The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 6, 1936, Page 1

ft’ are ea ane ee Ae - ures prove it. ESTABLISHED 1873 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Weather Fair tonight and Tue: Not so cold Tuesday arterroea. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1936 PRICE FIVE CENTS Court Kills AAA Farm Relief Plan xk * xk *k *& New Farm Aid Laws Alread President Predicts Billion Dollar Deficit dN calen WITHHOLDS ESTIMATE; Hunger-Maddened Owl ON HOW MUCH CASH Wounds 3: Woodsmen GOVERNMENT. NEEDS New All-Time High Public Debt | man. Is Forecast at End of 1936-37 Period Duluth, Minn., Jan. 6.—(@)—Har- | konen said, konen said, with an explanation some- thing had attacked him. The owl set upon Ruokonen when the latter step- rowing details of a voracious owl’s at tack on him, which may cost him his sight, were recounted Sunday by Ar- thur Ruokonen, Isle Royale woods- injury. Ruokonen, 32, from Maple Lake,| John R. Johnson, third of the group, Wis., brought from the isolated isle| suffered a clawing before, protecting by a coast guard cutter, said the bird, | his head with a blanket, he was able apparently hunger-maddened, attack-|to kill the owl with a hatchet. Ex- ed himself and two other woodsmen at | amination of the dead bird, which had the door of their shack. @ 54-inch wing spread, disclosed an A. co-worker, John P. Johnson,|empty stomach. rushed into the shack, bleeding, Ruo-; Ruokonen is in a hospital here. ? Crosson Flies to | HOTEL HOLOCAUST | End Death Fears | CLAIMS 4 LIVES; |" mess mae nee STILL MISSING! daring of Joe Crosson, veteran Converted Residence in West- OPERATING COSTS GROWING No New Taxes Needed, He Says, Unless New Appropria- tions Require Them —o Washington, Jan. 6.—(P)—A treas- ury deficit exceeding one billion dol- lars—without counting unestimated new relief costs—was forecast to con- gress by President Roosevelt Mon- day for the next fiscal year. Unprecedentedly, he withheld a complete budget estimate on how much the government would spend in the Alaska aviator, ended fears Mon- sweeping Fairbanks. In 42-below zero weather Sat- urday Crosson flew to Juneau, and back, a distance of 1,600 miles 12 months beginning July 1. For the i tains territ ' present he listed $6,752,606,370 but saia| field, Mass., Burns Like Rise later requests for work-relief money Matchwood Fifteen persons have been would be forthcoming. He gave notice that next year’s deficit—and the public debt—would mount accordingly. dust now, Mr. Roosevelt foresaw a debt at the end of the 1936-37 period of $31,351,638,737. This would be an all time high. Comment Withheld There was not the slightest hint of readiness to meet demands from the opposition for an immediately bal- anced budget. Pending study of the voluminous document, political lead- ers in general withheld detailed com- ment. From the start, however, dispute was plainly inevitable. Comment varied largely according to the economic views of the legislators rather than along strictly party lines. “To run all the regular activities of the government,” Mr. Roosevelt said bluntly in the message read from the rostrum to senate and house, “I will need a total of $5,069,000,000.’ This figure put forward as a new standard for the government's perm- nent operating costs as differentiated from “emergency” outlays, exceeded comparative “regular” costs of recent years by around $2,000,000,000. stricken since the disease appeared last week. No deaths have oc- BRUNO'S ATTORNEYS MAY SEEK FEDERAL AVENUE OF NUE OF SCAPE Pardons Court ‘husk tual to Sit Wednesday on Matter of Clemency ‘Westfield, Mass., Jan. 6.—(?)—Fire- men recovered four bodies and searched for five others Monday in the smouldering ruins of the Van ‘Deusen hotel, transformed three weeks ago from an old residence. The three-story, brick-veneer struc- ture, opened last month by Spencer Van Deusen for permanent guests, burned like matchwood Sunday night. Before, trying to. check the blaze, firemen endeavored to rescue the 40 guests; many-of whom clung to third story window sills or huddled on nar- row, unburned parts of a flat roof at the rear. The flames became too sweepirig, however, and nine persons were be- lieved left in the building. The bodies of Henry Van Deusen, 1%, son of the proprietor; George Seeks Nathelle ©. Jones, hotel matron, and, Richard Hauptinann’s lawyers were! Mrs. Minnie C. Janes, a widow, were |ePorted authoritatively Monday to, tak from the blazing hotel * about | be considering a second effort to bring | this case before a federal tribunal if] proce oa hour after the fire was: the state pardons court refuses clem- ency. third floor wind oe ean vent Dene The Papponed more aookt embrace ; New ‘Regular’ Activities sen’s lay just inside a storm door Hapa eine re In a new expression of policy, Mr.