The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 7, 1936, Page 1

ar i i at / Ne \transactions did not lead this coun- if i { of the hearing.” " j = 1873 1 = THE BISMA BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1936 DRASTIC NEUTRALITY Beer Law Probe BILL MAY BE HELPED BY STORIES ADDUCED; « No Siren,He || J} committee of Citizens Asks Bankers Claim Submarine War- fare Led U. S. Into Eur- ope Catastrophe FOES SAY, ‘LOANS, PROFITS’ Morgan, Lamont and Whitney Called to Face Senate In- quisitors Together Washington, Jan. 7.—(®)—J. P. Morgan told a senate investigating , committee Tuesday that German acts, | not international finance, pushed | the United States into the World ‘War. | Flanked by his senior partners, the famous: banker faced questioning by senators intent on creating sentiment for legislation to curb financial deal- | ings with warring nations. : Morgan's contention that financial; into the war was read from @ Tinted statement. Committee members protested im-' ely. Some said it was “not! ponsive” to questioning and served ‘only to “interfere with the progress “I object to any more stump # speeches,” snapped Senator Clark (@em., Mo.) Lamont Retorts Thomas W. Lamont, a Morgan partner, retorted that members of the committee “have made statements of our share” in influencing United States entry into the war. “When the United States of caer ica came into the war,” Morgan “dt was not driven into it by any in- dividual or individuals} or-any -class: It came in because Germany had made it impossible for the United States to Ea ont Lae Heel eee many drove the Unit the war by a series ete ‘nsults fand in- juries, resulting in the loss of many American lives, any one of which in- juries might have proved a cause of war the United States not been 80 desirous of maintaining peace.” A throng, which did not quite fill the big room, heard Chairman Nye of ! the munitions committee read also from a prepared statement. Bankers Had Control “Our investigations have shown us that prior to our entry into the World War, a great deal of the sale, distribution, export and also financ- | ing of arms and munitions of war was put into the hands of a few of our banking organizations,” he said. He reminded that the committee was empowered to investigate the de- | \ sirability of creating a government) monopoly in arms and munitions ‘manufacturing. Every entrance to the building was guarded by police and secret service men as the famous financiers ar- rived. Photographers swarmed around Morgan as he sat down in the huge} committee room. Their flashlights popped for several minutes, until he (Continuea on Page Two) THERMOMETER HITS -22 DBGREES HERE Three State Points Report -27 as Northwest Is Locked in Winter Grip grees below zero here Monday night, the coldest temperature recorded at the local weather bureau station this winter. . Throughout the state generally the mercury hit the lowest point of the season, although warmer weather prevailed Tuesday afternoon in the western section, Dropping rapidly the temperatures hit a bottom of -27 at Grand Forks. Jamestown and Minot, with Devils Lake reporting -22, and Fargo and ‘Williston, -18. vee the exception of U. 8. high- state roads. high- ee io throughout the Grand Forks, Devils Lake and Minot districts were blocked. Highway 14 from Denhoff to Sterling was also reported im- yours cold gripping the northwest plunged the mercury down ty 41 de- grees below zero, @ season’s record, along the northern rim of Mizne- sota. Despite the cold wave, only one death was recorded. That was a rail- road conductor found dead of gas fumes at Valley, Neb., after attempt- ing to thaw out frozen pipes with a sma!l heater. The forecast for Bismarck and vic- inity was “increasing cloudiness to- night and Wednesday; rising tem- 5 acca BASEBALL CHIEF SICK Mountain ” from a throat operation to jclub’s inoon. Former Gov. George F. Shafer, who acted as chairman during the instal- | meeting, praised Guthrie, de- | claring the club had made a finer jrecord during Guthrie's term of office than during the term of any other past President, “not excluding even City German acts, not international financia) skulduggery, forced the U. 8. into the World War, J. P. Morgan, international banker, told the senate munitions investi- gating committee Tuesday. GUTHRIE LAUDED AS = BARTH SUCCEEDS 10 = KIWANIS PRESIDENCY Joe Byrne and E. A. Willson Be- come New Members of Local Club ‘Warm tribute was paid to the out- going as well as