The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 7, 1935, Page 1

aii aac 1 2 North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 Bodies of Storm Victims Are Burned xk * Hopton Asks for Derby’s Removal BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1935 *x * N.D.INGURANGE HEAD|[.___ArStorm Vented Fury on Morita Gust —_—_—+ SAYS HE FAILED 70 PROTECT TAXPAYERS Asserts County Officiat Should Have Stopped Alleged Peculations COUNTY DADS DELAY ACTION Will Consider Matter Further Next Thursday; Claim Filed on Kelley’s Bond Request that the Burleigh county commissioners join with him in rec- ommending to Governor Walter Wel- ford the immediate removal of C. G. Derby as auditor of Burleigh county was made to the county fathers Fri- day afternoon by Insurance Commis- sioner Harold Hopton. Hopton said he has known Derby for many years and has always been friendly to him but that his record in office has convinced him that the best interests of the taxpayers and of the state bonding fund would be Served by his removal from office. Hopton’s request came as he dis- cussed with members of the board their claim against the state bonding fund presented in connectign with al- Jeged peculations, embezzlements, de- falcations and irregularities of J. L. Kelley and A. H. Helgeson while Kelley was sheriff and Helgeson was his deputy from 1931 to 1935. Demand on Bond Filed The board made formal demand upon the bonding department for pay- ment of its claim, listed by F. F. Burchard, special auditor for the com- mission, at $25,742.13. During the dis- cussion, however, it developed that the bonding fund's liability would. be lim- ited to $15,000 since Kelley was only bonded in that amount... Under questioning by Commissioner: ‘W. F. Cameron, Hopton said he not accuse Derby of having knowledge of the activities of Kelley and Helgeson but that he take the position that he could should have known about stopped them before the loss county and the liability of the ing fund became so great as in the Burchard report. Whether or not the county com: missioners act, Hopton told will take action looking to cellation of Derby’s bond on ground that he is not fitted to hold cials or interested taxpayers. Although standing by a previous statement that the bonding depart- ment would pay whatever losses are disclosed by the audit, Hopton said the state would investigate the claim with a view to determining what items may properly be paid by it under the law. If, for example, taxes were er- roneously listed as Tongraigi and co claim were made under bond, state would refuse to pay it on the $20,000,000 Program Expected silt could) to Be Cleared Through Moodie's Office Sunday th ground that the county col collect from the taxpayer. and other legal aspects will be investigated, he told the board, although he made it clear that the bonding department is not fighting the claim and will not technical” in its consideration Will Seek ‘Salvage’ In any event, the county’s rights to either Kelley or Hel- In a last-minute burst. of speed, North Dakota city and county plan- ning boards Saturday were winding up details of projects that must be submitted to North Dakota WPA be- fore midnight Saturday. ‘The final group. of WPA projects which will be cleared through the of- fice of State Administrator Thomas HH. Moodie Saturday and Sunday will bring the total well up over $20,000,- |noon, totel projects cleared out of from the wreck,” Hopton said. was taken to mean that suits would be instituted against them to recover as much as possible of what the bond- action on the proposal Derby, deciding to give the matter more consideration. It may come up again at a meeting of the board called for next Thursday, ty By that time the bonding depart- ment is expected to have completed its check of the claim made by the coun-/ and ty. Hopton invited State’s Attorney George 8. to sit in with the care of the employment needs of all classes of workers during the coming’ winter and spring. VPA Project Planners Work to Beat Deadline FERA| Raiders of Streeter s Storm Vented Fury on Florida Coast | How 50 World war veterans, trap- péd on upper Matecumbe key by the Florida hurricane. battled for their lives is graphically illustrated by the picture at the top. For many hours they clung to a tank car, lashed by the wind and water, and when relief, finally came they were too exhausted to move. The lower picture shows the 1l-car train, sent to rescue the veterans, which was blown from the tracks by the howling wind. ITALIAN CONSULATES IN ETHIOPIA CLOSED ~AS PEACE TOTTERS Abyssinia Frowns on Protector- ate or International Po- lice Proposals (By the Associated Press) While the