The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 13, 1935, Page 1

‘yy . North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Fair bed and Learccr AR little change in temperatur ESTABLISHED 18738 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1935 PRICE FIVE CENTS Expect Light Vote at Monday lection s Rampages Subsiding After Taking 80 Lives Nature’ s HEAT, FLOODS, RAIN AND LIGHTNING SEEM ATEND FOR PRESENT At Least 20 Persons Drowned During Last Siege, Asso- ciated Press Reports’ HEART BEHAVING AT MANDAN Five Drownings in Minnesota and Heart Attack Fatality Added to Long List floods, rain and lightning appeared to be subsiding Saturday, but in their wake was an unofficial toll of four score dead, including at least 20 drowned. Promises for cooler weather were held out to the East after two days of searing heat. Moving eastward after @ swing through the Middlewest, a heat wave in the Atlantic seaboard states sent temperatures soaring Fri- day, with New York reporting its|_ highest mark this year. A dozen died from the hot weather and in drown- ings. Showers brought relief to the Mid- dlewest, but the rain was not gen- eral. In Minnesota, where the tem- perature dropped into the eighties, five were drowned. At Granada, Colo. where nine drowned Friday when streams sud- denly left their banks following cloud- bursts, the waters were reported going down. The Heart river at Mandan, N. D., likewise was subsiding after forcing 25 persons to leave their ‘omes. Five drownings in Minnesota marked the Northwest's violent death record Saturday, the results of swim- ming and fishing mishaps, while a sixth victim died from a heart at- tack. r ‘The dead: Steve A. Jonak, 11, Minneapolis, drowned in the Lakes. John Abel, 56, and his niece, Mar- cens Oichy, 12, drowned in Lake Moses, 40 miles east of Fergus Falls. Wendall Olson, 30, Lake Benton, drowned while swimming in a stone quarry pit. Steve Phillips, 26, Little Falls, fell dead at International Falls from & heart attack presumably Bren} by| Washington, July over-exertion while he played CONFESSED SLAYER TO SERVE LIFE TERM Admitted Killer of N. D. Boot- legger Is Sentenced for Murdering Minnesotan Sues For $500,000 Sult for $500,000 has been filed by Mary Nolan (above), platinum. haired actress who formerly was Imogene Wileon of the “Follies,” against Edward J. Mannix (below), M. G. M. official, on charges that he assaulted and beat after they had lived together as man and wits shel nd — years. (Associated Press WEATHER 10 DECIDE CROPS OUTCOME. IN NORTHWEST STATES. Rust Held Real Menac Real Menace in Re- port Issued by Depart- ment of Agriculture 13.—()—The tt of agriculture reported Saturday that weather conditions in Nebraska, Minnesota, North and ‘South Dakota during late June and the first 10 days of July continued extremely favorable for the spread of stem rust in wheat. Crops were said to remain about 10 days behind normal development. An abundance of moisture, increased the prospect for a general spread of stem rust in the hard red spring} Upon wheat area, Only slight damage was expected for the winter wheat crop in Kan- sas, now maturing. In Northeastern and eastern Nebraska, the Kansas Long Prairie, Minn., Ree department said, losses vary widely, An admitted Saturday half his life|ranging from a trace to as much as to spend the/40 per cent in individual fields. time prepared rest of it at Stillwater penitentiary; Stem rust was said to be becoming ni Eeeaeeocee eee tae Gen eile, tee iduoariect Gab that northwest, Herman Janzen, 39, goes|Marquis wheat in many localities in ‘osx pe. Bie a Nitee 8 Lo ey ree ee, in- Ucted the Texan. . A ballistics expert’s discovery that the bullet which killed Hancock came from. gun found. fn Sanson s poms: sion was Municipal garage at Hewitt. Janzen, confessed slayer of Don Lesmeister, Harvey, N. D., bootleager, \n what he called a “liquor war,” admitted a record of several convic- tions, two in Montana. In 1915 he started a five to 10-year term at Billings, Mont., for robbery, being Others included burglary and robbery convictions in Montana, Sioux City, Yowa, and Huntersville, Texas. Two Are Killed and 44 Hurt in Ireland Belfast, Northern Ireland, July 13— ¢?)