The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 5, 1935, Page 2

HE BISMAR -K TRIBUN GRACE OWED STEEL PLANT $5,206,079 Contracted for Stock of Cor- poration He Heads as President in 1930 ‘Washington, Dec. 5.—(7)—A report stating Eugene G. Grace, president of Bethlehem Steel corporation, owed that corporation $5,206,079 as of Dec. 81, 1934, was made public by the se- curities commission Thursday. Grace was one of several officers listed as debtors in connection with purchases of the company’s stock, contracted for in 1930. There was no indication whether the amount owed was past due. The stock, totaling 130,910 share: was sold to the officers at approxi- mately the market price then current. Arrangements were made for install- ment payments. Such data must be filed with the commission for the in- formation of stockholders and inves- tors. Grace contracted to buy 67.500 shares. Other officers or directors listed as debtors as of Dec. 31, 1934, include: S. A. Buck, 15,750 shares, unpaid balance $1,489,036; Hugh Bent, 15,750 shares, unpaid balance $1,503,196; R. E. McMath, 9,000 shares, $8' Mackall, 9,000 shares, $ iF. Shick, 9,000 shares, $750,293; J. Ward, 2.250 shares, $221,417; W. Brown, 1,080 shares, $101,898; J. Bender, 680 shares, $64,7: . Scholottman, 540 shares, $ : H. Johnstone, 360 shares, $33,025. The fact the company paid Grace $180,000 for his services in 1934 and President Charles M. Schwab $250,000 has already been published. Minnesota WPA Will Pay Prevailing Wage St. Paul, Dec. 5.—(?)—Representa- tives of Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth Thursday announced an agreement with the works progress administration for payment of pre- vailing wages in each metropolitan area to skilied and semi-skilled work- ers on WPA projects. This agreement provides, however, that workers will lose their guarantee of continuous employment and be paid only for the hours they work. At present they are assured steady em- plcyment at “security” wages. The agreement awaits formal ap- proval. Weather Report | WEATHER FORECAST For Bismarck and vicinity: In- creasing cloudiness tonight and Fri- de colder Fri- di For North Da- kota: cloudiness tonight Increasing! CONTINUE from page one Foreign Secretary Asserts They Must Be Good, However, products a year, and produces Itself only about 36,000 tons. Italy has spent large veloping Albanian oil deposits, and the premier has arranged for a sud- den, big increase in Italian production | of alcohol which is being used with gasoline on a 50-50 basis in some mo-; tor fuels sold widely in the country. | Gasoline is selling at $1.08 a gallon, with the imposition of new taxes. i sums de-) Is Depression Over? Judges May Decide Kas., Dec. Kansas supreme court may decide 5.—(P)—The | {Saturday if the depression is over—j | Topeka, a point argued in 11 cases attacking constitutionality of the state's fourth farm mortgage moratorium. Owner- hip of hundreds of Kansas farms-— and ammunition for political guns— hinge on the decision. Opponents of the act, extending} until dan, 15, 1937, the time for re-| demption of land sold under fore- closure, contended such a law could} be justified and valid only in a period of economic emergency. i Citing the opinion of the supreme! court of the United States upholdine | the Minnesota moratorium act, they| exists and had ceased before enact-/ | .| ment of the law last March. | Driscoll to Hear i Huge Choir Group; Residents of the Driscoll vicinity will have an opportunity to hear one | jot the largest chorus aggregations | jever assembled in Burleigh county | when the combined choirs of the! Driscoll, Zion, Tuttle and St. Petri Lutheran churches will appear in a concert there at 8 p. m., Sunday eve- ning. i The concert will feature several; Christmas songs and special numbers | will be presented during the intermis- | sions. Rev. C. T. Brenna, in charge of the | affair, said Thursday there wiil be no admission charge but that an offering | will be taken. | Believes Negroes Saw | America Before 1492 Washington, Dec. 5.— (P) —Dr., Charles Wesley of Howard university believes Negroes as well as Vikings preceded Columbus in first explora tion of the new world. He said studit f various historians strongly indi-| ate Africans had drifted across the} South Atlantic, probably in canoes, to land in South America and West Indian islands. BERRY IS OPTIMISTIC Minneapolis, Dec, 5.