Italo-Ethiopian peace committee of the League of Nations Saturday requested the disputants “not to resort to force” for the time being. Italy ordered all its consulates in Ethiopia withdrawn, interpreted as presaging use of armed force in the dispute. Ethiopia was reported to have re- jected a compromise proposal from Geneva that Italy be given a pro- tectorate over Ethiopia somewhat sim- ilar to the British ‘position in Iraq (Arabia). : France's proposal that Ethiopia be placed under an international police force such as rules the Saar before last. year’s plebiscite was heralded in Ethiopia as only possible if tribal chiefs would accept it. From Addis Ababa also came news that Great Britain was adding to the 14th Punjab regiment stationed in the legation, 1,200 infantry, three carloads of field artillery and anti- aircraft troops, To Meet Again Monday The five-power committee will hold its next meeting Monday. Premier Laval arranged to leave for Paris Saturday afternoon, and to return eary next week. Sir Anthony Eden will go to the country near Geneva. Salvadaro Madariaga, Spanish rep- resentative; Joseph Beck of Poland, and Tevfik Rustu Aras of Turkey wil) spend the interval . studying docu- Ernee Bahnmiller, 4, Halliday Girl, Dies Ernee Babnmiller, four-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Oscar Bahnmiller of Halliday, died in a lo- cal-hospital Saturday at §:45 a. m. She was admitted to the hospital Sept. 1 in @ serious condition and failed to rally from an operation per- fotmed in an effort to save her life. She was born May 8, 1931,. near | Halliday. Besides her parents, she jleaves a brother, Edwin. Funeral services will be held in the Golden’ Valley church near Halliday | D4°Y- Monday at 2 p. m., with Rev. G. P. Gaede, pastor the Seventh Day Ad- ventist church of Bismarck, officiat- ing. Burial will be in the church military ambitions in Ethiopia. Tl Duce Reserves Freedom Bank Elude Possemen sa Streeter, N.‘D., Sept. 7.—(?)—Raid- ers of the Streeter State bank were eluding police Saturday with between and taken in a holdup late 3 g i Bank officials, forced to le down| Vents while two armed men scooped money into a sack, the pair * Business Advances Sharply as_ PLUMES OF SMOKE Investors Gain Confide $260,818 LISTED AS COST OF FOUR PWA BURLEIGH PROJECTS North Dakota Municipalities Send 141 Applications for Public Works TOTAL COST IS $14,344,204 Grass Lake, Driscoll Seeking Schools; Bismarck Plans Paving, Water Jobs Four Burleigh county applications tor projects costing $263,818 are among 141 from North Dakota mu- nicipalities requesting loans and grants of $14,344,294.90 that have been forwarded to the PWA head- quarters in Washington by H. C. Knudson, state PWA director. Burleigh projects are for school and municipal improvements. Grass Lake school district No. 1 near Wilton seeks $7,168 for a new school and repairs to an existing structure. Driscoll proposes building a consoli- dated school at a cost of $36,650. Cost of a Bismarck street-widening project is estimated at $169,000. A grant of $76,050 is requested. Improve Waterworks Improvement of the Bismarck wa- terworks calls for expenditure of $51,- 000. A grant of $22,950 is asked. The projects include almost every type of municipal work from a {oot ,at Mott to.a state-owned nat-. ural gag pipeline from Bismarck to Fargo and Grand Forks. Applications have been received from 41 of the 53 counties. Counties not represented are Adams, Logan, Dunn, Eddy, Foster, Mercer, Oliver, Richland, Rolette, Sioux, Slope and Towner. Ward Leads Others ‘Ward county, with a total of eight Projects aggregating $1,977,485.66 re- quested in loans and outright grants, leads all others. Cass county submit- ted 14 projects totaling $1,026,510.91; Grand Forks county, five projects for $802,860.96; Morton, four projects to- taling $452,345; Burleigh, four projects aggregating $263,818; Barnes, two projects for $128,695.70; Ramsey, five Projects for $606,426.28, and Stutsman, six projects aggregating $468,619.40. Total state projects applied for total $5,456,285. ‘The smallest project is that of Medicine Hill school district No. 12, Bowman county, for repairs to a rural school involving an expenditure of $800. The largest is the proposed gas line to be owned and operated by the state, involving expenditure of $4,490,- NEW FRAZIER-LENKE LAW UNDER ATTACK Federal Judge at Louisville Rules Amended Act Is Unconstitutional Louisville, Ky., Sept. 7—(?)