}—An urgent wailable two lives and 44 George O'Neil, eight years old, and & man whose name was not given were ‘wounded in the newest outbreak of sniping Saturday. Rooftop snipers started the trouble paroled after three years.|ing crop ity plea to the|this area would be damaged seriously. of ©. J. Hancock, Hewitt,|Ceres wheat, the department said, is many |showing consider: resistance and lerable would not be damaged as much as Marquis. An abnormal amount of rust was have developed on the south- a REE IS MENTIONED IN MINNESOTA SURVEY St. Paul, July 13—(?)—Black rust which “has to a greater or lesser de- gree gained a foothold on wheat” in Minnesota was mentioned as a factor Roosevelt Favors Truck Regulation with the ship subsidy measure now pending in congress and asked that a new bill be worked out. TYPHOID IN MILL CITY Minneapolis, Minn., July 13.—(7)— Following his suggestion that resi- gents boil all water before drinking or cooking as a safeguard against typhoid, F. B. Harrington, city health commissioner, was swamped with tel- ephone calls from anxious citizens, who fired varied questions at him. HULL STATEMENT IS HELD SIGNIFICANT OF U. §, ATTITUDE U. S. Secretary of State As- serts Kellogg-Briand Pact Still Is Binding NO WATIONS MENTIONED Inference, However, Is That Re- mark Was Directed to Situation in Africa Washington, July 13—(#)—Secre- tary Hull’s pronouncement that the Kellogg-Briand peace treaty is bind- ing upon all nations signatory to it was regarded Saturday as a new in- dication that the United States looks with concern at threatened hostilities between Italy and Those two nations are among the 63 countries which signed the pact of Paris. In a statment to the press Friday night, Hull reaffirmed this government’s belief in that treaty and said: “It is an agreement and solemn obligation that the settlement or solu- tion of all disputes or conflicts among nations of whatever nature or of whatever origin shall never be sought except by pacific means.” Hull did not mention Italy and Ethiopia by name, but did say in ef- fect that this government looked to nations to live up to their obliga- tions under the treaty. Talks With Ambassadors Hull’s remarks were regarded here as of special significance in view of his recent conferences with ambassa- dors of Italy, Great Britain and France. On July 4, Emperor Heile Selassie of Ethiopia sent a note to this government which was inter- preted as @ request that the United States invoke the Kellogg-Briand pact. In reply, Hull suggested that the League of Nations was a com- be athng agency to achieve a Peaceful riday night he told reporters: United States and the other ares interested in the main- the (Kellogg-Briand) pact paces of the international commitments assumed thereby for the promotion and the maintenance of peace among the nations of the world. BRITISH ENCOURAGED BY AMERICAN STAND London, July 13.—(?)—Some British circles professed Saturday to see in Secretary of State Hull’s declaration in support of the Briand-Kellogg Pact a hint that the United States is willing to join Great Britain in a “front” to prevent an Italo-Ethiopian conflict. ‘These quarters viewed the Amer- ican secretary's statement as the most important contribution yet to impress Premier Mussolini the gravity with which other nations view possi- ble hostilities. Because of the week-end holiday no official comment was anticipated im- medial tely. Diplomatic circles ded as en- regar couraging the foreign reception to Sir Samuel Hoare’s speech in the house YOUNG DEMOCRATS OF MIDWEST MEET Objective of Maintaining Pres- ent Administration Em- phasized by Speaker omer and the July 13.—()—Younger Democrats from five mid-west states 5 mont guide to their deliberations, the speech of Minnesota’s congressman, Elmer Ryan, ' £528 Bly 8 younger Democrats it was up to “continue the work to the present administration taking such forward-looking New Deal. ALL iF : FB fe Addressing the state convention Fri- day night he dared supporters of a public ownership program and a pro- duction for use instead of for profit and the processors—the millers, pack- ers, and milk distributors—he said, were the bitter foes of the AAA, COAST FEELS QUAKE Los Angeles, July 13.