| within inches of safety. als for a writ of habeas corpt Bootetelt moved cane pans Mapes Mayor Raymond E. Cowing said ar Megersine senether the eseiitiogs! order for an investigation would’ be v1 ricultural benefit payments from the his first move after his inaugural later Tepes nay had seen fropardised category of “emergency” to “regular”|in the day. at his trial a year ago. federal activities. The hotel was built by Van Deusen| “The defense was denied opportunity Pe vate ad Justified the change, he/as » private residence some years 8€0- before the United States supreme court icc ihe dew ‘nigh isl.or cast to present evidence of alleged irregu: lar” expenditures, it was said, would larities at the trial, which it calledj ;“a circus maximus.” | leave a $5,000,000 surplus of revenue Application for a writ of habeas (before relief costs) as a result of corpus, it was learned, was being con- “increased earning power and profits sidered by the defense as a means of throughout the nation and not from bringing the circumstances of the trial the new taxes imposed” last summer. to the attention of a federal tribunal. In defense of New Deal financial - The pardons court was expected to Policies, Mr. Roosevelt added: sit Wednesday to hear argument for “The credit of the government is commutation of the death penalty to at its highest. ,life imprisonment. “The average business men of the Chancellor Luther A. Campbell told nation stand ready to do their share. his colleagues the pardons court should Cites Attacks on Progress act on the plea in time to give the “It is to be hoped that the motives defense opportunity to make addition- and attacks which spring only from al moves, should clemency be denied. the desire for political or financial Hauptmann’s execution was set for power on the part of the few will not next week. Prison authorities were not expected to depart from their custom of taking condemned men to the chair on Tuesdays at 8 p. m. Trenton, N. J., Jan. 6.—()—Bruno| Threat Made by National Union as Outgrowth of Cloquet Trouble Cloquet, Minn., Jan. 6.—()—Threat of a nation-wide sympathetic strike of match workers Monday faced of- mpeaer- Diaries pany here unless they agree to negotiation with work-| ers cap serarcing. wage and hour differ- ee ‘policy is succeeding. The fig- ped outside and caused a serious eye! i day of a scarlet fever epidemic | IPALIANS CONTINUE [ther Waker aaa INTENSIVE BOMBING | ON ETHIOPIA FRONT Liners Pressed Into: Service to Carry Troops to Alexan- dria, Egypt \ RED CROSS UNIT DESTROYED! [British Postpone Decision on Extension of Sanctions Against Rome (Copyright, 1936, Associated Press) Dolo, Ethiopia, Jan. 6.—Italian armies, thrusting forward to de- termine the strength of their en- emy, encountered Ethiopian raid- ers in a dense jungle 35 miles north of Dolo and fought a two- day battle, with 150 Ethiopians believed slain and one white Ita- lian soldier killed. (By the Associated Press) France dug diligently into a sus- | | x * * ROOSEVELT STUDIES AAA’S COURT DEATH WITH AIDES BY SIDE stitute Farm Legislation in Few Days | HAS THREE OPTIONAL PLANS Are Export Debenture, Equali- zation Fee and Domestic Allotment Schemes Washington, Jan. 6.—(4#)—President Roosevelt called Attorney General Cummings and Secretary Wallace to the White House this afternoon to study the supreme court's decisior against the AAA. xk k & y Being Planned Entire Program | Unconstitutional McNary Plans to Introduce oe Is 6 to 33 Stone, Brandeis, Cardozo Dissent Original Act Declared ‘Invasion of States Rights’ and Beyond Federal Power Under General Welfare Clause The United States supreme court Monday ruled the entire AAA program was unconstitutional. The decision was 6 to 3, Justices Stone, Brandeis and Cardozo dissenting. The original adjustment act was declared to be “an invasion of states rights” and beyond federal power under the “general welfare” clause of the constitution, the clause being no warrant for the extraordinary New