the incoming presi- dent as Joseph L. Barth succeeded iJames W. Guthrie as president of the Bismarck Kiwanis club at the service luncheon meeting Tuesday lation president's badge, branch of the program. Officers Installed As the outgoing president pinned the president's badge on Barth’s lapel, eight other new officers for 1936 were installed simultaneously. . They were B. O. Refvem, vice president; J. . F. P Wagner, treasurer; Dr. Krause, F. 8. Lunde, H. O, Putnam and F. H. Waldo, directors for two years; Rey. Opie 8. Rindahl, execu- tive secretary; and George F. Shafer, elected to complete the one year re- maining of the term of Director H. C. Frahm, who was forced to resign be-; cause of of ill health. Holdover members of the board of gros for another year are O. V.| wman and F. M. Davis. pg ert the installation activities, Rev. Rindahl read the fiscal report for the year 1935 prepared by Treasurer The thermometer dropped to 22 de- | Wagner and himself and R. Worth Lumry read the reports of the bud. get and firlance committees. Cutlines Objectives In his brief opening address, Pres: ident Barth said the club has out- lined 16 objectives for the coming year, three of which are major ob- Jectives. These are Kiwanis educa tion, development of the Kiwanis Foundation fund and improvement of Kiwanis Park in Bismarck. Joseph R. Byrne, son of the late E, A. Will- te welfare board and state administrator of the national youth administration, were introduced as new members of th> Kiwanis club. Willson formerly was Kiwanian, P. E. Byrne ani son, secretary of the st a@ member of the Kiwanis club a Fargo. Guests at the luncheon included M. J. Connolly, newspaper publisher, and Joseph Simmons, attorney, New England. Group singing was led by In the absence of Dis. Gov. James Morris, who was scheduled to present the outgoing president with the past Supreme Court Justice A. G. Burr officiated in, this! Ralph!| Kill Two Waiters eta Soule, with Clarion E. Larson playing Requested Commission About Obser- vance of Statutes Suggestion that Bismarck’s city commission investigate the manner in which the beer law is being observed before granting license renewais was made to the city Fathers Monday night by Rev. Floyd E. Logee, Mrs. J. L_ Kelley, Mrs. Charles Leissman and Mrs. John Hughes shortly atter biel board had renewed 18 applica- ns. Logee said he had expected to make his representations to the commis- sion before the applications were voted on but that he had been celay- ed by attendance at the Week of Prayer meeting at the McCabe Meth- ‘odist church and did not arrive at the meeting until the vote had been j taken, Rev. Logee, pastor of the First Pres- byterian church, said it appeared to him that the law requiring a clear view of the interiors of beer parlors \from the street was being ignored and asked about the sale of hard . Mquor by beer emporiums. He said he had been informed that many beer parlors are selling strong- er stuff and recalled that federal jagents had raided some beer parlors (and found hard liquor in then:. Suggests Cooperation He suggested closer cooperation be- tween various federal, state county and city police agencies in order that information available to one branch might be made available to to guide the city commission in pass- ing on licenses. | The commissioners told the com- mittee they could not refuse a license cn mere hearsay but promised to co- operate and to enforce -he law if there were any obvious violations and ‘o prosecute thos? selling hard liquor a evidence could be’ obtained against them. ‘City Attorney C.-Z.: Foster pointed out that the city could not refuse to issue a beer license, if the ayp':cation ‘ad previously been approved by the ‘ate beer commissioner, b':t that it ‘ean revoke licenses for caus. Rev. Logee said he had ‘een told that hard Mquor is being served in some places but that he has no evi- dence on the subject other than what he has been told. | Granted Beer Licenses Business places and proprietors granted beer license renewals were: West Cafe, Anne J. Asbridge; Barbe- que, Selma I. Carufel; American Bi!