—(7)—A sharp earthquake shock was felt here and in neighboring cities about 2:55 a. m. Pacific Standard Time Saturday. No damage was reported. the state convention of this | ERVIN J. LANG Woman Had Son-in-Law Slain MRS. BLANCHE DUNKEL Confession to Chicago police by Mrs. Blanche Dunkel, 42, that she had arranged to have her son-in-law, Ervin Lang, slain, cleared up @ mystery created by the finding of his legless body in a swamp. Mrs. Dunkel said a woman friend, who was living with a Chinese, had arranged with her oriental paramour for the murder. Lang, widower of Mrs. Lang’s daughter, had arranged a sec- ond marriage and his mother-in-law objected. ey Claim Girl, Bitten | By Snake, Feels OK | New York, July 13.—(#)—The spinach tossers bravely announc- ed Saturday morning that Miss Beebe De La Fontaine had vin- dicated every faith they had lodged in the efficacy of foliage @s a protection against the venom of a rattle snake. The branch of the country’s health enthusiasts said Miss De La Fontaine “is in fine shape.” The girl permitted herself to be bitten by @ rattlesnake Thurs- day night to vindicate the claim that be pict Pe Ab aapreay is a pro- setines snake venom. DECISION ON AAA AMENDMENTS HELD UP UNTIL MONDAY Senate Debate Progresses Slowly; Several Changes Are Made in Bill Ws , July 13.—(#)—Pre- vented by slow debate from reaching a final vote in the senate late Friday, the agricultural act amendments face further debate Monday. Outstanding changes made in the measure Friday exempted canning fruits and ops from marketing ments. In a bitter speech Senator Metcalf (Rep., R. 1), said of Secretary Wal- lace that “while acting in hope of as- sisting one portion of our citizenry, he manages to virtually destroy an- other.’ One of the chief trouble spots was apparently eliminated by Senator Lonergan (Dem., Conn.), when he in- troduced amendments forbidding regu- lation or restriction of advertising of gommodities covered by the act. He said both Chairman Smith (Dem., 8. C.), of the agricultural committee and the agricultural department had agreed to them. Urbel Relief Lists Show Sharp Decline Washington, July 13—(P)—A de- cline of 249,897 in the urban relief population. between May and June was announced Saturday by Harry L. Hopkins, the relief administrator, along with a $4,450,459 decrease in relief costs. The’ figures, covering 140 of the largest cities, showed a 3.3 per cent decline in the number of relief cases, land a 6.6 per cent decline in expen- ditures—from 2,070,640 families and single persons in May to 2,003,073 in june, and from $67,384,249 to $62,- Rust in Late Crops Is Serious, Says Putnam Fear that the damaging black rust tne | will take @ heavy toll of Burleigh Recent reports from throughout the | predicted previously. He with his assistants were check- ing fields over the county Saturday in an effort to determine the exact) extent of the menace. IOWA BANK ROBBED Monona, Ia., July 13.—(#)—Three men held up the Union State bank here shortly before noon Saturday and escaped with from $1,500 to $2,000 in CUAMPREY. CAVALIER COUNTY TAKEN FROM LIST FOR FEDERAL HELP Flow of Government Funds Stopped When Commission- ers Refuse to Give Aid The flow of federal relief money to Cavalier county has stopped as the result of a decision of the board of county commissioners to stand on a resolution not to pay some WERA ad- ministrative costs if the county takes over unemployables, E. A. Willson, North Dakota FERA chief, announced Saturday. While some counties might not be able to take care of unemployables, Cavalier county is in a position to do so and under federal regulations | * must provide for such relief clients, Willson said. The board of Cavalier county com- missioners, he said, refused to take back the unemployables if they had to aid in paying county administra- tive expenses amounting to about $200 a month or approximately one- sixth of the FERA administrative cost in the county. After a conference with county of- ficials, who declared they would stand on their decision, the FERA has closed its office in the county and allowed the Cavalier commis- sioners to take over all the relief. F, C. Hauser, state FERA statis- tician, said that $214,293 in relief has been expended by the FERA in the county since the program started in April, 1933, through May of this year, or approximately $8,242 per month, including administrative costs. Only other county off the FERA rolls in this state is Traill, which never has received federal aid. ASK POWER FIRMS FOR LOBBY COSTS Questionnaire Sent Out by Sen- ate Committee to Obtain Information Washington, July 13.