Deal farm relief plan. The opinion was read by Justice Roberts before the session ‘The attorney general telephoned supreme court officers to send him a copy of the AAA opinion, saying he wanted to take it to the White House. From preliminary reports of the de- cision, some officials expressed fear it would be difficult to draft any form of crop control which could be held constitutional. There was a discus- sion at the capitol of a possible move to amend the constitution. Relied on Farm Support The New Deal had been relying pected plot to divert 3,000 army rifles heavily on farm support in the Nov- ember elections. Officials repeatedly and machine guns to Italy Monday while Italian war planes kept up a have drawn satisfaction from polls Persistent and widespread bombing campaign in Ethiopia. A‘missing carload of arms was found to have been routed mysteriously to a French port where, authorities said, jit could easily have been placed aboard (° erika lused reports of the death of a Sor Swedish Red Cross worker as @ result of the Dolo bombing a week ago reached the British foreign of- fice from its legatign at Addis Ababa. Report Hard Fighting Belated reports of hard fighting also came out of southern Ethiopia as Great Britain began reinforcing its African military position. Air bombing, in which several hos- pitals and Red Cross units have been struck or destroyed, is being resorted ;to on both the northern and south- ern fronts of the Italo-Ethiopian war ‘in an attempt to halt advances by the defenders, Ethiopian authorities said. In the Mediterranean, where inter- national tension was relaxed for weeks incident to the advancement of peace | proposals, Britain used commercial liners to carry troops to British posts near the areas of greatest uneasiness. Destination Is Egypt The destination of one Cunard- White Star liner, the Scythia, pressed into troop transport service, was said by authoritative sources to be Alexan- dria, Egypt. just east of Italy’s north African possession of Libya and north- west of the Ethiopian war zone.. At the front, Fascist aerial squad- rons were reported officially at Addis Ababa to have destroyed Daggah Bur and an Egyptian Red Cross unit on the southern front, where three columns under Ras Desta Demtu have been moving slowly against the Italian army of Gen. Rudolfo Graziani. On the northern sector, where 400,- 000 men under War Minister Ras Mu- lugheta and four other commanders have been waging a campaign, of- ficial Ethiopia communiques said re- newed Italian air raids were directed | against important cities and troop concentration centers. Ethiopians Suffer Losses A sharp skirmish on the southern front, in which the Ethiopians suf- fered more than 150 casualties and The three justices of the U. 8, supreme court who believed the Agricultural Adjustment Act con- stitutional were, from top to bot- tom, Loujs D. Brandeis, Harlan F. Stone and Bejamin F. Cardozo. Wilderness Family Gets Relatives’ Aid Grand Marais, Minn., Jan. 6—()— Solicitous relatives, with food dis- patched by dog team from here, cared Monday for the hunger-stricken Law- rence Major family. ““Secure in the knowledge that steadily decreasing deficits will turn | "ces. in time into steadily increasing sur- pluses, and that it is the deficit of today which is making the surplus of tomorrow, let pursue the course that we have mapped.” In his partial relief budget, Mr. Roosevelt estimated a $1,103,000,000 carryover from 1936's billions of re- lief money. By deducting the estimated $5,000,- 000 surplus repeerecsing the differ- ence between income and “regular” (Continued on Page Five) ‘Jafsie’ Cancels His ‘The strike threat was made of Barberton, by Gd. B. lost an encampment on the Ganale Dorya river, some 25 miles north of Dolo, was reported in an Italian war communique. Several deaths in pa- trol actions on the northern front also were announced. Though moving to strengthen its military position, the British post- Poned for the moment any decision on to extend the League of Nations sanctions against Italy ‘to include embargoes on oil, coal, iron and steel. Advices received in London from Paris said French sources were dis- cussing a possibility of a new peace plan being devised soon to interrupt again consideration of the oil embargo COAL OUTPUT GAINS 80,000 TONS IN 1935 1,828,213 Tons Mined With Value of $2,385,229, Binek Reports North Dakota's