The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 7, 1935, Page 2

Se nese acaer nent 2 HAIL UNIT OPERATING BXPENSES DECREASE, SILJAN POINTS OUT ‘Average Cost in 1932-34 Was $36.57 Per Claim; Now Is $13.05 Average total operating costs of the State Hail insurance department for 1934 are less than total average costs for the three-year preceding period, Lars J. Siljan, manager of the depart- ment, claimed Monday. Siljan said the average cost from 1932 to 1934 was $36.57 per claim, while for 1935 the average cost per claim had dropped to $13.05. In- cluded in the cost are salaries for of- fice personnel, adjusters’ salaries and fees to county auditors and assessors for listing of lands. In 1932, Siljan said, the department insured 1,162,321 acres of land at an operating expense of $85,266; in 1933 @ total of 1,080,951 acres were insured with an operating cost of $69,654 and in 1934, 152,141 acres were insured on which operating costs totaled $38,026. Total area insured for the three years was 2,395,413 acres, Siljan said, at an aggregate cost of operation of $192,947, while in 1935, the depart- ment insured a total of 4,500.000 acres with operating expenses totaling ap- proximately $200,000. Cost of adjustment this year amounted to $3.21 per claim, Siljan ex- plained, as compared with a total av- erage cost for the three-year preced- ing period of $8.44 per claim. The per policy cost also dropped in 1935 from ‘@n average cost for the preceding three-year period to $4.42 this year, he pointed out. Total cost of adjustment this year amounts to $51,600, while $35,516 will be paid in fees to county assessors and approximately $10,000 to county auditors. UTILITY VALUATIONS REMAIN STATIONARY Assessment Basis for All Firms in State Is Fixed at $16,372,889 With only a small average decrease in each county, utility assessed valua- tions in the state remain nearly the same for 1935-36 as were set by the state board of equalization the preced- ing fiscal year. This year the board determined a new valuation of $16,372,889 for all gas, electric, heating and water util- ities in the state, representing a de- crease of but $26,211 for the 1934-35 figure of $16,399,100. The average drop per county was estimated at approximately $495. Originally, the utility companies in in the state were assessed a 12 per cent gross earnings tax and no assess- ment on valuation was made by the board of equalization. Later, the law was declared unconstitutional by the federal district court, and the prop- erties were re-assessed on the old principle. The valuations for each county, showing comparative values, are: County 1935-36 1934-35 Adams . 79,504 ‘77,695 238,206 232,198 146,404 133,126 Billings . 71,414 = 102,942 Bottineau .. 243,473 «233,861 Bowman 175,994 = 180,039 Burke... 265,551 © 259,371 Burleigh .. 708,741 691,602 Cass.. 761,161 2,703,736 Cavalier .. 306,151 312,685 Dickey . 199,140 185,738 Divide 56,659 54,551 Dunn . 67,572 65.536 Eddy .. 67,992 68,548 Emmons .. ++ 109,040 98,769 Foster ... 93,681 86,683 Golden Valley . 130,013 173,703 Grand Forks .. 1,636,947 1,630,756 118,155 117,858 94,061 83,753 ‘71,190 69,376 74,041 69,187 177,078 164,343 104,485, 97,159 205,637 194,326 105,320 99,288 182,476 179.884 ‘124,828 757,203 575,025 565,070 632,696 721,077 130,017 131,582 126,901 118,632 63,319 63,003 164,974 160,715 84,020 85,297 419,229 458,242 87,025 91,596 16,434 72,278 106,917 72,043 114,632 55,036 21,102 33,937 644,445 27,089 590,206 120,419 177,747 137,003 1,357,453 271,157 478,505 LOCKWOOD RITES SET Minneapolis, Oct. 7.—(?)—Friends and associates of Capt. Charles Lock- wood, who died as the last man of the “Last Man’s Club,” Monday took the body to Chamberlain, 8. D., for serv- od Tuesday and burial beside his On First 5 Cost of Projects Totals $448,- 008 With Nursing Program Costing Most Money Orders to start work on the first 50 WPA projects in the state to meet final approval and allocation have been issued here by Works Progress Administration authorities, give work in 23 counties. A few of the projects are already under way, of- ficials explained. One state-wide project under direc- tion of the State Health department will involve expenditure of the great- est amount of money; the public health nursing program, to be car- ried out at a cost of $134,640. The projects range from construc- tion of golf courses to installation of sewer mains and_ construction of drainage ditches and paving in towns. Much Construction and rebuilding rural school