—(?)—Ques- tionnaires were sent to all power com- panies Saturday by Chairman Black of the senate lobby committee to as- certain how much money they spent fighting the utilities bill. Meanwhile, H. A. Blomquist, the committee investigator, defended his action in seizing records at the hotel headquarters of Philip H. Gadsden, $32,000-a-year vice president of the United Gas and Improvement com- pany and head of the committee of utility executives conducting the drive against the Wheeler-Rayburn bill. In Philadelphia Gadsden termed the action “an unwarranted raid” and “an outrage.” He told the sen- ate investigators Friday the utility people had spent “a lot of money, but openly and above board,” as all rec- ords were available for the asking. New reports were heard Saturday that the administration may suspend work on the $36,000,000 Passamaquod- dy project to harness the tides in Maine. This project was the focal point of recent testimony obtained by _|the house rules committee. It will resume its investigation Monday with representatives of utilities compa- nies as witnesses. Black said his committee would not hold hearings for several days to give it opportunity ‘o organize and assem- ble information. HOLD FOUR FOR ROBBERY Minneapolis, July 23.—(#)—Four jmen were captured as they were un- [loading #400 in stolen tobacco in the rear of an apartment house here early Saturday, and were held for questioning in a series of cigarette hi-jacking and tobacco thefts perpe- months. idles im Minneapolis in the last few ABANDON ALL HOPE OF MAKING STRATO PLIGHT THIS YEAR Army Officers Will Make Last Effort to Discover Cause of Friday’s Mishap BOTH REFUSE TO COMMENT Have No Idea Why Huge Bag Burst Just Before Sched- uled Take-Off Rapid City, 8. D; July 13—(@— Abandonment of the National Geo- graphic society-army air corps strato- sphere camp was to get under way here Saturday as flight officials ar- ranged a last check to determine what caused the Explorer II to col- lapse early Friday just prior to a Ue jaunt into the thin upper Delayed by a threat of rain Friday » Captain Albert W. Stevens and Captain Orvil A, Anderson, strat- osphere fliers, planned completion of an investigation Saturday to deter- mine why the world’s largest free balloon burst after inflation was com- pleted. When the officers finished check- ing tears in the large bag they will seal it in a box and send it to Akron, Ohio, where it was constructed by the Goodyear-Zeppelin corporation. Despite many theories advanced as to the cause, Captains Anderson and Stevens declined to speculate regard- ing the mishap which ripped the of the balloon and caused the tic bag to fall into the bowl an hour before they were to take off in a flight pected to estal ecord. pecangeetion to Wright field, oe mn, Ohio, In view of plans to remove all equipment, another flight this year was considered improbable. other attempt but that, in such event, the start would be made from St. Louis rather than from Rapid City. TRADE AGREEMENT WITH RUSSIA GETS AMERICAN APPROVAL: Soviet to Spend $30,000,000 in U. S. in Return for Oth- er Concessions Washington, July 13—(#)—‘he United States and Soviet Russia Saturday signed a trade agreement expected by officials of both govern- ments to treble the value of trade between the two countries. That action ended 18 years of com- mercial relations which were con- sidered unsatisfactory. The state department said the trade agreement, concluded in Moscow through an exchange of notes be- tween William C, Bullitt, the Ameri- can ambassador, and Maxim Lit- vinoff, Soviet commissar for foreign affairs, pledges the Soviet govern- ment to make purchases totaling $30,000,000 in the United States dur- ing the next 12 months. In return the United States has granted Russia all benefits con- tained in trade agreements concluded with Belgium, Haiti, ‘Sweden and will extend all benefits accruing from trade pacts to be con- cluded with other countries. Concessions granted in the Cuban- American trade agreement are speci- fically excepted. ‘The new agreement contains no mention of, and in no way relates to the long pending Russian debt ques- tion involving more than $700,000,000 in debts contracted by the Czarist and Kerensky regimes. Former Governor of South Dakota Dies Watertown, 8. D., July 13.