—()—Gover- nor Tom Berry of South Dakota ai eS RRTERET Rosse ’ Additional Markets | — ———— ae CURB STOCKS New York, Dec. 5.—(®)—Curl Cities Service ..... Elec. Bond & Share MONEY RATES ork, Dec, 5.—(#)—Call money iy, 74 per cent all day. . Prime commercial paper % per cent. Time loans steady, 60 days-6 mos 1 per cent all day. 5 Bankers’ acceptances unchanged. CHICAGO STOCKS (By the Associated Press) Midwest Util. 1s. McGraw El. 28%, INV! MENT TRUSTS (By the Associated Press) (Over the counter in New York) Quart. Inc. Sh, 1.49; 1.64, NEW YCRK BONDS New York, Dec. 5.—()—Bonds close: Great Northern 7's of 1936, 103%. GOVERNMENT BONDS New York, Dec. 5.—(#)—Govern- ment Bonds: Liberty fourth 44's blank. Treasury 4's 115.3, Treasury 4's 110.22. WINNIPEG CASH GRAIN Winnipeg, Dec, 5.—(4")—Cash wheat, No. 1 northern 84; No. 2 northern 81; No. 3 northern 76. Oats, No, 2 white 28%; No. 3 white .;contended the emergency no longer )25%. G. N. Stockholders Offered New Bonds New York, Dec. 5.—(#)—Great Northern Railway Co. announced Thursday that stockholders will be permitted to subscribe to its forth- coming $100,000,000 bond offering at the rate of one $1,000 bond for each 25 shares of stock held. The bonds will be convertible into stock at $40 a share for half of each individual's holding and at $75 for the balance. The coupon rate will be 5 per cent and the bonds will be callable at 105 for the first nine years and 101 in the tenth year, Minnesotan Plans To Mine for Gold St. Paul, Dec. 5. — () — Senator Harry Bridgeman, Bemidji, announced lay he planned to introduce in the legislature a bill to authorize min- ing for gold under Rainy lake. He said a vein of gold which starts on privately-owned land extends under the lake, which is state owned, and legislative authority is necessary to permit mining operations, END MILL CITY STRIKE Minneapolis, Dec. 5.—(#)—An agree- ment to arbitrate today ended the two-day strike which closed 40 serv- ice stations of the Texas Oil company. SUN EXECUTIVE DIES Rail Strike Threat’ ~ Undimmed by Talk Chicago, Dec. 5.—()—A peace con- ference between officials of the Chi- cago, Burlington and Quincy railroad and enginemen who’ have threatened 2 strike broke up in failure Thurs- Neither side would retreat from its previous stand. The. railroad antici- pated a strike call in the near future, Edward Flynn, vice president of the Burlington, said. J. P. Farrell, vice president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, who this week an- nounced the brotherhood voted to strike if the road did not increase the crews of diesel motored streamline trains, declined any immediate com- ment. Municipal Christmas Committee Is Chosen Plans for the Municipal Kiddies Christmas program took shape Thurs- day with the announcement that Judge A. G. Burr, Dr. George M. Con- stans and C.°W. Leifur would serve as the committee in charge of ar- rangements. Miss Rita Murphy was chosen chairman of the committee which will provide the candy. Mem- bers of the Junior Association of Commerce will act as ushers and dis- tribute, the candy. The program will be given Tuesday, Dec. 24 at the city auditorium. Check Forger Given | , One-Year Jail Term; Carl Hazel of Regent, N. D., Thurs- day pleaded guilty to a charge of ob- taining money under false pretenses ‘and was sentenced to serve one-year in the county jail by District Judge R. G. McFarland. Hazel was arrested Saturday by lo-/ cal police and confessed to taking four checks from the Mandan Cream- ery company plant at Steele, three of which he filled out and cashed at Flasher, Dickinson and Bismarck. wT \i E CorTinzeD Controversy Over | Prohibition Rages | On Repeal Birthday; tion, went to support bootleggers and their associated criminals.” James M. Doran, administrator of the distilled spirits institute, contend- eG repeal had “brought a definite im- provement in the nations’ revenue with a corresponding reduction in lawlessness.” Doran's organization placed federal |at Nome where t+ natives petitioned | To Offer Evidence 4 reuction:trom: iquor’ taxes at 4109-1 ter 065,824 for the year ending Nov, as compared with $133,448,779°for {first repeal twelve-month, The anti-saloon league's drive as- sumed the