production increaséd more than 80,000 1935, the annual report of Stat Inspector 8. A. Binek disclosed Mon- a Snowbound and helpless in their inland cabin until Canadian officials recover these funds*paid since 1933. among farmers on its crop adjust- ment plans, which have invariably shown preponderant majorities in favor. Pending study of the decision, of- ficlals declined comment upon the probable effect upon approximately $150,000,000 in processing taxes now impounded in lower courts. Neither would they speculate about the effect upon adjustment contracts signed, hy farmers but upon which additional funds are due. It was esti- mated unofficially that farmers now are owed $500,000,000 for carrying out contracts covering 1935 crops. Possibility of Suits Seen Speculation was aroused over the right of processors to recover the more than $900,000,000 already paid into the treasury in processing taxes. Belief was expressed in some quarters that the court's decision might have been so sweeping as to open the way for suits against the government to The president was reported to have received word of AAA's supreme court death with a smile. Secretary Dern ‘was discussing war department questions with Mr. Roosevelt when news of the court decision was brought in. Asked what the president said, Dern said he was not at liberty to state. “He smiled,” added Dern, “and went on with our business.” McNary Has Plan Senator McNary, the Republican leader, told reporters he would intro- duce in a few days a substitute pro- viding three optional plans designed to make the tariff effective and raise (Continued on Page Three) had been under way 10 minutes, the Associated Press reported. If the farm aid legislation were valid, he said, it would be possible for congress “to Fegulate industry in its most meticu- lous forms.” Roberts said the aon plan was “not in essence voluntary.” “It had a compulsory purpose,” he declared. “If the act called only for a voluntary plan it would be no better.” (oe ‘The administration planned coun- cils at once to meet the setback. None | Reactions in U. S. disputed the tremendous potential : ffect, th ing sidential | ToDemise of AAA |lcampagn Senator McNary, the Republican Ie ee NL EEE ENTERS 9 leader, immediately projected his WELFORD ‘REGRETS’ SUDDEN PASSING OF AAA Gov. Walter Welford said he “re- gretted very much” the decision of the high court on the question of constitutionality of the AAA. “While I have not considered the AAA as a perfect solution of the pro- blems confronting the farmer, yet I believe it was a forward etep that Partially cared for the situation, and from which could have. been develop- i a satisfactory plan,” Welford stat- eat is sincerely hoped that an alter- reed plan will be developed immedi- ately.” N. D. REAPED HUGE CASH BENEFITS FROM AAA Fargo, N. D., Jan. fe aarores fit payments under the AAA pro- pe in North Dakota average in excess of 17 million dollars annual- ly, the N, D. A. C. said Monday, jivided . thusly: wheat benefit about 14 million; corn-hogs 3 mil- Aion and) wages /Mecteione Feit Mite North Dakota paid in processing eases during the fiscal laeret end- reer june 30, $993,448. Up’to April ts over 27 million had been paid tn benefits to farmers for the year, or in excess of 27 times the amount the state paid in ing taxes. process- IMMEDIATE ACTION NECESSARY, MADDOCK SAYS Asserting the decision invalidating the AAA is a “terrible blow” to the American farmer, Walter Maddock, secretary of the Farmers Union Ter- minal Association, said the ruling de- mands “immediate action” by the farmer to “find some new procedure to attain the same goal—controlled Production and parity price.” “The decision of the supreme court today, although it was anticipated,” Maddock stated, “is a terrible blow to the American farmer in his organized effort to build into the national pol- icy the conviction that the very safety of the government itself in this ma- chine age is dependent upon the farmer having an equitable share of the national income, “The triple A program now annulled was the result of ten years of effort of farm organizations and was brought into existence upon the unanimous approval of the Farmers Union, the twice-vetoed plan to make the tariff effective for farming communities. The packed court room was tense and silent as the historic opinion was Gelivered. The justices seemed calm. “The suggestion