—(P)— Samuel H. Elrod, 79, Clark attorney, governor of South Dakota from 1905 to 1907 and a public official for many years, died in a hospital here early Saturday. He was brought here July 4 for an emergency operation for strangulated hernia and suffered a stroke Wednesday night from which he did not recover. 3,000 Killed When Chinese Dike Breaks Hankow, China, July 13.—(?)—The harrowing story of how the flooded upper Han river broke through dikes surrounding the city of Tienmen and drowned at least 3,000 persons was told Saturday by survivors. Hapless refugees poured into Han- kow by the hundreds from the north, where the Han, like the mighty Yang- | tze, is on @ merciléys rampage. Daughter Of Lord?, Mrs. Hazel Potts Streit (above) of Waukegan, II!., confirmed reports that she Is the daughter of May Yohe, musical comedy star of the “90's,” and further evidence Indi. cated her father Is Lord Francis Hope, former husband of the wom. an. (Associated Press Photo) GENTMENT FOR TAK ON EXCESS PROFITS SEEMS DEVELOPING Suggested as Better Plan Than Progressive Tax on Cor- poration Incomes Washington, July 13.—()—Senti- ment for a stiff tax on excess prof- its rather than a progressive tax on corporation incomes appeared to be developing Saturday in the house ways and means committee. One member said privately that the president might be asked whether would accept the substitution. Even Chairman Doughton (Dem., N. C.) remarked that he had “always thought” there was “merit to the idea” of taxing excess profits. Talk of that substitution was en- gendered by repeated criticisms be- fore the comimttee of the plan orig- inally advanced by the _ president. The administration plan would re- Place the existing flat 13% per cent tax on corporation income with a Braduated tax starting at 10% and rising to 16% per cent. Tacitly, the committee had to consider a graduated rate of 10 to 17% per cent. It received Secretary Morgenthau esti- mates that a tax of 10 per cent on oe first $2,000 of corporate income and increased by steps to a levy of 17% per cent on all income over $1,000,000 would bring $102,200,000 a year into the treasury. But Thursday, the Chamber of ‘Commerce of the United States de- scribed such a plan as destructive and confiscatory. Friday the Na- tional Association of Manufacturers termed it “unsound” from a social, economic, and taxation philosophy and standpoint. Saturday the Chamber of Com- merce sent a representative, Chair- man Fred H, Claussen of its commit- tee on federal finance, before the house committee to contend again that such a levy would retard re- covery. Rules for Allotting Highway Funds Made Washington, July 13.—(#)}—The long promised federal aid to get the farmer out of the mud was in the offing Sat- urday. President Roosevelt’s rules spending the $400,000,000 highway fund, earmarked out of the four bil- lon dollar work relief program, pro- vide definitely for the farm-to-market toads sought by congressmen from agricultural areas. The rules specify 25 per cent of the $200,000,000 earmarked for highway aid shall be spent on secondary or feeder roads—the ones farmers have ‘complained become impassable in wet seasons, Fy The rules further provide a quarter of the $200,000,000 fund for elimina- tion of grade crossings shall be ot to remove hazards on secondary roads and on city streets not a part of the federal-aid system. SCENT POLITICAL CONFAB Washington, July 13.