- lard Parlor, George Bittis; Grand Pa- cific Hotel, Peterson Brothers; The Ritz, J. B. Smith; Neff’s Billiard Par- lor, M. W. Neff; Frank’s Place. Frank Clausen; Dutch Lunch, Amanda | Sande; Blackstone Club Parlors, F. L. ‘Lomas; Rigg’s Place. Mrs. Dan Tar- box; Nicola’s Beer Parlor, Burt G. Nicola; The Savoy, Clinton Swett; Sax Confectionery, W. C. Furness; Schlitz Palm Gardens, Arthur Bern- stein; Patterson Hotel, E. G. Pat- terson; B. P. O. E. Lodge No 1199, Walter Clark, secretary; Corner Groc- ery, A, Boutrous, and O’Kay Cunfec- tionery, Martha Heupel. The board instructed Chief of Po- lice W. R. Ebeling to notify all other places selling beer that licenses must be obtained immediately and to in- form taxi cab companies that they must make application for permits at once, Given Drivers’ Permits Taxi drivers’ licenses were ordered issued to the following men: Donald H. Crane, Veral J. Speaks, Earl Fin- layson, W. L. Pennell, Andrew Koh- ler and Patrick M. Joyce. The commission instructed City | Auditor Myron Atkinson to notify the First National bank, Dakota National bank and Trust company and the {Bank of North Dakota that would be received for depositories of public funds at 8 p. m., Jan. 20. Mayor A. J. Lenhart und Police and Street Commissioner Paul Wach- ter were reappointed to the hoard of budget review. The board approved the December and 1935 reports of Police Chief Ebeling, and the Decem- ber reports of E. 8. Allen, city inagis- trate; A. W. Ecklund, city bacterioi- ogist; and Frank McCormick, city weigher. The offer of T. M. Casey and Sons of $50 for lots 1, 2, 3, 9 and 10, block 66, McKenzie and Coffin addition, was accepted, McClusky Youth, 17, Is Claimed by Death Harold Haux, 17-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Chris Haux, who live eight miles northwest of McClusky, died at 3:25 p. m., Monday at e loca) hospital. Funeral arrangements have not yet been made. | Drunken Robbers it both of — accompaniments. New York, Jan. 7.—(?)—Drunk- i Eee en holdup men killed two waiters Miller Will Sentence in a Brooklyn beer tavern early . Tuesday. Liquor Ring Members As two reeling youths, waving Fargo, N. D., Jan. 7.—(#)—Federa! Judge Andrew Miller ‘will pass sen: tence Friday on five members of % liquor ring smashed by revenue oper- atives. The five, who pleaded guilty of|to transportation and concealment pasepall, is having a “stormy conval-| charges, are Mike Guon, Joe Gold Morris We and Henry Thoe, Man a bronchial ailment, his physi- dan, and ‘Andy Milkes, Fargo, and ‘Minneapolis. pistols, were leaving a tavern on Fulton street with $105 loot, Ralph Misco, 32, a waiter lowered his hands as if to resist the pair. “Smart guy, eh?” one of the robbers sneered, then shot Misco through the head. Shortly afterward, Julius David- son, 40, a waiter in a tavern a mile away, lost his life in a similar. holdup. LIGHTWEIGHT WHEAT SEED CONFERENCE [8 CALLED BY WELFORD Four States Invited to Send Representatives to Meet- ing in Fargo IMPOTENT GRAIN ALARMING| To Seek Some Way of Furnish- ing Farmers With Better Stock of Seed A four-state conference was called Tuesday by Gov. Walter Welford to canvass the seed wheat problem faced by the northwest this spring, because of the lack of vigor in lightweight a stocks, to be held at Fargo jan. 17. Anvited are Govs. Floyd Olson of Minnesota, Tom Berry of South Da- kota and W. E. Holt of Montana as well as representatives of the exten- sion divisions of the agricultural col- leges of Minnesota, South Dakota, Montana and North Dakota. Heads of the federal surplus com- ;Modities corporation, the emergency seed and feed loan section, the fed- eral grain grading department, the Federal Land bank, and the Bank of North Dakota, are among state and federal agencies which are urged to attend. “You probably share my alarm over the lack of vigor inherent in the seed stocks now available in the northwest,” Welford said in his announcement. “Agronomists have established the fact that our lightweight wheats will germinate satisfactorily, but that the plants are lacking seriously in vitality. When subjected to either unseasonable dry or cold weather, the plants perish. “Supposing that North Dakota seeds 8,000,000 recahiy eal cdot acres of wheat— as prol frases ur cry oot SE eit bole real tragedy. Our state, as well as South Dakota, Montana and Minnesota, dare not take this risk, if there is any alter- native. Perhaps there is some way that adequate stocks of better seed may be made available to our farmers. I believe that a careful study of this entire problem should be made jointly by representatives of our four north- west states.” Organizations to which invitations i went, include the agricultural depart- ments of northwest railroads, the Farmers Union, crop improvement and milling groups, the Greater North Da- kota association, state seed and grain growers and handlers, State