houses are also included in the program. WPA authorities pointed out that orders had been given to start work on the projects, providing district of- fices find no further obstacles to pre- vent labor beginning. In some in- stances, they said, district offices may discover discrepancies which will pre- vent the work from getting under way, and may result in disapproval. No such reports have been received here yet. Counties in which the projects are allocated include: Barnes—Valley City: Cleaning the river bed and shore line, Removing all weeds and other items found, such as wheels, cans, $2,725; cleaning storm and sanitary sewers, $5,040; remov- ing approximately 24,000 c. y. of earth from 70 city blocks and six alleys, $16,009. Benson—Warwick: Construction of two blocks of sidewalks on Main St. Both sides between First and Second avenues, $2,062. Bowman—Rhame: Remove old wa- ter main and relay new water main pes. Widen and surface road. Deep- en reservoir at pump station, $7,048. Totaling $448,008, the projects will} Construction of dams, road grading! THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1935 Work Ordered Begun OWPA Jobs le Vater Re-appointed i ° Rev. Walter E. Vater, pastor of the McCabe Methodist Episcopal church of Bismarck, has been re- appointed for his 12th consecu- tive year by the North Dakota conference, Smoothing fairways, $2,632; Berthold, Golf course for village of Berthold, $2,598; Carpio: Construction of dam in village park, $3,493; Minot: Grad- ing six blocks of streets on 11th Ave. and others, using material to build up to grade certain other streets, $7,290; Minot, route 1, paint and shingle rural schools $278. Williams—Tioga, Grading, reshap- ing and graveling 13 blocks of city streets, $2,865; Wildrose: Grading and graveling streets, length 7,500 feet, $3,861. North Dakota—Bismarck: Connect- ing state penitentiary with the sewer system of city of Bismarck, extension will be 4,811 feet. One lift station, $9,140. State-Wide — Generalized public health nursing program under the su- pervision of the State Health Depart- Burke—Bowbells: Constructing a three and one-half block sewer exten- sion, $3,458. Bismarck Gets Sewer Burleigh—Bismarck: Installing 10- inch sewer along Main ave., to in- clude ditching, close-sheeting and construction of manholes and pump- ing station, $14,464. Divide—Constructing athletic field on old fair grounds at the east end of city, $1,366. Noonan—Constructing an athletic field in city park, $1,620. Dunn—Killdeer: Construct 1750 lin. ft. curb and gutter on R. R. St. grad- ing, surfacing and installing drain- age structures on 14 streets, $8,829. Emmons—Linton: Construction of earth-fill dam to create reservoir, $10,379. Foster—Carrington: Building tile wall and placing roof over filter bed of sewage treatment plant, $2,051. Hettinger—New England: Repair municipal power line throughout city, replacement of poles, installation of transformers. Paint city hall, $1,315. Kidder—Tuttle: Regrading and resurfacing, gravel sidewalks, dig 10 wells. Installing of culverts on streets, $10,178, McIntosh — Ashley: Regrading, surfacing 2.14 miles of road in Ven- turia, $9,176. Ashley: Construction of two reinforced concrete bridges, $2,391. Projects in McLean McLean — Garrison: Construction of athletic field in city park; also constructing fence and graveling road around field $1,748. Underwood: Grad- ing and graveling 33 blocks, installing 10 culverts and constructing 600’ of drainage ditch $2,648; Max: grading 13 blocks and graveling 32 blocks of streets within the village of Max, $3,- 510, Morton—Mandan: Rebuilding club house, landscaping park, enlarging dyke, rebuilding tennis and horse shoe courts, $39,741; Almont: Grading and surfacing and drainage for streets in Almont, $3,674. Mountrail—Sanish: Grading and graveling one block of street, con- structing gravel sidewalk, two green timber bridges, landscaping the circle in town, $1,652; White Earth: Gravel- ing % mile road north of town and reshaping and graveling 11 blocks of city streets, installation of drainage and culverts, $1,506. Parshall: Level- ing and cleaning up dump grounds located within city limits. Also cov- ering refuse with six inch layer of earth, $598; Sanish: Construction of log community building of native tim- ber, Leveling and landscaping sur- rounding area, $1,168, Nelson—Michigan: Grading and landscaping cemetery, planting bush- es, trees and hedges $2,288; Lakota: Complete laying of water main 3463 feet $5,490; Michigan: Building con- crete culverts at street crossings for drainage $355. Pembina—Cavalier: Laying new| sewer on main street between second street and the school, a distance of 648 feet, $1,511. Sidewalk Is One Job Ramsey—Lawton: Constructing con- crete sidewalk and curb at intersec- tion of Main St. and Highway No. 1 running two blocks east, $3,016. Ransom—Lisbon: Rebuilding and enlarging the existing municipal golf course, $1,534; Lisbon: Grading and resurfacing 34,763 feet of city streets, Also grading and’ resurfacing 1,352 feet of alleys, $30,502, Lisbon: Repair and new construction of curbs, gutters and sidewalks on the streets of Lis- bon, $14,752. Renville—County-wide: Cutting and disposing of weeds on mail routes, school bus routes and county gravel roads in 24 townships, 580 miles, $5,696. Sherwood: Constructing a m®- nicipal golf course, remodeling build- ing into « club house, $1,367; county- wide: Reshaping and graveling 27% miles of county roads, nine townships and 11 sub-projects, $47,365; Grand: Completing the construction of dam, ment, $134,640. BENEVOLENT FIRMS OBEYING N. D. LAWS However, Hopton Reports That Some Outside Societies Have Defiant Attitude Wide changes have been effected by so-called “post-mortem” assessment benevolent societies operating in the state, as result of new regulations set up by the State Insurance de- partment, Harold Hopton, state insur- ance commissioner, said Monday. Hopton launched his investigation last July, following an opinion from Attorney General P. O. Sathre that “public policy dictated the insurance department should assume limited control over these organizations.” Under regulations by the de- partment, this type of society was re- quired to confine payments of a death benefit only to the amount obtained from proceeds of a voluntary assess- ment of members for the purpose fol- lowing the death of one member. The department refused to allow the groups to build reserves, and also denied them the right to agree to pay accident and health “benefits.” “More than 40 such organizations have promised their cooperation and willingness to comply with the new regulations,” Hopton said. “Some or- ganizations from other states which employ itinerant solicitors in the state, still maintain an attitude of defiance. It is my intention to continue enforce- ment of these regulations to prevent exploitation of North Dakotans by professional promoters.” He urged persons to “pay no money to unknown solicitors.” “These membership certificates are not insurance policies,” he said. “We will prosecute, in cooperation with the attorney general's office, flagrant vio- lators for solicitation of insurance without a license.” Sykeston High School Leaders Are Elected Sykeston, N. D., Oct. 7.—At or- ganization meetings of the various lo- cal high school classes the following officers were named for the year. Freshman—Clara Wagner, presi- dent; Charles Stiles, vice president, and Alice Schmidt, secretary-treas- urer, Sophomore—Norbert Arendt, presi- dent; Maxine Lessner, vice president; Irvin Stiles, secretary, and June Kol- ler, treasurer. Junior—Dorothy Wumkes, president, and Vernon Malley, secretary-treas- urer. Senior—Ralph Ackinson, president; Lloyd Bofenkamp, vice president; Chester Lundby, secretary, and Vir- gil Malley, treasurer. Supt. A. L. Larson is advisor for this class. The eighth grade students have named Kathryn Fruwirth, president; Merle Daniel, vice president; Anna- bell Hewitt, secretary, and Forrest Daniel, treasurer. Two Burned Jumping From Crashing Plane Le Sueur, Minn., Oct. 7.—()—An airplane fell from a height of 50 feet and burst into flames as it hit the ground here early Monday, its occu- ERA project, $536, ‘afton: On Hill Ave., from » relay six inch wa- 4500 feet, $7,738, Park River—Briggs Avenue to con- Death Takes Stormy 82 CLERGYMEN ARE |[GasPump Handle ~] APPOINTED 0 N.D. | METHODIST PULPITS Roe and Vater Continue Offices Here as Result of Con- ference Action Grand Forks, N, D., Oct. 71—(@)— Appointment of 82 clergymen to North Dakota pastorates, effective immediately, was announced by Bi- shop J, Ralph Magee, St. Paul, Sun- day night at the close of the four- day 50th annual session of the state Methodist conference here. Special appointments included: Cc. L. Wallace, president, Wesley college, Grand Forks; E. P. Robert- son, president emeritus, Wesley col- lege; George A. Henry, Fargo, direc- tor of federal transient relief; Walter Lee Airheart, Fargo, professor of