—(#)—Observ- ers with a nose for political news were on the alert today as President Roosevelt and many other Democratic chiefs headed for 2 week-end of fishing on Cheasspeake Bay, GENERAL OPINION 13 150,000 WILL BALLOT ON ISSUE Poor Condition of Rural High« ways May Halt Outpour- ing of Country Folk CAMPAIGN IS NEAR CLOSE Governor Welford, Lefor to Speak Sunday Night; Op- ponents Are Active Although indications generally arg for a light vote on Monday, when the question of continuing the state sales tax will be decided by the people, some observers Saturday wera of the opinion that the number of persons going to the polls might prove surprising. A last-minute surge of interest in the issue was reported from all parts of the state as advocates and oppon< ents of the levy fired the closing gung of their campaigns. Proponents of the tax made it plaix that they are depending upon inter« est in the schools, poor-relief, old« age and mothers’ pensions and the general social welfare to sustain the legislature’s action in adopting the tax as an emergency measure. Polls Will Open at 9 A.M., Close 7 P. M. Polls will open Monday at 9 a. m., and close at 7 p, m., County Auditor C. G. Derby has announc- ed. All county and state offices will be closed during the day but business houses and city offices will remain open. The Tribune will be published as usual. See Homestead Exemption In the background they wees the expectation that, if the tax proves acceptable after a fair trial it may be made a replacement tax and con- tinued in the future. Chief amon the speculations on this point was possibility that a sales tax might made the future basis for @ tex emption on homesteaads, long garded as desirable by political econ~ omists. Opponents of the tax pecatile eon- tended that i is an burden on the people of a de wate) and that its continuance business across North Dakota's cane ern border into Minnesota, which haa no sales tax, The general expectation was that only about 150,000 votes would be cast on Monday, nearly 100,000 less than the record of last November, There was some speculation as ta whether the rural voters would find it convenient to go to the polls, many, roads having been damaged or made temporarily impassable by the recent rains and floods. It was expected, however, that these would be greatly improved by Monday. Opponents Change Tactics In the opening stages of the came paign the anti-sales tax forces con< tented themselves with getting the matter on the ballot. Their came paign activities were confined largely to the eastern part of the state, where the bulk of the population is centered. Lately, however, sensing a weaken ing of their strength, they have in< vaded the western part of the state, generally regarded as most likely ta give the sales tax a substantial ma« jority. Governor Walter Welford will close the campaign for the sales tax with a radio address Sunday night. He hag been in the thick of it from the bee ginning, although stressing the con< tention that it is no political issue. Of especial interest has been the pledge by the governor that he would administer the law economi< cally and in a non-political manner in the event of its approval by ‘he people. This action did much ta quiet the cry of “politics” raised by opponents of the law. Adam Lefor is scheduled to spealg in German and the anti-sales tax group also will have speakers on the air over the week-end. Three Address Local Meeting Addressing a meeting in the city auditorium here, Attorney General P. O. Sathre, Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction R. B. Murphy and State Senator S. 8. McDonald all cetcured the tax. Mayor A. P. Len<« hart presided. Murphy, reviewing the importance of the vote to the schools, stressed the fact that the apportionment of money to the schools is contained in a law different from the sales bares although the latter is expected to raise the money. The separate school ey, he repeals those provisions of the statute permitting country school districts to pay tuition when their pupils attend high schools in other districts. Under the new system such Mere. Wee a ee he ae fo sales tax receipts. If the sales tax is repealed, he said, the state will lack money to maké ist the be ex: Te. 2 large number of out-of-district stu< dents, will lose considerable tuition revenue. In Bismarck’s case, he said, it will total about $16,000 a year. M’Donald Explains Vote McDonald, a laborite, said some supporting the sales tax but that, ag Burleigh county’s representative in the senate, he placed the general wel.. (Continueg.on Page Threa).