The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 18, 1935, Page 1

ESTABLISHED 1873 Naval Blockade of Ital kkk GIL LIBERTY ISSUE RAISED ‘BY PERJURY COUNT, LANGER SAYS Asserts Honest Affidavit Was Filed Against Judge An- drew ‘Miller DENIES DISGRACING COURTS Four Men Indicted for Alleged Falsehoods Will Be Ar- raigned Saturday & Former Gov. William Langer Friday declared his indictment on charges of perjury by a federal grand jury “puts Langerism out of the picture and puts in its place the issue of civil liberty.” Langer with three associates was indicted on perjury charges Wednes- day by the grand jury at Fargo. The indictment grew out of an affidavit of prejudice filed against Federal Judge Andrew Miller, who presided last year over the trial of Langer and his associates on charges of con- spiracy to corrupt administration of , an act of congress. Indicted on the new charge with Langer was Frank Vogel, former state highway commissioner, Oscar Erick- son, chairman of the Republican state central committee and R. A. Kinzer, former secretary of relief organization in the state under Langer. Says Affidavit Honest Langer declared, “I feel it is a sacred right, guaranteed by the cori- stitution, that every man shall be tried in court by a fair and impartial judge and jury. I stood on that fun- damental right and filed an honest affidavit against Judge Miller. The result is that we are now indicted for perjury; forthe filing of “this. davit, this latest event puts” ism out of the picture and puts in its place the issue of civil liberty. “Even though some people in this state may not like me,” Langer as- serted, “nevertheless every true citi- zen is a lover of-civil liberty. The battle from now on is not confined to my associates and myself but includes every liberty-loving citizen of the United States. : “If anyone has the United States court it has not been I, because both personally and as governor I al- ways upheld the constitution, and ura honesty in all court proceed- (ngs.” Asked Disqualification Langer said he and others indicted with him had through their attorney cate by the judge so disqualifying himself haying been filed 10 days be- fore convening of court, made it necessary for the defendants to file their affidavit of prejudice if they wanted their case tried before an- other judge.” The former governor pointed out the federal statute provided two may be disqualified: “such trial judge may file a certificate with the clerk of court admitting his disqualifica- tions, or an affidavit of prejudice may be filed against him and in connec- tion with this statute requires the reason for such prejudice be specifi- cally set out in the affidavit.” His indictment, Langer said, “is himself, Langer, raises an issue “far overshadowing” THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE . BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1935 xk k & British Split With France Feared Uz. S. Annexes Pacific Isles as Air Route Links Rye Crop Control | Plan Is Approved Wimbledon Assistant Postmistress Killed Wimbledon, N. D., Oct. 18.—(#)— urning the ditch. She was pinned under the machine. She leaves her Hl nab trad three sis- ters and orien brother. SCIENCE DEVELOPING DRUG THAT RETURNS INSANE 10 NORMAL Temporary Cures Now Being Effected; Permanency Seen by Dr. Mayo Detroit, Oct. 18—(7)—Dr. Charles H. Mayo, eminent surgeon and endo- crine specialist of Rochester, Minn., told the International Medical assem- bly Friday, that within five years a drug would be developed which would restore insane and feeble-minded per- sons to full use of their faculties. . Mayo said the drug now was being used experimentally by Alfred W. Adson of the University of Min- nesota’s graduate school of medicine. He declined to disclose the nature of but. predicted that it toil : of special Cattle ints wreat- mént of young persons suffering from dementia praecox. “I have myself seen patients who had been confined to a hospital for the insane for periods of more than seven years, after injection with this substance,” the surgeqn said. “Almost instantly their eyes became bright; their mental faculties returned; they became aware of their surroundings they left the hospital.” But to date, he added, none of the cures has been lasting. Within three weeks after the treatment, the ef- fects of the drug have worn off and it has heen necessary to return the pa- tients to institutions. Dr. Mayo expressed confidence that the treatment eventually will prove practical, however. ANETA HOLDUP NETS ROBBER TRIO $300 Money Exchange Looted De: pite Editor's Walking Out to Call Police Former North Dakota Man Is to Direct New Four Year was approved Friday by Secretary Wallace. Contracts covering the 1936 to 1939 crops will be offered farmers as soon as necessary forms can be printed. The program calls for a 25 per cent acreage reduction. Quotas will be fixed on average acreages harvested in recent years. The secretary of agriculture before harvest time may increase quotas if he finds a larger acreage necessary to meet demands. At