The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 27, 1935, Page 1

North Dakota’s The Weather ¥ Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 Generally fair tonight and Tuesday; not much change in temperature, THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, MAY 27, 1935 PRICE FIVE CENTS | Frazier-Lemke Act Invalid kk * : xk kk * xe k *& NRA Killed by High Court SECTION THREE OF RECOVERY ACT HELD ~UNCONSTITUTIONAL Powers Given President to Make Codes Declared Beyond Scope of Congress HUGHES RENDERS OPINION Control in Deals Indirectly Af- fecting Interstate Commerce Rests With States ‘Washington, May 27.—(P)—NRA codes were wiped out Monday by the and hours of work by codes also was invalid, the ruling had the effect of killing the 557 codes in force. Obviously downcast, Donald R. Richberg, NRA counsel, conferred at once with the house ways and means act, under which congress delegated to the president authority to make codes. It held this authority had not been sufficiently limited or defined. The tribunal also ruled that “where transactions have merely an indirect effect on interstate comnferce, the control rests with the states.” Chief Justice Hughes discussed con- ditions which controlled the making of codes—leaving the president free, he said, tp adopt such measures as he thought for the public welfare. There had never before been such legislation of authority, he emphasis- ed, The decision was unanimous. Tt came at a timo when the house flict with the senate over its bill for Jess than ten months extension. (Continued on Page Three) STATE AND NATION GIVE. AAA. PROGRAM OVERWHELMING ‘ES Incomplete § Returns in Burleigh County Show Opposition Negligible Burleigh county farmers, in com- mon with others in North Dakota, Saturday cast an overwhelming vote for continuance of the Agricultural Adjustment administration’s wheat Kidnap Note to Weyerhaeusers Disclosed sRssinimas CAR TAX EVASIONS HIT BY FLANNIGAN Drivers Licenses Not to Be Is- sued Until State Fee Is Paid, * Says Highway Chief Late News Bulletins (By The Associated Press) CONSIDER NAVAL PARLEY London, May 27.—(#)—Well-inform- ed quarters said that the British gov- Bruce Bowman, 9 years old, was the last person to see George Philip Weyerhaeuser, also 9, Fri- day before the heir to the timber day morning after leaving school for the lunch hour. The Lewell school which the two boys had just left is seen at the left, Bruce is the son of Clair Bowman, who was director of the Department of Labor and Industries when Roland H. Hartley was governor of Washington. Lower is a pic- ture of the Weyerhaeuser home, 420 N. Fourth 8t., Tacoma, SENATE 10 ACT ON PROPOSED CHANGES IN TRIPLE-A BILL Wheat Referendum Expected to) Strengthen Fight for Amendments ‘Washington, May 27.—(?)—Modi- fied in several respects but still facing @ fight, the now-famous amendments to the AAA act reached the debate stage in the senate Monday. Behind them was a history of em- battled controversy, but administra- tion leaders hoped that victory lay IN LETTER RECEIVED BY PARENTS OF BOY Family Is Given Five Days to Raise Money With Warn- ing ‘Better Have It’ BILLS MUST BE UNMARKED Family Is Told ‘Slip on Your Part Is Slip By Us’ and ‘Follow the Rules’ Seattle, May 27.—(#)—In a copy- right story, the Seattle Post Intelli- gencer Monday printed what is said was the text of the kidnap note re- ceived by the Weyerhaeuser family in Tacoma on May 24, after the dis- appearance of their 9-year-old son, George. The text, as printed, follows: To whom it may concern: 1, 200,000 dollars in cash. 2. 100,000 dollars in $20 bills, 3. 50,000 dollars in $10 bills, 4. 50,000 dollars in $5 bills. 5. All of this money must be in federal reserve notes and unmarked. 6. You are not to take the number of these bills. If they are taken and the bills are marked it will be all off. 1. You are not to notify the police, department of justice or any private detective agentcy. 8, If you do it will be all off. 11, You have got five (5) days to raise the money. Better have it. 12, In five days or as soon as you have the money; advertise in the Seattle P-I personal column. Say ‘We are ready.’ and sign it: Percy Minnie. 18, Remember the money will be gone over before the release so don’t mark it. 14. The police can’t catch us so be very, very careful to follow the rules, careful, 16, Remember and don’t try to slip any gold certificate notes on us. 17. You will be notified where to you, not for us, ‘Blip’ Will Be Just Too Bad it Youngster Last to See Weyerhaeuser Lad Before Kidnaping | VAI DEMANDS LISTED Held for $200,000 Ransom | —— George Philip Weyerhaeuser, 9, who .was- kidnaped on his way home from a Tacoma school Fri- day, is being held for $200,000 Below is Mrs. John P. BANK OF N. D. WILL PUT HALF MILLION IN FHA MORTGAGES Stangler’s Announcement Fol- lows Approval of Institu- tion by Washington Cooperating with state and nation- al banking institutions throughout the state, the Bank of North Dakota is ready to invest a half million dol- IN RULING AGAINST DEBT LEGISLATION 5-Year Moratorium Held Invalid in High Court Opinion Read by Brandeis CITE ‘DUE PROCESS’ CLAUSE Decision on $9,000 Suit Affects Over 12 Billions in Farm Indebtedness Washington, May 27.