proportions of an anti-ad- ministration movement. as dry lead- ers predicted an organized dry sen- timent.pvould oppose the re-election of President Roosevelt in 1936, Blame President After the league, with delegates from 40 states shouting fervid “amens,” called upon the president to start a campaign for the return of prohibition by drying up White House cellar, two of its most power- ful chieftains laid the blame for “the abject failure of repeal” squarely on President Roosevelt’s shoulders, Bishop James Cannon, Los Angeles, who stumped against Al Smith in 1928, said “I definitely will oppose the reelection of Mr. Roosevelt, although I haven't yet decided whether I shall actively fight against him.” He added that “either Senator Van- denburg of Michigan or Col, Frank Knox of Chicago would be more ac- ceptable dry candidates if either should get the Republican nomina- tion.” ESKIMOS INITIATE PROHIBITION CAMPAIGN Seattle, Dec. 5.—(*)—A new prohi- bition campaign—initiated by the Es- kimos—was under way Thursday in “wide-open” Alaska. The campaign was started by and for the Eskimos the territorial board of liquor control to re-enact prohibition statutes mak- ing it a crime to even give a native a drink of liquor. . 67 YOUTHS PENALIZED FOR DRUNKEN DRIVING St. Paul, Dec. 5.—()—Minnesota’s legislature Thursday received an “ap- palling” youth problem if drunken au- tomobile drivers. Gil Carmichael, director of the state drivers’ license bureau, told the lawmakers 67 youths between 15 and 20 years old had been forced to give up licenses for drunken driving since Jan. 1. Asking the legislatiire to remedy an “almost inconceivable condition,” Carmichael also reported revocation of licenses of 74 drivers afflicted with paralysis, bad eyesight, insanity, shell | shock, epilepsy, fainting spells and other impediments. CONTINUE from page one Government Ready Bearing on Charge} talking about the case among them- selves or- with others. The jury was placed under the/ guard of three special U. 8, marshals, | McClintock, a banker, remained on | |the jury in spite of attempts. by Lan- * exercise"a~ peremptory © chal- 30,/lenge after ‘he had once waived’ the the/ right, McClintock in.-his examina- tion had declared there were “busi- ness reasons why I feel I should not sit on this case.” Under examination by the court, he declared “on account of the busi- ness I_am in, I feet I could not make other than one decision—there ts only one decision or way I could vote in this case.” Judge Refuses to Excuse He declared he had no “prejudice or bias” and the court held there was. “nothing. in your statement to warrant excusal.” Lanier told the court “I don’t know whether the juror woyild vote for or against the government” after Mur- phy had objected to Lanier’s exer- cising a peremptory challenge after having once waived. The court upheld Murphy's con- tention and refused to allow Lanier to exercise the peremptory. Strack Is First Witness Howard Strack, chief deputy Unit- ed States marshal, Thursday was called as the first government wit- ness in the federal perjury trial of former Gov. William Langer and three associates. Strack told the court he was pres- ent in the courtroom at the time of the first trial of Langer and others on federal conspiracy charges in May, 1934. . Prior to calling Strack, U. S. Dis- trict -Attorney P. W. Lanier, in his opening statement declared “the gov- ernment in the trial of this case will show to you this is no ordinary mis- representation of facts; we’ will show you it is a serious misrepresentation of facts; we will show this misrepre- sentation of facts goes to the very foundation of American government —the courts.” Must Protect the Courts “We will show you the only way to Protect that foundation is to protect the courts—” Lanier’s statement was halted by defense objections by Francis Mur- phy, chief defense counsel, who claimed Lanier was over-stepping the boundaries of an opening statement. The court upheld Murphy's objec- tions and cautioned Lanter, saying, “I know you are not intentionally overstepping.” ruptly with the claim “we expect to show the language in. the affidavit of prejudice was absolutely false and had no foundation in basis of any facts in this courtroom.” Really Four Lawsuits After calling the jury’s attention to Mothers ! In