religious education in Wesley college. Cc. A. Armstrong, Fargo, secretary, North Dakota Council of Christian Education; Edwin Burling, chaplain in United States Army; Earl W. Hay- ter, professor, McKendree college, Lebanon, Ill; and W. F. Dodge, Han- nah, field representative, state Chris- tian Education council. Seven were ordained into the min- istry at a Sunday afternoon cere- mony conducted by the bishop. They were: as elders, Elmer L, Shepard, Mandan, Earl Leroy Flora, Maxbass, and John J. Howe; and as deacons, Kenneth 8. Wiley, Velva, Charles A. Kepler, Lansford, Florence L. Berg- quist, Grassy Butte, and Susie M. Herrington, Benedict. Ministerial appointments were: Southwestern district: district su- perintendent, Alfred E. Roe, Bis- marck; Ashley, F. L. Watkins; Beach, Basil T. Osborne; Benedict and Doug- las, (Susie M. Herrington); Bis- marck, Walter E. Vater; Bowman and Chenoweth, J. Ralph McNeil; Cen- ter and Pleasant Valley, T. S. Brown; Dickey and Willow Grove, J. W. Fris- bie; Dickinson, C. W. Langdon; Edgeley, Jud and Nortonville, Carl H. Meier; Ellendale and Guelpli, J. D. Cawthorne; Gladstone, (Mrs. Nellie Cooke); Grassy Butte, (Florence Bergquist); Hensler and Steffanson, to be supplied; Hettinger, Alfred E. Hook; Jamestown, L. R. Burgum; La Moure, Berlin and Verona, Ray Mc- Clure; Linton, Omio and Temvik, Grant 8. Moore; Makoti, Raub, Em- mett and Banner (Arlow N. Albro); Mandan, A. R. Henry; McKenzie, Sterling and Menoken, Theo. Torger- son; Moffitt an@ Braddock (C. F. Cur- tis); Mott, Earl O, Grunsteas Ppoleon and Burnstad, Otto E. Kinzler; rural and Fort Rice, Elmer L. She- pard; Spiritwood and Bethel, W. J. Cause of It All Beaver Falls, Pa., Oct, 71.—(P)}— Half stunned by a blow on the head, William Parnell, filling sta- tion operator, staggered to the telephone and shouted: “Police! Robbers!” Officers who answered his call found a balky gas pump handle had fallen and nearly knocked Parnell out. SADISTIC KILLER OF 71-YEAR-OLD GIRL I$ HUNTED IN SEATTLE Child Attacked, Clubbed and * Then Strangled on Door- knob of Garage Seattle, Oct. 7.—()—A sadistic killer who hanged 1-year-old Sally Kelley on @ -garage door was hunted here Monday by police detectives, shotgun squads and volunteers, Investigating officers said the girl, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Albert H. Kelley, was criminally attacked before she was slain Sunday night. Coroner Otto H. Mittlestadt and De- tective Captain Ernest Yoris attfib- uted the killing to a degenerate. Captain Yoris announced detectives had taken into custody for question- ing a 51-year-old man. Detectives had as their main clue a man’s large handkerchief which was tightly knotted around Sally's neck and lashed to a metal knob on the garage door when two policemen discovered her body. The child’s grandmother, Mrs. Al- fred Coolidge, called police after Sally disappeared from the hallway of an apartment where she was playing. Four hours later Patrolmen Perry Hackler and F. E. Tinsley, investigav- ing garages behind the apartment building, opened one of the doors and the body, knees touching the ground, came into view. Captain Yoris said the autopsy showed she had been criminally at- tacked, struck a savage blow on the head and then strangled. M’Lean County Farm Folk Plan Meeting Garrison, N. D., Oct. 7—Members of the McLean County Farmers Un- ion will hold their annual convention here Saturday, Oct. 12, according to announcement by George Lange, county president. Principal speaker at the convention will be C. C. Talbott, Jamestown, pres- Medland; Steele, Driscoll, Sherman|ident of the state Farmers Union. and Liberty, Herbert Brown; Under-| Leaders of the organization in other wood and Turtle Lake, Franklin W.! counties and from some other states Gress; Washburn, Conkling and Fair-| also will speak. An invitation is ex- view, Oscar H. Swenson; and Wood-| tended by Lange to all businessmen worth, Robinson, Cleveland and Cry-| and non-member farmers to attend. stal Springs, to be supplied. The names in parantheses are sup- Ply pastors. Laather can be cleaned: and wash- CAPITOL GROUNDS WILL HAVE $20,000 BEAUTY TREATMENT Work of Laying Out Lawn, - Shrubs, Flowers, “Other Work to Begin Soon With “mud packs and everything,” North Dakota’s state capitol grounds will undergo & $20,000 beauty treat- ment, Under careful direction.of a crew of experts the beautification of the capitol mall and surrounding grounds may get underway this fall, J. N. Roherty, research engineer of