Commis- sioner of Agriculture and Labor Theo- dore Martell, and the state mill and elevator. Fargo Killer Draws No. 6546 at Prison Charles Marratto, 29-year-old Ita- lian, convicted slayer of Peter E. Stewart, aged Fargo grocer, was just No. 6546 at the state penitentiary Tuesday. Marratto was brought here Sunday by Sheriff Peter MacArthur and De- puty F. L, Bayley of Cass county af- ter being sentenced to life imprison- ment for the brutal killing of Stewart with a sawed off double barrel shot-| Hon during a holdup of Stewart’s The Italian was arrested, tried, con- victed and sentenced to life impri- sonment in two days in a speedy exe- cution of justice following the fatal shooting on Dec. 20. As yet he has not been assigned to work in the state prison. Adam Lefor Issues N. D. State Bank Call} State Bank Examiner Adam Lefor late Monday issued a state bank call as of Dec. 31, 1935. ONE DEAD IN STRIKE Buenos Aires, Jan. 7.—(7)—A strik- er was shot to death, a policeman and pesee aes other persons woundea and on @ street car injured pamrage in @ partially successful gen- eral strike marked by gun fights und the burning of cars and b'ises, Placed The raucous crowing of roosters, the contended cackle of hens and the dominating gobble-gobble of turkeys transformed the World War Memor- jal building into a huge poultry farm as the 16th annual Slope Poultry Show opened here Tuesday. A score of workmen, under the su- pervision of Stanley Francis, Show superintendent, completed the task of setting up display racks and coops that will house North Dakota's feath- ered royalty during the four-day ex- hibition. At noon Tuesday, over 200 turkeys | and chickens in the regular and 4-H. club sections had been registered and placed in the exhibition coops where is Beh He ieee 97 ©. J. Weisner of Brookings, 8. D., and Frank E. regis- tered until 12 o'clock noon Wednesday, | Francis said, The deadline for en-| ARCK TRIBUNE ‘i: urlei h County AAA Activities Stop SPECTACULAR RISE INHOG MART PRICE CONFUSES TRADERS; | Buying and Selling Virtually at} Standstill in Disrupted | Chicago a RECORD GAIN OF 70 CENTS Conservative Buyers and Pack- ers Await Normal Supply, Demand Status Chicago, Jan, 7.—(#)—Hog farmers, stripped of the» production control and benefit payment program by the supreme court's invalidation of the AAA, Tuesday witnessed one of the most spectacular rises in hog market vrices in the memory of veteran live- stock men. The big Chicago hog market was completely disrupted. Trading for a time was virtually at a standstill. Some commission agents, represent- ing producers, demanded the full $2.25 per hundredweight processing tax voided by the court be added to the market price of hogs. In the confusion a few sales were put through at 50 to 60 cents higher than Monday, the early top soaring to $10.25, representing a gain of 70 cents per hundredweight since the court’s decision was announced. Conservative buyers were out of the market. With asking prices all out of line, most big packers who had mod- erate hog supplies direct, decided to ride out the sudden spurt in sellers’ demand and await a return of the market to the normal supply and de- —The North Dakota state mill and ing next steps connected with the processing tax under the invali- dated AAA. Bonzer, Jr., mill manager, said, are asking the tax of $1.38 a barrel be removed at once. an understanding can be reached. 000 in processing taxes. $75,615.47 was paid under protest ‘The balance of $259,204.27 was paid before the protest was made. constitutional method of putting all our citizens on an equal footing.” Nye S Seeks to Prove Morgan Lured U. S. Into World War Farm Legislators Already in Action Drafting New Re- lief Plans Washington, Jan, 7—(?)—Fresh, ‘but still undefined, moves to frame new farm program sprang Tuesday from AAA's sudden end. While many New Dealers worried over how much of President Roose- velt’s program was as good as dead through reasoning that levelled AAA, the same supreme court legis- lators interested in the farm problem were busy. Chairman Jones (Dem., Tex.) of the house agricultural committee said an “effort should be made” to find “a STATE MILL STOPS PENDING ACTION ON TAXES Grand Forks, N. D., Jan. 7.