treating children’s ‘colds, don’t take Y , VICKS chances..use PROVED BY 2.GENERATIONS the fact that they were tryi just one lawsuit but four lawsuits, and naming the defendants, Lanier began reading the indictment drawn against O. &. Erickson, chairman of the Republican state. central com- mittee. Besides Erickson and Langer, de- fendants in the perjury case are R. A. Kinzer, former secretary of the state relief committee, and Frank Vogel, former state highway commis- sioner. At the convening of court this aft- ernoon, Judge A. Lee Wyman of Sioux Falls, 8. D., presiding over the trial, excused all petit jurors for the term except those on the panel drawn in-the perjury case. The mar- shal was ordered to summon all petit jurors heretofore drawn but not sum- moned, and to provide attorneys on both sides with the lists of 80 men ‘and, women still drawn. Peremptory challenges Wednesday brought the excuse from jury service of A. T. Banik, Grand Forks; Allen McKenzie, Kenmare, and B. M. Spaulding, Dickinson, all previously accepted provisionally. Two Are Rejected Two jurors of the second conspir- acy trial of Langer and R. A. Kinzer, Frank Vogel and State Senator Oscar Erickson failed to become members of the new jury. Ernest Rich of Casselton, passed as @ prospective juror, was excused on a challenge. B. F, Lawyer, Bismarck banker, also was excused when he said his opinion in the conspiracy case might affect his judgment now. Alexander Excused On a statement it “would require strong evidence to have me vote for conviction,” W. H. Alexander, Grand Forks real estate and insurance man, was excused by Judge A. Lee Wyman. d he had s “prejudice against tie ‘action and oT not have been brough' fatled to re- When the sist a defense challenge Agent = teacher, Francis Murphy, ad said: “Well, we'v> pede m5 this time. Were go- ing to get Langer.” —_—_——— DULL HEADACHES GONE, SIMPLE REMEDY DOES IT Headaches caused by ' constipation are gone after one dose of Adlerika. ‘This cleans poisons out of BOTH up- per and lower bowels. Ends bad sleep, nervousness.—Advertisement. ———S EEE XMAS SHOPPERS BE PRACTICAL! Buy this year things. your dear ones can use the year around. We have just the things you are looking for and your friends will ap- preciate. SHOP EARLY at this store People’s Dep’t. Store 112 Fifth “st. i If you are planning iI A Premium -on- || Good Credit Records Lanier concluded his statement ab- | to buy a new automobile during 1936, reside in Bismarck and possess a | good credit record, we have a special financing offer for your consideration, NO CO-MAKERS AUTOMOBILE LOAN DEPARTMENT First National Bank Member of Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. rived here Thursday to report im-| New York, Dec. 5.—(4)—Richard proved business and farm conditions| H. Titheringion, 74, vice president and in South Dakota and predict Sout’) s of the New York Sun, died and Friday, local} snows extreme east portion Fri- day; colder Fri- day. For South Da-} kota: Cloudy to- night and Frida: local snows pro! able extreme east portion; some- COLE! what warmer southeast and south-central portions tonight; colder west portion Friday. For Montana: Unsettled tonight and Friday, west portion; ight; cold- er_northeast portion Friday. For Minnesota: Snow probable to- night and Friday; somewhat warmer | in northeast portion tonight; colder in west portion Friday. WEATHER CONDITIONS The barometric pressure is high over the middle Mississippi Valley, St. Louis, 30.42, and over the north- ern Rocky Mountain states, Helena, | 30.16, while low pressure areas are centered over Alberta, 29.78, and over the Southwest, dena, 29.90. what unsettled in all sections and pre- cipitation has occurred in the south- wes! states and ures dropped somewhat in North jakota, but readings are moderate in_all sections. Bismarck station barometer, inches: 28.28. Reduced to sea level, 30.16. Sunrise 8:13 a, m, Sunset 4:55 p. m. PRECIPITATION For Bismarck Station: Total this month to date . Normal, this month to date Total, Jan. 1st to date .. at 217.22 Normal, January Ist to date .. ae 1 Accumulated excess to date .. BISMARCK, clear . Devils Lake, foggy . sole. Complete Williston. clear .. with built-in Aerial-Tuning 3 21 System. 14 (26 est est Pet. 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