threatening its position as overlord of some of the biggest railway, pe utility, and industrial corporations of the United States.” eee CONGRESS AFRAID OF SELF laws. Congressman Vito Marcantonio of New York: “Would it not be far better to have a constitutional ‘and do away with the precedent set by the decision in the Marbury against Madison case, which is the worst plece of autocracy ever legislated by any court into the constitution of a country?” Said Blanton of Texas: “Then we would have no government at all. We would have a Communist affair that would be worse than Russis.” LYNCH BILL BIG VOTE ISSUE A Northern senator high marked privately after burial of the Wagner-Costigan anti-lynching. bill by a southern filibuster that if the Ve y OLITIC - at the- NATION'S CAPITOL a d By BYRON PRICE ‘There is more talk about inflation Congress doesn’t trust itself as final arbiter of the| , in Democratic councils re- | ¢ 1936 election were close, the episode might cost his party | Once eight or ten important states. He referred to the fact well known among politicians that the Negro vote can.exert # belance of power in certain states—Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland are usually named—in close contests. ‘The best qualified guessers estimate that the Negro | things, vote went 85 per cent for Roosevelt in 1932, whereas per- haps 80 per cent in previous election years had been cast for the Republican ticket. Negroes are more.concerned as ® group with lynch- ing than with any other issue. Democratic politicians now anticipate a Republican drive to convince them that their “worst enemies” control’ the Democratic The southern ;fillbusters, however, were more worried about their own jobs than about national complications, (Copyright 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) Li With Other | iret DITORS | Two Years of AAA (New York Times) feverish Spring of 1933, celebrates its second birthday this week. The task assigned to it two years ago by Congress was to restore a pre-war “parity” between the index number of farm prices, as computed by the Federal Bureau of Agricultural Economics, stood lately about various vice rackets, including the “numbers” | and game. The latter is merely a gambling device whereby millions of dollars were filehed from the pockets of not- too-innocent victims, The police department declared war on the racket- eers, brought hundreds of them into court. The judges seem disinclined to do anything about it. Prosecutors were obviously half-hearted in thelr work. It was all too evident that prosecutions of the “numbers racket” were impinging on important toes, | When the grand jury met, District Attorney Wil- Now the significant fact is that Mr. Dodge did not | Inston. tax, of active foreign competition for world ticularly of the whole duction. But this invention of the profésserial The enormous surpluses of set the standard of citisenship for the grand jurors, Soods which piled up during the ‘They may even have suspected that he was “in cahoots” with the numbers racketeers. . At any rate the grand jury, under the leadership of Foreman Lee Smith, called some witnesses of their own, _- fneluding the chief of pollee and Meyor Le Guardia, won many friends fer the ment. 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Why?” showing lines of “In other words,” Mahoney eaid, “someone gave Gentry 8 were merely s signa) so the con- spirators couldn't be surprised by anyone with a pass-key. Millicent recognised the logic “Bzactiy.” he interrupted. “Now that apartment mast be op the third foor. Norman was car ried from apartment 309. Be would never bave left it voluntar fly. They would bardly beve taken bim up or downstairs.” Sergeant Mahoney stepped from the car, rang the bell of the apartment marked, “MANAGER.” At the third ring a speaking tube apartment, come back st a decent boar.” “It's the police,” Sergeant Mahoney said. “Open the door and meet us in the corridor with & pase-key.” 4 moment ister the door bussed open. Sergeant Mahoney pushed bis way into the apartment house.’ Millicent saw a big, blond woman with a white, frightened face, bugging © Kimona about hereelt. By William Brady, M. D. Dr. Brady will answer ease or diagnosis. Write Brady in care of The Tribune. All qu a stamped, self-addressed envelope. ‘Norman, where are yout that, no matter what happens, act naturally—that ts, be frigthened. Don't let on that you know the police have the place surrounded. For your information, 1 placed where they can your rescue whenever ! give signal, but I don't want that until I've got some as he dove, head frst, to A bullet ripped the where his bead had been. Another bullet tore through the upholster- ing, ripping cloth, sending up rer of dust and exposing wire man who bad stood struck at Millicent’s Somehow pe tte! fipeeetti at Your Personal Health ing to health but not dis- and in ink. Address. Dr. must be accompanied sesPeaegge e eehieestit

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