—(?) elevator was closed Tuesday pend- Dealers receiving flour, A. F. Shipping and manufacturing are stopped until The mill has paid about $1,000,- Of this and $581,454.63 was held in escrow pending a decision on the tax. Rep. Snell, the Republican floor mand status. Livestock markets throughout the country reflected the sharp advance The upturn in South St. Paul was mostly $1 with instances as in prices. much as $1.25 up. There: was’ specuiation as to what effect removal of the tax will have on the price of pork to the ultimate con- Packer representatives de- sumer. clined to be quoted on this until they had studied the ruling. A spokesman pointed out conditions that under normal price of pork is determined willingness and ability of consumers to pay and the quantity of pork avail- time being, therefore, the court’s ruling will have little ef- fect on pork production and consum- ers’ meat demand, this spokesman able. For the contended. Fresh pork values remained une changed Tuesday. Holders of hogs, demanding higher prices, contended the elimination of the processing tax should immediately. be reflected in full in the price paid to farmers. CAMERON, ACKER TO ADDRESS DEMOCRATS Speakers for Jackson Day Din- ner Here Are Announced by Local Chairman Scott Cameron and Iver Acker will leader, said his party would seek to present a farm program, Says U. S. Obligated The possibility of adding as much as $600,000,000 to the budget appro- priation estimates to allow the govern- ment to meet existing contracts with farmers was seen by Chairman Bu- chanan (Dem., Texas) of the house appropriations committee. The AAA had estimated $283,000,000 would be needed to meet performance up to Monday. Buchanan said he thought the government was morally obligated to fulfill all contracts. At the White House, President Roosevelt continued silent about the momentous 6 to 3 decision which tumbled his crop adjustment pro- gram. It was said the chief execu- tive was not likely to comment at a later press conference on the decision which presents the problem of formu- lating an entirely new agricultural plan. Nor was it believed likely Mr. Roosevelt would mention the subject in his address Wednesday night to Democrats assembled throughout the country at Jackson day dinners. A longer wait was indicated. Jones, who conferrea with Mr. Roosevelt, Monday said: Cites Tariff Angies “I can not believe the supreme court means to say that a national tariff is legal and that a national farm program which merely restores the price balance can not be made legal.” With the capital.in confusion, the vast AAA farm control machinery ground to a full stop. The flow of cash to farmers, which has totaled $1,127,000,000, halted. Salaries of 6,500 matter court’s the by the Feathered Royalty be the speakers at the Jackson Day banquet of Burleigh county's Young Democrats in the Grand Pacific hotel Wednesday night. More than 150 will attend, accord- ing to Joseph Byrne, president of the Young Democrats and chairman of the committee in charge, and it is hoped to realize a substantial sum to fill the Democratic campaign chest. The tickets are selling for $5, he said, but everything above the actual cost of the meal will be turned over to the party campaign committee. Members of the committee, in addi- tion to Byrne, are Christ Bertsch, Wil- Mam M. Schantz, Oscar Selvig, Thos. J. Burke, James W. Guthrie and Thomas J. Haggerty. The local speaking program will be so arranged that it will not interfere with radio reception of an address by President Roosevelt, to be broadcast frog @ similar dinner in Washington, D.C. 1 on Exhibit tries was extended to enable all farm- ers, that planned to exhibit their prize flocks, to bring in their entries Wed- nesday over the roads made heavy by recent snows. Judging Starts W Judging will begin Wednesday af- ternoon. Poultry producers and county agents have been invited to partici- pate in the sessions of the Poultry Show school which will be held Wed-: nesday and Thursday afternoons be- ginning at 2:30 p. m., with Weisner and Moore in charge. The school will be held in the dining room of the Memorial building. Among the early special exhibits to arrive at the Show were the coops E.| of live game birds, owned by A. H.| Erickson, of Wilton, oni state game and fish it fulltime AAA employes, part-time workers were cut off. Col- lection of processing taxes stopped. ing period. assigned to ships. and many Several Republicans hailed the de- cision, calling it an opportunity for their party to return the country to “constitutional government,” Fear For Security Program Most New Deal leaders reserved comment, for the time. But Senator yrnes (Dem., 8. C.) one of the high- est in New Deal councils, expressed conviction that the court, as now con- stituted, would kill the vast social (Continues on Page Two) mrs.