of coercion finds no basis in the record,” Stone said in his dissent. Fear Other Acts Doomed The ruling appeared likely to doom other farm legislation such as the Bankhead cotton control act, the Kerr-Smith tobacco act and the War- ren potato law. These were compul- sory laws. However, the court had not announced its opinions in those cases. It took exactly one hour to read the main opinion and the dissent. When Stone concluded the tension of the audience eased, it shifted its col- lective position and whispered com- ments. Speculation how the presidential campaign would be affected stirred NEW YEAR'S FIRST WEEK-END TOLL IS 5 Five Different Types of Acci- dents Prove Fatal at Five NW Points St. Paul, Jan. 6.—()—The new sent aid, the family had lost a daugh- year's first week-end, a tabulation ter, 5, to pneumonia and malnutrition showed Monday, brought five violent while the father suffered an appar- ent mental lapse. deaths in the northwest. The dead: William A. Boutang, 56, Minneap- Parents of Mrs. Major and neigh- olis, killed when he fell seven floors bors took over the family with the father removed to the Port Arthur, Ont., jail. Plans to send a plane from Port Arthur Sunday were abandoned in favor of a dog team supply ship- ment from here. Icebox Car Prisoner Is Still in Hospital Baltimore, Jan, 6.—(?)—Long re- ¢ Public Appearances —_— day. During the past year a total of 1,- . | 828,213 tons of coal were mined in the state with a total value of $2,385,229. In 1934 a total of 1,746,226 tons of coal “until the final processes of justice were mined with a value of $1,746,226, in the Hauptmann case have been carried out.” 5 The ‘75-year-old former school increase of 95,401 tons, while coal teacher, who was Colonel Lindbergh’s city shipped decreased 13,414 tons, Binek sere in the rie effort to ransom | reported. ; canceled: at aed ae: “Conditions during the year have brought about a poor accident record,” Binek said. “However, there is a turn for the better. There has been a spirit of cooperation in accident prevention mong employers and employes. The department of mines recognizes this and looks forward to a good record during 1936.” ENGINEER'S RITES SET New York, Jan. 6.—(?)—Private fu- neral services will be held Tuesday for Maurice Warden Bacon, 65, min- rode staineet formerly active in Mon- Idaho, Arizona, and British Co- lamba. He died Saturday from a heart attack, ‘N. D. Veterans’ Care Washington, Jan. 6.—(#)—Heavier tion, -Day School Week Is Unpopular in Helena maining after-effects of his refriger- ator car imprisonment are keeping Glenn Boldan, 14-year old -Motley, Minn., youth in a hospital. Attendants indicated Monday the boy, who suffered frozen feet but has been able to walk the last few days, may remain here a week. Tentative arrangements have been made to send him to the University of Minnesota hospital. The boy, half-starved when discov- ered here, had been inadvertently locked in a refrigerator car on the west coast. Currency Chief Calls For Bank Statements Washington, Jan. 6—(AP)—The comptroller of the currency issued a call Monday for the condition of all national banks at the close of busi- ness Tuesday, Dec. 31, The comptroller is required by law to issue a call for condition of all na- tional banks at least three times each year. Monday's was the fourth af- fecting the calendar year 1935. Simultaneously, the federal reserve corporation for its state members. This call also was as of the close of busi- ness Dec. 31, JOHN MOOS BURIED Rites were held Saturday afternoon at the Blue Grass Congregational church for John Moos, 64, who died here after @ long illness. Rev. Schurer, pastor, officiated. Burial was made church cemetery, tion of tate banks belonging to tne|Lindberghs Seclude system and the deposit insurance) Selves From Curious Llandaff, Wales, Jan. 6,—(P)—A heavy downpour again kept the Char- les A. Lindberghs inside their Welsh retreat here Monday. Police precau- tions were partly relaxed, detectives no longer appearing in the gardens of the house, but a uniformed officer continued to keep visitors from the (Gates. from a conveyor belt at a Washburn utility mill, Donald Running, 5, Duluth, crush- ed under moving van as his swept under the truck. Thomas McGarry, 42, St. Paul, fa- tally hurt when auto skidded into tree. Mrs, Eleanor Goldosky, 27, wife of @ workman on an upper Mississippi river dam project, burned to death in a tourist camp cabin. Ole Lofquist, 43, Moose Lake game warden, injured fatally when North- ern Pacific passenger train struck auto at Aitkin grade crossing. Canada Livestock in South St. Paul Pens South 8t. Paul, Jan. 6.