—Farm debt reprieve legislation from the Frazier-Lemke hands unable to escape the challenge of unconstitu- tionality. Federal Judge Elwood Hamilton, in this area where the Frazier- Lemke five-year moratorium started on the path leading to downfall be- fore the supreme court, Friday dis- approved of the amended law in a reinstatement case. Judge Hamilton refused to allow Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Clore to reinstate filed under the original act. He decided the new act could not aid farmers in getting back land sold under foreclosure without vio- lating the due process clause of the constitution, of William Radford, Br., settled The case debtor in the legal temporarily by the supreme court, awaits decision. Radford also has ap- Plied for reinstatement. Circumstances however, since the mortgage Las not yet sold Radford’s property. Minneapolis, Sept. 7.—(?)—Lit- tle Jackie Grub, who can rattle off more words and sentences than & youngster three times his age, i i ‘the pasture were z i | + | Roosevelt's letter to acleading publish- THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE kk *& PRICE FIVE CENTS President’s Letter and Cana- dian Wheat Plan Are Lead- ing Factors in Move FIX DOMINION WHEAT PRICE Minimum Rate Will Last Until Next July; Politicians Cross Swords Business America stepped out with @ display of confidence Saturday which is unrivalled since 1931. One influence was the fact that the pres- ent upturn has lasted longer than any other since the depression set in back in 1929 but the main reason was er in which a “breathing spell” for business was promised, Of especial importance to the north- west was the action of the Canadian government in pegging wheat prices in the dominion at a minimum of 87% cents for No. 1 northern, The combined result of these events was to advance both stock and com- modity prices. Wall Street quotations were gener- ally at the highest level since 1931 after a sustained advance and grain prices lifted two cents a bushel or bet- ter on all markets, Will Last Until July The minimum Canadian wheat price will last through next July and provides that producers selling to the wheat board, set up by parliament, will receive participation certificates entitling them to share in any sur- plus board operations. Formal an- nouncement of the plan was made by Premier Bennett in a radio address Friday night. ~~ a ahaa) Most American traders had expéct- ed the price would be lower. One firm pointed out that if the Cana- dian selling policy is held rigidly to this basic price, it would mean that Canadian No. 1 northern wheat (Continued on Page Six) WALLACE IS URGED TO LIFT PRICE OF BUTTERFAT ON FARM Martell Asks Action to Remove Surplus Which Is Burden- ing Market In an effort to increase cash in North Dakota farmers’ depleted pocketbooks, Theodore Martell, com- missioner of agriculture and labor, Saturday telegraphed Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace to take some steps to remove the surplus from the butter market. Pointing out that excessive sup- plies are weighing down prices, Mar- tell declared, “the federal govern- ment can take no more constructive step to ald farnters of North Dakota and the northwest at this time than to remove the surplus.” ce LIFT SKYWARD OVER nce =| PYRES OF VETERANS Action Ordered by Health Com- missioner to Prevent — Spread of Disease MANY BODIES DECOMPOSED Protestant, Catholic and Jew- ish Clergymen Join in Final Rites at Scene | Freed From Custody (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press) Miami, Fila, Sept. 7%. — Plumes of smoke reached into the skies over Florida's _storm-wrecked keys Satur- day as the bodies of former soldier dead were placed on funeral pyres to banish danger of pestilence. Swiftly, for the state of the bodies permitted no delay, 500 workers un- der the direction of Sheriff D. C. Coleman pushed into the territory, got the bodies together and struck matches to their pyres. Coleman estimated 150 would be burned. Military honors were paid the dead for most of them fought in the world war. Protestant, Catholic and Jewish clergymen said last rites. In Miami Aubrey Williams of FERA, which advanced Florida funds to set up the camps, State Attorney G. A. Worley, Jr., and American Legion officials pushed investigations to de- termine whether someone blundered in not getting the veterans out of the storm area. Williams, after spending the morn- ing questioning witnesses, said it seemed “the course of action our people took was justifiable on the basis of the weather reports.” The EERA representa! ey mi ee JEROME BOESPFLUG When witnesses failed to iden- tify him and he proved an alibi, Jerome Boespflug, Mandan, was released from custody here Sat- urday. He had been held in connection with the recent rob- beries of the Security State Bank of Wishek and the First National Bank of Garrison. EXONERATE MANDAN MAN OF COMPLICITY IN WISHEK