| Young Mandan Man Loses His Left Arm Roland Mackin, 30, son of W. J. Mackin of Mandan, superintendent of compensation for the WPA in Bis- marck, underwent an operation at St. Alexius hospital Tuesday morning for the amputation of his left arm. Mackin, who is an employe of the schools. U. Peck, Mont., had developed a bone tumor and attending physicians found . badge so that that may be easily 8. civil service commission at Fort necessary to amputate. Relatives said Tuesday morning that he came through the operation in good con- dition, Two Missouri Slope Men Enlist in Navy Enlistment of Joseph Norland, Un- derwood, and John Wesley West of Sweetbriar in the U. 8. Navy was an- nounced here Tuesday by R. J. Pen- ders, in charge of the local recrut: ing office. The two men will go from their homes to Minneapolis from which they will leave January 10 for the vu. 8. Naval Training Station at San , Calif. for @ four-month train- After that they will be They are a part of the quota of 38) commissioner. The exhibit includes i pair of | enlistments assigned to the Minneap- «Coutinued on Page lwo olis area for January. AAA’s End Bodes Ill for New Deal j If Doris Duke Back | -—-— Back to her homeland after a trip around the world, Doris Duke Cromwell, America’s richest heir- ess, is shown here as she landed in Los Angeles from Honolulu, where she and her husband, James Cromwell, have been ae recent weeks. N.D SCHOOL PATRO SWINGS INTO ACTION AT WILLIAM MOORE 12 Students idents Appointed to Launch Program to Reduce Traffic Hazards North Dakota's first school patrol to carry out the duties of protecting school children from the hazards of motorist traffic will swing into action here Wednesday afternoon. After months of serious considera- tion and work on perfecting an organ: ization to protect the children at dangerous street intersections, the honor of being the first.patrol to be- gin duty in the state goes to the Wil- lam Moore school here. Sponsored by the Bismarck Junior Association of Commerce, the patrol | Will consist of 12 children, who will be given their credentials and uniforms at a public meeting to be held at the school auditorium at 2:45 p. m., Wed- (nesday. Frank L. Putnam, assistant super- visor of the highway patrol, will make the presentation and A. J. Klaudt, secretary to the state highway com- missioner, will speak briefly. Heads of the junior association will also be present. State Plan Worked Out The William Moore patrol will oper- ate under the rules of the state plan recently worked out, said Highway Commissioner W. J. Flannigan. The plan was drawn to facilitate the oper- ation of school patrols in both town and country schools. It was planned closely after the standard rules, adopt- ed by the joint committee of the American Automobile association, the National Safety Council and the Na- tional Congress of Parents and Teachers. Members of the first patrol, ap- pointed by Miss Lavina Register, principal of the school, include: Gray- don Dahlen, Donald Brophy, Harvey Larson, Frederick Wilde, Vernon Rudser, Dale Saxvik, Robert Koch, Robert Dohn, Mary Ido, Rosemary Slorby, Janet Overbee and Mary Lee Smith, They were chosen on the basis of leadership and reliability. Provisions are made in the rules to have the sizes of the patrol vary in number according to the needs of traffic conditions and the size of the Patrolmen to Be Outfitted Each member will be outfitted by a “Sam Brown” belt and a school pa- distinguishable to the motorists. The patrolmen will'carry a standard oc- tagon “stop” sign with the lettering of black on a yellow background of “School Patrol—Stop.” Under the program, flags and whistles are pro- hibited, Members of the Junior Association of Commerce committee, who worked with the highway patrol in working out plans for the first organization, were Klaudt, Paul O. Netland and Arnold Van Wyk, Following the initial tryout at the ‘illiam Moore school, the association plans to set up similar organizations ‘in other Bismarck grade schools while the state highway department is pushing forward plans to install the patrol in other state cities. ASSASSIN’S DOUBLE DIES Bolinas, Calif. Jan. 7.—(#)—Dr. 8. 