state highway department, said. For nearly a year, state officials have negotiated with federal author- ities to recognize the project, and authorize expenditures of money for the plan, . More than 20,000 yards of black dirt will be moved into the grounds, to lay foundations for a series of col- orful gardens, shrubbery and other landscaping. ‘Where now unsightly bare ground mars the beauty of the $2,000,000 building in the background, lawns will appear, watered an_underground system. On the west side of the mall, a windbreak of scores of varieties of trees and shrubberies will rise. Walks, rising in majestic sweep to the capitol, will be bordered with many-hued flowers. The project is expected to be let to contract soon, Roherty said, with the majority of the work being completed early next year, Federal moneys granted the high- way department will be used to fi- nance the cost of the project. green Heart Disease Fatal To M’Kenzie Farmer Ole Neff, 65, McKenzie county farmer, died at 1:15 a. m., Sunday at a local hospital from heart disease. He had been confined at the hospital since Aug. 26. Mr. Neff was born July 14, 1870 in Norway. He lived on a farm eight miles northeast of Banks, N. D. His wife died three years ago. Funeral services will be held Thurs- day at the Banks Norwegian Lutheran church with Rev. O. B. Erickson of- ficiating. Burial will be made in the Garden cemetery. Mr. Neff leaves one son, Ole, Jr., of Banks. U. S. Supreme Court Meets in New Edifice Washington, Oct. 7.—(#)—Meeting for the first time in its $11,500,000 marble mansion, the supreme court assembled Monday for a new term ex- pected to have vast effect on the fu- ture of the nation. Decisions on a number of New Deal policies—sub- Jects of far-reaching controversy—are ed in ammonia water. anticipated before the term 4s over. A AE Sailor Forecasts Rain and Eels Fall | __ Rain and Se York, N. ¥., Oct. 7—(P)— rorrybost Captain John New got himself into trouble by slanting a sea-going eye at the heavens and redicting rain. = For ‘temnediately the shower started—not watery drops but ering eels. ae deckhand explained how two sea gulls, flying over the ferry with eels in their beaks, had been frightened by @ siren. They drop- ped their catch, and the captain’s prophecy was fulfilled. NEW DBAL INDICTED BY GOP GRAND JURY AND HERBERT HOOVER i Governmental, Financial and) Farm Policies of Adminis- tration Attacked | > Oakland, Calif, Oct. 7—(4#)—After deliberating three days as a self con- stituted grand jury, western Repub- licans planned Monday to prosecute the 1936 campaign on an “indictment” of the Roosevelt New Deal. The “indictment” was the central action of a group of enthusiastic del- egates from 11 far west states who ended the week-end rally here Sun- day. At the same time the westerners is- sued a restatement of party prin- ciples that included a balanced bud- get and reduction in the cost of gov- ernment. ‘< Two Men Get Attention Drawing almost as much attention as the “indictment” and party tenets, however, were two ranking Repub- lican personaliies, one present in per- son, the other by proxy. Former President Herbert Hoover, titular head of the party, denounced the present. administration in scath- ing language that caused his 1,500 hearers to burst into frequent ap- Plause. The name of Alf M. Landon, bud- get balancing governor of Kansas, once more was brought before the nation as likely to draw considerable ae at the nominating conven- ion. Say Youth Endangered The “indictment of the New Deal” approved by the delegates included charges that: Representative govern- ment was being destroyed “by usur- pation of legislative powers,” by at- tacks on the supreme court and by Propaganda; that an “orgy of spend- ing” was endangering the youth of the country with the future burden of taxation. - The indictment also included con- demnation of the Roosevelt farm po- licy which was declared to have lost foreign markets for American prod- ucts and to have caused food prices i eee to “almost. prohibitive Son of Sioux ‘County Family Dies Sunday Clayton Alexander Silk, 18-months- Oe or Mr and Mrs, Steven. ilk of Kenel near Fort Yates in Sioux county died at 10 p, m., Sunday at a local hospital from pneumonis. The* w child was born Aug. 19, 1934. Burial will be made in the St. Bernard Cath- olic church cemetery at Fort Yates following funeral services to be con~- ducted by Rev, Father Bernard at 10 ‘a, m., Wednesday. 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