ROBBERY Jerome Boespflug Freed When He Proves Alibi, Witnesses Fail to Identify latest check showed "16 the three camps, of whom 46 were known to be dead, 281 unidentified, dead or missing, 138 in hospitals, 22¢ rescued uninjured or slightly in- jured and seven concerning whom counted for at 90, eight, bodies recovered and unidenti- fied 21, Civilian injured were listed at 286. Decision to cremate the bodies was reached by Governor Dave Scholtz on recommendation of Dr. Henry Han- son, state health officer. He said the bodies, exposed to the sun since night, were so de- composed that there was danger to health in handling them. Meanwhile, the disturbance which brought the havoc moved on north- eastward and caused storm warnings to be posted from Sandy Hook, N. J., to Boston. Food shortage threatened refugees made homeless at Federalsburg, Md., where flood waters drove more than 300 from their homes. Washout Causes Wreck Wrecking crews still searched for Jerome Boespflug of Mandan Sat- urday was exonerated of suspicion of complicity in daylight holdups of the Security State Bank of Wi- shek, July 16, and the First Na- tional Bank of Garrison, July 19. In the Wishek robbery, three men escaped with $2,000, and the same three men three days later are believed to have staged the success- ful Garrison looting, fleeing with $2,500. 4 Two McIntosh county farmers who conversed with the driver of the robber automobile as it stood in front of the Wishek bank identified pictures of Boespflug as,the chauf- feur. Boespflug, however, Sheriff Fred Anstrom of Burleigh county said Saturday, has proved beyond a doubt that he was in Livingston, Mont., the day of the Wishek robbery. Arres in Livingston for forg- ing a check, Boespflug pleaded gay, and served a 50-day jail term. le was returned to Bismarck Mo! day and held in custody while She: iff Anstrom and Charles Miller, as- caused a wreck and the death of an engineer. Some of the victims may be buried in the little Matecumbe cemetery near the place where the storm wrought its greatest havoc, but crem- ation apparently is to be the end for most of them. Here in Miami, graves were dug in Woodlawn cemetery to hold the bodies Martell called Wallace’s attention to the fact that the normal cash, crop—hard spring wheat—had been practically ruined by rust and heat and that thousands of farmers have only their dairy products left from which to derive cash revenue neces- sary to keep them off relief rolls this are different here, holder winter and next spring. “The low price of butterfat,” Mar- tell stated, prevents them from mak:- ing any profit on this production. “Due to a carryover of 40,000,000 pounds, holdings now in storage are approximately 40,000,000 pounds over | hee, last year,” he pointed out. Martell suggested that this surplus could be removed from the market by government purchase of the extra supplies for distribution to the desti- tute. “Prices would immediately rise, bringing inestimable benefit to the farmer,” Martell asserted. “Will you not urge action to this end?” Martell wired. “It will save millions which would otherwise have to be given out by work relief or other means and would be an aid to the restoration of farm prosperity.” tinctly = genius at 20 months. He has an intelligence rating of 260 on the Binet-Simon scale, on of 125 World war veterans brought out of the storm area. They were killed, with comrades and civilians in great numbers, when the mad storm slashed the govern- ment relief camps where they were quartered on Matecumbe key. Red Cross said the number dead or missing totaled 446. Even though President Roosevelt, at Hyde Park, N. Y., still was reluc- tant to take the step for cremation of the bodies, Governor Sholtz and Dr. Hanson said it was a question of pro- sistant superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification, brought witnesses of both the Wi- anak and Garrison robberies before ‘im. No one of the Wishek or Garri- son raid witnesses were able to identify Boespflug, most of them stating they were positive that Boespflug was not the man. En route to Bismarck from Li ston, stops were made in Bi lings, Miles City and Glendive were Boespflug produced witnesses who testified that the Mandan man had n in the various Montana cities AE least a week prior to the Wishek raid. Anstrom of the opinion that the gang that looted the Wishek and Garrison banks also staged the Streeter holdup Friday which net- ted between $700 and $800. WALTER MADDOCK BILLED Brookings, 8. ‘D.» Sept. 7.—(P)— Walter Maddock of Bismarck, North ? Caskets Hanson, as state health officer, said he would not allow shipment of bod- ies from the keys unless they were in i 3 id