—(#)—'The Frazier-Lemke act granting a fives year moratorium for paying off farm mortgages and affecting billions of dollars of indebtedness was held un- constitutional Monday by the sue Preme court, In a decision read by Associate Jus- tice Brandeis, it ruled on a case brought by the Louisville Joint Stock The federal district court for west- ern Kentucky and the sixth circuit court of appeals upheld the legisla- tion affecting farm debts estimated act, some upholding it and others ruling it unconstitutional, The bank offered $9,000 for the property, Brandeis declared, and Tt was contended by the bank, he week At @ recent meeting of the state lustrial commission, Governor Wel-|rector, said the entry of the Bank of and other members of the com-|North Dakota into the housing pro- gave their approval to the/gram in cooperation with the 66 banks already approved “assures suc- cess” of the housing program in the state~ juring Moodie said the average of the|first period of the moratorium of 1 mortgages, now being written in in-|per cent, he said, was not real interest announcing coopera-|creasing volume, is for a term of 10/on the loan. Manager Stangler said the bank/to 12 years. Water Stored by CCC Dams _ |srititen'is Banishes Spectre of Drouth |Soiepie'tatet nu tat int: able to the farmers.” “We must hold the act void," he asserted. Payment of the state two per cent! Sr nent was considering the possi-|Shesd. The AAA hoped that last similar to that |retait sales tax by North Dakots pur-| bility of holding a seven-power na-|®aturday’s wheat referendum would speed tliem along the path to enact-|Feason a erecget Gp core opines Tab contecein? Delare ie end of this| ment. Latest unofficial reports showed farmers voting 6 to 1 for continued CONFESSES FIVE ROBBERIES | “Hest control. Washington, May 27.—(?)—Di- Dickinson Promises Fight rector J. Edgar Hoover of the fed- Senator Dickinson (R-Iowa) said, eral bureau of investigation said | however, he did not expect the refer- that Thomas R. Limerick, arrest- |endum result to have much cffect on ed Saturday at St. Joseph, Mis- |the amendments, which strength- souri, confessed “to five bank jened Secretary Wallace’s hand. He robberies and is suspected in five | added that a stiff fight would be more.” Loot of all 10 robberies | made on the licensing provisions re- totaled at least $53,500. lating to dairy products. Senator — Borah (R-Idaho) has said the modi. TO URGE TRANSPORT UNITY We —President Roosevelt fied amendments proffer no “sub: - Washington began writing a message to congress recommending sioner, declared Monday. Flannigan said drivers licenses will be issued within the next 10 days, but. that none would be sent to drivers of new cars, bought outside the state, until owners could produce proof they had paid the sales tax on the stantial” improvement over their or- unification of ‘ll fed- iginal form. eral agencies dealing with transport. On the other hand, Senator Nye (R-N.D.) and Senator Capper (R- The transportation message is ex- to recommend inclusion in an Kas.) said they would support the pected amendments, and Nye asserted that expanded interstate commerce com- mission of all agencies dealing with lems hand supervision of transportation—land, ‘The bill which Senator Smith \sea and air, (D-8.C.), chairman of the agricul- LAURA CONTINUES FLIGHT Beneath more than five and a half| The stored water will be of inesti- billion gallons of cool, clear water, the|mable benefit to the farmers of the spectre of drouth in North Dakota|state McKinnon asserted. today. “The stored waters will have the ef- In hundreds of spots in the state,|fect of raising the water table of the of toil of scores of men, limp-|state, which has been 15 feet below pools of water, precious nearly |normal for the past 20 years,” he said. ond price a year ago, now banish 50 Dams Per County Goal shadow of searing thirst, of crops| ,, will to crisp and of cattle, gaunt ‘Water in the wells of the state will were the pictures drawn by | McKinnon Dee 2 D McKinnon date tectiniclan of {he Tun-ott has not been normal, there is sufficient to make an appre- and Harris Robinson, | state | ciable difference on the farms of the engineer, as they described an| =o)” ‘ harvest to the state—stored 4 “Considerable water got away, be- Reservoirs Fill cause we did not have a sufficient CCC dams enough number of dams constructed on stored to create a lake |smaller streams in the state. produce Prod “During a winter of normal amounts that the last a small & gg ture committee, offered to the senate, is the measure as rewritten by the house agriculture committee. The amendments are designed, in the language of the legislation it- self, “to permit the agricultural ad- justment program to be made more effective.” Give Wallace Broad Powers - They proposed sweeping revisions in the authority of the secretary of (Continued on Page Three) Jennings Quits FERA - To Become Publisher New England, N. D., May 27.—(7)}— F. Jennings, FERA case worker in Hettinger county, has resigned his| with the post to become publisher of the Ba-jment in ker, Mont., Journal, effective June 1. “il nental women’s speed record at- tempt by a faulty oil line, lifted her plane from the runway at ADMINISTRATION SHAPING FOUR-YEAR AAA PROGRAM Washington, May 27—(7)—A plan to. hold the nation’s wheat crop in re i and 45 minutes out of Burbank, Calif., Saturday when she was forced down here, 35 og pa 2iR ro) “ z &. KIDNAPER’S LIFE SAVED Jefferson City, Mo., May 2h—(7)— Governor Guy B. Park heeded the plea of Miss Mary McElroy and com- muted the death sentence of Walter McGee, her kidnaper, to life in prison. MISSING MILLIONAIRE SAFE dale, Fla., May 27. —(P)—William B. Leeds, Jr., heir to the tin plate fortune, who been missing in a small craft with two companions since Sunday night, arrived here Tuesday aft- ernoon, : i i f & it colleges, gradi from the University of North Dakota,) paper, the and formerly was employed by the|kidnapers indicate “another ‘Times-Record. (Continued on Page Three) :