—(?)—Sale of the first livestock shipped here from Canada under the new trade treaty was scheduled Monday. It was part of a consignment of more than 1,000 head of cattle, shipped in 51 cars, with the remainder ticketed for the Chicago market. James Mitchell, Medicine Hat, Alta., cattleman, one of a group which brought the consignment here, said the shipment “must not be construed as the forerunner of a great horde to come out of Canada.’ JAY E. HOUSE DEAD Topeka, Kas., Jan. 6.—(#)—Funeral services for Jay E. House, 65, Phila- delphia newspaper man and one of the States, will be buried here Tuesday. House died Sunday. sled) own business rather than let him be pioneer columnists of the United |swine. Farm Bureau and the National Grange together with a friendly de- partment of agriculture. The decision is a challenge to the intelligence of the American farmer and demands immediate action on his part to find some new procedure to attain the same goal—that is, controlled pro- duction and parity price. “I anticipate immediate and very, positive action from farm organiza- tions. The question is whether the American farmer is to remain an eco- nomic slave. The only answer is no.” MARTELL WOULD CARRY ON GOOD POINTS OF AAA Theodore Martell, state commis- sioner of agriculture and labor, stated that the AAA included “a lot of things” that “handicapped” the farmer. “I wish that we could carry’on the good points of the AAA and strength- en the farmer's hand in his ALPHA TO OMEGA Washington, Jan. 6.—(7)—AAA headlines: 1933 Cotton plow-up campaign, farm- ers partially destroyed advanced crop to cut production. Pig reduction program, 6,000,000 baby “porkies” bought, slaughtered and distributed as food to jobless. 1934 Thousands of drouth-thinned cattle purchased and moved. 1935 5,000 farmers appeared in capi- tal in support of AAA amendments pending in conerans, Supreme court killed the entire law. instantly when the news reached the capitol. Republican determination on farm plank alternatives long had been awaiting the supreme court attitude. What the New Deal would do was at the mercy of those who would be friendly dictators,” Martell said in commenting on the AAA decision. ee awaited eagerly. MARKETS THROWN Secretary Wallace reserved com- IN CONFUSION BY RULING ment. Chicago, Jan. 6.—(#)—The bid com- modities markets were thrown into; confusion Monday as dealers in farm products affected by the processing | ed. taxes sought to determine what in- Roosevelt Is Silent fluence the supreme court decision; President Roosevelt iearned of the against AAA would have on the struc-| turn but also had nothing to say. Presumably the government will ture of prices. The big wheat pit on the board of|seek to find a way to pay approxi- trade churned with activity. Prices| mately $500,000,000 due on contracts. of wheat for future delivery were | still unpaid. pushed up two cents a bushel in a/ Federal lawyers have indicated be- wave of buying but heavy profit-tak-|lief these can be considered bindmy ing held the advance in check. How-/| governmental obligations. It remains ever, losses of more than a cent fol-|to be worked out, however. lowed, Watched through a partially ope In Winnipeg, wheat prices shot up-|door, Secretary Wallace did wards 1 cent @ bushel. bigrbea povekseeg! ee Pe sinned ea} futures jum; e fat e! » aside wionete epee tM nent continued his discussion with a visi- tor. from 1 to 1% cents. HOG PRICES RISE Roberts said the AAA amendments enacted last August made no differ~ SHARPLY IN CHICAGO Chicago, Jan. 6—(#)—An immediate|ence as congress could not ratify (Continued on Page ive) sharp rise in hog prices Monday fol- VETERAN RANCHER DIES lowed announcement of the supreme Billings, Mont., Jan. 6.—(?)—George court’s decision invalidating the AAA, @ feature of which was a $2.25 per Tschirgi, 74, southeastern Montana and northern Wyoming hundredweight processing tax on cattleman, also known as an agriculturalist and horti¢ulturist, died Sunday at Miia 4 It was indicated there would not be any immediately from the admin- istration. Councils of war were call- The big Chicago hog market, weak (Continued on Page Three)