Least 35 Cents Farmers will receive benefit pay- ments on 30 per cent of their quotas. representing the portion of the crop considered used for domestic human consumption. If the ‘difference be- tween the average farm price and the parity price of rye is not more than 35 cents a bushel, the benefit pay- ments will be equal to the difference. They will be at least 35 cents a bushel if the difference is greater than 35 cents, as is now the case. First pafments of 20 cents a bushel on the 1936 crop will go out as soon as practicable after contracts are signed, and the remainder after proof of com- pliance next year. Farm officials have been drafting the program since they received what they considered growers’ endorsement of a temporary outline presented at hearings in Aberdeen, 8. D. and ‘Washington. ‘ Tax Fixed at. 30 Conty. “The AAA amendments fixed the rye tax at 30 cents a bushel,|Tegulatory effective Sept. 1. The same machinery by which wheat control is administered, uhder the direction of George E. Farrell, director of the division of grains, will be used, it was said. The wheat and rye programs are expected to dovetail in most states, since the wheat grow- ers are often heavy producers of rye. Dr. A. H. Benton, formerly of the N. D. Agricultural college at Fargo will be in charge of re program under Farrell. First benefit ae on the 1936 Tye crop, it is contemplated, will be made this fall after contract signing is completed. They probably will be made semi-annually thereafter. A first installment of 20 cents a bushel upon allotted acreage is Proposed. No Limit on Hay The plan is to adjust the acreage of harvested rye only—farmers will be permitted to plant for hay with- out limitation—to 75 per cent of the base acreage, although the secretary by proclamation may increase the standard base period. Accomplishments the program. con- templates include prevention of sur- pluses with subsequent price declines, assurance that growers will receive parity returns on that portion of their crops normally required for domestic ,;consumption, and maintain produc- ator, of about $300 in currency and escaped despite almost immediate word to police.. | Working hastily, the bandits ran- . Sail for Antarctica to their base at Hijackers Get $10,000 Truckload 6 of Hosiery Chicago, Oct 18 — 18,—(7)—Four ee from Charles tion at a level that will increase the purchasing power of rye. Crushing Campaign Against Rebels Set Nogales, Sonora, Mex., Oct. pret x * * REGULATORY BUREAU OPERATING COSTS 91 PER CENT OF INCOME $335,232 Spent of $366,631.73 Collected Since Establish- ment in 1933 ONLY $19,600 TRANSFERED Salaries, Mileage, Hotels and Meals Eat Up Biggest Slice of Levies \ Administrative costs of the state regulatory department since its cre- ation in April, 1933, to June 30, 1935, have totaled 91.43 per cent of all in- come, an audit by J. M. Shirek, state accountant, revealed Friday. Shirek’s audit, which covered terms. of. three’ regulatory chiefs—Steve Ter | . Horst, 8S. A. Papke, and the present head, George Moris—revealed that of $366,631.73 derived from income to the department, $335,232 was expended in administrative expenses. The department was organized April 1, 1933. Shriek divided his audit report into three sections, one for each of the three heads’ terms. Established Under Ter Horst Under Ter Horst’s term, the regu- latory department was established; he'served more than 15 months, from April 1, 1933, to July 20, 1934; Papke, under whose control the regulator: and beer departments were combined, served from July 21, 1934, to March 11, 1935, Moris: has been regulatory chief since March 12 of this year, little more than three months. Under his copecaamaiace department was est as a separate entity|* but under ’genéral supervision of the department head. Shirek’s audit shows that 95.14 per cent—or $348,833.51— of the depart- ment income came from fees col- lected from various sources since the department was established; From miscellaneous overpayments $11 was derived; credits to expenditures to- taled $222.97, income from reimburse- ments $10,058.17, while transfers of balances accounted for $7,574.08. In addition, a $1,190.62 balance on hand April 1, 1933, raised the total to $367,- 822.35 for the entire period. Only $19,600 Transferred During the time the Regulatory de- partment has been in operation, a to-|™ tal of $19,600.60 has been transferred to the general fund of the state, or 5.346 per cent of the total amount col- lected since 1933, according to Shirek’s report. On hand June 30 of this year, Shir- ek’s audit showed, was @ cash balance of $11,923.74, In addition to the transfers to the general fund, other payments out of the income of the department were shown by Shirek to be: Salaries, $186, 460.95 or 50 per cent of the total col- lected; mileage $58,142.65, or 15.859 per cent; hotels and meals, incidental expense, $26,065.48, or 7.100 per cent; costs of samples (obtained for evi- dence), $1,262.45, or .344 per cent; gas- oline, oil and repairs, $2,205.38 or .602 per cent; other expenses $61,095.79, or 16.665 per cent. Autos Cost Only $831.34 Purchase of automobiles, which later were sold, accounted for a net cost to the department of $831.34 or .227 per cent, refunded miscellaneous receipts from overpayments, $11, or 002 per cent; debits to expenditures, ive | deducted, $222.77 or .061 per cent. Under the regime of Ter Horst, bal- ances and receipts totaled $249,915.51, while payments equaled $201,915.72; the | Papke’s term showed balances and re- ceipts of $129,798.26; and payments a $110,368.49, while during Moris’ pres: ent term, balances and receipts total be | $55,538.14 with payments of $43,614.40, municipal Soldiers ‘Stand By’ For Bag Inflation Usha did Ethiopians Use Guns Fabricated in Italy in East Shirek reported. From fees and various types of li- censes the department received a net totel of $848,833.51, according to Shirek’s audit. ‘ Breakdown Income Oil inspection fees received by the department since April, 1933, to June 30 of this’ year totaled $148,244.64; caren licenses, $61, mn soft drink’ an insurance policy, a pro-rate share from s closed bank, and sale of a Shrouded in secrecy for more than half a year. American ‘‘colonization” of Howland, Baker and Jarvis Islands, shown in map above, for use as stepping-stones in a projected transpacific air route to australia and New Zealand, has been revealed. An American citizen, Harry L. Theiss, is pictured above raising the Stars and Stripes over Howland Island after four Hawaiians, American citizens, had been placed on each island to make them United States property. Though Great Britain is beliéved to have rival claims to the three Pacific ‘‘pin-points,” the U. S. State Department asserts that official American claims go back to 1856. SRASCIST TIGHTENS GRIP OVER AUSTRIA IN SUDDEN SHAKEUP Closer Union With Italy Seen as Prince Starhemberg’s Power Grows Vienna, Yct. 18.—()—Fascist Prince Ernst Von Starhemberg strengthened his grip on AuStrian government af- fairs Friday as a cabinet reorganiza- Mor placed new authority in his ‘Youthful foe of Nazism and friend of Premier Mussolini, the vice chan- cellor agpieved power in Thursday's shakeup of which his strengthened army of 175,000 was only a symbol. Political observers professed to see in the changes a probable closer co- operation between Italy and Austria. Associated with Adolph Hitler dur- ing the 19233 beer. parlor putsch, though he wheeled savagely on Nazi- ism later, Starhemberg began an ac- tive rapprochement policy with Musso- lini late in 1933, The prince set up his own Fascist government in the Tyrol at the time he broke with the assassinated Chan- cellor Engelbert Dollfuss. The reshuffling of cabinet posts as heavily: armed police guarded public buildings left Kurt Schuschnigg in the office of chancellor and in pos- session of the portfolio of defense minister—in nominal control of the federal army—but he sacrificed his Catholic storm troops to Starhemberg. ‘These troops were merged with the new Starhemberg militia, formed of the private armies which have been ® powerful factor in the military or- jon. The cabinet changes disclosed a tendency to centralize even more the control of political matters in the hands of Schuschnigg and Starhem- berg, with the old Heimwehr element seizing greater power. Ushered ‘out of the cabinet with Jo- sef Reither, minister of agriculture, was Major Emil Fey, supporter of Dolifuss, Wife of Garrison Pastor Is Buried Funeral services for Mrs. Ida Holz- | Mass Murderer Dies -Attempting to Flee Tasi, Rumania, Oct. 18.—(#)—The bloody career of Vasile Tcaciuc, Ru- mania’s -mass, murderer, ended in death "Friday when “he succumbed té bullet. wounds inflicted by police. Tcaciuc, by his own statement the slayer of more than 20 persons, was shot Thursday when he attempted to escape custody. OCT. 3f [S DEADLINE FOR CORN-HOG PACTS $913,883 Paid on 18,139 Con- tracts in N. D.; Second Payments Due Soon Washington, Oct. 18. — (7) — ‘The farm administration fixed Saturday an Oct. 31 deadline for receipts here of 1935 corn-hog tracts. At the same time the administra- tion announced $61,062,309 already has been paid on this year’s program. With 835,592 contracts received, corn-hog section officials estimated about 150,000 contracts still were in the hands of state boards of review. More than $3,000,000 in checks was mailed in the last 10 days. Second payments will be made early next year. Towa corn-hog payments continued far ahead of other states. As of Oct. 8, the number of corn- hog contracts on which first pay- ments had been made by states and amount included: Paid Amount 47,690 $3,910,911 18,139 913,883. 31,794 2,558,821 Yeggs Get $100, Car; Take Victim’s Shoes City and county authorities Friday sought two men who Thursday night robbed Ed. Moser, Mandan driver, of approximately $100, his, au- tomobile and his shoes. Barefoot, Moser appeared at a farm ‘about five miles northwest of Mandan stating he had. driven two about five miles when they had thrust what he believed was a gun against his back, robbed him of ap-| vers’ proximately $100, took his shoes, and! « drove away. The car was found later on a Man- dan street. Minnesota .... North Dakota. South Dakota. taxi: HOUSEWIVES BEGIN ROUR-DAY BOYCOTT OF MILL CITY MEAT: Demand 25 Per Cent Cut in Prices at Expense of Packers’ } Minneapolis, Oct. 18.