8. Southworth, 95, once mistaken for John Wilkes Booth, slayer of President | Lincoln, died Monday. Inc 1 ine a gh A ad | The Weather PRICE FIVE CENTS FLOW OF CASH FOR FARMERS STOPPED BY COURT DECISION * $120,000 in Payments Placed in Jeopardy by Death of. 4 Farm “Act ~ | 11 OFFICE EMPLOYES ‘FIRED’ 2,000 Farmers in Neighborhood Face Reduced Income in Coming Year The supreme court's AAA decision declared illegal a system whereby Bur- leigh county farmers have received $600,000 during the last two years and placed in jeopardy payment of $120,- 000 still due on 1935 contracts. These facts were disclosed Tuesday by County Agent H. O. Putnam as he dismissed 11 office employes who have been working on AAA adjust- ment contracts in Burleigh county i brought all machinery under his charge to a complete standstill. ‘Whether or not approximately $120,-- 000 which the government has con- tracted to pay the farmers for re- ducing their acreage can legally be paid remained to be determined but Secretary Wallace announced Tues- day that efforts would be made to finance such payments from a regu- lar appropriation, In addition to the business and pro- fessional men who felt the stimulus of the crop adjustment money, more than 2,000 Burleigh county f: ers will face the prospect of red in- come as a result of the decision, there being more than 2,000 wheat adjust- ment contracts ajone. 300 Checks Held Up At present the county agent's office has.on hand approximately 300 checks on which delivery has been held up because receipts have not been Brop- erly signed. In most cases the crastination kas been on the part of landlords. In addition no checks have been received on 450 other contracts because the forms were not completed, the landlords also being largely ‘to blame on these. Still to come were 3,600 checks on 2,000 wheat contracts, this money rep- wesenting the last part of the 1935 pede also the last payment on the 5 corn-hog adjustment contract. Areciing the state of North Dakota as @ whole are sugar beet adjustment payments, but none of this money would come into Burleigh county. Work already had been started by the county organization under the AAA on new wheat, rye, corn-hog and potato adjustment contracts. This was, of course, halted at once. No Assuranés, of Payments The words of Secretary Wallace, spoken over the National Broadcast- ing company’s regular farm and hone hour, gave no definite assurance money still due and payable. under contracts would be paid. What h say was this: “For the benefit of t who are still owed money by the ernment on contracts entered before the supreme court der the majority leaders of cpugiéss given assurance that they wil everything in their power to speea enactment of special appropriat: to enable the government to make g¢ on these contracts.” Whether or not payments could let ally be made, even if such appropria- tions were enacted, was a question raised locally in view of the sweeping rejection by the court of ce-* signed by the federal governmént to curtail or control production or to implement any control plan. m Meanwhile, agricultural leaders fin North Dakota called on farmers} to study the situation and be pre; to take action. Back to 1933 Situation In a radio address Monday night assailing the situation created by the decision, W. J. Maddock of the Farm- ers Union said it “brings consterna- { tion to the farmers of America,” while C. C. Talbott of Jamestown, in a tele- gram to Maddock said the decision “places agriculture back where it was in 1933 with foreign markets wholly lost and with reciprocal trade ae jes slowly but surely invi American market and with prt tured goods relatively higher than they were in 1929.” Maddock disclosed Tuesday that the AAA had been prepared for an ad- verse finding and had contemplated setting up state adjustment tions to be financed by federal money but that this plan apparently was knocked out by the court decision. Both Maddock and Talbott called on all Farmers Union locals to meet and discuss the situation thus creat- ed and to send their recommendations to the state organization. © At the same time Talbott gre meeting of the Farmers Union of directors and federal farm = rm men to meet Tuesday t Jamestown and make recom: ” aticns for transmission by him t Washington, He, with other tarm acess, has been called to a meeting there Friday at which an effort wil | be made a work out a substitute plan Is Costly Talbott’s program expressed the be= lief that, “unless the American farm= er immediately bestirs himself, cures solidly. organized, the chains 1% eronomic slavery will, immediately b tightened . The situation which we ourselves may De wholesome lesson to the unors: farmer but it is likely to prove