—()—A house- wives’ “revolt” against meat prices confronted distributors and retail dealers here Saturday as the women’s league against the high cost of living prepared for a four-day boycott. , Irate housewives, said Mrs. I. G. Scott, vice president of the league, will seek to enforce a demand for a “25 per cént cut in meat prices at the expense of packers” with a dem- onstration at distributing plants fol- lowed by picketing on downtown mar- kets. The boycott call, asking all women in the city to refrain from buying meat Saturday through next Tuesday was issued Friday night in pamphlets distributed by the league. Moving swiftly after a meeting Fri- day, the protesting housewives pre- pared to go on the picket line with banners and placards proclaiming “7,400,000 children starving while monopolies profiteer” and “we de- mand a 25 per cent cut in the price of all meats at the expense of meat monopolies.” Mrs. Scott said a delegation of three women would be sent to Chi- cago Monday to present petitions de- manding the price decrease to a con- ference of packing company repre- sentatives. “We have no quarrel with the farm- er or the retail meat dealers,” she said, “but we intend to show the spread between the prices the farmer is getting and the packers’ prices and we are going to urge every Minneapo- lis housewife to cooperate with us in ‘putting the issue in such light our demands cannot be ignored.” The league, she said, has 400 mem- bers already and will seek to enlist every housewife in the city. Butler Calls League Sanctions Dangerous Newton Square, Pa., Oct. 18.—(?)—' Maj. Gen, Smedley D, Butler, calling Ethiopian warfare “sideshow maneu- to the statesmen’s “racket” at Geneva, declared Friday that League of Nations sanctions are Forx Taxpayers’ Group corps Seeks Rigid City Law y “Grand Forks, N, D. Oct, 18 —(e)— tiated ordinances PRICE FIVE CENTS y Looms x ke & LAVAL ASKS LONDON T0 AVOID BLOCKADE OR LONE SANCTIONS League Is Procrastinating as _ Crisis in Penalty Cam- paign Nears RUSSIA BACKS EDEN MOVES Desultory Bombing Raids Only Evidences of Conflict in Africa Oct. 18.—(P)—Well-in- formed sources disclosed Friday night that peace talks with Pre- mier Mussolini, directed toward ending the Italo-Ethiopian war, are under way. These sources said that Premier Mussolini and Premier Laval of France were carrying on conversations with the ambassadors of Great Britain. France and Italy. (By the Associated Press) The possibility of a naval blockade of Italy—a measure which Mussolini has said would be tantamount to a declaration of war—appeared in League of Nations circles at Geneva Friday. Some delegates saw in economics sanctions weapons too slow and per- haps too ineffectual to accomplish the “punishment” that the league has voted upon Italy as the “aggressor” in the war with Ethiopia—a war.as yet never formally declared, but in- volving more than @ million fighting men. A naval blockade, they said, is a “dangerous possibility.” There were signs, too, of growing disagreement between Great eon emda France—the two powers whose joint. cooperation the erat must depehd ent of its edicts if they pars oe Laval Procrastinates Premier Laval of France was rep- resented as having virtually refused to “legalize” Britain’s show of naval strength in the Mediterranean until he knows exactly how far the British government intends to go. Guns in Ethiopia barked fitfully a: opposing forces still maneuvered on the northern front and listened to the drip of rain in the south; but the brows of foreign officers were creased deeply by the growing breach between the British and the Italians. Authoritative sources in Paris said Laval has asked Great Britain to re- nounce formally any blockade or in- dividual sanctions which might lead tw war before France promises aid against Italy. In London, British government of- ficials insisted France must deliver a frank “yes” or tain’s terse inquiry aid in the event of hostilities. Libya Border Fenced From Rome came word that a vast area or northern Africa was drawn (Continued on Page Two) COX SAYS FANS WILL SEE ‘LOT OF FIGHT’ Tulane Arrives in Mill City for Intersectional Tilt With Gophers St. Paul, Oct. 18—()—Tulane’s football team, with Coach Ted Cox promising “a lot of fight,” arrived, here Friday for its intersectional bat~ tle with Minnesota Seavey. to open a brand new gridiron rela\ ‘The Green Wave, to engage the Go- phers before an estimated 40,000 spec-. tators if the weather holds favorable, is Minnesote’s second major hurdle in the campaign to retain the nation- al championship, “Sure, we're. lers, said Cox, former Gopher. and aide to Ber- nie Bierman when the latter coached Tulane, “but my boys have got a lot. of fight. “We'll be out there doing our best, and I can assure the fans that they'll see a contest.’